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Serial No. R. 1036
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Lubin, Commissioner
EMPLOYMENT
AND PAY ROLLS
Prepared by
DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
Lewis E. Talberl, Chief
and
DIVISION OF CONSTRUCTION AND
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Herman B. Byer, Chief
OCTOBER 1939
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE • WASHINGTON • 1939
CONTENTS
Page
Summary of employment reports for October 1939:
Total nonagricultural employment
Industrial and business employment
Public employment
Detailed tables for October 1939:
I ndustrial and business employment
Public employment
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8
23
Tables
SUMMARY
TABLE
1.—All manufacturing industries combined and nonmanufacturing.
industries—employment, pay rolls, and weekly earnings,
October 1939
TABLE 2.—Federal employment and pay rolls—summary, October 1939_ _
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7
INDUSTRIAL, AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT
TABLE 3.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, October 1939
TABLE 4.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, August through October 1939_^
TABLE 5.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—indexes of
employment and pay rolls, October 1938 through October
1939-"
_"
TABLE 6.—Geographic divisions and States—comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in September and
October 1939
TABLE 7.—Principal metropolitan areas—comparison of employment and
pay rolls in identical establishments in September and October 1939
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21
23
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
TABLE 8.—Executive service of the Federal Government—employment
and pay rolls in September and October 1939
TABLE 9.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
October 1939, by type of project
..
TABLE 10.—Housing projects of the IT. S. Housing Authority—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked, October 1939, by
geographic division
TABLE 11.—Projects financed and operated by the Work Projects Administration—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
October 1939, by type of project
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12.—Projects operated by the Work Projects Administration—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked, third quarter
1939, by type of project
TABLE 13.—National Youth Administration work projects and Student
Aid—employment and pay rolls, September and October
1939
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TABLE 14.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls, September and October 1939
TABLE 15.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, October 1939, by type of project
TABLE 16.—Construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
October 1939, by type of project
TABLE 17.—Construction and maintenance of State roads—employment
and pay-roll disbursements, October 1939, September 1939,
and October 193S
TABLE
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Employment and Pay Rolls
SUMMARY OF REPORTS FOR OCTOBER 1939
Total Nonagricultural Employment
BETWEEN September and October nearly 400,000 workers were
returned to jobs in nonagrieultural occupations. In addition to a
greater-than-seasonal gain of nearly 270,000 workers in manufacturing industries, largely in the durable-goods group, there were
substantial employment increases in wholesale and retail trade, in
mining, and on class I steam railroads.
These figures do not include emergency employment which increased 127,000 in October as follows: 106,000 on projects operated
by the Work Projects Administration, 8,000 in the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 13,000 on work projects of the National Youth
Administration.
Industrial and Business Employment
Increases in employment from September to October were reported
for 74 of the 90 manufacturing industries surveyed by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, and for 8 of the 10 nonmanufacturing industries
covered. Pay-roll gains were shown by 75 of the manufacturing and
10 of the non manufacturing industries.
For all manufacturing industries combined the gains were 3.4
percent in employment and 8.3 percent in pay rolls. These indicated the addition of nearly 270,000 wage earners to the number
employed and $14,800,000 to weekly wages. Factory employment
and pay rolls have expanded each month since May with the exception of a smaller-than-seasoiial pay-roll decline in July. It is notable that the current gains are larger than those reported for October
in any of the preceding 20 years. On the average, employment in
October has shown but little variation from the September level,
while pay rolls have shown an increase of 1.2 percent.
The factory employment index for October, which stood at 103.6
percent of the 1923-25 level, was 12.1 percent above the figure for
October 1938, and the pay-roll index, at 101.6 percent of the 1928-25
average, was 20.7 percent above a year ago. Both indexes are at the
highest level since the autumn of 1937. The most marked, increases
from September to October were in the durable-goods group of in(1)
dustries—7.1 percent for employment and 13.4 percent for pay rolls.
The corresponding increases for the nondurable-goods group were
0.5 percent and 3.3 percent. Employment in the durable-goods
group was 20.6 percent higher than a year ago, and pay rolls were
33.6 percent higher. For the nondurable-goods group the gains
over the year interval were 5.8 percent and 9.4 percent.
As in the past few months, most of the employment gains were
larger than seasonal or have occurred in industries where there is
usually a loss of employment, this being especially true of the durable-goods industries. Among the industries showing such increases
were steel (56,900 workers); automobiles (35,800 workers); cotton
goods (21,600 workers); foundries and machine shops (21,400 workers) ;
woolen and worsted goods (15,700 workers); electrical machinery
(11,300 workers); brass, bronze, and copper products (10,300 workers); sawmills (10,000 workers); radios and phonographs (7,800
workers); furniture (6,800 workers); paper and pulp (5,800 workers);
chemicals (5,700 workers); paper boxes (5,400 workers); rubber
goods, other than shoes and tires (5,300 workers); dyeing and finishing textiles (5,100 workers); cars,• electric- and steam-railroad (4,700
workers); silk and rayon goods (4,400 workers); glass (4,200 workers);
and machine tools (4,100 workers).
The aircraft industry reported a gain of 6.1 percent, or 2,500, in
the number of wage earners, marking the thirteenth consecutive
monthly increase. The employment index for this industry is at an
all-time high, with about three times as many people employed as in
1929.
Only 4 of the durable-goods and 12 of the nondurable-goods industries reported employment declines in October. Important
declines, all seasonal, were those in canning and preserving (102,800
workers), boots and shoes (5,100 workers), beverages (4;600 workers),
ice cream (2,200 workers), men's clothing (2,200 workers), and
millinery (2,000 workers).
Retail establishments increased employment between mid-September and mid-October by 1.3 percent, or 44,000 workers, and weekly
pay rolls by 2.5 percent, or $1,677,000. The October employment
gain, although slightly smaller than the average October increase reported for the last 10 years, followed a greater-than-seasonal increase
between August and September. Between October 1938 and October 1939 the gains were 2.9 percent, or 99,300, in number of employees and 4.7 percent, or $3,046,000, in weekly pay rolls. Employment in retail food, general, and drug stores declined 0.7 percent, 1.0 percent, and 1.4 percent, respectively, during the month,
while in automobile and automotive-supply firms and cigar stores it
showed virtually no change. The remaining groups surveyed under
3
retail trade showed increases as follows: Apparel (3.8 percent), general merchandise (3.1 percent), jewelry (2.9 percent), furniture (2.6
percent), lumber and building materials (1.5 percent), hardware (1.4
percent), coal-wood-ice (1.4 percent), and farmers' supplies (1.1
percent).
Wholesale trade establishments increased the number of their employees by 2.2 percent, or 32,100 wrorkers, a much larger gain than
the average October increase (0.8 percent) for the last decade. The
employment index, 92.5 percent of the 1929 average, stood at the
highest point since December 1937. Weekly pay rolls also showed a
substantially greater-than-seasonal rise of 3.0 percent, or $1,300,000.
Increased employment was general among the wholesale lines surveyed with the exception of firms dealing in petroleum products,
groceries and food specialties, and other food products which showed
employment decreases of 1.1 percent, 0.7 percent, and 0.1 percent,
respectively. Assemblers, country buyers, and other dealers in farm
products increased their forces seasonally by nearly 30 percent.
Among other wholesale lines, the following employment gains were
in excess of the October average for recent years: Iron and steel scrap
(13.8 percent), metals and minerals (4.0 percent), automotive (3.5
percent), lumber and building materials (3.2 percent), furniture and
housefurnishings (2.2 percent), dry goods and apparel (1.8 percent),
paper and paper products (1.2 percent), hardware (1.1 percent),
electrical (0.8 percent), and machinery, equipment, and supplies (0.5
percent).
Anthracite mines took on 5 percent, or 3,600 more workers, than
were employed in mid-September, and increased weekly pay rolls by
30.2 percent, or more than $500,000. Bituminous-coal mines, which
also stepped up production in response to increased demand, expanded
their forces by 9.2 percent, or 35,800 workers, and their weekly pay
rolls by 21.8 percent, or nearly $2,000,000, both greater-than-customary
October gains, which have averaged 1.5 percent and 10.3 percent,
respectively, for the last 10 years. Metal mines also reported a
better-than-seasonal employment pick-up of 3.9 percent,or 2,700 wage
earners. Pay rolls rose 15.7 percent, reflecting greater production
and the effect of wage increases in a number of localities.
Employment in private building construction showed a slight decrease of 0.6 percent from September to October, according to reports
from 14,232 contractors employing 146,853 workers. Corresponding
pay rolls decreased 1.0 percent. In the East North Central States
slight employment gains were registered in Ohio and Indiana, but
losses in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin resulted in a 1.4 percent
decrease for the area. The only substantial gain in the West North
Central group was reported in Nebraska, the over-all change being a
net decrease of 0.4 percent. A 3.3 percent decline in the East South.
Central States reflected declines in all the States in the area except
Kentucky. Recessions in all of the West South Central States resulted in a 3.9 percent decline for this area. Sizable employment
losses in Maryland and the District of Columbia were counteracted
by improvement in other sections of the South Atlantic States, principally Delaware and Florida, to result in virtually unchanged employment for the area (+0.2 percent). In the Middle Atlantic States
a continuation of the downward trend shown in New York in September offset increases in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and resulted
in a 0.6 percent employment decrease for this area. Small employment losses in California and Washington and a substantial gain in
Oregon resulted in an increase of 0.3 percent for the Pacific States.
Moderate gains were reported from all of the New England States
with the exception of Massachusetts, the rise in employment for the
area amounting to 0.5 percent. In the Mountain States employment
rose 1.7 percent, with Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Nevada
registering slight increases. The reports on which these figures are
based do not cover construction projects financed by the Work Projects Administration, the Public Works Administration, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation or by regular appropriations of the
Federal, State, or local governments.
A preliminary report of the Interstate Commerce Commission
showed an employment gain by class I railroads from September to
October of 3.5 percent, the total number at work in October being
1,055,164. Corresponding pay rolls were not- available when this
report was prepared. For September they were $160,137,020, a
decrease of 0.1 percent over the August figure of $160,315,811.
Hours and earnings.—The average hours worked per week by wage
earners in manufacturing industries were 39.1 in October, a gain of
2.9 percent since September. The average hourly earnings of these
workers were 64.5 cents, a gain of 1.1 percent as compared with the
preceding month. Average weekly earnings of factory workers
climbed 4.8 percent to $25.80.
Of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries for which man-hours are
available, 9 showed increases in average hours worked per week and
12 showed gains in average hourly earnings. Twelve of the sixteen
nonmanufacturing industries surveyed reported higher average weekly
earnings.
Employment and pay-roll indexes and average weekly earnings in
October 1939 for all manufacturing industries combined, for selected
nonmanufacturing industries, and for class I railroads, with percentage
changes over the month and year intervals, are presented in table 1.
TABLE 1.—Employment, Pay Bolls, and Earnings in All Manufacturing Industries
Combined and in Nonmanufacturing Industries, October 1939
Employment
P a y roll
V verage weekly earnings
i Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
I change from —
change from—
change from—
Average
Index I
Index
October,
j
October
October Sep1939
1939
Sep1939 tember October
tember October
1938
1938
1939
1939
1939
Industry
All manufacturing industries
combined l
Class I steam railroads 2i
Coal mining:
Anthracite 4
Bituminous 4
-Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic
mining
Crude-petroleum producing. ...
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph..
Electric light and power
and manufactured gas
Kleetrie-railroad and
motorbus operation and
maintenance .
.. .
Trade:
Wholesale
Retail.. . .
. . .
General merchandising
Other than general
merchandising
Hotels (year-round) 4 7 . .
Laundries 4
..
Dyeing and cleaning 4
.
"Brokerage
.
.
Insurance .
.
Building construction
{1923-25
= 100) I
103.6 j + 3 . 4
59.1 + 3 . 5
(1929
= 100)
. 51.9
93. 2
05.4
+5.0
+9.2
+3.9
+12.1
+8.1
-.9
+6.9
+12.8
+7.7
(1923-25
= 100)
101. 6
+8.3 ; +20.7
(1929
= 100)
52.2 +30. 2
97.7 +21.8
63. 7 +15.7
+4.8
()
+7.7
()
33.03 + 2 4 . 0
28.70 + 1 1 . 5
30.63 + 1 1 . 4
+21.4
+16.7
+14.8
23. 00
32, 80
+5. 8
+6.9
-.1
31. 25
+.1
+.2
-1.1
$25. 80
+20. 3
+24. 8
+29.6
+15.1
-7.4
-7.3
45.1
59. 0
+5. 6
-3.0
+.2
+.9
95. 2
+.3
6
93.5
-.2
+1.1
101.0
-.1
o 33. 28
70.0
+.2
+2.2
+1.3
+3.1
+.2
72.3
+2.5
+4.7
80.3
74.1
91.7
+2.7
+3.0
+2. 5
+3.8
+2.2
+2.2
33. 49
+3.7
+2.9
+3.8
+2.7
e 30. 29
fi
21.17
6
17.71
+.8
+1.2
o 24.16
6 15. 27
17.90
20. 42
fl
36.76
o 34. 47
31. 08
+1.5
+.6
+1.1
+3.0
+1.7
+.1
+2.1
+1.8
+3.7
+.7
-.6
+1.2
+2.8
47.8
64.4
~\l
75.4
92.5
88.4
103.2
84. 5
92.8
96.1
105.1
(3)
+.7
+1.6
-1.8
-.2
-1.0
-.1
-.6
-. 1
+1.7
-1.6
+.8
+1.3
+3. 9
70. 5
82.2
83. 9
77.3
()
+4.9
+6. 9
+4.7
+3.9
+4.9
+1.7
+5. 5
—. 7
-.9
-1.3
+.2
-1.6
+. 5 ! +2.5
- 1 . 0 I +6. 9
15
-2.1
-1.2
-.6
+.5
3
1
Revised indexes—Adjusted to 1937 Census of M a n u f a c t u r e s .
* P r e l i m i n a r y - Source: I n t e r s t a t e Commerce Commission.
X o t available.
Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. C o m p a r a b l e series back to J a n u a r y 1929 presented in J a n u a r y 1938
issue of this p a m p h l e t .
5
Less t h a n Ho of 1 percent.
6
Average weekly earnings n o t strictly comparable w i t h figures published in issues of this p a m p h l e t
d a t e d earlier t h a n J a n u a r y 1938 as t h e y n o w exclude corporation officers, executives, a n d other employees
whose duties are m a i n l y supervisory.
7
Cash p a y m e n t s only; t h e additional value of board, room, a n d tips c a n n o t b e c o m p u t e d .
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Public Employment
Employment on construction projects financed by the Public
Works Administration decreased 26,000 during' the month ending
October 15, leaving 221,000 still at work. The number of men
employed on projects financed from N. I. R. A. funds and E. R. A. A.
1935, 1936, and 1937 funds remained at 22,000 while the number
working on projects financed from 1938 funds dropped from 225,000
to 199,000. Total pay-roll disbursements amounted to $20,827,000,
a decrease of $2,159,000 from September.
A substantial increase for the month ending October 15 was reported
on low-rent projects financed by the U. S. Housing Authority. The
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number of men engaged on these projects was 27,000 and pay rolls
for the month were $2,942,000. These figures cover new construction and demolition and pertain only to those projects started under
the U. S. Housing Authority; those formerly under the Public Works
Administration are shown under the Public Works Administration
building construction projects in this report.
On construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations, seasonal curtailment of employment on public-road projects
was offset by increases on ship construction, reclamation, and dredging, dyke, and revetment projects. Minor gains on other types of
projects financed from regular Federal appropriations brought the
total employment up to 288,000 for the month ending October 15.
In spite of the slight gain in employment, the number of man-hours
worked was lower in October. As a result, pay*-roll disbursements of
$29,306,000 were $1,371,000 less than in September.
Decreased employment was reported on construction projects
financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. During the
month ending October 15, approximately 2,400 were at work and pay
rolls amounted to $274,000.
Because of the heavier relief load coming at this season of the year,
more people were employed on work-relief projects operated by the
Work Projects Administration. The number at work rose from
1,720,000 in September to 1,826,000 in October. Pay rolls increased
from $89,390,000 to $98,543,000. Employment on Federal agency
projects financed by the Work Projects Administration showed an
increase of 5,000 in October. Pay-roll disbursements for the month
were $4,220,000.
A gain of 13,000 was reported on work projects of the National
Youth Administration, bringing employment up to 238,000 in October.
Expanded activity on school projects resulted in a gain of 296,000 on
the Student Aid program. Pay-roll disbursements on the work
projects were $4,432,000 and on the Student Aid program $2,360,000.
Enlistments in the Civilian Conservation Corps increased employment from 312,000 in September to 320,000 in October. Of the
320,000 on the pay roll, 282,100 were enrollees; 900, reserve officers;
1,600, educational advisers; 300, nurses; and 35,100, supervisory and
technical employees. Pay rolls for the whole group were $14,343,000.
In the regular services of the Federal Government, increases were
reported in the judicial and military services; decreases, in the executive and legislative services. Of the 937,000 employees in the executive service, 126,000 were working in the District of Columbia and
811,000 outside the District. Force-account emplo3rees (employees
who are on the Federal pay roll and are engaged on construction
projects) were 10.3 percent of the total number of employees in the
executive service. Increased employment was reported in the War
and Navy Departments, the Federal Security Agency, Panama
Canal, Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Civil Aeronautics Authority; while decreases were reported in the Department of Agriculture,
the Post Office Department, and the Federal Works Agency.
Employment on State-financed road projects was curtailed by
3,000 in the month ending October 15. Of the 158,000 at work,
29,000 were engaged in the construction of new roads and 129,000
in maintenance. Pay rolls for both types of road work were
$11,339,000.
A summary of Federal employment and pay-roll data for October
is given in table 2.
TABLE 2.—Summary of Federal Employment and Pay Rolls, October and September 1939%
[Preliminary figures]
Employment
Class
October
September
Pay rolls
Percentage
change
October
September
Federal services:
3 940,130
- 0 . 3 $142,005. 340 ^$141,003.23,1
937, 357
Executive 2
509. 870
508. 434
2,282
2, 357
+3.3
Judicial .
1.284,990
1.247.594
5.418
-2. 1
5. 551
Logislati vc
29.810.814
!
29.105,321
386.210
+2.
0
370,
480
Military.
Construction projects:
22.985.513
220,012
20.820,535
247,422 -10.8
Financed by P. W. A.*
2.517.730
20, 523
21.958 +20. 8
2.941.809
C. 8. II. A. low-rent housing-. .
2,
470
314.001
2,
640
274.
070
-0.7
Financed by R. F. C.«...
Financed by regular Federal ap29.305.500
I
30.077.007
288,
497
286.
652
+.6
propriations
. . .
Federal agency projects financed by
81,319
+6.0
4.2.19.050 !
3,921.494
86.108
the Work Projects Administration
1,825,734 1,719,870
98. 543, 038 ! 3 89. 390, 255
+0. 2
Projects operated by W. P. A .. ..
National Youth Administration:
4.221,759
237, 788
4.432.127 |
225. 477
+5.5
Work projects...
358. 000
2.300.000 •
208. 452
01,814 +478. 9
Student Aid. . . . .
14. 342. 739 i
319, 030
311,910
14. 145.853
+2.5
Civilian Conservation Corps...
Percentagechange
+0.3
+.3
-1.0
+2.2
-9. 4
+ 10. 8
-12.7
+7.6
+ 1.0.2
+5. 0
+779. 1
+1.4
• Includes data on projects financed wholly or p.irtially from Federal funds.
- Includes force-account and supervisory and technical employees shown under other classifications to
the extent of 133.421 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $16,637,108 for October 1939. and 132,695 employees and piy-roll disbursements of $16,253,503 for September 1939.
s Revised.
* Data covering P. W. A. projects financed from National Industrial Recovery Act funds, Emergency
Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 funds, and Public Works Administration Appropriation
Act of 1938 funds are included. These data are not shown under projects financed by the Work ProjectsAdministration. Includes 13,347 wage earners and $1,260,959 pay roll for October 1939; 15.213 wage earners
and $1,451,935 piy roll for September 1939, covering Public Works Administration projects financed from
Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 funds. Includes 198,951 wage earners and
$18,589,415 piy roll f>r October 1939; 225,560 wage earners and $20,688,881 pay roll for September 1939s
covering Public Works Administration projects financed from funds provided by the Public Works
Administration Appropriation Act of 1938.
5 Includes 559 employees and p:iy-roll disbursements of $48,380 for October 1939; 003 employees and pay
roll disbursements of $50,200 for September 1939 on projects financed by the RFC Mortgage Co.
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DETAILED TABLES FOR OCTOBER 193Q
Industrial and Business Employment
MONTHLY reports on employment and pay rolls are available for
the following groups: 90 manufacturing industries; 16 nonmanufacturing industries, including private building construction; and
class I steam railroads. The reports for the first two of these groups—
manufacturing and nonmanufacturing—are based on sample surveys
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figures on class I steam
railroads are compiled by the Interstate Commerce Commission
and are presented in the foregoing summary.
EMPLOYMENT, PAY ROLLS, HOURS, AND EARNINGS
The indexes of employment and pay rolls as well as average hours
worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly
earnings in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries in
October 1939 are shown in table 3. Percentage changes from September 1939 and October 1938 are also given.
The employment and pay-roll indexes, as well as average hours
worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly
earnings for August, September, and October 1939, where available,
are presented in table 4. The August and September figures, where
given, may differ in some instances from those previously published,
because of revisions necessitated primarily by the inclusion of late
reports.
The average weekly earnings shown in tables 3 and 4, are computed
by dividing the total weekly pay rolls in the reporting establishments
by the total number of full- and part-time employees reported. As
not all reporting establishments supply man-hours, average hours
worked per week and average hourly earnings are necessarily based on
data furnished by a smaller number of reporting firms. The size
and composition of the reporting sample varies slightly from month
to month. Therefore the average hours per week, average hourly
earnings, and average weekly earnings shown may not be strictly
comparable from month to month. The sample, however, is believed
to be sufficiently adequate in virtually all instances io indicate the
general movements of earnings and hours over the period shown. The
changes from the preceding month, expressed as percentages, are
based on identical lists of firms for the 2 months, but the changes
from October 1938 are computed from chain indexes based on the
month-to-month percentage changes.
TABLE 3.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing
Industries, October 1939
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, L923- 25= 100. Now series—adjusted to 1937 Census of Manufactures for all industries except automobiles and not comparable to indexes published
in the July 1939 and earlier issues of the pamphlet. Comparable series available upon request]
Industry
Index
October
All manufacturing
Durable goods
Nondurable goods
Percentage
change from—
September
October
1939
1938
103.6
+3.4
+12.1
96.1
110.7
+7.1
+20.6
+5.8
1939
+.5
Average weekly
earnings l
Pay rolls
Employment
Index
October
1939
Percentage
change from—
Average hours worked
per week *
Percentage
change from—
October
1939
October
1939
Percentage
change from—
1939
October
1938
$25. 80
+4.8
+7.7
39.1
+2.9
+3.8
+9.4
29.72
22.03
+5.8
+2.9
+10.8
+3.4
40.2
38.2
+5 0
+1.2
+6 9
+1.2
+18.5
+25.9
+21.5
+14.6
+ 1.8
+ 15.9
+3.2
+ 16.8
40.3
-1.1
41.5
40.4
40.2
41.3
40.4
September
1939
October
1938
101.6
+8.3
+20.7
99.7
103.8
+13 4
+3. 3
-1-33.6
September
Sep- Octotember ber
1938
1939
Average hourly earnings i
October
1939
Percentage
change from—
September
1939
October
1938
Cents
64.5
+1.1
+1.7
71.2
59.0
+.6
+1.0
-|-1 7
+.5
Bur able goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills.
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Cast-iron pipe
..
_. .
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
Forgings. iron and steel _._
Hardware
Plumbers' supplies
. .
Stamped and enameled ware
...
.
Steam arid hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings . _
Stoves
Structural and ornamental metalwork ..
Tin cans and other tinware . . . .
_
._
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws).
_.
Wire work.
.
S(M.> footnotes at «;ud of t:ible.
106.8
+10.0
+23.2
112.0
+20.7
+46.0
31.15
115.1
113.4
7G.6
+13.9
+12.6
+2.7
+29. 0
+26 4
+8.8
123. 6
137.5
71.4
+29.7
+23.8
+13. 6
+62.4
+53.8
+24. 8
33.91
29. 56
22.60
103.9
65.2
99 7
82.1
162.9
+7.2
+10.7
+5.8
+3.4
+4.4
+19. 5
+26.0
+ 19.1
+10.8
+15.7
95.0
74.7
109. 6
79.9
169. 9
+12.2
+18.6
-3.8
+11.3
+8.7
+21.7
+46.1
+22. 8
+29. 3
+ 14.4
23. 75
31.24
27.13
28.18
25.08
+9.7
+ 13.8
+9. 9
+10.6
+4.6
+7.1
-9.1
+7.6
+4.2
86.4
97 4
76.3
1.06. 4
+6. 3
+5 9
+3.4
+11.6
+10. S
+26.0
+ 17.5
83.3
94.2
68. 3
111.2
+16.8
+14. 3
+7.9
-5.2
+32. 1
+ 13.8
+39. 5
+22.9
29. 49
27.77
28.87
23. 98
+9.8
+7.9
+4.4
-4.7
+ 18.0
+2.8
+10.6
+4.7
41.8
41.2
39.9
39. 2
90. 9
Hi'.. 9
+6.0
+ 14.4
+18. 5
+ 19.8
91.7
183. 3
+ 12.3
+ 13.5
+30. 7
+29. 1
25.41
27. 47
+6. 0 +10. 5
-.8
+7.8
41. L
40. 3
40.0
42.8
38.5
+8.6 +15.2
+ 13.6 +24.8
+9.5 +23. 1
+ 10.2 + 12.3
+5.7 +4.3
+5.0 + 11.4
-3.0 +3.6
+6.0 +14.1
+4.6
+.9
+8.4 + 15.3
+6.4 + 1.6
+3.9 +9. 8
76.5
+.3
+1.5
84.8
68.9
58.3
+.2
+.6
+.8
+1.1
58.6
77.4
67. 6
68.3
62.1
-4.0
+3.5
70.6
67.5
72.5
61.3
+5.7
+2.2
+7.1
+7.0
62.0
68. 2
— 10
+ 1.8
—.9
-1.4
+4.2
-6.3
+1.6
—. 5
+2.5
+ 1.2
+ 1.5
+.7
+2.3
+1 7
+.3
-3.0
+3. 0
+2.2
-1.1
—.5
—2. 2
+.s
+.6
+.7
3.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, October 1939—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Industry
Index
October
1939
Percentage
change from—
Index
October
1939
September
1939
October
1938
Machinery, not including transportation equipment. 106.6
+6.3
Agricultural implements (including tractors)
117.8
+1.5
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines
.
126.3
-.3
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
97.3
+5.6
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and windmills
.- ...
105.2
+6.1
91.2
Foundry and machine-shop products
4-0.3
170.6
Machine tools
_.
+9.2
Radios and phonographs
_. 176.5 +17.6
79.7
Textile machinery and parts
_.
4-3.1
124.1
Typewriters and parts
+1.7
Transportation equipment
_
_. 105.0
+8.4
1,550.4
Aircraft
+6.1
107.4
Automobiles
+9.1
40.7 +22. 5
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad
.
25. 5
locomotives
—7.6
133. 6 +3.5
Shipbuilding.._
...
Nonferrous metals and their products...
_. 110.4 +10.1
168.1 + 11.4
Aluminum manufacture-!
Brass, bronze, and copper p r o d u c t s . . . . . . .._ . 131.1 + 13.7
90.0
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices.
+4.6
106. 7 +6.8
Jewelry... .
98.4 + 11.4
Lighting equipment
73.1
Silverware and plated ware
...
+2.4
83.8 i 4-8.3
Smelting and refining -copper, lead, and zinc...
72.4
I +3.4
l u m b e r and allied products
..
94.6 j +4.4
Furniture
Lumber:
63.6 ! +2.1
Millwork
....
Sawmills
05.5 i +3.4
+22.1
+20.3
111.0
13).3
-5.6
+19. 6
126.1
105. 7
Durable
Average weekly earnings
Pay rolls
Employment
Percentage
change from—
September
1939
October
1938
+10.0
+5. 0
+2.0
4-7.5
+36.9
+32.7
+4.5
+30. 2
October
1939
Percentage
change fromSeptember
1939
October
1938
$29.20
29.92
+3.5
4-3. 5
+12.1
+10.5
31. 50
29.24
+2.3
+ 1.8
4-10.7
+8.8
Average hours worked
per week
j
October
1939
Percentage
change from—
Perce
change
October
1939
September
1939
October
40.6
38.4
38.4
40.0
+3.8
+3.0
+2.4
+2.8
+11.6
+9.3
+9.9
+9.1
41.1
40.8
44.9
41.6
40.2
39.2
38.3
41.8
37.9
37. 5
38.5
38. 3
41.4
41.2
42. 6
41.4
41.5
39. 5
43. 6
38. 5
41.0
41.3
+3.7
+4.6
4-4.2
4-4. 5
4-1.2
4-1.7
+2.8
+4.5
4-2.5
4-8.0
+3.1
+2.3
+3.8
+4.0
4-4.4
+5.8
+1.4
+.4
+5.3
+4.2
+4. 3
+3.9
+14.4
+13.0
4-22. 2
4-6. 5
+10.9
+3.1
+1.9
+3.9
+.8
4-9. 5
4-32. 0
4-3.4
+4.4
+3.2
4-11.8
+7.7
-7.4
-.3
4-4.5
+.4
-2.3
+1.9
79.4
71.8
75.4
57. 3
65.0
63.5
88.9
74.8
91.9
76.8
77.3
84.2
69.1
67.0
75. 7
59. 0
58.2
m. 3
64. 8
70.7
50.3
52.7
43. 0
40.3
+2. 5
+4.9
4-1. 4
-5.3
53.2
48.4
goods—Continued
+26.9
32. 48 +4.9 4-15.9
129. 2 +11.3 +47.0
+2.1.3
29. 27 +5.0 +14.0
89. 5 4-11.6 +38. 2
+39. 4
207.6 4-14.2 +73. 8
33. 80 +4.5 +24.6
+47.9
169.6 +22.1 +57.9
23. 79 +3. 8
+6.7
+26. 3
+.3
75.7
+3.5 +37.8
26.14
4 9.0
+1.2
125.9
+3. 0
-.4
24.88
-1.7
+1.3
+2.1
110.6 +10.7 +32.5
33.87
+30.9
+1.2
+4.7
30.30
+94. 8 1.512.1 +11.1 +95. 4
+.3
+1.2
114.2 4-10. 4 +25.1
+24.6
34. 86
4". 3
37. 5 +36. 3 4-69.1
+47.9
28.85 4-11.3 + 14.4
24.6
- 3 . 8 + 120.9
+64. 2
29. 75 + 4.1 +34. 4
143. 6 +6. 5 +46. 7
+40.2
32. 26
4-2.8
+4.5
113.6 +17.7 +33.0
+20.7
28.58
+7.0 +10.3
190.8 4-14.4 4-32.1
+20. 5
27.70
4-2.7
4-4. 5
154. I 4-25.5 I +53.8
4-28.7
32. 21 4-10.3 4-19.4
98.6 + 11.7 ! +20.2 24.39
+7.6
4-0.7 + 11.7
92. 6 +10. 7 j +5.6
+10.4
24. 50 +3. 6
-4.3
82.4 | + 10.3 • +27.0
+23. 3
27. 03
-1.0 | +2.8
70.8
+8.0 I +15.5 28.20
4-10.4
4-5.4
+
4.5
81.3 I + 14.0 I +20.8
+17. 1
27. 20 4-5.3
+3.1
63.9 i +8.5 ! +15.4 20.84
+11.0
f 5. 0 +3.9
84.9
+8.6 4-17.6 21.72 I + 4 . ! | +4.8
+12.2
!
