Friday, November 02, 2012

Envisioning Employment: Employment Situation October 2012

Today’s Employment Situation Report indicated that in October, net non-farm payrolls increased adding 171,000 jobs overall with the private non-farm payrolls sub-component adding 184,000 jobs while the civilian unemployment rate increased slightly to 7.9% over the same period.

Net private sector jobs increased 0.16% since last month climbing 1.79% above the level seen a year ago but remained a whopping 3.34% below the peak level of employment seen in December 2007.