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Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 214,000 in October, in line with the average monthly gain of 222,000 over the prior 12 months. In October, job growth occurred in food services and drinking places, retail trade, and health care.
Month | Total nonfarm | Total private | Mining and logging |
Construction | Manufacturing | Wholesale trade |
Retail trade |
Transportation and warehousing |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 2013 |
197,000 | 219,000 | 3,000 | 23,000 | 17,000 | 16,900 | 26,900 | 9,800 |
Feb 2013 |
280,000 | 263,000 | 4,000 | 46,000 | 22,000 | 2,100 | 9,600 | -11,500 |
Mar 2013 |
141,000 | 164,000 | 2,000 | 24,000 | 3,000 | 1,800 | -8,700 | -100 |
Apr 2013 |
203,000 | 188,000 | -3,000 | -2,000 | -6,000 | 5,700 | 22,600 | 5,700 |
May 2013 |
199,000 | 222,000 | 4,000 | 5,000 | -7,000 | 7,700 | 34,700 | -1,500 |
Jun 2013 |
201,000 | 201,000 | 3,000 | 13,000 | -3,000 | 5,700 | 38,700 | 5,800 |
Jul 2013 |
149,000 | 170,000 | 3,000 | 1,000 | -9,000 | 11,700 | 48,400 | -8,200 |
Aug 2013 |
202,000 | 180,000 | 3,000 | 6,000 | 8,000 | 10,400 | 29,400 | 10,200 |
Sep 2013 |
164,000 | 153,000 | 6,000 | 13,000 | 3,000 | 11,300 | 27,300 | 23,100 |
Oct 2013 |
237,000 | 247,000 | 5,000 | 15,000 | 18,000 | -1,800 | 41,900 | 4,800 |
Nov 2013 |
274,000 | 272,000 | 1,000 | 32,000 | 35,000 | 16,800 | 22,300 | 32,400 |
Dec 2013 |
84,000 | 86,000 | 0 | -20,000 | 7,000 | 11,000 | 52,000 | 4,500 |
Jan 2014 |
144,000 | 166,000 | 6,000 | 51,000 | 8,000 | 18,300 | -21,500 | 15,500 |
Feb 2014 |
222,000 | 201,000 | 4,000 | 24,000 | 20,000 | 14,700 | -5,600 | -4,900 |
Mar 2014 |
203,000 | 200,000 | 4,000 | 13,000 | 4,000 | 7,800 | 28,900 | 13,900 |
Apr 2014 |
304,000 | 278,000 | 5,000 | 36,000 | 9,000 | 15,900 | 43,000 | 12,000 |
May 2014 |
229,000 | 228,000 | 2,000 | 9,000 | 15,000 | 6,000 | 12,000 | 16,600 |
Jun 2014 |
267,000 | 260,000 | 5,000 | 8,000 | 21,000 | 12,900 | 35,400 | 13,400 |
Jul 2014 |
243,000 | 239,000 | 9,000 | 30,000 | 24,000 | 3,000 | 25,400 | 21,100 |
Aug 2014 |
203,000 | 200,000 | 2,000 | 17,000 | 3,000 | 5,700 | -3,900 | 11,400 |
Sep 2014 |
256,000 | 244,000 | 8,000 | 19,000 | 9,000 | 5,100 | 34,000 | 5,200 |
Oct 2014 |
214,000 | 209,000 | 1,000 | 12,000 | 15,000 | 8,500 | 27,100 | 13,300 |
Month | Utilities | Information | Financial activities |
Professional and business services |
Education and health services |
Leisure and hospitality |
Other services |
Government |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 2013 |
200 | -1,000 | 8,000 | 45,000 | 17,000 | 47,000 | 7,000 | -22,000 |
Feb 2013 |
-100 | 19,000 | 12,000 | 85,000 | 27,000 | 50,000 | -2,000 | 17,000 |
Mar 2013 |
-1,200 | 2,000 | 6,000 | 67,000 | 41,000 | 34,000 | -7,000 | -23,000 |
Apr 2013 |
1,200 | -6,000 | 10,000 | 72,000 | 51,000 | 33,000 | 4,000 | 15,000 |
May 2013 |
1,000 | -2,000 | 9,000 | 77,000 | 29,000 | 53,000 | 12,000 | -23,000 |
Jun 2013 |
500 | -1,000 | 13,000 | 59,000 | 15,000 | 51,000 | 0 | 0 |
Jul 2013 |
-1,000 | 12,000 | 16,000 | 51,000 | 24,000 | 23,000 | -2,000 | -21,000 |
Aug 2013 |
-600 | -28,000 | -4,000 | 42,000 | 64,000 | 34,000 | 6,000 | 22,000 |
Sep 2013 |
