April 2025 Employment Situation — 2025-05-02

(NOTE: BLS reissued this news release on June 3, 2025, to note that this release contains minor data errors associated with the introduction in April 2025 of a redesigned sample for the household survey. These errors pertain only to the April 2025 household survey data in this release. Major labor force measures, such as the unemployment rate, labor force participation rate, and employment-population ratio were unaffected. While this error affected many estimates, the impact was negligible. This release was not updated to reflect the corrected household survey estimates. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 177,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment continued to trend up in health care, transportation and warehousing, financial activities, and social assistance. Federal government employment declined. This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics.