U.S. added 130,000 jobs in January, but labor market growth stalled in 2025
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that U.S. employers added 181,000 jobs last year, far fewer than the 1.46 million jobs that were added in 2024.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that U.S. employers added 181,000 jobs last year, far fewer than the 1.46 million jobs that were added in 2024.

The U.S. economy experienced almost zero job growth in 2025, according to revised federal data. On a more encouraging note: Hiring has picked up in 2026.

Preliminary data had indicated that the U.S. economy added 584,000 jobs last year. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised that number after it received additional state data and found that the labor market had added 181,000 jobs in all of 2025.

This is far fewer than the 1.46 million jobs that were added in 2024.

  • TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    A ton of corporate jobs are being offshored to places like Thailand and India. All these corporate bastards want to do it make as much money off the backs of others and don’t care who it fucks over.

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
    8·
    3 hours ago

    Uh huh, hey, why don’t these job numbers reports ever talk about whether these new jobs are keeping up with the cost of living? Seems like it’d be important to discern how many jobs are paying minimum wage and how many are paying enough to actually afford to survive longer than the next 24 fucking hours. Oh, and how many of these new jobs are union jobs that protect worker’s rights? Pretty fucking important bits of information to just never ever report…

    • callouscomic@lemmy.zip
      3·
      3 hours ago

      A quick proxy could be overall wage increases for the year. I’m sure average wages for new jobs may be findable somewhere, but BLS recently released this:

      Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 3.4 percent, not seasonally adjusted, for the 12- month period ending in December 2025. Wages and salaries increased 3.3 percent and benefit costs increased 3.4 percent over the year.

      https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/eci.pdf

      From BLS report USDL-26-0184 on Feb 10, 2026.

      • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Thanks. And fair enough, I’m just feeling sore about the state of things lately I guess. Wages and workers rights could always be way better in the US imo, so whenever these jobs reports come out, I get cynical. Sometimes unnecessarily so.

  • jaykrown@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 hours ago

    We’re at such a weird time, low job growth, but productivity is still increasing due to technological automation. We need a new New Deal.

  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Its fine guys.

    All the young smart people have left.

    Also we have these special “wellness camps” now for poor people, mental health addicts, and young women at risk of pregnancy.

    By reducing the number of people competing for jobs, there will be more jobs to go round.

  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
    60·
    9 hours ago

    Those tariffs are really juicing the US economy straight the moon.

    Since most companies give crap raises I regularly browse available jobs and can say that both quantity and quality of available jobs is way down compared to 2024.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    441·
    9 hours ago

    I was told that Biden had the worstest economy in history and that Donvict was here to fix everything!

  • The_v@lemmy.world
    23·
    8 hours ago

    Didn’t the orange moron fire the guy who gave mediocre job numbers last time.

    Let’s revise those numbers for reality.

    -1,810,000 jobs

    • callouscomic@lemmy.zip
      21·
      3 hours ago

      Yes. She would have not been directly involved in the production, amd she was fairly new to the position anyway in the grand scope of the methodology and procedures behind this type of report (she was about a year and a half in), and statistical agencies and the civil servants who work there take methodology VERY seriously (I know, I’ve worked with these kinds of agencies) and they’d have a LOT of reviews and checks in place for something this high profile to ensure it’s as accurate as it can be.

      If anything it was more a slap in the face of the non-political government workers who geek out on statistical methodology and just want to produce the most accurate stats they can.

      Have no knowledge of this website, but here’s an article about her firing:

      https://www.epi.org/policywatch/firing-bls-commissioner-erika-mcentarfer/