{"id":348247,"date":"2025-09-18T17:02:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/civilian-employment-peaked-in-april-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T22:02:40","slug":"civilian-employment-peaked-in-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/civilian-employment-peaked-in-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilian Employment Peaked in April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-58045\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header -->&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>So too has CPS series adjusted to NFP concept, a series pushed in the wake of the slow employment recovery from the 2001 recession. On the other hand, preliminary benchmark NFP, and NFP estimated using QCEW data continue to crawl upward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/emplpix_aug25d.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58046\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/emplpix_aug25d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"878\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/emplpix_aug25d.png 878w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/emplpix_aug25d-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/emplpix_aug25d-768x491.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/emplpix_aug25d-624x399.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure 1:<\/strong> Preliminary benchmark implied NFP (tan), preliminary benchmark implied using QCEW seasonally adjusted data by author (blue), ADP private employment plus BLS preliminary benchmark government employment (red), and CPS employment adjusted to NFP concept, 3 month centered moving average (green), all in 000\u2019s, s.a. Source: BLS via FRED, BLS, and author\u2019s calculations.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On a side note, BLS Director nominee EJ Antoni\u2019s measure of \u201csustainable\u201d employment (private employment ex-health and ex-social services) has been declining since December 2024 (using preliminary benchmark figures).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ejantoni_sustainable_empl.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58047\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ejantoni_sustainable_empl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"878\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ejantoni_sustainable_empl.png 878w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ejantoni_sustainable_empl-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ejantoni_sustainable_empl-768x491.png 768w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ejantoni_sustainable_empl-624x399.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Figure 2:<\/strong> Private NFP minus health care and social services employment (tan), and according to implied preliminary benchmark (blue), all in 000\u2019s, s.a. Source: BLS via FRED, BLS and author\u2019s calculations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/09\/civilian-employment-peaked-in-2025m4\" title=\"2:23 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-09-18T14:23:29-07:00\">September 18, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->&#13;\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/09\/civilian-employment-peaked-in-2025m4\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; So too has CPS series adjusted to NFP concept, a series pushed in the wake of the slow employment recovery from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}