United States Nonfarm Payrolls - Private | 1950-2018 | Data

Nonfarm Payrolls Private in the United States increased by 246 thousand in October of 2018. Nonfarm Payrolls Private in the United States averaged 108.70 Thousand from 1950 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 1089 Thousand in September of 1983 and a record low of -821 Thousand in April of 2009.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-09-07	12:30 PM	Nonfarm Payrolls Private	204K	153K	190K	199K
2018-10-05	12:30 PM	Nonfarm Payrolls Private	121K	254K	180K	190K
2018-11-02	12:30 PM	Nonfarm Payrolls Private	246K	121K	183K	178K
2018-12-07	01:30 PM	Nonfarm Payrolls Private		246K		160K

United States Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	3.70	3.70	10.80	2.50	percent	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	250.00	118.00	1115.00	-834.00	Thousand	[+]
Nonfarm Payrolls Private	246.00	121.00	1089.00	-821.00	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	4.00	-3.00	427.00	-260.00	Thousand	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	32.00	18.00	572.00	-519.00	Thousand	[+]
Initial Jobless Claims	214.00	215.00	695.00	162.00	Thousand	[+]
Continuing Jobless Claims	1623.00	1631.00	6635.00	988.00	Thousand	[+]
ADP Employment Change	227.00	218.00	384.00	-836.00	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	156562.00	155962.00	156562.00	57635.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	6075.00	5964.00	15352.00	1596.00	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	0.20	0.30	0.60	-0.20	percent	[+]
Average Weekly Hours	34.50	34.50	34.60	33.70	Hours	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	62.90	62.70	67.30	58.10	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	0.84	0.85	2.80	0.74	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	8.30	8.50	19.50	7.80	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	109.66	109.33	109.66	17.00	Index Points	[+]
Productivity	105.67	105.10	105.67	26.03	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	7070.00	7291.00	7313.00	2132.00	Thousand	[+]
Job Offers	7009.00	7293.00	7293.00	2196.00	Thousand	[+]
Challenger Job Cuts	75644.00	55285.00	248475.00	15100.00	Persons	[+]
Wages	22.89	22.82	22.89	2.50	USD/Hour	[+]
Wage Growth	4.79	4.66	13.78	-5.88	percent	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	21.68	21.62	21.68	1.27	USD/Hour	[+]
Minimum Wages	7.25	7.25	7.25	0.25	USD/Hour	[+]
Employment Cost Index	0.80	0.60	1.60	0.20	percent	[+]
Population	325.72	323.41	325.72	76.09	Million	[+]
Retirement Age Women	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Retirement Age Men	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Employment Rate	60.60	60.40	64.70	55.00	percent	[+]
Full Time Employment	129212.00	128894.00	129212.00	64640.00	Thousand	[+]
Part Time Employment	27297.00	27055.00	28134.00	10086.00	Thousand	[+]
Living Wage Family	2380.00	2270.00	2380.00	2160.00	USD/Month	[+]
Living Wage Individual	1660.00	1560.00	1660.00	1450.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages High Skilled	4520.00	4330.00	4950.00	4330.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages Low Skilled	1960.00	1760.00	2340.00	1760.00	USD/Month	[+]

United States Nonfarm Payrolls - Private

Private Nonfarm Payrolls measures the change in the number of total payrolls in any business, excluding general government employees, private household employees, employees of nonprofit organizations that provide assistance to individuals and farm employees. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Nonfarm Payrolls - Private - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States Nonfarm Payrolls - Private - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on November of 2018.