Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category	Apr. 2021	Feb. 2022	Mar. 2022(p)	Apr. 2022(p)
EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY (Over-the-month change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	263	714	428	428
Total private	212	704	424	406
Goods-producing	-40	114	67	66
Mining and logging	3	10	4	9
Construction	-15	54	20	2
Manufacturing	-28	50	43	55
Durable goods(1)	-33	20	25	31
Motor vehicles and parts	-49.1	-14.0	3.6	6.1
Nondurable goods	5	30	18	24
Private service-providing	252	590	357	340
Wholesale trade	11.6	26.5	24.7	22.2
Retail trade	10.2	111.3	24.5	29.2
Transportation and warehousing	2.0	73.8	9.5	52.0
Utilities	0.5	0.1	0.0	0.3
Information	20	0	21	12
Financial activities	14	29	12	35
Professional and business services(1)	-78	87	94	41
Temporary help services	-115.1	28.2	1.3	2.4
Education and health services(1)	41	101	57	59
Health care and social assistance	26.3	91.1	45.2	40.9
Leisure and hospitality	208	124	100	78
Other services	23	38	14	11
Government	51	10	4	22

(3-month average change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	559	602	549	523
Total private	518	586	540	511

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS ALL EMPLOYEES
Total private
Average weekly hours	34.9	34.7	34.6	34.6
Average hourly earnings	$30.20	$31.60	$31.75	$31.85
Average weekly earnings	$1,053.98	$1,096.52	$1,098.55	$1,102.01
Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)(3)	107.6	111.8	111.8	112.2
Over-the-month percent change	0.2	0.9	0.0	0.4
Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)(4)	155.3	168.8	169.7	170.8
Over-the-month percent change	0.6	1.0	0.5	0.6

DIFFUSION INDEX (Over 1-month span)(5)
Total private (256 industries)	65.2	79.9	71.3	71.3
Manufacturing (74 industries)	60.8	85.1	64.9	74.3
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 2021 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

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Last Modified Date: May 06, 2022