Labor

Manufacturing employment

Name: Manufacturing employment — U.S. manufacturing data
Creator: MFG Calcs
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

As of Jun 2026, manufacturing employment stands at 12,598 thousands of employees (BLS Current Employment Statistics), steady over the recent window.

What this measures and why it matters

Manufacturing employment reflects the cost and availability of the workforce that runs a plant. Loaded shop rates, quoting, and make-versus-buy decisions all trace back to labor economics, so this series is a direct input to how work gets priced and where it gets done.
The figure comes from BLS Current Employment Statistics and is reported in thousands of employees. MFG Calcs archives every published value, so the chart and table below show the full recorded history rather than a single snapshot, and they extend automatically as new data lands.

Latest reading: 12,598 thousands of employees for Jun 2026.
Prior period: 12,595 (May 2026), a rise of 3.00.
Compared with a year earlier, manufacturing employment is down 0.3%.
Across the archived window the high was 12,636 in Jun 2025 and the low was 12,580 in Dec 2025.
The series has moved up for 1 consecutive periods.
13 observations have been archived so far, and this page deepens automatically each time BLS Current Employment Statistics publishes a new figure.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.