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Serial No. R. 56
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
FRANCES PERKINS, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
ISADOR LUBIN, Commissioner
TREND OF EMPLOYMENT
OCTOBER 1933
By Industries:
Pace
Manufacturing Industries............................................. 1-12
Nonmanufacturing In d u stries.................................... 13-17
Anthracite and Bituminous Coal Mining
Metalliferous Mining
Quarrying and Nonmetallic Mining
Crude Petroleum Producing
Public Utilities:
Telephone and Telegraph
Power and Light
Electric Railroads
Wholesale and Retail Trade
Hotels
Canning and Preserving
Laundries
Dyeing and Cleaning
Banks, Brokerage, Insurance, and Real Estate
Building Construction..................................................20-22
Public Works Projects................................................. 36-39
Public R o a d s ...............................................................39-40
Executive Civil Service..................................................30-32
Class I Steam R ailroad s.............................................
32
By S t a t e s ............................................................................ 22-29
By Cities • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
30
Average Hours and Average Hourly Earnings.................. 18-20
Wage C h a n g e s................................................................... 33-36
Prepared by Division of Employment Statistics
LEWIS E. TALBERT, Chief
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON: 1933
TREND OF EMPLOYMENT
October 1933
HE Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department
of Labor presents herewith data compiled from pay-roll reports
supplied by representative establishments in 89 of the principal man
ufacturing industries of the country and 16 nonmanufacturing indus
tries, covering the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
Additional information is presented concerning employment on publicworks projects, public roads, the executive civil service, and class I
steam railroads.
T
Employment in Selected Manufacturing Industries in October
1933
Comparison of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals in October 1933 with September
1933 and October 1932
M PLOYM ENT in manufacturing industries increased 0.1 per
cent in October 1933 as compared with September 1933 and pay
rolls increased 0.6 percent over the month interval, according to
reports received from representative establishments in 89 important
manufacturing industries of the country. Comparing the changes in
employment and pay rolls over the year interval, it is seen that the
level of employment in October 1933 is 23.5 percent above the level
of October 1932, and pay rolls in October 1933 showed a gain of 34.3
percent over the year interval.
The index of employment in October 1933 was 74, as compared
with 73.9 in September 1933, 71.6 in August 1933, and 59.9 in October
1932; the pay-roll index in October 1933 was 53.6, as compared with
53.3 in September 1933, 51.9 in August 1933, and 39.9 in October
1932. The 12-month average for 1926 equals 100.
These changes in employment and pay rolls in October 1933 are
based on reports supplied by 18,602 establishments in 89 of the
principal manufacturing industries of the United States. These
establishments reported 3,358,960 employees on their pay rolls during
the pay period ending nearest October 15 whose combined weekly
earnings were $63,195,865. The employment reports received from
these cooperating establishments cover approximately 50 percent o£
the total wage earners in all manufacturing industries of the country..
The increases in employment and pay rolls between September and!
October 1933, while small, indicate a continuation of the gains in'
employment and pay roll which occurred during the preceding 6month interval. The fact that 56 industries, or nearly two thirds of:
the 89 manufacturing industries surveyed, reported increased em
ployment in October would give reason to expect a greater expansion:
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over the month interval than was shown. Those increases, however,
were practically offset by the decreases reported in the remaining 33
industries. Among the decreases which largely affected the final
result were losses of over 10 percent in employment in automobiles
and a similar decline in silk goods where labor difficulties prevailed
throughout the period covered. Smaller declines were recorded in
iron and steel, boots and shoes, woolen and worsted goods, steam
fittings, hardware, plumbers' supplies, and men's clothing, and seasonal
shrinkage in the brick, cement, beverage, and ice-cream industries.
The average percentage of change in employment between Septem
ber and October over the preceding 10-year period has been a decrease
of less than one tenth of 1 percent and pay rolls have shown an aver
age gain of 2 percent over this interval. The small percentage gain
in employment in October of the present year therefore indicates a
change slightly better than average, while the pay-roll increase of
0.6 percent in October of the current year is appreciably less than
the average increase shown in October over the preceding 10-year
interval.
The gain of 0.1 percent in employment in manufacturing industries
between September and October 1933 represents an estimated gain of
approximately 7,000 workers over the month interval, and the in
crease of 0.6 percent in factory pay rolls indicates that the total
weekly pay rolls of factory employees in October were approximately
two thirds of a million dollars greater than the total weekly pay rolls
disbursed in September in all manufacturing industries combined.
The index (74) of factory employment in October shows a gain of
34.3 percent over the employment index (55.1) of March 1933, which
was the low point of employment recorded in manufacturing indus
tries. The pay-roll index (53.6) in October is 60.5 percent above the
level of the March pay-roll index of 33.4. Measured by these per
centage gains there was an increase in employment in manufacturing
industries of approximately 1,700,000 workers between March and
October 1933 and an increase of $44,500,000 in weekly wages in
October over the total amount paid in 1 week in March 1933.
The most pronounced increases in employment between September
and October were seasonal gains in the beet-sugar and radio industries.
The beet-sugar industry, marking the beginning of its active season,
reported a gain of 171.1 percent in employment and the radio industry
reported an increase of 21.6 percent. The locomotive industry showed
a gain of over 20 percent in number of workers and the cottonseed
oil-cake-meal and fertilizer industries reported seasonal gains of 15.6
percent and 10.6 percent, respectively. Fifteen industries reported
gains ranging from 5 percent to 9.8 percent, among which were the
agricultural implement, confectionery, machine tool, jewelry, stove,
shirt and collar, and cigar and cigarette industries. Other industries
of major importance reporting increased employment over the month
interval were petroleum refining, electrical machinery, shipbuilding,
chemicals, foundries, sawmills, furniture, women's clothing, knit
goods, and cotton goods.
Seven of the 14 groups into which the 89 manufacturing industries
are classified reported increased employment between September and
October. The tobacco group reported the largest percentage gain
over the month, 4.6 percent, both the cigar and cigarette and the chew
ing and smoking tobacco industries reporting increases. The machin
3
ery group reported an increase of 3.7 percent, substantial gains being
shown in radios, agricultural implements, machine tools, typewriters,
electrical machinery, and foundries. The food group reported a gain
of 3.6 percent, the beet sugar, confectionery, cane-sugar refining, and
flour industries reporting the largest percentage increases. The gain
of 2.9 percent in employment in the chemical group was due largely
to seasonal increases in fertilizers and cottonseed oil-cake-meal com
bined with smaller increases in the chemical, petroleum refining, and
explosive industries. The paper group reported a gain of 2 percent.
The nonferrous metal and the lumber groups reported increases in
employment of 1.7 and 1.4 percent, respectively.
The most pronounced decline in employment (7.9 percent) was
reported in the transportation group in which the decrease of 10.4 per
cent in the automobile industry contributed largely to the decline
reported in the group. The stone, clay, and glass products group
reported a decrease of 2.3 percent, seasonal decreases in the cement and
brick industries offsetting small gains reported in the glass, marble,
and pottery industries. The decline in employment in 8 of the 13
industries comprising the iron and steel group was reflected in the
loss of 2.1 percent in employment in this group over the month inter
val. The iron and steel industry reported 2.2 percent fewer employees
in October than September and larger decreases were shown in the
tin can, forging, steam fitting, plumbers’ supplies, and hardware
industries. The decreases in both the boot and shoe and the leather
industries resulted in a decrease of 1.9 percent in the leather group.
The decreases in the remaining 3 groups (textiles, rubber, and railroad
repair shops) were 0.7 percent or less.
Strikes continued to affect employment in factories in a number of
localities. A large number of silk-goods plants reported decreased
employment due to strikes in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. These
strikes affected a number of plants in the dyeing and finishing textile
industry which were forced to close or operate part time due to lack
of material. Strikes in establishments in the furniture, flour, knit
goods, and leather industries were also reported over the month
interval.
A comparison of the indexes of employment and pay roll in manu
facturing industries in October 1933 with October 1932 shows that all
but 8 of the 89 industries surveyed reported increased employment
over the year interval and a similar number reported increased pay
roll totals. Decreases in both items were reported in 6 industries—
dyeing and finishing textiles, corsets, millinery, electric-railroad repair
shops, cement, and marble-granite-slate. The newspaper and the
book and job printing industries each reported small losses in pay rolls
coupled with increased employment over the year interval, and the
men’s furnishings and cigar and cigarette industries reported losses in
employment coupled with increased pay-roll totals.
In table 1, which follows, are shown the number of identical estab
lishments reporting in both September and October 1933 in the 89
manufacturing industries, together with the total number of em
ployees on the pay rolls of these establishments during the pay period
ending nearest October 15, the amount of their earnings for 1 week in
October, the percents of change over the month and year intervals,
and the indexes of employment and pay roll in October 1933.
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The monthly percents of change for each of the 89 separate indus
tries are computed by direct comparison of the total number of
employees and of the amount of weekly pay roll reported in identical
establishments for the 2 months considered. The percents of change
over the month interval in the several groups and in the total of the
89 manufacturing industries are computed from the index numbers of
these groups, which are obtained by weighting the index numbers of
the several industries in the groups by the number of employees or
wages paid in the industries. The percents of change over the year
interval in the separate industries, in the groups and in the totals, are
computed from the index numbers of employment and pay-roll totals.
T able 1.—C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN M A N U F A C T U R IN G
E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN O C T O B E R 1933 W IT H S E P T E M B E R 1933 A N D O C T O B E R 1932
Industry
Food and kindred prod
u c t s .______ _______________
Baking---------- -----------------Beverages_______________
Butter------------------------Confectionery___________
Flour------ -----------------------Ice cr e a m ........................
Slaughtering and meat
packing___________ _____
Sugar, beet---------------------Sugar refining, cane--------Textiles and their products.
Fabrics--------------------------Carpets and rugs____
Cotton goods________
Cotton small w ares.. .
Dyeing and finishing
textiles____________
Hats, fur-felt.. _____
K nit goods---------------Silk and rayon good s..
W oolen and worsted
goods______________
Wearing apparel..........
Clothing, m en’s _____
Clothing, wom en’s __
Corsets and allied gar
ments ______ ______
M en’s furnishings____
M illinery_______ ____
Shirts and collars____
Iron and steel and their
products, n o t including
m achinery............................
Bolts, nuts, washers, and
rivets__________________
Cast-iron pipe___________
Cutlery (not including sil
ver and plated cutlery)
and edge tools_________
Forgings, iron and steel __
Hardware................... .........
Iron and steel......................
Plumbers’ supplies______
Steam and hot-water heat
ing apparatus and steam
fittings--------------------------
Employment
Pay-roll totals
Estab
lish
Percent of
Percent of
ments
change
change
report N um
Amount
ing in
ber
of
pay
both
Octo
roll (1
Octo
on pay
Sep
Sep
Sep
ber
ber
week)
roll
tember 1932
tember October
October tember 1932
and
to Oc to Oc
to Oc to Oc
1933
1933
tober
tober
October
tober
tober
1933
1933
1933
1933
3,145
1,030
413
307
302
417
356
244
63
13
322,300
73,420
26,154
5,966
43,619
17,646
11,377
+ 3 .6
+ 1 .2
- 6 .5
-1 .2
+ 8.1
+ 2 .4
- 8 .4
+19.1 $6,528,685
+10.0 1, 599,105
+107.9
701,269
+ 9 .5
121, 301
+5. 2
644,122
+13.6
362, 281
+12.1
284,990
Index num
bers October
1933 (average
1926=100)
Em
ploy
ment
Pay
roll
totals
+ 2 .0 +17.2
+ . 4 + 5 .8
- 9 .8 +131. 3
+ 1 .5 + 2 .8
+ 5 .9 + 8 .8
+ 6 .4 + 4.1
+ 4 .5
- 5 .9
103.7
89.0
150.9
106.0
102.4
96.2
76.8
81.7
72.5
127.7
80.7
80.1
75.3
57.5
112,501
- . 8 +26.0 2, 218, 244
- . 6 +22.9
21,913 +171.1 +16.3
398,033 +143. 9 +29.7
+ 4 .4 + 5.1
9,704
+ 7 .6 +19.8
199,340
110.5
248.8
93.2
87.0
163.0
68.0
+29.9
+36.0
+89.9
+ 61.2
+25.9
87.9
93.6
82.8
102.6
99.6
67.7
74.4
65.7
86.4
77.4
3,316
1,965
27
689
116
773,495
628,243
16, 632
309,034
11,621
-.7
-.7
+ 5 .5
+ 1 .2
-2 .2
+17.7 11,820,893
+23.0 9,324,044
+52.8
322,810
+35.2 4,046,645
+23.0
183, 573
153
36
466
238
33,600
6,248
124,945
50,798
- 2 .8
-2 .3
610, 731
- 9 .4
+ 3 .6
140, 024
+ 1 .6 +11.3 1,974, 332
-1 0 .1
+ .5
762, 239
+ 2 .5
- 6 .2
- 9 .7 +11.4
+ 5 .5 +19.2
- 7 . 2 +12.5
75.7
76.8
96.6
65.2
54.0
57.6
79.5
50.5
240
1,351
396
593
75, 365
145,252
70,604
34,458
- 3 .1 +29.5 1, 283, 690
-.4
+ 3 .9 2,496,849
- 2 .1
+ 8 .7 1, 215,149
+ 1 .6 + 1 .6
693,297
- 4 .9 +37.7
- 5 .2 +16.0
- 2 . 0 + 26.0
- 7 . 5 +13.3
99.6
74.3
77.1
71.7
78.1
54.5
55.3
54.5
32
73
135
122
5, 453
7,242
8,845
18,650
- 8 .5
- 5 .8
+16.0 + 7.7
-2 3 .5 -1 2 .0
+ 15.0 +49.5
95.5
67.1
69.6
73.4
80.6
48.9
43.9
62.8
1,419
417,746
79
44
14,406
6,630
132
66
99
206
73
11,292
7, 214
28,269
254, 363
9, 314
98
16,843
- 9 .7
- 5 .4
- 2 .5
+ 7.1
- 3 .6
- 9 .3
+ 5 .5 +15.0
- 2 .1
84,166
102,798
151, 447
249,992
+37.9 7,939,979
- 1 .7
-.3
+ 7 .3
+ 1 .0
- 1 .3
+77.8
73.2
47.3
263,139
85, 221
+• 2 + 75.0
+ 3 .9 +27.5
88.8
35.1
58.8
19.0
+ 4.8
- 7 .9
- 6 .3
-2 .2
- 6 .9
+22.7
208, 291
134,941
+38.9
+12.4
462, 411
+44.2 5, 012,991
+59.4
149, 430
+ 6 .4 +24.0
+ 1 .7 +91.5
- 7 .8 +25.9
+• 4 +113. 4
-1 2 .8 +62.0
79.0
76.7
55.3
76.4
81.6
54.3
49.6
30.6
49.5
46.5
- 7 .6
+19.6
44.6
27.8
- 2 .1 + 42.5
+ 3 .1 +18.6
302,493
+ .4
- 8 .3
+17.8
5
T a b l e 1.—C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN M ANUFACTURING
E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
1932—Continued
IN
Industry-
Iron and steel and their
products, not including
machinery—Continued.
Stoves___ _______ _______
Structural and ornamental
metalwork_____________
Tin cans and other tin
ware_________________ .
Tools (not including edge
tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)________
Wire work............................
Machinery, not including
transportation e q u i p
m e n t................................... .
Agricultural implements. _
Cash registers, adding ma
chines, and calculating
machines______________
Electrical machinery, ap
paratus and supplies___
Engines, turbines, trac
tors, and water wheels..
Foundry and machineshop products _ ...........
Machine tools___________
Radios and phonographs. .
Textile machinery and
parts__________________
Typewriters and supplies .
Nonferrous metals and
their products....................
Aluminum manufactures .
Brass, bronze, and copper
products.______ ________
Clocks and watches and
time-recording devices. .
Jew elry.............................
Lighting equipment_____
Silverware and plated
ware_______ _______ ____
Smelting and refin in g copper, lead, and zin c..
Stamped and enameled
ware.................................
Transportation
equip
m e n t______ ______________
Aircraft_________ ________
Automobiles......... ..............
Cars, electric and steam
railroad................ ..........
Locom otives_____________
Shipbuilding____________
Railroad repair shops_____
Electric railroad_________
Steam railroad....... ...........
L um ber and allied prod
ucts_______________________
Furniture_______________
Lumber:
M illwork........... ..........
S aw m ills.____________
Turpentine and rosin........
OCTOBER
1933 W IT H
SEPTEM BER
1933 A N D
OCTOBER
Employment
Pay-roll totals
Estab
lish
Percent of
Percent of
ments
change
change
report N um
Amount
ing in
ber
of pay
both
Octo
on pay
Octo
roll (1
Sep
Sep
Sep
ber
ber
week)
roll
tember 1932 October tember 1932
tember October
to Oc to Oc
to Oc to Oc
and
1933
1933
tober tober
tober tober
October
1933
1933
1933
1933
Index num
bers October
1933 (average
1926=100)
Em
ploy
ment
Pay
roll
totals
162
25,346
+ 5 .6 +49.3
500,488
+12.4 +51.6
82.7
56.4
202
17,045
+ 1 .2 + 24.3
314, 477
+ 6 .2 +39.8
51.2
33.0
60
10,238
- 8 .0 +11.8
191.985
- 7 .7
+ 8 .6
85.9
51.5
127
71
8,950
7,836
+ 3 .6 +38.0
- . 5 +40.1
163, 327
150, 785
+ 5 .0 +53.8
+ 1 .7 +61.3
83.1
128.2
54.0
103.9
1,826
79
359,680
9,118
+3 .7 +40.4 7,207,029
+ 8 .5 +94.3
162,663
+ 6 .9 +60.9
+14.2 +122.1
64.0
37.7
43.6
31.1
416,492
+ 4 .6 +44.0
85.7
67.4
+ 3 .6 +27.6 2, 278,501
+ 4 .8 + 43.0
62.9
46.9
35
16,366
291
112,500
+ 2 .4 +34.3
440,053
+ 6 .7 +46.2
55.4
36.4
+ 2 .0 +37.3 2,382,122
+ 7 .9 +62.2
329,929
+21.6 +103. 5
725,960
+ 4 .8 +62.2
+ 9 .9 +93.6
+37.3 +99.0
60.4
48.0
162.4
37.8
33.1
125.2
235,143
236,166
+ . 3 +103.8
+11.4 +101.6
90.0
81.2
69.3
61.3
+ 1.7 +35.2 2,022,181
- 1 .5 +34.6
124, 245
+ 4 .9 +38.9
+ 4 .6 +47.8
73.0
64.2
51.4
43.6
+57.1
72.4
49.5
+13.1 + 39.2
+11.0 + 6 .4
+ 1 .4 +26.9
52.6
47.8
84.1
43.7
34.7
59.4
+ .4
+39.2
92
21,167
1,075
143
43
125,024
15,601
37,148
52
16
10,768
11,988
632
27
108,188
6,949
212
39,185
+41.7
736,801
27
130
52
9,606
9,487
3,642
+ 5 .4 +26.4
+ 5 .6 + 8 .6
+ 2 .4 + 26.3
177,741
188, 516
64,388
- . 9 +67.9
+ 6 .7 +45. 3
- .9
-2 .9
56
9, 247
+ 9 .8 +21.7
191,859
+20.0 +21.3
77.5
55.2
42
14,140
+ 2 .3 +46.8
267,831
+ 3 .8 + 42.2
86.3
55.9
86
15,932
+37.6
270,800
+ 6 .1 +39.4
83.1
55.9
424
25
239
270,106
6,445
221, 612
- 7 .9 +44.1 5,697,293
+ 3 .6 +48.3
174, 599
-1 0 .4 +52.4 4,641,844
-1 0 .4 +66.8
+ 7 .3 +27.9
- 1 3 .3 +85.9
56.9
247.3
58.2
41.2
222.6
42.2
49
11
100
8,876
2,851
30, 322
- 2 .1
+ 1 .4
+20.9 +47.1
+ 2 .8 +16.8
177,037
54,008
649,805
+ 5 .0 + 1. 6
+28.6 +40.4
+ 3 .6 +10.3
21.4
20.3
79.1
12.6
13.2
57.8
920
380
540
96,065
19,631
76,434
+ 4 .9 2,435,699
- 3 .5
487,588
+ 5 .9 1,948, 111
+ 8 .0 +23.5
+ 2 .4 - 3 . 5
+ 8 .5 +26.6
51.0
63.2
50.1
44.7
50.0
44.3
1,610
468
167,364
60, 655
+ 1 .4 +32.8 2,541,181
+ 1 .8 +32.4
975,283
+1 .5 +49.5
+ 4 .2 +45.3
51.8
64.1
33.2
41.7
494
621
27
21,348
83,438
1,923
- 3 . 0 +17.8
320, 347
+ 1 .8 +35.7 1,219,705
+ 6. 5 +42.9
25,846
- 2 .8 +22.4
+ . 4 +62.3
+ 11.7 +48.4
40.3
49.0
64.6
24.6
31.0
55.8
+ .9
-.2
+ 1.1
-.3
6
T a b l e 1.—C O M P A R IS O N O F E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN M A N U FA C TU RIN G
E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
1932—Continued
IN
OCTOBER
1933 W I T H
SEPTEM BER
Employment
Estab
lish
ments
report-
Industry-
Stone, clay, and glass
p r o d u c ts -.-...................... Brick, tile, and terra
cotta. ...............................
