U.S. job growth has been the strongest in middle- and high-paying industries in the past nearly two years, reversing the previous trend of an economy that grew the most in its lower-paying tier.
While job growth has slowed in recent months, it’s still strong enough to push unemployment lower while the new trend of growth in mainly middle- and high-paying industries continues, based on Aug. 2 data analysis by Martha Gimbel, research director at Indeed, the world’s leading job-seeking site.