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You are here: Home / BLS / April 2025 Employment / Unemployment Report

April 2025 Employment / Unemployment Report

May 3, 2025 by Tim McMahon Leave a Comment

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its employment / unemployment report for April on May 2nd, 2025.

Employment / Unemployment 

Adj U3 4.2 percent unchanged

 

 

  • Seasonally Adjusted U3- 4.2% Unchanged
  • Unadjusted U3- 3.9% Down from 4.2% in March
  • Unadjusted U6- 7.3% Down from 7.9% in March
  • Labor Force Participation Rate- 62.6% Up from 62.5%
  • Employment- 159.316 million Up from 158.411 million
  • Next data release June 6th, 2025

 

Summary:

Total Employed increased in April, Unadjusted Unemployment was down, but Seasonally adjusted Unemployment remained the same.

According to the Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics:

“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… 

Health care added 51,000 jobs in April, about the same as the average monthly gain of 52,000 over the prior 12 months. In April, job growth continued in hospitals (+22,000) and ambulatory health care services (+21,000)… 

Employment in transportation and warehousing increased by 29,000 in April…

Financial activities employment continued to trend up (+14,000)… 

Employment in social assistance continued its upward trend in April (+8,000) but at a slower pace than the average monthly gain over the prior 12 months (+20,000).

Within government, federal government employment declined by 9,000 in April and is down by 26,000 since January. (Employees on paid leave or receiving ongoing severance pay are counted as employed in the establishment survey.)”

You can read the full BLS report here.

As usual, they are talking about “Seasonally Adjusted Jobs”.

Looking at the Unadjusted Establishment Survey report we see…
Originally, the BLS reported employment of 158.506 million for March which they adjusted slightly to 158.411 million in April.

They are currently reporting 159.316 million jobs for April which is actually an increase of 810,000 jobs. Based on their original numbers.

Current Unemployment Rate Chart

As we can see, unemployment is 0.7% above pre-COVID lows of 2019 and 0.8% above the January and April lows of 2023.

Seasonally Adj U-3 Unemployment Rate forApr 25

Current Employment Rate

In February 2025 the BLS issued massive adjustments that created a sea of red in the Employment levels, erasing millions of supposed jobs in 2023 and 2024, while January’s numbers actually increased slightly.

Date Latest BLS Numbers
(in Millions)
Original BLS Numbers
(in Millions)
Change from Original
Apr-2025 159.316 159.316 NA
Mar-2025 158.411 158.506 -95,000
Feb-2025 157.944 157.983 -39,000
Jan-2025 157.095 157.091 4,000
Dec-2024 159.943 160.458 -515,000
Nov-2024 159.882 160.560 -678,000
Oct-2024 159.352 160.007 -655,000
Sep-2024 158.527 159.177 -650,000
Aug-2024 158.070 158.650 -580,000
Jul-2024 157.771 158.445 -674,000
Jun-2024 158.722 159.392 -670,000
May-2024 158.256 158.918 -662,000
Apr-2024 157.438 158.016 -578,000
Mar-2024 156.612 157.218 -606,000
Feb-2024 156.007 156.555 -548,000
Jan-2024 154.942 155.626 -684,000
Dec-2023 157.828 158.228 -400,000
Nov-2023 157.950 158.461 -511,000
Oct-2023 157.531 157.984 -453,000
Sep-2023 156.563 157.001 -438,000
Aug-2023 156.107 156.302 -195,000
July 2023 155.779 156.126 -347,000
June 2023 156.701 156.963 -262,000
May-2023 156.038 156.306 -268,000
Apr-2023 155.155 155.337 -182,000
Mar-2023 154.253 154.517 -264,000
Feb-2023 153.818 153.955 -137,000
Jan-2023 152.689 152.844 -155,000

Current Employment for Apr 25

See Current Employment  for more information.

BLS: April 2025 Employment by Sector

The BLS employment “bubble chart” based on the Establishment Survey Data gives us a good picture of the Seasonally Adjusted employment numbers.

The Bubble’s Size tells us the total Employment for that industry (i.e., larger bubbles mean more people are employed in that sector).

The bubble’s location on the chart tells us that there has been a change in Employment Levels over the most recent month… A bubble further to the right indicates larger job growth. A bubble’s vertical location on the chart shows the average industry salary.

Remember, these are Seasonally Adjusted Numbers, so they aren’t cumulative!

Employment Bubble Chart for April 2025Looking at the above chart, we can see that four sectors were below zero (i.e., left of the zero line -lost workers). But average weekly wages increased.

