Full text of Employment and Payrolls : December 1932
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
W. N. DOAK, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
CHARLES E. BALDWIN, Acting Commissioner
TREND OF EMPLOYMENT
DECEMBER, 1932
By Industries:
Page
Summary........................................................................
1
Manufacturing Industries............................................. 2-12
Nonmanufacturing Industries . ................................13-15
Anthracite and Bituminous Coal Mining
Metalliferous Mining
Quarrying and Nonmetallic Mining
Crude Petroleum Producing
Public Utilities—
Telephone and Telegraph
Power and Light
Electric Railroads
Wholesale and Retail Trade
Hotels
Canning and Preserving
Laundries
Dyeing and Cleaning
Banks, Brokerage, Insurance, and Real Estate . . .
1
Building Construction..................................................18-19
Class I Steam R ailroad s............................................. 27-28
By S t a t e s ............................................................................ 20-26
By C i t i e s ............................................................................
27
Wage C h a n ges....................................................................28-31
Average hours and average hourly e a r n in g s .................. 15-18
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
W ASHINGTON: 1933
TREND OF EMPLOYMENT
Summary for December, 1932
M PLO YM EN T decreased 0.4 per cent in December, 1932, as
coriipared with November, 1932, and pay-roll totals decreased
0.9 per cent. These figures are based on the pay rolls ending nearest
the 15th of the month.
The industrial groups surveyed, the number of establishments
reporting in each group, the number of employees covered, and the
pay rolls for one week, for both November and December, 1932,
together w4th the per cents of change in December are shown in the
following tabulation:
E
SU M M ARY OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND EARNINGS, NOVEM BER AND DE C E M B E R , 1932
Industrial groups
M an u factu rin g ..................... .
Coal m i n i n g ..._____________
Anthracite............. ..............
Bituminous ____________
M etalliferous m in in g _______
Q uarrying and nonm etaliic
m in in g ...................................
Crude petroleum p roducing.
P ublic utilities...................... .
Telephone and telegraph__
Power and light...................
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and main
tenance..............................
Trade__________ _______ _____
Wholesale________________
Retail____ _______________
H otels______________________
C an ning and preserving-----L aundries____________ ____ _
Dyeing and cleanin g_______
B uilding c o n stru ctio n ______
B anks, brokerage, in su r
ance, and real estate _____
Amount of pay roll
Employment
(1 week)
Estab
Per
Per
lish
cent of
cent of
ments November, December, change November, December, change
1932
1932
1932
1932
18,044
1,362
160
1,202
275
2,676,652
259,211
85,685
173, 526
20,965
631
276
12,328
8,302
3,523
22,687
21,752
617,319
272,000
211, 587
19,411
22,019
612,597
269, 598
209,993
-14.4
+1.2
-.8
-.9
-.8
338,712
627,544
16,974,666
7,163,557
6,144,666
275,304
616,803
16,902,929
7,082, 328
6,140,082
-18.7
-1 .7
-.4
-1 .1
-. 1
503
17,552
•2,822
14, 730
2,410
902
965
337
10,090
133, 732
425,316
73,643
351,673
132,756
45,068
57,641
10,651
79,163
133,006
482,715
73,076
409, 639
130,902
30,121
57,407
10,270
66,836
-.5
+13.5
-.8
+16. 5
-1 .4
-33.2
-.4
-3 .6
-15.6
3,666,443
8,992,593
1,984,926
7,007,667
2 1, 813,945
505,989
876,198
180,848
1,908,033
3,680, 519
9,676,417
1,963,142
7, 713,275
2 1,784,651
377,458
869,562
167,440
1,513,092
+ .4
+7.6
-1 ,1
+10.1
-1 .6
-25.4
-.8
-7 .4
-20.7
2,636,280 i -1 .9 $45,726,474 $44,795,448
260,334
+ .4
4,729,475
4,545,173
85, 284
-.5
2,027, 786
2,235, 194
175,050
+ .9
2, 517, 387
2,494, 281
21,838
397,881
397,624
+4.2
i -2 .3
+4.1
+10.2
-.9
-.1
3,260
127,540
126,971
-.4
4,474,416
4,440,538
-.8
T o ta l__________________ 68,432
4,496,721
4,477,701
-.4
87,362,472
86,546,741
-.a
1 Weighted per cent of change for the combined 89 manufacturing industries, wherein the proper allow
ance is made for the relative importance of the several industries so that the figures represent all estab
lishments of the country in the 89 industries surveyed; the remaining per cents of change, including total,
are unweighted.
2 The amount of pay roll given represents cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and
tips can not be computed.
Data are not yet available concerning railroad employment for
December, 1932. (See section “ Class I steam railroads” for latest
figures reported.)
Per capita weekly earnings in December, 1932, for each of the 17
industrial groups included in the bureau’s monthly trend-of-employment survey, together with the per cents of change in December, 1932,
(1)
2
as compared with November, 1932, and December, 1931, are given
in the table following. These per capita weekly earnings must not
be confused with full-time weekly rates of wages; they are per capita
weekly earnings computed by dividing the total amount of pay roll
for the week by the total number of employees (part-time as well as
full-time workers).
PER CAPITA W EE K LY EARNINGS IN 17 IN DU STRIAL GROUPS IN D E C E M B E R , 1932,
AN D COM PARISON W ITH N O V E M BE R , 1932, AND DE C E M B E R , 1931
Manufacturing____________ ____ __________________________ ____
Coal mining:
Anthracite____ ________________ __________________ ________
Bituminous______ ______ _______ __________________________
Metalliferous mining. _______________________ __ ____ ____ _
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining. _______ ________ ______
Crude petroleum producing. _____ ___________ ____ _____________
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph_____ ____ ______ ____ _____ ________
Power and light _________ ___ ________ - ____ ________ ______
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and maintenance____
Trade:
Wholesale__ _____ _____ ___________________________________
Retail_____________________ ______ ___________ ___________
Hotels (cash payments only ) 1___________________ _______________
Canning and preserving________________________________________
Laundries____________________________ ______ __________________
Dyeing and cleaning_________________ ________________________
Building construction _ ______________________________________
Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate_____________________
Total
....................................................................... ...........
$16.99
—0.5
-1 7.4
26. 21
14.25
18. 21
14.18
28. 01
+10.7
—1.8
—4.1
—5.0
—2.9
—8.2
—16.3
—1R 1
26. 27
29. 24
27.67
—.3
+ .7
+ .9
26.86
18.83
13.63
12. 53
15.15
16 30
22. 64
35.08
—.3
—5.5
3 18. 81
1 t 1
- *38;
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Industrial group
Per cent of change De
Per capita
cember, 1932, com
weekly
pared with—
earnings
in Decem
ber, 1932 Novejnber, December,
1932
1931
-7 .5
- 11.0
-.3
—4.0
—6.1
—.3
—12.6
—12.8
—14.8
—16.2
—14.8
—19.5
(8)
(2)
3 —. 4
• -1 5.0
—.2
+ 11.6
1 The additional value of board, room, and tips can not be computed.
2 Data not available.
3 Not including building construction or banks, etc.
Em ploym ent in Selected M anufacturing Industries in
December, 1932
Comparison of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals in December, 1932, with
November, 1932, and December, 1931
M PLOYM EN T in manufacturing industries decreased 1.9 per cent
in December, 1932, as compared with November, 1932, and
pay-roll totals decreased 2.3 per cent over the month interval. Com
paring December, 1932, with December, 1931, decreases of 12.6 per
cent in employment and 27.8 per cent in pay rolls are shown over the
12-month period.
The per cents of change in employment and pay-roll totals in
December, 1932, as compared with November, 1932, are based on
returns made by 18,044 establishments in 89 of the principal manu
facturing industries in the United States, having in December,
2,636,280 employees, whose combined earnings in one week were
$44,795,448.
The index of employment in December, 1932, was 58.3, as com
pared with 59.4 in November, 59.9 in October, 1932, and 66.7 in
December, 1931; the pay-roll index in December, 1932, was 37.7 as
compared with 38.6 in November, 39.9 in October, 1932, and 52.2 in
December, 1931. The 12-month average for 1926 equals 100.
E
3
In Table 1, which follows, are shown the number of identical estab
lishments reporting in both November and December, 1932, in the 89
manufacturing industries, together with the total number of employees
on the pay rolls of these establishments during the pay period ending
nearest December 15, the amount of their weekly earnings in Decem
ber, the per cents of change over the month and year intervals, and
the indexes of employment and pay roll in December, 1932.
The monthly per cents of change for each of the 89 separate in
dustries are computed by direct comparison of the total number of
employees and of the amount of weekly pay roll reported in identical
establishments for the two months considered. The per cents of
change over the month interval in the several groups and in the total
of the 89 manufacturing industries are computed from the index
numbers of these groups, which are obtained by weighting the index
numbers of the several industries in the groups by the number of
employees or wages paid in the industries. The per cents of change
over the year interval in the separate industries, in the groups and in
the totals, are computed from the index numbers of employment and
pay-roll totals.
1.—COMPARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN M AN UFACTU RING
ESTABLISHM ENTS IN NOVEM BER AND DEC E M B E R , 1932, AND D E CEM BER, 1931
T a b le
Employment
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing in
both
No
vem
ber
and
De
cem
ber,
1932
Pay-roll totals
Per cent of
change
Per cent of
change
Index num
bers Decem
ber, 1932
(average
1926=100)
Number
on pay
roll De
cember,
1932
No
vem
ber
to
De
cem
ber,
1932
Amount
De
No
cem of pay roll vem
ber,
(1 week)
ber
1931,
Decem
to
ber, 1932
to
De
De
cem
cem
ber,
ber,
1932
1932
Food and kindred products. 3,031
Slaughtering and meat
packing................ .........
226
Confectionery................... .
334
Ice cream__________ _____
393
Flour_________ _______ _
430
Baking_________________
962
Sugar refining, cane. .........
15
Beet sugar...____________
60
Beverages. ___ ____ _____
322
B utter...._________ _____
289
250,301
-2 .6
-6 .7 $4,089,800
Textiles and their products. 3,056
Cotton goods-....................
677
Hosiery and knit goods___
438
Silk goods......... ..................
240
Woolen and worsted goods.
252
Carpets and rugs......... ......
34
Dyeing and finishing tex
154
tiles.................................
Clothing, men’s...... ...........
379
Shirts and collars...............
117
Clothing, women’s.............
380
Millinery.......... .................
131
Corsets and allied gar
ments........... ...................
30
Cotton small wares............
117
Hats, fur-felt......... - ...........
36
Men’s furnishings...... ........
71
617,247
233,465
100,488
44,681
56,723
13, 757
-2 .8 —2.5
- . 5 +1.9
-4 .4
+ .8
-1 .8 -15.8
+ .3 +8.3
-4 .8 -1 7.0
34,393
57,975
16, 293
23, 956
8,011
-.1
-6 .0
-6 .7 -2 .7
-1 .9 -2 .0
-1 .5 -1 3.2
-6 .6 -11.3
598, 310 -1 .3 -25.5
661, 594 -19.1 -2 8 .3
173,844 v5. 3 -3 .5
382, 554 -6 .2 -35.0
117,885 -6 .0 -29.3
78.0
65.0
64.0
63.8
59.9
53.3
30.7
41.4
36.0
35.3
-1 .4
-4 .3
-6 .0
-5 .1
77,655
-6 .2
-.5
137,997 -5 .0 -20.5
100,189 -3 .3 -2 .4
82,900 -17.1 -32.1
88.3
78.8
65.2
69.5
76.6
54.7
41.5
40.7
Industry
*Less than one-tenth of 1 peir cent.
83,999 + 0) -7 .6
38,300 -6 .7 -3 .1
10,408 -3 .5 -9 .9
15, 960
-.2
-3 .4
61,703
-.6
-9 .1
7, 939 -2 .2 -6 .6
17,693 -15.7 +11.5
8,888 -6 .1 -15.1
5,411 -2 .0 -4 .5
5,272
9,462
5,270
7,501
+ .3
-4 .9
-6 .6
-4 .0
De
cem
ber,
1931,
to
De
cem
ber,
1932
Em Pay
ploy roll
ment totals
-10.0
83.2
64.0
1, 696,940 +1.9 -21.8
540,748 -1 .9 -1 9.4
264,399 -6 .8 -26.3
337, 354 -1 .5 -11.6
1,350, 243 -2 .3 -19.7
189,431 -2 .0 -1 3.3
277,448 -28.4 -17.4
220, 543 -1 .5 -21.6
112, 793 -4 .0 -18.9
86.2
86.4
61.9
82.8
78.9
74.7
201.1
63.9
93.8
68.1
63.7
47.0
66.6
64.6
61.2
111.9
50.6
73.6
7,770,716 -5 .5 -2 0 .0
71.3
2,425,621 -3 .3 -12.1
75.2
1,321,201 -10.2 -13.8
85.2
570,121 -2 .6 -33. 5 . 59.7
908,140 +4.0 -6 .3
71.5
212,705 -6 .8 -31.0
62.4
44.8
49.9
59.3
38.5
51.7
31.0
-2 .7
4
T able 1.—COMPARISON OF EM PLO Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN M ANUFACTU RIN G
ESTABLISHM ENTS IN NOVEM BER AND DECEM BER, 1932, AND DEC E M B E R , 1931—Con.
Employment
Industry
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing in
both
No
vem
ber
and
De
cem
ber,
1932
Iron and steel and their
products, n o t in clu d in g
m ach in ery _______________ 1,383
209
Iron and steel___________
38
Cast-iron pipe___________
Structural and ornamental
197
ironwork...................... ..
105
Hardware_______________
Steam fittings and steam
and hot-water heating
apparatus........................
152
Stoves__________________
Bolts, nuts, w-ashers, and
rivets_________________
Cutlery. (not including
silver and plated cut
129
lery) and edge tools____
60
Forgings, iron and steel___
Plumbers’ supplies______
Tin cans and other tinware.
Tools (not including edge
tools, machine tools,
128
files, or 5
Wirework
Paper and p r in tin g ............
Paper and pulp____ _____
Paper boxes____________ _
P rintingBook and job________
Newspapers and peri
odicals____________
Chem icals and allied prod
u cts__________________ ___
Chemicals______________
Fertilizers_______________
Petroleum refining...... ......
Cottonseed oil, cake, and
meal.____________ ____
Druggists’ preparations....
Explosives............. ............
Paints and varnishes____
Rayon__________________
S oa p ........................... .....
S tone, clay, and glass prod
u cts............... ............ .........
Cement________________
Brick, tile, and terra cotta
Pottery........ .....................
Glass------ ---------------------Marble, granite, slate, and
other stone products.
Per cent of
change
Per cent of
change
No
vem
ber
to
De
cem
ber,
1932
Amount
De
No
cem of pay roll vem
(1 week)
ber,
ber
Decem
1931,
to
ber, 1932 De
to
De
cem
cem
ber,
ber,
1932
1932
De
cem
ber,
1931,
to
De
cem
ber,
1932
285,193
170, 482
5,411
-3 .4
-2 .0
-3 .8
-19.7 $3,898,008
-17.3 2,130,694
68,365
-40.9
-6 .9
-5 .0
+3.8
-40.2
-41. 0
-60.0
51.4
52.1
29.0
24.2
21.9
14.8
13, 492
20,984
-.2
-35.7
-17.5
217, 319
282,436
+ 2.2
-7 .0
-51.0
-37.7
40.0
49.8
21.8
13, 241 -11.4
14, 497 -9 .9
-29.2
-7 .5
219, 593
222,630
-14.9
-18.6
-39.7
-23.7
34.0
49.5
19.0
25.8
-13.9
125,424
-2.0 -31.8
61.5
33.7
-28.2
-40.7
-58.1
-13.6
61.3
53.4
46.1
71.1
39.3
27.8
109, 553 -2 .9 -38.6
74, 553 -13.9 -39.4
61.1
87.3
34.7
52.8
8, 310
+ .2
15.2
8,681
-4.5
4,874
+• 5 -24.3
5, 274 -17.0 -34.1
8,165
2.9
6.7
-1 .2
25.7
-3 .2 -18.3
6, 818
4,964
151,251 -7 .0
73,481 +5.6
68,571 -33.7
154,138 +1.8
1,464,659
36.6
18.8
-37.8
-46.6
-38.3
-7 .9
33.4
33.0
45.9
45.8
15.8
18.3
23.8
37.4
-4 .0
-1 .8
-4 .5
-16.3
-8 .3
-19.1
69.3
70.7
69.0
40.7
53.1
37.2
5,284,162
1, 348,889
356, 650
-7 .1
-5 .9
-23.1
-24.1
-22.3
79.5
73.0
71. &
64.9
46.7
58.0
122,062
25, 212
96, 850
-3 .6
-1 .4
-4 .1
-4 .3
+1.1
-5 .5
1,697,874
461,587
1, 236, 287
214,528
78, 517,
20,716
-.7
-2 .6
-2 .9
10.1
410
314
752
47, 683
446
67,612
1,036
121
203
135
148,723
20, 712
6,053
52,963
46
41
26
354
23
87
2, 465
7,486
3,297
14,454
28,731
12,562
1,321
119
678
121
189
80,800
214
11, 222
16,009
14,628
33, 938
-5 .9
-
1 1 .8
1, 288,052
+4.0
-28.7
72.7
2, 290,571
+ .1
-18.4
98.0
85.8
-6 .7
-.5
-.9
-7 .0
-5 .5 -10.3
+1.7 -7 .1
3,262,869
482,850
80, 313
1, 389, 358
-2 .0
-3 .0
-1 .2
-18.8
-20.4
-26.2
-19.2
75.6
84.6
43.5
62.5
59.7
59.8
30.4
51.8
-6 .6 -4 .8
- . 7 - 11.2
+ .4 - 11.8
-2 .0 -11.9
-.7
+2.9
-3 .3
25, 736
152, 721
64,441
301,887
487, 398
278,165
-5 .8
-1 .3
- 4 .5
-4 .5
+1.9
-4 .5
-27.0
-18.5
-23.0
-26.7
-7 .6
-12.5
51.1
71.4
79.3
65.7
146.9
94.5
44.3
70.9
51.7
49.3
122.5
79.2
1,265,046 -7 .7
175,185 -2 5.7
180,086 -1 4.0
227,908 -2 .2
576,881 -4 .5
-39.2
-50.7
-54.6
-27.2
-27.0
40.7
32.9
23.8
02.3
57.2
25.9
17.2
9.9
36.9
38.4
—3. 0 —46. 2
43.2
28.1
+1.2 -16.1
+ .1
-6 .9
-19.8
-
21.1
42.5
-38.8
-15.9
-29.0
-19.3
-3 .2
-
25.0
-9 .6
-18.3
-4 .8
-2 .8
-3 .2
+2.1
1 ,9 2 2
Em Pay
ploy roll
ment totals
638,667 -13.0
247,594 -8 .2
563,950 -6 .9
14,448 +1.6
-3 .9
58, 826
17,714
42, 649
1,063
498
164
334
Index num
bers Decem
ber, 1932
(average
1926=100)
Number
on pay
roll De
cember,
1932
120,252
Lum ber and allied products. 1,627
Lumber—
645
Sawmills....... ..............