Cement................................
Glass.....................................
Marble, granite, slate, and
other products.................
Pottery.................................
1933 A N D
Pay-roll totals
Percent of
change
OCTOBER
Index num
bers October
1933 (average
1926=100)
Percent of
change
N um
Amount
ber
of pay
both
on
pay
Octo
Octo
roll (1
Sep
Sep
Sep
week)
ber
ber
roll
tember
tember 1932
tember October
Em
1932
October
to Oc
and
to Oc to Oc p loy
1933
1933
October
tober to Oc
tober
ment
tober
tober
1933
1933
1933
1933
1,325
105,47?
+19.3
51.7
32.8
662
131
177
20,469
13,119
46,900
-8 .5
+ 9 .4
-1 3 .7 -1 1 .4
+ 1 .0 +41.4
257,175
240,984
874,310
- 9 . 4 +13.1
- 4 .5
- 9 .1
+ 2 .0 +51.3
31. 5
38.0
80.6
14.7
22.9
59.6
235
120
5,982
19,007
+ 1 .8 -1 2 .4
+ 3 .8 +24.1
117,204
342,298
+ 4.3 -2 2 .7
+ 7.9 +33.9
45.4
74.7
27.3
50.2
506
348
158
153,033
120,806
32,227
- 1 .9
-2 .2
-1 .2
+16.8
+11.4
+33.8
84.1
82.5
90.5
62.0
58.5
74.1
Paper and printing....... .......
Boxes, paper........................
Paper and pulp..................
Printing and publishing:
Book and job ...............
Newspapers and pe
riodicals.....................
Chemicals and allied prod
ucts....... — ....................... .
Chemicals............................
Cottonseed—oil,
cake,
and meal..........................
Druggists' preparations
Explosives............................
Fertilizers-..........................
Paints and varnishes........
Petroleum refining.............
R ayon and allied products
Soap......................................
1,990
327
416
248,821
27,785
101,951
+ 2 .0 +12.8 5,793,681
+ 1 .8 +25.8
486,336
+ 1 .0 +26.1 1,899,065
+ 1 .9 + 5 .8
- . 4 +19.1
- . 1 +27.5
90.5
92. 6
94.8
70.6
76.0
66.3
784
48,202
+ 1 .6
+ 1 .2 1,212,937
+ 2.1
- 2 .9
463
70,883
+ 3.3
+ 6 .9 2,195,343
+ 3 .4
- .
1,103
106
184,419
26,471
104
50
31
175
363
140
24
109
6,677
8,930
4,569
8,95?
17, 680
56,180
37,681
17,274
Rubber products__________
R ubber boots and shoes..
Rubber goods, other than
boots, shoes, tires, and
inner tubes............... .......
R ubber tires and inner
tubes.................................
149
9
96,368
10,400
98
42
Tobacco m anufactures___
Chewing and smoking to
bacco and snuff...............
Cigars and cigarettes.........
Leather and its m anufac
tures........................................
Boots and shoes.......... .......
Leather.................................
Total, 89 industries. __
- 2 .3
+15.9 1,831.971
+ 7.7 2,646,616
+ 3 .0 2,006,690
+29.5
639,926
+ .9
Pay
roll
totals
-6 .6
- 9 .1
+ .7
73.5
57.8
1
104.1
85.3
+ 4 .9 +27.8
+ 6 .4 +41.0
98.7
120.9
77.8
87.0
+34. 3
+14.1
+51.2
+59.5
+11.7
+14.6
+45.7
+ 9 .7
62.9
80.8
105.9
72.1
80.4
72.7
197.3
116.7
60.3
80.3
77.4
48.0
61.0
59.8
172.4
92.6
- . 3 +39.4 1,934,586
195,221
+ 1 .9 +31.9
+ 1 .9 +52.8
+ 4 .0 +55.4
89.1
68.6
62.8
61.7
27,300
+ 1 .9 +43.4
+ 7 .5 +35.0
58,668
- 2 .1
238
55,898
+ 4 .6
30
208
9,491
46,407
+ 2 .4
+ 5.1
18,602 3,358,960
+ .1
+ 2 .9 +30.7 4,015,109
+ 2 .0 +42.7
632,490
+15.6
+ 5 .0
+ 2.1
+ 10.6
- . 1
+ 3 .8
+ .3
+ .6
+16.3
71,476
+12.7
181,208
+39.9
97,945
+59.9
115, 577
+17.9
371,345
+17.6 1,517,153
+41.3
668,793
+20.4
359,122
492,991
+21.1
+ 6 .5
+ 7 .9
+12.9
+ 3 .0
+ 3 .9
+ 2 .4
+ .8
120.9
82.6
+39.3 1,246,374
- 1 .3
+62.9
82.2
56.2
- 2 .2
780,962
+ 6.1
+ 5.7
72.3
59.0
+ 2.1
- 2 .9
130,914
650,048
0)
+ 7 .2
+ 5 .0
+ 5 .8
91.7
69.8
77.0
56.8
+23.5 63,195,865
+ .6
+34.3
74.0
53.6
* Less than one tenth of 1 percent.
Per Capita Earnings in Manufacturing Industries
P e r capita weekly earnings in October 1933 for each of the 89
manufacturing industries surveyed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
and for all industries combined, together with the percents of change
in October 1933 as compared with September 1933 and October 1932,
are shown in table 2.
These earnings must not be confused with full-time weekly rates of
wages. They are per capita weekly earnings, computed by dividing
the total amount of pay roll for the week by the total number of
employees (part-time as well as full-time workers).
7
C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S IN M AN UFACTURIN G IN D U S T R IE S IN
O C T O B E R 1933 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H S E P T E M B E R 1933 A N D O C T O B E R 1932
T a b l e 2 .-P E R
Industry
Food and kindred products:
B a k in g ....................................................... ................................ .......... .
Beverages_____________ ________ ____ _________________ ________
Butter............................................................... ......................................
Confectionery................................ .................... .................... .............
Flour..................................................................................... ............... .
Ice cream......................... ................... ............ ................... ........ ..........
Slaughtering and meat packing___________ ____________________
Sugar, beet.................................... . . . ....................................... ...........
Sugar refining, cane..............................................................................
Textiles and their products:
Fabrics:
Carpets and rugs.......................... . . . .......... _ .................... .........
Cotton goods...... ................................................................. .........
Cotton small wares............- _____________________ ______ ___
Dyeing and finishing textiles____ ____________ ______ _____
Hats, fur-felt_______________. _____ __________________ _____
Knit g o o d s ............................................... ............ .............. ........
Silk and rayon goods______________ __________ _____ ______
Woolen and worsted good s.._____________ _________________
Wearing apparel:
Clothing, men’s.............................................................. ...............
Clothing, wom en’s_________________________ ______________
Corsets and allied garm ents..______ ________________ ______
M en’s furnishings_________ ________ _______ ______________
M illinery......... ......................................................... ....................
Shirts and collars........................................................................ .
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery:
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets........................................................
Cast-iron pipe........................................................................................
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools.
Forgings, iron and steel............. .........................................................
H ardw are................................................ ............................................
Iron and steel.........................................................................................
Plumbers’ supplies................... .......................................... ...............
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and steam fittings____
Stoves.......................................... ...........................................................
Structural and ornamental metal w ork............. ............................ .
Tin cans and other tinware................................................................
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, files, and saws).
W ire work....................................... .............. ........................................
Machinery, not including transportation equipment:
Agricultural implements....................................................................
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines.......
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies..............................
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels_____ ______ _____
Foundry and machine-shop products............................................
Machine tools..................................................................... .................
Radios and phonographs______________________________________
Textile machinery and parts.—. ...................... ............ .......... .........
Typewriters and supplies..................................................................
Nonferrous metals and their products:
Aluminum manufactures________ ____ ________ _______ _______
Brass, bronze, and coppetproducts______ ______ _______ _______
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices_______ _______
Jewelry........................................ ........................ ..................................
Lighting equipment___ _______________ ________________ _______
Silverware and plated ware............................................... ...............
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc............. .................
Stamped and enameled ware______ ____________________ ______
Transportation equipment:
Aircraft— ..................................................... ............ ............................
Automobiles_____________________________________ ____________
Cars, electric and steam railroad______________ ________________
Locom otives.......................................................... ........... ....................
Shipbuilding................... ...................... ...............................................
Railroad repair shops:
Electric railroad______ _____________________ ____________ ____ _
Steam railroad_______ ____________________ ______ _____________
Lum ber and allied products:
Furniture.................................... .................... ............................... .
Lumber:
M ill work.................................................... ....................................
Sawmills________________ _______ _________________________
Turpentine and rosin________ __________________________ ____ _
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Brick, tile, and terra cotta................................... ............. ................
Cem ent......................................... ..........................................................
Glass_____ ____________ ___________________ ________ _______ _
1 N o change.
22224—33------2
Per capita Percent of change com
weekly
pared with—
earnings
October
in October September
1933
1933
----$21.78
26.81
20.33
14.77
20.53
25.05
19.72
18.16
20.54
- 0 .8
-3 .6
+ 2 .8
-2 .0
+ 3 .9
+ 2 .8
+ .2
-1 0 .1
-3 .0
+11.2
19.41
13.09
15.80
18.18
22.41
15.80
15.01
17.03
+ 1 .7
-.2
+ .9
+ 4 .8
-.3
+ 3 .8
+ 3 .2
-1 .9
+23.8
+18.4
+ 2 .0
-3 .4
+ 7 .6
+ 7 .1
17. 21
20.12
15.43
14.19
17.12
13.40
18.27
12.85
18.45
18.71
16.36
19.71
16.04
17.96
19.75
18.45
18.75
18.25
19.24
17.84
25.45
20.25
20.79
19.05
21.15
19.54
21.84
19.70
17.88
18.80
18.50
19.87
17.68
20.75
18.94
17.00
-6 .0
+ 3 .3
- 8 .0
-6 .4
-2 .4
+11.4
-1 1 .9
+12.0
+ 5 .8
+ 8 .3
20.6
+ 9 .0
+ 15.9
+11 9
-.2
+ 10.4
- 3 .1
+ 29.6
+ 2 .4
+22.6
+ 1 .2
-
-3 .0
+ .8
+ 1 .5
+ 1 0 .4
-1 .6
+ 2 .7
- 6 .4
-8
+ 6 .5
+ 4 .9
+ .3
+ 1 .3
+ 2 .2
+ 5 .2
+ 7 .4
+. 7
+38.1
+12.0
+48.4
+ 1 .7
-1 .4
+ 1 .8
+12.6
-3 .1
+ 11.5
+15.3
+ 6 .3
+ 2 .7
+ 1 .9
+ 1 2 .9
+ 1 .3
+ 4 .5
+13 .7
+ 7 .1
+12.3
+ 5 .1
+18.1
+ 18.8
- 2 .2
+ 21.3
+ 39.1
+ 6 .2
-2 .0
+ 11 .0
+ 2 .2
+ 1 .1
+ 7 .3
+ 5 ,2
-1 .0
+ 9 .3
+ 1 .4
+ 5 .1
+ 9 .6
+10.1
-2 .0
+ .4
-.3
- 2 .9
+ 1 .3
27.09
20.95
19.95
18.94
21.43
+ 3 .6
-3 .2
+ 7 .3
+ 6 .4
-1 3 .7
+ 22.3
+ .4
24.84
25.49
+ 1 .3
+ 8 .7
0)
+19.2
16.08
+ 2 .4
+ 9 .4
15.01
14.62
13.44
+ .2
+ 4 .1
+ 18.6
+ 3 .7
12.56
18.37
18.64
+.8
-1 .3
+ 4 .8
- 1 .1
+ 1 0 .7
+ .9
- 5 .4
- 5 .5
+ 3 .2
+ 2 .1
+ 6 .7
8
T a b l e 2 *—P E R C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S IN M AN UFACTU RIN G IN D U S T R IE S IN
O C T O B E R 1933 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H S E P T E M B E R 1933 A N D O C T O B E R 1932—Con*
Industry-
Percent of change com
pared with—
Per capita
weekly
earnings
in October
1933
September
1933
$19.59
18.01
+ 2 .4
+ 3 .9
-1 1 .7
+ 7 .9
16.61
19. 86
- 7 .1
+ 2 .0
+ 8 .0
+ 3 .5
17.50
18. 63
-2 . 2
- 1 .1
-5 . a
+ .9
25.16
30.97
+ .4
+ .1
-4 .0
- 7 .1
23.89
10.70
20. 29
21.44
12.90
21.00
27.01
17.75
20. 79
+ 4 .4
+ 4 .6
+ 1 .4
+ 5 .8
+ 2 .1
+ 3 .1
+• 1
+ 2 .1
+ .2
—1.0
+15.7
+ 1 .4
+ 8 .0
+ .4
- 5 .1
- 2. a
+ 2 .7
-9 .2
18. 77
18. 06
21.24
+ 2 .0
+ 5 .5
+ .7
+17.4
-5 .7
+ 16 .5
13. 79
14.01
18. 81
- 2 .3
+ 2 .0
2 + .4
2 + 8 .7
Stone, clay, and glass products—Continued.
Marble, granite, slate, and other products_____________________
Pottery_______________ _______________________
_______ ____
Leather and its manufactures:
Boots and shoes_____________________________ ________ ______
Leather___________________ ______________ _
. . . _
Paper and printing:
Boxes, paper......... ................................ _ _
___
Paper and pulp.................. ............... ............................ . _ _____
Printing and publishing:
Book and jo b ___________________________ __________________
Newspapers and periodicals_______________________________
Chemicals and allied products:
Chemicals.... ..........................................................
.................... .....
Cottonseed oil, cake, and meal____________ _______________ ___
Druggists’ p rep a ra tion s..____ ______ ________ ________ ____ __
Explosives_______________________________ _.
___ ________
Fertilizers______ ____ ____ _________ ___ ______________________
Paints and varnishes_______________ __________________________
Petroleum refining____________ _____ _____________ ______ _____
R ayon and allied products_______________ _____ ___________
Soap______________________ ______ ____________ _______________
Rubber products:
Rubber boots and shoes____________ ______ ________ __________
R ubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner tu b es.-Rubber tires and inner tubes................. ............................ ..........
T obacco manufactures:
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff______________________
Cigars and cigarettes_________________________________ _______
Total, 89 industries_________ ______________ _________________
October
1932
+ 2 .8
+ 9 .0
2 Weighted.
General Index Numbers of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals in Manufacturing
Industries
G e n e r a l index numbers of employment and pay-roll totals in
manufacturing industries by months, from January 1926 to October
1933, together with average indexes for each of the years from 1926
to 1932 and for the 10-month period, January to October 1933, inclu
sive, are shown in the following table. In computing these general
indexes the index numbers of each of the separate industries are
weighted according to their relative importance in the total. Follow
ing this table are two charts prepared from these general indexes
showing the course of employment and pay rolls from January 1926
to October 1933, inclusive.
T able 3 .— G E N E R A L I N D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN M A N U F A C
T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S , J A N U A R Y 1926 TO O C T O B E R 1933
[12-month average, 1926=100]
January_____
February___
M arch______
A pril........... .
M a y ________
June...............
July....... .........
August______
September
October_____
N ovem ber__
December___
A verage.
Pay rolls
Employment
M onth
1926
1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
100.4
101.5
102.0
101.0
99.8
99.3
97.7
98.7
100.3
100.7
99.5
98.9
100.0
97. 3
99. 0
99. 5
98. 6
97. 6
97. 0
95. 0
95. 1
95. 8
95. 3
93. 5
92. 6
96.4
1 Average for 10 months.
91. 6
93. 0
93. 7
93. 3
93. 0
93. 1
92. 2
93. 6
95. 0
95. 9
95. 4
95. 5
93. 8
95.2
97.4
98.6
99.1
99.2
98.8
98.2
98.6
99.3
98.4
95.0
92.3
97.5
90.7
90.9
90.5
89.9
88.6
86.5
82.7
81.0
80.9
79.9
77.9
76.6
84.7
74.6
75.3
75.9
75.7
75.2
73.4
71.7
71.2
70.9
68.9
67.1
66.7
72.2
64.8
65.6
64.5
62.2
59.7
57.5
55.2
56.0
58.5
59.9
59.4
58.3
60.1
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930 1931 1932 1933
98.0 94.9 89.6 94. 5 88.1 63. 7 48.6 35.8
102.2 100.6 93.9 101. 8 91.3 68. 1 49.6 36.4
103.4 102.0 95.2 103. 9 91.6 69. 6 48.2 33.4
101.5 100.8 93.8 104. 6 90.7 68. 5 44.7 34.9
99.8 99.8 94.1 104. 8 88.6 67. 7 42.5 38.9
99.7 97.4 94.2 102. 8 85.2 63. 8 39.3 43.1
95.2 93.0 91.2 98. 2 77.0 60. 3 36.2 46.5
98.7 95.0 94.2 102. 1 75.0 59. 7 36.3 51.9
99.3 94.1 95.4 102. 6 75.4 56. 7 38.1 53. a
102.9 95.2 99.0 102. 4 74.0 55. 3 39.9 53.6
99.6 91.6 96.1 95. 4 69.6 52. 5 38.6 ____
99.8 93.2 97.7 92. 4 68.8 52. 2 37.7
163.4 100.0 96.5 94.5 100. 5 81.3 61. 5 41.6 142.8
56.6
57.5
55.1
56.0
58.7
62.8
67.3
71.6
73.9
74.0
____
9
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.
MOMTHLY INDEXES I9 E 6 -I9 3 3 -
MONTHLY
AVERAGE.
192.6*100.
10
11
Time Worked in Manufacturing Industries in October 1933
as to working time in October were received from 14,883
establishments in 89 manufacturing industries. Two percent of these
establishments were idle, 70 percent operated on a full-time basis, and
28 percent worked on a part-time schedule.
An average of 93 percent of full-time operation in October was
shown by reports received from all the operating establishments in
cluded in table 4. The establishments working part time in October
averaged 76 percent of full-time operation.
R
eports
T able 4 .— P R O P O R T IO N OF F U L L T IM E W O R K E D IN M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S
B Y E S T A B L IS H M E N T S R E P O R T IN G IN O C T O B E R 1933
Establishments
reporting—
Percent of es
tablishments
operating—
Average percent of
full time reported
by—
Part
time
All oper Estab
lish
ating es
ments
tablish operating
ments
part time
Industry
Total
num
ber
Per
cent
idle
77
84.
59
65
70
87
72
77
98
64
22
15
41
33
27
13
27
23
2
36
96
98
91
93
94
96
95
96
100
90
80
87
78
78
77
70
81
84
80
73
4
81
15
95
71
10
1
2
5
85
83
70
84
30
92
72
83
5
16
28
12
70
7
7
14
97
95
92
97
82
99
98
96
40
70
74
73
74
79
76
69
81
76
46
58
81
85
15
18
50
38
19
13
96
93
91
92
93
97
71
65
82
80
61
75
50
43
17
48
57
63
87
84
67
74
71
59
36
29
61
67
34
63
71
39
25
66
84
83
90
93
80
76
76
74
74
70
F o o d a n d k in d red p r o d u c ts ......... .............. ..........
Baking__________ _________ _________________
Beverages___________ ______ ________________
Butter____ _________ ____ __________________
Confectionery_______________________________
Flour_______________________________________
Ice cream____________________ ____ __________
Slaughtering and meat packing______________
Sugar, beet_____ ______________________ ______
Sugar refining, cane_________________________
2,665
937
301
250
263
381
264
198
60
11
T extiles a n d th e ir p r o d u c t s ...................... ........
Fabrics:
Carpets and rugs____ ____________________
Cotton goods___________________________
Cotton small wares______________________
Dyeing and finishing textiles_____________
Hats, fur-felt....................................................
Knit goods______ ________________________
Silk and rayon goods .....................................
W oolen and worsted goods_______________
Wearing apparel:
Clothing, men’s—____ ___________________
Clothing, wom en’s____ ______ ___________
Corsets and allied garments........................
M en’s furnishings........... ..............................
M illinery____ ____________ _____ ________
Shirts and collars________________________
3,695
20
644
99
130
20
419
209
230
286
374
24
55
89
96
3
6
4
4
2
1,130
68
41
20
I r o n a n d steel a n d ttieir p r o d u c ts , n o t in
c lu d in g m a c h in e r y ..................... ........ ................
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets______________
Cast-iron pipe______ _________________________
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cut
lery) and edge tools_____ __________________
Forgings, iron and steel___ ____ _____________
H ardw are............... ..............................................
Iron and steel...................... ........................ .........
Plumbers’ supplies___ ___________ ___________
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam f i t t i n g s . _____ _____________________
Stoves....................................... .............. .............. .
Structural and ornamental metal work_______
Tin cans and other tinware................ .................
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)......... .........................................
W irework............................... ............................. .
M a ch in e ry , n o t in c lu d in g tra n s p o r ta tio n
e q u ip m e n t ....... ........ ...................... ......................
