Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until USDL-15-0325 

8:30 a.m. (EST) Friday, March 6, 2015 

Technical information: 

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

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

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

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — FEBRUARY 2015 

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 295,000 in February, and the unemployment rate 

edged down to 5.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in 

food services and drinking places, professional and business services, construction, health care, and in 

transportation and warehousing. Employment in mining was down over the month. 

Chart 2. Nonfarm payroll employment over-the-month 

change, seasonally adjusted, February 2013 –

February 2015

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Chart 1. Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, 

February 2013 – February 2015

Household Survey Data 

Both the unemployment rate (5.5 percent) and the number of unemployed persons (8.7 million) edged 

down in February. Over the year, the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed persons were 

down by 1.2 percentage points and 1.7 million, respectively. (See table A-1.) 

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for teenagers decreased by 1.7 percentage 

points to 17.1 percent in February. The jobless rates for adult men (5.2 percent), adult women (4.9 

percent), whites (4.7 percent), blacks (10.4 percent), Asians (4.0 percent), and Hispanics (6.6 percent) 

showed little or no change. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.) 
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The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed at 2.7 

million in February. These individuals accounted for 31.1 percent of the unemployed. Over the past 12 

months, the number of long-term unemployed is down by 1.1 million. (See table A-12.) 

The civilian labor force participation rate, at 62.8 percent, changed little in February and has 

remained within a narrow range of 62.7 to 62.9 percent since April 2014. The employment-population 

ratio was unchanged at 59.3 percent in February but is up by 0.5 percentage point over the year. (See 

table A-1.) 

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

involuntary part-time workers) was little changed in February at 6.6 million. These individuals, who 

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

back or because they were unable to find a full-time job. (See table A-8.) 

In February, 2.2 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, little changed from a 

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

and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not 

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

(See table A-16.) 

Among the marginally attached, there were 732,000 discouraged workers in February, little different 

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 1.4 

million persons marginally attached to the labor force in February 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 rose by 295,000 in February, compared with an average monthly 

gain of 266,000 over the prior 12 months. Job gains occurred in food services and drinking places, 

professional and business services, construction, health care, and in transportation and warehousing. 

Employment in mining declined over the month. (See table B-1.) 

In February, food services and drinking places added 59,000 jobs. The industry had added an average 

of 35,000 jobs per month over the prior 12 months. 

Employment in professional and business services increased by 51,000 in February and has risen by 

660,000 over the year. In February, employment continued to trend up in management and technical 

consulting services (+7,000), computer systems design and related services (+5,000), and architectural 

and engineering services (+5,000). 

Construction added 29,000 jobs in February. Employment in specialty trade contractors rose by 27,000, 

mostly in the residential component. Over the past 12 months, construction has added 321,000 jobs. 

In February, employment in health care rose by 24,000, with gains in ambulatory care services 

(+20,000) and hospitals (+9,000). Health care had added an average of 29,000 jobs per month over the 

prior 12 months. 
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Transportation and warehousing added 19,000 jobs in February, with most of the gain occurring in 

couriers and messengers (+12,000). Employment in transportation and warehousing grew by an average 

of 14,000 per month over the prior 12 months. 

Employment in retail trade continued to trend up in February (+32,000) and has grown by 319,000 over 

the year. 

Manufacturing employment continued to trend up in February (+8,000). Within the industry, petroleum 

and coal products lost 6,000 jobs, largely due to a strike. 

Employment in mining decreased by 9,000 in February, with most of the decline in support activities for 

mining (-7,000). 

Employment in other major industries, including wholesale trade, information, financial activities, 

and government, showed little change over the month. 

In February, the average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was 34.6 hours for 

the fifth month in a row. The manufacturing workweek was unchanged at 41.0 hours in February, and 

factory overtime edged down by 0.1 hour to 3.4 hours. The average workweek for production and 

nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 33.8 hours. (See tables B-2 

and B-7.) 

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

$24.78. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 2.0 percent. In February, average hourly 

earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees were unchanged at $20.80. (See 

tables B-3 and B-8.) 

After revision, the change in total nonfarm payroll employment for December remained at +329,000, 

and the change for January was revised from +257,000 to +239,000. With these revisions, employment 

gains in December and January were 18,000 lower than previously reported. Over the past 3 months, job 

gains have averaged 288,000 per month. 

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The Employment Situation for March is scheduled to be released on Friday, April 3, 2015, at 8:30 

a.m. (EDT). 
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Change from:

Jan. 2015-

Feb. 2015

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population........................................... 247,085 249,027 249,723 249,899 176

Civilian labor force........................................................... 155,688 156,129 157,180 157,002 -178

Participation rate.......................................................... 63.0 62.7 62.9 62.8 -0.1

Employed................................................................... 145,301 147,442 148,201 148,297 96

Employment-population ratio.......................................... 58.8 59.2 59.3 59.3 0.0

Unemployed............................................................... 10,387 8,688 8,979 8,705 -274

Unemployment rate.................................................... 6.7 5.6 5.7 5.5 -0.2

Not in labor force............................................................ 91,398 92,898 92,544 92,898 354

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over...................................................... 6.7 5.6 5.7 5.5 -0.2

Adult men (20 years and over)............................................ 6.3 5.3 5.3 5.2 -0.1

Adult women (20 years and over)......................................... 5.9 5.0 5.1 4.9 -0.2

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)................................................ 21.3 16.8 18.8 17.1 -1.7

White.......................................................................... 5.8 4.8 4.9 4.7 -0.2

Black or African American.................................................. 12.0 10.4 10.3 10.4 0.1

Asian.......................................................................... 5.9 4.2 4.0 4.0 0.0

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity................................................. 8.1 6.5 6.7 6.6 -0.1

Total, 25 years and over...................................................... 5.4 4.5 4.6 4.5 -0.1

Less than a high school diploma.......................................... 9.8 8.6 8.5 8.4 -0.1

High school graduates, no college........................................ 6.4 5.3 5.4 5.4 0.0

Some college or associate degree........................................ 6.0 4.9 5.2 5.1 -0.1

Bachelor’s degree and higher.............................................. 3.4 2.9 2.8 2.7 -0.1

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs.................. 5,403 4,325 4,242 4,180 -62

Job leavers...................................................................... 816 798 851 884 33

Reentrants....................................................................... 2,972 2,701 2,829 2,655 -174

New entrants.................................................................... 1,232 971 1,033 972 -61

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks............................................................. 2,388 2,375 2,383 2,431 48

5 to 14 weeks................................................................... 2,558 2,293 2,318 2,223 -95

15 to 26 weeks................................................................. 1,597 1,274 1,380 1,335 -45

27 weeks and over............................................................. 3,804 2,785 2,800 2,709 -91

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons.............................................. 7,204 6,790 6,810 6,635 -175

Slack work or business conditions........................................ 4,259 4,061 4,012 3,847 -165

Could only find part-time work............................................. 2,674 2,432 2,460 2,426 -34

Part time for noneconomic reasons.......................................... 19,085 19,730 19,822 19,837 15

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force....................................... 2,303 2,260 2,234 2,159 –

Discouraged workers........................................................ 755 740 682 732 –

- 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 Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 329 239 295

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 319 237 288

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 64 64 29

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 -6 -8

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 44 49 29

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 19 21 8

Durable goods1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 14 16 11

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.5 2.2 3.8 0.8

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5 5 -3

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 255 173 259

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.5 14.3 14.0 11.7

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -19.1 -0.2 27.8 32.0

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -3.7 38.4 1.0 18.5

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.2 1.8 0.5 0.4

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -4 6 5 7

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7 22 10

Professional and business services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 72 10 51

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.9 21.0 -13.8 -7.8

Education and health services1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 54 46 54

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.1 47.5 52.5 32.8

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 56 39 66

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6 7 9

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 10 2 7

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 324 330 288

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 317 323 281

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

Total nonfarm women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.4 49.3 49.3 49.3

Total private women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.9 47.9 47.8 47.8

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.4 34.6 34.6 34.6

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24.30 $24.62 $24.75 $24.78

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $835.92 $851.85 $856.35 $857.39

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.8 102.7 102.9 103.1

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.7 120.6 121.5 121.9

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.5 0.0 0.7 0.3

DIFFUSION INDEX

(Over 1-month span)5

Total private (263 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.8 69.2 62.0 65.4

Manufacturing (80 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.0 64.4 61.3 64.4

1

Includes other industries, not shown separately.

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

service-providing industries.

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

hours.

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

aggregate weekly payrolls.

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

balance between industries with increasing and decreasing employment.

p Preliminary

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

1. Why are there two monthly measures of employment? 

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

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

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

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

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

significant change in the household survey is about 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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This news release presents statistics from two major 

surveys, the Current Population Survey (CPS; household 

survey) and the Current Employment Statistics survey (CES; 

establishment survey). The household survey provides 

information on the labor force, employment, and 

unemployment that appears in the "A" tables, marked 

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

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

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

The establishment survey provides information on 

employment, hours, and earnings of employees on nonfarm 

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

ESTABLISHMENT DATA. BLS collects these data each 

month from the payroll records of a sample of 

nonagricultural business establishments. Each month the 

CES program surveys about 143,000 businesses and 

government agencies, representing approximately 588,000 

individual worksites, in order to provide detailed industry 

data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on 

nonfarm payrolls. The active sample includes approximately 

one-third of all nonfarm payroll employees. 

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

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

reference period is generally the calendar week that contains 

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

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

may or may not correspond directly to the calendar week. 

Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys 

Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect 

the entire civilian noninstitutional population. Based on 

responses to a series of questions on work and job search 

activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample 

household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in 

the labor force. 

People are classified as employed if they did any work 

at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked 

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

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

farm. People are also counted as employed if they were 

temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad 

weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal 

reasons. 

People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of 

the following criteria: they had no employment during the 

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

and they made specific efforts to find employment sometime 

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

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

looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The 

unemployment data derived from the household survey in no 

way depend upon the eligibility for or receipt of 

unemployment insurance benefits. 

The civilian labor force is the sum of employed and 

unemployed persons. Those persons not classified as 

employed or unemployed are not in the labor force. The 

unemployment rate is the number unemployed as a percent 

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

labor force as a percent of the population, and 

the employment-population ratio is the employed as a 

percent of the population. Additional information 

about the household survey can be found at 

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

Establishment survey. The sample establishments are 

drawn from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, 

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

government entities. Employees on nonfarm payrolls are 

those who received pay for any part of the reference pay 

period, including persons on paid leave. Persons are counted 

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

for the private sector for all employees and for production 

and nonsupervisory employees. Production and

nonsupervisory employees are defined as production and 

related employees in manufacturing and mining and logging, 

construction workers in construction, and non-supervisory 

employees in private service-providing industries. 

Industries are classified on the basis of an 

establishment’s principal activity in accordance with the 

2012 version of the North American Industry Classification 

System. Additional information about the establishment 

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

Differences in employment estimates. The numerous 

conceptual and methodological differences between the 

household and establishment surveys result in important 

distinctions in the employment estimates derived from the 

surveys. Among these are: 

 The household survey includes agricultural 

workers, self-employed workers whose businesses 

are unincorporated, unpaid family workers, and 

private household workers among the employed. 

