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Serial No. R. 1445
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Liibin, Commissioner (on leave)
A. F. Hinrichs, Acting Commissioner
EMPLOYMENT
AND PAY ROLLS
DECEMBER 1941
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE • WASHINGTON • 1942
CONTENTS
Summary of employment reports for December 1941:
Total nonagricultural employment
Industrial and business employment.
._
Public employment
Detailed tables for December 1941:
Nonagricultural employment
Industrial and business employment..
Public employment
Purchases from public funds
....
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Employment and Pay Rolls
SUMMARY OF REPORTS OF EMPLOYMENT FOR
DECEMBER 1941
Total Nonagricultural Employment
TOTAL civil nonagricultural employment showed a gain of 207,000
workers between November and December, bringing the total number employed to 40,963,000. This was the highest level on record,
exceeding the December 1940 total by 2,802,000 and the December
1929 figure by 5,047,000. These figures do not include C. C. C.
enrollee^, workers on W. P. A. or N. Y. A. projects, nor the armed
forces. Emergency employment, excluding the armed forces, totaled
1,810,000 in December.
Five of the.major industrial groups covered showed declines in
employment over the month interval, namely, contract construction
(141,000); manufacturing (37,000); transportation and public utilities
(35,000); finance, service, and miscellaneous (6,000); and mining
(4,000). The two groups showing gains were trade (357,000) and
Federal, State, and local Government (73,000). The increase in trade
reflected the hiring of temporary personnel to handle the holiday
business in retail stores, and the increase in Government employment
was due in large part to temporary expansion of post-office personnel.
A comparison with December of last year showed substantial gains
in all of the major groups as follows: Manufacturing, 1,599,000;
Federal, State, and local Government, 423,000; trade, 256,000;
transportation and public utilities, 248,000; finance, service, and miscellaneous, 124,000; contract construction, 100,000; and mining,
52,000.
Emergency employment on projects of the W. P. A., N. Y. A., and
C. C. O. declined 45,600 in the past month. The reductions were
distributed as follows: W. P. A., 3,300; N. Y. A., 24,900; and C. C. C ,
17,400. Over the past year, work-relief personnel on these 3 projects
declined 1,098,000 persons.
Industrial and Business Employment
Gains in employment between mid-November and mid-December
were reported by 68 of the 157 manufacturing and by 8 of the 16
nonmanufacturing industries regularly surveyed by the Bureau of
(1)
Labor Statistics. Pay-roll increases were reported by 109 of the
manufacturing and 12 of the nonmanufacturing industries.
The less-than-seasonal decreases of 0.4 percent, or 37,000 wage
earners, in all manufacturing industries combined was caused largely
by a sharp reduction in employment in automobile plants, as passenger-car production was cut during the latter part of December, and
by a greater-than-seasonal decline in the canning and preserving
industry. In addition, many establishments continued to report
employment reduction because of inability to secure raw materials.
These decreases were partly offset by continued gains in war industries and by a sharp rise in the slaughtering and meat-packing industry.
Despite the decline in manufacturing employment, there was a
larger-than-seasonal gain of 2.9 percent, or $9,113,000, in weekly pay
rolls. The seasonally expected changes in manufacturing employment
and pay rolls in December are —0.7 and +0.4 percent, respectively.
The employment index for all manufacturing industries combined
in December stood at 134.3 percent of the 1923-25 average, and the
pay-roll index at 170.2. Compared with December 1940, factory
wage-earner employment had increased by 15.6 percent (1,427,000),
and corresponding weekly wages by 39.1 percent, or $90,573,000.
The larger increase in pay rolls than in employment reflected overtime premiums, wage-rate increases, and expansion in working hours.
The rise of 6.2 percent or 10,200 workers in meat-packing employment
raised the employment index for that industry to 137.7, the highest
level on record. Other industries not directly related to the war
effort and showing substantial increases over the month were leather
boots and shoes, newspapers and periodicals, and book and job
printing. Industries directly connected with the war effort, such as
aircraft, engines, shipbuilding, and machine tools, continued to report
gains in employment and pay rolls.
Employment in the durable goods group of manufacturing industries as a whole declined 0.2 percent in December to 144.3 percent of
the 1923-25 average, while pay rolls advanced 2.9 to 195.9 percent of
that average. In nondurable goods, employment fell 0.6 percent
over the month interval, and pay rolls increased 2.8 percent, the
December employment index dropping to 124.7 and the pay-roll
index rising to 141.3.
Among the nonmanufacturing industries, retail trade showed a
seasonal increase between mid-November and mid-December of 9.5
percent, bringing the employment index for that industry to the
highest December level on record. Substantial employment declines
were reported for building construction, dyeing and cleaning, quarrying and nonmetallic mining, and anthracite mining. The increases
and decreases in the remaining nonmanufacturing industries did not
exceed 0.5 percent in any industry.
A preliminary report of the Interstate Commerce Commission for
class I steam railroads showed an employment decrease of 1.5 percent
between November and December, the total number employed in
December being 1,184,536. Corresponding pay-roll figures for
December were not available when this report was prepared. For
November, they were $192,724,101, a decrease of $14,251,885 since
October.
Hours and earnings.—The average hours worked per week by manufacturing wage earners were 41.2 in December, an increase of 2.3
percent since November. Corresponding average hourly earnings
were 78.7 cents, a gain of 0.8 percent over the preceding month.
The average weekly earnings of factory wage earners (both full- and
part-time combined) were $33.69, an increase of 3.3 percent since
November.
Of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries regularly surveyed, 13
reported increases in average weekly earnings. Of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries for which man-hours are available, 12 showed
increases in average hours worked per week and 8 showed gains in
average hourly earnings.
Wage-rate increases averaging 7.4 percent and affecting 238,000
wage earners were reported by nearly 600 manufacturing plants out
of a reporting sample of approximately 34,000 plants employing about
7,800,000 wage earners. As the Bureau's survey does not cover all
establishments in an industry and furthermore, as some firms may
have failed to report wage-rate changes, these figures should not be
construed as representing the total number of wage changes occurring in manufacturing industries.
Public Employment
Employment in the executive service of the Federal Government
reached 1,671,000 persons during the month of December, while pay rolls
reached $254,452,000. Of the total number employed in the executive
service, 207,000, or 12 percent, worked inside the District of Columbia,
and 194,000 were force-account employees whose period of employment
will terminate at the completion of the construction project on which
they are engaged. The increase of 126,000 employees over November
was to a large extent due to the employment of temporary workers by
the Post Office Department. Important increases in employment
were reported also by the War and Navy Departments, and by the
Office for Emergency Management, while no important decreases were
reported.
Employment in the legislative and judicial branches of the Government increased approximately 1 percent during the month with the
addition of 99 employees. The legislative branch employed 6,290
employees and the judicial 2,590. Corresponding pay rolls were
$1,374,000 and $657,000.
In the month ending December 15, defense construction projects
employed 35,800 more persons than in the preceding month, the bulk
of the increase taking place in the construction of naval and other
vessels. Decreased employment of 25,200, on the other hand, was
reported on nondefense construction projects. Part of this decline
was due to the gradual contraction of projects financed by the United
States Housing Authority and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and part was due to a seasonal decline on construction projects
financed from regular Federal appropriations. All construction
projects financed wholly or partially from Federal funds employed
1,083,000 building-trades workers in the current month. Only
194,000 of these construction workers, however, were employed
directly by the Federal Government on a force-account basis, the other
workers being employed by contractors for Government projects.
The total pay roll for the month for both force-account and contract
workers amounted to $179,027,000.
Personnel on work-relief programs of the Work Projects Administration, National Youth Administration, and the Civilian Conservation
Corps was reduced during the month of December by 46,900, although
pay rolls were increased $7,770,000. The decline in personnel took
place mainly in the enrollee group of the C. C. C. and in the out-ofschool work program of the N. Y. A. The pay-roll increase was
mainly in the nondefense group of the W. P. A. Nurses, educational
advisers, and supervisory and technical employees constituted 15
percent of the C. C. C. workers, while approximately 5 percent of the
N. Y. A. end W. P. A. personnel were employed in a supervisory
capacity. Personnel on work-relief programs in December totaled
1,832,000 and pay rolls totaled $86,495,000.
Seasonal factors were responsible for the decline of 23,500 employees
working on State or locally financed road projects in the month of
December. The 149,000 road workers employed, however, exceeded
the number employed a year ago by 6,540. Most of the gradual
decline since August 1941 took place in the number engaged on road
maintenance, until November when the number engaged on the construction of new roads suddenly declined. In December, employment
on new roads was only 57 percent of the August level. Workers on
State roads received a pay roll of $12,903,000 in December.
A summary of employment and pay-roll data in the regular Federal
services and on construction and work-relief projects financed wholly
or partially from Federal funds, is given in table 1.
TABLE 1.—Summary of Employment and Pay Rolls in Regular Federal Services and on
Projects Financed Wholly or Partially From Federal Funds, November and December,
1941 i
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Class
December 1941
Pay rolls
Novem- Percentage
ber 1941 change
Federal services:
Executive 2 ..
1, 670,922 1, 545,131
Judicial
2,593
2,582
Legislative
6,290
6,202
Construction projects:
Financed from regular Federal appropriations. _....
1,039,672 1,018,930
Defense..
921, 915 878, 361
Other
- _ .
117, 757
140, 569
Financed by U. S. H. A.
25, 499
29,862
Defense..
5,799
7,983
Other
19, 700
21, 879
Financed by P . W. A.3.
2,378
2,284
Financed by R. F. CA_
15,809
21, 528
Defense
14,175
19, 732
Other
1,634
1,796
Work Projects Administration projects. 1,053, 095 1, 056, 401
324,107
Defense—..
„ - .. 322,406
730, 689 732, 294
Other
National Youth Administration:
Student work program
338, 481 342, 509
Out-of-school work program308,975
288,129
Civilian Conservation Corps.152, 748
171,493
December
1941
November
1941
Percentage
change
+8.1 $254,452,078 $237, 398, 486
656,938
654,806
+.4
1, 360, 645
1, 373, 715
+1.4
+7.2
+.3
+1.0
172, 262,023 167,455, 277
155, 370,610 148, 426,608
16, 891, 413 19,028,669
3,407, 691
3, 981, 702
806,990
1,149, 347
2, 600, 701
2, 832,355
479, 827
322, 668
2,877, 769
3, 590, 705
2, 629, 608
3, 313,032
248,161
277, 673
69, 769, 684 60, 600,000
20, 763, 347 18,100, 000
49, 006, 337 42, 500,000
+2.9
+4.7
-11.2
-14.4
-29.8
-8.2
+48.7
-19.9
-20.6
-10.6
+15.1
+14.7
+15.3
+2.0
+5.0
-16.2
-14.6
-27.4
-10.0
+4.1
-26.6
-28.2
-9.0
-.3
-.5
-.2
-1.2
-6.7
-10.9
2, 312,174
6, 928, 891
7,484,630
2, 375,097
7, 507,844
8, 242, 555
-2.6
-7.7
-9.2
1
2
For explanation of employment count, and pay-roll period, see footnotes to detailed tables.
Includes force-account and supervisory and technical employees shown under other classifications to the
extent of 216,866 employees and $38,140,082 pay roll for December, and 224,054 employees and $34,314,666
pay
roll for November.
3
Includes data covering P. W. A. projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, 1935,1936,
1937 funds, as follows: For December, 1,018 wage earners and $129,206 pay roll; for November, 940 wage
earners and $133,333 pay roll. Also includes data covering P. W. A. projects financed from Public Works
Administration Appropriation Act of 1938, as follows: For December, 1,265 wage earners and $339,067 pay
roll; for November, 1,238 wage earners and $179,507 pay roll. Also includes data for P. W. A. projects
financed from National Industrial Recovery Act funds, as follows: For December, 95 wage earners and
$11,554 pay roll; for November, 106 wage earners and $9,828 pay roll.
4
Includes 349 employees and $49,468 pay roll for December, and 1,218 employees and $149,238 pay roll for
November, on projects financed by the RFC Mortgage Co.
Purchases From Public Funds
During the quarter ending December 1941, the value of material
orders placed on construction projects financed from regular Federal
appropriations and from U. S. H. A., R. F. C , and P. W. A. funds was
$810,620,000. The amount of employment created in fabrication and
in transportation of these materials to the construction site was
estimated at 1,632,000 man-months.
Orders for machinery products (including electrical) amounted to
41 percent of the total value of material orders placed. Iron and steel
products ranked second with 24 percent, and stone, clay, and glass
products, third, with 15 percent. Nonferrous metals and their
products—including aluminum, copper, lead, and zinc products—
accounted for 1 percent of the total.
Since the third quarter of 1941 the total value of material orders
placed on these construction projects increased 12 percent, and since
the fourth quarter of 1940, 85 percent.
Material orders that were placed on construction projects of the
Work Projects Administration, during the quarter ending September
1941, were valued at $73,846,000 and created an estimated 157,000
man-months of employment in fabrication and transportation to
construction site. Corresponding figures for the W. P. A. for the
fourth quarter of 1941 are not yet available.
Stone, clay, and glass products (including cement, concrete products,
crushed stone, etc.) ranked first in value on W. P. A. projects, accounting for 38 percent of the total, and together with iron and steel
products accounted for 57 percent. Machinery products, the value
of which was 41 percent of the total on other construction programs,
amounted to only 4 percent on projects of the Work Projects Administration.
The value of material orders placed on W. P. A. projects, including
the value of rentals and services, decreased 6 percent during the third
quarter of 1941 and 9 percent since the third quarter of 1940.
The man-months of labor created in fabrication and transportation
to site of materials ordered for construction projects financed by the
Federal Government, discussed above, do not represent direct governmental employment, but private employment created by Governmentfinanced projects.
The estimated man-months of labor, as stated above, include only
the labor required in the final fabrication of materials into the form
in which they are to be used and their transportation from the point
of fabrication to the site of the construction project. No estimates
are made of the labor required in producing the raw materials or in
transporting them to the point of manufacture. For structural
steel, for example, no estimates are made of the labor created in
mining, smelting, and transporting the ore, nor of the labor in blast
furnaces, open-hearth furnaces, or blooming mills.
TABLE 2.—Value of Material Orders Placed for Projects Financed Wholly or Partially
From Federal Funds and Number of Man-Months of Labor Created 1
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders placed
Program
Public Works Administration 2.U. S. H. A. low-rent housing
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 3 .
Regular Federal appropriations
Work Projects Administration
Rentals and services on W. P . A. projects-_
_~
_.-
Fourth
quarter
1941
Third
quarter
1941
$1, 787,883
15, 709,168
20,681, 549
772,441,607
(4)
$2,861,077
21,861,362
23,802, 324
675,390,417
73,846,249
0)
59,119,093
Fourth
quarter
1940
Man-months of labor created
in final fabrication
Fourth
quarter
1941
Third Fourth
quarter quarter
1941
1940
$13,374,552
3,104
5,394
21,276,497
49,265
35,180
46,837
1,846,261
42,141
401,358,476 1,551,756 1,339,516
156,943
88,516,927
(«)
66,880,484
(<)
(4)
27,222
49,437
3,395
832,979
188,122
(4)
12 Data unavailable for National Youth Administration projects.
Includes data covering projects financed from E. R. A. A. 1935,1936, and 1937, and P. W. A. A. 1938 funds
Also
includes low-rent housing projects financed from funds 4of N. I. R. A. and E. R. A. A. 1935.
3
Includes R F C Mortgage Co.
Data not available.
The value of the material orders placed and the estimated manmonths of labor created in final fabrication and transportation are
presented in table 2 for the fourth quarter of 1940 and the third
and fourth quarters of 1941. Detailed data by type of material are
given in tables 21 and 22.
DETAILED TABLES FOR DECEMBER 1941
Estimates of Nonagricultural
Employment
IN TABLE 3 are given estimates of nonagricultural employment by
major groups. The figures for "Total civil nonagricultural employment" and "Civil employees in nonagricultural establishments" are
based on the number of nonagricultural "gainful workers," shown
by the 1930 Census of Occupations (less the number who were unemployed for 1 week or more at the time of the census) and on regular
reports of employers to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
and to other Government agencies. The estimates for the individual industry groups are based in large part on industrial censuses
and on the above-mentioned regular reports of employers.
Estimates of "Employees in nonagricultural establishments" by
States are given in table 4. Because the State figures do not include
employees on merchant vessels, and because of certain adjustments
in the United States estimates which have not been made on a State
basis, the totals of the State estimates will not agree exactly with the
figures for the United States as a whole.
TABLE 3.—Estimates of Total Nonagricultural Employment, by Major Groups
[In thousands]
Change
December
1940 to
December 1941
December 1941
(preliminary)
November 1941
Change
November to
December 1941
December 1940
Total civil nonagricultural employment *
40,963
40,756
+207
38,161
+2,802
Civil employees in 3nonagricultural establishments 2 Manufacturing
Mining
_
.
Contract construction 4
Transportation and public utilities
Trade«
._ _
Finance, service, and miscellaneous •
Federal, State, and local Government
34,820
12,726
907
1,820
3,287
7,503
4,223
4,354
34,613
12, 763
911
1,961
3,322
7,146
4,229
4,281
+207
-37
_4
-141
-35
+357
-6
+73
32,018
11,127
855
1,720
3,039
7,247
4,099
3,931
+2,802
+1, 599
+52
+100
+248
+256
+124
+423
Employment group
1
Excludes employees on W. P. A. and N. Y. A. projects and employees in C. C. C. camps. Includes
proprietors, firm members, self-employed persons, casual workers, and domestic servants. Includes allowance for adjustment of factory and trade totals to preliminary 1939 census figures. Revised series available
on2 request.
