Mid-Wage Work Comes Back as U.S. Moves Past Burger-Flipping Jobs

Ryan Kenny has been testing chainsaws for the last seven months and getting paid for it. He's an example of how America's earnings scale is becoming more balanced as employment expands in occupations within manufacturing, sales and construction that require greater skills. Hiring in such fields has increased 2.9 percent since the start of 2013, outpacing overall employment, according to research by JPMorgan Chase & Co. That marks a respite in a decades-long shrinking of the middle tier as payrolls picked up at the top end of the scale and in low-wage occupations such as food and retail services. "There's a hint of an end to job polarization," said Robert Mellman, a senior U.S. economist at JPMorgan in New York.

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