How to Use nonfarm in a Sentence

nonfarm

adjective
  • This chart shows the monthly change in nonfarm payrolls compared with the same month last year.
    — Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2021
  • July was the best month of the summer, with total nonfarm employment rising by more than 1 million.
    — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The leisure and hospitality sector, which used to employ more than a quarter of the region’s nonfarm workers, ground to a halt last spring.
    — Katherine Sayre, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Just prior to the pandemic, America boasted 149 million nonfarm jobs, an all-time record.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Total nonfarm earnings in Connecticut were also the second worst in the country after Alaska.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Many of the new entrants have been women, who now make up a majority of the nonfarm payroll for the first time in nearly a decade and dominate sectors that are expanding fastest, like health care.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The increases in nonfarm payroll employment in July and August remained well above the pace likely to be sustainable in the longer run.
    — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Unemployment rates were higher and nonfarm payroll employment decreased in all 50 states and in the District of Columbia.
    — Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2020
  • The gender gap in unemployment has spiked due to the coronavirus, eliminating the gender parity in nonfarm payrolls that occurred briefly at the end of 2019.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2020

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