Excludes all of the groups omitted from "Total civil nonagricultural employment" as well as proprietors,
firm members, self-employed persons, casual workers, and domestic servants.
34 Adjusted to preliminary 1939 Census of Manufactures.
Includes employees of construction contractors only. Does not include "force-account" construction
workers, that is, those employed directly by other types of employers.
« Retail trade component adjusted to preliminary 1939 census.
« Revised series—not comparable to figures published in October 1941 or prior issues of pamphlet.
448590-42
2
TABLE 4.—Estimated Number of Employees in Nonagricultural
States
Establishments, by-
[Excludes proprietors, firm members, self-employed persons, casual workers, domestic workers, the armed
forces of the United States, and employees on merchant vessels]
[In thousands!
Geographic division
and State
New England
Maine
__.
New HampshireVermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Middle Atlantic
New York
New Jersey
PennsylvaniaEast North CentralOhio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin.
West North Central..
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
North DakotaSouth DakotaNebraska
Kansas 1
South Atlantic.
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia..
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina.._
Georgia
Florida.
East South Central..
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
MississippiWest South CentralArkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas i
Mountain..
__
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
New MexicoArizona
Utah..
Nevada
Pacific.
Washington..
Oregon
_.
California—.
1
2
December 1941 Novem(prelim- ber 1941
inary)
Change, November
to December 1941
Number
Percentage
+20
+ 5
+0.6
+2.1
Number
-.6
—.6
+11
+1
+4
+85
+42
+12
+31
+.7
+.5
+.5
2,720
187
133
73
1,441
251
635
+1.0
+1.0
+.9
+1.0
8,057
4,011
1,217
2,829
7,905
2,C80
926
2,576
1,594
729
+11
-2
+8
+.5
-.2
+.3
7,246
1,876
839
2,360
1,505
2,639
578
443
905
79
85
220
329
2,659
583
450
919
80
85
218
324
-5
-7
-14
—1
0
4,158
77
627
445
601
413
665
331
572
427
4,127
77
626
430
601
414
670
332
571
406
1,808
411
515
468
214
1,585
403
509
460
213
2,142
228
422
317
1,175
2,112
216
420
315
1,161
852
117
94
55
246
77
102
123
38
857
118
94
57
251
77
102
121
37
2,884
506
282
2,096
2,871
508
282
2,081
2,993
213
150
79
1,564
268
719
2,973
208
150
80
1,553
267
715
8,719
4,280
1,359
3,080
8,634
4,238
1,347
3,049
7,896
2,091
924
2,584
1,569
728
0
-1
-25
-1
+2
+5
+31
0
+1
+15
0
-1
-5
-1
+1
+21
+23
+8
+6
+8
+1
+30
+12
+2
+2
+14
-5
-1
0
-2
-5
0
0
+2
+1
+13
—2
0
+15
-1.6
-.2
-.7
-.9
-1.5
-1.5
-1.6
+.2
+1.3
+1.7
+.5
+.2
+3.5
(2)
-.5
+.2
+5.2
+1.4
+1.9
+1.2
+1.7
+.6
+1.4
+5.5
+.4
+.7
+1.2
-.7
-1.0
+.2
-3.5
-1.9
+.3
+.3
+.9
+1.5
+.5
-.4
-.1
+.7
Revised series—comparablefiguresback to 1937 available on request.
Less than Ho of 1 percent.
December 1940
Change, December
1940 to December
1941
2,415
537
408
800
75
83
199
313
3,826
73
560
372
542
382
643
307
515
432
+273
+26
+17
+6
+123
+17
+84
+662
+269
+142
+251
+650
+215
-1-86
+224
+64
+62
+224
+41
+35
+105
+4
+2
+21
+16
+332
+4
+67
+73
+59
+31
+22
+24
+57
—5
1,436
378
470
395
193
+172
+33
+45
+73
2,023
195
435
296
1,097
783
113
86
53
222
71
92
113
33
+119
+33
-13
+21
+78
+69
+4
+8
+2
+24
+6
+10
+10
+5
2,533
441
243
1,849
+351
+65
+39
+247
+21
+10.0
+13.5
+12.0
+8.9
+8.6
+6.8
+13.3
+8.2
+6.7
+11.7
+8.9
+9.0
+11.4
+10.2
+9.5
+4.3
+9.4
+9.3
+7.7
+8.6
+13.2
+4.9
+3.1
+10.4
+5.2
+8.7
+5.5
+11.9
+19.6
+11.0
+8.1
+3.4
+7.6
+11.2
-1.0
+12.0
+8.6
+9.7
+18.5
+11.2
+5.9
+17.1
-3.1
+7.1
+7.1
+8.9
+3.8
+9.4
+4.5
+10.8
+8.0
+10.7
+8.8
+15. 6
+13.9
+14.7
+16.2
+13.4
Industrial and Business Employment
Monthly reports on employment and pay rolls are available for
157 manufacturing industries; 16 nonmanufacturing industries, including private building construction; water transportation; and class I
steam railroads. The reports for the first 2 of these groups—manufacturing and nonmanufacturing—are based on sample surveys by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figures on water transportation are
based on estimates prepared by the Maritime Commission and those
on class I steam railroads are compiled by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The employment, pay-roll, hours, and earnings figures for manufacturing, mining, laundries, and dyeing and cleaning, cover wage
earners only; but the figures for public utilities, brokerage, insurance,
and hotels, relate to all employees except corporation officers and
executives, while for trade they relate to all employees except corporation officers, executives, and other employees whose duties are mainly
supervisory. For crude-petroleum production they cover wage earners
and clerical field force. The coverage of the reporting samples for the
various nonmanufacturing industries ranges from approximately 25
percent for wholesale and retail trade, dyeing and cleaning, and insurance, to approximately 80 percent for quarrying and nonmetallic
mining, anthracite mining, and public utilities, and 90 percent for
metal mining.
The general manufacturing indexes are computed from reports supplied by representative manufacturing establishments in 90 of the 157
industries surveyed. These reports cover more than 55 percent of the
total wage earners in all manufacturing industries of the country and
more than 65 percent of the wage earners in the 90 industries covered.
Data for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries are
based on reports of the number of employees and the amount of pay
rolls for the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
The average weekly earnings shown in tables 5 and 6 are computed
by dividing the weekly pay rolls in the reporting establishments by the
total number of full- and part-time employees reported. As not all
reporting establishments supply information on man-hours, average
hours worked per week and average hourly earnings are necessarily
based on data furnished by a slightly smaller number of reporting firms.
Because of variation in the size and composition of the reporting sample,
the average hours per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly
earnings shown may not be strictly comparable from month to month.
The sample, however, is believed to be sufficiently adequate in virtually
all instances to indicate the general movement of earnings and hours
over the period shown. The changes from the preceding month, expressed as percentages, are based on identical lists of firms for the 2
10
months, but the changes from December 1940 are computed from chain
indexes based on the month-to-month percentage changes.
EMPLOYMENT AND PAY-ROLL INDEXES, AVERAGE HOURS, AND
AVERAGE EARNINGS
The indexes of employment and pay rolls as well as average hours
worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings
in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries in December 1941
are shown in table 5. Percentage changes from November 1941 and
December 1940 are also given.
Employment and pay-roll indexes, as well as average hours worked
per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings for
October, November, and December, 1941, where available, are presented in table 6. The October and November figures, where given,
may differ in some instances from those previously published because
of revisions necessitated primarily by the inclusion of late reports.
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are given in table 7 for 55 additional manufacturing industries for the months of October, November,
and December, 1941. These indexes are based on 1939 as 100 and are
available in mimeographed form for the period from January 1939 to
January 1941, inclusive.
In table 8 indexes of employment and pay rolls are given for all
manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and nondurablegoods groups of manufacturing industries, and for each of 13 nonmanufacturing industries, by months, from December 1940 to December 1941, inclusive. The chart on page 12 indicates the trend of factory
employment and pay rolls from January 1919 to December 1941.
Indexes of factory employment by metropolitan areas and cities of
100,000 population or over according to the 1930 Census of Population
are given in table 9 for November and December 1941 and December
1940, together with percentage changes from November to December
1941 and from December 1940 to December 1941.
Use of average hourly earnings in "escalator" clauses.—Average
hourly earnings of wage earners, such as those shown in tables 4
and 5, have been compiled regularly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
since 1932. These averages are published for the use of those who
wish either to compare the average earnings of wage earners in different industries, or to study the changes in average earnings over a
period of time.
Certain characteristics of the average earnings should be indicated.
The average of the actual earnings of wage earners as a group may
change from one period to another for either of two reasons: (1) By
reason of changes in the wages paid or (2) by reason of changes in the
composition of the group of wage earners actually at work in different
periods. As an example of the latter cause of change, it is evident
11
that if, from one month to the next, the number of wage earners
employed in a high-wage industry increases proportionally more than
employment generally has increase^, the average of actual earnings
for the group as a whole will increase. This increase might take place
even though there were no changes whatsoever in the earnings of any
wage earner in any one of the establishments. It is apparent, therefore, that the Bureau's averages reflect both changes in the actual
hourly rates paid as well as changes in the composition of the wage
earners in the group. The averages contained in tables 5 and 6 for
all manufacturing, for durable goods, for nondurable goods, and for
the various subgroups of industries, such as "iron and steel and their
products/' reflect both types of influence upon hourly earnings; and
they measure the average of the actual earnings of the wage earners
actually at work in each respective period.
To an increasing extent, use is being made of these average hourly
earnings figures in so-called "escalator" clauses in Government contracts. These are designed to protect contractors from losses that
might arise from general wage increases over which they could exercise
no control. A number of contracts extending over many months have
been written recently with clauses that provide for increased payments
to the contractor in case of increases in the average of the hourly
earnings in the durable-goods industries.
It should be pointed out that the characteristics of the Bureau's
average hourly earnings figures, as described above, make it desirable
to use these averages for other than their designed purpose with a certain degree of caution. The purpose for which they were compiled
limits their usefulness, especially in July and August, as a measure of
change in labor rates. In these months the averages usually show a
seasonal movement unrelated to rates of pay. For example, the average hourly earnings figure in the durable-goods industries dropped
from 73.2 cents in June 1940 to 72.7 cents in July 1940. This drop
was due not to a general decline in wages in this period but almost
entirely to the fact that employment in the automobile industry declined sharply as the result of model changes. This industry is a highwage industry in which the average hourly earnings were about 95
cents an hour. Between June and July 1940 employment in the automobile industry dropped from 104.9 to 82.3. This relative decline,
of a purely seasonal character, in the number of highly paid automobile workers was very largely responsible for the decline of half a
cent noted in the average hourly earnings in durable-goods industries.
By way of illustration of the problem involved it would be possible
to construct an index of earnings that was unrelated to changes in
the relative occupational composition of the group workers actually at
work. For example, giving the averages for the several industries the
same weights in July and August 1940 that they had in June 1940 and
EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
ALL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
1923-25-100
INDEX
200
INDEX
200
180
180
f
/
160
140
120
V
100 f
80
ft
// \
ft
- P M P 1 OYMF
}
J
140
120
100
80
\
1V
60
ft
r
If
160
60
/
PAY ROLLS^^^
/
40
20
40
1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
UNITEO STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
ADJUSTED TO 1939 C
20
13
considering only the influence of changes in average earnings in each
industry, we find no change in the rate of earnings from June to July
and approximately the same percentage change as is shown by the
published figures from July to August. This means that from June
1940 to August 1940 the currently published figures show a slight
decline over this 3-month interval whereas the series computed with
constant weights show a small gain.
It is not within the province of the Bureau to indicate the type of
average that was contemplated by the contracting parties in the contracts already drawn; least of all can the method of compiling an
average be changed. It is obvious, however, that in incorporating
any statistical series in legal documents careful consideration should
be given to the purpose for which the figures were originally compiled
and to their relevance to some new purpose. The officials of the
Bureau are at the disposal of all those who wish to apply any of the
Bureau's series to administrative problems. Carefully interpreted
and applied, these data have a present usefulness far greater than
was imagined in the past. Their appropriate adaptation to new uses
involves on the one hand a careful consideration by the Bureau of
the purposes of the contracting parties; on the other, consultation
with the Bureau to discover whether the new figures as they stand
meet the purposes in mind.
TABLE 5.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, December 1941
MANUFACTURING
|lndexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100. For "all manufacturing," "durable goods," "nondurable goods," and "aluminum manufactures," they have been adjusted to
preliminary 1939 census figures. The indexes for all other manufacturing groups and industries have been adjusted to 1937 census figures, except as otherwise noted, and are not
comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to August 1939. Comparable series available upon request]
Employment
Industry
All manufacturing
Average weekly earnings i
Pay rolls
Average hours worked
per week i
Average hourly
earnings 1
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Index change from— Index change from— Decem- change from— Decem- change from— Decem- change from—
DecemDecember 1941 Novem- Decem- ber 1941 Novem- Decem- ber 1941 Novem- Decem- ber 1941 Novem- Decem- ber 1941 Novem- December 1941 ber 1940
ber 1941 ber 1940
ber 1941 ber 1940
ber 1941 ber 1940
ber 1941 ber 1940
2
134.3
-0.4
+15.6
170.2
+2.9
+39.1
$33.69
+3.3
+20.3
41.2
2
144.3
124.7
-.2
-.6
+22.6
+8.6
195.9
141.3
+2.9
+2.8
+48.7
+26.0
38.65
26.90
+3.2
+3.4
+21.4
+16.1
42.8
39.4
138.5
148.6
169.6
98.1
+.6
+.6
-.2
+13.9
+14.8
+25.9
+12.2
175.0
185.0.
259.5
120.2
+1.8
+1.0
+2.4
+2.0
+31.6
+30.2
+45.8
+23.7
37.00
39.26
36.81
29.46
+2.1
+15.5
+13.5
+15.7
+10.4
41.4
40.0
44.1
41.3
+19.0
+23.7
+17.5
+14.4
+17.7
44.6
47.1
43.5
41.0
42.1
+26.5
+11.5
+19.4
+13.0
45.3
40.2
42.9
41.3
-2.7
+19.7
+14.4
47.1
40.4
Durable goods
Nondurable goods 2
+2.8
+2.8
+2.2
4-3.6
Cents
78.7
+0.8
+15.2
+3.8
+2.8
87.1
69.5
+.6
4TieT2
+12.4
+1.4
+.2
+2.4
+.5
+1.5
+4.4
+1.5
+3.5
+3.9
+4.6
+3.0
+3.2
+6.1
+.5
+.6
89.4
98.3
83.4
71.2
+14.6
+14.2
+16.1
+16.1
+5.7
+4.1
+4.9
+1.2
+3.3
+6.4
-1.4
+4.3
+1.9
73.5
96.4
76.3
79.5
75.2
+.7
+.3
—.5
+1.4
-.2
+1.4
+1.1
+.6
+1.3
+3.3
—.3
+1.8
-3.4
+3.6
-2.7
76.5
79.8
+.4
+16.4
+17.1
+5.8
-3.4
87.9
92.4
+15.7
+13.3
+9.8
94.7
+1.4
+.6
+3.4
+1.1
Durable goods
[ron and steel and their products, not including
machinery _
_
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills- _
B olts, nuts, washers, and rivets..
Cast-iron pipe
_ _
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
Forcings, 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 calculating machines
_
-.2
+.5
+1.8
+2.2
+1.6
+5.9
+2.7
+4.1
+5.3
+8.0
+2.8
+5.1
+5.1
+.9
134.1
117.6
113.8
97.3
220.2
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+2.7
+.3
-.3
-2.0
+22.1
+32.5
+1.1
+.8
+12.2
165.2
196.0
152.7
109.5
297.6
+2.8
+8.7
+3.0
+3.7
+3.2
+45.3
+63.8
+18.9
+15.2
+32.0
32.39
45.20
33.18
32.62
31.64
123.9
104.3
105.7
134.4
-1.0
-5.3
-1.8
-.4
+20.7
+.4
+16.9
+35.9
160.5
112.3
120.1
173.6
+6.9
-2.5
+3.2
+4.7
+52.8
+12.0
+39.6
+53.5
38.79
30.42
36.33
28.89
149.7
199.4
+1.7
+28.3
-3.6
210.5
266.8
+2.6
-4.9
+53.5
+10.2
35.97
32.07
183.6
167.2
+1.2
+34.9
— 1 +16.8
271.3
219.0
+6.3
-2.2
+66.4
+27.8
40,74
35.96
+5.0
+23.4
+9.4
46.3
39.0
+3.5
-2.0
176.3
-.4
+30.4
239.4
+7.3
+61.6
42.32
+7.7
+24.0
45.1
+4.2
-2.2
-2.6
-.5
-.3
-5.6
86.1
75.7
85.4
70.3
+.6
+12.3
+18.7
+12.1
+12.9
+13.1
+18.8
+11.7
+14.4
+10.4
+13.2
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Engines, turbines, water wheols, and windmills
F o u n d r y and machine-shop products,.
Machine tools
Radios and phonographs
Textile machinery and p a r t s ,
Typewriters and parts-
39.12
(*)
+31. 8
202.8
+.7
+.4
+38.2
+27.0
+22.4
287.9
150.1
235.0
()
+6.0
(5)
+7.3
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+6.2
(5)
+76.0
+ 19.5
44.7
+39.4
+21.6
+23.3
+27.2
+30.5
+30.5
49.9
46.3
53.8
44.6
48.5
46.7
+22.9
+25.9
+14.3
+30.9
+37.1
+28. 0
42.2
46.2
37.1
42.4
46.7
46.0
-5.6
+6.0
+4.0
+7.0
+16.4
+29.0
+13. 2
43.4
45.7
44.5
+4.3
+7.1
+5. 5
+18.0
+12.6
+16.2
+6.6
+15.1
41.8
43.1
41.2
44.3
-.7
+7.2
+3.4
-1.8
+15.5
+19.1
39.7
41.8
-1.3
+15.5
+11.5
42.7
37.6
+5.0
+4.7
+4.8
+7.8
+6.6
+6.1
53.02
39. 86
48.82
32.19
37.80
35. 62
+3.2
+5.5
+3.5
+5.4
+3.6
+4.3
219.1
109.4
161.8
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Aircraft....