Agricultural implements_____ _______________
Cash registers, adding machines, and calcula
ting m achines,................................................... .
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels.
Foundry and machine-shop products................
Machine tools........... ..................... ...................... .
* Less than one half of 1 percent.
113
41
77
133
56
1
0)
2
2
0)
Full
time
2
1
21
3
2
1
8
87
144
158
55
5
2
41
64
69
51
54
36
29
49
81
92
95
89
67
78
82
78
108
49
1
29
41
70
59
81
86
74
76
1,491
46
1
62
80
37
20
91
97
74
83
25
242
71
901
124
4
44
69
34
62
58
52
31
65
37
41
89
95
80
90
88
78
84
70
72
71
1
1
1
12
T a b l e 4 .—P R O P O R T IO N OF F U L L T IM E W O R K E D IN M A N UFACTU RIN G IN D U S T R IE S
B Y E S T A B L IS H M E N T S R E P O R T IN G IN O C T O B E R 1933— Continued
Establishments
reporting—
Percent of es
tablishments
operating—
Average percent of
full time reported
b y—
Full
time
All oper Estab
lish
ating es
ments
tablish
operating
ments
part time
Industry
Total
num
ber
M a c h in e r y —C ontinued.
Radios and phonographs_____ __________ ____
Textile machinery and parts_________ ______
Typewriters and supplies................. ...................
38
37
7
N o n fe rr o u s m e ta ls a n d th eir p r o d u c ts _______
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_________________
529
22
187
20
110
43
48
24
75
T r a n s p o r ta tio n e q u ip m e n t .__________________
Aircraft______________________________________
Automobiles_________________________________
Cars, electric and steam railroad--------------------Locom otives________________ y_______________
Shipbuilding____________ ____ _______________
327
25
163
39
7
93
R a ilroa d repair s h o p s __________________________
Electric railroad___________ ____ _____________
Steam railroad_______________________________
718
297
421
L u m b e r a n d allied p r o d u c ts __________________
Furniture____________________________________
Lumber:
M illw ork________________________________
Sawmills---------------------------------------------Turpentine and rosin.............................................
1, 271
393
Per
cent
idle
Part
time
87
54
71
13
46
29
98
91
97
82
81
91
49
36
56
15
30
30
42
79
80
50
64
43
85
67
70
56
17
20
88
85
89
81
87
82
84
96
95
77
77
76
78
81
74
71
75
77
72
72
83
13
29
80
27
28
17
79
71
18
95
95
98
78
77
98
76
82
72
74
67
88
47
74
28
53
26
72
90
96
86
81
84
81
1
1
73
85
25
13
94
97
76
76
375
483
20
2
1
10
67
71
20
31
29
70
93
92
84
79
74
80
S to n e , cla y , a n d glass p r o d u c ts — ____ _______
Brick, tile, and terra cotta....... .............. ..............
Cement----------------- ------------- ---------------------------Glass_________________________________________
M arble, granite, slate, and other products-----P ottery-------------- ------- ------- ---------- ------------------
764
230
88
151
193
102
12
21
19
3
9
3
59
60
63
82
26
81
29
19
18
15
64
16
91
92
90
97
84
95
74
67
58
83
77
70
L e a th er a n d its m a n u fa c t u r e s ________________
Boots and shoes____ _________________________
Leather...... ........................................... ...................
413
284
129
2
2
1
84
82
88
14
16
11
96
95
97
71
70
77
P aper a n d p r in t in g _____ ______________________
Boxes, paper_________________________________
Paper and pulp______________________________
Printing and publishing:
Book and jo b ____________________________
Newspapers and periodicals______________
1, 701
272
334
0)
1
80
78
67
20
22
32
96
95
92
78
78
76
688
407
0)
83
86
16
14
96
98
75
88
C h em ica ls a n d allied p r o d u c ts ________________
Chemicals___________________________________
Cottonseed oil, cake, and meal-----------------------Druggists’ preparations---------------------------------Explosives-------------------- --------------------------------Fertilizers____________________________________
Paints and varnishes--------------------------------------Petroleum refining___________________________
Rayon and allied products-----------------------------Soap---------------------- ------- ---------------------------------
845
69
66
28
14
161
308
98
14
87
69
90
80
50
29
97
49
90
93
53
30
9
20
50
71
2
50
8
7
47
94
99
93
90
86
100
90
99
99
91
80
86
65
81
81
80
81
91
80
80
R u b b e r p rod u cts _______________________________
Rubber boots and shoes---------------------------------Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires,
and inner tubes____________________________
Rubber tires and inner tubes--------------------------
125
9
44
89
56
11
87
99
76
90
85
31
31
68
69
32
84
92
77
74
T o b a c c o m a n u fa c t u r e s ________________________
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff-------Cigars and cigarettes__________________ ____ _
209
28
181
6
4
7
54
50
55
40
46
39
89
89
89
75
76
74
T o t a l, 89 In d u s tr ie s ......................................... 14, 883
2
70
28
93
76
* Less than one half of 1 percent.
1
1
3
2
4
2
8
2
0)
0)
1
1
1
1
2
13
Employment in Nonmanufacturing Industries in October 1933
M PLO YM ENT increased in October as compared with Septem
ber 1933 in 10 of the 15 nonmanufacturing industries appearing in
the following table, and increased pay-roll totals were reported in 12
of these 15 industries. Data for the building-construction industry
are not presented here but are shown in more detail under the section
‘ 1Building construction.’ ’
The estimated gains in employment in 10 of these 15 nonmanufac
turing industries more than offset the declines in the remaining 5
industries. Reports from retail-trade establishments indicate an
estimated gain of approximately 117,000 workers in that industry
between September and October.
The wholesale-trade industry showed an increase of approximately
13,000 workers and the crude-petroleum-producing industry reported
an estimated expansion of approximately 7,000 workers over the
month interval. Employment gains in the power and light group
were estimated at 6,000. The number returned to employment in
the telephone and telegraph, electric-railroad, anthracite-mining,
metalliferous-mining, and quarrying and nonmetallic-mining indus
tries was smaller.
The decrease of 28.1 percent in the canning and preserving industry
represents an estimated drop of over 55,000 employees between
September and October. This decrease, of course, is expected follow
ing the peak month of September. The bituminous-coal-mining
industry, due largely to strikes in certain localities, also reported a
sharp decline. The decreases in number of workers in the remaining
three industries (hotels, laundries, and dyeing and cleaning) were much
less pronounced.
The crude-petroleum-producing industry reported the largest per
centage gains in both items, 6.7 percent in employment and 12.8 per
cent in pay rolls. The metalliferous-mining industry reported an
increase of 4.6 percent in employment over the month interval, and
retail-trade establishments showed a gain of 4.2 percent. The power
and light industry reported an increase of 2.4 percent in number of
workers between September and October, wholesale-trade establish
ments reported a gain of 1.7 percent, electric-railroad and motor-bus
operation showed an increase of 1.4 percent, and the quarrying and
nonmetallic-mining industry reported a gain of 1.1 percent. The
increases in employment in the remaining four industries in which
increased employment was reported were as follows: Telephone and
telegraph, 0.5 percent; banks, brokerage, insurance, real estate, 0.4
percent; and anthracite mining, 0.2 percent.
In the five industries in which decreased employment was reparted
over the month interval, the most pronounced decline was a seasonal
decrease of 28.1 percent in the canning and preserving industry, which
reached its peak of employment in September and regularly shows a
sharp decline in October. Employment in the bituminous-coalmining industry was affected by strikes in various localities, the indus
try reporting a decline of 5.3 percent. Increased earnings, however,
in a large number of mines not affected by the labor disturbances
resulted in a net decline of only one tenth of 1 percent in weekly pay
rolls over the month interval. The hotel industry reported a falling
off of 2.1 percent in employment in October due entirely to the closing
E
14
of seasonal resort hotels, which were open during the first half of
September and were closed in October. The laundry industry
reported 1.6 percent fewer employees in October than in September,
and the dyeing and cleaning industry reported a decrease of 0.3
percent.
With the exception of 3 industries (telephone and telegraph, electricrailroad and motor-bus operation, and anthracite mining), each of
these 15 nonmanufacturing industries reported more employees on
their pay rolls in October 1933 than in October 1932.
In the following table are presented employment and pay-roll data
for the nonmanufacturing industries surveyed, exclusive of building
construction:
T a b l e l . —C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN N O N M A N U F A C T U R
IN G E S T A B L IS H M E N T S IN O C T O B E R 1933 W IT H S E P T E M B E R 1933 A N D O C T O B E R
1932
Industrial group
Employment
Pay-roll totals
Index num
Estab
bers, October
lish
1933 (average
Percent of
ments
Percent of
1929=100)
change
report
change
ing in Number
Amount
both
roll
on pay
OctoOcto of(1pay
Sep
Sep
week)
Sep
tober
tember roll Oc tember
ber
tember 1932
Pay
October
tober
to E m
1932
to
and Oc
1933
to Octo Octo ploy
roll
1933 to Octo Octo
tober
ber
ber
ment
totals
ber
ber
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
Coal mining:
159
Anthracite..........................
1,514
Bitum inous.......................
Metalliferous m ining..............
297
Quarrying and nonmetallic
m ining.................................... 1,202
rude petroleum producing-_
260
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph. 8,294
Power and light................ 3,132
E le c tr ic -ra ilr o a d and
motor-bus o p e ra tio n
557
and maintenance..........
Trade:
W holesale............ ............. 3,039
Retail.................................. 18,588
Hotels (cash payments only)1. 2,706
888
Canning and preserving.........
965
Laundries.................................
Dyeing and cleaning...............
377
Banks, brokerage, insurance,
4,569
and real estate......................
77,833
210,835
27,974
36,894
29,053
246,416
204,268
133,244
+ 0 .2 -1 1 .0 $2,450,825
-5 .3
+ 1 .5 3,514,092
+ 4 .6 +33.4
573,642
+ 1.1 + 1 .5
+ 6 .7 +24.3
+ .5
+ 2 .4
-9 .8
+ 2 .9
+ 1 .4
+ 1 .5
-7 .6
- . 1 +16.7
+ 8 .5 +43.9
56.9
68.0
40.7
61.6
44.1
25.9
566,803
804,187
+ 6 .4 + 3 .7
+ 12.8 +17.9
53.2
70.6
31.2
50.1
6,504,292
5,978, 638
+ 3 .8 -1 1 .5
+ 6 .1 + 2 .4
68.7
82.2
67.0
76.2
+ 3 .6
-2 .4
3,601,938
-2 .8
70.6
59.8
91,276
437,841
140,128
96,778
57,152
11,863
+ 1 .7 + 7 .3
+ 4 .2 +10.2
- 2 .1
+ 2.1
-2 8 .1 +55.7
+ .6
- 1 .6
-.3
+ 7 .4
2,447,059
8,597,146
1,790,048
1,044,743
863,414
208,481
+ 6 .0 + 3 .3
+ 4 .4 + 7 .7
+ 1 .0 - 4 .1
-3 1 .4 +68.1
-1 .5
-2 .5
+ .5
+ 3 .1
83.5
89.6
77.0
126.3
78.0
88.4
66.0
72.3
56.2
87.1
59.7
60.6
178,777
2 +• 4
5,790,015
2 + .2
2 99.4
2 84.7
a + .8
2 -1 .9
1 The additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
1 Weighted.
Per capita weekly earnings in October 1933 for 15 nonmanufactur
ing industries included in the Bureau's monthly trend-of-employment
survey, together with the percents of change in October 1933 as
compared with September 1933 and October 1932, are given, in the
table following. These per capita weekly earnings must not be
confused with full-time weekly rates of wages; they are per capita
weekly earnings computed by dividing the total amount of pay roll
for the week by the total number of employees (part-time as well as
full-time workers).
15
T a b l e 2 *—P E R C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S IN 15 NON M ANUFACTU RING IN D U S T R IE S
IN O C T O B E R 1933 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W I T H S E P T E M B E R 1933 A N D O C T O B E R 1932
Industrial group
Coal mining:
Anthracite______________________________________________ ____________
Bitum inous__________ ______________________________________ ________
Metalliferous m ining____ _________________________________ ______________
Quarrying and nonmetallic m ining______________________ ________________
Crude-petroleum producing____ ________________________________________
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph_____________________________________________
Power and light________ _____________________________________________
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and maintenance............. .......
Trade:
Wholesale_______________ _________________________________ __________
Retail_______________ _____________________________ __________________
Hotels (cash payments only)1________________ ______________ ___________
Canning and preserving______ ___________________________________________
____ ___________________________________________________
L a u n d r ie s
____
Dyeing and cleaning.___________ __________________________ ______________
Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate................... .............................. .
Percent of change
Per
October 1933 com
capita
pared with—
weekly
earnings
in Octo Septem- October
ber 1933 ‘ ber 1933
1932
$31.49
16.67
20.51
15. 36
27. 68
+ 1 .3
+ 5 .5
+ 3 .8
+ 5. 2
+ 5 .8
+3. 7'
+15.1
+ 7 .8
+ 2 .1
—5.1
26.40
29.27
27.03
+ 3 .3
+ 3 .6
+ 2 .2
—1.8
—.4
-.5
26.81
19.64
12. 77
10.80
15.11
17. 57
32. 39
+ 4 .3
+. 3
+ 3 .2
- 4 .4
+. 1
+ .8
2-.2
-3 .8
- 2 .2
-6 .0
+ 8 .0
-3 . 2
-3 .9
2 -2 .6
1 The additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
2 Weighted.
Indexes of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals for Nonmanufacturing Industries
I n d e x numbers of employment and pay-roll totals for 15 non
manufacturing industries are presented in the following table. These
index numbers show the variation in employment and pay rolls by
months, from January 1930 to October 1933, in all nonmanufac
turing industries with the exception of the laundry, dyeing and
cleaning, and the banks, brokerage, insurance, and real-estate indus
tries for which information over the entire period is not available.
The Bureau has secured data concerning employment and pay rolls
for the index base year 1929 from establishments in these industries
and has computed index numbers for those months for which data
are available from the Bureau’s files. These indexes are shown in
this tabulation.
22224— 33------ 3
16
T a b l e 3 .—I N D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S F O R NON M AN U FACTU RIN G
IN D U S T R IE S , J A N U A R Y T O D E C E M B E R 1930, 1931, A N D 1932, A N D J A N U A R Y T O O C T O
B E R 1933
[12-month average, 1929=100]
Anthracite mining
M onth
Employment
Bituminous-coal mining
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933
January_________
February.......... . .
M arch---------------April........... ..........
M a y ......................
June................. .
July........................
August.............
September______
O c to b e r...............
N ovem ber______
December_______
102.1
106.9
82.6
84.1
93.8
90.8
91.6
80.2
93.8
99.0
97.2
99.1
90.6
89.5
82.0
85.2
80.3
76.1
65.1
67.3
80.0
86.8
83.5
79.8
76.2
71.2
73.7
70.1
66.9
53. 0
44.5
49.2
55.8
63.9
62.7
62.3
52.5
58.7
54.6
51.6
43.2
39.5
43.8
47.7
56.8
56.9
105.8 89.3
121.5 101.9
78.5 71.3
75.0 75.2
98.8 76.1
94.3 66.7
84.0 53.7
78.8 56.4
91.6 64.9
117.2 91.1
98.0 79.5
------ 100.0 78,4
61.5
57.3
61.2
72.0
58.0
37.4
34.5
41.4
47.0
66.7
51.0
56.2
43.2
56.8
48.8
37.4
30.0
34.3
38.2
46.6
60.7
61.6
____
........
102.5
102.4
98.6
94.4
90.4
88.4
88.0
89.2
90.5
91.8
92.5
92.5
93.9
91.5
88.8
85.9
82.4
78.4
76.4
77.0
80.4
81.3
81.1
81.2
80.8
77.4
75.2
65.5
62.6
60.5
58.6
59.4
62.4
67.0
69.4
70.0
69.8 101.4
69.3 102.1
67.6 86.4
63.7 81.7
61.2 77.5
61.3 75.6
63.2 68.9
68.6 71.1
71.8 74.9
68.0 79.4
____ 79.1
------- 77.7
73.3
68.3
65.2
58.6
54.4
52.4
50.4
50.6
53.6
56.2
54.6
52.3
47.0
47.0
46.8
33.9
30.7
27.3
24.4
26.4
30.2
37.8
38.0
37.7
36.1
37.2
30.7
26.6
26.9
29.2
33.6
43.3
44.1
44.1
____
-------
Average___ 93.4 80.5 62.5 150.5 95.3 75.4 53.7 145.8 93.4 83.2 67.4 166.5 81.3 57.5 35.6 135. 2
Metalliferous mining
January_________
February....... .......
M arch__________
A pril-----------------M a y ____________
June____________
July_____________
August--------------September______
October_________
N ovem ber______
December----------Average—
95.7
92.3
90.9
89.3
87.5
84.6
80.5
79.0
78.1
77.2
72.8
70.1
68.3
65.3
63.5
63.9
62.4
60.0
56.2
55.8
55.5
53.8
52.8
51.2
49.3
46.9
45.0
43.3
38.3
32.2
29.5
28.6
29.3
30.5
31.9
33.3
32.4
31.5
30.0
29.4
30.0
31.5
33.0
36.8
38.9
40.7
92.7
92.5
90.8
88.3
85.6
81.6
71.9
71.0
69.9
68.6
63.4
------- 59.9
55.0
54.6
52.8
51.4
49.3
46.1
41.3
40.2
40.0
37.4
35.1
34.3
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
29.7
27.8
26.5
25.0
23.8
20.1
16.9
16.5
17.0
18.0
18.7
18.7
18.1
17.8
17.4
16.4
17.0
18.3
19.0
21.9
23.9
25.9
____
-------
79.6
79.8
83.0
87.4
90.8
90.3
89.9
89.3
87.7
84.7
78.3
70.2
48.9
47.4
46.0
48.6
50.6
49.5
49.5
51.1
52.4
52.4
49.4
42.3
35.1
34.8
35.1
39.3
43.4
47.3
49.5
51.6
52.6
53.2
____
-------
71.9
73.5
80.0
85.4
90.2
90.9
85.5
85.8
82.5
79.3
66.8
59.9
50.4
54.4
58.2
62.6
62.3
60.1
57.3
55.1
51.2
48.7
43.3
36.9
30.2
29.6
28.7
30.0
32.3
30.0
29.1
29.7
30.5
30.1
27.1
22.1
18.1
17.4
17.8
20.2
23.8
27.5
28.4
29.9
29.3
31.2
____
-------
83.2 59.1 36.5 133 4 78.0 44.8 21.6 U9.6 84.3 67.4 49.0 144.2 79.3 53.4 29.1 ‘ 24.4
Crude-petroleum producing
January.................
February..............
M arch...................
A pril____________
M a y ____________
June.......... ............
July.................. —
August--------------September______
October_________
N ovem ber______
Decem ber_______
64.4
66.6
70.0
76.1
75.0
72.3
71.0
68.9
66.6
64.5
59.3
53.9
92.7
90.8
89.3
86.8
89.8
90.2
89.9
87.7
85.0
85.2
83.6
77.4
74.8
73.2
72.2
69.8
67.8
65.0
65.3
62.4
61.2
60.4
57.6
58.2
54.9
54.4
51.4
54.9
54.5
54.2
55.4
57.4
56.2
56.8
56.5
57.2
57.2
57.0
56.5
56.8
56.9
58.0
59.5
60.8
66.2
70.6
94.0
88.6
91.3
86.6
85.4
87.1
88.5
86.0
84.0
82.6
80.0
77.2
71.5
70.0
73.2
66.3
64.7
62.7
59.2
56.3
55.2
54.4
52.0
54.9
46.5
46.9
43.2
44.5
47.1
44.8
44.6
42.9
41.9
42.5
42.4
41.7
Telephone and telegraph
39.9
41.7
42.5
40.1
41.6
40.6
42.2
42.5
44.4
50.1
____
-------
101.6
100.2
99.4
98.9
99.7
99.8
100.0
98.8
96.8
94.5
93.0
91.6
90.5
89.2
88.6
88.1
87.4
86.9
86.6
85.9
85.0
84.1
83.5
83.1
83.0
82.0
81.7
81.2
80.6
79.9
79.1
78.1
77.4
76.2
75.5
74.8
74.6 105.1
73.9 101.9
73.2 105.8
72.3 103.4
70.1 103.2
69.2 103.4
68.5 106.6
68.1 102.5
68.3 102.2
68.7 100.9
97.9
........ 101.3
96.3
94.8
97.9
95.0
94.1
95.0
93.3
92.3
92.1
91.6
89.7
92.7
89.1
89.6
88.2
83.4
82.8
82.1
79.6
79.1
75.9
75.7
74.3
73.5
71.7
71.9
71.6
67.8
68.5
66.6
66.7
66.1
64.6
67.0
-------
Average___ 87.4 65.7 55.3 160.0 85.9 61.7 44.1 142.6 97.9 86.6 79.1 170.7 102.9 93.7 81.1 168.3
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation
and maintenance 2
Power and light
January-------------February..........
M arch...... ............
A pril-----------------M a y ____________
June...... .......... .
