2

Technical information:

Household data: (202) 691-6378

http://www.bls.gov/cps/

Establishment data: 691-6555

http://www.bls.gov/ces/

Media contact: 691-5902

USDL 05-2118

Transmission of material in this release

is embargoed until 8:30 A.M. (EST),

Friday, November 4, 2005.

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: OCTOBER 2005

Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (+56,000) in October, and the unemployment rate

was essentially unchanged at 5.0 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor

reported today. Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm

payrolls rose by 8 cents over the month.

 Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma

In October, interviewing for the household survey resumed in Orleans and Jefferson parishes

in Louisiana. Interviews were not conducted in those areas in September because they were

under mandatory evacuation orders. Otherwise, normal data collection and estimation procedures were used in the household survey for both months.

For the October establishment survey estimates, several modifications to the usual estimation procedures were again used to better reflect employment in Katrina-affected areas. The

changes included: (1) modification of procedures to impute employment counts for survey

nonrespondents in the most heavily impacted areas, (2) adjustments to sample weights for

sample units in the more broadly defined disaster area to compensate for lower-than-average

survey response rates, and (3) modification of the adjustment procedure for the business net

birth/death estimator to reflect likely changes in business birth/death patterns in the disaster areas.

Hurricane Rita made landfall on the Gulf Coast near the Louisiana and Texas border in late

September. For October, the number of responses to the establishment survey was only slightly

below normal in the areas affected by Rita. Therefore, no special estimation procedures were

used for those areas.

Hurricane Wilma struck Florida after the October survey reference periods, but during the

survey collection periods. As with Hurricane Rita, the impact on data collection for the

establishment survey was minimal, and no special estimation procedures were used for the

affected areas. Because the reference periods for both surveys occurred before Hurricane

Wilma struck, any impact of this storm would not be reflected in October's employment and

unemployment estimates.

For more information on household and establishment survey procedures and estimates for

October 2005, see http://www.bls.gov/katrina/cpscesquestions.htm on the BLS Web site or call

(202) 691-6378 for information about the household survey, and (202) 691-6555 for information about the establishment survey.
2

Table A. Major indicators of labor market activity, seasonally adjusted

(Numbers in thousands)

Quarterly averages Monthly data Sept.-

Category Oct.

II III Aug. Sept. Oct. change 

Labor force status

Civilian labor force................................. 149,003 149,835 149,841 150,093 150,079 -14

Employment....................................... 141,404 142,319 142,449 142,432 142,646 214

Unemployment.................................... 7,599 7,516 7,391 7,661 7,433 -228 

Not in labor force.................................... 76,671 76,587 76,581 76,600 76,880 280 

All workers........................................... 5.1 5.0 4.9 5.1 5.0 -0.1

Adult men.......................................... 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.5 4.3 -.2

Adult women.................................... 4.6 4.6 4.4 4.6 4.6 .0

Teenagers.......................................... 17.4 16.1 16.5 15.8 15.9 .1

White .............................................. 4.4 4.3 4.2 4.5 4.4 -.1 

Black or African American ..................... 10.3 9.5 9.6 9.4 9.1 -.3 

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity..................... 6.1 5.9 5.8 6.5 5.8 -.7 

ESTABLISHMENT DATA 

Nonfarm employment.............................. 133,429 p133,961 134,013 p134,005 p134,061 p56

Goods-producing 1

.............................. 22,134 p22,146 22,159 p22,146 p22,195 p49

Construction................................. 7,217 p7,260 7,267 p7,279 p7,312 p33

Manufacturing................................. 14,292 p14,254 14,260 p14,232 p14,244 p12

Service-providing 1 .............................. 111,295 p111,815 111,854 p111,859 p111,866 p7

Retail trade 2

 ................................. 15,180 p15,218 15,231 p15,173 p15,167 p-5 

Professional and business services......... 16,867 p16,997 16,983 p17,044 p17,056 p12 

Education and health services............... 17,289 p17,415 17,418 p17,451 p17,462 p11 

Leisure and hospitality..................... 12,741 p12,799 12,830 p12,767 p12,749 p-18 

Government................................. 21,753 p21,841 21,849 p21,857 p21,867 p10 

Total private.......................................... 33.7 p33.7 33.7 p33.8 p33.8 p0.0

Manufacturing..................................... 40.4 p40.5 40.5 p40.6 p41.0 p.4

Overtime....................................... 4.4 p4.5 4.5 p4.5 p4.5 p.0 

 

Total private............................................ 102.4 p103.0 102.9 p103.2 p103.2 p0.0 

Average hourly earnings, total private............ $16.03 p$16.17 $16.17 p$16.19 p$16.27 p$0.08 

Average weekly earnings, total private............ 540.86 p545.36 544.93 p547.22 p549.93 p2.71 

 1 Includes other industries, not shown separately.

 2 Quarterly averages and the over-the-month change are calculated using unrounded data.

 3 Data relate to private production or nonsupervisory workers.

Earnings 3

Hours of work 3

HOUSEHOLD DATA

 p = preliminary.

Indexes of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100) 3

Unemployment rates 

 Employment

2005 2005
3

Unemployment (Household Survey Data)

Both the number of unemployed persons, 7.4 million, and the unemployment rate, 5.0 percent, were

little changed in October. The unemployment rate has ranged from 4.9 to 5.1 percent since May. The

unemployment rates for adult women (4.6 percent), teenagers (15.9 percent), whites (4.4 percent), and

blacks (9.1 percent) showed little or no change over the month. The jobless rates for adult men (4.3 percent) and Hispanics or Latinos (5.8 percent) both declined from September. In October, the unemployment rate for Asians was 3.1 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

After increasing by a similar magnitude in September, the number of persons unemployed due to job

loss fell by 201,000 in October to 3.5 million. Since December, the number of unemployed job losers has

decreased by 585,000. (See table A-8.)

Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)

Total employment, 142.6 million, and the civilian labor force, 150.1 million, were little changed in

October. The employment-population ratio (62.9 percent) and the labor force participation rate (66.1

percent) also were little changed. (See table A-1.)

In October, persons employed part time for economic reasons—those who are available for and would

prefer full-time work—decreased by 330,000 to 4.3 million. This number had been trending up in recent

months. (See table A-5.)

Persons Not in the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)

The number of persons marginally attached to the labor force was 1.4 million in October, down from

1.6 million a year earlier. (Data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals wanted and were available

to work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed,

however, because they did not actively search for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. There were

392,000 discouraged workers in October, little changed from a year earlier. Discouraged workers, a subset

of the marginally attached, were not currently looking for work specifically because they believed no jobs

were available for them. The other 1.0 million marginally attached persons had not searched for work for

reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities. (See table A-13.)

Industry Payroll Employment (Establishment Survey Data)

Total nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (+56,000) in October at 134.1 million. Employment growth was flat in September (-8,000, as revised), due in part to the effects of Hurricane Katrina. In

the first 8 months of the year, payroll employment had increased by an average of 196,000 per month. In

October, construction, financial activities, and health care added jobs, while employment in most other major

industries showed little movement. (See table B-1.)

Over the month, construction employment increased by 33,000, with much of the gain (20,000) occurring

in residential specialty trade contracting. Prior to October, construction employment had been expanding by

an average of 21,000 per month in 2005. October’s gain may partly reflect rebuilding and clean-up efforts

following Hurricane Katrina. Mining continued to trend upward, adding 5,000 jobs over the month.

Manufacturing added 12,000 jobs in October. Employment in transportation equipment increased by

22,000, largely due to the return of 18,000 striking workers in the aerospace industry. This gain in transportation equipment employment was partly offset by job losses in computer and peripheral equipment

(-2,000), electrical equipment and appliances (-3,000), and miscellaneous manufacturing (-4,000) in

October.
4

Employment in financial activities continued to grow in October, rising by 22,000. Employment gains in

credit intermediation accounted for about half of the over-the-month increase. Over the year, credit intermediation has added 107,000 jobs. Employment in insurance edged up in October.

Health care employment also continued to grow in October, increasing by 17,000. Ambulatory health

care services, which includes doctors’ offices and outpatient clinics, added 11,000 jobs. Hospitals also contributed to the employment gain with an increase of 6,000 jobs.

Employment in the leisure and hospitality industry edged down in October, after declining by 63,000 in

September. Within the industry, food services—which includes restaurants and drinking places—accounted

for the weakness over the month. Prior to September, food services had been adding about 26,000 jobs

per month in 2005.

Retail trade employment was essentially unchanged in October following a large decline in September. In

October, there were job losses in department stores (-18,000) and automobile dealers (-9,000). Following

large declines in August and September, employment in food stores edged up by 9,000 in October. Sporting

goods, hobby, book, and music stores also added 9,000 jobs over the month, largely offsetting a decline in

September.

Professional and business services employment was little changed in October. Over the last 12 months,

however, the industry has added 442,000 jobs. Over the month, employment in computer systems design

and related services increased by 8,000.

In October, employment in information decreased by 15,000. Much of this decline was due to a job

loss of 11,000 in the motion picture and sound recording industry. Despite the October decline, employment in the information industry was about unchanged over the year.

Weekly Hours (Establishment Survey Data)

The average workweek for production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 33.8 hours in October, seasonally adjusted. The manufacturing workweek increased by 0.4 hour

to 41.0 hours, and factory overtime was unchanged at 4.5 hours. (See table B-2.)

The index of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged in October at 103.2 (2002=100). The manufacturing index was up by 1.3 percent over

the month to 95.1. (See table B-5.)

Hourly and Weekly Earnings (Establishment Survey Data)

Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers on private nonfarm payrolls rose by

8 cents in October to $16.27, seasonally adjusted. Average weekly earnings increased by 0.5 percent over

the month to $549.93. Over the year, both average hourly and weekly earnings increased by 2.9 percent.

(See table B-3.)

______________________________

The Employment Situation for November 2005 is scheduled to be released on Friday, December 2, at

8:30 A.M. (EST).
Explanatory Note

This news release presents statistics from two major surveys, the

Current Population Survey (household survey) and the Current

Employment Statistics survey (establishment survey). The household survey provides the 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 households conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor

Statistics (BLS).

The establishment survey provides the information on the

employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm payrolls that

appears in the B tables, marked ESTABLISHMENT DATA. This

information is collected from payroll records by BLS in cooperation

with state agencies. The sample includes about 160,000 businesses

and government agencies covering approximately 400,000 individual

worksites. The active sample includes about one-third of all nonfarm

payroll workers. The sample is drawn from a sampling frame of

unemployment insurance tax accounts.

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

week or pay period. In the household survey, the reference week 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 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 employmentpopulation ratio is the employed as a percent of the population.

Establishment survey. The sample establishments are drawn

from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, offices, and stores,

as well as 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 for private businesses and relate only to production workers in the goods-producing

sector and nonsupervisory workers in the service-providing sector.

Industries are classified on the basis of their principal activity in

accordance with the 2002 version of the North American Industry

Classification System.

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, the self-employed, 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 would be 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 sharp fluctuations

due to such seasonal events as changes in weather, reduced or expanded

production, harvests, major holidays, and the opening and closing of

schools. The effect of such seasonal variation can be very large; seasonal fluctuations may account for as much as 95 percent of the monthto-month changes in unemployment.

Because these seasonal events follow a more or less regular pattern

each year, their influence on statistical trends can be eliminated by

adjusting the statistics from month to month. These adjustments make

nonseasonal developments, such as declines in economic activity or

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

spot. For example, 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. However, because the effect of

students finishing school in previous years is known, the statistics

for the current year can be adjusted to allow for a comparable change.

Insofar as the seasonal adjustment is made correctly, the adjusted figure provides a more useful tool with which to analyze changes in

economic activity.

Most seasonally adjusted series are independently adjusted in both

the household and establishment surveys. However, the ad-
justed series for many major estimates, such as total payroll employment, employment in most supersectors, 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. In both

surveys, 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 exact difference, or sampling error, varies depending on the

particular sample selected, and this 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

employment from the household survey is on the order of plus or

minus 430,000. Suppose the estimate of total employment increases

by 100,000 from one month to the next. The 90-percent confidence

interval on the monthly change would range from -330,000 to 530,000

(100,000 +/- 430,000). 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-the-month change lies within

this interval. Since this range includes values of less than zero, we

could not say with confidence that employment had, in fact, increased.

If, however, the reported employment rise was half a million, 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 an employment rise had, in fact, occurred. At an unemployment

rate of around 5.5 percent, the 90-percent confidence interval for the

monthly change in unemployment is about +/- 280,000, and for the

monthly change in the unemployment rate it is about +/- .19 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 is also improved when the data are cumulated

over time such as for quarterly and annual averages. The seasonal

adjustment process can also improve the stability of the monthly

estimates.

The household and establishment surveys are also affected by

nonsampling error. Nonsampling errors 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 uses business

deaths to impute employment for business births. This is incorporated

into the sample-based link relative estimate procedure by simply not

reflecting sample units going out of business, but imputing to them the

same trend as the other firms in the sample. 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 five 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 samplebased 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, the benchmark revision for

total nonfarm employment has averaged 0.2 percent, ranging from

less than 0.05 percent to 0.5 percent.

