Full text of Employment and Payrolls : November 1932
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
W . N. DOAK, Secretary
BUREAU OP LABOR STATISTICS
CHARLES E. BALDWIN, Acting Commissioner
TREND OF EMPLOYMENT
NOVEMBER, 1932
By Industries:
Page
Summary........................................................................
1
Manufacturing Industries............................................. 2-12
Nonmanufacturing Industries.................................... 12-15
Anthracite and Bituminous Coal Mining
Metalliferous Mining
Quarrying and Nonmetallic Mining
Crude Petroleum Producing
Public Utilities—
Telephone and Telegraph
Power and Light
Electric Railroads
Wholesale and Retail Trade
Hotels
Canning and Preserving
Laundries
Dyeing and Cleaning
Banks, Brokerage, Insurance, and Real Estate . . .
1
Building Construction..................................................18-19
Class I Steam R a ilroa d s............................................. 27-28
By S t a t e s ............................................................................ 20-26
By C i t i e s ............................................................................
27
Wage C h a n ges....................................................................28-31
Average hours and average hourly e a r n in g s .................. 15-18
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
W ASH INGTON: 1932
TREND OF EMPLOYMENT
Summary for November, 1932
M PLO YM EN T decreased 1 per cent in November, 1932, as
compared with October, 1932, and pay-roll totals decreased 3.1
per cent. These figures are based on the pay rolls ending nearest the
15th of the month. The more pronounced decrease in pay rolls than
in employment from October to November is due to some extent to
election day and the observance of Armistice Day in certain localities
during the November pay period.
The industrial groups surveyed, the number of establishments re
porting in each group, the number of employees covered, and the pay
roll for one week, for both October and November, 1932, together with
the per cents of change in November are shown in the following
tabulation:
E
SU M M A R Y OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D EARNINGS. OCTOBER A N D N OV E M BE R , 1932
Earnings in 1 week
Employment
Industrial group
Estab
lish
ments
Per
cent of
change
cent Of
change
Novem
ber, 1932
2,700,377
257,083
87,359
169,724
21,171
2,691,711
261,270
85,685
175,585
22,171
23,606
22,983
619,419
270,117
215,432
22,240
22,848
613,700
267,789
212,984
-5 .8
-.6
-.9
-.9
-1 .1
Wholesale............................. 2,757
Retail.................................... 14,345
Hotels....................................... 2,427
Canning and preserving.......
933
994
Laundries................................
Dyeing and cleaning.............
368
Building construction.......... 10,268
133,870
416,066
72,095
343,971
134,814
62,811
59,594
12,038
85,627
132,927
417,552
71,859
345,693
132,858
39,132
58,583
11,416
78,979
-.7
+ .4
-.3
+ .5
-1 .5
-37.7
-1 .7
- 5 .2
-7 .8
2,773
115,848
115,127
-.6
4,151,579
4,122,289
-.7
Total............................... 67,884 4,531,437
4,487,587
-1 .0
89,721,503
86,981,315
- 3 .1
Manufacturing....................... 18,178
Coal mining............................ 1,353
A nthracite.........................
Bituminous______________
160
1,193
281
m in in g ___________________
617
Metalliferous mining............
Quarrying and nonmetalllc
Crude petroleum producing.
276
Public utilities........................ 12,314
Telephone and telegraph...
Power and light...................
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and main
tenance..............................
8,281
3,535
498
Trade........................................ 17,102
Bank, brokerage, insurance,
and real estate.....................
October,
1932
Novem
ber, 1932
October,
1932
1-0.8 $47,261,969 $45,969,944
+1.6
5,184,395
4,576,107
- 1 .9
2,652,835
2,027,786
+3.5
2,648,321
2,531,660
406,779
+4.7
424,270
366,674
658,784
17,122,334
7,202,542
6,280,081
1-8.8
-1 1.7
-2 3.6
+ .7
+ 4.8
330,071
657,513
16,895,731
7,064,043
6,179,336
-1 0.0
-.2
- 1 .3
- 1 .9
- 1 .6
3,652,352
3,639,711
8,738,404
8,772,863
1,942,879
1,926,843
6,829,984
6,812,661
21,850,293 21,815,326
461,811
696,240
889,741
920,326
217,329
193,279
2,111,938
1,906,829
-.9
-.3
-1 .9
-3 3.7
-3 .3
-1 1.1
—9.7
i Weighted per cent of change for the combined 89 manufacturing industries, wherein the proper allow
ance is made for the relative importance of the several industries so that the figures represent all estab
lishments of the country in the 89 industries surveyed; the remaining per cents of change, including total,
are unweighted.
* The amount of pay roll given represents cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and
tips can not be computed.
Data are not yet available concerning railroad employment for
November, 1932. (See section “ Class I steam railroads” for latest
figures reported.)
(1 )
Per capita weekly earnings in November, 1932, for each of the 17
industrial groups included in the bureau’s monthly trend-of-employment survey, together with the per cents of change in November,
1932, as compared with October, 1932, and November, 1931, are
given in the table following. These per capita weekly earnings must
not be confused with full-time weeldy 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).
PE R C A PITA W E E K L Y EARNINGS IN 17 IN D U STRIA L GROUPS IN N O V E M B E R , 1932,
AN D COM PARISON W ITH OCTOBER, 1932, A N D N O V E M B E R , 1931
Per capita
weekly
earnings
in Novem
ber, 1932
Industrial group
Per cent of change No
vember, 1932, com
pared with—
October,
1932
November,
1931
Manu facturing_____________________________________________ __
Coal mining:
Anthracite...___________________________________________- __
Bituminous________________________________________________
Metalliferous mining___________________________________________
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining___ __ __ ______________ ______
Crude petroleum producing__________. . . . . . . ___________________
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph..._________________________________
Power and light____________________________________________
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and maintenance.......
Trade:
Wholesale.________________________________________________
Retail_____________________________________________________
Hotels (cash payments only)1__________________________________ _
Canning and preserving______ ___ ____ _____________ ___ ___ ___
Laundries_____________________________________________________
Dyeing and clean ing______________________________ _____________
Building construction__________________________________________
Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate_____________________
$17.08
—2.4
-1 6 .9
23.67
14.51
19.14
14.84
28.78
—22.1
—2.7
—.4
-4 .4
+ .4
—14.6
—18.6
-1 1 .9
-2 4 .8
-1 6 .9
26.38
29.01
27.48
—1.1
—.5
+1.1
—8.4
—8.5
-1 3.6
26.80
19.71
13.66
11.80
15.19
16.93
24.14
35- 81
—.6
—.8
-.4
+6.5
—1.6
—6.2
—2.1
-.1
-1 3 .9
—12.8
—14.8
—13.9
—15.2
—19.1
Total..............................................................................................
* 18.85
8 - 2 .2
8
* -1 5.0
1 The additional value of board, room, and tips can not be computed.
> Data not available.
* Not including building construction or banks, etc.
Employment in Selected Manufacturing Industries in November,
1932
Comparison of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals in November, 1932, with
October, 1932, and November, 1931
M PLO YM EN T in manufacturing industries decreased 0.8 per
cent in November, 1932, as compared with October, 1932, and
pay-roll totals increased 3.3 per cent over the month interval. Com
paring November, 1932, with November, 1931, decreases of 11.5 per
cent in employment and 26.5 per cent in pay rolls are shown over
the 12-month period.
The per cents of change in employment and pay-roll totals in
November, 1932, as compared with October, 1932, are based on
returns made by 18,178 establishments in 89 of the principal manu
facturing industries in the United States, having in November
2,691,711 employees, whose earnings in one week were $45,969,944.
The index of employment in November, 1932, was 59.4, as compared
with 59.9 in October, 58.5 in September, 1932, and 67.1 in November,
E
3
1931; the pay-roll index in November, 1932, was 38.6, as compared
with 39.9 in October, 38.1 in September, 1932, and 52.5 in November,
1931. The 12-month average for 1926 equals 100.
In Table 1, which follows, are shown the number of identical
establishments reporting in both October and November, 1932, in
the 89 manufacturing industries, together with the total number of
employees on the pay rolls of these establishments during the pay
period ending nearest November 15, the amount of their weekly
earnings in November, the per cents of change over the month and
year intervals, and the indexes of employment and pay roll in
November, 1932.
The monthly per cents of change for each of the 89 separate indus
tries are computed by direct comparison of the total number of
employees and of the amount of weekly pay roll reported in identical
establishments for the two months considered. The per cents of
change over the month interval in the several groups and in the total
of the 89 manufacturing industries are computed from the index
numbers of these groups, which are obtained by weighting the index
numbers of the several industries in the groups by the number of
employees or wages paid in the industries. The per cents of change
over the year interval in the separate industries, in the groups, and
in the totals are computed from the index numbers of employment
and pay-roll totals.
T able l.-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 ROLLS IN M A N U FA C TU RIN G
ESTABLISHM ENTS IN OCTOBER A N D N OV E M BE R , 1032, A N D N O V EM BER, 1931
Industry
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing in
both
Octo
ber
and
No
vem
ber,
1932
Employment
Per cent of
change
Per cent of
change
No
No Amount of
Number
payroll Octo vem
on pay Octo vem
ber,
ber,
roll, No ber, to 1931, (1 week), ber, to 1931,
Novem
vember, No
No
to
to
vem No
ber, 1932 vem No
1932
ber, vem
ber, vem
1932
1932
ber,
ber,
1932
1932
Food and kindred products- 3,644
Slaughtering and meat
packing............................
230
Confectionery.....................
318
Ice cream.............................
397
Flour...................................
439
Baking................................
943
Sugar refining, cane............
15
Beet sugar...........................
58
Beverages............................
334
Butter.................................
310
258,790
Textifes and their products. 3,186
Cotton goods......................
701
Hosiery and knit goods___
443
Silk goods............................
245
Woolen and worsted goods.
257
Carpets and rugs................
32
Dyeing and finishing tex
152
tiles..................................
Clothing, men’s.................
384
Shirts and collars________
117
Clothing, women’s.............
412
Millinery....................... .
130
Corsets and allied gar
ments..............................
31
Cotton small wares............
114
Hats, fur-felt_. . . . _______
37
M en’s furnishings..............
75
i No change.
646,939
238,359
110,933
45,403
55,676
14,426
Pay-roll totals
- 2 .0
-2 .3 -1 .4
- . 4 + 2.7
+ 2.7 +3.8
- 6 .4 -1 4 .0
-7 .3 + 5.8
+1.7 -1 5.4
34,274
+ .3 - 5 .3
64,041 -1 .7
0)
16,023 +2.3 -9 .1
25,517 - 8 .2 -1 1.8
8,407 -1 6.4 -5 .9
5,649
9,793
5,633
6,805
-1 .3
+1.7
-6 .3
+6.4
-1 .1
-3 .9
-.9
+ 1.5
Em Pay
ploy roll
ment totals
—4*3 -19.3
85.4
66.7
1,716,428 - 5 .6 -1 9.3
559,008 -1 1.7 -1 8 .0
284,436 -8 .4 -2 3 .8
335,840 - 6 .4 -1 8.7
1,350,289 -3 .4 -2 0 .0
193,273 -3 .4 -1 5.9
364,344 +24.3 -1 1.9
224,960 - 6 .9 -2 4 .0
124,409 - 2 .3 -1 9.8
86.2
92.6
64.1
83.0
79.4
76.4
238.5
68.0
95.7
66.9
64.9
50.4
67.7
66.2
62.5
156.3
51.4
76.7
-1 6.3
-8 .0
- 6 .0
-3 0.8
-11.1
-31.0
73.6
75.5
89.1
60.8
71.3
55.1
47.4
51.6
66.1
39.6
49.7
33.2
602,822 - 6 .2 -2 3.3
834,949 -1 3.4 -1 1.6
177,113 + 4.0 -13.1
426,378 -2 0 .2 -3 2 .2
122,564 -2 4.8 -2 7.6
78.1
69.7
65.3
64.8
64.1
54.0
38.0
43.7
38.4
37.6
82,785 -1 0 .0 -1 1.7
142,994 -6 .5 -1 7 .6
-.5
103,923 -1 7 .0
83,606 + 8.2 -2 6 .4
99.7
82.3
69.4
73.2
77.0
57.5
42.9
49.1
-5 .1 $5,152,987
86,284 - 1 .7 - 4 .6
41,490 - 4 .8 + 2.5
10,969 - 6 .4 - 8 .6
15,597 -2 .1 - 5 .6
61,062 - 1 .8 - 9 .8
8.120 -1 .8 -7 .1
20,012 +11.5 +17.3
9,522 -6 .3 -1 1.7
5,734 -1 .1 -7 .7
Index num
bers, Novem
ber, 1932
(average,
1926=100)
8,357,636 -9 .0
2,543,378 - 3 .8
1,562,319
-.9
586,596 -1 1.9
860,387 -1 2 .4
227,822 -4 .1
4
1.—COM PARISON OP E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y ROLLS IN MANUFACTURING
ESTABLISHM ENTS IN OCTOBER A N D N OV E M BE R , 1932, A N D N O V E M BE R , 1931—
Continued
T a b le
Pay-roll totals
Employment
industry
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing in
both
Octo
ber
and
No
vem
ber,
1932
Iron and steel and their
products, not including
machinery.......................... 1,397
Iron and steel.....................
Cast-iron jpipe....................
Structural and ornamental
ironwork........................ .
Hardware...........................
Steam fittings and steam
and hot-water heating
apparatus. ......................
Stoves................................ .
Bolts, nuts, washers, and
rivets.............................. .
Cutlery (not including sil
ver and plated cutlery)
and edge tools.................
Forgings, iron and steel___
Plumbers’ supplies.............
Tin cans and other tinware.
Tools (not including edge
tools, machine tools, files,
or saws)...........................
Wirework............................
Per cent of
change
Per cent of
change
Index num
bers, Novem
ber, 1932
(average,
1926«100)
Number
No Amount of
No
on pay Octo vem pay roll Octo vem
ber,
(1
week),
roll, No ber,
ber,
to 1931,
vember, Noto 1931, Novem ber,
No
ber, 1932 vem
to
1932
to
vem No
No
ber, vem
ber, vem
ber,
ber,
1932
Em
ploy
ment
Pay
roll
totals
210
40
297,875
175,965
5,754
+ .2
+ .4
+1.9
-17.0 94,242,992
-14.9 2,287,778
-39.4
67,169
30.4
-2 .3
- . 8 -3 6 .6
-4 .1 -6 0.5
53.2
53.2
30.1
26.0
23.0
14.3
184
113
12,966
21,415
-2 .3
+1.5
-36.7
-18.5
223,967
279.499
- . 6 -4 9 .0
+ .6 -4 0 .0
40.3
49.9
23.5
24.5
100
162
14,930
17,357
+2.8
-.8
-25.3
-8 .3
259,760 - 5 .4 -3 5 .0
294,874 -1 4.7 -2 2.7
38.4
55.0
22.3
31.7
+2.5 -2 9.7
61.4
34.4
161,738 -3 .5 -2 5.4
75,471 +1.5 -4 6.5
103,825 +10.8 -3 9.7
12.0 -1 4 .4
159,426
64.2
53.1
55.5
73.2
42.3
26.3
31.8
41.7
+1.7
- 4 .8
-36.5
-30.1
61.8
90.1
35.7
61.3
8,292
- 1 .4 -14.1
61
9,031
4,934
6,410
8,677
-.3
-3 .8
+ 8.4
-4 .7
130
71
6,959
5,185
+2.7 -24.1
-1 .5 -1 6.5
113,611
87,843
Lumber and allied products. 1,577
123,355
60,147
17,507
44,660
1,041
- 2 .3 -2 0.8
- 2 .9 -1 9.9
- 1 .0 -2 8.9
20.2
-2 .1
-8.6
-.9
1,501,704
635
454
467
21
-0 .3
- 5 .2
254,722
-.6
606,355 -1 0.9
14,227 -2 .1
-38.0
-39.5
-42.4
-37.3
-15.0
38.1
35.1
33.9
47.4
44.8
20.8
18.1
20.0
25.6
36.8
505
162
343
126,458 -7 .9
25,274 + 2.6
101,184 -10.1
1,751,085 -2 0.2
466,158 - 2 .4
1,285,527 -2 5.8
- 7 .0
-10.0
- 5 .8
71.9
71.7
72.0
42.4
54.1
39.0
5,470,172
1,447,150
375,984
-2 .1
-3 .3
-3 .5
-22.4
-20.9
-21.4
80.1
75.0
74.1
05.3
50.3
61.6
Lumber, sawmills..............
Lumber, millwork.............
Furniture..........................
Turpentine and resin.........
Leather and its manufac
tures................................... .
Leather- ............................
Boots and shoes................ .
Paper and printing.
Paper and pulp....
Paper boxes.
P rintingBook and job............. .
Newspapers and peri
odicals......................
Chemicals and allied prod
ucts.....................................
Chemicals...........................
Fertilizers...........................
Petroleum refining_______
Cottonseed oil, cake, and
Druggists’ preparations.._
Explosives-........................
Paints and varnishes____
Rayon.................................
S o a p -.................................
127
61
P
+ 5.6
1,960
408
220,301
80,298
21,090
- . 1 - 9 .0
-4 .3
-.3
+ .6 -1 1.7
769
48,658
-1 .0 -1 6 .2
1,274,719
-4 .1 -2 9.3
71.8
57.0
475
70,255
+ .5
-6 .7
2,372,319
+ .4 -1 7 .9
97.9
85.7
1,050
114
203
139
148,088
20,483
6,119
51,750
+ .7
+ .7
+1.9
-.6
-7 .5
-8 .7
-1 .7
-8 .8
3,300,389
488,655
77,196
1,391,128
-.2
-.2
+ 2.4
-.3
-18.3
-20.1
-19.6
-19.0
70.0
85.3
46.0
61.5
60.8
61.6
30.8
52.0
53
42
24
363
23
2,919
7,879
3,156
15,161
27,919
12,702
+1.0
+ .2
+4.3
-1 .7
+2.3
+ 1.4
-3 .7
-14.2
-16.2
-10.9
-4 .5
-.7
31,276
160,720
63,981
324,902
478,342
284,189
+ 4.6
+1.9
+5.8
- 5 .4
+ 1.6
-1 .7
-25.4
-19.0
-30.1
-24.0
- 9 .4
-9 .8
54.7
71.9
79.0
67.1
142.8
98.3
47.0
71.8
54.1
51.7
120.2
83.0
118
673
122
192
86,080
13,337
17,702
15,329
34,486
-2 .0
-4 .3
-5 .1
+ 4.2
+1.7
-22.5
-22.2
-34.0
-13.4
-11.3
1,377,025 - 5 .8
221,677 -8 .1
199,395 -1 0.9
243,317
+ .7
606,148 +2.1
-39.8
-43.1
-55.3
-30.3
-25.1
43.7
41.0
27.4
62.7
57.9
25.9
23.2
11.5
37.8
40.2
222
5,232
106,488 -1 8 .0 -4 9.7
46.6
28.9
Stone, day, and glass prod
ucts.................................... . 1,327
Cement............................. .
Brick, tile, and terra cotta.
Pottery.............................. .
Glass...................................
Marble, granite, slate, and
other stone products___
-12.2
-27.5
-24.1
-1 .3
128,031
-9 .9 -3 2.6
5
T
1.—COM PARISON OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y ROLLS IN M A N U FA C TU RIN G
ESTABLISHM EN TS IN O C TO B E R A N D N O V E M BE R , 1932, A N D N O V E M BE R , 1931—
Continued
able
Employment
Industry
Nonferrous metals and
their products....................
Stamped and enameled
Brass, bronze, and copper
products..........................
Aluminum manufactures. _
Clocks, time-recording de
vices, and clock move
ments..............................
Gas and electric fixtures,
lamps, lanterns, and re
flectors.............................
Plated ware................... .
Smelting and refiningcopper, lead, and zinc___
Jewelry__________ ______ _
Tobacco manufactures___
Chewing and smoking to
bacco and snuff________
Cigars and cigarettes_____
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing in
both
Octo
ber
and
No
vem
ber,
Pay-roll totals
Per cent of
change
Per cent of
change
Number
No Amount of
on pay Octo vem payroll
roll, No ber,
ber, (1 week),
vember, Noto 1931, Novem
ber, 1932
to
1932
vem No
ber, vem
1932
ber,
No
Octo vem
ber,
ber, to 1931,
No
to
vem No
ber, vem
1932 ber,
1932
Em Pay
ploy roll
ment totals
81,498
+0.7
-15.4 91,422,784
-2 .4
-27.5
54.4
36.1
13,402
+4.1
- 6 .0
214,573
-2 .3
-23.0
62.9
39.2
4,979
+1.5
+1.3
-17.1
-12.2
473,042
82,819
- 1 .6
+3.3
-32.8
-17.3
51.9
48.3
31.0
3a 5
5,285
+ 4.6 -3 1 .6
84,119
+ 3.6
-38.8
43.5
32.5
4,766
7.971
+1.3 -2 1 .0
+ .6 -1 0 .0
99,937
159,684
+ 3.7
-4 .5
-29.5
-15.7
67.5
64.0
48.5
43.4
29
150
7,919
9,146
-3 .0 -1 9 .1
-3 .1 -1 3 .2
135,645 -4 .5
172,965 -1 0 .6
-34.2
-27.5
57.0
42.7
37.5
29.2
246
57,442
+ 1.2
-8 .1
732,170
-.2
-1 M
74.8
55.7
34
212
10,304
47,138
-.6
+ 1.4
+ 2.1
-9 .6
139,193
592,977
-2 .1
(*)
-3 .8
-20.6
72.9
71.8
53.7
3,990,651 +12.1
3,135,682 +18.1
183,132 + 7.0
-34.7
-34.7
-25.4
42.1
41.5
183.5
27.7
26.9
186.3
-5 .6
-45.5
-40.1
21.1
14.1
66.7
11.7
9.7
47.9
- 2 .2 -2 0 .2
64.6
40.2
-24.6
-17.7
58.8
55.2
32.8
45.2
-5 .2 -1 3 .7
85.4
58.0
633
206
24
TransL
Automobiles.
Aircraft_________________
Cars, electric and steam
railroad............................
Locomotives......................
Shipbuilding____________
419
Rubber products__________
Rubber tires and inner
tubes................................
Rubber boots and shoes...
Rubber goods, other than
boots, shoes, tires, and
inner tubes____________
154
103
Machinery, not Including
transportation
equip
m ent____________________ 1,814
75
Agricultural implements...
Electrical machinery, ap
294
paratus, and supplies___
Engines, turbines, trac
tors, and water wheels...
Cash registers, adding
machines, and calculat
44
ing machines___________
Foundry and machineshop products................ . 1,065
148
Machine tools..................
Textile machinery and
44
parts............................... .
18
Typewriters and supplies..
40
Radio..................................
198,702 + 6.6 -1 9 .7
159,684 + 8.6 —18.8
5.971 +10.0 -2 0 .2
5,762
2,139
25,146
- . 1 + 4.5
+ 1.9 -3 3 .2
-1 .5 -28.5
98,724
44,117
-9 .8
1,219,829
-5 .5
+ 3.0
- 8 .6
69,903
+1.1
39,988
10,153
-9 .7
-.3
+ 6.2 -2 3 .8
19.762
+ 1.3
-1 .4
283,809
+ .4
5,764 +16.7
-27.2
-33.9
5,108,779 -1 .5
87,909 +11.9
-42.1
-36.7
45.8
22.6
26.7
15.7
104,634
-.5
-33.0
2,060,194
- .9
-47.3
49.1
32.5
14,977
-.2
-27.9
283,157
-5 .2
-38.4
39.7
23.6
670,013 -5 .0
190,583 +13.9
13.253
- .7
-1 7 .3
307,414
- 2 .6 -2 5 .2
63.4
45.6
99,060
10,462
+ .7
+ 3.1
-23.2
-39.2
1,567,864
193,289
-1 .4
+ 6.6
-40.1
-50.0
44.3
30.5
23.0
18.3
6,441
9,167
20,051
-1 .3
+ 5.9
-2 .7
-23.0
-21.9
-25.4
108,563
133,216
367,173
-5 .4
+7.7
-7 .2
-38.2
-38.9
-32.5
52.9
59.2
77.7
32.2
32.7
58.4
98,465
20.254
78,211
+3.3
+ .1
+ 3.6
-9 .7
-11.6
-9 .6
2,281,081
513,046
1,768,035
+8.0
+ 1.5
+9.1
-23.5
-25.8
-23.2
50.2
65.6
49.0
39.1
52.5
38.1
Total, 89 in dustries.... 19,178 2,691,711
-.8
-3 .3 -2 6 .5
59.4
3M
Railroad repair shops______
Electric railroad.................
Steam railroad....................
m
384
538
* Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent.
-11.5 45,969,944
6
Per Capita Earnings in Manufacturing Industries
P e r capita weekly earnings in November, 1932, for each of the 89
manufacturing industries surveyed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
together with the per cents of change in November, 1932, as compared
with October, 1932, and November, 1931, are shown in Table 2.
These earnings must not be confused with full-time weekly rates
of wages. They are per capita weekly earnings, computed by dividing
the total amount of pay roll for the week by the totaJ number of
employees (part-time as well as full-time workers).
T a b l e 2.—PE R CAPITA W E E K L Y EARNINGS IN M A N U FA C TU RIN G IN DUSTRIES IN
N OVEM BER, 1932, A N D COM PARISON W IT H OCTOBER, 1932, AN D N O V E M BE R , 1931
Industry
Food and kindred products:
SlaiightAring and meat, parking
n
_____
Confectionery.____________________________________________
Icecream
_
_____
. . , _
.
. ..
Flour___________________________ ____ _____________ __ _____
Baking
_ . . _ n,
_.,
__
Sugar refining, cane________________________________________
Beet sugar_________________________________________________
Beverages_________________________________________________
Butter.......... ........ ............................................................................
Textiles and their products:
Cotton goods______________________________________________
............. ................ . .... r, .........
Hosiery and knit goods.
Silk goods___________ ____ ___________________ _______ ______
Wooten and worsted goods__________________________________
Carpets and rugs.._________________________________________
Dyeing and finishing textiles___ ____________________________
Clothing, men’s__ _________________________________________
Shirts and collars__________________________________________
Clothing, women’s_________________________________________
Millinery..........................................................................................
Corsets and allied garments. _. __ __________________ _________
Cotton small wares.______ _________ . . . . _____________________
Hats, fur-felt__ _________________ __________________________
Men’s furnishings__________________________________________
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery:
Iron and steel._____________________________________________
Cast-iron pipe_____________________________________________
Structural and ornamental ironwork_________________________
Hardware________________________________________________
Steam fittings and steam and hot-water heating apparatus_____
Stoves____ ________________________________________________
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets_____________________________
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools..
Forgings, iron and steel_____________________________ ___ ___
Plumbers’ supplies____ - ___ ____ - __________________ - _______
Tin cans and other tinware______________ ___________________
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, files, or saws)___
Wirework________________________________________________
Lumber and allied products:
Lumber—
Sawm ills...___________ _____ __________________________
Millwork______________________________________________
Furniture__ _____________________________________________—
TurDeTitine and rosin..
, . . .
^
Leather and its manufactures:
Leather _________________________ - __ _____________________
Boots and shoes..__________________________________________
Paper and printing:
Paper and pulp..__________________________________________
Paper b o x e s ....__ ____. . . . . . ___. . . . . . . . __ ____________ __
Printing—
Book and job____________________________ . . . . . . . ________
Newspapers and periodicals.....................................................
Per capita
weekly
earnings in
November,
1932
Per cent of change com
pared with—
October,
1932
November,
1931
$19.89
13.47
25.93
21.53
22.11
23.80
18.21
23.63
21.70
-3 .9
—7.3
—2.1
—4.4
—1.6
—1.6
+11.5
—. 7
- 1 .2
-1 5.5
—19.9
—16.6
-1 3 .8
—11.3
- 9 .4
—24.9
-1 4 .2
-1 2 .9
10.67
14.08
12.92
15.45
15.79
17.59
13.04
11.05
16.71
14.58
14.65
14.60
18.45
12.29
-3 .4
—3.5
—5.8
- 5 .6
—5.7
—6.5
-1 2.0
+ 1.7
—13.1
—10.1
—8.8
—8.0
—11.4
+1.7
-1 0.3
—9.6
-1 9 .5
-1 6 .1
—18.7
—18.9
-1 1.5
- 4 .0
-2 3 .2
-2 3 .0
-1 0 .7
—14.3
+ .4
—27.8
13.00
11.67
17.27
13.05
17.40
16.99
15.44
17.91
15.30
16.20
18.37
16.33
16.94
- 1 .2
-5 .9
- 8 .0
—14.0
+3.9
-3 .2
+ 5.6
+2.2
—7.7
- 1 .0
- 3 .4
-2 6.0
-3 5 .0
—19.5
—26.4
-1 2 .9
-1 5 .9
-1 8 .2
-1 4 .9
-2 6 .4
-2 0 .5
-1 3 .0
-1 6.3
-1 6 .4
11.41
14.55
13.58
13.67
- 2 .4
+ .3
-8 .9
- 1 .2
-2 4 .3
-1 9 .0
-2 1.3
- 6 .9
18.44
12.70
- 4 .9
-17.5
-1 0 .2
-1 0 .6
18.02
17.83
-3 .1
- 4 .0
-1 7 .2
-1 1 .0
26.20
33.77
-3 .1
-.1
-1 5 .8
-1 2 .0
+i:S
7
T
2 . —P E R C A PIT A W E E K L Y EARNINGS IN M A N U FA C TU RIN G INDUSTRIES IN
N OV E M BE R , 1932, A N D COM PARISON W IT H OCTOBER, 1032, A N D N O V E M BE R ,
1931—Continued
able
Industry
Chemicals and allied products:
Chemicals................... ................................................................ .
Fertilizers.....................................................................................
Petroleum refining.......................................................................
Cottonseed oil, cake, and meal.................................................. .
Druggists* preparations.............................................................. .
Explosives................................................................................... .
Paints and varnishes.................................................................. .
Rayon...........................................................................................
Soap..............................................................................................
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Cem ent.......................................................................................
Brick, tile, and terra cotta......................................................... .
Pottery-........................................................................................
Glass............................................................................................ .
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone products. ....................
Nonferrous metals and their products:
Stamped and enameled w are................................................... .
Brass, bronze, and copper products.......................................... .
Aluminum manufactures........................................................... .
Clocks, time recording devices, and dock movements_______
Gas and electric fixtures, lamps, lanterns, and reflectors_____
Plated w are..............................................................................
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.........................
Jewelry.........................................................................................
Tobacco manufactures:
Chewing and smoking tobacco and sn u ff..............................
Cigars and cigarettes.................................................................. .
Transportation equipment:
Automobiles...............................................................................
Aircraft........................................................................................
Cars, electric and steam railroad...............................................
Locomotives................................................................................
Shipbuilding............................................................ ...............
Rubber products:
Rubber tires and inner tubes....................................................
Rubber boots and shoes.__........................................................
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner tubes
Machinery, not including transportation equipment:
Agricultural implements............................................................
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies........................
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels._____ ________
Casn registers, adding machines, and calculating machines...
Foundry and machine-shop products.......................................
Machine tools______________ ____________________________
Textile machinery and
Typewriters and suppT
Railroad repair &ops:..................
Electric-railroad repair shops.
Steam-railroad repair shops..
Per capita Per cent of change com
pared with—
weekly
earnings in
November,
October,
November,
1931
1932
1932
$23.86
12.62
26.88
10.71
20.40
20.27
21.43
17.13
22.37
-0 .9
+ .5
+ .4
+3.5
+ 1.6
+ 1.4
-3 .7
-.8
-3 .1
-1 2 .5
-1 8 .0
-1 1 .2
-2 2 .7
- 5 .7
-1 7 .5
-1 5 .2
- 5 .3
- 9 .4
16.62
11.26
15.87
17.58
20.35
-4 .0
-6 .1
- 3 .3
+ .3
- 9 .0
-2 7 .1
-3 1 .6
-1 9 .4
-1 5 .8
-2 5 .7
16.01
16.88
16.63
15.92
20.97
20.03
17.13
18.91
-6 .1
-3 .1
+ 1.9
- 1 .0
+ 2.3
-5 .1
- 1 .6
- 7 .7
-1 8 .2
-1 9 .3
- 5 .6
-1 0 .9
-1 0 .5
- 6 .2
-1 8 .9
-1 6 .6
13.51
12.58
- 1 .5
- 1 .4
-5 .7
-1 2 .2
19.64
30.67
17.13
20.63
21.04
+8.7
- 2 .7
- 5 .4
+1.1
-7 .1
-1 9 .8
- 6 .5
-9 .7
-1 8 .6
-1 6 .4
16.76
18.77
18.18
- 4 .8
+7.3
-6 .4
-1 6 .8
+7.8
-1 2 .4
15.25
19.69
18.91
23.20
15.83
18.48
16.85
14.53
18.31
-4 .1
-.4
- 4 .9
-1 .9
- 2 .0
+ 3.4
-4 .3
+ 1.6
- 4 .6
- 3 .9
-2 0 .9
+ 5.0
- 9 .5
-2 1 .9
-1 7 .8
-2 0 .0
-2 1 .8
- 9 .6
25.33
22.61
+ 1.4
+5.3
-1 6 .1
-1 5 .0
General Index Numbers of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals in Manufacturing
Industries
G e n e r a l index numbers of employment and pay-roll totals in
manufacturing industries by months, from January, 1926, to No
vember, 1932, together with average indexes for each of the years
from 1926 to 1931, and for the 11-month period, January to Novem
ber, 1932, inclusive, are shown in the following table. In computing
these general indexes, the index numbers of each of the separate
industries are weighted according to their relative importance in the
total. Preceding this table are two charts prepared from these
general indexes showing the course of employment and pay rolls for
each of the years 1926 to 1931, inclusive, and for the months from
January to November, 1932, inclusive.
151946—32------ 2
8
MANUFACTURING
INDUSTRIES.
MONTHLY INDEXES I9 Z6 -I9 3 2 .
MONTHLY AVERAGE.
192.6*100.
MPLOYMEMT
10$
105
100
100
95
1926
90
90
65
65
60
60
193)
75
75
70
70
65
65
60
60
55
55
50
SO
45
45
40
35
35
JA N .
FEB. MAR.
APR. MAY
JUNE JULY
AUG. SEPT
OCT.
NOV.
DEC.
9
MANUFACTURING
INDUSTRIES.
MOMTHLY INDEXES 1926-I93£.
MONTHLY AVERAGE.
192,6s 100
PAV-ROLL TOTALS.
105
105
100
100
192
95
95
1928
N/
90
90
\ / l930
85
65
60
80
75
75
1931
70
70
65
65
60
60
55
55
50
1932
50
45
45
40
40
35
35
JAW
FEB.
MAR.
APR. MAY
JUNE JULY AUG. SEPf. OCT.
110V. D EC
1 0
IN D E X E S OP E M PL O Y M E N T A N D P A Y ROLLS IN MANUFAC
TURING IN DU STRIES, JAN U ARY, 1926, TO N O V E M BE R , 1932
T a b l e 3 .— GENERAL
[12-month average, 1926=100]
Employment
Pay rolls
Month
1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932
January......................
February_____ _____
March........................
April...........................
M ay...........................
June............................
July............................
August........................
September..................
October......................
November.......................
December...................
100.4
101.5
102.0
101.0
99.8
99.3
97.7
98.7
100.3
100.7
99.5
97.3
99.0
99.5
98.6
97.6
97.0
95.0
95.1
95.8
95.
93.5
92.6
91.6 95.2 90.7 74.6
93.0 97.4 90.9 75.3
93.7 98.6 90.5 75.9
99.1 89.9 75.7
99.2 88.6 75.2
93.1 98.8 86.5 73.4
92.2 98.2 82.7 71.7
93.6 98.6 81.0 71.2
95.0 99.3 80.9 70.9
95.9 98.4 79.9 68.9
95.4 95.0 77.9 67.1
95.5 92.3 76.6 66.7
64.8
65.6
64.5
62.2
59.7
57.5
55.2
56.0
58.5
59.9
59.4
1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932
98:0 94.9
95.5 88.1 63.7 48.6
102.2 100.6 93.9 101.8 91.3 68.1 49.6
103.4 102.0 95.2 103.9 91.6 69.6 48.2
101.5 100.8 93.8 104.6 90.7 68.5 44.7
99.8 99.8 94.1 104.8 88.6 67.7 42.5
99.7 97.4 94.2 102.8 85.2 63.8 39.3
95.2 93.0 91.2 98.2 77.0 60.3 36.2
98.7 95.0 94.2 102.1 75.0 59.7 36.3
99.3 94.1 95.4 102.6 75.4 56.7 38.1
102.9 95.2 99.0 102.4 740 55.3 39.9
99.6 91.6 96.1 95.4 69.6 52.5 38.6
99.8 93.2 97.7 92.4 68.8 52.2
Average................ 100.0 96.4 93.8 97.5 84.7 73.3 160.3 100.0
96.5 94.5 100.5 81.3 61.5 143.9
* Average for 11 months.
Time Worked in Manufacturing Industries in November, 1932
R e p o r t s as to working time in November were received from 13,371
establishments in 89 manufacturing industries. Three per cent of
these establishments were idle, 44 per cent operated on a full-time
basis, and 54 per cent worked on a part-time schedule.
An average of 85 per cent of full-time operation in November was
shown by reports received from all the operating establishments
included in Table 4. The establishments working part. time in
November averaged 72 per cent of full-time operation.
T a b le 4.—PROPO RTION OF FULL T IM E W O R K E D IN M ANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
B Y ESTABLISHM ENTS R E PO RTIN G IN N O V E M BE R , 1932
Establishments
reporting
Per cent of establ i s h m e n t s in
which employees
worked—
Industry
Total
number
Food and kindred products___
Slaughtering and meat packing
Confectionery.............................
Ice cream....................................
Flour...........................................
Baking........................................
Sugar refining, cane...................
Beet sugar..................................
Beverages...................................
Butter.........................................
3,339
175
240
294
378
659
14
48
280
251
Textiles and their products........
Cotton goods..............................
Hosiery and knit goods.............
Silk goods...................................
Woolen and worsted goods.......
Carpets and rugs........................
Dyeing and finishing textiles...
Clothing, men’s.........................
Shirts and collars.......................
Clothing, women’s....................
Millinery....................................
3,403
656
385
222
231
25
142
234
69
141
94
1Less than one-half of 1 per cent.
Per cent
idle
21
0)
0)
Full
time
Part
time
Average per cent of
full
time
re
ported by—
All oper Estab
ating
estab lishments
operating
lish
ments part time
94
97
88
93
92
96
83
100
89
96
77
85
76
81
75
76
76
80
73
84
93
91
96
93
91
83
90
94
95
94
90
78
76
84
77
78
72
80
82
78
75
77
11
T a b le
4.—PROPO RTION OF FU LL T IM E W O R K E D IN M A N U FA C TU RIN G IN DUSTRIES
B Y ESTABLISHM ENTS R E PO RT IN G IN N O V E M BE R , 1932—Continued
i
Per cent of estab- Average per cent of
l i s h m e n t s in
full
time
re
which employees
ported by—
worked—
Establishments
reporting
Industry
Total
number
Per cent
idle
Full
time
Part
time
All oper Estab
ating
estab lishments
operating
lish
ments part time
Textiles and their products—Contd.
Corsets and allied garments_________
Cotton small wares...............................
Hats, fur-felt..........................................
Men’s furnishings..................................
Iron and steel and their products, not
including machinery.........................
Iron and steel.........................................
Cast-iron pipe........................................
Structural and ornamental ironwork..
Hardware__________________________
Steam fittings and steam and hotwater heating apparatus....................
Stoves.....................................................
23
100
23
57
1
5
3
1,058
164
34
132
52
10
6
2
65
47
43
60
35
52
57
35
92
88
86
93
78
77
75
78
17
5
9
10
10
80
85
85
88
90
70
57
56
70
69
55
52
66
66*
63
83
115
63
2
3
10
13
21
88
84
79
59
71
72
55’
67
64
107
39
54
53
1
4
34
15
24
47
65
85
76
49
79
68
75
88
69*
62
67
76
111
51
3
2
23
20
75
78
73
77
65
71
Lumber and allied products.................
1,069
4
25
70
76
67
Sawmills............ . ............................
M illw ork.......................................
Furniture...............................................
Turpentine and rosin_______________
446
281
325
17
6
3
3
18
17
42
29
76
80
55
71
72
73
84
87
65
67
72
82
Leather and its manufactures.............
860
4
29
66
80
71
125
235
1
6
40
24
59
70
88
75
80
67
40
59
86
7fr
2
31
31
67
69
80
85
71
78
24
81
76
19
82
98
76
89
Bolts, nuts, wnshars, arid rivftt.s .
Cutlery (not including silver and
plated cutlery) and edge tools...........
Forgings, irori arid ptflel _________ _____
Plumbers* supplies
....................... .
Tin cans and other tinware.......... .
Tools (not including edge tools, ma
chine tools, files, or saws)...................
Wirework...............................................
T*nmViai*_
JJUHl
UW
Leather...................................................
Boots and shoes.....................................
Paper and printing................................
Paper and p u lp ....................................
Paper boxes......................... .................
Printing—
Book and job___________________
Newspapers and periodicals______
Chemicals and allied products.............
Chemicals..............................................
Fertilizers...................... ........................
Petroleum refining................................
Cottonseed oil, case, and meal_______
Druggists’ preparations........................
Explosives__________ ______________
Paints and varnishes.............................
Rayon__ __________________________
Soap_______________________________
Stone, day, and glass products............
Cement.'................................................
Brick, tile, and terra cotta....................
Pottery..................................................
Glass.......................................................
Marble, granite, slate and other stone
products..............................................
Nonferrous metals and their products.
Stamped and enameled ware.._______
Brass, bronze, and copper products__
Aluminum manufactures____________
Clocks, time recording devices, and
clock movements_______ __________
Gas and electric fixtures, lamps, lan
terns, and reflectors.._____________
Plated ware________________________
Smelting and refining—copper, lead,
and zinc—. .........................................
Jewelry..................................................
l Less than one-half of 1 per cent.
1,543
321
253
0)
600
369
m
84
140
69
36
23
16
309
15
81
2
53
45
90
62
67
67
86
52
78
4
2
9
35
31
25
14
48
91
93
96
98
94
74
77
86
82
88
40
60
53
100
59
40
47
87
93
90
0)
83
83
77
82
79
702
14
33
53
78
21
24
6
64
68
69
96
63
76
124
5
21
71
10
62
73
24
95
72
56
68
79
187
9
25
66
77
69
489
1
29
18
24
70
82
74
80
77
78
83
72
70
76
234
89
76
148
2
13
72
20
30
70
20
30
70
77
67
45
45
29
29
71
71
83
82
77
74
38
39
56
85
82
75
60
16
119
6
1
70
12
T a b l e 4.—PROPO RTION OF FULL T IM E W O R K E D IN M A N U FA C TU RIN G INDUSTRIES
B Y ESTABLISHM ENTS R E PO RTIN G IN N O V E M BE R , 1932—Continued
Establishments
reporting
Per cent of estab- Average per cent of
l i s h m e n t s in
full
time
re
which employees
ported by—
worked—
Industry
Total
number
Per cent
idle
Full
time
Part
time
All oper Estab
ating lishments
operating
lishments part time
T obacco m an u factu res...........................
Chewing and smoking tobacco and
snuff....................................................
Cigars and cigarettes.............................
203
73
31
172
72
74
T ransportation equ ipm en t...................
Automobiles..........................................
Aircraft...................................................
Cars, electric and steam railroad..........
Locomotives..........................................
Shipbuilding..........................................
289
155
26
30
9
73
7
82
68
73
84
R ubber products......................................
Rubber tires and inner tubes...............
Rubber boots and shoes........................
Rubber goods,other than boots, shoes,
tires, and inner tubes........................
127
31
8
74
67
M achinery, n o t includ ing transpor
tation equ ipm en t..................................
Agricultural implements.......................
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and
supplies...............................................
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water
wheels
Cash registers, adding machines, and
calculating machines.........................
Foundry and machine-shop products..
Machine tools...............
Textile machinery and
^writers and suppl
86
1,240
56
77
6$
70
85
186
71
63
67
36
719
114
29
12
26
70
63
68
73
63
82
R ailroad repair sh ops.............. .
Electric-railroad repair shops
Steam-railroad repair shops..
77?
348
429
8&
86
80
T otal, 89 industries_____
13,371
44
54
85
72
13
Employment in Nonmanufacturing Industries in November,
1932
I N TH E following table are presented employment and pay-roll
data for 14 groups of nonmanufacturing industries, the totals of
which also appear in the summary table of employment and pay-roll
totals.
T able 1.—COM PARISON OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D EARN INGS IN NON M A N U FA C T U B -
IN G ESTABLISHM ENTS IN OCTOBER A N D N O V E M B E R , 1932, A N D N OV E M BE R , 1931
Industrial group
Anthracite mining____________
Bituminous coal mining............
Metalliferous mining__________
Quarrying and nonmetallic
mining ____ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Crude petroleum producing___
Telephone and telegraph...........
Power and light______________
Electric railroad and motor-bus
operation and maintenance...
Wholesale trade..........................
Retail trade.................................
Hotels..........................................
Canning and preserving............
Laundries____________________
Dying and cleaning....................
Employment
Pay-roll totals
Estab
lish
Per cent of
Per cent of
ments
change
change
report
ing in
both
Amount of
Octo Number
No
No
on pay Octo vem
pay roll Octo vem
ber
(1 week) ber
roll
No
and
to
ber,
ber,
ber
to
No vember, No 1931, Novem
No
1931,
1932
vem
vem to No ber, 1932 vem to No
ber,
ber, vem
ber, vem
1932
ber,
ber,
1932
1932
1932
1932
Index num*
bers, No
vember, 1932
(average
1929»100)
Em Pay
ploy roll
ment totals
160
1,193
281
85,685
175,585
22,171
- 1 .9 -2 4 .9 $2,027,786 -2 3.6 -3 5.8
+ 3.5 -1 4 .4 2,548,321
+ .7 -3 0 .4
424,270 + 4.3 -4 6.7
+ 4.7 -3 9.6
62.7
69.4
31.9
51.0
38.0
18.7
617
276
8,281
3,535
22,240
22,848
267,789
212,984
- 5 .8 -1 6.7
- . 6 - 1 .9
- . 9 - 9 .6
-1 .1 -1 3 .4
-3 7.4
-1 8.5
-1 7.2
-2 1.5
49.4
56.5
75.5
79.1
27.1
42.4
74.3
73.2
3,652,352
+ .3 -2 3 .8
- . 9 -2 0.6
1,925,843
- . 3 -2 1 .7
6,812,561
1,815,326 -1 .9 -2 5 .4
461,811 -3 3 .7 -2 8.5
889.741 - 3 .3 -2 5.1
193,279 -1 1.1 - 3 a 0
71.8
77.6
81.7
74.3
50.5
76.2
78.0
60.7
63.3
66.9
57.5
34.4
59.1
52.3
498
2,757
14,345
2,427
933
994
368
- . 7 -1 1 .9
132,927
- . 3 - 7 .7
71,859
345,693
+ .5 -10.1
132,858 - 1 .5 -1 2.5
39,132 -3 7 .7 -1 6.9
58,583 - 1 .7 -1 1.6
11,416 - 5 .2 -1 3.4
330,071 -1 0 .0
-.2
657,513
7,064,043 - 1 .9
6,179,336 - 1 .6
Indexes of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals for Nonmanufacturing Industries
I n d e x numbers of employment and pay-roll totals for 14 nonmanu
facturing industries are presented in the following table. The in
dex numbers show the variation in employment and pay rolls in these
groups, by months, from January, 1929, to November, 1932, with the
exception of the laundries and the dyeing and cleaning^ groups, for
which information over the entire period is not available. The
bureau recently secured data concerning employment and pay rolls
lor the index base year 1929 from establishments in the laundries
and the dyeing and cleaning groups, and has computed index num
bers for these two groups, which now appear in this tabulation. The
monthly collection of trend-of-employment statistics in these two
groups did not begin until the later months of 1930 and, therefore,
indexes for each month of the entire period are not available.
14
OP E M PL O Y M E N T AN D P A Y ROLLS FOR NONMANUFACTURING
INDUSTRIES, JAN U ARY TO D E C E M B E R , 1929, 1930, A N D 1931, A N D JA N U A R Y TO
N O V E M BE R , 1932
[12-month average, 1929=100]
t a b l e 3 . — IN D E XE S
Anthracite mining
Month
Bituminous coal mining
Pay rolls
Employment
Employment
Pay rolls
1929 1930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932
January...............
February_______
March..................
April....................
M ay.....................
June.....................
July.....................
August.................
September______
October................
November...........
December............
105.7 102.1
106.0 106.9
98.0 82.6
100.7 84.1
103.7 93.8
92.9 90.8
83.2 91.6
91.1 80.2
101.9 93.8
106.1 99.0
104.0 97.2
107.1 99.1
90.6 76.2 100.7 105.8 89.3 61.5 106.4 102.5
89.5 71.2 122.1 121.5 101.9 57.3 107.7 102.4
82.0 73.7 90.8 78.5 71.3 61.2 106.8 98.6
85.2 70.1 88.3 75.0 75.2 72.0 100.2 94.4
80.3 66.9 99.0 98.8 76.1 58.0 96.6 90.4
76.1 53.0 80.7 94.3 66.7 37.4 94.7 88.4
65.1 44.5 64.7 84.0 53.7 34.5 94.1 88.0
67.3 49.2 78.4 78.8 56.4 41.4 95.7 89.2
80.0 55.8 103.8 91.6 64.9 47.0 97.2 90.5
86.8 63.9 133.9 117.2 91.1 66.7 98.8 91.8
83.5 62.7 100.5 98.0 79.5 51.0 101.0 92.5
79.8 ....... 137.2 100.0 78.4 ....... 101.4 92.5
93.9
91.5
88.8
85.9
82.4
78.4
76.4
77.0
80.4
81.3
81.1
81.2
80.8 106.1 101.4
77.4 116.6 102.1
75.2 108.6 86.4
65.5 89.2 81.7
62.6 91.9 77.5
60.5 90.0 75.6
58.6 85.6 68.9
59.4 92.8 71.1
62.4 98.6 74.9
67.0 106.8 79.4
69.4 106.0 79.1
108.2 77.7
73.3
68.3
65.2
58.6
54.4
52.4
50.4
50.6
53.6
56.2
54.6
52.3
47.0
47.0
46.8
33.9
30.7
27.3
24.4
26.4
30.2
37.8
38.0
Average___ 100.0 93.4 80.5 162.5 100.0 95.3 75.4 153.5 100.0 93.4 83.2 167.2 100.0 81.3 57.5 , 35.4
Metalliferous mining
January...............
February_______
March__________
April___________
M ay............ ........
June.....................
July.....................
August.................
September...........
October................
November...........
December............
93.1
94.6
97.0
100.6
100.8
103.8
101.5
103.2
102.1
101.9
103.0
98.5
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 88.0
46.9 91.8
45.0 99.1
43.3 104.6
38.3 104.6
32.2 105.6
29.5 99.0
28.6 100.1
29.3 102.0
30.5 103.1
31.9 102.2
99.7
92.7
92.5
90.8
88.3
85.6
81.6
71.9
71.0
69.9
68.6
63.4
59.9
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
55.0
54.6
52.8
51.4
49.3
46.1
41.3
40.2
40.0
37.4
35.1
34.3
29.7 91.6
27.8 91.9
26.5 96.0
25.0 99.6
23.8 104.1
20.1 106.6
16.9 104.7
16.5 106.7
17.0 106.6
18.0 103.6
18.7 98.6
90.1
79.6
79.8
83.0
87.4
90.8
90.3
89.9
89.3
87.7
84.7
78.3
70.2
64.4 48.9 85.9
66.6 47.4 88.9
70.0 46.0 95.0
76.1 48.6 100.5
75.0 50.6 107.1
72.3 49.5 110.5
71.0 49.5 104.7
68.9 51.1 110.3
66.6 52.4 109.8
64.5 52.4 105.8
59.3 49.4 96.0
53.9 ....... 85.4
71.9
73.5
80.0
85.4
90.2
90.9
85.5
85.8
82.5
79.3
66.8
59.9
50.4 30.2
54.4 29.6
58.2 28.7
62.6 30.0
62.3 32.3
60.1 30.0
57.3 29.1
55.1 29.7
51.2 30.5
48.7 30.1
43.3 27.1
36.9 .......
Average— 100.0 83.2 59.1 136.8 100.0 78.0 44.8 121.8 100.0 84.3 67.4 149.6 100.0 79.3 53.4 129.8
Crude petroleum producing
January...............
February_______
March..................
April....................
M ay.....................
June___________
July____________
August_________
September...........
October................
November______
December............
90.0
90.4
89.6
97.6
93.9
104.1
106.0
113.2
108.9
107.9
101.1
97.0
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 93.1
54.4 99.0
51.4 97.4
54.9 96.7
54.5 92.4
54.2 99.4
55.4 100.7
57.4 104.7
56.2 110.7
56.8 100.1
56.5 103.8
102.1
94.0
88.6
91.3
86.6
85.4
87.1
88.5
86.0
84.0
82.6
80.0
77.2
Telephone and telegraph
71.5 46.5 94.3 101.6
70.0 46.9 95.3 100.2
73.2 43.2 96.5 99.4
66.3 44.5 97.8 98.9
64.7 47.1 100.4 99.7
62.7 44.8 101.5 99.8
59.2 44.6 102.6 100.0
56.3 42.9 103.7 98.8
55.2 41.9 102.5 96.8
54.4 42.5 101.9 94.5
52.0 42.4 101.9 93.0
54.9 ....... 101.8 91.6
90.5 83.0 94.5 105.1
89.2 82.0 93.0 101.9
88.6 81.7 98.7 105.8
88.1 81.2 98.3 103.4
87.4 80.6 99.4 103.2
86.9 79.9 100.0 103.4
86.6 79.1 104.1 106.6
85.9 78.1 101.8 102.5
85.0 77.4 100.4 102.2
84.1 76.2 105.1 100.9
83.5 75.5 101.2 97.9
83.1 ....... 103.9 101.3
96.3
94.8
97.9
95.0
94.1
95.0
93.3
92.3
92.1
91.6
89.7
92.7
89.1
89.6
88.2
83.4
82.8
82.1
79.6
79.1
75.9
75.7
74.3
Average___ 100.0 87.4 65.7 155.1 100.0 85.9 61.7 144.3 100.0 97.9 86.6 179.5 100.0 102.9 93.7 181.8
Power and light
January...............
February--.........
March .................
April....................
M ay.....................
June.....................
July.....................
August.................
September...........
October................
November...........
December______
92.9 99.6
92.6 98.8
92.8 99.7
95.9 100.7
98.4 103.4
100.7 104.6
103.2 105.9
105.4 106.4
105.5 105.2
105.7 104.8
104.7 103.4
102.5 103.2
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation
and maintenance *
99.2 89.3 91.7 99.7 98; 6 88.4 99.7
97.8 87.2 91.8 100.4 99.7 86.0 99.1
96.7 85.5 94.5 102.1 102.4 85.4 97.0
97.1 84.8 95.5 102.6 97.6 82.4 98.5
97.6 84.0 98.1 104.5 98.7 84.2 100.4
97.2 83.2 100.4 107.8 98.3 80.5 101.2
96.7 82.3 102.3 106.7 97.4 78.7 102.2
95.9 81.5 103.8 106.6 96.2 76.7 102.2
94.7 81.0 106.6 106.1 94.3 74.7 101.4
92.7 79.9 106.0 105.6 93.2 74.4 100.5
91.3 79.1 104.1 103.7 93.3 73.2 99.4
90.3 -- --- 105.8 106.3 91.2 ....... 98.3
97.1
95.1
94.4
95.2
95.2
94.8
95.3
92.9
91.8
91.0
89.3
88.8
86.9 79.5 98.7
86.6 78.9 97.6
86.4 77.6 98.0
86.8 78.0 99.5
85.9 76.9 101.0
85.3 76.5 101.7
85.6 75.6 101.9
84.8 74.1 102.0
84.0 73.5 101.5
82.7 72.3 100.0
81.5 71.8 98.4
79.9 -- --- 99.8
97.8
95.7
95.4
97.1
96.0
97.0
95.6
92.1
90.5
88.9
87.7
88.6
85.6
87.1
88.1
86.6
85.1
84.8
83.3
81.9
81.2
79.0
79.7
77.8
74.3
73.6
72.4
70.7
71.2
69.2
65.3
62.8
61.5
60.5
60.7
Average___ 100.0 103.0 95.6 183.4 100.0 104.3 96.7 180.4 100.0 93.4 84.7 75*9 100.0 93.5 83.4 16775
>Average for 11 months.
* Not including electric-railroad car building and repairing; see transportation equipment and railroad
repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries, Table 1.
15
IN D E XE S OF E M PL O Y M E N T A N D PAY ROLLS FOR NONM AN UFACTURIN G
INDUSTRIES, JANUARY TO D E C E M B E R , 1929, 1930, AN D 1931, A N D JAN UARY TO
NOVEM BER, 1932—-Continued
T a b le
Wholesale trade
Month
Employment
Retail trade
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
1929 i930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932 1929 1930 1931 1932
January............
February.............
March.................
April____ ______
M ay.....................
J u n e .-...............
July......................
A ugust...............
Septem ber...,. „
October...............
November...........
December............
97.7 100.0
96.9 98.5
97.3 97.7
97.9 97.3
99.0 96.8
99.2 96.5
100.4 96.0
101.3 95.0
101.9 94.8
102.9 94.2
102.9 92.6
102.6 92.0
89.5
88.2
87.4
87.4
87.1
87.1
86.8
86.5
86.1
85.2
84.1
83.7
81.8 96.7 100.0
80.9 96.4 98.3
79.8 98.5 99.7
78.9 97.8 97.9
77.9 99.0 97.4
77.0 98.6 98.6
76.6 100.5 96.0
76.4 100.0 93.6
77.1 103.3 93.6
77.8 102.7 92.9
77.6 101.9 91.0
....... 104.7 91.3
87.5
88.4
89.1
85.2
84.7
84.1
83.3
82.1
81.4
79.9
79.7
77.8
74.1 99.2 98.9
72.5 94.6 94.4
71.3 96.2 93.9
68.9 95.5 97.3
69.7 97.3 96.7
66.2 97.4 93.9
64.7 93.6 89.0
63.2 93.6 85.6
63.1 97.6 92.0
63.9 101.7 95.5
63.3 106.7 98.4
126.2 115.1
90.0 84.3 99.0 99.7
87* 1 80.5 94.5 96.0
87.8 81.4 96.1 95.5
90.1 81.6 96.0 97.5
89.9 80.9 97.1 97.3
89.1 79.4 98.6 96.8
83.9 74.6 95.9 91.7
81.8 72.6 95.2 87.6
86.6 77.8 99.2 92.4
89.8 81.3 102.6 95.1
90.9 83.7 105.2 96.8
106.2 ....... 120.6 107.7
89.4
86.7
87.5
88.3
88.0
87.6
83.3
80.3
83.5
84.6
85.4
94.1
78.0
73.7
73.4
72.7
71.1
68.2
63.3
60.7
64.6
67.1
66.9
------
Average___ 100.0 96.0 86.6 178.3 100.0 95.9 83.6 167.4 100.0 95.9 89.4 179.6 100.0 96.2 86.6 169.1
Hotels
January...............
February.............
March..................
A p ril...................
M ay.....................
June.....................
J u ly ...................
A ugust...............
September.........
Octobcr................
November--------December............
97.1 100.4
99.8 102.4
100.9 102.4
99.7 100.1
98.1 98.0
99.3 98.0
101.1 101.3
102.6 101.5
102.8 100.1
100.6 97.5
100.0 95.2
97.7 93.5
95.0 83.2 98.5 100.3
96.8 84.3 102.0 103.8
96.8 84.0 103.4 104.4
95.9 82.7 100.6 100.3
92.5 80.1 98.9 98.4
91.6 78.0 98.7 98.1
93.3 78.4 99.8 99.8
92.8 77.6 99.4 98.6
90.6 77.0 100.2 97.1
87.4 75.4 100.2 95.5
84.9 74.3 99.8 93.6
83.1 ....... 98.9 91.5
Canning and preserving
91.0 73.9 50.8 46.1 48.9 35.0 57.3 50.3 46.1 31.8
93.7 73.9 48.9 45.7 48.3 37.1 59.2 51.5 48.6 32.7
93.4 72.4 49.4 49.7 53.0 36.3 54.9 50.8 50.3 31.9
899 69.6 90.6 74.8 59.6 47.0 9S.9 72.6 57.1 37.9
87.7 67.0 62.0 65.7 56.0 40.5 71.2 66.9 56.0 36.0
85.4 63.8 76.6 83.0 70.6 55,5 71.9 81.5 58.6 40.5
85.2 61.8 126.8 126.3 102.2 73.0 109.2 112.7 74.2 47.5
83.8 59.6 184.« 185.7 142.9 99.0 180.1 172.0 104.7 65.6
81.9 59.1 210.1 246.6 180.1 125.3 207.9 214.8 129.4 75.1
79.7 58.6 U3.3 164.7 108.1 81.1 134.5 140.0 77.6 51.8
77.1 57.5 95.1 96.7 60.8 50.5 91.6 82.9 48.1 34.4
75.4 ------ 61.3 61.6 40.7 ------ 63.4 57.4 36.9 .......
Average— 100.0 99.2 91.7 179.5 100.0 98.5 85.4 165.2 100.0 103.9 SO. 9 161.8 100.0 96.1 65.6 144.1
Laundries
January ______
February ______
March__________
April .................
May
. ______
June___________
Julv ...................
Alienist_________
September___ . . .
October________
November _____
December_______
90.5
90.0
89.5
90.5
90.3
91.0
91.8
90.2
89.3
88.1
86.2
85.3
84.7
82.9
82.0
82.0
81.4
81.0
80.3
78.9
78.6
77.5
76.2
Dyeing and cleaning
86.6
85.6
85.6
86.8
86.5
87.1
87.4
84.6
84.1
81.8
78.9
77.4
76.4
73.3
71.6
71.4
70.6
68.6
66.3
63.9
62.9
61.2
59.1
88.9
87.4
88.0
95.7
96.7
99.0
93. C
93.5
95.3
94.2
90.1
84.9
82.1
80.5
80.6
83.3
84.5
85.1
82.4
79.5
83.3
82.3
78.0
77.7
75.1
75.6
86.3
86.6
89.1
86.2
80.0
82.6
81.4
74.7
67.9
65.8
62.2
61.7
65.9
67.3
65.8
60.0
56.3
61.0
58.8
52.3
Average— 100.0 . . . . . 89.4 180.5 100.0 ....... 84.4 167.8 100.0 ....... 92.7 182.0 100.0 ....... 80.3 161.6
1 Average for 11 months.
Average Man-Hours Worked and Average Hourly Earnings
I N TH E following tables the bureau presents the first tabulation of
man-hours worked per week and average hourly earnings compiled
from data supplied by establishments furnishing monthly employ
ment information.
These tabulations are based on reports supplied by identical estab
lishments in October and November, 1932, in 15 of the 17 industrial
groups included in the bureau’s monthly employment survey. Manhour data for the building construction group and for the insurance,
real estate, banking, and brokerage group are not available.
151945— 32------ 3
16
The number of establishments supplying man-hour data in these
15 industrial groups represent approximately 50 per cent of the estab
lishments in these groups supplying monthly employment data.
These compilations are based on reports supplying actual manhours 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 man-hours and average hourly earnings
shown for the combined total are weighted averages, wherein the
average man-hours and average hourly earnmgs in each industrial
group are multiplied bv the total number of employees in the group in
the current month and the sum of these products divided by the total
number of employees in the combined 15 industrial groups.
In presenting information for the separate manufacturing industries,
shown in Table 2, data are published for only those industries in
which the available man-hour information covers 20 per cent or
more of the total number of employees in the industry at the present
time. The average man-hours ana hourly earnings for the combined
89 manufacturing industries have been weighted in the same manner
as the averages for all industrial groups combined, Table 1.
Per capita weekly earnings, computed by multiplying the average
man-hours worked per week by the average hourly earnings shown m
the following table, are not identical to the per capita weekly earnings
appearing elsewhere in this trend-of-employment compilation. As
already noted, the basic information upon which these average
weekly man-hours and average hourly earnings are computed repre
sents approximately 50 per cent of the establishments reporting in
these groups while the bureau’s published per capita earnings for
each of the separate manufacturing industries and 17 industrial
groups are obtained by dividing the total weekly earnings in all
establishments reporting by the total number of employees in those
establishments, which includes both full-time and part-time workers.
1.—AVERAG E HOURS W O RKED PER W EE K PER E M PLOYEE A N D A V E RAG E
H OU RLY EARNINGS IN 15 IN DU STRIA L GROUPS, OCTOBER A N D NOV E M BE R , 1932
T a b le
A verage hours per
week
Average hourly
earnings
I rulustrml group
October, Novem October, Novem
1932
ber, 1932
1932
ber, 1932
Hours
Manufacturing................................................................................
Anthracite mining........................ .................................................
Bituminous coal mining................................... .............................
Metalliferous mining.............................. ........................................
Quarrying and nonmetnlli.; mining....... ............................. ..........
Crude petroleum producing--.......................................................
Telephone and telegraph..............................................................
Power and light........................................................ ....................
Elect rio-railroad and motor-bus operation and maintenance,
exclusive of car shops.......................................... ........................
Wholesale trade........................................ - ....................................
Retail trade.................................................... .............. ..................
Hotels...... ........................................................................................
Canning and preserving................................................................
Laundries ____
__________ ____ __________ _____________
Dyeing and cleaning................................ ............................... ...... 1
Total......................................................................................
il
39.5
36.2
30.8
40.2
38.7
45.9
39.1
43.9
Hours
38.4
28.9
29.9
40.2
36.0
47.4
38.5
43.7
Cents
Cents
43.7
82.7
47.8
48.1
40.9
63.3
69.1
65.5
43.5
81.9
48.2
48.0
41.6
61.7
69.4
65.3
45.1
47. I
44.0
51. 6
40.5
42. C
46.7
45.4
47.0
44.5
51.3
39.3
42.3
44.6
59.3
55.3
43.1
25.3
30.0
35.4
39.1
59.5
55.1
42.3
25.3
32.7
35. 2
37.7
41.9
41.4
46.3
46.0
17
T a b l e 2 .— AVERAG E HOURS W O R K E D PE R W E E K PE R E M PLOYEE AND AVERAG E
HOU RLY EARNINGS, IN SELECTED M A N U FA C TU RIN G INDUSTRIES, OCTOBER
AND N O VEM BER, 1932
I
Average hours per
Average hourly
earnings
Industry
October, Novem October, Novem
1932
ber, 1932
1932
ber, 1932
Food and kindred products:
Slaughtering and meat packing..............................................
Confectionery...................................... ....................................
Ice cream................................ .................................................
Flour......... ...................... ........................................................
Baking— ..................................................................................
Sugar refining, cane....................................................... „........
Beet sugar.............. - ................................................................
Beverages....... ..........................................................................
Textiles and their products:
Cotton goods............................................................................
Hosiery and knit goods............. ..............................................
Silk goods.................... .................... ................................ .......
Woolen and worsted goods......................................................
Carpets and rugs.......... ......................... ...................... .........
Dyeing and finishing textiles....... ..........................................
Cotton small wares......... ................... ....................................
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery:
Iron and steel............ - ................................................... .........
Cast-iron pipe..................... ........... .........................................
Structural and ornamental ironwork......................................
Hardware.................................................................................
Steam fittings and steam and hot-water heating apparatus.
Stoves...................................... ............................... ................
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets.............................. ..............
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge
tools..................................... - ................................................
Forgings, iron and steel................... ..................... ......... ........
Plumbers’ supplies.................... -...........................................
Tin cans and other tinware.....................................................
Tools (not inducing edge tools, machine tools, files, or saws).
Lumber and allied products:
Lumber—
Sawmills------- ------------------------------------ _------------ Millwork.............. ................... ....................................
Furniture.............................................. ..........- ..................
Leather and its manufactures:
Leather......................... ......... ............................................
Paper:
Paper and pulp................................ ..................................
Paper boxes............ ......... ...................................................
Printing—
Book and job............................. ................. ...... ..........
Newspapers and periodicals........................................
Chemicals and allied products:
Chemicals................................................... ........................
Fertilizers------- --------- --------------------- --------- -------------Petroleum refining..................................... ........................
Cottonseed oil. cake, and meal....................................—
Druggists’ preparations......................................................
Explosives................. .................................................... .
Paints and varnishes..... ........- ....................................... .
Rayon..................................................................................
Soap........................ - .............. - --------- -------------------------Stone, clay, and glass products:
Cement............................... - ............................... ..............
Brick, tile, and terra cotta............................................... .
Pottery................ ................................................................
Glass............. ....................................... ..............................
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone products................
Nonferrous metals and their products:
Stamped and enameled ware.............................................
Brass, bronze, and copper products. .............. .................
Clocks, time-recording devices, and clock movements.......
Plated ware.........................................................................
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc------ -------Jewelry......... ...................... ............................. ...... .........
Tobacco manufactures:
Chewing and smoki ng tobacco and snuff.
Cigars and cigarettes....... ......... ............................... .........
Transportation equipment:
Automobiles............................................................... ........
Aircraft....... - .....................................................- ...... - ........
Cars, electric and steam railroad-................... ..................
Locomotives....... ......... ......................................................
Shipbuilding....... ................................................ ..............
Hours
46.7
43.6
52.0
50.0
47.3
53.1
41.9
39.9
Hours
44.6
40.8
49.8
47.6
46.1
47.5
50.5
38.2
Cents
44.2
33.6
51.4
43.6
43.7
41.5
37.0
59.1
Cents
44.5
33.6
50.9
43.4
43.6
45.1
36.7
60.6
48.0
47.9
43.5
46.0
36.3
47.9
42.9
46.7
47.1
40.4
43.6
33.7
44.6
40.7
22.3
32.4
31.3
34.9
41.5
39.4
36.3
22.3
32.1
31.5
34.6
41.1
39.3
35.7
26.6
28.3
33.1
29.8
34.6
39.3
31.9
25.9
26.7
33.4
28.7
32.2
35.2
33.5
48.6
43.7
49.9
44.6
50.3
47.7
44.5
48.9
43.6
50.2
45.9
50.7
46.7
44.3
36.9
29.9
33.1
43.9
33.5
35.6
32.3
33.5
40.1
32.6
52.4
47.1
49.6
39.7
46.8
51.3
46.7
49.8
40.3
47.2
39.3
35.6
41.2
38.6
34.1
36.3
29.6
37.7
34.0
29.8
40.3
34.6
42.9
42.6
42.0
40.8
42.5
44.6
41.0
42.9
43.3
41.1
43.4
40.4
37.8
41.9
37.2
42.2
66.5
76.5
66.4
75.9
41.7
42.1
39.5
59.7
42.4
35.7
40.8
46.2
46.2
41.2
41.5
39.7
60.2
40.7
37.4
40.3
45.6
42.3
52.7
30.0
63.5
IS. 3
44.5
57.4
53.1
37.7
41.6
52.5
30.6
63.5
19.2
44.7
56.8
52.8
37.9
41.6
39.5
32.8
40.6
36.3
33.1
39.0
30.2
39.6
37.2
28.4
41.7
34.9
40.5
45.4
60.4
41.1
34.6
39.9
45.6
60.9
44.0
34.2
39.3
41.0
34.3
38.8
39.7
33.3
39.8
33.1
32.4
34.3
37.9
47.8
45.1
±9.4
47.2
50.5
38.9
46.6
43.2
49.1
48.6
50.9
40.7
40.0
39.4
39.0
31.8
30.5
32.8
30.9
27.8
42.6
34.9
26.0
32.0
32.2
44.9
33.6
27.3
29.7
64.5
73.9
47.4
63.1
62.6
60.5
69.0
47.6
57.3
63. *2
18
T a b l e 2.—A VERAG E HOURS W O R K E D PE R W E E K P E R E M PLO Y E E AN D AVE R AG E
H OU RLY EARN INGS, IN SE LECTED M A N U FA C TU RIN G INDU STRIES, OCTOBER
AND NOVEM BER, 1932—Continued
Average hours per
week
Average hourly
earnings
Industry
October, Novem October, Novem
1932
ber, 1932
1932
ber, 1932
Rubber products:
Rubber tires and inn^r tubes____________________________
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner
tubes_______________________________________________
Machinery, not including transportation equipment:
Agricultural implements________________________________
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies____________
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels____________
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines...
Foundry and machine-shop products____________________
Machine tools
«.
. . . . . .
Textile machinery and parts____________________________
Typewriters and supplies_______________________________
Radio_________________________________________________
Railroad repair shops:
Electric railroad___________ ____________________________
Steam railroad_________________________________________
Hours
30.5
Hours
29.3
Cents
58.5
Cents
58.5
41.7
38.0
45.2
44.6
31.5
30.3
32.6
35.6
29.9
30.1
29.2
27.3
42.5
29.9
31.2
32.8
34.4
29.1
31.3
29.1
28.9
37.2
48.3
57.9
56.2
66.6
52.8
57.9
58.7
49.7
43.6
48.7
57.4
53.6
67.1
53.2
57.0
58.8
48.1
44.1
42.0
34.6
42.9
35.9
58.1
62.2
58.0
62.8
Employment in Building Construction in November, 1932
HERE was a decrease of 7.8 per cent in employment in the
building construction industry in November, 1932, as compared
with October, 1932, and pay-roll totals decreased 9.7 per cent over the
month interval.
The per cents of change of employment and pay-roll totals in
November, 1932, as compared with October, 1932, are based on
returns made by 10,268 firms employing, in November, 78,979 workers
in the various trades in the building construction industry. These
reports cover building operations in various localities in 34 States and
the District of Columbia.
T
COM PARISON OF EM PLO YM E N T. AN D T O T A L P A Y R O LL IN TH E BU ILDING CON
STRU C TIO N IN D U STRY IN ID E N T IC A L FIRM S, OCTOBER A N D NOV E M BE R , 1932
Locality
Alabama: Birmingham....................
California:
Los Angeles 1...............................
San Francisco-Oakland 1...........
Other reporting localities1.........
Colorado: Denver.............................
Connecticut:
Bridgeport. ................................
Hartford......................................
New Haven.................................
Delaware: Wilmington.....................
District of Columbia.........................
Florida:
Jacksonville.................................
Miami.........................................
Georgia: Atlanta...............................
Illinois:
Chicago 1.....................................
Other reporting localities 1.........
Amount'of pay roll
Num Number on pay roll
ber of
Per cent
Percent
firms
report Oct. 15 Nov. 15 of change Oct. 15 Nov. 15 of change
ing
70
444
493
+11.0
$6,239
$7,043
+12.9
23
31
22
194
655
803
427
758
643
917
422
714
-1 .8
+14.2
-1 .2
-5 .8
13,760
17,094
9,959
16,596
12,792
18,511
9,728
14,494
-7 .0
+8.3
- 2 .3
-1 2.7
127
204
177
120
537
575
1,051
1,154
1,291
7,147
560
978
1,066
1,172
7,696
-2 .6
-6 .9
-7 .6
-9 .2
+7.7
12,864
27,028
31,599
26,897
200,361
11,839
22,771
25,817
22,561
216,209
- 8 .0
-1 5.8
-18.3
-16.1
+7.9
51
77
127
287
592
1,488
275
624
1,223
-4 .2
+5.4
-1 7.8
4,073
12,080
22,140
4,597
11,531
19,604
+12.9
-4 .5
-11.5
137
68
1,377
626
1,211
565
-12.1
-9 .7
39,972
13,491
i
35,401 |
11,132 |
- H .4
-1 7.5
i Data supplied by cooperating St£ite burea US.
19
COM PARISON OP E M P L O Y M E N T A N D T O T A L P A Y R O LL IN TH E BUILDING CON
STRUCTION IN D U STRY IN ID E N T IC A L FIRM S, OCTOBER A N D N OVEM BER, 1932
Locality
Evansville.................................
Fort Wayne...............................
Indianapolis-......... - ...................
South Bend............................... .
Iowa: Des Moines........................... .
Kansas: W ichita............................
Kentucky: Louisville......................
Louisiana: New Orleans................. .
Maine: Portland..................... ........
Maryland: Baltimore1. . . ............ .
Massachusetts: All reporting local
ities i..............................................
Michigan:
Detroit.......................................
Flint...........................................
Grand Rapids........................... .
Minnesota:
Duluth........................................
Minneapolis...............................
St. Paul.....................................
Missouri:
Kansas C ity 2............................
St. Louis....................................
Nebraska: Omaha...........................
New York:
New York C ity »......................
Other reporting localities1.......
North Carolina: Charlotte............. .
Ohio:
Akron____ ________ ______ ____
Cincinnati *...............................
Cleveland.................................
Dayton......................................
Youngstown..............................
Oklahoma7
Oklahoma City.........................
Tulsa..........................................
Oregon: Portland............................ .
Pennsylvania:*
Erie area1.................................. .
Philadelphia area1...... ..............
Pittsburgh area1........................
Reading-Lebanon area1........... .
Scranton area1.......................... .
Other reporting areas i............. .
Rhode Island: Providence............. .
Tennessee:
Chattanooga.............................. .
Knoxville....................................
Memphis................................... .
Nashville— ......... ...... ......... .
Texas:
Dallas____ . . . __ _____________
El Paso...................................... .
Houston......................................
San Antonio........ .................... .
Utah: Salt Lake C it y ................... .
Virginia:
N orfolk-Portsmouth..................
Richmond...................................
Washington:
Seattle.......... ..............................
Spokane......................................
Tacoma.......................................
West Virginia: Wheeling.................
Wisconsin: All reporting localities1
Total, all localities..................
Amount of pay roll
Num Number on pay roll
ber of
Percent
Per cent
firms
of change
of change
report
Oct. 15 N ov. 15
Oct. 15 Nov. 15
ing
40
98
166
40
107
68
129
130
104
116
248
500
1,008
533
886
1,478
561
1,146
200
339
773
168
878
446
770
1,272
517
900
$5,049
9,924
21,872
3,482
12,375
18,098
13,272
20,549
$3,500
5,707
16,764
3,143
14,654
9,135
13,122
20,868
10,828
15,611
-3 0.7
-4 2.5
-2 3 .4
-9 .7
-4 0 .9
-2 6 .2
-2 7 .5
-2 1.7
-1 8.4
-2 4 .0
740
6,007
5,668
-5 .6
142,208
-1 1 .7
427
44
105
3,122
194
641
2,793
153
507
-1 0.5
-2 1.1
-2 0 .9
70,838
3,265
13,036
61,870
2,435
9,719
-1 2.7
-2 5 .4
-2 5.4
56
231
146
321
1,804
856
1,244
725
+4.0
-3 1 .0
-1 5.3
6,830
40,207
21,097
25,773
17,447
- 6 .8
-3 5 .9
-1 7.3
253
445
136
1,452
2,495
701
1,409
2,300
-3 .0
-7 .8
-9 .7
34,910
67,164
16,402
29,187
60,863
13,103
-1 6 .4
-9 .4
-2 0.1
352
172
10,440
4,161
188
9,357
4,023
190
-1 0.4
-3 .3
+1.1
368,905
118,976
2,316
349,751
119,892
2,615
- 5 .2
+ .8
+12.9
312
2,618
2,557
-4 .3
-1 .9
-8 .6
-2 .7
-4 .4
6,476
67,784
74,493
8,295
5,464
4,795
61,158
63,900
7,036
5,527
- 9 .8
—14.2
-1 5 .2
+1.2
79
477
462
117
2,798
372
316
318
133
911
162
708
+2.5
+21.8
-2 2.3
5,535
2,454
19,262
4,836
2,478
14,295
-1 2.6
+1.0
-2 5 .8
48
145
3,978
1,557
335
184
2,299
1,478
114
3,676
1,659
279
184
2,169
1,338
-2 1 /4
-7 .6
+6.6
-1 6 .7
(«)
- 5 .7
- 9 .5
82,760
42,434
6,927
3,939
48,714
36,531
2,105
77,917
44,462
4,774
3,834
42,685
29,226
-4 2.1
-6 .8
+4.8
-3 1.1
-2 .7
-1 2 .4
-2 0 .0
45
87
65
237
501
323
811
270
466
318
625
+13,9
- 7 .0
- 1 .5
-2 2.9
3,426
5,531
5,768
13,921
5,475
5,956
9,645
+13.7
- 1 .0
+ 3.3
-3 a 7
150
19
136
100
79
917
88
676
740
915
147
711
646
279
-.2
+67.0
+ 5.2
-1 2 .7
-1 7 .7
15,561
1,203
11,788
11,207
13,953
1,847
12,467
9,558
5,846
-1 0.3
+53.5
+ 5.8
-1 4 .7
-1 5.1
86
146
554
1,005
448
954
-1 9.1
-5 .1
9,230
19,730
7,588
18,242
-1 7 .8
-7 .5
157
51
74
47
61
1,055
161
110
181
1,489
760
159
98
138
1,121
-2 8 .0
- 1 .2
-1 0.9
-2 3.8
-2 4 .7
20,316
15,970
2,894
1,344
2,658
21,889
-21.4
-10.6
-32.2
-33.2
-2 2.7
10,268
85,627
78,979
-7 .8 2,111,938 1,906,829
- 9 .7
48
179
25
449
* Data supplied by cooperating State bureaus.
1 Includes both Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kans.
* Indudes Covington and Newport, Ky.
« Each separate area indudes from 2 to 8 counties.
* No change.
-1 9.4
-3 2 .2
-2 5.4
-.6
-1 2.9
-1 6.3
-1 3.1
-1 3.9
-7 .8
-2 1 .5
1.981
3.981
28,304
20
Trend of Employment in November, 1932, by States
I N TH E following table are shown the fluctuations in employment
and pay roll totals in November, as compared with October,
1932, in certain industrial groups by States. These tabulations have
been prepared from data secured directly from reporting establish
ments and from information supplied by cooperating State agencies.
The combined total of all groups does not include building-construction data, information concerning which is published elsewhere in a
separate tabulation by city and State totals. In addition to the
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,
quarrying and nonmetallic mining, metalliferous mining, laundries,
and dyeing and cleaning groups is presented. In this State compila
tion, the totals of the telephone and telegraph, power and light, and
electric-railroad operation groups have been combined and are pre
sented as one group— public utilities. Due to the extreme seasonal
fluctuations 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 sep
arately. The number of employees and the amount of weekly
pay roll in October and November as reported by identical establish
ments in this industry are included, however, in the combined total
of “All groups.”
The per cents of change shown in the accompanying tables, unless
otherwise noted, are unweighted per cents of change; that is, the
industries included in the groups and the groups comprising the total
of all groups, have not been weighted according to their relative im
portance in the combined totals.
As the anthracite mining industry is confined entirely to the State
of Pennsylvania, the changes reported in this industry in the sum
mary table are the fluctuations in this industry by State total.
When the identity of any reporting company would be disclosed
by the publication of a State total for any industrial group, figures
for the group do rot appear in the separate industrial-group tabula
tion but are included in the State totals for “All groups.” Data are
not presented for any industrial group when the representation in the
State covers less than three establishments.
21
COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T A N D EARNINGS IN ID E N TICA L ESTABLISH M EN TS
IN OCTOBER A N D N OVEM BER, 1932, B Y STATES
{Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued by
cooperating State organizations]
Total—all groups
State
Num
ber of
estab
lish
ments
Manufacturing
Number Per
Amount
Per
of payroll cent
on pay
(1 week)
roll No cent
of
of
vember, change November, change
1932
1932
dll
Alabama................
49,390
16,198
Arkansas________
8,129
Arizona.................
California________ 2 2,048 244*601
Colorado................
743 31,761
+0.3
+2.4
—1.2
6.0
-4 .1
$533,603
219,187
163,754
6,784,012
643,144
-1 .9
+ .6
-4 .7
-6 .9
-1 .4
Connecticut_____ 1,065
129
Delaware. ............
District of Colum
bia...................... >643
517
Florida..................
640
Georgia..................
133,969
8,711
+ .8
-4 .0
2,415,871
176,966
- 2 .6
-2 .4
31,903
22,401
71,458
-2 .1
+1.4
-.8
781,590
385,011
854,453
Idaho.....................
Illinois...................
Indiana__
Iowa......................
Kansas...................
198
8,696 +18.0
31,466 269,008
-.4
1,206 110,539 - 1 .0
1,162 42,511 - 1 .9
*1,087
64,211 - 1 .2
Num Num
Amount
Per
Per
ber of ber on
of payroll cent
estab pay roll cent
(1 week)
of
lish Novem change November, of
change
1932
ments ber, 1932
207 33,602
182
9,674
1,910
61
1,182 124,901
13,499
120
- 0 .2
-2 .2
-5 .6
-8 8
-4 .5
$351,782
124,216
38,188
2,772,666
254,699
- 3 .9
-4 -8
-1 3 .7
-9 .6
+2.1
654
52
114,665
6,439
+1.2
+3.5
1,928,154
127,705
-2 .9
-1 .1
-.8
+ 2.7
- 3 .4
59
134
313
4,074
14,595
57,812
- 2 .8
+ 1.6
-.5
137,473
219,426
594,360
-1 .5
+ 4.7
-3 .3
165,125 -1 8.8
6,868,860 - 8 .6
1,952,125 - 1 .2
794,643 - 4 .2
1,444,928 - 1.6
38
972
567
462
442
5,050 +24.4
162,192 - 1.6
81,499 + 1.7
23,377 ^2.2
28,719 -2 .9
89,322
2,749,867
1,403,429
410,079
486,947
+23.4
- 7 .6
+ .8
- 5 .0
-6 .1
21,177 + 1.6
18,392 +3.9
31,431 - 4 .5
48, 4O8 *-1 .8
168,018 -6 .1
331,527
235,952
463,912
817,080
2,688,960
-.5
+ .8
-1 2 .8
* -4 .5
-8 .0
+6.2
-.8
-1 .1
- 3 .2
-3 .4
8,862,466
635,097
65,374
979,031
63,687
+16.6
-2 .3
-.6
-9 .4
- 1 .5
12,292 - 2 .6
245 -4 .3
29,196 -5 .3
160,047 -1 .1
664 +16.5
246,049
6,663
422,954
8,809,229
9,954
- 1 .7
-8 .5
-7 .8
+3a9
809,892
108,435
1,121
254*648
8,582
—1.1
+ .4
- 7 .8
+ 2
+ 2.5
6,728,727
1,215,088
26,747
4,422,376
164*215
- 4 .6
- 3 .4
- 9 .4
- 2 .8
- 1 .2
14,352
159
1,742 826,996
272 43,557
175 45*596
49
2,236
+ (»)
-.9
-4 .0
+ .8
+6.7
240,539
4,860,684
677,077
422,295
36,023
- 2 .2
- 8 .9
-1 4 .5
-.5
+ .3
599,051
686,979
102,230
88,777
873,554
+16.2
-5 .4
-L I
805
Kentucky_______
497
Louisiana..............
551
M a in e ..................
Maryland.............. *826
Massachusetts___ 97,728
57,534
30,100
38,484
74f W
884,128
+ .8
+1.7
- 6 .2
-.9
-8 .4
-.7
901,033
-.5
429,513
602,086 -1 2.3
1,871,669 -8 .4
6,896,610 - 4.4
217
211
184
486
1,106
Michigan________ 1,468
Minnesota............ 1,007
Mississippi______
393
Missouri________ 1,109
332
Montana...............
223,979
61,803
9,762
99,051
8,884
+5.4
-.7
-1 .8
-2 .4
-.5
4,526,950 +10.7
1,285,868 -1 .5
120,723 - 1 .2
1,955,595 -5 .4
-.7
212,370
409
287
78
523
52
707
Nebraska..............
130
Nevada.................
443
New Hampshire..
New Jersey______ 1,441
177
_____
23,643 -2 .1
496,924
1,261 -5 .3
33,678
32,902 -5 .3
509,151
175,327 -1 .3 3,784,837
4,721New
Mexico 80,448
+3.8
-1 .8
- 5 .8
-7 .1
-3 .8
-.1
New York_______ 3,611
897
North Carolina.._
314
North Dakota___
Ohio...................... 4*742
690
Oklahoma..... ........
469,274
113,176
3,878
350,695
26,219
- . 5 10,820,966
+ .4 1,285,657
+ 6.4
83,698
- . 3 6,362,818
+3.4
536,683
-3 .3 »1,671
-3 .3
556
+3.4
61
- 2 .9 1,960
122
+ .3
Oregon...................
665
Pennsylvania....... 4,059
906
Rhode Island........
317
South Carolina___
Sbuth Dakota .
231
27,176
591,646
54*693
49,131
5,702
- 4 .4
503,781 - 5 .6
- . 8 10,404*153 - 7 .0
-3 .1
935,008 -1 0 .8
473,780
-.5
+1.5
+1.8
126,308
+ .1
736
Tennessee.............
767
Texas.....................
Utah____________
329
347
Vermont_________
Virginia_________ 1,280
61,725
66,468
14,041
9,270
81,604
-.2
-.8
+ 2.4
-1 .2
-.9
842,890
1,228,604
273,561
173,967
1,289,985
+ .2
-1 .2
+6.6
- 4 .6
- 1 .7
282
871
80
119
439
46,109 +1.7
-.7
80,968
5,850 +20.6
4,893 —2 1
-.8
56,716
50,055
Washington--------- 1,200
748 80,870
West Virginia...
Wisconsin_______ w 1,091 122,778
6,482
Wyoming________
191
- 6 .6
+2.3
-.7
-.3
1,012,533
1,309,310
2,080,294
158,443
- 1 .9
-.7
-2 .2
- 5 .5
252
186
810
28
22,711 - 1 .0
32,000 +1.9
98,886 1 - . 2
1,756 - 1 .5
127
22
181
*701
24
168,862
31,724
6,141
55,981
3,318
+ .7
429,388
+ .6
-.1
555*045
1,476,988 *+ 1.8
43,360
-1 .7
t Includes auto dealers and garages, and sand, gravel, and building construction,
s Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
* Includes building and contracting.
<Includes transportation, financial institutions, restaurants, and building construction.
* Weighted per cent of change.
• Indudes construction, municipal, agricultural, and office employment, amusement and recreation,
professional and transportation services.
7 Indudes laundries.
8 Indudes laundering and cleaning.
• Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent.
w Indudes construction, but does not indude hotels and restaurants.
22
COM PARISON OF E M P L O Y M E N T AN D EARNINGS IN IDENTICAL ESTABLISH M EN TS
IN OCTOBER A N D N OVEM BER, 1932, B Y STATES—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
by cooperating State organizations]
Wholesale trade
State
Retail trade
Number
Num Number
Amount
Amount
Per Num
Per of
Per
pay
Per
ber of on'pay
ber of onroll
pay roll cent
roll cent
roll
cent of(1pay
cent
estab Novem
week)
estab
Novem
of
of
of
of
lish
Novem
Novem change lish
ber,
ber, change ber, 1932 change
change ber,
1932
ments
ments
1932
1932
Alabama................
Arkansas _
Arizona......... ........
California..............
Colorado...............
15
17
22
88
30
558
448
208
6,872
834
<“ )
—1.6
+6.1
+1.1
-.7
$14,137
12,205
5,228
158,609
23,168
+ 1.8
- . 1.7
+2.3
-.1
- 2 .7
66
138
194
119
272
2,441
1,854
1,702
28,562
4,040
+ 1.5
+S.5
+ 2.9
-8 .2
-.4
$34,592
81,782
29,075
677,605
87,770
+ 1.3
+ 2 .2
+ .8
- . 2.4
- 1 .3
Connecticut..........
Delaware...............
District of Colum
bia................... r.
Florida..................
Georgia..................
59
9
1,245
166
-.9
+ .6
35,814
4,726
-.6
+ .1
131
10
5,336
179
-1 .5
+ 5.3
104,237
2,542
- 1 .4
+ 9.3
31
50
33
413
781
412
- 1 .0
+ .8
+ .2
13,202
18,613
11,202
- 1 .9
-.7
-1 .1
403
72
30
11,273
869
2,064
-2 .4
+ 7.3
-1 .4
237,777
17,245
32,800
+ .4
+ 8.4
—3.8-
7
3,137
19,607
29,963
27,403
68
67
198
127
848
622
18,097
6,330
3,390
6,874
+2.0
+8.1
- 1 .2
+3.1
- 1.0
11,538
109,419
57,487
118,806
—.1
+ .1
—1.0
+ 1.7
- 1 .9
-.6
+ 3 .0
+ .7
- 1.8
8
Idaho.....................
Illinois...................
Indiana..................
Iowa......................
Kansas...................
63
37
67
112
786
1,140
1,061
1,625
-1 .8
- 1.4
-3 .1
-.5
-.8
42,002
-2 .4
- . 2.9
- 4 .0
-1 .6
- . 2.8
Kentucky..............
Louisiana..............
Maine____ ______
Maryland..............
Massachusetts___
21
30
17
83
657
430
748
411
746
13,966
+1.4
+. 1
- 4 .0
+ 1.1
-2 .0
8 ,167
16,637
9,706
16,218
867,903
+ 1.2
+ .6
-7 .7
- 1.8
-2 .6
30
54
76
86
8,989
1,655
3,485
1,148
5,682
67,428
+ 2.0
+9.3
+ .5
+ 8.7
- 1.1
25,437
49,365
20,427
90,940
1,179,860
Michigan...............
Minnesota.............
Mississippi-...........
Missouri................
Montana________
67
60
5
53
13
1,861
4,091
116
5,139
216
-.5
+ 3.0
(»)
-.2
-.9
55,183
110,573
2,382
129,224
6,441
-.8
+1.1
+1.0
+ .1
+ .2
188
283
61
135
86
10,984
7,552
491
6,053
782
+1.5
-.1
- 3 .2
-1 .1
+ .3
205,077
136,564
5,570
123,072
17,380
-.2
+ 2.4
+ 1.8
-1 .0
-1 .0
Nebraska—...........
Nevada.................
New Hampshire. .
New Jersey...........
New Mexico— , —
34
7
17
25
6
837
93
195
474
74
-.1
-1 .1
+ 1.0
-2 .9
+ 1.4
22,869
3,327
5,155
14,785
2,480
-3 .4
-1 .0
+ 2.2
-3 .1
-9 .8
191
30
61
413
50
1,580
240
643
8,197
264
-.8
- 7 .0
+ 3.2
+ 5.6
-5 .0
30,017
5,956
10,360
176,379
5,660
-3 .1
-1 4 .5
- 1 .3
+ 3 .0
- 3 .8
New York_______
North Carolina__
North Dakota___
Ohio......................
Oklahoma.............
166
17
16
237
55
4,496
218
230
5,191
986
+ .6
+ 1.9
-1 .3
+. 1
+ 6.5
147,241
4,638
6,449
135,324
26,138
+ .6
-1 .3
-5 .3
-1 .0
+ .5
617
174
38
1,564
106
42,736
633
433
31,300
1,886
+ 3.8
+ 1.6
-.9
- 2 .0
- 1 .0
938,036
11,239
6,788
585,721
33,456
+ 1.1
- 1 .1
- 1 .3
- 3 .6
-2 .7
Oregon...................
Pennsylvania____
Rhode Island........
South Carolina___
South Dakota____
54
135
43
17
10
1,269
3,553
952
250
127
-.6
-.6
+ .1
- 2 .7
(“ )
35,002
98,313
23,632
5,318
3,650
-1 .0
-.9
-.3
-.8
-4 .9
189
315
510
15
16
2,115 - 1 .0
26,473 + 1.9
4,978 +3.1
502 + 6.8
241 +1&1
40,361
513,828
103,620
4,376
3,243
-7 .&
+ 1.3
+ .3
+ 4.1
+ 8 .0
Tennessee..... ........
Texas............ ........
Utah......................
Vermont...............
Virginia.................
36
131
15
5
48
642
2,749
470
111
1,032
-3 .9
-.6
<“ )
-.9
+ 6.5
14,064
73,927
11,285
2,912
25,182
-.7
4
+ .1
-.7
+3.5
56
66
87
34
478
3,575 -1 0.4
6,757
+ .2
708 -4 .1
409 - 2 .4
4,976
+ .5
56,703
107,688
14,095
6,449
88,880
-.8
- 2 .0
- 5 .3
-5 .4
- 1 .8
Washington______
West Virginia____
Wisconsin_______
Wyoming________
119
34
46
8
2; 269
591
2,004
55
- 1 .9
+ 3.9
- 1 .3
-5 .2
61,397
16,065
47,664
1,730
-1 .5
+ 1.9
- 2 .5
- 2 .3
472
51
66
49
6,660
990
8,846
253
129,602
16,466
181,628
6,517
+ 1 .2
-L 2 1
+(•)
—2.9'
12
* Less than one-tenth of 1 per centi
u No change.
-3 .3
+ 1.6
+ 8.4
- 1 .9
411,886
23
COM PARISON OP E M P L O Y M E N T A N D EARNINGS IN IDENTICAL ESTABLISHM EN TS
IN OCTOBER A N D N O V E M B E R , 1932, B Y STATES—Continued
{Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
by cooperating State organizations]
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
State
Alabama.^____ _
Arkansas^
Arizona_______•
—
California, ,
Colorado________
Num
ber of
estab
lish
ments
10
9
Number Per
on pay
roll N o cent
of
vember, change
1932
590 +0.5
476 +61.9
Amount
Per Num
ber of
of payroll cent
estab
(1 week)
of
lish
Novem change
ments
ber, 1932
$6,773 +7.8
5,025 +77.4
28
676
+1.2
9
159
+4.6
2,636 -1 6.2
9
18
467 -1 0.5
885 —9.6
-.9
5,839
8,699 -1 2.0
T T f ln s A a _________________
23
37
14
19
489 -13.0
757 -1 2.4
263 —26.3
709 —2.S
8,912 - 8 .6
9,903 -2 7.0
4,486 —35.2
16,846 -4 .8
Kentucky_______
Louisiana..._____
Maine___ . . . . ___
Maryland_______
Massachusetts___
26
4
6
IS
17
1,144 —5.8
530 -1 .3
175 —28.6
208 + 14.9
363 -6 .4
Michigan__ _____
Minnesota_______
Mississippi,,
Missouri.________
M ontana..............
22
6
3
9
3
1,016
85
65
237
14
Nebraska..______
Nevada.________
New Hampshire..
New Jersey..........
New Mexico_____
10
3
Connecticut_____
Delaware________
District of Colum
bia____________
Florida___ ______
Georgia_________
I d a h o ...,
Tllinnis
Indian a ,
Iowa____ - _______
New Y o r k ...____
North Carolina___
North Dakota___
Ohio......................
Oklahoma_______
3
-16.3
—40.1
+14.0
—24.5
<“ )
13,406
—.5
7,956
6,067
3,534
2,488
6,988
-19.0
+10.6
—41.4
—2.7
-19.2
14,870
1,275
784
2,904
133
-1 1.0
—48.4
—2.5
—26.6
—28.5
148 +48.0
1,853 +39.2
153
20
3,746 -11.8
—.2
448
-4 .4
(“ )
45
9
1,743 -14.1
181 +19.9
31,948 —15.7
1,500 +11.0
65
4
1,961
60
—3.0
-6 .2
33,182 —4.0
755 -19.1
Oregon__________
Pennsylvania. ___
Rhode Isla n d .....
South Carolina___
South Dakota.___
56
-7 .4
5
62
64
—5.9
375 -1 3.6
992 —24.6
Tennessee_______
Texas__ _________
TTtah__ _ „_______
Vermont________
Virginia,,,
...
19
SI
1,012
676
+5.6
+ 6.9
13,310 +19.0
11,960 + 4.9
38
15
2,143
886
Washington__ ___
West Virginia____
Wisconsin . . . ____
Wyoming.
8
6
IS
(“ >
-.1
-7 .3
194 —6.3
295 +14.3
94 -S I. 4
9 Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent.
11 No change.
—2.5
+2.7
5,538 -2 .6
3,054 + 2.5
1,064 - 44.&
Amount
Per
of pay roll cent
(1 week)
of
Novem change
ber, 1932
$11,063
+6.2
2,301
1,876
660
—1.9
+ .5
+3.0
47,937
50,875
15,401
- 4 .3
—.8
-7 .0
10
1,968 +24.7
42,936
+27.7
12
601 +21.6
10,240
+28.4
-5 .7
+6.7
8
982 +10.8
39
32
3,839
1,208
-2 .0
—.1
41,448
16,927
13
17
1,026
1,224
—.6
+2.6
19,756
34,326
16
119
-8 .5
3,678
+1.8
5
831
+ 1.2
14,263
-4 .3
1,395 +50.6
20,623
+51.2
822
+5.4
30
-.3
-(• >
47
<l l >
4
199
+6.4
2,715
+22.0
11
2,007
-1 .8
39,239
+ .9
25,355 -2 6.5
43,330
8,681
Number Per
on pay
roll No cent
of
vember, change
1932
13
32
14
4
2,524
5
Metalliferous mining
24
COM PARISON OF E M P L O Y M E N T AN D EARNINGS IN IDENTICAL ESTA B L ISH M E N TS
IN OCTOBER A N D N O VEM BER, 1932, B Y STATES—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y
cooperating State organizations]
State
Alabama
Arkansas,
Arizona_________
California_______
Colorado________
Bituminous coal mining
Cmde petroleum producing
Num
Amount
Num ber on
Per
Per
ber of
cent
M
cent
of
estab
week)
of
lish Novem change Novem change
ments ber,
ber,
1932
1932
Num
Amount
Num ber
Per
on
Per
ber of
cent
SSfiT cent
estab
week)
of
of
&
lish
change Novem change
ments Novem
ber, 1932
ber, 1932
43
6
7,369
+1.9
192 +118.1
42
4,968
+4.5
29
43
19
25
7,26~4
5,403
2,003
1,878
+81. S
—1.3
+ 4.0
+ 1.7
$58,398 +5.7
2,867 +74.8
86,187
- 2 .8
8
377
+4.4
$9,735
+ 9.8
40
5,311
-.1
160,535
+ .7
10
5
201
32
—2.4
-3 .0
4,307
599
—2.6
- 4 .8
34
1,604
+1.5
38,468
+ .1
203 -3 .8
157 -13.7
3,884
3,974
- 3 .1
-1 8 .4
700
-.4
Connecticut.
.
Delaware________
District of Colum
bia......................
Florida ____ _
Georgia_________
Idaho___________
Illinois
Titian*
Iowa____ _____ __
Transas_______
_______
_______
Maine________ __
Maryland_______
Massachusetts___
132
18
1,805
+ 2.0
9,889 - 10.4
Michigan________
Minnesota_______
Mississippi______
Missouri________
Montana._______
3
857
+39.8
17,932 +166.9
18
12
1,446
889
+4.1
+7.1
26,189
25,449
—6.9
-2 .5
4
Nebraska________
Nevada_________
New Hampshire New Jersey__ ___
New Mexico__ __
13
1,777
+6.1
28,160
-1 .7
5
New York_______
North Carolina
North Dakota.
Ohio......................
Oklahoma—_____
Oregon__________
Pennsylvania.......
Rhode Island____
South CarolinaSouth Dakota.
Tennessee_______
T ex as...________
Utah......................
Vermont................
Virginia_________
Washington..____
West Virginia.......
Wisconsin_______
Wyoming________
+1.9
22,925 Kentucky
Louisiana
145,851 +10.2
106,835 —10.1
45,147 —6.0
27,661 -5 .6
325,212
-1 .0
6
8
-3 .8
1,405
-1 6.1
5
113
+ 2.7
3,163
+ 6.3
123,463 - 8 .2
13,389 +27.2
6
64
40
4,488
-4 .8
—.1
641
117,152
-7 .1
- 2 .3
664,172
+5.0
23
595
-2 .9
14,267
+ 1 .7
+2.6
8
7,022
- 1.2
248,108
-.t
62
14
8,609
649
+7.3
+23.9
364
51,620
+1.1
16
2,430
+ 1.3
25,034
16
1,906
+ 9.0
50,031 +21.3
36
8,703
+ 2.8
116,214
10
254
1,348
38,245
—.4
+ 3.0
32,337 +26.1
524,072 -1 .5
8
31
3,612
+1.3
- 7 .5
6
25
89,036
44 —10.2
—7.8
323 -16.1
73
+5.8
7,752
- 6 .8
2,392
+ 1 .4
25
COM PARISON OF E M PL O Y M E N T AN D EARNINGS IN IDENTICAL ESTABLISHM ENTS
IN OCTOBER A N D N OV E M BE R , 1932, B Y STATES—Continued.
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued by
cooperating State organizations]
Public utilities
Num
ber on
Per
payroll cent
of
Novem
ber, change
1932
State
Num
ber of
estab
lish
ments
Alabama...
Arkansas.
Arizona__
California..
Colorado...
123
49
67
45
196
I,912
i tm
1,227
47,200
5,382
-0 .6
Connecticut_____
Delaware. ............
District of Colum
bia......................
Florida..................
Georgia.................
131
Idaho___
Illinois...
Indiana..
Iowa___
Kansas...
Kentucky............
Louisiana_______
Maine____ _____
Maryland............
Massachusetts. . .
Michigan.
Minnesota.
Mississip
Hotels
Amount
of pay
Per
roll
cent of
(1 week) change
Novem
ber, 1932
ttf
-1 .7
-2 .4
t£ ?
-1 .1
-9 .9
1,136
254
- 2.6
+3.7
14,959
3,034
1.6
+2.1
54
34
33
3,734
792
1,262
- 2.2
+7.0
+ .4
56,649
8,467
10,613
-0 0
+4.9
+ .4
+2.5
1.2
16
1.8
2.2
8 .2
- 1 .4
+ .f
3,355
188,897
30,196
21,578
10,169
-4 .5
+•4
-3 .5
-.1
-
58
51
V
240
8,628
2,701
2,144
1,049
-9 .8
-
1,597 +1.3
1.8
1,716
767 -24.1
1,461 +1.8
1.6
8,640
+
+
16,872
18,327
10,453
19,068
66,876
-1 .9
-.6
-2 9 .6
+ .5
+ .1
-2 .4
-1 .7
+9.8
-.7
—5.5
7,998
1,122
-.7
00
248,722
31,795
22
185
186
8,268
4,234
6,765
-1 .3
+ .9
-.7
239,457
108,697
183,570
-
56
64
141
430
26
671
66,770
8,996
9,786
6,962
-.1
-.5
-2 .3
14,237
1,796,916
218,671
221,392
160,798
5,580
154 4,209
169 2,827
H 12,603
13189 45,608
-.6
-2 .4
414
233
213
221
-
1.8
- . 2.6
1.1
131,488
95,852
77,766
868,178
-1 .4
-.6
-3 .2
-.9
+ .1
652,066
325,806
38,435
575,699
54,487
169,478
10,442
59,682
665,654
11,895
-
17
12
1,229
777
329
9,614
1,161
-1 .4
-1 .4
31
7
1.0
-
2.1
1.6
-3 .7
+
-2 .5
+-31.2
.2
-.8
+ .6
-1 .8
35
21
21
26
84
50,547
37,153
3,761
53,263
3,466
-3 .8
-.9
-.5
-2 .7
-2 .9
-.2
-2 .5
-2 .8
34
10
14
74
13
1,594 -2 .3
132 -2 .9
256 -4 6 .2
4,029 - 9 .4
-.3
291
18,152
2,417
3,082
52,887
3,131
-4 2 .4
3,240,371 - 2.0
34,679
-.5
36,237 +21.1
848,862 - 1.0
134,595 - 1.6
272
32
17
160
35
- 1 .5
-.5
+2.2
501,163
11,296
3,557
102,861
16,783
-.4
-2 .5
-5 .0
+•7
1.0
-.2
-.4
+4.4
-5 .4
-4 .1
37
184
20
16
14
1,034 - 5 .5
9,941
+ .2
397 -1 6.4
318 +11.6
-.7
297
14,099
128,144
5.438
2,365
3,614
-7 .8
-1 .1
-1 7 .4
+ 9.3
-1 .4
-.4
+ .6
- 2 .2
- 5 .2
18,681
89,617
4.438
5,572
21,071
-t l
-1 1 .7
-3 .0
111
6,597
372
2,189
22,618
543
- 2 .2
-5 .1
+ .9
New Y ork...........
North Carolina. .
North Dakota___
Ohio.....................
Oklahoma............
907 104,928
1,778
96
171
1,546
33,097
6,092
-.9
(“ )
+28.6
-.9
+ .3
Oregon................
Pennsylvania___
Rhode Island___
South Carolina...
South Dakota__
187
707
36
71
129
5,730
59,399
3,467
1,607
964
+1.0
- 1 .5
-5 .5
146,794
1,610,065
102,562
33.371
25.550
Tennessee..
Texas.........
Utah..........
Vermont...
Virginia....
256
117
68
120
179
4.723
6,116
1.723
1,075
5,755
-3 .5
- 2 .8
-2 .3
+3.1
- 1 .4
104,537
166,646
37.372
25.551
139,773
-3 .1
-2 .7
-.9
- 3 .2
-1 .4
41
136
9,740
6,433
-.9
261,851
162,756
806,401
10,370
-1 .5
+ .2
- 1.0
58
Washington___
West Virginia. .
Wisconsin_____
Wyoming......... .
II,104
419
-1 .5
-.3
-
1.0
-2 .1
* Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent.
11 No change.
11 Includes restaurants.
-
-2 .5
+ .6
-.7
+00
-3 .7
305
40
143
280
55
1.2
1.1
0.1
2,825
455
Nebraska.............
Nevada................
New Hampshire.
New Jersey.........
New Mexico.......
-
—
-
-
65
55
19
75
16
22,137
12,834
1,990
21,653
1,841
Montana...
Per
cent of
change
$10,394
7,886
4,897
164,670
17,009
$39,849
29,667
31,696
1,278,866
137,496
-.8
Num
Num ber
on
ber of pay roll
Per
estab Novem cent of
lish
ber,
ments
1932
-
1.2
-1 .7
-1 .9
-.4
1.0
+
-
-
1.6
1.0
2.6
1
23
1857
12
31,091
1,216
319
8,119
1,294
2,059
8,286
1,944
1,997
1,042
989
158
+00
-
-
2.8
1.0
-1 .7
+ .4
-5 .0
+ .6
13 Includes steam railroads.
14 Includes railways and express!
1* Data not supplied.
24,012
11,867
(»)
2,282
-.8
-
6 .2
8.8
+ .1
+
- .4
-2 .4
-1 .9
‘ -2."4
26
COM PARISON OF E M P L O Y M E N T AN D EARNINGS IN ID E N TICA L ESTABLISHM ENTS
IN OCTOBER A N D N O VEM BER, 1932, B Y STATES—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued by
cooperating State organizations]
Dyeing and cleaning
Laundries
State
Alabama...
Arkansas...
Arizona__
California..
Colorado...
Connecticut_____
Delaware_______
District of Colum
bia......................
Florida..................
Georgia................ .
Idaho....
Illinois...
Indiana..
Iowa..
Kentucky............
Louisiana_____ _
Maine..................
Maryland............
Massachusetts...
Num
ber of
estab
lish
ments
Number Per
on pay
roll No cent
of
vember, change
1932
4
19
9
“ 75
10
384
m
396
5,788
759
-1 9
+2.1
27
4
1,328
305
-.2
21
9
12
437
» 22
20
3
88
1,298
1,530
211
959
-
-
6.8
1 .2
-3 .1
-
1.0
-
2.1
(“ )
-2 .8
-1 .7
+ .4
-1 .4
-
2.8
Amount
Per Num
ber of
of pay roll cent
(1 week)
of
lishNovem change
ments
ber, 1932
+ .9
-8 .8
19,676
19,841
3,157
11,258
-5 .0
- 8.8
-.6
-1 .8
M ichigan...
Minnesota..
Mississippi.
Missouri___
Montana.
1,561
774
311
302
-3 .6
-2 .1
-2 .2
-2 .5
-3 .2
19,864
12,341
2,754
33,281
5,510
-3 .5
-3 .5
-1 .9
-3 .3
- 2 .0
Nebraska.............
Nevada................
New Hampshire.
New Jersey..........
New Mexico........
445
53
247
3,013
228
-.9
-8 .6
-.8
-1 .1
-1 .7
6,405 - 2 .0
1,024 -15.0
3,809 -1 .7
55,573 - 10.1
3,370 - 5 .2
New York..........
North Carolina.
North Dakota..
Ohio...................
Oklahoma..........
6,885
678
206
4,217
623
-1 .3
-3 .1
-1 .4
-1 .4
-2 .2
118,002
6,937
3,539
63,060
7,527
- 2 .8
-4 .8
-2 .7
-1 .3
- 4 .3
Oregon...............
Pennsylvania...
Rhode Island...
South Carolina.
South Dakota__
313
3,236
1,056
302
122
-2 .2
+ .3
-1 .9
-5 .3
-2 .4
4,889
49,328
17,640
2,874
1,615
- 4 .1
+ .6
- 5 .4
- 6 .4
- 4 .9
817
1,254
483
74
759
-2 .0
-8 .5
-3 .0
-1 .3
-3 .7
13,904
6,757
922
8,550
- 2 .0
-4 .9
+ .1
-4 .1
-5 .3
+ .1
+ .6
- 2 .5
12,939
9,169
18,278
1,665
-2 .6
-4 .3
-6 .1
-1 7 .2
-1 .0
-
-
10.1
21.2
-
—11."2
2.1
108
11No change.
m Includes dyeing and cleaning.
2,252
116
-
9,838
12.6
12.1
2.0
-
5,640
28,626
67,095
-
- 7 .6
- 6 .3
40,290
4,285
5,990
-2 .1
722
974
104
-1 9 .1
4,210
685
197
42
-5 .9
+ .1
-.7
14
21
1928
5
2,473
-5 .7
-2 .3
-1 .5
-4 .8
777
Washington___
West Virginia..
Wisconsin........
Wyoming.........
138 -1 3.7
22,171
4,508
402
1,922
8,465
11
24
6
5
11
-0 .9
-1 9 .9
- 7 .5
-4 .8
- 1 .8
-4 .5
- 5 .7
11
Amount
Per
of pay roll cent
(1 week)
of
Novem
ber, 1932 change
$1,781
371
178 - 1 .7
31 -1 1.4
$3,424
4*405
5,725
108,208
10,822
18
Tennessee.
Texas.........
Utah..........
Vermont...
Virginia-. .
Number Per
on pay
roll No cent
of
vember, change
1932
11
121
19
24
158
- 7 .6
2,381
219
-3 .1
3,146 -
12.1
-1 7 .1
9.3
- i 6.2
6,191
80,686
-1 1 .6
- 10.1
568
327
- 9 .4
-7 .1
9,333
5,825
-1 7 .8
-1 3 .3
403
22
- 5 .4
(»)
6,745
431
-1 4 .0
+1.2
52
-7 .1
960
272
- 3 .5
6,846
- 9 .8
564
- 6 .3
11,006
-6 .3
1,575
148
- 2 .8
- 3 .3
24,841
1,870
-1 2 .3
-7 .1
1,126 - 5 .7
266 -15.0
18,966
4,757
-1 1 .9
-2 2.5
- 2 .6
-8 .5
-1 .5
613
5,086
2,227
-.2
-1 4 .8
-9 .9
'228' - 4 .2
3,259
—7.5
3,489
3,046
-1 2 .9
-5 .6
470
129
19
-
208
227
- 4.5
-4 .6
-.4
-
11.8
27
Employment and Pay Roll in November, 1932, in Cities of over
500,000 Population
I N TH E following table are presented the fluctuations in employ
ment and pay-roll totals in November, 1932, as compared with
October, 1932, in 13 cities of the United States having a population
of 500,000 or over. These changes are computed from reports re
ceived 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 sur
vey, 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.
FLUCTU ATIO NS IN E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y BOLLS IN N O V E M B E R , 1932, AS COMP A R E D W IT H OCTOBER, 1932
Cities
New York City..................
Chicago, HI.........................
Philadelphia, Pa................
Detroit, M ich.....................
Los Angeles, Calif..............
Cleveland, Ohio.................
St. Louis, M o.....................
Baltimore, M d...................
Boston, Mass......................
Pittsburgh, Pa...................
San Francisco, Calif...........
Buffalo, N. Y .....................
Milwaukee, Wis.................
Number
of estab
lishments
reporting
in both
months
2,231
1,851
653
712
716
1,070
484
548
2,940
329
1,094
286
465
Number on pay roll
October,
1932
302,145
197,273
123,132
136,837
55,941
84,280
64,186
45,820
87,499
47,545
43,015
35,832
35,439
Per
cent of
change
November,
1932
298,580
194,357
122,876
145,457
55,012
83,634
63,271
44,895
85,632
46,192
42,641
37,156
35,805
-1 .2
-1 .5
-.2
+6.3
-1 .7
-.8
-1 .4
-2 .0
-2 .1
-2 .8
-.9
+3.7
+1.0
Amount of pay roll
(1 week)
October,
1932
$8,376,903
4,606,892
2,701,537
2,816,351
1,312,306
1,762,011
1,352,974
900,960
2,085,079
886,425
1,069,907
798,119
723,442
Per
cent of
change
November,
1932
$8,105,524
4,457,756
2,643,575
3,072,225
1,269,425
1,761,550
1,290,885
867,855
2,046,104
859,166
1,038,843
823,087
721,120
-3 .2
-3 .2
-2 .1
+9.1
-3 .3
0)
- 4 .6
-3 .7
-1 .9
-3 .1
-2 .9
+3.1
-.3
* Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent.
Employment on Class I Steam Railroads in the United States
A T A are not yet available concerning railroad employment for
November, 1932. Reports of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission for Class I railroads show that the number of employees
(exclusive of executives and officials) increased from 997,321 on Sep
tember 15, 1932, to 1,020,132 on October 15, 1932, or 2.3 per cent;
the amount of pay roll increased from $113,524,006 in September to
$119,905,613 in October, or 5.6 per cent.
The monthly trend of employment from January, 1923, to October,
1932, on Class I railroads— that is, all roads having operating reve
nues of $1,000,000 or over— is shown by the 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 l e 1 .—IN D E XE S OF E M PL O Y M E N T , ON CLASS I STEAM RAILROADS IN THE
U N ITED STATES, JANUARY, 1923, TO OCTOBER, 1932
[12-month average, 1926**100]
Month
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
January_____. . . . . __ ________
February___________________
March_________________ ____
April..........................................
M ay_____________ __________
J u n e ....___________ ____ ___
July________________________
August_____________________
September__________________
October____________________
November__________________
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
96.9
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
60.3
60.5
60.0
59.7
57.8
56.4
55.0
55.8
57.0
Average________ ______
104.1
98.3
97.9
100.0
97.5
92.9
93.3
83.5
70.6
1 58.4
1932
1 Average for 10 months.
Wage-Rate Changes in American Industries
Manufacturing Industries
I N TH E following table is presented information concerning wage-
rate adjustments occurring between October 15 and November 15
as shown by reports received from manufacturing establishments
supplying employment data to this bureau. Of the 18,178 manufac
turing establishments included in the November survey, 17,986
establishments, or 98.9 per cent of the total, reported no change in
wage rates over the month interval. The 2,677,624 employees not
affected by changes in w’age rates constituted 99.5 per cent of the
total number of employees covered by the November trend-ofemployment survey of manufacturing industries.
Decreases in wage rates were reported by 190 establishments in 45
of the 89 industries surveyed. These establishments represented 1
per cent of the total number of establishments covered. The wagerate decreases reported averaged 10.8 per cent and affected 13,962
employees, or one-half of 1 per cent of all employees in the estab
lishments reporting.
Two establishments in one industry reported wage-rate increases in
November, averaging 17 per cent, and affecting 125 employees.
29
T a b l e 1.—W AGE CHANGES IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES D U R IN G M O N TH
E N D IN G N O V E M BE R 15,1932
Industry
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing
Total
of em
ployees
A ll manufacturing industries....... 18,178 2,691,711
Per cent of total..____ ____ 100.0
100.0
-Slaughtering and meat packing__
Confectionery..____ _____ . . . ___
Tee cream__ . . . . . __ _
Flour______ ___________________
Baking...........................................
Sugar rftfining, cane .
Beet sugar____________ - _______
Beverages_____________ - _______
Butter________________________
Cotton goods__________________
Hosiery and knit goods.
Silk goods_____________________
Woolen and worsted goods
Carpets and r u g s .....__________
Dyp.ing and finishing tftxtilfts
'Clothing, men’s___ 7_____ . . . . . . .
Shirts a*jd collars.....
Clothing, women’s.
Millinery__ _
Corsets and Allied garments
'Cotton small wares
Hats, fur-felt___ _______________
Men’s furnishings...__ _________
Iron and steel__________________
•Cast-iron pipe_________________
Structural and ornamental iron
work________________________
Hardware________ ___ _________
Steam fittings and steam and hotwater heating apparatus______
Stoves____________ ____________
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets—
Outlery (not including silver and
plated cutlery) and edge tools__
Forgings, iron and steel... . . . . . __
Plumbers’ supplies_____________
Tin cans and other tinware_____
Tools (not including edge tools,
machine tools, files, or saws)___
Wirework_______ _____________
Lumber:
Sawmills__________________
Millwork__________________
Furniture_____________________
Turpentine and rosin
Leather_____ __________________
Boots and shoes________________
Paper and pulp________________
Paper boxes.._________. . . . _____
Printing:
Book and job______________
Newspapers and periodicals . .
Chemicals__ ________ __________
Fertilizers_____________________
Petroleum refining_____________
-Cottonseed oil, cake, and m eal...
Druggists______________________
Explosives_______________ . . . . . .
Pamts and varnishes___________
Rayon____________ ____________
S oap ._________________ _____ _
•Cement................................ .........
Brick, tile, and terra cotta...____
Pottery_____________________. . .
'Glass__________________________
Marble, granite, slate, and other
stone products___ ____________
Stamped and enameled ware____
Brass, bronze, and copper prod
ucts..............................................
1 Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent.
Number of establish
ments reporting—
Number of employees
having—
Wage Wage No wage Wage Wage
No
in
wage
de
in
de
changes creases creases changes creases creases
17,986
98.9
2
0)
190 2,677,624
1.0
99.5
4
5
21
3
13
125
0)
13,962
230
318
397
439
943
15
58
334
310
701
443
245
257
32
152
384
117
412
130
31
114
37
75
210
40
86,284
41,490
10,969
15,597
61,062
8,120
20,012
9,522
5,734
238,359
110,933
45,403
55,676
14,426
34,274
64,041
16,023
25,517
8,407
5,649
9,793
5,633
6,805
175,965
5,754
226
313
376
436
930
15
57
329
307
697
436
244
257
32
151
381
117
412
128
31
113
37
74
207
40
184
113
12,966
21,415
180
113
4
12,812
21,415
154
100
162
69
14,930
17,357
8,292
98
160
69
2
2
13,978
17,261
8,292
952
96
127
61
69
61
9,031
4,934
6,410
8,677
127
61
69
61
130
71
6,959
5,185
129
71
1
6,936
5,185
23
635
454
467
21
162
343
408
308
60,147
17,507
44,660
1,041
25,274
101,184
80,298
21,090
633
447
461
21
160
342
403
306
2
7
6
60,137
17,272
44,370
1,041
25,080
101,173
79,716
21,064
10
235
290
769
475
114
203
139
53
42
24
363
23
89
118
673
122
192
48,658
70,255
20,483
6,119
51,750
2,919
7,879
3,156
15,161
27,919
12.702
13,337
17.702
15,329
34,486
749
469
114
203
139
53
42
24
360
23
89
117
669
122
190
20
6
529
242
2
48,129
70,013
20,483
6,119
51,750
2,919
7,879
3,156
15,117
27,919
12,702
13,272
17,251
15,329
34,340
222
89
5,232
13,402
222
87
2
5,232
13,051
351
205
28,030
202
3
27,726
304
2
1
5
3
4
5
1
1
3
2
1
1
3
86,083
41,244
9,393
15,525
60,654
8,120
19,931
9,488
5,655
237,264
110,477
45,291
55,676
14,426
33,188
63,428
16,02$
25,517
8,242
5,649
9,663
5,633
6,791
174,639
5,754
201
246
1,576
72
408
125
81
34
79
1,095
331
112
1,086
613
165
130
14
1,326
9,031
4,934
6,410
8,677
2
1
5
2
3
1
4
194
11
582
26
44
65
451
146
30
T a b l e 1.—W AG E CHANGES IN M A N U FA C TU RIN G IN DU STRIES DU R IN G M ON TH
EN D IN G N O V EM BER 15, 1932-Continued
Estab
Total
lish
ments number
of
em
report ployees
ing
Industry
Ai|imir|iim manufactures______
Clocks, time recording devices,
and dock movements............... .
Gas and electric fixtures, lamps,
lanterns, and reflectors............ .
Plated ware...................................
Smelting and refining—copper,
lead, and zinc.............................
Jewelry..........................................
Chewing and smoking tobacco
and snuff....................................
Cigars and cigarettes................... .
Automobiles..................................
Aircraft.........................................
Cars, electric and steam railroad..
Locom otives.........................
Shipbuilding...........................
Rubber tires and inner tubes.
Rubber boots and shoes................
Rubber goods, otner than boots,
shoes, tires, and inner tubes—
Agricultural implements.. ..........
Electrical machinery, apparatus,
and supplies...............................
Engines, turbines, tractors, and
water wheels..............................
Cash registers, adding machines,
and calculating machines........ .
Foundry and machine-shop
products____________________
Machine tools.
Textile machii
Typewriters ai
Radio_______ ________
Electric-railroad repair shops.
Steam-railroad repair shops.
28
Number of establish
ments reporting—
No
wage
Wage
in-
Wage
de-
Number of employees
having—
No wage
changes
Wage
in-
Wage
de
creases
4,979
4,979
5,285
24
5,285
55
4,766
7.971
55
53
4,766
7.971
150
7,919
9,146
29
148
7,919
9,140
34
212
248
28
39
11
93
42
9
10,304
47,138
159,684
5.971
5,762
2,139
25,146
39,988
10,153
34
211
245
28
39
11
92
42
9
10,304
46,898
159,530
5.971
5,762
2,139
25,063
39,988
10,153
103
75
19,762
5,764
103
72
19,762
5,602
162
294
104,634
290
104,459
175
240
154
14,977
14,977
44
13.253
44
1,065
148
44
18
40
384
538
99,060
10,462
6,441
9,167
20,051
20.254
78,211
1,050
148
44
18
40
382
530
13,253
15
10,462
6,441
9,167
20,051
20,203
77,828
434
51
Nonmanufacturing Industries
D a t a concerning wage-rate changes occurring between October
15 and November 15 in 14 groups of nonmanufacturing industries
are presented in the following table.
No changes in wage rates were reported in the anthracite mining
and canning and preserving groups. In the remaining 12 groups a
number of establishments reported decreases in wage rates oyer the
month interval. The average per cent of decrease in rates in each
of the several groups follows: Telephone and telegraph, 8.3 per cent;
electric railroad operation and maintenance, 8.9 per cent; retail trade,
9.5 per cent; laundries, 9.6 per cent; quarrying and nonmetallic mining
and dyeing and cleaning, 10 per cent each; hotels, 10.9 per cent;
wholesale trade, 11.9 per cent; metalliferous mining, 12.5 per cent;
power and light, 14 per cent; bituminous coal mining, 15.6 per cent;
and crude petroleum, 16.9 per cent. Increases in wage rates from
October to November were reported by three establishments in two of
these industrial groups. The wage-rate increases reported averaged 5
per cent in wholesale trade and 7 per cent in the power and light group.
The number of establishments reporting and the number of employees
covered in the November employment survey, together with a division
of these establishments and employees into several groups according
to the information reported, follows:
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T a b l e 8 .— W AGE CHANGES IN N ON M AN UFACTU RIN G INDUSTRIES DU R IN G M O N TH
E N D IN G N OV E M BE R 15, 1932
Industrial group
Estab Total
lish
ments number
of em
report ployees
ing
Anthracite mining..........................
\m Per cent of total.........................
Bituminous coal mining__________
* Per cent of total.........................
Metalliferous mining.......................
Per cent of total.........................
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining.
Per cent of total.
Per cent of toi
Telephone and teli
Per cent of tot
Power and light...............................
Per cent of total.........................
Electric-railroad and motor-bus
operation and maintenance_____
Per cent of total.........................
Wholesale trade.............................. .
Per cent of total.........................
Retail trade..................................... .
Per cent of total.........................
H otels.....................— ...................
Per cent of total.........................
Canning and preserving................. .
Per cent of total.........................
Laundries........................................
Per cent of total........................
Dyeing and cleaning.......................
Per cent of total........................
160
100.0
1,193
100.0
281
100.0
617
100.0
276
100.0
8,281
100.0
3,535
100.0
100.0
2,757
100.0
14,345
100.0
2,427
100.0
933
100.0
994
No
wage
changes
85,685
100.0
175,585
100.0
22,171
100.0
22,240
100.0
22,848
100.0
267,789
100.0
212,984
100.0
160
100.0
1,178
98.7
280
99.6
615
99.7
274
99.3
7,895
95.3
3,529
99.8
132,927
100.0
71,859
100.0
486
97.6
2,737
99.3
14,322
99.8
2,410
99.3
933
100.0
132,858
100.0
39,132
100.0
58,583
100.0
100.0
11,416
368
100.0
100.0
1 Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent.
Number of establish
ments reporting—
O
100.0
985
99.1
367
99.7
in-
de-
Number of employees
having—
No
wage
changes
Wage
in-
Wage
de-
85,685
100.0
2
0.1
1
0)
15
1.3
1
0.4
2
0.3
2
0.7
386
4.7
4
0.1
12
2.4
19
0.7
23
0.2
17
0.7
171,777
97.8
21,695
97.9
22,194
99.8
22,830
99.9
255,199
95.3
201,152
94.4
131,229
98.7
71,482
99.5
345,259
99.9
131,745
99.2
39,132
100.0
58,191
9
0.9
99.3
1
11,408
0.3
99.9
10, 793
5.1
40
0.1
2.2
476
2.1
46
0.2
18
0.1
12,590
4.7
1,039
0.5
1,698
1.3
337
0.5
434
0.1
1,113
0.8
0.7
8
0.1
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