January 10, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Job growth in December
Nonfarm payroll
employment increased by 315,000 in December to 129.9 million, after
seasonal adjustment. Job growth in 1999 totaled 2.7 million or 2.1
percent; this compares to a 2.4 percent gain in 1998.
![Change in nonfarm payroll employment, seasonally adjusted, January-December 1999 (thousands)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120925031241im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2000/jan/wk2/art01.gif)
[Chart data—TXT]
The services industry added 109,000 jobs in December. Employment in
retail trade rose by 65,000. Transportation and public utilities added
32,000 jobs in December, twice the average for the prior 12 months.
Finance, insurance, and real estate added 12,000 jobs, mostly in finance.
In the goods-producing sector, construction employment rose by 16,000
in December, following a much larger gain in November. In December, for
the second straight month, manufacturing employment was little changed.
These data are a product of the BLS Current
Employment Statisticsprogram. Find
out more in "The
Employment Situation: December 1999,"
news release USDL 00-06. Data for November and December 1999 are
preliminary.
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