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Technical information: 

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

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

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

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — AUGUST 2015 

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 173,000 in August, and the unemployment rate

edged down to 5.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in 

health care and social assistance and in financial activities. Manufacturing and mining lost jobs. 

Household Survey Data 

In August, the unemployment rate edged down to 5.1 percent, and the number of unemployed persons 

edged down to 8.0 million. Over the year, the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed 

persons were down by 1.0 percentage point and 1.5 million, respectively. (See table A-1.) 

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for whites declined to 4.4 percent in August. 

The rates for adult men (4.7 percent), adult women (4.7 percent), teenagers (16.9 percent), blacks (9.5 

percent), Asians (3.5 percent), and Hispanics (6.6 percent) showed little change in August. (See tables 

A-1, A-2, and A-3.) 

The number of persons unemployed for less than 5 weeks decreased by 393,000 to 2.1 million in 

August. The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) held at 2.2 million 

Chart 2. Nonfarm payroll employment over-the-month 

change, seasonally adjusted, August 2013 –

August 2015

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Chart 1. Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, 

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in August and accounted for 27.7 percent of the unemployed. Over the past 12 months, the number of 

long-term unemployed is down by 779,000. (See table A-12.) 

In August, the civilian labor force participation rate was 62.6 percent for the third consecutive month. 

The employment-population ratio, at 59.4 percent, was about unchanged in August and has shown 

little movement thus far this year. (See table A-1.) 

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

involuntary part-time workers) was little changed in August at 6.5 million. These individuals, who 

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

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

In August, 1.8 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, down by 329,000 from a 

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

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

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

(See table A-16.) 

Among the marginally attached, there were 624,000 discouraged workers in August, down by 151,000 

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

currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.2 

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

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

Establishment Survey Data 

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 173,000 in August. Over the prior 12 months, employment 

growth had averaged 247,000 per month. In August, job gains occurred in health care and social 

assistance and in financial activities. Employment in manufacturing and mining declined. (See 

table B-1.) 

Health care and social assistance added 56,000 jobs in August. Health care employment increased by 

41,000 over the month, with job growth occurring in ambulatory health care services (+21,000) and 

hospitals (+16,000). Employment rose by 16,000 in social assistance, which includes child day care 

services and services for the elderly and disabled. Over the year, employment has risen by 457,000 in 

health care and by 107,000 in social assistance. 

In August, financial activities employment increased by 19,000, with job gains in real estate (+8,000) 

and in securities, commodity contracts, and investments (+5,000). Over the year, employment in 

financial activities has grown by 170,000. 

Employment in professional and business services continued to trend up in August (+33,000) and has 

increased by 641,000 over the year. 

Employment in food services and drinking places continued on an upward trend in August (+26,000), 

in line with its average monthly gain of 31,000 over the prior 12 months. 

Manufacturing employment decreased by 17,000 in August, after changing little in July (+12,000). Job 

losses occurred in a number of component industries, including fabricated metal products and food 
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manufacturing (-7,000 each). These losses more than offset gains in motor vehicles and parts (+6,000) 

and in miscellaneous durable goods manufacturing (+4,000). Thus far this year, overall employment in 

manufacturing has shown little net change. 

Employment in mining fell in August (-9,000), with losses concentrated in support activities for mining 

(-7,000). Since reaching a peak in December 2014, mining employment has declined by 90,000. 

Employment in other major industries, including construction, wholesale trade, retail trade, 

transportation and warehousing, and government, showed little change over the month. 

The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls edged up by 0.1 hour to 34.6 

hours in August. The manufacturing workweek was unchanged at 40.8 hours, and factory overtime 

edged down by 0.1 hour to 3.3 hours. 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 August, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 8 cents to 

$25.09, following a 6-cent gain in July. Hourly earnings have risen by 2.2 percent over the year. 

Average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees increased by 5 

cents to $21.07 in August. (See tables B-3 and B-8.) 

The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for June was revised from +231,000 to +245,000, and 

the change for July was revised from +215,000 to +245,000. With these revisions, employment gains in 

June and July combined were 44,000 more than previously reported. Over the past 3 months, job gains 

have averaged 221,000 per month. 

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The Employment Situation for September is scheduled to be released on Friday, October 2, 2015, 

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

2015 CES Preliminary Benchmark Revision to be released 

on September 17, 2015

Each year, the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey estimates are benchmarked to 

comprehensive counts of employment from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages 

(QCEW) for the month of March. These counts are derived from state unemployment insurance 

(UI) tax records that nearly all employers are required to file. On September 17, 2015, at 10:00 

a.m. (EDT), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will release the preliminary estimate of the 

upcoming annual benchmark revision to the establishment survey employment series. This is 

the same day the First Quarter 2015 data from the QCEW will be issued. Preliminary 

benchmark revisions for all major industry sectors, as well as total nonfarm and total private 

levels, will be available on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesprelbmk.htm. 

The final benchmark revision will be issued with the publication of the January 2016 

Employment Situation news release in February. 
HOUSEHOLD DATA

Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Category Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Change from:

July 2015-

Aug. 2015

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population........................................... 248,229 250,663 250,876 251,096 220

Civilian labor force........................................................... 156,018 157,037 157,106 157,065 -41

Participation rate.......................................................... 62.9 62.6 62.6 62.6 0.0

Employed................................................................... 146,451 148,739 148,840 149,036 196

Employment-population ratio.......................................... 59.0 59.3 59.3 59.4 0.1

Unemployed............................................................... 9,568 8,299 8,266 8,029 -237

Unemployment rate.................................................... 6.1 5.3 5.3 5.1 -0.2

Not in labor force............................................................ 92,210 93,626 93,770 94,031 261

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over...................................................... 6.1 5.3 5.3 5.1 -0.2

Adult men (20 years and over)............................................ 5.7 4.8 4.8 4.7 -0.1

Adult women (20 years and over)......................................... 5.6 4.8 4.9 4.7 -0.2

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)................................................ 19.4 18.1 16.2 16.9 0.7

White.......................................................................... 5.3 4.6 4.6 4.4 -0.2

Black or African American.................................................. 11.6 9.5 9.1 9.5 0.4

Asian.......................................................................... 4.6 3.8 4.0 3.5 -0.5

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity................................................. 7.4 6.6 6.8 6.6 -0.2

Total, 25 years and over...................................................... 5.1 4.2 4.3 4.2 -0.1

Less than a high school diploma.......................................... 9.1 8.2 8.3 7.7 -0.6

High school graduates, no college........................................ 6.2 5.4 5.5 5.5 0.0

Some college or associate degree........................................ 5.4 4.2 4.4 4.4 0.0

Bachelor’s degree and higher.............................................. 3.2 2.5 2.6 2.5 -0.1

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs.................. 4,813 4,088 4,143 4,070 -73

Job leavers...................................................................... 851 773 843 790 -53

Reentrants....................................................................... 2,845 2,516 2,447 2,349 -98

New entrants.................................................................... 1,064 933 826 850 24

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks............................................................. 2,609 2,355 2,488 2,095 -393

5 to 14 weeks................................................................... 2,444 2,364 2,257 2,374 117

15 to 26 weeks................................................................. 1,500 1,393 1,188 1,250 62

27 weeks and over............................................................. 2,966 2,121 2,180 2,187 7

Employed persons at work part time

Part time for economic reasons.............................................. 7,223 6,505 6,325 6,483 158

Slack work or business conditions........................................ 4,217 3,915 3,828 3,841 13

Could only find part-time work............................................. 2,546 2,216 2,213 2,242 29

Part time for noneconomic reasons.......................................... 19,538 20,480 19,891 19,760 -131

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

Marginally attached to the labor force....................................... 2,141 1,914 1,927 1,812 –

Discouraged workers........................................................ 775 653 668 624 –

- 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 Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY

(Over-the-month change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 245 245 173

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 218 224 140

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 -3 13 -24

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 -5 -6 -10

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1 7 3

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1 12 -17

Durable goods1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1 -7 -5

Motor vehicles and parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3 0.0 1.6 5.7

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -2 0 19 -12

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 221 211 164

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.7 3.1 6.4 7.8

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -3.4 36.2 32.4 11.2

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.0 12.7 13.6 7.3

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 0.0 2.6 1.5

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3 2 -7

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 21 21 19

Professional and business services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 68 39 33

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.2 19.9 -9.2 10.7

Education and health services1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 61 53 62

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35.9 56.9 45.4 56.4

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 19 30 33

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 -3 11 -4

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 27 21 33

(3-month average change, in thousands)

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 231 250 221

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 220 231 194

WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES

AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES2

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

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

Total private production and nonsupervisory employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.7 82.5 82.4 82.4

HOURS AND EARNINGS

ALL EMPLOYEES

Total private

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

Average hourly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $24.55 $24.95 $25.01 $25.09

Average weekly earnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $846.98 $860.78 $862.85 $868.11

Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.3 103.4 103.6 104.0

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

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118.7 123.2 123.7 124.6

Over-the-month percent change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.5 0.2 0.4 0.7

DIFFUSION INDEX

(Over 1-month span)5

Total private (263 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.8 57.2 60.5 56.3

Manufacturing (80 industries). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.6 51.3 50.6 41.3

1

Includes other industries, not shown separately.

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

service-providing industries.

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

hours.

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

aggregate weekly payrolls.

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

balance between industries with increasing and decreasing employment.

p Preliminary

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

1. Why are there two monthly measures of employment? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Employment Situation news release. 

3. Why does the establishment survey have revisions? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

estimates to nearly complete employment counts available from unemployment insurance tax 

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

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

4. Does the establishment survey sample include small firms? 

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

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

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

industries are appropriately sampled to achieve that goal. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

insurance benefits? 

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

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

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

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

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

looking for work? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This news release presents statistics from two major 

surveys, the Current Population Survey (CPS; household 

survey) and the Current Employment Statistics survey (CES; 

establishment survey). The household survey provides 

information on the labor force, employment, and 

unemployment that appears in the "A" tables, marked 

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

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

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

The establishment survey provides information on 

employment, hours, and earnings of employees on nonfarm 

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

ESTABLISHMENT DATA. BLS collects these data each 

month from the payroll records of a sample of 

nonagricultural business establishments. Each month the 

CES program surveys about 143,000 businesses and 

government agencies, representing approximately 588,000 

individual worksites, in order to provide detailed industry 

data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on 

nonfarm payrolls. The active sample includes approximately 

one-third of all nonfarm payroll employees. 

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

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

reference period is generally the calendar week that contains 

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

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

may or may not correspond directly to the calendar week. 

Coverage, definitions, and differences between surveys 

Household survey. The sample is selected to reflect 

the entire civilian noninstitutional population. Based on 

responses to a series of questions on work and job search 

activities, each person 16 years and over in a sample 

household is classified as employed, unemployed, or not in 

the labor force. 

People are classified as employed if they did any work 

at all as paid employees during the reference week; worked 

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

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

farm. People are also counted as employed if they were 

temporarily absent from their jobs because of illness, bad 

weather, vacation, labor-management disputes, or personal 

reasons. 

People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of 

the following criteria: they had no employment during the 

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

and they made specific efforts to find employment sometime 

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

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

looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The 

unemployment data derived from the household survey in no 

way depend upon the eligibility for or receipt of 

unemployment insurance benefits. 

The civilian labor force is the sum of employed and 

unemployed persons. Those persons not classified as 

employed or unemployed are not in the labor force. The 

unemployment rate is the number unemployed as a percent 

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

labor force as a percent of the population, and 

the employment-population ratio is the employed as a 

percent of the population. Additional information 

about the household survey can be found at 

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

Establishment survey. The sample establishments are 

drawn from private nonfarm businesses such as factories, 

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

government entities. Employees on nonfarm payrolls are 

those who received pay for any part of the reference pay 

period, including persons on paid leave. Persons are counted 

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

for the private sector for all employees and for production 

and nonsupervisory employees. Production and

nonsupervisory employees are defined as production and 

related employees in manufacturing and mining and logging, 

construction workers in construction, and non-supervisory 

employees in private service-providing industries. 

