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Serial No. R. 187
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
FRANCES PERKINS, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
ISADOR LUBIN, Commissioner
TREND OF EMPLOYMENT
OCTOBER 1934
Prepared by Division of Employment Statistics
L e w is
E.
T a lb e r t,
Chief
and
Division of Construction and Public Employment
H erm an
B. B yer,
Chief
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
W A SH IN G T O N : 1934
CONTENTS
Industrial:
By industries:
Page
Manufacturing industries_______________________________________1-14
Nonmanufacturing industries__________________________________ _14-19
Anthracite and bituminous coal mining.
Metalliferous mining.
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining.
Crude-petroleum producing.
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph.
Electric light and power and manufactured gas.
Electric railroads.
Wholesale and retail trade.
Hotels.
Laundries.
Dyeing and cleaning.
Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate.
Building______________________________________________________ 19-22
Class I steam railroads________________________________________ 31-32
By States_________________________________________________________ 22-30
By cities__________________________________________________________
31
Public:
Federal employees_________________________________________________ 32-34
Public Works Administration______________________________________ 34-43
Emergency work relief_____________________________________________ 43-44
Emergency conservation work_____________________________________ 44-45
Public roads not financed by P. W. A ______________________________ 45-46
Construction projects financed by R. F. C _________________________ 46-49
Construction projects financed from regular governmental appropria
tions____________________________________________________________ 49-52
Wage-rate changes_____________________________________________________ 52-51
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TREND OF EMPLOYMENT
Trend of Employment, October 1934
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 90 of the principal
manufacturing industries of the country and 18 nonmanufacturing
industries, covering the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the
month. Additional information is presented concerning employment
on Public Works Administration projects, public roads, the Federal
service, and class I steam railroads.
T
Manufacturing Industries
Factory employment increased 3.8 percent from September to
October and factory pay rolls increased 4.8 percent over the month
interval. These increases reflected, to a large extent, the settlement
of labor difficulties in textile plants. Altogether 50 manufacturing
industries reported gains in employment from September to October.
Sixty of the ninety industries surveyed reported gains in pay rolls.
Unusual conditions affecting employment, which prevailed in
October, were: The settlement of strikes (mentioned above) in the
woolen and worsted goods, cotton goods, silk and rayon goods, dyeing
and finishing textiles, cotton small wares, and knit-goods industries;
the completion of car-building (electric and steam railroad) orders
financed through P. W. A. loans; and the falling off in the slaughtering
of drought cattle.
The general indexes of employment and pay rolls for October
1934 are 78.7 and 60.8, respectively. A comparison of these indexes
with those of October 1933 shows a loss over the year interval of 1.1
percent in employment and a gain of 2.4 percent in pay rolls.
The indexes of factory employment and pay rolls are computed
from data supplied by representative establishments in 90 important
manufacturing industries of the country. Reports were received in
October from 25,508 establishments employing 3,639,095 workers
whose weekly earnings were $68,834,960 during the pay period ending
nearest October 15. The employment reports received from these
cooperating establishments cover more than 50 percent of the total
wage earners in all manufacturing industries of the country.
The largest percentage gains in both employment and pay rolls
from September to October were seasonal increases in the beet-sugar
refining industry of 159.3 percent and 112.6 percent, respectively.
The resumption of plant operation following the settlement of the
strike in certain textile industries was reflected in the following gains
in employment; woolen and worsted goods, 90.4 percent; cotton
(l)
2
goods, 81.9 percent; silk and rayon goods, 30.4 percent; dyeing and
finishing textiles, 17.2 percent; cotton small wares, 15.5 percent;
and knit goods, 8.8 percent. The increases in pay rolls in these in
dustries were, in every instance, larger than the gains in employment.
The increase of 11.4 percent in employment in the cottonseed oilcake-meal industry was due to seasonal activity, as was the 3.8
percent gain in the confectionery industry. Other industries in which
substantial gains in employment were reported were: Jewelry, 8.1
percent; agricultural implements, 7.6 percent; aluminum, 7.5 percent;
soap, 7.2 percent; and men’s furnishings, 5.6 percent. Increases in
employment ranging from 4 to 4.8 percent were reported in the
lighting equipment, druggists’ preparations, pottery, smelting and
refining, copper-lead-zinc, and millwork industries. In the remaining
30 industries in which employment increased over the month interval,
the most pronounced gains were as follows: Stoves, 3.9 percent; iron
and steel forgings, 3.8 percent; paper boxes and clocks, 3.7 percent
each; plumbers’ supplies, 3.3 percent; cane-sugar refining, 3.1 per
cent; and typewriters and furniture, 2.8 percent each.
In the 40 industries in which decreases in employment were reported
from September to October, a substantial number of the declines were
seasonal. The most pronounced of these seasonal decreases in em
ployment were as follows: Canning and preserving, 32.8 percent; ice
cream, 10.6 percent; fur-felt hats, 9.9 percent; Millinery, 9.5 percent;
tin cans, 7.1 percent; marble-slate-granite, 7.7 percent; automobiles,
7.3 percent; cement, 6.1 percent; beverages, 5.6 percent; fertilizer,
3.7 percent; boots and shoes, 3.7 percent; and men’s clothing, 3 per
cent. Employment in the steam- and electric-car building industry
decreased 18.4 percent due primarily to the completion of orders
financed through P. W. A. loans. Employment in slaughtering and
meat packing decreased 3 percent due to the falling off in the slaugh
tering of drought cattle. Establishments in the aircraft industry
reported a net decline of 10.5 percent in employment from September
to October. Other declines in employment in industries of major
importance were steam-railroad repair shops, 3.4 percent; structural
ironwork, 2.7 percent; glass, 1.4 percent; chemicals and electrical
machinery, 1.3 percent each; machine tools, 0.8 percent; and saw
mills and foundries, 0.6 percent each.
Comparing the level of employment and pay rolls in the 90 separate
industries in October 1934 with October 1933, 40 industries showed
increased employment over the year interval and 53 industries showed
increased pay rolls.
Dividing the manufacturing industries into “ durable” and “ non
durable” goods groups, the former group showed a decrease of 1.2 per
cent in employment from September to October and an increase of 1.5
percent in pay rolls. The latter group showed gains in employment
3
and pay rolls of 7.7 and 7.4 percent, respectively. The October
employment and pay-roll indexes were 63.4 and 46.1, respectively, for
the “ durable” goods group and 95.1 and 79.6, respectively, for the
“ nondurable” goods group. The “ durable” goods group is composed
of the following subgroups: I r o n a n d s t e e l , m a c h i n e r y , t r a n s
p o r t a t io n
E Q U IP M E N T ,
R A IL R O A D
R E P A IR
SHOPS,
NONFERROUS
M E T A L S , L U M B E R A N D A L L I E D P R O D U C T S , A N D S T O N E -C L A Y -G L A S S .
Per capita weekly earnings for all manufacturing industries com
bined gained 1 percent from September to October and 3.6 percent
from October 1933 to October 1934. Gains over the month interval
were shown in 63 of the 90 individual industries surveyed and ranged
from 0.2 to 18.8 percent.
The per capita earnings shown in the following table 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).
Man-hour data supplied by identical establishments in September
and October 1934 showed an increase over the month interval for all
manufacturing industries combined of 2.7 percent in average hours
worked per week and no change in average hourly earnings. Fiftyeight of the industries covered showed increases in average hours
worked and 42 reported increased hourly earnings. As all reporting
establishments do not furnish man-hour information, the Bureau’s
figures on average hours worked per week and average hourly earnings
are necessarily computed from data furnished by a smaller number of
establishments than are covered in the monthly survey of manufac
turing industries. Average hours worked per week and average
hourly earnings are presented for only those manufacturing industries
for which available information covers at least 20 percent of all the
employees in the industry.
In table 1, which follows, are shown indexes of employment and pay
rolls in October 1934 for each of the 90 manufacturing industries
surveyed, for the 14 major groups and 2 subgroups into which these
industries are classified, and for manufacturing as a whole, together
with percentage changes from September 1934 and October 1933.
Per capita weekly earnings in October 1934, together with percentage
changes from the previous month and from October of the previous
year for each of the 90 manufacturing industries and for manufac
turing as a whole, are also presented in this table. Average hours
worked per week in October 1934 and average hourly earnings, to
gether with percentage changes from September 1934 and October
1933, are likewise presented for manufacturing as a whole and for
each industry for which man-hour data covering at least 20 percent
of the total employees in the industry were received.
T a b l e 1.—E M P L O Y M E N T , W E E K L Y P A Y R O LLS, P E R C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S , 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 , A N D A V E R A G E
H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U ST R IE S IN OC T O B E R 1934 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H S E P T E M B E R 1934 A N D O C T O B E R 1933
Employment
Industry
All industries *______________________________
Iron and steel and their products, not includ
ing machinery. _ ______________________________
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills___
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets________________
Cast-iron pipe___ _____________________________
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cut
lery), and edge tools_______________ _________ _
Forgings, iron and steel............. ............................ .
Hardware..__________ ________ _____ _________
Plumbers’ supplies____________________________
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings_____________ ______ ___________
Stoves.
__________________ ______ _________
Structural and ornamental m etalw ork...............
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 calculat
ing machines________________________ _______
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies...
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water w heels...
Foundry and machine-shop products__________
Machine tools..........................................................
Radios and phonographs___________ ____ _____
Textile machinery and parts.................................
Typewriters and parts *..........................................
Index
Octo
ber
1934
(3-year
aver
age
192325=
100)
Index
Octo
ber
1934
(3-year
aver
Octo
age
ber
19231933
25=
100)
Percentage
change from—
Sep
tem
ber
1934
Per capita weekly
earnings 1
Pay roll
Percentage
change from—
Sep
tem
ber
1934
Octo
ber
1933
Average hours worked
per week 1
Sep
tem
ber
1934
Octo
ber
1933
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Aver
age in
Octo
ber
1934
Average hourly
earnings 1
Aver
age in
Octo
ber
1934
Sep
tem
ber
1934
Octo
ber
1933
Aver
age in
Octo
ber
1934
Sep
tem
ber
1934
Octo
ber
1933
(3)
_ +7^7
78.7
+ 3.8
- 1 .1
60.8
+ 4.8
+ 2.4
$18.92
+ 1.0
+ 3.6
2 34.5
+ 2 .7
- 3 .3
Cents
2 55.4
66.0
65.4
72.5
50.8
(3)
+ .1
+1.1
- 2 .4
- 5 .4
- 6 .8
-1 3 .9
+ 7.4
42.8
39.2
43.9
27.5
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+ 4.9
+10.9
- 2 .5
-1 0 .1
-1 8 .3
-1 9 .4
+18.5
16. 30
15.41
14. 27
+ 4.8
+ 9.8
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-1 2 .4
- 6 .1
+10.4
25.1
29.2
29.2
+ 4.6
+15.0
- .7
-2 3 .9
-1 1 .2
+15.2
64.8
52.8
48.3
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- 4 .3
+ .6
+14.6
+ 5.4
- 1 .1
78.1
49.3
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61.6
+ 1.9
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-2 1 .3
-1 1 .4
55.7
31.4
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- 2 .5
-1 3 .7
- 9 .7
+ 1.2
53.1
59.5
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+ 6.9
+10.7
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78.7
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+ 9 .9
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24.32
21.21
24.42
20.14
21.83
19.87
20.37
22.05
- 8 .1
+ 4.1
+ 3 .2
+ 2.7
- .3
+ 7.6
+ 1 .0
- 2 .8
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+10.5
+13.1
+ 5.7
- .6
+ 3.7
-1 1 .1
+14.0
35.2
34.0
37.9
33.9
35.7
35.9
33.0
38.5
- 8 .3
+ 4 .9
+ 3 .0
+ 3.4
-.6
+9.1
-.6
- 3 .7
- 7 .5
+ 2.4
+ 8 .0
-.4
- 6 .1
- 1 .1
-1 3 .3
+ .2
69.5
61.8
64.4
59.5
61.0
52.7
61.8
57.3
-.6
+ .2
+ .2
-.5
(3)
-1 .1
+ 1.6
+1.1
+ 6.8
+ 8.9
+ 4.8
+ 7.8
+ 4.8
+ 9.9
+ 2.4
+14.7
T ra n s p o rta tio n e q u ip m e n t______ ____ _______ __
Aircraft—____ ______________________ ____ _____
Automobiles__________ _____ _________________
Cars, electric- and steain-railroad______________
Locomotives_______________________ __________
Shipbuilding____ ______________ ________ _____
R ailroad repair s h o p s ___________________________
Electric railroad_______________________________
Steam railroad_________ ______ _______________
N on ferrou s m eta ls a n d their p ro d u c ts ________
Aluminum manufactures______________________
Brass, bronze, and copper p rod u cts............. ......
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices.
Jewelry____ ___________________________________
Lighting equipment___________________________
Silverware and plated ware____________________
Smelting and refining— copper, lead, and zin c..
Stamped and enameled ware__________________
L u m b e r a n d allied p ro d u c ts ____________________
Furniture--------------------------------------------------------Lumber:
Millwork______________ _____ _____________
Sawmills__________________________________
Turpentine and rosin_________________________
S ton e, clay, a n d glass p ro d u c ts ________________
Brick, tile, and terra cotta_____________________
Cement___________ ___________________________
Glass_________________________________________
Marble, granite, slate, and other products______
Pottery___________________________ ___________
Textiles a n d their p r o d u c ts _____________________
Fabrics___________ ____ _______________________
Carpets and rugs__________________________
Cotton goods_______ ____ _________________
Cotton small wares.____ __________________
Dyeing and finishing textiles____ _________
Hats, fur-felt........ ........... ............ ................. .
Knit goods_________________________ ______
Silk and rayon goods____________ _____ ___
Woolen and worsted goods.—.........................
Wearing apparel___ _______ ___________________
Clothing, men’s.................................................
Clothing, wom en’s_______ __________ _____
Corsets and allied garments............................
M en’s furnishings...... .......... .................. ........
Millinery....................... .......... ..........................
Shirts and collars........... ................... ...............
L eath er a n d its m a n u fa c t u r e s ________ ________
Boots and shoes........ .......... ....................................
Leather__________ _____________ ______________
See footnotes at end of table.
68.4
265.0
74.9
34.1
38.0
71.2
53.9
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53.1
75.1
61.8
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79. 6
67.1
70.6
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82.9
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49.1
31.6
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56. 2
46.9
57.3
46.2
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51.3
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89. 7
63.4
94.5
82.3
106.7
75.6
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121.7
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+ 7.4
+11.1
+ 3.3
+ 1.5
+ 5 .4
+10.8
+ 2.1
+ 8.6
+19.0
38.0
33.9
39.7
38.8
38.1
36.7
37.6
35.3
+6. i
+ .9
+ 1.3
+ 4 .9
+ 3.5
+ 1.9
+ 3 .6
+7.3-
+27.4
- 4 .2
- 7 .5
- 1 .3
+ 2.5
- 2 .9
+ 3.0
+11.4
53.3
57.9
48.1
50.5
52.8
56.1
54.4
50.7
+ .2
+ 1.0
-.6
-.4
+ .4
-.4
-.7
+ .4
+13.0
+10.5
+ 6.7
+ 6.4
+ 7.9
+ 6.5
+ 7.2
+11.1
16.61
+ 3 .5
+ 1.2
36.8
+ 3.4
- 6 .2
44.3
-.4
+ 5.8
16.01
14.74
11.89
+ 5.5
+ 1.8
—7. 0
+ 9 .7
+ 3 .7
+ 8.4
36.0
33.7
+ 7 .5
+ 1 .5
+ 5.7
- 2 .6
44.7
44.3
- 1 .3
+ .7
+3.1
+ 5.6
14.64
18. 98
18.83
20. 32
17. 29
+ 6.5
+ 1 .8
+ 4 .4
-.5
+ 7 .8
+19.5
+ 6 .7
+ 3.2
- 1 .4
- 1 .3
32.1
33.0
33.2
31.1
33.7
+ 2 .6
+ 1 .9
+ 3.1
+ .3
+ 7.0
+ 1 .2
+ 3 .5
-.8
- 5 .6
-1 5 .4
44.1
57.6
56.8
66.0
50.4
+ 1.1
(3)
+ .5
-.5
+ 1.4
+15.1
+ 6.9
+ 5.8
+10.2
+15.7
16. 72
13. 21
16. 38
17.81
17. 97
16.64
15.47
15.59
+1. 5
+ 7.1
+ 8.3
- 6 .3
-1 4 .9
+ 8 .2
+18.8
+ 1 .2
-1 1 .5
+ 3 .8
+ 5 .4
(3)
-2 0 .2
+ 5 .2
+ 8 .0
- 6 .3
29.1
34.9
36.2
34.2
24.5
34.9
33.8
31.5
-.3
+ 5 .4
+12.8
- 3 .4
- 1 1 .6
+ 7.1
+19.9
+ 2 .3
-2 3 .7
+ .9
+ 3.1
- 7 .1
-1 0 .0
- 1 .1
+ 1 .5
- 8 .9
56.7
38.0
45.2
52.2
70.1
47.9
45.7
49.6
+. 4
+ 1 .9
- 2 .2
- 2 .4
- 1 .3
+ 1.1
- 1 .9
-.8
+18.3
+ 3.4
+ 4 .9
+ 6 .6
+ 7 .5
+ 7 .4
+ 6 .7
+ 3 .8
16. 90
19. 52
15.43
14.54
19.17
13.24
+ 3 .7
+10.6
-2 .7
+10.3
—19.8
+ 7 .2
+ 1 .2
+1. 5
+ .6
-1 .0
+ 5 .0
+ 7 .8
27.4
+ 3 .4
- 6 .6
60.7
-.2
+10.4
31.0
33.6
- 6 .1
+ 6 .3
-1 1 .0
+ 6 .5
47.4
40.7
(3)
+ 1 .5
+ 3 .3
+15.4
33.6
+ 5 .3
+ 5 .1
38.6
(3)
+ 5 .8
15.48
20.32
- 7 .3
+ 3 .3
- 7 .6
+ 1 .6
30.7
36.0
- 7 .5
+ 2.0
- 20.1
- 3 .3
50.9
55.6
- 1.0
+ 1 .5
+ 6.9
+ 7 .3
1.—E M P L O Y M E N T , W E E K L Y P A Y R O LLS, P E R C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S , 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 , A N D A V E R A G E
H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U ST R IE S IN O C TO B E R 1934 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H S E P T E M B E R 1934 A N D O C T O B E R 1933—
Continued
TABLE
Employment
Industry
Index
OctO'
ber
1934
(3-year
aver
age
192325=
100)
Percentage
change from—
Sep
tem
ber
1934
Per capita weekly
earnings 1
Pay roll
Index
Octo
ber
1934
(3-year
aver
Octo
age
ber
19231933
25=
100)
Percentage
change from—
Sep
tem
ber
1934
Octo
ber
1933
103.3
- 5 .5
98.3
- 1 .3
156.2
- 6 .5
- 3 .4
58.3
134.4 -3 2 .6
84.1
+ 1.9
-.2
68.5
- 9 .8
54.5
-2 .0
107.0
124.3 +112.6
74.0
+ 2 .2
49.0
—3.6
-7 .0
63.9
47.1
- 1 .6
82.7
+ 3 .0
+ 6 .2
82.6
+
4.6
83.2
+13.4
+ 8 .5
+18.4
- 8 .5
+ 1 .4
+ 4 .6
+14.4
+ 3 .6
+37.7
-1 8 .8
+ 6 .2
- 4 .3
- 7 .3
- 3 .9
+ 8 .8
+ 9 .3
+ 7.4
Average hours worked
per week 1
Percentage
change from—
Aver
age in
Octo
ber
1934
Sep
tem
ber
1934
Octo
ber
1933
21.37
28.01
20.24
12.23
16.14
21.64
25.17
22.82
16.06
20.99
- 1 .6
-1 .0
+ .8
+ .2
- 1 .8
-.4
+ .9
+ 1 .1
-1 8 .0
-.8
+ 3.1
+ 6 .8
-3 .4
+35.3
+ 7.8
+ 6.3
+ 2 .6
+19.0
- 8 .2
+ 5 .7
13.26
13.10
- 6 .6
- 2 .8
18.19
19.61
Average hourly
earnings *
Percentage
change from—
A ver
age in
Octo
ber
1934
Sep
tem
ber
1934
Octo
ber
1933
39.4
37.7
-2 .0
-.8
- 3 .4
- 7 .1
32.9
37.4
39.4
43.3
41.0
38.0
36.3
- 2 .7
-.8
(3) *
—5.3
- 4 .9
- 9 .3
- 2 .9
-.8
-6 .0
32.9
35.1
+ 2 .3
+ 3 .5
+11.8
+ 5 .0
Percentage
change from—
Aver
age in
Octo
ber
1934
Sep
tem
ber
1934
Octo
ber
1933
53.9
73.8
+ 0 .4
-.1
+ 8 .3
+16.8
-.6
+ 3 .5
+ 1 .2
-.5
+ 4 .6
-2 6 .8
+ .8
36.8
42.4
54.8
57.1
54.8
43.2
54.8
+ 3.4
+ .5
-.2
+ 5.0
+ 6 .0
-1 2 .4
+ .9
+13.1
+ 6 .0
+ 5.8
+ .5
+14.0
+15.4
+ 4 .0
- 5 .2
-3 .0
-9 .4
- 7 .5
40.4
37.2
- 1 .7
-.8
+ 7 .7
+ 1 .9
37.0
37.2
+ 3.1
+ 3.3
+ 2 .4
- 4 .0
49.0
52.5
-.6
(3)
+10.2
+11.3
Cents
Food and kindred products.....................................
B a k in g ................ .......................... ............ ..........
Beverages_____ _______________________________
Butter____________________________ ______ ____
Canning and preserving________________ ______
Confectionery___ ____ ________________________
Flour_____ _____ ____________________ _______ _
Ice cream_____________________________ _____
Slaughtering and meat packing......................... .
Sugar, beet_________ _____ ___ ______ _________
Sugar refining, cane___________________ _______
Tobacco m anufactures____ ___________ ____ ___
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff............
Cigars and cigarettes.......... .......... .......................
Paper and printing____ ________ ________________
Boxes, paper____________ ______ _____ _____
Paper and pulp................................. .......................
Printing and publishing:
Book and job ......................... ...........................
Newspapers and periodicals__________ ____
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining________________________________________
Other than petroleum refining__________ _____
Chemicals______________________ _____ ____
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal...... .......... .
Druggists’ preparations____ _____ ____ ____
Explosives________________________________
Fertilizers_____ ______ ____________________
119.5
-6 .0
116.1
+ .3
166.8
- 5 .6
- 4 .2
77.7
137.3 -3 2 .8
96.6
+ 3.8
80.5
+. 3
69.1 -1 0 .6
- 3 .0
117.6
199.5 +159.3
90.9
+ 3.1
65.3
+ .9
73.5
-.3
64.2
+ 1.2
96.4
+ 1.2
89.7
+3.7
106.6
+ 1.1
+ 3.1
+ 5 .4
+10.8
- 5 .2
-1 3 .4
- 3 .0
+ 7.8
+ 1.6
+15.9
-1 1 .6
+ .4
+ 1.1
- 6 .5
+2.1
+ 2.0
- 2 .1
+ 2.4
87.0
99.2
+ .8
+ .7
+ 4.9
+ 1.2
73.7
89.9
+ 1 .9
+ 2 .0
+12.3
+ 6 .5
26.29
32.97
+ 1.1
+ 1 .3
+ 7 .2
+ 5 .4
35.7
37.1
+ .3
(3)
+ 3.9
- 1 .2
72.8
84.9
+ .7
+ 1 .4
+ 4 .4
+ 6 .8
109.5
108.7
106.6
109.3
107.3
91.8
91.5
+ .8
+ 1 .0
- 1 .3
+11.4
+ 4.2
- 1 .5
- 3 .7
+ .4
__ £
+3! 3
-1 9 .0
+ 7 .5
-.9
+ .5
91.4
89.4
92.0
101.0
96.7
72.5
73.5
+ 1.7
+ 1 .7
- .1
+ 9 .8
+ 4 .8
+ 4 .2
- 6 .4
+ 6.9
+ 6 .0
+ 7 .4
-1 5 .8
+ 6 .3
+ 5 .2
+ 7 .5
24.09
10.38
19.59
22.38
12.46
+ 1 .2
- 1 .3
+ .6
+ 5 .8
- 2 .9
+ 4.1
+ 4 .5
-1 .0
+ 6 .4
+ 7 .0
39.1
47.7
39.2
34.6
34.2
+ 3 .4
+12.5
+ 1 .8
+ 4 .5
+ .6
-.2
+15.6
+ 3 .4
-3 .0
- 9 .7
61.9
21.9
50.2
62.1
36.3
- 3 .1
- 1 2 .4
- 1 .6
-.5
- 3 .2
+ 3 .6
-1 1 .4
+ 1.3
+ 4.4
+19.5
99900-34-
Paints and varnishes,......................................
Rayon and allied products....... . .....................
Soap—_____ ______________ ________ _____
Petroleum refining.......... .......... ......................... .
Rubber products
. .
___
Rubber boots and shoes...................... ............ ......
Rubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires, and
inner tubes_________ _____ ____ _____________
Rubber tires and inner tubes........................ ........
37.9
36.4
36.6
34.9
+ 2 .7
(3)
- 5 .7
+ 2 .9
- 3 .1
- 4 .1
- 5 .1
- 1 .8
56.9
51.6
58.9
75.7
-.5
+• 2
+ 7 .9
-.9
+ 3 .5
33.4
+ 2.1
- 2 .3
50.5
+ 3.3
+ 6 .0
+ 5 .4
+ 7.7
35.2
28.6
+ 6 .0
+ 2.1
- 2 .7
- 6 .6
51.1
79.9
-.4
+ .9
+ 7 .0
+15.3
99.6
307.0
105.7
112.9
77.4
54.7
+ .8
+ .5
+ 7 .2
+ (S)
—1.3
- 3 .1
+ 6.0
- 7 .3
+3.9
+ 3.8
—12.7
-1 4.4
78.1
217.2
94.6
97.9
58.3
50.3
+ 3 .0
+. 8
+ 8 .4
+1-7
+ 3.9
- .3
+10.5
-.5
+16.6
+ 9 .5
- 7 .3
-1 4 .2
21.55
18. 79
21.83
27.18
+ 2 .2
+ .2
+ 1.1
+ 1 .6
+ 4 .3
+ 7 .2
+12.0
+ 5 .6
17.88
+ 2 .9
113.1
69.4
-.4
- 1 .5
-1 8 .9
- 7 .1
88.1
49.6
+ 5 .2
+ 4 .3
-1 4 .6
-.2
18. 08
22. 76
+ 5 .6
+ 6 .0
+ 6 .7
+11.8
+16.8
+ 9.2
1 Per capita weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data furnished
b y a smaller number of establishments, as some firms do not report man-hour information. Figures for groups not computed. Percentages of change over year on per capita weekly
earnings, average hours worked per week, and average hourly earnings computed from indexes. Percentage change over month on per capita weekly earnings in “ All industries”
also computed from indexes.
