Jobs Report October 2024. Wall street had been looking for 198,000 new jobs and unemployment at 3.7%. Pharma/biotech sector saw the second highest growth with a 19% increase in new jobs compared to october 2022.
The increase was slightly below what economists had forecast, but not too different. The latest jobs report from the bureau of labor statistics (bls) shows that employers expanded payrolls by 353,000 last month.