July_____________
August-------------S e p t e m b e r ..___
O c t o b e r ._______
N ovem ber______
Decem ber-----------
99.6
98.8
99.7
100.7
103.4
104.6
105.9
106.4
105.2
104.8
103.4
103.2:
99.2
97.8
96.7
97.1
97.6
97.2
96.7
95.9
94.7
92.7
91.3
90.3
89.3
87.2
85.5
84.8
84.0
83.2
82.3
81.5
81.0
79.9
79.1
78.4
77.7
77.4
76.9
76.9
76.9
77.3
77.5
78.1
80.3
82.2
____
-------
99.7 98.6
100.4 99.7
102.1 102.4
102.6 97.6
104.5 98.7
107.8 98.3
106.7 97.4
106.6 96.2
106.1 94.3
105.6 93.2
103.7 93.3
106.3 91.2
88.4
86.0
85.4
82.4
84.2
80.5
78.7
76.7
74.7
74.4
73.2
73.2
73.0
71.6
71.9
69.4
69.9
69.9
70.0
70.9
71.8
76.2
____
........
97.1
95.1
94.4
95.2
95.2
94.8
95.3
92.9
91.8
91.0
89.3
88.8
86.9
86.6
86.4
86.8
85.9
85.3
85.6
84.8
84.0
82.7
81.5
79.9
79.5
78.9
77.6
78.0
76.9
76.5
75.6
74.1
73.5
72.3
71.8
71.4
70.6
70.4
69.8
69.5
69.1
69.3
69.4
69.5
69.7
70.6
____
........
97.8
95.7
95.4
97.1
96.0
97.0
95.6
92.1
90.5
88.9
87.7
88.6
85.6
87.1
88.1
86.6
85.1
84.8
83.3
81.9
81.2
79.0
79.7
77.8
75.4
74.8
73.6
71.8
72.2
70.2
€6.4
63.8
62.5
61.5
61.7
61.9
60.9
60.6
59.4
58.1
58.2
58.0
57.4
58.2
57.8
59.8
-------
Average___ 103.0i 95.6 83.0 178.1 104.3 96.7 79.8 171.5 93.4 84.7 75.5 169.8 93.5 83.4 68.0 158.8
1 Average for 10 months.
2 N ot including electric-railroad-car building and repairing; see transportation equipment and railroad
repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries, table 1.
17
T a b l e 3 —I N D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S F O R NONM ANUFACTU RING
IN D U S T R IE S , J A N U A R Y T O D E C E M B E R 1930, 1931, A N D 1932, A N D J A N U A R Y TO O C T O
B E R 1933—Continued
[12-month average, 1929=100]
Retail trade
Wholesale trade
M onth
Employment
Employment
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933 1930 1931 1932 1933
January— .........
February..............
M arch__________
A pril......................
M a y ......................
J u n e ....................
J u ly ......................
August—...............
September........ .
October____ ____
N ovem ber______
December_______
Average—
100.0
98.5
97.7
97.3
96.8
96.5
96.0
95.0
94.8
94.2
92.6
92.0
89.5
88.2
87.4
87.4
87.1
87.1
86.8
86.5
86.1
85.2
84.1
83.7
81.8
80.9
79.8
78.9
77.9
77.0
76.6
76.4
77.1
77.8
77.6
77.0
75.3
74.1
73.1
73.3
74.0
75.7
76.9
79.7
82.1
83.5
100.0
98.3
99.7
97.9
97.4
98.6
96.0
93.6
93.6
92.9
91.0
91.3
87.5
88.4
89.1
85.2
84.7
84.1
83.3
82.1
81.4
79.9
79.7
77.8
74.1
72.5
71.3
68.9
69.7
66.2
64.7
63.2
63.1
63.9
63.3
62.6
61.7
58.6
57.1
56.0
57.4
57.3
59.1
60.8
62.3
66.0
98.9
94.4
93.9
97.3
96.7
93.9
89.0
85.6
92.0
95.5
98.4
115.1
84.3
80.5
81.4
81.6
80.9
79.4
74.6
72.6
77.8
81.3
81.7
95.2
76.9
73.4
71.4
78.6
77.0
78.3
74.6
78.1
86.0
89.6
99.7
96.0
95.5
97.5
97.3
96.8
91.7
87.6
92.4
95.1
96.8
107.7
89.4
86.7
87.5
88.3
88.0
87.6
83.3
80.3
83.5
84.6
85.4
94.1
78.0
73.7
73.4
72.7
71.1
68.2
63.3
60.7
64.6
67.1
66.9
73.6
62.7
58.4
55.1
60.4
59.5
60.5
58.1
62.7
69.2
72.3
96.0 86.6 78.2 176.8 95.9 83.6 67.0 159.6 95.9 89.4 80.9 178.4 96.2 86.6 69.4 161.9
Canning and preserving
Hotels
J an u a ry ...............
February..............
M arch...................
April......... ...........
M a y .......................
June...... ................
J u ly ......................
A ugust..................
September............
O ctober................
N ovem ber. .........
December.............
90.0
87.1
87.8
90.1
89.9
89.1
83.9
81.8
86.6
89.8
90.9
106.2
100.4
102.4
102.4
100.1
98.0
98.0
101.3
101.5
100.1
97.5
95.2
93.5
95.0
96.8
96.8
95.9
92.5
91.6
93.3
92.8
90.6
87.4
84.9
83.1
83.2
84.3
84.0
82.7
80.1
78.0
78.4
77,6
77.0
75.4
74.3
73.2
73.8 100.3
73.8 103.8
72.4 104.4
71.9 100.3
71.9 98.4
73.6 98.1
75.6 99.8
77.1 98.6
78.7 97.1
77.0 95.5
93.6
91.5
91.0
93.7
93.4
89.9
87.7
85.4
85.2
83.8
81.9
79.7
77.1
75.4
73.9
73.9
72.4
69.6
67.0
63.8
61.8
59.6
59.1
58.6
57.5
56.6
55.7 46.1 48.9 35.0
55.9 45.7 48.3 37.1
53.5 49.7 53.0 36.3
51.7 74.8 59.6 47.0
51.8 65.7 56.0 40.5
52.3 83.0 70.6 55.5
53.3 126.3 102.2 73.0
54.0 185.7 142.9 99.0
55.6 246.6 180.1 125.3
56.2 164.7 108.1 81.1
96.7 60.8 50.5
61.6 40.7 33.7
34.1 50.3 46.1
35.1 51.5 48.6
33.2 50.8 50.3
49.2 72.6 57.1
45.5 66.9 56.0
55.6 81.5 58.6
76.6 112.7 74.2
112.7 172.0 104.7
175.6 214.8 129.4
126.3 140.0 77.6
82.9 48.1
57.4 36.9
31.8
32.7
31.9
37.9
36.0
40.5
47.5
65.6
75.1
51.8
34.4
25.6
24.8
25.9
24.2
33.5
31.8
36.7
46.2
68.3
127.0
87.1
Average___ 99.2 91.7 79.0 174.6 98.5 85.4 64.5 154.0 103.9 80.9 59.5 174.4 96.1 65.6 42.6 150.6
E mployment
B an ks, brokerage,
in s u r a n c e , a n d
real estate
Dyeing and cleaning
Laundries
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
E m ploy
ment
Pay rolls
1931 1932 1933 1931 1932 1933 1931 1932 1933 1931 1932 1933 1932 1933 1932 1933
January.................
F ebruary.............
M arch...................
April.................... .
M a y .......................
June.......................
July.......................
August..................
September............
October.................
N ovem ber............
December.............
90.5
90.0
89.5
90.5
90.3
91.0
91.8
90.2
89.3
88.1
86.2
85.3
84.7
82.9
82.0
82.0
81.4
81.0
80.3
78.9
78.6
77.5
76.2
75.9
75.4
74.4
73.0
73.4
73.5
76.0
76.3
77.9
79.3
78.0
86.6
85.6
85.6
86.8
86.5
87.1
87.4
84.6
84.1
81.8
78.9
77.4
76.4
73.3
71.6
71.4
70.6
68.6
66.3
63.9
62.9
61.2
59.1
58.7
57.9
55.5
52.9
54.0
54.5
56.7
56.1
57.6
60.6
59.7
88.9
87.4
88.0
95.7
96.7
99.0
98.6
93.5
95.3
94.2
90.1
84.9
82.1
80.5
80.6
83.3
84.5
85.1
82.4
79.5
83.3
82.3
78.0
75.2
73.0
70.9
71.2
81.1
82.0
85.6
82.9
83.1
88.6
88.4
77.7
75.1
75.6
86.3
86.6
89.1
86.2
80.0
82.6
81.4
74.7
67.9
65.8
62.2
61.7
65.9
67.3
65.8
60.0
56.3
61.0
58.8
52.3
48.4
46.6
42.4
41.0
54.6
53.9
56.7
52.8
52.8
60.3
60.6
98.3
98.3
98.9
98.6
98.0
97.9
98.4
98.5
98.4
98.6
98.0
98.0
97.5
96.8
96.5
96.2
96.2
97.3
97.7
98.3
99.0
99.4
93.5
93.0
92.9
92.1
92.7
90.0
89.8
88.2
87.1
86:3
85.7
85.5
85.2
84.3
83.7
82.9
83.2
84.4
84.8
84.4
84.5
84.7
Average___ 89.4 80.1 i 75.7 84.4 67.0 1 56.6 92.7 81.4 180.7 80.3 60.5 152.2 98.3 197. 5 89.7 184.2
i Average for 10 months.
18
Average Man-Hours Worked and Average Hourly Earnings
I N THE following tables the Bureau presents a tabulation of man-
hours worked per week and average hourly earnings based on
reports supplied by identical establishments in September and October
1933 in 15 industrial groups and 78 separate manufacturing industries.
Man-hour data for the building-construction group and for the insur
ance, real estate, banking, and brokerage group are not available, and
data for several of the 89 manufacturing industries surveyed monthly
are omitted from these tables due to lack of adequate information.
The total number of establishments supplying man-hour data in
these 15 industrial groups represents approximately 50 percent of the
establishments supplying monthly employment data.
The tabulations are based on reports supplying actual man-hours
worked and do not include nominal man-hour totals, obtained by
multiplying the total number of employees in the establishment by
the plant operating time.
Table 1 shows the average hours worked per employee per week and
average hourly earnings in 15 industrial groups and for all groups
combined. The average hours per week and average hourly earnings
for the combined total of the 15 industrial groups are weighted aver
ages, wherein the average man-hours and average hourly earnings in
each industrial group are multiplied by the total number of employees
in the group in the current month and the sum of these products
divided by the total number of employees in the combined 15 indus
trial groups. The average man-hours and hourly earnings for the
combined 89 manufacturing industries have been weighted in the
same manner as the averages for all industrial groups combined,
table 1.
In presenting information for the separate manufacturing industries
shown in table 2, data are published for only those industries in which
the available man-hour information covers 20 percent or more of the
total number of employees in the industry at the present time.
T a b l e 1 .— A V E R A G E
HOURS W O R K E D PER W E E K PE R E M PLO Y EE AN D A VERAG E
H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN 15 IN D U S T R IA L G R O U P S , S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1933
Average hours per
week
Average hourly
earnings
Industrial group
Manufacturing______ ____________________________ ____________
Coal mining:
Anthracite................................................................ .......................
Bituminous_________ ________________________ ____________
Metalliferous mining_____ _______________________________ _____
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining............... ............ ...................
Crude-petroleum producing................................................................
P ublic utilities:
Telephone and telegraph.......................................... ...................
Power and light— _________ _____________ ________________
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and maintenance _
Trade:
W holesale.. ......................................................................... .........
Retail........... .................................. ....................
H otels............... ............ ................................................................
Canning and preserving__________ _______________ ____________
Laundries____ __________________________________ ______________
D yeing and cleaning.......... .......................................................... .......
Average....... .................................................................................
Septem
ber 1933
October
1933
Septem
ber 1933
Hours
36.1
Hours
35.8
Cents
51.6
Cents
52.5
38.0
31.8
39.0
34.4
38.0
38.7
29.9
39.6
34.9
35.5
82.2
50.2
50.6
42.8
67.7
81.3
56.5
51.4
44.3
76.8
37.2
42.8
45.3
37.6
43.1
45.5
69.5
66.0
57.5
71.0
67.6
58.9
42.8
39. 5
50. 2
37.0
39.0
41.5
43.4
39.5
50. 2
34.8
38.6
41.3
57.5
49.5
23.7
34.1
38. 5
42.5
59.9
49.6
24. 2
33.8
39.1
43.3
38.0 1
37.8
51.6
52.5
October
1933
19
Per capita weekly earnings, computed by multiplying the average
man-hours worked per week by the average hourly earnings shown in
the following table, are not identical with the per capita weekly
earnings appearing elsewhere in this trend-of-employment compila
tion, which are obtained by dividing the total weekly earnings in all
establishments reporting by the total number of employees in those
establishments. As already noted, the basic information upon which
the average weekly man-hours and average hourly earnings are com
puted covers approximately 50 percent of the establishments report
ing monthly employment data.
2 —A V E R A G E H O U R S W O R K E D P E R W E E K P E R E M P L O Y E E A N D A V E R A G E
H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN S E L E C T E D M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S , S E P T E M B E R
A N D O C T O B E R 1933
T a b le
Average hours per
week
Average hourly
earnings
Industry
Food and kindred products:
Baking__________________ ____ _____________ __________ __
Beverages________________ ____ _____ __________ _ __ ____
Confectionery__________________________ __________ ______
Flour_____ __________ _
_________________ .
Ice cream__ ____________________________ ______________
Slaughtering and meat p acking.__________
________ ____
Sugar, beet....... ........... ............ .................... .......
Sugar refining, cane................................................................ _
Textiles and their products:
Fabrics:
Carpets and ru gs.._____ __________ ____ ______ _______
Cotton goods....................... ...................................................
Cotton small wares_________________________ _________
Dyeing and finishing textiles, ____________ ____________
Knit goods. _____ _________________ _________ _____
Silk and rayon goods...... ..................... ................................
W oolen and worsted goods___ ______________ _________
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery:
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets___ _________________ ______
Cast-iron pipe____________ __________ ____________________
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge
___ ____
tools__ __ ____________ ________ __________
Forgings, iron and steel____ ___ __________________________
Hardware.____ __________________________ _______ ________
Iron and steel____________ ______ _______ _____________ ___
Plumbers’ supplies____ ______ _________ _______ _________
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and steam fittings..
Stoves______________________________ ________ ____________
Structural and ornamental 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 supplies___ ____________ ________________
Nonferrous metals and their products:
Aluminum manufactures....... ......................................................
Brass, bronze, and copper products__________ ____________
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices....... ..............
J ew elry .................... .................................................... ... ..........
Lighting equipment____________ _________ _______________
Silverware and plated ware ______________ ____ _________
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc_____________
Stamped and enameled w a r e ...____ _______ ______________
Septem
ber 1933
October
1933
Septem
ber 1933
Hours
41.1
41.0
37.6
38.3
45.7
40.0
48.0
38.5
Hours
40.9
38.6
36.0
39.1
43.5
39.7
51.6
35.0
Cents
50.3
67.6
38.8
52.1
54.0
49.9
43.9
51.4
Cents\
50.6
69.1
39.8
51.7
57.6
49.9
38.4
56. 2
37.1
36.0
37.0
35.2
36.0
34.1
37.3
37.9
35.4
36.5
36.6
36.7
35.1
34.9
50.4
36.5
42.7
49.9
45.0
42.9
48.0
50.5
36.9
43.8
50.0
45.4
42.7
49.5
34.0
28.3
33.8
25.0
49.0
45.9
50.1
49.9
37.6
32.6
34.3
33.8
34.6
33.0
35.9
33.6
40.4
37.0
34.6
35.1
33.4
31.8
32.4
37.7
34.3
36.7
50.0
56.8
50.6
57.0
49.2
54.3
50.7
52.1
46.4
50.7
58.1
47. 6
59.4
51.1
55.0
51.7
54.1
49.8
35.5
36.7
35.0
34.9
50.6
52.0
51.6
55.4
34.2
38.7
33.4
34.5
33.8
35.0
34.1
38.2
37.1
35.1
37.8
33.7
34.8
34.1
36.0
36.5
37.2
39.0
50.0
66.9
58.8
58.6
54.7
59.0
49.4
61.7
51.2
51.3
69.8
59.4
59.6
55.8
58.2
50.0
64.0
51.0
35.0
36.7
39.1
35.3
35.9
37.4
37.3
36.0
35.9
35.6
41.6
38.7
36.6
40.1
36.3
37.7
47.5
52.1
44.3
48.9
50.7
49.9
49.4
45.2
47.9
52.4
44.9
48.8
49.4
50.8
51.1
45.4
October
1933
20
T a b le 2 — A V E R A G E H O U R S W O R K E D P E R W E E K P E R E M P L O Y E E A N D A V E R A G E
H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN S E L E C T E D M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S , S E P T E M B E R
A N D O C T O B E R 1933—Continued
Average hours per
week
Average hourly
earnings
Industry
Transportation equipment:
Aircraft. __________ ____ _________________________________
Autom obiles____ __________________________________________
Cars, electric and steam railroad______ ___________________
Locom otives_____________________________________ _________
Shipbuilding............... .......... ... ............ .......... .............................
Railroad repair shops:
Electric railroad___________________ ______________________
Steam railroad___________ _______________________________
Lumber and allied products:
Furniture................. .................................... .................................
Lumber:
M ill work ____ ___________ __________________________
Sawmills_____ ________ ____________ - ____________ .
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Brick, tile, and terra cotta..... .......... . _ . .
____________
Cement_________________ ______________ ___ _____________
Glass________________ _____________________________________
Marble, granite, slate, and other products.................... ..........
P ottery________ ___________ __________________ ___________
Leather and its manufactures: Leather__ ____________ ____ ____
Paper and printing:
Boxes, paper_______________ _______ ___________ __________
Paper and p u lp ___ _______________________________________
Printing and publishing:
Book and jo b ___________________
______ . ____ _____
Newspapers and periodicals____ _____ _______ ________
Chemicals and allied products:
Chemicals_______ ___ ___________ ______________ ________
Cottonseed oil, cake, and m eal____________________________
Druggists’ preparations____________ _________ ______
Explosives____________________ _____________________ _____
Fertilizers_______ ____________________________ ____________
Paints and varnishes__ ______________________ __________
Petroleum refining________ __ ____________ _____ _________
R ayon and allied products_______ ____________ ____ _______
Soap________________ _____________________ ______ _______
R ubber products:
R ubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and inner tubes.
R ubber tires and inner tubes____ _____________ ___________
T obacco manufactures:
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff........... ............... .....
Cigars and cigarettes_____ _____________________ ________ _
Septem
ber 1933
October
1933
Septem
ber 1933
Hours
39.1
33.6
33.8
29.7
29.7
Hours
37.6
32.5
34.9
31.6
30.3
Cents
68.9
64.6
60.7
60.4
66.3
Cents
70.3
65.0
62.5
60.8
67.1
43.1
37.7
43.2
40.5
56.5
62.8
57.1
63.0
October
1933
37.6
38.0
41.9
42.1
35.0
37.5
34.2
34.7
43.0
41.4
44.0
43.5
32.3
31.8
33.8
33.5
38.0
37.9
31.1
33.2
33.9
34.5
39.8
37.8
40.8
52.2
53.6
58.8
44.9
48.8
40.9
53.8
52.9
60.1
44.7
50.7
37.6
40.0
36.8
38.7
46.6
47.0
46.7
48.3
35.4
38.1
35.0
38.2
72.3
80.1
72.3
80.7
38.5
41.6
37.9
35.6
40.8
37.7
35.5
37.9
39.4
39.3
42.7
38.3
35.4
35.7
38.2
35.7
37.9
39.0
59.3
25.8
48.3
59.7
31.0
54.1
70.1
46.3
49.6
60.7
26.5
48.0
60.1
35.8
54.4
71.6
47.5
49.9
34.7
29.9
35.6
30.6
49.4
68.1
49.0
68.8
37.5
38.4
36.3
38.0
37.0
35.4
37.3
36.6
Employment in Building Construction in October 1933
M PLO YM EN T in the building-construction industry increased
0.5 percent in October as compared with September and pay
rolls increased 1.9 percent over the month interval.
The percents of change of employment and pay-roll totals in
October as compared with September are based on returns made by
11,172 firms engaged on public and private projects not aided by
public-wrorks funds. These firms employed in October 92,953 workers
in the various trades in the building-construction industry wThose
combined weekly earnings during the pay period ending nearest
October 15 were $2,022,884. These reports cover building operations
in various localities in 34 States and the District of Columbia.
E
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C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D T O T A L P A Y R O L L IN T H E B U IL D IN G C O N
S T R U C T IO N IN D U S T R Y IN I D E N T I C A L F IR M S , S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1933
Locality
Alabama: Birmingham____ ________
California:
Los Angeles 1__________________
San Francisco-Oakland 1_______
Other reporting localities 1_____
Colorado: D enver_________________
Connecticut:
Bridgeport_______ ____
Hartford_______________________
New H aven___________ ______
Delaware: W ilm ington......................
District of Colum bia..........................
