Transmission of material in this release is embargoed until USDL-12-1531 

8:30 a.m. (EDT) Friday, August 3, 2012 

Technical information: 

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

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

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

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — JULY 2012 

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 163,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was

essentially unchanged at 8.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment 

rose in professional and business services, food services and drinking places, and manufacturing. 

Household Survey Data 

Both the number of unemployed persons (12.8 million) and the unemployment rate (8.3 percent) 

were essentially unchanged in July. Both measures have shown little movement thus far in 2012. (See 

table A-1.) 

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for Hispanics (10.3 percent) edged down in 

July, while the rates for adult men (7.7 percent), adult women (7.5 percent), teenagers (23.8 percent), 

whites (7.4 percent), and blacks (14.1 percent) showed little or no change. The jobless rate for Asians 

was 6.2 percent in July (not seasonally adjusted), little changed from a year earlier. (See tables A-1, A-2, 

and A-3.) 

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Thousands

Chart 2. Nonfarm payroll employment over-the-month 

change, seasonally adjusted, July 2010 – July 2012

Percent

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Jul-10 Oct-10 Jan-11 A pr-11 Jul-11 Oct-11 Jan-12 A pr-12 Jul-12

Chart 1. Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, 

July 2010 – July 2012
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In July, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) was little changed 

at 5.2 million. These individuals accounted for 40.7 percent of the unemployed. (See table A-12.) 

Both the civilian labor force participation rate, at 63.7 percent, and the employment-population 

ratio, at 58.4 percent, changed little in July. (See table A-1.) 

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

involuntary part-time workers) was essentially unchanged at 8.2 million in July. These individuals were 

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

job. (See table A-8.) 

In July, 2.5 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, down from 2.8 million a year 

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

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

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

(See table A-16.) 

Among the marginally attached, there were 852,000 discouraged workers in July, a decline of 267,000 

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

currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.7 

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

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

Establishment Survey Data 

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 163,000 in July. Since the beginning of this year, 

employment growth has averaged 151,000 per month, about the same as the average monthly gain of 

153,000 in 2011. In July, employment rose in professional and business services, food services and 

drinking places, and manufacturing. (See table B-1.) 

Employment in professional and business services increased by 49,000 in July. Computer systems 

design added 7,000 jobs, and employment in temporary help services continued to trend up (+14,000). 

Within leisure and hospitality, employment in food services and drinking places rose by 29,000 over 

the month and by 292,000 over the past 12 months. 

Manufacturing employment rose in July (+25,000), with nearly all of the increase in durable goods 

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

than is typical for July, contributing to a seasonally adjusted employment increase of 13,000. Employment continued to trend up in fabricated metal products (+5,000). 

Employment continued to trend up in health care in July (+12,000), with over-the-month gains in 

outpatient care centers (+4,000) and in hospitals (+5,000). Employment also continued to trend up in 

wholesale trade. 

Utilities employment declined in July (-8,000). The decrease reflects 8,500 utility workers who were off 

payrolls due to a labor-management dispute. 
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Employment in other major industries, including mining and logging, construction, retail trade,

transportation and warehousing, financial activities, and government, showed little or no change 

over the month. 

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 34.5 hours in 

July. Both the manufacturing workweek, at 40.7 hours, and factory overtime, at 3.2 hours, were 

unchanged over the month. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on 

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

In July, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged up by 2 cents to 

$23.52. Over the year, average hourly earnings rose by 1.7 percent. In July, average hourly earnings of 

private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees increased by 2 cents to $19.77. (See tables 

B-3 and B-8.) 

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for May was revised from +77,000 to +87,000, and the 

change for June was revised from +80,000 to +64,000. 

The Employment Situation for August is scheduled to be released on Friday, September 7, 2012, at 

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

Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category July

2011

May

2012

June

2012

July

2012

Change from:

June 2012-

July 2012

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population............................................ 239,671 242,966 243,155 243,354 199

Civilian labor force............................................................ 153,358 155,007 155,163 155,013 -150

Participation rate........................................................... 64.0 63.8 63.8 63.7 -0.1

Employed.................................................................... 139,450 142,287 142,415 142,220 -195

Employment-population ratio........................................... 58.2 58.6 58.6 58.4 -0.2

Unemployed................................................................. 13,908 12,720 12,749 12,794 45

Unemployment rate..................................................... 9.1 8.2 8.2 8.3 0.1

Not in labor force............................................................. 86,313 87,958 87,992 88,340 348

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over....................................................... 9.1 8.2 8.2 8.3 0.1

Adult men (20 years and over).............................................. 8.9 7.8 7.8 7.7 -0.1

Adult women (20 years and over).......................................... 7.9 7.4 7.4 7.5 0.1

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)................................................. 24.9 24.6 23.7 23.8 0.1

White........................................................................... 8.1 7.4 7.4 7.4 0.0

Black or African American................................................... 15.9 13.6 14.4 14.1 -0.3

Asian (not seasonally adjusted)............................................. 7.7 5.2 6.3 6.2 –

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.................................................. 11.3 11.0 11.0 10.3 -0.7

Total, 25 years and over....................................................... 7.8 6.9 6.9 6.9 0.0

Less than a high school diploma........................................... 14.9 13.0 12.6 12.7 0.1

High school graduates, no college......................................... 9.3 8.1 8.4 8.7 0.3

Some college or associate degree......................................... 8.2 7.9 7.5 7.1 -0.4

Bachelor’s degree and higher............................................... 4.3 3.9 4.1 4.1 0.0

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs................... 8,146 6,989 7,207 7,123 -84

Job leavers....................................................................... 936 891 936 878 -58

Reentrants........................................................................ 3,424 3,439 3,227 3,380 153

New entrants..................................................................... 1,274 1,367 1,331 1,311 -20

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks.............................................................. 2,675 2,580 2,810 2,711 -99

5 to 14 weeks.................................................................... 3,063 3,002 2,826 3,092 266

15 to 26 weeks.................................................................. 1,972 1,662 1,811 1,760 -51

27 weeks and over.............................................................. 6,162 5,411 5,370 5,185 -185

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons............................................... 8,437 8,098 8,210 8,246 36

Slack work or business conditions.......................................... 5,695 5,147 5,446 5,342 -104

Could only find part-time work.............................................. 2,538 2,649 2,514 2,576 62

Part time for noneconomic reasons........................................... 18,280 19,393 18,829 18,866 37

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force........................................ 2,785 2,423 2,483 2,529 –

Discouraged workers......................................................... 1,119 830 821 852 –

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

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

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

the release of January data.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

Category July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 87 64 163

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 116 73 172

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 -15 13 24

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4 -1 0

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 -32 4 -1

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 13 10 25

Durable goods1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 12 10 24

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.2 6.1 7.1 12.8

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1 0 1

Private service-providing1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 131 60 148

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 13.6 10.8 9.2

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.9 5.5 -3.2 6.7

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -3.5 32.2 -3.4 6.9

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -4 4 -1 11

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -4 11 3 1

Professional and business services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 18 44 49

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.9 14.6 21.1 14.1

Education and health services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 44 -6 38

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.1 33.5 9.5 19.1

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 -4 10 27

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 6 4 8

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -79 -29 -9 -9

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

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

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

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.4 82.6 82.6 82.6

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

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

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 23.13 $ 23.43 $ 23.50 $ 23.52

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $795.67 $805.99 $810.75 $811.44

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.3 95.7 96.1 96.2

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104.0 107.0 107.7 107.9

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.5 0.0 0.7 0.2

HOURS AND EARNINGS

PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

Total private

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

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 19.52 $ 19.70 $ 19.75 $ 19.77

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $657.82 $663.89 $665.58 $666.25

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.5 103.3 103.4 103.5

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2002=100)4

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132.4 136.0 136.4 136.7

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.5 0.1 0.3 0.2

DIFFUSION INDEX

(Over 1-month span)5

Total private (266 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62.2 61.3 56.8 56.4

Manufacturing (81 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.6 56.8 51.9 54.9

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 in this table have been corrected. For more information see http://www.bls.gov/bls/ceswomen_usps_correction.htm.
Frequently Asked Questions about Employment and Unemployment Estimates 

Why are there two monthly measures of employment? 

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

and both have strengths and limitations. The establishment survey employment series has a smaller 

margin of error on the measurement of month-to-month change than the household survey because of 

its much larger sample size. An over-the-month employment change of about 100,000 is statistically 

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

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

the establishment survey because it includes the self-employed, unpaid family workers, agricultural 

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

survey also provides estimates of employment for demographic groups. 

Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys? 

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

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

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

collect data on the legal status of workers. The household survey does include questions which identify 

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

Why does the establishment survey have revisions? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

estimates to nearly complete employment counts available from unemployment insurance tax records. 

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

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

Does the establishment survey sample include small firms? 

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

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

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

to achieve that goal. 

Does the establishment survey account for employment from new businesses? 

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

change generated by business births and deaths. The adjustment comes from an econometric model that 

forecasts the monthly net jobs impact of business births and deaths based on the actual past values of the 

net impact that can be observed with a lag from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. The 
 

establishment survey uses modeling rather than sampling for this purpose because the survey is not 

immediately able to bring new businesses into the sample. There is an unavoidable lag between the birth 

of a new firm and its appearance on the sampling frame and availability for selection. BLS adds new 

businesses to the survey twice a year. 

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

benefits? 

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

are without jobs and are actively seeking and available to work are included among the unemployed. (People 

on temporary layoff are included even if they do not actively seek work.) There is no requirement or 

question relating to unemployment insurance benefits in the monthly survey. 

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

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

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

addition, alternative measures of labor underutilization (some of which include discouraged workers and 

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

Situation news release. 

How can unusually severe weather affect employment and hours estimates? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

requested statistics page at http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/surveymost?ln. 
Technical Note 

This news release presents statistics from two major 

surveys, the Current Population Survey (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 141,000 businesses and government 

agencies, representing approximately 486,000 individual 

worksites, in order to provide detailed industry data on 

employment, hours, and earnings of workers on nonfarm 

payrolls. The active sample includes approximately onethird of all nonfarm payroll employees. 

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

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

reference period is generally the calendar week that 

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

survey, the reference period is the pay period including the 

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

calendar week. 

Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys 

Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect 

the entire civilian noninstitutional population. Based on 

responses to a series of questions on work and job search 

activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample 

household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in 

the labor force. 

People are classified as employed if they did any work 

at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked 

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

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

farm. People are also counted as employed if they were 

temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad 

weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal 

reasons. 

People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of 

the following criteria: they had no employment during the 

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

and they made specific efforts to find employment 

sometime during the 4-week period ending with the 

reference week. Persons laid off from a job and expecting 

recall need not be looking for work to be counted as 

unemployed. The unemployment data derived from the 

household survey in no way depend upon the eligibility for 

or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits. 

The civilian labor force is the sum of employed and 

unemployed persons. Those not classified as employed or 

unemployed are not in the labor force. The unemployment 

rate is the number unemployed as a percent of the labor 

force. The labor force participation rate is the labor force 

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

Additional information about the household survey can be 

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

Establishment survey. The sample establishments are 

drawn from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, 

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

government entities. Employees on nonfarm payrolls are 

those who received pay for any part of the reference pay 

period, including persons on paid leave. Persons are 

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

produced for the private sector for all employees and for 

production and nonsupervisory employees. Production and 

nonsupervisory employees are defined as production and 

related employees in manufacturing and mining and 

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

Industries are classified on the basis of an establishment's principal activity in accordance with the 2012 

version of the North American Industry Classification 

System. Additional information about the establishment 

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

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

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

the surveys. Among these are: 

 The household survey includes agricultural 

workers, the self-employed, unpaid family 

workers, and private household workers among the 

employed. These groups are excluded from the 

establishment survey. 

