2024-12-07
9 分钟Today is Jobs Friday.
That's right, we had 227,000 jobs added to the US economy in November.
Now, this is a mixed picture because while unemployment ticked up a little to 4.2%, you had hourly earnings growing pretty robustly.
On average, they were up 4% over the past year to just over $35 an hour.
So that's wages overall and today we want to zoom in on a subset of that men's wages and salaries.
We want to see how they've been doing.
This is the indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Waylon Wong.
And I'm Darian Woods.
Today on the show Men at Work, we look at the trends and we ask whether culture is keeping up with economics.
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