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_06022023.pdf. Highlights are below. Payroll employment increases by 339,000 in May; unemployment rate rises to 3.7% 06/02/2023 Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 339,000 in May, and the unemployment rate rose by 0.3 percentage point to 3.7 percent. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, government, health care, construction, transportation and warehousing, and social assistance. HTML | PDF | RSS | Charts

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