Update October 2, 2015: The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised the payroll count for August down to plus 136,000 jobs.
Update January 8 , 2016 The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised the payroll count for November higher to plus 252,000 jobs.
Update November 6, 2015: The Bureau of Labor Statistics revised the payroll count for August up to plus 153,000 jobs.
Government statisticians also revised downward payroll employment numbers for January and February by a combined 69,000.
After revising its payroll estimates upward for November and December, the Labor Department now reckons that the economy has created about three hundred and thirty-six thousand jobs a month, on average, since the end of October.
Now the bad: the economy shed 85,000 jobs last month, a dramatic change from the revised 4,000 nonfarm payroll rise in November, which marked the first payrolls increase in two years.
The Department of Labor revised the August payroll to 153,000, up from 136,000.
In addition to disappointing those expectations for July, the Labor Department revised down the payroll figures for May and June.
It was particularly notable, and particularly disappointing, that the Labor Department barely revised December's payroll figure, which was just seventy-four thousand.
The BLS actually revised up its payroll employment figures for July and August to more robust levels, and in September found people working longer hours at higher pay.
