Transmission of material in this news release is embargoed until USDL-18-0683 

8:30 a.m. (EDT) Friday, May 4, 2018.

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 — APRIL 2018 

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 164,000 in April, and the unemployment rate edged 

down to 3.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in 

professional and business services, manufacturing, health care, and mining.

Household Survey Data

In April, the unemployment rate edged down to 3.9 percent, following 6 months at 4.1 percent. The 

number of unemployed persons, at 6.3 million, also edged down over the month. (See table A-1.) 

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for adult women decreased to 3.5 percent in 

April. The jobless rates for adult men (3.7 percent), teenagers (12.9 percent), Whites (3.6 percent), 

Blacks (6.6 percent), Asians (2.8 percent), and Hispanics (4.8 percent) showed little or no change over 

the month. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.) 

Among the unemployed, the number of job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs

declined by 188,000 in April to 3.0 million. (See table A-11.) 

Chart 2. Nonfarm payroll employment over-the-month change, 

seasonally adjusted, April 2016 – April 2018

Percent Thousands

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Chart 1. Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, 

April 2016 – April 2018

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The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed at 1.3 

million in April and accounted for 20.0 percent of the unemployed. Over the year, the number of longterm unemployed was down by 340,000. (See table A-12.) 

Both the labor force participation rate, at 62.8 percent, and the employment-population ratio, at 60.3 

percent, changed little in April. (See table A-1.) 

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

involuntary part-time workers) was essentially unchanged at 5.0 million in April. These individuals, who 

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

reduced or because they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See table A-8.)

In April, 1.4 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, down by 172,000 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 408,000 discouraged workers in April, 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 1.0 million persons 

marginally attached to the labor force in April 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 164,000 in April, compared with an average monthly 

gain of 191,000 over the prior 12 months. In April, job gains occurred in professional and business 

services, manufacturing, health care, and mining. (See table B-1.) 

In April, employment in professional and business services increased by 54,000. Over the past 12 

months, the industry has added 518,000 jobs. 

Employment in manufacturing increased by 24,000 in April. Most of the gain was in the durable goods 

component, with machinery adding 8,000 jobs and employment in fabricated metal products continuing 

to trend up (+4,000). Manufacturing employment has risen by 245,000 over the year, with about threefourths of the growth in durable goods industries. 

Health care added 24,000 jobs in April and 305,000 jobs over the year. In April, employment rose in 

ambulatory health care services (+17,000) and hospitals (+8,000). 

In April, employment in mining increased by 8,000, with most of the gain occurring in support activities 

for mining (+7,000). Since a recent low in October 2016, employment in mining has risen by 86,000. 

Employment changed little over the month in other major industries, including construction, wholesale 

trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, information, financial activities, leisure and 

hospitality, and government. 
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The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 34.5 hours in 

April. In manufacturing, the workweek increased by 0.2 hour to 41.1 hours, while overtime edged up by 

0.1 hour to 3.7 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on 

private nonfarm payrolls increased by 0.1 hour to 33.8 hours. (See tables B-2 and B-7.) 

In April, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 4 cents to 

$26.84. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 67 cents, or 2.6 percent. Average 

hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees increased by 5 cents to 

$22.51 in April. (See tables B-3 and B-8.) 

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for February was revised down from +326,000 to 

+324,000, and the change for March was revised up from +103,000 to +135,000. With these revisions, 

employment gains in February and March combined were 30,000 more than previously reported. 

(Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government agencies 

since the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal factors.) After revisions, job 

gains have averaged 208,000 over the last 3 months. 

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The Employment Situation for May is scheduled to be released on Friday, June 1, 2018, at 

8:30 a.m. (EDT).
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Change from:

Mar. 2018-

Apr. 2018

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population........................................... 254,588 256,934 257,097 257,272 175

Civilian labor force........................................................... 160,181 161,921 161,763 161,527 -236

Participation rate.......................................................... 62.9 63.0 62.9 62.8 -0.1

Employed................................................................... 153,161 155,215 155,178 155,181 3

Employment-population ratio.......................................... 60.2 60.4 60.4 60.3 -0.1

Unemployed............................................................... 7,021 6,706 6,585 6,346 -239

Unemployment rate.................................................... 4.4 4.1 4.1 3.9 -0.2

Not in labor force............................................................ 94,407 95,012 95,335 95,745 410

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over...................................................... 4.4 4.1 4.1 3.9 -0.2

Adult men (20 years and over)............................................ 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.7 0.0

Adult women (20 years and over)......................................... 4.1 3.8 3.7 3.5 -0.2

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)................................................ 14.7 14.4 13.5 12.9 -0.6

White.......................................................................... 3.9 3.7 3.6 3.6 0.0

Black or African American.................................................. 7.9 6.9 6.9 6.6 -0.3

Asian.......................................................................... 3.2 2.9 3.1 2.8 -0.3

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity................................................. 5.2 4.9 5.1 4.8 -0.3

Total, 25 years and over...................................................... 3.6 3.4 3.4 3.3 -0.1

Less than a high school diploma.......................................... 6.5 5.7 5.5 5.9 0.4

High school graduates, no college........................................ 4.6 4.4 4.3 4.3 0.0

Some college or associate degree........................................ 3.7 3.5 3.6 3.5 -0.1

Bachelor’s degree and higher.............................................. 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.1 -0.1

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs.................. 3,538 3,279 3,146 2,958 -188

Job leavers...................................................................... 785 780 864 815 -49

Reentrants....................................................................... 2,044 1,948 1,967 2,009 42

New entrants.................................................................... 707 704 625 623 -2

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks............................................................. 2,300 2,508 2,287 2,115 -172

5 to 14 weeks................................................................... 2,140 1,906 2,009 2,017 8

15 to 26 weeks................................................................. 1,087 934 880 1,036 156

27 weeks and over............................................................. 1,633 1,397 1,322 1,293 -29

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons.............................................. 5,309 5,160 5,019 4,985 -34

Slack work or business conditions........................................ 3,183 3,302 3,005 2,994 -11

Could only find part-time work............................................. 1,787 1,541 1,625 1,586 -39

Part time for noneconomic reasons.......................................... 20,406 21,061 21,399 21,258 -141

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force....................................... 1,534 1,602 1,454 1,362 –

Discouraged workers........................................................ 455 373 450 408 –

- 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 Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 324 135 164

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 321 135 168

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 107 20 49

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 9 8 8

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -5 67 -10 17

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 31 22 24

Durable goods1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 26 21 18

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.2 4.4 0.5 -0.9

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5 1 6

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 214 115 119

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.6 3.4 10.3 -9.8

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -4.2 46.0 6.2 1.8

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.0 17.8 15.7 0.4

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.6 1.4 -0.3 1.0

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -11 -1 6 7

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 29 4 2

Professional and business services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 61 39 54

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 22.2 -2.1 10.3

Education and health services1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 32 24 31

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.0 43.8 32.0 29.3

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 18 8 18

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7 2 14

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 0 -4

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 225 212 208

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 228 215 208

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

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

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

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

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

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $26.17 $26.74 $26.80 $26.84

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $900.25 $922.53 $924.60 $925.98

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.9 108.9 109.1 109.2

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133.8 139.3 139.7 140.1

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.7 0.7 0.3 0.3

DIFFUSION INDEX

(Over 1-month span)5

Total private (258 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.5 70.2 64.1 57.6

Manufacturing (76 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.6 72.4 64.5 53.9

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 2017 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 https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ces_cps_trends.htm. 

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 

https://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 

https://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 https://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 

https://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 https://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 149,000 businesses and 

government agencies, representing approximately 651,000 

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 

https://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 

2017 version of the North American Industry Classification 

System. Additional information about the establishment 

survey can be found at https://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 115,000. 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 -65,000 to +165,000 

(50,000 +/- 115,000). 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

Apr.

2017

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Dec.

2017

Jan.

2018

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254,588 257,097 257,272 254,588 256,109 256,780 256,934 257,097 257,272

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159,817 161,548 161,280 160,181 160,597 161,115 161,921 161,763 161,527

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.8 62.8 62.7 62.9 62.7 62.7 63.0 62.9 62.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,262 154,877 155,348 153,161 154,021 154,430 155,215 155,178 155,181

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.2 60.2 60.4 60.2 60.1 60.1 60.4 60.4 60.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,555 6,671 5,932 7,021 6,576 6,684 6,706 6,585 6,346

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 4.1 3.7 4.4 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.1 3.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,771 95,549 95,992 94,407 95,512 95,665 95,012 95,335 95,745

Persons who currently want a job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,560 4,793 5,010 5,665 5,308 5,171 5,131 5,096 5,115

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,032 124,331 124,418 123,032 123,786 124,173 124,250 124,331 124,418

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,851 85,924 85,965 85,124 85,354 85,931 86,267 86,169 86,152

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.0 69.1 69.1 69.2 69.0 69.2 69.4 69.3 69.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,341 82,151 82,610 81,406 81,821 82,274 82,685 82,630 82,611

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.1 66.1 66.4 66.2 66.1 66.3 66.5 66.5 66.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,509 3,773 3,355 3,718 3,533 3,658 3,582 3,539 3,541

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

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38,181 38,407 38,453 37,907 38,432 38,242 37,983 38,162 38,266

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,538 115,832 115,921 114,538 115,292 115,669 115,748 115,832 115,921

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,019 83,162 83,225 82,054 82,548 82,928 83,309 83,200 83,199

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.6 71.8 71.8 71.6 71.6 71.7 72.0 71.8 71.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,922 79,810 80,242 78,839 79,431 79,705 80,213 80,113 80,111

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

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,096 3,352 2,983 3,215 3,117 3,223 3,096 3,087 3,088

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.8 4.0 3.6 3.9 3.8 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,519 32,670 32,697 32,484 32,745 32,741 32,440 32,632 32,723

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,556 132,766 132,853 131,556 132,323 132,607 132,684 132,766 132,853

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,967 75,624 75,314 75,057 75,243 75,183 75,654 75,594 75,375

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.0 57.0 56.7 57.1 56.9 56.7 57.0 56.9 56.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,921 72,726 72,738 71,754 72,200 72,157 72,530 72,548 72,569

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.7 54.8 54.8 54.5 54.6 54.4 54.7 54.6 54.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,046 2,898 2,576 3,303 3,043 3,027 3,124 3,046 2,805

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 3.8 3.4 4.4 4.0 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,590 57,142 57,539 56,499 57,080 57,423 57,030 57,172 57,479

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,296 124,491 124,579 123,296 124,057 124,328 124,407 124,491 124,579

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,181 72,780 72,573 72,144 72,293 72,210 72,565 72,610 72,498

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.5 58.5 58.3 58.5 58.3 58.1 58.3 58.3 58.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,474 70,178 70,266 69,218 69,614 69,583 69,828 69,916 69,992

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.3 56.4 56.4 56.1 56.1 56.0 56.1 56.2 56.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,707 2,602 2,307 2,927 2,679 2,627 2,737 2,695 2,506

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7 3.6 3.2 4.1 3.7 3.6 3.8 3.7 3.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,116 51,711 52,006 51,152 51,764 52,118 51,842 51,880 52,081

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,754 16,774 16,771 16,754 16,760 16,783 16,778 16,774 16,771

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,618 5,606 5,482 5,983 5,757 5,977 6,048 5,952 5,831

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.5 33.4 32.7 35.7 34.4 35.6 36.0 35.5 34.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,866 4,889 4,840 5,104 4,977 5,143 5,174 5,149 5,078

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.0 29.1 28.9 30.5 29.7 30.6 30.8 30.7 30.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752 717 642 879 780 834 874 803 752

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.4 12.8 11.7 14.7 13.6 13.9 14.4 13.5 12.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,136 11,169 11,290 10,771 11,003 10,806 10,731 10,822 10,941

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

Apr.

