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Hiring and pay

U.S. private-sector employment

National Employment Report

June 2026

+ 98,000 jobs

Month-over-month change

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NER Pulse: Week ending July 11, 2026

+ 15,000 jobs

Week-over-week change to four-week moving average

Pay Insights

June 2026

$61,800

Median annual pay

+4.4%

Year-over-year change for job-stayers

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Top stories

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Employment

Unbundling jobs: Measuring the value of tasks in an AI economy

Certain IT work tasks are less valued by employers today than they were prior to the first wide release of AI tools.

AI

Canaries Dashboard: Employment in AI-exposed occupations contracted in June

Nela Richardson, Ph.D.

July 22, 2026

EMC Index

Employee sentiment weakened in July

Mary Hayes, Ph.D., Jared Northup

July 21, 2026

Employment

Moving vans didn’t remap U.S. employment. The org chart did.

Issi Romem, Ph.D., Łukasz Below, Ph.D.

July 15, 2026

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July 28, 2026

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