Weekly rather than monthly, so it turns before the payroll count does. Its value is as a trend against its own recent range: a single week is mostly noise, and a four-week drift out of that range is the earliest honest signal of a labour market cracking.
30 days to 4 Oct 2026 · 196,000 claims to 206,000 claims
This page shows the last 30 days. Initial jobless claims has 905 readings in the warehouse, back to 30 May 2009. A plan opens the rest of it, with CSV export and the analyst.
Series retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and cited to the agencies that produced them: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Employment and Training Administration, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Initial claims for unemployment insurance, seasonally adjusted, weekly count for the week ending Saturday. The highest-frequency read on the labour market, and the one that turns first.
Informational research only. Nothing here is personalised investment advice.