Why There Is No Wage Growth: America Will Soon Have More Waiters And Bartenders Than Manufacturing Workers

While the headline jobs print was a modest kneejerk disappointment at least until it is appropriately spun in some sort of “goldilocks” frame, where the October jobs report was a true disappointment, was in the report of average hourly earnings: rising at just 0.1% for the month and 2.0% Y/Y, it missed expectations across both metrics. As a reminder, even Janet Yellen has observed that with the unemployment rate ridiculously low and thus meaningless to shape policy, the key thing the Fed head is watching is any changes in wages to determine where benign wage inflation is headed. Well, as the chart below shows, it is headed exactly nowhere, because 6 years after the recovery, wages simply refuse to rise.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 11/07/2014.