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Total nonfarm payroll employment up by 130,000 in January 2026
February 13, 2026
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 130,000 in January 2026, after changing little in 2025 (+15,000 per month on average). Job gains occurred in health care, social assistance, and construction, while federal government and financial activities lost jobs in January.
Employment change by industry, January 2026, seasonally adjusted
Industry
1-month net change
Mining and logging
-2,000
Logging
-400
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
-900
Oil and gas extraction
-1,200
Mining (except oil and gas)
100
Coal mining
-100
Metal ore mining
-200
Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying
200
Support activities for mining
200
Construction
33,000
Construction of buildings
3,900
Residential building construction
300
Nonresidential building construction
3,600
Heavy and civil engineering construction
-800
Specialty trade contractors
30,700
Residential specialty trade contractors
5,600
Nonresidential specialty trade contractors
25,100
Manufacturing
5,000
Durable goods
9,000
Wood product manufacturing
600
Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing
1,700
Primary metal manufacturing
900
Fabricated metal product manufacturing
-200
Machinery manufacturing
1,300
Computer and electronic product manufacturing
-200
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing
800
Communications equipment manufacturing
200
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing
-1,200
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
-700
Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media and audio and video equipment manufacturing
600
Electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing
1,400
Transportation equipment manufacturing
4,800
Motor vehicles and parts
900
Furniture and related product manufacturing
-800
Miscellaneous manufacturing
-500
Nondurable goods
-4,000
Food manufacturing
800
Textile mills
-1,000
Textile product mills
500
Apparel manufacturing
-1,800
Paper manufacturing
1,100
Printing and related support activities
-100
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing
-1,400
Chemical manufacturing
-1,800
Plastics and rubber products manufacturing
-100
Beverage, tobacco, and leather and allied product manufacturing
-400
Wholesale trade
-400
Merchant wholesalers, durable goods
-2,700
Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods
2,600
Wholesale trade agents and brokers
-300
Retail trade
1,200
Motor vehicle and parts dealers
2,600
Automobile dealers
2,900
Other motor vehicle dealers
-800
Automotive parts, accessories, and tire retailers
500
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers
-19,500
Food and beverage retailers
7,700
Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance retailers
-2,600
General merchandise retailers
18,700
Health and personal care retailers
3,900
Gasoline stations and fuel dealers
2,800
Clothing, clothing accessories, shoe, and jewelry retailers
-14,100
Sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, book, and miscellaneous retailers
1,700
Transportation and warehousing
-11,200
Air transportation
-900
Rail transportation
600
Water transportation
900
Truck transportation
-4,300
Transit and ground passenger transportation
-1,800
Pipeline transportation
-2,300
Scenic and sightseeing transportation
-900
Support activities for transportation
6,000
Couriers and messengers
-2,400
Warehousing and storage
-6,100
Utilities
1,000
Information
-12,000
Motion picture and sound recording industries
13,900
Publishing industries
1,300
Broadcasting and content providers
-4,800
Telecommunications
-15,000
Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services
-4,300
Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information services
-2,400
Financial activities
-22,000
Finance and insurance
-12,300
Monetary authorities-central bank
-200
Credit intermediation and related activities
-3,900
Depository credit intermediation
300
Commercial banking
-600
Nondepository credit intermediation
-900
Activities related to credit intermediation
-3,300
Securities, commodity contracts, funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles, investments, and related activities
3,100
Insurance carriers and related activities
-11,300
Real estate and rental and leasing
-9,800
Real estate
-4,400
Rental and leasing services
-5,300
Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works)
-100
Professional and business services
34,000
Professional, scientific, and technical services
27,300
Legal services
5,500
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services
1,900
Architectural, engineering, and related services
4,600
Specialized design services
0
Computer systems design and related services
800
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services
5,000
Scientific research and development services
3,300
Advertising, public relations, and related services
-2,200
Other professional, scientific, and technical services
8,300
Management of companies and enterprises
-2,500
Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
10,000
Administrative and support services
9,500
Office administrative services
-4,100
Facilities support services
1,200
Employment services
14,100
Temporary help services
9,100
Business support services
-5,900
Travel arrangement and reservation services
-3,900
Investigation and security services
600
Services to buildings and dwellings
5,300
Other support services
2,100
Waste management and remediation services
500
Private education and health services
137,000
Private educational services
13,200
Health care
81,900
Ambulatory health care services
50,300
Offices of physicians
17,800
Offices of dentists
1,500
Offices of other health practitioners
9,500
Outpatient care centers
3,700
Medical and diagnostic laboratories
-200
Home health care services
17,100
Other ambulatory health care services
1,100
Hospitals
18,300
Nursing and residential care facilities
13,300
Skilled nursing care facilities
6,000
Residential intellectual and developmental disability, mental health, and substance abuse facilities
2,400
Continuing care retirement communities and assisted living facilities for the elderly
3,900
Other residential care facilities
1,100
Social assistance
41,600
Individual and family services
38,300
Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services
1,200
Vocational rehabilitation services
-2,300
Child care services
4,500
Leisure and hospitality
1,000
Arts, entertainment, and recreation
-15,600
Performing arts, spectator sports, and related industries
-16,200
Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions
1,300
Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries
-700
Accommodation and food services
17,200
Accommodation
-10,600
Food services and drinking places
27,800
Other services
7,000
Repair and maintenance
-2,200
Personal and laundry services
3,900
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations
5,100
Government
-42,000
Federal
-34,000
Federal, except U.S. Postal Service
-32,800
U.S. Postal Service
-500
State government
-18,000
State government education
-7,300
State government, excluding education
-10,300
Local government
10,000
Local government education
-100
Local government, excluding education
9,700
Note: Data may not sum to published totals due to rounding.
Health care added 82,000 jobs in January, with gains in ambulatory health care services (+50,000), hospitals (+18,000), and nursing and residential care facilities (+13,000). Employment in social assistance increased by 42,000, primarily in individual and family services (+38,000). Construction added 33,000 jobs in January, reflecting an employment gain in nonresidential specialty trade contractors (+25,000).
Federal government employment continued to decline in January (−34,000) as some federal employees who accepted a deferred resignation offer in 2025 came off federal payrolls. Since reaching a peak in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 327,000, or 10.9 percent.
Financial activities employment also declined, down 22,000 in January and down by 49,000 since reaching a recent peak in May 2025. Within the industry, insurance carriers and related activities lost 11,000 jobs over the month.
United States Department of Labor