Industries are classified on the basis of an 

establishment’s principal activity in accordance with the 

2012 version of the North American Industry Classification 

System. Additional information about the establishment 

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

Differences in employment estimates. The numerous 

conceptual and methodological differences between the 

household and establishment surveys result in important 

distinctions in the employment estimates derived from the 

surveys. Among these are: 

 The household survey includes agricultural 

workers, self-employed workers whose businesses 

are unincorporated, unpaid family workers, and 

private household workers among the employed. 

These groups are excluded from the establishment 

survey. 

 The household survey includes people on unpaid 

leave among the employed. The establishment 

survey does not. 

 The household survey is limited to workers 16 years 

of age and older. The establishment survey is not 

limited by age. 

 The household survey has no duplication of 

individuals, because individuals are counted only 

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

establishment survey, employees working at more 

than one job and thus appearing on more than one 

payroll are counted separately for each appearance. 
Seasonal adjustment 

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

force and the levels of employment and unemployment 

undergo regularly occurring fluctuations. These events may 

result from seasonal changes in weather, major holidays, and 

the opening and closing of schools. The effect of such 

seasonal variation can be very large. 

Because these seasonal events follow a more or less 

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

series can be tempered by adjusting for regular seasonal 

variation. These adjustments make nonseasonal 

developments, such as declines in employment or increases 

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

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

of youth entering the labor force each June is likely to 

obscure any other changes that have taken place relative to 

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

activity has risen or declined. Similarly, in the establishment 

survey, payroll employment in education declines by about 

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

the start of the fall term, obscuring the underlying 

employment trends in the industry. Because seasonal 

employment changes at the end and beginning of the school 

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

underlying employment patterns more discernable. The 

seasonally adjusted figures provide a more useful tool with 

which to analyze changes in month-to-month economic 

activity. 

Many seasonally adjusted series are independently 

adjusted in both the household and establishment surveys. 

However, the adjusted series for many major estimates, such 

as total payroll employment, employment in most major 

sectors, total employment, and unemployment are computed 

by aggregating independently adjusted component series. 

For example, total unemployment is derived by summing the 

adjusted series for four major age-sex components; this 

differs from the unemployment estimate that would be 

obtained by directly adjusting the total or by combining the 

duration, reasons, or more detailed age categories. 

For both the household and establishment surveys, a 

concurrent seasonal adjustment methodology is used in 

which new seasonal factors are calculated each month using 

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

month. In the household survey, new seasonal factors are 

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

establishment survey, however, new seasonal factors are 

used each month to adjust the three most recent monthly 

estimates. The prior 2 months are routinely revised to 

incorporate additional sample reports and recalculated 

seasonal adjustment factors. In both surveys, 5-year 

revisions to historical data are made once a year. 

Reliability of the estimates 

Statistics based on the household and establishment 

surveys are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. 

When a sample, rather than the entire population, is 

surveyed, there is a chance that the sample estimates may 

differ from the true population values they represent. The 

component of this difference that occurs because samples 

differ by chance is known as sampling error, and its 

variability is measured by the standard error of the estimate. 

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

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

than 1.6 standard errors from the true population value 

because of sampling error. BLS analyses are generally 

conducted at the 90-percent level of confidence. 

For example, the confidence interval for the monthly 

change in total nonfarm employment from the establishment 

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

estimate of nonfarm employment increases by 50,000 from 

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

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

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

sample results are off by these magnitudes, but rather that 

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

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

confidence that nonfarm employment had, in fact, increased 

that month. If, however, the reported nonfarm employment 

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

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

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

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

unemployment rate of around 6.0 percent, the 90-percent 

confidence interval for the monthly change in unemployment 

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

and for the monthly change in the unemployment rate it is 

about +/- 0.2 percentage point. 

In general, estimates involving many individuals or 

establishments have lower standard errors (relative to the 

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

small number of observations. The precision of estimates 

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

as for quarterly and annual averages. 

The household and establishment surveys are also 

affected by nonsampling error, which can occur for many 

reasons, including the failure to sample a segment of the 

population, inability to obtain information for all respondents 

in the sample, inability or unwillingness of respondents to 

provide correct information on a timely basis, mistakes made 

by respondents, and errors made in the collection or 

processing of the data. 

For example, in the establishment survey, estimates for 

the most recent 2 months are based on incomplete returns; 

for this reason, these estimates are labeled preliminary in the 

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

estimate, when nearly all sample reports have been received, 

that the estimate is considered final. 

Another major source of nonsampling error in the 

establishment survey is the inability to capture, on a timely 

basis, employment generated by new firms. To correct for 

this systematic underestimation of employment growth, an 

estimation procedure with two components is used to 

account for business births. The first component excludes 

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

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

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

employment trend as the other firms in the sample. This 

procedure accounts for most of the net birth/death 

employment. 

The second component is an ARIMA time series model 

designed to estimate the residual net birth/death employment 

not accounted for by the imputation. The historical time 

series used to create and test the ARIMA model was derived 

from the unemployment insurance universe micro-level 

database, and reflects the actual residual net of births and 

deaths over the past 5 years. 

The sample-based estimates from the establishment 

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

universe counts of payroll employment obtained from 

administrative records of the unemployment insurance 

program. The difference between the March sample-based 

employment estimates and the March universe counts is 

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

for total survey error. The new benchmarks also incorporate 

changes in the classification of industries. Over the past 

decade, absolute benchmark revisions for total nonfarm 

employment have averaged 0.3 percent, with a range from 

-0.7 percent to 0.6 percent. 

Other information 

Information in this release will be made available to 

sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Aug.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Apr.

2015

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

TOTAL

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248,229 250,876 251,096 248,229 250,266 250,455 250,663 250,876 251,096

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156,434 158,527 157,390 156,018 157,072 157,469 157,037 157,106 157,065

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.0 63.2 62.7 62.9 62.8 62.9 62.6 62.6 62.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146,647 149,722 149,228 146,451 148,523 148,795 148,739 148,840 149,036

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.1 59.7 59.4 59.0 59.3 59.4 59.3 59.3 59.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,787 8,805 8,162 9,568 8,549 8,674 8,299 8,266 8,029

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3 5.6 5.2 6.1 5.4 5.5 5.3 5.3 5.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91,794 92,349 93,706 92,210 93,194 92,986 93,626 93,770 94,031

Persons who currently want a job. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,382 6,446 5,920 6,334 6,258 6,058 6,076 6,135 5,932

Men, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119,893 121,139 121,250 119,893 120,831 120,927 121,032 121,139 121,250

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,567 84,831 83,996 83,010 83,805 83,892 83,490 83,578 83,472

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.7 70.0 69.3 69.2 69.4 69.4 69.0 69.0 68.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,576 80,436 79,898 77,873 79,203 79,201 79,020 79,202 79,211

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.5 66.4 65.9 65.0 65.5 65.5 65.3 65.4 65.3

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,991 4,394 4,098 5,136 4,602 4,691 4,471 4,376 4,261

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.0 5.2 4.9 6.2 5.5 5.6 5.4 5.2 5.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,326 36,309 37,253 36,883 37,026 37,035 37,541 37,562 37,778

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111,451 112,714 112,825 111,451 112,400 112,498 112,605 112,714 112,825

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80,486 81,320 80,892 80,210 80,884 80,915 80,680 80,790 80,640

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.2 72.1 71.7 72.0 72.0 71.9 71.6 71.7 71.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,120 77,541 77,311 75,668 76,805 76,833 76,783 76,903 76,880

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68.3 68.8 68.5 67.9 68.3 68.3 68.2 68.2 68.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,366 3,779 3,581 4,543 4,079 4,082 3,897 3,887 3,760

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.4 4.6 4.4 5.7 5.0 5.0 4.8 4.8 4.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,965 31,395 31,933 31,241 31,516 31,583 31,925 31,924 32,185

Women, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128,336 129,737 129,846 128,336 129,434 129,528 129,631 129,737 129,846

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72,867 73,696 73,393 73,008 73,267 73,577 73,547 73,528 73,593

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56.8 56.8 56.5 56.9 56.6 56.8 56.7 56.7 56.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,071 69,286 69,329 68,577 69,320 69,594 69,719 69,638 69,825

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.0 53.4 53.4 53.4 53.6 53.7 53.8 53.7 53.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,796 4,410 4,064 4,431 3,947 3,983 3,828 3,891 3,768

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6 6.0 5.5 6.1 5.4 5.4 5.2 5.3 5.1

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,469 56,041 56,453 55,327 56,167 55,951 56,085 56,209 56,253

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,156 121,551 121,660 120,156 121,246 121,342 121,445 121,551 121,660

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,898 70,339 70,460 70,230 70,419 70,731 70,665 70,745 70,826

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.2 57.9 57.9 58.4 58.1 58.3 58.2 58.2 58.2

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,631 66,485 66,874 66,289 66,935 67,178 67,294 67,271 67,502

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.6 54.7 55.0 55.2 55.2 55.4 55.4 55.3 55.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,266 3,854 3,585 3,942 3,483 3,553 3,372 3,474 3,324

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1 5.5 5.1 5.6 4.9 5.0 4.8 4.9 4.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,258 51,212 51,200 49,925 50,828 50,611 50,780 50,806 50,833

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,622 16,611 16,611 16,622 16,619 16,615 16,613 16,611 16,611

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,050 6,868 6,038 5,578 5,769 5,823 5,691 5,570 5,599

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.4 41.3 36.4 33.6 34.7 35.0 34.3 33.5 33.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,896 5,696 5,042 4,495 4,784 4,784 4,662 4,666 4,654

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29.5 34.3 30.4 27.0 28.8 28.8 28.1 28.1 28.0

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,155 1,172 996 1,083 986 1,039 1,029 904 945

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.1 17.1 16.5 19.4 17.1 17.9 18.1 16.2 16.9

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,571 9,743 10,573 11,044 10,849 10,792 10,922 11,040 11,012

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

Aug.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Apr.

