US Employment Situation
July 2025
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Last update:Total nonfarm payroll employment varied by July 2025 in +73,000, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics:
| May 2025 | June 2025 | July 2025 | |
| total | 159,452,000 | 159,466,000 | 159,539,000 |
| total monthly variation | +177,000 | +14,000 | +73,000 |
| annual variation | +1,624,000 | +1,551,000 | +1,536,000 |
| annual percentage variation | +1.03% | +0.98% | +0.97% |
The unemployment rate in US was 4.20% in July 2025, a +0.1 percentage points variation compared with the previous month, and 0.0 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
| May 2025 | June 2025 | July 2025 | |
| accommodation | +1.06% | +0.95% | +0.97% |
| construction | +1.43% | +1.28% | +1.17% |
| durable goods | -1.19% | -1.18% | -1.18% |
| financial activities | +0.99% | +0.88% | +1.08% |
| government | +1.05% | +1.01% | +0.76% |
| information | -0.41% | -0.41% | +0.10% |
| leisure and hospitality | +1.37% | +1.44% | +1.42% |
| manufacturing | -0.75% | -0.79% | -0.88% |
| mining and logging | -0.32% | -0.32% | -0.96% |
| nondurable goods | -0.02% | -0.14% | -0.39% |
| private education and health services | +3.38% | +3.27% | +3.33% |
| residential building construction | +1.51% | +1.41% | +1.48% |
| retail trade | +0.11% | +0.15% | +0.35% |
| service providing | +1.18% | +1.14% | +1.14% |
| total nonfarm | +1.03% | +0.98% | +0.97% |
| total private | +1.03% | +0.98% | +1.01% |
| trade transportation and utilities | +0.53% | +0.48% | +0.55% |
| transportation and warehousing | +1.21% | +1.10% | +1.15% |
| truck transportation | +0.15% | +0.09% | +0.44% |