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Includes wages, salaries, and employer costs for employee benefits.
Includes workers in the private nonfarm economy except those in private households and workers in the public sector except the federal government.
Includes the following occupations: management, business, and financial; professional and related; sales and related; and office and administrative support.
Includes the following occupations: farming, fishing, and forestry; construction and extraction; installation, maintenance, and repair; production; and transportation and material moving.
The service occupations wages and salaries series is seasonal as of the 2017 revision. The seasonally adjusted series was first published with the 2011 revision and the series continued to be
seasonally adjusted until the 2015 revision when it was discontinued for 2015, as no identifiable seasonality was found for this series. Historical data for this series is published beginning with March 2006.
Includes mining, construction, and manufacturing.
Includes the following industries: wholesale trade; retail trade; transportation and warehousing; utilities; information; finance and insurance; real estate and rental and leasing; professional, scientific, and technical services; management of companies and enterprises; administrative and support and waste management and remediation services; educational services; health care and social assistance; arts, entertainment, and recreation; accommodation and food services; and other services, except public administration.
Includes ambulatory health care services and social assistance, not shown separately.
These areas include Consolidated Statistical Areas (CSAs) and Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). Beginning with the December 2018 release, area definitions are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 13-01, dated February 28, 2013. Previous area definitions are based on Office of Management and Budget Bulletin No. 04-03, dated February 18, 2004. For more information on metropolitan area definitions, see www.census.gov/programs-surveys/metro-micro.html.
Includes farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.
Includes elementary and secondary schools; junior colleges; colleges, universities, and professional schools.
Historical data are available beginning with December 2005.
The index for this series is not strictly comparable to other series.
Includes the following industries: wholesale trade; retail trade; transportation and warehousing; utilities; information; finance and insurance; real estate and rental and leasing; professional and technical services; management of companies and enterprises; administrative and waste services; educational services; health care and social assistance; arts, entertainment and recreation; accommodation and food services; other services, except public administration; and public administration.
Series discontinued beginning December 2008.
ECI series are reviewed annually for seasonality. Seasonal adjustment is discontinued as of March 2010, as no identifiable seasonality was found for this series.
Some estimates from June 2009 through September 2010 for this series were corrected on January 12, 2011.
Some estimates from September 2012 to March 2013 for this series were corrected on June 26, 2013. Details on the extent of the corrections are available at www.bls.gov/bls/eci_corrections_043013.htm.
Some estimates from December 2013 to December 2014 for this series were corrected on April 28, 2015. Details on the extent of the corrections are available at www.bls.gov/bls/errata/eci_errata_07212015.htm.
Last Modified Date: January 29, 2019
United States Department of Labor
