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Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 150,000 in October 2023, below the average monthly gain of 258,000 over the prior 12 months. Job gains occurred in health care, social assistance, and government while employment in manufacturing declined.
Industry | Employment change |
---|---|
Mining and logging |
1,000 |
Logging |
-100 |
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction |
500 |
Oil and gas extraction |
300 |
Mining (except oil and gas) |
-1,000 |
Coal mining |
-500 |
Metal ore mining |
-500 |
Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying |
0 |
Support activities for mining |
1,200 |
Construction |
23,000 |
Construction of buildings |
6,300 |
Residential building construction |
3,700 |
Nonresidential building construction |
2,600 |
Heavy and civil engineering construction |
1,600 |
Specialty trade contractors |
14,200 |
Residential specialty trade contractors |
10,000 |
Nonresidential specialty trade contractors |
4,200 |
Manufacturing |
-35,000 |
Durable goods |
-36,000 |
Wood product manufacturing |
-200 |
Nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing |
0 |
Primary metal manufacturing |
-900 |
Fabricated metal product manufacturing |
800 |
Machinery manufacturing |
-1,700 |
Computer and electronic product manufacturing |
-1,700 |
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing |
-800 |
Communications equipment manufacturing |
600 |
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing |
-900 |
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing |
-200 |
Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media and audio and video equipment manufacturing |
-400 |
Electrical equipment, appliance, and component manufacturing |
400 |
Transportation equipment manufacturing[1] |
-29,900 |
Motor vehicles and parts[2] |
-33,200 |
Furniture and related product manufacturing |
-1,500 |
Miscellaneous manufacturing |
-1,700 |
Nondurable goods |
1,000 |
Food manufacturing |
6,200 |
Textile mills |
100 |
Textile product mills |
-1,200 |
Apparel manufacturing |
-500 |
Paper manufacturing |
600 |
Printing and related support activities |
1,100 |
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing |
-400 |
Chemical manufacturing |
-2,600 |
Plastics and rubber products manufacturing |
-3,100 |
Beverage, tobacco, and leather and allied product manufacturing |
1,200 |
Trade, transportation, and utilities |
-1,000 |
Wholesale trade |
9,400 |
Merchant wholesalers, durable goods |
3,600 |
Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods |
2,900 |
Wholesale trade agents and brokers |
2,900 |
Retail trade |
700 |
Motor vehicle and parts dealers |
5,900 |
Automobile dealers |
5,900 |
Other motor vehicle dealers |
-1,900 |
Automotive parts, accessories, and tire retailers |
1,800 |
Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers |
-3,100 |
Food and beverage retailers |
3,400 |
Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance retailers |
-3,400 |
Furniture and home furnishings retailers |
1,900 |
Electronics and appliance retailers |
-5,300 |
General merchandise retailers |
700 |
Department stores |
-1,600 |
Warehouse clubs, supercenters, and other general merchandise retailers |
2,200 |
Health and personal care retailers |
-300 |
Gasoline stations and fuel dealers |
-2,200 |
Clothing, clothing accessories, shoe, and jewelry retailers |
2,700 |
Sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, book, and miscellaneous retailers |
-3,000 |
Transportation and warehousing |
-12,100 |
Air transportation |
3,500 |
Rail transportation |
0 |
Water transportation |
1,200 |
Truck transportation |
-5,000 |
Transit and ground passenger transportation |
-700 |
Pipeline transportation |
-500 |
Scenic and sightseeing transportation |
-400 |
Support activities for transportation |
-1,400 |
Couriers and messengers |
2,600 |
Warehousing and storage |
-11,400 |
Utilities |
800 |
Information |
-9,000 |
Motion picture and sound recording industries |
-5,400 |
Publishing industries |
-4,500 |
Broadcasting and content providers |
300 |
Telecommunications |
1,400 |
Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services |
-1,000 |
Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information services |
-100 |
Financial activities |
-2,000 |
Finance and insurance |
-7,800 |
Monetary authorities-central bank |
-100 |
Credit intermediation and related activities |
-10,000 |
Depository credit intermediation[1] |
-5,400 |
Commercial banking |
-5,800 |
Nondepository credit intermediation |
-3,000 |
Activities related to credit intermediation |
-1,600 |
Securities, commodity contracts, funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles, investments, and related activities |
1,200 |
Insurance carriers and related activities |
1,100 |
