Labor Department delays January jobs report because of partial shutdown

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3. Argh, was hoping to see the final annual benchmark revision of the payroll jobs numbers this Friday

which is scheduled to be released with the January jobs report, but that's not going to be released Friday as we expected until now.

The preliminary revision of the April 1, 2025 thru March 31, 2026 12-month benchmark period came out in September: it was a downward revision of 911,000 jobs (that's an average of 75,917 jobs/month). .

The data series for this was NOT revised for the 911,000 because it was only a preliminary report.

But it's my understanding with the publication of the January jobs report (and thus the final annual benchmark revision), that this data series would be revised accordingly. So I was eager to see how they would apportion that.

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https://www.bls.gov/bls/2026-february-shutdown.htm

Suspension of Federal Government Services
This website is currently not being updated due to the suspension of Federal government services. The last update to the site was Monday, February 2, 2026. Updates to the site will start again when the Federal government resumes operations.

And that's the entirety of what's at the link. Not one of those "tl;dr, I will bookmark to read later" long-form reading assignments.