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Serial No. R • 837
U N IT E D STATES DEPAR TM EN T OF LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
B U RE A U OF LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Lubin, Commissioner
EMPLOYMENT
AND PAY ROLLS
Prepared by
DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
Lewis E. Talbert, Chief
and
DIVISION OF CONSTRUCTION AND
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Herman B. Byer, Chief
SEPTEMBER 1938
U N IT E D
STATES
GOVERNM ENT
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O F F IC E
• W A S H IN G T O N • 1938
CONTENTS
Summary of employment reports for September 1938:
Total nonagricultural employment_________________ ________________
Industrial and business employment________________________________
Public employment_________________________________________________
Purchases from public funds________________________________________
Detailed tables for September 1938:
Industrial and business employment------------------------------------------------Public employment_________________________________________________
Purchases from public funds_______________________________________
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1.— All manufacturing industries combined and nonmanufacturing
industries— employment, pay rolls, and weekly earnings,
September 1938__________________________________________
2.— Federal employment and pay rolls— summary, September
1938_________________________________________ ____________
3 . — Value of material orders placed on projects financed wholly or
partially from Federal funds and number of man-months of
labor created in final fabrication of materials purchased,
third quarter of 1 9 3 8 , second quarter of 1 9 3 8 , and third
quarter of 1 9 3 7 _________________________________________________________
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Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries— employ
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5 . — Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries— employ
ment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, July through Septem
ber 1938_________________________________________________
6.— Selected manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—
indexes of employment and pay rolls, September 1937 to
September 1938__________________________________________
7 . — Geographic divisions and States— comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in August and
September 1938__________________________________________
8 . — Principal metropolitan areas— comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in August and
September 1938__________________________________________
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9.— Executive service of the Federal Government— employment
and pay rolls in August and September 1938______________
1 0 . — Construction projects financed by Public Works Administra
tion funds— employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
September 1938, by type of project_______________________
11.— Projects financed by The Works Program— employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked, September 1938, by type of
project___________________________________________________
12.— National Youth Administration work projects and Student
Aid financed by The Works Program— employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked from the beginning of the
programs________________________________________________
13.— Civilian Conservation Corps— employment and pay rolls,
August and September 1938______________________________
1 4 . — Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation— employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, September 1938, by type of project______________
15.— Construction projects financed from regular Federal appro
priations— employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
September 1938, by type of project_______________________
16.— Construction and maintenance of State roads— employment
and pay-roll disbursements, September 1938, August 1938,
and September 1937______________________________________
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17.— Value of material orders placed on construction projects
financed by Federal funds, third quarter of 1938, by type
of project________________________________________________
18.— Value of material orders placed on construction projects
financed by Federal funds, second quarter of 1938, by type of
project___________________________________________________
19.— Value of material orders placed on Federal professional,
technical, and clerical projects financed by The Works
Program, third quarter of 1938, second quarter of 1938, and
third quarter of 1937_____________________________________
20.— Rentals and services on projects operated b y the Works
Progress Administration, second quarter of 1938, first
quarter of 1938, and second quarter of 1937_______________
21.— Rentals and services on work projects of the National Youth
Administration, first and second quarters of 1938_________
22.— Value of public contracts awarded for materials, third quarter
of 1938, second quarter of 1938, and third quarter of 1937-
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Employment and Pay Rolls
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SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 1938
Total Nonagricullural Employment
THERE was a marked increase in employment in September with
approximately 475,000 people reemployed since August in all nonagricultural occupations. The total gain since June was about
650.000. These figures do not include employees on projects of the
Works Progress Administration and other Federal emergency agencies.
They also exclude temporary cannery employees who are not part of
the normal labor supply, but are drawn into industry during the
packing season. Since June 113,000 such workers have been hired.
A greater than seasonal gain of about 245,000 wage earners was
estimated for manufacturing industries in September, including
17,000 hired by canneries. Factory wage disbursements were larger
in September than in August by $8,100,000 per week.
Retail stores showed a gain of 197,000 employees, which is larger
than usual in this month. Wholesale firms increased their forces by
14.000. anthracite and bituminous-coal mine operators hired 28,000
additional wage earners, nearly 5,000 workers were reemployed in
metal mines, and smaller numbers of employees were added by
telephone and telegraph companies, hotels, insurance firms, and
dyeing and cleaning firms. Steam railroads increased their forces for
the fourth consecutive month, the September gain being more than
. .
22 000
The improvement in the employment picture was evidenced by
the fact that reporting firms in 42 States and the District of Columbia
showed more workers engaged in manufacturing and nonmanufac
turing industries in September than in August. Among the important
industrial States showing gains were Michigan, Indiana, New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois, and New Jersey.
Employment in September on work programs of the Federal
Government increased on construction projects financed by P. W. A.
funds, on the low-cost housing projects of the United States Housing
Authority, on construction projects financed by regular Federal appro
priations, on Federal projects under The WTorks Program, and on
projects operated by the Works Progress Administration. Decreases
in employment were reported on construction jobs financed by the
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation, work projects of the National
Youth Administration, and for the Civilian Conservation Corps. In
the regular services of the Federal Government increases occurred in
the judicial and legislative services and decreases in the executive and
military services.
Industrial and Business Employment
Employment gains in September were noted in 73 of the 87 manu
facturing industries surveyed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and
in 10 of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries covered. Pay-roll in
creases were shown by 71 of the manufacturing and 8 of the non
manufacturing industries.
For all manufacturing industries combined the employment expan
sion was 3.6 percent and the pay-roll gain 5.5 percent as compared with
usual August-September seasonal gains of 1.2 percent and 1.0 percent,
respectively. The durable-goods group of industries showed a rise of
5.0 percent in the employment level. Activity in automobile plants,
preparatory to the introduction of new models, was reflected in a 35.2
percent employment gain. Hardware and machine tool firms showed
employment gains of 10.3 percent and 6.6 percent, respectively, and
steel mills added 1.2 percent to their forces. Other durable-goods
industries of major importance which showed gains in September were
electrical machinery, furniture, shipbuilding, sawmills, millwork, and
foundries and machine shops.
Employment in the nondurable-goods group increased by 2.6 per
cent. The usual large seasonal employment gains were reported in
the canning, cottonseed oil, beet sugar, confectionery, fertilizers, and
millinery industries. There were also substantial additions to the
personnel in clothing, silk and rayon goods, knit goods, and cottongoods factories.
Retail stores reported 6.3 percent more employees on their rolls.
This increase was larger than seasonal and was shared by such im
portant lines of trade as apparel, general merchandising, furniture,
lumber and building materials, and food. Wholesale trade showed
a seasonal employment gain of 1.0 percent affecting most lines of
trade. The largest increases were reported by dealers in farm prod
ucts, assemblers and country buyers, and firms selling metals, dry
goods and apparel, paper goods, and plumbing and heating supplies.
Anthracite mines increased their forces by 23.4 percent from the
exceptionally low level of the previous month, and bituminous-coal
mines had 4.2 percent more men on their rolls. Metal mines reported
the second employment gain (8.5 percent) since September 1937, in
response to increased demand and rising prices.
A preliminary report of the Interstate Commerce Commission indi
cated a gain of 2.4 percent, or 22,068, in the number of employees on
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class I railroads. The total number on their pay rolls in September
was 961,868. Corresponding pay-roll figures for September were not
available when this report was prepared. For August they amounted
to $148,793,156 as against $142,721,392 for July, an increase of 4.3
percent.
Hours and earnings.—The average hours worked per week by fac
tory wage earners was 36.9 in September, a gain of 1.7 percent since
August. The corresponding average hourly earnings were 63.2 cents
or 0.1 percent higher in September than in August, while average
weekly earnings stood at $23.32, a gain of 1.8 percent since August.
Of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries for which man-hour data are
available, 4 showed gains in average hours worked per week and 8
showed increases in average hourly earnings. Average weekly earn
ings were higher for 6 of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries surveyed.
Prior to January 1938 the wording of the definition on the schedules
for public utilities, wholesale and retail trade, hotels, and brokerage
and insurance firms called for the inclusion of higher-salaried em
ployees such as corporation officers, executives, and others whose
duties are mainly supervisory. These employees have, for the most
part, always been excluded from employment reports for other indus
tries, and beginning with January it was requested that they be
omitted also for the industries named above. For this reason the
average hours worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average
weekly earnings for these industries are not comparable with the
figures appearing in issues of this pamphlet dated earlier than January
1938.
Employment and pay-roll indexes and average weekly earnings in
September 1938 for all manufacturing industries combined, for se
lected nonmanufacturing industries, and for class I railroads, with
percentage changes over the month and year intervals except in the
few industries for which data are not available, are presented in
table 1.
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T a b le 1.— Employment, Pay Rolls, and Earnings in All Manufacturing Industries
Combined and in Nonmanufacturing Industries, September 1938
Employment
Industry
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Index change from— Index change from — Aver change from—
age
in
Sep
Sep
Sep
tember A u
tember A u
Sep
tember Au
Sep
Sep
1938
1938
gust tember
gust tember
gust tember
1938
1937
1937
1937
1938
1938
1938
A ll manufacturing industries
combined 1.................................
= 100)
88.8
+ 3 .6
-1 8 .5
Class I steam railroads8.............
53.8
+ 2 .4
-1 5 .1
{1929=
100)
46.4 +23.4
83.5 + 4 .2
55.8 + 8 .5
-2 0 .2
-1 6 .0
-3 3 . 6
Coal mining:
Anthracite *...........................
Bitum inous»........................
Metalliferous mining......... ........
Quarrying and nonmetallic
mining........................................
Crude-petroleum producing___
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph...
Electric light and power
and manufactured gas___
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and main
tenance...............................
Trade:
W holesale..............................
Retail.....................................
General merchandising
Other than general
merchandising...........
Hotels (year-round) 5 .............
Laundries *...............................
Dyeing and cleaning *................
Brokerage.....................................
Insurance......................... .........
Building construction................
Average weekly earn
ings
Pay roll
44.6
71.5
+ (6)
- 1 .2
(1923-25
= 100)
81.0 + 5 .5
(«)
0)
(1929=
100)
29.4 +46.8
71.9 +12.0
46.7 + 6 .9
-1 8 .5
-8 .5
38.4
66.5
-2 .2
-.4
-2 2 .4
2 $23.32
+ 1 .8
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(4)
- 4 .8
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-1 4 .1
-2 0 .9
-4 3 .2
20.64 +19.0
23.03 + 7 .4
26.44 - 1 . 5
+ 7 .6
-5 .8
-1 4 .5
-2 3 .5
-6 .5
21.68
34.39
-2 .3
+ .8
- 6 .1
+ 2 .1
74.9
+ .2
- 6 .1
92.6
+ 1 .5
+ .4
' 31.05
+ 1 .3
+ 6 .8
92.5
-.2
- 6 .2
98.4
-.6
- 5 .4
7 33. 32
-.4
+ .9
69.3
-.2
-1 .6
88.5 + 1 .0
85.0 + 6 .3
98.4 + 13.9
81.5
91.8
96.5
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+ 1 .6
- 1 .1
+ 2 .6
- 1 .4
+ .6
-.4
—5.9
68.4
- 4 .4
7 32.27
-1 .4
+ 1 .6
-4 .8
- 6 .3
- 5 .1
74.3
+ .8
69.7 + 4 .4
87.1 +10, 6
- 5 .1
-6 .3
-5 .7
7 29.18
<20.82
7 17. 56
-.2
-1 .8
-2 .9
-.2
0
-.6
-6 .6
- 4 .1
-7 .3
-4 .5
-1 3 .2
+ 2 .9
-3 1 .4
66.1 + 2 .8
78.7 + 1 .7
81.4 - 2 .0
81.7 +10.0
- 1 .5
0)
-.8
(4)
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(<)
- 6 .5
- 4 .4
-5 .8
-4 .7
-1 9 . 9
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-3 2 .8
^ 23. 70
7 14. 60
17.07
20.82
7 34. 72
7 35.08
29. 66
-1 .3
+ .1
-1 .0
+ 7 .2
-.1
-1 .5
-. 1
+ .1
-.3
+ 1 .0
-.2
- 7 .7
- 4 .5
- 2 .1
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1 Revised indexes—Adjusted to 1935 Census of Manufactures. Indexes for earlier months and years given
in August issue of this pamphlet.
2 Does not include railroad repair shops.
8 Preliminary. Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.
4 N ot available.
* Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented in January 1938
issue of this pamphlet.
6 Less than Mo of 1 percent.
7 Average weekly earnings not strictly comparable with figures published in issues of this pamphlet
dated earlier than January 1938, as they now exclude corporation officers, executives, and other employees
whose duties are mainly supervisory.
8 Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
Public Employment
There was an increase of 10,000 during the month ending Septem
ber 15 in the number working on P. W. A. projects, resulting from
marked gains in employment on both Federal and non-Federal
projects financed from P. W. A. A. 1938 funds. Of the 119,000 at
work in September 19,000 were working on Federal and non-Federal
projects financed from N. I. R. A. funds, 81,000 on non-Federal
projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935, 1936, and 1937 funds, and
19,000 on Federal and non-Federal projects financed with P. W. A. A.
1938 funds. Monthly pay-roll disbursements on P. W. A. projects
amounted to $9,980,000.
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For the first time data on employment and pay rolls for low-cost
housing projects of the United States Housing Authority are shown.
During the month ending September 15, over 400 men were working
on new construction and demolition; pay rolls were $72,000. These
figures pertain only to new projects under the United States Housing
Authority and not to those formerly under the Public Works Adminis
tration.
On construction projects financed from regular Federal appropria
tions employment continued to increase during the month ending
September 15, primarily as the result of an expansion in road work
and river, harbor, and flood-control projects. The only types of
projects for which decreases in the number working were reported
were: Electrification projects other than those under the Rural
Electrification Administration, locks and dams, naval vessels, and
miscellaneous projects. In September 264,000 men were at work on
all types of projects financed from regular Federal appropriations,
a gain of 11,000 during the month and of 41,000 from September 1937.
Pay-roll disbursements of $27,503,000 were $3,025,000 more than in
the preceding month.
During the month ending September 15 nearly 3,000 men were at
work on construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, slightly less than the number working during the preced
ing period. Pay rolls of $395,000 Were also less for the month.
An important increase in employment occurred on projects operated
by the Works Progress Administration, on which 3,120,000 were
working in September and for which pay rolls amounted to $164,907,000. On Federal projects under The Works Program for which
reports represent activity in the month ending September 15, 118,000
were working, a small increase from August. Inasmuch as the
employees worked a larger number of hours, pay rolls amounted to
$6,020,000 or $226,000 more than in August. Employment on work
projects of the National Youth Administration decreased. Data on
employment and pay rolls for Student Aid in September will not be
available until next month.
In the regular services of the Federal Government increases in the
number working occurred in the judicial and legislative services and
small decreases occurred in the executive and military services. Of
the 870,000 employees in the executive service in September, 118,000
were working in the District of Columbia and 752,000 outside the
District. Force-account employees (workers who are on the Federal
pay roll and are engaged on construction projects) were 10 percent of
the total number of employees in the executive service. Increases
in employment in September occurred in the Post Office Department,
the Department of the Interior, and in the administrative offices of the
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P. W. A. Among those departments reporting marked decreases
were the War Department and the Department of Agriculture.
Due to the end of an enlistment period the number of workers in
the Civilian Conservation Corps decreased 17,000 in September. Of
the 317,000 in camps in September 279,000 were enrollees, 5,000
reserve officers, 300 nurses, 1,600 educational advisers, and 31,000
supervisory and technical employees. Pay-roll disbursements to all
groups of workers totaled $14,467,000 for the month.
More than 8,000 workers were added to the pay rolls of Statefinanced road projects during the month ending September 15. This
increase brought the total to 205,000, a gain of 12,000 from September
1937. The number working on new road construction in September
was 32,000 and on maintenance 173,000. For both types of road
work pay-roll disbursements were $13,951,000, a gain of $468,000 from
August.
A summary of Federal employment and pay-roll disbursements for
August and September is given in table 2.
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2 . — Summary
of Federal Employment and Pay Rolls, September 1938 1
[Preliminary figures]
Employment
Class
Septem
ber
Federal services:
870,031
Executive 2__...................................
Judicial.............................................
2,170
5,390
Legislative........................................
M ilitary............................................
339,127
Construction projects:
Financed by P. W . A .4..................
118,886
U. S. H. A. low-cost housing...
436
Financed b y R . F. C.*.................
2,829
Financed b y regular Federal
appropriations.............................
263,721
Federal projects under The W orks
Program..............................................
117, 518
Projects operated b y W . P. A ............. 3,120,399
National Y outh Administration:
220,756
W ork projects. ...............................
Student A id ......................... ..........
00
Civilian Conservation Corps...............
317,252
August
3 872,521
2,075
5,299
341,325
Per
cent
age
change
Pay rolls
Septem
ber
August
- 0 . 3 $131,865,390 3$132,221,162
544,404
+ 4 .6
563,538
1,235,210
+ 1 .7
1,228,571
-.6
27,346,929
26,887,384
Per
cent
age
change
- 0 .3
-3 .4
+ .5
+ 1 .7
108,926
275
2,959
+ 9 .1
+58.5
- 4 .4
9,979, 680
71,947
395,189
9,262,059
23,742
424,674
+7. 7
+203.0
-6 .9
252,599
+ 4 .4
27,503,233
24,478,120
+ 12.4
117,459
3,063,758
+• 1
+ 1 .8
6,020,021
164,906,987
5,793,779
162,381,189
+ 3 .9
+ 1 .6
-.2
3,927,491
(«)
14,467,301
3,888,640
3 5,696
14,945,948
- 3 .2
221,307
3 1,780
334,257
- 5 .1
+ .1
i Includes data on projects financed wholly or partially from Federal funds.
> Includes force-account and supervisory and technical employees shown under other classifications to
the extent of 118,076 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $14,469,770 for September and 115,657 em
ployees and pay-roll disbursements of $14,327,299 for August.
3 Revised.
* Data covering P. W . A . projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935,1936, and
1937 funds and Public W orks Administration Appropriation A ct of 1938 funds are included. These data
are not shown under The W orks Program. Includes 80,860 wage earners and $7,068,139 pay roll for Sep
tember; 87,543 wage earners and $7,327,300 pay roll for August, covering Public W orks Administration proj
ects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 funds. Includes 18,984
wage earners and $1,197,309 pay roll for September; 3,455 and $225,539 pay roll for August, covering Public
WorKs Administration projects financed from funds provided b y the Public W orks Administration A p
propriation A ct of 1938.
* Includes 241 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $20,152 for September and 197 employees and
pay-roll disbursements of $13,101 for August on projects financed b y the R F C Mortgage Co.
* Data not available.
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Purchases From Public Funds
The value of material orders placed on projects financed from
regular Federal appropriations during the third quarter of 1938
amounted to $113,674,000. Approximately 387,000 man-months of
labor were involved in the final fabrication of these materials. On
P. W. A. projects orders were placed for $51,993,000 worth of ma
terials, for which it is estimated 148,000 man-months of labor were
required in final fabrication processes.
The value of material orders placed on the various programs
financed by Federal funds during the third quarter of 1938, the second
quarter of 1938, and the third quarter of 1937, and the man-months
of employment created in the final fabrication of the materials used
are shown in table 3.
