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Technical information: 

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

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

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

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — NOVEMBER 2015

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 211,000 in November, and the unemployment rate

was unchanged at 5.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in 

construction, professional and technical services, and health care. Mining and information lost jobs. 

Household Survey Data

In November, the unemployment rate held at 5.0 percent, and the number of unemployed persons, at 

7.9 million, was essentially unchanged. Over the past 12 months, the unemployment rate and the number 

of unemployed persons are down by 0.8 percentage point and 1.1 million, respectively. (See table A-1.) 

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (4.7 percent), adult women 

(4.6 percent), teenagers (15.7 percent), whites (4.3 percent), blacks (9.4 percent), Asians (3.9 percent), 

and Hispanics (6.4 percent) showed little or no change in November. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.) 
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The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was little changed at 2.1 

million in November and has shown little movement since June. In November, these individuals 

accounted for 25.7 percent of the unemployed. (See table A-12.) 

The civilian labor force participation rate, at 62.5 percent, changed little in November. The 

employment-population ratio was unchanged at 59.3 percent and has shown little movement since 

October 2014. (See table A-1.) 

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

involuntary part-time workers) increased by 319,000 to 6.1 million in November, following declines in 

September and October. These individuals, who would have preferred full-time employment, were 

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

job. Over the past 12 months, the number of persons employed part time for economic reasons is down 

by 765,000. (See table A-8.) 

In November, 1.7 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, down by 392,000 from 

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

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

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

survey. (See table A-16.) 

Among the marginally attached, there were 594,000 discouraged workers in November, little changed 

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

currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.1 

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

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

Establishment Survey Data

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 211,000 in November, about in line with the average 

monthly gain of 237,000 over the prior 12 months. In November, job growth occurred in construction, 

professional and technical services, and health care. Employment in mining and information declined 

over the month. (See table B-1.) 

Employment in construction rose by 46,000 in November, with much of the increase occurring in 

residential specialty trade contractors (+26,000). Over the past year, construction employment has 

grown by 259,000. 

In November, professional and technical services added 28,000 jobs. Job gains occurred in accounting 

and bookkeeping services (+11,000), and employment in computer systems design and related services 

continued to trend up (+5,000). Over the year, professional and technical services has added 298,000 

jobs. 

Health care employment increased by 24,000 over the month, following a large gain in October 

(+51,000). In November, hospitals added 13,000 jobs. Health care employment has grown by 470,000 

over the year.

Employment in food services and drinking places continued to trend up in November (+32,000) and 

has risen by 374,000 over the year. 
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Retail trade employment continued to trend up in November (+31,000) and has increased by 284,000 

over the year. In November, job gains occurred in general merchandise stores (+12,000) and motor 

vehicle and parts dealers (+9,000). Over the past 12 months, these industries have added 85,000 jobs and 

71,000 jobs, respectively. 

Employment in mining continued to decline in November (-11,000), with losses concentrated in support 

activities for mining (-7,000). Since a recent peak in December 2014, employment in mining has 

declined by 123,000. 

Information lost 12,000 jobs over the month. Within the industry, employment in motion pictures and 

sound recording decreased by 13,000 in November but has shown little net change over the year. 

Employment in other major industries, including manufacturing, wholesale trade, transportation and 

warehousing, financial activities, and government, changed little over the month. 

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged down by 0.1 hour to 34.5 

hours in November. Both the manufacturing workweek and factory overtime were unchanged in 

November, at 40.7 hours and 3.2 hours, respectively. The average workweek for production and 

nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls was also unchanged at 33.7 hours. (See

tables B-2 and B-7.) 

In November, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 4 cents 

to $25.25, following a 9-cent gain in October. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 2.3 

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

employees, at $21.19, changed little. (See tables B-3 and B-8.) 

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for September was revised from +137,000 to 

+145,000, and the change from October was revised from +271,000 to +298,000. With these revisions, 

employment gains in September and October combined were 35,000 more than previously reported. 

Over the past 3 months, job gains have averaged 218,000 per month. 

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The Employment Situation for December is scheduled to be released on Friday, January 8, 2016, 

at 8:30 a.m. (EST). 

Revision of Seasonally Adjusted Household Survey Data

In accordance with usual practice, The Employment Situation news release for December 2015, 

scheduled for January 8, 2016, will incorporate annual revisions in seasonally adjusted

household survey data. Seasonally adjusted data for the most recent 5 years are subject to 

revision. 
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Change from:

Oct. 2015-

Nov. 2015

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population........................................... 248,844 251,325 251,541 251,747 206

Civilian labor force........................................................... 156,402 156,715 157,028 157,301 273

Participation rate.......................................................... 62.9 62.4 62.4 62.5 0.1

Employed................................................................... 147,331 148,800 149,120 149,364 244

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

Unemployed............................................................... 9,071 7,915 7,908 7,937 29

Unemployment rate.................................................... 5.8 5.1 5.0 5.0 0.0

Not in labor force............................................................ 92,442 94,610 94,513 94,446 -67

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over...................................................... 5.8 5.1 5.0 5.0 0.0

Adult men (20 years and over)............................................ 5.4 4.7 4.7 4.7 0.0

Adult women (20 years and over)......................................... 5.2 4.6 4.5 4.6 0.1

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)................................................ 17.5 16.3 15.9 15.7 -0.2

White.......................................................................... 4.9 4.4 4.4 4.3 -0.1

Black or African American.................................................. 11.0 9.2 9.2 9.4 0.2

Asian.......................................................................... 4.7 3.6 3.5 3.9 0.4

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity................................................. 6.6 6.4 6.3 6.4 0.1

Total, 25 years and over...................................................... 4.7 4.1 4.1 4.1 0.0

Less than a high school diploma.......................................... 8.5 7.9 7.4 6.9 -0.5

High school graduates, no college........................................ 5.6 5.2 5.2 5.4 0.2

Some college or associate degree........................................ 4.9 4.3 4.4 4.4 0.0

Bachelor’s degree and higher.............................................. 3.2 2.5 2.5 2.5 0.0

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs.................. 4,480 3,908 3,965 3,894 -71

Job leavers...................................................................... 835 780 789 800 11

Reentrants....................................................................... 2,761 2,436 2,430 2,444 14

New entrants.................................................................... 1,045 831 807 843 36

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks............................................................. 2,505 2,363 2,326 2,406 80

5 to 14 weeks................................................................... 2,378 2,218 2,311 2,262 -49

15 to 26 weeks................................................................. 1,403 1,214 1,218 1,270 52

27 weeks and over............................................................. 2,822 2,104 2,142 2,050 -92

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons.............................................. 6,851 6,036 5,767 6,086 319

Slack work or business conditions........................................ 4,068 3,569 3,279 3,535 256

Could only find part-time work............................................. 2,447 2,134 2,182 2,226 44

Part time for noneconomic reasons.......................................... 19,971 19,971 20,169 20,157 -12

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force....................................... 2,109 1,921 1,916 1,717 –

Discouraged workers........................................................ 698 635 665 594 –

- 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 Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 145 298 211

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 165 304 197

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 -4 30 34

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 -15 -5 -11

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 19 34 46

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 -8 1 -1

Durable goods1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 -6 -5 -6

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.3 3.2 1.0 -3.4

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 -2 6 5

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 169 274 163

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.0 -1.3 8.8 9.1

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 10.3 40.6 30.7

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.9 -6.2 -5.7 6.4

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8 0.5 -0.1 2.4

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 15 2 -12

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3 10 14

Professional and business services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 32 90 27

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.8 0.2 28.1 -12.3

Education and health services1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 58 71 40

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.9 45.3 62.7 32.2

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 52 48 39

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 5 10 6

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 -20 -6 14

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 174 199 218

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 162 198 222

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

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

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

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.5 82.4 82.4 82.4

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

Average weekly hours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.6 34.5 34.6 34.5

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24.68 $25.12 $25.21 $25.25

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $853.93 $866.64 $872.27 $871.13

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.4 103.8 104.4 104.3

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.4 -0.2 0.6 -0.1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.6 124.5 125.6 125.7

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.8 -0.1 0.9 0.1

DIFFUSION INDEX

(Over 1-month span)5

Total private (263 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.3 54.2 59.1 60.5

Manufacturing (80 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.3 41.9 50.6 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.

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

1. Why are there two monthly measures of employment? 

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

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

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

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

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

significant change in the household survey is about 500,000. However, the household survey has a 

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

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

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

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

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

2. Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Employment Situation news release. 

3. Why does the establishment survey have revisions? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

estimates to nearly complete employment counts available from unemployment insurance tax 

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

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

4. Does the establishment survey sample include small firms? 

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

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

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

industries are appropriately sampled to achieve that goal. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

insurance benefits? 

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

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

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

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

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

looking for work? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

typically, but not always, results in a reduction in average weekly hours. For example, some 

employees may be off work for part of the pay period and not receive pay for the time missed, 

while some workers, such as those dealing with cleanup or repair, may work extra hours. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This news release presents statistics from two major 

surveys, the Current Population Survey (CPS; household 

survey) and the Current Employment Statistics survey (CES; 

establishment survey). The household survey provides 

information on the labor force, employment, and 

unemployment that appears in the "A" tables, marked 

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

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

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

The establishment survey provides information on 

employment, hours, and earnings of employees on nonfarm 

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

ESTABLISHMENT DATA. BLS collects these data each 

month from the payroll records of a sample of 

nonagricultural business establishments. Each month the 

CES program surveys about 143,000 businesses and 

government agencies, representing approximately 588,000 

individual worksites, in order to provide detailed industry 

data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on 

nonfarm payrolls. The active sample includes approximately 

one-third of all nonfarm payroll employees. 

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

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

reference period is generally the calendar week that contains 

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

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

may or may not correspond directly to the calendar week. 

Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys 

Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect 

the entire civilian noninstitutional population. Based on 

responses to a series of questions on work and job search 

activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample 

household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in 

the labor force. 

People are classified as employed if they did any work 

at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked 

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

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

farm. People are also counted as employed if they were 

temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad 

weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal 

reasons. 

People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of 

the following criteria: they had no employment during the 

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

and they made specific efforts to find employment sometime 

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

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

looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The 

unemployment data derived from the household survey in no 

way depend upon the eligibility for or receipt of 

unemployment insurance benefits. 

The civilian labor force is the sum of employed and 

unemployed persons. Those persons not classified as 

employed or unemployed are not in the labor force. The 

unemployment rate is the number unemployed as a percent 

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

labor force as a percent of the population, and 

the employment-population ratio is the employed as a 

percent of the population. Additional information 

about the household survey can be found at 

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

Establishment survey. The sample establishments are 

drawn from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, 

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

government entities. Employees on nonfarm payrolls are 

those who received pay for any part of the reference pay 

period, including persons on paid leave. Persons are counted 

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

for the private sector for all employees and for production 

and nonsupervisory employees. Production and

nonsupervisory employees are defined as production and 

related employees in manufacturing and mining and logging, 

construction workers in construction, and non-supervisory 

employees in private service-providing industries. 