0 | 13,000 | -1,000 | 37,000 | 9,000 | 9,000 | 2,000 | 11,000 |
Oct 2013 |
-600 | 6,000 | 7,000 | 53,000 | 31,000 | 65,000 | 3,000 | -10,000 |
Nov 2013 |
1,400 | 1,000 | -4,000 | 73,000 | 25,000 | 37,000 | -1,000 | 2,000 |
Dec 2013 |
-1,300 | -15,000 | 2,000 | 16,000 | 5,000 | 18,000 | 7,000 | -2,000 |
Jan 2014 |
-1,600 | -3,000 | -1,000 | 49,000 | 16,000 | 25,000 | 4,000 | -22,000 |
Feb 2014 |
100 | -11,000 | 10,000 | 82,000 | 32,000 | 35,000 | 1,000 | 21,000 |
Mar 2014 |
1,900 | -1,000 | 0 | 47,000 | 40,000 | 31,000 | 9,000 | 3,000 |
Apr 2014 |
-1,000 | 1,000 | 9,000 | 72,000 | 32,000 | 32,000 | 12,000 | 26,000 |
May 2014 |
300 | -6,000 | 8,000 | 57,000 | 59,000 | 45,000 | 4,000 | 1,000 |
Jun 2014 |
600 | 11,000 | 19,000 | 70,000 | 48,000 | 21,000 | -5,000 | 7,000 |
Jul 2014 |
1,800 | 10,000 | 15,000 | 50,000 | 37,000 | 10,000 | 3,000 | 4,000 |
Aug 2014 |
2,000 | 14,000 | 12,000 | 49,000 | 50,000 | 26,000 | 11,000 | 3,000 |
Sep 2014 |
-1,800 | 13,000 | 12,000 | 55,000 | 43,000 | 48,000 | -5,000 | 12,000 |
Oct 2014 |
400 | -4,000 | 3,000 | 37,000 | 41,000 | 52,000 | 3,000 | 5,000 |
Leisure and hospitality added 52,000 jobs in October. Food services and drinking places (part of leisure and hospitality) added 42,000 jobs in October, compared with an average gain of 26,000 jobs per month over the prior 12 months.
Employment in education and health services increased by 41,000 in October. Health care added 25,000 jobs, about in line with the prior 12-month average gain of 21,000 jobs per month. In October, employment rose in ambulatory health care services.
Employment in professional and business services continued to trend up over the month, increasing by 37,000. Over the prior 12 months, job gains averaged 56,000 per month. In October, employment continued to trend up in temporary help services and in computer systems design and related services.
Employment in retail trade rose by 27,100 in October. Within the industry, employment grew in general merchandise stores and automobile dealers. Retail trade has added 249,000 jobs over the past year.
Manufacturing employment continued on an upward trend in October, gaining 15,000. Within the industry, job gains occurred in machinery, furniture and related products, and semiconductors and electronic components. Over the year, manufacturing has added 170,000 jobs, largely in durable goods.
Employment also continued to trend up in transportation and warehousing and in construction, increasing 13,300 and 12,000 respectively.
Employment in other major industries, including mining and logging, wholesale trade, information, financial activities, and government, showed little change over the month.
These data are from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program and are seasonally adjusted. Data for the most recent two months are preliminary. To learn more, see "The Employment Situation — October 2014," (HTML) (PDF) news release USDL-14-2037. For more charts featuring CES data, see Current Employment Statistics Highlights: October 2014 (PDF).
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Payroll employment up 214,000 in October 2014 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2014/ted_20141113.htm (visited October 31, 2024).