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_06062025.pdf. Highlights are below. Payroll employment increases by 139,000 in May; unemployment rate unchanged at 4.2% 06/06/2025 Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 139,000 in May, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.2 percent. Employment continued to trend up in health care, leisure and hospitality, and social assistance. Federal government continued to lose jobs. HTML | PDF | RSS | Charts

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