Jobs report updates: What to expect in December's data after a low-hire, low-fire year
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It's jobs day in America.

At 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its monthly report on the employment situation for December 2025, giving us the latest look at unemployment, job growth, and wages.

The report will wrap up a year of a job market marked by a "Great Freeze" in which companies haven't been hiring very much, employees haven't been switching jobs a ton, but large-scale layoffs that would mark a deeper downturn haven't materialized yet either.

Check back here for updates leading up to and following the biggest job market data release of the month.

Today wraps up national job growth data for 2025

The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its employment situation report this morning. The new data can be used to analyze how the job market has evolved over the past year in comparison to previous years.

Economists described the 2025 job market as being stuck in a low-hire, low-fire state.

"Job growth has been very slow over the course of 2025, and it doesn't seem like we've turned around quite yet to translate the pent-up demand for hiring and the recent increase in job openings into actual hires," Nicole Bachaud, an economist at ZipRecruiter, told Business Insider after the last jobs report was published on December 16.

The new report will also feature annual revisions to the household survey, used to calculate the unemployment rate.

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