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Nonfarm payroll employment edged up in March (+88,000). Employment grew in professional and business services and in health care but declined in retail trade.
Month | Employment change |
---|---|
Mar 2011 | 205,000 |
Apr 2011 | 304,000 |
May 2011 | 115,000 |
Jun 2011 | 209,000 |
Jul 2011 | 78,000 |
Aug 2011 | 132,000 |
Sep 2011 | 225,000 |
Oct 2011 | 166,000 |
Nov 2011 | 174,000 |
Dec 2011 | 230,000 |
Jan 2012 | 311,000 |
Feb 2012 | 271,000 |
Mar 2012 | 205,000 |
Apr 2012 | 112,000 |
May 2012 | 125,000 |
Jun 2012 | 87,000 |
Jul 2012 | 153,000 |
Aug 2012 | 165,000 |
Sep 2012 | 138,000 |
Oct 2012 | 160,000 |
Nov 2012 | 247,000 |
Dec 2012 | 219,000 |
Jan 2013 | 148,000 |
Feb 2013 | 268,000 (p) |
Mar 2013 | 88,000 (p) |
Footnotes: |
Professional and business services added 51,000 jobs in March. Over the past 12 months, employment in this industry has grown by 533,000.
Industry | Employment change (p) |
---|---|
Total nonfarm | 88,000 |
Professional and business services | 51,000 |
Education and health services | 44,000 |
Construction | 18,000 |
Leisure and hospitality | 17,000 |
State government | 9,000 |
Information | 5,000 |
Mining and logging | 1,000 |
Financial activities | -2,000 |
Local government | -2,000 |
Manufacturing | -3,000 |
Other services | -9,000 |
Federal government | -14,000 |
Trade, transportation, and utilities | -27,000 |
Footnotes: |
Construction employment continued to trend up in March (+18,000). Job growth in this industry picked up this past fall; since September, the industry has added 169,000 jobs.
Within government, U.S. Postal Service employment fell by 12,000 in March. Employment in other major industries, including mining, manufacturing, wholesale trade, transportation and warehousing, information, financial activities, state government, and local government, showed little change over the month.
These data are from the Current Employment Statistics program and are seasonally adjusted. Employment data for the most recent two months are preliminary. To learn more, see "The Employment Situation — March 2013," (HTML) (PDF) news release USDL-13-0581.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Employment in March 2013 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2013/ted_20130408.htm (visited September 06, 2024).