Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until USDL-10-0141 

8:30 a.m. (EST) Friday, February 5, 2010 

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 – JANUARY 2010

The unemployment rate fell from 10.0 to 9.7 percent in January, and nonfarm payroll employment

was essentially unchanged (-20,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment 

fell in construction and in transportation and warehousing, while temporary help services and retail trade 

added jobs. 

Household Survey Data

In January, the number of unemployed persons decreased to 14.8 million, and the unemployment rate 

fell by 0.3 percentage point to 9.7 percent. (See table A-1.) 

Changes to The Employment Situation Text, Tables, and Data 

Several changes to The Employment Situation news release text and tables are being introduced with this release. In addition, establishment survey data have been revised as a 

result of the annual benchmarking process and the updating of seasonal adjustment factors. Also, household survey data for January 2010 reflect updated population estimates. 

See the notes on pages 4, 5, and 6 for more information about all of these changes. 
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In January, unemployment rates for most major worker groups—adult men (10.0 percent), teenagers 

(26.4 percent), blacks (16.5 percent), and Hispanics (12.6 percent)—showed little change. The jobless 

rate for adult women fell to 7.9 percent, and the rate for whites declined to 8.7 percent. The jobless rate 

for Asians was 8.4 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.) 

This release includes new household survey tables with information about employment and unemployment of veterans, persons with a disability, and the foreign born. In January, the unemployment rate 

of veterans from Gulf War era II (September 2001 to the present) was 12.6 percent, compared with 10.4 

percent for nonveterans. Persons with a disability had a higher jobless rate than persons with no disability—15.2 versus 10.4 percent. In addition, the labor force participation rate of persons with a disability was 21.8 percent, compared with 70.1 percent for those without a disability. The unemployment 

rate for the foreign born was 11.8 percent, and the rate for the native born was 10.3 percent. (The data in 

these new tables are not seasonally adjusted.) (See tables A-5, A-6, and A-7.) 

In January, the number of persons unemployed due to job loss decreased by 378,000 to 9.3 million. 

Nearly all of this decline occurred among permanent job losers. (See table A-11.) 

The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) continued to trend up in 

January, reaching 6.3 million. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the number of longterm unemployed has risen by 5.0 million. (See table A-12.) 

In January, the civilian labor force participation rate was little changed at 64.7 percent. The employment-population ratio rose from 58.2 to 58.4 percent. (See table A-1.) 

The number of persons who worked part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) fell from 9.2 to 8.3 million in January. These individuals were working part time 

because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job. (See table 

A-8.) 

About 2.5 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force in January, an increase of 

409,000 from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the 

labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 

months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks 

preceding the survey. (See table A-16.) 

Among the marginally attached, there were 1.1 million discouraged workers in January, up from 

734,000 a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not 

currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.5 million people marginally attached to the labor force had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding 

the survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities. 

Establishment Survey Data

Total nonfarm payroll employment was essentially unchanged in January (-20,000). Job losses continued in construction and in transportation and warehousing, while employment increased in temporary 

help services and retail trade. Since the start of the recession in December 2007, payroll employment has 

fallen by 8.4 million. Over the last 3 months, however, employment has shown little net change. (See 

table B-1.) 
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Construction employment declined by 75,000 in January, with nonresidential specialty trade contractors (-48,000) accounting for the majority of the decline. Since December 2007, employment in construction has fallen by 1.9 million.

In January, transportation and warehousing employment fell by 19,000, due to a large job loss among 

couriers and messengers (-23,000). 

Employment in manufacturing was little changed in January (11,000). After experiencing steep job 

losses earlier in the recession, employment declines moderated considerably in the second half of 2009. 

In January, job gains in motor vehicles and parts (23,000) and plastics and rubber products (6,000) offset 

small job losses elsewhere in the industry. 

In January, temporary help services added 52,000 jobs. Since reaching a low point in September 2009, 

temporary help services employment has risen by 247,000. 

Retail trade employment rose by 42,000 in January, after showing little change in the prior 2 months. 

Job gains occurred in January among food stores (14,000), clothing stores (13,000), and general merchandise retailers (10,000). 

Health care employment continued to trend up in January. Ambulatory health care services added 

15,000 jobs over the month.

In January, the federal government added 33,000 jobs, including 9,000 temporary positions for Census 

2010. Employment in state and local governments, excluding education, continued to trend down. 

This release includes a new establishment survey table with information about women employees. In 

January, women made up 49.9 percent of total nonfarm payroll employment, compared with 48.8 percent when the recession began in December 2007. (See table B-5.) 

Also new in this release are data on hours and earnings for all employees in the private sector. The 

average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was up by 0.1 hour to 33.9 hours in 

January. The manufacturing workweek for all employees rose by 0.3 hour to 39.9 hours, and factory 

overtime increased by 0.1 hour over the month. Since June, the manufacturing workweek has increased 

by 1.2 hours. In January, the average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on 

private nonfarm payrolls rose by 0.1 hour to 33.3 hours. (See tables B-2 and B-7.) 

In January, average hourly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 4 

cents, or 0.2 percent, to $22.45. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have risen by 2.0 

percent. In January, average hourly earnings of private production and nonsupervisory employees 

rose by 5 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $18.89. (See tables B-3 and B-8.) 

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for November was revised from 4,000 to 64,000, and 

the change for December was revised from -85,000 to -150,000. Monthly revisions result from additional sample reports and the monthly recalculation of seasonal factors. The annual benchmark process 

also contributed to these revisions. 

The Employment Situation for February is scheduled to be released on Friday, March 5, 2010, 

at 8:30 a.m. (EST). 
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Changes to The Employment Situation Text and Tables

Effective with this release, several changes to The Employment Situation news release 

text and tables have been introduced. Two new summary tables—one for the household 

survey titled "Summary table A" and one for the establishment survey titled "Summary 

table B"—replace what previously had been a single table (table A) containing data from 

both surveys. 

Three new household survey data tables provide information on the employment status of 

veterans (table A-5), persons with a disability (table A-6), and the foreign born (table A7). In addition, two new seasonally adjusted series (on permanent job losers and persons 

who completed temporary jobs) are being added to table A-11, which shows 

unemployment by reason. 

The establishment survey data tables (the B tables) have been redesigned to include the 

addition of several data series. New data on all employee hours and earnings are being 

published for the first time. Data on women employees and production and 

nonsupervisory employees are now being published concurrent with the newest-available 

establishment survey employment data. Previously, employment data on women were 

available with a one-month lag and were not published in The Employment Situation 

news release. The Technical Note section of this release has been updated to cover the 

new concepts being introduced. 

Additional information about these changes, including crosswalks between the old and 

new tables, is available at www.bls.gov/bls/upcoming_empsit_changes.htm. 
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Revisions to Establishment Survey Data 

In accordance with annual practice, the establishment survey data have been revised to reflect comprehensive universe counts of payroll jobs, or benchmarks. These counts are derived principally from unemployment insurance tax records for March 2009. As a result of the benchmark process, all data series 

were subject to revision from April 2008 forward, the time period since the last benchmark was established. In addition, with this release, the seasonally adjusted establishment survey data from January 

2005 forward were subject to revision due to the introduction of updated seasonal adjustment factors. 

Table A presents revised total nonfarm employment data on a seasonally adjusted basis for January 

through December 2009. The revised data for April 2009 forward incorporate the effect of applying the 

rate of change measured by the sample to the new benchmark level, as well as updated net business 

birth/death model adjustments and new seasonal adjustment factors. The November and December 2009 

revisions also reflect the routine incorporation of additional sample receipts into the November final and 

December second preliminary estimates. The total nonfarm employment level for March 2009 was revised downward by 902,000 (930,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis), or 0.7 percent. The previously 

published level for December 2009 was revised downward 1,390,000 (1,363,000 on a seasonally 

adjusted basis). 

An article that discusses the benchmark and post-benchmark revisions, as well as all revised historical 

Current Employment Statistics (CES) data, can be accessed through the CES homepage at 

www.bls.gov/ces/. Information on the revisions released today also may be obtained by calling (202) 

691-6555. 

Table A. Revisions in total nonfarm employment, January-December 2009, 

seasonally adjusted 

 

(In thousands) 

2009 

January....................... 134,333 133,549 -741 -779 -38

February..................... 133,652 132,823 -681 -726 -45

March.......................... 133,000 132,070 -652 -753 -101

April............................ 132,481 131,488 -519 -582 -63

May............................. 132,178 131,141 -303 -347 -44

June............................. 131,715 130,637 -463 -504 -41

July.............................. 131,411 130,293 -304 -344 -40

August........................ 131,257 130,082 -154 -211 -57

September................... 131,118 129,857 -139 -225 -86

October....................... 130,991 129,633 -127 -224 -97

November................... 130,995 129,697 4 64 60

December (p).............. 130,910 129,547 -85 -150 -65

 p = preliminary. 

Year and month 

Level Over-the-month change

As 

previously 

published 

As 

previously 

published

As revised As revised Difference
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Adjustments to Population Estimates for the Household Survey

Effective with data for January 2010, updated population estimates have been used in the household 

survey. Population estimates for the household survey are developed by the U.S. Census Bureau. Each 

year, the Census Bureau updates the estimates to reflect new information and assumptions about the 

growth of the population during the decade. The change in population reflected in the new estimates 

results primarily from adjustments for net international migration, updated vital statistics and other 

information, and some methodological changes in the estimation process. 

In accordance with usual practice, BLS will not revise the official household survey estimates for 

December 2009 and earlier months. To show the impact of the population adjustment, however, differences in selected December 2009 labor force series based on the old and new population estimates 

are shown in table B. The adjustment decreased the estimated size of the civilian noninstitutional population in December by 258,000, the civilian labor force by 249,000, and employment by 243,000; the 

new population estimates had a negligible impact on unemployment rates and other percentage estimates. Data users are cautioned that these annual population adjustments affect the comparability of 

household data series over time. Estimates of large levels, such as total labor force and employment, 

are impacted most. Table C shows the effect of the introduction of new population estimates on the 

changes in selected labor force measures between December 2009 and January 2010. More detailed 

information on the population adjustments and their effect on national labor force estimates are available at www.bls.gov/cps/cps10adj.pdf. 

