Quarterly Data Series on Business Employment Dynamics News Release — 2016-07-27

From September 2015 to December 2015, gross job gains from opening and expanding private sector establishments were 7.8 million, an increase of 530,000 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 52,000 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 1.0 million jobs in the private sector during the fourth quarter of 2015. (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.