Research Brief: Employment – February 2025

Hiring eases after strong final stretch of 2024. Employers kicked off 2025 by creating 143,000 jobs in January, compared with an average of 166,000 per month last year. About 66,000 of the positions added in January, nearly half the overall net gain, originated from health services fields, while another 34,000 came from retail trade. Although the concentration of hiring momentum within only a handful of industries may…

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