Manufacturing: employment

Sector Employment · series manufacturing · generated 2026-09-29

Observed monthly employment for Manufacturing.

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Observed monthly employment for Manufacturing. These observations do not establish causes or predict future employment. Manufacturing employment: latest level as of August 2026. Unit: thousands of persons, seasonally adjusted. Manufacturing: level in August 2026 12638.0000 thousands of persons, seasonally adjusted. Manufacturing employment: month-over-month change from July 2026 to August 2026. Unit: thousand persons. Manufacturing: Net change total 16.0000 thousand persons. Manufacturing employment: year-over-year change from August 2025 to August 2026. Unit: thousand persons. Manufacturing: Net change total 23.0000 thousand persons. Manufacturing employment as a share of total nonfarm employment in August 2026. Unit: percent. Share of total nonfarm: Manufacturing employment 7.94 % of Total Nonfarm employment. Observed monthly levels from August 2016 to August 2026. Unit: thousands of persons, seasonally adjusted. Months the source publishes in this window are kept; missing months are not filled. FRED: Manufacturing employment — MANEMP. Public domain; credit Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP. As of August 2026. These observations are CES employment, seasonally adjusted, in thousands of persons. Mining and logging, Professional and business services, Other services are not covered. No wages, hours, prices or equity data are in this brief. These observations do not establish causes or predict future employment. Supersectors are not ranked against each other.

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