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Technical information: 

Household data: (202) 691-6378 • cpsinfo@bls.gov • www.bls.gov/cps

Establishment data: (202) 691-6555 • cesinfo@bls.gov • www.bls.gov/ces 

Media contact: (202) 691-5902 • PressOffice@bls.gov 

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — SEPTEMBER 2015

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 142,000 in September, and the unemployment rate

was unchanged at 5.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in 

health care and information, while mining employment fell.

Household Survey Data

In September, the unemployment rate held at 5.1 percent, and the number of unemployed persons (7.9 

million) changed little. Over the year, the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed persons 

were down by 0.8 percentage point and 1.3 million, respectively. (See table A-1.) 

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.7 percent), adult women 

(4.6 percent), teenagers (16.3 percent), whites (4.4 percent), blacks (9.2 percent), Asians (3.6 percent), 

and Hispanics (6.4 percent) showed little or no change in September. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.) 

The number of persons unemployed for less than 5 weeks increased by 268,000 to 2.4 million in 

September, partially offsetting a decline in August. The number of long-term unemployed (those 
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jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed at 2.1 million in September and accounted for 26.6 

percent of the unemployed. (See table A-12.) 

The civilian labor force participation rate declined to 62.4 percent in September; the rate had been 

62.6 percent for the prior 3 months. The employment-population ratio edged down to 59.2 percent in 

September, after showing little movement for the first 8 months of the year. (See table A-1.) 

The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as 

involuntary part-time workers) declined by 447,000 to 6.0 million in September. These individuals, who 

would have preferred full-time employment, were working part time because their hours had been cut 

back or because they were unable to find a full-time job. Over the past 12 months, the number of 

persons employed part time for economic reasons declined by 1.0 million. (See table A-8.) 

In September, 1.9 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, down by 305,000 from 

a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, 

wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They 

were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the 

survey. (See table A-16.) 

Among the marginally attached, there were 635,000 discouraged workers in September, little changed 

from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not 

currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.3 

million persons marginally attached to the labor force in September had not searched for work for 

reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities. (See table A-16.) 

Establishment Survey Data

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 142,000 in September. Thus far in 2015, job growth 

has averaged 198,000 per month, compared with an average monthly gain of 260,000 in 2014. In 

September, job gains occurred in health care and information, while employment in mining continued to 

decline. (See table B-1.) 

Health care added 34,000 jobs in September, in line with the average increase of 38,000 jobs per month 

over the prior 12 months. Hospitals accounted for 16,000 of the jobs gained in September, and 

employment in ambulatory health care services continued to trend up (+13,000). 

Employment in information increased by 12,000 in September and has increased by 44,000 over the 

year.

Employment in professional and business services continued to trend up in September (+31,000). Job 

growth has averaged 45,000 per month thus far in 2015, compared with an average monthly gain of 

59,000 in 2014. In September, job gains occurred in computer systems design and related services 

(+7,000) and in legal services (+5,000). 

Retail trade employment trended up in September (+24,000), in line with its average monthly gain over 

the prior 12 months (+27,000). In September, employment rose in general merchandise stores (+10,000) 

and automobile dealers (+5,000). 
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Employment in food services and drinking places continued on an upward trend in September 

(+21,000). Over the year, this industry has added 349,000 jobs. 

Employment in mining continued to decline in September (-10,000), with losses concentrated in support 

activities for mining (-7,000). Mining employment has declined by 102,000 since reaching a peak in 

December 2014.

Employment in other major industries, including construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, 

transportation and warehousing, financial activities, and government, showed little or no change 

over the month. 

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls declined by 0.1 hour to 34.5 

hours in September. The manufacturing workweek decreased by 0.2 hour to 40.6 hours, and factory 

overtime declined by 0.2 hour to 3.1 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory 

employees on private nonfarm payrolls decreased by 0.1 hour to 33.6 hours. (See tables B-2 and B-7.) 

In September, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls, at $25.09, 

changed little (-1 cent), following a 9-cent gain in August. Hourly earnings have risen by 2.2 percent 

over the year. Average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees 

were unchanged at $21.08 in September. (See tables B-3 and B-8.) 

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for July was revised from +245,000 to +223,000, and 

the change for August was revised from +173,000 to +136,000. With these revisions, employment gains 

in July and August combined were 59,000 less than previously reported. Over the past 3 months, job 

gains have averaged 167,000 per month. 

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The Employment Situation for October is scheduled to be released on Friday, November 6, 2015, 

at 8:30 a.m. (EST). 
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Change from:

Aug. 2015-

Sept. 2015

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population........................................... 248,446 250,876 251,096 251,325 229

Civilian labor force........................................................... 155,845 157,106 157,065 156,715 -350

Participation rate.......................................................... 62.7 62.6 62.6 62.4 -0.2

Employed................................................................... 146,607 148,840 149,036 148,800 -236

Employment-population ratio.......................................... 59.0 59.3 59.4 59.2 -0.2

Unemployed............................................................... 9,237 8,266 8,029 7,915 -114

Unemployment rate.................................................... 5.9 5.3 5.1 5.1 0.0

Not in labor force............................................................ 92,601 93,770 94,031 94,610 579

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over...................................................... 5.9 5.3 5.1 5.1 0.0

Adult men (20 years and over)............................................ 5.3 4.8 4.7 4.7 0.0

Adult women (20 years and over)......................................... 5.5 4.9 4.7 4.6 -0.1

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)................................................ 19.8 16.2 16.9 16.3 -0.6

White.......................................................................... 5.1 4.6 4.4 4.4 0.0

Black or African American.................................................. 11.0 9.1 9.5 9.2 -0.3

Asian.......................................................................... 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.6 0.1

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity................................................. 7.0 6.8 6.6 6.4 -0.2

Total, 25 years and over...................................................... 4.7 4.3 4.2 4.1 -0.1

Less than a high school diploma.......................................... 8.3 8.3 7.7 7.9 0.2

High school graduates, no college........................................ 5.3 5.5 5.5 5.2 -0.3

Some college or associate degree........................................ 5.4 4.4 4.4 4.3 -0.1

Bachelor’s degree and higher.............................................. 2.9 2.6 2.5 2.5 0.0

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs.................. 4,521 4,143 4,070 3,908 -162

Job leavers...................................................................... 816 843 790 780 -10

Reentrants....................................................................... 2,805 2,447 2,349 2,436 87

New entrants.................................................................... 1,094 826 850 831 -19

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks............................................................. 2,372 2,488 2,095 2,363 268

5 to 14 weeks................................................................... 2,495 2,257 2,374 2,218 -156

15 to 26 weeks................................................................. 1,423 1,188 1,250 1,214 -36

27 weeks and over............................................................. 2,951 2,180 2,187 2,104 -83

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons.............................................. 7,058 6,325 6,483 6,036 -447

Slack work or business conditions........................................ 4,165 3,828 3,841 3,569 -272

Could only find part-time work............................................. 2,528 2,213 2,242 2,134 -108

Part time for noneconomic reasons.......................................... 19,579 19,891 19,760 19,971 211

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force....................................... 2,226 1,927 1,812 1,921 –

Discouraged workers........................................................ 698 668 624 635 –

- Over-the-month changes are not displayed for not seasonally adjusted data.

NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will

not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced

annually with the release of January data.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

Category Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 223 136 142

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 195 100 118

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 7 -22 -13

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 -9 -9 -12

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 5 5 8

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 11 -18 -9

Durable goods1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 -4 -4 -5

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 1.9 6.6 2.1

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -1 15 -14 -4

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 188 122 131

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 2.6 5.5 -4.1

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.5 28.6 4.4 23.7

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 14.1 6.1 3.5

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -1.8 2.1 1.0 -0.7

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 -5 12

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 15 12 0

Professional and business services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 40 27 31

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.4 -11.3 6.6 4.6

Education and health services1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 42 47 29

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.2 40.2 47.6 36.4

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 32 32 35

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -3 8 -8 1

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 28 36 24

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 243 201 167

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 222 171 138

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

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

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

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.6 82.4 82.4 82.4

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

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

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24.55 $25.01 $25.10 $25.09

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $846.98 $865.35 $868.46 $865.61

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.5 103.9 104.0 103.8

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.0 124.0 124.6 124.3

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

DIFFUSION INDEX

(Over 1-month span)5

Total private (263 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 60.1 55.5 52.9

Manufacturing (80 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.8 50.6 39.4 44.4

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.

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NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
Frequently Asked Questions about Employment and Unemployment Estimates 

1. Why are there two monthly measures of employment? 

The household survey and establishment survey both produce sample-based estimates of 

employment, and both have strengths and limitations. The establishment survey employment series 

has a smaller margin of error on the measurement of month-to-month change than the household 

survey because of its much larger sample size. An over-the-month employment change of about 

100,000 is statistically significant in the establishment survey, while the threshold for a statistically 

significant change in the household survey is about 500,000. However, the household survey has a 

more expansive scope than the establishment survey because it includes self-employed workers 

whose businesses are unincorporated, unpaid family workers, agricultural workers, and private 

household workers, who are excluded by the establishment survey. The household survey also 

provides estimates of employment for demographic groups. For more information on the differences 

between the two surveys, please visit www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ces_cps_trends.pdf. 

2. Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys? 

It is likely that both surveys include at least some undocumented immigrants. However, neither the 

establishment nor the household survey is designed to identify the legal status of workers. Therefore, 

it is not possible to determine how many are counted in either survey. The establishment survey does 

not collect data on the legal status of workers. The household survey does include questions which 

identify the foreign and native born, but it does not include questions about the legal status of the 

foreign born. Data on the foreign and native born are published each month in table A-7 of The 

Employment Situation news release. 

3. Why does the establishment survey have revisions? 

The establishment survey revises published estimates to improve its data series by incorporating 

additional information that was not available at the time of the initial publication of the estimates. 

The establishment survey revises its initial monthly estimates twice, in the immediately succeeding 

2 months, to incorporate additional sample receipts from respondents in the survey and recalculated 

seasonal adjustment factors. For more information on the monthly revisions, please visit 

www.bls.gov/ces/cesrevinfo.htm. 

On an annual basis, the establishment survey incorporates a benchmark revision that re-anchors 

estimates to nearly complete employment counts available from unemployment insurance tax 

records. The benchmark helps to control for sampling and modeling errors in the estimates. For more 

information on the annual benchmark revision, please visit www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesbmart.htm. 

4. Does the establishment survey sample include small firms? 

Yes; about 40 percent of the establishment survey sample is comprised of business establishments 

with fewer than 20 employees. The establishment survey sample is designed to maximize the 

reliability of the statewide total nonfarm employment estimate; firms from all states, size classes, and 

industries are appropriately sampled to achieve that goal. 

 
5. Does the establishment survey account for employment from new businesses? 

Yes; monthly establishment survey estimates include an adjustment to account for the net 

employment change generated by business births and deaths. The adjustment comes from an 

econometric model that forecasts the monthly net jobs impact of business births and deaths based 

on the actual past values of the net impact that can be observed with a lag from the Quarterly Census 

of Employment and Wages. The establishment survey uses modeling rather than sampling for this 

purpose because the survey is not immediately able to bring new businesses into the sample. There 

is an unavoidable lag between the birth of a new firm and its appearance on the sampling frame and 

availability for selection. BLS adds new businesses to the survey twice a year. 

6. Is the count of unemployed persons limited to just those people receiving unemployment 

insurance benefits? 

No; the estimate of unemployment is based on a monthly sample survey of households. All persons 

who are without jobs and are actively seeking and available to work are included among the 

unemployed. (People on temporary layoff are included even if they do not actively seek work.) There 

is no requirement or question relating to unemployment insurance benefits in the monthly survey. 

7. Does the official unemployment rate exclude people who want a job but are not currently 

looking for work? 

Yes; however, there are separate estimates of persons outside the labor force who want a job, 

including those who are not currently looking because they believe no jobs are available (discouraged 

workers). In addition, alternative measures of labor underutilization (some of which include 

discouraged workers and other groups not officially counted as unemployed) are published each 

month in table A-15 of The Employment Situation news release. For more information about these 

alternative measures, please visit www.bls.gov/cps/lfcharacteristics.htm#altmeasures. 

8. How can unusually severe weather affect employment and hours estimates? 

In the establishment survey, the reference period is the pay period that includes the 12th of the 

month. Unusually severe weather is more likely to have an impact on average weekly hours than 

on employment. Average weekly hours are estimated for paid time during the pay period, including 

pay for holidays, sick leave, or other time off. The impact of severe weather on hours estimates 

typically, but not always, results in a reduction in average weekly hours. For example, some 

employees may be off work for part of the pay period and not receive pay for the time missed, 

while some workers, such as those dealing with cleanup or repair, may work extra hours. 

