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Serial No. R. 899
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Lubin, Commissioner
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EMPLOYMENT
AND PAY ROLLS
Prepared by
DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
Lewis E. Talbert, Chief
and
DIVISION OF CONSTRUCTION AND
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Herman B. Byer, Chief
JANUARY 1939
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE • WASHINGTON • 1939
CONTENTS
Summary of employment reports for January 1939:
Total nonagricultural employment
Industrial and business employment _ _
Public employment
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Detailed tables for January 1939:
Industrial and business employment
Public employment..
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Tables
iSUMMAKY
TABLE
TABLE
1.— All manufacturing industries combined and nonmanufacturing
industries—employment, pay rolls, and weekly earnings,
January 1939
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2.--Federal employment and pay rolls—summary, January 1939..
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT
TABLE
TABLE
TABLE
TABLE
TABLE
Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, January 1939
4
Manufacturing and nonnianufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls,, hours, and earnings, November 1938
through January 1939_
Manufacturing and nonnianufacturing industries—indexes
5
of employment and pay rolls
Geographic divisions and States- comparison of employment
6
and pay rolls in identical establishments in December 1938
and January 1939
..
7.- Principal metropolitan areas—comparison of employment
and pay rolls in identical establishments in December 1938
and Jan uary 1939..
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PI:HL.IC
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19
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EMPLOYMENT
TABLE
8.—Executive service of the Federal Government—employment
and pay rolls in December 1938 and January 1939
TABLE 9.—Construction projects financed by Public Works Administration funds—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
January 1939, by type of project._
_..
TABLE 10.— Housing projects of the U. S. Housing Authority—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked, January 1939, by
geographic divisions
(in)
22
22
26
IV
TABLE 11.—Projects financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked, January 1939, by type of
project
TABLE 12.—Projects operated by the Works Progress Administration—
employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked, fourth
quarter of 1938, by type of project
TABLE 13.—National Youth Administration work projects and Student
Aid financed by The Works Program—employment, pay
rolls, and man-hours worked from the beginning of the
programs
TABLE 14.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls,
December 1938 and January 1939
TABLE 15.—Construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
worked, January 1939, by type of project
TABLE 16.—Construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations—employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked,
January 1939, by type of project
TABLE 17.—Construction and maintenance of State roads—employment
and pay-roll disbursements, January 1939, December 1938,
and January 1938
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30
31
31
Employment and Pay Rolls
SUMMARY OF REPORTS FOR JANUARY 1939
Total Nonagricultural Employment
SEASONAL employment declines in retail stores, factories, and
construction accounted primarily for the decrease of approximately
880,000 in the number of workers engaged in nonagriculturaJ industries
in January as compared with December. This decline was only
slightly larger than that which took place from December 1936 to
January 1937, and was much smaller than the unusually sharp drop
from December 1937 to January 1938. Compared with January of
last year, there was a decrease of 100,000 workers. These figures do
not include employees on Works Progress and National Youth
Administration projects, enrollees in the Civilian Conservation Corps,
nor certain temporary workers who are hired only during peaks of
activity in some industries.
Emergency employment declined approximately 81,000 in January.
This decline resulted from a reduction of nearly 92,000 in projects
operated by the W. P. A., partly offset by increases in the number
of C. C. C. enrollees and those on N. Y. A. work projects.
Industrial and Business Employment
There was a decrease of 1.9 percent in factory employment indicating the release of approximately 130,000 wage earners since
December. Corresponding pay rolls fell 3.8 percent, representing a
loss of $6,300,000 in weekly wages. These decreases were of seasonal
proportions. The index of factory employment for January (89.5
percent of the 1923-25 average) was 1.9 percent above the level of
January 1938, when a sharp reduction in industrial activity was under
way. The index of factory pay rolls (83.2 percent of the 1923-25
average) was 10.9 percent higher than a year ago.
Gains in employment since December were reported by 19 and
increases in pay rolls by 16 of the 87 manufacturing industries surveyed monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For the durablegoods group there was a 1.8-percent decrease in employment and a
4.9-percent recession in pay rolls. For the nondurable-goods industries there was a somewhat greater than seasonal decline of 1.8
(1)
percent in employment, and a 2.7-percent drop in pay rolls. The
industries in which substantial numbers of workers were laid off
included beet sugar (11,900), sawmills (8,600), knit goods (8,500),
confectionery (8,300), cigars and cigarettes (8,100), furniture (6,100),
baking (5,200), men's furnishings (5,200), stoves (4,400), and newspapers (3,900). The following industries showed declines ranging
from 2,400 to 3,600 workers: electrical machinery, cement, meat
packing, paper boxes, radios and phonographs, and automobiles.
Shoe factories added 10,800 workers to their pay rolls, millinery firms
took on 3,000 wage earners, factories manufacturing agricultural
implements added 2,600 workers, and fertilizer plants rehired 2,200
men.
In retail trade, there was a post-holiday decline in employment of
16.2 percent or well over half a million workers. The January 1939
employment index at 82.2 percent of the 1929 average was 2.2 percent below the level of a year ago. The December-January decline,
which was slightly greater than seasonal, reflected the lay-off of the
unusually large extra force taken on for the holiday trade. Employment in the general merchandising group decreased 37.0 percent but
was only 0.8 percent below the level of January of last year. Apparel,
jewelry, furniture, hardware, and cigar stores reported large employment losses. The other retail groups covered showed reductions of
less than 5 percent,-with the exception of dealers in wood, coal, and
ice and in farm supplies, who increased the number of their employees
by 4.0 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively.
Wholesale trade as a group reduced employment seasonally by 2.1
percent. The principal employment reductions were in firms selling
food products, groceries, machinery, dry goods and apparel, farm products, and automobiles, equipment and parts. The only groups reporting increased employment were those dealing in farm supplies; forest
products, except finished lumber; and metals and minerals.
Anthracite mines reduced their working forces 2.5 percent and
bituminous coal mines 0.7 percent. Pay rolls in the coal-mining industries showed more pronounced declines than employment, reflecting reduced production during the first half of January. Employment
in quarries declined 7.0 percent, which is less than seasonal, and showed
a gain over January 1938 of 0.7 percent. Oil wells decreased their
operating forces by 1.2 percent and metal mines by 1.5 percent.
Power and light companies reported about the usual January employment decline (1.6 percent), telephone and telegraph firms reported 0.2
percent fewer workers, and electric railroads reported an 0.3 percent
employment cut. A seasonal loss of 3.8 percent occurred in dyeing
and cleaning plants, and there were slight reductions in laundries
and hotels. Personnel in brokerage and insurance offices was increased
slightly by 0.1 and 0.6 percent, respectively. The gain in insurance
companies raised the employment level 1.1 percent above the corresponding month of 1938.
In private building construction, the decrease of 11.5 percent in
employment was, with the exception of January 1937, the smallest
January reduction reported since 1933. All parts of the country reported reduced employment in construction, the smallest losses occurring in the Pacific Coast and East and West South Central States,
while the largest declines were shown in the New England, the East
and West North Central and Mountain States. The figures are based
on reports which were supplied by 14,003 contractors employing 103,978 workers in January. They do not cover public construction
projects financed by the Public Works Administration, Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, or Works Progress Administration, or by regular
appropriations of the Federal, State, or local governments.
A preliminary report of the Interstate Commerce Commission indicated a decrease between December and January of 1.4 percent, or
13,912 persons in the number employed by class I railroads. The
total number reported for January was 929,770. Corresponding payroll figures for January were not available when this report was prepared. For December they amounted to $150,372,130 as against
$149,011,526 for November, a gain of 0.9 percent.
Hours and earnings.—The average hours worked per week by wage
earners in manufacturing industries were 36.3 in January, a decrease
of 2.2 percent since December. The corresponding average hourly
earnings were 65.1 cents, an increase of 0.2 percent as compared with
the preceding month. Average weekly earnings decreased 1.9 percent to $23.81.
Of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries for which man-hour data
are available, 3 showed increases in average hours worked per week
and 12 showed gains in average hourly earnings. Average weekly
earnings were higher for 5 of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries
surveyed.
Employment and pay-roll indexes and average weekly earnings in
January 1939 for all manufacturing industries combined, for selected
nonmanufacturing industries, and for class I railroads, with percentage changes over the month and year intervals, are presented in table 1.
TABLE 1.—Employment,
Pay Rolls, and Earnings in All Manufacturing Industries
Combined and in Nonmanufacturing Industries, January 1939
Employment
Industry
Index
January
1939
Percentage
change from—
December
1938
January
1938
(1923-25
=100)
Index
January
1939
Percentage
change from—
Average in
Janu
ary
1939
Percentage
change from—
December
1938
January
193S
-3.8
+10.9
$23.81
-1.9
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
December
1938
89.5
-1.9
+1.9
83.2
Class I steam railroads 2
52.1
-1.4
-3.1
(3)
(1929=
100)
-2.5
-.7
-1.5
38.5
67.0
74.1
+.7
—7 0
- 1 . 2 -11.0
2
-4.8
92.0
-.5
-1.8
« 30. 89
-.3
90.0
-1.6
-4.1
95.8
-2.5
-3.1
* 33. 52
-.9
-.3
88.1 - 2 . 1
82.2 -lfi. 2
90.7 -37.0
-4.2
71.1
+2.0
+.8
-3.2
-2.2
-.8
— 3
75. 5
69.7 -12.0
84.0 -31.6
-2.6
-2.7
-3.6
-2.6
66.7
80.2
79.6
69.2
(3)
(»)
+8.9
(3)
(1929=
100)
50.0
88.7
61.4
80.0
91.8
93.3
94.2
January
1938
(1923-26
=100)
All manufacturing industries
combined *
_.
Coal mining:
Anthracite* _
Bituminous *
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic
mining
Crude-petroleum producing
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph...
Electric light and power
and manufactured g a s . . .
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and maintenance
Trade:
Wholesale . . .
Retail
General merchandising.
Other than general
merchandising
Hotels (year-round) 4 7 . .
Laundries <
Dyeing and cleaning *
Brokerage
_.
Insurance
Building construction .
Average weekly earnings
Pay roll
-7.0
—.2
i
-3.8
+.1
+.4
-11.5
-16.0
—8.5
-8.9
-80
+.8
-12.9
38.0 -10.6
78.1 —3.5
55.3 +2.2
-18.4
+10.9
-6.4
24.74 - 8 . 3
23 27 - 2 . 8
28.27 +3.8
19 76 —3 0
33.08 - 1 . 1
30 3 —9 8 +9 4
61.0 - 2 . 3 -10.4
658
(3)
-5.0
—1.1
-.6
-3.7
-.6
-.3
-14.0
Q
—.7
-.7
-1.6
-.7
5
33. 53 +2.4
+1.9
+5. 0
+8.6
24. 46 +2.2
»29.62
21.71
18.38
» 15. 01 - . 9
-.4
17.43
19.15
-10. 1 » 36. 44 - . 7
-.6
-.3
36.49
28.18 - 2 . 7
-10.6
+.4
-2.8
+21.2
+2.8
+8.6
+.6
+3.1
+1.0
+5.2
+3.4
+1.6
+.1
+1.9
+1.1
+3.0
+3.1
-2.3
— 1.1
+2.3
i Revised indexes. Adjusted to 1935 Census of Manufactures. Indexes for earlier months and years
given in table 3 of the November issue of the Monthly Labor Review.
>
Preliminary. Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.
3
Not available.
< Indexes adjusted to 1935 Census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented in January 1938
issue
of tins pamphlet.
6
Average weekly earnings not strictly comparable with figures published in pamphlets prior to January J93S, as they now exclude corporation ollicers, executives, and other employees whose duties are mainly
supervisory.
•7 Less than Ho of 1 percent.
Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
Public Employment
Employment on projects financed by the Public Works Administration continued to increase with the gain in the number of projects
under construction which were financed from funds provided by the
Public Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938. There
were 217,000 employees for the month ending January 15, 1939, on
all Public Works Administration projects, a gain of 23,000 over the
number working in December 1938 and nearly double the number at
work a year ago. Pay rolls for January 1939 were $17,079,000.
During the month ending January 15 more than 2,800 men were
working on projects of the United States Housing Authority, and
pay rolls amounted to $320,000. These figures cover new construction and demolition and pertain only to the projects started under
the United States Housing Authority; those formerly under the Public
Works Administration are shown with P. W. A. building construction
projects in this report.
A seasonal decrease of 33,000 in employment occurred on construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations. For the
month ending January 15, 182,000 men were at work. Decreases in
employment were reported for all types of projects with the following
exceptions: Rural Electrification Administration projects, ship construction, and water and sewerage projects. Pay rolls on construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations in January
were $18,704,000.
Slightly more than 2,500 men were working on construction projects
financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the
month ending January 15. Pay-roll disbursements for the period
totaled $290,000.
There was a further curtailment of work relief employment on
projects operated by the Works Progress Administration in January
when about 92,000 workers were laid off, reducing the number working
to 2,895,000. As compared with last January, however, nearly 995,000
more persons were at work. Pay rolls for January 1939, amounting to $155,733,000, were $11,271,000 less than in December 1938, and
$62,395,000 more than the pay rolls for January a year ago. For the
month ending January 15, the number of persons working on Federal
projects under the Works Program declined 3,000 and pay rolls
dropped $405,000. A gain of 1,000 in employment was reported on
work projects of the National Youth Administration. Data on
employment and pay rolls for student aid in January will not be
available until next month.
As the result of the beginning of an enlistment period there were
330,000 employees in camps of the Civilian Conservation Corps in
January, an increase of 9,000 over the number for December. Of the
total number employed 294,000 were enrollees, 5,000 reserve officers,
300 nurses, 1,600 educational advisers, and 29,000 supervisory and
technical employees. For all groups of workers pay-roll disbursements in January totaled $14,709,000.
In the regular services of the Federal Government decreases in
employment were reported in all services with the exception of the
legislative. Of the 864,000 employees in the executive service in
January 120,000 w^ere working in the District of Columbia, and
744,000 outside the District. Force-account employees (employees
134776—39
2
who are on the Federal pay roll and are engaged on construction
projects) were 10 percent of the total number of employees in the
executive service. Increases in employment occurred in the number
of force-account employees for the Panama Canal and in the administrative offices of the Public Works Administration. The Post Office
and War Departments were among those agencies reporting decreased
employment.
The effect of seasonal influences on employment on construction
work was evident on State-financed road projects. During the
month ending January 15, 153,000 men were working on these road
projects, a decrease of 31,000 compared with the preceding period.
Of the total number at work 18,000 were engaged on new road construction and 135,000 on maintenance. Pay rolls for both types of
road work amounted to $10,525,000.
A summary of Federal employment and pay-roll data for December
1938 and January 1939 is given in table 2.
TABLE 2.—Summary of Federal Employment and Pay Rolls, January 1939
[Preliminary figures]
Employment
Class
Federal services:
Executive 2
Judicial
Legislative
M ilitary
Construction projects:
Financed by P. W. A.<
U. S. H. A. low-cost housing
Financed by R. F. C.»
