Job Market Data

  In May we saw an increase in total unique job listings across 64% of markets, down from an increase across 73% of markets in April. Overall total job openings rose just 1% for the month, with new jobs openings …

Jobs in the cannabis industry have seen significant growth in the past year, and cannabis is now considered the fastest growing industry in the country. Just one year ago, we published the white paper Growing Like a Weed: The Impact …

Occasionally over the years, it’s been the case that as I am working on our non-farm payroll forecast, I’ll hear a song that is extremely relevant to the current employment situation. It happened again this month when I recently heard …

Discretionary spending is up in 2019. However, while people might be buying plenty of things, it appears cars aren’t on their must-have-it-now list. Slow Q1 sales have been commonplace for major automotive retailers since 2016. (See below chart.) As sales …

S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI), the world’s leading index provider, and LinkUp, the leading provider of global job market information to the financial industry, have collaborated to create the S&P 500® LinkUp Jobs Index. As the first index of …

We will post additional analysis periodically through the remainder of the day, but the headline is that we are forecasting a net gain of 235,000 jobs for tomorrow’s non-farm payroll (NFP) report for April.     Update below posted at …

Spring up It is a time of renewed growth—budding trees, blooming flowers, basketball madness, and elevated job openings. We are halfway between the holiday and summer slowdowns (much like October which tends to be another strong month for job growth). Employers are …

It’s been a long while since we were so delinquent in getting our non-farm payroll forecast published, and at the 11th hour there isn’t much time for commentary, so we’ll dispense with it and get straight to LinkUp’s job market …

The battle of the music streaming services is heating up! Spotify announced last week that it is expanding its partnership with Hulu. Spotify premium users can now add a free Hulu subscription on top of their $9.99 a month music …

Gap Inc. announced this month that it plans to split into “two independently traded companies,” one being Old Navy, and another comprised of Gap and its other brands, including Banana Republic and Athleta. The reason for the split is the …