Employment Situation News Release

Bureau of Labor Statistics

The latest Employment Situation news release has been posted on the BLS website at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf and also archived at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_09022022.pdf. Highlights are below. Payroll employment increases by 315,000 in August; unemployment rate rises to 3.7% 09/02/2022 Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 315,000 in August, and the unemployment rate rose to 3.7 percent. Notable job gains occurred in professional and business services, health care, and retail trade. HTML | PDF | RSS | Charts | Commissioner's Statement

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