ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

Category

Apr.

2017

May

2017

June

2017

July

2017

Aug.

2017

Sept.

2017

Oct.

2017

Nov.

2017

Dec.

2017

Jan.

2018

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 155 239 190 221 14 271 216 175 176 324 135 164

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 165 220 188 208 16 277 217 174 188 321 135 168

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 15 35 -8 75 15 38 78 82 55 107 20 49

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4 5 2 8 0 1 6 1 7 9 8 8

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -5 7 16 -6 28 9 17 42 42 28 67 -10 17

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4 14 -4 39 6 20 30 39 20 31 22 24

Durable goods1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5 14 -12 31 5 10 27 29 17 26 21 18

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . -0.2 -1.2 1.6 -24.6 23.1 -2.4 -1.6 3.3 2.5 0.3 4.4 0.5 -0.9

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 -1 0 8 8 1 10 3 10 3 5 1 6

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 150 185 196 133 1 239 139 92 133 214 115 119

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.6 -0.4 11.1 6.6 3.6 7.6 7.5 10.0 8.6 6.9 3.4 10.3 -9.8

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -4.2 -10.0 3.4 -1.0 3.9 1.8 6.5 27.2 -25.9 11.9 46.0 6.2 1.8

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . 3.0 20.4 7.2 3.7 12.4 25.4 13.7 12.1 8.7 15.3 17.8 15.7 0.4

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.6 -1.4 0.7 -0.7 -0.2 0.4 0.0 0.1 -0.2 -0.9 1.4 -0.3 1.0

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -11 -4 2 -3 -1 -8 0 -4 -4 -16 -1 6 7

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 11 15 13 15 8 9 9 8 3 29 4 2

Professional and business services1. . . . 50 57 40 53 42 27 60 16 31 38 61 39 54

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 17.2 13.2 13.1 5.3 10.5 19.8 7.1 -1.0 -1.7 22.2 -2.1 10.3

Education and health services1. . . . . . . . 46 36 56 57 48 14 15 38 30 50 32 24 31

Health care and social assistance. . . . 44.0 24.8 53.5 48.9 15.8 10.2 35.7 27.8 30.9 30.1 43.8 32.0 29.3

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 26 35 63 4 -75 110 20 31 21 18 8 18

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 16 14 5 5 0 17 11 5 3 7 2 14

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 -10 19 2 13 -2 -6 -1 1 -12 3 0 -4

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 134 190 195 217 142 169 167 221 189 225 212 208

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 136 186 191 205 137 167 170 223 193 228 215 208

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND

NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

Total nonfarm women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.5 49.6 49.6 49.6 49.6

Total private women employees. . . . . . . . . . . 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.1 48.2 48.2 48.2

Total private production and nonsupervisory

employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4 82.4

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

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

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $26.17 $26.21 $26.26 $26.34 $26.39 $26.51 $26.47 $26.54 $26.64 $26.71 $26.74 $26.80 $26.84

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $900.25 $901.62 $903.34 $906.10 $907.82 $909.29 $910.57 $915.63 $919.08 $918.82 $922.53 $924.60 $925.98

Index of aggregate weekly hours3. . . . . . . . . . 106.9 107.1 107.3 107.4 107.6 107.3 107.8 108.3 108.5 108.3 108.9 109.1 109.2

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls4. . . . . . . . 133.8 134.1 134.6 135.3 135.7 136.0 136.5 137.5 138.2 138.3 139.3 139.7 140.1

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

DIFFUSION INDEXES5

Total Private

Over 1-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.5 56.8 65.3 64.5 64.3 57.0 63.2 66.1 65.5 57.2 70.2 64.1 57.6

Over 3-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.4 58.7 63.8 68.8 70.3 64.1 67.6 66.7 71.1 69.4 70.9 71.7 68.4

Over 6-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.4 69.2 69.0 67.6 66.7 68.2 70.7 72.5 71.3 70.2 73.3 76.4 75.2

Over 12-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.2 70.2 70.2 67.6 69.8 71.1 71.9 75.8 75.2 73.4 75.4 76.4 76.0

Manufacturing

Over 1-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.6 44.7 59.2 60.5 71.7 54.6 63.8 63.2 68.4 55.9 72.4 64.5 53.9

Over 3-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.1 53.3 57.2 59.9 65.8 61.8 73.7 64.5 76.3 76.3 76.3 75.0 69.1

Over 6-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.8 62.5 60.5 61.8 60.5 63.2 66.4 67.8 73.0 75.0 75.0 75.0 78.3

Over 12-month span. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.6 57.9 60.5 53.3 61.8 63.2 66.4 75.0 71.7 72.4 74.3 74.3 75.0

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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.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2017 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

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