2 Weighted.
3 N o change.
* Data for July, August, and September revised. Corrected tabulation follows.
s Less than Ho of 1 percent.
Employment
Index
Index
Pre
Same
vious month
month
1933
Machinery, not including transportation equip
ment:
July__________________________________________
August_________ ___ _________ _________ ______
S ep tem b er...__
_____ __________ ______
Typewriters and parts:
J u l y - .............................................. ..........................
August............. ...................................... ................ .
September__________________ ______ __________
All Industries:
July............................................................................
August-------------- ---------- -------------- -------------------September........................... .................. ..............
Average
Pre
vious
month
Same
month
1933
- 5 .0
-.7
- 4 .3
+49.6
+33.6
+19.3
Average hours worked Average hourly earnings
per week
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Industry and month
Per capita weekly
earnings
Pay roll
Average
Average
Pre
vious
month
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Same
month
1933
Pre
vious
month
Same
month
1933
Pre
vious
month
Same
month
1933
Cents
79.0
78.9
78.0
-2 .2
-.1
- 1 .1
+36.0
+22.3
+11.7
58.5
58.1
55.6
96.8
99.7
101.3
+50.1
+ 3 .0
+ 1.6
+75.4
+49.9
+39.1
84.8
86.6
92.5
78.7
79.5
75.8
- 2 .8
+ 1 .0
- 4 .7
+10.1
+4.1
- 5 .2
60.5
62.2
58.0
+58.7 +136.2
+ 2.1 +77.1
+ 6 .8 +70.7
-6 .6
+ 2 .8
- 6 .8
+19.1
+ 9 .5
- 1 .9
$21.85
21.66
22.78
+ 5 .8
-.9
+ 5 .1
+35.0
+18.3
+22.7
38.9
38.4
40.0
+ 4 .0
- 1 .3
+ 4 .4
- 0 .8
+ 2 .8
+ 9.3
56.1
56.4
56.9
+ 1 .4
+ .5
+ .7
+33.4
+14.6
+12.9
18. 60
18.89
18. 55
- 3 .9
+ 1 .7
-2 .2
+ 8 .3
+ 5 .2
+ 3 .5
33.4
33.9
33.3
- 4 .3
+ 1 .8
- 2 .1
-1 9 .5
-1 0 .1
- 6 .7
55.6
55.7
55.9
+ .9
-.2
+ .7
+ 31.4
+15.7
+ 9 .4
8
Estimated Number of Wage Earners and Weekly Pay Rolls in Manufacturing;
Industries
I n t h e following table are presented the estimated number of wage
earners and weekly pay rolls in all manufacturing industries combined
and in the 14 groups into which these manufacturing industries have
been classified, for the years 1919 to 1933, inclusive, and for the first
10 months of 1934. These estimates have been computed by multi
plying the weighting factors of the several groups of industries (num
ber employed or weekly pay roll in the index base period 1923-25)
by the Bureau’s index numbers of employment or pay rolls (which
have been adjusted to conform with census trends over the period
1919-31) and dividing by 100. Data are not available for all groups
over the entire period shown. The totals for all manufacturing
industries combined, however, have been adjusted to include all
groups. The estimated total employment and weekly pay rolls for
all manufacturing industries combined do not include the manufactured-gas industry (which is included in the Bureau’s electric light
and power and manufactured-gas industry) or the motion-picture
industry.
T
2 .—E S T IM A T E D N U M B E R OF W A G E E A R N E R S A N D W E E K L Y W A G E S IN A L L
M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S C O M B IN E D A N D IN I N D U S T R Y G R O U P S —Y E A R L Y
A V E R A G E S 1919 TO 1933, IN C L U S IV E , A N D M O N T H S , J A N U A R Y TO O C T O B E R 1934,
IN C L U S IV E
able
Total manu
facturing
Year and month
Iron and
steel and
their
products
Machinery,
not includ Transpor
tation
ing trans
portation equipment
equipment
Railroad
repair
shops
Nonferrous
metals and
their prod
ucts
Em ploym ent
1919 average________________
1920________________________
1921________________________
1922________________________
1923__________ _____________
1924___ ____ _______________
1925_____ __________________
1926_ _____ _________________
1927__________ ______________
1928________________________
1929________________________
1930________________________
1931________________________
1932________________________
1933______ _________________
1934: January______________
February____________
March__ ___ ________
A pril_________________
M a y ., _ ____________
June_______ _________
July_________________
August_____ ________
September_____ _____
October______________
8,983,900
9,065,600
6, 899, 700
7, 592,700
8, 724,900
8,083, 700
8, 328, 200
8,484,400
8,288,400
8, 285, 800
8, 785,600
7,668,400
6,484,300
5, 374, 200
5,778,400
6,146,000
6,514, 200
6,770,100
6,897,800
6,904,300
6,791,700
6, 593, 500
6,666, 200
6, 351,900
6, 594, 300
1 Comparable data not available.
858,600
926, 300
572,400
722, 500
892,400
833, 700
851, 200
880, 200
834,900
829,800
881, 000
766, 200
598,400
458,100
503,400
545,500
572, 200
601,400
623, 700
646,000
656,400
603,900
589,300
567,000
567, 900
1,026,800
1,131,700
680,700
717,400
928,600
835,400
870,500
946,700
897, 800
922, 500
1,105,700
918, 700
687,000
494,600
517,100
614, 700
640,100
674,400
705,100
713,900
709, 500
693, 700
692, 800
684, 900
684, 000
0)
0)
0)
0)
606,200
524, 500
559,600
558,600
495,100
541,900
583,200
451,800
373, 800
315, 700
305,600
401, 200
477,300
526, 300
558,400
560,100
535,900
494, 800
469,400
415, 900
385,400
0)
0)
0)
0)
523, 700
464,900
458,100
460,700
428,900
404,000
398,200
353,800
309,000
257,400
250,600
254, 500
257,400
267, 600
278, 700
287, 300
288, 300
281,100
266,100
268, 500
259,900
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
209,000'
164,200
175,20ft
190, 200
200,400
212, 200
217, 300
219,900214, 500
206, 600
207,400
206, 900
212, 200
9
T able 2 .—E S T IM A T E D N U M B E R OF W A G E E A R N E R S A N D W E E K L Y W A G E S IN A L L
MANUFACTURING IN D U S T R IE S C O M B IN E D A N D IN I N D U S T R Y G R O U P S —Y E A R L Y
A V E R A G E S 1919 T O 1933, IN C L U S IV E , A N D M O N T H S , J A N U A R Y T O O C T O B E R 1934,
IN C L U S IV E —Continued
Total manu
facturing
Year and month
Iron and
steel and
their
products
Machinery,
not includ Transpor
tation
ing trans
portation equipment
equipment
Railroad
repair
shops
Nonferrous
metals and
their prod
ucts
Weekly pay rolls
1919 average____
192 0
192 1
192 2
____
192 3
192 4
............
192 5
192 6
192 7
192 8
192 9
193 0
193 1
..........
193 2
193 3
1934: January.
February..
M arch.......
A pril_____
M a y ..........
Ju n e..........
July______
August___
September.
October__
Year and month
$198,145,000 $23,937,000 $24, 534,000
0)
0)
238.300.000 30, 531,000 31.982.000
0)
0)
155.008.000 14.049.000 16.450.000
0)
0)
165, 406,000 17.400.000 16.982.000
0)
0)
210.065.000 25.442.000 24.618.000 $18,532,000 $14,856,000
195.376.000 23.834.000 22, 531,000 15.636.000 12.972.000
204.665.000 24.680.000 23, 843,000 17.478.000 12.847.000
211.061.000 25.875.000 26.310.000 17.126.000 13.025.000
206.980.000 24.289.000 25.095.000 15.450.000 12.475.000
208.334.000 24.740.000 26.334.000 17.494.000 11.817.000
221.937.000 26.568.000 31.761.000 18.136.000 12, 255,000
180.507.000 21.126.000 24.197.000 12.076.000 10, 316,000
137.256.000 13, 562,000 15.135.000
9.008.000
8.366.000
7.164.000
93.757.000
7.012.000
8, 546,000
5, 793,000
8.925.000
98.623.000
6.799.000
5.652.000
8,975,000
109.806.000 10.134.000 11.260.000
9.072.000
5, 710,000
123.395.000 11, 269,000 12, 253,000 12.394.000
6.185.000
131.852.000 12.650.000 13.199.000 14, 546,000
6, 578,000
136.962.000 14.006.000 14.311.000 15.871.000
7.188.000
136, 575,000 15.115.000 14.713.000 15.148.000
7, 297,000
131.839.000 15.436.000 14.571.000 13.444.000
7.297.000
123.011.000 11.737.000 13.838.000 11.258.000
6.931.000
126.603.000 11.219.000 13. 744,000 12.033.000
6, 578,000
118.089.000 10.134.000 13,152, 000
8.934.000
6.185.000
123.734.000 10, 554,000 13, 507,000
6.361.000
8.125.000
Lumber
and allied
products
Stone,
clay, and
glass
products
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Wearing
apparel
Entire
group
0)
0)
(0
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
$4,622,000
2.865.000
3.039.000
3.452.000
3.826.000
4.163.000
4.317.000
4, 441,000
4, 243,000
3.928.000
3, 899,000
3.958.000
4.214.000
Leather
and its
manu
factures
Employment
1919 average________________
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934: January---------------------February......... ............ M arch............................
A pril_______ __________
M a y ------- ---------- --------June.____ _____________
July__________________
August.................... .......
September....... ..............
October______________
1 Comparable data not available.
863, 800
821,200
703,000
894, 300
932,100
901,300
921, 600
922,300
864,100
848,100
876,500
699,400
516,900
377,800
406,100
418,800
432, 600
445,400
453,700
468,400
459, 200
448, 200
450,000
452,800
455, 500
302, 700
314, 500
253,000
299,600
351,400
346,400
352, 700
363,500
349,800
334,900
328, 500
280,800
222,800
156,000
157, 500
165, 700
174,400
182, 500
193, 700
202,100
200,000
189,900
186,000
185, 300
182, 200
1, 052, 600
1,045,300
994,300
1,054,900
1,164,400
1,041,900
1,109, 500
1,095, 700
1,119,200
1,062,400
1,095,900
950,400
886, 700
794,100
952, 600
988,400
1,065,800
1,087,900
1,070, 200
1,049,200
993,900
961,900
946, 400
685, 500
991, 700
507, 800
519,400
473,900
487,800
499,300
455,800
466,500
472,800
501,400
513,100
536,700
497,700
472,000
401,800
418,100
385,900
442, 800
471,300
474,100
449,000
423, 400
378,300
427, 200
452,800
447,600
1,609,400
1,612,400
1, 509,400
1, 585, 500
3,714,300
1,545,500
1,627,400
1,628,000
1,694,400
1,651,300
1,706,900
1,513,000
1,421,000
1,250,300
1,432, 700
1,437,100
1,577,300
1,629,400
1,614, 700
1,565,900
1,481,100
1,399, 700
1,437,100
1,191,100
1, 503,900
349, 600
318,600
280,100
314,600
344,800
311,700
314,200
312, 700
316,000
309,400
318,600
295,100
272,800
255,500
269,400
268, 200
292,100
299,900
298,600
295,700
283, 700
289, 200
294, 700
277, 200
269, 500
10
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2 .—E S T IM A T E D N U M B E R OF W A G E E A R N E R S A N D W E E K L Y W A G E S JN A L L
M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S C O M B IN E D A N D IN IN D U S T R Y G R O U P S —Y E A R L Y
A V E R A G E S 1919 T O 1933, IN C L U S IV E , A N D M O N T H S , J A N U A R Y TO O C T O B E R 1934,
IN C L U S IV E —Continued
able
Year and m onth
Lumber
and allied
products
Stone,
clay, and
glass
products
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Wearing
apparel
Entire
group
Leather
and its
manu
factures
W eekly p a y rolls
1919 average________________
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934: January______________
F eb ru a ry ____________
M arch______ _________
A pril________________
M a y .......... ................... .
June__________________
July_____ _____________
A u g u s t ______ ________
September____________
October____ _ _ _______
$16, 549,000
20, 358,000
13,161,000
15, 234,000
18, 526, 000
18, 228,000
18, 824,000
18,997,000
17,916,000
17,454,000
18,062,000
13, 464,000
8, 641,000
4, 656,000
4, 900, 000
5, 075,000
5, 650,000
5,909,000
6,168, 000
6,409,000
6, 279, 000
5,853,000
6, 205,000
6, 279,000
6, 520,000
Year and month
$6,397,000 $17,494, 000 $10,121,000 $28, 440,000
8, 239,000 21.005,000 12,124,000 34,115, 000
5,907,000 17, 235,000 10, 266, 000 28, 284,000
6, 442,000 17, 747,000 10,438,000 28,962,000
S, 726,000 21, 590, 000 10,919,000 33,511,000
8,926,000 19, 014,000
9,804,000 29,712,000
8,985,000 20, 497,000 10, 284,000 31,795,000
9, 257, 000 20, 241, 000 10, 297,000 31,731,000
8,929, 000 21,135, 000 11,123,000 33,817,000
8, 541,000 19, 510,000 11,114, 000 32,199,000
8, 323,000 20, 251,000 11,476,000 33, 321,000
6, 828,000 16,167. 000
9, 680, 000 27,115, 000
4, 786,000 14, 308,000
8, 338,000 23, 799,000
2, 58S, 000 10, 367,000
5, 733,000 16,947,000
2, 455,000 12, 664, 000
5, 757,000 19, 394,000
2, 655,000 13, 647,000
5, 850,000 20, 526,000
2, 956,000 15,948,000
7, 473,000 24, 676,000
8,414,000 26,164,000
3, 081,000 16,457, 000
3, 445, 000 16,152,000
7, 866, 000 25, 277,000
3, 507,000 15, 256,000
7,039,000 23,472,000
3, 445,000 13, 626, 000
6, 377,000 21,033,000
3. 205,000 13,117,000
5,716,000 19, 798,000
3, 098, 000 13,178, 000
7, 297.000 21, 571, 000
3,081,000 10,001,000
7, 328,000 18, 214,000
3,161,000 14,889,000
7, 587,000 23, 662,000
Foods and
kindred
products
Tobacco
manufac
tures
Paper and
printing
Chemicals
and allied
products
$6, 978, 000
7, 437, 000
6,040,000
6, 711,000
7,472,000
6,654,000
6,831,000
6,909,000
7,009,000
6, 696,000
6,915,000
5, 748,000
5,035,000
4,060,000
4, 394, 000
4, 716,000
5, 708, 000
5,896,000
5, 736,000
5,512,000
5,093,000
5, 393,000
5, 498, 000
4,834,000
4, 492,000
Rubber
products
E m p lo y m e n t
1919 average___ _________________
1920_________ ____________________
1921______________________________
1922______________________________
1923______________________________
1924..................... .............. .......... .
1925______________________________
1926______ _______________________
1 9 2 7 ........... — ___________________
1928_____ _______________________
1929______ _______________________
1930..................... ............ ....................
1931_____ ______________________
1932..................- __________________
1933_____________________________
1934: January________ ____________
February................... ..............
M a rch ,. ____________________
A pril......................... ................
M a y____ ___________________
June................................ .......
J u ly ..........................................
Auerust....................... .............
September............................ .
October........... ................. .......
1 Comparable data not available.
733,600
713,000
626,400
651,400
681,900
657,800
664,400
664, -100
679,400
707,100
753, 500
731,100
650,500
577,100
631,000
628, 700
627,800
643,100
649,500
665,400
702,600
735,800
816,100
849, 700
798, 300
157,000
154,000
149, 900
146,400
146, 300
136,700
132,100
125, 700
129,300
125, 600
116,100
108,300
99, 700
88,600
82, 700
75,400
85,900
89,100
89, 500
84,800
86,400
84,600
90,100
89,500
90,400
510,100
549,100
467,100
489,400
527,400
529, 200
537,100
553,600
553, 500
558, 300
591, 500
574,100
511,800
451, 700
458,400
490, 700
494, 500
497, 600
505,100
509, 300
503,000
496,000
498, 200
506,100
512,000
0)
(})
(0
0)
342, 700
322, 200
334,200
355,100
346, 700
342,500
384,800
364,700
316,800
279,700
315,400
359,200
368,300
375,600
377,400
353,500
348,100
350,800
356,000
361,800
364,600
0)
0)
0)
0)
137,800
123, 200
141,800
141, 200
142,000
149, 200
149,100
115, 500
99, 200
87,800
99, 300
110,100
113, 600
117,000
120,900
119,700
115,000
112, 700
108,400
105, 300
103,900
11
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2 .—E S T IM A T E D N U M B E R OF W A G E E A R N E R S A N D W E E K L Y W A G E S IN A L L
IN D U S T R IE S C O M B IN E D A N D IN IN D U S T R Y G R O U P S —Y E A R L Y
A V E R A G E S 1919 TO 1933, IN C L U S IV E , A N D M O N T H S , J A N U A R Y T O O C T O B E R 1934,
IN C L U S IV E —Continued
MANUFACTURING
able
Foods and
kindred
products
Tobacco
manufac
tures
P i*per and
printing
Chemicals
and allied
products
Rubber
products
Year' and month
Weekly pay rolls
1919.....................
1920....................
192 1
192 2
192 3
192 4
1925___...........
192 6
192 7
192 8
192 9
193 0
193 1
193 2
193 3 ..........
1934: Jan uary._
February. _
M arch___
April_____
M a y _____
June_____
July______
August___
September,
O ctob er...
$14,879,000
16.698.000
14.333.000
14.142.000
15.296.000
15.155.000
15.268.000
15, 503,000
15.838.000
16.388.000
17.344.000
16, 593,000
14.173.000
11.308.000
11.604.000
12.301.000
12.352.000
12.522.000
12.663.000
13.296.000
14.008.000
14.571.000
16.022.000
x6,661,000
15, 738,000
$2,386,000
2, 772,000
2.325.000
2.206.000
2.317.000
2.213.000
2.147.000
2, 049,000
2.025.000
1.916.000
1.819.000
1.617.000
1.336.000
1.052.000
944.000
886.000
1.012.000
1.019.000
1.028.000
1.030.000
1.057.000
1.052.000
1.097.000
1.119.000
1.090.000
$10,873,000
14, 729,000
12.259.000
12, 762,000
14.304.000
14, 797,000
15.506.000
16.478.000
16.501.000
16.691.000
17, 771,000
17.036.000
14.461.000
11.126.000
10.299.000
11.045.000
11.297.000
11.550.000
11.847.000
11.981.000
11.728.000
11.491.000
11.654.000
11.937.000
12.293.000
0)
0)
V)
0)
$8,499,000
8.013.000
8.444.000
9.055.000
8.978.000
8.997.000
10,068,000
9.334.000
7.643.000
5.861.000
6.179.000
7.035.000
7.257.000
7.417.000
7.683.000
7.352.000
7.333.000
7.381.000
7.487.000
7.479.000
7.605.000
0)
0)
0)
0)
$3,500,000
3.223.000
3.676.000
3.707.000
3.810.000
4.069.000
3.986.000
2.934.000
2.165.000
1.555.000
1, 740,000
2.036.000
2.261.000
2.445.000
2.546.000
2.438.000
2.306.000
2.147.000
2.039.000
1.946.000
2.022.000
1 Comparable data not available.
Index Numbers of Employment and Pay Roll Totals in Manufacturing
Industries
G e n e r a l index numbers of factory employment and pay rolls by
months, from January 1919 to October 1934, inclusive, together
with average indexes for each of the years from 1919 to 1933, inclusive,
and for the 10-month period, January to October 1934, inclusive,
based on the 3-year average, 1923-25, as 100, are shown in the follow
ing table. A chart of these indexes also follows.
E m p lo y m e n t c P a y R o l l s
the M a n u fa c tu rin g In d u s trie s
3 year average 1^23-1^2^=100
U .S.Departm ent of L ab or
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
W ashington
Index
Numbers
Index
Numbers
-
140
130-
130
120-
120
110-
110
100-
100
90-
90
80 -
80
m
70 -
70
60 -
60
50 -
50
40 -
40
30 -
30
20 -
20
10 -
10
0-
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
192)
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
0
13
T a b l e 3 . — G E N E R A L IN D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y -R O L L T O T A L S IN M A N U
F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S B Y M O N T H S —J A N U A R Y 1919 T O O C T O B E R 1934, IN C L U S IV E
[3-year average, 1923-25=100]
E m ploym ent
M onth
.January.........
February____
M arch............
A pril...............
J M a y..............
June................
July..............
A ugust—........
Septem ber.
October_____
N ovem berD ecem ber___
Average.. .
1919
1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
105.3
102.0
102.4
102.5
103.1
104.3
106.9
109.7
111.7
111.3
112.6
114.4
114.9
113.7
116.0
114.5
112.0
111.1
108.5
108.8
107.5
103.7
97.4
89.7
81.0
82.6
83.2
82.1
81.9
81.0
79.8
81.2
83.4
84.1
84.2
83.3
82.5
84.6
85.9
85.8
87.9
89.8
88.2
91.4
94.5
97.0
99.0
100.5
100.7 100.2
102.5 101.5
104.6 101.7
105.0 99.9
105.3 96.8
106.0 93.8
104.9 91.0
105.2 92.1
105.7 94.4
104.5 95.3
103.2 94.8
101.4 96.1
96.3
98.1
98.8
98.7
98.1
98.0
97.8
99.5
101.5
102.2
101.8
101.5
100.5 98.2
101.5 99.7
102.1 100.2
101.4 99.6
100.4 99.1
100.3 99.1
99.4 98.1
101.4 99.3
103.4 100.5
103.1 99.6
101.4 97.4
100.0 96.1
95.0 100.8
96.5 102.9
97.6 104.1
97.1 105.3
97.0 105.3
97.8 105.6
97.7 106.1
100.1 107.9
102.2 109.0
102.6 107.7
101.7 103.6
101.2 99.8
97.3
97.4
96.9
96.3
94.8
92.9
89.5
88.8
89.6
87.7
84.6
82.3
79.6
80.3
80.7
80.7
80.1
78.4
77.0
77.1
77.4
74.4
71.8
71.0
68.7
69.5
68.4
66.1
63.4
61.2
58.9
60.1
63.3
64.4
63.4
62.1
60.2 73.3
61.1 77.7
58.8 80.8
59.9 82.3
62.6 82.4
66.9 81.0
71.5 178.7
76.4 79.5
80.0 75.8
79.6 78.7
76.2
74.4 -------
107.2 108.2 82.3 90.6 104.1 96.5 99.4 lOt 2 98.9 98.9 104.8 91.5 77.4 64.1 69.0 379.0
Pay rolls
J an uary.........
February.......
M arch______
A pril________
M a y ...............
June________
July................
August...........
•September. __
O ctober.........
N ovem b er.. _
December___
Average...
95.3
89.6
90.0
89.2
90.0
92.0
94.8
99.9
104.7
102.2
106.7
114.0
117.2
115.5
123.7
120.9
122.4
124.2
119.3
121.6
119.8
115.8
107.0
98.0
82.8
81.3
81.7
79.0
77.3
75.4
71.7
73.9
73.4
72.6
71.7
73.3
69.6
72.4
74.9
73.8
77.2
80.5
78.5
83.0
87.0
89.5
93.4
95.7
94.6 98.8 95.4
97.9 104.1 100.8
102.5 104.1 102.4
103.8 101. 8 100.0
107.3 97. 5 100.7
107. 5 92.4 98.7
103.3 85.7 96.8
103.8 89.3 99.3
104.3 92.5 98.8
106.6 95.1 104.6
104.5 93.7 104.6
102.9 97.6 105.2
100.9
105.0
106.5
104.4
103.1
103.3
99.0
103.4
104.4
107.6
104.1
103.5
98.4 96.0 102.3
104.4 101.2 109.3
105.7 102.5 111.6
104.5 100.5 112.6
104.0 101.3 112.9
102.4 101.7 111.2
98.5 99.0 107.2
101.9 103.3 112.0
101.4 104.7 1J2.9
102.1 108.2 112.4
98.5 105.0 104.1
99.5 105.6 100.7
95.9
98.8
98.8
97.7
95.4
92.3
84.3
83.3
84.1
82.2
76.8
75.2
70.0
74.3
75.6
74.4
73.4
69.7
66.2
65.9
63.4
61.3
58.1
57.6
53.5
54.6
53.1
49.5
46.8
43.4
39.8
40.6
42.9
44.7
42.9
41.5
39.5 54.0
40.2 60.6
37.1 64.8
38.8 67.3
42.7 67.1
47.2 64.8
50.8 160.5
56.8 162.2
59.1 158.0
59.4 60.8
55.5
54.5 ........
97.4 117.1 76.2 81.3 103.3 96.1 100.6 103.8 101.8 102.4 109.1 88.7 67. o 46.1 48.5 262.0
i Revised.
2 Average for 10 months.
For comparative purposes the Bureau has computed the group and
general index numbers of employment and pay rolls for October
1934 based on the 12-month average for 1926 as 100. These are a
continuation of the former series of indexes covering 89 industries and
show some slight differences in percentage changes from the previous
month when compared with those shown by the revised series. These
differences are due to changes in method of construction and weighting
factors and to the inclusion of the canning and preserving industry
in the revised series of indexes. These indexes on the 1926 base are
presented in table 4, which follows.
14
4 .—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 14 M A J O R M A N U F A C T U R
IN G G R O U P S , 2 SU B G R O U PS , A N D A L L M A N U F A C T U R IN G C O M B IN E D , F O R O C T O
B E R 1934
[Average for 1926=100]
T a b le
Group
Total m an ufacturing__ ____________ __________________________________
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery___________________
Machinery, not including transportation equipment_________________________
Transportation equipm ent______________________________________ ____________
Railroad repair shops_ _______________________________________________________
Nonferrous metals and their products________________________________________
Lumber and allied products__________ ________ ______________________________
Stone, clay, and glass products_______________________________________________
Textiles and their products___________________________________________________
Fabrics ............... ........................................ .............................................................