Table B. Effect of the updated population controls on December 2009 estimates by sex, 

race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, not seasonally adjusted

(Numbers in thousands)

Category Total Men White Asian

Civilian noninstitutional population ... -258 -168 -90 -274 56 -31 -212

Civilian labor force .................. -249 -185 -64 -235 31 -42 -169

Employed ........................... -243 -179 -64 -222 22 -40 -160

Unemployed ........................ -5 -6 0 -13 9 -2 -8

Unemployment rate ............ .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .0 .1

 NOTE: Detail for men and women may not sum to totals because of rounding. Estimates for the above race

groups (white, black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals because data are not presented for all

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

Women

Black or 

African 

American

Hispanic 

or 

Latino 

ethnicity

 
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Table C. December 2009-January 2010 changes in selected labor force measures, with 

adjustments for population control effects

(Numbers in thousands)

Category

Civilian noninstitutional population ............ -92 -258 166

Civilian labor force ........................ 111 -249 360

Participation rate ........................ .1 .0 .1

Employed ................................. 541 -243 784

Employment-population ratio ......... .2 .0 .2

Unemployed .............................. -430 -5 -425

Unemployment rate .................. -.3 .0 -.3

2010 population 

control effect

Dec.-Jan. 

change, as 

published

Dec.-Jan. 

change, after 

removing the 

population 

control effect 1

 

1 This December-January change is calculated by subtracting the population control effect from the 

published over-the-month change. 
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Change from:

Dec. 2009-

Jan. 2010

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population............................................ 234,739 236,743 236,924 236,832 –

Civilian labor force............................................................ 154,140 153,720 153,059 153,170 –

Participation rate........................................................... 65.7 64.9 64.6 64.7 0.1

Employed.................................................................... 142,221 138,381 137,792 138,333 –

Employment-population ratio........................................... 60.6 58.5 58.2 58.4 0.2

Unemployed................................................................. 11,919 15,340 15,267 14,837 –

Unemployment rate..................................................... 7.7 10.0 10.0 9.7 -0.3

Not in labor force............................................................. 80,599 83,022 83,865 83,663 –

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over....................................................... 7.7 10.0 10.0 9.7 -0.3

Adult men (20 years and over).............................................. 7.8 10.4 10.2 10.0 -0.2

Adult women (20 years and over).......................................... 6.4 8.0 8.2 7.9 -0.3

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)................................................. 20.9 26.8 27.1 26.4 -0.7

White........................................................................... 7.0 9.3 9.0 8.7 -0.3

Black or African American................................................... 12.8 15.6 16.2 16.5 0.3

Asian (not seasonally adjusted)............................................. 6.2 7.3 8.4 8.4 –

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.................................................. 9.9 12.7 12.9 12.6 -0.3

Total, 25 years and over....................................................... 6.5 8.5 8.5 8.2 -0.3

Less than a high school diploma........................................... 12.4 15.0 15.3 15.2 -0.1

High school graduates, no college......................................... 8.1 10.4 10.5 10.1 -0.4

Some college or associate degree......................................... 6.4 9.0 9.0 8.5 -0.5

Bachelor’s degree and higher............................................... 3.9 4.9 5.0 4.9 -0.1

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs................... 7,251 9,965 9,701 9,323 –

Job leavers....................................................................... 912 929 932 914 –

Reentrants........................................................................ 2,792 3,221 3,334 3,585 –

New entrants..................................................................... 792 1,270 1,270 1,235 –

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks.............................................................. 3,633 2,774 2,929 3,008 –

5 to 14 weeks.................................................................... 3,622 3,517 3,486 3,362 –

15 to 26 weeks.................................................................. 2,073 3,075 2,840 2,632 –

27 weeks and over.............................................................. 2,689 5,901 6,130 6,313 –

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons............................................... 7,897 9,225 9,165 8,316 –

Slack work or business conditions.......................................... 5,833 6,684 6,453 5,873 –

Could only find part-time work.............................................. 1,689 2,238 2,346 2,295 –

Part time for noneconomic reasons........................................... 18,879 18,354 18,364 18,563 –

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force........................................ 2,130 2,323 2,486 2,539 –

Discouraged workers......................................................... 734 861 929 1,065 –

- December - January changes in household data levels are not shown due to the introduction of updated population controls. Over-the-month changes

also 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 Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -779 64 -150 -20

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -806 75 -123 -12

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -439 -33 -54 -60

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -7 7 1 4

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -153 -15 -32 -75

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -279 -25 -23 11

Durable goods1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -222 -23 -15 13

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -79.9 -4.6 -1.8 22.7

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -57 -2 -8 -2

Private service-providing1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -367 108 -69 48

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -36.6 -6.2 -11.8 -8.6

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -71.0 8.8 -18.0 42.1

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -37.9 7.2 -20.6 -19.0

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -20 -12 -9 0

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -55 2 -7 -16

Professional and business services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -129 106 20 44

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -72.3 94.7 58.5 52.0

Education and health services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 31 26 16

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.3 26.1 22.3 17.1

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -39 -21 -41 -14

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -16 -6 -7 3

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 -11 -27 -8

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

Total nonfarm women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.5 49.9 49.9 49.9

Total private women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.9 48.4 48.4 48.4

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

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.2 33.9 33.8 33.9

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 22.01 $ 22.39 $ 22.41 $ 22.45

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 752.74 $759.02 $ 757.46 $761.06

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95.1 91.1 90.7 90.9

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.7 0.7 -0.4 0.2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.8 97.2 96.9 97.4

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.5 0.8 -0.3 0.5

HOURS AND EARNINGS

PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.3 33.2 33.2 33.3

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 18.43 $ 18.80 $ 18.84 $ 18.89

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 613.72 $624.16 $ 625.49 $629.04

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.8 97.9 97.9 98.2

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2002=100)4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125.3 123.0 123.2 123.9

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -0.6 0.8 0.2 0.6

DIFFUSION INDEX

(Over 1-month span)5

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.7 46.8 41.3 46.8

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.9 45.7 40.2 42.1

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.

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2009 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

p = preliminary.
Frequently Asked Questions about Employment and Unemployment Estimates 

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 107,000 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 the self-employed, 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. 

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. 

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/cesbmart.htm. 

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 

total nonfarm employment estimate; firms from all size classes and industries are appropriately sampled 

to achieve that goal. 

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. 

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. 

Does the official unemployment rate exclude people who have stopped looking for work? 

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

those who have stopped looking because they believe no jobs are available (discouraged workers). In 

addition, alternative measures of labor underutilization (discouraged workers and other groups not 

officially counted as unemployed) are published each month in The Employment Situation news release. 
Technical Note 

This news release presents statistics from two major 

surveys, the Current Population Survey (household survey) 

and the Current Employment Statistics survey (establishment survey). The household survey provides information on the labor force, employment, and unemployment 

that appears in the "A" tables, marked HOUSEHOLD 

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

conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the 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. The sample includes about 

140,000 businesses and government agencies representing 

approximately 410,000 worksites and is drawn from a sampling frame of roughly 8.9 million unemployment insurance 

tax accounts. 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 not classified as employed or 

unemployed are not in the labor force. The unemployment 

rate is the number unemployed as a percent of the labor 

force. The labor force participation rate is the labor force 

as a percent of the population, and the employment-population ratio is the employed as a percent of the population. 

Additional information about the household survey can be 

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

Establishment survey. The sample establishments are 

drawn from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, 

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

government entities. Employees on nonfarm payrolls are 

those who received pay for any part of the reference pay 

period, including persons on paid leave. Persons are 

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

produced for the private sector for all employees and for 

production and nonsupervisory employees. Production and 

nonsupervisory employees are defined as production and 

related employees in manufacturing and mining and 

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

Industries are classified on the basis of an establishment's principal activity in accordance with the 2007 

version of the North American Industry Classification 

System. Additional information about the establishment 

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

Differences in employment estimates. The numerous conceptual and methodological differences between 

the household and establishment surveys result in important distinctions in the employment estimates derived from 

the surveys. Among these are: 

 The household survey includes agricultural 

workers, the self-employed, unpaid family 

workers, and private household workers among the 

employed. These groups are excluded from the 

establishment survey. 

 The household survey includes people on unpaid 

leave among the employed. The establishment 

survey does not. 

 The household survey is limited to workers 16 

years of age and older. The establishment survey is 

not limited by age. 

 The household survey has no duplication of 

individuals, because individuals are counted only 

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

establishment survey, employees working at more 

than one job and thus appearing on more than one 

payroll 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 monthto-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 agesex 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 

exact difference, or sampling error, varies depending on the 

particular sample selected, and this variability is measured 

by the standard error of the estimate. There is about a 90-

percent chance, or level of confidence, that an estimate 

based on a sample will differ by no more than 1.6 standard 

errors from the "true" population value because of sampling 

error. BLS analyses are generally conducted at the 90-

percent level of confidence. 

For example, the confidence interval for the monthly 

change in total nonfarm employment from the 

establishment survey is on the order of plus or minus 

100,000. 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 -50,000 to +150,000 (50,000 +/- 100,000). 

These figures do not mean that the sample results are off by 

these magnitudes, but rather that there is about a 90-percent 

chance that the "true" over-the-month change lies within 

this interval. Since this range includes values of less than 

zero, we could not say with confidence that nonfarm 

employment had, in fact, increased that month. If, however, 

the reported nonfarm employment rise was 250,000, then 

all of the values within the 90-percent confidence interval 

would be greater than zero. In this case, it is likely (at least 

a 90-percent chance) that nonfarm employment had, in fact, 

risen that month. At an unemployment rate of around 5.5 

percent, the 90-percent confidence interval for the monthly 

change in unemployment as measured by the household 

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

the unemployment rate it is about +/- 0.19 percentage point. 

In general, estimates involving many individuals or 

establishments have lower standard errors (relative to the 

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

small number of observations. The precision of estimates 

also is improved when the data are cumulated over time, 

such as for quarterly and annual averages. 

The household and establishment surveys are also 

affected by nonsampling error, which can occur for many 

reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the 

population, inability to obtain information for all 

respondents in the sample, inability or unwillingness of 

respondents to provide correct information on a timely 

basis, mistakes made by respondents, and errors made in 

the collection or processing of the data. 

For example, in the establishment survey, estimates 

for the most recent 2 months are based on incomplete 

returns; for this reason, these estimates are labeled 

preliminary in the tables. It is only after two successive 

revisions to a monthly estimate, when nearly all sample 

reports have been received, that the estimate is considered 

final. 

Another major source of nonsampling error in the 

establishment survey is the inability to capture, on a timely 

basis, employment generated by new firms. To correct for 

this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an 

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

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

gains from business births. This is incorporated into the 

sample-based estimation procedure by simply not reflecting 

sample units going out of business, but imputing to them 

the same employment trend as the other firms in the 

sample. This procedure accounts for most of the net 

birth/death employment. 

The second component is an ARIMA time series 

model designed to estimate the residual net birth/death 

employment not accounted for by the imputation. The 

historical time series used to create and test the ARIMA 

model was derived from the unemployment insurance 

universe micro-level database, and reflects the actual 

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

The sample-based estimates from the establishment 

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

universe counts of payroll employment obtained from 

administrative records of the unemployment insurance 

program. The difference between the March sample-based 

employment estimates and the March universe counts is 

known as a benchmark revision, and serves as a rough 

proxy for total survey error. The new benchmarks also 

incorporate changes in the classification of industries. Over 

the past decade, absolute benchmark revisions for total 

nonfarm employment have averaged 0.3 percent, with a 

range from -0.7 to 0.6 percent. 

Other information 

Information in this release will be made available to 

sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Jan.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Sept.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234,739 236,924 236,832 234,739 236,322 236,550 236,743 236,924 236,832

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,445 152,693 152,957 154,140 153,927 153,854 153,720 153,059 153,170

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.4 64.4 64.6 65.7 65.1 65.0 64.9 64.6 64.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,436 137,953 136,809 142,221 138,768 138,242 138,381 137,792 138,333

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.8 58.2 57.8 60.6 58.7 58.4 58.5 58.2 58.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,009 14,740 16,147 11,919 15,159 15,612 15,340 15,267 14,837

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.5 9.7 10.6 7.7 9.8 10.1 10.0 10.0 9.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,293 84,231 83,876 80,599 82,396 82,696 83,022 83,865 83,663

Persons who currently want a job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,866 5,939 6,108 5,686 5,960 6,031 6,043 6,306 5,965

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,573 114,728 114,648 113,573 114,411 114,530 114,632 114,728 114,648

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81,725 81,243 81,238 82,066 82,197 82,184 81,964 81,454 81,290

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.0 70.8 70.9 72.3 71.8 71.8 71.5 71.0 70.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,763 72,258 71,216 75,118 73,120 72,844 72,794 72,499 72,516

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.9 63.0 62.1 66.1 63.9 63.6 63.5 63.2 63.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,962 8,985 10,021 6,948 9,077 9,340 9,171 8,955 8,774

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.7 11.1 12.3 8.5 11.0 11.4 11.2 11.0 10.8

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,848 33,485 33,410 31,507 32,214 32,346 32,667 33,274 33,358

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104,902 106,125 105,998 104,902 105,780 105,906 106,018 106,125 105,998

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,741 78,392 78,451 78,769 78,977 79,024 78,901 78,402 78,225