Florida:
Jacksonville___________________
M iam i_________________________
Georgia: Atlanta________ . ________
Illinois:
Chicago 1______________________
Other reporting localities 1-------Indiana:
Evansville_____________________
Fort W ayne-------------- --------------Indianapolis________ ______ ___
South B end......................... .........
Iowa: Des M oines____________ ____
Kansas: W ichita__________________
Kentucky: Louisville__________
Louisiana: New Orleans___________
Maine: Portland__________________
M aryland: Baltimore 1____________
Massachusetts: All reporting locali
ties 1______ ________ _____ _______
Michigan:
Detroit
_____ _______________
F lint_____ ____________________
Grand Rapids_________________
Minnesota:
D u lu th .................................. .......
Minneapolis___________________
St. Paul__________ _____________
Missouri:
Kansas C ity 2.......................... ___
St. Louis.......... .............. ................
Nebraska: Omaha..............................
N ew York:
New York C ity 1..........................
Other reporting localities 1_____
N orth Carolina: C harlotte...........
Ohio:
A kron................................... ..........
C incinnati3___________________
Cleveland_____________________
D ayton_______ ____ ____________
Youngstown................ .................
Oklahoma:
Oklahoma C ity______ ________
Tulsa______________ _________
Oregon: P o r t l a n d _____ ___________
Pennsylvania: *
Erie area 1 _______ ____ ________
Philadelphia area 1..... .......... .......
Pittsburgh area 1______________
Reading-Lebanon area 1_______
Scranton area 1........ .....................
Other reporting areas 1................
Rhode Island: Providence.................
Tennessee:
Chattanooga....... ......................
K noxville................... ...................
M em phis______________ ________
Nashville____ _________________
Texas:
Dallas___________ _____________
El Paso____________ ____ _______
Houston.................................... .
San A ntonio__________ ________
N um Number on pay roll
Amount of pay roll
ber of
Percent
Percent
firms re
of
of
change
port
change
Sept. 15
Sept. 15
Oct. 15
Oct. 15
ing
75
430
383
-1 0 .9
$6, 283
$5, 634
-1 0 .3
21
36
22
205
1,055
1,298
571
612
1,140
953
526
711
+ 8 .1
-2 6 .6
- 7 .9
+ 16.2
20, 204
29,633
11,794
11, 268
22, 617
19,904
10, 577
12, 961
+11.9
-3 2 .8
-1 0 .3
+ 15.0
125
251
181
120
520
560
1,313
1,128
984
8, 594
615
1,320
1,118
943
7, 752
+ 9.8
+ .5
-.9
- 4 .2
- 9 .8
11,391
26, 702
26,811
19,290
244, 525
12,370
28, 516
25,477
19,125
210,480
+ 8 .6
+ 6 .8
- 5 .0
-.9
-1 3 .9
58
84
153
531
1,096
1,172
496
1,129
1,144
- 6 .6
+ 3 .0
- 2 .4
9,028
17,301
17,172
6,875
19,023
17, 740
-2 3 .8
+ 10.0
+ 3 .3
125
77
1,573
1,249
1,443
1,476
- 8 .3
+18.2
48, 531
22, 628
39,139
30,181
-1 9 .4
+33.4
55
87
164
39
105
69
155
122
101
105
320
348
1,144
206
587
356
1,385
1,272
384
1,310
347
372
1, 270
255
601
346
1,317
1,016
430
1,291
+ 8.4
+ 6.9
+11.0
+23.8
+ 2 .4
- 2 .8
- 4 .9
-2 0 .1
+12.0
- 1 .5
4, 760
5,900
22,321
3,488
10,125
6, 205
25,831
19,807
8, 517
22,935
5,478
6,757
26,097
5,681
10,542
5,954
23,622
17, 269
9,693
21.&15
+15.1
+14.5
+16.9
+62.9
+ 4.1
- 4 .0
- 8 .6
-1 2 .8
+13.8
-4 .9
716
4, 643
4, 896
+ 5 .4
116,335
114, £94
- 1 .4
503
60
110
4, 699
247
433
4,744
257
506
+ 1 .0
+ 4 .0
+16.9
93,061
4, 661
6,975
98,270
4,302
7,822
+ 5 .6
-7 .7
+ 12.1
55
223
178
278
1,615
1,269
256
1,672
1,414
- 7 .9
+ 3 .5
+11.4
5,061
33,489
29,142
4, 556
35,404
30,502
-1 0 .0
+ 5 .7
+ 4 .7
298
584
153
1,730
3,183
823
1,750
3,464
844
+ 1 .2
+ 8 .8
+ 2 .6
36,105
79,739
15, 791
38, £06
91,300
17,617
+ 6 .7
+14.5
+11.6
317
234
53
5, 340
6,107
349
5,799
5,668
340
+ 8 .6
-7 .2
- 2 .6
154,332
141,249
5,073
176,668
132,610
5,566
+14.5
- 6 .1
+ 9 .7
85
478
621
119
75
357
2,401
2, 738
598
296
396
2, 385
2,956
488
333
+10.9
-.7
+ 8 .0
-1 8 .4
+12.5
5,915
54,619
68,486
10, 717
4,862
7,736
55,144
80,803
9,703
5,608
+ 30.8
+ 1 .0
+18.0
-9 .5
+15.3
98
56
193
533
192
1,091
657
240
1,103
+23.3
+ 25.0
+ 1.1
7,922
2,823
22,040
10,455
3,502
23,514
+ 32.0
+24.1
+ 6 .7
28
478
252
45
38
314
263
350
6,249
1,965
253
261
2,781
1,704
259
6,318
2,168
304
269
2, 777
1,972
-2 6 .0
+ 1 .1
+10.3
+20.2
+ 3 .1
-.1
+15.7
4,296
115, 716
47, 507
4,236
5,909
45,878
35,813
3,006
121,398
46,659
5,307
6,015
53,638
44,790
-3 0 .0
+ 4 .9
-1 .8
+ 25.3
+ 1 .8
+16.9
+25.1
38
49
78
90
336
437
552
1,196
211
471
488
1,026
-3 7 .2
+ 7 .8
-1 1 .6
-1 4 .2
5,486
6,389
9,331
16,515
3,462
7,051
8,399
14,969
-3 6 .9
+10.4
-1 0 .0
-9 .4
184
32
175
119
932
187
1,215
705
792
137
1,153
560
-1 5 .0
- 2 6 .7
- 5 .1
-2 0 . 6
14,680
2,131
18,824
9,413
12,583
1,511
17,934
7,430
-1 4 .3
-2 9 .1
- 4 .7
-2 1 .1
1 Data supplied b y cooperating State bureaus.
2 Includes both Kansas City, M o. and Kansas City, Kans.
3 Includes Covington and Newport, K y.
4 Each separate area includes from 2 to 8 counties.
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C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D T O T A L P A Y R O L L IN T H E BUILD ING CON
STRU C TIO N IN D U S T R Y IN I D E N T I C A L F IR M S , S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1933—
Continued
Locality
Utah: Salt Lake C ity .........................
Virginia:
N orfolk-Portsmouth............. .......
Richm ond_____________________
W ashington:
Seattle__________ _______________
Spokane_______ _______________
T acom a-----------------------------------W est Virginia: W heeling---------------Wisconsin: All reporting localities L
Total, all localities___________
N um Number on pay roll
Amount of pay roll
ber of
Percent
firms re
of
port
Sept. 15
Oct. 15 change Sept. 15
Oct. 15
ing
Percent
of
change
91
448
620
+38.4
$8,903
$8,434
- 5 .3
94
146
1,092
1,125
968
1,099
-1 1 .4
- 2 .3
19,145
22, 208
18,410
22, 233
-3 .8
+ .1
157
50
84
45
58
788
180
209
255
858
789
192
158
264
1,396
+. 1
+ 6 .7
- 2 4 .4
+ 3 .5
+62.7
15, 399
3,717
3,601
4, 690
14,888
14, 936
3, 592
2,751
5, 591
24,976
- 3 .0
-3 .4
-2 3 .6
+ 19.2
+67.8
11,172
92,478
92, 953
1,985, 522 2, 022,884
+ 1 .9
+ .5
1 Data supplied b y cooperating State bureaus.
Trend of Employment in October 1933, by States
I N THE following table are shown the fluctuations in employment
and pay-roll totals in October 1933 as compared with September
1933, in certain industrial groups by States. These tabulations have
been prepared from data secured directly from reporting establshments and from information supplied by cooperating State agencies.
The combined total of all groups does not include building-construc
tion data, information concerning which is published elsewhere in a
separate tabulation by city and State totals. In addition to the com
bined total of all groups, the trend of employment and pay rolls in
the manufacturing, public utility, hotel, wholesale trade, retail trade,
bituminous-coal mining, crude-petroleum producing, quarrying and
nonmetallic mining, metalliferous mining, laundry, and dyeing and
cleaning groups is presented. In this State compilation, the totals of
the telephone and telegraph, power and light, and electric-railroad
operation groups have been combined and are presented as one
group— public utilities. Due to the extreme seasonal fluctuations in
the canning and preserving industry, and the fact that during certain
months the activity in this industry in a number of States is negligible,
data for this industry are not presented separately. The number of
employees and the amount of weekly pay roll in September and
October 1933 as reported by identical establishments in this industry
are included, however, in the combined total of “ all groups.”
The percents of change shown in the accompanying table, unless
otherwise noted, are unweighted percents of change; that is, the
industries included in the groups, and the groups comprising the
total of all groups, have not been weighted according to their relative
importance in the combined totals.
The State totals for the anthracite-mining industry, which is
confined entirely to the State of Pennsylvania, will be found in table
1, nonmanufacturing industries.
When the identity of any reporting company would be disclosed by
the publication of a State total for any industrial group, figures for
the group do not appear in the separate industrial-group tabulation,
but are included in the State totals for “ all groups.” Data are not
presented for any industrial group when the representation in the
State covers less than three establishments.
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C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDEN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
IN S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y
cooperating State organizations]
Manufacturing
Total all groups
State
Alabam a...
Arizona___
Arkansas...
California..
Colorado...
Connecticut___
Delaware........ .......
Dist. of Columbia.
Florida---------------Georgia............—
N um
N um N um
Amount
Amount
Per
Per N um ber on
Per of pay roll Per
ber of ber on
of pay roll cent ber of
cent
pay
pay
(1 week)
estab
cent of (1 week) cent of
estab
roll,
Oc
of
roll,
Oc
of
lish
October
lish
change October change
change ments tober
ments tober change
1933
1933
1933
1933
521
413
im
*1,9+7
815
66,320 + 1 .0
9,199 + 5 .3
19,029 + 2 .6
■78,909 - 8 . 8
38,646 +15.0
1,119 171,944
152 12, 242
631 33, 264
639 26,961
684 95,024
$887,770 + 3 .2
11.2
191,978
273, 376
+ .2
6,376,951 - 7 .3
774,985 +15.0
213 46,993
53
2,353
178 13,677
1,129 164,680
118 16,526
$614,311
49,405
178,428
- 14 .0 3,444,299
+37.3
315, 795
+ 11.6
+ 1.1
+ 3.1
+ 5.1
+ 8 .9
+ 1 .2
658 151,237
48
7,865
3,692
57
141 15,722
318 79,786
+• 9 2, 824, 387
157, 822
+ (3)
+ 7 .5
118,635
+ 8 .4
233,419
992, 531
- 1 .7
+ 1.1
+ 3 .7
4.2
+
+ .9 .3,357,053
- 5 .4
243,569
+ 3.3
764,824
+ 5 .6
465, 843
- 1 .1
1,294,156
+10.8
-.4
205 28,138
204 21, 682
182 42,006
451 67,553
1,141 208, 083
-. 6
514, 879
+ ( 3)
318,905
-3 .9
712, 783
s + 1.9 1,274,985
+ 1 .9 3,870,229
+ 2 .2
- ( 3)
- 6 .1
6 - 1 .2
-.1
'56,161
36,869
7, 351
69,240
4,128
- 7.4 5,285,411
+ 3 .4
737,643
88,352
+ 2 .1
- 1 .0 1, 319,598
+ 39.2
88, 428
- 8 .1
+ 8 .7
+ 1 .3
' -2 .0
+ 39.2
180,119
7,283,044
2, 752,522
941,336
1,485,013
+ 6 .0
+ 1 .9
+ 7 .0
+ 4 .6
5,312
1,120 223,093
579 105, 688
435 27,284
455 28,250
K entucky_______
Louisiana________
M a in e ..................
M aryland-----------Massachusetts___
854 75,357
502 35,380
582 50, 758
828 93, 771
58,058 394,987
1,316,995
584, 764
861,826
1,847,958
8,112,533
+ 7.1
+ 1.5
- 6 .9
- 1 .3
+ 1.1
41
M ichigan...............
M innesota.
Mississippi..
Missouri___
M ontana___
1,613 290,927 - 9 .2
1,101 74, 239 + 1 .9
372 10,890 + 2 .5
1,217 120, 775 _(3)
357 11, 808 + 14.0
6, 233, 512 - 9 .6
1,554,187 + 7 .6
144, 728 + 4 .0
2,448,889
+. 8
281, 514 +13.8
Nebraska________
N evada____ ____ _
New Hampshire..
New Jersey.......... .
New M exico........ .
727 26,692
145
I,836
512 41, 281
1, 532 203, 230
194
4,508
+ 8 .4
+ 7 .6
-5 .0
- 1 .4
(8)
557,403 +12.5
45, 227
12.2
660, 771 - 12.1
4, 509,079 + 2 .2
85,932 + 8 .0
125 14,596
25
373
187 36,368
1 655 184,329
23
456
New Y ork _______
North Carolina__
North Dakota..
O hio__________
Oklahoma_____
8,429 592, 547
916 134,142
342
4, 558
5,067 455,618
778 32, 767
+ .6 14,075,908
(3)
+ 1.1 1,814,029 + 3.1
+ 6 .7
97, 283 +10.4
+ .5 9, 236,944 + 3 .6
+ 4 .3
652,069 + 8 .7
1,801 365,914
556 128, 630
59
1,150
1,909 334,644
148 12,136
Oregon________
Pennsylvania. _
Rhode Island. .
South Carolina___
South D akota..
40,301
5,091 674, 399
918 68, 544
320 59, 689
260
6,308
- 1 .2
757,418
- 1 .7 14,034, 212
+ 9 .5 1,315,984
773,808
+• 4
+ 3 .3
144, 742
155 19,737
1,749 397,625
265 56,252
174 56,442
47
2,263
Tennessee..
Texas_____
Utah______
V erm ont...
Virginia___
737
822
345
383
1,323
-.3
71,867
74,110 + 5 .4
16, 737 +14.0
II,460 + 2 .2
95,018 + 1.1
1,097, 625
+. 9
1,622,405 + 5 .9
318, 761 +15.6
215,445 + 1 .8
1, 594,155 + 2 .3
406
85
118
411
Washington.. ..
West Virginia..
W isconsin....... .
W yom ing.........
1,170 64,171 + 1 .6
875 112,132 - 2 .7
1,050 155,431 + 1 .0
195 I 6,574 +12.7
1, 278, 740 + 2 .7
2,090,466
+. 3
2,773,972 + 3 .4
173,474 +25.5
262 30,420
183 40,441
777 123,970
29
1,884
+ 1 .2
+ 1 .1
+ 9 .9
+ 2 .3
+ 5 .3
+•4
-1 3 .9
+29.4
+ 10.8
225
9,927 +11.8
-.3
* 1,774 350,068
1,276 143,077 + 2 .5
1,201 48,544 - 1 .0
s 1,357
s+1.6
+
+ 4 .0
+21.0
O d a h o..
Illinois
Indiana.
Iow a___
Kansas..
+ 2 .4
-1 .0
- 6 .3
+ 2 .2
+ 1 .9
+ 1 .0
+1* 6
+ 2 .9
301
72
530
52
53,531
43,181
6,364
6,605
67,196
92,427
4,260,525
+ 3. 5 2,090, 843
519, 345
+ .1
+ .5
568,121
+ 16.7
+ .5
-4 .2
+ 1 .3
-.1
+ 8 .4
+ 2 .3
299,301
9,466
554, 659
+ 19.0
+ 2 .7
-1 3 .9
+ 2 .7
+ .1 8,237,920
+ 1 .1 1, 719,846
-. 1
26,169
- . 2 6, 717,357
+ 4 .7
230, 869
- 1 .5
+ 3 .1
+ 3 .4
+ 2 .6
+ 8 .9
373,865
+• 7 7,140,815
1,019,629
+ 1 .0
718,941
+ 7 .2
40,804
+• 8
+ 3.1
+12.7
+ 2 .2
+ 5 .4
- 1 .3
789,323
+7.1
882,300
+36.2
116, 537
+ 4 .7
123, 647
~ ( 3) 1,075,032
-.1
+ 6. S
+ 26.7
+ 4 .4
+11.9
1
698, 728
726,234
2,139,912
+40.0
47,140
-
6
1 1.2
+1.8
-1 .2
-1 5 .5
6 + 4 .5
+32.9
1 Includes automobile dealers and garages, and sand, gravel, and building construction.
2 Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
3 Less than one tenth of 1 percent.
* Includes building and contracting.
5 Includes construction, municipal, agricultural, and office employment, amusement and recreation,
professional, and transportation services.
6 Weighted percent of change.
7 Includes laundries.
* N o change.
9 Includes laundering and cleaning.
w Includes construction but does not include hotels and restaurants.
24
C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDEN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
IN S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S — Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y
cooperating State organizations]
Wholesale trade
State
Retail trade
N um
Num N um
Amount
Amount
ber on Per
Per Num ber on
ber of
Per of pay roll Per
roll cent ber of
cent of(1pay
Pay
pay
week)
estab roll Oc
estab iroll
cent of (1 week) cent of
of
of
Oc
lish
tober, change October change lish
tober change October change
ments
1933
ments
1933
1933
1933
Alabama_________
Arizona__________
Arkansas......... .......
California________
Colorado_________
14
25
20
103
28
514
221
608
5,740
963
+ 4 .5
+ .9
+ 5 .5
+ 1 .8
-.4
65
181
120
128
280
2, 210
1,717
1,561
26,967.
4,781
+ 8 .3
+ 5 .9
+ 5 .0
+• 4
+ 3 .8
$37, 317
30,100
22,991
568,002
92, 859
+ 7 .2
+ 8.1
- 1 .7
+ .5
+ 5 .7
Connecticut______
Delaware_________
Dist. of Columbia.
Florida...................
Georgia. .................
54
7
26
72
33
984
93
376
1,146
505
(8)
+ 2 .2
+2. 5
- 1 .4
+ 2 .4
29,448
1,905
11, 242
26, 274
14, 747
+ 3 .3
+ 4 .6
+ 5 .0
+ 4 .5
+ 7 .2
120
22
412
106
40
5, 237
454
12, 641
1,953
2, 385
+ 4 .6
+ 5 .3
+ 3 .7
+ 2 .6
+ 1 .8
103,808
10, 273
257,460
36, 554
41,312
+ 4 .2
+ 4 .7
+ 6 .9
+ 7 .5
+ 6 .6
Idaho............. .........
Illinois----------------Indiana__________
Iow a_____________
Kansas___________
8
49
66
36
84
123
2, 480
1,402
1,170
2,128
+. 8
+ 1 .3
+ 1 .6
-.3
+ 4-7
3,446
60,281
34,816
29, 738
49,116
+ 7 .2
+ 1 .9
+ 2 .7
+ 6 .2
- 3 .5
67
148
171
128
473
936
24,967
7,010
3,437
6,659
+ 6 .4
+ 2 .9
+ 2.1
+ 2 .4
+ 1 .6
14,998
491,621
124,122
60, 325
120,459
+11.4
+ 1.1
+ 2 .5
+ 3 .5
+ .7
Kentucky...............
Louisiana________
M a in e .......... .........
Maryland-----------Massachusetts-----
20
29
18
36
701
425
754
468
763
15,284
+. 5
+ 2 .3
(8)
-.8
+ 1 .0
9,353
18,099
10, 868
17,254
391,191
+ 4 .0
+ 9 .6
-.3
-1 .6
+ .7
44
48
67
39
4 ,m
3,176
3, 255
969
7,144
66,783
55, 236
+ 7 .5
- 6 .9
53, 449
17, 551
+. 1
+ 7 .9
121,937
+ 3.1 1,292,010
+ 8.1
-1 .7
+ 3 .1
+ 2 .8
+ 1 .7
M ichigan______ __
M innesota_______
Mississippi.............
Missouri...... ..........
M ontana................
62
68
4
60
15
1,651
4,949
112
4,935
249
+ 2 .0
+ 1 .8
+ 1 .8
+ .5
- 3 .1
46, 215
132, 301
2, 208
132,102
7, 619
+ 6 .4
+ 6 .9
+ 5 .6
+ 7 .6
+ 6 .6
166
263
52
109
81
11,452
8, 272
484
9, 692
989
- 4 .0
+ 6 .3
+ 1 .5
-.6
+ 4 .1
225,047
143, 722
5, 743
188, 548
19,446
+ 2 .8
+ 2 .6
+ 8 .9
+ 1 .2
+ 4 .1
Nebraska________
N evada__________
New Hampshire. .
