Unemployment Rate

The Unemployment Rate was 4.1% on 2026-08-01, per U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED.

Latest 4.1%
Change vs previous 0 bp
As of
Unit Percent

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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED · Source data · As of · 307 observations

Recent observations

The most recent 60 observations, newest first. Change is against the previous published observation, not the previous calendar day — the series is only published on days the source publishes it.

Date Value Change
4.1% 0 bp
4.1% -10 bp
4.2% -10 bp
4.3% 0 bp
4.3% 0 bp
4.3% -10 bp
4.4% +10 bp
4.3% -10 bp
4.4% -10 bp
4.5% +10 bp
4.4% +10 bp
4.3% 0 bp
4.3% +20 bp
4.1% -20 bp
4.3% +10 bp
4.2% 0 bp
4.2% 0 bp
4.2% +20 bp
4.0% -10 bp
4.1% -10 bp
4.2% +10 bp
4.1% 0 bp
4.1% -10 bp
4.2% 0 bp
4.2% +10 bp
4.1% +20 bp
3.9% 0 bp
3.9% 0 bp
3.9% 0 bp
3.9% +20 bp
3.7% -10 bp
3.8% +10 bp
3.7% -20 bp
3.9% +20 bp
3.7% 0 bp
3.7% +20 bp
3.5% -10 bp
3.6% 0 bp
3.6% +20 bp
3.4% -10 bp
3.5% -10 bp
3.6% +10 bp
3.5% 0 bp
3.5% -10 bp
3.6% 0 bp
3.6% +10 bp
3.5% -10 bp
3.6% +10 bp
3.5% -10 bp
3.6% 0 bp
3.6% -10 bp
3.7% 0 bp
3.7% -20 bp
3.9% -10 bp
4.0% +10 bp
3.9% -20 bp
4.1% -40 bp
4.5% -20 bp
4.7% -40 bp
5.1% —

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED · As of · Showing 60 of 307 observations; the chart above plots the full history.

Methodology

The share of the labour force that is without a job and actively looking for one, from the BLS household survey, seasonally adjusted. It counts only people who are searching — someone who stops looking leaves the labour force and stops being counted as unemployed.

Attribution & licence
Attribution
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED
Originator
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Licence
Public domain
Why
The underlying data is a U.S. federal government work (public domain). FRED is the redistributor, not the author, so the attribution names the originating agency 'via FRED'. FRED's terms permit redistribution but FORBID use with AI/LLM services — hence llmForbidden.