Technical information: Household data: (202) 691-6378 USDL 07-1157 http://www.bls.gov/cps/ Establishment data: 691-6555 Transmission of material in this release http://www.bls.gov/ces/ is embargoed until 8:30 A.M. (EDT), Media contact: 691-5902 Friday, August 3, 2007. EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: JULY 2007 Nonfarm payroll employment continued to trend up (+92,000) in July, and the unemployment rate (4.6 percent) was essentially unchanged, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Employment grew in several service-providing industries. Average hourly earnings rose by 6 cents, or 0.3 percent. Unemployment (Household Survey Data) Both the number of unemployed persons (7.1 million) and the unemployment rate (4.6 percent) were about unchanged in July. The jobless rate has ranged from 4.4 to 4.6 percent since September 2006. In July, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.2 percent), teenagers (15.2 percent), whites (4.2 percent), blacks (8.0 percent), and Hispanics (5.9 percent) were little changed. The un- employment rate for adult women edged up to 4.1 percent. The unemployment rate for Asians was 3.0 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.) The number of persons unemployed 27 weeks and over rose by 188,000 to 1.3 million in July. This group accounted for 18.4 percent of total unemployment, up from 16.2 percent in June. (See table A-9.) The number of persons unemployed due to job loss rose by 253,000 in July. This group accounted for 50.9 percent of the unemployed, up from 48.7 percent a month earlier. (See table A-8.) Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data) In July, total employment (146.1 million) and the civilian labor force (153.2 million) were little changed. The employment-population ratio (63.0 percent) was about unchanged, and the labor force participation rate held at 66.1 percent. (See table A-1.) Persons Not in the Labor Force (Household Survey Data) Nearly 1.4 million persons (not seasonally adjusted) were marginally attached to the labor force in July, down by 146,000 from a year earlier. These individuals wanted and were available to work and had looked for a job sometime during the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. Among the marginally attached, there were 367,000 discouraged workers in July, about the same number as a year earlier. Discouraged work- ers were not currently looking for work specifically because they believed no jobs were available for them. The remaining 1.0 million persons marginally attached to the labor force in July had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey for reasons such as school attendance and family responsibilities. (See table A-13.) - 2 - Table A. Major indicators of labor market activity, seasonally adjusted (Numbers in thousands) _______________________________________________________________________________ | | | | Quarterly | | | averages | Monthly data | |_________________|__________________________| June- Category | | | July | 2007 | 2007 | change |_________________|__________________________| | | | | | | | I | II | May | June | July | ________________________|________|________|________|________|________|________ | HOUSEHOLD DATA | Labor force status |_____________________________________________________ | | | | | | Civilian labor force ....| 152,912| 152,807| 152,762| 153,072| 153,231| 159 Employment ............| 146,044| 145,956| 145,943| 146,140| 146,110| -30 Unemployment ..........| 6,869| 6,851| 6,819| 6,933| 7,121| 188 Not in labor force ......| 77,927| 78,675| 78,718| 78,641| 78,727| 86 |________|________|________|________|________|________ | | Unemployment rates |_____________________________________________________ | | | | | | All workers .............| 4.5| 4.5| 4.5| 4.5| 4.6| 0.1 Adult men .............| 4.1| 4.0| 4.0| 4.1| 4.2| .1 Adult women ...........| 3.9| 3.9| 3.8| 3.9| 4.1| .2 Teenagers .............| 14.8| 15.6| 15.7| 15.8| 15.2| -.6 White .................| 4.0| 4.0| 3.9| 4.0| 4.2| .2 Black or African | | | | | | American ............| 8.1| 8.4| 8.5| 8.5| 8.0| -.5 Hispanic or Latino | | | | | | ethnicity ...........| 5.4| 5.6| 5.8| 5.7| 5.9| .2 |________|________|________|________|________|________ | ESTABLISHMENT DATA | Employment |_____________________________________________________ | | | | | | Nonfarm employment.......| 137,447|p137,883| 137,904|p138,030|p138,122| p92 Goods-producing (1)....| 22,505| p22,448| 22,446| p22,439| p22,427| p-12 Construction ........| 7,684| p7,664| 7,659| p7,662| p7,650| p-12 Manufacturing .......| 14,111| p14,066| 14,069| p14,056| p14,054| p-2 Service-providing (1)..| 114,942|p115,435| 115,458|p115,591|p115,695| p104 Retail trade (2)...| 15,375| p15,384| 15,395| p15,381| p15,380| p-1 Professional and | | | | | | business services .| 17,826| p17,884| 17,893| p17,900| p17,926| p26 Education and health | | | | | | services ..........| 18,143| p18,299| 18,293| p18,357| p18,396| P39 Leisure and | | | | | | hospitality .......| 13,423| p13,529| 13,537| p13,570| P13,592| p22 Government ..........| 22,170| p22,240| 22,236| p22,255| p22,227| p-28 |________|________|________|________|________|________ | | Hours of work (3) |_____________________________________________________ | | | | | | Total private ...........| 33.8| p33.8| 33.8| p33.9| p33.8| p-0.1 Manufacturing .........| 41.0| p41.2| 41.1| p41.3| p41.3| p.0 Overtime ............| 4.2| p4.2| 4.1| p4.2| p4.2| p.0 |________|________|________|________|________|________ | | Indexes of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100)(3) |_____________________________________________________ | | | | | | Total private ...........| 106.8| p107.4| 107.3| p107.8| p107.7| p-0.1 |________|________|________|________|________|________ | | Earnings (3) |_____________________________________________________ Average hourly earnings, | | | | | | total private .........| $17.16| p$17.32| $17.32| p$17.39| p$17.45| p$0.06 Average weekly earnings, | | | | | | total private .........| 579.90| p586.00| 585.42| p589.52| p589.81| p.29 _________________________|________|________|________|________|________|________ 1 Includes other industries, not shown separately. 2 Quarterly averages and the over-the-month change are calculated using unrounded data. 3 Data relate to private production and nonsupervisory workers. p = preliminary. - 3 - Industry Payroll Employment (Establishment Survey Data) Total payroll employment continued to trend up in July (+92,000), reaching 138.1 mil- lion, seasonally adjusted. Thus far in 2007, employment has increased by an average of 136,000 per month, compared with an average monthly gain of 189,000 in 2006. Over the month, employment rose in several service-providing industries and changed little in the goods-producing industries. (See table B-1.) Health care employment grew by 36,000 in July, with gains of 9,000 jobs each in offices of physicians and in hospitals and 8,000 in home health care. Over the year, health care employment has expanded by 377,000. Employment in social assistance continued to trend up in July; the industry has added 99,000 jobs over the past 12 months. In financial activities, employment rose by 27,000 in July. Credit intermediation and related activities added 11,000 jobs over the month, offsetting a decline of a similar mag- nitude in June. Over the month, employment continued to grow in insurance carriers and re- lated activities (+6,000) and in securities, commodity contracts, and investments (+4,000). Over the year, these industries have added 42,000 and 32,000 jobs, respectively. Employment in food services and drinking places continued to trend up in July (+22,000). Job growth in this industry has averaged 29,000 per month in 2007, about the same as the average monthly increase in 2006. Over the month, wholesale trade employment continued to increase, while retail trade employment was unchanged. Within professional and business services, computer systems design and related services continued to grow, adding 15,000 jobs over the month. Business support services employment also rose in July (+9,000). Temporary help services employment continued to trend down (-7,000); this industry has lost 52,000 jobs so far in 2007. In the goods-producing sector, employment changed little in both manufacturing and con- struction in July. Manufacturing has lost 175,000 jobs over the past 12 months. Since its most recent peak in September, employment in construction has fallen by 75,000. - 4 - Weekly Hours (Establishment Survey Data) In July, the average workweek for production and nonsupervisory workers on private non- farm payrolls decreased by 0.1 hour to 33.8 hours, seasonally adjusted. Average weekly hours and overtime hours for factory workers were unchanged over the month. (See table B-2.) The index of aggregate weekly hours of production and nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls fell by 0.1 percent in July to 107.7 (2002=100). The manufacturing index was unchanged. (See table B-5.) Hourly and Weekly Earnings (Establishment Survey Data) Average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm pay- rolls increased by 6 cents, or 0.3 percent, in July to $17.45, seasonally adjusted. This increase followed gains of 7 cents in both May and June. Average weekly earnings were lit- tle changed over the month at $589.81. Over the year, average hourly earnings rose by 3.9 percent while weekly earnings rose by 3.6 percent. (See table B-3.) ______________________________ The Employment Situation for August 2007 is scheduled to be released on Friday, September 7, at 8:30 A.M. (EDT). - 5 - Frequently Asked Questions about Employment and Unemployment Estimates Why are there two monthly measures of employment? The household survey and establishment survey both produce sample-based estimates of employment and both have strengths and limitations. The estab- lishment survey employment series has a smaller margin of error on the mea- surement of month-to-month change than the household survey because of its much larger sample size. An over-the-month employment change of 104,000 is statistically significant in the establishment survey, while the threshold for a statistically significant change in the household survey is about 400,000. However, the household survey has a more expansive scope than the establishment survey because it includes the self-employed, unpaid family workers, agricul- tural workers, and private household workers, who are excluded by the estab- lishment survey. The household survey also provides estimates of employment for demographic groups. Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys? Neither the establishment nor household survey is designed to identify the legal status of workers. Thus, while it is likely that both surveys include at least some undocumented immigrants, it is not possible to determine how many are counted in either survey. The household survey does include questions about whether respondents were born outside the United States. Data from these ques- tions show that foreign-born workers accounted for about 15 percent of the labor force in 2006 and about 47 percent of the net increase in the labor force from 2000 to 2006. Why does the establishment survey have revisions? The establishment survey revises published estimates to improve its data series by incorporating additional information that was not available at the time of the initial publication of the estimates. The establishment survey revises its initial monthly estimates twice, in the immediately succeeding 2 months, to incorporate additional sample receipts from respondents in the survey. For more information on the monthly revisions, please visit http://www.bls.gov/ces/cesrevinfo.htm. On an annual basis, the establishment survey incorporates a benchmark revision that re-anchors estimates to nearly complete employment counts available from unemployment insurance tax records. The benchmark helps to control for sampling and modeling errors in the estimates. For more infor- mation on the annual benchmark revision, please visit http://www.bls.gov/ web/cesbmart.htm. Has the establishment survey understated employment growth because it excludes the self-employed? While the establishment survey excludes the self-employed, the household survey provides monthly estimates of unincorporated self-employment. These estimates have shown no substantial growth in recent years. Does the establishment survey sample include small firms? Yes; about 40 percent of the establishment survey sample is comprised of business establishments with fewer than 20 employees. The establishment survey sample is designed to maximize the reliability of the total nonfarm employment estimate; firms from all size classes and industries are appropriately sampled to achieve that goal. - 6 - Does the establishment survey account for employment from new businesses? Yes; monthly establishment survey estimates include an adjustment to account for the net employment change generated by business births and deaths. The ad- justment comes from an econometric model that forecasts the monthly net jobs im- pact of business births and deaths based on the actual past values of the net impact that can be observed with a lag from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. The establishment survey uses modeling rather than sampling for this purpose because the survey is not immediately able to bring new businesses into the sample. There is an unavoidable lag between the birth of a new firm and its appearance on the sampling frame and availability for selection. BLS adds new businesses to the survey twice a year. Is the count of unemployed persons limited to just those people receiving unemployment insurance benefits? No; the