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Serial No. R. 619
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Lubin, Commissioner
EMPLOYMENT
AND PAY ROLLS
Prepared by
DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
Lewis E. Talbert, Chief
and
DIVISION OF CONSTRUCTION AND
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Herman B. Byer, Chief
JULY 1937
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON
1937
CONTENTS
Page
Summary of employment reports for July 1937:
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
Detailed reports for July 1937:
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
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4
6
18
Tables
TABLE 1.—All manufacturing industries combined and nonmanufacturing
industries—employment, pay rolls, and weekly earnings,
July 1937
_"_
TABLE 2.—Federal employment and pay rolls—summary, June and July
1937
"
.
TABLE 3.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, July 1937
TABLE 4.—All manufacturing industries combined and the durable- and
nondurable-goods groups—indexes of employment and pay
rolls, January 193G to July 1937
TABLE 5.—Selected nonmanufacturing industries—indexes of employment and pay rolls, January 1936 to July 1937
TABLE 6.—Geographic divisions and States—comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in June and July
1937
TABLE 7.—Principal cities—comparison of employment and pay rolls in
identical establishments in June and July 1937
TABLE 8.—Executive service of the Federal Government—employment
in June and July 1937
TABLE 9.—Executive service of the Federal Government—monthly record
of employment from July 1930 to July 1937, inclusive
TABLE 10.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
July 1937, by type of project
TABLE 11.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—summary of employment, pa}7 rolls, and manhours worked, from July 1933 to July 1937, inclusive
TABLE 12.—Projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked, July 1937, by type of project.
TABLE 13.—National Youth Administration work projects and Student-Aid
projects financed by The Works Program—employment,
pay roils, and man-hours worked, July 1937
TABLE 14.—Projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked from the beginning of the program in July 1935 to July 1937, inclusive
TABLE 15.—National Youth Administration work projects and Student-Aid
projects financed by The Works Program—employment,
pay rolls, and man-hours worked from the beginning of the
projects to July 1937, inclusive
(Hi)
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6
8
13
15
17
18
20
20
21
23
23
24
25
26
IV
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16.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls, June
and July 1937
TABLE 17.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls, from
July 1936 to July 1937, inclusive
TABLE 18.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, July 1937, by type of project
TABLE 19.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—summary of employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked, from July 1936 to July 1937, inclusive
TABLE 20.—Construction projects financed from regular governmental
appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, July 1937, by type of project
TABLE 21.—Construction projects financed from regular governmental
appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, from July 1936 to July 1937, inclusive
TABLE 22.—Construction and maintenance of State roads—employment
and pay-roll disbursements, from July 1936 to July 1937,
inclusive
TABLE
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Employment and Pay Rolls
SUMMARY OF REPORTS FOR JULY 1937
EMPLOYMENT in the manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries surveyed each month by the Bureau of Labor Statistics declined
in July. Due largely to customary inventory taking, repairs, vacations, and Fourth of July shut-downs, pay rolls also declined.
On the basis of reports received from approximately 135,000 establishments, it is estimated that approximately 72,000 fewer workers
were employed in these industries in July than in June and that weekly
pay rolls were $6,200,000 lower.
Comparisons with July of last year, however, showed increases of
nearly 1,300,000 in number of workers and $63,300,000 in weekly wage
disbursements.
Class I railroads reported more employees on their rolls in July than
in June. According to a preliminary tabulation by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, they had 1,161,925 employees in July exclusive
of executives, officials, and staff assistants, an increase of 2,627 over
the number employed in June.
Employment in the legislative and military services of the Federal
Government in July was somewhat higher than in June. Small
decreases occurred in the executive and judicial services. On construction projects financed wholly or partially from public funds
increases were reported in employment on projects financed by regular governmental appropriations. Decreases occurred, however, in
employment on projects financed by the Public Works Administration, on Federal projects under The Works Program, on projects
operated by the Works Progress Administration, and on construction
projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The
number of workers employed in the Civilian Conservation Corps
increased during the month, due to the beginning of a new enlistment
period.
Industrial and Business Employment
July is normally a month of decreased business activity, seasonal
recessions in employment usually occurring in retail trade, year-round
hotels, dyeing and cleaning, anthracite mining, and manufacturing.
In manufacturing employment, decreases have occurred in July in
13 of the preceding 18 years for which data are available, and pay-roll
(1)
decreases have occurred in 16 of these years. In July 1937, however,
factory employment rose 0.3 percent over the month interval, representing a gain of 30,000 wage earners. This was due primarily to a
resumption of more nearly normal operations following labor disputes
in blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills. Factory pay rolls fell
2.4 percent, or $5,150,000 per week, largely because of customary
shut-downs for inventories, repairs, vacations, and the Fourth of
July holiday. Wage-rate increases affecting 133,959 wage earners
were reported by cooperating establishments for the period June 16
to July 15, inclusive.
A comparison of July 1937 factory totals with those of July 1936
shows gains of 858,000 (11.2 percent) in number of workers and $41,100,000 (25.2 percent) in weekly wages.
Thirty-seven of the eighty-nine manufacturing industries surveyed
showed gains in employment over the month interval and 24 industries
reported increased pay rolls. The most pronounced gain in number of
wage earners was a seasonal increase of 70.9 percent in the canning
and preserving industry. Employment in blast furnaces, steel works,
and rolling mills increased 12.9 percent, and in cane sugar refining 9.7
percent. Radio and phonograph factories reported a seasonal expansion of 7.9 percent, and the bolts, nuts, washers, and rivet industry
showed a gain of 7.2 percent, largely because of increased operations
following labor difficulties in the preceding month. Seasonal increases were reported in beet sugar (7.3 percent), flour (5.8 percent),
tin cans and other tinware (5.2 percent), beverages (4.5 percent),
boots and shoes (4.3 percent), and ice cream (2.9 percent).
The most pronounced declines in employment were seasonal in
character, decreases being reported in the millinery industry (24.3
percent), women's clothing (14.8 percent), stoves (12.1 percent),
pottery (9.0 percent), fertilizers (7.8 percent), and woolen goods (6.2
percent). The decline in the last-named industry was somewhat
accentuated by labor disputes. Annual and vacation shut-downs
accounted primarily for the decreases of 14.8 percent in the rubber
footwear industry and 5.6 percent in the clocks, watches, and timerecording devices industry.
Ten of the sixteen nonmanufacturing industries surveyed reported
gains in employment between June and July, and eight reported
increased pay rolls. The employment gain of 3.0 percent in metalliferous mining continued the virtually unbroken succession of monthly
increases which have been reported since July 1935, the gain of 1.3
percent in the electric light and power and manufactured gas industry
continued the unbroken expansion which began in March, and the increase of 0.6 percent in crude-petroleum producing marked the seventh
consecutive gain for this industry.
3
The net decline of approximately 102,000 workers in the 16 nonmanufacturing industries combined was due largely to the seasonal
recession of 3.2 percent (approximately 113,000 employees) in retail
trade. Seasonal curtailments of 12.0 percent in anthracite mining,
6.7 percent in dyeing and cleaning, and 1.0 percent in year-round
hotels contributed in smaller measure to the net decline. Strikes in a
number of bituminous-coal mines were responsible for the 2.6-percent
employment decline in that industry.
Class I railroads again reported a gain in employment over the
month interval according to a preliminary summary supplied by the
Interstate Commerce Commission. In July they had 1,161,925
em})loyces exclusive of executives, officials, and staff assistants, as
against 1,159,298 in June, an increase of 0.2 percent or 2,627 workers.
Pay-roll figures were not available for July at the time this report was
prepared. In June, the wage disbursements to this group of workers
were $162,022,190 and in May, $160,285,126, the gain over the month
interval being 1.1 percent.
Hours and earnings.—Average hours worked per week by factory
wage earners, based on data supplied by cooperating establishments
and cohering full- and part-time workers combined, were 37.9 in
July, a decrease of 3.4 percent from June. Average hourly earnings
of these workers were 65.7 cents, or 0.8 percent higher than in the
preceding month. Corresponding average weekly earnings fell 2.8
percent over the month interval to $25.31.
Only 3 of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries for which man-hour
data are available showed increases in average hours worked per week,
but 8 reported higher average hourly earnings. Average weekly
earnings were higher for 7 of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries
surveyed.
Table 1 presents a summary of employment and pay-roll indexes
and average weekly earnings in July 1937 for all manufacturing
industries combined, for selected nonmanufacturing industries, and
for class I railroads, with percentage changes over the month and
year intervals except in the few industries for which certain items
cannot be computed. The indexes of employment and pay rolls for
the manufacturing industries are based on the 3-year average, 1923-25,
as 100, and for the nonmanufacturing industries on the 12-month average of 1929 as 100. The information for the manufacturing industries,
mining, laundries, dyeing and cleaning, and building construction
covers wage earners only. For crude-petroleum producing it covers
wage earners and clerical field force. The figures for public utilities,
trade, hotels, brokerage, and insurance cover all employees, including
executives.
TABLE 1.—Employment, Pay Rolls, and Earnings in All Manufacturing
Industries
Combined and in Nonmanufacturing Industries, July 1937
Employment
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Aver- change from—
Index, change from— Index, change from— age
in
July
July
Industry
1937
Juno
1937
July
1936
industries
Class I steam railroads *___
Coal mining:.
Anthracite..
Bituminous—
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph
Electric light and power and
manufactured gas
Electric railroad and motorbus operation and maintenance
Trade:
Wholesale.
_
Eetail-._
General merchandising
Other than general merchandising. __
Hotels (year-round) '
Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning
Brokerage
Insurance
_
Building construction..
101. 5
65. 7
(1929=
100)
+0.4 +11.3
+.2
+8.1
45.0 -12.0 -6.9
75.8 - 2 . 6
+.5
81.4 +3.0 +32.9
55.5
79.6
79.7
97.3
73.4
90.6
87.6
95.9
85.4
86.1
95.2
86.0
1937
July
1937
June
1937
July
1936
-2.4
+25.2 $25. 31
June
1937
July
1936
-2.8
+12.5
(1928-25
= 100)
{1928-25
=100)
All manufacturing
combined *_
Average weekly
earnings
Pay rolls
+.1
+.6
+1.5
+1.3
-2.1
-1.0
+1.7
-6.7
-1.3
+.3
+3.3
(1929=
100)
35.2 -30.8
66.4
77.3 -6.7
+2.0
+5.7
+9.1
50.8
70.9
-3.5
92.1
+4.0
+6.0
101.9
+1.8
+.1 +1.4
+.3 +6.1
-3.2
-6.8
100.4
+5.3
+5.7
+5.1
+3.4
+5.2
+.6
+2.5
+1.5
+13.0
+.6
-5.2
+6.1
+67.7
+15.9
+17.3
+15.3
+13.5
-.4
+.8 + 11.6
69.8
73.3
86.9
68.0
22.84
33.74
31.02
33.84
+6.6 31.65
70.8
76.9
72.8
87.3
+ 11.8
+ 12.9
- 1 . 0 +11.6
- . 9 + 11.1
+1.7 +10.0
+4.8
-14.2
+6.9
-1.6
+.9 +7.0
+5.2 4-33.4
-2.1
-5.6
22.78
22.18
30.07
30.41
22.41
19.07
24.99
14.83
17. 15
19. 58
39.22
40. 38
31.31
-21.4 +1.8
-4.2 +5.5
-2.9 +26.2
-3.6 +13.6
+11.0
- 1
+5.8
+2.5
+7.1
+.5
-.5
+.5
+1.1
+1.3
+1.1
+. 1
-s!o
-.2
+.6
+1.9
+5.2
+5.2
+6.1
+6.8
+6.2
+7.4
+4.6
+4.2
+4.3
+5.4
+18.0
J Not available.
1 Revised indexes—Adjusted to 1933 Census of
Manufactures.
* Less than Ho of 1 percent.
2
• Cash payments only; the additional value of
Preliminary—Source: Interstate Commerce
Commission.
board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
Public Employment
Employment on construction projects financed from Public Works
Administration funds decreased 6,000 in July compared with June.
The total number of workers employed during July on these projects
exceeded 198,000. Decreases occurred in the number of workers
employed on Federal and non-Federal projects financed from funds
provided by the National Industrial Recovery Act, and on projects
financed from funds provided by the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Acts of 1935 and 193G. Pay-roll disbursements for July on all
projects financed by the Public Works Administration totaled
$16,251,000.
On construction projects financed from regular governmental
appropriations 194,000 wage earners were employed in July—an
increase of more than 16,000 over the number working in June.
