How to Use nonfarm in a Sentence

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• For the first time, the Bay Area has more than 4.1 million nonfarm payroll jobs.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2019
• That would exempt the employers of about two-thirds of the nonfarm workers in the U.S.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
• This chart shows the monthly change in nonfarm payrolls compared with the same month last year.
  — Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2021
• Nonfarm payroll employment grew in 297 of the metro areas.
  — Diane Stafford, kansascity, 31 May 2017
• The leisure and hospitality sector, which used to employ more than a quarter of the region’s nonfarm workers, ground to a halt last spring.
  — Katherine Sayre, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2021
• July was the best month of the summer, with total nonfarm employment rising by more than 1 million.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
• The field’s average pay is 10.4 percent higher than that of all nonfarm private-sector jobs, AGC said.
  — Bill Zimmerman, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 May 2018
• That’s better than in the U.S. as a whole, where total nonfarm jobs in July were 3.7% below pre-pandemic levels.
  — Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2021
• In all, these firms employ nearly 1.2 million workers, or about 58 percent, of the state’s total nonfarm employment in the state.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 23 Oct. 2020
• The area now has a total of 4.09 million jobs, as measured by nonfarm payroll employment, according to the EDD’s figures.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 19 July 2019
• The increases in nonfarm payroll employment in July and August remained well above the pace likely to be sustainable in the longer run.
  — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Many of the new entrants have been women, who now make up a majority of the nonfarm payroll for the first time in nearly a decade and dominate sectors that are expanding fastest, like health care.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
• Just prior to the pandemic, America boasted 149 million nonfarm jobs, an all-time record.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2022
• Even though the jobless rate remains near a half-century low, year-over-year payroll jobs growth — which measures the percent increase in nonfarm jobs over the past 12 months -- already peaked at a three-year high of 1.9% in January.
  — CNN, 23 Sep. 2019
• In the services category, jobs in food services and drinking places rose by 1.4 million, accounting for about half of the gain in total nonfarm employment.
  — Danny Dougherty, WSJ, 5 June 2020
• Total nonfarm earnings in Connecticut were also the second worst in the country after Alaska.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
• The gender gap in unemployment has spiked due to the coronavirus, eliminating the gender parity in nonfarm payrolls that occurred briefly at the end of 2019.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2020
• Unemployment rates were higher and nonfarm payroll employment decreased in all 50 states and in the District of Columbia.
  — Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2020
• The dollar dropped as nonfarm payrolls missed expectations.
  — Maggie Day, Bloomberg.com, 2 June 2017
• Indeed, nonfarm private employment has risen for 87 months in a row and unemployment levels are at record lows, in a sign that Internet technologies have not in fact destroyed jobs.
  — Stephane Kasriel, Fortune, 27 July 2017
• While female employment has strengthened far faster among nonfarm animal caretakers than in most jobs, the gender pay gap has worsened slightly.
  — USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• A nonfarm business would have a cash expense offset by an identical increase in value of inventories.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Apr. 2017
• Instead, these households depend on nonfarm earnings, along with government payments.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2020
• Wisconsin Public Radio reported the rise in land values is driven by strong commodity prices, and demand from nonfarm buyers.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2021
• One of the most beneficial programs, Meter said, is Maine Farmland Trust, which helps protect farmland from nonfarm development with agricultural easements and ensures the land is sold at affordable rates to farmers.
  — Emilly Davis, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2020
• Market participants are awaiting the Labor Department’s nonfarm payrolls report for May, due out Friday.
  — Ira Iosebashvili, WSJ, 31 May 2018
• These include total employment, nonfarm employment, farm employment, and the share of farm employment as a percentage of total employment.
  — Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
• Texas tied for first in exports per capita, but failed to make the top five in GDP growth, startup activity, employment, nonfarm payrolls, government surplus, educational attainment of immigrants, jobs in high tech and patents.
  — Mark Collette, Houston Chronicle, 5 June 2018
• The Build Back Better agenda would hamstring a labor market that remains five million nonfarm jobs below its February 2020 levels and potentially reverse the economic recovery.
  — Casey B. Mulligan, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
• Since February, after Trump took office, the economy has gained nearly 1.7 million jobs, according to preliminary data on nonfarm payroll for November.
  — Nicole Lewis, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024