Quarterly Data Series on Business Employment Dynamics News Release — 2016-11-09

From December 2015 to March 2016, gross job gains from opening and expanding private sector establishments were 7.0 million, a decrease of 866,000 jobs from the previous quarter, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over this period, gross job losses from closing and contracting private sector establishments were 6.8 million, a decrease of 59,000 jobs from the previous quarter. (See tables A, 1, and 3.) The difference between the number of gross job gains and the number of gross job losses yielded a net employment gain of 194,000 jobs in the private sector during the first quarter of 2016. (See tables A, 1, and 3.) The change in the number of jobs over time is the net result of increases and decreases in employment that occur at all businesses in the economy.