The U.S. likely added around 50,000 jobs in September, a gentle acceleration from August’s 22,000, according to economists polled by The Wall Street Journal.
The unemployment rate is expected to have held at 4.3%.
The BLS report is due at 8:30 a.m. ET and will be the first of its kind since the record-long government closure halted the flow of economic data.
The BLS said Wednesday it won’t publish a standalone October edition and will release the November iteration on Dec. 16.
That means Federal Reserve officials will head into their next policy-setting meeting with an incomplete picture of the labor market.
Traders scaled back bets that the Fed will cut rates next month after the new data schedule was published.