May 2025 BLS jobs report: payrolls grew by 139,000 jobs. Unemployment rate remained at 4.2%.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Consensus forecast was for +126,000 jobs and for UR to remain at 4.2%, so actual figures surprised on the high side for jobs and met expectations for unemployment.

March jobs were revised down by 65,000. April jobs were revised down by 30,000. Total revision to previous months was 95,000 downward.

FRED graph of monthly change (in thousands) in nonfarm payroll employment levels since Jan 2021.

FRED graph of the headline unemployment rate since Jan 2021.

FRED graph of more expansive unemployment definitions (U-3 thru U-6) since Jan 2021