Colorado labor force, July 2026

Key drivers

• Colorado LAUS labor force has declined for five straight observed months
• Recent seasonally adjusted monthly declines cluster around 9.4 to 12.9 thousand
• July target is BLS LAUS Table 1 seasonally adjusted civilian labor force, not the not-seasonally-adjusted COLFN series
• June unemployment rate stayed 3.9 percent, so the latest labor-force decline did not come from a visible unemployment-rate jump
• First-print risk is dominated by state CPS sampling and LAUS model noise

Resolution

source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics State Employment and Unemployment, Table 1

expected

August 21, 2026

rule

Resolve to the first BLS State Employment and Unemployment Table 1 print for July 2026, Colorado row, seasonally adjusted civilian labor force, as released on August 21, 2026. Use the BLS-published persons value for the July 2026 preliminary print, convert to thousands by dividing by 1,000, and round to one decimal thousand. The Table 1 URL is mutable, so use the first July 2026 print captured or released on August 21, 2026, not later revised content at the same URL. Ignore later LAUS revisions, annual benchmark revisions, FRED mirror updates, and later archived revised tables.

Data point

bls.laus.colorado.labor_force.2026-07.first_print