BLS CES / monthly private-industry context
Employment & Earnings Observatory
Compare private-industry payroll employment, weekly hours, and nominal hourly earnings. Preliminary estimates and industry composition matter; these series do not directly measure labor-market power.
- Panel
- 33 x 115
- series x monthly slots
- Coverage
- Jan 2017 - Jul 2026
- seasonally adjusted
- Observed
- 3,795
- 66 preliminary cells
- Sector bridges
- 17
- classification context only
- Employment
- 135.6M
- Jul 2026 / preliminary
- Weekly hours
- 34.3h
- Jul 2026 / preliminary
- Hourly earnings
- $37.62
- Jul 2026 / preliminary
Comparison passport
Private-industry payrolls
United States / monthly / seasonally adjusted- Industries
- 1
- same monthly frame
- Visible months
- 60
- Aug 2021 - Jul 2026
- Measure cells
- 180
- three published units
- Source states
- 6
- 0 gaps / preliminary cells
Classification bridges
Payroll measures beside sector structure
The CES mining and logging supersector is broader than the Economic Census mining link shown here and is not a labor-market definition.
Construction payroll jobs, hours, and earnings are broad national industry context, not evidence about contractor concentration, local hiring options, or worker bargaining power.
Manufacturing spans NAICS 31-33 nationally and does not define a product market, occupation, commuting zone, or employer market.
Trade, transportation, and utilities combines several sectors. Its payroll measures are not interchangeable with any linked sector or legal market.
Information-sector payroll measures are national industry context and do not identify digital, media, telecommunications, or local labor-market boundaries.
Financial activities combines finance and insurance with real estate. It is not equivalent to banking, insurance, or any narrower employer market.
Professional and business services combines multiple industries nationally and does not measure occupation-specific or local employer competition.
Private education and health services combines distinct industries. Its averages do not define hospital, school, occupation, or commuting-zone labor markets.
Leisure and hospitality combines arts, accommodation, and food services nationally. It is not a local service or labor-market definition.
Other services is a broad residual supersector and must not be interpreted as one coherent employer or product market.
Industry averages are not monopsony evidence.CES employment, hours, and earnings describe national payroll jobs and establishment averages in broad private-industry groups. They do not measure unique workers, vacancies, employer concentration, monopsony power, bargaining power, job quality, a local or occupational labor market, a legal antitrust market, or the competitive cause of a change.Inspect relationship contract
Interpretation standard
Three measures, three units
All employees
Thousands of payroll jobs. This is not a count of unique people.
Average weekly hours
Average weekly hours of all employees within the published private-industry scope.
Average hourly earnings
Average hourly earnings of all employees in current dollars, before inflation adjustment.