Typically, it is not possible to precisely quantify the effect of extreme weather on payroll 

employment estimates. In order for severe weather conditions to reduce employment estimates, 

employees have to be off work without pay for the entire pay period. Employees 

who receive pay for any part of the pay period, even 1 hour, are counted in the payroll 

employment figures. For more information on how often employees are paid, please visit 

www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-3/how-frequently-do-private-businesses-pay-workers.htm. 

In the household survey, the reference period is generally the calendar week that includes the 12th 

of the month. Persons who miss the entire week's work for weather-related events are counted as 

employed whether or not they are paid for the time off. The household survey collects data on the 

number of persons who had a job but were not at work due to bad weather. It also provides a measure 

of the number of persons who usually work full time but had reduced hours due to bad weather. 

Current and historical data are available on the household survey's most requested statistics page, 

please visit http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ln.
Technical Note 

This news release presents statistics from two major 

surveys, the Current Population Survey (CPS; household 

survey) and the Current Employment Statistics survey (CES; 

establishment survey). The household survey provides 

information on the labor force, employment, and 

unemployment that appears in the "A" tables, marked 

HOUSEHOLD DATA. It is a sample survey of about 60,000 

eligible households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for 

the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). 

The establishment survey provides information on 

employment, hours, and earnings of employees on nonfarm 

payrolls; the data appear in the "B" tables, marked 

ESTABLISHMENT DATA. BLS collects these data each 

month from the payroll records of a sample of 

nonagricultural business establishments. Each month the 

CES program surveys about 143,000 businesses and 

government agencies, representing approximately 588,000 

individual worksites, in order to provide detailed industry 

data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on 

nonfarm payrolls. The active sample includes approximately 

one-third of all nonfarm payroll employees. 

For both surveys, the data for a given month relate to a 

particular week or pay period. In the household survey, the 

reference period is generally the calendar week that contains 

the 12th day of the month. In the establishment survey, the 

reference period is the pay period including the 12th, which 

may or may not correspond directly to the calendar week. 

Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys 

Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect 

the entire civilian noninstitutional population. Based on 

responses to a series of questions on work and job search 

activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample 

household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in 

the labor force. 

People are classified as employed if they did any work 

at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked 

in their own business, profession, or on their own farm; or 

worked without pay at least 15 hours in a family business or 

farm. People are also counted as employed if they were 

temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad 

weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal 

reasons. 

People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of 

the following criteria: they had no employment during the 

reference week; they were available for work at that time; 

and they made specific efforts to find employment sometime 

during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. 

Persons laid off from a job and expecting recall need not be 

looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The 

unemployment data derived from the household survey in no 

way depend upon the eligibility for or receipt of 

unemployment insurance benefits. 

The civilian labor force is the sum of employed and 

unemployed persons. Those persons not classified as 

employed or unemployed are not in the labor force. The 

unemployment rate is the number unemployed as a percent 

of the labor force. The labor force participation rate is the 

labor force as a percent of the population, and 

the employment-population ratio is the employed as a 

percent of the population. Additional information 

about the household survey can be found at 

www.bls.gov/cps/documentation.htm. 

Establishment survey. The sample establishments are 

drawn from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, 

offices, and stores, as well as from federal, state, and local 

government entities. Employees on nonfarm payrolls are 

those who received pay for any part of the reference pay 

period, including persons on paid leave. Persons are counted 

in each job they hold. Hours and earnings data are produced 

for the private sector for all employees and for production 

and nonsupervisory employees. Production and

nonsupervisory employees are defined as production and 

related employees in manufacturing and mining and logging, 

construction workers in construction, and non-supervisory 

employees in private service-providing industries. 

Industries are classified on the basis of an 

establishment’s principal activity in accordance with the 

2012 version of the North American Industry Classification 

System. Additional information about the establishment 

survey can be found at www.bls.gov/ces/. 

Differences in employment estimates. The numerous 

conceptual and methodological differences between the 

household and establishment surveys result in important 

distinctions in the employment estimates derived from the 

surveys. Among these are: 

 The household survey includes agricultural 

workers, self-employed workers whose businesses 

are unincorporated, unpaid family workers, and 

private household workers among the employed. 

These groups are excluded from the establishment 

survey. 

 The household survey includes people on unpaid 

leave among the employed. The establishment 

survey does not. 

 The household survey is limited to workers 16 years 

of age and older. The establishment survey is not 

limited by age. 

 The household survey has no duplication of 

individuals, because individuals are counted only 

once, even if they hold more than one job. In the 

establishment survey, employees working at more 

than one job and thus appearing on more than one 

payroll are counted separately for each appearance. 
Seasonal adjustment 

Over the course of a year, the size of the nation's labor 

force and the levels of employment and unemployment 

undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These events may 

result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, and 

the opening and closing of schools. The effect of such 

seasonal variation can be very large. 

Because these seasonal events follow a more or less 

regular pattern each year, their influence on the level of a 

series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal 

variation. These adjustments make nonseasonal 

developments, such as declines in employment or increases 

in the participation of women in the labor force, easier to 

spot. For example, in the household survey, the large number 

of youth entering the labor force each June is likely to 

obscure any other changes that have taken place relative to 

May, making it difficult to determine if the level of economic 

activity has risen or declined. Similarly, in the establishment 

survey, payroll employment in education declines by about 

20 percent at the end of the spring term and later rises with 

the start of the fall term, obscuring the underlying 

employment trends in the industry. Because seasonal 

employment changes at the end and beginning of the school 

year can be estimated, the statistics can be adjusted to make 

underlying employment patterns more discernable. The 

seasonally adjusted figures provide a more useful tool with 

which to analyze changes in month-to-month economic 

activity. 

Many seasonally adjusted series are independently 

adjusted in both the household and establishment surveys. 

However, the adjusted series for many major estimates, such 

as total payroll employment, employment in most major 

sectors, total employment, and unemployment are computed 

by aggregating independently adjusted component series. 

For example, total unemployment is derived by summing the 

adjusted series for four major age-sex components; this 

differs from the unemployment estimate that would be 

obtained by directly adjusting the total or by combining the 

duration, reasons, or more detailed age categories. 

For both the household and establishment surveys, a 

concurrent seasonal adjustment methodology is used in 

which new seasonal factors are calculated each month using 

all relevant data, up to and including the data for the current 

month. In the household survey, new seasonal factors are 

used to adjust only the current month's data. In the 

establishment survey, however, new seasonal factors are 

used each month to adjust the three most recent monthly 

estimates. The prior 2 months are routinely revised to 

incorporate additional sample reports and recalculated 

seasonal adjustment factors. In both surveys, 5-year 

revisions to historical data are made once a year. 

Reliability of the estimates 

Statistics based on the household and establishment 

surveys are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. 

When a sample, rather than the entire population, is 

surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may 

differ from the true population values they represent. The 

component of this difference that occurs because samples 

differ by chance is known as sampling error, and its 

variability is measured by the standard error of the estimate. 

There is about a 90-percent chance, or level of confidence, 

that an estimate based on a sample will differ by no more 

than 1.6 standard errors from the true population value 

because of sampling error. BLS analyses are generally 

conducted at the 90-percent level of confidence. 

For example, the confidence interval for the monthly 

change in total nonfarm employment from the establishment 

survey is on the order of plus or minus 105,000. Suppose the 

estimate of nonfarm employment increases by 50,000 from 

one month to the next. The 90-percent confidence interval on 

the monthly change would range from -55,000 to +155,000 

(50,000 +/- 105,000). These figures do not mean that the 

sample results are off by these magnitudes, but rather that 

there is about a 90-percent chance that the true over-themonth change lies within this interval. Since this range 

includes values of less than zero, we could not say with 

confidence that nonfarm employment had, in fact, increased 

that month. If, however, the reported nonfarm employment 

rise was 250,000, then all of the values within the 90-percent 

confidence interval would be greater than zero. In this case, 

it is likely (at least a 90-percent chance) that nonfarm 

employment had, in fact, risen that month. At an 

unemployment rate of around 6.0 percent, the 90-percent 

confidence interval for the monthly change in unemployment 

as measured by the household survey is about +/- 300,000, 

and for the monthly change in the unemployment rate it is 

about +/- 0.2 percentage point. 

In general, estimates involving many individuals or 

establishments have lower standard errors (relative to the 

size of the estimate) than estimates which are based on a 

small number of observations. The precision of estimates 

also is improved when the data are cumulated over time, such 

as for quarterly and annual averages. 

The household and establishment surveys are also 

affected by nonsampling error, which can occur for many 

reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the 

population, inability to obtain information for all respondents 

in the sample, inability or unwillingness of respondents to 

provide correct information on a timely basis, mistakes made 

by respondents, and errors made in the collection or 

processing of the data. 

For example, in the establishment survey, estimates for 

the most recent 2 months are based on incomplete returns; 

for this reason, these estimates are labeled preliminary in the 

tables. It is only after two successive revisions to a monthly 

estimate, when nearly all sample reports have been received, 

that the estimate is considered final. 

Another major source of nonsampling error in the 

establishment survey is the inability to capture, on a timely 

basis, employment generated by new firms. To correct for 

this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an 

estimation procedure with two components is used to 

account for business births. The first component excludes 

employment losses from business deaths from sample-based 
estimation in order to offset the missing employment gains 

from business births. This is incorporated into the samplebased estimation procedure by simply not reflecting sample 

units going out of business, but imputing to them the same 

employment trend as the other firms in the sample. This 

procedure accounts for most of the net birth/death 

employment. 

The second component is an ARIMA time series model 

designed to estimate the residual net birth/death employment 

not accounted for by the imputation. The historical time 

series used to create and test the ARIMA model was derived 

from the unemployment insurance universe micro-level 

database, and reflects the actual residual net of births and 

deaths over the past 5 years. 

The sample-based estimates from the establishment 

survey are adjusted once a year (on a lagged basis) to 

universe counts of payroll employment obtained from 

administrative records of the unemployment insurance 

program. The difference between the March sample-based 

employment estimates and the March universe counts is 

known as a benchmark revision, and serves as a rough proxy 

for total survey error. The new benchmarks also incorporate 

changes in the classification of industries. Over the past 

decade, absolute benchmark revisions for total nonfarm 

employment have averaged 0.3 percent, with a range from 

-0.7 percent to 0.6 percent. 

Other information 

Information in this release will be made available to 

sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 

(202) 691-5200; Federal Relay Service: (800) 877-8339. 
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Sept.

