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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 July
2019
Aug.
2019
Sept.
2019
Oct.
2019
Nov.
2019
Dec.
2019
Jan.
2020
Feb.
2020
Mar.
2020
Apr.
2020
May
2020
June
2020(p)
July
2020(p)

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

Total nonfarm

194 207 208 185 261 184 214 251 -1,373 -20,787 2,725 4,791 1,763

Total private

160 157 195 190 247 164 179 220 -1,356 -19,835 3,236 4,737 1,462

Goods-producing

9 2 19 -20 45 5 13 56 -119 -2,388 676 515 39

Mining and logging

-5 -5 0 4 -11 -9 -3 2 -8 -53 -20 -5 -7

Construction

7 4 16 17 -2 16 38 46 -65 -1,018 456 163 20

Manufacturing

7 3 3 -41 58 -2 -22 8 -46 -1,317 240 357 26

Durable goods(1)

3 -1 0 -47 45 0 -12 6 -27 -905 143 290 15

Motor vehicles and parts

-3.3 -0.6 -0.5 -42.3 40.5 2.0 -7.5 8.3 -5.1 -354.9 39.1 210.8 39.3

Nondurable goods

4 4 3 6 13 -2 -10 2 -19 -412 97 67 11

Private service-providing

151 155 176 210 202 159 166 164 -1,237 -17,447 2,560 4,222 1,423

Wholesale trade

7.3 0.6 6.4 10.1 3.0 6.9 4.3 -3.3 -12.0 -385.2 23.4 63.0 -5.3

Retail trade

1.0 -0.6 9.0 21.9 -13.9 41.4 -3.2 3.0 -85.4 -2,299.0 385.9 826.9 258.3

Transportation and warehousing

-0.5 -4.1 10.5 6.8 22.6 -2.1 22.6 -0.4 -9.9 -559.8 -25.1 87.0 37.9

Utilities

-0.9 -0.7 -1.4 -1.3 1.0 0.7 -1.0 -0.8 -0.2 -3.6 -1.6 -3.2 0.3

Information

-3 -1 5 -1 9 9 11 0 -6 -279 -40 10 -15

Financial activities

21 15 3 21 12 10 9 22 -18 -261 19 23 21

Professional and business services(1)

43 40 25 42 37 22 20 27 -94 -2,202 160 318 170

Temporary help services

-4.6 3.6 7.4 -6.2 2.6 4.5 -3.9 -6.3 -51.4 -840.5 46.9 143.8 143.7

Education and health services(1)

73 58 61 40 73 29 69 52 -178 -2,603 388 567 215

Health care and social assistance

45.9 56.5 48.7 41.1 56.7 25.3 41.0 62.5 -134.5 -2,135.5 359.4 462.9 191.4

Leisure and hospitality

2 42 61 70 43 40 24 59 -743 -7,575 1,405 1,981 592

Other services

9 5 -3 0 16 2 10 6 -91 -1,279 245 349 149

Government

34 50 13 -5 14 20 35 31 -17 -952 -511 54 301

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

154 194 203 200 218 210 220 216 -303 -7,303 -6,478 -4,424 3,093

Total private

142 166 171 181 211 200 197 188 -319 -6,990 -5,985 -3,954 3,145

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

Total nonfarm women employees

49.9 49.9 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 49.3 49.2 49.5 49.7

Total private women employees

48.5 48.5 48.6 48.6 48.6 48.7 48.7 48.7 48.6 47.6 47.6 48.1 48.2

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

82.3 82.3 82.3 82.2 82.2 82.2 82.2 82.3 82.0 80.4 80.6 81.0 81.2

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

34.3 34.4 34.4 34.4 34.3 34.3 34.3 34.4 34.1 34.2 34.7 34.6 34.5

Average hourly earnings

$28.05 $28.16 $28.16 $28.24 $28.34 $28.37 $28.43 $28.52 $28.69 $30.03 $29.70 $29.32 $29.39

Average weekly earnings

$962.12 $968.70 $968.70 $971.46 $972.06 $973.09 $975.15 $981.09 $978.33 $1,027.03 $1,030.59 $1,014.47 $1,013.96

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

110.5 111.0 111.2 111.3 111.2 111.4 111.5 112.0 109.9 93.2 97.4 101.2 102.2

Over-the-month percent change

-0.2 0.5 0.2 0.1 -0.1 0.2 0.1 0.4 -1.9 -15.2 4.5 3.9 1.0

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

148.2 149.4 149.7 150.3 150.7 151.0 151.6 152.7 150.7 133.8 138.2 141.8 143.6

Over-the-month percent change

0.1 0.8 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.7 -1.3 -11.2 3.3 2.6 1.3

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

59.1 56.2 58.1 56.8 63.4 58.1 55.2 53.7 21.9 4.3 63.2 75.0 61.4

Over 3-month span

60.7 63.6 61.0 61.4 66.7 65.5 59.1 55.8 36.0 5.4 5.2 6.0 71.1

Over 6-month span

60.1 63.0 63.2 61.8 67.1 65.7 65.9 65.9 48.3 6.4 5.6 6.4 7.0

Over 12-month span

66.9 66.3 67.2 66.3 69.8 67.2 66.7 66.1 54.8 10.5 12.0 12.2 11.0

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

53.3 53.3 44.7 40.8 61.8 50.7 43.4 46.7 26.3 2.6 69.7 77.0 43.4

Over 3-month span

51.3 58.6 47.4 46.7 55.3 53.9 48.0 36.8 29.6 5.9 4.6 4.6 67.8

Over 6-month span

51.3 55.3 53.9 44.7 52.6 49.3 46.1 44.7 44.7 5.3 3.9 3.9 7.2

Over 12-month span

60.5 64.5 59.2 53.9 61.2 53.9 48.7 50.0 43.4 9.9 12.5 11.8 9.2

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.