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This is the indicator from Platinum Money I'm Darien Woods.

And I'm Whelan Wang and it's Jobs Friday!

That's right, Jobs Numbers Route today showing solid growth.

We had 390,000 jobs added to the US economy in May and the unemployment rate is unchanged

at 3.6%.

Here at the indicator, Jobs Growth is one of our favorite economic indicators.

It's this really direct measure of how the economy is going in a way that has this tangible

wide-reaching effect on everyday people.

And like all super fans, we at the indicator love going behind the scenes.

We want to go backstage to the economic statistics, green rooms and eavesdrop on the bespectacled

heroes entering numbers into databases.

Last year we said in on how price inflation data was collected.

And now we're going to learn how jobs numbers are put together.

To dam the show, behind the scenes of Jobs Friday, we listen in as tightly held secrets

that could move markets are whispered over the phone to a Florida call center.

There are two main surveys that go into Jobs Friday, one that surveys households for

things like unemployment and a second survey of businesses and government agencies.

This one is called the Establishment Survey.

And this is where you get the jobs numbers, that 390,000 jobs added to the economy in May.

And every month, the Establishment Survey interviews about 130,000 employers.

It covers about a third of all non-farm workers in the country.

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