Labor Market Rates CPS rate series explorer
Payroll employment Data source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey

U.S. labor market rates

Beyond the headline number.

Browse unemployment, labor force participation, and underemployment rate series from BLS monthly CPS data.

Monthly observations 1948–present

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Labor Market Rates

Unemployment rate

United States · Seasonally adjusted

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Rates are published monthly by BLS from the Current Population Survey.

About the measures

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Rate

Shows the published percent rate for each month, as reported by BLS from the Current Population Survey.

02

12-month change

Measures the change in percentage points from the same month one year earlier, useful for spotting directional trends.

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Normalize

Sets the series to 100 at the first selected month, making relative changes easy to compare across different rate levels.