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Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 210,000 in November 2021. Thus far this year, monthly job growth has averaged 555,000. Nonfarm employment has increased by 18.5 million since April 2020 but is down by 3.9 million, or 2.6 percent, from its pre-pandemic level in February 2020. In November, notable job gains occurred in professional and business services, transportation and warehousing, construction, and manufacturing. Employment in retail trade declined over the month.
Industry | Employment change |
---|---|
Mining and logging |
-2,000 |
Logging |
-200 |
Mining |
-1,600 |
Oil and gas extraction |
-1,200 |
Mining, except oil and gas |
100 |
Coal mining |
-300 |
Metal ore mining |
200 |
Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying |
200 |
Support activities for mining |
-500 |
Construction |
31,000 |
Construction of buildings |
10,000 |
Residential building |
4,100 |
Nonresidential building |
5,900 |
Heavy and civil engineering construction |
8,100 |
Specialty trade contractors |
13,000 |
Residential specialty trade contractors |
6,200 |
Nonresidential specialty trade contractors |
6,800 |
Manufacturing |
31,000 |
Durable goods |
15,000 |
Wood products |
2,000 |
Nonmetallic mineral products |
2,700 |
Primary metals |
700 |
Fabricated metal products |
7,900 |
Machinery |
-6,000 |
Computer and electronic products |
-1,300 |
Computer and peripheral equipment |
400 |
Communications equipment |
-600 |
Semiconductors and electronic components |
-600 |
Electronic instruments |
-600 |
Miscellaneous computer and electronic products |
0 |
Electrical equipment and appliances |
3,300 |
Transportation equipment |
-3,800 |
Motor vehicles and parts |
-10,100 |
Furniture and related products |
-300 |
Miscellaneous durable goods manufacturing |
10,000 |
Nondurable goods |
16,000 |
Food manufacturing |
7,400 |
Textile mills |
600 |
Textile product mills |
-100 |
Apparel |
800 |
Paper and paper products |
2,200 |
Printing and related support activities |
-100 |
Petroleum and coal products |
0 |
Chemicals |
0 |
Plastics and rubber products |
1,600 |
Miscellaneous nondurable goods manufacturing |
3,500 |
Wholesale trade |
8,000 |
Durable goods |
8,000 |
Nondurable goods |
-100 |
Electronic markets and agents and brokers |
100 |
Retail trade |
-20,400 |
Motor vehicle and parts dealers |
1,100 |
Automobile dealers |
200 |
Other motor vehicle dealers |
200 |
Auto parts, accessories, and tire stores |
700 |
Furniture and home furnishings stores |
-300 |
Electronics and appliance stores |
-1,300 |
Building material and garden supply stores |
7,300 |
Food and beverage stores |
8,600 |
Health and personal care stores |
4,400 |
Gasoline stations |
2,300 |
Clothing and clothing accessories stores |
-17,700 |
Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores |
-8,900 |
General merchandise stores |
-20,400 |
Department stores |
-7,500 |
General merchandise stores, including warehouse clubs and supercenters |
-12,900 |
Miscellaneous store retailers |
300 |
Nonstore retailers |
4,200 |
Transportation and warehousing |
49,700 |
Air transportation |
3,400 |
Rail transportation |
300 |
Water transportation |
500 |
Truck transportation |
5,600 |
Transit and ground passenger transportation |
-900 |
Pipeline transportation |
200 |
Scenic and sightseeing transportation |
2,500 |
Support activities for transportation |
2,500 |
Couriers and messengers |
26,800 |
Warehousing and storage |
8,800 |
Utilities |
-400 |
Information |
-2,000 |
Publishing industries, except Internet |
900 |
Motion picture and sound recording industries |
-3,400 |
Broadcasting, except Internet |
-500 |
Telecommunications |
-2,700 |
Data processing, hosting and related services |
-200 |
Other information services |
4,100 |
Financial activities |
13,000 |
Finance and insurance |
9,300 |
Monetary authorities - central bank |
100 |
Credit intermediation and related activities |
-2,100 |
Depository credit intermediation |
-2,600 |
Commercial banking |
-2,700 |
Nondepository credit intermediation |
-100 |
Activities related to credit intermediation |
600 |
Securities, commodity contracts, investments, and funds and trusts |
8,800 |
Insurance carriers and related activities |
2,500 |
Real estate and rental and leasing |
3,400 |
Real estate |
4,900 |
Rental and leasing services |
-1,400 |
Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets |
-100 |
Professional and business services |
90,000 |
Professional and technical services |
43,800 |
Legal services |
2,700 |
Accounting and bookkeeping services |
7,600 |
Architectural and engineering services |
2,000 |
Specialized design services |
1,000 |
Computer systems design and related services |
9,500 |
Management and technical consulting services |
12,000 |
Scientific research and development services |
3,300 |
Advertising and related services |
1,600 |
Other professional and technical services |
4,300 |
Management of companies and enterprises |
3,900 |
Administrative and waste services |
41,600 |
Administrative and support services |
42,400 |
Office administrative services |
3,900 |
Facilities support services |
-400 |
Employment services |
23,700 |
