{"id":196959,"date":"2025-11-20T08:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=196959"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:54:14","slug":"payrolls-edge-up-119000-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=196959","title":{"rendered":"Payrolls Edge Up 119,000 in September"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington, DC...Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 119,000 in September but has shown little change since\r\nApril, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The unemployment rate, at 4.4 percent, \r\nchanged little in September. Employment continued to trend up in health care, food services and \r\ndrinking places, and social assistance. Job losses occurred in transportation and warehousing and\r\nin federal government.\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n \r\nThis news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures labor\r\nforce status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment survey \r\nmeasures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information about the \r\nconcepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical Note.\r\n\r\n\r\n                                                                                                 |\r\n                                   Federal Government Shutdown\t\t                          |\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  |\r\nPublication of September data was delayed by more than 6 weeks because of a lapse in federal    |\r\nappropriations. Collection of September data for the household survey had been completed in     |\r\naccordance with our normal schedule prior to the federal government shutdown. September         |\r\nestimates from the establishment survey include both data collected on our normal schedule      |\r\nprior to the shutdown and also September data that businesses self-reported electronically      |\r\nduring the shutdown. As a result, the establishment survey collection rate (80.2 percent) for   |\r\nthis initial release of September 2025 data is higher than usual.                               |\r\n                                                                                               \r\nBLS will not publish an October 2025 Employment Situation news release. Establishment survey    |\r\ndata for October 2025 will be published with the November 2025 data. Household survey data were |\r\nnot collected for the October 2025 reference period due to a lapse in appropriations and will   |\r\nnot be collected retroactively. For both surveys, the collection period for November 2025 data  |\r\nwill be extended, and extra processing time will be needed. The Employment Situation news       |\r\nrelease for November 2025 is scheduled to be published on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at 8:30   |\r\na.m. (ET).                                                                                      |\r\n\r\n\r\nHousehold Survey Data\r\n\r\nBoth the unemployment rate, at 4.4 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.6 million, \r\nchanged little in September. These measures are higher than a year earlier, when the jobless rate \r\nwas 4.1 percent, and the number of unemployed people was 6.9 million. (See table A-1.)\r\n\r\nAmong the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult women (4.2 percent) and Asians (4.4\r\npercent) increased in September. The jobless rates for adult men (4.0 percent), teenagers (13.2 \r\npercent), Whites (3.8 percent), Blacks (7.5 percent), and Hispanics (5.5 percent) showed little or \r\nno change over the month. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)\r\n\r\nThe number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) changed little at 1.8\r\nmillion in September. The long-term unemployed accounted for 23.6 percent of all unemployed people.\r\n(See table A-12.)\r\n\r\nThe labor force participation rate, at 62.4 percent, changed little over the month and over the \r\nyear. The employment-population ratio, at 59.7 percent, also changed little in September but was \r\ndown by 0.4 percentage point over the year. (See table A-1.)\r\n\r\nThe number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.6 million, changed little in \r\nSeptember. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working part time \r\nbecause their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See table A-8.)\r\n\r\nThe number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job decreased by 421,000 to 5.9\r\nmillion in September. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not \r\nactively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take a \r\njob. (See table A-1.)\r\n\r\nAmong those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached \r\nto the labor force changed little at 1.7 million in September. These individuals wanted and were\r\navailable for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months but had not looked\r\nfor work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged workers, a subset of the\r\nmarginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, also changed little over\r\nthe month at 557,000. (See Summary table A.)\r\n\r\nEstablishment Survey Data\r\n\r\nTotal nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 119,000 in September but has shown little change since\r\nApril. In September, employment continued to trend up in health care, food services and drinking \r\nplaces, and social assistance. Job losses occurred in transportation and warehousing and in federal\r\ngovernment. (See table B-1.)\r\n\r\nIn September, health care added 43,000 jobs, about the same as the average monthly gain of 42,000\r\nover the prior 12 months. Over the month, employment gains occurred in ambulatory health care \r\nservices (+23,000) and hospitals (+16,000).\r\n\r\nEmployment in food services and drinking places continued to trend up in September (+37,000).\r\n\r\nIn September, social assistance employment continued to trend up (+14,000), reflecting continued \r\njob growth in individual and family services (+20,000). \r\n\r\nEmployment in transportation and warehousing declined by 25,000 in September as job losses occurred\r\nin warehousing and storage (-11,000) and couriers and messengers (-7,000).\r\n\r\nFederal government employment continued to decline in September (-3,000) and is down by 97,000 \r\nsince reaching a peak in January. (Employees on paid leave or receiving ongoing severance pay are\r\ncounted as employed in the establishment survey.)\r\n\r\nEmployment showed little or no change over the month in other major industries, including mining,\r\nquarrying, and oil and gas extraction; construction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; retail trade;\r\ninformation; financial activities; professional and business services; and other services.\r\n\r\nAverage hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 9 cents, or 0.2 \r\npercent, to $36.67 in September. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have increased by\r\n3.8 percent. In September, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory\r\nemployees rose by 8 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $31.53. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)\r\n\r\nIn September, the average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at\r\n34.2 hours. In manufacturing, the average workweek changed little at 39.9 hours, and overtime was\r\nunchanged at 2.9 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on private\r\nnonfarm payrolls edged up by 0.1 hour to 33.7 hours in September. (See tables B-2 and B-7.)\r\n\r\nThe change in total nonfarm payroll employment for July was revised down by 7,000, from +79,000 to\r\n+72,000, and the change for August was revised down by 26,000, from +22,000 to -4,000. With these\r\nrevisions, employment in July and August combined is 33,000 lower than previously reported. \r\n(Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government agencies\r\nsince the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal factors.)\r\n\r\n_____________\r\nThe Employment Situation for November is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at\r\n8:30 a.m. (ET).\r\n\r\n\r\n _________________________________________________________________________________________________\r\n|                                                                                                 |\r\n|                Upcoming Changes to the Establishment Survey Birth-Death Model                   |\r\n|\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  |\r\n| Effective with the release of January 2026 data, the establishment survey will change the       |\r\n| birth-death model by incorporating current sample information each month. The change follows    |\r\n| the same methodology applied to the April through October 2024 forecasts during the 2024        |\r\n| post-benchmark period (see question 9 in the CES Birth-Death Model Frequently Asked Questions   |\r\n| page at www.bls.gov\/web\/empsit\/cesbdqa.htm).                                                    |\r\n|_________________________________________________________________________________________________|\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\u00a0Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Employment Situation Frequently Asked Questions<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Employment Situation Technical Note<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service, and sex, not seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-8. Employed people by class of worker and part-time status<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-9. Selected employment indicators<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-11. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-12. Unemployed people by duration of unemployment<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-13. Employed and unemployed people by occupation, not seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-14. Unemployed people by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table A-16. People not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted(1)<\/a><\/div>\n
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Washington, DC…Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 119,000 in September but has shown little change since April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The unemployment rate, at 4.4 percent, changed little in September. Employment continued to trend up in health care, food services and drinking places, and social assistance. Job losses occurred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/blslogo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196960,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196959\/revisions\/196960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}