Warehousing jobs saw a 38,000 increase in April, reflecting an industry that has been mostly on the upside.
The latest figures as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics reflects a larger trend that some studies have underlined, forecasting an overall jump of nearly 580,000 jobs in warehousing within the next decade.
The new warehousing numbers are part of a generally upbeat April report showing a strong 115,000 new jobs in all industries combined for last month, a figure that surpassed the expectations of most analysts.
Leading the way was the healthcare sector, posting a 37,000-job gain, well over the 32,000 monthly averages recorded since the spring of 2025. Within that sector, jobs in nursing and residential healthcare facilities were up by 15,000, while home healthcare services saw an 11,000 gain.
The retail trade sector was up by 22,000; with work in the social assistance field seeing 17,000 new jobs.
In the construction field, around 12,600 new jobs were posted in the nonresidential specialty trade contractor’s sector; along with 5,600 in nonresidential building. But those construction industry gains were to some degree offset by the loss of 10,400 jobs in the residential sector.
The latest overall figures, reports the New York Times, reveals a solid job market as “businesses shrugged off uncertainty brought on the by war in Iran and higher gas prices.”
The new numbers also reflect a societal change that has been underway for some time, says the Wall Street Journal: the increasing number of women in the workplace and declining number of men.
In the last 12 months, says the paper, “nearly all net job growth has come from healthcare and social assistance, a sector with a dearth of men. Sectors with heavily male workforces have been losing jobs.”
That trendline is so far least apparent in the construction, mining, and utilities industries, and most observable in, besides healthcare, the public administration and education industries.
Whether the job gainers were men or women, or what industries most showed the biggest employment increases, the White House celebrated the new figures as “smashing expectations.” Kush Desai, a White House spokesman, declared: “Every leading indicator is pointed in the right direction, and Americans can rest assured that the best is yet to come.”
Said Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling: “Despite doom-and-gloom rhetoric from pundits and economists, America’s economic comeback is clearly accelerating under President Trump.”
The nation’s unemployment rate, meanwhile, stood at 4.3% in April, the same figure recorded in March, and only slightly less than the 4.4% reported in February.
May 11, 2026
By Garry Boulard
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