Published official release Apr 3, 2026 Employment Situation the jobs report
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published Employment Situation, the jobs report, at 8:30 AM EDT on Friday, Apr 3, 2026. Nonfarm payroll employment changed +178,000; the unemployment rate was 4.3%. The next one lands May 8, 2026.
JMM retrieved this record from the official source and retained its publication clock.
8:30 AM EDT in other time zones
Convert this release clock for another city.
Show all 10 conversions
8:30 AM EDT in other time zones
Convert this release clock for another city.
- Your device
- Los Angeles 5:30 AM Friday
- Denver 6:30 AM Friday
- Chicago 7:30 AM Friday
- New York 8:30 AM Friday
- London 1:30 PM Friday
- Frankfurt 2:30 PM Friday
- Mumbai 6:00 PM Friday
- Tokyo 9:30 PM Friday
- Sydney 11:30 PM Friday
Release windowWhere Employment Situation lands in the trading day
What it measuresEmployment Situation, in one paragraph
The Employment Situation is the monthly U.S. jobs report. It carries two separate surveys: employers report payroll jobs, hours, and earnings, while households supply the unemployment rate and labor-force participation, which is why its two headline numbers can move in opposite directions.
What JMM reads first
Do not start with the headline payroll change. It is a first estimate, and the same release revises the two months before it, so the number everyone reacts to at 8:30 is the one most likely to be different by the time it matters. Read the revisions first, then the unemployment rate and participation from the household survey, then the headline. If the two surveys disagree, that is information rather than an error.
The series this release carries Where the 2 series this release updates stand right now
Both series below sit at the July 2026 reference period, read straight from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics public API on the collection run below. The reference period is the month a value describes, not the day it was published, and the two are never the same month for a series like this one.
Total nonfarm payroll employment
CES0000000001158,858 thousands of people, July 2026
- Previous reference period
- 158,881 in June 2026
- Change between them
- -23 thousands of people
- Against the same month a year earlier
- +0.2%
- JMM retrieval
- Aug 12, 2026, 9:17 PM EDT
Current Inside the freshness window the engine holds this source to. Source footnote: preliminary.
Unemployment rate
LNS140000004.1 percent, July 2026
- Previous reference period
- 4.2 in June 2026
- Change between them
- -0.1 percentage points
- JMM retrieval
- Aug 12, 2026, 9:17 PM EDT
Current Inside the freshness window the engine holds this source to.
The month around this date The BLS release calendar for April 2026
The BLS calendar carries 14 releases across 11 days of April 2026. The heaviest day is the 10th, carrying 2 of them. Every marked day is listed below with its exact release time.
- 3
Employment Situation 8:30 AM ET, this page
- 8
- 10
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 22
- 23
- 28
- 29
- 30
The run of dates Date 15 of the 23 Employment Situation entries JMM holds
The source calendar puts these 23 dates a median of 28 days apart. This one falls 28 days after the previous entry. The widest interval in the run is 76 days, between Sep 5, 2025 and Nov 20, 2025.
Event recordEvery clock JMM stores for this record
- Status
- PublishedJMM retrieved this record from the official source and retained its publication clock.
- Official result
- Nonfarm payroll employment changed +178,000; the unemployment rate was 4.3%.
- Revision state
- Initial release receipt reconciled to the immutable archive
- Effective period
- Mar 1, 2026
- Scheduled time
- Apr 3, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT
- Source publication
- Apr 3, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT
- First observed
- Aug 2, 2026, 7:08 PM EDT
- JMM retrieval
- Aug 2, 2026, 7:08 PM EDT
- Forecast connection
- None published A published JMM question that settles on this record would freeze its probability before the time above.
Employment Situation for March 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Schedule source. The source timezone is retained; Published requires a separate release receipt.
Retained artifact SHA-2566332b3248dac4c869c7255d7390b7ca06e2f9ef69ce3ea8dcff6d5e3b3f6bec9
