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IndiaNovember 2024 Jobs Report
Total non-farm payroll employment rose by 227,000 in November, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.2 percent. Employment trended up in health care, leisure and hospitality, government, and social assistance. Retail trade lost jobs. The number of unemployed people, at 7.1 million, changed little in November.
The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed at 1.7 million in November. This measure is up from 1.2 million a year earlier. In November, the long-term unemployed accounted for 23.2 percent of all unemployed people.
Total Jobs Added*
(* Non-Farm Jobs Only)
Unemployment Rate
(Increased by 0.1% since September)
USA Industry-Specific Updates
– November 2024
(+) Means Jobs Added MoM (-) Means Jobs Decreased MoM
+53,000
Leisure & Hospitality
Food services and drinking places +29,000
- 28,000
Retail
Electronics and appliances +4000
General merchandise -15,000
+54,000
Healthcare
Ambulatory health care +22,000
Nursing and residential +12,000
Hospitals +19,000
+19,000
Social Assistance
Individual and family services +17,000
+33,000
Government
State govt. +20,000
Other Sectors
Transport equipment manufacturing +32,000
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for Blacks (6.4 percent) edged up in November. The jobless rates for adult men (3.9 percent), adult women (3.9 percent), teenagers (13.2 percent), Whites (3.8 percent), Asians (3.8 percent), and Hispanics (5.3 percent) showed little or no change over the month.
Source: The US Bureau of Labor Statistics