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Technical information: 

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

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

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THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — SEPTEMBER 2013 

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 148,000 in September, and the unemployment rate was 

little changed at 7.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased 

in construction, wholesale trade, and transportation and warehousing. 

Household Survey Data 

The unemployment rate, at 7.2 percent, changed little in September but has declined by 0.4 percentage 

point since June. The number of unemployed persons, at 11.3 million, was also little changed over the 

month; however, unemployment has decreased by 522,000 since June. (See table A-1.) 

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (7.1 percent), adult women 

(6.2 percent), teenagers (21.4 percent), whites (6.3 percent), blacks (12.9 percent), and Hispanics (9.0 

percent) showed little or no change in September. The jobless rate for Asians was 5.3 percent (not 

seasonally adjusted), little changed from a year earlier. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.) 

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Chart 2. Nonfarm payroll employment over-the-month 

change, seasonally adjusted, September 2011 –

September 2013

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Chart 1. Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, 

September 2011 – September 2013
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In September, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little 

changed at 4.1 million. These individuals accounted for 36.9 percent of the unemployed. The number of 

long-term unemployed has declined by 725,000 over the past year. (See table A-12.) 

Both the civilian labor force participation rate, at 63.2 percent, and the employment-population 

ratio, at 58.6 percent, were unchanged in September. Over the year, the labor force participation rate has 

declined by 0.4 percentage point, while the employment-population ratio has changed little. (See 

table A-1.) 

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

involuntary part-time workers) was unchanged at 7.9 million in September. These individuals were 

working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time 

job. (See table A-8.) 

In September, 2.3 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, down from 2.5 million 

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

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

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

survey. (See table A-16.) 

Among the marginally attached, there were 852,000 discouraged workers in September, essentially 

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

not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.5 

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

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

Establishment Survey Data 

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 148,000 in September, with gains in construction, 

wholesale trade, and transportation and warehousing. Over the prior 12 months, employment growth 

averaged 185,000 per month. (See table B-1.) 

Employment in construction rose by 20,000 in September, after showing little change over the prior 

6 months. 

Employment in wholesale trade rose by 16,000 in September. Over the prior 12 months, this industry 

added an average of 7,000 jobs per month. 

Transportation and warehousing added 23,000 jobs in September. Most of the increase occurred in 

transit and ground passenger transportation (+18,000). 

In September, employment in professional and business services continued to trend up (+32,000). 

Over the prior 12 months, employment growth in this industry averaged 52,000 per month. 

Employment in temporary help services continued to trend up in September (+20,000). 

Within retail trade, job gains occurred in building material and garden supply stores (+5,000) and in 

automobile dealers (+4,000). 
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In the financial activities industry, employment in credit intermediation and related activities declined 

by 8,000 in September. 

Employment in health care changed little (+7,000) in September. Thus far in 2013, health care has 

added an average of 19,000 jobs per month, compared with an average monthly increase of 27,000 in 

2012. 

Within leisure and hospitality, employment in food services and drinking places was essentially 

unchanged over the month (-7,000). Job growth in this industry averaged 28,000 per month over the 

prior 12 months. 

Employment in other major industries, including mining and logging, manufacturing, information, 

and government, showed little change in September. 

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged in September at 

34.5 hours. In manufacturing, the workweek was 40.8 hours, the same as in August, and overtime was 

unchanged at 3.4 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on 

private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 33.7 hours. (See tables B-2 and B-7.) 

In September, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 3 cents 

to $24.09. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 49 cents, or 2.1 percent. In September, 

average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees rose by 4 cents 

to $20.24. (See tables B-3 and B-8.) 

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for July was revised from +104,000 to +89,000, and 

the change for August was revised from +169,000 to +193,000. With these revisions, employment gains 

in July and August combined were 9,000 more than previously reported. 

_____________ 

The Employment Situation for October is scheduled to be released on Friday, November 8, 2013, 

at 8:30 a.m. (EST). This release was originally scheduled for Friday, November 1, 2013, but was 

rescheduled because of the recent partial Federal government shutdown. 

Federal Government Shutdown 

The release of these data occurs about 2 weeks later than originally scheduled because of the 

recent partial Federal government shutdown. Data collection for the estimates in this release 

had been completed prior to the shutdown in accordance with our normal schedule. However, 

the processing of some estimates and the production of the Employment Situation news release 

were delayed due to the shutdown. 
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Change from:

Aug. 2013-

Sept. 2013

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population............................................ 243,772 245,756 245,959 246,168 209

Civilian labor force............................................................ 155,056 155,798 155,486 155,559 73

Participation rate........................................................... 63.6 63.4 63.2 63.2 0.0

Employed.................................................................... 142,974 144,285 144,170 144,303 133

Employment-population ratio........................................... 58.7 58.7 58.6 58.6 0.0

Unemployed................................................................. 12,082 11,514 11,316 11,255 -61

Unemployment rate..................................................... 7.8 7.4 7.3 7.2 -0.1

Not in labor force............................................................. 88,716 89,957 90,473 90,609 136

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over....................................................... 7.8 7.4 7.3 7.2 -0.1

Adult men (20 years and over).............................................. 7.3 7.0 7.1 7.1 0.0

Adult women (20 years and over).......................................... 7.0 6.5 6.3 6.2 -0.1

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)................................................. 23.7 23.7 22.7 21.4 -1.3

White........................................................................... 7.0 6.6 6.4 6.3 -0.1

Black or African American................................................... 13.4 12.6 13.0 12.9 -0.1

Asian (not seasonally adjusted)............................................. 4.8 5.7 5.1 5.3 –

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.................................................. 9.9 9.4 9.3 9.0 -0.3

Total, 25 years and over....................................................... 6.6 6.1 6.0 6.0 0.0

Less than a high school diploma........................................... 11.2 11.0 11.3 10.3 -1.0

High school graduates, no college......................................... 8.6 7.6 7.6 7.6 0.0

Some college or associate degree......................................... 6.5 6.0 6.1 6.0 -0.1

Bachelor’s degree and higher............................................... 4.0 3.8 3.5 3.7 0.2

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs................... 6,489 5,921 5,970 5,844 -126

Job leavers....................................................................... 962 979 893 989 96

Reentrants........................................................................ 3,313 3,258 3,129 3,181 52

New entrants..................................................................... 1,253 1,254 1,299 1,222 -77

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks.............................................................. 2,535 2,563 2,563 2,596 33

5 to 14 weeks.................................................................... 2,825 2,869 2,766 2,703 -63

15 to 26 weeks.................................................................. 1,866 1,788 1,694 1,804 110

27 weeks and over.............................................................. 4,871 4,246 4,290 4,146 -144

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons............................................... 8,607 8,245 7,911 7,926 15

Slack work or business conditions.......................................... 5,567 5,177 4,808 4,960 152

Could only find part-time work.............................................. 2,587 2,665 2,719 2,557 -162

Part time for noneconomic reasons........................................... 18,728 19,128 19,339 18,967 -372

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force........................................ 2,517 2,414 2,342 2,302 –

Discouraged workers......................................................... 802 988 866 852 –

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

NOTE: Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not

necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with

the release of January data.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

Category Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 89 193 148

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 100 161 126

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -17 -12 18 26

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -2 2 3 4

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3 2 20

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -18 -17 13 2

Durable goods1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -17 -13 23 9

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -3.0 -10.7 16.0 -0.2

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -1 -4 -10 -7

Private service-providing1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 112 143 100

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -1.0 14.1 9.1 16.1

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.1 41.0 31.9 20.8

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3 -13.6 6.3 23.4

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -12 12 -17 4

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 14 -3 -2

Professional and business services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 35 30 32

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -12.6 13.4 21.2 20.2

Education and health services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 16 61 14

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.7 7.3 51.4 13.7

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 -3 21 -13

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 -2 4 5

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 -11 32 22

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

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

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

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.7 82.6 82.6 82.5

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

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

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 23.60 $ 23.99 $ 24.06 $ 24.09

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $814.20 $825.26 $830.07 $831.11

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.9 98.3 98.8 98.9

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109.0 112.5 113.3 113.6

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.6 -0.3 0.7 0.3

HOURS AND EARNINGS

PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.7 33.6 33.7 33.7

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 19.80 $ 20.16 $ 20.20 $ 20.24

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $667.26 $677.38 $680.74 $682.09

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.2 105.7 106.1 106.2

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2002=100)4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137.8 142.3 143.2 143.5

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

DIFFUSION INDEX

(Over 1-month span)5

Total private (266 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.6 56.2 59.2 58.1

Manufacturing (81 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.0 49.4 48.8 51.2

1 Includes other industries, not shown separately.

2 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in the service-providing

industries.

3 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding annual average aggregate hours.

4 The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding annual average

aggregate weekly payrolls.

5 Figures are the percent of industries with employment increasing plus one-half of the industries with unchanged employment, where 50 percent indicates an equal balance

between industries with increasing and decreasing employment.

p Preliminary
Frequently Asked Questions about Employment and Unemployment Estimates 

1. Why are there two monthly measures of employment? 

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

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

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

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

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

significant change in the household survey is about 400,000. However, the household survey has a 

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

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

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

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

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

2. Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Employment Situation news release. 

3. Why does the establishment survey have revisions? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

estimates to nearly complete employment counts available from unemployment insurance tax 

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

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

4. Does the establishment survey sample include small firms? 

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

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

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

industries are appropriately sampled to achieve that goal. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

insurance benefits? 

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

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

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

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

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

looking for work? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

but not always, results in a reduction in average weekly hours. For example, some employees may be 

off work for part of the pay period and not receive pay for the time missed, while some workers, such 

as those dealing with cleanup or repair, may work extra hours. 

In order for severe weather conditions to reduce the estimate of payroll employment, employees have 

to be off work without pay for the entire pay period. Slightly more than 20 percent of all employees 

in the payroll survey sample have a weekly pay period. Employees who receive pay for any part of 

the pay period, even 1 hour, are counted in the payroll employment figures. It is not possible to 

quantify the effect of extreme weather on estimates of over-the-month change in employment. 

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

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

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

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

of the number of persons who usually work full time but had reduced hours. Current and historical 

data are available on the household survey's most requested statistics page at http://data.bls.gov/cgibin/surveymost?ln.
Technical Note 

This news release presents statistics from two major 

surveys, the Current Population Survey (CPS; household 

survey) and the Current Employment Statistics survey 

(CES; establishment survey). The household survey 

provides information on the labor force, employment, and 

unemployment that appears in the "A" tables, marked 

HOUSEHOLD DATA. It is a sample survey of about 

60,000 eligible households conducted by the U.S. Census 

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

The establishment survey provides information on 

employment, hours, and earnings of employees on nonfarm 

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

ESTABLISHMENT DATA. BLS collects these data each 

month from the payroll records of a sample of 

nonagricultural business establishments. Each month the 

CES program surveys about 145,000 businesses and 

government agencies, representing approximately 557,000 

individual worksites, in order to provide detailed industry 

data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on 

nonfarm payrolls. The active sample includes 

approximately one-third of all nonfarm payroll employees. 

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

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

reference period is generally the calendar week that 

contains the 12th day of the month. In the establishment 

survey, the reference period is the pay period including the 

12th, which may or may not correspond directly to the 

calendar week. 

Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys 

Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect 

the entire civilian noninstitutional population. Based on 

responses to a series of questions on work and job search 

activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample 

household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in 

the labor force. 

People are classified as employed if they did any work 

at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked 

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

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

farm. People are also counted as employed if they were 

temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad 

weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal 

reasons. 

