# Employment and Unemployment Statistics

**Agency:** Commerce  
**Account:** Salaries and Expenses  
**Source document:** Bureau of Labor Statistics · p. 9  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/commerce/employment-and-unemployment-statistics  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 252.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 230.4 |

## Commerce discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $7.00B, FY2026 $11.90B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Produces BLS's core labor-force data—the monthly unemployment rate, payroll employment, and job openings—from the Current Population and Establishment surveys.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Commerce › Bureau of Labor Statistics › Salaries and Expenses › Employment and Unemployment Statistics


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*