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3 . — Value
of Material Orders Placed on Projects Financed Wholly or Partially
From Federal Funds and Number of Man-Months of Labor Created
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders placed
Man-months of labor
created in final
fabrication
Program
Third
quarter
of 1938
Public Works Administration >.......... $51,993,271
U . S. H . A. low-cost housing...............
94,219
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion *...................................... .............
1,568,564
Regular Federal appropriations_____ 113,673,966
Federal projects under The Works
Program:
8,133,096
Construction....................................
Professional, technical, and cleri
cal........... ............... •_........ .......... .
69,009
Projects operated b y W . P. A .............
<3)
Rentals and services on projects oper
ated by W . P. A ........... .....................
0
National Youth Administration:
W ork projects.............................. .
(3)
Rentals and services on work
projects....................................... .
(3)
Second
quarter
of 1938
Third
quarter
of 1937
Third
quarter
of 1938
Second
quarter
of 1938
Third
quarter
of 1937
$51,217,783
$78,759,593
147,972
286
145,220
222,014
2,256,444
85,308,721
3,258,042
90,096,143
5,494
286,837
5,327
218,604
7,522
225,904
13,086,761
27,651,985
21,743
34,575
73,721
115,360
94,914,514
187,092
57,303,258
231
(3)
323
280,928
601
174,479
48,342,335
41,632,998
(3)
(3)
<*>
1,096,657
722,146
(3)
3,245
2,200
604,725
383,447
(3)
<3)
(*)
» Data covering projects financed from E. R . A. A. 1935,1936,1937 and P. W . A . A. 1938 funds are included.
These data are not shown under The Works Program. Includes low-cost housing projects financed from
funds of N. I. R . A. and E. R . A. A ., 1935.
* Includes R F C Mortgage Company.
•Data not available.
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DETAILED TABLES FOR SEPTEMBER 1938
Industrial and Business Employment
MONTHLY reports on employment and pay rolls are available for
the following groups: 87 manufacturing industries; 16 nonmanufac
turing industries, including private building construction; and class I
steam railroads. The reports for the first two of these groups—
manufacturing and nonmanufacturing—are based on sample surveys
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and in virtually all industries the
samples are large enough to be entirely representative. The figures
on class I steam railroads are compiled by the Interstate Commerce
Commission and are presented in the foregoing summary.
EMPLOYMENT, PAY ROLLS, HOURS, AND EARNINGS
The indexes of employment and pay rolls as well as average hours
worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earn
ings in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries in September
1938 are shown in table 4. Percentage changes from August 1938
and September 1937 are also given.
The indexes for the manufacturing industries have been adjusted
to the 1935 Census of Manufactures and are not comparable to those
published in the July 1938 and earlier issues of this pamphlet. Elec
tric and steam railroad repair shops have been excluded from the new
series in keeping with the reclassification for the 1937 Census of Manu
factures. This eliminates the duplication that has resulted hereto
fore, as steam railroad repair shop figures are included in the sum
maries released by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The average hours worked per week, average hourly earnings, and
average weekly earnings for all manufacturing industries combined
now relate to 87 industries, instead of 89 as heretofore, because of the
exclusion of electric and steam railroad repair shops. This exclusion
also affects the averages for the durable-goods group because these
industries were classified in that group. The average hours and
hourly earnings for the 87 manufacturing industries combined, and
for the manufacturing groups, are weighted on the basis of estimated
employment for the separate industries. As these estimates have
been affected by the revision of the indexes, it follows that the weighted
averages for August and September differ from the averages that would
result if the former estimates of employment were used as weights.
Revised averages for earlier months will be computed and made
available in the near future.
The indexes and averages for the iron and steel group and the nonferrous metal products group have been affected by the transfer of the
stamped and enameled ware industry from the latter group to the
9
former. The indexes, hours, and hourly earnings for the knit goods
industry are now weighted on the basis of four subdivisions (hosiery,
knitted outerwear, knitted underwear, and knitted cloth) for which
separate figures are now given. Tractor manufacturing establish
ments have been transferred from the engine-turbine-water wheelwindmill industry to the agricultural industry, thereby affecting the
figures for both industries.
The revised series of employment and pay-roll indexes, as well as
average hours worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average
weekly earnings for July, August, and September 1938, where avail
able, are presented in table 5. The July and August averages, where
given, may differ in some instances from those previously published,
not only because of the foregoing, but also because of revisions neces
sitated by the inclusion of late reports and other causes.
The weekly average earnings shown in tables 4 and 5 are computed
by dividing the total weekly pay rolls in the reporting establishments
by the total number of full- and part-time employees reported. As all
reporting establishments do not supply man-hour data, average hours
worked per week and average hourly earnings are necessarily based on
data supplied by a smaller number of reporting firms. The size and
composition of the reporting sample varies slightly from month to
month and therefore the average hours per week, average hourly
earnings, and average weekly earnings shown in tables 4 and 5 are
not strictly comparable from 1 month to another, even after revisions.
The sample, however, is believed to be sufficiently adequate in virtually
all instances to indicate the general movements of earnings and hours
over the period shown. The changes from the preceding month,
expressed as percentages, arc based on identical lists of firms for the
2 months, but the changes from September 1937 are computed from
chain indexes based on the montli-to-month percentage changes.
T a b le 4.— Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, September 1938
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100, and are adjusted to 1935 Census of Manufactures. Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to August 1938.
parable series available upon request]
Industry
Average weekly earn
ings i
Pay rolls
Employment
Average hours worked
per w eek 1
(a)
Cents
63.2
+0.1
<*>
+ 1 .7
+L7
0)
(’)
70.8
57.7
+ .7
-.5
(*>
(*)
33.0
30.0
32.3
34.2
+ 1 .9
+ 1.4
+ 6.0
-.4
(»)
-2 1 .0
-1 3 .3
- 3 .0
75.3
83.9
70.6
57.4
- 9 .6
-1 2 .9
- 3 .5
- 4 .9
+ .2
36.8
34.5
36.3
35.0
37.9
+ 6 .4
+ 4 .5
+ 3 .3
+ 2 .9
+ 2 .3
- 8 .9
-1 3 .6
- 1 .9
- 5 .8
+ .9
60.0
73.9
65.8
- 5 .1
+ 7 .4
- 3 .8
- 1 .8
-1 5 .0
+ 1 .7
- 9 .7
- 1 .8
33.3
39.4
35.7
38.2
- 6 .2
+ 8 .9
- 3 .0
- 2 .3
-1 5 .3
+ .5
-1 1 .2
- 3 .1
69.1
65.9
72.9
22.28
25.31
25.57
26.55
+ 2.9
+11.7
+ 1 .5
+ .4
- 8 .7
+ 1 .5
-1 0 .2
-1 5 .0
36.4
36.9
35.4
34.7
+ 3.3
+ 8 .3
+ 1.8
+ .5
-8 .5
+ 4 .5
(J)
-1 1 .4
61.5
68.7
72.1
76.9
28.62
26.07
28.00
25.02
26.87
- .7
+ 3.1
-.6
+. 6
+ 3.7
-1 1 .0
- 6 .8
- 2 .0
-1 3 .0
-1 6 .8
35.3
35.3
35.6
35.2
36.3
- 1 .1
+ 3 .2
-.7
+ .6
+2 .5
-1 3 .3
- 8 .1
- 5 .7
-1 3 .1
-1 7 .7
81.8
73.7
78.8
71.0
74.1
88.8
+ 3.6
-1 8 .5
81.0
+ 5 .5
-2 2 .4
$23.32
+ 1.8
-1 8
36.9
+ 1.7
Durable goods..........................................................
Nondurable goods...................................................
Durable goods
75.3
101.6
+ 5.0
+ 2.6
-2 9 .2
- 8 .9
68.7
94.9
+ 7 .8
+ 3 .7
-3 5 .1
- 7 .8
25.80
21.33
+ 3 .2
+ 1 .0
- 8 .3
+ 1 .2
36.0
37.5
81.7
85.1
81.9
64.6
+ 2.9
+ 1 .2
+ 4.9
+ 2.5
-2 9 .6
-3 2 .9
-2 8 .9
-1 0 .2
68.6
67.6
72.8
53.8
+ 5.1
+ 3 .5
+ 10.2
+ 1 .4
-4 0 .3
-4 7 .1
-3 6 .0
-1 1 .4
24.60
25.25
22.79
19.77
+ 2.2
+ 2 .3
+ 5.1
—i. 2
-1 5 .2
-2 1 .4
- 9 .8
- 1 .3
77.6
43.5
66.9
73.2
121.6
+4.1
+ 4.8
+10.3
+ .2
+ 6.6
-1 9 .1
-3 9 .3
-3 2 .1
-1 3 .9
-2 7 .3
67.3
37.7
65.7
59.6
119.9
+10.6
+ 9 .2
+13.9
+ 4 .0
+ 9.1
-2 6 .8
-4 7 .2
-3 4 .4
-1 8 .4
-2 7 .3
21.82
25.45
23.86
23.21
23.67
+ 6.3
+ 4 .2
+ 3 .3
+ 3 .8
+ 2 .3
69.8
79.7
60.5
97.6
+ 1.2
+ 4.9
+1.1
- 1 .9
-2 1 .0
-2 6 .7
-2 9 .2
-1 6 .7
53.3
69.2
49.7
103.0
- 3 .9
+32.6
- 2 .8
- 3 .7
-3 2 .9
-2 5 .5
-3 6 .0
-1 8 .4
23.00
25.71
26.01
22.85
74.8
127.9
85.5
90.6
+ 4.1
+20.4
+ 1 .7
- 9 .2
-2 3 .7
-3 1 .5
-3 4 .5
-4 9 .6
67.4
134.2
78.6
87.1
+ 7 .0
+34.6
+ 3 .3
-8 .9
-3 0 .4
-2 8 .8
-4 1 .1
-5 7 .2
136.4
77.4
83.1
77.7
114.2
+ 1.0
+ 4.5
+ .6
+ .7
+6-6
-1 2 .0
-3 6 .2
-2 4 .8
-3 2 .1
-3 1 .8
120.8
73.0
90.0
68.1
107.8
+ .3
+ 7 .8
+. 1
+1 .3
+10.6
-2 1 .8
-4 0 .6
- 2 6 .2
-4 0 .3
-4 3 .4
Average hourly earn
ings »
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
change from— Index change from—
change from—
change from—
change from—
Index
Sep
Sep
Sep
Sep
Sep
tember
Sep
Sep tember August
Sep tember
tember August
Sep tember
Sep
1938 August tember
1938 August tember
1938 August
tember
tember 1938
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938 tember
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
All manufacturing industries......................................
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery....................................................................
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling m ills..
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets..........................
Cast-iron pipe.........................................................
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cut
lery) and edge tools............................................
Forgings, iron and steel................................... . . .
Hardware................................................................
Plumbers’ supplies................................................
Stamped and enameled ware...............................
Steam-and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings......................................................
Stoves.......................................................................
Structural and ornamental metalwork..............
Tin cans and other tinware..................................
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)....................................................
Wirework.................................................................
Machinery, not including transportation equipment.
Agricultural implements (including tractors) __
Cash registers, adding machines, and calcu
lating machines...................................................
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies..
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and windmills.
Foundry and machine-shop products----Machine tools...............................................
Com
+ .2
- (3 )
+4. 0
+ 1 .7
-.7
-.9
+ .5
- 1 .6
+ .7
-.3
-.7
-.7
-.3
+(3)
+ .8
+ .2
+ .9
-
<*>
+.6
1.1
+.6
+• 1
+ 1.8
+ 1 .7
+ 1 .4
-.3
-.8
- .5
(»)
-.9
+3.2
+ 0
+(3)
+ .2
- (3 )
+ .1
.1
++1.2
- 3 .7
+2.6
+ 1 .4
+ 4 .5
+ .9
+1.0
O
Radios and phonographs......................................
Textile machinery and parts...............................
Typewriters and parts..........................................
Transportation equipment...........................................
Aircraft....................................................................
Automobiles..........................................................Cars, electric- and steam-railroad.......................
Locomotives............................................................
Shipbuilding...........................................................
Nonferrous metals and their products.......................
Aluminum manufactures......... ...........................
Brass, bronze, and copper products...................
Clocks and watches ard time-recording devices
Jewelry....................................................................
Lighting equipment..............................................
Silverware and plated ware.................................
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc. .
Lumber and allied products........................................
Furniture.................................................................
Lumber:
Millwork................... ......................................
Sawmills..........................................................
Stone, clay, and glass products....................................
Brick, tile, and terra cotta...................................
Cement....................................................................
Glass............................. - ........................................
Marble, granite, slate, and other products.......
Pottery....................................................................
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products..........................................
Fabrics........ ...........................................................
Carpets and rugs.................................. .........
Cotton goods...................................................
Cotton small wares.........................- .............
Dyeing and finishing textiles.......................
Hats, fur-felt....................................................
Knit goods........................................................
Hosiery...... ........ —...................................
Knitted 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......... .................................
See footnotes at end of table.
93.5
59.8
121.6
63.8
755.5
64.9
27.7
16.1
89.9
87.8
136.3
92.7
79.9
96.0
76.0
58.9
65.4
65.9
79.0
+ 5.2
+ 3.6
+3.4
+25.1
-.4
+35.2
+14.0
-1 1 .0
+ .8
+ 5.8
+6.1
+ 4.2
+ 2.8
+10.8
+11.9
+2.3
+ 3.6
+ 3.0
+ 3.9
-4 9 .3
-2 6 .6
-2 1 .8
-4 0 .0
-1 4 .5
-4 2 .2
-5 4 .7
-6 9 .6
-1 9 .9
-2 1 .7
-2 1 .6
-2 2 .7
-2 8 .3
- 7 .0
-2 7 .4
-1 4 .0
-2 5 .5
-1 8 .0
-1 9 .2
83.5
53.8
115.7
64.8
727.2
66.3
25.7
11.1
92.3
81.2
138.8
89.1
78.1
81.4
68.8
53.2
60.3
60.1
68.1
+10.7
+ 7.0
+18.3
+29.9
+ 2 .0
-4 1 .1
+15.3
-1 5 .7
+ 2.6
+ 9 .6
+10.4
+ 6.8
+11.2
+16.2
+19.1
+ 9.8
+ 4.3
+ 3 .4
+ 9 .0
- 4 9 .6
-3 7 .7
-2 6 .7
-3 6 .6
- 4 .6
-3 7 . 5
-5 8 .5
-7 9 .8
-1 9 .0
-2 6 .4
-2 0. 6
-2 7 .1
-3 6 .2
-1 0 .9
-3 0 .8
-2 2 .9
-3 1 .2
-1 7 .2
-1 7 .5
22.21
23. 42
22.85
32.65
29.87
33.81
25.48
22.13
30.60
24.98
26.04
26.32
20.66
23.95
24.99
23. 27
25.95
21.33
21.53
+ 5.2
+ 3.3
+14.4
+ 3.9
+ 2.5
+ 4.3
+ 1 .2
- 5 .3
+ 1 .7
+ 3 .6
+ 4.0
+ 2.6
+8.1
+ 4.8
+ 6.5
+ 7.3
+ .7
+ .4
+ 5 .0
-.7
-1 5 .1
-1 1 .7
+ 5 .7
+ 7 .5
+ 7.3
- 8 .7
-33. 6
+ 2.3
- 6 .0
+ 1 .4
- 5 .5
-1 1 .4
- 4 .7
- 5 .6
-1 1 .2
- 7 .7
+ 1.0
+ 1 .6
37.5
35.3
35.4
36.4
40.1
36.3
35.0
29.0
36.5
37.8
38.8
36.9
36.3
41.0
38.0
36.7
37.7
40.3
39.8
+ 4 .9
+ 4.4
+14.0
+ 3.4
+ .5
+ 4.9
+ .9
- 6 .7
+ 1 .4
+ 4 .7
+ 4 .9
+ 2 .9
+ 9 .8
+ 6 .8
+ 7.1
+ 7 .6
0
- .3
+ 1 .2
+ 1 .5
-1 5 .2
- 6 .6
(3)
+ 3 .2
+6.1
- 6 .4
-3 3 .7
+1.1
(3)
-.5
- 3 .1
- 9 .8
+ 1.4
- 6 .6
-1 1 .6
- 6 .9
(2)
- 1 .2
59.4'
66.5
64.6
89.7
75. 1
93.3
72.8
76.4
83.7
66.1
67.2
71.3
56.9
57.7
65.9
62.5
68.8
52.6
52.5
+ .4
- 1 .1
+ .4
+ .5
+ 1.3
-.6
+ .3
+ 1.5
_ 9
-.7
-.9
-.3
- 1 .5
-1 .6
-.5
- 1 .4
+ .6
-.6
- .3
- 2 .3
+ .4
+ .3
0)
+ 7.8
+2.1
- 2 .3
+• 3
+ 1.0
0
+ 1.9
- 2 .8
- 1 .4
—5.1
+ 2.2
-.7
-.8
54.0
53.6
67.8
51.2
68.0
82.1
43.0
74.9
+2.1
+ 2.2
+ 2.3
+ 2.5
- 2 .6
+ 4.3
-.7
+ 3.7
-1 1 .8
-1 8 .8
-1 8 .9
-1 9 .1
- 9 .9
-2 6 .0
-1 8 .2
- 9 .0
45.6
50.7
58.3
38.6
63.4
82.6
31.3
64.1
-.1
+ .9
+ 3 .2
+ 3 .7
- 3 .0
+ 5.1
- 2 .1
+ 9 .3
- 9 .7
-1 9 .0
-2 4 .2
-2 5 .2
-1 1 .8
-3 1 .0
-2 5 .3
-1 4 .9
22.21
20.89
22.98
19.77
25.96
24.13
24.31
21.22
- 2 .2
- 1 .3
+. 9
+ 1 .2
-.5
+ .7
- 1 .5
+ 5.4
+ 2 .9
-.4
- 6 .5
- 6 .7
-2 .9
- 5 .9
- 7 .4
- 6 .5
41.7
40.3
36.2
38.0
37.4
34.4
35.7
35.7
-.7
- 1 .1
+ .5
- 1 .0
- 1 .0
+ 1 .7
-.8
+ 4 .0
+ 3.1
-.4
(a)
-4 .9
-5 .3
-7 .5
-1 0 .0
-1 0 .7
53.4
52.5
63.2
51.6
69.4
70.5
67.1
61.9
- 1 .4
- .5
.-.2
+ 1.0
+ .6
-.7
- 1 .1
-.7
-.1
-.6
(’> _
- 3 .5
+2. 5
+ .9
—. 7
+ 1.6
97.9
86.6
72.7
83.2
76.1
104.1
90.0
111.8
140.7
80.1
69.1
150.3
63.2
72.7
122.1
107.5
177.1
97.3
138.1
79.3
117.8
+ 2.9
+ 1.8
+ 7.5
+ 2.3
+ 6.0
+ 2 .2
+ 2 .2
+ 2.4
+ 1.8
+ 7.6
+ 1 .0
-<*>
+ 3.0
- 3 .2
+ 5 .0
+3.1
+ 6.8
+ 2.8
+ 8.6
+ 16.2
+ .4
- 8 ,8
-1 0 .2
-2 6 .2
-1 1 .3
-1 4 .1
- 5 .9
- 4 .8
- 7 .6
- 4 .4
- 5 .2
-1 7 .5
-2 0 .1
-2 1 .0
- 1 .3
- 6 .7
- 8 .7
- 6 .7
- 3 .4
- 1 .8
+ .4
- 5 .2
84.1
74.8
60.9
71.1
70.7
89.7
95.0
116.2
159.5
71.6
59.3
128.1
50.7
57.5
99.5
80.1
137.6
96.1
124.9
91.6
97.4
+ 5.1
+ 1 .9
+10.0
+ 3 .9
+ 9 .0
+ 2 .6
+ 9 .0
+ 4 .0
+ 3 .4
+ 9 .8
+ 2 .7
+ 1 .6
+ 1.1
- 7 .3
+10.1
+ 7 .7
+ 7.4
+12.1
+14.1
+53.8
+ 4 .3
- 6 .7
-1 1 .2
-1 8 .9
-1 6 .0
-1 5 .0
- 5 .6
+16.1
-4 .0
- 1 .6
+ .4
- 1 5 .8
-1 5 .2
-2 5 .0
- 4 .2
+ 1.0
- 4 .5
+ 4 .6
+ 1 .9
+ 6 .7
+15.3
- 7 .5
17.04
16.42
22.31
13.82
17.95
20.68
26.85
18.14
19.65
17.27
14.39
19.06
16.03
18. 39
18.72
19.33
20.69
16.54
14.17
28.29
12.79
+ 2.1
+ .1
+ 2 .3
+ 1 .5
+ 2 .8
+•4
+ 6 .7
+ 1 .6
+ 1.6
+ 2 .0
+ 1 .7
+ 1 .7
- 1 .9
- 4 .3
+ 4 .9
+ 4.4
+. 7
+ 9.1
+ 5 .0
+32.3
+ 3 .9
+ 2 .4
- 1 .0
+ 6 .7
- 5 .7
- 1 .3
+ .2
+21.5
+ 9 .2
+ 2 .7
+ 5 .9
+ 2.1
+ 6.1
-5 .0
- 2 .8
+ 8 .2
+ 4 .5
+11.7
+ 5 .6
+10.3
+18.2
-1 .8
35.4
36.3
34.9
36.2
39.0
38.7
36.4
36.6
36.4
38.2
34.6
40.7
35.7
35.0
33.9
32.3
34.0
36.2
34.9
40.1
35.0
+ 1.7
+ .4
+ 2 .8
+ 1 .3
+ 4.1
+ .7
+ 3.1
+ 1 .9
+ 1 .8
+ 3.1
+ 1 .5
+ .8
-2 .3
- 4 .3
+ 4 .2
+ 3 .9
+ 3 .0
+ 8 .9
+ 4.3
+16.2
+3.1
(a)
(*)
+13.6
+3 .7
+ 2 .5
+ 6 .9
+21.4
+ 5 .4
+ 4 .8
+ 5 .7
+ 6 .5
+ .8
+ 1 .7
4 8 .0
(2)
-f 6.4
+12.0
+ 8.3
+20.7
+ 8.8
+ 6.4
49.2
46.2
63.9
38.3
46.4
52.8
71.1
51.0
51.8
44.8
41.6
47.0
44.5
52.7
53.9
59.4
55.4
45.7
35.7
69.0
36.7
+ ( 3)
-.2
- .5
+. 1
- .6
- .4
- 2 .1
0
+0)
+ 00
- .1
+ 1.2
+ .1
-.1
0
+ .5
- 1 .8
-(* )
- 2 .4
+10.4
-.2
(3)
(2)
- 3 .0n
- 8 .7
- 5 .3
- 6 .6
(,)—. 5K
- +•1
1 .4
- 1 .8
-.4
- 2 .7
+ 2.9
- 6 .6
-1 0 .5
- 3 .7
- 1 .6
- 2 .7
- 6 .0
- 2 .0
- 8 .5
T able 4.— Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, September 1938— Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Industry
Average weekly earn
ings
Pay rolls
Employment
Average hours worked
per week
Average hourly earn
ings
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
change frpm—
change from—
change from—
change from— Index change from—
Sep
Sep
Index
Sep
Sep
tember
tember
tember
Sep
tember
tember
1938
1938
1938 August
Sep
Sep
Sep
Sep
Sep
1838 August
August
August
1938 August tember
tember
tember
tember
1938 tember
1938
1938
1938
1938
1937
1937
1937
1937
1937
Nondurable goods—Continued
Leather and its manufactures......................................
