Employers posted strong gains in hiring in December, capping the best year for job creation since 1999 and showing businesses are increasingly confident, but analysts don't expect a repeat of those blockbuster numbers this year.
"Prospects for 2015 are good, but not great. The 2015 job tally will still be solid at about 2.65 million," said Doug Handler and Michael Montgomery, of IHS Global Insight, in a research note. "(2015) will only earn a silver medal rather than gold."
Employers added 252,000 jobs in December, the Labor Department reported yesterday, for a total of close to 3 million jobs last year.
"It's a strong report, 252k jobs is good," said Nigel Gault, co-chief economist at The Parthenon Group, "and the number in the previous couple of months was revised up."
The jobs numbers for October and November were revised upward by 50,000 and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.6 percent from 5.8 percent in November. The rate is now at its lowest point since 2008, but that was affected at least in part by people giving up looking for work.
Yesterday's jobs report also threw a puzzling wrench in the cogs for economists. Conventional wisdom says more jobs will put pressure on employers to pay workers more, but average hourly earnings actually declined in December.
"It's just very odd to understand why wage inflation would be slowing at this point," Gault said. "People don't see the sort of spending power increases helping increase their real incomes and give consumer spending a boost."
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