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Current Employment Statistics - CES (National)
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Current Employment Statistics - CES (National)
The Current Employment Statistics (CES) program produces detailed industry estimates of nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings of workers on payrolls. CES National Estimates produces data for the nation, and CES State and Metro Area produces estimates for all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and about 450 metropolitan areas and divisions.
Each month, CES surveys approximately 122,000 businesses and government agencies, representing approximately 666,000 individual worksites.
Notices
- Testing for CES Benchmark file update at 10:00 AM on March 24, 2025 Read More »
- Update to the 2022 North American Industry Classification System on February 3, 2023 Read More »
News Releases
//EMPSIT Autosuppl Test via ZUNI3PO 4/30/2025// Payroll employment rises by 143,000 in...
04/30/2025
//EMPSIT Autosuppl Test via ZUNI3PO 4/30/2025// Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 143,000 in January.
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Charts
//REALER Resilio Test 6/18/2025// Real average hourly earnings for all employees...
06/18/2025
//REALER Resilio Test 6/18/2025// Real average hourly earnings for all employees increased 0.3 percent in May, seasonally adjusted. Average hourly earnings increased 0.4 percent, and CPI-U increased 0.1 percent. Real average weekly earnings increased 0.3 percent.
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Next Release
The Employment Situation for
March 2025
is scheduled to be released on
April 4, 2025,
at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
Real Earnings for
June 2025
is scheduled to be released on
July 15, 2025,
at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time.
read more »
Publications
Beyond the Numbers
The 2020 census and CES employment
This Beyond the Numbers article describes how census workers affect CES employment estimates. Typically, a mass movement of workers onto—and then off of—the Census Bureau payroll occurs around the turn of every decade. read more »
The Economics Daily
Real average hourly earnings increased 0.6 percent from January 2019 to January 2020
Real average hourly earnings for all employees increased 0.6 percent, seasonally adjusted, from January 2019 to January 2020. read more »
Monthly Labor Review
The relative weakness in earnings of production workers in manufacturing, 1990–2018
Although manufacturing industries had a reputation for stable, well-paying jobs throughout much of the 20th century, shifts within the industry in the last several decades have considerably altered that picture. Since 1990, average hourly earnings trends in the various manufacturing industries have been disparate, with a few industries showing strong growth but many others having growth rates that are lower than those of the total private sector. read more »
Latest Numbers
Change in Total Nonfarm Payroll Employment:
+256,000(p) in Dec 2024
Change in Total Private Average Hourly Earnings for All Employees:
+$0.10(p) in Dec 2024
Change in Total Private Average Weekly Hours for All Employees:
unchanged in Dec 2024
Percent change in Total Private Aggregate Weekly Hours for All Employees:
+0.2%(p) in Dec 2024
Change in Manufacturing Average Weekly Hours for All Employees:
-0.1(p) in Dec 2024
Change in Manufacturing Average Weekly Overtime for All Employees:
-0.1(p) in Dec 2024
Change in Total Private Real Average Hourly Earnings for All Employees:
-$0.02(p) in Dec 2024
Historical Data
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