2015

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

WHITE

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195,652 196,904 197,024 195,652 196,574 196,673 196,786 196,904 197,024

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123,667 124,667 123,676 123,266 123,510 123,875 123,649 123,607 123,390

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.2 63.3 62.8 63.0 62.8 63.0 62.8 62.8 62.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,095 118,603 118,168 116,760 117,719 118,048 117,942 117,880 117,903

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.8 60.2 60.0 59.7 59.9 60.0 59.9 59.9 59.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,573 6,064 5,508 6,506 5,791 5,827 5,707 5,727 5,487

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3 4.9 4.5 5.3 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.4

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,985 72,237 73,349 72,386 73,064 72,798 73,137 73,297 73,634

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,753 65,207 64,815 64,519 64,764 64,790 64,727 64,819 64,617

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.5 72.5 72.1 72.3 72.2 72.2 72.1 72.1 71.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,763 62,550 62,328 61,360 61,919 62,037 62,031 62,057 61,964

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69.2 69.6 69.3 68.7 69.0 69.1 69.1 69.0 68.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,990 2,657 2,488 3,159 2,845 2,753 2,696 2,762 2,652

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.6 4.1 3.8 4.9 4.4 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.1

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,112 54,032 54,120 54,315 54,198 54,481 54,400 54,369 54,372

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57.6 57.1 57.1 57.8 57.3 57.6 57.5 57.4 57.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,345 51,403 51,755 51,739 51,912 52,121 52,097 52,027 52,167

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.6 54.3 54.6 55.0 54.9 55.1 55.0 54.9 55.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,767 2,628 2,365 2,576 2,286 2,359 2,303 2,342 2,205

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1 4.9 4.4 4.7 4.2 4.3 4.2 4.3 4.1

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,802 5,428 4,740 4,432 4,548 4,604 4,522 4,418 4,401

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38.8 44.1 38.5 35.8 36.9 37.4 36.7 35.9 35.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,987 4,649 4,085 3,661 3,888 3,890 3,814 3,796 3,772

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.2 37.8 33.2 29.6 31.5 31.6 31.0 30.8 30.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815 779 655 772 660 714 708 622 629

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.0 14.4 13.8 17.4 14.5 15.5 15.7 14.1 14.3

BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,893 31,399 31,438 30,893 31,293 31,326 31,362 31,399 31,438

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,931 19,537 19,449 18,867 19,397 19,428 19,346 19,298 19,388

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.3 62.2 61.9 61.1 62.0 62.0 61.7 61.5 61.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,653 17,649 17,529 16,685 17,529 17,441 17,501 17,534 17,556

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.9 56.2 55.8 54.0 56.0 55.7 55.8 55.8 55.8

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,278 1,887 1,919 2,182 1,868 1,988 1,845 1,764 1,832

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.0 9.7 9.9 11.6 9.6 10.2 9.5 9.1 9.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,963 11,862 11,989 12,026 11,896 11,898 12,016 12,101 12,050

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,623 8,791 8,773 8,614 8,926 8,905 8,808 8,738 8,763

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67.5 67.4 67.2 67.4 68.7 68.5 67.6 67.0 67.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,700 8,023 7,979 7,678 8,109 7,995 7,970 7,966 7,956

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60.3 61.5 61.1 60.1 62.5 61.5 61.2 61.1 60.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 923 769 794 936 817 911 838 773 807

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.7 8.7 9.1 10.9 9.2 10.2 9.5 8.8 9.2

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,588 9,866 9,932 9,591 9,792 9,808 9,827 9,861 9,934

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 62.2 62.5 61.4 61.9 61.9 62.0 62.1 62.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,470 9,020 9,048 8,559 8,928 8,946 9,046 9,070 9,125

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.3 56.8 56.9 54.8 56.4 56.5 57.1 57.2 57.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,118 846 884 1,032 864 862 781 791 809

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.7 8.6 8.9 10.8 8.8 8.8 7.9 8.0 8.1

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720 879 744 662 678 715 712 698 691

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.8 35.3 29.9 26.4 27.2 28.7 28.6 28.1 27.8

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483 607 503 447 491 500 486 498 474

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.3 24.4 20.2 17.9 19.7 20.1 19.5 20.0 19.1

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 273 241 215 187 215 226 200 216

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.9 31.0 32.4 32.4 27.5 30.1 31.8 28.7 31.3

ASIAN

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,704 14,540 14,558 13,704 14,290 14,403 14,430 14,540 14,558

See footnotes at end of table.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, race, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Aug.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Apr.

2015

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,751 9,181 9,107 8,752 9,038 9,169 9,076 9,113 9,110

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.9 63.1 62.6 63.9 63.3 63.7 62.9 62.7 62.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,354 8,795 8,794 8,348 8,644 8,794 8,730 8,751 8,790

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.0 60.5 60.4 60.9 60.5 61.1 60.5 60.2 60.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 387 313 404 394 375 346 362 321

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5 4.2 3.4 4.6 4.4 4.1 3.8 4.0 3.5

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,952 5,359 5,451 4,952 5,251 5,234 5,354 5,427 5,448

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

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

introduced annually with the release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted1

Aug.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Apr.

2015

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

Civilian noninstitutional population................ 38,512 39,648 39,737 38,512 39,405 39,483 39,566 39,648 39,737

Civilian labor force................................ 25,465 26,334 26,078 25,410 26,167 26,149 26,132 26,158 26,077

Participation rate............................... 66.1 66.4 65.6 66.0 66.4 66.2 66.0 66.0 65.6

Employed....................................... 23,567 24,478 24,344 23,536 24,354 24,385 24,401 24,374 24,343

Employment-population ratio............... 61.2 61.7 61.3 61.1 61.8 61.8 61.7 61.5 61.3

Unemployed.................................... 1,898 1,856 1,734 1,873 1,813 1,764 1,730 1,784 1,734

Unemployment rate......................... 7.5 7.0 6.6 7.4 6.9 6.7 6.6 6.8 6.6

Not in labor force................................. 13,047 13,314 13,659 13,102 13,237 13,334 13,434 13,491 13,660

Men, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................ 14,137 14,511 14,361 14,104 14,484 14,479 14,402 14,468 14,352

Participation rate............................... 81.1 81.2 80.2 80.9 81.6 81.4 80.7 80.9 80.1

Employed....................................... 13,309 13,694 13,662 13,238 13,614 13,615 13,549 13,596 13,595

Employment-population ratio............... 76.4 76.6 76.3 76.0 76.7 76.5 76.0 76.1 75.9

Unemployed.................................... 828 817 699 866 870 863 853 872 757

Unemployment rate......................... 5.9 5.6 4.9 6.1 6.0 6.0 5.9 6.0 5.3

Women, 20 years and over

Civilian labor force................................ 10,178 10,518 10,537 10,223 10,526 10,537 10,552 10,574 10,606

Participation rate............................... 58.4 58.2 58.2 58.7 58.6 58.6 58.5 58.5 58.6

Employed....................................... 9,356 9,751 9,760 9,433 9,802 9,854 9,919 9,850 9,859

Employment-population ratio............... 53.7 54.0 53.9 54.2 54.6 54.8 55.0 54.5 54.4

Unemployed.................................... 822 766 777 790 725 684 633 724 747

Unemployment rate......................... 8.1 7.3 7.4 7.7 6.9 6.5 6.0 6.8 7.0

Both sexes, 16 to 19 years

Civilian labor force................................ 1,149 1,305 1,180 1,082 1,157 1,133 1,178 1,116 1,118

Participation rate............................... 31.3 35.2 31.8 29.5 31.3 30.6 31.8 30.1 30.1

Employed....................................... 901 1,033 922 865 938 916 933 928 889

Employment-population ratio............... 24.6 27.9 24.9 23.6 25.4 24.8 25.2 25.0 24.0

Unemployed.................................... 248 272 258 217 218 217 245 188 230

Unemployment rate......................... 21.6 20.9 21.8 20.1 18.9 19.2 20.8 16.9 20.6

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

columns.

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

release of January data.
HOUSEHOLD DATA

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Educational attainment

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Aug.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Apr.

2015

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Less than a high school diploma

Civilian labor force.................................. 10,627 10,622 10,546 10,709 11,338 11,153 11,065 10,843 10,692

Participation rate.................................. 44.8 45.3 44.7 45.2 45.7 44.6 44.6 46.2 45.4

Employed.......................................... 9,712 9,750 9,776 9,738 10,367 10,192 10,161 9,942 9,865

Employment-population ratio................. 41.0 41.6 41.5 41.1 41.8 40.7 41.0 42.4 41.9

Unemployed....................................... 914 872 770 971 971 961 904 901 827

Unemployment rate............................ 8.6 8.2 7.3 9.1 8.6 8.6 8.2 8.3 7.7

High school graduates, no college1

Civilian labor force.................................. 36,291 35,088 35,617 36,286 35,577 35,341 34,996 35,130 35,534

Participation rate.................................. 58.1 57.0 57.3 58.1 57.2 57.2 57.1 57.1 57.1

Employed.......................................... 34,100 33,149 33,689 34,046 33,639 33,304 33,110 33,194 33,584

Employment-population ratio................. 54.6 53.9 54.2 54.5 54.1 53.9 54.0 53.9 54.0

Unemployed....................................... 2,191 1,939 1,928 2,240 1,938 2,037 1,886 1,936 1,950

Unemployment rate............................ 6.0 5.5 5.4 6.2 5.4 5.8 5.4 5.5 5.5

Some college or associate degree

Civilian labor force.................................. 37,865 37,731 37,194 37,503 37,755 37,594 37,674 37,547 37,053

Participation rate.................................. 67.4 66.2 66.2 66.8 67.4 67.4 66.8 65.9 65.9

Employed.......................................... 35,802 36,044 35,535 35,490 35,996 35,934 36,084 35,900 35,427

Employment-population ratio................. 63.7 63.2 63.2 63.2 64.2 64.4 64.0 63.0 63.0

Unemployed....................................... 2,063 1,688 1,659 2,013 1,759 1,660 1,590 1,646 1,626

Unemployment rate............................ 5.4 4.5 4.5 5.4 4.7 4.4 4.2 4.4 4.4

Bachelor’s degree and higher2

Civilian labor force.................................. 49,836 51,924 52,065 50,162 51,156 51,938 51,855 52,361 52,454

Participation rate.................................. 74.2 73.9 73.8 74.7 74.6 75.0 74.6 74.5 74.3

Employed.......................................... 48,062 50,446 50,650 48,561 49,758 50,518 50,548 51,021 51,167

Employment-population ratio................. 71.6 71.8 71.8 72.3 72.5 73.0 72.7 72.6 72.5

Unemployed....................................... 1,774 1,477 1,415 1,600 1,399 1,419 1,307 1,339 1,286

Unemployment rate............................ 3.6 2.8 2.7 3.2 2.7 2.7 2.5 2.6 2.5

1

Includes persons with a high school diploma or equivalent.

2

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

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

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

and sex, not seasonally adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, veteran status, and period of service

Total Men Women

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

VETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,124 21,171 18,870 19,172 2,254 1,999

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,667 10,686 9,300 9,452 1,368 1,234

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.5 50.5 49.3 49.3 60.7 61.7

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,070 10,236 8,784 9,067 1,286 1,170

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.7 48.3 46.5 47.3 57.1 58.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598 449 516 385 82 64

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.6 4.2 5.5 4.1 6.0 5.2

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,457 10,486 9,570 9,720 886 765

Gulf War-era II veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,154 3,581 2,464 2,956 690 625

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,484 2,878 2,009 2,434 475 444

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78.8 80.4 81.5 82.3 68.8 71.1

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,282 2,744 1,843 2,322 439 422

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.4 76.6 74.8 78.6 63.6 67.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 134 165 112 36 22

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1 4.7 8.2 4.6 7.6 5.0

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670 702 455 522 215 180

Gulf War-era I veterans

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,353 3,479 2,737 2,936 616 543

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,789 2,832 2,352 2,410 437 422

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83.2 81.4 85.9 82.1 70.9 77.6

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,663 2,724 2,247 2,331 417 393

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.4 78.3 82.1 79.4 67.6 72.4

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 107 105 79 20 28

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.5 3.8 4.5 3.3 4.6 6.7

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565 648 385 526 180 122

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

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,321 8,852 8,971 8,537 350 315

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,651 2,293 2,555 2,221 96 72

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.4 25.9 28.5 26.0 27.4 22.9

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,507 2,198 2,411 2,125 96 72

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26.9 24.8 26.9 24.9 27.4 22.9

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 95 144 95 0 0

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.4 4.2 5.6 4.3 0.0 –

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,670 6,559 6,416 6,316 254 243

Veterans of other service periods

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,296 5,259 4,698 4,743 598 516

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,744 2,683 2,384 2,387 361 296

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.8 51.0 50.7 50.3 60.3 57.4

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,617 2,570 2,282 2,288 335 282

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.4 48.9 48.6 48.2 56.0 54.6

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 113 101 99 26 14

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.6 4.2 4.3 4.1 7.1 4.8

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,552 2,576 2,314 2,356 237 220

NONVETERANS, 18 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218,405 221,138 96,629 97,597 121,775 123,542

Civilian labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143,636 144,530 73,225 73,454 70,411 71,076

Participation rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.8 65.4 75.8 75.3 57.8 57.5

Employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134,922 137,213 68,994 69,932 65,928 67,281