2014

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248,446 251,096 251,325 248,446 250,455 250,663 250,876 251,096 251,325

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,903 157,390 156,607 155,845 157,469 157,037 157,106 157,065 156,715

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.8 62.7 62.3 62.7 62.9 62.6 62.6 62.6 62.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146,941 149,228 148,980 146,607 148,795 148,739 148,840 149,036 148,800

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.1 59.4 59.3 59.0 59.4 59.3 59.3 59.4 59.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,962 8,162 7,628 9,237 8,674 8,299 8,266 8,029 7,915

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.7 5.2 4.9 5.9 5.5 5.3 5.3 5.1 5.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,543 93,706 94,718 92,601 92,986 93,626 93,770 94,031 94,610

Persons who currently want a job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,007 5,920 5,584 6,385 6,058 6,076 6,135 5,932 5,955

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,004 121,250 121,365 120,004 120,927 121,032 121,139 121,250 121,365

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,006 83,996 83,390 82,983 83,892 83,490 83,578 83,472 83,402

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.2 69.3 68.7 69.2 69.4 69.0 69.0 68.8 68.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,409 79,898 79,406 78,094 79,201 79,020 79,202 79,211 79,134

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.3 65.9 65.4 65.1 65.5 65.3 65.4 65.3 65.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,596 4,098 3,984 4,890 4,691 4,471 4,376 4,261 4,267

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 4.9 4.8 5.9 5.6 5.4 5.2 5.1 5.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,999 37,253 37,975 37,021 37,035 37,541 37,562 37,778 37,964

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,567 112,825 112,940 111,567 112,498 112,605 112,714 112,825 112,940

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,278 80,892 80,633 80,163 80,915 80,680 80,790 80,640 80,553

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.0 71.7 71.4 71.9 71.9 71.6 71.7 71.5 71.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,286 77,311 77,110 75,889 76,833 76,783 76,903 76,880 76,763

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.4 68.5 68.3 68.0 68.3 68.2 68.2 68.1 68.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,993 3,581 3,523 4,273 4,082 3,897 3,887 3,760 3,790

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.0 4.4 4.4 5.3 5.0 4.8 4.8 4.7 4.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,288 31,933 32,307 31,404 31,583 31,925 31,924 32,185 32,387

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,442 129,846 129,960 128,442 129,528 129,631 129,737 129,846 129,960

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,898 73,393 73,217 72,862 73,577 73,547 73,528 73,593 73,313

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.8 56.5 56.3 56.7 56.8 56.7 56.7 56.7 56.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,532 69,329 69,574 68,514 69,594 69,719 69,638 69,825 69,665

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.4 53.4 53.5 53.3 53.7 53.8 53.7 53.8 53.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,366 4,064 3,643 4,348 3,983 3,828 3,891 3,768 3,648

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.0 5.5 5.0 6.0 5.4 5.2 5.3 5.1 5.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,545 56,453 56,743 55,581 55,951 56,085 56,209 56,253 56,647

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,265 121,660 121,773 120,265 121,342 121,445 121,551 121,660 121,773

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,228 70,460 70,633 70,037 70,731 70,665 70,745 70,826 70,561

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.4 57.9 58.0 58.2 58.3 58.2 58.2 58.2 57.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,335 66,874 67,394 66,192 67,178 67,294 67,271 67,502 67,346

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.2 55.0 55.3 55.0 55.4 55.4 55.3 55.5 55.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,893 3,585 3,239 3,845 3,553 3,372 3,474 3,324 3,214

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 5.1 4.6 5.5 5.0 4.8 4.9 4.7 4.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,036 51,200 51,140 50,228 50,611 50,780 50,806 50,833 51,212

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,615 16,611 16,612 16,615 16,615 16,613 16,611 16,611 16,612

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,397 6,038 5,341 5,645 5,823 5,691 5,570 5,599 5,601

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.5 36.4 32.1 34.0 35.0 34.3 33.5 33.7 33.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,321 5,042 4,476 4,527 4,784 4,662 4,666 4,654 4,690

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.0 30.4 26.9 27.2 28.8 28.1 28.1 28.0 28.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,076 996 865 1,119 1,039 1,029 904 945 911

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.9 16.5 16.2 19.8 17.9 18.1 16.2 16.9 16.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,218 10,573 11,271 10,970 10,792 10,922 11,040 11,012 11,011

1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Sept.

2014

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

WHITE

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195,777 197,024 197,152 195,777 196,673 196,786 196,904 197,024 197,152

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,165 123,676 123,111 122,996 123,875 123,649 123,607 123,390 123,132

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.9 62.8 62.4 62.8 63.0 62.8 62.8 62.6 62.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,130 118,168 117,971 116,760 118,048 117,942 117,880 117,903 117,768

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.8 60.0 59.8 59.6 60.0 59.9 59.9 59.8 59.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,035 5,508 5,139 6,236 5,827 5,707 5,727 5,487 5,364

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.9 4.5 4.2 5.1 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.4 4.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,611 73,349 74,041 72,781 72,798 73,137 73,297 73,634 74,020

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,438 64,815 64,608 64,290 64,790 64,727 64,819 64,617 64,543

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.1 72.1 71.8 72.0 72.2 72.1 72.1 71.8 71.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,792 62,328 62,165 61,447 62,037 62,031 62,057 61,964 61,880

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.2 69.3 69.1 68.8 69.1 69.1 69.0 68.9 68.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,646 2,488 2,443 2,843 2,753 2,696 2,762 2,652 2,663

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 3.8 3.8 4.4 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.1 4.1

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,442 54,120 54,284 54,237 54,481 54,400 54,369 54,372 54,181

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.9 57.1 57.2 57.7 57.6 57.5 57.4 57.4 57.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,838 51,755 52,162 51,677 52,121 52,097 52,027 52,167 52,091

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.1 54.6 55.0 54.9 55.1 55.0 54.9 55.1 54.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,604 2,365 2,122 2,561 2,359 2,303 2,342 2,205 2,090

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.8 4.4 3.9 4.7 4.3 4.2 4.3 4.1 3.9

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,285 4,740 4,218 4,468 4,604 4,522 4,418 4,401 4,407

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.7 38.5 34.3 36.1 37.4 36.7 35.9 35.7 35.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,500 4,085 3,644 3,636 3,890 3,814 3,796 3,772 3,796

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.3 33.2 29.6 29.4 31.6 31.0 30.8 30.6 30.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785 655 574 832 714 708 622 629 611

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.3 13.8 13.6 18.6 15.5 15.7 14.1 14.3 13.9

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,932 31,438 31,479 30,932 31,326 31,362 31,399 31,438 31,479

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,982 19,449 19,287 19,067 19,428 19,346 19,298 19,388 19,349

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 61.9 61.3 61.6 62.0 61.7 61.5 61.7 61.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,929 17,529 17,535 16,974 17,441 17,501 17,534 17,556 17,560

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.7 55.8 55.7 54.9 55.7 55.8 55.8 55.8 55.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,052 1,919 1,752 2,093 1,988 1,845 1,764 1,832 1,789

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.8 9.9 9.1 11.0 10.2 9.5 9.1 9.5 9.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,950 11,989 12,192 11,865 11,898 12,016 12,101 12,050 12,130

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,750 8,773 8,769 8,756 8,905 8,808 8,738 8,763 8,751

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.4 67.2 67.0 68.4 68.5 67.6 67.0 67.1 66.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,816 7,979 8,017 7,791 7,995 7,970 7,966 7,956 7,975

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.1 61.1 61.3 60.9 61.5 61.2 61.1 60.9 61.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934 794 752 965 911 838 773 807 776

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.7 9.1 8.6 11.0 10.2 9.5 8.8 9.2 8.9

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,571 9,932 9,858 9,591 9,808 9,827 9,861 9,934 9,882

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 62.5 62.0 61.4 61.9 62.0 62.1 62.5 62.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,655 9,048 9,069 8,682 8,946 9,046 9,070 9,125 9,094

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.4 56.9 57.0 55.5 56.5 57.1 57.2 57.4 57.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916 884 789 909 862 781 791 809 788

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.6 8.9 8.0 9.5 8.8 7.9 8.0 8.1 8.0

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661 744 660 720 715 712 698 691 715

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.5 29.9 26.5 28.8 28.7 28.6 28.1 27.8 28.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458 503 449 501 500 486 498 474 490

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.3 20.2 18.0 20.1 20.1 19.5 20.0 19.1 19.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 241 211 219 215 226 200 216 225

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.7 32.4 32.0 30.4 30.1 31.8 28.7 31.3 31.5

ASIAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,788 14,558 14,508 13,788 14,403 14,430 14,540 14,558 14,508

See footnotes at end of table.
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Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age — Continued

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Sept.

2014

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,718 9,107 8,990 8,759 9,169 9,076 9,113 9,110 9,040

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.2 62.6 62.0 63.5 63.7 62.9 62.7 62.6 62.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,339 8,794 8,675 8,365 8,794 8,730 8,751 8,790 8,710

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.5 60.4 59.8 60.7 61.1 60.5 60.2 60.4 60.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 313 315 394 375 346 362 321 330

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3 3.4 3.5 4.5 4.1 3.8 4.0 3.5 3.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,070 5,451 5,518 5,029 5,234 5,354 5,427 5,448 5,468

1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns.

NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals shown in table A-1 because data are not presented for all races. Updated population controls are

introduced annually with the release of January data.
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Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Sept.

2014

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population................ 38,596 39,737 39,828 38,596 39,483 39,566 39,648 39,737 39,828

Civilian labor force................................ 25,443 26,078 25,989 25,491 26,149 26,132 26,158 26,077 26,069

Participation rate............................... 65.9 65.6 65.3 66.0 66.2 66.0 66.0 65.6 65.5

Employed....................................... 23,787 24,344 24,454 23,718 24,385 24,401 24,374 24,343 24,403

Employment-population ratio............... 61.6 61.3 61.4 61.5 61.8 61.7 61.5 61.3 61.3

Unemployed.................................... 1,655 1,734 1,535 1,772 1,764 1,730 1,784 1,734 1,666

Unemployment rate......................... 6.5 6.6 5.9 7.0 6.7 6.6 6.8 6.6 6.4

Not in labor force................................. 13,154 13,659 13,839 13,106 13,334 13,434 13,491 13,660 13,760

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................ 14,141 14,361 14,450 14,154 14,479 14,402 14,468 14,352 14,475

Participation rate............................... 81.0 80.2 80.5 81.0 81.4 80.7 80.9 80.1 80.6

Employed....................................... 13,469 13,662 13,759 13,387 13,615 13,549 13,596 13,595 13,679

Employment-population ratio............... 77.1 76.3 76.6 76.6 76.5 76.0 76.1 75.9 76.2

Unemployed.................................... 673 699 692 766 863 853 872 757 796

Unemployment rate......................... 4.8 4.9 4.8 5.4 6.0 5.9 6.0 5.3 5.5

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................ 10,275 10,537 10,485 10,277 10,537 10,552 10,574 10,606 10,500

Participation rate............................... 58.9 58.2 57.8 58.9 58.6 58.5 58.5 58.6 57.8

Employed....................................... 9,539 9,760 9,827 9,532 9,854 9,919 9,850 9,859 9,834

Employment-population ratio............... 54.6 53.9 54.1 54.6 54.8 55.0 54.5 54.4 54.2

Unemployed.................................... 736 777 658 745 684 633 724 747 667

Unemployment rate......................... 7.2 7.4 6.3 7.3 6.5 6.0 6.8 7.0 6.3

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force................................ 1,026 1,180 1,054 1,059 1,133 1,178 1,116 1,118 1,094

Participation rate............................... 28.0 31.8 28.4 28.9 30.6 31.8 30.1 30.1 29.4

Employed....................................... 780 922 869 799 916 933 928 889 890

Employment-population ratio............... 21.3 24.9 23.4 21.8 24.8 25.2 25.0 24.0 24.0

Unemployed.................................... 247 258 185 261 217 245 188 230 204

Unemployment rate......................... 24.0 21.8 17.6 24.6 19.2 20.8 16.9 20.6 18.6

1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted

columns.

NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the

release of January data.
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Table A-4. Employment status of the civilian population 25 years and over by educational attainment

[Numbers in thousands]

Educational attainment

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2014

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force.................................. 10,763 10,546 10,588 10,691 11,153 11,065 10,843 10,692 10,608

Participation rate.................................. 44.8 44.7 44.8 44.5 44.6 44.6 46.2 45.4 44.8

Employed.......................................... 9,971 9,776 9,858 9,806 10,192 10,161 9,942 9,865 9,773

Employment-population ratio................. 41.5 41.5 41.7 40.8 40.7 41.0 42.4 41.9 41.3

Unemployed....................................... 791 770 730 884 961 904 901 827 835

Unemployment rate............................ 7.4 7.3 6.9 8.3 8.6 8.2 8.3 7.7 7.9

High school graduates, no college1

Civilian labor force.................................. 36,165 35,617 35,497 35,937 35,341 34,996 35,130 35,534 35,250

Participation rate.................................. 58.3 57.3 57.3 57.9 57.2 57.1 57.1 57.1 56.9

Employed.......................................... 34,304 33,689 33,719 34,016 33,304 33,110 33,194 33,584 33,408

Employment-population ratio................. 55.3 54.2 54.5 54.8 53.9 54.0 53.9 54.0 54.0

Unemployed....................................... 1,860 1,928 1,778 1,920 2,037 1,886 1,936 1,950 1,842

Unemployment rate............................ 5.1 5.4 5.0 5.3 5.8 5.4 5.5 5.5 5.2

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force.................................. 37,753 37,194 37,358 37,421 37,594 37,674 37,547 37,053 37,209

Participation rate.................................. 67.2 66.2 66.2 66.6 67.4 66.8 65.9 65.9 66.0

Employed.......................................... 35,768 35,535 35,797 35,389 35,934 36,084 35,900 35,427 35,604

Employment-population ratio................. 63.7 63.2 63.5 63.0 64.4 64.0 63.0 63.0 63.1

Unemployed....................................... 1,985 1,659 1,562 2,032 1,660 1,590 1,646 1,626 1,605

Unemployment rate............................ 5.3 4.5 4.2 5.4 4.4 4.2 4.4 4.4 4.3

Bachelor’s degree and higher2

Civilian labor force.................................. 50,265 52,065 52,552 50,449 51,938 51,855 52,361 52,454 52,693

Participation rate.................................. 74.5 73.8 74.2 74.7 75.0 74.6 74.5 74.3 74.4

Employed.......................................... 48,793 50,650 51,251 48,983 50,518 50,548 51,021 51,167 51,396

Employment-population ratio................. 72.3 71.8 72.4 72.6 73.0 72.7 72.6 72.5 72.6

Unemployed....................................... 1,471 1,415 1,301 1,465 1,419 1,307 1,339 1,286 1,297

Unemployment rate............................ 2.9 2.7 2.5 2.9 2.7 2.5 2.6 2.5 2.5

1

Includes persons with a high school diploma or equivalent.

