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Joey, are we starting that fake chant again?
Nonfarm payrolls grew by 200,000 in January and the unemployment rate was 4.1 percent, while wages saw their biggest jump since the end of the Great Recession, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a closely watched report Friday.
I am very interested if my annual increase will be more than the usual percentage points I have received the last few years. Same for my bonus.
Being a guessing type I am going to guess one of the base has all of the appropriate statistics readily available to support those claims of "quality full time jobs" as opposed to part time jobs.
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How do these comments get left up even after yourself and Goran have been on the site on and off all day ?
Economists surveyed by Reuters had been expecting jobs growth of 180,000 and an unemployment rate of 4.1 percent.
In addition to the solid payroll growth, average hourly earnings were up 0.3 percent for the month, matching estimates and reflecting an annualized gain of 2.9 percent. That was the best since mid-2009 as the two-year economic slump was coming to a close.
The payroll numbers come amid an expected acceleration in growth for the U.S. economy. The Atlanta Federal Reserve is expecting a GDP gain of 5.4 percent in the first quarter, which would be the best increase since the recovery began in mid-2009.
Construction reported by the biggest gain by sector with 36,000.
"Perhaps the biggest positive surprise on hiring is the continued surge for the goods-producing sector with manufacturing and construction leading the way," said Mark Hamrick, Bankrate.com's senior economic analyst.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/02/nonfarm-payrolls-jan-2018.html