LinkUp Forecasting a Net Gain of 220,000 Jobs In November

In November, labor demand resumed its downward plummet as total US job vacancies indexed directly from company websites around the world dropped by nearly 300,000 from October (-5.2%), while new job openings fell by roughly 230,000 (-11.7%) and the number of jobs removed from corporate career portals rose by roughly 13,000 (0.6%).

The LinkUp 10,000, which tracks US job vacancies for the 10,000 global employers with the most openings in the US, dropped a similar 5.3% in November.

Job vacancies declined more sharply for goods producing than in services industries.

The S&P 500 LinkUp Jobs Index was down 4.4% as of November 21st with declines for the first 3 weeks of November in every single sector of the S&P 500 including a 9% drop in Communications Services.

And lastly, hiring velocity continued to slow down, as LinkUp’s Closed Duration or ‘Time-To-Fill’ metric for November and the rolling 90-day average rose a bit closer to 47 days.

Based on our data, we are forecasting a net gain of 220,000 jobs in November – a drop from October but slightly above the consensus estimate of 200,000 jobs for the month.