How Many People Are Fired or Laid Off Each Year in the United States? How Many People Are Fired Each Day in the United States?
(This article has been updated with data from the month of
February 2017.)
How many people are not working in the U.S.? How many adults are not working in the U.S.? Here!
Hold on... These numbers sound staggering:
An average of 54,549 people were laid off or fired EACH DAY (including weekends and holidays) in 2016. (19,965,000 people in total were laid off or fired in the 366 days of 2016.)
Monthly layoffs & discharges in thousands from the BLS JOLTS survey.
An average of 54,966 people have been laid off or fired each day (including weekends and holidays) in the first two months of 2017. A total of 3,243,000 people have been laid off or fired in the first 59 days of 2017 (through February).
These sound like big numbers, but the 2016 number is the LOWEST number of annual layoffs in the 16 years since 2001.
These are huge numbers.... So.... how can the jobs numbers keep going up? Is someone lying?
(This article has been updated with data from the month of
February 2017.)
How many people are not working in the U.S.? How many adults are not working in the U.S.? Here!
Hold on... These numbers sound staggering:
An average of 54,549 people were laid off or fired EACH DAY (including weekends and holidays) in 2016. (19,965,000 people in total were laid off or fired in the 366 days of 2016.)
An average of 54,549 people were laid off or fired EACH DAY (including weekends and holidays) in 2016. (19,965,000 people in total were laid off or fired in the 366 days of 2016.)
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| Monthly layoffs & discharges in thousands from the BLS JOLTS survey. |
An average of 54,966 people have been laid off or fired each day (including weekends and holidays) in the first two months of 2017. A total of 3,243,000 people have been laid off or fired in the first 59 days of 2017 (through February).
These sound like big numbers, but the 2016 number is the LOWEST number of annual layoffs in the 16 years since 2001.
These are huge numbers.... So.... how can the jobs numbers keep going up? Is someone lying?
