“The labor market continues to add jobs, but both hiring and attrition are still slowing.” That is how Lisa Simon, chief economist at Revelio Labs, summed up the company’s latest monthly workforce readout, published on October 1, 2026.
Revelio, a workforce data firm, said its own Revelio Public Labor Statistics (RPLS) series shows the US economy added 56.9k jobs in September. These are the company’s estimates, built from employment records and job postings it collects, and not the government’s official payroll count.
Where the jobs came from
Revelio said the gains were led by Public Administration and by Health Care and Social Assistance. Two sectors moved the other way: Information and Transportation both recorded employment declines.
Demand for workers, measured by active job postings, kept cooling. Postings fell 1.8% from August to 18.12 million, which leaves them 1.3% below the level a year earlier, the company said. Eleven of the 16 sectors it tracks showed declines. Leisure & Hospitality took the hardest hit, with postings down 14.6% in a month, while Education & Health Services and Professional & Business Services each slipped by more than 2%.
Not every corner weakened. Revelio reported that postings in Public Administration rose 4.0%, and Transportation & Warehousing postings rose 1.3%.
Fewer hires, fewer exits
The firm described the market as “low-hire, low-fire”. On its seasonally adjusted numbers, hiring rates dropped in 13 of 17 sector categories, and attrition rates fell in 15. Health Care and Social Assistance, Professional and Business Services, Manufacturing and Retail Trade all saw both measures decline. Employers are still adding staff, in other words, but recruiting is slower and so are resignations. Revelio said employer demand remains considerably cooler than in the hiring boom that followed the pandemic.
The AI side of the report
The release also carried Revelio’s AI Labor Market Tracker. It found that the number of firms newly adopting generative AI tools fell 17% in August compared with July, and now stands 48% below its April peak. Revelio stressed that this is not a reversal. Cumulative adoption keeps climbing and has reached about 7% of eligible US hiring firms.
Firms that have adopted AI are still growing headcount faster than those that have not. The relative gap has widened by 27% since the period before ChatGPT, though Revelio noted that adopters were already growing faster before they adopted. The company also reported a 32% relative increase in senior roles at adopting firms, against 6% for junior roles.
The tracker found that 90% of year-over-year changes in work activities happen inside existing occupations rather than through a shift in which occupations people hold. That figure was 89% in the previous edition. Revelio gave Executive Assistants as an example, with more program leadership and project coordination and less accounts payable and invoice processing. Data Scientists, it said, show more analytics and AI implementation work, and Registered Nurses more staff supervision and operational support. Readers can search a single occupation in an expanded Activity Explorer covering changes since 2022.
Sources
- Revelio Labs Reports 56.9k US Jobs Added in September as Pace of New AI Adoption Falls 48% From Spring Peak
- September 2026 Jobs Report: US Economy Adds 56.9K Jobs | Revelio Labs
