BLS Wage Category Table

Employment Situation Summary Table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted

ESTABLISHMENT DATA Summary table B. Establishment data, seasonally adjusted
Category	Aug. 2018	June 2019	July 2019(p)	Aug. 2019(p)
EMPLOYMENT BY SELECTED INDUSTRY (Over-the-month change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	282	178	159	130
Total private	246	161	131	96
Goods-producing	50	27	-2	12
Mining and logging	8	-2	-4	-5
Construction	34	19	-2	14
Manufacturing	8	10	4	3
Durable goods(1)	12	9	2	0
Motor vehicles and parts	2.3	-2.0	-1.5	0.1
Nondurable goods	-4	1	2	3
Private service-providing	196	134	133	84
Wholesale trade	19.4	-1.1	7.3	2.9
Retail trade	5.9	-12.0	-5.1	-11.1
Transportation and warehousing	23.8	20.2	-0.3	-0.5
Utilities	0.6	1.2	-0.5	-1.4
Information	-6	13	0	0
Financial activities	11	3	20	15
Professional and business services(1)	58	43	36	37
Temporary help services	12.9	-2.9	-7.9	15.4
Education and health services(1)	60	48	71	32
Health care and social assistance	48.3	39.9	47.0	36.8
Leisure and hospitality	17	4	-3	12
Other services	6	15	7	-1
Government	36	17	28	34
(3-month average change, in thousands)
Total nonfarm	241	152	133	156
Total private	218	146	124	129
WOMEN AND PRODUCTION AND NONSUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES AS A PERCENT OF ALL EMPLOYEES(2)
Total nonfarm women employees	49.7	49.8	49.9	49.9
Total private women employees	48.3	48.5	48.5	48.5
Total private production and nonsupervisory employees	82.4	82.3	82.3	82.3
HOURS AND EARNINGS ALL EMPLOYEES
Total private
Average weekly hours	34.5	34.4	34.3	34.4
Average hourly earnings	$27.23	$27.91	$28.00	$28.11
Average weekly earnings	$939.44	$960.10	$960.40	$966.98
Index of aggregate weekly hours (2007=100)(3)	110.0	111.1	110.9	111.3
Over-the-month percent change	0.3	0.1	-0.2	0.4
Index of aggregate weekly payrolls (2007=100)(4)	143.1	148.3	148.5	149.6
Over-the-month percent change	0.6	0.5	0.1	0.7
DIFFUSION INDEX (Over 1-month span)(5)
Total private (258 industries)	66.1	59.9	57.8	53.5
Manufacturing (76 industries)	60.5	59.9	53.9	51.3
Footnotes (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 2018 benchmark levels and updated seasonal adjustment factors.

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Last Modified Date: September 06, 2019

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