NFP -539k; net revisions -66k, and +60k contribution from census workers (census workers will add about 75k jobs/mth thru year-end)
Underlying trend doesn’t show any real change
Index of aggregate hours down another 0.6% and avg weekly earnings up 0.1%
Wage and salary component of personal income will be down again (hours x jobs x wages)
Unemployment rate up from 8.54% to 8.87%; total unemployment rate up from 15.6% to 15.8%
Only good news was diffusion index rising from 20.3 to 28.2
Consensus on CNBC was this would be the ‘last, really bad number’, mostly on grounds of running out of people to fire.
I guess ‘really bad’ wasn’t ‘really defined’, but judging by the workweek data, doesn’t seem like material improvement anytime soon.