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Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 242,000 in February and by nearly 2.7 million over the year. Job growth occurred in health care and social assistance, retail trade, food services and drinking places, and private educational services. Mining employment continued to decline.
Industry | 1-month net change(p) | 3-month net change(p) | 12-month net change(p) |
---|---|---|---|
Total nonfarm |
242,000 | 685,000 | 2,672,000 |
Total private |
230,000 | 671,000 | 2,597,000 |
Mining and logging |
-18,000 | -37,000 | -141,000 |
Construction |
19,000 | 82,000 | 253,000 |
Construction of buildings |
6,400 | 29,600 | 46,300 |
Heavy and civil engineering construction |
700 | -1,300 | 7,900 |
Specialty trade contractors |
12,300 | 54,000 | 199,200 |
Manufacturing |
-16,000 | 13,000 | 12,000 |
Durable goods |
-12,000 | 2,000 | -34,000 |
Nondurable goods |
-4,000 | 11,000 | 46,000 |
Trade, transportation, and utilities |
53,000 | 133,000 | 470,000 |
Wholesale trade |
700 | 14,400 | 51,700 |
Retail trade |
54,900 | 123,600 | 338,600 |
Transportation and warehousing |
-5,300 | -8,300 | 68,000 |
Utilities |
2,000 | 3,200 | 11,200 |
Information |
12,000 | 26,000 | 41,000 |
Financial activities |
6,000 | 30,000 | 142,000 |
Finance and insurance |
8,300 | 24,100 | 107,300 |
Real estate and rental and leasing |
-2,500 | 5,500 | 34,200 |
Professional and business services |
23,000 | 98,000 | 610,000 |
Professional and technical services |
17,600 | 63,400 | 297,700 |
Management of companies and enterprises |
6,800 | 13,300 | 65,900 |
Administrative and waste services |
-700 | 21,800 | 246,600 |
Education and health services |
86,000 | 173,000 | 698,000 |
Educational services |
28,200 | 24,900 | 62,800 |
Health care and social assistance |
57,400 | 147,900 | 634,500 |
Health care |
38,100 | 111,300 | 480,900 |
Ambulatory health care services |
23,600 | 63,300 | 260,500 |
Hospitals |
10,600 | 40,400 | 181,200 |
Nursing and residential care facilities |
3,900 | 7,600 | 39,200 |
Social assistance |
19,300 | 36,600 | 153,600 |
Leisure and hospitality |
48,000 | 128,000 | 446,000 |
Arts, entertainment, and recreation |
5,600 | 6,200 | 73,900 |
Accommodation and food services |
42,400 | 121,900 | 372,600 |
Other services |
17,000 | 25,000 | 66,000 |
Government |
12,000 | 14,000 | 75,000 |
Federal |
5,000 | 11,000 | 22,000 |
State |
-5,000 | -28,000 | -14,000 |
Local |
12,000 | 31,000 | 67,000 |
Footnotes: (p) = preliminary. |
Health care and social assistance added 57,000 jobs in February and 635,000 jobs over the year. Health care employment increased by 38,000 over the month, with 24,000 jobs gained in ambulatory health care services and 11,000 jobs in hospitals. Over the past 12 months, ambulatory health care services added 261,000 jobs and hospitals added 181,000 jobs.
Retail trade added another 55,000 jobs in February. Employment rose by 15,000 in food and beverage stores and 13,000 in other general merchandise stores. Retail trade added 339,000 jobs over the past 12 months.
Accommodation and food services added 42,000 jobs in February and 373,000 over the year. Within this industry, food services and drinking places added 40,000 jobs. Over the year, employment in the industry grew by 359,000.
Construction continued to trend up in February, adding 19,000 jobs. Specialty trade contractors added 12,000 jobs. Employment in construction was up by 253,000 over the past 12 months, with specialty trade contractors accounting for nearly four-fifths of the increase.
Employment in mining and logging declined in February, with a loss of 18,000 jobs. Over the year, within mining and logging, mining shed 171,000 jobs. More than three-fourths of that loss was in support activities for mining.
These data are from the Current Employment Statistics program. Data for the most recent 2 months are preliminary. To learn more, see "The Employment Situation — February 2016" (HTML) (PDF). Charts and analysis of nonfarm employment data can be found in Current Employment Statistics Highlights: February 2016; for additional charts, see Graphics for Economic News Releases: The Employment Situation.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Payroll employment up by 242,000 in February 2016 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/payroll-employment-up-by-242000-in-february-2016.htm (visited October 31, 2024).