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Hiring and pay

U.S. private-sector employment

National Employment Report

August 2026

+ 38,000 jobs

Month-over-month change

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NER Pulse: Week ending August 8, 2026

+ 11,750 jobs

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

Pay Insights

Median year-over-year change in base pay, August 2026

+3.2%

All workers

+3.0%

Job-stayers

+4.7%

Job-changers

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Top stories

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AI

Canaries Dashboard: Employment in AI-exposed occupations rose slightly in July

Young workers continued to lose ground.

EMC Index

Employee sentiment weakened in August

Mary Hayes, Ph.D., Jared Northup

August 18, 2026

Employment

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

Nela Richardson, Ph.D. , Andrew Wang, Ph.D.

July 29, 2026

Geographic trends

Who went the distance?

Issi Romem, Ph.D.

July 16, 2026

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