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All Employees, Total Nonfarm

All Employees: Total Nonfarm, commonly known as Total Nonfarm Payroll, is a measure of the number of U.S. workers in the economy that excludes proprietors, private household employees, unpaid volunteers, farm employees, and the unincorporated self-employed. This measure accounts for approximately 80 percent of the workers who contribute to Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This measure provides useful insights into the current economic situation because it can represent the number of jobs added or …

Source: FRED (St. Louis Fed)1,052 rowsUpdated: 9/21/2026
employmentfred

Quality

100

Attribution

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED)

Schema

ColumnTypeDescription
datestring
valueinteger

Sample rows

datevalue
1939-01-0129923
1939-02-0130100
1939-03-0130280
1939-04-0130094
1939-05-0130299

Use with an LLM

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/payroll_employment" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/payroll_employment").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/fred/payroll_employment

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.