US Employment Situation
December 2025
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Last update:Total nonfarm payroll employment varied by December 2025 in +50,000, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics:
| October 2025 | November 2025 | December 2025 | |
| total | 159,420,000 | 159,476,000 | 159,526,000 |
| total monthly variation | -65,000 | +56,000 | +50,000 |
| annual variation | +1,062,000 | +857,000 | +584,000 |
| annual percentage variation | +0.67% | +0.54% | +0.37% |
The unemployment rate in US was 4.40% in December 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
| October 2025 | November 2025 | December 2025 | |
| accommodation | -0.16% | -0.07% | -0.18% |
| construction | +0.29% | +0.48% | +0.17% |
| durable goods | -0.51% | -0.88% | -0.73% |
| financial activities | +0.64% | +0.47% | +0.41% |
| government | -0.49% | -0.54% | -0.63% |
| information | -0.17% | -0.44% | -1.02% |
| leisure and hospitality | +1.45% | +1.11% | +1.11% |
| manufacturing | -0.38% | -0.55% | -0.53% |
| mining and logging | -1.77% | -2.40% | -2.56% |
| nondurable goods | -0.16% | 0.00% | -0.21% |
| private education and health services | +2.86% | +2.80% | +2.63% |
| residential building construction | +0.27% | +0.48% | -0.15% |
| retail trade | +0.42% | +0.40% | +0.01% |
| service providing | +0.80% | +0.66% | +0.48% |
| total nonfarm | +0.67% | +0.54% | +0.37% |
| total private | +0.87% | +0.73% | +0.54% |
| trade transportation and utilities | +0.37% | +0.16% | -0.23% |
| transportation and warehousing | +0.53% | -0.26% | -0.87% |
| truck transportation | +0.13% | -0.30% | -0.23% |