People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of 

the following criteria: they had no employment during the 

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

and they made specific efforts to find employment 

sometime during the 4-week period ending with the 

reference week. Persons laid off from a job and expecting 

recall need not be looking for work to be counted as 

unemployed. The unemployment data derived from the 

household survey in no way depend upon the eligibility for 

or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits. 

The civilian labor force is the sum of employed and 

unemployed persons. Those persons not classified as 

employed or unemployed are not in the labor force. The 

unemployment rate is the number unemployed as a percent 

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

labor force as a percent of the population, and 

the employment-population ratio is the employed as a 

percent of the population. Additional information 

about the household survey can be found at 

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

Establishment survey. The sample establishments are 

drawn from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, 

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

government entities. Employees on nonfarm payrolls are 

those who received pay for any part of the reference pay 

period, including persons on paid leave. Persons are 

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

produced for the private sector for all employees and for 

production and nonsupervisory employees. Production and

nonsupervisory employees are defined as production and 

related employees in manufacturing and mining and 

logging, construction workers in construction, and nonsupervisory employees in private service-providing 

industries. 

Industries are classified on the basis of an 

establishment’s principal activity in accordance with the 

2012 version of the North American Industry Classification 

System. Additional information about the establishment 

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

Differences in employment estimates. The numerous 

conceptual and methodological differences between the 

household and establishment surveys result in important 

distinctions in the employment estimates derived from the 

surveys. Among these are: 

 The household survey includes agricultural 

workers, self-employed workers whose businesses 

are unicorporated, unpaid family workers, and 

private household workers among the employed. 

These groups are excluded from the establishment 

survey. 

 The household survey includes people on unpaid 

leave among the employed. The establishment 

survey does not. 

 The household survey is limited to workers 16 

years of age and older. The establishment survey is 

not limited by age. 

 The household survey has no duplication of 

individuals, because individuals are counted only 

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

establishment survey, employees working at more 

than one job and thus appearing on more than one 

payroll are counted separately for each appearance. 
Seasonal adjustment 

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

force and the levels of employment and unemployment 

undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These events may 

result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, 

and the opening and closing of schools. The effect of such 

seasonal variation can be very large. 

Because these seasonal events follow a more or less 

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

series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal 

variation. These adjustments make nonseasonal developments, such as declines in employment or increases in the 

participation of women in the labor force, easier to spot. For 

example, in the household survey, the large number of 

youth entering the labor force each June is likely to obscure 

any other changes that have taken place relative to May, 

making it difficult to determine if the level of economic 

activity has risen or declined. Similarly, in the 

establishment survey, payroll employment in education 

declines by about 20 percent at the end of the spring term 

and later rises with the start of the fall term, obscuring the 

underlying employment trends in the industry. Because 

seasonal employment changes at the end and beginning of 

the school year can be estimated, the statistics can be 

adjusted to make underlying employment patterns more 

discernable. The seasonally adjusted figures provide a more 

useful tool with which to analyze changes in month-tomonth economic activity. 

Many seasonally adjusted series are independently 

adjusted in both the household and establishment surveys. 

However, the adjusted series for many major estimates, 

such as total payroll employment, employment in most 

major sectors, total employment, and unemployment are 

computed by aggregating independently adjusted component series. For example, total unemployment is derived 

by summing the adjusted series for four major age-sex 

components; this differs from the unemployment estimate 

that would be obtained by directly adjusting the total or by 

combining the duration, reasons, or more detailed age 

categories. 

For both the household and establishment surveys, a 

concurrent seasonal adjustment methodology is used in 

which new seasonal factors are calculated each month using 

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

month. In the household survey, new seasonal factors are 

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

establishment survey, however, new seasonal factors are 

used each month to adjust the three most recent monthly 

estimates. The prior 2 months are routinely revised to 

incorporate additional sample reports and recalculated 

seasonal adjustment factors. In both surveys, 5-year 

revisions to historical data are made once a year. 

Reliability of the estimates 

Statistics based on the household and establishment 

surveys are subject to both sampling and nonsampling 

error. When a sample, rather than the entire population, is 

surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may 

differ from the true population values they represent. The 

component of this difference that occurs because samples 

differ by chance is known as sampling error, and its 

variability is measured by the standard error of the estimate. 

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

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

than 1.6 standard errors from the true population value 

because of sampling error. BLS analyses are generally 

conducted at the 90-percent level of confidence. 

For example, the confidence interval for the monthly 

change in total nonfarm employment from the 

establishment survey is on the order of plus or minus 

90,000. Suppose the estimate of nonfarm employment 

increases by 50,000 from one month to the next. The 90-

percent confidence interval on the monthly change would 

range from -40,000 to +140,000 (50,000 +/- 90,000). 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 nonfarm employment 

had, in fact, increased that month. If, however, the reported 

nonfarm employment rise was 250,000, then all of the 

values within the 90-percent confidence interval would be 

greater than zero. In this case, it is likely (at least a 90-

percent chance) that nonfarm employment had, in fact, risen 

that month. At an unemployment rate of around 6.0 percent, 

the 90-percent confidence interval for the monthly change 

in unemployment as measured by the household survey is 

about +/- 300,000, and for the monthly change in the 

unemployment rate it is about +/- 0.2 percentage point. 

In general, estimates involving many individuals or 

establishments have lower standard errors (relative to the 

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

small number of observations. The precision of estimates 

also is improved when the data are cumulated over time, 

such as for quarterly and annual averages. 

The household and establishment surveys are also 

affected by nonsampling error, which can occur for many 

reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the 

population, inability to obtain information for all 

respondents in the sample, inability or unwillingness of 

respondents to provide correct information on a timely 

basis, mistakes made by respondents, and errors made in 

the collection or processing of the data. 

For example, in the establishment survey, estimates 

for the most recent 2 months are based on incomplete 

returns; for this reason, these estimates are labeled 

preliminary in the tables. It is only after two successive 

revisions to a monthly estimate, when nearly all sample 

reports have been received, that the estimate is considered 

final. 

Another major source of nonsampling error in the 

establishment survey is the inability to capture, on a timely 

basis, employment generated by new firms. To correct for 

this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an 

estimation procedure with two components is used to 
account for business births. The first component excludes 

employment losses from business deaths from samplebased estimation in order to offset the missing employment 

gains from business births. This is incorporated into the 

sample-based estimation procedure by simply not reflecting 

sample units going out of business, but imputing to them 

the same employment trend as the other firms in the 

sample. This procedure accounts for most of the net 

birth/death employment. 

The second component is an ARIMA time series 

model designed to estimate the residual net birth/death 

employment not accounted for by the imputation. The 

historical time series used to create and test the ARIMA 

model was derived from the unemployment insurance 

universe micro-level database, and reflects the actual 

residual net of births and deaths over the past 5 years. 

The sample-based estimates from the establishment 

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

universe counts of payroll employment obtained from 

administrative records of the unemployment insurance 

program. The difference between the March sample-based 

employment estimates and the March universe counts is 

known as a benchmark revision, and serves as a rough 

proxy for total survey error. The new benchmarks also 

incorporate changes in the classification of industries. Over 

the past decade, absolute benchmark revisions for total 

nonfarm employment have averaged 0.3 percent, with a 

range from -0.7 to 0.6 percent. 

Other information 

Information in this release will be made available to 

sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Sept.

2012

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

May

2013

June

2013

July

2013

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243,772 245,959 246,168 243,772 245,363 245,552 245,756 245,959 246,168

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,075 155,971 155,536 155,056 155,658 155,835 155,798 155,486 155,559

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.6 63.4 63.2 63.6 63.4 63.5 63.4 63.2 63.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,333 144,509 144,651 142,974 143,898 144,058 144,285 144,170 144,303

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.8 58.8 58.8 58.7 58.6 58.7 58.7 58.6 58.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,742 11,462 10,885 12,082 11,760 11,777 11,514 11,316 11,255

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6 7.3 7.0 7.8 7.6 7.6 7.4 7.3 7.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,697 89,988 90,632 88,716 89,705 89,717 89,957 90,473 90,609

Persons who currently want a job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,427 6,291 5,775 6,718 6,712 6,580 6,619 6,285 6,163

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,600 118,700 118,807 117,600 118,393 118,490 118,595 118,700 118,807

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,341 83,110 82,759 82,396 82,862 82,898 82,852 82,513 82,854

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.0 70.0 69.7 70.1 70.0 70.0 69.9 69.5 69.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,119 76,962 76,750 75,769 76,299 76,447 76,466 76,164 76,452

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.7 64.8 64.6 64.4 64.4 64.5 64.5 64.2 64.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,221 6,148 6,009 6,627 6,564 6,451 6,387 6,349 6,401

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6 7.4 7.3 8.0 7.9 7.8 7.7 7.7 7.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,260 35,590 36,048 35,205 35,531 35,592 35,743 36,186 35,953

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,973 110,172 110,292 108,973 109,839 109,943 110,054 110,172 110,292

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,516 79,902 79,824 79,436 79,878 79,883 79,909 79,639 79,797

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.0 72.5 72.4 72.9 72.7 72.7 72.6 72.3 72.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,060 74,522 74,527 73,612 74,124 74,276 74,328 74,010 74,143

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.0 67.6 67.6 67.6 67.5 67.6 67.5 67.2 67.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,455 5,381 5,297 5,825 5,754 5,607 5,581 5,629 5,654

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.9 6.7 6.6 7.3 7.2 7.0 7.0 7.1 7.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,457 30,269 30,468 29,536 29,961 30,060 30,145 30,533 30,495

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126,172 127,260 127,361 126,172 126,970 127,062 127,161 127,260 127,361

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,734 72,861 72,776 72,661 72,796 72,938 72,946 72,973 72,705

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.6 57.3 57.1 57.6 57.3 57.4 57.4 57.3 57.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,214 67,547 67,901 67,206 67,599 67,612 67,819 68,005 67,851

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.3 53.1 53.3 53.3 53.2 53.2 53.3 53.4 53.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,520 5,314 4,875 5,455 5,197 5,326 5,127 4,968 4,854

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6 7.3 6.7 7.5 7.1 7.3 7.0 6.8 6.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,437 54,398 54,585 53,511 54,174 54,124 54,215 54,287 54,657

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,869 119,018 119,131 117,869 118,708 118,804 118,907 119,018 119,131

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,026 69,821 70,153 69,813 69,895 70,075 70,033 70,140 69,936

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.4 58.7 58.9 59.2 58.9 59.0 58.9 58.9 58.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,058 65,129 65,748 64,934 65,329 65,314 65,489 65,750 65,582

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.2 54.7 55.2 55.1 55.0 55.0 55.1 55.2 55.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,968 4,692 4,405 4,879 4,566 4,761 4,544 4,390 4,354

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.1 6.7 6.3 7.0 6.5 6.8 6.5 6.3 6.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,842 49,197 48,978 48,056 48,813 48,730 48,875 48,878 49,195

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,931 16,770 16,745 16,931 16,816 16,805 16,795 16,770 16,745

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,533 6,248 5,559 5,807 5,886 5,878 5,857 5,707 5,825

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.7 37.3 33.2 34.3 35.0 35.0 34.9 34.0 34.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,215 4,859 4,376 4,429 4,445 4,469 4,469 4,410 4,578

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.9 29.0 26.1 26.2 26.4 26.6 26.6 26.3 27.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,318 1,389 1,183 1,378 1,441 1,409 1,388 1,297 1,248

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.8 22.2 21.3 23.7 24.5 24.0 23.7 22.7 21.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,398 10,522 11,186 11,124 10,930 10,927 10,938 11,062 10,920

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

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Sept.

