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Nonfarm employment up 1.8 million, or 1.2 percent, from September 2016 to September 2017

October 11, 2017

From September 2016 to September 2017, total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 1,777,000, or 1.2 percent. Professional and business services added 528,000 jobs, an increase of 2.6 percent, while education and health services employment increased by 472,000, or 2.1 percent.
Over-the-year change in nonfarm payroll employment by industry, September 2017, seasonally adjusted
Industry Over-the-year change(p) Over-the-year change, in percent (p) September 2017 employment(p)

Total nonfarm

 1,777,000 1.2 146,659,000

Mining and logging

 60,000 9.1 721,000

Construction

 184,000 2.7 6,911,000

Manufacturing

 117,000 0.9 12,447,000

Wholesale trade

 55,300 0.9 5,932,800

Retail trade

 -78,400 -0.5 15,809,000

Transportation and warehousing

 109,500 2.2 5,110,500

Utilities

 -3,200 -0.6 552,700

Information

 -79,000 -2.8 2,707,000

Financial activities

 149,000 1.8 8,473,000

Professional and business services

 528,000 2.6 20,807,000

Education and health services

 472,000 2.1 23,217,000

Leisure and hospitality

 189,000 1.2 15,873,000

Other services

 53,000 0.9 5,761,000

Government

 21,000 0.1 22,337,000

Among major industries in September 2017, mining and logging had the largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment with 9.1 percent, or 60,000 jobs. Other industries with an over-the-year percentage increase in employment of 2.0 percent or higher were construction (2.7 percent, or 184,000) and transportation and warehousing (2.2 percent, or 109,500).

Over the 12 months ending in September 2017, information had an employment decrease of −2.8 percent, or −79,000.

These data are from the Current Employment Statistics program. Data are preliminary. To learn more, see "The Employment Situation — September 2017" (HTML) (PDF). For more charts, see Graphics for Economic News Releases: The Employment Situation. Charts and analysis of nonfarm employment data can also be found in Current Employment Statistics Highlights: September 2017.

SUGGESTED CITATION

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Nonfarm employment up 1.8 million, or 1.2 percent, from September 2016 to September 2017 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/nonfarm-employment-up-1-point-8-million-or-1-point-2-percent-from-september-2016-to-september-2017.htm (visited May 02, 2024).

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