Current Employment Statistics - CES (National)

Current CES Economic News Releases

• Current Employment Statistics Highlights, Monthly -- a package of charts and analysis featuring the latest industry employment numbers (PDF)
• Real Earnings (HTML) (PDF)
• Strike Report
• Subscribe to the BLS News Service-- receive The Employment Situation and Real Earnings news releases by e-mail.
• Upcoming Release Dates through 2013.

Archived

• Archived Employment Situation Releases (1994 forward)
• Archived Commissioners Statements on the Employment Situation (1994 forward)
• Archived Real Earnings Releases (1994 forward)

ANALYTICAL TABLES

• TABLE 1. Normal seasonal movements, estimated employment change and test of significance, in thousands
• TABLE 2. Detailed industry employment ranked by change and prior 3-month average change, in thousands, seasonally adjusted

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BENCHMARK INFORMATION

• Benchmark Article (HTML) (PDF)
  • Comparison of All Employees, seasonally adjusted
  • Comparison of All Employees, not seasonally adjusted

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Tables from Employment and Earnings

Monthly Establishment Data--National

• Summary table B. Employment, hours, and earnings, seasonally adjusted
• B-1a. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail, seasonally adjusted

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Databases

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Employment, Hours, and Earnings - National (Current Employment Statistics - CES)

CES Data Access Tips

Historical data for series in the selected news releases from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National)

• Access to historical data for the 'B' tables of the Employment Situation News Release

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• Series Report — Already know the series identifier for the statistic you want? Use this shortcut to retrieve your data.

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• CES NAICS Overview
• BLS Handbook of Methods Chapter 2: Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Establishment Survey (HTML) (PDF)
• CES Technical Notes
  • The Sample
  • Data Collection
  • Classification
  • Available Data
  • Estimation Methods
  • Revisions
  • Table of Figures
• Employment Revisions and Sample Collection Rates, detailed tables and technical information
• CES Birth/Death Tables and Model Information
• UPDATED Seasonal Adjustment Files and Documentation --Technical details and related research on the CES implementation of concurrent seasonal adjustment, including input files used during the latest production run.
• Effects of Hurricane Katrina on BLS Data Collection and Estimation
• CES Report Forms for Establishments
• Related Research

• UPDATED Current Employment Statistics Highlights, Monthly (PDF)--a package of charts and analysis featuring the latest industry employment numbers
  • Archived Current Employment Statistics Highlights (August 2004 forward)
• Articles by CES staff
  • Current Employment Statistics seasonal adjustment and the 2007-2009 recession (PDF 874KB)
  • Payroll employment in 2011: a visual essay (PDF 665KB)
  • Employment loss and the 2007–09 recession: an overview (PDF 471KB)
  • Employment in health care: a crutch for the ailing economy during the 2007–09 recession (PDF 625KB)
  • Mining employment trends of 2007–09: a question of prices (PDF 586KB)
  • Construction employment peaks before the recession and falls sharply throughout it(PDF 477KB)
  • Manufacturing employment hard hit during the 2007–09 recession (PDF 544KB)
  • Professional and business services: employment trends in the 2007–09 (PDF 1MB)
  • Employment in financial activities: double billed by housing and financial crises (PDF 3MB)
  • Deep drop in retail trade employment during the 2007–09 recession (PDF 1MB)
  • Employment in leisure and hospitality departs from historical trends during 2007–09 recession (PDF 1MB)
  • The decline in work hours during the 2007–09 recession (PDF 607K)
  • Payroll employment turns the corner in 2010 (PDF 753K)
  • The 2010 Census: the impact of counting the Nation (PDF 3,320K)
  • New all-employee hours and earnings from the CES survey (PDF)

People Are Asking...

1. Where can I find CES data on the automotive industry?
2. How can I find out about the methods and measurement issues associated with the monthly Employment Situation report?
3. Where can I find out about revisions to payroll employment numbers?
4. What is NAICS?
5. How do reservists impact CES?
6. What is the establishment payroll survey?
7. What is the CES definition of employment?
8. Can I get occupational data from the CES survey?
9. Are part time workers counted in your survey?
10. Do hours and earnings statistics include overtime?
11. What kind of hours and earnings data are available?
12. Are workers in Puerto Rico included in national CES estimates?

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the establishment payroll survey?
2. What is the CES definition of employment?
3. Are part time workers counted in your survey?
4. Who is included in data for production or nonsupervisory workers?
5. How do reservists impact CES?
6. Are workers in Puerto Rico included in national CES estimates?
7. Are undocumented immigrants counted in the surveys?
8. Why are there two monthly measures of employment?
9. Does the establishment survey sample include small firms?
10. Has the establishment survey understated employment growth because it excludes the self-employed?

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• IMPORTANT CES Benchmark Announcement
• UPDATED Notice of Changes with the Release of Data on February 1, 2013
• UPDATED Estimates of women employees in three retail trade industries were updated with the release on February 1, 2013
• Experimental Size Class Employment, Hours, and Earnings Series from the Current Employment Statistics Survey
• Redesigned CES Tables for Employment and Earnings Online
• Effects of the Gulf Oil Spill on CES Employment Estimates
• Employment from the BLS household and payroll surveys: summary of recent trends (PDF)

Other BLS Programs

• Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the CES survey (State and Area) --monthly data on employment, hours, and earnings by industry and geographic area.
• Local Area Unemployment Statistics --monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence.
• Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages --comprehensive employment and wage data by industry and geographic area for workers covered by State Unemployment Insurance laws.
• Business Employment Dynamics--quarterly data series of job gains and job losses statistics, generated from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program.
• Occupational Employment Statistics--data on employment and wages for over 800 occupations and for about 400 nonfarm industries for the nation, plus occupational data for States and metropolitan areas.
• Sources of BLS Employment Data

Other Useful Links

• Bureau of the Census
• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

Current Employment Statistics Contacts

Staff members of the Current Employment Statistics are available Monday through Friday 8:30 AM TO 4:30 PM EASTERN TIME for your assistance.

Telephone: (202) 691-6555
Fax: (202) 691-6641
If you have specific CES data question, please contact us via e-mail.

Written inquiries should be directed to:

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Division of Current Employment Statistics
Suite 4860
2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20212-0001