 The household survey includes people on unpaid 

leave among the employed. The establishment 

survey does not. 

 The household survey is limited to workers 16 

years of age and older. The establishment survey is 

not limited by age. 

 The household survey has no duplication of 

individuals, because individuals are counted only 

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

establishment survey, employees working at more 

than one job and thus appearing on more than one 

payroll are counted separately for each appearance. 

 
Seasonal adjustment 

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

force and the levels of employment and unemployment 

undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These events may 

result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, 

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

seasonal variation can be very large. 

Because these seasonal events follow a more or less 

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

series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal 

variation. These adjustments make nonseasonal 

developments, such as declines in employment or increases 

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

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

number of youth entering the labor force each June is likely 

to obscure any other changes that have taken place relative 

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

economic activity has risen or declined. Similarly, in the 

establishment survey, payroll employment in education 

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

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

underlying employment trends in the industry. Because 

seasonal employment changes at the end and beginning of 

the school year can be estimated, the statistics can be 

adjusted to make underlying employment patterns more 

discernable. The seasonally adjusted figures provide a more 

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

Many seasonally adjusted series are independently 

adjusted in both the household and establishment surveys. 

However, the adjusted series for many major estimates, 

such as total payroll employment, employment in most 

major sectors, total employment, and unemployment are 

computed by aggregating independently adjusted 

component series. For example, total unemployment is 

derived by summing the adjusted series for four major agesex components; this differs from the unemployment 

estimate that would be obtained by directly adjusting the 

total or by combining the duration, reasons, or more 

detailed age categories. 

For both the household and establishment surveys, a 

concurrent seasonal adjustment methodology is used in 

which new seasonal factors are calculated each month using 

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

month. In the household survey, new seasonal factors are 

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

establishment survey, however, new seasonal factors are 

used each month to adjust the three most recent monthly 

estimates. The prior 2 months are routinely revised to 

incorporate additional sample reports and recalculated 

seasonal adjustment factors. In both surveys, 5-year 

revisions to historical data are made once a year. 

Reliability of the estimates 

Statistics based on the household and establishment 

surveys are subject to both sampling and nonsampling 

error. When a sample rather than the entire population is 

surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may 

differ from the "true" population values they represent. The 

exact difference, or sampling error, varies depending on the 

particular sample selected, and this variability is measured 

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

percent chance, or level of confidence, that an estimate 

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

errors from the "true" population value because of sampling 

error. BLS analyses are generally conducted at the 90-

percent level of confidence. 

For example, the confidence interval for the monthly 

change in total nonfarm employment from the 

establishment survey is on the order of plus or minus 

100,000. Suppose the estimate of nonfarm employment 

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

percent confidence interval on the monthly change would 

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

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

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

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

this interval. Since this range includes values of less than 

zero, we could not say with confidence that nonfarm 

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

the reported nonfarm employment rise was 250,000, then 

all of the values within the 90-percent confidence interval 

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

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

risen that month. At an unemployment rate of around 5.5 

percent, the 90-percent confidence interval for the monthly 

change in unemployment as measured by the household 

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

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

In general, estimates involving many individuals or 

establishments have lower standard errors (relative to the 

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

small number of observations. The precision of estimates 

also is improved when the data are cumulated over time, 

such as for quarterly and annual averages. 

The household and establishment surveys are also 

affected by nonsampling error, which can occur for many 

reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the 

population, inability to obtain information for all 

respondents in the sample, inability or unwillingness of 

respondents to provide correct information on a timely 

basis, mistakes made by respondents, and errors made in 

the collection or processing of the data. 

For example, in the establishment survey, estimates 

for the most recent 2 months are based on incomplete 

returns; for this reason, these estimates are labeled 

preliminary in the tables. It is only after two successive 

revisions to a monthly estimate, when nearly all sample 

reports have been received, that the estimate is considered 

final. 

Another major source of nonsampling error in the 

establishment survey is the inability to capture, on a timely 

basis, employment generated by new firms. To correct for 

this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an 

estimation procedure with two components is used to 

account for business births. The first component excludes 
employment losses from business deaths from samplebased estimation in order to offset the missing employment 

gains from business births. This is incorporated into the 

sample-based estimation procedure by simply not reflecting 

sample units going out of business, but imputing to them 

the same employment trend as the other firms in the 

sample. This procedure accounts for most of the net 

birth/death employment. 

The second component is an ARIMA time series 

model designed to estimate the residual net birth/death 

employment not accounted for by the imputation. The 

historical time series used to create and test the ARIMA 

model was derived from the unemployment insurance 

universe micro-level database, and reflects the actual 

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

The sample-based estimates from the establishment 

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

universe counts of payroll employment obtained from 

administrative records of the unemployment insurance 

program. The difference between the March sample-based 

employment estimates and the March universe counts is 

known as a benchmark revision, and serves as a rough 

proxy for total survey error. The new benchmarks also 

incorporate changes in the classification of industries. Over 

the past decade, absolute benchmark revisions for total 

nonfarm employment have averaged 0.3 percent, with a 

range from -0.7 to 0.6 percent. 

Other information 

Information in this release will be made available to 

sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

July

2011

June

2012

July

2012

July

2011

Mar.

2012

Apr.

2012

May

2012

June

2012

July

2012

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239,671 243,155 243,354 239,671 242,604 242,784 242,966 243,155 243,354

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154,812 156,385 156,526 153,358 154,707 154,365 155,007 155,163 155,013

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.6 64.3 64.3 64.0 63.8 63.6 63.8 63.8 63.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,384 143,202 143,126 139,450 142,034 141,865 142,287 142,415 142,220

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.6 58.9 58.8 58.2 58.5 58.4 58.6 58.6 58.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,428 13,184 13,400 13,908 12,673 12,500 12,720 12,749 12,794

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.3 8.4 8.6 9.1 8.2 8.1 8.2 8.2 8.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,859 86,770 86,828 86,313 87,897 88,419 87,958 87,992 88,340

Persons who currently want a job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,810 7,157 6,837 6,556 6,299 6,366 6,291 6,520 6,554

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,347 117,277 117,381 116,347 116,986 117,081 117,177 117,277 117,381

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,871 83,369 83,554 81,836 82,179 81,983 82,350 82,450 82,395

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.2 71.1 71.2 70.3 70.2 70.0 70.3 70.3 70.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,208 76,338 76,691 74,011 75,369 75,256 75,401 75,486 75,466

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.6 65.1 65.3 63.6 64.4 64.3 64.3 64.4 64.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,664 7,030 6,863 7,825 6,810 6,727 6,949 6,964 6,929

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.2 8.4 8.2 9.6 8.3 8.2 8.4 8.4 8.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,476 33,909 33,828 34,511 34,807 35,098 34,827 34,827 34,987

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107,773 108,613 108,727 107,773 108,289 108,396 108,503 108,613 108,727

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,322 79,733 79,758 78,977 79,337 79,050 79,382 79,425 79,353

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.6 73.4 73.4 73.3 73.3 72.9 73.2 73.1 73.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,588 73,735 73,863 71,930 73,286 73,119 73,229 73,259 73,227

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.4 67.9 67.9 66.7 67.7 67.5 67.5 67.4 67.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,734 5,998 5,894 7,047 6,051 5,930 6,153 6,166 6,125

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.5 7.5 7.4 8.9 7.6 7.5 7.8 7.8 7.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,451 28,879 28,969 28,795 28,952 29,346 29,121 29,188 29,374

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,324 125,878 125,972 123,324 125,619 125,703 125,788 125,878 125,972

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,941 73,017 72,972 71,522 72,529 72,382 72,657 72,713 72,619

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.3 58.0 57.9 58.0 57.7 57.6 57.8 57.8 57.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,176 66,863 66,435 65,439 66,665 66,609 66,886 66,929 66,754

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.8 53.1 52.7 53.1 53.1 53.0 53.2 53.2 53.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,764 6,153 6,537 6,084 5,863 5,773 5,771 5,785 5,865

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.4 8.4 9.0 8.5 8.1 8.0 7.9 8.0 8.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,383 52,862 53,000 51,801 53,090 53,321 53,131 53,165 53,354

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,138 117,546 117,648 115,138 117,260 117,353 117,448 117,546 117,648

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,512 69,610 69,402 68,706 69,589 69,562 69,807 69,803 69,691

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.5 59.2 59.0 59.7 59.3 59.3 59.4 59.4 59.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,603 64,288 63,703 63,257 64,413 64,425 64,671 64,628 64,446

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.4 54.7 54.1 54.9 54.9 54.9 55.1 55.0 54.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,909 5,322 5,700 5,449 5,176 5,137 5,136 5,175 5,244

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.6 7.6 8.2 7.9 7.4 7.4 7.4 7.4 7.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,626 47,936 48,246 46,432 47,671 47,791 47,641 47,743 47,957

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,760 16,997 16,979 16,760 17,056 17,034 17,015 16,997 16,979

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,978 7,042 7,366 5,675 5,781 5,753 5,819 5,936 5,970

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.6 41.4 43.4 33.9 33.9 33.8 34.2 34.9 35.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,193 5,178 5,560 4,262 4,335 4,321 4,388 4,528 4,546

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.0 30.5 32.7 25.4 25.4 25.4 25.8 26.6 26.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,785 1,864 1,806 1,412 1,447 1,432 1,431 1,408 1,424

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25.6 26.5 24.5 24.9 25.0 24.9 24.6 23.7 23.8

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,782 9,955 9,613 11,085 11,274 11,282 11,197 11,061 11,009

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

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

July

2011

June

2012

July

2012

July

2011

Mar.

2012

Apr.