485
M illwork.............. ......
476
Furniture_______________
21
Turpentine and rosin_____
Leather and its m a n u
factures........... ....................
Leather_________________
Boots and shoes........ .......
Pay-roll totals
12.8
-.6
-1 .2
-23.6
-33.0
-36.2
-9 .7
-12.5
5,003. ■—7. 3 -32.5
104,986
5
T a b l e 1.—COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AN D PA Y ROLLS
IN MANUFACTURING
ESTABLISHM ENTS IN N O VEM BER AN D D E C E M B E R , 1932, AND DE C E M B E R , 1931—Con.
Employment
Industry
Nonferrous metals and
their products.....................
Stamped and enameled
ware............. ........... ........
Brass, bronze, and copper
products..........................
Aluminum manufactures..
Clocks, time-recording de
vices, and clock move
ments................ ..............
Gas and electric fixtures,
lamps, lanterns, and re
flectors................... .........
Plated ware........................
Smelting and refining—
copper, lead, and ^inc;.-.
Jewelry.................. ............
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing in
both
No
vem
ber
and
De
cem
ber,
1932
Pay-roll totals
Per cent of
change
Number
on pay
roll De
cember,
1932
No
vem
ber
to
De
cem
ber,
1932
De
cem
ber,
1931,
to
De
cem
ber,
1932
Per cent of
change
Amount
No
of pay roll vem
(1 week)
ber
Decem
to
ber, 1932 De
cem
ber,
1932
Em Pay
ploy roll
ment totals
-6 .9 -31.7
53.1
33.6
188,734 -11.6 -30.5
59.7
34.6
-4 .6 -35.1
-5 .0 -2 6.4
51.0
47.5
29.6
29.0
-29.8
73,471 -12.7 -36.9
43.3
28.4
- . 5 -18.9
-2 .8 -11.9
95,934 -4 .0 -3 2.0
139,110 -12.9 -30.6
67.2
62.2
46.6
37.8
136,333
158,847
+ .6 -27.5
-7 .9 -32.8
58.8
37.5
37.7
26.8
625
78,976
-2 .4 -16.0 $1,320,622
88
12,646
-5 .1
204
26
27,450
4,877
-1 .8 -18.1
-1 .6 -13.3
24
5,264
53
54
4,790
7,752
28
148
De
cem
ber,
1931,
to
De
cem
ber,
1932
Index num
bers Decem
ber, 1932
(average
1926=100)
-.4
-9 .8
8,152 +3.0 -14.9
8,045 -12.1 -18.5
449,960
78, 233
Tobacco m anufactures.......
Chewing and smoking to
bacco and snuff............ —
Cigars and cigarettes_____
m
54,467
-5 .3
-3 .9
703,868
-3 .9 -1 4.4
70.8
53.5
34
208
10,027
44,440
-2 .7
-5 .6
-2 .3
-4 .2
134, 563
569,305
-3 .3 -12.4
- 4 .0 -14. 7
86.8
68.8
69.4
51.6
Transportation equipment.
Automobiles.......................
Aircraft...............................
Cars, electric and steam
railroad............................
Locomotives.......... .............
Shipbuilding.......................
393
223
30
4,385,826 +13.4 -3 3.3
3,495,542 +15.6 -33.4
177,906 +3.9 -20.5
45.7
46.2
187.6
31.4
31.1
193.5
39
11
90
5,473
2,107
25,226
11.6
9.5
51.5
Rubber products...................
Rubber tires and inner
tubes...............................
Rubber boots and shoes.__
Rubber goods, other than
boots, shoes, tires, and
inner tubes____________
157
73,192
45
9
42,627
11,245
103
19,320
-2 .1
Machinery, not including
transportation equip
1,818
m ent........... ..................... .
73
Agricultural implements.._
Electrical machinery, ap
paratus, and supplies___
290
Engines, turbines, tractors,
88
and water wheels______
Cash registers, adding ma
chines, and calculating
44
machines....... .................
Foundry and machineshop products.................. 1,075
Machine tools.....................
147
Textile machinery and
44
parts. ............................. .
18
Typewriters and supplies..
39
Radio..................................
Railroad repair sh op s..........
Electric railroad_____ ____
Steam railroad....................
935
387
548
211,905 +8.6 -24.8
173,331 +11.3 -25.0
5,768 +2.2 -20.3
98,636
43,155
570,587
-6 .5
-.6
-2 .2 -49.5
+7.6 -3 8.2
20.0
13.9
66.8
-8 .9
1,315,547
+1.0 -21.3
64.5
40.6
- . 9 -1 0.2
+6.7 -15.6
753,034
214,172
+1.7 -2 7.8
+8.2 -7 .7
58.3
58.9
33.3
48.9
348,341
-3 .0 -15.3
83.6
56.3
279,254
- . 9 -27.2
6, 353 +15.2 -29.3
5,106,299 +1.1 -41.7
93,528 +14.3 -32.6
45.4
26.0
27.0
18.0
103,075
-1 .0 -33.1
2,053,872
+ .2 -46.3
48.6
32.5
14,942
+ .9 -29.9
297,195
+5.7 -3 7.0
40.1
25.0
+ .1 -2 6.8
-.2
-2 .7
13,204
-.4
-17.8
307,602
63.1
45.6
98,030
10,867
-.5
-2 3 .6
-3 7 .5
1,586,217
200,526
+ 1 .3
+ 3 ,0
-40. 7
44.1
-4 9 .5
31.3
23.3
18.8
6,593 + 2 .4 -2 0.6
8,018 - 1 2 .5 - 3 2 .9
116,664
130,636
+ 7 .5
-4 0 .4
54.2
+ 2 .6
18,172
- 9 .3
99,386
20,620
78, 760
-1 .4
Total, 89 industries___ 18,044 2,636,280
-5 .2 -3 .8
-1 .5 -35.3
+ .1 -28.9
- 1 3 .1
-9 .8
+ . 4 -10.5
—i .6 -9 .7
-1 .9 -37.1
-3 0.6
320,059 - 1 2 .8
51.8
50.9
39.0
37.7
2,330,053
-.3
-21.4
537, 473
+ 3 .7
-2 2 .7
-2 1 .2
49.5
65.9
48.2
-2 .3 -27.8
58.3
1,792, 580
-1 .9 -12.6 44,795,448
-.8
34.6
32.1
70.4
54.5
37.8
6
Per Capita Earnings in Manufacturing Industries
P er capita weekly earnings in December, 1932, for each of the 89
manufacturing industries surveyed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
together with the per cents of change in December, 1932, as compared
with November, 1932, and December, 1931, are shown in Table 2.
These earnings must not be confused with full-time weekly rates of
wages. They are per capita weekly earnings, computed by dividing
the total amount of pay roll for the week by the total number of
employees (part-time as well as full-time workers).
2 —PER C APITA W E E K L Y EARNINGS IN M A N U FACTU RIN G INDUSTRIES IN
DE C E M B E R , 1932, AN D COM PARISON W ITH NOVEM BER, 1932, AND D E C E M B E R ,
1931
T a b le
Industry
Food and kindred products:
Slaughtering and meat panjHng
Confectionery.................................................................................
Ice cream__________________________________ _______________
Flour.......... ...... ....................................... ...................... ...............
Baking __
,
Sugar refining, cane____________________________ _______ ____
Beet sugar_______________________________ ________ _________
Beverages___________________________ _____________________
Butter.......................................................... ..................................
Textiles and their products:
Cotton goods______________________________________________
Hosiery and knit goods.............................. .......... ........................
Silk goods__________________________ _______ ____ ______ ____
Woolen and worsted goods_________ - _______________________
Carpets and rugs___________________________________________
Dyeing and finishing textiles........... .......... ................................
Clothing, men’s_______________________ ______ _______ ______
Shirts and collars........................... .................................................
Clothing, women’s________________________________ _____ ___
Millinery____________________________________ _______ ______
Corsets and allied garments_________________________ _____ ..
Cotton small wares____________________ ___________ . _____
Hats, fur-felt_________ ______ _______ ___ ______ _____________
Men’s furnishings.... ................ ............ ......................... ............ .
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery:
Iron and steel____________________________ ________________ Cast-iron pipe________________ _____ ______________________ Structural and ornamental ironwork________ ________________
Hardware_______________ _______ _
_______
Steam fittings and steam and hot-water heating apparatus____
Stoves______ ____ _________ _____ ________ __________________
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets, .
__ _ _ _______
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools.
Forgings, iron and steel................................................. ...............
Plumbers’ supplies_________________________________________
Tin cans and other tinware.......... ................................. ......... .....
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, files, or saws)___
Wirework......... ........... .............................................. ...................
Lumber and allied products:
Lumber—
Sawmills............................... .............. ......................................
Millwork______________________________________________
Furniture_______ _______ ____________ _____________________
Turpentine and rosin_____________ ______ ___________ _______
Leather and its manufactures:
Leather_____________________________ ______________ _______
Boots and shoes____ _______ - ......... .......................... ...................
Paper and printing:
Paper and pulp____________________________________________
Paper boxes................... ................................................................
P rintingBook and job______________________ ____ ___ ______ _____
Newspapers and periodicals....................................................
Per cent of change com*
Per capita
pared with—
weekly
earnings in
December, November, December,
1932
1932
1931
$20.20
14.12
25.40
21.14
+1.9
+ 5.2
-3 .4
-1 .3
-1 .7
+ .3
-1 5.0
+4.9
- 2.0
-1 5.5
-1 6.8
-1 8.3
- 8.1
- 11.6
-7 .2
-2 5.7
-7 .9
-1 4.9
10.39
13.15
12.76
16.01
15.46
17.40
11.41
10. 67
15.97
14. 72
14. 73
14. 58
19. 01
11.05
-2 .9
- 6.0
-.9
+3.8
- 2.2
- 1.2
-1 3.4
-3 .4
-4 .8
+ .5
+ 1.0
-13.5
-14. 4
- 21.0
-13.4
-17.5
- 20.6
-2 6.3
- 1.0
-2 5.2
- 20.2
-6 .4
-1 6.3
+4.3
-29.4
12.50
12.63
16.11
13.46
16. 58
15.36
15.09
17.42
15.08
13.00
18.88
16.07
15.02
-3 .0
+7.9
- 6.2
+2.4
-4 .0
-9 .6
-2 .3
-2 .7
+5.1
-29.1
-3 2.2
-2 3.7
-2 4 .0
-14.9
-1 7 .6
- 20.8
-15.1
- 21.8
-3 6.5
-7 .3
-17.4
-2 5.9
-8 .7
-5 .5
-3 .9
21.88
23.86
15. 68
24. 81
20. 85
-.8
+2.9
- 12.6
- 20.2
+4.8
-1 .7
- 11.1
-.6
-2 6.3
-24.5
-2 3.4
- 4 .6
18.31
12.76
-.4
-.4
-9 .4
-1 4.4
17.18
17.22
-4 .7
-3 .0
-19.5
-1 1.9
27.01
33. 88
+ 2.8
-15.1
-12. 5
10.86
13.98
13.22
13.59
-.1
7
T a b l e 2 —PER CAPITA W EE K LY EARNINGS IN M AN UFACTURIN G INDUSTRIES IN
DEC E M B E R , 1932, AND COM PARISON W ITH N OVEM BER, 1932, AND D E C E M B E R ,
1931—Continued
Industry
Chemicals and allied products:
Chemicals. .............. ....................................................................
Fertilizers__ ______ ____________ ___________ ___ ___________
Petroleum refining....................... ..................................................
Cottonseed oil, cake, and meal..... ...............................................
Druggists’ preparations..................................................................
Explosives..... ................................................................. ...............
Paints and varnishes................................ ................... .................
Rayon....................... .......................... ............ ...... .......................
Soap______________ _____ _______ ____ _____________________
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Cement................ ........................... ................................................
Brick, tile, and terra ootta............. ........................................ ......
Pottery........ ............ ................... ......... ........................................
Glass............ ......... ........................................... ........... ..................
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone products______________
Nonferrous metals and their products:
Stamped and enameled ware........................................................
Brass, bronze, and copper products___ ______ ________________
Aluminum manufactures................. ...... ......................................
Clocks, time recording devices, and clock movements................
Gas and electric fixtures, lamps, lanterns, and reflectors................
Plated ware.....................................................................................
Smelting and ^refining—copper, lead, and zin c...______________
Jewelry.................................. ........... ......................................... .....
Tobacco manufactures:
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff....................................
Cigars and cigarettes ............ ........... ...........................................
Transportation equipment:
Automobiles..... .................................. ............ ...............................
Aircraft............................. ............................................. ...............
Cars, electric and steam railroad.................... ...............................
Locomotives..................... ............................. ................................
Shipbuilding.............................. ......................... ..........................
Rubber products:
Rubber tires and inner tubes.............. ...................................... .
Rubber boots and shoes........... ...................................................
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner tubes...
Machinery, not including transportation equipment:
Agricultural implements................... ............................................
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies__________ _____
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels.._______________
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines..........
Foundry and machine-shop products............................................
M achine tools____________ _____________ ________ ___________
Textile machinery and parts__________ ______ _______________
Typewriters and supplies..... .............. ......................... ...............
Radio........... .................................................... ......... .....................
Railroad repair shops:
Electric-railroad repair shops...................................... ..................
Steam-railroad repair shops............ ........................................ ......
Per cent of change com
Per capita
pared with—
weekly
earnings in
December, November, December,
1932
1932
1931
$23.31
13. 27
26.23
10.44
20.40
19. 55
20.89
16.96
22.14
- 2.2
+4.7
- 2.0
—.8
-1 4.4
-1 7.4
-1 2.9
-2 3.4
- 8.6
-1 2.5
-1 7.0
-7 .3
-9 .8
15.61
11.25
15. 58
17.00
20.98
-7 .4
-1 .4
—1.6
—3.4
+4.6
-26.4
-2 8 .4
-19.1
-16.9
-2 0.9
14.92
16. 39
16.04
13.96
20.03
17. 95
16. 72
19. 74
-6 .9
—2.8
-3 .4
-12.3
-3 .5
-10.4
-2 .3
+4.7
-2 3 .2
—20.9
-1 5 .0
—10.6
-1 5.8
- 21.1
-1 4 .8
—17.6
13.42
12.81
-.7
+1.7
-1 0 .4
- 11.1
20.17
30.84
18.02
20.48
22.62
+3.9
+ 1.6
+4.9
-.7
+7.4
—11. 5
—3.1
—21.8
—13.2
17. 67
19.05
18.03
+ 2.6
+1.5
-.9
—19.6
+9.3
-13.1
14. 72
19. 93
19. 89
23.30
16.18
18. 45
17. 70
16. 29
17.61
+ 1.2
+4.7
+ .4
+ 1.8
+ .3
+5.0
+ 12.1
-3 .8
—.8
—4.8
-1 8.9
+ 10.1
- 11.0
-22.4
—19.0
—24.9
—6.2
—20.0
26.07
22. 76
+3.3
+ .8
-1 3 .3
-1 2 .8
+ .8
-.6
-4 .8
- 2.6
- 1.0
-.2
General Index Numbers of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals in Manufacturing
Industries
G e n e r a l index numbers of employment and pay-roll totals in
manufacturing industries by months, from January, 1926, to Decem
ber, 1932, together with average indexes for each of the years from
1926 to 1932, inclusive, are shown in the following table. In comput
ing these generaHndexes, the index numbers of each of the separate
industries are weighted according to their relative importance in the
total. Preceding this table are two charts prepared from these
general indexes showing the course of employment and pay rolls for
each of the years 1926 to 1932, inclusive.
