📉 Payroll Growth Stalls: January Jobs Miss Expectations

Private payrolls added just 22,000 jobs in January, far below the 45,000 forecast, signaling a cooling labor market despite steady wage growth.

- Sector winners:

- 🏥 Education & Health Services: +74,000

- 💰 Financial Activities: +14,000

- 🏗️ Construction: +9,000

- Sector losers:

- 🏭 Manufacturing: –8,000 (14th straight decline)

- 💼 Professional Services: –57,000

- 💻 Information: –5,000

- Firm size trends:

- 👥 Medium firms (50–499 employees): +41,000

- 🏢 Large firms: –18,000

- 🧑‍🔧 Small firms mixed: +30,000 (1–19 employees) but –30,000 (20–49 employees)

💵 Wages Hold Steady

- Job-stayers: +4.5% YoY

- Job-changers: +6.4% YoY

- Large firms leading wage growth at +5.0%

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