Industries are classified on the basis of an 

establishment’s principal activity in accordance with the 

2012 version of the North American Industry Classification 

System. Additional information about the establishment 

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

Differences in employment estimates. The numerous 

conceptual and methodological differences between the 

household and establishment surveys result in important 

distinctions in the employment estimates derived from the 

surveys. Among these are: 

 The household survey includes agricultural 

workers, self-employed workers whose businesses 

are unincorporated, unpaid family workers, and 

private household workers among the employed. 

These groups are excluded from the establishment 

survey. 

 The household survey includes people on unpaid 

leave among the employed. The establishment 

survey does not. 

 The household survey is limited to workers 16 years 

of age and older. The establishment survey is not 

limited by age. 

 The household survey has no duplication of 

individuals, because individuals are counted only 

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

establishment survey, employees working at more 

than one job and thus appearing on more than one 

payroll are counted separately for each appearance. 
Seasonal adjustment 

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

force and the levels of employment and unemployment 

undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These events may 

result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, and 

the opening and closing of schools. The effect of such 

seasonal variation can be very large. 

Because these seasonal events follow a more or less 

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

series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal 

variation. These adjustments make nonseasonal 

developments, such as declines in employment or increases 

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

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

of youth entering the labor force each June is likely to 

obscure any other changes that have taken place relative to 

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

activity has risen or declined. Similarly, in the establishment 

survey, payroll employment in education declines by about 

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

the start of the fall term, obscuring the underlying 

employment trends in the industry. Because seasonal 

employment changes at the end and beginning of the school 

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

underlying employment patterns more discernable. The 

seasonally adjusted figures provide a more useful tool with 

which to analyze changes in month-to-month economic 

activity. 

Many seasonally adjusted series are independently 

adjusted in both the household and establishment surveys. 

However, the adjusted series for many major estimates, such 

as total payroll employment, employment in most major 

sectors, total employment, and unemployment are computed 

by aggregating independently adjusted component series. 

For example, total unemployment is derived by summing the 

adjusted series for four major age-sex components; this 

differs from the unemployment estimate that would be 

obtained by directly adjusting the total or by combining the 

duration, reasons, or more detailed age categories. 

For both the household and establishment surveys, a 

concurrent seasonal adjustment methodology is used in 

which new seasonal factors are calculated each month using 

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

month. In the household survey, new seasonal factors are 

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

establishment survey, however, new seasonal factors are 

used each month to adjust the three most recent monthly 

estimates. The prior 2 months are routinely revised to 

incorporate additional sample reports and recalculated 

seasonal adjustment factors. In both surveys, 5-year 

revisions to historical data are made once a year. 

Reliability of the estimates 

Statistics based on the household and establishment 

surveys are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. 

When a sample, rather than the entire population, is 

surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may 

differ from the true population values they represent. The 

component of this difference that occurs because samples 

differ by chance is known as sampling error, and its 

variability is measured by the standard error of the estimate. 

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

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

than 1.6 standard errors from the true population value 

because of sampling error. BLS analyses are generally 

conducted at the 90-percent level of confidence. 

For example, the confidence interval for the monthly 

change in total nonfarm employment from the establishment 

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

estimate of nonfarm employment increases by 50,000 from 

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

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

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

sample results are off by these magnitudes, but rather that 

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

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

confidence that nonfarm employment had, in fact, increased 

that month. If, however, the reported nonfarm employment 

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

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

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

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

unemployment rate of around 6.0 percent, the 90-percent 

confidence interval for the monthly change in unemployment 

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

and for the monthly change in the unemployment rate it is 

about +/- 0.2 percentage point. 

In general, estimates involving many individuals or 

establishments have lower standard errors (relative to the 

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

small number of observations. The precision of estimates 

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

as for quarterly and annual averages. 

The household and establishment surveys are also 

affected by nonsampling error, which can occur for many 

reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the 

population, inability to obtain information for all respondents 

in the sample, inability or unwillingness of respondents to 

provide correct information on a timely basis, mistakes made 

by respondents, and errors made in the collection or 

processing of the data. 

For example, in the establishment survey, estimates for 

the most recent 2 months are based on incomplete returns; 

for this reason, these estimates are labeled preliminary in the 

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

estimate, when nearly all sample reports have been received, 

that the estimate is considered final. 

Another major source of nonsampling error in the 

establishment survey is the inability to capture, on a timely 

basis, employment generated by new firms. To correct for 

this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an 

estimation procedure with two components is used to 

account for business births. The first component excludes 

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

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

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

employment trend as the other firms in the sample. This 

procedure accounts for most of the net birth/death 

employment. 

The second component is an ARIMA time series model 

designed to estimate the residual net birth/death employment 

not accounted for by the imputation. The historical time 

series used to create and test the ARIMA model was derived 

from the unemployment insurance universe micro-level 

database, and reflects the actual residual net of births and 

deaths over the past 5 years. 

The sample-based estimates from the establishment 

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

universe counts of payroll employment obtained from 

administrative records of the unemployment insurance 

program. The difference between the March sample-based 

employment estimates and the March universe counts is 

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

for total survey error. The new benchmarks also incorporate 

changes in the classification of industries. Over the past 

decade, absolute benchmark revisions for total nonfarm 

employment have averaged 0.3 percent, with a range from 

-0.7 percent 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

Nov.

2014

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248,844 251,541 251,747 248,844 250,876 251,096 251,325 251,541 251,747

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156,297 157,313 157,340 156,402 157,106 157,065 156,715 157,028 157,301

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.8 62.5 62.5 62.9 62.6 62.6 62.4 62.4 62.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147,666 149,716 149,766 147,331 148,840 149,036 148,800 149,120 149,364

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.3 59.5 59.5 59.2 59.3 59.4 59.2 59.3 59.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,630 7,597 7,573 9,071 8,266 8,029 7,915 7,908 7,937

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 4.8 4.8 5.8 5.3 5.1 5.1 5.0 5.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,547 94,228 94,407 92,442 93,770 94,031 94,610 94,513 94,446

Persons who currently want a job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,227 5,703 5,326 6,556 6,135 5,932 5,955 6,052 5,636

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,208 121,474 121,577 120,208 121,139 121,250 121,365 121,474 121,577

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,835 83,572 83,258 82,961 83,578 83,472 83,402 83,501 83,426

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.9 68.8 68.5 69.0 69.0 68.8 68.7 68.7 68.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,208 79,579 79,142 78,084 79,202 79,211 79,134 79,219 79,103

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.1 65.5 65.1 65.0 65.4 65.3 65.2 65.2 65.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,627 3,993 4,115 4,877 4,376 4,261 4,267 4,282 4,323

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.6 4.8 4.9 5.9 5.2 5.1 5.1 5.1 5.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,373 37,902 38,319 37,247 37,562 37,778 37,964 37,973 38,151

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,778 113,049 113,149 111,778 112,714 112,825 112,940 113,049 113,149

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,074 80,817 80,548 80,029 80,790 80,640 80,553 80,662 80,566

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.6 71.5 71.2 71.6 71.7 71.5 71.3 71.4 71.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,922 77,258 76,911 75,675 76,903 76,880 76,763 76,852 76,763

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.9 68.3 68.0 67.7 68.2 68.1 68.0 68.0 67.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,152 3,559 3,637 4,354 3,887 3,760 3,790 3,809 3,803

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 4.4 4.5 5.4 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,704 32,232 32,601 31,749 31,924 32,185 32,387 32,388 32,583

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,637 130,067 130,170 128,637 129,737 129,846 129,960 130,067 130,170

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73,462 73,741 74,082 73,442 73,528 73,593 73,313 73,527 73,875

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.1 56.7 56.9 57.1 56.7 56.7 56.4 56.5 56.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,459 70,137 70,624 69,247 69,638 69,825 69,665 69,901 70,261

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.0 53.9 54.3 53.8 53.7 53.8 53.6 53.7 54.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,003 3,604 3,458 4,195 3,891 3,768 3,648 3,627 3,614

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.4 4.9 4.7 5.7 5.3 5.1 5.0 4.9 4.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,175 56,326 56,088 55,195 56,209 56,253 56,647 56,540 56,295

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,465 121,880 121,979 120,465 121,551 121,660 121,773 121,880 121,979

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,743 71,093 71,482 70,599 70,745 70,826 70,561 70,779 71,163

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.7 58.3 58.6 58.6 58.2 58.2 57.9 58.1 58.3

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,176 67,885 68,335 66,894 67,271 67,502 67,346 67,568 67,903

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.8 55.7 56.0 55.5 55.3 55.5 55.3 55.4 55.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,567 3,209 3,147 3,705 3,474 3,324 3,214 3,211 3,260

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.0 4.5 4.4 5.2 4.9 4.7 4.6 4.5 4.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,722 50,787 50,497 49,866 50,806 50,833 51,212 51,101 50,816

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,602 16,612 16,619 16,602 16,611 16,611 16,612 16,612 16,619

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,480 5,403 5,310 5,775 5,570 5,599 5,601 5,587 5,572

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.0 32.5 32.0 34.8 33.5 33.7 33.7 33.6 33.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,569 4,574 4,520 4,762 4,666 4,654 4,690 4,700 4,697

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.5 27.5 27.2 28.7 28.1 28.0 28.2 28.3 28.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 830 790 1,013 904 945 911 888 875

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.6 15.4 14.9 17.5 16.2 16.9 16.3 15.9 15.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,122 11,209 11,309 10,827 11,040 11,012 11,011 11,025 11,047

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

Nov.

