ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

Category

Sept.

2013

Oct.

2013

Nov.

2013

Dec.

2013

Jan.

2014

Feb.

2014

Mar.

2014

Apr.

2014

May

2014

June

2014

July

2014

Aug.

2014p

Sept.

2014p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 237 274 84 144 222 203 304 229 267 243 180 248

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 247 272 86 166 201 200 278 228 260 239 175 236

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 38 68 -13 65 48 21 50 26 34 63 14 29

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5 1 0 6 4 4 5 2 5 9 2 9

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 15 32 -20 51 24 13 36 9 8 30 16 16

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 18 35 7 8 20 4 9 15 21 24 -4 4

Durable goods1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 13 19 0 1 17 14 10 21 18 27 0 7

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . 2.9 4.6 4.7 0.1 -6.5 11.8 -0.5 1.5 9.9 6.7 13.7 -4.5 3.3

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -6 5 16 7 7 3 -10 -1 -6 3 -3 -4 -3

Private service-providing1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 209 204 99 101 153 179 228 202 226 176 161 207

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.3 -1.8 16.8 11.0 18.3 14.7 7.8 15.9 6.0 12.9 3.0 2.5 1.8

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.3 41.9 22.3 52.0 -21.5 -5.6 28.9 43.0 12.0 35.4 25.4 -4.7 35.3

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . 23.1 4.8 32.4 4.5 15.5 -4.9 13.9 12.0 16.6 13.4 21.1 8.5 1.9

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.0 -0.6 1.4 -1.3 -1.6 0.1 1.9 -1.0 0.3 0.6 1.8 2.2 -2.1

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6 1 -15 -3 -11 -1 1 -6 11 10 5 12

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -1 7 -4 2 -1 10 0 9 8 19 15 12 12

Professional and business services1. . . . 37 53 73 16 49 82 47 72 57 70 50 63 81

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . 19.7 4.0 36.6 32.2 7.6 25.4 22.1 15.1 14.5 15.0 15.7 24.6 19.7

Education and health services1. . . . . . . . 9 31 25 5 16 32 40 32 59 48 37 42 32

Health care and social assistance. . . . 14.5 24.4 24.4 2.6 11.4 23.8 34.9 26.3 58.1 33.7 40.7 40.7 22.7

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 65 37 18 25 35 31 32 45 21 10 20 33

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 -1 7 4 1 9 12 4 -5 3 10 0

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 -10 2 -2 -22 21 3 26 1 7 4 5 12

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND

NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

Total nonfarm women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.3

Total private women employees. . . . . . . . . . . 48.1 48.0 48.0 48.0 48.0 48.0 48.0 48.0 48.0 48.0 47.9 47.9 47.9

Total private production and nonsupervisory

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

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

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24.06 $24.09 $24.15 $24.17 $24.22 $24.29 $24.32 $24.33 $24.38 $24.45 $24.46 $24.54 $24.53

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $830.07 $828.70 $833.18 $829.03 $833.17 $833.15 $839.04 $839.39 $841.11 $843.53 $843.87 $846.63 $848.74

Index of aggregate weekly hours3. . . . . . . . . . 99.1 99.1 99.6 99.1 99.5 99.4 100.1 100.4 100.6 100.8 101.0 101.2 101.7

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls4. . . . . . . . 113.8 113.9 114.8 114.3 115.0 115.2 116.2 116.6 117.0 117.6 117.9 118.5 119.0

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS

PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY

EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.6 33.6 33.7 33.5 33.6 33.4 33.7 33.7 33.7 33.7 33.7 33.8 33.7

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20.21 $20.25 $20.30 $20.35 $20.39 $20.49 $20.48 $20.50 $20.54 $20.58 $20.61 $20.67 $20.67

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $679.06 $680.40 $684.11 $681.73 $685.10 $684.37 $690.18 $690.85 $692.20 $693.55 $694.56 $698.65 $696.58

Index of aggregate weekly hours3. . . . . . . . . . 106.3 106.6 107.1 106.6 107.0 106.6 107.8 108.1 108.3 108.5 108.7 109.2 109.1

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . -0.2 0.3 0.5 -0.5 0.4 -0.4 1.1 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.5 -0.1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls4. . . . . . . . 143.5 144.2 145.3 144.9 145.8 146.0 147.5 148.0 148.6 149.2 149.7 150.8 150.6

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . 0.0 0.5 0.8 -0.3 0.6 0.1 1.0 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.7 -0.1

DIFFUSION INDEXES5

Total Private

Over 1-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.8 63.4 66.9 57.2 62.7 61.0 59.7 65.2 64.4 64.0 67.8 62.7 57.8

Over 3-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.1 65.2 68.0 68.6 66.3 65.5 66.9 69.1 72.7 69.7 69.5 69.1 65.3

Over 6-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.0 64.4 67.4 66.9 71.2 72.5 72.9 72.7 72.5 70.8 71.8 72.0 70.8

Over 12-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.8 69.1 69.5 70.8 72.5 68.8 73.7 71.0 74.8 74.2 76.5 76.9 78.6

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.9 55.6 65.4 57.4 55.6 53.1 53.7 54.9 63.0 54.3 56.2 54.9 51.9

Over 3-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.7 54.3 59.9 74.1 66.7 55.6 53.1 55.6 62.3 60.5 56.2 54.3 53.7

Over 6-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.4 49.4 51.2 63.6 66.0 69.1 69.8 63.0 61.7 54.9 58.0 58.6 54.3

Over 12-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.4 51.2 51.9 58.0 59.9 56.2 60.5 54.9 58.6 61.1 60.5 59.3 65.4

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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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