estimate of unemployment is based on a monthly sample survey of households. All persons who are without jobs and are actively seeking and available to work are included among the unemployed. (People on temporary layoff are included even if they do not actively seek work.) There is no requirement or question relating to unemployment insurance benefits in the monthly survey. Does the official unemployment rate exclude people who have stopped looking for work? Yes; however, there are separate estimates of persons outside the labor force who want a job, including those who have stopped looking because they believe no jobs are available (discouraged workers). In addition, alternative measures of labor underutilization (discouraged workers and other groups not officially counted as unemployed) are published each month in the Employment Situation news release. - 7 - Technical Note This news release presents statistics from two major surveys, the Current Population Survey (household survey) and the Current Employment Statistics survey (establishment survey). The household survey provides the informa- tion on the labor force, employment, and unemployment that appears in the A tables, marked HOUSEHOLD DATA. It is a sample survey of about 60,000 house- holds conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The establishment survey provides the information on the employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm payrolls that appears in the B tables, marked ESTABLISHMENT DATA. This information is collected from payroll records by BLS in cooperation with state agencies. The sample includes about 160,000 businesses and government agencies covering ap- proximately 400,000 individual worksites. The active sample includes about one-third of all nonfarm payroll workers. The sample is drawn from a sampling frame of unemployment insurance tax accounts. For both surveys, the data for a given month relate to a particular week or pay period. In the household survey, the reference week is generally the calendar week that contains the 12th day of the month. In the establish- ment survey, the reference period is the pay period including the 12th, which may or may not correspond directly to the calendar week. Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect the entire civilian noninstitutional population. Based on responses to a series of questions on work and job search activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in the labor force. People are classified as employed if they did any work at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked in their own business, pro- fession, or on their own farm; or worked without pay at least 15 hours in a family business or farm. People are also counted as employed if they were temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal reasons. People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of the following criteria: They had no employment during the reference week; they were available for work at that time; and they made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. Persons laid off from a job and expecting recall need not be looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The unemployment data derived from the household survey in no way depend upon the eligibility for or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits. The civilian labor force is the sum of employed and unemployed persons. Those not classified as employed or unemployed are not in the labor force. The unemployment rate is the number unemployed as a percent of the labor force. The labor force participation rate is the labor force as a percent of the population, and the employment-population ratio is the employed as a percent of the population. - 8 - Establishment survey. The sample establishments are drawn from pri- vate nonfarm businesses such as factories, offices, and stores, as well as federal, state, and local government entities. Employees on nonfarm payrolls are those who received pay for any part of the reference pay period, including persons on paid leave. Persons are counted in each job they hold. Hours and earnings data are for private businesses and relate only to production workers in the goods-producing sector and nonsupervisory workers in the service-providing sector. Industries are classified on the basis of their principal activity in accordance with the 2002 version of the North American Industry Classification System. Differences in employment estimates. The numerous conceptual and method- ological differences between the household and establishment surveys result in important distinctions in the employment estimates derived from the sur- veys. Among these are: --The household survey includes agricultural workers, the self-employed, unpaid family workers, and private household workers among the employed. These groups are excluded from the establishment survey. --The household survey includes people on unpaid leave among the employed. The establishment survey does not. --The household survey is limited to workers 16 years of age and older. The establishment survey is not limited by age. --The household survey has no duplication of individuals, because in- dividuals are counted only once, even if they hold more than one job. In the establishment survey, employees working at more than one job and thus appearing on more than one payroll would be counted separately for each appearance. Seasonal adjustment Over the course of a year, the size of the nation's labor force and the levels of employment and unemployment undergo sharp fluctuations due to such seasonal events as changes in weather, reduced or expanded production, harvests, major holidays, and the opening and closing of schools. The ef- fect of such seasonal variation can be very large; seasonal fluctua- tions may account for as much as 95 percent of the month-to-month changes in unemployment. Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern each year, their influence on statistical trends can be eliminated by ad- justing the statistics from month to month. These adjustments make non- seasonal developments, such as declines in economic activity or increases in the participation of women in the labor force, easier to spot. For example, the large number of youth entering the labor force each June is likely to obscure any other changes that have taken place relative to May, making it difficult to determine if the level of economic activity has risen or declined. However, because the effect of students finishing school in previous years is known, the statistics for the current year can be adjusted to allow for a comparable change. Insofar as the seasonal adjustment is made correctly, the adjusted figure provides a more useful tool with which to ana- lyze changes in economic activity. - 9 - Most seasonally adjusted series are independently adjusted in both the household and establishment surveys. However, the adjusted series for many major estimates, such as total payroll employment, employment in most super- sectors, total employment, and unemployment are computed by aggregating in- dependently adjusted component series. For example, total unemployment is derived by summing the adjusted series for four major age-sex components; this differs from the unemployment estimate that would be obtained by di- rectly adjusting the total or by combining the duration, reasons, or more detailed age categories. For both the household and establishment surveys, a concurrent seasonal adjustment methodology is used in which new seasonal factors are calculated each month, using all relevant data, up to and including the data for the current month. In the household survey, new seasonal factors are used to adjust only the current month's data. In the establishment survey, however, new seasonal factors are used each month to adjust the three most recent monthly estimates. In both surveys, revisions to historical data are made once a year. Reliability of the estimates Statistics based on the household and establishment surveys are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. When a sample rather than the en- tire population is surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may differ from the "true" population values they represent. The exact difference, or sampling error, varies depending on the particular sample selected, and this variability is measured by the standard error of the estimate. There is about a 90-percent chance, or level of confidence, that an estimate based on a sample will differ by no more than 1.6 stand- ard errors from the "true" population value because of sampling error. BLS analyses are generally conducted at the 90-percent level of confidence. For example, the confidence interval for the monthly change in total employment from the household survey is on the order of plus or minus 430,000. Suppose the estimate of total employment increases by 100,000 from one month to the next. The 90-percent confidence interval on the monthly change would range from -330,000 to 530,000 (100,000 +/- 430,000). These figures do not mean that the sample results are off by these magnitudes, but rather that there is about a 90-percent chance that the "true" over-the-month change lies within this interval. Since this range includes values of less than zero, we could not say with confidence that employment had, in fact, increased. If, however, the reported employment rise was half a million, then all of the values within the 90-percent confidence interval would be greater than zero. In this case, it is likely (at least a 90-percent chance) that an employment rise had, in fact, oc- curred. At an unemployment rate of around 5.5 percent, the 90-percent con- fidence interval for the monthly change in unemployment is about +/- 280,000, and for the monthly change in the unemployment rate it is about +/- .19 percentage point. In general, estimates involving many individuals or establishments have lower standard errors (relative to the size of the estimate) than estimates which are based on a small number of observations. The precision of esti- mates is also improved when the data are cumulated over time such as for quarterly and annual averages. The seasonal adjustment process can also im- prove the stability of the monthly estimates. - 10 - The household and establishment surveys are also affected by nonsampling error. Nonsampling errors can occur for many reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the population, inability to obtain information for all respondents in the sample, inability or unwillingness of respondents to provide correct information on a timely basis, mistakes made by respondents, and errors made in the collection or processing of the data. For example, in the establishment survey, estimates for the most recent 2 months are based on substantially incomplete returns; for this reason, these estimates are labeled preliminary in the tables. It is only after two successive revisions to a monthly estimate, when nearly all sample reports have been received, that the estimate is considered final. Another major source of nonsampling error in the establishment survey is the inability to capture, on a timely basis, employment generated by new firms. To correct for this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an estimation procedure with two components is used to account for business births. The first component uses business deaths to impute employment for business births. This is incorporated into the sample-based link relative estimate procedure by simply not reflecting sample units going out of busi- ness, but imputing to them the same trend as the other firms in the sample. The second component is an ARIMA time series model designed to estimate the residual net birth/death employment not accounted for by the imputation. The historical time series used to create and test the ARIMA model was de- rived from the unemployment insurance universe micro-level database, and reflects the actual residual net of births and deaths over the past five years. The sample-based estimates from the establishment survey are adjusted once a year (on a lagged basis) to universe counts of payroll employment obtained from administrative records of the unemployment insurance program. The difference between the March sample-based employment estimates and the March universe counts is known as a benchmark revision, and serves as a rough proxy for total survey error. The new benchmarks also incorporate changes in the classification of industries. Over the past decade, the benchmark revision for total nonfarm employment has averaged 0.2 percent, ranging from less than 0.05 percent to 0.6 percent. Additional statistics and other information More comprehensive statistics are contained in Employment and Earnings, published each month by BLS. It is available for $27.00 per issue or $53.00 per year from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. All orders must be prepaid by sending a check or money order pay- able to the Superintendent of Documents, or by charging to Mastercard or Visa. Employment and Earnings also provides measures of sampling error for the household and establishment survey data published in this release. For unemployment and other labor force categories, these measures appear in tables 1-B through 1-D of its "Explanatory Notes." For the establish- ment survey data, the sampling error measures and the actual size of re- visions due to benchmark adjustments appear in tables 2-B through 2-F of Employment and Earnings. Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 202-691-5200; TDD message referral phone: 1-800-877-8339. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age (Numbers in thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted (1) Employment status, sex, and age July June July July Mar. Apr. May June July 2006 2007 2007 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 TOTAL Civilian noninstitutional population......... 228,912 231,713 231,958 228,912 231,034 231,253 231,480 231,713 231,958 Civilian labor force....................... 153,208 154,252 154,871 151,558 152,979 152,587 152,762 153,072 153,231 Participation rate................... 66.9 66.6 66.8 66.2 66.2 66.0 66.0 66.1 66.1 Employed................................. 145,606 146,958 147,315 144,330 146,254 145,786 145,943 146,140 146,110 Employment-population ratio.......... 63.6 63.4 63.5 63.1 63.3 63.0 63.0 63.1 63.0 Unemployed............................... 7,602 7,295 7,556 7,228 6,724 6,801 6,819 6,933 7,121 Unemployment rate.................... 5.0 4.7 4.9 4.8 4.4 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.6 Not in labor force......................... 75,704 77,460 77,087 77,354 78,055 78,666 78,718 78,641 78,727 Persons who currently want a job......... 5,006 5,288 4,900 4,890 4,511 4,773 4,928 4,898 4,782 Men, 16 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population......... 110,657 112,093 112,222 110,657 111,733 111,849 111,970 112,093 112,222 Civilian labor force....................... 82,288 83,050 83,383 81,045 82,044 82,076 82,083 82,110 82,167 Participation rate................... 74.4 74.1 74.3 73.2 73.4 73.4 73.3 73.3 73.2 Employed................................. 78,469 79,150 79,542 77,176 78,344 78,344 78,323 78,281 78,292 Employment-population ratio.......... 70.9 70.6 70.9 69.7 70.1 70.0 70.0 69.8 69.8 Unemployed............................... 3,819 3,900 3,841 3,869 3,701 3,732 3,760 3,829 3,875 Unemployment rate.................... 4.6 4.7 4.6 4.8 4.5 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.7 Not in labor force......................... 28,369 29,043 28,839 29,612 29,689 29,773 29,887 29,983 30,055 Men, 20 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population......... 102,187 103,477 103,598 102,187 103,143 103,248 103,361 103,477 103,598 Civilian labor force....................... 77,723 78,767 79,078 77,339 78,452 78,459 78,524 78,502 78,651 Participation rate................... 76.1 76.1 76.3 75.7 76.1 76.0 76.0 75.9 75.9 Employed................................. 74,682 75,759 75,947 74,105 75,323 75,313 75,380 75,312 75,362 Employment-population ratio.......... 73.1 73.2 73.3 72.5 73.0 72.9 72.9 72.8 72.7 Unemployed............................... 3,041 3,008 3,131 3,234 3,129 3,146 3,144 3,190 3,289 Unemployment rate.................... 3.9 3.8 4.0 4.2 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.1 4.2 Not in labor force......................... 24,464 24,710 24,521 24,848 24,691 24,789 24,837 24,975 24,948 Women, 16 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population......... 118,255 119,620 119,736 118,255 119,300 119,403 119,510 119,620 119,736 Civilian labor force....................... 70,920 71,203 71,488 70,513 70,934 70,511 70,679 70,962 71,064 Participation rate................... 60.0 59.5 59.7 59.6 59.5 59.1 59.1 59.3 59.4 Employed................................. 67,137 67,808 67,773 67,154 67,911 67,442 67,620 67,859 67,819 Employment-population ratio.......... 56.8 56.7 56.6 56.8 56.9 56.5 56.6 56.7 56.6 Unemployed............................... 3,783 3,395 3,715 3,359 3,024 3,069 3,059 3,104 3,245 Unemployment rate.................... 5.3 4.8 5.2 4.8 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.4 4.6 Not in labor force......................... 47,335 48,418 48,248 47,742 48,366 48,893 48,831 48,658 48,672 Women, 20 years and over Civilian noninstitutional population......... 110,026 111,259 111,367 110,026 110,964 111,057 111,157 111,259 111,367 Civilian labor force....................... 66,553 67,198 67,293 66,872 67,487 67,083 67,281 67,474 67,579 Participation rate................... 60.5 60.4 60.4 60.8 60.8 60.4 60.5 60.6 60.7 Employed................................. 63,430 64,473 64,184 64,029 64,912 64,502 64,701 64,855 64,808 Employment-population ratio.......... 57.7 57.9 57.6 58.2 58.5 58.1 58.2 58.3 58.2 Unemployed............................... 3,123 2,724 3,110 2,843 2,576 2,581 2,580 2,619 2,771 Unemployment rate.................... 4.7 4.1 4.6 4.3 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.9 4.1 Not in labor force......................... 43,473 44,061 44,073 43,154 43,477 43,974 43,875 43,785 43,788 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years Civilian noninstitutional population......... 16,700 16,977 16,993 16,700 16,927 16,948 16,962 16,977 16,993 Civilian labor force....................... 8,932 8,288 8,500 7,347 7,039 7,045 6,957 7,096 7,002 Participation rate................... 53.5 48.8 50.0 44.0 41.6 41.6 41.0 41.8 41.2 Employed................................. 7,494 6,725 7,184 6,197 6,019 5,970 5,862 5,972 5,940 Employment-population ratio.......... 44.9 39.6 42.3 37.1 35.6 35.2 34.6 35.2 35.0 Unemployed............................... 1,438 1,563 1,316 1,151 1,020 1,075 1,095 1,124 1,062 Unemployment rate.................... 16.1 18.9 15.5 15.7 14.5 15.3 15.7 15.8 15.2 Not in labor force......................... 7,768 8,690 8,493 9,352 9,888 9,903 10,005 9,881 9,991 1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. NOTE: Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age (Numbers in thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted (1) Employment status, race, sex, and age July June July July Mar. Apr. May June July 2006 2007 2007 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 WHITE Civilian noninstitutional population......... 186,329 188,148 188,312 186,329 187,704 187,843 187,993 188,148 188,312 Civilian labor force....................... 125,129 125,867 126,102 123,983 124,888 124,450 124,618 124,922 124,966 Participation rate..................... 67.2 66.9 67.0 66.5 66.5 66.3 66.3 66.4 66.4 Employed................................. 119,834 120,592 120,635 118,885 120,115 119,547 119,724 119,872 119,747 Employment-population ratio............ 64.3 64.1 64.1 63.8 64.0 63.6 63.7 63.7 63.6 Unemployed............................... 5,295 5,276 5,468 5,098 4,773 4,904 4,893 5,050 5,219 Unemployment rate...................... 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.1 3.8 3.9 3.9 4.0 4.2 Not in labor force......................... 61,200 62,280 62,210 62,346 62,817 63,393 63,375 63,226 63,346 Men, 20 years and over Civilian labor force....................... 64,612 65,415 65,424 64,385 65,206 65,165 65,196 65,197 65,224 Participation rate..................... 76.5 76.6 76.6 76.2 76.6 76.5 76.4 76.4 76.3 Employed................................. 62,459 63,239 63,122 62,059 63,007 62,884 62,924 62,871 62,768 Employment-population ratio............ 73.9 74.1 73.9 73.4 74.0 73.8 73.8 73.6 73.5 Unemployed............................... 2,154 2,176 2,302 2,326 2,199 2,282 2,272 2,326 2,456 Unemployment rate...................... 3.3 3.3 3.5 3.6 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.6 3.8 Women, 20 years and over Civilian labor force....................... 53,197 53,594 53,638 53,535 53,839 53,486 53,663 53,842 53,922 Participation rate..................... 59.8 59.7 59.7 60.2 60.1 59.7 59.8 60.0 60.0 Employed................................. 50,992 51,633 51,415 51,551 52,036 51,636 51,842 51,953 51,957 Employment-population ratio............ 57.3 57.5 57.2 57.9 58.1 57.6 57.8 57.9 57.9 Unemployed............................... 2,205 1,961 2,223 1,984 1,803 1,851 1,821 1,889 1,965 Unemployment rate...................... 4.1 3.7 4.1 3.7 3.3 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.6 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years Civilian labor force....................... 7,319 6,859 7,040 6,063 5,843 5,799 5,759 5,884 5,820 Participation rate..................... 56.9 52.6 53.9 47.1 44.9 44.5 44.2 45.1 44.6 Employed................................. 6,384 5,720 6,098 5,275 5,072 5,027 4,958 5,048 5,022 Employment-population ratio............ 49.6 43.9 46.7 41.0 39.0 38.6 38.0 38.7 38.5 Unemployed............................... 936 1,139 942 788 771 772 800 836 797 Unemployment rate...................... 12.8 16.6 13.4 13.0 13.2 13.3 13.9 14.2 13.7 BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN Civilian noninstitutional population......... 27,021 27,459 27,498 27,021 27,346 27,385 27,422 27,459 27,498 Civilian labor force....................... 17,672 17,681 17,895 17,369 17,436 17,510 17,433 17,493 17,645 Participation rate..................... 65.4 64.4 65.1 64.3 63.8 63.9 63.6 63.7 64.2 Employed................................. 15,809 16,091 16,307 15,731 15,988 16,065 15,946 16,005 16,229 Employment-population ratio............ 58.5 58.6 59.3 58.2 58.5 58.7 58.2 58.3 59.0 Unemployed............................... 1,864 1,589 1,588 1,638 1,448 1,444 1,487 1,488 1,416 Unemployment rate...................... 10.5 9.0 8.9 9.4 8.3 8.2 8.5 8.5 8.0 Not in labor force......................... 9,349 9,778 9,603 9,652 9,910 9,875 9,988 9,966 9,854 Men, 20 years and over Civilian labor force....................... 7,800 7,829 8,039 7,736 7,804 7,860 7,788 7,816 7,987 Participation rate..................... 71.8 70.9 72.7 71.2 71.0 71.4 70.6 70.8 72.2 Employed................................. 7,082 7,198 7,423 7,056 7,103 7,201 7,146 7,144 7,383 Employment-population ratio............ 65.2 65.2 67.1 64.9 64.6 65.4 64.8 64.7 66.7 Unemployed............................... 717 632 617 680 701 659 642 672 604 Unemployment rate...................... 9.2 8.1 7.7 8.8 9.0 8.4 8.2 8.6 7.6 Women, 20 years and over Civilian labor force....................... 8,766 8,866 8,896 8,756 8,832 8,798 8,832 8,858 8,880 Participation rate..................... 64.5 64.4 64.5 64.5 64.3 64.0 64.2 64.3 64.4 Employed................................. 8,024 8,276 8,217 8,075 8,285 8,273 8,234 8,298 8,274 Employment-population ratio............ 59.1 60.1 59.6 59.5 60.4 60.2 59.8 60.2 60.0 Unemployed............................... 743 590 679 681 547 525 598 561 605 Unemployment rate...................... 8.5 6.7 7.6 7.8 6.2 6.0 6.8 6.3 6.8 Both sexes, 16 to 19 years Civilian labor force....................... 1,107 985 960 877 800 852 814 819 778 Participation rate..................... 43.1 37.3 36.3 34.1 30.5 32.4 30.9 31.0 29.4 Employed................................. 703 618 667 600 600 591 567 564 572 Employment-population ratio............ 27.3 23.4 25.2 23.3 22.9 22.5 21.5 21.4 21.6 Unemployed............................... 404 368 292 277 200 261 247 255 206 Unemployment rate...................... 36.5 37.3 30.5 31.6 25.0 30.6 30.4 31.2 26.5 ASIAN Civilian noninstitutional population......... 10,180 10,617 10,640 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Civilian labor force....................... 6,758 7,106 7,161 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Participation rate..................... 66.4 66.9 67.3 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Employed................................. 6,573 6,887 6,949 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Employment-population ratio............ 64.6 64.9 65.3 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Unemployed............................... 185 220 212 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Unemployment rate...................... 2.7 3.1 3.0 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Not in labor force......................... 3,422 3,511 3,479 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) 1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. 2 Data not available. NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals shown in table A-1 because data are not presented for all races. Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age (Numbers in thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted (1) Employment status, sex, and age July June July July Mar. Apr. May June July 2006 2007 2007 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY Civilian noninstitutional population......... 30,140 31,329 31,423 30,140 31,055 31,147 31,238 31,329 31,423 Civilian labor force....................... 20,798 21,552 21,752 20,667 21,390 21,445 21,425 21,404 21,602 Participation rate..................... 69.0 68.8 69.2 68.6 68.9 68.9 68.6 68.3 68.7 Employed................................. 19,699 20,365 20,454 19,580 20,288 20,284 20,189 20,191 20,331 Employment-population ratio............ 65.4 65.0 65.1 65.0 65.3 65.1 64.6 64.4 64.7 Unemployed............................... 1,099 1,187 1,298 1,087 1,101 1,161 1,237 1,212 1,271 Unemployment rate...................... 5.3 5.5 6.0 5.3 5.1 5.4 5.8 5.7 5.9 Not in labor force......................... 9,342 9,777 9,670 9,473 9,665 9,702 9,813 9,926 9,821 Men, 20 years and over Civilian labor force....................... 11,822 12,324 12,419 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Participation rate..................... 84.1 84.3 84.7 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Employed................................. 11,351 11,854 11,931 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Employment-population ratio............ 80.7 81.1 81.3 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Unemployed............................... 471 470 488 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Unemployment rate...................... 4.0 3.8 3.9 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Women, 20 years and over Civilian labor force....................... 7,718 8,060 8,170 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Participation rate..................... 58.1 58.5 59.2 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Employed................................. 