Automobiles 8
Cars, electric- and steam-railroads
Locomotives 9 .
Shipbuilding.
STonferrous metals and their products 4_
A l u m i n u m manufactures 4 1 0
Brass, bronze, and copper products
Clocks a n d watches a n d time-recording dpvicesJewelry
Lighting equipment
Silverware and plated ware
.. .
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145.5
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+6.2
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+29.1
36.86
40.65
40.81
113.3
116.0
113.9
86.1
101.3
-2.4
-3.2
-4.8
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+1.0
+6.7
+ 11.3
+3.6
+9.2
+4.8
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123.1
100. 8
123. 9
-2.9
+5.0
-1.1
-1.4
+2.6
+25. 8
+25.4
+20.4
+16.4
+20.7
29.50
28.08
33. 62
34. 18
34.48
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Furniture.
Lumber:
Millwork.
Sawmills-.
76.6
106.8
-1.7
-1.5
+3.9
+9.7
85.8
120.9
+20.0
+30.5
24.35
26.81
74.4
65. 3
-1.4
-1.7
+4.0
+.9
71.8
68.0
+1.2
-3.1
+20.2
+12.7
26.66
21.50
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Brick, tile, a n d terra cotta
CementGlass
Marble, granite, slate, a n d other products
PotteryNondurable goods
Textiles and their products..
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs_
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing textilesHats, fur-felt _
Hosiery
Knitted outerwear 4 . .
Knitted underwear.
Knitted cloth
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods.
99.7
74.3
80.7
132.0
43.7
122. 3
-1.8
-2.6
-2. 1
-.9
-4.2
-1.2
+ 12.4
+13.9
+12. 5
+13. 0
-3.2
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106.8
72.5
89.0
172.2
35.0
130.8
+.7
+1.7
+1.0
+1.7
+24.6
+27.6
+22.9
+25.1
+4.9
+28.3
29.26
25.84
31.27
31.80
28.24
27. 11
+2.5
+2.0
+.1
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+5.4
+3.0
+10.9
+11.9
+9.1
+10.7
+8.3
+10.8
38.6
38.9
39.9
38.1
38.5
38.4
+2.2
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-.4
+5.6
+5.8
+9.1
+11.3
+21.1
122.1
123.6
95.2
139.8
129.2
141.1
82.4
163.5
73.6
98.1
144.4
62.2
133.8
+3.3
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+.8
+3.3
+1.0
+6.6
+9.0
+2.5
-4.4
+.9
+3.4
+2.2
+7.3
+25.1
+29. 3
+24.9
+42.6
+41.3
+16.7
+1.2
+2.2
+19.7
+32.2
+11.2
+14. 3
+38. 9
22.30
22.46
29.24
20.27
23.56
25.58
29.94
21.24
19.61
19.45
22.68
21.18
27.99
+3.7
+3.8
+1.0
+3.3
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I +2.5
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+22.3
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+16.7
+16.2
+12.1
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+10.3
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39.6
38.8
40.2
41.1
40.4
35.8
37.3
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39.2
38.9
40.1
+2.8
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+2.8
+1.8
+4.6
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+1.9
See footnotes a t end of table.
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(5)
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-6.1
+7.5
+11.0
+7.1
+6.5
+9.2
+8.1
43.78
42.22
40.97
39.38
46.62
49.19
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I
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-1.0
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-1.2
— 1.3
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+2.4
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+3.1
+9.8
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+2.9
-2.3
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+7.4
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-.4
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-5.7
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87.7
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106.3
85.8
90.8
72.2
78.1
76.2
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103.5
91.6
110.7
92.3
99.8
106.0
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+22.9
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89.0
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70.6
65.7
81.5
76.8
86.6
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60.2
64.2
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-1.2
62.3
57.2
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-1.2
-1.5
-.4
75.3
66.7
78.4
84.1
73.3
70.7
+3.4
+3.8
+2.4
+5.6
+2.9
+1.4
+1.2
+2.7
+2.0
+3.8
-1.6
+3.0
+3.2
58.3
57.1
75.5
50.5
57.5
62.3
84.3
57.2
52.4
50.3
57.9
54.4
69.9
+.7
+4.7
+.5
—. 7
+2.0
+.5
+.5
+.3
+.1
+.6
+.1
o
+.4
+1.1
-.5
-.4
+ 1.7
+.9
+.8
+.8
+ (6)
+.4
-.1
+1.0
+1.6
+.6
+.5
+4.4
+2.2
+.3
+.9
+13.7
+16.2
+13.1
+12.8
+11.4
+14.0
+ 10.9
+10.0
+4.2
+11.7
+14.7
+17.6
+11.8
+21.3
+13.5
+14.3
+12.2
+7.0
+7.9
+14.0
+12.8
+18.9
+22.7
TABLE 5.—Employment* Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, December 1941—Continued
M ANUF ACTUE ING—Continued
Employment
Industry
Average weekly earnings
Pay rolls
Average hours worked
per week
Average hourly earnings
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Index change from— Index , c h a n § e f r o m - Decem-i change from— Decem- change from— Decem- change from—
DeeemDecember 1941 Novem-j Decem- ber 1941 Novem- i Decem- ber 1941 Novem- Decem- ber 1941 Novem- Decem- ber 1941 Novem- December 1941 ber 1940
ber 1941 ber 1940
ber 1941 ber 1940
ber 1941 ber 1940
ber 1941 ber 1940
Ncndurable goods—Continued
Textiles and their products—Continued.
Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's
Corsets and allied garments..
Men's furnishings *
Millinery
Shirts and collars-
123.2
120.7
162.7
113.4
119.9
60.1
135.1
-1.3
-.3
-1.0
-6.8
-7.9
-1.9
-1.4
+*5
-2.7
-1.2
+10.6
106.7
99.5
121.8
+7.8
+5.2
+11.1
+5.2
+19.2
+4.8
+1.4
+2.2
+6.2 +10.2
-14.1
-3.1
+4.6
+1.7
157.1
157.5
358.6
95.6
129.4
123.3
89.3
67.1
168.5
254.8
98.2
-1.5
+3.0
-1.8
+2.7
-1.7
+3.3
76.7
74.1
76.9
+1.3
-1.4
+7.4
+15.5
+11.4
144.1
192.6
169.9
140.7
151.5
289.4
101.4
123.2
105.6
78.9
71.0
137.7
228.0
98.6
-3.4
-1.4
-.5
-2.2
-24.0
-4.0
-.1
-2.7
67.4
56.5
68.7
Paper and printing..
Boxes, paper
Paper and pulp.
128.3
144.7
129.1
Q
+.3
+16.8 $21.83
+29.1 23.61
+6.3
22.00
+12.9
20.27
-.2
16.40
-4.4
20.14
+33.4 18.05
+3.3
+2.5
+6.9
+10.0
+ 12.6
+3.4
+35.9
+35.9
+36.1
24.87
23.36
31.20
-.4
+18.6
+14.3
28.33
28.84
36. 40
24.94
19.87
22.37
30.43
32.27
31.87
29.24
28.09
+7.3
+9.2
+2.9
+3.2
+.1
+2.7
+.4
-1.2
+2.3
+7.6
+3.0
+3.4
111.7
+1.9
111.5
+2 2
133.3
+5>
138.4
-7.5
132.9 -15.4
39. 6 - 1 . 6
153.3
-1.5
+2.6 +9.5
+3.1 +8.2
+.5 +14.4
Leather and its manufactures..
Boots and shoes..
Leather..
Food and kindred products....
Baking 4
Beverages —
Butter
Canning and preservingConfectionery..
Flour
Ice cream
Slaughtering and meat packingSugar, beet
Sugar refining, cane
Tobacco manufactures
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff.
Cigars and cigarettes.
95.2
98.2
+5.1
+11. 6
-1.4
6
+2.1 +19.
+13.6
-1.8
-25.0
-1.8
+39.9
+19.0
+7.5 +22.6
+9.9
+.2
+22.7
+9.8
-3.2
-17.3
+9.4 +15.5
-.5
+ 13.8
+6.2
+3.7
-.9
+14.8
+4.8
+L8
+19.3
+32.4
+32.2
20.67
21.22
20.57
34.04
26.60
32.42
-.6
-8.2
+.3
-.1
-3.8
+7.6
+1.0
+.7
+1.0
+3.5
+.9
+1.5
+11.2
+15.1
+7.4
+12.3
+2.8
-3.3
+20.5
35.1
35.8
33.7
37.3
32.8
27.7
38.9
+2.4
+2.8
+3.0
+ 1.2
+24.2
+25.7
+18.9
38.7
38.1
40.9
+10.0
+8.6
+7.7
+7.9
+17.3
+13.4
+20.8
+7.6
+11.4
~(6)
+10.4
40.7
41.5
39.9
45.1
36.0
41.0
44.3
45.3
40.7
45. 3
40.7
+6.0
+7.5
+1.4
+1.4
+10.8
+8.1
+10.9
+11.1
+14.5
39.1
37.2
39.3
41.0
42.2
43.4
-9.6
+3.2
+3.7
-1.2
+3.5
+2.3
+6.6
-3.3
+.2
-10.7
-6.7
+9.4
Cents
60.9
66.1
61.9
54.3
49.0
68.4
46.8
+5.5
+6.4
+2.0
64.9
61.8
76.4
+.5
+.5
+4.8
70.3
69.5
92.2
54.1
56.6
55.1
67.5
69.8
78.3
64.0
69.0
— .4
+1.8
+4.9
+.7
+4.8
-7.5
+7.4
+1.3
+2.4
+1.3
+1.6
+.5
+.5
+6.1
+2.0
+9.9
+1.0
-3.3
-13.5
+5.4
+3.0
+.6
+2.9
+4.2
+2.5
+6.3
+0.8
0
+3.1
-.9
+1.6
-2.0
-3.5
+.8
+.7
+1.5
+1.3
+1.2
+9.8
+9.3
+10.6
+12.5
+15.0
+7.6
+10.9
+17.5
+17.4
+16.5
+.6
+2.3
+2.9
-1.3
+3.0
+.2
+9.9
+8.0
+3.0
+8.8
+11.1
+11.8
+10.4
+8.2
+15.1
+13.1
+4.8
53.0
57.4
52.6
-.4
-1.5
-.3
+8.0
+6.9
+8.3
85.5
63.4
74.7
+1.7
+.6
+.9
+6.0
+ 12.0
+11.8
+)
Printing ana publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals
110.0
122.3
+1.7
+3.5
+4.5
+2.0
109.7
128.5
+4.8
+10.4
+12.0
+10.8
34.86
42.65
+3.1
+6.7
+7.2
+8.6
41.3
37.4
+2.8
+2.9
+3.9
+2.2
84.3
111.2
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products <
Petroleum refining
Other than petroleum refining 4 .
C hemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meaL
Druggists' preparationsExplosives *
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products.
Soap..
148.6
129.3
153.2
185.9
116.7
149.2
5
+.1
+.1
+18.2
+8.0
+20.5
+24.0
-9.6
+28.9
(5)
+11.4
+12.8
+1.9
+8.9
200.9
173.9
209.2
271.6
125.5
184.0
5
+2.7
+3.6
+2.4
+2.7
-4.5
-2.2
+2.7
+3.5
+2.5
+2.1
+.6
-2.9
+6.1
+2.5
+2.5
+2.1
+18.1
+15.9
+19.4
+16.7
+7.3
+9.1
+30.5
+19.4
+12.5
+14.7
+15.4
40.5
37.9
41.2
41.1
46.6
40.5
47.0
36.3
41.6
39.1
40.1
+1.9
+1.4
+2.0
+7.1
+2.2
+1.6
-3.6
36.19
41.74
34.39
38.64
17.30
27.48
44.85
18.44
34.20
31.13
34.09
+1.4
+3.4
106.2
176.0
391.2
133.5
+39.6
+25.2
+43.9
+44.6
-2.9
+40.7
(5)
+31.9
+26.8
+17.0
+25.6
-.2
-.5
88.1
110.9
81.5
94.1
36.8
64.7
95.4
50.8
82.4
79.7
84.9
Bubber products
Rubber boots and shoes J1
Rubber tires and inner tubes-.
Rubber goods, other.
110,8
80.8
85.4
190.3
+13.6
+20.7
+11.1
+14.2
138.0
109.3
109.5
238.9
-2.1
-1.0
-6.9
+4.5
+24.2
+34.4
+13.6
+37.4
33.84
30.78
37.40
30.45
-1.6
+9.3
+11.5
+2.2
+20.3
38.8
41.7
35.0
41.7
-2.0
-4.9
-6.9
+3.5
88.0
73. S
107.2
73.0
Cents
100.7
105.7
85.0
66.4
()
105. 8
142.2
321.1
92.3
0
+.6
-5.1
+.8
(5)
+4.5Q
-!5
-4.3
-.6
-1.1
-1.2
+.1
()
(5)
+.8
+.1
-5.8
-4.3
+.9
+1.0
+.9
-2.1
+4.5
+2.7
+2.0
-.8
-.9
-1.2
-.3
-5.4
+2.4
+.5
-1.2
+2.1
+19.5
+2.3
+1.6
+.6
+2.4
+3.7
+4.6
+.9
+1.3
+1.1
+.2
-1.2
+1.5
-.8
+.5
+3.0
+1.6
+15.4
+14.7
+16.6
+16.1
+10.0
+6.6
+9.3
+15. 9
+10. 8
+15.0
+15.9
+.5
+.4
-.2
+1.8
+12.5
+17.0
+9.6
+16.0
(
+9.6
+18.1
+13.5
+12.7
+9.8
_(6)
NONMANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929=100, except for class I railroads, which are based on 1935-39 as 100]
Coal mining: 12 J
Anthracite 12s_.
Bituminous
Metalliferous mining *4
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining.
Crude-petroleum production I5 .
Public utilities:
1617
Telephone and telegraph 1617
_
Electric light and power 1617 ]
Street railways and busses
Trade:
Wholesale
i« i»_.
Retail16»•__.
Food I?
General iT
merchandising *• 17..
Apparel 17
Furniture 17
Automotive
_
Lumber 17
Hotels (year-round)
»
i« «>_
Laundries 12
..
Dyeing and cleaning «.
See footnotes at end of table.
49.1
95.4
79.5
50.8
61.0
89.6
93.3
70.4
96.5
112.8
114.0
161.0
107.6
80.7
85.8
79.8
95.6
108.4
113.1
-14.1
+2.9
+1.3
-2.6
+1.1
-16.0
+30.8
+24.9
+31.8
+16.1
$24.05
33.47
36.20
27.87
39.37
-12.2
+2.6
+1.2
+.8
+.9
-12.9
+23.6
+13.4
+17.7
+15.4
23.6
32.0
42.7
42.1
38.6
-13.1
+2.2
+1.2
+.1
+2.2
-20.5
+3.9
+.3
+00
-3.4
-3.5
+5.9
+10.1
+12.0
+.2
+.6
35.9
119.6
90.9
56.0
64.9
-.5
-.1
+12.4
+2.2
+2.9
124.1
116.3
80.1
+4.9
+1.0
+2.4
+19.9
+9.8
+9.5
33.83
38.00
37.14
+5.4
+1.1
+2.2
+6.7
+7.4
+6.5
40.5
40.3
47.0
+1.5
+1.1
+1.7
+2.8
+2.8
84.1
94.7
78.1
+4.4
+9.5
+4.3
+1.9
+7.1
+27.9 . +5.8
+8.7
+4.1
+2.4
-1.5
-.3
-2.5
-1.8
+4.9
-.5
+3.3
-.5
+8.0
-3.5
+9.5
92.7
107.9
115.4
150.6
101.7
78.8
87.2
83.0
93.5
102.7
88.5
+1.2
+8.9
+2.3
+27.8
+7.6
+5.5
+11.1
+10.9
+16.8
+13.3
+8.9
+3.3
+2.3
+14.5
+11.2
+15.1
+16.8
33.75
21.79
25.75
18.68
22.35
30.41
30.27
29.12
16.91
19.68
21.79
+.9
+6.5
+6.3
+8.9
+7.1
+4.7
+4.7
+5.0
+9.1
+7.6
+6.6
+6.7
41.2
42.3
41.9
40.1
38.5
44.5
47.3
42.7
45.3
42.9
42.4
-4-1.6
+1.4
+.4
+5.0
+1.5
+2.1
-.5
-L6
-3.9
81.8
56.1
57.3
45.7
58.1
70.0
64.6
69.5
36.7
46.2
52.4
-2.3
+.2
+.2
+.1
0
+.3
+.8
-4.9
-.5
+.4
-L0
+3.0
+.4
+1.9
+.8
+1.2
-1.4
+.5
+2.0
6
+()
+.6
5
0
+3^8
+4.9
-.2
-.1
-1.5
-1.8
-.9
+.4
_(6)
+'l
+0.6
0
+.4
-1.1
+4.3
+•2
+•7
-.6
-2.7
-.1
-4.7
-3.0
-1.3
-.6
+.7
+1.1
+.2
-1.4
+4.1
+4.8
+6.6
+6.5
+6.7
+9.0
+7.1
+6.1
+2.9
+5.8
+9.8
+7.8
+7.2
+6.0
TABLE f>. -Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, December 1941—Continued
NONMANUFACTLRING—Continued
Industry
Brokerage 16i«2! _
[nsurance
Building construction
Water transportation 23.24
Class I steam railroads _
Average hours worked
per week
Average hourly earnings
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Index change from— Decem- change from- Decem- change from- Decem- change fromIndex change fromDecemDecember 1941
ber 1941
ber 1941
ber 1941
ber 1941
Novem- DecemNovem- DecemNovem- DecemNovem- DecemNovem- December 1941 ber 1940
ber 1941 ber 1940
ber 1941 ber 1940
ber 1941 ber 1940
ber 1941 ber 1940
Cents
(22)
(22)
(22)
77.5
116. 1
+0.4
+.4
-5.7
+.1
-1.5
-9.5
+2.4
+2.1
+1.7
+15. 5
(22)
(22)
(22)
(22)
(22)
+1.2
+1.5
-.7
—5. 7
(22)
+5.2
+17.0
(22)
(22)
(22)
1 Mimeographed sheets giving averages by years, 1932 to 1939, inclusive, and by months,
January 1938 to August 1940, inclusive, available on request. Average hours and average
hourly earnings are computed from data supplied by a smaller number of establishments
than average weekly earnings, as not all reporting firms furnish man-hours. The figures
are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the size and
composition
of the reporting sample.
