CPS News Releases

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Schedule of upcoming CPS releases

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Monthly and Quarterly News Releases

• The Employment Situation (HTML) (PDF) (Charts) (Archives) (Schedule)
• Effects of COVID-19 pandemic and response on the Employment Situation (Monthly impact summary for March 2020 through December 2021)
• Supplemental data measuring the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the labor market (May 2020 through September 2022)
• Commissioner's Statement on the Employment Situation (Archives)
• Earnings (quarterly): Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage And Salary Workers (HTML) (PDF) (Charts) (Archives) (Schedule)

Annual News Releases

• College Enrollment and Work Activity of High School Graduates (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
• Disabilities: Labor Force Characteristics of Persons With a Disability (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
• Families: Employment Characteristics of Families (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
• Foreign born: Labor Force Characteristics of Foreign-born Workers (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
• Summer Employment and Unemployment Among Youth (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
• Union Members (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
• Veterans: Employment Situation of Veterans (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
• Work Experience of the Population (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)

Periodic Releases of Special Supplemental Survey Data

• Current Supplemental Surveys

• Employee Tenure (biennial)  (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
• Worker Displacement (biennial)  (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)

• Earlier Supplemental Surveys

• Persons With a Disability:
  • People with Health Conditions or Difficulties that Limit Work (HTML) (PDF) (Archives)
    A special supplemental survey last conducted in July 2024
  • Barriers to Employment, Types of Assistance, and Other Labor-Related Issues (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
    A special supplemental survey last conducted in July 2021

• Characteristics of Unemployment Insurance Applicants and Benefit Recipients  (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
  A special supplemental survey conducted in February and May 2022

• Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements  (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
  A special supplemental survey last conducted in July 2023

• Volunteering in the United States  (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
  A special supplemental survey last conducted in September 2015

• Workers on Flexible and Shift Schedules  (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
  A special supplemental survey last conducted in May 2004

• Work at Home  (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
  A special supplemental survey last conducted in May 2004

• Computer and Internet Use at Work  (HTML) (PDF) (Archives and more)
  A special supplemental survey last conducted in October 2003

Reports and Summaries

• Minimum wage workers:  Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2024  (Archives, Excel tables, and more)
• Race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity:  Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2023   (Archives and more)
• Earnings:  Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2024  (Archives, Excel tables, and more)
• Women:  Women in the Labor Force: A Databook  (Archives and more)
• Working Poor:  A Profile of the Working Poor, 2023  (Archives, Excel tables, and more)

• From the Archives: Charting the U.S. Labor Market (2006) (2005)

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Last Modified Date: April 6, 2026