Financed by regular Federal
appropriations
Federal projects under The Works
Program
Projects operated by W. P. A
National Youth Administration:
"Work projects
Student aid..
Civilian Conservation Corps
1
8
Percentage
January I December change
Pay rolls
1039 "
1938
803,911
2, 228
">, 234
339, 080
•918,861
2,271
5,145
340,891
-0.0
-1.9
+1.7
-.4
$131,382,390
547, 087
1,209,738
20, 074,833
217,200
2, 774
2, 540
J94, 077
2,301
2, S92
+ 11. 0
+20. 0
-12.0
181,976
214,844
121.095
2 895.214
124,074
2,980,931
238,802
(6)
330,144
December
1938
January
1939
5
Percentage
change
$142,004,975
554,388
1,197,211
20,935,537
-7.5
-1.2
+1.0
-1.0
17.079,092
319,784
290,403
10,109,889
292, 583
308,347
+5.0
+9.3
-5.8
-15.3
18,704,411
20,190, 980
— 2.4
-3.1
5,.r)09,841
155. 733, 123
5,914,821
3 107,004,505
-0.8
-6.7
237, 399
+.6
308,921
320, 975 "+2~9
4, 370,808
(6)
14,709, 313
4,328,281
2,395,855
14, 449,950
+1.1
Includes data on projects financed wholly or p.irtLilly from Federal funds.
Includes force-account and supervisory'and technical employees shown under other classifications to
the extent of 111,073 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $13,943,027 for January 1939 and 124,037 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $14,070,121 for December 193S
3 Revised.
< Data covering P. W. A. projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1930. and
1937 funds and Public Works Administration Appropriaiion Act of 1938 funds are included. Those data
are not shown under The Works Program. Includes 30.993 wage earners and $3,325,884 pay roll for January
1939; 40,049 wage earners and $4.1.00,952 payroll for December 1938, covering Public Works Administration
projocts financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1930, and 1937 funds. Includes 170,942
wage earners and $12,020,438 pay roll for January .1939; 130,906 wage earners and $10,747,455 pay roll for
December 1938, covering Public Works Administration projects financed from funds provided by the Public
Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938.
* Includes 250 employees and pay-roll disbursements of $18,321 for January 1939; 241 employees and payroll8 disbursements of $19,199 for December 1938 on projects financed by the RFC Mortgage Co.
January data not available.
DETAILED TABLES FOR JANUARY 1939
Industrial and Business Employment
MONTHLY reports on employment and pay rolls are available for
the following groups: 87 manufacturing industries; 16 nonmanufacturing industries, including private building construction; and class
1 steam railroads. The reports for the first two of these groups—
manufacturing and nonmanufacturing—are based on sample surveys
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figures on class I steam railroads are compiled by the Interstate Commerce Commission and are
presented in the foregoing summary.
EMPLOYMENT, PAY ROLLS, HOURS, AND EARNINGS
The indexes of employment and pay rolls as well as average hours
worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries in January
1939 are shown in table 3. Percentage changes from December and
January 1938 are also given.
Employment and pay-roll indexes, as well as average hours worked
per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings for
November and December 1938, and January 1939, where available,
are presented in table 4. The November and December figures,
where given, may differ in some instances from those previously
published, because of revisions necessitated by the inclusion of late
reports and other causes.
The average weekly earnings shown in tables 3 and 4 are computed
by dividing the total weekly pay rolls in the reporting establishments
by the total number of full- and part-time employees reported. As
nil reporting establishments do not supply man-hour data, average
hours worked per week and average hourly earnings are necessarily
based on data supplied by a smaller number of reporting firms. The
size and composition of the reporting sample varies slightly from month
to month and therefore the average hours per week, average hourly
earnings, and average weekly earnings shown are not strictly comparable from month to month. The sample, however, is believed to
be sufficiently adequate in virtually all instances to indicate the
general movements of earnings and hours over the period shown.
The changes from the preceding month, expressed as percentages,
are bnsed on identical lists of firms for the 2 months, but the changes
froi.i January I'.)3S t.re compiiied from chain indexes based on the
month-to-month percentage changes.
TABLE 3.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, January 1939
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25 -100, and are adjusted to 1935 Census of Manufactures. Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to August 1938. Comparable series available upon request]
Employment
Industry
All manufacturing
Durable goods..
Nondurable goods
Average weekly
earnings 1
Pay rolls
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Average hours worked
per week»
Percentage
change from—
Percentage
change from—
Decem- January
ber
1938
1938
January
1939 Decem- Januber
ary
1938
1938
Index
January
Janu1939 December
ary
Index
January
1939
1938
1938
89.5
-1.9
+1.9
83.2
-3.8
+10.9
$23.81
-1.9
+8.9
36.3
-2.2
81.8
97.0
-1.8
-1.8
-.1
-4.9
-2.7
+13.9
+8.2
26.58
21.27
-3.1
-.8
+14.0
+4.6
35.8
36.8
-2.V
+3.5
76.4
90.9
-1.6
85.9
90. 9
91.1
65.7
-1.7
-.2
-.6
-.6
77.7
82.1
89.8
52.7
-3.8
-1.3
-4.9
-5.4
+27.6
+35. 2
+56.5
+17.8
26.38
28.18
24.62
18.95
-2.1
+9.6
+7.1
+28.4
+40.5
+42.7
+10.3
34.8
33.7
35.4
32.4
-2.2
-.3
-5.1
-4.4
81.3
48.3
84.7
72.0
129.4
-2.0
-2.5
-1.8
-.9
-3.7
-1.7
-6.3
+12.7
+2.0
+5.6
74.2
45.6
81.8
60.8
126.9
+11.4
+21.9
+47.3
+14.2
+21.8
23.30
27.74
23.42
24.00
23.69
-3.8
-5.3
-7.5
+13.4
+30.1
+30. 6
+ 12.1
+15.2
38.6
30.3
35.5
36.0
37.0
-3.5
-5.5
-6.5
65 7
65 4
61.7
82 8
-3.2
12 5
-.3
-l.fi
+1.8
+7 0
53.9
50 0
fl.8
86 8
-5.7
-7.7
-9.2
-.4
-6.7
-4.4
— 18 5
-2.7
—1.2
+12.7
+20 0
-4.3
-3.1
24.73
22 87
26.59
22.73
—1.2 +10.7
—6 8 +12.1
+2.5
-2.4
+.4 +2.4
35.3
35.0
30.5
37.4
-5.3
-2.5
83.4
Ifi2. 8
91.5
110.9
-5. 1
-0.3
-.6
+2.5
+10.0
+5.0
80.2
157.8
87.4
111.8
-2.2
-12.0
-30.1
+13.2
+25. 9
-8.1
-33.9
23.75
23. 40
26.50
27.92
-1.6
-10.5
-1.8
+10.5
+13.1
+4.5
-5.3
39.3
35.0
36.6
35.3
133.3
82.3
-.9
-1.8
-6.8
-14.2
117.4
80.6
-12.5
-7.7
28.47
26.99
-.2
—6.3
35.0
36.5
Decem- Januber
ary
1938
1938
January
1939
Average hourly
earnings»
Percentage
change from—
January
1939
Decem- Januber
ary
1938
1938
Cents
65.1
+0.2
8
72.9
58.5
+.4
+35.3
+43.1
+11.8
75.5
83.5
69.6
57.8
+14.5
+27.0
+29.0
+11.3
+17.4
61.2
76.3
66.0
66.7
63.9
-1.1
+13.4
+9.5
+1.5
+1.5
69.9
65.9
73.1
61.2
—2.0
+.3
+1.0
+1.5
+1.0
+1.8
+13.0
+14.6
-4.4
60.4
67.0
72.4
79.4
-.7
-9.4
-2.2
-5.9
+0.3
-1.1
-1.2
-2.8
+.1
-.3
-1.4
-7.1
+9.0
82.2
74.0
+.2
+1.7
(2)
-.1
GO
Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
....
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills..
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets. _
_ _
Cast-iron pipe
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
_ _
Forgings, iron and steel
Hardware. _ _
Plumbers' supplies
Stamped and enameled ware
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings
Stoves
Structural and ornamental metalwork™
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools,machine tools,
files, and saws)
__ _. .
Wirework
Machinery, not including transportation equipment.
Agricultural implements (including tractors)..
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines
_
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.
-.6
-3.8
-6.8
-5 9
— lf>. 1
-2.1
-1.4
-1.1
-2.5
-1.1
-4.3
-4.8
+.5
-3.1
-6.7
-.7
+7.6
+1.0
-3.9
-.9
-.8
-.9
-.4
—.7
+.8
-.8
+.2
+3.0
-1.4
-2,4
+1.8
+1.5
+.5
— 1.4
-.5
+.7
-2.2
-.6
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and windmills
F o u n d r y and machine-shop products.
Machinetools
Radios and phonographs
Textile machinery and parts
Typewriters and parts
_
Transportation equipment
Aircraft
Automobiles
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad
Locomotives
Shipbuilding
Nonferrous metals and their products
Aluminum manufactures
Brass, bronze, and copper products
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices
_
Jewelry
Lighting equipment
Silverware and plated ware
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.
l u m b e r and allied products...
Furniture
Lumber:
Millwork__
_
Sawmills
Stone, clay, and glass products
Brick, tile, and terra cotta
Cement
Glass
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
Pottery
_
87.1
81.8
121.1
108.4
67.5
125.9
95.8
876.4
106. 2
29.4
18.6
101.1
92.4
138.7
98.3
+2.1
+.1
+.9
-8.1
+.9
82.9
87.4
89.8
63.3
72.0
61.9
76.3
_(3)
-9.8
-4.7
-5.4
-.7
-3.4
-4.4
53.0
49. I
66.4
48.9
53.4
89.6
36. 6
78.6
-1.8
-3.6
-5.8
-4.7
-14.7
-3.6
-13.5
-1.6
97.5
90.8
80.8
86.9
83.9
113.3
83.9
110.5
144.0
65.3
68. 5
H6. 8
63.0
84.4
-1.1
-1.1
-.8
-.2
-.8
-5.4
-11.4
-18.3
+26.1
+1.5
-1.6
+5.4
-.3
+16.0
-.1
+3.7
-.6
+25.4
i i
+G!Q
+.6
-2.7
-1.2
-1.9
-25.2
-56.6
-3.5
+4.1
+.5
+5.6
-1.9
+3.9
+21.4
+5.9
-5.9
+3.2
+1.6
+9.6
+2.6
+5.2
+14.1
-1.5
+2.3
-.2
+5.7
98.4
74.8
120.0
96.8
64.6
118.6
91.9
907.8
100. 6
27.1
15.3
106. 7
84.7
142. 8
93.0
+.3
-1.5
+.1
-10.0
-3. 5
-9.0
-6.1
+3.2
-6.3
-3.8
+11.3
-.5
-6.2
Q
-e!o
80.0
71.9
78.2
56.6
67. 9
52.0
60.3
-3.8
-15.3
-7.7
-17.0
-.5
-7.3
-11.1
42.7
42.4
56.8
36.7
47.0
92.0
25.6
:. 66. 3
-4.2
-5. 5
-10.6
-6.7
-17.8
-7.5
-18.6
-12.2
80.8
78.7
68.1
74.2
79.5
96.9
79.8
111.7
157.3
58. 6
58.3
118.9
50.7
70.9
-3.0
-3.0
-4.3
-2.0
-2.6
-.3
-.5
-6.3
-20. 6
+33. 2
+ 17.6
+34. 7
+35.9
+ 15.4
+56. 2
-28. 2
-59. 4
-2.8
+13.1
+ 14.3
+20. 6
-2.5
+5.7
+45. 6
+22.4
-7.4
+15.3
+15.8
+23.2
+13.0
+ 18.6
+36. 2
+7.1
+ 18.4
+2.9
+15. 2
29.21
2611
28.17
22. J 5
24.97
22. 60
31.16
31.61
31.37
25.21
26. 38
31. 56
24.74
26. 35
25. 79
-1.7
-1.6
-.8
-2.1
-4.3
-7.6
-5.9
-.5
-5.8
-2.8
20.41
22.77
24.47
24. 58
26. 72
19.81
19.13
-3.9
-6.0
-3.1
-12.3
21.33
19.86
22.98
19.65
24. 54
24. 72
23. 62
21.83
-2.5
-2.0
-5.1
-2.1
-3.7
-4.0
-5.8
-10.8
16.73
16. 53
22.38
13. 85
18.07
20. 85
24. 53
17.87
19.21
16. 89
14.3:*
18.03
15. 45
19.48
-1.9
-1.8
—3 5
-L8
-1.8
-1.4
+4.1
-1.1
-3.6
+.4
-4.2
+.2
-4.0
-7.0
+5.1
+4.5
-2.8
+5.6
+17.6
+26. 5
+ 17.2
+ 15.6
+26.9
-3.9
-6.2
+2.2
+S.8
+ 13.9
+ 14.4
-1.0
+1.7
+20.8
+ 15.5
-1.7
+11.7
+13.5
+12.7
+10.1
+12.6
+19. 5
+7.9
+16. 7
+9^0
37.2
36.6
38.1
37.7
38.1
35.4
34.8
41.7
34.0
34.5
33.9
37.5
37.0
38.3
36.9
-1.2
-1.7
-.9
-3.1
-7.1
-7.0
-4.4
-.7
-5.3
-3.1
3"). 0
38.7
35.2
38.8
38.6
37.1
36.9
-4.9
-5.4
-3.7
-10.2
39.0
36.7
35.1
36.5
35. 7
34.0
34.1
35.5
-3.1
+3.2
-.1
-3.6
-.4
-3.5
+.4
-2.3
-6.6
+.5
-5.2
-2.4
-4.0
-5.2
-4.9
-10.6
+3.3
+6.3
-3.8
+ 14.5
+ 16.8
+29.7
(2)
+6.0
+24.2
-1.9
-6.8
+2.1
(2)
+14.9
+20.3
+2.5
+8.0
+ 17.2
+15. 9
-2.1
(2)
+15.2
+14.4
+1.3
2
()
+16. 6
+7.9
+11.6
+2.3
+6.5
78.8
71.3
74.0
59.1
65.5
63.7
89.9
76.8
92.3
73.0
77.7
83.6
66.8
68.7
70.1
v>
-.6
+1.7
+'.9
+ 1.6
+2.9
-6.7
-1.0
-1.3
(2)
-.6
-.4
+.1
-.3
+.3
+.9
+9.4
+.5
-2.0
+.5
-1.5
-.4
+.8
4
-.9
-5.2
58.2
58.1
69.3
63.7
69.3
54.1
52.1
+1.2
-2.9
-6.0
54.8
55.0
65.1
54.0
69.0
72.8
09.8
62.8
+1.0
+.4
-ti
48.4
46.2
62.7
38.3
47.5
54.1
71.4
51.1
54.0
47.5
41.8
46.8
42.0
52.6
+.3
+.2
8
-2.1
+.3
-2.2
-.1
-1.3
-.4
-2.4
+.5
+.5
+.3
+1.2
-.8
-4.0
+8.2
(2)
+.5
+.7
+3.6
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing textiles
ITats, fur-felt
Knit goods
__
Hosiery
Knitted outerwear
Knitted underwear
Knitted cloth
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods
See footnotes a t end of table.
