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      "peak": 536.8,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 3700,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 0.69,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2003,
      "october": 545.1,
      "peak": 550.7,
      "peakMonth": "November",
      "seasonalHires": 5600,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 1.03,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2004,
      "october": 583.7,
      "peak": 586.9,
      "peakMonth": "November",
      "seasonalHires": 3200,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 0.55,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2005,
      "october": 618.5,
      "peak": 629.2,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 10700,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 1.73,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2006,
      "october": 659.5,
      "peak": 670.6,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 11100,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 1.68,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2007,
      "october": 688.8,
      "peak": 692.9,
      "peakMonth": "November",
      "seasonalHires": 4100,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 0.6,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2008,
      "october": 680.4,
      "peak": 680.2,
      "peakMonth": "November",
      "seasonalHires": -200,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": -0.03,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2009,
      "october": 637.4,
      "peak": 640.8,
      "peakMonth": "November",
      "seasonalHires": 3400,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 0.53,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2010,
      "october": 650,
      "peak": 658.5,
      "peakMonth": "November",
      "seasonalHires": 8500,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 1.31,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2011,
      "october": 673.1,
      "peak": 681,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 7900,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 1.17,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2012,
      "october": 712.5,
      "peak": 728.5,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 16000,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 2.25,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2013,
      "october": 734,
      "peak": 746.7,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 12700,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 1.73,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2014,
      "october": 778.3,
      "peak": 799,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 20700,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 2.66,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2015,
      "october": 874.9,
      "peak": 908.6,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 33700,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 3.85,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2016,
      "october": 968.5,
      "peak": 997.6,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 29100,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 3,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2017,
      "october": 1074.8,
      "peak": 1120,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 45200,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 4.21,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2018,
      "october": 1182.9,
      "peak": 1205.7,
      "peakMonth": "November",
      "seasonalHires": 22800,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 1.93,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2019,
      "october": 1283.4,
      "peak": 1322,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 38600,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 3.01,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2020,
      "october": 1536.2,
      "peak": 1615.9,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 79700,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 5.19,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2021,
      "october": 1830.6,
      "peak": 1897.4,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 66800,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 3.65,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2022,
      "october": 1921.9,
      "peak": 1922.4,
      "peakMonth": "November",
      "seasonalHires": 500,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 0.03,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "october": 1853.2,
      "peak": 1873.7,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 20500,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 1.11,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "october": 1901.1,
      "peak": 1924.5,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 23400,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 1.23,
      "complete": true
    },
    {
      "year": 2025,
      "october": 1873.4,
      "peak": 1882.2,
      "peakMonth": "November",
      "seasonalHires": 8800,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 0.47,
      "complete": true
    }
  ],
  "latestCompleteSeason": {
    "year": 2025,
    "october": 15444.5,
    "peak": 15807.1,
    "peakMonth": "December",
    "seasonalHires": 362600,
    "shareOfOctoberBase": 2.35,
    "complete": true
  },
  "ranking": {
    "yearsCovered": 87,
    "rankOfLatestWeakestFirst": 11,
    "weakestSeason": {
      "year": 1974,
      "october": 8671.9,
      "peak": 8935,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 263100,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 3.03,
      "complete": true
    },
    "strongestSeason": {
      "year": 1999,
      "october": 15116.1,
      "peak": 15792.2,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 676100,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 4.47,
      "complete": true
    },
    "mostRecentWeakerSeason": 2008,
    "yearsSinceWeaker": 17,
    "rankOfLatestByShareWeakestFirst": 2,
    "weakestByShare": {
      "year": 2008,
      "october": 15099.7,
      "peak": 15385.2,
      "peakMonth": "December",
      "seasonalHires": 285500,
      "shareOfOctoberBase": 1.89,
      "complete": true
    },
    "mostRecentWeakerByShare": 2008,
    "everWeakerByShare": true
  },
  "incompleteSeasons": [],
  "caveats": [
    "Retail trade only; warehousing and courier hiring is not in this series and is pulled alongside for comparison.",
    "Net change, not gross hires — a store hiring twenty and losing five shows as fifteen.",
    "Series come from the BLS flat files rather than the JSON API, which caps unregistered callers at 25 requests a day and truncates ranges beyond ten years.",
    "A season is complete only once December is published; the current year is reported separately and not ranked.",
    "Challenger, Gray & Christmas counts announced hiring plans, which is a different quantity from payroll counts and is not comparable to these figures."
  ]
}