Graph and download economic data for All Employees, Total Private (USPRIV) from Jan 1939 to Sep 2025 about headline figure, establishment survey, private industries, private, employment, industry, and USA.

Context

This dataset lists the number of employees (in the thousands) of the total private industry in the United States from March 31, 1939 through August 30, 2016. Averages are taken quarterly and are seasonally adjusted.

Content

Data includes the date of the quarterly collection and the number of employees (in the thousands).

Inspiration

• Is there a general trend of employment throughout the year?
• Have certain historical events correlated with drastic changes in employment? What other datasets could you use to prove causation?
• Several other BLS datasets break down employment numbers by industry, gender, state, etc. What other employment trends can you find?

Acknowledgement

This dataset is part of the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics Datasets (the Employment and Unemployment database), and the original source can be found here.

In the United States, private nonfarm payroll employment increased by around 38,000 in August 2025 compared to the previous month. The data are seasonally adjusted. According to the BLS, the data is derived from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program which surveys about 140,000 businesses and government agencies each month, representing approximately 440,000 individual worksites, in order to provide detailed industry data on employment.

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