Federal Government Job Cuts Still Hitting Employment Data: The Labor Market by Major Industry in Charts by Wolf Richter • Nov 20, 2025 • 31 Comments Federal and state governments cut 122,000 employees this year through September. But other industries hired.
Data Fog Engulfing October due to Government Shutdown May “Never” Be Fully Lifted by Wolf Richter • Nov 13, 2025 • 73 Comments Survey-based data doesn’t exist because the surveys were not conducted in October. But data that companies electronically submitted exists.
Private-Sector Job Growth Lumbers Along after Getting Hammered by the 2024 Benchmark Adjustments in Sep & Aug by Wolf Richter • Nov 5, 2025 • 44 Comments ADP Employment Report: +42,000 Jobs in October; wages +4.5% for “Job Stayers” and +6.7% for “Job Changers.”
Even as Revenues Grow, Amazon to Lay off 14,000. Why? AI & Corporate Efficiency. Walmart and Others Toot Similar Horn by Wolf Richter • Oct 28, 2025 • 176 Comments Revenue growth without employment growth. But Amazon spent $78 billion on capex in 2024 and more in 2025. So companies that get this cash hire more people than Amazon sheds?
Jobs Report to Get Hit by 100,000 Federal Government “Deferred Resignations” on top of the Jobs Already Shed. But ICE Is Hiring by Wolf Richter • Oct 4, 2025 • 74 Comments Bringing federal job losses to over 200,000 since January. Excluding federal & state, nonfarm payrolls haven’t been all that bad.
ADP Employment Report: -32,000 Jobs in September after -43,000 Annual Adjustment to Benchmark ADP data to BLS Data by Wolf Richter • Oct 1, 2025 • 66 Comments Pre-benchmarking jobs: +11,000. Private-sector measures not immune to data mess. Trend shows “employers have been cautious with hiring.”
The Labor Market in New Era of Low Churn, Uneasy Calm, Government Job Losses, and Crackdown on Illegal Immigration by Wolf Richter • Sep 30, 2025 • 20 Comments Government job openings plunged 23% year-over-year. Federal government hires plunged 33% year-over-year.
RTO Has Stalled, There’s Been Hardly any Reduction in WFH since Early 2023 by Wolf Richter • Sep 10, 2025 • 98 Comments And there’s a big mismatch between what employers are offering and what workers want.
Annual Benchmark Payroll Revisions: Nonfarm Job Creation for 12 Months to March Chopped by 911,000, to 1.44 Million Jobs Created by Wolf Richter • Sep 9, 2025 • 63 Comments Based on employers’ quarterly payroll filings. Why wait so long for revisions? Do it quarterly!
My Thoughts about that August Jobs Report by Wolf Richter • Sep 5, 2025 • 122 Comments Federal & State Governments Shed 28,000 Jobs in August. Private-sector hiring machine slows, waiting for clarity, but layoffs remain very low.