Increases in employment occurred on building construction, electrification, reclamation, public roads, streets and roads, and miscellaneous projects. Employment on all other types of projects decreased
during the month. Pay-roll disbursements for all types of projects
totaled $19,599,000.
Employment on projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation showed a further decline in July. During the month,
more than 4,000 workers were engaged on this program—a decrease
of 16.3 percent compared with June. There was a decrease in the
employment level on building construction and water and sewerage
projects. Employment on miscellaneous projects showed virtually
no change. Total pay rolls on all type of projects amounted to
$575,000.
The number of wage earners employed on projects financed by The
Works Program during July was 2,220,000—a decrease of 256,000, or
10.3 percent, compared with the preceding month. Of this total,
262,000 were working on Federal projects, 1,808,000 on projects
operated by the Works Progress Administration, and 150,000 on work
projects of the National Youth Administration. Since employment
and pay-roll data for July are not available on Student-Aid projects,
this type of project has not been included in the June-July comparisons.
Pay-roll disbursements amounted to $108,785,000.
In the regular agencies of the Federal Government, increases were
reported for the legislative and military services. Decreases, on the
other hand, occurred in the executive and judicial services. The level
of employment for the executive service was 1.8 percent less in July
compared with June. Of the 855,000 employees in the executive
service in July, 111,000 were working in the District of Columbia and
744,000 outside the District. Approximately 90.4 percent ol the total
number of employees in the executive service were paid from regular
appropriations; the remaining 9.6 percent from emergency appropriations. The most pronounced increases in the number of workers in
the executive departments of the Federal Government occurred in the
Post Office Department and in the Social Security Board. Among
the agencies reporting decreases were the Department of Agriculture
and the War Department. Prior to June 1937 the various departments and independent establishments reported the number of persons
having Federal appointments on the last day of the month, regardless
of whether or not they received any pay for the month in which they
were reported. Beginning in June 1937, lunvever, the departments
and agencies reported all employees who received pay during the last
pay-roll period of the month; all employees who are on leave without
pay, on furlough, on a dollar-per-year basis, or who serve without pay,
are eliminated from the reports.
15640—37
2
In the Civilian Conservation Corps employment increased sharply
In July. Employment for all groups of workers totaled 349,000, an
increase of 25,000 over June. Gains in employment were registered
in the enrolled personnel and Reserve officers. Losses, on the other
hand, occurred in the number of educational advisers and supervisory
and technical workers. Pay rolls for the month for all groups of
workers totaled $16,852,000, an increase of $7(56,000.
The number of workers employed on the construction and maintenance of State roads in July was 175,000, an increase of more than
7,000 compared with the preceding month. Of the total number
employed, 14.4 percent were working on new road construction and
85.6 percent on maintenance work. Pay-roll disbursements also
showed a marked gain, increasing from $11,070,000 in June to over
$11,998,000 in July.
A summary of Federal employment and pay-roll statistics for June
and July is given in table 2.
TABLE 2.—Summary of Federal Employment and Pay Rolls, July 1937 1
[Preliminary figures!
Percentage
July 1937 June 1937 change
Employment
Class
Pay rolls
July 1937
June 1937
Federal services:
870,160
Executive 2
854,917
$127,177, 428 $128,334.128
4S4, 340
500'801
1, 981
2.040
Judicial
-2.9 |
1,210,225
1,203,5*2
5, 196
5, 133 +1.2 !
Legislative
23,135,605
331, 247 319,223
Military.
+3.8 || 27,31)0,456
Construction projects:
198, 483 204,098
16, 250.846 1(5, 430, 649
-2.8
Financed by P. W. A.s *
574,541
4,099
690, 822
Financed by R. F. C.5
4, 898 -16.3 !
Financed by regular governmental
!
193, 695 177, 265 +9.3
19, 599, 384 16, 980, 060
appropriations
Federal projects uncter The Works Pro202, 487 284, S93 -7.9
12,799,774
14,794,640
gram
1,807,589 2,020, 273 -10.5
93, 504, 356 107, 016, 653
Projects operated by \V. P. A
National Youih Administration:
170,472 -12.2
2, 862, 654
149,628
2, 480, 982
Works projects
240, 4G0
1, 852,006
Student-Aid
(6)
Relief work: Civilian Conservation
Corps '
16, 851, 511 16, 085, 832
348, 779 323, 626 +7.8
1 Includes data on projects financed wholly or partially
from Federal funds.
2
Prior to June 1937 the various executive departments and independent establishments reported the
number of persons having Federal appointments on
the last day of the month, regardless of whether or
not they received any pay for the month in which
they were reported. Beginning with June 1937,
however, the departments and agencies report all
employees who receive pay during the last pay-roll
period of the month; all employees who are on leave
without pay, on furlough, on a dollar per year basis,
or who serve without pay, are eliminated from the
reports.
Percentace
change
-0.9
-3.3
+.6
+18.4
-1.1
-16.8
+15.4
-13. 5
-12.7
-13.3
+4.8
3
Data covering P. \V. A. projects financed from
E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds are included. These
data
are not shown under The Works Program.
4
Includes 139.701 wage earners and $10,811,528 pay
roll for July; 141,708 wage earners and $10,960,950 pay
roll for June covering P. W. A. projects financed
from
E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds.
5
Includes 86 employees and pay-roll disbursements
of $6,050 for July and 59 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $3,325 for June on projects financed by
RFC
Mortgage Co.
6
Data not available.
7 Includes 45,5f>7 employees and pay roll of $5,751,551 for July and 45,929 employees and pay roll of
$5,869,035 for June in the executive service.
DETAILED REPORTS FOR JULY 1937
Industrial and Business Employment
MONTHLY reports on employment and pay rolls in industrial and
business industries are now available for the following groups: 89
manufacturing industries; 1G nonmanufacturing industries, including
building construction; and class I steam railroads. The reports for
the first two of these groups—manufacturing and nonmanufacturing—•
are based on sample surveys by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and
in virtually all industries the samples are large enough to be entirely
representative. The figures on class I steam railroads are compiled
by the Interstate Commerce Commission and are presented in the
foregoing summary-.
EMPLOYMENT, PAY ROLLS, HOURS, AND EARNINGS IN JULY 1937
The indexes of employment and pay rolls, average hours worked
per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings in
manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries in July 1937 are
shown in table 3. Percentage changes from June 1937 and July 1936
are also given.
TABLE 3.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, July 1937
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average 1923-25=100 and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures]
Industry
Index,
Julv
1937
All manufacturing industries
Durable goods
Nondurable goods
_
101.4
98.9
104.1
Percentage
change from—
1937
Julv
1936
+0.3
+.1
+.6
+11.2
+16.9
-1-6.0
June
Average weekly
earnings *
Pay roll 3
Employment
Index,
Julv
1937
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
June
1937
July
1936
100.4
100.7
100. 0
-2.4
-3.7
-.8
+25.2
+32.7
+16.8
Average hours worked
per week i
July
1937
Average hourly
earningsi
Percentage
change from—
Julv
1937
Percentage
change from—
July
1937
June
1937
July
1936
$25. 31
28.32
21.81
-2.8
-3.9
-1.3
+12.6
+13.5
+10.2
-3.1
-5.0
-6.4
-8.2
+19.9
+22.8
+8.4
+10.2
38.2
38.1
36.4
36.5
-5.0
-5.3
-8.6
-8.0
-3.7
-4.7
-6.9
-5.9
77.3
85. 8
66.8
56.8
+1.8
+.6
+2.3
+.1
—7. 5
-8.4
-2.2
+10.1
37.9
38.6
37.1
June
1937
July
1936
-3.4
-5.1
-1.4
-1.8
-3.0
-.5
Cents
65.7
72.2
58.8
1937
July
1936
+0.8
+1.1
+.5
+14.7
+16.9
+ 11.0
June.
Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Cast-iron pipe
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutler v) and edge tools
Forgings. iron and steel
Hardware
Plumbers' supplies
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings
Stoves
Structural and ornamental metalwork
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)
Wire work
Machinery, not including transportation equipment.
Agricultural implements
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines
__ __
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels.
Foundry and machine-shop products
00
107.6
119.9
87.8
69.2
+6.1
+12. 9
+7.2
-2.1
+15.7
+16.6
+16.3
+5.4
113.5
132.4
93.6
53.7
+2.8
+7.3
+.3
-10.2
+38.8
+43.2
+26.0
+16.2
30.03
32.75
24.29
20.85
84.0
72.3
93.3
92.0
-2.6
+14.5
+23.5
+20.9
+8.4
+17.0
78.0
63.6
107.8
71.9
-9.5
-11.0
+11.7
-5.8
+27.4
+39. 2
+50.3
+28.1
23.44
-7.1
26. 93 -10.6
26.09 +15.8
24. 74 - 5 . 2
+11.3
+12.8
+2-1. 3
+18.2
39.6
38.3
38.0
38.5
+5. 5
+1.0
+2.0
+.8
+2.4
60.1
70.7
68.8
64.2
70.9
82.2
82.3
122.0
-7.2
-22.6
26.61
23.15
28. 67
23.56
-3.8
-11.9
-2.4
-.4
+13.1
+3.1
+18.4
+10.5
38.8
37.1
40.6
39.5
-3.7
-8.6
-4.1
-1.6
-4.7
-4.5
+4.7
+32.4
+7.2
+34.3
+23.9
68.5
62.6
70.8
60.2
107.6
171.6
133.6
172.5
146. 7
124.1
155. 0
114.8
-6.4
-8,9
-2.6
-5.6
+41.5
+41.0
+44.0
+59.3
24.58
24.71
28.51
27.68
-6.8
-6.2
-3.2
-4.2
+11.6
+18.0
+15.2
+25.3
40.1
37.5
40.0
38.2
-7.8
-7.5
-3.9
-5.4
-00
-1.6
-.9
-3.9
+37.9
+49.7
+51.2
+41.0
33.11
28.29
31.87
28.41
-.9
-2.5
-2.0
-3.7
+14.9
+13.7
+20.9
+14.5
41.3
38.5
39.4
41.0
-.7
-3.3
-1.7
-4.8
77.0
104.6
80.6
114.8
102.0
175. 9
129.9
138.6
137.1
121.0
151.6
112.5
-.4
-3.5
—.6
-3.5
-12.1
+2.4
+5.2
+.4
-2.9
+.5
-1.4
+.9
+1.0
+1.2
-.2
+4.0
+13.6
+12.1
+26. 7
+20.7
+24. 9
+25.9
+20.0
+31.8
+26. 3
+23.2
-.1
-5.9
-.9
-.5
-.5
-4.3
-.5
+1.6
+.1
-2.3
+2.1
-.6
61.3
65.9
70.6
72.5
81.1
71.8
81.0
69.2
+.6
—.1
-3.9
+1.8
+1.3
+1.1
+1.4
+.5
+.2
-.1
—.1
-.4
+1.1
+24.0
+28.5
•16.3
+15.5
+9.8
+11.2
+23.9
+15.5
+19.1
+7.5
+19.5
+11.9
+12.1
+23.3
+16.3
+22.7
+14.7
+16.4
+18.5
+15.6
Machine tools
Radios and phonographs
Textile machinery and parts
Typewriters and parts_
Transportation equipment
Aircraft
Automobiles
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad
Locomotives
Shipbuilding
Railroad repair shops
Electric railroad
Steam railroad
Nonferrous metals and their products.._
Aluminum manufactures
__
Brass, bronze, and copper products
Clocks and watches and time-recording
devices
Jewelry
_
Lighting equipment
Silver and plated ware
_
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and z i n c .
Stamped and enameled ware.
Lumber and allied products
Furniture
Lumber:
Millwork
Sawmills
Stone, clay, and glass products
Brick, tile, and terra cotta
._
Cement..
