Record ยท the original document behind a story
Total nonfarm payrolls, monthly
Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, saved from FRED on August 31, 2026.
The monthly count of nonfarm payroll jobs, as a data series going back to 1939. Our copy was saved from FRED, the Federal Reserve's public data service.
Where we use it
- The job market goes into reverse: payrolls fall by 23,000 · cited for the chart, the five-in-twelve count, the 26,000 average
A passage we checked, word for word, against our saved copy
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