63K jobs lost in February 2008
US employers lost 63,000 jobs in February 2008, the most in five years, after trimming 22,000 jobs in January 2008, US Labor Department said.
Published on: March 8, 2008 Department: Employment
Published on: March 8, 2008 Department: Employment
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- 62% of salaried Americans happy with their medical and retirement benefits
- Most dangerous US jobs: fishing, flying, logging
- Highest-paid US public company executives
- 62.7% of US employees choose PPO plan for their medical insurance
- 78% of US employees feel burned out on the job
- Small business salaries down 0.4% in June 2008
- 31% of US organizations have weight-loss programs
- 20% drop in Computer Science majors in 2008
- 40% of US employees completely satisfied with their jobs
- 37% of US IT workers would take a pay cut if it involved telecommuting
- 78% of companies using social networks to find candidates
- 67% of Canadian execs see professional networking sites useful
- 91,400 high-tech jobs added in the US in 2007
- 21,400 IT jobs added in California in 2006, 5.9 mln Americans were employed by tech
- 37% of US employees were bullied on the job
- 74% of Californians noticed a weaker economy in February 2008
- 63K jobs lost in February 2008
- 16.2% of top CEOs left their jobs in 2007
- 23% of Americans regularly work from offsite locations
- Average IT worker earned $32.39 an hour in October 2007
- 48% of Americans have known of a married colleague having an affair
- Top European job sites in Q4 2007
- Top employment sites in January 2008
- By 2011 75% of the US workforce will be mobile
- 1.4 mln Americans unemployed for long-term in January 2007
- 17K US jobs lost in January 2007
- Top European job sites in Q4 2007
- 20% of employees casually browse Internet, use P2P at work
- Only 27% of CIOs have enough people to work on the business needs
- 80% of Japanese workforce to be mobile by 2011
- Average American worked a 45-hour week in 2007
- 50% of US small business owners telecommute
- 23% of US workers regularly telecommute
- Base salaries will increase 3.9% in 2008
- 42% of US employees plan to give bonuses
- 166k new US jobs added in October 2007
- College tuitions up 6.6% in 2007
- 41 mln Americans cannot afford health care and housing
- Online job sites market shares
- Techiest US cities: San Jose, Washington DC, Raleigh
- 88% of workers consider themselves creative, 37% consider their companies dull
- Online job posts up 4% in September 2007
- 22% of computer science degrees were awarded to women in 2005
- 11% of UK employees telecommute
- 45% of Americans think economy is declining
- Top starting salaries for IT professionals
- 17% of US work force are baby boomers
- 78.9% of execs plan to take a vacation in 2007
- 85% of job applicants think a tattoo impedes getting a job
- 60% of workers waste 1.7 hours a day
- 66% of US companies plan to hire more IT staff
- 45% of US employees did not use all vacation days in 2006
- 71% of interns in 2007 were paid
- 5.8 mln Americans work in IT, 1.5 mln of them are software engineers
- 148 mln US employees in 2007
- US unemployment rate is at 4.4%
- 44% of federal workers have an option to telework
- Small business employment up 0.7% so far in 2007
- Only 47% of Americans like their jobs
- 1.804 mln of new jobs in 2000-2005 taken by men, 1.996 mln - by women
- Half of Americans are looking for new jobs
- IT exec salaries in large companies up 1.92% in Q4 2006
- Smal business salaries up 7.4% in 2006
- US office workers interrupted 11 times an hour
- 132k new jobs in November 2006
- 76% of Americans earning more than $100,000 say leisure time is important
- 48% of UK IT workers are looking for another job
- Top European employment sites
- 71% of top performers switch companies due to pay levels
- Top US companies founded by immigrants: Intel, Solectron, Sanmina-SCI, Sun
- Newspaper industry shed 18% of its jobs between 1990 and 2004
- US unemployment at 4.4% in September 2006
- Obesity costs US companies $13 bln a year
- 25% of US retailers to increase counterfraud measures this holiday season
- 67% of employees report information overload
- 70% of companies have hired high schoolers with poor grammar or writing skills
- Average small business owner salary is $233,600