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.1 73.9 74.0 75.1 74.7 74.6 74.4 73.9 73.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,556 70,251 69,337 72,625 70,861 70,662 70,662 70,391 70,390

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.2 66.2 65.4 69.2 67.0 66.7 66.7 66.3 66.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,185 8,141 9,113 6,144 8,116 8,362 8,239 8,011 7,835

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.1 10.4 11.6 7.8 10.3 10.6 10.4 10.2 10.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,162 27,733 27,548 26,133 26,803 26,882 27,117 27,723 27,774

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,166 122,197 122,185 121,166 121,911 122,020 122,111 122,197 122,185

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,721 71,450 71,719 72,074 71,729 71,669 71,756 71,605 71,880

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.2 58.5 58.7 59.5 58.8 58.7 58.8 58.6 58.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,674 65,694 65,593 67,103 65,648 65,398 65,587 65,293 65,817

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.0 53.8 53.7 55.4 53.8 53.6 53.7 53.4 53.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,047 5,756 6,126 4,971 6,081 6,271 6,169 6,312 6,064

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.0 8.1 8.5 6.9 8.5 8.8 8.6 8.8 8.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,445 50,747 50,466 49,092 50,182 50,350 50,355 50,591 50,305

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,738 113,832 113,796 112,738 113,522 113,636 113,737 113,832 113,796

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,654 68,617 68,991 68,793 68,686 68,687 68,742 68,620 68,949

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.9 60.3 60.6 61.0 60.5 60.4 60.4 60.3 60.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,123 63,430 63,437 64,391 63,280 63,133 63,269 62,998 63,527

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.9 55.7 55.7 57.1 55.7 55.6 55.6 55.3 55.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,531 5,187 5,553 4,402 5,406 5,554 5,473 5,622 5,422

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6 7.6 8.0 6.4 7.9 8.1 8.0 8.2 7.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,085 45,215 44,806 43,946 44,837 44,949 44,994 45,212 44,848

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,098 16,967 17,038 17,098 17,020 17,008 16,988 16,967 17,038

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,051 5,684 5,515 6,578 6,264 6,143 6,077 6,037 5,996

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.4 33.5 32.4 38.5 36.8 36.1 35.8 35.6 35.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,758 4,272 4,034 5,205 4,627 4,448 4,450 4,403 4,416

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.8 25.2 23.7 30.4 27.2 26.1 26.2 25.9 25.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,293 1,412 1,481 1,373 1,637 1,696 1,627 1,634 1,580

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.4 24.8 26.9 20.9 26.1 27.6 26.8 27.1 26.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,047 11,283 11,522 10,519 10,756 10,865 10,911 10,930 11,041

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

Jan.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Sept.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

WHITE

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190,225 191,628 191,454 190,225 191,244 191,394 191,516 191,628 191,454

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,099 124,344 124,498 125,524 125,581 125,567 125,258 124,605 124,579

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.8 64.9 65.0 66.0 65.7 65.6 65.4 65.0 65.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,320 113,416 112,546 116,709 114,215 113,754 113,669 113,339 113,797

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.6 59.2 58.8 61.4 59.7 59.4 59.4 59.1 59.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,779 10,928 11,952 8,815 11,366 11,813 11,589 11,266 10,782

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.8 8.8 9.6 7.0 9.1 9.4 9.3 9.0 8.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,126 67,284 66,956 64,701 65,663 65,827 66,258 67,024 66,875

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,218 64,870 64,877 65,258 65,548 65,540 65,387 64,804 64,682

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.5 74.4 74.5 75.5 75.4 75.3 75.0 74.3 74.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,787 58,653 57,937 60,688 59,279 59,077 58,996 58,782 58,813

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.2 67.2 66.5 70.2 68.1 67.8 67.7 67.4 67.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,431 6,217 6,940 4,570 6,269 6,463 6,390 6,022 5,869

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.3 9.6 10.7 7.0 9.6 9.9 9.8 9.3 9.1

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,882 54,823 55,135 54,851 54,841 54,932 54,908 54,822 55,017

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.5 60.0 60.4 60.4 60.1 60.2 60.1 60.0 60.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,494 51,116 51,202 51,612 50,956 50,861 50,852 50,753 51,248

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.7 55.9 56.1 56.9 55.8 55.7 55.6 55.5 56.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,388 3,707 3,933 3,239 3,884 4,071 4,056 4,069 3,769

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 6.8 7.1 5.9 7.1 7.4 7.4 7.4 6.8

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,999 4,651 4,486 5,415 5,192 5,095 4,963 4,978 4,880

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.2 35.9 34.5 41.4 39.9 39.2 38.2 38.4 37.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,039 3,647 3,406 4,409 3,980 3,816 3,820 3,804 3,736

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.9 28.1 26.2 33.7 30.6 29.3 29.4 29.3 28.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960 1,004 1,080 1,006 1,212 1,279 1,142 1,174 1,145

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.2 21.6 24.1 18.6 23.3 25.1 23.0 23.6 23.5

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,052 28,437 28,526 28,052 28,330 28,369 28,404 28,437 28,526

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,629 17,484 17,702 17,741 17,455 17,516 17,660 17,600 17,749

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.8 61.5 62.1 63.2 61.6 61.7 62.2 61.9 62.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,274 14,759 14,643 15,463 14,754 14,763 14,904 14,758 14,820

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.4 51.9 51.3 55.1 52.1 52.0 52.5 51.9 52.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,355 2,725 3,059 2,278 2,701 2,754 2,757 2,843 2,929

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.4 15.6 17.3 12.8 15.5 15.7 15.6 16.2 16.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,423 10,953 10,824 10,311 10,875 10,853 10,744 10,837 10,777

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,962 7,896 8,017 7,956 7,820 7,899 7,915 7,907 7,970

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.6 68.7 69.6 70.5 68.4 69.0 69.0 68.8 69.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,702 6,579 6,451 6,811 6,526 6,553 6,584 6,591 6,566

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.4 57.3 56.0 60.4 57.1 57.2 57.4 57.4 57.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,260 1,317 1,565 1,145 1,294 1,346 1,331 1,316 1,405

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.8 16.7 19.5 14.4 16.5 17.0 16.8 16.6 17.6

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,957 8,891 8,998 9,001 8,947 8,911 9,001 8,959 9,034

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.6 62.2 62.8 63.9 62.9 62.5 63.1 62.7 63.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,121 7,786 7,803 8,156 7,827 7,800 7,946 7,788 7,836

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.7 54.5 54.5 57.9 55.0 54.8 55.7 54.5 54.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836 1,105 1,194 845 1,120 1,110 1,055 1,171 1,198

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.3 12.4 13.3 9.4 12.5 12.5 11.7 13.1 13.3

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710 698 687 784 688 707 743 734 745

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.4 26.2 25.6 29.1 25.7 26.4 27.8 27.5 27.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 394 388 496 401 409 373 379 418

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.7 14.8 14.5 18.4 15.0 15.3 14.0 14.2 15.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 303 299 288 287 298 370 356 326

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.5 43.5 43.5 36.8 41.7 42.1 49.8 48.4 43.8

ASIAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,745 10,904 10,950 – – – – – –

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

Jan.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Sept.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,023 7,163 7,020 – – – – – –

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.4 65.7 64.1 – – – – – –

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,588 6,560 6,431 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.3 60.2 58.7 – – – – – –

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 602 589 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 8.4 8.4 – – – – – –

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,722 3,741 3,930 – – – – – –

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

- Data not available.

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

annually with the release of January data.
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

Jan.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Sept.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population.................. 32,417 33,379 33,251 32,417 33,110 33,202 33,291 33,379 33,251

Civilian labor force................................. 21,868 22,481 22,505 22,004 22,444 22,492 22,564 22,404 22,578

Participation rate................................. 67.5 67.3 67.7 67.9 67.8 67.7 67.8 67.1 67.9

Employed......................................... 19,453 19,591 19,373 19,817 19,595 19,553 19,692 19,513 19,730

Employment-population ratio................ 60.0 58.7 58.3 61.1 59.2 58.9 59.2 58.5 59.3

Unemployed...................................... 2,415 2,890 3,132 2,186 2,849 2,939 2,872 2,891 2,848

Unemployment rate........................... 11.0 12.9 13.9 9.9 12.7 13.1 12.7 12.9 12.6

Not in labor force................................... 10,549 10,899 10,746 10,414 10,666 10,710 10,727 10,976 10,674

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................. 12,524 12,804 12,769 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 83.1 82.4 82.6 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 11,146 11,168 11,003 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 73.9 71.9 71.2 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 1,378 1,636 1,766 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 11.0 12.8 13.8 – – – – – –

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................. 8,366 8,720 8,776 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 58.7 59.4 60.2 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 7,566 7,806 7,767 – – – – – –

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

Unemployed...................................... 800 915 1,009 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 9.6 10.5 11.5 – – – – – –

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force................................. 978 956 960 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 31.7 30.3 29.8 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 741 617 602 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 24.0 19.5 18.7 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 238 340 357 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 24.3 35.5 37.2 – – – – – –

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

- Data not available.

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

of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Educational attainment

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Jan.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Sept.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force.................................... 12,192 12,015 12,014 12,038 12,263 12,155 12,003 11,977 11,835

Participation rate.................................... 46.6 45.7 46.1 46.0 47.1 47.2 46.3 45.6 45.4

Employed............................................ 10,437 10,123 9,898 10,547 10,426 10,272 10,202 10,144 10,033

Employment-population ratio................... 39.9 38.5 38.0 40.3 40.0 39.9 39.3 38.6 38.5

Unemployed......................................... 1,755 1,892 2,116 1,491 1,837 1,883 1,802 1,833 1,802

Unemployment rate.............................. 14.4 15.7 17.6 12.4 15.0 15.5 15.0 15.3 15.2

High school graduates, no college1

Civilian labor force.................................... 39,009 37,808 38,285 38,582 38,059 37,917 37,759 37,607 37,738

Participation rate.................................... 62.9 61.7 62.0 62.2 62.0 61.8 61.6 61.4 61.1

Employed............................................ 35,394 33,803 33,879 35,467 33,956 33,674 33,851 33,649 33,920

Employment-population ratio................... 57.1 55.2 54.8 57.2 55.3 54.9 55.2 55.0 54.9

Unemployed......................................... 3,616 4,005 4,406 3,115 4,104 4,243 3,908 3,958 3,818

Unemployment rate.............................. 9.3 10.6 11.5 8.1 10.8 11.2 10.4 10.5 10.1

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force.................................... 36,366 36,796 36,584 36,740 36,732 36,899 36,946 36,892 36,761

Participation rate.................................... 71.4 70.4 71.1 72.1 70.7 70.9 70.4 70.6 71.5

Employed............................................ 33,870 33,660 33,292 34,395 33,583 33,596 33,629 33,560 33,629

Employment-population ratio................... 66.5 64.4 64.7 67.5 64.6 64.5 64.1 64.2 65.4

Unemployed......................................... 2,496 3,135 3,292 2,345 3,149 3,303 3,318 3,332 3,132

Unemployment rate.............................. 6.9 8.5 9.0 6.4 8.6 9.0 9.0 9.0 8.5

Bachelor’s degree and higher2

Civilian labor force.................................... 45,132 45,927 45,925 45,126 45,910 46,316 45,992 45,994 45,939

Participation rate.................................... 77.6 77.2 77.0 77.6 77.3 77.4 77.4 77.3 77.0

Employed............................................ 43,269 43,752 43,574 43,352 43,686 44,116 43,743 43,707 43,704

Employment-population ratio................... 74.4 73.5 73.1 74.6 73.6 73.7 73.6 73.4 73.3

Unemployed......................................... 1,863 2,175 2,351 1,774 2,224 2,200 2,249 2,288 2,235

