NRF: Retailers Add 15,200 Jobs in September

Washington, D.C. -- The National Retail Federation calculated retail industry job gains at 15,200 in September, and 289,000 jobs year-over-year, a 2.4% increase over the same month last year and 2.0% higher than total private sector jobs over the past year.



“The pace of growth in retail hires has slowed, similar to what the rest of the labor market is experiencing,” said NRF chief economist Jack Kleinhenz “Americans need to believe we are on a solid path out of this troubled economy and so far, they haven’t been given any reason to believe that, thus impacting their spending decisions and retailers’ ability to increase their payrolls.”



The Bureau of Labor Statistics employment report showed that the economy added 148,000 jobs in September, which lowered the unemployment rate to 7.2%.