How is underemployment fairing? It’s interesting what areas the leading job increases are in, wonder how many are part time? Then there’s the average 4.0% wage increase, which good news is above the current inflation rate this time around by a few points.
In September, employment continued to trend
up in food services and drinking places, health care, government, social assistance, and
construction
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Employment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining,
quarrying, and oil and gas extraction; manufacturing; wholesale trade; retail trade;
transportation and warehousing; information; financial activities; professional and business
services; and other services.
How is underemployment fairing? It’s interesting what areas the leading job increases are in, wonder how many are part time? Then there’s the average 4.0% wage increase, which good news is above the current inflation rate this time around by a few points.
Luckily the actual report has all that info
Underemployment stats look a bit better. The number of part-timer workers for economic reasons is slightly down. Was 4.7 million in August vs 4.5 million in September. By economic reasons the BLS defines that as
Here’s the stats by industry
Here’s the overview they gave of that
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