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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 Oct.
2019		 Nov.
2019		 Dec.
2019		 Jan.
2020		 Feb.
2020		 Mar.
2020		 Apr.
2020		 May
2020		 June
2020		 July
2020		 Aug.
2020		 Sept.
2020(p)		 Oct.
2020(p)

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

Total nonfarm

 185 261 184 214 251 -1,373 -20,787 2,725 4,781 1,761 1,493 672 638

Total private

 190 247 164 179 220 -1,356 -19,835 3,236 4,729 1,526 1,028 892 906

Goods-producing

 -20 45 5 13 56 -119 -2,388 676 485 66 53 97 123

Mining and logging

 4 -11 -9 -3 2 -8 -53 -20 -7 -6 -1 2 1

Construction

 17 -2 16 38 46 -65 -1,018 456 159 31 24 35 84

Manufacturing

 -41 58 -2 -22 8 -46 -1,317 240 333 41 30 60 38

Durable goods(1)

 -47 45 0 -12 6 -27 -905 143 265 27 -2 44 21

Motor vehicles and parts

 -42.3 40.5 2.0 -7.5 8.3 -5.1 -354.9 39.1 187.5 43.7 -4.8 7.7 1.4

Nondurable goods

 6 13 -2 -10 2 -19 -412 97 68 14 32 16 17

Private service-providing

 210 202 159 166 164 -1,237 -17,447 2,560 4,244 1,460 975 795 783

Wholesale trade

 10.1 3.0 6.9 4.3 -3.3 -12.0 -385.2 23.4 51.9 -19.4 12.4 18.9 6.4

Retail trade

 21.9 -13.9 41.4 -3.2 3.0 -85.4 -2,299.0 385.9 858.0 253.9 261.0 23.4 103.7

Transportation and warehousing

 6.8 22.6 -2.1 22.6 -0.4 -9.9 -559.8 -25.1 87.2 48.0 85.5 40.2 63.2

Utilities

 -1.3 1.0 0.7 -1.0 -0.8 -0.2 -3.6 -1.6 -2.9 1.0 -0.1 2.2 -1.5

Information

 -1 9 9 11 0 -6 -279 -40 7 -11 23 47 -3

Financial activities

 21 12 10 9 22 -18 -261 19 20 15 28 37 31

Professional and business services(1)

 42 37 22 20 27 -94 -2,202 160 311 162 184 122 208

Temporary help services

 -6.2 2.6 4.5 -3.9 -6.3 -51.4 -840.5 46.9 144.6 125.7 101.5 21.8 108.7

Education and health services(1)

 40 73 29 69 52 -178 -2,603 388 567 219 175 49 57

Health care and social assistance

 41.1 56.7 25.3 41.0 62.5 -134.5 -2,135.5 359.4 466.2 193.9 103.3 118.0 79.0

Leisure and hospitality

 70 43 40 24 59 -743 -7,575 1,405 1,979 633 138 406 271

Other services

 0 16 2 10 6 -91 -1,279 245 366 158 69 49 47

Government

 -5 14 20 35 31 -17 -952 -511 52 235 465 -220 -268

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 200 218 210 220 216 -303 -7,303 -6,478 -4,427 3,089 2,678 1,309 934

Total private

 181 211 200 197 188 -319 -6,990 -5,985 -3,957 3,164 2,428 1,149 942

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

Total nonfarm women employees

 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 49.3 49.2 49.5 49.7 49.8 49.7 49.7

Total private women employees

 48.6 48.6 48.7 48.7 48.7 48.6 47.6 47.6 48.1 48.2 48.3 48.3 48.3

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

 82.2 82.2 82.2 82.2 82.3 82.0 80.4 80.6 81.0 81.2 81.3 81.4 81.5

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

 34.4 34.3 34.3 34.3 34.4 34.1 34.2 34.7 34.6 34.6 34.7 34.8 34.8

Average hourly earnings

 $28.24 $28.34 $28.37 $28.43 $28.52 $28.69 $30.03 $29.70 $29.32 $29.35 $29.45 $29.46 $29.50

Average weekly earnings

 $971.46 $972.06 $973.09 $975.15 $981.09 $978.33 $1,027.03 $1,030.59 $1,014.47 $1,015.51 $1,021.92 $1,025.21 $1,026.60

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

 111.3 111.2 111.4 111.5 112.0 109.9 93.2 97.4 101.2 102.5 103.7 104.8 105.6

Over-the-month percent change

 0.1 -0.1 0.2 0.1 0.4 -1.9 -15.2 4.5 3.9 1.3 1.2 1.1 0.8

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

 150.3 150.7 151.0 151.6 152.7 150.7 133.8 138.2 141.8 143.8 146.0 147.6 148.9

Over-the-month percent change

 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.7 -1.3 -11.2 3.3 2.6 1.4 1.5 1.1 0.9

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

 56.8 63.4 58.1 55.2 53.7 21.9 4.3 63.2 76.0 60.5 70.2 70.9 68.6

Over 3-month span

 61.4 66.7 65.5 59.1 55.8 36.0 5.4 5.2 6.2 71.5 77.1 75.2 77.1

Over 6-month span

 61.8 67.1 65.7 65.9 65.9 48.3 6.4 5.6 6.8 7.6 7.9 9.1 79.8

Over 12-month span

 66.3 69.8 67.2 66.7 66.1 54.8 10.5 12.0 12.2 10.9 11.0 13.4 17.2

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

 40.8 61.8 50.7 43.4 46.7 26.3 2.6 69.7 79.6 52.0 61.2 64.5 59.9

Over 3-month span

 46.7 55.3 53.9 48.0 36.8 29.6 5.9 4.6 5.3 71.1 75.0 65.1 65.1

Over 6-month span

 44.7 52.6 49.3 46.1 44.7 44.7 5.3 3.9 3.9 7.9 7.9 7.9 77.6

Over 12-month span

 53.9 61.2 53.9 48.7 50.0 43.4 9.9 12.5 11.8 9.9 10.5 10.5 17.1

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.