Additional statistics and other information

More comprehensive statistics are contained in Employment and

Earnings, published each month by BLS. It is available for $27.00 per

issue or $53.00 per year from the U.S. Government Printing Office,

Washington, DC 20402. All orders must be prepaid by sending a check

or money order payable to the Superintendent of Documents, or by

charging to Mastercard or Visa.

Employment and Earnings also provides measures of sampling error

for the household and establishment survey data published in this

release. For unemployment and other labor force categories, these

measures appear in tables 1-B through 1-D of its “Explanatory Notes.”

For the establishment survey data, the sampling error measures and the

actual size of revisions due to benchmark adjustments appear in tables

2-B through 2-F of Employment and Earnings.

Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 202-691-5200; TDD

message referral phone: 1-800-877-8339.
HOUSEHOLD DATA 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 adjusted 1

Oct.

2004

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 224,192 226,693 226,959 224,192 225,911 226,153 226,421 226,693 226,959

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 147,978 149,838 150,304 147,893 149,123 149,573 149,841 150,093 150,079

 Participation rate ............................................................... 66.0 66.1 66.2 66.0 66.0 66.1 66.2 66.2 66.1

 Employed .............................................................................. 140,447 142,579 143,340 139,827 141,638 142,076 142,449 142,432 142,646

 Employment-population ratio ............................................ 62.6 62.9 63.2 62.4 62.7 62.8 62.9 62.8 62.9

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 7,531 7,259 6,964 8,066 7,486 7,497 7,391 7,661 7,433

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

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 76,214 76,855 76,655 76,299 76,787 76,580 76,581 76,600 76,880

 Persons who currently want a job ......................................... 5,065 4,757 4,796 5,338 5,240 5,015 4,823 4,937 4,997

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 108,153 109,475 109,616 108,153 109,062 109,190 109,332 109,475 109,616

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 79,282 80,130 80,306 79,290 80,063 80,199 80,409 80,327 80,256

 Participation rate ............................................................... 73.3 73.2 73.3 73.3 73.4 73.4 73.5 73.4 73.2

 Employed .............................................................................. 75,254 76,446 76,808 74,852 76,092 76,272 76,449 76,236 76,395

 Employment-population ratio ............................................ 69.6 69.8 70.1 69.2 69.8 69.9 69.9 69.6 69.7

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 4,028 3,684 3,498 4,438 3,971 3,927 3,960 4,092 3,862

 Unemployment rate .......................................................... 5.1 4.6 4.4 5.6 5.0 4.9 4.9 5.1 4.8

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 28,871 29,345 29,310 28,863 28,998 28,991 28,923 29,148 29,360

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 99,904 101,136 101,265 99,904 100,754 100,874 101,004 101,136 101,265

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 75,744 76,769 76,978 75,632 76,462 76,624 76,831 76,790 76,806

 Participation rate ............................................................... 75.8 75.9 76.0 75.7 75.9 76.0 76.1 75.9 75.8

 Employed .............................................................................. 72,351 73,637 73,988 71,895 73,174 73,363 73,527 73,318 73,519

 Employment-population ratio ............................................ 72.4 72.8 73.1 72.0 72.6 72.7 72.8 72.5 72.6

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 3,393 3,132 2,990 3,736 3,288 3,261 3,304 3,471 3,287

 Unemployment rate .......................................................... 4.5 4.1 3.9 4.9 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.5 4.3

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 24,160 24,367 24,287 24,272 24,292 24,250 24,173 24,346 24,459

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 116,039 117,218 117,343 116,039 116,849 116,963 117,089 117,218 117,343

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 68,696 69,708 69,998 68,603 69,060 69,374 69,431 69,765 69,823

 Participation rate ............................................................... 59.2 59.5 59.7 59.1 59.1 59.3 59.3 59.5 59.5

 Employed .............................................................................. 65,193 66,133 66,532 64,975 65,545 65,804 66,000 66,196 66,251

 Employment-population ratio ............................................ 56.2 56.4 56.7 56.0 56.1 56.3 56.4 56.5 56.5

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 3,503 3,575 3,466 3,628 3,515 3,570 3,431 3,569 3,571

 Unemployment rate .......................................................... 5.1 5.1 5.0 5.3 5.1 5.1 4.9 5.1 5.1

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 47,343 47,509 47,345 47,436 47,789 47,589 47,658 47,453 47,520

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 108,032 109,114 109,228 108,032 108,776 108,880 108,996 109,114 109,228

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 65,327 66,247 66,480 65,126 65,470 65,768 65,761 66,130 66,191

 Participation rate ............................................................... 60.5 60.7 60.9 60.3 60.2 60.4 60.3 60.6 60.6

 Employed .............................................................................. 62,321 63,153 63,551 62,024 62,451 62,690 62,867 63,077 63,173

 Employment-population ratio ............................................ 57.7 57.9 58.2 57.4 57.4 57.6 57.7 57.8 57.8

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 3,006 3,095 2,930 3,102 3,019 3,078 2,894 3,053 3,018

 Unemployment rate .......................................................... 4.6 4.7 4.4 4.8 4.6 4.7 4.4 4.6 4.6

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 42,705 42,866 42,748 42,906 43,306 43,113 43,235 42,983 43,037

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 16,257 16,443 16,465 16,257 16,381 16,399 16,421 16,443 16,465

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 6,907 6,822 6,845 7,135 7,192 7,182 7,249 7,173 7,082

 Participation rate ............................................................... 42.5 41.5 41.6 43.9 43.9 43.8 44.1 43.6 43.0

 Employed .............................................................................. 5,775 5,789 5,801 5,908 6,013 6,024 6,055 6,036 5,954

 Employment-population ratio ............................................ 35.5 35.2 35.2 36.3 36.7 36.7 36.9 36.7 36.2

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 1,132 1,033 1,045 1,227 1,178 1,158 1,193 1,136 1,128

 Unemployment rate .......................................................... 16.4 15.1 15.3 17.2 16.4 16.1 16.5 15.8 15.9

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 9,350 9,621 9,620 9,122 9,190 9,217 9,172 9,271 9,384

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

 NOTE: Beginning in January 2005, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.
HOUSEHOLD 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 adjusted 1

Oct.

2004

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

WHITE 

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 183,188 184,851 185,028 183,188 184,328 184,490 184,669 184,851 185,028

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 121,324 122,614 122,900 121,273 121,985 122,383 122,668 122,817 122,797

 Participation rate ................................................................. 66.2 66.3 66.4 66.2 66.2 66.3 66.4 66.4 66.4

 Employed .............................................................................. 116,151 117,420 117,898 115,618 116,778 117,149 117,471 117,317 117,356

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 63.4 63.5 63.7 63.1 63.4 63.5 63.6 63.5 63.4

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 5,173 5,194 5,002 5,655 5,206 5,234 5,197 5,500 5,441

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

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 61,864 62,237 62,128 61,915 62,343 62,107 62,001 62,034 62,231

Men, 20 years and over

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 63,203 63,841 64,041 63,092 63,691 63,700 63,894 63,824 63,903

 Participation rate ................................................................. 76.2 76.2 76.4 76.1 76.3 76.2 76.4 76.2 76.2

 Employed .............................................................................. 60,827 61,567 61,871 60,415 61,371 61,353 61,510 61,248 61,457

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 73.4 73.5 73.8 72.9 73.5 73.4 73.5 73.1 73.3

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 2,376 2,274 2,170 2,678 2,320 2,346 2,384 2,576 2,446

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 3.8 3.6 3.4 4.2 3.6 3.7 3.7 4.0 3.8

Women, 20 years and over

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 52,412 53,021 53,164 52,270 52,325 52,757 52,762 52,973 52,990

 Participation rate ................................................................. 59.8 60.0 60.1 59.6 59.4 59.8 59.8 59.9 59.9

 Employed .............................................................................. 50,416 50,841 51,090 50,186 50,284 50,674 50,781 50,850 50,836

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 57.5 57.5 57.8 57.2 57.0 57.4 57.5 57.5 57.5

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 1,996 2,180 2,074 2,084 2,041 2,083 1,981 2,123 2,154

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 3.8 4.1 3.9 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.8 4.0 4.1

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 5,710 5,751 5,696 5,911 5,968 5,926 6,012 6,020 5,904

 Participation rate ................................................................. 45.3 45.2 44.8 46.9 47.1 46.7 47.3 47.3 46.4

 Employed .............................................................................. 4,908 5,012 4,937 5,017 5,123 5,121 5,181 5,219 5,063

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 38.9 39.4 38.8 39.8 40.4 40.4 40.8 41.0 39.8

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 802 739 758 894 845 805 832 801 841

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 14.0 12.9 13.3 15.1 14.2 13.6 13.8 13.3 14.2

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 26,204 26,618 26,663 26,204 26,488 26,526 26,572 26,618 26,663

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 16,893 17,113 17,255 16,820 17,147 17,190 17,154 17,087 17,158

 Participation rate ................................................................. 64.5 64.3 64.7 64.2 64.7 64.8 64.6 64.2 64.4

 Employed .............................................................................. 15,137 15,574 15,742 15,012 15,378 15,561 15,499 15,480 15,591

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 57.8 58.5 59.0 57.3 58.1 58.7 58.3 58.2 58.5

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 1,756 1,539 1,512 1,808 1,769 1,628 1,655 1,607 1,567

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 10.4 9.0 8.8 10.7 10.3 9.5 9.6 9.4 9.1

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 9,312 9,504 9,408 9,384 9,341 9,336 9,417 9,531 9,505

Men, 20 years and over

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 7,531 7,712 7,732 7,490 7,706 7,765 7,739 7,680 7,673

 Participation rate ................................................................. 71.6 72.1 72.1 71.2 72.4 72.8 72.4 71.8 71.6

 Employed .............................................................................. 6,797 7,083 7,107 6,722 6,963 7,116 7,077 7,017 7,022

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 64.6 66.2 66.3 63.9 65.4 66.7 66.2 65.6 65.5

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 734 629 625 768 743 650 662 664 650

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 9.7 8.2 8.1 10.2 9.6 8.4 8.6 8.6 8.5

Women, 20 years and over

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 8,552 8,712 8,779 8,513 8,626 8,609 8,604 8,674 8,728

 Participation rate ................................................................. 64.6 64.9 65.3 64.3 64.5 64.3 64.2 64.6 64.9

 Employed .............................................................................. 7,796 8,026 8,123 7,756 7,863 7,900 7,902 7,970 8,060

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 58.9 59.8 60.4 58.6 58.8 59.0 59.0 59.4 60.0

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 756 686 655 757 762 709 702 704 668

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 8.8 7.9 7.5 8.9 8.8 8.2 8.2 8.1 7.6

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 809 689 744 818 815 816 810 732 757

 Participation rate ................................................................. 33.2 27.6 29.7 33.6 32.9 32.9 32.6 29.4 30.3

 Employed .............................................................................. 543 465 512 534 551 545 521 493 508

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 22.3 18.6 20.5 21.9 22.3 22.0 20.9 19.8 20.3

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 266 224 232 283 264 270 290 239 249

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 32.9 32.5 31.1 34.7 32.4 33.1 35.8 32.6 32.9

ASIAN 

Civilian noninstutional population ............................................. 9,640 9,956 9,931 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 6,334 6,553 6,591 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Participation rate ................................................................. 65.7 65.8 66.4 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employed .............................................................................. 6,028 6,284 6,387 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 62.5 63.1 64.3 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 305 270 203 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 4.8 4.1 3.1 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 3,306 3,403 3,340 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical

numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. 2 Data not available.

 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. Beginning in January 2005, data reflect

revised population controls used in the household survey.
HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA

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 adjusted 1

Oct.

2004

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population ........................................... 28,431 29,361 29,456 28,431 29,079 29,168 29,264 29,361 29,456

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 19,561 19,915 20,101 19,524 19,777 19,794 19,914 19,941 20,026

 Participation rate ................................................................. 68.8 67.8 68.2 68.7 68.0 67.9 68.0 67.9 68.0

 Employed .............................................................................. 18,305 18,688 18,978 18,213 18,623 18,698 18,761 18,644 18,856

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 64.4 63.6 64.4 64.1 64.0 64.1 64.1 63.5 64.0

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 1,256 1,227 1,122 1,311 1,154 1,096 1,153 1,297 1,170

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 6.4 6.2 5.6 6.7 5.8 5.5 5.8 6.5 5.8

 Not in labor force .................................................................... 8,870 9,446 9,355 8,907 9,302 9,374 9,350 9,420 9,431

Men, 20 years and over

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 11,149 11,480 11,597 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Participation rate ................................................................. 84.2 83.8 84.4 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employed .............................................................................. 10,590 10,925 11,088 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 80.0 79.8 80.7 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 559 555 509 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 5.0 4.8 4.4 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

Women, 20 years and over

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 7,357 7,372 7,478 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Participation rate ................................................................. 58.6 56.9 57.5 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employed .............................................................................. 6,868 6,881 7,048 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 54.7 53.1 54.2 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 489 491 430 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 6.6 6.7 5.7 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

 Civilian labor force .................................................................. 1,056 1,062 1,027 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Participation rate ................................................................. 40.1 39.2 37.8 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employed .............................................................................. 847 881 843 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Employment-population ratio .............................................. 32.2 32.5 31.0 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployed ......................................................................... 208 181 184 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

 Unemployment rate ............................................................ 19.7 17.0 17.9 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( ) 2 ( )

1 The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation; therefore, identical

numbers appear in the unadjusted and seasonally adjusted columns. 2 Data not available.

 NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. 

Beginning in January 2005, data reflect revised population controls used in the household

survey.

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

Oct.

2004

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force .................................................................... 12,385 12,863 12,340 12,502 12,903 13,156 12,883 12,770 12,519

 Participation rate ................................................................... 44.6 45.7 44.8 45.0 45.6 47.5 46.1 45.3 45.4

 Employed ................................................................................ 11,437 11,891 11,527 11,471 12,006 12,154 11,903 11,728 11,628

 Employment-population ratio ................................................ 41.2 42.2 41.8 41.3 42.5 43.8 42.6 41.6 42.2

 Unemployed ........................................................................... 948 972 813 1,031 898 1,002 980 1,042 890

 Unemployment rate .............................................................. 7.7 7.6 6.6 8.2 7.0 7.6 7.6 8.2 7.1

High school graduates, no college 1

Civilian labor force .................................................................... 37,765 38,362 38,537 37,712 38,080 37,959 38,104 38,325 38,480

 Participation rate ................................................................... 63.6 63.9 64.0 63.5 63.2 63.6 63.4 63.9 63.9

 Employed ................................................................................ 36,115 36,637 36,875 35,874 36,307 36,120 36,327 36,399 36,631

 Employment-population ratio ................................................ 60.8 61.0 61.2 60.4 60.2 60.5 60.5 60.6 60.8

 Unemployed ........................................................................... 1,650 1,725 1,661 1,838 1,773 1,839 1,777 1,926 1,849

 Unemployment rate .............................................................. 4.4 4.5 4.3 4.9 4.7 4.8 4.7 5.0 4.8

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force .................................................................... 34,725 35,154 35,456 34,548 34,635 34,851 35,008 35,126 35,310

 Participation rate ................................................................... 72.2 72.4 72.6 71.8 72.3 71.2 72.0 72.3 72.3

 Employed ................................................................................ 33,362 33,933 34,172 33,112 33,283 33,547 33,754 33,859 33,959

 Employment-population ratio ................................................ 69.4 69.9 70.0 68.8 69.5 68.5 69.4 69.7 69.5

 Unemployed ........................................................................... 1,364 1,221 1,284 1,435 1,351 1,304 1,254 1,267 1,351

 Unemployment rate .............................................................. 3.9 3.5 3.6 4.2 3.9 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.8

Bachelor’s degree and higher 2

Civilian labor force .................................................................... 40,921 41,617 41,893 40,772 40,945 41,297 41,431 41,569 41,629

 Participation rate ................................................................... 78.1 78.2 78.2 77.8 77.5 77.8 78.1 78.1 77.7

 Employed ................................................................................ 39,924 40,615 40,972 39,744 40,007 40,309 40,579 40,592 40,676

 Employment-population ratio ................................................ 76.2 76.3 76.5 75.8 75.7 75.9 76.5 76.3 76.0

 Unemployed ........................................................................... 997 1,002 921 1,027 938 987 852 978 953

 Unemployment rate .............................................................. 2.4 2.4 2.2 2.5 2.3 2.4 2.1 2.4 2.3

1 Includes persons with a high school diploma or equivalent. 2 Includes persons with bachelor’s, master’s, professional, and doctoral degrees. 

 NOTE: Beginning in January 2005, data reflect revised population controls used in the

household survey.
HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-5. Employed persons by class of worker and part-time status

(In thousands)

Category

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2004

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries ............................................. 2,280 2,284 2,239 2,155 2,336 2,334 2,178 2,142 2,122

 Wage and salary workers ....................................................... 1,273 1,260 1,227 1,194 1,312 1,311 1,216 1,117 1,147

 Self-employed workers ........................................................... 973 986 973 921 1,004 987 926 981 937

 Unpaid family workers ............................................................ 34 38 38 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

Nonagricultural industries ......................................................... 138,167 140,296 141,101 137,764 139,237 139,668 140,345 140,461 140,629

 Wage and salary workers ....................................................... 128,227 130,755 131,469 128,035 129,707 130,056 131,021 130,994 131,180

 Government .......................................................................... 20,328 20,284 20,475 20,213 20,464 20,492 20,469 20,251 20,354

 Private industries .................................................................. 107,898 110,471 110,994 107,823 109,203 109,651 110,605 110,728 110,815

 Private households ............................................................. 728 861 813 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

 Other industries .................................................................. 107,171 109,610 110,182 107,090 108,399 108,834 109,705 109,887 109,995

 Self-employed workers ........................................................... 9,860 9,453 9,549 9,702 9,465 9,514 9,269 9,355 9,360

 Unpaid family workers ............................................................ 81 88 84 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME 2

All industries:

 Part time for economic reasons .............................................. 4,407 4,230 3,915 4,762 4,465 4,427 4,493 4,591 4,261

 Slack work or business conditions ........................................ 2,842 2,665 2,459 3,052 2,668 2,723 2,768 2,882 2,666

 Could only find part-time work .............................................. 1,312 1,316 1,236 1,385 1,420 1,368 1,426 1,383 1,318

 Part time for noneconomic reasons ........................................ 20,442 19,812 20,559 19,704 19,021 19,528 19,516 19,579 19,706

Nonagricultural industries:

 Part time for economic reasons .............................................. 4,310 4,188 3,837 4,656 4,386 4,369 4,457 4,522 4,178

 Slack work or business conditions ........................................ 2,764 2,636 2,400 2,971 2,616 2,673 2,747 2,832 2,614

 Could only find part-time work .............................................. 1,302 1,312 1,225 1,363 1,416 1,369 1,420 1,366 1,296

 Part time for noneconomic reasons ........................................ 20,034 19,414 20,130 19,288 18,633 19,084 19,141 19,188 19,259

1 Data not available. 2 Persons at work excludes employed persons who were absent from their jobs during

the entire reference week for reasons such as vacation, illness, or industrial dispute. Part

time for noneconomic reasons excludes persons who usually work full time but worked

only 1 to 34 hours during the reference week for reasons such as holidays, illness, and

bad weather.

 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. 

Beginning in January 2005, data reflect revised population controls used in the household

survey.
HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-6. Selected employment indicators

(In thousands)

Characteristic

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2004

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Total, 16 years and over ........................................................... 140,447 142,579 143,340 139,827 141,638 142,076 142,449 142,432 142,646

 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 5,775 5,789 5,801 5,908 6,013 6,024 6,055 6,036 5,954

 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 2,160 2,253 2,231 2,189 2,296 2,241 2,292 2,285 2,286

 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 3,615 3,536 3,570 3,711 3,712 3,769 3,789 3,752 3,669

 20 years and over ................................................................... 134,672 136,790 137,539 133,920 135,625 136,052 136,394 136,395 136,692

 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 13,834 13,714 13,993 13,842 13,829 13,904 13,775 13,842 13,949

 25 years and over ................................................................. 120,838 123,076 123,546 120,066 121,772 122,120 122,682 122,545 122,695

 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 98,260 99,229 99,400 97,700 98,274 98,530 98,958 98,817 98,822

 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 30,638 30,854 31,088 30,432 30,482 30,606 30,709 30,671 30,844

 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 34,738 34,949 34,754 34,599 34,629 34,707 34,701 34,822 34,608

 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 32,883 33,426 33,558 32,669 33,163 33,217 33,548 33,324 33,369

 55 years and over ............................................................... 22,579 23,847 24,146 22,366 23,498 23,590 23,725 23,728 23,874

Men, 16 years and over ............................................................ 75,254 76,446 76,808 74,852 76,092 76,272 76,449 76,236 76,395

 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 2,903 2,809 2,819 2,957 2,919 2,910 2,923 2,918 2,875

 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 1,063 1,036 1,025 1,072 1,066 1,014 1,064 1,048 1,037

 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 1,840 1,773 1,794 1,879 1,851 1,895 1,882 1,863 1,834

 20 years and over ................................................................... 72,351 73,637 73,988 71,895 73,174 73,363 73,527 73,318 73,519

 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 7,309 7,196 7,323 7,307 7,367 7,414 7,303 7,246 7,305

 25 years and over ................................................................. 65,042 66,441 66,665 64,592 65,807 65,920 66,282 66,043 66,207

 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 52,886 53,676 53,741 52,582 53,124 53,198 53,530 53,329 53,438

 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 17,038 17,164 17,255 16,900 16,921 16,988 17,119 17,025 17,108

 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 18,733 18,953 18,901 18,649 18,803 18,825 18,784 18,816 18,809

 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 17,115 17,560 17,585 17,033 17,400 17,385 17,627 17,489 17,522

 55 years and over ............................................................... 12,156 12,765 12,925 12,010 12,682 12,722 12,753 12,714 12,769

Women, 16 years and over ...................................................... 65,193 66,133 66,532 64,975 65,545 65,804 66,000 66,196 66,251

 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 2,872 2,980 2,982 2,951 3,095 3,114 3,133 3,119 3,078

 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 1,097 1,217 1,206 1,118 1,230 1,227 1,227 1,236 1,249

 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 1,775 1,763 1,776 1,831 1,860 1,873 1,908 1,889 1,835

 20 years and over ................................................................... 62,321 63,153 63,551 62,024 62,451 62,690 62,867 63,077 63,173

 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 6,525 6,518 6,670 6,535 6,461 6,491 6,472 6,596 6,644

 25 years and over ................................................................. 55,796 56,635 56,881 55,474 55,966 56,200 56,400 56,502 56,488

 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 45,373 45,553 45,659 45,118 45,150 45,333 45,428 45,488 45,384

 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 13,600 13,690 13,833 13,532 13,561 13,618 13,591 13,646 13,737

 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 16,006 15,996 15,853 15,950 15,826 15,882 15,917 16,006 15,800

 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 15,768 15,866 15,973 15,636 15,763 15,832 15,920 15,836 15,847

 55 years and over ............................................................... 10,422 11,082 11,221 10,356 10,816 10,867 10,972 11,014 11,105

Married men, spouse present ................................................... 45,403 45,573 45,977 45,127 45,357 45,486 45,700 45,438 45,675

Married women, spouse present .............................................. 35,273 34,974 35,385 34,808 34,622 34,965 34,997 34,946 34,858

Women who maintain families .................................................. 8,664 8,872 8,875 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

Full-time workers 2 ................................................................... 115,166 117,781 118,025 114,954 117,200 117,332 117,637 117,375 117,737

Part-time workers 3 ................................................................... 25,281 24,798 25,315 24,931 24,464 24,749 24,873 25,014 24,927

1 Data not available. 2 Employed full-time workers are persons who usually work 35 hours or more per

week. 3 Employed part-time workers are persons who usually work less than 35 hours per

week.

 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. 

Beginning in January 2005, data reflect revised population controls used in the household

survey.
HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-7. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted

Characteristic

Number of

unemployed persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment rates 1

Oct.

2004

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Total, 16 years and over ........................................................... 8,066 7,661 7,433 5.5 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.1 5.0

 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 1,227 1,136 1,128 17.2 16.4 16.1 16.5 15.8 15.9

 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 567 529 524 20.6 18.3 18.7 18.6 18.8 18.7

 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 665 606 612 15.2 15.2 14.4 15.1 13.9 14.3

 20 years and over ................................................................... 6,838 6,525 6,305 4.9 4.4 4.5 4.3 4.6 4.4

 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 1,505 1,324 1,300 9.8 8.8 8.3 8.9 8.7 8.5

 25 years and over ................................................................. 5,349 5,192 5,021 4.3 3.9 4.0 3.8 4.1 3.9

 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 4,456 4,299 4,215 4.4 4.1 4.2 4.0 4.2 4.1

 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 1,761 1,747 1,570 5.5 5.2 5.2 5.0 5.4 4.8

 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 1,469 1,330 1,397 4.1 3.8 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.9

 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 1,226 1,222 1,248 3.6 3.4 3.6 3.3 3.5 3.6

 55 years and over ............................................................... 887 874 799 3.8 3.1 3.5 3.2 3.6 3.2

Men, 16 years and over ............................................................ 4,438 4,092 3,862 5.6 5.0 4.9 4.9 5.1 4.8

 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 701 620 575 19.2 19.0 18.6 18.3 17.5 16.7

 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 304 286 230 22.1 21.7 23.2 21.6 21.4 18.2

 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 403 334 342 17.7 17.5 15.5 16.4 15.2 15.7

 20 years and over ................................................................... 3,736 3,471 3,287 4.9 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.5 4.3

 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 827 801 763 10.2 9.3 8.7 10.1 9.9 9.5

 25 years and over ................................................................. 2,909 2,658 2,518 4.3 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.9 3.7

 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 2,401 2,226 2,102 4.4 3.9 3.9 3.8 4.0 3.8

 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 930 911 794 5.2 4.6 4.6 4.4 5.1 4.4

 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 786 673 672 4.0 3.6 3.4 3.6 3.5 3.5