2012

May

2012

June

2012

July

2012

WHITE

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193,106 193,120 193,245 193,106 192,788 192,893 193,004 193,120 193,245

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,659 124,624 124,749 124,557 123,713 123,499 123,989 123,783 123,589

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.1 64.5 64.6 64.5 64.2 64.0 64.2 64.1 64.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,350 115,280 115,255 114,497 114,697 114,355 114,767 114,674 114,409

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.7 59.7 59.6 59.3 59.5 59.3 59.5 59.4 59.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,309 9,344 9,493 10,061 9,016 9,144 9,222 9,109 9,180

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2 7.5 7.6 8.1 7.3 7.4 7.4 7.4 7.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67,448 68,496 68,496 68,549 69,076 69,394 69,015 69,337 69,656

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,396 64,730 64,795 65,134 64,552 64,410 64,591 64,527 64,467

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.1 73.8 73.8 73.8 73.8 73.5 73.7 73.6 73.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,555 60,374 60,588 59,991 60,192 60,046 60,072 60,001 60,027

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.6 68.8 69.0 68.0 68.8 68.6 68.5 68.4 68.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,841 4,356 4,208 5,142 4,360 4,364 4,519 4,526 4,440

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.4 6.7 6.5 7.9 6.8 6.8 7.0 7.0 6.9

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,464 54,265 54,141 54,690 54,473 54,435 54,717 54,506 54,385

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.1 58.5 58.4 59.4 58.9 58.8 59.0 58.8 58.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,345 50,598 50,115 50,864 50,873 50,719 51,045 50,918 50,662

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.7 54.6 54.0 55.2 55.0 54.8 55.1 54.9 54.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,119 3,667 4,026 3,826 3,600 3,716 3,672 3,588 3,723

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6 6.8 7.4 7.0 6.6 6.8 6.7 6.6 6.8

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,798 5,629 5,812 4,733 4,688 4,654 4,681 4,750 4,737

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.3 44.4 45.9 37.0 36.9 36.7 36.9 37.5 37.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,450 4,308 4,553 3,641 3,632 3,591 3,649 3,755 3,720

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.7 34.0 36.0 28.4 28.6 28.3 28.8 29.7 29.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,348 1,321 1,259 1,092 1,056 1,063 1,031 995 1,017

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.3 23.5 21.7 23.1 22.5 22.8 22.0 20.9 21.5

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,123 29,885 29,918 29,123 29,792 29,824 29,854 29,885 29,918

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,895 18,758 18,643 17,614 18,427 18,274 18,290 18,541 18,383

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 62.8 62.3 60.5 61.9 61.3 61.3 62.0 61.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,890 15,978 15,845 14,812 15,843 15,891 15,807 15,872 15,798

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.1 53.5 53.0 50.9 53.2 53.3 52.9 53.1 52.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,004 2,780 2,799 2,803 2,584 2,383 2,484 2,668 2,585

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.8 14.8 15.0 15.9 14.0 13.0 13.6 14.4 14.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,229 11,128 11,274 11,509 11,365 11,550 11,564 11,345 11,534

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,105 8,376 8,307 8,069 8,283 8,162 8,281 8,324 8,270

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.2 68.8 68.1 67.9 68.4 67.3 68.1 68.4 67.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,748 7,204 7,071 6,699 7,137 7,054 7,102 7,146 7,042

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.8 59.2 58.0 56.3 58.9 58.1 58.4 58.7 57.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,357 1,172 1,236 1,371 1,147 1,108 1,179 1,178 1,227

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.7 14.0 14.9 17.0 13.8 13.6 14.2 14.2 14.8

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,050 9,471 9,361 8,950 9,473 9,443 9,346 9,482 9,344

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.8 62.9 62.1 61.1 63.1 62.8 62.1 63.0 62.0

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,709 8,266 8,170 7,750 8,307 8,423 8,284 8,281 8,268

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.6 54.9 54.2 52.9 55.4 56.1 55.1 55.0 54.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,341 1,205 1,190 1,199 1,166 1,019 1,062 1,202 1,076

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.8 12.7 12.7 13.4 12.3 10.8 11.4 12.7 11.5

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 910 976 596 671 669 664 735 770

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.5 34.4 37.0 23.0 25.1 25.1 25.0 27.8 29.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 508 604 363 399 413 421 446 488

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.7 19.2 22.9 14.0 14.9 15.5 15.9 16.8 18.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 402 372 233 272 256 242 289 282

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.4 44.2 38.1 39.1 40.5 38.2 36.5 39.3 36.6

ASIAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,410 12,695 12,812 – – – – – –

See footnotes at end of table.
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Table A-2. Employment status of the civilian population by race, sex, and age — Continued

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

July

2011

June

2012

July

2012

July

2011

Mar.

2012

Apr.

2012

May

2012

June

2012

July

2012

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,405 8,202 8,346 – – – – – –

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64.9 64.6 65.1 – – – – – –

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,838 7,682 7,830 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.9 60.5 61.1 – – – – – –

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568 519 516 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.7 6.3 6.2 – – – – – –

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,004 4,493 4,466 – – – – – –

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

- Data not available.

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

annually with the release of January data.
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Table A-3. Employment status of the Hispanic or Latino population by sex and age

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

July

2011

June

2012

July

2012

July

2011

Mar.

2012

Apr.

2012

May

2012

June

2012

July

2012

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population.................. 34,470 36,708 36,792 34,470 36,463 36,546 36,626 36,708 36,792

Civilian labor force................................. 22,920 24,679 24,627 22,778 24,128 24,253 24,567 24,588 24,497

Participation rate................................. 66.5 67.2 66.9 66.1 66.2 66.4 67.1 67.0 66.6

Employed......................................... 20,325 21,962 22,092 20,207 21,638 21,755 21,867 21,885 21,966

Employment-population ratio................ 59.0 59.8 60.0 58.6 59.3 59.5 59.7 59.6 59.7

Unemployed...................................... 2,596 2,718 2,536 2,570 2,491 2,498 2,700 2,703 2,531

Unemployment rate........................... 11.3 11.0 10.3 11.3 10.3 10.3 11.0 11.0 10.3

Not in labor force................................... 11,549 12,029 12,164 11,692 12,335 12,293 12,059 12,120 12,294

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................. 13,088 13,425 13,426 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 82.0 81.2 81.0 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 11,882 12,147 12,325 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 74.5 73.5 74.4 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 1,206 1,277 1,102 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 9.2 9.5 8.2 – – – – – –

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................. 8,722 9,909 9,814 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 57.8 60.0 59.3 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 7,735 8,886 8,788 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 51.2 53.8 53.1 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 987 1,022 1,027 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 11.3 10.3 10.5 – – – – – –

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force................................. 1,110 1,346 1,386 – – – – – –

Participation rate................................. 32.6 36.8 37.9 – – – – – –

Employed......................................... 708 928 979 – – – – – –

Employment-population ratio................ 20.8 25.4 26.8 – – – – – –

Unemployed...................................... 402 418 407 – – – – – –

Unemployment rate........................... 36.2 31.0 29.4 – – – – – –

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

- Data not available.

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Educational attainment

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

July

2011

June

2012

July

2012

July

2011

Mar.

2012

Apr.

2012

May

2012

June

2012

July

2012

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force.................................... 11,629 11,623 11,457 11,721 11,493 11,366 11,451 11,384 11,472

Participation rate.................................... 46.6 45.9 46.2 47.0 46.3 45.2 44.9 45.0 46.3

Employed............................................ 9,988 10,291 10,062 9,977 10,044 9,947 9,960 9,952 10,012

Employment-population ratio................... 40.0 40.6 40.6 40.0 40.4 39.6 39.1 39.3 40.4

Unemployed......................................... 1,641 1,332 1,395 1,744 1,449 1,419 1,491 1,431 1,460

Unemployment rate.............................. 14.1 11.5 12.2 14.9 12.6 12.5 13.0 12.6 12.7

High school graduates, no college1

Civilian labor force.................................... 37,113 36,851 36,782 37,471 36,475 36,718 36,924 36,984 37,047

Participation rate.................................... 59.9 59.8 59.2 60.5 59.0 59.2 59.5 60.0 59.7

Employed............................................ 33,750 33,884 33,676 33,973 33,573 33,834 33,928 33,869 33,838

Employment-population ratio................... 54.5 55.0 54.2 54.9 54.3 54.5 54.7 55.0 54.5

Unemployed......................................... 3,364 2,967 3,105 3,498 2,902 2,884 2,996 3,116 3,209

Unemployment rate.............................. 9.1 8.1 8.4 9.3 8.0 7.9 8.1 8.4 8.7

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force.................................... 36,706 37,194 37,299 36,782 37,405 37,168 37,079 37,451 37,398

Participation rate.................................... 68.9 68.4 68.1 69.1 69.3 69.0 68.8 68.9 68.3

Employed............................................ 33,579 34,446 34,546 33,748 34,613 34,344 34,155 34,639 34,729

Employment-population ratio................... 63.0 63.4 63.1 63.4 64.2 63.7 63.4 63.7 63.4

Unemployed......................................... 3,128 2,748 2,752 3,034 2,793 2,824 2,924 2,812 2,669

Unemployment rate.............................. 8.5 7.4 7.4 8.2 7.5 7.6 7.9 7.5 7.1

Bachelor’s degree and higher2

Civilian labor force.................................... 46,621 47,631 47,517 46,665 48,191 47,977 48,232 47,923 47,697

Participation rate.................................... 76.0 75.5 75.5 76.1 76.2 76.2 76.8 76.0 75.8

Employed............................................ 44,435 45,674 45,381 44,665 46,189 46,062 46,355 45,949 45,732

Employment-population ratio................... 72.5 72.4 72.1 72.8 73.1 73.2 73.8 72.9 72.7

Unemployed......................................... 2,186 1,957 2,136 2,000 2,002 1,915 1,877 1,973 1,965

Unemployment rate.............................. 4.7 4.1 4.5 4.3 4.2 4.0 3.9 4.1 4.1

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

July

2011

July

2012

July

2011

July

2012

July

2011

July

2012

VETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,596 21,163 19,794 19,349 1,802 1,814

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,387 10,925 10,324 9,845 1,063 1,080

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.7 51.6 52.2 50.9 59.0 59.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,412 10,173 9,459 9,171 953 1,002

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.2 48.1 47.8 47.4 52.9 55.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 975 752 865 674 110 79

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.6 6.9 8.4 6.8 10.3 7.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,209 10,238 9,470 9,504 739 734

Gulf War-era II veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,339 2,453 1,937 2,056 402 397

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,878 1,945 1,615 1,683 262 263

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80.3 79.3 83.4 81.9 65.3 66.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,645 1,771 1,420 1,524 226 247

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.3 72.2 73.3 74.2 56.1 62.2

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 174 195 159 37 15

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.4 8.9 12.1 9.4 14.1 5.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 507 322 373 139 135

Gulf War-era I veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,947 3,158 2,457 2,668 490 489

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,456 2,599 2,096 2,237 359 361

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.3 82.3 85.3 83.8 73.3 73.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,265 2,428 1,939 2,098 326 330

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.9 76.9 78.9 78.6 66.6 67.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 170 158 139 33 31

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.8 6.5 7.5 6.2 9.2 8.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 559 361 431 131 128

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

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,426 9,868 10,088 9,551 338 318

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,620 3,217 3,528 3,125 92 92

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.7 32.6 35.0 32.7 27.2 29.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,328 3,020 3,242 2,932 86 88

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.9 30.6 32.1 30.7 25.3 27.7

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 197 286 193 6 4

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1 6.1 8.1 6.2 6.7 4.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,806 6,652 6,560 6,426 246 225

Veterans of other service periods

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,884 5,684 5,312 5,074 573 610

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,434 3,164 3,085 2,800 349 364

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.4 55.7 58.1 55.2 61.0 59.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,174 2,953 2,859 2,617 316 336

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.9 52.0 53.8 51.6 55.1 55.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 211 226 183 34 28

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.6 6.7 7.3 6.5 9.6 7.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,450 2,520 2,227 2,274 223 246

NONVETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209,487 213,366 92,092 93,604 117,395 119,762

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,959 142,848 71,285 72,405 69,674 70,443

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.3 66.9 77.4 77.4 59.3 58.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,257 130,997 64,860 66,608 63,397 64,389

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.2 61.4 70.4 71.2 54.0 53.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,702 11,850 6,425 5,797 6,277 6,054

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.0 8.3 9.0 8.0 9.0 8.6

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,528 70,518 20,806 21,199 47,721 49,319

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

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

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

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

another period are classified only in the wartime period. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Persons with a disability Persons with no disability

July

2011

July

2012

July

2011

July

2012

TOTAL, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population....................................................... 27,278 28,007 212,393 215,346

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 5,773 5,791 149,039 150,735

Participation rate...................................................................... 21.2 20.7 70.2 70.0

Employed.............................................................................. 4,802 5,004 135,581 138,122

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 17.6 17.9 63.8 64.1

Unemployed........................................................................... 970 787 13,458 12,613

