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Bureau of Labor Statistics > Current Employment Statistics > Data > Employment and Earnings Tables

October 2019 ‐ Summary table B. Employment, hours, and earnings, seasonally adjusted

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category	Oct. 2018	Nov. 2018	Dec. 2018	Jan. 2019	Feb. 2019	Mar. 2019	Apr. 2019	May 2019	June 2019	July 2019	Aug. 2019	Sept. 2019(p)	Oct. 2019(p)
EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY (Over-the-month change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	277	196	227	312	56	153	216	62	178	166	219	180	128
Total private	285	200	224	297	46	153	195	81	161	122	163	167	131
Goods-producing	60	29	40	80	-19	13	37	5	27	-4	4	7	-26
Mining and logging	6	-3	4	7	-4	1	0	2	-2	-5	-5	1	0
Construction	25	5	16	56	-23	15	34	1	19	-3	7	11	10
Manufacturing	29	27	20	17	8	-3	3	2	10	4	2	-5	-36
Durable goods(1)	19	16	14	19	5	-6	1	3	9	2	-2	-6	-41
Motor vehicles and parts	7.1	-1.9	1.2	-1.1	1.5	-6.6	-2.5	2.0	-2.0	-2.4	-2.6	-3.5	-41.6
Nondurable goods	10	11	6	-2	3	3	2	-1	1	2	4	1	5
Private service-providing	225	171	184	217	65	140	158	76	134	126	159	160	157
Wholesale trade	6.7	11.3	12.5	7.8	12.5	0.1	8.1	5.4	-1.1	5.2	2.4	7.1	10.8
Retail trade	-9.9	32.5	-5.9	9.3	-13.7	-14.8	-14.8	-12.2	-12.0	-2.0	-1.3	6.7	6.1
Transportation and warehousing	24.3	23.6	-1.1	30.2	-6.3	-3.3	8.4	3.4	20.2	-0.7	-7.6	6.3	9.9
Utilities	1.4	0.3	-0.2	0.3	-1.3	1.1	-2.4	1.1	1.2	-0.8	-0.9	-1.3	-1.4
Information	10	-3	-2	-12	-7	4	-6	9	13	-2	-4	4	-4
Financial activities	14	3	1	6	5	11	14	5	3	19	17	8	16
Professional and business services(1)	55	34	37	5	54	19	55	21	43	37	38	37	22
Temporary help services	14.3	1.3	13.5	-26.3	7.0	-10.5	4.3	-2.0	-2.9	-10.5	9.5	20.1	-8.1
Education and health services(1)	37	29	67	68	19	72	71	34	48	76	63	49	39
Health care and social assistance	46.7	36.6	52.9	41.7	35.8	67.3	57.5	28.2	39.9	46.9	54.8	44.8	34.2
Leisure and hospitality	79	39	65	93	-1	32	9	12	4	-13	48	45	61
Other services	7	1	11	9	4	19	16	-3	15	7	5	-2	-3
Government	-8	-4	3	15	10	0	21	-19	17	44	56	13	-3

(3-month average change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	222	194	233	245	198	174	142	144	152	135	188	188	176
Total private	213	198	236	240	189	165	131	143	146	121	149	151	154

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES(2) AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES
Total nonfarm women employees	49.7	49.7	49.7	49.7	49.8	49.8	49.8	49.9	49.8	49.9	49.9	49.9	49.9
Total private women employees	48.3	48.3	48.3	48.3	48.4	48.4	48.4	48.5	48.5	48.5	48.5	48.6	48.6
Total private production and nonsupervisory employees	82.4	82.4	82.4	82.4	82.4	82.4	82.3	82.4	82.3	82.3	82.3	82.3	82.2

HOURS AND EARNINGS ALL EMPLOYEES
Total private
Average weekly hours	34.5	34.4	34.5	34.5	34.4	34.5	34.4	34.4	34.4	34.3	34.4	34.4	34.4
Average hourly earnings	$27.35	$27.43	$27.53	$27.56	$27.66	$27.71	$27.75	$27.82	$27.91	$27.99	$28.11	$28.12	$28.18
Average weekly earnings	$943.58	$943.59	$949.79	$950.82	$951.50	$956.00	$954.60	$957.01	$960.10	$960.06	$966.98	$967.33	$969.39
Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)	110.3	110.1	110.7	110.9	110.6	111.1	110.9	111.0	111.1	110.9	111.4	111.5	111.6
Over-the-month percent change	0.3	-0.2	0.5	0.2	-0.3	0.5	-0.2	0.1	0.1	-0.2	0.5	0.1	0.1
Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)	144.2	144.4	145.6	146.1	146.3	147.1	147.2	147.6	148.3	148.4	149.7	149.9	150.4
Over-the-month percent change	0.4	0.1	0.8	0.3	0.1	0.5	0.1	0.3	0.5	0.1	0.9	0.1	0.3

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)
Total Private
Over 1-month span	67.4	61.6	65.9	59.1	58.1	58.1	58.9	54.8	59.9	58.1	55.8	55.4	55.4
Over 3-month span	66.9	69.4	70.9	68.0	67.4	63.0	58.1	60.3	61.4	60.7	62.6	56.8	60.3
Over 6-month span	76.7	76.4	74.6	74.0	71.7	70.9	67.2	68.4	61.4	60.1	63.6	63.0	62.2
Over 12-month span	76.2	78.7	77.1	77.7	76.4	74.0	75.6	72.5	71.1	69.8	68.6	67.4	68.8
Manufacturing
Over 1-month span	59.9	65.8	65.1	57.9	52.6	53.9	52.0	50.0	59.9	52.6	48.7	40.8	43.4
Over 3-month span	65.8	71.7	68.4	67.8	61.2	53.9	54.6	50.0	59.9	55.3	59.2	43.4	46.7
Over 6-month span	74.3	74.3	75.7	73.0	71.1	64.5	62.5	62.5	57.9	54.6	55.9	55.3	44.7
Over 12-month span	74.3	80.3	79.6	76.3	79.6	74.3	75.7	70.4	69.7	68.4	69.7	67.8	61.8
Footnotes (1) Includes other industries, not shown separately. (2) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. (3) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding annual average aggregate hours. (4) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. (5) Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with increasing and decreasing employment. Based on seasonally adjusted data for 1-, 3-, 6-month spans and unadjusted data for the 12-month span. (p) Preliminary
NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2018 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

Last Modified Date: November 1, 2019