155161—33------ 2
8
9
MANUFACTURING
INDUSTRIES.
MOMTHLY INDEXES 1926-1932..
MONTHLY AVERAGE.
pay- r o l l
105
192.6= 10 0 .
totals
105
192.*
100
100
I9Z
95
95
1928
V
90
90
1930
65
65
AO
60
75
75
1531
70
70
65
65
60
60
55
55
V
50
.
1332
50
45
45
40
40
35
35
JAW
FEB.
MAR.
APR. MAY
JUNE JULY
AUG. SEPT. OCT.
MOV. DEC.
1 0
T a b le
3 — G EN ERAL
IN DEXES OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN M AN UFAC
TU R IN G INDUSTRIES, JANUARY, 1926, TO D E C E M B E R , 1932
[12-month average, 1926=100]
Employment
Pay rolls
Month
1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1926
January_______________
February ____________
March________________
April_________________
M ay_________________
June__________________
July__________________
August_______________
September____________
October_______________
November____________
December_____________
100.4 97.3 91.6
101. 5 99.0 93.0
102.0 99.5 93.7
101.0 98.6 93.3
99.8 97.6 93.0
99.3 97.0 93.1
97.7 95.0 92.2
98.7 95.1 93.6
100.3 95.8 95.0
100.7 95.3 95.9
99.5 93.5 95.4
98.9 92.6 95.5
95.2
97.4
98.6
99.1
99.2
98.8
98.2
98.6
99.3
98.4
95.0
92.3
90.7
90.9
90.5
89.9
88.6
86.5
82.7
81.0
80.9
79.9
77.9
76.6
74.6
75.3
75.9
75.7
75. 2
73.4
71.7
71.2
70.9
68.9
67.1
66.7
64.8
65.6
64.5
62.2
59.7
57.5
55.2
56.0
58.5
59.9
59.4
58.3
1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932
98.0 94.9 89.6 95.5 88.1
102.2 100.6 93.9 •101. 8 91.3
103.4 102.0 95.2 103.9 91.6
101.5 100.8 93.8 104.6 90.7
99.8 99.8 94.1 104.8 88.6
99.7 97.4 94.2 102.8 85.2
95.2
98.7
99.3
102.9
99.6
99.8
Average_________ 100.0 96.4 93.8 97.5 84.7 73.2 60.1 100.0
93.0
95.0
94.1
95.2
91.6
93.2
91.2 98.2 77.0
94.2 102.1 75.0
95.4 102.6 75.4
99.0 102.4 74.0
96.1 95.4 C9.6
97.7 92.4 68.8
63.7 48.6
68.1 49.6
69.6 48.2
68.5 44.7
67.7 42.5
63.8 39.3
60.3 36.2
59.7 36.3
56.7 38.1
55.3 39.9
52.5 38.6
52.2 37.7
96.5 94.5 100.5 81.3 61.5 41.6
Time Worked in Manufacturing Industries in December, 1932
R e p o r t s as to working time in December were received from 13,192
establishments in 89 manufacturing industries. Four per cent of
these establishments were idle, 42 per cent operated on a full-time
basis, and 54 per cent worked on a part-time schedule.
An average of 84 per cent of full-time operation in December was
shown by reports received from all the operating establishments
included in Table 4. The establishments working part time in
December averaged 71 per cent of full-time operation.
A number of establishments supplying data concerning plantoperating time have reported full-time operations but have qualified
the hours reported with a statement that, while the plant was operat
ing full time, the work in the establishment was being shared and the
employees were not working the full-time hours operated by the
plant. Such establishments have been classified under full-time
establishments in the following tabulation. The heading of the
column concerning full-time plants has therefore been changed to
read, “ Per cent of establishments operating full time” instead of
“ Per cent of establishments in which employees worked full time.”
1 1
T a b l e 4 —PROPORTION OF FULL TIM E W ORKED IN M ANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
BY ESTABLISHMENTS REPORTIN G IN DECEM BER, 1932
Per cent of estab
lishments oper
ating—
Establishments
reporting
Industry
Total
number
Food and kindred products__________
Slaughtering and meat packing______
Confectionery..------ -----------------------Ice cream_____ ____ - ----------------------Flour______ _______________________
Baking______________________ _____ _
Sugar refining, cane....... ........... ...........
Beet sugar_________________________
Beverages__________________________
Butter_____________________________
2,383
171
237
292
358
655
14
36
275
245
Textiles and their products___________
Cotton goods_______________________
Hosiery and knit goods_____________
Silk goods__________________________
Woolen and worsted goods__________
Carpets and rugs___________________
Dyeing and finishing textiles________
Clothing, men’s____________________
Shirts and collars----------------------------Clothing, women's_________________
Millinery_________________ _______ ..
Corsets and allied garments_________
Cotton small wares_________________
Hats, fur-felt----------------------------------Men’s furnishings__________________
2, 344
626
377
218
232
26
144
234
Iron and steel and their products, n o t
including m ach in ery---------------------Iron and steel______________________
Cast-iron pipe--------------------------------Structural and ornamental ironwork..
Hardware.................... ................ ..........
Steam fittings and steam and hotwater heating apparatus___________
Stoves------------------- -----------------------Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets______
Cutlery (not including silver and
plated cutlery) and edge tools______
Forgings, iron and steel......... ..............
Plumbers’ supplies_________ ________
Tin cans and other tinware........... ......
Tools (not including edge tools, ma
chine tools, files, or saws)__________
Wirework.......... ...... ...................... ......
Per cent
Full time Fart time
idle
1
1
3
1
21
1
1
6
65
56
31
48
56
65
61
43
57
42
59
60
3
12
6
17
9
21
102
22
1
53
4
1, 048
153
35
135
55
84
36
94
56
73
57
56
4
132
91
68
5
3
3
12
66
70
77
58
55
4
10
9
2
66
29
23
41
42
31
16
43
6
Average per cent of
full time reported
by—
All oper Estab
lish
ating
ments
estab
operat
lish
ing part
ments
time
93
97
91
92
93
96
86
99
44
26
95
37
41
31
28
40
58
49
33
29
90
89
93
92
91
77
89
91
93
63
21
48
43
57
41
36
13
5
83
84
6
86
7
4
90
96
88
88
90
85
87
90
68
56
52
70
68
78
86
77
81
77
76
74
85
72
81
75
74
78
73
79
65
78
77
77
73
78
77
75
68
71
62
53
48
67
67
84
114
60
6
2
5
9
18
89
89
82
57
66
69
55
62
62
105
39
55
52
3
26
15
18
48
71
85
82
50
75
65
69
89
58
62
78
109
52
4
16
13
81
85
73
74
68
2
L um ber and allied products__________
Lumber—
Sawmills_______________________
Mill work---------------------------------Furniture__________________________
Turpentine and rosin_______________
1,072
5
22
72
73
65
449
275
330
18
7
4
5
11
19
39
39
82
78
56
56
67
71
82
90
62
63
69*
84
Leather and its m anu factures_______
Leather____________________________
Boots and shoes. ............ .....................
360
124
236
5
28
41
67
57
72
SO
87
76
73
79
69
Paper and prin tin g__________________
Paper and pulp____________________
Paper boxes________________________
PrintingBook and job--------------------------- Newspapers and periodicals______
1,512
316
258
1
22
61
72
78
85
77
82
76
69
77
26
81
73
19
83
98
76
89
1Less than one-half of 1 per cent.
581
357
2
6
2
7
3
0)
21
38
25
66
69
1 2
T a b le
4.—PROPORTION OF FULL TIM E W ORKED IN M AN UFACTURIN G INDUSTRIES
BY ESTABLISHM ENTS RE PO RTIN G IN DECEM BER, 1932—Continued
Per cent of estab
lishments oper
ating—
Establishments
reporting
Industry
Tota 1
number
Per cent Full time Part time
idle
Average per cent of
full time reported
by —
All oper
ating
estab
lish
ments
Estab
lish
ments
operat
ing part
time
Chem icals and allied products_______
Chemicals_________________________
Fertilizers__________________________
Petroleum refining_________________
Cottonseed oil, cake, and meal_______
Druggists’ preparations------ ------------Explosives-------------------------------------Paints and varnishes________________
Rayon----------------- ------ ------------------Soap______________________________
777
Stone, clay, and glais p roducts---------Cement____________________________
Brick, tile, and terra cotta---------------Pottery____________________________
Glass______________________________
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone
products---------------- ----------------------
689
71
223
91
123
20
181
13
27
61
79
69
Nonferrous metals and their products
Stamped and enameled ware________
Brass, bronze, and copper products__
Aluminum manufactures-----------------Clocks, time-recording devices, and
clock movements_________________
Gas and electric fixtures, lamps, lan
terns, and reflectors----------------------Plated ware-----------------------------------Smelting and refining—copper, lead,
and zinc__________ ____ __________
Jewelry.............. ........... ......... ........... .
490
73
145
1
1
1
29
19
80
74
78
81
71
23
70
79
78
77
20
35
65
77
65
45
47
29
23
71
77
84
78
77
71
121
17
6
1
47
43
47
56
89
85
78
71
T obacco m an u factu res______________
Chewing and smoking tobacco and
snuff_____________________________
Cigars and cigarettes________________
300
5
29
67
82
75
69
6
31
28
66
82
82
74
75
Transportation equ ipm ent---------------Automobiles _. _------ ------------------------Aircraft-----------------------------------------Cars, electric and steam railroad-------Locomotives_______________________
Shipbuilding------------------------- ---------
256
125
28
26
9
84
80
94
73
76
93
86
59
62
72
46
77
89
41
69
73
83
R ubber products_____________________
Rubber tires and inner tubes------------Rubber boots and shoes_____________
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes,
tires, and inner tubes---------------------
131
33
26
9
38
73
91
63
81
69
91
85
M achinery, n o t including transporta
tion equ ip m en t------------------------------Agriculture implements-------------------Electrical machinery, apparatus, and
supplies___________________ ______
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water
wheels___________________________
Cash registers, adding machines, and
calculating machines______________
Foundry and machine-shop products..
Machine tools______________________
Textile machinery and parts________
Typewriters and supplies.................
Radio.................... ................................
Railroad repair sh ops________________
Electric-railroad repair shops....... ........
Steam-railroad repair shops.................
Total, 89 industries_____________
88
143
70
34
25
16
308
2
2
2
4
9
39
58
53
12
81
34
35
9
5
22
32
168
53
59
70
71
76
52
3
2
11
12
68
2
8
30
58
9
19
67
21
35
26
43
12
11
46
39
28
24
15
48
100
61
42
47
49
8
56
73
28
00
90
93
96
96
94
83
85
93
91
78
95
62
72
93
77
76
76
85
77
88
83
76
82
80
64
60
55
65
76
68
72
75
75
72
74
66
90
2
31
67
85
77
1,251
53
2
19
19
80
81
72
74
66
69
192
1
18
81
77
72
16
84
73
68
32
18
13
17
23
52
65
80
85
79
69
48
84
69
73
76
73
90
75
62
69
71
63
80
46
90
95
64
37
730
108
29
13
25
3
2
2
3
8
779
349
430
1
30
53
34
69
86
81
85
79
13,192
4
42
54
84
71
1
66
13
Employment in Nonmanufacturing Industries in December,
1932
I N THE following table are presented employment and pay-roll
data for 14 groups of nonmanufacturing industries, the totals
of which also appear in the summary table of employment and pay
roll totals.
1.—COMPARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PA Y ROLLS IN NON M A N UFA C TU RIN G ESTABLISHM ENTS IN NOVEM BER AND DEC E M B E R , 1932, AN D D E C E M B E R ,
1931
T a b le
Industrial group
Anthracite mining___________ _
Bituminous coal mining......... ..
Metalliferous mining__________
Quarrying and nonmetallic
mining________._ __________
Crude petroleum producing----Telephone and telegraph----- Power and light___ ___........
Electric-railroad and motor-bus
operation and maintenance...
Wholesale trade___ ____ ____
Retail trade--------------------------Hotels________ ______________
Canning and preserving___
Laundries___________ ________
Dyeing and cleaning__________
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing in
both
No
vem
ber
and
De
cem
ber,
1932
160
1,202
275
Employment
Per cent of
change
Pay-roll totals
Per cent of
change
Index num
bers, Decem
ber, 1632
(Average
1929=100)
Number
De
De ofAmount
No
pay roll No
on pay
(1 week) vem cem
roll, De vem cem
ber,
ber,
Em Pay
December,
ber
cember, ber
1931,
1931, ploy
roll
1932 to De to
1932
to De to
De ment totals
De
cem cem
cem cem
ber,
ber,
ber,
ber,
1932
1932
1932
1932
85,284
175,050
21,838
-0 .5 -21.9 $2,235,194 + 10.2 -28.3
+ .9 -13.8 2, 494, 281
- . 9 -27.9
+4.2 -35.0
397,624
- . 1 -45.5
62.3
70.0
33.3
56.2
37.7
18.7
631
276
8,302
3, 523
19,411 -14.4 -21.5
22,019 + 1.2 -1 .7
269,598 - . 9
- 10.0
- . 8 -13.2
209,993
275,304 -18.7 -40.1
616,803 -1 .7 -24.0
7,082,328 - 1.1 -20.7
6,140,082
- . 1 -19.7
42.3
57.2
74.8
78.4
41.7
73.5
73.2
503
2,822
14, 730
2,410
902
965
337
- . 5 - 10.6
133,006
-.8
- 8.0
73,076
409,639 +16.5 -10.4
130,902 -1 .4 -11.9
30,121 -33.2 -17.2
- . 4 - 11.0
57,407
10, 270 -3 .6 -11.4
3,680, 519
+ .4 -20.4
1,963,142 - 1.1 -19.5
7, 713,275 + 10.1 - 21.8
1, 784,651 - 1.6 -24.9
377,458 -25.4 -30.6
869, 562
- . 8 -24.2
167,440 -7 .4 -28.7
71.4
77.0
95.2
73.2
33.7
75.9
75.2
61.9
62.6
73.6
56.6
25.6
58.7
48.4
22.1
Indexes of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals for Nonmanufacturing Industries
I n d e x numbers of employment and pay-roll totals for 14 nonmanu
facturing industries are presented in the following table. The index
numbers show the variation in employment and pay rolls in these
groups, by months, from January, 1929, to December, 1932, with the
exception of the laundries and the dyeing and cleaning groups, for
which information over the entire period is not available. The
bureau recently secured data concerning employment and pay rolls
for the index base year 1929 from establishments in the laundries and
the dyeing and cleaning groups, and has computed index numbers for
these two groups, which now appear in this tabulation. The monthly
collection of trend-of-employment statistics in these two groups did
not begin until the later months of 1930 and, therefore, indexes for
each month of the entire period are not available.
14
T able 2 —IN DEXES OF E M PLO Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS FOR NON M AN UFACTU RIN G
INDUSTRIES, JANUARY TO DEC E M B E R , 1929, 1930, 1931, AND 1932
[12-month average, 1929= 100]
Anthracite mining
Month
Employment
Pay rolls
Bituminousi coal mining
Employment
Pay rolls
1929 1930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932
January...............
February.............
March.................
April....................
M a y ....................
June....... .............
July.....................
August............... .
September...........
October............ .
November...........
December............
Average—
105.7 102.1
106.0 106.9
98. C 82.6
100.7 84. 1
103.7 93.8
92.9 90. h
83.2 91.6
91. 1 80.2
101.9 93.8
106. 1 99. C
104. C 97.2
107.1 99.1
90.6
89.5
82. C
85.2
80.3
76.1
65.1
67. a
80. C
76.2 100.7 105.8 89.3
71.2 122.1 121.5 101.9
73.7 90.8 78.5 71.3
70.1 88.3 75.0 75.2
66.9 99.0 98.8 76.1
53. C 80.7 94.3 66.7
44.5 64.7 84.0 53.7
49.2 78.4 78.8 56.4
55.8 103.8 91.6 64.9
86.8 63.9 133.9 117.2 91.1
83.5 62.7 100.5 98.0 79.5
79.8 62.3 137.2 100.0 78.4
93.9 80.8 106.1 101.4 73.3 47.0
91. 5 77.4 116.6 102.1 68.3 47.0
88.8 75.2 108.6 86.4 65.2 46.8
85.9
82.4
78.4
76.4
77.0
80.4
81.3
81.1
81.2
65.5 89.2
62.6 91.9
60.5 90.0
58.6 85.6
59.4 92.8
62.4 98.6
67.0 106.8
69.4 106.0
70.0 108.2
81.7
77.5
75.6
68.9
71. 1
74.9
79.4
79.1
77.7
58.6
54.4
52.4
50.4
50.6
53.6
56.2
54.6
52.3
33.9
30.7
27.3
24.4
26.4
30.2
37.8
38.0
37.7
100.0 93.4 80.5 62.5 100.0 95.3 75.4 53.7 100.0 93.4 83.2 67.4 100.0 81.3 57.5 35.6
Metalliferous mining
January-----------February.........