Wearing apparel
______ __________________________ ________________
Leather and its manufactures
_____________________________________ _______
Food and kindred products ________________________________________________
Tobacco manufactures........................... ..................................................... ............ .
Paper and printing___________________________________________________________
Chemicals and allied products and petroleum refining__________________ ______
Rubber products___________________________________________ __________ ______
Employment
index
Pay-roll
index
73.1
54.6
69. 2
68. 7
65.7
5C. 2
72.4
47.1
51.9
82.5
86.5
72.8
78.8
110. 2
73.0
92.4
99. 5
78.4
42.3
49.9
44.8
42.9
54.1
31.2
34.5
64. 5
69. 5
54.8
55.4
94. 7
56.5
76. 7
83.2
58.7
Employment in Nonmanufacturing Industries in October 1934
I n c r e a s e s in employment from September to October were reported
in 8 of the 17 nonmanufacturing industries surveyed monthly by the
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and gains in pay rolls were
reported in 13. Data for the building-construction industry are not
presented here, but are shown in detail under the section “ Building
construction.”
There were increases of 1.4 percent in employment in bituminouscoal mining and 2.7 percent in anthracite mining reflecting seasonal
demands. The gain of 2.4 percent in employment in metalliferous
mining was due to the resumption of operations in one locality, follow
ing the settlement of labor difficulties. Combined reports received
from 62,022 retail trade establishments employing 928,940 workers in
October showed an increase of 1.5 percent in employment. The
gains in retail trade were confined largely to the group of establish
ments composed of department, variety, and general merchandising
stores and mail order houses. This group showed an increase of 3
percent in employment from September to October. Employment in
the remaining 57,153 retail trade establishments increased 0.4 percent
from September to October.
In the 9 industries in which decreased employment was reported, the
largest decline (5 percent) was in brokerage establishments, which
have reported decreases in employment for a number of months.
The remaining decreases ranged from a seasonal drop of 2.9 percent
in the quarrying and nonmetallic mining industry to less than onetenth of 1 percent in the power and light industry. Employment in
the crude-petroleum industry declined 2.8 percent over the month
interval and the laundry industry, reflecting seasonal recessions,
reported 1.4 percent fewer employees in October than September.
15
The decreases in the remaining industries were: Telephone and
telegraph, 0.9 percent; banks 0.5 percent; electric-railroad operation
and maintenance, 0.4 percent; and hotels, 0.2 percent. The decrease
in the last-named industry was due to the closing of summer-resort
hotels. Employment in hotels other than resort hotels showed a
gain of 1.2 percent from September to October.
In table 1, which follows, are shown indexes of employment and pay
rolls, per capita weekly earnings, average hours worked per week, and
average hourly earnings in October 1934 for 13 of the nonmanufactur
ing industries surveyed monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
together with percentage changes from September 1934 and October
1933. Per capita weekly earnings in banks, brokerage, insurance,
and real estate, together with percentage changes from September
1934 and October 1933 in these per capita earnings and in employment
and pay rolls are also presented. Indexes of employment and pay
rolls for these industries are not available.
98900—34------3
T ab le 1 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , W E E K L Y P A Y R O LLS, P E R C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S , 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 , A N D A V E R A G E
H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN NONMANUFACTURING IN D U ST R IE S IN O C T O B E R 1934, A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H S E P T E M B E R 1934 A N D O C T O B E R
1033
Employment
Industry
Coal mining:
Anthracite..................................................................
Bituminous...................... .........................................
Metalliferous mining.......................................................
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining..............................
Crude-petroleum producing...........................................
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph..................................—
Electric light and power and manufactured gas.
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and
maintenance...........................................................
Trade:
Wholesale........................................ ..................... —
Retail..........................................................................
Hotels (cash payments only)4________ ____ . _______
Laundries.......................................... ............. .................
Dyeing and cleaning........................................................
Banks........................................................................ .......
Brokerage- —. . ................ ............................ ...................
Insurance.........................................................................
Real estate,......................................................................
Per capita weekly
earnings 1
Pay roll
Average hours worked
per week i
Average hourly
earnings 1
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Index
Index
October change from— October change from— Aver change from— A ver change from— Aver change from—
1934
1934
age in
age in
age m
(aver
(aver
October
October
October
Octo
Octo
age
age
Sep
Octo
Sep
Sep
Sep
Octo
Sep
Octo
1934 tember
1934
1934 tember
ber
ber
tember
ber
ber
ber
1929 tember
1929 tember
1934
1934
1933
1934
1934
1934
1933
1933
1933
1933
=100)
-100)
68.5
79.3
43.3
51.8
79.5
+ 2.7
+1.4
+2.4
- 2 .9
- 2 .8
+ 2.8
+16.6
+6.4
- 2 .6
+12.6
48.3
57.6
28.2
32.1
60.8
+ 2.6
+12.1
+ 9 .2
-.8
+ 1.8
-2 1 .6
+30.6
+ 8 .9
+ 2.9
+21.4
$24.04
18.80
21.23
15.90
27.83
_(2)
+10.6
+ 6 .6
+ 2.3
+ 4.7
-2 3 .7
+11.9
+ 2.4
+ 5.8
+ 7.7
29.1
26.2
35.8
33.4
35.5
- 0 .3
+11.5
+ 3 .2
+3.1
+ 3.5
-2 7 .9
- 9 .3
- 8 .3
- 1 .5
+ .3
Cents
82.5
71.4
58.2
48.2
74.8
- 0 .8
-.3
+ 3.2
-.2
+ .7
+ 2 .5
+23.8
+11.6
+ 9.0
+ 3.5
70.3
85.8
-.9
~ ( 2)
+2.3
+4.4
74.9
80.6
+ 3.7
+ 1.6
+11.8
+ 5.8
28. 22
29.79
+ 4.6
+ 1.6
+ 9.2
+ 1.3
38.5
39.3
+ 1.0
+ 5.6
+ 3.4
+ .4
74.9
75.7
+ 3.3
- 3 .7
+ 7.9
+ 3.6
72.2
-.4
+ 2.3
63.0
+ .9
+ 5.4
27.87
+ 1.3
+ 3.1
44.9
+1.4
- 2 .1
61.7
(3)
+ 9.3
86.2
88.9
84.2
81.7
80.3
(5)
(5)
(5)
(*)
+1.1
+ 1.5
- .2
- 1 .4
+ .4
-.5
- 5 .0
+ .7
+ .6
+ 3.2
-.8
+ 9.4
+ .5
- 1 .6
+. 4
-2 7 .6
+ 1.9
+ 3.4
68.3
72.6
65.3
64.8
59.1
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
+ 1 .4
+ 2.6
+ 1 .6
- 1 .7
+ .2
-.3
- 5 .9
+ 4.1
+ 1.6
+ 3 .5
+• 4
+16.2
+ 3 .7
+ 3 .0
+ 1.6
-2 9 .7
+ 8.5
+ 3.5
26. 49
20.41
13.41
14.89
18.11
31.39
34.04
35.33
20.90
+ .3
+ 1.1
+ 1.7
-.2
-.2
+ .2
- 1 .0
+ 3.3
+ 1.0
+. 3
+ 1 .2
+ 6.3
+ 3.1
+ 4 .7
+ 1 .2
- 3 .0
+ 6 .5
+ .1
40.9
40.7
47.1
39.1
40.4
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
+ 1 .0
+ 1 .0
+ .2
-.8
- 1 .2
(fi)
(s)
(5)
(5)
-.4
+ 2.1
- 5 .7
+ 2.9
- 1 .8
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
64.1
52.5
27.8
37.6
44.7
(5)
(6)
(5)
(5)
- .5
+ 00
+ .7
+ .5
+ .9
(5)
(5)
(5)
(6)
-.2
+ 1 .3
+11. 9
+• 5
+ 6 .5
(s)
(5)
(5)
(5)
1
Per capita weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished b y all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data furnished
b y a smaller number of establishments, as some firms do not report man-hour information. Percentage changes over year computed from indexes.
* Less than Ho of 1 percent.
3 No change.
4 The additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
8 Not available.
17
Indexes of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals for Nonmanufacturing Industrie&
I n d e x numbers of employment and pay-roll totals for 13 nonmanu
facturing industries are presented in table 2. These index numbers
show the variation in employment and pay rolls in these industries
by months, from January 1931 through October 1934.
A revision of the indexes, similar to that made for the manufactur
ing industries, was made for the laundry and the dyeing and clean
ing industries in March 1934. The indexes of employment and pay
rolls in these industries wrere adjusted to conform with the trends
shown by the 1929 and 1931 census reports and this new series will
be continued until further adjustments, if necessary, are made when
1933 census data become available.
T
able
2 .—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 N O N M A N U F A C T U R IN G
IN D U S T R IE S , J A N U A R Y 1931 TO O C T O B E R 1934
[12-month average, 1929=100]
Anthracite mining
M onth
Employment
Bituminous-coal mining
Employment
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934
January_________
February_______
M a r c h .............. .
A pril......................
M a y ____________
June.......................
J u ly.......................
August— ...........
September........ .
October_________
N ovem ber______
December_______
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
61.0
54.5
64.1
63.2
67.5
58.2
63.8
57.5
53.6
49.5
56.9
58.5
89.3
101.9
71.3
75.2
76.1
66.7
53.7
56.4
64.9
91.1
79.5
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
47.8
44.3
73.2
65.8
82.4
51.7
64.0
53.3
42.3
39.7
47.0
48.3
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
69.3
67.6
63.7
61.2
61.3
63.2
68.6
71.8
68.0
74.8
75.4
75.8
76.1
77.8
72.2
76.7
76.7
77.0
77.1
78.2
79.3
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
50.7
50.8
51.3
54.6
58.9
51.4
54.4
55.1
49.7
50.4
51.4
57.6
Average----- 80.5 62.5 51.7 i 59.3 75,4 53.7 45.8 i 56.8 83.2 67.4 67.9 i 76.7 57.5 35.6 37.8 1 53:5
Metalliferous mining
January......... —
February_______
M arch...................
A pril......................
M a y ......................
June.......................
July.......................
August— ............
September............
O ctober................
N ovem ber............
December.............
Average___
68.3
65.3
63.6
63.8
62.4
60.0
56.2
55.8
55.5
53.8
52.8
51.2
49.3
46.9
45.0
43.3
88.3
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
40.6
40.6
39.6
40.3
59.8
41.7
40.8
41.0
39.9
42.7
42.3
43.3
55.0
54.6
52.8
51.4
40.8
46.1
41.3
40.2
40.0
37.4
35.1
34.3
29.7
27.8
26.5
25.0
23.8
20.1
16.9
16.5
17.0
18.0
18.7
18.7
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
18.1
17.8
17.4
16.4
17.0
18.3
19.0
21.9
23.9
25.9
25.6
26.2
25.4
26.0
25.9
27.2
25.6
26.7
25.1
27.0
25.9
28.2
64.4
66.6
70.0
76.1
75.0
72.3
71.0
68.9
66.6
64.5
59.3
53.9
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
51.1
45.3
39.7
38.8
42. 0
48.7
54.3
56.6
55.6
54.7
53.3
51.8
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. S
28.4
29.9
29.3
31. £
28.3
24.4
21.3
21. Q
24.1
29.9
85.0
W .0
35.0
34.0
32.4
32.1
59.1 36.5 34.6 i 41.1 44.8 21.6 20.6 i 26.3 67.4 49.0 44.9 i 49.6 53.4 29.1 24.7 ^30.2
See footnotes at end of table.
18
Table 2*—INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS FOR NONMANUFACTURING
INDUSTRIES, JANUARY 1931 TO OCTOBER 1934-Continued
Crude-petroleum producing
Month
Employment
Telephone and telegraph
Employment
Pay rolls
Pay rolls
1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934
January-----------February--------March...............
April..................
M ay...................
June...................
July....................
August................
September........ .
October............. .
November........
December.........
Average___
January............
February..........
March...............
April..................
M ay................. .
June.................
July...................
August..............
September-----October............
November-----December........
Average—
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
72.2
75.0
73.2
72.4
72.8
74.0
76.7
80.0
81.6
82.7
81.8
79.5
71.5
70.0
73.2
66.3
64.7
62.7
59.2
56.3
55.2
54.4
52.0
54.9
65.7 55.3 62.2 1 77.5 61.!
46.5
46.9
43.2
44.5
47.1
44.8
44.6
42.9
41.9
42.5
42.4
41.
39.9
41.7
42.5
40.1
41.6
40.6
42.2
42.5
44.4
50.1
50.3
53.2
53.0
50.5
52.5
53.4
56.4
56.9
60.0
61.2
59.7
60.8
90.5
89.2
88.6
1
87.4
86.9
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
70.2
69.8
70.0
70.2
70.2
70.4
71.0
71.0
68.3 70.9
68.7 70.3
68.9
74.6
73.9
73.2
72.3
70.1
69.2
68.5
68.1
Average..
Average..
71.7
71.9
71.6
67.8
68.5
66.6
66.
66.1
64.6
67.0
67.7
67.7
67.9
70.4
68.8
71.4
71.3
72.3
74.0
72.2
74.9
Electric light and power and manufac
tured gas
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation
and maintenance 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
86.4
86.8
85.9
85.3
85.6
84.8
84.0
82.7
81.5
79.9
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
82.6
81.8
82.2
81.2 99.7
81.7 102.4
82.4 97.6
83.1 98.7
84.0 98.3
85.0 97.4
85.6 96.2
85.8 94.3
85.8 93.2
93.3
91.2
88.4
86.0
85.4
82.4
84.2
80.5
78.7
76.
74.7
74.4
73.2
73.2
73.0
71.6
71.9
69.4
70.0
70.9
71.8
76.2
74.5
74.4
73.8
74.4
75.6
76.8
77.6
77.8
81.1
79.9
79.3
80.6
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
71.0
70.8
70. 5
71.0
71.7
72.2
72.6
73.2
73.1
72.8
72.5
72.2
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
66.4
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
59.4
59.6
Retail trade
81.8 75.3 82.4 87.5 74.1 61.7 63.9 90.0 84.3 76.9 84.6 89.4 78.0 62.
58.4
89.1 71.3 57.1 65. 87.8 81.4 71.4 87.2 87.5 73.4 55.1
79.8 73.1
85.2 68.9 56.0
90.1 81.6 78.6 88.2 88.3 72.7 60.4
78.9 73.3
89.9 80.9 77.0 88.8 88.0 71.1 59.5
77.9 74.0 84.6 84.7 69.7 57.4
77.0 75.7 84.1 84.1 66.2 57.3 66.5 89.1 79.4 78.3 88.2 87.6 68.2 60.5
76.6 76.9 84.0 83.3 64.7 59.1 67.6 83.9 74.6 74.6 83.3 83.3 63.3 58.1
76.4 79.7 84.3 82.1 63.2 60.8 66.4 81.8 72.6 78.1 81.8 80.3 60.7 62.7
77.1 82.1 85.3 81.4 63.1 62.3 67.4 86.6 77.8 86.0 87.6 83.5 64.6 69.2
89.8 81.3 89.6 88.9 84.6 67.1 72.3
77.8 83.5 86.2 79.9 63.9 66.0
85.4 66.9 72.6
79.7 63.3 64.1
90.9 81.7 91.6
77.6 83.4
106.2 95.2 105.4
94.1 73.6 80.3
64.5
77.8
77.0 83.3
88.2 80.9 74.1 83.0 88.4 72.5 58.6 64.6 87.1 80.5 73.4 83.8 86.7 73.
87.4
87.4
87.1
87.1
86.8
86.5
86.1
85.2
84.1
83.7
86.6 78.2 77.9 184.1 83.6 67.0 60.4 166.4 89.4 80.9 81.7 186.2 86.6
94.3
93.7
93.2
94.3
94.1
94.8
95.6
94.0
93.0
91.8
89.8
59.2
60.1
62.2
62.9
63.0
63.2
63.8
62.8
62.4
63.0
78.8 1 83.7 96.7 79.8 72.0 1 77.7 84.7 75.5 70.0 1 72.2j 83.4 68.0 58.9 i 62.3
95.6
Laundries3
January.............
February...........
March...............
April..................
M ay...................
June...................
July....................
August...............
September........
October.............
November.........
December..........
89.1
89.6
88.2
83.4
82.8
82.1
79.6
79.1
75.9
75.
74.3
73.5
44.1 44.1i 56.4 86.6 79.1 70.41 70.4 93.7 81.1 68.21 71.2
Wholesale trade
January............. .
February.......... .
March............... .
April..................
M ay................... .
June................... .
July....................
August...............
September........
October.............
November........
December.........
96.3
94.8
97.9
95.0
94.1
95.0
93.3
92.3
92.1
91.6
89.:
92.!
67.7
69.5
71.5
71.8
71.6
69.5
67.3
70.8
72.6
64.3
Dyeing and cleaning3
88.2 78.6 78.5 90.7 80.0 60.7 61.7 82.1 75.8 67.4 68.1 73.7 62.4 44.2 46.8
77.5 78.4 89.6 76.7 58.1 61.7 80.7 74.4 65.6 68.1 71.2 59.0 40.2 46.3
86.3
85.4
85.4
84.8
84.4
83.6
82.2
81.9
80.7
79.4
88.8 79.1
76.1 79.2
76.5 80.5
76.6 82.1
79.2 84.0
79.5 84.6
81.1 83.7
82.6 82.9
81.3 81.7
78.4
78.4 ........
89.6
90.9
90.5
91.2
91.5
88.6
88.0
85.6
82.6
81.0
75.0
74.7
73.9
71.8
69.4
66.9
65.8
64.1
61.9
61.4
55.4
56.6
57.1
59.4
58.7
60.3
63.5
62.5
60.7
61.1
81.3
88.4
89.3
91.4
68.2 91.1
66.6 86.4
65.8 88.0
64.8 87.0
83.2
78.4
62.7
64.4
66.9
68.3
74.4
76.9
78.0
78.6
76.1
73.4
76.9
76.0
72.0
69.5
65.8
74.9
75.7
79.1
76.6
76.8
81.9
81.6
76.1
70.5
72.4
79.9
84.3
84.9
80.5
78.6
80.0
80.3
71.7
81.9
82.1
84.5
81.8
75.9
78.3
77.2
70.8
64.4
58.5
62.5
63.8
62.4
56.9
53.4
57.9
55.8
49.6
45.9
38.9
51.7
51.0
53.7
50.0
50.0
57.1
57.4
52.5
47.3
51.7
60.8
65.1
64.1
58.9
56.7
59.0
59.1
93.1 83.5 78.8 181.6 88.3 70.1 59.5 165.1 85.6 75.2 74.3 i 77.7 76.1 57.3 49.5 i 56.9
See footnotes at end of table.
19
T a b l e 2 .— IN D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S F O R NONMANUFACTURING
IN D U S T R IE S , J A N U A R Y 1931 T O O C T O B E R 1934-Continued
Hotels
Month
Pay rolls
Employment
1931
1932
1933
1934
January......... ............................... ...........
February....................................................
M a rc h ......................................................
April............................................................
M ay............................................................
June............................................................
July__.........................................................
August........................................................
September..................................................
October....................................................
November................... ........................
December......... ........................................
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
73.8
72.4
71.9
71.9
73.6
75.6
77.1
78.7
77.0
75.8
77.6
86.2
Average............................................
91.7
79.0
74.9
i 85.2
81.5
84.8
86.4
86.6
85.7
86.3
86.2
84.4
84.2
1931
1932
1933
1934
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
55.9
53.5
51.7
51.8
52.3
53.3
54.0
55.6
56.2
55.2
57.6
60.8
65.2
85.4
64.5
54.4
165.1
66.6
66.5
65.9
66.2
65.6
64.5
64.3
65.3
1 Average for 10 months.
2 Not including electric-railroad car building and repairing; see transportation equipment and railroad
repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries, table 1 .
3 Revised to conform with average shown by 1931 Census of Manufacturers.
Employment in Building Construction in October 1934
The percentages of change in employment, pay rolls, and manhours in building construction in October as compared with Septem
ber, were as follows:
Percent
Total employment________________________________________
Total pay rolls___________________________________________
Total man-hours worked__________________________________
Average weekly earnings--------------------------------------------------Average hours per week per man__________________________
Average hourly earnings__________________________________
+3. 4
+5. 9
+6. 0
Hr2. 5
+3. 1
—. 4
The following table is based on returns made by 10,810 firms
engaged in public and private building-construction projects not aided
by Public Works Administration funds. These reports include all
trades, from excavation through painting and interior decoration,
which are engaged in erecting, altering, or repairing buildings. Work
on roads, bridges, docks, etc., is omitted. The reports cover buildings
operations in various localities in 34 States and the District of
Columbia.
For purposes of comparison in this study, all reports were reduced
to a 1-week basis if not originally so reported.
In October the weekly pay roll for 86,761 workers amounted to
$2,059,302 as compared with $1,943,942 earned by 83,944 workers
employed by the identical firms in September.
In October the average weekly earnings were $23.74, as compared
with $23.16 for September. These are per capita weekly earnings,
computed by dividing the total amount of the weekly pay roll by the
total number of employees— part time as well as full time.
20
Reports from 10,366 firms— 95.9 percent of the 10,810 cooperating
firms— gave the man-hours worked by the employees, namely,
2,394,850 in October as compared with 2,259,103 in September.
The average hours per week per man— 29.8 in October and 28.9 in
September— were computed by dividing the number of man-hours by
the number of workers employed by those firms which reported
man-hours.
The average hourly earnings— 80.1 cents in October and 80.4 in
September—were computed by dividing the pay roll of those firms
which reported man-hours, by the number of man-hours.
E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A V E R A G E W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S , A V E R A G E H O r R S P E R
W E E K P E R M A N , A N D A V E R A G E H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN T H E B U IL D 1N G -CO N ST R U C TIO N IN D U S T R Y IN O C T O B E R 1934. A N D P E R C E N T A G E S OF C H A N G E F R O M
S E P T E M B E R 1934.
All localities.........._. 10,810 86,761
Alabama: B irm ingham ...
91
California:
Los Angeles.................
San Francisco-Oakland...... .....................
Other localities............
30
22
10,872
Percentage
change
from September 1934
Average
hourly
earnings1
October 1934
Percentage
change
from September 1934
1934
October
Average
hours per
week per
man 1
Number
Percentage
change
from September 1934
1934
October
Average
weekly
earnings
Amount
Percentage
change
from September 1934
Amount
1934
October
Pay rolls
Dollars
+ 3.4 2,059,302
622 +11.3
20 1,065
n
Percentage
change
from September 1934
1934
October
Employment
Number
Locality
Number of firms reporting
[Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics but are taken from reports issued
b y cooperating State bureaus]
+ 5 .9
Dollars
23.74
+ 2 .5
29.8
+ 3.1
Cents
80.1 - 0 .4
+ .8
17.48
-9 A
28.3
- 6 .9
62.1 - 2 . 5
+ 5 .6
33.6
+9.1
24,162 +15. $
22.69
+ 9 .4
67.5 - 3 . 6
794 -2 8 .4
191 -2 9 .0
19,562 -1 6 .4
4,242 -1 6 .6
24. 6k +16.8
22.21 +17.5
28.6 +10.9
28.0 +4.1
86.3 + 5 .6
79.3 + 13.0
-3 .0
2,050 -1 2 .9
23.40 + U .4
3 t.l +11.1
75.1 '(*)
Colorado: Denver_______
199
625 + 13.2
14,083 +17.2
22.53
+ 3 .5
27.8
+ 1 .8
81.4 + 1 .0
Connecticut:
Bridgeport...................
Hartford.......................
N ew H a v e n ...............
115
615 +24.5
257 1,126 + 6 .2
160
907 + 7 .2
15,350 +34.9
26,974 + 9 .0
23,380 + 4 .7
24.96
23.96
25. 78
+ 8 .3
+ 2 .6
- 2 .3
32.2
33.7
34.6
+ 2 .2
+ 1 .8
- 4 .9
78.1 + 5 .7
70. 7 + . 6
74. S: + 2 .7
The State..................
532 2,648 +10.3
65,704 +12.4
24.81
+ 1.8
33.7
-.9
73.7 + 2 .5
+ 8.4
+ 9 .5
20.41
29.43
+ 3.9
+ 5 .3
31.7
33.4
+ 6 .7
+ 7 .7
64.3 - 2 . 7
87.9 - 2 . 7
29.1
30.2
+ 8 .6
+ 7.1
59.6 + .8
69.5 + 6 .3
T he State..................
47,966
Delaware: Wilmington. . .
District of Colum bia........
100 1,089
376 4, 521
+ 4.3
+ 4 .0
Florida.
Jacksonville.................
M iam i...........................
45
239
68 1,225
-.4
+ 9 .6
4,145 + 8 .9
25, 735 +25.0
17.34 + 9 .3
21.01 +14.1
The State..................
22,228
133,034
113 1,464
+ 7 .8
29,880 +22.5
20.41 +13.6
30.0
+ 7 .5
67.9 + 5 .6
Georgia: Atlanta________
134
- 6 .7
14,042
- 3 .4
16.44
+ 3 .5
26.6
-.7
61.5 + 5 .3
Illinois:
Chicago............ ...........
Other localities........
135 1,873 -1 2 .1
94 2,116 +38.9
54,038 - 8 . 2
40,792 +45.1
28.85
19.28
+ 4-6
+ 4.4
(3)
<*)
(3)
<*)
(3)
(3)
229 3,989
94,830
+ 9 .0
23.77
-.1
(*)
(3)
(3)
T he State..................
See footnotes at end of table.
854
+ 9 .1 1
on
c3)
(*)
21
E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, A V ER AG E W E E K L Y E AR N IN O S, A V E R A G E HOURS PER
W E E K PER M A N , A N D AVER AG E H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN T H E BUILDING-CONSTRUCTION IN D U S T R Y IN OCTOBER 1934, A N D P E R C E N T A G E S OF CH AN G E FR O M
SE P T E M B E R 1934—Continued
The State..................
