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United States: Nonfarm employment and labor force data, not seasonally adjusted

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(not seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector	United States
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Avg
Total Nonfarm
2022	147,932	149,606	150,411	151,449	152,291	153,217	152,875	153,285	153,809	155,041	155,642	155,344	152,575
2023	152,839	153,983	154,440	155,369	156,279	156,905	156,022	156,392	(p)156,918	(p)157,984
Mining and Logging
2022	566	574	583	590	597	613	622	619	619	622	627	626	605
2023	622	624	628	634	641	648	652	652	(p)650	(p)651
Construction
2022	7,251	7,349	7,463	7,623	7,783	7,932	7,992	7,992	7,956	7,976	7,900	7,763	7,748
2023	7,550	7,602	7,657	7,823	7,971	8,141	8,185	8,207	(p)8,164	(p)8,193
Manufacturing
2022	12,513	12,600	12,673	12,723	12,768	12,900	12,927	12,962	12,918	12,955	12,974	12,988	12,825
2023	12,889	12,933	12,933	12,937	12,952	13,058	13,038	13,042	(p)12,996	(p)12,961
Trade, Transportation, & Utilities
2022	28,241	28,294	28,327	28,304	28,423	28,637	28,641	28,640	28,584	28,843	29,272	29,506	28,643
2023	28,758	28,633	28,588	28,574	28,725	28,816	28,778	28,714	(p)28,721	(p)28,958
Information
2022	2,943	2,974	3,006	3,031	3,056	3,111	3,130	3,126	3,108	3,124	3,145	3,139	3,074
2023	3,050	3,061	3,072	3,073	3,077	3,102	3,084	3,057	(p)3,037	(p)3,037
Financial Activities
2022	8,883	8,931	8,949	8,994	9,015	9,090	9,126	9,121	9,066	9,111	9,116	9,132	9,045
2023	9,046	9,046	9,039	9,078	9,105	9,181	9,222	9,208	(p)9,154	(p)9,178
Professional & Business Services
2022	21,786	22,086	22,207	22,393	22,455	22,619	22,735	22,795	22,806	23,044	23,028	22,907	22,572
2023	22,468	22,636	22,665	22,888	22,997	23,070	23,052	23,086	(p)23,060	(p)23,287
Private Education and Health Services
2022	23,694	24,078	24,162	24,247	24,196	24,081	24,119	24,222	24,539	24,872	25,024	24,960	24,350
2023	24,750	25,110	25,179	25,271	25,260	25,102	25,120	25,243	(p)25,564	(p)25,909
Leisure & Hospitality
2022	14,592	14,864	15,103	15,492	15,938	16,501	16,712	16,614	16,157	16,107	15,998	15,947	15,835
2023	15,639	15,827	16,060	16,362	16,779	17,294	17,388	17,278	(p)16,784	(p)16,677
Other Services
2022	5,524	5,588	5,612	5,659	5,698	5,770	5,800	5,779	5,733	5,768	5,782	5,778	5,708
2023	5,743	5,764	5,795	5,829	5,871	5,939	5,942	5,928	(p)5,872	(p)5,890
Government
2022	21,939	22,268	22,326	22,393	22,362	21,963	21,071	21,415	22,323	22,619	22,776	22,598	22,171
2023	22,324	22,747	22,824	22,900	22,901	22,554	21,561	21,977	(p)22,916	(p)23,243
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Schedule of Upcoming Releases for the Employment Situation

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
(not seasonally adjusted data, in thousands)
	United States
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Avg
Labor Force
2022	(1)162,825	163,725	164,274	163,449	164,157	165,012	165,321	164,971	164,463	164,753	164,272	164,224	164,287
2023	(1)165,070	166,178	166,783	166,221	166,702	167,910	168,354	168,049	167,718	167,774
Employment
2022	(1)155,618	156,942	158,106	157,991	158,609	158,678	159,067	158,714	159,003	159,144	158,749	158,872	158,291
2023	(1)158,692	159,713	160,741	161,075	161,002	161,559	161,982	161,427	161,669	161,676
Unemployment
2022	7,207	6,782	6,168	5,458	5,548	6,334	6,255	6,256	5,460	5,609	5,523	5,352	5,996
2023	6,378	6,465	6,043	5,146	5,700	6,351	6,372	6,623	6,049	6,098
Unemployment Rate
2022	4.4	4.1	3.8	3.3	3.4	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.3	3.4	3.4	3.3	3.6
2023	3.9	3.9	3.6	3.1	3.4	3.8	3.8	3.9	3.6	3.6
Footnotes (1) Data affected by changes in population controls.

Schedule of Upcoming Releases for the Employment Situation

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United States: Nonfarm employment and labor force data, not seasonally adjusted