SMU Data and Models
December 17, 2018
BLS: U.S. Gains 155,000 Jobs in November
Written by Peter Wright
Net job creation in November totaled 155,000 positions. This was a correction from the very strong result in October, according to Steel Market Update’s latest analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data.
Table 1 breaks total U.S. employment down into service and goods-producing industries and then into private and government employees. Most of the goods-producing employees work in manufacturing and construction, and the components of these two sectors of most relevance to steel people are broken out in Table 1.
