Jobs Reports & Forecasts

As we stated in a blog post last June, and it’s even more the case today, at no time in the past 20 years has the intensity of the focus on the job market been stronger. While the economy has …

After our monthly jobs recaps showed declines in April, May, and June, it is no big surprise that our Q2 Economic Indicator Report shows overall job listings declined at 4% from the previous quarter.  As the labor market cools down, …

Job listings in the U.S. were down 2.8% in June, with 94% of states seeing jobs drop. The states with the highest rates of decline include South Dakota (-10.1%), Maryland (-7.9%), and Missouri (-5.7%). The only states seeing job listings …

Having just returned from some time off and a tight deadline before tomorrow’s jobs report, I’ll skip the job market commentary this month and jump straight to our jobs data and our corresponding non-farm payroll forecast for June. In June, …

The U.S. job market continues to cool as our economy continues to transition (and brace itself). For the second month in a row, LinkUp data reveals job listings on company websites were down, with overall listings dropping 4.2% in May. …

It’s been a few months since we’ve provided commentary around the broader economy generally and inflation in particular, but these issues, combined with our permanent focus on the job market, continue to be justifiably obsessed about as everyone tries to …

A month of decline After the four previous months of slow, yet steady job listings growth, April jobs data shows employers are removing job postings and putting a pause on recruitment. With the uncertainty in the economy and increased interest …

Last week, employers added 524k job postings and deleted 584k job postings, resulting in a total job count of roughly 4.6M, down 1.2% from two weeks ago.  The states with the most unique active jobs last week: California (489K), Texas …

One of the stranger aspects of now-casting predictive job market data occurs when there are differing narratives in a given moment between backward-looking, survey-based, publicly reported government jobs data and our forward-looking labor demand data sourced directly from company websites. …

In the Q1 2022 edition of our quarterly Economic Indicators Report, we see accelerating job listing growth, growth across all industries, and increased job duration. Overall active job listings in Q1 were up 3.7% compared to Q4. In Q1, duration …