February 2020 US Talent Market Monthly

After a relatively modest increase in December, U.S. hiring bounced back in January with employers adding 225,000 workers to their payrolls, beating consensus expectations. After annual revisions to the previous year’s employment gain figures, the U.S. economy added just under 2.1 million jobs in 2019—a slowdown from 2.3 million jobs in 2018 but still healthy given the maturity of the economic cycle.