October 2026 Jobs Report: Payrolls for Fed Watchers
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Total nonfarm payrolls and the unemployment rate for October 2026, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics published them in the Employment Situation.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the Employment Situation once a month. This report prints total nonfarm payrolls and the unemployment rate for one month as they stood when the report was first stored, says whether each is higher than, lower than, or the same as the month before, and links the release. It computes no change and makes no forecast.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the October 2026 Employment Situation on Nov 6, 2026. The release is also published as a BLS PDF.
Total nonfarm payrolls for October 2026 are 159,293 thousand, higher than the September 2026 print, 159,128 thousand.
The unemployment rate for October 2026 is 4.10%, lower than the September 2026 print, 4.20%.
Each print is shown as the agency published it, relayed by GOVSPENDING.ORG, as it stood when this report was first stored on Nov 7, 2026. A later revision of the month is not written into this report. Higher, lower, and the same compare the two stored prints printed beside them, and this paper computes no change.