52.0 ' +4.5 ! +15.5 22.91
+ 13.0
4-2.4 j +2.3
+10.2
61. 8 i +9.5 i +14.0 19. 51 4-6.1 I +2.5
Average hourly earnings
September
1939
Cents
72.1
78.2
-0.2
+.5
82.2
73.3
-1.0
-.2
4-1.2
4-. 4
+.4
—. 7
-.9
-.5
-.4
October
1938
+0.5
+.8
4--1
-.1
4-1-4
+ 1.4
+2.2
+.3
-2.0
-1.7
-.P
+1.3
-1.2
+3.1
4-4! 4
-.1
+ 1.8
4-1.2
+4.9
+.9
4-7.0
+3.7
+2.5
+3.4
+.3
+2.8
+5.5
+2.7
2
4-1-1
4-1.1
+8. 2
4-1.0
+2.2
+2.6
-1.2
+5.8
+.9
+.5
-1.4
4-. 2
4-1.0
4-. 5
Stone, clay, and glass products
Brick, t ile, and terra cot t a
Cement
.-..
...
Glass
. .....
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
Pottery.-
84.8
64.8
71.6
106.9
51. 5
91.6
+3.8
+2.4
+.3
+5.9
o
+a 7
+12.0
+16.0
+1.6
+14.8
+8.0
+9.8
79.8
56.6
71.3
121.2
39.6
82.9
+7.3
+11.0
+16. 6
+12.7
+18. 2
+14. 5
-10.4
+1.9
+5. 1
+14.7
+9.6
+4.6
+19. 4
+ 1.1
+2.1
93.6
88.0
74.8
84.2
89.2
115. 5
61.4
173.8
69. 7
74.1
132. 2
57.1
76.6
98.6
82.9
133.2
126. 5
142.9
61. 5
114.6
76.5
7.1.1
88.2
129.8
136. 6
309. 0
81.6
154.1
95. 8
82.1
62.2
107.7
244.9
86. 5
63.4
71.0
62.4
113.8
150. 6
125. 6
+11.3
+ 12.4
+5.2
+15. 4
+2.9
+11.5
+20.4
+28. 5
+ 11.2
+24. 3
+20.9
+7.4
25. 98
22.51
28.48
27. 71
26. 54
24.15
+10.0
+13.7
+27.6
+16. I
+19. 6
+ 14.6
-20. 0
+ 1.5
+11.3
+19. 8
+12.3
+8.7
+24.0
+4.1
+7.4
+4.2
+2.5
17.60
17. 23 +2.9
+2.4
25. 01 +3.0
+9.4
14.62
+.8
+3.0
18.93
+.2
+1.3
21.21
+.8 -09
19.31 -12.3 -10.7
-.4
20. 40 +8.2
18.31
+8.1 +5.8
15. 60 +6.9
+4.3
19. 27 +3.0
+2.8
16. 31 +3.8
+4.0
19.46
+2.3 +4.0
18. 68 +7.2
+3.0
19.67
+5.2 +5.1
20. 00 +13.1
+.6
17.78
+3.7
+.3
15.33
+9.3 +7. 5
21.11 -18.4
-6.7
15.00
+8.9 +14.6
18.74
+1.5
+1.8
17. 20
+.8
+.6
24. 91 +2.4
+3.4
24. 35 +1.9
+.7
25. 65 - 1 . 5
+.9
33. 29
-2.3
+2.3
22. 99 +1.5
+1.8
16. 87 - 2 . 0
+3.9
-.9
19.26
+4. 5
27.06
-9. 6
+1.6
29.97
+2.3 +2. 5
27.60
-1.5
-2.9
22. 25 -11.4
+.5
24.12
-9. 8
+.5
17.57
+.4
+2.4
18.47
+3. 5 +7.4
-.2
17. 36
+1.6
29.40
+1.1 +2.8
23. 46 +4.7
+4.2
27.19
+6.0 +8.6
+7.4
+7.2
+9. 7 + 10.9
+9.5
+1.9
+8.3
+8.9
+3.1 +12. 2
-2.2
+4.5
39.2
40.5
40.4
.38.0
38.9
38.8
+4.8
+4.3
+7.5
+6.0
+10. 7
65.2
55. 1
70. 5
73. 0
68.3
61.8
+.8
+2.5
-.6
+1.1
+3.4
+3.1
+2.3 +2.0
+2.3 +4.1
+.7
+2.3
+.4 ~(2)
-.6
+1.0
-11.2 -10.8
+5. 5
+.1
+6. 9
+.9
+5.7 +6.5
+2.6 +2.4
+3.9 +3.2
+2.9 +4.4
+5. 2 +4.4
+5.1 +4.9
+5.4
+3.4
-1.5
+2.9
+9.2 +6. 0
-5.5
+2.4
+7.8 +6.1
-1.3
+1.3
-2.5
+.9
+2.2 +2.5
48.6
46. 3
66.4
38.4
48.4
53.1
69.7
54.9
46.1
40.7
45.8
42.6
52. 5
52.9
57.9
54.0
45.6
38.4
60.8
40.4
53.2
50.8
63.3
60.8
62.3
87.1
48.7
45. 7
48.0
61.4
63.9
68. 5
52. 6
63.3
47.5
52.4
46.9
77.3
54.6
62.9
+.7
+.5
+.8
+.1
+5.5
+6.4
+5.6
+7.9
+4.4
-.4
-1.4
-1.1
-.9
+2.7
+6.0
+1.9
+2.2
+4.2
-2.2
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products
_
Fabrics. .
Carpels and rugs
Cotton goods...
Cotton small wares...
1 )yeing and finishing textile?
.... .
Hats, fur-felt
Ifoisery . ...
..
Knit-tod outerwear
Knitted underwear
Knitted cloth.
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods
Wearing apparel.....
..
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's
Corsets and allied garments..
Men's furnishings
Millinery
. ...
Shirts and collars
Leather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes
Leather
Food and kindred products
Baking.__. .... . .
.
Beverages
.
Butter
Canning and preserving
.
Confectionery
Flour
Ice cream...
Slaughtering and meat packing .... . . . . .
Sugar, beet
...
.
Sugar refining, cane
.
.
._
Tobacco manufactures
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff
.
Cigars and cigarettes
:
Paper and printing
Boxes, paper..
Paper and pulp
Printing1 and publishing:
Boo ? and job
Newspapers and periodicals
See footnotes at end of table.
108.3
+3.6
98.8
+5.7
83.2
+6.2
94.3
+5.5
92.1
+9. 3
132. 9 +6.3
85.7
-4.7
153.8
+2.7
81.7
+4.1
80.2
+3.2
152.1
+6.2
66. 7 +5.5
90.9 +10. 8
124.7
-. 1
109. 4 - 1 . 0
178.2
-.3
117.6
+1.5
143. 7 +8.4
82.0
-7.3
126. 8 +2.9
96.2
-1.6
94.1
-2.5
88.4
+2.2
137.5
-8.8
_(2)
148.0
270. 9 - 5 . 7
95.0
-4.1
180. 7 - 4 0 . 5
96.6
+5.7
82.4
-2.3
73.0 - 1 1 . 4
102. 7 +1.3
286. 5 +137. 2
100. 9 +11.2
66.7
-4-. 5
62.4
+2.0
67.2
+.3
116.5
+2.9
128.3
+8.0
113. 6 +4.5
99.1
117.2
+.9
+.8
2
+()
+12.2
-3.2
-5. 6
+3.7
+ .8
-.6
+7.2
+2.7
+2.1
+3.1
-.0
+5.2
-.8
+5. 2
+1.3
+3.7
-.6
+4.9
-1.5
+5.3
-2.2
+5.3
+14.8
+8.4
+.6
+2.4
84.4
110.4
+8.1
+8. 6
+9.4
+6. 3
+9. 4
+7.2
-16.4
+11.2
+12. 5
+10.4
+9.4
+9. 5
+13. 3
+7.1
+4.1
+12.7
+5.2
+18.4
-24.4
+12.1
-. 1
-1.8
+4.7
-7.0
-1.5
-7.9
-2.7
-41.7
+4.7
-11.8
-9.3
-.2
+110.1
+.3
+.8
+5. 6
+.2
+4.1
+13. 1
+10.8
-1.4
+•6
+.6
+12.5
+3.8
-11.8
+18.9
+2.7
+.1
+11.0
4-3.5
+2.9
+5.5
+1.2
+9.3
+3. 6
+7.0
+4.0
+.7
-.4
+5.3.
+.8
+13.2
-.6
+8.3
+19.9
+17.8
+1.8 29.76
+2.8 37.92
-2.2
-.2
+1.3
+.4
38.7
37.9
37.7
38.0
39. 0
39. 5
27.6
37.5
39.3
38. -4
41.0
38.0
37.1
34. 5
33.0
33.6
38. 6
39. 0
34.9
37.3
35.3
34.3
39.4
40.5
41.4
38.7
47.2
38.1
40.7
43.1
46.3
40.3
42.3
38.1
37.0
35. 2
37.2
39.7
43.4
43.2
37.8
36.2
-2.7
-1.6
-2.7
+.3
+.3
-8.4
+.7
-1.3
+.5
-7.3
-11.5
+.2
+2.6
-.1
+1.9
+5.1
+4.5
-1.4
-.3
-2.8
-1.3
+.7
+1.0
-3.9
+2.1
-4.6
+1.5
-3.8
-2.5
-1.0
-1.6
+.7
-1.9
+2.8
+4.1
+6.3
+1.2
-1.4
80.1
101.3
-.3
-.1
+.6
+3.1
+.9
+1.3
_(2)
_(2)
-.8
+1.5
+.5
+5.0
+.5
+.1
-7.8
+1.0
+.2
+.1
-.1
+3.8
2
+(+.6
)
+.9
+6.5
-1.3
-2.3
+.9
-.3
-14.4
+1.9
-.2
+1.1
-.4
-.2
-.2
+1.3
-.6
+.3
-.4
+.5
+5.0
+.5
+2.0
+.6
+3.1
+1.5
+4.9
-1.0
-.8
+1.0
-.5
-.8
-2.9
-3.0
+.6
+5.0
-3.1
+8.1
+1.0
+.8
+.9
+.5
+2.3
+1.3
+.8
+3.7
+1.8
+5.8
+2.4
+.4
+2.1
+1. 5
+3.8
+6.4
+3.4
+.8
+.6
+2.1
+.3
+2.8
TABLE 3.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing
Industries, October
1939—Continued
MANUFACTURING—-Continued
Employment
Industry
Index
October
1939
Percentage
change from—
September
1939
October
1938
Average weekly earnings
Pay rolls
Percentage
Index- change from—
October
SepOcto1939 tember
ber
1939
1938
October
1939
Percentage
change from—
September
1939
October
1938
+3.1
+4.1
+3.3
+4.6
+4.2
+4.8
+4.9
-8.1
+3.1
+2.3
-1.6
+4.3
-1.8
+4.2
+7.4
+5.1
+3.5
+6.1
+5.8
+5.3
+2.9
+4.3
+1.2
+5.8
+6.2
Average hours worked
per week
October
1939
Percentage
change from—•
September
1939
Octo-
+3.0
+3.7
+2.6
+3.5
+4.3
+5. 5
+2.1
-3. 5
+1.4
+2.4
+2.7
+3.1
+2.5
+3.6
-8.2
+2.9
+1.3
+ 1.3
+3.7
+4.9
+.9
+6.8
ber
122.0
122.7
121.8
133. 6
130.8
116.7
104.2
98.5
125.1
310.8
90.4
92.4
62.2
73.6
157.5
+3.7
+6.2
+1.7
+4.6
+7.3
+8.1 +14.3
+15. 5 - 6 . 8
+4.5
+2.4
+4.3 +18.7
+ . 1 +10. 5
+6.4
+2.5
+3.1
+3.6
+8.9
+2.1
+7.4 +19.1
+7.1
+4.1
+5. 2 +16. 9
+11.2 +25.9
-.2
133.1
+6.9
140.0
+3.9
131.0
+8.0
157.9 +13.0
113.0 +20.3
133.0
+7.4
125.2
+9.5
79.8
-7.5
134.6
+5.6
303.4
+5.9
109.0
+1.7
101.9 +12.0
63. 5 +2.1
90.6
+9.6
161. 2 +19.5
+11.6
+5.3
+13.8
+21.0
-2.0
+7.6
+23. 8
+13. 5
+13. 6
+9. 5
+10. 5
+31.1
+7.0
+34. 6
+34.1
$29. 50
35.77
26.94
32.51
14.21
25. 82
33.07
14.91
29. 46
25. 00
27.87
30.11
23.45
35.91
25.01
-.1
+10. 2
-.1
+15.2
+6.5
39.8
36.9
40.8
41.2
48.5
41. 5
39.9
35.5
41.4
38.7
40.0
39.2
38.4
37.5
41.3
-.7
+4.2
-1.1
+3.8
+6.1
October
1939
1938
Nondurable goods—Cont inued
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products
Petroleum refining
O ther than petroleum refining
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal
Druggists' preparations
Explosives
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products
Soap
Rubber products.. _
Rubber boots and shoes..
Rubber tires and inner tubes
Rubber goods, other
Average hourly earnings
-.9
+13.4
+2.7
Cents
74.0
97.4
65.9
78.9
28.6
59.5
83.0
42.0
71.2
64.5
69. 6
76.9
61.1
96.1
61.2
Percentage
change from—
September
1939
-0.2
+.4
+.2
+1.0
-1.3
October
1938
+1.5
_(2)
-1.0
+.1
+3.2
+2.2
+14.4
+ 1.4
+2.9
+1.5
+2.0
+1.2
-1.0
+2.1
+.2
+1.4
+2.1
+4.1
-.3
+2.8
-4.8
+1.5
-.1
-.7
-.8
N ON M AN I' FA CTV R1N i;
[Indexes nre based on 12-iiioDtli average.. .1929=100]
£ Coal mining: 3
*f'
Anthracite .