These groups are excluded from the establishment 

survey. 

 The household survey includes people on unpaid 

leave among the employed. The establishment 

survey does not. 

 The household survey is limited to workers 16 years 

of age and older. The establishment survey is not 

limited by age. 

 The household survey has no duplication of 

individuals, because individuals are counted only 

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

establishment survey, employees working at more 

than one job and thus appearing on more than one 

payroll are counted separately for each appearance. 
Seasonal adjustment 

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

force and the levels of employment and unemployment 

undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These events may 

result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, and 

the opening and closing of schools. The effect of such 

seasonal variation can be very large. 

Because these seasonal events follow a more or less 

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

series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal 

variation. These adjustments make nonseasonal 

developments, such as declines in employment or increases 

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

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

of youth entering the labor force each June is likely to 

obscure any other changes that have taken place relative to 

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

activity has risen or declined. Similarly, in the establishment 

survey, payroll employment in education declines by about 

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

the start of the fall term, obscuring the underlying 

employment trends in the industry. Because seasonal 

employment changes at the end and beginning of the school 

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

underlying employment patterns more discernable. The 

seasonally adjusted figures provide a more useful tool with 

which to analyze changes in month-to-month economic 

activity. 

Many seasonally adjusted series are independently 

adjusted in both the household and establishment surveys. 

However, the adjusted series for many major estimates, such 

as total payroll employment, employment in most major 

sectors, total employment, and unemployment are computed 

by aggregating independently adjusted component series. 

For example, total unemployment is derived by summing the 

adjusted series for four major age-sex components; this 

differs from the unemployment estimate that would be 

obtained by directly adjusting the total or by combining the 

duration, reasons, or more detailed age categories. 

For both the household and establishment surveys, a 

concurrent seasonal adjustment methodology is used in 

which new seasonal factors are calculated each month using 

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

month. In the household survey, new seasonal factors are 

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

establishment survey, however, new seasonal factors are 

used each month to adjust the three most recent monthly 

estimates. The prior 2 months are routinely revised to 

incorporate additional sample reports and recalculated 

seasonal adjustment factors. In both surveys, 5-year 

revisions to historical data are made once a year. 

Reliability of the estimates 

Statistics based on the household and establishment 

surveys are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. 

When a sample, rather than the entire population, is 

surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may 

differ from the true population values they represent. The 

component of this difference that occurs because samples 

differ by chance is known as sampling error, and its 

variability is measured by the standard error of the estimate. 

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

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

than 1.6 standard errors from the true population value 

because of sampling error. BLS analyses are generally 

conducted at the 90-percent level of confidence. 

For example, the confidence interval for the monthly 

change in total nonfarm employment from the establishment 

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

estimate of nonfarm employment increases by 50,000 from 

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

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

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

sample results are off by these magnitudes, but rather that 

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

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

confidence that nonfarm employment had, in fact, increased 

that month. If, however, the reported nonfarm employment 

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

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

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

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

unemployment rate of around 6.0 percent, the 90-percent 

confidence interval for the monthly change in unemployment 

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

and for the monthly change in the unemployment rate it is 

about +/- 0.2 percentage point. 

In general, estimates involving many individuals or 

establishments have lower standard errors (relative to the 

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

small number of observations. The precision of estimates 

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

as for quarterly and annual averages. 

The household and establishment surveys are also 

affected by nonsampling error, which can occur for many 

reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the 

population, inability to obtain information for all respondents 

in the sample, inability or unwillingness of respondents to 

provide correct information on a timely basis, mistakes made 

by respondents, and errors made in the collection or 

processing of the data. 

For example, in the establishment survey, estimates for 

the most recent 2 months are based on incomplete returns; 

for this reason, these estimates are labeled preliminary in the 

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

estimate, when nearly all sample reports have been received, 

that the estimate is considered final. 

Another major source of nonsampling error in the 

establishment survey is the inability to capture, on a timely 

basis, employment generated by new firms. To correct for 

this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an 

estimation procedure with two components is used to 

account for business births. The first component excludes 

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

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

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

employment trend as the other firms in the sample. This 

procedure accounts for most of the net birth/death 

employment. 

The second component is an ARIMA time series model 

designed to estimate the residual net birth/death employment 

not accounted for by the imputation. The historical time 

series used to create and test the ARIMA model was derived 

from the unemployment insurance universe micro-level 

database, and reflects the actual residual net of births and 

deaths over the past 5 years. 

The sample-based estimates from the establishment 

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

universe counts of payroll employment obtained from 

administrative records of the unemployment insurance 

program. The difference between the March sample-based 

employment estimates and the March universe counts is 

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

for total survey error. The new benchmarks also incorporate 

changes in the classification of industries. Over the past 

decade, absolute benchmark revisions for total nonfarm 

employment have averaged 0.3 percent, with a range from 

-0.7 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

Feb.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Oct.

2014

Nov.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247,085 249,723 249,899 247,085 248,657 248,844 249,027 249,723 249,899

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,027 156,050 156,213 155,688 156,243 156,402 156,129 157,180 157,002

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.7 62.5 62.5 63.0 62.8 62.9 62.7 62.9 62.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144,134 146,552 147,118 145,301 147,260 147,331 147,442 148,201 148,297

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.3 58.7 58.9 58.8 59.2 59.2 59.2 59.3 59.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,893 9,498 9,095 10,387 8,983 9,071 8,688 8,979 8,705

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.0 6.1 5.8 6.7 5.7 5.8 5.6 5.7 5.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,058 93,674 93,686 91,398 92,414 92,442 92,898 92,544 92,898

Persons who currently want a job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,091 6,467 6,575 6,072 6,545 6,556 6,445 6,358 6,538

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,306 120,559 120,647 119,306 120,112 120,208 120,301 120,559 120,647

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,954 82,851 83,040 82,566 82,950 82,961 83,210 83,771 83,772

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.7 68.7 68.8 69.2 69.1 69.0 69.2 69.5 69.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,687 77,477 77,824 76,852 78,286 78,084 78,400 78,869 79,006

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.4 64.3 64.5 64.4 65.2 65.0 65.2 65.4 65.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,267 5,374 5,216 5,714 4,664 4,877 4,810 4,903 4,766

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6 6.5 6.3 6.9 5.6 5.9 5.8 5.9 5.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,352 37,708 37,607 36,740 37,161 37,247 37,091 36,787 36,875

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,838 112,117 112,209 110,838 111,679 111,778 111,875 112,117 112,209

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,528 80,179 80,394 79,884 80,023 80,029 80,271 80,804 80,831

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.8 71.5 71.6 72.1 71.7 71.6 71.8 72.1 72.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,882 75,364 75,671 74,820 75,928 75,675 76,026 76,496 76,588

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.7 67.2 67.4 67.5 68.0 67.7 68.0 68.2 68.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,645 4,815 4,723 5,064 4,094 4,354 4,245 4,308 4,243

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.1 6.0 5.9 6.3 5.1 5.4 5.3 5.3 5.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,310 31,938 31,816 30,954 31,656 31,749 31,603 31,313 31,379

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,779 129,165 129,252 127,779 128,545 128,637 128,726 129,165 129,252

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,073 73,199 73,173 73,122 73,293 73,442 72,919 73,408 73,230

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.2 56.7 56.6 57.2 57.0 57.1 56.6 56.8 56.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,446 69,075 69,294 68,449 68,974 69,247 69,042 69,332 69,291

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

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,626 4,124 3,879 4,673 4,318 4,195 3,878 4,076 3,939

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3 5.6 5.3 6.4 5.9 5.7 5.3 5.6 5.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,707 55,966 56,079 54,657 55,253 55,195 55,807 55,756 56,023

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,583 120,970 121,060 119,583 120,370 120,465 120,557 120,970 121,060

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,493 70,554 70,526 70,323 70,354 70,599 70,111 70,558 70,370

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.9 58.3 58.3 58.8 58.4 58.6 58.2 58.3 58.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,319 66,894 67,058 66,168 66,560 66,894 66,632 66,983 66,901

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

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,175 3,660 3,468 4,155 3,794 3,705 3,479 3,575 3,469

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.9 5.2 4.9 5.9 5.4 5.2 5.0 5.1 4.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,089 50,416 50,534 49,260 50,016 49,866 50,446 50,412 50,690

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,664 16,636 16,630 16,664 16,608 16,602 16,595 16,636 16,630

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,006 5,317 5,293 5,480 5,866 5,775 5,747 5,817 5,801

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.0 32.0 31.8 32.9 35.3 34.8 34.6 35.0 34.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,933 4,294 4,389 4,312 4,772 4,762 4,784 4,722 4,808

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.6 25.8 26.4 25.9 28.7 28.7 28.8 28.4 28.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,073 1,023 904 1,168 1,094 1,013 963 1,096 993

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.4 19.2 17.1 21.3 18.7 17.5 16.8 18.8 17.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,658 11,320 11,337 11,184 10,742 10,827 10,849 10,819 10,829

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

Feb.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Oct.

2014

Nov.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

WHITE

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195,029 196,307 196,392 195,029 195,896 195,995 196,091 196,307 196,392

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,928 123,199 123,224 123,554 123,287 123,391 123,058 124,119 123,875

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.0 62.8 62.7 63.4 62.9 63.0 62.8 63.2 63.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,312 116,637 116,944 116,425 117,300 117,307 117,186 118,035 117,992

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.1 59.4 59.5 59.7 59.9 59.9 59.8 60.1 60.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,616 6,562 6,279 7,130 5,987 6,084 5,872 6,084 5,883

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 5.3 5.1 5.8 4.9 4.9 4.8 4.9 4.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,101 73,109 73,169 71,474 72,609 72,604 73,033 72,189 72,517

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,185 64,377 64,559 64,531 64,234 64,339 64,392 64,871 64,920

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.2 71.9 72.0 72.6 71.8 71.9 71.9 72.4 72.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,178 61,016 61,228 61,013 61,507 61,388 61,551 61,953 62,015

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.7 68.1 68.3 68.6 68.8 68.6 68.8 69.2 69.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,008 3,361 3,330 3,518 2,727 2,951 2,842 2,918 2,906

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 5.2 5.2 5.5 4.2 4.6 4.4 4.5 4.5

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,709 54,635 54,499 54,615 54,452 54,587 54,223 54,683 54,401

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.4 57.9 57.7 58.3 57.9 58.0 57.5 57.9 57.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,866 52,140 52,186 51,815 51,945 52,142 51,824 52,267 52,105

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

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,843 2,495 2,312 2,800 2,507 2,445 2,399 2,416 2,296

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 4.6 4.2 5.1 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.4 4.2

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,033 4,186 4,166 4,408 4,601 4,466 4,443 4,565 4,554

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.5 33.9 33.8 35.5 37.2 36.2 36.0 37.0 36.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,268 3,481 3,529 3,596 3,848 3,777 3,811 3,814 3,872

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.3 28.2 28.6 29.0 31.1 30.6 30.9 30.9 31.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 765 706 637 812 753 689 632 751 682

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.0 16.9 15.3 18.4 16.4 15.4 14.2 16.4 15.0