2

Includes persons with bachelor’s, master’s, professional, and doctoral degrees.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-5. Employment status of the civilian population 18 years and over by veteran status, period of service,

and sex, not seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, veteran status, and period of service

Total Men Women

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

VETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,099 21,145 18,842 19,145 2,257 2,000

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,839 10,786 9,355 9,547 1,483 1,240

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.4 51.0 49.7 49.9 65.7 62.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,327 10,318 8,960 9,151 1,367 1,167

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.9 48.8 47.6 47.8 60.6 58.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511 469 395 396 117 73

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.7 4.3 4.2 4.1 7.9 5.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,260 10,359 9,487 9,598 774 760

Gulf War-era II veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,284 3,671 2,587 2,999 697 671

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,573 2,964 2,086 2,464 488 500

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.4 80.8 80.6 82.1 69.9 74.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,414 2,818 1,975 2,342 439 476

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.5 76.8 76.3 78.1 63.0 70.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 147 111 122 49 25

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 5.0 5.3 5.0 10.0 5.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711 706 501 535 210 171

Gulf War-era I veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,244 3,407 2,630 2,908 614 500

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,732 2,771 2,229 2,400 503 371

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.2 81.3 84.7 82.6 81.9 74.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,645 2,673 2,177 2,323 468 350

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.5 78.5 82.7 79.9 76.3 70.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 98 53 77 34 20

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 3.5 2.4 3.2 6.9 5.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512 636 401 507 111 129

World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam-era veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,283 8,818 8,934 8,504 349 314

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,635 2,292 2,539 2,230 96 62

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.4 26.0 28.4 26.2 27.6 19.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,518 2,187 2,426 2,133 92 54

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.1 24.8 27.2 25.1 26.4 17.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 105 113 97 4 8

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 –

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,648 6,526 6,395 6,274 253 252

Veterans of other service periods

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,288 5,249 4,691 4,734 597 515

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,899 2,759 2,502 2,453 397 307

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.8 52.6 53.3 51.8 66.5 59.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,751 2,641 2,383 2,354 368 287

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.0 50.3 50.8 49.7 61.6 55.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 119 118 99 29 20

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1 4.3 4.7 4.0 7.4 6.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,389 2,490 2,189 2,281 200 208

NONVETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218,339 221,260 96,601 97,671 121,738 123,590

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,186 143,884 72,708 72,861 70,477 71,024

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.6 65.0 75.3 74.6 57.9 57.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,071 137,019 68,686 69,434 66,386 67,585

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.9 61.9 71.1 71.1 54.5 54.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,114 6,866 4,023 3,427 4,092 3,438

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.7 4.8 5.5 4.7 5.8 4.8

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,154 77,376 23,893 24,810 51,261 52,566

NOTE: Veterans served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces and were not on active duty at the time of the survey. Nonveterans never served on active duty in the

U.S. Armed Forces. Veterans could have served anywhere in the world during these periods of service: Gulf War era II (September 2001-present), Gulf War era I (August

1990-August 2001), Vietnam era (August 1964-April 1975), Korean War (July 1950-January 1955), World War II (December 1941-December 1946), and other service

periods (all other time periods). Veterans who served in more than one wartime period are classified only in the most recent one. Veterans who served during one of the

selected wartime periods and another period are classified only in the wartime period.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-6. Employment status of the civilian population by sex, age, and disability status, not seasonally

adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Persons with a disability Persons with no disability

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

TOTAL, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population...................................................... 29,690 30,183 218,756 221,142

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 5,971 5,780 149,932 150,828

Participation rate..................................................................... 20.1 19.1 68.5 68.2

Employed............................................................................. 5,235 5,181 141,706 143,799

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 17.6 17.2 64.8 65.0

Unemployed.......................................................................... 736 599 8,226 7,029

Unemployment rate............................................................... 12.3 10.4 5.5 4.7

Not in labor force....................................................................... 23,719 24,403 68,824 70,315

Men, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 2,638 2,446 75,762 76,008

Participation rate..................................................................... 33.1 31.4 82.4 82.0

Employed............................................................................. 2,264 2,199 71,705 72,483

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 28.4 28.3 78.0 78.2

Unemployed.......................................................................... 375 247 4,057 3,525

Unemployment rate............................................................... 14.2 10.1 5.4 4.6

Not in labor force....................................................................... 5,328 5,336 16,164 16,708

Women, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 2,358 2,314 66,756 66,981

Participation rate..................................................................... 29.1 28.2 70.1 69.9

Employed............................................................................. 2,052 2,039 62,889 63,770

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 25.3 24.8 66.1 66.6

Unemployed.......................................................................... 306 276 3,867 3,211

Unemployment rate............................................................... 13.0 11.9 5.8 4.8

Not in labor force....................................................................... 5,738 5,896 28,453 28,840

Both sexes, 65 years and over

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 975 1,019 7,415 7,839

Participation rate..................................................................... 7.2 7.2 23.4 24.0

Employed............................................................................. 919 943 7,113 7,547

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 6.7 6.6 22.5 23.1

Unemployed.......................................................................... 55 76 302 293

Unemployment rate............................................................... 5.7 7.4 4.1 3.7

Not in labor force....................................................................... 12,653 13,172 24,207 24,767

NOTE: A person with a disability has at least one of the following conditions: is deaf or has serious difficulty hearing; is blind or has serious difficulty

seeing even when wearing glasses; has serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions because of a physical, mental, or

emotional condition; has serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs; has difficulty dressing or bathing; or has difficulty doing errands alone such as

visiting a doctor’s office or shopping because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition. Updated population controls are introduced annually with

the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-7. Employment status of the civilian population by nativity and sex, not seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status and nativity

Total Men Women

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Foreign born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population................................... 39,860 40,314 19,471 19,390 20,389 20,924

Civilian labor force.................................................. 26,238 26,132 15,241 15,091 10,996 11,041

Participation rate.................................................. 65.8 64.8 78.3 77.8 53.9 52.8

Employed.......................................................... 25,019 24,928 14,672 14,503 10,348 10,425

Employment-population ratio................................. 62.8 61.8 75.4 74.8 50.8 49.8

Unemployed....................................................... 1,218 1,204 570 588 649 617

Unemployment rate............................................ 4.6 4.6 3.7 3.9 5.9 5.6

Not in labor force.................................................... 13,622 14,182 4,229 4,299 9,393 9,883

Native born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population................................... 208,587 211,011 100,534 101,975 108,053 109,036

Civilian labor force.................................................. 129,666 130,475 67,764 68,300 61,901 62,175

Participation rate.................................................. 62.2 61.8 67.4 67.0 57.3 57.0

Employed.......................................................... 121,922 124,052 63,738 64,903 58,184 59,149

Employment-population ratio................................. 58.5 58.8 63.4 63.6 53.8 54.2

Unemployed....................................................... 7,744 6,423 4,027 3,397 3,717 3,026

Unemployment rate............................................ 6.0 4.9 5.9 5.0 6.0 4.9

Not in labor force.................................................... 78,921 80,536 32,769 33,676 46,152 46,860

NOTE: The foreign born are those residing in the United States who were not U.S. citizens at birth. That is, they were born outside the United States

or one of its outlying areas such as Puerto Rico or Guam, to parents neither of whom was a U.S. citizen. The native born are persons who were born

in the United States or one of its outlying areas such as Puerto Rico or Guam or who were born abroad of at least one parent who was a U.S. citizen.

Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-8. Employed persons by class of worker and part-time status

[In thousands]

Category

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2014

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries................. 2,482 2,539 2,471 2,377 2,405 2,544 2,375 2,345 2,357

Wage and salary workers1

...................... 1,677 1,590 1,634 1,549 1,536 1,590 1,490 1,437 1,506

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . .. 782 922 810 783 828 905 853 886 820

Unpaid family workers........................... 23 26 26 – – – – – –

Nonagricultural industries.......................... 144,459 146,689 146,509 144,254 146,417 146,192 146,439 146,679 146,464

Wage and salary workers1

...................... 135,591 137,890 138,008 135,452 137,175 137,458 137,628 137,988 137,966

Government..................................... 19,795 19,994 20,446 19,751 20,613 20,744 20,547 20,620 20,526

Private industries............................... 115,796 117,896 117,562 115,738 116,572 116,678 117,059 117,331 117,516

Private households.......................... 747 825 733 – – – – – –

Other industries.............................. 115,050 117,072 116,829 114,968 115,821 115,857 116,257 116,509 116,747

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . .. 8,810 8,747 8,452 8,669 9,142 8,645 8,741 8,682 8,357

Unpaid family workers........................... 58 52 49 – – – – – –

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME2

All industries

Part time for economic reasons3

.................. 6,711 6,361 5,693 7,058 6,652 6,505 6,325 6,483 6,036

Slack work or business conditions............. 3,966 3,674 3,360 4,165 3,891 3,915 3,828 3,841 3,569

Could only find part-time work.................. 2,524 2,227 2,085 2,528 2,390 2,216 2,213 2,242 2,134

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 19,771 17,933 20,109 19,579 19,961 20,480 19,891 19,760 19,971

Nonagricultural industries

Part time for economic reasons3

.................. 6,618 6,265 5,620 6,941 6,541 6,384 6,223 6,380 5,946

Slack work or business conditions............. 3,909 3,621 3,319 4,088 3,830 3,828 3,752 3,779 3,521

Could only find part-time work.................. 2,509 2,216 2,060 2,518 2,419 2,195 2,199 2,239 2,104

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 19,396 17,597 19,791 19,235 19,603 19,996 19,504 19,445 19,656

1

Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated.

2 Refers to those who worked 1 to 34 hours during the survey reference week and excludes employed persons who were absent from their jobs for

the entire week.

3 Refers to those who worked 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for an economic reason such as slack work or unfavorable business

conditions, inability to find full-time work, or seasonal declines in demand.

4 Refers to persons who usually work part time for noneconomic reasons such as childcare problems, family or personal obligations, school or

training, retirement or Social Security limits on earnings, and other reasons. This excludes persons who usually work full time but worked only 1 to

34 hours during the reference week for reasons such as vacations, holidays, illness, and bad weather.

- Data not available.

NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment

of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-9. Selected employment indicators

[Numbers in thousands]

Characteristic

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2014

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146,941 149,228 148,980 146,607 148,795 148,739 148,840 149,036 148,800

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,321 5,042 4,476 4,527 4,784 4,662 4,666 4,654 4,690

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,543 1,779 1,643 1,522 1,678 1,654 1,637 1,623 1,634

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,778 3,263 2,832 2,992 3,128 3,014 3,034 3,030 3,049

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,620 144,185 144,504 142,081 144,011 144,077 144,174 144,382 144,110

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,784 14,535 13,880 13,817 14,060 14,055 14,043 14,315 13,977

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,837 129,651 130,625 128,278 129,890 130,043 130,123 130,051 130,135

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,117 96,506 97,142 95,653 96,507 96,618 96,487 96,628 96,735

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,204 32,682 32,899 32,089 32,786 32,756 32,652 32,765 32,808

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,183 31,315 31,522 31,025 31,095 31,277 31,261 31,343 31,350

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,730 32,509 32,722 32,539 32,625 32,584 32,574 32,520 32,578

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,720 33,145 33,483 32,625 33,383 33,425 33,636 33,423 33,400

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,409 79,898 79,406 78,094 79,201 79,020 79,202 79,211 79,134

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,124 2,587 2,296 2,204 2,368 2,237 2,299 2,331 2,371

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763 900 821 744 845 824 799 808 803

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,360 1,687 1,475 1,451 1,528 1,415 1,498 1,526 1,563

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,286 77,311 77,110 75,889 76,833 76,783 76,903 76,880 76,763

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,188 7,472 7,085 7,195 7,259 7,181 7,177 7,256 7,111

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,097 69,839 70,026 68,685 69,531 69,633 69,730 69,615 69,632

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,684 52,127 52,243 51,384 51,716 51,828 51,740 51,891 51,958

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,478 17,775 17,831 17,366 17,755 17,799 17,689 17,705 17,741

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,905 17,002 17,064 16,805 16,766 16,903 16,838 16,931 16,954

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,302 17,350 17,349 17,214 17,195 17,125 17,213 17,255 17,264

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,413 17,712 17,782 17,300 17,816 17,806 17,990 17,724 17,673

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,532 69,329 69,574 68,514 69,594 69,719 69,638 69,825 69,665

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,197 2,455 2,180 2,322 2,416 2,425 2,367 2,322 2,319

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779 879 822 778 833 830 838 814 831

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,418 1,576 1,358 1,541 1,600 1,599 1,536 1,504 1,485

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,335 66,874 67,394 66,192 67,178 67,294 67,271 67,502 67,346

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,595 7,063 6,795 6,622 6,801 6,874 6,865 7,059 6,866

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,740 59,812 60,599 59,594 60,358 60,409 60,392 60,437 60,504

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,433 44,379 44,899 44,268 44,791 44,790 44,746 44,738 44,777

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,726 14,907 15,068 14,723 15,032 14,957 14,962 15,060 15,067

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,278 14,313 14,458 14,220 14,329 14,374 14,423 14,413 14,395

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,428 15,158 15,373 15,325 15,431 15,459 15,361 15,265 15,314

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,307 15,433 15,700 15,325 15,567 15,619 15,646 15,699 15,727

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,600 45,048 45,091 44,322 44,792 44,878 44,855 44,994 44,888

Married women, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,977 34,516 35,185 34,799 34,879 34,940 34,815 34,963 35,014

Women who maintain families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,351 9,696 9,714 – – – – – –

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,791 123,420 122,303 119,310 121,402 121,053 121,589 122,024 121,839

Part-time workers2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,150 25,808 26,677 27,347 27,506 27,667 27,265 26,916 26,969

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,100 6,901 7,297 7,171 6,946 7,119 7,124 7,187 7,314

Percent of total employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.8 4.6 4.9 4.9 4.7 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.9

SELF-EMPLOYMENT

Self-employed workers, incorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,400 5,176 5,534 – – – – – –

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,592 9,669 9,262 9,452 9,970 9,550 9,593 9,569 9,176

1 Employed full-time workers are persons who usually work 35 hours or more per week.

2 Employed part-time workers are persons who usually work less than 35 hours per week.

- Data not available.

NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series.

Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted

Characteristic

Number of

unemployed persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment rates

Sept.

2014

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over........................... 9,237 8,029 7,915 5.9 5.5 5.3 5.3 5.1 5.1

16 to 19 years..................................... 1,119 945 911 19.8 17.9 18.1 16.2 16.9 16.3

16 to 17 years.................................. 394 369 350 20.5 19.3 18.3 17.4 18.5 17.7

18 to 19 years.................................. 744 577 577 19.9 16.7 18.2 15.9 16.0 15.9

20 years and over................................ 8,119 7,084 7,004 5.4 5.0 4.8 4.9 4.7 4.6

20 to 24 years.................................. 1,793 1,395 1,405 11.5 10.1 9.9 10.1 8.9 9.1

25 years and over.............................. 6,271 5,739 5,571 4.7 4.5 4.2 4.3 4.2 4.1

25 to 54 years............................... 4,919 4,417 4,207 4.9 4.7 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.2

25 to 34 years............................. 2,103 1,825 1,756 6.2 5.8 5.6 5.5 5.3 5.1

35 to 44 years............................. 1,413 1,265 1,310 4.4 4.4 3.9 4.1 3.9 4.0

45 to 54 years............................. 1,402 1,327 1,142 4.1 3.9 3.5 3.8 3.9 3.4

55 years and over........................... 1,338 1,329 1,340 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.8 3.9

Men, 16 years and over............................ 4,890 4,261 4,267 5.9 5.6 5.4 5.2 5.1 5.1

16 to 19 years..................................... 616 501 477 21.8 20.5 20.4 17.5 17.7 16.8

16 to 17 years.................................. 202 186 187 21.3 22.0 19.5 18.7 18.7 18.9

18 to 19 years.................................. 424 319 304 22.6 19.1 21.4 17.4 17.3 16.3

20 years and over................................ 4,273 3,760 3,790 5.3 5.0 4.8 4.8 4.7 4.7

20 to 24 years.................................. 1,041 792 814 12.6 11.0 10.9 11.0 9.8 10.3

25 years and over.............................. 3,205 3,006 2,954 4.5 4.4 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.1

25 to 54 years............................... 2,483 2,284 2,210 4.6 4.6 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.1

25 to 34 years............................. 1,066 977 967 5.8 5.6 5.3 5.4 5.2 5.2

35 to 44 years............................. 696 622 647 4.0 4.3 4.0 3.8 3.5 3.7

45 to 54 years............................. 720 685 597 4.0 3.7 3.4 3.7 3.8 3.3

55 years and over........................... 722 723 744 4.0 3.9 3.8 3.6 3.9 4.0

Women, 16 years and over........................ 4,348 3,768 3,648 6.0 5.4 5.2 5.3 5.1 5.0

16 to 19 years..................................... 502 444 433 17.8 15.1 15.8 15.0 16.1 15.7

16 to 17 years.................................. 192 183 163 19.8 16.4 17.2 16.1 18.3 16.4

18 to 19 years.................................. 320 257 273 17.2 14.4 15.2 14.5 14.6 15.5

20 years and over................................ 3,845 3,324 3,214 5.5 5.0 4.8 4.9 4.7 4.6

20 to 24 years.................................. 752 603 592 10.2 9.1 8.8 9.2 7.9 7.9

25 years and over.............................. 3,066 2,733 2,617 4.9 4.5 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.1

25 to 54 years............................... 2,436 2,133 1,997 5.2 4.9 4.5 4.7 4.6 4.3

25 to 34 years............................. 1,037 848 789 6.6 6.0 6.0 5.5 5.3 5.0

35 to 44 years............................. 717 643 663 4.8 4.5 3.8 4.4 4.3 4.4

45 to 54 years............................. 682 642 545 4.3 4.1 3.6 4.0 4.0 3.4

55 years and over........................... 627 602 604 3.9 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.7

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present...................... 1,319 1,275 1,276 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8

Married women, spouse present.................. 1,307 1,130 1,090 3.6 3.3 3.2 3.3 3.1 3.0

Women who maintain families1

.................... 848 855 739 8.3 6.8 7.8 8.0 8.1 7.1

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers2................................... 7,606 6,618 6,585 6.0 5.6 5.3 5.3 5.1 5.1

Part-time workers3.................................. 1,650 1,386 1,358 5.7 4.9 5.2 5.1 4.9 4.8

1 Not seasonally adjusted.

2 Full-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work full time (35 hours or more per week) or are on layoff from full-time

jobs.

3 Part-time workers are unemployed persons who have expressed a desire to work part time (less than 35 hours per week) or are on layoff from

part-time jobs.

NOTE: Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment

of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-11. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Reason

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2014

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 4,176 3,987 3,509 4,521 4,267 4,088 4,143 4,070 3,908

On temporary layoff.............................. 608 954 574 924 1,041 1,052 999 1,001 899

Not on temporary layoff.......................... 3,567 3,032 2,935 3,597 3,226 3,035 3,145 3,069 3,009

Permanent job losers.......................... 2,622 2,116 2,121 2,653 2,217 2,126 2,224 2,147 2,160

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . .. 946 916 813 944 1,009 909 921 922 849

Job leavers........................................... 892 849 849 816 829 773 843 790 780

Reentrants............................................ 2,851 2,389 2,474 2,805 2,615 2,516 2,447 2,349 2,436

New entrants......................................... 1,043 938 796 1,094 971 933 826 850 831

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 46.6 48.8 46.0 49.0 49.1 49.2 50.2 50.5 49.1

On temporary layoff.............................. 6.8 11.7 7.5 10.0 12.0 12.7 12.1 12.4 11.3

Not on temporary layoff.......................... 39.8 37.2 38.5 39.0 37.2 36.5 38.1 38.1 37.8

Job leavers........................................... 10.0 10.4 11.1 8.8 9.5 9.3 10.2 9.8 9.8

Reentrants............................................ 31.8 29.3 32.4 30.4 30.1 30.3 29.6 29.1 30.6

New entrants......................................... 11.6 11.5 10.4 11.8 11.2 11.2 10.0 10.6 10.5

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 2.7 2.5 2.2 2.9 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5

Job leavers........................................... 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

Reentrants............................................ 1.8 1.5 1.6 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.6

New entrants......................................... 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-12. Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Duration

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2014

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks.................................. 2,341 2,100 2,324 2,372 2,418 2,355 2,488 2,095 2,363

5 to 14 weeks........................................ 2,379 2,744 2,096 2,495 2,532 2,364 2,257 2,374 2,218

15 weeks and over.................................. 4,242 3,318 3,207 4,373 3,795 3,514 3,368 3,437 3,318

15 to 26 weeks.................................... 1,332 1,136 1,143 1,423 1,293 1,393 1,188 1,250 1,214

27 weeks and over............................... 2,910 2,183 2,064 2,951 2,502 2,121 2,180 2,187 2,104

Average (mean) duration, in weeks............... 32.1 27.6 26.2 31.8 30.7 28.1 28.3 28.4 26.3

Median duration, in weeks......................... 13.5 11.0 11.4 13.3 11.6 11.3 11.3 12.1 11.4

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Less than 5 weeks.................................. 26.1 25.7 30.5 25.7 27.6 28.6 30.7 26.5 29.9

5 to 14 weeks........................................ 26.5 33.6 27.5 27.0 29.0 28.7 27.8 30.0 28.1

15 weeks and over.................................. 47.3 40.7 42.0 47.3 43.4 42.7 41.5 43.5 42.0

15 to 26 weeks.................................... 14.9 13.9 15.0 15.4 14.8 16.9 14.6 15.8 15.4

27 weeks and over............................... 32.5 26.7 27.1 31.9 28.6 25.8 26.9 27.7 26.6

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-13. Employed and unemployed persons by occupation, not seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

Employed Unemployed Unemployment

rates

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Total, 16 years and over1

............................................. 146,941 148,980 8,962 7,628 5.7 4.9

Management, professional, and related occupations........... 56,365 58,105 1,617 1,414 2.8 2.4

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations..................................................... 23,556 24,485 579 590 2.4 2.4

Professional and related occupations.......................... 32,809 33,619 1,037 823 3.1 2.4

Service occupations................................................ 25,617 25,808 2,041 1,815 7.4 6.6

Sales and office occupations...................................... 32,979 33,106 2,020 1,782 5.8 5.1

Sales and related occupations.................................. 15,358 15,498 872 912 5.4 5.6

Office and administrative support occupations............... 17,621 17,608 1,149 871 6.1 4.7

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations........................................................ 13,924 13,865 955 823 6.4 5.6

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.................... 1,130 1,116 132 68 10.5 5.7

Construction and extraction occupations...................... 7,889 7,611 648 570 7.6 7.0

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations........... 4,905 5,139 174 185 3.4 3.5

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations........................................................ 18,056 18,095 1,252 982 6.5 5.1

Production occupations.......................................... 8,616 8,743 563 410 6.1 4.5

Transportation and material moving occupations............ 9,440 9,352 689 572 6.8 5.8

1 Persons with no previous work experience and persons whose last job was in the U.S. Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-14. Unemployed persons by industry and class of worker, not seasonally adjusted

Industry and class of worker

Number of

unemployed

persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment

rates

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Total, 16 years and over1

................................................................ 8,962 7,628 5.7 4.9

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers.................................. 6,766 5,918 5.5 4.8

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.................................... 70 99 6.1 11.2

Construction.......................................................................... 604 479 7.0 5.5

Manufacturing........................................................................ 700 652 4.5 4.1

Durable goods..................................................................... 447 386 4.6 3.9

Nondurable goods................................................................ 253 266 4.3 4.4

Wholesale and retail trade......................................................... 1,239 1,091 6.1 5.4

Transportation and utilities......................................................... 351 218 5.3 3.4

Information............................................................................ 128 126 4.4 4.7

Financial activities................................................................... 319 247 3.5 2.6

Professional and business services............................................... 1,006 843 6.4 5.3

Education and health services..................................................... 896 802 3.9 3.5

Leisure and hospitality.............................................................. 1,110 1,008 8.3 7.5

Other services........................................................................ 342 353 5.3 5.3

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers......................... 131 67 7.5 4.0

Government workers................................................................... 605 477 3.0 2.3

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers............ 417 370 4.1 3.8

1 Persons with no previous work experience and persons whose last job was in the U.S. Armed Forces are included in the unemployed total.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

[Percent]

Measure

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2014

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer,

as a percent of the civilian labor force......... 2.7 2.1 2.0 2.8 2.4 2.2 2.1 2.2 2.1

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian

labor force......................................... 2.7 2.5 2.2 2.9 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the

civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate)................................................ 5.7 5.2 4.9 5.9 5.5 5.3 5.3 5.1 5.1

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged

workers, as a percent of the civilian labor

force plus discouraged workers................. 6.2 5.6 5.3 6.3 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.5 5.4

U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged

workers, plus all other persons marginally

attached to the labor force, as a percent of

the civilian labor force plus all persons

marginally attached to the labor force. . . . . . . .. 7.1 6.3 6.0 7.3 6.6 6.4 6.4 6.2 6.2

U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons

marginally attached to the labor force, plus

total employed part time for economic

reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor

force plus all persons marginally attached to

the labor force..................................... 11.3 10.3 9.6 11.7 10.8 10.5 10.4 10.3 10.0

NOTE: Persons marginally attached to the labor force are those who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and

are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have

given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for work. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are

available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of

January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-16. Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category

Total Men Women

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

Sept.