2017

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Dec.

2017

Jan.

2018

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

WHITE

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198,685 199,871 199,950 198,685 199,458 199,738 199,799 199,871 199,950

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,676 125,508 125,488 124,972 125,200 125,334 125,930 125,714 125,731

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.8 62.8 62.8 62.9 62.8 62.7 63.0 62.9 62.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,214 120,946 121,358 120,141 120,551 120,886 121,274 121,236 121,233

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.5 60.5 60.7 60.5 60.4 60.5 60.7 60.7 60.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,462 4,562 4,130 4,831 4,649 4,447 4,656 4,478 4,498

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.6 3.6 3.3 3.9 3.7 3.5 3.7 3.6 3.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,009 74,363 74,462 73,713 74,258 74,405 73,869 74,157 74,219

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,263 65,889 65,988 65,299 65,511 65,732 65,948 65,928 65,982

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.9 72.0 72.1 71.9 71.8 71.9 72.1 72.1 72.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,103 63,507 63,848 63,047 63,307 63,510 63,683 63,734 63,746

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.5 69.4 69.8 69.4 69.4 69.5 69.6 69.7 69.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,160 2,382 2,140 2,252 2,204 2,222 2,265 2,194 2,235

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 3.6 3.2 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.4

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,066 55,271 55,210 55,034 55,161 54,896 55,243 55,176 55,179

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.6 57.5 57.4 57.6 57.5 57.2 57.5 57.4 57.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,269 53,543 53,641 53,060 53,275 53,255 53,448 53,385 53,429

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.8 55.7 55.8 55.5 55.5 55.5 55.7 55.6 55.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,798 1,727 1,568 1,974 1,886 1,641 1,795 1,791 1,750

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 3.1 2.8 3.6 3.4 3.0 3.3 3.2 3.2

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,346 4,348 4,290 4,638 4,528 4,705 4,738 4,610 4,570

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.2 35.3 34.8 37.6 36.7 38.1 38.4 37.4 37.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,842 3,895 3,868 4,034 3,970 4,121 4,143 4,117 4,057

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.1 31.6 31.4 32.7 32.2 33.4 33.6 33.4 32.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 453 421 605 559 584 595 492 512

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.6 10.4 9.8 13.0 12.3 12.4 12.6 10.7 11.2

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,161 32,638 32,672 32,161 32,436 32,575 32,607 32,638 32,672

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,046 20,347 20,172 20,097 20,153 20,211 20,495 20,466 20,220

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.3 62.3 61.7 62.5 62.1 62.0 62.9 62.7 61.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,577 18,955 18,953 18,507 18,790 18,663 19,087 19,051 18,892

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.8 58.1 58.0 57.5 57.9 57.3 58.5 58.4 57.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,469 1,392 1,219 1,590 1,362 1,548 1,408 1,415 1,328

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3 6.8 6.0 7.9 6.8 7.7 6.9 6.9 6.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,116 12,291 12,500 12,064 12,283 12,364 12,112 12,172 12,452

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,135 9,258 9,248 9,153 9,178 9,254 9,438 9,314 9,257

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.1 67.8 67.6 68.2 67.7 67.9 69.2 68.2 67.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,505 8,670 8,681 8,485 8,576 8,564 8,880 8,749 8,663

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.4 63.5 63.5 63.2 63.2 62.9 65.1 64.1 63.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630 588 567 668 601 690 558 564 594

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.9 6.4 6.1 7.3 6.6 7.5 5.9 6.1 6.4

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,185 10,335 10,239 10,166 10,252 10,197 10,254 10,337 10,229

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.8 62.7 62.1 62.6 62.6 62.0 62.3 62.7 62.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,530 9,720 9,764 9,467 9,657 9,524 9,622 9,713 9,707

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.7 59.0 59.2 58.3 59.0 57.9 58.5 59.0 58.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655 616 475 699 595 673 632 624 522

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4 6.0 4.6 6.9 5.8 6.6 6.2 6.0 5.1

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726 754 685 778 723 759 803 816 734

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.9 30.1 27.4 31.0 28.8 30.3 32.0 32.6 29.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542 566 508 555 557 575 584 588 521

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.6 22.6 20.3 22.1 22.2 22.9 23.3 23.5 20.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 189 177 224 166 185 219 227 213

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.3 25.0 25.8 28.7 22.9 24.3 27.2 27.9 29.0

See footnotes at end of table.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

Apr.

2017

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Dec.

2017

Jan.

2018

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

ASIAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,389 15,983 15,933 15,389 15,610 15,731 15,792 15,983 15,933

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,749 10,138 10,034 9,756 9,782 9,885 9,908 10,092 10,034

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.4 63.4 63.0 63.4 62.7 62.8 62.7 63.1 63.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,448 9,833 9,765 9,444 9,536 9,584 9,617 9,780 9,755

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 61.5 61.3 61.4 61.1 60.9 60.9 61.2 61.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 305 269 311 246 300 291 313 280

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 3.0 2.7 3.2 2.5 3.0 2.9 3.1 2.8

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,640 5,845 5,898 5,633 5,829 5,846 5,884 5,891 5,898

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

Apr.

2017

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Dec.

2017

Jan.

2018

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population................ 41,162 42,419 42,507 41,162 41,831 42,249 42,335 42,419 42,507

Civilian labor force................................ 27,155 27,926 28,193 27,229 27,498 27,826 28,021 27,922 28,229

Participation rate............................... 66.0 65.8 66.3 66.2 65.7 65.9 66.2 65.8 66.4

Employed....................................... 25,897 26,463 26,970 25,824 26,141 26,432 26,646 26,500 26,860

Employment-population ratio............... 62.9 62.4 63.4 62.7 62.5 62.6 62.9 62.5 63.2

Unemployed.................................... 1,258 1,463 1,223 1,405 1,356 1,393 1,375 1,421 1,368

Unemployment rate......................... 4.6 5.2 4.3 5.2 4.9 5.0 4.9 5.1 4.8

Not in labor force................................. 14,007 14,493 14,314 13,933 14,334 14,423 14,315 14,497 14,278

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................ 14,890 15,369 15,517 14,924 15,084 15,320 15,319 15,370 15,535

Participation rate............................... 80.3 80.3 80.9 80.5 80.1 80.4 80.2 80.3 81.0

Employed....................................... 14,331 14,624 14,949 14,296 14,507 14,659 14,723 14,688 14,901

Employment-population ratio............... 77.3 76.4 77.9 77.1 77.0 76.9 77.1 76.7 77.7

Unemployed.................................... 559 744 568 628 577 661 595 682 635

Unemployment rate......................... 3.8 4.8 3.7 4.2 3.8 4.3 3.9 4.4 4.1

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................ 11,098 11,270 11,437 11,072 11,189 11,257 11,410 11,230 11,398

Participation rate............................... 59.0 58.2 59.0 58.9 58.5 58.4 59.1 58.0 58.8

Employed....................................... 10,538 10,711 10,929 10,479 10,598 10,737 10,815 10,677 10,856

Employment-population ratio............... 56.1 55.3 56.3 55.7 55.4 55.7 56.0 55.2 56.0

Unemployed.................................... 561 559 508 593 591 520 595 553 541

Unemployment rate......................... 5.1 5.0 4.4 5.4 5.3 4.6 5.2 4.9 4.7

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force................................ 1,166 1,287 1,239 1,233 1,225 1,249 1,292 1,321 1,296

Participation rate............................... 30.4 32.9 31.6 32.2 31.6 32.0 33.0 33.7 33.0

Employed....................................... 1,028 1,128 1,091 1,049 1,037 1,036 1,108 1,135 1,103

Employment-population ratio............... 26.8 28.8 27.8 27.4 26.8 26.5 28.3 29.0 28.1

Unemployed.................................... 138 159 148 184 188 213 184 186 192

Unemployment rate......................... 11.9 12.4 11.9 14.9 15.4 17.0 14.2 14.1 14.8

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

Apr.

2017

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Dec.

2017

Jan.

