Erika McEntarfer

McEntarfer was nominated for the BLS post in July, 2023, and confirmed to the position by the U.S. Senate in January, 2024.

McEntarfer received a bachelor's degree in Social Science from Bard College and a Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech.

[4] She took a position as a labor economist at the Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies (CES).

[4] She was promoted to senior supervisory economist for the Labor Markets section of the CES.

[5] In periods away from the Census Bureau, McEntarfer had been on the economic staff of the Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy in 2008-2010, and immediately before her appointment to the BLS had been on the nonpolitical staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers for a year.