2024 Employment Picture
The latest year-over-year comparison by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, updated monthly.
Numbers in thousands
From August 2023 to August 2024, the total number of jobs decreased by 79,000, marking a 0.05 percent slump in total hires. Within the same timeframe, the total number of unemployed grew by 792,000 a 11.9 percent uptick in job losses.
Over the same period, the largest year-over-year job increases were for occupations in the farming, fishing and forestry industries, which saw a roughly 11.5 percent increase in hires. Production jobs trended dramatically in the opposite direction, seeing an 8.7 percent decline in occupations. Transportation and material moving jobs saw the third largest change, with the total number of employed decreasing by a near even 3 percent over the year.
Year-over-year, the overall unemployment rate grew by 0.5 percent.
—Posted on September 27, 2024
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