Boots and shoes.......................................... ..........
L ea th er................ - .....................- ........................
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....................................... ...............
Printing and publishing:
Book and jo b .....................- ...........................
Newspapers and periodicals........... ..............
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining......................................................................
Petroleum refining.................................................
Other than petroleum refining............................
Chemicals.........................................................
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal...................
Druggists' preparations.................................
Explosives........................................................
82.2
93.8
78.3
142. 7
145.6
250.3
103.7
272.0
87.9
77.4
83.4
95.5
- 0 .4
-.9
+ 1.6
+ 3.2
+ .7
- 3 .7
- 5 .8
+8.3
+22.9
-.9
-1 0 .4
+ 1.3
+34.1
+ 2.9
+3.1
+ 3.7
+3.1
+ 1.6
+ 4 .2
+ 1.1
- 4 .7
- 2 .6
-1 3 . S
- 6 .2
- 2 .4
- 5 .7
- 6 .7
-3 7 .1
-.3
- 2 .5
- 7 .8
-.3
+ 2.9
+15.7
98.9
105.1
_ ( 3)
+ 2.6
- 9 .1
- 3 .2
113.0
+4.5
-.7
+ 6.0
+ 2 .0
+ 66.0
+ 1.7
+ 3.7
-1 3.5
- 7 .6
-1 4 .9
-1 9 .6
- 22 .0
- 7 .0
-7 .9
10 0 .2
92.7
66.3
62.6
66.8
104.3
98.8
104.0
121.0
111.1
112.5
113.5
110 .0
84.9
-.6
+ 2.3
-.8
- 7 .8
- 7 .7
-1 0 .5
- 3 .9
—5.5
+ 1.2
+ 4.3
+ 2.7
- 7 .6
- 4 .7
+16.8
+31.2
+3.1
-1 2 .7
+ 3.7
+43.7
+5. 9
+ 3.4
- 1- 8 . 6
+ 2.8
+ 3.2
+ 8.3
-.3
- 1.1
+ 3.3
—12.4
- 4 .4
- 3 .1
- 6. 2
- 2 .8
—17. 5
+ 1.1
—. 7
- 5 .4
+ 1.2
-.9
+24.1
-.3
-.5
8 8 .2
118.9
134.6
114.1
121.4
95.1
73.9
70.9
78. r,
136.7
143.5
297. fi
90.0
238. 1
90.9
81.4
70.1
108.7
97.3
84.8
61.0
71.8
59.6
101.1
105.4
101.6
106.4
1 2 0 .6
93.1
- 3 .4
- 4 .7
- .4
+ 1.1
+ 2.0
- 4 .0
+ 1.2
+ 7.9
+ 6.7
+4.1
- 2 .6
+ 2.3
+ 7 .2
+ 2.9
- 7 .1
- 3 .0
-1 2 .3
$18.98
17.87
24. 21
23.43
25.80
33. 12
22.76
15. S3
19. 22
27.72
28.19
28.66
2 .r\ 00
24. 59
16.96
17.97
16.72
27.91
21.74
23.92
+ 4 .8
-.3
+ 1.6
+ 4 .0
- 1 .4
+ 2.4
+ 5.2
- 9 .2
- 2.1
29.68
37.26
+ 1.7
- 2 .5
+3.4
+• 3
+66.7
+ 2 .9
-(* )
-1 3 .0
- 6 .7
-1 5 .0
- 2 0 .2
-2 3 .5
- 5 .0
-1 0 .2
28.35
34.58
25.67
29.90
12.93
23.44
30.16
-. 1
+ 3 .9
+ 5 .8
+ 1 .0
+ 1.9
-.7
-.4
+ 4 .5
- 2.8
+1.4
+ 1.8
+ 3.1
+ 1.5
- 2 .9
+ 7.9
+ 3.9
+ 3 .0
- 4 .2
+ o
+9. 1
+13.4
+ 3.2
- 5 .2
+3.1
+14.1
+3 7
+ 1.2
+ 4 .3
+ .7
+ 5 .0
- 2.1
36.8
36.3
38.7
41.3
42.8
39.2
46.9
38.3
42.1
46.1
46.0
41.9
41.3
40.3
37.1
35. 5
37.3
38.0
40.8
39.1
+ 2.4
+ 2.6
-.3
+ 1.1
37.5
36.2
+ 1.2
+ 1.1
- 2 .6
- 1.8
- 2 .4
- 1.6
+• 5
+ 1.2
- 3 .5
+ .7
+ .9
38.3
35.3
39.5
38.3
50.8
39.4
37.7
+ .7
-1 .9
+ 1.4
- 1.2
+ 9.3
+ .2
+ .2
- 2.8
+ 1.1
0
-.7
- 2 .9
+3.1
-1 .8
- 4 .5
- 5 .4
-.2
+ .8
+ 1.1
+ 4 .8
-.7
+ .2
- 2 .5
(2)
+ 3 .7
+ 2.2
(2)
-.7
- 2 .7
+ 2 .5
+ .6
+ 2 .3
-f.7
- 1.0
+ 2 .3
- 6.1
+ 8 .1
(2)
- 3 .2
+ 1.2
(2)
+ 2.8
+ .5
Cents
52.4
50.1
62.9
57.6
61.0
85.4
48.3
42.5
46.2
59.9
60.7
+ 1.4
+ 1 .7
-.1
- 1.8
- 1.1
+ .2
+ 1.1
-.9
- 5 .9
+ 1.0
+ 1.8
(?)
- 7 .7
-.7
%
+ 2.8
+ 2 .9
- 2.8
- 1.6
+ .8
61.7
61.0
45.8
50.7
45.2
76.5
53.8
61.3
- 4 .5
-.7
-.9
+ .3
- 1.0
+ .3
-.8
-.6
+ 2.1
- 4
+ 1 .9
- 4 .8
(a)
+ .2
+. 5
<*>
+ 2.1
- 2 .4
-2 .9
80.0
98.8
+ .7
+ .9
+ 2.5
+ 2.2
(J)
74.4
98.4
65.3
78.1
25.3
58.7
80.1
- 2 .5
<*>
+ 1 .2
(*)
+ .4
+ 4.4
+1 .3
+ .7
-.6
-.8
(2)
- 1 .4
-5 .6
- 3 .1
- 3 .2
68.6
-.6
-.1
-2 .9
-.6
- 6 .7
+ .1
-1 .1
Fertilizers.........................................................
Paints and varnshes.......................................
Rayon and allied products...........................
Soap..................................................................
Rubber products............................................................
Rubber boots and shoes.......................................
Rubber tires and inner tubes.................. ...........
Rubber goods, other.............................................
82.1
112.5
315.2
92.6
75.9
58.0
61.9
121.0
+19.2
+ 1.7
+ 7.3
+2.1
+4.7
+ 7.2
+ 2.2
+ 6.9
-1 2 .6
-1 2.1
-1 7 .1
- 2 .5
-2 2 .2
-2 6 .9
-2 7 .2
-1 3 .2
77.4
114.5
308.2
94.6
76.7
57.7
67.3
116.6
+18.3
+ 3.0
+ 6.7
+ 3.8
+10.4
+13.4
+11.2
+ 8.2
-1 9 .4
-1 1 .0
—16.5
- 2 .9
-2 1 .4
-3 1 .1
-2 3 .8
-1 2 .7
17.58
27. 70
24.02
29.10
26.81
22.79
31.27
22.73
-.8
+ 1.2
-.5
+ 1.6
+ 5.4
+ 5.8
+ 8.8
+ 1 .2
- 7 .5
+ 1.4
+ .7
-.3
+ 1.0
- 5 .6
+ 5.0
+ .5
38.3
39.7
37.7
39.7
85.9
37.7
33.0
38.5
+ 2 .6
+ 1.3
-.4
+1.6
+ 5.7
+ 5.4
+ 8.9
+ 2.3
- 6 .4
+ .5
-.4
-.2
(3)
- 5 .3
+ 7.8
+ 2.5
45.9
69.9
63.8
73.5
75.8
60.5
94.6
59.4
- 3 .6
-.1
-.2
+ .1
- .4
+ .4
+ .5
-.8
-.6
+ 1.0
+ 1.2
-.3
(*)
- 1 .2
- 2 .4
- 2 .8
22.1
26.2
40.0
40.6
40.2
+18.8
+ 9.8
- 1 .1
- 1 .4
-.6
+ 4.9
- 6 .2
- 8 .6
- 5 .7
+ .6
Cents
91.1
88.6
66.4
53.5
83.8
+ 0.6
- .4
-.4
-.7
+1.1
+ 0.7
-.8
- 6 .2
-.6
+ .6
NONMANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929=100]
Coal mining:
Anthracite *.............................................................
Bituminous *...........................................................
Metalliferous mining....................................................
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining...........................
Crude-petroleum producing.................................... .
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph «....................................
Electric light and power and manufactured
gas »..................... .......... .......................................
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance5......................................................
Trade:
W holesale5..............................................................
Retail s.....................................................................
General merchandising *...............................
Other than general m erchandising«...........
Hotels (year-round )* • •...............................................
Laundries*.....................................................................
Dyeing and cleaning *..................................................
Brokerage 5.....................................................................
Insurance *......................................................................
Building construction..................................................
46.4
83.5
55.8
44.6
71.5
+23.4
+ 4.2
+8.5
+ ( 3)
- 1 .2
-2 0 .2
-1 6 .0
-3 3 .6
-1 8 .5
- 8 .5
29.4
71.9
46.7
38.4
66.5
+46.8
+12.0
+ 6.9
- 2 .2
-.4
-1 4 .1
-2 0 .9
-4 3 .2
-2 3 .5
- 6 .5
$20. 64
23.03
26. 44
21.68
34.39
+19.0
+ 7.4
- 1 .5
- 2 .3
+ .8
+ 7 .6
- 5 .8
-1 4 . 5
- 6 .1
+2.1
74.9
+ .2
- 6 .1
92.6
+ 1.5
+ .4
31.05
+ 1 .3
+ 6 .8
39.1
+ 1 .2
+ 1.6
81.1
+ .1
+ 4.2
92.5
-.2
- 6 .2
98.4
-.6
- 5 .4
33.32
-.4
+ .9
39.8
- 1 .5
- 1 .5
83.6
+ .7
+ 1 .9
-.2
- 5 .9
68.4
- 1 .6
- 4 .4
32.27
- 1 .4
+ 1 .6
44.8
-1 .2
- 3 .3
71.3
-.2
+ 4 .8
- 4 .8
- 6 .3
- 5 .1
-6 .6
- 4 .1
- 7 .3
- 4 .5
-1 3 .2
+2.9
-3 1.4
74.3
69.7
87.1
66.1
78.7
81.4
81.7
0)
0)
0)
+ .8
+ 4 .4
+10.6
+ 2 .8
+ 1.7
- 2 .0
+10.0
- 1 .5
-.8
-.5
- 5 .1
- 6 .3
- 5 .7
- 6 .5
- 4 .4
- 5 .8
- 4 .7
-1 9 .9
- 1 .8
-3 2 .8
29.18
20.82
17. 56
23. 70
14.60
17.07
20.82
34. 72
35.08
29.66
-.2
- 1 .8
- 2 .9
- 1 .3
+ .1
- 1 .0
+ 7 .2
- .1
- 1 .5
-. 1
-.2
0
-.6
+ .1
-.3
+ 1 .6
-.2
- 7 .7
- 4 .5
- 2 .1
42.1
42.3
38.6
43.4
46.4
41.9
43.4
(7)
(7)
32.9
-.6
-.9
+ .2
- 1 .0
- 1 .3
- 1 .4
+ 4 .2
(')
(7)
-.8
- 1 .6
-.6
+1.1
-.9
- 4 .4
- 1 .7
- 1 .3
(7)
(7)
- 5 .4
69.7
53.2
48.1
54.8
31.0
41.3
48.4
(7)
(7)
90.3
+ .2
- 1 .4
- 3 .2
-.7
+ 1 .4
+ .5
+ 2 .5
(7)
(7)
-.8
+ .5
+ 1.5
- 1 .9
+ 2.4
+ 2 .2
+ 3.4
+ 1.3
(7)
(7)
+ 2.9
69.3
88.5
85.0
98.4
81.5
91.8
96.5
107.7
(7)
(7)
(0
+ 1.0
+ 6.3
+13.9
+4.1
+ 1.6
- 1 .1
+ 2.6
- 1 .4
+ 6
-.4
* Average weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data supplied
by a smaller number of establishments, as all reporting firms do not famish man-hours. The figures are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the size
and composition of the reporting sample. Hours and earnings for all manufacturing industries now relate to 87 industries instead of 89 which were covered in the July and prior issues
of the pamphlet. The two industries excluded are electric-and steam-railroad repair shops. The averages for the durable goods group have also been affected by this exclusion. See
text in section headed, “ Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings."
2 N ot yet computed.
* Less than Ho of 1 percent.
* Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented in January 1938 issue of this pamphlet.
* Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not 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.
7N ot available.
T
able
5 . —Employment,
Pay Rolls, Hours, a n d Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100, and are adjusted to 1935 Census of Manufactures. N ot comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to August 1938.
Comparable series available upon request]
Employment index
Industry
Sep
tember
1938
Au
gust
1938
July
1938
Average weekly
earnings 1
Pay-roll index
Sep
tember
1938
A u
gust
1938
July
1938
Sep
tember
1938
Au
gust
1938
July
1938
Average hours worked
per week 1
Sep
tember
1938
A u
gust
1938
July
1938
Average hourly
earnings 1
Sep
tember
1938
A u
gust
1938
July
1338
All manufacturing industries......................................
88.8
85.7
81.9
81.0
76.8
70.6
$23.32
$22.90
$22.06
36.9
36.3
34.7
Cents
63.2
Cents
62.9
Cents
63.5
Durable goods.........................................................
Nondurable goods...................................................
