BLS Jobs data - revisions

I've never personally understood posting numbers from the previous month so early if they are always so far off. Just wait until the data is more real? Like if they are posting job reports for a previous month a week or two after a month closes out and its garbage data, just wait a few more weeks?

Reminds me of monthly accounting close cycles. There are people in companies every single month trying to push and push and push up the process every day possible to get a month closed out, then once it gets to an unrealistic point you have to constantly open up the books to adjust previously closed periods for changes that pop up that are significant. It becomes a huge headache from an accounting point of view.to do stuff like that especially after you report a bunch of numbers.

So again, just wait till all the data is definitely good, why is there always such a rush to do stuff and then make it completely useless

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I've never personally understood posting numbers from the previous month so early if they are always so far off. Just wait until the data is more real?

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That is a legitimate concern. The problem with that is that the lag time between when the action occurred and the reporting of what took place becomes so great that people lose the ability to act on the data at all.
I collected data for a government entity and we ran into this question quite a bit. This came up often with bed tax and sales tax collections. Not all taxes are paid or collected in a timely matter, but businesses and government want to know how the economy is doing. We had a formula we used to report taxes for the previous month before all the taxes were collected and audited. We always had to do revisions, but bottom line is people want to know how July business was in August not in December.

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s someone who used that data on city, county, and state level I always found that data extremely reliable and valid. We conducted quite a bit of research through various industries each quarter that confirmed the data we were getting from the BLS particularly around seismic events like recession, hurricanes, and Covid.
The playbook says that anything MAGA doesn’t like is fake. It works on a certain demographic. 2k+ people work for the BLS, but we are expected to believe one person sits in an office and rigs the numbers for some sort of political bias.

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Sorry dude, the data is the data - it's been bad since Covid...i did identify a flaw in my calculation, I didn't take into account the variation it would make with both misses to the positive and the negative - so i've re-done just doing miss amount...prior to covid the std deviation of a 2 month revision was 28k and post covid it is 118k - not good and nothing to do with MAGA