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Current Employment Statistics - CES (National)

Employment and Earnings Summary Table B

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category June
2022		 July
2022		 Aug.
2022		 Sept.
2022		 Oct.
2022		 Nov.
2022		 Dec.
2022		 Jan.
2023		 Feb.
2023		 Mar.
2023		 Apr.
2023		 May
2023(p)		 June
2023(p)

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

Total nonfarm

 370 568 352 350 324 290 239 472 248 217 217 306 209

Total private

 382 493 306 344 299 228 232 353 193 157 179 259 149

Goods-producing

 50 71 37 44 57 41 36 41 18 -19 25 23 29

Mining and logging

 7 6 -2 2 3 8 4 4 1 2 5 3 -1

Construction

 13 24 8 16 17 19 26 26 14 -9 11 23 23

Manufacturing

 30 41 31 26 37 14 6 11 3 -12 9 -3 7

Durable goods(1)

 11 33 31 14 27 14 23 0 1 -5 13 4 15

Motor vehicles and parts

 4.9 5.9 12.2 4.3 3.4 5.7 9.5 -4.6 3.8 4.8 9.0 6.2 4.3

Nondurable goods

 19 8 0 12 10 0 -17 11 2 -7 -4 -7 -8

Private service-providing

 332 422 269 300 242 187 196 312 175 176 154 236 120

Wholesale trade

 5.2 16.0 13.2 8.3 15.8 -0.4 9.6 8.9 6.7 3.5 -1.5 4.2 -3.6

Retail trade

 14.1 9.4 36.7 -11.1 -5.6 -45.6 26.7 22.3 48.0 -18.9 -2.0 23.0 -11.2

Transportation and warehousing

 17.0 19.4 8.5 9.7 19.9 -37.1 0.3 31.7 -17.7 16.2 -15.1 16.9 -6.9

Utilities

 0.4 1.3 1.3 0.1 1.3 -0.9 -0.7 -1.6 -1.1 1.7 1.7 0.9 -0.3

Information

 22 13 8 3 3 13 -9 -23 -8 3 3 0 0

Financial activities

 3 14 9 2 18 11 4 -1 0 -5 27 12 10

Professional and business services(1)

 89 77 48 48 36 0 23 44 21 45 48 61 21

Temporary help services

 -6.9 1.6 0.1 11.2 10.2 -48.5 -55.0 16.6 -9.6 -3.3 -20.5 3.0 -12.6

Private education and health services(1)

 96 127 92 80 85 95 71 111 64 70 77 80 73

Health care and social assistance

 80.2 101.8 78.1 71.7 74.0 82.6 73.1 77.3 54.5 55.9 67.0 64.8 65.2

Leisure and hospitality

 75 113 48 139 61 123 58 99 57 46 11 26 21

Other services

 10 32 4 21 8 29 13 21 5 14 5 12 17

Government

 -12 75 46 6 25 62 7 119 55 60 38 47 60

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 329 434 430 423 342 321 284 334 320 312 227 247 244

Total private

 317 406 394 381 316 290 253 271 259 234 176 198 196

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

Total nonfarm women employees

 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.8 49.9

Total private women employees

 48.3 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.4 48.3 48.3 48.4 48.4 48.4

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.5 81.4 81.4 81.3 81.3 81.3 81.4 81.4 81.4 81.4

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

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

Average hourly earnings

 $32.18 $32.33 $32.43 $32.53 $32.66 $32.80 $32.92 $33.02 $33.11 $33.20 $33.34 $33.46 $33.58

Average weekly earnings

 $1,113.43 $1,118.62 $1,118.84 $1,125.54 $1,130.04 $1,131.60 $1,132.45 $1,142.49 $1,142.30 $1,142.08 $1,146.90 $1,147.68 $1,155.15

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

 113.2 113.6 113.5 114.2 114.4 114.3 114.2 115.1 115.0 114.8 114.9 114.8 115.3

Over-the-month percent change

 0.4 0.4 -0.1 0.6 0.2 -0.1 -0.1 0.8 -0.1 -0.2 0.1 -0.1 0.4

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

 174.1 175.6 176.0 177.6 178.7 179.2 179.7 181.8 182.0 182.2 183.2 183.7 185.1

Over-the-month percent change

 0.6 0.9 0.2 0.9 0.6 0.3 0.3 1.2 0.1 0.1 0.5 0.3 0.8

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

 69.2 72.2 62.0 63.4 65.2 63.4 64.0 64.6 58.2 57.0 58.4 61.2 58.0

Over 3-month span

 77.8 77.8 72.8 71.0 69.8 68.8 68.2 64.6 64.4 61.0 59.4 63.6 61.0

Over 6-month span

 88.8 87.8 82.8 80.6 80.0 75.6 73.4 72.6 71.2 70.8 65.2 66.0 66.2

Over 12-month span

 89.2 90.8 90.0 88.8 88.4 86.8 84.4 83.8 79.4 77.0 73.6 74.4 71.2

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

 62.5 67.4 53.5 54.9 62.5 59.7 52.8 52.8 49.3 43.8 47.2 50.7 56.3

Over 3-month span

 75.0 72.9 63.2 60.4 62.5 61.8 64.6 56.3 49.3 49.3 45.1 42.4 49.3

Over 6-month span

 84.0 83.3 75.0 71.5 75.0 66.0 66.0 63.9 58.3 60.4 51.4 47.2 50.0

Over 12-month span

 90.3 88.9 88.9 84.7 86.8 86.1 79.2 74.3 70.1 69.4 61.1 55.6 57.6

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 2022 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

Last Modified Date: July 7, 2023