US Employment Situation
August 2025
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Last update:Total nonfarm payroll employment varied by August 2025 in +22,000, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics:
| June 2025 | July 2025 | August 2025 | |
| total | 159,439,000 | 159,518,000 | 159,540,000 |
| total monthly variation | +6,000 | +79,000 | +22,000 |
| annual variation | +1,524,000 | +1,515,000 | +1,466,000 |
| annual percentage variation | +0.97% | +0.96% | +0.93% |
The unemployment rate in US was 4.30% in August 2025, a +0.1 percentage points variation compared with the previous month, and +0.1 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
| June 2025 | July 2025 | August 2025 | |
| accommodation | +0.90% | +0.83% | +0.78% |
| construction | +1.22% | +1.07% | +0.70% |
| durable goods | -1.20% | -1.14% | -0.88% |
| financial activities | +0.84% | +0.97% | +0.87% |
| government | +1.02% | +0.82% | +0.59% |
| information | -0.51% | -0.17% | -0.10% |
| leisure and hospitality | +1.39% | +1.37% | +1.38% |
| manufacturing | -0.80% | -0.83% | -0.61% |
| mining and logging | -0.48% | -1.28% | -2.09% |
| nondurable goods | -0.14% | -0.31% | -0.16% |
| private education and health services | +3.27% | +3.32% | +3.24% |
| residential building construction | +1.36% | +1.51% | +1.02% |
| retail trade | +0.21% | +0.35% | +0.51% |
| service providing | +1.12% | +1.13% | +1.10% |
| total nonfarm | +0.97% | +0.96% | +0.93% |
| total private | +0.96% | +0.98% | +0.99% |
| trade transportation and utilities | +0.52% | +0.56% | +0.59% |
| transportation and warehousing | +1.15% | +1.24% | +1.27% |
| truck transportation | +0.09% | +0.48% | +0.44% |