Re: US workforce
Maybe that would matter to Epstein’s count, but not to the one I’ve cited.
Michael Perelman wrote:
How much were companies reclassifying workers as managers to get around overtime laws?
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:33:52AM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >
Let’s look at the numbers as they stood in the third quarter of 2005, the most recent period for which data are available, compared with a fairly tough base period — 2000, the peak year of the previous boom, when the unemployment rate was at a 30-year low. For example, if management jobs are supposed to be in peril, you wouldn’t know it from the figures. With a total of 20.5 million folks currently employed as manager in the U.S., this category of employment has added nearly a million jobs since 2000. Then, as now, about one out of seven jobs in the U.S. is classified as managerial.
This all depends on what you’re calling managers. The “management of companies and enterprises” category in the establishment survey, which doesn’t include the produce manager at Kroger’s, numbers 1.7 million, off 80,000 since the 2000 peak, and off 1,000 over the last year.
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