6>
Bituminous 3
..
*f Metalliferous mining .
.......
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
.. .
do Crude-petroleum producing
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph 4
Electric light and power and manufactured
gas*...
-.
Electric-railroad4 and motor-bus operation and
maintenance Tnuie:
Wholesale4
"Retail*.
general merchandising 4
Other than general
merchandising <_.. ...
34
Mot els (year-round)
«...
..
Laundries 3
Dyeing and
cleaning 3.
4
Brokerage
Insurance 1 . . . ..
...
Building construction.
51.9
93.2
65. 4
47.8
04. -I
+5. 0
+9. 2
+3.9
-.2
— .9
75.4
93. 5
70. 0
92. 5
88.4
103.2
84. 5
92.8
96. 1
105. 1
+.2
-.2
+f>. 9
+12.8
+7.7
-7.3
52.2
97.7
63. 7
45.1
59. 0
+30.2
+21.8
+15.7
+5.6
-3. 0
+.9
95. 2
+.3
+1.1
101.0
+.2
72.3
+2. 7
SO. 3
74. 1
91.7
70. 5
82.2
83.9
77.3
(•)
(«)
(e) !
+3.0
+2. 5
+3.8
+2.2
+2.2
-0.9
+.2
+2. 2
+1.3
+3.1
+.8
+ 1.6
43.7
+2.9
+3.8
-1.8
2
+1.7
-10
—. 0
-J-2.S
i
-1.6
+.8
+ 1,3
+3. 9
• Revised series for "all manufacturing," for various groups under manufacturing
for sawmills, fertilizers, soap, and telephone and telegraph. Mimeographed sheets
giving averages for these, as well as for the remaining industries covered, by years, 1932
to 1938, inclusive, and by months, January 1938 to September 1939, inclusive, available
on request. Average weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from
data supplied by a smaller number of establishments, as not all reporting firms furnish
man-hours. The figures are not strictly comparable from month to month because of
changes in the size and composition of the reporting sample.
+20. 3 $33. 03
+24. 8 28. 70
+29. fi 30. 63
+ 15. 1 23. 00
+7.4
32. 80
-. 1
-5.0
93.0
88.7
72.7
53. 6
87.7
-1. 1
39.1
-.9
- 1.6
80. 5
39. 5
—.6
-I.I
83.4
•If. ;")
+2.4
+ 1.3
+.9
i
-2. 1
+.1
- . 1 | +1.1
33. 28
+.2
+4. 9
33. 49
+ 2.5
+ 1. 7
+6.9
+4. 7
+3. 9
+4.9
+ 1.7
+5.5
-.9
+.2
+2.5
+6. 9
30. 29
21.17
17.71
24.62
15.27
17.90
20.42
36. 76
34.47
+.8
+3. 0
+ 1.7
+.1
+2. L
+1.8
+3.7
+.5
31.08
Cents
35. (i
32. 7
42. 4
12. 5
37. 7
31.25
-1.0
+22. 4
+ 19. 1
+7.1
+2. 2
+21.4
+ 1(1.7
+ M.8
+6. 9
-.1
—. 7
-1.3
-1.0
+25. 0
+ 13.9
+0. 7
+4.7
-2.5
+21.0
+ 11.5
+ 11.4
+5. 8
+ 1.2
-•}-. 7
+ 1.4
+.6
+ 1.1
-1.2
-.6
+.5
-.3
+.7
-.6
+ 1.2
+2.8
•12. 1
42. 7
39.0
13.7
46.6
42.7
42.3
e
()
(6)
34. 0
+.1
+•<>
+!'i
+ .0
—. 7
(•)
(6)
+.6
+ 1.5
+.2
-1.0
-1. 1
+4.4
+ 1.2
+.4
+1.1
+.8
70. S |
• »5. I I
-4-. 4
+ 1. I
+. 6
18.4 ! + 1.0
57. 2 i +.0
32.5 :
+.9
42.0 '
•':). 3 i + (•)
+ . (>
(«> i
!•!.»» i
+.8
+• *
(''•I
(°) ..j
+0. 4
-.8
+7. 4
+5. 6
+ 1.4
-1.0
+3. *\
+ 1.8
+ 1.0
+2. 2
+ 1.0
+ 1.7
+2. (i
()
+3.0
2 Less than Ho of 1 percent.
3
Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented
in 4January 1938 issue of this publication.
Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours riot strictly comparable with
figures published in pamphlets prior to January 1938 as they now exclude corporation
officers, executives, and other employees whose duties are mainly supervisory.
* Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
6 Not available,
CO
TABLE 4.—Emptoymeiii, Pay Rolls, Hours> and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries
MANrFACTUKING
[Indexes are based on .'{-year average, 192.* -25 = 100, and are adjusted to 1937 Census of Manufactures for all industries except automobiles. Not comparable to indexes published
in pamphlets prior to August 1939. Comparable series available upon request]
Employment index
Industry
All manufacturing..
Durable goods
Nondurable goods.
Average weekly
earnings l
Pay-roll index
Average hours worked
per week i
Sep- August October Sep- August October Sep- August October SepOctober tember
tember
1939 tember
1939
1939
1939
1939
1939
1939 tember
1939
1939
1939
1939
1939
71.2
59.0
70.3
58.3
69.9
58.5
37.0
35.7
38.0
37.4
76.5
84.8
68.9
58.3
76.1
84.5
68.7
57.9
75.7
84.3
68.9
58. 0
39.3
38.4
41.4
38.8
38.4
38.1
38.3
39.0
38. 9
38. 8
58.6
77.4
07. 6
08.3
02. 1
59.0
75. 8
72.2
07. 4
01.9
59. S
70.0
00. i>
63. 0
62. f.
41.8
41.2
39.9
39.2
3S.6
38.9
38.3
40.5
37.9
37.7
39.7
39.9
70.0
07.5
72.5
61.3
09.7
66.0
72.1
61.5
69. il
66.0
72.6
60.8
23.97
24.76
28.07
29.11
41.1
40.3
40.6
38.4
38.9
39.4
39.1
37.3
38.6
36.8
39.0
37.4
02.0
68.2
72.1
78.2
61.9
70.4
72.2 !
77.8 \
62.3
67.4
72. 1
78.1
30.80
28.71
30.23
28.50
38.4
40.0
37.5
38.9
37.0
38.8
82.2
73.3
82.5
74.0
82.2
73.7
30.97
27.86
32.10
31.01
27.78
31.72
41.1
40.8
44.9
39.6
38.9
43.0
40.1
33.9
42.6
79.4
71.8
75.4
78.7 j
71.6 |
75.0 '
77.8
71.4
74. 0
38.0 i
28.18
21.54
27.92
21.58
40.2
38.2
38. 2 I "
37.8
37.8
31.15
33.91
29.50
22. 00
28.25
29.77
20.90
20.48
28. 17
30.13
26.17
21.81
40.3
40.0
42.8
38. 5
37.0
35.2
39.2
34.9
3
79.5
59.4
80. 1
71. 1
156. 4
23. 75
31.24
27. 13
28.18
25. 08
22.72
29.15
29.85
26.13
23. 77
22.34
29.10
26.10
26. 43
24.37
41.5
40.4
40.2
41.3
40.4
71.3
82. 5
03.3
117.4
07. 9
77.7
63. 9
114.9
29.49
27.77
28.87
23. 9S
20.84
25.60
27.62
24.86
26.47
24.78
28. 74
24. 20
91.7
183. 3
111. 0
131.3
81.0
101.4
100.9
125.0
79.4
115.5
93.9
124.0
25.41
27.47
29.20
29.92
24.02
27.70
28.23
28.91
124.6
87.8
126.1
105. 7
123.6
98.4
119.4
93.4
31.50
29.24
96.8
84.1
140.3
129.2
89.5
207.6
116.2
80.2
181.8
113. 5
78.4
160.9
32.48
29.27
33.80
96.3
101.6
93.8
93.1
110.7
89.7
110.2
S3. 9
103.1
99.7
103.8
37.9
100.5
81. 5
99.0
29.72
22. 0.*
106.8
115.1
113.4
70.6
97.1
101. 1
100.7
74.6
97.0
96.9
75.3
112.0
123.0
137.6
71.4
92.8
95.3
111.1
62.9
83.0
92.7
104. 0
67.9
103.9
65. 2
99.'
82.1
102. 9
96.9
58.9
91.2
79.5
150. 0
92.1
55.6
75.6
77.8
152.5
95.0
74.7
109. 0
79.9
109.9
81.7
03.0
113.9
71.8
150.
86.4
97.4
76.3
106. 4
81.2
92.0
73.8
107.0
78.4
90.2
71.5
107.4
83.3
94.2
63.3
111.2
90.9
165. 9
106.6
117.8
85.8
144.9
100.3
116.1
83.5
116.1
98.8
114.4
126.3
97.3
120.7
92.2
105.2
91.2
170. 0
99.2
85.8
156.2
$25. 80
Cents
64.5
Cents
63.4
39.1
100.2
SepOctober tember
August
1939
1939
1939
Cents
63.5
$24. 52
103.6
Average hourly
earnings 1
S24.
72
38.0
.33. U
8.4
Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling: mills....
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets,.
. ..
Cast-iron pipe
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
Forcings, iron and steel
1 fardware
Plumbers' supplies
Stamped and enameled ware
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings
Stoves
Structural and ornamental metal work ._ - . .
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)
Wirework..
Machinery, not including tranrspotation equipment.
Agricultural implements (including tractors) .
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines.__.
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and windmills...
I
Foundry and machine-shop products
_.. I
Machine tools
Radios and phonographs
- 176.5
79.7
Textile machinery and parts
124.1
Typewriters and parts
105.0
Transportation equipment
1, 556.4
Aircraft
.
107.4
Automobiles
40.7
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad.
25.5
Locomotives
_.
.. .
133.6
Shipbuilding
110.4
Nonferrous metals and their products.
108.1
Aluminum manufactures
131.1
Brass, bronze, and copper products
Clocks and watches and time-recording de90.0
vices
106.7
Jewelry
....
98.4
Lighting equipment
73.1
Silverware and plated w a r e . . . . .
.
83.8
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and z i n c .
72.4
Lumber and allied products
... .
94.6
Furniture..
..
Lumber:
63.6
Millwork
65.5
Sawmills
84.8
Stone, clay, and glass products..
64.8
Jirick, tile, and terra cotta
71.6
Cement
106.9
Glass
51.5
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
91.6
Pottery
.
Nondurable
23.79
26.14
24.88
33.87
30.30
34.86
28.85
29. 75
32.26
23.58
27.70
32.21
22.92
26.15
24.58
33.42
29.07
34.63
25.96
28.57
31.41
26.69
20. 97
29.15
22.38
26.47
24.24
33.71
30.59
35.15
26. 90
28.72
31.69
25.98
25.86
28.00
41.6
40.2
39.2
38.3
41.8
37.9
37.5
38.5
38.3
41.4
41.2
42.6
39.8
39.8
38.5
37.3
40.0
37.1
34.8
37.3
37.4
39.9
39.5
40.9
38.9
40.1
37.8
38.1
42.0
37.7
36.2
37.6
38.1
39.0
38.5
39.5
57.3
65.0
63.5
88.9
74.8
91.9
76.8
77.3
84.2
69.1
67.0
75.7
57.7
65.8
63.8
89.5
74.2
93.4
74.6
76.6
82.5
67.4
68.0
71.4
57.6
66.1
64.1
88.8
73.8
93.5
74.4
76.4
82.9
66.8
67.1
71.0
86.0
99.9
88.3
71.4
77.4
70.0
90.7
82.8
94.2
73.0
68.8
74.6
68.7
87.5
98.6
92.6
82.4
70.8
81.3
68.9
84.9
88.3
83.6
74.7
65. 0
71.3
63.5
78.1
85.0
76.9
58.3
59.2
70.8
62.9
75. 5
24.39
24.50
27.03
28. 20
27.20
20.84
21.72
22.86
23.54
27.42
26.54
25. 85
19.95
20. 95
22.88
22.89
26. 06
24.88
26.64
20.14
20.90
41.4
41.5
39.5
43.6
38.5
41.0
41.3
39.1
40.8
39.5
41.4
36.9
39.3
39.8
39.2
39.7
37.6
39.0
38.2
39.6
39.7
59.0
58.2
68.3
04.8
70.7
50.3
52.7
58.4
57.9
69.4
64.6
70.0
50.1
53.0
58.4
56.8
69.3
64.1
09 8
50.2
52.9
62.2
63.4
81.7
63.2
71.4
100.9
51.6
85.9
61.5
62.7
80.8
61.8
72.6
98.5
53.2
84.6
52.0
61.8
79.8
56.6
71.3
121.2
39.6
82.9
49.7
50. 5
71.7
50.4
67.8
105.0
38. 5
74.4
49. 5
56. 8
71.6
50.1
69.9
102.5
40.6
74.1
22.91
19. 51
25. 98
22.51
28.48
27.71
26. 54
24.15
22. 51
18. 39
24. 03
20.66
27.04
25.43
26.00
22.00
22.70
18. 76
24.28
21.17
27.32
25.45
20. 54
22.34
43.0
40.3
39.2
40.5
40.4
38.0
38.9
38.8
42.1
38.4
37.0
38.1
38.3
35.4
36.9
36.7
42.3
39.0
37.7
39.2
38.9
35.8
37.6
37.9
53.2
48.4
65.2
55.1
70.5
73.0
68.3
61.8
53.5
47.9
64.7
54.0
70.7
71.8
70.3
62.0
53.7
48.1
64.6
53.9
70.3
71.4
71.1
62.2
103.5
93.1
75.6
87.3
80.9
122. 2
93.7
152.4
78.1
77.1
140.4
62.8
86.2
122.1
110.2
174. 3
114.0
131.2
78.2
110.9
93.6
88.0
74.8
84.2
89.2
115.5
61.4
173.8
69.7
74.1
132.2
57.1
76. 0
98.0
82. 9
133. 2
120. 5
142. 9
61.5
114.0
86.6
81.0
6S.3
79.2
81.5
107.7
73. i>
150. 4
01. 9
07.1
120. 9
52.1
07. 0
92. 1
79 0
88.2
80.2
63.5
74.7
75.6
103. 3
84.1
161.6
63. 8
08.0
110.0
rv2. o
71.5
UA. 3
SO. 3
132.9
11-2.2
JvJi) ]
06.' 8
102.5
17.60
17.23
25.01
14.62
18.93
21.21
19.34
20.40
18.31
15. 00
19.27
16. 31
19. 46
18. 08
19.07
20. 00
17. 78
1 o. 33
2l! 11
15.00
16.91
16.73
24. 23
14.49
18.81
20.99
21.95
18.85
16.90
14.60
18.59
15.71
19.00
17.40
IS. 02
17.50
17.13
13. 99
25. 70
13. 29
17.20
16.63
23.34
14.01
18.18
20.56
24.24
19.14
17.45
14.92
18. 80
15.71
19.18
18. 77
20. 21
20. 14
10. 27
14.27
24. 05
13.0°,
36.7
37.9
37.7
38.0
39.6
39.5
27.6
37.5
39.3
38.4
41.0
38.0
37.1
34.5
33. 0
33. 6
35.5
37.0
36.8
37.8
39.5
39.1
31.1
35.5
36.8
36.4
39.7
30.6
36.0
32.8
31.9
31.8
37.4
35. 7
36.8
34.5
36.1
36.7
35.8
36.6
38.6
38.5
34.3
36.0
38.7
37.0
39.3
37.0
36.3
35. 0
34.7
34.8
35.2
36.2
35. 9
35.8
48.6
46.3
66.4
38.4
48.4
53.1
69.7
54.9
46.1
40.7
45.8
42.6
52.5
52.9
57.9 j
54.0
45.6
38.4
60.8
40.4
48.2
46.1
65.9
38.4
48.3
53.1
69.3
53.4
45.6
40.4
45.9
42.6
52.9
51.9
58.0
51.2
45.4
38.0
64.3
38. 6
48.3
46.0
65.3
38.2
47.7
52.9
70.1
53.3
44.8
40.4
46.9
42.2
62.9
52.3
57.8
52.4
45.8
38.7
62.4
38. 5
goods
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs... .