March.................
April------- --------M ay....... .............
June.............. ......
July_______ ____
August.......... ......
September......... .
October------ -----November...........
December............
61.5 106.4 102.5
57.3 107. 7 102.4
61.2 106.8 98.6
72.0 100.2 94.4
58.0 96.6 90.4
37.4 94.7 88.4
34.5 94.1 88.0
41.4 95.7 89.2
47.0 97.2 90.5
66.7 98.8 91.8
51.0 101.0 92.5
56.2 101.4 92.5
93.1 95.7 68.3 49.3 88.0
94.6 92.3 65.3 46.9 91.8
97. C 90.9 63.5 45.0 99.1
100.6 89.3 63.9 43.3 104.6
100.8 87.5 62.4 38.3 104.6
103.8 84.6 60.0 32.2 105.6
101.5 80.5 56.2 29.5 99.0
103.2 79.0 55.8 28.6 100.1
102.1 78.1 55.5 29.3 102.0
101.9 77.2 53.8 30.5 103. 1
103.0 72.8 52.8 31.9 102.2
98.5 70. 1 51.2 33.3 99.7
92.7
92.5
90.8
88.3
85.6
81.6
71.9
71.0
69.9
55. 0
54.6
52.8
51.4
49.3
46. 1
41.3
40.2
40.0
68.6 37.4
63.4 35.1
59.9 34.3
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
29.7 91.6
27.8 91.9
26.5 96.0
25.0 99.6
23.8 104.1
20.1 106. 6
16.9 104.7
16.5 106.7
17.0 106. 6
18.0 103. 6
18.7 98.6
18.7 90.1
79.6
79.8
83.0
87.4
90.8
90.3
89.9
89.3
87.7
84.7
78.3
70.2
64. 4 48.9 85.9
66.6 47.4 88.9
70.0 46.0 95.0
76. 1 48.6 100.5
75.0 50.6 107.1
72.3 49.5 110.5
71.0 49.5 104.7
68.9 51.1 110.3
66.6 52.4 109.8
64.5 52.4 105.8
59.3 49.4 96.0
53.9 42.3 85.4
71.9
73.5
80.0
85.4
90.2
90.9
85.5
85.8
82.5
79.3
50.4
54.4
58.2
62.6
62.3
60. 1
57.3
55.1
51.2
48.7
66.8 43.3
59.9 36.9
30.2
29.6
28.7
30.0
32.3
30.0
29.1
29.7
30.5
30.1
27.1
22.1
Average— 100.0 83.2 59.1 36.5 100.0 78.0 44.8 21.6 100.0 84.3 67.4 49.0 100.0 79.3 53.4 29.1
Crude petroleum producing
January...............
February.............
March...............
April------- --------M ay.....................
June.............. ......
July......................
August............. .
September...........
October..............
November...........
December..........
92.7 74.8 54.9 93. 1
90.8 73.2 54.4 99.0
89.3 72.2 51.4 97.4
86.8 69.8 54.9 96.7
89.8 67.8 54.5 92.4
90.2 65.0 54.2 99.4
89.9 65.3 55.4 100.7
87.7 62.4 57.4 104.7
85.0 61.2 56.2 110.7
85.2 60.4 56.8 100.1
101.1 83.6 57.6 56.5 103.8
97.0 77.4 58.2 57.2 102.1
90.0
90.4
89.6
97.6
93.9
104.1
106.0
113.2
108.9
107.9
Telephone and telegraph
94.0 71.5 46.5 94.3 101.6 90.5 83.0
88.6 70.0 46.9 95.3 100.2 89.2 82.0
91.3 73.2 43.2 96.5 99.4 88.6 81.7
86.6 66.3 44.5 97.8 98.9 88.1 81.2
85.4 64.7 47.1 100.4 99.7
87.1 62.7 44.8 101.5 99.8
88.5 59.2 44.6 102.6 100.0
86.0 56.3 42.9 103.7 98.8
84.0 55.2 41.9 102.5 96.8
82.6 54.4 42.5 101.9 94.5
80.0 52.0 42.4 101.9 93.0
77.2 54.9 41.7 101.8 91.6
87.4
86.9
86.6
85.9
85.0
84.1
83.5
83. 1
94.5 105.1
93.0 101.9
98.7 105.8
98.3 103.4
80.6 99.4 103.2
79.9 100.0 103.4
79.1 104.1 106.6
78.1 101.8 102.5
77.4 100.4 102.2
76.2 105.1 100.9
75.5 101.2 97.9
74.8 103.9 101.3
96.3
94.8
97.9
95.0
94.1
95.0
93.3
92.3
92.1
91.6
89.7
92.7
89.1
89.6
88.2
83.4
82.8
82.1
79.6
79.1
75.9
75.7
74.3
73.5
Average___ 100.0 87.4 65.7 55.3 100.0 85.9 61.7 44.1 100.0 97.9 86.6 79.1 100.0 102.9 93.7 81.1
Power and light
January...............
February.............
M arch,................
April....................
M ay.....................
June.....................
July......................
August................
September______
O ctober.......... .
November...........
December............
92.9 99.6
92.6 98.8
92.8 99.7
95.9 100.7
98.4 103.4
100.7 104.6
103.2 105.9
105.4 106.4
105.5 105.2
105.7 104.8
104.7 103.4
102.5 103.2
99.2
97.8
96.7
97.1
97.6
97.2
96.7
95.9
94.7
92.7
91.3
90.3
89.3 91.7 99.7 98.6
87.2 91.8 100.4 99.7
85.5 94.5 102. 1 102.4
84.8 95. 5 102. 6 97.6
84.0 98. 1 104.5 98.7
83.2 100.4 107.8 98.3
82.3 102.3 106.7 97.4
81.5 103. 8 106.6 96.2
81.0 106.6 106.1 94.3
79.9 106.0 105.6 93.2
79.1 104.1 103.7 93.3
78.4 105.8 106.3 91.2
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation
and maintenance 1
88.4 99.7 97. 1 86.9 79.5 98.7 97.8 85.6 275.4
86.0 99.1 95.1 86.6 78.9 97.6 95.7 87.1 274.8
85.4 97.0 94.4 86.4 77.6 98.0 95.4 88.1 273.6
82.4 98.5 95.2 86.8 78.0 99.5 97.1 86.6 271.8
84.2 100.4 95.2 85.9 76.9 101.0 96.0 85.1 272.2
80.5 101.2 94.8 85.3 76.5 101.7 97.0 84.8 270.2
78.7 102.2 95.3 85.6 75.6 101.9 95.6 83.3 266.4
76.7 102.2 92.9 84.8 74.1 102.0 92.1 81.9 263.8
74.7 101.4 91.8 84.0 73.5 101.5 90.5 81.2 262.5
74.4 100.5 91.0 82.7 72.3 100.0 88.9 79.0 261.5
73.2 99.4 89.3 81.5 71.8 98.4 87.7 79.7 261.7
73.2 98.3 88.8 79.9 71.4 99.8 88.6 77.8 61.9
Average___ 100.0 103.0 95.6 83.0 100.0 104.3 96.7 79.8 100.0 93.4 84.7 75.5 100.0 93.5 83.4 68.0
1 Not including electric-railroad car building and repairing; see transportation equipment and railroad
repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries, Table 1.
2 Revision due to correction received from one company.
15
T a b l e 2 ,—IN D E XE S OF E M PL O Y M E N T AN D PA Y ROLLS FOR N O N M AN U FACTU RIN G
INDUSTRIES, JANUARY TO D E C E M B E R , 1929, 1930, 1931, AND 1932—Continued
Wholesale trade
Month
Employment
Retail trade
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
1929 1930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932
January...............
February. ...........
March.................
April....................
M ay....................
June......... ..........
July__.................
August.................
September...........
October................
November...........
December______
97.7 100.0
96.9 98.5
97.3 97.7
97.9 97.3
99.0 96.8
99.2 96.5
100.4 96.0
101.3 95.0
101.9 94.8
102.9 94.2
102.9 92.6
102.6 92.0
89.5
88.2
87.4
87.4
87.1
87.1
86.8
86.5
86.1
85.2
84.1
83.7
81.8 96.7 100.0
80.9 96.4 98.3
79.8 98.5 99.7
78.9 97.8 97.9
77.9 99.0 97.4
77.0 98.6 98.6
76.6 100.5 96.0
76.4 100.0 93.6
77.1 103.3 93.6
77.8 102.7 92.9
77.6 101.9 91.0
77.0 104.7 91.3
87.5
88.4
89.1
85.2
84.7
84.1
83.3
82.1
81.4
79.9
79.7
77.8
74.1 99.2 98.9 90.0
72.6 94.6 94.4 87.1
71. b 96.2 93.9 87.8
68.9 95.5 97.3 90.1
69.7 97.3 96.7 89.9
66.2 97.4 93.9 89.1
64.7 93.6 89.0 83.9
63.1 93.6 85.6 81.8
63.1 97.6 92.0 86.6
63.9 101.7 95.5 89.8
63.3 106.7 98.4 90.9
62.6 126.2 115.1 106.2
84.3 99.0 99.7
80.5 94.5 96.0
81.4 96.1 95.5
81.6 96.0 97.5
80.9 97.1 97.3
79.4 98.6 9(5.8
74.6 95.9 91.7
72.6 95.2 87.6
77.8 99.2 92.4
81.3 102.6 95.1
81.7 105.2 96.8
95.2 120.6 107.7
89.4
86.7
87.5
88.3
88.0
87.6
83.3
80.3
83.5
84.6
85.4
94.1
78.0
73.7
73.4
72.7
71.1
68.2
63.3
60.7
64.6
67.1
66.9
73.6
Average___ 100.0 96.0 86.6 78.2 100.0 95.9 83.6 67. C100.0 95.9 89.4 80.9 100.0 96.2 86.6 69.4
Hotels
January............... 97.1 100.4
February............. 99.8 102.4
March................. 100.9 102.4
April.................— 99.7 100.1
M ay..................... 98.1 98.0
June..................... 99.3 98.0
J u ly --................. 101.1 101.3
August................. 102.6 101.5
September........... 102.8 100.1
October................ 100.6 97.5
November______ 100.0 95.2
December............ 97.7 93.5
95.0
96.8
96.8
95.9
92.5
91.6
93.3
92.8
90.6
87.4
84.9
83.1
83.2 98.5 100.3
84.3 102.0 103.8
84.0 103.4 104.4
82.7 100.6 100.3
80.1 98.9 98.4
78.0 98.7 98.1
78.4 99.8 99.8
77.6 99.4 98.6
77.0 100.2 97.1
75.4 100.2 95.5
74.3 99.8 93.6
73.2 98.9 91.5
Canning and preserving
91.0
93.7
93.4
89.9
87.7
85.4
85.2
83.8
81.9
79.7
77.1
75.4
73.9 50.8 46.1 48.9 35.0 57.3 50.3 46.1
73.9 48.9 45.7 48.3 37.1 59.2 51.5 48.6
72.4 49.4 49.7 53.0 36.3 54.9 50.8 50.3
69.6 90.6 74.8 59.6 47.0 98.9 72.6 57.1
67.0 62.0 65.7 56.0 40.5 71.2 66.9 56.0
63.8 76.6 83.0 70.6 55.5 71.9 81.5 58.6
61.8 126.8 126.3 102.2 73.0 109.2 112.7 74.2
59.6 184.8 185.7 142.9 99.0 180.1 172.0 104.7
59.1 210.1 246.6 180.1 125.3 207.9 214.8 129.4
58.6 143.3 164.7 108.1 81.1 134.5 140. C 77.6
57.5 95.1 96.7 60.8 50.5 91.6 82.9 48.1
56.6 61.3 61.6 40.7 33.7 63.4 57.4 36.9
31. 8
32.7
31. S
37.9
36.0
40.5
47.5
65.6
75.1
51.834.4
25.6
Average___ 100.0 99.2 91.7 .79.0 100.0 98.5 85.4 64. t 100.0 103.9 80.9 59.5 100.0 95.1 65.6 42.6
Laundries
January__________
February_______
March_________
April___________
M ay___________
June___________
July____________
August_____ __
September
October________
N ovem b er_ _
December
90.5
90.0
89.5
90.5
90.3
91.0
91.8
90.2
89.3
88.1
86.2
85.3
84.7
82.9
82.0
82.0
81.4
81.0
80.3
78.9
78.6
77.5
76.2
75.9
Dyeing and cleaning
86.6
85.6
85.6
86.8
86.5
87.1
87.4
84.6
84.1
81.8
78.9
77.4
76.4
73.3
71. C
71.4
70.6
68.6
G6.3
63.9
62.9
61.2
59.1
58.7
Average___ 100.0 ....... 89.4 80.1 100.0 ------ 84.4 67.0 100.0
88.9
87.4
88.0
95.7
96.7
99.0
98. C
93.5
95.3
94.2
90.1
84.9
82.1
80.5
80.6
83.3
84.5
85.1
82.4
79.5
83.3
82.3
78.0
75.2
92.7 81.4 100.0
77.7
75.1
75.6
86.3
86.6
89.1
86.2
80.0
82.6
81.4
74.7
67.9
65.8
62.2
61.7
65.9
67.3
65.8
60.0
56. a
61.0
58.8
52.3
48.4
80.3 60.5
Average Man-Hours Worked and Average Hourly Earnings
I N T H E following tables the bureau presents a tabulation of man-
hours worked per week and average hourly earnings, based on
reports supplied by identical establishments in November and Decem
ber, 1932, in 15 industrial groups and 73 manufacturing industries.
Man-hour data for the building construction group and for the in
surance, real estate, banking, and brokerage groups are not available,
and data for several of the 89 manufacturing industries surveyed
monthly are omitted from these tables due to lack of adequate in
formation.
The total number of establishments supplying man-hour data in
these 15 industrial groups represents approximately 50 per cent of
the establishments supplying monthly employment data.
155161—33------ 3
16
The tabulations are based on reports supplying actual man-hours
worked and do not include nominal man-hour totals, obtained by
multiplying the total number of employees in the establishment by
the plant operating time.
Table 1 shows the average hours worked per employee per week
and average hourly earnings in 15 industrial groups and for all groups
combined. The average hours per week and average hourly earnings
for the combined total of the 15 industrial groups are weighted
averages, wherein the average man-hours and average hourly earnings
in each industrial group are multiplied by the total number of
employees in the group in the current month and the sum of these
products divided by the total number of employees in the combined
15 industrial groups.
In presenting information for the separate manufacturing indus
tries, shown in Table 2, data are published for only those industries
in which the available man-hour information covers 20 per cent or
more of the total number of employees in the industry at the present
time. The average man-hours and hourly earnings for the combined
89 manufacturing industries have been weighted in the same manner
as the averages for all industrial groups combined, Table 1.
Per capita weekly earnings, computed by multiplying the average
man-hours worked per week by the average hourly earnings shown in
the following table, are not identical to the per capita weekly earnings
appearing elsewhere in this trend-of-employment compilation. As
already noted, the basic information upon which these average weekly
man-hours and average hourly earnings are computed covers approxi
mately 50 per cent of the establishments reporting in these groups
while the per capita weekly earnings for each of the separate manufac
turing industries and 17 industrial groups are obtained by dividing
the total weekly earnings in all establishments reporting by the total
number of employees in those establishments, which includes both
full-time and part-time workers.
1.—AVERAGE HOURS W ORKED PER W E E K PER E M PLO Y E E AND AVERAG E
H O U R LY EARNINGS IN 15 IN D U ST R IA L GROUPS, N O V E M BE R AN D D E C E M B E R ,
1932
T a b le
Average hours per
week
Average hourly
earnings
Industrial group
Novem Decem Novem Decem
ber, 1932 ber, 1932 ber, 1932 ber, 1932
Hours
Manufacturing........................................................................
Anthracite mining...................................................................
Bituminous coal mining.......... ..............................................
Metalliferous mining................. ..............................................
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining.............................. ..........
Crude petroleum producing ................................ ...................
Telephone and telegraph................. ........................... ...........
Power and light-------------- ------------ --------------------------------Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and maintenance.
Wholesale trade............................... ............................. .........
Retail trade................. ..................— .............- .....................
Hotels____________________ _______ ______ _____ ___ _____
Canning and preserving................................................... ......
Laundries---------- -------------------------------- ------- ------ -------- Dyeing and cleaning......................................... ......... .............
T ota l..............................................................................