Unemployment rate.............................. 4.1 4.7 5.1 3.9 4.8 4.7 4.9 5.0 4.9

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

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

VETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,358 22,186 20,611 20,410 1,747 1,776

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,419 11,860 11,223 10,755 1,195 1,104

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.5 53.5 54.5 52.7 68.4 62.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,496 10,724 10,380 9,743 1,116 981

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.4 48.3 50.4 47.7 63.9 55.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922 1,136 844 1,012 79 124

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4 9.6 7.5 9.4 6.6 11.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,939 10,326 9,388 9,655 552 672

Gulf War-era II veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,800 2,091 1,483 1,764 318 327

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,523 1,690 1,258 1,456 265 234

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.6 80.8 84.9 82.5 83.4 71.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,388 1,477 1,152 1,276 236 201

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.1 70.6 77.7 72.3 74.4 61.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 213 107 180 28 33

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.9 12.6 8.5 12.4 10.7 14.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277 401 224 308 53 93

Gulf War-era I veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,928 2,861 2,492 2,375 437 485

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,563 2,491 2,219 2,105 344 386

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87.5 87.1 89.1 88.6 78.8 79.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,411 2,257 2,081 1,902 331 354

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.3 78.9 83.5 80.1 75.7 73.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 235 139 203 13 32

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.9 9.4 6.2 9.6 3.9 8.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 369 273 270 93 99

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

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,604 11,233 11,219 10,852 385 381

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,638 4,149 4,506 4,030 133 119

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.0 36.9 40.2 37.1 34.5 31.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,305 3,765 4,175 3,660 130 105

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37.1 33.5 37.2 33.7 33.8 27.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 384 330 371 3 13

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2 9.3 7.3 9.2 2.1 11.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,966 7,084 6,714 6,822 252 262

Veterans of other service periods

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,025 6,001 5,417 5,418 608 583

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,694 3,529 3,241 3,164 454 365

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.3 58.8 59.8 58.4 74.6 62.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,392 3,225 2,973 2,905 420 320

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.3 53.7 54.9 53.6 69.0 55.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 304 268 259 34 45

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2 8.6 8.3 8.2 7.5 12.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,331 2,472 2,177 2,255 154 218

NONVETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203,425 205,694 88,343 89,718 115,082 115,976

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,074 139,297 69,560 69,629 69,514 69,668

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.4 67.7 78.7 77.6 60.4 60.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,393 124,767 62,688 60,879 64,705 63,888

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.6 60.7 71.0 67.9 56.2 55.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,681 14,530 6,872 8,750 4,809 5,780

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.4 10.4 9.9 12.6 6.9 8.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,352 66,397 18,783 20,089 45,568 46,308

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

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

TOTAL, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population....................................................... 26,804 26,952 207,934 209,880

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 6,184 5,877 147,261 147,079

Participation rate...................................................................... 23.1 21.8 70.8 70.1

Employed.............................................................................. 5,368 4,987 135,068 131,823

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 20.0 18.5 65.0 62.8

Unemployed........................................................................... 816 891 12,193 15,257

Unemployment rate................................................................ 13.2 15.2 8.3 10.4

Not in labor force........................................................................ 20,620 21,075 60,673 62,801

Men, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 2,824 2,666 75,343 74,910

Participation rate...................................................................... 38.5 36.5 83.7 82.6

Employed.............................................................................. 2,345 2,208 68,086 65,649

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 32.0 30.2 75.7 72.4

Unemployed........................................................................... 479 458 7,257 9,261

Unemployment rate................................................................ 17.0 17.2 9.6 12.4

Not in labor force........................................................................ 4,510 4,642 14,658 15,816

Women, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 2,500 2,366 66,276 66,326

Participation rate...................................................................... 33.0 31.7 71.9 71.4

Employed.............................................................................. 2,197 2,029 61,678 60,731

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 29.0 27.2 66.9 65.4

Unemployed........................................................................... 303 337 4,598 5,594

Unemployment rate................................................................ 12.1 14.3 6.9 8.4

Not in labor force........................................................................ 5,065 5,102 25,884 26,604

Both sexes, 65 years and over

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 860 846 5,643 5,844

Participation rate...................................................................... 7.2 6.9 21.9 22.3

Employed.............................................................................. 826 750 5,304 5,442

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 6.9 6.2 20.6 20.8

Unemployed........................................................................... 34 95 339 402

Unemployment rate................................................................ 3.9 11.3 6.0 6.9

Not in labor force........................................................................ 11,044 11,330 20,130 20,381

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

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Foreign born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population.................................... 35,007 35,440 17,512 17,718 17,495 17,722

Civilian labor force................................................... 23,541 23,924 13,956 14,073 9,586 9,851

Participation rate................................................... 67.2 67.5 79.7 79.4 54.8 55.6

Employed........................................................... 21,375 21,090 12,612 12,282 8,763 8,808

Employment-population ratio.................................. 61.1 59.5 72.0 69.3 50.1 49.7

Unemployed........................................................ 2,166 2,834 1,344 1,791 823 1,043

Unemployment rate............................................. 9.2 11.8 9.6 12.7 8.6 10.6

Not in labor force..................................................... 11,466 11,515 3,556 3,645 7,910 7,870

Native born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population.................................... 199,731 201,393 96,061 96,930 103,670 104,463

Civilian labor force................................................... 129,904 129,032 67,769 67,165 62,135 61,868

Participation rate................................................... 65.0 64.1 70.5 69.3 59.9 59.2

Employed........................................................... 119,061 115,719 61,150 58,935 57,911 56,784

Employment-population ratio.................................. 59.6 57.5 63.7 60.8 55.9 54.4

Unemployed........................................................ 10,843 13,313 6,619 8,230 4,224 5,083

Unemployment rate............................................. 8.3 10.3 9.8 12.3 6.8 8.2

Not in labor force..................................................... 69,827 72,360 28,292 29,765 41,535 42,596

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

Jan.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Sept.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries................... 1,988 1,952 1,974 2,147 2,009 2,041 2,086 2,056 2,115

Wage and salary workers......................... 1,106 1,228 1,218 1,224 1,177 1,263 1,331 1,308 1,342

Self-employed workers............................ 860 707 743 908 796 736 752 755 781

Unpaid family workers............................. 22 17 13 – – – – – –

Nonagricultural industries............................ 138,449 136,001 134,836 140,014 136,752 136,311 136,357 135,717 136,276

Wage and salary workers......................... 129,888 127,003 126,126 131,132 127,650 127,312 127,160 126,539 127,269

Government...................................... 21,142 21,128 21,144 21,225 20,978 21,161 21,233 21,110 21,227

Private industries................................ 108,746 105,875 104,982 109,922 106,662 106,173 105,856 105,428 106,031

Private households............................ 749 736 688 – – – – – –

Other industries............................... 107,997 105,139 104,295 109,140 105,885 105,401 105,097 104,666 105,329

Self-employed workers............................ 8,520 8,915 8,643 8,827 9,009 8,960 9,111 9,135 9,007

Unpaid family workers............................. 41 83 66 – – – – – –

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME1

All industries

Part time for economic reasons2................... 8,829 9,354 9,290 7,897 9,158 9,240 9,225 9,165 8,316

Slack work or business conditions............... 6,909 6,758 6,825 5,833 6,815 6,882 6,684 6,453 5,873

Could only find part-time work.................... 1,593 2,286 2,159 1,689 2,081 2,084 2,238 2,346 2,295

Part time for noneconomic reasons3

.............. 19,051 19,082 18,782 18,879 18,590 18,632 18,354 18,364 18,563

Nonagricultural industries

Part time for economic reasons2

................... 8,675 9,222 9,161 7,755 8,983 9,158 9,137 9,055 8,193

Slack work or business conditions............... 6,797 6,672 6,739 5,713 6,695 6,797 6,616 6,378 5,792

Could only find part-time work.................... 1,583 2,267 2,149 1,676 2,063 2,033 2,241 2,349 2,288

Part time for noneconomic reasons3

.............. 18,734 18,740 18,444 18,563 18,251 18,317 18,066 18,056 18,218

1 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.

2 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.

3 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

Jan.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Sept.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,436 137,953 136,809 142,221 138,768 138,242 138,381 137,792 138,333

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,758 4,272 4,034 5,205 4,627 4,448 4,450 4,403 4,416

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,547 1,381 1,318 1,755 1,569 1,417 1,409 1,425 1,484

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,210 2,891 2,716 3,451 3,070 3,041 3,036 2,987 2,938

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,679 133,680 132,775 137,016 134,141 133,795 133,931 133,389 133,916

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,709 12,343 12,132 13,045 12,625 12,414 12,446 12,389 12,435

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,970 121,337 120,643 123,780 121,551 121,440 121,539 121,012 121,404

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,921 94,030 93,348 96,596 94,345 94,272 94,318 93,791 94,004

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,060 29,875 29,680 30,422 29,795 29,811 29,793 29,794 30,022

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,034 30,831 30,473 32,250 31,236 30,966 31,031 30,744 30,683

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,827 33,325 33,194 33,924 33,314 33,495 33,494 33,254 33,299

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,049 27,307 27,295 27,184 27,206 27,168 27,221 27,221 27,399

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,763 72,258 71,216 75,118 73,120 72,844 72,794 72,499 72,516

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,207 2,008 1,879 2,492 2,259 2,182 2,131 2,108 2,126

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695 618 594 829 762 688 673 672 706

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,512 1,389 1,285 1,653 1,500 1,485 1,453 1,434 1,415

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,556 70,251 69,337 72,625 70,861 70,662 70,662 70,391 70,390

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,458 6,127 5,963 6,716 6,402 6,257 6,301 6,234 6,211

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,098 64,124 63,375 65,804 64,466 64,449 64,375 64,166 64,091

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,844 49,905 49,205 51,431 50,203 50,222 50,090 49,921 49,807

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,189 16,146 15,886 16,456 16,120 16,203 16,157 16,118 16,148

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,226 16,615 16,302 17,388 16,758 16,642 16,719 16,629 16,479

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,429 17,144 17,017 17,587 17,325 17,376 17,214 17,174 17,180

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,253 14,219 14,169 14,374 14,263 14,227 14,285 14,245 14,284

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,674 65,694 65,593 67,103 65,648 65,398 65,587 65,293 65,817

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,551 2,265 2,155 2,713 2,368 2,266 2,318 2,294 2,290

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853 763 724 926 807 728 736 753 777

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,699 1,502 1,431 1,798 1,570 1,555 1,583 1,553 1,523

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,123 63,430 63,437 64,391 63,280 63,133 63,269 62,998 63,527

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,250 6,216 6,169 6,328 6,222 6,158 6,145 6,155 6,224

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,872 57,213 57,269 57,976 57,085 56,992 57,164 56,846 57,313

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,077 44,125 44,143 45,165 44,142 44,050 44,229 43,870 44,197

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,871 13,728 13,794 13,966 13,675 13,608 13,637 13,676 13,874

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,808 14,215 14,171 14,862 14,478 14,324 14,312 14,115 14,203

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,398 16,181 16,177 16,337 15,989 16,118 16,280 16,080 16,119

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,795 13,089 13,126 12,810 12,943 12,942 12,936 12,976 13,116

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,425 43,364 42,807 44,694 43,656 43,401 43,336 43,312 43,126

Married women, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,325 35,198 35,038 35,347 34,891 34,736 34,867 35,004 35,073

Women who maintain families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,751 8,403 8,401 – – – – – –

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,815 109,875 108,777 115,714 111,361 110,817 110,901 110,254 110,497

Part-time workers2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,621 28,078 28,033 26,396 27,459 27,511 27,400 27,466 27,718

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,258 6,886 6,751 7,476 7,047 7,017 7,060 6,910 6,961

Percent of total employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 5.0 4.9 5.3 5.1 5.1 5.1 5.0 5.0

