Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until USDL-11-1151 

8:30 a.m. (EDT) Friday, August 5, 2011 

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 – JULY 2011 

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 117,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was little 

changed at 9.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in health 

care, retail trade, manufacturing, and mining. Government employment continued to trend down. 

Household Survey Data 

The number of unemployed persons (13.9 million) and the unemployment rate (9.1 percent) changed 

little in July. Since April, the unemployment rate has shown little definitive movement. The labor force, 

at 153.2 million, was little changed in July. (See table A-1.) 

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (9.0 percent), adult women 

(7.9 percent), teenagers (25.0 percent), whites (8.1 percent), blacks (15.9 percent), and Hispanics (11.3 

percent) showed little or no change in July. The jobless rate for Asians was 7.7 percent, not seasonally 

adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.) 

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Chart 2. Nonfarm payroll employment over-the-month 

change, seasonally adjusted, July 2009 – July 2011

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Chart 1. Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, 

July 2009 – July 2011
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The number of persons unemployed for less than 5 weeks declined by 387,000 in July, mostly 

offsetting an increase in the prior month. The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 

weeks and over), at 6.2 million, changed little over the month and accounted for 44.4 percent of the 

unemployed. (See table A-12.) 

The civilian labor force participation rate edged down in July to 63.9 percent, and the employmentpopulation ratio was little changed at 58.1 percent. (See table A-1.) 

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

involuntary part-time workers) was about unchanged in July at 8.4 million. These individuals were 

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

job. (See table A-8.) 

In July, 2.8 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, little changed from a year 

earlier. (These 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 July, about the same as 

a year earlier. (These 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 1.7 million persons 

marginally attached to the labor force in July had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the 

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

Establishment Survey Data 

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 117,000 in July, following little growth over the prior 

2 months. Total private employment rose by 154,000 over the month, reflecting job gains in several 

major industries, including health care, retail trade, manufacturing, and mining. Government 

employment continued to decline. (See table B-1.) 

Health care employment grew by 31,000 in July. Ambulatory health care services and hospitals each 

added 14,000 jobs over the month. Over the past 12 months, health care employment has grown by 

299,000. 

Retail trade added 26,000 jobs in July. Employment in health and personal care stores rose by 9,000 

over the month with small increases distributed among several other retail industries. Employment in 

retail trade has increased by 228,000 since a recent low in December 2009. 

Manufacturing employment increased in July (+24,000); nearly all of the increase was in durable 

goods manufacturing. Within durable goods, the motor vehicles and parts industry had fewer seasonal 

layoffs than typical for July, contributing to a seasonally adjusted employment increase of 12,000. 

Manufacturing has added 289,000 jobs since its most recent trough in December 2009, and durable 

goods manufacturing added 327,000 jobs during this period. 

In July, employment in mining rose by 9,000; virtually all of the gain (+8,000) occurred in support 

activities for mining. Employment in mining has increased by 140,000 since a recent low in October 

2009. 
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Employment in professional and technical services continued to trend up in July (+18,000). This 

industry has added 246,000 jobs since a recent low in March 2010. Employment in temporary help 

services changed little over the month and has shown little movement on net so far this year. 

Elsewhere in the private sector, employment in construction, transportation and warehousing,

information, financial activities, and leisure and hospitality changed little over the month. 

Government employment continued to trend down over the month (-37,000). Employment in state 

government decreased by 23,000, almost entirely due to a partial shutdown of the Minnesota state 

government. Employment in local government continued to wane over the month. 

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged over the month 

at 34.3 hours. The manufacturing workweek and factory overtime for all employees also were 

unchanged at 40.3 hours and 3.1 hours, respectively. In July, the average workweek for production and 

nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls was 33.6 hours for the sixth consecutive 

month. (See tables B-2 and B-7.) 

In July, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls increased by 10 cents, 

or 0.4 percent, to $23.13. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have increased by 2.3 

percent. In July, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees

increased by 8 cents, or 0.4 percent, to $19.52. (See tables B-3 and B-8.) 

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for May was revised from +25,000 to +53,000, and the 

change for June was revised from +18,000 to +46,000. 

The Employment Situation for August is scheduled to be released on Friday, September 2, 2011, at 

8:30 a.m. (EDT). 
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category July

2010

May

2011

June

2011

July

2011

Change from:

June 2011-

July 2011

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population............................................ 237,890 239,313 239,489 239,671 182

Civilian labor force............................................................ 153,628 153,693 153,421 153,228 -193

Participation rate........................................................... 64.6 64.2 64.1 63.9 -0.2

Employed.................................................................... 138,991 139,779 139,334 139,296 -38

Employment-population ratio........................................... 58.4 58.4 58.2 58.1 -0.1

Unemployed................................................................. 14,637 13,914 14,087 13,931 -156

Unemployment rate..................................................... 9.5 9.1 9.2 9.1 -0.1

Not in labor force............................................................. 84,262 85,620 86,069 86,443 374

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over....................................................... 9.5 9.1 9.2 9.1 -0.1

Adult men (20 years and over).............................................. 9.7 8.9 9.1 9.0 -0.1

Adult women (20 years and over).......................................... 7.9 8.0 8.0 7.9 -0.1

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)................................................. 26.1 24.2 24.5 25.0 0.5

White........................................................................... 8.6 8.0 8.1 8.1 0.0

Black or African American................................................... 15.7 16.2 16.2 15.9 -0.3

Asian (not seasonally adjusted)............................................. 8.2 7.0 6.8 7.7 –

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.................................................. 12.1 11.9 11.6 11.3 -0.3

Total, 25 years and over....................................................... 8.1 7.8 8.0 7.8 -0.2

Less than a high school diploma........................................... 13.9 14.7 14.3 15.0 0.7

High school graduates, no college......................................... 10.1 9.5 10.0 9.3 -0.7

Some college or associate degree......................................... 8.4 8.0 8.4 8.3 -0.1

Bachelor’s degree and higher............................................... 4.5 4.5 4.4 4.3 -0.1

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs................... 9,090 8,274 8,261 8,215 -46

Job leavers....................................................................... 896 908 965 928 -37

Reentrants........................................................................ 3,417 3,433 3,430 3,410 -20

New entrants..................................................................... 1,197 1,231 1,222 1,270 48

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks.............................................................. 2,833 2,664 3,076 2,689 -387

5 to 14 weeks.................................................................... 3,098 2,892 2,972 3,088 116

15 to 26 weeks.................................................................. 2,171 1,984 1,836 1,965 129

27 weeks and over.............................................................. 6,539 6,200 6,289 6,185 -104

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons............................................... 8,533 8,548 8,552 8,396 -156

Slack work or business conditions.......................................... 6,164 5,834 5,806 5,687 -119

Could only find part-time work.............................................. 2,301 2,473 2,401 2,517 116

Part time for noneconomic reasons........................................... 18,219 18,468 18,470 18,258 -212

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force........................................ 2,622 2,206 2,680 2,785 –

Discouraged workers......................................................... 1,185 822 982 1,119 –

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

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

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

the release of January data.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

Category July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -49 53 46 117

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 99 80 154

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 20 16 42

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 10 10 10

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -11 3 -5 8

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 7 11 24

Durable goods1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 18 17 23

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.3 0.1 2.1 12.0

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -3 -11 -6 1

Private service-providing1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 79 64 112

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 8.2 5.7 1.7

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.8 2.8 11.2 25.9

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.0 12.0 12.4 1.1

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 0 0 -1

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -10 13 -18 -4

Professional and business services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -2 44 4 34

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -2.8 -1.0 -11.6 0.3

Education and health services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 21 12 38

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.2 26.0 12.6 36.7

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -5 -25 33 17

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3 3 0

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -142 -46 -34 -37

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

Total nonfarm women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.8 49.5 49.5 49.4

Total private women employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.3 48.0 48.0 47.9

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 34.4 34.3 34.3

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 22.61 $ 23.02 $ 23.03 $ 23.13

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 773.26 $791.89 $789.93 $793.36

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.0 93.9 93.7 93.8

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.3 0.1 -0.2 0.1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.2 103.1 102.9 103.5

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.5 0.5 -0.2 0.6

HOURS AND EARNINGS

PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.5 33.6 33.6 33.6

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 19.08 $ 19.42 $ 19.44 $ 19.52

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 639.18 $652.51 $653.18 $655.87

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.0 100.8 100.8 101.0

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2002=100)4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126.3 130.8 131.0 131.7

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.5

DIFFUSION INDEX

(Over 1-month span)5

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.4 55.4 56.6 58.6

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.9 53.1 54.3 53.1

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.

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 about 100,000 is statistically 

significant in the establishment survey, while the threshold for a statistically significant change in the 

household survey is about 400,000. However, the household survey has a more expansive scope than 

the establishment survey because it includes 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 (some of which include discouraged workers and 

other groups not officially counted as unemployed) are published each month in The Employment 

Situation news release. 

How can unusually severe weather affect employment and hours estimates? 

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

Unusually severe weather is more likely to have an impact on average weekly hours than on employment. Average weekly hours are estimated for paid time during the pay period, including pay for 

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

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

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

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

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

be off work without pay for the entire pay period. About half of all employees in the payroll survey have 

a 2-week, semi-monthly, or monthly pay period. Employees who receive pay for any part of the pay 

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

effect of extreme weather on estimates of employment from the establishment survey. 

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

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

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

persons who usually work full time but had reduced hours, or had a job but were not at work the entire 

week, due to bad weather. Current and historical data are available on the household survey’s most 

requested statistics page at http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ln. 
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 440,000 worksites and is drawn from a sampling frame of roughly 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 month-tomonth economic activity. 

Many seasonally adjusted series are independently 

adjusted in both the household and establishment surveys. 

However, the adjusted series for many major estimates, 

such as total payroll employment, employment in most 

major sectors, total employment, and unemployment are 

computed by aggregating independently adjusted 

component series. For example, total unemployment is 

derived by summing the adjusted series for four major 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

July

2010

June

2011

July

2011

July

2010

Mar.

2011

Apr.