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,685 31,188 31,222 30,685 30,969 31,005 31,040 31,188 31,222

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,591 18,895 18,941 18,723 19,024 19,056 19,037 19,040 19,101

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.6 60.6 60.7 61.0 61.4 61.5 61.3 61.0 61.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,351 16,877 16,975 16,486 16,953 16,957 17,050 17,071 17,122

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.3 54.1 54.4 53.7 54.7 54.7 54.9 54.7 54.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,240 2,018 1,966 2,238 2,071 2,099 1,986 1,969 1,979

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.0 10.7 10.4 12.0 10.9 11.0 10.4 10.3 10.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,094 12,293 12,281 11,962 11,945 11,949 12,003 12,148 12,122

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,417 8,633 8,628 8,485 8,672 8,594 8,717 8,676 8,710

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.5 66.8 66.6 67.0 67.6 66.9 67.8 67.1 67.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,279 7,652 7,685 7,398 7,742 7,630 7,756 7,757 7,805

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.5 59.2 59.4 58.4 60.4 59.4 60.3 60.0 60.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,138 981 943 1,087 930 964 962 919 905

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.5 11.4 10.9 12.8 10.7 11.2 11.0 10.6 10.4

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,611 9,638 9,656 9,616 9,624 9,709 9,598 9,667 9,665

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.0 61.2 61.2 62.0 61.5 61.9 61.2 61.3 61.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,687 8,792 8,820 8,669 8,720 8,786 8,812 8,824 8,809

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.0 55.8 55.9 55.9 55.7 56.1 56.2 56.0 55.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925 847 835 947 904 922 785 843 857

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.6 8.8 8.7 9.8 9.4 9.5 8.2 8.7 8.9

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562 624 658 622 728 754 722 697 726

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.3 24.9 26.4 24.7 29.2 30.2 29.0 27.9 29.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 433 471 418 491 541 482 490 508

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.3 17.3 18.8 16.6 19.7 21.7 19.4 19.6 20.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 191 188 204 237 213 240 207 218

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.5 30.6 28.5 32.8 32.5 28.2 33.2 29.7 30.0

ASIAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,738 14,253 14,291 13,738 13,782 13,927 13,886 14,253 14,291

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

Feb.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Oct.

2014

Nov.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,797 8,895 9,042 8,805 8,782 8,768 8,771 8,899 9,038

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.0 62.4 63.3 64.1 63.7 63.0 63.2 62.4 63.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,270 8,530 8,672 8,289 8,340 8,353 8,398 8,540 8,680

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.2 59.8 60.7 60.3 60.5 60.0 60.5 59.9 60.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528 365 369 515 443 415 373 359 358

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.0 4.1 4.1 5.9 5.0 4.7 4.2 4.0 4.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,941 5,359 5,249 4,934 5,000 5,159 5,115 5,355 5,253

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

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

introduced annually with the release of January data.
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

Feb.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Oct.

2014

Nov.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population................ 38,053 39,165 39,244 38,053 38,679 38,760 38,839 39,165 39,244

Civilian labor force................................ 25,019 25,956 25,850 25,155 25,665 25,655 25,644 26,047 25,962

Participation rate............................... 65.7 66.3 65.9 66.1 66.4 66.2 66.0 66.5 66.2

Employed....................................... 22,836 23,998 23,975 23,112 23,931 23,963 23,988 24,305 24,238

Employment-population ratio............... 60.0 61.3 61.1 60.7 61.9 61.8 61.8 62.1 61.8

Unemployed.................................... 2,183 1,958 1,875 2,043 1,734 1,692 1,656 1,742 1,724

Unemployment rate......................... 8.7 7.5 7.3 8.1 6.8 6.6 6.5 6.7 6.6

Not in labor force................................. 13,033 13,208 13,395 12,897 13,013 13,105 13,196 13,118 13,282

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................ 13,821 14,426 14,388 13,918 14,218 14,258 14,264 14,479 14,465

Participation rate............................... 80.4 81.8 81.4 80.9 81.2 81.3 81.1 82.1 81.8

Employed....................................... 12,806 13,413 13,397 13,011 13,458 13,432 13,507 13,647 13,601

Employment-population ratio............... 74.5 76.0 75.8 75.6 76.9 76.5 76.8 77.3 76.9

Unemployed.................................... 1,015 1,013 991 907 760 826 757 832 864

Unemployment rate......................... 7.3 7.0 6.9 6.5 5.3 5.8 5.3 5.7 6.0

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................ 10,196 10,364 10,333 10,177 10,259 10,253 10,168 10,344 10,309

Participation rate............................... 59.3 58.1 57.8 59.2 58.6 58.5 57.9 58.0 57.7

Employed....................................... 9,301 9,677 9,667 9,331 9,522 9,590 9,501 9,704 9,685

Employment-population ratio............... 54.1 54.3 54.1 54.2 54.4 54.7 54.1 54.4 54.2

Unemployed.................................... 895 687 666 846 737 663 667 640 625

Unemployment rate......................... 8.8 6.6 6.4 8.3 7.2 6.5 6.6 6.2 6.1

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force................................ 1,002 1,165 1,129 1,060 1,187 1,144 1,211 1,224 1,187

Participation rate............................... 27.5 31.6 30.6 29.1 32.3 31.1 32.9 33.2 32.2

Employed....................................... 729 908 911 770 950 942 980 954 952

Employment-population ratio............... 20.0 24.6 24.7 21.1 25.9 25.6 26.6 25.9 25.8

Unemployed.................................... 274 257 218 290 237 202 231 270 235

Unemployment rate......................... 27.3 22.1 19.3 27.4 20.0 17.7 19.1 22.1 19.8

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

columns.

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

release of January data.
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

Feb.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Oct.

2014

Nov.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force.................................. 10,804 11,353 10,867 11,078 10,831 11,153 11,031 11,439 11,126

Participation rate.................................. 44.8 45.7 45.2 45.9 45.3 45.7 45.4 46.0 46.3

Employed.......................................... 9,602 10,226 9,842 9,993 9,975 10,201 10,079 10,468 10,196

Employment-population ratio................. 39.8 41.1 41.0 41.4 41.7 41.8 41.5 42.1 42.4

Unemployed....................................... 1,203 1,126 1,025 1,084 856 952 952 971 929

Unemployment rate............................ 11.1 9.9 9.4 9.8 7.9 8.5 8.6 8.5 8.4

High school graduates, no college1

Civilian labor force.................................. 36,050 35,238 35,142 36,227 36,183 35,478 35,164 35,418 35,371

Participation rate.................................. 58.4 57.6 57.0 58.6 58.0 57.8 57.5 57.9 57.4

Employed.......................................... 33,482 33,083 33,037 33,903 34,127 33,476 33,310 33,492 33,464

Employment-population ratio................. 54.2 54.1 53.6 54.9 54.7 54.5 54.5 54.8 54.3

Unemployed....................................... 2,568 2,155 2,106 2,324 2,056 2,002 1,854 1,926 1,907

Unemployment rate............................ 7.1 6.1 6.0 6.4 5.7 5.6 5.3 5.4 5.4

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force.................................. 37,261 37,208 37,457 37,255 37,304 37,246 37,140 37,479 37,490

Participation rate.................................. 67.1 66.7 66.7 67.0 66.5 66.7 66.9 67.2 66.8

Employed.......................................... 34,898 35,118 35,441 35,006 35,460 35,422 35,310 35,540 35,588

Employment-population ratio................. 62.8 63.0 63.1 63.0 63.2 63.5 63.6 63.8 63.4

Unemployed....................................... 2,363 2,090 2,015 2,249 1,843 1,824 1,831 1,939 1,902

Unemployment rate............................ 6.3 5.6 5.4 6.0 4.9 4.9 4.9 5.2 5.1

Bachelor’s degree and higher2

Civilian labor force.................................. 50,522 51,695 51,996 50,169 50,471 51,222 51,772 51,550 51,583

Participation rate.................................. 75.6 74.7 74.9 75.1 74.6 74.7 74.6 74.4 74.4

Employed.......................................... 48,796 50,212 50,576 48,468 48,937 49,608 50,290 50,084 50,172

Employment-population ratio................. 73.0 72.5 72.9 72.5 72.4 72.3 72.5 72.3 72.3

Unemployed....................................... 1,726 1,483 1,421 1,700 1,534 1,614 1,482 1,466 1,411

Unemployment rate............................ 3.4 2.9 2.7 3.4 3.0 3.2 2.9 2.8 2.7

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

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

VETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,298 21,326 19,054 19,335 2,244 1,991

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,833 10,903 9,389 9,577 1,445 1,326

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.9 51.1 49.3 49.5 64.4 66.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,149 10,325 8,781 9,076 1,368 1,250

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.7 48.4 46.1 46.9 61.0 62.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684 578 608 502 76 76

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3 5.3 6.5 5.2 5.3 5.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,465 10,423 9,665 9,758 799 665

Gulf War-era II veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,995 3,421 2,415 2,838 581 584

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,430 2,825 2,020 2,404 410 421

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.1 82.6 83.7 84.7 70.6 72.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,207 2,635 1,838 2,230 370 405

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.7 77.0 76.1 78.6 63.7 69.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 190 183 174 40 17

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.2 6.7 9.0 7.2 9.9 4.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565 596 394 434 171 163

Gulf War-era I veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,412 3,533 2,707 2,965 704 567

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,787 2,885 2,284 2,450 503 435

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.7 81.7 84.3 82.6 71.4 76.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,658 2,777 2,177 2,378 481 400

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.9 78.6 80.4 80.2 68.3 70.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 107 107 72 22 35

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.6 3.7 4.7 2.9 4.3 8.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625 648 424 515 201 132

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

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,554 9,057 9,195 8,735 359 322

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,817 2,419 2,718 2,293 99 127

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.5 26.7 29.6 26.2 27.6 39.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,633 2,293 2,539 2,177 95 116

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.6 25.3 27.6 24.9 26.4 36.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 126 179 115 4 11

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5 5.2 6.6 5.0 4.4 8.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,737 6,638 6,477 6,442 260 195

Veterans of other service periods

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,337 5,315 4,737 4,797 600 518

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,799 2,774 2,367 2,431 432 343

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.4 52.2 50.0 50.7 72.0 66.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,650 2,620 2,227 2,290 422 330

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.6 49.3 47.0 47.7 70.4 63.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 154 140 141 10 13

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3 5.6 5.9 5.8 2.2 3.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,538 2,541 2,370 2,366 168 175

NONVETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216,827 219,793 95,685 96,888 121,142 122,906

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142,531 143,572 71,799 72,636 70,732 70,936

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.7 65.3 75.0 75.0 58.4 57.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,676 135,360 66,338 68,082 66,338 67,278

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 61.6 69.3 70.3 54.8 54.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,854 8,212 5,460 4,554 4,394 3,658

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.9 5.7 7.6 6.3 6.2 5.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,296 76,222 23,887 24,252 50,410 51,970

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

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

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

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

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

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

adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Persons with a disability Persons with no disability

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

TOTAL, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population...................................................... 28,970 29,316 218,116 220,584

