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Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National) Home Page is embargoed until 8:30 A.M. (EST),Media contact: (202) 691-5902 Friday, March 7, 2008. THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: FEBRUARY 2008 Nonfarm payroll employment edged down in February (-63,000), and theunemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 4.8 percent, the Bureau ofLabor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Employmentfell in manufacturing, construction, and retail trade. Job growth continuedin health care and in food services. Average hourly earnings rose by 5 cents,or 0.3 percent, over the month.Unemployment (Household Survey Data) The number of unemployed persons (7.4 million) and the unemployment rate(4.8 percent) were essentially unchanged in February. Over the month, theunemployment rates for adult men (4.3 percent), adult women (4.2 percent),teenagers (16.6 percent), whites (4.3 percent), and Hispanics (6.2 percent)showed little or no change. The jobless rate for blacks fell to 8.3 percent,in line with the average rate for 2007. The unemployment rate for Asians was3.0 percent, not seasonally adjusted. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data) Both the civilian labor force, at 153.4 million, and the labor force par-ticipation rate, at 65.9 percent, declined in February. Total employment (146.0 million) and the employment-population ratio (62.7 percent) were littlechanged over the month. (See table A-1.)Table A. Major indicators of labor market activity, seasonally adjusted (Numbers in thousands) __________________________________________________ _____________________________ | | | | Quarterly | | | averages | Monthly data | Jan.- Category |_________________|__________________________| Feb. | | | | | | change | III | IV | Dec. | Jan. | Feb. | | 2007 | 2007 | 2007 | 2008 | 2008 | _________________________|________|________|______ __|________|________|________ | HOUSEHOLD DATA | Labor force status |_________________________________________________ ____ | | | | | | Civilian labor force ....| 153,191| 153,667| 153,866| 153,824| 153,374| -450 Employment ............| 146,019| 146,291| 146,211| 146,248| 145,993| -255 Unemployment ..........| 7,172| 7,375| 7,655| 7,576| 7,381| -195Not in labor force ......| 79,019| 79,270| 79,290| 78,792| 79,436| 644 |________|________|________|________|________|____ ____ | | Unemployment rates |_________________________________________________ ____ | | | | | | All workers .............| 4.7| 4.8| 5.0| 4.9| 4.8| -0.1 Adult men .............| 4.2| 4.3| 4.4| 4.4| 4.3| -.1 Adult women ...........| 4.1| 4.2| 4.4| 4.2| 4.2| .0 Teenagers .............| 15.8| 16.4| 17.1| 18.0| 16.6| -1.4 White .................| 4.2| 4.3| 4.4| 4.4| 4.3| -.1 Black or African | | | | | | American ............| 8.0| 8.6| 9.0| 9.2| 8.3| -.9 Hispanic or Latino | | | | | | ethnicity ...........| 5.7| 5.9| 6.3| 6.3| 6.2| -.1 |________|________|________|________|________|____ ____ | ESTABLISHMENT DATA | Employment |_________________________________________________ ____ | | | | | | Nonfarm employment.......| 137,758| 138,031| 138,078|p138,056|p137,993| p-63 Goods-producing (1)....| 22,185| 22,042| 21,976| p21,922| p21,833| p-89 Construction ........| 7,609| 7,521| 7,465| p7,440| p7,401| p-39 Manufacturing .......| 13,850| 13,788| 13,772| p13,741| p13,689| p-52 Service-providing (1)..| 115,573| 115,989| 116,102|p116,134|p116,160| p26 Retail trade (2)...| 15,493| 15,490| 15,488| p15,488| p15,454| p-34 Professional and | | | | | | business services .| 17,979| 18,093| 18,131| p18,122| p18,102| p-20 Education and health | | | | | | services ..........| 18,411| 18,527| 18,568| p18,617| p18,647| p30 Leisure and | | | | | | hospitality .......| 13,507| 13,622| 13,635| p13,646| p13,667| p21 Government ..........| 22,203| 22,291| 22,333| p22,337| p22,375| p38 |________|________|________|________|________|____ ____ | | Hours of work (3) |_________________________________________________ ____ | | | | | | Total private ...........| 33.8| 33.8| 33.8| p33.7| p33.7| p0.0 Manufacturing .........| 41.4| 41.2| 41.1| p41.1| p41.1| p.0 Overtime ............| 4.2| 4.1| 4.0| p4.0| p4.0| p.0 |________|________|________|________|________|____ ____ | | Indexes of aggregate weekly hours (2002=100)(3) |_________________________________________________ ____ | | | | | | Total private ...........| 107.5| 107.7| 107.8| p107.4| p107.3| p-0.1 |________|________|________|________|________|____ ____ | | Earnings (3) |_________________________________________________ ____Average hourly earnings, | | | | | | total private .........| $17.52| $17.64| $17.70| p$17.75| p$17.80| p$0.05Average weekly earnings, | | | | | | total private .........| 592.07| 596.34| 598.26| p598.18| p599.86| p1.68_________________________|________|________|_ _______|________|________|________ 1 Includes other industries, not shown separately. 