2
See tables 9, 10, and 11 in the December 1940 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls"
for comparable series back to January 1919 for all manufacturing and back to January
1923
for the durable- and nondurable-goods groups.
3
See table 7 in the April 1941 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls" for revised figures
from
January 1940 to March 1941.
1
Revisions in the following industries and groups have been made as indicated:
Plumbers' supplies.—September 1941 average weekly earnings and average hourly
earnings to $30.97 and 76.4 cents.
Nonferrous metals and their products.—September 1941 employment and pay-roll
indexes to 146.4 and 185.6.
Aluminum manufactures.—September 1941 employment and pay-roll indexes to 245.5
and 357.7; September average weekly earnings and average hourly earnings to $36.21
and 85.4 cents.
Knitted outerwear.—August 1941 average weekly and hourly earnings to $19.77 and 50.6
cents; September 1941 employment index to 82.5.
Men's furnishings.—September 1941 employment and pay-roll indexes to 130.5 and
155.8; September average weekly earnings, average hours, and average hourly
earnings to $17.72, 37.3 hours, and 46.1 cents.
Beverages.—September 1941 employment index to 315.2; September average weekly
and hourly earnings to $37.38 and 91.8 cents.
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products group.—-August and September 1941 employ-
Average weekly earnings
Pay roll?
Employment
$40. 55
38.13
37.73
(22)
(22)
+0.8 +4.3
+1.1 ++2.7
14.6
+5.3
(22)
(22)
(22)
(22^
(22)
(22)
35.4
(22)
(22)
(22)
(22)
+2.2
(22)
(22)
(22)
(22)
+4.2
(22)
(22)
(22)
(22)
106.6
(22)
(22)
(22)
(22)
+3.0
(22)
(22)
(22)
(22)
+9.9
(22)
(22)
9
See footnote 7 in table 5 of October 1941 "Employment and Pay Rolls" for revised
employment and pay-roll indexes, average hours worked per week, average hourly
earnings, and average weekly earnings in "Locomotives," August 1940 to July 1941, inclusive.
10
See table 8 in March 1941 "Employment and Pay Rolls" pamphlet for revised figures
for January 1935 to February 1941.
11 Rubber boots and shoes.—Because of expansion in the reporting sample average weekly
earnings and average hourly earnings are not comparable with those previously published for September 1941 and prior months. (Comparable September figures are $30.67
and 72.0 cents.)
12 Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented
in January
1938 issue of pamphlet.
13 See table 7 of October 1940 "Employment and Pay Rolls" for revised employment
and pay-roll indexes, average hours worked per week, average hourly earnings, and
average weekly earnings in anthracite mining, February 1940 to September 1940, inclusive.
14
See table 7 of February 1941 pamphlet for revised figures for metalliferous mining from
January 1938 to January 1941, inclusive.
is Does not include well drilling or rig building.
16
Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not 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.
" Retail-trade indexes adjusted to 1935 census and public-utility indexes to 1937 census.
Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to January 1940 or in Monthly
Labor Review prior to April 1940, with but one exception, retail furniture, which has
been revised since publication of July 1940 pamphlet back to January 1936. Comparable
series for earlier months available upon request.
meut indexes to 142.0 and 146.6; pay-roll indexes to 180.0 and 187.0.
Chemicals, other than petroleum refining.—August and September 1941 employment
indexes to 145.4 and 150.9; pay-roll indexes to 186.4 and 193.3.
Explosives.—August and September 1941 average weekly earnings to $38.56 and $39.04;
average weekly hours to 43.1 and 43.2; average hourly earnings to 89.6 and 90.5
cents.
«Included
in total and group indexes, but not available for publication separately.
6
Less than M6 of 1 percent.
7
Adjusted on basis of a complete employment survey of the aircraft industry made
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for August 1940. Not comparable with previously
published indexes from January 1939 to August 1940, inclusive. Comparable figures for
this
period given in table 9 of the September 1940 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls."
s
The indexes for "Automobiles" have been adjusted to 1933 census figures, but not to
ater census figures because of problems involving integrated industries.
is Covers street-railways and trolley and motorbus operations of subsidiary, affiliated,
and successor companies; formerly "Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and maintenance."
*9 Indexes adjusted to 1933 census. Comparable series in November 1934 and subsequent issues of "Employment and Pay Rolls."
20 Cash payments only; additional value of board, room, and tips not included.
21 See note 18, table 9, in the July 1941 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls" for revised
average weekly earnings in the brokerage industry from January 1939 to January 1941.
22 Not available.
23 Based on estimates prepared by the United States Maritime Commission covering
employment on steam and motor merchant vessels of 1,000 gross tons or over in deep-sea
trades
only.
2 4 Preliminary—Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.
TABLE 6.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100. For "all manufacturing," "durable goods," "nondurable goods," and "aluminum manufactures," they have been adjusted to preliminary 1939 census figures. The indexes for all other manufacturing groups and industries have been adjusted to 1937 censusfigures,except as otherwise noted, and are not
comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to August 1939. Comparable series available upon request]
Industry-
All manufacturing 2_
Durable goods 2
Nondurable goods 2
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 3 4
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 calculating machines
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
Engines, turbines, waterwheels, and windmills.
Average weekly
earnings 1
Pay-roll index
Employment index
Average hours worked
per week i
Average hourly
earnings i
Decem- Novem- October Decem- Novem- October Decem- Novem- October Decem- Novem- October Decem- Novem- October
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
134.3
134.8
133.4
170.2
165.4
167.0
$33.69
$32.80
$32. 89
41.2
40.3
41.1
Cents
78.7
Cents
78.1
Cents
77.0
144.3
124.7
144.6
125.4
144.0
127.3
195.9
141.3
190.3
137.4
191.4
139.6
38.65
26.90
37.65
26.09
37.92
26.11
42.8
39.4
41.8
38.6
42.9
39.1
87.1
69.5
86.5
68.8
85.3
68.0
138.5
148.6
169. 6
98.1
138.8
147.8
168.7
98.3
139.4
147.9
169.9
98.0
175.0
185.0
259.5
120.2
171.9
183.2
253.4
117.9
173.4
181.1
255. 5
119.1
37.00
39.26
36.81
29.46
36.40
39.06
36.08
28.74
36.49
38.63
35.96
29.16
41.4
40.0
44.1
41.3
40.9
40.0
43.0
40.8
41.5
39.9
44.2
41.3
89.4
98.3
83.4
71.2
88.6
97.7
83.9
70.2
87.7
96.9
81.4
70.0
134.1117.6
113.8
97.3
220.2
132.5
114.5
113.4
97.6
224.6
131.6
114.0
115.2
99.2
227.2
165.2
196.0
152.7
109.5
297.6
160.7
180.3
148.2
105.6
288.4
157.7
182.1
151. 5
113.4
296.2
32.39
45.20
33.18
32.62
31.64
31.77
42.87
32.32
31.29
30.18
31.55
43.52
32.29
33.08
30.48
44.6
47.1
43.5
41.0
42.1
43.9
45.1
42.9
39.6
40.7
44.5
46.7
43.1
42.0
41.7
73.5
96.4
76.3
79.5
75.2
73.3
95.1
75.4
78.9
74.2
71.7
93.4
74.9
78.7
73.2
123.9
104.3
105.7
134.4
125.1
110.1
107.6
135.0
128.4
114.4
109.3
130.1
160.5
112.3
120.1
173.6
150.1
115.3
116.3
165.8
157.7
129.0
127.2
171.7
38.79
30.42
36.33
28.89
35.96
29.39
34. 59
27.39
37.00
31.70
37.59
29.56
45.3
40.2
42.9
41.3
43.4
38.9
41.6
38.9
44.9
41.9
44.4
41.9
86.1
75.7
85.4
70.3
83.4
75.7
83.9
70.7
82.6
75.8
85.2
70.8
149.7
199.4
147.3
203.8
146.0
204.9
210.5
266.8
205.2
280.4
202.2
277.1
35.97
32.07
35. 58
33.15
35.30
32.63
47.1
40.4
46.8
41.9
47.0
42.0
76.5
79.8
76.1
79.3
75.1
77.9
183.6
167.2
181.4
167.5
180.1
169.9
271.3
219.0
255.3
223.9
255.7
231.6
40.74
35.96
38.98
36.72
39.23
37.46
46.3
39.0
44.6
40.1
45.4
40.7
87.9
92.4
86.8
91.9
86.1
92.3
176.3
177.0
174.9
239.4
223.2
233.1
42.32
39.12
53.02
39.25
37.16
50.64
41.45
37.78
47.81
45.1
44.7
49.9
43.3
43.1
47.4
44.9
44.0
47.0
94.7
87.7
108.3
91.5
86.4
107.2
92.7
86.0
101.9
(5)
(5)
(6)
(5)
(5)
(6)
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
8
Foundry and machine-shop products..
Machine tools
Radios and phonographs
Textile machinery and parts.
Typewriters and parts.
Transportation equipment 6..
_
Aircraft
Automobiles 7
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad..
Locomotives8-.
Shipbuilding,.
Konferrous metals and their products
*
49
Aluminum manufactures
Brass, bronze, and copper products
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices
Jewelry
Lighting equipment
Silverware and plated ware
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.
Lumber and allied products..
Furniture.
Lumber:
MillworkSawmils.
Stone,clay, and glass products
Brick, tile, and terra cotta..
CementGlass
..
Marble, granite, slate, and other products... ..
Pottery..
ISO. 4
(«)
148.8
5
147.8
5
202.8
5
191.4
6
194.7
5
219.1
109.4
161.8
217.6
108.9
161.8
217.9
109.0
160.7
287.9
150.1
235.0
268.2
140.9
236.3
261.7
142.0
232.8
208.7
290.0
(5)
287.8
282.0
(5)
(5)
(5)
()
()
()
()
()
39.86
48.82
32.19
37.80
35.62
38.00
45.17
30.16
35.71
35.80
38.84
45.54
29.42
35.95
35.52
46.3
53.8
44.6
48.5
46.7
44.6
51.0
42.9
46.6
47.2
46.0
52.0
41.9
47.4
47.0
85.8
90.8
72.2
78.1
76.2
84.9
88.6
70.4
76.8
75.9
84.3
87.6
70.1
76.0
75.6
43.78
42.22
40.97
39.38
46.62
49.19
43.01
39.74
43. 84
36.62
42.00
45.90
43.60
39.20
44.32
37.69
42.12
47.84
42.2
46.2
37.1
42.4
46.7
46.0
41.4
44.3
39.3
40.3
44.9
42.9
43.0
45.2
40.7
42.6
45.8
45.4
103.5
91.6
110.7
92.3
99.8
106.0
104.2
90.2
111.6
91.0
93.5
107.0
101.9
87.0
109.1
88.5
92.0
105.9
36.86
40.65
40.81
29. 50 ~
28.08
33.62
34.18
34.48
34.72
37.01
37.79
29.64
25.90
32.35
34.40
33.92
35.09
36.43
38.24
30.10
27.10
34.38
34.41
33.38
43.4
45.7
44.5
41.8
43.1
41.2
44.3
39.8
41.6
42.4
42.3
42.1
40.2
39.9
45.2
39.3
42.7
42.5
43.1
43.3
43.1
42.4
45.7
39.5
84.8
89.0
91.8
70.6
65.7
81.5
76.8
86.6
83.1
8/. 2
89.4
70.5
64.5
81.0
76.4
86.2
85.8
89.0
69.6
63.2
81.1
75.5
84.5
210.4
203.2
116.2
5
129.7
128.9
(<0
(6)
(5)
(5)
145.5
147.4
193.1
113.3
116.0
113.9
86.1
101.3
146.0
(55)
()
116.1
119.8
119.6
86.5
100.3
117.8
121.0
123.3
87.1
101.2
150. 5
121.4
123.1
100.8
123.9
155,0
115. 6
124.4
102.2
120.8
(55)
()
160.6
122.2
136.2
102.9
120.1
76.6
106.8
77.9
108.4
79.8
107.4
85.8
120.9
86.4
118.8
92.3
120.6
24.35
26.81
24.12
26.07
25.12
26.71
39.7
41.8
39.5
41.0
41.5
42.8
60.2
6.42
60.2
64.0
59.8
62.6
74.4
65.3
75.5
66.4
76.8
69.5
71.8
68.0
71.0
70.2
74.9
78.2
26.66
21.50
26.05
21. 79
26.91
23.22
42.7
37.6
41.6
38.0
43.4
40.2
62.3
57.2
62.5
57.3
99.7
74.3
80.7
132.0
43.7
122.3
101.5
76.2
82.4
133.1
45.6
123.8
102.0
77.7
82.1
132.4
46.7
123.9
106.8
72.5
89.0
172.2
35.0
130.8
106.1
72.9
90.8
169.3
34.6
128.5
109.5
75.8
92.9
173.7
37.6
131.5
29.26
25.84
31.27
31.80
28.24
27.11
28.59
25.11
31.22
31.17
26.70
26. 25
29.38
25.71
32.08
32.16
28.32
26.84
38.6
38.9
39.9
38.1
38.5
38.4
37.8
38.1
39.7
37.0
36.8
37.5
39.2
39.2
41.0
38.6
38.8
38.6
75.3
66.7
78.4
84.1
73.3
70.7
74.9
65.7
78.7
84.4
72.1
69.8
61.9
57.8
74.4
65.5
78.3
83.6
72.8
69.5
113.0
106.2
89.8
111.9
108.5
134.8
75.6
135.0
77.4
85.6
145.6
61.0
110.7
113.4
106.1
90.0
111.8
109.1
133.1
76.3
135.0
80.3
88.1
145.8
61.3
109.4
114.9
106.4
90.5
111.5
109.2
135.1
77.7
135.2
82.8
88.4
151.2
61.9
109.6
122.1
123.6
95.2
139.8
129.2
141.1
82.4
163.5
73.6
98.1
144.4
62.2
133.8
118.2
118.9
94.4
135. 3
127.9
132.4
75.6
159.5
76.9
97.3
139.7
60.9
124. 7
122.4
120.2
93.6
136.2
128.1
135.9
74.9
160.6
79.8
98.6
148.4
61.5
126.7
22.30
22.46
29.24
20.27
23.56
25.58
29.94
21.24
19.61
19.45
22.68
21.18
27.99
21.57
21.66
28.97
19.65
23.04
24.15
27.23
20.77
19.83
18.72
22.05
20.78
26.45
21.91
21.80
28.58
19.80
22.91
24.53
26.57
20.87
19.92
18.88
22.61
20. 73
26.81
38.1
39.6
38.8
40.2
41.1
40.4
35.8
37.3
37.0
38.3
39.2
38.9
40.1
37.1
38.4
38.4
39.1
40.3
38.6
33.3
36.5
37.5
38.6
38.4
38.0
38.2
37.6
38.8
39.0
39.4
40.9
39.2
32.5
36.6
38.1
39.0
39.7
38.4
39.0
58.3
57.1
75.5
50.5
57.5
62.3
84.3
57.2
52.4
50.3
57.9
54.4
69.9
57.9
56.7
75.5
50.3
57.4
61.7
83.0
57.0
52.0
48.1
56.7
54.5
69.4
58.1
56.6
73.3
50.4
56.3
61.5
82.7
57.3
51.8
48.1
56.4
53.8
68.9
(5)
()
(s)
(5)
5
()
(5)
(6)
(6)
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
147.9
(5)
(5)
(5)
175.8
181.9
(5)
(5)
(5)
176.6
6
()
(5)
(5)
185.9
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products...
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs..
Cotton goods
Cotton smallwares
Dyeing andfinishingtextiles..
Hats, fur-felt...
Hosiery
Knitted outerwear4..
Knitted underwear.
Knitted cloth
Silk and rayon goods.:
Woolen and worsted goods..
See footnotes at end of table.
fcO
TABLE 6.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Employment index
Industry
Average weekly
earnings
Pay-roll index
Average hours worked
per week
Average hourly
earnings
Decem- Novem- October Decem- Novem- October Decem- Novem- October Decem- Novem- October Decem- Novem- October
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
Nondurable goods—Continued
Textiles and their products—Continued.
Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's
Corsets and allied igarments.
Men's furnishings _
Millinery
Shirts and collars.
