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Nonfarm payroll employment is a compiled name for goods, construction and manufacturing companies in the US. Approximately 80% of the workforce is accounted for nonfarm payrolls [1] and it excludes farm workers, private household employees, actively serving military or non-profit organization employees. Approximately 131,000 businesses and ...
Employees on non-farm payrolls are those who received pay for any part of the reference pay period (which includes the 12th of the month), including persons on paid leave. Further, BLS explains that: "The CES employment series are estimates of nonfarm wage and salary jobs, not an estimate of employed persons; an individual with two jobs is ...
Blinder and Watson estimated that the S&P 500 returned 8.4% annually on average under Democrats, versus 2.7% under Republicans, a difference of 5.7% percentage points. This computation used the average value in last year of the president's term, minus the average value in last year of previous term.
The US government’s monthly jobs report provides crucial information about the health of the labor market by tallying “nonfarm payrolls.” Why are the farmers excluded?
Americans deeply distrust government these days, and sure enough, multiple bloggers have challenged the accuracy of the Bureau of Labor Statistics's claim that 290,000 jobs were added in April. So ...
Total nonfarm payroll employment fell by 125,000 in June as the government laid off 225,000 temporary census workers. The decline was roughly in line with expectations. The median forecast in a ...
The CBPP wrote in January 2013: "[December 2012] is the 34th straight month of private-sector job creation, with payrolls growing by 5.3 million jobs (a pace of 157,000 jobs a month) since February 2010; total nonfarm employment (private plus government jobs) has grown by 4.8 million jobs over the same period, or 141,000 a month.
U.S. job growth surged in February, recording its biggest increase in more than one-and-a-half years.