{"id":201348,"date":"2026-05-08T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=201348"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:56:26","slug":"nonfarm-payrolls-up-115000-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=201348","title":{"rendered":"Nonfarm Payrolls Up 115,000 in April"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington, DC...Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 115,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was\r\nunchanged at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains\r\noccurred in health care, transportation and warehousing, and retail trade. Federal government\r\nemployment continued to decline.\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nThis news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures\r\nlabor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment\r\nsurvey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information\r\nabout the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical\r\nNote.\r\n\r\nHousehold Survey Data\r\n\r\nThe unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.3 percent in April, and the number of unemployed\r\npeople changed little at 7.4 million. Both measures changed little over the year. (See table\r\nA-1.)\r\n\r\nAmong the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.0 percent), adult women\r\n(3.9 percent), teenagers (14.4 percent), and people who are White (3.7 percent), Black (7.3\r\npercent), Asian (3.3 percent), or Hispanic (5.0 percent) showed little change in April. (See\r\ntables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)\r\n\r\nThe number of people jobless less than 5 weeks increased by 358,000 to 2.5 million in April.\r\nThe number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was essentially\r\nunchanged at 1.8 million and accounted for 25.3 percent of all unemployed people. (See table\r\nA-12.)\r\n\r\nBoth the labor force participation rate, at 61.8 percent, and the employment-population ratio,\r\nat 59.1 percent, changed little in April. These measures edged down over the year after\r\naccounting for annual population control adjustments. (See table A-1.) \r\n\r\nThe number of people employed part time for economic reasons increased by 445,000 to 4.9\r\nmillion in April. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working\r\npart time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs.\r\n(See table A-8.)\r\n\r\nThe number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job changed little at 6.1\r\nmillion in April. 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\r\na job. (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 1.8 million in April. 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\r\nthe marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for them, was also little\r\nchanged in April at 475,000. (See Summary table A.)\r\n\r\nEstablishment Survey Data\r\n\r\nTotal nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 115,000 in April, after showing little net change\r\nover the prior 12 months. In April, job gains occurred in health care, transportation and\r\nwarehousing, and retail trade. Federal government employment continued to decline. (See table\r\nB-1.)\r\n\r\nIn April, health care added 37,000 jobs, in line with the average monthly gain of 32,000 over\r\nthe prior 12 months. Over the month, job gains occurred in nursing and residential care\r\nfacilities (+15,000) and home health care services (+11,000).\r\n\r\nTransportation and warehousing employment increased by 30,000 in April, reflecting a gain in\r\ncouriers and messengers (+38,000). However, employment in transportation and warehousing is\r\ndown by 105,000 since reaching a peak in February 2025.\r\n\r\nRetail trade added 22,000 jobs in April. Employment increased in warehouse clubs,\r\nsupercenters, and other general merchandise retailers (+18,000) and in building material and\r\ngarden equipment and supplies dealers (+13,000). These gains were partially offset by job\r\nlosses in department stores (-7,000) and in electronics and appliance retailers (-2,000).\r\nRetail trade employment had shown little net change over the prior 12 months.\r\n\r\nEmployment in social assistance continued to trend up in April (+17,000), reflecting a gain of\r\n24,000 jobs in individual and family services.\r\n\r\nFederal government employment continued to decline in April (-9,000). Since reaching a peak in\r\nOctober 2024, federal government employment is down by 348,000, or 11.5 percent. Federal\r\nemployees on furlough during the partial government shutdown were counted as employed in the\r\nestablishment survey because they worked or received (or will receive) pay for the pay period\r\nthat included the 12th of the month.\r\n\r\nEmployment in information continued to trend down in April (-13,000). Telecommunications lost\r\n3,000 jobs, while employment continued to trend down in motion picture and sound recording\r\nindustries (-6,000) and in computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting,\r\nand related services (-4,000). Information employment is down by 342,000, or 11.0 percent,\r\nsince its most recent peak in November 2022.\r\n\r\nEmployment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining,\r\nquarrying, and oil and gas extraction; construction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; financial\r\nactivities; professional and business services; leisure and hospitality; and other services.\r\n\r\nIn April, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 6\r\ncents, or 0.2 percent, to $37.41. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.6\r\npercent. In April, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory\r\nemployees rose by 11 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $32.23. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)\r\n\r\nThe average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged up by 0.1 hour to\r\n34.3 hours in April. In manufacturing, the average workweek edged up by 0.1 hour to 40.4\r\nhours, and overtime was unchanged at 3.0 hours. The average workweek for production and\r\nnonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls remained at 33.8 hours. (See tables B-2\r\nand B-7.)\r\n\r\nThe change in total nonfarm payroll employment for February was revised down by 23,000, from\r\n-133,000 to -156,000, and the change for March was revised up by 7,000, from +178,000 to\r\n+185,000. With these revisions, employment in February and March combined is 16,000 lower than\r\npreviously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from\r\nbusinesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the\r\nrecalculation of seasonal factors.)\r\n\r\n_____________\r\nThe Employment Situation for May is scheduled to be released on Friday, June 5, 2026,\r\nat 8:30 a.m. (ET).\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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\u00a0Access to historical data for the “A” tables of the Employment Situation News Release<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0Access to historical data for the “B” tables of the Employment Situation News Release<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington, DC…Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 115,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in health care, transportation and warehousing, and retail trade. Federal government employment continued to decline. This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201349,"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":[3,20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/civilian-unemployment-ra.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201348","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=201348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201350,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201348\/revisions\/201350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}