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
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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