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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.
2023		 Feb.
2023		 Mar.
2023		 Apr.
2023		 May
2023		 June
2023		 July
2023		 Aug.
2023		 Sept.
2023		 Oct.
2023		 Nov.
2023		 Dec.
2023(p)		 Jan.
2024(p)

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

Total nonfarm

 482 287 146 278 303 240 184 210 246 165 182 333 353

Total private

 359 226 91 231 254 185 148 150 196 98 152 278 317

Goods-producing

 46 26 -12 33 14 42 7 33 27 -10 36 33 28

Mining and logging

 1 2 2 4 3 0 2 0 1 -1 -4 1 -6

Construction

 37 26 -6 20 16 33 11 31 13 22 15 24 11

Manufacturing

 8 -2 -8 9 -5 9 -6 2 13 -31 25 8 23

Durable goods(1)

 0 0 -1 10 1 19 9 3 9 -33 37 13 4

Motor vehicles and parts

 -6.5 1.9 -1.1 9.0 5.7 4.4 2.9 -4.3 10.1 -27.5 33.2 2.5 3.1

Nondurable goods

 8 -2 -7 -1 -6 -10 -15 -1 4 2 -12 -5 19

Private service-providing

 313 200 103 198 240 143 141 117 169 108 116 245 289

Wholesale trade

 11.2 12.5 9.2 -1.0 7.2 1.4 16.3 1.5 11.7 11.9 6.9 10.7 2.1

Retail trade

 33.6 88.5 -27.2 6.4 13.3 -5.5 5.6 -5.6 18.2 1.3 -42.9 43.2 45.2

Transportation and warehousing

 20.0 -21.4 -16.1 7.2 19.9 -12.1 -10.7 -27.5 9.2 -8.5 -10.5 1.6 15.5

Utilities

 0.1 0.7 2.5 1.9 0.8 0.9 -1.7 2.8 2.0 1.5 1.6 2.3 1.8

Information

 -28 -18 5 -1 -3 -7 -28 -18 11 -26 17 18 15

Financial activities

 0 1 4 29 13 9 18 4 0 0 4 13 8

Professional and business services(1)

 38 8 18 30 49 7 -17 -1 -1 -5 10 35 74

Temporary help services

 -1.6 -25.3 -14.6 -18.3 -3.7 -28.3 -27.6 -18.9 -21.6 -22.6 -13.6 -16.8 3.9

Private education and health services(1)

 133 62 62 79 91 77 109 93 81 77 110 84 112

Health care and social assistance

 85.9 64.5 63.0 66.5 75.9 74.9 105.8 93.5 81.2 72.0 106.6 79.3 100.4

Leisure and hospitality

 90 67 35 42 39 60 41 52 27 57 10 38 11

Other services

 15 0 11 4 10 12 9 16 9 -1 10 -1 5

Government

 123 61 55 47 49 55 36 60 50 67 30 55 36

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 292 302 305 237 242 274 242 211 213 207 198 227 289

Total private

 229 239 225 183 192 223 196 161 165 148 149 176 249

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 49.9 49.9

Total private women employees

 48.4 48.3 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

 81.4 81.4 81.4 81.4 81.4 81.3 81.3 81.3 81.3 81.3 81.3 81.3 81.4

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

 34.6 34.5 34.4 34.3 34.4 34.4 34.3 34.4 34.4 34.3 34.4 34.3 34.1

Average hourly earnings

 $33.07 $33.15 $33.31 $33.44 $33.54 $33.70 $33.84 $33.91 $34.01 $34.10 $34.23 $34.36 $34.55

Average weekly earnings

 $1,144.22 $1,143.68 $1,145.86 $1,146.99 $1,153.78 $1,159.28 $1,160.71 $1,166.50 $1,169.94 $1,169.63 $1,177.51 $1,178.55 $1,178.16

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

 114.9 114.8 114.5 114.4 114.9 115.1 114.9 115.3 115.5 115.3 115.7 115.6 115.2

Over-the-month percent change

 0.9 -0.1 -0.3 -0.1 0.4 0.2 -0.2 0.3 0.2 -0.2 0.3 -0.1 -0.3

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

 181.7 181.9 182.4 182.9 184.3 185.4 185.9 187.0 187.8 187.9 189.4 190.0 190.3

Over-the-month percent change

 1.3 0.1 0.3 0.3 0.8 0.6 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.8 0.3 0.2

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

 68.0 57.4 60.2 60.4 58.8 57.2 58.0 61.0 60.4 56.6 52.4 64.0 65.6

Over 3-month span

 68.4 66.8 64.0 61.8 65.0 64.2 60.6 58.6 61.8 62.8 58.8 63.4 66.2

Over 6-month span

 70.0 72.0 70.0 66.2 67.8 67.4 65.2 64.4 63.6 63.2 59.6 63.4 68.0

Over 12-month span

 84.4 81.2 79.4 74.6 73.2 70.6 69.6 70.0 69.8 65.4 66.4 70.6 68.4

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

 54.9 50.7 45.1 43.1 41.0 52.8 47.9 51.4 47.9 43.1 42.4 51.4 59.0

Over 3-month span

 55.6 56.3 45.1 43.1 49.3 50.7 43.8 47.9 50.0 47.9 45.1 45.1 50.0

Over 6-month span

 59.7 63.2 59.0 49.3 49.3 52.8 43.1 47.2 42.4 41.0 41.0 45.1 51.4

Over 12-month span

 81.3 77.8 68.8 63.9 59.7 59.0 56.3 52.1 50.0 43.1 47.2 50.0 45.8

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 2023 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.