38.4
28.8
30.4
40.6
35.7
47.3
38.5
43.7
45.4
46.8
44.7
51.0
39.3
42.4
44.2
41.7
Hours
38.2
31.8
30.4
40.3
33.6
44.9
38.7
44.2
46.3
46.8
44.5
51.7
40.0
42.2
43.3
41.6
Cents
43.6
81.8
47.9
47.2
42.2
61.8
69.4
65.5
59.5
56.1
43.4
25.3
32.6
35.2
38.6
46.4
Cents
43.3
82.1
47.6
46.6
42.5
63.6
68.9
65.3
59.2
56.1
41.3
24.9
34.4
35.1
37.6
45.5
17
T
3 . — AVERAG E HOURS W O R K E D PE R W EE K P E R EM PLO Y E E AND AVERAG E
H OU RLY EARNINGS, IN SELECTED M A N U FA C TU RIN G INDUSTRIES, N O V E M BE R
A N D D E C E M B E R , 1932
able
Average hours per
week
Average hourly
earnings
Industry
Novem Decem Novem Decem
ber, 1932 ber, 1932 ber, 1932 ber, 1932
Hours
Food and kindred products:
Slaughtering and meat packing
. . . , ....... .
44.7
C onfectionery_______ __________________________________
41.6
Tw fiream ,.
.
49.0
Flour............................. ...........................................................
46.8
Bftlring
....................
.......
46.1
47.5
Sugar refining, na^e
Beet sugar_____________________________________________
50.5
Beverages_________ _ _ ______________________________
39.0
Textiles and their products:
Cotton goods__________________________________________
46.4
Hosiery and knit goods
__
47.0
Silk goods____________________________________________
40.3
41.9
Woolen and worsted goods______________________________
Oarpftts and mgs
______
33.7
Dyfling and finishing textiles
44.3
Cotton small wares_____________________________________
40.9
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery:
Tron and steel „. ~ .........
.
25.8
Cast-iron pipe
_ _ _ ____ ___________________________
26. 7
Stmntnral and nrnamAntal ir^nworlr..
_
33.2
Hardware _____
- _ ________________ - _________
28.7
Steam fittings and steam and hot-water heating apparatus.
31.7
Stoves________________________________________________
35.3
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets_________________________
33.4
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge
tools________________________________________________
35.7
Forgings, iron and steel_________________________________
31.7
Plumbers’ supplies______ _________ _____________ _______
33.5
Tin cans and other tinware
_______________ >__________
40.1
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, files, or saws).
33.1
Lumber and allied products:
Lumber—
Sawmills________________________________ __________
37.7
Millwork____________________________ _____________
36.6
Furniture_____________________________________________
37.4
Leather and its manufactures:
Leather_______________________________________________
43.3
Paper:
Paper and pulp________________________________________
41.1
Paper boxes____________________________ _______________
43.1
PrintingBook and job______________________________________
36.9
Newspapers and periodicals_________________________
42.3
Chemicals and allied products:
Chemicals__________________________________ ___________
41.3
Fertilizers_____________________________________________
41.8
Petroleum refining_____________________________________
39.3
Druggists’ preparations_________________________________
40.7
Explosives.___ ____ ______________________________ _____
39.9
Paints and varnishes___________________________________
40.2
Rayon________________________________________________
45.6
Soap__________________________________________________
42.5
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Cement____ ________________ ____________________ ______
39.6
Brick, tile, and terra cotta______________________________
30.1
Pottery_______________________________________________
39.7
Glass___ __________________ ____ _______________________
37.2
28.9
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone products__________
Nonferrous metals and their products:
39.7
Stamped and enameled ware_______________ ____________
Brass, bronze, and copper products
___________________
33.6
Clocks, time-recording devices, and clock movements_____
39.7
Plated ware_______ _______ ______ ______ _______________
38.0
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc____________
32.4
Jewelry_______________________________________________
34.7
Tobacco manufactures:
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff_________________
39.4
Cigars and cigarettes__________________________________
39.0
Transportation equipment:
Automobiles___________ _______________________________
31.3
Aircraft_______________________________________________
44.7
Locomotives___________________________________________
27.3
Shipbuilding____ ____ ________ ____ _____________________
29.6
Rubber products:
Rubber tires and inner tubes____________________________
29.3
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner tubes.
37.2
Hours
45.9
43.0
47.6
46.2
45.5
50.2
35.7
40.5
Cents
45.2
33.7
51.7
43.7
43.6
45.1
36.7
60.3
Cents
44.7
33.5
52.2
43.9
43.4
42.2
38.0
59.7
45.8
45.1
41.1
43.9
32.9
45.0
40.9
22.7
31.3
31.5
36.0
41.1
39.7
35.9
22.3
31.0
30.8
36.0
42.4
39.1
35.7
24.9
28.4
31.6
31.0
30.3
28.4
32.2
48.8
43.6
49.9
46.1
50.8
46.6
44.3
48.8
44.8
47.7
45.1
50.9
47.7
44.6
35.8
33.0
27.9
41.9
32.8
51.2
47.8
49.8
40.3
47.1
50.4
46.9
47.4
40.7
46.7
34.5
34.4
35.5
31.3
37.2
34.5
30.3
36.6
35.3
43.1
40.4
39.8
39.4
41.2
43.3
40.5
43.2
40.9
37.5
42.3
66.3
76.2
65.7
76.1
40.9
44.3
39.3
41.6
37.9
39.7
46.1
41.0
52.1
30.7
63.8
44.7
55.7
53.1
37.9
42.1
51.7
30.4
63.6
44.6
55.9
52.6
37.6
43.6
34.8
29.5
38.1
35.4
29.8
41.1
35.2
39.5
45.7
58.5
43.1
36.0
40.5
43.9
57.9
37.5
32.1
40.4
35.1
31.9
33.9
38.8
46.0
43.1
49.2
48.6
50.0
37.9
45.7
42.3
46.3
48.1
52.7
40.5
40.6
32.8
30.9
32.7
31.3
34.1
46.1
27.7
33.4
60.4
68.0
57.3
63.4
58.4
67.2
46.5
60.6
29.7
38.4
58.5
45.1
59.0
42.9
18
2.—AV E R AG E HOURS W O R K E D PE R W EE K PE R EM PLO Y E E AND A V E R A G E
H OU RLY EARNINGS, IN SELECTED M A N U FA C TU RIN G INDU STRIES, N O V E M BE R
A N D D E C E M B E R , 1932—Continued
T a b le
Average hours per
week
Average hourly
earnings
Industry
Novem Decem Novem Decem
ber, 1932 ber, 1932 ber, 1932 ber, 1932
Machinery, not including transportation equipment:
Agricultural implements________________________________
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies __________
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels____________
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines.
Foundry and machine shop products____________________
Machine tools_________________________________________
Textile machinery and parts____________________________
Typewriters and supplies_______________________________
Radio____________________ ________ ________ ____ ______ _
Railroad repair shops:
Electric railroad________________________________________
Steam railroad_________________________________________
Hours
29.7
31.3
31.4
34.4
29.0
31.3
29.3
28.9
37.2
Hours
29.6
31.0
33.0
34.5
29.8
31.4
31.1
35.1
36.0
Cents
48.2
57.4
56.5
67.1
52.7
56.9
58.5
48.1
44.1
Cents
48.9
57.7
56.2
67.4
52.0
56.5
58.4
47.5
43.6
43.0
35.9
45.0
36.1
57.5
62.7
57.5
62.2
Employment in Building Construction in December, 1932
HERE was a decrease of 15.6 per cent in employment in the
building construction industry in December, 1932, as compared
with November, 1932, and pay-roll totals decreased 20.7 per cent
over the month interval.
The per cents of change of employment and pay-roll totals in
December, 1932, as compared with November, 1932, are based on
returns made by 10,090 firms employing in December 66,836 workers
in the various trades in the building construction industry. These
reports cover building operations in various localities in 34 States and
the District of Columbia.
T
COMPARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND T O TAL PAY ROLL IN THE BUILDING CON
STRUCTION IN D U STRY IN ID EN TICAL FIRMS, N OVEM BER AN D DEC E M B E R ,
1932
Locality
Alabama: Birmingham....................
California:
Los Angeles 1............................. .
San Francisco-Oakland 1............
Other reporting localities1.........
Colorado: Denver......... ....................
Connecticut:
B ridgeport................................
Hartford......................................
New Haven...............................
Delaware: Wilmington.....................
District of Columbia.........................
Florida:
Jacksonville______ _______ ____
Miami.........................................
Georgia: Atlanta...............................
Illinois:
Chicago 1....... ..............................
Other reporting localities1.........
Indiana:
Evansville.......... ........................
Fort Wayne................................
Indianapolis...................... .........
South Bend.................................
Num Number on pay roll
ber of
Per
firms
cent of
report Nov. 15 Dec. 15 change
ing
Nov. 15
Dec. 15
Per
cent of
change
67
528
422
-2 0.1
$7,067
$4,660
-3 4 .1
24
25
20
186
799
780
522
702
878
604
380
567
+9.9
-2 2 .6
-2 7 .2
-1 9 .2
16,288
15,783
11,835
14,230
16,307
12,485
8,065
11,868
+ .1
-2 0 .9
-3 1 .9
-1 6 .6
118
209
176
111
533
548
1,002
1,095
1,137
7,476
444
910
986
1,000
7,336
-1 9.0
-9 .2
-1 0 .0
-1 2 .0
-1 .9
11,612
23,473
26,578
22,114
208,064
10,456
20,159
25,239
20,611
192,232
-1 0 .0
-1 4.1
- 5 .0
- 6 .8
- 7 .6
46
71
126
250
546
1,210
320
511
1,046
+28.0
-6 .4
-1 3.6
3,972
10,281
19,633
5,029
11,212
13,148
+26.6
+9.1
-3 3 .0
132
71
1,180
381
887
283
-2 4 .8
-2 5.7
34,840
8,590
22,026
4,964
-3 6 ,8
-4 2 .2
46
95
163
41
250
356
716
170
192
255
649
180
-2 3 .2
-2 8 .4
-9 .4
+5.9
4,095
5,891
15,802
3,110
3,129
3,621
13,672
3,032
-2 3 .6
-3 8 .5
-1 3 .5
- 2 .5
J Data supplied by cooperating State bureaus*
Amount of pay roll
19
COMPARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND TO TAL PAY ROLL IN THE BUILDING CON
STRU CTION IN DU STRY IN ID E N T ICA L FIRMS, NOVEM BER AND DEC E M B E R ,
1932—Continued
Locality
Num Number on pay roll
ber of
firms
report Nov. 15 Dec. 15
ing
Per
cent of
change
846
464
767
1,259
498
914
534
419
606
1,239
418
849
740
5,651
413
45
97
2,807
159
490
53
225
151
Iowa: Des Moines............................
Kansas: Wichita...............................
Kentucky: Louisville......._ .............
Louisiana: New Orleans..................
Maine: Portland.............. ...............
Maryland: Baltimore 1.....................
Massachusetts: All reporting lo
calities 1....... ..................................
Michigan:
Detroit........................................
Flint....... ...................................
Grand Rapids............................
Minnesota:
Duluth....... .................................
Minneapolis....... .........................
St. Paul.......................................
Missouri:
Kansas City 2...... ................ ......
St. Louis.....................................
Nebraska: Omaha............................
New York:
New York City 1........................
Other reporting localities 1.........
North Carolina: Charlotte...... ........
Ohio:
Akron....... ................ ............... .
Cincinnati a................................
Cleveland------- ---------------------Dayton!....... ........................ ......
Youngstown. .............................
Oklahoma:
Oklahoma City..... .....................
Tulsa____ ___________________
Oregon: Portland------------ -----------Pennsylvania:4
Erie area 1.................... ...........
Philadelphia area 1 ................. .
Pittsburgh area 1........................
Reading-Lebanon area 1_______
Scranton area 1......... .................
Other reporting areas *...............
Rhode Island: Providence________
Tennessee:
Chattanooga...............................
Knoxville-........................ .........
Memphis................. ..................
Nashville............................. ......
Texas:
Dallas.........................................
El Paso.......... ...........................
Houston______ _______ _______
San Antonio_________________
Utah: Salt Lake C it y ......... ..........
Virginia:
Norfolk-Portsmouth...................
Richmond______ ____ __ _____
Washington:
Seattle................... .....................
Spokane__________ __________
Tacoma___________ ___ ______
West Virginia: Wheeling_________
Wisconsin: All reporting localities K
Total, all localities..................
Per
cent of
change
Nov. 15
Dec. 15
-36.9
-9 .7
-21.0
-1 .6
-16.1
-7 .1
$14,007
9,286
12,894
21,087
10,452
16,339
$10,224
7,166
9,475
19,124
8,821
14, 454
-27.0
-22.8
-26.5
-9 .1
-1 5.6
-11.5
4,526
-19.9
141,923
109,647
-22.7
2,283
109
462
-18.7
-31.4
-5 .7
62,461
2, 528
9,532
47,006
1,820
9,181
-24.7
-28.0
-3 .7
326
1,240
797
299
1,015
554
-8 .3
-18.1
-30.5
6,318
25,827
18,662
5,805
20, 665
10, 449
-8 .1
-20.0
-44.0
241
453
137
1,383
2, 501
625
987
1,932
521
-28.6
-2 2.8
-16.6
28,377
65,742
12,966
21,925
47,991
10,659
-22.7
-2 7.0
-1 7.8
331
179
39
9,383
4,147
199
7,134
3,583
171
-24.0
-13.6
-14.1
350,746
122,801
2,711
247,831
01, 284
2,461
-29.3
-25.7
-9 .2
74
474
465
113
65
288
2,672
2, 601
394
274
248
2,199
2,249
464
193
-13.9
-17.7
-13.5
+17.8
-2 9.6
4,334
62,618
64,843
7,765
4,661
3,619
48,768
55,896
7,944
3,156
-16.5
-22.1
-13.8
+2.3
-32.3
81
42
176
340
156
760
265
147
549
-22.1
-5 .8
-27.8
5,019
2,388
16,068
4,442
2, 249
9,812
-11.5
-5 .8
-38.9
23
435
238
42
36
291
230
201
3,778
1,500
273
193
2,098
1,353
90
3,260
1,197
196
150
1,689
1,181
-55.2
-13.7
-2 0.2
-28.2
-22.3
-19.5
-12.7
3,432
82, 539
37, 186
4,724
3,909
39,679
30,084
1,985
65,491
29, 596
3, 631
3,114
31, 262
25,895
-42.2
-20.7
-20.4
-23.1
-20.3
-21.2
-13.9
35
48
90
67
268
547
352
663
304
450
381
631
+13.4
-17.7
+8.2
-4 .8
3,882
5,966
6,404
10,082
3,748
4,963
6,401
8,824
-3 .5
-16.8
(*)
-12.5
145
20
129
94
79
982
142
741
546
297
724
212
580
467
276
-26.3
+49.3
-21.7
-14.5
-7 .1
14, 856
1,934
13,013
8, 244
6,322
10, 742
2,743
8, 785
6,622
5,285
-27.7
+41.8
—32.5
—19.7
-16.4
88
137
465
900
535
807
+15.1
-10.3
7, 871
16,984
8, 258
14, 490
+4.9
-14.7
149
50
74
41
61
769
167
83
130
1,126
593
140
107
122
939
-22.9
—16. 2
+28.9
-6 .2
-16.6
16,738
3, 049
1,231
2,397
21,944
12,817
2, 253
1,869
2,083
18,446
—23.4
—26.1
+51.8
—13.1
-15.9
10,090
79,163
66,836
-15.6 1,908,033 1, 513,092
-20.7
104
67
121
120
98
115
1Data supplied by cooperating State bureaus.
2 Includes both Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kans.
3 Includes Covington and Newport, Ky.
* Each separate area includes from 2 to 8 counties.
5 No change.
Amount of pay roll
20
Trend of Em ploym ent in December, 1932, by States
I N THE following table are shown the fluctuations in employment
and pay-roll totals in December, as compared with November,
1932, in certain industrial groups by States. These tabulations have
been prepared from data secured directly from reporting establish
ments and from information supplied by cooperating State agencies.
The combined total of all groups does not include building-construction data, information concerning which is published elsewhere in a
separate tabulation by city and State totals. In addition to the com
bined total of all groups, the trend of employment and pay rolls in
the manufacturing, public utility, hotel, wholesale trade, retail trade,
bituminous coal mining, crude-petroleum producing, quarrying and
nonmetallic mining, metalliferous mining, laundries, and dyeing and
cleaning groups is presented. In this State compilation, the totals
of the telephone and telegraph, power and light, and electric-railroad
operation groups have been combined and are presented as one
group— public utilities. Due to the extreme seasonal fluctuations in
the canning and preserving ind ustry, and the fact that during certain
months the activity in this industry in a number of States is negligible,
data for this industry are not presented separately. The number of
employees and the amount of weekly pay roll in November and
December as reported by identical establishments in this industry
are included, however, in the combined total of “ All groups.”
