Rasmussen Employment Index Makes Modest Gain In June
The Rasmussen Employment Index, which measures workers’ perceptions of the labor market each month, inched up less than point in June.
At 77.7, the Employment Index is up half-a-point from the beginning of the year and is up four points from its level one year ago. The Employment Index is also up nine points from two years ago.
Twenty-percent (20%) of working Americans now report that their firms are hiring, up just a single point from May. Twenty-three percent (23%) say their firms are laying workers off. It has been nearly three years since the number reporting that their firms are hiring has topped the number reporting lay-offs.
Among private sector managers, 30% report their firms are hiring while 23% say they are laying off workers.
Twenty-seven percent (27%) of workers are now worried about losing their jobs in the near future, down one point from last month.
Seventy-three percent (73%) of workers remain happy with their current jobs, up one point from May.
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The survey of 8,286 working Americans was conducted in June 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 1 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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