Why the incongruity between 2003 and 2009?
And that dependency was reflected in other employment numbers the BLS released Friday that shined a ray of hope that the slide in IT employment may soon be over. BLS issues two employment reports on the first Friday of each month, a survey of 60,000 households in which the unemployment rate is derived, the one cited above, and the establishment survey of 160,000 business and government agencies that cover 400,000 individual worksites, which employs about one-third of all nonfarm payroll workers. Unlike the household survey, which tracks specific occupations, the establishment survey follows industry sectors. Companies that offer IT services, officially labeled by BLS as computer systems design and related services, experienced their fourth straight month of payroll growth, reaching a record 1,477,100 employees, the establishment survey revealed. IT services companies have increased their payrolls by 15,800 employees, or 1.1 percent, since August. The percentage seems small, but histori
