United States Challenger Job Cuts 1994-2017 | Data | Chart | Calendar

Job cuts announced by US-based employers fell 4.4 percent to 32,346 in September 2017 from a four-month high of 33,825 in August. Pharmaceutical cut the most jobs (4,251), followed by services (3,916), retail (3,461), construction (3,183), and food (3,009). In the third quarter, job cuts declined 6.2 percent to 94,478 from 100,799 in the previous three-month period. So far this year, employers in the US have announced 321,478 job cuts, 26.2 percent lower than the 435,612 cuts recorded through September last year. Challenger Job Cuts in the United States averaged 66093.21 Persons from 1994 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 248475 Persons in January of 2002 and a record low of 15100 Persons in June of 1997.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	TEForecast
2017-08-03	11:30 AM	Challenger Job Cuts	28.3K	31.1K	33.5K
2017-08-31	11:30 AM	Challenger Job Cuts	33.8K	28.3K	27.9K
2017-10-05	11:30 AM	Challenger Job Cuts	32.3K	33.825K	32.4K
2017-11-02	11:30 AM	Challenger Job Cuts		32.3K	30.6K
2017-12-07	12:30 PM	Challenger Job Cuts			32.9K

United States Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	4.20	4.40	10.80	2.50	percent	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	-33.00	169.00	1115.00	-834.00	Thousand	[+]
Nonfarm Payrolls Private	-40.00	164.00	1089.00	-816.00	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	7.00	5.00	427.00	-260.00	Thousand	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	-1.00	41.00	572.00	-519.00	Thousand	[+]
Initial Jobless Claims	222.00	244.00	695.00	162.00	Thousand	[+]
Continuing Jobless Claims	1888.00	1904.00	6635.00	988.00	Thousand	[+]
ADP Employment Change	135.00	228.00	384.00	-846.00	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	154345.00	153439.00	154345.00	57635.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	6801.00	7132.00	15352.00	1596.00	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	0.50	0.20	0.60	-0.20	percent	[+]
Average Weekly Hours	34.40	34.40	34.60	33.70	Hours	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	63.10	62.90	67.30	58.10	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	1.08	1.08	2.80	1.01	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	9.10	8.90	19.50	7.80	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	108.81	108.75	109.07	17.12	Index Points	[+]
Productivity	108.08	107.66	108.08	27.60	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	6200.00	6502.00	6502.00	2132.00	Thousand	[+]
Job Offers	6082.00	6140.00	6140.00	2196.00	Thousand	[+]
Challenger Job Cuts	32346.00	33825.00	248475.00	15100.00	Persons	[+]
Wages	22.23	22.14	22.23	2.50	USD/Hour	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	20.96	20.85	20.96	1.27	USD/Hour	[+]
Wage Growth	2.95	3.49	13.77	-5.77	percent	[+]
Minimum Wages	7.25	7.25	7.25	0.25	USD/Hour	[+]
Employment Cost Index	0.50	0.80	1.60	0.20	percent	[+]
Labor Market Conditions Index	1.50	3.30	32.00	-48.40	Index Points	[+]
Population	324.30	322.06	324.30	76.09	Million	[+]
Retirement Age Women	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Retirement Age Men	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Living Wage Family	1496.20	1497.50	1497.50	1433.00	USD/Month	[+]
Living Wage Individual	1407.76	1399.20	1407.76	1302.75	USD/Month	[+]
Part Time Employment	27650.00	27569.00	28134.00	10086.00	Thousand	[+]
Full Time Employment	126690.00	125755.00	126690.00	64640.00	Thousand	[+]
Employment Rate	60.40	60.10	64.70	55.00	percent	[+]
Wages Low Skilled	1780.00	1810.00	1860.00	1450.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages High Skilled	4130.00	4150.00	4150.00	4000.00	USD/Month	[+]

United States Challenger Job Cuts

Challenger Job-Cut Report provides information on the number of announced corporate layoffs by industry and region. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Challenger Job Cuts - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States Challenger Job Cuts - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on October of 2017.