June 2024

Current Level is 82.45 | Change From Last Month -0.03%

Graph of the JQI from Inception. Shows an overall downward trend, with an uptick in trend since March 2010

Based on JQI data report as of July 5, 2024.


About the JQI

The U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI) assesses job quality in the United States by measuring desirable higher-wage/higher-hour jobs versus lower-wage/lower-hour jobs. The JQI results also may serve as a proxy for the overall health of the U.S. jobs market, since the index enables month-by-month tracking of the direction and degree of change in high-to-low job composition.

By tracking this information, policymakers and financial market participants can be more fully informed of past developments, current trends, and likely future developments in the absence of policy intervention. Economists and international organizations have in recent years developed other, complementary conceptions of job quality such as those addressing the emotional satisfaction employees derive from their jobs.

For the purposes of this JQI, “job quality” means the weekly dollar-income a job generates for an employee. Payment, after all, is a primary reason why people work: the income generated by a job being necessary to maintain a standard of living, to provide for the essentials of life and, hopefully, to save for retirement, among other things.

JQ-Instant

Chart of the JQI Instant; shows the percent of total high quality vs low quality jobs.

JQI Explainer Video

The U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index Explanatory Slide Deck

Download a PDF of the slide deck from JQI

Media Mentions

+ April 2024
+ March 2022
+ June 2021
+ February 2021
+ January 2021
+ December 2020
+ November 2020
+ October 2020
+ September 2020
+ August 2020
+ July 2020
+ June 2020
+ May 2020
+ April 2020
+ March 2020
+ February 2020
+ January 2020
+ December 2019

Monthly JQI Releases

JQI White Paper

View or download the JQI White Paper [PDF]

JQI Team

Contact Us: mgt-jqi@buffalo.edu

UB School of Management

UB College of Arts and Sciences

UB Law School

Aalto University

Leeds School of Business at CU Boulder

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

JQI Affiliated Adjunct Faculty

  • Daniel Alpert | Managing Partner, Westwood Capital LLC and Affiliates
  • Jeffrey Ferry | Chief Economist, Coalition For A Prosperous America
  • Amanda Mayoral | Economist, Coalition For A Prosperous America

Current Students

Former Students

JQI Board of Managers

  • Daniel Alpert | Managing Partner, Westwood Capital LLC and Affiliates
  • Marc Fasteau | President, Fulcrum Partners LLC
  • Gregg Fisher | Founder, Quent Capital
  • Michael Stumo | CEO, Coalition For A Prosperous America

The JQI is a development of a consortium of the following institutions:

Our Partners

Coalition for a Prosperours America
Rally Point Strategies Logo
Quent Capital Logo
Caparo Technologies Inc
3 Zero Creative logo

The University at Buffalo School of Management logo and name used with permission.