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Serial No. R. 177
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
FRANCES PERKINS, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
IS AD OR LUBIN, Commissioner
TREND OF EMPLOYMENT
SEPTEMBER 1934
Prepared by Division of Employment Statistics
Under the direction of
LEWIS E. TALBERT and H ER M AN B. BYER
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
W A SH IN G T O N : 1934
CONTENTS
Industrial:
By industries:
Page
Manufacturing industries______________________________________ 1-15
Nonmanufacturing industries__________________________________ _15-20
Anthracite and bituminous coal mining.
Metalliferous mining.
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining.
Crude-petroleum producing.
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph.
Electric light and power and manufactured gas.
Electric railroads.
Wholesale and retail trade.
Hotels.
Laundries.
Dyeing and cleaning.
Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate.
Building______________________________________________________ 20-23
Class I steam railroads________________________________________ 32-33
By States_________________________________________________________ 24-31
By cities___________________________________________________________
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Public:
Federal employees________________________________________ ________ 33-35
Public Works Administration______________________________________ 36-43
Emergency work relief_____________________________________________ 43-44
Emergency conservation work_____________________________________ 44-45
Public roads not financed by P. W. A ______________________________ 45-46
Construction projects financed by R. F. C __________________________46-48
Construction projects financed from regular governmental appropri
ations___________________________________________________________ 48-51
Wage-rate changes_____________________________________________________ 51-54
(H)
TREND OF EMPLOYMENT
Trend of Employment, September 1934
HE Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department
of Labor presents herewith data compiled from pay-roll reports
supplied by representative establishments in 90 of the principal manu
facturing industries of the country and 18 nonmanufacturing indus
tries, covering the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
Additional information is presented concerning employment on Public
Works Administration projects, public roads, the Federal service, and
class I steam railroads.
T
Manufacturing Industries
F a c t o r y employment decreased 4.7 percent from August to Sep
tember and factory pay rolls declined 6.8 percent over the month
interval.
While 44 of the 90 manufacturing industries surveyed each month
reported gains in employment from August to September and 1 in
dustry reported no change, the increases in employment in these
industries were not sufficient to offset the declines in the remaining
45 industries. Forty-three industries showed gains in pay rolls
and the remaining 47 had decreases.
Normally there is a seasonal expansion in employment and pay rolls
between August and September. Labor disturbances in September,
particularly in certain textile industries, combined with recessions in
employment in such important industries as automobiles, hardware,
boots and shoes, blast furnaces, steel works, rolling mills, and found
ries and machine shops contributed largely to these contraseasonal
decreases.
The general indexes of factory employment and pay rolls for Sep
tember 1934 are 75.8 and 57.9, respectively. A comparison of these
indexes with those of September 1933 shows decreases over the year
interval of 5.2 percent in employment and 2 percent in pay rolls.
The Bureau recently revised its indexes of factory employment and
pay rolls. The base now used in computing these index numbers is<
the average for the 3-year period, 1923-25, taken as 100. This new
series of indexes has been adjusted to conform to census trends over
the period 1919-31. Prior to March 1934 the indexes of factory em
ployment and pay rolls published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(1)
2
were based on the 12-month average of 1926 and were not adjusted
to conform to biennial census trends. A short discussion of this re
vision appeared in the March 1934 Trend of Employment and a more
complete bulletin on this subject is being prepared for publication.
The August 1934 group and general indexes of factory employment
and pay rolls on the 1926 base are shown in this pamphlet under the
heading “ Index numbers of employment and pay-roll totals in manu
facturing indus tries.”
The indexes of factory employment and pay rolls are computed
from data supplied by representative establishments in 90 important
manufacturing industries of the country. Reports were received in
September from 24,441 establishments employing 3,459,617 workers,
whose weekly earnings were $64,157,969 during the pay period ending
nearest September 15. The employment reports received from these
cooperating establishments cover more than 50 percent of the total
wage earners in all manufacturing industries of the country.
The most pronounced gains in employment over the month inter
val were seasonal increases in the following industries: Cottonseed—
oil, cake, and meal, 35.6 percent; confectionery, 30.2 percent; fertil
izer, 31.1 percent; millinery, 16.1 percent; jewelry, 12.1 percent; and
women’s clothing, 10 percent. In the last-named industry pay rolls
remained practically unchanged from August to September, reflecting
the observance of the Jewish holidays during the September 15 pay
period. The slaughtering and meat-packing industry continued to
show substantial gains, due to the receipt of Government cattle for
slaughter.
Employment in the men’s furnishing goods and in the shirt and
collar industries increased 7.5 and 6.4 percent, respectively, from
August to September. The machine-tool industry reported a gain
of 5.4 percent in employment and the canning and the clock indus
tries reported increases in employment 5.2 and of 5.1 percent, respec
tively. The beet-sugar industry reported a seasonal increase in em
ployment of 4.8 percent from August to September and the pottery,
stoves, and druggist preparation industries reported gains of 4.4 per
cent each. Other industries employing large numbers of workers
which reported employment gains over the month interval were furni
ture (3.3 percent), paper boxes (3 percent), flour (2.6 percent), news
papers (2 percent), book and job printing (1.5 percent), men’s clothing
(1.2 percent), electrical machinery (0.9 percent), paper and pulp (0.6
percent), and sawmills (0.5 percent).
The effect of the textile strike was reflected in the marked declines
in employment shown in the cotton goods, woolen and worsted goods,
silk and rayon goods, and dyeing and finishing textile industries.
The decreases in employment in these industries between August 15
and September 15 were as follows: Woolen and worsted, 47.8 percent;
3
cotton, 41.4 percent; silk and rayon, 21.3 percent; and dyeing and
finishing textiles, 9.5 percent. Employment in the aluminum manibfactures industry declined 15 percent over the month interval. Pay
rolls in this industry, however, showed a gain of 1.3 percent from
August to September due to the resumption of plant operations follow
ing strikes in several localities.
Employment in the steam- and electric-car-building industry
declined 13.2 percent over the month interval and the ice-cream
industry reported a seasonal decrease of 12.9 percent. Decreases of
12.6 percent in employment and 29 percent in pay rolls were reported
in the automobile industry. The hardware and aircraft industries
reported decreases in employment of 10.8 and 11.2 percent, respec
tively, coupled with more pronounced declines in pay rolls.
Comparing the levels of employment and pay rolls in the 90 separate
industries in September 1934 with those of September 1933, 46 indus
tries showed increased employment over the year interval and 52
showed increased pay rolls.
Dividing the manufacturing industries into “ durable” and “ non*
durable” goods groups, the former group showed decreases in employ
ment and pay rolls from August to September of 2.9 and 8.8 percent,
respectively. The latter group showed losses of 6.2 percent in em
ployment and 4.9 percent in pay rolls. The “ durable” goods group
is composed of the following subgroups: i r o n a n d s t e e l , m a c h i n e r y ,
T R A N S P O R T A T IO N
E Q U IP M E N T , R A IL R O A D
R E P A IR
SHOPS, N O N FE RR O U S
M E T A L S , L U M B E R A N D A L L IE D P R O D U C T S , A N D S T O N E -C L A Y -G L A S S .
Per capita weekly earnings for all manufacturing industries com
bined fell 2.2 percent from August to September and rose 3.4 percent
from September 1933 to September 1934. Gains from August to
September were shown in 39 of the 90 individual manufacturing
industries surveyed and ranged from 0.4 to 19.2 percent.
