As is always the case this time of year, appropriately so to be sure, the media is flooded with recaps of the prior year and forecasts about the year ahead. It’s one of the great aspects of the New Year and we’re certainly no exception in both consuming and generating them.

We’ll hold off on our annual predictions until after we get December’s jobs report later this week, but the following post provides our final NFP forecast for 2025 as well as a broad overview of our take on where the job market has been, where we think it’s headed,