Employment-population ratio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.8 62.0 71.4 71.7 54.1 54.5

Unemployed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,713 7,318 4,231 3,523 4,482 3,795

Unemployment rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1 5.1 5.8 4.8 6.4 5.3

Not in labor force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74,769 76,608 23,404 24,142 51,365 52,466

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

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

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

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

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

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

adjusted

[Numbers in thousands]

Employment status, sex, and age

Persons with a disability Persons with no disability

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

TOTAL, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population...................................................... 29,443 29,858 218,786 221,238

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 5,819 5,833 150,615 151,557

Participation rate..................................................................... 19.8 19.5 68.8 68.5

Employed............................................................................. 5,075 5,237 141,572 143,991

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 17.2 17.5 64.7 65.1

Unemployed.......................................................................... 744 596 9,043 7,566

Unemployment rate............................................................... 12.8 10.2 6.0 5.0

Not in labor force....................................................................... 23,624 24,025 68,171 69,681

Men, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 2,660 2,518 76,348 76,612

Participation rate..................................................................... 33.8 32.7 83.0 82.6

Employed............................................................................. 2,270 2,240 71,955 72,974

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 28.8 29.1 78.2 78.7

Unemployed.......................................................................... 390 277 4,392 3,637

Unemployment rate............................................................... 14.7 11.0 5.8 4.7

Not in labor force....................................................................... 5,220 5,179 15,615 16,146

Women, 16 to 64 years

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 2,199 2,291 66,986 67,218

Participation rate..................................................................... 27.7 28.1 70.3 70.1

Employed............................................................................. 1,895 2,027 62,751 63,576

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 23.8 24.9 65.8 66.3

Unemployed.......................................................................... 304 264 4,235 3,642

Unemployment rate............................................................... 13.8 11.5 6.3 5.4

Not in labor force....................................................................... 5,748 5,854 28,337 28,636

Both sexes, 65 years and over

Civilian labor force..................................................................... 960 1,024 7,281 7,727

Participation rate..................................................................... 7.1 7.3 23.1 23.7

Employed............................................................................. 910 969 6,865 7,440

Employment-population ratio.................................................... 6.7 6.9 21.8 22.8

Unemployed.......................................................................... 50 55 416 287

Unemployment rate............................................................... 5.2 5.4 5.7 3.7

Not in labor force....................................................................... 12,656 12,992 24,219 24,899

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

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Foreign born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population................................... 39,289 40,290 19,302 19,535 19,986 20,754

Civilian labor force.................................................. 26,046 26,056 15,216 15,267 10,830 10,788

Participation rate.................................................. 66.3 64.7 78.8 78.2 54.2 52.0

Employed.......................................................... 24,639 24,914 14,538 14,745 10,101 10,169

Employment-population ratio................................. 62.7 61.8 75.3 75.5 50.5 49.0

Unemployed....................................................... 1,407 1,142 678 522 728 620

Unemployment rate............................................ 5.4 4.4 4.5 3.4 6.7 5.7

Not in labor force.................................................... 13,243 14,234 4,086 4,268 9,157 9,966

Native born, 16 years and over

Civilian noninstitutional population................................... 208,940 210,806 100,590 101,715 108,349 109,092

Civilian labor force.................................................. 130,388 131,334 68,351 68,729 62,038 62,605

Participation rate.................................................. 62.4 62.3 67.9 67.6 57.3 57.4

Employed.......................................................... 122,008 124,314 64,038 65,153 57,970 59,161

Employment-population ratio................................. 58.4 59.0 63.7 64.1 53.5 54.2

Unemployed....................................................... 8,381 7,021 4,313 3,576 4,068 3,444

Unemployment rate............................................ 6.4 5.3 6.3 5.2 6.6 5.5

Not in labor force.................................................... 78,552 79,472 32,240 32,985 46,312 46,487

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

Aug.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Apr.

2015

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

CLASS OF WORKER

Agriculture and related industries................. 2,472 2,601 2,539 2,265 2,435 2,405 2,544 2,375 2,345

Wage and salary workers1

...................... 1,699 1,654 1,590 1,518 1,610 1,536 1,590 1,490 1,437

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . .. 756 912 922 732 794 828 905 853 886

Unpaid family workers........................... 18 34 26 – – – – – –

Nonagricultural industries.......................... 144,175 147,121 146,689 144,111 146,111 146,417 146,192 146,439 146,679

Wage and salary workers1

...................... 135,541 138,143 137,890 135,641 137,148 137,175 137,458 137,628 137,988

Government..................................... 19,410 19,720 19,994 20,027 20,455 20,613 20,744 20,547 20,620

Private industries............................... 116,131 118,423 117,896 115,553 116,707 116,572 116,678 117,059 117,331

Private households.......................... 789 792 825 – – – – – –

Other industries.............................. 115,342 117,632 117,072 114,787 115,899 115,821 115,857 116,257 116,509

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . .. 8,576 8,879 8,747 8,483 8,826 9,142 8,645 8,741 8,682

Unpaid family workers........................... 58 99 52 – – – – – –

PERSONS AT WORK PART TIME2

All industries

Part time for economic reasons3

.................. 7,083 6,511 6,361 7,223 6,580 6,652 6,505 6,325 6,483

Slack work or business conditions............. 4,055 3,883 3,674 4,217 3,885 3,891 3,915 3,828 3,841

Could only find part-time work.................. 2,548 2,263 2,227 2,546 2,374 2,390 2,216 2,213 2,242

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 17,872 18,273 17,933 19,538 20,056 19,961 20,480 19,891 19,760

Nonagricultural industries

Part time for economic reasons3

.................. 7,021 6,414 6,265 7,152 6,501 6,541 6,384 6,223 6,380

Slack work or business conditions............. 4,020 3,813 3,621 4,178 3,835 3,830 3,828 3,752 3,779

Could only find part-time work.................. 2,538 2,249 2,216 2,557 2,352 2,419 2,195 2,199 2,239

Part time for noneconomic reasons4

.............. 17,523 17,895 17,597 19,171 19,705 19,603 19,996 19,504 19,445

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

Aug.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Apr.

2015

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146,647 149,722 149,228 146,451 148,523 148,795 148,739 148,840 149,036

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,896 5,696 5,042 4,495 4,784 4,784 4,662 4,666 4,654

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,655 2,073 1,779 1,500 1,630 1,678 1,654 1,637 1,623

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,241 3,624 3,263 2,998 3,147 3,128 3,014 3,034 3,030

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,751 144,026 144,185 141,956 143,740 144,011 144,077 144,174 144,382

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,076 14,637 14,535 13,884 13,851 14,060 14,055 14,043 14,315

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127,675 129,389 129,651 128,022 129,861 129,890 130,043 130,123 130,051

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,548 96,107 96,506 95,627 96,482 96,507 96,618 96,487 96,628

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,951 32,518 32,682 32,013 32,734 32,786 32,756 32,652 32,765

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,908 31,089 31,315 30,953 31,072 31,095 31,277 31,261 31,343

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,689 32,499 32,509 32,661 32,676 32,625 32,584 32,574 32,520

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,128 33,282 33,145 32,395 33,379 33,383 33,425 33,636 33,423

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,576 80,436 79,898 77,873 79,203 79,201 79,020 79,202 79,211

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,456 2,896 2,587 2,206 2,399 2,368 2,237 2,299 2,331

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 798 1,063 900 717 830 845 824 799 808

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,658 1,832 1,687 1,498 1,557 1,528 1,415 1,498 1,526

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,120 77,541 77,311 75,668 76,805 76,833 76,783 76,903 76,880

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,422 7,592 7,472 7,225 7,158 7,259 7,181 7,177 7,256

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,698 69,949 69,839 68,462 69,633 69,531 69,633 69,730 69,615

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,506 52,020 52,127 51,252 51,863 51,716 51,828 51,740 51,891

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,422 17,778 17,775 17,330 17,798 17,755 17,799 17,689 17,705

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,795 16,904 17,002 16,734 16,818 16,766 16,903 16,838 16,931

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,288 17,338 17,350 17,188 17,247 17,195 17,125 17,213 17,255

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,192 17,929 17,712 17,210 17,770 17,816 17,806 17,990 17,724

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,071 69,286 69,329 68,577 69,320 69,594 69,719 69,638 69,825

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,440 2,801 2,455 2,289 2,385 2,416 2,425 2,367 2,322

16 to 17 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 857 1,009 879 783 800 833 830 838 814

18 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,583 1,792 1,576 1,500 1,590 1,600 1,599 1,536 1,504

20 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,631 66,485 66,874 66,289 66,935 67,178 67,294 67,271 67,502

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,654 7,045 7,063 6,659 6,693 6,801 6,874 6,865 7,059

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,978 59,440 59,812 59,560 60,228 60,358 60,409 60,392 60,437

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,042 44,087 44,379 44,375 44,619 44,791 44,790 44,746 44,738

25 to 34 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,529 14,741 14,907 14,684 14,936 15,032 14,957 14,962 15,060

35 to 44 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,113 14,185 14,313 14,219 14,255 14,329 14,374 14,423 14,413

45 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,401 15,162 15,158 15,473 15,429 15,431 15,459 15,361 15,265

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,936 15,353 15,433 15,185 15,609 15,567 15,619 15,646 15,699

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,374 44,762 45,048 44,293 45,023 44,792 44,878 44,855 44,994

Married women, spouse present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,282 34,098 34,516 34,722 34,974 34,879 34,940 34,815 34,963

Women who maintain families. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,337 9,799 9,696 – – – – – –

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120,110 123,142 123,420 118,758 120,772 121,402 121,053 121,589 122,024

Part-time workers2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,537 26,580 25,808 27,681 27,738 27,506 27,667 27,265 26,916

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,819 6,997 6,901 7,114 6,986 6,946 7,119 7,124 7,187

Percent of total employed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.9 4.7 4.7 4.8 4.8 4.8

SELF-EMPLOYMENT

Self-employed workers, incorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,294 5,453 5,176 – – – – – –

Self-employed workers, unincorporated. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,332 9,791 9,669 9,214 9,620 9,970 9,550 9,593 9,569

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

Aug.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Apr.