Glass
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
Pottery
152.7
196.8
86.2
152. 3
119.9
790.7
130.4
71.6
62.5
100.2
63.8
63.3
63.8
111.5
131.5
119.0
114.8
90.8
91.5
73.8
91.8
151.0
72.9
87.9
57.3
56.3
71.7
53.8
69.7
107.9
44.4
72.8
+ (2)
+29.0
+1.7
+22.1
+53.3
+17.7
+27.4
+17.4
+32.1
+5.0 +67. 8
-3.0
+1.3
-.3
+12.1
+1.0 +1.8
-.5
+13.0
-2.1
+18.0
+1.5 +18.9
-2.7
+18.8
- 5 . 6 +11.6
+1.9 +20. 2
-4.7
+25.8
-.9
+37.8
+3.4 +18.2
-5.2
+11.8
0
+ 11.1
-1.3
+14.4
-.3
+15.8
+1.0 +8.5
-3.1
+7.0
-1.2
+7.0
+.1 +10.6
-4.0
+9.1
-.4
+.8
-9.0
+3.7
159.3
166.1
89.5
145. 6
117.5
682.7
123. 6
83.4
50.5
111.7
63.5
67.0
63.3
105.3
134. 5
116.7
+3.8
+6.9
+20.8
+11.1
+6.0
85.5
89. 6
97.0
96.7
90.4
94.1
80.8
112. 6
67.4
71.8
+7.9
-1.2
-1.0
-5.1
-5.2
-5.4
-6.4
108.4
67.8
88.8
66.9
87.2
146.2
67.3
73.9
54.8
52.8
66.1
46.2
72.4
108.6
38.4
59.0
+46.9
+15.9
+43.1
+61.1
+26. 9
+37.7
+24.2
+60.1
+ 107.9
+12. 9
+13.4
+S.5
+ 13.6
+36.0
+39. 9
+40.9
-8.6
+15.3
-3.6
+34.1
-6.8
+40. 5
-3.1
+72.8
+2,3 +40. 5
-10.0
+26.1
-6.9
+23.5
- 6 . 1 +23.5
-4.7
+29.6
-8.0
+22.0
-7.4
+19.5
-5.9
+18. 0
-3.4
+25. 0
-9.0
+23.8
+2.2 +2. 5
-16.0
+18.2
32.14
22.16
27. 81
25. 53
30.89
27.34
31.30
27.98
31.16
30. 42
28. 63
29.87
28.44
25.43
2o. 74
27. 55
-3.3
-1.4
-3.1
-2.6
-3.1
-4.1
-3.4
-2.4
-6. 5
21.47
22. 95
24.32
25.09
28.12
22. GO
20.92
20.09
-3.1
-5.4
-2.2
-2.3
-1.1
-5.1
-7.0
-4.8
22.31
21.11
23.41
20.96
25. 95
24.36
25.14
21. 47
-4.4
-8.9
-4.5
-4.7
-3.5
-5.3
+10. 6
+16. 2
+42.8
+23.1
+10.3
+5. 3
+2.5
+8.3
+12.8
+14. 7
17.18
17.22
22. 89
15. Oi
17. 49
20.93
2<>. 52
16.88
16.33
20.51
-3.2
+6.4
-4.3
-3.6
-8.1
-9.1
-8.6
-8.7
-1.8
-2.4
-7.6
-.2
-8.2
-5.6
-.8
-6.9
+.6
-7.3
-1.2
-7.8
-3.6
-2.3
-4.3
+1.4
-7.7
+13.9
+14.0
+17.3
+5.1
+7.8
+2.2
+5.8
+26.0
+24.0
+ 11.4
+1.1
+6.6
+.5
+15.3
+17. 5
+18.5
+3.3
+J1. 6
+ 11.7
+25.3
+ 18.9
+12.8
+11.1
+8.1
+12.0
+12.5
+ 11.8
+10.5
+13.0
+13.3
+3.0
+14.0
44.4
36.8
42.2
40.4
35.0
39.1
34.1
38.6
44.0
36.9
41.4
43.8
41.2
38.2
39.5
38.2
-4.0
-2.0
-3.6
-2.8
-5.3
-11.8
-5. 6
-3.4
-6.2
-1.4
-7.4
-1.7
-7.8
-4.7
-2.1
-5.8
38.1
37.7
37.2
39. 5
40.0
37.0
39.8
39.4
-5.1
-3.2
-3.5
-1.4
-4.4
-6.1
-6.9
-5.2
41.4
39.6
37.9
39.7
39.0
35.9
38.6
38.4
-6.1
-8.0
-4.7
-4.9
-4.2
-6.1
+6.5
+8.7
+18.1
+10.8
+4.1
+5. 5
+7.9
+4.2
+6.2
+13.4
33.9
35. 3
35.8
35.5
36.7
36.3
37.6
34.1
35.7
35.6
-3.6
-3.2
-3.0
-4.1
+.4
-4.9
+1.0
+.1
+5.0
-2.5
-8.8
-5.5
-11.9
+6.4
+13.3
+2.5
+ (2)
+.6
+.1
-2.7
-.8
-5.3
-6.7
+3.1
-4.7
+21.4
-1.9
-4.4
-2.4
-3.3
-1.6
-1.9
-1.3
-4.9
-1.4
+.4
+.3
+1.9
72.5
61.0
66.1
63.1
88.7
70.0
92.1
72.5
70.9
81.6
68.9
66.9
69.1
65.8
65.2
72.5
56.3
59.8
65. 6
63.8
70.3
61.1
53.4
51.6
53.9
54.2
62.4
52.8
66.0
68.2
65.7
60.1
+.8
+1.9
+.5
+.2
+2.3
+8.8
+2.4
+1.0
-.2
+1.5
-.1
+.6
—.2
+1.3
-.2
+1.7
+2.2
-2.7
+1.3
— 3
+3.5
+.8
-.1
+1.0
+1.6
-1.2
+.4
+.8
+.6
+1.8
+( 2 )
-.6
+12.5
+15.9
+12.0
+11.1
+18.3
+8.8
+20.6
+
+6.0
+.3
+18.6
+18.8
+25.4
+11.9
+5.9
+17.3
+2.0
+21.1
+18.9
+13.2
+12.9
+13.6
+13.9
+12.7
+16.1
+14.8
+12.8
+2.9
+10.6
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs
Cotton goods.
_-_
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing textiles
Hats, fur-felt.
Knit goods
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods
See footnotes at end of table.
100.0
98.0
99.8
102.0
96.0
109.1
83.9
116.3
79.7
80.7
-3.3
-1.7
— 1.7
-1.1
-1.4
-.5
-.1
-1.5
+.7
-6.2
, o
-4! 9
+4.0
+6.2
+1.1
-6.4
-4. 0
-3.2
-4.4
-1.3
-1.8
+9.5
-5.4
-1.5
-8.5
-3.2
-2.9
-1.5
-3.4
+.1
+9.6
-1.3
-3.9
-2.2
-2.5
+.2
-.2
+9.2
-4.6
-2.5
-1.3
-3.6
-3.9
+.5
-5.2
-2.2
-5.7
-1.6
-3.2
-2.0
-1.9
50.3
48.6
64.0
42.2
48.7
57.2
73.7
50.3
45.6
57.9
+.4
-(2)
+1.6
+.5
+.6
-.8
+2.3
+.3
+.2
— 1.1
+9.9
+12.4
+16.0
+16.8
+8.9
+12.0
+10.7
+7.4
+8.2
+15.2
TABLE 3.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, July 1937—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Industry
Index,
July
1937
Average weekly
earnings ,
Pay rolls
Employment
Percentage
change from—
June
1937
July
1936
-fi. 7
-2. 5
-14.8
-1.7
-5.0
-24.3
-3.9
-8.9
+3.8
+4.8
Index,
July
1937
Percentage
change from—
June
1937
July
July
1937
193G
Percentage
change from—
June
1937
Average hours worked
per week
July
July
1936
1937
+2.0
+fi.8
-3.4
-(2)
+ 1.2
-9.0
+3. 9
+16.4
+5. 5
+ 14.8
+9.4
+12.4
-4-8.7
+9.0
+fi. 1
+16.8
30. 6
30. 9
29. I
32. 3
31.3
29.2
32. 0
38.3
38.2
38. 6
42.3
43.0
43.0
48.2
42. 3
35.4
41.5
50. 3
40.4
37.6
42.4
37.6
35. fi
37.8
38.6
38.8
40.3
Percentage
change from —
June
1937
July
1936
-5. 3
-4.9
-7.0
-2. 9
-3.6
-.8
-5. 3
-6.2
— 18.2
-3.4
-3.fi
Average hourly
earnings
July
1937
Percentage
change from—
June
1937
July
1936
Nondurable goods—Continued
Textiles and their products—Continued.
Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's
._.
Corsets and allied garments
Men's furnishings
Millinery....
...
Shirts and collars..
.
.Leather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes
Leather
Food and kindred products
.
Baking
Beverasres
Butter.
Canning and preserving
.___
Confectionery
Flour
Icecream
Slaughtering and meat packing
Sugar, beet
.._ _.
Sugar refining, cane
Tobacco manufactures
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff
Cigars and cigarettes
Paper and printing
Boxes, paper
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
re fi ning
Other than petroleum refining
Chemicals
102.0
J07.4
1J7.0
88.1
129.7
38.8
113.4
96.3
98.0
94.7
124.9
130.7
234. 4
97. 3
209. 8
69. 2
77.9
m. 2
89. 9
52. 9
81.0
60.6
oo. 4
(51.2
+.7
-12.7
+4. 3
-3.4
+10.9
+. 1
+4. 5
+1.8
+70. 9
+.5
+
+2.9
+1.2
+7.3
+8.1
+.8
+3.4
+5.4
+0.4
+.9
+6.8
+5. 8
+«. o
+5. 3
4 20. fi
+3. 5
+.3
+5. r>
-1.0
-.3
-H.0
-3.1
-3.9
-4.1
-4.1
$17.07
-1. I
19.02
—8.7
-12.0
16.78
-4.2
14.97
+3. 8
-2.0
13.19
+5.9
17. 30 -15.9
-20.2
-1.8
12.34
+7.4
+2.3
20.57
+ 14.0
+13. 5 19. 6S +4.4
24. 32
+ 15.7
24.88
+19.9
-.1
25. 5fi
+16. 3
+.8
+6. 9 3fi. 01
+4.7
22. 33
+8.9
+.1
18. 93 +lfi. 1
+77.2
+ 14. fi lfi. 75 -5.8
+5. 3
20. 13 + 1.4
+'>." 27. 85 +2 1
27.85
+15.3
-.4
24.13
+5. 2
-5. 5
27.77
+ 16.7
+9.3
17.33
+9.4
-.6
18.42
+ 13.8
-3.4
17. 15
+8. 5
-.5
27.74
+17.3
-2.3
20.00
+ 17.3
-3.1
25.03
+28.8
-3.3
90.1
99.8
-1.3
-3.7
+17.4
+8.7
136.8
134. 9
153. 9
-.4
—.6
55.8
G'i. 0
54. 5
101.6
100.3
H9.2
-2.1
+7.o
+3.2
+.3
+.1
+.7
+ 10.3
+1.1.8
+13.9
+1.3
-.8
95. fi
103. 2
+.2
124.3
-12. 4
73.8 -10.5
-.4
8fi. 4
71.3 -22.2
-5.8
80. 2
9fi. fi - 0 . 9
23.8 -3fi. 4
-5.fi
95. 9
+5.0
84.6
+8.8
79. 8
-4.1
104. 0
128.3 +10.8
134.9
+.9
284. S
+9.3
78.1
+1.9
245.0 + 98.3
04.3
-5.4
79. ^
+7.2
85.13
+5.1
99. 9
+.8
56.0
+1.4
80.9 + 18.3
+ 1.3
+• 1
+7.6
+ 10.7
+10.3
-l.fi
106.0
102. 2
119.5.
] 23. 5
139. 5
+.4
-.8
—.8
+.2
+.8
-4.9
+.2
—0.7
+7.2
+8.3
+fi.7
+ 14.7
+ 12.2
+10.0
+.4
+3.4
+4fi. 9
+10. 7
+5.2
+ 1.1
r o
-7 A
-3.1
+.4
+ 1.0
-1.8
+2.3
+.3
- . fi
+2.9
+3.9
+5. 2
+3! 2 - 5 . 8
—8
-1.9
+17.8 +27. 3
—(\. 0
+2. 4
+ 1.0
-3.3
+2.8
-1.1
-1.0
-5.0
-fi. 7
- 3 . fi
+7.8
+6. 0
-1.2
-1.2
-4.1
-.9
-1.6
-3.2
+ 1.2
-3.7
-1.8
-4.5
+1.1
29. 7fi
3fi. 66
-1.5
-1.6
+0.2
+5.3
38.7
36.3
— 2.0
-2.6
+4.4
+23.6
28.34
+30.0
2fi. 08
+33.9 I 30.41
-.7
+ 16.6
+ lfi.3 |
+17.6 i
38.5
39. fi
39.9
-2.5
-2.8
-2.4
+.2
—.5
-.1
-.4
Cents
54.1
60.4
55. 5
46. I
36. 5
63. 1
39. 2
54.2
52.0
63.1
59.0
60. 0
84.5
40. 6
45. 8
47.8
58.0
55. 1
69. 2
66. 4
64.3
+1.7
+3.0
+.9
-.8
+5. 6
-7.8
+2.1
+1.6
+2.2
+.9
-1.6
+1.7
+ 1.2
+.6
-1.5
+1.6
0
-1.5
+.7
+2.1
+6. 6
+9. 6
+4.7
+5. 0
+13. 7
-2.8
+8.0
+8.1
+7.3
+ 11.6
+ 11.5
+7.6
+0. 2
+6.9
+18.1
+9.0
+7.7
+.6
46.2
52.2
45. 5
74.7
52. 2
62.2
+1.3
+23.1
+1.1.2
+5.4
+10.9
+12.7
+10. 0
+7.2
+8.3
+ 15.4
78.1
96. 8
+.5
+.8
+5. 3
+4.7
74.6
06.7
76.3
+ 1.7
+2.0
+1.9
+16.6
+16.2
+18.0
-.1
+.3
+.7
+.3
+.8
+.9
Cottonseed—oil, rake, and meal
I)rugsiists' preparntions
Explosives
Ferl. i lizcrs
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products
:.
Soap
Petroleum refining
Rubber products
".
.
R u b b e r boots and shoes
....
R u b b e r (roods, other t h a n boots, shoes, tires,
and inner tubes
R u b b e r tires and inner tubes
41.:
IOO.
:
9
-2. 3
+.0
09.
130.
401.
J'.)2.
127.
96.
+2.5
oi.
-14. 8
130. 7
— 7. 8
1 9
+1. 2
-4. 9
-3. 8
-»
4-1 4
+0. 1
+ U). 5
+ 19. 2
+8 0
+ 15. 5
4-4 9
+5 9
-14 3
+ 13 3
+o. 9
35. 3
112.0
103. 8
77. L
138. 3
392. 9
1 10. 9
143. 1
96.8
54.7
135. 8
93. 0
-6.7
-21.5
+7.4
+ 11.1
+23. 4
+47.2
+21.5
+30. 5
+27. 5
-1-24. 8
+ 11.1
-.2
11.53
23. 14
2S.42
17.85
27. 80
24. 20
27. 07
33. 84
2-3. 84
22.27
-0. 3
-4. 5
+27. S
+5. 8
22. 78
30. 37
-8.0
—7 7
+.*8
-2. r
-3. 1
+.3
+1. 0
+• 1
+5.8
+4.7
+ 11.0
+23.5
+ 12.5
+ 18.1
+ 15.9
+ 18.9
+4.9
+10.5
40. 0
37.8
39. 0
39. 4
4.1.0
38.0
39. 0
35. 5
34.7
37.3
-4.3
-5. 0
- 2 . 0 + 12.9
- L. 3 - 1 . 1
38.2
31.7
-3.2
-1. 1
20. 0
25. 0
42.4
42.3
39. 4
-10.5
-4.1)
-2.3
-4.5
-1.1
-3. 0
-7.5
+ 7.0
39. 5
39. 8
+3.7
45. 9
-1.4
43. 0
43.4
39. 0
44.7
47.4
43.9 !
-.4
-.2
-1.9
-3.9
-5. 0
+.2
+5. 0
-1.2
-2. 1
+ 1.7
-1.0
-1.9
-7.9
-.3
-1.2
-3.3
-3. 1
—. 9
-1J)
-2.8
-5. 9
+.8
-1.0
+ 1.1
+7.0
-.3
-.3
-1.5
+.7
-4.5
+.9
+2.0
— !0. 8
+.4
24.9
58.0
72. 9
45. 3
08.2
02. 7
71.4
90. 0
79.6
59. 7
+.0
+0. 9
+2. 1
+ 1.0
+2. 0
+.8
+.9
-2.1
+3.8
+0.4
+ 10.5
+ 15.8
+12. 8
+18. 5
+ 17.0
+ 19. 2
+ 12.0
+15.0
00. 7
90. 9
+1.3
+.6
+ 12.0
+ 11.2
-0.2
-.3
—. 7
+9.5
+11.8
+17. 9
+13.7
+8.4
-.5
NONMANIIFACTLIUNG
[Indexes are based on 12-month average 1929=100]
Coal miniiivr:
45.0
-12.0 !
Anthracite
-2.0 !
TJituminous..
-.
81.4
+3.0
Metalliferous mining •'
55. 5
-K 1
Quarrying and nonmetr.llic mining
79. 0
Crude-petroloum producing
+.6
Public utilities:
+1.5
79.7
Telephone and telegraph
Electric-light and power and manufactured tr*is__ i 97.3
+1.3
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
73.4
maintenance *
+•1
Trade:
90. 0
+.3
Wholesale..
.
87. 0
Retail
_.__
-3. 2
95. 9
-6. S
General merchandising
-2. 1
85. 4
Other than general merchandising
.
80. 1
-1.0
ITotels (year-round) s
95. 2
Laundries
+ 1.7
80. 0
.Dyeing and cleaning
-0.7
(fl)
-1.3
Brokerage
CO
Insurance
+.3
:
Huildinir construct ion.
4-3.3
-0.9
+.,
+32. 9
4-'?. 0
+5.7
+9.1
+0.0
+1.4
+0.1
+5. 3
4-5. 7
+5.1
+3.4
+5. 2
+.0
+2.5
+ 1.5
+ 13.0
2
4
3
8
9
-30. 8
2
-0. 7
+- 3(2. 5
6
+07. 7
+ 15. 9
+17. 3
$22. 78
22. 18
30. 07
22. 84
33. 74
-21.4
-4.2
— 2.9
-3.0
-. 1
92 1
101 «
4-4. 0
+ 1. 8
+ 15. 3
+ 13. 5
31.02
33.84
+2.5
+.5
+5.8
+7.1
+'3
6
31.65
-.5
+5. 2
+11. (5
+ 11. 8
+ 12. 9
+ 11. 6
30.41
22.41
19. 07
24. 99
14. 83
17. 15
19. 58
39. 22
40. 38
31.31
+.5
+1.1
+1. 3
+ 1.1
+.1
35.
00
77
50
70
+.
70 8
-.
70
72
87
09
_!__ s
9
8
3
8
73.3
80 9
08.
0
6
(1
( fl)
((>)
4
2 1
-5. 6
]
—
o9
+<>. 1
1
+ l' 7 ! +K)!0
- H . 2 ; 4-4. 8
-1.0
9
9 i +?!0
o
i
+
3
3
.
4
+5
+.
—8 0
-.2
+.0
4-1.9
+ 1.8 '
+5.5 j
+20.2 |
+ 13.0 !
+ 11.0 -
+5. 2
+0. 1
+ 6.8
+G. 2
+7.4. j
+4.0 I
+4.2 |
+4.3 i
+5.4 j
+ 18.0 I
42
( '° j
CO !
33.8 ;
-2.0
+.2
-.2
+.9
-5.2
CO
+.2
+2.6
88. L
71.2
r
)4. 3
84. 5
+ 1.1
+ 1.3
—.0
-.1.0
81.0
84.7
+2. 5
+0.7
+9.8
08. 2
+ 1.1
+5. 5
71.4
50. 9
52.8
58.1
31.2
W. 0
40.5
(d)
((i)
92. 5
+ 1.4
+2.2
+4.0
+ 1.6
+5. 4
+7.6
+ 11.0
+0. 9
+7.5
+5.3
+4.4
-.3
+.4
-L.2
-2.7
+'••1
-.3
-1.0
(
()
-1.2
+.2
2
-2*.«
C1)
C')
+1.7
+ 14.9
+2. 7
Average weokly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting estabAver
ay* treekly earnings.—June average, $31.10; percentage change from May, —4.0.
4
lishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data supplied
June data for electric-railroad and motorbus operation and maintenance revised as
by a smaller number of establishments as all reporting firms do not furnish man-hours. follows:
Percentage changes over year are computed from indexes. Percentage changes oy«r
Average weekly hours.—June average, 46.0; percentage change from May, +0.8; from
month in average weekly earnings for the manufacturing groups, for all manufacturing June 1930,-0.1.
industries combined, and for retail trade are also computed from indexes.
Average hourly earnings.—June average, 67.5; percentage change from May, +0.9; from
2 Less than Mo of 1 percent.
June
1930, +4.2.
5
3 June data for metalliferous mining revised as fellows:
Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be comEm-ploy merit —inns index, 79.0; percentage change from May, +1.0; from June 1930,puted.
e
+27.0.
Not available.
Pay rolls.—June index, 77.3; percentage change from May, —3.0; from June 1930, +60.2.
1
12
INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS, JANUARY 1936 TO
JULY 1937
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are given in tables 4 and 5
for all manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and nondurable-goods groups of manufacturing industries, and for 13 nonmanufacturing industries, including 2 subgroups under retail trade,
by months from January 1936 to July 1937, inclusive. The accompanying chart indicates the trend of factory employment and pay
rolls from January 1919 to July 1937.
The indexes of factory employment and pay rolls are computed from
returns supplied by representative establishments in 89 manufacturing
industries and cover wage earners only. The base used in computing
these indexes is the 3-year average, 1923-25, as 100. In July 1937
reports were received from 24,641 manufacturing establishments
employing 4,906,638 workers whose weekly earnings were $124,174,945. The employment reports received from these establishments
cover more than 55 percent of the total wage earners in all manufacturing industries of the country and more than 65 percent of the w^age
earners in the 89 industries included in the monthly survey of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The indexes of nonmanufacturing industries are also computed
from data supplied by reporting establishments, but the base is the
12-month average for 1929 as 100. Figures for mining, laundries,
dyeing and cleaning, and building construction cover wage earners
only, but the figures for public utilities, trade, hotels, brokerage, and
insurance relate to all employees, including executives. For crudepetroleum producing they cover wage earners and clerical field force.
Data for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries are
based on report of the number of employees and amount of pay rolls
for the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
13
TABLE 4.—Indexes
of Employment
and Pay Rolls in All Manufacturing
Industries
Combined and in the Durable- and Nondurable-Goods Groups 1
[Adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures—3-year average 1923-25=100]
Manufacturing
Durable goods
Total
2
Nondurable goods •
Month
Employment
January
February
March
April
May
June.
July
August
September
October
November
December
_
1
Employment
Pay rolls
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
86.8
86.9
87.9
89.1
89.8
90.1
96.5
99.0
101.1
102.1
102.3
101.1
73.8
73.7
77.6
79.3
80.8
81.1
90.7
95.8
101.1
104.9
105.2
102.9
78.7
78.6
80.2
82.3
84.0
84.7
90.4
93.2
96.4
98.6
99.9
98.8
66.9
66.6
71.8
76.0
78.5
79.0
86.6
92.5
100.0
106.4
107.5
104.6
95.4
95.8
96.1
96.3
96.0
95.9
103.0
105.2
106.1
105.9
104.8
103.5
82.5
82.7
84.9
83.5
83.8
83.9
96.0
99.9
102.6
102.9
102.3
100.8
98.2
102.8
105.9
104.7
103.3
104.0
104.1
85.6
91.8
91.6
93.7
92.9
97.5
100.0
87.9
-----
91.9
80.2 100.4
83.5
83.6
89.0
90 7
95.2
84.6 98.9
84.7
85.7
89.2
91 0
92.7
75.9 100.7
77.0
77.2
85.3
88 9
93.4
82.4
84.7
78.0
Comparable indexes for earlier years will be
found in the February 1937 issue of this report, or
in the April 1937 issue of the Monthly Labor
Review.
3
Includes the following groups of manufacturing
industries: Iron and steel; machinery; transportation equipment; railroad repair shops; nonferrous
metals; lumber and^allied products; and stone, clay,
and glass products.
