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Serial No. R. 672
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Lubin, Commissioner
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EMPLOYMENT
AND PAY ROLLS
Prepared by
DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
Lewis E. Talbert, Chief
and
DIVISION OF CONSTRUCTION AND
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Herman B. Byer, Chief
NOVEMBER 1937
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON • 1938
CONTENTS
Page
Summary of employment reports for November 1937:
Industrial and business employment.
Public employment
Detailed reports for November 1937:
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
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5
7
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Tables
TABLE 1.—All manufacturing industries combined and nonmanufacturing
industries—employment, pay rolls, and weekly earnings,
November 1937
TABLE 2.—Federal employment and pay rolls—summary, November
1937
.
TABLE 3.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, November 1937
TABLE 4.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, September through
November 1937
TABLE 5.—All manufacturing industries combined and the durable- and
nondurable-goods groups—indexes of employment and pay
rolls, January 1936 to November 1937
TABLE 6.—Selected nonmanufacturing industries—indexes of employment and pay rolls, January 1936 to November 1937
TABLE 7.—Geographic divisions and States—comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in October and
November 1937
TABLE 8.—Principal metropolitan areas—comparison of employment and
pay rolls in identical establishments in October and November 1937
TABLE 9.—Executive service of the Federal Government—employment
and pay rolls in October and November 1937
TABLE 10.—Executive service of the Federal Government—monthly record
of employment from November 1936 to November 1937,
inclusive
TABLE 11.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
November 1937, by type of project
TABLE 12.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—summary of employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked, from July 1933 to November 1937, inclusive. _
TABLE 13.—Projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked, November 1937, by type of
project
(in)
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20
21
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30
31
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14.—National Youth Administration work projects and Student
Aid financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked, November 1937
TABLE 15.—Projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked from the beginning of the
program in July 1935 to November 1937, inclusive
TABLE 16.—National Youth Administration work projects and Student
Aid financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked from the beginning of the
projects to November 1937, inclusive
TABLE 17.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls,
October and November 1937
TABLE 18.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls, from
November 1936 to November 1937, inclusive
TABLE 19.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, November 1937, by type of project
TABLE 20.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—summary of employment, pay rolls and manhours worked, from November 1936 to November 1937, inclusive
TABLE 21.—Construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
November 1937, by type of project
TABLE 22.—Construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
from November 1936 to November 1937, inclusive
TABLE 23.—Construction and maintenance of State roads—employment
and pay roll disbursements, from November 1936 to November 1937, inclusive
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TABLE
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32
34
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Employment and Pay Rolls
SUMMARY OF REPORTS FOR NOVEMBER 1937
ON THE basis of reports from approximately 135,000 establishments, it is estimated that nearly 560,000 fewer workers were employed in November than in October in all manufacturing industries
combined and in the 16 nonmanufacturing industries surveyed monthly
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Weekly wage disbursements were
$25,500,000 smaller.
A comparison with November 1936 showed that employment in
these combined industries was at approximately the same level, the
estimated totals indicating a gain over the year interval of 3,000
workers. Weekly wage disbursements in these industries were estimated to be $11,400,000 greater in November 1937 than in the same
month a year ago.
According to a preliminary tabulation by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, class I railroads employed 1,047,960 workers in November, exclusive of executives, officials, and staff assistants. This represented a decrease of 55,273 since October.
Employment in the judicial and military services of the Federal
Government was greater in November than in the preceding month,
while employment in the legislative service remained virtually the
same, and a decrease occurred in the executive service. Employment
reports on programs financed in whole or in part from Federal funds
showed a small increase on projects financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation and fewer employees working on projects
financed by the Public Works Administration, on projects financed
from regular Federal appropriations, and on Federal projects under
The Works Program. The number of workers employed on projects
operated by The Works Progress Administration and on work projects
of the National Youth Administration and Student Aid increased.
There was a decrease in the number of workers in the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Industrial and Business Employment
Employment declines from October to November were shown in
manufacturing and in 15 of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries
surveyed.
(1)
In manufacturing the employment decrease was 5.8 percent or
479,000 wage earners. This was coupled with a reduction of 10.5
percent ($21,540,000) in weekly factory wage disbursements. Employment and pay-roll recessions in manufacturing industries have
been shown in November in 14 of the preceding 18 years for which
data are available, but they were less marked than those in November
1937 with but one exception (November 1920), when the employment
decrease over the month interval was 6.0 percent.
The factory employment index for November (94.7) was 2.3 percent
below the November 1936 figure, indicating 182,000 fewer wage earners
in manufacturing establishments. The November 1937 pay-roll
index (89.5) was 1.3 percent lower than the level of a year ago, indicating a reduction of $2,360,000 in weekly factory wages.
Of the 89 manufacturing industries covered, 6 reported increased
employment over the month interval and 7 reported larger pay rolls.
Employment in aluminum manufactures showed an increase of 18.0
percent largely because of the resumption of operations following the
settlement of labor disputes.
The most pronounced losses in employment in the manufacturing
industries were of a seasonal nature. In many instances, however,
the usual seasonal curtailments were accentuated by a slackening of
business activity. Among the industries in which seasonal recessions
were factors contributing to the sharply reduced forces in November
were canning and preserving (36.1 percent), radios and phonographs
(21.9 percent), millinery (15.8 percent), stoves (15.9 percent), woolen
and worsted goods (12.5 percent), men's clothing (12.3 percent),
sawmills (9.8 percent), women's clothing (10.3 percent), and boots and
shoes (10.9 percent).
Other declines in industries of major importance were: Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills (7.6 percent), cotton goods (2.9
percent), steam railroad repair shops (2.8 percent), baking (2.3 percent), knit goods (3.8 percent), paper and pulp (3.2 percent), furniture (8.4 percent), silk and rayon goods (10.3 percent), petroleum
refining (1.4 percent), glass (3.0 percent), chemicals (4.0 percent), dyeing and finishing (3.0 percent), electrical machinery, apparatus, and
supplies (5.2 percent), foundries and machine shops (5.1 percent),
and automobiles (0.6 percent).
Employment decreases ranging from 6.1 percent to 9.8 percent
were shown in cast-iron pipe, iron and steel forgings, steam and hotwater heating apparatus, textile machinery and parts, typewriters,
brass-bronze-copper, stamped and enameled ware, brick-tile-terra
cotta, cotton small wares, leather, fertilizers, rubber boots and shoes,
rubber tires, and rubber goods other than shoes and tires.
Converting the above percentages into aggregate figures, the industries in which the largest number of wage earners were released from
employment over the month interval and the estimated declines in
number of wage earners were: Canning and preserving (56,200),
blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills (36,200), sawmills
(24,400), men's clothing (23,300), boots and shoes (21,000), foundry
and machine-shop products (22,300), women's clothing (19,800),
cotton goods (12,400), woolen and worsted goods (15,300), electrical
machinery, apparatus, and supplies (13,800), radios and phonographs
(12,900), furniture (12,600), silk and rayon goods (9,800), knit goods
(8,100), steam railroad repair shops (7,600), stoves (8,100), baking
(5,200), paper and pulp (4,500), automobiles (2,800), brass-bronzecopper (4,900), brick-tile-terra cotta (4,600), and stamped and
enameled ware (3,300).
In most instances, the pay-roll declines in manufacturing industries were more pronounced than the employment decreases, due
principally to generally reduced operating schedules and to plant
shut-downs in a number of States for the Armistice Day holiday and
election day.
Approximately 80,000 fewer workers were employed in November
in the combined 16 nonmanufacturing industries surveyed than in the
preceding month and weekly pay rolls in these industries were
$4,000,000 lower.
Employment in retail trade decreased 0.5 percent between October
and November, indicating 17,100 fewer workers employed in November than in the preceding month. This decrease is the first October to
November recession in retail trade employment since 1932, the average
November gain over the preceding 5 years being 23,800 workers.
The general merchandising group of retail establishments (department, variety, and general merchandising stores, and mail-order
houses) expanded their forces as is customary in November, employment rising 1.6 percent over the month interval. Other lines of retail
trade in which gains of a seasonal nature were shown included furniture, jewelry, and cigar stores. Employment in retail food stores
showed a slight gain (0.1 percent). Substantial declines, seasonal in
character, were reported in lumber and building materials (3.5 percent), wearing apparel (4.1 percent), and wood-coal-ice (6.6 percent).
Smaller losses were reported in the automotive group and drug stores.
Metalliferous mines reported a sharp decline in employment
(9.0 percent) over the month interval, due primarily to poor market
conditions and the close of the ore-shipping season on the Great Lakes.
Employment in private building construction continued to recede in
November, reflecting seasonal curtailment. Reports received from
11,019 contractors showed a decrease of 6.4 percent. The declines of
6.3 percent in dyeing and cleaning and 6.4 percent in quarries and
nonmetallic mines also reflected seasonal recessions. Laundries reduced their working forces 2.2 percent and the remaining nonmanufacturing industries which reported fewer employees (anthracite and
bituminous-coal mining, crude-petroleum producing, telephone and
telegraph, electric light and power, electric-railroad and motorbus
operation and maintenance, wholesale trade, hotels, and insurance)
showed decreases ranging from one-tenth of 1 percent to 1.3 percent.
Brokerage firms reported 0.8 percent more employees on their pay rolls
in November than in the preceding month.
Class I railroads employed 55,273 fewer workers (exclusive of
executives, officials, and staff assistants) according to a preliminary
report of the Interstate Commerce Commission. This report showed
1,047,960 such workers on pay rolls in November. Pay-roll figures for
November were not available when this report was prepared. For
October, the wage disbursements were $168,938,278 and for September, $163,645,431, a gain over the month interval of $4,292,847 or 3.2
percent.
Hours and earnings.—Factory wage earners worked 35.4 hours per
week in November according to reports covering full- and part-time
workers. This figure was 5.7 percent lower than the October average.
Average hourly earnings, however, advanced 0.3 percent to 66.7
cents, while average weekly earnings dropped 5.1 percent to $23.92.
Comparisons with November 1936 show a decrease of 12.7 percent
over the year interval in average hours worked per week, a gain of 15.2
percent in average hourly earnings, and a gain of 1.0 percent in average
weekly earnings.
Of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries for which man-hour data
are available only 1, electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance, showed a gain (0.2 percent) in average hours worked
per week. Increases in average hourly earnings were shown for
eight of these industries. Average weekly earnings were larger for
5 of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries covered.
A summary of employment and pay-roll indexes and average weekly
earnings in November 1937 for all manufacturing industries combined,
for selected nonmanufacturing industries, and for class I railroads,
with percentage changes over the month and year intervals except in
the few industries for which data are not available, is presented in
table 1.
TABLE 1.—Employment, Pay Rolls, and Earnings in All Manufacturing
Combined and in Nonmanufacturing Industries, November 1937
Industry
Index
November
1937
Percentage
change from—
October
1937
All manufacturing industries
combined i
Class I steam railroads 2
Coal mining:
Anthracite
Bituminous
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic
mining
Crude petroleum producing
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph...
Electric light and power
and manufactured g a s . . .
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance
Trade:
Wholesale
Retail
General merchandising
Other than general
merchandising
Hotels (year-round) 4
Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning._
^_
Brokerage
Insurance..
_
Building construction
Average weekly earnings
Pay rolls
Employment
November
1936
{1923-25
=100)
Index
November
1937
Percentage
change from—
October
1937
Industries
November
1936
Average in
November
Percentage
change from—
1937
October
$23.92
-5.1
1937
November
1936
(1923-25
=100)
89.5 -10.6
-1.3
-1.9
-.3
+19.9
100)
45.1 -11.6
77.8 - 9 . 5
71.6 -12.4
+12.1
-3.5
+31.1
26.00 -10.8
24.00 - 8 . 6
30.05 - 3 . 7
+14.3
-3.2
+9.3
41.7 -15.4
70.2
+.5
-4.0
+16.9
21.48
34.12
-9.6
+.8
+1.4
+10.8
94.7
-5.8
-2.3
59.4
-5.0
-2.8
100)
50.5
82.1
75.4
-1.0
-9.0
49.9
77.2
-6.4
-.3
-5.3
+5.5
79.1
-1.0
+7.3
91.1
-3.4
+11.7
30.57
-2.4
+4.1
97.3
-1.3
+4.0
103.8
-1.4
+13.1
34.44
-.1
+8.7
+1.0
+3.0
73.2
-.3
+.2
71.9
+.8
+3.2
32.21
93.5
91.7
-.5
-.5
+4.2
+1.8
78.3
75.3
-1.3
-.8
+7.2
+7.4
30.27
21.65
109.8
+1.6
+.5
97.1
+.9
+6.2
18.37
-.6
+5.8
86.9
88.9
88.0
80.0
()
-1.2
-.3
-2.2
-6.3
+2.1
+5.1
+1.2
-1.6
-4.6
+1.7
-4.3
70.8 - 1 . 3
+.2
77.9
79.2 - 2 . 8
-11.9
62.9
+1.1
(3)
+7.7
+11.9
+6.3
+4.5
-2.0
+5.4
+4.8
24.55
15.25
16.90
19.55
38.60
39.15
30.52
-.2
+5.4
+6.4
+5.1
+6.2
+2.8
+3.6
+9.6
+.8
-.1
-6.4
+1.8
-8.1
+2.8
+5.7
+.5
-ao
+.4
+1.8
-1.8
1 Revised indexes. Adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures.
2
Preliminary; source: Interstate Commerce Commission.
3 Not available.
* Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
Public Employment
In November employment on construction projects financed, from
Public Works Administration funds totaled 121,000, a decrease of
28,000, or 19.0 percent, compared with October. Decreases occurred
in the number of workers employed on Federal and non-Federal
projects financed from funds provided by the National Industrial
Eecovery Act and on projects financed from funds provided by the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935 and 1936. Projects
financed by the Public Works Extension Act of 1937 are just getting
under way, and this is the first month for which data are available.
Pay-roll disbursements for the month amounted to more than
$10,959,000 on all Public Works Administration projects.
38978—38
Employment on construction projects financed from regular Federal
appropriations was lower in November than in the preceding month.
Compared with October there was a decrease of 7,000 in the number
employed. Decreases in employment were reported for the following types of projects: Public roads, reclamation, locks and dams,
and streets and roads. There was virtually no change in the number
of workers employed on naval-vessel construction. All other types of
projects registered gains in employment. Pay-roll disbursements
totaling $20,304,000 were $607,000 less than in October.
There was a small increase in the number of workers on projects
financed by the Eeconstruction Finance Corporation. More than
4,000 workers were employed. The gain in employment on water
and sewerage projects more than offset decreases in the number of
workers employed on building construction and miscellaneous projects*
Pay rolls for the month on all types of projects exceeded $602,000.
The number of wage earners on projects financed by The Works
Program in November was 2,134,000, an increase in the employment
level of 54,000 compared with October. Of the total number employed in November, 185,000 were working on Federal projects under
The Works Program, 1,567,000 on projects operated by the Works
Progress Administration, and 382,000 on work projects of the National
Youth Administration and Student Aid. Pay-roll disbursements
totaling $97,549,000 were $895,000 more than in October.
In the regular services of the Federal Government increases in
employment were reported in the judicial and military services.
Employment in the legislative service was virtually the same and a
decrease occurred in the executive service. Of the 820,000 employees in the executive service in November, 112,000 were working
in the District of Columbia and 708,000 outside the District. Approximately 83.5 percent of the total number of employees in the
executive service were paid from regular appropriations and 16.5
percent from emergency funds. Among the departments reporting
pronounced decreases in employment were the Department of Agriculture, the Post Office Department, the Department of Labor, and
the Public Works Administration. Increases occurred in the Treasury
Department and Department of the Interior.