2018

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force.................................. 10,249 10,180 10,438 10,074 10,148 10,274 10,258 10,234 10,285

Participation rate.................................. 45.6 45.5 46.6 44.8 44.8 44.8 46.8 45.7 45.9

Employed.......................................... 9,594 9,519 9,836 9,417 9,507 9,715 9,673 9,666 9,683

Employment-population ratio................. 42.7 42.5 43.9 41.9 42.0 42.3 44.1 43.2 43.3

Unemployed....................................... 656 661 603 657 641 559 584 568 602

Unemployment rate............................ 6.4 6.5 5.8 6.5 6.3 5.4 5.7 5.5 5.9

High school graduates, no college1

Civilian labor force.................................. 36,186 35,969 35,538 36,079 35,927 35,735 36,092 35,863 35,468

Participation rate.................................. 58.0 57.3 57.0 57.8 57.8 57.5 57.5 57.1 56.9

Employed.......................................... 34,603 34,290 34,086 34,417 34,425 34,134 34,487 34,305 33,940

Employment-population ratio................. 55.4 54.6 54.7 55.1 55.4 54.9 55.0 54.6 54.5

Unemployed....................................... 1,583 1,679 1,451 1,662 1,503 1,601 1,604 1,559 1,528

Unemployment rate............................ 4.4 4.7 4.1 4.6 4.2 4.5 4.4 4.3 4.3

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force.................................. 37,854 37,550 38,056 37,844 37,906 37,863 37,573 37,589 37,944

Participation rate.................................. 65.8 65.5 65.6 65.8 66.2 66.0 65.5 65.6 65.5

Employed.......................................... 36,532 36,175 36,818 36,445 36,534 36,566 36,248 36,241 36,629

Employment-population ratio................. 63.5 63.1 63.5 63.4 63.8 63.7 63.2 63.2 63.2

Unemployed....................................... 1,321 1,375 1,238 1,399 1,372 1,297 1,325 1,348 1,315

Unemployment rate............................ 3.5 3.7 3.3 3.7 3.6 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.5

Bachelor’s degree and higher2

Civilian labor force.................................. 54,821 57,097 56,823 54,832 55,852 55,922 56,669 56,785 56,794

Participation rate.................................. 74.1 74.6 74.2 74.1 73.5 73.4 73.7 74.2 74.2

Employed.......................................... 53,585 55,846 55,735 53,500 54,653 54,720 55,386 55,534 55,616

Employment-population ratio................. 72.4 73.0 72.8 72.3 71.9 71.8 72.0 72.6 72.6

Unemployed....................................... 1,236 1,251 1,088 1,331 1,200 1,202 1,283 1,252 1,178

Unemployment rate............................ 2.3 2.2 1.9 2.4 2.1 2.1 2.3 2.2 2.1

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

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

VETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,615 19,280 18,589 17,418 2,026 1,862

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,344 9,582 9,154 8,446 1,190 1,136

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.2 49.7 49.2 48.5 58.8 61.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,964 9,231 8,817 8,117 1,147 1,114

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.3 47.9 47.4 46.6 56.6 59.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380 351 337 329 43 22

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.9 3.6 1.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,271 9,698 9,435 8,972 836 726

Gulf War-era II veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,104 4,070 3,379 3,378 725 692

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,274 3,356 2,781 2,849 493 507

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.8 82.5 82.3 84.3 68.0 73.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,145 3,193 2,676 2,702 468 491

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.6 78.5 79.2 80.0 64.6 70.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 163 104 147 25 16

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.9 4.9 3.8 5.2 5.0 3.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830 714 598 529 232 185

Gulf War-era I veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,314 3,134 2,815 2,638 499 496

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,643 2,441 2,262 2,085 381 355

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.7 77.9 80.4 79.0 76.3 71.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,544 2,397 2,176 2,044 368 353

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.8 76.5 77.3 77.5 73.7 71.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 43 86 41 13 2

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7 1.8 3.8 2.0 3.3 0.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671 694 553 553 119 141

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

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,134 7,714 7,840 7,452 294 262

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,972 1,628 1,915 1,569 57 60

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.2 21.1 24.4 21.0 19.3 22.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,900 1,576 1,843 1,516 57 60

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.4 20.4 23.5 20.3 19.3 22.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 52 72 52 0 0

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.6 3.2 3.7 3.3 – –

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,162 6,086 5,925 5,883 237 202

Veterans of other service periods

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,063 4,362 4,555 3,950 508 412

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,456 2,158 2,196 1,944 260 214

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.5 49.5 48.2 49.2 51.2 52.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,376 2,065 2,122 1,854 254 211

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.9 47.3 46.6 46.9 50.0 51.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 93 74 89 6 3

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 4.3 3.4 4.6 2.3 1.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,607 2,204 2,359 2,006 248 198

NONVETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225,046 229,048 99,978 102,525 125,068 126,524

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147,418 149,781 74,682 76,583 72,736 73,198

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.5 65.4 74.7 74.7 58.2 57.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,599 144,475 71,671 73,719 69,928 70,756

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.9 63.1 71.7 71.9 55.9 55.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,819 5,306 3,011 2,864 2,808 2,442

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.9 3.5 4.0 3.7 3.9 3.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,628 79,267 25,296 25,942 52,332 53,326

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. Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values not

shown where base is less than 75,000).
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

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

TOTAL, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population...................................................... 30,612 30,307 223,976 226,965

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 6,166 6,337 153,652 154,942

Participation rate..................................................................... 20.1 20.9 68.6 68.3

Employed............................................................................. 5,509 5,828 147,754 149,520

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 18.0 19.2 66.0 65.9

Unemployed.......................................................................... 657 509 5,898 5,423

Unemployment rate............................................................... 10.7 8.0 3.8 3.5

Not in labor force....................................................................... 24,447 23,970 70,324 72,022

Men, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 2,700 2,746 76,784 77,722

Participation rate..................................................................... 34.3 36.6 82.4 82.6

Employed............................................................................. 2,352 2,474 73,794 74,799

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 29.8 33.0 79.2 79.5

Unemployed.......................................................................... 348 272 2,989 2,923

Unemployment rate............................................................... 12.9 9.9 3.9 3.8

Not in labor force....................................................................... 5,181 4,746 16,350 16,384

Women, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 2,411 2,451 68,236 68,401

Participation rate..................................................................... 29.8 30.7 70.9 70.7

Employed............................................................................. 2,157 2,256 65,627 66,123

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 26.6 28.2 68.2 68.3

Unemployed.......................................................................... 254 194 2,610 2,279

Unemployment rate............................................................... 10.5 7.9 3.8 3.3

Not in labor force....................................................................... 5,691 5,538 27,994 28,377

Both sexes, 65 years and over

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 1,055 1,141 8,632 8,819

Participation rate..................................................................... 7.2 7.7 24.9 24.4

Employed............................................................................. 999 1,098 8,333 8,598

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 6.8 7.4 24.1 23.8

Unemployed.......................................................................... 55 43 299 222

Unemployment rate............................................................... 5.2 3.8 3.5 2.5

Not in labor force....................................................................... 13,574 13,685 25,979 27,261

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

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Foreign born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population................................... 41,567 43,164 20,238 21,041 21,329 22,123

Civilian labor force.................................................. 27,402 28,266 15,816 16,398 11,586 11,868

Participation rate.................................................. 65.9 65.5 78.2 77.9 54.3 53.6

Employed.......................................................... 26,354 27,300 15,300 15,961 11,054 11,338

Employment-population ratio................................. 63.4 63.2 75.6 75.9 51.8 51.2

Unemployed....................................................... 1,049 967 516 437 532 530

Unemployment rate............................................ 3.8 3.4 3.3 2.7 4.6 4.5

Not in labor force.................................................... 14,165 14,898 4,422 4,643 9,743 10,255

Native born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population................................... 213,021 214,107 102,794 103,377 110,227 110,730

Civilian labor force.................................................. 132,415 133,014 69,035 69,568 63,380 63,446

Participation rate.................................................. 62.2 62.1 67.2 67.3 57.5 57.3

Employed.......................................................... 126,908 128,049 66,042 66,649 60,867 61,400

Employment-population ratio................................. 59.6 59.8 64.2 64.5 55.2 55.5

Unemployed....................................................... 5,507 4,965 2,993 2,919 2,514 2,046

Unemployment rate............................................ 4.2 3.7 4.3 4.2 4.0 3.2

Not in labor force.................................................... 80,606 81,094 33,759 33,810 46,847 47,284

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

Apr.

2017

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Dec.

2017

Jan.

2018

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries................. 2,587 2,266 2,230 2,631 2,552 2,513 2,474 2,314 2,294

Wage and salary workers1

...................... 1,663 1,409 1,438 1,727 1,717 1,712 1,679 1,495 1,517

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . .. 900 840 759 871 793 781 768 803 745

Unpaid family workers........................... 24 17 33 – – – – – –

Nonagricultural industries.......................... 150,676 152,611 153,119 150,515 151,478 151,894 152,713 152,747 152,889

Wage and salary workers1

...................... 142,061 143,601 144,009 141,882 142,505 142,828 143,656 143,688 143,785

Government..................................... 20,901 21,368 21,453 20,723 20,642 20,815 20,986 20,957 21,222

Private industries............................... 121,160 122,233 122,556 121,254 121,900 122,022 122,693 122,761 122,616

Private households.......................... 680 781 780 – – – – – –

Other industries.............................. 120,480 121,452 121,776 120,591 121,206 121,349 121,957 121,977 121,858

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . .. 8,563 8,959 9,039 8,532 8,970 8,991 8,944 8,990 8,995

Unpaid family workers........................... 53 50 70 – – – – – –

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME2

All industries

Part time for economic reasons3

.................. 5,058 5,080 4,734 5,309 4,915 4,989 5,160 5,019 4,985

Slack work or business conditions............. 3,059 3,023 2,867 3,183 3,097 3,009 3,302 3,005 2,994

Could only find part-time work.................. 1,767 1,738 1,573 1,787 1,570 1,663 1,541 1,625 1,586

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 21,257 21,817 22,132 20,406 21,122 20,867 21,061 21,399 21,258

Nonagricultural industries

Part time for economic reasons3

.................. 4,990 4,975 4,631 5,243 4,856 4,926 5,091 4,944 4,898

Slack work or business conditions............. 3,019 2,966 2,799 3,129 3,049 2,965 3,258 2,940 2,923

Could only find part-time work.................. 1,750 1,726 1,559 1,772 1,563 1,659 1,533 1,619 1,575

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 20,849 21,382 21,763 20,010 20,703 20,434 20,641 20,999 20,891

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

Apr.

2017

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Dec.

2017

Jan.

