GET/macro/labor

Labor Market (Historical)

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.

Financial Datasets·$0.025 per call

Example code

// Using @orth/sdk - The simplest way to call APIs
// Install: npm install @orth/sdk
import Orthogonal from "@orth/sdk";

const orthogonal = new Orthogonal({
  apiKey: process.env.ORTHOGONAL_API_KEY,
});

const output = await orthogonal.run({
  api: "financial-datasets",
  path: "/macro/labor",
  query: {
    "series": "example"
  }
});

console.log(output);

Query parameters

seriesrequired

string

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

start_date

string

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

end_date

string

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

cursor

string

Opaque pagination cursor from a previous response next_page_url.