2012

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

May

2013

June

2013

July

2013

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

WHITE

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193,503 194,489 194,610 193,503 194,147 194,254 194,373 194,489 194,610

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,922 123,786 123,362 123,637 123,844 123,766 123,719 123,378 123,179

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.0 63.6 63.4 63.9 63.8 63.7 63.7 63.4 63.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,547 115,884 115,862 115,002 115,557 115,563 115,552 115,464 115,388

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.7 59.6 59.5 59.4 59.5 59.5 59.4 59.4 59.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,374 7,903 7,500 8,635 8,287 8,204 8,167 7,913 7,791

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.8 6.4 6.1 7.0 6.7 6.6 6.6 6.4 6.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,581 70,703 71,248 69,866 70,303 70,488 70,654 71,112 71,431

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,710 64,653 64,463 64,540 64,680 64,625 64,595 64,433 64,323

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.6 73.0 72.7 73.4 73.2 73.1 73.0 72.8 72.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,718 60,873 60,796 60,292 60,545 60,620 60,528 60,416 60,408

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.0 68.7 68.6 68.5 68.5 68.6 68.4 68.2 68.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,992 3,781 3,667 4,248 4,135 4,005 4,067 4,017 3,915

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 5.8 5.7 6.6 6.4 6.2 6.3 6.2 6.1

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,797 54,261 54,506 54,500 54,447 54,469 54,501 54,474 54,279

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.0 58.1 58.3 58.7 58.4 58.4 58.4 58.3 58.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,333 51,083 51,488 51,085 51,311 51,222 51,339 51,494 51,285

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.2 54.7 55.1 55.0 55.0 54.9 55.0 55.1 54.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,464 3,178 3,018 3,415 3,136 3,247 3,162 2,980 2,994

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3 5.9 5.5 6.3 5.8 6.0 5.8 5.5 5.5

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,414 4,873 4,392 4,598 4,717 4,672 4,623 4,470 4,577

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.0 39.0 35.2 36.4 37.7 37.3 37.0 35.8 36.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,496 3,929 3,578 3,625 3,700 3,721 3,685 3,555 3,695

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.7 31.5 28.7 28.7 29.6 29.7 29.5 28.5 29.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 918 944 815 972 1,017 951 938 916 882

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.8 19.4 18.5 21.1 21.6 20.4 20.3 20.5 19.3

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,991 30,426 30,462 29,991 30,322 30,355 30,390 30,426 30,462

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,245 18,578 18,559 18,346 18,723 18,636 18,671 18,511 18,670

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.8 61.1 60.9 61.2 61.7 61.4 61.4 60.8 61.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,796 16,071 16,168 15,891 16,202 16,090 16,318 16,108 16,269

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.7 52.8 53.1 53.0 53.4 53.0 53.7 52.9 53.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,449 2,507 2,391 2,456 2,521 2,546 2,353 2,403 2,402

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.4 13.5 12.9 13.4 13.5 13.7 12.6 13.0 12.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,746 11,847 11,903 11,645 11,599 11,719 11,719 11,914 11,792

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,152 8,337 8,450 8,214 8,441 8,358 8,434 8,324 8,499

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.6 66.7 67.5 67.1 67.9 67.1 67.6 66.6 67.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,050 7,224 7,289 7,052 7,301 7,270 7,382 7,204 7,307

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.6 57.8 58.2 57.6 58.7 58.4 59.2 57.6 58.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,103 1,113 1,160 1,162 1,140 1,088 1,052 1,120 1,192

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.5 13.3 13.7 14.1 13.5 13.0 12.5 13.5 14.0

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,412 9,444 9,424 9,377 9,562 9,556 9,508 9,450 9,421

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.2 61.4 61.2 62.0 62.5 62.3 62.0 61.5 61.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,325 8,355 8,439 8,363 8,487 8,413 8,510 8,449 8,475

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.0 54.4 54.8 55.3 55.4 54.9 55.5 55.0 55.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,087 1,088 985 1,014 1,074 1,143 998 1,001 946

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.5 11.5 10.5 10.8 11.2 12.0 10.5 10.6 10.0

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681 797 685 756 720 722 729 738 750

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.0 31.2 26.9 28.8 28.0 28.1 28.4 28.9 29.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421 491 440 475 413 407 426 456 487

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.1 19.2 17.3 18.1 16.1 15.8 16.6 17.8 19.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 306 245 280 307 315 303 282 263

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.1 38.4 35.8 37.1 42.6 43.6 41.6 38.2 35.1

ASIAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,885 13,241 13,330 – – – – – –

See footnotes at end of table.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Sept.

2012

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

May

2013

June

2013

July

2013

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,204 8,574 8,675 – – – – – –

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.7 64.8 65.1 – – – – – –

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,810 8,133 8,218 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.6 61.4 61.6 – – – – – –

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 441 458 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.8 5.1 5.3 – – – – – –

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,681 4,667 4,655 – – – – – –

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

- 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. Updated population controls are introduced

annually with the release of January data.

2
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 adjusted1

Sept.

2012

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

May

2013

June

2013

July

2013

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population.................. 36,969 37,630 37,713 36,969 37,395 37,471 37,548 37,630 37,713

Civilian labor force................................. 24,465 24,964 24,802 24,465 24,848 24,869 25,040 24,942 24,826

Participation rate................................. 66.2 66.3 65.8 66.2 66.4 66.4 66.7 66.3 65.8

Employed......................................... 22,164 22,656 22,690 22,042 22,583 22,601 22,675 22,612 22,598

Employment-population ratio................ 60.0 60.2 60.2 59.6 60.4 60.3 60.4 60.1 59.9

Unemployed...................................... 2,301 2,308 2,112 2,422 2,265 2,267 2,366 2,330 2,228

Unemployment rate........................... 9.4 9.2 8.5 9.9 9.1 9.1 9.4 9.3 9.0

Not in labor force................................... 12,504 12,666 12,911 12,505 12,547 12,602 12,508 12,688 12,887

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................. 13,462 13,895 13,782 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 80.8 81.8 80.9 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 12,445 12,799 12,756 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 74.7 75.4 74.9 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 1,017 1,096 1,026 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 7.6 7.9 7.4 – – – – – –

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................. 9,879 9,786 9,900 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 59.3 57.6 58.1 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 8,907 8,938 9,102 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 53.5 52.6 53.4 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 972 847 798 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 9.8 8.7 8.1 – – – – – –

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force................................. 1,124 1,284 1,120 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 30.7 35.1 30.6 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 811 919 831 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 22.2 25.2 22.8 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 312 364 289 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 27.8 28.4 25.8 – – – – – –

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

- Data not available.

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

of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Educational attainment

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2012

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

May

2013

June

2013

July

2013

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force.................................... 11,337 10,901 10,995 11,183 11,237 11,161 10,889 10,939 10,860

Participation rate.................................... 45.6 45.2 45.0 45.0 45.0 44.5 45.4 45.4 44.5

Employed............................................ 10,155 9,753 9,967 9,930 9,993 9,969 9,692 9,700 9,743

Employment-population ratio................... 40.9 40.5 40.8 40.0 40.0 39.8 40.4 40.2 39.9

Unemployed......................................... 1,182 1,148 1,027 1,253 1,243 1,192 1,197 1,239 1,117

Unemployment rate.............................. 10.4 10.5 9.3 11.2 11.1 10.7 11.0 11.3 10.3

High school graduates, no college1

Civilian labor force.................................... 36,513 36,336 36,559 36,642 36,236 36,320 36,741 36,592 36,610

Participation rate.................................... 59.4 58.6 58.9 59.6 58.9 59.1 59.0 59.0 59.0

Employed............................................ 33,513 33,680 33,891 33,504 33,572 33,562 33,950 33,826 33,828

Employment-population ratio................... 54.5 54.3 54.6 54.5 54.6 54.6 54.5 54.5 54.5

Unemployed......................................... 3,000 2,656 2,668 3,138 2,664 2,757 2,791 2,766 2,782

Unemployment rate.............................. 8.2 7.3 7.3 8.6 7.4 7.6 7.6 7.6 7.6

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force.................................... 37,788 37,701 37,658 37,512 37,470 37,297 37,341 37,496 37,338

Participation rate.................................... 69.1 67.5 67.8 68.6 68.5 68.1 67.3 67.2 67.2

Employed............................................ 35,346 35,343 35,413 35,076 35,036 34,925 35,105 35,216 35,080

Employment-population ratio................... 64.6 63.3 63.8 64.1 64.0 63.7 63.2 63.1 63.2

Unemployed......................................... 2,443 2,358 2,245 2,436 2,435 2,372 2,237 2,281 2,257

Unemployment rate.............................. 6.5 6.3 6.0 6.5 6.5 6.4 6.0 6.1 6.0

Bachelor’s degree and higher2

Civilian labor force.................................... 48,576 48,944 49,140 48,508 49,473 49,466 49,173 49,141 49,174

Participation rate.................................... 76.0 75.1 75.2 75.9 75.8 75.6 75.5 75.4 75.3

Employed............................................ 46,633 47,097 47,336 46,549 47,581 47,537 47,281 47,400 47,354

Employment-population ratio................... 73.0 72.3 72.5 72.8 72.9 72.7 72.6 72.8 72.5

Unemployed......................................... 1,943 1,847 1,804 1,959 1,892 1,929 1,891 1,740 1,820

Unemployment rate.............................. 4.0 3.8 3.7 4.0 3.8 3.9 3.8 3.5 3.7

1 Includes persons with a high school diploma or equivalent.

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

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

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

and sex, not seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, veteran status, and period of service

Total Men Women

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

VETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,102 21,331 19,285 19,102 1,817 2,229

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,044 10,933 9,943 9,500 1,102 1,432

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.3 51.3 51.6 49.7 60.6 64.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,309 10,225 9,353 8,900 956 1,325

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.9 47.9 48.5 46.6 52.6 59.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735 708 590 600 145 108

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.7 6.5 5.9 6.3 13.2 7.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,058 10,398 9,342 9,602 715 797

Gulf War-era II veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,547 3,024 2,123 2,388 424 637

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,092 2,419 1,793 1,961 299 458

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.1 80.0 84.5 82.1 70.5 72.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,890 2,175 1,651 1,770 239 405

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.2 71.9 77.7 74.1 56.5 63.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 244 143 191 60 53

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.7 10.1 8.0 9.7 19.9 11.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455 605 330 427 125 178

Gulf War-era I veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,034 3,040 2,578 2,535 457 505

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,527 2,584 2,180 2,192 347 393

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.3 85.0 84.6 86.5 75.9 77.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,361 2,442 2,069 2,067 292 376

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.8 80.3 80.3 81.5 63.8 74.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 142 111 125 55 17

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6 5.5 5.1 5.7 15.9 4.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 456 397 343 110 113

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

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,761 9,717 9,448 9,347 313 370

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,136 2,836 3,049 2,725 87 111

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.1 29.2 32.3 29.2 27.9 29.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,972 2,680 2,888 2,576 83 105

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.4 27.6 30.6 27.6 26.5 28.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 155 160 149 4 6

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3 5.5 5.3 5.5 5.0 5.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,624 6,881 6,399 6,622 226 259

Veterans of other service periods

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,760 5,550 5,137 4,833 623 717

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,289 3,094 2,920 2,623 369 471

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.1 55.8 56.8 54.3 59.2 65.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,087 2,928 2,745 2,488 342 440

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.6 52.8 53.4 51.5 54.9 61.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 166 175 135 26 31

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1 5.4 6.0 5.1 7.2 6.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,471 2,456 2,217 2,209 255 246

NONVETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213,730 215,886 93,715 95,202 120,015 120,685

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,110 142,644 71,474 72,266 70,635 70,378

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.5 66.1 76.3 75.9 58.9 58.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,553 132,907 66,101 67,109 65,452 65,798

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.6 61.6 70.5 70.5 54.5 54.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,557 9,738 5,373 5,157 5,184 4,581

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4 6.8 7.5 7.1 7.3 6.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,620 73,242 22,240 22,936 49,380 50,306

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

Armed Forces. Veterans could have served anywhere in the world during these periods of service: Gulf War era II (September 2001-present), Gulf War era I (August 1990-August

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

periods). Veterans who served in more than one wartime period are classified only in the most recent one. Veterans who served during one of the selected wartime periods and

another period are classified only in the wartime period. Beginning with data for January 2013, estimates for veterans incorporate population controls derived from the updated

Department of Veterans Affairs’ population model.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Persons with a disability Persons with no disability

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

TOTAL, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population....................................................... 28,776 28,701 214,996 217,467

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 6,060 6,005 149,015 149,531

Participation rate...................................................................... 21.1 20.9 69.3 68.8

Employed.............................................................................. 5,241 5,218 138,093 139,432

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 18.2 18.2 64.2 64.1

Unemployed........................................................................... 819 786 10,922 10,098

Unemployment rate................................................................ 13.5 13.1 7.3 6.8

Not in labor force........................................................................ 22,717 22,696 65,981 67,936

Men, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 2,717 2,720 75,186 75,531

Participation rate...................................................................... 35.4 35.3 82.3 82.3

Employed.............................................................................. 2,327 2,330 69,632 70,135

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 30.3 30.2 76.3 76.4

Unemployed........................................................................... 389 390 5,554 5,396

Unemployment rate................................................................ 14.3 14.4 7.4 7.1

Not in labor force........................................................................ 4,959 4,989 16,120 16,231

Women, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 2,330 2,349 66,965 66,738

Participation rate...................................................................... 29.7 29.7 70.7 70.2

Employed.............................................................................. 1,973 2,012 61,997 62,395

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 25.1 25.5 65.5 65.6

Unemployed........................................................................... 356 337 4,968 4,343

Unemployment rate................................................................ 15.3 14.4 7.4 6.5

Not in labor force........................................................................ 5,523 5,551 27,695 28,349

Both sexes, 65 years and over

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 1,014 936 6,864 7,261

Participation rate...................................................................... 7.7 7.1 23.6 23.7

Employed.............................................................................. 940 877 6,464 6,902

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 7.1 6.7 22.3 22.5

Unemployed........................................................................... 74 59 400 359

Unemployment rate................................................................ 7.3 6.3 5.8 4.9

Not in labor force........................................................................ 12,234 12,156 22,166 23,357

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

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

has serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs; has difficulty dressing or bathing; or has difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor’s office or

shopping because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status and nativity

Total Men Women

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Foreign born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population.................................... 38,103 38,854 18,447 18,816 19,655 20,039

Civilian labor force................................................... 25,116 25,713 14,414 14,769 10,703 10,944

Participation rate................................................... 65.9 66.2 78.1 78.5 54.5 54.6

Employed........................................................... 23,201 24,041 13,453 13,897 9,748 10,144

Employment-population ratio.................................. 60.9 61.9 72.9 73.9 49.6 50.6

Unemployed........................................................ 1,915 1,671 961 872 954 799

Unemployment rate............................................. 7.6 6.5 6.7 5.9 8.9 7.3

Not in labor force..................................................... 12,986 13,142 4,034 4,047 8,953 9,095

Native born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population.................................... 205,670 207,314 99,153 99,991 106,517 107,323

Civilian labor force................................................... 129,958 129,823 67,927 67,990 62,032 61,833

Participation rate................................................... 63.2 62.6 68.5 68.0 58.2 57.6

Employed........................................................... 120,132 120,610 62,667 62,852 57,466 57,757

Employment-population ratio.................................. 58.4 58.2 63.2 62.9 53.9 53.8

Unemployed........................................................ 9,826 9,213 5,260 5,138 4,566 4,076

Unemployment rate............................................. 7.6 7.1 7.7 7.6 7.4 6.6

Not in labor force..................................................... 75,711 77,491 31,226 32,001 44,485 45,490

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

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

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

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

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

[In thousands]

Category

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2012

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

May

2013

June

2013

July

2013

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries................... 2,233 2,398 2,271 2,198 2,059 2,067 2,159 2,204 2,209

Wage and salary workers1

....................... 1,447 1,509 1,477 1,402 1,263 1,268 1,303 1,367 1,397

Self-employed workers, unincorporated......... 755 855 762 759 793 790 842 820 772

Unpaid family workers............................. 31 34 32 – – – – – –

Nonagricultural industries............................ 141,101 142,111 142,380 140,767 141,890 142,004 142,165 141,947 142,095

Wage and salary workers1

....................... 132,078 133,254 133,612 131,743 133,201 133,273 133,224 133,277 133,319

Government...................................... 20,725 19,729 20,309 20,647 20,361 20,157 20,041 20,365 20,233

Private industries................................ 111,353 113,526 113,303 111,080 112,865 113,167 113,164 112,886 113,099

Private households............................ 811 680 694 – – – – – –

Other industries............................... 110,541 112,846 112,610 110,289 112,274 112,552 112,535 112,244 112,434

Self-employed workers, unincorporated......... 8,947 8,782 8,723 8,863 8,597 8,643 8,831 8,678 8,634

Unpaid family workers............................. 76 74 44 – – – – – –

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME2

All industries

Part time for economic reasons3

................... 8,110 7,690 7,522 8,607 7,904 8,226 8,245 7,911 7,926

Slack work or business conditions............... 5,309 4,632 4,763 5,567 4,841 5,193 5,177 4,808 4,960

Could only find part-time work.................... 2,589 2,616 2,532 2,587 2,721 2,652 2,665 2,719 2,557

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 18,970 17,701 19,151 18,728 18,934 19,044 19,128 19,339 18,967

Nonagricultural industries

Part time for economic reasons3

................... 8,003 7,567 7,437 8,552 7,797 8,111 8,101 7,785 7,860

Slack work or business conditions............... 5,238 4,566 4,715 5,468 4,778 5,120 5,106 4,747 4,896

Could only find part-time work.................... 2,566 2,598 2,517 2,604 2,686 2,632 2,665 2,714 2,556

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 18,605 17,376 18,848 18,399 18,511 18,696 18,779 18,935 18,696

1 Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated.

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

entire week.

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

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

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

retirement or Social Security limits on earnings, and other reasons. This excludes persons who usually work full time but worked only 1 to 34 hours during

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

- Data not available.

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

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

Table A-9. Selected employment indicators

[Numbers in thousands]

Characteristic

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2012

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

May

2013

June

2013

July

2013

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,333 144,509 144,651 142,974 143,898 144,058 144,285 144,170 144,303

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,215 4,859 4,376 4,429 4,445 4,469 4,469 4,410 4,578

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,471 1,622 1,519 1,428 1,505 1,451 1,460 1,412 1,465

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,744 3,238 2,857 2,986 2,937 3,027 3,034 3,014 3,089

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,118 139,650 140,275 138,545 139,453 139,589 139,816 139,760 139,726

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,472 13,777 13,667 13,503 13,412 13,605 13,654 13,543 13,676

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,646 125,873 126,608 125,027 126,057 125,978 126,087 126,205 126,009

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,814 94,379 94,997 94,340 94,569 94,461 94,476 94,424 94,512

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,947 31,171 31,440 30,805 31,292 31,217 31,176 31,143 31,272

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,794 30,737 30,906 30,658 30,691 30,570 30,686 30,779 30,770

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,074 32,471 32,651 32,877 32,586 32,675 32,613 32,502 32,470

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,832 31,494 31,611 30,688 31,488 31,517 31,612 31,781 31,498

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,119 76,962 76,750 75,769 76,299 76,447 76,466 76,164 76,452

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,059 2,441 2,223 2,157 2,175 2,171 2,138 2,155 2,309

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665 784 740 651 686 696 679 670 714

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,394 1,657 1,483 1,497 1,485 1,495 1,457 1,508 1,576

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,060 74,522 74,527 73,612 74,124 74,276 74,328 74,010 74,143

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,975 7,154 7,035 6,989 6,917 6,952 7,037 6,956 7,041

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,085 67,368 67,491 66,636 67,192 67,331 67,270 67,122 67,098

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,669 50,670 50,725 50,352 50,613 50,672 50,592 50,388 50,439

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,748 16,936 17,037 16,608 16,961 16,944 16,849 16,791 16,898

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,656 16,634 16,628 16,552 16,660 16,602 16,597 16,571 16,544

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,264 17,100 17,060 17,193 16,992 17,125 17,146 17,026 16,998

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,416 16,698 16,766 16,284 16,578 16,659 16,678 16,733 16,658

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,214 67,547 67,901 67,206 67,599 67,612 67,819 68,005 67,851

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,156 2,418 2,153 2,272 2,271 2,298 2,330 2,255 2,268

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806 838 779 777 819 755 781 741 751

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,350 1,581 1,374 1,490 1,452 1,532 1,577 1,506 1,513

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,058 65,129 65,748 64,934 65,329 65,314 65,489 65,750 65,582

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,497 6,624 6,632 6,514 6,495 6,653 6,617 6,588 6,635

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,561 58,505 59,116 58,391 58,866 58,647 58,817 59,084 58,912

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,146 43,709 44,272 43,987 43,955 43,790 43,884 44,036 44,072

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,199 14,235 14,403 14,197 14,330 14,272 14,327 14,353 14,374

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,138 14,103 14,278 14,106 14,030 13,968 14,089 14,208 14,226

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,809 15,371 15,591 15,684 15,595 15,550 15,467 15,476 15,472

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,415 14,796 14,845 14,404 14,910 14,857 14,934 15,048 14,840

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,383 44,112 44,130 43,980 44,176 43,963 43,914 43,988 43,744

Married women, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,871 34,198 34,638 34,804 34,716 34,672 34,622 34,755 34,564

Women who maintain families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,233 9,224 9,337 – – – – – –

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,678 117,868 117,308 115,259 116,238 115,998 116,090 116,208 116,899

Part-time workers2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,655 26,641 27,343 27,692 27,699 28,059 28,233 27,999 27,405

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,818 6,776 6,952 6,882 6,918 7,065 7,036 7,065 7,030

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

SELF-EMPLOYMENT

Self-employed workers, incorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,263 5,318 5,310 – – – – – –

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,702 9,638 9,486 9,622 9,390 9,432 9,673 9,498 9,406

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

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

- Data not available.

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

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

Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted

Characteristic

Number of

unemployed persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment rates

Sept.

