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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.
2024		 Oct.
2024		 Nov.
2024		 Dec.
2024		 Jan.
2025		 Feb.
2025		 Mar.
2025		 Apr.
2025		 May
2025		 June
2025		 July
2025		 Aug.
2025(p)		 Sept.
2025(p)

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

Total nonfarm

 240 44 261 323 111 102 120 158 19 -13 72 -4 119

Total private

 208 -1 244 287 79 107 114 133 69 -27 56 18 97

Goods-producing

 32 -50 28 4 -11 24 5 2 -13 -21 -16 -32 10

Mining and logging

 2 -1 2 -1 -3 4 -1 2 -4 -2 -4 -3 -3

Construction

 30 1 6 15 -3 12 5 0 2 -2 -3 -14 19

Manufacturing

 0 -50 20 -10 -5 8 1 0 -11 -17 -9 -15 -6

Durable goods(1)

 1 -46 27 -15 -7 6 -2 3 -8 -15 3 -21 -4

Motor vehicles and parts

 -2.3 -2.5 -0.9 -3.4 -10.2 5.8 -0.6 -3.2 2.9 -3.0 1.7 -8.6 -1.2

Nondurable goods

 -1 -4 -7 5 2 2 3 -3 -3 -2 -12 6 -2

Private service-providing

 176 49 216 283 90 83 109 131 82 -6 72 50 87

Wholesale trade

 7.1 6.1 5.1 13.0 -4.3 7.1 -4.8 1.3 1.6 -12.1 -4.4 -7.8 9.4

Retail trade

 13.7 -6.6 -13.5 34.4 35.7 -3.8 16.4 4.7 -14.8 -5.0 5.7 3.2 13.9

Transportation and warehousing

 7.1 -9.0 27.7 34.4 21.3 18.3 -20.7 -7.6 -0.5 3.8 -5.1 2.5 -25.3

Utilities

 2.6 -0.8 -0.3 -0.8 1.4 0.8 1.5 -1.2 2.6 0.3 0.4 -1.1 -0.2

Information

 0 -7 5 17 -4 0 -2 1 2 -3 -6 -7 0

Financial activities

 5 3 16 12 14 15 3 5 7 -6 1 -15 5

Professional and business services(1)

 -16 -34 37 36 -35 15 -11 27 -23 -24 -13 -17 -20

Temporary help services

 -18.3 -35.4 30.0 1.7 -8.0 -2.2 -14.3 16.9 -15.2 -10.0 -15.0 -10.1 -15.9

Private education and health services(1)

 98 87 73 83 62 65 65 85 70 51 80 43 59

Health care and social assistance

 78.7 83.9 78.9 75.5 62.1 57.4 67.2 78.7 72.0 58.8 71.1 40.2 57.1

Leisure and hospitality

 51 9 54 47 -14 -34 45 18 27 -5 9 32 47

Other services

 7 1 12 7 13 0 17 -3 10 -6 5 17 -2

Government

 32 45 17 36 32 -5 6 25 -50 14 16 -22 22

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 133 118 182 209 232 179 111 127 99 55 26 18 62

Total private

 94 80 150 177 203 158 100 118 105 58 33 16 57

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 49.9 49.9 49.9 49.9 49.9 49.9 49.9 49.9 49.9

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 48.4

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

 81.4 81.4 81.4 81.5 81.4 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

 34.2 34.3 34.3 34.2 34.1 34.2 34.3 34.3 34.3 34.2 34.3 34.2 34.2

Average hourly earnings

 $35.33 $35.48 $35.61 $35.68 $35.83 $35.90 $36.02 $36.08 $36.23 $36.31 $36.43 $36.58 $36.67

Average weekly earnings

 $1,208.29 $1,216.96 $1,221.42 $1,220.26 $1,221.80 $1,227.78 $1,235.49 $1,237.54 $1,242.69 $1,241.80 $1,249.55 $1,251.04 $1,254.11

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

 115.8 116.1 116.3 116.2 116.0 116.4 116.8 116.9 117.0 116.6 117.0 116.7 116.8

Over-the-month percent change

 -0.1 0.3 0.2 -0.1 -0.2 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.1 -0.3 0.3 -0.3 0.1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

 195.6 197.0 198.0 198.3 198.6 199.8 201.2 201.7 202.7 202.5 203.8 204.1 204.7

Over-the-month percent change

 0.2 0.7 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.6 0.7 0.2 0.5 -0.1 0.6 0.1 0.3

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

 57.0 50.6 58.6 60.8 53.2 56.2 51.6 48.2 49.2 46.2 48.4 49.0 55.6

Over 3-month span

 54.2 52.2 54.2 58.4 60.8 60.6 59.6 56.2 49.8 46.2 45.8 47.0 50.6

Over 6-month span

 53.8 54.0 55.8 59.4 58.2 59.4 59.0 58.2 60.0 52.4 50.4 47.4 50.2

Over 12-month span

 52.8 56.2 58.4 55.8 59.8 58.6 59.2 56.0 58.8 57.8 57.0 56.4 56.6

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

 41.0 44.4 47.9 47.2 47.9 59.0 44.4 37.5 39.6 47.2 44.4 47.9 52.8

Over 3-month span

 32.6 31.9 36.1 40.3 49.3 45.1 50.7 49.3 38.9 35.4 36.1 38.9 37.5

Over 6-month span

 37.5 34.7 36.1 38.9 39.6 44.4 45.8 43.1 45.8 40.3 37.5 34.0 36.8

Over 12-month span

 38.2 38.9 42.4 35.4 39.6 44.4 42.4 39.6 41.0 38.2 39.6 40.3 42.4

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 2024 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.