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

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

Total nonfarm

647 588 504 714 398 368 386 293 537 292 269 284 263

Total private

627 561 492 704 385 368 331 346 448 233 255 248 221

Goods-producing

99 93 32 114 85 64 61 43 63 43 43 47 37

Mining and logging

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

Construction

47 44 6 54 22 -5 35 10 21 9 23 9 20

Manufacturing

48 41 26 50 58 61 19 25 37 36 17 36 14

Durable goods(1)

19 31 10 20 41 32 8 10 30 36 9 27 11

Motor vehicles and parts

-15.0 1.2 0.3 -14.0 18.4 7.0 -7.4 1.7 8.4 12.1 9.0 7.5 1.9

Nondurable goods

29 10 16 30 17 29 11 15 7 0 8 9 3

Private service-providing

528 468 460 590 300 304 270 303 385 190 212 201 184

Wholesale trade

14.9 18.5 12.6 26.5 25.9 28.2 13.1 10.0 15.8 15.1 6.5 9.2 -3.3

Retail trade

19.9 38.2 121.4 111.3 -22.9 0.4 -43.7 22.3 16.3 29.3 -29.9 -2.6 -29.9

Transportation and warehousing

37.2 22.3 53.4 73.8 3.7 49.0 38.1 15.9 17.6 -1.7 -18.1 -3.4 -15.1

Utilities

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

Information

18 9 5 0 18 21 26 26 16 7 8 6 19

Financial activities

32 14 2 29 11 31 10 5 7 9 3 13 14

Professional and business services(1)

111 91 88 87 94 40 69 90 84 29 25 26 6

Temporary help services

11.3 40.9 27.7 28.2 8.2 -10.6 5.0 6.5 13.4 -0.7 -22.5 -6.1 -17.2

Education and health services(1)

69 65 33 101 51 62 78 94 122 82 82 80 82

Health care and social assistance

36.3 40.1 11.1 91.1 37.8 51.2 57.4 82.0 88.7 71.7 81.3 73.8 68.1

Leisure and hospitality

191 186 138 124 104 59 69 43 89 13 111 60 88

Other services

36 24 6 38 15 13 10 -4 17 5 25 12 24

Government

20 27 12 10 13 0 55 -53 89 59 14 36 42

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

583 637 580 602 539 493 384 349 405 374 366 282 272

Total private

577 627 560 586 527 486 361 348 375 342 312 245 241

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

Total nonfarm women employees

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

Total private women employees

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

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

81.5 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 34.6 34.7 34.6 34.6 34.6 34.5 34.5 34.5 34.5 34.5 34.4

Average hourly earnings

$31.23 $31.38 $31.56 $31.60 $31.75 $31.86 $31.98 $32.11 $32.27 $32.36 $32.49 $32.64 $32.82

Average weekly earnings

$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 $1,120.91 $1,126.08 $1,129.01

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

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

Over-the-month percent change

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

165.1 166.6 167.2 168.8 169.7 170.7 171.8 172.5 173.9 174.7 175.8 176.9 177.7

Over-the-month percent change

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

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

74.8 73.0 62.9 79.9 74.2 72.1 67.6 71.1 70.7 59.8 64.6 63.9 63.5

Over 3-month span

77.7 82.8 75.0 79.5 83.0 85.5 79.7 77.3 74.8 72.9 70.1 64.3 67.8

Over 6-month span

79.1 83.2 79.9 82.2 85.2 85.4 86.5 86.1 86.7 80.5 79.3 76.2 73.2

Over 12-month span

81.4 80.7 81.6 85.4 87.5 86.7 88.3 88.7 87.5 88.7 87.9 85.7 86.1

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

73.0 64.2 60.1 85.1 72.3 74.3 65.5 62.8 60.1 53.4 57.4 59.5 56.1

Over 3-month span

70.3 82.4 78.4 78.4 80.4 89.2 83.1 80.4 66.9 60.8 62.8 61.5 60.1

Over 6-month span

78.4 77.7 68.9 83.1 87.2 88.5 87.2 85.8 83.1 77.0 73.0 70.9 64.9

Over 12-month span

82.4 75.7 81.1 84.5 91.2 85.1 89.2 89.2 85.8 86.5 83.8 83.1 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.