75.3
101.6
71.7
99.0
70.3
92.9
68.7
94.9
63.7
91.5
58.6
84.1
25.80
21. 33
24.98
21.25
33. 53
20. 83
36 0
37.5
35.4
38.9
33.2
35.9
70.8
57.7
70.2
57.8
70.4
58.3
81.7
85.1
81.9
64.6
79.4
84.0
78.1
63.0
76.7
82.4
77.2
61.7
68.6
67.6
72.8
53.8
65.8
65.3
66.0
53.0
57.4
50.8
58.5
51.9
24.60
25.25
22.79
19. 77
24.11
24.70
21.62
20.00
21. 91
21.70
19.37
20.02
33.0
30.0
32.3
34.2
32.4
29.6
30.7
34.3
29.7
26.0
27.3
34.4
75.3
83.9
70.6
57.4
75.3
83.5
70.6
57.8
75.3
84.0
70.9
57.9
77.6
43.5
66.9
73.2
121.6
74.5
41.5
60.6
73.1
114.1
63.9
38.5
56.5
72.5
105.1
67.3
37.7
65.7
59.6
119.9
60.9
34.5
57.6
57.3
109.9
52.1
2S.9
48.3
55.3
92.0
21.82
25.45
23.86
23.21
23.67
20.63
24.48
23.03
22. 33
23.13
20.59
22.05
20.77
21.70
21.14
36.8
34.5
36.3
35.0
37.9
34.6
33.0
35.2
34.0
37. 0
33.6
29.5
31.8
33.0
34.0
60.0
73.9
65.8
66.3
62.6
60.8
74.1
65.7
65.8
62.7
62.5
74.8
65.2
65.6
61.8
69.8
79.7
60.5
97.6
69.0
76.0
59.8
99.5
67.1
68.2
59.1
91.4
53.3
69.2
49.7
103.0
55.5
61.5
51.2
107.0
51.5
52.0
48.8
94.4
23.00
25.71
26.01
22.85
24. 27
23.95
26.94
23.40
23.18
22.51
26.01
22.44
33.3
39.4
35. 7
38.2
35.2
36.0
36.9
39.2
33.4
34.4
35.8
38.1
69.1
65.9
72.9
59.9
69.2
66.6
73.1
59.7
69.1
66.1
72.8
58.9
74.8
127.9
85.5
90.6
71.9
106.2
84.1
99.8
69.7
109.6
82.9
100.6
67.4
134.2
78.6
87.1
63.0
99.8
76.1
95.6
57.6
91.6
72.7
98.6
22.28
25.31
25. 57
26. 55
21.64
22. 64
25.08
26.43
20.40
39.87
24.34
27.05
36.4
36.9
35.4
34.7
35.2
34.0
34.6
34.5
32.7
30.6
33.5
34.7
61.5
68.7
72.1
76.9
61.3
66.7
72.0
76.8
61.8
65.1
72.4
78.1
136.4
77.4
135.0
74.0
137. 5
73.0
120.8
73.0
120.5
67.7
123.1
64.1
28. 62
26.07
28.82
25.28
28.93
24.33
35.3
35.3
35.7
34.2
35.8
32.7
81.8
73.7
81.6
73.8
81.7
74.2
83.1
82.6
82.1
90.0
89.9
85.9
28.00
28.13
27.05
35.6
35.9
34.6
78.8
78.7
78.5
Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery...................................................................
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills—
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets..........................
Cast-iron pipe........................................................
Cutlery (not including silver and plated
cutlery) and edge tools......................................
Forgings, iron and steel........................................
Hardware.................................................................
Plumbers’ supplies................ .......... .....................
Stamped and enameled ware............. .................
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings......................................................
Stoves......................................................................
Structural and ornamental metalwork..............
Tin cans and other tinware.................................
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)..................................... .............
Wirework...............................................................
Machinery, not including transpDrtation equipment.
Agricultural implements (including tractors)..
Cash registers, adding machines, and calcu
lating machines. ...............................................
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and wind
mills......................................................................
Foundry and machine-shop products................
Machine took.........................................................
Radios and phonographs......................................
Textile machinery and parts...............................
Typewriters and parts..........................................
Transportation equipment...........................................
Aircraft....................................................................
Automobiles............................................................
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad.......................
Locomotives............................................................
Shipbuilding.................. ........................................
Nonferrous metals and their products.......................
Aluminum manufactures.....................................
Brass, bronze, and copper products...................
Clocks and watches and time-recording de
vices......................................................................
Jewelry.....................................................................
Lighting equipment..............................................
Silverware and plated ware.................................
Smelting and refining—-copper, lead, and zinc.
Lumber and allied products........................................
Furniture.................................................................
Lumber:
Mi 11work..........................................................
Sawmills...........................................................
Stone, clay, and glass products....................................
Brick, tile, and terra cotta...................................
Cement....................................................................
Glass.........................................................................
Marble, granite, slate, and other products.......
Pottery.....................................................................
77.7
114.2
93.5
59.8
121.6
63.8
755.5
64.9
27.7
16.1
S9.9
87.8
136.3
92.7
77.1
107.1
88.9
57.7
117.7
51. C
758.7
48.0
24.3
18.0
89.1
83.0
128.5
89.0
75.8
110.6
81.6
53.9
115.5
55.5
794.6
53.1
22.8
20.2
95.8
79.1
122.0
86.1
68.1
107.8
83.5
53.8
115.7
64.8
727.2
66.3
25.7
11.1
92.3
81.2
138.8
89.1
67.2
97.4
75.5
50.2
97.9
49.9
712.8
47.0
22.3
13.1
90.0
74.1
125.8
83.4
63.7
94.2
72.4
45.3
91.5
51.0
736.5
47.4
20.2
15.5
99.9
67.0
111.5
77.9
25.02
26.87
22.21
23.42
22.85
32.65
29.87
33.81
25.48
22.13
30.60
24.98
26.04
26.32
24.87
25.86
21.20
22.78
19.97
81.22
29.10
32.33
25.26
23.37
29.99
£4.14
24.89
25.63
23.99
24.26
22.11
21.92
19.02
29.43
28.78
29.56
24.45
24.51
30.90
22.93
23.07
24.74
35.2
36.3
37.5
35.3
35.4
36.4
40.1
36.3
35.0
29.0
36.5
37.8
38.8
36.9
34.9
35.4
35.7
33.9
31.0
35.3
39.8
34.6
34.7
31.1
35.9
36.2
36.9
35.9
33.7
33.3
36.3
33.2
29.3
83.8
39.4
31.8
32.9
32.1
37.0
34.3
33.9
34.7
71.0
74.1
59.4
66.5
64.6
89.7
75.1
93.3
72.8
76.4
83.7
66.1
67.2
71.3
70.9
73.2
59.5
67.3
64.3
88.8
74.1
93.6
72.8
75.2
83.6
66.6
67.5
71.5
71.0
72.8
61.0
66.1
65.0
88.8
74.0
93.0
74.3
76.4
83.1
66.8
68.1
71.4
79.9
93.0
76.0
58.9
65.4
65.9
79.0
77.7
86.7
67.9
57.5
63.1
64.0
76.0
73.6
79.2
62.8
50.8
63.5
60.7
71.2
78.1
81.4
68.8
53.2
60.3
60.1
68.1
70.3
70.1
57.8
48.5
57.9
58.1
62.5
59.6
61.2
49.6
38.1
56.8
48.7
51.3
20.66
23.95
24.99
23.27
25.95
21.33
21.53
19.11
22.70
23.83
23.13
25. 72
21.02
20.43
17.11
21.49
21.33
20.55
25.09
13.64
17.87
36.3
41.0
38.0
36.7
37.7
40.3
39.8
33.0
38.6
35.0
3o. 9
37.6
40.5
39.3
29.5
30.2
31.5
31.7
37.1
86.5
34.3
56.9
57.7
65.9
62.5
68.8
52.6
52.5
57.8
57.7
68.1
64.6
68.4
52.3
52.2
57.8
58.6
67.9
64.7
67.7
51.1
52.2
51.0
53.6
67.8
51.2
68.0
82.1
43.0
74.9
52. S
52.4
66.3
49.9
69.9
73.7
43.3
72.3
50.9
49.8
64.6
48.8
70.3
74.7
4-1.0
69.5
45.6
50.7
58.8
38.6
63.4
82.6
31.3
64.1
45.6
50.2
56.5
37.2
65.4
78.6
32.0
58.7
41.6
41.6
53.1
35. 1
60.0
69.1
33.5
53.1
22.21
20.89
22.98
19.77
2d. 96
21.13
24.31
21.22
22.79
20.90
22.77
19.56
26.06
23.95
24.37
20.40
21.52
18.29
21.90
18.83
26.13
22.15
24.93
19.14
41.7
40.3
36.2
38.0
37.4
34.4
35.7
35.7
41.8
40.9
85.9
38.0
37.8
33.6
3.'. 7
34.4
39.4
37.0
34.7
37.0
37.8
31.5
36.4
32.5
53.4
52.5
63.2
51.6
69.4
70.0
67.1
61.9
54.6
51.9
63.4
51.1
69.0
71.2
67.7
62.9
54.5
50.2
63.8
51.1
69.0
70.4
68.8
62.3
97.9
86.6
72.7
83.2
76.1
104.1
90.0
111.3
140.7
80.1
69.1
lo0.3
63.2
72.7
122.1
107.5
177.1
95.1
85.1
67.6
81.3
71.8
101.9
88.1
109.2
138.2
74.4
68.4
150.3
61.3
75.1
116.3
101.3
165.9
86.6
80.4
62.8
78.2
67.7
97.0
79.8
104. fi
333.0
69.2
66.6
137.2
55.0
68.4
98.9
89.8
1316
84.1
74.8
60.9
71.1
70.7
89.7
95.0
116.2
159.5
71.6
59.3
128.1
50.7
57.5
99.5
80.]
137.6
80.0
73.4
53.4
63.4
64.9
87.4
87.2
111. 7
154.3
65.2
57.7
126.1
50.2
62.1
90.4
74.4
128.1
66.6
65.7
44.7
63.7
5S.8
78.3
71.9
93.2
134.2
56.7
54.2
111.4
42.2
55.5
66.0
57.4
86.0
17.04
16.42
22.31
13.82
17.9r
20.6S
26.85
IS. 14
19.65
17.27
14.39
19.06
16.03
18.39
18.72
19.33
20.69
16.87
16.56
2J.65
13.67
17.09
20.75
25.21
17.88
19.3*
16.89
14.12
18.91
16.22
19.21
17.68
18.40
20.23
15.67
15.72
18.82
13.23
16.57
19.60
23.85
16.41
17.51
15.65
13.58
17.47
15.17
18.85
15.50
16.37
17.14
85.4
36.3
34.9
36.2
39.0
38.7
36.4
36.6
36.4
38.2
34.6
40.7
35.7
35.0
33.9
32.3
34.0
34.7
36.1
34.3
35.6
36.7
38.3
35.3
35.9
35.7
S7.1
34.1
40.4
36.7
36.4
32.5
31.3
32.9
82.6
33.9
29.8
S3.9
35.6
35.7
34.3
32.9
32.2
35.4
32.4
38.3
33.7
35.4
30.2
28.3
31.3
49.2
46.2
63.9
38.3
46.4
52.8
71.1
51.0
54.8
44.8
41.6
47.0
44.5
52.7
53.9
59.4
55.4
48.9
46.4
63.2
,.38.3
46.6
53.8
73.1
51.6
55.5
44.6
41.6
47.0
43.8
52.9
53.1
58.6
54.8
48.2
46.8
63.2
39.1
47.3
54.6
70.1
51.5
55.3
43.9
41.6
47.5
44.4
53.4
50.8
58.2
52.1
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products..........................................
Fabrics.....................................................................
Carpets and rugs.............................................
Cotton goods....................................................
Cotton small wares.........................................
Dyeing and finishing textiles........................
Hats, fur-felt....................................................
Knit goods.......................................................
Hosiery......................................................
Knitted outerwear..................................
Knitted underwear.................................
Knitted cloth...........................................
Silk and rayon good?......................................
Woolen and worsted goods...........................
Wearing apparel.....................................................
Clothing, men’s...............................................
Clothing, women’s..........................................
See footnotes at end of table.
T able 5.— Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries— Continued
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100, and are adjusted to 1935 Census of Manufactures. N ot comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to August 3938.
Comparable series available upon request]
Employment index
Industry
Nondurable goods—Continued
Textiles and their products—Continued.
Wearing apparel—Continued.
Corsets and allied garments..........................
M en’s furnishings...........................................
M illinery..........................................................
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......................................................
Printing and publishing:
Book and jo b ......... ........................................
Newspapers and periodicals..........................
'Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining........................................................................
Petroleum refining.................................................
Other than petroleum refining.............................
Chemicals.........................................................
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal..................
Druggists* preparations.................................
Explosives.........................................................
Pay-roll index
Average weekly
earnings
Average hours worked
per week
Sep
tember
1938
Au
gust
1938
July
1938
Sep
tember
1938
Au
gust
1938
July
1938
Sep
tember
1938
A u
gust
1938
July
1938
97.3
138.1
79.3
117.8
92.2
93.8
78.3
142.7
145.6
250.3
103.7
272.0
87.9
77.4
83.4
95.5
100.2
92.7
68.3
62.6
66.8
104.3
98.8
104.0
94.7
127.2
68.2
117.3
92.6
91.6
77.0
138.3
144.5
260.0
110.1
251.2
71.6
78.1
93.1
94.2
74.7
90.1
64.3
60.4
64.8
102.7
94.8
102.8
93.2
120.5
49.9
107. 5
89.3
91.4
73.9
128.6
115.0
259.6
110.9
J78. 6
67.5
77.9
91.7
91.7
53.2
88.1
61.5
59.8
61.7
101.5
92.4
101.6
96.1
124.9
91.6
97.4
73.9
70.9
78.5
136.7
143. 5
297.6
90.0
238.1
90.9
81.4
70.1
108.7
97.3
84.8
61.0
71.8
59.6
101.1
105.4
101.6
85.8
109. 5
59.6
93.4
76.9
75.1
77.5
131.1
139.8
322.0
94.4
203.8
69.3
78.9
80.3
104.8
67.7
80.1
59.0
66.1
58.0
98.0
97.3
101.9
82.5
94.0
36.4
77.8
69.4
67.0
72.1
128.5
142.8
322.8
95.9
157.2
63.1
79.4
80.6
107.9
53.1
81.3
57.1
68.8
55.6
95.9
93.0
96.9
$16.54
14.17
28.29
12. 79
18. 98
17.87
24. 21
23.43
25.86
33.12
22.76
15.83
19.22
27.72
28.19
28.66
25.00
24.59
10.96
17.97
16. 72
27.91
21.74
23.92
$15.27
13. 46
21.98
12.17
19.76
IS. 85
21.15
23.17
25.33
34.51
22.89
14. 67
18.03
26. 53
28.92
27.93
23.33
23.90
16.89
17.17
16.82
27.48
20.90
24.26
$14.92
12.17
18.41
11.14
13.51
17.48
23.44
24. 53
25.79
34. 73
23.0.1
16.06
17.47
27.06
28.69
28.63
25. 66
24.82
17.18
18.07
16.93
27.10
20.42
23. 37
36.2
34.9
40.1
35.0
36.8
36.3
38.7
41.3
42.8
39.2
46.9
38.3
42.1
46.1
46.0
41.9
41.3
40.3
37.1
35.5
37.3
38.0
40.8
39.1
33.3
33.8
34.3
33.9
38.4
38.4
38.7
39.7
41.6
40.8
47.7
35.1
37.0
44.7
48.3
40.6
36.2
38.8
36.7
34.0
37.0
37.7
38.9
39.4
98.9
105.1
99.0
102.5
97.7
102.1
88.2
108.4
86.2
101.1
85.0
101.1
29. 68
37.26
29.01
36.25
28.96
36.39
37.5
36.2
113.0
121.0
111.1
112.5
113.5
110.0
84.9
108.1
121.9
104.8
110.3
68.4
108.2
81.9
105.0
121.8
101.0
107.8
59.3
107.1
80.5
118.9
134.6
114.1
121.4
95.1
120.6
93.1
116.9
138.1
110.4
121.0
57.0
117.2
93.1
111.1
135.3
103. 7
114.5
51.2
111.3
89.4
28.35
34.58
25.67
29.90
12.93
23.44
30.16
29.02
35.25
26.16
30.39
12.83
24.48
31.26
28.48
34.60
25.54
29.40
13.31
23.46
30.52
38.3
35.3
39.5
38.3
50.8
39.4
37.7
Sep
tember
1938
A u
gust
1938
Average hourly
earnings
Sep
tember
1938
A u
gust
1938
July
1938
31.9
32.2
30.9
30.9
36.0
35.8
37.4
41.0
42.3
41.2
47.9
38.2
35.4
45.4
48.1
41.6
36.6
41.7
37.2
35.5
37.4
37.0
37.6
37.8
Cents
45.7
35.7
69.0
36.7
52.4
50.1
62.9
57.6
61.0
85.4
48.3
42.5
46.2
59. .9
60.7
68.6
61.7
61.0
45.8
50.7
45.2
76.5
53.8
61.3
Cents
46.0
36.0
62.3
36.4
51.6
49.3
62.7
58.6
61. 5
85.2
47.8
42.9
49.0
58.9
59.8
68.9
64.6
61.6
46.2
50.7
45.9
76.0
54.2
61.7
Cents
46.7
35.0
60.7
37.4
51.5
49.2
62.8
59.9
61.2
85.1
47.6
42.9
49.6
59.3
59.4
69.1
71.7
59.9
46.0
51.1
45.6
76.7
54.7
61.9
37.1
36.1
36.9
35.9
80.0
98.8
79.3
97.1
80.0
97.8
38.1
36.0
39.0
38.8
46.8
39.3
38.6
36.9
35.2
37.7
37.3
48.3
37.5
36.7
74.4
98.4
65.3
78.1
25.3
58.7
80.1
76.3
98.6
67.2
78.5
26.8
58.9
80.9
77.3
98.8
68.2
78.7
26.7
60.9
83.2
July
1938
Fertilizers.........................................................
Paints and varnishes......................................
Rayon and allied products............................
Soap...................................................................
Rubber products............................................................
R uboer boots and shoes........................................
Rubber tires and inner tubes...............................
Rubber goods, other.............................................
82.1
112.5
315.2
92.6
75.9
58.0
61.9
121.0
68.9
110.6
293.9
90.7
72.5
54.1
60.6
113.2
64.0
110.8
270.5
87.6
68.7
42.3
60.7
106.6
77.4
114.5
308.2
94.6
76.7
57.7
67.3
116.6
65.4
111.2
289.0
91.2
69.5
50.9
60.6
107. 7
63.1
111.0
249.5
87.1
64.1
36.7
60.0
95.0
17. 58
27.70
24.02
29. 10
26.91
22 79
31 27
22. 73
17.70
27. 39
24.16
28.64
25.39
21.54
28. 73
22. 34
18.55
27. 38
22. 68
28.32
24.84
19.80
28.43
20.81
38.3
39.7
37.7
39.7
35.9
37.7
33.0
38.5
37.3
39.2
37.8
39.0
33.9
35.8
30.3
37.7
38.0
38.8
35.1
38.6
32.3
33.3
30.0
35.3
45.9
09.9
63.8
73.5
75.8
60.5
94.6
59.4
47.5
70.0
63.9
73 5
76.0
60.2
94.1
59.7
48.7
70.7
64.5
73.6
77.4
59.7
94.5
59.9
22.1
25.2
40.0
40.6
40.2
18.6
23.6
39.5
41.2
40.5
14.4
21.3
3>. 1
39.2
39.8
Cents
91.1
88.6
66.4
53.5
83.8
Cents
90.5
88.8
67.7
53.7
82.9
Cents
91.6
88.3
66.7
54.2
84.2
NONMANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929= 100]
Coal mining:
Anthracite 2.............................................................
Bituminous 2...........................................................
Metalliferous mining....................................................
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining...........................
Crude-petroleum producing........................................
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph 3........... ........................
Electric light and power and manufactured
ga s3......................................................................
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance 3........- ............................................
Trade:
W holesale3..............................................................
R eta il3....................................................................
General merchandising3................................
Other than general merchandising3............
Hotels (year-round) 2 3 4...............................................
Laundries 2.....................................................................
Dyeing and cleaning2...................................................
Brokerage 35...................................................................
Insurance 35.......... - .......................................................
