Jobs Report Release Dates 2026 and Market Reaction

• Friday, November 6, 20268:30 AM ET
• Friday, December 4, 20268:30 AM ET

Schedule: FRED release 50. Release record since 1955.

On 402 Jobs report days since 1993, SPY's move landed in the biggest quarter of all trading days 33.1% of the time, against 25% for any day, more than two standard errors above chance: the market has moved more on these days than on a normal session. The median move was 0.66% against 0.53% on all days. SPY closed higher on 57.2% of release days against 53.6% of all days. The 10-year Treasury yield moved a median 4.9 bp either way, against 3.2 bp on all days.

When the headline Nonfarm Payrolls came in above its prior reading (189 days), release days carried an average SPY return of +0.22%; when it came in below (202 days), an average SPY return of −0.02%.

The top quarter means a close-to-close SPY move of 1.04% or more either way, the 75th percentile of every trading day since 1993. Headline values are today's revised figures, and no consensus forecasts are used, so above and below compare each print with the previous print. This is not a surprise study: markets react to the gap between a release and what was expected.

Newest first. Values are today's revised data; a dash means no matched value.

The monthly report on the labor market: payroll jobs added from the establishment survey, and the unemployment rate from the household survey, usually published on the first Friday of the month.

Published by

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

Release time

8:30 AM ET

Schedule source

FRED release 50

Indicator pages

Nonfarm PayrollsUnemployment RateAverage Hourly Earnings (Wage Growth)U-6 Underemployment Rate