The U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI)® February 2021 Share Article U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index Revised to 81.58, from Previous Month - Reflecting a Lower Proportion of Low Quality Production and Non-Supervisory Jobs Relative to the Total of All Such Jobs. More workers in Low Quality jobs who were laid off during the peak crisis months, returned to their jobs starting in mid-year and through the fall of 2020, were again laid off in November 2020 through January 2021. This trend dramatically reversed itself in February. NEW YORK (PRWEB) March 05, 2021 Following the release of the Employment Situation Report for February 2021 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI)® has been revised to a level of 81.58, up by 0.67% from its revised level one month earlier and reflecting a lower proportion - relative to the prior month - of U.S. production and non-supervisory (P&NS) jobs paying less than the mean weekly income of all P&NS jobs (“Low Quality Jobs”), relative to those jobs paying above such mean. This rise is likely to reverse itself in the JQI for February 2021, given today’s broader data. The JQI remains heavily impacted by the extraordinary disruption in the number and composition of private sector production and non-supervisory jobs since the beginning of the U.S. impact of the COVID19 global pandemic, with regard to which the following additional special factors should be noted: