Full text of Employment and Payrolls : March 1933
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
FRANCES PERKINS, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
CHARLES E. BALDW IN, Acting Commissioner
TREND OF EMPLOYMENT
MARCH 1933
By Industries:
Page
1-11
Manufacturing Industries......................................
Nonmanufacturing In d u s tr ie s .......................................11-14
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
Building C on stru ction ..................................................... 17-18
Executive Civil Service.....................................................26-27
Class I Steam R a ilr o a d s ................................................ 27-28
By S t a t e s ..................................................................................19-25
By C i t i e s ..................................................................................
26
Wage Changes . ....................................................................28-31
Average hours and average hourly e a r n i n g s ................... 15-17
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
W ASHINGTON : 1933
TREND OF EMPLOYMENT
March 1933
HE Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of
Labor presents in the following tables data compiled from pay-roll
reports supplied by cooperating establishments in 17 of the important
industrial groups of the country and covering the pay period ending
nearest the 15th of the month.
Information for each of the 89 separate manufacturing industires
and for the manufacturing industries combined is shown, following
which are presented tabulations showing the changes in employment
and pay rolls in the 16 nonmanufacturing groups included in the
Bureau's monthly survey, together with information available con
cerning employment in the executive civil service and on class I
railroads.
T
Employment in Selected Manufacturing Industries in March
1933
Comparison of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals in March 1933, with February
1933, and March 1932
M PLO YM EN T in manufacturing industries decreased 4.2 percent
in March 1933 as compared with February 1933 and pay-roll
totals decreased 8.2 percent over the month interval. Comparing
March 1933 with March 1932, decreases of 14.6 percent in employment
and 30.7 percent in pay rolls are shown over the 12-month period.
The decreases in employment and pay rolls between February and
March 1933 can be attributed very largely to the bank holiday which
caused a general curtailment of manufacturing activities during the
early part of March. A slightly off-setting influence in these general
decreases was reflected in the increase in employment and pay rolls in
the beverage industry, in anticipation of beer legislation.
The percents of change in employment and pay-roll totals in March
1933 as compared with February 1933 are based on returns made
by 18,107 establishments in 89 of the principal manufacturing indus
tries in the United States, having in March 2,471,792 employees,
whose combined earnings in one week were $38,921,474.
The index of employment in March 1933 was 55.1 as compared
with 57.5 in February 1933, 56.6 in January 1933, and 64.5 in March
1932; the pay-roll index in March 1933 was 33.4 as compared with
36.4 in'February 1933, 35.8 in January 1933, and 48.2 in March 1932.
In table 1, which follows, are shown the number of identical estab
lishments reporting in both February and March 1933 in the 89 manu
facturing industries, together with the total number of employees on
the pay rolls of these establishments during the pay period ending
nearest March 15, the amount of their weekly earnings in March,
the percents of change over the month and year intervals, and the
indexes of employment and pay roll in March 1933.
E
(1)
2
The monthly percents of change for each of the 89 separate indus
tries are computed by direct comparison of the total number of em
ployees and of the amount of weekly pay roll reported in identical
establishments for the two months considered. The percents of
change over the month interval in the several groups and in the total
of the 89 manufacturing industries are computed from the index num
bers of these groups, which are obtained by weighting the index num
bers of the several industries in the groups by the number of employees
or wages paid in the industries. The percents 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 —C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN MANUFACTURING
E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN M A R C H 1933, W IT H F E B R U A R Y 1933, A N D M A R C H 1932
T a b le
Employment
Pay-roll totals
Estab
lish
ments
Percent of
Percent of
report
change
change
ing in
Number
Amount
both
of pay roll
on pay
Feb
(1 week)
roll
Feb
Feb March
ruary
March
ruary March
ruary 1932 to
and
1932 to March
to
1933
1933
1933
to
March
March March
March March
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
Industry
Food and kindred products. 3,107
B a k in g ................. ...............
Beverages________________
B utter_________ __________
Confectionery------------------Flour_____________________
Ice cream_________________
Slaughtering and meat
packing_________________
Sugar, beet__________ ____
Sugar refining, cane_______
982
344
311
324
424
405
248
55
14
Textiles and their products. 3,108
Fabrics------------------------ 1,898
Carpets and rugs_____
Cotton goods. _______
Cotton small wares____
Dyeing and finishing
textiles____ _ .. _
K nit goods___________
Silk and rayon goods . .
W oolen and worsted
goods----------------- . . .
229,849 - 1 .3
61,322
-.8
10,688 +17. 5
- . 1
5,196
31,431 - 6 .3
-.7
15,458
+ .2
10,947
Index num
bers March
1933 (average
1926=100)
Em
ploy
ment
Pay
roll
totals
- 4 .7 $4,436,981 - 3 .3 -1 8 .5
1, 295,157 - 2 . 9 -2 0 .4
- 8 .5
251,022 +17.5 - 5 .0
+ 5 .4
- 5 .1
109, 765
- . 8 -1 9 .6
374,000 -1 4 .9 -2 4 .6
-.7
- 5 .1
308,044 - 1 .6 -1 4 .5
-9 .4
270,463 - 1 .2 - 2 6 .8
76.4
76.4
76.2
88.9
70.7
80.5
61.9
58.1
60.3
58.4
68.3
44.7
60.9
46.0
1, 570,875 - 6 .8 -1 7 .9
68,137 -1 0 .5 + 6 .4
189,518 +12.6 - 6 .7
82.5
35.4
74.6
61.4
30.1
65.0
84, 225 - 2 .5
- 4 .0
2, 880 -2 7 .8 +33.6
+ .7
7, 702
- 2 .6
31
680
114
585,735
459,528
9, 367
226, 338
8, 773
- 6 .4
- 7 .7
- 3 .7
- 3 .2
- 6 .2
-8 .0
- 7 .2
-2 3 .4
- 4 .0
-1 3 .6
6,737,316 -1 4 .8
5,121,366 -1 6 .4
129,551 + 1 .3
2,159,424 - 8 .3
115, 828 -1 5 .5
-2 9 .5
-2 7 .1
-3 8 .0
-2 2 .8
-3 1 .4
67.5
67.9
47.8
72.0
74.8
39.0
40.4
25.6
44.0
48.0
148
442
237
32, 562
- 3 .7
96, 759 - 3 .2
39,385 -1 4 .0
-1 2 .2
- 5 .4
-1 1 .6
546, 270 -1 2 .9
1,118,180 - 8 .1
445,969 -1 9 .3
-3 1 .8
- 2 6 .4
-2 3 .6
75.3
77.2
51.3
49.4
46.0
29.5
46, 344 1-23.5
- 9 .9
606,144 -3 7 .9
-3 3 .5
59.9
35.5
378
456
126,207
58,852
26,318
- 2 .6
- 2 .4
- 3 .5
- 9 .6
- 6 .6
-1 3 .5
1,615,950 -1 1 .2 -3 3 .9
746,851 - 8 . 7 -2 4 .7
392, 295 -1 5 .2 -4 2 .2
66.8
66.5
67.0
36.4
35.7
35.8
32
35
70
127
112
5, 606
5,191
6,814
9,030
14, 396
-.2
- 3 .4
- 4 .7
- 3 .0
-.6
- 5 .3
- 4 .0
- 8 .8
-1 7 .2
- 4 .0
69,681 -1 5 .6 -2 8 .5
81,119 -1 0 .0 -1 9 .5
67,399 - 4 .7 -3 6 .9
120, 655 -1 3 .3 -4 4 .3
+ .5 -1 5 .6
137,950
102.4
64.3
60.3
69.8
57.9
68.1
33.4
32.2
37.5
34.7
Iron and steel and their
products, not including
machinery______ ____ ___ 1,383
263,399
- 4 .3
-1 9 .5
- 8 .2
-3 6 .1
49.1
22.5
7, 613 -3 .1
3, 793 -1 7 .4
-1 2 .9
-4 9 .1
102,916 -1 3 .9
52, 357 - 1 .5
-3 3 .9
-5 6 .7
59.2
19.4
28.1
11.0
-2 7 .6
-2 6 .0
-1 8 .4
-1 8 .7
-1 0 .2
99, 724 -2 8 .9
65,459 - 8 .3
230,881 -1 0 .7
1,986,393 - 9 .8
102,175 + 25.6
-5 1 .5
-4 2 .9
-4 0 .5
-3 5 .1
-1 7 .1
54.2
50.1
47.0
50.1
58.8
26.7
22.8
20.7
21.3
32.5
Wearing appareL
Clothing, m en’s______
Clothing, w om en’s____
Corsets and allied gar
m en ts........... .......
Hats, fur-felt__________
M en ’s furnishings____
M illinery_____________
Shirts and collars_____
Bolts, nuts, washers, and
rivets___________________
Cast-iron pipe____________
Cutlery (not including sil
ver and plated cutlery)
and edge tools__________
Forgings, iron and steel.._
Hardware________________
Iron and steel___________ _
Plumbers’ supplies_______
246
____ 1,210
68
41
128
62
106
196
69
7, 629
4,834
19,682
156,035
6, 574
- 8 .7
- 2 .5
-4 .1
- 5 .6
+ 7 .9
3,490,086
3
1.—COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN MANUFACTURING
ESTABLISHM ENTS IN M A RC H 1933, W ITH F E BR U A R Y 1933, AND M A RC H 1932- -Con.
T a b le
Industry
Employment
Pay-roll totals
Estab
Index num
lish
bers March
ments
1933 (average
Percent of
Percent of
report
1926=100)
change
change
ing in
Amount
both Number
on pay
of pay roll
Feb
(1 week)
roll
Feb
Feb
ruary
March ruary March
ruary March
and
1932 to March
1932 to E m Pay
1933
to
1933
1933
to
ploy
roll
March
March March
March March ment totals
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
Iron and steel—Continued.
Steam and hot water heat
ing apparatus and steamfittings................................
Stoves____ ________________
Structural and ornamental
metalwork....... ..................
Tin cans and other tinware.
Tools (not including edge
tools, machine tools, files,
and saws)...........................
Wire work.......... ...................
98
161
11,456 -1 2 .3
13,690 - 2 .6
198
59
13,246
7,895
128
68
6, 214
4,738
Machinery, not including
transportation e q u i p
m en t................................... 1,813
256,370
Agricultural im plem ents...
77
Cash
registers, adding
machines, and calculating
machines_______________
40
Electrical machinery, ap
paratus and supplies____
291
Engines, turbines, tractors,
and water wheels. ............
91
Foundry and machine shop
products________________ 1,068
143
Machine tools____________
41
Radios and phonographs...
Textile machinery and
parts___________________
46
16
Typewriters and supplies._
Nonferrous metals and
their parts______________
Aluminum manufactures._
Brass, bronze, and copper
products____ ___________
Clocks and watches and
time-recording devices.. .
Jewelry___________________
Lighting equipment______
Silverware and plated ware.
Smelting and refining—
copper, lead, and z in c ...
Stamped and enameled
ware....... .......... .............. .
Transportation equipments
A ir cra ft __________________
Autom obiles______ _______
Cars, electric and steam
railroad________________
Locom otive___ ____ ______
Shipbuilding_____ _______
Railroad repair shops_____
Electric railroad___ ______
Steam railroad......................
627
25
- 5 .9
- 1 .8
-2 3 .9
-1 0 .9
-3.4 -27.0
- 3 .6
-2 9 .4
-3 8 .5
-2 9 .1
30.5
41.9
16.0
21.7
-.8
-3 .4
-5 0 .0
-1 7 .8
37.8
68.4
17.2
38.4
85, 346 -1 1 .3
68,677 -1 1 .1
-4 2 .6
-3 6 .3
55.7
87.4
27.2
52.1
-8.7 -41.7
42.4
23.2
177,454
138,825
4,301,751
103,674 -1 1 .9
-4 4 .1
28.8
19.0
12,050
- 1 .6
-1 8 .3
260,350
- 4 .0
-2 4 .8
61.5
93, 738
- 2 .3
-3 4 .6
1,750,482
- 4 .7
-4 5 .7
45.3
28.9
14,494
- 5 .2
-2 6 .3
274,170
- 7 .5
-3 2 .7
37.9
1, 296,455 -1 0 .2
151, 798 -2 0 .5
260,316 - 7 .7
-4 1 .4
-5 0 .2
-1 7 .8
40.8
27.3
61.0
22.8
M
19.4
15.0
42.0
98,944 -1 0 .8
105,562 - 7 .6
-4 2 .3
-4 0 .0
53.2
52.0
29.2
27.5
1,048,097
-7.6 -3 4 .8
75,058
- 3 .5
-1 3 .9
48.7
47.6
28.1
90,044 -*3. 6 -2 3 .3
9,133 -1 1 .9 -3 8 .8
15, 615 - 1 .5
- 4 .8
6, 508
7,649
- 3 .4
- 3 .2
71,082 -4.1
4,808
-1 9 .5
-2 7 .2
-19.6
- .5
-1 4 .2
41.0
28.5
24, 766
- 5 .5
-2 2 .8
369,093
-8 .2
-3 9 .4
46.0
24.3
26
141
53
52
6,030
6, 709
2, 371
7,041
-8 .0
- 4 .5
- 7 .9
- 1 .3
-3 2 .9
-2 3 .3
-2 5 .4
-1 0 .2
61,822 -2 5 .8
106, 675 - 9 .5
37,477 -1 3 .1
110,453 - 1 . 6
-4 9 .8
-4 0 .1
-3 9 . 3
-3 2 .8
34.9
33.2
55.7
58.0
16.6
19.1
35.1
31.3
31
8,115
+ 1 .2
-1 5 .3
126,397
-4 .6
-2 7 .2
56.6
33.4
89
11,242
- 7 .6
-1 6 .7
161,122 -1 1 .6
-3 5 .8
55.9
31.7
3,636,479 -14.1 -4 6 .3
43.5
196.4
44.9
26.3
197.4
26.3
-3 7 .8
-6 4 .3
- 4 6 .3
17.2
10.3
57.8
9.2
6.5
39.6
-3.1 -18.9
47.0
34.8
414
28
240
39
11
96
945
397
548
442
452
608
25
Stone, clay and glass prod
ucts___ _________________ 1,310
B rick, tile, and terra cotta.
C em ent__________________
Glass________________ ____
Marble, granite, slate, and
other products__________
Pottery..................................
+ 1 .6 -3 0 .4
- 2 .7
- 6 .8
$171,746 -1 2 .4
208,133 - 6 .3
210
Lumber and allied products. 1,527
Furniture________________
Lumber, m illwork________
Lumber, sawmills________
Turpentine and rosin_____
7,139
-3 0 .0
-1 8 .5
669
124
191
214 i
112 |
204,010 -10.3 -31.3
5,964 + 5 .7 -1 4 .6
169, 571 —U. 7 -3 1 .1
-.2
4, 573
1,449 -1 2 .3
22,453 - 5 .4
93,474
19,864
73,610
103,293
-2 4 .6
-5 0 .0
-3 4 .8
- . 6 -10.5
- 1 .0
-.3
- 9 .8
-1 0 .4
-4 .5 -20.4
36, 721 - - 7 .4 -2 3 .0
14,699 - 8 .1 -2 9 .0
50, 744 - 2 .7 -1 7 .8
1,129 + 2 .6 - 6 .9
75,266
13,282
10,467
33,632
4,354
13,531
173, 951 + 5 .2 -1 5 .8
2, 912, 945 -1 6 .2 -4 7 .3
74, 208 + 2 .1
26,686 -1 4 .2
448,689 - 8 . 9
2,071,693
507,406
1,564,287
-.7
- 3 .3
-2 0 .8
-1 8 .5
64.4
45.7
1,089,900 -11.1 -40.2
31.9
387, 522 -2 0 .9
170,253 -1 2 .8
516,923 - 4 .1
15, 202 + 4.1
-4 6 .8
-4 5 .0
-3 5 .7
- 5 .6
+1.1 -22.9
1,137,445
133,019
163,919
562,135
- 6 .9
+ 2 .9
- 1 .4
+ 2 .0 -2 8 .6
- . 8 -1 7 .6
82,417
195,955
+ 5 .2 -4 4 .2
- 1 .8 -3 7 .2
- . 7 -3 4 .6
+ . 9 -3 0 .4
+ 2 .2 -1 2 .8
- . 5 -37.7
-4 9 .3
-4 6 .1
-2 6 .4
52.1
33.5
14.4
39.9
28.7
29.0
42.0
16.7
13.8
12.8
33.4
37.1
20.7
19.3
30.0
56.6
37.4
57.0
7.2
15.3
37.4
22.5
30.4
4
1 — COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PA Y ROLLS IN MANUFACTURING
ESTABLISHM EN TS IN M A RC H 1933, W ITH FE BR U A R Y 1933, A N D M A RC H 1932—Con.
T a b le
Industry
Leather and its m an u fac
tures..........................................
Boots and shoes...............
Leather......... ...................... .
Employment
Pay-roll totals
Estab
lish
ments
Percent of
Percent of
report
change
change
ing in
A
mount
Number
both
on pay
of pay roll
Feb
Feb March (1 week)
Feb
roll
ruary
arch
ruary M
March ruary 1932 to March
and
1932 to
1933
to March
to
1933
1933
March
March
March
March
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
Index num
bers March
1933 (average
1926=100)
Em
ploy
ment
P ay
roll
totals
480
328
152
129,406
106, 349
23,057
-.9
-.6
-2 .7
- 5 .5
-6 .4
-1 .4
1,845,575
1,441, 507
404,068
- 6 .0
- 5 .5
-6 .8
-2 4 .4
-2 7 .1
-1 4 .2
75.8
77.3
69.7
45.5
44.4
49.5
Paper and printing................. 1,927
Boxes, paper.........................
319
Paper and pulp ....... ............
408
Printing and publishing:
Book and job.:________
745
Newspapers and peri
odicals..........................
455
198,995
19,997
75,108
- 1 .7
+ 1 .0
-.1
- 8 .8
-6 .0
- 6 .8
4,503,660
314,186
1,260,293
- 3 .9
- 4 .4
-2 .7
-2 3 .1
-2 2 .0
-2 5 .9
76.8
68.9
72.5
58.8
51.4
45.2
42, 312
- 4 .9
-1 5 .7
1,042,822
- 5 .5
- 2 7 .8
67.5
51.9
61,578
-1 .0
-5 .2
1,886, 359
-3 .0
-1 8 .4
95.8
77.8
145,898
20,550
-.1
-.4
- 4 .4
- 2 .8
3,062,098
464,414
- 2 .0
- 2 .0
-1 6 .1
-1 5 .1
76.4
86.4
58.5
60.2
3,462 - 5 .5 -1 7 .4
7,245
- . 9 -1 2 .3
3,202
-.7
-2 .8
9,078 +19.0 + 5 .5
12,760 - 1 .5 -1 4 .7
47,800
+ .2
-3 .7
- 1 .2
27, 777 - 4 . 8
14,024 - 1 . 5
-3 .2
32,845 - 3 .1 -2 7 .2
141,588 - 5 . 0 -1 6 .6
58,987 + 1. 5 -1 5 .4
95,984 +11.3 -1 5 .0
244,135 - 8 . 0 -3 3 .1
+ .5 -1 1 .5
1,276,681
455,058 - 5 .4 -1 4 .0
292,406 - 2 . 2 -1 4 .7
38.4
69.8
75.7
67.4
63.3
62.8
142.0
93.7
33.0
66.5
47.7
36.3
43.5
53.2
114.5
76.3
67,060
8, 232
1,027,317 -1 2 .5 -3 5 .3
112,014 -2 1 .4 -3 8 .2
60.2
45.3
32.2
26.8
46.1
Chemicals and allied prod
ucts........... ............................... 1,069
C hem icals.............................
112
Cottonseed, oil, cake, and
meal..................................
86
Druggists’ preparations___
44
Explosives........................... .
28
Fertilizers.............................
201
Paints and varnishes..........
355
Petroleum refining....... .......
131
R ayon and allied products.
23
Soap........................................
89
Rubioer products.....................
R ubber boots and shoes___
Rubber goods, other than
boots, shoes, tires, and
inner tubes____ ________
R ubber tires and inner
tubes...................................
149
8
97
17,785
- 2 .8
-4 .3
273,564 -1 0 .7
-2 3 .5
79.7
44
41,043
- 3 .3
-1 2 .9
641,739 -1 1 .1
-3 9 .8
56.7
28.7
Tobacco m anufactures____
Chewing and smoking to
bacco and snuff......... .......
Cigars and cigarettes______
249
47,955
- 9 .2
-1 7 .9
533,076 -1 0 .3 -3 0 .8
59.5
38.4
34
215
9,960 - 3 .5
37,995 -1 0 .0
- 2 .8
-2 0 .3
116,463 - 7 . 7 -1 6 .9
416,613 -1 0 .8 -3 3 .1
86.4
56.1
60.3
35.7
55.1
33.4
Total, 89 industries___ 18,107 2,471,792
- 3 .8
- 7 .9
- 4 .2
-1 2 .1
-2 4 .2
-1 4 .6 38,921,474
- 8 .2
-3 0 .7
Per Capita Earnings in Manufacturing Industries
P e r capita weekly earnings in March 1933 for each of the 89 manu
facturing industries surveyed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and
for all industries combined, together with the percents of change in
March 1933 as compared with February 1933 and March 1932 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).
5
T a b le
2,— PER CAPITA W E E K L Y EARNINGS IN MANUFACTURING IN DUSTRIES IN
M A RC H 1933 AND COM PARISON W ITH F E B R U A R Y 1933 AND M A RC H 1932
Industry
-Food and kindred products:
Baking............................ ....................................................................... .
Beverages. .................... ........................................................... ........... .
Butter.................................................................................... .................
Confectionery........................................................................................ .
F l o u r .................................................... ............................................... .
Ice cream.................... ................................. ........................................ .
Slaughtering and meat packing__________ _________ ____________
Sugar, beet............... : .................................................- .......................
Sugar refining, cane................- ..................... ......................................
Textiles and their products:
Fabrics:
Carpets and rugs................. ..........................................................
Cotton goods...................... —............................. ..........................
Cotton small wares.......................... .................... ....................... .
Dyeing and finishing textiles ................................. ....................
Knit goods. .......................................... ............ ............................ .
Silk and rayon goods.......................... ..........................................
W oolen and worsted goods__.......................................................
Wearing apparel:
Clothing, men’s . . ......................................................................... .
Clothing, wom en’s .............. .......... ..............................................
Corsets and allied garments............................................ - .........
Hats, fur-felt ....................................................................................
M en’s furnishings.......................... ........................................... .
Millinery......................................................................................... .
Shirts and collars................................................... ...................... .
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery:
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets. .............................. ....................... .
Cast-iron pipe...... ............................ ................- ...................................
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
Forgings, iron and steel............. ......................................................... .
H a rd w a re ........................................................................................... .
Iron and steel........................................................... - ...........................
Plumbers’ supplies.......................... ................................... ............... .
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and steam fittings....... .
S toves............................................ .......................... .................... ........
Structural and ornamental metal w o r k .......................................... .
Tin cans and other tinware—. ...........................................................
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, files, and saws)_
W irework....................................... ........................................................
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................................... - ..........
Machine tools........ ............................................................................... .
Radios and phonographs......................................................................
Textile machinery and parts............................... ...............................
Typewriters and supplies.—............................ - ....................... .........
Nonferrous metals and their parts:
Aluminum manufactures........................ ................... ........................
Brass, bronze, and copper products..................................................
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices.............................
Jewelry.....................................................................................................
Lighting equipment............................................................................
Silverware and plated ware...................... ..........................................
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc...............................
Stamped and enameled ware....................- ........................................
Transportation equipment:
Aircraft........... ............................... .......................................................
Automobiles........... .................................. - ...........................................
Cars, electric and steam railroad.......................................................
Locom otives........... ....................... - ......................................................
Shipbuilding..........................................................................................
Railroad repair shops:
Electric railroad.... .............................................. ............. ..................
Steam railroad......................................................................................
Lumber and allied products:
Furniture..............................- ...............................................................
Lumber:
M illwork..........................................................................................
Sawmills..........................................................................................
Turpentine and rosin...........................................................................
Per capita
weekly
earnings
in March
1933
Percent of change
compared with—
February
1933
M arch
1932
$21.12
23.49
21.12
11.90
19.93
24.71
18.65
23.66
24. 61
-2 .0
+. 1
-.8
-9 .2
-.8
-1 .3
-4 .5
+23.9
+11.9
-1 3 .3
-1 0 .0
-1 5 .2
-2 4 .1
-9 .9
-1 8 .8
-1 4 .7
-2 0 .4
- 4 .1
13.83
9.54
13.20
16.78
11.56
11. 32
13.08
+5.1
-5 .4
-1 0 .0
- 9 .5
- 5 .1
- 6 .2
-1 8 .9
-1 9 .5
-1 9 .7
-2 0 .6
-2 2 .1
-2 2 .1
-1 3 .2
-2 6 .2
12.69
14.91
12.43
15.63
9.89
13.36
9.58
- 6 .5
-1 2 .1
-1 5 .4
- 6 .8
+. 1
-1 0 .6
+ 1 .2
-1 9 .7
-3 3 .3
-2 4 .4
-1 6 .1
-3 1 .1
-3 2 .6
-1 1 .7
13. 52
13.80
13.07
13.54
11. 73
12.73
15.54
14.99
15.20
13.40
17.58
13.73
14.49
-1 1 .0
+19.3
-2 2 .2
-6 .0
- 6 .9
- 4 .5
+16.4
-.1
-3 .9
-2 .4
-.7
-5 .8
-9 .6
-2 4 .2
-1 4 .5
-3 2 .9
- 2 2 .7
-2 6 .7
-2 0 .5
-7 .6
-1 2 .2
-1 3 .2
-2 8 .1
-1 1 .8
-2 4 .6
-2 8 .7
14.52
21.61
18. 67
18.92
14.40
16.62
16. 67
15.20
13. 80
-8 .6
-2 .3
-2 .4
- 2 .4
-6 .9
-9 .8
-6 .3
-7 .7
-4 .6
-2 0 .7
-7 .9
-1 6 .5
-8 .8
-2 3 .6
-1 8 .8
-1 3 .3
-2 8 .3
-1 7 .6
15.61
14.90
10.25
15.90
15.81
15.69
15.58
14. 33
-3 .0
-2 .9
-1 9 .4
- 5 .2
- 5 .7
-.3
- 5 .7
-4 .3
+ .4
-2 1 .5
-2 5 .7
-2 1 .7
-1 8 .5
-2 5 .3
-1 4 .1
-2 3 .1
29.17
17.18
16.23
18.42
19.98
-.5
-5 .0
+ 2 .3
-2 .2
-3 .8
-1 .5
-2 3 .5
-1 7 .8
-2 8 .8
-1 7 .6
25.54
21. 25
+. 3
-3 .0
-1 2 .0
- 9 .2
10.55
-1 4 .6
- 3 0 .8
11.58
10.19
13.47
-5 .2
-1 .5
+ 1 .4
- 2 2 .9
-2 2 .3
+ 1 .0
6
2 —PE R C APITA W E E K L Y EARNINGS IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN
M A RC H 1933 AND COM PARISON W ITH FE BR U A R Y 1933 AND M A RC H 1932—Contd.
T a b le
Industry
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Brick, tile, and terra cotta___________ ___________ ___________
Cement________________________________________ . . . ___________
Glass._____ _______________________________________________ .
Marble, granite, slate, and other p rod u cts..................... ..
.
Pottery_______ _____________ ______________
__ __
_ .
Leather and its manufactures:
Boots and shoes........ .................................. .......................................
Leather______________ _____________________________ _______
Paper and printing:
Boxes, paper.____ _________________________________
Paper and pulp____________ ______________________ _____________
Printing and publishing:
Book and jo b _____ _______________ __________ ___________
Newspapers and periodicals_______________________________
Chemicals and allied products:
Chemicals____ ________________ ____. . . _ _____________________
Cottonseed, oil, cake, and meal..........................................................
Druggists’ preparations___ ________________________________ .
Explosives_____________ _ ____________________________________
Fertilizers________________________________________ _____ ______
Paints and varnishes_______________________ ____ __________ __
Petroleum refining________________________________ ____________
R ayon and allied products____ ________ _______________________
Soap________________________ ________________________ ________
Rubber products:
_____ _________
Rubber boots and shoes______ _______________
R ubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner tu b es.. .
Rubber tires and inner tubes_________ ______ __________ _______
Tobacco manufactures:
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff_______________________
Cigar § and cigarettes___________________________________ _____
Total, 89 industries. __________________________________________
Per capita
weekly
earnings
in March
1933
Percent of change
compared with—
February
1933
March
1932
$10.01
15. 66
16. 71
18.93
14. 48
-6 . 3
+ 2 .0
—3. 6
+ 3 .1
—1.1
-2 2 .1
-2 2 .4
—16.0
- 2 2 .0
—23. 6
13. 55
17. 52
- 4 .9
—4. 3
-2 2 .0
—13.0
15. 71
16. 78
—5. 4
—2. 6
—17.1
-2 0 . 4
24. 65
30. 63
—. 5
—2.1
—14. 3
- 1 4 .1
22.60
9. 49
19. 54
18. 42
10. 57
19.13
26. 71
16. 38
20.85
- 1 .6
+ 2 .6
—4.1
+ 2 .2
-6 . 5
—6. 6
+ .3
—. 7
-.8
-1 2 .6
- 1 1 .9
—5. 0
-1 2 .8
—19.1
—21. 5
- 8 .1
-1 3 .3
—12.0
13. 61
15. 38
15. 64
—14. 7
- 8 .1
-8 .0
—18. 6
-2 0 .0
-3 0 .9
11. 69
10. 96
-4 .4
-.9
—14. 6
-1 6 .0
15. 75
1 -4 .3
i -1 8 .9
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 March
1933, together with average indexes for each of the years from 1926
to 1932, and for the 3-month period, January to March 1933, inclusive,
are shown in the following table. In computing these general in
dexes, the index numbers of each of the separate industries are weighted
according to their relative importance in the total. Following 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, and for January, February, and March.
7
T a b le
3 —G E N ERAL IN D E XE S OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN MANUFACTUR
ING INDUSTRIES, JANUARY 1926 TO M A RC H 1933
[12-month average, 1926=100]
Employment
Pay rolls
M onth
1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
January_____
February___
M arch______
April...............
M a y ...............
June________
July................
A u g u s t___
September. __
October.........
N ovem ber.
December___
100.4
101.5
102.0
101.0
99.8
99.3
97.7
98.7
100.3
100.7
99.5
98.9
97.3
99.0
99.5
98.6
97.6
97.0
95.0
95.1
95.8
95.3
93.5
92.6
91.6
93.0
93.7
93.3
93.0
93.1
92.2
93.6
95.0
95.9
95.4
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
1926
1927
56.6 98.0 94.9
57.5 102.2 100.6
55.1 103.4 102.0
101.5 100.8
99.8 99.8
99.7 97.4
95.2 93.0
98.7 95.0
99.3 94.1
........ 102.9 95.2
99.6 91.6
99.8 93.2
A v e r a g e ... 100.0 96.4 93.8 97.5 84.7 72.2 60.1 56.4 100.0
1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
89.6
93.9
95.2
93.8
94.1
94.2
91.2
94.2
95.4
99.0
96.1
97.7
94.5
101.8
103.9
104.6
104.8
102.8
98.2
102.1
102.6
102.4
95.4
92.4
88.1
91.3
91.6
90.7
88.6
85.2
77.0
75.0
75.4
74.0
69.6
68.8
63.7
68.1
69.6
68.5
67.7
63.8
60.3
59.7
56.7
55.3
52.5
52.2
48.6
49.6
48.2
44.7
42.5
39.3
36.2
36.3
38.1
39.9
38.6
37.7
35.8
36.4
33.4
........
96.5 94.5 100.5 81.3 61.5 41.6 135.2
i Average for 3 months.
Time Worked in Manufacturing Industries in March 1933
R e p o r t s as to working time in March were received from 13,349
establishments in 89 manufacturing industries. Four percent of
these establishments were idle, 44 percent operated on a full-time
basis, and 52 percent worked on a part-time schedule.
An average of 84 percent of full-time operation in March was shown
by reports received from all the operating establishments included in
table 4. The establishments working part time in March averaged
70 percent of full-time operation.
A number of establishments supplying data concerning plant-oper
ating time have reported full-time operations but have qualified the
hours reported with a statement that, while the plant was operating
full time, the work in the establishment ^vas being shared and the
employees were not working the full-time hours operated by the plant.
Such establishments have been classified under full-time establish
ments in the following tabulation. The heading of the column con
cerning full-time plants has therefore been changed to read “ Percent
of establishments operating full time” instead of “ Percent of estab
lishments in which employees worked full time.”
170894—33------2
8
9
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.
MONTHLY INDEXES 1926-1933.
M ONTHLY AVERAGE.
192.6= 100.
PAY-ROLL TOTALS
105
IQ S
192/1
100
100
I9Z
95
95
1928
90
90
930
65
65
60
60
75
75
70
70
65
65
GO
60
55
55
50
50
45
45
40
40
1933
35
35
JAW
APR.
FEB.
35.4
MAY
JUNE JULY
AUG.
SEPT. OCT.
NOV.
DEC.
________________________________________________________________________________
10
T a b le 4 .
—PROPO RTION OF FULL TIM E W ORKED IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
BY ESTABLISHM ENTS R EPO RTIN G IN M A R C H 1933
Percent of e s t a b
lishments opera
ting—
Establishments
reporting
Average percent of
full time reported
by—
Industry
Total
lumber
F o o d a n d k in d re d p r o d u c t s ....................
Baking................................. ............ ........
Beverages_________________ __________
B utter_____ _________________________
Confectionery............................................
Flour.......... ........................ .......................
Ice cream................... ............ ...................
Slaughtering and meat packing---------Sugar, beet______ ____ _______________
Sugar refining, cane.................................
Textiles a n d th eir p r o d u c ts ......................
Fabrics:
Carpets and rugs__________ ______
Cotton goods....... ....................... .......
Cotton small wares______________
Dyeing and finishing textiles-------Knit g o o d s ............... .........................
Silk and rayon goods_____________
W oolen and worsted g o o d s ............
Wearing apparel:
Clothing, m en’s........................ ........
Clothing, wom en’s_____ _________
Corsets and allied garments______
Hats, fur-felt........ ...........................
M en ’s furnishings............... .............
M illinery.............................................
Shirts and collars_________________
I r o n a n d steel a n d th eir p ro d u c ts n o t
in c lu d in g m a c h in e r y ________________
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets______
Cast-iron pipe_____ ________ _________
Cutlery (not including silver and
plated cutlery) and edge tools.........
Forgings, iron and steel............ .............
Hardware______ _____________________
Iron and steel_______________ _____ _
Plum bers’ supplies..................................
Steam and hot-water heating appara
tus and steam fittings______________
Stoves_______________________________
Structural and ornamental metal work.
Tin cans and other tinware............ ......
Tools (not including edge tools, ma
chine tools, files, and sa w s)...............
W irework____________ _______________
M a ch in e ry , n o t in c lu d in g t r a n s p o r
ta t io n e q u ip m e n t ________________
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 .
Machine tools____________ ___________
Radios and phonographs_____________
Textile machinery and parts_________
Typewriters and supplies____________
N o n fe rr o u s m eta ls a n d th eir p a rts ___
Aluminum manufactures_____________
Brass, bronze, and copper products__
Clocks and watches and time-record
ing d evices.------------------------------------Jewelry_____________________ ____ ___
Lighting equipment__________________
Silverware and plated ware..... .......... .
Smelting and refining—copper, lead,
and zinc......... ............................. ..........
Stamped and enameled ware.................
1 Less than one half of 1 percent.
Percent
idle
All opera Estab
ting
lishments
operating
estab
lishments part time
Part
time
Full
time
6
8
4
67
82
62
73
38
65
59
67
84
50
53
31
18
37
25
59
34
38
33
10
42
43
92
96
89
96
82
91
93
95
99
83
87
76
78
71
83
70
73
81
84
87
63
70
20
614
97
135
360
205
219
15
3
2
3
3
9
7
40
52
40
41
60
57
46
45
45
58
56
37
34
47
73
84
85
87
89
90
85
49
66
74
77
71
72
70
267
242
22
19
52
70
77
4
5
8
1
8
54
63
45
26
46
49
51
42
33
55
74
46
50
42
89
89
85
67
86
87
89
74
68
73
55
71
74
77
996
59
36
25
19
10
6
75
90
69
70
66
48
63
62
44
3,482
756
276
246
265
384
309
203
31
12
2,399
1
0)
1
2
3
1
4
6
96
32
54
129
47
7
3
4
15
24
9
4
26
19
69
88
93
60
81
70
64
63
70
73
60
60
62
57
67
78
133
135
51
10
7
4
6
17
24
47
83
76
72
53
55
70
80
85
52
63
73
71
102
44
1
20
16
79
84
73
75
66
70
1,290
45
2
23
20
75
80
72
73
64
66
32
68
79
69
193
1
17
82
74 |
68
60
783
116
23
29
10
477
17
149
2
2
7
22
25
17
17
24
20
21
6
20
77
73
76
83
76
80
77
94
77
74
71
72
74
79
72
73
77
71
67
61
65
69
72
65
65
75
63
70
79
78
77
65
69
76
73
52
61
69
66
38
83
89
76
72
72
31
2
3
20
110
41
44
2
25
20
22
20
21
75
3
62
15
5
1
11
T a b le
4 —PROPORTION OF FULL TIM E W ORKED IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
BY ESTABLISHM ENTS R EPO RTIN G IN M A RC H 1933—Continued
Percent of estab
lishments opera
ting—
Establishments
reporting
Average percent of
full time reported
b y—
Industry
Total
number
Percent
idle
Transportation equipm ent___________
Aircraft_________________ __________
Autom obiles_________________________
Cars, electric and steam railroad___ __
Locom otives___________________ ___
Shipbuilding________ _________ ___
271
25
122
31
8
13
Railroad repair shops_____ ____________
Electric railroad__________
Steam railroad_____________ _______ __
730
313
417
Lum ber and allied products...................
Furniture_________ ___________ _____
Lumber:
M illw ork______________ ____ ____
Sawmills_______ ________________
Turpentine and rosin___________ __
1,016
313
7
Full
time
Part
time
All opera Estab
ting
lishments
estab
operating
lishments part time
37
64
20
19
57
58
56
36
71
68
43
36
83
95
76
72
84
93
72
86
69
64
63
82
45
70
26
55
30
74
88
95
83
79
84
77
4
4
31
30
65
66
77
75
66
64
293
391
19
3
4
5
28
33
47
69
63
47
76
78
91
67
66
83
Stone, clay, and glass products_______
Brick, tile, and terra cotta....................
Cement___________________________
Glass____ _____ ______________________
Marble, granite, slate, and other prod
ucts________________ ______________
P ottery__________________ ____ _____
660
180
77
145
26
51
30
9
36
14
68
71
38
34
3
20
83
72
99
93
67
60
86
69
173
85
20
11
22
25
58
65
80
76
72
66
Leather and its m anufactures________
Boots and shoes______________________
Leather. _____________ ______________
345
227
118
3
4
1
45
40
54
52
56
45
88
88
90
79
79
79
Paper and printing............ ..................... .
Boxes, paper____________ _ ________
Paper and p u lp ___ __________________
Printing and publishing:
Book and jo b .____________ _____
Newspapers and p eriod ica ls____
1,571
258
299
1
1
3
46
28
32
53
71
65
87
82
80
77
75
70
41
75
59
25
87
97
78
88
Chemicals and allied p r o d u c t s .._____
Chemicals_______________ ___________
Cottonseed, oil, cake, and meal_______
__
Druggists’ preparations
.
Explosives
__ ______
Fertilizers__________ ___ ________ .
Paints and varnishes________________
Petroleum refining_________ _______
Ravon and allied products______ ____
Soap
_ ____ ___________________
787
79
49
27
11
159
295
79
13
75
2
1
18
52
58
57
44
9
70
36
72
77
48
46
41
24
56
91
30
63
24
23
52
89
89
91
87
85
93
84
97
96
90
76
72
69
76
83
77
74
89
83
80
Rubber products_______________________
Rubber boots and shoes__ _
__
R ubber goods, other than boots, shoes,
tires, and inner tubes_____ . . _____
R ubber tires and inner tubes
109
7
1
14
26
14
73
71
80
85
72
82
31
13
69
88
82
71
73
67
Tobacco m anufactures________________
Chewing and smoking tobacco and
s n u f f_______ __________
. - - - .
______
Cigars and cigarettes___ __
216
17
26
57
78
68
34
182
12
18
47
23
41
60
84
65
69
Total, 89 industries_____ ________
13, 349
4
44
52
84
70
86
622
392
6
C1)
0)
0)
0)
1
4
78
24
1 Less than one half of 1 percent.
Employment in Nonmanufacturing Industries in March 1933
I N THE following table are presented employment and pay-roll
data for 15 groups of nonmanufacturing industries. Data concern
ing the building-construction industry are not included in the following
tabulation, but are shown in more detail under the section “ Building
construction.”
12
1 —COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN NONMANUFACTUR
ING ESTABLISHM ENTS IN M A RC H 1933 W ITH FE B R U A R Y 1933 AN D M A RC H 1932
T a b le
Em ploym ent
Pay-roll totals
Estab
Index num
lish
bers, March
ments
1933 (average,
Per cent of
Percent of
1929=100)
report
change
change
ing in
Amount of
both Number
pay roll
Feb on pay
Feb- March (1 week)
Feb March
roll,
ruary
March
ruary 1932
E m P a y
March ruary- 1932
and
to
to
1933
to
to
1933
ploy
roll
March
March March ment totals
March March
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
Industrial group
Anthracite mining........................
Bituminous-coal m ining...........
Metalliferous m ining...................
Quarrying and nonmetallic
m ining___ __________________
Crude petroleum producing___
Telephone and telegraph_______
Power and light_______________
Electric-railroad and motor-bus
operation and maintenance. __
Trade:
W holesale..................... ..............
Retail............................. ...........
Hotels............... .............................
Canning and preserving-............
Laundries_______________ ______
Dyeing and cleaning___________
Banks, brokerage, insurance,
and real estate__________ ____
160
1,462
285
74,677
194,744
20,515
- 7 .1
-2 .5
-4 .8
-2 5 .9 $1,940,073 -1 4 .1
-1 0 .1 2, 284,670 -1 7 .3
-3 3 .3
385, 785 - 2 . 6
-2 0 .3
-3 4 .4
-3 4 .3
54.6
67.6
30.0
48.8
30.7
17.4
624
269
8,196
3,361
16,805
24,028
280,431
203,678
+ .9
-1 .0
-.9
-.7
-2 3 .7
+ 9 .9
-1 0 .4
-1 0 .1
231,581
702,325
7,350,303
5,976, 225
+ 2 .1 -3 8 .0
+ 2 .0 - 1 . 6
- . 7 -1 8 .9
+ .3 -1 5 .8
35.1
56.5
73.2
76.9
17.8
42.5
71.5
71.9
570
133,980
-.9
-1 0 .1
3,616,363
-2 .0
-1 9 .3
69.8
59.4
2,984
17,049
2,541
814
939
321
74,331
319,645
130,995
30,046
53,113
8,846
- 1 .4
-2 .7
- 1 .8
- 5 .3
- 1 .8
+ .4
-8 .4
-1 2 .3
-1 3 .8
-8 .5
-1 1 .0
-1 1 .7
1,956, 559
6,061, 550
1, 694,840
362, 428
762,345
132, 662
-2 .6
- 5 .7
- 4 .3
- 6 .5
-4 .7
- 3 .3
-1 9 .9
-2 4 9
-2 6 .1
-2 4 .1
-2 6 .1
-3 3 .5
73.1
71.4
72.4
33.2
73.0
71.2
57.1
55.1
53.5
24.2
52.9
41.0
3,424
130,638
-.2
-2 .3
4, 537, 732
-.7
- 9 .9
96.8
84.1
Per capita weekly earnings in March 1933 for 15 nonmanufacturing
industries included in the Bureau’s monthly trend-of-employment
survey, together with the percents of change in March 1933 as com
pared with February 1933 and March 1932 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 earn
ings computed by dividing the total amount of pay roll for the w^eek
by the total number of employees (part-time as well as full-time
workers).
2 .— P E R C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S IN 15 N O N M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S
IN M A R C H 1933 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H F E B R U A R Y 1933 A N D M A R C H 1932
T able
Industrial group
Coal mining:
Anthracite____ ___________________________________ ____________
Bituminous ____ ___________________________ ____________ _____
Metalliferous m ining______ ___________________ _ ________________
Quarrying and nonmetallic m ining________________ ______________
Crude petroleum producing__ __ ____________ ________ ________
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph_________________ _ _______ __
__
Power and light_________ _ _ _________ ____ _____ _ _ ____
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and m ain ten an ce-__
Trade:
Wholesale__________________ __________________ ___ ____ _____
R etail___ ______ ________ - _________ _______ _________ _____
Hotels (cash payments only) 1__ ________________________
______
Canning and preserving___________________________________________
Laundries_________________________________________________________
Dyeing and cleaning_________________________ ____________ _______
Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate_______________________
Per capita
weekly
earnings
in
March
1933
February
1933
M arch
1932
$25.98
11. 73
18.81
13. 78
29. 23
- 7 .6
-1 5 .2
+ 2 .4
+1. 2
+ 3 .0
+ 7 .7
-2 7 .0
—1. 5
—18. 7
—10.5
26. 21
29. 34
26. 99
+. 2
+ 1 .1
—1.1
- 9 .5
—G. 4
—10. 2
26. 32
18. 96
12. 94
12. 06
14. 35
15. 00
34. 74
-1 . 2
- 3 .1
-2 .6
—1.2
-3 .0
- 3 .7
2-.5
—12. f>
—14. 4
—14.
—17.1
—17.0
—24. 8
2 —7. 7
i The additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
Percent
of
change
March 1933 compared
with—
2 Weighted.
13
Indexes of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals for Nonmanufacturing Industries
I n d e x numbers of employment and pay-roll totals for 15 non
manufacturing industries are presented in the following table. These
index numbers show the variation in employment and pay rolls by
months, from January 1929 to March 1933, in all nonmanufacturing
industries with the exception of the laundry, dyeing and cleaning,
and the banks, brokerage, insurance, and real-estate industries, for
which information over the entire period is not available. The
Bureau has secured data concerning employment and pay rolls for
the index base year 1929 from establishments in these three industries,
and has computed index numbers for those months for which data
are available from the Bureau’s files. These indexes are shown in
this tabulation.
T a b l e 3 —IN D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S F O R N O N M A N U F A C T U R IN G
IN D U S T R IE S , J A N U A R Y
M A R C H 1933
TO
D E C E M B E R 1930, 1931, A N D 1932, A N D
JA N U A R Y TO
[12-month average, 1929=100]
Anthracite mining
M onth
Employment
Bituminous-coal mining
E mployment
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933
January— .........
February.......... .
M a r c h ..............
A pril____ ______
M a y ___________
June___________
July___________
August------------September_____
October. ........... .
N ovem ber........ .
December_____
Average
102.1
106.
82.
84.1
93.
90.
91.6
80.2
93.
99.0
97.2
99.1
90.6
89.5
82.0
85.2
80.3
76.1
65.1
67.
80.0
86.8
83.5
79.
76.2 52.5 105.8
1.3 61.5 43.2 102.5 93. 80.8
71.2 58.7 121.5 101.9 57.3 56.8 102.4 91.5 77.4
73.7 54.
78.5 71.3 61.2 48.8 98.6 88.8 75.2 67. (
94.4 85.9 65.5
70.1
75.0 75.2 72.0
66.9
98.8 76.1 58.0
90.4 82.4 62.6
53.0
94.3 66.7 37.4
88.4 78.4 60.5
88.0 76.4 58.
44.5
84.0 53.7 34.5
89.2 77.0 59.4
49.2
78.8 56.4 41.4
55.
90.5 80.4 62.4
91.6 64.9 47.0
63.9
117.2 91.1 66.7
91.8 81.3 67.0
62.7
98.0 79.5 51.0
92.5 81.1 69.4
62.
100.0 78.4 56.2
92.5 81.2 70.0
93.4 80.5 62.51 55.3 95.3 75.4
7149.6
95.7
92.3
90.9
89.3
87.5
84.6
80.5
79.0
78.1
77.2
72.8
70.1
68.3
65.3
63.5
63.9
62.4
60.0
56.2
55.8
55.5
53.8
52.8
51.2
49.3
46.9
45.0
43.3
38.3
32.2
29.5
28.6
29.3
30.5
31.9
33.3
73.
68.3
65.2
58.6
54.4
52.4
50.4
50.6
53.
56.2
54.6
52.3
47.0 36.1
47.0 37.2
46.8 30.7
33.9
30.7
27.3
24.4
26.4
30.2
37.8
38.0
37.7
1.4 83.2 67.4168.9 81.3 57.5 35.61 34.7
Metalliferous mining
January_____
February____
M arch........ .
April________
M a y _________
J u n e .............
July_________
August______
September—
October______
N ovem ber___
December___
101.4
102.1
86.4
81.7
77.5
75.6
68.9
71.1
74.
79.4
79.1
77.7
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
32.4 92.7 55.0 29.7
31.5 92.5 54.6 27.8
30.0 90.8 52.8 26.5
88.3 51.4 25.0
85.6 49.3 23.8
81.6 46.1 20.1
71.9 41.3 16.9
____ 71.0 40.2 16.5
____ 69.9 40.0 17.0
____ 68.6 37.4 18.0
____ 63.4 35.1 18.7
------- 59.9 34.3 18.7
18.1 79.6 64.4 48.9
17.8 79.8 66.6 47.4
17.4 83.0 70.0 46.0
87.4 76.1 48.6
. 90.8 75.0 50.6
90.3 72.3 49.5
89.9 71.0 49.5
____ 89.3 68.9 51.1
____ 87.7 66.6 52.4
84.7 64.5 52.4
____ 78.3 59.3 49.4
------- 70.2 53.9 42.3
35.1 71.9 50.4 30.2
34.8 73.5 54.4 29.6
35.1 80.0 58.2 28.7
85.4 62.6 30.0
90.2 62.3 32.3
____ 90.9 60.1 30.0
____ 85.5 57.3 29.1
____ 85.8 55.1 29.7
____ 82.5 51.2 30.5
____ 79.3 48.7 30.1
____ 66.8 43.3 27.1
------- 59.9 36.9 22.1
18.1
17.4
17.8
____
____
____
____
____
____
-------
Average----- 83.2 59.1 36.5 1 31.3 78.0 44.8 21.6 1 17.8 84.3 67.4 49.0 1 35.0 79.3 53.4 29.1 1 17.8
Telephone and telegraph
Crude petroleum producing
January--------February____
M arch _______
April-----------M a y ________
June________
July— ...........
August--------September.
October-------N ovem ber__
December___
Average..
92.7
90.8
89.3
86.8
89.8
90.2
89.9
87.7
85.0
85.2
83.6
77.4
74.8
73.2
72.2
69.8
67.8
65.0
65.3
62.4
61.2
60.4
57.6
58.2
54.9
54.4
51.4
54.9
54.5
54.2
55.4
57.4
56.2
56.8
56.5
57.2
57.2
57.0
56.5
____
____
94.0
88.6
91.3
86.6
85.4
87.1
____ 88.5
____ 86.0
____ 84.0
82.6
80.0
........ 77.2
71.5
70.0
73.2
66.3
64.7
62.7
59.2
56.3
55.2
54.4
52.0
54.9
46.5
46.9
43.2
44.5
47.1
44.8
44.6
42.9
41.9
42.5
42.4
41.7
39.9
41.7
42.5
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
-------
101.6
100.2
99.4
98.9
99.7
99.8
100.0
98.8
96.8
94.5
93.0
91.6
90.5
89.2
88.6
88.1
87.4
86.9
86.6
85.9
85.0
84.1
83.5
83.1
83.0
82.0
81.7
81.2
80.6
79.9
79.1
78.1
77.4
76.2
75.5
74.8
74.6
73.9
73.2
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
-------
105.1
101.9
105.8
103.4
103.2
103.4
106.6
102.5
102.2
100.9
97.9
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
71.7
72.0
71.5
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
-------
87.4 65.7 55.3 1 56.9 85.9 61.7 44.1 1 41.4 97.9 86.6 79.1 1 73.9 102.9 93.7 81.1 1 71.7
1 Average for 3 months.
14
—IN D E XE S OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS FOR NONMANUFACTURING
INDUSTRIES, JAN U ARY TO D E C E M B E R 1930, 1931, A N D 1932, AND JAN UARY TO
M A RC H 1933—Continued
[12-month average, 1929=100]
T a b le 3
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation
and maintenance 2
Power and light
M onth
Employment
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
Em ploym ent
1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933
January________
February______
M arch____ _____
A pril....................
M a y ............. .......
June.....................
July.....................
A ugust.............. September_____
October________
N ovem ber........ .
December...........
Average—
99.6
98.8
99.7
100.7
103.4
104.6
105.9
106.4
105.2
104.8
103.4
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 77.7
87.2 77.4
85. 5 76.9
84.8
84.0
83.2
82.3
81.5
81.0 ____
79.9
79.1
78.4 ........
99.7 98.6
100.4 99.7
102.1 102.4
1ft? 6 97.6
104.5 98.7
107 8 98.3
1ft6 7 97.4
106.6 96.2
106.1 94.3
105 6 93.2
103.7 93.3
106.3 91.2
88.4
86.0
85.4
82.4
84.2
80.5
78.7
76.7
74.7
74.4
73.2
73.2
73.0 97.1 86.9 79.5
71.6 95.1 86.6 78.9
71.9 94.4 86.4 77.6
95.2 86.8 78.0
95.2 85.9 76.9
94.8 85.3 76.5
95.3 85.6 75.6
92.9 84.8 74.1
____ 91.8 84.0 73.5
91.0 82.7 72.3
89.3 81.5 71.8
------- 88.8 79.9 71.4
70.6 97.8 85.6 75.4 60.9
70.4 95.7 87.1 74.8 60.6
69.8 95.4 88.1 73.6 59.4
97.1 86.6 71.8
96.0 85.1 72.2
97.0 84.8 70. 2
95.6 83.3 66.4
92.1 81.9 63.8
____ 90.5 81.2 62.5 ____
88.9 79.0 61.5
87.7 79.7 -01.7
------- 88.6 77.8 61.9 -------
103.0 95.6 83.0 i 77.3 104.3 96.7 79.8 i 72.2 93.4 84.7 75.5 i 70.3 93.5 83.4 68.0 i 60.3
Retail trade
Wholesale trade
January............
February-------M arch ________
A pril...........—
M a y --------------June...... ..........
July__________
August----------September____
October---------N ovem ber-----December........
Average.
100.0
98.5
97.7
97.3
96.8
96.5
96.0
95.0
94.8
94.2
92.6
92.0
96.0
89.5
88.2
87.4
87.4
87.1
87.1
86.8
86.5
86.1
85.2
84.1
83.7
86.6
81.8 75.3 100.0
80.9 74.1 98.3
79.8 73.1 99.7
78.9 ____ 97.9
77.9 ____ 97.4
77.0 ____ 98.6
76.6 ____ 96.0
76.4 ____ 93.6
77.1 ____ 93.6
77.8 ____ 92.9
77.6 ____ 91.0
77.0 ------- 91.3
78.2 i 74.2 95.9
January______
February-------M arch________
A pril_________
M a y __________
June____ _____
July---------------August----------September___
October______
N ovem ber____
December____
Average.
100.4
102.4
102.4
100.1
98.0
98.0
101.3
101.5
100.1
97.5
95.2
93.5
99.2
95.0
96.8
96.8
95.9
92.5
91.6
93.3
92.8
90.6
87.4
84.9
83.1
91.7
83.2
84.3
84.0
82.7
80.1
78.0
78.4
77.6
77.0
75.4
74.3
73.2
87.5
88.4
89.1
85.2
84.7
84.1
83.3
82.1
81.4
79.9
79.7
77.8
83.6
74.1
72.5
71.3
68.9
69.7
66.2
64.7
63.2
63.1
63.9
63.3
62.6
67.0
61.7
58.6
57.1
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
........
i 59.1
98.9
94.4
93.9
97.3
96.7
93.9
89.0
85.6
92.0
95.5
98.4
115.1
95.9
90.0
87.1
87.8
90.1
89.9
89.1
83.9
81.8
86.6
89.8
90.9
106.2
89.4
55.7 46.1
55.9 45.7
53.5 49.7
74.8
65.7
83.0
126.3
185.7
246.6
____ 164.7
96.7
------- 61.6
i 55.0 103.9
48.9
48.3
53.0
59.6
56.0
70.6
102.2
142.9
180.1
108.1
60.8
40.7
80.9
Hotels
Laundries
Pay rolls
76.9
73.4
71.4
____
____
____
____
____
____
____
------i 73.9
99.7
96.0
95.5
97.5
97.3
96.8
91.7
87.6
92.4
95.1
96.8
107.7
96.2
89.4
86.7
87.5
88.3
88.0
87.6
83.3
80.3
83.5
84.6
85.4
94.1
86.6
78.0
73.7
73.4
72.7
71.1
68.2
63.3
60.7
64.6
67.1
66.9
73.6
69.4
62.7
58.4
55.1
____
____
____
____
____
____
------i 58.7
Canning and preserving
73.8 100.3 91.0 73.9
73.8 103.8 93.7 73.9
72.4 104.4 93.4 72.4
100.3 89.9 69.6
98.4 87.7 67.0
____ 98.1 85.4 63.8
99.8 85.2 61.8
98.6 83.8 59.6
____ 97.1 81.9 59.1
____ 95.5 79.7 58.6
93.6 77.1 57.5
........ 91.5 75.4 56.6
79.0 i 73.3 98.5 85.4 64.5
Employment
84.3
80.5
81.4
81.6
80.9
79.4
74.6
72.6
77.8
81.3
81.7
95.2
80.9
35.0
37.1
36.3
47.0
40.5
55.5
73.0
99.0
125.3
81.1
50.5
33.7
59.5
34.1 50.3 46.1 31.8 24.8
35.1 51.5 48.6 32.7 25.9
33.2 50.8 50.3 31.9 24.2
72.6 57.1 37.9
66.9 56.0 36.0
81.5 58.6 40.5
112.7 74. 2 47. 5
172.0 104.7 65.6
214.8 129.4 75.1
140.0 77.6 51.8
82.9 48.1 34.4
------- 57.4 36.9 25.6 ------i 34.1 96.1 65.6 42.6 i 25.0
Dyeing and cleaning
Banks, brokerage in
surance , and real
estate
Employment
Pay rolls
E m ploy
ment
Pay rolls
1931 1932 1933 1931 1932 1933 1931 1932 1933 1931 1932 1933 1932 11933 1932 1933
January—
F ebruary..
M arch____
A pril______
M a y .........
June______
July_______
August____
September _
October___
N ovem ber.
D e cem b erAverage-.
90.5
90.0
89.5
90.5
90.3
91.0
91.8
90.2
89.3
88.1
86.2
85.3
89.4
84.7
82.9
82.0
82.0
81.4
81.0
80.3
78.9
78.6
77.5
76.2
75.9
80.1
75.4 86.6 76.4 57.9
74.4 85.6 73.3 55.5
73.0 85.6 71.6 52.9
86.8 71.4
86.5 70.6
87.1 68.6
87.4 66.3
84.6 63.9
84.1 62.9
81.8 61.2
78.9 59.1
77.4 58.7
i 74.3 84.4 67.0 i 55.4
88.9
87.4
88.0
95. 7
96. 7
99.0
98. 6
93. 5
95.3
94.2
90.1
84.9
92. 7
82.1 73.0
80.5 70.9
80.6 71.2
83. 3
84. 5
85.1
82.4
79. 5
83.3
82.3
78.0
75. 2
81.4 i 71.7
77.7
75.1
75.6
86. 3
86.6
89.1
86.2
80. 0
82.6
81.4
74. 7
67.9
80.3
65.8
62.2
61.7
65.9
67.3
65.8
60.0
56.3
61.0
58.8
52.3
48.4
60.5
46.6 98.6 97.6 94.0 85.5
42.4 98.6 97.0 93.5 84.7
41.0 99.1 96.8 93.3 84.1
98.8
92. 4
98.2
93. 2
90.4
98.1
98.5
90.1
98.7
88. 5
98.6
87.3
98. 7
86. 5
98. 2
86.0
98.0
85. 7
i 43.3 98.5 i 97.1 90.1 i 83.8
1 Average for 3 months.
2 N ot including electric-railroad car building and repairing; see transportation equipment and railroad
repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries, table 1.
15
Average Man-Hours Worked and Average Hourly Earnings
I N THE 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 February and March
1933 in 15 industrial groups and 74 manufacturing industries. Manhour data for the building construction group and for the insurance,
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 information.
The total number of establishments supplying man-hour data in
these 15 industrial groups represents approximately 50 percent of the
establishments supplying monthly employment data.
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 aver
ages, 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 in
dustrial groups.
In presenting information for the separate manufacturing industries
shown in table 2, data are published for only those industries in which
the available man-hour information covers 20 percent 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 manu
facturing industries have been weighted in the same manner as the
averages for all industrial groups combined, table 1.
1.—A V E R A G E H O U R S W O R K E D P E R W E E K P E R E M P L O Y E E A N D A V E R A G E
H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN 15 IN D U S T R IA L G R O U PS , F E B R U A R Y A N D M A R C H 1933
T able
Average hours per
week
Average hourly
earnings
Industrial group
M anufacturing________________________________________________
Anthracite m ining___ __________________________ _________ ___
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___
Trade:
W h o le sa le ..______ _______________________________________
Retail_______ _____________ _______________________________
H otels. __
__ __
___________________________________
Canning and preserving..._______ ____________________________
Laundries_________________________ ______________________ ____
Dyeing and cleaning..
________ _________________________
T otal__________________________________ ____________ _
170894—33------3
Febru
ary 1933
March
1933
Febru
ary 1933
Hours
38.2
34.9
30.4
40.4
34.8
46.2
37.8
46.5
45.7
Hours
36.6
30.9
26.0
39.5
35.0
45.9
37.2
46.6
45.2
Cents
43.7
81.5
46.4
46.6
39.5
61.9
69.8
61.9
58.9
Cents
43.5
83.0
46. 6
48.5
39. 2
64. 5
71.0
62.4
58.9
46.6
45.3
51.7
37.5
42.1
42.7
46.8
44.8
51.0
39.2
41.5
42.4
55.6
42.6
24.1
37.3
33.9
37.0
54.3
41.8
23.8
36.2
33.3
36.0
41.3
40.2
45.7
45.3
M arch
1933
16
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, which
are obtained by dividing the total weekly earnings in all establish
ments reporting by the total number of employees in those establish
ments. As already noted, the basic information upon which the
average weekly man-hours and average hourly earnings are computed
covers approximately 50 percent of the establishments reporting
monthly employment data.
2 .— A V E R AG E HOURS W O R K E D PE R W E E K PE R E M PLO Y E E A N D A V E R A G E
H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN S E L E C T E D M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S , F E B R U A R Y
A N D M A R C H 1933
T able
Average hours per
week
Average hourly
earnings
Industry
Food and kindred products:
Confectionery_____ ___________ ___________________________
Flour____ ______ _________ _______________ _____ _______
Ice c r e a m __________ __________________________________ _
Slaughtering and meat packing____________________________
Sugar, beet
_ .
__
_ . ____________________
Sugar refining, cane_______________________________________
Textiles and their products:
Carpets and rugs.. _ _ ____ _______________________________
Cotton goods _
__ __ ________________
Cotton small wares
.
. _ _ _
__________________
Dyeing and finishing textiles
__________________________
Knit goods_________ __________________________________ Silk and rayon goods.
. __________________
Woolen and worsted goods. ______________________________
Iron and steel and their products not including machinery:
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets..
_ _ ________________
Cast-iron pipe___
_
_ ____________________________
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge
tools_____________________ ____ _________________________
Forgings, iron and steel
_ _ _ ______________________
Hardware______ ___ . . . _______ ________________________
Iron and steel_____ ______________________________________
_______________
Plumbers’ supplies _
_
_ _
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and steam fittings. __
Stoves
__________________
Structural and ornamental metal work____________________
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, files, and
saws)_______________ _________________ _________ ______
Machinery, not including transportation equipment:
Agricultural im plem ents..
_____________________________
Cash registers, adding machines and calculatiug machines. __
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies_____________
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels_____________
Foundry and machine shop products.._ _ _ ______________
Machine tools________________ _____________ ___________ ___
________________
Radios and phonographs
_ _ _ _
Textile machinery and p a rts __ _________________________
Typewriters and supplies............................. ..............................
Nonferrous metals and their parts:
Aluminum manufactures________ _____ _____________ ____ _
Brass, bronze, and copper products.......... .............................. .
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices____________
Jewelry_____________ ___________ ___________ _________ ___
Silverware and plated ware________________ _________ _____
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and z in c.____________
Stamped and enameled ware..................... ...............................
Transportation equipment:
Aircraft_________________ ________________________ ________
Automobiles______________ _________ _____________________
Locom otives_____ _________________ _______ __________ ____
Shipbuilding...................................................................................
Railroad repair shops:
Electric railroad___________________ ________ _______ ______
Steam railroad................................................................................
February
1933
March
1933
February
1933
Hours
46.8
39.8
41.1
46.8
49.5
45.1
46.1
46.8
Hours
45.6
40.6
37.4
47.3
48.7
42.3
47.1
48.3
Cents
43.9
61.2
33.1
42.8
48.7
44.2
56.0
45.1
Cents
44.1
59. 5
33. 2
42.7
48.9
44.4
57. 5
46.5
29.8
45. 2
42.0
47.2
41.9
40.9
46.5
32.9
44.1
40.0
43.3
39.3
36.9
37.3
41.9
22.0
34.9
39.1
31.0
29.3
34.6
41. 6
21.4
34.1
38.3
30.9
30.1
34.0
31.6
28.3
26.9
30.1
44.7
42.8
43.8
48.9
36.0
30.7
29.8
27.0
30.9
29.3
31.0
29.9
27.3
29.3
28.7
25.6
36.3
29.5
31.4
28. 6
49.2
49.1
43. 2
48.3
43. 7
51.0
47.1
43.1
51.7
49.9
43. 2
48.4
45.4
51.0
46. 3
43.2
March
1933
30. 2
29.7
46.2
45.0
32.8
33.1
30.2
32.5
29.8
32.4
39. 2
28.5
32.3
28.9
32.5
28.0
32.0
27.7
30.0
32.0
27. 2
29.6
47.6
67.5
57.1
56.9
52.0
55. 6
39.8
56.9
45.2
47.9
66.4
57.8
55.9
52.0
54.3
41.1
54.9
45.9
39.2
30.9
35.6
34.8
33.3
31.6
36.8
37.6
30.2
23.8
34.1
33.1
30.2
35.7
42.6
47.8
36.3
46. 5
44.9
48.6
39.4
41.6
47.6
40.1
45.3
44.8
48.1
38.3
44.6
31.5
38.2
29.4
44.5
29.0
34.3
30.5
62.9
57.0
51.1
61.7
62.8
57. 5
56.1
57.9
44. 5
36.4
44.9
34.7
56.4
63.0
56.4
62.9
17
2.—AVERAGE HOURS W ORKED PER W EEK PER EM PLOYEE AND AVERAGE
HOURLY EARNINGS IN SELECTED M AN UFACTU RIN G INDUSTRIES, FEBRU ARY
AND M ARCH 1933—Continued
T a b le
Average hours per
week
Average hourly
earnings
Industry
Lumber and allied products:
Furniture_________________________________________________
Lumber:
M ill work____ ________________________________________
Sawmills________________________________ ____________
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Brick, tile, and terra cotta________________________________
Cement_________ __________________ _____________________
G la ss ______ _____ _______________________________________
Marble, granite, slate, and other products________ ________
P ottery___________________ __________________ __________
Leather and its manufactures: L e a th e r ..__ _____ ____________
Paper and printing:
Boxes, p a p e r .__ _________________________________________
Paper and pulp _ ________________________________________
Printing and publishing:
Book and job ________ _______________________________
Newspapers and periodocals___________________________
Chemicals and allied products:
C h em icals_____ _____________________________ __________
Cottonseed, oil, cake, and meal___________________________
Druggists’ preparations_________ _______ _______________ .
Explosives________ _____________ _________________________
Fertilizers_______________ ____________ ____________________
Paints and varnishes______________________________________
Petroleum refining______________________ ________________
R ayon and allied products______ _________________________
Soap. ____________________ ________ ______________________
Rubber products:
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner tubes.
Rubber tires and inner tubes______________________________
Tobacco manufactures:
Che*/ing and smoking tobacco and snuff__________________
Cigars and cigarettes______________________________________
February
1933
March
1933
February
1933
March
1933
Hours
34.9
Hours
30.7
Cents
34.2
Cents
33.8
35.6
35.3
31.5
34.6
34.6
28.0
36.1
28.1
28.3
33.3
34.9
29.2
37.6
43.4
29.1
34.9
35.1
31.1
36.7
42.3
36.2
42.7
46.1
67.6
39.8
40.3
33.7
41.2
45.0
65.2
41.2
39.9
40.4
40.0
39.1
39.8
40.6
42.7
40.4
42.0
36.3
40.7
36.4
40.6
68.4
75.5
68.0
73.5
40.8
55.0
39.7
35.9
41.4
39. 5
38. 7
44.5
42.2
40.8
55.2
38.2
35.1
42.9
37.1
39. 7
44.4
41.6
55.2
18.0
45.8
53.9
26.4
51.2
62.6
38.0
46.3
55.4
17.8
45.9
52.8
23.9
51.1
62.1
38.1
46.6
40.1
28.7
37.9
24.2
43.3
58.5
42.7
58.8
39.7
35.7
38.5
36.5
31. 6
31.9
30. 5
32.9
Employment in Building Construction in March 1933
M PLOYM ENT in the building construction industry increased
0.2 percent in March as compared with February and pay rolls
increased 3.3 percent over the month interval.
The percents of change of employment and pay-roll totals in March
as compared with February are based on returns made by 10,208 firms
employing in March 59,905 workers in the various trades in the build
ing construction industry. These reports cover building operations
in various localities in 34 States and the District of Columbia.
E
C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D T O T A L P A Y R O L L IN T H E BU ILD IN G CON
S T R U C TIO N I N D U S T R Y IN ID E N T IC A L F IR M S , F E B R U A R Y A N D M A R C H 1933
Locality
Alabama, Birmingham____________
California:
Los Angeles1_____ ____________
San Francisco-Oakland1_______
Other reporting localities1______
Colorado, D enver____ _____________
Connecticut:
Bridgeport_________ __________
Hartford___________ _________
New H aven_____ __ _________
Delaware, W ilm ington. __________
District of Colum bia___________ _
N um Number on pay roll
ber of
Percent
firms
of
report Feb. 15 Mar. 15 change
ing
Feb. 15
Mar. 15
Percent
of
change
68
326
344
+ 5 .5
$3,530
$4,629
+31.1
18
32
16
186
516
866
358
558
867
794
570
530
+68.0
- 8 .3
+59.2
-5 .0
12,026
18,805
6, 796
11,187
17, 294
17,694
9,100
10,099
+43. 8
- 5 .9
+33.9
- 9 .7
119
199
167
113
525
338
695
877
852
7, 396
321
600
831
850
7, 023
-5 .0
-1 3 .7
-5 .2
-.2
-5 .0
6,991
14, 678
21, 647
14,944
175,101
6,903
13, 441
21,900
15,822
188, 764
- 1 .3
- 8 .4
+ 1 .2
+ 5 .9
+ 7 .8
1 Data supplied b y cooperating State bureaus.
Amount of pay roll
18
COM PARISON 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 E N TICA L FIRMS, F E BR U A R Y AND M A RC H 1933—Con.
Locality
Amount of pay roll
N um Number on pay roll[
ber of
Percent
of
firms
report Feb. 15 Mar. 15 change
Feb. 15 M ar. 15
ing
Florida:
Jacksonville___________________
53
M ia m i_________ __ __ __
77
Georgia, Atlanta__________________
125
Illinois:
C hicago1..................... ..................
126
Other reporting localities1____
72
Indiana:
Evansville........... .............. ...........
50
Fort W a y n e.................. ...............
93
Indianapolis________ ____ _____
162
South Bend.............. .....................
36
Iowa, Des M oin es..............................
105
Kansas, W ichita......... .........................
61
Kentucky, Louisville. ...................
117
Louisiana, N ew Orleans........ ............
128
Maine, Portland......... .........................
97
M aryland, Baltim ore1________ ____
108
Massachusetts, all reporting locali
ties1............. ........................................
723
Michigan:
Detroit............................................
388
F lint................................................
55
Grand Rapids________ _________
94
Minnesota:
Duluth. .........................................
55
M inneapolis..................................
225
St. Paul................... ......................
151
Missouri:
Kansas C it y 2.................................
237
St. Louis.........................................
448
Nebraska, Omaha................................
129
N ew Y ork:
N ew York C it y 1...........................
298
Other reporting localities1...........
170
North Carolina, C harlotte...............
41
Ohio:
A kron______ ___________________
76
Cincinnati 3__.................................
459
Cleveland.......................................
492
Dayton............................................
109
Youngstown...................................
68
Oklahoma:
Oklahoma C ity.............................
80
Tulsa....... ........................................
48
179
Oregon, Portland.................................
Pennsylvania: *
Erie area1....... ................................
23
Philadelphia area1........................
530
Pittsburgh area1............. .............
276
52
Reading-Lebanon area1...............
Scranton area1...............................
38
Other reporting areas1.................
341
Rhode Island, Providence.................
225
Tennessee:
40
Chattanooga......... .......... .............
46
Knoxville........................................
M em phis........................................
87
63
Nashville.......................................
Texas:
152
Dallas........ ......................................
El Paso..........................................
28
141
Houston..........................................
San A n ton io.._________________
103
Utah, Salt Lake C ity .........................
85
Virginia:
N orfolk-Portsmouth....................
85
R ichm ond.......................................
138
Washington:
147
Seattle.............................................
Spokane...... ....................................
49
Tacom a..........................................
77
44
W est Virginia, Wheeling__________
Wisconsin, all reporting localities1. .
60
Total, all localities.................... 10, 208 1
422
491
949
391
380
931
- 7 .3
—22. 6
—1.9
$5,186
9,148
12,493
$6, 598
6,922
13, 778
+27.2
-2 4 .3
+10.3
986
364
1,156
301
+ 17.2
—17.3
24,800
6,084
29, 524
6, 494
+ 19.0
+ 6 .7
208
264
629
222
457
310
521
1, 256
276
625
170
241
655
166
352
314
499
1, 222
294
632
-1 8 .3
-8 .7
+ 4.1
-2 5 .2
-2 3 .0
+ 1 .3
-4 .2
- 2 .7
+ 6 .5
+ 1 .1
3, 650
4,245
12,185
4,474
8, 777
5, 240
7,483
19,927
5,337
9,830
2,822
3,190
11,987
3,148
6,444
4, 378
7,018
18,629
5,825
9,907
—22. 7
—24.9
—1. 6
-2 9 .6
—26. 6
-1 6 .5
-6 .2
- 6 .5
+ 9.1
+ .8
3,160
3,117
-1 .4
74,107
70, 787
-4 .5
1,733
152
279
1,494
131
224
-1 3 .8
-1 3 .8
-1 9 .7
32,447
1,973
4,375
26, 532
1,656
3,404
-1 8 .2
-1 6 .1
-2 2 .2
297
873
366
243
882
447
- 1 8 .2
+ 1 .0
+22.1
6,235
17, 347
6,317
4,602
16,946
6,640
-2 6 .2
- 2 .3
+ 5 .1
919
1,707
531
1,152
2,036
508
+25.4
+19.3
-4 .3
20,385
40,113
9,471
24, 638
50,473
8, 771
+ 20.9
+ 25.8
-7 .4
5,670
3,134
187
5,628
3,049
215
-.7
- 2 .7
+ 15.0
181,059
71, 260
2,375
200, 593
71,683
2,634
+ 10.8
+. 6
+ 10.9
176
2,254
1,746
369
221
207
2,068
1,570
348
208
+17.6
-8 .3
-1 0 .1
- 5 .7
-5 .9
2,636
49,304
41,346
5,980
3,626
2,298
51,425
37,306
5,792
3,020
-1 2 .8
+ 4 .3
-9 .8
- 3 .1
-1 6 .7
338
209
516
281
187
595
-1 6 .9
-1 0 .5
+15.3
5,745
3,190
9,299
4, 518
2,665
10,450
-2 1 .4
-1 6 .5
+ 12 ,4
86
3,343
1,573
186
208
1,881
853
63
3,882
1,480
174
195
1,832
838
-2 6 .7
+16.1
-5 .9
-6 .5
-6 .2
-2 .6
-1 .8
1,415
53,621
37,829
2,351
4, 702
31, 543
16,915
957
65,497
34,100
2,103
4,271
30,987
16,917
-3 2 .4
+22.1
- 9 .9
-1 0 .5
-9 .2
-1 .8
+«
243
205
368
449
259
205
253
643
+ 6 .6
(6)
- 3 1 .2
+ 43.2
2,988
2,434
6,360
6,931
4,531
2,106
3,911
7,686
+51.6
-1 3 .5
- 3 8 .5
+10.9
815
255
498
530
176
876
199
623
549
227
+ 7 .5
-2 2 .0
+25.1
+ 3 .6
+ 29.0
13,414
3,117
7, 483
7,884
2, 809
12,494
2,150
8,467
7,695
3, 762
-6 .9
-3 1 .0
+13.1
-2 .4
+33.9
423
667
538
674
+ 27.2
+ 1 .0
5,977
11,099
8,472
10, 741
+41.7
-3 .2
-1 8 .4
7,793
10, 696
+20.0
1,174
1, 558
1,598
+16.0
1,430
-7 .4
1,615
1, 381
11,395
- 1 .3
10,967
+ .2 1,257,908 1., 299, 715
-2 7 .1
+32.7
+11.7
-1 4 .5
+ 3 .9
+ 3 .3
515
105
94
94
637 1
59,803 j
1 Data supplied b y cooperating State bureaus.
2 Includes both Kansas City, M o., and Kansas
City, Kans.
3 Includes Covington and Newport, K y .
Percent
of
change
420
126
109
87
629
59,905
4 Each separate area includes from 2 to 8 counties.
8 Less than one tenth of 1 percent.
9 N o change.
19
Trend of Employment in March 1933 by States
I N THE following table are shown the fluctuations in employment
and pay-roll totals in March 1933 as compared with February
1933 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
combined 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, quarry
ing and nonmetallic mining, metalliferous mining, laundry, and
dyeing and cleaning groups are presented. In this State compilation,
the totals of the telephone and telegraph, power and light, and elec
tric-railroad operation groups have been combined and are presented
as one group—public utilities. Due to the extreme seasonal fluctu
ations in the canning and preserving industry, 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 Feb
ruary and March 1933 as reported by identical establishments in this
industry are included, however, in the combined total of “ All groups.”
The percents of change shown in the accompanying table, unless
otherwise noted, are unweighted percents 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 table 1,
nonmanufacturing industries, are the fluctuations in this industry by
State totals.
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.
20
COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN IDENTICAL ESTABLISHM ENTS
IN F E BR U A R Y AND M ARC H 1933 B Y STATES
(Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y
cooperating State organizations]
Total—all groups
State
Manufacturing
Amount
um Number Per
N um Number Per
Amount
Per N
ber of on pay
ber of on pay
of pay roll cent
roll Per
cent of(1pay
cent
cent
(1 week)
estab
roll
roll
estab
week)
of
of
of
of
March
lish
M arch
lish March change
M arch
change
change
change
1933
1933
1933
ments
ments
1933
474
Alabama.................
364
Arizona...................
Arkansas................. 1488
California............... 21,954
758
Colorado.................
47,960
7,806
18,894
220,884
26, 553
- 4 .9
- 1 .4
- 8 .4
- 1 .6
-.2
$466,817 -1 1 .9
160,354
-1 .8
191,094 - 4 - 7
5,192,684 - 8 . 4
516,862 - 3 . 0
Connecticut______ 1,042
D e la w a re .......... .
124
District of Colum
b ia .................... __ 2 638
Florida................ __
590
Georgia...................
622
125,469
8,432
-3 .7
-2 .8
2,042,481
162, 284
30,175
27,000
69, 202
+ .3
-5 .3
+ .3
710,396
396,107
786,828
Idaho......................
Illinois....................
I n d ia n a .................
Iow a ...................... .
Kansas....................
186
3i, 540
1,161
1,164
*1,028
5,641
262,462
96,916
39,483
59,065
K entucky________
791
484
Louisiana...... .........
522
M aine..... ................
M a ry la n d ............ 3 800
Massachusetts___ 6 8,129
204
54
179
1,143
122
31,970
1,811
8,796
109,207
9,845
- 6 .0
+ 3 .2
-2 .9
- 2 .1
+ 4 .5
$298, 719
37,385
102,822
2,896,466
182, 556
- 1 1 .7
-.6
- 4 .0
- 5 .1
+ 7 .0
-9 .0
- 5 .8
649
50
107,726
6,268
- 4 .1
-3 .9
1, 589,625
113,899
-1 0 .6
-8 .8
-2 .7
- 3 .2
-3 .7
56
132
307
3, 574
12,485
57, 232
-5 .2
+ 1 .8
+ .3
115, 289
164, 648
528,891
-7 .5
-2 .7
-7 .1
- 1 .1
-1 .5
- 8 .6
- 1 .7
-1 .8
97,384 + 1 .5
5,104,974 - 4 . 5
1, 611, 528 -1 4 .6
691,967 - 8 .1
1,244,915 -6 .1
41
1,023
559
441
424
2,433 - 3 . 3
157,562 - 2 . 4
70,028 -1 0 .7
-.9
20,924
22,734 - 1 . 2
35,826
2,567,074
1,122,197
346,186
44^, U2
+ 4 .3
-8 .2
-1 6 .4
-8 .4
-4 .8
55,838
27,304
35, 504
67,597
812,097
-.5
- 3 .0
-4 .8
—3.9
- 6.1
770, 758
382,839
548, 746
1,195,403
6,225,179
-5 .4
- 5 .1
-8 .5
-7 .2
- 8.4
196
211
183
427
1,091
19,848 + 5 .3
17, 256 - 3 . 0
29,858 - 5 . 7
44,358 s - 4.8
147,104 - 6 . 8
301, 785
212,987
425,903
719,737
2,836,778
+ 7 .0
- 4 .9
-1 0 .7
8 -4 .8
-1 2 .0
M ichigan................ 1, 397
992
Minnesota..............
375
Mississippi.............
M issouri. ............... 1,090
323
M ontana____ _____
226,093
53, 527
7,767
96,968
7,912
- 7 .4
-2 .3
+ .3
-1 .4
+ 3 .7
4 ,132,043
1,071, 639
94, 310
1,841, 298
186, 535
-8 .7
- 4 .2
-.8
- 5 .6
+ 3 .6
350
268
71
513
50
169,908
26, 283
4, 581
56,650
2,167
-8 .2
-2 .8
+ 1 .1
-1 .4
+ 1 .7
2,857,378
485,696
42,757
947,889
43, 209
-8 .9
- 6 .1
- 4 .5
-8 .3
+ 3 .4
Nebraska________
707
139
N evada. ________
New H am pshire..
437
N ew Jersey........... 1, 420
N ew M exico_____
181
19,416
1,166
30, 233
162, 065
4, 356
- 1 .3
-3 .6
-8 .5
- 3 .9
-.6
397,109 - 3 . 0
29, 675 - 3 . 0
447,316 -1 4 .7
3, 358, 247 - 5 . 6
73, 975 - 6 .1
124
24
189
7 682
24
9, 209
238
26,995
147,152
263
- 2 .0
-2 .9
- 9 .5
- 3 .9
+ 4 .4
175,059
5,908
369, 775
2,868,819
5, 461
-6 .6
-5 .1
-1 7 .2
- 8 .3
+ 1 .4
N ew Y o r k ........... 7,163
N orth Carolina___
876
North D akota____
323
O hio.................... . 4, 561
701
Oklahom a..............
438,821
102, 836
3, 721
321, 096
24, 291
- 2 .3
-3 .7
-1 .4
- 4 .7
- 5 .5
9, 551, 497 - 3 .7 I 1,671
1,052,678 - 6 . 6
544
73, 285 - 4 . 9
62
5, 374,499 -1 1 .7 1,907
480, 351 - 3 . 2
127
282,884
98,436
932
229,770
8,817
- 4 .5
-3 .8
(9)
-5 .4
-1 .4
5,870, 601
983, 987
19,995
3, 644, 515
159,811
-5 .5
-6 .9
- 3 .1
-1 4 .2
-.4
Oregon____ ______
744
Pennsylvania____ 4,073
863
Rhode Island____
South Carolina___
303
South Dakota____
225
22, 671
562, 248
50,199
50,194
5,041
- 4 .0
-4 .2
-4 .0
+ 1 .2
-1 .0
413,970
9,702,052
824, 282
458, 378
123, 357
- 4 .9
-7 .8
-8 .6
- 2 .5
+ .1
163
1,748
269
176
47
12,337
290,146
40,038
46,833
1,871
-6 .2
-5 .5
-4 .7
+ 1 .2
-.5
183, 592
3,967,708
599,857
406, 313
33, 256
-9 .7
-7 .7
-1 0 .5
- 3 .1
-4 . 3
54, 594 - 3 .6
50,419
-.8
11,027 -1 4 .4
8, 572
-.8
73, 898 - 2 . 5
694, 407
1,098,802
220, 063
146,080
1, 068, 736
- 7 .4
-2 .8
- 8 .9
-4 .2
- 6 .3
262
425
83
112
407
-4 .8
-1 .5
3,116 -3 1 .0
4, 737
-.7
51, 242 - 3 . 5
472, 287
467,171
59,638
74,803
699, 629
-1 1 .0
-4 .3
-1 6 .6
- 2 .8
-7 .2
842, 371
-.5
1, 208, 207 - 8 .9
1,764,118 -4 -1
114, 717 -1 6 .4
262
180
796
29
19, 683 + 1 .2
30,101
+ .6
90,080 t - 1 .4
1, 274 - 1 .2
353, 318
487, 693
1,254,960
32,838
+ .4
- 7 .1
5 -5 .1
- 1 .9
Tennessee________
Texas____________
Utah_____________
V erm ont_________
Virginia__________
703
858
260
340
1, 228
W ashington______ 1,085
W est Virginia.
794
W isconsin________ 101,079
187
W yom ing________
41,460
83, 749
115, 686
5, 765
-.3
-.9
-1 .1
-.8
39,988
24,684
1 Includes automobile dealers and garages, and sand, gravel, and building construction.
2 Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
3 Includes building and contracting.
4 Includes transportation, financial institutions, restaurants, and building construction.
6 Weighted percent of change.
6 Includes construction, municipal, agricultural, and office employment, amusement and recreation,
professional and transportation services.
7 Includes laundries.
8 Includes laundering and cleaning.
8 N o change.
10 Includes construction, but does not include hotels and restaurants.
21
COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN IDENTICAL ESTABLISHM ENTS
IN FE B R U A R Y AN D M A R C H 1933 B Y STATES—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
b y cooperating State organizations]
State
Wholesale trade
Retail trade
N um Number
A mount
Per of pay roll Per
ber of
cent of (1 week), cent of
estab
lish M arch change March change
1933
ments
1933
N um Number
Am ount
ber of
Per of pay roll Per
cent of (1 week), cent of
estab
lish March change M arch change
ments
1933
1933
°?0r
Alabama. ...............
Arizona...................
Arkansas................
California._______
Colorado.................
15
19
15
101
26
520
169
877
5,260
655
- 1 .1
(9)
-2 .8
-1 .9
-.9
Connecticut......... .
Delaware_________
Dist. of Columbia.
Florida....................
Georgia............ .......
58
10
32
47
34
1,219
173
411
734
456
-.5
- 1 .7
(»)
-2 .5
(«)
I d a h o .....................
Illinois___________
Indiana........ ..........
Iow a_____________
Kansas___________
5
16
57
35
68
75
907
1,027
1,010
1,778
(9)
+ .9
- 1 .3
-.1
-8 .2
K entucky...............
Louisiana________
M aine___________
M aryland-----------Massachusetts___
18
26
17
82
740
335
557
415
682
13, 671
M ichigan. .............
M innesota_______
Mississippi.............
Missouri............... .
M ontana................
51
60
4
51
13
Nebraska.......... .
N evada__________
New Hampshire
N ew Jersey______
N ew M exico........ .
|
N ew Y ork ..............
North C arolin a...
North Dakota.......
O hio........................
Oklahoma..... ........
z r
$13,602 + 3 .0
4,553
+ .5
9,855 -1 4 .5
147,197 - 8 .1
18,248
+ .9
63
171
180
115
270
1,924
1,398
1,262
21,959
3,554
- 9 .9
- 1 .3
- 6.9
- 4.4
+ 6 .6
$25,262
23,340
21,701
420,061
71,289
-1 9 .0
- 2 .3
- 6 .1
-8 .2
+ 6 .6
33,355
4,696
12,680
17,653
12,654
- 2 .3
- 1 .8
-.1
+ 1 .5
+ 2 .0
113
11
401
81
27
4,450 - 1 . 7
159 - 1 . 2
10,194 + 1 .7
1,104 -1 2 .4
1,815 + 3 .8
87,194
2,052
204,064
20,963
27,848
-4 .0
-7 .8
-1 .5
-1 1 .2
+ 1 .4
1,890
21,281
24,490
24,363
40,969
-.4
- 1 .7
- 6 .0
-2 .0
-5 .5
51
88
162
24
318
263 - 2 . 2
18,932 - 2 , 5
4,480 - 1 3 .4
811 - 3 . 6
5,258 - 2 . 2
4,692
72,128
11,566
93,560
-4 .0
-3 .6
-2 0 .3
-5 .6
-3 .8
- 6 .7
- 4 .5
+ 2 .0
+ .7
-1 .8
7,112 -1 0 .8
12,809
+ .4
9, 686
-.5
-.5
14,114
855,119 - 8 .0
28
48
70
1,380
3,834
104
4,076
230
- 5 .0
- 4 .5
- 5 .5
- 3 .7
-3 .0
33, 604 -1 7 .2
100, 742 - 3 .1
1,917 + 2 .0
104,421 - 2 . 0
6,207 -1 0 .8
38
7
14
29
7
913
73
158
627
115
-.9
- 3 .9
-1 .2
+ .6
-.9
24,326
2,510
4,183
18,983
3,843
445
14
16
231
46
11,046
177
202
4, 784
840
- 1 .0
-.6
- 1 .5
-1 .2
+ .4
Oregon___________
Pennsylvania........
Rhode Island........
South Carolina___
South Dakota------
49
126
41
13
10
1,066
3,456
879
167
119
Tennessee...............
Texas____________
Utah________ _____
Verm ont_________
Virginia__________
35
143
14
5
44
W ashington______
West Virginia____
W isconsin________
W yom ing________
91
33
48
8
No change.
868,142
4,193
1,157
2,676
956
4,524
56,095
-.4
-4 .9
-2 .5
-5 .8
- 3 .1
15,820
35,335
17,379
70,414
1,129,012
-4 .7
-1 5 .3
-6 .7
-1 8 .7
-5 .5
162
283
56
132
80
8 ,901
6, 652
317
5,489
779
-2 .9
- 2 .4
- 4 .5
+ .5
-5 .0
144,969
115,704
3,301
100,611
16,112
- 1 5 .3
- 3 .3
- 3 .4
- 2 .4
- 2 .8
- 1 .5
-6 .0
- 2 .5
-.7
- 1 .2
188
40
54
423
56
1,497
229
480
7,108
255
-.9
- 2 .6
+ 8 .6
- 1 .3
- 1 .5
28,657
5,596
8,889
150,940
5,750
-.7
-.5
-.5
- 5 .3
+ 3 .6
332,142
3,936
5, 617
115,097
21, 897
- 2 .9
- 1 .2
+ 1 .6
- 6 .8
+ 1 .4
3,957
171
34
1,460
110
59,106
477
355
26,902
1,631
-2 .9
+ .4
+ 2 .0
- 4 .5
- 7 .5
1, 258, 240
9,648
5,453
458,683
25,363
- 5 .5
+ 1 .0
- 3 .5
-1 0 .6
-7 .0
-.5
-.6
+. 6
- 2 .3
- 2 .5
29,339
92, 098
20,380
4,254
3,410
+. 8
- 2 .2
- 3 .7
+ .1
-.9
251
335
472
14
11
1,961
-.3
23,087 - 1 .5
4,463 - 1 .6
368 + 4 .0
82 -1 2 .8
36, 217
435,875
89, 595
3, 558
1,375
- 2 .3
-2 .6
-2 .7
-1 .8
-4 .5
630
2,885
416
105
936
- 1 .6
-1 .1
(9)
(9)
-2 .2
13,082
73,331
10,333
2,542
21,848
- 3 .8
- 2 .3
+ .6
+ .1
+ 2.1
49
74
23
37
481
2, 520
6,021
417
336
4,422
+ 1 .9
-.2
+ 2 .7
-3 .2
-1 .2
36,003
108, 798
5, 665
5,829
78, 312
- 2 .1
-8 .8
-.8
-3 .7
-.6
2,032
584
1,841
55
- 1 .2
- 3 .3
-4 .0
- 3 .5
52, 567
-.6
14, 675 - 5 .8
89,228 -1 2 .8
1,614 + 1 .3
1
377
50
55
47
5,134
809
7,290
218
- 3 .2
- 3 .6
-8 .8
+ 2 .8
98,841
12,660
111,028
5,109
-4 .6
- 4 .9
- 8 .7
- 2 .9
84
22
COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AN D PAYROLLS IN IDENTICAL ESTABLISHM EN TS
IN F E BR U A R Y A N D M A RC H 1933 B Y STATES—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
b y cooperating State organizations]
State
Alabama. _
Arizona___
Arkansas. _.
California..
Colorado.
Connecticut.........
Delaware________
District of Colum
bia____________
Florida....... ..........
Georgia_________
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Metalliferous mining
N um Number
Amount
Per of pay roll Perber of on pay
roll,
cent of (1 week) cent of
estab
lish March change March change
1933
1933
ments
N um - N umber
Amount
ber of on pay
Per of pay roll Per
roll,
cent of (1 week) cent of
estab
lish M arch change March change
ments
1933
1933
10
18
+ 4 .5
$5, 894 +14.3
181 -4 8 .9
1,016 +4. 3
9 +50.0
1,901 -2 8 .4
18,751 +2.0
92 +178.8
580
-17.5
1,016
506 j + . 6
744 + 4 .6
5, 536
7,000
Id a h o .. _
Illinois -_
Indiana.
Iow a___
Kansas—
11.5
+14.3
K entucky_____
Louisiana_____
M aine________
M aryland_____
Massachusetts.
507 - 1 1 .2
477 - 7 .0
68 +209.1
267 - 1 3
188 +26.2
4, 527 +29.7
4,589 - 4 .3
1,961 +163.9
3,673 + 8 .5
3,366 +32.8
M ich ig a n ...
M innesota..
M ississippiMissouri___
M ontana___
334 + 8 .4
60 +93.5
57 + 14.0
203 - 9 .8
10 -28.6
4, 735
1,103
739
2,642
+ 2 .7
+ 6 .4
50, 061
18, 202
+ 6.9
+ 7 .1
+ .1
36, 463
+16.1
+80.8
+41.8
-1 2 .4
+32.0
5, 050
349
2,161 -1 8 .9
15.6
518
60
Tennessee..
Texas_____
U tah______
V erm on t...
Virginia—
W ashington__
West Virginia..
Wisconsin____
W yom ing_____
16,199
1
+15.0
1,404
+• 6
60 +13.2
18, 526
615
- 3 .9
+ 4 .4
17, 671
1,855
1,107
351
-6 .5
-14.5
1,021 +1.1
1,343 +31.3
19, 652
37, 237
- . 1
+34.9
2, 939
+2.8
-H .0
13,167 +10.3
-1 5 .1
81 +12.5
278 +20.3
81 + 5 .2
-40.0
-. 1
1 .8
162
14, 576
- 3 .0
+ .7
449 -6 3 .6
6,163
-6 2 . 7
901
48
18.6
192
+2.1
+ 1 .5
-1 .9
" + .1
-8 .3
+ 4 .2
565 +48.7
64 -4 9 .6
34,182
6, 796
-
... ..
-.
+ 4 .8
-55.6
+• 1
+ 2 .9
4 1 .8
46, 928
8,790
791
906 +6.1
72 -16.3
-
-16.0
- 1.0
675
100
-4 .0
-25.0
New York_____
North Carolina.
N orth D akota...
Ohio............. .......
Oklahoma______
Oregon_________
P enn sylvania...
Rhode Island . . .
South CarolinaSouth D a k ota ...
2,187
745
+111.0
+48.4
Nebraska..............
N evada_________
N ew Hampshire .
N ew Jersey_____
New M exico____
28.4
-6 .3
+1.0
+ 9 .7
2.2
$3, 676
48, 492
+ 7 .3
4,881 -1 1 .0
9, 205 +15.3
2,084 + 3 .9
15,301
-
594 -1 4 .8
2,148 - 5 .8
- 8 .3
+ 3.4
2, 007 +52.7
3. 281 +61.5
1,199 + 36.6
23
COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AN D PAY ROLLS IN IDENTICAL ESTABLISHM ENTS
IN F E B R U A R Y AND M A RC H 1933 BY STATES—Continued
{Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y
cooperating State organizations]
State
Bituminous coal mining
Crude petroleum producing
Am ount
N um Number
Per of pay roll Per
ber of
cent of (1 week) cent of
estab
March change March change
lish
1933
1933
ments
Amount
N um Number
Per of pay roll Per
ber of on pay
roll,
cent of (1 week) cent of
estab
lish March change March change
1933
1933
ments
°“
™r
Arkansas_________
California________
51
8,945
7
321
-0 .9
(9)
$70,673 -1 8 .0
5,178
(9)
9
45
361
7,167
-3 .2
+ .4
$8,470
216, 205
- 3 .7
+ 1 .7
187
31
-6 .0
- 3 .1
3,911
595
- 2 .5
- 2 .9
241 + 3 .0
126 -2 1 .7
3,527
3,090
-1 .9
-2 4 .2
861
- 1 6 .2
43
4,312 -1 4 .4
60, 001 -3 7 .8
32
52
28
25
6,936
6,060
2, 642
1,752
+ 1.2
+ 5 .0
-5 .4
-8 .5
114,153
108, 947
37,850
22,164
-2 9 .8
-1 9 .3
-3 7 .7
—28.0
10
5
K en tu cky...............
Louisiana________
M a in e ___________
M aryland________
M assachusetts___
160
24, 646
- 2 .2
253,994 -1 7 .9
5
8
n
1,422
-.8
10,118 -1 9 .5
M ichigan________
M in n e s o ta ______
Mississippi_______
Missouri_________
M ontana_________
3
830
-1 .2
15,954 -2 1 .1
23
12
1,991
895
- 6 .3
-2 .8
24,122 -3 4 .1
19, 294 -2 4 .1
4
Nebraska________
N evada__________
N ew Hampshire
New Jersey______
New M exico_____
14
1,911
-.3
26, 389 -1 6 .9
Dist. of Columbia..
Id a h o ____________
Indiana _________
Kan sas___________
N ew Y ork _______
North Carolina
North Dakota____
Ohio._ __________
Oklahoma________
Oregon____ _______
Pennsylvania____
Rhode Island____
South Carolina
South Dakota____
9
76
20
441
33
(6)
5
50
+ 6 .4
1, 524
+13.6
4
91 -1 1 .7
2,479
-1 0 .4
533 - 3 . 4
11,009 - 3 . 6
788 -1 4 .2
8,074 -3 1 .0
130,967 -1 7 .0
7,315 -4 9 .6
6
58
47
4,197
+ 2 .2
-1 .9
672
108,417
-3 9 .0
+ 3 .0
57,042
596, 756
23
612
-3 .0
14,646
-5 .2
3
7,091
+ 2 .3
242,162
+ .«
-2 .5
-9 .0
Tennessee...............
Texas____________
U tah________ _____
V erm ont-...............
V ir g in ia .................
23
5
18
2,905 - 1 . 2
294 + 4 .6
2,172 -1 0 .0
28,433 - 4 .1
5,290 + * 7
52,135 -1 3 .6
33
8, 291
+ .4
91,980 -1 8 .7
Washington—........
W est Virginia____
W isconsin...............
W y o m in g _______
10
328
1,285
44,151
-7 .5
-1 .9
27,820 -1 4 .6
512, 366 -1 4 .2
7
306
+ 1 .3
7, 323
+ 2 .5
30
3,426
-.8
57, 624 -2 7 .8
5
106
-.9
2,754
+11.9
•No change.
24
COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN IDENTICAL E STABLISH M EN TS
IN F E B R U A R Y AN D M A RC H 1933 B Y STATES—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
b y cooperating State organizations]
Public utilities
Amount
N um N um
Per
of pay
ber of ber on
roll
cent
estab pay roll,
(1 week)
of
lish
March
March
change
ments
1933
1933
State
Hotels
Amount
um N um
Per
of pay
Per N
ber of ber on
roll
cent
cent estab
pay roll,
(1 week)
of
of
March
lish
March
change
change
1933
ments
1933
Per
cent
of
change
Alabama_________
Arizona__________
Arkansas................
California________
Colorado.................
89
67
52
49
196
1,733
1,203
1,769
45,723
5, 228
- 1 .1
+• 7
+ 2 .4
-.4
-.4
$35, 659
31, 818
39,238
1,252,804
134,967
- 1 .8
+ 3 .8
-.1
+. 7
+ 2 .2
24
23
15
182
46
1,073
766
735
9,260
1, 269
(0)
-2 .8
-.5
+ .9
+ .2
$8, 720
10,817
6,898
141,807
17, 360
-3 .5
+• 4
-9 .8
- 2 .1
+ 2 .4
Connecticut...........
Delaware....... _.......
District of Colum
bia................. .......
Florida....................
Georgia................. .
145
28
9,716
1,083
-.7
+ .2
298,622
32,051
- 2 .2
+ 3 .9
30
6
1,109
248
+ .5
-.4
14, 256
2, 837
+ 4. 6
-1 .8
22
186
186
8,091
4,191
6, 508
-.6
-.5
-1 .5
227, 948
118, 515
189,203
-2 .4
+ 7 .8
+ 4 .6
52
104
33
3,819
4, 557
1, 711
+ 4 .7
-1 .8
+ 1 .9
57, 652
46, 577
14, 834
+ 1 .7
-3 .0
+ .4
Idaho................... .
Illinois................ .
Indiana...................
Iow a........................
Kansas....................
56
70
144
432
26
639 + 3 .1
67,483
+• 4
9, 217 - 3 . 9
9,141 - 3 .1
6,712 _(12)
13, 728
1,860,720
214,838
206, 730
148,292
+ 4 .8
+ 2 .6
- 3 .3
-1 .9
- 4 .5
24
n 39
78
70
35
301
6,789
2, 711
2, 339
785
(9)
-3 .6
-1 .4
+ 1 .7
-1 .6
4,110
101,071
27,184
20,819
7,721
+ 4 .8
-8 . S
-7 .2
-1 .6
-5 .0
Kentucky________
296
154
Louisiana________
M a in e ........... .........
170
89
Maryland________
Massachusetts___ 13136
6, 573
4,106
2, 754
12, 225
44,502
- 7 .1
- 2 .4
+ .5
-.5
- 2 .1
155,144
93, 064
75,834
321,296
1,219,489
- 3 .3
- 1 .1
+ 2 .0
- 7 .1
-5 .2
35
22
21
23
84
1, 435
1,824
658
1,125
3. 364
-2 .0
-1 .2
-4 .8
-4 .2
-1 .2
14, 677
19, 386
8,132
13, 895
46. 022
-4 .4
-3 .9
-7 .0
- 5 .8
-6 .6
M ichigan........ .......
M innesota..............
M ississippi-......... .
Missouri ............... .
M ontana_________
412
230
213
213
101
21,388
11,931
1,859
20, 671
1, 791
- 2 .0
-.7
- 2 .2
-1 .3
+ 1 .4
590, 306
308, 297
38,898
553, 730
53, 658
- 3 .8
- 2 .4
+ 3 .2
-.6
+ 6 .3
90
69
17
83
24
4 ,076
2,876
477
4,182
349
- 3 .4
-.2
-1 .9
-2 .2
- 5 .7
43, 747
34, 716
3, 692
49, 854
4, 741
-1 3 .6
-.9
-1 1 .5
-4 .8
-1 .5
Nebraska................
N evada...................
N ew Hampshire
N ew Jersey............
N ew M exico..........
299
39
143
276
50
5, 520
370
2,022
21,823
472
-.4
-2 .4
-1 .0
- .6
-1 .0
143, 594
10,013
56,184
638,568
10,285
+ 1 .5
-2 .8
+ .5
-1 .0
+ 1 .5
40
9
10
67
14
1,483
106
182
3, 771
282
+• 5
- 2 .8
—5. 7
- 7 .8
- 6 .3
15, 345
1,839
1,872
45,403
3,003
—5. 2
+ 1 .9
-1 0 .1
-1 2 .1
-2 .2
N ew Y ork..............
N orth Carolina. _.
N orth Dakota____
Ohio_____________
Oklahoma...............
871
96
170
494
246
102, 551
1,763
1,126
31,943
5,827
-.8
-.2
-2 .9
-.8
-1 .3
3,130, 300
35,828
27,040
815, 598
132,137
-.1
- 3 .4
+ 1. 3
(12)
+ 1 .3
248
33
22
151
47
29, 322
1, 264
375
8, 541
1,025
- 1 .8
+• 1
(6)
- 4 .1
-6 .2
457, 574
12,169
4, 038
101,189
10,921
-3 .4
+ 4 .0
+ 6 .0
-1 0 .4
- 1 .5
O regon ................ .
Pennsylvania____
Rhode Island........
South Carolina___
South Dakota____
183
671
42
71
129
5,634
80, 310
3,254
1,683
905
+ .6
-.8
- 1 .1
+ 2 .9
+ .1
142,001
2,143, 386
91,068
35,890
25,098
-.3
- 3 .0
- 2 .9
+ 3 .0
+ 6 .1
61
174
14
14
16
1,076
9,004
280
504
279
-.3
-1 .7
- 2 .1
+ 1 .6
- 3 .5
13, 756
112,474
3, 509
4,060
3,147
+ 3 .1
-1 .5
- 6 .2
+ 2 .1
—5. 4
Tennessee...............
Texas........ .......... .
Utah........................
Verm ont_________
Virginia......... .........
251
186
68
121
179
4, 552
6,111
1, 633
972
5, 631
-.9
-1 .0
- 8 .3
-2 .0
-.8
104,557
167,046
36, 565
23,277
141,845
+ 3 .6
- 1 .7
- 3 .2
- 3 .1
+ 2 .0
37
50
10
20
33
1,827
3,276
403
423
1, 565
-3 .3
-1 .3
- 4 .3
-1 .2
- . 1
16, 579
37,701
4, 989
4, 441
17,478
-1 .2
-2 .8
- 5 .1
- . 1
+ 2 .0
Washington...........
W est Virginia........
W isconsin________
W yom ing. ........... .
200
123
14 42
48
9,466
5,641
10, 319
407
- 1 .3
+ .7
-2 . 3
+ .2
257, 219
148,946
279, 649
9,994
+ 1 .2
+ 3 .4
—2.9
+ 2 .7
79
38
11 45
13
2,178
1,061
1,154
168
- 1 .8
- 9 .5
—2.1
+ 1 .2
25, 270
11, 909
(15)
2, 760
+ .4
-1 .2
8 N o change.
11 Includes restaurants.
12 Less than one tenth of 1 percent.
13 Includes steam railroads.
14 Includes railways and express.
18 Data not supplied.
+ 4 .9
25
COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AND PAY ROLLS IN IDENTICAL ESTABLISHM ENTS
IN FE BR U A R Y AND M A RC H 1933 BY STATES—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
b y cooperating State organizations]
Dyeing and cleaning
Laundries
State
Alabama. .
Arizona___
Arkansas—.
CaliforniaColorado—
N um Number Per Amount of Per N um Number Per Amount of
Per
ber of on pay
ber of
pay roll
pay roll
cent
cent
cent
cent
(1 week)
(1 week)
estab
roll,
of
of
of
of
lish
March
March
lishMarch
March
change
change ments
change
change
ments
1933
1933
1933
1933
°?0r
5
9
17
16
76
Connecticut....... .
Delaware________
Dist. of Columbia.
Florida__________
Georgia__________
Idaho___
Illinois. .
Indiana.
Iow a____
Kansas...
Kentucky.............
Louisiana........ .
M aine...................
M aryland.. ..........
Massachusetts. __
16
21
17
450
288
M
5,804.
591
- 0 .9
1 .2
- 1 .3
$3,136
3,547
8, 708
90,501
7,800
985
294
2,551
436
562
- 7 .9
-3 .0
+ .3
-.7
-.2
1,398
1,306
202
+1.0
16 88
-
-
14
-3 .2
-
97
- 3 .0
$1,701
+ 4 .4
15,062
4,266
38,101
4, 530
4,907
- 9 .5
- 3 .1
-.2
- 8 .4
+ 3 .6
187
38
97
+1.1
3,154
538
1,817
-1 1 .9
+ .6
-2 .4
- 2 .4
- 6 .4
-7 .0
1.0
18,563
15,734
2, 685
10,445
2 .0
- 1 .7
7,931
17
26
111
339
1,801
3,672
-4 .8
+ .6
- 1.6
4,401
25,836
55,864
21
12
4
29
14
1,328
600
125
2.032
-3 .7
(9)
-3 .8
+ 2 .4
- 3 .1
14,290
8,853
979
27,207
4, 491
-
Nebraska..............
N evada........ .........
N ew Hampshire _
New Jersey______
New M exico____
610
50
279
2,801
8,109
870
3,952
53,117
3,007
-
211
-7 .6
- 2 .0
+ 1 .5
-3 .5
- 2 .8
New Y ork ........ .
North Carolina.
North D akota...
Ohio___________
Oklahoma....... .
6,767
601
183
3,956
630
-.4
-.5
- 1 .1
-4 .2
- 4 .4
3,033
1,076
299
121
-1 .2
- 1 .8
(9)
M ich ig a n ...
M innesota..
Mississippi..
Missouri___
M ontana___
74
Oregon_________
P enn sylvania...
Rhode Island.
South CarolinaSouth D a kota ...
Tennessee..
Texas_____
Utah...........
V e rm o n t...
Virginia___
Washington___
West Virginia..
Wisconsin.........
W yom ing_____
738
852
501
74
636
+ 2 .8
- 1 .2
631
909
66
(9)
- 4 .0
-1 .0
- 1 .5
9 No change.
8.8
8.8
-7 .0
- 2 .4
-
12.1
-
-
8.0
-
6 .1
209
896
1,441
10.0
386
1 0.8
12.0
-1 .4
- 4 .2
- 2 .9
-5 .0
- 3 .9
+ .2
6,012
8,928
6,921
718
6, 652
- 4 .9
-.3
- 9 .7
- 2 .3
10,332 - 1 . 6
7,114 - 8 .7
10,490 -6 . 9
1,005 -1 4 .0
2 .0
1,575
2 .8
2,817
-1 .8
- 4 .4
4,127
20,366
+8.2
-4 .0
5,066
4,046
-1 9 .9
+ 11.5
339
+ 6 .9
i, 460
+13.0
25
+ 4 .2
406
+ 3 .8
~172
+ 6 .2
3, 729
—
+ 7 .5
6,819
+ 7 .1
108, 545 - 2 .9
5,838 - 4 . 5
2,796
+ .1
52, 304 -1 1.0
7,310 - 7 .9
42, 270
16, 560
2,806
1,523
-
120
- 6 .1
- 4 .5
-3 .8
- 2 .7
-4 .2
-.9
-6 .7
+ 5 .6
-
-
-
2.1
11.2
- 9 .1
6.2
19,407
48
943
191
(9)
-.5
+ 2.1
878
13,691
3,087
+ 6 .7
-1 .5
-1 .3
27
342
109
+1.8
+2.8
+ 3 .8
323
4,709
1,861
+ 5 .9
-3 .0
+12.9
+ 4 .4
2,770
+ 5 .0
(9)
- 3 .6
2,173
2,240
+ 6 .9
- 5 .8
138
187
16 Includes dyeing and cleaning.
26
Employment and Pay Rolls in March 1933 in Cities of Over
500,000 Population
I N THE following table are presented the fluctuations in employ
ment and pay-roll totals in March 1933 as compared with Febru
ary 1933 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.
F L U C T U A T IO N S IN E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN M A R C H 1933 AS C O M P A R E D
W IT H F E B R U A R Y 1933
Cities
New York C ity __...........
Chicago, 1 1 1 ......................
Philadelphia, P a __...........
Detroit, M ich ___________
Los Angeles, Calif_______
Cleveland, Ohio............. .
St. Louis, M o .................
Baltimore, M d ...................
Boston, M ass....... ..............
Pittsburgh, P a ...................
San Francisco, Calif..........
Buffalo, N .Y ._ ............. .
Milwaukee, W is_________
N umber of
establish
ments re
porting in
both
months
February
1933
4,923
1,798
834
644
842
1, 076
470
549
2, 636
411
1,193
355
455
299,487
186,918
134,040
158, 287
60, 070
82, 392
60,945
43,923
82,989
52, 422
48,134
33,031
34,625
Am ount of pay roll (1
week)
Number on pay roll
March
1933
294,978
184, 315
130,493
144,972
57,870
77, 362
59,985
42,007
80,916
51,920
48,245
31, 744
35,039
Per
cent of
change
-1 .5
-1 .4
- 2 .6
- 8 .4
-3 .7
- 6 .1
-1 .6
-4 .4
-2 .5
-1 .0
+• 2
-3 .9
+ 1 .2
February
1933
March
1933
$7,836, 496
4,334,176
2,986,464
2,844, 585
1,377,060
1,675,824
1, 273,005
841, 258
1,965,701
1,061, 441
1,148,935
686,141
660,537
$7,711,878
4, 215, 777
2,851,901
2,856, 506
1,288, 399
1, 392,952
1,187, 312
790,482
1,887,154
1,052,691
1,127,893
633,076
641,025
Per
cent of
change
-1 .6
-2 .7
—4. 5
+ .4
-6 .4
-1 6 .9
-6 .7
-6 .0
-4 .0
-.8
-1 .8
-7 .7
-3 .0
Employment in the Executive Civil Service of the United States,
March 1933
HE number of employees in the executive civil service of the
United States was 5,799 less in March 1933 than in March 1932.
Comparing March 1933 with February 1933 there was an increase
of 3,499.
These figures do not include the legislative, judicial, or Army and
Navy services. The data as shown in the table were compiled by the
various Federal departments and offices and sent to the United States
Civil Service Commission where they were assembled. They are
tabulated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and published here by
courtesy of the Civil Service Commission and in compliance with
the direction of Congress. No information has as yet been collected
relative to the amounts of pay rolls. Data are presented for the
District of Columbia, for the Government service outside of the
District of Columbia, and for the service as a whole.
Approximately 12 percent of the total number of Federal employees
are employed in the District of Columbia. Comparing March 1933
with March 1932 there was a decrease of 2.1 percent in the number of
Federal employees in the District of Columbia. Comparing March
1933 with February 1933 there was a decrease of 0.2 percent in the
T
27
number of permanent employees. The number of temporary em
ployees, however, showed a gain of about 900. This was largely caused
by a gain of 857 employees in the Crop Production Loan Office.
E M P L O Y E E S IN T H E E X E C U T IV E C IV IL S E R V IC E OF T H E U N IT E D S T A T E S M A R C H
1932 A N D F E B R U A R Y A N D M A R C H 1933 i
District of Columbia
Outside the District
Entire service
Perma Tempo-i Total
nent
ra ry 2 j
Perma Tem po
ra ry2 Total
nent
Perma T em po
nent
ra ry2 Total
Item
N um ber of employees:
M arch 1932______ ______
66,095
February 1933........ .........
63,940
M arch 1933........................ 63,786
Gain or loss:
March 1932-March 1933 . - 2 , 309
February
1933-March
1933___________________
-154
Percent of change:
M arch 1932-March 1933 .
- 3 .5
February
1933-March
-.2
1933___________________
Labor turnover, March 1933:
199
A dditions______________
353
Separations_____________
Turnover rate per 100___
31
1
2,906!| 69,001 478, 593
2, 862 66,802 468, 943
3, 771 | 67,557 468, 659
25,191 503,784 544,688
27, 742 496,685 532,883
30, 770 499, 429 532,445
28, 097 572,785
30, 604 563,487
34,541 566,986
+865 -1 ,4 4 4 -9,9 3 4 +5, 579 -4 ,3 5 5 -12,243 + 6, 444 - 5 , 799
+909
+755
-284 + 3, 028 + 2, 744
-4 38 +3,937 +3,499
+29.8
- 2 .1
- 2 .1
+31.8
+1.1
- .
1,668
759
22. 88
1,867
1,112
1.66
+22.1
-.9
-2 .2
1
+10.9
+ .6
- .
1,864
2,148
.40
13, 749
10, 721
36. 65
15,613
12, 869
2. 58
+22.9
-1 .0
1
+12.9
+ .6
2,063
2,501
.39
15,417
11, 480
35. 24
17,480
13, 981
2.47
1 Certain revisions have been made from time to time b y the Civil Service Commission in dropping
certain classes of employees, previously carried in the tabulations. Thus, in the District of Columbia, 68
mail contractors and special-delivery messengers were eliminated in M a y 1932, and in the service outside
the District of Columbia 35,800 star route and other contractors, clerks in charge of mail contract stations,
clerks in third-class post offices and special-delivery messengers were eliminated in April 1932 and 835 col
laborators of the Department of Agriculture in June 1932. In the table, in order to make the figures com
parable for the months shown, it was assumed the number of these employees was the same in 1932 as they
were in the month they were dropped (actual figures not being available from the Civil Service Com
mission) and the data for this month have been revised accordingly in this table.
2 N ot including the field service of the Post Office Department.
Employment on Class I Steam Railroads in the United States
ATA are not yet available concerning railroad employment for
March 1933. Reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission
for class I railroads show that the number of employees (exclusive of
executives and officials) decreased from 933,350 on January 15, 1933,
to 929,054 on February 15, 1933, or 0.5 percent; the amount of pay
roll decreased from $108,550,265 in January to $101,507,304 in
February, or 6.5 percent.
The monthly trend of employment from January 1923 to February
1933, on class I railroads— that is, all roads having operating revenues
of $1,000,000 or over—is shown by index numbers published in the
following table. These index numbers are constructed from monthly
reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission, using the 12-month
average for 1926 as 100.
D
28
T a b le
1.—IN D E XE S OF E M PL O Y M E N T ON CLASS I STEAM RAILROADS IN THE
U NITED STATES, JAN U ARY 1923 TO F E B R U A R Y 1933
[12-month average, 1926® 100]
M onth
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
January..........................
February........................
M arch.............................
A pril_________________
M a y ____ _____ ________
June.................................
July_______ ___________
August............................
September......................
October_______________
N ovem ber....................
December.......................
98.3
98.6
100.5
102.0
105.0
107.1
108.2
109.4
107.8
107.3
105.2
99.4
96.6
97.0
97.4
98.9
99.2
98.0
98.1
99.0
99.7
100.8
99.0
96.0
95.6
95.4
95.2
96.6
97.8
98.6
99.4
99.7
99.9
100.7
99.1
97.1
95.8
96.0
96.7
98.9
100.2
101.6
102.9
102.7
102.8
103.4
101.2
98.2
95.5
95.3
95.8
97.4
99.4
100.9
101.0
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
88.2
88.9
90.1
92.2
94.9
96.1
96.6
97.4
96.8
96.9
93.0
88.8
86.3
85.4
85.5
87.0
88.6
86.5
84.7
83.7
82.2
80.4
77.0
74.9
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
53.0
60.3
52.7
60.5 ______
60.0
59.7
57.8
56.4
55.0
55.8 ______
57.0
55.9
54.8 ............
Average................ 104.1
98.3
97.9
100.0
97.5
92.9
93.3
83.5
70.6
57.9
1933
1 52.9
1 Average for 2 months.
Wage-Rate Changes in American Industries
Manufacturing Industries
I N THE following table is presented information concerning
wage-rate adjustments occurring between February 15, 1933,
and March 15, 1933, as shown by reports received from manufac
turing establishments supplying employment data to this Bureau.
Of the 18,107 manufacturing establishments included in the March
survey, 17,639 establishments, or 97.4 percent of the total, reported
no change in wage rates over the month interval. The 2,422,063
employees not affected by changes in wage rates constituted 98
percent of the total number of employees covered by the March
trend-of-employment survey of manufacturing industries.
Decreases in wage rates were reported by 467 establishments in
72 of the 89 industries surveyed. These establishments represented
2.6 percent of the total number of establishments covered. The
wage-rate decreases reported averaged 11.8 percent and affected
49,549 employees, or 2 percent of all employees in the establishments
reporting.
One establishment reported wage-rate increases in March, averaging
2 percent, and affecting 180 employees.
29
T a b le
1
W AGE CHANGES IN MANUFACTURING INDU STRIES D U R IN G M O N TH
EN D IN G M ARC H 15, 1933
Industry-
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing
Total
number
of em
ployees
All manufacturing industries........ 18,107 2,471, 792
Percent of total___________
100.0
100.0
Food and kindred products:
Baking_________________ _____
Beverages_____________ ______
Butter______________________
Confectionery_______________
Flour_____ ________ ________
Ice cream................. ............ .....
Slaughtering and meat pack
ing__________________ ______
Sugar, beet__________________
Sugar refining, cane_________
Textiles and their products:
Fabrics:
Carpets and rugs________
Cotton goods______ _____
Cotton small wares___ __
Dyeing and finishing tex
tiles ..____ _____ ______
K nit goods______________
____
W oolen and worsted
goods_________ ________
Wearing apparel:
Clothing, men’s_._____ _
Clothing, wom en’s .______
Corsets and allied gar
ments.................... ..........
Hats, fur-felt____________
M en ’s furnishings_______
M illinery___ ____________
Shirts and collars________
Iron and steel and their products,
not including machinery:
Bolts, nuts, washers, and
rivets__ ___________________
Cast-iron pipe___ __ _______
Cutlery (not including silver
and plated cutlery) and
edge tools.......... .............. .......
Forgings, iron and steel_____
Hardware........... .......................
Iron and steel_______ ________
........... .......
Steam and hot-water heating
apparatus and steam fit
tings______________________
Stoves______________________
Structural and ornamental
metal work....... .....................
Tin cans and other tinware. __
Tools (not including edge
tools, machine tools, files,
and saws)_________________
Wire work____ ______________
Machinery, not including trans
portation equipment:
Agricultural implements____
Cash registers, adding ma
chines, and calculating ma
chines_____________________
Electrical machinery, appara
tus, and supplies__________
Engines, turbines, tractors,
and water wheels__________
Foundry and machine shop
products__________________
Machine tools_______________
Radios and phonographs____
Textile machinery and parts.
Typewriters and supplies____
1Less than one tenth of 1 percent.
Number of establish
ments reporting—
Num ber of employees
having—
No
Wage Wage N o wage Wage Wage
in
in
de
de
wage
changes creases creases changes creases creases
17,639
97.4
1
0)
467 2,422,063
2.6
98.0
180
0)
49,549
2.0
982
344
311
324
424
405
61,322
10,688
5,196
31,431
15, 458
10,947
959
342
304
321
408
394
23
2
7
3
16
11
60,745
10,619
5,124
31, 255
14,996
10, 767
577
69
72
176
462
180
248
55
14
84, 225
2, 880
7,702
239
55
14
9
83,383
2,880
7,702
842
31
680
114
9,367
226,338
8, 773
30
654
112
1
26
2
9,325
219, 111
8,650
42
7,227
123
5
16
4
31,696
93,791
38,693
866
2,968
692
32,562
148
143
442
96,759
426
Silk and
rayon goods
39,385
237
233
246
46,344
239
7
45,449
895
378
456
58,852
26,318
372
448
6
8
57,898
26,062
954
256
32
35
70
127
112
5,606
5,191
6, 814
9, 030
14,396
30
35
67
124
112
2
5,509
5,191
6,177
8, 537
14,396
637
493
68
41
7,613
3, 793
62
41
6
6,977
3,793
636
128
7,629
125
62
4,834
60
106
19,682
100
196
190
156,035
Plumbers’
6, 574supplies
69
66
3
2
6
5
3
7,504
4,652
19,018
153,666
6,051
125
182
664
2,189
523
3
3
1
97
180
98
161
11,456
13,690
97
159
1
2
11,448
13,307
8
383
198
59
13, 246
7,895
194
57
4
2
13,055
7, 883
191
12
128
68
6, 214
4,738
124
67
4
1
5,855
4,495
359
243
77
7,139
76
1
6,689
450
131
40
12,050
39
1
11,919
291
93, 738
280
11
93,171
567
91
14,494
88
3
12,400
2,094
1,068
143
41
46
16
90,044
9,133
15, 615
6, 508
7,649
1,036
141
41
42
16
32
2
88,031
9,105
15, 615
6,489
7,649
2,013
28
4
19
30
T a b le
1 —W AGE CHANGES IN MANUFACTURING IN D U STRIE S D U R IN G M ONTH
E N D IN G M ARC H 15, 1933—Continued
Industry
Nonferrous metals and their parts:
A luminum manufactures____
Brass, bronze, and copper
products____________ ______
Clocks and watches and timerecording devices................ Jewelry_______ _____________
Lighting equipment_________
Silverware and plated ware. _
Smelting and refining—cop
per, lead, and zinc.................
Stamped and enameled ware..
Transportation equipment:
Aircraft____ ________________
Autom obiles.......... .............
Cars, electric and steam rail
r o a d .._______ _____________
Locom otives________________
Shipbuilding________________
Railroad repair shops:
Electric railroad_____ ________
Steam railroad______ ______
Lum ber and allied products:
Furniture________ _____ ____
Lum ber:
M illw ork_______________
Sawmills______ _________
Turpentine and rosin_______
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Brick, tile, and terra cotta.
C ement_____________________
Glass________________________
M arble, granite, slate, and
and other products..........
P ottery_____________________
Leather and its manufactures:
Boots and shoes________ ____
Leather_____ ________________
Paper and printing:
Boxes, p a p er.............. ..............
Paper and p ulp _____________
Printing and publishing:
Book and jo b ___________
Newspapers and period
icals______________ _____
Chemicals and allied products:
Chemicals___________________
Cottonseed, oil, cake, and
m eal______________________
Druggists’ preparations_____
Explosives__________________
Fertilizers___________________
Paints and varnishes________
Petroleum refining____ ______
Rayon and allied products.
Soap------------------------------------R ubber products:
R ubber boots and shoes.........
R ubber goods, other than
boots, shoes, tires and inner
tubes______________________
R ubber tires and inner tubes _
Tobacco manufactures:
Chewing and smoking to
bacco and snuff____________
Cigars and cigarettes________
Estab
Total
lish
number
ments
of em
report ployees
ing
Number of establish
ments reporting—
No
wage
N um ber of employees
having—
I
Wage N o wage Wage I Wage
Wage
in- | de
in
de
creases ; creases
creases creases
4, 760
48
24,575
191
25
4,808
210
24, 766
141
53
52
6, 030
6, 709
2, 371
7,041
26
138
51
50
6, 030
6, 389
2,096
8,115
11, 242
31
87
8,115
10, 724
518
5, 964
169, 571
27
230
5,915
167, 658
49
1,913
4, 573
1,449
22, 453
4, 553
1,449
22, 383
20
19, 864
73, 610
376
181
28
240
23
320
275
111
70
545
19,488
73, 429
36, 721
419
35,182
1,539
452
608
25
14, 699
50, 744
1,129
439
593
21
14, 367
48, 417
1 , 111
332
2, 327
18
669
124
191
13, 282
10, 467
33, 632
657
123
187
12, 454
10,437
33, 281
828
30
351
214
112
4, 354
13, 531
211
109
4,172
13, 454
182
77
328
152
106, 349
23, 057
321
147
105, 284
22, 826
1,065
231
319
408
19, 997
75,108
311
390
19,810
69, 751
187
5, 357
397
548
745
42, 312
41, 259
1,053
455
61, 578
59, 561
2, 017
112
20, 550
110
19,970
580
86
44
28
3, 462
7, 245
3,202
9, 078
12, 760
47, 800
27, 777
14, 024
84
44
28
199
343
131
23
3, 373
7, 245
3, 202
9, 061
12, 275
47, 800
27, 777
14, 024
17
485
201
355
131
23
34
215
8, 232
8, 232
17, 785
41, 043
17, 752
41,043
33
9,811
37, 910
149
85
9, 960
37, 995
33
233
31
Nonmanufacturing Industries
D a t a concerning wage-rate changes occurring between February
15, 1933, and March 15, 1933, in 14 groups of nonmanufacturing
industries are presented in the following table.
f No changes in wage rates were reported in the anthracite mining
and crude-petroleum producing groups. In the remaining 12 groups
decreases in wage rates were reported over the month interval. The
average percents of decrease in rates reported in each of the several
groups were as follows: Telephone and telegraph, 7 percent; electricrailroad and motor-bus operation, 7.6 percent; power and light, 9.7
percent; canning and preserving, 10 percent; quarrying and non
metallic mining, 10.2 percent; dyeing and cleaning, 11.3 percent;
metalliferous mining, 11.8 percent; bituminous coal mining, 13.2
percent; laundries, 13.2 percent; hotels, 13.7 percent; retail trade,
13.8 percent; and wholesale trade, 14 percent. An increase averaging
10 percent was reported in the bituminous coal-mining industry.
T able
2 .—W A G E
C H A N G E S IN N O N M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S
M O N T H E N D IN G M A R C H 15, 1933
Industrial group
Anthracite m ining________________
Percent of total_______________
Bituminous coal mining__________
Percent of total_______________
Metalliferous mining______________
Percent of total______________ _
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining.
Percent of total_______________
Crude petroleum producing_______
Percent of total_______________
Telephone and telegraph__________
Percent of total______________
Power and light___________________
Percent of total_______________
Electric-railroad and motor-bus
operation and maintenance_____
Percent of total____ __________
Wholesale trade___________________
Percent of total_______________
Retail trade_____________________ _
Percent of total_______________
Hotels____________________________
Percent of total_______________
Canning and preserving__________
Percent of total_______________
Laundries______________ ____ _____
Percent of total_______________
Dyeing and cleaning______________
Percent of total_______________
Estab Total
lish
ments number
of em
report ployees
ing
74, 677
100.0
194, 744
100.0
20, 515
D U R IN G
N umber of establish
ments reporting—
Num ber of employees
having—
No
W age Wage
wage
in
de
changes creases creases
No
Wage Wage
wage
in
de
changes creases creases
160
100.0
1,443
98.7
281
98.6
615
98.6
269
74, 677
160
100.0
1,462
100.0
285
100.0
624
100.0
269
100.0
8,196
100.0
3, 361
100.0
16,805
100.0
24,028
100.0
280,431
100.0
203, 678
100.0
7,808
95.3
3,348
99.6
4.7
13
.4
268,682
95.8
200,074
98.2
11, 749
4.2
3, 604
1.8
570
100.0
2,984
100.0
17,049
100.0
2, 541
100.0
814
100.0
939
100.0
321
100.0
133,980
100.0
74, 331
100.0
319, 645
100.0
130,995
100.0
30,046
100.0
53,113
100.0
8, 846
100.0
560
98.2
2, 933
98.3
16,860
98.9
2,807
98.7
810
99.5
915
97.4
315
98.1
10
1.8
51
1.7
189
1.1
33
1.3
4
.5
24
2.6
6
1.9
132, 690
99.0
73, 547
98.9
316, 648
99.1
127, 222
97.1
30,004
99.9
52,167
98.2
8, 592
97.1
1,290
.1
784
1.1
2,997
.9
3, 773
3.0
42
.1
946
1.8
254
2.9
100.0
O
100.0
18
1.2
4
1.4
9
1.4
190,435
97.8
20,093
97.9
16,369
97.4
24,028
100.0
100.0
546
.3
3, 763
1.9
422
2.1
436
2.6
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