Saturday, October 8, 2011

SepTTTember

The legal industry lost about 0.3% year over year. This compares mostly unfavorably with other "professional and business services," particularly since it's the only one that shed jobs in September. Anecdotally, I hear that the number of jobs in Space Law remained unchanged.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

Not seasonally adjustedSeptember20101,112,700
July20111,125,000
August20111,118,300
September20111,109,500(3,200)
Seasonally adjustedSeptember20101,115,700
July20111,113,800
August20111,113,500
September20111,112,200(3,500)
Change from August 11-September 11(1,300)