by sslifer | Jul 2, 2026 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
July 2, 2025 The average duration of unemployment fell 0.5 week in June to 25.5 weeks after having risen 1.6 weeks in May. That works out to an average duration of unemployment of six months. It appears that unemployed workers are having a somewhat more difficult...
by sslifer | Jun 30, 2026 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
June 30, 2026 The Labor Department reported that job openings rose 9 thousand in May to 7,594 after having jumped 698 thousand in April. The pace of economic activity has been growing steadily but job openings have been been essentially unchanged for more than one...
by sslifer | Apr 1, 2026 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
April 1, 2026 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...
by sslifer | Feb 22, 2012 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
February 22, 2012 Weekly earnings for private sector employees in 2011 were $729 which is 23% below their public sector counterparts which came in at $895. Federal government employees topped the list at $1,063 dollars per week which 46% higher than the comparable...
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