_
_
+1.0
+1.8
-4.0
-1.2
-17.3
-3.9
-8.4
-.3
-1.0
+8.7
+ 10.6
+22.0
+5.2
+17.5
+9.1
-8.1
+6.9
+7.0
+4.2
+8.6
+5.3
+9.0
+36.3
+5.9
-6. 5
-4.1
-20.0
-6.5
-6.3
-2.1
-2.7
+ 18.8
+22.2
+67. 9
+15.4
+34.9
+15. 2
+3.1
+18. 6
+ 19.0
+ 13.1
+20.9
+18.8
+26. 5
+39.0
+4.1
-2.6
-2.9
-3.2
-2.8
+2.3
-1.8
-1.7
+9.4
+10. 6
+33. 4
+9.1
+ 14.7
+5.4
+12.3
+ 11.0
+11.2
+8.5
+11.4
+ 13.2
+16. 2
+2.1
34.9
36.4
35.7
36.2
38.8
38.3
34.5
35. 6
35.7
35.4
34.5
38.3
36.4
37.0
-2.1
-2.1
-3.3
-1.6
-.7
-1.8
+ 1.5
-3.3
-3.7
-5.3
-2.4
+4.0
-2.0
-2.2
(*)
(2)
+44.9
+19.6
+ 14.9
+ 11.1
+ 10.4
+14.3
+13.7
+11.9
+17.7
+17.8
+21.4
+14.6
-.2
-.2
-.1
+.6
+2.1
+.8
+.6
+2.3
-.3
-1.5
-.2
+.5
- 55. 0
-8.4
-.1
-5.2
-1.9
-3.1
-2.4
-3.7
-4.9
-4.4
-4.7
-11.1
TABLE 3.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, January
1939—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Employment
Industry
Index
January
1939
Nondurable goods -Continued.
Textiles and their products--Continued.
Wearing appan>l
_
Clothing, men^s
Clothing, women's
Corsets and allied garments
Men's furnishings
Millinery
Shirts and collars
Leather and its manufactures
_
Boots and shoes...
Leather
Food and kindred products
Baking
Beverages
Butter...
Canning and preserving
Confectionery
_
Flour
Icecream
Slaughtering and meat packing
Sugar, beet
Sugar refining, cane
_
Tobacco manufactures
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff
Cigars and cigarettes
Paper and printing
Boxes, paper
Paper and pulp.
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining
_
Petroleum refining
—
111.0
96.7
159.6
99.8
123. 0
67.1
114.3
92.9
92.7
86.0
113.7
140.3
223. 2
93.1
78.6
78.0
77.2
67.9
99. 8
So. 4
S4.7
58.2
60.5
59.0
105.7
9S. 1
105. 5
Percentage
change from—
Decem- Januber
ary
1938
1938
-1.1
-.4
-.6
+5.4
+6.9
+.3
+3.9
+14.5
-4.3
+23. 1
+3.7
+ 1.3
+ 14. S
-17.3
+ 16.2
— 1.9
+4.9
+5.8
+.8
-5.3
-2. 2
_(3)
-2.1
-8.0
+.4
•~f>. 6
-.8
Index
Januarv
1939
_(3)
82.4
68. 7
111.7
99.0
101.0
55. 3
93.1
77. 5
72. 0
88.3
115.2
136. 1
252.1
80.5
70.5
75. 7
74.7
59. 0
111. I
73. 2
74.7
49.7
00. 4
47.5
102.2
99. 5
102. 6
-.2
-.9
-1.0
+.8
-4.7
-7. 1
-1.2
-14.0
-1.2
+1.4
-1.2
-. 1
-2.5
-2.5
- 6 3 . 0 +125.0
-9.2
-2.5
-10.0
-2.1
Average weekly
earnings i
Pay rolls
+8.4
+6.3
-3. 6
4-7 7
-O'A
+5. 4
Percentage
change from—
December
1938
-2.6
+.0
-2.7
-4.0
-29.1
+27. 9
-11.6
+ 10.7
+ 14.7
+.8
-4.7
-1.5
-2.0
+.1
-«. 9
-17.3
4-2. 4
—s
-l.*3
-67. 0
+2. 5
-16.6
-y. o
-IS.0
-4.8
—9. 0
--.8
January
January
19IJ9
1938
+ 13.5 $17. 39
IS. 51
+17. 5
18.70
+8. 6
+ 1S. 3 16. 54
13.
03
+23. S
21. 16
+1.2
12.
61
+29.0
19.71
+12.3
18.54
+8.1
+26. 3 24. 76
+74. 9
+ 11.6
+3.5
-3.3
+4.6
+1.9
+13. 7
+6.6
24. 93
25. 47
31. 3S
22. 37
1.6. 47
IS. 02
25. IS
29. 40
28. 05
22. OS
23. 77
15.61
17. 42
15. 14
27.80
20. OS
23.82
-1.2
-.2
+. 6
-2.2
-5.8
+ 1. 3
+. 3
+2.0
-6. 4
102.5
104.7
-1.2
-3.0
-2.8
—. 7
93.6
104.9
-7.3
-1.7
-.3
30. 37
3(3. 85
111.9
117.1
-.7
-.8
-2.4
-4.6
119.7
134. 5
-.3
+3.5
+.3
-1.0
23.63
35.75
-3.4
Percentage
change from—
Decem- Jan uber
arv
193S
1938
-1.6
+7.7
+9.8
+8.8
+.9
-2.1
-4. 3
-14.3
+10. 0
—9. 9
+5.6
+8.4
-. 1
+.6
+.7
-1.9
+2. 2
-1. 1
—3. 2
+3. 0
+.4
+ 1.3
-10.8
+2.1
-8.1
-6.6
4-13.8
+9. 8
+5.9
+5.4
+8.3
+6.4
+ 10.0
-.4
+.9
-.2
+2.7
+ 1.3
+2.5
-1.0
+2. 0
-4.0
-21.7
+3. 7
-2.6
+.3
Average hours worked
per week l
January
1939
32.3
31.2
32.7
30. 2
33. 6
31.7
32.6
38.1
37.9
39. 0
40.0
41.6
36. 9
45. 5
34.7
37.4
41.6
45.3
41.3
33. 5
3(>. 3
32.2
34.4
31.9
37.9
3S.4
38. 7
Percentage
change from—
Decem- Januber
ary
1938
1938
-2.2
—.6
-J.4
-3. 0
-8.6
+13.4
+8.1
+14. 3
+23.6
+ 10.9
—7.8
+4.6
-i-6. 0
-.6
-1.1
+.7
-1.6
+.7
-1.9
—7. 1
+2. 0
0
+.6
-2S. 6
-4. 9
-10.7
-5. 6
-11.4
-2.1
-1. 9
—.6
(2)
—.8
+4.7
(-')
+ 14.6
+ 10.1
(a)
—.3
-2.5
+2. 2
-1.0
+ 1.5
-4.7
-1.5
-3.8
-13.1
-4.1
(-)
-.4
—3 7
(2)'
- S . {>
-3. 0
-2.7
-3. 6
0
+2.3
+7.9
+6. 6
-2.2
+ 1. 1
-4^5
+.4
38. 6
36.0
-1.8
-2.9
-1.9
+.4
+5.9
+3. 8
38.3
36.6
+ (O
+.5
+3.4
+1.2
+8. 7
+8.2
+.1
(2)
Average hourly
earnings i
January
1939
Percentage
change from—
Decem- Januber
ary
1938
CenU
52. 5
59.1
52. 2
45.7
36. 3
64.5
39.4
52.5
49. 8
63. 9
62.8
61.7
85. 8
49.8
4S. 6
4S.2
60 1
(53. 9
OS. 3
65. 0
65. 4
48.1
50.9
47.7
76.5
54.4
61.6
+0.4
-. 1
4-. 2
-.5
-2.2
+.9
-.4
+.1
+.2
+.7
+1.8
+.2
-.4
+3.1
+. 1
+3.8
+.9
+ .1
+.6
+23. S
+7. 3
+2.3
— 1.3
+2. 7
_<a;
+1. 6
+.7
+.4
1938
(*)
-5.0
—.8
—. s
-3. 1
+4. 2
-3.2
(2)
-3.7
-(3)
(-)
+ 1.5
+2.4
+3. 0
+1. I
.-(3)
+ 3.S
+2.9
-117
+7. o
(*)
+.4
+.2
(2)
-0. 7
-1. 1
+.s
79.9
98.2
-1. 1
+2.2
74.4
98.0
+.2
+.6
(2)
+• 1
Oilier tlmu petroleum refining...
Chemicals
.
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal
Druggists' preparations. _
Explosives
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products
Soap__.
Rubber products
.
R u b b e r boors a n d shoes.
R u b b e r tires a n d inner tubes
R u b b e r troods. other—. . . . . . .
.
110.0
115.5
94.7
107.6
81.4
94. 4
111.8
313.2
88.8
81.1
81.1
(57.1
129.8
-1.2
-10.8
-1.5
-1.5
+14.8
—. o
+.0
-f.2
-3.0
-10.2
-. 1
—3. 7
-l.H
-3.9
-24. 1
-2. 0
-4. 2
+2. 5
&
+0.4
+2. 0
+4.1
-2.1
- 2 . ,r)
4-15.7
115.2
127.9
78. 9
MS. 5
89. 9
77.2
113.1
iO9. 5
91,3
83.9
50.8
70. 2
125. 1
i-5. 2
+2. 1
-20. 5
•— 5
-L5
-17.4
-- 1.4
-5.4
+ 10.2
-2.0
.1.2. 4
+ 1.8
-5.7
-!3.8
-3.fi
—«. 5
•r-. 4
-t-12! 3
-1.9
4-8.7
+ 19.8
+4.3
+26. 9
+ 10.2
+27. 1
4-31.0
25. 05
30. 03
12.01
24. 93
30. 03
15. 05
27. 34
24. 22
29.10
27.72
21.78
32. 59
22. 75
K3
-.3
—. 0
+.1
-4.0
-4.0
-1.5
K.2
+0. 3
-3. 1
+3. 5
+18.0
-4.1
-2.8
-3.9
-3. 4
-2. 9
+9.4
+12. 0
+2.3
+21.9
+ 18.8
+30. 5
+ 13.2
—8 3
8
-2.8
+21.2
+ 1.8
+ 1.7
38.9
39. 3
43.1
39.1
37.7
35. 9
39. 2
38.0
39. 1
35.9
30. 5
34. 2
37. 9
—. 2
-'.2
-1.4
-1.3
-4.8
+.9
-1.7
+2.5
+1. 0
-4.0
-0.2
-3. 0
-3. 9
(*>
»>5. 8
78.0
-18.2
+1.1
+ 14. 0
-4.2
+8.8
+10. 0
28.8
00.3
81.3
41.9
09.9
03.7
74.0
76.8
59. 7
95. 7
00. 5
+0.4
+.1
(»)
+ 18.0
+30. 5
-'-10. 1
0 !
— .2 i
-t-.O
+ 1.3
+.9
+4.7
+.1
-.7
+.0
+.9
+2.4
- * • ! ( } . '.i
-.9
+2. 3
+.7
+.0
-2.8
+. 3
(2)
0
-.3
4-.0
\ O N M A M F\CTITUI,NG
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929=100]
Coal mining:
A nt hracite 4
Bituminous «
. .
Metalliferous mining'
...
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum producing
...
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph 5
.
Electric light and power and manufactured
gas s
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and
maintenance 5
Trade:
Wholesale'1
. . .
ReiaiP
...
General m e r c h a n d i s i n g *
Other t h a n general merchandising »
Hotels (year-round; 4 *i;
Laundries4
.... _. .._
Dyeing a n d cleaning •'
Brokerage*
..
..
Insurance*
..
_..
Building construction..
....
50.0 i
88.7 !
61.4 I
38. 5
07.0
-2.5 ! -10.0
-1.5
-7.0
-8.9
+• 7
„
-10. 0 =-18.4
- 3 . 5 ; +10.9
+2.2 I - 0 . 4
-9.8
+9.4
-2.3 - 1 0 . 4
$24.
23. 27
28. 27
19. 70
33. 08
92.0 |
- . 5 i -1.8
30. 89
95. S
-2.5
-3.1
33. 52
-h. 8
33. 53
38. 0
78. 1
55.3
30. 3
01.0
_ • >
+3.8
-3 0
-1 1
27.0
20.5
41.3
30.0
37.0
1
I
!
i
!
-7.8
-3.2
— 1. 1
-4.4
-2.0
+22. 2
+1.2
+0. 3
-4.0
+3.7
-.2
-.-2. 0
- 2 . J
88. 1
82. 2
-1(5.2
90.
-37. 0
80. 0
-7.0
-.2
91.8 I
93.3
—. I
9-1 2
-3.8
( • )
()
+.1
+ .4
+00
-3. 2
— 2*.f>
— 3.0
- 2 . fi
09. 7
SkO ;
00. 7
80.2
79. 0
05. 8
-8. 0
-11.5
.fi !
.0 !
. 1 j
- . 7
- . 7
-l.(J
.7 ! +!i
.0 ! - 1 0 . 1
.3 ! - . 3
.0 - 1 0 . 0
29. 02
L'1.71
IS. 38
21.40
15.01
17.43
19. 15
30. 14
:>(J. 49
28. IS
39. 0
-.3
-1.2
+ 1.0
+5.2
-3.4
-1.8
87.0
40. 3
+ 1.0
-1-3. 0
71.5
+3. 4
+1.0
+. 1
11.7
-.3
-. 1
70.7
55. J
48.4
57. 1
31.9
41.4
48. 9
-.3 j
+2.
+ 1.
+».
+2.
-2.7
4-1.9
+ 1.1
-J-3. 0
-J-3. 1
-2. 3
-1. 1
+2. 3
0
8
4
1
4
-2.5
+.3
-.8
-.8
—. 0
— 1.9
_(3)
30. 3
-4. 5
40.
43.
40.
42.
40.
+.0
-1.2
+3. 4
(7)
o
-1.5
1
Average weekly earnings are c o m p u t e d from figures furnished b y all reporting establ i s h m e n t s . Average^ h o u r s a n d average hourly earnings are c o m p u t e d from d a t a s u p plied by a smaller n u m b e r of e s t a b l i s h m e n t s , as all reporting firms do not furnish m a n hours. T h e figures are not- strictly c o m p a r a b l e from m o n t h to m o n t h because of changes
in t h e size a n d composition of t h e reporting sample. H o u r s a n d earnings for all manufacturing industries now relate t o 87 industries instead of 89 which were covered in t h e J u l y
a n d prior issues of t h e p a m p h l e t . T h e t w o industries excluded are electric- a n d steamrailroad repair s h o p s . T h e averages for t h e d u r a b l e goods group h a v e also been affected
by this exclusion
'-' X o t yet c o m p u t e d .