Building construction6................................................
46.4
83.5
55.8
44.6
71.5
37.6
80.1
51.4
44.6
72.4
44.6
78.5
49.7
44.1
72.3
29.4
71.9
46.7
38.4
66.5
74.9
74.8
74.9
92.6
92.5
92.7
92.3
98.4
69.3
69.5
70.1
68.4
88.5
85.0
98.4
81.5
91.8
96.5
107.7
- 1 .4
+ .6
-.4
87.6
80.0
86.4
78.3
90.4
97.5
105.0
+ 1.0
+ (')
+ 2.6
86.8
81.1
87.9
79.3
90.7
97.8
108.6
+ 2.4
+. 6
+ 1.3
74.3
69.7
87.1
66.1
78.7
81.4
81.7
- 1 .5
-.8
-.5
20.2
53.8
38.0
37.0
66.7
$20. 64
23.03
26.44
21.68
34.39
$17.35
21.38
26.62
22.17
34.11
$14. 76
19.16
24. 01
21.38
33.94
91.3
90.9
31.05
30. 25
30.19
39.1
38.6
38.4
81.1
81.3
82.7
98.9
98.3
33.32
33. 54
33. 40
39.8
40.4
39.4
83.6
83.4
84.9
69.5
69.0
32.27
32. 73
32.19
44.8
45.3
44.5
71.3
71.4
71.3
73.7
66.8
78.8
64.3
77.4
83.1
74.3
+ .4
- 2 .5
+ 3 .6
73.6
68. 1
80.4
65.6
77.4
83.0
77.5
+ 3.1
+ 1.0
+ 1 .8
29.18
20.82
17. 56
23. 70
14. 60
17.07
20.82
34. 72
35.08
29. 66
29.35
21.38
18.12
23.98
14.64
17. 36
19.47
34.71
35.70
29. 69
29.71
21.72
18. 33
24.41
14. 65
17.24
19.85
34. 53
35. 63
29. 52
42.1
42.3
38.6
43.4
46.4
41.9
43.4
(6)
(6)
32.9
42.3
42.1
42.7 . 42.6
38.7
39.0
43.8
43.6
47.1
46.7
42.5
42.3
42.0
42.0
(6)
(6)
(6)
(6)
32.9
33.0
69.7
53.2
48.1
54.8
31.0
41.3
48.4
(6)
(8)
90.3
69.9
54.6
49.8
56.0
30.7
41.1
46.8
(6)
(6)
90.3
70.6
55.9
49.8
57.7
31.2
41.1
47.6
(6)
(6)
89.5
20.0
64.2
43.7
39.2
66.8
1 Average weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data supplied
b y a smaller number of establishments, as all reporting firms do not furnish man-hours. The figures are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the
size and composition of the reporting sample. Hours and earnings for all manufacturing industries no;v relate to 87 industries instead of 89 which were covered in the July and prior
issues of the pamphlet. The two industries excluded are electric- and steam-railroad repair shops. The averages for the durable goods group have also been affected by this exclu
sion. See text in section headed, “ Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings ”
2 Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented in January 1938 issue of this publication.
3 Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not 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.
* Indexes of employment and pay rolls are not available; percentage changes from preceding month substituted.
8 Not available.
* Less than Ho of 1 percent.
18
INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are given in table 6 for all
manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and nondurablegoods groups of manufacturing industries, and for 13 nonmanufac
turing industries, including 2 subgroups under retail trade, by months,
from September 1937 to September 1938, inclusive. The accom
panying chart indicates the trend of factory employment and pay
rolls from January 1919 to September 1938.
The indexes of factory employment and pay rolls are computed
from returns supplied by representative manufacturing establishments
in 87 manufacturing industries and relate to wage earners only.
Formerly 89 manufacturing industries were covered in the Bureau’s
monthly survey, but two of these—electric and steam railroad repair
shops—are now excluded. The base used in computing the indexes
is the 3-year average 1923-25 as 100. In September 1938 reports
were received from 25,037 manufacturing establishments employing
4,029,026 workers, whose weekly earnings were $93,948,394. The
employment reports received from these establishments cover more
than 55 percent of the total wage earners in all manufacturing in
dustries of the country and more than 65 percent of the wage earners
in the 87 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,
dyeing and cleaning, and building construction cover wage earners
19
only, but the figures for public utilities, trade, hotels, brokerage, and
insurance relate to all employees, except corporation officers, execu
tives, and other employees whose duties are mainly supervisory. For
crude-petroleum producing they cover wage earners and clerical field
force.
Data for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries are
based on reports of the number of employees and amount of pay rolls
for the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
T a b l e 6. — Indexes
o f Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Manufacturing1 and Non
manufacturing 2 Industries, September 1937 to September 1938, Inclusive
Employment
Industry
1937
1938
Avg. Sept.
Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept.
1937
Manufacturing
All industries........................ 105.8 109.0 107.2 101.1 94.5 87.8 88.2 87.7 85.7 83.4 81.6 81.9 85.7 88.8
Durable goods* ............ 104.0 106.3 106.6 100.8 91.7 81.7 80.1 79.3 77.0 75.0 72.4 70.3 71.7 75.3
Nondurable goods4___ 107.6 111.5 107.8 101.4 97.2 93.7 95.9 95.8 94.0 91.5 90.3 92.9 99.0 101.6
Nonmanufacturing
Anthracite mining..............
Bituminous-coal mining...
Metalliferous mining..........
Quarrying and nonmetallic
mining................................
Crude-petroleum produc
ing.......................................
Telephone and telegraph..
Electric light and power,
and manufactured gas...
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance *...................
Wholesale trade...................
Retail trade..........................
General merchandis
ing...............................
Other than general
merchandising...........
60.2 58.1 61.5 60.9 61.4 59.6 60.0 59.3 57.0 52.8 50.0 44.6 37.6 46.4
99.3 99.4 102.4 101.4 99.4 96.9 95.5 93.2 85.8 82.2 80.2 78.5 80.1 83.5
76.8 84.1 82.9 75.4 70.4 67.4 63.6 62.3 61.6 58.8 56.0 49.7 51.4 55.8
51.4 54.7 53.3 49.9 43.9 38.2 37.8 38.9 41.7 43.7 43.6 44.1 44.6 44.5
76.5 78.2 77.5 77.2 76.5 75.3 74.2 73.6 73.8 73.2 72.8 72.3 72.4 71.7
77.8 79.8 79.6 78.9 78.0 77.8 75.7 74.9 74.8 75.0 74.8 74.9 74.8 74.8
95.6 98.6 98.5 97.3 96.1 93.8 92.6 92.0 91.8 91.7 92.2 92.8 92.7 92.5
73.1 73.7 73.4 73.2 72.8 72.3 71.2 70.8 71.1 70.6 70.4 70.1 69.5 69.6
92.0 93.0 94.0 93.5 93.3 91.0 90.4 S9.1 88.5 87.3 87.2 86.8 87.6 88.4
89.8 90.7 92.1 91.7 100.4 84.1 82.4 83.0 88.2 83.8 83.6 81.1 80.0 85.0
*.0-1.3 103.7 108.1 109.8 145.9 91.5 88.8 90.5 101.0 92.4 91.9 87.9 86.4 98.4
85.9 87.3 87.9 86.9 88.5 82.1 80.7 81.0 84.9 81.5 81.4 79.3 78.3 81.5
Year-round hotels............... 94.9 95.7 96.9 96.6 94.9 94.3 94.5 93.4 93.5 93.7 92.2 90.7 90.4 91.8
Laundries............................. 0 1 6 104.1 99.9 97.8 97.0 96.8 95.7 94.8 95.4 96.2 96.6 97.8 97.5 96.5
Dyeing and cleaning........... 107.5 112.8 110.5 103.5 99.2 96.8 95.6 98.5 111.8 109.9 110.8 108.6 105.0 107.7
Pay rolls
Manufacturing
All industries........................ 102.0 104.4 104.5 92.9 84.2 75.0 76.9 77.1 74.6 72.9 70.8 70.6 76.8 81.0
Durable goods*............ 103.5 10578 108.2 94.8 8i7o 67A
67.4 65^6 64.2 ~61.7 58.6 63.7 68.7
Nondurable goods4 . . . 100.4 102.9 100.3 90.8 87.7 84.0 87.8 87.9 84.7 82.6 80.9 84.1 91.5 94.9
i 3-year average, 1923-25=100—adjusted to 1935 Census of Manufactures. Comparable indexes for earlier
months are in August issue of pamphlet and November issue of Monthly Labor Review.
* 12-month average for 1929=100. Comparable indexes are in November 1934 and subsequent issues of
Employment and Pay Rolls, or in February 1935 and subsequent issues of Monthly Labor Review, except
for anthracite and bituminous-coal mining, year-round hotels, laundries, and dyeing and cleaning. Indexes
for these industries from January 1929 forward have been adjusted to the 1935 census and are presented in
the January 1938 and subsequent issues of Employment and Pay Rolls.
* Includes: Iron and steel, machinery, transportation equipment, railroad repair shops, nonferrous
metals, lumber and allied products, and stone, clay, and glass products.
4 Includes: Textiles and their products, leather and its manufactures, food and kindred products, tobacco
manufactures, paper and printing, chemicals and allied products, products of petroleum and coal, rubber
products, and a number of miscellaneous industries not included in other groups.
20
T able 6.— Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, September 1937 to September 1938, Inclusive— Continued
Pay rolls
Industry
1937
1938
Avg.
Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. M ay June July Aug. Sept.
1937
Nonmanufacturing
Anthracite mining...............
Bituminous-coal m in in g...
Metalliferous mining..........
Quarrying and nonmetal
lic m ining..........................
Crude-petroleum produc
ing............. ........................
Telephone nnd telegraph...
Electric light and power,
and manufactured g a s ...
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance 5...................
46.9 34.2 55.4 49.0 51.3 46.5 46.1 47.3 39.0 38.3 49.7 20.2 20.1 29.4
88.5 90.9 100.7 91.1 95.1 70.4 74.0 68.4 56.3 55.3 57.0 56.8 64.2 71.9
74.0 82.2 81.7 71.6 65.1 59.1 55.8 56.3 53.3 51.2 46.1 38.0 43.7 46.7
Wholesale trade...................
Retail trade........................
General merchandis
ing------------- ------------Other than general
merchandising...........
76.6 78.3 79.3 78.3 77.8 75.4 75.3 74.7 74.6 75.1 73.8 73.6 73.7 74.2
73.1 74.4 75.9 75.3 80.6 70.1 68.4 68.6 72.2 70.0 69.5 68.1 66.8 69.7
92.5 92.4 96.2 97.1 123.3 84.6 81.5 82.2 89.4 84.4 84.3 80.4 78.8 87.1
Year-round hotels...............
Laundries............................
Dyeing and cleaning...........
80.6 82.4 84.1 84.3 82.6 81.6 83.6 80.9 80.5 80.5 79.6 77.4 77.4 78.8
83.0 86.4 83.4 81.1 81.1 80.1 79.1 78.6 80.6 80.9 81.8 83.0 83.1 81.4
77.6 85.7 83.6 73.7 68.6 65.5 65.2 68.2 87.2 80.7 83.3 77.5 74.3 81.7
45.4 50.1 49.3 41.7 33.4 27.7 28.6 30.2 33.9 38.3 37.3 37.0 39.2 38.2
68.2 71.2 69.9 70.2 69.8 68.2 69.6 68.0 68.0 66.7 67.6 66.7 66.8 66.4
89.6 92.3 94.9 91.4 94.7 93.7 89.9 92.6 91.6 91.3 90.9 90.9 91.3 92.6
99.6 104.0 105.3 103.8 102.4 98.9 98.5 98.6 97.6 97.4 98.6 98.3 98.9 98.4
70.6 71.6 71.4 71.8 71.9 70.6 70.2 69.9 70.0 71.2 69.7 69.0 69.5 68.6
69.1 70.7 71.7 70.8 71.8 67.1 65.7 65.8 68.6 67.0 66.4 65.6 64.3 66.1
« N ot including electric-railroad car building and repairing.
TREND OF INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT, BY STATES
A comparison of employment and pay rolls, by States and geographic
divisions, in August and September 1938, is shown in table 7 for all
groups combined, and for all manufacturing industries combined based
on data supplied by reporting establishments. The percentage
changes shown, unless otherwise noted, are unweighted—that is, the
industries included in the manufacturing group and in the grand total
have not been weighted according to their relative importance.
The totals for all manufacturing industries combined include figures
for miscellaneous manufacturing industries in addition to the 87
manufacturing industries presented in table 4. The totals for all
groups combined include all manufacturing industries, each of the
nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 4 (except building
construction), and seasonal hotels.
Similar comparisons showing only percentage changes are available
in mimeographed form for “ all groups combined,” for “ all manufac
turing,” for anthracite mining, bituminous-coal mining, metalliferous
mining, quarrying and nonmetallic mining, crude-petroleum produc
ing, public utilities, wholesale trade, retail trade, hotels, laundries,
dyeing and cleaning, brokerage and insurance.
21
T able 7.— Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
August and September 1938, by Geographic Divisions and by States
[Figures in italics are not com piled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
by cooperating State organizations]
Total—all groups
Geographic division
and State
N um
ber of
establishments
Per
Per
cent Amount cent N um
age
of pay
ber of
age
change roll (1 change
es?oiT
week)
from
tabfrom
Sep
Septem
A u
Au
lishtember
ber 1938 gust ments
gust
1938
1938
1938
N um
ber on
Per
Per
N um
cent Amount cent
ber on
age
of
pay
age
pay
change roll (1 change
roll
from
week)
from
Sep
Septem
A u
A u
tember
gust
ber 1938 gust
1938
1938
1938
839,746
56,160
Dollars
+ 2.4 19,013,389
- 1 .1 1.130,181
+ 3 .5
-.6
3,616
302
568,673
44,859
Dollars
+ 2 .5 12,183,120
839,082
-.5
+ 4 .3
-.7
41,296
17,142
452,379
88,233
184,536
+ .7
836,7C3
37,', 40
-1 .2
+ 2.5 10,552,176
+ 6 .4 1,826, 508
+ 1 .9 4,325,293
+ 1 .5
-.2
+ 3.1
+ 6 .9
+ 4 .8
213
155
1,792
423
731
34,310
9,889
262, 678
69,029
147,908
682.661
+ .8
20fi, SOI
- 2 .5
+ 2 .6 5,783,884
+ 7 .6 1,338,999
+ 1 .8 3,331,613
+ 1 .1
- 2 .4
+ 4. 0
+ 8 .0
+ 5 .9
31,602 1,989,250
19.668 911,391
339,468
4 .40‘
7,532 738,391
+4.1 50,974,052
+4. 3 25,138,319
+ 2.8 8,596,07*
+ 4 .3 17,239,657
+ 4 .9 6,326 1,137,055 + 3 .2
+ 4 .7 2 2 ,5C3 422,686 + 5 .0
+ 3 .9 1,509 262, 771 + 1 .7
+ 5.6 2,311, 451,598 3 + 2.8
N ew England........... 13,815
906
M aine................
New
H am p
shire...............
665
512
Verm ont...........
Massachusetts i 8,051
1,222
Rhode Island. .
Connecticut___
2,459
Middle Atlantic ..
New Y o r k ........
New .lersey___
Pennsylvania..
Manufacturing
28,203,953 + 4 .8
11, 47:), 847 + 7 .6
6.502, 64C + 2 .9
10,221,157 3 + 3.4
East North Central.. 25,824 1,942.954 + 8 .3 50.350,488 + 7 .9 8, 552 1,376,033 + 7.3 36,027,076 + 9 .6
Ohio................... 7,653 525.175 + 4.1 13,154,510 + 6 .0 2,496 375,417 + 4 .0 9,526,994 + 7 .1
2,947 238,934 + 8 .5 0, 6G2, C6h + 9.4
Indiana.............
1,054 186,240 + 9 .8 4,448,241 +11.7
Illinois________ <6,656 551,651 +2.1 14,153,552 + 2 .0 2,444 363, 596 + 2 .3 9,163,878 + 2 .4
4,181 399,954 +19.7 11, §87,31/ +23.4 1,0% 298,801 +23.6 9,260,538 +26.5
M ichigan_____
6 1,528 151,979 3 - 3.4 3,627,425 3 - 3 . 2
- . 3 5,453,045 - M
Wisconsin......... * 4,387 227,24C
10,810,277
3,151,134
1,499,639
3,868,076
137,911
207,271
662,332
1,283,914
+ .3
-.7
+ 1 .4
+■ 2
+ 2 .2
+. 8
+ 1 .0
3 +3
2, 580
632
407
843
53
34
144
467
211,323
48,133
36,253
89,414
665
2,003
10,265
24,590
849,906
15,019
127,283
+ 2 .5 16,159, 569
334,952
- 3 .3
+ 7 .7 2,934,818
+ 3 .6
-.5
+ .7
2,994
85
637
575,289 + 2 .2 9,991,450 + 3 .2
10,892 - 5 .3
236,513
4
86,639 3 + 2.1 1,941,835 3 + 1 .9
1,137
2,122
1,273
39, ero
116, 703
135,907
+ 3 .2 1,051,908
+ 4 .8 2,185,643
+ 3 .0 3, 285,438
+ 3 .9
+ 4 .2
+ 6 .9
39
465
252
3,303
80,311
50,615
+ 3 .9
113,800
+ 5.1 1,509,411
+ 4 .9 1,181,716
+ 6 .0
+ 4 .7
+ 5 .9
1,632
809
1,543
1,074
175,469
85,311
113,199
41,395
+ 1 .3 2,674,459
+ 2 .4 1,194,728
+ 2 .2 1,751,943
+ 3 .7
745,680
+ 3 .8
+ 1 .9
+ 3 .7
+ 1 .9
690
238
387
201
158,633
76,998
86,6(53
21,215
+ 1.3 2,407,285
+ 2 .2 1,044,811
+ 1 .9 1,212,566
+ 2 .2
343,513
+ 4.1
+ 1.6
+ 4 .7
+ 1 .3
4,880
1,409
1,378
1,493
600
286,443
79,645
100, 750
86,302
19, 746
+ 3 .3 5,382, 581
+ 2 .6 1, 735,769
+ 2.4 1,824,0:3
+ 4 .3 1,52‘>, 436
+ 7 .2
300,353
+ 6 .2
+ 8 .8
+ 3 .8
+ 6 .8
+ 4.1
1,065
291
375
298
101
171,920
32,182
72,275
55,071
12,392
+ 2 .9 3,072,605 + 6 .9
+ 2 .2
709,864 +16.3
+ 2.1 1,288,352 + 3 .7
901,208 + 5.1
+3.1
+ 9 .1
173,181 + 5 .6
West North Central. 12,662
Minnesota........ * 2,717
Iowa................... 2,103
M issouri............ 3,041
North D akota..
583
South Dakota—
474
N ebraska.......... 1,442
Kansas............... 8 2,302
456,313 + 1 .9
123,173
+. 8
65,881 + 2 .9
167,672 + 2 .4
5,871
+3. 4
8, ?50 + 2 .3
30,094 +3.1
55,372 • - 1 2
South Atlantic..........
Delaware..........
M aryland.........
District of C o
lum bia..
Virginia.............
West Virginia..
North
Caro
lina.................
South Carolina.
Georgia..............
Florida..............