Unemployment rate................................................................ 16.8 13.6 9.0 8.4

Not in labor force........................................................................ 21,505 22,216 63,354 64,611

Men, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 2,687 2,612 76,208 76,636

Participation rate...................................................................... 36.2 34.4 83.3 83.9

Employed.............................................................................. 2,215 2,289 69,266 70,401

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 29.9 30.2 75.7 77.0

Unemployed........................................................................... 472 323 6,942 6,235

Unemployment rate................................................................ 17.6 12.4 9.1 8.1

Not in labor force........................................................................ 4,734 4,971 15,270 14,742

Women, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 2,232 2,207 66,685 67,470

Participation rate...................................................................... 29.7 28.7 71.2 71.2

Employed.............................................................................. 1,816 1,817 60,555 61,567

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 24.2 23.6 64.7 64.9

Unemployed........................................................................... 416 390 6,129 5,903

Unemployment rate................................................................ 18.6 17.7 9.2 8.7

Not in labor force........................................................................ 5,272 5,487 26,949 27,352

Both sexes, 65 years and over

Civilian labor force...................................................................... 854 973 6,147 6,629

Participation rate...................................................................... 6.9 7.6 22.5 22.7

Employed.............................................................................. 771 898 5,761 6,155

Employment-population ratio..................................................... 6.2 7.1 21.1 21.1

Unemployed........................................................................... 83 74 386 474

Unemployment rate................................................................ 9.7 7.6 6.3 7.2

Not in labor force........................................................................ 11,499 11,758 21,135 22,517

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

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

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

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status and nativity

Total Men Women

July

2011

July

2012

July

2011

July

2012

July

2011

July

2012

Foreign born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population.................................... 36,576 37,627 18,247 18,428 18,328 19,199

Civilian labor force................................................... 24,516 25,180 14,575 14,575 9,941 10,606

Participation rate................................................... 67.0 66.9 79.9 79.1 54.2 55.2

Employed........................................................... 22,264 23,211 13,291 13,553 8,973 9,657

Employment-population ratio.................................. 60.9 61.7 72.8 73.5 49.0 50.3

Unemployed........................................................ 2,252 1,970 1,284 1,021 968 948

Unemployment rate............................................. 9.2 7.8 8.8 7.0 9.7 8.9

Not in labor force..................................................... 12,060 12,446 3,673 3,853 8,387 8,593

Native born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population.................................... 203,095 205,727 98,100 98,954 104,996 106,774

Civilian labor force................................................... 130,296 131,346 68,297 68,979 61,999 62,367

Participation rate................................................... 64.2 63.8 69.6 69.7 59.0 58.4

Employed........................................................... 118,120 119,916 61,917 63,137 56,203 56,778

Employment-population ratio.................................. 58.2 58.3 63.1 63.8 53.5 53.2

Unemployed........................................................ 12,176 11,430 6,380 5,842 5,796 5,589

Unemployment rate............................................. 9.3 8.7 9.3 8.5 9.3 9.0

Not in labor force..................................................... 72,799 74,381 29,803 29,975 42,996 44,407

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

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

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

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

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

[In thousands]

Category

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

July

2011

June

2012

July

2012

July

2011

Mar.

2012

Apr.

2012

May

2012

June

2012

July

2012

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries................... 2,484 2,377 2,477 2,250 2,218 2,150 2,274 2,206 2,235

Wage and salary workers1....................... 1,596 1,514 1,584 1,415 1,394 1,342 1,423 1,399 1,401

Self-employed workers, unincorporated......... 867 826 843 816 811 793 815 786 791

Unpaid family workers............................. 21 37 49 – – – – – –

Nonagricultural industries............................ 137,900 140,824 140,649 136,993 139,984 139,749 140,037 140,205 139,929

Wage and salary workers1

....................... 129,200 131,694 131,619 128,554 131,370 131,136 131,322 131,308 131,043

Government...................................... 19,661 19,679 19,332 20,306 20,338 19,896 20,059 19,938 20,015

Private industries................................ 109,538 112,015 112,287 108,217 111,114 111,249 111,421 111,433 110,974

Private households............................ 822 832 818 – – – – – –

Other industries............................... 108,716 111,183 111,469 107,478 110,469 110,527 110,613 110,671 110,251

Self-employed workers, unincorporated......... 8,618 9,049 8,957 8,532 8,514 8,512 8,598 8,787 8,824

Unpaid family workers............................. 82 82 74 – – – – – –

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME2

All industries

Part time for economic reasons3................... 8,514 8,394 8,316 8,437 7,672 7,853 8,098 8,210 8,246

Slack work or business conditions............... 5,542 5,378 5,235 5,695 5,081 5,187 5,147 5,446 5,342

Could only find part-time work.................... 2,555 2,599 2,637 2,538 2,341 2,367 2,649 2,514 2,576

Part time for noneconomic reasons4.............. 16,680 17,654 17,200 18,280 18,523 18,832 19,393 18,829 18,866

Nonagricultural industries

Part time for economic reasons3

................... 8,372 8,268 8,218 8,264 7,584 7,737 7,982 8,075 8,111

Slack work or business conditions............... 5,438 5,294 5,175 5,586 5,000 5,086 5,078 5,355 5,282

Could only find part-time work.................... 2,536 2,587 2,607 2,510 2,295 2,324 2,616 2,493 2,559

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 16,283 17,285 16,863 17,883 18,100 18,418 18,930 18,438 18,543

1 Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated.

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

entire week.

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

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

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

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

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

- Data not available.

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

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

Table A-9. Selected employment indicators

[Numbers in thousands]

Characteristic

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

July

2011

June

2012

July

2012

July

2011

Mar.

2012

Apr.

2012

May

2012

June

2012

July

2012

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,384 143,202 143,126 139,450 142,034 141,865 142,287 142,415 142,220

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,193 5,178 5,560 4,262 4,335 4,321 4,388 4,528 4,546

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,714 1,694 1,956 1,358 1,395 1,421 1,418 1,471 1,540

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,478 3,484 3,604 2,890 2,955 2,875 2,968 3,069 3,012

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135,191 138,024 137,566 135,188 137,699 137,544 137,899 137,887 137,674

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,440 13,729 13,901 12,889 13,371 13,329 13,429 13,361 13,364

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,751 124,295 123,665 122,231 124,407 124,166 124,472 124,506 124,203

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93,333 94,005 93,769 93,541 94,267 94,128 94,205 94,069 93,957

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,431 30,656 30,601 30,328 30,568 30,724 30,714 30,650 30,527

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,157 30,431 30,389 30,253 30,672 30,539 30,519 30,450 30,474

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,745 32,917 32,779 32,960 33,027 32,866 32,971 32,969 32,956

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,418 30,290 29,896 28,690 30,140 30,038 30,268 30,437 30,247

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,208 76,338 76,691 74,011 75,369 75,256 75,401 75,486 75,466

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,619 2,603 2,827 2,081 2,083 2,136 2,173 2,227 2,238

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888 779 912 654 656 685 655 654 666

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,731 1,823 1,916 1,434 1,424 1,461 1,513 1,598 1,577

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,588 73,735 73,863 71,930 73,286 73,119 73,229 73,259 73,227

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,127 7,130 7,313 6,733 6,927 6,863 6,898 6,849 6,921

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,461 66,606 66,550 65,181 66,327 66,156 66,308 66,420 66,285

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,329 50,538 50,581 50,013 50,393 50,329 50,304 50,357 50,256

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,665 16,664 16,726 16,480 16,538 16,624 16,654 16,633 16,555

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,447 16,431 16,583 16,371 16,470 16,425 16,421 16,401 16,488

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,217 17,442 17,272 17,162 17,385 17,280 17,229 17,323 17,214

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,133 16,068 15,969 15,168 15,934 15,827 16,004 16,064 16,029

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,176 66,863 66,435 65,439 66,665 66,609 66,886 66,929 66,754

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,573 2,575 2,733 2,182 2,252 2,184 2,215 2,301 2,308

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826 915 1,045 704 739 736 762 817 873

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,747 1,660 1,688 1,456 1,531 1,414 1,454 1,471 1,434

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,603 64,288 63,703 63,257 64,413 64,425 64,671 64,628 64,446

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,313 6,599 6,588 6,156 6,444 6,467 6,531 6,512 6,444

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,290 57,689 57,115 57,050 58,079 58,010 58,165 58,086 57,918

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,004 43,467 43,188 43,528 43,873 43,800 43,901 43,712 43,700

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,767 13,992 13,875 13,848 14,030 14,099 14,060 14,016 13,972

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,710 14,000 13,805 13,882 14,202 14,114 14,098 14,050 13,986

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,528 15,475 15,507 15,798 15,642 15,586 15,742 15,646 15,743

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,285 14,222 13,927 13,522 14,206 14,211 14,264 14,373 14,218

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,213 43,740 43,743 43,210 43,635 43,582 43,798 43,712 43,715

Married women, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,243 34,177 33,734 33,809 34,325 34,207 34,620 34,526 34,381

Women who maintain families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,224 9,264 9,354 – – – – – –

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,759 116,024 116,131 112,006 115,290 114,478 114,212 114,573 114,345

Part-time workers2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,624 27,178 26,995 27,582 26,912 27,420 28,038 27,894 27,925

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,724 6,707 6,741 6,777 6,985 6,870 6,959 6,769 6,845

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

SELF-EMPLOYMENT

Self-employed workers, incorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,170 5,206 5,256 – – – – – –

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,485 9,875 9,800 9,348 9,325 9,305 9,413 9,572 9,616

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

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

- Data not available.

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

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

Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted

Characteristic

Number of

unemployed persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment rates

July

2011

June

2012

July

2012

July

2011

Mar.

2012

Apr.

2012

May

2012

June

2012

July

2012

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over............................. 13,908 12,749 12,794 9.1 8.2 8.1 8.2 8.2 8.3

16 to 19 years...................................... 1,412 1,408 1,424 24.9 25.0 24.9 24.6 23.7 23.8

16 to 17 years.................................... 534 539 559 28.2 28.8 26.4 26.5 26.8 26.6

18 to 19 years.................................... 872 864 860 23.2 22.9 24.5 23.5 22.0 22.2

20 years and over.................................. 12,496 11,341 11,370 8.5 7.5 7.4 7.6 7.6 7.6

20 to 24 years.................................... 2,196 2,119 2,087 14.6 13.2 13.2 12.9 13.7 13.5

25 years and over............................... 10,280 9,268 9,273 7.8 6.8 6.8 6.9 6.9 6.9

25 to 54 years................................. 8,141 7,245 7,268 8.0 7.1 6.9 7.1 7.2 7.2

25 to 34 years.............................. 3,257 2,739 2,728 9.7 8.6 8.1 8.2 8.2 8.2

35 to 44 years.............................. 2,319 2,289 2,242 7.1 6.4 6.5 6.8 7.0 6.9

45 to 54 years.............................. 2,566 2,217 2,298 7.2 6.2 6.2 6.4 6.3 6.5

55 years and over............................. 2,107 1,998 1,984 6.8 6.2 6.3 6.5 6.2 6.2

Men, 16 years and over.............................. 7,825 6,964 6,929 9.6 8.3 8.2 8.4 8.4 8.4

16 to 19 years...................................... 777 798 804 27.2 26.7 27.2 26.8 26.4 26.4

16 to 17 years.................................... 273 294 285 29.4 30.1 28.9 28.9 31.0 30.0

18 to 19 years.................................... 495 497 512 25.7 25.1 26.3 25.7 23.7 24.5