2014

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

WHITE

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195,995 197,271 197,377 195,995 196,904 197,024 197,152 197,271 197,377

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,438 123,572 123,534 123,391 123,607 123,390 123,132 123,348 123,454

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.0 62.6 62.6 63.0 62.8 62.6 62.5 62.5 62.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,724 118,474 118,503 117,307 117,880 117,903 117,768 117,961 118,090

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.1 60.1 60.0 59.9 59.9 59.8 59.7 59.8 59.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,713 5,098 5,031 6,084 5,727 5,487 5,364 5,387 5,364

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.6 4.1 4.1 4.9 4.6 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,558 73,699 73,843 72,604 73,297 73,634 74,020 73,922 73,923

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,440 64,711 64,489 64,339 64,819 64,617 64,543 64,579 64,467

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.0 71.8 71.5 71.9 72.1 71.8 71.7 71.7 71.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,640 62,280 62,027 61,388 62,057 61,964 61,880 61,940 61,862

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.9 69.1 68.8 68.6 69.0 68.9 68.7 68.8 68.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,800 2,431 2,462 2,951 2,762 2,652 2,663 2,639 2,605

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3 3.8 3.8 4.6 4.3 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.0

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,730 54,631 54,906 54,587 54,369 54,372 54,181 54,398 54,651

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.1 57.6 57.8 58.0 57.4 57.4 57.1 57.3 57.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52,435 52,541 52,860 52,142 52,027 52,167 52,091 52,254 52,478

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.7 55.4 55.7 55.4 54.9 55.1 54.9 55.1 55.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,295 2,090 2,046 2,445 2,342 2,205 2,090 2,143 2,173

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2 3.8 3.7 4.5 4.3 4.1 3.9 3.9 4.0

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,268 4,230 4,139 4,466 4,418 4,401 4,407 4,372 4,335

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.6 34.4 33.6 36.2 35.9 35.7 35.8 35.5 35.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,649 3,653 3,616 3,777 3,796 3,772 3,796 3,767 3,750

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.5 29.7 29.4 30.6 30.8 30.6 30.8 30.6 30.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 618 576 523 689 622 629 611 605 585

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.5 13.6 12.6 15.4 14.1 14.3 13.9 13.8 13.5

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,005 31,518 31,557 31,005 31,399 31,438 31,479 31,518 31,557

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,037 19,502 19,458 19,056 19,298 19,388 19,349 19,394 19,444

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 61.9 61.7 61.5 61.5 61.7 61.5 61.5 61.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,019 17,734 17,682 16,957 17,534 17,556 17,560 17,607 17,618

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.9 56.3 56.0 54.7 55.8 55.8 55.8 55.9 55.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,017 1,768 1,776 2,099 1,764 1,832 1,789 1,787 1,826

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.6 9.1 9.1 11.0 9.1 9.5 9.2 9.2 9.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,968 12,016 12,099 11,949 12,101 12,050 12,130 12,124 12,113

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,597 8,809 8,740 8,594 8,738 8,763 8,751 8,772 8,746

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.9 67.2 66.6 66.9 67.0 67.1 66.9 67.0 66.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,700 8,038 7,915 7,630 7,966 7,956 7,975 7,965 7,881

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.0 61.4 60.3 59.4 61.1 60.9 61.0 60.8 60.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897 771 825 964 773 807 776 806 865

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.4 8.8 9.4 11.2 8.8 9.2 8.9 9.2 9.9

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,723 10,018 10,047 9,709 9,861 9,934 9,882 9,951 10,014

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.0 62.9 63.0 61.9 62.1 62.5 62.1 62.5 62.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,801 9,180 9,247 8,786 9,070 9,125 9,094 9,142 9,216

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.2 57.6 58.0 56.1 57.2 57.4 57.2 57.4 57.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922 838 801 922 791 809 788 809 798

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.5 8.4 8.0 9.5 8.0 8.1 8.0 8.1 8.0

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717 675 671 754 698 691 715 671 683

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.8 27.1 26.9 30.2 28.1 27.8 28.7 27.0 27.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 515 521 541 498 474 490 500 521

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.8 20.7 20.9 21.7 20.0 19.1 19.7 20.1 20.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 159 150 213 200 216 225 172 162

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.6 23.6 22.4 28.2 28.7 31.3 31.5 25.6 23.7

See footnotes at end of table.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Nov.

2014

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

ASIAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,927 14,440 14,476 13,927 14,540 14,558 14,508 14,440 14,476

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,749 8,867 9,100 8,768 9,113 9,110 9,040 8,942 9,128

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.8 61.4 62.9 63.0 62.7 62.6 62.3 61.9 63.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,333 8,561 8,743 8,353 8,751 8,790 8,710 8,626 8,775

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.8 59.3 60.4 60.0 60.2 60.4 60.0 59.7 60.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416 307 356 415 362 321 330 316 353

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.8 3.5 3.9 4.7 4.0 3.5 3.6 3.5 3.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,178 5,573 5,377 5,159 5,427 5,448 5,468 5,498 5,348

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

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

introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Nov.

2014

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population................ 38,760 39,916 40,005 38,760 39,648 39,737 39,828 39,916 40,005

Civilian labor force................................ 25,753 26,223 26,304 25,655 26,158 26,077 26,069 26,193 26,227

Participation rate............................... 66.4 65.7 65.8 66.2 66.0 65.6 65.5 65.6 65.6

Employed....................................... 24,076 24,643 24,654 23,963 24,374 24,343 24,403 24,533 24,547

Employment-population ratio............... 62.1 61.7 61.6 61.8 61.5 61.3 61.3 61.5 61.4

Unemployed.................................... 1,676 1,580 1,650 1,692 1,784 1,734 1,666 1,660 1,680

Unemployment rate......................... 6.5 6.0 6.3 6.6 6.8 6.6 6.4 6.3 6.4

Not in labor force................................. 13,007 13,693 13,701 13,105 13,491 13,660 13,760 13,723 13,778

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................ 14,337 14,494 14,427 14,258 14,468 14,352 14,475 14,460 14,371

Participation rate............................... 81.7 80.5 80.0 81.3 80.9 80.1 80.6 80.3 79.7

Employed....................................... 13,503 13,819 13,665 13,432 13,596 13,595 13,679 13,727 13,599

Employment-population ratio............... 77.0 76.8 75.7 76.5 76.1 75.9 76.2 76.3 75.4

Unemployed.................................... 833 675 762 826 872 757 796 733 771

Unemployment rate......................... 5.8 4.7 5.3 5.8 6.0 5.3 5.5 5.1 5.4

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................ 10,307 10,654 10,819 10,253 10,574 10,606 10,500 10,639 10,763

Participation rate............................... 58.8 58.6 59.3 58.5 58.5 58.6 57.8 58.5 59.0

Employed....................................... 9,645 9,996 10,090 9,590 9,850 9,859 9,834 9,957 10,037

Employment-population ratio............... 55.0 54.9 55.3 54.7 54.5 54.4 54.2 54.7 55.0

Unemployed.................................... 662 659 729 663 724 747 667 682 726

Unemployment rate......................... 6.4 6.2 6.7 6.5 6.8 7.0 6.3 6.4 6.7

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force................................ 1,109 1,074 1,058 1,144 1,116 1,118 1,094 1,094 1,094

Participation rate............................... 30.2 28.9 28.4 31.1 30.1 30.1 29.4 29.4 29.4

Employed....................................... 928 828 899 942 928 889 890 848 911

Employment-population ratio............... 25.2 22.3 24.1 25.6 25.0 24.0 24.0 22.8 24.5

Unemployed.................................... 181 246 159 202 188 230 204 245 183

Unemployment rate......................... 16.3 22.9 15.0 17.7 16.9 20.6 18.6 22.4 16.7

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

columns.

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

release of January data.
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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

Nov.

2014

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force.................................. 11,168 10,511 11,014 11,153 10,843 10,692 10,608 10,699 10,948

Participation rate.................................. 45.8 44.8 46.0 45.7 46.2 45.4 44.8 45.6 45.7

Employed.......................................... 10,213 9,795 10,271 10,201 9,942 9,865 9,773 9,903 10,195

Employment-population ratio................. 41.9 41.7 42.9 41.8 42.4 41.9 41.3 42.2 42.6

Unemployed....................................... 955 715 743 952 901 827 835 796 753

Unemployment rate............................ 8.6 6.8 6.7 8.5 8.3 7.7 7.9 7.4 6.9

High school graduates, no college1

Civilian labor force.................................. 35,432 35,675 35,333 35,478 35,130 35,534 35,250 35,434 35,411

Participation rate.................................. 57.7 57.6 57.3 57.8 57.1 57.1 56.9 57.2 57.5

Employed.......................................... 33,499 33,930 33,495 33,476 33,194 33,584 33,408 33,587 33,510

Employment-population ratio................. 54.5 54.8 54.4 54.5 53.9 54.0 54.0 54.2 54.4

Unemployed....................................... 1,932 1,744 1,838 2,002 1,936 1,950 1,842 1,846 1,901

Unemployment rate............................ 5.5 4.9 5.2 5.6 5.5 5.5 5.2 5.2 5.4

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force.................................. 37,320 37,467 37,428 37,246 37,547 37,053 37,209 37,313 37,466

Participation rate.................................. 66.9 66.2 66.4 66.7 65.9 65.9 66.0 65.9 66.4

Employed.......................................... 35,579 35,860 35,834 35,422 35,900 35,427 35,604 35,680 35,801

Employment-population ratio................. 63.7 63.3 63.5 63.5 63.0 63.0 63.1 63.0 63.5

Unemployed....................................... 1,742 1,606 1,593 1,824 1,646 1,626 1,605 1,633 1,665

Unemployment rate............................ 4.7 4.3 4.3 4.9 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.4 4.4

Bachelor’s degree and higher2

Civilian labor force.................................. 51,342 52,784 52,933 51,222 52,361 52,454 52,693 52,643 52,723

Participation rate.................................. 74.9 74.3 74.2 74.7 74.5 74.3 74.4 74.1 73.9

Employed.......................................... 49,799 51,476 51,681 49,608 51,021 51,167 51,396 51,307 51,418

Employment-population ratio................. 72.6 72.5 72.5 72.3 72.6 72.5 72.6 72.2 72.1

Unemployed....................................... 1,543 1,308 1,252 1,614 1,339 1,286 1,297 1,336 1,305

Unemployment rate............................ 3.0 2.5 2.4 3.2 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5

1

Includes persons with a high school diploma or equivalent.

2

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

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

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

and sex, not seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, veteran status, and period of service

Total Men Women

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

VETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,403 21,085 19,416 19,081 1,987 2,004

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,836 10,763 9,568 9,508 1,268 1,255

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.6 51.0 49.3 49.8 63.8 62.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,344 10,372 9,151 9,173 1,193 1,198

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.3 49.2 47.1 48.1 60.0 59.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 391 417 334 75 57

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5 3.6 4.4 3.5 5.9 4.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,567 10,322 9,848 9,573 719 749

Gulf War-era II veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,601 3,728 2,937 3,025 664 702

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,826 3,091 2,360 2,561 466 531

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.5 82.9 80.4 84.6 70.2 75.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,665 2,960 2,236 2,467 429 492

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.0 79.4 76.1 81.6 64.6 70.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 131 124 93 38 38

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.7 4.2 5.3 3.6 8.1 7.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774 637 577 465 198 172

Gulf War-era I veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,300 3,389 2,821 2,915 479 475

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,715 2,676 2,361 2,331 354 346

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.3 79.0 83.7 80.0 74.0 72.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,653 2,594 2,308 2,259 345 335

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.4 76.5 81.8 77.5 71.9 70.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 82 53 72 10 10

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 3.1 2.2 3.1 2.8 3.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585 713 461 584 125 129

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

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,159 8,739 8,834 8,427 325 312

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,481 2,244 2,396 2,174 85 70

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.1 25.7 27.1 25.8 26.2 22.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,355 2,168 2,274 2,105 81 63

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.7 24.8 25.7 25.0 24.9 20.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 76 122 69 4 8

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1 3.4 5.1 3.2 5.2 –

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,678 6,495 6,438 6,253 240 242

Veterans of other service periods

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,343 5,229 4,824 4,714 519 515

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,813 2,751 2,451 2,443 362 308

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.7 52.6 50.8 51.8 69.8 59.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,672 2,650 2,333 2,342 339 308

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.0 50.7 48.4 49.7 65.3 59.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 101 118 101 23 1

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.0 3.7 4.8 4.1 6.4 0.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,530 2,478 2,373 2,271 157 207

NONVETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218,372 221,746 96,180 97,897 122,192 123,849

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,517 144,783 72,271 72,844 71,246 71,939