N ew Jersey........ .
New M exico..........
35
8
16
25
6
1,021
112
175
674
87
+ 2 .6
(8)
- 4 .9
+ 7 .7
+ 3 .6
27, 624
3,373
4, 564
18,647
3,108
+ 5.1
+ 1 .8
- 2 .7
+ 5 .6
+ 4 .4
188
39
73
414
51
2,066
284
999
8,803
271
+ 8 .7
+ 8 .0
+ 2 .0
+ 6 .9
+ 1.1
37, 920
6,171
15,301
192,033
6, 215
+ 9 .0
+ 6 .0
+ 2 .9
+ 6 .8
+ 1 .1
N ew Y ork _______
North C arolin a.. .
North Dakota.......
Ohio...... ..................
Oklahoma..............
450
16
15
231
56
13,853
208
236
5,414
1,228
+ 1 .0
+ 4 .5
+ .4
+ .8
+ 1.1
423,425
5, 353
6,645
136,833
29,403
+ 3 .6
+ 9 .0
+ 5 .2
+ 4 .3
+ 9 .0
4,258
157
11
1,593
107
87, 467
658
299
38,084
2,313
+ 5 .0 1,847,147
+ 7 .2
14,120
+ 8 .7
4, 622
718,495
+ 6 .3
+ 4 .4
42,009
+ 5 .2
+ 3 .7
+ 8 .2
+ 4 .6
+10.8
Oregon----------------Pennsylvania........
R hode Island____
South Carolina___
South Dakota........
54
123
44
14
10
1,432
3,792
1,213
217
130
+. 6
+ 2 .1
+ 4 .0
+ 5 .9
-.8
38, 588
103,115
28, 717
4,930
3,429
+ 8 .2
+ 5 .6
+ 3 .6
+ 9 .4
+ 5 .4
188
358
491
20
9
2, 532
31,940
5,028
537
101
+3. 5+10.2
+5. 2
(8)
+11.0
51, 634
614,843
105, 753
5,869
1,714
+ 4 .2
+ 8 .5
+ 3 .4
+. 7
+11.3
Tennessee________
Texas____________
U tah.____ ________
Verm ont____ ____
Virginia__________
31
131
13
5
46
857 - 6 .3
3,306 + 3 .7
+ .6
484
115 + 6 .5
1,327 +10.4
18,149 _ (3 )
81,536 + 4.7
11, 772 + 3.6
2, 726 + 5 .9
30,178 +12.3
55
79
78
33
502
3,972
8,142
591
451
5,511
+ 9 .8
+ 6 .4
+ 1 .0
+ 1.1
+ 6 .0
61,053
138,268
13, 687
6,970
103, 498
+ 7.3
+ 6 .5
+ 3.9
+ 2 .9
+ 5 .0
W ashington______
W est Virginia____
W isconsin..............
W yom ing________
91
27
40
8
- .1
+ .7
-.6
(8)
62,431 + 6 .8
17, 257 +10.1
+ .3
29, 111
1,865 1 + 5 .8
400
48
50
41
7,174
902
11,087
248
+ 2 .6
+ 4 .6
+ 7 .7
+ 3 .3
133,395
16,713
162,269
5,754
+ 2 .1
+11.1
+ 8 .5
+ 6 .2
2,288
609
888
64
3 Less than one tenth of 1 percent.
8N o change.
$15,108 +22.4
6,186 + 9 .9
16,107 +10.4
157,005 + 2 .7
28,114 + 6 .7
25
C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDENTICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
IN S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S —Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y
cooperating State organizations]
State
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Metalliferous mining
N um N um
Am ount
Per of pay roll Per
ber of ber on
estab pay roll cent of (1 week) cent of
lish October change October change
ments
1933
1933
N um N um
Am ount
ber of ber on
Per of pay roll Per
estab pay roll cent of (1 week) cent of
lish October change October change
1933
ments
1933
+27.2
-1 8 .0
-1 3 . 6
+ 1 .8
+25.7
$8,187
473
4,505
22,403
612
+47.6
-1 7 .0
- 6 .0
+ 11.2
+ 4 .6
353
59
-1 3 .1
- 4 .8
5,624
854
-8 .9
+ 3 .3
18
27
835
1,489
- 1 .1
+ 9 .7
9, 550
15,759
-1 .6
+18.9
Iow a_____________
Kansas___________
24
71
32
n
904
1,795
589
1,206
+ .3
+ 3 .0
-1 1 .4
-1 2 .2
14,938
27,403
8,092
22,255
—4.3
—1.5
- 6 .9
-6 .1
K e n t u c k y ____
L o u isia n a _______
Maine
______
M aryland— _____
M assachusetts___
36
13
12
U
23
943
646
209
317
519
+12.4
—10.3
—16.1
+12.8
+ 3 .2
9, 630
9,771
3,860
4,248
11,219
+12.5
+ 2 .5
—26.1
+16. S
+ 5 .2
M ichigan________
M in n e so ta ______
Mississippi_______
Missouri_________
M ontana_________
47
26
8
47
9
1,420
501
171
1,166
122
-1 0 .1
+30.5
+12.5
+ 9 .3
-1 6 .4
27,191
8,726
2,181
17, 545
1,388
+ 3.1
+41.8
+21.6
+18.4
-3 6 .9
Nebraska________
N evada__________
N ew H am pshire-N ew Jersey______
N ew M exico_____
235
+ 8 .3
3,231
+20.6
11
42
Alabama_________
Arizona__________
Arkansas , ___
California________
Colorado_________
19
3
10
32
4
758
41
324
1,116
44
C o n n ecticu t.....
Delaware_________
D ist nf Columbia.
Florida___________
26
3
Tdaho. . .
Illinois
.
- ___
N ew York
___
N orth Carolina___
N orth Dakota____
O hio........................
Oklahoma________
7
258 +150.5
811 + 12.0
9
20
1,660
2,362
+ 2 .3
+10.7
$23,858
53,538
- 8 .0
+18.0
33
16
2,817
1,086
+ 3 .7
+ 1 .4
65,261
29,353
+ 3 .5
+17.7
11
2,147
+ 3 .3
46,875
- 3 .2
12
936
-5 .6
17,220
-.9
42
32
4,036
1,706
+ 8.1
+10.9
59, 359
35, 601
+13.3
+18.6
15
17
1,756
2,380
+ 1 .3
+ 5 .9
22,777
67,248
+ 5 .7
+ 5 .4
17
466
+34.7
11, 634
+ 56.0
3
5
13
931
+ 44.4
- 1 .1
262
19,482
+16.4
+12.7
—.
7, 650 +255.3
13,146 +10.3
76
14
2,176
395
—.6
-5 .5
39,123
4,980
+• 1
+ 7 .8
136
15
3,873
252
+ 1. 0
+39.2
58,442
1,980
+ 4 .3
+28.5
32
1,686
1
25, 621
+ 2 .9
___________
Pennsylvania____
Rhode Island____
South Carolina___
South D a k o t a .._
5
164
62
5, 797
+14.8
Oregon 984
-2 .4
84,883
+25.7
+ 6 .4
6
60
+ 3 .4
1,112
+ 10.6
5
8
95
62
—20.8
—3.1
917
1,153
—22.3
+31.6
Tennessee________
Texas____________
Utah........... ............
V e r m o n t ________
Virginia__________
25
21
6
40
32
1,539
407
148
2,329
1,411
+ 8 .2
-3 7 .6
+28.7
+ 2 .4
-5 .8
19, 744
8,809
2,216
42,764
13,396
+23.1
-2 6 .2
+ 5 .9
—2.0
-1 1 .0
4
313
+ 4 .3
6,302
+12.1
12
2,107
+ 4 .0
40,986
+10.4
W ashington______
W est Virginia____
W isconsin________
W yom ing________
18
24
U
212
899
167
+29.3
—1.4
- 2 .3
3,855
13,166
2,248
+ 51.9
+ 5 .7
-7 .0
376
+ 4 .7
6,923
+ 1 .5
11 N ot available.
(“ )
26
C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN ID EN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
IN S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S —Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y
cooperating State organizations]
State
Bituminous-coal mining
Crude-petroleum producing
N um N um
Amount
ber of ber on
Per of pay roll Per
estab pay roll cent of (1 week) cent of
lish October change October change
ments
1933
1933
N um N um
Am ount
ber of ber on
Per of pay roll Per
estab pay roll cent of (1 week) cent of
lish October change October change
ments
1933
1933
$122, 594
- 4 .0
-1 7 .1
5,254
-2 0 .5
2,752
California
94, 785
+14.5
83
53
23
m
7,754
5,793
1,980
1,836
157,494 + 20.9
- 1 .2
- 4 .1
+ 1. 3
109,876
Indiana
41,035 +143. 6
+48. 5
19,589 + 15.2
+ 13.1
165
31, 773
+ 5 .5
513,863
+14.2
16
1,451
+ 1.0
19,881
+ 4 .8
M ichigan________
Minnesota_______
Mississippi
___
M is s o u r i________
M ontana— _____
21
11
1, 649
913
+ .5
+ 5 .1
26,862
23, 713
Nebraska________
Nevada _________
N ew Hampshire
N ew Jersey. ____
N ew M exico_____
13
1,493
+11.6
26, 228
Alabama _______
A riz o n a _________
Arkansas_________
________
Colorado____ ____
57
10,047
8
195
54
- 1 .8
<
9
40
485
7, 723
+ 9 .2
+ 2 .4
$11,821
235,022
+ 22 . a
+8.8-
7
4
145
33
- 7 .6
+37.5
2,897
382
—1.2
+36. 9
30
1,466
+20.0
31,161
+ 17.8
6
8
261
216
+ 6 .5
+13.7
3,595
5,116
+24.7
+ 34 .4
+22.4
+13.7
4
24
-1 7 .2
564
-1 7 .3
+18.6
5
57
+ 7 .5
1,562
+ 2. 8
6
303
+60.3
7,261
+ 84.9
+22.1
CoTiTjPcticnt,
Delaware________
Dist. of Columbia.
F lo r id a _________
Georgia__________
Idaho____________
Illinois. __________
__________
Iowa_____________
Kansas___________
K entucky________
Louisiana________
M aine___________
M a r y la n d .._____
Massachusetts
__ ____
N orth Carolina
N orth Dakota____
Ohio ___________
.............
New Y ork
10
84
18
721
13, 520
779
15,108
+ 51.5
247, 271
+ 3 .3
O klahom
a
15,209
+21.0
+57.7
+ 26.6
+31.4
6
56
87
5,335
+ 17.6
+10.3
1,309
127,505
+70. 9+12. 8
449
47,987
-2 8 .8
604, 521
-4 0 .2
21
892
+36.6
20,132
+ 50 .5
Tennessee _____
Texas____________
U t a h ____________
Verm ont_________
Virginia
22
5
16
2,978
371
2,043
+ 1 .0
+ 6 .6
+36.7
38,535
6,815
51, 706
- 2 .6
-5 .6
+38.1
8
8,445
+ .7
285,181
+ 6 .0
34
8, 346
+ 6 .7
Washington ___
W est V irgin ia ----W iscon sin _______
W yom ing________
10
353
387
59,974
30
3, 338
Oregon___________
Pennsylvania____
Rhode Island____
South C a r o lin a South Dakota____
143, 690
+18.5
+ 9 .0
10,791
+ 3 .0 1,110,970
+48.7
+12.5
8
376
+ 13.6
7,824
+ 9 .1
+ 6 .4
+31.0
7
191
+ 4 .4
4,882
+ 3 .7
95,899
27
C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDEN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
IN S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S —Continued
IFigures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y
cooperating State organizations]
Hotels
Public utilities
State
N um
ber of
estab
lish
ments
N um
Amount
Per of pay roll Per
ber on
pay roll cent of (1 week) cent of
October change October change
1933
1933
+ 2 .3
+ 5.9
+ .2
+ 8.6
+ 8.8
26
21
1,161
466
+ .6
+ 6.6
$9,773
6,529
+ 4 .9
+ 7 .8
39,205
1,172,929
-.4
+ 4 -8
16
187
570
8,921
+ 2 .1
-2 .5
+ 5 .5
-2 .3
+ 5 .3
59
1,346
-7 .6
4,734
134,561
17, 752
285,346
31,238
231, 275
123,279
177,474
+. 3
+ 7 .6
+ 5.1
+10.1
+ 7 .6
32
6
48
58
29
1,188
251
4,123
1,087
1,306
+. 8
(8)
+ 7.0
+ 5 .5
- 4 .6
14,718
3,401
57,434
10,395
10,057
+. 4
+ 3 .6
+ 8 .7
+ 6 .4
-1 .4
14,222
+ 7 .3
1,737
1,401
62
44
1,710
42,039
196
5,390
+ 2 .6
137,222
Connecticut...........
Delaware................
Dist. of Columbia.
F lo r id a .......... .......
Georgia...... ............
135
28
22
185
186
9,464
1,104
8,404
4,775
6,504
+ 1 .3
+ 4 .3
+ .8
+ 1 .5
+ 2 .6
Idaho........ - ............
Illinois----------------Indiana__________
Io w a .------------------Kansas....................
115
430
56
730
80
70,426
7, 700
-.1
+ 6 .0
-.3
4,021
+ 5 .7
12,801
-1 .2
207,735
+ 7 .5
3,294
2,299
+ 5 .4
+ 5 .5
32,691
21,312
+ 4 .7
+ 6 .1
32
694
+ 1 .2
7,463
+ 3 .8
+ 5 .4
+ 6.7
+ 3 .6
36
22
37
1,832
1,726
1,225
18,459
17,929
13,976
+ 5 .5
- 4 .3
-3 2 .7
-2 .1
- .3
23
92
1,125
4,787
+ 2 .9
- 4 .7
-3 0 .0
-A
- 6 .8
IS, 753
64,711
+ 3 .1
-6 .2
655,434
331,135
19, 747
184,827
54,090
+ 4.8
+ 8 .7
+ 7 .3
+ 3.3
+ 5.6
110
80
17
90
28
4,658
3,236
440
4,601
410
- 4 .8
+ 1 .8
-2 .4
+ 4 .9
- 1 .9
51, 286
37,740
3,038
52,528
5,523
-2 .4
+ 3 .2
- 5 .2
+ 5 .3
- 1 .3
142,043
10,181
57,429
604,087
12,336
+ 6.8
+ 2 .5
+ 4 .0
+ 2 .2
+ 2 .2
42
12
26
85
15
1,495
167
589
4,440
320
+ 1 .2
-1 .2
-5 8 .0
-2 5 .4
-1 0 .6
15, 229
2,694
6,935
54,653
3,414
+ 8 .3
- 4 .8
-5 4 .9
-1 8 .3
-6 .5
+ 1 .4 2,966,657
+ 3 .8
37,495
+ 1 .3
30,386
847,841
+ 2 .1
+ .5
133,937
+ 1 .8
+ 6.1
+ 7 .2
+ 7.1
+ 6 .3
277
36
24
152
63
30,557
1,103
404
8,946
1,604
-.1
- 2 .5
+ 2 .0
+ .9
+ 3 .8
457,043
9,203
4,105
104,914
17,083
+ 3 .3
- 2 .1
+ 3 .3
+ 2 .5
+ 4 .0
+ 4 .1
60
181
25
15
19
1,261
9,672
403
422
307
+ 3 .5
+ 2 .5
-4 0 .8
+ 3 .7
- 1 .6
15,447
116,784
4,857
3,128
3,720
+ 5. 2
+ 4 .3
-3 4 .2
+ 9 .1
+ 2 .1
+ 1 .3
+S.S
-.5
-6 .0
+ 2 .2
+ 5 .5
9,256
+ 1 .2
1
196, 552
212,998
126
7,299
-.5
167,029
+ 9.3
+ 6.7
(8)
Kentucky......... .
293
151
Louisiana------------167
M aine___________
93
M aryland-----------Massachusetts----- 13 131
6,300
5,527
2,558
+ .4
+ 1 .5
+ 2 .1
145, 707
140,207
68,833
12,477
45,698
+ .7
338,287
M ichigan________
M innesota.............
Mississippi.............
Missouri-------------M ontana............
406
232
143
141
101
22,473
12,800
973
7 , 171
1,966
+ 1 .2
+ 2 .1
-. 1
+. 1
+ 9 .6
Nebraska................
N evada__________
N ew H ampshire. _
N ew Jersey............
New M exico_____
299
38
140
265
54
5,599
354
2,149
21,174
601
-.3
-3 .0
+ 3 .3
-.1
- 9 .8
N ew Y ork.......... .
North Carolina—
North Dakota____
Ohio........................
Oklahoma..............
864
96
171
489
245
97,472
1,792
1,235
31,964
5,926
Tennessee____ ____
Texas......................
Utah............. ..........
Verm ont...... ..........
Virginia—........... —
W ashington......... .
West Virginia........
W isconsin....... .......
W yom ing............. .
22
-6 .6
83
67
+ 3 .0 1,934,605
Oregon--------- ------Pennsylvania____
Rhode Island____
South Carolina___
South Dakota------
N um
Am ount
of pay roll Per
ber on
Per- <
pay roll cent of (1 week) cent of
October change October change
1933
1933
$35,936
33,964
89
68
Alabama.................
Arizona...................
Arkansas....... ........
California...........
Colorado.................
N um
ber of
estab
lish
ments
+ .4 1,273,862
183
5,556
+ .9
140,160
734
53, ISO
+ .7
42
70
129
3,263
1,533
1,025
+ .2
- 7 .1
+3. 5
1,474,411
+ 5 .8
93,781
33,694
25,138
+ 3 .6
+ 5 .7
+ 6.1
12 53
355
244
4,341
+ 2.1
98,564
+ 3 .4
37
2,203
-.7
18,700
136
6,932
+ 5 .5
180,767
+ 7 .1
+ 3 .2
45,594
1,712
1,055
2,474
-.9
+ .4
+ .6
33,955
25,582
58,891
46
8,697
66
122
123
+ 2 .0
+ 1 .6
+ 6 .3
13
26
35
474
582
1,906
-2 .3
-8 .3
+ 2 .1
5,813
5,805
19,917
199
119
9,599
6,254
+ 1 .0
+ 2 .9
259,208
157,210
+ 5 .4
+ 7.5
84
38
2,510
1,112
-.6
+ 1 .1
i*41
10,808
+ 1 .6
SI2,150
+ 8 .1
1245
1,282
-4 .S
10,456
+ 5 .2
12
127
+ 2 .4
+ 1 .5
28,445
11,733
+ 1 .7
(»)
1,664 " ' + 2 :4
48
449
8 N o change,
u N ot available.
18 Includes restaurants.
I3 Includes steam railroads,
n Includes railrways and express.
(8)
28
C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN ID EN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
IN S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S — Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics but are taken from reports issued b y
cooperating State organizations]
Dyeing and cleaning
Laundries
State
A labam a..
Arizona___
Arkansas..
California.
C olorado..
Connecticut......... .
Delaware________
Dist. of Columbia.
Florida..............
Georgia------- -------Idaho___
Illinois. _
Indiana .
Iow a___
Kansas—
K entucky.........
Louisiana______
M aine...............
Maryland______
Massachusetts..
N um N um
Amount
ber of ber on
Per of pay roll Per
estab pay roll cent of (1 week) cent of
lish October
October change
ments
1933
1933
5
10
13
U69
9
455
377
362
4,977
586
- 2 .4
+ 1.3
-1 7
25
3
20
9
12
1*26
21
5
is 40
$1,022
- 2 .3
- 5 .5
"l49'
—13.9
~2, 598
1,184
237
2, 561
501
660
+ .2
-.8
+. 3
-2 .3
-1 .9
19, 234
3,965
38,627
4,944
5,982
-.3
270
+ 4 .2
5, 555
+ 4.1
132
119
- 2.2
+ 5. 3
1.0
2,302
1,867
1,125
-2 .4
+ 3 .6
- 1 .9
1,620
1, 553
223
918
-3 .6
-3 .0
+1.2
22, 774
20,827
3,113
11,188
+ 1 .4
- 1 .5
3, 616
4,125
+ 1 .8
-4 .5
+ 2 .4
+10.3
3,610
1,078
+ 4 .0
+17.9
1,872
+. 9
-2 .2
6,974
31,503
+ 9 .3
-9 .0
609
459
- 1 .1
+ .2
11,267
7,680
-.4
- 3 .1
’ "'489'
+ 3 .6
-
-
1.0
2.2
-
1.1
-
-4 .0
9, 512
5,958
28,478
58,528
M ich ig a n ...
Minnesota. _
M ississippiMissouri___
Montana___
22
13
6
30
14
1,445
663
311
2,244
327
- 4 .3
- 3 .1
- 1.6
- 1 .3
19,880
10, 581
3,096
29,587
5,600
-3 .
-1 .
-2 .
-3 .
+ 3 .:
Nebraska_______
N evada_________
New Hampshire.
N ew Jersey..........
New M exico____
7
4
18
25
4
571
51
332
3,124
187
2.1
- 1 .9
- 2 .4
-2 .6
-1 0 .5
7, 780
956
4.794
61,401
2.795
-6 .6
- 4 .1
- 6 .3
-.7
-9 .2
New Y ork _____
North CarolinaNorth D a kota ...
