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Bureau of Labor Statistics > Current Employment Statistics > Data > Employment and Earnings Tables

December 2019 ‐ Summary table B. Employment, hours, and earnings, seasonally adjusted

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category	Dec. 2018	Jan. 2019	Feb. 2019	Mar. 2019	Apr. 2019	May 2019	June 2019	July 2019	Aug. 2019	Sept. 2019	Oct. 2019	Nov. 2019(p)	Dec. 2019(p)
EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY (Over-the-month change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	227	312	56	153	216	62	178	166	219	193	152	256	145
Total private	224	297	46	153	195	81	161	122	163	183	164	243	139
Goods-producing	40	80	-19	13	37	5	27	-4	4	11	-29	52	-1
Mining and logging	4	7	-4	1	0	2	-2	-5	-5	0	2	-8	-9
Construction	16	56	-23	15	34	1	19	-3	7	9	14	2	20
Manufacturing	20	17	8	-3	3	2	10	4	2	2	-45	58	-12
Durable goods(1)	14	19	5	-6	1	3	9	2	-2	-1	-51	48	-7
Motor vehicles and parts	1.2	-1.1	1.5	-6.6	-2.5	2.0	-2.0	-2.4	-2.6	0.6	-43.6	39.3	-0.8
Nondurable goods	6	-2	3	3	2	-1	1	2	4	3	6	10	-5
Private service-providing	184	217	65	140	158	76	134	126	159	172	193	191	140
Wholesale trade	12.5	7.8	12.5	0.1	8.1	5.4	-1.1	5.2	2.4	5.0	10.7	-2.5	8.3
Retail trade	-5.9	9.3	-13.7	-14.8	-14.8	-12.2	-12.0	-2.0	-1.3	12.0	30.9	-14.1	41.2
Transportation and warehousing	-1.1	30.2	-6.3	-3.3	8.4	3.4	20.2	-0.7	-7.6	8.5	2.8	11.9	-10.4
Utilities	-0.2	0.3	-1.3	1.1	-2.4	1.1	1.2	-0.8	-0.9	-1.3	-1.4	1.2	0.8
Information	-2	-12	-7	4	-6	9	13	-2	-4	6	0	8	3
Financial activities	1	6	5	11	14	5	3	19	17	6	16	14	6
Professional and business services(1)	37	5	54	19	55	21	43	37	38	27	35	53	10
Temporary help services	13.5	-26.3	7.0	-10.5	4.3	-2.0	-2.9	-10.5	9.5	9.9	-5.4	4.0	6.4
Education and health services(1)	67	68	19	72	71	34	48	76	63	57	31	72	36
Health care and social assistance	52.9	41.7	35.8	67.3	57.5	28.2	39.9	46.9	54.8	49.0	37.8	63.8	33.9
Leisure and hospitality	65	93	-1	32	9	12	4	-13	48	56	70	38	40
Other services	11	9	4	19	16	-3	15	7	5	-5	-2	10	5
Government	3	15	10	0	21	-19	17	44	56	10	-12	13	6

(3-month average change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	233	245	198	174	142	144	152	135	188	193	188	200	184
Total private	236	240	189	165	131	143	146	121	149	156	170	197	182

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES(2) AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES
Total nonfarm women employees	49.7	49.7	49.8	49.8	49.8	49.9	49.8	49.9	49.9	49.9	50.0	50.0	50.0
Total private women employees	48.3	48.3	48.4	48.4	48.4	48.5	48.5	48.5	48.5	48.6	48.6	48.6	48.7
Total private production and nonsupervisory employees	82.4	82.4	82.4	82.4	82.3	82.4	82.3	82.3	82.3	82.3	82.2	82.2	82.2

HOURS AND EARNINGS ALL EMPLOYEES
Total private
Average weekly hours	34.5	34.5	34.4	34.5	34.4	34.4	34.4	34.3	34.4	34.4	34.3	34.3	34.3
Average hourly earnings	$27.53	$27.56	$27.66	$27.71	$27.75	$27.82	$27.91	$27.99	$28.11	$28.12	$28.20	$28.29	$28.32
Average weekly earnings	$949.79	$950.82	$951.50	$956.00	$954.60	$957.01	$960.10	$960.06	$966.98	$967.33	$967.26	$970.35	$971.38
Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)	110.7	110.9	110.6	111.1	110.9	111.0	111.1	110.9	111.4	111.5	111.4	111.6	111.7
Over-the-month percent change	0.5	0.2	-0.3	0.5	-0.2	0.1	0.1	-0.2	0.5	0.1	-0.1	0.2	0.1
Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)	145.6	146.1	146.3	147.1	147.2	147.6	148.3	148.4	149.7	149.9	150.1	150.9	151.2
Over-the-month percent change	0.8	0.3	0.1	0.5	0.1	0.3	0.5	0.1	0.9	0.1	0.1	0.5	0.2

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)
Total Private
Over 1-month span	65.9	59.1	58.1	58.1	58.9	54.8	59.9	58.1	55.8	56.6	55.2	65.7	57.0
Over 3-month span	70.9	68.0	67.4	63.0	58.1	60.3	61.4	60.7	62.6	59.1	59.1	65.3	64.7
Over 6-month span	74.6	74.0	71.7	70.9	67.2	68.4	61.4	60.1	63.6	61.6	61.8	65.9	62.8
Over 12-month span	77.1	77.7	76.4	74.0	75.6	72.5	71.1	69.8	68.6	67.2	66.9	67.1	65.9
Manufacturing
Over 1-month span	65.1	57.9	52.6	53.9	52.0	50.0	59.9	52.6	48.7	43.4	38.2	65.8	44.7
Over 3-month span	68.4	67.8	61.2	53.9	54.6	50.0	59.9	55.3	59.2	47.4	42.8	53.9	48.7
Over 6-month span	75.7	73.0	71.1	64.5	62.5	62.5	57.9	54.6	55.9	54.6	46.1	55.3	48.7
Over 12-month span	79.6	76.3	79.6	74.3	75.7	70.4	69.7	68.4	69.7	65.1	59.9	57.9	52.0
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 2018 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

Last Modified Date: January 29, 2020