The per capita earnings shown in the following table must not be
confused with full-time weekly rates of wages. They are per capita
weekly earnings, computed by dividing the total amount of pay roll
for the week by the total number of employees (part-time as well as
full-time workers).
Man-hour data supplied by identical establishments in August
and September 1934 showed a decrease over the month interval for
all manufacturing industries combined of 2.1 per cent in average hours
worked per week and an increase in average hourly earnings of 0.7
percent. Thirty-four of the industries covered showed increases in
average hours worked and 51 reported increased hourly earnings. As
all reporting establishments do not furnish man-hour information, the
Bureau’s figures on average hours worked per week and average
hourly earnings are necessarily computed from data furnished by a
smaller number of establishments than are covered in the monthly
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survey of manufacturing industries. Average hours worked per week
and average hourly earnings are presented for only those manufactur
ing industries for which available information covers at least 20
percent of all the employees in the industry.
In table 1, which follows, are shown indexes of employment and
pay rolls in September 1934 for each of the 90 manufacturing industries
surveyed, for the 14 major groups and 2 subgroups into which these
industries are classified, and for manufacturing as a whole, together
with percentage changes from August 1934 and September 1933. Per
capita weekly earnings in September 1934, together with percentage
changes from the previous month and from September of the previous
year for each of the 90 manufacturing industries and for manufactur
ing as a whole, are also presented in this table. Average hours worked
per week in September 1934 and average hourly earnings, together
with percentage changes from August 1934 and September 1933, are
likewise presented for manufacturing as a whole and for each industry
for which man-hour data covering at least 20 percent of the total
employees in the industry were received.
T a b l e 1 —E M P L O Y M E N T , W E E K L Y P A Y R OLLS, P E R C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S , A V E R A G E H O U R S W O R K E D P E R W E E K , A N D A V E R A G E
H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN MANUFACTURING IN D U ST R IE S IN S E P T E M B E R 1934 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H A U G U ST 1934 A N D S E P T E M B E R 1933
Employment
Industry
Total manufacturing................. ..........................
Iron and steel and their products, not includ
ing machinery
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills___
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets............................
Cast-iron pipe______ ____ ________ ____ . . _____
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery),
and edge tools_______________ _______________
Forgings, iron and steel.. . ......................................
Hardware________________ ______ ____ ________
Plumbers’ supplies________ _____ - ......................
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings.____________________ __________
Stoves_____________________________ ____ _____
Structural and ornamental m etalw ork...............
Tin cans and other tinware............................. ......
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)................................. ..................
W irew ork ................................ ........... ................ .
Machinery, not including transportation
equipment
Agricultural im plem ents........................ .............
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating
machines________________ ___________________
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies. Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels _Foundry and machine-shop products..................
Machine tools............... ...........................................
Radios and phonographs. .....................................
See footnotes at end of table.
Per capita weekly
earnings1
Pay roll
Average hours worked
per week!
Average hourly
earnings1
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Index
Index
change from—
change from—
change from—
change from—
change from—
Sep
Sep
Aver
Aver
Aver
tember
tember
age in
age in
age in
1934
1934
Sep
Sep
Sep
(3-year
(3-year
Sep
tember
Sep
Sep
tember
Sep
Sep
tember
August tember
August tember 1934 August tember
average August tember average August tember
1934
1934
1934
1934
1934
1934
1923-25 1934
1923-25
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
= 100)
= 100)
75.8
- 4 .7
- 5 .2
57.9
- 6 .8
- 2 .0
$18.54
- 2 .2
+ 3 .4
*33.3
- 2 .1
- 6 .7
Cents
2 55.9
+ 0 .7
+9 .4
66.0
65.3
71.7
52.1
- 3 .8
- 6 .2
-7 .7
- 3 .2
- 7 .6
-9 .1
-1 6 .6
+13.5
41.1
37.3
39.6
28.2
- 9 .7
-1 5 .2
-2 5 .8
- 3 .3
-1 3 .5
-2 2 .1
-2 7 .1
+26.5
15.56
14.12
14.56
- 9 .5
-1 9 .6
- .1
-1 4 .1
-1 2 .4
+11.4
24.1
25.5
29.7
-1 0 .1
-2 0 .1
+ 1 .4
—28.0
-2 3 .2
+ 2 .5
64.4
55.2
48.5
(3)
+ .4
- 1 .0
+19.6
+12.7
+6 .9
76.7
47.5
45.8
59.7
- 1 .3
- 8 .6
-1 0 .8
- 1 .4
+2.4
- 7 .2
-2 6 .4
-2 0 .0
53.2
29.1
29.2
31.0
+ .3
-1 6 .1
-2 3 .0
- 8 .9
+ 4 .7
- 6 .1
-3 1 .3
-2 7 .7
19.18
17.64
15.38
16.05
+ 1 .6
- 8 .2
-1 3 .6
- 7 .6
+ 2 .0
+ 1 .7
- 6 .8
- 9 .4
35.7
29.8
28.5
29.1
+ 2 .0
- 8 .0
-1 2 .0
- 7 .0
- 6 .6
-1 2 .0
-1 1 .5
-1 7 .6
53.7
59.6
53.6
54.7
-.2
+ .2
- 3 .1
-.7
+9 .9
+ 9.6
+ 3 .8
+10.6
48.8
91.6
58.6
101.0
+ .4
+ 4.4
- .7
+ 2 .0
-1 8 .5
+ .5
+8.7
+ 9.4
30.7
65.8
40.5
96.2
+ 1.1
+13.9
- 3 .1
+ 2 .8
- 8 .4
+ 7 .0
+20.2
+17.5
20.27
19.92
19.47
19.65
+ .7
+ 9 .2
- 2 .5
+ .7
+12.8
+ 6 .6
+10.2
+ 7 .2
33.8
35.6
32.9
37.8
+• 6
+ 6 .9
- 2 .7
+ 1.1
- 4 .7
- 4 .9
- 1 .8
- 6 .0
59.8
55.6
59.3
51.7
+. 5
+ 2 .2
+ .2
-.6
+10.8
+10.7
+6 .4
+10.6
57.2
120.2
-.3
+ 3.4
+ .9
-3 .3
47.0
92.0
- 4 .1
+ 2.1
+ 9 .3
- 2 .3
18.94
17.50
- 3 .8
- 1 .2
+ 8 .8
+ .8
34.9
31.1
- 3 .3
-.6
- 4 .8
-.1
54.1
55.6
-.6
-.9
+14.2
+13.8
77.7
67.8
-1 .1
+ 1.5
+11.3
+40.7
55.3
66.7
- 4 .3
- 2 .4
+18.7
+60.3
18.95
- 3 .8
+14.0
33.7
- 4 .3
+ 1 .6
56.7
-.5
+14.7
106.0
65.9
71.1
66.8
69.7
219.9
+ .3
+ .9
- 1 .0
- 3 .1
+ 5 .4
+ 1.1
+16.9
+12.8
+33.4
+7.1
+38.8
+12.3
85.1
48.0
46.1
46.7
50.8
127.0
+ 1 .3
- 4 .5
- 3 .8
- 7 .2
+ 3 .7
+ 3 .2
+30.1
+20.9
+55.7
+13.1
+41.1
+22.0
26. 30
20.31
23.01
19.50
22.13
18.36
+ 1 .0
- 5 .4
- 2 .9
- 4 .2
- 1 .6
+ 2.1
+11.1
+ 7 .3
+16.6
+ 5 .8
+ 1 .7
+ 8 .7
38.5
32.2
36.2
32.5
35.9
32.7
+ .5
- 5 .6
- 2 .4
- 5 .5
- 1 .1
-1 .8
- 1 .4
- 1 .6
+ 5 .9
- 2 .8
- 2 .8
- 2 .8
69.2
61.3
63.6
60.0
61.7
53.3
+ .6
-.6
-.5
+ 1 .0
-.3
-.7
+ 12.0
+ 9 .9
+ 6 .4
+10.5
+ 3 .3
+12.4
T ablb 1 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , W E E K L Y P A Y R O LLS , P E R C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S , A V E R A G E H O U R S W O R K E D P E R W E E K , A N D A V E R A G E
H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN MANUFACTURING IN D U ST R IE S IN S E P T E M B E R 1934 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H A U G U ST 1934 A N D S E P T E M B E R
1933—Continued
Employment
Industry
Percentage
Index change
from—
Sep
tember
1931
(3-year
Sep
average August tember
1923-25 1934 1933
= 100)
Per capita weekly
earnings1
Pay roll
Percentage
Percentage
Index change
from— Aver change from—
Sep
tember
age in
1934
Sep
(3-year
Sep
tember
Sep
average August tember 1934 August tember
.1934 1933
1923-25 1931 1933
=100)
Continued.
