- Health Care (+36,500).
- Local Government (+35,000);
- Bars and Restaurants (+29,300);
- Social Assistance (+22,600); and
- Professional and Business Services (+18,800).
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Employers stepped up hiring in June, adding 222,000 payroll jobs while the unemployment rate ticked up to a still low 4.4 percent as schools closed and 361,000 people joined the labor market. Importantly, there are almost 330,000 jobs waiting to be filled on WeHireAmerica.jobs, the Association's job board, and the BLS has separately reported there are a record 6.0 million job openings in the U.S. Hourly wages continue to increase at 2.5 percent year over year, most likely held back by low productivity growth, which has averaged 0.6% over the past six years. Employment growth has averaged 180,000 per month thus far this year, just below the average monthly gain of 187,000 in 2016, and down from an average of 226,000 in 2015. In June, five industries accounted for about two-thirds of the job growth:
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