Wage Growth Not Cooperating with Rosy Scenario of a Normalizing Labor Market by Wolf Richter • Dec 8, 2023 • 63 Comments Wages of production and non-supervisory employees accelerate for third month to 5% annualized. Turns out, the big drop in August was a head fake.
Job Market Retightened in Some Industries, Loosened in Others: Layoffs & Discharges, Voluntary Quits, Job Openings, and Hires by Wolf Richter • Dec 5, 2023 • 134 Comments Job openings in construction near record; job market retightens in manufacturing and in business & professional services where many tech companies are.
Which Industries Lost Jobs, Which Gained Jobs? Longer-Term Employment Trends in Charts by Segment by Wolf Richter • Nov 3, 2023 • 44 Comments Some are hot, some are very cold.
Manufacturing Jobs Hit by Strikes. Job Growth Still Decent. We Look at Part-Time Jobs (Plunged), Self-Employment, and Multiple Jobholders by Wolf Richter • Nov 3, 2023 • 53 Comments Increases in average hourly earnings accelerate sharply for private sector Production and Nonsupervisory Employees.
Alphabet Shows the Mega-Layoff Announcements Were Just That, Headcount Dropped Far Less and is Rising Again by Wolf Richter • Oct 25, 2023 • 52 Comments But the layoff announcements across tech and social media were effective in re-explaining to workers who the boss is.
My Favorite Recession Indicator: No Recession in Sight Yet by Wolf Richter • Oct 19, 2023 • 129 Comments There will be a recession someday, there’s always one eventually. But not yet.
A Jobs Report You’d Expect from an Economy Plugging along Just Fine (What a Bummer?). Thing about Multiple Jobholders by Wolf Richter • Oct 6, 2023 • 208 Comments The number of jobs created was even upwardly revised, for a change.
What, the Tech & Social Media Layoff Queens Are Hiring? Trends in Job Openings, Hires, Layoffs & Discharges, Voluntary Quits by Wolf Richter • Oct 3, 2023 • 54 Comments Still a tight labor market for many industries, but the massive churn slows.
Sign of Tight Labor Market, Strength of Ecommerce: Amazon to Hire 250,000 for Holidays, up from 150,000 Last Year, Boost Wages, Offer Sign-on Bonuses by Wolf Richter • Sep 20, 2023 • 48 Comments While fewer and fewer Americans head to the malls.
My Favorite Recession Indicator: The Next Recession Moves Further out of Sight by Wolf Richter • Sep 7, 2023 • 221 Comments There will be a recession, there’s always a recession eventually. But we’ll just have to keep watching for it.