2015

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over........................... 9,568 8,266 8,029 6.1 5.4 5.5 5.3 5.3 5.1

16 to 19 years..................................... 1,083 904 945 19.4 17.1 17.9 18.1 16.2 16.9

16 to 17 years.................................. 449 346 369 23.1 20.0 19.3 18.3 17.4 18.5

18 to 19 years.................................. 643 576 577 17.6 15.1 16.7 18.2 15.9 16.0

20 years and over................................ 8,484 7,362 7,084 5.6 5.0 5.0 4.8 4.9 4.7

20 to 24 years.................................. 1,655 1,577 1,395 10.7 9.6 10.1 9.9 10.1 8.9

25 years and over.............................. 6,891 5,809 5,739 5.1 4.5 4.5 4.2 4.3 4.2

25 to 54 years............................... 5,373 4,526 4,417 5.3 4.6 4.7 4.4 4.5 4.4

25 to 34 years............................. 2,350 1,895 1,825 6.8 5.8 5.8 5.6 5.5 5.3

35 to 44 years............................. 1,552 1,340 1,265 4.8 4.3 4.4 3.9 4.1 3.9

45 to 54 years............................. 1,472 1,291 1,327 4.3 3.8 3.9 3.5 3.8 3.9

55 years and over........................... 1,544 1,282 1,329 4.5 4.0 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.8

Men, 16 years and over............................ 5,136 4,376 4,261 6.2 5.5 5.6 5.4 5.2 5.1

16 to 19 years..................................... 594 488 501 21.2 17.9 20.5 20.4 17.5 17.7

16 to 17 years.................................. 235 184 186 24.7 21.0 22.0 19.5 18.7 18.7

18 to 19 years.................................. 370 315 319 19.8 15.2 19.1 21.4 17.4 17.3

20 years and over................................ 4,543 3,887 3,760 5.7 5.0 5.0 4.8 4.8 4.7

20 to 24 years.................................. 942 883 792 11.5 10.5 11.0 10.9 11.0 9.8

25 years and over.............................. 3,648 3,009 3,006 5.1 4.4 4.4 4.1 4.1 4.1

25 to 54 years............................... 2,857 2,340 2,284 5.3 4.5 4.6 4.3 4.3 4.2

25 to 34 years............................. 1,222 1,017 977 6.6 5.4 5.6 5.3 5.4 5.2

35 to 44 years............................. 860 668 622 4.9 4.0 4.3 4.0 3.8 3.5

45 to 54 years............................. 774 656 685 4.3 4.0 3.7 3.4 3.7 3.8

55 years and over........................... 792 668 723 4.4 4.2 3.9 3.8 3.6 3.9

Women, 16 years and over........................ 4,431 3,891 3,768 6.1 5.4 5.4 5.2 5.3 5.1

16 to 19 years..................................... 490 416 444 17.6 16.3 15.1 15.8 15.0 16.1

16 to 17 years.................................. 214 161 183 21.5 18.9 16.4 17.2 16.1 18.3

18 to 19 years.................................. 273 260 257 15.4 15.0 14.4 15.2 14.5 14.6

20 years and over................................ 3,942 3,474 3,324 5.6 4.9 5.0 4.8 4.9 4.7

20 to 24 years.................................. 713 694 603 9.7 8.5 9.1 8.8 9.2 7.9

25 years and over.............................. 3,243 2,801 2,733 5.2 4.5 4.5 4.3 4.4 4.3

25 to 54 years............................... 2,517 2,186 2,133 5.4 4.8 4.9 4.5 4.7 4.6

25 to 34 years............................. 1,127 879 848 7.1 6.2 6.0 6.0 5.5 5.3

35 to 44 years............................. 692 672 643 4.6 4.6 4.5 3.8 4.4 4.3

45 to 54 years............................. 698 635 642 4.3 3.7 4.1 3.6 4.0 4.0

55 years and over........................... 752 591 602 4.7 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.7

MARITAL STATUS

Married men, spouse present...................... 1,487 1,294 1,275 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8

Married women, spouse present.................. 1,333 1,179 1,130 3.7 3.4 3.3 3.2 3.3 3.1

Women who maintain families1

.................... 960 855 855 9.3 7.0 6.8 7.8 8.0 8.1

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS

Full-time workers2................................... 7,912 6,838 6,618 6.2 5.5 5.6 5.3 5.3 5.1

Part-time workers3.................................. 1,623 1,457 1,386 5.5 4.9 4.9 5.2 5.1 4.9

1 Not seasonally adjusted.

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

jobs.

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

part-time jobs.

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

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

Table A-11. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Reason

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Aug.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Apr.

2015

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 4,750 4,204 3,987 4,813 4,136 4,267 4,088 4,143 4,070

On temporary layoff.............................. 1,070 1,140 954 1,106 950 1,041 1,052 999 1,001

Not on temporary layoff.......................... 3,681 3,063 3,032 3,708 3,185 3,226 3,035 3,145 3,069

Permanent job losers.......................... 2,605 2,182 2,116 2,622 2,238 2,217 2,126 2,224 2,147

Persons who completed temporary jobs. . .. 1,076 881 916 1,086 948 1,009 909 921 922

Job leavers........................................... 922 875 849 851 828 829 773 843 790

Reentrants............................................ 2,943 2,604 2,389 2,845 2,685 2,615 2,516 2,447 2,349

New entrants......................................... 1,171 1,122 938 1,064 868 971 933 826 850

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 48.5 47.7 48.8 50.3 48.6 49.1 49.2 50.2 50.5

On temporary layoff.............................. 10.9 13.0 11.7 11.5 11.2 12.0 12.7 12.1 12.4

Not on temporary layoff.......................... 37.6 34.8 37.2 38.7 37.4 37.2 36.5 38.1 38.1

Job leavers........................................... 9.4 9.9 10.4 8.9 9.7 9.5 9.3 10.2 9.8

Reentrants............................................ 30.1 29.6 29.3 29.7 31.5 30.1 30.3 29.6 29.1

New entrants......................................... 12.0 12.7 11.5 11.1 10.2 11.2 11.2 10.0 10.6

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE

CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE

Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs.................................... 3.0 2.7 2.5 3.1 2.6 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6

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

Reentrants............................................ 1.9 1.6 1.5 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.5

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

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

Table A-12. Unemployed persons by duration of unemployment

[Numbers in thousands]

Duration

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Aug.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Apr.

2015

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED

Less than 5 weeks.................................. 2,664 2,870 2,100 2,609 2,729 2,418 2,355 2,488 2,095

5 to 14 weeks........................................ 2,802 2,690 2,744 2,444 2,307 2,532 2,364 2,257 2,374

15 weeks and over.................................. 4,321 3,245 3,318 4,465 3,663 3,795 3,514 3,368 3,437

15 to 26 weeks.................................... 1,354 1,049 1,136 1,500 1,139 1,293 1,393 1,188 1,250

27 weeks and over............................... 2,967 2,196 2,183 2,966 2,525 2,502 2,121 2,180 2,187

Average (mean) duration, in weeks............... 31.2 26.5 27.6 31.9 30.8 30.7 28.1 28.3 28.4

Median duration, in weeks......................... 12.0 9.4 11.0 13.3 11.7 11.6 11.3 11.3 12.1

PERCENT DISTRIBUTION

Less than 5 weeks.................................. 27.2 32.6 25.7 27.4 31.4 27.6 28.6 30.7 26.5

5 to 14 weeks........................................ 28.6 30.5 33.6 25.7 26.5 29.0 28.7 27.8 30.0

15 weeks and over.................................. 44.1 36.9 40.7 46.9 42.1 43.4 42.7 41.5 43.5

15 to 26 weeks.................................... 13.8 11.9 13.9 15.8 13.1 14.8 16.9 14.6 15.8

27 weeks and over............................... 30.3 24.9 26.7 31.2 29.0 28.6 25.8 26.9 27.7

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

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

Employed Unemployed Unemployment

rates

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Total, 16 years and over1

............................................. 146,647 149,228 9,787 8,162 6.3 5.2

Management, professional, and related occupations........... 55,646 57,288 1,930 1,686 3.4 2.9

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations..................................................... 23,854 24,331 643 555 2.6 2.2

Professional and related occupations.......................... 31,792 32,957 1,287 1,132 3.9 3.3

Service occupations................................................ 26,183 26,886 2,139 1,847 7.6 6.4

Sales and office occupations...................................... 33,045 33,158 2,037 1,738 5.8 5.0

Sales and related occupations.................................. 15,102 15,596 900 890 5.6 5.4

Office and administrative support occupations............... 17,943 17,561 1,138 848 6.0 4.6

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations........................................................ 14,046 14,025 1,116 817 7.4 5.5

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.................... 1,183 1,145 111 62 8.6 5.1

Construction and extraction occupations...................... 7,888 7,774 752 585 8.7 7.0

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations........... 4,975 5,106 253 170 4.8 3.2

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations........................................................ 17,727 17,871 1,372 1,109 7.2 5.8

Production occupations.......................................... 8,586 8,619 623 482 6.8 5.3

Transportation and material moving occupations............ 9,141 9,252 749 627 7.6 6.3

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

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Total, 16 years and over1

................................................................ 9,787 8,162 6.3 5.2

Nonagricultural private wage and salary workers.................................. 7,200 6,039 5.8 4.9

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction.................................... 74 77 6.3 8.0

Construction.......................................................................... 678 525 7.7 6.1

Manufacturing........................................................................ 787 639 5.0 4.0

Durable goods..................................................................... 506 426 5.1 4.2

Nondurable goods................................................................ 281 213 4.8 3.6

Wholesale and retail trade......................................................... 1,160 1,034 5.8 5.1

Transportation and utilities......................................................... 412 251 6.3 4.0

Information............................................................................ 131 151 4.5 5.2

Financial activities................................................................... 322 236 3.5 2.5

Professional and business services............................................... 1,039 852 6.5 5.4

Education and health services..................................................... 1,068 934 4.8 4.1

Leisure and hospitality.............................................................. 1,149 1,012 8.1 7.2

Other services........................................................................ 382 328 5.8 4.8

Agriculture and related private wage and salary workers......................... 145 87 8.1 5.3

Government workers................................................................... 798 779 3.9 3.7

Self-employed workers, unincorporated, and unpaid family workers............ 473 319 4.8 3.2

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

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

Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

[Percent]

Measure

Not seasonally adjusted Seasonally adjusted

Aug.

2014

July

2015

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Apr.

2015

May

2015

June

2015

July

2015

Aug.

2015

U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer,

as a percent of the civilian labor force......... 2.8 2.0 2.1 2.9 2.3 2.4 2.2 2.1 2.2

U-2 Job losers and persons who completed

temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian

labor force......................................... 3.0 2.7 2.5 3.1 2.6 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6

U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the

civilian labor force (official unemployment

rate)................................................ 6.3 5.6 5.2 6.1 5.4 5.5 5.3 5.3 5.1

U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged

workers, as a percent of the civilian labor

force plus discouraged workers................. 6.7 6.0 5.6 6.6 5.9 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.5

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. . . . . . . .. 7.5 6.7 6.3 7.4 6.7 6.6 6.4 6.4 6.2

U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons

marginally attached to the labor force, plus

total employed part time for economic

reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor

force plus all persons marginally attached to

the labor force..................................... 12.0 10.7 10.3 12.0 10.8 10.8 10.5 10.4 10.3

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

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

Aug.

2014

Aug.

2015

NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE

Total not in the labor force........................................... 91,794 93,706 36,326 37,253 55,469 56,453

Persons who currently want a job................................ 6,382 5,920 2,657 2,589 3,725 3,331

Marginally attached to the labor force1

........................ 2,141 1,812 984 967 1,157 846

Discouraged workers2

......................................... 775 624 424 391 351 234

Other persons marginally attached to the labor force3. .. 1,366 1,188 560 576 806 612

MULTIPLE JOBHOLDERS

Total multiple jobholders4

............................................. 6,819 6,901 3,419 3,475 3,401 3,427

Percent of total employed.......................................... 4.7 4.6 4.4 4.3 5.0 4.9

Primary job full time, secondary job part time................... 3,658 3,832 1,996 2,150 1,662 1,682

Primary and secondary jobs both part time..................... 1,748 1,708 609 561 1,139 1,146

Primary and secondary jobs both full time....................... 269 286 186 183 83 103

Hours vary on primary or secondary job......................... 1,085 1,038 602 555 483 482

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

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Change

from:

July2015 -

Aug.2015p

Total nonfarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,232 142,836 141,868 142,126 139,369 141,870 142,115 142,288 173

Total private. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118,464 120,971 121,170 121,241 117,504 119,929 120,153 120,293 140

Goods-producing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,681 19,831 19,912 19,927 19,277 19,551 19,564 19,540 -24

Mining and logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921 843 844 830 903 839 833 823 -10

Logging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55.1 53.9 55.2 56.3 52.5 53.9 54.0 54.1 0.1

Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 865.7 788.6 788.7 774.1 850.6 784.8 778.5 769.2 -9.3

Oil and gas extraction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.6 194.1 195.0 193.4 198.4 193.2 193.7 192.6 -1.1

Mining, except oil and gas1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.6 204.5 204.9 203.0 207.0 199.2 198.7 197.7 -1.0

Coal mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.4 69.1 68.3 67.6 74.1 68.5 68.1 67.3 -0.8

Support activities for mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451.5 390.0 388.8 377.7 445.2 392.4 386.1 378.9 -7.2