324 2,339 +19.6
92
63
146
109
Percentage change
from September 1934
October
1934
Number
Percentage change
from September 1934
October
1934
Amount
Percentage change
from September 1934
October
1934
Dollars
Dollars
11,901 +71.3 21.48 +14.1
8,178 +73.9 20.09 + 5 .1
28,532 + 9 .1 24.08 + 6 .7
4,013 +17.0 20.79 +10.3
30.9 +16.2
32.7 + 29.2
31.0 + 2.0
28.9 +12.5
Percentage change
from September 1934
60
554 +50.1
80
407 +65.4
149 1,185 + 2.2
35
193 + 6.0
Average
hourly
earnings1
October 1934
Indiana:
Evansville....................
Fort Wayne.................
Indianapolis.................
South Bend..................
Average
hours per
week per
man 1
Average
weekly
earnings
Pay rolls
Amount
Percentage change
from September 1934
Number
October
1934
Number of firms reporting
Locality
Employment
Cents
69.5
61.4
77.7
73.1
-1 .7
-1 8 .7
+ 4 .9
+ 2.0
52,624 +27.6
22.50
+ 6 .7
31.1
+ 8 .7
72.4 - 1 . 5
Iowa: Des Moines.............
Kansas: Wichita................
Kentucky: Louisville.......
Louisiana: New Orleans..
Maine: Portland...............
Maryland: Baltimore____
Massachusetts: All locali
ties.....................................
504
351
841
936
88
319
111 2,565
- 3 .8
+18.2
+17.8
-1 9 .4
- 9 .9
+88.0
11,496
6,160
17,289
17,651
7.493
46,125
- 5 .1
+14.4
+23.5
-1 6 .5
- 8 .9
+80.9
22.81
17.55
20.56
18.86
23.49
17.98
- 1 .3
- 3 .1
+ 4 .9
+ 3 .6
+ 1.1
- 1 .1
29.2
25.7
32.4
30.2
30.4
29.4
+ 4 .3
- 5 .2
+ 6 .9
+ 3 .4
- 1.6
-.7
77.8
68.3
64.9
62.4
77.8
60.8
-5 .5
+ 1 .9
-.3
699 5,588
+ 2 .8
186,251
+ .9
24.40
-
1.9
29.8
-2 .8
82.0
+ .7
Michigan:
Detroit..........................
Flint..............................
Grand Rapids.............
487 3,269 - 3 .4
48
177 -1 6 .9
104
395 +16.9
84,016 + 1.0
3,498 -2 8 .8
7,329 +25.3
639 3,841
94,843
The S ta te...............
Minnesota:
Duluth..........................
Minneapolis.................
St. Paul........................
+ .2
+ 2 .9
-8 .8
25.70 + 4 .6
19.76 -1 4 .3
18.55 + 7 .2
31.3 - 1 .3
28.0 -1 4 .9
31.2 + 12.6
82.1 + 5 .8
70.7 + .7
59.4 - 4 . 7
+ 1.0
24.69
+ 3 .4
31.1
- 1.0
79.3 + 4 .2
52
172 -1 6 .9
207 1,682 -6 .3
149
692 + 6.8
3,770 - 9 .6
34,441 -1 0 .3
17,167 + 10.9
21.92
21.77
24.81
+ 8.8
- 4 .2
+ 3 .9
30.3
28.5
31.1
+ 9 .0
- 8 .9
+ 2 .3
72.0 (*)
75.7 + 5 .1
79.6 + 1 .3
76.6 + 3 .9
-2 .4
The State..................
408 2,446
- 3 .9
55,378
- 4 .6
22.64
-.7
29.4
- 4 ,5
Missouri:
Kansas City *..............
St. Louis.......................
263 1,690
562 2,813
- 2 .1
- 2.2
43,064
79,303
+ 1.2
+ 4 .4
25.48
28.19
+ 3 .3
+ 6 .7
28.2
27.8
+ 3 .7 90.8 - . 5
+ 8.2 101.3 - 1.2
The State..................
825 4,503
- 2.2
122,367
+ 3 .2
27.17
+ 5 .5
27.9
+ 6 .5
97.3
Nebraska: Omaha.............
155
639
+ .9
14,256
- 1 .4
22.31
- 2 .3
30.2
+ 2 .7
74.0 - 4 . 8
New York:
New York C ity .........
Other localities............
586 8,824
854 9,818
+ .9
-2 .9
244,808
218,261
+2.1
-.8
29.41
28.44
+ 1 .2
+ 2 .7
27.8
29.4
+ U 5 105.7 - . 5
+ 1 .4 79.7 + 1 .4
The State..................
890 17,687
- 1 .2
468,069
+ .9
26.26
+2.1
28.6
51
North Carolina: Charlotte
Ohio:
Akron............................
Cincinnati8.................
Cleveland.....................
Dayton.........................
Youngstown................
326
+ 7 .9
94
362 +7.1
418 1,815 +11.4
601 2,640 + 10.2
139
548 +24.5
86
466 +19.8
The State.................. 1,338 5,831 +12.3
Oklahoma:
Oklahoma City...........
Tulsa.............................
The State..................
Oregon: Portland..............
89
52
401 -2 5 .5
328 -4 .4
141
729 -1 7 .3
173 1,042
See footnotes at end of table.
+ 8.8
-.9
+1.1
91.7
+ .9
20.46 +14.2
30.8 +13.2
66.4
+ .9
23.71 + 6.3
24.03
+ .6
26.73 + 1 .5
21.19 - 4 .9
24.71 + 10.2
30.8 + 6.2
29.2 + 3 .2
27.2 + 3 .8
28.7 - 3 .7
30.1 +11.9
77.0 (2)
82.3 - 2 . 5
99.9 - . 7
73.7 - 1 . 5
82.1 - 1.6
145,899 +13.9
25.02
+ 1 .4
28.5
+ 4 .0
88.2 - 1 .9
6,973 -2 8 .1
5,689 -1 1 .5
17.39
17.34
- 3 .5
- 7 .4
25.5
28.0
- 5 .9
- 2 .4
67.8 + 1.6
62.8 - 5 .3
12,662 -2 1 .4
17.37
-5 .1
26.6
- 4 .0
65.5 - 1 . 7
+ 8.6
20.71
- .1
25.2
- 4 .2
82.7 + 3 .6
6,671 +23.2
8,584
43,621
70,568
11,613
11,513
21,579
+13.8
+ 12 .1
+ 11.8
+18.5
+32.0
22
E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, A V E R A G E W E E K L Y E AR N IN G S, A V E R A G E HOURS PER
W E E K PER M A N , A N D A V E R A G E H O U R L Y EAR N IN G S IN T H E BUILDING-CONSTRUCTION IN D U S T R Y IN OCTOBER 1934, A N D PE R C E N T A G E S OF CH A N G E FR O M
SE P T E M B E R 1934—Continued
Pennsylvania: •
Erie area__...................
Philadelphia area........
Pittsburgh area...........
Reading area................
Scranton area..............
Other areas!.................
The S ta te...............
Rhode Island: Providence
Tennessee:
Chattanooga..... ..........
Knoxville...................
Memphis......................
Nashville......................
n
m
m
ft
m
a
§
a
<
i
<
1
+ 2 8 .6
+ 1 0 .8
+ 6 .6
+ 17
+ 2 .6
+ 8 .8
+ 4 .8
187,667
+ 9 .8
2 8.2 7
+ 17
8 1 .6
+ 9 .7
7 4 .8
H 224 +23.1
23^88
+ 8 .3
32.8
+ 5 .5
73.3 + 3 .2
-
165 —21 .4
368 -1 2 .4
373 +13.7
800 + 1 .1
2,354
5,554
7,371
14,226
-2 7 .5
- 22.1
+27.7
+16.8
+4.1
+ 6.7
191
679
24
93
190 1,192
91
311
+ 1.2
+ 4 .5
+ 8 .4
+ 3.3
11,802 + 10.2
1,598 -1 7 .2
23,093 +14.6
+ .3
4,537
17.38 + 8.8
17.18 - 20.8
19.37 + 5 .8
14.59 - 2 .9
The State..................
496 2,275
+ 5 .3
41,030 + 10.0
18.04
253 -1 0 .3
5,002 -1 7 .1
19.77
The S ta te...............
West Virginia: Wheeling..
Wisconsin: All localities..
22.8 - 10.2
24.8 - 10.1
27.9 + 5 .3
27.7 + 4 .5
14.27 - 7 .6
15.09 - 1 1 . 1
19.76 +12.3
17.78 +15.5
29,505
The State..................
C e n ts
6 8 .6
7 8 .7
9 8 .7
67.1
1 9 .8
3 1.1
3 2 .0
3 1 .4
8 1 .2
8 3 .8
- 2 .5
Washington:
Seattle...........................
Spokane........................
Tacoma.........................
0
+ 1 6 .6
+ 6 .8
-.3
+ 2 .2
+ 1 .2
+ 4 -4
226 1,706
120
i
D o lla rs
1 8.46
22.81
2 9.6 8
2 1.0 7
2 2 .8 8
2 1.6 7
The State..................
Virginia:
N orfolk-Portsmouth. _
Richmond............. .
i
§
- 1 7 .2
+ U .4
+ 3 .2
4 .9
+ 1 8 .3
+ 1 6 .8
Texas:
Dallas............................
El Paso.........................
Houston........................
San Antonio.................
129
°
D o lla rs
3 ,4 9 6
79,013
4 8 ,U 4
6,361
6 ,1 0 2
46,681
231 1,433 +13.7
Utah: Salt Lake City____
3
i
260 - 2 8 .4
+ 4 .S
3 ,6 4 2
+ 3 .6
1,621
-7 .0
264
228 + 1 6 .9
2 ,1 6 0 + 1 1 . 6
936 8 ,0 6 6
35
38
70
83
s
1
0
O
Average
hourly
earnings1
Percentage change
from September 1934
r
"5
0
Percentage change
from September 1934
° s
1
Percentage change
from September 1934
1
Average
hours per
week per
man 1
Average
weekly
earnings
Pay rolls
Percentage change
from September 1934
Locality
Percentage
change
from September 1934
Number of firms reporting
Employment
17.29
26.6
(2)
-
8.4
- 2.3
-6 .1
-2 .2
72.1 - 1 . 9
- 3 .7
6 4 .7
62.5
60.7
70.9
64.3
-3 .6
+ 2.6
- 1 .5
+ 6.6
+10.5
64.9 + 6.6
27.0 +10.7
25.1 -1 4 .3
28.2 + 2 ; 5
-.4
24.8
64.6 + .5
68.5 - 7 .3
69.4 + 3 .0
58.9 - 2 . 5
+ 4 .5
27.2
+ 3 .8
66.6 + 1.2
- 7 .6
24.3
- 7 .3
79.6 - 2 .1
419
981
-2 .3
+ 3 .7
8,019 +3.1
21,704 + 10.8
22.12
19.14
+ 5 .6
+ 6.8
30.2
33.3
+ 6.0
+ 7 .8
66.6
- .6
196 1,400
+ 1.8
29,723
+ 8.6
21.23
+ 6.6
32.4
+ 7 .6
65.6
-.5
655 -3 3 .5
177 -1 5 .3
206 +26.4
13,363 -3 5 .9
4,207 -1 9 .2
4,231 +20.5
20.40
23.77
20.54
- 3 .7
- 4 .5
- 4 .6
21.9
28.2
23.1
- 2.2
+ .7
- 5 .3
93.1 - 1 .7
84.3 - 5 . 4
89.0 + .9
292 1,038 -2 3 .5
21,801 -2 6 .3
75
159
52
81
56
161
63.3
-.5
21.00
- 3 .7
23.2
- 1 .3
90.5 - 2 .5
304 +16.9
5,355
+ 9 .4
17.62
- 6 .4
28.5
- 3 .4
61 f - 3 .1
+ 7 .6
40,6 63
+ U .4
2 0 .3 6
+ 3 .7
8 2 .9
+ 1 .9
6 1 .7
1 ,9 9 3
+ 2 .2
1
1 Averages computed from reports furnished by 10,366 firms.
s No change.
3 Data not available.
4 Includes both Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kans.
» Includes Covington and Newport, Ky.
* Each separate area includes from 2 to 8 counties.
Trend of Employment in October 1934, by States
F l u c t u a t i o n s in employment and pay-roll totals, in October
1934, as compared with September 1934, in certain industrial groups
are shown by States in the following table. These tabulations have
been prepared from data secured directly from reporting establish
ments and from information supplied by cooperating State agencies.
23
The combined total of all groups does not include building-construction data, which are shown by city and State totals in the section,
Building construction. In addition to the combined total of all
groups, the trend of employment and pay rolls in the manufacturing,
public utility, hotel, wholesale trade, retail trade, bituminous-coal
mining, crude-petroleum producing, quarrying and nonmetallic min
ing, metalliferous mining, laundry, dyeing and cleaning, and banks,
brokerage, insurance, real-estate 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.
The percentage changes shown in the accompanying table, unless
otherwise noted, are unweighted; 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 anthracite-mining industry, which is confined entirely to the
State of Pennsylvania, showed increases from September to October
of 2.7 percent in employment and 2.6 percent in pay rolls. These
percentages are based on reports received from 160 mines, which em
ployed in October 81,195 workers whose earnings in 1 week ending
nearest the 15th were $1,952,146.
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.
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 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 1934, 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
by cooperating State organizations]
Total—all groups
State
Num
ber of
estab
lish
ments
Manufacturing
Per
Per
Per
cent
cent
Amount cent Num Num
Amount
Num
age
age
age
of
ber on change pay roll change ber of ber on change payofroll
pay roll from (1 week) from estab pay roll from (1 week)
October Sep
lish October Sep
Sep
October
October
1934
1934
tem
tem
tem ments
1934
1934
ber
ber
ber
1934
1934
1934
Alabama................. 1,339 73,320 -1-14.2 $1,030,446 +14.3
303.392 + 3 .4
Arizona...................
590 15,062 + 3 .0
370,441
Arkansas-.............. i 741 23,8 03
+ .*
+ 1 .4
6 ,4 8 0 ,4 6 0
California............... 2 / , 682 2 24,760 - 1 . 9
+ 1 .4
999,419 + 6 .3
Colorado................. 1,381 48,813 + 9 .0
Connecticut........... 2,454 172,667 + 8 .6
Delaware...............
239 14,097 - 8 . 6
Dist. of Columbia.
980 36,383 + 3 .2
Florida.................... 1,336 39,668 + 6 .9
Georgia................... 1,751 94,843 +27.9
Idaho.......................
Illinois.....................
Indiana.................
Iowa........................
Kansas....................
546
12,193
3 4 ,8 7 8 4 68,422
3,001 167,651
2,254 62,770
3,405,570 + 6 .2
280,358 - 2 . 7
851,692 + 4 .3
657,830 + 7 .6
1,384,093 +26.4
Per
cent
age
change
from
Sep
tem
ber
1934
253
45
48,847
2,294
+23.3
-3 .6
$626,825
42,349
819
845
16,4 56
118,117
-.3
-3 .2
2 84,716
2 ,7 1 9 ,6 7 8
+•4
+L 7
175
18,359
+21.7
335,753
+11.9
+ 10.0 2,532,228
173,339
-1 2 .6
104,332
-2 .3
+ 3 .7
265,677
+42.6
874,777
+ 8 .3
-6 .0
-4 .9
+ 7 .8
+46.4
751 135,876
9,592
77
50
3,201
238 18,530
376 68,364
230,633
+ 3 .5
90,667
+10.0
10,2 86 ,36 6
+ 8 .2
2 ,0 8 2 286,749
-.9
5 ,9 2 8 ,6 8 4
-3 .6
-. 1
3,251,221
1,250,908
681 115,248
437 30,085
+ 2 .4
+ .9
-.2
- 4 .8
- 2 .1
2,163,848
576,583
+ .9
-3 .7
+ .3
-.8
67
4,829
+22.7
-1 .1
+ 7 .2
% 218
6 2,244
-.6
1 ,8 4 3,4 64
+ 3 .0
452
8 8,652
+ 3 .5
769,284
+ 5 .9
1,739
1,176
921
91,277
46,117
50,233
-.9
+ .6
-.2
1,585,159
764,208
888,699
+ 4 .4
+ 2 .2
+ .6
329
248
283
34,707
25,120
40,427
-2 .5
+ 1 .7
+ .8
550,666
349,839
672,805
+ 2 .5
+ 2 .4
+ 1 .3
1 ,4 7 8
*8,8 9 4
9 8,074
428,027
—•4
+ 9 .8
1 ,8 6 7 ,8 6 9
8 ,7 8 3,1 31
-2 .5
+ 5 .6
618
6 4 ,4 80
1 ,5 8 9 227,997
* -1 .6
+ 1 9 .6
1 ,1 1 0 ,5 8 8
4 ,1 6 5 ,0 9 4
& -S .6
+ 1 1 .8
Michigan...... ......... 3,662 318,762 - 4 . 3
Minnesota.............. 2,692 94,896 - 1 . 5
Mississippi.............
683 18,722 + 2 .2
Missouri................. 4,873 171,528 - 3 . 0
Montana.................
871 17,824 +35. 5
7 , 018,020
-6 .6
2,065,485 + 2 .0
272,712 + 3 .4
3,613,258
-.6
433,157 +42.4
1,0 3 2 257,179
419 40,203
116 11,637
891 78,893
104
5,415
-2 .6
5 ,2 2 1 ,7 1 8
- 1 0 .8
833,526
- 3 .5
153,053
+ 4 .1
- 4 . 9 1,521,234
+44.5
123,040
+ 4 .0
+ 4 .6
- 3 .1
+52.1
Nebraska................ 1,878 38,997 + 5 .6
3,652 + 4 .3
Nevada..................
280
New Hampshire .
803 46,606 +54.6
-.2
New Jersey............ 3,750 264.910
6,822
New Mexico..........
412
+ .1
821,681 + 4 .5
90,007 + 5 .7
806,724 +38.7
6,021,027 + 3 .3
129,684 + 5 .7
174 15,894
32
1,020
209 39,150
• 717 209,681
34
654
+12.2
+21.7
+75.4
+ 8 .5
+26.7
+56.8
+ . 6 19,975,001
+. 8
19,819 808,315
1,325 137,748 +24.6 1,906,788 +29.2
624
6,900 + 2 .7
153,673 + 3 .8
+ .9 10,475,305 + 5.1
9,908 516,075
831,675 + 1 .3
1,918 41,350 - 1 . 5
7 1, 905 878,019
Kentucky..............
Louisiana...............
Maine.....................
Maryland...............
Massachusetts____
New York..............
North Carolina___
North Dakota
Ohio........................
Oklahoma..............
975,764 - 1 . 9
Oregon.................... 1,487 46,153 - 9 . 2
Pennsylvania........ 10,335 7 7 7 , 116 + 1 .6 15,827,920 + 4 .8
Rhode Island........ 1,315 82,692 +45.2 1,599,953 +39.2
South Carolina___
815,183 +45.2
740 61,135 +43.4
South Dakota
9,176 + 1 .4
217,309 + 3 .0
569
Tennessee............... 1,527
Texas....................... 1 ,4 2 9
Utah........................
724
Vermont.................
585
Virginia................... 2,316
586 126,339
54
934
2,627 354,603
180 10,997
281
2,042
432
211
32
-.9
339,190
25,600
641,471
4 ,4 9 8,2 81
+ 1 .1
10,750
+ .8
8 ,7 0 8 ,6 0 2
+27.0 1,719,699
- 1 .8
22,486
+ 1 .2 6,982,263
-1 .4
207,477
-.3
+ 5 .1
-.1
+32.4
+ 3 .0
+ 6 .6
-.8
23,643
-1 7 .0
457,217
418,386
+ 1 .8
+ 7 0 .7
7 ,7 0 8 ,1 9 9
+ 6 .7
1,094,073
+51.9
689,087
+ 4 .7
46,291
+69.3
+ 56.8
+ 8 .4
+ 3 .6
894,927
+• 4
896,424
61,870
53,581
2,268
-6 .6
+ 6 .1
87,817
+ 2 .6
1,397,067
+ 5.1
350
60,056
77,9 28
+ 1 .0
1,7 6 0,4 01
+ .2
470
4 1,6 76
19,790 + 2 .9
14,910 +10.8
91,233 - 1 . 3
411,857
272,582
1,585,836
+ 5 .4
+ 3 .5
+ 1 .7
115
149
482
6,537
8,056
58,528
2,028,725
2,750,200
+ .6
531
278
45,173
51,797
-6 .4
+ 8 .5
+ .2
867,203
948,819
-1 .9
+ 8.2
8 ,0 5 2 ,6 7 7
+ 5 .5
762 120,650
« -.6
2 ,8 4 4 ,3 4 8
* + 6 .9
54,558
+23.7
Washington........... 3,610 94,901 - 3 . 0
+ .3
West Virginia........ 1,351 143,089
Wisconsin............... 81,080 164,846
+. 1
Wyoming...............
8,969 + 10.2
417
226,138 + 12.2
50
2,411
- 1.8
+23.0
-1 .3
116,252
138,009
953,351
+ 30.2
+ ./
-4 .0
+12.2
+ .7
1 Includes automobile dealers and garages, and sand, gravel, and building stone.
2 Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
3 Includes building and contracting.
4 Includes construction, municipal, agricultural, and office employment, amusement and recreation,
professional, and transportation services.
* Weighted percentage change.
* Includes laundries.
* Includes laundering and cleaning, but does not include food, canning, and preserving.
Includes construction, but does not include hotels and restaurants, and public works.
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 1934, 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]
Retail trade
Wholesale trade
Per
cent
Am ount
N um N um
age
of
ber of ber on change
p ay roll
pay
roll
from
estab
(1
week)
lish October Sep
October
1934
tem
ments
1934
ber
1934
State
Alabama.................
A iizona...................
Arkansas................
California...............
Colorado.................
Per
cent
age
change
from
Sep
tem
ber
1934
Per
Per
cent A mount
cent
N um N um
age
age
of
ber of ber on change
pay roll change
estab pay roll from
from
(1
week)
lish October Sep
Sep
October
1934
ments
tem
tem
1934
ber
ber
1934
1934
721
315
6,818
3,833
+ 2.6
+ 5 .1
$117,891
72.475
+ 1.6
+ 4 .2
248
128
2 ,6 9 8
26,2 94
+ 2 .8
+. 8
4 2,7 16
648,866
10,418
+ 2.0
+ 1 .6
- .2
627
196,721
+ .9
1,172
89
754
552
915
15,797
1,543
14,704
7,002
10,612
+ 2.0
+ 3 .7
+ 7 .5
+ 3 .6
+ 1 .5
328,713
30,813
299,768
126,924
175,677
+ 1 .7
+ 3 .4
+ 6 .7
+ 5 .4
+ 1 .1
122
2,517 + 1 .7
1,931 +16.0
66
106
1 ,0 1 6
6 ,7 6 8
-.2
-1 .7
151
3,407
- .8
$61,208 + 2.0
28,194 + 10.8
28,802
-A
161,487
+ .7
86,739 - 1 .4
Connecticut...........
Delaware................
Dist. of Columbia.
Florida....................
Georgia........ ..........
211
5,220 +23.7
591 + 1 .4
1,124 - 4 .3
5,278 +40.0
1,666 + 3 .7
108,732 + 5 .7
13,482 + 5 .0
34,018
+ .8
83,216 +16.7
39,682 + 4 .0
Id a h o ......................
Illinois.....................
Indiana...................
Iow a........................
Kansas....................
72
m
386
184
1.120 -1 9 .7
20,017
- 1.6
291
2,620
+ 3 .1
47,315
+ 4 .4
1 8,8 49
+ .4
- 1.6
+ 1 .5
8 74,487
+ 2 .8
-.7
1 ,688
6 0,6 06
+ 1 .2
1 ,2 0 4 ,8 7 8
+ 4 .8
6,540
3,534
+ 1 .5
1,458
998
22,347
13,043
- .5
+ 2 .4
434,247
261,521
+ 2 .9
178
8 ,8 4 7
+ 2 .1
72,6 48
-1 .8
1 ,1 4 2
10,1 67
+ 1 .2
177,886
+ .9
Kentucky...............
Louisiana...............
M aine.....................
M a ry la n d .............
Massachusetts___
200
101
163
2,223
3,176
1,615
-.3
- 1.8
-.3
48,789
72,718
38,568
-.5
+ 2 .3
+ .8
667
514
277
9,135
8,335
2,904
+ 1.2
-.6
-.3
163,243
139,495
56,521
+ 3 .4
+ 1 .9
+ 2 .2
189
878
2 ,8 6 8
18,771
+ 2 .1
72,281
4 94,694
+ 4 .7
-.1
606
4 ,4 8 4
14,61,8
70,0 67
+ 6 .8
278,416
+ (») 1 ,8 9 9 ,9 1 8
+ 4 .1
+ .7
6,552 + 2 .5
9,080 + 1 .0
1,293
- .8
16,039
- .8
1,316 + 12.6
168,636
238,137
25,229
411,966
31,806
+ 3 .0
+ 1.5
+ 1.8
+ 3 .4
1,766
1,471
243
2,157
420
34,185
20,374
2,590
35,512
3,776
+ 2 .5
- 4 .0
+ 3 .0
- .2
- 1.2
- 2 .9
-.4
+ 1 .3
+ 2 .8
1,058
119
327
1,859
226
10,377
958
3,163
21,693
1,816
72
17
55
228
113
M ichigan................
332
Minnesota..............
332
Mississippi.............
77
Missouri................. 1,138
M ontana................
110
Nebraska................
N evada...................
N ewH am pshiie—
New Jersey.............
New M exico..........
-.7
159,303
87,107
-.7
- 5 .0
- .1
- 3 .3
729,496
403,221
38,793
749,867
82,857
+ 3 .8
-.5
+ 3 .2
188,795
21,318
59,135
484,785
33,569
+ 2 .4
+ 1 .7
- 4 .1
+ 4 .0
+ 4 .4
+ 2 .6 4 ,068,560
79,459
+ 9 .7
+ 3 .5
55,728
+ .9 1,284,402
179,677
+ 2 .7
+ 4 .1
+ 9 .9
- 2 .1
+ 1 .5
+ 4 .4
192,966
+ 2 .1
+ 4 .2 1,400,154
189,355
+ 2 .0
+ 5 .2
53,270
+ 3 .1
45,259
+ 1.8
+ 4 .3
+ 2 .5
+ 4 .3
+ 3 .6
+ .6
- .8
195
51
39
229
36
3,586
301
469
4,252
298
(10)
- 1 .7
+ .2
-2 .0
94, 573
9,760
12,559
123, 557
7,488
New Y ork .............. 3,716
North Carolina___
65
North Dakota........
