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

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

Total nonfarm

 239 472 248 217 217 281 105 236 165 262 105 173 216

Total private

 232 353 193 157 179 255 86 145 114 199 44 136 164

Goods-producing

 36 41 18 -19 25 24 32 12 28 21 -12 30 22

Mining and logging

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

Construction

 26 26 14 -9 11 25 29 12 30 9 27 6 17

Manufacturing

 6 11 3 -12 9 -4 4 -2 -2 11 -38 26 6

Durable goods(1)

 23 0 1 -5 13 3 17 12 0 10 -37 34 8

Motor vehicles and parts

 9.5 -4.6 3.8 4.8 9.0 5.3 4.2 2.6 -3.7 9.2 -31.8 31.3 -2.1

Nondurable goods

 -17 11 2 -7 -4 -7 -13 -14 -2 1 -1 -8 -2

Private service-providing

 196 312 175 176 154 231 54 133 86 178 56 106 142

Wholesale trade

 9.6 8.9 6.7 3.5 -1.5 7.7 -6.7 15.4 2.5 15.6 8.1 4.5 5.5

Retail trade

 26.7 22.3 48.0 -18.9 -2.0 20.9 -22.7 12.6 -5.9 1.7 16.5 -24.4 17.4

Transportation and warehousing

 0.3 31.7 -17.7 16.2 -15.1 18.6 -19.1 -6.8 -26.9 12.4 -28.4 -5.0 -22.6

Utilities

 -0.7 -1.6 -1.1 1.7 1.7 0.7 0.8 -1.5 2.4 2.0 1.8 0.0 -0.4

Information

 -9 -23 -8 3 3 -4 -10 -19 -22 -6 -12 15 14

Financial activities

 4 -1 0 -5 27 13 2 15 1 0 -8 1 2

Professional and business services(1)

 23 44 21 45 48 45 -1 -29 8 -17 -26 -19 13

Temporary help services

 -55.0 16.6 -9.6 -3.3 -20.5 -6.8 -36.0 -17.4 -10.1 -22.3 -42.1 -22.1 -33.3

Private education and health services(1)

 71 111 64 70 77 88 79 104 105 86 84 109 74

Health care and social assistance

 73.1 77.3 54.5 55.9 67.0 73.1 85.9 102.5 96.1 85.6 67.1 96.0 58.9

Leisure and hospitality

 58 99 57 46 11 28 26 38 8 76 25 12 40

Other services

 13 21 5 14 5 13 6 4 14 8 -5 13 -1

Government

 7 119 55 60 38 26 19 91 51 63 61 37 52

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 284 334 320 312 227 238 201 207 169 221 177 180 165

Total private

 253 271 259 234 176 197 173 162 115 153 119 126 115

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 49.9 49.9 49.9

Total private women employees

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

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

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

Average hourly earnings

 $32.92 $33.02 $33.11 $33.20 $33.34 $33.45 $33.60 $33.73 $33.82 $33.91 $34.00 $34.12 $34.27

Average weekly earnings

 $1,132.45 $1,142.49 $1,142.30 $1,142.08 $1,146.90 $1,147.34 $1,155.84 $1,156.94 $1,163.41 $1,166.50 $1,166.20 $1,173.73 $1,175.46

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

 114.2 115.1 115.0 114.8 114.9 114.8 115.2 115.0 115.4 115.6 115.3 115.8 115.6

Over-the-month percent change

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

 179.7 181.8 182.0 182.2 183.2 183.6 185.1 185.5 186.7 187.4 187.5 188.9 189.4

Over-the-month percent change

 0.3 1.2 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.2 0.8 0.2 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.7 0.3

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

 64.0 64.6 58.2 57.0 58.4 57.4 55.2 53.4 60.0 57.8 56.4 56.6 59.6

Over 3-month span

 68.2 64.6 64.4 61.0 59.4 62.6 64.0 58.0 58.4 60.2 61.4 58.6 61.8

Over 6-month span

 73.4 72.6 71.2 70.8 65.2 64.6 66.4 65.2 63.6 62.4 63.2 60.6 62.8

Over 12-month span

 84.4 83.8 79.4 77.0 73.6 74.4 73.2 66.4 66.6 69.2 67.0 66.0 67.4

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

 52.8 52.8 49.3 43.8 47.2 45.1 53.5 44.4 50.7 47.2 43.1 48.6 47.9

Over 3-month span

 64.6 56.3 49.3 49.3 45.1 43.1 54.2 45.1 47.9 43.1 45.8 45.1 49.3

Over 6-month span

 66.0 63.9 58.3 60.4 51.4 43.8 51.4 47.9 49.3 47.2 41.7 43.8 48.6

Over 12-month span

 79.2 74.3 70.1 69.4 61.1 55.6 60.4 50.7 54.2 52.1 48.6 46.5 48.6

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.