Job numbers feed straight into interest rate expectations, which is why they move currencies more than most data.
Dates come from the same table as the economic calendar, which is updated from the published schedule. Times shown are GMT; the calendar converts them.
| Published by | The national statistics office of each country |
|---|---|
| Usually released | Monthly for most countries, weekly for United States jobless claims |
| Typical impact rating | High |
| Currency | Whichever country publishes it |
| Moves gold? | Commonly, since gold is priced in dollars |
Usually three things at once: the change in the number of people employed, the unemployment rate, and a measure of wage growth. Different countries emphasise different ones, and each has its own name — Non-Farm Payrolls in the United States, the Claimant Count in the United Kingdom, Employment Change in Australia and Canada.
A strong jobs number with flat wages tells a central bank less than a moderate jobs number with rising wages, because wage growth feeds directly into inflation. This is why a market reaction can appear to contradict the headline.
It falls when people find work and also when people stop looking. A falling rate alongside a shrinking participation rate is a weaker signal than the headline suggests, and the market usually reads both.
The United States publishes initial jobless claims every Thursday. Individually they rarely move much; a sustained change in the four week trend does.
What was published, against what was expected. The market reacts to the gap between forecast and actual, not to whether the number was good.
| Date | Currency | Actual | Forecast | Previous |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sept 2026 | EUR | — | 5.4% | 5.3% |
| 9 Sept 2026 | USD | — | — | 10.0K |
| 7 Sept 2026 | EUR | — | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| 7 Sept 2026 | CHF | — | 3.1% | 3.1% |
| 4 Sept 2026 | USD | — | 4.1% | 4.1% |
| 4 Sept 2026 | USD | — | 55K | -23K |
| 4 Sept 2026 | CAD | — | 6.4% | 6.4% |
| 4 Sept 2026 | CAD | — | 15.1K | 75.1K |
United States Non-Farm Payrolls, because of the dollar’s reach. It has its own page on this site.
Most often because wage growth in the same release was weak, or because a previous month was revised down sharply. The headline is one part of a release with several.
The trend is, the individual week usually is not. A single week is noisy and rarely moves a major pair by itself.
The journal on this site records the date of every trade and compares your results on days with a high impact release against every other day. That turns a general worry about trading the news into a figure about your own record.