2011

May

2011

June

2011

July

2011

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237,890 239,489 239,671 237,890 239,000 239,146 239,313 239,489 239,671

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,270 154,538 154,812 153,628 153,406 153,421 153,693 153,421 153,228

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.3 64.5 64.6 64.6 64.2 64.2 64.2 64.1 63.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,134 140,129 140,384 138,991 139,864 139,674 139,779 139,334 139,296

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.9 58.5 58.6 58.4 58.5 58.4 58.4 58.2 58.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,137 14,409 14,428 14,637 13,542 13,747 13,914 14,087 13,931

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.7 9.3 9.3 9.5 8.8 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,620 84,951 84,859 84,262 85,594 85,725 85,620 86,069 86,443

Persons who currently want a job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,143 7,124 6,810 5,932 6,509 6,539 6,227 6,537 6,575

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,207 116,250 116,347 115,207 115,988 116,067 116,156 116,250 116,347

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,071 82,757 82,871 81,986 81,674 81,684 81,989 81,966 81,751

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.1 71.2 71.2 71.2 70.4 70.4 70.6 70.5 70.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,749 74,848 75,208 73,466 74,108 73,973 74,177 74,014 73,908

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.9 64.4 64.6 63.8 63.9 63.7 63.9 63.7 63.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,323 7,910 7,664 8,520 7,566 7,712 7,811 7,952 7,844

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.0 9.6 9.2 10.4 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.7 9.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,135 33,493 33,476 33,221 34,313 34,382 34,168 34,284 34,596

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,641 107,668 107,773 106,641 107,381 107,469 107,566 107,668 107,773

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,356 79,324 79,322 78,993 78,764 78,856 79,193 79,104 78,906

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.4 73.7 73.6 74.1 73.4 73.4 73.6 73.5 73.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,068 72,427 72,588 71,340 71,959 71,939 72,137 71,937 71,836

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.6 67.3 67.4 66.9 67.0 66.9 67.1 66.8 66.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,287 6,897 6,734 7,653 6,805 6,917 7,056 7,167 7,070

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.2 8.7 8.5 9.7 8.6 8.8 8.9 9.1 9.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,286 28,344 28,451 27,648 28,617 28,612 28,373 28,564 28,867

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122,683 123,239 123,324 122,683 123,012 123,079 123,157 123,239 123,324

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,199 71,781 71,941 71,642 71,732 71,737 71,704 71,455 71,476

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.8 58.2 58.3 58.4 58.3 58.3 58.2 58.0 58.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,385 65,282 65,176 65,526 65,756 65,702 65,602 65,320 65,388

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.3 53.0 52.8 53.4 53.5 53.4 53.3 53.0 53.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,814 6,499 6,764 6,117 5,976 6,035 6,102 6,134 6,088

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.4 9.1 9.4 8.5 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,484 51,458 51,383 51,041 51,280 51,342 51,453 51,784 51,847

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,372 115,045 115,138 114,372 114,792 114,868 114,954 115,045 115,138

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,717 68,459 68,512 68,797 68,898 68,896 68,908 68,618 68,666

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.1 59.5 59.5 60.2 60.0 60.0 59.9 59.6 59.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,775 62,811 62,603 63,340 63,566 63,479 63,402 63,098 63,216

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.9 54.6 54.4 55.4 55.4 55.3 55.2 54.8 54.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,942 5,648 5,909 5,458 5,332 5,417 5,505 5,520 5,450

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.6 8.2 8.6 7.9 7.7 7.9 8.0 8.0 7.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,654 46,586 46,626 45,575 45,894 45,972 46,047 46,427 46,472

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,877 16,776 16,760 16,877 16,827 16,809 16,792 16,776 16,760

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,197 6,755 6,978 5,838 5,744 5,669 5,592 5,698 5,656

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.6 40.3 41.6 34.6 34.1 33.7 33.3 34.0 33.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,290 4,891 5,193 4,312 4,339 4,255 4,240 4,299 4,244

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.3 29.2 31.0 25.5 25.8 25.3 25.2 25.6 25.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,907 1,864 1,785 1,526 1,405 1,413 1,352 1,399 1,412

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.5 27.6 25.6 26.1 24.5 24.9 24.2 24.5 25.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,679 10,021 9,782 11,039 11,083 11,140 11,201 11,078 11,104

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

July

2010

June

2011

July

2011

July

2010

Mar.

2011

Apr.

2011

May

2011

June

2011

July

2011

WHITE

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192,109 192,989 193,106 192,109 192,688 192,771 192,877 192,989 193,106

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126,152 125,335 125,659 125,094 124,497 124,650 124,811 124,493 124,503

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.7 64.9 65.1 65.1 64.6 64.7 64.7 64.5 64.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,183 114,995 115,350 114,312 114,706 114,652 114,785 114,358 114,420

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.0 59.6 59.7 59.5 59.5 59.5 59.5 59.3 59.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,969 10,340 10,309 10,782 9,791 9,998 10,026 10,135 10,083

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.7 8.2 8.2 8.6 7.9 8.0 8.0 8.1 8.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,957 67,654 67,448 67,016 68,191 68,122 68,066 68,496 68,603

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,603 65,360 65,396 65,418 64,864 65,032 65,335 65,203 65,099

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.9 74.2 74.1 74.7 73.7 73.9 74.2 74.0 73.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,213 60,355 60,555 59,651 59,850 59,903 60,168 59,943 59,929

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.8 68.5 68.6 68.1 68.0 68.1 68.3 68.0 67.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,389 5,005 4,841 5,767 5,014 5,129 5,167 5,261 5,170

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2 7.7 7.4 8.8 7.7 7.9 7.9 8.1 7.9

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,634 54,429 54,464 54,839 54,950 54,971 54,912 54,633 54,696

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.6 59.1 59.1 59.8 59.8 59.8 59.7 59.4 59.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,429 50,471 50,345 50,955 51,184 51,138 50,999 50,775 50,866

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.0 54.8 54.7 55.6 55.7 55.6 55.5 55.2 55.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,205 3,958 4,119 3,883 3,766 3,833 3,914 3,858 3,830

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.7 7.3 7.6 7.1 6.9 7.0 7.1 7.1 7.0

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,915 5,546 5,798 4,837 4,683 4,646 4,563 4,657 4,708

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.0 43.3 45.3 37.6 36.4 36.2 35.6 36.3 36.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,540 4,168 4,450 3,706 3,672 3,610 3,619 3,640 3,625

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.3 32.5 34.7 28.8 28.6 28.1 28.2 28.4 28.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,375 1,377 1,348 1,131 1,011 1,036 945 1,017 1,083

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.2 24.8 23.3 23.4 21.6 22.3 20.7 21.8 23.0

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,718 29,093 29,123 28,718 29,005 29,035 29,063 29,093 29,123

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,066 17,966 17,895 17,676 17,836 17,849 17,750 17,733 17,582

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.9 61.8 61.4 61.5 61.5 61.5 61.1 61.0 60.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,059 14,993 14,890 14,908 15,067 14,966 14,870 14,855 14,786

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.4 51.5 51.1 51.9 51.9 51.5 51.2 51.1 50.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,007 2,972 3,004 2,767 2,769 2,882 2,880 2,877 2,796

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.6 16.5 16.8 15.7 15.5 16.1 16.2 16.2 15.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,652 11,127 11,229 11,043 11,169 11,186 11,313 11,360 11,541

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,088 8,155 8,105 8,008 8,119 8,113 8,056 8,111 8,044

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.5 68.7 68.2 68.8 68.7 68.6 68.0 68.3 67.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,749 6,793 6,748 6,669 6,758 6,731 6,645 6,736 6,680

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.0 57.2 56.8 57.3 57.2 56.9 56.1 56.7 56.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,339 1,362 1,357 1,339 1,361 1,382 1,411 1,375 1,364

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.6 16.7 16.7 16.7 16.8 17.0 17.5 17.0 17.0

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,161 9,011 9,050 9,026 9,050 9,054 9,056 8,953 8,945

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.5 61.6 61.8 62.5 62.1 62.0 62.0 61.2 61.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,854 7,760 7,709 7,863 7,923 7,836 7,847 7,718 7,745

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.4 53.1 52.6 54.5 54.4 53.7 53.7 52.8 52.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,307 1,251 1,341 1,164 1,127 1,217 1,210 1,235 1,200

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.3 13.9 14.8 12.9 12.5 13.4 13.4 13.8 13.4

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817 799 740 641 668 682 638 669 594

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.8 30.8 28.5 24.2 25.6 26.2 24.5 25.8 22.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456 440 433 376 387 398 378 402 361

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.2 16.9 16.7 14.2 14.8 15.3 14.5 15.5 13.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 360 306 265 281 284 260 267 233

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.2 45.0 41.4 41.3 42.1 41.6 40.7 39.9 39.2

ASIAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,200 11,379 11,410 – – – – – –

See footnotes at end of table.
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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

July

2010

June

2011

July

2011

July

2010

Mar.

2011

Apr.

2011

May

2011

June

2011

July

2011

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,342 7,384 7,405 – – – – – –

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.6 64.9 64.9 – – – – – –

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,742 6,881 6,838 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.2 60.5 59.9 – – – – – –

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601 504 568 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2 6.8 7.7 – – – – – –

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,857 3,995 4,004 – – – – – –

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.
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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

July

2010

June

2011

July

2011

July

2010

Mar.

2011

Apr.

2011

May

2011

June

2011

July

2011

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population.................. 33,747 34,391 34,470 33,747 34,155 34,233 34,311 34,391 34,470

Civilian labor force................................. 22,908 22,884 22,920 22,737 22,676 22,798 22,739 22,816 22,741

Participation rate................................. 67.9 66.5 66.5 67.4 66.4 66.6 66.3 66.3 66.0

Employed......................................... 20,110 20,241 20,325 19,980 20,105 20,110 20,025 20,164 20,171

Employment-population ratio................ 59.6 58.9 59.0 59.2 58.9 58.7 58.4 58.6 58.5

Unemployed...................................... 2,798 2,643 2,596 2,757 2,571 2,688 2,715 2,653 2,570

Unemployment rate........................... 12.2 11.5 11.3 12.1 11.3 11.8 11.9 11.6 11.3

Not in labor force................................... 10,839 11,507 11,549 11,010 11,479 11,435 11,571 11,574 11,728

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................. 13,065 13,004 13,088 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 83.2 81.7 82.0 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 11,735 11,731 11,882 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 74.7 73.7 74.5 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 1,330 1,273 1,206 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 10.2 9.8 9.2 – – – – – –

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................. 8,650 8,861 8,722 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 58.5 58.8 57.8 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 7,599 7,852 7,735 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 51.4 52.1 51.2 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 1,050 1,010 987 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 12.1 11.4 11.3 – – – – – –

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force................................. 1,193 1,018 1,110 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 36.8 29.9 32.6 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 775 658 708 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 23.9 19.3 20.8 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 418 360 402 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 35.0 35.4 36.2 – – – – – –

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.
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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

July

2010

June

2011

July

2011

July

2010

Mar.