Textile machinery and parts................................. 62.4 -6.2 -20.5 46.1 -6.5 -29.0
+2.2 +12.4 76.2 +8.0 +40.6
Typewriters and parts........................................... 81.8 —11.4
+7.7
+14.8
51.9 -2 5 .8
Transportation equipment-................. ...............
73. S
Aircraft..................................................................... 296.0 -11.2 -4.2 255.6 -15.3 -1.4
+2.3
80.9
-12.6
+13.0
54.3
-29.0
Automobiles............................................................
41.8 -13.2 +46.7 36.7 -21.9 +58.9
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad..........................
Locomotives...........................................-............... 37.7 -2.0 +102.7 17.4 -1.4 +163.6
Shipbuilding............................................................ 71.3 + .2 +11.1 57.0 +1.2 +24.2
- 6 .0
+ .9
45.6
+ .7
Railroad repair s h o p s................................................
55.7
+1.1
Electric railroad...................................................... 65.7 -.5 +.9 56.9 -2.8 +7.4
-6.2
+ .2
Steam railroad...................... . ................................. 55.0 +1.1 +1.3 44.9
73.3 -.3 - 1 .5 54.0 +1.5 + 4 .7
Nonfcrrous metals and their products...............
-15.0
41.4
-30.4
+1.3
-32.0
Aluminum manufactures....................................... 57.5
Brass, bronze, and copper products.................... 70.8 -2.6 -9.6 48.7 -4.8 -9.8
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices . 72.4 +5.1 +19.7 59.2 +9.1 +29.3
Jewelry......................................... .......................... 73.7 +12.1 +11.8 57.7 +16.1 +17.8
Lighting equipment............................................... 64.5 +4.1 +7.3 52.0 +7.8 +13.0
Silverware and plated ware....................................
69.5 +.3 +12.3 52.1 +7:8 +23.5
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc__
69.9 -.9 +11.8 42.7 - .3 +19.9
Stamped and enameled ware................................. 84.4 -3.1 -8.7 66.7 -5.7 +6.4
Machinery—
Lumber and allied products....................................
Furniture-.................................................................
Lumber:
Millwork.............................................................
Sawmills............................................................
Turpentine and rosin............................................
Stone, clay, and glass products..............................
Brick, tile, and terra cotta......................................
Cement.....................................................................
Glass............................................................................
49.3
65.0
+ .6
+3.3
- 9 .2
-1 5 .8
34.6
34.1
96.2
52.9
30.4
54.0
- 4 .4
+ .5
- 2 .2
-.4
- 4 .3
- 1 .8
-.4
-1 3 .3
- 4 .2
- 1 .4
(3)
-1 2 .6
87.3
+12.5
+8.6
33.9
44.6
+1.2
+4.6
- 9 .1
-1 5 .5
21.8
- 5 .6
- 9 .5
-3 .9
22.3
52.2
34.7
16.1
33.9
67.4
+1.0
+ 1.6
- .6
-3.8
- 4 .2
- 1 .3
+20.6
+ 3 .6
- 2 .4
+31.4
+ 8 .4
Average hours worked
per week 1
Average hourly
earnings1
Percentage
Aver change from—
age in
Sep
tember August Sep
1934 1934 tember
1933
Percentage
Aver change from—
age in
Sep
tember August Sep
1934 1934 tember
1933
19.96
23.28
24.69
18.86
18.88
22.69
23.16
25.75
22.69
16.39
19.12
18.50
18.95
18.92
20.47
20.30
16.83
-0.3
+5.6
-4.5
-18.8
-10.1
+. 5
+1.0
-2.3
-7 .2
+19.2
-2.2
+3.9
+3.6
+3.6
+7.4
+.5
-2.7
-10.8
+25.1
+2.9
-9.4
+8.6
+30.1
+12.4
+6.4
- .9
+2.3
- .1
+8.1
+5.6
+5.6
+9.6
+7.2
+16.4
32.9
40.4
39.3
25.7
31.0
35.7
30.5
42.8
35.7
36.0
33.3
38.5
36.2
36.2
35.9
36.9
33.4
-0.6
+4.7
-5.1
-19.9
-10.9
(3)
-1.9
-2.7
-7.8
+38.5
-3.2
+5.2
+3.4
-1-2.8
+7.5
-.5
-3.2
-14.9
+10.2
-3.0
-23.8
- .5
+25.7
- .4
-1.6
-3.3
+23.2
-8 .0
-2.8
+3.2
+.9
+2.1
-3.2
+8.8
Cents
16.06
+ 1 .2
(3)
35.5
+1.1
- 8 .3
44.7
-.2
+ 6.7
15.47
14.85
12.79
-1 .3
+ .5
+ 3 .9
+4.1
+ .6
- 2 .3
+ .6
+ 3 .8
-3 .8
-1 1 .1
- 7 .4
46.2
44.4
36.1
+ .7
+ .2
+ 1 .7
+ 6.9
+22.3
33.6
33.8
41.1
+10.2
+20.5
14.12
19.05
18.14
+ .5
- 2 .5
-.9
+11.0
+16.2
-.3
31.5
- 1 .3
- 1 .2
- 1 .2
- 5 .0
+ 6.3
- 3 .6
44.8
32.4
+ 2.3
-.2
+ .7
+14.0
+10.2
+ 4.0
32.9
60.7
57.6
63.1
73.1
61.4
63.5
74.8
59.9
63.3
53.1
57.3
48.1
51.1
53.3
56.5
54.7
49.9
57.2
56.4
+0.3
+.9
+2.3
+.7
+1.5
+• 5
+2.2
+.5
-.3
-4.3
+.9
-1.0
- .2
+.8
-.4
+.9
+ .2
+ 4 .5
+14.3
+4.8
+15.0
+8.2
+5.3
+15.8
+8.5
+2.5
+13.8
+10.0
+8.9
+6.7
+4.6
+8.8
+11.7
+11.0
93711— 34*
Marble, granite, slate, and other products___
Pottery.......................................................
Textiles and their products.............................
Fabrics........................................................
Carpets and rugs.....................................
Cotton goods..........................................
Cotton small wares.................................
Dyeing and finishing textiles....................
Hats, fur-felt...........................................
