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Current

• Quarterly Data on Business Employment Dynamics (HTML) (PDF) -- this release includes updates for the private sector as a whole and for firm size classes.
• Quarterly Data From BLS on Business Employment Dynamics by State (TXT) (PDF) -- State-level Business Employment Dynamics.
• Firm Size Class Quarterly Data (HTML) (PDF) -- this initial release of firm size class data includes analysis of data series that begin in 1992.
• County Employment and Wages (HTML) (PDF)
• Subscribe to the BLS News Service-- receive the Quarterly Data on Business Employment Dynamics news releases by e-mail.

Archived

• Archived Business Employment Dynamics Releases (4th Quarter, 2002 forward)

• NOTE: With the release of first quarter 2007 data, all historical Business Employment Dynamics series back to third quarter 1992 have been revised, for both seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted series to incorporate updated and improved input data. The differences between the revised and previously published Business Employment Dynamics data series are available for national data. (See Revisions to Historical Business Employment Dynamics Data) The differences for industry and size class data series may be obtained upon request by email.
• Firm Size Class Data: Questions and Answers
• Assessing the Timeliness of Business Births in BLS Establishment Statistics (PDF 71K)

• Most Requested Statistics -- select from lists of the most popular Business Employment Dynamics statistics.
• Create Customized Tables (multiple screens) -- a form-based query application which allows you to obtain BLS time series data based on choices you make.
• Series Report -- already know the series identifier for the statistic you want? Use this shortcut to retrieve your data.
• Flat files (FTP) -- for those who want it all. Download a flat file of the entire database or large subset of the database.

• Private sector gross job gains and gross job losses, seasonally adjusted, March 1997-June 2007
• Components of private sector gross job gains and gross job losses, seasonally adjusted, March 1997-June 2007
• Private sector firm level gross job gains and gross job losses, seasonally adjusted, March 1997-June 2007
• Components of private sector firm level gross job gains and gross job losses, seasonally adjusted, March 1997-June 2007

• Sheryl Konigsberg, "The Geospatial Distribution of Employment: A New Visual Asset." March 2007 Monthly Labor Review
• Jessica Helfand, Akbar Sadeghi and David Talan, "Employment Dynamics: Small and Large Firms Over the Business Cycle." March 2007 Monthly Labor Review
• Cordelia Okolie, "Why Size Class Methodology Matters in Analyses of Net and Gross Job Flows." July 2004 Monthly Labor Review
• R. Jason Faberman, "Gross Job Flows Over the Past Two Business Cycles: Not All 'Recoveries' are Created Equal." 2004 Working Paper
• James R. Spletzer, R. Jason Faberman, Akbar Sadeghi, David M. Talan, and Richard L. Clayton, "Business Employment Dynamics: New Data on Gross Job Gains and Losses." April 2004 Monthly Labor Review
• Joshua Pinkston and James Spletzer, "Annual Measures of Job Creation and Job Destruction Created from Quarterly Microdata."
• R. Jason Faberman, “Job flows and labor dynamics in the U.S. Rust Belt.” September 2002 Monthly Labor Review
• R. Jason Faberman, “Job Creation and Destruction within Washington and Baltimore.” September 2001 Monthly Labor Review
• Timothy R. Pivetz, Michael A. Searson, and James R. Spletzer, “Measuring Job and Establishment Flows with BLS Longitudinal Microdata.” April 2001 Monthly Labor Review

• Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages -- a quarterly count of employment and wages reported by employers covering 98 percent of U.S. jobs, available at the county, metropolitan area, state and national levels by industry.
• Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the CES survey (National) -- monthly national data by detailed industry on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on the payrolls of nonfarm establishments.
• Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the CES survey (State and Area) -- monthly data on employment, hours, and earnings by industry and geographic area.

• Wage and Hour Division of the Employment Standards Administration: Frequently Asked Questions --Answers to questions about wages, overtime, work hours, recordkeeping, and child labor.
• Colorado Business Employment Dynamics Data (PDF) -- by Michael Rose, Chief, Statistical Programs, Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. (Disclaimer: Links to non-BLS Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement.)

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