7,317 7,605 7,598 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Employment-population ratio............ 55.1 55.2 55.0 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Unemployed............................... 401 456 572 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Unemployment rate...................... 5.2 5.7 7.0 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Both sexes, 16 to 19 years Civilian labor force....................... 1,258 1,168 1,163 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Participation rate..................... 44.9 39.8 39.5 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Employed................................. 1,030 906 926 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Employment-population ratio............ 36.8 30.9 31.4 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Unemployed............................... 227 261 238 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) Unemployment rate...................... 18.1 22.4 20.4 (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) (2) 1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. 2 Data not available. NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment (Numbers in thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Educational attainment July June July July Mar. Apr. May June July 2006 2007 2007 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 Less than a high school diploma Civilian labor force......................... 12,519 12,286 11,865 12,777 13,033 12,765 12,440 12,017 12,141 Participation rate....................... 46.2 46.0 46.7 47.1 47.2 46.5 45.9 45.0 47.8 Employed................................... 11,678 11,530 11,045 11,874 12,126 11,847 11,610 11,208 11,274 Employment-population ratio.............. 43.1 43.1 43.5 43.8 43.9 43.1 42.9 41.9 44.4 Unemployed................................. 840 756 821 903 906 917 831 809 867 Unemployment rate........................ 6.7 6.2 6.9 7.1 7.0 7.2 6.7 6.7 7.1 High school graduates, no college (1) Civilian labor force......................... 37,845 38,093 37,798 38,409 38,610 38,319 38,103 38,277 38,447 Participation rate....................... 62.8 62.5 62.2 63.8 62.9 62.6 62.6 62.8 63.3 Employed................................... 36,161 36,599 36,093 36,700 37,042 36,758 36,383 36,721 36,743 Employment-population ratio.............. 60.0 60.1 59.4 60.9 60.3 60.1 59.8 60.3 60.5 Unemployed................................. 1,684 1,494 1,705 1,709 1,568 1,562 1,720 1,556 1,703 Unemployment rate........................ 4.5 3.9 4.5 4.4 4.1 4.1 4.5 4.1 4.4 Some college or associate degree Civilian labor force......................... 35,711 35,916 36,574 35,365 35,200 35,620 36,098 36,340 36,281 Participation rate....................... 72.1 72.0 72.0 71.4 71.6 72.2 72.8 72.8 71.4 Employed................................... 34,355 34,650 35,221 34,074 33,944 34,337 34,865 35,077 34,998 Employment-population ratio.............. 69.3 69.4 69.3 68.8 69.1 69.6 70.3 70.3 68.9 Unemployed................................. 1,356 1,265 1,353 1,291 1,256 1,283 1,234 1,263 1,283 Unemployment rate........................ 3.8 3.5 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.4 3.5 3.5 Bachelor's degree and higher (2) Civilian labor force......................... 42,469 43,977 44,295 42,783 43,660 43,567 44,052 44,254 44,474 Participation rate....................... 77.2 77.5 77.0 77.7 78.6 77.9 77.9 78.0 77.3 Employed................................... 41,497 43,080 43,239 41,904 42,858 42,773 43,191 43,380 43,540 Employment-population ratio.............. 75.4 75.9 75.2 76.2 77.1 76.5 76.4 76.4 75.7 Unemployed................................. 972 897 1,056 879 801 793 861 874 934 Unemployment rate........................ 2.3 2.0 2.4 2.1 1.8 1.8 2.0 2.0 2.1 1 Includes persons with a high school diploma or equivalent. 2 Includes persons with bachelor's, master's, professional, and doctoral degrees. NOTE: Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. See box note in the BLS news release USDL 07-0486, "The Employment Situation: March 2007," issued on April 6, 2007, for a discussion of technical issues regarding educational attainment data. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-5. Employed persons by class of worker and part-time status (In thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Category July June July July Mar. Apr. May June July 2006 2007 2007 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 CLASS OF WORKER Agriculture and related industries........... 2,533 2,145 2,242 2,246 2,241 2,053 2,100 1,941 1,993 Wage and salary workers.................... 1,568 1,312 1,328 1,354 1,327 1,205 1,224 1,155 1,157 Self-employed workers...................... 943 813 872 886 897 858 845 775 823 Unpaid family workers...................... 22 20 41 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) Nonagricultural industries................... 143,073 144,813 145,073 142,166 144,032 143,687 143,815 144,122 144,159 Wage and salary workers.................... 133,239 134,679 135,111 132,497 134,110 133,874 133,994 134,128 134,339 Government............................... 19,835 20,897 20,468 20,379 20,931 21,046 21,227 21,082 21,024 Private industries....................... 113,404 113,782 114,643 112,140 113,171 112,762 112,757 113,000 113,319 Private households..................... 926 837 856 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) Other industries....................... 112,478 112,944 113,787 111,295 112,283 111,967 111,892 112,196 112,554 Self-employed workers...................... 9,733 9,991 9,830 9,581 9,737 9,713 9,716 9,878 9,706 Unpaid family workers...................... 100 143 132 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME (2) All industries: Part time for economic reasons............. 4,450 4,469 4,516 4,250 4,278 4,374 4,484 4,290 4,313 Slack work or business conditions........ 2,644 2,736 2,693 2,668 2,769 2,849 2,963 2,790 2,724 Could only find part-time work........... 1,371 1,359 1,402 1,190 1,215 1,248 1,265 1,203 1,217 Part time for noneconomic reasons.......... 17,492 18,935 17,955 19,513 20,088 19,948 19,626 20,112 20,014 Nonagricultural industries: Part time for economic reasons............. 4,349 4,393 4,456 4,139 4,196 4,308 4,403 4,194 4,240 Slack work or business conditions........ 2,574 2,679 2,653 2,594 2,698 2,811 2,904 2,737 2,683 Could only find part-time work........... 1,355 1,352 1,390 1,187 1,196 1,236 1,256 1,204 1,211 Part time for noneconomic reasons.......... 17,152 18,582 17,559 19,179 19,677 19,570 19,200 19,758 19,660 1 Data not available. 2 Persons at work excludes employed persons who were absent from their jobs during the entire reference week for reasons such as vacation, illness, or industrial dispute. Part time for noneconomic reasons excludes persons who usually work full time but worked only 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for reasons such as holidays, illness, and bad weather. NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-6. Selected employment indicators (In thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Characteristic July June July July Mar. Apr. May June July 2006 2007 2007 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 AGE AND SEX Total, 16 years and over..................... 145,606 146,958 147,315 144,330 146,254 145,786 145,943 146,140 146,110 16 to 19 years............................. 7,494 6,725 7,184 6,197 6,019 5,970 5,862 5,972 5,940 16 to 17 years........................... 3,039 2,635 2,853 2,427 2,301 2,315 2,308 2,351 2,303 18 to 19 years........................... 4,455 4,090 4,331 3,794 3,715 3,628 3,550 3,645 3,667 20 years and over.......................... 138,112 140,233 140,131 138,134 140,235 139,815 140,081 140,167 140,170 20 to 24 years........................... 14,420 14,373 14,533 13,848 14,204 13,982 13,967 13,994 13,964 25 years and over........................ 123,692 125,859 125,598 124,397 125,916 125,667 126,006 126,184 126,291 25 to 54 years......................... 99,267 100,280 99,912 99,629 100,488 100,365 100,434 100,452 100,344 25 to 34 years....................... 31,110 31,700 31,689 31,104 31,530 31,588 31,550 31,632 31,667 35 to 44 years....................... 34,290 34,122 33,937 34,474 34,520 34,378 34,344 34,215 34,151 45 to 54 years....................... 33,867 34,458 34,286 34,051 34,438 34,400 34,539 34,605 34,526 55 years and over...................... 24,425 25,580 25,686 24,768 25,428 25,302 25,572 25,732 25,947 Men, 16 years and over....................... 78,469 79,150 79,542 77,176 78,344 78,344 78,323 78,281 78,292 16 to 19 years............................. 3,787 3,391 3,595 3,071 3,020 3,031 2,942 2,969 2,930 16 to 17 years........................... 1,574 1,323 1,439 1,215 1,126 1,157 1,097 1,139 1,119 18 to 19 years........................... 2,213 2,068 2,156 1,853 1,903 1,865 1,842 1,851 1,815 20 years and over.......................... 74,682 75,759 75,947 74,105 75,323 75,313 75,380 75,312 75,362 20 to 24 years........................... 7,781 7,629 7,826 7,391 7,458 7,412 7,406 7,368 7,417 25 years and over........................ 66,901 68,130 68,121 66,759 67,811 67,846 67,924 67,969 67,990 25 to 54 years......................... 53,879 54,471 54,430 53,664 54,358 54,412 54,382 54,312 54,257 25 to 34 years....................... 17,206 17,545 17,706 17,082 17,470 17,478 17,429 17,466 17,560 35 to 44 years....................... 18,779 18,696 18,607 18,709 18,779 18,804 18,783 18,643 18,567 45 to 54 years....................... 17,894 18,231 18,117 17,873 18,109 18,130 18,169 18,203 18,130 55 years and over...................... 13,022 13,659 13,691 13,096 13,454 13,434 13,543 13,657 13,733 Women, 16 years and over..................... 67,137 67,808 67,773 67,154 67,911 67,442 67,620 67,859 67,819 16 to 19 years............................. 3,707 3,334 3,589 3,126 2,999 2,940 2,919 3,004 3,011 16 to 17 years........................... 1,465 1,311 1,414 1,212 1,175 1,157 1,211 1,212 1,183 18 to 19 years........................... 2,243 2,023 2,175 1,941 1,812 1,763 1,707 1,794 1,852 20 years and over.......................... 63,430 64,473 64,184 64,029 64,912 64,502 64,701 64,855 64,808 20 to 24 years........................... 6,639 6,744 6,707 6,457 6,746 6,570 6,561 6,626 6,546 25 years and over........................ 56,791 57,729 57,477 57,637 58,105 57,821 58,081 58,215 58,301 25 to 54 years......................... 45,388 45,809 45,481 45,965 46,130 45,954 46,052 46,140 46,087 25 to 34 years....................... 13,904 14,155 13,983 14,023 14,060 14,110 14,121 14,165 14,107 35 to 44 years....................... 15,512 15,426 15,329 15,765 15,741 15,574 15,561 15,572 15,584 45 to 54 years....................... 15,972 16,227 16,169 16,178 16,329 16,270 16,370 16,402 16,396 55 years and over...................... 11,403 11,921 11,995 11,672 11,974 11,867 12,029 12,075 12,215 MARITAL STATUS Married men, spouse present.................. 45,496 46,441 46,211 45,564 46,527 46,500 46,531 46,527 46,330 Married women, spouse present................ 34,607 35,679 35,286 35,309 36,167 36,037 36,194 36,217 35,997 Women who maintain families.................. 9,254 9,240 9,431 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS Full-time workers (2)........................ 121,951 122,150 123,219 119,844 121,035 120,348 120,997 120,645 121,122 Part-time workers (3)........................ 23,655 24,808 24,096 24,611 25,120 25,248 24,880 25,555 25,102 MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS Total multiple jobholders.................... 7,463 7,538 7,636 7,479 7,740 7,937 7,815 7,707 7,674 Percent of total employed................ 5.1 5.1 5.2 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.3 1 Data not available. 2 Employed full-time workers are persons who usually work 35 hours or more per week. 3 Employed part-time workers are persons who usually work less than 35 hours per week. NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-7. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted Number of unemployed persons Unemployment rates (1) (in thousands) Characteristic July June July July Mar. Apr. May June July 2006 2007 2007 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 AGE AND SEX Total, 16 years and over..................... 7,228 6,933 7,121 4.8 4.4 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.6 16 to 19 years............................. 1,151 1,124 1,062 15.7 14.5 15.3 15.7 15.8 15.2 16 to 17 years........................... 496 475 462 17.0 16.4 16.5 16.6 16.8 16.7 18 to 19 years........................... 652 671 600 14.7 13.3 15.0 15.4 15.5 14.1 20 years and over.......................... 6,077 5,809 6,059 4.2 3.9 3.9 3.9 4.0 4.1 20 to 24 years........................... 1,308 1,223 1,294 8.6 7.6 7.8 7.3 8.0 8.5 25 years and over........................ 4,777 4,555 4,819 3.7 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.7 25 to 54 years......................... 3,977 3,732 3,949 3.8 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.8 25 to 34 years....................... 1,560 1,515 1,513 4.8 4.4 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.6 35 to 44 years....................... 1,291 1,161 1,327 3.6 3.2 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.7 45 to 54 years....................... 1,127 1,056 1,110 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 55 years and over...................... 813 801 857 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.0 3.2 Men, 16 years and over....................... 3,869 3,829 3,875 4.8 4.5 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.7 16 to 19 years............................. 