Scheduled official release

Aug 28, 2026 Current Employment Statistics Preliminary Benchmark (National)

Name: Current Employment Statistics Preliminary Benchmark (National)
Start: 2026-08-28T14:00:00.000Z

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calendar lists Current Employment Statistics Preliminary Benchmark (National), the CES preliminary payroll benchmark (national), for 10:00 AM EDT on Friday, Aug 28, 2026.

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Scheduled release time Aug 28, 2026 10:00 AM EDT Friday Ahead of the last collection run

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Release window

Where Current Employment Statistics Preliminary Benchmark (National) lands in the trading day

10:00 AM

4:00 AM 9:30 AM open 4:00 PM close 8:00 PM

30 minutes into the U.S. equity session, so it lands in live trading rather than ahead of it.

The month around this date

The BLS release calendar for August 2026

SMTWTFS

23 4 5 6 7 8

91011 12 2 13 1415

1617 18 19 20 21 22

232425 26 27 2 28 3 29

3031

The BLS calendar carries 15 releases across 11 days of August 2026. The heaviest day is the 28th, which is this one, carrying 3 of them. Every marked day is listed below with its exact release time.

4
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey 10:00 AM ET
6
Productivity and Costs 8:30 AM ET
7
Employment Situation 8:30 AM ET
12
Consumer Price Index 8:30 AM ET Real Earnings 8:30 AM ET
13
Producer Price Index 8:30 AM ET
18
U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes 8:30 AM ET
20
Summer Youth Labor Force 10:00 AM ET
21
State Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) 10:00 AM ET
26
Access to and Use of Leave 10:00 AM ET
27
Employment Projections and Occupational Outlook Handbook 10:00 AM ET Worker Displacement 10:00 AM ET
28
County Employment and Wages 10:00 AM ET
Current Employment Statistics Preliminary Benchmark (National) 10:00 AM ET, this page
Current Employment Statistics Preliminary Benchmark (State and Area) 10:00 AM ET

Event record

Every clock JMM stores for this record

Status: ScheduledThe official source calendar lists this release ahead of the last collection run.
Effective period: Not specified by source
Scheduled time: Aug 28, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT
JMM retrieval: Aug 12, 2026, 9:17 PM EDT
Forecast connection: None published A published JMM question that settles on this record would freeze its probability before the time above.

Primary evidence

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Same release minute

2 other releases land at the same instant

County Employment and Wages Scheduled to the same minute on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calendar Current Employment Statistics Preliminary Benchmark (State and Area) Scheduled to the same minute on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calendar

The release clock

BLS publishes at 2 times of day, and this is one of them

10:00 AM ET 174
8:30 AM ET 139

Every one of the 313 dated BLS entries JMM holds lands on one of these 2 clock times. This release uses the busier of the two: 174 entries across 44 releases, 56% of the calendar. It lands inside the U.S. equity session rather than before it. Read in UTC the same slot would look like 2 different habits, because the published file carries a real timezone: the release holds 10:00 AM Eastern through daylight saving and it is the UTC instant that moves. Grouping on the publisher's own clock is what keeps that one habit one row.

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