15640—37-
Pay rolls
1936
91.2 101.4
_._ 93.5
95.5
96.7
96 9
98.1
Average. _
Employment
Pay rolls
99.5
s Includes the following groups of manufacturing
industries: Textiles and their products, leather and
its manufactures, food and kindred products,
tobacco manufactures, paper and printing, chemicals and allied products, products of petroleum and
coal, rubber products, and a number of miscellaneous industries not iucluded in other groups. '
EMPLOYMENT & P \ Y KOULS
ALL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
192325100
/40
UO
120
WO
80
80
60
40
40
20
20
v
19/9 1920 /92/ 1922 /923 J924 1925 1926 1927 J928 /929 /930 193/ /932 1933 /934 J935 1936 1937 1938
UMTEO STATES BUREAU OFIABOR STATIST/CS
15
TABLE 5.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected
Industries, January 1936 to July 1937 1
Nonmanufacturing
[12-month average 1929=100]
Anthracite mining
Month
Employ- Pay rolls
ment
Bituminous-coal
mining
and nonMetalliferous mining Quarrying
metallic mining
Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls
ment
ment
ment
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
September
October
November
December
Average
59.1
61.2
52.5
49.8
54.9
51.2
54.1
52.7
48 9
54.0
51.0
51.1
54.4
76.7
42.6
28.6
56.3
42.0
42.7
41 0
37 8
63.9
44.4
50.9
85.9
72.6
77.8
77.9
70.2
62.6
62.2
61.5
88.4
54.4
67.8
71.2
55.9 73.1
57.5 76.2
60.8 78.2
61.9 >79.0
45.1 70 6
45.5 76.9
47.7 79.6
48.2 2 77.3
42.2
48.4
52.0
53.5
49.1
53.1
54.9
55.4
30.9
36.1
42.1
44.0
41.3
48.1
51.4
52.6
48.4 45.0 37.2 35.2 75.5 75.8 62.6 66.4 61.3 81.4 46.1 77.3 54.4 55.5 43.9 50.8
48.2
41.1
31.4
76.9
65.4
61.6
55.3
46.2
50.0
78.2
47.6
34.9
71.0
54.9
63.1
44.8
53.7
81.1
79.2
54.6
49.9
48.5
64.2
46.2
54.6
80.7
52.6
82.3
62.9
51.5
40.3
43.5
83.9
64.4
49.4
55.4
85.0
57.7
54.8
39.4
51.8
70.8
79.0
45.7
Cr ude-p etroleum
prodiicing
Month
79.8 84.6 70.6 79.9 54.2 66.8 41.7 58 4 39.4 45.7 25.5 34.6
84.8 78.4 82.4 55.5 69.6 42.8 63.4 36.9 46.7 23.9 37.8
80.2
80.4
77.5
76.2
75.7
48.4
60.3
Telephone and telegraph
Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls
ment
ment
49.5
38.9
and
Electric light and Electric-railroad
motorbus operapower, and manution
and
maintefactured gas
nance 3
Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls
ment
ment
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
Dfiop/mhpr
71 1
70.8
70.9
71.3
72.7
73.7
72 7
73. 5
74.2
75.8
76.7
79.1
55 7
55. 7
56.0
57.1
58.0
58.9
61.0
63.8
63.7
67.4
67.9
70.5
70 1
69 9
70.2
70.8
71.6
72.1
74 4
74,8
75.4
76.6
77.7
78. 5
75.0
76.2
77.2
76.0
78.5
77.4
83 6
82.2
87.2
86.3
89.5
88.6
86 1
86 1
86.8
88.0
89.0
90.4
92.1
92 0
92.2
92.9
94.4
96.0
84.8
84.7
85 9
86.2
87.0
88.1
92,3
93.3
94.5
95.2
97 6
100.1
70 7
71.7
71.2
71.3
71.5
71.7
72.5
72.5
72.6
72.9
73.3
73.3
65.0
68,3
67.8
65.9
66.1
66.8
68.0
68.7
69.2
69.4
70.1
71.1
75.4 79.6 60.4 70.9 73.1 79.7 79.9 92.1 91.7 97.3 89.8 101.9 72.4 73.4 66.5 70.8
81.2
93.1
89.8
72.4
75.0
59.7
73.5
66.5
78.8
93.5
91.4
72.8
74.5
60.4
73.7
66.4
83.1
94.0
92.7
73.1
73.6
59.6
73.8
67.7
81.6
93.5
91.8
73.0
73.2
60.1
73.7
69.7
82.4
93.2
93.8
72.5
72.4
61.3
73.6
69. 3
Average.. 72.9
58.6
72.2
78.9
1
Comparable indexes for earlier years for all of
these industries, except year-round hotels, will be
found in the November 1934 and subsequent issues
of this pamphlet, or the February 1935 and subsequent issues of the Monthly Labor Review.
Comparable indexes for year-round hotels will be
found in the June 1935 issue of this pamphlet, or
90.5
88.8
72.0
67.2
the September 1935 issue of the Monthly Labor
Review.
2
3 Revised.
Not including electric-railroad car building and
repairing; see transportation equipment and railroad repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries,
table 3.
16
TABLE 5.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Nonmanufacturing
Industries, January 1936 to July 1937—Continued
Wholesale trade
Month
Total retail trade
Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls
ment
ment
Retail trade—general merchandising
Retail trade—other
than general merchandising
Employment
Employment
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
January. _
February
March _.
April
May
June
July
August.
September
October
November
December
Average..
85.6
85.0
85.6
85.7
84.6
84.6
90.7
92.0
92.1
91.9
90.8
90.3
66.6
66.6
69.0
67.9
68.2
68.4
72.6
74.1
75.0
75.4
76.1
76.3
85.4 90.6 69.0 76.9
69.7
86.3
70.5
88.0
71.5
89.0
73.1 — - 89.7
72.8
91.0
69.4
86.7
80 4
79.7
81.9
85.2
85.0
85.5
85 4
85.2
88.5
88.8
89.9
90.5
62.1
61.6
63.5
65.3
65.8
66.4
68.0
67.9
70.5
71.9
73.5
74.4
88 ?, 95 1
85.1 93.9
90.9 100.3
97.4 99.6
95.5 102.1
96.4 102.9
76 4
73.9
77.3
81.0
80.8
81.3
83 8
82.9
87.6
89.1
91.5
92.5
82 9
82.9
85.4
86.0
86.7
87.2
59 1
59.1
60.7
62.1
62.7
63.3
64.7
64.8
67.0
68.3
69.8
70.6
83.2 87.6 65.1 72.8 90.7 95.9 77.3 87.3 81.2 85.4 62.6 69.8
80.5
89.4
61.9
76.4
82.4
64.4
83.5
63.3
98.5
82.8
86.6
66.6
64.4
84.7
103.9
87.2
88.7
68.3
109.3
91.4
70.1
85.1
65.7
90.1
143.4
116.2
75.9
88.1
67.6
99.6
99.1
66.3
85.7
Year-round hotels
82.2
83.5
62.7
Dyeing and cleaning
Laundries
Employ- Pay rolls Employ- Pay rolls
ment
ment
Month
78.4
78.3
79.5
82.0
82.3
82.6
Employ- Pay rolls
ment
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 193fi 1937 1936 1937
January
February
81.9
82.8
82.8
83.2
84.1
83.9
March _
April
MayJune
July
August
September
October
_
November
December. _
•
Average-.
_
-
85.5
86.4
86.9
88.4
87.7
86.9
64.9
66.5
06. 0
66.3
67.0
66.6
70.4
72.5
72.7
74.5
73.6
74.0
81.5
81.2
82.1
83.2
85.5
87.2
88.5
88.6
88.7
88.5
90.3
93.5
68.3
67.8
69.9
70.9
75. 6
75.8
76.4
76.3
77.5
78 5
81.4
85. 5
71.5
70.3
74.7
81.8
87.3
87.5
76.8
76.2
81.1
84.9
88.6
92.1
51.6
49.0
56.4
64.1
72.2
69.2
55.6
54.6
61.7
68.8
73.9
79.2
83.3 86.1 66.0 73.3 90.5 95.2 79.0 86.9 85.5 86.0 64.8 68.0
66.1
89.6
76.7
83.5
83.2
63.2
67.5
89.6
76.6
86.7
84.2
66.1
69.6
87.6
75.3
86.5
85.4
66.7
69.6
87.0
74.5
81. ^
84.6
60.2
69.8
87.6
76.1
77.7
84.0
57.3
83.6
67.2
86.1
73.9
81.2
61.7
TREND OF INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT, BY STATES
A comparison of employment and pay rolls, by States and geographic divisions, in June and July 1937, is shown in table 6 for all
groups combined, and for all manufacturing industries combined,
based on data supplied by reporting establishments. The percentage
changes shown, unless otherwise noted, are unweighted—that is, the
industries included in the manufacturing group and in the grand total
have not been weighted according to their relative importance.
The totals for all manufacturing industries combined include figures
for miscellaneous manufacturing industries in addition to the 89 manufacturing industries presented in table 3. The totals for all groups
combined include all manufacturing industries and each of the
nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 3 except building
construction.
17
TABLE 6.—Comparison of Employment
and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments
in
June and July 1937, by Geographic Divisions and by States
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued bycooperating State organizations]
Geographic division and State
Manufacturing
Total—AII groups
PerPerPerPerNum- Number cent- Amount cent- Num- Number cent- Amount centage
ber of on pay
age ber of on pay
of pay
age
of pay
age
estab- roll July change roll (1 change estab- roll July change roll (1 change
lishlishfrom
week)
from
week)
from
from
1937
1937
June July 1937 June
ments
June July 1937 June ments
1937
1937
1937
1937
Dollars
-1.8
New England
_. 13,977 928,887| - 1 . 1 22.232,478
Maine
60, SOU
+ . 0 1,31)6, 470
821
New H a m p 618
40.352 +1.0
878, 001
shire
462
19,2<»5j - 1 . 6
443, 237
Vermont
505,900,
12 ?53, 726
Massachusetts.
95, 600 i - 2 . 1 2,172, 491
Rhodc Island.. 1, 220
... 5,177,941
2, 458 2f.fi. 8H.11
Connecticut
— 2, 194,132 - 2 . 0 59, 325, 762
Middle Atlantic... 32, 430
21,021 966.087! -2.1127,531,778
New York
—. 4| 9,(M5, 913
4.213
New Jersey
Pennsylvania. _ 7,19G 880,902 -2,0:22,758,071
+.8188.174,420
East North Central.. 21, 373 2, 380, 275
7,878 6r>3, 297 +3. 8j 18,042, 422
Ohio
Indiana. _
Illinois.
Michigan
"Wisconsin
West North Central
Minnesota
Iowa.
Missouri
North D'-ikota.South D a k o t a . .
Nebiaska
Kansas
South Atlantic
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia.
North Caiolina.
South Carolina.
Georgia
Florida
East South Central..
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabamaa
Mississippi
West South Central.
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas.
9, 377
6 6.266
3,830
•1,016
11,459
2,175
1, 769
2, 952
586
1,501
1,861
10, 899
211
1,510
9
1,086
2,13*i
1,252
1,403
753
1.500
1,030
4,139
1,294
1,315
950
574
4.222
850,418
49,130
+\W7\768,'W,
+
m
40,550
117,403
100,123
101,511
-2.9
1,058.243
2,298,130
l!(i 3,919,844
- 2 . 2 2,400, 839
70,949
+.2 1,157,204!
119,313
+(*> 1 982,030
724,185
37, 705 j - 4 . 4
- . a 5.771,292
304, 339!
88, 273 j - 1 . 0 1,87(5,6151
1
100,010 - 1 . 5 ! 1,935,277
- . 3 1.679,009
93, 545
'
279,731
10.511
*\
Includes banks and trust companies, construction, municipal, agricultural, and ollice employment,
amusement and recreation, professional services, and
trucking and handling.
2 Less than Ho of 1 percent.
3
Includes laundering and cleaning, and water,
light, and [tower.
* Includes laundries.
* Weighted percentage change. Kansas employment change includes hired farm labor; pay-roll
change
does not include farm labor.
6
Includes automobile, and miscellaneous services,
Dollars
3,480
299
32, 403
199
11,919
140
-A
1, 691 804,5S0
—3. 5
413
77, 470
-5.8
738 174,910
-3.8
5,356 , 321,137
— 1.7 *2,17I
464, 748
-1.9
£67,967
*838
-7.0
2,347 588,4?2
-1.2
7,557 ,874, 305
+3.7 2.514 492.215
-.5
869 216,615
259, tW
-1.9
2, 439 466,805
659,998
530,1*8
595,183 - 3 . 3 18,110.529 - 5 . 5 1,012
8 723 168,482
212, 55s
5. 402,101 —.9
441, 995
10. 820,198 +.4 2,334 227, 366
402
46, 720
2,380,030 +1.0
93,153
415
39,4S4
66, 720 +4. 3 1,593,425 - 3 . 1
813
- . 1 4, 300, 249 +1.6
101 909
177,5551
127,205
57
767
5, 2Hi
-. 1
—.8
197,302
35
1,943
7. 7491 +.7
9
780,990! - —.
