ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

Category

Nov.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Mar.

2015

Apr.

2015

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 329 201 266 119 187 260 245 223 153 145 298 211

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 319 202 261 117 189 252 218 195 125 165 304 197

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 64 51 20 -20 16 -2 -3 7 -21 -4 30 34

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 -7 -14 -14 -14 -20 -5 -9 -10 -15 -5 -11

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 44 41 31 -12 30 12 1 5 8 19 34 46

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 19 17 3 6 0 6 1 11 -19 -8 1 -1

Durable goods1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 14 12 6 6 -3 -3 1 -4 -5 -6 -5 -6

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . 9.3 2.2 3.8 3.4 5.8 1.9 6.8 0.0 1.9 6.6 3.2 1.0 -3.4

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 5 5 -3 0 3 9 0 15 -14 -2 6 5

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 255 151 241 137 173 254 221 188 146 169 274 163

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.0 14.3 12.3 10.4 5.4 -3.9 9.6 3.1 2.6 5.4 -1.3 8.8 9.1

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 -0.2 35.4 23.1 31.6 10.8 33.0 36.2 28.6 4.1 10.3 40.6 30.7

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . 25.9 38.4 -13.1 9.4 1.9 11.5 13.2 12.7 14.1 5.2 -6.2 -5.7 6.4

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8 1.8 0.1 0.9 0.8 0.8 1.5 0.0 2.1 1.2 0.5 -0.1 2.4

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6 6 7 -2 10 -1 3 4 -4 15 2 -12

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 7 19 9 13 7 9 21 15 14 3 10 14

Professional and business services1. . . . 96 72 20 49 39 66 68 68 40 35 32 90 27

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . 30.8 21.0 -7.8 -4.4 15.8 10.8 8.6 19.9 -11.3 5.7 0.2 28.1 -12.3

Education and health services1. . . . . . . . 51 54 42 61 42 54 57 61 42 56 58 71 40

Health care and social assistance. . . . 61.9 47.5 49.8 38.7 36.3 59.4 58.6 56.9 40.2 53.1 45.3 62.7 32.2

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 56 24 61 6 8 56 19 32 37 52 48 39

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 6 5 10 0 8 8 -3 8 -8 5 10 6

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 10 -1 5 2 -2 8 27 28 28 -20 -6 14

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 324 318 265 195 191 189 231 243 207 174 199 218

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 317 312 261 193 189 186 220 222 179 162 198 222

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND

NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

Total nonfarm women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . 49.3 49.3 49.3 49.3 49.3 49.3 49.4 49.4 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 47.9 48.0 48.0 48.0 48.0 48.0 47.9

Total private production and nonsupervisory

employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.5 82.5 82.5 82.5 82.5 82.5 82.5 82.5 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.6 34.6 34.6 34.6 34.5 34.5 34.5 34.5 34.6 34.6 34.5 34.6 34.5

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24.68 $24.62 $24.76 $24.78 $24.85 $24.89 $24.95 $24.95 $25.01 $25.10 $25.12 $25.21 $25.25

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $853.93 $851.85 $856.70 $857.39 $857.33 $858.71 $860.78 $860.78 $865.35 $868.46 $866.64 $872.27 $871.13

Index of aggregate weekly hours3. . . . . . . . . . 102.4 102.7 102.8 103.1 102.9 103.0 103.2 103.4 103.9 104.0 103.8 104.4 104.3

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . 0.4 0.3 0.1 0.3 -0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.1 -0.2 0.6 -0.1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls4. . . . . . . . 120.6 120.6 121.5 121.9 122.0 122.4 122.9 123.2 124.0 124.6 124.5 125.6 125.7

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . 0.8 0.0 0.7 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.2 0.6 0.5 -0.1 0.9 0.1

DIFFUSION INDEXES5

Total Private

Over 1-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.3 69.2 60.5 62.0 59.3 60.3 58.4 57.2 60.1 57.2 54.2 59.1 60.5

Over 3-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.5 78.5 76.2 70.3 65.4 66.9 62.2 63.9 65.0 61.8 61.4 61.4 58.9

Over 6-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.1 79.3 76.6 76.6 74.9 75.1 72.6 71.3 70.3 65.6 62.7 65.0 64.8

Over 12-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.9 77.9 80.8 81.7 78.3 77.9 77.0 78.7 78.7 75.1 73.8 73.0 67.1

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.3 64.4 58.8 54.4 46.9 52.5 46.3 51.3 50.6 39.4 41.9 50.6 53.1

Over 3-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.6 76.9 71.9 66.9 52.5 56.9 50.0 56.3 50.6 49.4 45.6 45.0 49.4

Over 6-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.1 76.9 76.9 76.3 66.3 64.4 58.1 65.6 60.0 55.6 46.9 51.3 50.0

Over 12-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.0 70.0 73.1 74.4 70.6 69.4 67.5 72.5 68.1 65.6 63.8 60.0 53.1

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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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