PAYEMSAll Employees, Total Nonfarm — Current Value & Historical Data
Gray bands: NBER recessions
What is All Employees, Total Nonfarm?
Total nonfarm payroll employment counts the number of paid U.S. workers excluding farm employees, private-household workers, and nonprofit employees, published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from a survey of roughly 145,000 businesses and government agencies. The month-over-month change in payrolls — released the first Friday of each month at 8:30 a.m. ET alongside the unemployment rate — is one of the most market-moving economic releases, regularly moving Treasury yields, equities, and the dollar within seconds of the print. The series hit a record high above 155 million jobs in 2024 after the economy recovered all 22 million jobs lost during the April 2020 COVID-19 collapse. Benchmark revisions each February reconcile the monthly survey estimates against state unemployment-insurance records and can produce cumulative adjustments in the hundreds of thousands.
Current All Employees, Total Nonfarm Value
As of April 1, 2026, the current all employees, total nonfarm is 158736.00 Thousands of Persons. This is the most recent observation available for this series, updated monthly.
Historical Trend
All Employees, Total Nonfarm rose 0.07% month-over-month. Over the past year, all employees, total nonfarm rose 0.23% from March 2025. In the series' tracked history, the highest recorded value was 158736.00 (April 2026), and the lowest was 29923.00 (January 1939).
Methodology & Source
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Frequency: Monthly
Units: Thousands of Persons
All Employees: Total Nonfarm, commonly known as Total Nonfarm Payroll, is a measure of the number of U.S. workers in the economy that excludes proprietors, private household employees, unpaid volunteers, farm employees, and the unincorporated self-employed. This measure accounts for approximately 80...