2014

Sept.

2015

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force........................................... 92,543 94,718 36,999 37,975 55,545 56,743

Persons who currently want a job................................ 6,007 5,584 2,695 2,529 3,312 3,055

Marginally attached to the labor force1

........................ 2,226 1,921 1,101 982 1,125 940

Discouraged workers2

......................................... 698 635 438 377 260 258

Other persons marginally attached to the labor force3. .. 1,527 1,287 663 604 864 682

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders4

............................................. 7,100 7,297 3,499 3,573 3,600 3,724

Percent of total employed.......................................... 4.8 4.9 4.5 4.5 5.3 5.4

Primary job full time, secondary job part time................... 3,785 3,859 2,109 2,110 1,675 1,749

Primary and secondary jobs both part time..................... 1,926 1,999 646 678 1,280 1,321

Primary and secondary jobs both full time....................... 252 267 146 182 106 84

Hours vary on primary or secondary job......................... 1,103 1,109 582 580 521 530

1 Data refer to persons who want a job, have searched for work during the prior 12 months, and were available to take a job during the reference

week, but had not looked for work in the past 4 weeks.

2

Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for reasons such as thinks no work available, could not find work, lacks

schooling or training, employer thinks too young or old, and other types of discrimination.

3

Includes those who did not actively look for work in the prior 4 weeks for such reasons as school or family responsibilities, ill health, and

transportation problems, as well as a number for whom reason for nonparticipation was not determined.

4

Includes a small number of persons who work part time on their primary job and full time on their secondary job(s), not shown separately.

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Change

from:

Aug.2015 -

Sept.2015p

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,919 141,872 142,069 142,627 139,619 142,093 142,229 142,371 142

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118,141 121,172 121,196 120,671 117,739 120,124 120,224 120,342 118

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,630 19,911 19,932 19,816 19,315 19,558 19,536 19,523 -13

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923 842 832 818 910 830 821 809 -12

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.2 55.2 56.3 54.4 52.2 53.7 53.7 52.0 -1.7

Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868.0 787.0 775.7 763.3 858.0 776.2 767.5 757.2 -10.3

Oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199.2 194.9 193.1 190.8 199.4 193.6 192.1 191.0 -1.1

Mining, except oil and gas1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211.7 204.2 202.9 199.0 207.1 197.9 197.0 195.0 -2.0

Coal mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.1 68.3 67.7 66.6 74.1 68.1 67.3 66.6 -0.7

Support activities for mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457.1 387.9 379.7 373.5 451.5 384.7 378.4 371.2 -7.2

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,429 6,653 6,684 6,628 6,191 6,383 6,388 6,396 8

Construction of buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,410.4 1,457.7 1,458.5 1,443.4 1,376.2 1,411.6 1,408.9 1,410.9 2.0

Residential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694.5 717.1 719.6 714.0 674.9 694.1 694.5 695.3 0.8

Nonresidential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715.9 740.6 738.9 729.4 701.3 717.5 714.4 715.6 1.2

Heavy and civil engineering construction. . . . . . 987.0 1,002.6 1,011.8 1,008.8 919.9 945.6 945.3 943.1 -2.2

Specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,031.4 4,192.7 4,213.8 4,175.4 3,894.6 4,026.0 4,033.6 4,042.3 8.7

Residential specialty trade contractors. . . . . . 1,745.6 1,842.1 1,844.8 1,828.0 1,684.9 1,758.8 1,761.4 1,764.5 3.1

Nonresidential specialty trade contractors. . . 2,285.8 2,350.6 2,369.0 2,347.4 2,209.7 2,267.2 2,272.2 2,277.8 5.6

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,278 12,416 12,416 12,370 12,214 12,345 12,327 12,318 -9

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,733 7,828 7,829 7,794 7,719 7,797 7,793 7,788 -5

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377.7 381.7 383.9 382.9 375.7 377.5 378.7 381.4 2.7

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396.9 410.6 412.3 410.0 389.6 401.6 403.0 403.4 0.4

Primary metals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403.5 399.4 397.6 397.0 402.5 399.3 397.5 396.7 -0.8

Fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,460.8 1,469.2 1,462.0 1,452.9 1,457.3 1,463.7 1,457.4 1,452.9 -4.5

Machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,132.2 1,129.9 1,123.5 1,116.2 1,134.8 1,128.0 1,122.5 1,119.0 -3.5

Computer and electronic products1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,050.4 1,063.4 1,060.0 1,050.9 1,050.1 1,055.7 1,054.3 1,051.5 -2.8

Computer and peripheral equipment. . . . . . 165.6 172.4 173.2 170.8 164.8 170.3 171.1 170.8 -0.3

Communications equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.5 89.3 88.2 86.6 92.5 88.8 87.9 86.8 -1.1

Semiconductors and electronic

components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366.5 370.6 370.5 367.1 366.8 369.6 368.4 367.2 -1.2

Electronic instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387.9 395.4 392.1 390.4 388.1 391.5 391.0 390.6 -0.4

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . 373.2 376.3 376.0 374.5 373.3 374.0 374.2 374.5 0.3

Transportation equipment1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,576.5 1,604.0 1,619.8 1,619.8 1,575.1 1,611.7 1,618.2 1,621.1 2.9

Motor vehicles and parts2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888.7 915.9 934.5 935.3 887.6 926.1 932.7 934.8 2.1

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378.3 394.7 393.5 393.8 377.1 389.1 389.1 392.4 3.3

Miscellaneous durable goods

manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583.7 598.6 600.4 595.7 583.3 596.3 597.6 595.3 -2.3

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,545 4,588 4,587 4,576 4,495 4,548 4,534 4,530 -4

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,508.5 1,522.3 1,524.2 1,521.7 1,474.1 1,499.7 1,490.6 1,490.0 -0.6

Textile mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.1 117.8 117.2 117.0 117.4 117.9 117.0 116.7 -0.3

Textile product mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.4 116.5 115.2 115.5 115.1 115.3 114.8 115.0 0.2

Apparel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140.3 135.5 136.7 136.5 139.4 137.2 136.4 135.6 -0.8

Paper and paper products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367.9 369.3 368.3 367.0 368.3 366.6 366.9 367.5 0.6

Printing and related support activities. . . . . . . 452.2 443.8 444.6 443.3 451.6 444.4 444.1 443.0 -1.1

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.9 115.4 114.4 115.2 111.0 112.4 112.2 113.0 0.8

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806.9 819.0 816.1 811.7 807.1 813.8 813.4 812.2 -1.2

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675.8 693.6 691.0 688.2 672.9 690.9 687.6 686.4 -1.2

Miscellaneous nondurable goods

manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246.7 255.0 258.9 259.5 238.3 250.1 251.4 250.8 -0.6

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,511 101,261 101,264 100,855 98,424 100,566 100,688 100,819 131

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,391 26,966 26,959 26,906 26,467 26,963 26,980 27,003 23

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,846.7 5,955.2 5,951.8 5,918.0 5,844.3 5,915.0 5,920.5 5,916.4 -4.1

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,914.6 2,966.0 2,964.4 2,943.1 2,914.2 2,946.0 2,947.6 2,943.8 -3.8

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,029.3 2,073.9 2,070.1 2,066.1 2,027.2 2,056.6 2,060.5 2,063.4 2.9

Electronic markets and agents and

brokers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902.8 915.3 917.3 908.8 902.9 912.4 912.4 909.2 -3.2

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,303.6 15,701.2 15,692.5 15,610.5 15,410.0 15,696.0 15,700.4 15,724.1 23.7

Motor vehicle and parts dealers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,884.8 1,952.7 1,955.1 1,952.3 1,870.5 1,935.4 1,936.4 1,939.2 2.8

Automobile dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,197.6 1,237.8 1,241.2 1,245.7 1,190.5 1,232.6 1,233.9 1,239.0 5.1

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Change

from:

Aug.2015 -

Sept.2015p

Retail trade - Continued

Furniture and home furnishings stores. . . . . . 454.3 462.8 464.2 463.8 460.8 469.4 470.1 469.6 -0.5

Electronics and appliance stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 484.4 493.5 495.3 500.5 493.8 507.7 507.9 509.7 1.8

Building material and garden supply

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,225.2 1,293.6 1,263.3 1,248.4 1,237.8 1,258.6 1,261.2 1,263.2 2.0

Food and beverage stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000.9 3,065.4 3,056.4 3,038.9 3,005.9 3,043.1 3,041.8 3,044.2 2.4

Health and personal care stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,016.9 1,028.7 1,025.0 1,022.8 1,022.2 1,029.1 1,027.2 1,028.6 1.4

Gasoline stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888.2 918.5 924.2 913.9 883.0 903.9 907.0 909.2 2.2

Clothing and clothing accessories stores. . . . 1,338.2 1,381.5 1,397.9 1,365.1 1,365.7 1,394.0 1,397.8 1,396.0 -1.8

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606.8 590.0 590.9 594.3 609.8 606.2 600.6 600.9 0.3

General merchandise stores1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,069.5 3,146.9 3,150.2 3,141.2 3,126.3 3,182.3 3,184.6 3,194.6 10.0

Department stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,310.6 1,300.7 1,299.6 1,291.3 1,350.0 1,330.6 1,325.7 1,328.2 2.5

Miscellaneous store retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828.1 838.0 835.5 830.6 823.8 826.5 823.6 824.5 0.9

Nonstore retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506.3 529.6 534.5 538.7 510.4 539.8 542.2 544.4 2.2

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,687.9 4,740.4 4,745.9 4,813.9 4,659.6 4,788.2 4,794.3 4,797.8 3.5

Air transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441.4 453.9 454.8 453.2 442.0 449.8 451.5 452.7 1.2

Rail transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238.4 241.6 238.7 238.7 238.2 240.3 239.6 239.6 0.0

Water transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.1 66.6 65.4 64.0 67.0 64.5 63.6 63.4 -0.2

Truck transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,445.5 1,478.9 1,478.1 1,472.5 1,423.1 1,457.0 1,456.4 1,452.4 -4.0

Transit and ground passenger

transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480.9 413.4 412.7 487.2 468.7 474.8 476.1 474.9 -1.2

Pipeline transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.2 49.7 50.0 50.3 47.2 49.7 49.9 50.2 0.3

Scenic and sightseeing transportation. . . . . . . 35.4 41.3 42.0 38.2 30.6 32.4 33.2 33.2 0.0

Support activities for transportation. . . . . . . . . . 627.5 651.6 653.0 653.0 628.8 649.8 651.8 654.1 2.3

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559.5 566.8 571.1 575.6 573.8 595.2 596.3 599.3 3.0

Warehousing and storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744.0 776.6 780.1 781.2 740.2 774.7 775.9 778.0 2.1

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552.8 568.7 568.7 563.4 553.3 564.1 565.1 564.4 -0.7

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,746 2,808 2,805 2,789 2,757 2,794 2,789 2,801 12

Publishing industries, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . 724.8 721.0 719.6 719.8 723.4 718.6 717.4 718.5 1.1

Motion picture and sound recording

industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363.4 396.0 396.4 380.2 374.9 386.2 383.8 390.5 6.7