635 639 587 17.1 15.9 16.2 17.3 17.7 16.7 16 to 17 years........................... 252 251 261 17.2 17.6 17.2 18.5 18.1 18.9 18 to 19 years........................... 394 411 328 17.5 14.8 16.4 17.1 18.2 15.3 20 years and over.......................... 3,234 3,190 3,289 4.2 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.1 4.2 20 to 24 years........................... 717 751 747 8.8 8.1 8.6 8.6 9.3 9.2 25 years and over........................ 2,502 2,409 2,555 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.6 25 to 54 years......................... 2,076 1,974 2,073 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.7 25 to 34 years....................... 856 835 786 4.8 4.4 4.2 4.4 4.6 4.3 35 to 44 years....................... 630 567 689 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.0 2.9 3.6 45 to 54 years....................... 591 573 597 3.2 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.2 55 years and over...................... 426 435 483 3.2 3.3 3.2 3.4 3.1 3.4 Women, 16 years and over..................... 3,359 3,104 3,245 4.8 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.4 4.6 16 to 19 years............................. 516 485 475 14.2 13.0 14.2 14.1 13.9 13.6 16 to 17 years........................... 244 223 200 16.8 15.1 15.9 14.9 15.6 14.5 18 to 19 years........................... 258 260 272 11.7 11.6 13.5 13.4 12.7 12.8 20 years and over.......................... 2,843 2,619 2,771 4.3 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.9 4.1 20 to 24 years........................... 591 472 547 8.4 6.9 7.0 5.8 6.7 7.7 25 years and over........................ 2,275 2,146 2,264 3.8 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.7 25 to 54 years......................... 1,901 1,758 1,877 4.0 3.5 3.7 3.8 3.7 3.9 25 to 34 years....................... 704 680 727 4.8 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.6 4.9 35 to 44 years....................... 661 595 637 4.0 3.1 3.5 3.8 3.7 3.9 45 to 54 years....................... 536 483 513 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.0 55 years and over (2).................. 419 391 434 3.5 2.8 2.5 2.7 3.2 3.5 MARITAL STATUS Married men, spouse present.................. 1,157 1,147 1,266 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.4 2.7 Married women, spouse present................ 1,151 1,000 1,052 3.2 2.5 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.8 Women who maintain families (2).............. 744 679 687 7.4 6.7 6.2 6.3 6.8 6.8 FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS Full-time workers (3)........................ 5,848 5,678 5,861 4.7 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.5 4.6 Part-time workers (4)........................ 1,405 1,245 1,324 5.4 4.5 5.0 4.9 4.6 5.0 1 Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force. 2 Not seasonally adjusted. 3 Full-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work full time (35 hours or more per week) or are on layoff from full-time jobs. 4 Part-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work part time (less than 35 hours per week) or are on layoff from part-time jobs. NOTE: Detail shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-8. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment (Numbers in thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Reason July June July July Mar. Apr. May June July 2006 2007 2007 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs.............................. 3,374 3,241 3,730 3,351 3,238 3,287 3,331 3,375 3,628 On temporary layoff........................ 1,020 771 1,090 924 863 1,022 1,004 866 981 Not on temporary layoff.................... 2,355 2,469 2,640 2,427 2,375 2,265 2,327 2,509 2,648 Permanent job losers..................... 1,621 1,734 1,861 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) Persons who completed temporary jobs..... 734 736 779 (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) (1) Job leavers.................................. 879 794 856 854 755 748 764 810 823 Reentrants................................... 2,464 2,327 2,141 2,361 2,147 2,174 2,153 2,127 2,078 New entrants................................. 885 933 829 630 599 607 549 621 593 PERCENT DISTRIBUTION Total unemployed............................. 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs............................. 44.4 44.4 49.4 46.6 48.0 48.2 49.0 48.7 50.9 On temporary layoff....................... 13.4 10.6 14.4 12.8 12.8 15.0 14.8 12.5 13.8 Not on temporary layoff................... 31.0 33.9 34.9 33.7 35.2 33.2 34.2 36.2 37.2 Job leavers................................. 11.6 10.9 11.3 11.9 11.2 11.0 11.2 11.7 11.6 Reentrants.................................. 32.4 31.9 28.3 32.8 31.9 31.9 31.7 30.7 29.2 New entrants................................ 11.6 12.8 11.0 8.8 8.9 8.9 8.1 9.0 8.3 UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs............................. 2.2 2.1 2.4 2.2 2.1 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.4 Job leavers................................. .6 .5 .6 .6 .5 .5 .5 .5 .5 Reentrants.................................. 1.6 1.5 1.4 1.6 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.4 New entrants................................ .6 .6 .5 .4 .4 .4 .4 .4 .4 1 Data not available. NOTE: Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-9. Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment (Numbers in thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Duration July June July July Mar. Apr. May June July 2006 2007 2007 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED Less than 5 weeks...................................... 2,964 3,185 2,731 2,686 2,327 2,432 2,450 2,488 2,473 5 to 14 weeks.......................................... 2,462 1,933 2,557 2,171 2,159 2,141 2,204 2,125 2,213 15 weeks and over...................................... 2,176 2,176 2,269 2,343 2,177 2,268 2,230 2,286 2,413 15 to 26 weeks...................................... 890 1,068 988 1,028 954 1,072 1,104 1,166 1,105 27 weeks and over................................... 1,286 1,108 1,281 1,315 1,223 1,196 1,126 1,120 1,308 Average (mean) duration, in weeks...................... 16.1 15.1 16.3 17.3 17.3 17.1 16.7 16.8 17.2 Median duration, in weeks.............................. 7.3 6.2 8.0 8.2 8.5 8.7 8.3 8.2 8.9 PERCENT DISTRIBUTION Total unemployed....................................... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 Less than 5 weeks.................................... 39.0 43.7 36.1 37.3 34.9 35.6 35.6 36.1 34.8 5 to 14 weeks........................................ 32.4 26.5 33.8 30.2 32.4 31.3 32.0 30.8 31.2 15 weeks and over.................................... 28.6 29.8 30.0 32.5 32.7 33.2 32.4 33.1 34.0 15 to 26 weeks..................................... 11.7 14.6 13.1 14.3 14.3 15.7 16.0 16.9 15.6 27 weeks and over.................................. 16.9 15.2 17.0 18.3 18.4 17.5 16.4 16.2 18.4 NOTE: Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-10. Employed and unemployed persons by occupation, not seasonally adjusted (Numbers in thousands) Unemployment Employed Unemployed rates Occupation July July July July July July 2006 2007 2006 2007 2006 2007 Total, 16 years and over (1)...................... 145,606 147,315 7,602 7,556 5.0 4.9 Management, professional, and related occupations...... 49,721 50,954 1,255 1,315 2.5 2.5 Management, business, and financial operations occupations......................................... 20,938 21,696 471 385 2.2 1.7 Professional and related occupations................. 28,783 29,259 784 930 2.7 3.1 Service occupations.................................... 25,063 25,406 1,439 1,537 5.4 5.7 Sales and office occupations........................... 36,191 36,407 1,857 1,792 4.9 4.7 Sales and related occupations........................ 16,606 16,804 914 918 5.2 5.2 Office and administrative support occupations........ 19,586 19,604 943 874 4.6 4.3 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations........................................... 16,287 16,214 956 902 5.5 5.3 Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations........... 1,173 1,081 69 57 5.5 5.0 Construction and extraction occupations.............. 9,722 9,785 668 649 6.4 6.2 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations.... 5,392 5,348 220 195 3.9 3.5 Production, transportation, and material moving occupations........................................... 18,343 18,334 1,168 1,176 6.0 6.0 Production occupations............................... 9,536 9,410 518 534 5.1 5.4 Transportation and material moving occupations....... 8,807 8,924 650 642 6.9 6.7 1 Persons with no previous work experience and persons whose last job was in the Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total. NOTE: Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-11. Unemployed persons by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted Number of unemployed Unemployment persons rates Industry and class of worker (in thousands) July July July July 2006 2007 2006 2007 Total, 16 years and over (1).................... 7,602 7,556 5.0 4.9 Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers........ 5,712 5,659 4.8 4.7 Mining............................................... 25 33 3.5 4.3 Construction......................................... 633 617 6.1 5.9 Manufacturing........................................ 736 621 4.4 3.7 Durable goods...................................... 444 374 4.2 3.6 Nondurable goods................................... 292 247 4.9 4.0 Wholesale and retail trade........................... 1,083 1,089 5.1 5.2 Transportation and utilities......................... 237 309 4.2 5.1 Information.......................................... 103 112 3.0 3.4 Financial activities................................. 329 307 3.4 3.1 Professional and business services................... 735 743 5.5 5.2 Education and health services........................ 659 665 3.5 3.5 Leisure and hospitality.............................. 867 920 6.8 7.3 Other services....................................... 305 243 4.7 3.8 Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers............................................... 55 40 3.6 3.1 Government workers..................................... 659 704 3.2 3.3 Self-employed and unpaid family workers................ 291 324 2.6 2.9 1 Persons with no previous work experience are included in the unemployed total. NOTE: Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-12. Alternative measures of labor underutilization (Percent) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Measure July June July July Mar. Apr. May June July 2006 2007 2007 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force....................... 1.4 1.4 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.6 U-2 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor force.... 2.2 2.1 2.4 2.2 2.1 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.4 U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate).......... 5.0 4.7 4.9 4.8 4.4 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.6 U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers............................... 5.2 5.0 5.1 5.0 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.8 4.9 U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other marginally attached workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers....................... 5.9 5.6 5.7 5.7 5.3 5.3 5.3 5.4 5.5 U-6 Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers........................................... 8.8 8.5 8.6 8.5 8.0 8.2 8.2 8.2 8.3 NOTE: Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for a job. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule. For further information, see "BLS introduces new range of alternative unemployment measures," in the October 1995 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA Table A-13. Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted (Numbers in thousands) Total Men Women Category July July July July July July 2006 2007 2006 2007 2006 2007 NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE Total not in the labor force........................... 75,704 77,087 28,369 28,839 47,335 48,248 Persons who currently want a job...................... 5,006 4,900 2,101 2,141 2,905 2,758 Searched for work and available to work now (1)..... 1,522 1,376 762 751 761 624 Reason not currently looking: Discouragement over job prospects (2)........... 428 367 263 231 166 135 Reasons other than discouragement (3)........... 1,094 1,009 499 520 595 489 MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS Total multiple jobholders (4).......................... 7,463 7,636 3,819 3,837 3,645 3,799 Percent of total employed.......................... 5.1 5.2 4.9 4.8 5.4 5.6 Primary job full time, secondary job part time..... 3,859 3,996 2,175 2,167 1,685 1,829 Primary and secondary jobs both part time.......... 1,619 1,732 507 551 1,112 1,181 Primary and secondary jobs both full time.......... 313 367 192 234 121 133 Hours vary on primary or secondary job............. 1,629 1,486 923 850 706 636 1 Data refer to persons who have searched for work during the prior 12 months and were available to take a job during the reference week. 2 Includes thinks no work available, could not find work, lacks schooling or training, employer thinks too young or old, and other types of discrimination. 3 Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for such reasons as school or family responsibilities, ill health, and transportation problems, as well as a small number for which reason for nonparticipation was not determined. 