121
Ohio........................ 1,090
Oklahoma..............
190
65,708
844
564
16,453
2,945
-.1
+ 1 .9
-.2
-.7
-1 .6
2,034,101
22,269
13,172
430,606
70,239
-.4
+ 5 .4
+ 2 .4
+ 1 .4
-.3
Oregon....................
Pennsylvania .
R hode Island. ..
South Carolina___
South Dakota
249
1,546
94
71
55
4 ,105
19,901
1, 758
927
595
+ .7
+ .5
+ .5
+ .7
+ .8
106,378
548,515
46,862
21,787
13,883
+ 3 .7
+ 1 .2
+ .7
+ 1 .7
+ 1 .6
Tennessee...............
Texas......................
Utah........................
Verm ont.................
Virginia...................
215
3,288
-.6
71,694
+ 1 .2
576
10,518
+ 2 .1
183,967
m
4 ,6 2 8
+ 2 .7
109,479
+ 2 .7
821
1 1,606
208,420
1,128
540
3,928
+ 1 .2
+ .4
- 8 .4
31,467
11,805
80,211
+ 3 .8
- 2 .2
- 1 .1
358
181
1,245
3,784
1,901
12,015
+ 6 .4
+ 8 .1
82
30
200
+ 2 .1
-2 .2
+ 2 .5
74,133
36,286
219,249
+ 1 .8
-1 .8
+ 3 .5
Washington...........
W est Virginia .
W isconsin...............
W yom ing...............•
817
115
13,473
1,796
+ 2 .6
— *
349,472
46,198
+ 7.1
+ .7
1,858
339
19,123
4,337
+ 1 .0
+ 5 .7
384,587
76,037
+ 1 .2
+ 2 .1
46
1,971
-.6
48,981
+ .2
58
1 1,8 28
29
263
+0. 4
156,866
7,455
+ 3.4
209
1,409
- 1 .5
29,861
+ 6 .1
(10)
10,976 175,771
481
5,433
190
2,525
4,956 67,790
1,041 10,123
663
3,923
627
334
283
9,735
70,636
9,774
3,827
2,252
+ 2 .5
+ .1
- .8
+ 3 .6
+ 2 .3
i
• Less than Mo of 1 percent.
Jo N o change.
+ 4 .4
-.5
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 IDENTICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
I N S E P T E M B E R A N D O C T O B E R 1934, 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]
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
State
Alabam a...
Arizona___
Arkansas...
California..
C olorado...
N um
ber of
estab
lish
ments
16
Per
cent Amount
N um
age
of
ber on change
pay roll
pay roll from
(1 week)
October Sep
October
tem
1934
1934
ber
1934
651 -1 0 .5
$7,295 -1 7 .9
127 + 2 .4
1,132 + 2 .5
20 -1 3 .0
1,192 - 4 . 8
22,281 +14.3
279 - 10.0
403 +19.9
+ 5 .5
Connecticut...........
Delaware...............
Dist. of Columbia.
Florida...................
Georgia...................
878
1,545
I d a h o ...
Illinois..
Indiana.
Iow a—
Kansas..
405
1,547
381
1,318
Kentucky.........
Louisiana..........
M aine................
M aryland_____
Massachusetts.
1,372
625
527
m
461
M ich ig a n .. .
M inn esota..
Mississippi..
M issouri___
M ontana—
1,694 - 6.2
303 -1 5 .1
133 -3 7 .6
1,297 + 4 .8
+23.9
Nebraska..............
N evada.................
New Hampshire.
N ew Jersey..........
N ew M exico........
N ew Y ork ..........
N orth C arolin aN orth D a k ota ...
Ohio.....................
Oklahoma...........
Oregon................
P enn sylvania...
Rhode Isla n d ...
South CarolinaSouth D a k ota ...
-.2
+ 6 .3
+6.0
-1 .9
-4 .3
+2.0
(10)
+1.8
-2 .8
-6 .3
219 +33.5
145
.....
Tennessee..
Texas.........
U tah...........
V erm ont-..
Virginia___
W ashington___
W est Virginia..
W isconsin....... .
W yom ing........ .
10,371
14,797
7,398 +23.3 j
26,618 + 9 .0
7,566 +14.0
26,498
14,992
8,396
11,728
3,303
9,625
29,406 - 5 . 5
5,064 - 8 . 5
1,840 -3 5 .7
17,920 + 8 .0
20.2
1,467
+
1,072
3,733
-1 0 .3
- 1 .4
$12, 286
88,229
-4 .2
+ 3 .5
2,563
1,015
-1 4 . 5
- 1 .5
67,169
28,638
- 11.0
+ 5 .7
1,947
-3 . 7
42, 773
- 4 .7
835
-2 4 .0
11,239
- 2 9 .6
40 ! 4,822
26 | 1,738
-6 .4
-3 .9
75,681
35,664
+• 4
+ 4 .8
22
16
13
16
15 |
49.846 - 6 . 4
2,690 -3 7 .6
3,656
161
56,621
1.568
- 3 .1
-6 .2
3
5
31
4
- 5 .8
82,523
+ 2 .5
187 - 1 .1
75 +27.1
2,079 + 3 .6
1,283 +56.5
816 + 1 .2
980 -1 1 .7
118 -2 9 .3
-.1
1,948
1,084 - 9 . 2
9,387 + 5 .3
20,553 -2 2 .5
2,021 -1 0 .1
35.400 - 11.6
13,061 - 3 .8
320 -3 6 .5
768 + 4 .5
230 -2 7 .9
4,597 -4 5 .9
9,922 +24.4
3,834 -1 9 .6
N o change.
1,763
+ 2 .0
2,691 +1030.7
+ 1 .4
19,398
73,912 +1174.6
2, 738 +39.1
2,480 - 3 .1
232 -2 4 .4
5,158
Per
cent
age
change
from
Sep
tem
ber
1934
+ .7
+ 3 .6
-7 .6
- 8.2
8,335 + 1 .0
13, 297 +11.4
- 6 .5
+ 1 .3
Per
cent
Am ount
N um N um
age
of
ber of ber on change
pay roll
estab pay roll from
(1
week)
lish October Sep
October
1934
tem
ments
1934
ber
1934
-4 .7
+ 3 .9
+. 6
+ 3 .5
326
653
138
16
Per
cent
age
change
from
Sep
tem
ber
1934
608
+ 2 .5
15, 747
+ .2
26 ' +44. 4
992
-2 .5
409
15,531
+ 15.5
- 1 .4
8,547
- 5 2 .0
1,581
- 7 .8
757
i
-4 4 .5
;
87 i - 1 .1
322 '
+. 6
6,857
+ 6 .4
13 ; 2,243 '
+ 1 .3
51,707
+ 8 .7
745 1 + 3.8
16,003
+10.8
4 ‘
(‘ 0
:
n Not available.
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 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 1934, 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
by cooperating State organizations]
Bituminous-coal mining
State
Num
ber of
estab
lish
ments
Per
cent
Num age
ber on change
pay rol] from
October Sep
1934
tem
ber
1934
Alabama.............
Arizona............
Arkansas.............
California............
Colorado.............
Crude-petroleum producing
Per
Per
cent
Amount cent
age Num- Num age
of
berof ber on change
pay roll changes estab
pay roll from
(1 week) from
Sep
lish October Sep
October tem ments
1934
tem
1934
ber
ber
1934
$129,471
1934
+ 8.8
56
8,994
48
5,205 +18.6
SI
9 ,0 0 8
+ 1 .9
186,187
5,772
1,568
+ 1.0
+ 9 .6
121,452 + 8 .4
28,091 +17.2
- 1 .7
1934
Per
Amount cent
age
of
pay roll change
(1 week) from
Sep
October tem
1934
ber
110,005 +19.8
9
26
513
3,142
—1.9
-.4
$12,950
95,079
+ 3 .3
+ 1.6
9
4
204
- 3 .8
-1 5 .4
4,535
362
+ 3 .1
+ 2.8
Connecticut.........
Delaware............
Dist. of Columbia.
Florida................
Georgia...............
Idaho..................
Illinois................
Indiana...............
Iowa...................
Kansas.... ...........
53
18
+ 1 0 .3
22
88
8 ,2 4 8
+ 8 .8
49,691
+ 1 9 .8
26
1,720
- .6
42,190
+ 6.2
Kentucky______
Louisiana............
Maine____
Maryland___
Massachusetts
150
31,933
+ .3
570,174
+ 8.8
3
6
240
214
+ 3 .9
+ 1 .4
3,663
6,175
+ 9 .4
16
1 ,4 4 *
+ 5 .7
83,711
+ 1 6 .6
Michigan.. __
Minnesota..........
Mississippi____
Missouri. .
Montana_____
3
666 +49.0
13,266 +55.7
10
19
1,639 + 3 .0
1,028 +18.4
25,633 +14.3
29,916 +31.4
4
37
-1 4 .0
1,070
- .8
12
1,652
33,722 +14.3
- .8
Nebraska. _
Nevada ..
New Hampshire
New Mexico____
+ .4
New York
North Dakota.....
Ohio.............
Oklahoma______
73
17
Pennsylvania......
410
fPAfl MACCOfl
Texas__________
Utah
Washington------West Virginia......
W y o m i n g __________
4
78
- 7 .1
2,070
+ 1 4 .5
5
268
-1 1 .3
6,024
-2 .7
14,613 +46.5
253,946 +15.9
16,211 +19.4
59
6
69
5,874
+13.1
-.3
879
145,946
+ 10 .2
+ 4 .8
-.4
1,364,598 +12.5
18
639
- 5 .1
15,165
-3 .5
14
5
16
2,795 + 1 .5
366 - 1 . 1
2,128 +32.1
41,960 + 5 .5
6,472 + 5 .9
56,130 +44.3
14
8 ,1 0 9
876,441
+ .9
21
4,433
- .8
75,964 +15.7
14
364
1 170
74^484
+ 7 .5
+ .7
30,468 +24.3
1,444,005 +10.3
7
347
- 8.2
7,547
- .8
- 5 .5
7,904
+ 2 .1
7
33
644 +-32.0
14,231 + 3 .8
816 +14.9
75,372
3,682
+ 9 .6
104,905 +14.6
9
257
-.1
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 E N T IC A L 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 1934, 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]
Public utilities
State
N um
ber of
estab
lish
ments
Per
cent
N um
age
ber on change
pay roll from
October Sep
1934
tem
ber
1934
Amount
of
pay roll
(1 week)
October
1934
Hotels
Per
cent
age
changei
from
Sep
tem
ber
1934
Per
cent
Num- N um
age
Amount
ber of ber on change
of
estab pay roll1 from
pay roll
lish October • Sep
(1 week)
tem
ments
1934
October
ber
1934
1934
Per
cent
age
change
from
Sep
tem
ber
1934
A la b a m a ._______
Arizona____ ______
Arkansas________
C aliforn ia .............
Colorado_________
89
69
82
37
205
1,874
1,598
U416
85,385
5,800
- 0 .4
+ 2 .8
+ 1 .7
+ .2
- 2 .3
$41,583
39,127
33,287
1,022,663
150, 575
+ 3 .7
+ 2 .8
+ 9 .5
+ 4 ,9
+ 3 .8
21
18
26
183
54
1,175
506
795
9,790
1, 485
+ 1 .1
+ 5 .2
- 2 .0
- 1 .7
- 1 .6
$10,019
7,330
7,104
152,239
22, 835
+2. 8
+ 5 .7
+ 1 .0
- 1 .4
- 1 .7
Connecticut--------Delaware________
Dist. of Columbia.
Florida__________
Georgia__________
132
29
IT
184
186
9,969
1,178
9,013
4,849
7, 285
-.2
-.8
-.3
+ .4
+ .1
306,467
33, 713
254,545
121, 705
197, 250
-2 .0
+ 4 .1
+ 7 .3
+ 5 .9
+ 4 .6
31
4
45
64
34
1,350
269
4, 292
1,202
1, 431
+ 2 .8
+ .7
+ 6 .0
+ 8 .5
+ 2 .2
18,435
3,648
67,876
12,474
11,957
+ 3 .6
+ 2 .8
+ 7 .6
+11.9
+ 3 .2
57
Idaho____________
87
Illin ois....................
134
Indiana__________
474
Iowa_____________
Kansas----------------- 13 161
829
72,840
9,265
9,268
7,088
+ 1 .1
(®)
—3. 4
—. 2
- 1 .8
16,767
2,102,654
232,143
216,138
171,232
+. 7
+ 4 .0
+• 2
+ 3.1
- 1 .6
20
i*239
64
58
29
416
15,996
2,983
2, 551
647
- 3 .5
- 1 .9
+ 4.1
+ 6 .2
+ 2 .2
4,961
241,648
31, 52,5
23, 795
6,528
+ .4
+ .3
+ 2 .4
+ 1 .8
+. 5
285
K entucky________
152
Louisiana________
170
M aine.............. .......
89
M aryland________
Massachusetts------ is i ts
6, 652
5,890
3,017
11, 892
46,826
-.5
- 1 .0
+ 1 .0
+ ( 9)
-.2
154,349
145, 884
80,139
885,513
1,814,049
+ 1.3
+ 2 .6
+. 4
-8 6
- 1 .2
33
18
24
20
67
1,986
1,817
674
666
6,041
+ .6
+• 8
- 3 3 .7
+ 5 .4
+ 5 .3
20, 743
21,870
8, 596
8,235
87,085
+ 7 .3
+ 3 .9
-3 3 .9
+ 5 .5
+ 8.3
M ichigan........ .......
Minnesota_______
Mississippi......... .
Missouri_________
M ontana....... .........
410
235
191
286
113
29,459
12,884
2,009
21,086
2,179
-1 .5
+ .3
-1 .0
+• 1
+ 6 .6
908,714 + 3 .1
339, 784 + 1 .7
41,283 + 3 .1
581,490 + 4 .6
65,869 +14.2
96
72
17
89
37
5,452
3,411
490
5,186
613
+ 3 .0
- 1 .5
-1 .6
+ 4 .2
-1 .0
69,618
41,245
3,864
62, 779
8,916
+ 4 .0
+ .7
+ 6 .3
+ 7 .2
- 1 .5
Nebraska________
N evada, ________
New H am pshireN ew Jersey______
New M exico..........
356
38
141
266
53
5,624
400
2,328
21,358
627
-.7
- 3 .6
+ 1 .0
-.8
+ .2
143, 266
12,012
63,579
659,749
13,062
+ 2 .9
- 2 .3
- 3 .2
+ 4 .9
+ 3 .6
36
18
19
89
17
1,601
300
355
4, 353
373
+ 5 .9
- 9 .9
-4 7 .9
-1 6 .8
- 1 .6
16, 937
4,130
4,049
53,340
3,761
+ 6 .5
- 8 .3
-4 5 .4
-1 3 .0
-.3
New Y ork ............ .
N orth Carolina___
North Dakota...
Ohio........ .............. .
Oklahoma..............
875 123,342
93
1,946
182
1,388
430 35,780
6,492
269
-.5
-.4
-4 .2
-.8
- 2 .4
3,975,948
43,477
33,657
972,064
155,028
+. 9
+ 7.3
+ 2 .8
+ 1 .9
-.3
222
37
17
130
48
29,302
1, 505
286
9,262
1,493
+ 1 .2
- 1 .4
+ 6.3
+2. 5
- 1 .2
461, 502
13,399
2,933
120,499
16, 211
+ 3 .3
-.6
+ 5 .2
+ 2 .5
+ .7
Oregon....................
Pennsylvania____
Rhode Island____
South Carolina—
South Dakota___
183
715
47
76
129
5,741
55,201
5, 624
1,669
1,081
- 1 .2
+ .8
-1 .0
-.6
- 2 .3
162,094
1,576,900
167,136
37,385
26,911
+ 3 .7
+ 1 .3
- 1 .2
+ 4 .6
+ 3 .7
64
157
11
13
21
1,459
10,089
358
301
348
+ .1
-.5
- 8 .7
+ 2 .7
+ 2 .4
18,636
134,932
5, 205
2,700
4,125
+ 2 .3
+L7
- 3 .9
+ 1 .4
+ 4 .0
Tennessee—...........
Texas......................
U ta h ......................
V erm on t...............
Virginia.. ...............
247
878
70
126
178
4,904
8,728
1,956
1,526
5,993
-1 .9
+ .8
+ 4 .7
+ 1 .1
- 2 .2
114,189
222,897
41,184
36,468
150,916
+ 4 .4
-1 .5
+ 7 .4
-.3
+ 3 .3
37
85
14
17
35
2,474
2,407
504
489
2,128
+. 3
+ .8
-.4
- 1 .4
-4 .2
21,485
82,187
6, 512
5,018
23,096
+ 1 .0
+ .6
-2 .4
-. 1
-3 .0
W ashington...........
West Virginia........
W isconsin________
W yom ing. ........... .
198
119
u 41
49
9,921
6,873
10,994
493
- 2 .3
- 3 .8
-.8
+ .2
283, 571
174,088
884,797
12,133
+. 5
+ 3 .0
+ 2 .6
+ 6 .1
88
36
42
12
2, 720
1, 202
1,416
103
- 2 .4
- 2 .7
-2 .2
- 4 .6
31,981
13,202
(u)
1,393
- 3 .1
+ 1 .2
®Less than Ho of 1 percent.
13 Includes steam railways.
11 N ot available.
12 Includes restaurants.
14 Includes railways and express.
-.6
29
COMPARISON OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS IN IDENTICAL ESTABLISHMENTS
IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1934, BY STATES—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
by cooperating State organizations]
Laundries
Num
ber of
estab
lish
ments
State
Delaware................
Dist. of Columbia.
Iowa
XTa n Sfl-S
___ - _____
___
Per
Per
Per
Per
cent
cent
Amount cent
Amount cent
Num
Num Num
age
age
age
age
of
of
ber on change
ber of ber on change
pay roll change
pay roll change
from estab pay roll from
pay roll from (1
from
week)
(1
week)
October Sep
lish October Sep
Sep
Sep
Octobor
October
tem
tem
1934
tem ments
1934
tem
1934
1934
ber
ber
ber
ber
1934
1934
1934
1934
15
11
720
313
+ 2 .1
+ 4 .0
$6,569
3,966
+ 1 .0
+ 5 .6
n
l# 50
452
8 ,6 8 6
+ 1 .8
-.8
4 ,7 2 5
6 4,889
34
1,465
- 3 .1
19,537
+ 8 .8
+ .S
43
4
17
21
24
1,682
315
2,590
1,009
2,354
- 1 .7
- 2 .2
+• 4
+ 4 .0
- 3 .1
26,992
5,282
39,261
10,267
26,283
+ 0 .7
+ 1 .3
-1 2 .3
268
-5 .0
4,976
—8.5
333
-1 .2
7,106
- 4 .5
3
7
12
80
77
207
- 4 .8
+ 5 .5
- 1 .0
1,443
1,182
2,669
- 1 .4
+ 8 .2
-.2
41
9
646
156
-.2
-.6
10,911
2,767
- 1 .3
-3 .9
22,875 - 2 .8
4,905 - 2 .7
8,501 -1 5 .1
9
6
7
292
115
189
- 1 .7
-1 .7
- 1 .6
+ .8
4,081
1,456
3,552
- 4 .5
- 3 .0
- 4 .2
- 2 .8
4 ,7 5 2
8 9 ,8 4 0
+ 5 .6
-5 .4
- 3 .2
4,320
- 1 .3
+ 8 .6
5 6,6 74
+ 4 -5
- 2 .5
- 1 .7
25,361
15,851
- 3 .8
- 2 .4
967
—2 .8
12,871
-4 .2
1,848 - 3 .2
468 - 3 .9
604 -1 1 .2
$1,358
385
1,157
19
1,895
1,189
40
7
29
- 4 .0
- 8 .3
- 1 .2
15
8,491
u p
95
22
79
- 2 .6
- 2 .6
- 3 .1
+ 7 .2
- 4 .8
44
32
270
6
3
6
- 2 .7
i« 78
13
In d ian a __________
Dyeing and cleaning
Kentucky______ _
Louisiana_____ - _
Maine___________
Maryland ____ —
Massachusetts-----
22
128
1 ,7 4 9
5 ,2 8 8
-1 .9
-.6
2 6,1 20
86,7 48
-.5
-1 .1
11
79
259
2 ,2 2 7
M chigan________
M in n eso ta.....__
Mississippi.._____
Missouri_- __ - __
Montana_________
68
40
7
53
15
3,369
1,657
307
2,996
388
- 2 .6
- 1 .1
- 1 .3
-.9
(i°)
47,905
26,028
3,324
39,707
6,474
- 3 .0
-.2
(10)
-.8
+ .2
33
16
6
23
8
1,045
470
68
1,123
54
- 5 .1
- 4 .9
(i°)
- 2 .9
+ 1 .9
20,230
7,929
1,011
18,373
1,056
- 6 .9
- 3 .3
- 2 .9
- 4 .5
- 7 .7
Nebraska________
‘NJAvaHfi
New Hampshire. .
New Jersey______
*VT*%Txr ATOYIP/1
15
3
19
50
4
878
48
323
5,478
196
- 1 .3
+ 2 .1
- 5 .8
- 2 .8
-1 .5
12,274
896
4,751
98,437
3,218
+ .8
—.7
- 8 .2
- 3 .2
+ 3 .5
12
240
-6 .2
4,239
-8 .5
4
19
68
452
(10)
+ 3 .4
1,202
10,254
- 4 .4
+ 3 .8
New York_______
North Carolina-_.
•Mnrth T>alrotft
Ohio
...................
Oklahoma____ - __
93
13
12
75
23
7,329
696
261
3,774
958
+ .2
- 2 .3
+. 8
- 2 .2
-1 .9
125,037
7,460
4,001
59,047
11,950
- 3 .0
+ 4 .8
-.5
- 4 .6
-0 0
58
9
1,056
150
- 1 .9
+ 1 .4
22,021
2,018
(»)
+ .4
76
13
2,230
202
- 1 .4
+ 3 .6
42,195
2,711
-3 .5
-2 .2
Oreeon__________
Pennsylvania........
Rhode Island........
South Carolina—
South Dakota------
13
38
21
10
7
418
2,714
1,107
445
145
+ 3 .2
— 1.0
- 2 .8
-.7
-.7
6,685
41,538
19,069
3,965
1,791
+ .1
- .4
- 1 .7
- 3 .6
-.8
9
48
7
9
3
95
1,867
430
78
39
- 2 .1
+ 1 .2
+ 6 .2
+ 2 .6
+ 8 .3
1,856
34,497
8,072
1,118
718
- 4 .5
+ 2 .9
+ 7 .0
+ 6 .7
+11.1
Tennessee__ _____
Texas___ _____ __
Utah........................
V e r m o n t --- --- _
Virginia...................
14
39
12
8
22
1,348
2,321
665
129
1,090
- 1 .7
+ .3
+ 1 .4
- 8 .5
- 1 .5
12,872
28,537
9,667
1,527
13,192
- 2 .3
- 1 .0
+ .1
- 7 .7
-.2.4
12
24
11
6
35
205
673
111
86
463
- 4 .7
- 1 .8
-3 .5
-1 0 .4
- 1 .3
2,636
11,308
2,075
1,305
7,182
- 5 .8
- 2 .9
- 4 .4
- 6 .2
+ .7
Washington
West Virginia........
'UtTicA/vncin
Wyoming________
18
17
757
581
- 3 .6
- 1 .5
13,402
7,786
- 3 .5
-1 .1
14
9
259
244
-3 .0
+ 1 .2
4,765
3,495
-1 0 .9
- 3 .1
3
20
(10)
'* 2 8
949
-1 .7
1 8,0 46
-1 .5
8
165
- 3 .5
2,866
- 2 .6
•Less than * of 1 percent.
No change.
426
Includes dyeing and cleaning.
(10)
30
COMPARISON OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS IN IDENTICAL ESTABLISHMENTS
IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1934, BY STATES—Continued
Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
by cooperating State organizations]
Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate
State
Number
of estab
lishments
Percent Amount of
Percentage
Number
age
pay roll
change
on pay roll change
(1
week)
from Sep
October from Sep October
tember
1934
tember
1934
1934
1934
Alabama.................................................................
Arizona...................................................................
Arkansas................................................................
California...............................................................
Colorado.................................................................
31
33
21
1,167
48
557
804
249
22,916
1,347
- 0 .5
-1-6.5
-.8
-.5
-.1
$15,941
20,953
6,110
744,852
42,839
+ 0 .5
+ 1 .2
-.2
—.3
- 1 .9
Connecticut...........................................................
Delaware................................................................
District of Columbia. ........................................
Florida....................................................................
Georgia...................................................................
74
15
39
26
65
2,037
493
1,379
843
1,379
-.3
-.2
+ .7
+ 1 .5
70,958
17,647
50,449
26,014
41,001
-.8
-.3
+ .9
+ .5
+ .3
Idaho.......................................................................
Illinois ....................................................................
Indiana...................................................................
Iowa........................................................................
Kansas....................................................................
16
110
61
19
(10)
-.2
- 1 .2
- 1 .7
3,416
392,822
45,451
31,489
i* 4 8
139
11,272
1,386
995
959
Kentucky...............................................................
Louisiana................................................................
Maine......................................................................
Maryland...............................................................
Massachusetts.......................................................
25
19
20
39
889
357
276
1,236
7 ,6 8 4
- 1 .4
-.6
(10)
+ 2 .2
+ .9
228,008
+ .3
-1 .2
+11.1
+ 1 .3
+(»)
Michigan................................................................
Minnesota..............................................................
Mississippi.............................................................
Missouri.................................................................
Montana.................................................................
198
58
16
156
26
7,128
4,776
195
5,994
239
-1 .1
-.2
(10)
+ .1
-4 .0
222,995
134,887
4,315
164,891
6,774
-.4
+ .5
-.5
+. 3
- 2 .3
Nebraska................................................................
Nevada...................................................................
New Hampshire...................................................
New Jersey............................................................
New M exico.......... — .......... .............................
23
3
35
152
19
578
13
424
13,854
125
-.2
(10)
- 2 .1
+ 3 .4
- 1 .6
19,669
444
11,643
465,139
3,366
+• 1
+ .9
+11.5
+22.2
+ 1 .2
New York..............................................................
North Carolina.....................................................
North Dakota.......................................................
Ohio........................................................................
Oklahoma..............................................................
1,141
31
38
307
31
69,668
603
270
8,227
532
-.8
-.3
-.4
-.9
-.9
2,159,977
16,317
6,563
272,783
16,110
-.7
+ 1 .0
-.8
+ .1
-.2
Oregon....................................................................