 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 685 642 635 3.9 3.4 3.7 3.3 3.5 3.5

 55 years and over ............................................................... 508 432 416 4.1 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.3 3.2

Women, 16 years and over ...................................................... 3,628 3,569 3,571 5.3 5.1 5.1 4.9 5.1 5.1

 16 to 19 years ......................................................................... 526 516 553 15.1 13.8 13.6 14.6 14.2 15.2

 16 to 17 years ....................................................................... 263 243 294 19.0 15.1 14.5 15.8 16.4 19.1

 18 to 19 years ....................................................................... 262 272 270 12.5 12.8 13.2 13.9 12.6 12.8

 20 years and over ................................................................... 3,102 3,053 3,018 4.8 4.6 4.7 4.4 4.6 4.6

 20 to 24 years ....................................................................... 678 524 537 9.4 8.1 7.7 7.5 7.4 7.5

 25 years and over ................................................................. 2,441 2,534 2,504 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.0 4.3 4.2

 25 to 54 years ..................................................................... 2,055 2,073 2,113 4.4 4.4 4.5 4.2 4.4 4.4

 25 to 34 years ................................................................... 831 836 776 5.8 5.9 5.9 5.6 5.8 5.3

 35 to 44 years ................................................................... 683 657 725 4.1 4.1 4.2 3.9 3.9 4.4

 45 to 54 years ................................................................... 541 580 612 3.3 3.4 3.6 3.2 3.5 3.7

 55 years and over 2 ............................................................ 360 453 357 3.3 3.3 4.1 3.8 3.9 3.1

Married men, spouse present ................................................... 1,393 1,296 1,226 3.0 2.6 2.6 2.9 2.8 2.6

Married women, spouse present .............................................. 1,121 1,226 1,185 3.1 3.3 3.4 3.2 3.4 3.3

Women who maintain families 2 ............................................... 738 730 701 7.8 8.2 8.8 7.2 7.6 7.3

Full-time workers 3 ................................................................... 6,611 6,260 6,042 5.4 4.9 4.9 4.9 5.1 4.9

Part-time workers 4 ................................................................... 1,461 1,396 1,405 5.5 5.4 5.5 5.1 5.3 5.3

1 Unemployment as a percent of the civilian labor force. 2 Not seasonally adjusted. 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 shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the

independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Beginning in January 2005, data

reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.
HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-8. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

(Numbers in thousands)

Reason

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2004

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs .......... 3,653 3,373 3,162 4,074 3,680 3,633 3,490 3,724 3,523

 On temporary layoff ................................................................ 637 670 637 947 975 959 880 982 947

 Not on temporary layoff .......................................................... 3,016 2,703 2,525 3,127 2,705 2,674 2,610 2,742 2,576

 Permanent job losers ............................................................ 2,206 1,836 1,824 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

 Persons who completed temporary jobs .............................. 810 867 701 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( ) 1 ( )

Job leavers ............................................................................... 853 932 916 829 844 826 839 876 893

Reentrants ................................................................................ 2,353 2,378 2,292 2,411 2,219 2,394 2,451 2,422 2,356

New entrants ............................................................................ 672 577 594 747 661 628 632 623 652

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Total unemployed ..................................................................... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs ......... 48.5 46.5 45.4 50.5 49.7 48.6 47.1 48.7 47.5

 On temporary layoff ............................................................... 8.5 9.2 9.1 11.8 13.2 12.8 11.9 12.8 12.8

 Not on temporary layoff ......................................................... 40.0 37.2 36.3 38.8 36.5 35.7 35.2 35.9 34.7

 Job leavers .............................................................................. 11.3 12.8 13.2 10.3 11.4 11.0 11.3 11.5 12.0

 Reentrants ............................................................................... 31.2 32.8 32.9 29.9 30.0 32.0 33.1 31.7 31.7

 New entrants ........................................................................... 8.9 7.9 8.5 9.3 8.9 8.4 8.5 8.1 8.8

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

 CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs ......... 2.5 2.3 2.1 2.8 2.5 2.4 2.3 2.5 2.3

 Job leavers .............................................................................. .6 .6 .6 .6 .6 .6 .6 .6 .6

 Reentrants ............................................................................... 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.6 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6

 New entrants ........................................................................... .5 .4 .4 .5 .4 .4 .4 .4 .4

1 Data not available.

 NOTE: Beginning in January 2005, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.

Table A-9. Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

(Numbers in thousands)

Duration

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2004

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks .................................................................... 2,602 2,772 2,578 2,753 2,666 2,571 2,542 2,735 2,695

5 to 14 weeks ........................................................................... 2,076 2,079 2,040 2,290 2,342 2,430 2,272 2,285 2,265

15 weeks and over ................................................................... 2,852 2,408 2,346 3,032 2,350 2,437 2,686 2,611 2,496

 15 to 26 weeks ...................................................................... 1,165 982 960 1,261 1,041 1,047 1,243 1,131 1,045

 27 weeks and over ................................................................ 1,687 1,426 1,386 1,771 1,310 1,389 1,444 1,480 1,452

Average (mean) duration, in weeks .......................................... 19.8 18.2 18.3 19.7 17.1 17.6 18.9 18.3 18.1

Median duration, in weeks ........................................................ 9.5 8.4 8.5 9.5 9.1 9.0 9.4 8.6 8.6

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Total unemployed ..................................................................... 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

 Less than 5 weeks .................................................................. 34.6 38.2 37.0 34.1 36.2 34.6 33.9 35.8 36.1

 5 to 14 weeks ......................................................................... 27.6 28.6 29.3 28.4 31.8 32.7 30.3 29.9 30.4

 15 weeks and over ................................................................. 37.9 33.2 33.7 37.5 31.9 32.8 35.8 34.2 33.5

 15 to 26 weeks ..................................................................... 15.5 13.5 13.8 15.6 14.1 14.1 16.6 14.8 14.0

 27 weeks and over ............................................................... 22.4 19.6 19.9 21.9 17.8 18.7 19.2 19.4 19.5

 NOTE: Beginning in January 2005, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.
HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-10. Employed and unemployed persons by occupation, not seasonally adjusted

(Numbers in thousands)

Occupation

Employed Unemployed Unemployment

rates

Oct.

2004

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

Oct.

2005

 Total, 16 years and over 1 .......................................................................... 140,447 143,340 7,531 6,964 5.1 4.6

Management, professional, and related occupations ............................... 48,917 49,958 1,191 1,099 2.4 2.2

 Management, business, and financial operations occupations ............ 20,508 20,808 522 417 2.5 2.0

 Professional and related occupations ........................................................ 28,409 29,150 669 683 2.3 2.3

Service occupations .......................................................................................... 23,307 23,297 1,564 1,430 6.3 5.8

Sales and office occupations .......................................................................... 35,563 36,237 1,860 1,748 5.0 4.6

 Sales and related occupations ..................................................................... 15,983 16,500 812 866 4.8 5.0

 Office and administrative support occupations ........................................ 19,579 19,737 1,048 881 5.1 4.3

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations ........... 15,004 15,841 967 879 6.1 5.3

 Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations ............................................... 988 1,030 97 88 9.0 7.9

 Construction and extraction occupations ................................................... 8,892 9,381 672 572 7.0 5.7

 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations .................................. 5,124 5,431 198 219 3.7 3.9

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations ................ 17,656 18,007 1,245 1,171 6.6 6.1

 Production occupations .................................................................................. 9,248 9,320 608 681 6.2 6.8

 Transportation and material moving occupations .................................... 8,409 8,687 637 490 7.0 5.3

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

 NOTE: Beginning in January 2005, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.

Table A-11. Unemployed persons by industry, not seasonally adjusted

Industry

Number of

unemployed

persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment

rates

Oct.

2004

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

Oct.

2005

 Total, 16 years and over 1 ....................................................................... 7,531 6,964 5.1 4.6

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers ...................................... 5,894 5,529 5.2 4.7

 Mining ................................................................................................................. 15 2 2.6 .3

 Construction ...................................................................................................... 635 519 6.9 5.3

 Manufacturing ................................................................................................... 884 800 5.3 4.8

 Durable goods ................................................................................................ 525 481 5.0 4.6

 Nondurable goods ......................................................................................... 360 319 5.9 5.3

 Wholesale and retail trade ............................................................................ 1,138 1,050 5.4 4.9

 Transportation and utilities ............................................................................ 219 251 4.0 4.4

 Information ........................................................................................................ 185 162 5.6 4.8

 Financial activities ........................................................................................... 358 255 3.8 2.7

 Professional and business services ............................................................ 781 748 6.2 5.8

 Education and health services ..................................................................... 526 628 2.9 3.4

 Leisure and hospitality ................................................................................... 853 796 7.3 6.8

 Other services .................................................................................................. 300 319 4.8 5.0

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers ........................ 102 85 7.7 6.7

Government workers ......................................................................................... 561 502 2.7 2.4

Self employed and unpaid family workers ................................................... 301 255 2.7 2.3

1 Persons with no previous work experience are included in the unemployed total.

 NOTE: Beginning in January 2005, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.
HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-12. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

(Percent)

Measure

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2004

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005

Oct.

2005

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force .............. 1.9 1.6 1.6 2.1 1.6 1.6 1.8 1.7 1.7

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor

force ...................................................................................................................................... 2.5 2.3 2.1 2.8 2.5 2.4 2.3 2.5 2.3

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate) ...................................................................................................................................... 5.1 4.8 4.6 5.5 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.1 5.0

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus

discouraged workers ............................................................................................................ 5.4 5.1 4.9 5.7 5.3 5.3 5.2 5.3 5.2

U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other marginally

 attached workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally

 attached workers ................................................................................................................. 6.1 5.7 5.5 6.5 6.0 6.0 5.9 6.0 5.8

U-6 Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed

 part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus

 all marginally attached workers ........................................................................................... 9.1 8.5 8.1 9.7 9.0 8.9 8.9 9.0 8.7

 NOTE: Marginally attached workers are persons 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 recent past. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached,

have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for a job. 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. For further information, see "BLS introduces new

range of alternative unemployment measures," in the October 1995 issue of the Monthly

Labor Review. Beginning in January 2005, data reflect revised population controls used in the

household survey.

Table A-13. Persons not in the labor force and multiple jobholders by sex, not seasonally adjusted

(Numbers in thousands)

Category

Total Men Women

Oct.

2004

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

Oct.

2005

Oct.

2004

Oct.

2005

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force ............................................................................ 76,214 76,655 28,871 29,310 47,343 47,345

 Persons who currently want a job ............................................................... 5,065 4,796 2,266 2,135 2,798 2,661

Searched for work and available to work now 1 ..................................... 1,647 1,414 825 705 822 709

 Reason not currently looking:

 Discouragement over job prospects 2 ......................................... 429 392 256 223 174 169

 Reasons other than discouragement 3 ........................................ 1,218 1,022 570 482 648 540

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders 4 ............................................................................ 8,034 7,813 4,168 4,016 3,866 3,797

 Percent of total employed ......................................................................... 5.7 5.5 5.5 5.2 5.9 5.7

 Primary job full time, secondary job part time ........................................... 4,196 4,153 2,396 2,357 1,801 1,796

 Primary and secondary jobs both part time .............................................. 1,720 1,704 519 560 1,201 1,143

 Primary and secondary jobs both full time ................................................ 302 288 201 201 101 88

 Hours vary on primary or secondary job ................................................... 1,779 1,609 1,030 881 750 728

1 Data refer to persons who have searched for work during the prior 12 months and

were available to take a job during the reference week. 2 Includes 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 small number for which reason for nonparticipation was not determined. 4 Includes persons who work part time on their primary job and full time on their

secondary job(s), not shown separately.

 NOTE: Beginning in January 2005, data reflect revised population controls used in the

household survey.
ESTABLISHMENT 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

Oct.

