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The Current Employment Statistics (CES) program produces detailed industry estimates of nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings of workers on payrolls. CES National Estimates produces data for the nation, and CES State and Metro Area produces estimates for all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and about 450 metropolitan areas and divisions.
Each month, CES surveys approximately 142,000 businesses and government agencies, representing approximately 689,000 individual worksites.
Next Releases:
- The Employment Situation for
February 2019
is scheduled to be released on
March 8, 2019,
at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time.
- Real Earnings for
February 2019
is scheduled to be released on
March 12, 2019,
at 8:30 A.M. Eastern Time.
02/01/2019
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 304,000 in January, and the unemployment rate
edged up to 4.0 percent. Job gains occurred in several industries, including leisure and
hospitality, construction, health care, and transportation and warehousing.
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Commissioner's Statement
CES National Economic News Releases
- Current Employment Statistics Highlights, Monthly -- a package of charts and analysis featuring the latest industry employment numbers (PDF)
- Real Earnings (HTML) (PDF)
- Strike Report
- Subscribe to the BLS News Service-- receive The Employment Situation and Real Earnings news releases by e-mail.
- Upcoming Release Dates
Archived
CES State and Metro Area Economic News Releases
ANALYTICAL TABLES
- Table 1. Employment: normal seasonal movements, over-the-month changes, and tests of significance (in thousands) (XLSX)
- Table 2. Detailed industry employment ranked by over-the-month changes, tests of significance, and prior 3-month average changes, seasonally adjusted (in thousands) (XLSX)
- Table 3A. Employment changes and tests of significance, seasonally adjusted (in thousands) (XLSX)
- Table 3B. Over-the-month employment changes compared with recent averages, seasonally adjusted (in thousands) (XLSX)
- Table 4. Over-the-year employment changes and tests of significance, seasonally adjusted (in thousands) (XLSX)
- Table 5. Average weekly hours and average hourly earnings of all employees: normal seasonal movements, over-the-month changes, and tests of significance (XLSX)
- Table 6. Over-the-month and over-the-year changes in aggregate weekly hours and payrolls of all employees, seasonally adjusted (in thousands) (XLSX)
- Table 7. Most recent industry-specific employment peak and trough, and changes from peak and trough to current employment, seasonally adjusted (in thousands) (XLSX)
- Tables A-C2: 90 percent confidence intervals for employment, hours, overtime hours, and earnings (XLSX)
BENCHMARK INFORMATION
- Benchmark Article (HTML) (PDF)
- Comparison of All Employees, seasonally adjusted (TXT) (XLSX)
- Comparison of All Employees, not seasonally adjusted (TXT) (XLSX)
All CES Benchmark Tables »
Tables from Employment and Earnings
Monthly Establishment Data--National
Archived Tables from Employment and Earnings - Archived tables are available in PDF format.
All CES Employment and Earnings Tables »
Databases
IMPORTANT Effective with the release of May estimates on June 2, 2017, the Current Employment Statistics program reorganized the CE datasets stored as text files for download from the BLS website.
CES National Data Access Tips
CES National Published Series – A table displaying the availability, by industry, of both seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted data
More CES National Data Access Tools
- CES National Historical "B" tables – Looking for historical data from the Employment Situation news release tables? Use these data extraction tables.
- Series Report – Already know the series identifier for the statistic you want? Use this shortcut to retrieve your data.
- UPDATED CES National vintage data – Looking for published employment values as of a specific reference month? These tables display CES published employment values for a given reference month across time.
- Flat text files – For those who want it all. Download a flat file of the entire database or large subset of the database.
All CES Databases »
- IMPORTANT 2018 CES Benchmark revision
- California Fires and November 2018 payroll data
- Hurricane Michael and October 2018 payroll data
- Hurricane Florence and September 2018 payroll data
- IMPORTANT 2018 CES Preliminary Benchmark Revision
- With the release of January 2018 data on February 2, 2018, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program implemented publication changes related to the annual sample review and the conversion to NAICS 2017.
- With the release of January 2018 data on February 2, 2018, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey revised the basis for industry classification from the 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) to the 2017 NAICS.
- The Current Employment Statistics program corrected errors in estimates for all employment, hours, and earnings estimates in securities and armored car services, and all employees in security guards and patrols and armored car services with the release of January 2018 estimates on February 2, 2018.
- The Current Employment Statistics program corrected processing errors in estimates for women employees and production and nonsupervisory employees series in five smaller industries within financial activities, professional and business services, and leisure and hospitality with the release of January 2018 estimates on February 2, 2018.
- The Current Employment Statistics program corrected errors in estimates for all employment, hours, and earnings estimates in securities and armored car services, and all employees in security guards and patrols and armored car services with the release of January 2018 estimates on February 2, 2018.
Other BLS Programs
- Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the CES survey (State and Area) --monthly data on employment, hours, and earnings by industry and geographic area.
- Local Area Unemployment Statistics --monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence.
- Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages --comprehensive employment and wage data by industry and geographic area for workers covered by State Unemployment Insurance laws.
- Business Employment Dynamics--quarterly data series of job gains and job losses statistics, generated from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program.
- Occupational Employment Statistics--data on employment and wages for over 800 occupations and for about 400 nonfarm industries for the nation, plus occupational data for States and metropolitan areas.
- Sources of BLS Employment Data
Other Useful Links
Current Employment Statistics Contacts
Staff members of the Current Employment Statistics are available Monday through Friday 8:30 AM TO 4:30 PM EASTERN TIME for your assistance.
Telephone: (202) 691-6555
Fax: (202) 691-6641
If you have a specific CES data question, please contact us via e-mail.
Written inquiries should be directed to:
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Division of Current Employment Statistics
Suite 4840
2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20212-0001
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Latest Numbers
Change in Total Nonfarm Payroll Employment:
+304,000(p) in Jan 2019

Change in Total Private Average Hourly Earnings for All Employees:
+$0.03(p) in Jan 2019

Change in Total Private Average Weekly Hours for All Employees:
unchanged in Jan 2019

Percent change in Total Private Aggregate Weekly Hours for All Employees:
+0.3%(p) in Jan 2019

Change in Manufacturing Average Weekly Hours for All Employees:
-0.1(p) in Jan 2019

Change in Manufacturing Average Weekly Overtime for All Employees:
-0.1(p) in Jan 2019

Change in Total Private Real Average Hourly Earnings for All Employees:
+$0.02(p) in Jan 2019

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