Pennsylvania........................................................
Rhode Island.........................................................
South Carolina.....................................................
South Dakota.......................................................
19
721
74
11
32
806
1,738
122
251
-.2
-.4
-.5
-.8
- 2 .3
Tennessee...............................................................
Texas.......................................................................
Utah........................................................................
Vermont.................................................................
Virginia..................................................................
3*1
61
24
30
68
1,091
1,941
607
235
1,571
(10)
(10)
- 1 .6
+ .9
-.4
37,093
51,600
20,360
6,764
49,614
(10)
+ .4
- 1 .1
-.2
-.4
Washington...........................................................
West Virginia-.....................................................
Wisconsin...............................................................
Wyoming...............................................................
54
50
41
13
1,969
660
1,098
118
+ 2 .0
-.6
- 1 .2
-.8
58,370
19,101
37,273
3,559
+ 1 .1
- 1 .6
+(•)
- 1 .5
*Less than Ho of 1 percent.
10No change.
*1 ,0 6 8
-(• )
+ .1
-.1
- 1 .4
+ .«
SO, 820
31,584
13,470
8,289
41,397
27,423
+ («)
657,006
69,733
3,792
6,210
+ .i
+ (• )
-.7
-1 .3
it Does not indude brokerage and real estate.
31
Employment and Pay Rolls in October 1934 in Cities of Over 500,000
Population
F l u c t u a t i o n s in employment and pay-roll totals in October
1934 as compared with September 1934 in 13 cities of the United
States having a population of 500,000 or over are presented in the
following table. These changes are computed from reports received
from identical establishments in each of the months considered.
In addition to reports received from establishments in the several
industrial groups regularly covered in the survey of the Bureau,
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.
FLU C TU ATIO N S IN E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y ROLLS IN OCTOBER 1934 AS CO M PA R ED
W IT H SE P T E M B E R 1934
Cities
Number on pay roll
Number of
establish
ments re
porting in
September
October
both
1934
1934
months
New York City..........
Chicago, 111..................
Philadelphia, Pa
Detroit, Mich..............
Los Angeles, Calif----Cleveland, Ohio..........
St. Louis, M o..............
Baltimore, M d ............
Boston, Mass...............
Pittsburgh, Pa............
San Francisco, Calif..
Buffalo, N . Y _______
Milwaukee, Wis.........
16,329
4,018
2,950
1,604
2,603
2,270
2,712
1,362
3,459
1,565
1,595
1,021
866
629,290
346,758
202,910
157,438
108,547
124,587
125,502
84,410
144,254
121,141
60,609
61,741
64,783
635,309
340,634
210,777
132,870
109,427
126,570
122,176
84,016
144,672
123,637
61,798
59,854
64,824
Amount of pay roll
Per
(1 week)
centage
change
from
Sep
September
October
tember
1934
1934
1934
Percentage
change from
September
1934
+ 1 .0 $15,991,313 $16,240,533
- 1 .8
8,074,936
8,196,287
+ 3 .9
4,504,988
4,753,371
3,756,177
3,653,177
-1 5 .6
2,519,174
2,589,139
+ 0 .8
2,603,513
2,773,640
+ 1 .6
2,590,253
2,584,754
- 2 .7
1,622,240
- 0 .5
1,598,058
3,292,658
+ 0 .3
3,278,039
+ 2 .1
2,435,068
2,579,931
1,537,182
1,478,449
+ 2 .0
1,310,632
-3 .1
1,278,905
1,384,016
1,420,627
+ 0 .1
+ 1 .6
+ 1 .5
+ 5 .5
- 2 .7
+ 2 .8
+ 6 .5
- 0 .2
- 1 .5
- 0 .4
+ 5 .9
+ 4 .0
- 2 .4
+ 2 .6
Employment on Class I Steam Railroads in the United States
R e p o r t s of the Interstate Commerce Commission for cla*ss I rail
roads show that the number of employees, exclusive of executives and
officials, decreased from 1,066,361 on September 15, 1934, to 999,258
(preliminary) on October 15, 1934, or 0.7 percent. Data are not yet
available concerning total compensation of employees for October
1934. The latest pay-roll information available shows a decrease
from $128,261,020 in August 1934 to $121,368,674 in September
1934, or 5.4 percent.
The monthly trend of employment from January 1923 to October
1934 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, constructed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, are based on the 3-year average, 1923-25
as 100, and cover all employees.
32
IN D E X E S
OF E M P L O Y M E N T ON CLASS I STEAM RAILROADS IN
S T A T E S , J A N U A R Y 1923 T O O C T O B E R 1934
TH E
U N IT E D
[3-year average, 1923-25=100]
Month
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
January..........................
February.......................
March............................
April...............................
M ay................................
June................................
J u ly ..............................
August...........................
September.....................
October..........................
November__ _________
December......................
98.4
98.6
100.4
101.9
104.8
107.1
108.2
109.2
107.7
107.1
105.0
99.1
96.7
96.9
97.3
98.8
99.1
97.9
98.0
98.9
99.6
100.7
98.9
96.0
95.5
95.3
95.1
96.5
97.7
98.5
99.3
99.5
99.7
100.4
98.9
96.9
95.6
95.8
96.5
98.6
100.0
101.3
102.6
102.4
102.5
103.1
101.0
98.0
95.2
95.0
95.6
97.1
99.1
100.7
100.7
99.2
98.8
98.5
95.5
91.7
89.1
88.7
89.7
91.5
94.4
95.8
95.4
95.5
95.1
95.2
92.7
89.5
88.0
88.6
89.8
91.9
94.6
95.8
96.3
97.1
96.5
96.6
92.8
88.5
86.1
85.2
85.3
86.7
88.3
86.3
84.5
83.5
82.0
80.2
76.9
74.8
73.5
72.6
72.7
73.4
73.8
72.7
72.3
71.0
69.2
67.6
64.4
62.5
61.1
60.2
60.5
59.9
59.6
57.7
56.3
54.9
55.7
56.9
55.8
54.7
53.0
52.7
51.5
51.8
52.5
53.6
55.4
56.8
57.7
57.4
55.8
54.0
54.1
54.6
55.9
56.9
58.5
59.0
58.7
57.8
1 57.3
156.6
Average............... 104.0
98.2
97.8
99.8
97.3
92.7
93.1
83.3
70.6
57.8
54.4
2 56.9
* Preliminary.
2 Average for 10 months.
Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.
Employment and Pay Rolls in the Federal Service, October 1934
T h e number of employees in the executive departments of the
United States Government in October 1934 totaled 1,668 more than
the number in September 1934, and 85,570 more than the number
in October 1933.
Data concerning employment in the executive departments are
collected by the United States Civil Service Commission from the
various departments and offices of the United States Government.
The figures are tabulated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In
formation concerning the legislative, judicial, and military branches
of the United States Government is collected and compiled by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Table 1 shows the number of employees in the executive depart
ments of the Federal Government.
Data for the District of Columbia are shown separately. Approxi
mately 13 percent of the employees in the executive branches of the
Federal Government work in the city of Washington.
33
T a b le
1.—E M P L O Y E E S IN T H E E X E C U T IV E 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 1933 A N D S E P T E M B E R 1934 A N D O C T O B E R 1934
District of Columbia
Outside the District
Entire service
Perma Tempo Total
rary *
nent
Perma-Tempo- Total
nent j rary *
Perma Tempo
nent
rary 1 Total
Item
i
Number of employees:
October 1933...................... 64,846
6,386 71,232 461,1551I 65,548 526,703 526,001 71,934 597,935
September 1934................. 83,931
8,626 92,557 501,822 87,458 589,280 585,753 96,084 681,837
October 1934...................... 84,891
8,431 93,322 502,157!! 88,026 590,183 587,048 96,457 683,505
Gain or loss:
October 1933 to October
1934.................................. +20,045 +2,045 +22,090 +41,0021+22,478 +63,480 +61,047 +24,523 +85,570
September 1934 to Oc
tober 1934........................
+960
-195
+765
+335 I +568
+903 +1,295
+373 +1,668
Percentage change:
1
i
October 1933 to October
1934.................................. +30.91 +32.02 +31.01 +8.89 +34.29!I +12.05 +11.61 +34.09 +14.31
September 1934 to Oc
1 . Ij
tober 1934.......................
+1.14 -2 .2 6 +0.83 + 0 .07|s +0.65;! +0.15 +0.22 +0.39 +0.24
Labor turn-over, October
1934:
Additions2........................
2,209
3,626
7,169 23,281 30,450
9,378 24,698 34,076
1,417
Separations 2_ _ .................
1,612
1,237
2,849
6,837 22,422 29,259
8,074 24,034 32,108
1.36
Turn-over rate per 100. -1.47
24.96
16.61
25.57
4.96
3.07
1.38
4.70
!
1 Not including field employees of the Post Office Department.
3 Not including employees transferred within the Government service as such transfers should not be
regarded as labor turn-over.
Comparing October 1934 with September 1934, there was an
increase of 1.1 percent in the number of permanent employees in the
District of Columbia, but a decrease of 2.3 percent in the number of
temporary employees, making a net gain of less than 1 percent in
total employment. Comparing October 1934 with the same month
of the previous year, the number of permanent employees in the
executive departments increased more than 30 percent. Temporary
employees increased 32 percent over the same period. Outside the
District of Columbia total employment in the executive departments
increased 0.15 percent comparing October with September 1934, and
12.05 percent comparing October 1934 with October 1933.
Table 2 shows employment in executive departments of the United
States Government, by months, January to October 1934, inclusive.
T
2 *—E M P L O Y M E N T IN T H E E X E C U T IV E D E P A R T M E N T S OF T H E U N IT E D
ST A TE S B Y M O N T H S, 1934, FOR D IST R IC T OF C O L U M B IA , OUTSIDE D IS T R IC T OF
CO L U M B IA , A N D TO TALS
able
Months
January....................
February..................
March.......................
April..........................
M ay..........................
District
of Co
lumbia
78,045
79,913
81,569
83,850
85,939
Outside
District
of Co
lumbia
530,094
531,839
541,990
560,258
573,147
1
Total
Monchs
District
of Co
lumbia
Outside
District
of Co
lumbia
87,196
87,978
91,065
92,557
93,322
573,898
583,531
585,772
589,280
590,183
j
608,139
611,752
623,559
644,108
659,086
June..........................
July...........................
August......................
September...............
October.....................
!1
Total
661,094
671,509
676.837
681.837
683,505
34
Over the 10-month period employment in the executive departments
in the city of Washington increased 19.6 percent, while such employ
ment outside the District increased 11.3 percent.
Table 3 shows the number of employees and amount of pay rolls in
the various branches of the United States Government during Septem
ber and October 1934.
T
3 . — N U M B E R OF E M P L O Y E E S A N D AM O U N TS OF P A Y ROLLS IN T H E VARIOUS
B R AN C H ES OF T H E U N IT E D STATES G O V E R N M E N T , S E P T E M B E R A N D OCTO BER
1934
able
Number of employees
Branch of service
September j
Executive service....................................................
Military service......................................................... i
Judicial service . _________ _____- ........ ......... Legislative service_______________ _____________
Total __________________________________
October
Amount of pay roll
October
September
681,837 j
269,489
1,777
3,721 j
683,505
270,490
1,846
3,700
$99,152,554
20,855,093
486,410
976,516
$101,888,573
19,945,777
453,217
975,851
956,824 !
959,541
121,470,573
123,263,417
Slight increases over the month were shown in executive, military,
and judicial services. There was a small decrease in the legislative
service comparing October with September.
Table 4 shows the number of employees and amount of pay rolls
for all branches of the United States Government, by months, Decem
ber 1933 to October 1934, inclusive.
T
4 . — N U M B E R OF E M P LO Y E E S A N D A M O U N TS OF P A Y ROLLS FOR A L L
B R AN CH ES OF T H E U N IT E D STATES G O V E R N M E N T B Y M O N T H S , D E C E M B E R
1933 TH R O U G H OCTOBER 1934
able
Executive service
Month
Military service
Judicial service
Legislative serv
ice
Num
Number Amount of Number
Amount Num Amount
ber of
of em
of em Amount of ber of of pay
of pay
pay
roll
em
pay
roll
em
ployees
ployees
roll
roll
ployees
ployees
1933
December.......................... 608,670
$82,011,601
263,622 $17,656,909
1,872 $432,435
3,864
$886,781
1934
January...........................
February...........................
March................................
April...................................
M ay...................................
June...................................
J u ly ..................................
August...............................
September........................
October..............................
77,450,498
83,524,296
84,837,493
85,090,283
89,577,479
91,540,629
94,636,232
97,919,636
S9,152,554
101,888,573
262,942
263,464
266,285
266,923
266,864
267,038
268,257
268,712
269,489
270,490
1,780
1,742
1,854
1,904
1,913
1,881
1,750
1,690
1,777
1,846
3,845
3,852
3,867
3,865
3,862
3,878
3,713
3,723
3,721
3,700
871,753
926,363
928,368
926,484
940,666
944,758
978,908
977,966
976,516
975,851
608,139
611,752
623,559
644,108
659,086
661,094
671,509
676,837
681,837
683,505
18,499,516
19,532,832
19,050,158
18,816,636
19,216,150
19,539,020
20,391,629
20,501,900
20,855,093
19,945,777
417,000
430,843
443,505
432,401
442,896
439,170
434,736
439,014
486,410
453,217
Employment Created by Public Works Administration Fund, October 1934
T h e r e were nearly 510,000 employees working at the site of Public
Works Administration construction projects during the month ending
October 15, 1934. This construction is financed wholly or in part
from the Public Works Administration fund. Pay rolls for these
workers totaled nearly $30,000,000.
35
Employment on Construction Projects, By Type of Project
T a b l e 1 shows, by type of project, employment, pay rolls, and
man-hours worked during the month of October 1 1934 on Federal
projects financed by the Public Works Administration fund.
T able 1 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, AN D M AN-HOU R S W O R K E D ON F E D E R A L PROJ
ECTS F IN A N C E D FROM T H E PUBLIC W ORK S A D M IN IST R A TIO N FU N D , D U R IN G
OCTOBER 1934, B Y T Y P E OF PROJECT
[Subject to revision]
Type of project
Building construction.............................................
Public roads..............................................................
River, harbor, and flood controL.........................
Streets and roads 1...................................................
Naval vessels............................................................
Reclamation..............................................................
Forestry—.................................................................
Water and sewerage................................................
Miscellaneous...........................................................
Total___________________________________
Number Amount of Number of Average
of wage
pay rolls man-hours earnings
per hour
worked
earners
27,105
192,498
57,034
14,256
19,274
18,018
4,528
1,218
15,129
349,060
$1,771,498
7.513.176
3.976.176
655,584
2,412,961
1,689,292
281,152
65,307
1,289,023
19,654,169
2,218,291
14,837,396
6,002,868
1,261,487
2,852,746
2,740,846
410,114
99,310
2,122,122
32,545,180
$0,799
.506
.662
.520
.846
.616
.686
.658
.607
.604
Value of
material
orders
placed
$2,562,590
13,680,000
6,900,810
525,228
2,105,213
5,321,163
128,341
110,878
1,284,057
32,618,280
* Other than those reported by the Bureau of Public Roads.
Federal construction projects are financed entirely by allotments
made by the Public Works Administration to various departments and
agencies of the Federal Government. The construction work is per
formed either by commercial firms to whom contracts have been
awarded by the Federal agencies or by day labor hired directly by such
agencies.
During the month ending October 15 there were nearly 350,000
people working at the site of Federal Public Works Administration
construction projects. This is a decrease of 40,000 as compared with
September. Road building accounted for a decrease of 38,000,
comparing October with September, and there were increases in
employment on river, harbor, and flood-control work, naval vessels,
reclamation projects, and water and sewerage work. Of the 350,000
employees working on Federal construction projects, more than
192,000 were engaged in road work. Fifty-seven thousand employees
were working on river, harbor, and flood-control projects, and 27,000
on building construction.
There was a great difference in the hourly earnings of men engaged
in the different types of construction. Road workers earned 50 cents
per hour while workers on naval vessels earned 84 cents per hour.
During the month of October purchase orders were placed for
material valued at over $32,600,000.
Table 2 shows, by type of project, employment, pay rolls, and
man-hours worked during the month of October on non-Federal
construction projects financed from the Public Works Administration
fund.
* Whenever the month of October is spoken of in this study it is assumed to mean the month ending
Oct. 15.
36
T able 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 N O N F E D E R A L
P R O J E C T S F IN A N C E D F R O M T H E P U B L IC W O R K S A D M IN IS T R A T IO N F U N D , D U R
IN G O C T O B E R 1934, B Y T Y P E OF P R O J E C T
[Subject to revision]
T ype of project
Num ber Am ount of Number of Average
of wage
earnings
pay rolls man-hours
worked
earners
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
44,815
23,020
37,842
24,787
1,237
$2,857,797
1,112,694
2,133,398
1,472,818
67,962
3,273,261
1,736,883
3,086,785
2,758,554
95,979
$0.873
.641
.691
.534
.708
$5,932,753
2,085,173
3,434,850
628,757
662,015
Total................................................................;: 131,701
1!
7,644,669
10,951,462
.698
12,743, 548
Building construction............ ................................
Streets and roads..................................................
Water and sewerage............................................ .
Railroad construction................ ............................
Miscellaneous........................................................... :
Non-Federal construction projects are financed by allotments made
from the Public Works Administration fund to a State or political
subdivisions thereof, or in some cases, to commercial firms. In the
case of allotments to States and their political subdivisions, the Public
Works Administration makes a direct grant of not more than 30
percent of the total construction cost. The public agency to which
the loan is made finances the other 70 percent. In some cases this
70 percent is obtained as a loan from the Public Works Administration;
in other cases, the loan is procured from outside sources. Where the
loan is made by the Public Works Administration t bears interest
and must be repaid within a given period.
No grants are made to commercial firms. Commercial allotments
consist entirely of loans. By far the largest part of the commercial
allotments have been made to railroads. Railroad work falls under
three headings: First, construction, such as electrification, laying of
rails and ties, repairs to buildings, etc.; second, building and repairing
of locomotives, and passenger and freight cars in railroad shops; third,
the building of locomotives and passenger and freight cars in com
mercial shops.
Data concerning employment on railroad construction projects is
shown in table 2. Employment in railroad car and locomotive shops
is shown in table 5, page 38. Employment in commercial car and
locomotive shops is shown in table 6, page 38.
During the month of October there were more than 131,000 workers
employed at the site of non-Federal Public Works Administration
construction projects. This is an increase of more than 4,000 as
compared with September. These employees were paid over $7,600,000 for their month’s work. Their earnings averaged 70 cents per
hour. Average hourly earnings ranged from 53 cents per hour in
railroad construction to over 87 cents per hour in building construction.
Orders were placed during October for material to cost over $12,700,000.
37
Employment on Construction Projects, by Geographic Divisions
Table 3 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked during
October 1934 on Federal construction projects financed from the
Public Works Administration fund, by geographic divisions.
T able 3 .— E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON FED E R A L
PROJECTS F IN A N C E D FR O M T H E PUBLIC W O R K S A D M IN IS T R A T IO N F U N D , D U R
IN Q OCTOBER 1934, B Y GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION
[Subject to revision]
Geographic division
Wage earners
Number of Average
Number Weekly Amount of man-hours earnings
pay rolls
em
worked
per hour
ployed
15,657
New England.......................................... .
38,304
Middle Atlantic.......................................
42,953
East North Central...... ..........................
51,377
West North Central......................... —
52,717
South Atlantic................................. ........
40,563
East South Central.................................
42,836
West South Central— ........................
35, 717
Mountain..................................................
20,821
Pacific............................................ ............
Total continental United States1 341, 205
7,855
Outside continental United States___
Grand total.......................... —
. 349,060
15,178
37,058
41.690
49,142
50,200
39.691
41,149
34,183
20,032
328,583
6,834
$1,047,771
2,283,589
2,499,467
2, 270,342
3,173,905
1,944,679
1,712,351
2,660,382
1,669,757
19,290,709
363,460
335,417
19,654,169
1,568,946
3,620,889
3,742,709
3,890,768
5,183,645
4,028,543
3,512,177
4,050,263
2,142,287
31,767,737
777,443
32,545,180
$0,668
.631
.668
.584
.612
.483
.488
.657
.779
.607
.604
Value of
material
orders
placed
$723,716
1,459,604
1,579,346
1,996,664
3,008,779
928,676
1,772,187
5,975,212
1,154,222
2 32,284,027
334,253
32,618,280
1 Includes date for 260 wage earners which cannot be charged to any specific geographic division.
a Includes $13,680,030, estimated value of material orders placed for public-road projects which cannot be
charged to any specific geographic division.
Disbursements for pay rolls in the South Atlantic States during
October totaled over $3,000,000. In the Mountain States the total
was over $2,600,000. Hourly earnings averaged 48 cents in the East
South Central States and 78 cents in the Pacific States. The East
South Central and the West South Central were the only geographic
divisions where earnings averaged less than 50 cents per hour.
Table 4 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked during
October 1934 on non-Federal projects financed from the Public Works
Administration fund, by geographic divisions.
T able 4 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, A N D M AN -H O U R S W O R K E D ON N O N F E D E R A L
PROJECTS F IN A N C E D F R O M T H E PUBLIC W O R K S A D M IN IS T R A T IO N F U N D , D U R
IN G OCTOBER 1934, B Y G EO G R APH IC DIVISION
[Subject to revision]
Geographic division
Wage earners
Number of Average
Number Weekly Amount of man-hours earnings
pay rolls
em
worked
per hour
average
ployed
New England.......................................... .
Middle Atlantic...................................... .
East North Central.................................
West North Central......................... ......
South Atlantic..........................................
East South Central.......................... ......
West South Central...............................
Mountain...................................................
Pacific.........................................................
Total continental United States.
Outside continental United States___
19,830
20,414
19,230
16,089
27,971
5,783
6,417
5.628
10,008
131,370
331
Grand total........- ......................... .
131,701
16,691
17,726
16;' 250
13,788
24,774
5,081
5,343
4,390
8,297
112,340
298
112,638
$1,158,599
1,368,812
1,272,448
799,376
1,685,914
298,013
267,134
275,025
500,802
7,626,123
18,546
7,644,669
1,752,853
1,739,908
1,525,670
1,025,773
2,825,769
494,249
458,044
394,145
701.269
10,917,680
33,782
10,951,462
$0,661
.787
.834
.779
.597
.603
.583
.698
.714
.698
.549
.699
Value of
material
orders
placed
$1,637,745
2,87a 989
2,381,408
2,070,025
1,545,217
486,864
589,144
502,505
643,894
12,727,791
15,757
12,743,548
38
Comparing October with September increases in employment were
shown in the following geographic divisions: East North Central,
West North Central, South Atlantic, East South Central, West South
Central, and Pacific. The West South Central States showed the
lowest average hourly earnings, 58.3 cents. The highest earnings
were registered in the East North Central States.
Table 5 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked in
car and locomotive shops operated by railroads on work financed from
the Public Works Administration fund during October 1934.
T
5 . — E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, A N D M AN -H O U R S W O R K E D IN R AIL R O AD
SHOPS ON W O R K F IN A N C E D FROM T H E PUBLIC W O R K S A D M IN IS T R A T IO N F U N D
D U R IN G O CTOBER 1934, B Y GEOGRAPHIC D IVISION
able
[Subject to revision]
Geographic division
Number Amount of Number of Average
earnings
of wage
pay rolls man-hours
worked
per hour
earners
Value of
material
orders
placed
New England...........................................................
Middle Atlantic.......................................................
East North Central.................................................
West North Central................................................
South Atlantic..........................................................
East South Central.................................................
West South Central................................................
Mountain................... ....................... .......................
Pacific.................................. ............ .........................
467
4,305
3,379
1,167
1,143
2,682
1,870
747
3,134
$49,590
247,818
304,770
60,975
60,765
219,850
90.616
27.617
141,519
74,647
387,357
477,411
95,782
98,439
361,996
149,508
43,929
224,332
$0,664
.640
.638
.637
.617
.607
.606
.629
.631
$22,979
203,354
145,405
33,024
235,189
11,166
53,032
19,453
65,371
Total................................................................
18,894
1,203,520
1,913,401
.629
788,973
Comparing October with September, there was a decrease of nearly
3,000 workers engaged in building railroad cars and locomotives in
railroad shops receiving Public Works Administration allotments.
There was a difference of only 6 cents per hour comparing the geo
graphic division showing the highest average earnings with the
geographic division showing the lowest average earnings per hour.
Table 6 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked in
commercial car and locomotive shops on contracts financed from the
Public Works Administration fund during October 1934, by geographic
divisions.
T
6 . —-E M P L O Y M E N T . P A Y ROLLS, A N D M AN-HOURS W O R K E D IN C O M M E R C IA L
CAR A N D LOCOM O TIVE SHOPS ON CONTRACTS F IN A N C E D FRO M T H E PUBLIC
W O RK S A D M IN IS T R A T IO N F U N D D U R IN G OCTOBER 1934, B Y GEOGRAPHIC
DIVISION
[Subject to revision]
able
Geographic division
New England_________________________________________
Middle Atlantic.......................................................................
East North Central..................................... ................... .....
West North Central__________________________________
South Atlantic__________ _____________________________
Total_____________ _____________________________
Number of
of
Amount of Number
wage
pay rolls man-hours
earners
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
462
4,379
1,711
870
722
$22,527
428,895
182,032
68,741
75,687
38,723
651,739
267,179
134,608
115,324
$0,582
.658
.681
.511
.656
8,144
777,882
1,207,573
.644
39
Of the 8,100 employees working in commercial shops receiving
Public Works Administration orders, more than 4,300 were working
in the Middle Atlantic States. Earnings average 51 cents per hour
in the West North Central States and 68 cents per hour in the East
North Central States.
Table 7 shows the value of materials for which orders have been
placed since the beginning of the Public Works Administration pro
gram in August 1933 to October 15, 1934, inclusive.
T able 7.—V AL U E OF M A T E R IA L ORDERS PLACED ON PU BLIC-W O RKS PROJECTS,
B Y T Y P E OF M A T E R IA L
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders
placed
Type of material
.......................................... ..................
Aircraft (new).........................................
Airplane parts_______ _________ __________ ____________________ ___________
Aluminum manufactures...........................................................................................
Ammunition and related products........................................................... ................