$22. 21
23.42
22. 59
21.27
18.61
23.57
18.22
35.1
35.8
33.7
37.3
32.8
27.7
38.9
34.4
34.9
32.8
36.8
36.3
26.8
37.5
35.4
35.2
34.9
38.9
37.7
29.1
37.9
Cents
60.9
66.1
61.9
54.3
49.0
68.4
46.8
Cents
60.4
66.0
60.0
54.6
48.1
69.8
48.4
Cents
61.1
66.0
61.2
53.7
48.3
75.0
48.1
23.16
21.45
30.40
23.59
22.07
30.22
38.7
38.1
40.9
36.4
35.4
40.3
37.7
37.0
40.4
64.9
61.8
76.4
64.4
61.4
75.3
63.5
60.5
74.8
28.33
28.84
36.40
24.94
19.87
22.37
30.43
32.27
31.87
29.24
28.09
27.39
28.81
35.41
24.63
20.27
21.96
28.22
31.14
30.79
30.46
26.20
27.14
28.18
36.92
24.74
21.23
22.16
29.66
30.80
31.20
24.41
25.75
40.7
41.5
39.9
45.1
36.0
41.0
44.3
45.3
40.7
45.3
40.7
40.2
42.0
38.6
45.6
36.4
40.2
42.3
45.0
38.8
49.0
38.2
40.9
41.9
40.6
45.9
39.8
40.6
44.3
44.7
39.8
36.8
37.7
70.3
69.5
92.2
54.1
56.6
55.1
67.5
69.8
78.3
64.0
69.0
69.5
68.8
92.7
53.3
56.8
54.9
65.7
67.9
79.3
62.3
68.6
67.9
67.5
92.0
53.4
54.7
54.7
66.1
67.9
78.7
65.3
68.4
75.6
70.8
76.0
20.67
21.22
20.57
20.45
21.12
20.33
20.36
21.14
20.22
39.1
37.2
39.3
38.5
36.5
38.7
38.7
36.7
38.9
53.0
57.4
52.6
53.2
58.1
52.7
52.7
57.9
52.2
135.9
194.5
165.4
34.04
26.60
32.42
32.98
26.40
31.94
32.66
26.58
31.73
41.0
42.2
43.4
40.4
42.0
43.3
40.3
42.7
43.4
85.5
63.4
74.7
84.1
63.2
73.8
83.4
62.5
73.2
104.6 j 102. 6
116.4 | 114.8
34.86
42.65
33.56
40.10
32.91
39.42
41.3
37.4
40.3
36.1
39.9
35.8
84.3
111.2
83.8
108.6
82.7
108.2
124.8
121.0
164.4
121.7
130. 2
61.3
137. 0
129. 0
123.4
172.7
112.4
133.1
77.2
137.1
111.7
111.5
133. 3
138.4
132.9
39.6
153. 3
109.6
109.0
126.1
149.6
157.2
40.3
155. 7
119.2
112.8
145.4
144.0
166.8
59.6
156.8
Leather and its manufactures. _
Boots and shoes..
Leather.
123. 2
120.7
162.7
113.4
119.9
60.1
135.1
99.2
95.2
98.2
96.7
92.3
97.7
98.5
94.7
96.7
106.7
99.5
121. 8
97.0
88.4
117.8
100.5
93. 3
116.4
24.87
23.36
31.20
Food and kindred products..
Baking
Beverages *_
Butter
Canning and preserving..
Confectionery..
Flour
Ice cream
Slaughtering and meat packing _
Sugar, beet
Sugar refining, cane.
140.7
151.5
289.4
101.4
123.2
105.6
78.9
71.0
137.7
228.0
98.6
145.7
153. 7
291.0
103.6
162.2
110.0
78.9
73.0
129.7
265. 4
97.0
152.4
154. 5
302.7
102.4
218.4
106.3
80.1
78.4
125.9
244.5
103.3
157.1
157.5
358.6
95.6
129.4
123.3
89.3
67.1
168.5
254.8
98.2
157.7
159.7
351. 2
97.3
172.5
125.6
83.0
66.9
153.5
308.3
89.7
162.9
157.6
' 381. 5
96.8
244.4
122.0
88.3
71.2
151.0
229.1
93.9
67.4
56. a
68.7
68.4
54.8
70.0
67.3
54.3
69.0
76.7
74.1
76.9
77.1
71.5
77.6
128.3
144.7
129.1
126.7
146.7
128.7
126.5
146.8
128.2
144.1
192.6
169.9
137.5
193.5
166.9
110.0
122.3
108.2
118. 1
108.2
118.1
109. 7
128.5
Tobacco manufactures. _
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff.
Cigars and cigarettes..
Paper and printing
Boxes, paper
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals-
$21. 83 $21.32
23.61
23.08
22.00
20.58
20.27
20.34
16.40
17.86
20.14
20.09
18.05
18.09
tsD
tO
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products 4 .
Petroleum refining
Other than petroleum refining *.
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meaLDruggists' preparations.
Explosives 4_Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products.
Soap.
148.6
129.3
153.2
185. 9
116.7
149.2
(5)
105.8
142.2
321.1
92.3
148.5
129.2
153. 2
184.9
123.0
148.0
(5)
101.2
142.6
322. 9
96. 5
148.6
129.2
153.4
183.4
134.6
145.8
200.9
173.9
209.2
271.6
125. 5
184.0
103. 6
143.9
325. 0
97.7
Rubber products
Rubber boots and shoes 10
Rubber tires and inner tubes _
Rubber goods, other.
110.8
80.8
85.4
190.3
111.5
81.7
86.4
190.0
111.6
80.4
86.0
192.6
102.7
173.8
386.4
142.2
36.19
41.74
34.39
38.64
17.30
27.48
44.85
18.44
34.20
31.13
34.09
35.23
40.41
33.55
38.08
17.21
28.31
42.30
18.14
33.30
30.50
33.82
34.99
40.33
33.24
37.85
17.13
28.09
40.81
18.45
33.33
30.42
34.28
40.5
37.9
41.2
41.1
46.6
40.5
47.0
36. 3
41.6
39.1
40.1
40.0
36.6
40.9
40.7
46.1
41.3
45.0
35.5
40.8
39.4
40.5
40.2
36.9
41.2
41.0
47.2
42.0
43.7
36.8
41.2
39.4
41.2
88.1
110.9
81.5
94.1
36.8
64.7
95.4
50.8
82.4
79.7
84.9
87.5
111.1
80.6
93.5
36.9
65.5
94.0
51.1
81.8
77.5
83.6
86.1
109.7
79.4
92.5
35.4
63.8
93.3
50.1
80.8
77.3
83.2
138.1
106.9
111.8
234.4
33.84
30.78
37.40
30.45
34.39
30.74
39.72
29.28
33.54
30. 25
37.92
29.53
38.8
41.7
35.0
41.7
39.3
41.8
37.0
40.9
39.1
41.8
35.8
41.5
88.0
73.8
107.2
73.0
87.6
73.6
107.5
71.7
86.5
72.4
106.0
71.3
194.3
168.0
202.4
261.0
142.7
183.6
106.2
176.0
391. 2
133. 5
195.6
167.8
204.2
264.6
131.4
188.0
(5)
99.1
172.2
385.2
138.5
138.0
109.3
109.5
238.9
141.0
110.4
117.6
228.6
(5)
NOTN MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929=100, except for class I railroads, which are based on 1935-39 as 100]
Coal mining: n 12
Anthracite
..
Bituminous »
Metalliferous mining 13
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum production 14_.
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph 1516
^ ie
Electric light and power
Street railways and busses is ie 17
Trade:
Wholesale 15 is .
Retail « " . . .
Food is
General merchandising " ie
Apparel i«..-..
Furniture 16 16
Automotive
_.
Lumber i6
Hotels (year-round) " 1519_
Laundries "
Dyeing and cleaning "_
See footnotes at end of table.
!
49. 1
95. 4
79. 5
50.8
61.0
50.2
95.1
79.5
52.6
60.9
50. 3
95.3
79.7
54.1
61.6
89.6
93.3
70.4
90. 1
93. 4
70.2
90. 6 ' 124.1
116.3
94.1
80.1
70.3
96.5
112.8
114.0
161. 0
107. 6
80.7
.85.8
79.8
95.6
108.4
113. 1
96.3
103. 0
111.9
125. 9
99.0
78.8
86.1
81.3
96.1
108.9
117.2
96.3
101,0
110. 7
116.4
97.4
80.3
87.5
82.4
96.2
111.2
121.2
35. 9
119.6
90.9
56.0
64.9
92.7
107.9
115.4
150.6
101.7
78.8
87.2
83.0
93.5
102.7
88.5
41. 8
116. 3
89. 8
57. 5
64. 2
49.2
122.6
88.3
61.5
64.4
118.3
115.2
78.2
117.0
115.7
78. 4
92.0
97.3
107.0
117.8 i 110.9
93.1
94.5 I
82.6
74.7 |
86.3
87.1 \
86.4
83.0 I
91.9
93.2 I
101.9 I 103.4
98.5
93.0
91.6
98.5
109.1
$24.05 $27. 38
33. 47 32.62
36.20 35.74
27.87
27.66
39.37
38.79
$32.12
34.27
34.86
28.88
38.39
23.6
32.0
42.7
42.1
27.2
31.3
42.2
42.1
37.6
31.9
33.0
42.5
44.0
38.7
Cents
100.7
105.7
85.0
66.4
99.1
Cents
100.7
105.1
85.0
66.2
99.9
Cents
100.6
103.8
82.3
65.9
33. 83
38. 00
37.14
32.08
37.60
36. 35
31.53
37.50
36.32
40.5
40.3
47.0
40.0
39.9
46.2
39.7
40.6
46.4
84.1
94.7
78.1
80.7
94.5
77.6
79.7
92.9
77.0
33.75
21.79
25. 75
18. 68
22.35
30.41
30.27
29.12
16. 91
19.68
21.79
33.44
21.88
24.91
18.52
22.51
29.76
30.11
28.49
16.77
19.44
22.09
33.48
22.07
24.64
18.69
22.21
31.35
29.67
29.04
16.50
19.31
22.56
41.2
42.3
41.9
40.1
38.5
44.5
47.3
42.7
45.3
42.9
42.4
40.6
41.7
41.8
38.2
38.0
43.6
46.9
41.9
45.3
42.6
42.7
41.3
42.1
41.8
38.4
37.8
44.1
47.2
43.5
45.3
42.9
43.9
81.8
56.1
57.3
45.7
58.1
70.0
64.6
69.5
36.7
46.2
52.4
82.4
57.7
57.4
47.9
59.9
70.9
65.4
69.0
36.3
46.1
53.1
81.2
57.6
56.6
48.5
59.3
71.0
63.7
68.4
36.0
45.3
52.7
to
GO
TABLE 6.— Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries—Continued
NONMANUFACTURING—Continued
Employment index
Industry
Brokerage is 20 21
Insurance ifi J0
Building construction 24»°_.
Water transportation 35_..
Class I steam railroads _
Average hours worked
per week
Average hourly
earnings
Decem- Novem- October Decem- Novem- October Decem- Novem- October Decem- Novem- October Decem- Novem- October
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
ber
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
1941
+0.4
+.4
-5.7
77.5
116.1
-1.2
-(")
-2.8
77.4
117.8
-0.6
-.2
-1.3
77.6
119.4
+1.2
+1.5
(V
(33)
_(33)
- !
-5.1
+1.4
(23)
(33)
(23)
(33)
1 Mimeographed sheets giving averages by years, 1932 to 1939, inclusive, and by months,
January 1938 to August 1940, inclusive, available on request. Average hours and average
hourly earnings are computed from data supplied by a smaller number of establishments
than average weekly earnings, as not all reporting firms furnish man-hours. The figures
are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the size and composition of the reporting sample.
2 See tables 9, 10, and 11 in the December 1940 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls"
for comparable series back to January 1919 for all manufacturing, and back to January
1923 for the durable- and nondurable-goods groups.
3 See table 7 in the April 1941 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls" for revised figures
from January 1940 to March 1941.
* Revisions in the following industries and groups have been made as indicated:
Plumbers' supplies.—September 1941 average weekly earnings and average hourly
earnings to $30.97 and 76.4 cents.
Nonferrous metals and their products.—September 1941 employment and pay-roll
indexes to 146.4 and 185.6.
Aluminum manufactures.September
1941 employment and pay-roll indexes to 245.5
and 357.7; September average weekly earnings and average hourly earnings to
$36.21 and 85.4 cents.
Knitted outerwear.—August 1941 average weekly and hourly earnings to $19.77 and
50.6 cents; September 1941 employment index to 82.5.
Men's furnishings.—September 1941 employment and pay-roll indexes to 130.5 and
155.8; September average weekly earnings, average hours, and average hourly
earnings to $17.72, 37.3 hours, and 46.1 cents.
Beverages.—September 1941 employment index to 315.2; September average weekly
Average weekly
earnings
Pay-roll index
-2.8
$40. 55 $40. 22 $39. 72
38.13
37.73
37.89
37.73
35.93
36.50
(33)
(33)
(33)
(33)
(33)
(33)
(23)
(23)
(33)
(23)
(33)
(23)
35.4
34.6
35.7
(23)
(33)
(33)
(33)
(33)
(23)
Cents
Cents
Censt
(33)
(33)
(23)
(23)
(23)
106.6
103.9
(33)
(33)
(23)
(23)
102.3
(23)
(23)
s See footnote 7 in table 5 of October 1941 "Employment and Pay Rolls" for revised
employment and pay-roll indexes, average hours worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings in "Locomotives," August 1940 to July 1941, inclusive.
» See table 8 in March 1941 "Employment and Pay Rolls" pamphlet for revised figures
from January 1935 to February 1941.
io Rubber boots and shoes.—Because of expansion in the reporting sample, average weekly
earnings and average hourly earnings are not comparable with those previously published
for September 1941 and prior months. (Comparable September figures are $30.67 and
72.0 cents.)
n Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented
in 12January 1938 issue of pamphlet.
See table 7 of October 1940 "Employment and Pay Rolls" for revised employment
and pay-roll indexes, average hours worked per week, average hourly earnings, and
average
weekly earnings in anthracite mining, February 1940 to September 1940, inclusive.
13
See table 7 of February 1941 pamphlet for revised figures for metalliferous mining
from
January
1938 to January 1941, inclusive.
*4 Does not include well drilling or rig building.
is Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not 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.
1S
Retail-trade indexes adjusted to 1935 census and public-utility indexes to 1937 census.
Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to January 1940 or in Monthly
Labor Review prior to April 1940, with but 1 exception, retail furniture, which has been
revised since publication of July 1940 pamphlet back to January 1936. Comparable
series
for earlier months available upon request.
17
Covers street railways and trolley and motorbus operations of subsidiary, affiliated
and hourly earnings to $37.38 and 91.8 cents.
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products group.—August and September 1941 employment indexes to 142.0 and 146.6; pay-roll indexes to 180.0 and 187.0.
Chemicals, other than petroleum refining.—August and September 1941 employment
indexes to 145.4 and 150.9; pay-roll indexes to 186.4 and 193.3.
Explosives.—August and September 1941 average weekly earnings to $38.56 and
$39.04; average weekly hours to 43.1 and 43.2; average hourly earnings to 89.6 and
90.5 cents.
6 Included in total and group indexes, but not available for publication separately.
8
Adjusted on basis of a complete employment survey of the aircraft industry made by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics for August 1940. Not comparable with previously published indexes from January 1939 to August 1940, inclusive. Comparable figures for this
period given in table 9 of the September 1940 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls."
* The indexes for "Automobiles" have been adjusted to 1933 census figures, but not to
later census figures because of problems involving integrated industries.
and successor companies; formerly "Electric-railroad and motor bus operation and maintenance."
18
Indexes adjusted to 1933 census. Comparable series in November 1934 and subsequent
issues of "Employment and Pay Rolls."
19
Cash payments only; additional value of board, room, and tips not included.
20
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are not available; percentage changes from preceding
month substituted.
21
See note 18, table 9, in the July 1941 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls" for revised
average
weekly earnings in the brokerage industry from January 1939 to January 1941.
22
Less than Ho of 1 percent.
23
Not
available.
24
Based on estimates prepared by the United States Maritime Commission covering
employment on steam and motor merchant vessels of 1,000 gross tons or over in deep-sea
trades
only.
25
Preliminary—Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.
26
TABLE 7.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in 55 Additional Manufacturing
Industries
(12-month average 1939 = 100]
Employment
Industry
Pay rolls
OctoDeNoember vember ber
1941
1941
1941
DeNoOctoember vember ber
1941 '
1941
1941
i
Iron and steel group:
Metal doors and shutters.
Firearms
_ _ _ . _ .
Screw-machine products.
Wire drawing
Wrought pipe not made in rolling mills.
Steel barrels, kegs, and drums Machinery group:
Machine-tool accessories.
Pumps
Refrigerators and refrigerating apparatus
Sewing machines _ _. - _ _ . . . . _ . _ . .
Washing machines, wringers, and driers _
Transportation equipment group:
Motorcycles, bicycles, and parts _
Nonferrous metals group:
Sheet-metal work
Smelting and refining of scrap metal _
Lumber group:
Caskets and morticians'goods..
Wood preserving
Wood turned and shaped..
Wooden boxes, other than cigar
Mattresses and bedsprings.
Stone, clay, and glass products group:
Abrasive wheels...
Asbestos products
Lime
Gypsum
Glass products made from purchased glass.
Wallboard and plaster, except gypsum
Textiles:
Textile bags
Cordage and twine
Curtains, draperies, and bedspreads.
House-furnishings, other.
Jute goods, except felt_
Handkerchiefs.
Leather group:
Boot and shoe cut stock and findings
Leather gloves and mittens.
Trunks and suitcases.
Food group:
Cereal preparations
Condensed and evaporated milkFeeds, prepared
Paper and printing group:
Paper bags _
Envelopes
Paper goods, not elsewhere classified .
Bookbinding-_
Lit hographing
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products group:
Ammunition
_
__
Compressed and liquefied gasesPerfumes and cosmetics..
Coke-oven products.
Paving materials-.
Roofing materials,.
Miscellaneous group:
Chemical fire extinguishers.
Buttons
-. .Instruments—professional, scientific, and commercial
Optical goods
Photographic apparatus- _
Pianos, organs, and parts
Toys, games, and playground equipment.
i Confidential.
142.5
0)
213.4
139.0
152.3
140.0
0)
144.0
0)
209.3
138.2
152. 7
144.4
0)
148.3
0)
207.9
140 3
159.6
147.2
0)
209.2
(l)
317.8
184. 5
199.8
193. 6
(0
197.3
219.0
0)
0)
0)
0)
294.7
174.3
194.2
180.0
2P3.8
173.1
204.4
190.7
213.4
111.2
137.9
117.7
207.1
105.9
136.9
118.8
203.3
121.4
136.8
116.3
351. 7
134.7
224. 5
154.7
319.7
116.0
215.2
140.6
163.8
168.6
168.7
216.3
211.2
214.9
145.9
150.5
145.7
148.8
149. 5
156.5
194.5
190.2
181. 5
181.0
189.1
194.4
105. 6
118.8
111.8
127.4
117.9
105.0
120.0
110.8
125.5
123.7
105.3
123.1
107.8
127.9
128.8
126.5
166.4
144.1
170.2
139.4
118.8
158.5
138.9
163.9
138. 3
120.1
160.9
141.4
170.9
161.7
194.8
138.1
118.1
120 9
143.7
132.8
193.5
142.0
120.0
122.9
146.2
140.7
193.7
144.2
119.8
126 6
136. 7
140.8
260.1
192.2
156. 2
158. 1
176.7
159.5
248.3
189.9
153.3
155. 4
177.8
165. 7
257.8
195.2
159.4
165.8
167.9
1663
116.4
143.0
95.2
126.9
124.7
102.0
114.3
142. 9
106.0
132.9
126.6
106.2
117.7
142.4
112.4
142.2
128.9
108.6
136. 6
197.5
134.2
154.7
182. 3
131.7
127.0
195. 5
144.6
158.9
176.2
138. 9
137.3
193.6
158.0
176.6
174.5
144. 5
103.9
142.0
185.2
102.1
148.4
191.9
104.9
154.1
180.5
129.0
166.9
203.0
121.2
177.5
214.0
125. 8
195. 8
204.1,
106.6
122.8
111.1
110.2
123. 5
114.4
116.6
124.4
113.7
128.0
142.9
135.8
129.2
141.8
133. 7 i
128.0
146.3
136.5
129.1
124.1
129.9
112.0
106.1
129.1
129.3
123.0
123.1
128.7
128.7
111.8 ; 117.0
108.0
108. 3
167.2
142.1
153.3
147. 5
116.1
159. 7
137.6
149.2
133. 5
116.3
160.7
136. 6
152.3
143.2
117. 9
(x)
140. 5
121.8
124.3
113.6
129.6
169.0
122.1
149.1
127.2
153. 6
(i)
143. 5
110.4
123.6
99.9
124. 0
0)
123.4
(i)
140.8
123.6
122.6
109.7
129.5
0)
121.2
0)
121.0
(i)
0)
162.7
312.8
141.5
220.3
140.7
(i)
165.6
141.1
144.9
132.4
162.6
162.3
140.5
147.4
139.2
164.9
0)
0)
(0
0)
159.0
0)
(1)
0)
(1)
0)
(i)
0)
(i)
0)
(1)
125.4
127.8
123.4
124.8
130.4
133.9
124.9
130.7
139.7
166.7
158.0
147.6
160.6
163.1
153.9
156.9
162.3
159.6
157.8
27
TABLE 8.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Manufacturing
Nonmanufacturing 2 Industries, December 1940 to December 1941
1940
l
and
1941
Industry
Av. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
Employment
Manufacturing
107. 5 116.2 115. 5 117.8 119.9 122. 6 124.9 127.9 130.6 133.1 135. 2 135.4 134.8 134.3
All industries
04.3 117. 7 118.3 121.0 123.7 127.7 131.3 135.1 137.6 138.7 142.1 144.0 144.
Durable goods *
Nondurable goods *___. 10. 6 114. 8 112. 7 114.7 116.3 117.8 118.8 121.1 123.9 127.7 128.7 127. 3
Nonmanufacturing
Anthracite mining * 8 50.7 50.8 50.3 50.6 50.2 48.7 48.6 49.2 49.3 50.0 50.0 50.3 50.2 49.1
Bituminous-coal mining
_. 88.0 90.1 90.2 90.6 91.1 23.5 87.9 88.1 90.3 92.6 94.2 95.3 95.1 95.4
Metalliferous mininga
69.9 72.2 72.5 73.4 74.3 77.2 77.1 78.9 79.0 79.9 79.4 79.7 79.5 79.5
Quarrying and nonmetal44.2 48.2 51.0 51.9 52.7 53.9 54.2 54.1 52.6 50.8
lic mining
45.3 45.4 41.7
Crude-petroleum produc60.3
60.4
60.2 60.1 60.3 61.5 62.1 62.2 61.8 61.6 60.9 61.0
60.7
tion
62.9
Telephone and telegraph77 77.9 79.7 80.4 80.9 81.8 83.2 84.6 86.3 88.3 89.6 90.3 90.6 90.1 89.6
Electric light and power _. 91.1 91.3 90.5 90.1 90.3 91.3 92.2 93.5 94.6 95.2 94.9 94.1 93.4 93.3
Street 7 railways
and
busses 8
68.5 68.4 68.3 68.0 68.2 68.3 68.9 .69.1 69.5 69.7 70.3 70.3 70.2 70.4
96.3
Wholesale trade
90.4 92.5 91.2 91.4 91.8 92.4 92.2 93.8 94.2 95.8
96.5
L01.0
Retail trade 7
92.3
108.1 90.5 90.7 92.5 97.8 96.1 97.8 96.7 96.9 100.0 101
0 103.0 112.8
fi
95.0
96.3
94.5
92.9
94.2
95.2
96.2 96.1 95.6
92.6
93.9
94.5
Year-round hotels
92.0
Laundries •___
„. 99. 5 100. 3 101.4 101.1 102.5 104.9 108.3 112.0 115.8 114.6 113.0 111.2 108.9 108.4
Dyeing and cleaning 8
104.7 103. 3 101.0 101.4 104.4 117.2 120. 6 122.7 121.7 118.9 121. 5 121.2 117.2 113.1
Manufacturing
Pay rolls
105.4 122.4 120.7 126.8 131.2 134.7 144.1 152.2 152.7 158.1 162. 6 167.0 165.4 170.2
All industries
107.8 131.7 132.0 139.3 144.6 149.9 163.1 173.9 172.2 177.6 183.3 191.4 190.3 195.9
Durable goods 3
Nondurable goods * 102.7 112.1 108.1 112.9 116.3 117.7 122.9 127.9 130.7 136.3 139.5 139.6 137.4 141.3
Nonmanufacturing
24.3 13.4 51.2 34.8 51.1 49.6 49.2 41.8 35.9
Anthracite mining 5
38.5 42.7
8
.17.3 115.
!.6 116.3 119.6
07.2 105.4
05.4 117.3
L15.55 122.6
Bituminous-coal mining
_. 81.2 91.4 87.8 90.8 93.8 15. 5 103.4 107.2
1.3 89.8 90.9
Metalliferous mining 8 .
66.7 72.8 70.4 71.8 72.7 78.9 81.5 85.3 79.3 85.4 85.9
Quarrying and nonmetal40.5 42.4 36.9 38.2 40.3 47.0 53.2 55.7 55. 5 £59.. 3 60.5 61.5 57.5 56.0
lic mining
Crude-petroleum produc59.9 61.4 61.5 64.4 64.4 64.2 64.9
tion
.. 58.2 55.9 55.7 57.3 56.1 57.8
Telephone and telegraph 77_. 100.2 103.5 103.9 104.3 106.4 107.r. 3 110. 5 113.0 115.7 116.4 117.3 117.0
17.0 118.3 124.1
Electric light and power _. 104.8 106.0 105.1 105.4 106.1 107.6 109. 6 111. 4 113. 5 115.1 115.0 115.7 115.2 116.3
Street railways
and
busses. 78
70.4 73.1 70.7 71.0 72.5 72.0 72. 7 76.2 75.8 78 6 . 78.1 78 4 78 2 80.1
Wholesale trade
_
79.0 83.4 80.5 81.4 82.0 83.4 84.6 88.4 88.0 89.8 90.9 92.0 91.6 92.7
Retail trade 7
84.2 97.3 83.7 84.6 86.2 91.7 91.5 95.2 94.0 94.0 95.8 97.3 98. 5 107.9
5
Year-round6 hotels
82.4 84.1 84.1 86.1 85.7 87.1 87.9 87.4 87.6 88.2 90.0 91.9 93.2 93.5
Laundries __
87.7 89.2 89.8 89.7 90.9 95.8 98.7 102. 5 106. 7 104. 7 105. 2 103.4 101.9 102. 7
78.2 75.8 73.3 74.4 77.2 97.8 96.1 '8.4 96.4 92.1 9.5 '8.5 93.0 88.5
Dyeing and cleaning fi_
i 3-year average 1923-25=100—adjusted to preliminary 1939 Census of Manufactures. See tables 9, 10,
and 11 of December 1940 "Employment and Pay Rolls" for comparable figures back to January 1919 for
"All
2 manufacturing" and January 1923 for "Durable goods" and "Nondurable goods."
12-month average for 1929=100. Comparable indexes for wholesale trade, quarrying, metal mining,
and crude-petroleum production are in November 1934 and subsequent issues of "Employment and Pay
Rolls" or in February 1935 and subsequent issues of Monthly Labor Review. For other nonmanufacturing
indexes
see notes 5, 6, and 7.
3
Includes: Iron and steel, machinery, transportation equipment, 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.
b
Indexes have been adjusted to the 1935 census. Comparable series from January 1929 forward are presented in January 1938 and subsequent issues of this pamphlet. See also table 7 of October 1940 pamphlet
for6 revisedfiguresfor anthracite mining, February to September 1940.
7 See table 7 of February 1941 pamphlet for revised indexes January 1938 to January 1941.
Retail-trade indexes adjusted to 1935 census and public-utility indexes to 1937 census. Not comparable
with indexes published in "Employment and Pay Rolls" pamphlets prior to January 1940 or in "Monthly
Labor Review" prior to April 1940. Comparable series January 1929 to December 1939 available in mimeographed
form.
8
Covers street railways and trolley and motorbus operations of subsidiary, affiliated, and successor companies.
28
TABLE 9.—Indexes of Employment in Manufacturing Industries, by Metropolitan Area
[12-month average 1937=100]
Employment index
Metropolitan area
December
1941
'ercentage
change,
November
to
DecemNovember
ber 1941
1941
113.4
116.7
114.7
165.0
131.7
113.4
115.9
109.7
164.5
131.5
1
Boston, Mass. ...
Cambridge, Mass
Lynn, Mass
Somerville, Mass
Boston, city and outside l .
145.1
110.4
184.6
101.6
146.7
142.7
111.9
181.4
102.3
143.8
+1.7
-1.3
+1.8
Bridgeport, Conn
Buffalo, N. Y
Canton, Ohio __._.
Chattanooga, Tenn..
Chicago, 111
Gary, Ind
Chicago, city and outside..
161.3
140.3
144.9
121.1
132.9
118.5
133.7
159.8
140.7
143.6
121.5
132.8
118.9
133.6
Cincinnati, Ohio....
Cleveland, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio—
Dallas, Tex
__
Dayton, Ohio
124.5
136.7
136.2
148.8
107.0
124.7
136.3
135.6
152.4
106.7
+.3
+.4
-2.4
+.3
157.3
116.0
88.8
89.6
101.8
147.1
112.6
93.4
85.9
98.1
144.6
79.0
(3)
121.2
116.2
144.6
79.8
(3)
118.5
113.4
Grand Rapids, Mich..
Hartford, Conn
Houston, Tex
Indianapolis, Ind—.
Jacksonville, Fla.*
116.2
151.9
135.8
142.7
145.9
120.0
150.2
132.3
141.9
142.4
Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City, Kans
Kansas City, Mo., and outside..
Knoxville, Tenn
Los Angeles, Calif
Long Beach, Calif
Los Angeles, city and outside-
125.7
108.8
132.1
121.3
207.3
374.7
202.8
120.6
106.8
125.9
120.9
204.8
329.3
201.4
Louisville, Ky2
Lowell, Mass.
Memphis, Tenn
Miami, Fla
Milwaukee, Wis..
118.9
110.0
109.4
143.1
120.4
120.0
109.0
115.2
137.9
119.9
Minneapolis-St. Paul *
St. Paul, Minn.*
Minneapolis, city and outside 4
Nashville, Tenn
New Haven, Conn.
120.5
113.1
124.5
111.7
144.2
121.7
117.6
123.9
110.9
143.8
New Orleans, La.2
New York and northeastern N. J.1..
Newark, N. J
Jersey City, N. J . . .
Paterson, N. J
_.
Elizabeth, N. J
Yonkers, N . Y
f
New York City and outside *_-..
145.0
137.0
135.4
119.5
160.0
134.2
118.7
137.3
146.6
136.3
136.0
121.6
157.3
135.3
119.0
136.4
Akron, Ohio
_.
Albany, N. YA
Atlanta, Ga
.....
Baltimore, Md
Birmingham, Ala
^.
Denver, Colo
Des Moines, Iowa.
Detroit, Mich
Duluth, Minn
El Paso, Tex
Erie, Pa
Evansville, Ind
Flint, M i c h . . . .
Fort Wayne, Ind
Fort Worth, Tex
See footnotes a t end of table.
Employment
index,
December
1940
ercentage
change,
December
1940 to
December
1941
93.3
95.1
103.9
123.0
120.5
+21.5
+22.7
+10.4
+34.1
+9.3
+2*.O
114.5
93.2
121.9
103.7
116.5
+26.7
+18.5
+51.4
-2.0
+25.9
+.9
-.3
+.9
-.3
+.1
-.3
+.1
117.3
118.1
114.7
107.2
110.1
120.6
109.5
+37.5
+18.8
+26.3
+13.0
+20.7
-1.7
+22.1
-.2
101.5
111.5
109.9
111.3
95.0
+22.7
+22.6
+23.9
+33.7
+12.6
+6.9
+3.0
-4.9
+4.3
+3.8
0
-1.0
3
()
+2.3
+2.5
-3.2
+1.1
+2.6
+.6
+2.5
+4.2
+1.9
+4.9
+.3
+1.2
+13.8
99.4
106.1
92.8
73.0
97.2
+58.2
+9.3
-4.3
+22.7
+4.7
114.6
90.0
+.3
+.2
97.3
+26.2
-12.2
(3)
+33.6
+19.4
134.4
119.5
98.5
116.3
119.8
-13.5
+27.1
+37.9
+22.7
+21.8
104.2
103.7
104.3
98.1
139.5
108.2
140.4
+20.6
+4.9
+26.7
+23.6
+48.6
+246.3
+44.4
107.2
101.3
108.1
118.5
99.2
+10.9
+8.6
+1.2
+20.8
+21.4
-1.0
-3.8
102.9
106.5
100.9
96.5
118.5
+17.1
+6.2
+23.4
+15.8
+21.7
-1.1
101.0
115.6
116.3
101.4
134.0
108.9
103.6
115.8
+43.6
+18.5
+16.4
+17.9
+19.4
+23.2
+14.6
+18.6
+.7
+
-5.0
+3.8
+.4
+.5
+.7
+.3
+.5
-L7
+1.7
-.8
-.3
+.7
29
TABLE 9.—Indexes of Employment in Manufacturing Industries, by Metropolitan
A rea—Continued
Employment index
Percentage
change,
November
December November to December 1941
1941
1941
Metropolitan area
Norfolk, Va.i
Oklahoma City, Okla..
Omaha, Nebr
Peoria, 111..
Philadelphia, Pa. 1
Camden, N . J
Philadelphia, city and outside l.
250.1
121.4
119.4
115.2
126.6
163.1
123.6
241.7
123.9
110.8
115.0
124.8
163.3
121.7
Pittsburgh, Pa.._
Portland, Oreg 1
Providence, R. I.
Fall River, Mass
_
New Bedford, Mass
Providence, city and outside l...
127.6
177.4
125.8
111.5
103.8
133.9
126.8
168.5
124.7
110.0
104.1
132.6
Reading, Pa
Richmond, Va
Rochester, N . Y
St. Louis, Mo
Salt Lake City, Utah
77.2
113.9
126.2
120.8
99.7
76.9
114.9
125.7
120.0
100.8
San Antonio, Tex_
San Diego, Calif
San Francisco, Calif.1.—
Oakland, Calif
San Francisco, city and outside
119.4
515.6
157.8
108.2
169.5
117.3
467.5
151.9
108.0
162.2
Scranton, Pa
Seattle, W a s h A . ,
South Bend, I n d .
Spokane, Wash. 1
Springfield, Mass.
91.3
229.3
145.9
103.4
134.3
91.8
216.2
148.9
104.4
134.6
+6.1
-2.0
-1.0
138.2
135.0
131.2
102.8
135.9
137.6
125.2
136.2
100.5
134.6
Tulsa.Okla-..
Utica, N . Y.4
Washington, D. C.1
Wichita, Kans_ 2
Wilmington, Del. ...
121.5
134.0
196.9
271.3
133.5
124.2
134.3
174.2
271.9
133.3
+13.0
Worcester, MassYoungstown, Ohio
122.4
111.6
122.5
112.1
Syracuse, N . Y .2. .
