Apologies for stepping away for 9 minutes
The monthly changes in construction bounce around a lot due in part to the effects of weather (even after seasonal adjustment).
If you look at year-over-year growth, which is a 12-month moving average that smooths out these fluctuations, this is what it looks like in construction:
Nov 2025: +58K
Nov 2024: +189K
Nov 2023: +221K
Nov 2022: +299K
Nov 2021: +244K
Nov 2020: -220K
Nov 2019: +131K
Nov 2018: +318K
Nov 2017: +245K
Nov 2016: +225K
As the numbers show this is the second worse year for construction job growth in the past decade. Only 2020 was worse.
Why should I care about moving averages when we just shocked the system?