Jobs Reports & Forecasts

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 …

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 …

As we wrote in last month’s post regarding our non-farm payroll forecast for January, we were unable to leverage month-end LinkUp data for January since the jobs report fell on February 1st (this is one of the many changes we …

With the clock ticking to get our non-farm payroll (NFP) forecast published before tomorrow’s jobs report, I’m forced to keep the commentary brief. While perhaps fortunate for readers, it’s a bit frustrating given the crazy level of fear, uncertainty, and …

It’s abundantly clear from our jobs data that job growth across the U.S. during 2018 was disproportionately concentrated in western and mountain states. Digging deeper, it appears this was largely driven by job growth in two major sectors: Construction and Health Care (because where …

By almost every measure, the U.S. labor market vastly exceeded everyone’s expectations in 2018, including our own. Reversing what was largely seen as an incontrovertible continuation of the 3-year decline from a peak of 3.1 million jobs added in 2014, …

As we wrote last month in discussing LinkUp’s Job Duration metric, as the job market has reached epic levels of over-heatedness, companies have taken to extreme measures to fill positions as quickly as possible, often offering jobs to minimally qualified applicants …

Each quarter LinkUp publishes a Job Market Diversification Report, assessing the diversity of job listings across 150 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) in the U.S. by occupation, company, and industry. The report provides insights into job market health, employment trends, economic strength, …

As we indicated on Monday, we wanted to wait until the 1st of the month to issue our non-farm payroll forecast for tomorrow’s jobs report so that we could look at October’s job data from our job search engine. Because …

It was 8 years ago this month that began the longest streak of consecutive months in which the U.S. economy reported a net gain in jobs. But within that stretch of 96 months, there were dozens and dozens of sub-stories …