Ohio___________
Oklahoma______
70
12
11
79
9
735
210
4,086
619
-1 .6
-5 .4
-.9
-1 .9
121,578
7, 776
3.171
60,106
7,921
-6 .
+2.
-2 .
Oregon................
P ennsylvania.. .
R hode Island. __
South CarolinaSouth D akota...
4
40
17
+.
+1.
-2 .
-6 .
Tennessee..
Texas.........
Utah______
V erm ont...
Virginia___
12
24
7
4
10
-
10.2
-1 4 .
-4 .
-1 .
13
17
311
2,928
1,100
296
104
- 1 .3
+. 1
- 2 .7
- 3 .6
- 1 .9
4,887
44, 213
18,764
2,860
1,310
1,176
489
59
841
(8)
- 3 .4
(8)
-9 .2
+ 4 .1
7,687
12, 767
6,850
784
9.171
-4 .0
-5 .0
-.2
-4 .7
-5 .9
- 4 .0
-.6
+ .5
- 3 .1
10,019
8, 646
12,890
1,535
-5 .5
-2 .2
-2 .5
-4 .4
s N o change.
15 Includes dyeing and cleaning.
-
215
261
-1 1 .3
-1 .3
+ .2
558
694
(8)
615
21.6
-
+10.6
—
12.8
2.2
-.1
-.2
- 7 .5
794
-
-
45
-
417
1,886
3,696
21.8
+2.0
8.0
+1.6
16
12
20
is 28
N um
Am ount
ber on
Per of pay roll Per
pay roll cent of (1 week) cent of
October change October change
1933
1933
$4,179
5,191
3,343
88, 701
7,860
19
25
113
W ashington—
West Virginia..
Wisconsin....... .
W yom ing_____
N um
ber of
estab
lish
ments
(8)
1,885
+ 4 .8
207
+ 1 .5
5,163
+ .4
570
+2.0
10,762
+ 2. €
+ 2 .0
1 2 .6
29,664
2,429
+ 5 .5
-6 .5
64
1,036
330
-4 .5
+ .2
- 5 .4
1, 204
19, 599
6,177
-4 .6
+ 9 .4
+ 1 .8
54
430
128
- 3 .6
- 1 .4
-10.5
753
7,221
2,294
-1 0 .3
- 2 .1
4,145
+ 1 .9
- 2 .5
+ .9
3,541
2,987
+2.1
1,646
180
14
+ 3 .8
197
221
-
+ 3 .0
+1.0
+ 1 .3
29
C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDEN TICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
IN S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1933, B Y S T A T E S —Continued
{Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
b y cooperating State organizations]
Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate
State
Num ber
of
estab
lish
ments
Number
on
pay roll
October
1933
Percent
of
change
Amount of
payroll
(1 week)
October
1933
Percent
of
change
A labam a-------_------- ------------------------------- --------Arizona------- ---------------- --------------------------------Arkansas------------------------------------------------------- California_______ . . ____ ________ _________ . . .
Colorado___________ ______ ..................... - ..........
18
29
19
1,140
27
470
206
242
22,931
1,068
-.8
- 1 .9
-.8
-.6
-.7
$13,305
5, 606
5,891
751, 471
37,046
- 1 .8
+ .8
+ .7
+ .2
+ .3
C onnecticut------------------------ --------------------------Delaware__________ _______ __________ _______
District of Colum bia................. . .......... ................
Florida-------------------- ---------------------------- ---------G eorgia............................. .......................... ........
56
17
41
18
25
1,979
570
1,335
567
1,023
+ .2
-.5
(8)
+ .5
+ .4
68, 316
19,696
47,849
17, 393
29, 715
+ .6
-.4
- 1 .2
+ .3
+ .9
Idaho______________________________ ____ _____
Illinois_______________________________________
Indiana----------------------------------------------------------Iow a___ ___ _________________________________
Kansas_______________________________________
16
94
39
17
31
138
10,802
1,176
979
738
- 1 .4
+• 1
-1 .2
+• 1
- 1 .2
3. 422
368,436
38,174
31,357
22,607
+ .5
+ 1 .9
- 1 .0
-.3
-.9
K entucky___ . .. -------------------- ------------- ....
Louisiana____________________________________
M aine.-------- ----------------------------------- -------------M aryland__________ . . -------------------------Massachusetts_______________________________
21
9
16
24
227
842
371
254
856
8,408
-.5
+ .3
00
(8)
+ 1 .6
29, 543
13, 520
6, 597
31,660
26, 545
-2 .4
-.5
+ .2
+• 1
+ 2 .7
M ichigan__________ _________ _______ ______
Minnesota_______ __________ ___ __________
Mississippi_____ __________ __________________
M issouri______ ... _________ . .... _______ M ontana. ___________ ____________ ___ .....
92
52
17
86
21
3,987
4,189
195
4, 747
244
+• 4
+25. 8
+ .5
+• 2
(8)
124,308
101,857
4, 322
139, 340
6,867
+ 3.1
+15.3
+ .9
- 2 ,8
-.5
Nebraska_____ ___________ _________ ____ _
__
______ ______ ____ 1 ____
Nevada
N ew Hampshire____ . . . . _______ _____ ’------New Jersey_________________ _______ ______
New M exico------------ ---------------------------- -------
17
505
+ .2
17, 412
+ .8
39
109
16
381
12, 478
87
(s)
+• 3
+ 1.2
9,011
351,086
2, 583
+ .2
-.5
+ 1 .5
New Y ork----------- ----------------------- ---------------North Carolina______ ._ ------- ------- ------------N orth Dakota_______________________________
Ohio_________________________________________
Oklahoma___
________________________ ____
726
26
38
278
21
53,634
556
274
7,938
592
-.6
+ 8 .6
- 1 .1
-1 .0
- 3 .3
1,842, 595
14, 459
6. 590
258, 356
17, 737
-1 .3
+ 8 .1
- 2 .3
-.2
-.9
Oregon__________ . . . . ------- .. .. ------ --Pennsylvania------- ------------------- -------- . ----Rhode Island_________ ___________________ ..
South Carolina. ------------- ------------- ~ . . .
South D a k ota .. ________ __________ _______
15
798
28
11
31
758
23,119
926
110
240
-.4
-.3
+• 1
(8)
(s)
26,356
37,801
3,301
6,004
+ .7
-.6
- .8
+ 3 .1
+ 1 .0
Tennessee----------- -------------------------------------------Texas________________________________________
U tah_________________________________________
Verm ont------------------------- - . . . . ---------------Virginia_______ ____ .... --------------------- ----------
31
23
14
30
32
1,129
1, 311
457
235
1,337
+ .4
+ .7
- 1 .3
+ .9
-.2
38, 701
37, 673
16, 203
6,702
43, 326
+ .9
+ .6
- 1 .1
-.4
+ .7
W ashington______ ______________ ______ ____
W est Virginia_______ . . . . .
. . _______
W isconsin____ ______ ____ _______ . . . -----W y o m in g .------------------- --------------------------------
32
44
17
10
1,324
609
919
90
+ 2 .0
- 1 .1
-.2
(8)
40,472
17,471
31,105
2,762
-.7
-1 .1
_ ( 3)
+ 1 .5
3 Less than one tenth of 1 percent.
s N o change.
714, m
30
Employment and Pay Rolls in October 1933 in Cities of Over
500,000 Population
I N THE following table are presented the fluctuations in employ
ment and pay-roll totals in October 1933 as compared with
September 1933 in 13 cities of the United States having a population of
500,000 or over. These changes are computed from reports received
from identical establishments in each of the months considered.
In addition to including reports received from establishments in the
several industrial groups regularly covered in the Bureau’s survey,
excluding building construction, reports have also been secured from
other establishments in these cities for inclusion in these totals.
Information concerning employment in building construction is not
available for all cities at this time and therefore has not been included.
F L U C T U A T IO N S IN E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN O C T O B E R 1933 AS C O M P A R E D
W IT H S E P T E M B E R 1933
Cities
N ew Y ork C ity ..................
Chicago, 111..........................
Philadelphia, P a .............. .
Detroit, M ich ........ ............
Los Angeles, Calif.............
Cleveland, Ohio.................
St. Louis, M o ................... .
Baltimore, M d ...................
Boston, Mass........... ..........
Pittsburgh, P a........ ..........
San Francisco, Calif..........
Buffalo, N .Y ....................
Milwaukee, W is.................
Number of
Number on pay roll
establish
ments re
porting in
September
October
both
1933
1933
months
5,396
1,837
842
526
833
1,125
520
577
3,654
435
1,151
437
451
345,282
233,432
149,742
197,275
77,706
99,868
73,756
54,684
99,675
56,333
53,887
44,494
45,800
351,859
236, 754
156,319
174,915
79,113
99,598
73,731
56,348
101,249
56,951
52,234
43,116
46,669'
Amount of pay roll
(1 week)
Per
cent of
change September
October
1933
1933
+ 1 .9
+ 1 .4
+ 4.4
-1 1 .3
+ 1 .8
-.3
-0 )
+ 3 .0
+ 1 .6
+ 1.1
- 3 .1
- 3 .1
+ 1 .9
9,148,308
5,375,740
3,308,407
4,525,377
1,852,043
2,074,980
1,577, m
1,100,126
2,411,050
1,191,277
1,257,694
966,001
895,797
9,164,592
5,473,204
3,516,788
3,951,659
1,899,375
2,094,822
1,565,620
1,127,176
2,461,717
1,242,723
1,257,408
938,827
934,557
Per
cent
of
change
+ 0 .2
+ 1.8
+ 6.3
-1 2 .7
+ 2.6
+ 1.0
-.7
+2. 5
+2.1
+ 4.3
-0 )
- 2 .8
+ 4.3
1 Less than one tenth of 1 percent.
Employment in the Executive Civil Service of the United States,
October 1933
N OCTOBER 31, 1933, the United States Government had on its
pay rolls 577,170 employees. This is an increase of 4,303 as com
pared with October 31, 1932. Comparing October 1933 with Sep
tember 1933, there was an increase of 10,814 employees or 1.9 percent.
The data presented herein does not include the legislative, judicial,
or Army and Navy services. The information shown in table 1 was
compiled by the various departments and offices of the United States
Government and sent to the United States Civil Service Commission
where it was assembled. The figures were tabulated by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics and are published in compliance with the direction
of Congress.
Table 1 shows the number of Federal employees inside the District
of Columbia, the number of employees outside of the District of
Columbia, and the total number for the entire Federal service.
Approximately 12 percent of the total number of workers on the
pay rolls of the United States Government are employed inside* the
District of Columbia.
O
31
T a jb le 1 . —E M P L O Y E E S
IN T H E E X E C U T IV E C IV IL S E R V IC E OF T H E U N IT E D S T A T E S ,
O C T O B E R 1932, S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1933
District of Columbia
Item
Perma
nent
Tem
pora
ry !
Total
Number of employees:
October 1932....................
64,484
2,490 66,974
6,482 69,740
September 1933................. 63,258
October 1933_____ ______
64,668
6,386 71,054
Gain or loss:
October
1932-October
1933______________ . . . .
+184 +3,896 +4,080
September 1933-October
1933.._..................... .
+1,410
- 9 6 +1,314
Percent of change:
October
1932-October
+ 6.1
+ .3 +156. 5
1933__________________
September 1933-October
+ 2 .2
+ 1 .9
1933....... ............ .............
-1 .5
Labor ttirn-over October
1933:
Additions....... ............ ....... ? 2,007
1,426i 2 3,433
1,326
Separations.................... .
2 793| 2 2,119
2. 07
12.33
Turn-over rate per 100. . .
3.01
Outside the District
Perma
nent
470,043
453,750
454,056
Tem
pora
ry !
Total
Entire service
Perma
nent
35,850 505,893 534,527
42,866 496, 616 517,008
52,060 506,116 518,724
-15,987 +16, 210
Tem
pora
ry !
Total
38,340 572,867
49,348 566,356
58,446 577,170
+223 -15,803 +20,106 +4,303
+306 +9,194 + 9, 500 +1,716 +9,098 +10,814
- 3 .4
+ .1
+45.2 + ( 5)
+21.4
+ 1 .9
- 3 .0
+52.4
+ .8
+ .3
+18.4
+ 1 .9
3 12,152 24,445 3 36, 597 * 14,159 25,871 « 40, 030
12, 307 3 14,790 3 27,097 13, 633 * 15, 583 * 29,216
31.16
2.63
28.91
2.68
5.40
5.11
i N ot including field employees of the Post Office Department.
* N ot including 729 employees o* tho Federal Emergency Administration of Public W orks transferred
from a temporary to a permanent statu*.
3 N ot including 461 employees of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, transferred
from a temporary to a permanent status.
* See notes to details.
* Less than one tenth of 1 percent.
Comparing October 1933 with September 1933, there was an
increase of 2.2 percent in the number of permanent employees (half
of this increase was caused by a transfer of 729 employees of the
Public Works Administration from a temporary to a permanent
status), and a decrease of 1.5 percent in the number of temporary em
ployees in the District of Columbia, making a net increase of 1.9
percent in the total Federal employment in the city of Washington.
Comparing October 1933 with October 1932, there was an increase of
three tenths of 1 percent in permanent employees and an increase of
156.5 percent in temporary employees, making an increase of 6.1 percent
in the total number of employees in the District of Columbia. The large
increase in temporary employment is caused by the setting up of a
number of new independent establishments since October of last year.
Outside the District of Columbia, the number of permanent em
ployees decreased 3.4 percent and the number of temporary employees
increased 45.2 percent, comparing October 1933 pay rolls with those
for October 1932.
Comparing October 1933 with September 1933, there was an in
crease of 0.3 percent in the number of permanent employees, an
increase of 18.4 percent in the number of temporary employees, and
an increase of 1.9 percent in total Federal employment.
Pay-roll figures for the entire Government service are presented
herewith for the first time. The total Government pay roll for all
classes of civil employees for the month of September was $70,609,548,
October pay rolls totaled $74,407,443.
Table 2 shows employment and pay rolls for the Emergency
Conservation Work.
There was an increase of 30,685 persons engaged in Emergency Con
servation Work, comparing October with September. This increase
was caused by recruiting additional enrolled personnel during the month.
32
T a b le
2 .—E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O LLS IN T H E E M E R G E N C Y C O N S E R V A T IO N
W O R K , S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1933
Number
Pay rolls
Group
September
Enrolled personnel_______ ____ ____ _______ __________
Reserve officers, line-------- -------------------------- ------- --------Reserve officers, medical______________________________
Supervisory and technical........................ .......... ............ . T otal____________________ ____________________
1 Data not available.
October
September
October
208,402
2,902
986
14, 744
239,859 $6, 508,392
3,298 }
678,676
1,074
1, 754,485
13, 488
$7, 490, 799
227, 034
257, 719
8,941, 553
29,095, 939
0)
1,605,140
2 N ot including October pay rolls for Reserve officers, line and medical.
Information concerning employment and pay rolls in the Emer
gency Conservation Work is collected by the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics from the War Department and the Forest Service of the
Department of Agriculture.
The pay of the enrolled enlisted personnel is $30 per month, except
that 5 percent of the personnel of each company are paid $45 a
month and an additional 8 percent are paid $36 per month. The
pay roll for this branch of the service is figured on this basis. The
amounts paid to Reserve officers, line and medical, are shown for
September for the first time. Data for these branches will be sup
plied regularly hereafter.
Employment on Class I Steam Railroads in the United States
R EPORTS of the Interstate Commerce Commission for class I rail
roads show that the number of employees (exclusive of executives
and officials) decreased from 1,018,138 on September 15, 1933, to
1,011,110 on October 15, 1933, or 0.7 percent. Data are not yet avail
able concerning total compensation of employees for October 1933.
The latest pay-roll information available shows a decrease from
$121,857,255 in August to $118,777,553 in September, or 2.5 percent.
The monthly trend of employment from January 1923 to October
1933 on class I railroads— that is, all roads having operating revenues
of $1,000,000 or over—is shown by index numbers published in the
following table. These index numbers are constructed from monthly
reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission, using the 12month average for 1926 as 100.
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1 — IN D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T ON CLASS I S T E A M R A IL R O A D S IN T H E
U N IT E D S T A T E S , J A N U A R Y 1923 T O O C T O B E R 1933
[12-month average, 1926=100]
M onth
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
J anuary.. ___________
February............... .........
M arch________________
A pril_________________
M a y ---------------------------June__________________
July__________________
A ugust______ _________
September____________
October_______________
Novem ber____________
December.......... ............
98.3
98.6
100.5
102.0
105.0
107.1
108.2
109.4
107.8
107.3
105.2
99.4
96.6
97.0
97.4
98.9
99.2
98.0
98.1
99.0
99.7
100.8
99.0
96.0
95.6
95.4
95.2
96.6
97.8
98.6
99.4
99.7
99.9
100.7
99.1
97.1
95.8
96.0
96.7
98.9
100.2
101.6
102.9
102.7
102.8
103.4
101.2
98.2
95.5
95.3
95.8
97.4
99.4
100.9
101.0
99.5
99.1
98.9
95.7
91.9
89.3
89.0
89.9
91.7
94.5
95.9
95.6
95.7
95.3
95.3
92.9
89.7
88.2
88.9
90.1
92.2
94.9
96.1
96.6
97.4
96.8
96.9
93.0
88.8
86.3
85.4
85.5
87.0
88.6
86.5
84.7
83.7
82.2
80.4
77.0
74.9
73.3
72.7
72.9
73.5
73.9
72.8
72.4
71.2
69.3
67.7
64.5
62.6
61.2
60.3
60.5
60.0
59.7
57.8
56.4
55.0
55.8
57.0
55.9
54.8
53.0
52.7
51.5
51.8
52.5
53.6
55. 4
i 56.8
57.7
57. 3
104.1
98.3
97.9
100.0
97.5
92.9
93.3
83.5
70.6
57.9
2 54.2
Average________
1 Revised.
2 Average for 10 months.
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Wage-Rate Changes in American Industries
Manufacturing Industries
HE following table presents information concerning wage-rate
adjustments occurring between September 15 and October 15,
1933, as shown by reports received from manufacturing establishments
supplying employment data to this Bureau.
Increases in wage rates averaging 12.3 percent and affecting 96,461
employees were reported by 468 of the 18,602 manufacturing estab
lishments surveyed in October. The iron and steel industry reported
the greatest number of workers affected by wage-rate increases over
the month interval. Thirty-five establishments in that industry
reported increases in wage rates affecting 38,053 workers and averag
ing 10.7 percent. Increases affecting 7,109 employees and averaging
10.6 percent were reported by 21 establishments in the automobile
industry. Other industries in which increases in rates affecting from
2,000 to 3,000 employees were reported were foundry and machineshop products, chemicals, rayon, and brass, bronze, and copper
products.
Of the 18,602 manufacturing establishments included in the October
survey, 18,129 establishments, or 97.5 percent of the total, reported
no change in wage rates over the month interval. The 3,262,266
employees not affected by changes in wage rates constituted 97.1
percent of the total number of employees covered by the October
trend-of-employment survey of manufacturing industries.
Only five manufacturing establishments reported wage-rate
decreases between September and October.
T
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1 —W A G E -R A T E
C H A N G E S IN M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S
M O N T H E N D IN G O C T O B E R 15, 1933
Industry
Total
number
of em-
18,602
100.0
, 358,960
100.0
18,129
97.5
1,030
413
307
302
417
356
73,420
26,154
5,966
43, 619
17, 646
11, 377
244
63
13
A ll manufacturing industries..
Percent of total________
F ood and kindred products:
Baking _
Butter.
Confectionery_____________
Flour________________ ____
Ice cream _________________
Slaughtering and meat
packing____________ ____
Sugar, beet__________ ____
Sugar refining, cane_______
Textiles and their products:
Fabrics:
Carpets and rugs______
Cotton goods_________
Cotton small wears___
Dyeing and finishing
textiles______ _____
Hats, fur-felt__________
Knit goods____ _______
Silk and rayon goods.
Woolen and worsted
goods................. ..........
1Less than 1 tenth of 1 percent.
N um ber of establish
ments reporting—
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing
D U R IN G
Num ber of employees
having—
No
No
Wage- Wagewage- rate
in rate de wagerate
rate
changes creases creases changes
WageWagerate in rate de
creases creases
, 262,266
97.1
96,461
2.9
1,013
396
305
297
412
349
73,082
25,228
5,960
43,507
17,553
11, 285
338
921
6
99
93
92
112, 501
21,913
9, 704
243
54
10
112,498
19,955
7,518
1,958
2,186
27
689
116
16, 632
309,034
11, 621
27
683
114
16, 632
308,238
11,616
796
5
153
36
466
238
33,600
6,248
124,945
50, 798
151
36
454
236
33, 460
6,248
123,553
50,001
140
240
75,365
75,118
247
0)
797
233
0)
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1 —W A G E -R A T E
C H A N G E S IN M AN UFACTU RIN G IN D U S T R IE S
M O N T H E N D IN G O C T O B E R 15, 1933— Continued
Industry
Textiles and their products—
Continued.
Wearing apparel:
Clothing, m en’s . ......... .
