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Nonfarm employment up 2.1 million, or 1.4 percent, over the year ending December 2017
January 09, 2018
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 2,055,000 from December 2016 to December 2017, or 1.4 percent. Mining and logging added 59,000 jobs in 2017, an increase of 8.8 percent, while construction added 210,000 jobs, or 3.1 percent.
Over-the-year change in nonfarm payroll employment by industry, December 2017, seasonally adjusted
Industry
Over-the-year change
Over-the-year change, in percent
December 2017 employment
Total nonfarm
2,055,000
1.4%
147,380,000
Mining and logging
59,000
8.8
727,000
Construction
210,000
3.1
6,993,000
Manufacturing
196,000
1.6
12,539,000
Wholesale trade
70,800
1.2
5,959,200
Retail trade
-66,500
-0.4
15,814,500
Transportation and warehousing
74,300
1.5
5,122,300
Utilities
-4,400
-0.8
552,300
Information
-40,000
-1.4
2,722,000
Financial activities
134,000
1.6
8,498,000
Professional and business services
527,000
2.6
20,943,000
Education and health services
438,000
1.9
23,309,000
Leisure and hospitality
306,000
1.9
16,050,000
Other services
109,000
1.3
5,810,000
Government
42,000
0.2
22,341,000
Manufacturing added 196,000 jobs in 2017 (1.6 percent), following little net change in 2016 (-16,000). Employment in education and health services increased by 438,000 (1.9 percent) in 2017 while professional and business services employment increased by 527,000 (2.6 percent).
United States Department of Labor