3
(•')
38 0
+8.0
+.0
— 4.8
-4.1
+ 1.2
+.2
+.9
+ 1.2
82.2 I +.3
—11. 0
-1.0
Cents I
92. 8
88.3
08. 9
54. 8
88. 0
i
n
93. 2
+2.0
+0. 9
+ .8
+ 1.9
+2.3
+4. 4
+3.2
u-i
+».»
M
+2. 3
+2.1
+4. S
+9. t
+1. 0
-.3
+.2
+. (J
+1.9
+2. 9
+3.0
+2.0
+2. 7
-2. I
(7)
(0
+3. 5
Loss t h a n 1/10 of 1 percent.
4
Indexes adjusted to 1935 Census. C o m p a r a b l e series back to J a n u a r y ]929 presented
in J a n u a r y 1938 issue of this p a m p h l e t .
5
Average weekly earnings, h o u r l y earnings, a n d hours n o t strictly comparable with
figures published in p a m p h l e t s prior to J a n u a r y 1938 as t h e y now exclude corporation
officers, executives, a n d other employees whose d u t i e s are m a i n l y supervisory.
s Cash p a y m e n t s only; t h e additional v a l u e of board, room, a n d tips cannot be computed.
7
Not available.
TABLE 4.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25= 100, and are adjusted to 1935 Census of Manufactures. Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to Aug. 1938. Comparable scrips available upon request]
Employment index
Industry
All manufacturing
Durable goods
Nondurable goods.
January
1939
Average weekly earnings i
Pay-roll index
Decem- Novem- Januber
ary
ber
1938
1939
Average hours worked
per week *
Decem- Novem
her
ber
1938
January
1939
Decem- Novem- January
ber
ber
1939
1938
1938
Decem- November
ber
1938
1938
Average hourly earnings *
January
1939
Decem- November
ber
1938
1938
89.5
81.6
97.0
91.2
83.1
90.5
82.1
98.4
83.2
76.4
90.9
86.5
80.3
93.4
84.1
78.3
90.6
$23.81
26.58
21.27
$24.30
27.34
21.53
$23. 82
27.11
20.85
36.3
35.8
36.8
37.1
36.8
37.4
36.5
36.5
36.4
Cents
65.1
72.9
58.5
Cents
64.8
72.6
58.4
Cents
64.5
72.4
58.0
85.9
90. 9
91.1
65. 7
87.4
91.1
91.0
0G. 1
86.5
89.8
90. 0
05.7
77.7
82. 1
89.8
52.7
80.8
83.2
94.4
55.7
79.1
81.9
90. 0
54.5
26.38
2S. IS
24. 02
18.95
26.90
2S. 49
20. 41
20. 01
26.64
28. 48
25. 09
19. 71
34.8
33.7
35.4
32.4
35.6
33. 8
38. 0
34.0
35.1
33. 0
37.1
33. 9
75.5
83.5
69. 0
57.8
75.7
84.2
69.7
58.4
75.7
84.2
69.5
58.0
81.3
48.3
84.7
72.0
129.4
82.9
49.0
80. 3
72.0
134. 3
82. 6
48.0
84.4
73.0
133. 6
74.2
45.6
81.8
00.8
120.9
78.6
49.4
90. 1
00. 4
136.0
75.5
44.4
93.2
54. 9
133. 5
23. 30
27. 74
23. 42
24.00
23. 09
23. 93
29. 25
23. 31
23. 55
24.33
23.11
27.18
20. 79
21. 34
24.03
38.6
36. 3
35. 5
36.0
37.0
39.8
3S.4
38.0
35.7
38.5
39.0
30.3
39. 0
32.0
38.1
61.2
76.3
60.0
66.7
63. 9
60.7
70.2
60.7
00.1
62.9
60.2
74.9
08.9
00.6
63.0
05.7
65. 4
01.7
82.8
07.9
74.7
61.9
84.1
69.1
78.9
60.7
84.0
53.9
50.0
51,8
86.8
50. 4
61.4
53.2
87.9
53.3
02.7
50.1
87.5
24. 73
22.87
20. 59
22.73
25. Of.
24. 30
27. 18
22.76
23.27
23. 55
20.07
22. 50
35.3
35.0
36.5
37.4
35.9
30.9
37.4
37.7
33.9
35.5
30. 0
37.3
69.9
05.9
73.1
61.2
69.9
67.2
72.7
60.8
68.9
66.7
72.5
60.7
83.4
102.8
83.9
171.0
80.9
164.0
80.2
157.8
82.0
185.9
75.8
180.2
23.75
23.40
24.19
26.10
23.24
20. 39
39.3
35.0
39.6
38.6
60.4
67.0
61.2
67.8
61.2
68.1
91.5
110.9
91.8
105.0
89.5
87.4
111.8
89.3
113.5
26.50
27. 92
72.4
79.4
117.4
118.8
82.7
25. 47
20. 99
35.0
36.5
35.1
37.1
35.0
82.2
74.0
72.1
80.2
82.1
73.6
72.0
79.4
135.4
83.2
28.04
27.08
28.57
26.09
37.4
37.3
134. 6
83.9
26.98
29. 70
28.51
27.20
35.3
133. 3
82.3
83.9
95.0
119.7
80.4
38.0
38.8
36.2
34.3
87.1
81.8
85.3
81.7
83.5
78.9
98.4
74.8
91.6
70.6
29.21
20.11
29.73
20. 48
28.35
25.51
37.2
36.6
37.7
37.2
30.2
35.8
78.8
71.3
79.3
71.2
78.6
71.1
Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
Biasl furnaces, steel works, and rolling m i l l s . .
Bolts, nuts, washers and rivets
Cast-iron pipe
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
_
Forgings, iron and steel
Hardware
_
_
Plumbers' supplies...
Stamped and enameled ware
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam
fittings
_
_
Stoves
_
_
Structural and ornamental metal work
__.
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, wator wheels, and windmills
_
__.
Foundry and machine-shop products
80.6
82.3
73.0
Machine tools
Radios and phonographs
,
Textile machinery and parts
Typewriters and p a r t s . . . . . . . .
,
Transportation equipment..
Aircraft
Automobile
,„__
Cars, electric*- and steam-railroad
Locomotives
Shipbuilding
Wonferrous metals and their products..
Aluminum manufactures.. .. . . .
.Brass, bronze, and copper products..
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices
Jewflry
__
_
Lighting enuipment
Silverware and pbits'd ware
Smelting frwi rottrhc -copper, lead and zinc
lumber and allied products
Furniture.
_
Lumber:
Millwork
Sawmills..
Stone, clay, and glass products
Brick, tile, and terra cotta
_
Cement
Glass
Marble, granite, slate, and other products
Pottery.
121.1
108. 4
67. 5
125 9
95.8
87f». 4
10R.2
29. 4
18.6
Hi i. 1
£2.4
KK7
08. 3
87. 4
*9.8
03. 3
:•:. o
61.9
70.3
;'3. 0
49. 1
66.4
4S. 9
53. 4
89. 6
:•>'>. 6
7S.6
119.9
118.0
06. 9
127.9
96.1
845. 1
H-0. 8
29.8
17.4
100. 5
85.0
140. 4
100. 2
117.6
118. h.
n-1.2
12\9
91.6
814.9
101.9
2H.3
10.9
00. 0
95.4
143.2
100. 5
S2.9
90. 9
94.2
00. 9
72.5
64.1
79.8
C6.8
OS. 7
70. 1
74.0
58.2
63.5
64. 1
89.8
70. 5
92. 4
73. 0
77.0
H4. 7
66.7
Oh. 3
70.7
73.8
58.2
67.9
64.4
90.6
75.1
93.2
74.0
76.5
83.8
66.2
65. 5
71.0
3S. 1
39. 2
37. 0
42.4
37. 9
37.6
37.9
r.8.2
5 s. |
09. 3
'53 7
09! 3
54.1
52. 1
57. 0
59. 2
09. 1
65.0
00. 2
53.2
52. 6
57.4
57. 6
67.7
64.9
68.8
53.3
52.4
40.2
30. 7
36.5
37. 2
37. 1
35.7
35. 9
38.0
39.7
37.0
36.3
30. 5
38.0
35.7
34.9
36.8
54. 8
55. 0
65.1
54. 0
09.0
72.8
(59. 8
62.8
54.1
53.3
65.1
53. 7
68.8
72.3
69.8
61.9
54.0
53.7
64.5
53.1
68.8
72.2
68.8
62.4
35.7
37.1
36.8
36.8
39.0
39.0
34.0
37.0
37.1
38.0
35.2
38.1
37.2
37.8
33.1
31.6
33.5
34.6
36. 3
35. 5
36.2
38.0
38.2
31.5
36.9
37.4
36.6
35.0
37.3
35.6
35.8
31.4
28.9
31.1
48.4
46.2
02. 7
38. 3
47.5
54.1
71.4
51.1
54.0
47.5
41.8
46.8
42.0
52.6
52.5
59.1
52.2
48.2
46. 1
62.6
38.4
47. 5
53.2
70.5
50.2
53.0
46.7
41.9
46.9
42.3
52.4
52.1
58.5
51.8
47.8
46.0
62.8
38.3
47.4
53.0
69.7
50. 5
53.8
45.9
41.5
46.2
42.1
52.6
51.0
57.2
50.5
100. 0
27. 1
15.3
100 7
84.7
112.8
93.0
120.0
107.6
66. 9
130.3
H7.9
S70. (i
107. 1
2S. 2
13. 7
107. 3
90.3
144.0
98. 9
110.8
10(i.9
r !1 .3
13'1.9
95.0
799. 0
107.6
23. 1
12.8
94.2
90.2
14S.0
99. 8
2«. 17
22. 15
24.97
22.fi.i
31.16
:.i:. 61
31.37
25. 21
26. 38
31.5S
24.74
20. 35
25. 79
28.44
22. 62
25. 9?
24. 40 !
32.72 •
31. 72 i
33. 22
25. 96
25. 34
31. S7
25.81
26. 33
26. 92
26.78
22. 40
24. M
2* 39
33.64
2'f. >1
34. 89
24.21
24. 30
29. 05
25. 70
20. 44
27. 14
38.1
37.7
38. 1
35. 4
34.8
41.7
34.0
34.5
33.9
.S7. 5
37.0
3\ 3
36. 9
38.4
38. 9
41.0
38. 1
36.4
12. 0
30. 0
35. 5
32. 9
37. 5
38.6
:i\ 5
38. 2
3fi.3
38.5
30. 0
37. 9
37.1
40. 2
37. 5
32.7
31. 7
34. 5
38.7
t(). 4
3* 3
74.0
59.1
65. 5
63. 7
89.9
76.8
92.3
73. 0
77. 7
84.1
101.0
91. 6
60. 5
71. 1
65.2
79. 5
5=0.0
71.9
78.2
56. 6
07. 9
52.0
60. 3
83.2
84. 9
84. 7
68. 3
OS. 2
53.1
67.8
87.1
82.7
S3. 4
OH. 1
65. 8
56.2
64. 9
20.41
22. 77
24.47
24. 58
20. 72
19.81
19.13
21.23
24. 11
25. 26
2S. 07
20. 58
20.14
20. 00
21.8*4
22. 81
25. 43
27. 39
20. 03
19.91
19. 75
35. 0
IK 7
35. 2
3S.8
3S. 6
37.1
36. 9
30. 9
40.8
30. 0
43. 3
IK 4
38.0
39. 5
54. 0
50. 9
70.5
51.3
U2. 0
93.0
42. 3
79. 9
54. 9
52. 3
71.6
52.4
67.8
92.1
42.9
80.0
42.7
42.4
56.8
36. 8
47.0
92.0
25. 6
66. 3
44.6
14.9
63.5
39. 4
57. 2
99. 4
31.4
75.5
44. 5
40.4
63.8
39. 0
63. 7
98. 6
30. 7
74. 5
21.33
19. 80
22.98
19.65
24. 54
24. 72
23. 62
21 83
21.71
19. 27
24.03
20. 06
25. 50
25. 76
25. 08
23.56
21.40
19. 57
23.82
19. 46
26. 15
25. 68
24.12
23.12
39.0
3.p.. 7
35.1
36. 5
35. 7
34.0
34.1
35. 5
91.8
SI. 5
87.1
84. 0
112. 1
82.4
115.1
145.7
79.0
71.
160.2
03.2
85.3
112.2
97.1
160.6
89. 5
79. 5
80. 1
83.0
109.3
82. 8
114.2
144. 8
78.2
70.9
155.8
61.7
78.4
112.0
9S. 1
158.5
80.8
78.7
68.1
74.2
79. 5
96. 9
79.8
111.7
157.3
58. 6
58.3
118.9
50.7
70.9
82.4
68.7
111.7
83.3
81. 1
71. 1
75. 7
81. 6
97. 2
75. 3
119.5
164. 1
73.3
62.4
126.8
51.8
72.8
84.6
68.3
114.8
78.4
77.3
00. 9
73. 6
77.3
92. 7
70. 1
118. 5
165.0
6S. 6
61.4
119.6
48.6
63.7
78.0
63.1
101.7
16.73
10.53
22. 38
13.85
18.07
20. S5
24. 58
17.87
19.21
16. 89
14.39
18.03
15.45
19.48
17.39
18.54
18.70
16.99
16.80
23. 03
14. 13
18. 39
20. 87
23. 84
18. 15
19. 51
17.87
14. 75
17.93
15.79
19.80
17.61
IS. 39
18.88
16.35
10.35
22. 29
13.89
17.81
20.47
21.77
18. 18
19.74
16. 81
14. 58
17.45
15.15
18.78
16.35
16.73
17.10
34.9
36. 4
.''.5. 7
36.2
38.8
38.3
34. 5
35. 0
35. 7
35. 4
34. 5
3S. 3
36.4
37.0
32.3
31 2
32.7
120.0
06. 8
04.0
1 1 « . fi
P.9
<• ••
7 .
S
vi o
Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs
Cotton goo'.i?....
_
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing text iies _.
Hats, fur-felt.
Knit goods
Hosiery
Knitted outerwear
Knitted underwear
Knitted cloth
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods
Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's..
Sec footnotes at end of table.
97.5
'.•0.
hi).
f '5.
*?.
S
8
9
9
113.3
M. 9
110.5
111.0
(v.. 3
08. 5
14',.
(i'J. 0
S4. 4
111.0
I.'O. 7
15'.). 6
TABLE 4.—Employment* Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries—Continued
MAN UFACTURING—Continued
Employment index
Industry
Nondurable goods—Continued
Textiles and their products -Continued.
Wearing apparel—Continued.
Corsots and allied garments
_
Men's furnishings
Millinery
_ ._
Shirts and collars
Janu- Decem- Novem- January
ber
ber
ary
1939
1939
1938
1938
_.
Boots 9nd shoes
Leather
Food and kindred products
Baking
Butter
Canning and proton" in**
Confectionery
Flour
Ice cream
S l a u g h t e r i n g a n d m e a t packing
Sucrar beet
Sugar refining cam*
Tobacco manufactures
C h e w i n g a n d s m o k i n g tobacco a n d snuff
Cigars a n d citiarettos
Paper and p r i n t i n g _ _-
_ _
_
Boxes, paper
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum refining
Petroleum refining
_ _
Other than petroleum refining
Chemicals
_ -- .
