Employment increased 39,100 to 11,973,200. Full-time employment increased 39,300 to 8,166,200 and part-time employment decreased 200 to 3,807,000.

Unemployment increased 17,000 to 725,200. The number of unemployed persons looking for full-time work increased 15,100 to 512,100 and the number of unemployed persons only looking for part-time work decreased 1,900 to 213,100.

Unemployment rate increased 0.1 pts to 5.7%.

Participation rate increased 0.2 pts to 64.6%.

Monthly hours worked in all jobs decreased 10.4 million hours to 1663.3 million hours.