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing textiles
Hats, fur-felt..
....
Hosiery... ....
Knitted outerwear
.
Knitted underwear.
Knitted cloth .
Silk and rayon goods
.
"Woolen and worsted goods
Wearing apparel
Clothintr, men's ...
Clothing, women's
Corsets and allied garments .
Men's furnishings. ._.
Millinery
..
.
Shirts arid collars
See footnotes at end of 1able.
150.1
135.9
169.6
139.0
122.8
77.6
73.1
74.6
77.3
75.7
122.0
117.9
122.2
125.9
116.5
96.9
75.2
110.6
99.9
78.3
466.5 1, 413. 5 1, 512.1 1,361.6 1.380.9
98.5
70.4
114.2
103.4
75.0
33.2
27.5
27.2
31.9
37.5
27.6
29.1
24.6
27.2
25. 6
128! 3
129.0
121.5
143.6
134.8
100.3
94.7
113.6
96.5
88.7
154.0
163.2
150.9
190.8
106. 7
115.2
154.1
110.5
107.7
122.8
108.3
98.8
83.2
. .
10 4. 5
93.5
78.3
94.3 I
89.4
92.1 '
84.3
132.9
125.0
90.0
85. 7 :
153.8 ! 149.8
81.7 i
78. 0
80.2 :
77.7
152.1 . 143.2
63.2
00.7 I
90. 9
82.1
124. 7
124.8
109. 4
110. 6
178.2
178.8
117.0
11.5.9
143. 7
132.0
82. 0
88. 5
120.8 ! 123 2
us! i
120. 3
120.7
81.3
102. 3
• as. e
39. 0
31.9
37. 3
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries—Continued
MAN UFACTUJUJNG—Continued
Employment index
Industry
Pay-roll index
Average weekly
earnings
" Average hours worked
per week
Sep- August October Sep- August October Sep- August October Sep- August October SepAugust
October tember
1939
1939
1939 tember
1939
1939 tember
1939
1939 tember
]939
1939
1939 tember
1939
1939
1939
1939
1939
Xondurable goods— Continued
Leather and its manufactures
Boots and shoes
Leather
_.
Food and kindred products
Baking
. . . .
Beverages ..
. .
...
Butter.
. .
_ . .
Canning and preserving.
Confectionery
Flour
.
Ice cream
Slaughtering and meat packing
Sugar, beet
Sugar refining, cane...
Tobacco manufactures
Chewing and smoking tobacco and sniitf.
Cigars and cigarettes. _.
Paper and printing
Boxes, paper
Paper and pulp...
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals
..
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products
Petroleum refining
Other than petroleum refining
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal-.. __
I )ruggists* preparations
Explosives
_
Fertilizers
__
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products
Soap
Average hourly
earnings
96.2
94.1
88.4
137.5
148.0
270. 9
95. 0
180.7
96.0
82.4
73.0
102.7r
280. . )
100. 9
86.7
62. 4
07.2
116.5
128.3
113.6
97.8
96. 5
80. 5
150.7
148.0
287. 4
99.1
303.7
91.4
84.4
82. 3
101. 3
120. 8
90.7
66.4
01. 2
07. 0
113.2
118.8
108.8
100.7
100. 3
85.5
147.0
140.9
295. 4
102.9
288. 5
78.5
79. 9
S9. 4
100. 2
88.3
98.0
66.6
00.7
07.3
110.9
114.3
107.0
76. 5
71. 1
88.2
129.8
136. 0
309.0
SI. 0
154. I
95.8
82. 1
02.2
107.7
244. 9
86. 5
63.4
71.0
02. 4
113.8
150.6
125. 6
76.6
72.4
St. 2
139. 6
138. 8
335. 5
83.8
204. 3
91. 5
93. 0
08. (i
107. 9
116.6
8«). 3
62.9
07. 2
02. 3
109.3
133.2
113.4
84.6 $18. 74
82.9
17.20
83.1
24.91
135.1
24.35
135. 3 25. 65
350. 2 33. 29
80.7
22. 99
251.1
16. 87
70. 7
19. 20
70.8
27. 00
74.2
29. 97
10"). 8 27. 60
85. 7 22. 25
80. 8 24.12
62.7
17.57
07.3
18.47
62.1
17. 30
103.7
29.40
124.6
23.46
107.7
27.19
99.1
117.2
122.0
122.7
121.8
133.6
130.8
116.7
104.2
98.5
125.1
310.8
90.4
98.3
116.2
117.7
123.1
116.4
123.6
113.3
113.9
99.9
98.4
122.1
300.2
88.5
98.3
112.0
109.2
122.7
105.9
119.1
56.7
109.9
93.3
73.9
122.1
255.1
86.0
84.4
110.4
133.1
140.0
131.0
157.9
113,0
133.0
125.2
79.8
134.6
303.4
109.0
85.6
109.8
124.5
134.8
121.3
139.7
94.0
123.8
114.4
86.3
127.5
286.4
107.1
83.4
102.2
119.0
135.9
113.8
136.3
47.5
121.2
109.1
62.7
125.6
246.6
102.3
29.76
37.92
29.50
35.77
26.94
32.51
14.21
25. L 2
33.07
14.91
29.46
25.00
27.87
$18.45
17.04
24.32
24.16
26.00
34.04
22. 72
17. 32
19. 43
29. 43
29. 31
27. 99
25.12
20.75
17.43
17. 09
17.37
28.89
22.28
25.64
$19.78
18.74
24.29
23.95
25.49
34. 74
22. 57
17.24
18. 93
25. 95
29.29
27. 77
25. 22
23. 05
17.43
18.04
17. 30
28.04
21.71
24.65
35.3
34.3
39.4
40.5
41.4
38.7
47. 2
38.1
40.7
43.1
40.3
40.3
42. 3
38. 1
37.0
35. 2
37.2
39.7
43.4
43.2
34.8
33.9
38.6
41.6
42.1
39. 8
47.1
41.0
40.6
46.9
46.1
40.8
42.1
43.0
36.9
34.4
37.2
39.0
41.3
41.4
37.7
37.5
38.6
40.5
41.1
40. 4
47.2
39.5
37. 9
42.4
40.8
40. 4
40.1
36.0
36.9
34. 9
37.1
38.1
40.2
39.9
Cents
53.2
50.8
63.3
60.8
62.3
87.1
48. 7
45.7
48.0
61.4
63.9
08. 5
52. 0
03. 3
47.5
52. 4
40. 9
77.3
54.0
62.9
Cents
53.2
50.8
63.4
58.5
62.0
80.4
48.3
43.2
48.6
62.0
63.1
68. 6
61.4
02.2
47.5
")1.3
47.0
77.4
54.4
62.0
Cents
52.8
50.2
63. 3
59.6
62.4
86.8
47. 9
44. 7
50. 0
60.5
62.3
68. 8
63.8
63. 0
47.2
51. 7
40. 7
76.8
54.4
61.8
30.38
38.03
28.86
34.38
26.46
31.08
14.06
24.65
31.52
16.27
28.65
24.49
2a 33
29.78
36.75
29.49
34.76
26.99
31.48
13.69
25.15
32.20
15.70
28.47
24.81
27.83
37.8
36.2
39.8
36.9
40.8
41.2
48.5
41.5
39.9
35.5
41.4
38.7
40.0
38.3
36.3
38.8
35.6
39.9
39.8
48.7
39.3
39.0
36.8
40.7
37.9
40.3
37.8
35.7
38.4
35.8
39.5
40.1
42.3
39.9
40.2
35.2
40.3
38.6
39.7
80.1
101.3
74.0
97.4
65.9
78.9
28.6
59.5
83.0
42.0
71.2
64.5
69.6
80.5
100.7
74.1
96.9
65.8
78.1
28.4
59.6
80.7
44.2
70.4
64.6
70.3
79.7
99.8
76.6
97.5
68.0
78.5
31.0
59.9
80.2
44.6
70.7
64.3
70.1
Rubber products
Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber tires and inner tubes
Rubber goods, other
92.4
62.2
73.6
157.5
86.0
59.8
70.0
141.6
82.6
58.5
68.3
132.9
101.9
63. 5
90.6
161. 2
91.0
62.2
82.7
134.9
86.3
58.4
78.9
127.1
30.11
23. 45
35.91
25.01
28.93
23. 89
34, 55
23.20
77.0
61.5
95.6
60.5
28.52
22.92
33.77
23.23
39.2
38.4
37.5
41.3
37.6
38.8
36.2
38.8
37.0
37.3
35.5
38.8
76.9
61.1
96.1
61.2
76.8
$33.03 $26. 64 $23.13
28.70 25. 51 24.61
30. 63 27. 60 27.47
23.00 22. 25 22.17
32. 80 34. 33 34.18
35. 6
32.7
42.4
42. 5
37.7
28.4
2S.5
39.6
40.4.
38. 3
24. 2
27.4
39.5
40.5
38.8
Cents
93.0
88.7
72. 7
53. 6
87.7
Cents
92.0
89. 6
70.1
54.9
87.8
31.25 31.22
30.92
39.1
39,5
39.1
80.5
79.6
79.7
33.28
33. 73
33. 59
39. 5
39.5
40.0
83.4
8*5.2
84.2
33.49
32. 91
33.17
46.5
45.4
4(5.0
70.8
71.5
71.2
30. 29
21.17
17.71
24.16
15. 27
17. 90
20. 42
36. 76 j
34.47
31.08 j
29.99
20. 95
17. «2
23.77
15. 25
17.59
20. 48
36.31
35. 94
31.05
29. 82
21.39
18.07
23. 99
15. 20
17.58
19. 42
35. 32
35. 77
30. 91
42.1
42.7
39.0
43. 9
46. 6
42.7
42.3
41.6
42. 5
38. 9
43. fi
40. 5
42.5
42.7
71.6
54, 7
48.0
56.8
32. 6
41.4
49. 3
(«)
(6.)
71.8
55.1
48.4
57. 2
32. 5
42.0
49.
3
6
71.1
55. 3
50.1
5.'i. 8
32. 2
41.0
48.3
(c)
(«)
34.0
33.9
41.9
42.8
38. 5
44.0
47.1
42. 9
41.6
00
00
33. 5
91.6
91.8
61.6
95. 9
60.3
NO W l AN UFACT UKING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929=100]
Coal minimi: 2
Anthracite
Bituminous 2 ... . .-. .
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing
. '. ....
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph 3
. ...
Electric light and power and manufactured
cas3..._ _ .. .__ .
.
. . _.
Electric-railroad and
motor-bus operation
and maintenance 3
Trade:
3
"Wholesale
.
Retail 3
._ . .
_. . .
General merchandising 3
. ..
Other than general
merchandising 3
3
Hotels (year-round) 2 •'
Laundries...
Dyeing and3 5cleaning 2.
Brokerage 3 5 . . .
Insurance -..
.
Build ing construction 5
52. 2
97.7
63. 7
45.1
59. 0
51. 9
93. 2
65.4
47.8
64.4
49.4
85.4
62.9
47.9
65.0
48.5
81.4
60. 4
48.1
66. 7
75.4
75.3
75.5
95.2
94. 9
94.3
93.5
93. 7
93.8
101.0
101.0
101.1
70.0
69.8
69.8
72.3
70.4
71.0
92. 5
88.4
103. 2
84.5
92.8
96.1
105.1
-1.0
90.5
87.3
100. 1
83.9
91. 3
97.8
105. 2
89.0
82.5
89.8
80. (i
89.8
99.1
102. 7
78.0
72.3
88.3
69.0
80. 4
84.5
78.3
+8.1
-.4
+.6
+.1
+.1
+.8
80. 3
74.1
91.7
70. 5
82.2
83.9
77.3
-1.6
76.2
f«9. 4
81.1
67.0
79. 2
85. 9
73.0
— 1.4
— 9
-.1
-.6
+.5
-1.0
40.1
80.2
55.1
42.7
60. 8
+.10.6
-.4
+1.5
33.8
71. 6
53.0
42. 9
62. 0
+1.2
()
(6)
00
00
Cents
92. 8
89.0
70.1
54. 0
86. 4
oo
92.4
INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are given in table 5 for all
manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and nondurablegoods groups of manufacturing industries, and for each of 13 nonmanufacturing industries, including 2 subgroups under retail trade, by
months, from October 1938 to October 1939, inclusive. The accompanying chart indicates the trend of factory employment and pay
rolls from January 1919 to October 1939.
The indexes of factory employment and pay rolls are based on the
3-year average 1923-25 as 100. They relate to wage earners only
and are computed from reports supplied by representative manufacturing establishments in 90 manufacturing industries. These
reports cover more than 55 percent of the total wage earners in all
manufacturing industries of the country and more than 65 percent
of the wage earners in the 90 industries included in the monthly
survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The indexes for the nonmanufacturing industries are based on the
12-month average for 1929 as 100. Figures for mining, laundries,
and dyeing and cleaning cover wage earners only, but the figures for
public utilities, trade, and hotels relate to all employees except
corporation officers, executives, and other employees whose duties
are mainly supervisory. For crude-petroleum production they cover
wage earners and the clerical field force. The coverage of the reporting samples for the various nonmanufacturing industries ranges from
approximately 25 percent for wholesale trade and dyeing and cleaning
to approximately 80 percent for quarrying and nonmetallic mining,
anthracite mining, and public utilities.
Data for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries are
based on reports of the number of employees and amount of pay rolls
for the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
ALL MANUFACTURING
140
;
i
A
i
120
100
80
!
I 4
r-
-
-—
V.
!
:
i
A A
EMPLOYMENT ,
*
80
-i.
60
40
20
— 120
100
7
i
ROLLS
i i
• -i—j—1—I-
140
AA
i
Ifer
^^TPAY
60
INDUSTRIES
1923-25=100
INDEX
40
i
1919
UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
I
'
!
1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
_
__
20
1940
ADJUSTED TO 1937 CENSUS
T A B L E 5.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Manufacturing
manufacturing
2
Industries,
I
Industry
October 1938 to October 1939,
l
and Aon-
Inclusive
Employment
1938
: Av.
! 1938
Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. .Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July'Aug. Sept.; Oct;.
Manufacturing
89.7 92.4 93. 3 i 94.01 92.2 93.094. 3 !
