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Preliminary benchmark revision to establishment survey data, March 2026
Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on August 28, 2026.
Once a year the agency checks its survey-based payroll count against near-complete counts from state unemployment-insurance records; this is the preliminary result, published one week before the August report.
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… For release 10:00 a.m. (ET) Friday, August 28, 2026 USDL- 26-1425 Technical information: (202) 691-6555 * cesinfo@bls.gov * www.bls.gov/ces Media contact: (202) 691-5902 * PressOffice@bls.gov Current Employment Statistics Preliminary Benchmark (National) - March 2026 The preliminary estimate of the Current Employment Statistics (CES) national benchmark revision to total nonfarm employment for March 2026 was -79,000 (-0.1 percent), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The preliminary benchmark revision for total private employment was -178,000 (-0.1 percent). The annual benchmark revisions over the last 10 years have an absolute average of 0.2 percent of total nonfarm employment. In accordance with usual practice, the final benchmark revision will be issued in February 2027 with the publication of the January 2027 …
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- Payrolls rise by 162,000 and July's loss becomes a gain, with two volatile categories supplying 101,000 of it · cited for the annual check of the payroll count
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