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal
Pay-roll index
Average weekly earnings
Decem- Novem- Januber
ary
ber
1933
1938
1938
107.0
105. 2
105.9
99.0
101.0
55. 3
93.1
77.5
72.6
88.3
115.2
136 1
25'' 1
SO 5
70.5
75.7
74.7
59. 6
111. I
73 2
74.7
49. 7
66.4
47.5
102.2
9!). 5
102.6
103.1
142.5
43.2
105.3
70.0
63.3
87.6
120.9
138 2
257 2
80 4
77.4
91.5
73.0
60.0
112.5
221 9
72.9
59. 6
73.0
57. 9
107.3
109. 4
103.4
99.8 $16. 54
13. 03
140 9
21. 16
40.4
104. 1 12.61
62.4
19.71
18. 54
54 4
24. 76
84.7
24.93
122.4
25 47
139 7
264 7
31 38
82 4 9<> 37
86. 0
16. 47
84.9
18.02
25. 18
73.8
29. 46
60.7
28. 05
110.0
275 3
22 08
75. 4 23 77
59. 8 15.61
69.1
17. 42
58. 5 15. 14
103.3
27.80
20. 68
110.0
102. 9 23.82
103.7
108. 0
101.4
107.1
93. 6
101. 9
96.9
113.2
89. 1
109. 6
112.7
118.1
111.4
116.9
113.0
118.9
111.6
117.2
116.3
119.7
134. 5
115.2
127.9
120.1
134. 1
115.8
129.8
95.5
119.1
133 fj
114.6
128. 1
100.1
99.8
1*23.0
«7.1
114. 3
92.9
92. 7
SO. 0
113.7
140 3
'>23 2
93 1
7S.6
78.0
77.2
67 9
99 8
85 4
S4. 7
59. 2
»>0. 5
59. 0
105.7
98. I
105. 5
99.5
148.8
57.8
116.4
88.6
87.6
85.3
120.1
143 5
223 3
95 1
85. 3
91.3
78.1
6s*. 7
102. 4
230 7
84.4
65. 2
02.1
65. 6
108.0
103. 9
106.3
98.5
149.5
55. 1
117.7
84.8
S3 3
84.0
123. 4
144 6
229 2
96 8
103. 3
90.6
78.2
70.4
100.7
274 8
86 6
66. 9
61.9
67.5
102.5
104.7
111.9
117. 1
II0.fi
115. 5
94.7
113.9
78.9
Average hours worked
per week
Decem- N o v e m - Januber
ber
ary
193*
1938
1939
36.2
33. 6
31.7
Decem- Novem- Januber
ber
ary
1938
1939
1938
MS. 1
37 9
39 0
40.0
41 6
36 9
45 5
34. 7
37.4
41.6
15. 3
41.3
33 5
:>f) 3
32. 2
34. 4
31.')
37.9
3S. 4
3S. 7
37.3
35.8
l
2X. 7
35. 5
36. 2
35 6
39.2
40.4
41 4
37 5
45 8
35. 4
40.4
40.8
45. 2
41.0
47 0
3S. 2
35. 9
36. 3
35. 9
38.6
40.4
39.0
36.8
3». 4
2S. 6
35. 3
32.8
31.3
38. 6
40.1
11 6
37 8
45 8
33.5
37.8
41.6
44.9
40.5
51 2
37 7
35. 8
34. 2
35. 9
37.9
•10. 4
38. 9
29. 22
37.11
:5S. 1)
•Hi. 0
39. 3
36.8
:J7. 1 •
36. 3
28.28
34. So
25.41
30. 22
13.11
38.3
38.2
3fj. 4
3S.9
39.4
43.4
37.8
35. 8
38. 6
38. 9
44.7
$17. 35
15 08
19. 12
14.00
IS. 62
17.11
24.77
24. 75
25 26
39 02
22 10
16. 55
18. 65
24. 42
29. 21
27. 69
24 75
23 29
16.92
18.40
16.56
28.61
21. 49
23.85
$16.96
15.87
18. 99
13.70
17. 22
15 41
24. 30
24. 22
25 21
3> 11
22 27
15. 14
17.40
24.67
28. S9
27. 54
25 77
23. 46
16. 55
17. 47
16. 33
27.58
21. 34
23. 7S
30. 37
36. 85
31.10
38. 56
28.63
35. 75
25. 65
30. 63
12.61
28.52
35. 30
25. do
30. 72
12.76
:*•_». 6
•!ti. »i
:«. 9
39. 3
43.1
Average hourly earnings
Decem- November
ber
1938
193*
Cents
46.2
37.6
63.9
39.5
52. 6
49.9
63. I
61.9
61 5
86 1
48 4
48 1
46.5
59. 7
63.8
67.9
53 0
61.0
46.9
50.9
4f>. 4
77.1
53.7
61.3
Cents
46 0
79.9
98. 2 m
79.8
100. 7
79.8
_99.8
74.4
98.0
05.8.
78.0
28.8
74.3
97 *
65. 8
78. I
•29.0
74.4
97.9
65.7
77.6
28.8
Cents
45.7
36. 3
64. 5
39. 4
52. 5
49 8
63. 9
62.8
61 7
85 8
49 8
48.6
48.2
60.1
63.9
68.3
65 6
65. 4
48.1
50.9
47.7
76.5
54.4
61.6
38 2
66 3
38.9
53 3
50 8
62 9
61.2
61 1
85 7
48 7
47.0
46 7
59.5
63 5
68.5
50 6
62 2
46.2
51.3
45 6
76 2
53 3
61.2
Druggists' preparations
- _«Explosives
_
Fertilizers
» _
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products.
Soap
Rubber products
R u b b e r boots a n d shoes
_ _ _ _ _
R u b b e r tires and inner tube**
R u b b e r goods other
107.6 I
81.4
94.4
111.8
313.2
88.8
81.1
58.4
67.1
129.8
109. 2 1
82.7
82.3
112.4
311.3
88.6
83.6
65. 1
67.2
134.7
109.7
82.8
78.5
112.4
312 8
88 9
82.4
63.4
66.1
133.6
120.2
95.1
70.0
115.4
302. 4
89.7
89.0
65.9
79.0
133.7
118.5
89.9
77.2
113.1
301). 5
91.3
83.9
56.8
76.2
125.1
119. 6 1
91.7
65.2
113.8
302.7
88. 3
85.2
60.6
75.3
130.7
24.93 1
30. 63
15.05
27.34
24.22
29. 10
27.72
21.78
32, 59
22.75
24.80
31. 64
15. 75
27.80
23.80
28. 80
28.40
23. 17
33. 80
23.44
24. 54 1
30. 45
15. 38
27. 34
23. 74
28.29
27.58
21.88
32.77
23. 09
30.1
37. 7
3?. 9
39.2
38.0
30. 1
35.9
36.5
34.2
37.9
39.6
39.5
35. 5
39.9
37.1
38. 8
37.4
38. 8
35. 2
39.4
38.7
38.0
33. 9
39.4
37.0
38.0
36.7
30. 6
34. 5
39. 2
60.3
81.3
41.9
69.9
63.7
74. 6 •
76.8
59.7
95.7
60.5
59.3
80.1
44.4
69.9
64. I
74. 5
76.4
59.7
96.3
60.1
59.2
80.2
45.4
63.5
64.1
74.6
75.6
59.7
95.2
59.5
Cents
Cents
91.7
87.8
68.4
55.4
86.1
IN O N M A NU F A C T U R I N G
[Indexes are based on 12-month average, 1929 = 100]
1
Coal m i n i n g :
Anthracite *__
_|
50.0
Bituminous 2
.
KS.7
Metalliferous mining
til. 4
Quarrying and nonmetallic m i n i n g . . .
38. 5
67.0
Crude-petroleum producing.
Public utilitiesTelephone and telegraph 3
Electric light and power and manufactured
gas 3
90.0
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and
09. 2
maintenance '
Trade:
88. 1
Wholesale 3
82.2
Retail^
_
\h). 7
General merchandising s
M). 0
Other than general merchandising •*
HI. 8
Hotels (year-round) ^ *
<»3. 3
Laundries2
. ...
94. 2
Dyeing and cleaning 2
___
_. +0. 1
Brokerage a 5 _-.
+.4
Insurance 3 5
-11.5
Building construction J
51.3
89. 3
62.3
41.4
67.8
51.0
88.6
61.9
44.4
68.3
38.0
78.1
55.3
30.3
61.0
42. 5
80. 9
M. 1
33. 7
62.5
$24. 74
23. L>7
28. 27
19.76
33.08
$26.09
24. 00
27. 16
20. 42
33.89
$23.14
24. 31
26. 36
21.03
34.22
27.0
20.5
41.3
30.0
37.6
29.3
27.4
39. 8
37.2
38.7
24.9
27.7
38.7
38.1
39.0
Cents
92.8
88.3
6S.9
54.8
88.0
91.7
88.1
68.5
55.1
85.9
74.3
74.4
92.0
92.5
93.0
30. 89
30.85
30.90
39.0
39.1
39. 2
82.2
81.7
82.4
91.4
91.9
95. 8
98.2
98.6
33.52
33.56
33. 61
38.6
40.0
39.8
87.0
84.1
84.7
69.4
69. 5
71.1
09. 7
68.8
33. 53
32.86
32. 35
46.3
45.8
44.9
71.5
70.9
71.1
90. 0
9S. 1
144. 1
Wi.O
92. 0
<I3. 4
97.9
89. S
80. «
104. 0
82. 3
1)2.5
93. 7
102. 5
75. 7
79. 2
41.7
42. 9
40.0
•13. 8
46. 4
42.1
40.4
(">
00
30.3
41.8
42.3
39. 1
43.4
47.2
41.8
41.4
70.7
55.1
48.4
57.1
31.9
41.4
48.9
70.7
52.7
44.4
56. 3
32.5
41.4
48.7
(e)
70.1
54.0
47.9
56.1
31.8
41.6
38.5
00
-14.0
29. 35
20. 70
17.43
23. 91
15.07
17.30
19. 60
30. 22
36.00
28.95
41.6
42.7
40. 9
43. 5
40. 2
42.2
40.7
—.2
-4.2
29. 02
21.71
18.38
24. 40
15.01
17. 13
19. 15
3(5. II
36. 49
28. 18
29. 38
20.10
10.1)5
+0.7
75. 4
71.5
91.8
67. 3
81.3
79. 3
73. 9
+0.2
(7)
-6.8
7"). 5
69. 7
81.0
60. 7
SO. 2
79. S
65. 8
-0.6
31.7
31.9
Q
SI. 1
80. 0
Ci8. 3
+0. 9
+ 1.9
-6.6
1 Average weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data supplied
by a smaller number of establishments, as all reporting firms do not furnish man-hours.
The figures are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the
size and composition of the reporting sample. Hours and earnings for all manufacturing
industries now relate to 87 industries instead of 89 which were covered in the July and
prior issues of the pamphlet. The 2 industries excluded are electric- and steam-railroad
rep.iir shops. The averages for the durable goods group have also been alTivted by this
exjlusion.
* Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January iy29 presented
in January 1938 issue of this publication.
36.2
81.4
52. 3
37.2
63.3
+1.5
+ 1.3
-8.4
17.43
19. 23
3(5. 59
36.70
28. 97
00
(6)
00s
()
93.2
CO
91.4
00
90.7
3
Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not strictly comparable with
figures published in pamphlets prior to January 193S as they now exclude corporation
officers, executives, and other employees whose duties are mainly supervisory.
* Cash payments only; the additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
5
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are not available; percentage changes from
preceding month substituted.
• Not available.
7 Less than Ho of 1 percent.
16
INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are given in table 5 for all
manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and nondurablegoods groups of manufacturing industries, and for each of 13 nonmanufacturing industries, including 2 subgroups under retail trade,
by months from January 1938 to January 1939, inclusive. The
accompanying chart indicates the trend of factory employment and
pay rolls from January 1919 to January 1939.
The indexes of factory employment and pay rolls are based on the
3-year average 1923-25 as 100. They relate to wage earners only and
are computed from reports supplied by representative manufacturing
establishments in 87 manufacturing industries. These reports cover
more than 55 percent of the total wage earners in all manufacturing
industries of the country and more than 65 percent of the wage earners
in the 87 industries included in the monthly survey of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
The indexes for the nonmanufacturing industries are based on the
12-month average for 1929 as 100. Figures for mining, laundries,
and dyeing and cleaning cover wage earners only, but the figures for
public utilities, trade, and hotels relate to all employees except corporation officers, executives, and other employees whose duties are
mainly supervisory. For crude-petroleum producing they cover wage
earners and clerical field force. The coverage of the reporting samples
for the various nonmanufacturing industries ranges from 25 percent
for wholesale trade to 90 percent for quarrying and nonmetallic mining.
D^ta for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries
are based on reports of the number of employees and amount of pay
tolls for the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
ALL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
1923-25=100
INDEX
\ Af\
t
120
120
pa
1
80
n
E MPUDYMENT
I
1 //
100
INDEX
1 \Jfm
/
too
80
PAY ROLLS
60
60
40
40
C<J
1919 1920 1921
1922 1923 1924
UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
1925 1926 1927
1928 1929
1930
1931
4932
1933
1934 1935
1936 1937
1938
1939 1940 20
18
TABLE 5.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Manufacturing *and Nonmanufacturing 2 Industries, Inclusive
Ernploymen t
Industry
1938
1939
Av.
June
J a n . rob. Mar. Apr. M a y
J u l y Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
Jan.
Manufacturing
80. 8 87.8 88. 2 87.7 85. 7 83. 4 81.0 81.9 85.7 88.8 89.5 90.5 91.2 89.5
All industries
77. 3 81.7 SO. 1 79. 3 77.0 "75T0 72.4 70. 3 71.7 75.3 79.0 82.1 83. 1 81.6
D u r a b l e goods 3__
N o n d u r a b l e goods < — 95. 9 93. 7 9 5 . 9 95. 8 94.0 91. 5 90. 3 92. 9 99. 0 101. 0 99.4 98.4 98.8 97.0
_
d
. . ._
Nonmanufud uri ng
Anthracite mining..Bituminous-coal mining...
Metalliferous mining..
Quarrving aminonmet allic
mining
Crude-pel roleum producing- .
Telephone and telegraph. _
Electric light and power,
and manufactured tias .
Electric-railroad and motorbus operation and
maintenance
Wholesale tradeRetail trade . . . . .
General merchandising
Other than grrieral
merchandising
Year-round hotels.
Laundries. ..
......
Dyeing and cleaning
.
52. 3 59. 0 <",(). 0 59. 3 57.0 52. 8 50. 0 44. 0 37.6 40.4 52.4 51.0 51.3 50.0
80.7 90. 9 95.5 93. 2 85.8 82.2 80. 2 78. 5 SO. 1 83.4 87.2 88.6 89. 3 88.7
59. 0 07. 4 03. 6 02. 3 01.0 58.8 50. 0 49. 7 51.4 55. 2 57. 9 01.9 62.3 61.4
42. 3 38. 2 37.8 3*. 9 41.7 43.7 43. 0 44.1
92. 3 93.8 Ml. 0 92.0 91.8 91.7 92. 2 92.3 92.7 92. 5 92.5 91.9 91.4 90.0
i
70. 3 72.3 71.2 70.8, 71. 1
88.8 91.0 90. 4 89. 1! S*. 5
85. 2 84. 1 S2. 4 83.(1. 88. 'Ji
I
98.1) 91.5 88.8 90.5 101.0!