151
33,107! +.6
11,081
1.0
58,19! 1 +9.0
24,862
1,368 991]
91 = +1.0
- 1 . 2 1,368
2,735 589.105
872, 381 5 -1.2
+9.0 17,440,239 - 3 . 6
17, 090
13,481
431,007
85
+.9
_ 2
140,027
S, 402,091 -2.0
98,2-24
4, 592,082
197,745
427,759
23, 461
947, 525
1,002
48, 097
1, 353
43,004 +1.1 1,073, 705
L',3,093
11 1,389 83,183
+.5 2,
794
Mountain.
__ 4,218 146, 297 +6.3 3,788,
004,902
22,
303
089
+2.9
Montana
313,079
12,100 +13.0
488
Idaho
234,417
9,114 +3.1
323
Wyoming
1,180
47,479 +3.7 1,193, 012
Colorado.
103, 815
+2.1
7,
530
298
New Mexico.._
515,278
18,312 + 1.3
455
Arizona
609,183
20,11.9
578
+18.9
Utah
94,44S
3,334 +4.0
199
Nevada
8,517 445, 254 . . . . 12,557,172
Pacific
3,017 104,737 + 1.3! 2,830,202'
Washington
59, 297 +2.8! 1,550,548
1,323
Oregon.-.
12 ru 177 98j 990 4-5 ?• 9 M/,. ',29
California
1
+.3
+.5
22
-£4
-5.8
-o.e
-1.3
-1.0
-3.4
-2.3
-3.5
-2.7
-.4
+.6
+2.1
+.7
+.5
+1.8
+4.
+10.0
-8.8
+.2
+1.1
-2.4
+7.8
-4.8
+2.2
-3.5
-.5
+ ',.9
35
408
258
509
205
371
179
982
283
381
235
83
1,059
190
232
137
500
576
85
53
38
186
32
38
117
27
535
300
/, 5.
3, 000
82,838
61,905
148,374
09, 500
92,597
18,454
193,107
38,018
79,339
00,511
9, 239
101.75S
17, 760
25, 53"
12,037
46,42!,
47, 334
5,800
4,130
1,829
19.029
1,287
2,775
11,431
1,053
284,281
60, 245
37,040
186. 990
- 1 . 4 15,), 174, 529
- . 2 1,024,154
-2.7
-1.0
+1.0
089, 07'J
-.9
—4.0
272,434 - 3 . 5
+./,! 7,160,069 _ ( 3 )
- 2 . 5 ! 1,693,456 - 4 . 5
—4.51 4,334,744 - 6 . 7
-.6135,155,175 - 3 . 0
- . / . 2 12,937, 725 -1.8
1
- 6,820,194 -2.6
15,397,256\ *-4.6
+ 1 . 9 53, 365, 833
+.5
+5. 7 13,945,116 +5. 5
5,857,998\
+2 5857998
+2.1
+.6 12,609,02:l\ -2.8
-1.3
U 16 595,520' +.1
"
" 44,358,
, , r~ 5 +9.8
+2.0 5, 503, 152 +.4
+9.0 1,155, 204 +1.9
-.2
964,124
+.3 2,389,938 +2. 5
+2.3
21 332 - 3 . 2
+2.8
50,1371 +.5
-2.0
291,115 - 3 . 8
631, UJ>\
+.9
: 10,923,544| - 4 . 6
Q
+1.3 317,492|
«+3 2,365,110 5 -2.6
+
+
125,414
-1.5
- . 0 1, 592,008
- 3 . 8 1, 593,503
-2.fi 2, 206,955
+.5 1,018,109
2 1,393,874
-1.2
311,019
- 1 . 1 3, 536,028 i
815,573!
- 1 . 5 1,409,375
- 1 . 3 1,107, 217
-1.0
143,8G3
2 2,248, 710
311,929
-1.2
453, 028
+1.8 290.863
+.6' /, 186,290
+15.4 1,177,901
+6.4
162,491
+24. 2 104,121
+2.8
50,620
+6.8 491,925
+3.4
23,069
+.0
73,982
+50.7 235, 5791
30,114
+6*. 5 7,972.692'
+2.2 1, 585,206.
+4.6
942, 551:
-2.4
-4.4
-9.3
-7.5
-1.3
— 1.8
-2.4
-3.7
-5. 6
-3.1
-3.4
-1.5
+-
+.4
+3.1
+8.4
+2.2
-.2
+4.0
-1.7
+ 14.5
-2.1
-.8
-1.2
-.4
+22.4
-7.8
+2.8
-6.7
-1.7
+6.9
5, 44'/, 935
-1.0
restaurants,
and building and contracting.
7
Includes construction, but not public works.
8
Does
not
include logging.
8
Includes financial institutions, miscellaneous
services, and restaurants.
'o Includes automobile dealers and garages, and
sand, gravel, and building stone. Percentage
change in pay roll for "Total—All groups" from May
to11June revised to +1.9.
Includes business and personal service.
1* Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
18
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
IN PRINCIPAL CITIES
A comparison of July 1937 employment and pay rolls with the
June totals in 13 cities of the United States having a population of
500,000 or over is made in table 7. The changes are computed from
reports received from identical establishments in both months.
In addition to reports included in the several industrial groups
regularly covered in the survey by the Bureau, reports have also
been secured from establishments in other industries for inclusion in
these city totals. As information concerning employment in building
construction is not available for all cities at this time, figures for this
industry have not been included in these city totals.
TABLE 7.—(Comparison
of Employment
and Pay Rolls in Identical
June and July 1937, by Principal
Number of
establishments
City
New York, N . Y . . .
Chicago, 111
Philadelphia, P a . . .
Detroit, Mich
Los Angeles, Calif..
Cleveland, Ohio
St. Louis, Mo
Baltimore, M d
Boston, Mass
Pittsburgh, Pa
San Francisco, Calif-.
Buffalo, N. Y
Milwaukee, Wis
j
Number
Julj J9.5<
Establishments
in
Cities
June
Amount of
pay roll
(1 week)
July 1937
15, 587
4,400
2, 208
1,032
2,832
653, 178
498, 500
203, 070
380, 580
.152, 042
-3. 1
+3. 5
-1.0
-4.8
-1.1
$18,028,040
14,227,774
5.471,581
12. 220, 040
4, 300,032
1,744
1,518
1, 185
3,713
115,900
1-13,13!)
09, 578
189,015
+ 1.2
-L0
2
4,019,708
3, 045, 091
2, 503, 404
4,771,733
1,1.43
1,203
845
745
230, 033
82, 474
70.010
92. 305
-1.7
+.5
-1.0
+ 1.1
0, 005, 123
2.475,715
2. 0S0, 507
2. 534, 273
Percentage
change
from June
1937
-2, 5
+1.9
-1.0
-7.3
-1.2
+.2
0)
-2.9
-.3
-0.4
-.4
-2.9
-.8
i Less than Ho of J percent.
Public Employment
Employment created by the Federal Government includes employment in the regular agencies of the Government, employment on the
various construction programs wholly or partially financed by Federal
funds, and employment on relief-work projects.
Construction projects financed by the Public Works Administration are those projects authorized by title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 16, 1933. This program of public works
was extended to June 30, 1937, by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 and title II of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act
of 1936. The First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, reappropriated unobligated funds originally made available under the Emergency Relief
Appropriation Act of 1935 and authorized the use of $300,000,000
from funds on hand or received from the sale of securities.
19
By authority of Public Resolution No. 11, Seventy-fourth Congress,
approved April 8, 1935, the President, in a series of Executive orders,
inaugurated a broad program of works to be carried out by 61 units of
the Federal Government. The Works Program was continued by
title II of the first Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as the
Emergency Kelief Appropriation Act of 1936, and was further continued by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937. Employment created by this program includes employment on Federal
projects and employment on projects operated by the Works Progress
Administration. Federal projects are those conducted by Federal
agencies which have received allotments from The Works Program
fund. Projects operated by the Works Progress Administration are
those projects conducted under the supervision of the Works Progress
Administration with the cooperation of States, cities, or counties.
The Civilian Conservation Corps created in April 1933 was further
extended under the authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935. During the fiscal year 1937, the Civilian Conservation
Corps was continued from appropriations authorized by the First
Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936. Beginning with July 1, 1937,
the Civilian Conservation Corps was continued for 3 years by an act
of Congress.
With the following exceptions, statistics on public employment
refer to the month ending on the 15th. Employment statistics for the
Federal service refer to the number receiving pay during the last pay
period of the month, and for the Civilian Conservation Corps to the
number employed on the last day of the month; pay-roll data are for
the entire calendar month. Monthly employment and pay-roll data
for projects operated by the Works Progress Administration from the
beginning of the program to April 1937, inclusive, are for the month
ending on the 15th. Beginning with May 1937, however, these data
are presented on a calendar monthly basis. The value of material
orders placed for projects operated by the Works Progress Administration is a cumulative total from the beginning of the program to the
end of the current calendar month and is not available on a monthly
basis. Employment and pay-roll statistics on National Youth Administration work projects and Student-Aid are for the calendar month.
Data on the value of material orders placed on work projects of the
National Youth Administration are cumulative through the current
calendar month.
EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Statistics of employment in the executive service of the Federal
Government in June and July 1937 are given in table 8.
20
TABLE 8.—Employees in the Executive Service of the U. S. Government, June and July
19371
[Subject to revision]
Outside District of Columbia
District of Columbia
Regu- Emerlar ap- gency
propria- appropriation
tion
Group
Number of employees:
July 1937
June 1937 2
Percentage change:
June 1937 to July 1937..
Regu- Emerlar ap- gency
propria- appropriation
tion
Total
Total
Entire Service
Regu- Emerlar ap- gency
propria- appropriation
tion
Total
!
90, 549
97,523
14,752 111.301
14,590 112,119
070,053
683.827
-1.00
+1.07
-0.73J
-1.H
1
Data includes number of employees receiving pay
during
the last pay period of the month.
2
Prior to June 1937 the various executive departments and independent establishments reported the
number of persons having Federal appointments on
the last day of the month, regardless of whether or
not they received any pay in the month in which
67.563 743,616
74,214 758,041
- 8 . 90
-1.90
772, 602
781, 350
-1.12
82.315 854,917
88.810 870.160
-7.31
-1.75
they were reported. Beginning with June 1937,
however, the departments and agencies report all
employees who receive pay during the last pay-roll
period of the month; all employees who are on leave
without pay, on furlough, on a dollar per year basis,
or who serve without pay, are eliminated from the
reports.
The monthly record of employment in the executive service of the
United States Government from July 1936 to July 1937, inclusive, is
shown in table 9.
TABLE 9.—Employment
in the Executive Service of the L\ S. Government, by
Months,
July 1936 through July 1937 x
[Subject to revision]
Month
District
of Columbia
Outside
District
of Columbia
Total
District
of Columbia
Outside
District
of Columbia
Total
110,259
110,259
110,535
110,755
110.274
112,119
111,301
713,924
710, 402
713,047
718,884
724, 247
758.041
743,616
830.183
820, 721
829, 582
835,639
840, 521
870,160
854,917
1937
1936
July
August
September..
October
November..
December. _
Month
110, 250
1.15,7%
115,050
1 It. 783
115,174
110, 315
712, 557
710, 579
718, 990
724, 301
722. 098
712,902
828,807
832. 375
834, 040
839,144
837, 272
829, 307
1 Data includes number of employees receiving pay
during
the last pay period of the month.
2
Prior to June 1937 the various executive departments and independent establishments reported the
number of persons having Federal appointments on
the last day of the month, regardless of whether or
not they received any pay for the month in which
January
February
March
April
May 2
June
July
they were reported. Beginning with June 1937,
however, the departments and agencies report all
employees who receive pay during the last pay roll
period of the month; all employees who are on leave
without pay, on furlough, on a dollar per year basis,
or who serve without pay, are eliminated from the
reports.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY THE PUBLIC WORKS
ADMINISTRATION
Details concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
during July on construction projects financed by Public Works
Administration funds are given in table 10, by type of project.
21
TABLE 10.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, July 1937 l
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed 2
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per
hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Federal projects financed from N. I. R. A. funds
All projects
_
31, 808 $3, 320, 211
3 33,712
Building construction...
Naval vessels
Public roads *
Reclamation
River, harbor, and Hood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
_
_.
