US jobs report dates 2026–2027

Nonfarm payrolls, unemployment and wages: the monthly read on the US labour market. Published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics at 8:30 a.m. ET; every date below is from its own schedule and shown in your time zone.

Next releaseHigh impact

December 4, 2026

Your time 13:30 UTCPublisher 8:30 a.m. ETUTC 13:30

Covers November 2026 · In 23 days

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Latest reading: October 2026

+165k
Nonfarm payrolls, monthly change: 4.1%
Unemployment rate

Month	Payrolls	Unemployment
October 2026	+165k	4.1%
September 2026	+60k	4.2%
August 2026	+186k	4.1%
July 2026	−10k	4.1%
June 2026	+31k	4.2%
May 2026	+63k	4.3%
April 2026	+148k	4.3%
March 2026	+214k	4.3%
February 2026	−156k	4.4%
January 2026	+160k	4.3%
December 2025	−17k	4.4%
November 2025	+41k	4.5%

Show 12 months

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics, read November 9, 2026. Payrolls are the seasonally adjusted monthly change in thousands; BLS revises the two most recent months with each report, and the figures here follow those revisions.

Schedule

bls.gov

Release date	Covers	Your time	UTC
Fri, Dec 4, 2026	November 2026	13:30 UTC	13:30
Fri, Jan 8, 2027	December 2026	13:30 UTC	13:30
Fri, Feb 5, 2027	January 2027	13:30 UTC	13:30
Fri, Mar 5, 2027	February 2027	13:30 UTC	13:30
Fri, Apr 2, 2027	March 2027	12:30 UTC	12:30
Fri, May 7, 2027	April 2027	12:30 UTC	12:30
Fri, Jun 4, 2027	May 2027	12:30 UTC	12:30
Fri, Jul 2, 2027	June 2027	12:30 UTC	12:30
Fri, Aug 6, 2027	July 2027	12:30 UTC	12:30
Fri, Sep 3, 2027	August 2027	12:30 UTC	12:30
Fri, Oct 8, 2027	September 2027	12:30 UTC	12:30
Fri, Nov 5, 2027	October 2027	12:30 UTC	12:30
Fri, Dec 3, 2027	November 2027	13:30 UTC	13:30

Read from bls.gov on November 9, 2026. Agencies can move a date; their own schedule is final.

What the jobs report is

The Employment Situation report, known as the jobs report or NFP, comes out on the first Friday of most months at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. It counts the jobs added outside farming, the unemployment rate and average hourly earnings.

The Federal Reserve has two goals, stable prices and maximum employment, so the labour market weighs on rates almost as much as inflation does. A weak report raises the odds of cuts; a strong one, with fast wage growth, lowers them.

Each report also revises the two months before it, and revisions can be as large as the headline number.

What traders watch

Payrolls against forecast: The headline is the number of jobs added. A gap of 50,000 or more from forecasts is usually read as a surprise.
Unemployment rate: It comes from a separate household survey and can move against payrolls in the same report.
Wages and revisions: Average hourly earnings feed inflation expectations; revisions to earlier months can change the story of the headline.

How bitcoin moved after each jobs report

Average 24h move

1.71%

up or down

Ordinary day

1.80%

same years

Up after 24h

26 of 58

releases

Largest 24h move

+9.4%

February 4, 2022

Release	BTC at release	1 hour	24 hours	7 days
Nov 6, 2026	$76,044	−0.5%	−0.2%	—
Oct 2, 2026	$86,616	0.0%	−2.0%	−4.0%
Sep 4, 2026	$81,340	−2.5%	−2.1%	−5.2%
Aug 7, 2026	$65,129	+0.1%	−0.2%	−3.4%
Jul 2, 2026	$61,346	+0.6%	+1.0%	+2.4%
Jun 5, 2026	$62,220	−0.2%	−2.4%	+2.0%
May 8, 2026	$80,318	−0.9%	+0.1%	+0.3%
Apr 3, 2026	$67,116	−0.6%	0.0%	+7.5%
Mar 6, 2026	$70,061	−1.5%	−3.0%	+4.2%
Feb 11, 2026	$67,023	+1.5%	+1.1%	+0.7%
Jan 9, 2026	$90,591	0.0%	+0.1%	+5.5%
Dec 16, 2025	$87,368	−0.5%	−0.3%	+0.5%
Nov 20, 2025	$91,918	−0.5%	−9.2%	−1.3%
Sep 5, 2025	$112,611	+0.3%	−1.6%	+2.2%
Aug 1, 2025	$115,448	+0.2%	−1.5%	+1.0%
Jul 3, 2025	$109,609	−0.3%	−0.7%	+1.2%
Jun 6, 2025	$103,850	+0.1%	+1.4%	+1.2%
May 2, 2025	$96,790	+0.2%	−0.8%	+6.5%
Apr 4, 2025	$82,495	+0.1%	+1.1%	−0.3%
Mar 7, 2025	$89,431	−0.3%	−3.4%	−6.8%
Feb 7, 2025	$97,690	+2.0%	−1.5%	−1.2%
Jan 10, 2025	$94,818	−0.4%	−0.4%	+8.2%
Dec 6, 2024	$98,056	+1.2%	+1.4%	+2.1%
Nov 1, 2024	$70,094	+0.2%	−0.8%	+8.4%

Show all 24 releases

The last 24 of 58 releases since January 7, 2022. Price at the release is the last trade before it, on the BTC/USDT market of a major exchange. A move after a release is not caused by it alone, and past moves are no guide to the next one.

Questions people ask

At 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, usually on the first Friday of the month: 13:30 UTC in winter, 12:30 UTC during US daylight saving time.

Nonfarm payrolls: the number of jobs added in the month outside farming, private households and non-profits, from a survey of employers.

Less than you might expect. By our count since 2022, bitcoin’s average move in the 24 hours after a jobs report was close to its move on an ordinary day. The table on this page has every release.