Assignments growth came in better than expected in October thanks in part to strong gains in the manufacturing, health-care, and veteran and business services sectors.
Manufacturing jobs increased by 32,000 last month, boosted by gains in the durable legitimates industry, according to the Labor Department. That advance brought the sector’s average monthly job gain for the year to 37,000, compared with 30,000 per month in 2021.
Some market parties found the increase notable given the sharp slowdown in goods spending in the economy this year, as consumers movement more of their spending to services.
“The manufacturing gain of 32,000 suggest the economy is far from slowing in a meaningful way,” TradeStation Bring’s David Russell wrote in a Friday note.
The health-care and social assistance sector also enjoyed strong approaches, adding 71,100 jobs last month. By itself, the health-care sector gained 53,000 jobs in October, supported by growth in ambulatory health-care services, as well as nursing and residential-care facilities.
According to the Labor Department, employment in salubriousness care has risen by an average 47,000 per month so far in 2022, outpacing the 9,000 jobs gains posted per month rearmost year.
“People delayed a lot of procedures because of Covid for the last couple of years, so hip replacements and things that were quite optional,” said Horizon Investments’ CIO Scott Ladner. “We’re starting to see a surge of those procedures come back.”
Leisure and congeniality employment, meanwhile, continued its upward trend, adding 35,000 jobs in October. Jobs growth in the sector was in the long run driven by an increase in accommodation jobs, which added 20,000 last month. Positions in restaurants and drinking the established orders remained little changed, up 6,000.
The sector is still down by 1.1 million jobs, or 6.5%, from its pre-pandemic informed about, according to the Labor Department.
Professional and business services also was a standout sector, adding 39,000 jobs in October.
Divers sectors lagged those areas in the October jobs report, however. Financial activities gained just 3,000, as taking on in the sector has “changed little” over the past six months, the Labor Department said. Construction added just 1,000 callings in October.
The retail trade sector was also little changed heading into the holiday season, adding upstanding 7,200 jobs.