Table 14. Annual hires rates by industry and region, not seasonally adjusted

Table 14. Annual hires rates by industry and region, not seasonally adjusted(1) [percent]
Industry and region 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Total

 42.4 44.1 44.1 44.8 46.3

INDUSTRY

Total private

 47.3 48.9 48.7 49.5 51.0

Mining and logging

 44.1 37.1 43.7 55.2 64.2

Construction

 60.4 61.7 60.4 65.9 62.3

Manufacturing

 25.8 26.1 27.1 32.0 34.7

Durable goods

 24.1 24.2 24.9 28.9 31.7

Nondurable goods

 28.7 29.3 30.7 37.2 39.8

Trade, transportation, and utilities

 48.8 48.7 47.3 46.2 50.1

Wholesale trade

 30.0 28.4 28.4 28.4 30.0

Retail trade

 58.0 58.3 55.6 53.6 58.4

Transportation, warehousing, and utilities

 42.7 42.9 43.5 43.7 48.1

Information

 36.7 35.6 35.1 36.2 38.3

Financial activities

 29.0 29.2 29.0 29.9 29.4

Finance and insurance

 25.9 26.3 26.0 26.5 26.1

Real estate and rental and leasing

 37.8 37.4 37.5 39.7 38.4

Professional and business services

 63.8 65.7 66.3 65.5 66.0

Education and health services

 32.3 34.1 34.0 34.5 34.9

Educational services

 31.3 31.5 31.2 31.1 31.8

Health care and social assistance

 32.5 34.6 34.5 35.2 35.5

Leisure and hospitality

 72.0 76.8 78.0 76.2 79.0

Arts, entertainment, and recreation

 84.7 85.2 84.7 87.3 93.1

Accommodation and food services

 69.9 75.4 76.9 74.3 76.6

Other services

 39.9 44.7 40.6 46.7 45.1

Government

 16.4 18.5 18.9 18.5 19.5

Federal

 12.3 15.0 14.8 13.6 15.0

State and local

 17.0 18.9 19.5 19.2 20.2

State and local education

 15.2 17.7 17.8 17.6 19.6

State and local, excluding education

 19.0 20.4 21.4 21.2 20.8

REGION(2)

Northeast

 34.8 37.9 38.4 39.0 38.9

South

 45.9 47.3 46.3 48.4 49.9

Midwest

 42.5 44.1 44.9 44.5 47.4

West

 43.0 44.2 44.6 44.0 45.1

Footnotes
(1) The annual hires rate is the number of hires during the entire year as a percent of annual average employment.
(2) The states (including the District of Columbia) that comprise the regions are: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont; South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia; Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; West: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

NOTE: Data have been revised to incorporate the annual updates to the Current Employment Statistics employment estimates and to implement a new imputation methodology.

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Last Modified Date: March 15, 2019