{"id":190024,"date":"2025-04-04T09:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=190024"},"modified":"2025-04-04T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:30:17","slug":"job-growth-remained-strong-in-march-as-shift-away-from-government-jobs-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=190024","title":{"rendered":"Job Growth Remained Strong in March Even as Shift Away from Government Jobs Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"
Washington, DC...Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 228,000 in March, and the unemployment rate changed\r\nlittle at 4.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred\r\nin health care, in social assistance, and in transportation and warehousing. Employment also\r\nincreased in retail trade, partially reflecting the return of workers from a strike. Federal\r\ngovernment employment declined.\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nThis news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures\r\nlabor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment\r\nsurvey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information about\r\nthe concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical Note.\r\n\r\nHousehold Survey Data\r\n\r\nBoth the unemployment rate, at 4.2 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.1 million,\r\nchanged little in March. The unemployment rate has remained in a narrow range of 4.0 percent to\r\n4.2 percent since May 2024. (See table A-1.)\r\n\r\nAmong the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (3.8 percent), adult women\r\n(3.7 percent), teenagers (13.7 percent), Whites (3.7 percent), Blacks (6.2 percent), Asians\r\n(3.5 percent), and Hispanics (5.1 percent) showed little or no change in March. (See tables\r\nA-1, A-2, and A-3.)\r\n\r\nThe number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more), at 1.5 million,\r\nchanged little in March. The long-term unemployed accounted for 21.3 percent of all unemployed\r\npeople. (See table A-12.)\r\n\r\nThe labor force participation rate, at 62.5 percent, changed little over the month and over\r\nthe year. The employment-population ratio held at 59.9 percent in March. (See table A-1.)\r\n\r\nThe number of people employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.8 million, changed little\r\nin March. These individuals would have preferred full-time employment but were working part\r\ntime because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See\r\ntable A-8.)\r\n\r\nThe number of people not in the labor force who currently want a job was essentially unchanged\r\nat 5.9 million in March. These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were\r\nnot actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to\r\ntake a job. (See table A-1.)\r\n\r\nAmong those not in the labor force who wanted a job, the number of people marginally attached\r\nto the labor force, at 1.7 million, was essentially unchanged in March. These individuals\r\nwanted and were available for work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months\r\nbut had not looked for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. The number of discouraged\r\nworkers, a subset of the marginally attached who believed that no jobs were available for\r\nthem, changed little at 509,000 in March. (See Summary table A.)\r\n\r\nEstablishment Survey Data\r\n\r\nTotal nonfarm payroll employment rose by 228,000 in March, higher than the average monthly\r\ngain of 158,000 over the prior 12 months. In March, job gains occurred in health care, in\r\nsocial assistance, and in transportation and warehousing. Employment also increased in retail\r\ntrade, partially reflecting the return of workers from a strike. Federal government employment\r\ndeclined. (See table B-1.)\r\n\r\nHealth care added 54,000 jobs in March, in line with the average monthly gain of 52,000 over\r\nthe prior 12 months. Over the month, employment continued to trend up in ambulatory health\r\ncare services (+20,000), hospitals (+17,000), and nursing and residential care facilities\r\n(+17,000).\r\n\r\nIn March, employment in social assistance increased by 24,000, higher than the average monthly\r\ngain of 19,000 over the prior 12 months. Over the month, individual and family services added\r\n22,000 jobs.\r\n\r\nRetail trade added 24,000 jobs in March, as workers returning from a strike contributed to a\r\njob gain in food and beverage retailers (+21,000). General merchandise retailers lost 5,000\r\njobs. Employment in retail trade changed little over the year.\r\n\r\nEmployment in transportation and warehousing rose by 23,000 in March, about double the prior\r\n12-month average gain of 12,000. In March, job gains in couriers and messengers (+16,000) and\r\ntruck transportation (+10,000) were partially offset by a job loss in warehousing and storage\r\n(-9,000).\r\n\r\nWithin government, federal government employment declined by 4,000 in March, following a loss\r\nof 11,000 jobs in February. (Employees on paid leave or receiving ongoing severance pay are\r\ncounted as employed in the establishment survey.) \r\n\r\nEmployment showed little change over the month in other major industries, including mining,\r\nquarrying, and oil and gas extraction; construction; manufacturing; wholesale trade;\r\ninformation; financial activities; professional and business services; leisure and hospitality;\r\nand other services.\r\n\r\nIn March, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 9\r\ncents, or 0.3 percent, to $36.00. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have\r\nincreased by 3.8 percent. In March, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and\r\nnonsupervisory employees edged up by 5 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $30.96. (See tables B-3 and\r\nB-8.)\r\n\r\nIn March, the average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at\r\n34.2 hours. In manufacturing, the average workweek was little changed at 40.2 hours, and\r\novertime was unchanged at 2.9 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory\r\nemployees on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 0.2 hour to 33.8 hours in March. (See\r\ntables B-2 and B-7.)\r\n\r\nThe change in total nonfarm payroll employment for January was revised down by 14,000, from\r\n+125,000 to +111,000, and the change for February was revised down by 34,000, from +151,000\r\nto +117,000. With these revisions, employment in January and February combined is 48,000 lower\r\nthan previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from\r\nbusinesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the\r\nrecalculation of seasonal factors.)\r\n\r\n_____________\r\nThe Employment Situation for April is scheduled to be released on Friday, May 2, 2025,\r\nat 8:30 a.m. (ET).\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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