Tacoma, Wash.
...
Tampa, Fla. 4 ...
Toledo, Ohio
Trenton, N . J . . . .
._
...
_
._
+3.5
-2.0
+7.8
+.2
+1.4
Employ- Percentage
change,
ment
December
index,
1940 to
December December
1940
1941
168.6
112.0
104.4
95.7
106.2
123.7
104.8
+48.3
+8.4
+14.4
+20.4
+19.2
+31.9
+17.9
107.4
106.5
111.0
109.7
89.1
116.5
+18.8
+66.6
+13.3
+1.6
+16.5
+14.9
-1.1
73.5
110.8
102.2
103.7
92.9
+5.0
+2.8
+23.5
+16.5
+7.3
+1.8
+10.3
+3.9
+.2
+4.5
108.2
250.3
108.8
98.5
111.2
+10.4
+106.0
+45.0
+9.8
+52.4
-.5
94.0
118.8
120.3
97.5
106.7
-2.9
+93.0
+21.3
+6.1
+25.9
114.6
91.1
112.6
86.5
130.8
+.2
96.2
115.7
126.4
162.8
106.5
+20.6
+48.2
+16.5
+18.8
+3.9
+26.3
+15.8
+55.8
+66.6
+25.4
-.1
-.4
106.1
99.4
+15.4
+12.3
-.1
+1.6
+.6
+5.3
+.9
+1.4
-.3
+1.0
+.4
-.9
+.4
+.7
-.2
+.4
+7.8
-3.7
+2.3
+1.0
-2.2
-.2
-.2
1
2
Includes employment in Government arsenals and navy yards.
Previously published indexes for 1941 have been revised as follows: Lowell—October, 110.1; New Orleans—October, 137.4; Seattle—September, 203.3, October, 211.2; Tacoma—October, 127.8; WilmingtonOctober,
132.6.
3
Data not available.
* Revised—Figures for earlier months (January 1940 to October 1941) available on request.
WAGE-RATE CHANGES IN UNITED STATES INDUSTRIES
The following table gives information concerning wage-rate adjustments occurring during the month ending December 15, 1941, as
shown by reports received from manufacturing and nonmanufacturing
establishments which supply employment data to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
As the Bureau's survey does not cover all establishments in an
industry and furthermore, as some firms may have failed to report
wage-rate changes, these figures should not be construed as representing the total number of wage changes occurring in manufacturing
and nonmanuf acturing industries.
30
TABLE 10.—Wage-Rate Changes Reported by Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing
Establishments During the Month Ending Dec. 15, 1941 l
Establishments
Avciagc
Employees
Group and industry
Number
Total
number reporting
covered increases
Total
number
covered
percentage
change in
wage rates
Number of employreporting ees having
increases increases
All manufacturing..
34,147
576
7,818,618
238,171
7.4
Durable goods
Nondurable goods..
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
_
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills,.
Cast-iron pipe
Forgings, iron and steel
Hardware
Stamped and enameled ware
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings
Structural and ornamental metalwork..
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)
Wirework.
12,881
21,266
241 4,339,552
335 3,479,066
121,645
116,526
8.0
6.7
11.1
345
67
100
153
247
52
7
3
7
4
4
1,106,446
581,074
20, 258
22, 557
38,869
49,735
29,050
4,489
117
290
138
3
4
3
47, 624
34, 345
37,914
12, 091
131
168
3
6
21, 952
26, 756
1,189
4.9
7.0
3,884
97
1,233,622
606
17
50,939
8,840
7.4
5.8
74
192
75
122
4
54
8
4
4
1,984
14, 833
9,284
5,324
3,375
8.4
8.5
8.8
8.3
5.6
855
224
17
7
1,126,164
10.0
1,140
262,045
366
147
22
11
3
20,803
1,359
10,043
6,372
160
6.8
6.5
7.6
lumber and allied products. _
Furniture
Lumber: Sawmills
Caskets and morticians' goods..
2,816
35
5,524
7.1
732
720
101
6
12
3
719
3,352
205
6.6
6.5
6.8
Stone, clay, and glass products...
Brick, tile, and terra cotta..
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs..
Cotton goods
Knitted outerwear
Knitted underwear
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods.
Wearing apparel
Clothing, women's
Men's furnishings
1,591
18
5,286
7.5
528
8
369,231
119,418
135, 722
5,996
242,044
48,416
249
6.9
6,940
3,779
65
1,447,334
1, 086, 631
28,887
451,371
17,714
39,040
76,808
172,192
360,703
93,669
15,255
18,311
15, 308
7.6
216
226
11.5
10.6
13.3
253,470
176,140
42,057
28,663
24,648
3,838
5.0
6.4
523,800
81,990
5,723
78,239
45,694
139,660
7,943
1,059
11.4
Machinery, not including transportation equipment
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and windmills
Foundry and machine-shop products..
Machine tools
Radios and phonographs
Textile machinery and parts..
Transportation equipment
_
Shipbuilding
....
Nonferrous metals and their products
Brass, bronze, and copper products..
Sheet-metal work.. _
.
2,595
2,284
3,161
1,142
52
3
9
4
10
5
9
13
4
158
4
leather and its manufactures.
Boots and shoes
Leather
1,093
54
513
180
43
10
Food and kindred products__
Baking
Butter
Canning and preserving
Confectionery..._
__.
Slaughtering and meat packing..
See footnotes at end of table.
5,336
1,027
48
12
4
5
4
32
815
214
137
487
413
314
1,055
285
328
7
(25
(»)
419, 593
(2)
63,774
24,189
(2)
(2)
8,497
651
2,732
904
874
162
763
320
557
5,512
521
2,469
254
1,664
3,003
190
386
1,829
543
8.5
6.7
9.1
7.0
10.8
8.1
7.2
10.1
7.8
6.8
8.1
5.5
7.6
6.4
7.4
7.3
5.2
7.3
9.8
12.0
6.0
7.5
31
TABLE 10.—Wage-Rate
Changes Reported by Manufacturing
and
Nonmanufacturing
Establishments During the Month Ending Dec. 15, 1941—Continued
Group and industry
Total
number
covered
Paper and printing
Boxes, paper
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals..
Paper bags
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products
Petroleum refining
Chemicals
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products.
Coke-oven products
_
Miscellaneous.__.
Instruments—professional, s c i e n t i f i c , a n d
commercial
Number
reporting
increases
Average
percentage
change in
wage rates
Number of employreporting ees having
increases increases
Employees
Establishments
Total
number
covered
653
442
420,229
52.408
146, 308
27,135
1,797
19,023
6.3
6.4
6.6
1,530
739
32
82,432
65,017
8,928
1,316
1,270
2,541
3.5
5.9
5.7
2,305
186
241
305
498
31
412,557
78, 449
86,852
13. 366
24,944
51,281
9,411
23,950
1,495
10,039
195
396
7,792
624
5.4
6.4
13.3
8.9
6.8
9.0
203,143
9,283
12.2
5,938
14.1
3,197,700
3 78,900
3 43, 400
3 39,000
12, 831
1,965
305
245
5.3
9.1
5.7
3 249,400
3 33,800
3135,300
2,161
2,151
2,345
7.5
8.0
11.7
3 357, 200
3 1,164,600
3 147,800
3 83,300
1,901
452
241
765
12.6
8.2
7.0
9.1
27
1,101
74
All nonmanufacturing (except building construc3 90,700
tion)
_
Metalliferous mining
3 390
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining.
3 1,100
Crude-petroleum production.
3 480
Public utilities:
Electric light and power
3 2,600
3 160
Manufactured gas
Street railways and busses
3 350
Trade:
3
Wholesale
14, 760
Retail
3 51, 290
31.910
Hotels (year-round).
Laundries.
_. 3 1,270
191
4
5
1 Figures are not given for some industries to avoid disclosure of information concerning individual establishments. They are, however, included where practicable in "all manufacturing," and in the various
industry
groups. No decreases reported.
2
Included in group totals, but not available for publication separately.
3 Approximate—based on previous month's sample.
Public Employment
The detailed tables presented below showing public employment and
pay rolls, may be grouped into four main categories: (1) Regular
Federal services, table 11; (2) construction projects financed from
Federal funds, tables 12-15; (3) work-relief programs of the Federal
Government, tables 16-19; and (4) State road projects, table 20.
REGULAR FEDERAL SERVICES
Table 11 covers all persons in the executive service who are employed
directly by the Federal Government. It includes civilian employees
of the War and Navy Departments as well as employees of the
national defense agencies, but excludes the uniformed personnel of the
Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps. Data for the legislative and judicial branches are shown in table 1 on page 5.
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Force-account employees of the Federal Government, that is,
persons on the pay roll of the United States Government engaged on
construction work whose period of employment terminates as the
project is completed, are included in table 11, and also in tables 12 and
14 under the type of construction project. Nurses, educational
advisers, and supervisory and technical employees of the Civilian
Conservation Corps are also included in table 11 as well as table 19.
Data for the legislative, judicial, and force-account employees are
reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the respective offices,
and data for the executive service employees are reported through the
Civil Service Commission.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
With the exception of force-account employees, the employees
shown in tables 12 through 15 are not hired directly by the Federal
Government but by contractors and subcontractors engaged in construction work financed wholly or partially from Federal funds. The
force-account employees who are included in tables 12 and 14 also
appear in table 11.
Data on the employment, pay rolls, man-hours worked, hourly
earnings, and material orders placed on construction projects financed
from Federal funds are reported monthly to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics by the various contractors, subcontractors, and agencies
doing force-account work.
WORK-RELIEF PROJECTS
Tables 16 through 19 present employment and pay-roll data for the
work-relief programs of the Work Projects Administration, National
Youth Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps. The
data are reported monthly to the Bureau of Labor Statistics by the
respective agencies. The nurses, educational advisers, and supervisory and technical employees of the Civilian Conservation Corps, are
also included in the executive service (table 11). All other data are
for work-relief personnel, except for, roughly, 5 percent of the W. P. A.
and N. Y. A. employees who are hired in a supervisory capacity.
STATE ROADS
Employment and pay-roll data for the maintenance and construction
of State roads that are financed wholly from State or local funds are
shown in table 20. The data are reported monthly to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics through the Public Roads Administration.
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TABLE 11.—Employment and Pay Rolls for the Executive Service of the Federal
Government, December and November, 1941 1
[Subject to revision]
Pay rolls
Employment
Location and fund
Entire service
December 1941
November 1941
Percentage
change
Inside the District of Columbia
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation.
Force-account
1,456,564 1, 324,314
20, 339
20, 969
2 194,019
199,848
November
1941
Percentage
change
+7.2
+10.0
-3.0
-2.9
216, 703, 659
3,016, 955
2 34, 731,464
203, 605,497
3,101, 946
30, 691,043
+6.4
-2.7
+13.2
207,214
199,283
+4.0
35,930,090
33,938,499
+5.9
193,190
2,990
11,034
184,474
3,387
11,422
+4.7
-11.7
-3.4
33, 314,191
479,997
2,135, 902
31,228,420
536,015
2,174,064
—10.5
-1.8
+8.8
218, 521, 988
203, 459, 987
+7.4
+10.8
183,389,468
2, 536, 958
32, 595, 562
172,377,077
2, 565, 931
28, 516, 979
+6.4
-1.1
+14.3
Outside the District of Columbia,. „ 1,463, 708 1,345,848
Regular appropriation.
Emergency appropriation
Force-account
1941
+8.1 $254,452,078 $237, 398, 486
_ 1,670,922 1, 545,131
Eegular appropriation
Emergency appropriation
Force-account
December
_ 1, 263, 374 1,139,840
..
17, 582
17,349
182,985
-1.3
-2.9
188,426
+6.7
1 Employment data are for the last pay period of the month, pay-roll data for the calendar month.
Also included in tables 12 and 14.
2
TABLE 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction Projects Financed from Regular
Federal Appropriations, by Type of Project, December 1941 1
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Week
Type of project
ending
nearest
the 15th
of the
month
All projects..
Manhours
worked
during
month 2
31,059,715 1,039,672 $172, 262,023 179,953,407
Airport construction
Building construction:
Residential
Nonresidential
Electrification:
Rural Electrification
Administration projects 4 .
Other than R. E. A. projects...
Heavy engineering
„
Public roads 8
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..
Miscellane ous
Weekly
average 2
P a y rolls
for the
month 2
_i.
Average
earnings
per
hour 2
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month 2
$0.957 $249, 506,444
74,934
74,927
8,326,658
12, 507, 281
.666
14, 552, 696
44,031
463, 611
43,444
466,920
6, 234, 748
78,335, 605
6, 581,082
79,052, 585
.947
.991
8, 337, 933
94, 643,050
6,226
1,235
3,409
(«)
38,137
5,808
1,135
3,409
35, 700
37,825
430,458
175,465
371, 239
3, 567,525
6, 374, 605
733,915
158, 271
522,615
5,163, 637
6,889, 862
.587
1.109
.710
.691
.925
3, 649, 634
1,112,903
298,098
9,361, 523
14,023,175
32,418
6,416
30,928
6,406
4,341, 283
954, 747
5,176, 642
1,082,354
.839
.882
5,189, 246
2,421,239
237,105
88,892
6,158
1,203
20, 240
222,055
83, 793
5, 922
1,108
20,292
45,412,079
16,162,914
724, 251
137, 007
713,439
44, 240,427
14, 743,021
881,964
146, 798
2,072,953
1.026
1.096
.821
.933
.344
65,611,865
19, 242,017
1,855, 674
225,848
8,981, 543
1
Includes 194,019 force-account employees with $34,731,464 pay roll, which are also included in the executive
service, table 11.
2
Data are for the month ending on the 15th, except public-roads data, which are for the calendar month.
3 Includes weekly average for public-roads projects.
<
Financed by Rural Electrification Administration loans.
5
Under the jurisdiction of the Public Roads Administration.
6
Not available; weekly average included in the total for all projects.
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TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction Projects Operated by the United
States Housing Authority, by Geographic Division, December 1941
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Geographic division
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month *
Pay rolls Man-hours
Average
worked earnings
for the
during per hour i
month i
month i
Weekending near- Weekly
est the 15tb average
i
of the
month
27,831
25,499 $3,407,691
3, 432, 948
$0.993
$3,876,308
New England
Middle Atlantic
East North CentralWest North Central.
South Atlantic.
4,331
4,696
4,834
713
6,105
3,890
4,032
4,628
670
5,765
604,553
681,944
725, 673
115,585
652,800
542,172
515, 584
716, 754
88,735
748, 241
1.115
1.323
1.012
1.303
.872
717,723
593,601
676,381
161,433
778,184
East South Central..
West South Central _
MountainPacific
Outside continental United States..
1,000
2,395
423
1,665
1,669
978
2,284
430
1,348
1,474
86,962
227, 419
63, 318
182, 398
67, 039
120,
276,
50,
152,
221,
.722
.821
1.245
1.198
.303
156,096
461,119
111, 959
155, 368
64, 444
All divisions
486
888
842
227
019
i Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
TABLE 14.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Federal and Non-Federal Construction
Projects Financed From Public Works Administration Funds, by Type of Project,
December 1941 *
[Subject to revision]
Employment
ManWeek
Pay rolls hours
Average
worked earnings
ending
for the
nearest Weekly2 month 2 during per hour 2
month 2
the 15th average
of the
month
Type of project
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month 2
... ..
2,581
2,378
$479,827
390,857
$1. 228
$384,556
_.
314
300
40,719
51,323
.793
25,726
Airport construction (exclusive of buildings)
Building construction.
_. . .
Reclamation
Miscellaneous
_
_
25
2
285
2
25
2
269
4
2,761
28
36,933
997
4,463
29
46, 343
488
.619
.966
.797
2.043
5,102
4,456
16, 096
72
2,267
2,078
439,108
339,534
1.293
358,830
52
92
1,967
75
57
24
42
76
1,806
67
57
30
5,422
16, 248
399, 893
4,628
10, 289
2,628
4,021
16, 515
302, 249
4,417
9,675
2,657
1.348
.984
1.323
1.048
1.063
.989
9,362
20, 039
291,425
2,710
9,294
26,000
All projects..
Federal projects 3
Non-Federal projects *
Building construction
Electrification
Heavy engineering..
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage.Miscellaneous
:.
_
_
1 Includes 104 force-account employees with $12,852 pay roll, which are also included in the executive
service, table 11.
2 Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
3
Financed from National Industrial Recovery Act and Public Works Administration Appropriation
Act, 1938 funds.
* Financed from National Industrial Recovery Act, Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, 1935, 1936,
and 1937 funds and Public Works Administration Appropriation Act, 1938 funds.
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TABLE 15.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction Projects Financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, by Type of Project, December 1941
[Subject to revision]
Employment i
Type of project
Man-hours Average
worked
earnings
during
per hour 2
month 2
Pay rolls
for the
month *
Value of
material
orders
placed
during2
month
All projects
16,667
$2,877, 769
2,516,082
$1.144
$4,325,475
Building construction ' . .
Streets and roads. __
Heavy engineering.
16,333
118
216
2,829,899
7,110
40,760
2,481,573
6,519
27,990
1.140
1.091
1.456
4,321,268
3,417
790
_
1 Number employed during week ending nearest the 15th of the month.
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
Includes 349 employees, $49,468 pay roll, 39,665 man-hours worked, and $70,220 worth of material orders
placed on projects financed by R F C Mortgage Co.
2
3
TABLE 16.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Work Projects
Administration, December 1941 1
[Subject to revision]
Employment 2
Type of project
Pay rolls
for the
month
Man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
All projects
1,053,095
$69, 769, 684
140,546,013
$0.496
Defense _
Nondefense
322, 406
730,689
20, 763,347
49,006,337
42,499,318
98,046,695
.489
.500
_ ._ . . __
1 Data are for the calendar month.
2
Average of weekly employment counts as of each Wednesday during the month.