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.7 65.3 75.1 74.4 58.3 58.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,693 137,877 68,245 69,223 67,448 68,654

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.1 62.2 71.0 70.7 55.2 55.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,823 6,906 4,026 3,621 3,798 3,285

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 4.8 5.6 5.0 5.3 4.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,855 76,963 23,909 25,053 50,946 51,910

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

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

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

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

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

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

adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Persons with a disability Persons with no disability

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

TOTAL, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population...................................................... 29,786 29,591 219,058 222,156

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 5,881 5,672 150,416 151,667

Participation rate..................................................................... 19.7 19.2 68.7 68.3

Employed............................................................................. 5,245 4,985 142,422 144,781

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 17.6 16.8 65.0 65.2

Unemployed.......................................................................... 637 687 7,994 6,886

Unemployment rate............................................................... 10.8 12.1 5.3 4.5

Not in labor force....................................................................... 23,905 23,918 68,642 70,489

Men, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 2,502 2,422 75,706 75,968

Participation rate..................................................................... 31.9 31.3 82.2 81.8

Employed............................................................................. 2,239 2,101 71,594 72,357

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 28.5 27.2 77.7 77.9

Unemployed.......................................................................... 263 322 4,111 3,611

Unemployment rate............................................................... 10.5 13.3 5.4 4.8

Not in labor force....................................................................... 5,344 5,308 16,399 16,863

Women, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 2,348 2,297 67,285 67,718

Participation rate..................................................................... 29.1 28.6 70.6 70.5

Employed............................................................................. 2,043 1,996 63,727 64,706

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 25.3 24.8 66.9 67.4

Unemployed.......................................................................... 305 301 3,558 3,013

Unemployment rate............................................................... 13.0 13.1 5.3 4.4

Not in labor force....................................................................... 5,735 5,745 27,992 28,305

Both sexes, 65 years and over

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 1,031 952 7,425 7,981

Participation rate..................................................................... 7.4 6.9 23.4 24.0

Employed............................................................................. 962 888 7,100 7,719

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 6.9 6.4 22.4 23.2

Unemployed.......................................................................... 69 64 325 262

Unemployment rate............................................................... 6.7 6.8 4.4 3.3

Not in labor force....................................................................... 12,826 12,865 24,251 25,320

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

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Foreign born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population................................... 40,027 40,353 19,774 19,729 20,254 20,624

Civilian labor force.................................................. 26,536 26,665 15,518 15,474 11,018 11,191

Participation rate.................................................. 66.3 66.1 78.5 78.4 54.4 54.3

Employed.......................................................... 25,108 25,495 14,740 14,891 10,368 10,604

Employment-population ratio................................. 62.7 63.2 74.5 75.5 51.2 51.4

Unemployed....................................................... 1,428 1,170 778 583 651 586

Unemployment rate............................................ 5.4 4.4 5.0 3.8 5.9 5.2

Not in labor force.................................................... 13,491 13,688 4,256 4,254 9,235 9,433

Native born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population................................... 208,817 211,394 100,434 101,848 108,383 109,546

Civilian labor force.................................................. 129,760 130,675 67,317 67,783 62,444 62,892

Participation rate.................................................. 62.1 61.8 67.0 66.6 57.6 57.4

Employed.......................................................... 122,558 124,271 63,467 64,251 59,091 60,020

Employment-population ratio................................. 58.7 58.8 63.2 63.1 54.5 54.8

Unemployed....................................................... 7,202 6,403 3,850 3,532 3,352 2,872

Unemployment rate............................................ 5.6 4.9 5.7 5.2 5.4 4.6

Not in labor force.................................................... 79,056 80,720 33,117 34,065 45,939 46,655

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

Nov.

2014

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries................. 2,332 2,518 2,363 2,392 2,375 2,345 2,357 2,390 2,423

Wage and salary workers1

...................... 1,587 1,683 1,540 1,621 1,490 1,437 1,506 1,566 1,556

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . .. 729 810 801 749 853 886 820 803 823

Unpaid family workers........................... 16 25 22 – – – – – –

Nonagricultural industries.......................... 145,335 147,198 147,404 144,939 146,439 146,679 146,464 146,795 147,048

Wage and salary workers1

...................... 136,379 138,477 138,642 136,093 137,628 137,988 137,966 138,106 138,387

Government..................................... 20,034 20,667 21,140 19,956 20,547 20,620 20,526 20,565 21,094

Private industries............................... 116,345 117,810 117,501 116,144 117,059 117,331 117,516 117,469 117,313

Private households.......................... 791 791 736 – – – – – –

Other industries.............................. 115,554 117,019 116,766 115,361 116,257 116,509 116,747 116,659 116,568

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . .. 8,911 8,660 8,692 8,794 8,741 8,682 8,357 8,640 8,601

Unpaid family workers........................... 44 61 70 – – – – – –

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME2

All industries

Part time for economic reasons3

.................. 6,713 5,536 5,967 6,851 6,325 6,483 6,036 5,767 6,086

Slack work or business conditions............. 3,999 3,179 3,468 4,068 3,828 3,841 3,569 3,279 3,535

Could only find part-time work.................. 2,399 2,147 2,194 2,447 2,213 2,242 2,134 2,182 2,226

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 20,868 20,754 21,094 19,971 19,891 19,760 19,971 20,169 20,157

Nonagricultural industries

Part time for economic reasons3

.................. 6,597 5,495 5,855 6,731 6,223 6,380 5,946 5,711 5,972

Slack work or business conditions............. 3,931 3,161 3,396 3,997 3,752 3,779 3,521 3,251 3,466

Could only find part-time work.................. 2,380 2,145 2,183 2,412 2,199 2,239 2,104 2,173 2,215

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 20,519 20,352 20,721 19,594 19,504 19,445 19,656 19,801 19,755

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

Nov.

2014

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147,666 149,716 149,766 147,331 148,840 149,036 148,800 149,120 149,364

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,569 4,574 4,520 4,762 4,666 4,654 4,690 4,700 4,697

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,629 1,593 1,518 1,663 1,637 1,623 1,634 1,573 1,562

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,939 2,981 3,002 3,065 3,034 3,030 3,049 3,118 3,131

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,098 145,143 145,246 142,569 144,174 144,382 144,110 144,420 144,666

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,007 14,080 13,965 13,939 14,043 14,315 13,977 14,038 13,931

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,090 131,062 131,281 128,673 130,123 130,051 130,135 130,478 130,818

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,191 97,112 97,303 95,856 96,487 96,628 96,735 96,700 96,950

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,490 32,919 33,019 32,271 32,652 32,765 32,808 32,786 32,802

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,131 31,521 31,474 31,018 31,261 31,343 31,350 31,349 31,363

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,569 32,672 32,810 32,567 32,574 32,520 32,578 32,565 32,786

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,900 33,951 33,978 32,817 33,636 33,423 33,400 33,778 33,867

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,208 79,579 79,142 78,084 79,202 79,211 79,134 79,219 79,103

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,286 2,321 2,231 2,409 2,299 2,331 2,371 2,367 2,340

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811 779 747 847 799 808 803 778 780

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,474 1,542 1,485 1,552 1,498 1,526 1,563 1,592 1,565

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,922 77,258 76,911 75,675 76,903 76,880 76,763 76,852 76,763

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,156 7,164 7,020 7,114 7,177 7,256 7,111 7,152 7,034

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,766 70,094 69,892 68,593 69,730 69,615 69,632 69,764 69,763

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,419 52,064 51,982 51,282 51,740 51,891 51,958 51,839 51,866

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,449 17,817 17,829 17,336 17,689 17,705 17,741 17,724 17,725

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,850 17,013 16,883 16,784 16,838 16,931 16,954 16,916 16,831

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,120 17,234 17,270 17,162 17,213 17,255 17,264 17,198 17,310

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,346 18,029 17,910 17,311 17,990 17,724 17,673 17,925 17,897

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,459 70,137 70,624 69,247 69,638 69,825 69,665 69,901 70,261

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,283 2,253 2,289 2,353 2,367 2,322 2,319 2,333 2,358

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818 814 771 816 838 814 831 794 782

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,465 1,438 1,517 1,513 1,536 1,504 1,485 1,526 1,566

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,176 67,885 68,335 66,894 67,271 67,502 67,346 67,568 67,903

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,852 6,916 6,946 6,825 6,865 7,059 6,866 6,886 6,897

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,324 60,969 61,390 60,080 60,392 60,437 60,504 60,715 61,054

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,771 45,047 45,321 44,574 44,746 44,738 44,777 44,861 45,084

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,041 15,103 15,191 14,935 14,962 15,060 15,067 15,061 15,076

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,282 14,508 14,591 14,234 14,423 14,413 14,395 14,433 14,532

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,448 15,437 15,540 15,406 15,361 15,265 15,314 15,367 15,476

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,553 15,921 16,069 15,506 15,646 15,699 15,727 15,853 15,970

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,482 44,992 44,952 44,267 44,855 44,994 44,888 44,829 44,798

Married women, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,108 35,340 35,503 34,799 34,815 34,963 35,014 35,172 35,211

Women who maintain families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,385 9,852 9,702 – – – – – –

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,441 122,466 121,897 119,507 121,589 122,024 121,839 122,024 122,027

Part-time workers2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,225 27,250 27,870 27,775 27,265 26,916 26,969 27,183 27,320

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,549 7,620 7,596 7,403 7,124 7,187 7,314 7,423 7,385

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

SELF-EMPLOYMENT

Self-employed workers, incorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,585 5,283 5,692 – – – – – –

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,640 9,469 9,493 9,543 9,593 9,569 9,176 9,443 9,423

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

Nov.

