Financial Datasets

US labor market history for one series: nonfarm payrolls, unemployment rate, participation, hourly earnings, JOLTS job openings, hires, quits, and weekly jobless claims, with period-over-period and year-over-year changes.

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get/financial-datasets/macro/labor

Request

Query parameters

seriesstring required

The series id, e.g. payrolls_sa. Eight monthly concepts and one weekly concept, each seasonally adjusted (_sa) and not (_nsa).

start_datestring

The first period to return, inclusive, in YYYY-MM-DD format. Defaults to five years before end_date.

end_datestring

The last period to return, inclusive, in YYYY-MM-DD format. Defaults to today.

cursorstring

Opaque pagination cursor from a previous response next_page_url.

Response

Successful response

Changes

    • breaking

      added the new required query request parameter series

    • info

      added the new optional query request parameter cursor

    • info

      added the new optional query request parameter end_date

    • info

      added the new optional query request parameter start_date

    • info

      endpoint added