U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics@bls · official source
Payroll employment edges up by 115,000 in April; unemployment rate unchanged at 4.3%
· via BLS
Key points
- 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.
- Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.0 percent), adult women (3.9 percent), teenagers (14.4 percent), and people who are White (3.7 percent), Black (7.3 percent), Asian (3.3 percent)…
- Establishment Survey Data Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 115,000 in April, after showing little net change over the prior 12 months.
- In manufacturing, the average workweek edged up by 0.1 hour to 40.4 hours, and overtime was unchanged at 3.0 hours.
- (5) Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with increasing and decreasing employment.
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BLSMay 8, 2026Official release ↗
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