2014

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over........................... 9,071 7,908 7,937 5.8 5.3 5.1 5.1 5.0 5.0

16 to 19 years..................................... 1,013 888 875 17.5 16.2 16.9 16.3 15.9 15.7

16 to 17 years.................................. 359 349 322 17.8 17.4 18.5 17.7 18.2 17.1

18 to 19 years.................................. 656 539 566 17.6 15.9 16.0 15.9 14.8 15.3

20 years and over................................ 8,059 7,020 7,063 5.4 4.9 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7

20 to 24 years.................................. 1,706 1,452 1,482 10.9 10.1 8.9 9.1 9.4 9.6

25 years and over.............................. 6,390 5,607 5,620 4.7 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.1

25 to 54 years............................... 4,871 4,424 4,308 4.8 4.5 4.4 4.2 4.4 4.3

25 to 34 years............................. 2,082 1,850 1,909 6.1 5.5 5.3 5.1 5.3 5.5

35 to 44 years............................. 1,410 1,352 1,287 4.3 4.1 3.9 4.0 4.1 3.9

45 to 54 years............................. 1,378 1,222 1,112 4.1 3.8 3.9 3.4 3.6 3.3

55 years and over........................... 1,532 1,212 1,308 4.5 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.5 3.7

Men, 16 years and over............................ 4,877 4,282 4,323 5.9 5.2 5.1 5.1 5.1 5.2

16 to 19 years..................................... 523 473 520 17.8 17.5 17.7 16.8 16.6 18.2

16 to 17 years.................................. 213 196 183 20.1 18.7 18.7 18.9 20.1 19.0

18 to 19 years.................................. 310 281 341 16.6 17.4 17.3 16.3 15.0 17.9

20 years and over................................ 4,354 3,809 3,803 5.4 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.7 4.7

20 to 24 years.................................. 949 849 892 11.8 11.0 9.8 10.3 10.6 11.3

25 years and over.............................. 3,436 2,976 2,935 4.8 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.0

25 to 54 years............................... 2,584 2,341 2,251 4.8 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.3 4.2

25 to 34 years............................. 1,113 1,037 1,049 6.0 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.5 5.6

35 to 44 years............................. 731 670 637 4.2 3.8 3.5 3.7 3.8 3.6

45 to 54 years............................. 740 635 565 4.1 3.7 3.8 3.3 3.6 3.2

55 years and over........................... 851 635 685 4.7 3.6 3.9 4.0 3.4 3.7

Women, 16 years and over........................ 4,195 3,627 3,614 5.7 5.3 5.1 5.0 4.9 4.9

16 to 19 years..................................... 490 415 355 17.2 15.0 16.1 15.7 15.1 13.1

16 to 17 years.................................. 146 153 139 15.2 16.1 18.3 16.4 16.1 15.1

18 to 19 years.................................. 347 259 226 18.6 14.5 14.6 15.5 14.5 12.6

20 years and over................................ 3,705 3,211 3,260 5.2 4.9 4.7 4.6 4.5 4.6

20 to 24 years.................................. 757 603 590 10.0 9.2 7.9 7.9 8.1 7.9

25 years and over.............................. 2,954 2,631 2,684 4.7 4.4 4.3 4.1 4.2 4.2

25 to 54 years............................... 2,287 2,083 2,057 4.9 4.7 4.6 4.3 4.4 4.4

25 to 34 years............................. 970 813 860 6.1 5.5 5.3 5.0 5.1 5.4

35 to 44 years............................. 679 682 650 4.6 4.4 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.3

45 to 54 years............................. 638 588 547 4.0 4.0 4.0 3.4 3.7 3.4

55 years and over........................... 680 566 612 4.2 3.6 3.7 3.7 3.4 3.7

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present...................... 1,468 1,282 1,246 3.2 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7

Married women, spouse present.................. 1,243 1,071 1,106 3.4 3.3 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0

Women who maintain families1

.................... 843 795 719 8.2 8.0 8.1 7.1 7.5 6.9

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers2................................... 7,592 6,617 6,559 6.0 5.3 5.1 5.1 5.1 5.1

Part-time workers3.................................. 1,500 1,328 1,419 5.1 5.1 4.9 4.8 4.7 4.9

1 Not seasonally adjusted.

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

jobs.

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

part-time jobs.

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

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

Table A-11. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Reason

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Nov.

2014

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 4,182 3,576 3,633 4,480 4,143 4,070 3,908 3,965 3,894

On temporary layoff.............................. 876 645 768 1,070 999 1,001 899 933 939

Not on temporary layoff.......................... 3,306 2,931 2,865 3,410 3,145 3,069 3,009 3,031 2,955

Permanent job losers.......................... 2,365 2,077 2,072 2,446 2,224 2,147 2,160 2,132 2,129

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . .. 941 854 793 964 921 922 849 899 825

Job leavers........................................... 830 801 791 835 843 790 780 789 800

Reentrants............................................ 2,656 2,445 2,361 2,761 2,447 2,349 2,436 2,430 2,444

New entrants......................................... 962 775 788 1,045 826 850 831 807 843

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 48.5 47.1 48.0 49.1 50.2 50.5 49.1 49.6 48.8

On temporary layoff.............................. 10.2 8.5 10.1 11.7 12.1 12.4 11.3 11.7 11.8

Not on temporary layoff.......................... 38.3 38.6 37.8 37.4 38.1 38.1 37.8 37.9 37.0

Job leavers........................................... 9.6 10.5 10.4 9.2 10.2 9.8 9.8 9.9 10.0

Reentrants............................................ 30.8 32.2 31.2 30.3 29.6 29.1 30.6 30.4 30.6

New entrants......................................... 11.2 10.2 10.4 11.5 10.0 10.6 10.5 10.1 10.6

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 2.7 2.3 2.3 2.9 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.5

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

Reentrants............................................ 1.7 1.6 1.5 1.8 1.6 1.5 1.6 1.5 1.6

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

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

Nov.

2014

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks.................................. 2,231 2,160 2,173 2,505 2,488 2,095 2,363 2,326 2,406

5 to 14 weeks........................................ 2,256 2,136 2,144 2,378 2,257 2,374 2,218 2,311 2,262

15 weeks and over.................................. 4,144 3,301 3,256 4,225 3,368 3,437 3,318 3,360 3,321

15 to 26 weeks.................................... 1,374 1,211 1,249 1,403 1,188 1,250 1,214 1,218 1,270

27 weeks and over............................... 2,770 2,090 2,007 2,822 2,180 2,187 2,104 2,142 2,050

Average (mean) duration, in weeks............... 34.1 28.9 29.1 33.0 28.3 28.4 26.3 28.0 28.0

Median duration, in weeks......................... 13.6 11.7 11.4 12.8 11.3 12.1 11.4 11.2 10.8

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Less than 5 weeks.................................. 25.8 28.4 28.7 27.5 30.7 26.5 29.9 29.1 30.1

5 to 14 weeks........................................ 26.1 28.1 28.3 26.1 27.8 30.0 28.1 28.9 28.3

15 weeks and over.................................. 48.0 43.5 43.0 46.4 41.5 43.5 42.0 42.0 41.6

15 to 26 weeks.................................... 15.9 15.9 16.5 15.4 14.6 15.8 15.4 15.2 15.9

27 weeks and over............................... 32.1 27.5 26.5 31.0 26.9 27.7 26.6 26.8 25.7

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

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Total, 16 years and over1

............................................. 147,666 149,766 8,630 7,573 5.5 4.8

Management, professional, and related occupations........... 57,110 58,667 1,656 1,276 2.8 2.1

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations..................................................... 23,207 24,101 654 513 2.7 2.1

Professional and related occupations.......................... 33,904 34,566 1,002 763 2.9 2.2

Service occupations................................................ 26,131 25,927 1,909 1,795 6.8 6.5

Sales and office occupations...................................... 33,136 33,728 1,857 1,649 5.3 4.7

Sales and related occupations.................................. 15,656 15,716 880 851 5.3 5.1

Office and administrative support occupations............... 17,480 18,012 977 798 5.3 4.2

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations........................................................ 13,699 13,971 1,049 932 7.1 6.3

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.................... 1,017 1,057 157 169 13.4 13.8

Construction and extraction occupations...................... 7,823 7,892 698 578 8.2 6.8

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations........... 4,859 5,021 194 185 3.8 3.5

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations........................................................ 17,590 17,475 1,158 1,115 6.2 6.0

Production occupations.......................................... 8,478 8,252 581 437 6.4 5.0

Transportation and material moving occupations............ 9,112 9,223 577 678 6.0 6.8

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

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

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

Industry and class of worker

Number of

unemployed

persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment

rates

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Total, 16 years and over1

................................................................ 8,630 7,573 5.5 4.8

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers.................................. 6,413 5,810 5.2 4.7

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.................................... 32 80 2.8 8.5

Construction.......................................................................... 629 536 7.5 6.2

Manufacturing........................................................................ 640 622 4.2 4.0

Durable goods..................................................................... 416 384 4.4 3.9

Nondurable goods................................................................ 224 238 4.0 4.1

Wholesale and retail trade......................................................... 1,010 1,013 4.9 5.0

Transportation and utilities......................................................... 314 271 5.0 4.3

Information............................................................................ 159 111 5.6 4.3

Financial activities................................................................... 325 251 3.5 2.6

Professional and business services............................................... 944 839 6.1 5.2

Education and health services..................................................... 924 734 4.0 3.2

Leisure and hospitality.............................................................. 1,128 1,005 8.2 7.4

Other services........................................................................ 308 348 4.7 5.3

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers......................... 193 170 11.2 10.2

Government workers................................................................... 622 472 3.0 2.2

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers............ 440 332 4.3 3.4

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

Nov.

2014

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015

Nov.

2015

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer,

as a percent of the civilian labor force......... 2.7 2.1 2.1 2.7 2.1 2.2 2.1 2.1 2.1

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian

labor force......................................... 2.7 2.3 2.3 2.9 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.5

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the

civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate)................................................ 5.5 4.8 4.8 5.8 5.3 5.1 5.1 5.0 5.0

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged

workers, as a percent of the civilian labor

force plus discouraged workers................. 5.9 5.2 5.2 6.2 5.7 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.4

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. . . . . . . .. 6.8 6.0 5.8 7.1 6.4 6.2 6.2 6.2 6.1

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..................................... 11.0 9.5 9.6 11.4 10.4 10.3 10.0 9.8 9.9

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

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

Nov.

2014

Nov.

2015

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force........................................... 92,547 94,407 37,373 38,319 55,175 56,088

Persons who currently want a job................................ 6,227 5,326 3,025 2,599 3,202 2,726

Marginally attached to the labor force1

........................ 2,109 1,717 1,153 947 956 770

Discouraged workers2

......................................... 698 594 433 389 265 205

Other persons marginally attached to the labor force3. .. 1,412 1,123 721 558 691 565

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders4

............................................. 7,549 7,596 3,657 3,693 3,892 3,902

Percent of total employed.......................................... 5.1 5.1 4.7 4.7 5.6 5.5

Primary job full time, secondary job part time................... 4,019 4,055 2,223 2,149 1,796 1,906

Primary and secondary jobs both part time..................... 2,127 2,107 684 720 1,442 1,388

Primary and secondary jobs both full time....................... 208 233 117 166 91 67

Hours vary on primary or secondary job......................... 1,147 1,169 602 641 546 527

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

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Change

from:

Oct.2015 -

Nov.2015p

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,478 142,604 143,784 144,128 140,263 142,391 142,689 142,900 211

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,097 120,729 121,436 121,663 118,371 120,414 120,718 120,915 197

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,545 19,813 19,817 19,730 19,425 19,533 19,563 19,597 34

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916 816 808 792 912 805 800 789 -11

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.0 54.7 54.9 53.4 53.4 52.2 52.3 52.1 -0.2

Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 861.4 761.2 753.1 738.6 858.9 753.0 747.9 736.6 -11.3

Oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201.0 190.5 187.6 184.7 201.0 190.0 187.2 184.8 -2.4

Mining, except oil and gas1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208.0 199.2 198.0 193.7 206.8 194.9 194.6 192.7 -1.9

Coal mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.7 66.6 66.1 64.7 72.7 66.4 66.2 64.9 -1.3

Support activities for mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452.4 371.5 367.5 360.2 451.1 368.1 366.1 359.1 -7.0

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,339 6,627 6,662 6,606 6,231 6,410 6,444 6,490 46