2011

Apr.

2011

May

2011

June

2011

July

2011

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force.................................... 11,823 11,672 11,629 12,013 11,652 11,567 11,442 11,392 11,704

Participation rate.................................... 46.4 46.1 46.6 47.2 46.1 45.5 45.1 45.0 46.9

Employed............................................ 10,286 10,141 9,988 10,345 10,059 9,876 9,757 9,768 9,952

Employment-population ratio................... 40.4 40.0 40.0 40.6 39.8 38.9 38.5 38.6 39.9

Unemployed......................................... 1,538 1,531 1,641 1,668 1,593 1,691 1,685 1,624 1,752

Unemployment rate.............................. 13.0 13.1 14.1 13.9 13.7 14.6 14.7 14.3 15.0

High school graduates, no college1

Civilian labor force.................................... 37,583 37,351 37,113 37,977 37,171 37,506 37,653 37,612 37,505

Participation rate.................................... 61.0 60.2 59.9 61.6 60.0 60.4 60.4 60.6 60.6

Employed............................................ 33,844 33,813 33,750 34,155 33,654 33,881 34,072 33,836 34,006

Employment-population ratio................... 54.9 54.5 54.5 55.4 54.4 54.6 54.6 54.5 54.9

Unemployed......................................... 3,739 3,538 3,364 3,822 3,517 3,626 3,581 3,775 3,499

Unemployment rate.............................. 9.9 9.5 9.1 10.1 9.5 9.7 9.5 10.0 9.3

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force.................................... 36,884 36,454 36,706 36,792 36,653 36,637 36,780 36,786 36,686

Participation rate.................................... 70.3 69.2 68.9 70.1 69.7 69.7 69.7 69.8 68.9

Employed............................................ 33,715 33,406 33,579 33,711 33,938 33,907 33,852 33,708 33,657

Employment-population ratio................... 64.3 63.4 63.0 64.3 64.6 64.5 64.1 63.9 63.2

Unemployed......................................... 3,169 3,048 3,128 3,081 2,715 2,730 2,928 3,079 3,028

Unemployment rate.............................. 8.6 8.4 8.5 8.4 7.4 7.5 8.0 8.4 8.3

Bachelor’s degree and higher2

Civilian labor force.................................... 46,042 46,633 46,621 45,980 46,919 46,897 46,925 46,963 46,680

Participation rate.................................... 76.2 76.2 76.0 76.1 76.9 77.0 77.5 76.8 76.1

Employed............................................ 43,725 44,590 44,435 43,888 44,843 44,789 44,807 44,894 44,677

Employment-population ratio................... 72.4 72.9 72.5 72.7 73.5 73.5 74.0 73.4 72.9

Unemployed......................................... 2,317 2,044 2,186 2,092 2,076 2,109 2,118 2,069 2,003

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

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.
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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

July

2010

July

2011

July

2010

July

2011

July

2010

July

2011

VETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,997 21,596 20,210 19,794 1,787 1,802

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,857 11,387 10,739 10,324 1,118 1,063

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.9 52.7 53.1 52.2 62.6 59.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,863 10,412 9,809 9,459 1,053 953

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.4 48.2 48.5 47.8 58.9 52.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994 975 930 865 65 110

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.4 8.6 8.7 8.4 5.8 10.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,140 10,209 9,471 9,470 669 739

Gulf War-era II veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,161 2,339 1,758 1,937 402 402

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,824 1,878 1,529 1,615 295 262

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84.4 80.3 87.0 83.4 73.3 65.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,609 1,645 1,346 1,420 262 226

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.5 70.3 76.6 73.3 65.2 56.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 232 183 195 32 37

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.8 12.4 12.0 12.1 11.0 14.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336 461 229 322 108 139

Gulf War-era I veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,897 2,947 2,441 2,457 456 490

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,473 2,456 2,125 2,096 349 359

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.4 83.3 87.1 85.3 76.4 73.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,293 2,265 1,969 1,939 325 326

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.2 76.9 80.7 78.9 71.1 66.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 191 156 158 24 33

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.3 7.8 7.3 7.5 6.9 9.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 492 316 361 108 131

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

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,971 10,426 10,596 10,088 375 338

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,985 3,620 3,879 3,528 106 92

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.3 34.7 36.6 35.0 28.3 27.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,654 3,328 3,551 3,242 104 86

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.3 31.9 33.5 32.1 27.6 25.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 292 328 286 2 6

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.3 8.1 8.5 8.1 2.2 6.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,986 6,806 6,717 6,560 269 246

Veterans of other service periods

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,968 5,884 5,415 5,312 553 573

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,574 3,434 3,206 3,085 368 349

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.9 58.4 59.2 58.1 66.6 61.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,306 3,174 2,943 2,859 363 316

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.4 53.9 54.4 53.8 65.5 55.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 260 262 226 6 34

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.5 7.6 8.2 7.3 1.6 9.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,394 2,450 2,209 2,227 185 223

NONVETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207,265 209,487 90,554 92,092 116,712 117,395

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,908 140,959 70,999 71,285 69,908 69,674

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.0 67.3 78.4 77.4 59.9 59.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,573 128,257 64,035 64,860 63,538 63,397

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.6 61.2 70.7 70.4 54.4 54.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,335 12,702 6,965 6,425 6,371 6,277

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.5 9.0 9.8 9.0 9.1 9.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66,357 68,528 19,554 20,806 46,803 47,721

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

July

2010

July

2011

July

2010

July

2011

TOTAL, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population....................................................... 26,000 27,278 211,890 212,393

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 5,603 5,773 149,668 149,039

Participation rate...................................................................... 21.5 21.2 70.6 70.2

Employed.............................................................................. 4,684 4,802 135,450 135,581

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 18.0 17.6 63.9 63.8

Unemployed........................................................................... 919 970 14,218 13,458

Unemployment rate................................................................ 16.4 16.8 9.5 9.0

Not in labor force........................................................................ 20,397 21,505 62,223 63,354

Men, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 2,606 2,687 76,808 76,208

Participation rate...................................................................... 36.2 36.2 84.2 83.3

Employed.............................................................................. 2,167 2,215 69,198 69,266

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 30.1 29.9 75.8 75.7

Unemployed........................................................................... 439 472 7,609 6,942

Unemployment rate................................................................ 16.8 17.6 9.9 9.1

Not in labor force........................................................................ 4,602 4,734 14,432 15,270

Women, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 2,192 2,232 67,036 66,685

Participation rate...................................................................... 30.3 29.7 71.7 71.2

Employed.............................................................................. 1,801 1,816 60,827 60,555

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 24.9 24.2 65.1 64.7

Unemployed........................................................................... 391 416 6,210 6,129

Unemployment rate................................................................ 17.8 18.6 9.3 9.2

Not in labor force........................................................................ 5,046 5,272 26,460 26,949

Both sexes, 65 years and over

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 805 854 5,824 6,147

Participation rate...................................................................... 7.0 6.9 21.4 22.5

Employed.............................................................................. 716 771 5,425 5,761

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 6.2 6.2 20.0 21.1

Unemployed........................................................................... 89 83 399 386

Unemployment rate................................................................ 11.1 9.7 6.8 6.3

Not in labor force........................................................................ 10,749 11,499 21,331 21,135

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

July

2010

July

2011

July

2010

July

2011

July

2010

July

2011

Foreign born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population.................................... 36,207 36,576 18,266 18,247 17,942 18,328

Civilian labor force................................................... 24,586 24,516 14,746 14,575 9,841 9,941

Participation rate................................................... 67.9 67.0 80.7 79.9 54.8 54.2

Employed........................................................... 22,249 22,264 13,340 13,291 8,909 8,973

Employment-population ratio.................................. 61.5 60.9 73.0 72.8 49.7 49.0

Unemployed........................................................ 2,337 2,252 1,405 1,284 932 968

Unemployment rate............................................. 9.5 9.2 9.5 8.8 9.5 9.7

Not in labor force..................................................... 11,621 12,060 3,520 3,673 8,101 8,387

Native born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population.................................... 201,683 203,095 96,941 98,100 104,741 104,996

Civilian labor force................................................... 130,684 130,296 68,326 68,297 62,358 61,999

Participation rate................................................... 64.8 64.2 70.5 69.6 59.5 59.0

Employed........................................................... 117,884 118,120 61,408 61,917 56,476 56,203

Employment-population ratio.................................. 58.5 58.2 63.3 63.1 53.9 53.5

Unemployed........................................................ 12,800 12,176 6,918 6,380 5,882 5,796

Unemployment rate............................................. 9.8 9.3 10.1 9.3 9.4 9.3

Not in labor force..................................................... 70,999 72,799 28,615 29,803 42,384 42,996

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

July

2010

June

2011

July

2011

July

2010

Mar.

2011

Apr.

2011

May

2011

June

2011

July

2011

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries................... 2,416 2,419 2,484 2,189 2,251 2,087 2,243 2,217 2,245

Wage and salary workers1....................... 1,485 1,507 1,596 1,328 1,423 1,245 1,391 1,383 1,419

Self-employed workers, unincorporated......... 884 875 867 825 835 818 822 829 810

Unpaid family workers............................. 47 36 21 – – – – – –

Nonagricultural industries............................ 137,717 137,711 137,900 136,599 137,738 137,595 137,551 137,035 136,837

Wage and salary workers1

....................... 128,707 128,883 129,200 127,950 128,800 128,840 128,803 128,437 128,393

Government...................................... 20,326 20,139 19,661 20,928 20,858 20,726 20,309 20,318 20,302

Private industries................................ 108,381 108,744 109,538 106,989 107,946 108,186 108,505 108,209 108,070

Private households............................ 692 766 822 – – – – – –

Other industries............................... 107,689 107,977 108,716 106,362 107,251 107,510 107,727 107,511 107,319

Self-employed workers, unincorporated......... 8,927 8,752 8,618 8,780 8,773 8,650 8,655 8,543 8,525

Unpaid family workers............................. 83 76 82 – – – – – –

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME2

All industries

Part time for economic reasons3................... 8,737 8,738 8,514 8,533 8,433 8,600 8,548 8,552 8,396

Slack work or business conditions............... 5,994 5,660 5,542 6,164 5,595 5,689 5,834 5,806 5,687

Could only find part-time work.................... 2,360 2,570 2,555 2,301 2,332 2,480 2,473 2,401 2,517

Part time for noneconomic reasons4.............. 16,635 17,355 16,680 18,219 18,417 18,282 18,468 18,470 18,258

Nonagricultural industries

Part time for economic reasons3

................... 8,610 8,600 8,372 8,384 8,265 8,475 8,400 8,400 8,218

Slack work or business conditions............... 5,907 5,570 5,438 6,051 5,504 5,581 5,731 5,704 5,569

Could only find part-time work.................... 2,346 2,537 2,536 2,235 2,305 2,457 2,444 2,341 2,466

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 16,313 16,983 16,283 17,886 17,984 17,967 18,126 18,151 17,880

1 Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated.