Decreases in the number of workers employed occurred in all groups
of workers in the Civilian Conservation Corps. During November
351,000 workers were employed, a decrease of 13,000 compared with
the preceding month. There were 302,000 enrollees, 6,000 Reserve
officers, 300 nurses, 2,000 educational advisers, and 41,000 supervisory and technical workers. Pay-roll disbursements for all workers
totaled $16,335,000.
A total of 193,000 workers were employed on road projects financed
wholly from State funds. This was an increase of 5,000 over the
number employed in October. Employment increased on new road
construction projects and on maintenance projects. Of the total
number employed 84.7 percent were engaged in maintenance work
and 15.3 percent on new construction. For both types of work pay
rolls totaled $12,777,000.
A summary of Federal employment and pay-roll statistics for
October and November is given in table 2.
TABLE 2.—Summary of Federal Employment and Pay Rolls, November 19371
[Preliminary figures]
Pay rolls
Percentage
change November
October
October
Employment
Class
November
Federal services:
3 819,927 « 827, 727 -0.9 $119,163,057
Executive 2
547, 685
1,999
1,975
Judicial
+1.2
1,219, 978
5,345
Legislative
5,347
(8)
24,659,262
323,403 322, 763
Military
+.2
Construction projects:
121,102 149,564 -19.0
10,959,110
Financed by P. W. AA__
4,421
4,261
602,221
Financed by E. F. C.7
_.
+3.S
Financed by regular Federal ap211,004 218,347
-3.4
20,303,903
propriations
Federal projects under The Works
184,654 192, 631
-4.1
10,857,382
Program
Projects operated by W. P. A
1, 566, 697 1, 527,604
+2.6
82,714,339
National Youth Administration:
125,922 122,827
Work projects
+2.5
2,225,961
256,636 237,307 +8.1
1, 751, 568
Student Aid
-3.5
16,335,299
Civilian Conservation Corps
350, 714 363, 256
Percentage
change
$122,986,050
501, 589
1,229,405
25,207,388
-3.1
+9.2
-.g
-2.2
12,903,311
558,419
20,911,266
-15.1
+7.8
-2.9
11,452,256
81,486,784
-5.2
+1.5
< 2,165,339
< 1, 549,634
15,622,911
+2.8
+13.0+4.6.
1 Includes data on projects financed wholly or partially from Federal funds.
2 Includes force-account and supervisory and technical employees shown under other classifications to
the extent of 112,827 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $13,706,788 for November and 114,846 employees
and pay-roll disbursements of $14,019,780 for October.
3 Of this decrease in November of 7,800 workers, 1,300 employees were transferred from pay rolls of the
United
States Employment Service to State pay rolls.
4
Revised.
»6 Less than Ho of 1 percent.
Data covering P. W. A. projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935,1936, and 1937 funds are included. These
data are not shown under The Works Program. Includes 80,541 wage earners and $6,814,004 pay roll
for November; 101,864 wage earners and $8,252,933 pay roll for October; covering P. W. A. projects financed
from
E. R. A. A. 1935, 1936 and 1937 funds.
7
Includes 167 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $11,824 for November and 78 employees and payroll disbursements of $6,206 for October on projects financed by the RFC Mortgage Co.
DETAILED REPORTS FOR NOVEMBER 1937
Industrial and Business Employment
MONTHLY reports on employment and pay rolls are available for
the following groups: 89 manufacturing industries; 16 nonmanufacturing industries, including private building construction; and class I
steam railroads. The reports for the first two of these groups—manufacturing and nonmanufacturing—are based on sample surveys by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, and in virtually all industries the samples
are large enough to be entirely representative. The figures on class I
steam railroads are compiled by the Interstate Commerce Commission
and are presented in the foregoing summary.
EMPLOYMENT, PAY ROLLS, HOURS, AND EARNINGS
The indexes of employment and pay rolls, average hours worked
per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings in
manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries in November 1937
are shown in table 3. Percentage changes from October 1937 and
November 1936 are also given.
Indexes of employment and pay rolls as well as average hours worked
per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings for
September, October, and November 1937, are presented in table 4.
The September and October figures may differ in some instances from
those previously published because of revisions necessitated by the
inclusion of late reports and other causes.
Average weekly earnings shown in tables 3 and 4 are computed by
dividing the total weekly pay rolls in the reporting establishments by
the total number of full- and part-time employees reported. As all
reporting establishments do not supply man-hour data, average hours
worked per week and average hourly earnings are necessarily based
on data supplied by a smaller number of reporting firms. The size
and composition of the reporting sample varies slightly from month
to month and therefore the average hours per week, average hourly
earnings, and average weekly earnings shown in the two following
tables are not strictly comparable from month to month. The sample,
however, is believed to be sufficiently adequate in virtually all instances to indicate the general movements of earnings and hoars over
the period shown.
TABLE 3.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, November 1937
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average 1923-25=100 and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures. Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to October 1936]
Employment
Industry
All manufacturing industries..
Durable goods
Nondurable goods__
Durable goods
Average weekly
earnings *
Pay rolls
Percentage
Percentage
change from changefom—
Index
Index
NoNoNovember
vember Octovember OctoNoNo1937
1937
ber vember 1937
ber vember
1937
1936
1936
1937
94.7
-5.8
-2.3
94.4
97.3
-5.3
-6.1
+1.5
-5.8
Average hours worked
per week
November
1937
89.5
-10.6
-1.3
$23.92
-5.1
+1.0
35.4
+1.1
26.80
20. 54
-6.6
-3.5
-.4
89.0
-11.6
-9.4
36.4
34.4
-4.2
+1.6
Percentage
change from —
Percentage
change from —
Percentage
change from —
OctoNober vember
1937
1936
Average hourly
earnings»
OctoNober vember
1937
1936
November
1937
-5.7
-12.7
Cents
66.7
-4.5
-14.8
-10.4
73.3
59.6
OctoNober vember
1937
1936
+0.3
+.4
0
+15.2
+17.0
+12.0
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
-.7
+20.8
98.1
-7.3
24.64 -13.4
-9.4
85.7 -19.8 -10.5
-12.2
-1.2
76.3
-1.1
+23.2
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills. __ 108.6
-7.6
+.8 92.9 -21.9 -11.5 25.33 -15.5 -12.2
30.7 -13.9 -29.3
82.8
80.5
+19.4
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
-5.1
-.2
22.34 -14.4 -11.0
32.3 -15.5 -25.6
78.7 -18.8 -11.2
69.2 +1.2
57.9
- 8 . 2 —10.9 19.68
- 2 . 5 -13.9
Cast-iron pipe
_
-6.8 -11.7
33.5
+17.0
+.9
42.6
-1.5
58.5 +1.5
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cut60.2
+11.9
lery) and edge tools
-1.7
+2.9 80.5 - 6 . 3 -2.4 22.94 - 4 . 7 - 5 . 2
38.9
-15.5
-4.7
74.1
Forgings, iron and steel
64.7
-9.7
+.5
-4.3
26.22
35.6 -10.0 -16.8
55.8 -17.5
-8.7
+1.5 +14.8
—. 1
-5.9
+18.1
Hardware
91.5
-3.1
-6.0
24.55
69.4
35.4 -10.1 -20.9
99.9 -12.7
-9.9
+.2 +14.7
89.6
-4.2
+4.4
+.3 22.45 -13.0 - 3 . 9
Plumbers'supplies
33.6 -13.7 -15.9
66.8
63.5 -16.7
+.7
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
66.3
-10.1
23.18 -11.6 -10.3
69.8
+.6 +18.9
53.1 —20.3 -19.4
33.1 -12.3 -25.0
steam
fittings
_
91.1 -15.9 -20.5
21.02 -18.0 -20.6
65.5
+.1
65.0 -31.0 -36.9
32.3 -18.0 -26.3
+7.9
Stoves
75.0
-5.3
-6.5
71.4
+.4 +19.2
39.3
-4.0
Structural and ornamental metalwork
+2.3 74.5 - 8 . 7 +13.7 27.99 - 3 . 5 +11.2
96.8
-4.0
-5.0
61.9
-.2
37.5
-2.7
Tin cans and other tinware
_
._.
+13.5
+1.1 99.8 - 7 . 1 +8.3 23.07 - 3 . 3 +7.1
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
91.7
-5.4
-1.9
90.3 -10.3
-7.4
22.95
-5.6
+.8 +16.7
files, and saws)
_
-5.2
- 5 . 8 -19.4
62.2
36.7
179.5
-4.1
+2.8
162.3 -19.8
-6.2
Wirework
-8.7
-2.5
+25.5
23.00 -16.3
33.5 - 1 4 . 3 -27.3
68.7
* Average weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data supplied
by a smaller number of establishments as all reporting firms do not furnish man-hours. Percentage changes over year are computed from indexes. Percentage changes over month
in average weekly earnings for the manufacturing groups, for all manufacturing industries combined, and for retail trade are also computed from indexes.
TABLE 3.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufactliring Industries, November 1937—Continued
MANUFACTURING-Continued
[Indexes are based on 3-year average 1923-25=100 and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures. Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to October 1936]
Industry
Durable
Average weekly
earnings
Pay rolls
Employment
Average hours worked
per week
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
change from —
change from —
change from —
change from —
change from —
Index
Index
NoNoNoNoNovember
vember
vember
vember OctoNo- vember Octo1937
OctoNoNoOctoOctoNo1937
1937
Nober
ber
1937
ber vember
ber vember
ber vember
vember 1937
vember
1936
1936
1936
1937
1936
1937
1937
1937
1937
1936
goods—Continued
Machinery, not including transportation equipmentAgricultural implements
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels..
Foundry and machine-shop products
Machine tools
Radios and phonographs.
_
Textile machinery and parts
Typewriters and p a r t s .
Transportation equipment
Aircraft..
Automobiles
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad
Locomotives
_
Shipbuilding
_
_
_
Railroad repair shops
Electric railroadSteam railroad
Nonferrous metals and their products
Aluminum manufactures
Brass, bronze, and copper products
Clocks and watches and time-recording devicesJewelry.
-Lighting equipment
Silverware and plated ware
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.
Stamped and enameled ware
Average hourly
earnings
121.4
143.0
-5.8
-5.0
133.6
113.1
147.8
104.8
153.9
156.7
77.7
138.4
121.8
795.0
133.2
65.8
61.6
105.9
57.4
63.1
57.0
108.4
123.5
105.5
125.0
100.3
95.6
79.3
88.0
144.0
-2.0
-5.2
-3.1
-5.1
-2.4
-21.9
-6.1
-6.4
—.7
+1.4
-.6
-3.0
-3.8
-.9
-2.7
-.5
-2.8
-3.8
+18.0
-6.7
-2.0
-5.8
-4.4
-1.8
-4.5
-6.5
+9.0
+53.5
+11.8
+9.7
+25.1
+8.0
+20.5
-25.6
+4.9
—.5
+5.9
+23.0
+3.8
+14.5
+52.2
+8.7
-5.3
—.4
-5.6
-1.5
+4.0
-6.5
+3.7
1% g
+7^5
+10.8
-7.7
121.2
184.5
-9.7
-9.4
141.2
114.3
155.0
101.8
157.9
123.0
70.2
106.0
120.0
725.3
125.8
81.1
51.4
121.4
63.3
68.2
63.0
99.9
127.8
92.1
122.3
78.8
94.4
72.6
83.8
141.5
-4.9
-8.4
-2.8
-10.3
-7.3
-25.7
-13.3
-17.5
-7.6
+.3
-9.1
-1.7
-8.3
-2.4
-2.5
+.2
-2.9
-9.1
+10.2
-13. 7
-7.8
-11.8
-9.5
-10.0
-7.9
-9.5
+14.8
+80.9
+26.5
+18.0
+46.1
+9.2
+27.0
-27.4
+4.2
-21.2
+5.8
+31.2
(2)
+40.9
+82.0
+24.7
-2.9
+4.1
-3.6
-2.1
+11.3
-11.3
+.3
+1.1
-2.7
+1.4
+19.7
-8.7
$27.79
28.74
-4.1
-4.6
32.61
27.74
32.38
27.12
31.63
20.74
24.50
20.43
31.03
27.89
31.23
29.61
32.47
31.02
31.61
30.63
31.78
24.63
25.82
24.77
22.22
24.09
25.07
24.84
27.90
22.76
-2.9
-3.3
+.3
-5.5
-5.0
-4.9
-7.6
-11.8
-7.0
-1.1
-8.6
+1.4
-4.7
-1.6
+.3
+.6
-.1
-5.4
-6.6
-7.5
-5.9
-6.4
-5.3
-8.3
-3.6
-3.2
+5.4
+17.7
+13.1
+7.7
+16.9
+1.1
+5.4
-2.5
-.7
-20.8
+.1
+6.7
-3.7
+23.0
+19.6
+14.7
+2.5
+4.6
+2.2
-.5
+7.0
-5.2
-3.3
+1.6
-1.0
-5.8
+8.1
-1.1
37.9
38.9
-5.0
-4.2
39.7
37.2
39.3
38.3
42.9
33.2
37.0
32.5
35.1
39.7
34.3
38.5
41.4
36.9
43.0
43.6
43.0
37.3
38.5
33.7
38.6
40.3
38.3
38.8
39.9
37.1
-3.3
-4.6
-.5
-5.8
-5.1
-6.6
-6.6
-12.0
-6.9
-2.0
-8.2
—1.4
-6.0
-.6
-.6
-.2
-.6
-6.2
-4.9
-8.0
-6.0
-6.9
-5.8
-8.2
-3.7
-5.4
-10.6
-2.8
-.6
-10.2
-2.0
-13.2
-6.3
-11.8
-10.2
-27.8
-14.8
-4.8
-18.5
+2.4
-.4
+4.2
-3.7
-2.6
-3.8
-15.3
-10.3
-22.6
-15.4
-5.0
-17.4
-14.3
-8.0
-15.8
Cents
72.6
74.1
82.7
74.6
82.8
70.8
73.8
62.5
66.6
62.7
88.9
70.2
91.3
76.9
78.5
83.8
73.6
68.5
74.1
65.9
67.2
73.4
57.6
58.9
65.4
64.1
69.8
61.2
+0.8
-.4
+.3
+1.3
+.7
+.3
+.1
+1.8
-1.0
+.1
+1.0
+2 9
+1.4
+.6
+.4
+4
+i4
-1.9
+.5
+.1
-1.0
+1.0
-.3
+.2
+2.1
+17.2
+22.4
+13.8
+18.5
+18.9
+16.3
+12.4
+11.9
+10.9
+9.5
+17.1
+13.4
+18.3
+18.9
+20.0
+8.3
+6.2
+7.4
+6.1
+17.5
+19.1
+22.5
+15.9
+6.0
+20.4
+8.6
+17.5
+17.1
Lumber and allied products
_
_
Furniture
Lumber:
Millwork__
____
Sawmills
Stone, clay, and glass products
Brick, tile, and terra cotta
Cement
Glass
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
Pottery
_..
