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Employment Situation Released

Released Friday, 2 October 2026, 08:30 ET.

• BLS
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Result

The unemployment rate in the United States rose to 4.2% in September 2026 from 4.1% in August 2026 (+0.1 pts), according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Source: BLS, Current Population Survey: unemployment rate, 16 years and over, seasonally adjusted (LNS14000000). Retrieved 2026-10-08, published 2026-10-02. The figure as Invokely stored it on 2026-10-08.

Recent history

Against the previous release

Invokely has no earlier release of this series on record.

Revisions to earlier periods

This release did not change the figure of any earlier period of this series.

Follow this statistic

Unemployment rate in United States: all figures

How to cite

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Current Population Survey: unemployment rate, 16 years and over, seasonally adjusted (LNS14000000). https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/ln/ln.data.1.AllData. Retrieved 2026-10-08.

Statistics this release updates

• Average hourly earnings, private employees
• Employment-population ratio
• Labor force participation rate
• Nonfarm payroll employment
• Construction payroll employment
• Private education and health services payroll employment
• Financial activities payroll employment
• Government payroll employment
• Information payroll employment
• Leisure and hospitality payroll employment
• Manufacturing payroll employment
• Mining and logging payroll employment
• Other services payroll employment
• Professional and business services payroll employment
• Trade, transportation and utilities payroll employment
• Payroll job growth, 12-month change
• Unemployment rate
• Youth unemployment rate, ages 16 to 24

Next release

Employment Situation, Friday, 6 November 2026, 08:30 ET