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

entire week.

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

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

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

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

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

- Data not available.

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

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

Table A-9. Selected employment indicators

[Numbers in thousands]

Characteristic

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

July

2010

June

2011

July

2011

July

2010

Mar.

2011

Apr.

2011

May

2011

June

2011

July

2011

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,134 140,129 140,384 138,991 139,864 139,674 139,779 139,334 139,296

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,290 4,891 5,193 4,312 4,339 4,255 4,240 4,299 4,244

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,698 1,554 1,714 1,343 1,326 1,247 1,249 1,358 1,343

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,591 3,337 3,478 2,974 2,990 2,989 2,982 2,945 2,890

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134,844 135,238 135,191 134,679 135,525 135,419 135,539 135,035 135,052

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,275 13,289 13,440 12,677 13,021 12,978 12,970 12,911 12,860

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,569 121,949 121,751 122,098 122,479 122,423 122,641 122,175 122,228

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,780 93,441 93,333 94,075 93,949 93,690 93,919 93,505 93,550

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,405 30,463 30,431 30,288 30,538 30,354 30,627 30,416 30,322

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,470 30,170 30,157 30,610 30,605 30,441 30,302 30,197 30,249

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,906 32,808 32,745 33,177 32,806 32,895 32,989 32,892 32,979

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,789 28,509 28,418 28,023 28,530 28,733 28,722 28,670 28,677

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,749 74,848 75,208 73,466 74,108 73,973 74,177 74,014 73,908

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,680 2,421 2,619 2,126 2,149 2,033 2,040 2,077 2,072

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 905 775 888 671 688 582 594 646 652

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,776 1,646 1,731 1,464 1,454 1,441 1,446 1,451 1,429

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,068 72,427 72,588 71,340 71,959 71,939 72,137 71,937 71,836

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,857 7,051 7,127 6,438 6,731 6,712 6,756 6,754 6,711

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,211 65,376 65,461 64,934 65,207 65,193 65,448 65,193 65,163

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,624 50,269 50,329 50,342 50,241 50,107 50,358 50,096 50,018

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,616 16,666 16,665 16,414 16,677 16,557 16,747 16,607 16,481

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,702 16,386 16,447 16,641 16,481 16,428 16,421 16,365 16,371

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,306 17,217 17,217 17,287 17,083 17,123 17,189 17,124 17,167

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,588 15,108 15,133 14,592 14,966 15,087 15,090 15,097 15,146

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,385 65,282 65,176 65,526 65,756 65,702 65,602 65,320 65,388

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,609 2,471 2,573 2,186 2,190 2,222 2,200 2,222 2,172

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794 779 826 672 638 665 654 713 691

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,816 1,691 1,747 1,510 1,537 1,548 1,537 1,494 1,461

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,775 62,811 62,603 63,340 63,566 63,479 63,402 63,098 63,216

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,418 6,238 6,313 6,239 6,290 6,266 6,214 6,157 6,149

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,358 56,573 56,290 57,164 57,272 57,230 57,193 56,982 57,064

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,157 43,172 43,004 43,733 43,708 43,584 43,561 43,409 43,533

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,789 13,797 13,767 13,875 13,862 13,798 13,880 13,809 13,841

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,768 13,784 13,710 13,968 14,124 14,014 13,881 13,833 13,879

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,600 15,591 15,528 15,890 15,723 15,772 15,800 15,768 15,813

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,201 13,401 13,285 13,431 13,564 13,646 13,631 13,573 13,532

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,367 43,096 43,213 43,372 42,880 42,987 42,998 43,004 43,145

Married women, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,886 33,449 33,243 34,345 34,236 34,062 33,826 33,676 33,734

Women who maintain families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,829 9,038 9,224 – – – – – –

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,974 113,255 113,759 112,002 112,775 112,484 112,342 111,907 111,859

Part-time workers2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,160 26,875 26,624 27,145 27,087 27,088 27,418 27,631 27,606

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,579 6,861 6,724 6,553 6,746 6,775 6,939 6,880 6,741

Percent of total employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.7 4.9 4.8 4.7 4.8 4.9 5.0 4.9 4.8

SELF-EMPLOYMENT

Self-employed workers, incorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,132 5,155 5,170 – – – – – –

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,811 9,627 9,485 9,605 9,608 9,468 9,477 9,372 9,335

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

July

2010

June

2011

July

2011

July

2010

Mar.

2011

Apr.

2011

May

2011

June

2011

July

2011

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over............................. 14,637 14,087 13,931 9.5 8.8 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.1

16 to 19 years...................................... 1,526 1,399 1,412 26.1 24.5 24.9 24.2 24.5 25.0

16 to 17 years.................................... 587 535 540 30.4 29.0 31.4 29.4 28.2 28.7

18 to 19 years.................................... 924 869 870 23.7 22.5 22.2 21.9 22.8 23.1

20 years and over.................................. 13,111 12,688 12,519 8.9 8.2 8.3 8.5 8.6 8.5

20 to 24 years.................................... 2,337 2,190 2,192 15.6 15.0 14.9 14.7 14.5 14.6

25 years and over............................... 10,787 10,573 10,314 8.1 7.4 7.6 7.8 8.0 7.8

25 to 54 years................................. 8,678 8,378 8,157 8.4 7.8 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.0

25 to 34 years.............................. 3,335 3,231 3,257 9.9 9.1 9.5 9.3 9.6 9.7

35 to 44 years.............................. 2,649 2,547 2,319 8.0 7.2 7.3 7.7 7.8 7.1

45 to 54 years.............................. 2,695 2,600 2,581 7.5 7.1 7.1 7.3 7.3 7.3

55 years and over............................. 2,072 2,142 2,123 6.9 6.5 6.5 6.8 7.0 6.9

Men, 16 years and over.............................. 8,520 7,952 7,844 10.4 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.7 9.6

16 to 19 years...................................... 867 785 774 29.0 26.2 28.1 27.0 27.4 27.2

16 to 17 years.................................... 321 285 278 32.4 28.5 32.7 31.3 30.7 29.9

18 to 19 years.................................... 533 502 491 26.7 25.3 26.4 25.2 25.7 25.6

20 years and over.................................. 7,653 7,167 7,070 9.7 8.6 8.8 8.9 9.1 9.0

20 to 24 years.................................... 1,429 1,239 1,254 18.2 16.4 16.1 15.7 15.5 15.7

25 years and over............................... 6,261 6,010 5,821 8.8 7.8 7.9 8.1 8.4 8.2

25 to 54 years................................. 5,035 4,710 4,608 9.1 8.0 8.2 8.4 8.6 8.4

25 to 34 years.............................. 1,952 1,842 1,866 10.6 9.3 9.9 9.7 10.0 10.2

35 to 44 years.............................. 1,498 1,442 1,318 8.3 7.2 7.2 7.5 8.1 7.5

45 to 54 years.............................. 1,584 1,425 1,423 8.4 7.6 7.7 8.0 7.7 7.7

55 years and over............................. 1,227 1,301 1,213 7.8 6.8 6.9 7.0 7.9 7.4

Women, 16 years and over.......................... 6,117 6,134 6,088 8.5 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.5

16 to 19 years...................................... 659 614 638 23.2 22.7 21.8 21.3 21.6 22.7

16 to 17 years.................................... 266 249 262 28.4 29.5 30.1 27.5 25.9 27.5

18 to 19 years.................................... 391 367 379 20.6 19.7 17.9 18.6 19.7 20.6

20 years and over.................................. 5,458 5,520 5,450 7.9 7.7 7.9 8.0 8.0 7.9

20 to 24 years.................................... 908 951 938 12.7 13.5 13.7 13.6 13.4 13.2

25 years and over............................... 4,525 4,562 4,493 7.3 7.1 7.3 7.4 7.4 7.3

25 to 54 years................................. 3,644 3,668 3,549 7.7 7.5 7.7 7.6 7.8 7.5

25 to 34 years.............................. 1,382 1,389 1,390 9.1 9.0 9.1 8.8 9.1 9.1

35 to 44 years.............................. 1,151 1,104 1,001 7.6 7.1 7.5 7.8 7.4 6.7

45 to 54 years.............................. 1,111 1,175 1,158 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.9 6.8

55 years and over1

........................... 984 897 1,042 6.9 5.8 5.4 6.0 6.3 7.3

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present....................... 3,081 2,821 2,819 6.6 5.9 6.0 5.9 6.2 6.1

Married women, spouse present.................... 2,100 1,999 2,019 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.8 5.6 5.6

Women who maintain families1

.................... 1,362 1,325 1,270 13.4 12.3 11.7 12.7 12.8 12.1

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers2.................................... 12,740 12,093 12,132 10.2 9.4 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.8

Part-time workers3................................... 1,854 1,972 1,781 6.4 6.3 6.4 6.3 6.7 6.1

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

July

2010

June

2011

July

2011

July

2010

Mar.

2011

Apr.

2011

May

2011

June

2011

July

2011

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 8,964 7,940 8,107 9,090 8,209 8,144 8,274 8,261 8,215

On temporary layoff................................ 1,281 1,097 1,294 1,268 1,197 1,251 1,214 1,251 1,268

Not on temporary layoff............................ 7,682 6,843 6,813 7,822 7,013 6,894 7,060 7,010 6,947

Permanent job losers............................ 6,383 5,500 5,509 6,462 5,625 5,480 5,653 5,606 5,567

Persons who completed temporary jobs...... 1,300 1,343 1,305 1,360 1,388 1,414 1,407 1,405 1,380

Job leavers............................................. 935 923 973 896 896 942 908 965 928

Reentrants............................................. 3,591 3,836 3,603 3,417 3,262 3,375 3,433 3,430 3,410

New entrants.......................................... 1,647 1,710 1,745 1,197 1,360 1,346 1,231 1,222 1,270

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 59.2 55.1 56.2 62.3 59.8 59.0 59.8 59.5 59.4

On temporary layoff................................ 8.5 7.6 9.0 8.7 8.7 9.1 8.8 9.0 9.2

Not on temporary layoff............................ 50.8 47.5 47.2 53.6 51.1 49.9 51.0 50.5 50.3

Job leavers............................................. 6.2 6.4 6.7 6.1 6.5 6.8 6.6 7.0 6.7

Reentrants............................................. 23.7 26.6 25.0 23.4 23.8 24.4 24.8 24.7 24.7

New entrants.......................................... 10.9 11.9 12.1 8.2 9.9 9.8 8.9 8.8 9.2

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 5.8 5.1 5.2 5.9 5.4 5.3 5.4 5.4 5.4

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

Reentrants............................................. 2.3 2.5 2.3 2.2 2.1 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.2

New entrants.......................................... 1.1 1.1 1.1 0.8 0.9 0.9 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

July

2010

June

2011

July

2011

July

2010

Mar.

