Scheduled official release

Dec 2, 2026 Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly)

Name: Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly)
Start: 2026-12-02T15:00:00.000Z

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calendar lists Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly), the metro unemployment report, for 10:00 AM EST on Wednesday, Dec 2, 2026. The one after it is Dec 30, 2026. The previous entry was Oct 28, 2026.

Every metro unemployment report release date 24 dates on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calendar, with the next one always at the top

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Scheduled release time Dec 2, 2026 10:00 AM EST Wednesday Ahead of the last collection run

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The official source calendar lists this release ahead of the last collection run.

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Release window

Where Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) 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.

What it measures

Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly), in one paragraph

Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment carries the same labor-market estimates as the state release, down to individual metropolitan areas.

What JMM reads first

Metro estimates come from smaller samples than the state ones, so a single month for a single city moves on noise. Treat the direction over several months as the signal and one month as decoration.

The month around this date

The BLS release calendar for December 2026

SMTWTFS

1 2 2 3 4 5

67 8 9 10 2 1112

1314 15 16 2 17 18 2 19

20212223242526

272829 30 31

The BLS calendar carries 14 releases across 10 days of December 2026. The heaviest day is the 2nd, which is this one, carrying 2 of them. Every marked day is listed below with its exact release time.

1
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey 10:00 AM ET
2
County Employment and Wages 10:00 AM ET
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) 10:00 AM ET, this page
4
Employment Situation 8:30 AM ET
8
Productivity and Costs 8:30 AM ET
10
Consumer Price Index 8:30 AM ET Real Earnings 8:30 AM ET
15
Producer Price Index 8:30 AM ET
16
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 10:00 AM ET Employer Costs for Employee Compensation 10:00 AM ET
17
U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes 8:30 AM ET
18
State Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) 10:00 AM ET Work Experience of the Population (Annual) 10:00 AM ET
30
Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) 10:00 AM ET

The run of dates

Date 23 of the 24 Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) entries JMM holds

Jan 3, 2025 Dec 30, 2026

The source calendar puts these 24 dates a median of 28 days apart. This one falls 35 days after the previous entry. The widest interval in the run is 77 days, between Oct 1, 2025 and Dec 17, 2025.

Previous Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) Oct 28, 2026 35 days before this one Next Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) Dec 30, 2026 28 days after this one

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: Dec 2, 2026, 10:00 AM EST
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

BLS news release calendar

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Schedule source. The source timezone is retained; Published requires a separate release receipt.

Same release minute

One other release lands at the same instant

County Employment and Wages 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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