Asbestos................................................................... .....................................................
Awnings, tents, canvas, etc
.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ____ „ ,
Belting, miscellaneous........................................................... ....................................
Boat building, steel and wooden (small) __________________________________
Bolts, nuts, washers, etc...................... ............ .........................................................
Carpets and rugs.............. ...........................................................................................
Carriages and wagons.................................... .............................................................
Cast-iron pipe and fittings............................... . ........................................................
Cement.......................................... ... .............................................................................
Chemicals......................................................................................................................
Clay products...................................... ; ..................... .................................................
Coal..................................................................................................................
Compressed and liquefied gases....................................... ............ .............................
Concrete products.........................................................................................................
Copper products...........................................................................................................
Cordage and twine...... .............. ............................................................................ .
Cork products....................................................................................... .......................
Cotton goods...................................... ...........................................................................
Creosote.......... ............. ................. ................................ ........................................... .
Crushed stone.............. ......................................... .......................................................
Doors, shutters, and window sash and frames, molding and trim (metal)___
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies_______________ _____________
Elevators and parts...................... ....................................... ................... ........... .....
Engines, turbines, tractors, water wheels, and windmills___________________
Explosives.......................................................................................................................
Felt goods......................................................................................................................
Firearms.......................................... ............. ............................................. .................
Forgings, iron and steel..................................... ................................................... —
Foundry and machine-shop products, not elsewhere classified______________
Furniture, including store and office fixtures. .......... ........... ...............................
__
...
...................
.................
Glass.........—.......... ...................
Hardware, miscellaneous_________ _____ __ __________________ ______________
Instruments, professional and scientific...................... ..................................... .....
Jute goods................................................................................... ..................................
Lighting equipment....................................................................................................
Lime.......... ........................................................ ............................. .............................
Linoleum.............................. ............. .......... ........................................................ .......
Locomotives, other than steam .... .............. .
_____________________________
Locomotives, steam____________ _____ _____________ ________ ______________
Lumber and timber products................... .......................... .................................
Machine tools_______________ _________________________ ____________________
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone products____________________________
Mattresses and bed springs........ ............................ ............ .....................................
Meters (gas, water, etc.) and gas generators_______ ________________________
Minerals and earths, ground or otherwise treated................................................
Motor vehicles, passenger.. _____ _______________________ __________________
Motor venicles, trucks........ ........................................................................................
Nails and spikes...........................................................................................................
Nonferrous-metal alloys, nonferrous-metal products, except aluminum, not
elsewhere classified...................................................................................................
Paints and varnishes............. ......................................................................................
From begin
ning of pro
gram to Sept.
15, 1934
$4,284,890
4,438,104
101,894
592,462
52,694
147,590
18,146
782,896
1,781,948
36,269
28,356
7,490,011
60,603,504
183,727
5,719,817
602,203
158,684
7,446,364
362,948
180,816
41,894
70,312
446,947
19,577,643
1,978,295
22,199,127
63,963
3, 215,491
2,158,159
155,867
748,941
2,833,674
56, 423,062
797,330
307,379
2.113.017
1,365,837
37,556
1.167,326
115,400
12,737
512,766
6,837,064
25,755,401
3,382,678
6.837.018
14,889
143,245
95,797
319,167
631,821
501,051
822,220
1,163,612
During
month end
ing Oct. 15,
1934
$15,662
23,772
57,540
2,862
6,629
9,177
319,473
99,214
6,612
537
1,149,930
8,989,115
5,273
992,327
120,860
25,449
1,000,343
34,496
14,692
4,771
503
22,214
2,030,067
244,248
1,301,669
25,861
414,223
169,461
3,951
49
79,276
4,906,702
65,653
32,926
204,892
56,009
3,830
25,708
18,733
1,610
4,446,856
2,185,036
192,693
1,390,851
882
25,316
1,894
4,552
131,664
55,337
67,216
83,244
40
T able 7.—V AL U E OF M A T E R IA L O R D ER S PLACED ON PU BLIC-W O R K S PROJECTS,
B Y T Y P E OF M A T E R IAL—Centinued
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders
placed
Type of material
From begin
ning of pro*
gram to Sept.
15,1934
During
month end
ing Oct. 15,
1934
Paper products..............................................................................................................
Paving materials and mixtures..................................................................................
Petroleum products......................................................................................................
Photographic apparatus and materials.................................................................. .
Planing-mill products................................................................................................. .
Plumbing supplies............^..........................................................................................
Pumps and pumping equipment............................................................................. .
Radio apparatus and supplies....................................................................................
Rail fastenings, excluding spikes...............................................................................
Rails, steel......................................................................................................................
Railway cars, freight....................................................................................................
Railway cars, mail and express.................................................................................
Railway cars, passenger............................................................................................. .
Refrigerators and refrigerator cabinets, including mechanical refrigerators— .
Roofing, built-up and roll; asphalt shingles; roof coatings, other than paint..
Rubber goods.................................................................................................................
Sacks and bags...............................................................................................................
Sand and gravel.............................................................................................................
Sheet-metal work........ .................................................................................................
Smelting and refining lead..........................................................................................
Smelting and refining zinc..........................................................................................
Springs, steel..................................................................................................................
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus................................................................ .
Steam and other packing, pipe and boiler covering, and gaskets..................... .
Steel-works and rolling-mill products, other than steel rails, including struc
tural and ornamental metal work.........................................................................
Stoves and ranges (other than electric) and warm-air furnaces..........................
Switches, railway........................................................................................................ .
Theatrical scenery and stage equipment.................................................................
Tools, other than machine tools................................................................................
Upholstering materials, not elsewhere classified....................................................
Wall plaster, wall board, insulating board, and floor composition....................
Waste..............................................................................................................................
Window and door screens and weather strip..........................................................
Window shades and fixtures..................................................................................... .
Wire, drawn from purchased rods........................................................................... .
Wirework, not elsewhere classified ...........................................................................
Wrought pipe, welded and heavy riveted--......................................................... .
Other.............................................................................................................................. .
$25,479
8,556,281
15,003,050
143,821
2,562,150
4,489,485
5,848,588
576,879
4,867,824
17,663,365
34, 644,651
429,443
7,152,435
552,107
1,327,646
216,957
16,225
32,945,299
1, 789,091
115, 774
17,511
568,139
2,808,481
432,024
$4,143
921,526
1,623,877
7,303
255,656
488,099
431,911
6,003
32,907
208,639
74,184,292
137,528
773, 719
25,900
2,928,604
84,399
992,207
21,291
69,257
44,752
2,312,688
582,954
259,662
22,577,863
5,658,582
5,431
912
4,201
261,521
1,952
153,798
1,981
1,551
2,381
89,882
132,712
148.582
4,181,788
T o ta l...................................................................................................................
505,607,830
50,593,683
9,689
120,385
19,546
963
4,169,458
151,887
8,168
472
3,819
333.319
78,774
Materials valued at more than $555,000,000 have been purchased
since the beginning of the Public Works Administration construction
program. Practically all types of manufacturing have profited by
these material orders. For example, the cement manufacturers have
received orders valued at nearly $70,000,000; foundry and machine
shops have received orders totaling over $60,000,000; steel mill
orders have amounted to over $97,000,000.
During October orders were placed for materials valued at more
than $50,000,000. It is estimated that the fabrication of materials
for which orders were placed during October will create 113,000
man-months of labor. The manufacture of materials for which
orders have been placed since the beginning of the program will
create nearly 1,500,000 man-months of labor. This accounts only
for the labor in the fabrication of material in the form in which it is
41
to be used. For example, only labor in manufacturing brick is
counted, not the labor in taking the clay from the pits or in hauling
the clay and other materials used in the brick plant. In fabricating
steel rails only the labor in the rolling mill is counted, not labor
created in mining, smelting, and transporting the ore, nor labor in
the blast furnaces, the open-hearth furnaces, nor the blooming mills.
In order to obtain data concerning the man-months of labor
created in fabricating material, blanks are sent to each firm receiving
a material order from the United States Government to be financed
from the public-works fund, asking them to estimate the number of
man-hours of labor created in their plant in manufacturing the ma
terial specified in the contract. For materials purchased direct by
contractors on the job, the Bureau estimates the man-months of
labor created. This estimation is made using the experience of the
manufacturing plants as shown by the Census of Manufactures.
Table 8 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked by
employees since the inception of the public-works program in August
1933 to October 1934, inclusive.
T able 8 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, A N D M AN-HOU R S W O R K E D D U R IN G AUGUST
1933 TO OCTOBER 1934 ON PROJECTS F IN A N C E D FR O M T H E PUBLIC W O R K S A D
M IN IST R A T IO N F U N D , B Y M O N TH S
[Subject to revision)
Number of
man-hours
worked
Average Value of ma
earnings terial orders
placed
per hour
Number of
wage earners
Amount of
pay rolls
1933
August.....................................................
September..............................................
October....................................................
November................................................
December................................................
4,699
33,836
121,403
254,784
270,408
$280,040
1,961,496
7,325,313
14,458,364
15,424,700
539,454
3,920,009
14,636,603
27,862,280
29,866,249
$0,519
.500
.500
.519
.516
$202,100
1,622,365
i 22,513,767
24,299,055
24,850,188
1934
January....................................................
February..................................................
March....... ..............................................
April.........................................................
M ay.........................................................
June..........................................................
July...........................................................
August.....................................................
September...............................................
October....................................................
273,583
295,741
292,696
371,234
491,166
592,057
624,286
602,581
549,910
507,799
14,574,960
15,246,423
15,636,545
17,907,842
25,076,908
32,783,533
33,829,858
35,142,770
31,720,317
29,280,240
27,658,591
28,938,177
29,171,634
31,559,966
44,912,412
58,335,119
59,436,314
59,943,328
51,699,495
46,617,616
.527
.527
.536
.567
.558
.562
.569
.586
.614
.628
23,522,929
24,565,004
3 69,334,408
8 66,639,862
*49,720,378
2 57,589,895
2 49,299,174
2 46,961,648
2 44,487,057
2 50,593,683
290,649,309
515,097,247
.564
556,201,513
Month
Total........................ ....................
iI
1 Includes orders placed for naval vessels prior to October 1933.
2 Includes orders placed by railroads for new equipment.
During the 15-month period covered by the Public Works Adminis
tration, over $290,000,000 has been paid out for labor on the job,
and purchase orders have been placed for material to cost over $556,000,000. Earnings for the workers at the site of the construction
project have averaged over 56 cents per hour over the 15-month
period.
42
Rates of Wages, Railroad Construction Employees
D u r in g the early spring of 1934 the Public Works Administration
began alio ting money to various railroads for construction projects.
From these funds the railroads purchased material for the use of such
construction projects as replacing rails and ties, electrifying right-ofways, etc. These loans created work which would otherwise have
been deferred for some time.
Table 9 shows average rates paid by railroads to employees per
forming construction work financed from Public Works Administra
tion fund, by occupation and by geographic division.
T able 9 .—A V E R A G E R A T E S P A ID B Y R A IL R O A D S T O E M P L O Y E E S P E R F O R M IN G
W O R K IN C O N N E C T IO N W IT H IM P R O V E M E N T S T O W A Y S F R O M P U B L IC W O R K S
F U N D S , B Y O C C U P A T IO N A N D G E O G R A P H IC D IV IS IO N
Basic
rate
Geographic division
Rate
in
force
prior
to .
July 1,
1934
Rate
in
force
subse
quent
to
July 1,
1934
Gang foremen (section
laborers)
Basic
rate
Rate
in
force
prior
to
July 1,
1934
Rate
in
force
subse
quent
to
July 1,
1934
Gang foremen (extra gang
and worktrain laborers)
Rate
Rate
in
in
force
force
subse
prior
quent
to
to
July 1, July 1,
1934
1934
Basic
rate
Assistant gang foremen
(section laborers)
Monthly Monthly Monthly Monthly Monthly Monthly Hourly Hourly Hourly
N ew England................ i$141.72 *$127.55 i$131.09 1$146.39 *$131. 75 >$135.41 $0.550 $0.495
$0.500
.544
.490
M iddle Atlantic...........
142.73
128.46
.503
132.03 1146.64 * 131.98 1 135.64
East North Central___ 126.17
.492
116.71
137.62
123.86
.547
.505
113.55
127. 30
W est North C e n t r a l.466
120.90
108.81
111.83
.518
.479
142.00
127.80
131.35
141.63
.486
South Atlantic..............
127.47
131.01
.540
.500
148.00
133.20
136.90
123.84
East South Central___
114.55
111.46
137. 70
123.93
127.37
West South Central . . .
133.25
119.93
130.07
.389
.378
123.26
120.31
.420
117.06
M ountain....................... 129.45
.534
.494
116.51
128.82
.481
143.13
119. 74
132.40
Pacific.............................
130.92
117.83
121.10
142.14
.497
127.93
.537
.483
131.48
United States. _. 130.77
.542
.501
117.69
120.96
143.94
129.55
133.14
.488
Laborers (extra gang and
worktrain)
Laborers (section)
N ew England................
M iddle Atlantic............
East North Central___
W est North C en tra l...
South A tla n tic.............
East South Central___
W est South C en tra l...
M ountain........ ..............
Pacific.............................
United S tates....
Hourly
$0,402
.409
.355
.380
.402
.250
.265
.361
.372
.377 j
Hourly
$0.362
.368
.320
.342
.362
.225
.239
.325
.335
Hourly
$0,372
.378
.328
.352
.372
.231
.245
.334
.344
Hourly
$0.393
.351
.351
.222
.250
.250
.356
.354
.316
.316
.200
.225
.225
.320
.319
.339
.349
.346
.311
Carpenter’s helpers
N ew England________
M iddle A tlantic...........
East North Central___
W est North Central
South A tlantic_______
East South Central___
West South C en tra l...
M ountain........ .............
Pacific.............................
United States.__
Hourly
Hourly J Hourly
$0.525
.455
$0,473
$0,486
.410; I
421
.522
.487
.430
.511
.511
.508
.470
.438
.387
.460
.460
.457
.483
.450
.398
.473
.473
.470
Hourly j| Hourly
$0.354 ]| $0,364
Carpenters
.325
.325
.205
.231
.231
.329
.327
.320
Hourly Hourly Hourly
$0.633
$0.684 $0.616
.632
.649
.702
.524
.567
.510
.545
.560
.605
.692
.623
.640
.536
.550
.595
.525
.568
.511
.652
.603
.587
.664
.614
.598
.613
.663
.507
Signalmen
and
signal
maintainers (excluding
foremen)
Assistant signalmen and
assistant signal main
tainers (e x c lu d in g
helpers)
Hourly
$0. 795
.821
.804
.733
.820
Hourly
$0. 716
.739
.724
.660
.738
Hourly
$0.735
.759
.744
.678
.759
Hourly Hourly Hourly
$0.538 $0,484
$0.498
.645
.581
.597
.630
.567
.583
.640
.592
.576
.750
.773
.780
.814
.675
.696
.702
.694
.715
.722
.753
.733
.490
.670
690
.600
.441
.603
.621
.540
.453
.620
.638
. 555
1 As computed b y the Bureau on the basis of an 8-hour day and a 26-day month from hourly and daily
wage rates
43
The data show average rates paid 24,000 wage earners in 9 occu
pations. Rates are shown as paid prior to July 1, 1934, and as
paid subsequent to that date. There was considerable variation of
rates in the different geographic divisions. For example, rates
paid section laborers since July 1, 1934, ranged from 23 cents in
the East South Central States to nearly 38 cents in the Middle
Atlantic States. Monthly rates for gang foremen (section laborers)
ranged from $112 in the West North Central States to $132 in the
Middle Atlantic States.
Emergency Work Program
D u r in g the week ending October 25 more than 1,400,000 persons
were given employment by the emergency work program of the
Federal Emergency Relief Administration. This is an increase of
3.1 percent as compared with the last week in September. The
amount of pay rolls for the week increased nearly 6 percent.
Table 1 shows the number of employees and the amounts of pay
rolls for workers on the emergency work program for the weeks end
ing September 27 and October 25.
T
able
1.—N U M B E R OF E M P LO Y E E S A N D AM O U N TS OF P AY ROLLS FOR W O R K ER S
ON E M E R G E N C Y W O R K PR O G R AM , SEPT. 27 A N D OCT. 25, 1934
Number of employees
week ending—
Amount of pay roll week
ending—
Geographic division
Oct. 25
Sept. 27
New England............................................................ !
Middle Atlantic........................................................jj
East North Central..................................................!!
West North Central.................................................!!
South Atlantic.......................................................... ii
East South Central..................................................!
West South Central............................................„_J i
Mountain................................................................... !|
Pacific......................................................................... |
110,649
171,974
268,147
220,649
189,483
115,396
157,914
64,945
88,383
j
|
119,411
211,796
238,209
258,620
188,496
81,442
168,287
58,605
105,808
Total................................................................ |
Percentage change___________________ ________
1,387,540 I
!
1,430,674
+3.11
,
!
i|
1
Sept. 27
Oct. 25
$1,333,656
2,911,195
2,646,963
1,613,626
1,187,183
539,814
1,146,601
762,313
1,013,176
$1,369,669
3,458,329
2,357,145
2,088,821
1,242,007
440,939
1,176,869
647,223
1,114,546
13,154,527
13,895,548
+5.63
Comparing the 2 weeks under discussion, the number of employees
in the work program increased in 5 of the 9 geographic divisions.
Disbursements for pay rolls increased in 6 of the 9 geographic divisions.
Table 2 shows the number of employees and amounts of pay rolls
for those given employment by the emergency work program of the
Federal Emergency Relief Administration, by months, from the
inception of the program in March to October 1934, inclusive.
44
table
2 .—N U M B E R OF E M P L O Y E E S A N D A M O U N T S OF P A Y R O L L S F O R W O R K E R S
ON E M E R G E N C Y W O R K P R O G R A M , B Y M O N T H S , 1934 i
M onth
Num ber
of em
ployees 2
Amount of
pay roll
22,934
1,176,818
1,341,853
1,478,200
$842,000
38,953,678
42,214,039
42,221,757
M onth
N um ber
of em
ployees *
Amount of
pay roil
- i-
March.
A p ril..
M a y ...
June-
1,706,455
1,908,993
1,949,267
1,950,000
July...........
August___
September.
O ctob er....
$47,244,553
54,792,488
50,110,074
51,000,000
1 Revised.
2 Wage earners in this report represent the number that worked any part of the m onth. These em
ployees are allowed to work each m onth till a certain specified maximum is earned, then replaced b y other
workers taken from the relief rolls.
At the present time, there are nearly 2,000,000 workers carried on
the rolls of the Emergency Work program. This does not mean,
however, that as many as 2,000,000 people are working at any
given time. Because of the fact that a limit is placed on the earnings
of employees, not more than 60 percent of this number are working
during any given week.
Emergency Conservation Work
C o m p a r in g October with September, there was an increase of over
56,000 in the civilian conservation camps throughout the country.
The gain in enrolled personnel accounted for 54,600 of the total
increase.
Table 1 shows employment and pay rolls for emergency conser
vation work during the months of September and October 1934, by
type of work.
T
able
1 .—
E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S 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 1934
Number of employees
Amount of pay rolls
Group
September
October
September
October
Enrolled personnel...................................................
Reserve officers.........................................................
Educational advisers................................................
Supervisory and technical1....................................
294,669
6,163
1,098
* 33,555
349,624
6,235
1,101
8 34,934
$9,211,878
1,540,109
176,362
4,094,620
$10,918,765
1,509,822
176,609
4,285,700
Total.................................................................
335,785
391,894
15*022,969
16,939,505
* Includes carpenters, electricians, and laborers.
* 28,842 included in the table for executive service.
8 29,417 included in the table for executive service.
There was an increase of nearly $2,000,000 in disbursements for
pay rolls for Emergency Conservation Work comparing October with
September. Increases for enrolled workers amounted to over
$1,700,000.
In acMition to their pay, enrolled workers. received free board,
clothing, and medical attention.
45
Employment and pay roll data for emergency conservation work
are collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the War Depart
ment, Department of Agriculture, Treasury Department, and the
Department of the Interior.
The pay of the enrolled workers is figured as follows: 5 percent are
paid $45 per month, 8 percent $36 per month, and the remaining
87 percent $30 per month.
Table 2 shows monthly totals of employees and pay rolls in emer
gency conservation work from the inception of the program in May
1933 to October 1934, inclusive.
T able 2 .—M O N T H L Y TO TALS OF E M P LO Y E E S, A N D P A Y ROLLS IN T H E E M E R G E N C Y
C O NSER VATION W O R K FR O M M A Y 1933 TO OCTO BER 1034
Month
M ay...........
June...........
July...........
August___
September.
October...
November.
December.
Number of Amount of
employees payroll
191,380
283,481
316,109
307,100
242,968
294,861
344,273
321,701
$6,388,760
9,876,780
11,482,262
11,604,401
9,759,628
12,311,033
14,554,695
12,951,042
Month
1934
January........... .
February..........
March...............
April................ .
M ay................. .
June................. .
July...................
August..............
September____
October........ ..
Number of Amount of
employees payroll
331,594
321,829
247,591
314,664
335,871
280,271
389,104
385,340
335,785
391,894
$13,581,506
13,081,393
10,792,319
13,214,018
14,047,512
12,641,401
16,032,734
16,363,826
15,022,969
16,939,595
Employment on this program has ranged from less than 192,000 to
more than 391,000, the high point to date being reached in October
1934.
The pay roll for the 18-month period covered by the program
amounted to $230,645,874.
Employment on State Road Projects
There were over 240,000 men employed by the various State gov
ernments in building new roads and maintaining existing roads.
This is 9,000 fewer than on the rolls in September.
Table 1 shows the number of employees engaged in building and
maintaining State roads during the months of September and October
1934, by geographic divisions.
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T able 1.—N U M B E R OF EM P LO Y E E S E N G A G E D IN T H E C O N ST R U CT IO N A N D M A IN
T E N A N C E OF STATE ROADS, D U R IN G SE P T E M B E R A N D O CTO BER 1934, B Y GEOGRAPHIC DIVISIONS *
New
Number of
employees
Geographic division
Sep
tember
New England...................... 14,071
5,869
Middle Atlantic..................
East North Central............ 11,487
West North Central........... 6,220
South Atlantic..................... 10,169
East South Central............ 2,880
6,282
West South Central...........
2,148
Mountain.............................
2,739
Pacific...................................
61,865
Amount of pay
rolls
Number of
employees
Amount of pay
rolls
Octo
ber
Septem
ber
October
Sep
tember
Octo
ber
Septem
ber
October
20,926
6,601
12,963
7,625
9,118
2,452
5,515
2,887
2,921
$590,852
342,563
2 597,790
231,827
193,789
119,040
232,419
132,862
174,858
$764,476
393,366
655,935
263,424
177,265
105,777
244,678
159,485
170,050
7,465
60,564
30,887
17,316
32,318
12,293
12,419
8,351
6,710
6,405
55,479
23,217
18,067
29,917
11,010
10,599
8,435
6,032
$581,196
2,960,348
2,113,130
972,804
1,375,652
432,348
844,957
576,022
530,457
$509,935
2,890,043
1,531,652
987,239
1,294,370
373,152
754,826
592,978
563,217
188,323 169,161 10,386,914
-10.18
9,497,412
- 8 .5 6
Total, continental
United States........ 61,865 71,008
+14.78
Percentage of change_____
O u tsid e c o n tin e n ta l
0
0
United States...................
Grand total...............
Maintenance
71,008
32,616,000 2,934,456
+12.17
0
0
2 2,616,000 2,934,456
83
74
9,391
7,870
188,406 169,235 10,396,305
9,505,282
1 Excluding employment furnished by projects financed from public-works funds.
2 Revised.
During the month ending October 31, 71,000 workers were employed
by State governments in building new roads wholly paid for from
State funds. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 as compared with
the previous month. The number of workers engaged in maintaining
existing State roads, however, showed a decrease of more than 19,000
comparing the 2 months.
Table 2 shows the number of employees engaged in the construction
and maintenance of State roads, January to October 1934, inclusive.
T able 2 .—N U M B E R OF EM P LO Y E E S E N G A G E D IN T H E CO N STR U CTIO N A N D
M A IN T E N A N C E OF ST A TE ROADS, JA N U A R Y TO OCTOBER 1934, IN CLU SIV E I
Number of employees working
on—
Month
Month
New
roads
January....................
February..................
March. ....................
April.........................
M ay..........................
Number of employees working
on—
25,345
22,311
19,985
21,510
27,161
Mainte
nance
136,440
126,904
132,144
136,038
167,274
New
roads
Total
161,785
149,215
152,129
157,548
194,435
June..........................
July...........................
August......................
September...............
October.....................
37,642
45,478
53,540
61,865
71,008
Mainte
nance
170,879
168,428
180,270
188,323
169,161
Total
208,521
213,906
233,810
250,188
240,169
i Excluding employment furnished by projects financed from the public-works fund.
Employment on Construction Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, October 1934
D u r in g the month ending October 15, over 17,400 workers were
engaged on Reconstruction Finance Corporation construction projects.
These men drew for their month’s pay nearly $1,600,000.
47
Table 1 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, by type of project.
T able 1 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y BOLLS, A N D M AN-H OU R S W O R K E D ON PROJECTS
F IN A N C E D B Y T H E SE LF-LIQ U ID ATIN G DIVISION OF T H E R ECO N STR U CTIO N
F IN A N C E COR POR ATION D U R IN G OCTOBER 1934, B Y T Y P E OF PROJECT
[Subject to revision]
Number of Amount of Number of
wage
pay rolls man-hours
earners
worked
Type of project
Railroad construction......................................
Building construction.....................................
Bridges___________________________________
Reclamation......................................................
Water and sewage............................................
Miscellaneous....................................................
Total.........................................................
19
2,535
5,621
2,619
4,931
1,757
17,482
$1,041
239,830
420,870
160,295
595,566
179,394
2,046
210,975
505,041
369,302
842,683
251,799
1,596,996
2,181,846
Average
earnings
per hour
$0,509
1.137
.833
.434
.707
.712
.732
Value of
material
orders
placed
$349
90,662
1,258,435
63,706
393,872
467,150
2,274,174
Nearly 2,200,000 man-hours of work were provided during October.
Hourly earnings averaged 73 cents, ranging from 43 cents for
reclamation projects to $1.14 for building construction.
Table 2 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction contracts financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, by geographic divisions.
