Friday, March 4, 2016

Jobs report crushes

Jobs were added over the expectation last month, but the wage growth disappointed. Data shows that the unemployment rated hit the eight-year low, which was held steady at 4.9%, and U-6 unemployment rate fell from 9.9% to 9.7%.

Average hourly wages fell 0.1% month-on-month and rose 2.2% year-on-year, both of them are not expected. Because of a calendar quirk falls outside the employment survey week, Pantheon Macroeconomics' Ian Shepherdson claimed that wage growth was consistently underestimated for February.


http://www.businessinsider.com/us-jobs-report-february-2016-2016-3

1 comment:

  1. Since unemployment went down that means that there were more workers in jobs which decreased MPL, which can explain the drop in month on month wages.

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