The per cents of change shown in the accompanying tables, unless
otherwise noted, are unweighted per cents of change; that is, the
industries included in the groups and the groups comprising the total
of all groups, have not been weighted according to their relative
importance in the combined totals.
As the anthracite mining industry is confined entirely to the State
of Pennsylvania, the changes reported in this industry in the sum
mary table are the fluctuations in this industry by State total.
When the identity of any reporting company would be disclosed by
the publication of a State total for any industrial group, figures for
the group do not appear in the separate industrial-group tabulation,
but are included in the State totals for “ All groups.” Data are not
presented for any industrial group when the representation in the
State covers less than three establishments.
21
COMPARISON OF E M PLO Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN IDENTICAL E STA B LISH
M ENTS IN NOVEM BER AND DE C E M B E R , 1932, B Y STATES
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports' issued
by cooperating State organizations]
State
Total—all groups
Manufacturing
Num
Num ber
of Per
on
Per Amount
ber. of payroll,
payroll
estab Decem cent
(1 week), cent
of
of
lish
Decem change
ber,
change ber,
ments
1932
1932
Num
Num ber
of Per
on
Per Amount
ber of payroll,
pay roll
(1 week), cent
estab Decem cent
of
of
lish
Decem change
ber, ! change ber,
1932
ments
1932
Alabama.
459
Arkansas_______
lU6
A rizona..-............
376
California— -.
*1,912
741
Colorado. _ - ------Connecticut— ___ 1,042
Delaware___ ____
125
District of Colum
bia........... ......... 2 629
521
Florida______ _
632
Georgia._________
Idaho___________
Illinois.---______
Indiana..—______
Iowa____________
Kansas______ — _
201
48, 734
+0.5
- 1.9
+3.1
+•-?
5,503,839
596,879
132,351
8,947
-1 .9
+3.0
33,196
22,869
69,181
+7.1
+3.0
-2 .3
14,577
8,145
233,560
31,445
-.6
9,066
-4 .9
- 2.2
- 1.2
41,875 + (4)
31,462
1,171
1,133
255,238
110,666
202
181
33, 638
+0.4
$341,618
- 1 .7
57
1, 876
-.4
114,534
- 6.8
1,115
121
112,297
12,490
-7 .7
2.363,169
185,680
- 2.6
+4.9
641
52
112,701
6,726
781,325
372,721
834, 600
+3.1
49
125
303
$525,405
-0 .9
204,533
- 5 .1
163, 770
+2.5
-.7
-.8
- 2.2
152, 349 -14.2
5,168,610
- 1.2
1,992, 563
797,416
+ .9
+ 1. 8
9,216
- 5 .9
39, 651
2,539,668
- 2.0
—5.2
+4. 3
- 4 .1
196,181
-23.2
-2 .5
+4.9
1,874, 762
136,698
-3 .4
+7.0
3,483
13, 557
56,658
-. 1
-5 .6
-.7
117, 738
191,348
577,619
- 1.1
-8 .4
-2 .4
43
5,334
-8 .4
80,754
153,889
-3 .3
- 2.0
2,641,294
1, 431,390
-19.6
977
571
436
81, 279
22,758
+ .5
421,149
- 2.1
+ .6
H, 078
65, 508
- 1.1
1,454, ^55
- 2 .9
448
24, 269
-■ 4
504,852
+5.4
-.4
Kentucky..—. ___
788
Louisiana_______
486
548
Maine___ ______
3817
Maryland.______
Massachusetts.. . . 77,708
54, 757
28,994
37,476
-4 .9
-3 .3
-3 .6
816,786
415,401
599,150
-9 .6
-3 .8
-1 .7
204
+ 3.5
- 1 .3
+ 2 .6
- 1.2
-13.0
-7 .9
-. 6
1,506,341
6,808,879
-9 .0
-4 .0
-1 .5
6 —. 5
284, 591
222,355
465,301
82,677
329,983
18, 843
17,605
31,230
Michigan......... .
1,384
998
Minnesota-______
378
Mississippi______
Missouri—. ______ 1,118
320
Montana..______
233, 264
59,963
8,130
101,851
8,805
+5.9
-2 .4
- 1.2
+1.3
4, 697,993
1, 226, 755
101,370
2,029, 572
209,498
+ 6.2
-4 .0
- 6.2
+ 1.6
N e b r a s k a .____
601
122
Nevada.............._.
446
New Hampshire _.
Netv Jersey____ — 1,422
New M exico-.. ..
179
21, 730
-5 .4
32,956
176,417
4, 690
440, 520
30, 511
512, 260
3, 812, 479
81, 111
- 8.2
-5 .6
+ .9
+ 1.2
New York_______ 4,306
874
North Carolina__
North Dakota___
306
Ohio___________
4,716
Oklahoma..... ........
686
484,242
107,903
3, 536
351, 645
26, 067
+ . 6 11,100,922
- 2.2 1,187,587
-6 .3
80, 712
+ 1.2 6,283,857
-.3
520,481
- . 3 91,671
-5 .1
533
-1 .4
57
-.2
1,919
120
- 2.8
Oregon__________
693
Pennsylvania....... 4,072
894
Rhode Island-----321
South Carolina___
South Dakota____
229
24,994
580,985
54,113
49, 548
5, 655
-8 .4
462, 064
-1 .3 10, 362,642
-1 .5
962,432
+1.5
475, 418
+ .3
131, 836
- 8.8
+• 2
+ 2.6
715
Tennessee_______
Texas....................
721
332
U tah ........... ........
346
Vermont________
Virginia_________ 1,275
59, 707
798,852
-2 .9
268
43,439
-.9
366
29,439
Washington_____ 1,176
West Virginia____
745
Wisconsin........ ___ io1,087
Wyoming_______
181
1,202
53,338
14,349
9,067
81,374
48, 686
79,660
120,994
6,067
-.2
-.2
+ .5
+ .9
-.4
-.6
+• 4
+ 1.2
- 1.0
-.1
-2 .4
-.8
—1.2
-3 .6
1,180,996
+ .8
+ .6
+5.4
210
189
821,363
2,586,127
6 - 1 .3
-3 .8
168,605
+ 8.1
29, 762
4,473
56, 827
3,122
-4 .6
-.9
+1.4
-5 .0
3, 340, 372
+ 3 .2
11, 200
227
29, 298
-9 . 5
-7 .3
48 ,852
152,032
383
279
63
518
48
128
450
22
185
s702
24
155
1, 743
268
177
49
275,215
166,094
1, 272,191
—. 7
-3 .2
-.9
975,908
1,268,113
-3 .7
- 2.0
252
184
1,939,691
- 6 .5
—6. 7
806
142, 773
-3 .8
1,101
83
116
442
25
159,372
+ .6
•4
333 -19.4
299,825
- 3 .1
14, 041
103,143
1,027
250, 717
8, 606
317,597
42, 573
45, 789
2,271
-2 .4
-3 .1
-.4
- 1.0
582,503
47,470
1,004,988
59,792
213, 686
5,920
425, 203
3, 306,044
5, 586
6, 484,728
-6 .5
-8 .7
+ 2.6
—5. 4
-14.5
- 11.2
+ .7
-. 1
-11. 5
- 3 .6
1,116,810
24, 910
4, 301, 777
162, 502
-5 .4
-3 .6
-1 .5
-2 . 5
-3 .0
217, 717
- 2.8
4,651,669
- 11.0
- 2.6
+1.4
+ 1.6
704, 798
422,008
44,302
-1 .9
550, 510
- .2
574,619
+1.4
104, 701
85, 308
852,006
5, 848
4,871
56,444
22,485
31,233
- 2.0
-1 .5
+ .1
-.4
91,384 a - 1 .5
1,515 - 12.2
416,894
536,967
1, 361,254
37, 722
- 4 .0
+3.7
+. 5
+23.0
-4 .5
- 1 .3
+3.0
-3 .5
- 2.1
-4 .4
-2 .4
6 - 5 .7
-11.4
1 Includes automobile dealers and garages, and sand, gravel, and building construction.
2Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
3 Includes building and contracting.
4 Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent.
5 Includes transportation, financial institutions, restaurants, and building construction.
6 Weighted per cent of change.
7Includes construction, municipal, agricultural, and office employment, amusement and recreation,
professional and transportation services.
s Includes laundries.
9Includes laundering and cleaning.
10Includes construction, but does not include hotels and restaurants.
22
COMPARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN ID E N TICA L ESTABLISHM ENTS
IN N O V EM BER AND D E CEM BER, 1932, BY STATES—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
by cooperating State organizations]
State
Alabama. ..............
Arkansas___ ____
Arizona------- -----California............
Colorado...............
Connecticut.........
Delaware-----------District of Co
lumbia...............
..........
Florida.
Georgia.. ----------
Wholesale trade
Retail trade
Num
Num ber
of Per
on
Per Amount
pay roll
ber of pay roll,
(1 week), cent
estab Decem cent
of
of
Decem change
lish
ber,
change ber,
1932
ments
1932
Num
Num ber
of Per
on
Per Amount
ber of pay roll,
pay roll
(1 week), cent
estab Decem cent
of,
of
lish
Decem change
change ber,
ber,
ments
1932
1932
16
851
17
484
-0 .4
- 1.1
(n)
$22,038
31
138
191
114
273
2,511 +7.2
1,862
-.3
1,775 +16.0
32,732 +29.8
4,853 + 20.0
$33,192
SI, 802
26, 669
602,039
94, 387
+ 1.2
_(«>
+3.9
+18.2
+7.4
30
826
-1 .0
22, 587
-3 .5
-1 .6
(»)
+ .*
-2 .5
56
9
1, 233
168
+. 5
+1.2
34, 678
4, 673
-1 .9
- 1.1
126
11
5,775 +10.4
253 +39.0
107,138
3,208
+5.2
+24.6
31
51
33
412
836
410
-1 .7
+1.5
-.5
13,058
19, 684
11, 241
- 2.2
+ .4
+ .3
400
82
32
13, 292 + 21.0
1,133 +21.4
2,315 +10.7
259, 396
21, 844
35,150
+ 11.2
+16.8
+5.8
108
3,050
69
66
163
127
SS5
763 +9.0
18,5S9 +S.0
7,150 + 22.2
3,660 +5.8
6,897 +9.9
13, 230
422,578
117, 891
57, 974
114,853
+. 8
+3.5
+14.1
-.5
+2.1
29
54
7o
85
3,923
1, 514 +2.3
3, 796 +8.9
1,285 +12.9
7,180 +28.6
62,999 +9.4
23, 547
54,948
22,092
116,002
1,258,936
+1.7
+11.3
+9.7
+ 27.6
+26.4
+6.9
+ 11.0
+ 20.6
+11.3
241, 364
138, 345
5, 716
136. 097
19, 201
+18.8
+ .5
+4.5
+10.4
+ .5
86
29
58
409
50
1,675 + 12.8
222
(“ )
731 +18.1
10, 059 +27.9
296 + 12.1
29,405
5,511
11,004
204,039
5, 737
+ 6.8
-2 .9
+9.6
+19.3
+1.4
22
80
7
193
4,793
- .2
11,988
5,170
141,669
62
37
1,162
1, 024
-3 .6
(«)
-.9
-3 .5
30,141
26, 691
67
1,824
- 5 .7
42,996
- 2.8
-l.S
- 2.2
- 2.6
-8 .5
19
22
17
379
602
412
7, 280
12,987
9,818
S3
654
16,077
357,374
-3 .0
+. 8
+ 1.2
740
IS, 466
-5 .2
+ .7
+ .2
- .6
- 2 .8
Michigan.... ..........
Minnesota............
Mississippi.......... Missouri-............ .
Montana..... .........
61
63
5
55
1, 598
4,189
117
4,613
194
-.7
-1 .2
+ .9
-.6
+ .5
45,903
110, 939
2,379
116,103
5,660
Nebraska............
Nevada............ .
New Hampshire..
New Jersey. ____
New Mexico.........
34
7
17
26
6
New York.............
North Carolina__
North Dakota___
O h io ....................
Oklahoma.............
322
18
13
230
52
7,793
238
203
4,888
892
+. 6
-3 .6
-1 .5
-.4
-1 .4
240,682
5,962
5,970
128,548
23,075
-1 .5
+ .9
-.3
- 2.1
1,199
174
38
1, 595
104
68,912 +20.5
629
-.6
490 +13.2
36, 729 +18.5
1,997 +7.7
1,447,695
10, 860
7,138
649, 918
32, 587
+ 12.6
-3 .4
+5. 2
+ 12.1
+ .3
Oregon—...............
Pennsylvania____
Rhode Island........
South Carolina___
South Dakota____
50
135
43
16
10
1,165
3, 633
1,072
244
122
-1 .9
-.1
+3.4
+1.2
-3 .9
31,662
98,992
26, 344
5,169
3,592
-3 .3
-.7
+2. 5
-.4
- 1.6
223
311
506
15
15
2, 239 +3.9
30, 337 +14.4
5,471 + 10.1
589 +17.3
190 -5 .0
42, 996
573,334
108,108
4, 964
2,509
+5.3
+ 11.6
+5.0
+13.4
Tennessee.............
Texas.....................
Utah......................
Vermont...........
Virginia_________
36
642
13,842
56
63,957
+ 12.1
2,070
- 1.6
4,103 +14.2
98
467
109
1,054
(“ )
+ 3.6
-.6
-1 .8
+ .2
54,523
+ 1.0
+• 1
- 1.2
62
86
5,202
94, 524
96
33
2,199
582
-1 .3
+ .9
46
1,968
59,185
15,097
- 1.8
47,210
Idaho...................Illinois.................
Indiana............ .
Iowa____________
Kansas__________
Kentucky_______
Louisiana..............
M a in e .............. .
Maryland.. ..........
Massachusetts___
Washington_____
West Virginia.......
Wisconsin.............
Wyoming.............
13
11
15
5
49
8
806
876
-.6
78 -16.1
200 +2.6
52? +1.7
70 -5 .4
54
-1 .8
19,806
- 2.0
-2 .9
-. 1
- 1.8
+ .4
24,434 - 2.1
2,992 - 10.1
5,101 - 1.0
16, 308
-. 1
2,723 +9.8
11, 299
2,877
25,207
1, 702
4 Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent.
-.6
-2 .3
+ .8
-2 .4
-1 .7
- 2.1
-.7
-1 .6
178
282
58
136
87
38
477
13, 717
8,156
536
7,310
983
+7.S
751 + 6.8
532 +20.9
5,614 +17.0
14, 484
8,091
96,674
473
50
7, 888 +21.3
1, 213 +23.8
139, 711
17, 522
57
10,593 +19.1
148, 492
49
257
+1.6
11 No change.
6, 633
+ 6 .3
+ .1
+ 2.0
+3.5
+16.6
+12.5
+9.7
+7.6
+ 12.1
+ 1.8
23
COMPARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN IDENTICAL ESTABLISHM ENTS
IN N O V E M BE R AN D DEC E M B E R , 1932, BY STATES—Continued
Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
by cooperating State organizations]
State
Alabama...............
Arkansas...............
Arizona.................
California_______
Colorado________
Quarrying and nonmetal lie mining
Metalliferous mining
Num
of Per
Num ber
Per Amount
on
pay roll
ber of pay roll,
(1 week), cent
estab Decem cent
of
of
Decem change
lish
change ber,
ber,
1932
ments
1932
Num
Num ber
of Per
on
Per Amount
ber of
pay roll
roll, cent (1
week), cent
estab pay
Decem
of
of
lish
Decem change
change ber,
ber,
ments
1932
1932
9
9
523
497
- 2.1
+4.4
$5,209 - 10.2
3,714 -26.1
33
3
1,095 -7 .7
5 -54.5
20,477 - 8.8
48 -71.4
9
103 -35.2
1,729 -34.4
8
15
482
837
5,818
9,821
27
34
18
357 -41.1
538 -25.5
250 -28.8
—.7
7U
Kentucky.............
Louisiana_______
Maine...................
Maryland_______
Massachusetts
26
4
12
815 -27.2
487 - 8.1
109 - 66.6
214 + 2.9
2,911 + 19.7
Michigan_____ _
............
Mississippi............
Missouri...............
Montana. .............
23
7
4
13
4
471 -53.6
79Minnesota
—26.2
65 —7.1
185 -2 8.0
14
(“ )
6,349 -57. 3
1,013 —38. 4
618 —22.7
2,688 -15.7
235 +76.7
Nebraska.............
Nevada.................
New* Hampshire..
New Jersey______
New Mexico_____
12
171 +8.9
41 +105.0
4,195 +9.8
1,313 +193.1
Connecticut_____
Delaware________
District of Colum
bia______ _____
Florida__________
Georgia_________
Idaho....... .............
Illinois__________
Indiana................
Iowa.___________
Kansas..................
New York______
North Carolina.
North Dakota
Ohio....... ............ .
Oklahoma.. ____
Oregon__________
Pennsylvania.......
Rhode Island____
South Carolina___
South Dakota____
Tennessee_____
Texas___________
Utah_______ ____
Vermont________
Virginia_________
Washington_____
West Virginia.......