96. 3:100. 2' 103. G
7.9 79. 7! 82. 9 83. 8: 82. 3,1 83. 3 84.11 84. 8 j 84.0| 84. 6j 83.0 83. 9; 89. 7 j 90. 1
100. 9 104. 6103.1 103. 81101. 7:103. 5 104. Ol 103.0 101. 61101. 8i 103. 5108. li 110. 2H10. 7
All industries
Durable goods 3
Nondurable goods 4
I
Nonmanufaciuring
52. 3 52.4 51. Ol 51.3! 50.0! 52.2 51. 71 53.0| 52.6 51.21 44.7; 48.5' 49.4 51.9
Anthracite mining..
87.2 88.6: 89.3 88. 7j 88.6 87.4 25. 9 ! 47.9 78.3j 79.4 8.1.4J 85.4: 93.2
Bituminous-coal mining. __ 86.
60.9 61.0 61.5 61.9: 61. 6 : 60.4: 60. 4' 62.9= 05.4
Metalliferous mining . . . . . . | 59.0 57.9 61.99 62.3
Quarrying and nomrietallic
44.4
44.4
41.4
42.3
38.3 37.9 40.1 43.0 45.6 47.3 47.5, 48.1 47.9: 17.8
mining
Crude-petroleum produc72.1
69.5 68.3 67.8 67.0 66.4 66.2! 65.8| 66.1 67.01 67.3 66. 7 05. O" 64. 4
ing
Telephone and telegraph.. 75.1 74.7 74.4 74.3 74.1 73.3 73. 41 74.1! 74.7 75.3! 75.4 75. 5 75.3; 75.4
Electric light and power,
and manufactured gas.__ 92.3 92.5! 91.9 91.4 90.0 19.6 19.5 GO. 3| 91.0 92.393.2! 93.8. 93.7; 93.5
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
I
70.3, 69.9i
maintenance
9i 69.51 69.4J 69.2 69.3' 69.5j 69.1 69.6 69. 9 j 69. 7; 69. 81 09. S; 70.0
88.8; 89. l! 89.8 90.0;88. 3 jj 87.9| 87.4J 87.3 87.2, 88. li 87.9; 89.0 190. 5 : 92. 5
Wholesale trade
Retail trade
..
.. 85. 2| 85.9| 86. 9! 98.1 82.2| 81. 5 : 83.8| 85.5 85. 71 86. 4j 83.6 82. 5^ 87. 3j 88.4
General merchandis.j 98.oj 99. 4^104. ojl44. l | 90. 7! 88.8! 93. 2| 96.9, 96.8! 97.4! 9 1 - 7 j §9.8.lOO.l' 103. 2
ing
Other than general
merchandising
81.8! 82. 31j 82.3' 86.0 80.01 79.6 81. 3| 82.5; 82.8! 83.5' 81.5, SO. oj 83. 9: 84. 5
Year-round hotels
92.7; 92. 9 92. 5i 92.0 91..8 92. 6: 92. 7j 93.2 93.9! 92.8! 90. 3 89.8; 91.3! 92.8
Laundries
. 95. 7! 94! 4 j 93.7! 93.4 93.3 92.8 92. 91 93. 5! 95. 5" 98. 7-100.0 99. l! 97. 8,' 96. I
Dyeing and cleaning
104. 3 106. 8 102. 5 97. 9 94.2 92.1' 95. 4,102. 2 107. 0 110.1 100. 5:102. 7 105. 2 105. 1
!
i
Manufacturing
i
Pay rolls
I
All industries
D u r a b l e goods 3
N o n d u r a b l e goods 4
.,1
77.9 84.2 84.4 87.1 83.7 86.0] 87. 61 85. 51 85.0 86. 5 84.4 89.71 93. 8i 101. 6
67.6 74.6 77.6 79. 6 76.0 77.71 79. 4! 79. 51 78.8 80.7! 76.0; 81. 5; 87.91 99.7
92.1 95.4 92.4 95.3; 96.7 92.2' 91.9 93. Oi 93. 7j 99.0,100. 5i 103. 8
89.6
Non-manufacturing
Anthracite mining
Bituminous-coal mining. _.
Metalliferous mining.......
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing
... .
Telephone and telegraph..
Electric light and power,
and manufactured gas.. _;
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance .
Wholesale trade
Retail trade
General merchandising .. .
Other than general
.;
merchandising
Year-rou nd hotels
Laundries ..
Dyeing and cleaning
38.2 43.4 36.2 42.5 38.0
34.2 43.4; 57.0 36.1; 25.2! 3^.8 10.1 1 52.2
67.' 78.3 81.4 80.9 78.2 81.2 77. 8' 17.61 20.4 66.5 64. 5! 74.6, SO. 2i 97.7
50.4 49.2 52.3 54.1 55.3 53.4 53. 6i 52. Gi 54.1 53.8 48. 5 ! 53. 01 55. l' 63.7
35.1 39.2 37.2 33.7 30.2 29.7] 33.li 35.9; 39.7: 41.7| 40.9! 42.9; 42.7; 45.1
:
66. 5 63. 7 63.3 62.5 60.9 62.7 61.3| 00.8; 61. 2i 62. 5 61.9,1 62.0: 60.8' 59.0
92.1 95. 3 93. 0 92.5 92.0 91.7 91.9! 92.11 93. 7j 93. 7, 94. 0 94.3! 94.9- 95.2
:
:
98.5 99.9 98. 6j 98.2, 95.9: 96.4 96.7! 96.9! 98.8 100. 2'100.0 101.1 101. 0 101.0
I
69.7 68.9 68.8 69. 7! 71. li 69.9 70.5 69.0 70.1 71.21 70.6: 71.0 70.4'• 72.3
74. 71 75.1. 75.4 75. 7j 75. 5 i 74.6; 74.7, 74.8 74. 9 j 75. 8! 75.8: 70.2 78. 0: 80.3
70.4' 70.8, 71.5 79.2! 09.7. 68.41 69.6 71.3 71.5! 72.5: 70.9. 09.4: 72. 3 74.1
87. 8i 88.3. 91.8 122.9. 84.0! 81.0 1 83.4; 86.6- 86.7; 88.1' 83.8 81.1 *8.3. 91.7
66.8;
80.3.
80.6,
75.3;
67.2
80.8,
79.5
78.0.
68.2 07.0
67. 3i
81.3 81.1- 80.2 82.8 : 81.1 81.9, 82.4! 82.0 79.1- 79.2
79.3 80.0 79.6 78.0: 79.3 79.9! 83.9 80.9' 88.0' 85.9:
73.9. 08.3 05.8 63.2 67.7' 73.3 83.0 8-1.2 77.1 73.0
i>9.0 70.5
SO. 4 82.2
S4. oi 83.9
78.3 77.3
1 3-year average, 1923-25 = 100—adjusted to 1937 Census of Manufactures.
2
12-month average for 1929 = 100. C o m p a r a b l e indexes are in N o v e m b e r 1934 a n d s u b s e q u e n t issues of
E m p l o y m e n t a n d P a y Kolls, or in F e b r u a r y 1935 and subsequent issues of M o n t h l y L a b o r Review, except
for a n t h r a c i t e a n d bituminous-coal mining, year-round hotels, laundries, a n d dyeing a n d cleaning. Indexes
for these industries from J a n u a r y 1929 forward have been adjusted to t h e 1935 census a n d are presented
in t h e J a n u a r y 1938 a n d s u b s e q u e n t issues of E m p l o y m e n t a n d P a y Rolls.
3 Includes: Iron a n d steel, m a c h i n e r y , transportation e q u i p m e n t , nonferrous metals, l u m b e r a n d allied
p r o d u c t s , a n d stone, clay, a n d glass products.
4
Includes: Textiles a n d their products, leather a n d its manufactures, food a n d k i n d r e d product?, tobacco
manufactures, paper a n d printing, chemicals a n d allied p r o d u c t s , p r o d u c t s of petroleum a n d coal, r u b b e r
products, a n d a n u m b e r of miscellaneous industries n o t included in other groups.
21
TREND OF INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT, BY STATES
A comparison of employment and pay rolls, by States and geographic divisions, in September and October 1939 is shown in table 6
for all groups combined and for all manufacturing industries combined based on data supplied by reporting establishments. The
percentage changes shown, unless otherwise noted, are unweighted—
that is, the industries included in the manufacturing group and in
the grand total have not been weighted according to their relative
importance.
The totals for all manufacturing industries combined include figures
for miscellaneous manufacturing industries in addition to the 90
manufacturing industries presented in table 3. The totals for alJ
groups combined include all manufacturing industries, each of the
nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 3 (except building
construction) and seasonal hotels.
Similar comparisons showing only percentage changes are available
in mimeographed form for all groups combined, all manufacturing,
anthracite mining, bituminous-coal mining, metalliferous mining,
quarrying and nonmetallic mining, crude-petroleum producing, public
utilities, wholesale trade, retail trade, hotels, laundries, dyeing and
cleaning, and brokerage and insurance.
TABLE 6.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
October 1939, by Geographic Divisions and by States
'•{ Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued by
cooperating State organizations]
Manufacturing
Total—all groups
Per- !
•Go. g r a p h i c division Num- Number I cent-
and State
5-
ments
on pay
October
1 Jo J
Amount
PerPercent- Num- Number cent-
Amount
Percentage
roll,
(1 week), from
from ! (1 week). Chang©
from
lish- October SepOctober
October Sep1939
'tember
1939
1939
tember ments
tember
tember
from
1939
1939
1939
1939
I
'. Dollars
New England
. 12,340 910.519 i +4.1:21,418,629 +4.1
749
57,065 +1.0 1.170,629
Maine . X e w II a m p 546
37, 776 +1.9
shire. .
736.985 - 2 . 2
421
386, 244 +7.4
16, 675 +2.8
Vermont
__.
"Massachusetts J 7, 712 492. 943 +2.7 11,711,858
98 805 +X.\
2,012,387 +2. 1
Khodi' Island._ 1,107
1,805 207, 255 + 6 . 9i 5. 400, 526 +10." 6
Connecticut-..
Dollars
3,540
277
646,672
48, 785
+5.4 14,759.111
982, 713
+1.3
205
138
/, 798
419
703
33, 535
10,620
292, 794
82,480
178, 458
+4. 5\ 6,594,906 +4.4
+ 9 . 9 1,622,253 +2.7
+ 6 . 8 4,662,024 +12.0
+2.3
+4. 3
+6.0
+1.0
650.124 -2.2
247,091 +10.7
+4.7
30,951 2,179. 712
19,249 930.031
3, 596 371.357
8,100 878, 324
59.906.043 +9.9 6,680 1,349,950
+5.6136,974,990 +11.6
+ 2 . 9 25.470. 330 +5.0 2 2. 726 479.183
+3.6'13,3! 1,529 +6.0
+ 4 . 3 10,059.705 +8. 7 1.608 318.465 +5.2 8,672.969 +10.2
+ 6 . 8124,370, 013 +16.0 2.30
552.302 3+7.3 14,990,492 3+18.0
East North Central.. 23,718 2,228. 708
6.419 5oo, 030
Ohio.....
2, 828\ 282, 133
Indiana
* 6, 752] 640, 645
Illinois
3. 466! 504. 824
Miv'hiiiran
3
4 , 253 246,076
Wisconsin.
+ 4.0 50,786,817 +9.4
+ 3 . 4 64,557,048 +8. 5 8.326 1,699.616
+ 4 . 4.J 16.143,198: +11.9 2, 375 438.116 + 5 . 1 13.135,011 + 13.8
+3. 7\ 7. 85?. 185\+ 11.8 1.081 228.207 3+/.6'i 6.601,061 "+10.4
+3.6 17,704,963] +7.3 2.387] 429. 191 +4. 5\ 11,957,036 +8.6
+ 3 . 9 16.200,839, +4.8 f) 1,022 435. 750 3 +4. 6\ 14, 507. 273 +5. 3
—. /4 6, 595, 863\ +.9. 6 1,461 168,352 -1.7] 4,586, ',36\ s+6.7
Middle Atlantic
New York
XCAV Jersey . . .
Pennsylvania. _
p f o o t n o t e s ai: o r d (if t a b l e .
19714")—39
4
22
TABLE 6.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
October 1939, by Geographic Divisions and by States—Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued by
cooperating State organizations J
Geographic division
and State
Total—all groups
Manufacturing
Percentage
change
1 from
J week)
from
Ootoher : g e p _ ," O< c t o b e r '
lish- October
Sepiyjy
ments
M
b
1939
tember
1939
tember
1939
1939
PerPerAmount centNum-i Number!
age
of
pay
ber
b off Jj on pay
roll
change
estab- • roll, change
from
from
(1
week),
lish- October Sep- October Sep1939
ments
.tember
1939 tember
1939
1939
Per-
.
I Dollars
201.0131
34, 752i
79. 536j
70. 385|
16, 340!
+4.2
+3. 5
+2.7
+5.4
3,675,203
786.212
1,441,014
1,222.163
225,814
+8.3
+7.9'
+6. 9
+9.6
+11.6
+5.0
+5.1
+5.2+.6
3+,?. 1
+21.0
+31.6
+32.0
+27.5
+21. 3
633,967
11,699
108,368
+3.6
+3.8
+15.9
+4.3
+5.0
+7.8
+8.
+8.5
+9.0
+6. 3
+10. 3
+9.4
41
454
199
673
282
378
183
281
364
292!
99!
East South Central.
Kentucky....
Tennessee...
Alabama
Mississippi...
3,460|
1.071!
997
1,028
364:
288.923
78,523!
99, 774i
89, 620!
21. 0061
West South Central
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
5,035^ 217,303 +2. lj 4,861.515! +3.4
473.858\ +4.2
11 82 5 \ 29,098\ +5.4\
787j
51,009: +2.2 1,003.529; +4.3
+. 5
889. 343 +1.1
1.202i
35,081!
2,221\ 102, 115\ +1.8 2,Jt94,785' +3.8
I
3,4681 125,009: +7.6 3,266.363 -j-13.2
497:
16.390; +12.8' 464,519 +20. 4
390;
11,133 +10.2,
291,459 +14.5
296.
_,15- , +5.6, 250,042 +12,9
42.391! +11.4. 1,063,446 + 13.8
1,057!
5,177. +.8- 113,838 +10. 4
2461
15,475- +2.5' 445.359J +10.0
365;
500
24,082 +3. 3 568.260! +10.0
69. 440; +8. 4
2, 208
+. 6
117:
494,296
89,996 i
43,733'
360, 567\
-.1
+4.2
+18.6
+4.9
+5.2
+9.2
+5.6
2,933
81
34,009
118,2521
131.755!
176,630!
93, 720;
115,880
38, 062:
9,790'
2, 229;
889
"6.672
119. 776
1, 655, 956
1,454, 358
2. 594, 997
1,281,659
1,459,919
371, 423
+4. 2 17, 846. 503i +7. 6
-.2
393.750 + 5 . 7
+3.7 3.83U814\ +6.7
94!
1, 5801
959 j
l,370:
661;
1, 0091
770;
Pacific
Washington
Oregon
California
-A
+2.5
+8.3
+2.9
+3.7
+6.2
+3.4
222,356:
04,192\
9.0841 873, 5311
15,810,
224!
Mountain
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico.,
Arizona . .
