I'm not sure what you mean? Are you saying the numbers are wrong?

Anyways, you asked where the hiring was -- and I found an answer to that question.

What numbers are YOU using?

It's important to remember we're at the start of an election cycle. Every time there's a Democratic president, the Repulicans start the drum beat of "the economy is ailing" and they ramp it up as the next election comes close. Americans have trusted Republicans more on the economy since Reagan took over from Carter. It's their main PR plan, tell Americans the economy is is going to die if they pull the wrong lever. Dems have similar PR bullshit, just on different topics.

So the answer to your question: in this world. Job growth in absolute numbers has been strong now for over a decade (2020 being an abberation of course) and remains so. These are numbers collected by bi-partisan and non-partisan organizations, and they're fairly consistent in their methods. Economists don't believe who is in the White House has much to do with it almost all of the time, but most people do and it feeds their anxiety.

It is a rough time in the tech industry, and the first in many decades, so I'd not be surprised if many people here share your view, but for the economy as a whole, it's still tough out there to hire. A lot more people work in restaurants and factories than tech, and ask anyone in those industries how it's going.

The tech industry is not the whole world.

What makes you think it wasn't? Again, tech is not the whole world. I mean, 2023 was essentially late covid recovery; you'd _expect_ it to be _pretty_ good.

> because those are monthly numbers as opposed to annual numbers.

Well, this is in response to an article about January's numbers. Hence, posting January's numbers.