Tag: wages

New Jobs and 95.1% Employment Rate for July

US unemployment held steady at 4.9% for July with 255,000 new jobs added for the month.  While we continue to deal with the fallout from the ups and downs of the oil & gas industry, international currency fluctuations, and national…

Wages Are Starting To Rise

Recent reports showed that US employers added 3.1 million jobs in 2014, which was the strongest year of payrolls growth since 1999.  The US unemployment rate fell to 5.6% by the end of 2014, down from 6.7% in December 2013. …