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Current Employment Statistics - CES (National)
Bureau of Labor Statistics > Current Employment Statistics > Data > Employment and Earnings Tables

Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category May
2021
June
2021
July
2021
Aug.
2021
Sept.
2021
Oct.
2021
Nov.
2021
Dec.
2021
Jan.
2022
Feb.
2022
Mar.
2022
Apr.
2022(p)
May
2022(p)

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

Total nonfarm

447 557 689 517 424 677 647 588 504 714 398 436 390

Total private

381 508 638 497 409 694 627 561 492 704 385 405 333

Goods-producing

22 23 82 48 54 83 99 93 32 114 85 69 59

Mining and logging

6 6 3 5 2 2 4 8 0 10 5 8 5

Construction

-12 -3 17 2 30 28 47 44 6 54 22 0 36

Manufacturing

28 20 62 41 22 53 48 41 26 50 58 61 18

Durable goods(1)

23 16 48 30 15 41 19 31 10 20 41 34 11

Motor vehicles and parts

19.6 -4.9 17.7 14.8 3.2 34.2 -15.0 1.2 0.3 -14.0 18.4 7.5 -3.5

Nondurable goods

5 4 14 11 7 12 29 10 16 30 17 27 7

Private service-providing

359 485 556 449 355 611 528 468 460 590 300 336 274

Wholesale trade

8.5 20.0 18.2 5.4 4.7 12.4 14.9 18.5 12.6 26.5 25.9 22.9 14.1

Retail trade

-25.2 68.3 16.2 36.6 58.9 43.4 19.9 38.2 121.4 111.3 -22.9 12.3 -60.7

Transportation and warehousing

28.8 34.9 39.9 31.9 36.4 50.5 37.2 22.3 53.4 73.8 3.7 46.2 47.0

Utilities

-0.9 -0.8 0.1 -1.8 -0.1 -0.2 -0.8 -0.6 0.6 0.1 -0.5 0.5 0.5

Information

15 17 21 25 8 12 18 9 5 0 18 15 16

Financial activities

0 -2 27 9 13 23 32 14 2 29 11 35 8

Professional and business services(1)

80 61 142 83 74 236 111 91 88 87 94 49 75

Temporary help services

25.7 31.7 23.2 5.7 8.2 153.1 11.3 40.9 27.7 28.2 8.2 6.6 19.3

Education and health services(1)

38 20 59 29 9 68 69 65 33 101 51 60 74

Health care and social assistance

15.2 -2.1 34.1 13.9 0.5 37.9 36.3 40.1 11.1 91.1 37.8 44.2 42.1

Leisure and hospitality

199 224 197 202 134 141 191 186 138 124 104 83 84

Other services

16 42 36 29 17 25 36 24 6 38 15 13 16

Government

66 49 51 20 15 -17 20 27 12 10 13 31 57

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

471 422 564 588 543 539 583 637 580 602 539 516 408

Total private

414 367 509 548 515 533 577 627 560 586 527 498 374

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

Total nonfarm women employees

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

Total private women employees

48.4 48.4 48.5 48.4 48.5 48.4 48.4 48.3 48.3 48.3 48.3 48.4 48.4

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

81.4 81.4 81.5 81.5 81.6 81.6 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

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

Average hourly earnings

$30.36 $30.52 $30.67 $30.76 $30.92 $31.11 $31.23 $31.38 $31.56 $31.60 $31.75 $31.85 $31.95

Average weekly earnings

$1,059.56 $1,062.10 $1,067.32 $1,067.37 $1,076.02 $1,082.63 $1,086.80 $1,092.02 $1,091.98 $1,096.52 $1,098.55 $1,102.01 $1,105.47

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

107.9 108.0 108.6 108.7 109.4 110.0 110.5 111.0 110.8 111.8 111.8 112.1 112.4

Over-the-month percent change

0.3 0.1 0.6 0.1 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 -0.2 0.9 0.0 0.3 0.3

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

156.6 157.6 159.2 159.9 161.7 163.6 165.1 166.6 167.2 168.8 169.7 170.7 171.7

Over-the-month percent change

0.8 0.6 1.0 0.4 1.1 1.2 0.9 0.9 0.4 1.0 0.5 0.6 0.6

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

64.5 66.6 71.1 67.6 67.8 73.0 74.8 73.0 62.9 79.9 74.2 72.3 69.3

Over 3-month span

74.6 71.9 70.5 72.1 73.4 74.0 77.7 82.8 75.0 79.5 83.0 86.7 78.7

Over 6-month span

74.4 73.6 76.4 75.8 73.8 74.6 79.1 83.2 79.9 82.2 85.2 86.1 83.8

Over 12-month span

81.3 77.1 79.3 78.7 79.1 78.3 81.4 80.7 81.6 85.4 87.5 86.5 89.1

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

55.4 66.9 75.0 55.4 62.2 67.6 73.0 64.2 60.1 85.1 72.3 71.6 66.2

Over 3-month span

68.9 66.9 67.6 71.6 66.2 66.2 70.3 82.4 78.4 78.4 80.4 87.8 76.4

Over 6-month span

74.3 70.9 76.4 75.0 68.9 70.3 78.4 77.7 68.9 83.1 87.2 89.2 85.8

Over 12-month span

79.7 67.6 70.3 76.4 76.4 75.0 82.4 75.7 81.1 84.5 91.2 85.8 90.5

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 2021 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.