Construction of buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,398.4 1,440.3 1,444.8 1,438.5 1,377.0 1,409.8 1,410.6 1,417.0 6.4

Residential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688.7 713.3 715.2 715.8 677.3 696.0 697.4 703.7 6.3

Nonresidential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709.7 727.0 729.6 722.7 699.7 713.8 713.2 713.3 0.1

Heavy and civil engineering construction. . . . . . 954.2 1,005.2 1,009.7 979.9 925.2 940.5 946.6 951.2 4.6

Specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,986.8 4,181.7 4,207.3 4,187.3 3,928.4 4,059.6 4,086.7 4,121.7 35.0

Residential specialty trade contractors. . . . . . 1,729.9 1,829.8 1,835.1 1,831.6 1,705.6 1,774.4 1,781.5 1,807.3 25.8

Nonresidential specialty trade contractors. . . 2,256.9 2,351.9 2,372.2 2,355.7 2,222.8 2,285.2 2,305.2 2,314.4 9.2

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,290 12,370 12,347 12,332 12,282 12,318 12,319 12,318 -1

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,769 7,796 7,784 7,779 7,768 7,786 7,781 7,775 -6

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377.9 383.5 383.9 386.8 377.6 381.7 382.7 385.1 2.4

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397.0 408.7 410.5 409.0 393.2 402.7 404.5 405.0 0.5

Primary metals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405.2 393.4 391.5 390.6 405.8 393.2 391.9 391.1 -0.8

Fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,469.0 1,452.1 1,448.8 1,446.2 1,467.0 1,451.5 1,447.7 1,446.6 -1.1

Machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,139.6 1,116.9 1,111.9 1,111.1 1,143.6 1,119.6 1,115.4 1,115.0 -0.4

Computer and electronic products1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,053.7 1,052.3 1,051.8 1,053.0 1,053.9 1,052.8 1,053.6 1,053.0 -0.6

Computer and peripheral equipment. . . . . . 167.1 171.5 171.2 171.6 166.8 171.0 171.3 171.4 0.1

Communications equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.3 87.3 87.3 86.8 92.2 87.5 87.3 86.8 -0.5

Semiconductors and electronic

components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368.1 366.6 366.8 367.4 368.4 367.1 367.6 367.5 -0.1

Electronic instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387.9 390.9 390.9 391.4 388.4 391.3 391.7 391.8 0.1

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . 373.0 374.0 373.4 372.4 372.7 373.8 373.1 371.7 -1.4

Transportation equipment1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,587.6 1,625.2 1,619.5 1,617.4 1,589.3 1,622.2 1,620.5 1,616.0 -4.5

Motor vehicles and parts2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900.5 938.9 937.1 934.4 900.3 935.9 936.9 933.5 -3.4

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380.1 394.3 394.4 392.5 381.2 392.4 395.2 393.5 -1.7

Miscellaneous durable goods

manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586.2 595.9 598.4 600.4 583.4 595.7 595.9 598.3 2.4

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,521 4,574 4,563 4,553 4,514 4,532 4,538 4,543 5

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,484.7 1,518.3 1,505.9 1,498.6 1,480.7 1,487.1 1,491.0 1,494.0 3.0

Textile mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.5 116.8 116.5 116.8 118.3 116.8 116.8 116.6 -0.2

Textile product mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116.6 115.5 116.4 116.4 115.2 115.0 115.4 114.8 -0.6

Apparel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138.8 137.1 137.3 137.6 139.1 136.6 136.6 137.1 0.5

Paper and paper products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367.8 366.9 366.6 366.9 368.1 367.3 367.0 367.1 0.1

Printing and related support activities. . . . . . . 452.0 443.2 445.7 447.0 450.4 443.6 444.7 445.0 0.3

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110.5 115.1 114.6 114.7 110.4 113.1 113.2 114.0 0.8

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808.8 812.5 811.6 813.5 808.5 813.2 812.7 813.8 1.1

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683.7 688.1 688.7 688.9 683.7 687.3 688.4 688.6 0.2

Miscellaneous nondurable goods

manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240.0 260.8 259.9 252.9 239.1 251.8 252.6 252.4 -0.2

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99,552 100,916 101,619 101,933 98,946 100,881 101,155 101,318 163

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,106 26,883 27,119 27,554 26,615 26,983 27,026 27,075 49

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,873.4 5,918.2 5,934.3 5,947.1 5,861.2 5,919.1 5,927.9 5,937.0 9.1

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,925.5 2,946.2 2,953.0 2,953.5 2,925.1 2,948.9 2,951.4 2,955.0 3.6

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,038.4 2,064.6 2,068.5 2,075.4 2,028.8 2,061.5 2,063.8 2,066.7 2.9

Electronic markets and agents and

brokers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 909.5 907.4 912.8 918.2 907.3 908.7 912.7 915.3 2.6

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,903.6 15,586.3 15,796.7 16,190.8 15,497.5 15,710.4 15,751.0 15,781.7 30.7

Motor vehicle and parts dealers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,885.9 1,952.8 1,956.8 1,957.6 1,887.6 1,941.7 1,949.8 1,958.7 8.9

Automobile dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,205.0 1,244.2 1,250.7 1,250.6 1,204.8 1,238.9 1,245.2 1,250.0 4.8

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Change

from:

Oct.2015 -

Nov.2015p

Retail trade - Continued

Furniture and home furnishings stores. . . . . . 476.7 463.5 469.9 481.2 459.0 468.1 464.2 464.9 0.7

Electronics and appliance stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 522.1 500.5 516.9 540.9 490.8 509.4 509.2 509.9 0.7

Building material and garden supply

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,217.5 1,243.6 1,244.3 1,242.2 1,242.2 1,260.5 1,264.7 1,268.2 3.5

Food and beverage stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,037.8 3,038.7 3,053.5 3,074.1 3,016.1 3,044.4 3,047.4 3,052.0 4.6

Health and personal care stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,043.4 1,021.0 1,026.0 1,039.0 1,029.5 1,026.7 1,023.4 1,025.7 2.3

Gasoline stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890.4 909.8 911.1 909.6 888.7 905.8 909.3 908.8 -0.5

Clothing and clothing accessories stores. . . . 1,489.8 1,354.0 1,413.4 1,492.8 1,381.0 1,386.5 1,401.2 1,387.0 -14.2

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673.9 594.6 602.5 652.6 630.6 601.1 598.6 603.1 4.5

General merchandise stores1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,286.1 3,137.7 3,192.9 3,372.5 3,132.8 3,195.1 3,206.5 3,218.1 11.6

Department stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,442.6 1,286.4 1,313.0 1,425.4 1,341.9 1,325.0 1,325.4 1,325.9 0.5

Miscellaneous store retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833.3 832.0 851.5 850.9 821.6 827.6 830.8 836.9 6.1

Nonstore retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546.7 538.1 557.9 577.4 517.6 543.5 545.9 548.4 2.5

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,773.8 4,814.0 4,823.3 4,848.7 4,700.1 4,787.2 4,781.5 4,787.9 6.4

Air transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443.8 453.2 454.5 452.9 445.5 452.6 454.4 454.2 -0.2

Rail transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240.0 235.9 233.9 234.8 240.1 236.5 234.4 235.6 1.2

Water transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.5 64.1 62.6 60.6 67.4 63.2 62.2 61.8 -0.4

Truck transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,441.1 1,474.2 1,470.5 1,466.3 1,428.7 1,454.1 1,453.2 1,455.5 2.3

Transit and ground passenger

transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489.4 483.1 488.5 485.6 471.8 471.0 470.4 468.6 -1.8

Pipeline transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.6 50.3 49.9 49.7 47.4 50.1 49.9 49.7 -0.2

Scenic and sightseeing transportation. . . . . . . 26.2 38.4 32.8 27.4 30.8 32.9 32.4 32.3 -0.1

Support activities for transportation. . . . . . . . . . 635.9 654.8 651.2 655.2 634.6 655.8 647.5 653.7 6.2

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621.0 576.4 580.8 605.9 589.8 589.5 588.9 585.3 -3.6

Warehousing and storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762.3 783.6 798.6 810.3 744.0 781.5 788.2 791.2 3.0

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555.2 564.9 565.1 567.6 556.1 565.8 565.7 568.1 2.4

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,778 2,796 2,806 2,809 2,761 2,805 2,807 2,795 -12

Publishing industries, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . 725.2 720.1 718.1 717.0 722.6 718.2 716.3 714.4 -1.9

Motion picture and sound recording

industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384.0 385.7 397.6 392.8 377.0 394.9 400.3 386.9 -13.4

Broadcasting, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288.2 289.9 288.4 289.2 286.5 288.4 287.8 288.0 0.2

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866.3 862.8 861.3 865.8 862.3 863.9 862.0 862.5 0.5

Data processing, hosting and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286.5 298.2 298.2 299.6 285.6 299.2 298.6 299.6 1.0

Other information services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227.3 239.6 242.2 244.3 227.1 240.3 241.5 243.5 2.0

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,041 8,163 8,176 8,183 8,042 8,159 8,169 8,183 14

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,984.2 6,055.4 6,074.3 6,095.4 5,974.7 6,064.2 6,074.2 6,085.2 11.0

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

Credit intermediation and related

activities1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,567.6 2,575.2 2,575.5 2,581.5 2,564.4 2,577.2 2,577.6 2,579.3 1.7

Depository credit intermediation1. . . . . . . . . . 1,700.3 1,690.0 1,689.2 1,693.8 1,701.0 1,694.7 1,693.1 1,695.1 2.0

Commercial banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,285.6 1,266.7 1,264.8 1,267.8 1,286.2 1,270.8 1,268.6 1,268.7 0.1

Securities, commodity contracts,

investments, and funds and trusts. . . . . . . . 889.9 903.9 911.8 912.9 890.7 907.4 910.7 912.7 2.0

Insurance carriers and related activities. . . . . 2,508.3 2,557.8 2,568.4 2,582.4 2,501.3 2,561.1 2,567.4 2,574.7 7.3

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,056.4 2,107.4 2,101.4 2,088.0 2,067.1 2,095.0 2,094.8 2,098.1 3.3

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,494.9 1,528.9 1,533.9 1,525.9 1,500.4 1,523.9 1,528.8 1,530.4 1.6

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537.8 555.1 543.8 538.5 543.1 547.8 542.4 544.2 1.8

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets. . . . 23.7 23.4 23.7 23.6 23.6 23.3 23.6 23.5 -0.1

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,507 19,919 20,131 20,127 19,367 19,856 19,946 19,973 27

Professional and technical services1

. . . . . . . . . . . 8,452.7 8,608.9 8,714.9 8,758.3 8,464.1 8,701.1 8,734.1 8,762.5 28.4

Legal services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,121.2 1,119.7 1,128.7 1,130.2 1,119.2 1,125.7 1,127.0 1,127.6 0.6

Accounting and bookkeeping services. . . . . . 928.4 939.9 961.1 985.2 982.9 1,016.2 1,022.8 1,033.9 11.1

