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

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

Total nonfarm

 303 240 184 210 246 165 182 290 256 236 310 165 272

Total private

 254 185 148 150 196 98 152 214 196 181 232 158 229

Goods-producing

 14 42 7 33 27 -10 36 33 30 15 33 0 25

Mining and logging

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

Construction

 16 33 11 31 13 22 15 18 26 24 37 0 21

Manufacturing

 -5 9 -6 2 13 -31 25 12 6 -9 -6 6 8

Durable goods(1)

 1 19 9 3 9 -33 37 19 -4 -3 -1 2 -2

Motor vehicles and parts

 5.7 4.4 2.9 -4.3 10.1 -27.5 33.2 4.6 2.2 -3.1 5.1 -0.3 3.1

Nondurable goods

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

Private service-providing

 240 143 141 117 169 108 116 181 166 166 199 158 204

Wholesale trade

 7.2 1.4 16.3 1.5 11.7 11.9 6.9 7.4 -6.7 -3.6 9.7 1.4 3.1

Retail trade

 13.3 -5.5 5.6 -5.6 18.2 1.3 -42.9 32.3 16.6 23.4 19.3 22.6 12.6

Transportation and warehousing

 19.9 -12.1 -10.7 -27.5 9.2 -8.5 -10.5 -18.3 -3.8 31.3 5.3 19.5 10.6

Utilities

 0.8 0.9 -1.7 2.8 2.0 1.5 1.6 2.4 1.5 3.0 -0.9 -0.5 1.3

Information

 -3 -7 -28 -18 11 -26 17 13 8 -3 2 -5 0

Financial activities

 13 9 18 4 0 0 4 6 -4 -7 4 -2 10

Professional and business services(1)

 49 7 -17 -1 -1 -5 10 13 48 6 17 -1 33

Temporary help services

 -3.7 -28.3 -27.6 -18.9 -21.6 -22.6 -13.6 -21.3 7.5 -16.2 -0.8 -12.3 -14.1

Private education and health services(1)

 91 77 109 93 81 77 110 84 100 80 76 106 86

Health care and social assistance

 75.9 74.9 105.8 93.5 81.2 72.0 106.6 76.1 73.0 88.9 79.6 100.5 83.5

Leisure and hospitality

 39 60 41 52 27 57 10 41 -3 26 54 12 42

Other services

 10 12 9 16 9 -1 10 0 10 10 12 5 6

Government

 49 55 36 60 50 67 30 76 60 55 78 7 43

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 242 274 242 211 213 207 198 212 243 261 267 237 249

Total private

 192 223 196 161 165 148 149 155 187 197 203 190 206

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 49.9 49.9 49.9 49.8 49.8 49.8

Total private women employees

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

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

 34.4 34.4 34.3 34.4 34.4 34.3 34.4 34.4 34.2 34.3 34.4 34.3 34.3

Average hourly earnings

 $33.54 $33.70 $33.84 $33.91 $34.01 $34.10 $34.23 $34.34 $34.51 $34.56 $34.69 $34.77 $34.91

Average weekly earnings

 $1,153.78 $1,159.28 $1,160.71 $1,166.50 $1,169.94 $1,169.63 $1,177.51 $1,181.30 $1,180.24 $1,185.41 $1,193.34 $1,192.61 $1,197.41

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

 114.9 115.1 114.9 115.3 115.5 115.3 115.7 115.9 115.4 115.9 116.4 116.2 116.4

Over-the-month percent change

 0.4 0.2 -0.2 0.3 0.2 -0.2 0.3 0.2 -0.4 0.4 0.4 -0.2 0.2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

 184.3 185.4 185.9 187.0 187.8 187.9 189.4 190.3 190.4 191.5 193.1 193.2 194.3

Over-the-month percent change

 0.8 0.6 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.1 0.8 0.5 0.1 0.6 0.8 0.1 0.6

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

 58.8 57.2 58.0 61.0 60.4 56.6 52.4 63.0 62.2 54.0 55.4 56.6 63.4

Over 3-month span

 65.0 64.2 60.6 58.6 61.8 62.8 58.8 62.6 63.0 63.0 60.6 61.2 63.0

Over 6-month span

 67.8 67.4 65.2 64.4 63.6 63.2 59.6 61.2 64.8 63.8 61.2 62.4 66.2

Over 12-month span

 73.2 70.6 69.6 70.0 69.8 65.4 66.4 69.4 66.6 66.4 65.2 65.0 64.6

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

 41.0 52.8 47.9 51.4 47.9 43.1 42.4 54.2 53.5 47.2 34.0 51.4 59.0

Over 3-month span

 49.3 50.7 43.8 47.9 50.0 47.9 45.1 42.4 51.4 49.3 41.0 48.6 47.9

Over 6-month span

 49.3 52.8 43.1 47.2 42.4 41.0 41.0 43.8 47.9 46.5 37.5 44.4 50.0

Over 12-month span

 59.7 59.0 56.3 52.1 50.0 43.1 47.2 47.9 45.1 47.2 41.7 45.1 44.4

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.