| ◆ Compass | LABOUR MARKET INTELLIGENCE | ||||||||||
| THE LABOUR MARKET, MEASURED | |||||||||||
| EMPLOYMENT RATE | |||||||||||
| The workforce, in focus. |
78.4% | ||||||||||
| Employment, wages and vacancy signals across every sector and region — one trustworthy view, refreshed weekly. | ▲ +0.6pp vs. last quarter | ||||||||||
| Sector employment rate — tracked against its own twelve-month trend. | |||||||||||
| Explore sectors → | |||||||||||
| REAL EARNINGS | REAL WAGE GROWTH · AFTER INFLATION | ||||||||||
| Real wages are rising again. |
+3.7% | ||||||||||
| WAGE GROWTH · YoY | VACANCIES | PARTICIPATION | REAL PAY | ||||||||
| 6.8% | 412k | 71.2% | +3.7% | ||||||||
| ▲ +0.9pp vs. prior quarter | ▼ −8.2% vs. prior quarter | ▲ +0.5pp vs. prior quarter | after inflation | ||||||||
| ◆ EXPLORE · INTERACTIVE | |||||||||||
| Pick a sector — the numbers move. | |||||||||||
| One dropdown drives every figure below through live formulas. | |||||||||||
| SECTOR | ▾ choose a sector to update the cards and chart | ||||||||||
| EMPLOYMENT (m) | WAGE GROWTH · YoY | VACANCIES (k) | |||||||||
| 2.1 | 7.8% | 141 | |||||||||
| NET JOBS ADDED · SELECTED SECTOR (000s / month) | |||||||||||
| Jan | 6 |  |
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| Feb | 6 | ||||||||||
| Mar | 7 | ||||||||||
| Apr | 7 | ||||||||||
| May | 8 | ||||||||||
| Jun | 7 | ||||||||||
| Jul | 8 | ||||||||||
| Aug | 8 | ||||||||||
| Sep | 9 | ||||||||||
| Oct | 8 | ||||||||||
| Nov | 9 | ||||||||||
| Dec | 10 | ||||||||||
| +84k | THE TECH REBOUND | ||||||||||
| tech jobs added this quarter as hiring reaccelerates after two years of consolidation across the sector. | |||||||||||
| COMPOSITION | |||||||||||
| Where the workforce is. | |||||||||||
| SHARE OF WORKFORCE | |||||||||||
| TECH · SHARE | |||||||||||
| ◆ | Health | 24% | 16% | ||||||||
| ◆ | Tech | 16% | |||||||||
| ◆ | Logistics | 14% | |||||||||
| ◆ | Finance | 12% | |||||||||
| ◆ | Retail | 20% | |||||||||
| ◆ | Manufacturing | 14% | of the national workforce works in tech — switch sectors to compare each slice against its own trend. | ||||||||
| See how the numbers are made. | |||||||||||
| Sources, seasonal adjustment and revision bands — stated plainly. | |||||||||||
| Read the methodology → | |||||||||||
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| METHODOLOGY | |||||||||||
| How Compass is built. | |||||||||||
| We blend official statistics with real-time signals, seasonally adjust them, and state a revision band on every figure. | |||||||||||
| SOURCES | |||||||||||
| Compass combines official labour-force statistics with real-time payroll records and online job-posting signals. Official data anchors the levels; the real-time signals sharpen the latest months, where traditional surveys are slowest to report. | |||||||||||
| SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT | |||||||||||
| Every series is seasonally adjusted with an X-13ARIMA-SEATS routine, so month-to-month moves reflect genuine change rather than calendar effects. Holiday timing and school-term patterns are modelled explicitly. | |||||||||||
| REVISION BANDS | |||||||||||
| No first estimate is final. Each headline figure carries a revision band — the range within which past vintages have historically settled — so every print can be read against its own uncertainty. | |||||||||||
| CADENCE | |||||||||||
| A daily market wrap, a weekly macro compass and flow monitor, a monthly cross-asset outlook and a quarterly regime review. Every release states its sources and its revision band. | |||||||||||
| Back to the numbers. | |||||||||||
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