20 years and over.................................. 7,047 6,166 6,125 8.9 7.6 7.5 7.8 7.8 7.7

20 to 24 years.................................... 1,259 1,244 1,236 15.8 14.1 14.1 14.1 15.4 15.2

25 years and over............................... 5,786 4,963 4,873 8.2 6.8 6.7 7.0 7.0 6.8

25 to 54 years................................. 4,584 3,806 3,754 8.4 7.0 6.9 7.0 7.0 7.0

25 to 34 years.............................. 1,861 1,405 1,408 10.1 8.6 8.1 7.9 7.8 7.8

35 to 44 years.............................. 1,314 1,231 1,160 7.4 6.5 6.4 6.6 7.0 6.6

45 to 54 years.............................. 1,409 1,171 1,186 7.6 6.0 6.1 6.5 6.3 6.4

55 years and over............................. 1,201 1,157 1,119 7.3 6.3 6.3 7.0 6.7 6.5

Women, 16 years and over.......................... 6,084 5,785 5,865 8.5 8.1 8.0 7.9 8.0 8.1

16 to 19 years...................................... 635 610 620 22.5 23.4 22.5 22.3 21.0 21.2

16 to 17 years.................................... 261 245 274 27.0 27.6 23.8 24.4 23.1 23.9

18 to 19 years.................................... 377 367 349 20.6 20.7 22.7 21.2 20.0 19.6

20 years and over.................................. 5,449 5,175 5,244 7.9 7.4 7.4 7.4 7.4 7.5

20 to 24 years.................................... 936 875 851 13.2 12.2 12.3 11.6 11.8 11.7

25 years and over............................... 4,494 4,304 4,400 7.3 6.8 6.8 6.9 6.9 7.1

25 to 54 years................................. 3,557 3,439 3,514 7.6 7.2 7.0 7.2 7.3 7.4

25 to 34 years.............................. 1,396 1,334 1,320 9.2 8.6 8.2 8.4 8.7 8.6

35 to 44 years.............................. 1,005 1,059 1,082 6.7 6.4 6.7 7.0 7.0 7.2

45 to 54 years.............................. 1,157 1,046 1,112 6.8 6.5 6.2 6.1 6.3 6.6

55 years and over1

........................... 1,042 879 979 7.3 5.9 5.8 5.6 5.8 6.6

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present....................... 2,788 2,251 2,281 6.1 5.1 5.2 5.3 4.9 5.0

Married women, spouse present.................... 2,024 1,957 2,070 5.6 5.3 5.3 4.9 5.4 5.7

Women who maintain families1

.................... 1,270 1,237 1,239 12.1 10.8 10.2 10.9 11.8 11.7

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers2.................................... 12,103 10,890 10,829 9.8 8.6 8.5 8.7 8.7 8.7

Part-time workers3................................... 1,777 1,877 1,950 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.1 6.3 6.5

1 Not seasonally adjusted.

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

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

jobs.

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

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

Table A-11. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Reason

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

July

2011

June

2012

July

2012

July

2011

Mar.

2012

Apr.

2012

May

2012

June

2012

July

2012

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 8,107 6,927 7,151 8,146 7,020 6,852 6,989 7,207 7,123

On temporary layoff................................ 1,294 1,188 1,525 1,246 1,120 1,083 1,106 1,331 1,417

Not on temporary layoff............................ 6,813 5,739 5,626 6,900 5,900 5,768 5,883 5,875 5,705

Permanent job losers............................ 5,509 4,490 4,377 5,517 4,632 4,529 4,553 4,560 4,387

Persons who completed temporary jobs...... 1,305 1,249 1,248 1,383 1,268 1,239 1,330 1,315 1,319

Job leavers............................................. 973 879 897 936 1,117 997 891 936 878

Reentrants............................................. 3,603 3,556 3,579 3,424 3,269 3,341 3,439 3,227 3,380

New entrants.......................................... 1,745 1,822 1,773 1,274 1,433 1,384 1,367 1,331 1,311

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 56.2 52.5 53.4 59.1 54.7 54.5 55.1 56.7 56.1

On temporary layoff................................ 9.0 9.0 11.4 9.0 8.7 8.6 8.7 10.5 11.2

Not on temporary layoff............................ 47.2 43.5 42.0 50.1 46.0 45.9 46.4 46.3 45.0

Job leavers............................................. 6.7 6.7 6.7 6.8 8.7 7.9 7.0 7.4 6.9

Reentrants............................................. 25.0 27.0 26.7 24.8 25.5 26.6 27.1 25.4 26.6

New entrants.......................................... 12.1 13.8 13.2 9.2 11.2 11.0 10.8 10.5 10.3

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs...................................... 5.2 4.4 4.6 5.3 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.6

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

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

New entrants.......................................... 1.1 1.2 1.1 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.8

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

Table A-12. Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Duration

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

July

2011

June

2012

July

2012

July

2011

Mar.

2012

Apr.

2012

May

2012

June

2012

July

2012

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks.................................... 2,952 3,627 3,021 2,675 2,572 2,543 2,580 2,810 2,711

5 to 14 weeks......................................... 3,496 2,546 3,585 3,063 2,754 2,814 3,002 2,826 3,092

15 weeks and over.................................... 7,980 7,010 6,794 8,134 7,175 6,984 7,073 7,182 6,945

15 to 26 weeks..................................... 1,762 1,793 1,547 1,972 1,867 1,884 1,662 1,811 1,760

27 weeks and over................................. 6,218 5,217 5,247 6,162 5,308 5,101 5,411 5,370 5,185

Average (mean) duration, in weeks1

.............. 39.0 38.2 37.4 40.2 39.4 39.1 39.7 39.9 38.8

Median duration, in weeks........................... 19.7 17.4 15.2 21.2 19.9 19.4 20.1 19.8 16.7

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Less than 5 weeks.................................... 20.5 27.5 22.5 19.3 20.6 20.6 20.4 21.9 21.3

5 to 14 weeks......................................... 24.2 19.3 26.8 22.1 22.0 22.8 23.7 22.0 24.3

15 weeks and over.................................... 55.3 53.2 50.7 58.6 57.4 56.6 55.9 56.0 54.5

15 to 26 weeks..................................... 12.2 13.6 11.5 14.2 14.9 15.3 13.1 14.1 13.8

27 weeks and over................................. 43.1 39.6 39.2 44.4 42.5 41.3 42.8 41.9 40.7

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

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

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

Employed Unemployed Unemployment

rates

July

2011

July

2012

July

2011

July

2012

July

2011

July

2012

Total, 16 years and over1

............................................. 140,384 143,126 14,428 13,400 9.3 8.6

Management, professional, and related occupations............ 51,662 53,165 2,742 2,666 5.0 4.8

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations...................................................... 21,747 22,943 1,053 912 4.6 3.8

Professional and related occupations........................... 29,915 30,222 1,689 1,753 5.3 5.5

Service occupations.................................................. 25,584 26,565 2,764 2,666 9.8 9.1

Sales and office occupations....................................... 33,131 32,835 3,288 2,836 9.0 8.0

Sales and related occupations................................... 15,503 15,536 1,603 1,400 9.4 8.3

Office and administrative support occupations................. 17,628 17,299 1,685 1,436 8.7 7.7

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations......................................................... 13,417 13,174 1,744 1,529 11.5 10.4

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations..................... 1,166 1,216 157 138 11.9 10.2

Construction and extraction occupations....................... 7,317 7,157 1,161 1,056 13.7 12.9

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations............. 4,934 4,801 426 335 7.9 6.5

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations......................................................... 16,590 17,388 2,103 1,900 11.2 9.8

Production occupations........................................... 8,055 8,545 1,049 903 11.5 9.6

Transportation and material moving occupations.............. 8,534 8,843 1,054 997 11.0 10.1

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

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

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

Industry and class of worker

Number of

unemployed

persons

(in thousands)

Unemployment

rates

July

2011

July

2012

July

2011

July

2012

Total, 16 years and over1................................................................ 14,428 13,400 9.3 8.6

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers................................... 10,515 9,692 8.8 7.9

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction..................................... 53 83 6.0 7.6

Construction........................................................................... 1,137 994 13.6 12.3

Manufacturing......................................................................... 1,418 1,128 9.2 7.2

Durable goods...................................................................... 934 703 9.6 7.2

Nondurable goods................................................................. 484 426 8.5 7.3

Wholesale and retail trade.......................................................... 1,916 1,780 9.4 8.6

Transportation and utilities.......................................................... 486 392 7.8 6.5

Information............................................................................ 237 190 7.6 6.7

Financial activities.................................................................... 552 458 6.0 5.1

Professional and business services................................................ 1,389 1,378 9.4 9.1

Education and health services...................................................... 1,263 1,436 5.9 6.5

Leisure and hospitality............................................................... 1,510 1,420 10.9 9.7

Other services........................................................................ 554 433 8.6 6.7

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers.......................... 166 131 9.8 7.9

Government workers.................................................................... 1,349 1,182 6.4 5.7

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers............. 653 623 6.4 5.9

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

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

Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

[Percent]

Measure

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

July

2011

June

2012

July

2012

July

2011

Mar.

2012

Apr.

2012

May

2012

June

2012

July

2012

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as

a percent of the civilian labor force.............. 5.2 4.5 4.3 5.3 4.6 4.5 4.6 4.6 4.5

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian

labor force........................................... 5.2 4.4 4.6 5.3 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.6

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the

civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate).................................................. 9.3 8.4 8.6 9.1 8.2 8.1 8.2 8.2 8.3

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers,

as a percent of the civilian labor force plus

discouraged workers............................... 10.0 8.9 9.1 9.7 8.7 8.7 8.7 8.7 8.8

U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers,

plus all other persons marginally attached to

the labor force, as a percent of the civilian

labor force plus all persons marginally attached

to the labor force................................... 10.9 9.9 10.0 10.7 9.6 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.7

U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons

marginally attached to the labor force, plus

total employed part time for economic reasons,

as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all

persons marginally attached to the labor

force.................................................. 16.3 15.1 15.2 16.1 14.5 14.5 14.8 14.9 15.0

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

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

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

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Category

Total Men Women

July

2011

July

2012

July

2011

July

2012

July

2011

July

2012

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force............................................. 84,859 86,828 33,476 33,828 51,383 53,000

Persons who currently want a job.................................. 6,810 6,837 3,072 3,062 3,738 3,775

Marginally attached to the labor force1........................ 2,785 2,529 1,392 1,328 1,393 1,200

Discouraged workers2

......................................... 1,119 852 639 514 480 338

Other persons marginally attached to the labor force3. . .. 1,667 1,676 754 815 913 862

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders4............................................. 6,724 6,741 3,371 3,409 3,353 3,333

Percent of total employed........................................... 4.8 4.7 4.5 4.4 5.1 5.0

Primary job full time, secondary job part time.................... 3,569 3,459 1,994 1,939 1,574 1,520

Primary and secondary jobs both part time....................... 1,726 1,871 628 670 1,098 1,201

Primary and secondary jobs both full time........................ 246 271 151 191 95 80

Hours vary on primary or secondary job.......................... 1,118 1,065 557 567 561 498

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

Change

from:

June2012 -

July2012p

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,038 133,723 134,072 132,868 131,407 133,018 133,082 133,245 163

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,251 111,369 112,165 112,192 109,374 111,072 111,145 111,317 172

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,406 18,321 18,609 18,685 18,071 18,307 18,320 18,344 24