2011

Apr.

2011

May

2011

June

2011

July

2011

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks.................................... 3,111 3,808 2,952 2,833 2,449 2,691 2,664 3,076 2,689

5 to 14 weeks......................................... 3,507 2,698 3,496 3,098 2,914 2,907 2,892 2,972 3,088

15 weeks and over.................................... 8,519 7,903 7,980 8,709 8,078 7,845 8,184 8,125 8,150

15 to 26 weeks..................................... 1,978 1,845 1,762 2,171 1,957 2,006 1,984 1,836 1,965

27 weeks and over................................. 6,541 6,058 6,218 6,539 6,122 5,839 6,200 6,289 6,185

Average (mean) duration, in weeks1

.............. 32.6 38.0 39.0 33.9 39.0 38.3 39.7 39.9 40.4

Median duration, in weeks........................... 20.3 19.3 19.7 21.7 21.7 20.7 22.0 22.5 21.2

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Less than 5 weeks.................................... 20.6 26.4 20.5 19.4 18.2 20.0 19.4 21.7 19.3

5 to 14 weeks......................................... 23.2 18.7 24.2 21.2 21.7 21.6 21.0 21.0 22.2

15 weeks and over.................................... 56.3 54.8 55.3 59.5 60.1 58.4 59.6 57.3 58.5

15 to 26 weeks..................................... 13.1 12.8 12.2 14.8 14.6 14.9 14.4 13.0 14.1

27 weeks and over................................. 43.2 42.0 43.1 44.7 45.5 43.4 45.1 44.4 44.4

1 Beginning in January 2011, this series reflects a change to the collection of data on unemployment duration. For more information, see

www.bls.gov/cps/duration.htm.

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

July

2010

July

2011

July

2010

July

2011

July

2010

July

2011

Total, 16 years and over1

............................................. 140,134 140,384 15,137 14,428 9.7 9.3

Management, professional, and related occupations............ 50,974 51,662 2,687 2,742 5.0 5.0

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations...................................................... 21,015 21,747 1,045 1,053 4.7 4.6

Professional and related occupations........................... 29,959 29,915 1,642 1,689 5.2 5.3

Service occupations.................................................. 25,314 25,584 2,903 2,764 10.3 9.8

Sales and office occupations....................................... 33,588 33,131 3,494 3,288 9.4 9.0

Sales and related occupations................................... 15,400 15,503 1,723 1,603 10.1 9.4

Office and administrative support occupations................. 18,188 17,628 1,771 1,685 8.9 8.7

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations......................................................... 13,886 13,417 2,117 1,744 13.2 11.5

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations..................... 1,160 1,166 142 157 10.9 11.9

Construction and extraction occupations....................... 7,775 7,317 1,470 1,161 15.9 13.7

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations............. 4,950 4,934 506 426 9.3 7.9

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations......................................................... 16,372 16,590 2,256 2,103 12.1 11.2

Production occupations........................................... 8,304 8,055 1,161 1,049 12.3 11.5

Transportation and material moving occupations.............. 8,068 8,534 1,095 1,054 11.9 11.0

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. Effective with January 2011 data, occupations reflect the

introduction of the 2010 Census occupational classification system into the Current Population Survey, or household survey. This classification system is

derived from the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). No historical data have been revised. Data for 2011 are not strictly comparable with

earlier years.
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

July

2010

July

2011

July

2010

July

2011

Total, 16 years and over1................................................................ 15,137 14,428 9.7 9.3

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers................................... 11,555 10,515 9.6 8.8

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction..................................... 79 53 10.1 6.0

Construction........................................................................... 1,528 1,137 17.3 13.6

Manufacturing......................................................................... 1,556 1,418 10.0 9.2

Durable goods...................................................................... 1,028 934 10.4 9.6

Nondurable goods................................................................. 528 484 9.2 8.5

Wholesale and retail trade.......................................................... 2,023 1,916 9.8 9.4

Transportation and utilities.......................................................... 537 486 9.2 7.8

Information............................................................................ 344 237 10.6 7.6

Financial activities.................................................................... 582 552 6.4 6.0

Professional and business services................................................ 1,447 1,389 10.0 9.4

Education and health services...................................................... 1,420 1,263 6.6 5.9

Leisure and hospitality............................................................... 1,570 1,510 11.4 10.9

Other services........................................................................ 469 554 7.4 8.6

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers.......................... 134 166 8.7 9.8

Government workers.................................................................... 1,187 1,349 5.5 6.4

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers............. 614 653 5.8 6.4

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

July

2010

June

2011

July

2011

July

2010

Mar.

2011

Apr.

2011

May

2011

June

2011

July

2011

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as

a percent of the civilian labor force.............. 5.5 5.1 5.2 5.7 5.3 5.1 5.3 5.3 5.3

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian

labor force........................................... 5.8 5.1 5.2 5.9 5.4 5.3 5.4 5.4 5.4

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the

civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate).................................................. 9.7 9.3 9.3 9.5 8.8 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.1

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers,

as a percent of the civilian labor force plus

discouraged workers............................... 10.4 9.9 10.0 10.2 9.4 9.5 9.5 9.8 9.8

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................................... 11.2 10.9 10.9 11.0 10.3 10.4 10.3 10.7 10.7

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.................................................. 16.8 16.4 16.3 16.5 15.7 15.9 15.8 16.2 16.1

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

July

2010

July

2011

July

2010

July

2011

July

2010

July

2011

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force............................................. 82,620 84,859 32,135 33,476 50,484 51,383

Persons who currently want a job.................................. 6,143 6,810 2,801 3,072 3,343 3,738

Marginally attached to the labor force1........................ 2,622 2,785 1,385 1,392 1,237 1,393

Discouraged workers2

......................................... 1,185 1,119 742 639 443 480

Other persons marginally attached to the labor force3. . .. 1,437 1,667 644 754 793 913

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders4............................................. 6,579 6,724 3,206 3,371 3,373 3,353

Percent of total employed........................................... 4.7 4.8 4.3 4.5 5.2 5.1

Primary job full time, secondary job part time.................... 3,424 3,569 1,821 1,994 1,603 1,574

Primary and secondary jobs both part time....................... 1,679 1,726 557 628 1,122 1,098

Primary and secondary jobs both full time........................ 283 246 199 151 84 95

Hours vary on primary or secondary job.......................... 1,144 1,118 604 557 540 561

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

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

Change

from:

June2011 -

July2011p

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,569 131,707 132,151 130,920 129,932 131,027 131,073 131,190 117

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,252 109,199 110,066 110,062 107,351 108,922 109,002 109,156 154

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,104 18,029 18,324 18,417 17,791 18,019 18,035 18,077 42

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722 777 797 812 711 780 790 800 10

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.6 45.7 46.7 49.1 50.5 47.4 46.9 47.6 0.7

Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670.7 731.2 750.5 763.3 660.1 732.7 742.8 751.9 9.1

Oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159.3 171.9 175.7 177.3 158.2 171.8 173.3 174.7 1.4

Mining, except oil and gas1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209.7 215.0 220.1 219.9 202.9 212.4 213.4 212.7 -0.7

Coal mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.3 86.6 87.3 86.5 80.6 86.6 86.7 86.0 -0.7

Support activities for mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301.7 344.3 354.7 366.1 299.0 348.5 356.1 364.5 8.4

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,771 5,569 5,734 5,814 5,500 5,529 5,524 5,532 8

Construction of buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,271.6 1,212.3 1,253.5 1,265.5 1,221.8 1,217.2 1,217.7 1,218.7 1.0

Residential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587.4 557.0 579.5 581.8 564.0 558.2 557.1 556.0 -1.1

Nonresidential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684.2 655.3 674.0 683.7 657.8 659.0 660.6 662.7 2.1

Heavy and civil engineering construction. . . . . . . 884.9 871.8 898.8 908.9 825.9 848.3 847.3 846.9 -0.4

Specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,614.7 3,484.7 3,582.0 3,639.4 3,452.4 3,463.7 3,458.6 3,466.2 7.6

Residential specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . 1,536.2 1,483.9 1,520.9 1,541.5 1,458.6 1,463.4 1,455.4 1,454.9 -0.5

Nonresidential specialty trade contractors. . . . 2,078.5 2,000.8 2,061.1 2,097.9 1,993.8 2,000.3 2,003.2 2,011.3 8.1

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,611 11,683 11,793 11,791 11,580 11,710 11,721 11,745 24

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,112 7,263 7,331 7,317 7,114 7,271 7,288 7,311 23

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350.0 338.8 340.0 336.1 342.8 337.0 331.8 327.7 -4.1

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381.7 375.3 382.6 382.9 371.6 372.2 372.1 371.8 -0.3

Primary metals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364.6 383.2 386.1 384.7 365.2 383.8 384.7 385.9 1.2

Fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,293.5 1,349.6 1,365.4 1,368.7 1,295.2 1,355.8 1,362.4 1,366.9 4.5

Machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999.7 1,038.1 1,050.8 1,053.3 998.2 1,041.1 1,045.3 1,046.8 1.5

Computer and electronic products1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,105.1 1,121.0 1,129.3 1,130.4 1,101.4 1,123.4 1,125.5 1,128.0 2.5

Computer and peripheral equipment. . . . . . . 161.5 169.9 171.7 171.9 161.8 169.9 171.9 171.9 0.0

Communication equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.3 117.9 119.0 117.3 118.2 118.3 118.0 117.5 -0.5

Semiconductors and electronic

components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371.9 382.9 385.4 388.4 371.3 384.4 384.4 387.8 3.4

Electronic instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408.3 402.7 404.9 404.4 405.4 403.2 403.4 402.8 -0.6