2004

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Change

from:

Sept. 2005-

Oct. 2005p

Total nonfarm ............................. 133,139 133,770 134,336 135,038 132,162 133,588 133,865 134,013 134,005 134,061 56

Total private ........................................ 111,121 113,106 112,643 112,831 110,462 111,828 112,048 112,164 112,148 112,194 46

Goods-producing ............................................ 22,257 22,566 22,434 22,468 21,982 22,134 22,134 22,159 22,146 22,195 49

Natural resources and mining .................................. 605 644 647 648 595 628 629 632 635 639 4

Logging ........................................................... 70.9 68.0 68.0 66.9 67.0 64.8 65.3 64.9 64.3 63.5 -.8

Mining .................................................................... 534.5 576.2 578.6 581.4 527.7 563.1 563.4 566.7 571.1 575.8 4.7

Oil and gas extraction ........................................ 122.9 127.9 126.9 127.4 123.6 125.4 126.4 126.5 126.9 127.9 1.0

Mining, except oil and gas1................................. 212.7 226.6 224.8 225.8 208.4 221.2 219.9 220.3 220.2 222.3 2.1

Coal mining ...................................................... 73.0 78.5 78.8 78.2 72.7 77.2 77.8 77.6 78.2 78.3 .1

Support activities for mining .............................. 198.9 221.7 226.9 228.2 195.7 216.5 217.1 219.9 224.0 225.6 1.6

Construction ............................................................. 7,265 7,580 7,508 7,539 7,043 7,230 7,235 7,267 7,279 7,312 33

Construction of buildings ................................... 1,698.4 1,753.0 1,739.7 1,751.1 1,663.0 1,696.2 1,699.2 1,705.4 1,707.6 1,716.3 8.7

Residential building ......................................... 931.8 972.1 966.2 967.2 915.6 943.8 946.8 947.3 950.5 952.3 1.8

Nonresidential building .................................... 766.6 780.9 773.5 783.9 747.4 752.4 752.4 758.1 757.1 764.0 6.9

Heavy and civil engineering construction ........ 967.3 1,012.4 1,006.4 1,003.4 904.1 937.4 938.2 939.0 940.6 940.1 -.5

Specialty trade contractors ............................... 4,599.0 4,814.5 4,761.8 4,784.9 4,476.1 4,596.4 4,597.8 4,622.5 4,630.3 4,655.1 24.8

Residential specialty trade contractors ........... 2,181.1 2,289.3 2,286.8 2,306.9 2,120.9 2,192.7 2,189.9 2,206.0 2,221.1 2,241.1 20.0

Nonresidential specialty trade contractors ..... 2,417.9 2,525.2 2,475.2 2,478.2 2,355.2 2,403.7 2,407.9 2,416.5 2,409.2 2,414.0 4.8

Manufacturing ........................................................... 14,387 14,342 14,279 14,281 14,344 14,276 14,270 14,260 14,232 14,244 12

Production workers ....................................... 10,156 10,151 10,129 10,153 10,111 10,080 10,081 10,086 10,079 10,106 27

Durable goods ....................................................... 8,968 8,974 8,936 8,954 8,960 8,947 8,940 8,945 8,928 8,946 18

Production workers ....................................... 6,183 6,235 6,221 6,258 6,172 6,197 6,197 6,215 6,210 6,243 33

Wood products ................................................... 558.4 558.1 555.4 552.4 554.5 550.7 549.5 549.7 549.8 548.6 -1.2

Nonmetallic mineral products ............................ 516.2 509.8 510.7 509.5 509.1 501.3 499.4 499.8 500.4 501.1 .7

Primary metals .................................................... 465.6 465.0 466.0 466.6 466.0 465.3 465.4 465.3 466.1 467.4 1.3

Fabricated metal products ................................. 1,514.0 1,527.0 1,521.7 1,526.6 1,511.5 1,521.0 1,523.6 1,523.2 1,522.8 1,523.3 .5

Machinery ........................................................... 1,143.1 1,155.5 1,157.5 1,160.5 1,147.3 1,156.2 1,160.5 1,159.5 1,162.1 1,164.9 2.8

1 Computer and electronic products .................... 1,329.0 1,338.8 1,329.8 1,329.8 1,329.8 1,333.4 1,333.9 1,334.2 1,331.5 1,331.1 -.4

Computer and peripheral equipment ............. 209.0 215.3 214.6 211.5 209.7 214.8 214.7 214.7 214.2 212.6 -1.6

Communications equipment ........................... 152.1 154.5 151.8 152.3 150.7 154.3 154.4 153.5 152.2 151.8 -.4

Semiconductors and electronic components . 453.8 449.6 447.4 447.4 454.9 447.3 447.1 447.7 447.7 447.8 .1

Electronic instruments ..................................... 435.8 442.4 440.2 441.4 437.0 439.2 440.4 441.1 441.3 442.2 .9

Electrical equipment and appliances ................ 444.7 439.8 434.7 430.7 445.1 440.1 439.4 439.1 434.8 432.3 -2.5

1 Transportation equipment .................................. 1,770.9 1,762.3 1,747.1 1,769.6 1,771.0 1,764.3 1,752.5 1,760.3 1,746.6 1,769.0 22.4

Motor vehicles and parts 2................................. 1,110.5 1,077.7 1,087.5 1,085.9 1,111.8 1,079.6 1,066.7 1,076.0 1,085.3 1,084.4 -.9

Furniture and related products .......................... 570.5 561.3 558.3 557.1 571.3 561.0 558.5 559.1 558.9 557.9 -1.0

Miscellaneous manufacturing ............................ 655.7 656.8 655.2 651.5 654.1 653.7 657.3 654.9 654.5 650.4 -4.1

Nondurable goods ................................................. 5,419 5,368 5,343 5,327 5,384 5,329 5,330 5,315 5,304 5,298 -6

Production workers ....................................... 3,973 3,916 3,908 3,895 3,939 3,883 3,884 3,871 3,869 3,863 -6

Food manufacturing ........................................... 1,522.8 1,519.0 1,500.9 1,498.3 1,493.5 1,488.4 1,486.8 1,482.5 1,475.2 1,474.1 -1.1

Beverages and tobacco products ...................... 195.9 194.1 195.6 194.6 192.9 190.4 190.6 189.8 190.8 191.5 .7

Textile mills ......................................................... 236.2 221.7 220.7 218.6 236.5 223.9 223.0 221.1 219.6 218.5 -1.1

Textile product mills ........................................... 177.0 178.0 177.9 178.8 178.1 176.9 177.9 178.2 179.3 179.6 .3

Apparel ................................................................ 277.4 256.7 258.3 251.7 276.1 257.0 258.6 255.0 253.9 250.5 -3.4

Leather and allied products ............................... 42.8 43.6 43.5 42.7 42.8 42.8 43.5 43.4 43.2 42.9 -.3

Paper and paper products ................................. 500.1 497.4 492.8 491.8 499.4 496.4 495.9 494.7 492.2 491.4 -.8

Printing and related support activities ............... 662.7 654.0 654.3 651.9 661.0 655.6 653.9 652.2 652.4 651.1 -1.3

Petroleum and coal products ............................. 114.5 120.2 118.3 118.2 113.3 116.9 116.9 117.2 116.6 117.1 .5

Chemicals ........................................................... 881.4 880.0 875.3 873.4 884.5 878.4 879.9 877.6 876.7 875.8 -.9

Plastics and rubber products ............................. 808.5 803.7 805.7 807.2 806.3 802.3 803.2 802.9 804.1 805.3 1.2

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA 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

Oct.

2004

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Change

from:

Sept. 2005-

Oct. 2005p

Service-providing .............................................. 110,882 111,204 111,902 112,570 110,180 111,454 111,731 111,854 111,859 111,866 7

Private service-providing ............................... 88,864 90,540 90,209 90,363 88,480 89,694 89,914 90,005 90,002 89,999 -3

Trade, transportation, and utilities ........................... 25,687 25,917 25,828 25,940 25,581 25,854 25,922 25,910 25,858 25,855 -3

Wholesale trade .................................................... 5,684.8 5,759.0 5,741.2 5,745.2 5,674.7 5,722.3 5,729.8 5,733.9 5,734.5 5,735.8 1.3

Durable goods .................................................... 2,962.6 3,003.7 2,988.3 2,994.6 2,962.3 2,986.1 2,989.3 2,990.8 2,991.2 2,993.5 2.3

Nondurable goods .............................................. 2,017.3 2,023.8 2,021.2 2,017.5 2,009.1 2,013.7 2,014.7 2,013.1 2,012.2 2,010.3 -1.9

Electronic markets and agents and brokers ..... 704.9 731.5 731.7 733.1 703.3 722.5 725.8 730.0 731.1 732.0 .9

Retail trade ............................................................ 15,106.9 15,236.6 15,098.4 15,203.3 15,056.5 15,197.1 15,249.2 15,230.7 15,172.7 15,167.3 -5.4

Motor vehicle and parts dealers1........................ 1,905.3 1,940.7 1,936.4 1,924.0 1,896.4 1,916.4 1,923.5 1,923.9 1,925.2 1,916.8 -8.4

Automobile dealers ......................................... 1,249.3 1,262.2 1,264.3 1,253.1 1,245.0 1,252.6 1,257.3 1,255.7 1,258.1 1,249.4 -8.7

Furniture and home furnishings stores ............. 564.5 564.0 564.0 569.4 562.3 566.1 568.4 567.6 569.0 567.4 -1.6

Electronics and appliance stores ....................... 520.9 524.0 527.1 539.5 520.2 524.5 529.2 532.3 533.9 535.6 1.7

Building material and garden supply stores ...... 1,231.9 1,294.4 1,266.6 1,267.1 1,236.3 1,272.8 1,276.9 1,275.1 1,270.1 1,274.0 3.9

Food and beverage stores ................................. 2,832.1 2,836.1 2,805.6 2,823.9 2,830.2 2,840.2 2,842.5 2,828.5 2,813.9 2,822.7 8.8

Health and personal care stores ....................... 942.2 961.6 949.6 957.6 941.6 956.7 956.1 962.4 954.1 958.2 4.1

Gasoline stations ................................................ 876.3 893.9 881.7 881.4 877.0 874.0 880.0 880.5 878.5 880.5 2.0

Clothing and clothing accessories stores ......... 1,370.4 1,434.6 1,387.7 1,396.5 1,376.0 1,406.1 1,426.3 1,420.6 1,403.5 1,400.2 -3.3

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

 stores................................................................ 645.3 626.3 628.4 641.1 638.0 636.3 637.2 636.7 625.7 634.5 8.8

1 General merchandise stores ............................. 2,857.5 2,821.5 2,809.7 2,854.1 2,835.2 2,861.6 2,867.1 2,862.0 2,858.2 2,844.2 -14.0

Department stores .......................................... 1,624.1 1,598.2 1,595.0 1,625.7 1,604.2 1,628.7 1,637.1 1,635.1 1,630.1 1,612.0 -18.1

Miscellaneous store retailers ............................. 928.5 925.9 917.5 917.3 920.5 924.0 922.2 920.0 917.1 912.1 -5.0

Nonstore retailers ............................................... 432.0 413.6 424.1 431.4 422.8 418.4 419.8 421.1 423.5 421.1 -2.4

Transportation and warehousing .......................... 4,325.5 4,341.2 4,411.7 4,413.1 4,279.6 4,359.9 4,367.6 4,368.6 4,373.5 4,372.7 -.8

Air transportation ................................................ 514.9 507.2 498.4 497.7 514.2 507.8 505.1 503.9 497.4 497.5 .1

Rail transportation .............................................. 225.9 223.4 224.3 223.8 225.4 223.9 223.9 223.1 223.2 223.0 -.2

Water transportation ........................................... 57.7 66.1 64.8 63.2 57.7 62.2 62.3 62.8 63.3 63.3 .0

Truck transportation ........................................... 1,375.5 1,415.9 1,414.8 1,417.3 1,356.0 1,396.3 1,395.5 1,392.4 1,395.6 1,400.7 5.1

Transit and ground passenger transportation ... 404.0 325.0 404.3 409.6 389.3 381.9 389.8 391.1 394.3 394.2 -.1

Pipeline transportation ....................................... 39.0 39.9 39.6 39.0 38.9 39.3 39.2 39.5 39.5 39.0 -.5

Scenic and sightseeing transportation .............. 26.1 38.4 35.5 29.5 25.6 28.4 28.9 29.0 29.0 28.6 -.4

Support activities for transportation ................... 542.8 559.6 561.2 551.9 539.9 554.5 556.0 554.3 557.3 550.4 -6.9

Couriers and messengers .................................. 563.8 581.6 580.0 585.5 564.4 582.3 582.4 586.8 586.9 588.9 2.0

Warehousing and storage .................................. 575.8 584.1 588.8 595.6 568.2 583.3 584.5 585.7 587.0 587.1 .1

Utilities ................................................................... 569.6 580.1 576.3 578.2 570.3 575.1 575.1 577.1 577.2 579.2 2.0

Information ................................................................ 3,125 3,164 3,144 3,130 3,131 3,146 3,146 3,147 3,152 3,137 -15

Publishing industries, except Internet ............... 907.7 911.4 909.8 908.8 908.1 907.0 910.0 909.0 909.4 908.9 -.5

Motion picture and sound recording industries . 389.6 407.0 397.5 386.1 395.3 393.1 392.2 396.0 402.2 391.6 -10.6

Broadcasting, except Internet ............................ 329.5 333.3 330.9 331.6 329.5 331.6 332.8 333.0 331.3 331.5 .2

Internet publishing and broadcasting ................ 32.8 35.6 35.9 36.2 33.0 35.6 35.1 35.6 36.1 36.4 .3

Telecommunications .......................................... 1,026.3 1,033.0 1,028.2 1,029.7 1,024.8 1,034.8 1,033.5 1,031.4 1,030.5 1,030.2 -.3

ISPs, search portals, and data processing ....... 388.4 392.8 391.8 388.6 389.2 393.4 391.2 392.2 392.6 389.2 -3.4

Other information services ................................. 50.7 50.9 49.8 49.2 50.9 50.6 50.9 50.2 49.9 49.6 -.3

Financial activities .................................................... 8,083 8,307 8,268 8,275 8,093 8,208 8,227 8,248 8,266 8,288 22

Finance and insurance .......................................... 5,982.1 6,102.3 6,089.3 6,108.5 5,994.1 6,062.5 6,072.3 6,086.4 6,102.4 6,120.7 18.3

Monetary authorities - central bank ................... 21.2 20.5 20.4 20.1 21.3 20.4 20.3 20.3 20.2 20.1 -.1

1 Credit intermediation and related activities ....... 2,841.1 2,940.2 2,934.4 2,945.1 2,847.9 2,915.4 2,922.5 2,931.2 2,943.8 2,954.9 11.1

1 Depository credit intermediation ..................... 1,760.5 1,817.2 1,809.3 1,811.2 1,768.1 1,802.1 1,804.2 1,809.9 1,815.0 1,820.4 5.4

Commercial banking .................................... 1,283.2 1,321.5 1,314.2 1,314.4 1,288.3 1,311.0 1,311.9 1,315.3 1,318.0 1,321.1 3.1

Securities, commodity contracts, investments .. 774.7 795.0 792.9 794.3 777.3 786.5 788.1 791.5 793.7 796.4 2.7

Insurance carriers and related activities ........... 2,261.8 2,261.3 2,257.2 2,264.2 2,264.1 2,254.6 2,255.7 2,258.2 2,260.0 2,264.0 4.0

Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles ........ 83.3 85.3 84.4 84.8 83.5 85.6 85.7 85.2 84.7 85.3 .6

Real estate and rental and leasing ....................... 2,100.9 2,204.3 2,178.2 2,166.0 2,099.2 2,145.0 2,154.6 2,161.5 2,163.9 2,166.8 2.9

Real estate .......................................................... 1,431.0 1,503.6 1,490.6 1,485.2 1,428.6 1,461.4 1,470.7 1,475.8 1,479.5 1,482.8 3.3

Rental and leasing services ............................... 645.4 674.1 661.1 653.7 646.3 658.1 658.1 659.6 658.0 657.2 -.8

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets ......... 24.5 26.6 26.5 27.1 24.3 25.5 25.8 26.1 26.4 26.8 .4

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA 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

Oct.

