U.S. is now at peak employment bringing wage growth

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The U.S. labor market may have reached a new peak this year with wage growth soon to follow.

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The employers in the country added 528,000 jobs last month.

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It was double as compared Wall Street estimates and reflected the labor market fully recovered from pandemic job losses.

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The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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"What you have right now is effectively peak employment," ZipRecruiter CEO Ian Siegal told Yahoo Finance.

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"It is extremely difficult for employers to find people who have the right skills for their open jobs. And a lot of them rather than continuing to recruit are basically trying to do more with the people that they already have." He added.

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As a result it has propelled wage growth. Average hourly earnings climbed by 5.2% in July from a year earlier, and the annual wage gains exceeded 5% each month this year, the Labor Department said.

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