63.5
79.5
-8.4
-8.6
-6.3
55.1
65.8
-15.6
-14.4
-9.4
-15.2
19.48
19.66
-7.7
-6.6
-3.2
-5.9
51.2
47.6
68.2
45.5
66.1
106.7
42.1
76. 9
-5.6
-9.8
-4.5
-9.0
-4.5
-3.0
-3.2
-2.3
-4.2
-4.7
-10.6
-18.2
-8.6
-17.6
-6.7
-6.2
-8.5
-4.0
-6.7
-5.3
20.58
18.99
23.71
19.18
25.73
25.21
23.88
24.05
-5.2
-9.4
-4.3
-9.4
-2.3
-3.3
-5.5
-1.8
-2.6
+1.3
-8.3
+3.0
+9.3
46.3
40.4
63.6
36.4
67.3
111.9
34.6
70.0
+3.6
+2.9
+4.2
+4.6
92.0
87.2
85.7
91.1
91. 2
108.8
83.0
111.9
67.6
59.8
101.0
90.7
134.9
88.1
130.4
43.8
114.6
80.3
80.8
82.9
114.6
135.2
194.3
83.7
118.7
91.8
76.0
65.1
90.5
252.1
70.4
62.9
56.7
63.6
-6.9
-5.1
-3.4
-2.9
-7.3
-3.0
-12.2
-11.7
-9.2
-8.4
-11.9
-7.6
-3.8
-10.3
-12.5
-9.9
-12.3
-10.3
-1.8
-4.0
-15.8
-5.1
-10.3
-10.9
-7.5
-8.3
-2.3
-4.1
-3.1
-36.1
-3.9
-1.1
-5.4
-7.5
-15.5
-28.6
-12.9
-14.8
-14.7
-2.5
-8.8
-8.4
-8.1
-9.8
-8.0
-15.7
71.5
71.5
49.7
76.8
79.0
89.0
61.0
112.3
50.8
42.8
68.6
61.1
84.2
82.1
103.8
26.7
102.6
53.8
46.0
82.7
115.9
130.3
212.7
67.2
111.4
89.8
76.7
61.5
102.3
267.4
66.8
57.2
63.8
56.4
-15.1
-11.7
-22.6
-9.8
-18.4
-5.9
-1.6
-8.5
-18.6
-18.9
-21.1
-23.8
-23.5
-6.0
-7.2
-24.7
-8.8
-18.9
-21.6
-12.9
-7.3
-5.1
-4.3
-4.3
-40.7
8# 8
15.37
15.24
13.77
13.25
16.10
19. 87
19.96
17.40
14.54
16.43
15.74
15.82
17.25
15.52
14.36
17.40
13.14
15.48
13.72
22.13
24.46
25.10
32.22
22.42
15.74
17.63
26.10
29.16
28.31
25.09
26.41
16.72
17.06
16.66
-8.8
-6.9
-19.8
-7.1
-12.0
-2.9
-1.6
-5.0
-9.3
-7.3
-12.5
-13.1
-14.8
-4.2
-3.4
-10.6
-3.9
-9.6
-12.0
-5.8
-6.6
-6.6
-39.0
-4.8
-8.2
-4.2
-10.5
-2.3
-5.7
—9.4
-6.9
-9.5
-4.0
-4.3
-9.1
—6.7
-4.1
-11.4
-14.1
-2.6
-9.9
-2.8
-.2
+4.1
-11.5
+6.8
+12.6
+1.3
+4.4
-.8
+2.8
-3.5
37.0
37.2
-7.3
-8.1
-14.0
-18.1
52.8
53.2
37.7
37.3
36.5
35.8
38.2
35.8
36.2
37.9
-5.9
-7.2
-5.6
-8.6
-2.9
-4.5
-6.3
-5.4
-17.2
-10.6
-11.8
-17.3
-10.3
-10.4
-2.7
-10.8
54.7
52.0
64.4
53.4
67.4
70.5
66.3
63.1
30.6
31.5
21.2
31.5
33.1
34.4
28.2
33.7
31.7
27.7
28.9
26.1
29.2
33.6
32.8
-6.7
-6.5
-20.5
-6.7
-11.0
-2.7
-15.9
-17.4
-49.3
-16.9
-15.9
-14.6
-16.7
-12.4
-14.7
-24.6
-12.7
-20.1
-7.1
-6.2
-17.2
50.9
49.2
64.9
42.1
50.0
57.6
71.6
52.4
46.2
59.4
54.3
61.1
55.5
46.0
37.3
33.1
28.6
26.9
35.2
40.3
41.4
38.8
-3.0
-10.1
-11.5
-6.0
-2.3
-3.8
-.8
-12.1
-18.7
-20.4
-12.2
-4.7
-1.4
—1.5
40.4
54.5
52.3
62.8
60.2
61.1
84.2
33.8
38.7
43.7
46.5
41.1
49.6
40.9
37.4
33.5
37.9
-11.5
-6.2
-3.9
-8.9
-4.8
-3.9
47.8
45.6
58.8
61.3
68.1
50.8
62.8
44.9
51.1
44.2
-.7
+1.5
+1.0
-2.5
+.6
-.8
0
+.8
+.6
+.9
+12.7
+14.4
+17.4
+10.7
+15.6
+17.6
+14.8
+14.8
+8.2
+15.2
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products
Fabrics. _
_
Carpets and rugs
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing textiles
Hats, fur-felt
_
Knit goods...
_
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods.Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's..
Clothing, women's
C orsets and allied garments
Men's furnishings
Millinery
Shirts and collars
Leather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes
Leather
Food and kindred products
Baking
Beverages
Butter
Canning and preserving
Confectionery
Flour
Ice cream
Slaughtering and meat packing
Sugar, beet
Sugar refining, cane
Tobacco manufactures. _
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff
Cigars and cigarettes
*Less than Mo of 1 percent.
__
(2)
+1.2
+Z3
+.5
+1.0
+.6
+.3
+.4
+1.7
+6.2
+2.1
+5.0
(2)
+1.8
+4.7
-6.7
-7.8
+3.4
-4.6
—.7
-5.0
-18.0
-17.5
-44.6
-12.7
-19.2
-11.5
-10.3
-9.6
-20.3
-35.2
-18.9
-22.9
-18.0
-6.8
-17.3
-14.4
-11.9
-20.1
-20.9
-17.9
+7.0
+8.3
+11.2
+3.3
+13.5
+6.1
—s!l
+9.0
-3.7
+9.3
+2.2 +2.5
+19.2
+4.0 +13! 9
-1.2
+4.4
-6.5
+2.6
-.3
+4.6
+6.5
+6.5
+4.7
-.2
+1.2
-1.2
+8.0
-7.1
-5.2
+6.2
-4.1
+7.1
+1.8 +4.5
+1.0 +9.7
+19.6 +7.9
+1.7 +10.1
-1.7
+9.3
-7.4
+3.3
-.9
+10.3
+1.1
-2.8
+5.0
-5.2
-7.4
-8.5
-7.4
-11.5
-6.2
-1.5
-8.1
+.2
+1.2
+19.3
+6.4
-.5
-6.5
+.1
-.9
-6.3
-9.2
-5.0
+1.1
-7.0
+2.0
-2.3
-.2
+.8
-.3
-.2
+.3
-1.2
+.2
-1.7
+1.3
-5.3
-1.6
-9.8
-2.4
+.7
+.1
+.5
+.6
-.1
+2.5
+.9
+.8
+3.5
+.8
+.1
+1.8
-.4
-3.0
-6.0
-.8
-1.4
f
- . 7
+11.0
+14.0
+18.6
+15.3
+11.7
+13.1
+7.5
+11.5
+11.8
+19.8
+6.2
+12.2
+4.1
+3.3
+1.2
+8.7
+8.3
+7.8
+10.9
+11.7
+8.0
+6.5
+18.8
+12.9
+10.1
+5.3
+17.6
+17.5
+16.6
+10.1
+11.1
+9.8
TABLE 3.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanujacturing
Industries, November
1937—Continued
MANUFACTURING-Continued
[Indexes are based on 3-year average 1923-25=100 and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures. Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to October 1936]
Employment
Industry
Nondurable
Av(jrage weekly
Pay rolls
earnings
Average hours worked
per week
Average hourly
earnings
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
change from—
change from—
change from—
Index change from— Index change from—
NoNoNoNoNovember
vember
vember
vember OctoNo- vember OctoNoOcto- NoOcto- No1937
1937
1937
NoOctober
1937
ber vember 1937
ber vember
ber vember
ber vember
vember
1937
1936
1937
1936
106.4
103.3
113.6
-1.4
-1.4
-3.2
+1.8
98.3
107.0
-.5
-.5
122.7
122.4
129.8
121.0
112.5
95.4
75.3
128.0
374.0
100.4
123.9
90.9
71.9
-3.0
-3.4
-4.0
-4.8
-2.0
-1.9
-6.5
-2.7
-3.5
-2.4
-1.4
-7.0
-7.1
128.2
80.8
-6.6
-7.1
1937
1936
101.5
102.6
105.4
-3.4
-5.8
-9.7
+2.9
$27.48
20.42
23.26
-2.1
-4.4
-6.7
+1.6
93.1
106.1
+.5
29.96
37.42
+9
-.9
-19.0
-10.2
28.07
25.59
30.25
13.18
24.33
31.64
17.02
26.95
23.79
28.23
34.42
24.11
21.70
-6.5
-4.9
+3.3
+2.5
+12.4
+11.6
+11.3
+16.4
+4.9
+8.4
+13.7
+4.5
+17.6
+17.6
+15.2
-1.1
-9.1
-9.9
132.1
129.6
141.7
113.0
125.8
106.6
77.4
124.8
360.3
116.9
140.4
82.0
62.1
-3.9
-4.8
-5.9
-4.9
-2.5
-3.5
-6.9
-7.0
-3.9
-3.5
-1.3
-13.0
-11.7
-5.4
-11.1
121.7
72.9
-12.7
-13.5
-6.7
-26.2
21.93
26.26
-6.6
-6.9
1937
1936
37.7
39.0
36.9
-2.3
-4.4
-6.7
-7.6
-14.1
-14.7
38.7
37.1
+1.2
+.1
-.5
-1.5
-.3
38.5
39.5
38.7
53.5
39.2
39.7
38.6
38.8
37.0
39.2
35.8
31.6
35.9
-1.4
-17.0
36.0
27.2
1937
1936
goods—Continued
Paper and printing
_
Boxes, paper._.
Paper and pulp
_
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining
Other than petroleum refining
_
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal
Druggists' preparations
Explosives
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products
.
Soap
-._
Petroleum refining
_
Rubber products..
Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires,
and inner tubes
Rubber tires and inner tubes.
-2.7
+1.5
+2.8
+1.6
+2.5
+2.5
2
+16.'8
+6.3
(2)
+7.9
+2.2
+2.7
-2.1
+2.3
-5.7
+.9
+6.3
+4.2
+15.2
+14.4
+11.1
+36.0
+11.6
+8.4
+22.6
+6.8
+20.8
+15.1
+17.9
-.7
-1.4
-2.0
—.1
-.5
-1.7
-.5
-4.4
-.4
-1.1
+.1
-3.0
-.6
-10.9
Cents
75.7
52.8
63.2
(2)
+0.2
2
()
78.5
97.1
-.2
-.5
+.5
+.5
+.3
-6.5
-4.1
-1.6
-1.4
-17.0
-12.0
73.8
65.8
78.2
24.8
58.3
79.8
44.1
69.6
64.4
72.4
97.0
79.0
60.4
-6.9
-7.1
-10.0
-24.4
60.9
97.2
-2.0
-2.2
-1.3
-.9
-2.0
-.2
-4.2
-1.3
- 22 . 0
()
-2.7
-2.6
-2.9
-6.5
+1.7
-3.0
-4.7
-.1
-6.7
+5
+1.4
0
+3
-]3
+.8
tl
+.3
-.8
-.3
+.8
+8.4
+12.5
+16.6
+4.0
+5.3
+16.2
+15.5
+19.1
+14.8
+7.2
+13.7
+14.6
+11.9
+17.3
+19.8
+17.8
+10.2
+14.5
+11.4
+9.9
to
NONMANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929=100]
§§ Coal mining:
•3
Anthracite
T
BituminousI Metalliferous mining
_
._
<x> Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
I Crude-petroleum producing
Public utilities:
I
Telephone and telegraph
Electric light and power and manufactured
gas
_
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance
_
Trade:
Wholesale
_
Betail
General merchandising...
_.
_
Other than general merchandising
Hotels (year-round) 3
_
Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning
_
_
Brokerage
Insurance..
_
Building construction
50.5
82.1
75.4
49.9
77.2
-0.9
-1.0
-9.0
-6.4
79.1
-1.0
+5.5
+7.3
97.3
-1.3
+4.0
73.2
-.3
+.2
71.9
93.5
91.7
109.8
86.9
88.9
88.0
80.0
4
-.5
-.5
+4.2
+1.8
+.5
+2.1
+5.1
+1.2
78.3
75.3
97.1
70.8
77.9
79.2
62.9
4
()
(4)
(4)
-.3
+1.6
-1.2
-.3
-2.2
-6.3
+.8
-.1
-6.4
-1.9
—.3
+19.9
-5.3
-1.6
-4.6
+1.7
-4.3
45.1
77.8
71.6
41.7
70.2
-11.6
-9.5
-12.4
-15.4
91.1
-3.4
103.8
()
(4)
(4)
+.5
-3.5
+31.1
-4.0
+16.9
+11.7
+13.1
+.8 +3.2
+7.2
-1.3
g
+7.4
+!9 +6.2
-1.3
+7.7
+.2 +11.9
-2.8
+6.3
-11.9
+4.5
-2.0
+1.1
+5.4
+1.8
-8.1
+4.8
-1.4
2 Less than Ho of 1 percent.
Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
Not available.
43
+12.1 $26.00
24.00
30.05
21.48
34.12
-10.8
-8.6
-3.7
-9.6
+.8
30.57
-2.4
34.44
-.1
32.21
+1.0
30.27
21.65
18.37
24.55
15.25
16.90
19.55
38.60
39.15
30.52
-.8
-.3
-.6
2
+^5
7
-ao
+.4
+1.8
-1.8
+14.3
-0.6
-1.1
-1.5
— 7
+1.0
-3.1
84.9
+1.8
+1.7
85.8
+.5
-.2
-1.6
69.4
+1.1
-.7
-.6
-.5
-.5
-.7
-1.3
- 44 . 7
-1.6
-2.7
-4.1
-2.3
-2.0
-1.9
- 24 . 6
70.6
55.9
51.2
57.5
32.2
40.7
49.1
4
+.4
+1.3
-3.3
-3.2
91.6
+1.2
-10.0
-9.3
-2.2
-9.0
38.6
-4.1
+8.7
+3.0
40.4
-.6
45.9
+2.8
+5.7
+5.8
+5.4
+6.4
+5.1
+6.2
+2.8
+3.6
+9.6
42.7
42.7
39.2
43.9
47.2
41.6
40.8
4
33.1
()
(4)
+2.7
90.7
87.8
69.9
55.0
84.3
28.3
26.9
43.1
38.9
39.9
-3.2
+9.3
+1.4
+10.8
+4.1
-.2
<)
(4)
-17.0
-1.9
-10.3
()
(4)
()
(4)
+ie
-.1
+.2
-.2
+.4
-1.1
(4)
(4)
+9.3
+12.3
+11.3
+12.6
+8.7
+7.4
+8.2
+5.7
+5.1
+8.9
+11.3
+8.2
+7.3
+7.2
+8.0
(4)
()
+13.2
CO
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nottmanufaduring Industries, November, October, and September,
1937
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average 1923-25=100 and are adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures. Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to October 1936. Comparable series available on request]
Employment index
Pay-roll index
Average weekly
earnings *
Average hours worked
per week *
Average hourly
earnings *
Industry
Sep- Novem- OctoNovem- OctoSep- Novem- OctoSep- Novem- OctoSep- Novem- Octo- Sepber
ber
ber
ber
tember
ber tember
ber
ber
ber
ber tember
tember
ber
tember
All manufacturing industries
Durable goods
-
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
89.5
100.1
100.1
$23.92
$25.39
$24.92
35.4
37.6
97.3
107.3
89.9
89.0
101.7
98.2
99.4
100.9
26.80
20.54
28.83
21.37
28.18
21,30
36.4
34.4
105 8
117.5
84.8
62.1
108.8
121.4
87.5
64.9
85.7
92.9
78.7
42.6
106.8
118.9
96.9
46.3
112.8
129.7
96.9
48.9
24.64
25.33
22.34
19.68
28.50
29.96
25. 94
19.98
29.37
31.65
25.21
20.15
88.3
64.7
91.5
89.6
89.8
71.6
94.4
93.6
89.9
73.0
92 6
94.5
80.5
55.8
99.9
63.5
85.9
67.6
114.5
76.2
86.7
69.6
101.4
72.7
22.94
26.22
24.55
22.45
24.06
28.86
27.26
25.83
66.3
91.1
75.0
96.8
73.5
108.3
79.1
100.8
77.4
113.4
82.3
114.0
53.1
65.0
74.5
99.8
66.6
94.2
81.6
107.5
72.2
97.8
83.9
122.6
23.18
21.02
27.99
23.07
91.7
179.5
97.0
187.2
98.4
170.3
90.3
162.3
100.7
202.3
103.6
166.8
121.4
143.0
128.9
150.5
130.7
147.2
121.2
184.5
134.2
203.5
133.6
113.1
136.3
119.3
136.5
121.3
141.2
114.3
148.4
124.8
1937
1937
1937
94.7
100.5
102.1
92.4
97.3
97.6
103.6
98.1
108.6
80.5
57.9
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
37.4
Cents
66.7
Cents
66.6
Cents
65.8
39.1
35.9
38.6
36.1
73.3
59.6
73.0
59.6
72.4
59.0
32.6
30.7
32.3
33.5
37.0
35.7
38.2
34.4
37.8
37.5
37.6
35.1
76.3
82.8
69.2
58.5
76.8
83.7
68.0
57.7
76.8
84.2
67.3
56.7
24.32
29.23
24.58
24.57
38.9
35.6
35.4
33.6
40.4
39.5
39.3
39.0
40.7
39.7
36.5
37.2
60.2
74.1
69.4
66.8
60.6
73.3
69.3
66.4
61.0
73.9
67.2
65.9
26.24
25.59
29.04
23.85
26.97
25.37
28.69
23.97
33.1
32.3
39.3
37.5
37.7
39.3
40.9
38.6
38.7
38.9
40.7
39.7
69.8
65.5
71.4
61.9
69.4
65.4
71.2
62.0
69.7
65.3
70.6
60.8
22.95
23.00
24.20
26.79
24.54
24.47
36.7
33.5
39.0
37.9
39.7
35.6
62.2
68.7
61.9
70.8
61.6
68.7
134.3
189.2
27.79
28.74
28.86
30.14
28.47
28.78
37.9
38.9
39.9
40.6
39.7
38.8
72.6
74.1
72.0
74.5
71.6
74.4
146.5
124.1
32.61
27.74
33.61
28.65
33.20
28.05
39.7
37.2
41.1
39.0
40.9
38.4
82.7
74.6
82.5
73.6
81.9
73.1
1937
Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
«
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills __
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Cast-iron pipe .
Cutlery (not including silver and plated
cutlery) and edge tools
_Forgings, iron, and steel
Hardware
Plumbers' supplies
-_ -Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings
Stoves - - Structural and ornamental metalwork
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)_._
Wirework
Machinery, not including transportation equipment
Agricultural implements
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies-
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels..
Foundry and machine-shop products
Machine tools
Radios and phonographs
Textile machinery and parts
Typewriters and parts
Transportation equipment
___
_
Aircraft
_
Automobiles
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad
_..
Locomotives
Shipbuilding
Railroad repair shops
Electric railroad.-.
Steam railroad
Nonferrous metals and their products
Aluminum manufactures
_
_.
Brass, bronze, and copper products
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices
Jewelry
_
Lighting equipment.
Silverware and plated ware
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc..
Stamped and enameled ware
Lumber and allied products
_
Furniture
_.
Lumber:
Millwork
Sawmills.-.Stone, clay, and glass products
__.
Brick, tile, and terra cotta
Cement
Olass
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
Pottery
_
147.8
104.8
153.9
156.7
77.7
138.4
121.8
795.0
133. 2
65.8
61.6
105.9
57.4
63.1
57.0
108.4
123.5
105.5
152.5
110.4
157.7
200.5
82.8
147.9
122.7
784.0
133.9
67.9
64.1
106.8
59.0
63.3
58.7
112.7
104.7
113.1
153.6
111.9
157.6
208.3
84.0
151.2
107.0
766.8
112.5
68.5
64.4
106.2
60.4
63.4
60.2
114.1
131.0
114.8
155.0
101.8
157.9
123.0
70.2
106.0
120.0
725.3
125.8
81.1
51.4
121.4
63.3
68.2
63.0
99.9
127.8
92.1
159.4
113.5
170.3
165.5
80.9
128.4
129.9
723.0
138.3
82.5
56.0
124.4
64.9
68.0
64.9
109.9
115.9
106.7
158. 8
114.2
165. 5
173.9
85.2
142.8
104.4
670.4
105.6
79.7
55.0
119.0
63.1
67.7
62.9
110.1
135. 7
113.2
32.38
27.12
31.63
20.74
24.50
20.43
31.03
27.89
31.23
29.61
32.47
31.02
31.61
30.63
31.78
24.63
25.82
24.77
32.36
28.69
33. 31
21.67
26.26
23.17
33.37
28.17
34.07
29.13
34.08
31.54
31.58
30.46
31.76
26.18
27.63
26.76
32.00
28.42
32.36
21.94
27.18
25.20
30.57
26.71
30.93
27.89
33.28
30.34
30.05
30.24
30.02
25.95
26.05
27.94
39.3
38.3
42.9
33.2
37.0
32.5
35.1
39.7
34.3
38.5
41.4
36.9
43.0
43.6
43.0
37.3
38.5
33.7
39.4
40.6
45.1
35.6
39.3
37.0
37.7
40.6
37.3
38.9
44.0
37.3
43.2
43.7
43.2
39.7
40.4
36.7
39.2
40.4
44.2
36.9
41.3
39.5
35.0
38.5
34.2
37.4
43.7
35.8
41.0
43.6
40.8
39.1
39.5
38.1
82.8
70.8
73.8
62.5
66.6
62.7
88.9
70.2
91.3
76.9
78.5
83.8
73.6
68.5
74.1
65.9
67.2
73.4
82.5
70.6
73.9
61.1
67.2
62.6
88.6
69.5
91.4
74.8
77.4
83.0
73.4
68.0
73.8
65.8
68.4
73.0
82.2
70.3
73.3
60.0
65.9
63.8
87.4
69.3
90.4
74.7
76.1
83.2
73.4
67.9
73.8
66.0
66.0
73.4
125.0
100.3
95.6
79.3
88.0
144.0
63.6
79.5
127.5
106.4
100.1
80.8
92.1
154.0
69.5
86.8
127.0
101.1
97.2
79.5
93.0
153.2
71.8
89.1
122.3
78.8
94.4
72.6
83.8
141.5
55.1
65.8
132.7
89.4
104.3
80.7
90.9
156.4
65.3
76.8
128.0
81.7
98.5
81.4
88.6
149.2
68.2
78.2
22.22
24.09
25.07
24.84
27.90
22.76
19.48
19.66
23.62
25.80
26.18
27.10
29.10
23.70
21.23
21.11
22.91
24.73
25.50
27.81
28.01
22.69
21.41
20.85
38.6
40.3
38.3
38.8
39.9
37.1
37.2
37.0
41.1
43.2
39.9
42.4
41.7
39.1
40.3
40.4
40.1
40.7
39.1
43.5
40.2
37.3
40.3
40.5
57.6
58.9
65.4
64.1
69.8
61.2
52.8
53.2
57.5
59.2
65.7
64.3
69.8
60.6
53.3
52.4
57.2
60.0
65.4
64.7
69.7
60.9
53.8
51.6
51.2
47.6
88.2
45.5
66.1
106.7
42.1
76.9
54.3
52.7
71.4
50.0
69.2
109.9
43.4
78.6
55.6
54.7
72.7
52.3
69.9
111.1
44.9
77.0
46.3
40.4
63.6
36.4
67.3
111.9
34.6
70.0
51.7
49.4
69.6
44.2
72.2
119.2
37.8
72.9
53.2
52.6
69.9
46.4
72.8
118.7
39.8
66.8
20.58
18.99
23.71
19.18
25.73
25.21
23.88
24.05
21.90
21.13
24.74
21.19
26. 34
26.10
25.37
24.29
22.09
21.65
24.38
21.64
26.20
25.68
25.71
22.71
37.7
37.3
36.5
35.8
38.2
35.8
36.2
37.9
40.2
40.2
38.7
39.6
39.1
37.5
38.7
39 8
40.8
40.0
38.3
39.4
38.5
36.8
38.7
39.4
54.7
52.0
64.4
53.4
67.4
70.5
66.3
63.1
515
53.6
63.9
53.3
67.3
70.0
66.2
62.1
54.3
55.0
64.3
54.9
68.0
70.0
66.9
61.6
92.0
87.2
85.7
91.1
91.2
108.8
83.0
111.9
67.6
59.8
98.8
91.0
88.7
93.9
98.4
112. 2
83.0
116.3
75.4
68.4
101.6
94.9
99.4
98.4
97.8
110.5
85.5
116.5
79.9
70.4
71.5
71.5
49.7
76.8
79.0
89.0
61.0
112.3
50.8
42.8
84.2
81.0
64.2
85.1
96.8
94.6
62.0
122.8
62.4
52.8
87.1
85.3
84.5
92.5
95.9
94.9
69.2
116.9
68.2
57.6
15.37
15.24
13.77
13.25
16.10
19.87
19.96
17.40
14.54
16.43
16.87
16.45
17.07
14.30
18.35
20.49
20.20
18.33
16.02
17.73
16.99
16.79
20.05
14.84
18.02
20.86
21.92
17.43
16.55
18.82
30.6
31.5
21.2
31.5
33.1
34.4
28.2
33.7
31.7
27.7
32.8
33.6
26.4
33.7
37.1
35.3
26.7
35.6
34.2
30.3
33.2
34.4
30.8
34.9
37.0
36.3
30.8
34.3
35.1
32.1
50.9
49.2
64.9
42.1
50.0
57.6
71.6
52.4
46.2
59.4
52.1
49.4
64.6
42.4
50.3
57.5
72.4
52.3
46.9
58.6
51.6
49.2
65.0
42.4
49.6
57.1
70.9
52.0
46.9
58.9
Nondurable goods
Textile and their products
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing textiles
Hats, fur-felt
Knit goods
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods
See footnotes at end of table.
•
__.
_
-
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing
Industries, November, October, and September,
1937— Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Employment index
Industry
Nondurable
Pay-roll index
Average weekly
earnings l
Average hours worked
per week i
Average hourly
earnings l
Novem- Octo- Septem- Novem- Octo- Septem- Novem- Octo- Septem- Novem- Octo- Septem- Novem- Octo- September
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
101.0
90.7
134.9
88.1
130.4
43 8
114.6
80.3
80.8
82.9
114.6
135.2
194.3
83 7
118.7
91.8
76.0
65.1
90.5
252.1
70.4
62.9
56.7
63.6
106.4
103.3
113 6
112.1
103.5
150.4
89.7
135.9
52 0
120 7
89.5
90.7
89.6
125.0
138 4
202.7
86 4
185 9
95.5
76 9
68.8
89.4
253.0
68.8
62.6
56.2
63.3
107.9
104.8
117 3
114.4
108.7
152.2
88.9
127.7
56 7
119.2
92.7
94.0
92.5
137.8
223 3
91 6
31L5
85.4
76.8
82.2
86.8
91.6
67.2
62.1
55.8
62.8
107.7
102.8
119.1
68.6
61.1
84.2
82.1
103.8
26.7
102.6
53.8
46.0
82.7
115.9
130.3
212.7
67 2
111.4
89.8
76.7
61.5
102.3
267.4
66.8
57.2
63.8
56.4
101.5
102.6
105.4
87.0
80.2
110.1
87.3
111.8
35.5
112.5
66.3
58.7
95.0
125.0
137.3
222.4
70 3
187.7
98.4
80.9
63.9
100.1
224.3
64.2
57.9
68.2
56.6
105.1
108.9
116.7
87.0
83.9
106.3
84.2
95.4
49.0
103.0
71.6
64.5
98.6
133.2
136.1
253.0
73 8
307.1
89.0
80.7
74.0
98.0
100.7
60.1
56.5
70.0
54.9
103.7
103.3
117.6
98 3
107.0
98 8
107.5
98.9
105.9
93.1
106.1
92.6
107.3
92.8
103.8
29.96
37.42
122.7
122.4
126 5
126.7
128.6
128.9
132.1
129,6
137.5
136,1
139.0
137.7
28.07
25.59
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
goods—Continued
Textiles and their products —Continued.
Wearing apparel Clothing, men's..Clothing, women's -
Corsets and allied garments
Men's furnishings
Millinery
Shirts and collars
Leather and its manufactures _
Boots and shoes
LeatherFood and kindred products
Baking
.
.
Beverages.
Butter
Canning and preserving
Confectionery
__
__
Flour
Icecream
Slaughtering and meat packing
Sugar, beet . .
Sugar refining, cane.
