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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 Jan.
2022
Feb.
2022
Mar.
2022
Apr.
2022
May
2022
June
2022
July
2022
Aug.
2022
Sept.
2022
Oct.
2022
Nov.
2022
Dec.
2022(p)
Jan.
2023(p)

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

Total nonfarm

364 904 414 254 364 370 568 352 350 324 290 260 517

Total private

345 897 423 226 343 382 493 306 344 299 228 269 443

Goods-producing

28 121 91 67 61 50 71 37 44 57 41 43 46

Mining and logging

-1 5 6 9 2 7 6 -2 2 3 8 5 2

Construction

-4 79 23 6 38 13 24 8 16 17 19 26 25

Manufacturing

33 37 62 52 21 30 41 31 26 37 14 12 19

Durable goods(1)

21 10 43 33 8 11 33 31 14 27 14 25 4

Motor vehicles and parts

0.3 -23.9 27.4 13.4 -6.4 4.9 5.9 12.2 4.3 3.4 5.7 9.0 -6.5

Nondurable goods

12 27 19 19 13 19 8 0 12 10 0 -13 15

Private service-providing

317 776 332 159 282 332 422 269 300 242 187 226 397

Wholesale trade

23.8 27.3 35.9 24.9 18.3 5.2 16.0 13.2 8.3 15.8 -0.4 10.5 11.3

Retail trade

30.1 168.8 -22.1 -37.4 -51.4 14.1 9.4 36.7 -11.1 -5.6 -45.6 1.4 30.1

Transportation and warehousing

44.8 74.1 25.4 33.2 45.3 17.0 19.4 8.5 9.7 19.9 -37.1 13.0 22.9

Utilities

2.1 1.0 0.5 0.1 0.7 0.4 1.3 1.3 0.1 1.3 -0.9 -0.1 -0.7

Information

12 7 26 17 32 22 13 8 3 3 13 -5 -5

Financial activities

6 41 15 37 6 3 14 9 2 18 11 11 6

Professional and business services(1)

95 142 133 -18 72 89 77 48 48 36 0 39 82

Temporary help services

23.4 57.4 28.3 -55.4 3.6 -6.9 1.6 0.1 11.2 10.2 -48.5 -40.9 25.9

Private education and health services(1)

-5 109 54 55 76 96 127 92 80 85 95 76 105

Health care and social assistance

-20.9 95.8 44.0 44.3 56.9 80.2 101.8 78.1 71.7 74.0 82.6 80.3 79.2

Leisure and hospitality

116 162 54 36 73 75 113 48 139 61 123 64 128

Other services

-7 43 11 11 10 10 32 4 21 8 29 16 18

Government

19 7 -9 28 21 -12 75 46 6 25 62 -9 74

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

516 612 561 524 344 329 434 430 423 342 321 291 356

Total private

503 598 555 515 331 317 406 394 381 316 290 265 313

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

Total nonfarm women employees

49.7 49.7 49.7 49.7 49.7 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8

Total private women employees

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

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

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

Average hourly earnings

$31.63 $31.63 $31.83 $31.94 $32.06 $32.18 $32.33 $32.43 $32.53 $32.66 $32.80 $32.93 $33.03

Average weekly earnings

$1,094.40 $1,097.56 $1,104.50 $1,105.12 $1,109.28 $1,113.43 $1,118.62 $1,118.84 $1,125.54 $1,130.04 $1,131.60 $1,132.79 $1,146.14

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

111.2 112.3 112.7 112.5 112.8 113.2 113.6 113.5 114.2 114.4 114.3 114.2 115.6

Over-the-month percent change

-0.3 1.0 0.4 -0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 -0.1 0.6 0.2 -0.1 -0.1 1.2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

168.2 169.8 171.5 171.9 173.0 174.1 175.6 176.0 177.6 178.7 179.2 179.8 182.5

Over-the-month percent change

0.4 1.0 1.0 0.2 0.6 0.6 0.9 0.2 0.9 0.6 0.3 0.3 1.5

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

66.6 84.6 79.0 68.8 70.6 69.2 72.2 62.0 63.4 65.2 63.4 65.4 69.0

Over 3-month span

79.0 81.2 83.8 86.6 79.0 77.8 77.8 72.8 71.0 69.8 68.8 68.2 70.4

Over 6-month span

83.6 86.2 90.4 89.0 87.4 88.8 87.8 82.8 80.6 80.0 75.6 74.4 72.4

Over 12-month span

85.2 88.6 89.2 90.0 89.6 89.2 90.8 90.0 88.8 88.4 86.8 84.2 84.8

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

68.8 84.0 78.5 72.2 68.1 62.5 67.4 53.5 54.9 62.5 59.7 56.3 56.3

Over 3-month span

79.9 79.9 80.6 91.0 80.6 75.0 72.9 63.2 60.4 62.5 61.8 67.4 61.8

Over 6-month span

84.0 87.5 94.4 94.4 86.8 84.0 83.3 75.0 71.5 75.0 66.0 66.7 59.0

Over 12-month span

87.5 91.0 88.9 91.7 93.1 90.3 88.9 88.9 84.7 86.8 86.1 78.5 77.8

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 2022 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.