- Best commuter workplaces in 2006
- 19% of US employees would post resumes on social networking sites
- 18% of IT workers expect their employers to make cuts
- 51K new jobs added in September 2006
- 100,315 Americans laid off in September 2006
- 140k new tech jobs in the first half of 2006
- Top-growing occupations 2004-2014
- Top companies for women
- Only 33% of employees satisfied with employer-employee communication
- 70% of baby boomers do not plan to retire after reaching 65
- 60% of tech workers are looking for new jobs
- 538,914 Americans laid off so far this year
- 45% of employees got raises in 2005
- 20% of US families control 50.4% of US income
- In 2006 US executives received a 58.8% raise
- 29% of workers work longer hours today than a year ago
- Average programmer got a 8.7% increase in 2006
- Post-secondary education enrollment to grow 13% between 2004 and 2014
- 88% of companies added health benefits to retain employees
- $1.1 trillion to be spent on engineering services by 2020
- 39% of IT employees to look for new jobs in Q3 2006
- 13% of US males 30-55 do not work
- Most prestigious US occupations: firefighters, doctors, nurses, scientists
- 73% of HR execs blame low morale on leadership problems
- Turnover at tech companies was at 12.3% in Q2 2006
- Both males and females prefer male bosses to female
- 2% of large US companies have fired employees for inappropriate blogging
- Only 11% of employees take advantage of telecommuting policies
- Most affordable US cities: Knoxville, Tennessee, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Kokoma, Indiana
- US incomes up 0.4% in May 2006
- 75% of information workers have made decisions based on bad data
- Data on 2005 H1-B applications
- Cell phones ringing #1 annoyance at work
- 22.1% of self-employed Europeans work from home
- 56% of US small business owners hired or have tried to hire staff in May 2006
- 50% of employees 18 to 24 do not plan to stay with their companies
- 70% of hiring managers plan to recruit college grads in 2006
- Unemployment in Canada is at 6.1%
- 36% of telecommuting CSRs say their decision was influenced by gas prices
- 75K new jobs added in May 2006
- Monster Employment index up 25% in May 2006
- 144,000 Americans employed with video game industry
- New Zealand wages up 3.1% in Q1 2006
- 138K Americans got hired in April 2006
- Average tech salary in Silicon Valley is $85,600, C/C++ the most demanded skill
- Top employers for MBAs: McKinsey, Google, Goldman Sachs
- In March 2007 unemployment level was at 4.7%, 2.2% for college-educated workers
- Pay for certified IT skills up 2.6% in 2005, pay for non-certified up 4.4%
- IT staffing in healthcare down by 38% in 2005
- 3.472 mln IT workers in the US in Q1 2006
- Best US jobs: software engineer, college professor, financial advisor
- 60% of Americans think they will never be too old to start a business
- Canadian unemployment at 6.3%
- 211K jobs added in March 2006
- 72% of US companies plan to hire 2006 graduates
- Online recruitment ads to grow 20-30% in 2006
- Online job postings up in 28 US markets in February 2006
- US GDP up 8.4% in 5 years, wages down 0.3%
- Hiring better finance people will lead 30% of customers to pay their bills faster
- March Madness cost US employers $3.8 bln in productivity
- 25% of US employees use work Internet for job hunting
- US jobless benefit claims down by 11K in one week
- 54% of US workers do not want the job of their boss
- 31% of US companies plan to continue hiring in Q2 2006
- US unemployment rate up to 4.8% in February 2006
- 2-3% of US IT jobs to go offshore by 2016
- Canada unemployment rate at 6.6% in January 2006
- Internet sources produced 51% of all new hires in 2005
- IT wages up 3.1% in 2005
- US unemployment is at 4.7%
- 13% of UK parents take work home every day
- 125K tech jobs created in 2005, 217K new tech jobs in 2006
- IT unemployment rate stayed at 2.9% in 2005
- 1.63 mln jobs posted online in December 2005
- Silicon Valley employment up 0.2% in 2005
- In 2004 61% of new hires were referred by Internet postings
- Best companies to work for: Genentech, Wegmans Food Markets, Valero Energy
- Foreign student enrollment at US universities down 3%
- 48 mln Americans have no pension benefits
- Small business hiring up 0.3% in 2005
