How Many Jobs Were Created or Lost in October 2014?

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How Many Jobs Created (Gained) or Lost in October 2014?

• 214,000 TOTAL payroll jobs were ADDED or CREATED in seasonally adjusted numbers.
• 209,000 PRIVATE payroll sector jobs were ADDED or CREATED in seasonally adjusted numbers.
• 5,000 GOVERNMENT (federal, state, and local) jobs were ADDED or CREATED in October. 
• 683,000 MORE people employed.
• 345,000 MORE people employed full-time. 
• 334,000 MORE people employed part-time.
• 76,000 FEWER people employed part-time involuntarily.  (In other words, people who want full-time work but can only find part-time work.)
• 416,000 MORE people in the civilian labor force (people either working or looking for work).
• 267,000 FEWER people unemployed.
• Unemployment rate drops to to 5.8% (from 5.9%) primarily due to a big increase in the number of employed people AND a big decrease in the number of unemployed people.

To Summarize:  

In summary, there are many more payroll jobs and many more people employed.  Though there are about as many people newly employed part-time as full-time, the increase in the number of people working part-time is all in the "voluntary" group; that is, people working part-time by choice.  

The unemployment rate went down because more people are employed and fewer are unemployed, a good mix.

As usual, the numbers in any one month need to be taken with a grain of salt, as any movements in any one month are not necessarily trends.  However, we have now had 56 consecutive months of private sector job creation, a record as long as such numbers have been kept.

All jobs numbers and reports 2011-2014 HERE.