Wage growth is up in 2016, but still lags behind the cost of inflation. Good producing sector only produced about 5,000 new jobs in 2017. Government sector related jobs in healthcare, education and public administration created the line share of all new jobs. Job churning including part-time jobs are new norm. In 2016 there were 154,000 new part-time jobs. Most those part-time jobs are usually created in areas like retail, financial services and hospitality