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

Jan.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Sept.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over............................. 11,919 15,267 14,837 7.7 9.8 10.1 10.0 10.0 9.7

16 to 19 years...................................... 1,373 1,634 1,580 20.9 26.1 27.6 26.8 27.1 26.4

16 to 17 years.................................... 479 608 574 21.5 28.2 30.2 28.8 29.9 27.9

18 to 19 years.................................... 880 1,041 999 20.3 24.4 25.7 26.1 25.8 25.4

20 years and over.................................. 10,546 13,633 13,257 7.1 9.2 9.4 9.3 9.3 9.0

20 to 24 years.................................... 1,850 2,287 2,341 12.4 15.0 15.6 15.9 15.6 15.8

25 years and over............................... 8,671 11,237 10,876 6.5 8.6 8.7 8.5 8.5 8.2

25 to 54 years................................. 7,136 9,176 8,891 6.9 9.1 9.2 8.9 8.9 8.6

25 to 34 years.............................. 2,694 3,383 3,295 8.1 10.6 10.7 10.3 10.2 9.9

35 to 44 years.............................. 2,297 2,953 2,849 6.6 8.8 9.0 8.6 8.8 8.5

45 to 54 years.............................. 2,144 2,841 2,747 5.9 8.0 7.8 7.8 7.9 7.6

55 years and over............................. 1,522 2,114 1,989 5.3 6.8 7.0 7.1 7.2 6.8

Men, 16 years and over.............................. 6,948 8,955 8,774 8.5 11.0 11.4 11.2 11.0 10.8

16 to 19 years...................................... 805 944 939 24.4 29.9 31.0 30.4 30.9 30.6

16 to 17 years.................................... 296 332 315 26.3 31.1 33.5 30.5 33.1 30.8

18 to 19 years.................................... 502 621 615 23.3 28.3 28.9 30.5 30.2 30.3

20 years and over.................................. 6,144 8,011 7,835 7.8 10.3 10.6 10.4 10.2 10.0

20 to 24 years.................................... 1,125 1,407 1,478 14.4 17.2 18.6 18.3 18.4 19.2

25 years and over............................... 5,019 6,531 6,342 7.1 9.7 9.7 9.5 9.2 9.0

25 to 54 years................................. 4,190 5,313 5,179 7.5 10.3 10.2 10.0 9.6 9.4

25 to 34 years.............................. 1,647 1,992 1,964 9.1 11.9 11.4 11.2 11.0 10.8

35 to 44 years.............................. 1,270 1,624 1,626 6.8 9.7 10.1 9.3 8.9 9.0

45 to 54 years.............................. 1,273 1,697 1,589 6.8 9.4 9.2 9.5 9.0 8.5

55 years and over............................. 829 1,217 1,164 5.5 7.3 7.8 7.8 7.9 7.5

Women, 16 years and over.......................... 4,971 6,312 6,064 6.9 8.5 8.8 8.6 8.8 8.4

16 to 19 years...................................... 569 690 641 17.3 22.2 24.0 23.1 23.1 21.9

16 to 17 years.................................... 183 275 259 16.5 25.1 26.8 27.1 26.8 25.0

18 to 19 years.................................... 377 420 383 17.3 20.2 22.4 21.5 21.3 20.1

20 years and over.................................. 4,402 5,622 5,422 6.4 7.9 8.1 8.0 8.2 7.9

20 to 24 years.................................... 724 880 864 10.3 12.7 12.4 13.3 12.5 12.2

25 years and over............................... 3,653 4,706 4,534 5.9 7.3 7.6 7.3 7.6 7.3

25 to 54 years................................. 2,946 3,863 3,712 6.1 7.7 8.0 7.5 8.1 7.7

25 to 34 years.............................. 1,048 1,391 1,331 7.0 8.9 9.9 9.3 9.2 8.8

35 to 44 years.............................. 1,027 1,328 1,223 6.5 7.9 7.8 7.7 8.6 7.9

45 to 54 years.............................. 871 1,144 1,158 5.1 6.5 6.4 5.9 6.6 6.7

55 years and over1

........................... 729 800 851 5.4 6.3 6.1 6.2 5.8 6.1

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present....................... 2,424 3,419 3,059 5.1 7.3 7.5 7.5 7.3 6.6

Married women, spouse present.................... 1,786 2,154 2,177 4.8 5.8 5.9 5.7 5.8 5.8

Women who maintain families1

.................... 1,010 1,258 1,181 10.3 11.6 12.9 11.4 13.0 12.3

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers2.................................... 10,247 13,452 12,879 8.1 10.7 11.1 11.0 10.9 10.4

Part-time workers3................................... 1,663 1,766 1,897 5.9 6.4 6.1 5.6 6.0 6.4

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

Jan.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Sept.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 8,633 9,822 10,574 7,251 10,236 10,261 9,965 9,701 9,323

On temporary layoff................................ 2,251 1,683 2,192 1,468 1,918 1,671 1,548 1,558 1,454

Not on temporary layoff............................ 6,382 8,140 8,382 5,784 8,318 8,590 8,418 8,143 7,869

Permanent job losers............................ 4,923 6,718 6,732 4,649 6,858 6,922 6,920 6,773 6,424

Persons who completed temporary jobs...... 1,460 1,422 1,650 1,277 1,429 1,569 1,439 1,448 1,445

Job leavers............................................. 920 860 926 912 869 909 929 932 914

Reentrants............................................. 2,791 3,012 3,625 2,792 3,255 3,461 3,221 3,334 3,585

New entrants.......................................... 665 1,046 1,022 792 1,134 1,114 1,270 1,270 1,235

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 66.4 66.6 65.5 61.7 66.1 65.2 64.8 63.7 61.9

On temporary layoff................................ 17.3 11.4 13.6 12.5 12.4 10.6 10.1 10.2 9.7

Not on temporary layoff............................ 49.1 55.2 51.9 49.2 53.7 54.6 54.7 53.4 52.3

Job leavers............................................. 7.1 5.8 5.7 7.8 5.6 5.8 6.0 6.1 6.1

Reentrants............................................. 21.5 20.4 22.4 23.8 21.0 22.0 20.9 21.9 23.8

New entrants.......................................... 5.1 7.1 6.3 6.7 7.3 7.1 8.3 8.3 8.2

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 5.6 6.4 6.9 4.7 6.6 6.7 6.5 6.3 6.1

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

Reentrants............................................. 1.8 2.0 2.4 1.8 2.1 2.2 2.1 2.2 2.3

New entrants.......................................... 0.4 0.7 0.7 0.5 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8

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

Table A-12. Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Duration

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Jan.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Sept.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks.................................... 4,137 2,871 3,464 3,633 2,938 3,131 2,774 2,929 3,008

5 to 14 weeks......................................... 4,044 3,335 3,698 3,622 3,838 3,671 3,517 3,486 3,362

15 weeks and over.................................... 4,828 8,534 8,986 4,762 8,405 8,804 8,976 8,969 8,945

15 to 26 weeks..................................... 2,086 2,638 2,563 2,073 2,958 3,184 3,075 2,840 2,632

27 weeks and over................................. 2,742 5,896 6,423 2,689 5,447 5,620 5,901 6,130 6,313

Average (mean) duration, in weeks................ 18.8 29.0 28.9 19.9 26.5 27.2 28.6 29.1 30.2

Median duration, in weeks........................... 10.0 20.2 18.6 10.6 17.8 19.0 20.2 20.5 19.9

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Less than 5 weeks.................................... 31.8 19.5 21.5 30.2 19.4 20.1 18.2 19.0 19.6

5 to 14 weeks......................................... 31.1 22.6 22.9 30.1 25.3 23.5 23.0 22.7 22.0

15 weeks and over.................................... 37.1 57.9 55.6 39.6 55.4 56.4 58.8 58.3 58.4

15 to 26 weeks..................................... 16.0 17.9 15.9 17.3 19.5 20.4 20.1 18.5 17.2

27 weeks and over................................. 21.1 40.0 39.8 22.4 35.9 36.0 38.7 39.8 41.2

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

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Total, 16 years and over1

............................................. 140,436 136,809 13,009 16,147 8.5 10.6

Management, professional, and related occupations............ 52,358 52,159 2,238 2,762 4.1 5.0

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations...................................................... 21,956 21,101 1,056 1,168 4.6 5.2

Professional and related occupations........................... 30,402 31,058 1,182 1,593 3.7 4.9

Service occupations.................................................. 23,850 23,763 2,389 3,045 9.1 11.4

Sales and office occupations....................................... 34,192 33,117 2,761 3,476 7.5 9.5

Sales and related occupations................................... 15,773 15,150 1,323 1,709 7.7 10.1

Office and administrative support occupations................. 18,419 17,966 1,438 1,767 7.2 9.0

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations......................................................... 13,587 12,405 2,497 3,082 15.5 19.9

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations..................... 825 782 251 273 23.3 25.9

Construction and extraction occupations....................... 7,673 6,975 1,824 2,276 19.2 24.6

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations............. 5,089 4,648 422 532 7.7 10.3

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations......................................................... 16,449 15,365 2,432 2,748 12.9 15.2

Production occupations........................................... 7,974 7,396 1,265 1,343 13.7 15.4

Transportation and material moving occupations.............. 8,474 7,970 1,167 1,405 12.1 15.0

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

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

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

Industry and class of worker

Number of

unemployed

persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment

rates

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Total, 16 years and over1................................................................ 13,009 16,147 8.5 10.6

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers................................... 10,787 13,129 9.0 11.1

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction..................................... 59 68 7.0 9.1

Construction........................................................................... 1,744 2,194 18.2 24.7

Manufacturing......................................................................... 1,711 1,918 10.9 13.0

Durable goods...................................................................... 1,157 1,318 11.2 14.1

Nondurable goods................................................................. 554 600 10.3 11.1

Wholesale and retail trade.......................................................... 1,794 2,154 8.7 10.5

Transportation and utilities.......................................................... 522 657 8.4 11.3

Information............................................................................ 232 313 7.4 10.0

Financial activities.................................................................... 571 623 6.0 6.6

Professional and business services................................................ 1,445 1,614 10.4 11.1

Education and health services...................................................... 792 1,175 3.8 5.5

Leisure and hospitality............................................................... 1,487 1,804 11.5 14.2

Other services........................................................................ 431 609 7.1 10.0

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers.......................... 245 318 18.7 21.3

Government workers.................................................................... 652 948 3.0 4.3

Self-employed and unpaid family workers........................................... 659 730 6.5 7.2

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

Jan.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Sept.

2009

Oct.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009

Jan.

2010

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as

a percent of the civilian labor force.............. 3.1 5.6 5.9 3.1 5.5 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.8

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian

labor force........................................... 5.6 6.4 6.9 4.7 6.6 6.7 6.5 6.3 6.1

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the

civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate).................................................. 8.5 9.7 10.6 7.7 9.8 10.1 10.0 10.0 9.7

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers,

as a percent of the civilian labor force plus

discouraged workers............................... 8.9 10.2 11.2 8.2 10.3 10.6 10.5 10.5 10.3

U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers,

plus all other persons marginally attached to

the labor force, as a percent of the civilian

labor force plus all persons marginally attached

to the labor force................................... 9.7 11.1 12.0 9.0 11.1 11.5 11.3 11.4 11.2

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.................................................. 15.4 17.1 18.0 14.0 17.0 17.4 17.2 17.3 16.5

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

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

Jan.

2009

Jan.