TABLE 17.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Work Projects
Administration, by Type of Project, United States and Territories, November 1941 *
[Subject to revision]
Employment 2
Type of project
All projects
_
Conservation..
Highways, roads, and streets
Community service projects, excluding sewing.
Public buildings 3
_..
Publicly owned or operated
utilities.
Recreational facilities3
_
Sanitation
._
Sewing
Airports and airways
Not elsewhere classified—total
_
National defense vocational training _.
Other...
Pay rolls
for the
month
Man-hours Average
worked dur- earnings
ing month per hour
1,056,401 $60, 525,210 125, 656, 580
$0.482
348, 584
259, 731
105,052
91,487
37, 797
12,052
58, 237
40,641
76,132
1,423, 754
17,602,863
16,354, 724
6,607, 587
5,159,095
2,268, 751
584,392
3,198,212
2,544,737
4, 781,095
3,013,529
39,894, 330
31,832,180
12,648,136
10,378, 663
4,322, 765
1.338, 623
7,159, 597
5,340,983
9, 727, 774
.472
.441
.514
.522
.497
.525
.437
.447
.476
.491
34,168
41,964
1,949, 599
2,831,496
4,138, 678
5, 589,096
.471
.507
1 Includes projects operated by other Federal agencies and financed by allocation of W. P . A.funds. Data
are2 for the calendar month.
Data for all projects, airports and airways, and national defense vocational training represent the average
of weekly employment counts made during the calendar month. Data for all other types of projects
estimated by distributing the average for all projects on the basis of employment on the various types as of
November
18,1941.
3
Construction of buildings for recreational purposes included under public buildings.
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TABLE 18.—Employment and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration Projects, by
Type of Program, November and December, 1941 1
Employment 2
Pay rolls
Type of program
December
November
December
Total__.
626,610
651,484
$9, 241,065
$9,882,941
Student work program..
Out-of-school work program..
338,481
288,129
342,509
308, 975
2,312,174
6, 928, 891
2,375,097
7, 507,844
._.
_
November
1 Data are for the calendar month.
a Number of employees as of the last pay period of the month.
TABLE 19.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, November
and December, 1941 *
[Subject to revision]
Employment 2
Type of personnel
December
1941
November
1941
Pay rolls
December
1941
November
1941
All groups
152,748
171,493
$7,484,630
$8,242,555
Enrolled personnel 3
Nurses *
Educational advisers *
Supervisory and technical *
129,901
87
1,003
21,757
147,287
105
1,058
23,043
4,076,012
13,038
177,895
3,217,685
4,618,932
14,026
187,759
3,421,838
-
1
2
Data are for the calendar month.
Employment represents, for enrolled personnel, an average of counts taken at 10-day intervals, and for
other
groups, the number employed on the last day of the month.
3
December data include 3,334 enrollees with $70,518 pay roll, for work outside continental United States;
the4 corresponding figures for November were 3,200 enrollees and $70,416 pay roll.
Also included in executive service, table 11.
TABLE 20.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction and Maintenance of State Roads
Financed Wholly from State or Local Funds, December 1940, and November and
December 1941 1
[Subject to revision]
Employment 2
Type of project
Pay rolls
December
1941
November
1941
December
1940
Total
149,075
172,553
New roads
Maintenance
38,764
110,311
53,994
118,559
1
2
December
1941
November
1941
142,539
$12,903,165
$13,693,976
$10,889,588
34,310
108,229
2,869,533
10,033,632
3,972,128
9,721,848
2,320,342
8, 569, 246
December
1940
Data are for the calendar month.
Average number working during month.
Purchases from Public Funds
In tables 21 and 22 is presented the value of material orders placed
for construction projects financed wholly or partially from Federal
funds, by program and by type of material, for the fourth and third
quarters of 1941, respectively. Data for the Work Projects Administration are not yet available for the fourth quarter.
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The information concerning the number of man-months of labor
created in final fabrication of these materials (see table 2) is obtained
by sending a questionnaire to each firm receiving an award for materials. The manufacturer is requested to make an estimate of the
number of man-hours created in his plant in manufacturing the materials specified in the contract. For materials purchased by contractors the Bureau estimates the number of man-months of labor
created, on the basis of findings of the 1939 Census of Manufactures.
TABLE 21.—Value of Material Orders Placed for Construction Projects Financed Wholly
or Partially From Federal Funds, by Program and Type of Material, Fourth Quarter
of 1941 i
[Subject to revision]
ReconstrucPublic
tion
Works U.S.H.A.
Finance
low-rent
AdminisCorporahousing
tration 2
tions
Type of material
All materials..
$1,787,883 $15,709,168 $20,681,549 $772,441,607
Textiles and their products..
Awnings, tents, canvas, etc.—
Carpets and rugs
Cordage and twine..
Cotton products...
Felt products..
Jute products
Linoleum and asphalted felt-base floor covering.
Sacks and bags, other than paper..
Waste and related products
Textiles and their products, n. e. c_.
Forest products.
Cork products
Furniture and related products
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c .
Planing-mill products
Window and door screens and weatherstrip..
Forest products, n. e. c.
_
_„.
Chemicals and allied products
Compressed and liquefied gases.
Explosives
Paints, pigments, and varnishes
Chemicals and allied products, n. e. c
Stone, clay, and glass products..
Asbestos products, n. e. c
19
120,076
10,716
1,524,872
720
2,355
4,746
2,975
1,762
609
315, 543
10, 776
154, 567
98,583
30,848
17,450
505, 266
2,104
7,332
382,403
1,839,092
970,073
55,801,891
35,091
690,685
1,095,140
18, 032
144
303, 031
196
701
290, 814
11, 320
3, 556, 010
62,953
685, 754
221,366
80, 617
1, 584,196
38, 765,219
15,017, 534
19,123
335, 202
92
"~3l"
..
Brick, hollow tile, and other clay products, n. e. c_. .
Cement
Concrete products-.
Crushed stone..
GlassLime
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone, cut and
shaped
. . ..
Minerals and earths, ground and otherwise treated _
Sand and gravel
Steam and other packing, pipe and boiler covering,
and gaskets
Tiling, floor and wall, and terrazzo ._ _ . _ _ _ . .
Wall plaster, wallboard, and building insulation. ..
Stone, clay, and glass products, n. e. c
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery.
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Doors, shutters, window sash and frames, molding
and trim, metal..
Firearms
1
2
Regular
Federal
.....
18,203
78
16,791
652
"682"
4,569
701
3,219
334
315
854, 275
1,220
10, 238
273, 675
5,901
1,923
195
13
116,670
...
28, 698
561, 866
191, 219
1, 720,116
72, 333
48, 093
105,253
7,841
188
77,738
19,486
2, 959, 354
69,146
429, 233
524, 320
616, 305
79, 054
479,107
2,160
7, 532,143
301, 763
3,021,351
3, 797,980
411,049
111, 143,181
831, 717
5,193, 800
41, 245,194
15, 526,868
14,482,829
978, 637
47, 274
3,249
83,834
63, 310
431,193
205,960
295,147
1, 673, 069
1,641
22, 973,643
5,603
552
120, 526
95,966
79, 737
424, 351
43, 837
23,198
326, 804
13, 968
37, 602
510, 010
1,118, 399
5,114, 572
1, 445,528
437, 533
1,169
5, 530, 040
5,966,148
185, 433,957
6,933
81,746
4, 533,971
322, 064
546,158
387,398
10, 487,173
1,239
Data unavailable for Work Projects Administration and National Youth Administration projects.
Includes material orders placed on Public Works Administration projects financed by the Emergency
Relief
Appropriation Acts of 1935,1936, and 1937, and P. W. A. A., 1938 funds.
3
Includes projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co.
38
TABLE 21.—Value of Material Orders Placed for Construction Projects Financed Wholly
or Partially From Federal Funds, by Program and Type of Material, Fourth Quarter
of 1941—Continued
[Subject to revision]
ReconstrucPublic
tion
Works TJ.S.H.A.
low-rent
Finance
Adminishousing
Corporatration 2
tion
Type of material
Iron and steel andftheir'products— Continued.
Forgings, iron and steel
.._
Hardware, miscellaneous
Heating and ventilating equipment, except pipe
Nails and spikes
_
Pipe and fittings, cast-iron
Pipe and fittings, wrought iron and steel
Plumbing fixtures and supplies, except pipe..
_
Rails, steel
Springs, steel
Steel, reinforcing
....
Steel, structural
__
Stoves and ranges, other than electric
_
Tools, other than machine tools,.
Wire and wireworks products
..Iron and steel and their products, n. e. c_
Nonferrous metals and their products
_
Aluminum products
Copper products..
__.
Lead products
_.
Sheet-metal products
Zinc products
Nonferrous metals and their products, n . e . c
_
_
..
Machinery, not including transportation equipment
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Electrical wiring and fixtures
Elevators and elevator equipment
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels
Machine tools.
_._
Meters (gas, water, etc.) and gas generators
Pumps and pumping equipment
Radio apparatus and supplies
Refrigerators and refrigerating and ice-making apparatus
Machinery, n. e. c._
Transportation equipment—land and waterBoats, steel and wooden
Carriages and wagons.
_
Locomotives, other than steam
Motor vehicles, passenger
Motor vehicles, trucks
Transportation equipment, n. e. c
Miscellaneous
Belting, miscellaneous
Coal and coke
_
Instruments—professional and scientific—
Models and patterns
Paper products
Paving materials—asphalt, tar, crushed slag, and
mixtures
_
Petroleum products
Photographic apparatus and supplies _
Roofing—built-up and roll, asphalt shingles, and
roof coatings except paint__
Rubber products
_
Window shades and
fixtures
__
_.
Other materials
_
$11,047
10, 321
6,779
12,808
14
$8
266,975
657,330
8,714
462, 280
419, 732
998,002
2,468
1,645
21,525
772,528
89,566
770,135
2,497
33, 017
496,165
8,950
498,185
8,776
138
36
2,061
223, 350
8,322
Regular
Federal
$54, 216 $11,772,423
4,416,850
120, 308
10, 588, 200
345,045
1,875, 536
33, 287
8,717,914
545, 789
507, 282 14, 754,161
180, 292
7, 006, 224
1,096
846, 706
3,901
17,791,360
398,932
46,766,900
2,080,900
221,097
7, 640,097
511,738
8, 450, 600
71,963
646,156 29,559,605
681,356
10,622,066
272, 774
15,001
1,058,045
2,636,148
87, 237
6,088,334
10,431
741,871
260,925
1,784,503
8,737,218
320,285,779
94,336
53,307
1,905
45,222
85,074
663,036
1,303
1,975,890
1,268, 936
107,561
53,883
140,031
203,632
1,049
71,358,469
33,072,583
2, 722, 218
83,174,523
8,967,198
16,183
14,271,325
1,721,459
52,730
50,087
510,822
" 155," 533"
66,155
660,567
271,706
14,691
4,971,545
528,660
104,453,161
161
464
39,047
4,829,472
175,866
8,553
464
9,079
12,587
17,381
534,555
561,553
3,548,945
203,248
2,077,767
1,212,384
75,268,246
2,415
244
1,112
367
8,276
5,772
73
56
11,116
6,981
26,125
4,105,096
463,245
56,510
298,520
6,007
54,906
10
67,768
79,677
2,172
69,233
543
11,224,349
11,935,534
127, 555
71
106
140,048
10,391
72,130
,695,127
5,336
4,152,026
770,353
81,369
42,027,564
139,433
31
~259~263"
TABLE 22.—Value of Material Orders Placed for Construction Projects Financed Wholly or Partially from Federal Funds, by Program and Type of
Material, Third Quarter of 1941
[Subject to revision]
Projects
Type of material
Total»
Public Works
Administration 2
U. S. H. A.
low-rent
housing
Reconstruction
Finance
Corporation a
Regular
Federal
Work
Projects
Administration
$73,846,249
$797,761,429
$2,861,077
$21,861,362
1,802,324
$675,390,417
Textiles and their products.
4,045,236
36,485
93,067
631
937,471
2,977,582
Cotton products
Textiles and their products, n. e. c..
Forest products.
2,011,592
2,033,644
0
36,485
0
93,067
0
631
0
937,471
2,011,592
965,990
54,777,809
All materials
Furniture and related products
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c
Forest products, n. e. c
Chemicals and allied productsExplosives
Paints, pigments, and varnishes
Chemicals and allied products, n. e. c
Stone, clay, and glass products. _
Brick, hollow tile, and other clay products..
Cement
Concrete products.
Crushed stone
Sand and gravel
Wall plaster, wallboard, and building insulation. _
Stone, clay, and glass products, n. e. c
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery..
309,719
3,189,478
487,636
45,301,811
5,489,165
*2,535,825
36,172,491
16,069,493
108,181
15,069
115,344
1,453,422
1,620,712
63,077
384,616
39,943
1,970,514
28,937,528
14,393,769
200,421
5,288,744
0
7,105,494
56,017
278,692
91,430
4,958,032
1,721,323
1,815,727
4, 569,845
719,922
46,295
8,287
1,435
3,031
268,162
7,499
1,457
83,495
6,478
1,229,336
3,399,023
329,673
535,608
810,878
374,837
126,598,173
736,377
5,259,019
2,903,974
89,415, 667*
28,283,136
6,963,871
37,702,145
21,865,741
17,430,880
28,355,557
6,181, 256
8,098,723
26,687
223,299
60, 517
23,583
314,089
7,539
80,663
1, 239,683
674,594
2,140,271
0
301,452
374,810
528, 209
3,201,045
347,856
1,359,022
7,382
118,117
36,725
516,728
3,201,045
28, 797,898
12, 828,259
11,618,029
22, 313, 207
5,302,412
5,354,817
1,978,312
7, 658,498
5,477,672
5,781,886
5,308,692
459,770
1,618,306
180, 940,548
397,877
5, 986, 201
7,548,461
153,363, 501
13, 644,508
117,413
3,794,812
5,620,271
468,069
Hardware, miscellaneous. __
31,225
78, 806
7,217,539
10,471,385
Pipe and fittings, cast iron
18,141
361,019
20, 582,009
635, 702
15, 697,835
28,359
Plumbing, heating, and ventilating equipment, except pipe..
1,888,124
63,
533,740
3,
873,009
56,016,026
174,065
Structural and reinforcing steel
1, 068,114
329, 639
3,901, 674
4,568,190
5,764
Tools, other than machine tools
76,164,953
2, 513,892
66,735,615
2,195, 111
Iron and steel and their products, n. e. c
113, 251
1
Data unavailable for National Youth Administration projects.
2
Includes material orders placed on Public Works Administration projects financed by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935,1936, and.U937 and[P. W. A. A.,
3
Includes projects financed by R F C Mortgage Co.
1,208,752
2,795,880
2,331,989
2,402,526
298,277
4, 607.084
1938funds.
CO
TABLE 22.—Value of Material Orders Placed for Construction Projects Financed Wholly or Partially from Federal Funds, by Program and Type of
Material, Third Quarter of 1941—Continued
Projects
Type of material
Total
Public Works
Administration
Reconstruction
Finance
Corporation
U. S. H. A.
low-rent
housing
Regular
Federal
Work
Projects
Administration
Nonferrous metals and their products..
$10,457,462
$38,507
$420,977
$26, 269
$9,661,046
$310,663
Machinery, not including transportation equipment _ _.
321, 834,092
780,390
4,042,138
12,135,037
302,189,569
2,686,958
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and suppliesMachinery, n. e c
84,108,563
237,725, 529
250,158
530,232
524,692
3, 517,446
1,499,204
10,635,833
80,390,643
221,798,926
1,443,866
1,243,092
Transportation equipment—land and water..
Miscellaneous. _
Coal and coke
Paving materials—asphalt, tar, crushed slag, and mixtures
Petroleum products
Roofing—built-up and roll, asphalt shingles, and roof coatings except paint..
Rubber products. . ...
.
Other materials
...
4,534,096
3,419
0
3,081
3,925,096
602,500
87,468,519
502, 286
2,591,790
605, 805
65, 638,224
18,130,414
7,680,416
15,778,908
13,800,940
3,640,784
1,089,393
45,478,079
4,596
22,467
119, 770
2,747
2,171
350, 535
10
57,983
97,934
296,473
5,165
2,134, 225
1,308
36, 695
52, 705
203,385
9,822
301,890
7, 582,807
6,712,506
10,802,556
2,761,820
878,054
36,900,481
91,695
8,949, 257
2,727,975
376,359
194,181
5,790,947
41
The needs of the Work Projects Administration for motor vehicles,
construction and other equipment, and miscellaneous services for use
on work-relief projects, are supplied in part through the rental of
equipment and the purchase of utility and miscellaneous services.
These rentals and services on projects operated by the Work Projects
Administration for the third quarter of 1940 and the second and third
quarters of 1941 are shown in table 23, by type of rental and service.
TABLE 23.—Value of Rentals and Services on Projects Operated by the Work Projects
Administration, Third Quarter of 1940 and Second and Third Quarters of 1941
[Subject to revision]
Third
quarter,
1941
Type of rentalTand service
All rentals and services
Motor vehicles
Teams and wagons
Construction equipment..
Other equipment
Other rentals and services.._
....
__
o
_
__.
Second
quarter,
1941
Third
quarter,
1940
$59,119,093
$62,861,650
$61,488, 716
19,841,691
196,421
20, 061,315
2,902,857
16,116,809
22,638,954
257,786
18,946,395
3,609, 519
17,409,000
24,931,270
290,715
18,561,066
2,892,280
14,813,385
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