2018

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,262 154,877 155,348 153,161 154,021 154,430 155,215 155,178 155,181

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,866 4,889 4,840 5,104 4,977 5,143 5,174 5,149 5,078

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,699 1,701 1,642 1,882 1,907 1,915 1,915 1,892 1,838

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,167 3,188 3,198 3,237 3,075 3,221 3,293 3,261 3,257

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148,396 149,988 150,508 148,057 149,045 149,287 150,041 150,028 150,102

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,082 14,158 14,034 14,223 13,936 14,153 14,213 14,334 14,172

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134,314 135,830 136,475 133,792 135,083 135,129 135,856 135,779 135,906

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,920 100,015 100,206 98,693 99,535 99,674 100,120 100,051 99,965

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,455 35,105 35,157 34,405 34,606 34,768 34,975 35,106 35,083

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,833 32,410 32,670 31,794 32,304 32,380 32,503 32,462 32,614

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,633 32,500 32,379 32,494 32,625 32,526 32,642 32,484 32,268

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,394 35,814 36,269 35,099 35,548 35,455 35,735 35,728 35,941

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,341 82,151 82,610 81,406 81,821 82,274 82,685 82,630 82,611

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,419 2,341 2,368 2,567 2,391 2,569 2,472 2,517 2,500

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853 771 774 947 848 920 872 891 858

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,566 1,570 1,594 1,631 1,540 1,638 1,617 1,639 1,651

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,922 79,810 80,242 78,839 79,431 79,705 80,213 80,113 80,111

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,214 7,325 7,204 7,301 7,203 7,339 7,392 7,445 7,291

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,708 72,485 73,038 71,535 72,226 72,388 72,822 72,707 72,840

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,800 53,460 53,721 52,770 53,308 53,441 53,764 53,647 53,686

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,415 18,900 18,944 18,430 18,612 18,773 18,925 18,942 18,946

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,234 17,492 17,667 17,223 17,450 17,447 17,592 17,576 17,644

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,151 17,069 17,110 17,117 17,246 17,221 17,247 17,130 17,096

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,908 19,025 19,317 18,765 18,918 18,947 19,058 19,060 19,154

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,921 72,726 72,738 71,754 72,200 72,157 72,530 72,548 72,569

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,447 2,548 2,472 2,537 2,586 2,574 2,702 2,632 2,578

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846 930 868 935 1,059 995 1,044 1,001 980

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,601 1,618 1,603 1,606 1,535 1,583 1,676 1,622 1,606

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,474 70,178 70,266 69,218 69,614 69,583 69,828 69,916 69,992

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,868 6,834 6,829 6,922 6,733 6,814 6,821 6,889 6,882

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,606 63,344 63,437 62,257 62,857 62,742 63,033 63,071 63,067

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,120 46,555 46,485 45,923 46,227 46,233 46,356 46,404 46,280

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,039 16,206 16,213 15,975 15,994 15,995 16,050 16,164 16,137

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,599 14,918 15,003 14,571 14,853 14,933 14,911 14,886 14,970

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,481 15,431 15,269 15,377 15,380 15,305 15,395 15,354 15,172

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,486 16,789 16,952 16,334 16,630 16,508 16,677 16,667 16,787

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,135 45,870 46,195 46,001 45,439 45,714 45,863 45,865 45,995

Married women, spouse present1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,079 35,912 36,386 35,878 35,813 35,768 35,632 35,564 36,140

Women who maintain families2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,654 9,595 9,492 – – – – – –

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,532 126,424 127,340 125,963 126,723 127,016 127,745 127,434 127,753

Part-time workers4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,731 28,453 28,008 27,204 27,257 27,271 27,548 27,858 27,508

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,609 7,771 7,637 7,635 7,647 7,845 7,864 7,609 7,667

Percent of total employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.1 5.1 4.9 4.9

SELF-EMPLOYMENT

Self-employed workers, incorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,861 5,891 5,787 – – – – – –

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,463 9,799 9,798 9,403 9,763 9,773 9,713 9,793 9,741

1 Refers to persons in opposite-sex married couples only.

2 Refers to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not an opposite-sex spouse.

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

4 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

Apr.

2017

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Dec.

2017

Jan.

2018

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over........................... 7,021 6,585 6,346 4.4 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.1 3.9

16 to 19 years..................................... 879 803 752 14.7 13.6 13.9 14.4 13.5 12.9

16 to 17 years.................................. 374 332 294 16.6 15.2 15.0 15.5 14.9 13.8

18 to 19 years.................................. 493 469 473 13.2 13.2 13.3 13.7 12.6 12.7

20 years and over................................ 6,141 5,782 5,594 4.0 3.7 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.6

20 to 24 years.................................. 1,122 1,018 1,018 7.3 7.1 7.4 6.8 6.6 6.7

25 years and over.............................. 5,030 4,769 4,613 3.6 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.3

25 to 54 years............................... 3,910 3,591 3,543 3.8 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4

25 to 34 years............................. 1,594 1,541 1,627 4.4 4.5 4.3 4.4 4.2 4.4

35 to 44 years............................. 1,182 1,065 995 3.6 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.0

45 to 54 years............................. 1,135 985 921 3.4 2.7 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.8

55 years and over........................... 1,157 1,176 1,105 3.2 3.3 3.0 3.2 3.2 3.0

Men, 16 years and over............................ 3,718 3,539 3,541 4.4 4.1 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1

16 to 19 years..................................... 503 452 453 16.4 14.8 14.5 16.4 15.2 15.3

16 to 17 years.................................. 178 171 178 15.9 15.7 13.0 17.1 16.1 17.2

18 to 19 years.................................. 324 277 283 16.6 15.0 14.9 16.1 14.5 14.6

20 years and over................................ 3,215 3,087 3,088 3.9 3.8 3.9 3.7 3.7 3.7

20 to 24 years.................................. 669 600 605 8.4 7.9 8.2 7.6 7.5 7.7

25 years and over.............................. 2,555 2,483 2,506 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.3

25 to 54 years............................... 1,938 1,863 1,869 3.5 3.3 3.4 3.2 3.4 3.4

25 to 34 years............................. 838 811 911 4.4 4.3 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.6

35 to 44 years............................. 601 538 482 3.4 2.6 3.1 2.7 3.0 2.7

45 to 54 years............................. 499 514 476 2.8 2.8 3.1 2.8 2.9 2.7

55 years and over........................... 617 620 637 3.2 3.4 3.3 3.5 3.2 3.2

Women, 16 years and over........................ 3,303 3,046 2,805 4.4 4.0 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.7

16 to 19 years..................................... 376 351 299 12.9 12.3 13.4 12.5 11.8 10.4

16 to 17 years.................................. 195 161 116 17.3 14.7 16.7 14.0 13.8 10.6

18 to 19 years.................................. 169 192 191 9.5 11.3 11.7 11.4 10.6 10.6

20 years and over................................ 2,927 2,695 2,506 4.1 3.7 3.6 3.8 3.7 3.5

20 to 24 years.................................. 453 419 413 6.1 6.2 6.5 6.0 5.7 5.7

25 years and over.............................. 2,475 2,286 2,107 3.8 3.5 3.3 3.5 3.5 3.2

25 to 54 years............................... 1,972 1,729 1,673 4.1 3.6 3.6 3.8 3.6 3.5

25 to 34 years............................. 755 731 716 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.3 4.2

35 to 44 years............................. 581 527 513 3.8 3.4 3.1 3.5 3.4 3.3

45 to 54 years............................. 636 471 445 4.0 2.6 2.8 3.0 3.0 2.8

55 years and over........................... 546 542 483 3.2 3.2 2.5 2.8 3.2 2.8

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present1

.................... 1,134 1,006 997 2.4 2.2 2.3 2.1 2.1 2.1

Married women, spouse present1................. 1,017 957 903 2.8 2.6 2.4 2.7 2.6 2.4

Women who maintain families2.................... 615 569 548 6.0 5.3 6.5 6.2 5.6 5.5

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers3................................... 5,628 5,271 5,193 4.3 4.0 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.9

Part-time workers4.................................. 1,417 1,303 1,200 5.0 4.5 4.7 4.5 4.5 4.2

1 Refers to persons in opposite-sex couples only.

2 Data are not seasonally adjusted. Refers to female householders residing with one or more family members, but not an opposite-sex spouse.

3 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.

4 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

Apr.

2017

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Dec.

2017

Jan.

2018

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 3,369 3,375 2,805 3,538 3,254 3,273 3,279 3,146 2,958

On temporary layoff.............................. 794 1,007 713 946 915 912 878 865 862

Not on temporary layoff.......................... 2,576 2,368 2,092 2,592 2,339 2,361 2,401 2,281 2,096

Permanent job losers.......................... 1,795 1,696 1,415 1,798 1,636 1,652 1,709 1,645 1,418

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . .. 781 672 677 794 703 709 692 637 678

Job leavers........................................... 726 850 761 785 715 716 780 864 815

Reentrants............................................ 1,858 1,912 1,836 2,044 2,003 1,958 1,948 1,967 2,009

New entrants......................................... 602 534 530 707 581 645 704 625 623

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 51.4 50.6 47.3 50.0 49.7 49.6 48.9 47.7 46.2

On temporary layoff.............................. 12.1 15.1 12.0 13.4 14.0 13.8 13.1 13.1 13.5

Not on temporary layoff.......................... 39.3 35.5 35.3 36.6 35.7 35.8 35.8 34.6 32.7

Job leavers........................................... 11.1 12.7 12.8 11.1 10.9 10.9 11.6 13.1 12.7

Reentrants............................................ 28.4 28.7 31.0 28.9 30.6 29.7 29.0 29.8 31.4

New entrants......................................... 9.2 8.0 8.9 10.0 8.9 9.8 10.5 9.5 9.7

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 2.1 2.1 1.7 2.2 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.9 1.8

Job leavers........................................... 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5

Reentrants............................................ 1.2 1.2 1.1 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2

New entrants......................................... 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4

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

Apr.

2017

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Dec.

2017

Jan.