4 Includes persons who work part time on their primary job and full time on their secondary job(s), not shown separately. NOTE: Beginning in January 2007, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail (In thousands) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Change Industry July May June July July Mar. Apr. May June July from: 2006 2007 2007p 2007p 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007p 2007p June 2007- July 2007p Total nonfarm......... 136,006 138,655 139,161 137,828 136,252 137,594 137,716 137,904 138,030 138,122 92 Total private........... 115,210 116,026 116,955 116,807 114,262 115,397 115,487 115,668 115,775 115,895 120 Goods-producing............. 22,974 22,514 22,795 22,771 22,622 22,497 22,460 22,446 22,439 22,427 -12 Natural resources and mining.... 702 719 733 736 690 715 717 718 721 723 2 Logging...................... 68.3 61.4 65.0 65.3 65.8 65.7 65.3 63.4 64.1 63.1 -1.0 Mining......................... 633.7 657.8 667.7 670.8 623.9 649.5 652.0 654.5 656.4 659.9 3.5 Oil and gas extraction........ 138.6 148.2 151.6 152.8 136.7 147.1 147.2 148.3 149.3 150.6 1.3 Mining, except oil and gas (1)...................... 229.4 230.3 235.2 237.6 222.9 224.4 225.9 227.1 228.2 230.1 1.9 Coal mining.................. 79.7 79.2 80.0 80.6 78.9 79.6 79.9 79.4 79.5 79.9 .4 Support activities for mining. 265.7 279.3 280.9 280.4 264.3 278.0 278.9 279.1 278.9 279.2 .3 Construction.................... 8,011 7,736 7,913 7,947 7,703 7,692 7,671 7,659 7,662 7,650 -12 Construction of buildings..... 1,862.9 1,787.1 1,829.5 1,822.6 1,815.8 1,797.1 1,788.5 1,784.9 1,787.1 1,776.0 -11.1 Residential building......... 1,045.4 998.8 1,023.0 1,022.6 1,018.0 1,000.5 999.1 997.5 997.6 993.4 -4.2 Nonresidential building...... 817.5 788.3 806.5 800.0 797.8 796.6 789.4 787.4 789.5 782.6 -6.9 Heavy and civil engineering construction................. 1,039.9 1,026.9 1,056.6 1,060.3 976.9 1,001.7 1,001.6 999.9 1,001.1 999.0 -2.1 Specialty trade contractors... 5,108.5 4,921.8 5,026.8 5,063.8 4,910.1 4,893.1 4,881.0 4,874.4 4,873.4 4,874.7 1.3 Residential specialty trade contractors................. 2,491.6 2,330.0 2,383.3 2,401.7 2,400.7 2,310.7 2,308.3 2,306.2 2,305.5 2,308.1 2.6 Nonresidential specialty trade contractors........... 2,616.9 2,591.8 2,643.5 2,662.1 2,509.4 2,582.4 2,572.7 2,568.2 2,567.9 2,566.6 -1.3 Manufacturing................... 14,261 14,059 14,149 14,088 14,229 14,090 14,072 14,069 14,056 14,054 -2 Production workers........... 10,222 10,096 10,170 10,128 10,210 10,096 10,093 10,105 10,102 10,112 10 Durable goods.................. 9,018 8,923 8,964 8,898 9,023 8,928 8,921 8,913 8,902 8,905 3 Production workers........... 6,385 6,333 6,364 6,304 6,403 6,313 6,316 6,323 6,317 6,321 4 Wood products................. 571.9 530.0 535.6 538.0 564.1 530.6 528.0 529.0 526.7 529.5 2.8 Nonmetallic mineral products.. 519.5 504.1 511.8 511.8 508.3 500.9 499.6 500.7 501.3 500.5 -.8 Primary metals................ 463.6 452.8 451.7 448.0 465.2 453.9 453.2 452.6 449.6 449.4 -.2 Fabricated metal products..... 1,562.5 1,563.6 1,577.4 1,570.7 1,560.8 1,563.9 1,566.4 1,565.4 1,568.9 1,569.4 .5 Machinery..................... 1,199.7 1,222.3 1,233.4 1,232.6 1,197.5 1,217.9 1,216.9 1,221.8 1,227.4 1,230.5 3.1 Computer and electronic products (1)................. 1,326.1 1,307.6 1,311.9 1,310.6 1,318.0 1,313.5 1,310.6 1,308.6 1,304.8 1,302.8 -2.0 Computer and peripheral equipment................... 199.9 198.8 197.1 196.8 198.6 197.8 198.7 197.9 195.6 195.4 -.2 Communications equipment..... 144.3 142.9 144.0 143.4 143.5 143.7 143.7 142.7 142.8 142.5 -.3 Semiconductors and electronic components.................. 469.8 464.7 467.6 465.8 466.3 467.8 465.7 465.3 463.7 462.7 -1.0 Electronic instruments....... 439.5 434.3 436.5 437.6 437.0 434.4 433.8 435.4 435.5 435.1 -.4 Electrical equipment and appliances................... 438.1 436.8 437.8 437.6 437.1 437.3 437.6 436.9 436.1 436.8 .7 Transportation equipment (1).. 1,729.9 1,714.8 1,716.3 1,666.7 1,764.8 1,717.9 1,718.1 1,708.4 1,704.3 1,702.1 -2.2 Motor vehicles and parts (2). 1,031.3 1,015.3 1,012.9 964.8 1,068.6 1,022.1 1,016.6 1,006.8 1,002.7 1,002.4 -.3 Furniture and related products 558.2 535.9 533.4 531.5 558.4 533.5 533.2 533.0 529.8 531.0 1.2 Miscellaneous manufacturing... 648.2 655.3 654.4 650.9 649.0 658.9 657.7 656.3 653.0 653.2 .2 Nondurable goods............... 5,243 5,136 5,185 5,190 5,206 5,162 5,151 5,156 5,154 5,149 -5 Production workers........... 3,837 3,763 3,806 3,824 3,807 3,783 3,777 3,782 3,785 3,791 6 Food manufacturing............ 1,507.4 1,477.5 1,505.0 1,533.2 1,487.3 1,495.0 1,493.5 1,499.8 1,503.3 1,508.9 5.6 Beverages and tobacco products 199.1 196.6 203.8 204.8 194.2 197.3 198.2 198.5 200.6 200.0 -.6 Textile mills................. 194.5 174.5 174.2 169.5 194.7 177.3 174.6 173.5 172.5 169.8 -2.7 Textile product mills......... 162.0 156.3 156.1 154.5 160.9 156.7 156.5 155.3 154.7 153.6 -1.1 Apparel....................... 239.6 221.3 221.5 215.9 240.9 223.7 221.4 220.1 218.1 216.8 -1.3 Leather and allied products... 36.7 36.3 36.2 34.5 37.2 36.6 36.1 35.9 35.9 35.0 -.9 Paper and paper products...... 472.5 457.3 459.9 458.3 469.9 457.4 458.4 457.8 457.0 455.7 -1.3 Printing and related support activities................... 635.6 629.5 632.7 629.9 633.5 633.5 630.9 629.9 629.4 628.8 -.6 Petroleum and coal products... 119.0 120.0 120.0 120.1 115.7 118.2 117.6 119.2 117.3 117.0 -.3 Chemicals..................... 875.1 871.1 879.0 879.9 869.6 870.6 869.7 872.3 873.7 873.5 -.2 Plastics and rubber products.. 801.8 795.5 796.7 789.8 801.6 795.2 794.3 793.2 791.0 789.6 -1.4 Service-providing........... 113,032 116,141 116,366 115,057 113,630 115,097 115,256 115,458 115,591 115,695 104 Private service-providing.. 92,236 93,512 94,160 94,036 91,640 92,900 93,027 93,222 93,336 93,468 132 Trade, transportation, and utilities...................... 26,213 26,420 26,524 26,467 26,226 26,436 26,427 26,459 26,469 26,488 19 Wholesale trade................ 5,935.7 6,005.5 6,050.7 6,054.5 5,901.5 5,961.3 5,978.7 5,990.5 6,009.0 6,019.3 10.3 Durable goods................. 3,095.0 3,136.6 3,159.3 3,168.5 3,078.1 3,114.0 3,124.7 3,134.5 3,142.5 3,150.7 8.2 Nondurable goods.............. 2,056.8 2,062.7 2,083.7 2,076.3 2,042.0 2,050.1 2,052.2 2,053.4 2,062.4 2,061.1 -1.3 Electronic markets and agents and brokers.................. 783.9 806.2 807.7 809.7 781.4 797.2 801.8 802.6 804.1 807.5 3.4 Retail trade...................15,285.5 15,334.0 15,375.9 15,355.1 15,306.4 15,403.7 15,376.9 15,394.5 15,381.0 15,379.8 -1.2 Motor vehicle and parts dealers (1).................. 1,925.8 1,915.3 1,925.9 1,927.3 1,906.4 1,907.2 1,911.2 1,911.5 1,908.5 1,908.2 -.3 Automobile dealers........... 1,256.2 1,247.5 1,252.3 1,253.5 1,248.4 1,243.5 1,246.9 1,247.7 1,245.8 1,245.1 -.7 Furniture and home furnishings stores....................... 582.8 581.8 577.0 573.1 589.9 585.6 586.7 585.2 582.2 581.2 -1.0 Electronics and appliance stores....................... 528.6 529.2 529.4 529.1 540.2 538.4 540.7 539.3 537.7 539.7 2.0 Building material and garden supply stores................ 1,370.4 1,376.5 1,373.2 1,347.7 1,329.1 1,313.8 1,313.8 1,314.9 1,312.6 1,308.1 -4.5 Food and beverage stores...... 2,842.1 2,857.7 2,887.1 2,886.4 2,825.2 2,856.3 2,858.6 2,861.1 2,866.7 2,868.1 1.4 Health and personal care stores....................... 952.4 967.4 972.2 962.6 954.8 966.5 969.8 968.5 969.2 965.9 -3.3 Gasoline stations............. 874.7 855.6 860.6 863.4 862.1 854.5 852.4 852.5 852.4 851.4 -1.0 Clothing and clothing accessories stores........... 1,438.1 1,410.9 1,424.5 1,446.3 1,436.0 1,449.7 1,452.7 1,451.6 1,446.3 1,447.2 .9 Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores............. 621.8 644.3 641.1 641.7 641.4 653.9 655.6 659.5 659.8 662.9 3.1 General merchandise stores (1)................... 2,850.6 2,888.0 2,877.1 2,868.3 2,907.2 2,956.4 2,915.4 2,928.5 2,922.9 2,921.2 -1.7 Department stores............ 1,504.7 1,524.1 1,525.5 1,518.1 1,548.0 1,570.6 1,560.9 1,566.2 1,562.8 1,560.2 -2.6 Miscellaneous store retailers. 882.5 881.0 884.0 882.8 882.8 880.3 879.0 879.3 881.0 881.8 .8 Nonstore retailers............ 415.7 426.3 423.8 426.4 431.3 441.1 441.0 442.6 441.7 444.1 2.4 Transportation and warehousing. 4,438.9 4,526.1 4,539.4 4,497.2 4,470.6 4,520.8 4,519.6 4,520.1 4,523.8 4,534.2 10.4 Air transportation............ 488.4 483.2 493.5 498.1 485.9 485.5 490.0 484.4 492.3 495.7 3.4 Rail transportation........... 226.6 228.8 227.2 227.2 225.5 229.1 228.3 227.9 226.6 226.4 -.2 Water transportation.......... 66.1 68.8 72.1 74.2 63.7 68.0 67.3 68.3 70.0 71.4 1.4 Truck transportation.......... 1,460.0 1,451.6 1,466.9 1,463.2 1,442.2 1,457.2 1,452.5 1,455.5 1,449.6 1,446.9 -2.7 Transit and ground passenger transportation............... 332.9 411.3 387.6 334.4 394.6 390.3 389.9 390.9 390.1 395.0 4.9 Pipeline transportation....... 39.6 40.7 40.8 41.3 39.2 41.0 40.5 40.8 40.7 40.9 .2 Scenic and sightseeing transportation............... 36.1 27.6 31.6 34.9 26.7 27.3 27.0 26.7 26.4 26.3 -.1 Support activities for transportation............... 571.0 580.8 586.2 584.0 569.9 579.6 581.6 581.8 583.3 583.6 .3 Couriers and messengers....... 580.1 585.3 585.2 586.3 583.6 591.0 589.8 588.5 589.6 591.4 1.8 Warehousing and storage....... 638.1 648.0 648.3 653.6 639.3 651.8 652.7 655.3 655.2 656.6 1.4 Utilities...................... 552.7 554.0 558.4 560.1 547.9 550.1 551.5 553.4 554.7 554.5 -.2 Information..................... 3,060 3,105 3,117 3,104 3,043 3,086 3,096 3,097 3,096 3,091 -5 Publishing industries, except Internet..................... 905.9 904.5 908.6 909.5 902.9 907.4 906.1 907.7 905.8 906.7 .9 Motion picture and sound recording industries......... 384.2 400.1 405.0 391.8 372.0 387.1 394.2 391.9 390.4 382.7 -7.7 Broadcasting, except Internet. 332.7 336.0 338.4 335.8 331.6 337.1 337.8 336.6 337.2 335.1 -2.1 Internet publishing and broadcasting................. 33.2 40.8 41.7 42.6 33.3 39.0 39.9 40.6 41.4 42.7 1.3 Telecommunications............ 970.0 974.7 974.1 973.7 969.3 973.0 974.6 973.9 973.7 973.5 -.2 ISPs, search portals, and data processing................... 381.6 395.9 396.5 398.6 382.1 390.0 390.8 394.2 395.4 399.0 3.6 Other information services.... 52.2 52.6 52.9 52.3 51.5 52.3 52.1 52.1 52.1 51.6 -.5 Financial activities............ 8,434 8,454 8,518 8,554 8,368 8,445 8,448 8,464 8,462 8,489 27 Finance and insurance.......... 6,207.1 6,247.1 6,275.0 6,296.6 6,187.2 6,242.6 6,241.4 6,256.1 6,256.2 6,276.7 20.5 Monetary authorities - central bank......................... 21.8 22.5 22.4 21.7 21.6 22.1 22.2 22.4 22.1 21.5 -.6 Credit intermediation and related activities (1)....... 2,948.2 2,944.9 2,948.7 2,960.0 2,936.1 2,957.6 2,945.3 2,948.7 2,939.4 2,950.4 11.0 Depository credit intermediation (1).......... 1,812.8 1,822.7 1,831.2 1,841.4 1,803.3 1,824.3 1,818.6 1,824.7 1,824.7 1,832.2 7.5 Commercial banking.......... 1,326.5 1,329.9 1,336.0 1,344.6 1,319.4 1,335.2 1,327.7 1,332.5 1,332.2 1,338.1 5.9 Securities, commodity contracts, investments....... 818.1 837.6 844.8 850.6 817.4 834.5 836.8 841.6 845.6 849.5 3.9 Insurance carriers and related activities................... 2,324.3 2,347.3 2,363.1 2,368.5 2,318.1 2,333.4 2,342.4 2,348.5 2,353.9 2,360.1 6.2 Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles........... 94.7 94.8 96.0 95.8 94.0 95.0 94.7 94.9 95.2 95.2 .0 Real estate and rental and leasing....................... 2,226.7 2,207.0 2,243.4 2,257.4 2,181.1 2,202.5 2,206.5 2,207.4 2,205.6 2,212.7 7.1 Real estate................... 1,532.8 1,525.5 1,546.2 1,556.7 1,503.8 1,523.5 1,525.4 1,527.7 1,525.0 1,529.6 4.6 Rental and leasing services... 664.2 649.9 664.6 666.7 648.0 647.9 650.0 647.8 647.9 649.7 1.8 Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets............ 29.7 31.6 32.6 34.0 29.3 31.1 31.1 31.9 32.7 33.4 .7 Professional and business services....................... 17,733 17,891 18,106 18,056 17,592 17,834 17,859 17,893 17,900 17,926 26 Professional and technical services (1).................. 7,388.5 7,561.2 7,651.6 7,663.5 7,398.0 7,553.7 7,591.3 7,625.3 7,644.6 7,670.5 25.9 Legal services............... 1,187.7 1,179.1 1,199.2 1,195.2 1,171.0 1,178.1 1,181.8 1,183.4 1,180.6 1,179.6 -1.0 Accounting and bookkeeping services.................... 817.0 882.4 883.1 873.8 884.8 924.4 927.5 934.5 940.0 945.0 5.0 Architectural and engineering services.................... 1,418.8 1,430.4 1,457.4 1,463.8 1,392.9 1,424.0 1,426.0 1,431.4 1,435.0 1,437.3 2.3 Computer systems design and related services............ 1,287.1 1,334.8 1,345.3 1,359.8 1,288.0 1,319.7 1,328.5 1,338.3 1,343.7 1,358.5 14.8 Management and technical consulting services......... 926.2 988.8 1,001.9 1,003.6 918.6 970.5 985.4 989.2 994.6 997.1 2.5 Management of companies and enterprises................... 1,832.7 1,847.4 1,857.6 1,862.5 1,811.1 1,837.1 1,839.9 1,841.5 1,840.6 1,841.3 .7 Administrative and waste services...................... 8,511.3 8,482.3 8,596.7 8,530.0 8,382.4 8,443.5 8,427.7 8,426.3 8,414.5 8,414.6 .1 Administrative and support services (1)................. 8,154.4 8,128.8 8,236.3 8,166.4 8,033.8 8,092.5 8,076.3 8,073.4 8,060.6 8,059.9 -.7 Employment services (1)...... 3,672.5 3,565.3 3,605.6 3,533.8 3,663.5 3,637.1 3,602.1 3,584.4 3,562.8 3,542.3 -20.5 Temporary help services..... 2,630.3 2,594.8 2,628.6 2,581.2 2,633.4 2,621.2 2,613.1 2,602.7 2,596.2 2,589.3 -6.9 Business support services.... 782.5 801.8 799.8 804.7 789.7 801.9 801.6 804.8 803.8 812.8 9.0 Services to buildings and dwellings................... 1,920.0 1,909.2 1,963.9 1,966.6 1,803.1 1,819.7 1,829.7 1,835.1 1,840.0 1,844.8 4.8 Waste management and remediation services......... 356.9 353.5 360.4 363.6 348.6 351.0 351.4 352.9 353.9 354.7 .8 Education and health services... 17,481 18,377 18,183 18,042 17,828 18,188 18,246 18,293 18,357 18,396 39 Educational services........... 