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . 364.3 368.8 371.5 372.7 362.1 370.0 370.6 371.3 0.7

Transportation equipment1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,323.7 1,361.6 1,372.7 1,355.5 1,353.5 1,360.6 1,365.5 1,379.9 14.4

Motor vehicles and parts2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664.6 698.0 702.9 686.0 695.9 697.5 699.6 711.6 12.0

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363.0 353.1 354.5 356.3 356.8 351.7 351.7 354.5 2.8

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566.6 573.6 578.2 576.6 566.7 575.7 578.4 578.0 -0.4

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,499 4,420 4,462 4,474 4,466 4,439 4,433 4,434 1

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,473.8 1,429.5 1,448.3 1,465.9 1,451.4 1,448.7 1,443.8 1,445.5 1.7

Beverages and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . 183.9 182.1 189.7 190.5 180.3 182.9 185.3 184.6 -0.7

Textile mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.4 122.6 123.6 123.3 119.8 122.1 122.8 123.6 0.8

Textile product mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119.9 116.5 117.5 116.7 119.9 116.4 116.4 116.0 -0.4

Apparel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156.2 156.2 156.9 153.4 156.7 155.7 154.9 152.9 -2.0

Leather and allied products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.9 29.0 29.6 28.2 27.4 29.0 29.2 29.1 -0.1

Paper and paper products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399.0 395.1 399.5 400.8 396.5 396.4 397.4 398.0 0.6

Printing and related support activities. . . . . . . . 487.7 469.3 470.0 467.3 489.1 469.5 467.8 466.2 -1.6

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.0 113.8 115.1 116.0 114.3 112.6 112.1 111.9 -0.2

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 786.4 775.3 780.5 782.4 782.8 776.1 776.4 777.7 1.3

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628.0 630.5 631.3 629.4 628.0 629.3 626.6 628.7 2.1

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,148 91,170 91,742 91,645 89,560 90,903 90,967 91,079 112

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,605 24,838 24,991 24,967 24,609 24,893 24,923 24,951 28

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,483.5 5,544.8 5,579.1 5,576.6 5,453.8 5,538.0 5,543.7 5,545.4 1.7

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,732.7 2,773.1 2,791.7 2,790.6 2,717.6 2,773.6 2,776.9 2,775.0 -1.9

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,942.2 1,955.6 1,965.4 1,964.6 1,929.9 1,948.3 1,948.3 1,951.4 3.1

Electronic markets and agents and brokers.. . 808.6 816.1 822.0 821.4 806.3 816.1 818.5 819.0 0.5

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,411.5 14,480.4 14,565.0 14,598.3 14,419.3 14,539.1 14,550.3 14,576.2 25.9

Motor vehicle and parts dealers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,632.9 1,676.2 1,688.0 1,693.8 1,616.5 1,669.8 1,670.3 1,675.3 5.0

Automobile dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,006.8 1,037.6 1,045.4 1,048.8 1,001.9 1,037.3 1,039.5 1,041.4 1.9

Furniture and home furnishings stores. . . . . . . 429.3 428.7 429.2 432.5 435.0 436.1 436.6 438.1 1.5

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

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

Change

from:

June2011 -

July2011p

Retail trade - Continued

Electronics and appliance stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 485.4 491.6 493.9 494.1 494.7 501.5 502.1 503.6 1.5

Building material and garden supply stores.. . 1,147.0 1,188.9 1,178.6 1,148.7 1,120.8 1,122.3 1,120.4 1,118.3 -2.1

Food and beverage stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,825.4 2,831.0 2,856.7 2,854.2 2,808.4 2,830.6 2,832.4 2,830.9 -1.5

Health and personal care stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 979.2 970.8 970.7 976.5 978.1 972.7 969.4 978.0 8.6

Gasoline stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833.5 822.5 831.5 834.1 820.2 820.1 822.6 821.5 -1.1

Clothing and clothing accessories stores. . . . . 1,371.7 1,386.7 1,407.2 1,430.2 1,378.2 1,427.2 1,430.6 1,434.0 3.4

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578.9 579.1 577.5 581.3 600.6 597.4 596.6 598.3 1.7

General merchandise stores1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,957.7 2,933.2 2,958.1 2,970.4 2,987.0 2,979.9 2,985.9 2,989.8 3.9

Department stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,467.0 1,451.8 1,465.6 1,479.6 1,497.3 1,493.8 1,495.9 1,501.3 5.4

Miscellaneous store retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764.3 766.1 769.8 775.8 760.7 765.0 766.8 770.8 4.0

Nonstore retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406.2 405.6 403.8 406.7 419.1 416.5 416.6 417.6 1.0

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,156.5 4,260.5 4,291.8 4,236.2 4,184.8 4,264.4 4,276.8 4,277.9 1.1

Air transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465.9 475.5 479.1 481.9 462.6 475.7 478.4 480.8 2.4

Rail transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216.9 223.2 226.5 227.3 216.0 223.5 226.3 226.2 -0.1

Water transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.2 64.3 65.0 64.7 62.8 64.0 63.1 62.7 -0.4

Truck transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,264.2 1,273.1 1,298.2 1,299.9 1,246.7 1,278.5 1,282.5 1,283.8 1.3

Transit and ground passenger

transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380.5 463.3 445.4 385.2 437.5 446.3 447.1 445.3 -1.8

Pipeline transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42.3 43.1 43.5 43.6 41.9 43.3 43.5 43.3 -0.2

Scenic and sightseeing transportation. . . . . . . . 36.0 31.5 36.4 38.3 27.6 29.2 29.6 28.9 -0.7

Support activities for transportation. . . . . . . . . . . 547.0 552.5 558.3 558.4 544.4 554.7 556.2 556.6 0.4

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512.6 512.0 515.5 509.8 518.3 521.8 522.4 522.1 -0.3

Warehousing and storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625.9 622.0 623.9 627.1 627.0 627.4 627.7 628.2 0.5

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553.4 552.4 554.9 555.8 550.7 551.6 551.7 551.7 0.0

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,714 2,688 2,697 2,685 2,706 2,684 2,684 2,683 -1

Publishing industries, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . 762.2 752.3 757.4 758.2 760.5 755.4 755.9 756.2 0.3

Motion picture and sound recording

industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382.4 377.6 376.6 368.3 372.8 367.9 366.0 366.3 0.3

Broadcasting, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293.6 293.1 295.3 294.8 294.8 295.1 295.4 295.1 -0.3

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892.0 866.1 866.0 862.8 894.1 869.7 868.4 865.7 -2.7

Data processing, hosting and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240.8 242.8 240.7 238.5 241.5 240.4 239.5 239.3 -0.2

Other information services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.3 155.8 161.0 162.6 142.5 155.9 158.5 160.4 1.9

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,674 7,617 7,657 7,669 7,618 7,625 7,607 7,603 -4

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,700.9 5,668.0 5,683.8 5,685.0 5,686.7 5,676.7 5,666.8 5,662.9 -3.9

Monetary authorities - central bank. . . . . . . . . . . 20.8 21.2 21.3 21.7 20.7 21.2 21.2 21.5 0.3

Credit intermediation and related

activities1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,548.9 2,543.5 2,548.1 2,547.7 2,541.8 2,548.1 2,540.7 2,537.7 -3.0

Depository credit intermediation1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,738.2 1,754.6 1,759.1 1,764.2 1,732.4 1,757.2 1,755.2 1,754.9 -0.3

Commercial banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,312.6 1,325.5 1,326.5 1,330.6 1,307.6 1,327.3 1,323.7 1,323.9 0.2

Securities, commodity contracts,

investments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 806.2 805.9 812.6 814.3 803.0 808.9 811.5 812.2 0.7

Insurance carriers and related activities. . . . . . 2,237.3 2,211.2 2,215.8 2,213.3 2,233.8 2,211.6 2,207.5 2,203.9 -3.6

Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles. . . 87.7 86.2 86.0 88.0 87.4 86.9 85.9 87.6 1.7

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,972.8 1,949.3 1,973.1 1,983.5 1,931.7 1,948.7 1,940.5 1,939.6 -0.9

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,408.4 1,408.3 1,419.7 1,428.1 1,387.8 1,408.9 1,403.9 1,404.5 0.6

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539.4 515.3 527.7 529.7 519.1 514.1 511.0 509.7 -1.3

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets. . . . . 25.0 25.7 25.7 25.7 24.8 25.7 25.6 25.4 -0.2

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,777 17,153 17,299 17,266 16,681 17,155 17,159 17,193 34

Professional and technical services1

. . . . . . . . . . . 7,386.2 7,548.5 7,608.8 7,624.9 7,414.8 7,619.9 7,631.2 7,648.9 17.7

Legal services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,123.7 1,109.5 1,121.8 1,124.9 1,111.2 1,113.5 1,110.6 1,114.6 4.0

Accounting and bookkeeping services. . . . . . . 809.7 875.3 866.1 850.5 882.0 929.2 928.2 924.6 -3.6

Architectural and engineering services. . . . . . . 1,290.6 1,292.4 1,311.4 1,317.8 1,275.2 1,295.0 1,295.6 1,296.9 1.3

Computer systems design and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,444.5 1,495.1 1,504.9 1,516.1 1,441.7 1,499.8 1,506.6 1,512.7 6.1

Management and technical consulting

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993.7 1,034.3 1,043.7 1,051.6 990.0 1,038.5 1,040.6 1,046.0 5.4

Management of companies and enterprises. . . . 1,872.3 1,881.3 1,894.3 1,895.4 1,862.8 1,883.5 1,883.8 1,886.9 3.1

Administrative and waste services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,518.8 7,723.2 7,796.2 7,745.3 7,403.2 7,651.2 7,644.3 7,657.6 13.3

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

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

Change

from:

June2011 -

July2011p

Administrative and waste services - Continued

Administrative and support services1

. . . . . . . . 7,149.3 7,360.1 7,426.9 7,372.4 7,041.9 7,288.4 7,281.7 7,294.2 12.5

Employment services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,715.6 2,913.0 2,924.7 2,866.8 2,713.8 2,905.3 2,896.2 2,899.5 3.3

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,066.5 2,249.9 2,247.6 2,198.8 2,073.3 2,241.2 2,229.6 2,229.9 0.3

Business support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795.2 795.6 796.3 790.5 808.5 803.1 804.6 803.1 -1.5

Services to buildings and dwellings. . . . . . . . 1,858.1 1,838.8 1,879.3 1,883.2 1,744.9 1,765.8 1,763.0 1,766.3 3.3

