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Current Employment Statistics - CES (National)
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ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category July
2017		 Aug.
2017		 Sept.
2017		 Oct.
2017		 Nov.
2017		 Dec.
2017		 Jan.
2018		 Feb.
2018		 Mar.
2018		 Apr.
2018		 May
2018		 June
2018(p)		 July
2018(p)

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY
(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 190 221 14 271 216 175 176 324 155 175 268 248 157

Total private

 188 208 16 277 217 174 188 321 153 174 260 234 170

Goods-producing

 -8 75 15 38 78 82 55 107 26 52 56 52 52

Mining and logging

 2 8 0 1 6 1 7 9 8 8 3 6 -4

Construction

 -6 28 9 17 42 42 28 67 -3 16 30 13 19

Manufacturing

 -4 39 6 20 30 39 20 31 21 28 23 33 37

Durable goods(1)

 -12 31 5 10 27 29 17 26 19 22 14 30 32

Motor vehicles and parts

 -24.6 23.1 -2.4 -1.6 3.3 2.5 0.3 4.4 -0.2 1.2 -6.8 11.1 5.9

Nondurable goods

 8 8 1 10 3 10 3 5 2 6 9 3 5

Private service-providing

 196 133 1 239 139 92 133 214 127 122 204 182 118

Wholesale trade

 6.6 3.6 7.6 7.5 10.0 8.6 6.9 3.4 9.8 -9.8 9.0 8.0 12.3

Retail trade

 -1.0 3.9 1.8 6.5 27.2 -25.9 11.9 46.0 11.4 -2.4 29.1 -20.2 7.1

Transportation and warehousing

 3.7 12.4 25.4 13.7 12.1 8.7 15.3 17.8 19.7 2.4 15.8 18.9 -1.3

Utilities

 -0.7 -0.2 0.4 0.0 0.1 -0.2 -0.9 1.4 -0.5 1.3 -1.7 -0.3 -2.8

Information

 -3 -1 -8 0 -4 -4 -16 -1 6 3 3 1 0

Financial activities

 13 15 8 9 9 8 3 29 5 3 12 10 -5

Professional and business services(1)

 53 42 27 60 16 31 38 61 41 59 49 43 51

Temporary help services

 13.1 5.3 10.5 19.8 7.1 -1.0 -1.7 22.2 -3.0 17.8 -0.7 -7.5 27.9

Education and health services(1)

 57 48 14 15 38 30 50 32 29 38 42 69 22

Health care and social assistance

 48.9 15.8 10.2 35.7 27.8 30.9 30.1 43.8 34.5 32.3 35.9 37.2 33.5

Leisure and hospitality

 63 4 -75 110 20 31 21 18 2 14 35 34 40

Other services

 5 5 0 17 11 5 3 7 3 14 11 18 -5

Government

 2 13 -2 -6 -1 1 -12 3 2 1 8 14 -13

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 195 217 142 169 167 221 189 225 218 218 199 230 224

Total private

 191 205 137 167 170 223 193 228 221 216 196 223 221

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND
NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES(2)
AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES

Total nonfarm women employees

 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.6 49.6 49.6 49.6 49.6 49.7 49.7

Total private women employees

 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.2 48.2 48.2 48.2 48.3 48.3

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

 34.4 34.4 34.3 34.4 34.5 34.5 34.4 34.5 34.5 34.5 34.5 34.6 34.5

Average hourly earnings

 $26.34 $26.39 $26.51 $26.47 $26.54 $26.64 $26.71 $26.74 $26.80 $26.86 $26.94 $26.98 $27.05

Average weekly earnings

 $906.10 $907.82 $909.29 $910.57 $915.63 $919.08 $918.82 $922.53 $924.60 $926.67 $929.43 $933.51 $933.23

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

 107.4 107.6 107.3 107.8 108.3 108.5 108.3 108.9 109.1 109.2 109.4 110.0 109.8

Over-the-month percent change

 0.1 0.2 -0.3 0.5 0.5 0.2 -0.2 0.6 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.5 -0.2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

 135.3 135.7 136.0 136.5 137.5 138.2 138.3 139.3 139.7 140.2 141.0 141.8 142.0

Over-the-month percent change

 0.5 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.7 0.5 0.1 0.7 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.1

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

 64.5 64.3 57.0 63.2 66.1 65.5 57.2 70.2 65.3 62.4 70.2 67.4 64.0

Over 3-month span

 68.8 70.3 64.1 67.6 66.7 71.1 69.4 70.9 73.1 71.3 67.4 72.3 72.1

Over 6-month span

 67.6 66.7 68.2 70.7 72.5 71.3 70.2 73.3 76.0 76.0 78.9 76.6 73.4

Over 12-month span

 67.6 69.8 71.1 71.9 75.8 75.2 73.4 75.4 76.7 76.6 76.7 78.5 78.3

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

 60.5 71.7 54.6 63.8 63.2 68.4 55.9 72.4 64.5 62.5 69.1 67.8 65.1

Over 3-month span

 59.9 65.8 61.8 73.7 64.5 76.3 76.3 76.3 75.7 71.1 64.5 69.1 76.3

Over 6-month span

 61.8 60.5 63.2 66.4 67.8 73.0 75.0 75.0 74.3 77.6 80.9 81.6 76.3

Over 12-month span

 53.3 61.8 63.2 66.4 75.0 71.7 72.4 74.3 73.7 75.7 77.0 78.3 83.6

Footnotes
 (1) Includes other industries, not shown separately.
(2) Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing industries.
(3) The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding annual average aggregate hours.
(4) The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding annual average aggregate weekly payrolls.
(5) Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with increasing and decreasing employment. Based on seasonally adjusted data for 1-, 3-, 6-month spans and unadjusted data for the 12-month span.
(p) Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2017 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

 

Last Modified Date: August 3, 2018