- 300K customer care reps to work from home by 2010
- Silicon Valley employees earning 17% more than US average
- 100 mln Americans to telecommute in 2008
- 26.1 mln Americans work from home at least 1 day a month
- Phone companies shed 15.5% of their jobs between 1998 and 2003
- IT vendors to increase customer support staffing by 40% a year through 2008
- 25% of Europeans have visited a job site in Q3 2005
- Venture-funded firms created 630K European jobs in 2000-2004
- UK attracted 22K foreign workers in 2004
- Worldwide recruiting market to grow at 8.3% a year
- 2 mln help-wanted ads posted online in October 2005
- 41% of US companies will give employees holiday bonuses
- 15% of immigrants to the USA go into architecture and engineering
- 21% of UK IT workers are female
- 56K new jobs in October 2005
- Best states to work in: Delaware, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Vermont
- 41 mln will work from home at least once a week by 2008
- IT salaries up 3% in 2005
- Only 48% of US middle managers are satisfied with their jobs
- 41K tech jobs eliminated in Q3 2005
- Public university tuition up 7.1% in 2005
- 26 mln Western European teleworkers by 2010
- 68% of Chinese companies expect to increase staffing
- 500,000 networking technology vacancies will not be filled in 2008
- HCL Infosystems, Infosys and TCS top Indian employers
- IT worker confidence index down in August 2005
- 190K tech jobs added in the first half of 2005
- Most popular employers among US computer science students: Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Apple
- 16% of CIOs plan hiring, 4% - firing
- US median household income was $44,389 in 2004
- Tech paychecks down 1.2% in Q2 2005
- Silicon Valley job count up by 900 in July 2005
- Number of female students entering computer science down 80% in 2004 from 1998 levels
- 41% of Americans dated a co-worker
- States with most new tech jobs in July 2005: California, Texas, New Jersey
- Hiring by small businesses up 0.1% in July 2005
- 207K new jobs added to the economy in July 2005
- Most US small businesses with employees stay open for 11 hours a day
- 63% of financial companies and 62% of government organizations plan to hire IT staff
- Silicon Valley created 6,900 jobs in June 2005
- Salaries for certified tech workers up 3% for the past 12 months
- Tech unemployment is at 3.7%
- Tech layoff numbers down 33%
- Average employee goofs off 2.09 hours a day
- IT employee confidence index up in June 2005
- Computer science jobs up 7.7% in Q1 2005
- UK IT contractor average rate was $49.87 per hour in June 2005
- 32% of IT workers are women
- Most expensive cities in the world: Tokyo, Osaka, London, Moscow, Seoul
- 40% of Canadian small business owners to retire by 2010
- Average IT salary is $77,249 in June 2005
- 14% of CIOs plan to hire IT staff in Q3 2005
- 10,000 Brits under 30 went bankrupt in Q1 2005
- 26.1% of new US tech jobs are in California
- Pay for certified tech skills up 6% in Q1 2005
- 82,283 people laid off in May 2005
- Tech employment up by 700 jobs in May 2005
- 75,000 medical experts do side work for Wall Street
- 42% of baby boomers will retire, but 70% plan to work after retirement
- 15% reduction in IT workforce by 2010
- 5% of UK IT specialists satisfied with their jobs
- 39% of 2003 H1B approvals were for tech industry, 37% brought people from India
- 20,000 college graduates with computer-related degrees in 2004
- Software and services added 30K jobs in 2004
- High-tech industry lost 333,000 jobs in 2003 and 25,000 jobs in 2004
- Fastest-growing job markets: Rutherford County, Tennessee, Clark County, Nevada
- 60% less incoming college students want to major in Computer Science
- Job posting on Dice.com up 22% in Q1 2005
- UK gaming industry employs 22,000 people
- 80% of college grads will look for jobs on the Web, 51% will check out newspapers
- 33% of companies plan to add workers in Q2 2005
- 220,000 jobs to be added in March 2005
- Only 19% of tech workers expect layoffs in February 2005
- 40% of fast-growing tech companies will expand workforce by 25%
- 11% of workforce to retire within next 5 years due to babyboomer issue
- Silicon Valley loses jobs in December, January
- Tech support a $23.3 bln industry by 2009
- Software engineer and system analyst among the top 10 US jobs
- US added 225,000 jobs in February 2005
