U.S. payroll employment

See how jobs move.

Browse national payroll employment series, compare sectors, and transform monthly data into levels, rates of change, or normalized trends.

Monthly observations 1939–present

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About the measures

Compare levels or rates of change.

Shows the published payroll employment level for each month, typically in thousands of jobs.

Measures the change from the same month one year earlier, useful for comparing sector momentum.

Sets the series to 100 at the first selected month, making relative job growth easy to read across different time windows.