Average hourly earnings in January jumped by 0.48% (5.9% annualized), the biggest increase since June 2023. Read more here.

U.S. employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, but the jobless rate slipped to 4% to start 2025 and the government ...

Average hourly earnings rose 0.5% from December and 4.1% year over year, outpacing forecasts as well as inflation. Was it ...

Annual revisions to jobs data and disruptions related to the catastrophic Los Angeles fires and severe winter storms are ...

Economists had been expecting an overall healthy reading, with 169,000 net new jobs created in the month and the unemployment ...

The U.S. economy is operating at "full employment," said Betsy Stevenson, economic professor at the University of Michigan. That translates into 'as good as it gets.' There were signs of building wage ...

By many measures, America’s job market looks to be in good shape: In January, unemployment was at a historically low 4% as employers continued the second-longest streak of job growth in US history, ...

The Labor Department has released its first jobs report of the year, covering January 2025. It shows that payrolls grew by ...