Wisconsin.............
W yoming.-______
17
8
3
+4.3
- 1.8
—.8
66
1,624 -18.1
59 -1 .7
23, 533 —29.5
687 -9 .0
5
3
- 8.0
22, 057 -10.4
56 -9 .7
14 -39.1
201 -40. 4
19
1, 043
+2.5
13, 099
301
—1. 7
- 6.8
6,407
—5.1
8
8
13
11 No change.
1,953
846
-2 .5
-4 .5
38, 597 —5. 1
7, 281 —16.1
157 -19.1
320 +4.9
2,802 -49.4
3, 538 + 8.8
88
- 6 .4
11
1,956
13
574
+4.0
38,966
-.7
16,049
+4.2
-.8
37, 881
- 11.8
—■4
11,340
-.3
37
33
4,450 +30.3
1,117 -11.4
47,446
12, 843
+25.7
-25.9
13
15
1,027
1,291
+• 1
+ 8.6
19,841
36, 762
+ .4
+9.4
12
97
+5.4
2,449
- 20.0
5
829
-.2
15, 858
+ 11.2
30
1, 275
—8.6
18, 035
-12.5
6
56
-5 .1
946
-7 .9
268 -28. 5
11
36
15
- 2.6
+ .8
-1 .9
49,831
4,692 -22. 7
2,425 -65. 7
26,147 —17. 3
1,007 -32.9
2,329
665
1,409
$10,853
6, 321 -18.2
1,463 -15.1
140 -22.7
59
14
25
+. 7 .
+ .6
43
9
4
1,004
2,318
+2.3
5,934 -43.3
6,340 —28.6
3,025 -48.7
17,088
+ 2.2
9
16
955 -1 0 .3
4
204
+2.5
2, 669
-1 .7
11
2,036
+1.4
38, 237
- 2.6
|
1
24
COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PA Y ROLLS IN ID E N T IC A L ESTABLISHM ENTS IN N OV E M BE R AN D D E C E M B E R , 1932, BY STATES—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
by cooperating State organizations]
State
Alabama. ________
Arkansas________
Arizona_________
California
Colorado________
Bituminous coal mining
Crude petroleum producing
Num
Num- ber on
of Per
Per Amount
bGt tof) payroll, cent
pay roll
(1 week), cent
estab Decem
of
of
lish
Decem change
ber,
change ber,
ments
1932
1932
Num
Num ber
of Per
on
Per . Amount
ber of
pay roll ■ cent
payroll,
(1 week),
estab Decem cent
of
of
lish
Decem change
change ber,
ber,
ments
1932
1932
37
5
6,622 + 0.1
298 -55.2
$58,926 +8.9
8,838 -16.4
40
4,925
+3.2
93, 726 +13.6
28
43
19
U
5,409 + 11. S
5,438 + 2.8
2,194 +2.4
1,785
+.1
122,484 +20.8
113,264 +7.1
47,277
+• 1
24,714
+. 0
8
405
+7.4
$9, 545
- 2.0
40
4,292
+1.3
130,615
- 1.0
+1.7
Connfictip.nt
Delaware........... .
District of Colum
bia _________
Florida..................
Georgia____ _____
Idaho____.............
Illinois . . . .
Indiana.............
Iowa________
Kansas.......... ........
Kentucky.............
Louisiana______
Maine__
Maryland . .
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota____
Mississippi ____
Missouri__
Montana_______
Nebraska___ _
Nevada____
New Hampshire
New Jersey___
New Mexico_____
New York............
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio.................... .
Oklahoma..........
Oregon _______
Pennsylvania.......
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas___________
Utah
Vermont_______
Virginia
Washington __
West Virginia.......
Wisconsin______
Wyoming_______
5
32
(»)
609
35
1,604
C11)
36,631
-4 .8
6
8
205
164
+ 1.0
+4.5
3,885
4, 517
+<*)
+13.7
+3.7
136
23,341
—1. 8
296,485 -11.9
u
1,454
—.2
14,420 +88.8
3
839
- 2.1
21,026 +17.3
18
10
1,388
855
+3.4
-1 .3
27, 233
25,848
+9.1
+3.0
4
28 + 12.0
726
14
2,024
+1.1
31,432
-.8
5
51 +15.9
1,530
+8.9
- 2.1
4,649
-5 .0
44 +10.0
4, 537 +1.0
664
111,314
+3.6
—5. 0
j
6
61
13
9,377 +11.9
706 +9.0
367
51,340
136,452 +12.5
12,620 -5 .6
6
63
+ ( 4)
623,563
-6 .0
21
512
- 2.1
12,076
-2 .5
8
7,109
+1.2
248,871
+ ./
336
+4.0
7,826
+1.0
61 -16.4
2,311
-3 .4
15
2,529
+ .3
25,627
-1 .7
15
2,043
+7.2
48, 751
-2 .6
36
8,844
+1.6
119,945
+3.2
10
257
1,369
38,316
+1.6
-.9
33, 713
517,107
+4.3
-2 .3
8
30
3,476
-.6
79, 729
-6 .7
6
* Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent.
190
u No change.
25
COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN IDEN TICAL ESTABLISH
M EN TS IN N OV E M BE R AND D E C E M B E R , 1932, B Y STATES—Continued
[Figures in Italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued by
cooperating State organizations]
State
Public utilities
Hotels
Num
Num ber
of Per
on
Per Amount
ber of
pay roll
roll, cent (1
cent
week),
estab pay
of
of
lish Decem
Decem change
change ber,
ber,
1932
ments
1932
i
Num
Num-, ber
Amount of Per
on
Per
ber of
pay roll
roll, cent (1
week), cent
estab pay
of
of
lish Decem
change Decem change
ber,
ments
ber,
1932
1932
1,911
-0 .1
66
1, 205
-1 .6
51
47,094
-.3
Alabama________
Arkansas...............
Arizona_________
California...........
Colorado________
123
Connecticut_____
Delaware-----------District of Colum
bia____________
Florida__________
Georgia......... ........
Idaho.................
Illinois............... .
Indiana.......... ......
Iowa............ ..........
Kansas........ ..........
49
1,078 -1 7 .7
-2 .7
24
1,130
-4 .3
26,671 -1 0 .4
16
12
353
+7.3
$9,645
7, 430
5,176
-.9
199
9,098
+ 1 .4
143,613
16,187
-4 .7
$38, 792
31,056
1,267,688
-1 .8
-2 .2
+ .4
14,752
2,986
-3 .4
-1 .6
54
38
34
3, 665 -1 .8
906 +28.3
1,345 +6.6
56,952
9, 773
11,103
+• 5
+28. 7
+4.6
-.2
-2 .8
22
185
186
8, 289
4,176
6,741
+ .3
-1 .4
-.4
239, 016
109, 577
181,577
-.2
+ .8
-1 .1
664
-1 .0
-.7
-1 .0
-1 .1
+ .8
13,824
-2 .9
14
-.3
12 44
66,486
9,646
9, 535
27
6,996
Kentucky.. ..........
304
153
Louisiana_______
169
Maine__________
84
Maryland.............
Massachusetts___ *3139
6,801
4,287
2,830
Michigan________
Minnesota......... .
Mississippi____ _
Missouri________
Montana........ ......
1,794,905
-.9
-1 .5
229,688
214, 282
157, 876
- 1 .5
-.8
1,132
255
9,858
1.091
56
-1 4
30
7
143
28
138,333 , + - 8
+ .4
304,295
-.2
31, 734
66
-4 .2
+5.7
1,149
-1 .0
148
427
- 4.6
29
5,322
195
727
56
49
37
-.7
211
-3 .2
3,069
2,495
1,922
- 2 .8
96,896
-4 .0
-5 .5
27, 296
19,063
+1.0
- 2.8
-5 .9
-5 .3
8,773
-1 0 .1
16,679
19, 598
8,890
-1 .6
+2.2
-15.0
- 4
6,138
869
-2 .4
162,030
94, 658
77,881
-1 .1
-1 .1
-.4
12, 38k
45, 677
-2 .8
+2.0
-.6
-.4
+•*?
351,477
1,314,401
+ 2.0
26
84
3,588
- 1 .4
19,051
54,888
405
233
213
238
110
21,973
12,582
1,915
23, 521
1, 788
+• 1
-2 .0
-3 .8
-1 .6
-2 .1
655,079
325, 596
36, 685
629,472
52,103
+1.0
-.1
-4 .6
-.6
-3 .8
63
55
20
72
15
3,899
2,785
507
4,100
222
+ .3
-1 .4
-1 .2
-3 .4
+ .5
50,669
36,059
4,123
50, 556
3,330
+2.1
-2 .9
-4 .7
-1 .9
-.4
Nebraska________
Nevada............... .
New Hampshire - New Jersey______
New Mexico.........
304
38
142
280
55
5,778
399
2,038
22,490
549
-.3
+8.7
-5 .6
-.6
+1.1
147, 216
10,389
59,616
668,335
11,574
-1 .3
+2.2
+1.0
+ .4
-2 .7
33
10
14
72
13
1, 528
129
234
3,944
290
-3 .5
-2 .3
-8 .6
-1 .4
-.3
16,864
2, 240
2,910
51,706
3,105
-6 .2
-7 .3
-5 .6
-1 .7
-.8
New York_______
North Carolina__
North Dakota___
Ohio____________
Oklahoma.............
910
91
171
493
254
104,442
-.5
-.5
1,711
1,296 -16.2
32,674 -1 .3
6,516 -1 .3
3, 248,159
33, 673
35, 776
832,658
143, 816
+ .2
+ .3
-1 .3
-1 .9
-.7
279
35
17
161
34
31,178
1,309
312
8,475
734
-1 .3
+9.7
-2 .2
-1 .6
-.3
501,384
11,835
3,429
108,413
6,839
-1 .3
+7.6
-3 .6
-2 .7
—. 8
Oregon..... .............
Pennsylvania____
Rhode Island____
South Carolina___
South Dakota
186 ' 5,718
708
59, 540
3,301
35
71
1,635
963
129
-.2
-.6
-4 .3
+1.7
-.1
144,400
1, 636,348
95,806
33, 762
25,906
-1 .6
+1.0
-6 .1
+1.2
+1.4
38
182
17
20
14
1,007
9,626
341
485
295
-3 .1
-2 .1
-4 .7
+3.6
-.7
13,776
124, 739
4,560
3,628
3,501
-2 .6
-1 .6
- 8 .0
+14.3
-3 .1
Tennessee.. ..........
T exas.............. .
U tah....................
Vermont............
Virginia.......... ......
256
4,690
-3 .0
2,039
175, 702
-8 .0
18,588
6,476
-2 .9
39
184
1, 708
1,043
5,718
36,825
25,238
138,394
-3 .3
-1 .2
-.7
47
2, 741
31,850
69
120
178
-3 .3
-3 .0
-.3
Washington........
West Virginia.......
Wisconsin........ .
Wyoming_______
206
131
14 42
44
9,747
5, 656
10, 739
406
+ .1
-1 .4
-3 .1
+3.6
262,098
146,089
292,908
9,774
+ .1
-.7
-4 .0
+2.4
56
42
39
12
1,846
1,114
1,071
178
-.7
12 Includes restaurants.
h Includes steam railroads.
101,428
36
22
20
-.3
10
24
37
12
1, 582 -1 .6
1,844 +1.8
670 -12.6
1,459
-. 1
+ .3
+ ./
457 -3 .4
473 -17.0
1, 707 -13.1
-2 .8
-.7
-2 .4
+1.1
- 1 .8
+ .4
-2 .4
5,648
5,000
19,220
-1 3.2
-1 6.2
-9 .4
22,000
12,419
(15)
2,572
-4 .0
-2 .7
14 Includes railways and express.
15 Data not supplied.
+1.0
26
COMPARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN ID E N TICA L ESTABLISHM ENTS
IN N OVEM BER AND D E CEM BER, 1932, BY STATES—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
by cooperating State organizations]
State
Alabama________
Arkansas..... .........
Arizona_________
California_______
Colorado...............
Connecticut..........
Delaware......... ___
District of Colum
bia.................
Florida. . ............
Georgia.............
Idaho
_ ____
Illinois...............
Indiana_________
Iowa____________
Kansas..... .............
Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning
Num
Num ber
of Per
on
Per Amount
ber of pay roll,
pay roll
cent
(1
week),
estab Decem cent
of
of
lish
Decem change
change
ber,
ments
ber, 1932
1932
,
Num
Num ber
of
Per Amount
on
Per
ber of payroll,
pay roll
(1 week), cent
estab Decem cent
of
of
lish
Decem
change ber, 1932 change
ber,
ments
1932
4
390
+1.6
9
397
'*65
5,806
+ .3
—. 1
-.1
19
478
- 1 .9
$3,685
4,488
5 , 743
94,755
+7.6
-.7
+ .3
36 +16.1
—1.0
$409
+10.2
11
834
11,769
-.9
113
-3 .4
1,939
-8 .5
27
4
1,310
305
-1 .4
(“ )
21,243
4,487
-4 .2
-.5
227
41
-1 .3
-2 .4
4,332
649
-1 3.0
-5 .3
21
11
12
2, 522
497
629
-1 .6
+3.5
-1 .1
39, 599 -1 .7
5,067 +10.7
5,745 -4 .1
109
-
6.0
2,114
’ 116
—2.5
1,225
1822
18
3
16 40
1,449
163
-3 .6
2,413
15
674
+ .6
16
342
-2 .6
4,642
-5 .9
+1.3
+ .5
- 1 .5
21,574
18,312
2,989
-.3
-5 .3
1,214
- 2 .1
12, 801
-2 .1
8, 517
-(<)
Kentucky..... ........
Louisiana..............
Maine...................
Maryland_______
Massachusetts___
25
103
1,889
8,452
- 1 .8
-.8
27, 796
56.852
- 3 .1
- 1 .2
Michigan________
Minnesota_______
Mississippi............
Missouri..............
Montana...............
23
12
6
34
11
1,586
684
322
2,235
275
+1.6
-1 .3
-4 .2
+ .3
-2 .5
20,343
10,922
2,803
31,827
5,108
+2.4
-2 .0
-3 .6
+ .3
-1 .7
Nebraska..............
Nevada.................
New Hampshire..
New Jersey...........
New Mexico.........
7
4
16
25
6
494 +11.0
50 -5 .7
262 -2 .6
2,926 -1 .7
243
+ .8
6,823
1,010
3,942
58,002
3,456
+6.5
-1 .4
-3 .8
+5.8
-1 .5
New York.............
North Carolina. __
North Dakota___
Ohio.................. .
Oklahoma_______
70
11
8
77
8
6,805
675
185
4,148
585
-1 .2
-.4
-1 .6
+ .9
-1 .0
116,311
6, 951
3,087
61,860
7,051
-1 .2
+ .2
-3 .1
+ .2
+ .9
Oregon__________
Pennsylvania____
Rhode Island........
South Carolina___
South Dakota
4
44
18
8
7
311
3, 256
1, 075
321
132
-.6
-.3
-1 .1
-2 .1
-4 .3
4, 650
48,475
17,837
3,024
1,733
-4 .9
-2 .5
-1 .7
-5 .3
-5 .8
Tennessee.............
Texas___________
Utah____: ...........
Vermont________
Virginia._________
12
19
7
4
13
888
833
516
55
824
-.3
+• 1
+1.6
-8 .3
+ .4
Washington.........
West Virginia
Wisconsin........ __.
Wyoming_______
15
22
707
702
-.7
-3 .4
**28
967
-.7
3
71
+1.4
* Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent.
6 .1
-.8
1,440
212
7,315 -2 .2
9,187 -2 .5
7,305 +3.0
621 -18.3
8,977 -2 .5
13, 263
9,050
-1 .6
-1 .9
1, 274
+6.9
12,804
-
-7 .3
11 No change.
10
217
9
m
3,154
+.3
-4 .0
11.2
4,944
26,784
- 1 0 .4
538
276
+3.5
-3 .2
8,628
4,312
-1 3 .6
320
21
(")
-4 .5
5,171
413
-4 .9
-4 .2
m
1,625
-
-10.3
232 -11.5
12
12.8
-
+ 2.1
-1 6.8
5,663
-15.5
534
-4 .1
10,308
-5 .5
1, 431
146
-1 .4
21, 516
1,804
-
35
1,086
259
+ 1.2
17, 391
4,660
296
130
-4 .2
+ .8
4,445
2,167
1.0
2, 591
-5 .2
-5 .5
2,818
2,498
189
181
188
-7 .9
-5 .7
-
16 Includes dyeing and cleaning.
8.2
-3 .5
-
1 2 .8
-9 .2
+2.8
-6 .4
-2 .7
-1 3 .2
-3 .2
27
Employment and Pay Rolls in December, 1932, in Cities of Over
500,000 Population
N THE following table are presented the fluctuations in employ
ment and pay-roll totals in December, 1932, as compared with
November, 1932, in 13 cities of the United States having a population
of 500,000 or over. These changes are computed from reports received
from identical establishments in each of the months considered.