BLS Average Weekly Wages

Date Average Weekly Wage
April 2025 $1,236.86
March 2025 $1,231.20
February 2025 $1,225.21
January 2025 $1,223.17
December 2024 $1,224.17
November 2024 $1,221.42
October 2024 $1,216.28
September 2024 $1,209.31
August 2024 $1,207.70
July 2024 $1,199.39
June 2024 $1,200.50
May 2024 $1,197.41
April 2024 $1,191.93
March 2024 $1,193.34
February 2024 $1,185.75
January 2024 $1,178.16
December 2023 $1,175.46
November 2023 $1,173.04
October 2023 $1,166.20
September 2023 $1,165.47
August 2023 $1,163.41
July 2023 $1,157.28
June 2023 $1,155.15
May 2023 $1,146.99
April 2023 $1,147.58
March 2023 $1,141.34
February 2023 $1,141.61
January 2023 $1,146.14
December 2022 $1,125.73
November 2022 $1,129.01
October 2022 $1,124.01
September 2022 $1,119.87
August 2022 $1,116.42
July 2022 $1,116.54
June 2022 $1,106.76
May 2022 $1,105.47
April 2022 $1,102.01
December 2021 $1,086.46

BLS Employment and Average Weekly Earnings by Industry

April 2025, Seasonally Adjusted Employment

Note that due to “seasonal adjusting,” although they may claim that there was a “monthly increase” (or decrease), there isn’t always an actual increase; you can’t just subtract last month’s “employment level” from this month’s level. For instance, Manufacturing was supposed to be down by -1,000 in April. But March was 12,763,000 and April was 12,765,000 which looks like a 2,000 increase not a -1,000 decrease.

Industry Monthly Increase Ave. Weekly Earnings April Employment Level March Employment Level
Total Private Employment 167,000 $1,236.86 135,905,000 135,786,000
Mining and Logging 1,000 $1,810.35 625,000 623,000
Construction 11,000 $1,533.87 8,316,000 8,313,000
Manufacturing -1,000 $1,402.40 12,765,000 12,763,000
Wholesale trade 5,800 $1,516.90 6,186,500 6,177,800
Retail trade -1,800 $762.30 15,589,300 15,595,100
Transportation and Warehousing 29,000 $1,214.79 6,794,500 6,783,600
Utilities -600 $2,186.25 596,100 599,100
Information 0 $1,930.31 2,938,000 2,939,000
Financial Activities 14,000 $1,774.72 9,255,000 9,245,000
Professional and Business Services 17,000 $1,584.13 22,614,000 22,589,000
Private Education and Health Services 70,000 $1,153.90 27,202,000 27,130,000
Leisure and Hospitality 24,000 $578.85 16,993,000 16,991,000
Other Services -1,000 $1,036.80 6,031,000 6,036,000

Source: BLS

ADP® National Employment Report

ADP provides an independent (non-government) estimate of private-sector employment and pay, based on data derived from ADP client payrolls. According to ADP®, In collaboration with Stanford Digital Economy Lab. The numbers are released a few days before the BLS numbers and are often quite different.

ADP: Private employers added 62,000 jobs in April

  • Education and health services, information, and professional and business services lost jobs, while hiring in other sectors was moderate.

Nela Richardson Apr 2025

 

Source: ADP®

ADP Private Employment by Establishment Size

April ADP Changes:

 

Change by Est Size for Apr 2025ADP Job Gainers / Losers

ADP provides an entirely different picture of the job situation compared to the BLS perspective.

 

ADP Gainers-Losers Apr 2025

Unemployment

Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment is unchanged at 4.2%.

Seasonally Adj U-3 Unemployment Rate Chart

 

 

Labor Force Participation Rate

The LFPR is up from 62.5% to 62.6%.

Labor Force Participation Rate Apr-25Less Than Full Employment

This chart compares employment levels with the (inverted) unemployment rate.

Full Employment is when everyone who wants a job has one. It is generally considered to be around 3%. After the unemployment rate almost touched the magic full employment line in April 2023, it began moving away (i.e., higher unemployment).

Note: The Unemployment rate is inverted to track the employment rate. Neither is Seasonally Adjusted. For more information see Employment vs. Unemployment.

Emp vs Unemp for Apr 25

 

 

Note: Full employment is not considered to be at zero percent because even when employers are having difficulty finding employees, some people are still unemployed due to either:

  1. structural unemployment (mismatch between worker skills and job requirements, i.e., not enough training) or
  2. frictional unemployment There will always be people who have quit or have lost a seasonal job and are in the process of getting a new job. Or Simply because they quit their job knowing it would be easy to find another (hopefully better) job.

Seasonally Adjusted U1 through U6 Unemployment Rates

Adj U1-U6 April 2025Employment-Population Ratio

By Gender

This chart shows the Employment-Population Ratio by Gender. Men make up a much larger portion of the workforce, i.e., 67.5% of men are employed, and only 56.7% of women are employed. But…

As you can see, 20 years ago, back in 2005, over 72% of men were working and 57.4% of women were working. In 2008, the Great Recession caused a massive decline in employment for both men and women. By December of 2009, only 66.4% of men were working and 55.4% of women. Over the next decade and a half, women workers rebounded back to 56.7% but men only rebounded to 67.5%.

Emp-Pop Ratio by Gender April 2025Employment-Population Ratio by Race

This chart shows the Employment-Population Ratio by Race. As we can see Hispanics and Asians have the highest percentage employed with Asians rising slightly above Hispanics this month.

Emp-Pop Ratio by Race April 2025

 

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