June 2008 Employment Situation — 2008-07-03

(NOTE: This release was reissued on Thursday, July 10, 2008, to correct minor errors in a small number of May and June estimates from the household survey. The corrected estimates appear in tables A, A-1, A-2, A-3, A-5, A-6, A-7, A-10, and A-13 and are designated by a "c." The corrections were so small that the changes to the previously published estimates only affected rounding of the last digit displayed for several estimates of levels; no published rates were affected. In addition, see page 5 for corrected May data for tables A-10 and A-13 that were published in USDL 08-0757, "THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: MAY 2008." The corrections did not affect the analysis in the release or any of the establishment survey data shown in the B tables of the release.) Nonfarm payroll employment continued to trend down in June (-62,000), while the unemployment rate held at 5.5 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today.