Waste management and remediation

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369.5 363.1 369.3 372.9 361.3 362.8 362.6 363.4 0.8

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,256 19,989 19,759 19,638 19,571 19,926 19,938 19,976 38

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,865.3 3,249.5 3,007.9 2,900.8 3,154.9 3,204.4 3,203.0 3,204.6 1.6

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,390.9 16,739.3 16,751.2 16,737.5 16,416.3 16,722.0 16,734.6 16,771.3 36.7

Health care3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,829.9 14,028.5 14,088.2 14,123.0 13,794.5 14,045.4 14,062.0 14,093.3 31.3

Ambulatory health care services1. . . . . . . . . 5,991.5 6,115.1 6,139.7 6,149.0 5,980.2 6,117.5 6,131.2 6,145.3 14.1

Offices of physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,314.3 2,346.0 2,356.7 2,362.9 2,314.1 2,351.0 2,354.3 2,360.6 6.3

Outpatient care centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601.5 619.5 620.3 618.5 600.7 619.2 619.2 618.7 -0.5

Home health care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,084.9 1,117.5 1,122.4 1,123.6 1,082.2 1,116.6 1,121.5 1,124.6 3.1

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,696.2 4,732.8 4,750.5 4,773.0 4,681.0 4,743.8 4,741.8 4,755.8 14.0

Nursing and residential care facilities1

. . . . 3,142.2 3,180.6 3,198.0 3,201.0 3,133.3 3,184.1 3,189.0 3,192.2 3.2

Nursing care facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,665.7 1,679.5 1,689.8 1,688.3 1,662.6 1,681.1 1,686.0 1,685.5 -0.5

Social assistance1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,561.0 2,710.8 2,663.0 2,614.5 2,621.8 2,676.6 2,672.6 2,678.0 5.4

Child day care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 781.8 884.2 833.9 791.1 847.1 860.0 851.7 854.9 3.2

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,689 13,418 13,821 13,902 13,013 13,175 13,208 13,225 17

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,235.1 1,960.9 2,151.2 2,220.9 1,924.1 1,885.4 1,898.8 1,912.3 13.5

Performing arts and spectator sports. . . . . . . . . 453.4 419.4 428.5 445.0 419.3 399.5 407.0 412.5 5.5

Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks. . . 143.4 135.0 144.4 147.9 127.8 129.5 131.0 131.6 0.6

Amusements, gambling, and recreation. . . . . . 1,638.3 1,406.5 1,578.3 1,628.0 1,377.0 1,356.4 1,360.8 1,368.2 7.4

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,453.4 11,457.1 11,670.0 11,680.9 11,088.6 11,289.7 11,309.6 11,312.6 3.0

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,912.8 1,785.5 1,899.9 1,960.8 1,774.1 1,790.0 1,806.5 1,809.2 2.7

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . 9,540.6 9,671.6 9,770.1 9,720.1 9,314.5 9,499.7 9,503.1 9,503.4 0.3

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,433 5,467 5,518 5,518 5,362 5,445 5,448 5,448 0

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,144.3 1,161.9 1,166.8 1,161.6 1,136.5 1,152.3 1,153.1 1,153.1 0.0

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,268.3 1,296.3 1,301.6 1,297.2 1,260.9 1,281.7 1,285.3 1,289.0 3.7

Membership associations and organizations. . . . 3,020.4 3,008.8 3,049.6 3,058.9 2,964.5 3,010.8 3,009.8 3,006.1 -3.7

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,317 22,508 22,085 20,858 22,581 22,105 22,071 22,034 -37

Federal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,077.0 2,844.0 2,847.0 2,862.0 3,041.0 2,845.0 2,832.0 2,834.0 2.0

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,417.7 2,217.1 2,224.9 2,231.5 2,388.2 2,214.9 2,205.2 2,207.2 2.0

U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658.9 626.5 622.3 630.6 652.4 630.5 627.0 626.6 -0.4

State government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,854.0 5,135.0 4,872.0 4,768.0 5,154.0 5,093.0 5,087.0 5,064.0 -23.0

State government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,073.3 2,418.7 2,147.1 2,075.3 2,393.3 2,387.2 2,388.7 2,389.8 1.1

State government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . . 2,781.1 2,716.1 2,724.9 2,692.4 2,760.8 2,705.7 2,697.9 2,674.1 -23.8

Local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,386.0 14,529.0 14,366.0 13,228.0 14,386.0 14,167.0 14,152.0 14,136.0 -16.0

Local government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,812.6 8,269.4 7,934.1 6,743.7 8,030.1 7,895.9 7,886.3 7,874.1 -12.2

Local government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . . 6,573.7 6,259.3 6,431.7 6,484.0 6,355.6 6,270.6 6,265.7 6,261.9 -3.8

1 Includes other industries, not shown separately.

2 Includes motor vehicles, motor vehicle bodies and trailers, and motor vehicle parts.

3 Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities.

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Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private.............................................................................. 34.2 34.4 34.3 34.3

Goods-producing..................................................................... 39.6 40.1 39.9 39.8

Mining and logging................................................................ 43.6 44.6 44.7 44.2

Construction........................................................................ 37.8 38.5 38.4 38.3

Manufacturing...................................................................... 40.2 40.6 40.3 40.3

Durable goods................................................................... 40.5 40.9 40.7 40.6

Nondurable goods............................................................... 39.6 40.0 39.8 39.8

Private service-providing............................................................ 33.1 33.2 33.2 33.2

Trade, transportation, and utilities............................................... 34.3 34.5 34.5 34.5

Wholesale trade................................................................. 38.2 38.7 38.6 38.6

Retail trade....................................................................... 31.4 31.4 31.4 31.4

Transportation and warehousing.............................................. 38.5 38.7 38.6 38.6

Utilities............................................................................ 41.1 42.1 41.6 41.7

Information.......................................................................... 36.6 36.6 36.6 36.6

Financial activities................................................................. 37.0 37.1 37.1 37.4

Professional and business services............................................. 35.5 35.7 35.7 35.7

Education and health services................................................... 32.8 32.8 32.8 32.9

Leisure and hospitality............................................................ 25.8 25.9 25.8 25.8

Other services...................................................................... 31.7 31.8 31.7 31.7

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing............................................................................ 3.0 3.2 3.1 3.1

Durable goods........................................................................ 2.9 3.2 3.1 3.1

Nondurable goods.................................................................... 3.1 3.3 3.2 3.2

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Table B-3. Average hourly and weekly earnings of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

Total private................................................. $22.61 $23.02 $23.03 $23.13 $ 773.26 $ 791.89 $ 789.93 $ 793.36

Goods-producing........................................ 24.06 24.41 24.39 24.46 952.78 978.84 973.16 973.51

Mining and logging................................... 27.40 28.34 27.96 27.97 1,194.64 1,263.96 1,249.81 1,236.27

Construction........................................... 25.18 25.36 25.36 25.37 951.80 976.36 973.82 971.67

Manufacturing......................................... 23.33 23.70 23.68 23.79 937.87 962.22 954.30 958.74

Durable goods...................................... 24.79 25.21 25.22 25.33 1,004.00 1,031.09 1,026.45 1,028.40

Nondurable goods................................. 20.95 21.16 21.10 21.20 829.62 846.40 839.78 843.76

Private service-providing............................... 22.27 22.68 22.71 22.81 737.14 752.98 753.97 757.29

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................. 19.67 20.01 20.03 20.13 674.68 690.35 691.04 694.49

Wholesale trade.................................... 26.17 26.30 26.31 26.46 999.69 1,017.81 1,015.57 1,021.36

Retail trade.......................................... 15.59 15.78 15.81 15.95 489.53 495.49 496.43 500.83

Transportation and warehousing................. 20.92 21.62 21.64 21.64 805.42 836.69 835.30 835.30

Utilities............................................... 32.51 33.77 33.86 33.49 1,336.16 1,421.72 1,408.58 1,396.53

Information............................................. 30.43 31.61 31.47 31.39 1,113.74 1,156.93 1,151.80 1,148.87

Financial activities.................................... 27.27 27.72 27.72 27.59 1,008.99 1,028.41 1,028.41 1,031.87

Professional and business services................ 27.32 27.66 27.78 28.02 969.86 987.46 991.75 1,000.31

Education and health services...................... 22.97 23.54 23.54 23.69 753.42 772.11 772.11 779.40

Leisure and hospitality............................... 13.07 13.24 13.19 13.22 337.21 342.92 340.30 341.08

Other services......................................... 20.14 20.40 20.47 20.51 638.44 648.72 648.90 650.17

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Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by

industry sector, seasonally adjusted

[2007=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls2

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

Percent

change

from:

June

2011 -

July

2011p

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

Percent

change

from:

June

2011 -

July

2011p

Total private....................................... 92.0 93.9 93.7 93.8 0.1 99.2 103.1 102.9 103.5 0.6

Goods-producing............................... 80.3 82.3 82.0 82.0 0.0 87.3 90.8 90.4 90.6 0.2

Mining and logging.......................... 97.4 109.3 111.0 111.1 0.1 107.2 124.4 124.6 124.8 0.2

Construction.................................. 71.6 73.4 73.1 73.0 -0.1 78.4 80.8 80.6 80.5 -0.1

Manufacturing................................ 83.7 85.5 85.0 85.2 0.2 90.9 94.3 93.6 94.2 0.6

Durable goods............................ 81.1 83.7 83.5 83.6 0.1 89.3 93.7 93.5 94.0 0.5

Nondurable goods........................ 88.3 88.6 88.1 88.1 0.0 93.8 95.2 94.3 94.7 0.4

Private service-providing...................... 95.2 96.9 97.0 97.1 0.1 102.7 106.5 106.7 107.3 0.6

Trade, transportation, and utilities......... 91.7 93.3 93.4 93.6 0.2 97.1 100.5 100.7 101.4 0.7

Wholesale trade........................... 90.9 93.5 93.4 93.4 0.0 99.3 102.6 102.5 103.1 0.6

Retail trade................................ 91.9 92.7 92.8 92.9 0.1 94.8 96.7 97.0 98.0 1.0

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . .. 92.2 94.5 94.5 94.5 0.0 97.9 103.6 103.8 103.8 0.0

Utilities..................................... 97.9 100.4 99.3 99.5 0.2 105.2 112.1 111.1 110.1 -0.9

Information................................... 90.4 89.7 89.7 89.7 0.0 98.0 101.0 100.5 100.2 -0.3

Financial activities........................... 92.9 93.2 93.0 93.7 0.8 98.9 100.9 100.6 100.9 0.3

Professional and business services....... 93.1 96.3 96.3 96.5 0.2 103.1 107.9 108.4 109.6 1.1

Education and health services............. 104.5 106.4 106.4 107.0 0.6 112.4 117.3 117.4 118.7 1.1

Leisure and hospitality...................... 95.8 97.4 97.2 97.4 0.2 101.0 104.0 103.5 103.8 0.3

Other services............................... 94.2 95.9 95.7 95.7 0.0 107.6 111.1 111.2 111.4 0.2

1 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2007 annual

average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

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

2007 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly

hours, and employment.

