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August employment surged by 162,000, drawing renewed attention to US inflation pressure.

August employment surged by 162,000, drawing renewed attention to US inflation pressure.

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September 5th, 2026

August employment surged by 162,000, drawing renewed attention to US inflation pressure.

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The U.S. Department of Labor said that nonfarm jobs increased by 162,000 in August.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋…ธ๋™๋ถ€๋Š” 8์›”์— ๋น„๋†์—… ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ 16๋งŒ 2์ฒœ ๊ฐœ ๋Š˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This number is much higher than the experts' prediction of 65,000.

์ด๋Š” ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜์ธ 6๋งŒ 5์ฒœ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์›ƒ๋„๋Š” ์ˆ˜์น˜๋‹ค.

The unemployment rate stayed low at 4.1 percent.

์‹ค์—…๋ฅ ์€ 4.1%๋กœ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The Department also corrected its earlier reports. It said that June and July had 55,000 more jobs than first announced.

๋…ธ๋™๋ถ€๋Š” 6์›”๊ณผ 7์›” ๊ณ ์šฉ๋„ ๋‹น์ดˆ ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋ณด๋‹ค 5๋งŒ 5์ฒœ ๊ฐœ ๋งŽ์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

President Donald Trump welcomed this jobs report.

๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ณ ์šฉ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ํ™˜์˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

On social media, he said the job numbers beat all expectations, adding, "We have not peaked yet."

๊ทธ๋Š” ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์—์„œ ๊ณ ์šฉ ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์˜ˆ์ƒ์„ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋„˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉฐ โ€œ์•„์ง ์ตœ๊ณ ์กฐ๋Š” ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

But rising prices are still a heavy burden for businesses and households.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์Šน์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ธฐ์—…๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๊ณ„์˜ ํฐ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ด๋‹ค.

Last month, average hourly pay rose only 3.1% from a year earlier, the slowest increase since May 2021.

์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ ํ‰๊ท  ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋‹น ์ž„๊ธˆ์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 3.1% ์˜ค๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ทธ์ณ 2021๋…„ 5์›” ์ดํ›„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์œจ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

By industry, restaurants and bars added 59,000 jobs, construction added 22,000, and manufacturing added 16,000.

์—…์ข…๋ณ„๋กœ๋Š” ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘๊ณผ ๋ฐ”๊ฐ€ 5๋งŒ 9์ฒœ ๊ฐœ, ๊ฑด์„ค์—…์ด 2๋งŒ 2์ฒœ ๊ฐœ, ์ œ์กฐ์—…์ด 1๋งŒ 6์ฒœ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The labor force fell in June and July, but it jumped by 683,000 in August.

๊ฒฝ์ œํ™œ๋™์ธ๊ตฌ๋Š” 6์›”๊ณผ 7์›” ๊ฐ์†Œ ํ›„ 8์›”์— 68๋งŒ 3์ฒœ ๋ช… ๊ธ‰์ฆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

KPMG chief economist Diane Swonk called the report "amazing. It feels like a midsummer heat wave."

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

However, some economists said the August rebound only came from a desire to make up for the weak previous three months.

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

This jobs report could make it more likely that the Fed will raise its key interest rate. This could happen in September.

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

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said inflation is still above the 2% target. If there is no more progress, the Fed has "work to do."

์ œ๋กฌ ํŒŒ์›” ์—ฐ์ค€ ์˜์žฅ์€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ 2% ๋ชฉํ‘œ์น˜๋ฅผ ์›ƒ๋ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉฐ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ง„์ „์ด ์—†์œผ๋ฉด ์—ฐ์ค€์ด โ€œํ•  ์ผ์ด ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The information industry lost 23,000 jobs last month. Analysts say AI replaced human work.

ํ•œํŽธ ์ •๋ณด ์‚ฐ์—…์—์„œ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ 2๋งŒ 3์ฒœ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ค„์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ(AI)์ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ์ผ์„ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋กœ ๋ถ„์„๋œ๋‹ค.

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