2010

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force............................................. 81,293 83,876 31,848 33,410 49,445 50,466

Persons who currently want a job.................................. 5,866 6,108 2,725 2,926 3,141 3,182

Marginally attached to the labor force1........................ 2,130 2,539 1,124 1,367 1,006 1,172

Discouraged workers2

......................................... 734 1,065 465 663 269 401

Other persons marginally attached to the labor force3. . .. 1,396 1,474 659 703 737 771

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders4............................................. 7,258 6,751 3,572 3,223 3,687 3,527

Percent of total employed........................................... 5.2 4.9 4.8 4.5 5.5 5.4

Primary job full time, secondary job part time.................... 3,937 3,558 2,081 1,866 1,856 1,691

Primary and secondary jobs both part time....................... 1,684 1,727 526 527 1,158 1,199

Primary and secondary jobs both full time........................ 232 241 156 144 75 97

Hours vary on primary or secondary job.......................... 1,376 1,186 795 666 580 520

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

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Change

from:

Dec.2009 -

Jan.2010p

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,555 130,969 130,431 127,612 133,549 129,697 129,547 129,527 -20

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,084 107,974 107,601 105,270 110,961 107,190 107,067 107,055 -12

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,350 18,177 17,873 17,375 19,855 17,960 17,906 17,846 -60

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746 682 677 669 761 676 677 681 4

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.3 48.9 47.6 46.1 54.0 47.2 46.9 46.7 -0.2

Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692.2 633.2 629.8 622.4 706.7 628.4 630.5 634.4 3.9

Oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165.1 160.6 159.9 160.5 164.7 160.2 160.0 160.0 0.0

Mining, except oil and gas1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211.8 209.7 204.8 199.5 222.7 207.2 208.2 209.5 1.3

Coal mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.2 79.4 80.4 80.8 86.3 79.3 79.9 80.7 0.8

Support activities for mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315.3 262.9 265.1 262.4 319.3 261.0 262.3 264.9 2.6

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,154 5,868 5,616 5,258 6,551 5,732 5,700 5,625 -75

Construction of buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,428.8 1,320.6 1,282.5 1,211.7 1,485.5 1,295.9 1,282.4 1,261.5 -20.9

Residential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676.0 615.4 600.9 560.9 710.0 602.6 599.1 590.3 -8.8

Nonresidential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752.8 705.2 681.6 650.8 775.5 693.3 683.3 671.2 -12.1

Heavy and civil engineering construction. . . . . . . 807.4 838.3 764.1 700.4 908.5 808.7 799.4 799.4 0.0

Specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,917.3 3,709.0 3,569.0 3,345.4 4,156.5 3,627.6 3,618.3 3,563.9 -54.4

Residential specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . 1,650.9 1,600.7 1,536.9 1,452.3 1,770.6 1,566.6 1,567.7 1,561.4 -6.3

Nonresidential specialty trade contractors. . . . 2,266.4 2,108.3 2,031.7 1,893.1 2,385.9 2,061.0 2,050.6 2,002.5 -48.1

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,450 11,627 11,580 11,448 12,543 11,552 11,529 11,540 11

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,777 7,099 7,078 7,005 7,820 7,047 7,032 7,045 13

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383.8 351.1 348.3 338.1 393.6 348.6 349.1 348.4 -0.7

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408.1 388.8 378.8 365.8 425.5 382.6 383.3 382.2 -1.1

Primary metals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406.5 353.3 353.3 354.6 404.0 350.8 350.7 351.8 1.1

Fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,417.4 1,279.0 1,277.0 1,267.3 1,417.1 1,268.0 1,266.4 1,266.3 -0.1

Machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,129.0 984.0 982.6 972.8 1,128.9 975.9 973.4 973.4 0.0

Computer and electronic products1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,202.4 1,101.2 1,098.6 1,091.1 1,201.4 1,097.9 1,093.4 1,089.8 -3.6

Computer and peripheral equipment. . . . . . . 181.0 160.1 159.5 160.5 180.7 159.5 158.7 160.0 1.3

Communication equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126.3 118.5 119.6 119.6 124.7 118.3 119.2 118.2 -1.0

Semiconductors and electronic

components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407.7 362.3 362.0 358.2 407.7 360.8 359.5 358.2 -1.3

Electronic instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431.6 411.7 409.2 406.1 432.5 411.4 408.5 406.7 -1.8

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . 404.6 364.8 362.5 363.0 403.6 363.4 361.4 362.2 0.8

Transportation equipment1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,402.9 1,328.9 1,333.1 1,322.5 1,415.3 1,318.0 1,315.9 1,334.9 19.0

Motor vehicles and parts2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684.5 663.0 666.2 661.9 696.5 653.3 651.5 674.2 22.7

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420.1 366.9 364.6 355.6 424.2 365.8 362.9 359.1 -3.8

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602.3 581.2 579.1 573.9 606.0 576.1 575.6 576.8 1.2

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,673 4,528 4,502 4,443 4,723 4,505 4,497 4,495 -2

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,436.9 1,471.4 1,461.2 1,422.4 1,460.8 1,457.4 1,456.1 1,449.7 -6.4

Beverages and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . 187.7 185.4 180.9 177.8 192.2 185.3 183.6 182.7 -0.9

Textile mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134.2 123.8 123.8 122.6 133.8 122.5 123.3 121.6 -1.7

Textile product mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136.7 124.7 123.3 121.6 136.7 122.8 121.7 121.6 -0.1

Apparel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174.8 162.7 164.5 164.7 180.0 164.0 166.6 169.6 3.0

Leather and allied products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.0 28.1 28.6 28.6 31.3 28.4 28.6 28.6 0.0

Paper and paper products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424.0 399.6 398.4 396.8 424.6 398.5 397.3 397.2 -0.1

Printing and related support activities. . . . . . . . 555.6 505.9 504.4 495.1 557.6 501.4 500.0 496.9 -3.1

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110.8 115.6 108.7 107.7 115.9 115.2 112.1 113.2 1.1

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821.6 794.7 791.9 789.1 824.3 794.7 791.8 791.5 -0.3

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659.9 616.4 615.8 616.9 665.9 614.8 615.9 622.1 6.2

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,734 89,797 89,728 87,895 91,106 89,230 89,161 89,209 48

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,284 25,111 25,222 24,476 25,475 24,678 24,627 24,642 15

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,715.0 5,593.8 5,574.9 5,504.3 5,759.7 5,568.3 5,556.5 5,547.9 -8.6

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,921.1 2,782.2 2,772.8 2,748.9 2,934.9 2,775.0 2,766.2 2,762.4 -3.8

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,970.8 1,989.9 1,982.1 1,947.7 1,998.7 1,975.4 1,974.6 1,973.8 -0.8

Electronic markets and agents and brokers.. . 823.1 821.7 820.0 807.7 826.1 817.9 815.7 811.7 -4.0

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,682.8 14,736.4 14,869.9 14,313.4 14,792.4 14,374.5 14,356.5 14,398.6 42.1

Motor vehicle and parts dealers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,659.5 1,616.2 1,611.2 1,590.4 1,692.5 1,620.4 1,624.2 1,622.4 -1.8

Automobile dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,046.1 1,005.7 1,007.0 998.6 1,061.6 1,007.8 1,014.0 1,013.4 -0.6

Furniture and home furnishings stores. . . . . . . 479.9 457.0 463.5 440.6 475.7 438.6 436.7 435.9 -0.8

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

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Change

from:

Dec.2009 -

Jan.2010p

Retail trade - Continued

Electronics and appliance stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 514.3 495.5 499.3 489.6 509.4 477.2 477.9 482.6 4.7

Building material and garden supply stores.. . 1,147.2 1,129.6 1,120.3 1,097.3 1,201.3 1,142.9 1,146.3 1,144.7 -1.6

Food and beverage stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,832.0 2,831.2 2,828.0 2,805.1 2,846.7 2,808.5 2,803.3 2,817.6 14.3

Health and personal care stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 987.3 987.4 997.1 987.4 987.9 979.1 981.0 986.2 5.2

Gasoline stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821.4 822.2 821.5 815.6 830.3 823.5 823.0 823.7 0.7

Clothing and clothing accessories stores. . . . . 1,397.5 1,443.7 1,492.6 1,375.4 1,401.1 1,363.1 1,359.1 1,372.4 13.3

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645.9 637.9 659.2 623.3 631.5 604.7 605.8 608.7 2.9

General merchandise stores1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,976.0 3,080.3 3,124.9 2,912.0 2,982.8 2,928.1 2,909.9 2,919.7 9.8

Department stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,496.1 1,576.8 1,623.1 1,481.8 1,485.5 1,464.3 1,457.6 1,467.9 10.3

Miscellaneous store retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 790.8 789.7 794.9 761.4 805.5 773.3 771.1 772.7 1.6

Nonstore retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431.0 445.7 457.4 415.3 427.7 415.1 418.2 412.0 -6.2

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,324.2 4,221.7 4,219.5 4,099.6 4,359.4 4,175.8 4,155.2 4,136.2 -19.0

Air transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467.3 452.5 451.8 452.2 470.6 454.7 454.6 456.1 1.5

Rail transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229.8 214.2 212.2 211.8 229.8 213.2 212.2 211.4 -0.8

Water transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.1 62.3 63.3 61.6 64.6 63.0 63.9 63.4 -0.5

Truck transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,287.2 1,255.5 1,233.9 1,203.3 1,317.0 1,243.3 1,230.4 1,232.9 2.5

Transit and ground passenger

transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432.2 432.4 429.2 426.8 421.8 417.5 415.1 416.9 1.8

Pipeline transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.2 41.8 40.9 40.9 42.2 41.6 40.8 41.1 0.3

Scenic and sightseeing transportation. . . . . . . . 21.0 24.2 24.4 22.4 27.4 27.7 28.4 28.9 0.5

Support activities for transportation. . . . . . . . . . . 569.9 542.1 542.9 534.2 574.6 539.0 538.9 538.2 -0.7

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558.3 550.8 577.0 514.0 556.3 542.7 536.9 513.7 -23.2

Warehousing and storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653.2 645.9 643.9 632.4 655.1 633.1 634.0 633.6 -0.4

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 562.1 559.2 558.1 558.6 563.3 559.8 558.7 559.5 0.8

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,860 2,770 2,763 2,725 2,888 2,762 2,753 2,753 0

Publishing industries, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . 834.6 773.9 774.1 767.4 840.2 770.7 769.9 773.0 3.1

Motion picture and sound recording

industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333.0 352.5 345.4 325.2 349.6 350.6 345.0 343.0 -2.0

Broadcasting, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312.2 297.6 296.3 294.2 313.3 295.5 294.0 294.7 0.7

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996.5 962.5 960.3 955.4 995.6 961.4 957.6 954.5 -3.1

Data processing, hosting and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248.8 248.6 250.9 246.8 253.3 248.3 250.4 250.8 0.4

Other information services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135.0 135.2 136.3 136.0 135.6 135.4 135.9 136.5 0.6

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,898 7,662 7,669 7,601 7,945 7,666 7,659 7,643 -16

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,874.2 5,699.9 5,704.3 5,672.5 5,885.3 5,699.6 5,693.4 5,680.4 -13.0

Monetary authorities - central bank. . . . . . . . . . . 21.3 21.0 21.0 21.1 21.6 21.1 21.1 21.2 0.1

Credit intermediation and related

activities1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,652.7 2,569.4 2,573.4 2,565.3 2,654.1 2,573.1 2,569.2 2,564.0 -5.2

Depository credit intermediation1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,787.8 1,749.3 1,753.1 1,748.4 1,785.5 1,750.9 1,748.8 1,745.4 -3.4

Commercial banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,340.3 1,309.8 1,312.4 1,310.0 1,338.5 1,311.4 1,309.8 1,307.6 -2.2

Securities, commodity contracts,

investments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 839.8 797.1 799.8 792.7 840.8 795.1 796.4 793.2 -3.2