11,430
235
1,605
East South Central. .
Kentucky.........
Tennessee.........
Alabama...........
Mississippi.......
- . 3 5,015,244
- 2 . 6 1,211,929
872,852
+ 2 .6
- . 9 1,982,115
-4 .9
18,976
51,S 81
+. 4
+ 4 .0
245,053
+ .7
633,038
- 1 .2
-3 .2
+ 2.4
-2 .7
-.2
+ 3 .4
+ 1 .2
+ 1 .5
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.
* Weighted percentage change.
* Includes automobile and miscellaneous services, restaurants, and building and contracting.
« Includes construction but not public works.
* Does not include logging.
7 Includes banks, real estate, pipe-line transportation, trucking and transfer, railroads (other than repair
shops), motor transportation (other than operation and maintenance), water transportation, hospitals,
clinics, personal, business, mechanical repair, and miscellaneous services, and building construction.
8 Includes financial institutions, miscellaneous services, and restaurants.
8 Weighted percentage change including hired farm labor.
22
T able 7.— Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
August and September 1938, by Geographic Divisions and by States— Continued
Manufacturing
Total—all groups
Per
Per
N um
cent Amount cent N um
ber on
ber of
age
of pay
age
pay
change roll (1 change esroll
from
week)
from
tabSep
Septem
lishA u
A u
tember
gust
ments
gust
ber
1938
1938
1938
1938
Geographic division
and State
N um
ber of
establishments
West South Central..
Arkansas...........
Louisiana..........
Oklahoma.........
Texas.................
5,949
1,121
1,146
1,514
2,168
228,283
32,869
59,085
44,808
91,521
Mountain..................
M ontana...........
Idaho.................
W yom ing..........
Colorado...........
N ew M e x ic o ...
Arizona.............
Utah..................
Nevada.............
4, 575
709
548
350
1,353
313
479
622
201
Pacific...................... 10, 713
3,054
Washington___
1,481
Oregon..............
California.......... 12 6.178
Dollars
+ 3.1 5,027,320
+5.1
571,137
+ 5 .2 1,172,445
+ 1 .3 1,099,689
+ 1 .9 2,184,049
Per
Per
N um
cent Amount cent
ber on
of pay
age
age
pay
change roll (1 change
roll
week)
from
from
Sep
Septem
A u
A u
tember
ber 1938 gust
gust
1938
1938
1938
Dollars
112,645 + 3 .6 2,439, 575
20,491 + 5 .8
346,110
32,800 + 8 .7
611,869
11,306
+. 9
273, 510
48,048 + 0 0
1,208,086
+ 1 .7
+ 4 .0
+ 4 .0
+ .7
-r.4
1,359
307
258
145
649
131, 788 + 3 .0 3,202,796
16,113 + 3 .5
453,329
11,131 + 2 .3
268,1HO
9,324 + 2 .0
26?, 023
45,839 + 3.1 1,067, 505
7,134 + 1. 6
145,085
14,984 + 10.5
385,446
525,725
23,910
+• 2
3,353 - 2 .1
95,563
+ 2 .9
+ 2 .3
+ 1.1
+ 4 .9
+ 2 .0
+• 2
+ 7 .3
+ 3 .7
-3 . 2
583
80
63
45
204
30
41
102
18
38,811
4,354
3,843
1,751
15,144
936
2,914
9,150
719
487,336
100,390
56,647
330,299
+ 1 .2
+ 2 .5
+ 3 .9
+•4
2,615
551
314
1,750
262,691
53, 592
33,857
175,542
+ 2 .8 13,353,849
+ 5 .7 2,554,428
+ 5 .7 1,445,448
+ 1 .4 9,353,973
- 1 .4
-5 .6
+ 1 .7
- 5 .1
+ 1.1
- 3 .8
+• 7
-4 .2
-3 .9
+ 1 .7
+ 6.1
+ 5 .4
+ .8
-1 .0
919,033
116,978
95,035
53,610
359,542
16,615
73,948
182,296
21,009
-3 .0
-5 .4
+ .6
-9 .4
-4 .5
- 9 .1
+ 2 .8
+ .1
+ .5
+ 4 .2 6, 871, 305
+ 8 .3 1,3‘, 3 ,897
854,698
+ 8. 5
+ 2 .3 4,692,710
+ 2 .6
+ 2 .3
+ 5 .4
+ 2 .2
Includes automobile dealers and garages, and sand, gravel, and building stone.
11 Less than Mo of 1 percent.
12Includes banks, insurance, and office employm ent.
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT IN PRINCIPAL
METROPOLITAN AREAS
A comparison of employment and pay rolls in August and Septem
ber 1938 is made in table 8 for 13 metropolitan areas which had a
population of 500,000 or over in 1930. Cities within these areas, but
having a population of 100,000 or over, are not included. Data
concerning them are presented in a supplementary tabulation which
is available on request.
Footnotes to the table indicate which cities are excluded. The
figures represent reports from cooperating establishments and cover
both full- and part-time workers in the manufacturing and nonmanu
facturing industries presented in table 4, 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, are incorporated in the
supplementary tabulation mentioned above. This supplementary
tabulation covers these 13 metropolitan areas as well as other metro
politan areas and cities having a population of 100,000 or more accord
ing to the 1930 census of population.
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T
able
8 . — Comparison
of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
August and September 1938, by Principal Metropolitan Areas
Percentage
Number
change
on pay roll, from
A u
September
gust
14,303
595,817
+ 4 .4
4, 507
414, 53S
+ 2.1
2,087
181,878
+ 2 .5
1, 78*5
230, 261
+24. 9
150,420
+ 3 .0
3,044
Number
of estab
lishments
Metropolitan area
New York, X . Y .1.................... ...................
Chicago. 111.2..................................................
Philadelphia, Pa.3........................ ...............
Detroit, M ich ................................................
Los Angeles, Calif.4......... ...........................
Amount of
pay roll (1
week) Sep
tember
$16,110,513
11,285, 256
4,819,927
7, 508, 348
4,305,343
Percentage
change
from A u
gust
+ 5 .2
+ 1 .9
+ 3 .3
+26.1
+ 2 .3
Cleveland, Ohio............................................
St. Louis, M o . . ........................................
Baltimore, M d ............. ...............................
Boston, Mass.5.............................................
Pittsburgh, Pa__......................................
1, 774
1, 532
1,152
1, 562
1,173
117, 536
119,744
95,512
102. 670
158, 749
+ 4 .7
+ .7
+ 1.5
+ .7
+ 2 .6
3,052, 760
2, 735,167
2, 209,145
2,921,472
3,806,069
+ 7 .4
-2 .8
+ 1.0
+ 4 .9
+ 1 .4
San Francisco, Calif.6...................................
Buffalo, N. Y ................................................
Milwaukee, W is_______________________
1, 700
882
1,169
81,004
68, 548
92. 4ii0
- 1 .2
+ 5 .7
+ 2 .2
2,336, 232
1,920,976
2. 360,832
-3 .4
+7.1
-1 .9
1 Does not include Elizabeth, Jersey C ity, Newark, or Paterson, N. J., nor Yonkers, N. Y .
* Does not include Gary, Ind.
3 Does not include Camden, N. J.
4 Does not include Long Beach, Calif.
s Figures relate to C ity of Boston only.
e Does not include Oakland, Calif.
Public Employment
Employment created by the Federal Government includes employ
ment in the regular agencies of the Government, employment on the
various construction programs wholly or partially financed by Federal
funds, and employment on relief-work projects.
EXECUTIVE SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Statistics of employment and pay rolls for the executive service of
the Federal Government in August and September 1938 are given in
table 9.
T a b l e 9 . —Employment
and Pay Rolls for the Executive Service of the U. S. Govern
ment, August and September 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Item
Entire service:
T otal____
Regular appropriation.......................
Emergency appropriation................
Force-account (regular and emer
gency)...............................................
Inside the District of Columbia:
T o ta l......................... ...........
Regular appropriation........................
Emergency appropriation_________
Force-account (regular and emer
gency)...............................................
Outside the District of Columbia:
T otal..........................................
Regular appropriation.......................
Emergency appropriation................
Force-account (regular and emer
gency) __________________________
September
Per
centage
Auchange
g u s t2
Pay rolls
September
A u gu st2
$132,221,162
870,031
872,521
- 0 .3
718,708
60,321
725,059
64, 735
-.9
+ 2 .4
112,906,844
8,895, 663
113,522,828
8,749,999
-.5
+ 1 .7
85,002
82, 727
+2.8
10,062,883
9,948,335
+ 1. 2
$131,8
118,024
116,972
+ .9
20,970,339
20,927,004
+ .2
100,913
12,367
100,288
12,188
+ .6
+ 1 .5
18,280,547
1,932,158
18,251,942
1,902,096
++•1.62
4,744
4.496
+ 5 .5
757,634
772,966
752,007
755,549
- .5
110,895,051
111,294,158
-.4
617, 795
53,954
624,771
52,547
- 1 .1
+ 2 .7
94,626,297
6,963, 505
95, 270,886
6,847,903
-.7
+ 1 .7
80.258
78.231
+2.6
9.305.249
9 175.3*59
+ 1. 4
* Data include number of employees receiving pay during the last pay period of the month.
» Revised.
Per
centage
change
-
2.0
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CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY THE PUBLIC WORKS
ADMINISTRATION
Details concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
during September on construction projects financed by Public Works
Administration funds are given in table 10, by type of project.
T a b le
1 0 . —Employment
and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, September 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
Wage e£irners
T yp e of project
Maximum W eekly
number
average
em ployed2
M onthly
pay-roll
disburse
ments
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Federal projects financed from National Industrial Recovery Act funds
All projects.........................................
3 9, 779
9,188
$782,926
1,229,077
$0,637
$652,337
Building construction......................
Naval vessels.....................................
Public roads 4....................................
Reclamation......................................
River, harbor, and flood co n tr o l..
Water and sewerage.........................
Miscellaneous....................................
739
462
604
451
5,623
1,457
928
124
1
79,6C5
67, 544
363,464
179,712
82,043
10,408
150
73,751
75,935
696,390
242,434
127,359
12,968
240
1.079
.889
.522
.741
.644
.803
.625
67, 291
17,716
356,000
118, 562
85,160
6,438
1,170
(•)
1,628
1,151
175
1
Federal projects financed from Public Works Administration Appropri
ation Act 1938 funds
All projects.........................................
10,207
8,470
$769,695
1,018,180
$0.756
$2,384,667
Building construction......................
Electrification...................................
River, harbor, and flood co n tr o l..
Ship construction.............................
Streets and roads..............................
Water and sewerage.........................
Miscellaneous....................................
Professional, technical, and clerical.
7,178
154
71
97
116
13
1,883
695
5,929
150
58
73
92
13
1,553
602
525,199
6,205
5,490
5,428
6,372
587
139,714
80,700
662,253
6,260
7, 239
7, 568
9,662
754
213,410
111,034
.793
.991
.758
.717
.659
.779
.655
.727
1,748,502
195,819
6,613
4,341
109,956
5,862
302,591
10,983
Non-Federal projects financed from National Industrial Recovery Act
funds
All projects e__...................................
9,263
7,867
$931,306
841,633
$1.107
$1,617,715
Building construction •...................
Railroad construction......................
Streets and roads..............................
Water and sewerage.........................
Miscellaneous....................................
4,413
177
719
2,732
1,222
3,808
169
556
2,252
1,082
527,414
4,941
34,973
263,361
100,617
388,001
8,680
49,727
252,074
143,151
1.359
.569
.703
1.045
.703
627,902
0
63,849
387,495
538,469
Projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation Act 1935,
1936, and 1937 funds?
All projects •......................................
80,860
67,681
$7,068,139
8,277,627
$0.854
$12,868,259
Building construction 8...................
Electrification........ ..........................
Heavy engineering...........................
Reclamation............................... .......
River, harbor, and flood control__
Streets and roads..............................
Water and sewerage.........................
Miscellaneous....................................
54,013
1,464
5,717
970
334
8,088
10,145
129
45,129
1,231
4,833
853
302
6,638
8,612
83
4,939,556
110,189
572,825
96,868
25,299
421,976
893,873
7, 553
5,375,847
152,954
668,291
120,431
38,063
791,297
1,119,413
11,331
.919
.720
.857
.804
.665
.533
.799
.667
8,624,278
528,712
1,132,175
170,025
53,769
790,918
1,235,240
333,142
* Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
* Maximum number em ployed during any 1 week of the month b y each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work.
* Includes weekly average for public roads.
* Under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
* N ot available; weekly average included in total for all projects.
* Includes data for workers engaged in construction of underground tunnel, who, because of the addi
tional risk involved, were paid at rates higher than those usually paid for building construction.
* These data are also included in separate tables covering projects financed b y The W orks Program.
* Includes a maximum of 1,332 and an average of 1,073 employees working on low-cost housing projects
financed from E . R . A . A. 1935 funds who were paid $129,191 for 128,196 man-hours of labor. Material
orders in the amount of $165,107 were placed for these projects. These data are also included in separate
tables covering projects financed from The W orks Program.
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T
able
10.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed From Public Works
Administration Funds, September 1938—Continued
Wage ofirners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disburse
ments
Number of
man-hours Average
earnings
worked
during
per hour
month
Value of
materia]
orders
placed
during
month
Non-Federal projects financed from Public Works Administration
Appropriation Act 1938 funds
A ll projects........................................
8,777
6,380
$427,614
557,409
$0,767
$2,353,869
Building construction......................
Heavy engineering...........................
River, harbor, and flood control..
Streets and roads..............................
Water and sewerage.........................
Miscellaneous....................................
4,889
227
76
2,189
1,366
30
3,527
193
60
1,611
964
25
229,861
34,787
4,178
100,183
58,073
532
293,813
24,291
4,436
150,100
84,163
600
.782
1.432
.942
.667
.690
.878
1,130,791
204,477
2,999
292.469
655.154
67,979
Construction projects financed by the Public Works Administra
tion 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.
Federal construction projects for which data are included in table
10 are financed by allotments made by the Public Works Administra
tion to the various agencies and departments of the Federal Govern
ment from funds provided under the National Industrial Recovery
Act. The major portion of the low-cost housing program now under
way, however, is financed by funds provided under the Emergency
Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. 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 Appropria
tion 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
26
the allotments have been made to the States and their political sub
divisions, but occasionally allotments have been made to commercial
firms. In financing projects for the States or their political sub
divisions 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 Appropria
tion 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-Federai project, as much as 45 percent of the total
cost may be furnished in the form of a grant. The remaining 55
percent or more of the cost is financed by the recipient. When
circumstances justify such action, the Public Works Administration
may provide the grantee with the additional funds by means of a
loan. Allotments to commercial enterprises are made only as loans.
All loans made by the Public Works Administration carry interest
charges and have a definite date of maturity. Collateral posted
with the Public Works Administration to secure loans may be offered
for sale to the public. In this way a revolving fund is provided
which enlarges the scope of the activities of the Public Works Ad
ministration.
Commercial loans have been made, for the most part, to railroads.
Railroad work financed by loans made by the Public Works Adminis
tration falls under three headings: First, construction work in the
form of electrification, the laying of rails and ties, repairs to buildings,
bridges, etc.; second, the building and repairing of locomotives and
passenger and freight cars in shops operated by the railroads; and
third, locomotive and passenger- and freight-car building in com
mercial shops.
THE WORKS PROGRAM
By authority of Public Resolution No. 11, Seventy-fourth Congress,
approved April 8, 1935, the President, in a series of Executive orders,
inaugurated a broad program of work to be carried out by 61 units
of the Federal Government. The Works Program was continued by
title II of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as
the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, and was further
continued by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937. The
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1938 extended this program
to June 30, 1939. Employment created by this program includes
employment on Federal projects and employment on projects operated
by the Works Progress Administration. Federal projects are those
conducted by Federal agencies which have received allotments from
The Works Program fund. Projects operated by the Works Progress
27
Administration are those projects conducted under the supervision of
the Works Progress Administration with the cooperation of States,
cities, or counties.
A record of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
projects financed by The Works Program in September is shown in
table 11, by type of project.
T
able
1 1 . —Employment
and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by The Works Program,
September 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
T yp e of project
Maximum W eekly
number
aver
employed
age
M onthly
pay-roll
disburse
ments
Number
c f manhours
worked
during
month
Aver
age
earn
ings
per
hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
Federal projects
$6,020,021
12,496,120
$0.482
$1,778,012
Building construction...............................
Electrification.............................................
Forestry 3....... ........ ...................................
Grade-crossing elimination 4....................
Hydroelectric power plants 4................. .
42,202
324
10,009
4,194
2,419
39,606
316
8,752
3, 219
2,022
2,182,229
19,645
460,644
219,844
76,390
4,123,707
48,430
1,028,453
360, 619
274,700
.529
.406
.448
.610
.278
413,619
3,384
45,932
286,412
18,426
Plant, crop, and livestock conservation3
Professional, technical, and clerical........
Public roads 4.............................................
Reclamation...................... ............ ............
River, harbor, and flood control............
14, 574
3, 061
2,859
29,623
2,493
13,098
3,553
2,155
28,428
2,125
744,079
232,877
131,951
1,636, 754
176,936
1,908,087
361,176
250,618
3,401,281
298,317
.390
.645
.527
.481
.593
65,123
17,081
180,413
374,196
147,895
Streets and roads.......................................
Water and sewerage..................................
Miscellaneous.............................................
2,885
790
1,485
2,584
680
1,221
60,678
14,404
63, 590
245,988
53,442
141,302
.247
.270
.450
67,773
13,880
143,878
A ll projects..................................................
* 117,518 107,759
P. ¥ . A. projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act funds o f 1935, 1936, and 1937 «
All projects..................................... ............
2 80,860
67,681
$7,068,139
8, 277,627
Building construction...............................
E lectr ilication......................................... .
Heavy engineering....................................
Reclamation...............................................
River, harbor, and flood control.............
51,013
1,464
5,717
970
334
45,129
1, 231
4,833
853
302
4,939,556
110,189
572,825
96,868
25, 299
5,375,847
152,954
668,291
120,431
38,063
.919
.720
.857
.804
.665
8,624,278
528,712
1,132,175
170,025
53,769
Streets and roads.......................................
Water and sewerage..................... ...........
Miscellaneous.............................................
8,088
10,145
129
6,638
8,612
83
421,976
893,873
7, 553
791,297
1,119,413
11,331
.533
.799
.667
790,918
1,235,240
333,142
$0.854 $12,868,259
Projects operated by Works Progress Administration7
All p rojects............... ..............................
8 3,120,399
$164,906,987 329,670,236
$0.500
(9)
1 Unless otherwise noted data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work.
3 The data for the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, under plant, crop, and livestock con
servation, and tlie Bureau of Forest Service, under forestry, are for a calendar month.
4 These data are for projects under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
* These data are for projects under construction in Puerto Rico.
6 Includes data for 79,528 employees working on non-Federal projects and 1,332 employees working on
low-cost housing projects. These data are included in separate tables covering projects under the jurisdic
tion of the Public Works Administration.
7 Data are for the calendar month. N ot available by type of project.
8 Represents number of names on pay roll for week ending September 24,1938.
9 Data on a monthly basis are not available.
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Table 12 shows the employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
on work projects of the National Youth Administration from the
beginning of the program in January 1936 to September 1938, inclu
sive. Similar data for Student Aid are shown from September 1935,
the starting date, to August 1938, inclusive.
