US Employment Situation
September 2025
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Last update:Total nonfarm payroll employment varied by September 2025 in +119,000, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics:
| July 2025 | August 2025 | September 2025 | |
| total | 159,511,000 | 159,507,000 | 159,626,000 |
| total monthly variation | +59,000 | -4,000 | +119,000 |
| annual variation | +1,508,000 | +1,433,000 | +1,312,000 |
| annual percentage variation | +0.95% | +0.91% | +0.83% |
The unemployment rate in US was 4.40% in September 2025, a +0.1 percentage points variation compared with the previous month, and +0.3 percentage points compared the previous year:
nonfarm employment total monthly variation
The following chart and table show annual percentage variation data by industry sectors:
retail tradeleisure and hospitalityresidential building constructiontruck transportation
annual percentage variation by sectorShaded area = recession
| July 2025 | August 2025 | September 2025 | |
| accommodation | +0.61% | +0.48% | -0.04% |
| construction | +1.05% | +0.59% | +0.46% |
| durable goods | -1.16% | -0.93% | -0.99% |
| financial activities | +0.88% | +0.65% | +0.65% |
| government | +0.88% | +0.62% | +0.58% |
| information | -0.14% | -0.14% | -0.14% |
| leisure and hospitality | +1.39% | +1.42% | +1.39% |
| manufacturing | -0.88% | -0.69% | -0.73% |
| mining and logging | -1.12% | -1.45% | -2.24% |
| nondurable goods | -0.41% | -0.29% | -0.31% |
| private education and health services | +3.33% | +3.24% | +3.08% |
| residential building construction | +1.36% | +0.60% | +0.46% |
| retail trade | +0.35% | +0.45% | +0.45% |
| service providing | +1.13% | +1.09% | +1.01% |
| total nonfarm | +0.95% | +0.91% | +0.83% |
| total private | +0.97% | +0.96% | +0.87% |
| trade transportation and utilities | +0.53% | +0.54% | +0.42% |
| transportation and warehousing | +1.07% | +1.08% | +0.60% |
| truck transportation | +0.45% | +0.47% | +0.06% |