81.8
92. 7
95. 7
104.3
82.1
94.3
90. 8
96. 8
SO. 7
94.5
95. 7
95. 0
70. 0 70. 1 70. 1 09. 5 09. 3 69. 9 69.5 09. 4 69.2
S7. 3 87. 2 SO. 8 87. 6 88.5 89.1 89.8 90.0 88.1
83.8 83. 0 81. 1 80.0 84.7 85.9 86.9 98.1 82.2
92.4 91.') 87. 9 80. 4 97.0 99. 4 104.5 144.
81. ()j 81. 9i! SI. 5 81.4
93.4: 93. o 93.7 92. 2
9-1. 8j 95. 4 i 90.2 90. 0
98. 5 111. 8; 109. 9 110.8
ing
Telephone and telegraph..
Electric light and power.
and manufactured eras...
Electric-railroad and mot or bus opera! ion and
maintenance
...
Wholesale trade
Retail trade
(leneral merchandising
.
Other than general
merchandising
Year-round hotels.. . . . .
Laundries. ....
1
81.5
91.8
90. 5
107. 8
82.3 82.3
92.9 92. 5
94.4 93. 7
106.8 102. 5
86.0
92.0
93.4
97.9
90. 7
80.0
91.8
93. 3
94.2
77. 5 75. 0 70. 9 77. 1 74.0. 72.9 70. 8 70. (i 70.9 81.0 83.8 84.1 86. 5 83.2
Durable goods ;{.
Nondurable goods *
Xonman ufatfuring
Anthracite mining
.
Kit umiriou^-coa 1 mining
Metalliferous mining
Quarrintr and noumetallic mining
Crude-petroleum produc-
D y e i n g a n d cleaning
79. 3 78. 3
90. 7 90. 4
97. 8 97. 5
108. 0 105.0
l»ay rolls
.
Xlunufnctiniiuj
Ml industries.
44.6 44.6 44.4 44.4 41.4 38. h
72. 1 75. 3 71.2 73. 0 73.8 73.2 72.8 72. 3 72.4 71.5 69. 5 08. 3 67.8 67.0
71.9 71.8 75. 0 74.8 74.9 74.8 74.9 74.7 74.4 74.3 74.1
75. 1 77.8
.
08.2 07.1 07. 2 07. 4 05. Oi 04.2 01.7 58. 0 03. 7 08. 7 75. 2 78.3 80.3 76.4
88. 0 84.0 87.8 87. 91 S4.7:. 82. G 80. 9 S4..1 91.7 94. 9 93. 4 90. 6 93.4 90.9
. .
. .i
. .!
.
-
38. 2 40. 5 40.1 47.31 39.0 38. 3 49.7 20. 2 20.0 29.4 43.4 30. 2 42.5 38.0
07 9 70 4 74 0 08 4 50 3 .™ 3 57 () 50 8 04 2 71 9 78 3 81 4 80 fl 78 1
50. 4 59. 1 55. 8 50. 3i 53.3 51.2 40. 1 38. 0 43.7 40. 1 49.2 52.3 54.1 55. 3
35. 1 27.7 28. 0 30.2} 33.9 38.3 37. 3 37. 0 39. 2 38. 4 39. 2 37. 2 33. 7 30.3
00. 5 OS. 2 09. 6 0*. 0 OS. 0 00. 7 67. 0 00. 7 00. 8 00. 5 63. 7 63. 3 02. 5 61. C
92.1 93.7 89. 9 92.01 91.0 91.3 90. 9 90. 9 91.3 92. 0 95. 3 93. 0 92. 5 92.0
98. 5 98. 9 98. 5 9S.fi- 97.0! 97.4 98. 6 98. 3 98. 9 98. \ 99. 9 98.0 98. 2 95.8
69. 7 70. 0 70. 2 09. 9 70. 0 71.2 09. 7 09. 0 09. 5 08.4 08. 9 68.8 09. 7 71.1
74.7 75. 4 75. 3 74.7 74.0 75.1 73.8 73. 0 73.7 74.3 75. 1 75.4 75.7 75. 5
70. 4 70. 1 08. 4 08. 0 72.2 70. 0 09. 5 OS. 1 00. 8 09.4 70.8 71.5 79.2 69.7
87.8 84.0 81. 5 82. 2 89. 4 84.4 84.3 SO. 4 78.8 85. 3 88.3 91.8 122.9 84.0
00. 8
80.3
SO. 0
75.3
67.1
81.6
80.1
05. 5
05.7
83. 0
79.1
05. 2
05.8 1
80.9,1
78.0
OS. 2.
I
08.0 :
80.5
80.0,
87. 2
07.0
80.5
80.9
80. 7
(Mi. 4
79. 0
81.8
83. 3
05. 0
77.4
83.0
77.5
04.3
77.4
83.1
74.3
66.1
78.9
81.4
81.7
67.2
80. 8
79.5
78.0
67.3
81.3
79. 3
73.9
70.1
81.1
80.0
68. 3
66.7
80.2
79.6
65.8
3-year average, 1923-25= 100—adjusted to 1935 Census of Manufactures. Comparable indexes for earlier
months are in August 193S issue of pamphlet, and November 1938 issue of Monthly Labor Review.
2 12-month average for 1929=100. Comparable indexes are in November 1931 and subsequent issues of
Employment and L'ay Rolls, or in February 1935 and subsequent issues of Monthly Labor Review, except
for anthracite and bituminous-coal miniug, year-round hotels, laundries, and dyeing and cleaning. Indexes
for these industries from January 1929 forward have been adjusted to the 1935 census and are presented in
the January 1938 and subsequent issues of Employment and Pay Rolls.
> Includes: Iron and steel, machinery, transportation equipment, railroad repair shops, nonferrous metals,
lumber and allied products, and stone, clay, and glass products.
• 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.
19
TREND OF INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS
EMPLOYMENT, BY STATES
A comparison of employment and pay rolls, by States nnd geographic divisions, in December 1938 and January 1939 is shown in
table 6 for all groups combined nnd for all manufacturing1 industries
combined based on data supplied by reporting establishments. The
percentage changes shown, unless otherwise noted, are unweighted—
that is, the industries included in the manufacturing group and in the
grand total have not been weighted according to their relative importance.
The totals for all manufacturing industries combined include figures
for miscellaneous manufacturing industries in addition to the 87
manufacturing industries presented in table 3. The totals for all
groups combined include all manufacturing industries, each of the
noTsmanufacturing industries presented in table 3 (except building
construction), and seasonal hotels.
Similar comparisons showing only percentage changes are available
in mimeographed form for "nil groups combined," for "all manufacturing," for anthracite mining, bituminous-coal mining, metalliferous
mining, quarrying, and nonnietallic mining, crude-petroleujn producing,
public utilities, wholesale trade, retail trade, hotels, laundries, dyeing
and cleaning, and brokerage and insurance.
TAIILE 6.—Comparison of Employment and Par Rolls in Identical Establishments in
January 1939, by Geographic Divisions and by States
I Figures in italics arc not compile-.; by ttio Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y
cooperating State- organi7ationsj
Total—all groups
Percentage
Amount,
Geographic division Xum- Numand State
her of ber on change of pay roll
(I week)
I estab- pay roll from
DeJ an uar y
| lish- January
1930
cem1939
I meritber
1938
Manufacturing
Percentajre
Numchange ber of
from estabDelishcem- ment
ber
1938
Number on
pay roll
January
Percentage
A-inount
change of pay roll
(1 week)
from
January
De1939
cember
193*
Percentage
cliange
from
l)ecember
1938
582,832
42, 200
Dollar.
1.0 12, 658,166
S10, 925
1.3
-2.4
-1.0
1939
Dollars
- 3 . 4 19,101,880
- l . K 1,004,370
-3.5
-1.0
3,566
272
+2.5
808, 732
-4.1
327,331
- 4 . -5 10, 700,638
- 2 . 0 1,934,544
- 2 . 4 4, 200, 259
+2.7
201
35.780
9, 540
150
1,789 267,168
70. I3f
424
730 1.-1,943
Middle Atlantic.. ... 31,246 1.949.194
19, 824 875,080
New York._
3, 800 322,04!
New Jersey
7, 550 750, 807
.Pennsylvania..
--55 . 0
-0. 9
-2.4
-3.9
-4.8
6,468 1,154, 074
- 5 . 3 12, r>78 422, 721
268, 709
- 3 . 1 1,01
-4.8
?, 273 462,584
East North Central.. 24.137 2. 020. 852
Ohio
ii,01() 4%, 241
I n d i a n a . . . . . i,UW
^7,973
Illinois.....
.\*ti.MSH\ ,577.7.*"
Aiichigan
.! 3,460j 491,708
Wisconsin.
! 5 4, .119] 222, 138
--44 . 0 54,t, 177, 219
- 3 . 8 13,028, !i
-o.U 6,056,923
\
4
4
- 22.. 8 14,,049,517
-5. 0 5. AH-5,622
12, 467 837,342
N e w England
cA), 080
Maine
781)
X e w Hamp42, 034
0.10
shire.
15,472
Vermont
455
Massachusetts.. i 7, HiiS 4-55, 528
92. (-45
Rhode Island..
1, 145
Connecticut
iso, 9S3
1,779
See footnotes at end of table.
50,I, 620, 771
23, m(S,i: 11
S, 209, 780
18, 494, 474
-4. 1
-3. 6
-3.0
-4.0
-5.3
-5.9
-5. 9
-3. 8
-5.8
—0.9
8,456 1.521.670
2,381 380,880
l,06l\
191,595
?,4#0| 371,989
+4.4
-4.3
-1.7
-1.4
705,095
193,901
,5,890.277
1,510,425
3, 534,SS3
1.7 29,139,104
1.6 U 1,338,924
1.7j 0,731,790
!.8\ 11,068,384
+3.4
-5.2
-1.7
-4.4
-2.5
-1.9
-3. 1
' -2.9
1.5 41,472.502 - 4 . 3
1.7! 10, 141,3481 -.">. 2
4,971 Ji 10
-5. 2
9, 627,1*8 -2.6
-1.2
12, 884, $08 -'#.5
— l.U 3, 8',7, ?9s '• ~->J)
20
T A B L E 6*—Comparison of Employment
and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments
in
January 1939, by Geographic Divisions and by States—Continued
Total—all groups
Percentage Amount
Geographic division Num- Number of ber on change of pay roll
and State
estab- pay roll from (1 week)
January
lish- January De1939
cem1939
ments
her
1938
West North Central. 11,433 405,843
• 2, 763 114,202
Minnesota
1,747
55,301
Iowa...
2,514 149,341
Missouri
4,272
540
North D a k o t a .
7,032
431
South Dakota. _
24,423
1,158
Nebraska
8
2,280
50,672
Kansas..
-7.4
-2.3
-2.5
-6.6
-4.6
-9.4
Manufacturing
Percentage
change
from
December
1938
PercentNum- Numage
Amount
ber of ber on change of pay roll
estab- pay roll from '1 week)
lish- January Delanuary
ments
1939
cem1939
ber
1938
Dollars
9,911,241 - 3 . 4
5,024,347 -6.1
-.2
1,329,228
3, 502, 764 -1.4
4.8
101,345
206, 565 - 1 . 2
-6.5
565, 510
1,181,482 3 —,
2,441
629
356
775
28
34
133
486
Dollars
205,913 - 2 . 3 4, 991,131
46,735 -5.5 1,200,369
33, 203
+.3 825,002
90,152
+.0 2,050,251
414 - 4 . 8
11,201
2,496 - 9 . 2
66, 565
8, 980 - 1 3 . 3
229,923
23,929 -3.9
607,200
2,870
83
622
577, 866
10,594
85,901
Percentage
change
from
December
1938
-2.7
-8.5
+2.0
+1.1
-2.5
-7.4
-12.0
-4.8
-3.1
South Atlantic
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia..
North Carolina
South CarolinaGeorgia.
Florida
9,917
230
1,561
815,551 -2.6 15,\, 358, 684 -3.7
330,907 -1.7
14,288 -2.0
124, 435 -6.1 £,979,179 -5.6
975
1,803
1,070
1,530
700
1, 099
883
30,849
104,023
125,050
173, 807
88,184
100, 404
47, 785
-7.6
-3.0
-2.2
-1.8
-.6
-1.7
+1.7
859, 283
1,911,290
3,019,348
2, 596, 208
1, 254, 372
1, 001, 221
800, 850
-4.8
-3.7
-4.0
-3.0
-1.
-3.5
-.3
40
436
200
074
244
384
181
3,342
74, 945
48, 207
160,397
81, 259
89, 382
23,839
-3.1
111,550
- . 1 1,334,151
- 2 . 2 1,160, 218
- . 1 2, 302, 872
+.2 1,123,513
- . 8 1, 200, 597
-.7
355,311
-5.9
-2.4
-5.7
-2.4
-1.1
-3.5
-3.3
East South Central..
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi... .
4,289 281, 072
1,249
78, 234
1, 175 93, 051
92,838
1, 379
10,949
480
-2.4
-3.7
-3.4
-.8
-.3
5,105, 735
1, 589, 503 - 5 . 7
1, 020, 303 - 3 . 1
1,0.02,971 - 1 . 4
242,898 +1.5
1,015
281
359
290
85
179, 046
32,812
70,125
04,208
11,901
-3.5
-1.3
3,087,148
691,659
1, JDS, .12'
1,0.'iS, 759
158,603
-1.6
-4.1
-2.0
-.1
West South Central. 4,964
Arkansas.
»1,147
Louisiana
925
1,207
Oklahoma
1,685
Texas
191,292
83, 773
48,379
34,171
-5.1
-5.8
-5.0
-5.3
-4.7
4,155, 528
578, 718
950,025
820, 509
1,800,276
—8.6
-6.3
-3.0
-3.3
1,275
819
230
133
587
97,481
21,432
28,850
8,794
88,405
Mountain
_
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Utah
Nevada
108, 833
2, 807, 974 - 7 . 8
15,825 - 1 0 . 7
472, 808 - 5 . 4
9, 522 - 1 2 . 7
222,192 - 1 5 . 2
7,809 - 0 . 5
219,584 - 1 1 . 3
36,181 - 9 . 7
891, 490 - 9 . 5
-.5
5,568 - 4 . 2
124,003
+.4
14,152 - 1 . 6
376,995
17, 430 - 1 1 . 8
427,408 -10.3
73,374 - 2 . 8
2,340 - 3 . 2
558
74
64
38
197
29
41
102
13
31, 722
4,573
3,212
1,319
13,100
883
2,731
5, 704
200
-3.4
-3.3
-1.4
-3.7
2,542
540
287
1,715
210,878
45, 434
24, 235
141,209
Pacific
Washington
Oregon
California
3,606
537
400
274
1,037
200
399
471
102
9,991 411,670
77, 608
2,571
41. 291
1,146
i 6,274 292, 771
- 4 . 9 11,973,909
- 0 . 4 2,093,87J
- 1 . 0 1,078,183
61,801,855
-4.0
-.8
+.7
+ 1.0
+3.7
9,981, 345
249,873
+.5
2,023,260 *4S
+4.2
- 2 . 4 2,003,120
-.8
350, 151
-4.8
525,915
190,831
-4.6
930,223
-1.0
-3.5
-2.9
-8.9
-3.8
-.3
761, 374
119, 955
64, 707
40, 794
317, 720
16,058
63,483
133,023
5, 634
-19.2
-11.4
-36.7
-22.8
-18.8
-1.1
-23. 7
-17.7
5,855,207
1,219,181
604,421
4,031,605
-4.1
-1.9
-.8
-5.2
-16.2
-10.8
-25.1
-21.0
-10.4
+.9
-1.9
-20.7
-13.4
-3.6
-4.0
+1.5
-4.0
+6.5
»Includes banks and trust companies; construction, municipal, agricultural, and office employment,
amusement and recreation; professional services; and trucking and nandling.
