WASHINGTON (AP) — A picture of the job market just before the government’s partial shutdown will emerge Tuesday with the delayed release of the September employment report.

Economists forecast that employers added 180,000 jobs in September, according to FactSet. That would be a slight improvement from August’s gain of 169,000. And it would be much better than the average 155,000 jobs a month added from May through August. The unemployment rate is expected to have stayed at 7.3 percent.