T
12.— Employment and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration Projects
Financed by The Works Program From Beginning of Program Through September
1938 1
able
[Subject to revision]
Year and month
N um
ber of
persons
employed
Pay-roll
disburse
ments
Number of
man-hours
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
i
Value of
material
orders
placed
Work projects
__ ____
$90,120,131
243,075, 590
$0.371
January to December 1936________________
January to December 1937______ ____ ____
January 1938_____________________________
February 1938____________________________
March 1938 .....................................................
144, 797
151,406
154, 567
28,883, 589
32,601,360
2, 549, 914
2, 667, 226
?, 751, 797
75,827,799
87,092, 351
6,896,668
7, 288, 377
7,610,360
.381
.374
.370
. 366
.362
April 1938...........................................................
M av 1938............................................................
June 1938, _______________________________
July 1938 .........................................................
August 1938 ____________________________
September 1938______________ _____ _______
158,082
172, 134
202,184
213.972
221,307
220. 756
2, 760. 533
2,967,134
3. 437, 299
3,685,148
3,888, 640
3,927, 491
7, 673, 809
8,286,913
9,519,163
10, 332,962
11,125,331
11, 421,877
.360
.358
.361
.357
.350
.344
January 1936 to September 1938, inclusive..
2 $9,017, C70
Student Aid
September 1935 to August 1938, inclusive..
$09,016,876
231,844, 564
$0.298
September to December 1935_____________
January to December 1936________________
January to December 1937...................... .......
Januarv 193S_________ ___________________
February 1938____________________________
307, 544
319, 707
6, 363, 503
25,88S, 559
24,188,039
2,001,786
2,162, 506
19,612,976
85, 424,616
83.028, 847
6,930, 595
7, 584, 382
.324
.303
.291
.287
.285
328,037
333. 902
326, 644
217,447
2, 217, 742
2, 256, 566
2, 393, 532
1, 538,947
7, 781,022
7,920,942
8,355,521
5,123, 792
.285
.285
.286
.300
1,780
5,696
31,871
.179
M arch 1938_______________________________
April 1938...........................................................
M ay 1938............................................................
June 1938...........................................................
July 1938 4..........................................................
August 1938 4....................................... ...........
(3)
1 Data are for a calendar month.
2 Data on a m onthly basis are not available. This total represents expenditures through June 30, 1938,
and includes rentals and services and some sponsors' contributions.
a N o expenditures for materials on this type of project.
< Student A id program was not active.
• Revised.
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
The Civilian Conservation Corps wras created by an act of Congress
approved June 28, 1937, and succeeded the Emergency Conservation
Work which had been set up in April 1933.
Employment and pay-roll data for the Civilian Conservation Corps
are collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the War Depart
ment, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce,
and the Department of the Interior. The monthly pay of the enrolled
personnel is $30 per month. Assistant leaders, not to exceed 10*
29
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 August and September 1938 are presented in table 13.
T
able
13.— Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, August
and September 19381
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees
Amount of pay rolls
Group
September
August
September
August
All groups...........................................................
317,252
334,257
$14,467,301
$14,945,948
Enrolled personnel2..........................................
Reserve officers..................................................
N urses3...............................................................
Educational advisers3......................................
Supervisory and technical *.............................
279,110
5,068
283
1,566
31,225
290, 222
5,105
278
1, 570
31,082
8,697,163
1,363, 251
29.379
261,007
4,115,401
9, 249, 228
1,317,846
29,009
259,970
4,089,889
i Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month. Amount of pay rolls are for
the entire month.
a September data include 3,960 enrollees and pay roll of $90,760 outside continental United States; in August
the corresponding figures were 3,771. enrollees and $87,718.
3 Included in executive service, table 9.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY RECONSTRUCTION
FINANCE CORPORATION
Statistics of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corpo
ration in September are presented in table 14, by type of project.
T
able
14.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, By Type of Project, September 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
T yp e of project
A ll projects— ..................................................
Building construction 3___________________
Water and sewerage______ __________ ____
Miscellaneous____________________________
Maximum
number of
wage earn
ers 2
M onthly
pay-roll
disburse
ments
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
2,829
$395,189
447,971
$0,882
$671,112
488
2,226
115
37, 934
349,854
7,401
42,941
391,557
13,473
.883
.893
.549
61,249
595,571
14,292
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed dur
ing month
i Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
a Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month b y each contractor.
3 Includes 241 employees; pay-roll disbursements of $‘20,152; 17,5G1 man-hours worked; and material orders
placed of $25,500 on projects financed b y R F C 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
30
by the Bureau, of the name and address of the contractor, the amount
of the contract, and the type of work to be performed. Blanks are
then mailed by the Bureau to the contractor or Government agency
doing the work. These reports are returned to the Bureau and show
the number of men on pay rolls, and the amounts disbursed for pay,
the number of man-hours worked on the project, and the value of the
different types of materials for which orders were placed during the
month.
Data concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations
during September are given in table 15, by type of project.
T
able
15.— Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction Projects Financed From
Regular Federal Appropriations, by Type of Project, September 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
Number of wage
earners
T yp e of project
Maximum 2 W eekly
number
average
employed
M onthly
pay-roll
disburse
ments
Number of
Value of
material
man-hours Average
worked
earnings
orders
during
per hour placed dur
month
ing month
All projects........................................
3 263,721
40,035,344
$0.687
$40, 488,980
Building construction......................
Electrification:
Rural
Electrification A d
ministration projects 4...........
Other than Rural Electrifica
tion Administration proj
ects............................................
Forestry..............................................
Heavy engineering...........................
Public roa d ss....................................
Reclamation.....................................
River, harbor, and flood control:
Dredging, dikes, revetments,
etc.............................................
Locks and dams........................
Ship construction:
Naval vessels..............................
Other than naval vessels..........
Streets and roads..............................
Water and sewerage.........................
Miscellaneous.................................. -
16,624
249,001 $27, 503, 233
13,654
1,549,382
1,602,782
.967
3,531,954
6,739
5,568
397,182
756,236
.525
2,346,478
215
78
126
<*)
18,600
148
78
106
114, 216
17, 225
11,204
6, 502
17,143
11,023,415
2,404,113
13,625
13,367
19, 729
18,567, 261
2,876,911
.822
.486
. 869
.594
.836
23,829
3, 317
17, 704
18.399,670
3; 249,411
46,035
11,445
39.860
10, 624
4, 477, 216
1, 253,587
7,159, 947
1, 755,199
.625
.714
3,622,158
2,023,052
41,965
2, 521
3,839
347
971
40,754
2,251
3,453
269
795
5,813,684
250,938
216,942
23,827
58,098
6,397, 727
316, 244
433,138
34,600
88,578
.909
.793
.501
.689
.656
5, 362,547
1,227, 202
517, 337
86,894
77,427
i Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
i Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month b y each contractor, and Government
agency doing force-account work.
3 Includes weekly average for public-roads projects.
• Financed b y Rural Electrification Administration loans.
• Under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
• N ot available, weekly average included in total for all projects.
STATE-ROADS PROJECTS
A record of employment and pay-roll disbursements in the con
struction and maintenance of roads financed wholly from State or
local funds in September 1938, compared with August 1938 and
September 1937, is presented in table 16.
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T
able
16.— Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction and Maintenance of State
Roads, September 1938, August 1938, and September 1937 1
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees 2
Item
Septem
ber 1833
August
1938
Septem
ber 1937
Pay-roll disbursements
Septem
ber 193S
August
1938
T otal.... .................................................
205, 24S
39(5,790
193,6f>0 *13.951,370 $13,1S2,990
N ew roads________________________
Maintenance.. ........... ...................... .
32, 054
173,19 i
20, 649
170,141
20, 632
107, 028
2, J5!, 590
11, 79;), 780
1,970.730
11, 512, 200
Septem
ber 1937
$12,843, 370
1,884,330
10,959,040
» Data are for the month ending on the loth and are for projects financed wholly from State or local funds.
2 Average number working during month.
Purchases from Public Funds
1
The value of material orders placed on construction projects financed
by Federal funds in the third quarter of 1938 is presented in table 17.
In the third quarter of 1938, on the Public Works Administration
program, orders were placed for materials valued at approximately
$51,993,000. Of this amount $15,897,000 was expended for iron and
steel products, $7,754,000 for machinery, $4,873,000 for cement and
concrete products, and $3,773,000 for forest products.
Previous sections of this report have shown the number of workers
employed at the site of construction projects financed from Federal
funds. The direct employment, however, is only a partial picture, as
the manufacture of the materials used on the projects also creates a
large amount of employment.
Estimates have been made of the man-months of labor that have
been, or will be created in fabricating the materials used on the
various programs (see table 3). The estimates include only the labor
required in the fabrication of material in the form in which it is to be
used. No estimate is made of the labor required in producing the raw
materials or in transporting them to the point of manufacture. In
manufacturing structural steel, for example, the only labor included
is that occurring in the fabricating mills; no estimate is made for the
labor created in mining, smelting, and transporting the ore; nor for
the labor in the blast furnaces, the open-hearth furnaces, and the
blooming mills.
The information concerning man-months of labor created in fabri
cating materials is obtained by sending a questionnaire to each firm
receiving an award for materials to be financed from Federal or State
funds. The manufacturer is requested to make an estimate of the
number of man-hours created in his plant in manufacturing the mate
rials specified in the contract. For materials purchased directly by
J Unless otherwise specified, data presented in this section are as of the 15th of the month.
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contractors the Bureau estimates the man-months of labor created.
This estimate is based upon the findings of the Census of Manufac
tures, 1935.
T
able
1 7 . — Value
of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by
Federal Funds for the Third Quarter of 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
T ype of material
Public
W orks
Adminis
tration *
U. S. Reconstruc
tion Fi
H . A.
nance
low-cost
Corpora
housing
tion 3
All materials............................
$51,993,271
$94.219
Textiles and their products..
104,447
518
Awnings, tents, canvas, etc___
Carpets and rugs........................ .
Cordage and twine......................
Cotton goods............................... .
Felt goods......................................
Jute goods......................................
Linoleum...................................... .
Sacks and b a g s ......................... .
Upholstering materials, n. e. c..
W aste............................................ .
Forest products.
Cork products.............................................
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c . . .
Planing-mill products.............................. .
W indow and door screens and weather
strip.......................................................... .
Chemicals and allied products..
Amm unition and related products..
Chemicals, miscellaneous..................
Compressed and liquefied gases.......
Explosives.
Pain
nts and varnishes.
Stone, clay, and glass products.
Asbestos products, u. e. c.........................
Brick, hollow tile, and other clay prod
ucts............................................................
Cement............................ ............................
Concrete products____________ _______ _
Crushed stone............................................ .
Glass............................................................ .
Lim e..............................................................
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone
products....................................................
Minerals and earths, ground or other
wise treated..............................................
Sand and gravel..........................................
Tiling, floor and wall, and terrazzo-------Wall plaster, wall board, and insulation
board........................................................ .
Iron and steel and their products, not in
cluding machinery.........................................
Bolts, nuts, washers, etc...........................
Cast-iron pipe and fittings.......................
Doors, shutters and window sash and
frames, molding and trim (m etal)____
Forgings, iron and steel........................... .
Hardware, miscellaneous..........................
1,479
25
6,807
754
6,446
2,848
84,820
453
$1,568,564
Regular
Federal
appropria
tions
Federal
construc
tion under
The W orks
Program
$113,673,966
$8,133.09(5
65,028
14,288
1,708
16, 787
3.926
2.035
2. 527
2,644
46
700
757
1,258
10
385
44,191
4,175, 201
745,918
14,957
39,924
4,267
10.034
3,817.827
342,058
2,635
651,904
91,296
527,946
667
42, 348
2,275
11,148
9,461
133.382
371,680
667
13,341,357
34,386
10,417
1,015
1,019
600
32,683
799
518
815
3, 772, 507
31,124
2.303.164
1,420,360
14,957
5,282
17,919
6,342
326
8,043
23,080
662,069
200,744
10.095
7,777
39.818
111.961
231,838
34,191,340
2,583,123
762
337
18.083
158,822
885
408
9,431
458,441
15,876.353
678.841
6,005.888
98,926
1,089
130. 209
1,402,040
171, 239
167.118
12.138
2,579
774
1,218,399
81,168
38.814
2,935
9,366.142
183.318
119
535,468
53,027
1,686
242.329
27,681
469,664
19,385,842
1,800,664
916
1,669
229,075
383,322
28,883
68,812
2. 580
2.400
40,063
934.817
678,621
475,169
34,604
19,642
142,162
26,732
2,809, 798
2,898,708
1,974,492
795,036
290,396
31,240
1,884
31,752
1,314,025
801
1,696,108
703,227
750
800,794
15,896.987
14, 338
403.332
1,096,852
1,272,546
161,222
766,484
1,550
169,651
1 This table includes certain items which are not actually construction materials, i. e., fuel, transportation
equipment, tools, furniture, etc. Data for projects operated by Works Progress Administration were not
available at the time this report was prepared. For a summary of data for the second quarter of 1938, in
cluding information on projects operated by Works Progress Administration, see table 18.
2 Includes material orders placed on Public W orks Administration projects financed b y the Emergency
Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937, and P. W . A. A. 1938 funds. Data on low-cost housing
projects financed from N . I. R . A . and E. R . A . A . 1935 funds are also included.
« Includes projects financed b y R F C Mortgage Co.
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T a b l e 17.— Value
of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by
Federal Funds for the Third Quarter of 1938— Continued
T ype of material
Iron and steel and their products—Con.
Heating and ventilating equipment.......
Nails and s p ik es.................. ....................
Rail fastenings, excluding spikes.............
Rails, steel...................................................
Springs, steel...............................................
Steel-works and rolling-mill products,
n. e. c .........................................................
Stoves and ranges, other than electric___
Structural and reinforcing steel...............
Tools, other than machine tools..............
W ire products, n. e. c................................
W rought pipe..............................................
Public
Works
Adminis
tration
U. S. Reconstruc
tion Fi
IT. A.
nance
low-cost
Corpora
housing
tion
$3,442,630
108,765
6,027
135,726
80
1,841,272
6.806
5,867,100
29. 553
420,029
337,873
Regular
Federal
appropria
tions
Federal
construc
tion under
The W orks
Program
$15,730
492
70
$752,274
61. 652
971
32,804
$41,470
35, 792
$5,366
363,0S8
5,0S5, 444
5,522
~42,414
........242
i, 591,946
38.010
652.410
469.327
555,485
529
703,274
95.062
67,614
7,224
'Two'
111
Nonferrous metals and their products..........
724,110
9,128
538,995
77,974
Aluminum manufactures..........................
Copper products.........................................
Lead products............................. ...............
Nonferrous-metal alloys and products,
n. e. c .........................................................
Sheet-metal work.......................................
Zinc products..............................................
32. 223
138,183
25,486
2,273
378
41.992
26,059
2,581
15
337
84,857
435,918
7, 443
587
5,890
206,116
261,816
431
2, 358
74,984
80
Machinery, not including transportation
e q u ip m e n t-...................................................
7, 754,124
649,355
34,380,966
860, 753
2,843, 656
525,990
108.217
1,360
8,483, 677
523, 713
145,826
16,826
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and
supplies........................ ...........................
Elevators and elevator equipment..........
Engines, turbines, tractors, and waterwheels........................................................
Foundry and machine-shop products,
n. e. c ............................................ ............
M achine tools.......................... ..................
Meters (gas, water, etc.) and gas gen
erators.............. .........................................
Pumps and pumping equipm ent______
Refrigerators and refrigerating and iceinaking apparatus...............................
200
1,091, 135
7,666
6,831,461
115,912
2,766, 733
160, 618
529,980
15
16,929,291
190,979
519,895
27,134
45,436
264,447
2,117
1,393,436
34,312
55,803
34.409
488
Transportation equipment—air, land and
water........................................ .......................
37,455
80. 200
59,868
Boats, steel and wooden (sm all)........... .
Carriages and w a g o n s............... ............ .
M otor vehicles, passenger........................
M otor vehicles, trucks............................. .
2,690
1,287
1,169
32. 309
25.0-12
751
Miscellaneous................................................... .
9,834, 278
Belting, miscellaneous............................. .
Coal......................... ................................... .
Creosote....... .............................................. .
Electric wiring and fixtures............... .
Furniture, including store and oflice fix
tures.........................................................
Instruments, professional and scientific.
Mattresses and bed springs......................
Models and patterns.................................
Paper products.......................................... .
Paving materials and mixtures, n. o. c . ..
Petroleum products.......... .......................
Photographic apparatus and m aterials..
Plum bing supplies, n. e. c ...................... .
Radio apparatus and supplies.................
Roofing materials, n. e. c ..........................
R ubber goods..............................................
Steam and other packing, pipe and
boiler covering, and gaskets................ .
Theatrical scenery and stage equipment.
W indow shades and fixtures....................
Other materials...........................................
61
13, 772
706
2,307,585
1,199,821
42,413
3,907
1,700
5,683
597,691
686,796
7,829
2,059,095
2,446
659,243
32,296
122,165
26,210
72,889
1,991,964
27,455
1,956
39
46, 618
1,570
493
1,203
56, 602
122,001
19,956,458
1,820,857
5,641
907
158, 504
68
4,964,794
95
2. 216
3,993
144,933
16.515
21,677
14,920
1,039
24,122
21,658
5,913
12,319
4
24,210
52,"344
1
1,040
5,698
2,263,511
5,443.645
20,583
515,019
42
126,024
23,350
” "62,’§05
21,613
62,206
390
12,226
6,320,259
2,620
177
437
686,507
2,469
282,927
447,502
2,096
145,007
34
Table 18 shows the value of material orders placed on construction
projects financed by Federal funds during the second quarter of 1938,
by type of project.
T a b le
18.— Value of Material Orders Placed on Construction Projects Financed by
Federal Funds for the Second Quarter of 1938 1
[Subject to revision]
Projects
T ype of material
AH materials.. _ _
Total
Public
Works
Adminis
tration 2
10,096,118
16, 546, 460
3,763, 465
Paints and varnishes.........
Other chemicals..................
Stone, clay, and glass prod
ucts________________________
1,832, 721
1,930, 744
267, 224
194,786
77,791,021
Cast-iron pipe and fittings
Heating and ventilating
equipment........................
Structural and reinforcing
steel___________________
Tools, other than machine
tools___ ____ __________
Other products of iron and
steel______ ____________
Nonferrous metals and their
products___________________
Machinery, not including
transportation eq u ip m en t...
Electrical machinery, ap
paratus, and supplies___
Foundry and machineshop products, n. e. c ___
Other machinery................
Transportation eq u ip m e n tair, land, and water...............
M otor vehicles, trucks____
O th er tr a n s p o r ta t io n
equipment _____
Miscellaneous________________
Coal_____________________
Furniture, including store
and office fixtures............
Paving materials and mix
tures__________________
Petroleum products...........
Plumbing supplies, n. e. c_
Rubber goods____________
Other materials__________
Regular
Federal
$247,880, 880 $51,217,783 $2,256, 444 $85,308,721
Textiles and their products___
Forest products._____________
Chemicals and allied products.
Brick, hollow tile, and
other clay products . ..
Cement__________________
Concrete products_______
Crushed stone.......... .........