2012

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

May

2013

June

2013

July

2013

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over............................. 12,082 11,316 11,255 7.8 7.6 7.6 7.4 7.3 7.2

16 to 19 years...................................... 1,378 1,297 1,248 23.7 24.5 24.0 23.7 22.7 21.4

16 to 17 years.................................... 490 504 508 25.5 27.5 26.5 29.1 26.3 25.8

18 to 19 years.................................... 879 836 765 22.7 22.4 22.6 19.9 21.7 19.9

20 years and over.................................. 10,704 10,019 10,008 7.2 6.9 6.9 6.8 6.7 6.7

20 to 24 years.................................... 1,913 2,020 2,021 12.4 13.2 13.5 12.6 13.0 12.9

25 years and over............................... 8,802 8,056 7,986 6.6 6.1 6.2 6.1 6.0 6.0

25 to 54 years................................. 6,871 6,366 6,233 6.8 6.4 6.4 6.4 6.3 6.2

25 to 34 years.............................. 2,706 2,645 2,502 8.1 7.2 7.6 7.5 7.8 7.4

35 to 44 years.............................. 2,049 1,843 1,826 6.3 6.2 5.9 6.0 5.7 5.6

45 to 54 years.............................. 2,115 1,877 1,905 6.0 5.9 5.7 5.7 5.5 5.5

55 years and over............................. 1,936 1,693 1,763 5.9 5.3 5.3 5.0 5.1 5.3

Men, 16 years and over.............................. 6,627 6,349 6,401 8.0 7.9 7.8 7.7 7.7 7.7

16 to 19 years...................................... 802 720 748 27.1 27.1 28.0 27.4 25.0 24.5

16 to 17 years.................................... 279 243 285 30.0 31.6 30.8 32.5 26.6 28.5

18 to 19 years.................................... 518 508 470 25.7 24.0 25.8 24.0 25.2 23.0

20 years and over.................................. 5,825 5,629 5,654 7.3 7.2 7.0 7.0 7.1 7.1

20 to 24 years.................................... 1,114 1,172 1,220 13.7 14.6 15.0 14.1 14.4 14.8

25 years and over............................... 4,745 4,504 4,451 6.6 6.3 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.2

25 to 54 years................................. 3,639 3,552 3,473 6.7 6.5 6.4 6.4 6.6 6.4

25 to 34 years.............................. 1,439 1,555 1,435 8.0 7.3 7.4 7.7 8.5 7.8

35 to 44 years.............................. 1,081 983 1,001 6.1 6.1 5.8 5.8 5.6 5.7

45 to 54 years.............................. 1,119 1,014 1,037 6.1 6.2 5.8 5.5 5.6 5.7

55 years and over............................. 1,106 952 978 6.4 5.8 5.5 5.6 5.4 5.5

Women, 16 years and over.......................... 5,455 4,968 4,854 7.5 7.1 7.3 7.0 6.8 6.7

16 to 19 years...................................... 575 578 500 20.2 21.7 19.7 20.0 20.4 18.1

16 to 17 years.................................... 211 261 224 21.4 23.6 22.0 25.8 26.0 22.9

18 to 19 years.................................... 361 327 295 19.5 20.6 19.1 15.8 17.9 16.3

20 years and over.................................. 4,879 4,390 4,354 7.0 6.5 6.8 6.5 6.3 6.2

20 to 24 years.................................... 799 848 802 10.9 11.8 11.9 10.8 11.4 10.8

25 years and over............................... 4,057 3,552 3,535 6.5 5.9 6.2 6.0 5.7 5.7

25 to 54 years................................. 3,232 2,814 2,760 6.8 6.3 6.5 6.5 6.0 5.9

25 to 34 years.............................. 1,268 1,090 1,067 8.2 7.1 7.9 7.4 7.1 6.9

35 to 44 years.............................. 968 860 824 6.4 6.4 6.2 6.2 5.7 5.5

45 to 54 years.............................. 996 863 868 6.0 5.7 5.6 5.9 5.3 5.3

55 years and over1

........................... 849 813 804 5.6 4.3 5.4 4.9 5.2 5.1

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present....................... 2,157 1,982 2,031 4.7 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.4

Married women, spouse present.................... 1,828 1,531 1,588 5.0 4.4 4.6 4.6 4.2 4.4

Women who maintain families1

.................... 1,181 1,137 896 11.3 9.9 10.7 10.5 11.0 8.8

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers2.................................... 10,421 9,604 9,594 8.3 7.9 7.9 7.6 7.6 7.6

Part-time workers3................................... 1,689 1,676 1,693 5.7 5.9 6.1 6.2 5.6 5.8

1 Not seasonally adjusted.

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

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

jobs.

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

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

Table A-11. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Reason

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2012

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

May

2013

June

2013

July

2013

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 6,161 5,856 5,470 6,489 6,147 6,119 5,921 5,970 5,844

On temporary layoff................................ 787 986 732 1,153 997 1,199 1,221 1,062 1,087

Not on temporary layoff............................ 5,374 4,870 4,738 5,335 5,151 4,920 4,700 4,908 4,758

Permanent job losers............................ 4,296 3,707 3,536 4,279 3,822 3,700 3,589 3,714 3,569

Persons who completed temporary jobs...... 1,078 1,163 1,201 1,056 1,329 1,220 1,111 1,194 1,188

Job leavers............................................. 1,041 950 1,068 962 944 1,030 979 893 989

Reentrants............................................. 3,339 3,217 3,206 3,313 3,333 3,291 3,258 3,129 3,181

New entrants.......................................... 1,200 1,439 1,140 1,253 1,268 1,259 1,254 1,299 1,222

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 52.5 51.1 50.3 54.0 52.6 52.3 51.9 52.9 52.0

On temporary layoff................................ 6.7 8.6 6.7 9.6 8.5 10.2 10.7 9.4 9.7

Not on temporary layoff............................ 45.8 42.5 43.5 44.4 44.1 42.1 41.2 43.5 42.3

Job leavers............................................. 8.9 8.3 9.8 8.0 8.1 8.8 8.6 7.9 8.8

Reentrants............................................. 28.4 28.1 29.5 27.6 28.5 28.1 28.5 27.7 28.3

New entrants.......................................... 10.2 12.6 10.5 10.4 10.8 10.8 11.0 11.5 10.9

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 4.0 3.8 3.5 4.2 3.9 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.8

Job leavers............................................. 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6

Reentrants............................................. 2.2 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.0 2.0

New entrants.......................................... 0.8 0.9 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8

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

Table A-12. Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Duration

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2012

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

May

2013

June

2013

July

2013

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks.................................... 2,539 2,523 2,588 2,535 2,706 2,692 2,563 2,563 2,596

5 to 14 weeks......................................... 2,660 3,116 2,527 2,825 2,669 2,864 2,869 2,766 2,703

15 weeks and over.................................... 6,542 5,822 5,770 6,736 6,306 6,225 6,034 5,984 5,950

15 to 26 weeks..................................... 1,708 1,525 1,683 1,866 1,950 1,896 1,788 1,694 1,804

27 weeks and over................................. 4,835 4,297 4,087 4,871 4,357 4,328 4,246 4,290 4,146

Average (mean) duration, in weeks................ 40.2 36.6 37.6 39.6 36.9 35.6 36.6 37.0 36.9

Median duration, in weeks........................... 18.9 15.2 16.6 18.7 17.3 16.3 15.7 16.4 16.3

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Less than 5 weeks.................................... 21.6 22.0 23.8 21.0 23.2 22.9 22.4 22.7 23.1

5 to 14 weeks......................................... 22.7 27.2 23.2 23.4 22.8 24.3 25.0 24.4 24.0

15 weeks and over.................................... 55.7 50.8 53.0 55.7 54.0 52.8 52.6 52.9 52.9

15 to 26 weeks..................................... 14.5 13.3 15.5 15.4 16.7 16.1 15.6 15.0 16.0

27 weeks and over................................. 41.2 37.5 37.6 40.3 37.3 36.7 37.0 37.9 36.9

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

Employed Unemployed Unemployment

rates

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Total, 16 years and over1............................................. 143,333 144,651 11,742 10,885 7.6 7.0

Management, professional, and related occupations............ 54,655 55,013 2,245 1,978 3.9 3.5

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations...................................................... 22,944 22,822 828 790 3.5 3.3

Professional and related occupations........................... 31,711 32,192 1,417 1,188 4.3 3.6

Service occupations.................................................. 25,517 26,116 2,372 2,281 8.5 8.0

Sales and office occupations....................................... 33,271 33,077 2,714 2,597 7.5 7.3

Sales and related occupations................................... 15,616 15,521 1,336 1,261 7.9 7.5

Office and administrative support occupations................. 17,655 17,556 1,378 1,336 7.2 7.1

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations......................................................... 12,979 13,221 1,523 1,181 10.5 8.2

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations..................... 1,089 1,041 114 119 9.5 10.3

Construction and extraction occupations....................... 7,015 7,258 1,071 815 13.2 10.1

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations............. 4,875 4,922 338 246 6.5 4.8

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations......................................................... 16,912 17,224 1,640 1,636 8.8 8.7

Production occupations........................................... 8,428 8,346 769 868 8.4 9.4

Transportation and material moving occupations.............. 8,484 8,878 871 768 9.3 8.0

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

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

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

Industry and class of worker

Number of

unemployed

persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment

rates

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Total, 16 years and over1................................................................ 11,742 10,885 7.6 7.0

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers................................... 8,935 8,216 7.4 6.8

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction..................................... 48 52 4.9 4.7

Construction........................................................................... 954 697 11.9 8.5

Manufacturing......................................................................... 1,032 1,093 6.7 6.9

Durable goods...................................................................... 668 630 6.8 6.3

Nondurable goods................................................................. 364 463 6.6 7.9

Wholesale and retail trade.......................................................... 1,651 1,462 8.0 7.3

Transportation and utilities.......................................................... 372 369 6.3 6.0

Information............................................................................ 205 189 7.3 6.6

Financial activities.................................................................... 432 365 4.8 3.9

Professional and business services................................................ 1,253 1,167 8.2 7.5

Education and health services...................................................... 1,204 1,174 5.5 5.2

Leisure and hospitality............................................................... 1,312 1,236 9.7 9.0

Other services........................................................................ 473 413 7.1 6.4

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers.......................... 153 147 10.0 9.4

Government workers.................................................................... 943 827 4.3 3.9

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers............. 510 554 4.9 5.5

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

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

Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

[Percent]

Measure

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2012

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

May

2013

June

2013

July

2013

Aug.

2013

Sept.

2013

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as

a percent of the civilian labor force.............. 4.2 3.7 3.7 4.3 4.1 4.0 3.9 3.8 3.8

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian

labor force........................................... 4.0 3.8 3.5 4.2 3.9 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.8

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the

civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate).................................................. 7.6 7.3 7.0 7.8 7.6 7.6 7.4 7.3 7.2

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers,

as a percent of the civilian labor force plus

discouraged workers............................... 8.0 7.9 7.5 8.3 8.0 8.2 8.0 7.8 7.7

U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers,

plus all other persons marginally attached to

the labor force, as a percent of the civilian

labor force plus all persons marginally attached

to the labor force................................... 9.0 8.7 8.4 9.3 8.8 9.1 8.8 8.7 8.6

U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons

marginally attached to the labor force, plus

total employed part time for economic reasons,

as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all

persons marginally attached to the labor

force.................................................. 14.2 13.6 13.1 14.7 13.8 14.3 14.0 13.7 13.6

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

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

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

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Category

Total Men Women

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

Sept.

2012

Sept.