Utah
I.
Nevada
3, 4421
86, 746!
53. 522;
162, 413
88, 277
97,809
21,691
em\
South Atlantic
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia..
North Carolina.
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
149,413
+4. 0 12,!, 025,298
281, 235
-1.3
3+5. 3 2, 805, 975
2,447j
+3.o!
+1.9
+8.1:
+2.3
+3.6:
+5.4
+10.0
+4.1+4.3|
+2. 8"
+5. 2;
+5. 8"
907, 227
2, 313, 625
3, 692, 9'
2,814,3521
1,375,204
1,832,7751
684. 779!
5. 544, 295 i
1,849.664
1,790.487
1, 599, 605
304. 539
-2.7il4.514.732,
- 1 . 6 2,507,348
- 9 . 7 , 1,170.323!
-2. 0\ 10,837,061'
+2.0
+4.8
-2.4
+1.9
363'
783!
27
30
136
45*
1.2671
221'
134
671
553
fill
39.
193!
28!1
39
101'
15;
2,702!
532.
2891
l,88l\
Dollars
+2.4 5.558,708
+ 6.1
+5.0
+6.9
+8.6
-16.1
+.5
+6.1
+.9
+7.7
+6.2
3+8.0
+4.7
+4-2
+6.2
+5. 9
+1.0
+.8
+4.3
West North Central. 11.101 434,823: + 1 . 3110.946,043
7
-.8
8,738,851
Minnesota
2, 839 134, 807
+.8 1,476.838
59, 228
Iowa
1,570
Missouri
2, 500 146, 982 "+2.8 3, 549, 3011
- . 31 |
89,284J
North Dakota.
3, 5711
3741
127,2$4j
South Dakota
5, 660 • +2.0
383!
614.264:
Nebraska
. 1,0061 27. 540 j +5.4
57,035' *+2.3' 1.350,221Kansas
s*#0
-.8\
UA71,926
36,803: + . 6! 946,476
91, 706^ +4.7 2.1.48, 525
10.759
418: - 1 4 . 3
64. 688
2, 747. +6. 4
10,681; +11.8 248.318
668,016
25,8091 +(10)
113.639 +2.6 2.490. 538
314,417
19,558 +5.4
585. 591
31,046! +2.8
10.434 - 1 . 1
273,178
52, 601 3+2.7 1, 317, 359
47,014
6,129!1
4.995
1,841
20,419:
833i
2,839!1
9.621
337
+17.4 1,145,290
+19.4
173.401
+25.2! 131.075
+28.7!:
55,631
+22. 8
494,600
+8.5
+1.8-" 17,46
+.6
72,712 +16.1
+ 8 . 5 188,863 +8.1
-5.6
11.541 +8.2
276,777 j - 3 . 9 7.948.828
58,732 - 2 . 7 1,656.648
30,1581 -12.9! 812.039
187,887
-2.7\
5,480,141
+2.0
+6.0
-4.2
+1.9
1
Includes banks and trust companies; construction, municipal, agricultural, and office employment;
amusement
and recreation; professional services; and trucking and handling;.
2
Includes
laundering and cleaning; and water, light, and power.
3
Weighted percentage change.
* Includes automobile and miscellaneous services, restaurants, and building and contracting.
*6 Includes construction but not public works.
Does not include logging.
7
Includes banks; real estate; pipe-line transportation; motor transportation (other than operation and
maintenance); water transportation: hospitals and clinics; and personal, business, mechanical repair, and
miscellaneous
services.
8
Includes financial institutions, miscellaneous services, and restaurants.
8
Weighted
percentage
change including hired farm labor.
10
Less than Ho of 1 percent.
11
Includes
automobile
dealers
and garages; and sand, gravel, and building stone.
12
Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
23
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT IN PRINCIPAL
METROPOLITAN AREAS
A comparison of employment and pay rolls in September and
October 1939 is made in table 7 for 13 metropolitan areas, each of
which had a population of 500,000 or over in 1930. Cities within
these areas, but having a population of 100,000 or over, are not
included. Footnotes to the table specify which cities are excluded.
Data concerning them have been prepared in a supplementary tabulation which is available on request. The figures represent reports
from cooperating establishments and cover both full- and part-time
workers in the manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 3, with the exception of building construction, and
include also miscellaneous industries.
Revisions made in the figures after they have gone to press, chiefly
because of late reports by cooperating firms, arc incorporated in the
supplementary tabulation mentioned above. This supplementary
tabulation covers these 13 metropolitan areas as well as other metropolitan areas and cities having a population of 100,000 or more,
according to the 1930 Census of Population.
TABLE 7.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
September and October 1939, by Principal Metropolitan Areas
Metropolitan area
Number
of establishments
October
1939
Percentage Amount of ! Percentage
Number
change j pay roll :I change
on pay roll
from
from
! (I week)
October
September
I October
September
1939
1939
!
1939
i 1939
13,912 I
4,341 '
2, 215
1,449
2,774
634,210
437, 906
219,159
324, 244
156,149
+4.4
+4.6
+4.3
+3.0
+1.3
$17,348,336
12,364.321 '
6,100.326 :
10,989,786 '
4,630,828 :
+6.3
+6.9
+6.3
+1.0
+3.8
C level and..
St. Louis...
Baltimore..
Boston 5
Pittsburgh.
1,510
1,295
1,132
2, 573
1,147
121,135
114,053
114,457
181,523
192, 244
+4.5
+3.2
+3.0
+2.5
+9.8
3,685, 575
2,902, 661
2,947,085
4,481,643 :
5,968,037 i
+12.8
+7.2
+6.3
+1.9
+22.6
San Francisco 6_.
Buffalo
Milwaukee
1, 547
762
959
81,887
72,177
98,444
+2.0
+8.6
-1.5
2,535,165 ''•
+5.1
+12.8
+2.8
New York
i...
Chicago 2
Philadelphia 3
Detroit
Los Angeles 4 .
2,049,093 i
2,796,597 ;
-2 Does not include Elizabeth, Jersey City, Newark, or Paterson, N. J., nor Yonkers, N. Y.
Does not include Gary, Ind.
s4 Does not include Camden, N. J.
Does not include Long Beach, Calif.
* Docs not include Cambridge, Lynn, or Somerville, Mass.
« Does not include Oakland, Calif.
Public Employment
Employment created by the Federal Government includes employment financed from both regular and emergency appropriations.
24
EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Statistics of employment and pay rolls for the executive service
of the Federal Government in October and September 1939 are given
in table 8.
Table 8.—Employment and Pay Rolls for the Executive Service of the U. S. Government,
October and September 1939 1
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Class
Pay rolls
PerOctober Septemcentage
ber 2
change
Entire service:
Total
October
September 2
Percentage
change
937,357
940,130
-0.3
$142, 065, 340
$141, 663, 231
Regular appropriation
782, 850
E mergency appropriation...
58,041
Force-account (regular and emergency)
'._ 96, 466
786, 200
57,409
-.4
+1.1
123, 232, 512
7,420, 969
122,968, 728
7, 404,096
96, 521
-.1
11,411,859
11, 290, 447
+0.3
+.2
+.2
+1.1
Inside the District of Columbia:
Total
Regular appropriation
Emergencv appropriation
Force-account (regular and emergency)
Outside the District of Columbia:
Total
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation.... . _ .
Force-account (regular and emergency)
126, 471
125, 902
+.5
22, 552, 372
22, 206,991
+1.6
111,254
8,755
110,947
8,797
+.3
—. 5
20,161,427
1, 353, 658
19, 920, 806
1,361,574
+1.2
-.6
6, 462
6,158
+4.9
1,037, 287
924, 611
+12.2
810, 886
814, 228
-.4
119,512,968
119,456,240
—. 5
103, 047, 922
G, 042, 482
10, 366, 836
671 596
49, 286
675, 253
48, 612
+1.4
103, 071,085
6,067,311
90,004
90, 363
-.4
10, 374, 572
+ (3)
+( 3 )
+.4
+.1
1 Data include number of employees receiving pay during the last pay period of the month.
23 Revised.
Increase less than Mo of 1 percent.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY THE PUBLIC WORKS
ADMINISTRATION
Details concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
during October on construction projects financed by Public Works
Administration funds are given in table 9, by type of project.
TABLE 9.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, October 1939 *
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed •
Weekly
average j
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Monthly
pay-roll
disburse-
| Average
j earnings
per hour
!
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
monih
Federal projects financed from National Industrial Recovery Act funds
All projects_
Building construction
Naval vessels.
Public roads *
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control
Water and sewerage
M iscellaneous
See footnotes at end of table
1
I
1. 497
1.325 j
103
11.
82
214
242 '
20
n
032
203
151
22G
20
I
'
i
'•
i
$114, 530 ,
11,915 I
1,677
53,667 !
27.82(5 j
i
9.852 !
7,053 !
2.546 i
187,015 •
9,723 I
1,705 i
81,102
35, 5(59
1(5,81-1
39, 101
2.968 !
$0.(512
$201,660
1.225 |
.984 I
.062 i
12,558
37
107,300
51,895
585 ,
180 !
858 |
17, 455
7, 006
4, 809
25
TABLE 9.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, October 1939-—Coniinucd
! .Subject to revision]
"Wage earners
Typo of project
I"""""
V M x in m m
Weekly
avorago
number
employed 2
Value of
mnierial
orders
placed
during
monih
!
\umberof j
Mo tulil y i m
an-lour^
Average
pay-roli
worked ; earnings
disburseduring
•
per
hour
ments
month
al projects financed from Public Works Administration
Appropriation Act 1931} funds
I
All projects.
Airport construction (exclusive of buildings).. .
Building construction
Kloefrifieaiion.
._.
Reclamation
..
River, harbor, and ilood control
..
Ship construction.
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage...
Miscellaneous...
....
Professional, technical, and
clerical . . . . . .
|
j
'
|
i
:
!
24,984'
21.538 I $2. 400, 427 : 2,024,1.08
991
.17.277
1, 020
1,728
900
14,017
910
1,575
1,284
542
328
548 i
088 j
578 !
!
I
i
•
101.593
1.723,397
95.070
172. 050
1, 1.40 :
375
302 •
512 !
056;
140.709
30. 077
31. 583
34.(50 i
55, 150 j
479
08,570 |
$0,940 ! $3,034,717
150,030 i
1.707.455 !
.102,924
207.350 ,"
I
108,002 !
37.421 :
73.274 ;
102, 904
. 074
1.009
. 930
. 833
2,302. 170
05, 783
14 3, 507
.874
. 904
.778
. 794
.753
100. 575
05, 438
70. 980
36, 750
15, 606
92, 502
5,932
Xon-Fcderal projects financed from National Industrial Recovery Act
funds
All projects.
6,817 i
Building construction 6
Railroad construction....
Streets and roads . . . .
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous..
3,576
:
II j
556 i
283
2,391
6,047 |
3.228
11
372
2,25
2,211
$855,625 |
789, 790
670, 770 !
26
15,198
27, 443
142. 188
4.04,453
55
24.151
20,664
340,467
;
i
j
!
j
$1,083 !
$971,163
1.058
.473
.629
1.328
.418
310,767
0
29,833
123,582
50(5,981
!
"'
I
'•
Non-Federal projects financed from Emergency 'Relief Appropriation
Act 1935, 1936. and 1937 funds
All projects
._
Building construction
Electrification
Heavy engineering
._
Reclamation .
Streets and roads
W a t e r and sewerage . . . .
Miscellaneous .
\
13,347
j
..'
.
..
2, 554
528
6,248
J.454
20
2, 537
0
.
,819 | $1,200,959 |
i
j
i
j
j
I
150
453
005
338
13
IW
ol
227, 071
34,814
038.210
125.408
401
240, 395
0
I
1.610,000
;
$0. 787
237.094
51.099
801.484
181,310
429
278,578
i
!
:
900
081
741
092
935
803
0
i
0 i
$2, 065, 832
512,774
29,033
742. 858
28,919
20,401
295,103
430, 084
Non-Federal projects financed from I*uMir Works Administration
Appropriation Act 1938 funds
J
All projects
... j
Building construction. ..... i
Electrification
......
|
Heavy engineering..
Reclamation . . . .
...
River, harbor, and flood con- !:
trol
...
Streets and roads ...
!
Water and sewerage
:
Miscellaneous .. . .
._. !
1
$0,913 | $29,832,555
173.907 j 145,077 $.10,122,988 : 17,603,793
94,097 i
1,874;
18,205 :
Ml '
77,204
8,502,410, 8.058.535 1
1,482
130.226 \
174.238'
15,510, 2,350.000 i 2,044,871.
:
090 i
73.998
98,251 :
160
32, 021
20, 470
239
139
27, 003
22, 728
189
14. 792
2,473,714
2,500.514 j
16, 728 i
14.553
3,498.906
3,155,028
19.351
:
j
'
;
.982
. 747
1. 150
.753
!
15.118,332
522,052
3,728.152
141.207
1.016
.707 I
.812 !
.804 ,
04, 585
4.398,502
5, 272, 578
584, 087
!
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency
doing force-account work.
3
Includes weekly average for public roads.
* Under the jurisdiction of the Public Roads Administration.
« Not available: weekly average included in total for all projects.
6 Includes data for workers engaged in construction of underground tunnel who, because of the additional
risk involved, were paid at rates higher than those usually paid for building construction.
2G
Construction projects financed by the Public Works Administration
are those projects authorized by title II of the National Industrial
Recovery Act of June 16, 1933. This program of public works was
extended to June 30, 1937, by the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935 and title II of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of
1936. The First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, reappropriated unobligated funds originally made available under the Emergency Relief
Appropriation Act of 1935 and authorized the use of $300,000,000
from funds on hand or received from the sale of securities. The
Public Works Administration was continued until July 1, 1939, by
the Public Works Administration Extension Act of 1937 and the
Public Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938 further
continued the program to June 30, 1941. On July 1, 1939, pursuant
to the provisions of Reorganization Plan No. 1, the Public Works
Administration was transferred to the Federal Works Agency.
Federal construction projects for which data are included in table 9
are financed by allotments made by the Public Works Administration
to the various agencies and departments of the Federal Government
from funds provided under the National Industrial Recovery Act.
The major portion of the low-rent housing program of the Public
Works Administration, however, was financed by funds provided
under the Emergency Relief Appropriation x\ct of 1935. Federal
construction projects are also financed by allotments from funds
provided under the Public Works Administration Appropriation Act
of 1938. The work is performed either by commercial firms which
have been awarded contracts, or by day labor hired directly by the
Federal agencies.
Non-Federal projects are financed by allotments made by the
Public Works Administration from funds available under either the
National Industrial Recovery Act, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936,
the Public Works Administration Extension Act of 1937, or the
Public Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938. Most of
the allotments have been made to the States and their political
subdivisions, but occasionally allotments have been made to commercial firms. In financing projects for the States or their political
subdivisions from funds appropriated under the National Industrial
Recovery Act, the Public Works Administration makes a direct grant
of not more than 30 percent of the total labor and material cost.
When funds provided under the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935, the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, the
Public Works Administration Extension Act of 1937, or the Public
Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938 are used to finance
a non-Federal project, as much as 45 percent of the total cost may
be furnished in the form of a grant. The remaining DO percent or
more of the cost is financed by the recipient. When circumstances
justify such action, the Public Works Administration may provide
the grantee with the additional funds by means of a loan. Allotments
to commercial enterprises are made only as loans. All loans made
by the Public Works Administration carry interest charges and have
a definite date of maturity. Collateral posted with the Public Works
Administration to secure loans may be offered for sale to the public.