__
Tobacco manufactures
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff
Cigars and cigarettes
Paper and printing
Boxes, paper__
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining—
Other than petroleum refining
,
$17. 53
18.12
18.94
15.62
13.43
25.05
12.88
17.94
16.49
23.70
23.03
25.90
33.27
22.35
15.75
18.79
27.15
27.83
28.35
26.01
24.96
17.12
18.81
16.79
27.89
20.53
24.71
28.9
26.1
29.2
33.6
32.8
31.3
29.5
31.2
33.3
35.6
30.8
29.8
30.1
32.6
31.6
Cents
54.3
61.1
55.5
46.0
37.3
Cents
57 A
62.1
61.7
47.8
37.6
Cents
56.3
61.7
58.4
47.5
38.1
33.1
28.6
26.9
35.2
40.3
41.4
38.8
34.7
31.8
30.4
37.5
40.9
43.0
39.2
32.8
32.9
31.7
37.7
40.5
42.8
40.2
40.4
54.5
52.3
62.8
60.2
61.1
84.2
40.8
54.2
51.9
63.3
58.8
60.6
83.5
40.4
55.0
53.0
63.0
57.0
60.8
83.2
33.8
38.7
43.7
46.5
41.1
49.6
40.9
37.4
33.5
37.9
37.7
39.0
36.9
36.3
41.3
45.6
46.1
40.8
41.6
38.5
37.6
35.8
37.9
38.7
40.8
39.5
36.9
40.8
45.3
46.3
41.1
44.7
36.2
37.0
37.2
37.0
38.4
39.2
39.2
47.8
45.6
58.8
61.3
68.1
50.8
62.8
44.9
51.1
44.2
75.7
52.8
63.2
46.5
45.5
59.0
60.1
68.8
52.4
66.8
45.1
51.3
44.4
75.6
52.7
63.1
44.3
46.5
59.2
59.7
69.1
59.6
69.0
46.0
51.0
45.5
75.1
52.8
63.0
29.71
37.59
29.69
37.03
38.7
37.1
38.3
37.1
38.6
36.9
78.5
97.1
78.5
97.4
77.9
96.5
28.32
25.99
28.19
25.92
38.5
39.5
39.2
40.3
39.0
40.2
73.8
65.8
73.4
65.4
74.0
66.1
$15. 74 $17.99
15.82
18.14
17.25
20.29
15.52
16.17
14.36
14.79
17.40
20.30
13.14
13.97
15.48
17.14
13.72
15.50
22.13
23.60
24.46
23.77
25.10
25.84
32.22
32.36
22 42
22 71
16.24
15.74
17.63
18.62
26.10
27.30
29.16
28.54
28.31
28.01
25.09
20.97
26.41
25.97
16.72
17.03
18.20
17.06
16.66
16.80
27.48
28.26
20.42
21.35
23.26
24.90
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal
Druggists' preparationsExplosives
__
_
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products
Soap
Petroleum refining
Rubber products
_
Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires,
and inner tubes
Rubber tires and inner tubes
129.8
121.0
112.5
95.4
75.3
128.0
374.0
100.4
123.9
90.9
71.9
135.2
127.1
114.8
97.3
80.5
131.6
387.5
102.8
125.7
97.7
77.5
137.4
120.7
114.1
97.6
84.6
132.4
407.1
103.1
127.2
98.0
78.7
141.7
113.0
125.8
106.6
77.4
124.8
360.3
116.9
140.4
82.0
62.1
150.6
118.9
128.9
110.5
83.2
134.1
374.9
121.1
142.3
94.3
70.4
150.9
112.4
127.3
106.4
97.2
131.6
393.6
122.1
143.1
97.4
75.9
30.25
13.18
24.33
31.64
17.02
26.95
23.79
28.23
34.42
24.11
21.70
30.84
13.14
24.47
32.18
17.16
28.17
23.89
28.55
34.43
25.83
22.83
30.47
13.14
24.29
30.89
19.16
27.53
23.88
28.68
34.16
26.64
24.24
38.7
53.5
39.2
39.7
38.6
38.8
37.0
39.2
35.8
31.6
35.9
39.6
54.1
39.6
40.5
38.8
40.5
37.4
40.0
35.9
33.8
37.5
38.9
53.2
40.8
38.9
41.1
39.6
38.4
39.9
35.5
34.5
40.0
78.2
24.8
58.3
79.8
44.1
69.6
64.4
72.4
97.0
79.0
60.4
77.9
24.5
58.4
79.5
44.2
69.7
63.8
71.9
96.9
79.0
60.9
78.4
24.9
57.8
79.5
46.7
69.6
64.6
72.7
97.4
79.1
60.6
128.2
80.8
137.3
87.0
134.7
88.3
121.7
72.9
139.5
84.3
132.6
90.4
21.93
26.26
23.61
28.24
22.60
29.76
36.0
27.2
38.8
29.3
37.5
30.8
60.9
97.2
61.4
96.6
60.6
97.0
$18. 99
24.37
31.22
22.86
33.93
28.3
26.9
43.1
38.9
39.9
31.4
29.6
44.2
42.6
39.9
20.8
27.5
43.6
42.1
40.0
90.7
87.8
69.9
55.0
84.3
91.2
88.7
70.8
55.4
83.3
90.8
89.0
71.6
53.9
83.9
NONMANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average 1929=100]
Coal mining:
Anthracite
Bituminous
_
Metalliferous mining
_
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing
_
__
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph
Electric light and power and manufactured
gas
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance
Trade:
Wholesale
_
Retail
General merchandising
Other than general
merchandising
Hotels (year-round)2
Laundries
--Dyeing and3 cleaning
Brokerage3
Insurance
Building construction3_
_
51.0
82.9
82.9
53.3
77.5
48.2
80.5
84.1
54.7
78.2
79.1
79.9
80.1
91.1
94.3
92.3
30.57
31.44
31.58
38.6
39.9
39.1
84.9
83.5
83.9
97.3
98.5
98.6
103.8
105.3
104.0
34.44
34.23
33.96
40.4
40.4
40.2
85.8
85.1
85.2
73.2
73.4
73.7
71.9
71.4
71.6
32.21
31.93
31.71
45.9
45.9
46.0
69.4
68.7
68.1
93.5
91.7
109.8
86.9
88.9
88.0
80.0
79.3
75.9
9,6.2
71.7
77.7
81.5
71.4
-3.2
30.27
21.65
18.37
24.55
15.25
16.90
19.55
38.60
39.15
30.52
30.45
21.96
18.55
24.89
15.11
16.96
20.78
38.52
38.45
31.22
30.60
21.87
18.62
24.64
15.00
16.84
20.61
38.77
38.59
31.76
42.9
43.0
39.4
44.2
47.1
42.1
42.6
4
42.6
42.7
39.1
43.9
47.4
42.5
43.9
4
70.6
55.9
51.2
57.5
32.2
40.7
49.1
70.6
56,5
51.5
58.1
31.7
40.3
49.9
4
-3.3
78.3
74.4
92.4
70.7
76.1
84.4
72.8
-2.5
-2.4
-2.2
42.7
42.7
39.2
43.9
47.2
41.6
40.8
4
-6^4
78.3
75.3
97.1
70.8
77.9
79.2
62.9
+1.1
+1.8
-8.1
71.7
56.2
51.6
57.6
31.6
39.7
47.4
+.8-t
94.0
92.1
108.1
87.9
89.2
89.9
85.3
-2.9
93.0
90.7
103.7
87.3
88.1
93.7
86.7
-1.9
33.1
34.3
34.1
91.6
90.8
()
92.8
50.5
82.1
75.4
49.9
77.2
-.1
-.2
-.7
45.1
77.8
71.6
41.7
70.2
i Average weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. AveragG hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data supplied
by a smaller number of establishments as all reporting firms do not furnish man-hours.
The figures are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the
size and composition of the reporting sample.
51.0
86.0
81.7
49.3
69.9
+.3
-3.0
31.5
77.7
82.2
50.1
71.2
$26. 00 $29.14
24.00
26.25
30.05
31.26
21.48
23.70
34.12
33.64
()
(4)
()
(4)
()
(4)
(0
(4)
( )
(4)
2
Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
3
Indexes of employment and pay rolls not available; percentage changes from preceding month substituted.
* Not available.
18
INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS, JANUARY 1936 TO
NOVEMBER 1937
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are given in tables 5 and 6
for all manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and nondurable-goods groups of manufacturing industries, and for 13 nonmanufacturing industries, including 2 subgroups under retail trade,
by months, from January 1936 to November 1937, inclusive. The
accompanying chart indicates the trend of factory employment and
pay rolls from January 1919 to November 1937.
The indexes of factory employment and pay rolls are computed
from returns supplied by representative establishments in 89 manufacturing industries and cover wage earners only. The base used
in computing these indexes is the 3-year average 1923-25 as 100.
In November 1937 reports were received from 25,315 manufacturing
establishments employing 4,684,590 workers, whose weekly earnings
were $112,034,042. The employment reports received from these
establishments cover more than 55 percent of the total wage earners
in all manufacturing industries of the country and more than 65
percent of the wage earners in the 89 industries included in the
monthly survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The indexes for nonmanufacturing industries are based on the
12-month average for 1929 as 100. Figures for mining, laundries,
dyeing and cleaning, and building construction cover wage earners
only, but the figures for public utilities, trade, hotels, brokerage, and
insurance relate to all employees, including executives. For crudepetroleum producing they cover wage earners and clerical field force.
Data for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries are
based on reports of the number of employees and amount of pay
rolls for the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
EMPLOYMENT & P \ Y BOLLS
ALL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
Mar/ft/mien
/923'25'JOO
/J/)
120
100
80
J ft
J1
IndexS tombers
120
4
f
X
J
/v
Roh
60
40
20
4
t/v/
Kmoloi,tmeh?/
V
V
n
/OO
80
60
40
20
A
° J9I9 /920 J92I 1922 /923 1924 1925 1926 1927 /928 /929 /930 193/ 1932 /933 /934 J935 1936 /937 1938 u
VMTED STATES BUREAU OFIABOR STATIST/OS
20
TABLE 5.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in All Manufacturing Industries
Combined and in the Durable- and Nondurable-Goods Groups 1
[Adjusted to 1933 Census of Manufactures—3-year average 1923-25=100]
Manufacturing
Month
Employment
Nondurable goods3
Durable goods 2
Total
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
1936
1937
January
February
March
April
May
June
86.8
86.9
87.9
89.1
89.8
90.1
96.5
99.0
101.1
102.1
102.3
101.1
73.8
73.7
77.6
79.3
80.8
81.1
90.7
95.8
101.1
104.9
105.2
102.9
78.7
78.6
80.2
82.3
84.0
84.7
90.4
93.2
96.4
98.6
99.9
98.8
66.6
71.8
76.0
78.5
79.0
86.6
92.5
100.0
106.4
107.5
104.6
95.4
95.8
96.1
96.3
96.0
95.9
103.0
105.2
106.1
105.9
104.8
103.5
82.5
82.7
84.9
83.5
83.8
83.9
96.0
99.9
102.6
102.9
102.3
100.8
July
August
September
October
November.
December
91.2 101.4
93.5 102.3
95.5 102.1
96.7 «100. 5
96.9
94.7
98.1
80.2 100.4 84.6 98.9
83.5 103.8 84.7 98.1
83.6 100.1 85.7 97.3
89.0 *100.1 89.2 *97.6
90.7
91.0 92.4
95.2
92.7
75.9
77.0
77.2
85.3
88.9
93.4
100.7
104.0
99.4
101.7
89.9
98.2
102.8
105.9
104.7
103.3
104.0
104.1 85.6
106.9 91.8
107.3 91.6
103.6 93.7
97.3 92.9
97.5
100.0
103.5
100.9
4
98.2
89.0
91.9
82.4
78.0
'9.5
87.9
Average
84.7
i Comparable indexes for earlier years will be found in the February 1937 issue of this report, or in the
April 1937 issue of the Monthly Labor Review.
* Includes the following groups of manufacturing industries: Iron and steel; machinery; transportation
equipment; railroad repair shops; nonferrous metals; lumber and allied products; and stone, clay, and glass
products.
3
Includes the following groups of manufacturing industries: Textiles and their products, leather and
its manufactures, food and kindred products, tobacco manufactures, paper and printing, chemicals and
allied products, products of petroleum and coal, rubber products, and a number of miscellaneous industries
not included in other groups.
* Revised.
21
TABLE 6.—Indexes of Employment
and Pay Rolls in Selected
Nonmanufacturing
Industries, January 1936 to November 1937 1
[12-month average 1929=100]
Anthracite mining
Month
Employment
Pay rolls
1936 1937
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
,
Employment
Pay rolls
54.1
52.7
48.9
54.0
51.0
51.1
54.4
76.7
42.6
28.6
56.3
42.0
42.
41.0
37.8
63.9
44.4
50.9
79.8
80.2
80.4
77.5
76.2
75.7
84.i
84.8
85.9
72.6
77.8
77.9
70.6
78.4
70.2
62.6
62.2
61.5
79.9
82.4
88.4
54.4
67.8
71.2
48.4
41.1
47.6
49.9
51.5
54.8
45.0
41.2
48.2
51.0
50.5
37.2
31.4
34.9
48.5
40.3
55.4
35.2
27.2
31.5
51.0
45.1
75.5
76.9
78.2
81.1
82.3
83.9
75.8
78.8
80.5
82.9
82.1
62.6
65.4
71.0
79.2
80.7
85.0
66.4
73.8
77.7
86.0
45.7
79.01
Crude-petroleum
producing
Employment
Pay rolls
and nonMetalliferous mining Quarrying
metallic mining
Employment
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
1937 1936 1937
59.1
61.2
52.5
49.8
54.9
51.2
Average.. 51.8
Month
Bituminous coal
54.2
55.5
55.9
57.5
60.
61.9
66.8
69.6
73.1
76.2
78.5
79.5
41.7
42.8
45.1
45.5
47.7
48.2
58.4
63.4
70.6
76.9
79.8
77.7
39.4
36.9
42.2
48.4
52.0
53.5
45.7
46.7
49.1
53.1
54.9
55.4
25.5
23.9
30.9
36.1
42.1
44.0
34.6
37.8
41.3
48.1
51.4
52.6
61.3
61.6
63.1
64.2
77.8 62.9
64.4
82.0
83.4
84.1
82.9
75.4
46.1
48.2
50.0
53.7
54.6
57.7
77.8
83.0
82.2
81.
71.6
54.4
55.3
54.9
54.1
52.6
49.4
55.5
54.9
54.7
53.3
49.9
43.9
46.2
44.8
46.2
43.5
39.
50.8
53.2
50.1
49.3
49.5
48.4!
70.!
38.9
Telephone and telegraph
Electric light and
power, and manufactured gas
Electric-railroad and
motorbus
operation and maintenance 3
Employment
Employment
Employment
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
January...
February
March
April
May
June
71.1
70.8
70.9
71.3
_- 72.7
73.7
72.7
73.5
74.2
75.8
76.7
78.5
55.7
55.7
56.0
57.1
58.0
58.9
61.2
64.1
63.9
67.7
68.2
70.4
70.1
69.9
70.2
70.8
71.6
72.1
74.4
74.8
75.4
76.6
77.7
78.5
75.0
76.2
77.2
76.0
78.5
77.4
83.6
82.2
87.2
86.3
89.5
88.6
86.1
86.1
86.8
88.0
89.0
90.4
92.1
92.2
92.4
93.1
94.6
96.3
84.8
84.7
85.9
86.2
87.0
88.1
92.3
93.
94.8
95.5
97.9
100.4
70.7
71.7
71.2
71.3
71.5
71.7
72.5
72.5
72.6
72.9
73.3
73.3
65.0
68.3
67.8
65.9
66.1
68.0
68.7
69.2
69.4
70.1
71.1
July
August
September
October.
November
December
75.4
75.0
74.5
73.6
73.2
_ 72.4
78.5
79.3
•78.2
77.5
77.2
60.4
59.7
60.4
59.6
60.1
61.3
70.5
70.
71.2
69.9
70.2
73.1
73.5
73.7
73.8
73.7
73.6
79.7
79.8
80.1
79.9
79.1
79.9
81.2
78.8
.83.1
81.6
82.4
92.1
92.1
92.3
94.3
91.1
91.7
93.1
93.5
94.0
93.5
93.2
97.5
98.3
98.6
98.5
97.3
). 8 102.2
89.8 102.6
91.4 104.0
92.7 105.3
91.8 103.8
93.1
72.4
72.4
72.8
73.1
73.0
72.5
73.4
73.4
73.7
73.4
73.2
66.5
66.5
66.4
67.7
69.7
69.3
70.8
73.1
71.6
71.4
71.9
Average.. 72.9
58.i
78.9
90.5
72.0
67.2
1 Comparable indexes for earlier years for all of these industries, except year-round hotels, will be found
in the November 1934 and subsequent issues of this pamphlet, or the February 1935 and subsequent issues
of the Monthly Labor Review. Comparable indexes for year-round hotels will be found in the June 1935
issue of this pamphlet, or the September 1935 issue of the Monthly Labor Review.
2 Not including electric-railroad car building and repairing; see transportation equipment and railroad
repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries, table 3.