Construction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,460 6,573 6,653 6,681 6,169 6,378 6,385 6,388 3

Construction of buildings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,413.4 1,436.4 1,456.8 1,459.8 1,368.2 1,407.5 1,412.1 1,410.7 -1.4

Residential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693.0 706.9 716.5 718.0 667.4 688.2 694.2 694.4 0.2

Nonresidential building. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720.4 729.5 740.3 741.8 700.8 719.3 717.9 716.3 -1.6

Heavy and civil engineering construction. . . . . . 983.5 992.2 1,002.8 1,014.0 916.0 944.6 947.3 948.8 1.5

Specialty trade contractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,062.8 4,144.3 4,192.9 4,207.1 3,884.6 4,026.1 4,025.5 4,028.6 3.1

Residential specialty trade contractors. . . . . . 1,761.3 1,819.3 1,840.8 1,841.7 1,677.1 1,755.3 1,758.9 1,761.1 2.2

Nonresidential specialty trade contractors. . . 2,301.5 2,325.0 2,352.1 2,365.4 2,207.5 2,270.8 2,266.6 2,267.5 0.9

Manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,300 12,415 12,415 12,416 12,205 12,334 12,346 12,329 -17

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,748 7,853 7,825 7,824 7,709 7,801 7,794 7,789 -5

Wood products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379.6 379.9 381.2 384.1 375.2 376.6 376.7 377.7 1.0

Nonmetallic mineral products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398.0 409.5 410.6 412.0 388.3 401.2 401.7 403.0 1.3

Primary metals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401.6 402.4 399.9 397.8 401.1 401.3 399.2 397.1 -2.1

Fabricated metal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,462.2 1,475.3 1,469.8 1,460.8 1,455.4 1,466.0 1,463.9 1,457.0 -6.9

Machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,137.5 1,135.6 1,130.0 1,125.5 1,135.2 1,130.9 1,128.4 1,124.1 -4.3

Computer and electronic products1

. . . . . . . . . . 1,054.2 1,060.3 1,060.2 1,056.5 1,048.8 1,055.7 1,053.5 1,051.7 -1.8

Computer and peripheral equipment. . . . . . 167.3 170.7 170.6 171.4 165.0 169.8 169.1 169.6 0.5

Communications equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.8 89.9 89.3 88.2 92.6 89.4 89.0 88.2 -0.8

Semiconductors and electronic

components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367.9 370.6 369.4 368.6 366.5 369.4 368.5 366.7 -1.8

Electronic instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388.0 392.9 395.2 392.3 386.9 391.1 391.6 391.2 -0.4

Electrical equipment and appliances. . . . . . . . 375.7 375.8 376.5 375.5 374.7 375.0 373.9 373.7 -0.2

Transportation equipment1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,576.0 1,619.7 1,603.1 1,616.5 1,574.0 1,607.7 1,610.7 1,615.8 5.1

Motor vehicles and parts2

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 886.3 931.1 915.2 931.8 885.4 924.2 925.8 931.5 5.7

Furniture and related products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380.4 393.0 394.7 393.1 374.8 388.1 388.1 387.9 -0.2

Miscellaneous durable goods

manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582.7 601.5 598.7 602.2 581.5 598.5 597.6 601.3 3.7

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,552 4,562 4,590 4,592 4,496 4,533 4,552 4,540 -12

Food manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,511.8 1,503.9 1,522.9 1,529.5 1,475.0 1,496.4 1,501.3 1,494.8 -6.5

Textile mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.7 119.6 118.2 118.0 117.3 118.5 118.4 117.7 -0.7

Textile product mills. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117.1 115.1 116.5 115.4 115.6 114.6 115.2 114.7 -0.5

Apparel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138.2 137.2 135.4 137.4 139.4 137.2 137.4 137.2 -0.2

Paper and paper products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371.1 367.2 370.0 369.4 370.0 364.6 367.1 367.8 0.7

Printing and related support activities. . . . . . . 452.9 445.1 444.6 444.3 451.9 443.8 444.9 444.2 -0.7

Petroleum and coal products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.0 113.2 115.4 114.8 111.3 110.6 112.3 112.2 -0.1

Chemicals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809.0 816.4 818.0 814.6 806.1 812.4 813.1 812.3 -0.8

Plastics and rubber products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677.5 692.2 694.2 691.3 672.9 687.6 691.6 688.8 -2.8

Miscellaneous nondurable goods

manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243.1 251.9 255.0 257.4 236.4 247.7 250.2 250.6 0.4

Private service-providing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98,783 101,140 101,258 101,314 98,227 100,378 100,589 100,753 164

Trade, transportation, and utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,413 26,956 26,966 26,974 26,427 26,916 26,971 26,999 28

Wholesale trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,860.9 5,951.6 5,956.3 5,953.0 5,839.1 5,912.4 5,918.8 5,926.6 7.8

Durable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,929.9 2,962.5 2,966.4 2,969.1 2,917.1 2,946.8 2,949.6 2,955.1 5.5

Nondurable goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,028.6 2,073.2 2,073.7 2,065.9 2,022.5 2,054.2 2,055.3 2,056.9 1.6

Electronic markets and agents and

brokers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 902.4 915.9 916.2 918.0 899.5 911.4 913.9 914.6 0.7

Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,383.1 15,667.1 15,701.9 15,709.2 15,378.5 15,667.4 15,699.8 15,711.0 11.2

Motor vehicle and parts dealers1

. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,887.9 1,941.5 1,953.1 1,957.3 1,869.0 1,925.6 1,936.6 1,938.6 2.0

Automobile dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,198.9 1,232.3 1,238.1 1,242.9 1,190.1 1,226.1 1,232.7 1,234.3 1.6

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

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Change

from:

July2015 -

Aug.2015p

Retail trade - Continued

Furniture and home furnishings stores. . . . . . 453.5 462.3 462.8 463.9 458.8 469.4 470.2 471.2 1.0

Electronics and appliance stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 480.3 491.1 493.0 491.4 491.7 504.5 505.1 503.3 -1.8

Building material and garden supply

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,246.3 1,316.5 1,293.2 1,267.4 1,235.9 1,256.0 1,260.1 1,264.6 4.5

Food and beverage stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000.6 3,063.7 3,065.6 3,069.8 2,984.7 3,042.3 3,047.2 3,051.8 4.6

Health and personal care stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,018.4 1,029.9 1,028.9 1,027.3 1,021.6 1,030.5 1,029.6 1,028.9 -0.7

Gasoline stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896.7 917.0 918.6 923.3 883.2 904.4 903.7 906.2 2.5

Clothing and clothing accessories stores. . . . 1,383.6 1,360.6 1,383.4 1,400.7 1,372.2 1,392.9 1,397.0 1,402.3 5.3

Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music

stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600.0 585.6 588.9 590.6 603.7 603.5 605.2 599.6 -5.6

General merchandise stores1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,089.5 3,138.8 3,146.9 3,148.2 3,126.9 3,175.3 3,179.5 3,178.9 -0.6

Department stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,327.8 1,296.6 1,300.7 1,299.5 1,354.7 1,330.0 1,328.5 1,321.7 -6.8

Miscellaneous store retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826.1 831.1 837.5 835.9 822.8 825.1 825.6 823.6 -2.0

Nonstore retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.2 529.0 530.0 533.4 508.0 537.9 540.0 542.0 2.0

Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,611.3 4,771.3 4,738.7 4,741.8 4,654.1 4,774.1 4,787.7 4,795.0 7.3

Air transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443.8 451.0 453.9 454.7 442.0 447.5 449.7 451.3 1.6

Rail transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237.4 243.4 241.6 242.2 236.1 242.7 240.5 242.7 2.2

Water transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.3 66.8 66.6 65.3 67.7 65.2 64.5 63.5 -1.0

Truck transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,445.4 1,472.6 1,478.9 1,478.5 1,419.5 1,455.4 1,458.1 1,458.8 0.7

Transit and ground passenger

transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408.9 464.4 412.0 410.5 473.5 472.3 473.5 474.5 1.0

Pipeline transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.2 49.6 49.6 49.9 47.1 49.4 49.5 49.7 0.2

Scenic and sightseeing transportation. . . . . . . 39.4 39.3 41.3 42.4 31.4 32.2 32.5 33.5 1.0

Support activities for transportation. . . . . . . . . . 625.4 647.9 651.6 651.5 625.7 646.6 649.2 650.2 1.0

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550.8 571.1 566.8 571.2 569.8 594.3 596.5 598.1 1.6

Warehousing and storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742.7 765.2 776.4 775.6 741.3 768.5 773.7 772.7 -1.0

Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557.5 565.6 568.8 569.5 555.1 562.0 564.6 566.1 1.5

Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,774 2,796 2,807 2,802 2,753 2,790 2,792 2,785 -7

Publishing industries, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . 728.4 719.5 721.0 719.8 724.5 719.9 718.3 717.3 -1.0

Motion picture and sound recording

industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388.7 393.2 395.2 394.6 376.1 387.3 384.5 381.4 -3.1

Broadcasting, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290.7 288.6 288.6 286.6 290.3 287.9 288.3 287.0 -1.3

Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860.6 860.0 864.6 861.7 859.5 860.9 864.9 861.4 -3.5

Data processing, hosting and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.9 297.1 297.4 298.6 281.3 297.1 297.9 299.5 1.6

Other information services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223.2 237.7 240.5 240.5 220.8 237.1 237.8 238.7 0.9

Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,057 8,178 8,217 8,224 7,997 8,127 8,148 8,167 19

Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,960.1 6,055.5 6,079.3 6,084.2 5,944.3 6,044.6 6,057.7 6,069.7 12.0

Monetary authorities - central bank. . . . . . . . . . 18.6 18.5 18.7 18.2 18.4 18.3 18.3 18.0 -0.3

Credit intermediation and related

activities1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,572.6 2,582.3 2,591.0 2,593.5 2,563.7 2,579.4 2,580.5 2,586.0 5.5

Depository credit intermediation1. . . . . . . . . . 1,712.2 1,702.7 1,705.6 1,705.8 1,705.3 1,699.3 1,698.8 1,699.9 1.1

Commercial banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,294.9 1,277.1 1,279.2 1,279.2 1,290.6 1,276.5 1,275.0 1,275.7 0.7

Securities, commodity contracts,

investments, and funds and trusts. . . . . . . . 889.6 904.2 910.3 913.7 885.5 901.6 904.3 908.8 4.5

Insurance carriers and related activities. . . . . 2,479.3 2,550.5 2,559.3 2,558.8 2,476.7 2,545.3 2,554.6 2,556.9 2.3

Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,096.5 2,122.5 2,137.3 2,139.3 2,052.4 2,082.1 2,089.8 2,097.6 7.8

Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,516.0 1,534.3 1,545.0 1,550.7 1,488.5 1,512.5 1,519.6 1,527.6 8.0

Rental and leasing services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556.7 564.3 568.2 564.8 540.4 545.9 546.4 546.5 0.1

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets. . . . 23.8 23.9 24.1 23.8 23.5 23.7 23.8 23.5 -0.3

Professional and business services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,315 19,885 19,917 19,967 19,180 19,749 19,788 19,821 33

Professional and technical services1

. . . . . . . . . . . 8,357.3 8,620.7 8,675.5 8,664.3 8,383.7 8,642.8 8,672.2 8,686.7 14.5

Legal services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,124.7 1,131.3 1,131.2 1,121.8 1,122.4 1,120.6 1,119.6 1,117.6 -2.0

Accounting and bookkeeping services. . . . . . 902.4 938.9 941.0 943.4 968.5 1,000.1 1,004.1 1,007.2 3.1

Architectural and engineering services. . . . . . 1,404.4 1,441.9 1,454.4 1,447.0 1,386.0 1,425.6 1,432.4 1,428.0 -4.4