Temporary help services |
6,200 |
Business support services |
5,700 |
Travel arrangement and reservation services |
-1,700 |
Investigation and security services |
700 |
Services to buildings and dwellings |
10,400 |
Other support services |
200 |
Waste management and remediation services |
-800 |
Education and health services |
4,000 |
Educational services |
-2,300 |
Health care |
2,100 |
Ambulatory health care services |
17,000 |
Offices of physicians |
2,400 |
Offices of dentists |
3,800 |
Offices of other health practitioners |
6,800 |
Outpatient care centers |
2,500 |
Medical and diagnostic laboratories |
500 |
Home health care services |
-300 |
Other ambulatory health care services |
1,300 |
Hospitals |
-3,900 |
Nursing and residential care facilities |
-11,000 |
Nursing care facilities |
-8,400 |
Residential mental health facilities |
-1,100 |
Community care facilities for the elderly |
-1,900 |
Other residential care facilities |
400 |
Social assistance |
3,600 |
Individual and family services |
3,700 |
Emergency and other relief services |
1,300 |
Vocational rehabilitation services |
700 |
Child day care services |
-2,100 |
Leisure and hospitality |
23,000 |
Arts, entertainment, and recreation |
5,100 |
Performing arts and spectator sports |
7,500 |
Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions |
-300 |
Amusements, gambling, and recreation |
-2,100 |
Accommodation and food services |
17,600 |
Accommodation |
6,600 |
Food services and drinking places |
11,000 |
Other services |
10,000 |
Repair and maintenance |
10,100 |
Personal and laundry services |
-5,000 |
Membership associations and organizations |
4,700 |
Government |
-25,000 |
Federal |
2,000 |
Federal, except U.S. Postal Service |
-2,300 |
U.S. Postal Service |
4,700 |
State government |
-9,000 |
State government education |
-3,000 |
State government, excluding education |
-6,100 |
Local government |
-18,000 |
Local government education |
-12,600 |
Local government, excluding education |
-4,500 |
Professional and business services added 90,000 jobs in November. Job gains continued in administrative and waste services (+42,000). Job growth also continued in management and technical consulting services (+12,000) and in computer system design and related services (+10,000). Employment in professional and business services overall is 69,000 below its level in February 2020.
Employment in transportation and warehousing increased by 50,000 in November and is 210,000 above its February 2020 level. In November, job gains occurred in couriers and messengers (+27,000) and in warehousing and storage (+9,000).
Construction employment rose by 31,000 in November, following similar gains in the prior 2 months. Construction employment is 115,000 below its February 2020 level. Manufacturing added 31,000 jobs in November. Manufacturing employment is down by 253,000 since February 2020. Employment in financial activities continued to trend up in November (+13,000) and is 30,000 above its February 2020 level.
Employment in retail trade declined by 20,000 in November, with job losses in general merchandise stores (−20,000); clothing and clothing accessories stores (−18,000); and sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores (−9,000). These losses were partially offset by job gains in food and beverage stores (+9,000) and in building material and garden supply stores (+7,000). Retail trade employment is 176,000 lower than in February 2020.
Industry | Change in employment | Percent change | February 2020 employment | November 2021 employment |
---|---|---|---|---|
Leisure and hospitality |
-1,334,000 | -7.9 | 16,915,000 | 15,581,000 |
Government |
-935,000 | -4.1 | 22,835,000 | 21,900,000 |
Education and health services |
-793,000 | -3.2 | 24,565,000 | 23,772,000 |
Local government |
-678,000 | -4.6 | 14,669,000 | 13,991,000 |
State government |
-273,000 | -5.1 | 5,303,000 | 5,030,000 |
Manufacturing |
-253,000 | -2.0 | 12,799,000 | 12,546,000 |
Retail trade |
-175,800 | -1.1 | 15,609,800 | 15,434,000 |
Other services |
-150,000 | -2.5 | 5,937,000 | 5,787,000 |
Wholesale trade |
-147,900 | -2.5 | 5,895,200 | 5,747,300 |
Information |
-123,000 | -4.2 | 2,914,000 | 2,791,000 |
Construction |
-115,000 | -1.5 | 7,648,000 | 7,533,000 |
Professional and business services |
-69,000 | -0.3 | 21,469,000 | 21,400,000 |
Mining and logging |
-45,000 | -6.5 | 690,000 | 645,000 |
Utilities |
-11,300 | -2.1 | 547,400 | 536,100 |
Federal government |
16,000 | 0.6 | 2,863,000 | 2,879,000 |
Financial activities |
30,000 | 0.3 | 8,875,000 | 8,905,000 |
Transportation and warehousing |
210,000 | 3.6 | 5,823,100 | 6,033,100 |
These data are from the Current Employment Statistics program and are seasonally adjusted. Data for the most recent 2 months are preliminary. To learn more, see "The Employment Situation — November 2021." Also see more charts of national employment, hours, and earnings data and the impact of the COVID−19 pandemic on the November data.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Payroll employment up 210,000 in November 2021 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/payroll-employment-up-210000-in-november-2021.htm (visited October 31, 2024).