3,923
8 380
9, 898
2. 210
0.702
80
(if)
478
4,003
8,071
(5)
2,377
7, 474
98
60
495
472, 280
1,107, 508
583. 442
271, 022
772.012
5, 005
4,380
44, 400
4, 130,903
748
$3,050, 737
471, 775
1,411,019
1,157,083
345.842
970, 753
5,925
7,785
59, 521
1.001
.827
. 501
.784
.790
. 845
. 503
.747
710,959
403, 288
750, 000
313, 352
707,312
1,707
999
43,120
]N on-Federal projects financed from N . I . R. A. funds
All projects
_.
25,040
20,803
$2,119,107
2,281,115
$0,929
$3,352,033
Building construction
Railroad construction.
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage..
Miscellaneous
11,337
279
2, 050
8, 522
2, 252
9,389
275
1,907
7, 337
1,835
949,515
3. 845
190,401
810,005
129,341
920. 209
0,849
231.010
888, 518
23-1, 523
1. 032
. 501
.824
. 952
.552
1,-748,284
0
225, 520
1,101,072
270, 557
Projects financed from E . R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds
All projects 7
Building construction 7
Electrification
Heavy engineering
_
Reclamation
_
River, harbor, and Hood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
__
139,701
115,920 $10,811,528
78,781
400
5, 217
1, 075
227
20,950
25, 409
880
12 Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week
of the month by each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work.
3 Includes weekly average for public roads.
<4 Estimated by the Bureau of Public Roads.
Not available; weekly average included in total
for all projects.
• These data are also included in separate tables
65. 422
350
4, 457
1,417
179
21,408
21, 972
715
0, 704, 087
27, .176
491,117
119,157
15. 190
1, 379, 020
1,972, 731
08,820
13, 339. 272 $0,811
7, 240,039
38.901
011,101
205.148
20, 081
2, 177, 010
2, 053,748
80, 035
. 925
. 099
. 809
.727
. 582
. 557
. 713
. 853
fl
$18,542,402
10.171,838
208,007
1,103,340
85, 594
10, 501
3,341,408
3,112,184
413,170
covering
projects financed by The Works Program.
7
Includes a maximum of 10.901 and an average of
14,403 employees working on Jow-eost housing projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 funds who were
paid $1,902,370 for 1,802,504 man-hours of labor.
Material orders in the amount of $1,915,508 were
placed for the.se projects. These data are also included
in separate tables covering projects financed from
The Works Program.
Federal construction projects for which data are included in tables
10 and 11 are financed by allotments made by the Public Works Administration to the various agencies and departments of the Federal
Government from funds provided under the National Industrial
Recovery Act. The major portion of the low-cost housing program
now under way, however, is financed by funds provided under the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. The work is performed
either by commercial firms which have been awarded contracts, or by
day labor hired directly by the Federal agencies.
22
Non-Federal projects are financed by allotments made by the Public
Works Administration from funds available under either the National
Industrial Recovery Act, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act
of 1935, or the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936. Most of
the allotments have been made to the States and their political subdivisions, but occasionally allotments have been made to commercial
firms. In financing projects for the States or their political subdivisions from funds appropriated, under the National Industrial Recovery
Act, the Public Works Administration makes a direct grant of not
more than 30 percent of the total labor and material cost. When
funds provided under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935
or the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936 are used to finance
a non-Federal project, as much as 45 percent of the total cost may be
furnished in the form of a grant. The remaining 55 percent or more
of the cost is financed by the recipient. When circumstances justify
such action, the Public AVorks Administration may provide the
grantee with the additional funds by means of a loan. Allotments
to commercial enterprises are made only as loans. All loans made by
the Public Works Administration carry interest charges and have a
definite date of maturity. Collateral posted with the Public Works
Administration to secure loans may be offered for sale to the public.
In this way a revolving fund is provided which enlarges the scope of
the activities of the Public Works Administration.
Commercial loans have been made, for the most part, to railroads.
Railroad work financed by loans made by the Public Works Administration falls under three headings: First, construction w^ork in the
form of electrification, the laying of rails and ties, repairs to buildings,
bridges, etc.; second, the building and repairing of locomotives and
passenger and freight cars in shops operated by the railroads; and third,
locomotive and passenger- and freight-car building in commercial
shops.
MONTHLY TREND
A summary of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
projects financed from Public Works Administration funds from July
1933 to July 1937, inclusive, is given in table 11.
23
TABLE ]J.—Employment and Pay Rolls, July 1933 to July 1937, Inclusive, on Projects
Financed From Public JT orks Administration Funds l
[Subject to revision]
Maximum
number
of wage
earners«
Year and month
July 1933 to July 1937, inclusive 3
Pay-roll disbursements
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of material orders
placed
$961,194, 428
1, 425,815. 282
33, 244. 066
308,311,143
270, 505, 555
242, 768,950
62.209. 479
523,561,666
392,066. 554
316, 666,182
.534
.589
. 690
.767
75. 524, 702
5 611,051,090
5 439,210,679
5 401,387,008
15,439, 981
13. 796, 390
13,353.904
15,242,390
18, 768, 676
16, 580, 393
16, 341. 250
19,068,352
19, 984-, 975
20,510,465
20,057, 290
. 823
.832
.817
. 799
. 793
.801
.810
26,922,308
19, 390, 733
20,652,435
25,885,173
31,727,717
26,151,770
24,945,172
July to December 1933, inclusive
January to December i«.»34, inclusive..3
January to December 1935, inclusive
January to December 1936, inclusive 3 *
January 3_.
February
3
March 3__
April 3
May 3
Number of
man-hours
worked
$0. 674 $1, 702,848, 787
1937
202.175
174. 990
173,574
192. 201
206,019
204,098
198, 483
June 3
July 3
1
2
15, 850, 554
16, 430,649
16, 250. 846
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week
of the month by each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work. Includes weekly
average
for public roads projects.
3
Includes employees working on non-Federal projects financed from K. K. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds
THE
and low-cost housing projects financed from K. R.
A. A. 1935 funds. These data are also included in
separate tables covering projects financed by The
\Yorks Program.
* Revised.
5
Includes orders placed by railroads for new
equipment.
WORKS PROGRAM
A detailed record of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on projects financed by The Works Program in July is shown in
table 12, by type of project.
TABLE 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by The W orks Program,
July 1937 i
[Subject to revision]
Wago earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed 2
Weekly
averago
Monthly
pay-roll
disburse-
Number of
man-hours Average
earnings
worked
per hour
during
month
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Federal projects
All projects.
Building construction
Electrification
Forestry
Grade-crossing elimination
Hydroelectric power plants 3
,
Plant, crop, and livestock consorv at ion..
Professional, technical, and clerical-.
Public roads
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
See footnotes at end of table.
234,147 $12,799,774
24,371,372
$0. 525
$7,041,736
42,60S
2,114
27,448
21,611
1,749
40, 723
1,914
23,811
17,648
1, 749
2,560,122
97, 375
851,487
1,305,710
24, 079
3,790,363
193, 622
2,150,348
2,035,177
87, 799
.675
.503
. 396
.642
.274
644,444
160,766
356, 636
1, 745,912
33,023
22, 620
11,556
28, 719
59,896
11,030
8,866
2,110
22,160
20, 769
11,540
23,822
57, 346
8,601
8,301
1,960
15, 963
926,188
752, 764
1,513,161
3, 270,022
825, 566
178, 302
46, 284
448, 714
2,469, 710
1,201,711
2, 792,126
6,564,495
1,138,919
484,879
185,163
1, 277,060
.375
.626
.542
.498
.725
. 368
.250
.351
63,858
1,574,694
1, 599,171
371,815
108, 345
17,049
322,057
262,487
43,966
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TABLE 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by The VPorks Program,
July 1937— Continued
Wage earners
Maximum
number
employed
Type of project
Weekly
average
Number of
man-hours Average
earnings
worked
per hour
during
month
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
P. W. A. projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds *
All projects
139,701
Building construction
Electrification
_
Heavy engineering
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control
Streets and roads
._..
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
78, 781
466
5,247
1, 675
227
26,950
25, 469
_
115,926 $10,811,528
13, 339, 272
$0,811
$18, 542, 402
6, 704, 687
7,246, 039
38,901
611,101
205,148
26, 084
2,477.616
2, 653, 748
80, 635
. 925
. 699
.809
.727
. 582
. 557
.743
. 853
10,171,838
208, 007
1,193, 340
85, 594
16, 501
3, 341, 468
3,112,484
413,170
65,422
356
4, 457
1,417
179
21,408
21,972
715
27,176
494,147
149,157
15,190
1, 379,620
1,972, 731
68,820
Projects operated by Works Progress Administration *
All projects.
$93, 504,356 178,026,765
1,807,589
Conservation
73,794
Highway, road and street
__. 640,507
3, 769
Housing
Professional, technical, and clerical. 214,452
173,
312
Public buildings
Publicly owned or operated
utilities 167, 201
7
.157,918
Recreational facilities
52,644
Sanitation and health
_
227,153
Sewing, canning, gardening, etc
35, 603
Transportation
61,236
Not elsewhere classified
3,495, 682
29,4f6.174
231,223
14,915,079
10,372,112
8,920, 401
8, 984, 247
2, 284.169
9, 769. 744
1,908,027
3,157, 498
1
Unless otherwise noted data are for the month
ending
on the 15th.
2
Maximum number employed during any 1 week
of the month by each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work.
3 These data are for projects under construction in
Puerto
Rico.
4
Includes data for 122,800 employees working on
7,007, 315
62, 760, 023
357, 248
21,997.911
15, 386, 247
16,383,840
15.053, 578
5, 251,491
24,061,010
3,366, 760
6,401,342
$0. 525
.499
.470
. 647
.678
.674
. 544
. 597
.435
.406
. 567
. 493
non-Federal projects and 16,901 employees working
on low-cost housing projects. These data arc included in ser^arate tables covering projects under the
jurisdiction
of P. W. A.
5
Data are for the calendar month.
6
Data on a monthly basis are not available.
7 Exclusive of buildings.
Statistics on employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
National Youth Administration work projects and Student-Aid in
July are shown in table 13, by type of project.
TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration and StudentAid Projects Financed by The Works Program. July 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Number of
persons
employed
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Total
149,628
$2,480,982
6,538, 705
$0.379
Work projects
Student-Aid
149,628
(3)
2,480,982
(3)
6, 538,705
(3)
.379
(3)
Type of program
\2 These data are for a calendar month.
^Data are not available on a monthly basis.
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
(2)
(4)
3 Data not available.
* No expenditures for materials on this type project.
25
MONTHLY TREND
Employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on projects financed
by The Works Program from the beginning of the program in July
1935 to July 1937, inclusive, are given in table 14.
TABLE 14.—Employment and Pay Bolls, July 1935 to July 1937, Inclusive, on Projects
Financed by The Works Program 1
[Subject to revision]
Maximum
number
employed 2
Month and year
Pay-roll disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
Value of
Average
earnings
material
per hour orders placed
Federal projects
July 1935 to July 1937, inclusive.
July to December 1935
January to December 1936..
1937
January..
February.
March
April
May
June
July
328,867
207, 525
249,690
254, 524
266,686
284,893
262,487
$359,201,742
771,028,202
34,813,554
228.024,201
77, 558,683
501, 501,344
.449
.455
33, 975,806
142,937,728
32,064,351
27,200, 313
25,606, 281
26,680, 307
27,170, 573
28,754,978
24,371,372
.478
.487
.503
.521
.515
.525
7,595,246
6,874,851
7,350,372
6,901,508
7, 563, 201
8,608,759
7,041,736
15,052,904
13,024,133
12, 504,895
13,432, 725
14,154,856
14, 794, 640
12, 799, 774
$0.4fi6 $228,855,207
P. W. A. projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds
July 1935 to July 1937, inclusive.
July to December 1935.
January to December 1936..
$175,290, 255
227, 502,653
1,089, 510
106,441,300
1,657,968
142,082,051
$0. 770 $336,222, 216
.657
.749
2. 061, 700
212,853,501
.821
.825
.813
.800
.792
.803
.811
16,301,268
13,543,480
14,486, 389
18, 503, 586
20,990,436
18,813, 454
18,542,402
1937
January...
February..
March
April
May
June
July
131,153
115,214
113,930
129,887
139,501
141, 708
139,701
9,346,003
8,428,606
8,254,306
9,018, 255
10,339,137
10,900,950
10,811,528
11.390,883
10,212, 726
10,147,405
12, 027, 623
13,019,326
13,655, 399
13,339, 272
Projects operated by Works Progress Administration *
$2, 591, 333,133 5,486, 229, 443
August 1935 to July 1937, inclusiveAugust to December 1935...
