U.S. payrolls rose by 178,000 in March, more than expected; unemployment at 4.3%

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47. I had never noticed the mislabeling of the CNBC graphs before, OMG! Here's both sets of numbers, and ADP

I also don't know why CNBC references FRED. The data series are available from the source of the numbers (BLS)

BELOW are monthly changes in THOUSANDS

# Nonfarm Employment (Establishment Survey, https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth
2024 175 206 228 64 78 87 53 9 155 33 134 237
2025 -48 42 67 108 13 -20 64 -70 76 -140 41 -17
2026 160 -133 178

# Nonfarm PRIVATE Employment (Establishment Survey, https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001?output_view=net_1mth
2024 126 135 143 63 45 78 -8 -27 142 -4 116 212 < --PRIVATE
2025 -76 40 67 99 20 -45 65 -20 68 13 72 -7 < --PRIVATE
2026 180 -129 186 < --PRIVATE

The last 2 months of both data series are preliminary

Last 3 months:

all non-farm payroll: +68.3k/mo average,
private non-farm payroll: +79.0k/mo average
ADP private non-farm payroll: 46.3k/mo average (see below for the ADP source)

Not that I doubt that FRED echoed the BLS numbers correctly, though I don't have the FRED data series for this (I haven't looked yet, I have screaming tax deadlines)

As for alternate sources of similar information, I only know of the ADP report from the private payroll processor ADP:
# ADP PRIVATE Payrolls: Monthly, Seasonally Adjusted: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ADPMNUSNERSA
Last 6 months in THOUSANDS: +20, +74, +37, +11, +66, +62 < --PRIVATE

Yes, I'm using FRED numbers for the ADP ones because I don't know where to find the ones from ADP itself except for the last month,

The ADP processes payrolls for about 20% of the private sector workforce and estimate the other 80%.