Mortgage Daily Mortgage Employment Index Q1 2016

DALLAS, July 25, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Quarterly hirings in the Motor City helped Michigan secure the biggest gains in mortgage employment, while the nation's biggest home lender was behind the state with the most mortgage job losses.

As of March 31 of this year, there were an estimated 624,800 people who were employed in the mortgage industry. 

The total is based on a Mortgage Daily analysis of origination market share data and data reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Jobs in real estate finance were trimmed from year-end 2015, when an estimated 626,500 employees held jobs at mortgage firms. 

But headcount expanded from the end of the first quarter of last year, when the estimated total was an upwardly revised 594,000.

More recently, the number of positions at mortgage employers totaled an estimated 631,100 as of May 2016.

The first-quarter 2016 total reflected an estimated 268,400 mortgage jobs at banks, 57,900 home-lending employees at credit unions and 298,500 positions at non-bank mortgage firms.

Estimated Mortgage Staffing by Quarter

Type		Q1 2016		Q4 2015		Q1 2015
Banks		268,400		261,800		261,200
Credit Unions		57,900		63,700		47,000
Non-Banks		298,500		301,000		285,800
Total		624,800		626,500		594,000

Mortgage Daily tracked 3,816 layoffs as part of its First Quarter 2016 Mortgage Employment Index, while 3,978 hirings were tracked for the same period.

The job activity was collected through public company filings, announcements and statements from lenders, and filings made with state employment agencies as required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.

There were 1,029 more hirings than layoffs tracked in Michigan, giving it the biggest mortgage job gains of any state. 

Activity in Michigan was driven by Quicken Loans Inc., which is headquartered in Detroit.

Biggest Gains by State Q1 2016

State		Net
Michigan		+1,029
South Carolina		+350
Rhode Island		+35
Arizona		+25
Utah		+25

In North Carolina, mortgage layoffs exceeded mortgage hirings by 551, the biggest first-quarter loss of any state. 

Wells Fargo & Co., which picked up significant operations in Charlotte with its 2008 acquisition of Wachovia Corp., was behind many of the job losses in North Carolina. Biggest Losses by State Q1 2016

State		Net
North Carolina		-551
Colorado		-415
California		-373
Pennsylvania		-76
Indiana		-13

Quicken Loans, the nation's third-biggest home lender, had 2,000 more hirings than it did layoffs -- the best record of any U.S. company.

Biggest Gains by Company Q1 2016

Company		Net
Quicken Loans		+2,000
Movement Mortgage LLC		+358
Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp.		+277
loanDepot LLC		+200
ResMac Inc.		+133

Wells Fargo, the largest mortgage originator and mortgage servicer in the country, had the biggest quarterly loss of mortgage jobs of any firm tracked: 743.

Biggest Losses by Company Q1 2016

Company		Net
Wells Fargo		-743
Ocwen Financial Corp.		-634
W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital LLC		-500
Bank of America Corp.		-400
Home Retention Services Inc.		-255

Full Q1 2016 report is available to subscribers: www.MortgageDaily.com/stories/MortgageEmploymentIndex072516.asp?spcode=pr Historical Mortgage Employment Index data is at: http://www.mortgagedaily.com/MortgageEmploymentIndex.asp?spcode=pr Mortgage employment news: http://www.mortgagedaily.com/MortgageEmployment.asp?spcode=pr About Mortgage Daily Founded in 1998 by 20-year mortgage industry veteran Sam Garcia, Mortgage Daily is a leading online source of mortgage news and mortgage statistics. Mortgage Daily also publishes the Mortgage Market Index and a ranking of the biggest lenders. Visit Mortgage Daily at www.MortgageDaily.com.

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Source: Mortgage Daily

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