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

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

Total nonfarm

 207 208 185 261 184 214 251 -1,373 -20,787 2,725 4,781 1,734 1,371

Total private

 157 195 190 247 164 179 220 -1,356 -19,835 3,236 4,729 1,481 1,027

Goods-producing

 2 19 -20 45 5 13 56 -119 -2,388 676 485 61 43

Mining and logging

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

Construction

 4 16 17 -2 16 38 46 -65 -1,018 456 159 27 16

Manufacturing

 3 3 -41 58 -2 -22 8 -46 -1,317 240 333 41 29

Durable goods(1)

 -1 0 -47 45 0 -12 6 -27 -905 143 265 26 2

Motor vehicles and parts

 -0.6 -0.5 -42.3 40.5 2.0 -7.5 8.3 -5.1 -354.9 39.1 187.5 44.9 -5.3

Nondurable goods

 4 3 6 13 -2 -10 2 -19 -412 97 68 15 27

Private service-providing

 155 176 210 202 159 166 164 -1,237 -17,447 2,560 4,244 1,420 984

Wholesale trade

 0.6 6.4 10.1 3.0 6.9 4.3 -3.3 -12.0 -385.2 23.4 51.9 -19.6 13.5

Retail trade

 -0.6 9.0 21.9 -13.9 41.4 -3.2 3.0 -85.4 -2,299.0 385.9 858.0 236.2 248.9

Transportation and warehousing

 -4.1 10.5 6.8 22.6 -2.1 22.6 -0.4 -9.9 -559.8 -25.1 87.2 48.8 78.1

Utilities

 -0.7 -1.4 -1.3 1.0 0.7 -1.0 -0.8 -0.2 -3.6 -1.6 -2.9 0.6 0.6

Information

 -1 5 -1 9 9 11 0 -6 -279 -40 7 -9 15

Financial activities

 15 3 21 12 10 9 22 -18 -261 19 20 13 36

Professional and business services(1)

 40 25 42 37 22 20 27 -94 -2,202 160 311 153 197

Temporary help services

 3.6 7.4 -6.2 2.6 4.5 -3.9 -6.3 -51.4 -840.5 46.9 144.6 121.8 106.7

Education and health services(1)

 58 61 40 73 29 69 52 -178 -2,603 388 567 222 147

Health care and social assistance

 56.5 48.7 41.1 56.7 25.3 41.0 62.5 -134.5 -2,135.5 359.4 466.2 195.7 90.1

Leisure and hospitality

 42 61 70 43 40 24 59 -743 -7,575 1,405 1,979 621 174

Other services

 5 -3 0 16 2 10 6 -91 -1,279 245 366 154 74

Government

 50 13 -5 14 20 35 31 -17 -952 -511 52 253 344

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm

 194 203 200 218 210 220 216 -303 -7,303 -6,478 -4,427 3,080 2,629

Total private

 166 171 181 211 200 197 188 -319 -6,990 -5,985 -3,957 3,149 2,412

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

Total nonfarm women employees

 49.9 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 50.0 49.3 49.2 49.5 49.7 49.8

Total private women employees

 48.5 48.6 48.6 48.6 48.7 48.7 48.7 48.6 47.6 47.6 48.1 48.2 48.3

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees

 82.3 82.3 82.2 82.2 82.2 82.2 82.3 82.0 80.4 80.6 81.0 81.2 81.3

HOURS AND EARNINGS
ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours

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

Average hourly earnings

 $28.16 $28.16 $28.24 $28.34 $28.37 $28.43 $28.52 $28.69 $30.03 $29.70 $29.32 $29.36 $29.47

Average weekly earnings

 $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 $1,012.92 $1,019.66

Index of aggregate weekly hours(3)

 111.0 111.2 111.3 111.2 111.4 111.5 112.0 109.9 93.2 97.4 101.2 102.2 103.4

Over-the-month percent change

 0.5 0.2 0.1 -0.1 0.2 0.1 0.4 -1.9 -15.2 4.5 3.9 1.0 1.2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls(4)

 149.4 149.7 150.3 150.7 151.0 151.6 152.7 150.7 133.8 138.2 141.8 143.4 145.6

Over-the-month percent change

 0.8 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.7 -1.3 -11.2 3.3 2.6 1.1 1.5

DIFFUSION INDEXES(5)

Total Private

Over 1-month span

 56.2 58.1 56.8 63.4 58.1 55.2 53.7 21.9 4.3 63.2 76.0 59.9 69.0

Over 3-month span

 63.6 61.0 61.4 66.7 65.5 59.1 55.8 36.0 5.4 5.2 6.2 71.9 75.8

Over 6-month span

 63.0 63.2 61.8 67.1 65.7 65.9 65.9 48.3 6.4 5.6 6.8 7.6 8.9

Over 12-month span

 66.3 67.2 66.3 69.8 67.2 66.7 66.1 54.8 10.5 12.0 12.2 11.6 10.7

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span

 53.3 44.7 40.8 61.8 50.7 43.4 46.7 26.3 2.6 69.7 79.6 48.0 59.2

Over 3-month span

 58.6 47.4 46.7 55.3 53.9 48.0 36.8 29.6 5.9 4.6 5.3 71.1 74.3

Over 6-month span

 55.3 53.9 44.7 52.6 49.3 46.1 44.7 44.7 5.3 3.9 3.9 9.2 9.2

Over 12-month span

 64.5 59.2 53.9 61.2 53.9 48.7 50.0 43.4 9.9 12.5 11.8 9.9 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.