January to December 1936__
January
February
March
April
May.
June
July
__
1937
__
_
_
2,132,801
2,125,712
2,104,938
2,100,965
2,133, 340
2,020, 273
1,807,589
1
Unless otherwise noted data are for the month
ending
on the 15th.
2
Maximum number employed during any 1 week
of the month by each contractor and Government
agency
doing force-account work.
3
These data are included in tables covering projects under the jurisdiction of the Public Works Administration. The data for July include 122,800 employees working on non-Federal projects and 16,901
employees working on low-cost housing projects.
* These data exclude both work projects and
$0. 472 » $770,804,687
174,099,802
414,072,201
1, 583,352,239 3,449, 241, 880
.421
.459
231, 218, 557
225,300,018
220,101, 290
227,991,009
217,590,559
205,099, 500
178,020,705
.513
.513
.507
.508
.510
. 520
. 525
118,612,830
115,544,451
114,088,415
115,802,897
112, 202, 434
107, 040, 053
93, 504, 3f 0
Student-Aid projects of the National Youth Adminstration which appear in a separate table. Monthly
data from the beginning of the program through Apr.
15, 1937, are for the fiscal month, and commencing
with May 1937, for the calendar month. Data for
the period Apr. 16, through Apr. 30, 1937, showing
$55,818,996 in pay-roll disbursements and 110,387,478
man-hours
are included only in the grand total.
8
Data on a monthly basis arc not available. Includes rentals, services, and sponsors' contributions
of material.
26
Table 15 shows the employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on work projects of the National Youth Administration from January
1936 to July 1937, inclusive. Similar data for Student-Aid projects
are shown from September 1935 to July 1937, inclusive.
TABLE 15.—Employment and Pay Rolls From Beginning of Program Through July 1937
on National Youth Administration Projects Financed by The Works Program l
[Subject to revision]
Number of
persons
employed
Month and year
Pay-roll
disbursements
Number of Average
nuin-hours earnings
per hour
worked
Value of
material
orders
placed
Work projects
January 1936 to July 1937, inclusive..
January to December 1936
January. _.
February..
March
April
May
June
July
$49, 990,408 132,535,647
-.
28,822,196
75, 659,914
$0. 377 2 $3, 413.396
.381
1937
184,686
189, 228
191, 569
191, 982
184,173
170,472
149,628
3,084, 561
3, 239, 694
3, 224, 944
3,181, 627
3,093, 750
2,862, 654
2,480,982
8, 212,091
8,731,727
8, 724,810
8, 662. 278
8,341,895
7, 664,197
6,538, 705
.376
.371
.370
. 367
.371
. 374
.379
Student-Aid
September 1935 to July 1937, inclusive.
vSeptember to December 1935
January to December 1936.__
January..
February.
March. I _
April
May
June
July
1
2
1937
412,316
417,470
435, 619
431.744
418,362
240, 460
$50, 228, 575 166,661,526
$0,301
6, 363, 503 19,612.976
25, 722, 951 84,897,469
.324
.303
2,943,731
3,161,600
3, 290, 723
3,302,100
3,591,961
1, 852, 006
0)
10,142,349
10,948,189
11,381,181
11, 443, 240
12,254,712
5, 978, 410
(4)
. 290
.289
. 289
.289
. 293
.310
4
()
These data are for a calendar month.
I 3 No expenditures for materials on this type project.
These data are not available on a monthly basis. I 4 Data not available.
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
Statistics concerning employment and pay rolls in the Civilian
Conservation Corps in June and July 1937 are presented in table 16.
The Civilian Conservation Corps is usually regarded as a part of
The Works Program, although it is now financed by a separate
appropriation.
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TABLE 16.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, June and
July 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees
Amount of pay rolls
Group
July
June
July
All groups
318, 779
323, 026
$16,851,511
Enrolled personnel 2
Reserve officers 3
Educational advisers *
Supervisory and technical
295, 985
7,486
1, 890
43, 412
270,635
7, 333
1,917
43, 741
9, 282, 733
1,843, 093
300,407
5,419, 278
June
$10,085,832
8, 422,
1,8J 9,
322,
5, 520.
730
998
815
289
1
* Includes 259 nurses and pay roll of $25,866 for July;
Data on number of employees refer to employment on last, day of month. Amounts of pay rolls are 271 nurses and pay roll $2f>,931 for June alt-o included
in i executive service, tables 8 and 9.
for2 the entire month.
July data includes 3,222 enrollees and pay roll of
included in executive service, tables 8 and 9.
$00,097 outside continental Tniled States; June-, 2.937
enrollees and pay roll of $02,519 outside continental
United States.
Employment and pay-roll data for the Civilian Conservation Corps
are collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the War Department, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce,
the Treasury Department, and the Department of the Interior. The
monthly pay of the enrolled personnel is $30 per month. However,
assistant leaders not to exceed 10.0 percent of the total number of
enrollees may receive up to $36 per month and leaders not to exceed
6.0 percent may receive up to $45 per month.
Monthly statistics of employment and pay rolls in the Civilian
Conservation Corps from July 1936 to July 1937, inclusive, are given
in table 17.
TABLE 17.—Employment and Pay Rolfs in the Civilian Conservation Corps, by Months,
July 1936 Through July 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Month
1936
July
August
September
October
November.
December
Number of
employees
402, 308
381,425
318,707
402, 009
389,122
374, 744
Monthly
pay-roll disbursements
Month
$18,004,882 January
17, 175,592 February
10,005,24;
March
17,292,812
April.
18.232,391
May..
] 7, 738,9(55 June—
July..
1937
Number of
employees
407, 723
394,521
307, 337
309,309
348,905
323, 020
348, 779
Monthly
pay-roll disbursements
$18,050,537
.18,314,594
15, 770. 090
17,502.905
10.719.019
10, ()S5, 832
10,851,511
1
Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month. Amounts of pay rolls are for
entire month.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE
CORPORATION
Statistics of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in July are presented in table 18, by type of project.
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TABLE 18.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, by Type of Project, July 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Type of project
Number
of wage
earners 2
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
All projects
4,099
$574,541
670,956
Building construction 3
W ater and sewerage
Miscellaneous
_.
144
3,816
139
10,397
548,086
16,058
16,149
634,141
20,666
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed during month
$620,736-
.644
.864
.777
14,737
603,692
2,307
1
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
3 Includes 86 employees; pay-roll disbursements of
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week $6,050; 9,413 man-hours worked; and material orders
placed during the month amounting to $5,318 on
of the month.
projects financed by the R F C Mortgage Co.
A monthly summary of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked on construction projects financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation from July 1936 to July 1937, inclusive, is given
in table 19.
TABLE 19.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financrd by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, July 1936 Through July 1937 l
[Subject to revision]
Month
Number of
wage
earners 2
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed during month
1936
July
August.
September
October
November
December
__
_
9,843
9,658
10, 290
8,864
9,611
9,189
$1,063,728
1,065, 744
1,085,642
1,002,618
1,108, 258
1,100,816
1,436,201
1,441,791
1,510, 109
1,347,31.7
1,502,400
1, 514,355
$0.741
.739
.719
.744
.738
.731
$2,050,370
1,314,692
1,420,444
1,298,643
3,008,077
1,433,075
8, 232
7,299
7, 696
8, 226
5,847
4,898
4,099
96S, 077
864, 776
929,032
1, 041, 280
790,018
690,822
574, 541
1,300,989
1,150, 721
1,191,977
1, 295, 053
967, 273
823, 541
670, 956
.744
.752
.779
.804
.817
.839
.856
2,329,944
1,018, 058
1,138, 460
1,023, 599
902, 762
835,382
620, 736
1937
January
February.._
March
April....
May
June
July
1
Includes projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co. I 2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week
Data are for month ending on the 15th.
| of the month.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED FROM REGULAR
GOVERNMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Whenever a construction contract is awarded or force-account work
is started by a department or agency of the Federal Government, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics is immediately notified, on forms supplied
by the Bureau, of the name and address of the contractor, the amount
of the contract, and the type of work to be performed. Blanks are
then mailed by the Bureau to the contractor or Government agency
29
doing the work. These reports are returned to the Bureau and show
the number of men on pay rolls, the amounts disbursed for pay, the
number of man-hours worked on the project, and the value of the
different types of materials for which orders were placed during the
month.
The following tables present data concerning construction projects
for which contracts have been awarded since July 1, 1934. The
Bureau does not have statistics covering projects financed from regular
governmental appropriations for which contracts were awarded previous to that date.
Data concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed from regular governmental appropriations during July are given in table 20, by type of project.
TABLE 20.—Employment on Construction Projects Financed From Regular Governmental
Appropriations, by Type of Project, July 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Number of wage earners
Type of project
All projects
Maximum
number
employed J
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours Average
worked
earnings
per hour
during
month
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
--.
3 193, 695
29,236,412
$0.670
$24,485,499
Building construction
Electrification
Forestry
__
_
Naval vessels (construction and
repair)
Public roads *
15,866
1,810
52
12, 766
1,531
52
1,333,597
108, 556
4,301
1,540,546
193,687
8,421
.866
.560
.511
2,534,955
1,510, 583
146
38,963
C5)
38,323
90,059
5,254,347
8,184,986
6,009,130
14,612,506
.874
.560
4,862,902
10,521,593
Reclamation
__.
River, harbor, and flood control.
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
11,164
30, 592
2,211
34
2,944
10,806
26,821
2,047
24
2,625
1,340,690
3,061,167
111,337
4,223
196,180
1, 769, 744
4, 590, 676
234,118
4,236
273,348
.758
.667
.476
.997
.718
920, 685
3,806,928
108.288
4,914
214,505
185,054 $19, 599,384
3
Includes weekly average for public roads.
Data are for month ending on the 15th.
*6 Estimated by the Bureau of Public Roads.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week
Not available; weekly average included in total
of the month by each contractor and Government
for all projects.
agency doing force-account work.
1
2
Employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on construction
projects financed from regular governmental appropriations from
July 1936 to July 1937, inclusive, are shown by months in table 21.
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TABLE 21.—Employment on Construction Projects Financed From Regular Governmental
Appropriations, July 1936 Through July 1937 l
[Subject to revision]
Number
of wage
earners 2
Month
July
August
SeptemberOctober
November..
December. .
me
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed during month
146,265
165, 870
166,902
175,071
152, 513
144, 274
$14, 286, 923
15,341,364
14,846,961
16.931.017
13, 766, 630
13, 491, 223
21,624,176
23,151,796
22, 475, 820
25, 505, 296
20, 375, 741
19,164, 694
$0. 661
. 663
. 661
.664
.676
.704
$27, 631, 349
19. 288,486
22,164, 997
20, 357, 778
16, 370, 640
16, 009, 255
119, 853
112,770
120,175
132, 639
160, 346
177,265
193, 695
11,857,007
10, 904, 648
11,847,783
13,855, 633
15. 278, 529
16, 980,060
19, 599, 384
16, 506, 278
14,735.028
16, 280,905
19. 545. 518
21,858,124
24, 532,459
29,236,412
.718
.740
.728
. 709
. 699
.692
.670
11, 729, 532
13, 613, 251
12,820, 438
15, 572,168
18, 508, 278
19, 574, 535
24, 485, 499
1937
January...
February..
March
April
May
June
July
1 Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
I of the month by each contractor and Government
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week | agency doing force-account work.
STATE-ROADS PROJECTS
A record of employment and pay-roll disbursements in the construction and maintenance of State roads from July 1936 to July 1937,
inclusive, is presented in table 22.
TABLE 22.—Employment on Construction and Maintenance of State Roads, July 1936
Through July 1937 l
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees working on 2—
Total pay
roll
Month
New roads Maintenance
Total
1936
July
August
September
October
November
December
21,744
26,810
34,459
34,136
27, 988
21,394
164,956
158,882
151, 772
149,717
153,688
138,540
186, 700
185, 692
186, 231
183,853
181,676
159, 934
$11,839,215
11,937,585
11.806,481
11,566,892
11,330,509
10,000,371
15, 622
11,706
11,802
13,164
17,241
19, 382
25,140
117, 576
120, 786
119,046
124, 761
159, 167
148,392
149,907
133,198
132, 492
130,848
137, 925
176,408
167, 774
175,047
8, 387,864
8, 560, 561
8,333, 600
9,108,030
10.850,394
11,069,510
11,998,370
1987
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
1
Excluding employment furnished by projects for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Monthly average.
financed from Public Works Administration and
Works Progress Administration funds. Data are
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