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

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

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category	Aug. 2018	Sept. 2018	Oct. 2018	Nov. 2018	Dec. 2018	Jan. 2019	Feb. 2019	Mar. 2019	Apr. 2019	May 2019	June 2019	July 2019(p)	Aug. 2019(p)
EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY (Over-the-month change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	282	108	277	196	227	312	56	153	216	62	178	159	130
Total private	246	108	285	200	224	297	46	153	195	81	161	131	96
Goods-producing	50	38	60	29	40	80	-19	13	37	5	27	-2	12
Mining and logging	8	3	6	-3	4	7	-4	1	0	2	-2	-4	-5
Construction	34	17	25	5	16	56	-23	15	34	1	19	-2	14
Manufacturing	8	18	29	27	20	17	8	-3	3	2	10	4	3
Durable goods(1)	12	14	19	16	14	19	5	-6	1	3	9	2	0
Motor vehicles and parts	2.3	2.8	7.1	-1.9	1.2	-1.1	1.5	-6.6	-2.5	2.0	-2.0	-1.5	0.1
Nondurable goods	-4	4	10	11	6	-2	3	3	2	-1	1	2	3
Private service-providing	196	70	225	171	184	217	65	140	158	76	134	133	84
Wholesale trade	19.4	2.0	6.7	11.3	12.5	7.8	12.5	0.1	8.1	5.4	-1.1	7.3	2.9
Retail trade	5.9	-26.0	-9.9	32.5	-5.9	9.3	-13.7	-14.8	-14.8	-12.2	-12.0	-5.1	-11.1
Transportation and warehousing	23.8	23.2	24.3	23.6	-1.1	30.2	-6.3	-3.3	8.4	3.4	20.2	-0.3	-0.5
Utilities	0.6	0.1	1.4	0.3	-0.2	0.3	-1.3	1.1	-2.4	1.1	1.2	-0.5	-1.4
Information	-6	-4	10	-3	-2	-12	-7	4	-6	9	13	0	0
Financial activities	11	14	14	3	1	6	5	11	14	5	3	20	15
Professional and business services(1)	58	53	55	34	37	5	54	19	55	21	43	36	37
Temporary help services	12.9	13.7	14.3	1.3	13.5	-26.3	7.0	-10.5	4.3	-2.0	-2.9	-7.9	15.4
Education and health services(1)	60	25	37	29	67	68	19	72	71	34	48	71	32
Health care and social assistance	48.3	37.7	46.7	36.6	52.9	41.7	35.8	67.3	57.5	28.2	39.9	47.0	36.8
Leisure and hospitality	17	-24	79	39	65	93	-1	32	9	12	4	-3	12
Other services	6	7	7	1	11	9	4	19	16	-3	15	7	-1
Government	36	0	-8	-4	3	15	10	0	21	-19	17	28	34

(3-month average change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	241	189	222	194	233	245	198	174	142	144	152	133	156
Total private	218	176	213	198	236	240	189	165	131	143	146	124	129

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS ALL EMPLOYEES
Total private
Average weekly hours	34.5	34.5	34.5	34.4	34.5	34.5	34.4	34.5	34.4	34.4	34.4	34.3	34.4
Average hourly earnings	$27.23	$27.30	$27.35	$27.43	$27.53	$27.56	$27.66	$27.71	$27.75	$27.82	$27.91	$28.00	$28.11
Average weekly earnings	$939.44	$941.85	$943.58	$943.59	$949.79	$950.82	$951.50	$956.00	$954.60	$957.01	$960.10	$960.40	$966.98
Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)	110.0	110.0	110.3	110.1	110.7	110.9	110.6	111.1	110.9	111.0	111.1	110.9	111.3
Over-the-month percent change	0.3	0.0	0.3	-0.2	0.5	0.2	-0.3	0.5	-0.2	0.1	0.1	-0.2	0.4
Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)	143.1	143.6	144.2	144.4	145.6	146.1	146.3	147.1	147.2	147.6	148.3	148.5	149.6
Over-the-month percent change	0.6	0.3	0.4	0.1	0.8	0.3	0.1	0.5	0.1	0.3	0.5	0.1	0.7

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)
Total Private
Over 1-month span	66.1	61.8	67.4	61.6	65.9	59.1	58.1	58.1	58.9	54.8	59.9	57.8	53.5
Over 3-month span	69.8	68.0	66.9	69.4	70.9	68.0	67.4	63.0	58.1	60.3	61.4	59.9	60.5
Over 6-month span	73.6	76.9	76.7	76.4	74.6	74.0	71.7	70.9	67.2	68.4	61.4	60.3	59.9
Over 12-month span	74.8	76.4	76.2	78.7	77.1	77.7	76.4	74.0	75.6	72.5	71.1	70.0	68.8
Manufacturing
Over 1-month span	60.5	63.2	59.9	65.8	65.1	57.9	52.6	53.9	52.0	50.0	59.9	53.9	51.3
Over 3-month span	69.7	65.8	65.8	71.7	68.4	67.8	61.2	53.9	54.6	50.0	59.9	54.6	57.9
Over 6-month span	69.1	74.3	74.3	74.3	75.7	73.0	71.1	64.5	62.5	62.5	57.9	55.9	51.3
Over 12-month span	76.3	76.3	74.3	80.3	79.6	76.3	79.6	74.3	75.7	70.4	69.7	69.7	69.7
Footnotes (1) Includes other industries, not shown separately. (2) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries. (3) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding annual average aggregate hours. (4) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. (5) Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with increasing and decreasing employment. Based on seasonally adjusted data for 1-, 3-, 6-month spans and unadjusted data for the 12-month span. (p) Preliminary
NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2018 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

Last Modified Date: September 6, 2019