Average Hourly Earnings

March 7, 2025 Average  hourly earnings rose 0.3% in February to $35.93 after having climbed 0.4% in January and 0.2% in December.  Earnings growth  in the past year has been 4.0%. While nominal earnings have risen 4.0% in the past year, inflation has risen fairly...

Average Duration of Unemployment

March 7, 2025 The average duration of unemployment fell 0.7 week in February to 21.3 weeks after falling 1.7 weeks in January and increasing 0.1 week in December,  It appears that unemployed workers are having a somewhat more difficult time becoming reemployed than...

ADP Employment

March 5, 2025 As shown above the ADP survey shows a respectable correlation with the private sector portion of the payroll employment data to be released a couple of days later.  And well it should.  ADP, or Automatic Data Processing, Inc. is a provider of...