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 5,537 5,806 149,490 150,407

Participation rate..................................................................... 19.1 19.8 68.5 68.2

Employed............................................................................. 4,746 5,153 139,388 141,965

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 16.4 17.6 63.9 64.4

Unemployed.......................................................................... 792 653 10,102 8,442

Unemployment rate............................................................... 14.3 11.2 6.8 5.6

Not in labor force....................................................................... 23,433 23,510 68,626 70,177

Men, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 2,454 2,637 74,918 75,718

Participation rate..................................................................... 32.2 34.3 81.4 81.8

Employed............................................................................. 2,042 2,321 69,248 71,047

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 26.8 30.1 75.3 76.8

Unemployed.......................................................................... 412 316 5,670 4,671

Unemployment rate............................................................... 16.8 12.0 7.6 6.2

Not in labor force....................................................................... 5,173 5,061 17,082 16,820

Women, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 2,097 2,201 67,167 66,993

Participation rate..................................................................... 26.8 28.0 70.5 69.9

Employed............................................................................. 1,762 1,925 63,048 63,564

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 22.6 24.5 66.2 66.3

Unemployed.......................................................................... 334 276 4,119 3,429

Unemployment rate............................................................... 15.9 12.5 6.1 5.1

Not in labor force....................................................................... 5,719 5,647 28,074 28,886

Both sexes, 65 years and over

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 986 967 7,405 7,696

Participation rate..................................................................... 7.3 7.0 24.0 23.9

Employed............................................................................. 941 907 7,092 7,354

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 7.0 6.6 23.0 22.9

Unemployed.......................................................................... 45 60 313 342

Unemployment rate............................................................... 4.6 6.2 4.2 4.4

Not in labor force....................................................................... 12,541 12,802 23,470 24,471

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

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Foreign born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population................................... 38,188 40,300 18,429 19,540 19,759 20,760

Civilian labor force.................................................. 25,421 26,276 14,612 15,233 10,809 11,043

Participation rate.................................................. 66.6 65.2 79.3 78.0 54.7 53.2

Employed.......................................................... 23,658 24,741 13,693 14,326 9,964 10,414

Employment-population ratio................................. 61.9 61.4 74.3 73.3 50.4 50.2

Unemployed....................................................... 1,763 1,536 919 907 845 629

Unemployment rate............................................ 6.9 5.8 6.3 6.0 7.8 5.7

Not in labor force.................................................... 12,768 14,023 3,817 4,306 8,951 9,717

Native born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population................................... 208,897 209,600 100,877 101,108 108,020 108,492

Civilian labor force.................................................. 129,606 129,937 67,342 67,807 62,264 62,130

Participation rate.................................................. 62.0 62.0 66.8 67.1 57.6 57.3

Employed.......................................................... 120,476 122,378 61,994 63,497 58,482 58,880

Employment-population ratio................................. 57.7 58.4 61.5 62.8 54.1 54.3

Unemployed....................................................... 9,130 7,559 5,348 4,309 3,782 3,250

Unemployment rate............................................ 7.0 5.8 7.9 6.4 6.1 5.2

Not in labor force.................................................... 79,291 79,663 33,535 33,301 45,756 46,362

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

Feb.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Oct.

2014

Nov.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries................. 1,973 2,234 2,234 2,148 2,402 2,392 2,358 2,419 2,430

Wage and salary workers1

...................... 1,225 1,410 1,397 1,379 1,581 1,621 1,506 1,566 1,572

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . .. 732 802 808 765 784 749 815 835 833

Unpaid family workers........................... 16 22 29 – – – – – –

Nonagricultural industries.......................... 142,160 144,317 144,884 143,196 144,982 144,939 145,101 145,743 145,880

Wage and salary workers1

...................... 133,551 135,748 136,577 134,482 136,016 136,093 136,415 136,949 137,447

Government..................................... 20,517 20,555 20,893 20,255 19,885 19,956 19,956 20,330 20,582

Private industries............................... 113,033 115,193 115,683 114,239 116,059 116,144 116,469 116,664 116,890

Private households.......................... 822 937 817 – – – – – –

Other industries.............................. 112,211 114,257 114,866 113,388 115,281 115,361 115,676 115,724 116,042

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . .. 8,529 8,512 8,238 8,693 8,908 8,794 8,660 8,725 8,386

Unpaid family workers........................... 81 57 69 – – – – – –

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME2

All industries

Part time for economic reasons3

.................. 7,397 7,269 6,772 7,204 7,012 6,851 6,790 6,810 6,635

Slack work or business conditions............. 4,506 4,450 4,011 4,259 4,215 4,068 4,061 4,012 3,847

Could only find part-time work.................. 2,598 2,353 2,355 2,674 2,437 2,447 2,432 2,460 2,426

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 19,651 20,033 20,437 19,085 19,793 19,971 19,730 19,822 19,837

Nonagricultural industries

Part time for economic reasons3

.................. 7,269 7,125 6,669 7,091 6,911 6,731 6,699 6,690 6,539

Slack work or business conditions............. 4,449 4,372 3,941 4,222 4,149 3,997 3,983 3,951 3,791

Could only find part-time work.................. 2,565 2,338 2,345 2,638 2,407 2,412 2,411 2,432 2,415

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 19,290 19,681 20,079 18,723 19,443 19,594 19,416 19,446 19,505

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

Feb.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Oct.

2014

Nov.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144,134 146,552 147,118 145,301 147,260 147,331 147,442 148,201 148,297

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,933 4,294 4,389 4,312 4,772 4,762 4,784 4,722 4,808

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,309 1,474 1,433 1,492 1,626 1,663 1,678 1,651 1,637

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,624 2,819 2,956 2,841 3,141 3,065 3,090 3,058 3,186

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,201 142,258 142,729 140,989 142,488 142,569 142,658 143,480 143,489

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,424 13,618 13,833 13,715 14,088 13,939 13,847 14,011 14,114

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126,777 128,640 128,896 127,307 128,522 128,673 128,860 129,435 129,349

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94,666 95,834 96,086 95,242 95,772 95,856 95,975 96,464 96,565

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,673 32,309 32,559 31,856 32,228 32,271 32,354 32,574 32,682

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,840 31,005 30,909 31,003 30,994 31,018 31,021 31,157 31,071

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,154 32,520 32,618 32,382 32,550 32,567 32,600 32,734 32,812

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,111 32,806 32,810 32,065 32,750 32,817 32,885 32,971 32,784

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,687 77,477 77,824 76,852 78,286 78,084 78,400 78,869 79,006

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,805 2,113 2,153 2,032 2,358 2,409 2,374 2,372 2,418

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568 692 666 667 785 847 828 802 791

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,237 1,420 1,487 1,376 1,584 1,552 1,531 1,560 1,636

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,882 75,364 75,671 74,820 75,928 75,675 76,026 76,496 76,588

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,791 6,915 7,102 7,021 7,337 7,114 7,167 7,198 7,324

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,092 68,449 68,569 67,757 68,673 68,593 68,890 69,248 69,190

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,232 51,186 51,312 50,827 51,327 51,282 51,448 51,809 51,860

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,004 17,458 17,560 17,214 17,367 17,336 17,534 17,722 17,743

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,455 16,641 16,595 16,622 16,802 16,784 16,748 16,807 16,760

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,773 17,087 17,157 16,991 17,159 17,162 17,166 17,281 17,357

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,860 17,263 17,256 16,930 17,346 17,311 17,441 17,439 17,330

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,446 69,075 69,294 68,449 68,974 69,247 69,042 69,332 69,291

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,128 2,181 2,236 2,281 2,414 2,353 2,410 2,349 2,389

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 782 767 825 841 816 850 849 846

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,388 1,399 1,470 1,465 1,557 1,513 1,559 1,499 1,550

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,319 66,894 67,058 66,168 66,560 66,894 66,632 66,983 66,901

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,633 6,703 6,731 6,694 6,751 6,825 6,680 6,813 6,790

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,685 60,191 60,328 59,551 59,849 60,080 59,970 60,187 60,159

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,435 44,648 44,774 44,415 44,445 44,574 44,527 44,655 44,705

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,669 14,852 14,999 14,642 14,861 14,935 14,820 14,852 14,939

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,385 14,364 14,314 14,381 14,192 14,234 14,273 14,350 14,311

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,381 15,432 15,461 15,392 15,391 15,406 15,434 15,453 15,456

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,251 15,543 15,553 15,136 15,404 15,506 15,443 15,532 15,453

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,889 44,555 44,575 44,281 44,380 44,267 44,588 44,934 44,951

Married women, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,874 34,929 35,146 34,664 34,833 34,799 34,645 34,843 34,910

Women who maintain families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,333 9,300 9,137 – – – – – –

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,323 118,840 119,313 117,859 119,681 119,507 119,934 120,711 120,834

Part-time workers2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,810 27,712 27,805 27,382 27,690 27,775 27,506 27,546 27,471

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,163 7,289 7,221 6,989 7,674 7,403 7,285 7,485 7,059

Percent of total employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.0 5.0 4.9 4.8 5.2 5.0 4.9 5.1 4.8

SELF-EMPLOYMENT

Self-employed workers, incorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,385 5,483 5,425 – – – – – –

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,261 9,315 9,047 9,458 9,692 9,543 9,475 9,560 9,220

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

Feb.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Oct.

2014

Nov.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over........................... 10,387 8,979 8,705 6.7 5.7 5.8 5.6 5.7 5.5

16 to 19 years..................................... 1,168 1,096 993 21.3 18.7 17.5 16.8 18.8 17.1

16 to 17 years.................................. 416 411 374 21.8 22.3 17.8 18.8 19.9 18.6

18 to 19 years.................................. 747 678 625 20.8 16.8 17.6 15.4 18.2 16.4

20 years and over................................ 9,219 7,883 7,712 6.1 5.2 5.4 5.1 5.2 5.1

20 to 24 years.................................. 1,850 1,517 1,563 11.9 10.5 10.9 10.8 9.8 10.0

25 years and over.............................. 7,325 6,273 6,124 5.4 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.6 4.5

25 to 54 years............................... 5,764 4,870 4,634 5.7 4.9 4.8 4.7 4.8 4.6

25 to 34 years............................. 2,409 2,029 1,869 7.0 6.2 6.1 5.9 5.9 5.4

35 to 44 years............................. 1,655 1,436 1,452 5.1 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.4 4.5

45 to 54 years............................. 1,700 1,405 1,312 5.0 4.0 4.1 4.0 4.1 3.8

55 years and over........................... 1,551 1,417 1,479 4.6 4.1 4.5 3.9 4.1 4.3

Men, 16 years and over............................ 5,714 4,903 4,766 6.9 5.6 5.9 5.8 5.9 5.7

16 to 19 years..................................... 650 595 523 24.2 19.5 17.8 19.2 20.0 17.8

16 to 17 years.................................. 218 211 188 24.7 25.5 20.1 20.0 20.8 19.2

18 to 19 years.................................. 432 374 343 23.9 16.7 16.6 18.2 19.4 17.3

20 years and over................................ 5,064 4,308 4,243 6.3 5.1 5.4 5.3 5.3 5.2

