Curious why March hourly wages fell, and why the weekly number continues to show sub-inflation growth? Here’s why: in March the best paying industry groups – information, financial activities and manufacturing (which actually saw a drop of 1,000 jobs in the past month) – added a cumulative total of… 2,000 jobs among them. Where was the bulk of the job gains? At the worst paying sectors of course.
- Education and Health: +34K
- Leisure and Hospitality: +29K
- Temp Help: +29K
- Retail Trade: +21K
And that’s why there is no inflation (at least according to whatever the Fed’s preferred inflationary indicator du jour is): because the jobs that are “added” to the economy, have virtually no wage and/or purchasing power growth. But at least the “recovery” continues.
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/PrnJrT Tyler Durden