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809 842 851 855 795 842 841 841 0

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.1 48.4 50.0 51.9 48.4 50.0 50.2 50.0 -0.2

Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759.0 793.1 800.7 803.4 746.1 792.1 790.5 790.6 0.1

Oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177.3 193.5 197.4 197.9 175.2 193.5 194.8 195.5 0.7

Mining, except oil and gas1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225.3 222.3 222.8 223.7 218.4 219.2 216.6 217.3 0.7

Coal mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.4 85.2 84.0 82.2 86.4 84.9 83.6 82.8 -0.8

Support activities for mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356.4 377.3 380.5 381.8 352.5 379.4 379.1 377.8 -1.3

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,777 5,548 5,718 5,780 5,508 5,510 5,514 5,513 -1

Construction of buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,258.4 1,218.4 1,251.6 1,265.6 1,215.8 1,223.4 1,218.9 1,224.2 5.3

Residential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583.8 561.2 580.2 589.7 560.1 564.3 561.2 567.0 5.8

Nonresidential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674.6 657.2 671.4 675.9 655.7 659.1 657.7 657.2 -0.5

Heavy and civil engineering construction. . . . . . . 885.6 849.7 878.5 895.6 827.0 829.8 831.6 837.8 6.2

Specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,632.5 3,479.6 3,587.8 3,618.6 3,464.9 3,456.5 3,463.8 3,451.2 -12.6

Residential specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . 1,527.1 1,472.0 1,520.7 1,532.1 1,450.1 1,454.9 1,458.7 1,455.6 -3.1

Nonresidential specialty trade contractors. . . . 2,105.4 2,007.6 2,067.1 2,086.5 2,014.8 2,001.6 2,005.1 1,995.6 -9.5

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,820 11,931 12,040 12,050 11,768 11,955 11,965 11,990 25

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,315 7,473 7,535 7,529 7,303 7,478 7,488 7,512 24

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336.1 331.9 336.0 336.6 328.8 330.4 329.4 329.6 0.2

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378.8 367.3 371.7 372.4 367.1 363.9 361.6 361.5 -0.1

Primary metals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391.5 408.8 409.5 408.9 393.0 409.1 408.7 410.1 1.4

Fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,358.9 1,399.7 1,414.4 1,416.5 1,355.3 1,402.0 1,407.0 1,412.2 5.2

Machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,064.1 1,103.4 1,113.7 1,109.8 1,059.5 1,104.0 1,105.7 1,103.5 -2.2

Computer and electronic products1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,113.6 1,108.9 1,113.9 1,112.9 1,110.5 1,111.6 1,109.2 1,108.6 -0.6

Computer and peripheral equipment. . . . . . . 160.1 164.5 166.4 167.2 159.9 165.2 166.2 166.5 0.3

Communications equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.0 108.8 109.3 110.2 115.1 109.5 108.9 110.2 1.3

Semiconductors and electronic

components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386.5 387.3 389.6 387.4 385.2 388.4 387.4 385.7 -1.7

Electronic instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406.1 402.9 403.7 403.6 404.7 403.2 402.2 401.9 -0.3

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . . 370.2 373.1 375.4 375.1 368.1 373.8 374.0 372.9 -1.1

Transportation equipment1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,366.3 1,450.5 1,464.1 1,462.5 1,387.2 1,452.9 1,461.4 1,481.9 20.5

Motor vehicles and parts2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699.3 769.2 778.7 769.7 721.7 769.6 776.7 789.5 12.8

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360.4 351.9 352.2 352.1 357.3 349.9 348.8 348.9 0.1

Miscellaneous manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575.3 577.8 583.7 582.3 576.2 579.9 582.5 582.5 0.0

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,505 4,458 4,505 4,521 4,465 4,477 4,477 4,478 1

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,483.3 1,441.1 1,468.3 1,490.1 1,460.7 1,459.9 1,463.4 1,464.5 1.1

Beverages and tobacco products. . . . . . . . . . . . 195.0 197.4 202.1 204.2 189.7 198.1 197.5 198.4 0.9

Textile mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122.1 120.2 120.1 119.1 122.2 119.5 119.3 119.3 0.0

Textile product mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.5 114.6 115.6 114.2 117.6 114.0 113.8 113.1 -0.7

Apparel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149.7 150.8 148.7 147.7 149.9 150.1 147.6 147.9 0.3

Leather and allied products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.1 29.7 29.6 28.6 29.5 29.7 29.5 29.2 -0.3

Paper and paper products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393.0 391.5 394.6 392.4 391.0 392.4 392.3 390.5 -1.8

Printing and related support activities. . . . . . . . 469.2 457.9 458.7 455.9 468.3 457.7 456.0 454.6 -1.4

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115.5 115.0 115.6 116.3 111.7 113.7 112.9 113.0 0.1

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 792.6 794.8 801.2 802.9 788.8 796.9 797.5 798.6 1.1

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637.3 645.2 650.1 649.4 635.9 644.8 646.9 648.5 1.6

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,845 93,048 93,556 93,507 91,303 92,765 92,825 92,973 148

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,068 25,275 25,390 25,343 25,052 25,314 25,320 25,334 14

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,564.5 5,633.0 5,671.7 5,674.1 5,533.3 5,622.3 5,633.1 5,642.3 9.2

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,771.7 2,790.1 2,811.5 2,816.2 2,755.9 2,789.9 2,795.3 2,800.0 4.7

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,952.5 1,984.9 1,995.5 1,993.9 1,940.1 1,975.2 1,978.0 1,981.2 3.2

Electronic markets and agents and brokers.. . 840.3 858.0 864.7 864.0 837.3 857.2 859.8 861.1 1.3

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,686.1 14,705.2 14,759.8 14,769.5 14,668.8 14,756.0 14,752.8 14,759.5 6.7

Motor vehicle and parts dealers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,712.3 1,723.9 1,735.2 1,731.4 1,692.4 1,715.8 1,716.6 1,712.2 -4.4

Automobile dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,065.6 1,083.7 1,090.5 1,089.5 1,058.1 1,082.4 1,083.9 1,081.2 -2.7

Furniture and home furnishings stores. . . . . . . 437.1 443.8 443.2 443.1 442.6 450.6 450.1 449.0 -1.1

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

Change

from:

June2012 -

July2012p

Retail trade - Continued

Electronics and appliance stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 524.1 496.5 496.3 496.9 531.6 505.6 503.5 504.3 0.8

Building material and garden supply stores.. . 1,168.8 1,224.9 1,211.9 1,190.2 1,138.6 1,155.2 1,155.3 1,159.7 4.4

Food and beverage stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,852.1 2,874.0 2,898.8 2,905.1 2,830.5 2,873.6 2,876.5 2,882.7 6.2

Health and personal care stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 981.3 991.0 994.1 999.4 982.7 992.8 994.1 1,000.5 6.4

Gasoline stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 842.6 835.0 841.9 841.9 830.1 831.3 831.5 829.0 -2.5

Clothing and clothing accessories stores. . . . . 1,339.9 1,328.3 1,346.7 1,356.0 1,346.9 1,368.6 1,368.8 1,367.6 -1.2

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564.2 559.6 566.1 564.9 579.7 575.3 579.6 576.1 -3.5

General merchandise stores1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,059.7 3,024.0 3,016.8 3,029.1 3,078.4 3,073.2 3,060.6 3,059.1 -1.5

Department stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,525.1 1,492.8 1,480.2 1,489.7 1,545.6 1,535.2 1,522.5 1,519.8 -2.7

Miscellaneous store retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783.8 781.0 781.9 784.8 781.8 777.4 776.6 779.8 3.2

Nonstore retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420.2 423.2 426.9 426.7 433.5 436.6 439.6 439.5 -0.1

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,258.5 4,373.4 4,391.0 4,339.7 4,295.0 4,373.2 4,369.8 4,376.7 6.9

Air transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462.1 458.4 462.0 461.9 459.4 458.2 458.8 459.0 0.2

Rail transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230.2 233.5 234.4 235.3 229.5 234.1 234.1 234.6 0.5

Water transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.3 66.1 67.8 69.2 61.5 66.1 66.4 67.5 1.1

Truck transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,320.8 1,336.9 1,361.4 1,363.4 1,303.8 1,340.7 1,343.3 1,346.4 3.1

Transit and ground passenger

transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376.5 452.5 422.9 372.0 437.0 434.8 426.1 432.6 6.5

Pipeline transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43.3 43.7 44.2 43.9 42.9 43.8 44.0 43.6 -0.4

Scenic and sightseeing transportation. . . . . . . . 37.8 32.7 38.7 39.0 28.5 30.6 30.9 29.7 -1.2

Support activities for transportation. . . . . . . . . . . 564.6 583.6 585.9 582.8 563.6 583.9 583.1 582.0 -1.1

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513.6 516.0 521.0 514.6 521.7 525.5 526.6 523.8 -2.8

Warehousing and storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646.3 650.0 652.7 657.6 647.1 655.5 656.5 657.5 1.0

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558.6 563.4 567.2 559.3 555.3 562.8 563.8 555.7 -8.1

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,668 2,642 2,648 2,654 2,665 2,636 2,635 2,646 11

Publishing industries, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . 752.2 735.3 739.0 742.0 749.4 739.1 738.3 739.1 0.8

Motion picture and sound recording

industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363.1 388.4 386.6 388.1 360.6 375.8 375.6 381.7 6.1

Broadcasting, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.0 281.5 281.7 278.6 281.4 282.6 280.9 279.1 -1.8

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 866.1 827.0 829.8 831.9 868.9 830.1 831.3 834.1 2.8

Data processing, hosting and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.2 243.2 242.1 242.7 242.9 241.4 241.1 243.2 2.1

Other information services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163.3 167.0 169.0 170.2 161.4 167.2 167.3 168.4 1.1

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,741 7,726 7,788 7,806 7,676 7,734 7,737 7,738 1

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,771.2 5,763.4 5,792.5 5,800.8 5,749.9 5,772.4 5,775.7 5,777.3 1.6

Monetary authorities - central bank. . . . . . . . . . . 19.2 18.8 19.0 19.4 19.0 18.9 19.0 19.2 0.2

Credit intermediation and related

activities1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,567.2 2,577.2 2,592.0 2,596.4 2,558.0 2,582.0 2,585.4 2,586.1 0.7

Depository credit intermediation1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,750.1 1,745.9 1,750.5 1,754.3 1,740.9 1,747.9 1,746.6 1,745.5 -1.1

Commercial banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,322.7 1,317.8 1,319.2 1,321.7 1,315.8 1,319.8 1,317.0 1,315.6 -1.4

Securities, commodity contracts,

investments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812.9 798.5 804.9 806.6 810.5 801.6 803.1 803.6 0.5

Insurance carriers and related activities. . . . . . 2,285.5 2,284.4 2,291.7 2,293.4 2,276.1 2,285.1 2,283.4 2,283.5 0.1

Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles. . . 86.4 84.5 84.9 85.0 86.3 84.8 84.8 84.9 0.1

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,969.5 1,962.9 1,995.5 2,005.0 1,926.2 1,961.1 1,961.4 1,961.1 -0.3

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,427.9 1,421.0 1,440.7 1,449.1 1,404.1 1,420.9 1,423.4 1,424.4 1.0

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517.5 518.5 531.4 532.4 498.3 516.7 514.5 513.4 -1.1

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets. . . . . 24.1 23.4 23.4 23.5 23.8 23.5 23.5 23.3 -0.2

