US Nonfarm Payrolls: Leisure and Hospitality
0.7% YoY · as of Jun 2026 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employment in the leisure and hospitality supersector, seasonally adjusted, in thousands of jobs.
2006–2026 · 235 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.