2013

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force............................................. 88,697 90,632 35,260 36,048 53,437 54,585

Persons who currently want a job.................................. 6,427 5,775 2,953 2,556 3,474 3,219

Marginally attached to the labor force1........................ 2,517 2,302 1,281 1,124 1,236 1,178

Discouraged workers2

......................................... 802 852 489 462 313 391

Other persons marginally attached to the labor force3. . .. 1,715 1,450 792 663 924 787

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders4

............................................. 6,818 6,952 3,481 3,559 3,337 3,393

Percent of total employed........................................... 4.8 4.8 4.6 4.6 5.0 5.0

Primary job full time, secondary job part time.................... 3,674 3,774 2,061 2,166 1,613 1,608

Primary and secondary jobs both part time....................... 1,712 1,889 630 671 1,082 1,218

Primary and secondary jobs both full time........................ 237 214 148 136 90 79

Hours vary on primary or secondary job.......................... 1,148 1,035 611 558 538 477

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Change

from:

Aug.2013 -

Sept.2013p

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134,374 135,577 135,988 136,600 134,065 135,949 136,142 136,290 148

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,581 115,046 115,233 114,829 112,120 114,123 114,284 114,410 126

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,744 18,961 19,041 18,988 18,405 18,625 18,643 18,669 26

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861 888 895 892 847 873 876 880 4

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.7 51.9 53.5 54.7 50.8 50.2 50.9 51.5 0.6

Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807.7 836.4 841.5 837.4 796.1 822.9 824.7 828.1 3.4

Oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188.4 197.5 199.1 197.5 188.0 195.0 196.3 197.1 0.8

Mining, except oil and gas1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226.9 228.1 227.9 226.0 220.7 221.6 220.4 220.8 0.4

Coal mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.7 85.8 86.0 85.6 84.5 85.5 85.7 85.7 0.0

Support activities for mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392.4 410.8 414.5 413.9 387.4 406.3 408.0 410.2 2.2

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,875 6,060 6,087 6,061 5,633 5,804 5,806 5,826 20

Construction of buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,266.4 1,306.0 1,305.6 1,303.5 1,232.0 1,266.6 1,263.7 1,270.1 6.4

Residential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590.7 607.4 609.3 604.6 571.9 584.7 585.4 586.6 1.2

Nonresidential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675.7 698.6 696.3 698.9 660.1 681.9 678.3 683.5 5.2

Heavy and civil engineering construction. . . . . . . 945.6 948.8 961.2 964.5 877.3 891.2 893.4 895.9 2.5

Specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,663.3 3,805.5 3,820.2 3,793.3 3,523.2 3,646.2 3,648.9 3,659.8 10.9

Residential specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . 1,537.8 1,633.8 1,640.7 1,625.0 1,476.1 1,557.1 1,560.6 1,564.7 4.1

Nonresidential specialty trade contractors. . . . 2,125.5 2,171.7 2,179.5 2,168.3 2,047.1 2,089.1 2,088.3 2,095.1 6.8

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,008 12,013 12,059 12,035 11,925 11,948 11,961 11,963 2

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,487 7,518 7,556 7,544 7,465 7,497 7,520 7,529 9

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338.8 352.9 353.1 352.6 335.8 346.7 348.0 349.0 1.0

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366.3 378.1 379.2 377.6 359.8 368.7 370.2 370.7 0.5

Primary metals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401.9 391.6 394.6 394.0 401.0 391.8 393.2 393.1 -0.1

Fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,422.2 1,441.2 1,443.2 1,445.6 1,416.8 1,435.3 1,436.9 1,443.2 6.3

Machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,097.9 1,106.1 1,104.3 1,105.3 1,099.6 1,102.6 1,103.5 1,108.4 4.9

Computer and electronic products1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,085.6 1,088.3 1,087.6 1,081.9 1,086.3 1,083.4 1,083.4 1,083.4 0.0

Computer and peripheral equipment. . . . . . . 158.0 165.0 165.0 164.4 158.3 163.5 164.4 164.7 0.3

Communications equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108.5 106.5 106.3 105.0 108.4 106.5 106.3 105.2 -1.1

Semiconductors and electronic

components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382.2 380.5 381.0 379.0 382.2 378.8 379.1 379.2 0.1

Electronic instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396.8 396.9 396.2 393.8 397.1 395.2 394.6 394.6 0.0

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . 369.9 365.6 363.9 364.5 369.7 363.7 363.4 364.0 0.6

Transportation equipment1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,470.5 1,458.2 1,491.2 1,489.7 1,466.1 1,473.6 1,490.1 1,487.7 -2.4

Motor vehicles and parts2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782.2 780.3 813.0 814.3 778.5 796.7 812.7 812.5 -0.2

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352.2 357.9 360.6 354.6 349.0 353.6 353.7 351.8 -1.9

Miscellaneous durable goods

manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581.4 578.2 578.7 578.3 580.7 577.9 577.2 578.0 0.8

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,521 4,495 4,503 4,491 4,460 4,451 4,441 4,434 -7

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,516.4 1,489.6 1,503.6 1,501.1 1,477.1 1,464.5 1,463.2 1,462.7 -0.5

Textile mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.6 114.8 114.6 114.3 117.8 114.4 114.2 113.6 -0.6

Textile product mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.2 114.0 115.3 114.2 116.2 113.8 114.3 114.1 -0.2

Apparel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148.0 140.3 140.7 141.8 146.6 141.3 141.0 140.7 -0.3

Paper and paper products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378.1 379.2 377.1 374.8 377.6 376.9 376.1 374.5 -1.6

Printing and related support activities. . . . . . . . 459.4 449.8 446.9 443.9 457.6 448.1 445.0 442.9 -2.1

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.2 117.4 117.5 117.1 113.2 114.8 115.3 115.2 -0.1

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786.4 800.6 796.6 792.0 785.1 796.0 793.2 791.5 -1.7

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651.8 661.1 660.0 658.6 646.4 657.5 653.7 653.7 0.0

Miscellaneous nondurable goods

manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230.4 228.3 231.1 233.4 222.4 223.6 224.6 225.2 0.6

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,837 96,085 96,192 95,841 93,715 95,498 95,641 95,741 100

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,495 25,960 26,003 26,007 25,550 25,968 26,015 26,075 60

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,688.7 5,802.5 5,798.3 5,792.6 5,691.2 5,768.8 5,777.9 5,794.0 16.1

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,838.6 2,884.8 2,884.5 2,878.3 2,838.2 2,867.1 2,872.6 2,878.3 5.7

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,974.6 2,019.5 2,014.0 2,016.5 1,976.7 2,007.8 2,009.0 2,017.7 8.7

Electronic markets and agents and brokers.. . 875.5 898.2 899.8 897.8 876.3 893.9 896.3 898.0 1.7

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,786.5 15,192.4 15,227.7 15,147.0 14,876.2 15,190.8 15,222.7 15,243.5 20.8

Motor vehicle and parts dealers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,747.9 1,795.1 1,797.2 1,798.2 1,735.4 1,776.3 1,780.9 1,785.0 4.1

Automobile dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,102.0 1,130.4 1,133.6 1,137.7 1,096.8 1,123.7 1,127.3 1,131.5 4.2

Furniture and home furnishings stores. . . . . . . 436.1 445.8 443.3 442.0 441.2 451.4 449.2 448.5 -0.7

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Change

from:

Aug.2013 -

Sept.2013p

Retail trade - Continued

Electronics and appliance stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 495.1 498.1 502.6 506.1 502.6 507.2 511.7 513.9 2.2

Building material and garden supply stores.. . 1,154.5 1,228.6 1,207.7 1,189.1 1,167.6 1,194.1 1,196.4 1,201.3 4.9

Food and beverage stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,861.7 2,948.9 2,958.3 2,944.8 2,865.9 2,927.7 2,940.4 2,948.1 7.7

Health and personal care stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,001.4 1,025.4 1,029.4 1,030.0 1,005.3 1,028.8 1,032.2 1,035.4 3.2

Gasoline stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846.6 875.4 873.9 867.6 840.5 861.3 860.1 861.6 1.5

Clothing and clothing accessories stores. . . . . 1,389.9 1,437.1 1,462.6 1,420.5 1,412.7 1,455.6 1,458.1 1,450.9 -7.2

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580.9 570.4 584.6 586.2 579.7 581.6 581.8 584.1 2.3

General merchandise stores1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,018.0 3,108.4 3,107.9 3,099.2 3,072.8 3,140.5 3,146.3 3,153.1 6.8

Department stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,440.2 1,465.9 1,463.4 1,453.7 1,481.2 1,494.7 1,494.1 1,494.6 0.5

Miscellaneous store retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814.0 820.8 817.1 812.3 809.5 816.0 814.3 808.4 -5.9

Nonstore retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440.4 438.4 443.1 451.0 443.0 450.3 451.3 453.2 1.9

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,463.4 4,403.5 4,419.0 4,512.5 4,425.1 4,451.8 4,458.1 4,481.5 23.4

Air transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457.6 449.3 447.9 446.1 456.6 445.1 444.2 444.8 0.6

Rail transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228.2 231.1 230.3 230.3 228.2 230.8 229.3 230.8 1.5

Water transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.4 65.0 64.6 63.2 63.2 62.7 62.1 62.0 -0.1

Truck transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,378.2 1,401.6 1,409.5 1,405.0 1,356.1 1,383.1 1,383.1 1,384.1 1.0

Transit and ground passenger

transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466.9 380.9 379.4 475.0 454.5 444.4 446.8 464.7 17.9

Pipeline transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.3 45.6 45.4 45.1 44.2 45.2 45.2 45.0 -0.2

Scenic and sightseeing transportation. . . . . . . . 32.1 33.9 33.2 31.2 27.3 25.8 25.9 26.3 0.4

Support activities for transportation. . . . . . . . . . . 577.9 589.9 592.7 591.9 579.9 590.2 593.2 593.3 0.1

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523.2 517.0 523.1 525.4 527.5 533.2 535.1 534.8 -0.3

Warehousing and storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690.6 689.2 692.9 699.3 687.6 691.3 693.2 695.7 2.5

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556.1 561.1 558.2 555.0 557.1 556.9 556.2 556.0 -0.2

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,662 2,713 2,689 2,671 2,670 2,700 2,683 2,687 4

Publishing industries, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . 738.8 730.6 730.0 727.0 738.1 727.5 726.4 725.7 -0.7

Motion picture and sound recording

industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364.7 398.7 368.8 360.0 369.5 388.3 366.0 372.8 6.8

Broadcasting, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285.0 284.9 284.9 286.5 283.9 285.5 285.9 285.7 -0.2

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850.5 858.8 862.4 857.1 853.9 859.9 863.0 860.3 -2.7

Data processing, hosting and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248.3 254.9 255.2 254.3 249.4 255.3 255.5 255.7 0.2

Other information services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.8 184.9 187.8 186.4 175.4 183.2 186.1 186.6 0.5

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,810 7,971 7,955 7,904 7,806 7,905 7,902 7,900 -2

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,838.6 5,930.0 5,918.2 5,892.7 5,848.0 5,909.6 5,906.6 5,902.2 -4.4

Monetary authorities - central bank. . . . . . . . . . . 17.2 17.0 17.0 16.8 17.1 16.8 16.7 16.7 0.0

Credit intermediation and related

activities1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,585.5 2,621.7 2,614.7 2,597.3 2,589.7 2,612.8 2,609.0 2,601.3 -7.7

Depository credit intermediation1. . . . . . . . . . 1,733.8 1,739.5 1,734.3 1,721.8 1,738.3 1,731.8 1,729.8 1,727.3 -2.5

Commercial banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,314.0 1,306.5 1,300.6 1,291.6 1,317.9 1,301.1 1,297.6 1,295.9 -1.7

Securities, commodity contracts,

investments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811.6 837.4 834.3 830.1 814.2 833.0 832.5 833.3 0.8

Insurance carriers and related activities. . . . . . 2,338.1 2,366.8 2,365.4 2,362.9 2,340.6 2,360.6 2,362.1 2,364.9 2.8

Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles. . . 86.2 87.1 86.8 85.6 86.4 86.4 86.3 86.0 -0.3

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,970.9 2,041.4 2,036.7 2,011.3 1,958.1 1,995.8 1,995.4 1,997.9 2.5