Knit goods.............................................
Silk and rayon goods...............................
Woolen and worsted goods... ...................
Wearing apparel...........................................
Clothing, men's......................................
Clothing, women’s..................................
Corsets and allied garments—...................
Men’s furnishings...................................
Millinery...............................................
Shirts and collars....................................
Leather and its manufactures........... .............
Boots and shoes............................................
Leather........................_..............................
Food and kindred products-.......................... .
Baking........................................................ .
Beverages.....................................................
Butter-........................................................
Canning and preserving.................................
Confectionery-..............................................
Flour...........................................................
Ice cream.....................................................
Slaughtering and meat packing......................
Sugar, beet....... ............................................
Sugar refining, cane.......................................
Tobacco manufactures...................................
Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff........
Cigars and cigarettes.....................................
Paper and printing..........................................
Boxes, paper..................................................
Paper and pulp.............................................
Printing and publishing:
Book and job.......................................... .
Newspapers and periodicals.............. ........
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining
Other than petroleum refining...... _................
Chemicals...................... ........................
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal--.............
Druggists’ preparations.............................
Explosives-..............................................
See footnotes at end of table.
20.24
16.09
- 2 .2
+ 4 .2
+1*5
- 4 .8
30.3
31.3
- 6 .8
+ 3 .3
- 3 .0
-1 7 .3
67.1
50.2
+ 4 .7
+ 1 .0
+13.2
+13.6
16.83
12.53
15.33
19.13
20.68
15.43
13.16
15.39
- 1 .6
+ 9 .0
-.1
+ 8 .7
-1 4 .1
+ 3 .8
-1 2 .5
- 3 .2
-1 1 .2
- 3 .3
- 1 .8
+11.8
- 6 .4
+ .9
- 6 .2
- 9 .1
28.7
33.9
32.3
35.7
27.1
32.5
28.7
30.8
-4 .0
+12.6
- 1 .8
+ 8 .5
-1 7 .6
+ .6
-1 3 .6
- 3 .4
-2 2 .2
- 5 .9
- 9 .8
+ .1
- 9 .3
- 6 .0
-1 2 .9
-1 6 .6
58.5
37.0
46.6
53.4
72.7
47.5
46.2
50.0
+ 4 .7
- 1 .6
+ 1 .3
+ .6
-.1
+ 1 .5
+ 2 .7
+ .2
+18.1
+ 2 .5
+10.0
+ 9 .5
+20.6
+ 7 .2
+ 8 .2
+ 7 .9
16.51
17.26
15.79
13.24
23.13
12.41
- 6 .3
- 9 .1
+ 6.1
-.2
+ 9 .4
- 3 .3
- 2 .3
-1 6 .4
+ 4 .6
- 2 .8
+ 3 .7
+ 9 .7
26.7
29.0
32.6
31.6
33.7
31.9
- 6 .3
- 7 .6
+ 5 .8
0)
+ 3 .4
- 2 .4
-1 2 .2
-2 1 .1
- 2 .6
+ 1 .1
-1 1 .8
+ 9 .9
61.7
55.2
47.6
40.0
65.4
38.7
-.5
-3 .0
+ .8
+. 3
+ 2 .3
-.5
+14.6
+ 3 .9
+ 2 .4
+14.3
+39.1
+ 6 .3
16.69
19.57
- 7 .9
- 1 .7
- 7 .3
+ .2
33.5
35.1
- 5 .1
- 2 .8
-1 9 .6
- 5 .5
51.1
54.4
+ 1 .6
+ 1 .5
+10.0
+ 9 .9
22.07
28.71
20.35
12.65
15.90
21.89
24.31
22.73
20.28
21.72
+ 2 .0
- 5 .1
+ 1 .5
- 2 .8
+ 4 .3
+ 3 .3
+. 8
+ 2 .3
- 1 .6
- 2 .9
+ 3 .9
+ 4 .0
- 1 .5
+29.0
+ 7.3
+10.9
+ 4 .5
+17.8
+. 6
+ 3 .4
40.5
38.2
44.1
34.3
36.8
39.3
44.8
43.0
42.5
37.7
+ 2 .0
- 3 .8
- 1 .1
+ 3 .0
+ 6 .4
+ 3 .7
-.4
+ 2 .4
- 3 .6
- 5 .3
- 1 .9
-1 1 .9
+4.1
- 4 .0
-.2
+ 3 .4
(*)
+ 9 .2
-1 3 .2
- 5 .5
54.1
75.0
43.3
35.9
42.0
55.7
53.6
52.2
48.7
55.6
(3)
- 1 .2
+ 2 .1
- 4 .8
-3 .0
(3)
+ 1 .5
(3)
+ 2 .5
+ .4
+ 8 .4
+19.5
- 9 .8
+ 8 .3
+ 8 .2
+5 .1
+ 1 .2
+ 7 .5
+14.3
+12.7
14.21
13.57
+ 2 .9
+ 2 .5
+3 .8
- 1 .3
34.7
35.5
+ 1 .8
+ .3
- 7.5
- 5 .6
41.1
37.6
+ 1 .2
+ 1 .3
+10.5
+ 6 .2
17.72
18.88
+ 1 .4
+ .4
+6 .9
+ .4
35.9
36.1
+ .8
(•)
- 2 .8
-1 0 .1
49.1
52.1
+ .2
+ .6
+11.1
+13.3
+12.6
+8 .1
25.94
32.72
-.4
+ 1 .8
+ 6 .4
+ 4 .2
35.7
37.1
- .3
+ 1.1
+ 2 .4
-.9
72.0
84.4
-.1
(3)
+ 3 .6
+ 5 .9
+10.3
+ 9 .6
+14.3
- 7 .0
+8 .1
+ 8 .9
23.83
10.61
20.01
21.38
- 2 .1
-.7
- 1 .6
- 7 .4
+7.4
+10.7
-.3
+ 6 .4
37.8
44.0
38.6
33.4
- 2 .8
+14.6
+ .5
- 4 .6
- 1 .6
+5 .4
+ 2 .7
- 7 .8
63.0
24.2
50.9
62.8
+ .5
-1 4 .2
- 2 .7
-.9
+ 9 .5
+ 3 .9
+ 2 ,4
+ 5 .7
32.2
66.2
73.1
62.0
64.6
52.0
71.2
91.1
83.9
100.6
58.2
35.8
95.5
89.5
121.0
88.6
101.4
76.0
103.5
85.7
85.5
86.8
127.1
115.7
176.7
81.1
204.4
93.1
80.2
77.3
121.2
76.9
88.1
64.7
73.7
63.5
95.3
86.5
105.4
+ 3 .0
+4 .4
-1 7 .1
-2 7 .6
- 1 .4
-4 1 .4
- 8 .0
- 9 .5
+ 1.3
- 1 .9
-2 1 .3
-4 7 .7
+ 6 .0
+ 1 .2
+10.0
+ .9
+ 7.5
+16.1
+ 6 .4
- 5 .9
- 7 .0
- 1 .7
+4 .1
-.1
-4 9
- 5 .2
+ 5 .2
+30.2
+ 2 .6
-1 2 .9
+7 .8
+4.8
+ .7
-.6
+ .2
-.8
+ 1.6
+ 2 .9
+ .6
-1 6 .6
- 1 .2
-2 5 .6
-3 6 .5
-1 3 .9
-4 7 .8
-2 0 .3
+1.8
- 9 .2
-1 0 .5
-3 3 .9
-6 1 .8
-.1
-.3
+ 3.7
-5 .5
-.5
-5 .5
-3 .8
-5 .5
-5 .3
- 6 .2
+5.1
+ 6.2
+9.7
-2 .3
