ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

Category

Aug.

2012

Sept.

2012

Oct.

2012

Nov.

2012

Dec.

2012

Jan.

2013

Feb.

2013

Mar.

2013

Apr.

2013

May

2013

June

2013

July

2013p

Aug.

2013p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 138 160 247 219 148 332 142 199 176 172 104 169

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 118 217 256 224 164 319 154 188 187 194 127 152

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -14 -17 16 43 58 41 75 14 -17 -4 6 -17 18

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -3 -2 -6 12 7 3 4 2 -3 2 3 2 4

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 16 24 38 24 48 16 -7 -1 10 -3 0

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -14 -18 6 7 13 14 23 -4 -7 -5 -7 -16 14

Durable goods1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -14 -17 1 17 11 5 12 1 -1 1 -2 -14 22

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . -6.6 -3.0 -3.6 9.7 1.4 1.7 6.4 2.8 -0.4 6.0 4.9 -10.4 18.8

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 -1 5 -10 2 9 11 -5 -6 -6 -5 -2 -8

Private service-providing1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 135 201 213 166 123 244 140 205 191 188 144 134

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5 -1.0 7.8 9.8 6.5 13.7 4.7 3.4 3.8 7.3 6.5 11.6 8.4

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.2 26.1 52.1 69.6 6.2 22.4 25.8 -2.8 22.4 32.6 45.3 48.8 44.0

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . 9.3 4.3 13.7 20.2 34.8 -22.2 -5.3 -4.1 6.5 -5.7 2.4 -13.9 12.0

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.7 0.4 -0.3 -2.1 0.6 0.6 0.0 -0.3 1.3 0.3 1.0 -1.3 -0.8

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -2 -12 1 14 -9 4 18 3 -9 3 -7 13 -18

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 11 11 5 9 7 15 6 14 7 11 17 -5

Professional and business services1. . . 29 15 53 55 35 46 93 59 69 70 64 32 23

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4 -12.6 9.0 26.5 12.3 11.6 27.5 19.5 20.8 26.8 19.1 8.1 13.1

Education and health services1. . . . . . . . 32 49 34 14 36 15 31 48 36 20 23 26 43

Health care and social assistance. . . . 26.4 40.7 37.4 30.2 42.9 16.5 37.0 24.7 37.8 9.7 23.6 14.9 38.3

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 30 22 21 40 31 63 31 60 43 43 13 27

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -1 12 7 7 6 6 -1 -3 1 13 -1 -2 0

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 20 -57 -9 -5 -16 13 -12 11 -11 -22 -23 17

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND

NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

Total nonfarm women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.3 49.4 49.3 49.3 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.4

Total private women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.9 47.9 47.9 47.9 47.9 47.9 47.8 47.8 47.9 47.9 47.9 47.9 48.0

Total private production and nonsupervisory

employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.6 82.7 82.7 82.6 82.6 82.6 82.6 82.6 82.6 82.6 82.6 82.6 82.6

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.4 34.5 34.3 34.4 34.5 34.4 34.5 34.6 34.5 34.5 34.5 34.4 34.5

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 23.53 $ 23.60 $ 23.58 $ 23.67 $ 23.75 $ 23.78 $ 23.82 $ 23.83 $ 23.89 $ 23.90 $ 24.00 $ 24.00 $ 24.05

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $809.43 $814.20 $808.79 $814.25 $819.38 $818.03 $821.79 $824.52 $824.21 $824.55 $828.00 $825.60 $829.73

Index of aggregate weekly hours3. . . . . . . . . 96.5 96.9 96.5 97.0 97.5 97.4 97.9 98.3 98.2 98.4 98.5 98.4 98.8

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . 0.1 0.4 -0.4 0.5 0.5 -0.1 0.5 0.4 -0.1 0.2 0.1 -0.1 0.4

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls4. . . . . . . 108.3 109.0 108.5 109.5 110.4 110.4 111.2 111.7 111.9 112.1 112.8 112.6 113.3

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . 0.1 0.6 -0.5 0.9 0.8 0.0 0.7 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.6 -0.2 0.6

HOURS AND EARNINGS

PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY

EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.6 33.7 33.6 33.7 33.7 33.6 33.8 33.8 33.7 33.7 33.7 33.6 33.6

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 19.76 $ 19.80 $ 19.82 $ 19.88 $ 19.93 $ 19.98 $ 20.03 $ 20.04 $ 20.07 $ 20.08 $ 20.15 $ 20.16 $ 20.20

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $663.94 $667.26 $665.95 $669.96 $671.64 $671.33 $677.01 $677.35 $676.36 $676.70 $679.06 $677.38 $678.72

Index of aggregate weekly hours3. . . . . . . . . 103.8 104.2 104.2 104.7 104.9 104.7 105.6 105.7 105.5 105.7 105.9 105.7 105.8

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . -0.2 0.4 0.0 0.5 0.2 -0.2 0.9 0.1 -0.2 0.2 0.2 -0.2 0.1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls4. . . . . . . 137.0 137.8 137.9 138.9 139.6 139.7 141.2 141.4 141.5 141.8 142.5 142.3 142.8

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . -0.1 0.6 0.1 0.7 0.5 0.1 1.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.5 -0.1 0.4

DIFFUSION INDEXES5

Total Private

Over 1-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.7 55.6 64.8 63.9 65.2 63.0 61.7 57.0 57.7 58.1 57.0 55.1 59.2

Over 3-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.2 57.3 60.7 64.5 69.9 66.9 68.2 66.5 65.6 62.4 56.6 58.1 58.6

Over 6-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.5 59.4 63.3 64.7 69.2 69.0 70.7 70.9 68.0 67.7 64.7 63.2 61.1

Over 12-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.6 72.9 71.1 73.7 75.6 72.6 73.1 70.3 69.2 71.1 68.2 69.2 69.0

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.9 42.0 56.2 52.5 58.0 55.6 56.8 50.6 44.4 45.1 41.4 46.9 49.4

Over 3-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.4 40.7 47.5 51.2 58.0 54.3 55.6 59.3 54.3 48.8 41.4 42.0 41.4

Over 6-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.2 50.6 46.9 48.1 48.8 48.1 54.3 55.6 53.1 52.5 52.5 48.1 42.6

Over 12-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.1 57.4 57.4 58.0 58.6 58.6 59.3 57.4 54.3 56.8 51.9 51.9 51.2

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.

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