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

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

Total nonfarm

 290 256 236 310 108 216 118 144 78 255 43 212 256

Total private

 214 196 181 232 108 206 97 99 37 222 9 182 223

Goods-producing

 33 30 15 33 -3 12 2 21 2 15 -53 34 -8

Mining and logging

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

Construction

 18 26 24 37 -5 13 18 14 28 26 -1 8 8

Manufacturing

 12 6 -9 -6 7 3 -16 6 -26 -12 -52 25 -13

Durable goods(1)

 19 -4 -3 -1 3 -1 -17 5 -30 -4 -49 29 -16

Motor vehicles and parts

 4.6 2.2 -3.1 5.1 2.2 3.6 4.6 4.8 -15.5 -4.5 -3.3 1.5 -4.1

Nondurable goods

 -7 10 -6 -5 4 4 1 1 4 -8 -3 -4 3

Private service-providing

 181 166 166 199 111 194 95 78 35 207 62 148 231

Wholesale trade

 7.4 -6.7 -3.6 9.7 6.5 -1.6 6.0 5.4 6.9 2.4 7.4 3.4 -3.5

Retail trade

 32.3 16.6 23.4 19.3 14.2 8.2 -19.5 -3.6 -14.5 7.3 8.8 -29.2 43.4

Transportation and warehousing

 -18.3 -3.8 31.3 5.3 20.8 25.8 10.9 -1.6 10.7 7.8 -9.7 2.5 9.6

Utilities

 2.4 1.5 3.0 -0.9 0.0 1.4 1.3 0.4 -0.1 2.6 -1.1 0.0 -0.3

Information

 13 8 -3 2 -3 -1 0 -16 -8 1 -2 4 10

Financial activities

 6 -4 -7 4 -3 12 13 -4 7 6 5 11 13

Professional and business services(1)

 13 48 6 17 -17 55 -11 -4 -47 22 -10 9 28

Temporary help services

 -21.3 7.5 -16.2 -0.8 -23.7 14.0 -29.7 -19.1 -23.3 4.8 -29.3 6.2 5.3

Private education and health services(1)

 84 100 80 76 98 69 82 67 67 91 74 87 80

Health care and social assistance

 76.1 73.0 88.9 79.6 98.4 73.4 68.7 63.7 55.3 81.4 70.0 79.8 69.5

Leisure and hospitality

 41 -3 26 54 -9 18 4 38 9 61 -8 52 43

Other services

 0 10 10 12 4 7 8 -3 4 6 -3 8 8

Government

 76 60 55 78 0 10 21 45 41 33 34 30 33

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 212 243 261 267 218 211 147 159 113 159 125 170 170

Total private

 155 187 197 203 174 182 137 134 78 119 89 138 138

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

Total nonfarm women employees

 49.9 49.9 49.9 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 48.3 48.4 48.3 48.3 48.3 48.3

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

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

Average hourly earnings

 $34.34 $34.51 $34.56 $34.69 $34.75 $34.88 $34.99 $35.07 $35.22 $35.33 $35.46 $35.59 $35.69

Average weekly earnings

 $1,181.30 $1,180.24 $1,185.41 $1,193.34 $1,191.93 $1,196.38 $1,200.16 $1,199.39 $1,208.05 $1,211.82 $1,216.28 $1,220.74 $1,224.17

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

 115.9 115.4 115.9 116.4 116.2 116.4 116.5 116.2 116.6 116.8 116.8 116.9 117.1

Over-the-month percent change

 0.2 -0.4 0.4 0.4 -0.2 0.2 0.1 -0.3 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

 190.3 190.4 191.5 193.1 193.0 194.1 194.8 194.8 196.3 197.2 198.0 199.0 199.8

Over-the-month percent change

 0.5 0.1 0.6 0.8 -0.1 0.6 0.4 0.0 0.8 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.4

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

 63.0 62.2 54.0 55.4 55.4 53.6 51.6 49.2 50.8 59.4 53.4 59.0 56.4

Over 3-month span

 62.6 63.0 63.0 60.6 61.6 62.2 56.8 50.0 51.0 53.2 52.4 57.4 55.4

Over 6-month span

 61.2 64.8 63.8 61.2 61.4 64.0 60.0 55.2 55.0 55.4 55.0 55.6 58.0

Over 12-month span

 69.4 66.6 66.4 65.2 65.4 63.6 61.6 60.4 61.6 60.4 59.2 62.0 59.4

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

 54.2 53.5 47.2 34.0 54.2 49.3 31.9 41.7 37.5 41.7 42.4 47.9 41.0

Over 3-month span

 42.4 51.4 49.3 41.0 49.3 49.3 41.7 37.5 30.6 37.5 30.6 37.5 36.1

Over 6-month span

 43.8 47.9 46.5 37.5 43.1 45.8 41.7 38.9 36.1 36.1 32.6 33.3 34.7

Over 12-month span

 47.9 45.1 47.2 41.7 46.5 43.1 38.2 37.5 40.3 38.2 36.1 39.6 40.3

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 2023 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.