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It’s not often that an economy sees a drop in non-farm payrolls from 304,000 to 20,000. And when this is combined with a slightly higher drift in jobless claims, one can conclude that the ...
Non-farm payrolls: +517,000 vs. +188,000 expected. Unemployment rate: ... Employment in professional and business services rose by 82,000 jobs, while health care added 58,000 jobs in January.
"The 236,000 gain in non-farm payrolls in March adds to the evidence that the economy's strong start to the year was partly a weather-related blip, with momentum now fading again," wrote Andrew ...
Nonfarm payroll employment is a compiled name for goods, construction and manufacturing companies in the US. Approximately 80% of the workforce is accounted for nonfarm payrolls [1] and it excludes farm workers, private household employees, actively serving military or non-profit organization employees. Approximately 131,000 businesses and ...
The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) (OEWS) survey is a semi-annual survey of approximately 200,000 non-farm business establishments conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), headquartered in Washington, DC with six regional offices and one office in each state. Until the spring of 2021 it was officially called the ...
Employees on non-farm payrolls are those who received pay for any part of the reference pay period (which includes the 12th of the month), including persons on paid leave. Further, BLS explains that: "The CES employment series are estimates of nonfarm wage and salary jobs, not an estimate of employed persons; an individual with two jobs is ...
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 8.686 million job openings. Vacancies peaked at a record 12.182 million in March 2022. There were 1.32 job openings for every unemployed person, down from ...
Off-farm (non-farm) income refers to the portion of farm household income obtained off the farm, including nonfarm wages and salaries, pensions, and interest income earned by farm families. On average for all farms in the United States, off-farm income accounts for over 90% of farm operator household income.