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Data Download: Weekly Pay Loss Rate

Morning Consult's Pay Loss Rate provides a weekly measure of U.S. layoffs and hour reductions across a wide range of demographic, regional and industry cohorts.
October 19, 2025 at 12:48 pm UTC

Morning Consult’s Pay Loss Rate provides a weekly measure of U.S. layoffs and hour reductions across a wide range of demographic, regional, and industry cohorts. This data helps business and economic leaders monitor workforce disruptions in real time and better anticipate shifts in consumer demand.

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U.S. Lost Pay and Income Data File – October 11, 2025
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John Leer
Chief Economist

John Leer leads Morning Consult’s global economic research, overseeing the company’s economic data collection, validation and analysis. He is an authority on the effects of consumer preferences, expectations and experiences on purchasing patterns, prices and employment.

John continues to advance scholarship in the field of economics, recently partnering with researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland to design a new approach to measuring consumers’ inflation expectations.

This novel approach, now known as the Indirect Consumer Inflation Expectations measure, leverages Morning Consult’s high-frequency survey data to capture unique insights into consumers’ expectations for future inflation.

Prior to Morning Consult, John worked for Promontory Financial Group, offering strategic solutions to financial services firms on matters including credit risk modeling and management, corporate governance, and compliance risk management.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and philosophy with honors from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in economics and management studies (MEMS) from Humboldt University in Berlin. 

His analysis has been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The Washington Post, The Economist and more.

Follow him on Twitter @JohnCLeer. For speaking opportunities and booking requests, please email [email protected]

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