-7 .3
+ 1.0
+10.0
+ 4.0
+18.6
-7 .6
+4.6
+4.9
-3 .9
+ 6.2
+2.8
-3 .9
+ 2.2
20.2
41.1
57.5
49.1
46.5
40.4
55.8
75.6
79.0
91.0
41.1
24.3
70.9
62.2
85.2
81.0
67.5
75.5
93.2
69.2
67.7
73.6
109.3
99.6
167.0
60.4
199.5
82.6
68.6
60.5
109.2
58.5
72.4
50.3
68.7
47.9
80.3
77.8
79.6
+ .7
+ 8 .8
-1 5 .6
—24.1
- 3 .0
-3 6 .2
- 8 .1
- 1 .6
-1 3 .0
+ 1 .8
-3 1 .2
-4 9 .4
+ .4
-5 .2
+ ( 4)
+ 7 .1
+ 7 .3
+27.0
+ 2 .8
—12.1
-1 4 .4
- 3 .3
+4 .0
+ 1 .9
- 9 .7
- 3 .7
+ 2.1
+35.8
+ 5 .9
-1 2 .2
+10.3
+ 3 .1
- 2 .2
+ 2 .0
+ 3.1
+ 1 .7
+ 2 .4
+ 4 .4
+ 3 .0
-1 5 .5
- 5 .7
—26.9
—36.7
-2 3 .4
-4 9 .6
-2 1 .7
+13.7
-1 4 .9
- 9 .5
-3 7 .8
-6 5 .3
—6.6
- 2 .7
-1 3 .6
- 1 .6
- 3 .3
- 2 .2
+ 5 .2
—10.7
-1 2 .2
- 5 .9
+15.3
+10.4
+14.2
- 3 .8
+ 3 .2
+ 8 .8
+21.8
+ 8 .2
+39.6
- 6 .8
+ 8 .4
+ 4 .4
-.3
+ 5 .0
+ 7 .5
+ 2 .5
+ 2 .6
86.5
98.5
+ 1 .5
+ 2 .0
+5.8
+3.9
72.4
88.2
+1 .1
+ 3 .8
108.6
107.6
108.0
98.1
103.0
93.2
+ 1 .6
+ 2 .2
- 2 .6
+35.6
+ 4 .4
+ 3 .0
+2.5
+1.1
+ 6.7
-1 5 .9
+8.3
+2.6
89.9
87.9
92.1
92.0
92.3
69.5
-.1
+ .1
- 4 .6
+34.5
+ 2 .7
- 4 .6
T a b l e 1 .— E M P L O Y M E N T , W E E K Y T A Y R O LLS , P E R
C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S , A V E R A G E H O U R S W O R K E D P E R W E E K , A N D A V E R A G E
H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN MANUFACTURING IN D U S T R IE S IN S E P T E M B E R 1934 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H A U G U ST 1934 A N D S E P T E M B E R
1933—Continued.
Employment
Industry
Per capita weekly
earnings 1
Pay roll
Average hours worked
per w eek 1
Average ho
earnings1
rce
Percentage
Index
Index
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
change from—
change from—
change from— Aver change from—
Sep
change from—
Sep
Aver
Aver
tember
tember
age
in
age in
age in
1934
1934
Sep
Sep
Sep
(3-year
(3-year
Sep tember
Sep tember August Sep
Sep
tember
Sep
average
August tember
August tember
average August
August tember
1934
1934
1934
tember
1923-25 1934
1934
1934
1934 tember
1923-25 1934
1933
1933
1933
1933
1934
=100)
= 100)
Chemicals and allied products—Continued.
Other than petroleum refining—Continued.
Fertilizers_________ ________ ________ ______
Paints and varnishes__________ ___________
Rayon and allied products__________ ______
Soap_________________ _______________ ____
Petroleum refining______________________ _____
Rubber products__________ _____ . ______ ____
Rubber boots and shoes___________ ___________
R ubber goods, other than boots, shoes, tires,
and inner tubes- - _____ _____________________
Rubber tires and inner tubes................................
95.0
98.8
305.5
98.6
112.9
78.4
56.4
+31.1
- .3
+. 4
(3)
-.4
- 2 .9
+2.3
+15.4
+ 5.0
- 7 .5
-2 .5
+ 7:6
-1 1 .7
-1 0 .2
78.5
75.8
215.5
87.3
96.3
58.1
50.4
+36.5
- 2 .6
+ 1.1
+ 1.4
-.9
- 4 .6
-.1
+29.5
+10.3
+ 1.1
+ 8.6
+12.0
- 8 .6
-1 0 .6
12.91
20.67
18.81
21.65
26.97
+ 4.1
- 2 .3
+ .7
+ 1 .4
-.5
17.89
- 2 .3
113.5
70.4
- 2 .0
- 4 .7
-1 7 .1
- 7 .7
83.7
47.6
- 6 .3
- 4 .8
-1 2 .8
- 5 .6
17.08
21.55
- 4 .4
-.2
Cents
37.0
55.5
51.6
54.8
77.2
+ 3 .4
+. 2
+ 1 .0
- 1 .6
+ 1 .7
+42.7
+ 8 .0
+14.5
+ 8 .9
+12.5
- 5 .0
49.2
+ 1 .4
+ 2 .6
- 5 .8
- 6 .5
52.3
77.9
+ 1.6
- 1 .6
+ 6.6
+15.3
34.7
37.2
36.4
38.8
34.0
+ .6
- 2 .4
-.3
+ 2 .6
- 2 .0
-2 1 .5
- 4 .3
- 4 .1
-.4
- 4 .1
+ 2.6
32.6
-6 .6
+ 5.4
+ 2.5
32.0
28.8
-6 .7
+ 4 .7
+12.3
+ 5.3
+ 9 .3
+10.8
+ 4.1
1 Per capita weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data furnished
b y a smaller number of establishments as some firms do not report man-hour information. Figures for groups not computed. Percentage changes over year on per capita weekly
earnings, average hours worked per week, and average hourly earnings computed from indexes. Percentage change over month on per capita weekly earnings in “ All industries”
also computed from indexes.
2 Weighted.
• No change.
< Less than Ho of 1 percent.
9
Estimated Number of Wage Earners and Weekly Pay Rolls in Manufacturing
Industries
I n t h e following table are presented the estimated number of wage
earners and weekly pay rolls in all manufacturing industries combined
and in the 14 groups into which these manufacturing industries have
been classified, for the years 1919 to 1933, inclusive, and for the first
9 months of 1934. These estimates have been computed by multi
plying the weighting factors of the several groups of industries (num
ber employed or weekly pay roll in the index base period 1923-25)
by the Bureau’s index numbers of employment or pay rolls (which
have been adjusted to conform with census trends over the period
1919-31) and dividing by 100. Data are not available for all groups
over the entire period shown. The totals for all manufacturing
industries combined, however, have been adjusted to include all
groups. The estimated total employment and weekly pay rolls for
all manufacturing industries combined do not include the manufactured-gas industry (which is included in the Bureau's electric light
and power and manufactured-gas industry) or the motion-picture
industry.
