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August employment rose by 162,000, bringing new attention to US price pressure.

August employment rose by 162,000, bringing new attention to US price pressure.

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September 5th, 2026

August employment rose by 162,000, bringing new attention to US price pressure.

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The U.S. Labor Department said jobs grew by 162,000 in August.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋…ธ๋™๋ถ€๋Š” 8์›”์— ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ 16๋งŒ 2์ฒœ ๊ฐœ ๋Š˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Experts expected an increase of 65,000.

์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ 6๋งŒ 5์ฒœ ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

So the real number was much higher than expected.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์‹ค์ œ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋งŽ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The unemployment rate stayed low at 4.1 percent.

์‹ค์—…๋ฅ ์€ 4.1%๋กœ ๋‚ฎ๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The department also changed the June and July job numbers. It said they were 55,000 more than first reported.

๋…ธ๋™๋ถ€๋Š” 6์›”๊ณผ 7์›”์˜ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ณด๋‹ค 5๋งŒ 5์ฒœ ๊ฐœ ๋งŽ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ณ ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

President Donald Trump liked this report.

๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said on social media that the job numbers beat all expectations.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์—์„œ ๊ณ ์šฉ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์˜ˆ์ƒ์„ ๋„˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He also said, "It is not the peak yet."

๊ทธ๋Š” โ€œ์•„์ง ์ตœ๊ณ ์กฐ๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ ๋„ ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But rising prices are still a big burden for businesses and families.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์Šน์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ธฐ์—…๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์ •์— ํฐ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Last month, the average hourly wage rose 3.1% from a year ago.

์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ ํ‰๊ท  ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋‹น ์ž„๊ธˆ์€ 1๋…„ ์ „๋ณด๋‹ค 3.1% ์˜ฌ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This increase rate is the lowest since May 2021.

์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€์œจ์€ 2021๋…„ 5์›” ์ดํ›„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋‚ฎ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

By industry, restaurants and bars added 59,000 jobs.

์—…์ข…๋ณ„๋กœ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๋ฐ”๋Š” 5๋งŒ 9์ฒœ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Construction added 22,000, and manufacturing added 16,000.

๊ฑด์„ค์—…์€ 2๋งŒ 2์ฒœ ๊ฐœ, ์ œ์กฐ์—…์€ 1๋งŒ 6์ฒœ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The labor force fell in June and July.

๊ฒฝ์ œํ™œ๋™์ธ๊ตฌ๋Š” 6์›”๊ณผ 7์›”์— ์ค„์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But in August, it grew by 683,000 people.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ 8์›”์—๋Š” 68๋งŒ 3์ฒœ ๋ช…์ด ๋Š˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, called the report 'amazing. It is like a midsummer heat wave.'

KPMG์˜ ์ˆ˜์„ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ ๋‹ค์ด์•ค ์Šค์›กํฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ โ€œ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๋‹ค. ํ•œ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์˜ ํญ์—ผ ๊ฐ™๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But some economists say August's rebound is just payback for the weak three months before.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ 8์›”์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋“ฑ์ด ์ด์ „ 3๊ฐœ์›”์˜ ๋ถ€์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณด์ƒ์ผ ๋ฟ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

This jobs report can make it more likely that the Fed will raise its main interest rate at its September meeting.

์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ณ ์šฉ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์ค€๋น„์ œ๋„(Fed)๊ฐ€ 9์›” ํšŒ์˜์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ฆด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, said inflation is still higher than the 2% goal.

์ œ๋กฌ ํŒŒ์›” ์—ฐ์ค€ ์˜์žฅ์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ 2% ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋†’๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He said that without more progress, the Fed has "work to do."

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ง„์ „์ด ์—†์œผ๋ฉด ์—ฐ์ค€์ด โ€œํ•  ์ผ์ด ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In the information industry, 23,000 jobs were lost last month.

ํ•œํŽธ ์ •๋ณด ์‚ฐ์—…์—์„œ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ 2๋งŒ 3์ฒœ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ค„์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Experts see this as a result of artificial intelligence (AI) taking over people's jobs.

์ด๋Š” ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ(AI)์ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์ผ์„ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋กœ ๋ถ„์„๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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