2018

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks.................................. 1,953 1,994 1,782 2,300 2,235 2,280 2,508 2,287 2,115

5 to 14 weeks........................................ 1,735 2,203 1,666 2,140 1,994 1,943 1,906 2,009 2,017

15 weeks and over.................................. 2,868 2,475 2,483 2,719 2,397 2,402 2,330 2,202 2,329

15 to 26 weeks.................................... 1,206 1,059 1,158 1,087 882 981 934 880 1,036

27 weeks and over............................... 1,662 1,416 1,325 1,633 1,515 1,421 1,397 1,322 1,293

Average (mean) duration, in weeks............... 25.7 24.8 24.2 24.3 23.6 24.1 22.9 24.1 23.1

Median duration, in weeks......................... 12.1 10.2 11.9 10.3 9.1 9.4 9.3 9.1 9.8

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Less than 5 weeks.................................. 29.8 29.9 30.1 32.1 33.7 34.4 37.2 35.2 32.7

5 to 14 weeks........................................ 26.5 33.0 28.1 29.9 30.1 29.3 28.3 30.9 31.2

15 weeks and over.................................. 43.7 37.1 41.9 38.0 36.2 36.3 34.6 33.9 36.0

15 to 26 weeks.................................... 18.4 15.9 19.5 15.2 13.3 14.8 13.8 13.5 16.0

27 weeks and over............................... 25.4 21.2 22.3 22.8 22.9 21.5 20.7 20.3 20.0

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

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Total, 16 years and over1

............................................. 153,262 155,348 6,555 5,932 4.1 3.7

Management, professional, and related occupations........... 61,317 62,561 1,254 1,134 2.0 1.8

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations..................................................... 25,455 25,742 581 460 2.2 1.8

Professional and related occupations.......................... 35,862 36,819 673 675 1.8 1.8

Service occupations................................................ 26,370 27,105 1,426 1,238 5.1 4.4

Sales and office occupations...................................... 33,529 33,170 1,337 1,242 3.8 3.6

Sales and related occupations.................................. 15,838 15,573 688 659 4.2 4.1

Office and administrative support occupations............... 17,692 17,597 650 583 3.5 3.2

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations........................................................ 14,174 14,036 925 926 6.1 6.2

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.................... 1,225 969 120 127 8.9 11.6

Construction and extraction occupations...................... 7,930 8,014 657 662 7.6 7.6

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations........... 5,019 5,052 149 138 2.9 2.7

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations........................................................ 17,871 18,476 994 841 5.3 4.4

Production occupations.......................................... 8,491 8,434 432 384 4.8 4.4

Transportation and material moving occupations............ 9,380 10,042 562 457 5.7 4.4

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

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Total, 16 years and over1

................................................................ 6,555 5,932 4.1 3.7

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers.................................. 5,121 4,533 4.1 3.6

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.................................... 36 39 4.7 4.7

Construction.......................................................................... 585 623 6.3 6.5

Manufacturing........................................................................ 620 521 3.9 3.3

Durable goods..................................................................... 389 308 3.9 3.1

Nondurable goods................................................................ 230 212 3.8 3.5

Wholesale and retail trade......................................................... 844 843 4.2 4.2

Transportation and utilities......................................................... 216 207 3.5 3.0

Information............................................................................ 107 62 4.1 2.3

Financial activities................................................................... 229 155 2.3 1.6

Professional and business services............................................... 819 596 4.9 3.5

Education and health services..................................................... 612 555 2.6 2.3

Leisure and hospitality.............................................................. 819 719 5.9 5.2

Other services........................................................................ 234 212 3.4 3.1

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers......................... 118 137 6.9 9.0

Government workers................................................................... 379 433 1.8 2.0

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers............ 335 300 3.4 2.9

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

Apr.

2017

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Dec.

2017

Jan.

2018

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018

Apr.

2018

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer,

as a percent of the civilian labor force......... 1.8 1.5 1.5 1.7 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.4 1.4

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian

labor force......................................... 2.1 2.1 1.7 2.2 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.9 1.8

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the

civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate)................................................ 4.1 4.1 3.7 4.4 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.1 3.9

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged

workers, as a percent of the civilian labor

force plus discouraged workers................. 4.4 4.4 3.9 4.7 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.2

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. . . . . . . .. 5.0 5.0 4.5 5.3 5.1 5.1 5.1 4.9 4.7

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..................................... 8.1 8.1 7.4 8.6 8.1 8.2 8.2 8.0 7.8

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

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

Apr.

2017

Apr.

2018

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force........................................... 94,771 95,992 38,181 38,453 56,590 57,539

Persons who currently want a job................................ 5,560 5,010 2,605 2,294 2,955 2,716

Marginally attached to the labor force1

........................ 1,534 1,362 855 706 680 657

Discouraged workers2

......................................... 455 408 319 242 135 165

Other persons marginally attached to the labor force3. .. 1,080 955 535 463 544 491

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders4

............................................. 7,609 7,637 3,782 3,841 3,827 3,797

Percent of total employed.......................................... 5.0 4.9 4.6 4.6 5.3 5.2

Primary job full time, secondary job part time................... 4,184 4,237 2,285 2,337 1,900 1,900

Primary and secondary jobs both part time..................... 2,027 2,040 707 756 1,319 1,284

Primary and secondary jobs both full time....................... 304 273 185 163 119 111

Hours vary on primary or secondary job......................... 1,043 1,053 582 572 461 480

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

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Change

from:

Mar.2018 -

Apr.2018p

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146,101 146,674 147,369 148,367 146,144 148,125 148,260 148,424 164

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,388 124,042 124,675 125,663 123,829 125,803 125,938 126,106 168

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,825 20,037 20,173 20,396 19,998 20,490 20,510 20,559 49

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660 702 711 719 671 714 722 730 8

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.6 49.7 48.6 47.4 50.6 50.4 50.2 50.3 0.1

Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 612.3 652.6 662.3 671.7 620.0 663.4 671.4 679.4 8.0

Oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.8 145.8 148.8 149.3 145.7 147.7 149.7 150.9 1.2

Mining, except oil and gas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184.8 180.3 182.0 185.2 185.5 186.5 186.6 186.4 -0.2

Coal mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.5 51.9 51.9 52.7 51.8 52.2 52.3 53.0 0.7

Metal ore mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.6 38.5 38.5 38.2 39.0 38.6 38.7 38.6 -0.1

Nonmetallic mineral mining and

quarrying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.7 89.9 91.6 94.3 94.6 95.6 95.5 94.8 -0.7

Support activities for mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283.7 326.5 331.5 337.2 288.8 329.2 335.1 342.1 7.0

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,816 6,799 6,886 7,078 6,917 7,167 7,157 7,174 17

Construction of buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,506.8 1,530.1 1,545.4 1,573.6 1,532.0 1,582.1 1,585.9 1,594.7 8.8

Residential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734.3 752.5 757.9 775.2 747.0 780.0 781.3 785.0 3.7

Nonresidential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772.5 777.6 787.5 798.4 785.0 802.1 804.6 809.7 5.1

Heavy and civil engineering construction. . . . . . 973.8 902.9 930.7 985.4 987.4 1,007.0 1,002.3 998.9 -3.4

Specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,335.2 4,365.8 4,410.3 4,518.8 4,397.2 4,578.0 4,569.1 4,580.2 11.1

Residential specialty trade contractors. . . . . . 1,900.9 1,920.0 1,939.8 1,989.5 1,928.2 2,021.8 2,011.9 2,015.7 3.8

Nonresidential specialty trade contractors. . . 2,434.3 2,445.8 2,470.5 2,529.3 2,469.0 2,556.2 2,557.2 2,564.5 7.3

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,349 12,536 12,576 12,599 12,410 12,609 12,631 12,655 24

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,688 7,833 7,869 7,885 7,712 7,864 7,885 7,903 18

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395.2 398.5 401.6 402.3 397.4 403.1 404.0 403.3 -0.7

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408.7 406.4 413.4 419.7 411.5 419.7 421.0 422.0 1.0

Primary metals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368.9 380.6 380.0 380.3 369.4 380.4 379.9 380.2 0.3

Fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,415.3 1,462.9 1,472.5 1,477.2 1,418.7 1,466.8 1,475.2 1,479.1 3.9

Machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,069.0 1,104.7 1,104.7 1,111.9 1,072.7 1,104.7 1,106.7 1,115.1 8.4

Computer and electronic products. . . . . . . . . . . 1,035.2 1,053.9 1,059.2 1,058.7 1,038.9 1,057.5 1,061.0 1,061.9 0.9

Computer and peripheral equipment. . . . . . 156.2 167.0 168.9 169.1 157.1 168.0 169.2 169.7 0.5

Communications equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.6 85.9 86.2 85.0 86.8 86.4 86.4 85.2 -1.2

Semiconductors and electronic

components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360.0 365.8 367.5 368.5 361.1 367.1 368.3 369.6 1.3

Electronic instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398.5 402.8 404.4 404.5 399.7 403.6 404.8 405.7 0.9

Miscellaneous computer and electronic

products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.9 32.4 32.2 31.6 34.2 32.5 32.3 31.9 -0.4

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . 383.3 396.7 398.6 400.1 384.7 398.2 399.7 401.5 1.8

Transportation equipment1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,628.4 1,645.9 1,654.1 1,649.6 1,630.8 1,647.2 1,649.6 1,651.4 1.8

Motor vehicles and parts2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955.0 960.8 966.9 960.4 955.6 961.0 961.5 960.6 -0.9

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393.9 391.2 391.5 389.8 394.8 391.9 391.8 390.7 -1.1

Miscellaneous durable goods

manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590.1 592.4 593.5 595.6 592.8 594.9 596.1 597.5 1.4

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,661 4,703 4,707 4,714 4,698 4,745 4,746 4,752 6

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,575.3 1,608.5 1,606.8 1,605.5 1,599.9 1,626.7 1,630.2 1,630.7 0.5

Textile mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.8 111.5 111.2 111.3 112.0 111.3 111.3 111.5 0.2

Textile product mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.4 110.9 111.5 110.4 116.0 112.1 111.9 110.9 -1.0

Apparel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121.0 116.6 116.9 117.9 121.7 116.6 117.2 118.3 1.1

Paper and paper products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369.3 372.9 373.1 373.1 370.0 372.6 373.1 372.8 -0.3

Printing and related support activities. . . . . . . 440.4 434.8 434.9 433.1 441.2 437.7 435.6 434.1 -1.5

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113.3 112.8 111.4 113.9 114.8 116.7 114.7 115.4 0.7

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819.0 823.8 823.2 825.8 820.2 826.9 824.5 827.3 2.8

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712.6 722.7 724.5 725.7 712.9 724.9 725.2 726.7 1.5

Miscellaneous nondurable goods

manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.9 288.9 293.4 297.6 289.6 299.7 302.5 304.5 2.0

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,563 104,005 104,502 105,267 103,831 105,313 105,428 105,547 119

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,192 27,330 27,420 27,484 27,431 27,695 27,727 27,720 -7

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,874.8 5,915.7 5,941.3 5,939.0 5,887.3 5,952.2 5,962.5 5,952.7 -9.8

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,949.4 2,991.5 3,000.3 3,002.6 2,955.7 3,004.7 3,007.4 3,008.2 0.8

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,041.6 2,030.5 2,043.1 2,042.6 2,045.0 2,050.2 2,054.5 2,047.3 -7.2

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

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Change

from:

Mar.2018 -

Apr.2018p

Wholesale trade - Continued

Electronic markets and agents and

brokers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 883.8 893.7 897.9 893.8 886.6 897.3 900.6 897.2 -3.4

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,688.0 15,659.0 15,699.1 15,763.7 15,855.2 15,919.0 15,925.2 15,927.0 1.8

Motor vehicle and parts dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,002.3 2,008.1 2,016.7 2,021.8 2,003.7 2,025.5 2,025.0 2,024.0 -1.0