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,401 17,833 18,015 17,994 17,342 17,842 17,886 17,935 49

Professional and technical services1

. . . . . . . . . . . 7,688.8 7,851.5 7,909.7 7,927.5 7,715.7 7,922.2 7,937.3 7,955.2 17.9

Legal services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,127.4 1,115.8 1,131.0 1,132.2 1,116.0 1,119.3 1,119.1 1,120.5 1.4

Accounting and bookkeeping services. . . . . . . 855.7 904.3 884.1 876.3 928.8 958.9 952.7 953.2 0.5

Architectural and engineering services. . . . . . . 1,313.5 1,322.3 1,338.8 1,343.5 1,294.3 1,323.6 1,323.6 1,323.8 0.2

Computer systems design and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,539.9 1,584.9 1,597.4 1,609.7 1,535.8 1,589.7 1,598.2 1,605.2 7.0

Management and technical consulting

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,078.7 1,123.9 1,137.3 1,146.1 1,076.2 1,129.2 1,136.4 1,142.7 6.3

Management of companies and enterprises. . . . 1,925.5 1,940.6 1,959.6 1,963.3 1,916.3 1,944.9 1,948.8 1,953.2 4.4

Administrative and waste services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,787.0 8,041.0 8,145.9 8,102.8 7,709.6 7,975.2 7,999.7 8,026.8 27.1

See footnotes at end of table.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

— Continued

[In thousands]

Industry

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

Change

from:

June2012 -

July2012p

Administrative and waste services - Continued

Administrative and support services1

. . . . . . . . 7,414.0 7,670.0 7,767.1 7,721.5 7,344.8 7,603.8 7,626.7 7,654.0 27.3

Employment services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,895.6 3,166.9 3,210.9 3,166.9 2,935.3 3,164.0 3,186.2 3,208.0 21.8

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,257.5 2,507.5 2,546.1 2,502.9 2,297.1 2,504.4 2,525.5 2,539.6 14.1

Business support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797.0 806.9 807.0 805.2 811.9 816.4 817.7 820.1 2.4

Services to buildings and dwellings. . . . . . . . 1,891.0 1,860.7 1,896.8 1,896.8 1,774.9 1,786.8 1,782.0 1,782.3 0.3

Waste management and remediation

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373.0 371.0 378.8 381.3 364.8 371.4 373.0 372.8 -0.2

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,564 20,359 20,080 19,983 19,898 20,291 20,285 20,323 38

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,941.8 3,373.4 3,098.3 3,029.2 3,239.3 3,326.2 3,311.0 3,329.2 18.2

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,622.6 16,986.0 16,982.1 16,953.5 16,658.5 16,964.9 16,974.4 16,993.5 19.1

Health care3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,088.3 14,324.3 14,371.2 14,385.8 14,062.0 14,337.5 14,348.8 14,360.8 12.0

Ambulatory health care services1. . . . . . . . . 6,157.1 6,330.0 6,339.8 6,345.3 6,156.0 6,331.5 6,335.4 6,344.3 8.9

Offices of physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,357.8 2,422.4 2,426.0 2,428.4 2,356.9 2,427.7 2,425.0 2,427.7 2.7

Outpatient care centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620.4 656.7 660.3 663.7 621.3 656.4 660.0 664.1 4.1

Home health care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,140.0 1,188.4 1,190.4 1,190.1 1,140.7 1,185.9 1,189.6 1,191.4 1.8

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,747.1 4,801.7 4,820.9 4,832.6 4,731.2 4,810.5 4,812.3 4,817.6 5.3

Nursing and residential care facilities1

. . . . 3,184.1 3,192.6 3,210.5 3,207.9 3,174.8 3,195.5 3,201.1 3,198.9 -2.2

Nursing care facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,675.8 1,660.7 1,667.2 1,666.9 1,672.3 1,662.3 1,663.0 1,663.2 0.2

Social assistance1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,534.3 2,661.7 2,610.9 2,567.7 2,596.5 2,627.4 2,625.6 2,632.7 7.1

Child day care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780.2 864.8 807.9 769.2 843.1 838.6 829.6 833.3 3.7

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,997 13,829 14,197 14,280 13,332 13,583 13,593 13,620 27

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,220.8 1,982.8 2,161.6 2,209.6 1,916.2 1,911.3 1,911.4 1,907.6 -3.8

Performing arts and spectator sports. . . . . . . . . 417.6 424.7 417.2 422.5 389.0 402.4 397.1 395.8 -1.3

Museums, historical sites, and similar

institutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147.7 137.2 147.4 147.6 132.1 132.5 133.6 132.7 -0.9

Amusements, gambling, and recreation. . . . . . 1,655.5 1,420.9 1,597.0 1,639.5 1,395.1 1,376.4 1,380.7 1,379.1 -1.6

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,776.6 11,845.7 12,035.4 12,070.6 11,415.7 11,672.1 11,681.4 11,712.6 31.2

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,962.5 1,814.5 1,913.5 1,971.3 1,814.2 1,817.1 1,817.8 1,819.6 1.8

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . . 9,814.1 10,031.2 10,121.9 10,099.3 9,601.5 9,855.0 9,863.6 9,893.0 29.4

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,406 5,384 5,438 5,447 5,338 5,365 5,369 5,377 8

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,166.6 1,166.5 1,170.8 1,172.1 1,159.7 1,158.8 1,158.9 1,164.5 5.6

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,296.8 1,303.8 1,312.1 1,305.9 1,288.2 1,291.1 1,295.4 1,296.7 1.3

Membership associations and organizations. . . . 2,942.7 2,914.0 2,954.7 2,969.1 2,889.9 2,915.3 2,914.8 2,915.6 0.8

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,787 22,354 21,907 20,676 22,033 21,946 21,937 21,928 -9

Federal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,881.0 2,818.0 2,829.0 2,840.0 2,851.0 2,817.0 2,815.0 2,813.0 -2.0

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,243.5 2,205.6 2,218.6 2,226.8 2,219.2 2,203.0 2,202.3 2,203.4 1.1

U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637.3 612.2 610.8 613.1 631.9 614.4 613.1 609.9 -3.2

State government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,759.0 5,093.0 4,833.0 4,755.0 5,054.0 5,059.0 5,059.0 5,053.0 -6.0

State government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,067.4 2,434.8 2,158.1 2,089.7 2,384.1 2,406.0 2,406.6 2,406.9 0.3

State government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . . 2,691.4 2,658.5 2,674.4 2,665.7 2,670.1 2,652.6 2,652.0 2,646.3 -5.7

Local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,147.0 14,443.0 14,245.0 13,081.0 14,128.0 14,070.0 14,063.0 14,062.0 -1.0

Local government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,660.2 8,200.9 7,803.8 6,578.2 7,862.5 7,813.1 7,792.4 7,785.4 -7.0

Local government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . . 6,486.5 6,242.1 6,441.6 6,502.9 6,265.9 6,257.2 6,270.6 6,277.0 6.4

1 Includes other industries, not shown separately.

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

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

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

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private.............................................................................. 34.4 34.4 34.5 34.5

Goods-producing..................................................................... 39.9 40.1 40.2 40.2

Mining and logging................................................................ 44.3 43.7 44.0 44.3

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

Manufacturing...................................................................... 40.4 40.6 40.7 40.7

Durable goods................................................................... 40.7 40.9 41.0 41.0

Nondurable goods............................................................... 39.8 40.0 40.1 40.2

Private service-providing............................................................ 33.3 33.3 33.4 33.3

Trade, transportation, and utilities............................................... 34.6 34.5 34.6 34.6

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

Retail trade....................................................................... 31.6 31.6 31.7 31.6

Transportation and warehousing.............................................. 38.6 38.2 38.2 38.3

Utilities............................................................................ 41.7 41.6 41.5 42.4

Information.......................................................................... 36.7 36.5 36.5 36.5

Financial activities................................................................. 37.4 37.2 37.2 37.2

Professional and business services............................................. 35.8 35.9 35.9 36.0

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

Leisure and hospitality............................................................ 25.9 26.1 26.2 26.1

Other services...................................................................... 31.8 31.6 31.7 31.8

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing............................................................................ 3.1 3.3 3.2 3.2

Durable goods........................................................................ 3.1 3.3 3.2 3.2

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

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

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

Total private................................................. $23.13 $23.43 $23.50 $23.52 $ 795.67 $ 805.99 $ 810.75 $ 811.44

Goods-producing........................................ 24.44 24.65 24.73 24.76 975.16 988.47 994.15 995.35

Mining and logging................................... 27.77 28.78 28.90 29.12 1,230.21 1,257.69 1,271.60 1,290.02

Construction........................................... 25.42 25.71 25.74 25.78 973.59 989.84 990.99 989.95

Manufacturing......................................... 23.75 23.88 23.97 23.99 959.50 969.53 975.58 976.39

Durable goods...................................... 25.29 25.25 25.34 25.37 1,029.30 1,032.73 1,038.94 1,040.17

Nondurable goods................................. 21.18 21.54 21.62 21.63 842.96 861.60 866.96 869.53

Private service-providing............................... 22.82 23.14 23.21 23.23 759.91 770.56 775.21 773.56

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................. 20.11 20.40 20.48 20.50 695.81 703.80 708.61 709.30

Wholesale trade.................................... 26.44 26.73 26.81 26.78 1,023.23 1,034.45 1,037.55 1,033.71

Retail trade.......................................... 15.95 16.19 16.32 16.31 504.02 511.60 517.34 515.40

Transportation and warehousing................. 21.69 22.02 21.97 21.99 837.23 841.16 839.25 842.22

Utilities............................................... 33.61 33.90 34.14 34.73 1,401.54 1,410.24 1,416.81 1,472.55

Information............................................. 31.47 31.73 31.74 31.81 1,154.95 1,158.15 1,158.51 1,161.07

Financial activities.................................... 27.86 29.03 29.12 29.23 1,041.96 1,079.92 1,083.26 1,087.36

Professional and business services................ 27.96 28.07 28.10 28.15 1,000.97 1,007.71 1,008.79 1,013.40

Education and health services...................... 23.69 24.09 24.20 24.12 779.40 792.56 796.18 793.55

Leisure and hospitality............................... 13.23 13.32 13.37 13.38 342.66 347.65 350.29 349.22

Other services......................................... 20.54 20.60 20.64 20.69 653.17 650.96 654.29 657.94

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Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by

industry sector, seasonally adjusted

[2007=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls2

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

Percent

change

from:

June

2012 -

July

2012p

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

Percent

change

from:

June

2012 -

July

2012p

Total private....................................... 94.3 95.7 96.1 96.2 0.1 104.0 107.0 107.7 107.9 0.2

Goods-producing............................... 82.1 83.6 83.9 84.0 0.1 90.7 93.2 93.8 94.0 0.2

Mining and logging.......................... 110.7 115.6 116.3 117.1 0.7 123.4 133.6 134.9 136.9 1.5

Construction.................................. 72.7 73.1 73.2 73.0 -0.3 80.3 81.7 81.8 81.7 -0.1

Manufacturing................................ 85.5 87.3 87.6 87.8 0.2 94.5 97.0 97.7 97.9 0.2

Durable goods............................ 83.7 86.1 86.4 86.7 0.3 94.0 96.6 97.3 97.7 0.4

Nondurable goods........................ 88.7 89.4 89.6 89.9 0.3 95.3 97.7 98.3 98.6 0.3

Private service-providing...................... 97.6 99.2 99.6 99.4 -0.2 108.0 111.2 112.0 111.9 -0.1

Trade, transportation, and utilities......... 94.3 95.0 95.3 95.3 0.0 102.0 104.3 105.0 105.2 0.2

Wholesale trade........................... 93.4 94.9 95.1 95.0 -0.1 103.1 105.9 106.4 106.2 -0.2

Retail trade................................ 94.2 94.7 95.0 94.7 -0.3 99.3 101.4 102.5 102.2 -0.3

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . .. 94.9 95.6 95.5 95.9 0.4 104.4 106.8 106.5 107.1 0.6

Utilities..................................... 100.2 101.3 101.2 101.9 0.7 111.3 113.5 114.2 117.0 2.5

Information................................... 89.3 87.9 87.8 88.2 0.5 100.1 99.3 99.3 99.9 0.6

Financial activities........................... 94.6 94.8 94.8 94.9 0.1 102.9 107.4 107.8 108.2 0.4

Professional and business services....... 97.6 100.7 101.0 101.5 0.5 110.6 114.6 115.0 115.8 0.7

Education and health services............. 106.6 108.7 108.6 108.9 0.3 118.3 122.6 123.2 123.0 -0.2

Leisure and hospitality...................... 98.5 101.2 101.6 101.4 -0.2 105.2 108.7 109.6 109.5 -0.1

Other services............................... 94.1 93.9 94.3 94.7 0.4 109.6 109.8 110.5 111.2 0.6

1 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2007 annual

average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

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

2007 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly

hours, and employment.

