How to read the non farm payroll numbers

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Originally Posted by Sweet Pip

and so then the change number represent a change in dollar value from the last time it was totaled? ...Is that on the right track?

yea, something like that, expect I think the number reps the number of employees in the states instead of the numbers
investopedia.com/terms/n/nonfarmpayroll.asp

in the recent years the number has always been negative due to the recession. At first i thought the number was all supposed to be negative which was the reason that didn't make any sense to me. then i realized that its because we are in another depression

[Tomo1]

It is the news that has caused the more fluctuations in the market!
It is very watched by traders. It is reflective of the job market in the US exept from the agricultural sector, therefore the higher the number is the better it is for the US economy.