DWD Benchmark employment for Wisconsin was released yesterday. Headline employment for 2021 was higher than previously estimated, but the slowdown is now more pronounced.
figure 1: Wisconsin nonfarm payrolls from January 2022 (bold blue, right scale), December 2021 (turquoise, right scale), and private nonfarm payrolls from January 2022 Headcount (bold red, left scale), from December 2021 (pink, left scale), all 000, sa Source: BLS, DWD.
Leisure and hospitality employment was also revised higher, but manufacturing was down.
figure 2: Wisconsin manufacturing employment from January 2022 (bold blue, right scale), December 2021 (turquoise, right scale), leisure and hospitality from January 2022 (bold red, right scale) Left scale), scale from December 2021 (pink, left scale), all 000s, sa Source: BLS, DWD.