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Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Women employees (in thousands) Percent of all employees

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

Total nonfarm............................................... 64,671 64,842 64,853 64,834 49.8 49.5 49.5 49.4

Total private.............................................. 51,811 52,271 52,281 52,306 48.3 48.0 48.0 47.9

Goods-producing...................................... 4,095 4,059 4,064 4,062 23.0 22.5 22.5 22.5

Mining and logging................................. 97 104 105 105 13.6 13.3 13.3 13.1

Construction........................................ 720 707 709 713 13.1 12.8 12.8 12.9

Manufacturing....................................... 3,278 3,248 3,250 3,244 28.3 27.7 27.7 27.6

Durable goods................................... 1,735 1,721 1,726 1,724 24.4 23.7 23.7 23.6

Nondurable goods............................... 1,543 1,527 1,524 1,520 34.5 34.4 34.4 34.3

Private service-providing............................. 47,716 48,212 48,217 48,244 53.3 53.0 53.0 53.0

Trade, transportation, and utilities............... 10,003 10,001 9,999 9,999 40.6 40.2 40.1 40.1

Wholesale trade................................. 1,635.8 1,663.0 1,665.3 1,669.4 30.0 30.0 30.0 30.1

Retail trade....................................... 7,223.8 7,195.3 7,190.9 7,190.0 50.1 49.5 49.4 49.3

Transportation and warehousing.............. 1,004.6 1,008.0 1,008.1 1,004.7 24.0 23.6 23.6 23.5

Utilities............................................ 138.4 134.7 134.9 134.9 25.1 24.4 24.5 24.5

Information.......................................... 1,102 1,092 1,091 1,092 40.7 40.7 40.6 40.7

Financial activities.................................. 4,484 4,454 4,446 4,441 58.9 58.4 58.4 58.4

Professional and business services............. 7,409 7,624 7,625 7,624 44.4 44.4 44.4 44.3

Education and health services................... 15,090 15,292 15,304 15,325 77.1 76.7 76.8 76.7

Leisure and hospitality............................. 6,789 6,876 6,878 6,888 52.2 52.2 52.1 52.1

Other services...................................... 2,839 2,873 2,874 2,875 52.9 52.8 52.8 52.8

Government.............................................. 12,860 12,571 12,572 12,528 57.0 56.9 57.0 56.9

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Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted1

[In thousands]

Industry July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

Total private................................................................................ 88,487 89,760 89,832 89,967

Goods-producing........................................................................ 12,795 12,986 12,999 13,043

Mining and logging................................................................... 533 587 593 598

Construction........................................................................... 4,139 4,178 4,178 4,190

Manufacturing......................................................................... 8,123 8,221 8,228 8,255

Durable goods...................................................................... 4,874 4,985 4,997 5,025

Nondurable goods................................................................. 3,249 3,236 3,231 3,230

Private service-providing............................................................... 75,692 76,774 76,833 76,924

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................................................. 20,861 21,056 21,085 21,102

Wholesale trade.................................................................... 4,376.8 4,438.1 4,441.9 4,443.2

Retail trade......................................................................... 12,410.9 12,509.3 12,527.0 12,541.4

Transportation and warehousing................................................. 3,632.2 3,667.4 3,675.2 3,676.6

Utilities............................................................................... 441.1 441.6 441.0 440.6

Information............................................................................ 2,173 2,156 2,155 2,151

Financial activities.................................................................... 5,876 5,837 5,821 5,821

Professional and business services................................................ 13,663 14,095 14,104 14,137

Education and health services...................................................... 17,156 17,449 17,464 17,502

Leisure and hospitality............................................................... 11,479 11,627 11,652 11,660

Other services........................................................................ 4,484 4,554 4,552 4,551

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

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

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Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private.............................................................................. 33.5 33.6 33.6 33.6

Goods-producing..................................................................... 40.3 40.9 40.9 40.9

Mining and logging................................................................ 44.7 46.5 47.2 46.4

Construction........................................................................ 38.2 39.1 39.0 39.2

Manufacturing...................................................................... 41.1 41.4 41.4 41.4

Durable goods................................................................... 41.4 41.8 41.8 41.7

Nondurable goods............................................................... 40.7 40.9 40.8 40.9

Private service-providing............................................................ 32.3 32.3 32.4 32.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities............................................... 33.4 33.6 33.7 33.7

Wholesale trade................................................................. 38.0 38.5 38.5 38.4

Retail trade....................................................................... 30.4 30.3 30.4 30.5

Transportation and warehousing.............................................. 37.3 37.8 38.0 37.9

Utilities............................................................................ 42.2 42.4 42.1 42.1

Information.......................................................................... 36.2 36.4 36.3 36.4

Financial activities................................................................. 36.2 36.2 36.2 36.3

Professional and business services............................................. 35.2 35.1 35.2 35.2

Education and health services................................................... 32.1 32.3 32.3 32.4

Leisure and hospitality............................................................ 24.9 24.8 24.8 24.8

Other services...................................................................... 30.8 30.7 30.7 30.6

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing............................................................................ 3.8 4.1 4.1 4.1

Durable goods........................................................................ 3.8 4.2 4.2 4.1

Nondurable goods.................................................................... 3.7 4.0 3.9 4.0

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.

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Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

Total private................................................. $19.08 $19.42 $19.44 $19.52 $ 639.18 $ 652.51 $ 653.18 $ 655.87

Goods-producing........................................ 20.26 20.64 20.62 20.74 816.48 844.18 843.36 848.27

Mining and logging................................... 23.92 24.47 24.46 24.70 1,069.22 1,137.86 1,154.51 1,146.08

Construction........................................... 23.22 23.56 23.53 23.66 887.00 921.20 917.67 927.47

Manufacturing......................................... 18.60 18.94 18.91 19.02 764.46 784.12 782.87 787.43

Durable goods...................................... 19.76 20.14 20.09 20.23 818.06 841.85 839.76 843.59

Nondurable goods................................. 16.84 17.04 17.05 17.10 685.39 696.94 695.64 699.39

Private service-providing............................... 18.83 19.16 19.18 19.25 608.21 618.87 621.43 623.70

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................. 16.81 17.13 17.14 17.18 561.45 575.57 577.62 578.97

Wholesale trade.................................... 21.55 21.98 22.01 22.11 818.90 846.23 847.39 849.02

Retail trade.......................................... 13.23 13.41 13.45 13.50 402.19 406.32 408.88 411.75

Transportation and warehousing................. 19.12 19.48 19.42 19.45 713.18 736.34 737.96 737.16

Utilities............................................... 30.22 30.80 30.77 30.84 1,275.28 1,305.92 1,295.42 1,298.36

Information............................................. 26.04 26.57 26.35 26.55 942.65 967.15 956.51 966.42

Financial activities.................................... 21.54 21.74 21.74 21.80 779.75 786.99 786.99 791.34

Professional and business services................ 22.85 23.11 23.19 23.25 804.32 811.16 816.29 818.40

Education and health services...................... 20.14 20.64 20.71 20.83 646.49 666.67 668.93 674.89

Leisure and hospitality............................... 11.33 11.50 11.47 11.49 282.12 285.20 284.46 284.95

Other services......................................... 17.09 17.21 17.25 17.29 526.37 528.35 529.58 529.07

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

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

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Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on

private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

[2002=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls3

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

Percent

change

from:

June

2011 -

July

2011p

July

2010

May

2011

June

2011p

July

2011p

Percent

change

from:

June

2011 -

July

2011p

Total private....................................... 99.0 100.8 100.8 101.0 0.2 126.3 130.8 131.0 131.7 0.5

Goods-producing............................... 78.8 81.2 81.2 81.5 0.4 97.8 102.6 102.6 103.5 0.9

Mining and logging.......................... 126.6 145.1 148.7 147.4 -0.9 176.1 206.4 211.6 211.8 0.1

Construction.................................. 79.2 81.8 81.6 82.2 0.7 99.3 104.1 103.7 105.1 1.4

Manufacturing................................ 76.6 78.1 78.2 78.4 0.3 93.2 96.8 96.7 97.6 0.9

Durable goods............................ 75.8 78.3 78.5 78.7 0.3 93.5 98.4 98.4 99.4 1.0

Nondurable goods........................ 77.9 78.0 77.7 77.8 0.1 92.7 93.9 93.6 94.1 0.5

Private service-providing...................... 104.5 106.0 106.4 106.6 0.2 135.0 139.3 140.0 140.7 0.5

Trade, transportation, and utilities......... 97.1 98.6 99.1 99.1 0.0 116.5 120.5 121.1 121.5 0.3

Wholesale trade........................... 97.9 100.6 100.7 100.5 -0.2 124.3 130.3 130.6 130.9 0.2

Retail trade................................ 95.5 95.9 96.4 96.8 0.4 108.3 110.3 111.1 112.0 0.8

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . .. 102.0 104.4 105.1 104.9 -0.2 123.7 129.0 129.5 129.4 -0.1

Utilities..................................... 95.2 95.8 95.0 94.9 -0.1 120.1 123.1 122.0 122.1 0.1

Information................................... 89.8 89.6 89.3 89.4 0.1 115.8 117.8 116.5 117.5 0.9

Financial activities........................... 101.8 101.1 100.8 101.1 0.3 135.6 135.9 135.5 136.3 0.6

Professional and business services....... 107.8 110.9 111.3 111.5 0.2 146.5 152.5 153.5 154.3 0.5

Education and health services............. 118.8 121.6 121.7 122.3 0.5 157.3 165.0 165.7 167.5 1.1

Leisure and hospitality...................... 104.8 105.7 105.9 106.0 0.1 134.8 138.0 138.0 138.3 0.2

Other services............................... 96.9 98.1 98.0 97.7 -0.3 120.6 123.0 123.2 123.1 -0.1

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

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2002 annual

average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

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

2002 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly

hours, and employment.

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