^ .- E S T I M A T E D N U M B E R OF W A G E E A R N E R S A N D W E E K L Y W A G E S IN A L L
MANUFACTURING IN D U S T R IE S C O M B IN E D A N D IN IN D U S T R Y G R O U P S —Y E A R L Y
A V E R A G E S 1919 TO 1933, IN C L U S IV E , A N D M O N T H S , J A N U A R Y T O S E P T E M B E R 1934,
IN C L U S IV E
T a b le
Total manu
facturing
Year and month
Iron and
steel and
their
products
Machinery,
not includ Transpor
ing trans
tation
portation equipment
equipment
Railroad
repair
shops
Nonferrous
metals and
their prod
ucts
Employment
1919 average.............................
1920— . _____ ______________
1921_____________ ______ _
1922____ __________ ________
1923___________ ____________
1924____ ________ ___________
1925. - .......................................
1926............................................
1927___________ _____ _______
1 928...____ ________________
1929_____ ____ _____________
1930...... .......... ......................
1931_____________ ____ ______
1932________________________
1933________________________
1934: January........ .............. .
February_____________
M arch_______ ________
A pril. .............................
M a y ________________
June__________________
July_____ ____ ________
August_______________
September-.................. .
8,983,900
9,065,600
6,899, 700
7,592, 700
8, 724,900
8,083,700
8, 328, 200
8, 484,400
8, 288,400
8,285,800
8, 785,600
7,668,400
6,484,300
5, 374, 200
5, 778,400
6,146,000
6, 514,200
6,770,100
6,897,800
6,904,300
6, 791, 700
6, 585,200
6, 666,200
6, 351,900
i Comparable data not available.
858,600
926, 300
572,400
722, 500
892,400
833, 700
851, 200
880, 200
834,900
829,800
881,000
766,200
598,400
458,100
503,400
545, 500
572, 200
601,400
623,700
646,000
656,400
603,900
589,300
567,000
1,026,800
1,131,700
680, 700
717,400
928, 600
835,400
870,500
946, 700
897,800
922, 500
1,105, 700
918,700
687,000
494, 600
517,100
614, 700
640,100
674,400
705,100
713,900
709, 500
690, 200
690,200
682,300
(0
0)
0)
0)
606, 200
524,500
559,600
558, 600
495,100
541,900
583, 200
451,800
373,800
315, 700
305, 600
401,200
477, 300
526,300
558,400
560,100
535,900
494,800
469,400
415,900
0)
0)
0)
0)
523,700
464,900
458,100
460, 700
428,900
404,000
398,200
353,800
309,000
257,400
250,600
254,500
257,400
267,600
278,700
287,300
288,300
281,100
266,100
268, 500
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
(0
0)
0)
(0
209,000
164, 200
175,200
190,200
200,400
212,200
217,300
219,900
214,500
206,600
207,400
206,900
10
,5 EtR 9 F w a g e E A R N E R S A N D W E E K L Y W A G E S IN A L L
IN D U S T R IE S C O M B IN E D A N D IN I N D U S T R Y G R O U P S —Y E A R L Y
TMr?T^4?\r2 n 9 T- 1{? 3, IN C L U S *VE, A N D M O N T H S , J A N U A R Y T O S E P T E M B E R 1934,
IN C L U S IV E —Continued
Total manu
facturing
Year and month
Iron and
steel and
their
products
Machinery,
not includ Transpor
ing trans
tation
portation equipment
equipment
Railroad
repair
shops
Nonferrous
metals and
their prod
ucts
Weekly pay rolls
1919 average____
192 0
192 1
192 2
192 3
192 4
192 5
192 6
192 7
192 8
192 9
193 0
193 1
193 2
193 3
1934: January__February..
M arch.......
A pril_____
M a y _____
June______
July--------A ugust___
September.
Year and month
$198,145,000 $23,937, 000 $24, 534, 000
0)
0)
238, 300, 000 30, 531, 000 31, 982, 000
0)
155, 008, 000 14, 049, 000 16, 450, 000
(0
0)
165, 406, 000 17,400, 000 16,982, 000
(0
0)
210, 065, 000 25, 442, 000 24, 618,000 $18, 532, 000 $14, 856, 000
195, 376, 000 23, 834, 000 22, 531, 000 15, 636, 000 12, 972, 000
204, 665, 000 24, 680, 000 23, 843, 000 17,478, 000 12, 847, 000
211, 061, 000 25, 875, 000 26, 310, 000 17,126,000 13, 025, 000
206, 980, 000 24, 289, 000 25, 095, 000 15, 450, 000 12,475,000
208, 334, 000 24, 740, 000 26, 334, 000 17,494, 000 11,817, 000
221, 937, 000 26, 568, 000 31, 761, 000 18,136, 000 12, 255, 000
180, 507, 000 21,126, 000 24,197, 000 12, 076, 000 10, 316,000
137, 256, 000 13, 562, 000 15,135, 000
9, 008, 000
8, 366, 000
7,164, 000
93, 757, 000
8, 546, 000
7, 012, 000
5, 793,000
98, 623, 000
8, 925, 000
8, 975, 000
6, 799, 000
5, 652, 000
109,806, 000 10.134, 000 11, 260, 000
9, 072, 000
5, 710, 000
123, 395, 000 11, 269, 000 12, 253, 000 12, 394,000
6.185, 000
131, 852, 000 12, 650, 000 13,199, 000 14, 546, 000
6, 578, 000
136, 962, 000 14,006, 000 14, 311, 000 15, 871, 000
7,188, 000
136, 575, 000 15,115, 000 14, 713, 000 15,148, 000
7, 297, 000
131,839, 000 15, 436, 000 14, 571, 000 13, 444, 000
7, 297, 000
122, 809, 000 11, 737, 000 13, 744, 000 11, 258, 000
6, 931, 000
126, 401, 000 11, 219, 000 13, 673, 000 12,033, 000
6, 578, 000
117, 887, 000 10.134, 000 13, 081, 000
8,934, 000
6.185, 000
(0
Lumber
and allied
products
Stone,
clay, and
glass
products
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Wearing
apparel
Total
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
(0
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
0)
$4, 622, 000
2, 865,000
3.039.000
3, 452,000
3, 826,000
4.163.000
4, 317,000
4, 441,000
4, 243, 000
3, 928,000
3, 899, 000
3.958.000
Leather
and its
manu
factures
Em ploym ent
1919 average____
192 0
192 1
192 2
192 3
192 4
192 5
192 6
192 7
192 8
192 9
1930.____ _______
193 1
193 2
193 3
1934: January._.
February. _
March____
A pril_____
M a y ______
June______
July______
August___
September.
