· May 21, 2025
Daniel Culbertson reports in Indeed Hiring Lab on mixed industry labor trends
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Daniel Culbertson’s update was published May 21, 2025. Drawing on Indeed data, the brief describes mixed employment trends across transportation, healthcare, retail, and business-to-business industries during the first quarter of 2025. In transportation, loading & stocking job postings fell while logistic support postings rose slightly over the past year; wage growth stagnated for driving occupations over most of the last six months. Healthcare job postings weakened in more categories, and wage growth slowed in most categories. Retail job postings declined while wage growth remained stable; retail and hospitality & tourism postings were below their pre-pandemic level. In business-to-business, postings declined in all categories except insurance, while software development wage growth gained ground in the last six months. Culbertson characterizes the broader labor market as generally steady and business-to-business trends as continued slowing without significant developments. The update highlights that posting and wage trends differ across industries and occupations; it does not explain why those differences occurred or establish what they mean for workers’ actual employment or pay.
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Original source date: May 21, 2025 (2025-05-21).
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Text as retrieved on October 30, 2026; originally published May 21, 2025. The brief summarizes trends in job postings and wage growth; it does not state what caused them or establish effects on actual employment or pay.
Open question
What explains the divergence between declining software development postings and gains in software development wage growth?
Source-stated
Culbertson says transportation trends were mixed, with loading & stocking postings down and logistic support postings slightly higher over the past year.
Logistic support job postings were up slightly over the past year, while warehousing continued to slow, with loading & stocking job postings down 17.2%.
Source-stated
Culbertson reports that healthcare postings and wage growth weakened across multiple categories.
The healthcare sector appears to be softening, as more categories see declines in job postings.
Source-stated
Culbertson says retail postings declined while wage growth was stable, and retail and hospitality & tourism postings were below their pre-pandemic level.
Trends in the retail vertical match those of the overall labor market — job posting declines but stable wage growth.
Source-stated
Culbertson reports posting declines in all business-to-business categories except insurance, alongside gains in software development wage growth.
All B2B categories except insurance have experienced job posting declines over the past year. Despite weakness in postings, software development wage growth has marked gains in the last six months.
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Indeed Hiring Lab
Indeed Hiring Lab is the economic research arm of the job site Indeed, publishing analyses of job postings, wages and hiring trends.
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Version 1 · 2026-11-13T23:43:23.281Z
Daniel Culbertson reports in Indeed Hiring Lab on mixed industry labor trends
Daniel Culbertson’s update was published May 21, 2025. Drawing on Indeed data, the brief describes mixed employment trends across transportation, healthcare, retail, and business-to-business industries during the first quarter of 2025. In transportation, loading & stocking job postings fell while logistic support postings rose slightly over the past year; wage growth stagnated for driving occupations over most of the last six months. Healthcare job postings weakened in more categories, and wage growth slowed in most categories. Retail job postings declined while wage growth remained stable; retail and hospitality & tourism postings were below their pre-pandemic level. In business-to-business, postings declined in all categories except insurance, while software development wage growth gained ground in the last six months. Culbertson characterizes the broader labor market as generally steady and business-to-business trends as continued slowing without significant developments. The update highlights that posting and wage trends differ across industries and occupations; it does not explain why those differences occurred or establish what they mean for workers’ actual employment or pay.
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Source details
Original source date: May 21, 2025 (2025-05-21).
Date basis: Date from the publisher’s archive: its article address or archive listing.
Added to Escape Meridian: 2026-11-13T23:43:23.281Z. First observed: 2026-10-30T23:16:11.852Z. Retrieved: 2026-10-30T23:17:48.417Z.
Limits
Text as retrieved on October 30, 2026; originally published May 21, 2025. The brief summarizes trends in job postings and wage growth; it does not state what caused them or establish effects on actual employment or pay.
Open question
What explains the divergence between declining software development postings and gains in software development wage growth?
Source-stated
Culbertson says transportation trends were mixed, with loading & stocking postings down and logistic support postings slightly higher over the past year.
Logistic support job postings were up slightly over the past year, while warehousing continued to slow, with loading & stocking job postings down 17.2%.
Source-stated
Culbertson reports that healthcare postings and wage growth weakened across multiple categories.
The healthcare sector appears to be softening, as more categories see declines in job postings.
Source-stated
Culbertson says retail postings declined while wage growth was stable, and retail and hospitality & tourism postings were below their pre-pandemic level.
Trends in the retail vertical match those of the overall labor market — job posting declines but stable wage growth.
Source-stated
Culbertson reports posting declines in all business-to-business categories except insurance, alongside gains in software development wage growth.
All B2B categories except insurance have experienced job posting declines over the past year. Despite weakness in postings, software development wage growth has marked gains in the last six months.
Source and contributor context
Indeed Hiring Lab · Publisher
The publisher is identified here. No individual author has been inferred.
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Terms and references
Reference context selected by Escape Meridian; separate from source evidence. Entity mentions do not establish authorship, involvement or endorsement.
Indeed Hiring Lab
Indeed Hiring Lab is the economic research arm of the job site Indeed, publishing analyses of job postings, wages and hiring trends.
Editorial provenance
Version 1. Publication ID: 027197e3-e440-3227-02f6-8148a6fa2da0.
Prepared by openai/gpt-6-luna; grounding review by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5.
Source check: passed by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 on 2026-11-13T23:38:42.447Z. This checks fidelity to the source, not whether its claims are independently true.
Editorial selection: accept; reasons: bridge_admitted_by_model.
Observation: 5c493546fbba8ab75e15491c4567efda4d43aa33a0809266d64fc56a73b8a1b6. Source text hash: 40e2b8e7ae63890f844b8e8a212aa8ddb93f88798aba90149604c44f2f241882.
passed · 2026-11-13T23:38:42.447Z · anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
Publication: 027197e3-e440-3227-02f6-8148a6fa2da0
attribution — pass: The reading attributes the brief to Daniel Culbertson at Indeed Hiring Lab, matching the byline. The page summarizes four one-sheets in the author's own words, so it counts as one piece rather than a bare listing.
By Daniel Culbertson May 21, 2025
summary — pass: The summary is readable without specialist background. It covers the mixed sector trends faithfully, including the steady broader market and the continued slowing in business-to-business. It also states what the brief does not establish. The question follows from the source's own contrast between weak postings and software development wage gains.
Despite weakness in postings, software development wage growth has marked gains in the last six months.
date — pass: May 21, 2025 matches the dateline at day precision. The page was modified June 11, 2025, but the cited passages are the brief's core sector summaries and are plainly part of the original piece. The reading does not use or rely on the carousel of related stories, and it notes the later retrieval date.
Quarterly Industry US Labor Market Updates: Q1 2025
support — pass: Each claim matches the source text: transportation postings, healthcare softening and slowing wage growth, retail declines with stable wages and below-pre-pandemic postings, and B2B declines except insurance. The reading adds no unsupported causal or impact claims.
Wage growth slowed in most categories across healthcare, with pay for dental occupations easing the most over the last six months.
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