Jobs Created Lost January 2015

 March 2015 jobs, unemployment reports HERE.

How Many Jobs Created (Gained) or Lost by U. S. firms or companies in January 2015?

• 257,000 TOTAL payroll jobs were ADDED or CREATED in seasonally adjusted numbers.
• 267,000 PRIVATE payroll sector jobs were ADDED or CREATED in seasonally adjusted numbers.
• 10,000 GOVERNMENT (federal, state, and local) jobs were LOST in January. 
• 759,000 MORE people employed.
• 777,000 MORE people employed full-time. 
• 40,000 MORE people employed part-time.
• 20,000 FEWER people employed part-time involuntarily.  (In other words, people who want full-time work but can only find part-time work.)
• 1,051,000 MORE people in the civilian labor force (people either working or looking for work).
• 291,000 MORE people unemployed.
• Unemployment rate increased slightly to 5.7% primarily due to an increase in the number of people who entered the labor force and started to look for work.

To Summarize:  

In summary, there are many many more payroll jobs and more people employed.  Almost all of the newly employed people are working full-time vs. part-time.  

The unemployment rate increased slightly due to the number of people entering the labor force.  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 59 consecutive months of private sector job creation, a record as long as such numbers have been kept.  

All January highlights and reports are listed HERE.