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,426.8 1,479.1 1,476.6 1,458.3 1,419.3 1,451.2 1,450.0 1,451.0 1.0

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520.1 539.0 536.8 530.1 514.8 521.5 522.2 524.1 1.9

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets. . . . . 24.0 23.3 23.3 22.9 24.0 23.1 23.2 22.8 -0.4

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,082 18,692 18,760 18,729 18,009 18,588 18,618 18,650 32

Professional and technical services1

. . . . . . . . . . . 7,859.1 8,116.1 8,107.3 8,065.1 7,941.3 8,133.2 8,142.1 8,148.4 6.3

Legal services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,116.7 1,136.8 1,130.3 1,123.8 1,123.7 1,126.1 1,129.2 1,130.3 1.1

Accounting and bookkeeping services. . . . . . . 839.7 873.2 873.6 870.4 916.5 943.9 945.6 946.3 0.7

Architectural and engineering services. . . . . . . 1,335.4 1,373.9 1,371.4 1,361.6 1,327.5 1,354.0 1,353.5 1,354.3 0.8

Computer systems design and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,634.9 1,705.2 1,706.5 1,703.0 1,638.3 1,698.4 1,702.8 1,707.3 4.5

Management and technical consulting

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,132.3 1,197.0 1,196.1 1,191.1 1,133.5 1,191.4 1,191.3 1,192.8 1.5

Management of companies and enterprises. . . . 2,015.9 2,065.1 2,057.8 2,050.1 2,016.5 2,051.0 2,049.7 2,050.4 0.7

Administrative and waste services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,206.9 8,510.9 8,595.3 8,613.7 8,051.1 8,403.7 8,426.5 8,450.8 24.3

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Change

from:

Aug.2013 -

Sept.2013p

Administrative and waste services - Continued

Administrative and support services1. . . . . . . . 7,831.4 8,121.4 8,208.7 8,231.6 7,679.0 8,024.1 8,047.2 8,071.4 24.2

Employment services1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,239.9 3,370.6 3,452.9 3,503.8 3,160.3 3,384.0 3,397.4 3,417.1 19.7

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,590.1 2,685.5 2,759.3 2,823.5 2,521.4 2,707.9 2,729.1 2,749.3 20.2

Business support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826.5 839.9 843.4 851.5 832.2 852.6 852.9 854.8 1.9

Services to buildings and dwellings. . . . . . . . 1,894.0 2,002.6 1,991.5 1,952.1 1,829.6 1,886.5 1,890.4 1,887.5 -2.9

Waste management and remediation

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375.5 389.5 386.6 382.1 372.1 379.6 379.3 379.4 0.1

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,326 20,344 20,422 20,678 20,412 20,685 20,746 20,760 14

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,309.8 3,082.3 3,086.8 3,333.4 3,371.8 3,377.6 3,387.0 3,387.1 0.1

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,016.1 17,261.3 17,335.4 17,344.1 17,040.4 17,307.5 17,358.9 17,372.6 13.7

Health care3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,348.0 14,589.6 14,635.7 14,604.0 14,359.5 14,570.9 14,613.7 14,620.5 6.8

Ambulatory health care services1

. . . . . . . . . 6,354.0 6,526.2 6,558.8 6,554.8 6,358.2 6,527.6 6,554.3 6,562.4 8.1

Offices of physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,398.3 2,437.9 2,446.6 2,445.6 2,402.1 2,439.0 2,446.2 2,449.0 2.8

Outpatient care centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656.9 694.4 698.0 700.6 660.3 694.7 698.5 703.2 4.7

Home health care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,213.8 1,281.9 1,293.1 1,294.6 1,211.1 1,284.7 1,293.7 1,294.7 1.0

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,799.3 4,836.6 4,835.9 4,827.0 4,803.3 4,826.7 4,831.7 4,832.0 0.3

Nursing and residential care facilities1

. . . . 3,194.7 3,226.8 3,241.0 3,222.2 3,198.0 3,216.6 3,227.7 3,226.1 -1.6

Nursing care facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,663.5 1,660.6 1,670.7 1,661.0 1,663.2 1,656.4 1,665.4 1,661.1 -4.3

Social assistance1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,668.1 2,671.7 2,699.7 2,740.1 2,680.9 2,736.6 2,745.2 2,752.1 6.9

Child day care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860.2 781.9 808.6 854.5 859.2 848.9 852.7 852.5 -0.2

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,018 14,856 14,836 14,368 13,818 14,169 14,190 14,177 -13

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,032.4 2,334.9 2,292.3 2,080.1 1,970.0 2,023.7 2,023.7 2,021.4 -2.3

Performing arts and spectator sports. . . . . . . . . 423.0 440.5 451.2 434.0 406.2 415.1 421.3 419.0 -2.3

Museums, historical sites, and similar

institutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137.9 148.4 144.7 139.6 135.7 134.7 134.4 137.6 3.2

Amusements, gambling, and recreation. . . . . . 1,471.5 1,746.0 1,696.4 1,506.5 1,428.1 1,473.9 1,468.0 1,464.8 -3.2

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,986.0 12,521.0 12,543.4 12,287.6 11,848.3 12,145.7 12,165.9 12,155.1 -10.8

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,859.1 1,978.3 1,972.2 1,869.6 1,815.3 1,828.0 1,831.1 1,827.4 -3.7

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . 10,126.9 10,542.7 10,571.2 10,418.0 10,033.0 10,317.7 10,334.8 10,327.7 -7.1

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,444 5,549 5,527 5,484 5,450 5,483 5,487 5,492 5

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,195.7 1,201.3 1,201.8 1,206.1 1,191.7 1,196.3 1,198.8 1,201.7 2.9

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,316.8 1,346.0 1,345.4 1,343.4 1,316.3 1,337.5 1,338.7 1,342.9 4.2

Membership associations and organizations. . . . 2,931.4 3,002.1 2,979.5 2,934.8 2,941.9 2,949.4 2,949.6 2,947.5 -2.1

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,793 20,531 20,755 21,771 21,945 21,826 21,858 21,880 22

Federal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,816.0 2,753.0 2,741.0 2,729.0 2,810.0 2,736.0 2,729.0 2,723.0 -6.0

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,214.8 2,162.1 2,150.7 2,138.5 2,203.1 2,145.9 2,137.5 2,130.2 -7.3

U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601.6 591.0 590.3 590.1 607.2 590.2 591.4 592.8 1.4

State government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,092.0 4,704.0 4,754.0 5,084.0 5,072.0 5,018.0 5,029.0 5,051.0 22.0

State government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,432.7 2,033.9 2,084.2 2,430.8 2,411.2 2,364.5 2,375.7 2,395.5 19.8

State government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . . 2,659.3 2,670.5 2,669.7 2,653.0 2,661.2 2,653.6 2,653.6 2,655.5 1.9

Local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,885.0 13,074.0 13,260.0 13,958.0 14,063.0 14,072.0 14,100.0 14,106.0 6.0

Local government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,618.4 6,553.6 6,800.1 7,682.7 7,796.1 7,786.4 7,818.2 7,827.7 9.5

Local government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . . 6,267.0 6,520.0 6,460.2 6,275.3 6,267.2 6,285.4 6,281.8 6,278.4 -3.4

1 Includes other industries, not shown separately.

2 Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, and motor vehicle parts.

3 Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities.

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Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

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

Goods-producing..................................................................... 40.2 40.3 40.5 40.5

Mining and logging................................................................ 43.5 44.0 44.0 44.2

Construction........................................................................ 38.9 38.8 39.1 39.2

Manufacturing...................................................................... 40.6 40.7 40.8 40.8

Durable goods................................................................... 40.9 41.1 41.2 41.2

Nondurable goods............................................................... 40.2 40.1 40.3 40.2

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

Trade, transportation, and utilities............................................... 34.5 34.5 34.6 34.4

Wholesale trade................................................................. 38.6 38.7 38.9 38.6

Retail trade....................................................................... 31.5 31.5 31.4 31.3

Transportation and warehousing.............................................. 38.3 38.6 38.7 38.7

Utilities............................................................................ 41.8 42.2 42.4 42.5

Information.......................................................................... 36.5 36.7 36.7 36.8

Financial activities................................................................. 37.3 37.0 37.2 37.2

Professional and business services............................................. 36.1 36.0 36.1 36.1

Education and health services................................................... 32.9 32.8 32.8 32.9

Leisure and hospitality............................................................ 26.0 25.9 26.0 26.0

Other services...................................................................... 31.5 31.6 31.7 31.5

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing............................................................................ 3.2 3.2 3.4 3.4

Durable goods........................................................................ 3.1 3.2 3.4 3.4

Nondurable goods.................................................................... 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.3

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Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Total private................................................. $23.60 $23.99 $24.06 $24.09 $ 814.20 $ 825.26 $ 830.07 $ 831.11

Goods-producing........................................ 24.77 25.19 25.27 25.33 995.75 1,015.16 1,023.44 1,025.87

Mining and logging................................... 28.88 29.44 29.82 30.02 1,256.28 1,295.36 1,312.08 1,326.88

Construction........................................... 25.84 26.21 26.23 26.21 1,005.18 1,016.95 1,025.59 1,027.43

Manufacturing......................................... 23.97 24.38 24.46 24.54 973.18 992.27 997.97 1,001.23

Durable goods...................................... 25.38 25.80 25.85 25.93 1,038.04 1,060.38 1,065.02 1,068.32

Nondurable goods................................. 21.57 21.94 22.07 22.12 867.11 879.79 889.42 889.22

Private service-providing............................... 23.32 23.70 23.77 23.80 776.56 789.21 791.54 792.54

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................. 20.57 20.95 21.04 21.04 709.67 722.78 727.98 723.78

Wholesale trade.................................... 26.93 27.73 27.73 27.83 1,039.50 1,073.15 1,078.70 1,074.24

Retail trade.......................................... 16.39 16.59 16.69 16.64 516.29 522.59 524.07 520.83

Transportation and warehousing................. 21.97 22.33 22.44 22.42 841.45 861.94 868.43 867.65

Utilities............................................... 34.50 35.21 35.18 35.31 1,442.10 1,485.86 1,491.63 1,500.68

Information............................................. 31.77 32.69 32.78 33.11 1,159.61 1,199.72 1,203.03 1,218.45

Financial activities.................................... 29.44 30.38 30.48 30.52 1,098.11 1,124.06 1,133.86 1,135.34

Professional and business services................ 28.14 28.43 28.49 28.49 1,015.85 1,023.48 1,028.49 1,028.49

Education and health services...................... 24.31 24.62 24.70 24.68 799.80 807.54 810.16 811.97

Leisure and hospitality............................... 13.40 13.50 13.54 13.56 348.40 349.65 352.04 352.56

Other services......................................... 20.98 21.29 21.34 21.43 660.87 672.76 676.48 675.05

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Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by

industry sector, seasonally adjusted

[2007=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls2

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Percent

change

from:

Aug.

2013 -

Sept.

2013p

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Percent

change

from:

Aug.

2013 -

Sept.