Computer systems design and related

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,790.5 1,864.9 1,889.6 1,890.1 1,784.8 1,865.2 1,876.3 1,883.3 7.0

Management and technical consulting

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,256.9 1,315.0 1,324.8 1,326.7 1,252.3 1,312.2 1,316.1 1,322.2 6.1

Management of companies and enterprises. . . 2,186.7 2,230.4 2,241.6 2,242.7 2,178.2 2,215.9 2,229.2 2,231.9 2.7

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

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Change

from:

July2015 -

Aug.2015p

Professional and business services - Continued

Administrative and waste services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,771.1 9,034.2 8,999.8 9,059.5 8,617.7 8,890.6 8,886.7 8,902.5 15.8

Administrative and support services1. . . . . . . . 8,375.4 8,629.4 8,592.1 8,656.3 8,230.4 8,494.0 8,491.2 8,506.6 15.4

Employment services1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,486.7 3,610.7 3,575.6 3,634.7 3,444.5 3,590.1 3,579.5 3,586.9 7.4

Temporary help services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,819.9 2,921.8 2,883.3 2,945.0 2,787.8 2,906.2 2,897.0 2,907.7 10.7

Business support services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873.5 897.8 896.3 896.1 884.7 909.8 908.1 907.3 -0.8

Services to buildings and dwellings. . . . . . . 2,055.8 2,103.8 2,115.5 2,109.1 1,952.8 1,987.9 1,998.0 2,003.7 5.7

Waste management and remediation

services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395.7 404.8 407.7 403.2 387.3 396.6 395.5 395.9 0.4

Education and health services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,216 21,839 21,752 21,812 21,539 22,035 22,088 22,150 62

Educational services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,119.9 3,262.9 3,174.3 3,155.2 3,424.3 3,457.6 3,465.1 3,470.5 5.4

Health care and social assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,095.8 18,575.8 18,577.3 18,657.1 18,115.1 18,577.4 18,622.8 18,679.2 56.4

Health care3

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,745.5 15,113.9 15,162.2 15,204.7 14,720.9 15,099.9 15,137.4 15,177.9 40.5

Ambulatory health care services1. . . . . . . . . 6,677.2 6,921.0 6,933.0 6,956.5 6,670.5 6,914.3 6,926.0 6,947.1 21.1

Offices of physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,481.3 2,550.3 2,559.7 2,569.9 2,480.0 2,552.7 2,558.8 2,565.7 6.9

Outpatient care centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715.7 746.1 747.9 749.6 715.3 745.2 747.5 749.1 1.6

Home health care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,263.8 1,322.0 1,323.1 1,328.7 1,265.1 1,319.9 1,324.5 1,330.3 5.8

Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,790.8 4,884.7 4,912.6 4,927.6 4,786.7 4,885.3 4,905.2 4,921.1 15.9

Nursing and residential care facilities1

. . . . 3,277.5 3,308.2 3,316.6 3,320.6 3,263.7 3,300.3 3,306.2 3,309.7 3.5

Nursing care facilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,659.5 1,657.8 1,660.9 1,663.7 1,652.4 1,653.9 1,656.7 1,658.7 2.0

Social assistance1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,350.3 3,461.9 3,415.1 3,452.4 3,394.2 3,477.5 3,485.4 3,501.3 15.9

Child day care services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812.3 854.3 812.0 830.6 856.2 873.7 877.4 875.8 -1.6

Leisure and hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,383 15,780 15,876 15,848 14,746 15,122 15,152 15,185 33

Arts, entertainment, and recreation. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,367.4 2,435.8 2,490.3 2,439.0 2,102.6 2,155.0 2,151.9 2,159.5 7.6

Performing arts and spectator sports. . . . . . . . 474.1 496.5 498.8 505.4 449.1 471.3 469.2 474.3 5.1

Museums, historical sites, and similar

institutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155.1 158.8 161.7 158.3 145.3 146.8 147.3 147.3 0.0

Amusements, gambling, and recreation. . . . . 1,738.2 1,780.5 1,829.8 1,775.3 1,508.2 1,536.9 1,535.4 1,537.9 2.5

Accommodation and food services. . . . . . . . . . . . 13,015.5 13,343.9 13,385.2 13,409.4 12,643.3 12,967.2 13,000.1 13,025.6 25.5

Accommodation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,030.9 1,995.7 2,049.8 2,043.1 1,890.5 1,897.2 1,901.3 1,900.7 -0.6

Food services and drinking places. . . . . . . . . . 10,984.6 11,348.2 11,335.4 11,366.3 10,752.8 11,070.0 11,098.8 11,124.9 26.1

Other services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,625 5,706 5,723 5,687 5,585 5,639 5,650 5,646 -4

Repair and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,250.7 1,280.3 1,279.8 1,278.1 1,246.0 1,270.9 1,271.8 1,271.6 -0.2

Personal and laundry services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,380.6 1,408.6 1,405.2 1,397.4 1,373.3 1,391.8 1,393.1 1,391.0 -2.1

Membership associations and organizations. . . 2,993.8 3,017.4 3,037.8 3,011.2 2,965.5 2,975.9 2,985.1 2,983.5 -1.6

Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,768 21,865 20,698 20,885 21,865 21,941 21,962 21,995 33

Federal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,739.0 2,748.0 2,754.0 2,748.0 2,727.0 2,736.0 2,736.0 2,738.0 2.0

Federal, except U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,147.7 2,155.3 2,160.9 2,155.7 2,135.0 2,140.1 2,140.8 2,141.5 0.7

U.S. Postal Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591.7 592.5 593.4 592.5 591.6 595.8 595.3 596.5 1.2

State government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,757.0 4,839.0 4,756.0 4,794.0 5,042.0 5,085.0 5,083.0 5,092.0 9.0

State government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,092.5 2,174.7 2,094.8 2,137.2 2,391.8 2,440.8 2,437.6 2,446.3 8.7

State government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . 2,664.4 2,664.7 2,660.9 2,656.7 2,649.8 2,643.9 2,645.4 2,645.2 -0.2

Local government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,272.0 14,278.0 13,188.0 13,343.0 14,096.0 14,120.0 14,143.0 14,165.0 22.0

Local government education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,800.9 7,785.6 6,634.3 6,837.1 7,804.5 7,810.6 7,829.6 7,852.5 22.9

Local government, excluding education. . . . . . . . . . 6,471.1 6,492.8 6,553.4 6,505.5 6,291.9 6,309.4 6,313.7 6,312.2 -1.5

1

Includes other industries, not shown separately.

2

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

3

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

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private............................................................................. 34.5 34.5 34.5 34.6

Goods-producing.................................................................... 40.6 40.3 40.3 40.4

Mining and logging................................................................ 44.9 43.3 44.0 44.0

Construction....................................................................... 39.2 39.2 38.9 39.0

Manufacturing..................................................................... 40.9 40.7 40.8 40.8

Durable goods.................................................................. 41.5 41.0 41.1 41.1

Nondurable goods.............................................................. 40.1 40.0 40.3 40.3

Private service-providing............................................................ 33.3 33.4 33.4 33.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................. 34.5 34.6 34.6 34.7

Wholesale trade................................................................ 38.9 38.8 38.9 38.8

Retail trade...................................................................... 31.3 31.4 31.4 31.5

Transportation and warehousing............................................. 38.5 38.8 38.9 38.9

Utilities........................................................................... 42.4 42.2 42.6 42.7

Information......................................................................... 36.6 36.3 36.4 36.4

Financial activities................................................................ 37.2 37.7 37.8 37.7

Professional and business services............................................ 36.2 36.1 36.1 36.2

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

Leisure and hospitality........................................................... 26.2 26.3 26.3 26.2

Other services..................................................................... 31.8 31.8 31.8 31.9

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing........................................................................... 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.3

Durable goods....................................................................... 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.2

Nondurable goods................................................................... 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.4

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

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

sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Total private............................................... $24.55 $24.95 $25.01 $25.09 $846.98 $860.78 $862.85 $868.11

Goods-producing....................................... 25.77 26.09 26.21 26.29 1,046.26 1,051.43 1,056.26 1,062.12

Mining and logging.................................. 30.90 30.84 31.21 31.43 1,387.41 1,335.37 1,373.24 1,382.92

Construction.......................................... 26.73 27.38 27.42 27.49 1,047.82 1,073.30 1,066.64 1,072.11

Manufacturing........................................ 24.90 25.11 25.24 25.33 1,018.41 1,021.98 1,029.79 1,033.46

Durable goods.................................... 26.25 26.48 26.57 26.64 1,089.38 1,085.68 1,092.03 1,094.90

Nondurable goods................................ 22.49 22.69 22.92 23.03 901.85 907.60 923.68 928.11

Private service-providing.............................. 24.26 24.68 24.73 24.81 807.86 824.31 825.98 828.65

Trade, transportation, and utilities................. 21.47 21.74 21.82 21.87 740.72 752.20 754.97 758.89

Wholesale trade.................................. 28.21 28.68 28.70 28.86 1,097.37 1,112.78 1,116.43 1,119.77

Retail trade........................................ 17.08 17.41 17.48 17.51 534.60 546.67 548.87 551.57

Transportation and warehousing............... 22.88 22.73 22.80 22.80 880.88 881.92 886.92 886.92

Utilities............................................. 35.52 36.85 37.25 37.54 1,506.05 1,555.07 1,586.85 1,602.96

Information........................................... 34.16 34.75 34.70 35.12 1,250.26 1,261.43 1,263.08 1,278.37

Financial activities................................... 30.85 31.49 31.51 31.64 1,147.62 1,187.17 1,191.08 1,192.83

Professional and business services.............. 29.39 30.00 30.08 30.17 1,063.92 1,083.00 1,085.89 1,092.15

Education and health services..................... 24.78 25.18 25.22 25.26 812.78 825.90 829.74 831.05

Leisure and hospitality.............................. 13.99 14.29 14.34 14.40 366.54 375.83 377.14 377.28

Other services....................................... 22.05 22.38 22.34 22.44 701.19 711.68 710.41 715.84

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-4. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by

industry sector, seasonally adjusted

[2007=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours1

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls2

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

July

2015 -

Aug.

2015p

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

July

2015 -

Aug.