2004

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Change

from:

Sept. 2005-

Oct. 2005p

Professional and business services ........................ 16,801 17,183 17,192 17,250 16,614 16,906 16,964 16,983 17,044 17,056 12

1 Professional and technical services ..................... 6,801.2 6,962.4 6,930.8 6,971.1 6,835.3 6,950.9 6,974.3 6,986.2 7,001.9 7,008.8 6.9

Legal services .................................................. 1,166.9 1,169.6 1,151.5 1,154.5 1,167.4 1,163.0 1,163.8 1,162.5 1,155.5 1,154.5 -1.0

Accounting and bookkeeping services ........... 762.3 795.2 792.3 798.2 821.5 858.5 861.7 863.5 866.3 866.2 -.1

Architectural and engineering services .......... 1,287.6 1,343.4 1,336.9 1,342.1 1,280.5 1,310.8 1,317.5 1,322.3 1,330.6 1,332.7 2.1

Computer systems design and related

 services.......................................................... 1,168.0 1,187.6 1,186.3 1,201.5 1,167.3 1,182.4 1,184.8 1,187.8 1,191.5 1,199.2 7.7

Management and technical consulting

 services.......................................................... 794.0 822.2 819.3 824.3 790.5 806.3 811.9 814.7 816.7 819.3 2.6

Management of companies and enterprises ....... 1,718.9 1,743.2 1,727.0 1,732.3 1,715.3 1,735.7 1,735.8 1,735.9 1,730.5 1,735.1 4.6

Administrative and waste services ....................... 8,280.7 8,477.7 8,534.0 8,546.4 8,063.1 8,219.5 8,254.1 8,261.0 8,311.1 8,311.6 .5

1 Administrative and support services ................. 7,952.3 8,145.2 8,207.3 8,226.6 7,736.4 7,895.7 7,927.4 7,935.6 7,988.5 7,992.8 4.3

1 Employment services ...................................... 3,732.6 3,831.4 3,913.2 3,945.6 3,572.9 3,688.0 3,707.2 3,721.2 3,771.1 3,771.8 .7

Temporary help services ............................. 2,610.8 2,646.2 2,720.4 2,754.7 2,486.5 2,529.6 2,548.8 2,561.9 2,602.4 2,613.5 11.1

Business support services .............................. 761.4 745.8 745.9 754.9 755.9 751.4 751.7 751.0 750.9 748.5 -2.4

Services to buildings and dwellings ............... 1,750.1 1,833.0 1,804.7 1,784.9 1,708.6 1,729.0 1,739.5 1,735.3 1,735.7 1,740.3 4.6

Waste management and remediation services 328.4 332.5 326.7 319.8 326.7 323.8 326.7 325.4 322.6 318.8 -3.8

Education and health services ................................ 17,251 17,045 17,365 17,633 17,081 17,336 17,377 17,418 17,451 17,462 11

Educational services ............................................. 2,957.8 2,490.1 2,792.7 3,001.5 2,794.0 2,835.5 2,837.8 2,846.2 2,851.8 2,840.5 -11.3

Health care and social assistance ........................14,293.3 14,554.5 14,571.8 14,631.9 14,287.2 14,500.5 14,539.5 14,571.8 14,598.7 14,621.2 22.5

3 Health care ............................................................ 12,137.6 12,389.1 12,370.7 12,411.4 12,135.3 12,300.3 12,337.4 12,363.5 12,385.8 12,402.6 16.8

1 Ambulatory health care services ....................... 4,998.8 5,128.8 5,116.2 5,147.6 4,996.9 5,084.6 5,104.0 5,120.1 5,130.3 5,141.7 11.4

Offices of physicians ....................................... 2,074.4 2,137.5 2,131.5 2,148.2 2,074.2 2,119.5 2,124.2 2,133.4 2,138.4 2,145.3 6.9

Outpatient care centers ................................... 447.9 462.8 464.6 466.2 449.5 456.7 461.2 462.5 465.5 466.9 1.4

Home health care services ............................. 786.0 809.0 806.6 813.6 782.7 804.1 807.3 808.9 809.8 811.5 1.7

Hospitals ............................................................. 4,310.6 4,401.1 4,395.0 4,402.0 4,311.2 4,374.5 4,384.2 4,391.4 4,397.4 4,403.0 5.6

1 Nursing and residential care facilities ............... 2,828.2 2,859.2 2,859.5 2,861.8 2,827.2 2,841.2 2,849.2 2,852.0 2,858.1 2,857.9 -.2

Nursing care facilities ...................................... 1,578.9 1,581.1 1,579.6 1,577.8 1,576.8 1,573.2 1,575.9 1,575.9 1,576.3 1,574.7 -1.6

1 Social assistance ................................................ 2,155.7 2,165.4 2,201.1 2,220.5 2,151.9 2,200.2 2,202.1 2,208.3 2,212.9 2,218.6 5.7

Child day care services ................................... 782.4 748.4 790.3 805.9 772.8 793.2 792.7 791.6 792.7 796.9 4.2

Leisure and hospitality ............................................. 12,494 13,408 12,963 12,701 12,546 12,765 12,801 12,830 12,767 12,749 -18

Arts, entertainment, and recreation ...................... 1,788.6 2,106.9 1,917.7 1,794.5 1,834.4 1,830.6 1,834.8 1,840.2 1,833.8 1,833.8 -.0

Performing arts and spectator sports ................ 367.5 391.3 380.0 360.4 364.4 364.1 363.8 363.7 362.6 357.6 -5.0

Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks ...... 118.3 127.1 120.6 118.2 118.2 117.5 117.6 117.1 119.0 117.4 -1.6

Amusements, gambling, and recreation ........... 1,302.8 1,588.5 1,417.1 1,315.9 1,351.8 1,349.0 1,353.4 1,359.4 1,352.2 1,358.8 6.6

Accommodations and food services .................... 10,705.0 11,301.1 11,045.7 10,906.0 10,712.0 10,934.2 10,965.8 10,989.3 10,932.7 10,914.8 -17.9

Accommodations ................................................ 1,782.6 1,966.2 1,861.5 1,809.4 1,800.6 1,830.0 1,829.1 1,831.4 1,832.5 1,829.1 -3.4

Food services and drinking places .................... 8,922.4 9,334.9 9,184.2 9,096.6 8,911.4 9,104.2 9,136.7 9,157.9 9,100.2 9,085.7 -14.5

Other services .......................................................... 5,423 5,516 5,449 5,434 5,434 5,479 5,477 5,469 5,464 5,452 -12

Repair and maintenance .................................... 1,227.6 1,245.3 1,234.1 1,230.4 1,227.9 1,244.1 1,244.3 1,239.4 1,234.7 1,232.3 -2.4

Personal and laundry services .......................... 1,267.5 1,287.5 1,280.8 1,276.7 1,267.8 1,283.2 1,280.1 1,281.2 1,282.6 1,281.3 -1.3

Membership associations and organizations .... 2,928.0 2,983.1 2,934.4 2,927.2 2,938.1 2,951.7 2,952.2 2,948.8 2,946.6 2,938.3 -8.3

Government .............................................................. 22,018 20,664 21,693 22,207 21,700 21,760 21,817 21,849 21,857 21,867 10

Federal ................................................................... 2,722 2,731 2,723 2,711 2,723 2,719 2,719 2,718 2,717 2,713 -4

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service ................. 1,940.6 1,952.0 1,944.3 1,932.5 1,940.1 1,937.6 1,937.5 1,936.5 1,936.4 1,933.6 -2.8

U.S. Postal Service ............................................ 781.2 778.7 778.7 778.7 782.5 781.2 781.1 781.1 780.7 779.8 -.9

State government .................................................. 5,143 4,756 5,034 5,179 5,007 5,026 5,034 5,033 5,041 5,041 0

State government education .............................. 2,410.6 1,985.9 2,291.7 2,446.1 2,268.4 2,278.2 2,283.5 2,287.3 2,297.6 2,299.7 2.1

State government, excluding education ............ 2,732.0 2,770.1 2,742.7 2,732.4 2,738.2 2,747.6 2,750.9 2,745.3 2,743.3 2,741.5 -1.8

Local government .................................................. 14,153 13,177 13,936 14,317 13,970 14,015 14,064 14,098 14,099 14,113 14

Local government education ............................. 8,040.3 6,825.8 7,739.3 8,142.2 7,810.8 7,830.3 7,873.9 7,899.7 7,889.0 7,899.3 10.3

Local government, excluding education ........... 6,113.0 6,351.1 6,196.7 6,174.5 6,159.3 6,184.9 6,190.1 6,198.7 6,210.0 6,213.5 3.5

1

Includes other industries, not shown separately. 3Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and 

2

Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, nursing and residential care facilities.

and motor vehicle parts. p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-2. Average weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers1on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and

selected industry detail

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2004

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Change

from:

Sept. 2005-

Oct. 2005p

Total private ....................................... 33.8 33.9 33.8 34.0 33.8 33.7 33.7 33.7 33.8 33.8 0.0

Goods-producing .......................................... 40.1 40.3 40.6 40.6 39.9 39.9 39.9 39.9 39.9 40.3 .4

Natural resources and mining .............................. 45.4 46.5 46.3 46.3 44.8 45.6 45.9 46.0 45.7 45.7 .0

Construction ............................................................ 38.7 39.3 39.4 39.0 38.2 38.5 38.2 38.3 38.2 38.5 .3

Manufacturing ......................................................... 40.7 40.6 41.0 41.2 40.7 40.4 40.5 40.5 40.6 41.0 .4

Overtime hours ............................................ 4.7 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 .0

Durable goods ..................................................... 41.2 41.1 41.5 41.9 41.2 40.9 41.0 41.1 41.1 41.6 .5

Overtime hours ............................................ 4.8 4.7 4.9 4.9 4.7 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.6 4.7 .1

Wood products .................................................. 40.4 40.0 40.2 41.2 40.3 39.5 39.6 39.5 39.9 40.9 1.0

Nonmetallic mineral products ......................... 42.8 42.2 42.7 43.5 42.4 41.7 41.6 41.6 41.9 42.9 1.0

Primary metals .................................................. 42.8 42.8 43.5 43.6 43.0 42.7 43.1 43.1 43.3 43.6 .3

Fabricated metal products .............................. 41.2 40.7 41.1 41.8 41.1 40.7 40.8 40.8 40.7 41.5 .8

Machinery .......................................................... 42.0 41.6 42.0 42.3 42.2 41.9 42.1 42.0 41.8 42.4 .6

Computer and electronic products ................ 40.2 39.6 40.4 40.8 40.1 39.8 40.1 39.7 40.0 40.5 .5

Electrical equipment and appliances ............ 40.8 40.8 41.6 42.3 40.6 40.2 40.9 40.9 41.2 41.6 .4

Transportation equipment ............................... 42.4 42.7 43.0 43.0 42.3 42.2 42.2 42.8 42.5 42.8 .3

Motor vehicles and parts 2.............................. 42.4 42.7 43.2 43.1 42.2 42.0 41.9 42.9 42.6 42.8 .2

Furniture and related products ....................... 38.9 39.5 39.9 38.9 39.2 39.3 39.3 39.1 39.4 39.2 -.2

Miscellaneous manufacturing ......................... 38.4 38.7 38.8 39.8 38.4 38.7 38.2 38.8 38.9 39.7 .8