- 92,351 jobs cut in January 2005, most in government sector
- Average IT salary down 2.6% in 2004
- IT salaries to oncrease 0.5% on average in 2005
- 75% of Americans are looking for a new job
- Demand for IT security experts to grow at 14% a year
- Electronic engineering salaries dropped for the first time in 31 years
- 21% of US employers plan to increase workforce in Q1 2005
- 9900 computer services jobs added in November 2004
- 27% of IT workers expect layoffs within the next few months
- Online job postings hit year-high in November
- US takes 17th place in science and engineering student proportion
- Men work 49 hours a week, women - 43.5 on average
- 20% of IT professionals are women, only 10% of girls want to do science
- 928K tech jobs in California today
- Third of UK firms unable to fill their IT vacancies
- Worldwide recruiting services market to grow at 8.7% a year
- US wages and salaries increased 0.7% in Q3 2004
- IT salaries in India up 19% in 2004, Hewlett-Packard India has highest salaries
- More than half of Silicon Valley employees left after the 2000 dotcom bust
- IT contractor demand in UK almost doubled by Q3 2004
- Tech layoffs up 60% in Q3 2004
- Most IT departments will employ half as many people in 2008
- In 2002 27.2% of computer science jobs belonged to women
- IT salaries to grow 10-15% in the next three years
- Most of recruiting happens through employee referrals and search firms
- 42.5% were satisfied with their financial situation in September
- European IT to add 2 mln jobs in the next four years
- Personal income rises in all 50 states, Washington leads with 2.4% increase
- 82% of companies need business skills, only 56% offer training
- 2004 salaries out of college: $52K for chemical engineering, $51K for engineering, $49K for computer science
- 200K IT jobs lost since Nov 2001
- 230K IT jobs waiting to be filled by the end of 2004
- Salaries of CEOs who offshore grew 46% in 2003
- 11.2% of tech workers were laid off, 8.9% left their jobs themselves in 2003
- Highest paying IT jobs
- US to lose 6% of call centers by 2008
- 22% of science and engineering workers never finished college
- IT optimism up, unemployment down
- IT executive salary increased 1.9% in 2003
- 36% of employees spend at least 30 minutes a week on tech support
- Average network executive salary is $111K
- Average IT worker supports 120.3 users
- 44 mln telecommuting today, 51 mln by 2008
- Average US pay raise will be 3.3% in 2004
- 94% of IT companies will be hiring next quarter
- Small business employment grows 2.28%
- 11,000 computer jobs added in June
- IT management salaries slide
- IT morale low at 72% of US companies
- 3% of Americans work at call centers
- US May layoffs stay on the same levels
- 1.1 mln Americans employed in IT
- Computer Science enrollment dropped 18% in 2003
- 30% of executives engaged in workplace dating, 1% prohibit dating co-workers
- 42 mln. teleworkers in the US
- Top-demand IT skills in Canada - TCP/IP, WinXP, Win2k, security, MS SQL
- Computer science enrollment down 23%, computer engineering down 19%
- Only 1 in 7 IT workers happy with their job
- US jobless claims are at 3-year low
- More than 50% of job applicants lie on their resume
- Top jobs for now and 2010
- Americans have mediocre work spaces, slack off 40-hour weeks
- Average software engineering pay is $67,670
- IT employment expected to pick up 3%
- UK hourly IT contractor rates are at GBP 45
- UK unemployment hits 30-year-low
- Computer engineering and chemical engineering are the most lucrative jobs
- US unemployment rate is 5.6%
- IT salaries up 2% in 2003, average IT salary is $69.4K
- US worker productivity increased 2.7% in Q4 2003
- 117K jobs lost in the US, India’s economy grows 8%
- Silicon Valley will add 17K new jobs
- UK IT job market on the rise in Q4 2003
- Top concerns among Americans: health care costs and unemployment
- Silicon Valley sheds 5% of jobs
- Forrester: 26% of IT jobs gone by 2015
- BrainBench: US IT salaries will grow 1-5% in 2004
- US IT employment down 8% in 2003
- US jobs up
- US productivity up 9.4% in Q3 2003
- AEA: tech job numbers in the US
- High unemployment expected in Germany
- Call-center workers in India
- Reuters: Indian software salaries
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