Automobile dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,290.7 1,301.1 1,302.8 1,302.3 1,293.7 1,307.1 1,305.8 1,305.3 -0.5

Other motor vehicle dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156.2 149.0 153.1 157.1 155.2 157.1 156.9 156.5 -0.4

Auto parts, accessories, and tire stores. . . 555.4 558.0 560.8 562.4 554.7 561.2 562.4 562.2 -0.2

Furniture and home furnishings stores. . . . . . 469.6 479.8 477.7 474.9 476.0 480.3 482.2 481.3 -0.9

Electronics and appliance stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 502.8 494.6 494.9 492.7 512.0 497.0 498.3 499.1 0.8

Building material and garden supply

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,312.5 1,269.9 1,323.0 1,360.2 1,266.3 1,314.9 1,316.6 1,311.8 -4.8

Food and beverage stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,061.8 3,070.2 3,062.8 3,068.5 3,091.3 3,097.7 3,095.2 3,097.5 2.3

Health and personal care stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,060.5 1,051.5 1,055.3 1,050.2 1,067.4 1,056.0 1,059.4 1,057.7 -1.7

Gasoline stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921.7 923.8 927.6 929.0 929.1 936.5 937.6 936.7 -0.9

Clothing and clothing accessories stores. . . . 1,339.8 1,325.0 1,321.6 1,316.6 1,389.1 1,372.1 1,368.0 1,362.7 -5.3

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581.1 576.0 569.9 573.0 602.8 592.3 593.7 595.4 1.7

General merchandise stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,063.7 3,072.4 3,058.2 3,072.6 3,118.9 3,134.5 3,126.8 3,134.6 7.8

Department stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,138.9 1,146.9 1,130.8 1,131.0 1,173.7 1,176.4 1,168.9 1,167.8 -1.1

General merchandise stores, including

warehouse clubs and supercenters. . . . . 1,924.8 1,925.5 1,927.4 1,941.6 1,945.2 1,958.2 1,957.9 1,966.8 8.9

Miscellaneous store retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816.3 805.7 806.5 819.0 831.3 824.5 829.7 831.7 2.0

Nonstore retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555.9 582.0 584.9 585.2 567.3 587.7 592.7 594.5 1.8

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,074.9 5,204.1 5,226.8 5,227.8 5,132.6 5,269.3 5,285.0 5,285.4 0.4

Air transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488.7 497.9 499.1 501.1 489.2 502.6 501.4 502.0 0.6

Rail transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217.2 210.9 211.3 211.3 217.1 212.3 211.8 211.0 -0.8

Water transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.2 61.6 62.3 64.2 64.8 64.4 64.3 64.8 0.5

Truck transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,441.9 1,444.3 1,453.7 1,458.6 1,453.9 1,469.1 1,476.3 1,470.8 -5.5

Transit and ground passenger

transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498.2 508.9 509.4 508.7 483.7 497.2 495.7 494.9 -0.8

Pipeline transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.8 47.2 47.5 48.2 49.0 47.5 47.7 48.2 0.5

Scenic and sightseeing transportation. . . . . . . 30.9 26.9 29.2 31.1 34.9 36.4 36.9 35.3 -1.6

Support activities for transportation. . . . . . . . . . 686.4 702.7 705.7 702.6 687.8 705.9 707.7 702.9 -4.8

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625.9 696.1 700.2 687.7 668.6 717.3 723.7 730.0 6.3

Warehousing and storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972.7 1,007.6 1,008.4 1,014.3 983.6 1,016.6 1,019.5 1,025.5 6.0

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553.8 551.4 552.6 553.9 555.4 554.6 554.3 555.3 1.0

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,793 2,753 2,755 2,768 2,798 2,759 2,765 2,772 7

Publishing industries, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . 722.4 712.7 712.7 710.7 725.1 714.7 714.6 713.4 -1.2

Motion picture and sound recording

industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432.1 397.8 400.8 417.8 428.8 399.8 406.7 413.4 6.7

Broadcasting, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266.2 261.8 263.7 265.0 266.4 262.8 263.2 264.9 1.7

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780.9 771.4 766.4 762.0 783.4 770.4 766.9 765.0 -1.9

Data processing, hosting and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313.7 324.4 326.6 326.7 314.7 325.5 327.6 327.6 0.0

Other information services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277.8 284.6 285.0 285.8 279.4 286.1 286.2 287.5 1.3

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,382 8,487 8,502 8,507 8,423 8,543 8,547 8,549 2

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,230.2 6,300.7 6,297.8 6,291.3 6,249.8 6,312.5 6,310.3 6,310.2 -0.1

Monetary authorities - central bank. . . . . . . . . . 18.9 18.9 18.9 18.9 19.0 18.9 19.0 19.0 0.0

Credit intermediation and related

activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,635.9 2,658.4 2,655.0 2,655.3 2,642.7 2,663.8 2,660.6 2,661.9 1.3

Depository credit intermediation1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,709.4 1,714.2 1,716.6 1,718.0 1,711.8 1,717.3 1,718.1 1,720.3 2.2

Commercial banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,322.0 1,321.5 1,322.5 1,323.9 1,322.9 1,322.0 1,322.9 1,325.3 2.4

Nondepository credit intermediation. . . . . . . 618.3 627.0 623.2 624.9 622.0 628.8 626.7 628.5 1.8

Activities related to credit intermediation.. . 308.2 317.2 315.2 312.4 308.9 317.7 315.7 313.1 -2.6

Securities, commodity contracts,

investments, and funds and trusts. . . . . . . . 929.9 956.8 957.4 959.5 935.3 960.2 961.9 964.3 2.4

Insurance carriers and related activities. . . . . 2,645.5 2,666.6 2,666.5 2,657.6 2,652.8 2,669.6 2,668.8 2,665.0 -3.8

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,152.0 2,186.2 2,203.8 2,215.4 2,173.5 2,230.4 2,236.6 2,238.6 2.0

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,579.4 1,594.9 1,605.7 1,611.8 1,590.2 1,618.4 1,623.0 1,623.6 0.6

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548.7 567.1 573.0 578.7 559.1 587.4 588.4 590.0 1.6

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

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Change

from:

Mar.2018 -

Apr.2018p

Real estate and rental and leasing -

Continued

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets. . . . 23.9 24.2 25.1 24.9 24.2 24.6 25.2 25.0 -0.2

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,300 20,466 20,571 20,819 20,351 20,776 20,815 20,869 54

Professional and technical services. . . . . . . . . . . . 9,021.3 9,171.5 9,169.9 9,223.4 8,963.7 9,121.2 9,138.8 9,164.6 25.8

Legal services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,129.9 1,128.7 1,130.4 1,132.2 1,133.8 1,135.5 1,135.5 1,136.3 0.8

Accounting and bookkeeping services. . . . . . 1,081.5 1,087.3 1,087.8 1,080.6 988.7 975.5 985.7 988.8 3.1

Architectural and engineering services. . . . . . 1,418.0 1,444.0 1,443.4 1,456.7 1,428.0 1,465.3 1,461.6 1,466.8 5.2

Specialized design services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139.2 135.3 135.7 137.0 139.1 137.1 137.1 137.0 -0.1

Computer systems design and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,025.8 2,079.1 2,066.9 2,086.6 2,032.4 2,078.3 2,084.6 2,091.3 6.7

Management and technical consulting

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,383.2 1,421.9 1,418.8 1,429.9 1,391.1 1,436.1 1,435.1 1,438.0 2.9

Scientific research and development

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652.6 665.3 667.2 670.5 655.1 669.4 670.8 673.4 2.6

Advertising and related services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 492.5 490.6 495.1 498.2 494.7 494.5 497.5 499.6 2.1

Other professional and technical services. . . 698.6 719.3 724.6 731.7 700.8 729.5 730.8 733.4 2.6

Management of companies and enterprises. . . 2,275.5 2,301.6 2,308.0 2,305.5 2,285.6 2,311.6 2,315.2 2,315.6 0.4

Administrative and waste services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,003.5 8,992.9 9,093.5 9,290.1 9,101.3 9,343.3 9,361.4 9,389.0 27.6

Administrative and support services. . . . . . . . . 8,596.2 8,579.4 8,676.5 8,868.0 8,689.9 8,922.0 8,938.1 8,963.7 25.6

Office administrative services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 503.7 518.1 518.2 523.2 504.3 520.3 520.4 524.0 3.6

Facilities support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149.6 154.4 156.0 155.3 149.5 155.5 155.6 155.4 -0.2

Employment services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,491.3 3,555.6 3,584.0 3,630.3 3,568.8 3,700.7 3,700.8 3,713.1 12.3

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,844.6 2,889.9 2,913.8 2,953.8 2,912.9 3,018.6 3,016.5 3,026.8 10.3

Business support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897.9 912.5 908.5 900.7 905.7 910.6 911.2 908.7 -2.5

Travel arrangement and reservation

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217.3 214.2 215.5 216.8 217.0 217.0 216.5 216.4 -0.1

Investigation and security services. . . . . . . . 909.7 924.2 927.8 933.1 913.7 933.5 934.3 936.5 2.2

Services to buildings and dwellings. . . . . . . 2,106.7 1,972.8 2,030.8 2,169.5 2,110.9 2,151.8 2,162.2 2,170.8 8.6

Other support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320.0 327.6 335.7 339.1 320.0 332.6 337.0 338.8 1.8

Waste management and remediation

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407.3 413.5 417.0 422.1 411.4 421.3 423.3 425.3 2.0

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,260 23,598 23,629 23,684 23,086 23,462 23,486 23,517 31

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,831.5 3,869.2 3,867.7 3,875.8 3,649.3 3,703.3 3,695.8 3,696.9 1.1

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,428.4 19,728.7 19,761.7 19,808.5 19,436.8 19,758.3 19,790.3 19,819.6 29.3

Health care3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,628.0 15,885.1 15,898.3 15,930.8 15,659.1 15,919.0 15,940.1 15,964.5 24.4

Ambulatory health care services. . . . . . . . . . 7,239.6 7,401.2 7,412.0 7,441.5 7,251.6 7,420.5 7,436.6 7,453.5 16.9

Offices of physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,566.9 2,615.9 2,620.4 2,628.6 2,573.1 2,621.6 2,627.2 2,634.3 7.1

Offices of dentists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 928.3 934.3 935.8 938.2 930.4 936.2 940.0 940.8 0.8

Offices of other health practitioners. . . . . 880.6 911.2 912.8 922.6 881.8 915.3 917.1 923.0 5.9