1 Comparable data not available.
863,800
821,200
703, 000
894, 300
932,100
901, 300
921, 600
922, 300
864,100
848,100
876, 500
699,400
516,900
377,800
406,100
418,800
432,600
445,400
453, 700
468,400
459, 200
448,200
450,000
452,800
302, 700
314, 500
253, 000
299,600
351, 400
346, 400
352, 700
363, 500
349, 800
334, 900
328, 500
280,800
222, 800
156, 000
157, 500
165, 700
174,400
182, 500
193, 700
202,100
200,000
189,900
186,000
185, 300
1, 052, 600
1, 045, 300
994, 300
1, 054, 900
1,164, 400
1, 041, 900
1,109, 500
1, 095, 700
1,119, 200
1, 062, 400
1, 095, 900
950, 400
886, 700
794,100
952, 600
988,400
1,065,800
1,087,900
1,070, 200
1,049, 200
993,900
961,900
946,400
685, 500
507,800
519, 400
473, 900
487,800
499, 300
455,800
466, 500
472,800
501,400
513,100
536, 700
497, 700
472,000
401,800
418,100
385,900
442,800
471,300
474,100
449, 000
423,400
378, 300
427, 200
452,800
1, 609, 400
1, 612, 400
1, 509, 400
1, 585, 500
1, 714,300
1,545, 500
1, 627,400
1, 628,000
1,694,400
1, 651,300
1, 706,900
1, 513,000
1,421, 000
1, 250, 300
1,432, 700
1,437,100
1, 577,300
1,629,400
1, 614, 700
1, 565,900
1,481,100
1, 399, 700
1, 437,100
1,191,100
349,600
318, 600
280,100
314, 600
344,800
311,700
314,200
312,700
316,000
309,400
318,600
295,100
272,800
255, 500
269,400
268, 200
292,100
299,900
298,600
295, 700
283, 700
289,200
294,700
277, 200
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2 .—E S T IM A T E D N U M B E R OF W A G E E A R N E R S A N D W E E K L Y W A G E S IN A L L
M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S C O M B IN E D A N D IN I N D U S T R Y G R O U P S —Y E A R L Y
A V E R A G E S 1919 T O 1933, IN C L U S IV E , A N D M O N T H S , J A N U A R Y T O S E P T E M B E R 1934,
IN C L U S IV E —Continued
able
Year and month
Lum ber
and allied
products
Stone,
clay, and
Rlass
products
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Wearing
apparel
Total
Leather
and its
manu
factures
Weekly pay rolls
1919 average____
192 0
192 1
.
192 2
192 3
192 4
192 5
_____
192 6
192 7
192 8
192 9
193 0
193 1
1932..............
1933____________
1934: J an u a ry ...
February..
M arch____
A p ril_____
M a y ______
June______
July______
A ugust___
September.
Year and month
$16,549,000
20, 358,000
13,161, 000
15.234.000
18, 526, 000
18.228.000
18.824.000
18.997.000
17.916.000
17.454.000
18.062.000
13,464,000
8.641.000
4.656.000
4.900.000
5.075.000
5, 650,000
5.909.000
6.168.000
6.409.000
6.279.000
5.853.000
6, 205,000
6.279.000
$6, 397, 000 $17,494, 000 $10 , 12 1 , 000 $28,440, 000
8.239.000 21, 005, 000 12.124.000 34.115.000
5, 907, 000 17.235.000 10, 266, 000 28, 284,000
6.442.000 17, 747, 000 10.438.000 28, 962,000
8, 726, 000 21, 590, 000 10, 919, 000 33, 511, 000
8.926.000 19, 014,000
9,804, 000 29, 712, 000
8.985.000 20,497, 000 10, 284, 000 31, 795,000
9, 257, 000 20, 241, 000 10, 297, 000 31, 731, 000
8.929.000 21.135.000 11.123.000 33.817.000
8, 541,000 19.510.000 11.114.000 32.199.000
8.323.000 20.251.000 11.476.000 33.321.000
6.828.000 16,167, 000
9, 680,000 27,115, 000
4, 786,000 14.308.000
8,338, 000 23, 799,000
2, 588,000 10.367.000
5, 733,000 16.947.000
2.455.000 12, 664,000
5, 757,000 19,394, 000
2.655.000 13,647, 000
5.850.000 20, 526, 000
2.956.000 15.948.000
7.473.000 24.676.000
3,081, 000 16.457.000
8.414.000 26,164, 000
3,445, 000 16.152.000
7,866, 000 25.277.000
3.507.000 15.256.000
7.039.000 23,472, 000
3.445.000 13, 626,000
6, 377,000 21.033.000
3, 205,000 13,117, 000
5, 716,000 19.798.000
3.098.000 13.178.000
7, 297, 000 21.571.000
3.081.000 10 0 01.000
7,328, 000 18.214.000
Foods and
kindred
products
.
Tobacco
manufac
tures
Paper and
printing
Chemicals
and allied
products
$6,978,000
7,437, 000
6.040.000
6, 711,000
7.472.000
6.654.000
6.831.000
6.909.000
7.009.000
6.696.000
6.915.000
5, 748,000
5.035.000
4, 060, 000
4.394.000
4, 716,000
5.708.000
5.896.000
5, 736,000
5.512.000
5.093.000
5.393.000
5.498.000
4.834.000
Rubber
products
Em ploym ent
1919 average___
192 0
192 1
............
1922....................
192 3
192 4 ................
192 5
192 6
192 7
192 8
192 9
193 0
1931_ ........... .......
193 2
______
193 3
1934: January.
F ebruary..
M arch___
A pril.........
M a y _____
June_____
July...........
August___
September.
733.600
713.000
626.400
651.400
681,900
657.800
664.400
664.400
679.400
707.100
753.500
731.100
650.500
577.100
631.000
628.700
627.800
643.100
649.500
665.400
702.600
735.800
816.100
849.700
157.000
154.000
149.900
146,400
146.300
136, 700
132.100
125, 700
129.300
125, 600
116.100
108.300
99, 700
88,600
82, 700
75.400
85.900
89.100
89.500
84,800
86.400
84,600
90.100
89.500
510.100
549.100
467.100
489.400
527.400
529.200
537.100
553.600
553, 500
558.300
591.500
574.100
511,800
451.700
458.400
490.700
494.500
497.600
505.100
509.300
503.000
496.000
498.200
506.100
0)
0)
0)
0)
342, 700
322, 200
334,200
355.100
346.700
342.500
384.800
364.700
316, 800
279.700
315.400
359, 200
368,300
375,600
377.400
353.500
348.100
350.800
356,000
361.800
0)
0)
0)
0)
137.800
123.200
141.800
141.200
142.000
149, 200
149,100
115,500
99, 200
87.800
99,300
110, 100,
113,600
117.000
120,900
119.700
115.000
112.700
108,400
105,300
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M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S C O M B IN E D A N D TN I N D U S T R Y G R O U P S —Y E A R L Y
A V E R A G E S 1919 T O 1933, IN C L U S IV E , A N D M O N T H S , J A N U A R Y T O S E P T E M B E R 1934,
IN C L U S IV E — Continued.
able
Year and month
Foods and
kindred
products
Tobacco
manufac
tures
Paper and
printing
Chemicals
and allied
products
R ubber
products
Weekly pay rolls
1919_____________________________
1920_____________________________
1921_____________________________
1922_____________________________
1923_____________________________
1924_____________________________
1925______________________________
1926______________________________
1927_____________________________
1928_____________________________
1929_____________________________
1930_____________________________
1931_____________________________
1932_____________________________
1933_____________ ________________
1934: January____________________
February__________________
M arch_____________________
April_________________ __ _
M a y __________________
June_______ ______________ _
July____ _____ ______________
August___ __________________
September_________________
$14,879,000
16, 698,000
14,333,000
14,142,000
15, 296,000
15,155,000
15, 268,000
15, 503, 000
15,838,000
16,388, 000
17,344,000
16, 593, 000
14,173,000
11, 308, 000
11, 604, 000
12, 301, 000
12, 352,000
12, 522, 000
12, 663, 000
13, 296,000
14, 008,000
34, 571,000
16,022.000
16,661,000
$2,386,000
2,772,000
2, 325,000
2, 206,000
2,317,000
2,213,000
2,147,000
2,049, 000
2,025,000
1,916,000
1, 819,000
1, 617, 000
1,336,000
1,052, 000
944, 000
886, 000
1,012,000
1, 019, 000
1,028,000
1, 030, 000
1, 057, 000
1, 052,000
1,097,000
1,119, 000
$10,873,000
14,729,000
12,259,000
12, 762,000
14, 304,000
14, 797,000
15, 506, 000
16,478,000
16, 501,000
16, 691,000
17,771,000
17, 036,000
14,461,000
11,126,000
10, 299, 000
11,045,000
11, 297,000
11, 550, 000
11, 847, 000
11,981,000
11, 728, 000
11, 491,000
11, 654, 000
11,937, 000
(0
0)
0)
0)
$8,499,000
8,013,000
8,444, 000
9,055,000
8,978,000
8,997, 000
10,068,000
9,334,000
7,643, 000
5,861,000
6,179, 000
7, 035, 000
7, 257, 000
7, 417, 000
7,683,000
7, 352,000
7, 333,000
7,381,000
7,487,000
7, 479,000
0)
0)
0)