2015p

Total private..................................... 101.3 103.4 103.6 104.0 0.4 118.7 123.2 123.7 124.6 0.7

Goods-producing............................. 89.2 89.8 89.8 89.9 0.1 103.9 105.9 106.4 106.9 0.5

Mining and logging........................ 127.4 114.2 115.2 113.8 -1.2 158.1 141.3 144.3 143.6 -0.5

Construction................................ 83.4 86.2 85.6 85.9 0.4 96.8 102.5 102.0 102.6 0.6

Manufacturing.............................. 89.8 90.3 90.6 90.5 -0.1 104.0 105.5 106.4 106.6 0.2

Durable goods........................... 90.1 90.0 90.2 90.1 -0.1 105.0 105.9 106.4 106.6 0.2

Nondurable goods...................... 90.0 90.5 91.5 91.3 -0.2 102.7 104.2 106.5 106.7 0.2

Private service-providing.................... 104.7 107.3 107.5 107.7 0.2 123.1 128.4 128.9 129.5 0.5

Trade, transportation, and utilities....... 99.2 101.3 101.5 101.9 0.4 114.6 118.5 119.2 119.9 0.6

Wholesale trade......................... 99.1 100.1 100.5 100.3 -0.2 116.7 119.8 120.3 120.8 0.4

Retail trade.............................. 97.8 99.9 100.1 100.5 0.4 110.4 115.0 115.7 116.4 0.6

Transportation and warehousing...... 102.6 106.0 106.6 106.8 0.2 119.1 122.3 123.3 123.5 0.2

Utilities.................................... 101.8 102.6 104.1 104.6 0.5 119.5 124.9 128.1 129.7 1.2

Information................................. 92.0 92.5 92.8 92.6 -0.2 111.9 114.4 114.7 115.8 1.0

Financial activities......................... 97.4 100.3 100.9 100.8 -0.1 117.2 123.3 124.0 124.4 0.3

Professional and business services..... 109.2 112.1 112.4 112.9 0.4 130.0 136.3 136.9 137.9 0.7

Education and health services........... 113.4 116.0 116.6 117.0 0.3 132.4 137.6 138.6 139.2 0.4

Leisure and hospitality.................... 110.2 113.5 113.7 113.5 -0.2 124.4 130.8 131.5 131.9 0.3

Other services............................. 98.4 99.4 99.5 99.8 0.3 123.1 126.2 126.2 127.1 0.7

1 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2007

annual average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the

corresponding 2007 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly

earnings, average weekly hours, and employment.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-5. Employment of women on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted

Industry

Women employees (in thousands) Percent of all employees

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Total nonfarm............................................. 68,788 70,095 70,220 70,327 49.4 49.4 49.4 49.4

Total private............................................ 56,304 57,540 57,633 57,715 47.9 48.0 48.0 48.0

Goods-producing.................................... 4,221 4,287 4,295 4,284 21.9 21.9 22.0 21.9

Mining and logging............................... 120 115 115 113 13.3 13.7 13.8 13.7

Construction....................................... 783 807 812 810 12.7 12.7 12.7 12.7

Manufacturing..................................... 3,318 3,365 3,368 3,361 27.2 27.3 27.3 27.3

Durable goods.................................. 1,775 1,819 1,815 1,816 23.0 23.3 23.3 23.3

Nondurable goods............................. 1,543 1,546 1,553 1,545 34.3 34.1 34.1 34.0

Private service-providing........................... 52,083 53,253 53,338 53,431 53.0 53.1 53.0 53.0

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............. 10,707 10,913 10,927 10,936 40.5 40.5 40.5 40.5

Wholesale trade................................ 1,722.9 1,740.9 1,740.9 1,741.5 29.5 29.4 29.4 29.4

Retail trade..................................... 7,746.8 7,914.7 7,923.9 7,927.6 50.4 50.5 50.5 50.5

Transportation and warehousing............. 1,102.6 1,122.5 1,126.8 1,130.7 23.7 23.5 23.5 23.6

Utilities........................................... 134.3 134.9 135.2 136.2 24.2 24.0 23.9 24.1

Information......................................... 1,108 1,117 1,119 1,119 40.2 40.0 40.1 40.2

Financial activities................................ 4,579 4,643 4,648 4,653 57.3 57.1 57.0 57.0

Professional and business services............ 8,557 8,813 8,812 8,832 44.6 44.6 44.5 44.6

Education and health services.................. 16,548 16,964 17,005 17,058 76.8 77.0 77.0 77.0

Leisure and hospitality........................... 7,666 7,852 7,873 7,880 52.0 51.9 52.0 51.9

Other services..................................... 2,918 2,951 2,954 2,953 52.2 52.3 52.3 52.3

Government............................................. 12,484 12,555 12,587 12,612 57.1 57.2 57.3 57.3

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NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-6. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry

sector, seasonally adjusted1

[In thousands]

Industry Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Total private............................................................................... 97,118 98,919 99,057 99,154

Goods-producing....................................................................... 13,904 14,103 14,099 14,069

Mining and logging.................................................................. 661 615 608 602

Construction.......................................................................... 4,655 4,804 4,806 4,812

Manufacturing........................................................................ 8,588 8,684 8,685 8,655

Durable goods..................................................................... 5,316 5,378 5,365 5,348

Nondurable goods................................................................ 3,272 3,306 3,320 3,307

Private service-providing.............................................................. 83,214 84,816 84,958 85,085

Trade, transportation, and utilities................................................. 22,332 22,652 22,688 22,717

Wholesale trade................................................................... 4,723.3 4,743.3 4,746.5 4,744.7

Retail trade........................................................................ 13,128.6 13,324.8 13,344.2 13,363.1

Transportation and warehousing................................................ 4,031.7 4,132.7 4,143.4 4,153.1

Utilities.............................................................................. 448.8 451.0 453.7 456.3

Information............................................................................ 2,239 2,260 2,262 2,260

Financial activities................................................................... 6,177 6,283 6,291 6,302

Professional and business services............................................... 15,870 16,226 16,243 16,254

Education and health services..................................................... 18,925 19,352 19,398 19,445

Leisure and hospitality.............................................................. 13,021 13,349 13,381 13,412

Other services........................................................................ 4,650 4,694 4,695 4,695

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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NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-7. Average weekly hours and overtime of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

AVERAGE WEEKLY HOURS

Total private............................................................................. 33.7 33.7 33.7 33.7

Goods-producing.................................................................... 41.5 41.3 41.2 41.2

Mining and logging................................................................ 47.7 45.2 46.1 45.4

Construction....................................................................... 39.8 39.8 39.4 39.5

Manufacturing..................................................................... 42.0 41.8 41.8 41.8

Durable goods.................................................................. 42.4 42.1 42.1 42.1

Nondurable goods.............................................................. 41.2 41.2 41.3 41.3

Private service-providing............................................................ 32.4 32.4 32.4 32.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities.............................................. 33.6 33.6 33.6 33.6

Wholesale trade................................................................ 38.6 38.6 38.6 38.5

Retail trade...................................................................... 30.0 30.0 30.0 30.0

Transportation and warehousing............................................. 38.4 38.5 38.7 38.8

Utilities........................................................................... 42.1 41.9 42.3 42.4

Information......................................................................... 35.9 35.7 35.8 35.8

Financial activities................................................................ 36.7 37.0 37.1 37.1

Professional and business services............................................ 35.6 35.4 35.4 35.5

Education and health services.................................................. 32.0 32.1 32.1 32.1

Leisure and hospitality........................................................... 25.2 25.1 25.1 25.0

Other services..................................................................... 30.7 30.6 30.7 30.7

AVERAGE OVERTIME HOURS

Manufacturing........................................................................... 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.3

Durable goods....................................................................... 4.6 4.4 4.3 4.3

Nondurable goods................................................................... 4.2 4.4 4.4 4.3

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

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

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NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-8. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees on private

nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

Industry

Average hourly earnings Average weekly earnings

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Total private............................................... $20.68 $20.98 $21.02 $21.07 $696.92 $707.03 $708.37 $710.06

Goods-producing....................................... 21.66 21.96 21.96 22.00 898.89 906.95 904.75 906.40

Mining and logging.................................. 27.02 26.37 26.39 26.56 1,288.85 1,191.92 1,216.58 1,205.82

Construction.......................................... 24.68 25.27 25.19 25.27 982.26 1,005.75 992.49 998.17

Manufacturing........................................ 19.63 19.88 19.93 19.93 824.46 830.98 833.07 833.07

Durable goods.................................... 20.73 20.96 20.99 20.98 878.95 882.42 883.68 883.26

Nondurable goods................................ 17.80 18.09 18.19 18.20 733.36 745.31 751.25 751.66

Private service-providing.............................. 20.47 20.78 20.82 20.88 663.23 673.27 674.57 676.51

Trade, transportation, and utilities................. 18.36 18.59 18.65 18.70 616.90 624.62 626.64 628.32

Wholesale trade.................................. 23.35 23.55 23.59 23.74 901.31 909.03 910.57 913.99

Retail trade........................................ 14.48 14.77 14.82 14.85 434.40 443.10 444.60 445.50

Transportation and warehousing............... 20.59 20.67 20.73 20.70 790.66 795.80 802.25 803.16

Utilities............................................. 32.83 33.92 34.15 34.20 1,382.14 1,421.25 1,444.55 1,450.08

Information........................................... 28.74 28.86 28.92 29.07 1,031.77 1,030.30 1,035.34 1,040.71

Financial activities................................... 24.86 25.30 25.38 25.45 912.36 936.10 941.60 944.20

Professional and business services.............. 24.35 24.70 24.76 24.81 866.86 874.38 876.50 880.76

Education and health services..................... 21.67 22.06 22.07 22.11 693.44 708.13 708.45 709.73

Leisure and hospitality.............................. 12.14 12.34 12.39 12.44 305.93 309.73 310.99 311.00

Other services....................................... 18.58 18.90 18.89 18.98 570.41 578.34 579.92 582.69

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

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.
ESTABLISHMENT DATA

Table B-9. Indexes of aggregate weekly hours and payrolls for production and nonsupervisory employees on

private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted1

[2002=100]

Industry

Index of aggregate weekly hours2

Index of aggregate weekly payrolls3

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

July

2015 -

Aug.

2015p

Aug.

2014

June

2015

July

2015p

Aug.

2015p

Percent

change

from:

July

2015 -

Aug.

2015p

Total private..................................... 109.1 111.1 111.2 111.4 0.2 150.7 155.7 156.3 156.8 0.3

Goods-producing............................. 88.2 89.0 88.8 88.6 -0.2 117.0 119.7 119.4 119.3 -0.1

Mining and logging........................ 167.6 147.7 148.9 145.2 -2.5 263.3 226.6 228.6 224.3 -1.9

Construction................................ 92.8 95.7 94.8 95.2 0.4 123.6 130.6 129.0 129.9 0.7

Manufacturing.............................. 82.8 83.3 83.3 83.0 -0.4 106.3 108.3 108.6 108.2 -0.4

Durable goods........................... 84.7 85.1 84.9 84.6 -0.4 109.6 111.3 111.2 110.8 -0.4

Nondurable goods...................... 79.4 80.3 80.8 80.5 -0.4 99.9 102.6 103.8 103.5 -0.3

Private service-providing.................... 114.9 117.1 117.3 117.4 0.1 161.2 166.8 167.4 168.1 0.4

Trade, transportation, and utilities....... 104.6 106.1 106.3 106.4 0.1 137.0 140.7 141.4 141.9 0.4

Wholesale trade......................... 107.4 107.8 107.9 107.6 -0.3 147.7 149.6 149.9 150.4 0.3

Retail trade.............................. 99.7 101.2 101.3 101.5 0.2 123.7 128.1 128.7 129.2 0.4

Transportation and warehousing...... 116.5 119.8 120.7 121.3 0.5 152.2 157.0 158.7 159.3 0.4

Utilities.................................... 96.6 96.6 98.1 98.9 0.8 132.4 136.8 139.9 141.2 0.9

Information................................. 91.7 92.1 92.4 92.3 -0.1 130.5 131.6 132.3 132.9 0.5

Financial activities......................... 106.7 109.4 109.9 110.1 0.2 163.2 170.3 171.6 172.3 0.4

Professional and business services..... 126.6 128.7 128.9 129.3 0.3 183.5 189.2 189.9 190.9 0.5

Education and health services........... 129.3 132.6 132.9 133.2 0.2 184.8 193.0 193.5 194.3 0.4

Leisure and hospitality.................... 120.2 122.7 123.0 122.8 -0.2 165.7 172.0 173.1 173.5 0.2

Other services............................. 100.1 100.7 101.1 101.1 0.0 135.5 138.7 139.1 139.8 0.5

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

employees in the service-providing industries. These groups account for approximately four-fifths of the total employment on private nonfarm

payrolls.

2 The indexes of aggregate weekly hours are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate hours by the corresponding 2002

annual average aggregate hours. Aggregate hours estimates are the product of estimates of average weekly hours and employment.

3 The indexes of aggregate weekly payrolls are calculated by dividing the current month’s estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls by the

corresponding 2002 annual average aggregate weekly payrolls. Aggregate payrolls estimates are the product of estimates of average hourly

earnings, average weekly hours, and employment.

p Preliminary

NOTE: Data have been revised to reflect March 2014 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.