US Jobs Report Takes Center Stage: Here’s What You Need to Know

A worker builds furniture at a production facility in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Photographer: Allison Joyce/Bloomberg

In a week chock full of economic data, Tuesday’s jobs report will take center stage for investors.

Nonfarm payrolls probably grew 50,000 in November, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists. The unemployment rate is seen clocking in at 4.5%, extending a months-long upward climb to the highest level since 2021.