Insurance carriers and related activities. . . . . . 2,269.8 2,226.0 2,223.2 2,207.5 2,278.3 2,223.7 2,220.5 2,216.1 -4.4

Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles. . . 90.6 86.4 86.9 85.9 90.5 86.6 86.2 85.9 -0.3

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,023.8 1,961.6 1,964.8 1,928.0 2,059.7 1,966.8 1,965.5 1,962.9 -2.6

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,429.2 1,406.1 1,410.9 1,380.8 1,453.3 1,405.6 1,405.9 1,404.7 -1.2

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567.9 530.2 528.1 522.4 579.4 535.7 534.0 533.0 -1.0

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets. . . . . 26.7 25.3 25.8 24.8 27.0 25.5 25.6 25.2 -0.4

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,763 16,621 16,573 16,237 17,091 16,466 16,486 16,530 44

Professional and technical services1

. . . . . . . . . . . 7,706.9 7,423.3 7,471.5 7,475.5 7,673.1 7,433.3 7,433.5 7,431.9 -1.6

Legal services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,138.1 1,106.5 1,107.3 1,094.5 1,147.3 1,106.2 1,103.7 1,102.6 -1.1

Accounting and bookkeeping services. . . . . . . 1,024.0 861.1 925.6 1,035.5 927.6 918.4 921.1 930.5 9.4

Architectural and engineering services. . . . . . . 1,376.7 1,297.2 1,293.3 1,270.1 1,392.0 1,289.6 1,292.6 1,284.9 -7.7

Computer systems design and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,431.3 1,441.6 1,434.4 1,431.7 1,433.4 1,431.3 1,426.4 1,433.5 7.1

Management and technical consulting

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993.2 1,002.5 1,003.9 973.4 1,005.6 990.6 992.1 987.1 -5.0

Management of companies and enterprises. . . . 1,893.1 1,826.6 1,826.8 1,809.0 1,897.2 1,824.9 1,816.3 1,810.9 -5.4

Administrative and waste services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,163.0 7,371.0 7,274.6 6,952.1 7,520.8 7,207.3 7,236.3 7,287.6 51.3

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Change

from:

Dec.2009 -

Jan.2010p

Administrative and waste services - Continued

Administrative and support services1

. . . . . . . . 6,812.6 7,017.9 6,926.7 6,609.1 7,166.1 6,856.5 6,887.6 6,939.7 52.1

Employment services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,531.2 2,643.2 2,666.0 2,474.5 2,708.5 2,515.8 2,579.9 2,634.4 54.5

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,844.7 1,966.2 1,990.3 1,846.6 1,982.0 1,861.3 1,919.8 1,971.8 52.0

Business support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838.1 827.7 827.0 803.5 838.8 813.4 807.1 805.1 -2.0

Services to buildings and dwellings. . . . . . . . 1,633.0 1,743.6 1,650.4 1,558.0 1,792.4 1,726.8 1,716.2 1,709.3 -6.9

Waste management and remediation

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350.4 353.1 347.9 343.0 354.7 350.8 348.7 347.9 -0.8

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,968 19,543 19,517 19,246 19,069 19,313 19,339 19,355 16

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,025.8 3,275.8 3,225.8 3,022.6 3,093.5 3,092.7 3,096.4 3,094.4 -2.0

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,941.7 16,267.4 16,291.6 16,223.4 15,975.8 16,220.7 16,243.0 16,260.1 17.1

Health care3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,401.9 13,651.7 13,673.3 13,618.0 13,437.5 13,622.9 13,641.3 13,655.8 14.5

Ambulatory health care services1. . . . . . . . . 5,696.5 5,844.7 5,864.9 5,844.6 5,716.7 5,830.3 5,848.1 5,863.4 15.3

Offices of physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,260.8 2,304.9 2,316.3 2,307.4 2,265.5 2,298.1 2,305.2 2,310.8 5.6

Outpatient care centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538.6 546.1 547.7 545.2 539.6 544.4 546.9 546.7 -0.2

Home health care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 985.2 1,049.5 1,053.6 1,050.2 991.8 1,046.1 1,052.5 1,056.1 3.6

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,662.6 4,697.6 4,700.6 4,691.4 4,670.4 4,690.4 4,693.7 4,698.7 5.0

Nursing and residential care facilities1

. . . . 3,042.8 3,109.4 3,107.8 3,082.0 3,050.4 3,102.2 3,099.5 3,093.7 -5.8

Nursing care facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,626.1 1,655.3 1,652.8 1,639.0 1,630.0 1,649.7 1,648.2 1,644.7 -3.5

Social assistance1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,539.8 2,615.7 2,618.3 2,605.4 2,538.3 2,597.8 2,601.7 2,604.3 2.6

Child day care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870.2 874.8 872.8 867.3 862.8 859.6 858.7 858.7 0.0

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,607 12,788 12,692 12,366 13,209 13,024 12,983 12,969 -14

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,734.8 1,755.8 1,737.7 1,664.1 1,942.1 1,895.7 1,881.9 1,873.6 -8.3

Performing arts and spectator sports. . . . . . . . . 365.1 381.1 374.6 345.5 403.0 393.2 388.1 384.4 -3.7

Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks. . . 118.7 124.7 122.0 117.9 129.8 129.1 129.1 129.1 0.0

Amusements, gambling, and recreation. . . . . . 1,251.0 1,250.0 1,241.1 1,200.7 1,409.3 1,373.4 1,364.7 1,360.1 -4.6

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,872.2 11,032.3 10,953.9 10,702.0 11,266.6 11,128.2 11,101.4 11,095.2 -6.2

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,715.8 1,691.1 1,683.6 1,643.8 1,796.4 1,735.0 1,731.1 1,721.4 -9.7

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . 9,156.4 9,341.2 9,270.3 9,058.2 9,470.2 9,393.2 9,370.3 9,373.8 3.5

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,354 5,302 5,292 5,244 5,429 5,321 5,314 5,317 3

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,165.6 1,137.2 1,131.7 1,125.3 1,181.5 1,141.3 1,139.8 1,138.3 -1.5

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,282.0 1,268.0 1,268.9 1,248.2 1,302.6 1,270.8 1,269.1 1,267.9 -1.2

Membership associations and organizations. . . . 2,906.1 2,896.5 2,891.4 2,870.2 2,944.9 2,908.7 2,904.8 2,910.8 6.0

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,471 22,995 22,830 22,342 22,588 22,507 22,480 22,472 -8

Federal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,772.0 2,825.0 2,816.0 2,840.0 2,803.0 2,833.0 2,826.0 2,859.0 33.0

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,035.4 2,143.6 2,148.8 2,155.0 2,060.8 2,150.4 2,162.0 2,181.2 19.2

U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736.3 680.9 667.5 684.6 742.3 682.8 663.5 677.8 14.3

State government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,116.0 5,348.0 5,280.0 5,064.0 5,197.0 5,172.0 5,171.0 5,153.0 -18.0

State government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,308.0 2,565.3 2,500.5 2,299.1 2,375.6 2,378.0 2,378.0 2,372.9 -5.1

State government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . . 2,808.2 2,782.4 2,779.0 2,765.1 2,821.1 2,793.6 2,793.1 2,779.7 -13.4

Local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,583.0 14,822.0 14,734.0 14,438.0 14,588.0 14,502.0 14,483.0 14,460.0 -23.0

Local government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,195.6 8,419.8 8,369.8 8,128.7 8,086.7 8,054.1 8,041.6 8,031.1 -10.5

Local government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . . 6,387.6 6,402.3 6,364.4 6,309.1 6,501.0 6,448.0 6,440.9 6,428.6 -12.3

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.

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2009 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private.............................................................................. 34.2 33.9 33.8 33.9

Goods-producing..................................................................... 38.7 38.9 38.9 39.2

Mining and logging................................................................ 43.5 42.2 42.0 42.7

Construction........................................................................ 37.5 37.2 37.0 37.3

Manufacturing...................................................................... 39.0 39.6 39.6 39.9

Durable goods................................................................... 39.2 39.8 39.8 40.0

Nondurable goods............................................................... 38.8 39.2 39.4 39.8

Private service-providing............................................................ 33.2 32.8 32.8 32.9

Trade, transportation, and utilities............................................... 34.3 34.0 34.0 34.0

Wholesale trade................................................................. 38.2 37.7 37.6 37.7

Retail trade....................................................................... 31.3 31.2 31.2 31.1

Transportation and warehousing.............................................. 38.4 38.0 38.0 38.0

Utilities............................................................................ 41.5 41.0 40.7 40.6

Information.......................................................................... 36.5 36.5 36.6 36.7

Financial activities................................................................. 36.6 36.7 36.7 36.7

Professional and business services............................................. 35.1 35.1 35.1 35.3

Education and health services................................................... 33.4 32.7 32.7 32.7

Leisure and hospitality............................................................ 25.7 25.5 25.5 25.6

Other services...................................................................... 32.5 31.3 31.3 31.4

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing............................................................................ 2.3 2.6 2.7 2.8

Durable goods........................................................................ 2.1 2.5 2.5 2.6

Nondurable goods.................................................................... 2.6 2.8 3.0 3.1

p = preliminary.
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

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Total private................................................. $22.01 $22.39 $22.41 $22.45 $ 752.74 $ 759.02 $ 757.46 $ 761.06

Goods-producing........................................ 23.54 23.89 23.85 23.94 911.00 929.32 927.77 938.45

Mining and logging................................... 27.14 26.84 26.97 26.94 1,180.59 1,132.65 1,132.74 1,150.34

Construction........................................... 24.60 25.07 25.02 25.18 922.50 932.60 925.74 939.21

Manufacturing......................................... 22.77 23.16 23.12 23.19 888.03 917.14 915.55 925.28

Durable goods...................................... 24.10 24.73 24.68 24.76 944.72 984.25 982.26 990.40

Nondurable goods................................. 20.55 20.67 20.66 20.72 797.34 810.26 814.00 824.66

Private service-providing............................... 21.62 22.03 22.06 22.09 717.78 722.58 723.57 726.76

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................. 19.14 19.52 19.58 19.67 656.50 663.68 665.72 668.78

Wholesale trade.................................... 24.82 25.86 26.04 26.28 948.12 974.92 979.10 990.76

Retail trade.......................................... 15.31 15.46 15.48 15.52 479.20 482.35 482.98 482.67

Transportation and warehousing................. 20.34 20.66 20.70 20.77 781.06 785.08 786.60 789.26

Utilities............................................... 32.84 33.08 33.10 33.03 1,362.86 1,356.28 1,347.17 1,341.02

Information............................................. 28.75 29.94 29.97 29.91 1,049.38 1,092.81 1,096.90 1,097.70

Financial activities.................................... 26.25 26.77 26.81 26.84 960.75 982.46 983.93 985.03

Professional and business services................ 26.70 27.11 27.10 27.08 937.17 951.56 951.21 955.92

Education and health services...................... 22.40 22.53 22.58 22.57 748.16 736.73 738.37 738.04

Leisure and hospitality............................... 12.85 13.14 13.12 13.10 330.25 335.07 334.56 335.36

Other services......................................... 18.78 20.02 20.10 20.19 610.35 626.63 629.13 633.97

p = preliminary.
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

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Percent

change

from:

Dec.

2009 -

Jan.

2010p

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Percent

change

from:

Dec.

2009 -

Jan.

