# Payroll job growth, 12-month change

Percent change in seasonally adjusted nonfarm payroll employment from the same month a year earlier, from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

## Key facts

- Payroll job growth, 12-month change in the United States was 0.3% in September 2026, according to BLS.
- Louisiana had the highest payroll job growth, 12-month change of 51 states in August 2026, at 1.6%, and District of Columbia the lowest, at -3.6%. Source: BLS.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from January 1940 to September 2026.
- Figures last updated on 2026-10-12.

- Indicator id: `payroll_job_growth_12_month`
- Unit: %
- Note: Invokely computes it from the two published job counts, shown with each value, and rounds it to one decimal as BLS does in its state release. The latest month is preliminary. Each year BLS benchmarks the series to unemployment insurance tax records and revises past years. State estimates come out about two weeks after the national ones, and the states do not add up to the national total because each is estimated separately.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/payroll-job-growth
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/indicators/payroll_job_growth_12_month

## Latest figures

| Place | Period | % | Source |
|---|---|---:|---|
| United States | 2026-09 | 0.3 | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Current Employment Statistics: all employees, total nonfarm, seasonally adjusted (CES0000000001), percent change from 12 months earlier. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/ce/ce.data.00a.TotalNonfarm.Employment. Retrieved 2026-10-12. |

## Rankings

- [US states](https://invokely.ai/rankings/payroll-job-growth/us-states.md) (51 places)