22
TABLE 6.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Nonmanufacturing
Industries, January 1936 to November 1937—Continued
Wholesale trade
Month
Employment
Pay rolls
Total retail trade
Employment
Pay rolls
Retail trade—general merchandising
Retail trade—other
than general merchandising.
Employment
Employment
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
January
February.
March
April
May
June
80.4
79.7
81.9
85.2
85.0
85.5
85.4
85.2
88.5
88.8
89.9
90.5
62.1
61.6
63.5
65.3
65.8
66.4
68.0
67.9
70.5
71.9
73.5
74.4
88.2
85.1
90.9
97.4
95.5
96.4
95.1
93.9
100.3
99.6
102.1
102.9
76.4
73.9
77.3
81.0
80.8
81.3
83.8
82.9
87.6
89.1
91.5
92.5
78.4
78.3
79.5
82.0
82.3
82.6
82.9
82.9
85.4
86.0
86.7
87.2
59.1
59.1
60.7
62.1
62.7
63.3
64.7
64.8
67.0
68.3
69.8
70.6
July
_. 85.4 90.6 69.0 76.9 83.2
86.3 91.8 69.7 79.0 82.4
August
September
88.0 93.0 70.5 78.3 86.6
October
89.0 94.0 71.5 79.3 88.7
November . -_ 89.7 93.5 73.1 78.3 90.1
99.6
December
91.0
72.8
87.6
86.2
90.7
92.1
91.7
65.1
64.4
66.6
68.3
70.1
75.9
72.8
72.3
74.4
75.9
75.3
90.7
89.4
98.5
103.9
109 3
143.4
95.9
93.8
103.7
108.1
109.8
77.3
76.4
82.8
87.2
91 4
116.2
87.3
85.7
92.4
96.2
97 1
81.2
80.5
83.5
84.7
85.1
88.1
85.4
84.2
87.3
87.9
86.9
62.6
61.9
63.3
64.4
65.7
67.6
69.8
69.5
70.7
71.7
70.8
85.6
85.0
85.6
85.7
84.6
84.6
90.7
92.0
92.1
91.9
90.8
90.3
Average. _ 86.7
66.6
66.6
69.0
67.9
68.2
68.4
69.4
72.6
74.1
75.0
75.4
76.1
76.3
99.1
66.3
85.7
Year-round hotels
]Month
Employment
Pay rolls
83.5
82.2
Dyeing and cleaning
Laundries
Employment
62.7
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937 1936 1937
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November.
December
..
. -
Average-
81.9
82.8
82.8
83.2
84.1
83.9
85.5
86.4
86.9
88.4
87.7
86.9
64.9
66.5
66.0
66.3
67.0
66.6
70.4
72.5
72.7
74.5
73.6
74.0
81.5
81.2
82.1
83.2
85.5
87.2
88.5
88.6
88.7
88.5
90.3
93.5
68.3
67.8
69.9
70.9
75.6
75.8
76.4
76.3
77.5
78.5
81.4
85.5
71.5
70.3
74.7
81.8
87.3
87.5
76.8
76.2
81.1
84.9
88.6
92.1
51.6
49.0
56.4
64,1
72.2
69.2
55.6
54.6
61.7
68.8
73.9
79.2
83.3
83.2
84.2
85.4
84.6
84.0
86.1
86.8
88.1
89.2
88.9
66.0
66.1
67.5
69.6
69.6
69.8
73.3
74.4
76.1
77.7
77.9
90.5
89.6
89.6
87.6
87.0
87.6
95.2
94.2
93.7
89.9
88.0
79.0
76.7
76.6
75.3
74.5
76.1
86.9
86.0
84.4
81.5
79.2
85.5
83.5
86.7
86.5
81.3
77.7
86.0
84.9
86.7
85.3
80.0
64.8
63.2
66.1
66.7
60.2
57.3
68.0
69.0
72.8
71.4
62.9
83.6
67.2
86.1
73.9
81.2
61.7
23
TREND OF INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT, BY STATES
A comparison of employment and pay rolls, by States and geographic divisions, in October and November 1937, is shown in table 7
for all groups combined, and for all manufacturing industries combined,
based on data supplied by reporting establishments. The percentage
changes shown, unless otherwise noted, are unweighted—that is, the
industries included in the manufacturing group and in the grand
total have not been weighted according to their relative importance.
The totals for all manufacturing industries combined include
figures for miscellaneous manufacturing industries in addition to the
89 manufacturing industries presented in table 3. The totals for all
groups combined include all manufacturing industries, each of the
nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 3 except building
construction, and seasonal hotels.
TABLE 7.—Comparison of Employment
and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments
in
October and November 1937, by Geographic Divisions and by States
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued by
cooperating State organizations]
Manufacturing
Total—all groups
Geographic division and State
Percent- Amount
Num- Numage of pay roll
ber of ber on
estab- pay roll change
(1 week)
from
lish- NovemNovemments ber 1937 October 1937
ber
1937
13,982
New England
797
Maine
New
Hamp615
shire
476
Vermont
Massachusetts. i 8,5/8
Rhode I s l a n d . . 1,270
Connecticut— 2,506
868,906
50,184
36,015
16, 693
470,998
86,609
208,407
Percentage
change
from
October
1937
Dollars
- 5 . 4 19,1.350,140 - 8 . 5
966,099 -14.7
-7.5
669,543
-5.3
342,829 - 1 7 . 6
-8.7
-5.6 10,842,080 -5.6
- 5 . 8 1,702,711 - 1 6 . 6
4,826,878 - 9 . 5
Percent- Amount
Num- Numage of pay roll
ber of ber on
estab- pay roll change
(1 week)
from
lish- NovemNovemments ber 1937 October 1937
ber
1937
Percentage
change
from
October
1937
Dollars
- 7 . 2 12,
!, 283, 884 — 12.0
-8.9
699,562 - 1 8 . 2
3,578
292
587,633
39,130
207
148
1,768
427
746
28,268 - 6 . 6
-12.8
193,463 - 2 1 . 8
9,823 - 1 0 . 8
5,822,067 -9.0
271,157 - 8 .
67,088 - 6 . 9 1,195,150 - 2 1 . 1
172,167 - 4 . 7 3,886, 751 - 1 1 . 2
Middle A t l a n t i c . . . 32,649 2,229,394
20,571 978,083
New York
4,292 355,193
New Jersey
896,118
Pennsylvania ._ 7 , "
- 3 . 4 57,938,056 - 7 . 4 5,440 1,261,331 - 4 . 8
.2 26,918,278 - 5 . 5 2 2,256 447,532 -6.8
~ 9,121,229 —4.
260,617 -2.
- 3 . 9 21,898,549 -10.6
653,182 i-5.
East North Central.. 24,706 2,416,811
" " " 636,124
8,111
Ohio
2,631 286,794.
Indiana
*6,826 644, SSI
Illinois
3,859 591,876
Michigan
e 3,779 257,486
Wisconsin
83,48 1,839,512 - 4 . 6 50,262,234 - 1 0 . 4
- 3 . 8 64,856,575
1 12,337,080 - 1 2 . 8
- 5 . 5 16,527,288 - 1 0 . 3 2,551 469,217
" 5,746,174 -15.8
7,067,199 -13.4
-6.
947 231, 082
-4.7
11,500,128 -9.6
1,882,205 -7.0
444,107
-3. 416,1
*4tf
-8.0
517,194 -1.216,123,636
—1. 3 17,', J873,795 - 8 . 5 7
4,655,321
6,606,088 -6.2
177,912
-5.
1,4
West North Central. 12,127 447,670
2,303
93,737
Minnesota
1,933
68,641
Iowa
3,123 174,828
Missouri
5,892
597
North Dakota.
South D a k o t a 570
8,525
Nebraska...
1,588
Kansas
9 2,013 69,619
See footnotes at end of table*
-2.9
-2.3
-3.7
-4.1
-1.3
-.3
-.9
-5.1
38978—38
4
10,817,173 - 4 . 0
2,447,830 - 3 . 9
1,609,478 - 4 . 8
4,130,538 - 5 . 6
142,836 - 2 . 4
215,862 - 1 . 0
857,154
U 413,476 *-8.5
2,424
421
412
876
56
38
162
459
215,708
43,490
37,577
92,619
663
2,183
12,838
31,135,736 - 1 0 . 2
11,688, 612 -9.2
6,609,470 -5.5
12,987,654 1-12.7
- 5 . 6 5,212,311
- 3 . 9 1,145,587
-6.4
927,908
- 7 . 2 2,054,784
-3.9
19,781
-.5
57,618
-3.5
330, HI
-2.3
676,622
-6.3
-4.3
-6.4
-9.3
-4.3
+3.0
+1.9
-4.2
24
TABLE 7.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
October and November 1937, by Geographic Divisions and by States—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued by
cooperating State organizations]
Manufacturing
Total—all groups
Geographic division and State
Number on
pay roll
lish- Novemments ber 1937
Number of
Percentage
change
from
October
Amount
of payroll
(1 week)
November 1937
Percentage
change
from
October
Num- Number of ber on
estab- pay roll
lish- Novemments ber 1937
1937
1937
Dollars
- 2 . 0 17,073,905
-8.4
373, 930
-2.7 S,197,013
-5.3
2,818
Percentage
change
from
October
Amount
of pay roll
(1 week)
November 1937
1937
Percentage
change
from
October
1937
Dollars
South Atlantic
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
West VirginiaNorth
Carolina
South
Carolina
Georgia
Florida
11,252
221
1,641
873,562
15,337
136,090
1,111
2,161
1,280
42,682
118,689
157, 249
+1.1 1,098,490
+.3
-1.8 2, 265,005 - 4 .
-3.2 3,957, 237 -7.4
34
470
254
3,212
80, 431
59,919
1,509
160,534
-2.0 2,341,596
-6.0
581
143,616
782
1,515
1,032
80,225
116, 439
46,317
1,166, 386 -2.5
-3^4 1,841,476 -6.0
+5.2 832,772 +3.0
222
384
198
71,536
89,162
21,481
East South CentralKentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
,
Mississippi
4,549
1,282
1,337
1,303
627
305,485
87,501
105,606
91,319
21,059
-3.3
-2.0
-5.1
-3.2
5, 580.355
1,849,416
1,873,763
1, 535, 874
321,302
-7.7
-8.1
—7.3
-8.1
-6.0
1,021
294
383
250
94
188,122
36,510
76, 945
61,856
12, 811
5,038
West South Central
"704
Arkansas
1,029
Louisiana
1,470
Oklahoma
121,836
Texas.
215,445
-1.9 4, 822,134
524,275
-4.5
-1.2
986, 287
-2.5 1,168, 534
-1.0 2,143,038
-3.7
-7.2
-3.4
-4.5
-2.4
1,175
246
232
143
654
105,839 - 3 . 4 2, 300,893 - 5 . 8
18,266 -7.0
309,734 -10.1
25, 832 - 2 . 2
435, 705 - 7 . 5
12, 201 - 5 . 2
288, 278 - 9 . 2
49,540 -2.1 /, 267,176 -3.2
4,490
700
509
355
154,181
22, 515
14, 208
10,949
49,348
7,265
19,152
26,939
3,805
-4.6 4,054.062 -4.9
660,041 —11.4
-8.4
360, 203 -2.3
-2.9
316,534 -1.0
—. 1
-5.9 1, 259,881 -3.7
—1.4
161, 261 —4.2
-5.0
508,546 -10.8
-2.4
674,831
112, 765
+.2
569
81
56
39
187
33
42
107
24
47,344 - 7 . 6 1,208,185 - 3 . 3
5,035 - 2 . 8
129, 299 - 1 2 . 4
4,976 - 6 . 0
124,101 - 4 . 6
2,434 —1.1
75,801 +1.0
19,535 —11.6
495,404 - 5 . 0
-.4
908
15,492 —5.2
3,557 - 3 . 0
89,042 - 7 . 8
9,950 - 6 . 6
250,320 +7.4
949 - 2 . 5
28,726 - 1 . 3
449,201 - 7 . 2 12,
!, 300, 572
100,151 -9.0 2,573,923 -12.2
52,866 -11.6 1,303,345 -17.8
8,423,304 -7.8
296,184
569
306
1,648
243,212 - 1 1 . 3 6,442,256 - 1 5 . 1
54,701 - 1 4 . 3 1,341,505 - 1 8 . 9
29,336 - 1 8 .
659,954 - 2 8 . 6
159,175 -8.8 4,440,797 -11. S
Mountain
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico. _
Arizona..
Utah
Nevada
1,252
322
218
10,064
Pacific
3,124
Washington1,420
Oregon
_.
is 5,520
California
50,721
48,030
88,053
±:t
573,167
7 10,173,426
11,138 -10.3~
267,209 - 8 . 3
2,125,057 4-8.6
92,672
+1.9
—2.
-2.8
109,624
1,481,493
1,513,563
+1.2
-6.1
-7.0
-2.0 2,060,982
-6.7
1,006,972
1,246,738
361,788
-2.6
-7.9
-.4
-4.3
+1.4
+.9
- 4 . 8 3,166,660 - 1 0 . 1
696,828 - 1 1 . 8
-3.5
- 6 . 7 1,310, 367 - 9 . 7
986,488 - 9 . 7
-4.1
172,977 - 9 . 3
—.1
1
Includes banks and trust companies, construction, municipal, agricultural, and office employment,
amusement
and recreation, professional services, and trucking and handling.
2
Includes laundering and cleaning, and water, light, and power,
s4 Includes laundries.
Weighted percentage change.
5
Includes automobile, and miscellaneous services, restaurants, and building and contracting.
•Includes
construction, but not public works.
7
Does not include logging.
8
Less than Mo of 1 percent.
8
Includes financial institutions, miscellaneous services, and restaurants.
" Weighted percentage change including hired farm labor.
11
Includes
automobile dealers and garages, and sand, gravel, and building stone.
12
Includes business and personal service.
13
Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
25
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT IN PRINCIPAL
METROPOLITAN AREAS
A comparison of employment and pay rolls in October and November 1937 is made in table 8 for 13 metropolitan areas which had
a population of 500,000 or over in 1930. Cities within these areas,
but having a population of 100,000 or over are not included as data
concerning them are tabulated separately and are available on re-*
quest. Footnotes in the table indicate which cities are excluded.
The figures represent reports from cooperating establishments and
cover both full- and part-time workers in miscellaneous manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries as well as in the manufacturing
and nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 3 except building
construction.
TABLE 8.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
October and November 1937 by Principal Metropolitan Areas
Metropolitan area
New York *
Chicago 2 Philadelphia 3..
Detroit- 4
Los Angeles —
of
Number Percentage Amount
Number of on
pay roll
pay roll change from
establish- November
(1 week)
October
ments
November
1&37
1937
1937
Percentage
change from
October
1937
15,258
4,424
2,410
1,659
2,866
651,289
470,235
221,318
385,235
155,909
-2.1
-3.4
-2.8
-.5
-2.5
$17,112,560
12, 789,375
5,981,897
12,303,806
4,376,119
-4.1
-7.5
-4.4
-7.8
-5.1
St. L o u i s . —
Baltimore
Boston »
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
1,768
1,551
1,204
3,712
1,280
144,892
133,848
103,221
172,262
227,297
-4.8
-4.1
-1.7
-4.7
-5.5
3,839,101
3,255,480
2,460,135
4,153,203
5,746,523
-10.5
-6.8
-6.6
-3.3
-14.4
San Francisco 6.