Broadcasting, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289.5 288.5 287.1 289.6 288.0 288.7 287.8 288.4 0.6

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863.8 863.9 863.1 861.4 865.3 864.7 862.5 863.1 0.6

Data processing, hosting and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.5 297.9 297.8 298.5 282.5 297.8 298.7 300.0 1.3

Other information services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222.7 240.3 240.7 239.2 223.2 237.7 238.7 240.0 1.3

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,016 8,218 8,214 8,161 8,007 8,142 8,154 8,154 0

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,947.0 6,079.4 6,075.8 6,050.7 5,952.4 6,052.1 6,058.1 6,056.8 -1.3

Monetary authorities - central bank. . . . . . . . . . 18.4 18.7 18.6 18.5 18.4 18.5 18.4 18.5 0.1

Credit intermediation and related

activities1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,562.7 2,591.4 2,588.6 2,576.8 2,563.0 2,577.8 2,579.9 2,577.7 -2.2

Depository credit intermediation1. . . . . . . . . . 1,699.6 1,705.9 1,703.1 1,692.5 1,703.0 1,698.0 1,697.1 1,696.3 -0.8

Commercial banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,285.3 1,279.5 1,276.8 1,267.2 1,288.0 1,274.3 1,273.0 1,270.7 -2.3

Securities, commodity contracts,

investments, and funds and trusts. . . . . . . . 883.4 910.2 911.6 901.8 887.3 902.3 905.7 904.8 -0.9

Insurance carriers and related activities. . . . . 2,482.5 2,559.1 2,557.0 2,553.6 2,483.7 2,553.5 2,554.1 2,555.8 1.7

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,069.1 2,138.1 2,138.4 2,110.7 2,055.0 2,089.5 2,096.3 2,097.4 1.1

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,497.6 1,545.7 1,549.0 1,534.7 1,490.3 1,519.4 1,526.3 1,528.0 1.7

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548.1 568.3 565.6 552.7 541.4 546.3 546.6 546.1 -0.5

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets. . . . 23.4 24.1 23.8 23.3 23.3 23.8 23.4 23.3 -0.1

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,311 19,919 19,966 19,915 19,231 19,789 19,816 19,847 31

Professional and technical services1

. . . . . . . . . . . 8,313.9 8,675.4 8,669.4 8,620.0 8,395.7 8,673.8 8,689.4 8,707.1 17.7

Legal services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,111.6 1,131.2 1,123.4 1,119.1 1,117.8 1,121.3 1,120.4 1,125.1 4.7

Accounting and bookkeeping services. . . . . . 894.9 940.2 944.6 941.4 967.6 1,005.0 1,009.2 1,014.6 5.4

Architectural and engineering services. . . . . . 1,397.9 1,453.2 1,446.4 1,433.5 1,390.8 1,431.5 1,427.3 1,427.1 -0.2

Computer systems design and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,779.6 1,891.2 1,893.4 1,881.0 1,787.5 1,877.1 1,884.6 1,891.6 7.0

Management and technical consulting

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,260.1 1,324.4 1,325.5 1,319.5 1,260.3 1,314.6 1,319.7 1,320.6 0.9

Management of companies and enterprises. . . 2,174.6 2,242.5 2,238.0 2,226.3 2,176.8 2,228.4 2,227.0 2,229.4 2.4

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Change

from:

Aug.2015 -

Sept.2015p

Professional and business services - Continued

Administrative and waste services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,822.3 9,001.5 9,058.1 9,068.4 8,658.9 8,886.3 8,899.8 8,910.2 10.4

Administrative and support services1. . . . . . . . 8,430.7 8,594.3 8,654.0 8,666.1 8,271.5 8,490.6 8,503.2 8,512.0 8.8

Employment services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,550.8 3,577.2 3,630.1 3,671.5 3,468.4 3,580.1 3,585.4 3,590.7 5.3

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,881.6 2,883.0 2,936.2 2,978.8 2,802.2 2,894.9 2,901.5 2,906.1 4.6

Business support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886.9 897.0 901.2 904.3 889.1 909.5 910.6 910.2 -0.4

Services to buildings and dwellings. . . . . . . 2,020.1 2,116.5 2,106.7 2,068.8 1,953.7 1,996.7 1,999.7 2,001.1 1.4

Waste management and remediation

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391.6 407.2 404.1 402.3 387.4 395.7 396.6 398.2 1.6

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,504 21,753 21,797 22,058 21,585 22,077 22,124 22,153 29

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,386.1 3,172.7 3,151.5 3,387.1 3,442.6 3,459.3 3,458.9 3,451.0 -7.9

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,118.1 18,580.2 18,645.6 18,671.0 18,142.3 18,617.6 18,665.2 18,701.6 36.4

Health care3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,736.2 15,167.6 15,205.1 15,200.7 14,746.8 15,140.4 15,179.6 15,214.0 34.4

Ambulatory health care services1. . . . . . . . . 6,679.8 6,934.7 6,953.9 6,947.6 6,685.4 6,925.4 6,944.0 6,956.9 12.9

Offices of physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,477.5 2,560.6 2,567.2 2,566.4 2,481.4 2,559.0 2,564.5 2,571.3 6.8

Outpatient care centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715.9 747.9 748.4 749.1 717.7 747.4 748.3 751.0 2.7

Home health care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,271.8 1,325.2 1,330.9 1,335.5 1,270.3 1,325.6 1,331.5 1,334.0 2.5

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,793.3 4,915.2 4,929.3 4,939.7 4,793.5 4,907.4 4,923.9 4,939.4 15.5

Nursing and residential care facilities1

. . . . 3,263.1 3,317.7 3,321.9 3,313.4 3,267.9 3,307.6 3,311.7 3,317.7 6.0

Nursing care facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,651.4 1,661.3 1,664.1 1,661.7 1,652.4 1,657.4 1,659.6 1,661.9 2.3

Social assistance1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,381.9 3,412.6 3,440.5 3,470.3 3,395.5 3,477.2 3,485.6 3,487.6 2.0

Child day care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856.8 809.3 828.5 875.2 854.8 875.1 873.9 874.5 0.6

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,970 15,876 15,844 15,398 14,795 15,154 15,186 15,221 35

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,160.1 2,490.4 2,436.6 2,230.5 2,112.0 2,156.3 2,165.5 2,178.0 12.5

Performing arts and spectator sports. . . . . . . . 467.9 498.9 504.1 488.2 455.2 468.8 473.3 473.9 0.6

Museums, historical sites, and similar

institutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.0 161.7 157.9 149.5 144.8 147.4 147.2 147.8 0.6

Amusements, gambling, and recreation. . . . . 1,546.2 1,829.8 1,774.6 1,592.8 1,512.0 1,540.1 1,545.0 1,556.3 11.3

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . 12,809.7 13,385.8 13,407.8 13,167.6 12,682.5 12,997.5 13,020.1 13,043.2 23.1

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,934.5 2,049.5 2,041.3 1,943.3 1,890.7 1,901.3 1,900.0 1,902.4 2.4

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . 10,875.2 11,336.3 11,366.5 11,224.3 10,791.8 11,096.2 11,120.1 11,140.8 20.7

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,573 5,721 5,679 5,628 5,582 5,647 5,639 5,640 1

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,248.0 1,279.2 1,275.5 1,269.0 1,242.1 1,269.5 1,268.0 1,265.6 -2.4

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,371.8 1,406.0 1,397.1 1,395.0 1,371.3 1,393.9 1,391.6 1,394.4 2.8

Membership associations and organizations. . . 2,953.6 3,036.1 3,006.6 2,963.8 2,968.7 2,983.2 2,979.3 2,980.0 0.7

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,778 20,700 20,873 21,956 21,880 21,969 22,005 22,029 24

Federal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,731.0 2,755.0 2,749.0 2,737.0 2,725.0 2,735.0 2,736.0 2,734.0 -2.0

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,139.4 2,161.9 2,156.6 2,143.6 2,132.7 2,139.8 2,139.6 2,137.8 -1.8

U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591.9 593.4 592.6 593.8 592.1 595.1 596.3 595.9 -0.4

State government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,088.0 4,755.0 4,792.0 5,149.0 5,062.0 5,087.0 5,098.0 5,115.0 17.0

State government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,443.7 2,094.2 2,136.6 2,501.1 2,411.7 2,439.9 2,451.6 2,465.2 13.6

State government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . 2,644.5 2,661.1 2,655.1 2,647.5 2,650.0 2,646.7 2,646.6 2,650.2 3.6

Local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,959.0 13,190.0 13,332.0 14,070.0 14,093.0 14,147.0 14,171.0 14,180.0 9.0

Local government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,682.0 6,636.7 6,826.4 7,742.4 7,807.6 7,829.0 7,849.3 7,849.3 0.0

Local government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . 6,277.4 6,552.8 6,505.6 6,327.2 6,285.7 6,318.3 6,321.3 6,330.7 9.4

1

Includes other industries, not shown separately.

2

Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, and motor vehicle parts.

3

Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities.

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NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private............................................................................. 34.5 34.6 34.6 34.5

Goods-producing.................................................................... 40.4 40.3 40.4 40.0

Mining and logging................................................................ 44.5 44.0 43.8 44.0

Construction....................................................................... 39.0 38.9 39.0 38.5

Manufacturing..................................................................... 40.9 40.8 40.8 40.6

Durable goods.................................................................. 41.4 41.1 41.1 40.8

Nondurable goods.............................................................. 39.9 40.2 40.3 40.1

Private service-providing............................................................ 33.3 33.4 33.4 33.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................. 34.5 34.6 34.7 34.7

Wholesale trade................................................................ 38.9 38.9 38.8 38.7

Retail trade...................................................................... 31.3 31.4 31.5 31.6

Transportation and warehousing............................................. 38.6 38.9 39.0 39.0

Utilities........................................................................... 42.2 42.6 42.6 42.3

Information......................................................................... 36.7 36.4 36.3 36.0

Financial activities................................................................ 37.3 37.7 37.7 37.7

Professional and business services............................................ 36.2 36.2 36.2 36.0

Education and health services.................................................. 32.8 32.9 32.9 32.9

Leisure and hospitality........................................................... 26.2 26.3 26.2 26.3

Other services..................................................................... 31.8 31.8 31.8 31.8

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing........................................................................... 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.1

Durable goods....................................................................... 3.6 3.3 3.2 3.0

Nondurable goods................................................................... 3.3 3.5 3.4 3.3

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NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Total private............................................... $24.55 $25.01 $25.10 $25.09 $846.98 $865.35 $868.46 $865.61

Goods-producing....................................... 25.77 26.20 26.32 26.29 1,041.11 1,055.86 1,063.33 1,051.60

Mining and logging.................................. 30.90 31.21 31.42 31.42 1,375.05 1,373.24 1,376.20 1,382.48

Construction.......................................... 26.81 27.38 27.45 27.32 1,045.59 1,065.08 1,070.55 1,051.82

Manufacturing........................................ 24.85 25.26 25.40 25.41 1,016.37 1,030.61 1,036.32 1,031.65

Durable goods.................................... 26.20 26.57 26.73 26.69 1,084.68 1,092.03 1,098.60 1,088.95

Nondurable goods................................ 22.45 22.95 23.07 23.16 895.76 922.59 929.72 928.72

Private service-providing.............................. 24.26 24.73 24.81 24.82 807.86 825.98 828.65 828.99

Trade, transportation, and utilities................. 21.44 21.82 21.87 21.90 739.68 754.97 758.89 759.93

Wholesale trade.................................. 28.08 28.70 28.81 28.80 1,092.31 1,116.43 1,117.83 1,114.56

Retail trade........................................ 17.08 17.49 17.54 17.61 534.60 549.19 552.51 556.48

Transportation and warehousing............... 22.90 22.80 22.78 22.86 883.94 886.92 888.42 891.54

Utilities............................................. 35.54 37.26 37.58 37.60 1,499.79 1,587.28 1,600.91 1,590.48

Information........................................... 34.33 34.77 35.05 35.10 1,259.91 1,265.63 1,272.32 1,263.60

Financial activities................................... 30.91 31.52 31.64 31.73 1,152.94 1,188.30 1,192.83 1,196.22

Professional and business services.............. 29.39 30.07 30.15 30.21 1,063.92 1,088.53 1,091.43 1,087.56

Education and health services..................... 24.77 25.22 25.28 25.25 812.46 829.74 831.71 830.73

Leisure and hospitality.............................. 14.03 14.34 14.40 14.37 367.59 377.14 377.28 377.93

Other services....................................... 22.08 22.33 22.43 22.48 702.14 710.09 713.27 714.86

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by

industry sector, seasonally adjusted

[2007=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls2

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

Aug.

