February 4, 2023
The US economy added +517,000 jobs in January, blowing away expectations of a +187,000 increase. In addition to the surprise outperformance in January, previous months were revised upwards by +34k in November and +37k in December, for total of +71k. As a result, average job gains over the past three months were +356k per month […]
January 7, 2023
The U.S. economy added +223,000 jobs in December, beating expectations of +200,000. Over the past three months, the economy has added an average of +247,000 jobs per month. For 2022 as a whole, the economy added +4.5 million jobs (an average of +375,000 per month), compared to +6.7 million jobs added in 2021 and a […]
December 13, 2022
The U.S. economy added +263,000 jobs in November. The jobs number for September was revised down by -46,000 and October was revised upwards by +23,000, for a net revision of -23,000. Leisure and hospitality added the most jobs (+88k), followed by health care (+45k) and government (+42k). Construction gained +20,000 jobs and manufacturing gained +14,000. […]