US Nonfarm Payrolls: Leisure and Hospitality

17K as of Jun 2026 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Employment in the leisure and hospitality supersector, seasonally adjusted, in thousands of jobs.

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2006–2026 · 246 observationssource: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · vintage 2026-07-04

Methodology

BLS series CES7000000001, Current Employment Statistics survey, leisure and hospitality supersector, seasonally adjusted, via the BLS Public Data API. Genuinely volatile: this supersector (restaurants, hotels, entertainment) lost 46% of its employment in a single month (March to April 2020) under COVID-19 lockdowns, the sharpest sectoral collapse in the series' history.

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