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

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

Total nonfarm

350 324 290 239 472 248 217 217 281 105 236 227 336

Total private

344 299 228 232 353 193 157 179 255 86 145 177 263

Goods-producing

44 57 41 36 41 18 -19 25 24 32 12 47 29

Mining and logging

2 3 8 4 4 1 2 5 3 -1 2 0 1

Construction

16 17 19 26 26 14 -9 11 25 29 12 36 11

Manufacturing

26 37 14 6 11 3 -12 9 -4 4 -2 11 17

Durable goods(1)

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

Motor vehicles and parts

4.3 3.4 5.7 9.5 -4.6 3.8 4.8 9.0 5.3 4.2 2.6 -2.6 8.9

Nondurable goods

12 10 0 -17 11 2 -7 -4 -7 -13 -14 -2 4

Private service-providing

300 242 187 196 312 175 176 154 231 54 133 130 234

Wholesale trade

8.3 15.8 -0.4 9.6 8.9 6.7 3.5 -1.5 7.7 -6.7 15.4 0.0 11.7

Retail trade

-11.1 -5.6 -45.6 26.7 22.3 48.0 -18.9 -2.0 20.9 -22.7 12.6 0.4 19.7

Transportation and warehousing

9.7 19.9 -37.1 0.3 31.7 -17.7 16.2 -15.1 18.6 -19.1 -6.8 -18.9 8.6

Utilities

0.1 1.3 -0.9 -0.7 -1.6 -1.1 1.7 1.7 0.7 0.8 -1.5 2.4 4.8

Information

3 3 13 -9 -23 -8 3 3 -4 -10 -19 -21 -5

Financial activities

2 18 11 4 -1 0 -5 27 13 2 15 2 3

Professional and business services(1)

48 36 0 23 44 21 45 48 45 -1 -29 11 21

Temporary help services

11.2 10.2 -48.5 -55.0 16.6 -9.6 -3.3 -20.5 -6.8 -36.0 -17.4 -13.3 -4.2

Private education and health services(1)

80 85 95 71 111 64 70 77 88 79 104 97 70

Health care and social assistance

71.7 74.0 82.6 73.1 77.3 54.5 55.9 67.0 73.1 85.9 102.5 94.1 65.9

Leisure and hospitality

139 61 123 58 99 57 46 11 28 26 38 44 96

Other services

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

Government

6 25 62 7 119 55 60 38 26 19 91 50 73

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

423 342 321 284 334 320 312 227 238 201 207 189 266

Total private

381 316 290 253 271 259 234 176 197 173 162 136 195

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 49.8

Total private women employees

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

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

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

Average hourly earnings

$32.53 $32.66 $32.80 $32.92 $33.02 $33.11 $33.20 $33.34 $33.45 $33.60 $33.73 $33.81 $33.88

Average weekly earnings

$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 $1,156.94 $1,163.06 $1,165.47

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

114.2 114.4 114.3 114.2 115.1 115.0 114.8 114.9 114.8 115.2 115.0 115.5 115.7

Over-the-month percent change

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

177.6 178.7 179.2 179.7 181.8 182.0 182.2 183.2 183.6 185.1 185.5 186.7 187.5

Over-the-month percent change

0.9 0.6 0.3 0.3 1.2 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.2 0.8 0.2 0.6 0.4

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

63.4 65.2 63.4 64.0 64.6 58.2 57.0 58.4 57.4 55.2 53.4 62.2 64.2

Over 3-month span

71.0 69.8 68.8 68.2 64.6 64.4 61.0 59.4 62.6 64.0 58.0 56.6 62.4

Over 6-month span

80.6 80.0 75.6 73.4 72.6 71.2 70.8 65.2 64.6 66.4 65.2 63.0 64.0

Over 12-month span

88.8 88.4 86.8 84.4 83.8 79.4 77.0 73.6 74.4 73.2 66.4 68.6 69.6

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

54.9 62.5 59.7 52.8 52.8 49.3 43.8 47.2 45.1 53.5 44.4 52.8 52.8

Over 3-month span

60.4 62.5 61.8 64.6 56.3 49.3 49.3 45.1 43.1 54.2 45.1 45.1 52.8

Over 6-month span

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

Over 12-month span

84.7 86.8 86.1 79.2 74.3 70.1 69.4 61.1 55.6 60.4 50.7 56.3 52.8

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.