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

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

Total nonfarm

 352 350 324 290 239 472 248 217 217 281 105 157 187

Total private

 306 344 299 228 232 353 193 157 179 255 86 155 179

Goods-producing

 37 44 57 41 36 41 18 -19 25 24 32 14 36

Mining and logging

 -2 2 3 8 4 4 1 2 5 3 -1 2 -2

Construction

 8 16 17 19 26 26 14 -9 11 25 29 16 22

Manufacturing

 31 26 37 14 6 11 3 -12 9 -4 4 -4 16

Durable goods(1)

 31 14 27 14 23 0 1 -5 13 3 17 11 12

Motor vehicles and parts

 12.2 4.3 3.4 5.7 9.5 -4.6 3.8 4.8 9.0 5.3 4.2 2.4 -0.1

Nondurable goods

 0 12 10 0 -17 11 2 -7 -4 -7 -13 -15 4

Private service-providing

 269 300 242 187 196 312 175 176 154 231 54 141 143

Wholesale trade

 13.2 8.3 15.8 -0.4 9.6 8.9 6.7 3.5 -1.5 7.7 -6.7 18.0 4.7

Retail trade

 36.7 -11.1 -5.6 -45.6 26.7 22.3 48.0 -18.9 -2.0 20.9 -22.7 13.2 6.3

Transportation and warehousing

 8.5 9.7 19.9 -37.1 0.3 31.7 -17.7 16.2 -15.1 18.6 -19.1 -10.0 -34.2

Utilities

 1.3 0.1 1.3 -0.9 -0.7 -1.6 -1.1 1.7 1.7 0.7 0.8 -2.7 2.5

Information

 8 3 3 13 -9 -23 -8 3 3 -4 -10 -15 -15

Financial activities

 9 2 18 11 4 -1 0 -5 27 13 2 17 4

Professional and business services(1)

 48 48 36 0 23 44 21 45 48 45 -1 -20 19

Temporary help services

 0.1 11.2 10.2 -48.5 -55.0 16.6 -9.6 -3.3 -20.5 -6.8 -36.0 -23.9 -18.9

Private education and health services(1)

 92 80 85 95 71 111 64 70 77 88 79 102 102

Health care and social assistance

 78.1 71.7 74.0 82.6 73.1 77.3 54.5 55.9 67.0 73.1 85.9 99.6 97.3

Leisure and hospitality

 48 139 61 123 58 99 57 46 11 28 26 32 40

Other services

 4 21 8 29 13 21 5 14 5 13 6 7 13

Government

 46 6 25 62 7 119 55 60 38 26 19 2 8

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 430 423 342 321 284 334 320 312 227 238 201 181 150

Total private

 394 381 316 290 253 271 259 234 176 197 173 165 140

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

Total nonfarm women employees

 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.9

Total private women employees

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

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

 34.5 34.6 34.6 34.5 34.4 34.6 34.5 34.4 34.4 34.3 34.4 34.3 34.4

Average hourly earnings

 $32.43 $32.53 $32.66 $32.80 $32.92 $33.02 $33.11 $33.20 $33.34 $33.45 $33.60 $33.74 $33.82

Average weekly earnings

 $1,118.84 $1,125.54 $1,130.04 $1,131.60 $1,132.45 $1,142.49 $1,142.30 $1,142.08 $1,146.90 $1,147.34 $1,155.84 $1,157.28 $1,163.41

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

 113.5 114.2 114.4 114.3 114.2 115.1 115.0 114.8 114.9 114.8 115.2 115.0 115.5

Over-the-month percent change

 -0.1 0.6 0.2 -0.1 -0.1 0.8 -0.1 -0.2 0.1 -0.1 0.3 -0.2 0.4

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

 176.0 177.6 178.7 179.2 179.7 181.8 182.0 182.2 183.2 183.6 185.1 185.5 186.8

Over-the-month percent change

 0.2 0.9 0.6 0.3 0.3 1.2 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.2 0.8 0.2 0.7

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

 62.0 63.4 65.2 63.4 64.0 64.6 58.2 57.0 58.4 57.4 55.2 56.8 63.8

Over 3-month span

 72.8 71.0 69.8 68.8 68.2 64.6 64.4 61.0 59.4 62.6 64.0 58.4 60.0

Over 6-month span

 82.8 80.6 80.0 75.6 73.4 72.6 71.2 70.8 65.2 64.6 66.4 65.4 64.2

Over 12-month span

 90.0 88.8 88.4 86.8 84.4 83.8 79.4 77.0 73.6 74.4 73.2 66.8 71.6

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

 53.5 54.9 62.5 59.7 52.8 52.8 49.3 43.8 47.2 45.1 53.5 47.9 55.6

Over 3-month span

 63.2 60.4 62.5 61.8 64.6 56.3 49.3 49.3 45.1 43.1 54.2 50.0 50.7

Over 6-month span

 75.0 71.5 75.0 66.0 66.0 63.9 58.3 60.4 51.4 43.8 51.4 47.9 52.1

Over 12-month span

 88.9 84.7 86.8 86.1 79.2 74.3 70.1 69.4 61.1 55.6 60.4 50.7 58.3

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.