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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.
2021
Nov.
2021
Dec.
2021
Jan.
2022
Feb.
2022
Mar.
2022
Apr.
2022
May
2022
June
2022
July
2022
Aug.
2022
Sept.
2022(p)
Oct.
2022(p)

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

Total nonfarm

677 647 588 504 714 398 368 386 293 537 292 315 261

Total private

694 627 561 492 704 385 368 331 346 448 233 319 233

Goods-producing

83 99 93 32 114 85 64 61 43 63 43 48 33

Mining and logging

2 4 8 0 10 5 8 7 8 5 -2 3 0

Construction

28 47 44 6 54 22 -5 35 10 21 9 22 1

Manufacturing

53 48 41 26 50 58 61 19 25 37 36 23 32

Durable goods(1)

41 19 31 10 20 41 32 8 10 30 36 13 23

Motor vehicles and parts

34.2 -15.0 1.2 0.3 -14.0 18.4 7.0 -7.4 1.7 8.4 12.1 7.4 4.8

Nondurable goods

12 29 10 16 30 17 29 11 15 7 0 10 9

Private service-providing

611 528 468 460 590 300 304 270 303 385 190 271 200

Wholesale trade

12.4 14.9 18.5 12.6 26.5 25.9 28.2 13.1 10.0 15.8 15.1 11.6 14.6

Retail trade

43.4 19.9 38.2 121.4 111.3 -22.9 0.4 -43.7 22.3 16.3 29.3 -7.6 7.2

Transportation and warehousing

50.5 37.2 22.3 53.4 73.8 3.7 49.0 38.1 15.9 17.6 -1.7 -11.3 8.2

Utilities

-0.2 -0.8 -0.6 0.6 0.1 -0.5 0.9 0.6 0.2 1.1 1.5 0.6 1.1

Information

12 18 9 5 0 18 21 26 26 16 7 7 4

Financial activities

23 32 14 2 29 11 31 10 5 7 9 1 3

Professional and business services(1)

236 111 91 88 87 94 40 69 90 84 29 52 39

Temporary help services

153.1 11.3 40.9 27.7 28.2 8.2 -10.6 5.0 6.5 13.4 -0.7 12.6 11.8

Education and health services(1)

68 69 65 33 101 51 62 78 94 122 82 91 79

Health care and social assistance

37.9 36.3 40.1 11.1 91.1 37.8 51.2 57.4 82.0 88.7 71.7 80.7 71.1

Leisure and hospitality

141 191 186 138 124 104 59 69 43 89 13 107 35

Other services

25 36 24 6 38 15 13 10 -4 17 5 20 9

Government

-17 20 27 12 10 13 0 55 -53 89 59 -4 28

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

539 583 637 580 602 539 493 384 349 405 374 381 289

Total private

533 577 627 560 586 527 486 361 348 375 342 333 262

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

Total nonfarm women employees

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

Total private women employees

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

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

81.6 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

34.8 34.8 34.8 34.6 34.7 34.6 34.6 34.6 34.5 34.5 34.5 34.5 34.5

Average hourly earnings

$31.11 $31.23 $31.38 $31.56 $31.60 $31.75 $31.86 $31.98 $32.11 $32.27 $32.36 $32.46 $32.58

Average weekly earnings

$1,082.63 $1,086.80 $1,092.02 $1,091.98 $1,096.52 $1,098.55 $1,102.36 $1,106.51 $1,107.80 $1,113.32 $1,116.42 $1,119.87 $1,124.01

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

110.0 110.5 111.0 110.8 111.8 111.8 112.1 112.4 112.4 112.7 112.9 113.2 113.4

Over-the-month percent change

0.5 0.5 0.5 -0.2 0.9 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

163.6 165.1 166.6 167.2 168.8 169.7 170.7 171.8 172.5 173.9 174.7 175.7 176.7

Over-the-month percent change

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

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

73.0 74.8 73.0 62.9 79.9 74.2 72.1 67.6 71.1 70.7 59.8 64.3 61.7

Over 3-month span

74.0 77.7 82.8 75.0 79.5 83.0 85.5 79.7 77.3 74.8 72.9 71.5 65.4

Over 6-month span

74.6 79.1 83.2 79.9 82.2 85.2 85.4 86.5 86.1 86.7 80.5 78.9 78.5

Over 12-month span

78.3 81.4 80.7 81.6 85.4 87.5 86.7 88.3 88.7 87.5 88.7 88.5 86.9

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

67.6 73.0 64.2 60.1 85.1 72.3 74.3 65.5 62.8 60.1 53.4 57.4 56.8

Over 3-month span

66.2 70.3 82.4 78.4 78.4 80.4 89.2 83.1 80.4 66.9 60.8 66.2 56.8

Over 6-month span

70.3 78.4 77.7 68.9 83.1 87.2 88.5 87.2 85.8 83.1 77.0 72.3 74.3

Over 12-month span

75.0 82.4 75.7 81.1 84.5 91.2 85.1 89.2 89.2 85.8 86.5 83.8 83.8

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.