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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 July
2020		 Aug.
2020		 Sept.
2020		 Oct.
2020		 Nov.
2020		 Dec.
2020		 Jan.
2021		 Feb.
2021		 Mar.
2021		 Apr.
2021		 May
2021		 June
2021(p)		 July
2021(p)

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

Total nonfarm

 1,726 1,583 716 680 264 -306 233 536 785 269 614 938 943

Total private

 1,523 1,066 932 954 359 -274 122 622 724 226 555 769 703

Goods-producing

 60 53 91 107 68 82 -7 -20 159 -41 16 45 44

Mining and logging

 -4 -4 3 2 3 0 -1 2 15 3 4 11 6

Construction

 26 26 33 73 24 47 12 -57 93 -9 -24 -5 11

Manufacturing

 38 31 55 32 41 35 -18 35 51 -35 36 39 27

Durable goods(1)

 30 -2 38 12 30 18 -17 27 28 -31 27 37 20

Motor vehicles and parts

 43.7 -4.1 5.1 -6.5 17.7 3.9 -6.4 -0.1 -0.3 -41.6 29.1 2.7 0.8

Nondurable goods

 8 33 17 20 11 17 -1 8 23 -4 9 2 7

Private service-providing

 1,463 1,013 841 847 291 -356 129 642 565 267 539 724 659

Wholesale trade

 -19.5 7.1 33.9 9.2 14.8 14.8 14.2 7.7 18.9 6.9 14.8 27.2 2.8

Retail trade

 240.1 252.9 29.5 106.5 -2.1 30.1 18.5 14.4 41.9 -22.0 59.9 72.5 -5.5

Transportation and warehousing

 49.5 87.2 44.0 71.3 123.6 -43.2 5.9 36.4 42.7 -54.9 15.0 19.6 49.7

Utilities

 0.5 0.4 1.7 -1.5 -0.6 -1.0 0.9 -0.2 0.6 0.4 -0.9 -0.4 -0.1

Information

 -10 25 42 -9 0 9 13 6 5 11 20 4 24

Financial activities

 12 28 38 34 10 18 7 -7 13 17 2 -1 22

Professional and business services(1)

 147 200 140 241 95 159 90 93 74 -79 50 75 60

Temporary help services

 133.5 99.4 18.3 121.2 39.0 62.1 99.7 47.6 -5.8 -122.3 7.5 35.0 9.7

Education and health services(1)

 214 199 68 83 43 -29 -14 57 104 23 46 60 87

Health care and social assistance

 201.4 110.2 124.9 93.0 48.4 38.9 -91.7 52.6 51.3 32.4 12.8 7.3 46.8

Leisure and hospitality

 666 139 394 265 10 -498 -17 413 227 328 319 394 380

Other services

 163 74 50 48 -3 -16 11 22 37 37 13 73 39

Government

 203 517 -216 -274 -95 -32 111 -86 61 43 59 169 240

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 3,135 2,718 1,342 993 553 213 64 154 518 530 556 607 832

Total private

 3,225 2,465 1,174 984 748 346 69 157 489 524 502 517 676

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

Total nonfarm women employees

 49.7 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.7 49.8 49.8 49.7 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.9

Total private women employees

 48.2 48.3 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.3 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

 81.3 81.3 81.4 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.4 81.5 81.4 81.3 81.4 81.3 81.4

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

 34.6 34.7 34.8 34.8 34.8 34.7 35.0 34.6 34.9 34.9 34.8 34.8 34.8

Average hourly earnings

 $29.37 $29.47 $29.50 $29.52 $29.61 $29.91 $29.92 $30.00 $29.97 $30.17 $30.31 $30.43 $30.54

Average weekly earnings

 $1,016.20 $1,022.61 $1,026.60 $1,027.30 $1,030.43 $1,037.88 $1,047.20 $1,038.00 $1,045.95 $1,052.93 $1,054.79 $1,058.96 $1,062.79

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

 102.5 103.7 104.8 105.7 106.0 105.4 106.5 105.8 107.3 107.5 107.7 108.4 109.0

Over-the-month percent change

 1.3 1.2 1.1 0.9 0.3 -0.6 1.0 -0.7 1.4 0.2 0.2 0.6 0.6

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

 143.9 146.1 147.9 149.1 150.0 150.8 152.3 151.7 153.8 155.1 156.1 157.7 159.1

Over-the-month percent change

 1.3 1.5 1.2 0.8 0.6 0.5 1.0 -0.4 1.4 0.8 0.6 1.0 0.9

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

 61.9 69.1 70.6 70.4 64.4 61.7 50.4 61.7 73.0 60.9 64.0 68.5 67.5

Over 3-month span

 73.0 78.0 76.8 75.1 79.0 74.3 63.4 59.3 66.9 75.3 72.0 73.2 70.4

Over 6-month span

 6.8 8.9 11.5 81.3 81.5 79.0 75.7 77.8 76.7 73.7 72.2 74.3 78.4

Over 12-month span

 10.9 12.5 13.2 15.2 13.6 14.6 16.0 16.1 20.4 83.3 83.9 79.6 79.8

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

 47.3 58.0 66.7 60.0 59.3 70.0 46.0 60.0 75.3 58.7 59.3 66.0 68.0

Over 3-month span

 73.3 75.3 68.0 59.3 73.3 75.3 64.0 68.0 69.3 74.0 64.0 69.3 66.7

Over 6-month span

 6.0 10.7 10.0 79.3 74.0 69.3 68.0 75.3 76.0 70.7 74.7 74.7 76.7

Over 12-month span

 12.0 13.3 10.7 12.0 12.0 11.3 16.7 18.7 21.3 86.7 80.0 74.7 74.7

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 2020 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.