In this way a revolving fund is provided which enlarges the scope of
the activities of the Public Works Administration.
Commercial loans have been made, for the most part, to railroads.
Railroad work financed by loans made by the Public Works Administration falls under three 1 leadings: First, construction work in the
form of electrification, the laying of rails and ties, repairs to buildings,
bridges, etc.; second, the building and repairing of locomotives and
passenger and freight cars in shops operated by the railroads; and
third, locomotive and passenger- and freight-car building in commercial shops.
UNITED STATES HOUSING AUTHORITY
The United States Housing Authority was created by Public No
412, Seventy-fifth Congress, approved September 1, 1937, as a corporate body of the Department of the Interior for the purpose of
assisting the States and their political subdivisions in remedying the
unsafe and insanitary housing conditions and the acute shortage of
decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for families of low income, and
in alleviating present and recurring unemployment.
Executive Order No. 7732, dated October 27, 1937, transferred to
the Authority all the housing and slum-clearance projects of the
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works and all assets,
contracts, records, applications, libraries, research materials, and
other property held in connection with such projects or with the
housing or slum-clearance activities of the Public Works Administration, together with the unexpended balance of funds allocated to the
Public Works Administration for the construction of any housing or
slum-clearance projects. This executive order was modified by Executive Order No. 7839, dated March 12, 1938, under which the two
Puerto Rico projects were transferred to the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration. The President's Reorganization Plan No. 1,
effective July 1, 1939, transferred the U. S. Housing Authority from
the Department of the Interior to the Federal Works Agency.
Table 10 shows data for October 1939 on projects of the V. S.
Housing Authority. These figures pertain only to new projects
under the U. S. Housing Authority and not to those formerly under
the Public Works Administration.
28
TABLE 10.—Employment and Pay Bolls on Low-Rent Housing Projects Operated by the
I. S. Housing Authority, October 1939
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Geographic d i vision
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Maximum i
number j
employed i |
Nine divisions.
26,523 ;
New England.. _
.
Middle Atlantic...
East North Central
West North Central
South Atlantic ._
...
East South Central
West South Central
Pacific
i
Outside continental United S t a t e s . . \
.502 •
10,328 :
3.054 i
(597 j
4, 303
4,174
2. 375
301
.189
Number
; of man! hours
i worked
j during
month
;
Average
earnings
per hour
22,533 . $2, 941,809 | 2,914,690
358
8,872
3,148
641
3. 029
3,475
2,005
200
145
'
j
:
;
:
43,200
1,374,530
517,327
82.014
335,445
373.014
173.981
27,335
14.273
i
47, 575
i 1,087.130
452.038 j
:
90.359 I
i
453.710 I
477.547 '
255,233 i
:
27.810 !
22,070 :
'
j'.
!j
.
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
$1,009 : $4,870,030
.909
1.204
i.i43
.908
.739
.782
.082
.983
.029
!
:
:
!
i
j
0
!. 020,033
763,753
144, 350
850.010
689. 354
305. 718
34.571
5«! 241
i Maximum employed during any 1 week of the month.
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM
By authority of Public Resolution No. 11, Seventy-fourth Congress,
approved April 8, 1935, the President established the Works Progress
Administration and charged it with the responsibility of coordinating
the execution of the work-relief program as a whole. The Works
Progress Administration was continued by subsequent relief appropriations but the scope of its activities was narrowed considerably.
A number of activities included in the original program were continued
without important change in scope or objective but were financed
under other appropriations. In accordance with the provisions of
Reorganization Plan No. 1, effective July 1, 1939, the name of the
agency was changed to Work Projects Administration and it became
a part of the Federal Works Agency. The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1939 extended the Work Projects Administration until
June 30, 1940, and authorized it to carry out the functions that had
been vested in the Works Progress Administration. Employment
on the Work Projects Administration program includes employment
on Federal agency projects and employment on projects operated by
the Work Projects Administration. Federal agency projects are those
conducted by Federal agencies which have received allotments from
the Work Projects Administration. Projects operated by the Work
Projects Administration are those projects conducted under the supervision of that agency with the cooperation of States, cities, or counties.
A record of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on projects financed and operated by the Work Projects Administration in
October is shown in table 11, by type of project.
29
Table 11.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed and Operated by the Work
Projects Administration, October 1939
[Subject to revision]
'
i
I Value of
i
! Xumber of' Aver- \ material
1 Monthly : man-hours
age | orders
Maximum
| pay-roll dis- • worked • earn- i placed
number Weekly:1 bursements i during iingspcr| during
I month ! hour
month
employed average
"Wage earners
Typo of project
1:
;
!
Federal agency projects
i 80,108 ' 80, 299 j $4.219,050
All proiocis
, 075, 598 | $0,430 j
i
1
77.018 :
179.040 ;
1.022 : 1.519 •
39, 059 . 35,077 ! 1,854.525 i 4 , J30, 0S2 !
87 1
84 :
8. 098 j 8.044 •
880 •
1. 132
1,297 •
1.357
,
:
9. 955 9,831 '
4. 000 ! 4,557 ,
703
505 .
12,709 i 12,449
974
857 :
:
2,552 '
2. 933
329
324 i
2, 257
2.484
4. 700
307,942 •
51.579 •
44.924 i
539.305
303,007
41.995
077, 714
02, 448
90,!) 18
11,70.1.
85,754
i
!
'
'
.
!
Projects operated by W o r k 1
. 5 1 , 825, 734 j
All projects.
$801,028
... . |
Airport construction (exclusive of
buildinirs'1)
._
•
Buildirm construction..-..
Klectrification
.:
Forestrv
. ..
(' Iradc-crossing climinat ion 2
Hydroelectric power plants 3
IMant. crop, and livestock conserva- .
lion ..
Professional, technical, and clerical
Public roads -'
'•
Reclamation.
River, harbor, and flood control
Streets and roads
\
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
..
12.930 :
921.991 |
90. 704 !
187,245 I
1,,191.922
528, 300
08.120
1,,043. 902
110,833
297, 482
30.929
209.992
i
i
i
:
!
!
'
.430 '
.449 !
.303 '
.399
. 533
24
- <) I
.452
-574
.010
.412
.503
.320
.318
.318
|
'
;
i
3,903
372, 400
759
05.008
08.008
22, 009
71,158
11, 288
70. 824
02, 298
50, 101
7, 904
3, (579
47, 789
•jeetK A d m i n i s l r a l u
I $98, 543, 038 222, 039, 741
$0. 444
I
(«)
i M a x i m u m n u m b e r e m p l o y e d d u r i n g a n y 1 week of t h e m o n t h b y each contractor a n d G o v e r n m e n t
agency doing force-account work.
- These d a t a are for projects u n d e r the jurisdiction of the Public R o a d s A d m i n i s t r a t i o n .
" These d a t a are for projects u n d e r construction in Puerto Rico.
1
Data are for calendar m o n t h . X o t available b y t y p e of project.
- Represents n u m b e r of n a m e s on p a y roll as of Oct. 25, 1939."
ri
Data on a m o n t h l y basis are not available.
Table 12 shews employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked for
the third quarter of 1939 on projects financed and operated by the
Work Projects Adminislration.
T\m,K 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed and Operated by the Work
Projects Administration by Type of Project for the Third Quarter of 1939
[Subject to revision 1
Xumber
en>
ployed '
Type of project
All projects.
Conservation........
.
Highway, road, and streetProfessional, technical, and clerical. .
Public buildings 2
.. .
Publicly owned or operated
utilities .
Recreational facilities 3_
Sanitation and health.
......
Snvini?, canning, and gardening, etc
Transportation....... .
Not elsewhere classified
: 1.719,870
.
'2 "Data are for the week ending Sept. 27, 1939.
Separate data for housing projects are not available.
3 Exclusive of buildings.
58. 722
707.511
204,930
151.832
151,995
114.105
32. 047
150.143
30. (509
48, 880
Pay-roll
disbursemerits
Number of | Average
h
jj earnings
man-hours
g
worked
per hhour
.11 i, I i (, 293
\!\M jj 713.377.159
/ M . 61 «,
$317,177.
11, 522. 054 20, 200, 775
120. 183.008 301,204.010
54,282. %8 100,731,219
31,288.840
fit. 100. 738
29.722.319
03.292.051
23. 502. 727 48. 289. 092
5. 387. 709 14. 175. 991
20,022. 159
00, 350, 303
0. 555. 503 12. 208. 858
8. 709, 340 10. 810. 922
$0. 445
.440
. 399
. 539
.488
. 470
.487
.380
. 392
.537
.518
30
NATIONAL YOUTH ADMINISTRATION
Employment and pay rolls on the National Youth Administration
projects for September and October 1939 are shown in table 13.
TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration
September and October 1939
Projects,
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees
Amount of pay rolls
October
October
Type of project
Total
_
Student Aid
Work projects
September
September
595, 788
287. 321
$6. 792,127
$4,490,211
358, 000
237, 788
61.844
225,477
2, 360, 000
4,432,127
268. 452
4, 221, 759
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
The Civilian Conservation Corps was created by an act of Congress
approved June 28, 1937, and succeeded the Emergency Conservation
Work which had been set up in April 1933. On July-1, 1939, the
Civilian Conservation Corps lost its status as an independent agency
and was transferred to the Federal Security Agency.
Employment and pay-roll data for the Civilian Conservation
Corps are collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the War
Department, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department
of the Interior. The monthly pay of the enrolled personnel is $30
per month. Assistant leaders, not to exceed 10 percent of the total
number of enrollees, may receive up to $36 per month, and leaders,
not to exceed 6 percent, may receive up to $45 per month.
Employment and pay rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps
in September and October 1939 are presented in table 14.
TABLE 14.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps,
and October 1939 1
September
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees
Amount of pay rolls
Group
October
All group?
2
Enrolled personnel
Reserve3 officer13
Nurses
Educational advisers 3
Supervisory and technical 3
September
October
September
---
319,636
311,910
$14,342,739
$14,145,853
-
281 817
864
?02
l.f)97
35. 05fi
274.112
.1.024
310
1. f>93
34.271
8, 760,359
351,071
40,423
267.160
4, 917, 726
8,505,475
677,322
41,087
286,213
4, 635, 756
1
Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month. Amount of pay rolls are for
the2 entire month.
October data include 4,265 enrollees and pay roll of $95,779 outside continental United States; in September3 the corresponding figures were 4,421 enrollees and pay roll of $92,762.
Included in executive service, table 8.
31
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY RECONSTRUCTION
FINANCE CORPORATION
Statistics of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in October are presented in table 15, by type of project.
TABLE 15.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, by Type of Project, October 1939 1
[Subject to revision]
Type of project
Maximum . Monthly
number of
pay-roll
wage
disbursecarners incuts
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
j Value of
Average • material
earnings , orders
per hour I placed dur1 ing month
i
All projects
2,470 |
$274,070
332,213
1
$0,825 j
$242,714
Building construction Water and sewerage
2,021 |
449 |
189,048
85,022
210,048
92,165
.788 •
202,039
.922 1
40,075
'2 Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor.
3
Includes 559 employees; pay-roll disbursements of $48,380; 01 ,(>02 man-hours worked; and material orders
placed of $32,181 on projects financed by the RFC Mortgage Co.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED FROM REGULAR FEDERAL
APPROPRIATIONS
When a construction contract is awarded or force-account work is
started by a department or agency of the Federal Government, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics is immediately notified, on forms supplied by the Bureau, of the name and address of the contractor, the
amount of the contract, and the type of work to be performed.
Blanks are then mailed by the Bureau to the contractor or Government agency doing the work. These reports are returned to the
Bureau and show the number of men on pay rolls, the amounts disbursed for pay, the number of man-hours worked on the project,
and the value of the different types of materials for which orders
were placed during the month.
Data concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations
during October are given in table 16, by type of project.
TABLE 16.—ljnploymenl and Par Rolls on Construction Projects Financed From Regular
Federal Appropriations, by Type of Project., October 1939 1
[Subject to revision!
i
Number of wage
earners
x • v r 1 man-hours
r!i«v\uri- ' worked
inemi
i (luri11 ^'
i month
Type of project
"Maximum j
All projects
Value of
material
| Average
orders
j earnings
! Per nour placed during month
j
i,. i! Number
of;;
\i,ir,n.i«M i m h e r ol
I. \
...
3 288.197 ' 200, 019 -$29, 305, 500 I 39,800,005 !
Building construction
Electrification:
Rural Electrification Administration projects '
Other than Rural Electrification Administration projects..
Forestry
Heavy engineering
...
Public roads »
Reclamation
River, harbor, nncl flood control:
Dredging, dikes, revetments,
etc
. . . .
1 ,oc ks and dams. .
Ship construction:
Naval vessels.
Other than naval vessels .
Streets and roads. .
Water and sewerage
M iscellancous
20,110 |
10, S14 I 1,902,252 • 2,078.204 !
13,293 ;
10,952 ;
$0,730 I $39,730,453
.91."
3. 290. 973
3, 554.. 857
735,152 ; 1,450.107
I
202 !
ioo ;
197 ,
('')
i
24.220 i
MM i
'- i
59. 100 I
18,831 •
4 277 '
550 |
:; 2^2
141
100
100
91.917
22,014
'
10,322 i
10.177 ;
0.920 '
12,879 •
18,117 ,
I
23,889 !
J 7.034.489 i 12.403.725 ,
! 3,099,098 i 3,402,519 i
j
. 038
. 538
1.319
.015
. 895
7.158
3, 274
0
12.720,820
2. 573. 452
33,419 '. 3,509.342
11,540 !
;
5.508.474 i
1,922,118
. 030
.717
3, 433. 408
1,017,243
57,530 i
.10,922 !
3,910 !
470 I
3,112 >
9, 551,940
2,315.945
525; 420
50,922
423, 308
.888
.822
. 045
. 705
. 579
9, 750. 778
2,500,711
319,757
57, 546
494,416
8.481,930 i
1,904.438 I
338.710 !
35.897 ,
245.332
1
2
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor, and Government
auency
doing force-account work.
•4; Includes weekly average for public-road projects.
Financed
by Rural Electrification Administration loans.
5
Under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
fi
Not available, weekly average included in the total for all projects.
STATE-ROADS PROJECTS
A record of employment ar.d pay-roll disbursements in the construction and maintenance of roads financed wholly from State or
local funds in October 1939, compared with September 1939, and
October 1938, is presented in table 17.
TABLE 17.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction and Maintenance of State Roads,
October 1939, September 1939, and October 1938 1
[Subject to rev ision]
Number of employees *
Item
October
1939
September 1939
October
1938
Pay-roll disbursements
October
1939
September
1939
October
1938
Total
158. 108
100.015
220, 820 $11,338,800 $11,020,870
$14,496, 340
New roads .
....
Maintenance . . . . . . .
29, 252
128, 850
25, 780
134, 835
35. 420
185. 394
1,503,140
10, 057, 730
2, 204, 290
12, 292,050
1
2
....
1.898,300
9, 440,440
Data are for the month ending on t he 15th and are for projects financed wholly from State or local funds.
Average number working during month.
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