Employment Situation

Employment Situation for October 2026 is scheduled for release at 08:30 EST on 6 November 2026.

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What it measures

The monthly jobs report. Two separate surveys: the establishment survey gives nonfarm payroll employment (the headline jobs number), and the household survey gives the unemployment rate.

Times shown in America/New York · Schedule source: BLS release schedule · Licence: public domain (a work of the U.S. federal government)

History

This series is moving to its original source (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics); it returns when it is read from there.

Impact on the Treasury curve

High 3.29 bp from the 10-year level

On this indicator’s past release days the Treasury curve moved that much more than it did on a quiet day — a day on which none of the tracked indicators released — across 53 clean release days , with 4 excluded because another tracked release landed the same day. It is a backward-looking measure of what already happened. It is not a forecast of the next release, and it is not advice. Read the full methodology.

Upcoming releases

Date Time (America/New York) Reference period Calendar
08:30 EST October 2026 .ics
08:30 EST November 2026 .ics
08:30 EST December 2026 .ics
08:30 EST January 2027 .ics
08:30 EST February 2027 .ics
08:30 EDT March 2027 .ics

Past releases

The dates the agency actually published on, newest first. These are release days, not the reference periods the figures describe.

Release date Time (America/New York) Reference period
08:30 EDT September 2026
08:30 EDT August 2026
08:30 EDT July 2026
08:30 EDT June 2026
08:30 EDT May 2026
08:30 EDT April 2026
08:30 EDT March 2026
08:30 EST February 2026
08:30 EST January 2026
08:30 EST December 2025
08:30 EST November 2025

No consensus, and why

No consensus shown — we don’t license survey estimates. The “expected” figure on a commercial calendar is a survey of economists sold by a data vendor. It is not a government work, there is no public-domain source for it, and we would rather say so than print an empty column. There are no prediction-market odds here either, for the same licensing reason.

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