Buffalo
Milwaukee
1,651
863
1,074
86, 407
64,343
105,855
-3.5
-7.8
-3.4
2,568,518
1, 743,553
2,858,105
-5.7
-14.2
-5.6
1 Does not include Elizabeth, Jersey City, Newark, and Paterson, N . J.; and Yonkers, N . Y.
2 Does not include Gary, Ind.
34 Does not include Camden, N . J.
Does not include Long Beach, Calif.
*6 Does not include Cambridge, Lynn, and Somerville, Mass.
Does not include Oakland, Calif.
26
Public Employment
Employment created by the Federal Government includes employment in the regular agencies of the Government, employment on the
various construction programs wholly or partially financed by
Federal funds, and employment on relief-work projects.
Construction projects financed by the Public Works Administration
are those projects authorized by title II of the National Industrial
Recovery Act of June 16, 1933. This program of public works was
extended to June 30, 1937, by the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935 and title II of the first Deficiency Appropriation Act of
1936. The First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, reappropriated unobligated funds originally made available under the Emergency Relief
Appropriation Act of 1935 and authorized the use of $300,000,000
from funds on hand or received from the sale of securities. The
Public Works Administration was continued until July 1,1939, by the
Public Works Extension Act of 1937.
By authority of Public Resolution No. 11, Seventy-fourth Congress,
approved April 8, 1935, the President, in a series of Executive orders,
inaugurated a broad program of works to be carried out by 61 units
of the Federal Government. The Works Program was continued by
Title II of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as
the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, and was further
continued by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937.
Employment created by this program includes employment on Federal
projects and employment on projects operated by the Works Progress
Administration. Federal projects are those conducted by Federal
agencies which have received allotments from The Works Program
fund. Projects operated by the Works Progress Administration are
those projects conducted under the supervision of the Works Progress
Administration with the cooperation of States, cities, or counties.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, created in April 1933, was
further extended under the authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. During the fiscal year 1937 the Civilian
Conservation Corps was continued from appropriations authorized
by the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936. Beginning with
July 1, 1937, the Civilian Conservation Corps was continued for 3
years by an act of Congress.
27
EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Statistics of employment and pay rolls for the executive service of
the Federal Government in October and November 1937 are given
in table 9.
TABLE 9.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Executive Service of the U. S. Government,
October and November 1937i
[Subject to revision]
Employment
November
October 2
3 819,927 827,727
-0.94
$119,163,057
$122,986,050
-3.11
-.77
-3.63
-.02
101,838,357
8,935,035
8,389,665
105,108,919
9,361,162
8,515,969
-3.11
-4.55
-1.48
Item
November
Entire service:
Total
Pay roll
Percentage
change
October 2
Percentage
change
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation
Force-account
684,739
65,117
70,071
690,071
67,569
70,087
Inside the District of Columbia:
Total
111, 775
110,809
+.87
19,614,896
19,409,979
+1.06
Regular appropriation
E mergency appropriation
Force-account
92,505
13,400
5,870
91, 656
13,444
5,709
+.93
-.33
+2.82
16,690,262
2,046,553
878,081
16,402,325
2,164,436
843,218
+1.76
-5.45
+4.13
Outside the District of Columbia:
Total
708,152
716,918
-1.22
99, 548,161
103,576,071
-3.89
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation
Force-account
592,234
51, 717
64,201
598,415
54,125
64,378
-1.03
-4.45
-.27
85,148,095
6,888,482
7, 511,584
88,706,594
7,196, 726
7,672,751
-4.01
-4.28
-2.10
12 Data include number of employees receiving pay during the last pay period of the month.
Revised.
a Of this decrease in November of 7,800 workers, 1,300 employees were transferred from pay rolls of the
XJ. S. Employment Service to State pay rolls.
The monthly record of employment in the executive service of the
United States Government from November 1936 to November 1937,
inclusive, is shown in table 10.
TABLE 10.—Employment in the Executive Service of the U. S. Government, by Months,
November 1936 Through November 19371
[Subject to revision]
Month
NovemberDecember.—
District
of Columbia
Outside
District
of Columbia
Total
115,174
116,345
722,098
712,962
837,272
829,307
116,259
116,259
116,535
713,924
710,462
713,047
830,183
826, 721
829, 582
1987
January
February
March__
Month
1936—Contd.
April
May
June22
July 2
August 2
September
October 2
November
District
of Columbia
116,755
116,274
112,118
111, 124
111, 476
111, 428
110,809
111, 775
Outside
District
of Columbia
Total
718,884
835,639
724, 247
840,521
757,968
870,086
737,783
848,907
731,876
843,352
725,118
836,546
716,918
827,727
708,152 3 819,927
1 From June 1937 data include number of employees receiving pay during the last pay period of the month.
Revised.
3 Of this decrease in November of 7,800 workers, 1,300 employees were transferred from pay rolls of the
United States Employment Service to State pay rolls.
2
28
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY THE PUBLIC WORKS
ADMINISTRATION
Details concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
during November on construction projects financed by Public Works
Administration funds are given in table 11, by type of project.
TABLE 11.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, November 19371
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed2
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per
hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Federal projectsfinancedfrom N. I. R. A. funds
All projects
Building construction
Naval vessels
Public roads *
Reclamation
River, harbor, andfloodcontrol
Streets and roads
Miscellaneous
3 21,458
20,334
$2,347,774
2,956,057
$0. 794
$1,679,167
3,586
5,527
3,142
5,426
5,960
2,079
3,468
22
237
489,926
733,950
383,118
289,399
427,027
976
23,378
435,156
865, 239
722,202
363,586
541,941
1,560
26.373
1.126
.848
.530
.796
.788
.626
.886
526,817
142, 525
375,000
371,986
236,545
2,799
23,495
2,248
3,844
26
267
Non-Federal projects financed from N. I. R. A. funds
All projects
Building construction
Railroad construction.
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage..
Miscellaneous
19,103
16,165
$1,797,332
7.896
56
1,759
7,425
1,967
6,725
52
1,405
6,282
1,701
787,645
1,116
89,009
780,272
139,290
1,866,
707, 222
2,282
121, 260
794,800
241,328
$0. 963
$2,738,660
1.114
.489
.734
.982
.577
Non-Federal projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935, 1936, and 1Q37
funds•
All projects7
80, 541
67,588 •$6,314,004
8,109,553
$0,840
$11,445,172
Building construction 7
Electrification
Heavy engineering
Reclamation
.._.
River, harbor, and flood controlStreets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
40,418
454
6,751
1,085
178
16,381
13,703
1,571
33,745
367
5,898
969
149
13,528
11,632
1,300
3,784,819
43,410
826,530
159,005
13,576
1,666,136
1,461,983
154,094
.973
.787
.759
.816
.479
.588
.834
.872
5,788,781
91,279
1,211,742
118,758
11,533
1,756,113
2,012,981
453,985
3,683,138
34,157
627,349
129,772
6,499
978,991
1,219,767
134,331
1
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency
doing force-account work.
3
Includes weekly average for public roads.
* Under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
« Not available; weekly average included in total for all projects.
6
These data are also included in separate tables covering projects financed by The Works Program.
7
Includes a maximum of 10,544 and an average of 8,731 employees working on low-cost housing projects
financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 funds who were paid $1,157,887 for 1,090,595 man-hours of labor. Material
orders in the amount of $1,039,730 were placed for these projects. These data are also included in separate
tables covering projects financed from The Works Program.
29
Federal construction projects for which data are included in tables
11 and 12 are financed by allotments made by the Public Works
Administration to the various agencies and departments of the
Federal Government from funds provided under the National Industrial Recovery Act. The major portion of the low-cost housing program now under way, however, is financed by funds provided under
the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. The work is performed either by commercial firms which have been awarded contracts,
or by day labor hired directly by the Federal agencies.
Non-Federal projects are financed by allotments made by the
Public Works Administration from funds available under either the
National Industrial Recovery Act, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, or the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936.
Most of the allotments have been made to the States and their political
subdivisions, but occasionally allotments have been made to commercial firms. In financing projects for the States or their political
subdivisions from funds appropriated under the National Industrial
Recovery Act, the Public Works Administration makes a direct grant
of not more than 30 percent of the total labor and material cost.
When funds provided under the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935 or the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936 are
used to finance a non-Federal project, as much as 45 percent of the
total cost may be furnished in the form of a grant. The remaining
55 percent or more of the cost is financed by the recipient. When
circumstances justify such action, the Public Works Administration
may provide the grantee with the additional funds by means of a. loan.
Allotments to commercial enterprises are made only as loans. All
loans made by the Public Works Administration carry interest charges
and have a definite date of maturity. Collateral posted with the
Public Works Administration to secure loans may be offered for sale
to the public. In this way a revolving fund is provided which enlarges
the scope of the activities of the Public Works Administration.
Commercial loans have been made, for the most part, to railroads.
Railroad work financed by loans made by the Public Works Administration falls under three headings: First, construction work in the
form of electrification, the laying of rails and ties, repairs to buildings,
bridges, etc.; second, the building and repairing of locomotives and
passenger and freight cars in shops operated by the railroads; and
third, locomotive and passenger- and freight-car building in commercial
shops.
30
MONTHLY TREND
A summary of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
projects financed from Public Works Administration funds from
July 1933 to November 1937, inclusive, is given in table 12.
TABLE 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls, July 1933 to November 1937, Inclusive, on
Projects Financed From Public Works Administration Funds l
[Subject to revision]
Year and month
Maximum
number of
wage earners*
Number of
man-hours
worked
$1,043,481,344
1,527,373,391
$0.683
33,244,066
308,393,662
270, 548,829
271,331,937
62,209,479
523,484,012
392,127,344
353,259,435
.534
.589
.690
.768
75, 587, 773
* 610,009, 718
< 439, 244,485
* 432, 513,423
202,175
174,990
173,574
198,201
206,019
204,098
15,439,981
13,796,390
13, 353,904
15,242,390
15,850, 554
16,430, 649
18,768,676
16, 580,393
16, 341,250
19,068,352
19,984,975
20,510,465
.823
.832
.817
.799
.793
.801
26,922,308
19,390, 733
20,652,435
26,135,173
32,077,717
26,151, 770
198,483'
187,822
166,958
149,564
121,102
16, 250,846
15,426,466
14,309,249
12,903,311
10,959,110
20,057,290
19,115,326
17, 382,805
15, 551,087
12,932,502
.810
.807
.823
.830
.847
24,945,172
25,714,152
23, 527,633
20,924,319
15,862,999
July 1933 to November 1937 3.
July to December 1933____.___
January to December 1934...
January to December 1935 3_.
January to December 1936 K.
January...
FebruaryMarch
April
May
June
19S7*
July
August
SeptemberOctober
November..
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of material orders
placed
Pay-roll disbursements
$1,819,659,810
1
2
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency
doing force-account work. Includes weekly average for public-roads projects.
3
Includes employees working on non-Federal projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 and 1936 funds
and low-cost housing projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935 funds. These data are also included in separate
tables covering projects financed by The Works Program.
4
Includes orders placed by railroads for new equipment.
THE WORKS PROGRAM
A detailed record of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on projects financed by The Works Program in November is shown
in table 13, by type of project.
31
TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by The Works Program^
November 19371
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours Average
earnings
worked
per hour
during
month
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Federal projects
All projects..
Building construction
Electrification
Forestry 3
Grade-crossing elimination
Hydroelectric power plants 4
Plant, crop, and livestock conservat i s
Professional, 5technical, and clericalPublic roads
Reclamation.
River, harbor, and flood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
-*
2184,654
171,339
19, 511,587
$0. 556
$5,193,777
48,396
791
16,092
12,855
2,616
45,428
671
16,007
10,465
2,460
3,148,377
53,229
631,078
870,688
80,928
5,075,681
96,444
1,468, 998
1,326,316
362,250
.620
.552
.430
.656
697,168
117,063
72,941
1,296,310
30,907
12,218
6,413
14,088
44, 591
19,276
4,711
794
1,813
11,486
6,411
11,762
42,852
17,047
4,275
738
1,737
644,581
495,190
819,679
2,803, 752
968,817
221,365
31, 234
88,464
1,538,152
821,034
1,417, 542
5, 226,987
1,440,652
467,880
88, 218
181,433
.419
.603
.578
.536
.672
.473
.354
82, 545
75,660
1,413,088
950,013
314,982
66,472
38,385
38,243
P . W. A. projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935,1936, and 1937 funds •
All projects
Building construction
Electrification
Heavy engineering
Reclamation
_
_
River, harbor, and flood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
2 80,541
67,588
$6,814,004
8,109,553
$0,840
$11,445,172
40,418
454
6,751
1,085
178
16,381
33, 745
367
5,898
969
149
13,528
3, 683,138
34,157
627,349
129,772
6,499
978,991
3,784,819
43,410
826,530
159,005
13,576
1,666,136
.973
.787
.759
.816
.479
.588
5,788, 781
91,279
1,211,742
118,758
11,533
1,756,113
13,703
1,571
11,632 1,219,767
1,300
134,331
1,461,983
154,094
.834
.872
2,012,981
453,985
Projects operated by Works Progress Administration 7
All projects
Conservation
Highway, road and street
Housing
Professional, technical, and clericaL.
Public buildings..
Publicly owned or operated
utilities.
Recreational facilities 9
Sanitation and health
Sewing, canning, gardening, etc
Transportation
Not elsewhere classified-
1,566,697
61,446
578, 755
1,703
181, 790
153,999
147, 588
134,247
48,381
173,834
28,009
56,945
$82,714,339 157,792, 544
$0.524
5,886,384
57,015,908
156,202
19, 772,192
13, 706,498
14,776,923
12,812,386
.509
.473
.711
.668
.667
.541
.595
.443
.404
.600
.460
2,997,859
26,961,250
110,989
13, 201, 756
9,142,233
7,989,821
7,624,430
2,209,540
7,940,181
1,657,019
2,879,261
4,992,251
19,647,222
2,762, 671
6,263,907
• Unless otherwise noted data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work.
3 The data for the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, under Plant, crop, and livestock conservation and the Bureau of Forest Service, under Forestry, are for the calendar month.
• These data are for projects under construction in Puerto Rico.
« Under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
• Includes data for 69,997 employees working on non-Federal projects and 10,544 employees'working on
low-cost housing projects. These data are included in separate tables covering projects under the jurisdiction
of P . W. A.
7
Data are for the calendar month.
• Data on a monthly basis are not available;
• Exclusive of buildings.
32
Statistics on employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
National Youth Administration work projects and Student Aid in
November are shown in table 14, by type of project.
TABLE 14.—Employment and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration Projects
Financed by The Works Program, November 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Number of
persons
employed
Monthly
pay-roll disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked during month
Total
382, 558
$3,977,529
12,072,797
$0,329
Work projects
Student Aid..
125,922
256, 636
2,225,961
1, 751, 568
5,967, 549
6,105,248
.373
.287
Type of program
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material orders placed
during
month
12 These data are for the calendar month.
Data not available on a monthly basis.
8
No expenditures for materials on this type of project.
MONTHLY TREND
Employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on projects financed
by The Works Program from the beginning of the program in July
1935 to November 1937, inclusive, are given in table 15.
TABLE 15.—Employment and Pay Rolls, July 1935 to November 1937, Inclusive, on
Projects Financed by The Works Program x
[Subject to revisionl
Month and year
Maximum
number
employed 2
Pay-roll disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
Value of
Average
earnings
material
per hour orders placed
Federal projects
July 1935 to November 1937, inclusive 3_
$411,584, 272
July to December 1935
January to December 1936..
January...
FebruaryMarch
April
May
June
1937
July
August
September..