Architectural and engineering services. . . . . . 1,404.5 1,434.4 1,447.5 1,441.9 1,399.3 1,428.5 1,437.5 1,436.4 -1.1

Computer systems design and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,815.5 1,878.7 1,906.8 1,912.6 1,805.6 1,889.0 1,898.5 1,903.3 4.8

Management and technical consulting

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,287.5 1,312.8 1,332.1 1,339.0 1,274.3 1,314.4 1,321.3 1,326.3 5.0

Management of companies and enterprises. . . 2,184.0 2,228.1 2,236.6 2,241.9 2,184.6 2,231.5 2,237.6 2,242.8 5.2

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

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Change

from:

Oct.2015 -

Nov.2015p

Professional and business services - Continued

Administrative and waste services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,870.7 9,082.3 9,179.9 9,126.8 8,718.1 8,923.6 8,974.1 8,968.1 -6.0

Administrative and support services1

. . . . . . . . 8,483.2 8,679.7 8,779.1 8,725.4 8,330.1 8,524.8 8,574.6 8,566.4 -8.2

Employment services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,632.2 3,666.3 3,741.5 3,727.5 3,514.9 3,586.9 3,615.5 3,603.8 -11.7

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,949.4 2,972.2 3,037.7 3,026.6 2,842.3 2,900.8 2,928.9 2,916.6 -12.3

Business support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 915.2 911.0 933.1 939.3 895.8 915.5 919.7 919.6 -0.1

Services to buildings and dwellings. . . . . . . 1,953.7 2,073.2 2,062.9 2,019.4 1,945.4 2,004.9 2,013.8 2,013.5 -0.3

Waste management and remediation

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387.5 402.6 400.8 401.4 388.0 398.8 399.5 401.7 2.2

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,912 22,102 22,468 22,553 21,664 22,191 22,262 22,302 40

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,616.9 3,415.5 3,639.0 3,674.9 3,433.9 3,475.0 3,483.0 3,491.3 8.3

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,295.4 18,686.1 18,829.4 18,877.6 18,230.2 18,716.0 18,778.7 18,810.9 32.2

Health care3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,866.9 15,208.3 15,308.1 15,339.4 14,826.7 15,221.3 15,272.6 15,296.4 23.8

Ambulatory health care services1. . . . . . . . . 6,772.6 6,949.3 7,019.6 7,025.7 6,745.2 6,960.0 6,994.2 6,998.4 4.2

Offices of physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,505.1 2,566.8 2,590.7 2,594.5 2,497.1 2,572.9 2,583.3 2,586.0 2.7

Outpatient care centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725.0 748.4 755.1 757.4 723.4 750.8 753.8 755.9 2.1

Home health care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,295.6 1,335.7 1,353.4 1,351.4 1,286.2 1,334.0 1,343.7 1,342.1 -1.6

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,816.2 4,945.8 4,969.8 4,984.1 4,806.9 4,943.9 4,960.1 4,973.5 13.4

Nursing and residential care facilities1

. . . . 3,278.1 3,313.2 3,318.7 3,329.6 3,274.6 3,317.4 3,318.3 3,324.5 6.2

Nursing care facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,656.1 1,661.5 1,664.8 1,669.6 1,653.1 1,662.0 1,663.0 1,665.1 2.1

Social assistance1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,428.5 3,477.8 3,521.3 3,538.2 3,403.5 3,494.7 3,506.1 3,514.5 8.4

Child day care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 877.5 875.8 893.5 898.4 859.8 876.0 878.7 880.5 1.8

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,616 15,422 15,264 15,061 14,892 15,243 15,291 15,330 39

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,978.3 2,237.7 2,147.7 2,035.9 2,134.7 2,179.2 2,182.9 2,189.6 6.7

Performing arts and spectator sports. . . . . . . . 445.7 494.5 487.0 463.8 460.4 478.3 479.8 478.0 -1.8

Museums, historical sites, and similar

institutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.7 149.8 149.0 142.9 145.7 147.9 148.3 147.2 -1.1

Amusements, gambling, and recreation. . . . . 1,390.9 1,593.4 1,511.7 1,429.2 1,528.6 1,553.0 1,554.8 1,564.4 9.6

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . 12,638.0 13,184.6 13,115.8 13,025.2 12,757.2 13,064.2 13,107.7 13,140.6 32.9

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,832.5 1,946.4 1,892.1 1,842.7 1,893.9 1,903.5 1,902.4 1,903.8 1.4

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . 10,805.5 11,238.2 11,223.7 11,182.5 10,863.3 11,160.7 11,205.3 11,236.8 31.5

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,592 5,631 5,655 5,646 5,605 5,644 5,654 5,660 6

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,244.4 1,270.5 1,280.1 1,274.3 1,248.2 1,267.4 1,275.8 1,278.9 3.1

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,379.1 1,393.2 1,402.1 1,398.6 1,382.0 1,394.5 1,401.3 1,400.8 -0.5

Membership associations and organizations. . . 2,968.9 2,967.1 2,972.3 2,972.7 2,975.1 2,982.0 2,977.3 2,979.8 2.5

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,381 21,875 22,348 22,465 21,892 21,977 21,971 21,985 14

Federal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,725.0 2,742.0 2,735.0 2,742.0 2,729.0 2,740.0 2,739.0 2,745.0 6.0

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,130.2 2,148.6 2,141.6 2,142.9 2,133.8 2,143.4 2,143.8 2,146.5 2.7

U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594.8 593.8 593.1 599.0 595.0 596.1 595.1 598.1 3.0

State government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,252.0 5,128.0 5,269.0 5,284.0 5,072.0 5,101.0 5,102.0 5,105.0 3.0

State government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,612.9 2,485.2 2,629.3 2,641.0 2,423.8 2,453.2 2,454.0 2,453.3 -0.7

State government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . 2,638.6 2,642.5 2,639.7 2,643.1 2,647.9 2,647.4 2,648.2 2,651.3 3.1

Local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,404.0 14,005.0 14,344.0 14,439.0 14,091.0 14,136.0 14,130.0 14,135.0 5.0

Local government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,146.5 7,674.4 8,042.3 8,143.9 7,797.4 7,804.1 7,793.1 7,794.6 1.5

Local government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . 6,257.0 6,331.0 6,301.9 6,295.1 6,293.8 6,331.7 6,336.6 6,340.1 3.5

1

Includes other industries, not shown separately.

2

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

3

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

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private............................................................................. 34.6 34.5 34.6 34.5

Goods-producing.................................................................... 40.6 40.1 40.5 40.3

Mining and logging................................................................ 44.9 44.1 44.1 44.1

Construction....................................................................... 39.0 38.7 39.7 39.1

Manufacturing..................................................................... 41.1 40.6 40.7 40.7

Durable goods.................................................................. 41.6 40.9 41.0 41.0

Nondurable goods.............................................................. 40.3 40.1 40.2 40.1

Private service-providing............................................................ 33.4 33.4 33.4 33.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................. 34.6 34.7 34.6 34.6

Wholesale trade................................................................ 38.9 38.8 38.9 38.8

Retail trade...................................................................... 31.4 31.6 31.4 31.5

Transportation and warehousing............................................. 38.8 39.0 38.8 38.9

Utilities........................................................................... 42.7 42.5 42.6 42.8

Information......................................................................... 36.7 36.0 36.1 36.1

Financial activities................................................................ 37.3 37.7 37.7 37.6

Professional and business services............................................ 36.3 36.1 36.2 36.1

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

Leisure and hospitality........................................................... 26.2 26.3 26.3 26.3

Other services..................................................................... 31.8 31.8 31.9 31.9

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing........................................................................... 3.5 3.2 3.2 3.2

Durable goods....................................................................... 3.6 3.1 3.1 3.1

Nondurable goods................................................................... 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Total private............................................... $24.68 $25.12 $25.21 $25.25 $853.93 $866.64 $872.27 $871.13

Goods-producing....................................... 25.86 26.31 26.40 26.45 1,049.92 1,055.03 1,069.20 1,065.94

Mining and logging.................................. 30.81 31.44 31.42 31.75 1,383.37 1,386.50 1,385.62 1,400.18

Construction.......................................... 26.91 27.37 27.54 27.63 1,049.49 1,059.22 1,093.34 1,080.33

Manufacturing........................................ 24.96 25.42 25.46 25.48 1,025.86 1,032.05 1,036.22 1,037.04

Durable goods.................................... 26.27 26.71 26.75 26.74 1,092.83 1,092.44 1,096.75 1,096.34

Nondurable goods................................ 22.62 23.17 23.21 23.28 911.59 929.12 933.04 933.53

Private service-providing.............................. 24.40 24.84 24.93 24.97 814.96 829.66 832.66 834.00

Trade, transportation, and utilities................. 21.53 21.90 22.01 21.99 744.94 759.93 761.55 760.85

Wholesale trade.................................. 28.24 28.76 28.90 28.85 1,098.54 1,115.89 1,124.21 1,119.38

Retail trade........................................ 17.18 17.64 17.70 17.65 539.45 557.42 555.78 555.98

Transportation and warehousing............... 22.88 22.81 22.94 23.01 887.74 889.59 890.07 895.09

Utilities............................................. 36.00 37.33 37.57 37.82 1,537.20 1,586.53 1,600.48 1,618.70

Information........................................... 34.38 35.17 35.36 35.64 1,261.75 1,266.12 1,276.50 1,286.60

Financial activities................................... 31.09 31.71 31.72 31.84 1,159.66 1,195.47 1,195.84 1,197.18

Professional and business services.............. 29.53 30.25 30.30 30.39 1,071.94 1,092.03 1,096.86 1,097.08

Education and health services..................... 24.99 25.30 25.40 25.46 819.67 829.84 833.12 835.09

Leisure and hospitality.............................. 14.11 14.39 14.45 14.47 369.68 378.46 380.04 380.56

Other services....................................... 22.18 22.48 22.51 22.55 705.32 714.86 718.07 719.35

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by

industry sector, seasonally adjusted

[2007=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls2

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

Oct.

2015 -

Nov.

2015p

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

Oct.

2015 -

Nov.

