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U.S. Payroll Jobs: Women vs Men Since the Pandemic
Change in nonfarm payroll jobs since February 2020, thousands
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Women · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Men · Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days
Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. Shaded: the range about two in three outcomes land in. A projection, not a promise.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted. BLS publishes payroll jobs held by women; jobs held by men are total nonfarm payrolls less those (Palanor calculation). Payrolls count jobs, so a person with two jobs counts twice.
How many payroll jobs women and men have gained or lost since the last month before the pandemic. Both fell in spring 2020; the lines show which recovered first and which is adding jobs now. Health care and education employ more women, construction and manufacturing more men, so the gap follows which industries are hiring.
What this chart reads
- Women on U.S. Nonfarm Payrollsas “Women”latest 2026-09-01
- Men on U.S. Nonfarm Payrollsas “Men”latest 2026-09-01
Sources
Women on U.S. Nonfarm Payrolls. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, All Employees, Total Nonfarm, Women Employees (CES0000000010), via FRED. Public domain.
Men on U.S. Nonfarm Payrolls. Source: Palanor calculation from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics payroll data (PAYEMS, CES0000000010), via FRED. Public domain.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.