20 to 24 years.................................. 1,085 933 891 13.4 10.4 11.8 11.6 11.5 10.9

25 years and over.............................. 3,921 3,325 3,321 5.5 4.6 4.8 4.6 4.6 4.6

25 to 54 years............................... 3,090 2,571 2,494 5.7 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6

25 to 34 years............................. 1,275 1,092 1,045 6.9 6.0 6.0 5.7 5.8 5.6

35 to 44 years............................. 893 780 753 5.1 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.3

45 to 54 years............................. 922 699 696 5.1 3.8 4.1 4.1 3.9 3.9

55 years and over........................... 831 754 827 4.7 4.3 4.7 4.2 4.1 4.6

Women, 16 years and over........................ 4,673 4,076 3,939 6.4 5.9 5.7 5.3 5.6 5.4

16 to 19 years..................................... 518 501 470 18.5 17.8 17.2 14.2 17.6 16.4

16 to 17 years.................................. 197 200 186 19.3 19.0 15.2 17.6 19.0 18.0

18 to 19 years.................................. 316 304 282 17.7 17.0 18.6 12.4 16.9 15.4

20 years and over................................ 4,155 3,575 3,469 5.9 5.4 5.2 5.0 5.1 4.9

20 to 24 years.................................. 764 584 671 10.2 10.7 10.0 9.9 7.9 9.0

25 years and over.............................. 3,404 2,949 2,803 5.4 4.8 4.7 4.4 4.7 4.5

25 to 54 years............................... 2,673 2,299 2,140 5.7 5.2 4.9 4.7 4.9 4.6

25 to 34 years............................. 1,134 937 824 7.2 6.4 6.1 6.0 5.9 5.2

35 to 44 years............................. 762 655 699 5.0 4.8 4.6 4.3 4.4 4.7

45 to 54 years............................. 778 706 617 4.8 4.3 4.0 3.9 4.4 3.8

55 years and over........................... 710 670 644 4.5 3.7 4.2 3.7 4.1 4.0

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present...................... 1,735 1,356 1,405 3.8 3.0 3.2 3.0 2.9 3.0

Married women, spouse present.................. 1,520 1,206 1,167 4.2 3.5 3.4 3.2 3.3 3.2

Women who maintain families1

.................... 935 824 760 9.1 8.7 8.2 7.8 8.1 7.7

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers2................................... 8,783 7,525 7,275 6.9 6.0 6.0 5.7 5.9 5.7

Part-time workers3.................................. 1,609 1,433 1,405 5.6 5.0 5.1 5.0 4.9 4.9

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

Feb.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Oct.

2014

Nov.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 6,024 4,912 4,721 5,403 4,349 4,480 4,325 4,242 4,180

On temporary layoff.............................. 1,341 1,328 1,349 1,037 847 1,070 959 902 1,021

Not on temporary layoff.......................... 4,682 3,584 3,372 4,366 3,501 3,410 3,366 3,339 3,158

Permanent job losers.......................... 3,366 2,491 2,316 3,190 2,505 2,446 2,388 2,371 2,212

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . .. 1,316 1,093 1,056 1,177 997 964 977 968 946

Job leavers........................................... 813 868 894 816 782 835 798 851 884

Reentrants............................................ 2,974 2,832 2,635 2,972 2,856 2,761 2,701 2,829 2,655

New entrants......................................... 1,083 885 845 1,232 1,058 1,045 971 1,033 972

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 55.3 51.7 51.9 51.8 48.1 49.1 49.2 47.4 48.1

On temporary layoff.............................. 12.3 14.0 14.8 10.0 9.4 11.7 10.9 10.1 11.7

Not on temporary layoff.......................... 43.0 37.7 37.1 41.9 38.7 37.4 38.3 37.3 36.3

Job leavers........................................... 7.5 9.1 9.8 7.8 8.6 9.2 9.1 9.5 10.2

Reentrants............................................ 27.3 29.8 29.0 28.5 31.6 30.3 30.7 31.6 30.5

New entrants......................................... 9.9 9.3 9.3 11.8 11.7 11.5 11.0 11.5 11.2

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 3.9 3.1 3.0 3.5 2.8 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.7

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

Reentrants............................................ 1.9 1.8 1.7 1.9 1.8 1.8 1.7 1.8 1.7

New entrants......................................... 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.6

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

Feb.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Oct.

2014

Nov.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks.................................. 2,145 2,780 2,185 2,388 2,455 2,505 2,375 2,383 2,431

5 to 14 weeks........................................ 3,091 2,468 2,662 2,558 2,322 2,378 2,293 2,318 2,223

15 weeks and over.................................. 5,657 4,250 4,248 5,402 4,321 4,225 4,059 4,180 4,044

15 to 26 weeks.................................... 1,771 1,396 1,485 1,597 1,416 1,403 1,274 1,380 1,335

27 weeks and over............................... 3,886 2,853 2,763 3,804 2,904 2,822 2,785 2,800 2,709

Average (mean) duration, in weeks............... 36.3 30.3 31.1 36.9 32.9 33.0 32.8 32.3 31.7

Median duration, in weeks......................... 16.0 12.3 13.1 16.2 13.5 12.8 12.6 13.4 13.1

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Less than 5 weeks.................................. 19.7 29.3 24.0 23.1 27.0 27.5 27.2 26.8 27.9

5 to 14 weeks........................................ 28.4 26.0 29.3 24.7 25.5 26.1 26.3 26.1 25.6

15 weeks and over.................................. 51.9 44.7 46.7 52.2 47.5 46.4 46.5 47.1 46.5

15 to 26 weeks.................................... 16.3 14.7 16.3 15.4 15.6 15.4 14.6 15.5 15.4

27 weeks and over............................... 35.7 30.0 30.4 36.8 31.9 31.0 31.9 31.5 31.1

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

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Total, 16 years and over1............................................. 144,134 147,118 10,893 9,095 7.0 5.8

Management, professional, and related occupations........... 55,501 57,596 1,845 1,601 3.2 2.7

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations..................................................... 22,664 23,630 838 674 3.6 2.8

Professional and related occupations.......................... 32,838 33,966 1,007 927 3.0 2.7

Service occupations................................................ 25,007 24,802 2,249 1,971 8.3 7.4

Sales and office occupations...................................... 33,667 34,054 2,522 1,821 7.0 5.1

Sales and related occupations.................................. 15,799 15,838 1,322 868 7.7 5.2

Office and administrative support occupations............... 17,868 18,216 1,200 953 6.3 5.0

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations........................................................ 13,148 13,258 1,487 1,454 10.2 9.9

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.................... 905 966 115 170 11.3 15.0

Construction and extraction occupations...................... 7,409 7,323 1,114 959 13.1 11.6

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations........... 4,833 4,968 257 325 5.0 6.1

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations........................................................ 16,811 17,409 1,671 1,380 9.0 7.3

Production occupations.......................................... 8,198 8,481 692 639 7.8 7.0

Transportation and material moving occupations............ 8,613 8,928 978 741 10.2 7.7

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

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Total, 16 years and over1................................................................ 10,893 9,095 7.0 5.8

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers.................................. 8,479 7,046 7.0 5.7

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.................................... 98 90 8.0 8.6

Construction.......................................................................... 1,098 906 12.8 10.6

Manufacturing........................................................................ 843 814 5.5 5.2

Durable goods..................................................................... 454 456 4.6 4.7

Nondurable goods................................................................ 389 357 6.9 6.2

Wholesale and retail trade......................................................... 1,571 1,193 7.6 5.7

Transportation and utilities......................................................... 412 308 6.6 5.0

Information............................................................................ 145 130 4.8 4.5

Financial activities................................................................... 400 292 4.2 3.1

Professional and business services............................................... 1,324 911 8.6 5.8

Education and health services..................................................... 893 794 4.0 3.5

Leisure and hospitality.............................................................. 1,336 1,165 10.3 8.8

Other services........................................................................ 359 443 5.9 6.7

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers......................... 153 196 11.4 12.7

Government workers................................................................... 683 513 3.2 2.4

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers............ 496 495 5.0 5.1

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

Feb.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Oct.

2014

Nov.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015

Feb.

2015

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer,

as a percent of the civilian labor force......... 3.6 2.7 2.7 3.5 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.7 2.6

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian

labor force......................................... 3.9 3.1 3.0 3.5 2.8 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.7

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the

civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate)................................................ 7.0 6.1 5.8 6.7 5.7 5.8 5.6 5.7 5.5

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged

workers, as a percent of the civilian labor

force plus discouraged workers................. 7.5 6.5 6.3 7.1 6.2 6.2 6.0 6.1 6.0

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. . . . . . . .. 8.4 7.4 7.1 8.0 7.1 7.1 6.9 7.0 6.8

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..................................... 13.1 12.0 11.4 12.6 11.5 11.4 11.2 11.3 11.0

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

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

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

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

January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Category

Total Men Women

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

Feb.

2014

Feb.

2015

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force........................................... 92,058 93,686 37,352 37,607 54,707 56,079

Persons who currently want a job................................ 6,091 6,575 2,984 3,054 3,107 3,521

Marginally attached to the labor force1........................ 2,303 2,159 1,295 1,108 1,008 1,052

Discouraged workers2

......................................... 755 732 466 430 289 302

Other persons marginally attached to the labor force3. .. 1,548 1,428 829 678 719 750

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders4

............................................. 7,163 7,221 3,466 3,585 3,697 3,636

Percent of total employed.......................................... 5.0 4.9 4.6 4.6 5.4 5.2

Primary job full time, secondary job part time................... 3,702 3,824 1,974 2,105 1,728 1,720

Primary and secondary jobs both part time..................... 1,973 1,983 680 687 1,293 1,296

Primary and secondary jobs both full time....................... 275 231 166 143 109 88

Hours vary on primary or secondary job......................... 1,154 1,132 619 621 535 511

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

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Change

from:

Jan.2015 -

Feb.2015p

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136,257 141,484 138,663 139,566 137,830 140,592 140,831 141,126 295

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,147 119,223 116,898 117,365 116,006 118,690 118,927 119,215 288

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,491 19,389 19,033 19,050 19,031 19,489 19,553 19,582 29

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860 912 893 880 877 913 907 899 -8

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.9 53.6 52.9 52.5 51.6 53.0 53.5 54.1 0.6

Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810.3 858.3 840.5 827.4 825.5 859.6 853.8 844.5 -9.3

Oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194.5 201.9 199.2 197.1 195.4 201.2 199.4 198.3 -1.1

Mining, except oil and gas1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199.7 203.7 197.9 196.5 208.7 207.0 206.6 205.8 -0.8

Coal mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.8 72.1 70.9 70.2 74.9 72.0 71.4 70.7 -0.7

Support activities for mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416.1 452.7 443.4 433.8 421.4 451.4 447.8 440.4 -7.4

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,612 6,175 5,926 5,935 6,032 6,275 6,324 6,353 29

Construction of buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,267.9 1,381.2 1,348.5 1,343.5 1,333.4 1,388.0 1,405.1 1,410.3 5.2

Residential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609.0 673.9 658.7 652.6 642.6 677.4 688.4 687.9 -0.5

