Where The Jobs Were In November: Who’s Hiring… Who Isn’t

Jon Alternative Media, Blogosphere, Economy

Assuming that the BLS’ estimate of avg hourly warnings growing only 0.2% in November is accurate, it would imply that – as has often been the case – the bulk of job growth in November took place in minimum-paying and other low-wage jobs. However, a breakdown of jobs added by industry shows the contrary to expectations, the bulk of new job creation, and 3 of the 4 top category, were not in the “low wage” bucket. In fact, as shown below, with the exception of Education and Health jobs which rose by 54K in November, Manufacturing (+31K), Professional and Business Services (+27), and Construction (+24) were the fastest growing occupations in the previous month.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 8, 2017.