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Current Employment Statistics - CES (National)

Tables Created by BLS

Peak-Trough Tables—Identifies key turning points in seasonally adjustedCES time series

Analytical Tables—Presents several different views of National CES estimates

Benchmark Information—Benchmark Article, benchmark comparison tables, and historical benchmarkand birth/death model information

CES Birth/Death Tables and Model Information—Monthly birth/death forecasts andmodel documentation

Tables from Employment and Earnings—Monthly Establishment Data

Shipyard Earnings Index—Produced by CES under contractwith the Department of Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)

Census Workers—Quantifiesimpact of the Census on CES Federal government employment estimates

Analytical Tables

  • Table 1. Employment: normal seasonal movements, over-the-month changes, and testsof significance (in thousands) (XLSX)
  • Table 2. Detailed industry employment ranked by over-the-month changes, tests ofsignificance, and prior 3-month average changes, seasonally adjusted (in thousands) (XLSX)
  • Table 3A. Employment changes and tests of significance, seasonally adjusted (in thousands)(XLSX)
  • Table 3B. Over-the-month employment changes compared with recent averages, seasonallyadjusted (in thousands) (XLSX)
  • Table 4. Over-the-year employment changes and tests of significance, seasonally adjusted(in thousands) (XLSX)
  • Table 5. Average weekly hours and average hourly earnings of all employees: normalseasonal movements, over-the-month changes, and tests of significance (XLSX)
  • Table 6. Over-the-month and over-the-year changes in aggregate weekly hours andpayrolls of all employees, seasonally adjusted (in thousands) (XLSX)
  • Table 7. Most recent industry-specific employment peak and trough, and changes frompeak and trough to current employment, seasonally adjusted (in thousands) (XLSX)
  • Tables A-C2: 90 percent confidence intervals for employment, hours, overtime hours, and earnings (XLSX)

Benchmark Information

  • Benchmark Article (HTML) (PDF)
    • Comparison of All Employees, seasonally adjusted (TXT) (XLSX)
    • Comparison of All Employees, not seasonally adjusted (TXT) (XLSX)
    • Comparison of Average Weekly Hours of All Employees, seasonally adjusted (TXT)(XLSX)
    • Comparison of Average Weekly Hours of All Employees, not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(XLSX)
    • Comparison of Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, seasonally adjusted (TXT)(XLSX)
    • Comparison of Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(XLSX)
    • Comparison of Average Overtime Hours of All Employees, seasonally adjusted (TXT)(XLSX)
    • Comparison of Average Overtime Hours of All Employees, not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(XLSX)
    • Comparison of Women Employees, seasonally adjusted (TXT) (XLSX)
    • Comparison of Women Employees, not seasonally adjusted (TXT) (XLSX)
    • Comparison of Production Employees, seasonally adjusted (TXT) (XLSX)
    • Comparison of Production Employees, not seasonally adjusted (TXT) (XLSX)
    • Comparison of Average Weekly Hours of Production Employees, seasonally adjusted (TXT)(XLSX)
    • Comparison of Average Weekly Hours of Production Employees, not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(XLSX)
    • Comparison of Average Hourly Earnings of Production Employees, seasonally adjusted (TXT)(XLSX)
    • Comparison of Average Hourly Earnings of Production Employees, not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(XLSX)
    • Comparison of Average Overtime Hours of Production Employees, seasonally adjusted (TXT)(XLSX)
    • Comparison of Average Overtime Hours of Production Employees, not seasonally adjusted (TXT)(XLSX)
  • Benchmark Tables
  • Archived Benchmark Articles
  • Historical Net Birth/Death Adjustments

Tables from Employment and Earnings

Monthly Establishment Data--National

Archived Tables from Employment and Earnings --Archived tables are available in PDFformat.