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Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 160,000 in April 2016. Over the prior 12 months, employment growth had averaged 232,000 per month. Employment in service-providing industries, such as professional and business services, health care, and financial activities, increased 174,000 in April. Offsetting these employment gains were job losses in goods-producing industries and government. Employment in goods-producing industries, such as construction, manufacturing, and mining, decreased 3,000. Government employment decreased 11,000.
Month | Total nonfarm | Goods-producing industries |
Private service-providing industries |
Government |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 2012 |
338,000 | 57,000 | 290,000 | -9,000 |
Feb 2012 |
257,000 | 30,000 | 231,000 | -4,000 |
Mar 2012 |
239,000 | 46,000 | 191,000 | 2,000 |
Apr 2012 |
75,000 | 14,000 | 76,000 | -15,000 |
May 2012 |
115,000 | -1,000 | 131,000 | -15,000 |
Jun 2012 |
87,000 | 28,000 | 44,000 | 15,000 |
Jul 2012 |
143,000 | 33,000 | 127,000 | -17,000 |
Aug 2012 |
190,000 | 8,000 | 166,000 | 16,000 |
Sep 2012 |
181,000 | -5,000 | 185,000 | 1,000 |
Oct 2012 |
132,000 | 16,000 | 148,000 | -32,000 |
Nov 2012 |
149,000 | 5,000 | 166,000 | -22,000 |
Dec 2012 |
243,000 | 62,000 | 171,000 | 10,000 |
Jan 2013 |
190,000 | 36,000 | 167,000 | -13,000 |
Feb 2013 |
311,000 | 79,000 | 218,000 | 14,000 |
Mar 2013 |
135,000 | 25,000 | 125,000 | -15,000 |
Apr 2013 |
192,000 | -5,000 | 198,000 | -1,000 |
May 2013 |
218,000 | 21,000 | 204,000 | -7,000 |
Jun 2013 |
146,000 | 26,000 | 147,000 | -27,000 |
Jul 2013 |
140,000 | -17,000 | 179,000 | -22,000 |
Aug 2013 |
269,000 | 52,000 | 190,000 | 27,000 |
Sep 2013 |
185,000 | 43,000 | 136,000 | 6,000 |
Oct 2013 |
189,000 | 46,000 | 157,000 | -14,000 |
Nov 2013 |
291,000 | 57,000 | 223,000 | 11,000 |
Dec 2013 |
45,000 | -8,000 | 79,000 | -26,000 |
Jan 2014 |
187,000 | 74,000 | 123,000 | -10,000 |
Feb 2014 |
168,000 | 44,000 | 114,000 | 10,000 |
Mar 2014 |
272,000 | 56,000 | 205,000 | 11,000 |
Apr 2014 |
310,000 | 61,000 | 221,000 | 28,000 |
May 2014 |
213,000 | 19,000 | 196,000 | -2,000 |
Jun 2014 |
306,000 | 43,000 | 224,000 | 39,000 |
Jul 2014 |
232,000 | 65,000 | 179,000 | -12,000 |
Aug 2014 |
218,000 | 43,000 | 188,000 | -13,000 |
Sep 2014 |
286,000 | 43,000 | 194,000 | 49,000 |
Oct 2014 |
200,000 | 38,000 | 152,000 | 10,000 |
Nov 2014 |
331,000 | 50,000 | 274,000 | 7,000 |
Dec 2014 |
292,000 | 64,000 | 215,000 | 13,000 |
Jan 2015 |
221,000 | 60,000 | 154,000 | 7,000 |
Feb 2015 |
265,000 | 16,000 | 236,000 | 13,000 |
Mar 2015 |
84,000 | -20,000 | 110,000 | -6,000 |
Apr 2015 |
251,000 | 21,000 | 220,000 | 10,000 |
May 2015 |
273,000 | 5,000 | 251,000 | 17,000 |
Jun 2015 |
228,000 | -3,000 | 229,000 | 2,000 |
Jul 2015 |
277,000 | 14,000 | 231,000 | 32,000 |
Aug 2015 |
150,000 | -23,000 | 146,000 | 27,000 |
Sep 2015 |
149,000 | -12,000 | 174,000 | -13,000 |
Oct 2015 |
295,000 | 31,000 | 273,000 | -9,000 |
Nov 2015 |
280,000 | 53,000 | 226,000 | 1,000 |
Dec 2015 |
271,000 | 44,000 | 215,000 | 12,000 |
Jan 2016 |
168,000 | 24,000 | 131,000 | 13,000 |
Feb 2016 |
233,000 | -20,000 | 242,000 | 11,000 |
Mar 2016(p) |
208,000 | 0 | 184,000 | 24,000 |
Apr 2016(p) |
160,000 | -3,000 | 174,000 | -11,000 |
Footnotes: (p) Preliminary Total nonfarm employment is the sum of goods-producing, private service-providing, and government employment. |
Professional and business services added 65,000 jobs in April. This industry added an average of 51,000 jobs per month over the prior 12 months. Job gains occurred in management and technical consulting services and in computer systems design and related services in April.
Health care employment rose by 44,000 in April, with most of the increase occurring in hospitals and ambulatory health care services. Over the year, health care employment has increased by 502,000.
Employment in financial activities rose by 20,000 in April, with credit intermediation and related activities contributing to the gain. Financial activities has added 160,000 jobs over the past 12 months.
Employment in other major service-providing industries, including wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, information, leisure and hospitality showed little or no change over the month.
Mining employment continued to decline in April, decreasing 7,000 over the month. Since reaching a peak in September 2014, employment in mining has decreased by 191,000.
Employment in construction and manufacturing was little changed in April.
Government employment changed little in April, decreasing 11,000. Most of the decrease was in federal government. Since January 2014, government has added 270,000 jobs; half of this employment gain has been in local government, excluding education.
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 — April 2016" (HTML) (PDF). More charts featuring nonfarm employment data are in Current Employment Statistics Highlights: April 2015.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Total payroll employment up 160,000; service-providing up 174,000; goods-producing down 3,000 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/total-payroll-employment-up-160000-service-providing-up-174000-goods-producing-down-3000.htm (visited October 31, 2024).