Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category	Jan. 2022	Nov. 2022	Dec. 2022(p)	Jan. 2023(p)
EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY (Over-the-month change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	364	290	260	517
Total private	345	228	269	443
Goods-producing	28	41	43	46
Mining and logging	-1	8	5	2
Construction	-4	19	26	25
Manufacturing	33	14	12	19
Durable goods(1)	21	14	25	4
Motor vehicles and parts	0.3	5.7	9.0	-6.5
Nondurable goods	12	0	-13	15
Private service-providing	317	187	226	397
Wholesale trade	23.8	-0.4	10.5	11.3
Retail trade	30.1	-45.6	1.4	30.1
Transportation and warehousing	44.8	-37.1	13.0	22.9
Utilities	2.1	-0.9	-0.1	-0.7
Information	12	13	-5	-5
Financial activities	6	11	11	6
Professional and business services(1)	95	0	39	82
Temporary help services	23.4	-48.5	-40.9	25.9
Private education and health services(1)	-5	95	76	105
Health care and social assistance	-20.9	82.6	80.3	79.2
Leisure and hospitality	116	123	64	128
Other services	-7	29	16	18
Government	19	62	-9	74

(3-month average change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	516	321	291	356
Total private	503	290	265	313

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES(2)
Total nonfarm women employees	49.7	49.8	49.8	49.8
Total private women employees	48.3	48.4	48.4	48.4
Total private production and nonsupervisory employees	81.5	81.4	81.3	81.4

HOURS AND EARNINGS ALL EMPLOYEES
Total private
Average weekly hours	34.6	34.5	34.4	34.7
Average hourly earnings	$31.63	$32.80	$32.93	$33.03
Average weekly earnings	$1,094.40	$1,131.60	$1,132.79	$1,146.14
Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)(3)	111.2	114.3	114.2	115.6
Over-the-month percent change	-0.3	-0.1	-0.1	1.2
Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)(4)	168.2	179.2	179.8	182.5
Over-the-month percent change	0.4	0.3	0.3	1.5

DIFFUSION INDEX (Over 1-month span)(5)
Total private (250 industries)	66.6	63.4	65.4	69.0
Manufacturing (72 industries)	68.8	59.7	56.3	56.3
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. (p) Preliminary
NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2022 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

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Last Modified Date: February 03, 2023