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Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 165,000 in April, with job gains in professional and business services, food services and drinking places, retail trade, and health care. Over the prior 12 months, employment growth averaged 169,000 per month.
Month | Employment change |
---|---|
Apr 2011 | 304,000 |
May 2011 | 115,000 |
Jun 2011 | 209,000 |
Jul 2011 | 78,000 |
Aug 2011 | 132,000 |
Sep 2011 | 225,000 |
Oct 2011 | 166,000 |
Nov 2011 | 174,000 |
Dec 2011 | 230,000 |
Jan 2012 | 311,000 |
Feb 2012 | 271,000 |
Mar 2012 | 205,000 |
Apr 2012 | 112,000 |
May 2012 | 125,000 |
Jun 2012 | 87,000 |
Jul 2012 | 153,000 |
Aug 2012 | 165,000 |
Sep 2012 | 138,000 |
Oct 2012 | 160,000 |
Nov 2012 | 247,000 |
Dec 2012 | 219,000 |
Jan 2013 | 148,000 |
Feb 2013 | 332,000 |
Mar 2013 | 138,000(p) |
Apr 2013 | 165,000(p) |
Footnotes: |
Professional and business services added 73,000 jobs in April and has added 587,000 jobs over the past year. In April, employment rose in temporary help services (+31,000), professional and technical services (+23,000), and management of companies (+7,000).
Within leisure and hospitality, employment in food services and drinking places rose by 38,000 over the month. Retail trade employment increased by 29,000 in April; job growth occurred in general merchandise stores (+15,000) and in health and personal care stores (+5,000).
Industry | Employment change(p) |
---|---|
Total nonfarm | 165,000 |
Professional and business services | 73,000 |
Leisure and hospitality | 43,000 |
Retail trade | 29,000 |
Education and health services | 28,000 |
Financial activities | 9,000 |
Transportation and warehousing | 4,000 |
Wholesale trade | 4,000 |
Other services | 4,000 |
Manufacturing | 0 |
Mining and logging | -3,000 |
Construction | -6,000 |
Information | -9,000 |
Government | -11,000 |
Footnotes: |
Health care (part of education and health services) added 19,000 jobs in April. Within the industry, employment rose in ambulatory health care services (+14,000). Employment also continued its upward trend in social assistance (+7,000).
Employment changed little over the month in construction, with small offsetting movements in the residential and nonresidential components. Manufacturing employment was unchanged in April.
These data are from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program and are seasonally adjusted. To learn more, see “The Employment Situation — April 2013” (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL‑13‑0785. More charts featuring CES employment data can be found in Current Employment Statistics Highlights: April 2013 (PDF).
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Payroll employment up in April 2013 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2013/ted_20130506.htm (visited October 31, 2024).