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Statement of 

Erica L. Groshen 

Commissioner 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Friday, July 5, 2013

Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 195,000 in June and 

the unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.6 percent. Over the 

prior 12 months, job gains averaged 182,000 per month. In June, 

employment increased in leisure and hospitality, professional 

and business services, retail trade, health care, and financial 

activities. 

Employment in leisure and hospitality rose by 75,000 over 

the month. Monthly job growth in this industry has averaged 

55,000 thus far in 2013, almost twice the average gain of 30,000 

per month in 2012. In June, employment continued to rise in food 

services and drinking places (+52,000) and in amusements, 

gambling, and recreation (+19,000). 

Professional and business services added 53,000 jobs in 

June. Job gains occurred in management and technical consulting 

services (+8,000) and in computer systems design (+7,000). 
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Employment in temporary help services continued to trend up 

(+10,000). 

In June, retail trade added 37,000 jobs. Within this 

industry, employment rose over the month in building material 

and garden supply stores (+9,000) and in motor vehicle and parts 

dealers (+8,000). Wholesale trade employment continued to trend 

up in June (+11,000). 

Health care added 20,000 jobs over the month. Employment 

continued to trend up in ambulatory health care services 

(+13,000). A gain of 5,000 jobs in hospitals followed a loss of 

8,000 jobs in May. 

Employment in financial activities rose by 17,000 in June. 

Over the month, 6,000 jobs were added in both credit 

intermediation and related activities and in insurance carriers 

and related activities. 

Federal government employment continued to trend down in 

June (-5,000) and has declined by 65,000 over the past 12 

months. Employment in other major industries changed little in 

June. 

Average hourly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm 

payrolls rose by 10 cents in June. Over the past 12 months, 

average hourly earnings have risen by 51 cents, or 2.2 percent. 

From May 2012 to May 2013, the Consumer Price Index for All 

Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased by 1.4 percent. 
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Turning now to our survey of households, the unemployment 

rate was unchanged at 7.6 percent in June, and the number of 

unemployed persons remained at 11.8 million. Both of these 

measures have been relatively flat since February. The labor 

force participation rate, at 63.5 percent, and the employmentpopulation ratio, at 58.7 percent, were little changed in June. 

The portion of the unemployed who had been jobless for 27 

weeks or more continued to trend down, reaching 36.7 percent. 

Among the employed, those working part time for economic reasons 

rose by 322,000 to 8.2 million, nearly the same level as a year 

earlier. 

Among persons who were neither working nor looking for work 

in June, 2.6 million were classified as marginally attached to 

the labor force, about the same as a year earlier. These 

individuals had not looked for work in the 4 weeks prior to the 

survey but wanted a job, were available for work, and had looked 

for a job within the last 12 months. The number of discouraged 

workers, a subset of the marginally attached who believed that 

no jobs were available for them, was 1.0 million in June, up 

from 821,000 a year earlier. 

In summary, nonfarm payroll employment increased by 195,000 

in June, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.6 percent.