2 Quarterly averages and the over-the-month change are calculated using unrounded data. 3 Data relate to private production and nonsupervisory workers. p = preliminary. - 2 - The number of persons who worked part time for economic reasons, at 4.9 mil-lion in February, was little changed over the month but was up by 637,000 overthe past 12 months. This category includes persons who indicated that theywould like to work full time but were working part time because their hours hadbeen cut back or they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See table A-5.)Persons Not in the Labor Force (Household Survey Data) About 1.6 million persons (not seasonally adjusted) were marginally attachedto the labor force in February. These individuals wanted and were available forwork and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were notcounted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks pre-ceding the survey. Among the marginally attached, there were 396,000 discouragedworkers in February, about the same as a year earlier. Discouraged workers werenot currently looking for work specifically because they believed no jobs wereavailable for them. The other 1.2 million persons marginally attached to thelabor force in February had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding thesurvey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities. (Seetable A-13.)Industry Payroll Employment (Establishment Survey Data) Total nonfarm payroll employment edged down (-63,000) in February, with pri-vate-sector employment declining by 101,000. Nonfarm payroll employment waslittle changed in December (41,000) and January (-22,000). Over the month, joblosses occurred in manufacturing, construction, and retail trade. Health careand food services continued to add jobs. (See table B-1.) Manufacturing employment continued to decline in February (-52,000), bringinglosses over the past 12 months to 299,000. Most of the February decline was con-centrated in durable goods manufacturing, as motor vehicles and parts (-13,000),furniture and related products (-6,000), and wood products (-5,000) lost jobs. Within nondurable goods, employment fell in printing and related support activi-ties (-5,000). Employment in construction decreased by 39,000 in February, and has fallenby 331,000 since its most recent peak in September 2006. During this period,residential specialty trades lost 209,000 jobs, while residential building lost137,000 jobs. In February, employment in retail trade declined by 34,000. Job losses occur-red in department stores (-11,000), building material and garden supply stores(-7,000), and automobile dealers (-6,000). Wholesale trade employment edged downin February, with the durable goods component declining by 9,000. Professional and business services employment was little changed for the secondmonth in a row; job gains had averaged 26,000 per month in 2007. In February, tem-porary help services lost 28,000 jobs; employment in the industry has declined by117,000 since the most recent peak in December 2006. In financial activities, credit intermediation employment continued to declineand has fallen by 116,000 since a peak in October 2006. In February, real estateemployment also continued to trend down; since June 2006, the industry has lost34,000 jobs. - 3 - Health care employment continued to grow in February (36,000). Within healthcare, over-the-month job gains occurred in hospitals (17,000) and in ambulatoryhealth care services (15,000), which includes offices of physicians. Over thepast 12 months, health care has added 360,000 jobs. Food services employment continued to trend upward in February. From Novemberthrough February, food services added an average of 12,000 jobs per month, comparedwith an average gain of 28,000 jobs for the 12-month period ending in October.Weekly Hours (Establishment Survey Data) In February, the average workweek for production and nonsupervisory workers onprivate nonfarm payrolls held at 33.7 hours, seasonally adjusted. Both the manu-facturing workweek, at 41.1 hours, and factory overtime, at 4.0 hours, were un-changed over the month. (See table B-2.) The index of aggregate weekly hours of production and nonsupervisory workerson nonfarm payrolls declined by 0.1 percent in February to 107.3 (2002=100). Themanufacturing index fell by 0.5 percent to 93.1. (See table B-5.)Hourly and Weekly Earnings (Establishment Survey Data) In February, average hourly earnings of production and nonsupervisory workerson private nonfarm payrolls rose by 5 cents, or 0.3 percent, to $17.80, season-ally adjusted. This followed gains of 6 cents in December and 5 cents in January.Average weekly earnings rose by 0.3 percent in February to $599.86. Over the past12 months, both average hourly earnings and weekly earnings rose by 3.7 percent.(See table B-3.) ______________________________ The Employment Situation for March 2008 is scheduled to be released on Friday, April 4, at 8:30 A.M. (EDT).
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