2010p

Total private....................................... 95.1 91.1 90.7 90.9 0.2 99.8 97.2 96.9 97.4 0.5

Goods-producing............................... 87.5 79.6 79.4 79.7 0.4 93.1 85.9 85.5 86.2 0.8

Mining and logging.......................... 104.0 89.6 89.3 91.4 2.4 113.3 96.6 96.7 98.8 2.2

Construction.................................. 84.7 73.5 72.7 72.3 -0.6 90.5 80.0 79.0 79.1 0.1

Manufacturing................................ 88.0 82.3 82.1 82.8 0.9 93.2 88.6 88.3 89.3 1.1

Durable goods............................ 86.3 79.0 78.8 79.3 0.6 92.4 86.7 86.4 87.2 0.9

Nondurable goods........................ 91.5 88.1 88.4 89.3 1.0 95.4 92.4 92.7 93.9 1.3

Private service-providing...................... 97.1 94.0 93.9 94.3 0.4 101.8 100.3 100.4 100.9 0.5

Trade, transportation, and utilities......... 95.0 91.2 91.0 91.1 0.1 97.8 95.8 95.9 96.4 0.5

Wholesale trade........................... 96.0 91.6 91.2 91.3 0.1 99.4 98.9 99.1 100.1 1.0

Retail trade................................ 94.0 91.1 91.0 90.9 -0.1 95.2 93.1 93.1 93.3 0.2

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . .. 95.8 90.8 90.4 90.0 -0.4 98.9 95.2 94.9 94.8 -0.1

Utilities..................................... 101.1 99.3 98.4 98.3 -0.1 109.7 108.5 107.6 107.2 -0.4

Information................................... 96.3 92.1 92.0 92.3 0.3 98.5 98.1 98.2 98.3 0.1

Financial activities........................... 95.8 92.7 92.6 92.4 -0.2 98.2 96.9 96.9 96.8 -0.1

Professional and business services....... 94.4 90.9 91.0 91.8 0.9 102.1 99.8 99.9 100.7 0.8

Education and health services............. 103.7 102.8 102.9 103.0 0.1 108.8 108.5 108.9 108.9 0.0

Leisure and hospitality...................... 96.9 94.8 94.5 94.7 0.2 100.4 100.5 100.0 100.1 0.1

Other services............................... 97.8 92.3 92.2 92.5 0.3 104.2 104.8 105.1 106.0 0.9

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.
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

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Total nonfarm............................................... 66,150 64,736 64,661 64,661 49.5 49.9 49.9 49.9

Total private.............................................. 53,193 51,896 51,844 51,867 47.9 48.4 48.4 48.4

Goods-producing...................................... 4,552 4,163 4,151 4,146 22.9 23.2 23.2 23.2

Mining and logging................................. 103 98 98 97 13.5 14.5 14.5 14.2

Construction........................................ 862 765 758 747 13.2 13.3 13.3 13.3

Manufacturing....................................... 3,587 3,300 3,295 3,302 28.6 28.6 28.6 28.6

Durable goods................................... 1,946 1,744 1,740 1,745 24.9 24.7 24.7 24.8

Nondurable goods............................... 1,641 1,556 1,555 1,557 34.7 34.5 34.6 34.6

Private service-providing............................. 48,641 47,733 47,693 47,721 53.4 53.5 53.5 53.5

Trade, transportation, and utilities............... 10,478 10,089 10,054 10,069 41.1 40.9 40.8 40.9

Wholesale trade................................. 1,768.2 1,685.9 1,683.1 1,673.4 30.7 30.3 30.3 30.2

Retail trade....................................... 7,506.4 7,260.6 7,230.1 7,258.2 50.7 50.5 50.4 50.4

Transportation and warehousing.............. 1,058.0 1,002.7 1,003.0 999.6 24.3 24.0 24.1 24.2

Utilities............................................ 145.3 139.6 138.2 137.4 25.8 24.9 24.7 24.6

Information.......................................... 1,217 1,139 1,134 1,129 42.1 41.2 41.2 41.0

Financial activities.................................. 4,702 4,546 4,536 4,528 59.2 59.3 59.2 59.2

Professional and business services............. 7,702 7,390 7,396 7,425 45.1 44.9 44.9 44.9

Education and health services................... 14,761 14,940 14,954 14,963 77.4 77.4 77.3 77.3

Leisure and hospitality............................. 6,940 6,828 6,822 6,806 52.5 52.4 52.5 52.5

Other services...................................... 2,841 2,801 2,797 2,801 52.3 52.6 52.6 52.7

Government.............................................. 12,957 12,840 12,817 12,794 57.4 57.0 57.0 56.9

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2009 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

p = preliminary.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted1

[In thousands]

Industry Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Total private................................................................................ 91,458 88,302 88,227 88,260

Goods-producing........................................................................ 14,481 12,936 12,893 12,891

Mining and logging................................................................... 573 491 492 502

Construction........................................................................... 5,026 4,337 4,313 4,288

Manufacturing......................................................................... 8,882 8,108 8,088 8,101

Durable goods...................................................................... 5,422 4,816 4,799 4,817

Nondurable goods................................................................. 3,460 3,292 3,289 3,284

Private service-providing............................................................... 76,977 75,366 75,334 75,369

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................................................. 21,623 20,876 20,850 20,870

Wholesale trade.................................................................... 4,656.1 4,481.3 4,466.5 4,458.9

Retail trade......................................................................... 12,714.1 12,328.8 12,327.3 12,381.0

Transportation and warehousing................................................. 3,797.8 3,618.5 3,610.4 3,584.8

Utilities............................................................................... 455.0 446.9 445.5 444.9

Information............................................................................ 2,310 2,200 2,194 2,191

Financial activities.................................................................... 6,136 5,932 5,937 5,915

Professional and business services................................................ 13,963 13,446 13,474 13,532

Education and health services...................................................... 16,728 16,945 16,966 16,966

Leisure and hospitality............................................................... 11,684 11,516 11,461 11,449

Other services........................................................................ 4,533 4,451 4,452 4,446

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.

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2009 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

p = preliminary.
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 Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private.............................................................................. 33.3 33.2 33.2 33.3

Goods-producing..................................................................... 39.3 39.7 39.7 40.0

Mining and logging................................................................ 44.2 43.0 43.4 44.1

Construction........................................................................ 37.9 37.8 37.6 37.9

Manufacturing...................................................................... 39.8 40.5 40.6 40.8

Durable goods................................................................... 39.8 40.6 40.6 40.9

Nondurable goods............................................................... 39.7 40.3 40.5 40.7

Private service-providing............................................................ 32.2 32.1 32.1 32.2

Trade, transportation, and utilities............................................... 32.9 33.0 33.0 33.0

Wholesale trade................................................................. 38.1 37.6 37.6 37.7

Retail trade....................................................................... 29.7 30.0 30.0 30.0

Transportation and warehousing.............................................. 36.0 36.4 36.4 36.6

Utilities............................................................................ 42.6 41.6 41.4 41.4

Information.......................................................................... 37.1 36.7 36.5 36.5

Financial activities................................................................. 36.2 36.1 36.0 36.2

Professional and business services............................................. 34.9 34.8 34.8 35.0

Education and health services................................................... 32.4 32.2 32.3 32.2

Leisure and hospitality............................................................ 24.8 24.9 24.8 24.8

Other services...................................................................... 30.7 30.5 30.5 30.8

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing............................................................................ 2.8 3.4 3.4 3.5

Durable goods........................................................................ 2.6 3.2 3.3 3.4

Nondurable goods.................................................................... 3.2 3.6 3.6 3.7

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.

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2009 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

p = preliminary.
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

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Total private................................................. $18.43 $18.80 $18.84 $18.89 $ 613.72 $ 624.16 $ 625.49 $ 629.04

Goods-producing........................................ 19.72 20.02 20.03 20.10 775.00 794.79 795.19 804.00

Mining and logging................................... 23.18 23.28 23.45 23.38 1,024.56 1,001.04 1,017.73 1,031.06

Construction........................................... 22.43 22.89 22.94 23.08 850.10 865.24 862.54 874.73

Manufacturing......................................... 18.01 18.38 18.37 18.42 716.80 744.39 745.82 751.54

Durable goods...................................... 19.02 19.55 19.57 19.62 757.00 793.73 794.54 802.46

Nondurable goods................................. 16.43 16.66 16.62 16.65 652.27 671.40 673.11 677.66

Private service-providing............................... 18.13 18.54 18.59 18.63 583.79 595.13 596.74 599.89

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................. 16.36 16.65 16.72 16.76 538.24 549.45 551.76 553.08

Wholesale trade.................................... 20.39 21.16 21.35 21.46 776.86 795.62 802.76 809.04

Retail trade.......................................... 12.95 13.12 13.16 13.18 384.62 393.60 394.80 395.40

Transportation and warehousing................. 18.72 18.94 18.96 19.05 673.92 689.42 690.14 697.23

Utilities............................................... 29.17 29.92 29.92 29.77 1,242.64 1,244.67 1,238.69 1,232.48

Information............................................. 24.99 25.68 25.60 25.58 927.13 942.46 934.40 933.67

Financial activities.................................... 20.56 21.07 21.11 21.34 744.27 760.63 759.96 772.51

Professional and business services................ 21.99 22.50 22.55 22.56 767.45 783.00 784.74 789.60

Education and health services...................... 19.18 19.73 19.77 19.80 621.43 635.31 638.57 637.56

Leisure and hospitality............................... 10.98 11.28 11.26 11.24 272.30 280.87 279.25 278.75

Other services......................................... 16.36 16.81 16.85 16.87 502.25 512.71 513.93 519.60

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.

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2009 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

p = preliminary.
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

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Percent

change

from:

Dec.

2009 -

Jan.

2010p

Jan.

2009

Nov.

2009

Dec.

2009p

Jan.

2010p

Percent

change

from:

Dec.

2009 -

Jan.

2010p

Total private....................................... 101.8 97.9 97.9 98.2 0.3 125.3 123.0 123.2 123.9 0.6

Goods-producing............................... 87.0 78.5 78.2 78.8 0.8 105.0 96.2 95.9 97.0 1.1

Mining and logging.......................... 134.6 112.2 113.5 117.6 3.6 181.4 151.9 154.8 160.0 3.4

Construction.................................. 95.4 82.1 81.2 81.4 0.2 115.5 101.5 100.6 101.4 0.8

Manufacturing................................ 81.1 75.4 75.4 75.9 0.7 95.6 90.6 90.5 91.4 1.0

Durable goods............................ 81.1 73.5 73.2 74.0 1.1 96.3 89.7 89.4 90.7 1.5

Nondurable goods........................ 80.9 78.2 78.5 78.8 0.4 94.0 92.0 92.2 92.7 0.5

Private service-providing...................... 106.0 103.4 103.4 103.8 0.4 131.7 131.5 131.8 132.5 0.5

Trade, transportation, and utilities......... 99.2 96.0 95.9 96.0 0.1 115.7 114.1 114.4 114.8 0.3

Wholesale trade........................... 104.5 99.2 98.9 99.0 0.1 125.5 123.7 124.4 125.1 0.6

Retail trade................................ 95.6 93.6 93.6 94.0 0.4 106.1 105.3 105.6 106.2 0.6

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . .. 102.9 99.1 98.9 98.8 -0.1 122.2 119.1 119.0 119.4 0.3

Utilities..................................... 99.1 95.1 94.3 94.2 -0.1 120.7 118.8 117.8 117.1 -0.6

Information................................... 97.8 92.2 91.4 91.3 -0.1 121.0 117.2 115.9 115.6 -0.3

Financial activities........................... 106.3 102.5 102.3 102.5 0.2 135.1 133.5 133.5 135.2 1.3

Professional and business services....... 109.2 104.9 105.1 106.1 1.0 142.9 140.4 141.0 142.5 1.1

Education and health services............. 116.9 117.7 118.2 117.8 -0.3 147.4 152.7 153.6 153.4 -0.1

Leisure and hospitality...................... 106.2 105.1 104.2 104.1 -0.1 132.4 134.6 133.2 132.8 -0.3

Other services............................... 97.6 95.2 95.3 96.1 0.8 116.4 116.6 116.9 118.1 1.0

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.

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2009 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

p = preliminary.