Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing: NAICS 316

About the Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing subsector

The leather and allied product manufacturing subsector is part of the manufacturing sector.

The leather and allied product manufacturing subsector consists of these industry groups:

• Leather and Hide Tanning and Finishing: NAICS 3161
• Footwear Manufacturing: NAICS 3162
• Other Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing: NAICS 3169

Workforce Statistics

This section presents an overview of the leather and allied product manufacturing industry, including mass layoffs, data for occupations common to the industry, and projections of occupational employment change.

Layoffs

Data series	Back data	Dec. 2012	Jan. 2013	Feb. 2013	Mar. 2013
Layoffs
Mass layoff events		(1) -	4	3	(1) -
Initial claimants for unemployment benefits		(1) -	485	227	(1) -
Footnotes (1) Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.

(Source: Mass Layoff Statistics)

Extended Mass Layoffs

Data series	Back data	2nd quarter 2012	3rd quarter 2012	4th quarter 2012	1st quarter 2013
Extended mass layoff events		(1) -	(1) -	(P) -	(P) 3
Separations		(1) -	(1) -	(P) -	(P) 258
Initial claimants		(1) -	(1) -	(P) -	(P) 256
Footnotes (1) Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards. (P) Preliminary

(Source: Mass Layoff Statistics)

Employment by Occupation

Data series	Employment, 2012
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	900
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers	470
Sewing machine operators	5,110
Shoe and leather workers and repairers	2,730
Team assemblers	1,080

(Source: Occupational Employment Statistics)

Projections

For projected (future) employment estimates, see the National Employment Matrix, which includes employment estimates by industry and occupation for leather and allied product manufacturing.

(Source: Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections)

Wages

This section presents data on recent hourly and annual wages for occupations commonly found in beverage and tobbaco product manufacturing.

Wages by Occupation

Data series	Wages, 2012
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	$21.42	$22.56	$44,550	$46,930
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers	$13.45	$14.64	$27,970	$30,460
Sewing machine operators	$9.51	$10.55	$19,790	$21,940
Shoe and leather workers and repairers	$11.85	$12.91	$24,650	$26,850
Team assemblers	$12.52	$12.52	$26,040	$26,040

(Source: Occupational Employment Statistics)

Work-related Fatalities, Injuries, and Illnesses

This section presents data for the industry on the number of workplace fatalities and the rates of workplace injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers in leather and allied product manufacturing. An injury or illness is considered to be work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the resulting condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition.

Data series	2008	2009	2010	2011
Fatalities
Number of fatalities
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	5.8	6.2	5.0	6.1
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	3.2	3.4	2.6	3.4
Cases involving days away from work	1.4	0.9	0.9	1.7
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	1.8	2.5	1.7	1.7
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.

(Source: Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities)

Prices

This section provides industry-specific pricing information. The producer price index measures the percentage change in prices that domestic producers receive for goods and services. The prices included in the producer price index are from the first commercial transaction. The import price index reflects the percentage change in prices paid to foreign producers for their goods and services within the U.S.

Data series	Back data	Jan. 2013	Feb. 2013	Mar. 2013	Apr. 2013
Producer price index		(P) 171.5	(P) 172.4	(P) 174.0	(P) 173.5
Percent change from previous month		(P) 1.2%	(P) 0.5%	(P) 0.9%	(P) -0.3%
Import index		(R) 121.1	121.2	121.3	121.5
Percent change from previous month		(R) 0.2%	(R) 0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
Footnotes (R) Revised (P) Preliminary

(Source: Producer Price Indexes, International Price Program)

Workplace Trends

This section presents data on the number of establishments in leather and allied product manufacturing. Also included in this section is information on productivity, presented as the rate of change in output per hour of workers in the industry.

Establishments

Data series	Back data	4th quarter 2011	1st quarter 2012	2nd quarter 2012	3rd quarter 2012
Number of establishments
Private industry		1,253	(P) 1,233	(P) 1,255	(P) 1,264
Local government
Footnotes (P) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity

Data series	Back data	2008	2009	2010	2011
Labor productivity index, output per hour		130.632	121.717	134.045	133.613
Percent change from previous year		4.2	-6.8	10.1	-0.3
Labor index, total labor hours		60.550	52.993	54.628	55.076
Percent change from previous year		-9.0	-12.5	3.1	0.8
Output index		79.098	64.502	73.227	73.588
Percent change from previous year		-5.1	-18.5	13.5	0.5
Unit labor costs index		112.884	117.456	106.682	108.858
Percent change from previous year		2.0	4.1	-9.2	2.0

(Source: Productivity and Costs)

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Data extracted on: May 21, 2013