Nondurable goods ............................................... 39.9 39.7 40.3 40.2 39.9 39.7 39.7 39.7 39.9 40.0 .1

Overtime hours ............................................ 4.5 4.5 4.8 4.5 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.3 .0

Food manufacturing ......................................... 39.3 39.2 39.4 39.0 39.0 38.8 39.0 38.8 38.7 38.7 .0

Beverages and tobacco products .................. 38.3 40.4 39.7 41.0 38.6 40.0 39.9 40.0 39.4 41.3 1.9

Textile mills ........................................................ 39.8 39.9 40.4 40.2 40.1 40.3 40.2 40.0 40.1 40.4 .3

Textile product mills ......................................... 39.2 38.5 38.8 38.6 39.1 38.1 38.2 38.6 38.4 38.5 .1

Apparel ............................................................... 35.9 35.9 35.8 35.9 36.0 35.4 35.3 35.7 35.7 35.9 .2

Leather and allied products ............................ 38.5 38.4 38.5 38.7 38.4 38.6 39.3 38.5 38.4 38.4 .0

Paper and paper products .............................. 42.2 42.2 43.1 43.3 42.1 42.2 42.2 42.5 42.8 43.1 .3

Printing and related support activities ........... 38.5 38.3 39.2 38.9 38.3 38.2 38.4 38.4 38.7 38.6 -.1

Petroleum and coal products .......................... 45.1 44.7 48.2 46.7 45.0 45.6 45.4 45.3 47.2 46.4 -.8

Chemicals .......................................................... 42.5 41.5 41.9 42.6 42.7 42.1 42.0 41.7 42.1 42.7 .6

Plastics and rubber products .......................... 40.1 39.8 40.6 40.3 40.1 39.6 39.6 39.9 40.2 40.1 -.1

Private service-providing ............................. 32.4 32.5 32.4 32.6 32.4 32.4 32.4 32.4 32.4 32.4 .0

Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................... 33.5 33.6 33.5 33.5 33.6 33.3 33.3 33.3 33.3 33.3 .0

Wholesale trade ................................................... 37.7 37.5 37.8 38.1 37.7 37.6 37.6 37.5 37.7 37.7 .0

Retail trade ........................................................... 30.7 30.9 30.7 30.5 30.8 30.5 30.5 30.5 30.5 30.5 .0

Transportation and warehousing ...................... 37.5 37.1 36.8 37.0 37.5 37.0 37.0 36.9 36.5 36.6 .1

Utilities ................................................................... 41.0 41.0 41.8 41.5 40.8 41.2 41.2 41.1 41.4 41.3 -.1

Information ............................................................... 36.3 36.6 36.5 36.9 36.3 36.4 36.6 36.5 36.6 36.6 .0

Financial activities .................................................. 35.5 35.9 35.8 36.6 35.7 36.0 36.1 36.0 36.1 36.1 .0

Professional and business services .................... 34.2 34.3 34.3 34.5 34.3 34.1 34.3 34.2 34.3 34.3 .0

Education and health services ............................. 32.4 32.6 32.6 32.7 32.5 32.6 32.7 32.5 32.7 32.6 -.1

Leisure and hospitality ........................................... 25.6 26.4 25.4 25.8 25.7 25.8 25.7 25.7 25.7 25.7 .0

Other services ......................................................... 30.9 31.1 30.9 31.1 30.9 31.0 31.0 30.9 30.9 30.9 .0

1 Data relate to production workers in natural resources and mining and 2

Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, and motor 

manufacturing, construction workers in construction, and nonsupervisory vehicle parts.

workers in the service-providing industries. These groups account for p = preliminary.

approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers1on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and 

selected industry detail

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Oct.

2004

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Oct.

2004

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Total private ....................................... $15.82 $16.06 $16.22 $16.34 $534.72 $544.43 $548.24 $555.56

Seasonally adjusted ..................... 15.81 16.17 16.19 16.27 534.38 544.93 547.22 549.93

Goods-producing .......................................... 17.39 17.71 17.76 17.81 697.34 713.71 721.06 723.09

Natural resources and mining .............................. 18.07 18.78 18.87 18.87 820.38 873.27 873.68 873.68

Construction ............................................................ 19.47 19.60 19.69 19.75 753.49 770.28 775.79 770.25

Manufacturing ......................................................... 16.26 16.60 16.64 16.70 661.78 673.96 682.24 688.04

Durable goods ..................................................... 16.98 17.42 17.45 17.51 699.58 715.96 724.18 733.67

Wood products .................................................. 13.03 13.02 13.07 13.12 526.41 520.80 525.41 540.54

Nonmetallic mineral products ......................... 16.38 16.84 16.72 16.64 701.06 710.65 713.94 723.84

Primary metals .................................................. 18.73 19.00 19.07 18.98 801.64 813.20 829.55 827.53

Fabricated metal products .............................. 15.38 15.88 15.93 15.89 633.66 646.32 654.72 664.20

Machinery .......................................................... 16.84 16.99 17.00 17.03 707.28 706.78 714.00 720.37

Computer and electronic products ................ 17.52 18.61 18.67 18.63 704.30 736.96 754.27 760.10

Electrical equipment and appliances ............ 15.05 15.33 15.40 15.50 614.04 625.46 640.64 655.65

Transportation equipment ............................... 21.78 22.28 22.32 22.69 923.47 951.36 959.76 975.67

Furniture and related products ....................... 13.27 13.47 13.56 13.43 516.20 532.07 541.04 522.43

Miscellaneous manufacturing ......................... 13.92 14.13 14.08 13.98 534.53 546.83 546.30 556.40

Nondurable goods ............................................... 15.11 15.24 15.32 15.33 602.89 605.03 617.40 616.27

Food manufacturing ......................................... 12.94 12.99 13.12 13.06 508.54 509.21 516.93 509.34

Beverages and tobacco products .................. 19.18 18.42 18.46 18.05 734.59 744.17 732.86 740.05

Textile mills ........................................................ 12.11 12.44 12.33 12.31 481.98 496.36 498.13 494.86

Textile product mills ......................................... 11.42 11.75 11.76 11.83 447.66 452.38 456.29 456.64

Apparel ............................................................... 9.97 10.21 10.31 10.24 357.92 366.54 369.10 367.62

Leather and allied products ............................ 11.58 11.55 11.71 11.64 445.83 443.52 450.84 450.47

Paper and paper products .............................. 17.93 17.92 17.94 18.10 756.65 756.22 773.21 783.73

Printing and related support activities ........... 15.95 15.81 15.96 15.93 614.08 605.52 625.63 619.68

Petroleum and coal products .......................... 24.33 24.11 24.38 24.76 1,097.28 1,077.72 1,175.12 1,156.29

Chemicals .......................................................... 19.42 19.71 19.80 19.87 825.35 817.97 829.62 846.46

Plastics and rubber products .......................... 14.55 14.91 14.84 14.74 583.46 593.42 602.50 594.02

Private service-providing ............................. 15.40 15.62 15.80 15.94 498.96 507.65 511.92 519.64

Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................... 14.69 14.95 15.04 15.10 492.12 502.32 503.84 505.85

Wholesale trade ................................................... 17.75 18.16 18.31 18.47 669.18 681.00 692.12 703.71

Retail trade ........................................................... 12.17 12.37 12.36 12.38 373.62 382.23 379.45 377.59

Transportation and warehousing ...................... 16.59 16.81 16.85 16.86 622.13 623.65 620.08 623.82

Utilities ................................................................... 26.02 26.65 27.09 27.17 1,066.82 1,092.65 1,132.36 1,127.56

Information ............................................................... 21.69 22.14 22.48 22.81 787.35 810.32 820.52 841.69

Financial activities .................................................. 17.68 17.92 18.07 18.24 627.64 643.33 646.91 667.58

Professional and business services .................... 17.54 17.88 17.99 18.36 599.87 613.28 617.06 633.42

Education and health services ............................. 16.30 16.73 16.82 16.82 528.12 545.40 548.33 550.01

Leisure and hospitality ........................................... 9.02 9.05 9.22 9.26 230.91 238.92 234.19 238.91

Other services ......................................................... 14.06 14.19 14.28 14.33 434.45 441.31 441.25 445.66

1 See footnote 1, table B-2. p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-4. Average hourly earnings of production or nonsupervisory workers1on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and

selected industry detail, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Total private:

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Percent

change from:

Sept. 2005-

Oct. 2005p

Current dollars .............................................. $15.81 $16.07 $16.14 $16.17 $16.19 $16.27 0.5

2 Constant (1982) dollars .............................. 8.22 8.21 8.20 8.16 8.06 N.A. 3( )

Goods-producing .......................................................... 17.32 17.58 17.60 17.67 17.64 17.74 .6

Natural resources and mining .............................................. 18.10 18.66 18.74 18.87 18.92 18.93 .1

Construction ............................................................................ 19.34 19.43 19.52 19.51 19.53 19.60 .4

Manufacturing ......................................................................... 16.27 16.55 16.55 16.65 16.59 16.70 .7

4 Excluding overtime .................................................... 15.42 15.70 15.68 15.77 15.72 15.83 .7

Durable goods ..................................................................... 16.97 17.32 17.34 17.46 17.38 17.50 .7

Nondurable goods ............................................................... 15.15 15.29 15.25 15.30 15.28 15.36 .5

Private service-providing ............................................. 15.40 15.67 15.76 15.77 15.80 15.88 .5

Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................................... 14.69 14.91 15.04 15.02 15.00 15.06 .4

Wholesale trade ................................................................... 17.78 18.11 18.25 18.24 18.32 18.39 .4

Retail trade ........................................................................... 12.16 12.35 12.47 12.43 12.33 12.39 .5

Transportation and warehousing ...................................... 16.61 16.69 16.76 16.81 16.83 16.83 .0

Utilities ................................................................................... 26.00 26.37 27.00 26.90 26.98 27.13 .6

Information ............................................................................... 21.59 22.08 22.18 22.26 22.40 22.64 1.1

Financial activities .................................................................. 17.71 17.90 17.99 17.97 18.07 18.13 .3

Professional and business services .................................... 17.63 17.98 18.05 18.09 18.09 18.29 1.1

Education and health services ............................................. 16.31 16.67 16.73 16.75 16.79 16.82 .2

Leisure and hospitality ........................................................... 8.99 9.10 9.13 9.16 9.21 9.22 .1

Other services ......................................................................... 14.08 14.22 14.25 14.28 14.28 14.32 .3

1 See footnote 1, table B-2. 4 Derived by assuming that overtime hours are paid at the 

2 The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and rate of time and one-half.

Clerical Workers (CPI-W) is used to deflate this series. N.A. = not available.

3 Change was -1.2 percent from Aug. 2005 to Sept. 2005, the p = preliminary.

latest month available.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-5. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers1on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and

selected industry detail

(2002=100)

Industry

ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-5. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours of production or nonsupervisory workers1on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and

selected industry detail

(2002=100)

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2004

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Percent

change from:

Sept. 2005-

Oct. 2005p

Total private ....................................... 101.9 104.6 103.7 104.5 101.2 102.5 102.8 102.9 103.2 103.2 0.0

Goods-producing .......................................... 99.2 101.5 101.8 102.0 97.2 98.1 98.1 98.3 98.4 99.7 1.3

Natural resources and mining .............................. 109.5 121.1 120.6 121.1 105.9 114.9 115.9 116.8 116.6 117.3 .6

Construction ............................................................ 108.2 115.1 114.1 113.3 103.0 106.6 105.9 106.6 106.6 108.0 1.3

Manufacturing ......................................................... 94.9 94.6 95.3 96.0 94.4 93.5 93.7 93.8 93.9 95.1 1.3

Durable goods ..................................................... 95.7 96.3 97.0 98.5 95.5 95.2 95.5 96.0 95.9 97.6 1.8

Wood products .................................................. 102.0 100.9 101.5 103.5 101.0 98.2 98.3 98.1 99.6 101.9 2.3

Nonmetallic mineral products ......................... 101.6 99.2 100.1 101.7 99.1 96.0 95.1 95.3 95.8 98.3 2.6

Primary metals .................................................. 92.8 92.1 94.1 94.8 93.3 92.0 93.1 93.0 93.7 94.8 1.2

Fabricated metal products .............................. 99.3 98.9 99.8 101.7 98.8 98.6 99.0 99.0 98.8 100.7 1.9

Machinery .......................................................... 96.2 97.0 98.3 99.3 97.2 98.0 99.1 98.7 98.4 100.2 1.8

Computer and electronic products ................ 90.6 96.1 98.6 100.3 90.3 94.3 96.1 96.1 97.6 99.4 1.8

Electrical equipment and appliances ............ 89.0 88.1 89.3 90.5 88.5 86.7 88.4 88.3 88.4 89.2 .9

Transportation equipment ............................... 96.4 97.2 96.9 99.2 96.1 95.9 95.0 97.3 95.7 98.6 3.0

Motor vehicles and parts 2.............................. 96.5 94.3 96.9 96.5 96.1 93.0 90.9 94.7 95.5 95.7 .2

