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Payroll employment rose by 390,000 in May 2022

June 07, 2022

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 390,000, or 0.3 percent, in May 2022. Notable over-the-month job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality (84,000, or 0.5 percent), professional and business services (75,000, or 0.3 percent), and transportation and warehousing (47,000, or 0.7 percent). Employment in retail trade decreased by 60,700, or 0.4 percent.

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Change in nonfarm payroll employment by industry, May 2022

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Change in nonfarm payroll employment by industry, May 2022
Industry	Change since April 2022	Percent change since April 2022	Change since May 2021	Percent change since May 2021	Change since February 2020	Percent change since February 2020
Total nonfarm	390,000	0.3%	6,541,000	4.5%	-822,000	-0.5%
Mining and logging	5,000	0.8	58,000	10.4	-68,000	-9.9
Construction	36,000	0.5	283,000	3.8	40,000	0.5
Manufacturing	18,000	0.1	500,000	4.1	-17,000	-0.1
Wholesale trade	14,100	0.2	196,100	3.5	-41,100	-0.7
Retail trade	-60,700	-0.4	442,900	2.9	159,000	1.0
Transportation and warehousing	47,000	0.7	477,200	7.9	709,000	12.2
Utilities	500	0.1	-3,000	-0.6	-7,800	-1.4
Information	16,000	0.5	164,000	5.9	64,000	2.2
Financial activities	8,000	0.1	201,000	2.3	78,000	0.9
Professional and business services	75,000	0.3	1,191,000	5.7	821,000	3.8
Education and health services	74,000	0.3	638,000	2.7	-340,000	-1.4
Leisure and hospitality	84,000	0.5	1,808,000	13.1	-1,345,000	-7.9
Other services	16,000	0.3	297,000	5.5	-259,000	-4.4
Government	57,000	0.3	288,000	1.3	-615,000	-2.7

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Since February 2020, total nonfarm employment is down by 822,000, or 0.5 percent. Employment in leisure and hospitality is down by 1.3 million, or 7.9 percent over that span. Transportation and warehousing added 709,000 jobs (12.2 percent) from February 2020 to May 2022.

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 — May 2022." Also see more charts of national employment, hours, and earnings data.

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