In addition to including reports received from establishments in the
several industrial groups regularly covered in the bureau’s survey,
excluding building construction, reports have also been secured from
other establishments in these cities for inclusion in these totals.
Information concerning employment in building construction is not
available for all cities at this time and therefore has not been included.
I
FLUCTUATIONS IN E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN D E C E M B E R , 1932, AS C O M
PARED W ITH NOVEM BER, 1932
Cities
New York C ity .................
Chicago, 111............... .........
Philadelphia, P a ...............
Detroit, Mien.....................
Los Angeles, Calif......... .
Cleveland, Ohio____ _____
St. Louis, M o_____ ______
Baltimore, M d __________
Boston, Mass____ _______
Pittsburgh, Pa.............. .
San Francisco, Calif...........
Buffalo, N. Y ...... .........
Milwaukee, Wis..... ..........
Amount of pay roll
Number of Number on pay roll
(1 week)
Per
establish
Per
ments
cent
cent
reporting
of
of
in both November, December, change November, December, change
1932
1932
1932
months
1932
2,656
1,837
843
671
726
1,068
480
566
2,936
411
1,125
323
456
307, 207
192,866
131,118
143,040
62,553
83,290
62,437
46,198
85.511
48,042
44,263
37.511
35,370
312,581
189,178
128,091
150,610
65,298
87,275
63,474
47,482
86,260
49,826
43,920
35,919
36,106
+1.7
-1 .9
- 2 .3
+5.3
+4.4
+4.8
+1.7
+2.8
+. 9
+3.7
-.8
-4 .2
+2.1
$8,296,966
4,430,227
2,886,915
2,974,430
1,449,035
1,754,794
1,275,786
888,293
2,045,459
927,378
1,068,874
830,167
709,009
$8,322,512
4,390,869
2,824,853
3,168,256
1,478,826
1,773,515
1,300,286
917,695
2,051,718
945,571
1,058,925
787,900
697,624
+0.3
-.9
-2 .1
+6.5
+2.1
+1.1
+1.9
+3.3
+• 3
+2.0
-.9
-5 .1
-1 .6
Employment on Class I Steam Railroads in the United States
ATA are not yet available concerning railroad employment for
December, 1932. Reports of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission for Class I railroads show that the number of employees
(exclusive of executives and officials) decreased from 1,020,132 on
October 15, 1932, to 1,000,119 on November 15, 1932, or —2.0 per
cent; the amount of pay roll decreased from $119,905,613 in October
to $114,581,486 in November, or —4.4 per cent.
The monthly trend of employment from January, 1923, to Novem
ber, 1932, on Class I railroads— that is, all roads having operating
revenues of $1,000,000 or over— is shown by the index numbers
published in the following table. These index numbers are con
structed from monthly reports of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, using the 12-month average for 1926 as 100.
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T a b le
1 — IN D E XE S OF E M PL O Y M E N T , ON CLASS I STEA M R A ILR O A D S IN THE
U N ITED STATES, JANUARY, 1923, TO NOVEM BER, 1932
[12-month average, 1926=100]
Month
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
January_______ ____________
February___________ ______
March_____________________
April____ ________ _______
M ay___ ______ __ ___________
June____ __________ ___ ___
July...____ _________________
August Jl. __ ________________
September__________
October____________________
November_________ ___ ____
December................. ................
98.3
98.6
100.5
96.9
97.0
97.4
98.9
99.2
98.0
98.1
99.0
99. 7
95.6
95.8
95.4
96.0
95.2
96.7
96.6
98.9
97.8 100.2
98.6 101.6
99.4 102.9
99.7 102.7
99.9 102. 8
100.7 103.4
99.1 101.2
97.1 , 98.2
95.5
95.3
95.8
97.4
99.4
100.9
99.5
99.1
98.9
95.7
91.9
89.3
89.0
89.9
91.7
94.5
95.9
95.6
95. 7
95. 3
95.3
92.9
89.7
86.3
88,9
85.4
90.1
85.5
92.2
87.0
94.9
88.6
96.1
86.5
96.6
84.7
97.4
83.7
96.8 . 82.2
80.4
96.9
93.0
77.0
74.9
88.8
73.7
72.7
72.9
73.5
73.9
72.8
72.4
71.2
69.3
67.7
64.5
62.6
61.2
60.3
60.5
60.0
59.7
57.8
56.4
55.0
55.8
57.0
55.9
97.5
92.9
93.3
70.6
i 58.1
102.0
105.0
107.1
108.2
109.4
107.8
107.3
105.2
99.4
Average______ ________ 104.1
100.8
99.0
96.0
98.3
97.9
100.0
101.0
88.2
83.5
1932
i Average for 11 months.
Wage-Rate Changes in American Industries
Manufacturing Industries
N THE following table is presented information concerning wagerate adjustments occurring between November 15 and December
15 as shown by reports received from manufacturing establishments
supplying employment data to this bureau. Of the 18,044 manu
facturing establishments included in the December survey, 17,852
establishments, or 98.9 per cent of the total, reported no change in
wage rates over the month interval. The 2,616,124 employees not
affected by changes in wage rates constituted 99.2 per cent of the
total number of employees covered by the December trend-of-employment survey of manufacturing industries.
Decreases in wage rates were reported by 185 establishments in
50 of the 89 industries surveyed. These establishments represented
1 per cent of the total number of establishments covered. The wagerate decreases reported averaged 11.4 per cent and affected 19,576
employees, or seven-tenths of 1 per cent of all employees in the
establishments reporting.
Seven establishments in six industries reported wage-rate increases
in December, averaging 8.8 per cent, and affecting 580 employees.
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T a b le
1.—W AGE CHANGES IN M AN U FACTU RIN G INDUSTRIES DURING M ON TH E N D
ING D E C E M B E R 15, 1932
Industry-
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing
Total
number
of em
ployees
All manufacturing industries ---- 18, 044 2, 636, 280
Per cent of total________ - 100.0
100.0
Food and kindred products:
Slaughtering and meat pack
ing_______ _____ _____ ___
Confectionery..................
Ice cream__________________
Flour_____________________
B a k in g.._______ _______ Sugar refining, cane________
Beet sugar.............. .........
Beverages_________________
Butter___ ____ ___________
Textiles and their products:
Silk goods______________ --Woolen and worsted goods
Carpets and rugs___________
Dyeing and finishing textiles Clothing, men’s______ _ -Shirts and collars. „ _______
Clothing, women’s_________
Millinery___ ___ ___________
Corsets and allied garments..
Cotton small wares. ___ ___
Hats, fur-felt.. _________ -Men’s furnishings________ Iron and steel and their products,
not including machinery:
Iron and steel- ______ _____
Cast-iron pipe_____________
Structural and ornamental
ironwork _______________
Hardware_________________
Steam fittings and steam and
hot-water heating appa
ratus _ _______ _________
Stoves
_________________
Bolts, nuts, washers, and
rivets
_______________
Cutlery (not including silver
and plated cutlery) and
edge to o ls___ - ___________
Forgings, iron and steel.. - __
Plumbers’ supplies_________
Tin cans and other tinware..
Tools (not including edge
tools, machine tools, files,
or saws)_________________
^ Wirework_________________
Lumber and allied products:
Lumber—
Sawmills.-.____________
M illwork.______ ____ _
Furniture....... - ------------------Turpentine and rosin____
Leather and its manufactures:
Leather_________________ -Boots and shoes---.................
Paper and printing:
Paper and pulp.... ......... ........
Paper boxes..............- - ........
PrintingBook and job_______ ___
Newspapers and period
icals
- _
226
334
393
430
962
15
60
322
289
8,888
5, 411
No
Wage Wage
wage
in
de
changes creases creases
17, 852
98.9
Number of employees
having—
No
wage
changes
185 2,616,124
99.2
1.0
7
- J 1! —
4
222
1
333
388
427
951
13
60
318
289
233, 465
677
667
100,knit
488 goods. _ .
Hosiery and
44,681
240
238
56, 723
252
250
34
34
13,757
154
34,393
153
57,975
379
378
16, 293
117
116
23,956
379
380
8,011
131
131
5, 272
30
30
9,462
117
117
36
5,270
36
7, 501
71
71
* Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent.
83,999
38,300
10, 408
15, 960
61,703
7, 939
17, 693
Number of establish
ments reporting—
5
3
11
2
4
i
9
438
2
2
I
1
1
1
Wage W^age
in
de
creases creases
580
0)
19,576
.7
174
23
83, 825
38, 277
10, 297
15, 782
61,397
6,176
17,693
8,862
5,411
111
178
306
1, 763
26
231,361
102
100,328 435
44,571
56, 488
235
13, 757
34,364
57,450
16,202
51
23,905
2,002
160 3
110
29
525
91
8,011
5,272
9, 462
5, 270
7, 501
209
38
170, 482
5,411
208
38
197
105
13. 492
20, 984
197
104
1
13,492
20, 353
631
98
152
13, 241
14, 497
96
149
2
13,054
14,445
187
52
69
8,310
69
129
60
69
60
8, 681
4, 874
5. 274
8,165
128
60
67
58
128
69
6, 818
4,964
127
645
485
476
638
472
469
21
58, 826
17,714
42,649
1,063
164
334
25, 212
96,850
161
332
3
410
314
78, 517
20, 716
403
314
7
752
47,683
735
446
67,612
436
170,370
5, 411
1
3
112
8,310
1
68
1
20
8, 659
22
2
2
4, 874
5,113
8. 062
161
103
1
1
6,513
4,828
305
136
7
13
57,173
17,392
42,242
1, 061
6
1
2
63
1, 653
322
344
2
25,026
96, 384
186
466
76, 905
1,612
20, 716
1
17
46,591
9
66,831
1,092
17
764
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T a b le
1
WAGE CHANGES IN M AN UFACTU RIN G INDUSTRIES DURING M ONTH END
ING D E C E M B E R 15, 1932
Industry
Chemicals and allied products:
Chemicals...............................
Fertilizers...............................
Petroleum refining..... ..........
Cottonseed oil, cake, and
meal....... ......... ...................
Druggists preparations..........
Explosives_________________
Paints and varnishes.............
Rayon____ _____ __________
Soap.......... ................ .............
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Cement________ __________
Brick, tile, and terra cotta__
Pottery....... ...........................
Glass................... ..................
Marble, granite, slate, and
other stone products...........
Nonferrous metals and their
products:
Stamped and enameled ware.
Brass, bronze, and copper
products....... .....................
Aluminum manufactures......
Clocks, time recording de
vices, and clock move
ments...................................
Gas and electric fixtures,
lamps, lanterns, and re
flectors............... .................
Plated ware.._____________
Smelting and refining—cop
per, lead, and zinc..............
Jewelry...................... ............
Tobacco manufactures:
Chewing and smoking to
bacco and snuff..................
Cigars and cigarettes_______
Transportation equipment
Automobiles....................... .
Aircraft............... ...................
Cars, electric and steam rail
road______ ____ ________
Locomotives...........................
Shipbuilding..........................
Rubber products:
Rubber tires and inner tubes.
Rubber boots and shoes.........
Rubber goods, other than
boots, shoes, tires, and
inner tubes............... ...........
Machinery, not including trans
portation equipment:
Agricultural implements___
Electrical machinery, appa
ratus, and supplies............ .
Engines, turbines, tractors,
and water wheels........ ........
Cash registers, adding ma
chines, and calculating ma
chines..._______ ________
Foundry and machine-shop
products____ ____________
Machine tools_____________
Textile machinery and parts.
Typewriters and supplies___
Radio..................................... .
Railroad repair shops:
Electric-railroad repair shops
Steam-railroad repair shops..
Estab
Total
lish
ments number
of
em
report ployees
ing
Number of establish
ments reporting—
No
wage
121
Wage Wage
in
de
creases creases
Number of employees
having—
No
wage
changes
Wage Wage
in
de
creases creases
203
135
20, 712
6,053
52,963
202
131
20,712
6,042
52,154
11
801/
46
41
26
354
23
87
2,465
7,486
3,297
14, 454
28, 731
12,562
46
41
26
347
23
85
2,465
7,486
3, 297
13, 790
28, 731
12, 509
53
119
678
11 , 222
119
676
120
187
11,222
121
121
189
16,009
14,628
33,938
5,003
15, 750
14, 558
33,683
25«
70
255
4,901
102
12,646
88
12,646
204
26
27,450
4,877
24
5,264
5,237
4, 790
7, 752
4,746
7, 752
201
26
27,351
4,877
99
44
28
148
8,152
8,045
28
148
8,152
8,045
34
208
10,027
44, 440
34
206
10,027
43,857
583
223
30
173,331
5, 768
221
172,838
5, 768
493
103
30
5,473
2,107
25, 226
5,473
2,107
25,226
42,627
11,245
42,627
11, 245
19, 320
19, 320
103
73
6, 353
72
6, 232
121
290
103,075
103,026
49
14,942
14,942
44
13,204
44
13, 204
1,075
147
44
18
39
98,030
10,867
6, 593
8.018
18,172
1,057
144
44
17
38
95,902
10,823
6,593
8,008
18,095
387
548
20, 620
382
548
20,478
78, 760
2,128
44
10
77
31
Nonmanufacturing Industries
D a t a concerning wage-rate changes occurring between November
15 and December 15 in 14 groups of nonmanufacturing industries are
presented in the following table.
No changes in wage rates were reported in the anthracite mining
and the telephone and telegraph groups. In the remaining 12 groups,
one or more establishments reported decreases in wage rates over the
month interval. The average per cent of decrease in rates in each
of the several groups follows: Electric-railroad and motor-bus oper
ation and maintenance, 8.4 per cent; power and light and crude
petroleum producing, 10 per cent each; dyeing and cleaning, 10.2
per cent; hotels, 10.3 per cent; laundries, 10.6 per cent; metalliferous
mining, 11 per cent; quarrying and nonmetallic mining, 11.1 per cent;
wholesale trade, 11.2 per cent; retail trade, 13.8 per cent; bituminous
mining, 14.5 per cent; and canning and preserving, 16.4 per cent. No
increases in wage rates from November to December were reported by
establishments in these 14 industrial groups.
T a b le
2 ,—W AGE CHANGES IN N ON M AN UFACTU RIN G INDUSTRIES DU RING M ON TH
EN DIN G D E C E M B E R 15, 1932
Industrial group
Estab Total
lish
num
ber
ments
report of em
ing
ployees
Anthracite mining_____________ ___________ _____
160
Per cent of total..................................................... 100.0
Bituminous coal mining__________________________ 1,202
Per cent of total__________________
...
100.0
Metalliferous mining_____________ _________.
275
Per cent of total_____________________________
100. 0
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining..................... ......
631
Per cent of total_____________
.
100. 0
Crude petroleum producing____________________
276
Per cent of total.______________________ ______ 100. 0
Telephone and telegraph___ ____ _________________ 8, 302
Per cent of total______ ___________ ____ ______ 100.0
Power and light________ _______ _________________ 3, 523
Per cent of total_____________________ _______
100. 0
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and main
tenance______________ ____ _________ __
503
Per cent of total_________ ______ _______ ______ 100.0
Wholesale trade_________ ______ _
2,822
Per cent of total________ __________________ .. 100.0
Retail trade______________________ __ ____ _______ 14, 730
Per cent of total............................................. ...
100.0
Hotels_______________________ _ . _
2,410
Per cent of total________ ____ _____________ _
100.0
Canning and preserving__________ _ ____________
902
Per cent of total. _ _ ________ _______ _________ 100.0
Laundries_______ ___ _______________ ____ ______
965
Per cent of total____________________ _________ 100. 0
Dyeing and cleaning__________________
______
337
Per cent of total______________ ______ _ _ .
100.0
o
Number of
establishments
reporting—
No
No
Wage
Wage
wage
de
de
wage
changes creases changes creases
85, 284
160
175,050
100. 0
21,838
1,181
98.3
274
99.6
610
96. 7
275
99.6
8,302
100.0 100.0
100.0
100.0
22,019
100.0
269, 598
100.0 100.0
3,503
209,993
100.0 99.4
19,411
133,006
100.0
100.0
409, 639
100.0
130,902
100. 0
30,121
100.0
57,407
100.0
10, 270
100.0
73,076
Number of
employees
having—
491
97.6
2,784
98.7
14, 698
99.8
2,382
98.8
897
99.4
955
99.0
332
98.5
85, 284
100.0
21
1.7
1
.4
21
3. 3
1
171, 755
98.1
21,805
99.8
18, 544
95. 5
21, 593
98.1
269,598
3,295
1. 9
33
.2
867
4. 5
426
1.9
20
.6
12
206, 744
98.5
3,249
1. 5
131,997
99.2
72,590
99.3
408,679
99.8
128,588
98.2
29,983
99.5
56,849
99.0
10,149
98.8
1,009
.4
2.4
38
1.3
32
.2
28
1.2
5
.6
10
1.0
5
1.5
100.0
.8
486
.7
960
.2
1.8
2, 314
138
.5
558
1.0
121
1.2
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