Furniture and related products ....................... 92.3 91.9 92.1 89.4 93.2 91.3 91.0 90.5 91.0 90.2 -.9

Miscellaneous manufacturing ......................... 91.5 91.2 90.9 93.5 91.1 90.5 89.7 91.1 91.1 92.8 1.9

Nondurable goods ............................................... 93.4 91.6 92.8 92.2 92.6 90.8 90.8 90.5 90.9 91.0 .1

Food manufacturing ......................................... 99.7 99.4 99.0 97.8 96.6 96.0 96.5 95.7 95.1 95.1 .0

Beverages and tobacco products .................. 89.3 99.3 98.9 102.8 88.1 94.6 94.8 95.5 95.0 101.3 6.6

Textile mills ........................................................ 77.5 71.7 72.4 70.9 78.1 73.3 72.8 71.7 71.4 71.2 -.3

Textile product mills ......................................... 92.1 92.5 93.6 93.6 92.8 90.9 92.0 93.1 93.5 94.1 .6

Apparel ............................................................... 72.7 65.6 66.2 63.4 72.4 65.4 65.8 64.7 64.4 63.1 -2.0

Leather and allied products ............................ 87.1 86.9 87.6 87.8 86.4 85.3 87.8 86.8 86.9 86.6 -.3

Paper and paper products .............................. 90.2 89.8 91.5 91.3 89.7 89.4 89.4 90.0 90.4 90.7 .3

Printing and related support activities ........... 94.0 91.7 93.9 93.5 93.2 91.6 91.9 91.7 92.6 92.4 -.2

Petroleum and coal products .......................... 108.0 106.5 112.8 107.8 106.3 107.0 105.5 104.7 108.1 106.0 -1.9

Chemicals .......................................................... 98.2 94.8 95.1 96.8 99.3 96.2 95.9 95.1 95.9 97.2 1.4

Plastics and rubber products .......................... 94.1 91.6 94.0 93.5 93.8 91.2 91.1 91.8 92.8 92.7 -.1

Private service-providing ............................. 102.6 105.4 104.5 105.3 102.1 103.9 104.2 104.2 104.2 104.2 .0

Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................... 100.4 102.1 101.4 101.9 100.2 100.9 101.2 101.2 100.8 100.9 .1

Wholesale trade ................................................... 99.6 101.4 101.9 102.7 99.3 100.7 100.9 100.8 101.4 101.4 .0

Retail trade ........................................................... 99.8 101.6 99.8 100.0 99.8 100.1 100.5 100.3 99.7 99.7 .0

Transportation and warehousing ...................... 105.1 104.7 105.9 106.6 103.9 105.1 105.1 105.0 104.0 104.3 .3

Utilities ................................................................... 94.9 97.7 98.9 98.3 94.5 96.9 97.0 97.3 98.1 98.0 -.1

Information ............................................................... 99.8 103.7 103.0 103.7 100.3 102.6 103.3 103.0 104.0 103.4 -.6

Financial activities .................................................. 102.4 106.6 105.6 108.1 103.2 105.4 106.0 106.0 106.5 106.8 .3

Professional and business services .................... 105.0 108.5 108.4 109.3 103.9 105.7 106.7 106.6 107.3 107.3 .0

Education and health services ............................. 105.0 104.4 106.2 108.1 104.3 106.2 106.8 106.3 107.1 106.8 -.3

Leisure and hospitality ........................................... 102.9 114.5 106.2 105.5 103.7 106.0 105.9 105.9 105.7 105.7 .0

Other services ......................................................... 96.4 99.1 97.0 97.2 96.5 98.1 98.1 97.5 97.4 97.1 -.3

1 See footnote 1, table B-2. dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate hours by the

2

Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, corresponding 2002 annual average levels. Aggregate hours estimates

and motor vehicle parts. are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and production or

p = preliminary. nonsupervisory worker employment.

NOTE: The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by 
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-6. Indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls of production or nonsupervisory workers1on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and

selected industry detail

(2002=100)

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Oct.

2004

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Oct.

2004

June

2005

July

2005

Aug.

2005

Sept.

2005p

Oct.

2005p

Percent

change from:

Sept. 2005-

Oct. 2005p

Total private ....................................... 107.9 112.3 112.5 114.2 107.1 110.3 111.0 111.3 111.8 112.4 0.5

Goods-producing .......................................... 105.7 110.1 110.7 111.3 103.1 105.6 105.7 106.4 106.3 108.3 1.9

Natural resources and mining .............................. 115.1 132.2 132.3 132.9 111.5 124.6 126.3 128.2 128.3 129.1 .6

Construction ............................................................ 113.7 121.8 121.3 120.8 107.5 111.9 111.6 112.3 112.5 114.3 1.6

Manufacturing ......................................................... 100.9 102.7 103.7 104.9 100.5 101.2 101.4 102.1 101.9 103.9 2.0

Durable goods ..................................................... 101.5 104.7 105.7 107.7 101.2 103.0 103.3 104.6 104.1 106.6 2.4

Nondurable goods ............................................... 99.7 98.6 100.4 99.9 99.1 98.1 97.9 97.9 98.2 98.8 .6

Private service-providing ............................. 108.6 113.1 113.4 115.3 108.0 111.8 112.8 112.9 113.1 113.7 .5

Trade, transportation, and utilities ....................... 105.2 108.9 108.7 109.8 105.1 107.4 108.6 108.4 107.9 108.4 .5

Wholesale trade ................................................... 104.1 108.5 109.9 111.8 104.0 107.5 108.5 108.3 109.4 109.8 .4

Retail trade ........................................................... 104.1 107.8 105.7 106.2 104.0 106.0 107.4 106.8 105.3 105.9 .6

Transportation and warehousing ...................... 110.6 111.7 113.2 114.0 109.5 111.2 111.8 112.0 111.0 111.4 .4

Utilities ................................................................... 103.0 108.6 111.9 111.5 102.5 106.7 109.3 109.2 110.4 110.9 .5

Information ............................................................... 107.1 113.7 114.6 117.1 107.2 112.2 113.4 113.5 115.3 115.8 .4

Financial activities .................................................. 112.0 118.1 118.0 122.0 113.0 116.7 117.9 117.7 119.0 119.7 .6

Professional and business services .................... 109.6 115.4 116.0 119.4 109.0 113.0 114.6 114.8 115.5 116.7 1.0

Education and health services ............................. 112.5 114.8 117.5 119.6 111.8 116.4 117.5 117.1 118.2 118.1 -.1

Leisure and hospitality ........................................... 108.2 120.9 114.1 113.9 108.7 112.5 112.8 113.1 113.5 113.6 .1

Other services ......................................................... 98.7 102.5 101.0 101.5 99.0 101.6 101.9 101.4 101.3 101.3 .0

1 See footnote 1, table B-2. the corresponding 2002 annual average levels. Aggregate payroll estimates are

p = preliminary. the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly hours, and

NOTE: The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated production or nonsupervisory worker employment. 

by dividing the current month's estimates of aggregate payrolls by 
ESTABLISHMENT DATA ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-7. Diffusion indexes of employment change

(Percent)

Time span Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

Private nonfarm payrolls, 278 industries 1

Over 1-month span:

2001 ........................................................ 49.5 47.7 48.6 32.7 42.4 40.8 36.7 39.0 37.6 33.6 36.9 37.1

2002 ........................................................ 41.0 35.6 39.7 39.2 40.5 47.7 42.8 43.0 42.1 39.0 41.5 35.1

2003 ........................................................ 44.4 38.7 35.3 41.4 39.4 39.9 42.1 39.4 50.4 48.9 50.0 50.5

2004 ........................................................ 50.9 53.4 66.0 67.3 64.6 59.7 55.4 53.8 57.6 58.6 54.7 54.3

2005 ........................................................ 54.1 61.2 53.1 61.7 57.4 54.7 58.8 54.9 p 52.2 p 50.2

Over 3-month span:

2001 ........................................................ 53.2 49.8 49.8 42.3 38.1 34.2 37.8 37.6 34.7 35.4 30.8 32.0

2002 ........................................................ 35.3 37.9 36.5 34.2 34.4 39.4 40.6 44.1 37.8 37.1 35.8 36.7

2003 ........................................................ 38.3 35.4 33.3 33.5 36.5 41.7 37.8 37.4 43.2 46.4 48.6 50.2

2004 ........................................................ 52.5 53.8 56.7 69.4 75.4 71.2 63.5 56.8 57.4 59.9 59.7 56.3

2005 ........................................................ 58.5 60.3 63.7 62.4 59.4 64.2 61.3 60.4 p 57.0 p 48.6

Over 6-month span:

2001 ........................................................ 53.1 50.9 52.0 45.5 43.0 39.7 38.5 33.6 33.5 34.2 33.6 30.9

2002 ........................................................ 29.5 29.9 32.0 31.7 30.9 37.4 37.1 38.7 35.3 36.0 37.9 35.1

2003 ........................................................ 32.7 32.2 31.3 31.3 33.1 37.6 33.6 32.2 40.3 43.7 46.4 49.3

2004 ........................................................ 47.3 50.4 54.9 62.6 64.4 69.6 67.3 68.9 64.6 62.2 59.7 55.9

2005 ........................................................ 60.3 62.8 63.7 62.2 62.6 63.1 64.0 61.5 p 61.0 p 54.1

Over 12-month span:

2001 ........................................................ 59.5 59.5 53.4 49.3 48.6 45.0 43.3 43.9 39.9 37.8 37.1 34.9

2002 ........................................................ 33.6 31.7 30.2 30.4 30.2 29.1 32.0 31.3 30.0 29.5 32.9 34.7

2003 ........................................................ 34.5 31.5 32.9 33.5 34.2 35.1 32.7 33.1 37.1 36.7 37.2 39.2

2004 ........................................................ 40.3 42.1 44.8 48.7 52.0 56.7 57.4 57.6 60.3 62.1 64.6 64.0

2005 ........................................................ 61.2 64.7 64.2 65.8 63.8 60.4 63.8 67.3 p 62.6 p 59.0

Over 1-month span:

2001 ........................................................ 22.0 17.3 22.0 17.9 16.1 22.6 13.1 15.5 18.5 17.3 14.9 11.9

2002 ........................................................ 19.0 19.6 22.0 32.1 26.2 31.0 35.7 23.2 28.6 15.5 18.5 16.7

2003 ........................................................ 35.1 19.0 19.0 11.9 19.6 20.8 22.6 24.4 32.7 35.1 39.9 42.9

2004 ........................................................ 39.3 49.4 50.0 65.5 60.1 51.8 60.7 48.8 42.9 42.3 46.4 44.6

2005 ........................................................ 42.3 44.6 41.1 47.6 44.0 33.9 50.0 39.9 p 44.6 p 41.7

Over 3-month span:

2001 ........................................................ 32.7 20.8 16.7 14.3 14.3 11.9 11.9 9.5 7.7 12.5 11.3 9.5

2002 ........................................................ 10.7 11.9 11.3 17.9 14.9 20.2 25.6 23.8 20.2 13.7 8.9 9.5

2003 ........................................................ 16.1 14.3 12.5 8.9 10.7 10.7 14.3 15.5 18.5 27.4 31.5 35.1

2004 ........................................................ 42.3 43.5 42.9 58.3 69.0 69.6 62.5 53.6 52.4 44.6 45.2 35.7

2005 ........................................................ 45.2 42.9 52.4 46.4 41.7 38.7 41.1 36.9 p 42.9 p 35.7

Over 6-month span:

2001 ........................................................ 22.6 24.4 21.4 19.6 14.3 11.9 13.1 11.3 10.7 7.1 7.7 5.4

2002 ........................................................ 6.0 8.3 8.3 9.5 7.1 13.1 12.5 11.3 14.3 8.3 8.3 7.7

2003 ........................................................ 12.5 10.1 7.1 8.3 11.3 10.7 4.8 10.1 13.1 16.7 19.6 26.8

2004 ........................................................ 27.4 29.8 33.3 47.0 52.4 57.1 60.1 58.9 58.9 50.6 45.2 42.9

2005 ........................................................ 43.5 44.0 42.3 39.3 38.7 36.9 36.9 34.5 p 38.7 p 40.5

Over 12-month span:

2001 ........................................................ 29.8 32.1 20.8 19.0 13.1 12.5 10.7 11.9 11.9 10.1 8.3 6.0

2002 ........................................................ 7.1 6.0 6.0 6.5 7.1 3.6 4.8 6.0 4.8 7.1 4.8 8.3

2003 ........................................................ 10.7 6.0 6.5 6.0 8.3 7.1 7.1 8.3 10.7 10.7 9.5 10.7

2004 ........................................................ 13.1 14.3 13.1 19.0 25.6 34.5 43.5 40.5 45.8 48.2 49.4 46.4

2005 ........................................................ 45.2 45.8 47.6 44.6 42.3 39.3 39.3 38.7 p 31.5 p 37.5

Manufacturing payrolls, 84 industries 1

1Based on seasonally adjusted data for 1-, 3-, and 6-month increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment, where

spans and unadjusted data for the 12-month span. 50 percent indicates an equal balance between industries with increasing 

p= preliminary. and decreasing employment. 

NOTE: Figures are the percent of industries with employment