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Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Women employees (in thousands) Percent of all employees

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

Total nonfarm............................................... 64,979 65,629 65,635 65,721 49.4 49.3 49.3 49.3

Total private.............................................. 52,385 53,099 53,132 53,215 47.9 47.8 47.8 47.8

Goods-producing...................................... 4,059 4,085 4,096 4,100 22.5 22.3 22.4 22.4

Mining and logging................................. 105 112 114 114 13.2 13.3 13.6 13.6

Construction........................................ 707 706 710 714 12.8 12.8 12.9 13.0

Manufacturing....................................... 3,247 3,267 3,272 3,272 27.6 27.3 27.3 27.3

Durable goods................................... 1,719 1,734 1,736 1,737 23.5 23.2 23.2 23.1

Nondurable goods............................... 1,528 1,533 1,536 1,535 34.2 34.2 34.3 34.3

Private service-providing............................. 48,326 49,014 49,036 49,115 52.9 52.8 52.8 52.8

Trade, transportation, and utilities............... 10,033 10,052 10,051 10,053 40.0 39.7 39.7 39.7

Wholesale trade................................. 1,665.4 1,689.6 1,696.2 1,697.5 30.1 30.1 30.1 30.1

Retail trade....................................... 7,222.6 7,209.9 7,205.8 7,202.7 49.2 48.9 48.8 48.8

Transportation and warehousing.............. 1,009.5 1,012.7 1,009.0 1,014.3 23.5 23.2 23.1 23.2

Utilities............................................ 135.4 139.5 139.7 138.3 24.4 24.8 24.8 24.9

Information.......................................... 1,083 1,065 1,068 1,070 40.6 40.4 40.5 40.4

Financial activities.................................. 4,484 4,480 4,484 4,480 58.4 57.9 58.0 57.9

Professional and business services............. 7,691 7,909 7,928 7,965 44.3 44.3 44.3 44.4

Education and health services................... 15,281 15,566 15,559 15,594 76.8 76.7 76.7 76.7

Leisure and hospitality............................. 6,940 7,108 7,114 7,120 52.1 52.3 52.3 52.3

Other services...................................... 2,814 2,834 2,832 2,833 52.7 52.8 52.7 52.7

Government.............................................. 12,594 12,530 12,503 12,506 57.2 57.1 57.0 57.0

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NOTE: Data in this table have been corrected. For more information see http://www.bls.gov/bls/ceswomen_usps_correction.htm.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted1

[In thousands]

Industry July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

Total private................................................................................ 90,173 91,755 91,801 91,938

Goods-producing........................................................................ 13,021 13,204 13,195 13,216

Mining and logging................................................................... 597 638 635 630

Construction........................................................................... 4,165 4,142 4,135 4,132

Manufacturing......................................................................... 8,259 8,424 8,425 8,454

Durable goods...................................................................... 5,007 5,161 5,162 5,192

Nondurable goods................................................................. 3,252 3,263 3,263 3,262

Private service-providing............................................................... 77,152 78,551 78,606 78,722

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................................................. 21,218 21,493 21,487 21,489

Wholesale trade.................................................................... 4,433.5 4,525.0 4,529.0 4,540.1

Retail trade......................................................................... 12,641.6 12,737.5 12,731.4 12,721.7

Transportation and warehousing................................................. 3,698.9 3,783.4 3,777.9 3,787.1

Utilities............................................................................... 443.6 447.0 448.6 440.5

Information............................................................................ 2,140 2,129 2,132 2,143

Financial activities.................................................................... 5,881 5,939 5,948 5,953

Professional and business services................................................ 14,267 14,726 14,773 14,824

Education and health services...................................................... 17,433 17,796 17,792 17,823

Leisure and hospitality............................................................... 11,745 11,983 11,982 11,990

Other services........................................................................ 4,468 4,485 4,492 4,500

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

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

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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 July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private.............................................................................. 33.7 33.7 33.7 33.7

Goods-producing..................................................................... 40.9 41.0 41.1 41.1

Mining and logging................................................................ 46.4 46.3 46.7 47.2

Construction........................................................................ 39.1 39.0 39.0 39.0

Manufacturing...................................................................... 41.4 41.6 41.7 41.7

Durable goods................................................................... 41.8 42.0 42.1 42.1

Nondurable goods............................................................... 40.9 40.9 41.0 41.0

Private service-providing............................................................ 32.5 32.4 32.5 32.5

Trade, transportation, and utilities............................................... 33.7 33.7 33.8 33.8

Wholesale trade................................................................. 38.5 38.6 38.7 38.6

Retail trade....................................................................... 30.6 30.5 30.5 30.5

Transportation and warehousing.............................................. 37.8 37.9 38.0 38.0

Utilities............................................................................ 41.9 41.2 40.9 41.9

Information.......................................................................... 36.4 35.8 35.9 35.8

Financial activities................................................................. 36.5 36.6 36.8 36.7

Professional and business services............................................. 35.2 35.2 35.2 35.3

Education and health services................................................... 32.4 32.3 32.4 32.2

Leisure and hospitality............................................................ 24.8 25.0 25.0 25.0

Other services...................................................................... 30.7 30.5 30.6 30.6

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing............................................................................ 4.1 4.1 4.2 4.1

Durable goods........................................................................ 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.2

Nondurable goods.................................................................... 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.9

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

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

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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

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

Total private................................................. $19.52 $19.70 $19.75 $19.77 $ 657.82 $ 663.89 $ 665.58 $ 666.25

Goods-producing........................................ 20.68 20.89 20.94 20.98 845.81 856.49 860.63 862.28

Mining and logging................................... 24.62 25.78 25.91 26.00 1,142.37 1,193.61 1,210.00 1,227.20

Construction........................................... 23.65 23.93 23.95 24.02 924.72 933.27 934.05 936.78

Manufacturing......................................... 18.95 19.07 19.14 19.17 784.53 793.31 798.14 799.39

Durable goods...................................... 20.12 20.16 20.25 20.24 841.02 846.72 852.53 852.10

Nondurable goods................................. 17.10 17.31 17.35 17.41 699.39 707.98 711.35 713.81

Private service-providing............................... 19.28 19.45 19.50 19.51 626.60 630.18 633.75 634.08

Trade, transportation, and utilities.................. 17.22 17.41 17.48 17.46 580.31 586.72 590.82 590.15

Wholesale trade.................................... 22.14 22.14 22.22 22.24 852.39 854.60 859.91 858.46

Retail trade.......................................... 13.54 13.83 13.89 13.84 414.32 421.82 423.65 422.12

Transportation and warehousing................. 19.55 19.56 19.57 19.55 738.99 741.32 743.66 742.90

Utilities............................................... 30.94 31.51 31.70 32.00 1,296.39 1,298.21 1,296.53 1,340.80

Information............................................. 26.55 26.77 26.79 26.92 966.42 958.37 961.76 963.74

Financial activities.................................... 21.87 22.59 22.65 22.70 798.26 826.79 833.52 833.09

Professional and business services................ 23.24 23.22 23.23 23.24 818.05 817.34 817.70 820.37

Education and health services...................... 20.86 21.01 21.09 21.07 675.86 678.62 683.32 678.45

Leisure and hospitality............................... 11.49 11.61 11.64 11.65 284.95 290.25 291.00 291.25

Other services......................................... 17.36 17.42 17.45 17.49 532.95 531.31 533.97 535.19

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

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

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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

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

Percent

change

from:

June

2012 -

July

2012p

July

2011

May

2012

June

2012p

July

2012p

Percent

change

from:

June

2012 -

July

2012p

Total private....................................... 101.5 103.3 103.4 103.5 0.1 132.4 136.0 136.4 136.7 0.2

Goods-producing............................... 81.4 82.7 82.9 83.0 0.1 103.1 105.8 106.3 106.6 0.3

Mining and logging.......................... 147.2 157.0 157.6 158.0 0.3 210.8 235.4 237.5 238.9 0.6

Construction.................................. 81.5 80.9 80.7 80.7 0.0 104.1 104.5 104.4 104.7 0.3

Manufacturing................................ 78.5 80.4 80.6 80.9 0.4 97.3 100.3 100.9 101.5 0.6

Durable goods............................ 78.7 81.5 81.7 82.2 0.6 98.8 102.5 103.3 103.8 0.5

Nondurable goods........................ 78.4 78.6 78.8 78.8 0.0 94.7 96.2 96.6 96.9 0.3

Private service-providing...................... 107.2 108.8 109.2 109.4 0.2 141.7 145.1 146.0 146.3 0.2

Trade, transportation, and utilities......... 99.7 101.0 101.2 101.3 0.1 122.5 125.4 126.2 126.1 -0.1

Wholesale trade........................... 100.5 102.9 103.2 103.2 0.0 131.1 134.2 135.1 135.2 0.1

Retail trade................................ 97.9 98.3 98.3 98.2 -0.1 113.6 116.6 117.0 116.5 -0.4

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . .. 105.2 107.9 108.1 108.3 0.2 130.5 133.9 134.2 134.3 0.1

Utilities..................................... 95.1 94.2 93.8 94.4 0.6 122.8 123.9 124.2 126.1 1.5

Information................................... 88.9 87.0 87.4 87.6 0.2 116.9 115.3 115.9 116.7 0.7

Financial activities........................... 102.7 104.0 104.7 104.6 -0.1 138.9 145.3 146.7 146.7 0.0

Professional and business services....... 112.6 116.2 116.5 117.3 0.7 155.7 160.5 161.1 162.2 0.7

Education and health services............. 121.8 124.0 124.4 123.8 -0.5 167.1 171.3 172.4 171.5 -0.5

Leisure and hospitality...................... 106.7 109.7 109.7 109.8 0.1 139.2 144.7 145.0 145.3 0.2

Other services............................... 96.2 95.9 96.4 96.6 0.2 121.7 121.8 122.6 123.1 0.4

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

in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm payrolls.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2002 annual

average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

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

2002 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly earnings, average weekly

hours, and employment.

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