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Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly)

When is the next metro unemployment report?

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calendar puts the next Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly), the metro unemployment report, at 10:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, Sep 2, 2026. Every one of the 24 dated entries lands at 10:00 AM Eastern, at a rate of 11.6 a year, on an interval that does not settle, across the run from Jan 3, 2025 to Dec 30, 2026.

Next scheduled release Sep 2, 2026 10:00 AM EDT Wednesday Ahead of the last collection run Open this release record

10:00 AM Eastern in other time zones

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  • Los Angeles 7:00 AM Wednesday
  • Denver 8:00 AM Wednesday
  • Chicago 9:00 AM Wednesday
  • New York 10:00 AM Wednesday
  • London 3:00 PM Wednesday
  • Frankfurt 4:00 PM Wednesday
  • Mumbai 7:30 PM Wednesday
  • Tokyo 11:00 PM Wednesday
  • Sydney 12:00 AM Thursday, next day
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.

Measured schedule

How the Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) calendar behaves

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

Interval between entries
A median of 28 days, but the intervals do not cluster: they run 13 to 77 days, so the rate is the better reading.
Entries per year across the span
11.6 over Jan 3, 2025 to Dec 30, 2026
Release time
10:00 AM Eastern on every one of the 24 entries, which resolves to 2 different UTC times across daylight saving.
Usual weekday
Wednesday on 17 of 24 entries
Widest interval in the run
77 days, between Oct 1, 2025 and Dec 17, 2025
Every dated entry

24 Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) dates on record

Metro unemployment report dates in 2026 13 dates , 5 still ahead

DateTime (ET)WeekdayStatusRecord
10:00 AM Friday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Friday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Thursday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Tuesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Scheduled Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Scheduled Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Scheduled Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Scheduled Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Scheduled Open event

Metro unemployment report dates in 2025 11 dates

DateTime (ET)WeekdayStatusRecord
10:00 AM Friday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Friday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Tuesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Awaiting receipt Open event
10:00 AM Wednesday Awaiting receipt Open event

Scheduled is still ahead of the last collection. Published has a separate official receipt; Awaiting receipt has only the source schedule.

Primary evidence

BLS news release calendar

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Open official source

Schedule source. Dates retain its timezone; Published appears only after JMM captures a separate release receipt. The calendar download uses these same records.

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