United States — Job creation by sector (nonfarm payrolls)
Monthly change in nonfarm payroll employment split by sector family (BLS CES survey, seasonally adjusted): which sectors drove the month's job gains and which lost jobs. The sectors add up to the headline « jobs added » figure.· Monthly change in nonfarm payroll employment (BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted) by sector family: each bar is the month’s net jobs figure, split into the sectors that added jobs (above zero) and those that lost jobs (below). The supersectors add up exactly to total nonfarm. « Information, finance & other services » groups three small supersectors; « Government » covers federal, state and local. The latest two months are preliminary and revised in the next two releases.
+70,000
Business services · Oct 2026
GovernmentInformation, finance & other servicesConstruction, manufacturing & miningTrade, transport & utilitiesLeisure & hospitalityBusiness servicesEducation & health
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics· Data Oct 2026Source type : Official
Change in payroll jobs by sector, SA — latest 2 months preliminary
