The Merker Report, Q4 2024 Edition, Published November 2024
Q4 2024: Employment And Market Analytics
The edition that started the series. Published in November 2024, it gave clients a national read on employment, industries and geography while 2025 budgets were still being written.
Inside This Edition
- National Trends
- Economic and employment indicators at the close of 2024.
- Industry And Geographic Trends
- Job growth by industry and the strongest metro markets.
- Employment Conditions
- Employment share by industry and monthly job gains.
- Occupational And Education Trends
- Occupational job and wage growth, plus talent supply by education level.
The Market Moment
The response to this first edition is why the report became a quarterly habit, and later took the name The Merker Report.
How To Use It
Read it as the starting line. Comparing it with the 2026 editions shows how quickly the market moved from broad hiring to the concentrated, precision hiring Erin describes today.
Charts in the full report draw on licensed labor market data, including LaborIQ and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics series, curated and annotated by Erin Merker.