Nonfarm Payrolls — 3-Month Avg Change

PAYEMS monthly Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRED
21
Crisis
Apr 2026
Current Score
20.9
Current Value
576.00 thousands of jobs
Direction
Higher is better
Sub-Score
Labor & Income

Score History (0–100)

Scoring Notes

  • Score uses expanding-window percentile rank (no look-ahead bias).
  • Gray shaded bars on the chart mark NBER-defined U.S. recessions.

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