Clothing, wom en’s____
Corsets and allied gar
m ents....... ...................
M en ’s furnishings____
M illinery........................
Shirts and collars_____
Iron and steel and their prod
ucts, not including machin
ery:
Bolts, nuts, washers, and
rivets................................. .
Cast-iron p ip e................ ......
Cutlery (not including sil
ver and plated cutlery)
and edge tools___________
Forgings, iron and steel___
Hardware....... .......................
Iron and steel ........... ...........
Plumbers’ supplies......... .
Steam and hot-water heat
ing apparatus and steam
fittings..... ..........................
S toves-............................... .
Structural and ornamental
metal work.................. ......
T in cans and other tinware.
Tools (not including edge
tools, machine tools, files,
and saws)............................
Wire work......... .....................
M achinery, not including trans
portation equipment:
Agricultural implements.
Cash registers, adding ma
chines, and calculating
machines....... ....................
Electrical machinery, ap
paratus, and supplies.......
Engines, turbines, tractors,
and water wheels...............
Foundry and machine-shop
products..............................
M achine tools— ...................
Radios and phonographs.-.
Textile machinery and parts.
Typewriters and supplies..
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—cop
per, lead, and zinc............
Stamped and enameled
w a r e .................................
Transportation equipment:
Aircraft...................... ..........
Automobiles........................
Cars, electric and steam
railroad..............................
Locom otives.........................
Shipbuilding.......................
Railroad repair shops:
Electric railroad____ ______
Steam railroad_____ ______
Num ber of establish
ments reporting—
D U R IN G
Num ber of employees
having—
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing
Total
number
of em
ployees
.396
70,604
34,458
374
566
67,949
32,959
2,655
1,499
32
73
135
122
5,453
7,242
8,845
18, 650
29
70
134
122
5,050
7,109
8, 792
18,650
403
133
53
13, 812
6,092
594
538
No
No
Wage- Wagerate in rate de wagerate
rate
creases
creases
changes
changes
14,406
Wagerate in- rate de
creases
206
73
11,292
7,214
28,269
254,363
9,314
129
63
97
171
70
11, 203
6,806
28, 216
216,310
9,242
408
53
38,053
72
162
16,843
25,346
92
155
16,256
24, 697
587
649
202
60
17,045
10,238
197
58
16,523
10,081
522
157
127
71
8,950
7,836
126
70
8,934
7,832
79
9,118
75
7, 773
132
1,345
16,366
35
16,366
112,500
282
111,053
1,447
92
21,167
87
20,069
1,098
1,075
143
43
52
16
125,024
15,601
37,148
10,768
11,988
1,046
136
38
51
15
122,015
14,813
36,852
10,621
11,979
3,009
788
296
147
9
27
6,949
26
6,937
12
212
39,185
207
36,621
2,564
27
130
52
56
9,606
9,487
3,642
9,247
130
52
56
9,376
9,487
3,642
9,247
42
14,140
1 ,289
15,932
15,104
828
5,295
214,503
1,150
7,109
8,876
2,851
30,255
67
25
239
6,445
221,612
49
11
100
8,876
2,851
30,322
380
540
19, 631
76,434
24
218
363
540
18,741
76,434
851
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1 —W A G E -R A T E
C H A N G E S IN M A N U FA C TU RIN G IN D U S T R IE S
M O N T H E N D IN G .O C T O B E R 15, 1933—Continued
Industry
Lumber and allied products:
Furniture__ - ____________
Lumber:
M ill w ork_____________
Sawmills,
Turpentine and rosin..........
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Brick, tile, and terra cotta ._
Cement___________________
Glass_____________________
Marble, granite, slate, and
other products__________
P ottery .. ___________ ____
Leather and its manufactures:
Boots and shoes. ________
Leather___________________
Paper and printing:
Boxes, paper. _______ ____
Paper and p ulp ______ ____
Printing and publishing:
Book and jo b ..................
Newspapers and peri
odicals______________
Chemicals and allied products:
Chemicals_________________
Cottonseed oil, cake, and
m ea l.. ___________ ______
Druggists’ preparations___
Explosives________________
Fertilizers_______ __________
Paints and varnishes______
Petroleum refining...........
R ayon and allied products.
Soap. ___ _______
__ __
R ubber products:
Rubber boots and shoes___
Rubber goods, other than
boots, shoes, tires, and
inner tubes _
____
R ubber tires and inner
tu b es.. ________________
T obacco manufactures:
Chewing and smoking to
bacco and snuff
_____
Cigars and cigarettes
Number of establish
ments reporting—
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing
Total
number
of em
ployees
468
60,655
455
13
494
621
27
21,348
83, 438
1,923
481
614
26
12
7
1
662
131
177
20,469
13,199
46,900
650
128
170
235
120
5,982
19,007
348
158
D U R IN G
Number of employees
having—
No
No
Wage- Wagewage- rate
in rate de wagerate
rate
creases
creases
changes
changes
Wage
Wage
rate in rate de
creases creases
58,751
1,904
20,890
82,722
1,829
328
716
94
12
3
7
20,142
12, 609
46,076
327
510
824
234
118
1
2
5,957
18,894
25
113
120,806
32, 227
339
152
9
6
119,931
31,619
875
608
327
416
27,785
101,951
325
409
2
7
27,685
100,883
100
1,068
784
48,202
780
4
48,053
149
70,883
462
106
26,471
103
3
24,067
2,404
104
50
31
175
363
140
24
109
6,677
8,930
4,569
8,957
17.680
56,180
37.681
17,274
101
50
27
152
355
139
22
107
3
4
23
8
1
2
2
6,490
8,930
4,380
7,182
17,317
56,118
34,881
16,951
189
1,775
363
62
2,800
323
9
10,400
8
1
10,123
277
98
27,300
95
3
26,477
823
42
58, 668
41
1
57, 265
1,403
30
208
9,491
46,407
30
205
3
9,491
45,591
816
463
1
1
130
85
70,798
187
Nonmanufacturing Industries
D a t a concerning wage-rate changes occurring between September
15 and October 15, 1933, in 15 groups of nonmanufacturing industries
are presented in the following table.
No changes in wage rates were reported in the anthracite-mining
industry. Increases were reported in each of the remaining 14 indus
tries and decreases were reported in 3 industries over the month
interval. The average percents of increase reported were as follows:
Canning and preserving, 24.8 percent; bituminous-coal mining, 22.1
percent; hotels, 20.4 percent; power and light, 17.7 percent; retail
trade, 17 percent; metalliferous mining, 15.2 percent; laundries and
wholesale trade, each 13.1 percent; crude-petroleum producing, 12.5
percent; quarrying and nomfietallic mining, 10.3 percent; electricrailroad and motor-bus operation and maintenance, 7.5 percent;
banks, brokerage, insurance, real estate, 5.3 percent; dyeing and clean-
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ing, 5.1 percent; and telephone and telegraph, 4.8 percent. The aver
age percents of decrease were: Quarrying and nonmetallic mining and
retail trade, each 9.1 percent, and wholesale trade, 7.6 percent.
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2 .—W A G E -R A T E C H A N G E S IN N O N M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S D U R IN G
M O N T H E N D IN G O C T O B E R 15, 1933
Number of establish
ments reporting—
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing
Total
number
of em
ployees
Anthracite m ining.......................
159
Percent of total___________
100.0
1,514
Bituminous-coal mining_______
Percent of total___________
100.0
Metalliferous m ining__________
297
Percent of total___________
100.0
Quarrying and nonmetallic
mining_______ ____ _________
1,202
Percent of total___________
100.0
Crude-petroleum producing___
260
Percent of total___________
100.0
Telephone and telegraph______
8, 294
Percent of total___________
100.0
Power and light_______________ 3,132
Percent of total............ ........
100.0
Electric-railroad and motor-bus
operation and maintenance—
557
Percent of total__________
100.0
Wholesale trade______________
3,039
Percent of total____ _____
100.0
Retail trade__________________
18, 588
Percent of total.......... .........
100.0
Hotels_______________________
2, 706
Percent of total__________
100.0
Canning and preserving______
888
Percent of total.......... .........
100.0
Laundries_________ _____ ____
965
Percent of total__________
100.0
Dyeing and cleaning_________
377
Percent of total.......... .........
100.0
Banks, brokerage, insurance,
and real estate______________
4, 569
Percent of total___________
100.0
77,833
100.0
210,835
100.0
27,974
100.0
159
100.0
1,160
76.6
286
96.3
354
23.4
11
3.7
36,894
100.0
29,053
100.0
246,416
100.0
204, 268
100.0
1,179
98.1
252
96.9
8, 292
100.0
3,106
99.2
1.7
8
3.1
2
0)
26
0.8
133, 244
100.0
91, 276
100.0
437,841
100.0
140,128
100.0
96, 778
100.0
57,152
100.0
11,863
100.0
517
92.8
3, 023
99.5
18, 554
99.8
2, 695
99.6
883
99.4
945
97.9
372
98.7
40
7.2
14
0.5
32
0.2
11
0.4
5
0.6
178, 777
100.0
4, 564
99.9
5
0.1
Industrial group
Number of employees hav
ing—
No
Wage- Wage- N o wagewage- rate
in rate de
rate
rate
creases
creases changes
changes
21
20
2.1
5
1.3
2
0.2
2
0.1
2
0)
Wagerate in
creases
77,833
100.0
144, 742
68.7
26, 369
94.3
66,093
31.3
1,605
5.7
35, 305
95.7
28,685
98.7
246, 004
99.8
199,680
97.8
1,516
4.1
368
1.3
412
0.2
4,588
2.2
127,148
95.4
91,038
99.7
437, 219
99.9
139, 726
99.7
96,678
99.9
55,789
97.6
11,460
178,671
4.6
231
0.3
611
0.1
402
0.3
100
0.1
1,363
2.4
403
3.4
Wagerate de
creases
73
0.2
^ .
0) '
106
0.1
1 Less than one tenth of 1 percent.
Employment Created by Public-Works Fund
HE Bureau of Labor Statistics is charged with the duty of show
ing each month the number of wage earners employed on work
financed from the $3,300,000,000 public-works fund.
Public-works allotments are divided into two large classes. First,
Federal allotments; second, non-Federal allotments. Federal allot
ments are monies which have been alloted to some branch of the United
States Government. They are financed wholly by public-works funds.
They include such types of projects as post-office buildings, built by
the Procurement Division of the Treasury Department; naval vessels,
built by the Bureau of Construction and Repair of the United States
Navy Department; river, harbor, and flood-control work, supervised
by the Corps of Engineers, War Department; and reclamation proj
ects, such as the Boulder Dam and the Tennessee Valley project.
Whenever a contract is awarded by one of these Federal agencies,
the name and address of the contractor, the type of project, and the
amount of the contract is at once furnished to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. The Bureau then forwards a copy of its form (B.L.S. 742)
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to each of the contractors, asking for the number of wage earners
employed, the amount of pay rolls, and the number of man-hours
worked, as well as the total amount of expenditures for materials pur
chased, for all pay-roll periods ending between the 15th of the past
month and the 15th of the current month. The contractor in turn
mails the schedule back to the Bureau, where the data are tabulated.
Information concerning non-Federal projects are obtained from the
State engineers of the Public Works Administration. Whenever a
contract for a non-Federal project is awarded, the procedure is exactly
the same as described for Federal projects. Non-Federal projects
include such work as road and street paving, sewerage systems and
water works, school buildings, public buildings of all kinds, and slum
clearance and housing projects. The Putilic Works Administration
grants 30 percent of the total cost of non-Federal projects, and if nec
essary will loan the remaining 70 percent.
In addition to the work done by contractors, some Government
departments, cities, and States do work under force account— that is,
they hire the labor directly. Data concerning force-account work are
obtained in the same manner as for contract work, except that the
schedules are made out by the Federal, State, county , or city agency
doing the work.
The information shown in the following tables should be regarded
as more or less of a preliminary report, as work financed from publicworks fund is just getting under way.
Table 1 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
projects financed from public-works funds, during October 1933, by
type of project.
1 — E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON P R O J E C T S
F IN A N C E D F R O M P U B L IC -W O R K S F U N D S D U R IN G O C T O B E R 1933, B Y T Y P E OF
PRO JEC T
T a b le
Type of project
N um Number
ber of of wage
proj
earners
em
ects re
ported ployed
Amount
of pay
roll
Aver
Aver
age
Number
age number Expendi
of manearn
of
hours tures for
hours
per worked material
worked ings
hour
in
month
Building construction............ ............
Public roads_______________________
River, harbor, and flood control___
Streets and roads 2.................... ..........
Naval vessels_________ ______ _____
Reclam ation.________ ______________
Water and sewerage_______________
Miscellaneous_____________________
66
1, 664
101
20
34
12
5
68
4,157
94,350
11, 639
1,230
3,626
3,485
253
1,815
$387,901
0)
378,035
62,354
401,294
204,729
7, 929
135, 225
572, 293
0)
693, 562
100,437
515,149
337,530
12, 692
256, 621
$0.678
0)
.545
.621
.779
.607
.625
.527
137.7
0)
59.6
81.7
142.1
96.9
50.2
141.4
$412,429
(0
849, 249
73,855
8, 248,361
168,880
7,172
3 697,285
T otal________________________
1,970
120, 555
1, 577,467
2,488, 284
.634
95.0
10,457,231
1 Data not available.
2 Other than those reported b y the Bureau of Public Roads.
3 Includes $544,385 worth of materials which cannot be charged to any specific type of project.
For the month ending October 15, there were 120,555 employees
directly engaged on construction jobs, excluding clerical and super
visory workers, whose wages were paid directly from public-works
funds.
Of the 120,555 people directly put to work on public-works con
struction projects up to October 15, 94,350 were working under the
supervision of the Bureau of Public Roads. No data concerning
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pay rolls, man-hours, or expenditures for materials were obtained
from that Bureau. Beginning with the November figures, however,
this information will be supplied.
Of the remaining 26,205 wage earners, the largest part were working
on river, harbor, and flood-control projects. Building construction
accounted for the employment of the third largest group.
The pay roll for workers, excluding those on public roads, totaled
$1,577,467. As the men worked an aggregate of 2,488,284 hours,
this makes an hourly rate of 63.4 cents. Pay rolls for work on naval
vessels reached a larger total than pay rolls for any other type of
project. River, harbor, and flood-control work created more hours
of labor, however.
The average hourly rate of earnings for workers on naval vessels
was 77.9 cents. All types of work, except river, harbor, flood-control,
and miscellaneous projects paid an average of over 60 cents per hour.
Expenditures for materials ranged from less than $7,500 in the
case of water and sewerage projects to over $8,000,000 in the case of
naval vessels. During the month scheduled, $10,457,231 was ex
pended for materials purchased by contractors reporting to the
Bureau.
Table 2 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked during
October on projects financed from public-works funds, by geographic
divisions.
2 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON P R O JE C T S
F IN A N C E D F R O M P U B L IC -W O R K S F U N D S D U R IN G O C T O B E R 1933, B Y G E O G R A P H IC
D IV ISIO N S
T a b le
Number of
wage earners
employed on—
Geographic division
Amount
of pay
Projects
roll i
Public other
than
roads
public
roads
Number
of manhours
worked 1
A ver Aver
age
age
number Expendi
earn of
hours tures for
ings
worked materials 1
per
in
hour i month
1
New England_____________________
M iddle A tla n tic._______ __________
East North Central________ ______
W est North C entral.......................
South Atlantic____ _____________
South Central_____________________
M ountain and Pacific. _. _________
12,363
20, 550
9, 522
16,803
6,241
11,138
17, 733
3,898
2, 286
3,124
5,731
3, 395
4,184
3,587
$371,351
201,459
116,901
170, 548
273, 203
182,426
261, 579
523,884
290,745
179,373
316,620
393, 776
360, 361
423, 525
$0.709
.693
.652
.539
.694
.506
.618
134.4
127.2
57.4
55.2
116.0
86.1
118.1
$282,475
7,975,438
187,838
665,676
328,019
194,733
278,667
Total________________________
94, 350
26, 205
1, 577, 467
2,488, 284
.634
95.0
2 10,457,231
1 Excluding data for public roads which are not available.
2 Includes $544,385 worth of materials which cannot be charged to any specific geographic division.
Of the 120,555 wage earners paid from public-works funds, over
20,000 worked in each of the following geographic divisions: Middle
Atlantic States, West North Central States, and Mountain and
Pacific States. The South Atlantic was the only geographic division
having fewer than 10,000 workers paid from public-works funds.
The New England pay rolls reached a total of over $370,000; the
Middle Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Mountain and Pacific had pay
rolls totaling over $200,000.
The highest earnings per hour, 70.9 cents, were shown in the New
England States. This was followed by 69.4 cents in the South
Atlantic and 69.3 cents in the Middle Atlantic States.
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By far the largest proportion of the material orders were placed by
contractors located in the Middle Atlantic States. The preponder
ance of expenditures for materials to be used in the Middle Atlantic
States was caused by the placing of an order for steel for battleship
construction, amounting to over $7,000,000. Materials purchased to
be used in the West North Central States cost nearly $700,000. In
no other geographic division did expenditures for material total as
much as $400,000. Following is a list of the kinds of materials
purchased, together with the expenditures for each type.
Kind of materials
Amount
expended
Cement_______________________________________________________
Chemicals_____________________________________________________
Clay products____ _______ ______________________________________
Concrete products____ _________________________________________
Cordage and twine.____ ______________________________________
Crushed stone_________________________________________________
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies____________________
Explosives____________________________________________________
Forgings, iron and steel________________________________________
Foundry and machine-shop products not elsewhere classified_______
Hardware, miscellaneous_______________________________________
Instruments, professional and scientific__________________________
Lighting equipment____________________________________________
Lumber and timber products not elsewhere classified_______________
Machine tools_________________________________________________
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone products___________________
Minerals and earths, ground or otherwise treated_________________
Nonferrous-metal alloys; nonferrous-metal products, except alu
minum, not elsewhere specified_______________________________
Paving materials and mixtures__________________________________
Planing-mill products__________________________________________
Pumps and pumping equipment________________________________
Refrigerators, mechanical______________________________________
Sand and gravel_______________________________________________
Smelting and refining, lead_____________________________________
Steel-w’orks and rolling-mill products____________________________
Structural and ornamental metalwork, not made in plants operated
in connection with rolling mills________________________________
Wire, drawn from purchased rods_______________________________
Other__________ ________________
_____ ________________
$71, 373
11, 804
39, 735
19,059
22,173
90, 301
40, 567
14, 039
10, 274
52, 748
22, 906
250, 812
34, 000
722, 778
56, 818
38, 787
13, 996
153, 281
43, 244
22, 707
13, 281
38, 235
13, 164
11, 660
8, 378, 478
80, 964
43, 963
146,084
Total___ ..................................................................... ............... 10,457,231
It will be seen from this list that manufacturers of many classes
of materials will profit by the public-works program. It is estimated
that the fabrication of the materials purchased will give employment
to approximately 27,000 people.
As already stated, this report must be classified as preliminary.
Up to October 15 the construction program of the Public Works
Administration had not as yet assumed full force.
Employment on Public Roads
T h e following table shows the number of employees (excluding
those employed on road projects financed from public-works funds)
engaged in building and maintaining State and Federal roads during
September and October 1933, by geographic divisions.
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N U M B E R OF E M P L O Y E E S E N G A G E D IN T H E C O N S T R U C T IO N A N D M A IN T E N A N C E
OF P U B L IC R O A D S , S T A T E A N D F E D E R A L , D U R IN G S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R
1933, B Y G E O G R A P H IC D IV IS IO N S i
Federal
State
Geographic division
September
October
September
New England____________ ____________________________
M iddle Atlantic_______________________________________
East North Central___________________ _______________
West North Central___________________________________
South Atlantic____ ____________ _________ ___________
South Central______________________________ _■________
M ountain and Pacific______ ________________________
3,359
7,872
16,220
7,594
9,204
18,058
17,573
2,640
5,103
10,357
5,482
7,040
14,163
12,087
22,979
47,121
40,884
27, 780
42, 249
24,869
16,976
T otal____________ _____________________________
Percent of change_____ __ ________________ __________
79,880
56,872
—28.8
222,858
October
16,10345,815
53,210
32, 527
43,970
22, 217
16,129
229,971
+ 3 .2
i Exclusive of em ployment furnished b y projects financed from public-works funds.
During the month of October there were 56,872 men employed on
Federal road projects other than those financed from the publicworks fund. This is a decrease of 28.8 percent as compared with
September. The reason for the decrease in employees on Federal’
road work is that very few contracts are being awarded for road
building from Federal funds outside of the public-works fund. There
was an increase of over 64,000 in the number of people employed on
public-road work financed from P.W.A. funds.
The number of people engaged on highway projects financed from
State funds increased 3.2 percent in October as compared with
September. The increases were confined to the East North Central,
the West North Central, and the South Atlantic States. Decreases
were shown in the other four, divisions, with New England registering
the largest falling-off in employment. Most of the employees working
on road projects financed from State funds were engaged in mainte
nance work. Out of a total of 229,971 in October, 171,260, or 74.5
percent, were working at maintaining existing roads.
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