2,574.2 3,044.1 2,786.4 2,658.6 2,911.0 2,972.4 2,978.7 2,983.4 3,008.1 3,002.5 -5.6 Health care and social assistance....................14,906.7 15,332.9 15,396.5 15,383.5 14,917.2 15,215.9 15,266.8 15,309.7 15,349.1 15,393.1 44.0 Health care (3)...............12,649.5 12,917.7 12,999.3 13,029.5 12,620.3 12,861.4 12,900.5 12,930.9 12,961.3 12,997.4 36.1 Ambulatory health care services (1)................ 5,286.0 5,445.8 5,466.8 5,488.0 5,281.5 5,409.2 5,428.4 5,446.7 5,453.9 5,481.9 28.0 Offices of physicians....... 2,157.2 2,213.5 2,218.5 2,223.1 2,155.2 2,204.3 2,210.5 2,214.7 2,212.8 2,221.6 8.8 Outpatient care centers..... 488.4 495.4 495.8 495.3 488.1 494.8 495.8 495.1 495.2 495.5 .3 Home health care services... 867.0 910.5 922.2 928.5 867.6 904.1 907.2 911.3 920.1 927.7 7.6 Hospitals.................... 4,446.5 4,500.4 4,538.4 4,553.2 4,429.2 4,490.8 4,499.7 4,511.0 4,525.5 4,534.1 8.6 Nursing and residential care facilities (1).............. 2,917.0 2,971.5 2,994.1 2,988.3 2,909.6 2,961.4 2,972.4 2,973.2 2,981.9 2,981.4 -.5 Nursing care facilities..... 1,591.0 1,604.6 1,610.3 1,607.9 1,589.7 1,603.9 1,609.1 1,606.5 1,606.0 1,606.8 .8 Social assistance (1)......... 2,257.2 2,415.2 2,397.2 2,354.0 2,296.9 2,354.5 2,366.3 2,378.8 2,387.8 2,395.7 7.9 Child day care services...... 750.1 834.2 813.8 771.4 795.0 804.9 810.5 812.3 816.3 817.7 1.4 Leisure and hospitality......... 13,826 13,763 14,156 14,263 13,156 13,449 13,481 13,537 13,570 13,592 22 Arts, entertainment, and recreation.................... 2,240.8 2,048.8 2,230.9 2,280.7 1,933.4 1,963.2 1,953.5 1,968.5 1,975.9 1,972.3 -3.6 Performing arts and spectator sports....................... 434.7 429.7 433.4 438.5 403.6 405.9 402.8 409.5 410.7 406.9 -3.8 Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks.............. 137.0 134.6 143.9 147.9 124.0 128.2 128.8 130.7 132.1 133.3 1.2 Amusements, gambling, and recreation................... 1,669.1 1,484.5 1,653.6 1,694.3 1,405.8 1,429.1 1,421.9 1,428.3 1,433.1 1,432.1 -1.0 Accommodations and food services......................11,585.3 11,714.0 11,924.8 11,982.1 11,222.8 11,486.0 11,527.9 11,568.5 11,593.8 11,619.7 25.9 Accommodations................ 1,975.7 1,858.2 1,945.6 2,005.8 1,830.2 1,860.0 1,860.5 1,862.8 1,858.0 1,861.7 3.7 Food services and drinking places....................... 9,609.6 9,855.8 9,979.2 9,976.3 9,392.6 9,626.0 9,667.4 9,705.7 9,735.8 9,758.0 22.2 Other services.................. 5,489 5,502 5,556 5,550 5,427 5,462 5,470 5,479 5,482 5,486 4 Repair and maintenance........ 1,252.6 1,269.9 1,275.5 1,265.6 1,244.4 1,255.9 1,257.4 1,260.4 1,260.7 1,257.7 -3.0 Personal and laundry services. 1,289.4 1,314.2 1,311.7 1,305.3 1,282.9 1,290.8 1,292.6 1,296.5 1,293.4 1,298.6 5.2 Membership associations and organizations................ 2,946.8 2,918.3 2,968.9 2,978.7 2,899.2 2,915.7 2,919.5 2,921.9 2,927.4 2,929.8 2.4 Government...................... 20,796 22,629 22,206 21,021 21,990 22,197 22,229 22,236 22,255 22,227 -28 Federal........................ 2,761 2,714 2,726 2,726 2,739 2,716 2,716 2,713 2,707 2,705 -2 Federal, except U.S. Postal Service...................... 1,985.8 1,950.1 1,964.5 1,967.5 1,962.4 1,949.7 1,950.0 1,947.5 1,943.8 1,944.6 .8 U.S. Postal Service........... 775.1 763.7 761.5 758.0 777.0 766.5 766.4 765.5 763.3 760.1 -3.2 State government............... 4,797 5,181 4,937 4,844 5,078 5,134 5,140 5,133 5,139 5,129 -10 State government education.... 1,986.9 2,362.8 2,099.1 2,014.4 2,292.9 2,324.5 2,326.4 2,321.7 2,327.0 2,323.6 -3.4 State government, excluding education.................... 2,810.5 2,818.6 2,837.9 2,829.9 2,785.3 2,809.2 2,813.7 2,811.3 2,812.4 2,805.8 -6.6 Local government............... 13,238 14,734 14,543 13,451 14,173 14,347 14,373 14,390 14,409 14,393 -16 Local government education.... 6,773.0 8,412.3 8,025.8 6,885.9 7,926.5 8,044.1 8,056.0 8,062.7 8,066.7 8,051.4 -15.3 Local government, excluding education.................... 6,464.9 6,321.5 6,516.7 6,564.9 6,246.8 6,302.9 6,317.0 6,327.7 6,342.4 6,341.8 -.6 1 Includes other industries, not shown separately. 2 Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, and motor vehicle parts. 3 Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities. p = preliminary. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-2. Average weekly hours of production and nonsupervisory workers (1) on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Change Industry July May June July July Mar. Apr. May June July from: 2006 2007 2007p 2007p 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007p 2007p June 2007- July 2007p Total private......................... 34.2 33.7 34.0 34.2 33.9 33.9 33.8 33.8 33.9 33.8 -0.1 Goods-producing........................... 40.5 40.6 41.0 40.5 40.7 40.6 40.4 40.5 40.7 40.6 -.1 Natural resources and mining.................. 45.8 45.7 46.3 45.8 45.9 45.9 45.8 45.7 45.9 45.8 -.1 Construction.................................. 39.4 39.3 39.7 39.4 38.9 39.0 38.8 38.9 39.1 38.9 -.2 Manufacturing................................. 40.9 41.1 41.5 40.9 41.5 41.2 41.1 41.1 41.3 41.3 .0 Overtime hours............................. 4.3 4.1 4.4 4.0 4.5 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.2 4.2 .0 Durable goods................................ 41.2 41.4 41.8 41.1 41.8 41.4 41.2 41.3 41.6 41.6 .0 Overtime hours............................. 4.3 4.1 4.4 4.0 4.5 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.3 4.2 -.1 Wood products............................... 40.1 39.8 40.5 40.0 40.0 39.5 39.6 39.5 39.8 39.9 .1 Nonmetallic mineral products................ 43.5 42.5 43.1 42.9 43.4 42.4 42.2 42.3 42.5 42.7 .2 Primary metals.............................. 43.4 42.7 43.3 42.6 44.0 43.2 43.0 42.8 43.3 43.1 -.2 Fabricated metal products................... 41.1 41.4 41.6 41.2 41.6 41.6 41.4 41.4 41.5 41.6 .1 Machinery................................... 42.6 42.3 42.5 42.1 42.9 42.3 42.4 42.3 42.4 42.3 -.1 Computer and electronic products............ 40.3 40.3 40.8 40.2 40.7 40.4 40.4 40.4 40.7 40.5 -.2 Electrical equipment and appliances......... 40.8 41.1 42.1 41.2 41.4 40.9 41.1 41.3 42.1 41.6 -.5 Transportation equipment.................... 41.8 43.1 43.4 41.9 43.7 42.8 42.3 42.9 43.2 43.5 .3 Motor vehicles and parts (2)............... 41.0 42.9 43.2 41.0 43.2 42.4 41.7 42.6 42.8 43.0 .2 Furniture and related products.............. 38.7 38.6 39.5 38.9 38.8 38.9 38.9 38.9 39.1 38.9 -.2 Miscellaneous manufacturing................. 38.2 38.6 39.0 38.2 38.7 38.5 38.6 38.6 38.7 38.7 .0 Nondurable goods............................. 40.5 40.7 41.0 40.6 40.9 40.9 40.9 40.8 40.9 40.9 .0 Overtime hours............................. 4.5 4.0 4.2 4.1 4.5 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.1 .0 Food manufacturing.......................... 40.0 40.4 40.6 40.7 40.2 41.0 40.7 40.6 40.6 40.8 .2 Beverages and tobacco products.............. 42.2 41.0 41.6 40.6 41.9 40.7 41.3 40.5 40.8 40.4 -.4 Textile mills............................... 40.2 40.3 40.3 39.0 40.8 40.5 40.2 40.2 40.2 39.7 -.5 Textile product mills....................... 39.8 39.5 40.9 39.9 40.4 39.6 39.9 39.8 40.6 40.3 -.3 Apparel..................................... 36.3 37.4 37.9 37.0 36.8 36.7 37.3 37.3 37.7 37.4 -.3 Leather and allied products................. 38.7 39.1 38.3 37.5 39.2 37.9 37.6 38.9 38.1 37.9 -.2 Paper and paper products.................... 43.4 42.8 43.1 43.3 43.6 43.1 43.0 42.9 43.0 43.3 .3 Printing and related support activities..... 38.7 38.8 38.8 38.6 39.1 39.3 39.4 39.1 39.1 39.0 -.1 Petroleum and coal products................. 45.7 44.5 44.9 44.3 45.5 44.7 44.9 44.6 44.6 44.2 -.4 Chemicals................................... 42.4 41.9 42.1 41.9 42.9 41.9 42.2 42.0 42.2 42.2 .0 Plastics and rubber products................ 40.3 41.1 41.6 40.2 41.1 40.9 41.2 41.1 41.4 41.0 -.4 Private service-providing................ 32.9 32.3 32.5 32.9 32.4 32.5 32.4 32.4 32.4 32.4 .0 Trade, transportation, and utilities.......... 33.9 33.3 33.6 33.8 33.4 33.4 33.3 33.4 33.4 33.3 -.1 Wholesale trade.............................. 38.4 38.3 38.2 38.6 38.0 38.2 38.1 38.3 38.2 38.2 .0 Retail trade................................. 31.0 30.1 30.4 30.7 30.4 30.2 30.2 30.2 30.2 30.1 -.1 Transportation and warehousing............... 37.4 36.8 37.1 37.5 36.9 37.2 36.9 37.0 37.0 37.0 .0 Utilities.................................... 41.6 42.5 42.6 42.7 41.6 42.5 42.3 42.4 42.6 42.7 .1 Information................................... 37.2 36.0 36.2 37.1 36.7 36.7 36.5 36.3 36.3 36.5 .2 Financial activities.......................... 36.3 35.5 35.8 36.6 35.7 36.0 36.0 35.9 36.0 36.0 .0 Professional and business services............ 34.9 34.7 34.8 35.1 34.7 34.8 34.7 34.8 34.7 34.8 .1 Education and health services................. 32.8 32.3 32.5 32.8 32.5 32.6 32.6 32.5 32.5 32.5 .0 Leisure and hospitality....................... 26.6 25.5 25.9 26.4 25.6 25.6 25.6 25.6 25.6 25.4 -.2 Other services................................ 31.2 30.9 30.9 31.0 30.9 31.0 30.9 31.0 30.8 30.7 -.1 1 Data relate to production workers in natural resources and mining and manufacturing, construction workers in construction, and nonsupervisory workers in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls. 2 Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, and motor vehicle parts. p = preliminary. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory workers (1) on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings Industry July May June July July May June July 2006 2007 2007p 2007p 2006 2007 2007p 2007p Total private........................... $16.75 $17.28 $17.29 $17.42 $572.85 $582.34 $587.86 $595.76 Seasonally adjusted.................... 16.79 17.32 17.39 17.45 569.18 585.42 589.52 589.81 Goods-producing............................. 18.03 18.59 18.65 18.69 730.22 754.75 764.65 756.95 Natural resources and mining.................... 19.79 20.86 20.78 20.67 906.38 953.30 962.11 946.69 Construction.................................... 20.12 20.84 20.89 20.99 792.73 819.01 829.33 827.01 Manufacturing................................... 16.70 17.19 17.23 17.22 683.03 706.51 715.05 704.30 Durable goods.................................. 17.52 18.12 18.17 18.11 721.82 750.17 759.51 744.32 Wood products................................. 13.43 13.61 13.70 13.65 538.54 541.68 554.85 546.00 Nonmetallic mineral products.................. 16.57 17.03 17.20 17.06 720.80 723.78 741.32 731.87 Primary metals................................ 19.17 19.57 19.64 19.87 831.98 835.64 850.41 846.46 Fabricated metal products..................... 16.18 16.49 16.46 16.49 665.00 682.69 684.74 679.39 Machinery..................................... 17.13 17.64 17.63 18.01 729.74 746.17 749.28 758.22 Computer and electronic products.............. 19.02 19.91 19.95 20.15 766.51 802.37 813.96 810.03 Electrical equipment and appliances........... 15.55 15.97 15.92 15.92 634.44 656.37 670.23 655.90 Transportation equipment...................... 21.92 22.85 23.06 22.64 916.26 984.84 1000.80 948.62 Furniture and related products................ 13.76 14.34 14.39 14.26 532.51 553.52 568.41 554.71 Miscellaneous manufacturing................... 14.53 14.42 14.56 14.72 555.05 556.61 567.84 562.30 Nondurable goods............................... 15.31 15.60 15.63 15.72 620.06 634.92 640.83 638.23 Food manufacturing............................ 13.11 13.51 13.50 13.55 524.40 545.80 548.10 551.49 Beverages and tobacco products................ 18.15 18.58 18.22 18.71 765.93 761.78 757.95 759.63 Textile mills................................. 12.54 12.89 13.01 13.21 504.11 519.47 524.30 515.19 Textile product mills......................... 12.13 11.92 11.96 12.09 482.77 470.84 489.16 482.39 Apparel....................................... 10.69 10.91 10.92 11.02 388.05 408.03 413.87 407.74 Leather and allied products................... 11.58 11.85 12.00 11.93 448.15 463.34 459.60 447.38 Paper and paper products...................... 18.27 18.45 18.47 18.67 792.92 789.66 796.06 808.41 Printing and related support activities....... 15.75 15.92 16.02 16.13 609.53 617.70 621.58 622.62 Petroleum and coal products................... 23.44 24.78 24.57 24.97 1071.21 1102.71 1103.19 1106.17 Chemicals..................................... 19.26 19.52 19.59 19.56 816.62 817.89 824.74 819.56 Plastics and rubber products.................. 14.99 15.29 15.37 15.35 604.10 628.42 639.39 617.07 Private service-providing.................. 16.41 16.93 16.93 17.09 539.89 546.84 550.23 562.26 Trade, transportation, and utilities............ 15.53 15.70 15.75 15.87 526.47 522.81 529.20 536.41 Wholesale trade................................ 19.07 19.28 19.39 19.64 732.29 738.42 740.70 758.10 Retail trade................................... 12.68 12.77 12.78 12.83 393.08 384.38 388.51 393.88 Transportation and warehousing................. 17.50 17.55 17.72 17.87 654.50 645.84 657.41 670.13 Utilities...................................... 27.43 27.75 27.49 27.65 1141.09 1179.38 1171.07 1180.66 Information..................................... 23.15 23.82 23.77 23.77 861.18 857.52 860.47 881.87 Financial activities............................ 18.81 19.54 19.54 19.67 682.80 693.67 699.53 719.92 Professional and business services.............. 19.24 19.95 19.95 20.38 671.48 692.27 694.26 715.34 Education and health services................... 17.42 17.84 17.92 18.08 571.38 576.23 582.40 593.02 Leisure and hospitality......................... 9.62 10.33 10.27 10.33 255.89 263.42 265.99 272.71 Other services.................................. 14.66 15.15 15.12 15.17 457.39 468.14 467.21 470.27 1 See footnote 1, table B-2. p = preliminary. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-4. Average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory workers (1) on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail, seasonally adjusted Percent Industry July Mar. Apr. May June July change from: 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007p 2007p June 2007- July 2007p Total private: Current dollars........................ $16.79 $17.21 $17.25 $17.32 $17.39 $17.45 0.3 Constant (1982) dollars (2)............ 8.17 8.32 8.30 8.26 8.29 N.A. (3) Goods-producing............................. 18.00 18.45 18.53 18.61 18.64 18.66 .1 Natural resources and mining.................... 19.86 20.77 20.81 20.85 20.86 20.80 -.3 Construction.................................... 20.06 20.68 20.73 20.91 20.92 20.92 .0 Manufacturing................................... 16.78 17.09 17.18 17.20 17.24 17.29 .3 Excluding overtime (4)....................... 15.92 16.24 16.34 16.38 16.41 16.45 .2 Durable goods.................................. 17.66 18.03 18.12 18.15 18.19 18.24 .3 Nondurable goods............................... 15.26 15.49 15.60 15.60 15.64 15.67 .2 Private service-providing.................. 16.46 16.88 16.91 16.98 17.06 17.13 .4 Trade, transportation, and utilities............ 15.48 15.66 15.69 15.71 15.77 15.81 .3 Wholesale trade................................ 18.94 19.32 19.39 19.38 19.50 19.52 .1 Retail trade................................... 12.65 12.72 12.75 12.75 12.76 12.79 .2 Transportation and warehousing................. 17.41 17.54 17.57 17.65 17.72 17.76 .2 Utilities...................................... 27.52 27.66 27.68 27.71 27.74 27.78 .1 Information..................................... 23.30 23.83 23.86 23.87 23.99 23.95 -.2 Financial activities............................ 18.81 19.51 19.53 19.59 19.67 19.68 .1 Professional and business services.............. 19.14 19.83 19.84 20.03 20.13 20.27 .7 Education and health services................... 17.40 17.78 17.80 17.89 17.97 18.04 .4 Leisure and hospitality......................... 9.75 10.19 10.29 10.32 10.37 10.45 .8 Other services.................................. 14.76 15.07 15.10 15.14 15.20 15.27 .5 1 See footnote 1, table B-2. 2 The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is used to deflate this series. 3 Change was .4 percent from May 2007 to June 2007, the latest month available. 4 Derived by assuming that overtime hours are paid at the rate of time and one-half. N.A. = not available. p = preliminary. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-5. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours of production and nonsupervisory workers (1) on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail (2002=100) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Percent Industry July May June July July Mar. Apr. May June July change from: 2006 2007 2007p 2007p 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007p 2007p June 2007- July 2007p Total private......................... 108.0 107.4 109.4 110.0 106.0 107.3 107.1 107.3 107.8 107.7 -0.1 Goods-producing........................... 104.9 103.0 105.7 104.5 103.6 102.6 101.9 102.4 103.0 102.8 -.2 Natural resources and mining.................. 130.0 132.1 137.0 136.1 127.6 132.0 131.7 132.1 133.4 133.4 .0 Construction.................................. 122.1 117.2 122.0 122.1 115.3 115.2 114.2 114.7 115.8 115.2 -.5 Manufacturing................................. 96.0 95.2 96.9 95.1 97.2 95.5 95.2 95.3 95.8 95.8 .0 Durable goods................................ 98.8 98.5 100.0 97.3 100.6 98.2 97.8 98.1 98.7 98.8 .1 Wood products............................... 103.4 93.2 96.1 95.4 101.7 92.1 92.2 92.4 92.8 93.4 .6 Nonmetallic mineral products................ 104.1 97.9 101.4 100.7 101.0 96.4 95.7 96.6 97.4 97.4 .0 Primary metals.............................. 93.3 90.5 91.6 88.9 95.1 91.2 90.9 90.6 91.2 90.5 -.8 Fabricated metal products................... 103.1 104.0 105.4 103.9 104.4 104.5 104.1 104.2 104.6 105.0 .4 Machinery................................... 104.6 105.7 107.4 106.5 105.2 105.3 105.4 105.8 106.7 106.9 .2 Computer and electronic products............ 104.9 103.7 104.8 103.0 105.8 104.5 104.1 104.0 104.2 103.7 -.5 Electrical equipment and appliances......... 88.9 91.1 93.5 91.5 90.4 90.4 91.1 91.6 93.2 92.3 -1.0 Transportation equipment.................... 95.6 99.0 99.9 93.0 102.6 97.6 97.0 98.0 98.6 99.1 .5 Motor vehicles and parts (2)............... 86.7 88.8 89.3 80.2 95.2 87.9 86.4 87.4 87.6 87.6 .0 Furniture and related products.............. 90.5 86.4 88.0 86.4 90.5 86.6 86.4 86.5 86.4 86.1 -.3 Miscellaneous manufacturing................. 89.0 92.4 93.2 90.6 90.4 92.1 92.3 92.4 92.4 92.2 -.2 Nondurable goods............................. 91.5 90.2 91.9 91.4 91.7 91.1 91.0 90.9 91.2 91.3 .1 Food manufacturing.......................... 100.5 99.7 102.3 104.9 99.5 102.7 101.8 102.1 102.4 103.3 .9 Beverages and tobacco products.............. 104.6 103.4 109.3 107.6 100.2 102.6 105.6 103.8 105.4 104.4 -.9 Textile mills............................... 64.2 58.2 57.7 54.2 65.4 59.4 57.9 57.6 57.0 55.4 -2.8 Textile product mills....................... 85.8 79.9 82.5 79.3 86.9 80.8 81.1 79.8 81.2 79.9 -1.6 Apparel..................................... 63.8 62.2 63.3 59.8 65.0 61.3 61.7 61.5 61.6 60.7 -1.5 Leather and allied products................. 73.4 76.0 74.2 69.1 75.6 73.4 71.3 74.3 73.0 71.4 -2.2 Paper and paper products.................... 88.2 84.5 86.1 86.3 88.1 85.2 85.2 84.9 85.3 85.8 .6 Printing and related support activities..... 92.0 91.5 91.7 91.1 92.3 93.9 93.1 92.3 92.1 91.8 -.3 Petroleum and coal products................. 104.5 99.3 102.8 102.2 100.4 95.4 96.5 98.4 98.5 97.8 -.7 Chemicals................................... 97.1 94.5 96.0 97.0 97.6 94.0 95.0 94.7 95.6 96.8 1.3 Plastics and rubber products................ 92.9 94.9 96.4 92.3 94.9 94.2 95.0 94.6 95.3 94.4 -.9 Private service-providing................ 109.1 108.8 110.4 111.7 106.6 108.6 108.5 108.7 108.9 109.1 .2 Trade, transportation, and utilities.......... 104.5 103.7 105.1 105.7 103.0 104.0 103.6 104.2 104.3 104.1 -.2 Wholesale trade.............................. 107.6 109.0 109.8 111.3 105.7 107.7 107.7 108.7 108.8 109.4 .6 Retail trade................................. 102.3 100.1 101.4 102.4 100.5 100.9 100.7 100.9 100.8 100.6 -.2 Transportation and warehousing............... 108.8 108.7 110.0 110.0 108.2 109.6 108.7 109.1 109.2 109.4 .2 Utilities.................................... 95.1 96.3 97.4 97.9 94.1 96.0 95.5 96.0 96.7 96.8 .1 Information................................... 102.9 101.1 102.0 104.1 100.9 102.2 101.9 101.6 101.4 101.8 .4 Financial activities.......................... 110.8 109.3 111.4 114.6 107.9 110.6 110.7 110.6 111.1 111.6 .5 Professional and business services............ 114.2 114.5 116.4 117.3 112.5 114.7 114.4 115.0 114.7 115.2 .4 Education and health services................. 107.9 111.8 111.4 111.6 109.0 111.6 111.9 111.9 112.4 112.7 .3 Leisure and hospitality....................... 119.4 113.7 119.2 122.5 108.8 111.5 111.8 112.1 112.3 111.7 -.5 Other services................................ 99.6 99.3 100.5 100.9 97.3 98.7 98.6 99.1 98.7 98.5 -.2 1 See footnote 1, table B-2. 2 Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, and motor vehicle parts. p = preliminary. NOTE: The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2002 annual average levels. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and production and nonsupervisory worker employment. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-6. Indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls of production and nonsupervisory workers (1) on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail (2002=100) Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted Percent Industry July May June July July Mar. Apr. May June July change from: 2006 2007 2007p 2007p 2006 2007 2007 2007 2007p 2007p June 2007- July 2007p Total private......................... 120.9 124.0 126.4 128.1 118.9 123.4 123.4 124.2 125.3 125.6 0.2 Goods-producing........................... 115.8 117.2 120.7 119.6 114.2 115.9 115.7 116.6 117.6 117.5 -.1 Natural resources and mining.................. 149.6 160.3 165.6 163.6 147.3 159.4 159.4 160.2 161.9 161.3 -.4 Construction.................................. 132.7 131.9 137.6 138.4 124.9 128.7 127.8 129.5 130.8 130.2 -.5 Manufacturing................................. 104.8 107.1 109.1 107.1 106.7 106.7 107.0 107.2 108.0 108.4 .4 Durable goods................................ 108.1 111.4 113.4 110.1 110.9 110.5 110.6 111.2 112.1 112.5 .4 Nondurable goods............................. 99.0 99.4 101.5 101.6 98.9 99.7 100.3 100.2 100.8 101.1 .3 Private service-providing................ 122.8 126.3 128.1 130.9 120.3 125.7 125.8 126.6 127.4 128.2 .6 Trade, transportation, and utilities.......... 115.8 116.2 118.1 119.6 113.7 116.2 116.0 116.8 117.3 117.4 .1 Wholesale trade.............................. 120.9 123.8 125.4 128.8 117.9 122.5 123.0 124.1 125.0 125.8 .6 Retail trade................................. 111.2 109.6 111.1 112.6 108.9 110.0 110.0 110.3 110.3 110.2 -.1 Transportation and warehousing............... 120.8 121.0 123.6 124.7 119.5 121.9 121.2 122.1 122.8 123.3 .4 Utilities.................................... 108.9 111.6 111.7 113.0 108.1 110.8 110.3 111.1 111.9 112.3 .4 Information................................... 117.9 119.3 120.0 122.5 116.4 120.5 120.4 120.1 120.5 120.7 .2 Financial activities.......................... 128.9 132.1 134.6 139.3 125.5 133.5 133.7 134.0 135.1 135.8 .5 Professional and business services............ 130.8 136.0 138.2 142.2 128.1 135.3 135.1 137.1 137.4 139.0 1.2 Education and health services................. 123.6 131.1 131.2 132.6 124.7 130.4 131.0 131.6 132.8 133.6 .6 Leisure and hospitality....................... 130.5 133.4 139.0 143.7 120.5 129.0 130.6 131.4 132.3 132.5 .2 Other services................................ 106.4 109.6 110.7 111.5 104.6 108.3 108.5 109.3 109.3 109.6 .3 1 See footnote 1, table B-2. p = preliminary. NOTE: The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate payrolls by the corresponding 2002 annual average levels. Aggregate payroll estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly hours, and production and nonsupervisory worker employment. ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA Table B-7. Diffusion indexes of employment change (Percent) Time span Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Private nonfarm payrolls, 278 industries (1) Over 1-month span: 2003 .............. 43.5 37.2 33.6 38.8 40.8 38.5 39.2 41.7 48.0 50.2 52.2 52.9 2004 .............. 51.6 50.2 62.1 64.9 59.9 57.6 56.5 51.4 56.5 55.0 51.4 55.6 2005 .............. 52.5 61.3 52.7 60.8 54.9 58.5 59.0 60.4 53.6 53.1 62.2 60.4 2006 .............. 64.2 64.6 64.0 62.8 56.7 55.9 59.4 55.9 55.8 57.7 53.6 57.6 2007 .............. 54.9 54.7 55.0 52.9 57.9 p51.8 p56.3 Over 3-month span: 2003 .............. 39.6 33.8 34.9 33.8 35.3 42.3 39.2 34.4 42.6 48.6 48.7 50.2 2004 .............. 55.9 53.2 57.0 64.2 70.3 65.6 59.9 55.2 57.9 59.0 60.4 55.8 2005 .............. 51.3 55.9 56.8 61.3 57.2 59.4 62.8 63.7 59.9 53.4 57.2 62.2 2006 .............. 70.5 66.7 66.0 66.9 63.3 62.4 60.3 62.6 57.7 59.0 57.7 59.9 2007 .............. 64.6 60.6 61.2 59.4 60.1 p57.2 p55.6 Over 6-month span: 2003 .............. 34.7 33.1 31.1 33.3 33.5 36.5 32.7 32.4 40.8 44.8 47.7 47.5 2004 .............. 49.8 51.8 55.0 60.8 63.5 63.7 63.3 62.6 58.3 62.1 55.4 55.2 2005 .............. 54.1 57.2 57.6 56.3 56.5 58.1 65.8 63.8 61.9 59.2 62.8 60.8 2006 .............. 63.8 63.3 67.1 68.2 67.1 67.1 63.5 62.9 62.6 62.1 61.5 61.0 2007 .............. 62.2 60.3 65.3 62.8 61.7 p60.4 p59.2 Over 12-month span: 2003 .............. 34.5 31.5 32.9 33.5 34.2 35.1 32.7 33.1 37.1 36.7 37.2 39.2 2004 .............. 40.3 42.1 44.8 48.4 50.7 57.7 57.0 55.2 56.7 58.3 60.1 60.3 2005 .............. 60.1 61.0 59.5 58.8 58.3 60.3 60.6 62.8 60.3 58.8 59.7 61.3 2006 .............. 67.3 65.3 66.0 64.7 65.8 65.3 67.6 66.4 66.5 66.4 65.5 65.1 2007 .............. 64.6 64.4 63.8 64.0 62.6 p62.4 p62.6 Manufacturing payrolls, 84 industries (1) Over 1-month span: 2003 .............. 34.5 17.3 17.3 10.7 22.0 17.3 17.3 31.5 26.8 38.1 42.3 42.3 2004 .............. 41.1 45.2 47.0 63.1 50.0 48.2 56.5 43.5 41.7 43.5 40.5 42.3 2005 .............. 36.9 48.2 43.5 48.2 38.7 37.5 42.3 45.8 44.0 44.6 48.2 51.8 2006 .............. 63.1 48.2 56.0 53.0 47.0 58.9 51.2 44.6 40.5 47.6 43.5 38.7 2007 .............. 52.4 38.7 30.4 33.3 42.3 p41.1 p45.8 Over 3-month span: 2003 .............. 15.5 11.3 13.7 9.5 8.9 11.9 15.5 15.5 17.9 29.2 30.4 33.3 2004 .............. 45.2 42.9 43.5 57.7 60.1 58.3 55.4 46.4 47.0 42.9 42.9 37.5 2005 .............. 35.1 39.9 40.5 42.3 35.1 33.9 40.5 41.7 42.3 40.5 39.9 43.5 2006 .............. 56.5 52.4 52.4 51.2 47.6 54.8 48.2 52.4 39.3 42.3 35.7 39.9 2007 .............. 48.2 38.1 42.9 31.0 33.3 p37.5 p35.7 Over 6-month span: 2003 .............. 11.9 11.3 7.1 8.3 9.5 10.7 7.1 9.5 12.5 16.1 25.0 24.4 2004 .............. 28.0 32.7 35.1 47.0 50.0 52.4 54.2 52.4 48.8 51.2 41.1 38.7 2005 .............. 31.5 35.1 36.3 34.5 32.1 33.3 44.0 39.3 32.1 36.9 34.5 39.3 2006 .............. 42.9 41.7 50.0 50.6 51.2 53.0 45.8 45.8 47.6 45.2 44.6 39.9 2007 .............. 39.9 37.5 37.5 36.9 36.3 p36.9 p33.3 Over 12-month span: 2003 .............. 10.7 6.0 6.5 6.0 8.3 7.1 7.1 8.3 10.7 10.7 9.5 10.7 2004 .............. 13.1 14.3 13.1 20.2 23.2 35.7 36.9 38.1 36.3 44.0 44.6 44.6 2005 .............. 44.6 44.6 41.7 40.5 37.5 36.3 32.1 33.9 32.7 33.3 33.3 37.5 2006 .............. 44.6 40.5 40.5 40.5 39.3 42.3 48.8 48.8 44.6 45.2 43.5 41.7 2007 .............. 41.7 42.3 39.3 39.9 36.3 p34.5 p34.5 1 Based on seasonally adjusted data for 1-, 3-, 6-month spans and unadjusted data for the 12-month span. p = preliminary. NOTE: 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.