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United States: Nonfarm employment and labor force data, not seasonally adjusted

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(not seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector	United States
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Avg
Total Nonfarm
2019	147,879	148,684	149,359	150,430	151,109	151,739	150,699	151,141	151,556	152,570	153,177	152,929	150,939
2020	150,153	151,076	150,073	130,317	133,432	(p)138,509	(p)139,100
Mining and Logging
2019	733	730	731	732	739	746	746	744	738	743	729	714	735
2020	701	700	696	643	631	(p)631	(p)632
Construction
2019	7,069	7,062	7,170	7,377	7,540	7,699	7,753	7,760	7,700	7,720	7,609	7,447	7,492
2020	7,240	7,276	7,295	6,465	7,076	(p)7,365	(p)7,419
Manufacturing
2019	12,737	12,762	12,774	12,775	12,810	12,922	12,919	12,929	12,880	12,820	12,871	12,876	12,840
2020	12,766	12,795	12,747	11,432	11,697	(p)12,163	(p)12,185
Trade, Transportation, & Utilities
2019	27,598	27,351	27,358	27,425	27,554	27,698	27,671	27,619	27,575	27,793	28,350	28,582	27,715
2020	27,734	27,481	27,399	24,253	24,765	(p)25,851	(p)26,094
Information
2019	2,799	2,830	2,838	2,832	2,842	2,874	2,883	2,887	2,860	2,875	2,900	2,895	2,860
2020	2,857	2,881	2,874	2,607	2,562	(p)2,585	(p)2,578
Financial Activities
2019	8,618	8,633	8,658	8,678	8,707	8,783	8,836	8,835	8,775	8,804	8,805	8,819	8,746
2020	8,762	8,797	8,780	8,523	8,564	(p)8,648	(p)8,697
Professional & Business Services
2019	20,709	20,841	20,908	21,169	21,239	21,428	21,456	21,521	21,479	21,676	21,727	21,600	21,313
2020	21,139	21,246	21,173	19,215	19,396	(p)19,844	(p)20,024
Educational & Health Services
2019	23,724	24,044	24,113	24,206	24,121	23,939	23,863	23,980	24,257	24,561	24,682	24,633	24,177
2020	24,403	24,711	24,518	21,972	22,231	(p)22,556	(p)22,641
Leisure & Hospitality
2019	15,739	15,841	16,090	16,406	16,788	17,219	17,289	17,244	16,759	16,648	16,439	16,450	16,576
2020	16,092	16,264	15,714	8,485	10,109	(p)12,440	(p)13,111
Other Services
2019	5,775	5,797	5,833	5,882	5,913	5,970	5,979	5,951	5,894	5,907	5,911	5,902	5,893
2020	5,862	5,889	5,813	4,564	4,835	(p)5,229	(p)5,382
Government
2019	22,378	22,793	22,886	22,948	22,856	22,461	21,304	21,671	22,639	23,023	23,154	23,011	22,594
2020	22,597	23,036	23,064	22,158	21,566	(p)21,197	(p)20,337
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Schedule of Upcoming Releases for the Employment Situation

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
(not seasonally adjusted data, in thousands)
	United States
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Avg
Labor Force
2019	(1)162,104	162,793	162,823	162,097	162,655	164,120	164,941	164,019	163,943	164,576	164,386	164,007	163,539
2020	(1)163,497	164,235	162,537	155,830	157,975	160,883	161,374
Employment
2019	(1)154,964	156,167	156,441	156,710	157,152	157,828	158,385	157,816	158,478	159,067	158,945	158,504	157,538
2020	(1)156,994	158,017	155,167	133,326	137,461	142,811	144,492
Unemployment
2019	7,140	6,625	6,382	5,387	5,503	6,292	6,556	6,203	5,465	5,510	5,441	5,503	6,001
2020	6,504	6,218	7,370	22,504	20,514	18,072	16,882
Unemployment Rate
2019	4.4	4.1	3.9	3.3	3.4	3.8	4.0	3.8	3.3	3.3	3.3	3.4	3.7
2020	4.0	3.8	4.5	14.4	13.0	11.2	10.5
Footnotes (1) Data affected by changes in population controls.

Schedule of Upcoming Releases for the Employment Situation

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United States: Nonfarm employment and labor force data, not seasonally adjusted