Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category	Oct. 2022	Aug. 2023	Sept. 2023(p)	Oct. 2023(p)
EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY (Over-the-month change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	324	165	297	150
Total private	299	114	246	99
Goods-producing	57	28	28	-11
Mining and logging	3	0	1	1
Construction	17	30	13	23
Manufacturing	37	-2	14	-35
Durable goods(1)	27	0	10	-36
Motor vehicles and parts	3.4	-3.7	8.9	-33.2
Nondurable goods	10	-2	4	1
Private service-providing	242	86	218	110
Wholesale trade	15.8	2.5	16.0	9.4
Retail trade	-5.6	-5.9	13.3	0.7
Transportation and warehousing	19.9	-26.9	12.5	-12.1
Utilities	1.3	2.4	1.5	0.8
Information	3	-22	-4	-9
Financial activities	18	1	2	-2
Professional and business services(1)	36	8	17	15
Temporary help services	10.2	-10.1	-8.9	6.6
Private education and health services(1)	85	105	78	89
Health care and social assistance	74.0	96.1	69.3	77.2
Leisure and hospitality	61	8	74	19
Other services	8	14	8	-1
Government	25	51	51	51

(3-month average change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	342	169	233	204
Total private	316	115	168	153

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES(2)
Total nonfarm women employees	49.8	49.8	49.8	49.9
Total private women employees	48.4	48.4	48.4	48.4
Total private production and nonsupervisory employees	81.4	81.4	81.3	81.3

HOURS AND EARNINGS ALL EMPLOYEES
Total private
Average weekly hours	34.6	34.4	34.4	34.3
Average hourly earnings	$32.66	$33.82	$33.93	$34.00
Average weekly earnings	$1,130.04	$1,163.41	$1,167.19	$1,166.20
Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)(3)	114.4	115.4	115.7	115.4
Over-the-month percent change	0.2	0.3	0.3	-0.3
Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)(4)	178.7	186.7	187.6	187.6
Over-the-month percent change	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.0

DIFFUSION INDEX (Over 1-month span)(5)
Total private (250 industries)	65.2	60.0	61.4	52.0
Manufacturing (72 industries)	62.5	50.7	47.9	42.4
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. (p) Preliminary
NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2022 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

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Last Modified Date: November 03, 2023