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

US based employers announced plans to shed 51,692 workers from payrolls in May of 2017, 41.2 percent higher than 36,602 in April and the highest since April of 2016. 20,000 of those job cuts were announced by Ford Motor Company. As a result, the automotive industry led all industries in May with 20,271 job cuts. The retail industry continued to shed jobs (5,777), mostly due to a changing consumer behavior in grocery shopping. Employers have announced a total of 214,495 job cuts so far this year, down 28 percent from the same period a year earlier. Retailers continued to announce the most job cuts this year with 55,910. Challenger Job Cuts in the United States averaged 66653.32 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
2017-04-06	11:30 AM	Mar	43.3K	37K	40.6K
2017-05-04	11:30 AM	Apr	36.6K	43.3K	43.9K
2017-06-01	11:30 AM	May	51.7K	36.6K	38.2K
2017-07-06	11:30 AM	Jun		51.7K	45.3K
2017-08-03	11:30 AM	Jul			45.7K
2017-08-31	11:30 AM	Aug			47.5K

United States Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	4.30	4.40	10.80	2.50	percent	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	138.00	174.00	1115.00	-834.00	Thousand	[+]
Nonfarm Payrolls Private	147.00	173.00	1089.00	-816.00	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	-9.00	1.00	427.00	-260.00	Thousand	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	-1.00	11.00	572.00	-519.00	Thousand	[+]
Initial Jobless Claims	241.00	238.00	695.00	162.00	Thousand	[+]
Continuing Jobless Claims	1944.00	1936.00	6635.00	988.00	Thousand	[+]
ADP Employment Change	253.00	174.00	384.00	-846.00	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	152923.00	153156.00	153156.00	57635.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	6861.00	7056.00	15352.00	1596.00	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	0.20	0.20	0.60	-0.20	percent	[+]
Average Weekly Hours	34.40	34.40	34.60	33.70	Hours	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	62.70	62.90	67.30	58.10	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	1.01	1.05	2.80	1.01	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	8.80	9.40	19.50	7.80	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	110.04	109.45	110.75	17.12	Index Points	[+]
Productivity	107.50	107.50	107.50	27.60	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	6371.00	5684.00	6371.00	2132.00	Thousand	[+]
Job Offers	6044.00	5785.00	6044.00	2196.00	Thousands	[+]
Challenger Job Cuts	51692.00	36602.00	248475.00	15100.00	Persons	[+]
Wages	22.00	21.96	22.00	2.50	USD/Hour	[+]
Wage Growth	3.67	4.22	13.77	-5.77	percent	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	20.78	20.76	20.78	1.27	USD/Hour	[+]
Minimum Wages	7.25	7.25	7.25	0.25	USD/Hour	[+]
Employment Cost Index	0.80	0.50	1.60	0.20	percent	[+]
Labor Market Conditions Index	2.30	3.70	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	2680.00	1433.00	USD/Month	[+]
Living Wage Individual	1407.76	1399.20	1407.76	1302.75	USD/Month	[+]
Part Time Employment	27366.00	27233.00	28134.00	10086.00	Thousand	[+]
Full Time Employment	125620.00	125987.00	125987.00	64640.00	Thousand	[+]
Employment Rate	60.00	60.20	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 Notes

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 June of 2017.