2013p

Total private....................................... 96.9 98.3 98.8 98.9 0.1 109.0 112.5 113.3 113.6 0.3

Goods-producing............................... 84.3 85.5 86.0 86.1 0.1 94.4 97.4 98.2 98.6 0.4

Mining and logging.......................... 115.8 120.7 121.1 122.2 0.9 134.2 142.7 145.0 147.3 1.6

Construction.................................. 75.5 77.6 78.3 78.7 0.5 84.8 88.4 89.2 89.7 0.6

Manufacturing................................ 87.1 87.5 87.8 87.8 0.0 97.1 99.2 99.9 100.2 0.3

Durable goods............................ 86.0 86.8 87.2 87.3 0.1 96.9 99.4 100.1 100.6 0.5

Nondurable goods........................ 89.5 89.1 89.3 89.0 -0.3 97.9 99.2 100.0 99.8 -0.2

Private service-providing...................... 100.2 102.1 102.2 102.3 0.1 113.2 117.2 117.7 118.0 0.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities......... 95.9 97.4 97.9 97.6 -0.3 106.1 109.9 110.9 110.5 -0.4

Wholesale trade........................... 95.8 97.4 98.1 97.6 -0.5 107.7 112.7 113.5 113.3 -0.2

Retail trade................................ 95.2 97.2 97.1 96.9 -0.2 103.1 106.6 107.1 106.6 -0.5

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . .. 97.0 98.3 98.7 99.3 0.6 108.1 111.4 112.4 112.9 0.4

Utilities..................................... 100.8 101.7 102.0 102.2 0.2 114.8 118.3 118.6 119.3 0.6

Information................................... 89.0 90.5 89.9 90.3 0.4 100.7 105.3 105.0 106.5 1.4

Financial activities........................... 95.4 95.8 96.3 96.2 -0.1 109.5 113.5 114.5 114.6 0.1

Professional and business services....... 102.3 105.2 105.7 105.9 0.2 116.6 121.2 122.0 122.2 0.2

Education and health services............. 109.3 110.5 110.8 111.2 0.4 124.5 127.4 128.2 128.6 0.3

Leisure and hospitality...................... 102.5 104.7 105.3 105.2 -0.1 110.8 114.0 115.0 115.1 0.1

Other services............................... 95.1 96.0 96.4 95.9 -0.5 113.3 116.0 116.7 116.6 -0.1

1 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2007 annual

average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding

2007 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly

hours, and employment.

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Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Women employees (in thousands) Percent of all employees

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Total nonfarm............................................... 66,211 67,154 67,302 67,378 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.4

Total private.............................................. 53,716 54,696 54,816 54,844 47.9 47.9 48.0 47.9

Goods-producing...................................... 4,097 4,100 4,100 4,105 22.3 22.0 22.0 22.0

Mining and logging................................. 113 116 117 117 13.3 13.3 13.4 13.3

Construction........................................ 729 742 744 747 12.9 12.8 12.8 12.8

Manufacturing....................................... 3,255 3,242 3,239 3,241 27.3 27.1 27.1 27.1

Durable goods................................... 1,727 1,732 1,732 1,734 23.1 23.1 23.0 23.0

Nondurable goods............................... 1,528 1,510 1,507 1,507 34.3 33.9 33.9 34.0

Private service-providing............................. 49,619 50,596 50,716 50,739 52.9 53.0 53.0 53.0

Trade, transportation, and utilities............... 10,314 10,561 10,595 10,619 40.4 40.7 40.7 40.7

Wholesale trade................................. 1,706.2 1,714.9 1,721.7 1,729.5 30.0 29.7 29.8 29.8

Retail trade....................................... 7,437.1 7,661.2 7,689.1 7,696.1 50.0 50.4 50.5 50.5

Transportation and warehousing.............. 1,031.9 1,047.0 1,047.1 1,055.3 23.3 23.5 23.5 23.5

Utilities............................................ 138.6 138.1 137.3 137.7 24.9 24.8 24.7 24.8

Information.......................................... 1,070 1,073 1,070 1,070 40.1 39.7 39.9 39.8

Financial activities.................................. 4,536 4,550 4,543 4,542 58.1 57.6 57.5 57.5

Professional and business services............. 7,968 8,297 8,317 8,336 44.2 44.6 44.7 44.7

Education and health services................... 15,664 15,857 15,916 15,921 76.7 76.7 76.7 76.7

Leisure and hospitality............................. 7,202 7,372 7,387 7,365 52.1 52.0 52.1 52.0

Other services...................................... 2,865 2,886 2,888 2,886 52.6 52.6 52.6 52.5

Government.............................................. 12,495 12,458 12,486 12,534 56.9 57.1 57.1 57.3

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Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted1

[In thousands]

Industry Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Total private................................................................................ 92,680 94,246 94,370 94,399

Goods-producing........................................................................ 13,250 13,373 13,388 13,405

Mining and logging................................................................... 641 643 645 648

Construction........................................................................... 4,217 4,377 4,380 4,396

Manufacturing......................................................................... 8,392 8,353 8,363 8,361

Durable goods...................................................................... 5,143 5,140 5,157 5,159

Nondurable goods................................................................. 3,249 3,213 3,206 3,202

Private service-providing............................................................... 79,430 80,873 80,982 80,994

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................................................. 21,693 21,978 22,010 22,051

Wholesale trade.................................................................... 4,584.8 4,649.8 4,657.1 4,669.4

Retail trade......................................................................... 12,824.0 13,026.8 13,049.4 13,061.7

Transportation and warehousing................................................. 3,839.1 3,851.7 3,854.1 3,871.4

Utilities............................................................................... 444.8 449.8 449.5 448.5

Information............................................................................ 2,164 2,191 2,179 2,182

Financial activities.................................................................... 6,015 6,087 6,084 6,080

Professional and business services................................................ 14,907 15,383 15,415 15,426

Education and health services...................................................... 17,894 18,136 18,185 18,192

Leisure and hospitality............................................................... 12,203 12,526 12,534 12,488

Other services........................................................................ 4,554 4,572 4,575 4,575

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

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Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private.............................................................................. 33.7 33.6 33.7 33.7

Goods-producing..................................................................... 41.1 41.2 41.3 41.4

Mining and logging................................................................ 46.0 46.0 46.0 46.4

Construction........................................................................ 39.4 39.5 39.6 39.8

Manufacturing...................................................................... 41.5 41.7 41.9 41.8

Durable goods................................................................... 41.8 42.1 42.3 42.2

Nondurable goods............................................................... 41.0 41.1 41.3 41.1

Private service-providing............................................................ 32.4 32.3 32.4 32.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities............................................... 33.6 33.6 33.7 33.6

Wholesale trade................................................................. 38.6 38.6 38.7 38.5

Retail trade....................................................................... 30.3 30.1 30.3 30.1

Transportation and warehousing.............................................. 38.0 38.4 38.5 38.7

Utilities............................................................................ 41.1 41.7 41.8 42.5

Information.......................................................................... 35.7 35.8 35.9 35.9

Financial activities................................................................. 36.7 36.5 36.6 36.7

Professional and business services............................................. 35.3 35.2 35.3 35.4

Education and health services................................................... 32.3 32.1 32.1 32.1

Leisure and hospitality............................................................ 24.9 24.8 25.0 24.9

Other services...................................................................... 30.6 30.6 30.7 30.7

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing............................................................................ 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.3

Durable goods........................................................................ 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.4

Nondurable goods.................................................................... 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.2

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

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Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Total private................................................. $19.80 $20.16 $20.20 $20.24 $ 667.26 $ 677.38 $ 680.74 $ 682.09

Goods-producing........................................ 20.94 21.24 21.27 21.27 860.63 875.09 878.45 880.58

Mining and logging................................... 25.74 26.67 26.85 27.04 1,184.04 1,226.82 1,235.10 1,254.66

Construction........................................... 24.01 24.26 24.18 24.14 945.99 958.27 957.53 960.77

Manufacturing......................................... 19.07 19.28 19.35 19.34 791.41 803.98 810.77 808.41

Durable goods...................................... 20.18 20.35 20.41 20.38 843.52 856.74 863.34 860.04

Nondurable goods................................. 17.28 17.53 17.61 17.60 708.48 720.48 727.29 723.36

Private service-providing............................... 19.56 19.94 19.97 20.02 633.74 644.06 647.03 648.65

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................. 17.45 17.72 17.77 17.82 586.32 595.39 598.85 598.75

Wholesale trade.................................... 22.23 22.64 22.66 22.72 858.08 873.90 876.94 874.72

Retail trade.......................................... 13.83 14.00 14.03 14.09 419.05 421.40 425.11 424.11

Transportation and warehousing................. 19.49 19.78 19.98 19.89 740.62 759.55 769.23 769.74

Utilities............................................... 31.83 32.20 32.15 32.30 1,308.21 1,342.74 1,343.87 1,372.75

Information............................................. 27.16 27.70 27.88 27.90 969.61 991.66 1,000.89 1,001.61

Financial activities.................................... 22.96 24.09 24.17 24.23 842.63 879.29 884.62 889.24

Professional and business services................ 23.29 23.69 23.71 23.76 822.14 833.89 836.96 841.10

Education and health services...................... 21.14 21.47 21.50 21.52 682.82 689.19 690.15 690.79

Leisure and hospitality............................... 11.64 11.78 11.81 11.81 289.84 292.14 295.25 294.07

Other services......................................... 17.66 17.91 17.97 18.02 540.40 548.05 551.68 553.21

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

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Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on

private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

[2002=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours2Index of aggregate weekly payrolls3

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Percent

change

from:

Aug.

2013 -

Sept.

2013p

Sept.

2012

July

2013

Aug.

2013p

Sept.

2013p

Percent

change

from:

Aug.

2013 -

Sept.

2013p

Total private....................................... 104.2 105.7 106.1 106.2 0.1 137.8 142.3 143.2 143.5 0.2

Goods-producing............................... 83.2 84.2 84.5 84.8 0.4 106.7 109.5 110.1 110.5 0.4

Mining and logging.......................... 156.7 157.2 157.7 159.8 1.3 234.6 243.8 246.2 251.3 2.1

Construction.................................. 83.2 86.6 86.8 87.6 0.9 107.9 113.4 113.4 114.2 0.7

Manufacturing................................ 79.9 80.0 80.4 80.2 -0.2 99.7 100.8 101.8 101.5 -0.3

Durable goods............................ 80.8 81.3 82.0 81.8 -0.2 101.8 103.3 104.4 104.1 -0.3

Nondurable goods........................ 78.5 77.8 78.0 77.5 -0.6 95.8 96.4 97.1 96.4 -0.7

Private service-providing...................... 109.8 111.5 112.0 112.0 0.0 147.2 152.3 153.3 153.7 0.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities......... 101.6 102.9 103.4 103.3 -0.1 126.5 130.1 131.1 131.3 0.2

Wholesale trade........................... 104.2 105.7 106.1 105.9 -0.2 136.5 141.0 141.7 141.7 0.0

Retail trade................................ 98.4 99.3 100.1 99.5 -0.6 116.6 119.1 120.4 120.2 -0.2

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . .. 109.8 111.3 111.7 112.8 1.0 135.8 139.7 141.6 142.3 0.5

Utilities..................................... 93.5 95.9 96.1 97.5 1.5 124.2 128.9 128.9 131.4 1.9

Information................................... 88.2 89.5 89.3 89.4 0.1 118.6 122.8 123.2 123.5 0.2

Financial activities........................... 103.9 104.6 104.8 105.0 0.2 146.8 155.0 155.9 156.6 0.4

Professional and business services....... 117.9 121.4 122.0 122.4 0.3 163.5 171.1 172.1 173.0 0.5

Education and health services............. 124.7 125.6 125.9 126.0 0.1 173.3 177.3 178.0 178.2 0.1

Leisure and hospitality...................... 111.3 113.8 114.8 113.9 -0.8 147.1 152.2 153.9 152.8 -0.7

Other services............................... 97.7 98.1 98.5 98.5 0.0 125.8 128.0 129.0 129.3 0.2

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory employees

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2002 annual

average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

3 The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the corresponding

2002 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly

hours, and employment.

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