Sand and gravel_________
Other stone, clay, and
glass products..................
Iron and steel and their prod
ucts, not including machin
ery________________________
Recon
struction
Finance
Corpora
tion 3
115,678
3,689,945 " ’ ""32,“569"
462,010
58,894
Federal
Construc
tion under
T he Works
Program
Operated
by
W . P. A.
$13,086,761 $96,011,171
57,735
4,081,757
598,964
18,455
1,115,657
323,422
9, 904, 250
7, 626, 532
2,320,175
1,820
57,074
184,909
414,055
258,985
64,437
1,119,783
1,200,392
13, 766, 716
242,993
20,898,157
2,855, 245
40,027,910
7, 761,690
26, 220, 676
7,382,391
14,153,911
15,940, 250
3,161, 551
3, 694, 249
2,05G, 222
585,823
1,583,430
1,703
184,658
433
121
49,117
512,153
9,475,877
604,748
3,458,991
5, 226,332
133,024
1,164, 644
308, 320
479, 518
514, 214
3,953,256
11,701, 248
4, 412,668
9,629,458
8,567,157
6,332,103
2,685,438
6,961
1,620,056
255,525
1,764,123
46, 352,051
15, 523, 573
514,996
13,849,487
3,228,308
13,235,687
5,563,219
1,733, 265
1,408
357,683
133,922
3,336,941
4,725, 674
3,320,507
11,539
913,571
75,871
404,186
16,658,043
5,683,791
109,793
6,596, 255
1,134,602
3,133,602
24,957
137,743
1,205,157
392,256
5,957,021
1,746,170
5,155,801
1,397,216
29,359
18,007,899
4,756,651
1,462, 512
675,115
1,136
318,401
99,180
368,680
44,916,079
7,904, 720
1, 224,435
29,407,622
2,365,733
4,013, 569
13,384,103
3,011, 598
78,065
8,480, 780
369,378
1,444,282
19,864, 597
11,667,379
3,008,865
1,884,257
1,131,115
15, 255
12, 590, 341
8,336, 501
1, 443, 792
552, 563
1,690, 484
878,803
1,809,600
53,608
85,774
109,301
1,560,917
1,733, 742
45,716
30,419
96,690
1,560,917
75,858
45,143, 574
7,892
9,026,418
55,355
16,010,824
12,611
2,971, 460
16,953, 451
243,686
19,760
141,761
12,965
69,200
1,655,769
789,802
183,684
57,962
624,321
10,667,601
7,354,215
4, 273,838
356,951
20, 591,514
463,850
842,162
2,074, 755
52,581
4,783,508
1,353,383
3, 752, 553
505,809
35, 251
10,038,383
237,141
768,923
268,293
24,281
1,601,895
8,613,077
1,969,394
1,409,334
211,448
4,056,677
181,421
150
21,183
15,647
33,390
111, 051
i This table includes certain items which are not actually construction materials, i. e.f fuel, transportation
equipment, tools, furniture, etc.
Jincludes material orders placed on P. W . A. projects financed b y the Emergency Relief A ppropriation
Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937.
» Includes projects financed b y R F C Mortgage Co.
35
The value of material orders placed on Federal professional, tech
nical, and clerical projects financed by The Works Program, by type
of material, for the third quarter of 1938, the second quarter of 1938,
and the third quarter of 1937 is shown in table 19.
T
able
1 9 . — Value
of Material Orders Placed on Federal Professional, Technical, and
Clerical Projects Financed by The Works Program
[Subject to revision]
T yp e of material
Third
quarter
of 1938
Second
quarter
of 1938
Third
quarter
of 1937
A ll materials.................... ......................................................... ..................................
$69,009
$115,360
$187,092
Computing machines.................................................................................................
Furniture............................................ ................................................................ .......
Office supplies_________ ________________ ____________________ _____________
Stationery...................................... ..................................................................... .........
Typewriters................. ............. _________ _______ _____________________ __
Other office machines. __________ _______________________ ___________________
Other materials......................................... ................................................................
Rental of machinery and equipment____ ________ _________________________
2, 303
1,268
9, 535
906
1,249
1,503
47,089
5,096
2,382
14,404
21, 663
2,486
1,003
4,368
31, 224
34,770
2,846
6,487
35, 291
7,719
5,791
911
81,621
46,426
Rentals and services on projects operated by the Works Progress
Administration for the second quarter of 1938, the first quarter of
1938, and the second quarter of 1937 are shown in table 20, by type of
rental and service.
T
able
2 0 . —Rentals
and Services on Projects Operated by Works Progress Administration
[Subject to revision]
Second
quarter of
1938 *
T yp o of rental and service
A ll rentals and services............................................................................. $48, 342, 335
M otor vehicles______________________________________________
21, 969, 993
680, 229
Teams and wa gons_____________ __________ ___________ _____
17,932, 573
Paving, road building, and construction equipment........... .......
1,111, 723
Other equipment (including office equipm ent)...................... .....
2, 921,491
Space rentals and services. . . .......................... ..................... ............
Other services (including utilities)................. ...............................
3, 726, 326
First
quarter of
1938 2
Second
quarter of
1937 3
$53,147, 699
22,831,410
935,965
IS, 650, 797
1,819,063
3,043,525
5, 866,939
$39,128,795
18, 726,163
1,313,122
11,72.3,627
836,416
2, 359,897
4,169, 570
i Quarterly period ending Juno 30,1938.
* Quarterly period ending Mar. 31, 1938.
* Quarterly period ending June 30,1937.
Table 21 shows rentals and services on work projects of the National
Youth Administration for the first and second quarters of 1938.
T
able
2 1 . —Rentals
and Services on Work Projects of National Youth Administration
[Subject to revision]
Second
quarter
of 1938»
First
quarter
of 1938 *
All rentals and services................................................................................................................. $604,725
109, 528
M otor vehicles__________________________________________________________________
7,541
Teams and wagons___________________________________________________ __________
41, 577
Paving, road building, and construction equipment_____________________________
85,985
Other equipment (including office equipment)___________________________________
262,340
Space rentals and services________________________________________ - _____________
97,754
Other services (including utilities)...................... ............. - ...............................................
$730,346
140,502
9,769
47,509
304,607
315,476
112,483
T yp e of rental and service
i Quarterly period ending June 30,1938.
2 Quarterly period ending M ar. 31,1938.
36
In connection with the administration of the Public Contracts
Act the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been collecting data on supply
contracts awarded by Federal agencies of the United States for the
manufacture or furnishing of materials, supplies, articles, and equip
ment in any amount exceeding $10,000.
The first public contracts w^ere awarded under the Act in September
1936.
Table 22 shows the value of public contracts awarded under the
Act for materials during the third quarter of 1938, the second quarter
of 1938, and the third quarter of 1937.
T
2 2 . — Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements to Comply with the Public Contracts Law, by Type of Material
able
fSubject to revision]
Value of contracts awarded
Type of materials
All materials....................................................... ............ ........ ................
Food and kindred products_____ _____ _________________________
Canned fruits and vegetables.........................................................
_ ______ _______________________
Canned sea foods ______
Cereal preparations.... ......................................... ............................
Coffee and tea_____________ ____ ___________________________
Condensed and evaporated m ill;...................................................
Feeds, prepared, for animals and fowls........................................
Flour and other grain mill products..............................................
Meat-packing products........................................................... ........
Su^ar............................................................................... .......... .........
Miscellaneous subsistence stores and supplies............................
Textiles and their products_______ _____ _______________________
Third
quarter
1938 i
Second
quarter
1938 3
Third
quarter
1937*
$47,436,081
$107,654,209
$57,515,870
1, G07,230
3,124,817
2,621,496
697,077
37,426
348,864
288,615
109,007
15,356
533,240
708,005
151,6?9
200,753
308,235
185,026
673,709
1,266,861
88, 251
12,741
185,984
39.559
218, 793
241,740
162.620
208,205
196,742
5,825.582
15,241,385
8,001,485
238,207
74,003
46,479
116, 356
Canvas bags and covers...................................................................
102,963
18,975
187,703
Clothing (overcoats, suits, trousers, etc.).....................................
300,042
332,138
1,505,399
Clothing, manufacture only *.........................................................
517,498
227,833
Cordage and twine, including thread...........................................
430,058 ..........26,"102
19,290
Cotton gloves.....................................................................................
155,800
21,910
Cotton goods (drills, prints, sheeting, etc.).................................
1, 738,189
2,207,275
7,844,393
Cotton shirts__________ ____________ _______________________
17, 540
11, 560
Furnishing goods, men’s, n. e. c .....................................................
1,071,864
1,125,423
825,448
Housefurnishing goods (pillow cases, sheets, etc.).....................
333,239
253,434
66,633
K nit goods (hosiery, underwear, etc.)..........................................
576.922
G11,346
1,810, 262
W oolen gtods (flannels, suiting, etc.)...........................................
664,273
470,987
3,094,815
W ork clothing....................................................................................
137,830
55,215
676, 204
646,519
375.922
Miscellaneous textile products.......................................................
607,448
Forest products_______ __________________ ______________________
1,378,481
1,161,667
477,191
Furniture............................................................................................
Lumber and timber products, n. c. c ...........................................
Planine-mill products...................... ......... ..................... ................
Treated lumber and timber............................................................
Miscellaneous forest products______________________________
875,135
33,410
12,769
86,493
370,674
156,766
212, 763
52, 559
173,213
126,114
666,024
251,419
Chemicals and allied products...............................................................
3,693,421
2,840,834
3,097,764
Ammunition and related products................................................
Compressed and liquefied gases.....................................................
Explosives____________ _______________ _____________________
Linseed oil...........................................................................................
Paints and varnishes______ ______ _____________ ____________
Soap and soap chips........ .............. .............. ............................ .......
Miscellaneous chemicals..................................................................
2,647,104
495,886
1,034,660
192,071
247,448 ' " ‘ i,'416,'938
11,453
65,036
94,016
26,282
155,375
171, 520
1,644,585
383,330
See footnotes at end of table.
79,900
130.611
163; 388
51,014
621,404
37
T
2 2 . — Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Law, by Type of Material—
Continued
able
Value of contracts awarded
T yp e of materials
Third
quarter
Second
quarter
Third
quarter
1938
1938
1937
$5,480,890
$21,940,483
$5,928,095
656,061
331,157
2, 268.153
2,120,526
110,993
2,751,350
1,969,100
9,009,413
5,214,353
2,118,668
877,593
456,871
542,440
971,748
3,604,984
60,425
291,627
300,929
2,404,195
2,176,170
Boots and shoes___________________ __________ ______________
280, 554
Gloves______________________________________________________
Shoe upper-leather
____ ________________________________
Miscellaneous leather goods_________________________________
20,375
1,872,982
128, 975
54,897
259,050
148,291
1, 767,361
103,479
29,380
257,275
18, 675
4,326, 734
14,329. 641
2,808,924
Products of asphalt, coal, and petroleum..-____ _ . . _. .
_
Asphalt, oil, tar, and mixtures______________________________
Coal and coke ______________________________________________
Gasoline___ ______________________________________________
Lubricating oils and greases
_ ___________________________
Miscellaneous coal and petroleum products_________________
B r i c k ______________________________________________________
Cement________ ___________________________________________
Concrete pipe_______ _____________ ________________________
Concrete, ready mixed__________ ____ ______________________
Crushed s t o n e _____________________________________________
Glass______ ______ _________________________________________
Granite and m a r b le .______________________________________
Riprap stone_______________________________________________
Sand and gravel____________ ____ __________________________
Soil, black earth____________________________________________
Terra cotta
_______ __ _ _ _ ____________________________
Tile, clay, including drain. . ______________________________
Vitrified clay and terra-cotta pipe _ _ ____________________
Miscellaneous stone, clay, and glass products_______________
40,930
1,892,893
201, 577
359, 584
230,392
22,828
15,467
313,292
636,783
45, 622
204,806
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery..........
3,782,628
9,223, 361
7,470, 544
Bolts, nuts, rivets, washers, e t c ______ ____ ________________
Cast-iron pipe and fittings__________________________________
Fencing materials__________________________________________
Forgings, iron and s t e e l____ ______________ ________________
_______________________
Hardware, miscellaneous___ - Metal furniture_____________________________________________
Metal shingles and roofing__________________________________
Pipe and fittings, n. e. c ____________________________________
Plumbing fixtures and supplies_____________________________
Rails, steel___________________________ ___________ _____ ____
Reinforcing steel. __________________________________________
Steel pipe and fittings____________ ____________ _______ ____
Steel sheets, plates, shapes, and strips_______ _______ ______
Stoves and ranges, other than electric........................................
Structural steel, fabricated, and sheet-steel piling____ ______
Tools, other than machine tools_________ ____ ______________
W ire products...... ........................................................................ .
Miscellaneous iron and steel products_______________________
10, 575
52,366
23,899
165,171
555,304
37, 2(55
212,781
626, 327
25, 200
121,303
14,402
29, 505
1,345,264
85, 415
17,901
505,220
830,008
272,453
190,377
216,869
2,278,551
272, 846
183,915
3 ,40 J, 906
75, 345
200.701
69,032
3, 507,341
36,076
127, 226
42,081
97, 635
10,33a
79,348
665,778
132.737
619,083
26, 791
829,563
145,964
44,750
700,755
1,943, 504
1, 598. 494
2,198,352
247,884
133, 131
90,296
138,865
53,060
15,255
22,176
52,213
65, 683
12, 609
446, 404
23, 217
642,711
254,469
128,169
278, 237
659,351
43, 750
33, 386
40,143
Nonferrous metals and their a llo y s.._____ _____ ________________
Aluminum manufactures_______ _______ ___________________
Brass products_____________________________________________
Bronze products____________________________________________
Copper products__
_ _________________________________
Fixtures, gas and electric._____ ________ _____________ ______
Lead products______________________________________________
M agnesi um...................... ............................. ...................................
Nickel.................................................................................................
Plated ware_____________________________________ __________
Sheet-metal work_________________ ________ ___________ ____
T in ......................................................................................................
Zinc________________________________ _______ _______________
Miscellaneous nonferrous metals and alloys.......................... .
See footnotes at end of table.
48, 817
124,340
920,864
149,750
43, 589
512,821
81. U8*i
311,788
574,942
103,915
6,018,173 ”
210,887
969,054
3,017,041
33, 106
594,376
2,661,842"
26,400
50,064
............ 38,'612*
28,183
14, 299
12,089
871,957
3 8,6G0
212,116
1,682,376
14,360
64,605
150,161
10,800
133, 578
527,896
34, 630
54, 367
53,750
12,420
23,738
482,947
72, 573
443,690
38
T a b l e 22 . — Value
of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government, Which
Contain Agreements to Comply with the Public Contracts Law, by Type of Material—
Continued
Value of contracts awarded
T yp e of materials
Third
quarter
1938
Machinery, not including transportation equipment and electri
cal equipment________________________________________________
Air-conditioning equipment__________ ____ _________________
Engines, turbines, tractors, and parts_____________ ____ ____
Filter and purification equipment____________ ______________
Laundry machinery and equipm ent________________________
Machine tools______________________________________________
Office equipment___________________________________________
Phonographs and accessories________________________________
Power shovels and draglines___ ________ ___________________
Printing and publishing machinery_________________________
Pum ps and pumping equipment........... .....................................
Refrigerators and refrigerating and ice-making m achinery___
Road machinery____________________________________________
Windlasses, winches, and capstans_________________________
Miscellaneous machinery and parts..............................................
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies__________________
Batteries________________________________________________- __
Circuit breakers and switches_______________________________
Electric cable, wire, and other conductors___________________
Generators and spare parts.............................................................
Heaters and ranges_________________________________________
Lamps, incandescent, and X-ray tubes______________ _____
M otors_____________________________________________________
Radio equipment and supplies______________________________
Spark plugs________________ _______ _____________________ __
Switchboards, relay and control equipment_________________
Telephone and telegraph apparatus_________________________
Transformers.______________________________________________
W elding equipment________________ _______________________
Miscellaneous electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies...
Transportation equipment.....................................................................
Aircraft________ _____________________________________________
Aircraft parts and equipm ent.______ _______________________
Boats and boat equipment_____ ____________ _____ _________
M otor vehicles, passenger___________________________________
M otor vehicles, trucks______________________________________
Miscellaneous transportation equipment.....................................
Miscellaneous_____ _____________________________________________
Brooms, brushes, bristles, etc_______________________________
Dental goods and equipm ent_____________ __________________
Instruments, professional and scientific_____________________
Linoleum_____ _________ ___________________________________
Paper and allied products______ ______ _____________________
Photographic apparatus and materials.........................................
Printing, publishing, and subscriptions___ _____ ____________
Rubber products................ ...............................................................
Slag.......................................................................................................
Steam and other packing, pipe and boiler covering...................
Surgical and orthopedic supplies and appliances............ ..........
Tobacco manufactures______________________________________
Other materials............... ................... .................................. ..........
Rentals, services, etc.*.....................................................................
Second
quarter
1938
Third
quarter
1937
$5, 364,181
$5,162,139
$8,185,930
30,268
34,088
108,228
974, 217
1,134,936
3,577,476
10,424
13.382
54,125
36,081 ..........12,’ 750
1,561,171
615,051
284,030
58, 772
59, 239
296,092
34, 500
43, 300
70,946 ..........331,619"
46, 596
240, 297
11,168
78,025
148,483
155,057
606,959
36, 341
92,918
167,160
91, 486
22,815
313, 351 ..........53,'‘745
2,023,072
2. 205, 353
3,078, 729
4,129,420
3,937, 706
7,314,981
82,966
75,832
317, 748
229, 918
623,897
822, f)67
994, 404
470,088
1,281,851
572,157
2 ,05S, 919
518, 266
6,719
23,057
30. 914
18,179
10,628
534,047
76, 924
1, 593, 680
81, 767
15,090
200,138
422, 263
89,883
285, 710
228, 490
129, 235
395, 290
1, 499,711
243,892
71,314
377. 597
305,848
688 61813,184, 215
2, 201, 331
3,119,629
2,132, 704
6,890,371
83, 785
3,163,114
267,356
840,463
15,085
243, 419
76,208
228,103
32,160
236, 741
515,122
905, 269
2, 202, 511
157, 202
456.697
58,865
4,973,607
6,669,166
13, 253, 558
53,652
90, 549
159,740
34,117
596, 521
1,”608,543
3,551, 795
62, 765
557,681
189,471
4, 791, 574
614,887
314,899
260, 598
202, 721
205,411
455,148
232,259
190,903
766,136
429,012 ..........38,624
212,310
667,171
106,917
38,471
43,115
94.096
795,063
1,093,113
2,798; 649
304,175
1,463.144
1,873,101
i For period ending Sept. 30,1938.
* For period ending June 30,1938. Revised.
* For period ending Sept. 30,1937. Revised.
4 Labor only. Materials furnished by U. S. Government.
* Includes equipment rental, repairs, aerial surveys, etc.
The value of public contracts awarded for materials by Federal agen
cies totalled $47,436,000 during the third quarter of 1938. Of the con
tracts awarded in the third quarter of 1938, $5,826,000 was for textiles
and textile products; $5,487,000, for asphalt, coal, and petroleum;
$5,364,000, for machinery, not including transportation equipment and
electrical equipment; and $4,327,000, for sfcone, clay, and glass products.
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