Jobs report September 2025:
A ‘Hiring’ sign stands outside the entrance of a Burlington store on November 19, 2025 in Miami, Florida.
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The U.S. economy added significantly more jobs than expected in September, according to a long-awaited report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday.
Non-farm payrolls That’s up 119,000 jobs in the month since the 4,000 jobs lost following the downward revision in August. Dow Jones’ consensus estimate for September was 50,000. The July total was also revised to 72,000, down 7,000 from the previous version.
In addition to the headline job count, the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, the highest level since October 2021, the BLS said.
Average hourly earnings rose 0.2% for the month and 3.8% from a year ago, compared with forecasts of 0.3% and 3.7%, respectively.
The report ends a data drought on the labor market that began in early September and continued until the record 44-day government shutdown. Agencies including the BLS, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and others were prohibited from collecting or publishing data during the period.
This was the first BLS jobs report since the August issue, published on September 5.
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