> Includes laundering and cleaning; and water, light, and power.
»Weighted percentage change.
< Includes automobile and miscellaneous services; restaurants; and building and contracting.
«Includes construction but not public works.
• Does not include logging.
' Includes banks; real estate; pipe-line transportation; trucking and transfer; railroads (other than repair
shops); motor transportation (other than operation and maintenance); water transportation; hospitals and
clinics; personal, business, mechanical repair and miscellaneous services; and building construction.
»Includes financial institutions, miscellaneous services, and restaurants.
• Weighted percentage change includes hired farm labor.
»<• Includes automobile dealers and garages; and sand, gravel, and building stone.
»Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
21
INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT IN PRINCIPAL
METROPOLITAN AREAS
A comparison of employment and pay rolls in December 1938 and
January 1939 is made in table 7 for 13 metropolitan areas which had
a population of 500,000 or over in 1930. Cities within these areas,
but having a population of 100,000 or over, are not included. Data
concerning them are presented in a supplementary tabulation which
is available on request.
Footnotes to the table indicate which cities are excluded. The
figures represent reports from cooperating establishments and cover
both full- and part-time workers in the manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries presented in table 3, with the exception of building construction, and include also miscellaneous industries.
Revisions made in the figures after they have gone to press, chiefly
because of late reports by cooperating firms, are incorporated in the
supplementary tabulation mentioned above. This supplementary
tabulation covers these 13 metropolitan areas as well as other metropolitan areas and cities having a population of 100,000 or more according to the 1930 Census of population.
TABLE 7.—Comparison of Employment and Pay Rolls in Identical Establishments in
December 1938 and January 1939 by Principal Metropolitan Areas
Metropolitan area
New York, N. Y.»...
Chicago. Ill.»
_.
Philadelphia, Pa. 3 ._.
Detroit, Mich
Los Angeles, Calif.<_.
Percentage
Number of onNumber
change
pay roll
establishfrom
January
ments
December
1939
1938
14,658
4,477
2.081
1.432
2,848
Cleveland, Ohio,.
St. Louis, M o . . . .
Baltimore, M ' l . . .
Boston, Mass.s...
Pittsburgh, P a . . .
San Francisco, Calif.*..
Builalo, N. Y
Milwaukee, Wis
1, 740
767
995
Amount of
pay roll (1
week)
January
1939
Percentage
change
from
December
1938
662,080
413,118
207, 542
322,9?1
147, 574
-6.7
-3.9
-4.5
-1.9
-6.5
17,444,138
11,349,987
5,576,312
10,301.096
4, 367, 035
-6.1
-3.4
-3.7
-5.6
-5.5
100, 296
113,90S
94, 424
125,747
160, 474
-3.7
-1.4
-7.2
-5. 7
-4.5
2, 745, 702
2. 753. 874
2, 2" 1,836
3, 380, 850
4, 236,454
-4.3
+10
-7.0
-4.6
-3.7
87. 2"7
64, 227
92,898
-5.3
-5.9
-4.8
2,602,514
1,675,235
2, 487. 278
-5.1
-6.8
-4.3
i Does not include Elizabeth, Jersey City, Newark, or Paterson, N. J., nor Yonkcrs, N. Y.
* Does not include Gary, Ind.
34 Does not include Camrien, N. J.
Does not include Long Beach, Calif.
« Figure relates to city of Boston only,
« Does not include Oakland, Calif.
Public Employment
Employment created by the Federal Government includes employment in the regular agencies of the Government, employment on
the various construction programs wholly or partially financed by
Federal funds, and employment on relief-work projects.
22
EXECUTIVE
SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT
Statistics of employment and pay rolls for the executive service of
the Federal Government in December 1938 and January 1939 are
given in table 8.
TABLE 8.—Employment and Pay Rolls for the Executive Service of the United Statrs
Government, December 1938, and January 1939 ]
[Subject to revision]
Pay rolls
Employment
Percentage
January Decem- change
1939 " ber 1938 2
Item
Eniiro service:
Trtl.nl..
Porcen'a'ce
change
Januarv
1939
December
1938 3
*142,004,97,r)
803,911
918. 801
-0.0
$131,382,390
Regular appropriation
Emerwncv appropriation.._ . . . .
Force-account (regular and emergency) . . . . .
_.
Inside the District of Columbia:
Total
719.060
60,934
704.432
01,407
-5.9
-.8
114.04S.243
7, 587. 402
83.317
93, 022
-10.4
9, 740, 74".
10,372,329
120.309
120,004
o
21,477,518
21,525,509
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation .
Force-account (regular and omergenev)
.....
Outside the District of Columbia:
Total
.. .
105.372
105. 089
9, 803
-.3
o
19, .171.271
1,503.498
19.231,010
1. 527, S09
5, 052
+ 1.9
802. 749
760, 14 4
798, 257
743, 002
Regular appropriation
014 288 058, 743
Kmergencv appropriation.
51,544
51, 147
Force-account (regular and emergency) .
._ 78.107
87, 970
-0.8
109,904.^72
120,539, 400
—0 7
-.8
94. 876,972
0,083. 901
104 714 559
0.218,002
-8.8
-9.4
-2.2
8,943,990
9, 600,185
-0.9
...
9,787
5,150
-11.1
123.910. 175
7,710.471
-7.5
-S.O
- 2.1
- (i. 0
-.2
-.3
-1.6
•H.s
1
Data include number of employees receivine pay during the last pay period of the- month.
« Revised.
CONSTRUCTION
PROJECTS FINANCED BY
ADMINISTRATION
THE
PUBLIC
WORKS
Details concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
during January on construction projects financed by Public Works
Administration funds are given in table 9, by type of project.
TABLE 9.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed from Public Works Administration Funds, January 1939 *
[Subject to revision]
"Wage earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
employed 2
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Value of
Vuraber of
material
man-hours Average
orders
earnings
worked
per hour placed durduring
ing month
month
Federal projects financed from National Industrial Recovery Act funds
All projects.
Building construction
Naval vessels
Public roads *
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control..
Streets and roads.._
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
See footnotes at end of table.
s 3. 448
133
10
603
29
13
76
13
3,377 I
105
38
2, 535
586
27
7
67
12
$263,519
IN. 040
5, 978
157, 807
70, 235
1,114
429
8, 648
602
308,093 ! $0,661
13, 102
6,135
277,122
90, 043
2, 776
461
7,212
1,842
.971
. 570
.780
.401
.931
1.199
.327
$193,041
7, 037
S, 999
145,000
13,292
3,674
905
6,034
7,500
23
TABLE 9.—Employment and Pay Bolls on Projects Financed from Public Works Administration Funds, January 1939—Continued
Wage earners
Maximum
number
employed
Typo, of project
Weekly
avorago
Monthly
jy
disbursements
Xumber of
Value of
nuin-hours Average material
orders
worked
earning;
per hour placed vi;irduring
"ing month
month
Federal projects financed from Public Works Administration Appropriation Act 1938 funds
All projects
_
Building construction._
Electrification
..
Reclamation . ....
.-..
River, harbor, and flood control ..
Ship construction..__
_
_
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
Professional, technical, and clerical
37 381
32 44.9
$3, 937, 724
20 780
704
jO 031
423
734
250
ol.i
1 009
17. 105
0S9
11, 135
290
550
220
4.Ml
923
1,058,885
01.242
1.9 Hi, "A 2
38, '.25
29. 110
14. 9:-3
20, 408
72. 749
929
097
98, 400
4.337,114
1,832.438
89.041
2. 055, 404
i 0.452
39. 247
20. 584
29. 923
99, 885
130,080
$0. 908
$5,108,642
. 905
. 088
. 910
. 950
. 742
. 725
. 082
.728
3,740.317
93,10C
995, 555
07, 540
34, 074
50,898
28,1«3
135.724
. 757
10, 575
Non-Federal projects financed from National Industrial Recovery Act
funds
All projects 6....
5. 883
5,070
$803.25!
Building construction •_
Railroad construction.._
Streets and roads.
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
3. 570
0
374
937
990
3, 192
<>81.347
0
8. 509
100. ."83
72.812
287
780
81J
540.. 242
$1,580
$078,470
1.890
0
202, 940
0
10. 351
J 40,684
234,501
1.343
. 749
Project8 financed from Emergency Kelicf Appropriate*
1936. and 1937 funds "
Act 1935,
All projects «_.
36, 993
31,029
$3, 325. SS1
3, 820. 350
$0. 809
$7,444,015
Building construction s
Electrification.
Heavy engineering
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control. _
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage_
_.
Miscellaneous _. _.
23. 329
1,279
3,884
1,103
224
1. 075
5, 489
10
19,412
1,055
3, 375
1, 000
180
1,355
4, 030
10
2. 089. 820
88,917
•!I9, 181
91,721
13.09!
.108.037
513. 0K7
S21
!, 215, 511
121.777
489. 955
144,815
22,739
221.278
009. 158
1,093
. 913
. 730
. 850
. 033
. 002
.488
. 843
. 751
3,530,512
591,592
J, 995, 305
120.417
19,077
104. 438
1.074,851
2, 423
Non-Federal projects financed from Public Works Administration
Appropriation Act 193ft funds
All projects
Building construction
Electrification
Heavy engineering
Reclamation
j
River, harbor, and flood control-.'
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
M iscellaneous
133,501
90.844
800
3.010
073
430
10.004
20. 752
910
105,405 ! $8,088,714
72. 057
008
2. 344
495
347
12.458
10.314
722
5, 874. 727
40, 524
299, 104
40.7.18
37 208
9()0. 232
1.371.809
58, 2 i 2
10,770, 430
0,800,149
60. 003
302,018
08, 582
41,0)3
1.421,746
1, 923, 585
80, 550
$0. 808
. 850
. 0!4
. 9S9
. 591
. 904
. 080
.713
. 723
$23,131,020
15,,425. 705
591, 810
597, 532
38, 311
117, 223
,933, 6*2
. 300, 022
93,
12 Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by ei:ch contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work.
3 Includes weekly average for public roads.
*5 T.'nder the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
Not available; weekly average included in total for all projects.
6
Includes data for workers engaged in construction of underground tunnel who, because of the additional
risk
involved, were paid at rates higher than those usually paid for building construction.
7
These data are also included in separate foibles covering projects financed by The Works Program.
8
Includes a maximum of 121 and an average of 84 employees working on low-cost housing projects financed
from E. 11. A. A. 1935 funds who were paid $5,348 for 8,740 man-hours of labor. Material orders in the
amount of $1,355 were placed for these projects. These data are also included in separate tables covering
projects finance! from The Works Program.
24
Construction projects financed by the Public Works Administration are those projects authorized by title II of the National Industrial
Recovery Act of June 16, 1933. This program of public works was
extended to June 30, 1937, by the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935 and title II of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of
1936. The First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, reappropriated unobligated funds originally made available under the Emergency Relief
Appropriation Act of 1935 and authorized the use of $300,000,000
from funds on hand or received from the sale of securities. The
Public Works Administration was continued until July 1, 1939, by
the Public Works Administration Extension Act of 1937 and the
Public Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938 further
continued the program to June 30, 1941.
Federal construction projects for which data are included in table
9 are financed by allotments made by the Public Works Administration to the various agencies and departments of the Federal Government from funds provided under the National Industrial Recovery
Act. The major portion of the low-cost housing program of the
Public Works Administration, however, was financed by funds provided under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. Federal construction projects are also financed by allotments from funds
provided under the Public Works Administration Appropriation Act
of 1938. The work is performed either by commercial firms which
have been awarded contracts, or by day labor hired directly by the
Federal agencies.
Non-Federal projects are financed by allotments made by the
Public Works Administration from funds available under either the
National Industrial Recovery Act, the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, the
Public Works Administration Extension Act of 1937, or the Public
Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938. Most of the
allotments have been made to the States and their political subdivisions, but occasionally allotments have been made to commercial
firms. In financing projects for the States or their political subdivisions from funds appropriated under the National Industrial
Recovery Act, the Public Works Administration makes a direct grant
of not more than 30 percent of the total labor and material cost.
When funds provided under the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935, the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, the
Public Works Administration Extension Act of 1937, or the Public
Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938 are used to finance
a non-Federal project, as much as 45 percent of the total cost may be
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furnished in the form of a grant. The remaining 55 percent or more
of the cost is financed by the recipient. When circumstances justify
such action, the Public Works Administration may provide the
grantee with the additional funds by means of a loan. Allotments to
commercial enterprises are made only as loans. All loans made by
the Public Works Administration carry interest charges and have a
definite date of maturity. Collateral posted with the Public Works
Administration to secure loans may be offered for sale to the public.
In this way a revolving fund is provided which enlarges the scope of
the activities of the Public Works Administration.
Commercial loans have been made, for the most part, to railroads.
Railroad work financed by loans made by the Public Works Administration falls under three headings: First, construction work in the
form of electrification, the laying of rails and ties, repairs to buildings,
bridges, etc.; second, the building and repairing of locomotives and
passenger and freight cars in shops operated by the railroads; and
third, locomotives and passenger- and freight-car building in commerical shops.
UNITED STATES HOUSING AUTHORITY
The United States Housing Authority was created by Public No.
412, Seventy-fifth Congress, approved September 1, 1937 as a corporate body of the Department of the Interior for the purpose of
assisting the States and their political subdivisions in remedying the
unsafe and insanitary housing conditions and the acute shortage of
decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for families of low income, and in
alleviating present and recurring unemployment.
Executive Order No. 7732, dated October 27, 1937, transferred to
the Authority all the housing and slum-clearance projects of the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works and all assets, contracts, records, applications, libraries, research materials, and other
property held in connection with such projects or with the housing or
slum-clearance activities of the Public Works Administration, together
with the unexpended balance of funds allocated to the Public Works
Administration for the construction of any housing or slum-clearance
projects. This Executive order was modified by Executive Order
No. 7839, dated March 12, 1938, under which the two Puerto Rico
projects were transferred to the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration.