Outpatient care centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 887.7 919.3 923.2 923.9 888.3 920.1 923.1 924.7 1.6

Medical and diagnostic laboratories. . . . 267.8 276.0 276.9 276.0 267.8 276.2 276.9 276.2 -0.7

Home health care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,404.5 1,435.6 1,436.4 1,444.6 1,406.2 1,442.0 1,443.3 1,446.2 2.9

Other ambulatory health care

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303.8 308.9 306.5 307.6 304.0 309.2 308.9 308.3 -0.6

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,053.8 5,139.1 5,149.0 5,148.6 5,065.3 5,144.6 5,151.8 5,159.8 8.0

Nursing and residential care facilities. . . . . 3,334.6 3,344.8 3,337.3 3,340.7 3,342.2 3,353.9 3,351.7 3,351.2 -0.5

Nursing care facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,627.2 1,613.7 1,607.2 1,607.3 1,631.4 1,617.3 1,615.4 1,612.7 -2.7

Residential mental health facilities. . . . . . 627.5 633.1 630.2 632.2 627.7 634.5 631.3 632.8 1.5

Community care facilities for the

elderly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912.9 927.8 928.8 929.5 915.3 930.9 932.4 933.5 1.1

Other residential care facilities. . . . . . . . . . 167.0 170.2 171.1 171.7 167.7 171.2 172.5 172.2 -0.3

Social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,800.4 3,843.6 3,863.4 3,877.7 3,777.7 3,839.3 3,850.2 3,855.1 4.9

Individual and family services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,336.9 2,384.5 2,399.2 2,410.3 2,334.2 2,388.3 2,399.3 2,405.2 5.9

Emergency and other relief services. . . . . . 168.2 172.5 172.3 171.0 167.4 171.3 171.3 170.6 -0.7

Vocational rehabilitation services. . . . . . . . . 343.0 343.2 343.6 343.6 344.7 346.6 346.4 345.1 -1.3

Child day care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 952.3 943.4 948.3 952.8 931.4 933.2 933.1 934.2 1.1

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,888 15,591 15,825 16,158 15,993 16,246 16,254 16,272 18

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,264.6 2,105.3 2,164.9 2,285.6 2,318.9 2,346.2 2,344.7 2,344.5 -0.2

Performing arts and spectator sports. . . . . . . . 503.0 450.0 466.6 508.2 486.8 494.3 491.2 493.1 1.9

Museums, historical sites, and similar

institutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160.7 156.7 161.8 169.2 164.4 172.2 172.2 173.1 0.9

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

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Change

from:

Mar.2018 -

Apr.2018p

Arts, entertainment, and recreation -

Continued

Amusements, gambling, and recreation. . . . . 1,600.9 1,498.6 1,536.5 1,608.2 1,667.7 1,679.7 1,681.3 1,678.3 -3.0

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . 13,622.9 13,485.9 13,659.8 13,872.8 13,673.6 13,900.2 13,909.0 13,927.9 18.9

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,955.5 1,926.9 1,955.3 1,982.6 2,001.5 2,018.2 2,023.3 2,027.4 4.1

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . 11,667.4 11,559.0 11,704.5 11,890.2 11,672.1 11,882.0 11,885.7 11,900.5 14.8

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,748 5,780 5,800 5,847 5,749 5,832 5,834 5,848 14

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,309.0 1,306.4 1,313.5 1,321.4 1,303.8 1,312.5 1,314.3 1,316.5 2.2

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,476.5 1,493.8 1,497.1 1,524.7 1,473.0 1,514.6 1,511.6 1,521.0 9.4

Membership associations and organizations. . . 2,962.3 2,979.9 2,989.8 3,000.4 2,972.1 3,005.3 3,008.5 3,010.1 1.6

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,713 22,632 22,694 22,704 22,315 22,322 22,322 22,318 -4

Federal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,794.0 2,777.0 2,774.0 2,787.0 2,801.0 2,792.0 2,793.0 2,794.0 1.0

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,179.7 2,170.7 2,169.2 2,178.1 2,188.6 2,184.8 2,185.2 2,187.0 1.8

U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613.9 606.0 604.9 608.4 612.6 607.6 607.3 606.8 -0.5

State government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,329.0 5,248.0 5,270.0 5,268.0 5,157.0 5,112.0 5,111.0 5,104.0 -7.0

State government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,645.1 2,593.8 2,609.6 2,607.1 2,473.8 2,448.2 2,448.3 2,443.6 -4.7

State government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . 2,683.6 2,654.6 2,660.1 2,660.5 2,682.9 2,663.6 2,663.0 2,660.3 -2.7

Local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,590.0 14,607.0 14,650.0 14,649.0 14,357.0 14,418.0 14,418.0 14,420.0 2.0

Local government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,227.5 8,249.3 8,272.3 8,248.2 7,912.8 7,938.0 7,935.0 7,937.5 2.5

Local government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . 6,362.7 6,358.1 6,377.5 6,400.7 6,443.8 6,479.8 6,483.0 6,482.4 -0.6

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.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2017 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 Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private............................................................................. 34.4 34.5 34.5 34.5

Goods-producing.................................................................... 40.4 40.6 40.5 40.7

Mining and logging................................................................ 45.4 46.0 45.8 45.6

Construction....................................................................... 39.3 39.4 39.3 39.5

Manufacturing..................................................................... 40.7 41.0 40.9 41.1

Durable goods.................................................................. 41.2 41.5 41.3 41.5

Nondurable goods.............................................................. 40.0 40.3 40.2 40.2

Private service-providing............................................................ 33.3 33.3 33.3 33.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................. 34.4 34.5 34.5 34.4

Wholesale trade................................................................ 39.0 39.0 39.0 38.9

Retail trade...................................................................... 31.1 31.1 31.1 31.0

Transportation and warehousing............................................. 38.7 38.9 38.8 38.9

Utilities........................................................................... 42.0 41.9 42.1 42.1

Information......................................................................... 36.3 36.0 36.1 36.1

Financial activities................................................................ 37.4 37.6 37.5 37.6

Professional and business services............................................ 36.1 36.2 36.2 36.2

Education and health services.................................................. 32.9 33.0 33.0 33.0

Leisure and hospitality........................................................... 26.1 26.1 26.1 26.1

Other services..................................................................... 31.8 31.7 31.8 31.8

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing........................................................................... 3.2 3.7 3.6 3.7

Durable goods....................................................................... 3.2 3.7 3.6 3.7

Nondurable goods................................................................... 3.3 3.6 3.6 3.6

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2017 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

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Total private............................................... $26.17 $26.74 $26.80 $26.84 $900.25 $922.53 $924.60 $925.98

Goods-producing....................................... 27.44 27.95 27.97 28.06 1,108.58 1,134.77 1,132.79 1,142.04

Mining and logging.................................. 31.86 32.33 32.54 32.54 1,446.44 1,487.18 1,490.33 1,483.82

Construction.......................................... 28.62 29.51 29.44 29.63 1,124.77 1,162.69 1,156.99 1,170.39

Manufacturing........................................ 26.55 26.83 26.87 26.91 1,080.59 1,100.03 1,098.98 1,106.00

Durable goods.................................... 27.80 28.10 28.15 28.24 1,145.36 1,166.15 1,162.60 1,171.96

Nondurable goods................................ 24.43 24.65 24.68 24.64 977.20 993.40 992.14 990.53

Private service-providing.............................. 25.88 26.45 26.52 26.55 861.80 880.79 883.12 884.12

Trade, transportation, and utilities................. 22.64 23.08 23.12 23.16 778.82 796.26 797.64 796.70

Wholesale trade.................................. 29.92 30.26 30.27 30.24 1,166.88 1,180.14 1,180.53 1,176.34

Retail trade........................................ 18.06 18.45 18.47 18.57 561.67 573.80 574.42 575.67

Transportation and warehousing............... 23.63 24.24 24.30 24.26 914.48 942.94 942.84 943.71

Utilities............................................. 39.47 39.86 40.23 40.34 1,657.74 1,670.13 1,693.68 1,698.31

Information........................................... 38.00 39.05 39.11 39.25 1,379.40 1,405.80 1,411.87 1,416.93

Financial activities................................... 32.87 34.20 34.35 34.20 1,229.34 1,285.92 1,288.13 1,285.92

Professional and business services.............. 31.53 32.03 32.14 32.23 1,138.23 1,159.49 1,163.47 1,166.73

Education and health services..................... 26.19 26.74 26.82 26.80 861.65 882.42 885.06 884.40

Leisure and hospitality.............................. 15.39 15.74 15.80 15.83 401.68 410.81 412.38 413.16

Other services....................................... 23.70 24.26 24.26 24.33 753.66 769.04 771.47 773.69

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2017 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

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Percent

change

from:

Mar.

2018 -

Apr.

2018p

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Percent

change

from:

Mar.

2018 -

Apr.

2018p

Total private..................................... 106.9 108.9 109.1 109.2 0.1 133.8 139.3 139.7 140.1 0.3

Goods-producing............................. 92.0 94.8 94.6 95.3 0.7 114.2 119.7 119.6 120.9 1.1

Mining and logging........................ 95.7 103.2 103.9 104.6 0.7 122.4 134.0 135.8 136.7 0.7

Construction................................ 93.7 97.3 97.0 97.7 0.7 116.5 124.8 124.0 125.8 1.5

Manufacturing.............................. 90.9 93.0 92.9 93.6 0.8 112.2 116.0 116.1 117.1 0.9

Durable goods........................... 89.5 91.9 91.7 92.3 0.7 110.4 114.7 114.6 115.8 1.0

Nondurable goods...................... 93.8 95.4 95.2 95.4 0.2 116.3 119.4 119.3 119.2 -0.1

Private service-providing.................... 111.2 112.8 112.9 113.1 0.2 139.9 145.0 145.6 145.9 0.2

Trade, transportation, and utilities....... 102.6 103.9 104.0 103.7 -0.3 125.1 129.1 129.5 129.3 -0.2

Wholesale trade......................... 100.2 101.3 101.5 101.0 -0.5 125.1 127.9 128.2 127.5 -0.5

Retail trade.............................. 100.2 100.6 100.6 100.3 -0.3 119.6 122.7 122.8 123.1 0.2

Transportation and warehousing...... 113.7 117.3 117.4 117.7 0.3 136.3 144.3 144.7 144.9 0.1

Utilities.................................... 100.9 100.5 101.0 101.1 0.1 131.6 132.4 134.2 134.8 0.4

Information................................. 92.8 90.7 91.2 91.4 0.2 125.5 126.1 126.9 127.7 0.6

Financial activities......................... 103.2 105.2 105.0 105.3 0.3 132.3 140.3 140.6 140.4 -0.1

Professional and business services..... 115.6 118.3 118.5 118.8 0.3 147.6 153.5 154.3 155.1 0.5

Education and health services........... 124.0 126.4 126.6 126.7 0.1 156.3 162.6 163.3 163.4 0.1

Leisure and hospitality.................... 119.1 121.0 121.0 121.2 0.2 147.9 153.6 154.3 154.8 0.3

Other services............................. 105.4 106.6 107.0 107.2 0.2 136.9 141.7 142.2 143.0 0.6

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.