T able 3 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, A N D M AN -H OU R S W O R K E D ON PROJECTS
F IN A N C E D B Y T H E SELF-LIQ U ID ATIN G DIVISION OF T H E R EC O N ST R U C T IO N
F IN A N C E COR PO R ATIO N D U R IN G OCTOBER 1934, B Y GEO G RAPHIC DIVISIO N
[Subject to revision]
Geographic divisions
Number
of wage
earners
Amount
of pay
roll
Number
of manhours
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
New England....................................................
Middle Atlantic................................................
East North Central..........................................
West North Central.........................................
South Atlantic...................................................
East South Central..........................................
West South Central.........................................
Mountain...........................................................
Pacific____________________________________
0
3,958
284
57
305
109
1,206
2,639
8,924
0
$369,249
34,223
3,428
9,896
5,495
84,286
161,169
929,250
0
355,844
33,164
4,581
25,334
18,538
116,769
370,409
1,257,207
0
$1,037
1.031
.748
.391
.296
.722
.435
.739
0
$865,281
8,253
0
5,335
349
29,212
63,706
1,302,038
Total.........................................................
17,482
1,596,996
2,181,846
.732
2,274,174
More than 50 percent of the workers on Reconstruction Finance
Corporation construction projects were employed in the Pacific States
and over 20 percent in the Middle Atlantic States. There was a
great difference in hourly earnings, comparing geographic divisions.
The East South Central States averaged less than 30 cents per hour,
and the Middle Atlantic and East North Central States over $1.03
per hour.
Table 3 shows data concerning employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked during the months, April to October, inclusive, on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation.
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T able 3 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, A N D M AN -H O U R S W O R K E D D U R IN O AP R IL
TO OCTOBER 1934 ON PROJECTS F IN A N C E D B Y T H E S E L F-L IQ U ID A T IN G D IVISION
OF T H E R EC O N ST R U C T IO N F IN AN C E COR POR ATION
[Subject to revision]
Month
Number
of wage
earners
April..........
M ay...........
June...........
July...........
August___
September.
October...
18,638
19,274
19,218
17,760
17,149
17,088
17,482
Amount
of pay
roll
Number
of manhours
worked
$1,518,479
1,636,503
1,743,318
1,624,924
1,688,012
1,648,618
1,596,996
2,302,739
2,334,060
2,412,342
2,183,560
2,286,286
2,231,069
2,181,846
Average
earnings
per hour
$0.659
.701
.723
.744
.738
.739
.732
Value of
material
orders
placed
$2,297,479
2,120,498
2,189,538
2,332,554
2,303,516
2,500,638
2,274,174
Table 4 shows, by types, the materials purchased by contractors
working on construction projects financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
T able 4 .—VAL U E OF M A T E R IA L ORDERS P LACED FOR PROJECTS F IN A N C E D B Y
TH E SELF-LIQ U ID ATIN G DIVISIO N OF T H E R EC O N ST R U C T IO N F IN A N C E COR
PORATION, B Y T Y P E OF M A T E R IA L
Value of material orders
placed—
Type of material
Belting, leather...................................................................................
Bolts, nuts, rivets, etc.......................................................................
Oast-iron pipe and fittings. . ...........................................................
Cement.................................................................................................
C o p r o d u c t s ...................................................................................
Compressed and liquefied gases......................................................
Concrete products. ...........................................................................
Copper products.................................................................................
Cordage and twine.............................................................................
Crushed stone.....................................................................................
Electrical machinery and supplies.............. ...................................
Explosives............................................................................................
Felt goods..........................................................................................
Foundry and machine-shop products, not elsewhere classified
Fuel oil.................................................................................................
Gasoline............ ...................................................................................
Glass. ............ ......................................................................................
Hardware, miscellaneous.................................................................
Insulation materials...........................................................................
Lime.....................................................................................................
Lubricating oils and greases.............................................................
Lumber and timber products..........................................................
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone products............. ..........
Motor vehicles and supplies............ ................................................
Nails and spikes.................................................................................
Paints and varnishes........................................ ...............................
Plumbing supplies..................................... . .....................................
Pumps and pumping equipment...................................................
Roofing.................................................................................................
Rubber goods......................................................................................
Sand and gravel..................................................................................
Sheet-metal work...............................................................................
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus.......................................
Steel-works and rolling-mill products...........................................
Switches, railway...............................................................................
Tools.....................................................................................................
Wire......................................................................................................
Wire work, not elsewhere classified.................................................
Other....................................................................................................
T o ta l........................................................................................
From Mar.
to Sept. 15,
1934
$1,516
3,805
313,926
1,013,558
264,587
28,347
22,728
995, 601
519,199
5,493
50,545
824,128
567.142
4,446
1,108,347
69,099
177,950
3,617
549,806
5,738
8,180
28,846
845,592
64,239
88,586
8,401
7,610
201.142
11,244
5,629
310,587
25,361
45,403
4,896,158
5,703
74,961
193,331
23,224
356,419
13,746,863
During pe
riod ending
Oct. 15,1934
$3,268
11,988
90,001
8,505
7,187
2,352
99,219
202,706
""3,"816
100,571
81,293
"139/427
1,963
30,079
" ‘ 27,"246
3,621
2,520
102,364
2,636
11,015
2,720
31,228
3,109
35,436
2,773
"i,"179,"897
2,024
2,598
3,834
78,778
2,274,174
49
During the 7-month period ending October 15, purchase orders
were placed for materials valued at over $16,000,000. Over $6,000,000
was spent for steel-works and rolling-mill products and over $1,000,000
•each for cement and foundry and machine-shop products.
Employment on Construction Projects Financed from
Governmental Appropriations
Regular
At the request of the Secretary of Labor, the Director of Procure
ment has caused the following paragraph to be inserted in all Govern
ment contracts awarded after July 1, 1934:
The contractor wiU report monthly, and will cause all subcontractors to report
in like manner, within 5 days after the close of each calendar month, on forms to
be furnished by the Department of Labor, the number of persons on the respec
tive pay rolls, the aggregate amount of such pay rolls, the man-hours worked, and
the total expenditures for materials. He shall furnish to the Department of
Labor the names and addresses of all subcontractors on the work at the earliest
date practicable, provided that the foregoing shall be applicable only to work at
the site of the construction project.
Whenever a contract is awarded by a Federal department, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics is immediately notified, by the department
making the award, of the name and address of the contractor. This
information is supplied on post-card forms furnished by the Bureau.
Blanks are then mailed to the Bureau showing the number of men
employed, amount of pay rolls, number of man-hours worked, and the
value of material orders placed. The primary contractor also notifies
the Bureau on the same form of the name and address of all firms
receiving subcontracts. Blanks are in turn mailed to each sub
contractor doing work at the site of the construction project.
The following tables show data concerning work on construction
projects on which work has started since July 1. Except for road
projects, the Bureau has no information concerning employment on
Federal construction projects financed from regular appropriations
that were under way previous to July 1, 1934. For employment on
construction projects financed from Public Works Administration
funds, see pages 34 to 41.
Table 1 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects on which work started subsequent to July 1,
financed from direct appropriations, to the various Government
agencies.
GO
T able 1 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, A N D M AN-H O UR S W O R K E D ON PROJECTS ON
W H IC H W O R K HAS ST A R T E D SINCE JULY I B Y APPRO PRIATIO N S M A D E D IR EC T
TO F E D E R A L D E P A R T M E N T S B Y T H E CONGRESS, FOR OCTO BER 1934, B Y TYPE S
OF PROJECTS
[Subject to revision]
Types of projects
Building construction......................................
Public roads.......................................................
River, harbors, and flood control...............
Streets and roads..............................................
Naval vessels......................................................
Forestry..............................................................
Water and sewage.............................................
Miscellaneous....................................................
Total.........................................................
Number
of wage
earners
5,766
2,911
3,505
502
301
4
149
455
13,593
°^ y
Number
of manhours
worked
$323,610
152,072
156,722
16,659
22,098
206
5,894
12,343
689,604
433,877
265,608
322,857
27,748
22,455
274
10,462
20,242
1,103,523
Amount
Average
earnings
per hour
$0,746
.573
.485
.600
.984
.751
.563
.610
.625
Value of
material
orders
placed
$417,589
206,872
99,419
11,408
226,606
54
6,978
13,909
982,835
There were over 13,500 workers employed on construction projects
financed by regular governmental appropriations. More than 40
percent of these men were employed on building construction, 3,500
on river, harbor, and flood-control work, and 2,900 on road building.
The pay rolls for the month totaled $689,000. More than 1,100,000
man-hours of labor were provided, and the men earned an average of
62.5 cents per hour. Earnings for river, harbor, and flood-control
work averaged 49 cents per hour. In contrast, earnings of workers
on naval vessels averaged 98 cents per hour.
Orders were placed by contractors working on these construction
projects for material to cost over $980,000.
Table 2 shows for the month of October employment, pay rolls,
and man-hours worked on construction projects started since July 1,
which are financed from regular governmental appropriations, by
geographic divisions.
T able 2 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, A N D M AN-HOU R S W O R K E D ON PROJECTS ON
W H IC H W O R K HAS STA R TE D SINCE JULY 1 B Y APPROPRIATIONS M A D E D IR E C T
TO FE D E R A L D E P A R T M E N T S B Y TH E CONGRESS, FOR OCTOBER 1934, B Y GEO
GRAPHIC DIVISIONS
[Subject to revision]
Geographic divisions
New England....................................................
Middle Atlantic................................................
East North Central....... ..................................
West North Central.........................................
South A tlantic................................................
East South Central..........................................
West South Central.........................................
Mountain...........................................................
Pacific____________________________________
Total continental United States.........
Outside continental United States...............
Grand total............................................
Number
of wage
earners
415
1,031
3,610
500
1,591
1,647
2,256
781
1,237
13,068
525
13,593
Amount
$23,077
60,136
207,530
19,269
63,035
70,013
102,380
31,619
80,107
662,166
27,438
689,604
Number
of manhours
worked
37,841
102,559
275,021
32,252
94,834
154,873
199,027
46,658
108,796
1,051,861
51,662
1,103,523
Average
earnings
per hour
$0,742
.586
.755
.597
.665
.452
.514
.678
.736
.630
.531
.625
Value of
material
orders
placed
$234,638
12,795
227,106
20,469
95,187
25,916
84,446
9,128
63,331
1979,888
2,947
1 982,835
1 Includes $206,872 estimated value of orders placed for public-roads projects which cannot be charged to
any specific geographic division.
Workers in the New England, East North Central, and the Pacific
States earned over 70 cents per hour, and only one geographic divi
sion, the East South Central, earned less than 50 cents per hour.
Table 3 shows for the months of August, September, and October
employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on construction
projects starting since July 1, which are financed from regular gov
ernmental appropriations.
T able 3 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D , ON PROJECTS
ON W H IC H W O R K ST A R T E D SINCE JULY 1, B Y APPR O PR IATIO N S M A D E D IR E C T
TO F E D E R A L D E P A R T M E N T S B Y T H E CONGRESS F R O M AU G U ST T H R O U G H
OCTOBER 1934
[Subject to revision]
Number
of wage
earners
Month
August_______________________________ ___
September________________________________
October___________________ ______________
5,601
9,800
13,593
Am ount,
of pay
rolls
$329,440
493,363
689,604
Value of
material
orders
placed
Number of
man-hours
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
557,747
773,685
1,103,523
$0,591
.638
.625
$150,506
842,292
982,835
Comparing October with August, there was an increase of nearly
8,000 in the number of wage earners and over $360,000 in monthly
pay rolls.
Table 4 shows the value of materials for which orders were placed
for construction projects on which work has started since July 1,
financed from regular governmental appropriations, by type of
material.
T able 4 .—V A L U E OF M A T E R IA L ORDERS P LACED FOR USE ON CO N STR U CTIO N
PROJECTS F IN A N C E D B Y APPR O PR IATION S M A D E D IR E C T TO F E D E R A L D E
P A R T M E N T S B Y T H E CONGRESS, B Y T YP E S OF M A T E R IA L
Value of material orders
placed—
Type of material
Bolts, nuts, rivets, etc..
Cast-iron pipe fittings..
Cement............................
Clay products................
Concrete products................................................................................
Copper products...................................................................................
Cordage and twine.............................................................................
Crushed stone....... ............................................................................—
Electrical machinery...........................................................................
Explosives..............................................................................................
Foundry and machine-shop products, not elsewhere classified.
Hardware...............................................................................................
Insulation materials.... ........................................................................
Lumber and timber products..... ......................................................
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone products..........................
Nails and spikes...................................................................................
Paints and varnishes...........................................................................
Paving mixtures...................................................................................
Petroleum products.............................................................................
Plumbing supplies...............................................................................
Pumps and pumping equipment......................................................
Roofing materials.................................................................................
Sand and gravel....................................................................................
Sheet-metal works................................................................................
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus.........................................
Steel-works and rolling-mill products..............................................
Tools, miscellaneous not elsewhere classified.................................
Wire and wirework. ...........................................................................
Other.......................................................................................................
Total.
From July
15, to Sept.
15 1934
1,598
32,170
13,219
5,923
2,331
1,941
2,515
10,748
24,848
15,025
30,780
235.314
16,175
5,664
14,884
7,270
3,847
20,893
2,117
32,843
8,279
2,818
3,679
268.315
75,727
842,292
During period
ending Oct.
15,1934
$1,047
6,096
73,977
15,395
3,443
20,466
8.948
1,226
25,599
86,848
2,017
108,280
10,709
16,909
150,433
21,750
1,877
16,478
10,240
33,412
26,652
8,202
15,741
36,595
7.949
5,625
194,381
2,966
3,831
65,743
982,835
52
During the 3-month period ending October 15, orders have been
placed by contractors and Government agencies doing force-account
work for materials to cost over $1,800,000. Steel-works and rollingmill products accounted for over one-fourth of this total.
Orders have been placed for lumber and timber products valued at
over $380,000.
Wage-Rate Changes in American Industries
Manufacturing Industries
T h e following table presents information concerning wage-rate
adjustments occurring between September 15 and October 15, 1934,
as shown by reports received from 25,283 manufacturing establish
ments employing 3,600,140 workers in October.
One hundred and sixty-four establishments in 39 industries re
ported wage-rate increases averaging 8.1 percent and affecting 70,218
employees. Nine establishments in eight industries reported de
creases which averaged 7.8 percent and affected 1,245 workers.
The outstanding wage-rate adjustment was an average increase of
8.1 percent received by 58,204 workers in 62 slaughtering and meat
packing establishments.
Four paper and pulp establishments reported an average wage-rate
increase of 9.3 percent to 1,643 employees, 1,400 workers in 1 soap
manufacturing establishment received a 10-percent increase, 1,277
employees in 4 furniture manufacturing establishments received one
of 9.9 percent, and 1,010 workers in 3 canning establishments were
given an average increase of 10.8 percent. The increases in each of
the remaining industries affected 897 employees or less.
T a b l e 1 .—W A G E -R A T E CHANGES IN M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U STR IES D U R IN G M O N T H
EN D IN G OCTOBER 15, 1934
Industry
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing
Number of establish
ments reporting—
Total
number
of em
ployees
All manufacturing industries........ 25,283 3,600,140
Percentage of total...................
100.0
100.0
Iron and steel and their products,
not including machinery:
Blast furnaces, steel works,
and rolling mills....................
Bolts, nuts, washers, and
rivets____ ______- _________
Cast-iron pipe...........................
Cutlery (not including silver
and plated cutlery) and
edge tools................................
Forgings, iron and steel_____
Hardware...................................
Plumbers’ supplies...................
i
Less than Ho of 1 percent.
Number of employees
having—
No
Wage- Wage- No wage- Wage- Wagewage- rate
in rate de
rate
rate in rate de
rate
creases
creases changes creases creases
changes
25,110
99.3
164
0.6
1
239
246,415
237
59
51
8,667
9,446
59
51
165
91
no
89
13,372
9,145
20,403
9,671
163
91
108
88
0)
9 3,528,677
98.0
1
246,348
70,218
2.0
1,245
<0
40
27
8,667
9,446
2
2
1
13,334
9,145
20,380
9,664
38
23
7
53
T a b l e 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 D U R IN G M O N T H
E N D IN G O C T O B E R 15, 1934—Continued
Industry
Iron and steel and their products—
Continued.
Steam and hot-water heating
apparatus and steam fit
tings______________________
Stoves______________________
Structural and ornamental
metalwork____ _________
T i n p.»ns a n d other tin w a r e
Tools (not including edge
tools, machine tools, files,
and saws)__ ______ ________
Wirework___________________
Machinery, not including trans
portation equipment:
A g r ic u lt u r a l im p le m e n t s
Cash registers, adding ma
chines, and calculating ma
chines_____________________
Electrical machinery, appara
tus, and supplies__________
Engines, turbines, tractors,
and water wheels__________
Foundry and machine-shop
products__________________
Machine tools.Radios and phonographs____
Textile machinery and parts..
Typewriters and parts______
Transportation equipment:
Aircraft_____________________
Automobiles________________
Cars, electric- and steamrailroad___________________
Locomotives________ _______
Shipbuilding________________
Railroad repair shops:
Electric railroad..__________
Steam railroad______________
Nonferrous metals and their prod
ucts:
Aluminum manufactures____
Brass, bronze, and copper
products__________________
Clocks and watches and timerecording devices______ ____
Jewelry_____________________
L ig h t in g equipment_________
Silverware and plated ware. _
Smelting and refining—copper
lead, and zinc_____________
Stamped and enameled ware.
Lumber and allied products:
Furniture___________________
Lumber:
Millwork.__ ____________
S a w m ills ___________________
Turpentine and rosin. ...........
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Brick, tile, and terra cotta.. .
Cement_____________________
Glass_______________________
Marble, granite, slate, and
other products _ _________
Pottery.____________________
Textiles and their products:
Fabrics:
Carpets and rugs________
Cotton goods ______ __
Cotton small wares__________
Dyeing and finishing textiles.
Hats, fur-felt___________
Knit goods..........................
Silk and rayon goods____
Woolen and worsted goods
Number of establish
ments reporting—
Number of employees
having—
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing
Total
number
of em
ployees
93
214
21,360
26,043
93
211
291
52
19,129
9,925
287
52
4
19,116
9,925
13
139
108
10,055
10,977
138
108
1
9,927
10,977
128
82
18.243
82
No
Wage- Wage- No wage- Wage- Wagewage- rate
rate
rate in rate de
in rate de
rate
creases changes creases creases
creases
changes
21,360
25,524
3
519
18,243
27
16,219
27
418
122,234
417
107
36,603
107
1,665
207
51
163
13
145,191
21,726
39,335
14,101
11,651
1,655
205
49
163
13
34
341
6,546
224,460
34
341
70
11
111
14.243
4,798
33,004
69
11
110
1
354
588
18,624
78,132
351
588
3
16,219
1
122,224
10
36.603
9
2
2
1
144,663
21,695
38,824
14,101
11,651
202
31
511
326
6,546
224,460
1
14,114
4,798
32,878
129
18.604
78,132
20
126
33
6,695
32
1
308
37,292
303
4
27
201
79
73
8,694
12,151
4,588
10,028
26
199
78
73
1
2
1
43
218
16,122
22,719
43
217
1
16,122
22,595
124
582
56,069
578
4
54,792
1,277
624
649
30
25,350
74,711
1,814
624
649
30
25,350
74,711
1,814
522
116
178
18,231
15,849
49,075
522
116
178
18,231
15,849
49,075
255
132
4,982
20,255
255
129
27
687
123
182
47
501
290
533
11,763
274,933
10,596
42,541
7,496
120,643
48,356
105,592
27
687
123
182
47
499
289
527
1
1
5
1
6,441
254
36,941
347
8,684
11,916
4,577
10,028
10
235
11
2
4,982
20,113
1
1
1
11,763
274,933
10,596
42,541
7,496
120,004
48,320
104,782
4
33
109
624
15
36
134
676*
54
TABLE 1.—W A G E -R A T E C H A N G E S IN MANUFACTURING 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, 1934—Continued
Industry
Textiles and their products—Con.
Wearing apparel:
Clothing, men’s.................
Clothing, women’s...........
Corsets and allied gar
ments........ ......................
Men’s furnishings.............
Millinery............................
Shirts and collars...............
Leather and its manufactures:
Boots and shoos........................
Leather.......................................
Food and kindred products:
Baking........................................
Beverages...................................
Butter.........................................
Canning and preserving.........
Confectionery............................
Flour...........................................
Ice cream....................................
Slaughtering and meat pack
ing............................................
Sugar, beet.................................
Sugar refining, cane.................
Tobacco manufactures:
Chewing and smoking to
bacco and snuff.....................
Cigars and cigarettes...........
Paper and printing:
Boxes, paper..............................
Paper and pulp........................
Printing and publishing:
Book and j o b ...................
Newspapers and periodi
cals....................................
Chemicals and allied products,
and petroleum refining:
Other than petroleum refin
mg:
Chemicals...........................
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and
meal.................................
Druggists’ preparations..
Explosives..........................
Fertilizers............................
Paints and varnishes........
Rayon and allied products.
Soap................................... .
Petroleum refining................. .
Rubber products:
Rubber boots and shoes.........
Rubber goods, other than
boots, shoes, tires, and in
ner tubes............................... .
Rubber tires and inner tubes.
Num ber of establish
ments reporting—
N um ber of employees
having—
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing
Total
number
of em
ployees
1,634
763
123,635
45,792
1,634
761
123,635
45,692
100
40
92
154
175
6,075
9,677
8,782
27,509
40
92
154
174
6,075
9,P77
8,782
27,008
441
346
169
109,151
31,814
346
109,151
31,814
1,152
549
322
763
331
428
369
70,125
29,751
4,970
78,022
41,090
17,695
9,824
1,149
549
322
760
328
428
69,952
29,751
4,970
77,012
40,744
17,695
9,824
324
53
16
133,364
21,106
10,432
262
53
16
40
246
10,135
52,990
40
245
10,135
52,965
25
425
35,889
105,076
421
35,847
103,433
42
1,643
1,487
59,368
1,475
59,072
296
544
52,800
897
555
No
wagerate
Wage- Wage- N o wage- Wage- Wagerate in- ratederate
rate in- ratedechanges
62
75,160
21,106
10,432
173
1,010
346
58,204
126
25,719
125
25,643
76
97
74
31
316
579
30
110
164
6,204
9,660
4,375
11,347
16,361
43,989
17,227
54,147
97
74
31
316
575
30
109
163
6,204
9,660
4,375
11,347
16,200
43,989
15,827
54,131
1,400
16
8,171
196
37
30,272
50,436
161
8,171
195
37
29,678
50,436
594
Nonmanufacturing Industries
D a t a concerning wage-rate changes occurring between September
15 and October 15, 1934, reported by cooperating establishments in
17 nonmanufacturing industries are presented in table 2.
Increases averaging 11.8 percent and affecting 2,531 employees
were reported by 5 metalliferous mining establishments, while 4
electric light and power establishments gave an average increase of
55
6.4 percent to 585 workers. The increases in the remaining industries
affected 386 employees or less.
Decreases in wage-rates were reported by 25 wholesale trade estab
lishments. These decreases averaged 10.2 percent and affected 679
workers. Twenty-one brokerage establishments reported an average
decrease of 15.3 percent to 378 employees. The remaining wage-rate
decreases which were reported were negligible.
T able 2 .—W A G E -R A T E CH AN GES IN N O N M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U STR IE S
M O N T H E N D IN G OCT. 15, 1934
Industrial group
Estab
Total
lish number
ments of em
report ployees
ing
Anthracite mining.............................
160 81,195
100.0
100.0
Percentage of total.....................
Bituminous-coal mining__________
1,447 249,849
Percentage of total.....................
100.0
100.0
Metalliferous mining........................
280 29,435
Percentage of total..................... ...
100.0
100.0
Quarrying and nonmetallic m ining... 1,118 34,149
Percentage of total.....................
100.0
100.0
Crude petroleum producing............
249 23,995
Percentage of total.....................
100.0
100.0
Telephone and telegraph.................
8,217 261,524
Percentage of total..........................
100.0
100.0
Electric light and power and manu
factured gas..........................................
2,726 243,165
Percentage of total..........................
100.0
100.0
Electric-railroad and motor-bus oper
ation and maintenance......................
527 133,153
100.0
Percentage of total..........................
100.0
Wholesale trade..................................... . 16,940 300,020
100.0
Percentage of total..........................
100.0
Retail trade............................................ . 62,022 928,940
100.0
Percentage of total..........................
100.0
Hotels...................................................... .
2,517 142,678
Percentage of total..........................
100.0
100.0
Laundries.................................................
1,383 73,758
100.0
Percentage of total..........................
100.0
Dyeing and cleaning............................ .
744 18,175
100.0
100.0
Percentage of total..........................
Banks______________________________
3,081 97,042
Percentage of total..........................
100.0
100.0
Brokerage.................................................
407 12,242
100.0
Percentage of total..........................
100.0
Insurance................................................ .
1,091 70,202
100.0
100.0
Percentage of total........................
Real estate.............................................. .
974 24,189
Percentage of to ta l...................... .
100.0
100.0
Less than Ho of 1 percent.
o
Number of establish
ments reporting—
D U R IN G
Number of employees
having—
No
No
WageWage- Wagewagerate rate in rate de- rate rate in- ratedechanges
changes
160
100.0
1,446
99.9
275
98.2
1,116
99.8
248
99.6
8,216
2
100.0
0.2
1
0.4
1
0)
81,195
100.0
1 249,823
0.1
100.0
26,904
91.4
33,995
99.5
23,990
100.0
261,459
100.0
2,531
8.6
154
0.5
5
0)
65
0)
2,722
99.9
4
0.1
242,580
99.8
585
0.2
520
98.7
16,894
99.7
61,986
99.9
2,517
7
1.3
132,767
99.7
25 299,190
0.1
99.7
5 928,753
100.0
0)
142,678
100.0
3 73,629
0.2 99.8
3 18,115
0.4
99.7
1 97,035
100.0
0)
21 11,864
5.2
96.9
70,202
100.0
2 24,155
0.2
99.9
100.0
5
1.8
21
0)
1,379
99.7
740
99.5
3,079
99.9
386
94.8
1,091
1
0.1
1
0.1
1
(0
970
99.6
2
0.2
100.0
0.3
151
0.1
140
0)
62
0.1
5
(0
5
0)
27
0.1
0)
26
679
0.2
0)
47
67
0.1
55
0.3
2
(l>
378
3.1
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