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Current Employment Statistics - CES (National)
Bureau of Labor Statistics > Current Employment Statistics > Data > Employment and Earnings Tables
ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category June
2019
July
2019
Aug.
2019
Sept.
2019
Oct.
2019
Nov.
2019
Dec.
2019
Jan.
2020
Feb.
2020
Mar.
2020
Apr.
2020
May
2020(p)
June
2020(p)

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

Total nonfarm

182 194 207 208 185 261 184 214 251 -1,373 -20,787 2,699 4,800

Total private

180 160 157 195 190 247 164 179 220 -1,356 -19,835 3,232 4,767

Goods-producing

26 9 2 19 -20 45 5 13 56 -119 -2,388 684 504

Mining and logging

-2 -5 -5 0 4 -11 -9 -3 2 -8 -53 -19 -10

Construction

19 7 4 16 17 -2 16 38 46 -65 -1,018 453 158

Manufacturing

9 7 3 3 -41 58 -2 -22 8 -46 -1,317 250 356

Durable goods(1)

8 3 -1 0 -47 45 0 -12 6 -27 -905 153 290

Motor vehicles and parts

-0.7 -3.3 -0.6 -0.5 -42.3 40.5 2.0 -7.5 8.3 -5.1 -354.9 43.3 195.8

Nondurable goods

1 4 4 3 6 13 -2 -10 2 -19 -412 97 66

Private service-providing

154 151 155 176 210 202 159 166 164 -1,237 -17,447 2,548 4,263

Wholesale trade

1.2 7.3 0.6 6.4 10.1 3.0 6.9 4.3 -3.3 -12.0 -385.2 12.3 67.6

Retail trade

-5.4 1.0 -0.6 9.0 21.9 -13.9 41.4 -3.2 3.0 -85.4 -2,299.0 371.5 739.8

Transportation and warehousing

21.1 -0.5 -4.1 10.5 6.8 22.6 -2.1 22.6 -0.4 -9.9 -559.8 -28.3 98.7

Utilities

1.5 -0.9 -0.7 -1.4 -1.3 1.0 0.7 -1.0 -0.8 -0.2 -3.6 -1.6 -3.2

Information

12 -3 -1 5 -1 9 9 11 0 -6 -279 -39 9

Financial activities

5 21 15 3 21 12 10 9 22 -18 -261 10 32

Professional and business services(1)

41 43 40 25 42 37 22 20 27 -94 -2,202 160 306

Temporary help services

-4.5 -4.6 3.6 7.4 -6.2 2.6 4.5 -3.9 -6.3 -51.4 -840.5 46.9 148.9

Education and health services(1)

55 73 58 61 40 73 29 69 52 -178 -2,603 399 568

Health care and social assistance

47.9 45.9 56.5 48.7 41.1 56.7 25.3 41.0 62.5 -134.5 -2,135.5 369.5 474.9

Leisure and hospitality

7 2 42 61 70 43 40 24 59 -743 -7,575 1,403 2,088

Other services

15 9 5 -3 0 16 2 10 6 -91 -1,279 261 357

Government

2 34 50 13 -5 14 20 35 31 -17 -952 -533 33

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

159 154 194 203 200 218 210 220 216 -303 -7,303 -6,487 -4,429

Total private

151 142 166 171 181 211 200 197 188 -319 -6,990 -5,986 -3,945

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

Total nonfarm women employees

49.9 49.9 49.9 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 49.3 49.2 49.5

Total private women employees

48.5 48.5 48.5 48.6 48.6 48.6 48.7 48.7 48.7 48.6 47.6 47.6 48.1

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

82.3 82.3 82.3 82.3 82.2 82.2 82.2 82.2 82.3 82.0 80.4 80.6 81.0

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

34.4 34.3 34.4 34.4 34.4 34.3 34.3 34.3 34.4 34.1 34.2 34.7 34.5

Average hourly earnings

$27.96 $28.05 $28.16 $28.16 $28.24 $28.34 $28.37 $28.43 $28.52 $28.69 $30.03 $29.72 $29.37

Average weekly earnings

$961.82 $962.12 $968.70 $968.70 $971.46 $972.06 $973.09 $975.15 $981.09 $978.33 $1,027.03 $1,031.28 $1,013.27

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

110.7 110.5 111.0 111.2 111.3 111.2 111.4 111.5 112.0 109.9 93.2 97.4 100.9

Over-the-month percent change

0.1 -0.2 0.5 0.2 0.1 -0.1 0.2 0.1 0.4 -1.9 -15.2 4.5 3.6

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

148.0 148.2 149.4 149.7 150.3 150.7 151.0 151.6 152.7 150.7 133.8 138.3 141.7

Over-the-month percent change

0.5 0.1 0.8 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.7 -1.3 -11.2 3.4 2.5

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

58.9 59.1 56.2 58.1 56.8 63.4 58.1 55.2 53.7 21.9 4.3 63.0 75.2

Over 3-month span

62.8 60.7 63.6 61.0 61.4 66.7 65.5 59.1 55.8 36.0 5.4 4.7 6.2

Over 6-month span

62.4 60.1 63.0 63.2 61.8 67.1 65.7 65.9 65.9 48.3 6.4 5.0 7.2

Over 12-month span

68.6 66.9 66.3 67.2 66.3 69.8 67.2 66.7 66.1 54.8 10.5 11.8 12.6

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

57.2 53.3 53.3 44.7 40.8 61.8 50.7 43.4 46.7 26.3 2.6 70.4 77.0

Over 3-month span

57.9 51.3 58.6 47.4 46.7 55.3 53.9 48.0 36.8 29.6 5.9 3.9 6.6

Over 6-month span

56.6 51.3 55.3 53.9 44.7 52.6 49.3 46.1 44.7 44.7 5.3 3.3 6.6

Over 12-month span

64.5 60.5 64.5 59.2 53.9 61.2 53.9 48.7 50.0 43.4 9.9 13.2 13.2

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 2019 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.