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NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2017 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

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Total nonfarm............................................. 72,390 73,423 73,512 73,627 49.5 49.6 49.6 49.6

Total private............................................ 59,592 60,587 60,674 60,788 48.1 48.2 48.2 48.2

Goods-producing.................................... 4,378 4,505 4,523 4,537 21.9 22.0 22.1 22.1

Mining and logging............................... 92 92 93 93 13.7 12.9 12.9 12.7

Construction....................................... 870 916 917 918 12.6 12.8 12.8 12.8

Manufacturing..................................... 3,416 3,497 3,513 3,526 27.5 27.7 27.8 27.9

Durable goods.................................. 1,806 1,845 1,853 1,860 23.4 23.5 23.5 23.5

Nondurable goods............................. 1,610 1,652 1,660 1,666 34.3 34.8 35.0 35.1

Private service-providing........................... 55,214 56,082 56,151 56,251 53.2 53.3 53.3 53.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............. 11,060 11,129 11,123 11,135 40.3 40.2 40.1 40.2

Wholesale trade................................ 1,735.3 1,768.4 1,773.9 1,772.7 29.5 29.7 29.8 29.8

Retail trade..................................... 7,945.5 7,938.7 7,924.6 7,934.1 50.1 49.9 49.8 49.8

Transportation and warehousing............. 1,251.8 1,293.5 1,296.7 1,299.2 24.4 24.5 24.5 24.6

Utilities........................................... 127.6 127.9 128.1 128.5 23.0 23.1 23.1 23.1

Information......................................... 1,117 1,091 1,093 1,096 39.9 39.5 39.5 39.5

Financial activities................................ 4,764 4,816 4,820 4,824 56.6 56.4 56.4 56.4

Professional and business services............ 9,144 9,386 9,411 9,443 44.9 45.2 45.2 45.2

Education and health services.................. 17,786 18,050 18,087 18,109 77.0 76.9 77.0 77.0

Leisure and hospitality........................... 8,306 8,513 8,523 8,546 51.9 52.4 52.4 52.5

Other services..................................... 3,037 3,097 3,094 3,098 52.8 53.1 53.0 53.0

Government............................................. 12,798 12,836 12,838 12,839 57.4 57.5 57.5 57.5

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NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2017 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 Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Total private............................................................................... 102,074 103,642 103,747 103,867

Goods-producing....................................................................... 14,403 14,752 14,749 14,782

Mining and logging.................................................................. 484 528 534 539

Construction.......................................................................... 5,201 5,370 5,352 5,354

Manufacturing........................................................................ 8,718 8,854 8,863 8,889

Durable goods..................................................................... 5,302 5,407 5,418 5,442

Nondurable goods................................................................ 3,416 3,447 3,445 3,447

Private service-providing.............................................................. 87,671 88,890 88,998 89,085

Trade, transportation, and utilities................................................. 23,091 23,399 23,431 23,434

Wholesale trade................................................................... 4,716.8 4,775.2 4,782.7 4,770.2

Retail trade........................................................................ 13,467.6 13,601.1 13,612.6 13,625.0

Transportation and warehousing................................................ 4,458.9 4,577.9 4,590.3 4,593.6

Utilities.............................................................................. 447.3 445.2 445.2 445.3

Information............................................................................ 2,258 2,220 2,222 2,232

Financial activities................................................................... 6,547 6,622 6,627 6,624

Professional and business services............................................... 16,650 16,914 16,949 16,984

Education and health services..................................................... 20,274 20,613 20,637 20,657

Leisure and hospitality.............................................................. 14,090 14,297 14,305 14,316

Other services........................................................................ 4,761 4,825 4,827 4,838

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.

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NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2017 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 Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private............................................................................. 33.7 33.8 33.7 33.8

Goods-producing.................................................................... 41.3 41.6 41.6 41.8

Mining and logging................................................................ 46.1 47.0 46.8 46.8

Construction....................................................................... 39.9 40.0 40.0 40.2

Manufacturing..................................................................... 41.9 42.3 42.2 42.4

Durable goods.................................................................. 42.3 42.6 42.5 42.7

Nondurable goods.............................................................. 41.1 41.7 41.7 42.0

Private service-providing............................................................ 32.4 32.5 32.4 32.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................. 33.8 33.9 33.9 33.8

Wholesale trade................................................................ 38.8 38.9 38.9 38.9

Retail trade...................................................................... 30.2 30.3 30.3 30.2

Transportation and warehousing............................................. 38.4 38.5 38.3 38.4

Utilities........................................................................... 42.5 42.7 42.9 42.9

Information......................................................................... 35.9 35.8 35.9 36.1

Financial activities................................................................ 37.0 37.0 37.0 37.0

Professional and business services............................................ 35.4 35.4 35.3 35.3

Education and health services.................................................. 32.2 32.3 32.3 32.3

Leisure and hospitality........................................................... 24.8 25.0 24.9 24.9

Other services..................................................................... 30.7 30.7 30.7 30.8

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing........................................................................... 4.2 4.8 4.7 4.8

Durable goods....................................................................... 4.3 4.9 4.8 4.9

Nondurable goods................................................................... 4.1 4.6 4.5 4.6

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.

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NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2017 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

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Total private............................................... $21.94 $22.39 $22.46 $22.51 $739.38 $756.78 $756.90 $760.84

Goods-producing....................................... 23.00 23.71 23.72 23.79 949.90 986.34 986.75 994.42

Mining and logging.................................. 27.14 27.77 27.82 27.89 1,251.15 1,305.19 1,301.98 1,305.25

Construction.......................................... 26.45 27.41 27.37 27.49 1,055.36 1,096.40 1,094.80 1,105.10

Manufacturing........................................ 20.79 21.32 21.36 21.41 871.10 901.84 901.39 907.78

Durable goods.................................... 21.76 22.26 22.29 22.40 920.45 948.28 947.33 956.48

Nondurable goods................................ 19.22 19.81 19.86 19.83 789.94 826.08 828.16 832.86

Private service-providing.............................. 21.72 22.10 22.19 22.23 703.73 718.25 718.96 720.25

Trade, transportation, and utilities................. 19.23 19.54 19.66 19.73 649.97 662.41 666.47 666.87

Wholesale trade.................................. 24.59 24.82 24.84 24.85 954.09 965.50 966.28 966.67

Retail trade........................................ 15.23 15.49 15.66 15.77 459.95 469.35 474.50 476.25

Transportation and warehousing............... 21.13 21.65 21.72 21.76 811.39 833.53 831.88 835.58

Utilities............................................. 36.24 36.38 36.81 36.43 1,540.20 1,553.43 1,579.15 1,562.85

Information........................................... 30.59 31.18 31.46 31.27 1,098.18 1,116.24 1,129.41 1,128.85

Financial activities................................... 26.49 26.74 26.84 26.89 980.13 989.38 993.08 994.93

Professional and business services.............. 25.89 26.40 26.49 26.55 916.51 934.56 935.10 937.22

Education and health services..................... 22.96 23.41 23.44 23.45 739.31 756.14 757.11 757.44

Leisure and hospitality.............................. 13.31 13.63 13.67 13.72 330.09 340.75 340.38 341.63

Other services....................................... 19.93 20.49 20.49 20.54 611.85 629.04 629.04 632.63

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 2017 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

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Percent

change

from:

Mar.

2018 -

Apr.

2018p

Apr.

2017

Feb.

2018

Mar.

2018p

Apr.

2018p

Percent

change

from:

Mar.

2018 -

Apr.

2018p

Total private..................................... 114.6 116.7 116.5 117.0 0.4 168.0 174.6 174.8 175.9 0.6

Goods-producing............................. 90.9 93.8 93.8 94.4 0.6 128.0 136.1 136.2 137.5 1.0

Mining and logging........................ 118.6 131.9 132.8 134.0 0.9 187.1 213.0 214.9 217.4 1.2

Construction................................ 103.9 107.6 107.2 107.8 0.6 148.4 159.2 158.4 160.0 1.0

Manufacturing.............................. 83.9 86.0 85.9 86.5 0.7 114.0 119.9 119.9 121.1 1.0

Durable goods........................... 84.3 86.6 86.5 87.3 0.9 114.5 120.3 120.4 122.1 1.4

Nondurable goods...................... 82.7 84.7 84.6 85.3 0.8 112.4 118.6 118.8 119.5 0.6

Private service-providing.................... 121.0 123.0 122.8 122.9 0.1 180.2 186.4 186.9 187.4 0.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities....... 108.8 110.6 110.7 110.4 -0.3 149.3 154.1 155.3 155.4 0.1

Wholesale trade......................... 107.8 109.4 109.6 109.3 -0.3 156.1 159.9 160.3 160.0 -0.2

Retail trade.............................. 103.0 104.3 104.4 104.2 -0.2 134.4 138.5 140.1 140.8 0.5

Transportation and warehousing...... 128.9 132.7 132.3 132.8 0.4 172.8 182.2 182.3 183.3 0.5

Utilities.................................... 97.2 97.2 97.7 97.7 0.0 147.1 147.6 150.1 148.6 -1.0

Information................................. 92.5 90.7 91.0 92.0 1.1 140.1 140.0 141.8 142.4 0.4

Financial activities......................... 114.0 115.3 115.4 115.4 0.0 185.8 189.8 190.6 190.9 0.2

Professional and business services..... 132.1 134.2 134.1 134.4 0.2 203.5 210.8 211.4 212.3 0.4

Education and health services........... 139.2 142.0 142.1 142.3 0.1 210.9 219.3 219.9 220.2 0.1

Leisure and hospitality.................... 128.0 130.9 130.5 130.6 0.1 193.5 202.7 202.5 203.4 0.4

Other services............................. 102.5 103.9 103.9 104.5 0.6 148.9 155.1 155.2 156.4 0.8

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 2017 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.