October*._.
November.,
See footnotes at end of table •
34,813,554
234,065,335
$0.474
$257,995,187
77,558,683
515,733,359
.449
.454
34,358,011
147,745,408
328,867
267,525
249,690
254,524
266,686
284,893
15,652,964
13,024,133
12,504,895
13,432,725
14,154,856
14, 794, 640
32,064,351
27,260,313
25,666,281
26,680,307
27,170,573
28,754,978
.478
.487
.503
.521
.515
7,595,246
6,874,851
7,356,372
6,901,508
7,563,201
8,608,759
262,487
207,331
193,114
192,631
184.654
12,799,774
12, 004,981
11,500,978
11, 452, 256
10,857,382
24,371,372
21,623,626
20,583,498
20,335,431
19, 511,587
.525
.555
.559
.563
.556
7,041,736
6,929,085
5,566,224
6,261,009
5,193,777
33
TABLE 15.—Employment and Pay Rolls, July 1935 to November 1937, Inclusive, on
Projects Financed by The Works Program—Continued
[Subject to revision]
Month and year
Maximum
number
employed
Pay-roll disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
Average
Value of
earnings
material
per hour orders placed
P. W. A. projects financed from E. 5R. A. A. 1935, 1936, and 1937
funds
July 1935 to November 1937, inclusiveJuly to December 1935_
January to December 1936..
January...
February..
March
April
May
June
1937
July
August
SeptemberOctober
November..
$226,848,393
291,654, 784
1,132,784
123,396,077
1,718,758
163,682,866
$0. 778 $416, 014,131
.=
2,095, 506
.659
.754
229,999,173
131,153
115,214
113, 930
129,887
139, 561
141, 708
9,346, 663
8,428,606
8,254,306
9, 618,255
10,339,137
10, 960, 950
11,390,883
10,212,726
10,147,405
12,027, 623
13, 049, 326
13,655,399
.821
.825
.813
.800
.792
16,361,268
13, 543,480
14,486,389
18,563,586
20,996,436
18,813,454
139, 701
131, 547
114,803
101,864
80,541
10,811, 528
10,183,970
9,309,180
8,252,933
6,814, 004
13,339, 272
12,808, 735
11,411,949
10,100,289
8,109,553
.811
.795
.816
.817
.840
18, 542,402
19,420,304
16, 065, 674
15,681,287
11,445,172
Projects operated by Works Progress Administration 8
July 1935 to November 1937, inclusiveJuly to December 1935
January to December 1936..
1937
January...
FebruaryMarch
April
May
June
2,243, 545
2,255, 067
2,216,499
2,201,404
2,133,472
2,020,218
July
August
SeptemberOctober
November—
1,802,659
1,601, 054
1, 536,029
1,527,604
1,566,697
1
$2,934, 051,974 6,136,953,890
$0.478
238, 018,075 570,184,607
1,592,942,964 3,432,621,686
.417
.464
115, 065,444
116,256, 506
117,124,860
114, 004, 768
112,382,869
106,975,172
223,245,896
230,853,339
230,166,494
225,291,463
217, 780,857
205,215,318
.515
.504
.509
.506
.516
.521
92,967, 642
82,861, 644
81,250,907
81,486,784
82,714,339
177,161,345
159, 050,326
153,858,375
153, 731, 640
157, 792, 544
.525
.521
.528
.530
.524
$909,226,012
Unless otherwise noted data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month on Federal and P. W. A. projects by each
contractor
and Government agency doing force-account work.
8
Since, in November 1937, some reports were changed to a calendar-month basis, the total includes some
data ($525,799 pay rolls and 1,260,029 man-hours) for the period Oct. 16 through Oct. 31,1937, which are not
shown
in the monthly figures.
4
Revised.
8
These data are included in tables covering projects under the jurisdiction of the Public Works Administration. The data for November include 69,997 employees working on non-Federal projects and 10,544
employees
working on low-cost housing projects.
6
These data are for a calendar month and exclude both work projects and Student Aid of the National
Youth
Administration,
which appear in a separate table.
7
Data on a monthly basis are not available. Includes rentals and services and some sponsors' contributions.
34
Table 16 shows the employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on work projects of the National Youth Administration from January
1936 to November 1937, inclusive. Similar data for Student Aid are
shown from September 1935 to November 1937, inclusive.
TABLE 16.—Employment and Pay Rolls from Beginning of Program Through November
1937 on National Youth Administration Projects Financed by The Works Program *
[Subject to revision]
Month and year
Number of
persons
employed
Number of Average
man-hour? earnings
worked
per hour
Pay-roll
disbursements
Value of
material
orders
placed
"Work projects
January 1936 to November 1937, inclusive-
$59,081,014 156,558,038
January to December 1936
January...
February..
March
April
May
June
19S7
July
August
September.
Octobers...
November..
$0,377 2 $4,987,203
28,883,589
75,827,799
.381
184,807
189,298
191,583
192,132
184, 556
172,816
3,087,288
3,244, 612
3,225,694
3,190, 767
3,106,114
2,920,141
8,220,880
8,745,281
8,727,263
8,679,905
8,361,816
7,794,377
.376
.371
.370
.368
.371
.375
149, §36
133, 111
127, 219
122,827
125,922
2,491, 265
2,347,639
2,192,605
2,165,339
2,225,961
6,567,200
6,109,319
5,832,949
5, 723, 700
5,967,549
.379
.384
.376
.378
.373
Student Aid
September 1935 to November 1937, inclusive.
$54,176,085 180,360, 246
September to December 1935_
January to December 1936
January...
February..
March
April
May
June
1937
July
August
September
_
October 3 —.
November..
(*)
6,363,503 19,612,976
25,888,559 85,424,616
417,064
427,396
440,382
440,823
424,117
249,175
2,967,461
3, 227,243
3,315, 595
3,339,376
3, 641, 529
1,992,288
35
30,879
237, 307
256, 636
141
730
139,188
555,283
1, 549, 634 5,388,717
1,751, 568 6,105,248
10, 214, 889
11,136,339
11,452,356
11, 574,122
12,453, 598
6,441,372
.291
.290
.290
.289
.292
.193
.251
.288
.287
1
Data are for a calendar month.
2 These data are not available on a monthly basis. Includes rentals and services and some sponsors' contributions.
34 Revised.
No expenditures for materials on this type of project.
35
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
Statistics concerning employment and pay rolls in the Civilian
Conservation Corps in October and November 1937 are presented in
table 17. The Civilian Conservation Corps is usually regarded as
a part of The Works Program, although it is now financed by a separate
appropriation.
TABLE 17.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, October and
November 1937 *
[Subject to revision I
Number of employees
Amount of pay rolls
Group
November
All groups
Enrolled personnel 2
Reserve officers
Nurses3___ . _ 3
Educational advisers
Supervisory and technical 3_
.
..
October
November
October
350,714
363,256
$16,335, 299
$15,622,911
302,207
5,751
278
1,660
40,818
312,273
6,224
257
1,723
42,779
9,495,196
1,522,980
28, 589
283 454
5,005,080
8, 510, 543
1,608, 557
27,319
285,765
5,190,727
* Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month. Amounts of pay rolls are for
the entire month.
2 November data include 3,984 enrollees and pay roll of $88,197; October, 3,199 enrollees and pay roll of
$70,609
outside continental United States.
3
Included in executive service, tables 9 and 10.
Employment and pay-roll data for the Civilian Conservation Corps
are collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the War Department, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce,
and the Department of the Interior. The' monthly pay of the enrolled
personnel is $30 per month. Assistant leaders, not to exceed 10
percent of the total number of enrollees, may receive up to $36 per
month, and leaders, not to exceed 6 percent, may receive up to $45
per month.
Monthly statistics of employment and pay rolls in the Civilian
Conservation Corps from November 1936 to November 1937, inclusive,'
are given in table 18.
TABLE 18.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, by Months,
November 1936 Through November 1937 l
[Subject to revisionj
Number of
employees
Monthly
pay-roll disbursements
NovemberDecember..
389,122
374,791
$18, 232,391
217,738,865
1987
January.
February .
March
April
407,723
394,521
307,337
369,309
18,650,537
18,314, 594
15, 770, 090
17, 502,905
Month
Month
MonthlyNumber of pay-roll
disemployees bursements
1987—Continued
May
June__
348,905
323,626
$16,719,019
16,085,832
July...
August
September.
October
November.
348,779
327,361
289,167
363, 256
350,714
16,851,511
16,380, 024
14,950,554
15,622,911
16,335, 299
1
Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month, Amounts of pay rolls are for
entire month.
2 Revised.
36
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE
CORPORATION
Statistics of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in November are presented in table 19, by type of project.
TABLE 19.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, by Type of Project, November 1937 *
[Subject to revision]
Number of
wage earners 3
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
All projects
4,421
$602,221
702,485
$0,857
Building construction
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
416
3,916
89
34,002
560, 643
7,576
37,853
653,351
11,281
.858
.672
Type of project
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed during month
$3,197,856
1 Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor.
3 Includes 167 employees; pay-roll disbursements of $11,824; 10,205 man-hours worked; and material orders
placed during the month amounting to $10,275 on projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co.
A monthly summary of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked on construction projects financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation from November 1936 to November 1937, inclusive, is given in table 20.
TABLE 20.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, November 1936 Through November 1937l
[Subject to revision]
Month
November
December
January
February...
March
April
May
June
July.—
August.
September
October
November
1986
1937
__
Number of
wage
earners 2
Monthly
pay-roll disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders placed
during
month
11,062
10,355
$1,271,583
1,237,007
1,736,251
1,697,935
$0.732
.729
$3,218,674
1,488,306
9,934
9,194
8,873
8,671
7,346
5,596
1,117,933
1,071,267
1,060,411
1,106,357
950,924
766,705
1,521,162
1,441,322
1,371,966
1,385,854
1,174,266
898,038
.735
.743
.773
.798
.810
.854
2,538,060
1,238,932
1,268,724
1,071,983
942.696
927,929
4,880
4,789
4,056
4,261
4,421
654,167
660,987
541,264
558,419
602,221
759,161
769,236
634, 777
656,890
702,485
.862
.859
.853
.850
.857
626,968
1,673,752
789,251
910,473
3,197,856
i Includes projectsfinancedby the RFC Mortgage Co. Data are for month ending on the 15th.
> Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month.
37
CONSTRUCTION
PROJECTS FINANCED FROM REGULAR
APPROPRIATIONS
FEDERAL
Whenever a construction contract is awarded or force-account work
is started by a department or agency of the Federal Government, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics is immediately notified, on forms supplied
by the Bureau, of the name and address of the contractor, the amount
of the contract, and the type of work to be performed. Blanks are
then mailed by the Bureau to the contractor or Government agency
doing the work. These reports are returned to the Bureau and show
the number of men on pay rolls, and the amounts disbursed for pay,
the number of man-hours worked on the project, and the value of
the different types of materials for which orders were placed during
the month.
The following tables present data concerning construction projects
for which contracts have been awarded since July 1, 1934. The
Bureau does not have statistics covering projects financed from
regular Federal appropriations for which contracts were awarded
previous to that date.
Data concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations
during November are given in table 21, by type of project.
TABLE 21.—Employment on Construction Projt&ts Financed From Regular Federal
Appropriations, by Type of Project, November 1937l
[Subject to revision]
Number of wage
earners
Type of project
All projects
Building construction:
Nonresidential
Residential
Electrification:
Eural Electrification Administration projects *
Other than R. E. A. projectsForestry
Grade-crossing e l i m i n a t i o n :
Underpasses
Heavy engineering
Naval vessels5
Public roads
Reclamation
_
River, harbor, and flood control:
Dredging, dikes, revetments,
etc
Locks and dams
Ship construction, other than
naval vessels
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
1
Maximum
number
employed 2
a 211,004
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
199,358 $20,303,903
—
1,908,530
17,476
8,744
72
•
21,447
Number of
Value of
man-hours Average
material
worked
earnings
orders
during
per hour placed durmonth
ing month
28,858,259
$0.704
$23,858,860
2,062,136
.926
.883
2,921,901
15,665
,. a
•
6,693
116
315
5,494
87
309
431,097
6,388
14,905
790,186
10,901
35,438
.546
.586
.421
2,453,927
11,727
5,336
47
42, 111
12,987
7
37
41,131
79,530
12, 561
740
3,863
5,880,539
6,121,432
1,555,541
728
4,119
6,719,738
10,474,650
1,934,734
1.016
.938
.875
.584
.804
2,149
2,907
4,756,374
7,896,647
1,153,233
31, 224
10,129
27,583
9,362
2,823, 586
1,117,940
4,586, 264
1, 543,336
.616
.724
2,584,576
1,480,583
44
3,771
275
2,217
32
3,430
225
2,022
5,928
246,006
24,763
153,901
4,942
451, 558
28,126
201, 504
1.200
.545
0
244,051
57,577
272,207
.764
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work.
3 Includes weekly average for public roads.
* Financed by Rural Electrification Administration loans.
5
Under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
6
Not available; weekly average included in total for all projects.
38
Employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on construction
projects financed from regular Federal appropriations from November
1936 to November 1937, inclusive, are shown by months in table 22.
TABLE 22.—Employment on Construction Projects Financed From Regular Federal
Appropriations, November 1936 Through November 1937x
[Subject to revision]
Month
of
Value of maNumber Monthly pay- Number
man-hours Average
terial orders
of wage2 roll disburse- worked
earnings placed
durduring
earners
ments
per hour
ing month
month
' 1936
171,555
152,499
$15,529,018
14,290,708
22,889,149
20,311,195
$0,678
.704
$19,764,581
14,321,802
January
February
March
April
May
June
119,853
112,770
120,175
132,639
160.346
177,265
11,857,007
10,904,648
11,847,783
13,855,633
15,278,529
16,980,060
16,506,278
14,735,028
16, 280,905
19,545,518
21,858,124
24,532,459
.718
.740
.728
.709
.699
.692
11,729,532
13,613,251
12,820,438
15,572,168
18,508,278
19,574,535
July
August.._
September
October
November
193,695
204,174
206,663
218.347
211,004
19,599,384
19,571,849
21,667,700
20,911,266
20,303,903
29, 236,412
28,396,014
31,476,926
29,940, 767
28,858,259
.670
.689
.688
.698
.704
24,485,499
29, 665, 521
31,993,137
24,400,381
23,858,860
November
December
1937
1 Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work.
STATE -1OADS PROJECTS
A record of employment and pay-roll disbursements in the construction and maintenance of State roads from November 1936 to
November 1937, inclusive, is presented in table 23.
TABLE 23.—Employment on Construction and Maintenance of State Roads, November
1936 Through November 19371
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees working on 2
Month
Total pay roll
New roads
November
December
Maintenance
Total
27,988
21,394
153,688
138,540
181,676
159,934
$11,330, 509
10,000,371
January
February
March
April
May
June
15,622
11, 706
11,802
13,164
17,241
19,382
117,576
120, 786
119, 046
124, 761
159,167
148,392
133,198
132,492
130,848
137,925
176,408
167, 774
8,387,864
8,560,561
8,333,600
9,108,030
10,850,394
11,069, 510
July
August
September
October..
November
25,140
28,379
26, 632
27,280
29,491
149,907
160,143
167, 028
160, 045
163,182
175,047
188, 522
193,660
187,325
192,673
11,998,370
12,815, 790
12,843,370
12,134,860
12, 776, 701
1937
1
Excluding employment furnished by projects financed from Public Works Administration and Works
Progress Administration funds. Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Monthly average.
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