Economy
February 14, 2017
Net Job Creation by Industry through January 2017
Written by Peter Wright
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the January employment data on Friday and introduced five years of revisions. In January the preliminary result for net job creation was 227,000. November was revised down by 40,000 and December revised up by 1,000. Using a three month moving average (3MMA), the result for January was 183,000 up from 148,000 in December. Figure 1 shows the 3MMA of the number of jobs created as the brown bars since 2000. These numbers are seasonally adjusted by the BLS.
