June employment: slight gain.

Quick by the numbers:

• Unemployment rate: unchanged at 8.2%
• May employment revised upward from 69,000 jobs to 77,000 jobs;
• June net jobs created at 80,000;
• Alternative measurement of unemployment (Table A15-U6) increased from 14.8% to 14.9%;
• Increase in weekly hours, by 0.1 hours to 34.5;
• Average hourly earnings increased $0.06 to $23.50;
• Participation rate remained the same, at 63.8%;
• ADP May employment revised upward from 133,000 to 136,000 jobs;
• ADP June shows a decent increase in jobs to 176,000;

I guess it depends on whose numbers you use -- either things are picking up, or it's same old, same old.  And the disparity is the only reason why I blogged about it, because I doubt the media will cover it.  And if it comes up, ADP uses double the sampling size of BLS.

Sources: ADP, BLS