Saturday, November 17, 2012

OcTTTober 2012

I was rocked like by a hurricane, thus the post's tardiness.

There was a modest increase over September 2012, but given the gummint's penchant for revising initial numbers by thousands, it might was well be random. Year-over-year netted 6,600 positions but consider this: the legal profession industry boasted 1,115,900 jobs in October 2010, giving an anemic two-year growth of 5,700 jobs.

If you want to bet $200K on strong, sustained growth in the legal market, be my guest.

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

Not seasonally adjustedOctober20111,115,800
August20121,120,300
September20121,114,500
October20121,121,9006,100
Seasonally adjustedOctober20111,115,000
August20121,119,700
September20121,121,000
October20121,121,6006,600
Change from Sep-12 to
Oct-12
600