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

US based employers announced plans to shed 28,307 workers from payrolls in July of 2017, a 9 percent decline from 31,105 in June and the lowest since November. Retail lead all sectors with 3,862 announced cuts, followed by health care (3,634); services (2,607); aerospace/defense (2,295); consumer products (1,918); energy (1,614); food (1,601); industrial goods (1,531); financial (1,474); computer (1,448) and automotive (951). Year-on-year, planned layoffs fell 37.6 percent. So far this year, employers announced 255,307 cuts, down 28.9 percent from the 359,100 plans announced through the first seven months of 2016. Challenger Job Cuts in the United States averaged 66326.48 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	Forecast
2017-06-01	11:30 AM	May	51.7K	36.6K	38.2K
2017-07-06	11:30 AM	Jun	31.1K	33.1K	45.3K
2017-08-03	11:30 AM	Jul	28.3K	31.1K	33.5K
2017-08-31	11:30 AM	Aug		28.3K	27.9K
2017-10-05	11:30 AM	Sep			29.3K
2017-11-02	11:30 AM	Oct			27.5K

United States Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	4.30	4.40	10.80	2.50	percent	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	209.00	231.00	1115.00	-834.00	Thousand	[+]
Nonfarm Payrolls Private	205.00	187.00	1089.00	-816.00	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	4.00	37.00	427.00	-260.00	Thousand	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	16.00	12.00	572.00	-519.00	Thousand	[+]
Initial Jobless Claims	244.00	241.00	695.00	162.00	Thousand	[+]
Continuing Jobless Claims	1951.00	1967.00	6635.00	988.00	Thousand	[+]
ADP Employment Change	178.00	191.00	384.00	-846.00	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	153513.00	153168.00	153513.00	57635.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	6981.00	6977.00	15352.00	1596.00	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	0.30	0.20	0.60	-0.20	percent	[+]
Average Weekly Hours	34.50	34.50	34.60	33.70	Hours	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	62.90	62.80	67.30	58.10	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	1.11	1.04	2.80	1.01	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	9.00	9.10	19.50	7.80	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	108.79	108.62	109.00	17.12	Index Points	[+]
Productivity	107.90	107.70	107.90	27.60	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	5665.00	6371.00	6371.00	2132.00	Thousand	[+]
Job Offers	6163.00	5702.00	6163.00	2196.00	Thousands	[+]
Challenger Job Cuts	28307.00	31105.00	248475.00	15100.00	Persons	[+]
Wages	22.10	22.04	22.10	2.50	USD/Hour	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	20.96	20.77	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	27535.00	27142.00	28134.00	10086.00	Thousand	[+]
Full Time Employment	125921.00	125975.00	125987.00	64640.00	Thousand	[+]
Employment Rate	60.20	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	[+]

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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 August of 2017.