Dataset
Total nonfarm employment (Current Employment Statistics)
bls.ces.total_nonfarm
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About
Payroll employment from the establishment survey, monthly since 1939: all employees on nonfarm payrolls, women employees and the other total nonfarm measures, seasonally adjusted and not. CES0000000001 is all employees, seasonally adjusted, whose monthly change is the jobs number in the Employment Situation release. The file holds 6 series.
Cite as: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Total nonfarm employment (Current Employment Statistics), ce.data.00a.TotalNonfarm.Employment.
- Publisher
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Tier
- OfficialVerified
- Covers
- 1939–now
- Places
- United States
- Updated
- monthly
- Last modified
- 2026-11-06
- Units
- thousands of employees
- License
- U.S. Government Work (public domain)
- Method
- https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/ces/
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| series_id | text | the BLS series id |
| series_title | text | what the series measures, from the survey's series file |
| seasonal | text | S for seasonally adjusted, U for not |
| year | integer | |
| period | text | M01 to M12 a month, M13 an annual average, Q a quarter, S a half |
| date | date | the first day of the period; empty for an annual average |
| value | number | |
| footnote_codes | text | BLS footnote codes, such as P for preliminary |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| series | CES0000000001 All employees, thousands, total nonfarm, seasonally adjusted, CES0000000010 Women employees, thousands, total nonfarm, seasonally adjusted, CES0000000025 All employees, quarterly averages, thousands, total nonfarm, seasonally adjusted, CES0000000026 All employees, 3-month average change, thousands, total nonfarm, seasonally adjusted, CEU0000000001 All employees, thousands, total nonfarm, not seasonally adjusted, CEU0000000010 Women employees, thousands, total nonfarm, not seasonally adjusted |
| year |