2015p

Total private..................................... 102.4 103.8 104.4 104.3 -0.1 120.6 124.5 125.6 125.7 0.1

Goods-producing............................. 89.9 89.2 90.3 90.0 -0.3 105.0 106.1 107.7 107.6 -0.1

Mining and logging........................ 128.7 111.6 110.9 109.3 -1.4 159.2 140.8 139.8 139.4 -0.3

Construction................................ 83.8 85.5 88.2 87.5 -0.8 97.9 101.7 105.5 105.0 -0.5

Manufacturing.............................. 90.8 90.0 90.2 90.2 0.0 105.4 106.4 106.8 106.9 0.1

Durable goods........................... 91.0 89.7 89.8 89.7 -0.1 106.1 106.4 106.7 106.6 -0.1

Nondurable goods...................... 90.8 90.7 91.0 90.9 -0.1 104.2 106.6 107.2 107.4 0.2

Private service-providing.................... 105.8 107.8 108.1 108.3 0.2 125.1 129.9 130.7 131.1 0.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities....... 100.2 101.8 101.7 101.9 0.2 116.1 120.0 120.5 120.6 0.1

Wholesale trade......................... 99.5 100.2 100.6 100.5 -0.1 117.2 120.3 121.3 121.0 -0.2

Retail trade.............................. 98.8 100.8 100.5 101.0 0.5 112.3 117.6 117.6 117.8 0.2

Transportation and warehousing...... 104.4 106.9 106.2 106.6 0.4 121.2 123.7 123.6 124.5 0.7

Utilities.................................... 102.7 104.0 104.3 105.2 0.9 122.2 128.3 129.4 131.5 1.6

Information................................. 92.5 92.2 92.5 92.1 -0.4 113.3 115.5 116.5 116.9 0.3

Financial activities......................... 98.2 100.7 100.9 100.8 -0.1 119.1 124.6 124.8 125.1 0.2

Professional and business services..... 110.6 112.7 113.6 113.4 -0.2 132.3 138.2 139.4 139.6 0.1

Education and health services........... 114.0 116.8 117.2 117.4 0.2 134.3 139.2 140.2 140.8 0.4

Leisure and hospitality.................... 111.3 114.4 114.7 115.0 0.3 126.7 132.8 133.8 134.3 0.4

Other services............................. 98.8 99.4 99.9 100.0 0.1 124.3 126.9 127.7 128.0 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.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Women employees (in thousands) Percent of all employees

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Total nonfarm............................................. 69,168 70,341 70,499 70,553 49.3 49.4 49.4 49.4

Total private............................................ 56,668 57,755 57,920 57,972 47.9 48.0 48.0 47.9

Goods-producing.................................... 4,251 4,270 4,272 4,270 21.9 21.9 21.8 21.8

Mining and logging............................... 123 113 111 110 13.5 14.0 13.9 13.9

Construction....................................... 792 807 805 805 12.7 12.6 12.5 12.4

Manufacturing..................................... 3,336 3,350 3,356 3,355 27.2 27.2 27.2 27.2

Durable goods.................................. 1,791 1,812 1,812 1,811 23.1 23.3 23.3 23.3

Nondurable goods............................. 1,545 1,538 1,544 1,544 34.2 33.9 34.0 34.0

Private service-providing........................... 52,417 53,485 53,648 53,702 53.0 53.0 53.0 53.0

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............. 10,762 10,921 10,954 10,957 40.4 40.5 40.5 40.5

Wholesale trade................................ 1,717.7 1,737.5 1,740.0 1,743.8 29.3 29.4 29.4 29.4

Retail trade..................................... 7,801.1 7,918.5 7,948.9 7,946.4 50.3 50.4 50.5 50.4

Transportation and warehousing............. 1,109.3 1,129.4 1,129.4 1,130.6 23.6 23.6 23.6 23.6

Utilities........................................... 134.0 135.3 135.3 136.2 24.1 23.9 23.9 24.0

Information......................................... 1,107 1,122 1,120 1,119 40.1 40.0 39.9 40.0

Financial activities................................ 4,603 4,657 4,666 4,672 57.2 57.1 57.1 57.1

Professional and business services............ 8,635 8,870 8,912 8,913 44.6 44.7 44.7 44.6

Education and health services.................. 16,651 17,069 17,136 17,156 76.9 76.9 77.0 76.9

Leisure and hospitality........................... 7,723 7,889 7,904 7,926 51.9 51.8 51.7 51.7

Other services..................................... 2,936 2,957 2,956 2,959 52.4 52.4 52.3 52.3

Government............................................. 12,500 12,586 12,579 12,581 57.1 57.3 57.3 57.2

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted1

[In thousands]

Industry Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Total private............................................................................... 97,671 99,262 99,489 99,604

Goods-producing....................................................................... 13,991 14,080 14,113 14,139

Mining and logging.................................................................. 669 584 582 574

Construction.......................................................................... 4,682 4,832 4,861 4,898

Manufacturing........................................................................ 8,640 8,664 8,670 8,667

Durable goods..................................................................... 5,346 5,365 5,366 5,360

Nondurable goods................................................................ 3,294 3,299 3,304 3,307

Private service-providing.............................................................. 83,680 85,182 85,376 85,465

Trade, transportation, and utilities................................................. 22,437 22,691 22,711 22,733

Wholesale trade................................................................... 4,729.3 4,748.7 4,751.6 4,749.7

Retail trade........................................................................ 13,192.1 13,343.6 13,367.3 13,393.9

Transportation and warehousing................................................ 4,068.4 4,145.5 4,139.2 4,134.9

Utilities.............................................................................. 447.0 453.3 452.7 454.6

Information............................................................................ 2,240 2,275 2,277 2,269

Financial activities................................................................... 6,204 6,308 6,323 6,335

Professional and business services............................................... 15,996 16,294 16,358 16,362

Education and health services..................................................... 19,018 19,482 19,540 19,567

Leisure and hospitality.............................................................. 13,120 13,434 13,469 13,495

Other services........................................................................ 4,665 4,698 4,698 4,704

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

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private............................................................................. 33.8 33.6 33.7 33.7

Goods-producing.................................................................... 41.6 40.9 41.4 41.2

Mining and logging................................................................ 47.6 45.3 45.5 45.5

Construction....................................................................... 39.7 38.9 40.2 39.6

Manufacturing..................................................................... 42.2 41.8 41.8 41.8

Durable goods.................................................................. 42.5 42.0 42.0 42.1

Nondurable goods.............................................................. 41.6 41.4 41.4 41.3

Private service-providing............................................................ 32.5 32.4 32.4 32.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................. 33.7 33.7 33.6 33.7

Wholesale trade................................................................ 38.6 38.5 38.5 38.4

Retail trade...................................................................... 30.1 30.2 30.0 30.2

Transportation and warehousing............................................. 38.5 38.7 38.7 38.8

Utilities........................................................................... 42.6 42.3 42.3 42.5

Information......................................................................... 36.0 35.6 35.5 35.7

Financial activities................................................................ 36.8 37.1 37.1 37.1

Professional and business services............................................ 35.7 35.2 35.4 35.5

Education and health services.................................................. 32.0 32.1 32.1 32.0

Leisure and hospitality........................................................... 25.1 25.1 25.0 25.0

Other services..................................................................... 30.7 30.6 30.6 30.6

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing........................................................................... 4.6 4.2 4.3 4.2

Durable goods....................................................................... 4.6 4.2 4.3 4.2

Nondurable goods................................................................... 4.5 4.2 4.3 4.3

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

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Total private............................................... $20.77 $21.10 $21.18 $21.19 $702.03 $708.96 $713.77 $714.10

Goods-producing....................................... 21.71 21.99 22.13 22.13 903.14 899.39 916.18 911.76

Mining and logging.................................. 27.13 26.69 26.66 26.72 1,291.39 1,209.06 1,213.03 1,215.76

Construction.......................................... 24.83 25.02 25.36 25.40 985.75 973.28 1,019.47 1,005.84

Manufacturing........................................ 19.64 20.07 20.06 20.05 828.81 838.93 838.51 838.09

Durable goods.................................... 20.71 21.06 21.08 21.06 880.18 884.52 885.36 886.63

Nondurable goods................................ 17.86 18.43 18.39 18.38 742.98 763.00 761.35 759.09

Private service-providing.............................. 20.57 20.91 20.98 20.99 668.53 677.48 679.75 680.08

Trade, transportation, and utilities................. 18.45 18.73 18.79 18.75 621.77 631.20 631.34 631.88

Wholesale trade.................................. 23.47 23.67 23.79 23.77 905.94 911.30 915.92 912.77

Retail trade........................................ 14.55 14.99 14.97 14.91 437.96 452.70 449.10 450.28

Transportation and warehousing............... 20.70 20.68 20.75 20.80 796.95 800.32 803.03 807.04

Utilities............................................. 33.03 34.10 34.54 34.87 1,407.08 1,442.43 1,461.04 1,481.98

Information........................................... 28.57 28.82 29.11 29.51 1,028.52 1,025.99 1,033.41 1,053.51

Financial activities................................... 25.03 25.47 25.50 25.55 921.10 944.94 946.05 947.91

Professional and business services.............. 24.37 24.93 24.97 25.00 870.01 877.54 883.94 887.50

Education and health services..................... 21.83 22.15 22.22 22.21 698.56 711.02 713.26 710.72

Leisure and hospitality.............................. 12.26 12.46 12.50 12.52 307.73 312.75 312.50 313.00

Other services....................................... 18.71 18.99 19.00 19.01 574.40 581.09 581.40 581.71

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

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on

private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

[2002=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls3

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

Oct.

2015 -

Nov.

2015p

Nov.

2014

Sept.

2015

Oct.

2015p

Nov.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

Oct.

2015 -

Nov.

2015p

Total private..................................... 110.0 111.1 111.7 111.9 0.2 152.7 156.7 158.1 158.4 0.2

Goods-producing............................. 88.9 88.0 89.3 89.0 -0.3 118.2 118.5 121.0 120.6 -0.3

Mining and logging........................ 169.2 140.6 140.7 138.8 -1.4 267.0 218.2 218.2 215.7 -1.1

Construction................................ 93.1 94.1 97.8 97.1 -0.7 124.8 127.1 134.0 133.2 -0.6

Manufacturing.............................. 83.7 83.1 83.2 83.2 0.0 107.5 109.1 109.1 109.0 -0.1

Durable goods........................... 85.4 84.7 84.7 84.8 0.1 110.4 111.3 111.4 111.5 0.1

Nondurable goods...................... 80.7 80.5 80.6 80.5 -0.1 101.9 104.8 104.7 104.5 -0.2

Private service-providing.................... 115.9 117.6 117.8 118.0 0.2 163.4 168.6 169.5 169.8 0.2

Trade, transportation, and utilities....... 105.4 106.6 106.4 106.8 0.4 138.7 142.4 142.6 142.9 0.2

Wholesale trade......................... 107.5 107.7 107.7 107.4 -0.3 148.6 150.1 151.0 150.4 -0.4

Retail trade.............................. 100.5 102.0 101.5 102.4 0.9 125.3 131.1 130.2 130.8 0.5

Transportation and warehousing...... 117.9 120.8 120.6 120.8 0.2 154.8 158.4 158.7 159.3 0.4

Utilities.................................... 97.4 98.1 97.9 98.8 0.9 134.3 139.6 141.2 143.8 1.8

Information................................. 92.0 92.4 92.3 92.5 0.2 130.2 131.9 133.0 135.1 1.6

Financial activities......................... 107.5 110.2 110.4 110.6 0.2 165.5 172.6 173.2 173.9 0.4

Professional and business services..... 128.0 128.5 129.8 130.2 0.3 185.6 190.7 192.8 193.7 0.5

Education and health services........... 129.9 133.5 133.9 133.6 -0.2 187.1 195.1 196.3 195.8 -0.3

Leisure and hospitality.................... 120.6 123.5 123.3 123.6 0.2 167.9 174.8 175.1 175.7 0.3

Other services............................. 100.4 100.8 100.8 100.9 0.1 136.9 139.5 139.6 139.8 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.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.