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Current Employment Statistics - CES (National)
Bureau of Labor Statistics > Current Employment Statistics > Data > Employment and Earnings Tables
ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category May
2019		 June
2019		 July
2019		 Aug.
2019		 Sept.
2019		 Oct.
2019		 Nov.
2019		 Dec.
2019		 Jan.
2020		 Feb.
2020		 Mar.
2020		 Apr.
2020(p)		 May
2020(p)

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY
(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 85 182 194 207 208 185 261 184 214 251 -1,373 -20,687 2,509

Total private

 87 180 160 157 195 190 247 164 179 220 -1,356 -19,724 3,094

Goods-producing

 11 26 9 2 19 -20 45 5 13 56 -119 -2,373 669

Mining and logging

 2 -2 -5 -5 0 4 -11 -9 -3 2 -8 -54 -20

Construction

 9 19 7 4 16 17 -2 16 38 46 -65 -995 464

Manufacturing

 0 9 7 3 3 -41 58 -2 -22 8 -46 -1,324 225

Durable goods(1)

 0 8 3 -1 0 -47 45 0 -12 6 -27 -907 119

Motor vehicles and parts

 -0.1 -0.7 -3.3 -0.6 -0.5 -42.3 40.5 2.0 -7.5 8.3 -5.1 -359.2 27.7

Nondurable goods

 0 1 4 4 3 6 13 -2 -10 2 -19 -417 106

Private service-providing

 76 154 151 155 176 210 202 159 166 164 -1,237 -17,351 2,425

Wholesale trade

 4.0 1.2 7.3 0.6 6.4 10.1 3.0 6.9 4.3 -3.3 -12.0 -382.5 21.4

Retail trade

 -12.3 -5.4 1.0 -0.6 9.0 21.9 -13.9 41.4 -3.2 3.0 -85.4 -2,285.8 367.8

Transportation and warehousing

 3.0 21.1 -0.5 -4.1 10.5 6.8 22.6 -2.1 22.6 -0.4 -9.9 -553.3 -19.0

Utilities

 1.0 1.5 -0.9 -0.7 -1.4 -1.3 1.0 0.7 -1.0 -0.8 -0.2 -3.6 -2.3

Information

 8 12 -3 -1 5 -1 9 9 11 0 -6 -272 -38

Financial activities

 6 5 21 15 3 21 12 10 9 22 -18 -264 33

Professional and business services(1)

 27 41 43 40 25 42 37 22 20 27 -94 -2,189 127

Temporary help services

 -3.6 -4.5 -4.6 3.6 7.4 -6.2 2.6 4.5 -3.9 -6.3 -51.4 -840.5 39.1

Education and health services(1)

 30 55 73 58 61 40 73 29 69 52 -178 -2,590 424

Health care and social assistance

 26.1 47.9 45.9 56.5 48.7 41.1 56.7 25.3 41.0 62.5 -134.5 -2,128.5 390.7

Leisure and hospitality

 12 7 2 42 61 70 43 40 24 59 -743 -7,539 1,239

Other services

 -3 15 9 5 -3 0 16 2 10 6 -91 -1,272 272

Government

 -2 2 34 50 13 -5 14 20 35 31 -17 -963 -585

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 147 159 154 194 203 200 218 210 220 216 -303 -7,270 -6,517

Total private

 135 151 142 166 171 181 211 200 197 188 -319 -6,953 -5,995

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND
NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES(2)
AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES

Total nonfarm women employees

 49.9 49.9 49.9 49.9 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 49.2 49.2

Total private women employees

 48.5 48.5 48.5 48.5 48.6 48.6 48.6 48.7 48.7 48.7 48.6 47.6 47.6

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

 82.3 82.3 82.3 82.3 82.3 82.2 82.2 82.2 82.2 82.3 82.0 80.3 80.5

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

 34.4 34.4 34.3 34.4 34.4 34.4 34.3 34.3 34.3 34.4 34.1 34.2 34.7

Average hourly earnings

 $27.87 $27.96 $28.05 $28.16 $28.16 $28.24 $28.34 $28.37 $28.43 $28.52 $28.69 $30.04 $29.75

Average weekly earnings

 $958.73 $961.82 $962.12 $968.70 $968.70 $971.46 $972.06 $973.09 $975.15 $981.09 $978.33 $1,027.37 $1,032.33

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

 110.6 110.7 110.5 111.0 111.2 111.3 111.2 111.4 111.5 112.0 109.9 93.3 97.3

Over-the-month percent change

 0.1 0.1 -0.2 0.5 0.2 0.1 -0.1 0.2 0.1 0.4 -1.9 -15.1 4.3

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

 147.3 148.0 148.2 149.4 149.7 150.3 150.7 151.0 151.6 152.7 150.7 134.0 138.4

Over-the-month percent change

 0.3 0.5 0.1 0.8 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.7 -1.3 -11.1 3.3

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

 55.2 58.9 59.1 56.2 58.1 56.8 63.4 58.1 55.2 53.7 21.9 3.9 64.0

Over 3-month span

 59.3 62.8 60.7 63.6 61.0 61.4 66.7 65.5 59.1 55.8 36.0 6.0 5.8

Over 6-month span

 68.4 62.4 60.1 63.0 63.2 61.8 67.1 65.7 65.9 65.9 48.3 6.6 6.0

Over 12-month span

 70.2 68.6 66.9 66.3 67.2 66.3 69.8 67.2 66.7 66.1 54.8 11.4 12.2

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

 47.4 57.2 53.3 53.3 44.7 40.8 61.8 50.7 43.4 46.7 26.3 3.3 70.4

Over 3-month span

 46.1 57.9 51.3 58.6 47.4 46.7 55.3 53.9 48.0 36.8 29.6 6.6 7.2

Over 6-month span

 58.6 56.6 51.3 55.3 53.9 44.7 52.6 49.3 46.1 44.7 44.7 6.6 6.6

Over 12-month span

 67.1 64.5 60.5 64.5 59.2 53.9 61.2 53.9 48.7 50.0 43.4 11.8 13.2

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 2019 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.