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Monthly U.S. labor force data, from 2015 to 2026, drawn from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Compose any combination of demographic series onto one chart — or switch to geography to compare states and regions.
Two views — switch to By geography to compare states and regions.
All figures are published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and are seasonally adjusted. National participation rates and headcounts come from the Current Population Survey (CPS); state and regional labor-force levels come from Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS). Nothing on this page is modeled or estimated by The Clever Edit — every point is a reported BLS value.
Participation rate is the share of the civilian noninstitutional population working or actively looking for work. Headcount is the level of the labor force. Headcounts are published for the sex × age series only; the demographic breakdowns (race, ethnicity, nativity, education, marital status, mothers, worker class) are published as rates only, and geography as counts only — the controls reflect exactly what BLS reports for each cut, and never substitute one for the other.
One month — October 2025 — has no observation in this release and appears as a break in the line, never interpolated. The geography tab excludes the four Census-region rollups from the per-state list to avoid double-counting; regions are available as their own series. Age coverage varies by breakdown (education is 25+, the sex view offers prime-age 25–54 and 16+) and is shown in each series label.