Real estate and rental and leasing |
5,100 |
Real estate |
3,300 |
Rental and leasing services |
1,800 |
Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works) |
0 |
Professional and business services |
15,000 |
Professional, scientific, and technical services |
17,000 |
Legal services |
0 |
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services |
300 |
Architectural, engineering, and related services |
2,600 |
Specialized design services |
500 |
Computer systems design and related services |
6,700 |
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services |
2,600 |
Scientific research and development services |
-1,100 |
Advertising, public relations, and related services |
2,300 |
Other professional, scientific, and technical services |
3,100 |
Management of companies and enterprises |
-2,500 |
Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services |
400 |
Administrative and support services |
1,800 |
Office administrative services |
6,000 |
Facilities support services |
-300 |
Employment services[1] |
-2,600 |
Temporary help services |
6,600 |
Business support services |
-7,500 |
Travel arrangement and reservation services |
2,800 |
Investigation and security services |
100 |
Services to buildings and dwellings |
-300 |
Other support services |
3,900 |
Waste management and remediation services |
-1,400 |
Private education and health services |
89,000 |
Private educational services |
11,500 |
Health care and social assistance |
77,200 |
Health care |
58,400 |
Ambulatory health care services |
32,400 |
Offices of physicians |
12,600 |
Offices of dentists |
-3,600 |
Offices of other health practitioners |
4,400 |
Outpatient care centers |
8,100 |
Medical and diagnostic laboratories |
-1,100 |
Home health care services |
9,500 |
Other ambulatory health care services |
2,600 |
Hospitals |
18,100 |
Nursing and residential care facilities |
7,900 |
Skilled nursing care facilities |
4,400 |
Residential intellectual and developmental disability, mental health, and substance abuse facilities |
1,300 |
Continuing care retirement communities and assisted living facilities for the elderly |
1,800 |
Other residential care facilities |
300 |
Social assistance |
18,800 |
Individual and family services |
14,300 |
Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services |
1,300 |
Vocational rehabilitation services |
400 |
Child care services |
2,800 |
Leisure and hospitality |
19,000 |
Arts, entertainment, and recreation |
20,400 |
Performing arts, spectator sports, and related industries |
10,300 |
Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions |
600 |
Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries |
9,500 |
Accommodation and food services |
-800 |
Accommodation |
6,700 |
Food services and drinking places |
-7,500 |
Other services |
-1,000 |
Repair and maintenance |
1,000 |
Personal and laundry services |
-3,500 |
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations |
1,100 |
Government |
51,000 |
Federal |
3,000 |
Federal, except U.S. Postal Service |
2,400 |
U.S. Postal Service |
800 |
State government |
10,000 |
State government education |
2,500 |
State government, excluding education |
7,400 |
Local government |
38,000 |
Local government education |
26,400 |
Local government, excluding education |
11,900 |
[1] Includes other industries, not shown separately. [2] Includes motor vehicle manufacturing, motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing, and motor vehicle parts manufacturing. |
Within private education and health services, health care added 58,000 jobs in October 2023, in line with its average monthly gain of 53,000 over the prior 12 months. Over the month, employment continued to trend up in ambulatory health care services (+32,000), hospitals (+18,000), and nursing and residential care facilities (+8,000). Social assistance added 19,000 jobs in October 2023, compared with its average monthly gain of 23,000 in the prior 12 months. Individual and family services employment grew 14,000 over the month.
Employment in government increased by 51,000 in October 2023, returning to its pre-pandemic February 2020 level. Monthly job growth in government had averaged 50,000 in the 12 months prior to October 2023. In October, employment continued to trend up in local government (+38,000).
In October 2023, employment in manufacturing decreased by 35,000, reflecting a decline of 33,000 in motor vehicles and parts that was largely due to strike activity.
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 — October 2023." Also see more charts of national employment, hours, and earnings data.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Nonfarm payroll employment up 150,000 in October 2023 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2023/nonfarm-payroll-employment-up-150000-in-october-2023.htm (visited October 31, 2024).