Nonresidential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658.9 707.3 689.8 690.9 690.8 710.6 716.7 722.4 5.7

Heavy and civil engineering construction. . . . . . 793.5 897.6 833.6 830.2 899.7 932.7 939.1 935.4 -3.7

Specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,550.6 3,896.4 3,743.8 3,761.5 3,798.5 3,954.3 3,979.9 4,007.1 27.2

Residential specialty trade contractors. . . . . . 1,509.9 1,685.8 1,616.8 1,628.9 1,625.4 1,719.2 1,730.7 1,747.9 17.2

Nonresidential specialty trade contractors. . . 2,040.7 2,210.6 2,127.0 2,132.6 2,173.1 2,235.1 2,249.2 2,259.2 10.0

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,019 12,302 12,214 12,235 12,122 12,301 12,322 12,330 8

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,564 7,786 7,743 7,762 7,614 7,782 7,798 7,809 11

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360.0 374.6 373.4 373.1 365.9 376.8 380.1 378.9 -1.2

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361.8 392.6 382.0 382.1 377.1 396.3 396.8 397.7 0.9

Primary metals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395.1 408.2 407.5 406.8 397.1 407.9 407.8 408.1 0.3

Fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,436.6 1,474.6 1,464.9 1,469.2 1,446.9 1,473.3 1,475.3 1,478.0 2.7

Machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,111.7 1,143.7 1,142.0 1,145.1 1,113.5 1,144.0 1,146.1 1,147.8 1.7

Computer and electronic products1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,046.4 1,055.6 1,052.7 1,055.0 1,050.5 1,054.8 1,056.6 1,059.0 2.4

Computer and peripheral equipment. . . . . . 158.2 168.3 167.6 168.0 158.9 167.8 167.9 168.5 0.6

Communications equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.2 91.7 90.2 90.2 95.4 91.4 90.2 90.5 0.3

Semiconductors and electronic

components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369.0 369.2 369.5 370.4 369.9 369.1 371.0 371.4 0.4

Electronic instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386.6 388.0 387.5 389.7 388.5 388.7 389.6 391.5 1.9

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . 376.0 372.6 371.0 371.8 376.5 371.8 371.8 372.5 0.7

Transportation equipment1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,537.0 1,595.7 1,587.6 1,596.0 1,539.7 1,591.0 1,594.6 1,596.8 2.2

Motor vehicles and parts2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858.4 907.6 903.2 906.7 858.8 902.5 906.3 907.1 0.8

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361.1 382.0 379.1 380.2 365.8 382.6 384.2 385.4 1.2

Miscellaneous durable goods

manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578.6 586.1 582.4 582.2 581.0 583.9 584.7 584.7 0.0

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,455 4,516 4,471 4,473 4,508 4,519 4,524 4,521 -3

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,463.0 1,483.6 1,465.0 1,468.2 1,492.9 1,484.6 1,493.5 1,494.5 1.0

Textile mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.7 118.3 117.7 118.5 117.4 118.3 119.4 119.1 -0.3

Textile product mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.9 116.9 112.9 113.3 113.3 115.9 114.6 114.8 0.2

Apparel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.1 138.4 138.7 138.0 142.5 137.8 138.3 137.0 -1.3

Paper and paper products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372.8 368.2 365.2 363.8 374.7 367.6 366.1 365.4 -0.7

Printing and related support activities. . . . . . . 451.4 452.2 444.6 445.6 453.7 450.2 447.2 447.8 0.6

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106.5 109.6 108.4 102.8 110.3 111.7 112.2 106.5 -5.7

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795.0 811.6 806.3 809.5 797.0 811.6 808.6 811.3 2.7

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668.2 681.6 679.9 681.2 672.3 682.6 684.1 684.7 0.6

Miscellaneous nondurable goods

manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226.7 235.9 232.6 231.9 234.1 238.9 239.6 239.4 -0.2

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,656 99,834 97,865 98,315 96,975 99,201 99,374 99,633 259

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,743 27,402 26,540 26,384 26,141 26,669 26,713 26,775 62

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,738.9 5,882.1 5,837.6 5,853.7 5,787.8 5,875.5 5,889.5 5,901.2 11.7

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,872.9 2,936.4 2,922.5 2,930.1 2,889.7 2,935.4 2,940.2 2,947.3 7.1

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,984.1 2,031.3 2,010.3 2,017.7 2,009.2 2,031.1 2,036.3 2,041.3 5.0

Electronic markets and agents and

brokers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 881.9 914.4 904.8 905.9 888.9 909.0 913.0 912.6 -0.4

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,946.1 16,058.6 15,428.5 15,260.2 15,238.2 15,497.3 15,525.1 15,557.1 32.0

Motor vehicle and parts dealers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,811.9 1,882.3 1,874.6 1,884.4 1,838.0 1,894.0 1,902.5 1,907.7 5.2

Automobile dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,159.9 1,203.7 1,200.8 1,204.8 1,170.1 1,208.1 1,211.6 1,213.4 1.8

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

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Change

from:

Jan.2015 -

Feb.2015p

Retail trade - Continued

Furniture and home furnishings stores. . . . . . 445.4 482.4 462.3 458.9 450.1 457.4 460.0 464.1 4.1

Electronics and appliance stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 489.4 523.3 514.0 489.6 492.8 491.9 493.6 492.7 -0.9

Building material and garden supply

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,175.7 1,208.6 1,184.5 1,205.5 1,226.5 1,246.6 1,250.5 1,256.2 5.7

Food and beverage stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,940.8 3,049.2 3,011.2 2,996.0 2,972.1 3,020.5 3,026.1 3,029.0 2.9

Health and personal care stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,004.8 1,045.5 1,031.2 1,022.4 1,008.9 1,025.9 1,028.1 1,027.2 -0.9

Gasoline stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858.4 886.1 881.7 881.0 875.3 889.1 893.6 896.5 2.9

Clothing and clothing accessories stores. . . . 1,328.0 1,536.2 1,375.9 1,326.5 1,380.4 1,370.7 1,369.4 1,377.0 7.6

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588.8 688.3 613.5 601.9 603.9 626.2 616.0 620.2 4.2

General merchandise stores1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,025.8 3,368.5 3,157.3 3,076.2 3,092.2 3,138.6 3,142.9 3,143.7 0.8

Department stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,318.7 1,501.6 1,365.9 1,307.3 1,349.8 1,342.8 1,342.2 1,339.3 -2.9

Miscellaneous store retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797.0 836.1 802.9 802.3 809.6 821.7 821.7 818.1 -3.6

Nonstore retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480.1 552.1 519.4 515.5 488.4 514.7 520.7 524.7 4.0

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,511.6 4,903.7 4,716.5 4,713.6 4,565.8 4,738.5 4,739.5 4,758.0 18.5

Air transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437.0 442.0 442.0 441.4 440.2 443.3 444.3 444.6 0.3

Rail transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229.6 241.4 239.4 239.8 231.3 241.3 240.4 241.2 0.8

Water transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.2 66.8 65.0 64.8 66.9 67.4 66.9 66.5 -0.4

Truck transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,361.2 1,437.6 1,413.8 1,413.6 1,395.3 1,441.1 1,443.6 1,446.2 2.6

Transit and ground passenger

transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473.0 488.6 485.1 482.0 460.0 471.1 472.2 469.6 -2.6

Pipeline transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.4 47.6 47.3 47.9 46.3 47.6 47.4 47.8 0.4

Scenic and sightseeing transportation. . . . . . . 23.1 25.9 23.7 24.6 30.0 30.6 31.0 31.3 0.3

Support activities for transportation. . . . . . . . . . 611.6 636.8 630.0 630.3 614.0 632.3 631.8 632.7 0.9

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545.6 752.1 628.2 625.5 553.2 616.6 612.8 625.1 12.3

Warehousing and storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 718.9 764.9 742.0 743.7 728.6 747.2 749.1 753.0 3.9

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546.8 557.2 557.1 556.4 549.1 557.9 558.4 558.8 0.4

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,707 2,775 2,737 2,770 2,720 2,767 2,772 2,779 7

Publishing industries, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . 723.8 724.8 718.4 717.3 727.3 721.4 721.2 720.5 -0.7

Motion picture and sound recording

industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371.5 377.5 351.1 386.3 378.3 381.4 380.6 388.5 7.9

Broadcasting, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.0 288.9 284.9 285.3 282.2 287.5 286.3 286.5 0.2

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 849.0 865.6 861.0 861.0 847.8 861.5 860.8 860.7 -0.1

Data processing, hosting and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273.3 288.2 288.9 290.2 274.8 286.5 290.2 291.7 1.5

Other information services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208.2 229.9 233.0 230.0 209.5 228.5 232.5 231.3 -1.2

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,879 8,059 8,018 8,029 7,931 8,049 8,071 8,081 10

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,896.7 5,994.8 5,988.9 5,994.6 5,907.9 5,978.9 5,997.8 6,004.7 6.9

Monetary authorities - central bank. . . . . . . . . . 18.3 18.5 18.4 18.4 18.5 18.5 18.6 18.6 0.0

Credit intermediation and related

activities1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,571.0 2,573.6 2,567.4 2,563.3 2,575.3 2,565.9 2,568.6 2,567.0 -1.6

Depository credit intermediation1. . . . . . . . . . 1,715.2 1,702.2 1,701.5 1,696.6 1,717.3 1,700.2 1,699.9 1,698.3 -1.6

Commercial banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,301.8 1,285.7 1,285.8 1,281.6 1,302.4 1,284.5 1,283.8 1,281.7 -2.1

Securities, commodity contracts,

investments, and funds and trusts. . . . . . . . 872.3 888.6 889.9 892.5 873.9 888.0 893.1 894.3 1.2

Insurance carriers and related activities. . . . . 2,435.1 2,514.1 2,513.2 2,520.4 2,440.2 2,506.5 2,517.5 2,524.8 7.3

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,982.4 2,064.2 2,028.8 2,034.8 2,023.2 2,070.5 2,072.9 2,076.5 3.6

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,451.6 1,503.5 1,479.3 1,482.7 1,474.9 1,501.2 1,504.0 1,506.1 2.1

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507.5 536.9 526.7 529.2 524.7 545.9 545.6 547.2 1.6

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets. . . . 23.3 23.8 22.8 22.9 23.6 23.4 23.3 23.2 -0.1

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,562 19,519 19,112 19,228 18,840 19,439 19,449 19,500 51

Professional and technical services1

. . . . . . . . . . . 8,303.8 8,526.7 8,510.3 8,601.8 8,241.6 8,489.5 8,506.2 8,538.0 31.8

Legal services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,114.6 1,124.2 1,109.8 1,114.7 1,121.8 1,120.0 1,118.2 1,121.3 3.1

Accounting and bookkeeping services. . . . . . 1,069.1 981.3 1,059.5 1,117.0 941.7 980.9 982.1 988.2 6.1

Architectural and engineering services. . . . . . 1,339.5 1,403.3 1,391.3 1,392.6 1,359.5 1,403.9 1,408.7 1,413.6 4.9

