Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category	Aug. 2021	June 2022	July 2022(p)	Aug. 2022(p)
EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY (Over-the-month change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	517	293	526	315
Total private	497	346	477	308
Goods-producing	48	43	66	45
Mining and logging	5	8	6	7
Construction	2	10	24	16
Manufacturing	41	25	36	22
Durable goods(1)	30	10	29	19
Motor vehicles and parts	14.8	1.7	3.6	-1.9
Nondurable goods	11	15	7	3
Private service-providing	449	303	411	263
Wholesale trade	5.4	10.0	15.1	15.1
Retail trade	36.6	22.3	29.1	44.0
Transportation and warehousing	31.9	15.9	24.6	4.8
Utilities	-1.8	0.2	1.0	0.6
Information	25	26	16	7
Financial activities	9	5	13	17
Professional and business services(1)	83	90	84	68
Temporary help services	5.7	6.5	8.5	11.6
Education and health services(1)	29	94	118	68
Health care and social assistance	13.9	82.0	93.7	61.5
Leisure and hospitality	202	43	95	31
Other services	29	-4	16	7
Government	20	-53	49	7

(3-month average change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	588	349	402	378
Total private	548	348	385	377

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES(2)
Total nonfarm women employees	49.8	49.8	49.9	49.8
Total private women employees	48.4	48.4	48.5	48.4
Total private production and nonsupervisory employees	81.5	81.5	81.5	81.5

HOURS AND EARNINGS ALL EMPLOYEES
Total private
Average weekly hours	34.7	34.5	34.6	34.5
Average hourly earnings	$30.76	$32.11	$32.26	$32.36
Average weekly earnings	$1,067.37	$1,107.80	$1,116.20	$1,116.42
Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)(3)	108.7	112.4	113.1	113.0
Over-the-month percent change	0.1	0.0	0.6	-0.1
Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)(4)	159.9	172.5	174.4	174.9
Over-the-month percent change	0.4	0.4	1.1	0.3

DIFFUSION INDEX (Over 1-month span)(5)
Total private (256 industries)	67.6	71.1	69.7	62.1
Manufacturing (74 industries)	55.4	62.8	62.2	57.4
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. (p) Preliminary
NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2021 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

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Last Modified Date: September 02, 2022