2015 -

Sept.

2015p

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

Aug.

2015 -

Sept.

2015p

Total private..................................... 101.5 103.9 104.0 103.8 -0.2 119.0 124.0 124.6 124.3 -0.2

Goods-producing............................. 88.9 89.8 89.9 89.0 -1.0 103.5 106.3 107.0 105.7 -1.2

Mining and logging........................ 127.2 114.8 113.0 111.9 -1.0 157.9 143.8 142.5 141.1 -1.0

Construction................................ 83.2 85.6 85.9 84.9 -1.2 97.0 101.8 102.4 100.8 -1.6

Manufacturing.............................. 89.9 90.6 90.5 90.0 -0.6 103.9 106.4 106.9 106.3 -0.6

Durable goods........................... 90.0 90.2 90.2 89.5 -0.8 104.7 106.5 107.0 106.0 -0.9

Nondurable goods...................... 89.5 91.2 91.2 90.7 -0.5 102.0 106.2 106.7 106.5 -0.2

Private service-providing.................... 104.9 107.5 107.6 107.8 0.2 123.4 128.9 129.5 129.7 0.2

Trade, transportation, and utilities....... 99.3 101.5 101.8 101.9 0.1 114.6 119.2 119.9 120.1 0.2

Wholesale trade......................... 99.2 100.4 100.2 99.9 -0.3 116.2 120.2 120.5 120.1 -0.3

Retail trade.............................. 98.0 100.1 100.5 100.9 0.4 110.6 115.8 116.5 117.5 0.9

Transportation and warehousing...... 102.9 106.6 107.0 107.1 0.1 119.6 123.3 123.7 124.2 0.4

Utilities.................................... 101.0 104.0 104.2 103.3 -0.9 118.6 128.0 129.3 128.3 -0.8

Information................................. 92.4 92.9 92.5 92.1 -0.4 113.0 115.0 115.4 115.1 -0.3

Financial activities......................... 97.8 100.5 100.7 100.7 0.0 117.9 123.6 124.2 124.6 0.3

Professional and business services..... 109.5 112.7 112.8 112.4 -0.4 130.4 137.3 137.8 137.5 -0.2

Education and health services........... 113.6 116.6 116.8 117.0 0.2 132.6 138.5 139.1 139.1 0.0

Leisure and hospitality.................... 110.6 113.7 113.5 114.2 0.6 125.2 131.6 131.9 132.4 0.4

Other services............................. 98.4 99.5 99.4 99.4 0.0 123.2 126.1 126.5 126.8 0.2

1 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2007

annual average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the

corresponding 2007 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly

earnings, average weekly hours, and employment.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Women employees (in thousands) Percent of all employees

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Total nonfarm............................................. 68,916 70,202 70,289 70,349 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.4

Total private............................................ 56,416 57,614 57,675 57,708 47.9 48.0 48.0 48.0

Goods-producing.................................... 4,231 4,295 4,277 4,272 21.9 22.0 21.9 21.9

Mining and logging............................... 121 115 113 113 13.3 13.9 13.8 14.0

Construction....................................... 785 812 809 810 12.7 12.7 12.7 12.7

Manufacturing..................................... 3,325 3,368 3,355 3,349 27.2 27.3 27.2 27.2

Durable goods.................................. 1,782 1,815 1,813 1,811 23.1 23.3 23.3 23.3

Nondurable goods............................. 1,543 1,553 1,542 1,538 34.3 34.1 34.0 34.0

Private service-providing........................... 52,185 53,319 53,398 53,436 53.0 53.0 53.0 53.0

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............. 10,721 10,921 10,934 10,927 40.5 40.5 40.5 40.5

Wholesale trade................................ 1,719.7 1,739.0 1,738.8 1,735.6 29.4 29.4 29.4 29.3

Retail trade..................................... 7,765.6 7,921.2 7,925.6 7,929.4 50.4 50.5 50.5 50.4

Transportation and warehousing............. 1,102.2 1,125.7 1,133.5 1,126.7 23.7 23.5 23.6 23.5

Utilities........................................... 133.8 135.0 136.1 135.1 24.2 23.9 24.1 23.9

Information......................................... 1,104 1,119 1,119 1,120 40.0 40.1 40.1 40.0

Financial activities................................ 4,585 4,648 4,649 4,649 57.3 57.1 57.0 57.0

Professional and business services............ 8,580 8,812 8,833 8,851 44.6 44.5 44.6 44.6

Education and health services.................. 16,579 16,992 17,031 17,044 76.8 77.0 77.0 76.9

Leisure and hospitality........................... 7,695 7,872 7,879 7,889 52.0 51.9 51.9 51.8

Other services..................................... 2,921 2,955 2,953 2,956 52.3 52.3 52.4 52.4

Government............................................. 12,500 12,588 12,614 12,641 57.1 57.3 57.3 57.4

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted1

[In thousands]

Industry Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Total private............................................................................... 97,266 99,033 99,108 99,164

Goods-producing....................................................................... 13,926 14,105 14,089 14,077

Mining and logging.................................................................. 666 605 600 587

Construction.......................................................................... 4,672 4,806 4,814 4,816

Manufacturing........................................................................ 8,588 8,694 8,675 8,674

Durable goods..................................................................... 5,317 5,376 5,372 5,378

Nondurable goods................................................................ 3,271 3,318 3,303 3,296

Private service-providing.............................................................. 83,340 84,928 85,019 85,087

Trade, transportation, and utilities................................................. 22,341 22,676 22,689 22,695

Wholesale trade................................................................... 4,722.3 4,746.5 4,744.4 4,744.3

Retail trade........................................................................ 13,138.3 13,336.3 13,342.0 13,351.3

Transportation and warehousing................................................ 4,033.2 4,139.8 4,147.9 4,146.6

Utilities.............................................................................. 446.8 452.9 455.0 452.5

Information............................................................................ 2,236 2,264 2,264 2,271

Financial activities................................................................... 6,189 6,290 6,295 6,296

Professional and business services............................................... 15,916 16,245 16,260 16,276

Education and health services..................................................... 18,963 19,388 19,422 19,440

Leisure and hospitality.............................................................. 13,052 13,373 13,399 13,416

Other services........................................................................ 4,643 4,692 4,690 4,693

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private............................................................................. 33.7 33.7 33.7 33.6

Goods-producing.................................................................... 41.6 41.1 41.1 40.8

Mining and logging................................................................ 47.1 46.2 45.4 45.4

Construction....................................................................... 39.7 39.3 39.4 38.7

Manufacturing..................................................................... 42.1 41.8 41.8 41.6

Durable goods.................................................................. 42.6 42.1 42.0 41.7

Nondurable goods.............................................................. 41.4 41.3 41.5 41.4

Private service-providing............................................................ 32.4 32.4 32.4 32.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................. 33.6 33.6 33.6 33.6

Wholesale trade................................................................ 38.6 38.6 38.6 38.5

Retail trade...................................................................... 30.0 30.0 30.0 30.0

Transportation and warehousing............................................. 38.4 38.7 38.7 38.8

Utilities........................................................................... 42.0 42.3 42.3 42.2

Information......................................................................... 35.8 35.8 35.8 35.6

Financial activities................................................................ 36.7 37.1 37.1 37.1

Professional and business services............................................ 35.6 35.4 35.5 35.2

Education and health services.................................................. 32.0 32.1 32.1 32.1

Leisure and hospitality........................................................... 25.1 25.1 25.0 25.0

Other services..................................................................... 30.7 30.7 30.7 30.5

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing........................................................................... 4.5 4.3 4.3 4.1

Durable goods....................................................................... 4.7 4.2 4.3 4.0

Nondurable goods................................................................... 4.2 4.4 4.4 4.2

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Total private............................................... $20.68 $21.02 $21.08 $21.08 $696.92 $708.37 $710.40 $708.29

Goods-producing....................................... 21.67 21.95 22.01 21.95 901.47 902.15 904.61 895.56

Mining and logging.................................. 27.12 26.47 26.62 26.88 1,277.35 1,222.91 1,208.55 1,220.35

Construction.......................................... 24.76 25.13 25.20 24.94 982.97 987.61 992.88 965.18

Manufacturing........................................ 19.62 19.95 20.00 20.04 826.00 833.91 836.00 833.66

Durable goods.................................... 20.71 21.00 21.07 21.03 882.25 884.10 884.94 876.95

Nondurable goods................................ 17.79 18.22 18.24 18.41 736.51 752.49 756.96 762.17

Private service-providing.............................. 20.47 20.82 20.89 20.90 663.23 674.57 676.84 677.16

Trade, transportation, and utilities................. 18.33 18.66 18.70 18.71 615.89 626.98 628.32 628.66

Wholesale trade.................................. 23.26 23.61 23.71 23.66 897.84 911.35 915.21 910.91

Retail trade........................................ 14.47 14.82 14.88 14.94 434.10 444.60 446.40 448.20

Transportation and warehousing............... 20.61 20.72 20.68 20.64 791.42 801.86 800.32 800.83

Utilities............................................. 32.75 34.10 34.08 34.10 1,375.50 1,442.43 1,441.58 1,439.02

Information........................................... 28.57 28.93 29.03 28.95 1,022.81 1,035.69 1,039.27 1,030.62

Financial activities................................... 24.86 25.37 25.44 25.52 912.36 941.23 943.82 946.79

Professional and business services.............. 24.33 24.76 24.83 24.88 866.15 876.50 881.47 875.78

Education and health services..................... 21.71 22.07 22.13 22.12 694.72 708.45 710.37 710.05

Leisure and hospitality.............................. 12.21 12.39 12.44 12.45 306.47 310.99 311.00 311.25

Other services....................................... 18.59 18.90 18.98 19.02 570.71 580.23 582.69 580.11

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on

private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

[2002=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls3

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

Aug.

2015 -

Sept.

2015p

Sept.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015p

Sept.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

Aug.

2015 -

Sept.

2015p

Total private..................................... 109.2 111.2 111.3 111.0 -0.3 150.9 156.2 156.8 156.4 -0.3

Goods-producing............................. 88.5 88.6 88.5 87.8 -0.8 117.5 119.1 119.3 118.0 -1.1

Mining and logging........................ 166.7 148.5 144.8 141.6 -2.2 262.9 228.7 224.1 221.4 -1.2

Construction................................ 92.9 94.6 95.0 93.3 -1.8 124.2 128.3 129.2 125.7 -2.7

Manufacturing.............................. 83.0 83.4 83.2 82.8 -0.5 106.5 108.8 108.9 108.6 -0.3

Durable goods........................... 85.1 85.0 84.8 84.3 -0.6 110.0 111.5 111.5 110.6 -0.8

Nondurable goods...................... 79.8 80.7 80.8 80.4 -0.5 100.3 104.0 104.1 104.6 0.5

Private service-providing.................... 115.0 117.2 117.3 117.4 0.1 161.5 167.3 168.1 168.3 0.1

Trade, transportation, and utilities....... 104.6 106.2 106.3 106.3 0.0 136.8 141.4 141.8 141.9 0.1

Wholesale trade......................... 107.3 107.9 107.8 107.6 -0.2 147.1 150.1 150.6 149.9 -0.5

Retail trade.............................. 99.8 101.3 101.3 101.4 0.1 123.7 128.6 129.2 129.8 0.5

Transportation and warehousing...... 116.6 120.6 120.8 121.1 0.2 152.4 158.5 158.5 158.6 0.1

Utilities.................................... 96.0 98.0 98.4 97.7 -0.7 131.2 139.5 140.0 139.0 -0.7

Information................................. 91.4 92.5 92.5 92.3 -0.2 129.2 132.5 132.9 132.2 -0.5

Financial activities......................... 106.9 109.9 109.9 110.0 0.1 163.5 171.5 172.1 172.6 0.3

Professional and business services..... 127.0 128.9 129.4 128.4 -0.8 183.9 189.9 191.2 190.1 -0.6

Education and health services........... 129.5 132.8 133.1 133.2 0.1 185.5 193.4 194.3 194.4 0.1

Leisure and hospitality.................... 120.0 123.0 122.7 122.9 0.2 166.4 173.0 173.3 173.7 0.2

Other services............................. 100.0 101.0 101.0 100.4 -0.6 135.4 139.1 139.6 139.1 -0.4

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2002

annual average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

3 The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the

corresponding 2002 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly

earnings, average weekly hours, and employment.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.