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

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

Total nonfarm

716 680 264 -306 233 536 785 269 614 962 1,091 366 194

Total private

932 954 359 -274 122 622 724 226 555 808 816 332 317

Goods-producing

91 107 68 82 -7 -20 159 -41 16 42 74 37 52

Mining and logging

3 2 3 0 -1 2 15 3 4 12 5 6 4

Construction

33 73 24 47 12 -57 93 -9 -24 -2 12 0 22

Manufacturing

55 32 41 35 -18 35 51 -35 36 32 57 31 26

Durable goods(1)

38 12 30 18 -17 27 28 -31 27 31 41 20 16

Motor vehicles and parts

5.1 -6.5 17.7 3.9 -6.4 -0.1 -0.3 -41.6 29.1 -2.8 14.1 9.9 -6.1

Nondurable goods

17 20 11 17 -1 8 23 -4 9 1 16 11 10

Private service-providing

841 847 291 -356 129 642 565 267 539 766 742 295 265

Wholesale trade

33.9 9.2 14.8 14.8 14.2 7.7 18.9 6.9 14.8 27.4 15.0 -3.2 16.9

Retail trade

29.5 106.5 -2.1 30.1 18.5 14.4 41.9 -22.0 59.9 88.9 -6.1 -3.8 56.1

Transportation and warehousing

44.0 71.3 123.6 -43.2 5.9 36.4 42.7 -54.9 15.0 23.6 56.1 54.5 47.3

Utilities

1.7 -1.5 -0.6 -1.0 0.9 -0.2 0.6 0.4 -0.9 -0.7 0.3 -0.8 -0.5

Information

42 -9 0 9 13 6 5 11 20 12 19 29 32

Financial activities

38 34 10 18 7 -7 13 17 2 0 31 11 2

Professional and business services(1)

140 241 95 159 90 93 74 -79 50 70 91 85 60

Temporary help services

18.3 121.2 39.0 62.1 99.7 47.6 -5.8 -122.3 7.5 31.0 18.6 -3.7 -5.2

Education and health services(1)

68 83 43 -29 -14 57 104 23 46 72 84 51 -7

Health care and social assistance

124.9 93.0 48.4 38.9 -91.7 52.6 51.3 32.4 12.8 15.5 43.6 1.6 12.3

Leisure and hospitality

394 265 10 -498 -17 413 227 328 319 397 408 38 74

Other services

50 48 -3 -16 11 22 37 37 13 76 44 34 -16

Government

-216 -274 -95 -32 111 -86 61 43 59 154 275 34 -123

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

1,342 993 553 213 64 154 518 530 556 615 889 806 550

Total private

1,174 984 748 346 69 157 489 524 502 530 726 652 488

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

Total nonfarm women employees

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

Total private women employees

48.4 48.4 48.4 48.3 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.3

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

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

Average hourly earnings

$29.50 $29.52 $29.61 $29.91 $29.92 $30.00 $29.97 $30.17 $30.31 $30.44 $30.55 $30.66 $30.85

Average weekly earnings

$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 $1,056.27 $1,060.09 $1,060.84 $1,073.58

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

104.8 105.7 106.0 105.4 106.5 105.8 107.3 107.5 107.7 108.1 108.8 108.8 109.7

Over-the-month percent change

1.1 0.9 0.3 -0.6 1.0 -0.7 1.4 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.0 0.8

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

147.9 149.1 150.0 150.8 152.3 151.7 153.8 155.1 156.1 157.3 158.9 159.5 161.8

Over-the-month percent change

1.2 0.8 0.6 0.5 1.0 -0.4 1.4 0.8 0.6 0.8 1.0 0.4 1.4

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

70.6 70.4 64.4 61.7 50.4 61.7 73.0 60.9 64.0 69.8 70.0 66.9 61.7

Over 3-month span

76.8 75.1 79.0 74.3 63.4 59.3 66.9 75.3 72.0 73.0 72.8 75.1 73.2

Over 6-month span

11.5 81.3 81.5 79.0 75.7 77.8 76.7 73.7 72.2 74.9 81.1 77.2 73.5

Over 12-month span

13.2 15.2 13.6 14.6 16.0 16.1 20.4 83.3 83.9 80.4 80.4 82.1 80.7

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

66.7 60.0 59.3 70.0 46.0 60.0 75.3 58.7 59.3 68.7 67.3 56.0 54.0

Over 3-month span

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

Over 6-month span

10.0 79.3 74.0 69.3 68.0 75.3 76.0 70.7 74.7 76.0 81.3 77.3 69.3

Over 12-month span

10.7 12.0 12.0 11.3 16.7 18.7 21.3 86.7 80.0 75.3 77.3 79.3 76.0

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.