U.S. total nonfarm employment

Source

fred.stlouisfed.org

Quality score: 100/100.

Initial recorded revision.

Dataset refresh metadata

Current Source Files

• PAYEMS.csv 20260926192203-fc77daa9325d Provider source

Contract Versions

• 20260926192203-fc77daa9325d Copy YAML link

Current Open Data Contract YAML

Open raw YAML

dataset_id: fred-payems
title: U.S. total nonfarm employment
description: U.S. total nonfarm employment discovered from fred.stlouisfed.org.
source_name: fred.stlouisfed.org
source_url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=PAYEMS
update_frequency: monthly
next_scan_at: '2026-09-27T19:22:05.147449+00:00'
license:
  name: FRED Terms of Use; underlying series terms apply
  url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/terms/
tags:
- fred.stlouisfed.org
- economy
geography:
- United States
revisions:
- revision_id: 20260926192203-fc77daa9325d
  detected_at: '2026-09-26T19:22:03+00:00'
  source_updated_at: Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:27:34 GMT
  context: PAYEMS.csv detected from fredgraph.csv.
  assets:
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    name: PAYEMS.csv
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    size_bytes: 18387
    parent_archive_id: null
  row_count: 1052
  headers:
  - observation_date
  - PAYEMS
  sample_rows:
  - observation_date: '1939-01-01'
    PAYEMS: '29923'
  - observation_date: '1939-02-01'
    PAYEMS: '30100'
  - observation_date: '1939-03-01'
    PAYEMS: '30280'
  - observation_date: '1939-04-01'
    PAYEMS: '30094'
  - observation_date: '1939-05-01'
    PAYEMS: '30299'
  parser_errors: []
  logical_asset_id: 55629edca7292e5c968167d5
related_dataset_ids: []
quality:
  score: 100
  parsing_errors: []
  stale_warning: null
  broken_source_report: null
rss_feed_url: null
odc_version: '0.1'
last_successful_scan_at: '2026-09-26T19:22:03+00:00'

Current dbt Source YAML

Open raw YAML

version: 2
sources:
- name: fred_payems
  description: U.S. total nonfarm employment discovered from fred.stlouisfed.org.
  meta:
    opendataodc:
      dataset_id: fred-payems
      revision_id: 20260926192203-fc77daa9325d
      detected_at: '2026-09-26T19:22:03+00:00'
      source_url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=PAYEMS
  tables:
  - name: payems_csv
    description: Source asset PAYEMS.csv.
    meta:
      opendataodc:
        source_url: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.csv?id=PAYEMS
        content_hash: bf5b48d21b9a84a0be71ece7268fad0cccb943cc89d863fdc01490bece8ab020
        row_count: 1052
        parser_errors: []
    columns:
    - name: observation_date
    - name: PAYEMS

Sample Rows

PAYEMS.csv

1052 parsed rows. 20260926192203-fc77daa9325d