Computer systems design and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,743.3 1,818.9 1,817.3 1,821.6 1,748.8 1,814.4 1,821.8 1,827.0 5.2

Management and technical consulting

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,203.8 1,295.4 1,266.6 1,279.0 1,214.8 1,280.1 1,283.8 1,290.9 7.1

Management of companies and enterprises. . . 2,138.1 2,195.0 2,180.6 2,179.3 2,150.2 2,190.5 2,187.1 2,191.0 3.9

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Change

from:

Jan.2015 -

Feb.2015p

Professional and business services - Continued

Administrative and waste services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,119.6 8,797.1 8,421.5 8,446.8 8,448.4 8,759.4 8,755.2 8,771.1 15.9

Administrative and support services1. . . . . . . . 7,747.0 8,412.0 8,039.7 8,064.9 8,066.7 8,370.4 8,366.6 8,380.5 13.9

Employment services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,198.0 3,638.5 3,377.6 3,384.7 3,334.7 3,537.7 3,521.9 3,520.5 -1.4

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,580.0 2,957.9 2,731.1 2,726.6 2,700.6 2,863.3 2,849.5 2,841.7 -7.8

Business support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875.2 926.6 906.8 908.2 873.7 900.3 903.4 905.9 2.5

Services to buildings and dwellings. . . . . . . 1,765.8 1,871.2 1,797.8 1,801.7 1,929.2 1,952.0 1,961.6 1,964.3 2.7

Waste management and remediation

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372.6 385.1 381.8 381.9 381.7 389.0 388.6 390.6 2.0

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,374 21,893 21,634 21,916 21,279 21,718 21,764 21,818 54

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,529.8 3,545.3 3,342.9 3,595.1 3,389.5 3,439.9 3,433.8 3,455.1 21.3

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,844.6 18,347.4 18,291.1 18,321.3 17,889.3 18,277.7 18,330.2 18,363.0 32.8

Health care3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,522.3 14,914.6 14,865.4 14,881.6 14,572.0 14,863.7 14,903.8 14,927.6 23.8

Ambulatory health care services1. . . . . . . . . 6,532.8 6,794.5 6,771.0 6,787.8 6,556.9 6,766.9 6,788.5 6,808.4 19.9

Offices of physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,441.8 2,516.6 2,513.8 2,518.4 2,448.9 2,501.8 2,515.2 2,522.5 7.3

Outpatient care centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696.9 728.6 728.1 728.3 697.8 726.5 729.0 728.8 -0.2

Home health care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,233.6 1,297.5 1,284.9 1,285.6 1,241.2 1,289.6 1,291.5 1,294.7 3.2

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,758.1 4,825.9 4,820.0 4,828.9 4,766.5 4,815.6 4,827.4 4,836.1 8.7

Nursing and residential care facilities1

. . . . 3,231.4 3,294.2 3,274.4 3,264.9 3,248.6 3,281.2 3,287.9 3,283.1 -4.8

Nursing care facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,641.0 1,657.2 1,649.6 1,643.2 1,651.2 1,653.4 1,656.8 1,653.6 -3.2

Social assistance1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,322.3 3,432.8 3,425.7 3,439.7 3,317.3 3,414.0 3,426.4 3,435.4 9.0

Child day care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 859.1 874.0 872.0 875.9 845.1 860.4 862.3 861.9 -0.4

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,908 14,597 14,274 14,415 14,526 14,948 14,987 15,053 66

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,873.8 1,967.2 1,892.9 1,923.5 2,080.0 2,133.2 2,129.1 2,135.3 6.2

Performing arts and spectator sports. . . . . . . . 405.1 440.6 406.6 423.2 436.3 459.3 454.5 456.9 2.4

Museums, historical sites, and similar

institutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.0 138.5 133.7 133.0 144.9 145.2 145.4 144.3 -1.1

Amusements, gambling, and recreation. . . . . 1,334.7 1,388.1 1,352.6 1,367.3 1,498.8 1,528.7 1,529.2 1,534.1 4.9

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . 12,034.0 12,629.3 12,380.8 12,491.9 12,446.2 12,814.7 12,857.6 12,917.8 60.2

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,791.8 1,829.1 1,802.7 1,816.2 1,881.8 1,896.9 1,902.4 1,903.9 1.5

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . 10,242.2 10,800.2 10,578.1 10,675.7 10,564.4 10,917.8 10,955.2 11,013.9 58.7

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,483 5,589 5,550 5,573 5,538 5,611 5,618 5,627 9

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,217.7 1,243.0 1,244.1 1,256.3 1,230.0 1,253.3 1,259.6 1,267.2 7.6

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,337.5 1,380.9 1,365.6 1,363.1 1,354.3 1,380.7 1,383.4 1,380.6 -2.8

Membership associations and organizations. . . 2,927.5 2,965.3 2,940.0 2,953.8 2,953.3 2,976.5 2,975.0 2,978.8 3.8

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,110 22,261 21,765 22,201 21,824 21,902 21,904 21,911 7

Federal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,712.0 2,744.0 2,717.0 2,716.0 2,730.0 2,732.0 2,730.0 2,730.0 0.0

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,124.6 2,133.0 2,124.8 2,122.9 2,139.7 2,134.6 2,138.3 2,135.2 -3.1

U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587.6 611.3 592.6 593.1 590.5 597.6 591.4 595.0 3.6

State government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,182.0 5,194.0 4,984.0 5,211.0 5,061.0 5,079.0 5,080.0 5,083.0 3.0

State government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,539.7 2,555.0 2,350.5 2,578.4 2,408.0 2,430.5 2,434.3 2,438.7 4.4

State government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . 2,642.5 2,639.1 2,633.8 2,632.6 2,652.6 2,648.9 2,646.0 2,644.1 -1.9

Local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,216.0 14,323.0 14,064.0 14,274.0 14,033.0 14,091.0 14,094.0 14,098.0 4.0

Local government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,069.7 8,109.7 7,901.8 8,101.2 7,765.4 7,796.7 7,799.0 7,800.2 1.2

Local government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . 6,145.9 6,213.5 6,161.9 6,172.7 6,267.7 6,294.1 6,294.9 6,297.5 2.6

1

Includes other industries, not shown separately.

2

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

3

Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private............................................................................. 34.4 34.6 34.6 34.6

Goods-producing.................................................................... 40.3 40.6 40.5 40.7

Mining and logging................................................................ 45.1 44.9 44.7 44.6

Construction....................................................................... 38.5 39.2 39.0 39.6

Manufacturing..................................................................... 40.8 40.9 41.0 41.0

Durable goods.................................................................. 41.3 41.4 41.5 41.4

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

Private service-providing............................................................ 33.2 33.4 33.4 33.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................. 34.3 34.6 34.6 34.6

Wholesale trade................................................................ 38.7 38.9 38.9 38.9

Retail trade...................................................................... 31.1 31.4 31.4 31.4

Transportation and warehousing............................................. 38.6 39.0 38.8 38.9

Utilities........................................................................... 42.2 42.2 42.3 42.2

Information......................................................................... 36.8 36.3 36.5 36.5

Financial activities................................................................ 37.2 37.4 37.4 37.4

Professional and business services............................................ 36.1 36.3 36.2 36.2

Education and health services.................................................. 32.7 32.7 32.8 32.8

Leisure and hospitality........................................................... 26.1 26.3 26.4 26.4

Other services..................................................................... 31.7 31.8 31.9 31.9

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing........................................................................... 3.4 3.6 3.5 3.4

Durable goods....................................................................... 3.4 3.6 3.5 3.4

Nondurable goods................................................................... 3.3 3.5 3.4 3.4

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Total private............................................... $24.30 $24.62 $24.75 $24.78 $835.92 $851.85 $856.35 $857.39

Goods-producing....................................... 25.57 25.77 25.88 25.90 1,030.47 1,046.26 1,048.14 1,054.13

Mining and logging.................................. 30.74 30.70 30.66 30.73 1,386.37 1,378.43 1,370.50 1,370.56

Construction.......................................... 26.55 26.81 26.98 26.91 1,022.18 1,050.95 1,052.22 1,065.64

Manufacturing........................................ 24.70 24.87 24.97 25.01 1,007.76 1,017.18 1,023.77 1,025.41

Durable goods.................................... 26.12 26.21 26.28 26.37 1,078.76 1,085.09 1,090.62 1,091.72

Nondurable goods................................ 22.23 22.49 22.62 22.60 889.20 904.10 909.32 910.78

Private service-providing.............................. 23.99 24.34 24.48 24.52 796.47 812.96 817.63 818.97

Trade, transportation, and utilities................. 21.27 21.49 21.64 21.66 729.56 743.55 748.74 749.44

Wholesale trade.................................. 27.93 28.19 28.37 28.32 1,080.89 1,096.59 1,103.59 1,101.65

Retail trade........................................ 16.85 17.12 17.32 17.33 524.04 537.57 543.85 544.16

Transportation and warehousing............... 22.79 22.88 22.84 22.94 879.69 892.32 886.19 892.37

Utilities............................................. 35.90 35.94 36.05 36.42 1,514.98 1,516.67 1,524.92 1,536.92

Information........................................... 33.42 34.35 34.40 34.47 1,229.86 1,246.91 1,255.60 1,258.16

Financial activities................................... 30.48 31.05 31.18 31.27 1,133.86 1,161.27 1,166.13 1,169.50

Professional and business services.............. 29.04 29.48 29.74 29.78 1,048.34 1,070.12 1,076.59 1,078.04

Education and health services..................... 24.57 24.90 25.02 25.04 803.44 814.23 820.66 821.31

Leisure and hospitality.............................. 13.79 14.10 14.17 14.23 359.92 370.83 374.09 375.67

Other services....................................... 21.77 22.17 22.25 22.30 690.11 705.01 709.78 711.37

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by

industry sector, seasonally adjusted

[2007=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls2

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

Jan.

2015 -

Feb.

2015p

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

Jan.

2015 -

Feb.

