Hires: Total Nonfarm
Hires during the month as a share of employment, seasonally adjusted. It is a rate, not the number of hires.
3.30
Rate
Hires: Total Nonfarm — latest reading: 3.30 rate. As of August 2026, it is up 3.1% over the past 12 months, well below its 10-year average. Source: JTSHIR, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, published monthly. Reported as published, without transformation; the publisher may revise it.
Min
2.80
Max
6.10
Average
3.68
10Y Percentile
4%
3M Change
+0.0%
Hires: Total Nonfarm (JTSHIR) — 309 observations from 2000-12-01 to 2026-08-01. Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Red shading indicates NBER recession periods.
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Next scheduled release: Tue, Nov 3 (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, per the FRED release calendar — scheduled dates can move).
How these numbers changed
Every figure above is the current one. These are the same periods as first published — what Hires: Total Nonfarm said on the day, before it was restated. Measured in Rate.
| Period | First print | Now | Change | Republished |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | 3.2 | 3.3 | +0.1 | 1× |
| Jan 2026 | 3.3 | 3.4 | +0.1 | 1× |
| Oct 2025 | 3.2 | 3.3 | +0.1 | 2× |
| Sep 2025 | 3.4 | 3.3 | -0.1 | 1× |
Hires: Total Nonfarm for April 2026 first printed at 3.2 on June 2, 2026, was revised once, and now reads up to 3.3. Recompute any row from FRED's own vintage archive.
Macro Regime Context
The growth regime is currently late cycle (71% confidence).
See what this means across all four regime dimensions →3-Month
+0.0%
6-Month
+6.5%
12-Month
+3.1%
What this means
Hires: Total Nonfarm is currently at 3.30 rate, which is well below its 10-year historical average. The trend is stable (+0.0% over the past 3 months).
Over the past 6 months the change is +6.5%, and over 12 months it is +3.1%. The short-term pace is consistent with the longer trend.
Cite this page
MacroRadar, "Hires: Total Nonfarm," https://www.macroradar.io/hires-total-nonfarm (as of August 2026).