Table 10 shows data for January 1939 on projects of the United
States Housing Authority. These figures pertain only to new projects
under the United States Housing Authority and not to those formerly
under the Public Works Administration.
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TABLE 10.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Low-Cost Housing Projects Operated by the
United States Housing Authority, January 1939 l
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Geographic division
Maximum
number
employed 2
Weekly
average
Monthly
pay-roll
disbursements
Xumber of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
Four divisions
2,774
2, 291
$319,784
255, 270
%1. 253
$577,246
Middle Atlantic
East North Central
South Atlantic
West South Central..
2,374
25
215
100
1,998
19
144
i30
300. 106
1, 597
11,020
6,461
223, 627
2,085
19, 292
10, 206
1.342
.766
.602
.629
487, 722
39,678
23,457
26.389
1
Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
* Maximum employed during any 1 week of the month.
THE WORKS PROGRAM
By authority of Public Resolution No. 11, Seventy-fourth Congress,
approved April 8, 1935, the President, in a series of Executive orders,
inaugurated a broad program of work to be carried out by 61 units
of the Federal Government. The Works Program was continued by
title II of the First Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1936, cited as the
P]mergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1936, and was further continued "by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937. The
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1938 extended this program
to June 30, 1939. Employment created by this program includes
employment on Federal projects and employment on. projects operated by the Works Progress Administration. Federal projects are
those conducted by Federal agencies which have received allotments
from the Works Program fund. Projects operated by the Works
Progress Administration are those projects conducted under the
supervision of the Works Progress Administration with the cooperation
of States, cities, or counties.
A record of employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
projects financed by The WTorks Program in January is shown in table
11, by type of project.
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TABLE 11.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by The Works Program^
January 1939l
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Type of project
Maximum
number
sm ployed
Monthly
pay-roll
disburseWeekly
ments
average!
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per
hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
$0.466
$1,180,130
Federal projects
$5,509,841
11,819,129
45, 373 42, 188
249
285
8, 763
9,614
1,013
1,264
2.180
1.980
2.312,162
14,750
409. 415
53, 957
51,974
4,108,707
38,129
943,417
102, 832
226, 964
.563
.387
.434
. 525
.229
357,368
3,488
51,242
75, 270
28, 515
10,520
9, 960
4, 868 4, 327
745
932
27,973 26, 782
I, 419 1,123
2,970
3,285
603
674
12, 678 11,438
521, 450
344,873
58, 560
1,239,690
67,967
80,371
23,850
330,822
1,327,583
515,020
93. 544
2,825,183
124,753
221,800
60,883
1,230,314
. 393
.670
. 626
.439
. 545
. 362
.392
.269
74,168
21, 269
50, 810
335,849
8,078
20,055
6,421
147, 597
2 121,095 112,141
All projects.
Building construction
Electrification
Forestry »....
G rade-crossing elimination <s _
—
Hydroelectric power plants
Plant, crop, and livestock conservation 3
_..
Professional, technical, and clerical
Public roads *
_
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control
Streets and roads...
Water and sewerage. _
_
Miscellaneous
I*. W. A., projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act funds of 193.-, 1936. ami" 1937 «
All projects
_
Building construction
Electrification
Heavy engineering
__
Reclamation
River, harbor, and flood control
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage
Miscellaneous
2 36, 993 31,029
23, 329
1,279
3,884
1,103
224
1,675
5,489
10
19, 412
1,055
3,375
1,006
186
1,355
4,630
10
$3, 325. 884
3,826, 356
$0. 869
2,215,511
121,777
489. 955
144,845
22, 739
221, 278
609,158
1,093
. 943
.730
. 856
.633
.602
.488
.843
.751
$7,444,615
3, 536, 512
591, 592
1,995,305
120,417
19,077
104,438
1, 074, 851
2,423
Projects operated by Works Progress Administration '
All projects
'2,895,214
$155,733,123 311,877,464
$0,499
1
Unless otherwise noted data are for the month ending on the 15th.
* Maximum number employed during any 1 week of" the month by each contractor and Government
agency
doing force-account work.
3
The data for the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, under plant, crop, and livestock conservation, and the Bureau of Forest Service, under forestry, are for the calendar month.
* These data are for projects under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Public Roads.
» These data are for projects under construction in Puerto Rico.
6
Includes data for 36,872 employees working on non-Federal projects and 121. employees working on
low-cost housing projects. These data are included in separate tables covering projects under the jurisdiction of the Public Works Administration.
*8 Data are for the calendar month. Not available by type of project.
Represents number of names on pay roll for week ending Jan. 28, 1939.
9
Data on a monthly basis are not available.
Employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked for the fourth
quarter of 1938 on projects operated by the Works Progress Administration, by type of project, are shown in table 12.
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TABLE 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Operated by the Works Progress
Administration, by Type of Project, for the Fourth Quarter of 1938
[Subject to revision]
Number of
man-hours
worked
Average
earnings per
hour
$508,887,458 1,023,728,445
$0.497
40, 906,832
474,821,440
122, 758,037
78,963, 857
77, 677,400
71,132,276
29, 052, 207
95,050,024
14,614,850
18,750,856
.505
.455
.578
.625
.550
.576
.385
.403
.634
.504
Number Pay-roll diseraployed 1 bursements
Type of project
2,987,0
All projects.
Conservation
_
Highway, road, and street
Professional, tecnhical, and clerical...
Public buildings «
.
Publicly owned or operated utilities..
Recreational facilities 3
Sanitation and health
Sewing, canning, and gardening
Transportation
Not elsewhere classified
125,028
,36'l,91ti
340, 196
25/), 833
263,833
216,002
70, 782
244, 794
45,514
47, 542
20,677,721
215,999,729
70, 957, 888
49,343, fi56
42,732, 452
41,002,345
11,190,8«4
38,270,075
9,261,024
9, 444,474
» Data are for the week ending Dec. 31, 1938.
» Separate data for housing projects are not available.
»Exclusive of buildings.
Employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on work projects
of the National Youth Administration from the beginning of the program in January 1936 to January 1939, inclusive, are shown in table 13.
Similar data for Student Aid are shown from September 1935, the
starting date, to December 1938, inclusive.
TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration Projects
Financed by The Works Program From the Beginning of Program through January
1939 *
[Subject to revision]
Year and month
Number of
persons
employed
Pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
Work projects
January 1936 to January 1939, inclusive..
January to December 1936..
January to December 1937..
January 1938
February 1938
March 1938..
April 1938
May 1938
June 1938.
July 1938
August 1938
September 1938..
October 1938
November 1938..
December 1938..
January 1939
See footnotes at end of table.
$106,948, 299 292,182, 304
$0. 366 a $11,198.371
144.797
151. 406
154.507
153,082
172,134
28,883, 5.89
32.601,300
2,549.914
2, 667, 226
2.751,797
2, 760, 533
2,967,134
75,827, 799
87.092. 351
6.896. 668
7.288, 377
7, 610. 300
7,673.809
8,236,913
.3S1
.374
.370
. 366
.302
.360
.358
202.184
213,972
221,307
220, 756
220,066
225.088
237,399
238,862
3,437,299
3,685,148
3,888, 640
3,927,491
4, 012, 209
4,110,810
4,328, 281
4,376.863
9. 519,163
10,332,962
11,125.311
11,421,877
11,628,976
12.028,462
12, 707, 515
12,741,761
.361
.357
.350
.344
.345
.342
.341
.344
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TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration Projects
Financed by The Works Program From the Beginning of Program through January
1939—Continued.
[Subject to revision!
Year and month
Number of
persons
employed
Pay-roll
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
Student Aid
September 1935 to December 1938, inclusive.
September to December 1935..
January to December 1936....
January to December 1937—_.
January 1938
February 1938
March 1938
April 1938
May 1938.—
June 1938
July 1938 «
August 1938
September 1938..
October 1938
November 1938. _
December 1938..
$75.962,081
256,213,671
$0.296
307,544
319,707
328,037
333,902
326,644
6,363,503
25,888, 559
24,188.039
2, 001, 786
2.162, 506
2,217,742
2, 256. 566
2,393,532
19,612, 976
85,424,616
83. 028,847
6, 980, 595
7, 584. 382
7, 781,022
7,920,942
8,355,521
.324
.303
.291
.287
.285
.285
.2S5
.286
217,447
1,538,947
5,123, 792
.300
1,780
44.865
316, 536
361,067
368,921
5,696
196,999
1,951,914
2,400.437
2,395,855
31.871
817.901
6,832,838
8, 349,645
8, 368, 723
.179
.241
.286
.2S7
. 286
1
Data arc for a calendar month.
* Data on a monthly basus are not available. This total represents expenditures through Sept. 30, 1938,
and includes rentals and services and some sponsors' contributions.
a No expenditures for materials on this type of project.
* Student Aid program was not active.
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
The Civilian Conservation Corps was created by an act of Congress approved June 28, 1937, and succeeded the Emergency Conservation Work which had been set up in April 1933.
Employment and pay-roll data for the Civilian Conervation Corps
are collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the War Department, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce,
and the Department of the Interior. The monthly pay of the enrolled personnel is $30 per month. Assistant leaders, not to exceed
10 percent of the total number of enrollees, may receive up to $36 per
month, and leaders, not to exceed 6 percent, may receive up to $45
per month.
Employment and pay rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps in
December 1938 and January 1939 are presented in table 14.
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TABLE 14.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, December
1938 and January 1939*
[Subject to revision]
Amount of pay rolls
Number of employees
Group
Jnnimry 1939
All tirmips
- .
Enrolled personnel 2
K eserve oili cers
.
N"urscs 3
Educational n<lviscrs 3
3
Supervisory and technical
_
-.
December
1938
January 1939
D u m b e r 1938
330,114
320, 975
$14,709,313
$14, 449, 956
293. 785
5, 003
295
1, 5S7
29, 474
284, 125
4, 935
282
1.583
30.050
9,217,703
1.295.328
30.309
204, 984
3. 900, 929
8,800, 055
1,280. 109
30,008
204, 322
4.003, 402
1
Data on number of employees refer to employment on last day of month. Amount of pay rolls are for
the2 entire inonth.
January data include 3,951 enrollees and pay roll of $93,925 outside continental t'nited Stal.(.->" in December3 the corresponding figures \vere 3,703 enrollees and pny roll of $90,213.
Included in executive service, table 8.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED BY RECONSTRUCTION
FINANCE CORPORATION
Statistics of employment, pay lolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Januaiy are presented in table 15, by type of project.
TABLE 15.—Employment
and Pay
Rolls on Projects
Financed by the
Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, by Type of Project, January 1939 *
[Subject to revision]
Type of project.
Maximum
number of
wage earner^ 2
All projects
2. 540
Building construction 3
Water and sewerage.
1,404 !
1,082 1
... -
Motilhly
pay-roll*
disbursements
Number of
man-hours
worked
during
month
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed during month
$290, 403
340,417
$0. 83S !
$552,504
10!). 911
180,492
154.320
192.097
.712
. 910
277,145
275, 359
!
2
3
Data are for the month ending on the loth.
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor.
Includes 250 employees, pny-roll disbursements of $18.321, 22,814 man-hours worked, pnd material orders
placed of $41,502 on projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co.
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FINANCED FROM REGULAR
FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS
When a construction contract is awarded or force-account work is
started by a. department or agency of the Federal Government, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics is immediately notified, on forms supplied
by the Bureau, of the name and address of the contractor, the amount
of the contract, and the type of work to be performed. Blanks are
then mailed, by the Bureau to the contractor or Government agency
doing the work. These reports are returned to the Bureau and show
the number of men on pay rolls, the amounts disbursed for pay, the
number of man-hours worked on the project, and the value of the
different types of materials for which orders were placed during the
month.
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Data concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed from regular Federal appropriations
during January are given in table 16, by type of project.
16.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction Projects Financed From
Regular Federal Appropriations, by Type of Project, January 1939 l
[Subject to revision]
Number of wage
earners
Type of project
Maximum 2
number
employed
All projects.....
.' 1S1. <#70
Building construction
Piled rificat ion:
Hural Electrification Administration projects *
-.
Other than R. E. A. projects .
Forestry
-..-..
I leavy engineering
Public roads s .
__..
Reclamation...
River, harbor, and flood control:
Drudging, dikes, revetments,
etc.
....
Locks and dams._
Ship construction:
Naval vessels. .
. ...
Other than naval vessels
Streets and roads
Wat .or and sewerage
Miscellaneous
Momhly
pay-roll
disbursements
Weekly
average
Hi9.193 SIS. 704,-111 25,* 19. 913
12. f>:'.0 !
(>. 897
104
41
80
13.078
r
, ). . )S2
lio
44
02
4S. I1K-5
12,547
7, 471
3. 251
434
703
13.201
0, 790
3. 057
389
073
$0. 724
$24, 099,173
.9 IS I
1,30i,029
r
34. 050
S. 199
41,072
Y-.i •:.;,-. o f
Number of
mali-hours Average inaierial
worked
earnings
orders
durini: i per hour I^laced durmonth !
ing month
70S, 002
1. 403
377. i 1 S
2.263.320-
8. 609
1, 300. 505
l.54f,.:m
7, ">(>*. 010
1.905.4 12
.015
. 570
.811
2.231.772
4, 297
1, 62";
1,700
7, 292. 277
1.299. 4if
3.010.8*8
905. iO3
4.017.08(5
1,219, 88S
. 049
.712
2. 372,953
950. S0\
0. 154.221
707. 095
189.812
17. 064
55. 899
. 995. 542
80S. 273
. S80
.825
. 519
. 028
. 706
2. 980
3.541
S, 185
1,909
.. 556
oos
1
!
'
I
3. 7^r>, 872
1. 9S7, 114
141,542
25, 505
34. 970
1
Data are for the month ending on the 15ih.
'Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and (jowrniiiein.
agency doing force-account work.
' Includes weekly average for public-road projects.
* Financed by Rural Electrification Administration loans.
' Under the jurisdiction of the Jiureau of Public Roads.
Noi available: weekly average included in lolal for all projects.
SLATE-ROADS
PROJECTS
A record of employment smcl pay-roll disbursements in the construction and maintenance of roads financed wholly from State or
local funds in January 1939, compared with December 1938 and
January 1938, is presented in table 17.
TABLE 17.—Employment aud Pay Rolls on Construction and Maintenance of Stale
Roads, January 1939, January and December 1938*
[Subject to revision]
Number of employees 2
Item
!
|
Janufirv ! December 1 J;inu;irv
1939 " ;
1938
;
1938 "
Total
New roads
Maintenance
1
2
_.
I
1.52.989 '
18,443 |
134. MO !
j
184. 301 !
21,223 ;
103,138 j
141.959
15,394
120,505
Pay-roll disbursements
J. irmarv
V.WJ
| l K c.ember
1938
January
1938 "
525, 210 !*ll 438,013
$9, 577, 200
;
1. 398, 990
1, 229. 840
9 295, 370 i io, 039. 023
927, 200
8. 050,000
Data are for the month ending on the loth and are for projects financed wholly from State or local funds.
Average number working during month.
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