2015p

Total private..................................... 99.8 102.7 102.9 103.1 0.2 115.7 120.6 121.5 121.9 0.3

Goods-producing............................. 87.4 90.1 90.2 90.8 0.7 101.0 105.0 105.5 106.3 0.8

Mining and logging........................ 124.3 128.8 127.4 126.0 -1.1 153.4 158.8 156.8 155.4 -0.9

Construction................................ 80.1 84.8 85.0 86.7 2.0 92.3 98.8 99.7 101.4 1.7

Manufacturing.............................. 89.0 90.5 90.9 90.9 0.0 102.2 104.7 105.5 105.8 0.3

Durable goods........................... 88.5 90.7 91.1 91.0 -0.1 102.7 105.6 106.3 106.6 0.3

Nondurable goods...................... 90.0 90.7 90.8 90.9 0.1 101.5 103.5 104.2 104.3 0.1

Private service-providing.................... 103.0 106.0 106.2 106.5 0.3 119.8 125.1 126.1 126.6 0.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities....... 97.5 100.4 100.5 100.8 0.3 111.6 116.1 117.1 117.5 0.3

Wholesale trade......................... 97.7 99.7 100.0 100.2 0.2 113.9 117.3 118.3 118.4 0.1

Retail trade.............................. 96.3 98.8 99.0 99.2 0.2 107.2 111.9 113.4 113.7 0.3

Transportation and warehousing...... 100.9 105.8 105.2 105.9 0.7 116.7 122.8 122.0 123.3 1.1

Utilities.................................... 100.3 101.9 102.2 102.0 -0.2 118.9 121.0 121.7 122.8 0.9

Information................................. 91.4 91.7 92.4 92.6 0.2 108.8 112.2 113.2 113.7 0.4

Financial activities......................... 96.6 98.6 98.9 99.0 0.1 114.9 119.4 120.2 120.7 0.4

Professional and business services..... 107.0 111.0 110.7 111.0 0.3 125.9 132.6 133.4 133.9 0.4

Education and health services........... 111.7 114.0 114.6 114.9 0.3 129.3 133.7 135.0 135.5 0.4

Leisure and hospitality.................... 108.2 112.2 112.9 113.4 0.4 120.4 127.6 129.1 130.2 0.9

Other services............................. 97.3 98.9 99.3 99.5 0.2 120.2 124.4 125.4 125.9 0.4

1 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2007

annual average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the

corresponding 2007 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly

earnings, average weekly hours, and employment.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Women employees (in thousands) Percent of all employees

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Total nonfarm............................................. 68,062 69,330 69,413 69,575 49.4 49.3 49.3 49.3

Total private............................................ 55,608 56,809 56,893 57,044 47.9 47.9 47.8 47.8

Goods-producing.................................... 4,171 4,265 4,269 4,270 21.9 21.9 21.8 21.8

Mining and logging............................... 115 123 123 123 13.1 13.5 13.6 13.7

Construction....................................... 763 796 799 799 12.6 12.7 12.6 12.6

Manufacturing..................................... 3,293 3,346 3,347 3,348 27.2 27.2 27.2 27.2

Durable goods.................................. 1,754 1,798 1,804 1,807 23.0 23.1 23.1 23.1

Nondurable goods............................. 1,539 1,548 1,543 1,541 34.1 34.3 34.1 34.1

Private service-providing........................... 51,437 52,544 52,624 52,774 53.0 53.0 53.0 53.0

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............. 10,594 10,780 10,802 10,839 40.5 40.4 40.4 40.5

Wholesale trade................................ 1,715.2 1,715.0 1,718.5 1,728.3 29.6 29.2 29.2 29.3

Retail trade..................................... 7,668.3 7,816.5 7,830.7 7,852.1 50.3 50.4 50.4 50.5

Transportation and warehousing............. 1,076.2 1,114.0 1,118.3 1,124.6 23.6 23.5 23.6 23.6

Utilities........................................... 134.1 134.1 134.2 133.6 24.4 24.0 24.0 23.9

Information......................................... 1,090 1,112 1,115 1,117 40.1 40.2 40.2 40.2

Financial activities................................ 4,558 4,611 4,615 4,615 57.5 57.3 57.2 57.1

Professional and business services............ 8,408 8,658 8,648 8,671 44.6 44.5 44.5 44.5

Education and health services.................. 16,341 16,695 16,729 16,777 76.8 76.9 76.9 76.9

Leisure and hospitality........................... 7,554 7,750 7,773 7,814 52.0 51.8 51.9 51.9

Other services..................................... 2,892 2,938 2,942 2,941 52.2 52.4 52.4 52.3

Government............................................. 12,454 12,521 12,520 12,531 57.1 57.2 57.2 57.2

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted1

[In thousands]

Industry Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Total private............................................................................... 95,860 97,923 98,086 98,339

Goods-producing....................................................................... 13,721 14,051 14,102 14,138

Mining and logging.................................................................. 645 669 664 660

Construction.......................................................................... 4,564 4,719 4,760 4,792

Manufacturing........................................................................ 8,512 8,663 8,678 8,686

Durable goods..................................................................... 5,241 5,361 5,372 5,382

Nondurable goods................................................................ 3,271 3,302 3,306 3,304

Private service-providing.............................................................. 82,139 83,872 83,984 84,201

Trade, transportation, and utilities................................................. 22,108 22,478 22,499 22,571

Wholesale trade................................................................... 4,674.0 4,740.9 4,749.2 4,760.5

Retail trade........................................................................ 13,039.8 13,186.9 13,200.8 13,240.0

Transportation and warehousing................................................ 3,949.2 4,100.2 4,099.3 4,120.4

Utilities.............................................................................. 444.9 450.0 449.8 449.6

Information............................................................................ 2,203 2,245 2,250 2,256

Financial activities................................................................... 6,114 6,213 6,227 6,234

Professional and business services............................................... 15,602 16,025 16,039 16,063

Education and health services..................................................... 18,688 19,069 19,105 19,152

Leisure and hospitality.............................................................. 12,813 13,172 13,189 13,247

Other services........................................................................ 4,611 4,670 4,675 4,678

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private............................................................................. 33.5 33.8 33.8 33.8

Goods-producing.................................................................... 40.9 41.6 41.4 41.5

Mining and logging................................................................ 47.5 47.6 46.8 46.7

Construction....................................................................... 38.6 39.9 39.4 40.0

Manufacturing..................................................................... 41.6 42.1 42.1 42.0

Durable goods.................................................................. 42.1 42.4 42.4 42.3

Nondurable goods.............................................................. 40.9 41.6 41.5 41.5

Private service-providing............................................................ 32.3 32.5 32.5 32.5

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................. 33.3 33.9 33.7 33.8

Wholesale trade................................................................ 38.5 38.6 38.7 38.7

Retail trade...................................................................... 29.7 30.3 30.1 30.2

Transportation and warehousing............................................. 38.2 39.0 38.3 38.7

Utilities........................................................................... 42.2 42.2 42.2 42.0

Information......................................................................... 36.0 35.8 36.0 36.0

Financial activities................................................................ 36.6 36.8 36.8 36.9

Professional and business services............................................ 35.4 35.7 35.6 35.6

Education and health services.................................................. 31.9 32.0 32.1 32.0

Leisure and hospitality........................................................... 25.1 25.2 25.2 25.3

Other services..................................................................... 30.6 30.8 30.7 30.8

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing........................................................................... 4.3 4.6 4.4 4.3

Durable goods....................................................................... 4.5 4.7 4.4 4.3

Nondurable goods................................................................... 4.1 4.4 4.4 4.4

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Total private............................................... $20.48 $20.72 $20.80 $20.80 $686.08 $700.34 $703.04 $703.04

Goods-producing....................................... 21.46 21.66 21.72 21.70 877.71 901.06 899.21 900.55

Mining and logging.................................. 26.71 26.63 26.60 26.33 1,268.73 1,267.59 1,244.88 1,229.61

Construction.......................................... 24.55 24.78 24.90 24.76 947.63 988.72 981.06 990.40

Manufacturing........................................ 19.48 19.62 19.67 19.69 810.37 826.00 828.11 826.98

Durable goods.................................... 20.56 20.69 20.72 20.78 865.58 877.26 878.53 878.99

Nondurable goods................................ 17.68 17.86 17.92 17.90 723.11 742.98 743.68 742.85

Private service-providing.............................. 20.27 20.52 20.61 20.61 654.72 666.90 669.83 669.83

Trade, transportation, and utilities................. 18.12 18.36 18.48 18.47 603.40 622.40 622.78 624.29

Wholesale trade.................................. 23.09 23.31 23.36 23.31 888.97 899.77 904.03 902.10

Retail trade........................................ 14.25 14.43 14.65 14.65 423.23 437.23 440.97 442.43

Transportation and warehousing............... 20.30 20.74 20.71 20.68 775.46 808.86 793.19 800.32

Utilities............................................. 32.95 33.16 33.10 33.45 1,390.49 1,399.35 1,396.82 1,404.90

Information........................................... 28.66 28.46 28.40 28.45 1,031.76 1,018.87 1,022.40 1,024.20

Financial activities................................... 24.42 25.00 25.08 25.15 893.77 920.00 922.94 928.04

Professional and business services.............. 24.19 24.32 24.42 24.43 856.33 868.22 869.35 869.71

Education and health services..................... 21.54 21.83 21.90 21.93 687.13 698.56 702.99 701.76

Leisure and hospitality.............................. 11.95 12.29 12.30 12.32 299.95 309.71 309.96 311.70

Other services....................................... 18.39 18.71 18.78 18.82 562.73 576.27 576.55 579.66

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on

private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

[2002=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls3

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

Jan.

2015 -

Feb.

2015p

Feb.

2014

Dec.

2014

Jan.

2015p

Feb.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

Jan.

2015 -

Feb.

2015p

Total private..................................... 107.0 110.3 110.5 110.8 0.3 146.5 152.7 153.6 154.0 0.3

Goods-producing............................. 85.8 89.3 89.2 89.7 0.6 112.7 118.5 118.7 119.1 0.3

Mining and logging........................ 162.8 169.2 165.1 163.8 -0.8 252.9 262.1 255.5 250.8 -1.8

Construction................................ 88.2 94.3 93.9 96.0 2.2 116.9 126.1 126.3 128.3 1.6

Manufacturing.............................. 81.3 83.7 83.9 83.7 -0.2 103.6 107.4 107.9 107.8 -0.1

Durable goods........................... 82.9 85.4 85.6 85.5 -0.1 106.4 110.3 110.7 111.0 0.3

Nondurable goods...................... 78.8 80.9 80.8 80.8 0.0 98.5 102.1 102.4 102.2 -0.2

Private service-providing.................... 113.0 116.1 116.3 116.6 0.3 157.1 163.4 164.3 164.7 0.2

Trade, transportation, and utilities....... 102.6 106.2 105.7 106.4 0.7 132.7 139.1 139.3 140.1 0.6

Wholesale trade......................... 106.0 107.8 108.2 108.5 0.3 144.1 148.0 148.9 149.0 0.1

Retail trade.............................. 98.0 101.1 100.6 101.2 0.6 119.7 125.1 126.3 127.1 0.6

Transportation and warehousing...... 113.6 120.4 118.2 120.0 1.5 146.2 158.4 155.3 157.5 1.4

Utilities.................................... 96.0 97.1 97.1 96.6 -0.5 132.1 134.4 134.1 134.8 0.5

Information................................. 90.5 91.7 92.4 92.7 0.3 128.4 129.2 130.0 130.6 0.5

Financial activities......................... 105.3 107.6 107.9 108.3 0.4 158.3 165.5 166.5 167.6 0.7

Professional and business services..... 123.8 128.2 128.0 128.2 0.2 178.2 185.6 186.0 186.3 0.2

Education and health services........... 127.2 130.2 130.9 130.8 -0.1 180.8 187.6 189.1 189.3 0.1

Leisure and hospitality.................... 117.8 121.6 121.7 122.8 0.9 159.9 169.7 170.1 171.8 1.0

Other services............................. 99.0 100.9 100.7 101.0 0.3 132.6 137.5 137.7 138.6 0.7

1 Data relate to production employees in mining and logging and manufacturing, construction employees in construction, and nonsupervisory

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2002

annual average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

3 The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the

corresponding 2002 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly

earnings, average weekly hours, and employment.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.