(0
$3, 500,000
3, 223,000
3,676,000
3,707,000
3,810,000
4,069,000
3, 986,000
2,934, 000
2,165, 000
1, 555,000
1, 740,000
2,036,000
2, 261,000
2,445,000
2,546, 000
2, 438,000
2,306,000
2,147,000
2, 039,000
1,946,000
1 Comparable data not available.
Index Numbers of Employment and, Pay Roll Totals in Manufacturing
Industries
G e n e r a l index numbers of factory employment and pay rolls by
months, from January 1919 to September 1934, inclusive, together
with average indexes for each of the years from 1919 to 1933, inclusive,
and for the 9-month period, January to September 1934, inclusive,
based on the 3-year average, 1923-25, as 100, are shown in the follow
ing table. A chart of these indexes also follows.
E m p lo y m e n t b P a y R o l l s m «,e M a n u fa c tu rin g In d u stries
3 year average 1^23-1^2^=100
U .S.D epartm ent of L ab or
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
W ashington
Index
Numbers
Index
Numbers
-140
m
130
130
120
■120
110
110
100
100
90
90
SO
SO
7°
TO
60 -
60
50 -
50
MO-
■
40
30 -
30
20 -
20
10 -
10
0-
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
192 ) 1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934 1935
0
14
T able 3 .—G E N E R A L IN D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y -R O L L T O T A L S IN M A N U
F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S B Y M O N T H S —J A N U A R Y 1919 to S E P T E M B E R 1934, IN CLU SIVE
[3-year average, 1923-25=100]
Em ploym ent
M onth
January_____
February-----M arch______
A pril-........... .
M a y ------------June...............
July................
August______
Septem ber.. .
October_____
N ovem ber.
December___
1919
1920
1921 1922 1923
1924 1925
1926
105.3
102. C
102.4
102.5
103.1
104.3
106.9
109.7
111.7
111.3
112.6
114.4
114.9
113.7
116.0
114.5
112.0
111.1
108.5
108.8
107.5
103.7
97.4
89.7
81.0
82.6
83.2
82.1
81.9
81.0
79.8
81.2
83.4
84.1
84.2
83.3
100.2 96.3
101.5 98.1
101.7 98.8
99.9 98.7
96.8 98.1
93.8 98.0
91.0 97.8
92.1 99.5
94.4 101.5
95.3 102.2
94.8 101.8
96.1 101.5
100.5 98.2 95.0 100.8
101.5 99.7 96.5 102.9
102.1 100.2 97.6 104.1
101.4 99.6 97.1 105.3
100.4 99.1 97.0 105.3
100.3 99.1 97.8 105.6
99.4 98.1 97.7 106.1
101.4 99.3 100.1 107.9
103.4 100.5 102.2 109.0
103.1 99.6 102.6 107. 7
101.4 97.4 101.7 103.6
100.0 96.1 101.2 99.8
82.5
84.6
85.9
85.8
87.9
89.8
88.2
91.4
94.5
97.0
99.0
100.5
100.7
102.5
104.6
105.0
105.3
106.0
104.9
105.2
105.7
104.5
103.2
101.4
1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
97.3
97.4
96.9
96.3
94.8
92.9
89.5
88.8
89.6
87. 7
84.6
82.3
79.6
80.3
80.7
80.7
80.1
78.4
77.0
77.1
77.4
74.4
71.8
71.0
68.7
69.5
68.4
66.1
63.4
61.2
58.9
60.1
63.3
64.4
63.4
62.1
60.2
61.1
58.8
59.9
62.6
66.9
71.5
76.4
80.0
79.6
76.2
74.4
73.3
77.7
80.8
82.3
82.4
8i. a
78. a
79.5
75.8
Average. __ 107.2 108.2 82.3 90.6 104.1 96.5 99.4 101.2 98.9 98.9 104.8 91.5 77.4 64.1 69.0 179.0
Pay rolls
January_____
February-----M arch............
April............. M a y ...............
June..............July................
August______
Septem ber.._
October_____
N ovem b er.. .
December___
A verage...
95.3
89.6
90.0
89.2
90.0
92.0
94.8
99.9
104.7
102.2
106.7
114.0
117.2
115.5
123.7
120.9
122.4
124.2
119.3
121.6
119.8
115.8
107.0
98.0
82.8
81.3
81.7
79.0
77.3
75.4
71.7
73.9
73.4
72.6
71.7
73.3
69.6
72.4
74.9
73.8
77.2
80.5
78.5
83.0
87.0
89.5
93.4
95.7
94.6
97.9
102.5
103.8
107.3
107.5
103.3
103.8
104.3
106.6
104.5
102.9
98.8 95.4
104.1 100.8
104.1 102.4
101.8 100.0
97.5 100.7
92.4 98.7
85.7 96.8
89.3 99.3
92.5 98.8
95.1 104. 6
93.7 104.6
97.6 105.2
100.9 98.4 96.0 102.3
105.0 104.4 101.2 109.3
106.5 105.7 102.5 111.6
104.4 104.5 100.5 112.6
103.1 104.0 101.3 112.9
103.3 102.4 101.7 111. 2
99.0 98.5 99.0 107.2
103.4 101.9 103.3 112.0
104.4 101.4 104.7 112.9
107.6 102.1 108.2 112.4
104.1 98.5 105.0 104.1
103.5 99.5 105.6 100.7
95.9
98.8
98.8
97.7
95.4
92.3
84.3
83.3
84.1
82.2
76.8
75.2
70.0
74.3
75.6
74.4
73.4
69.7
66.2
65.9
63.4
61. 3
58.1
57.6
53.5
54.6
53.1
49.5
46.8
43.4
39.8
40.6
42.9
44. 7
42.9
41.5
39.5
40.2
37.1
38.8
42.7
47.2
50.8
56.8
59.1
59.4
55.5
54.5
54.0
60.6
64.8
67.3
67.1
64.8
60.4
62.1
57. a
97.4 117.1 76.2 81.3 103.3 96.1 100.6 103.8 101.8 102.4 109.1 88.7 67.5 46.1 48.5 162.1
1 Average for 9 months.
For comparative purposes the Bureau has computed the group and
general index numbers of employment and pay rolls for September
1934 based on the 12-month average for 1926 as 100. These are a
continuation of the former series of indexes covering 89 industries and
show some slight differences in percentage changes from the previous
month when compared with those shown by the revised series. These
differences are due to changes in method of construction and weighting
factors and to the inclusion of the canning and preserving industry
in the revised series of indexes. These indexes on the 1926 base are
presented in table 4, which follows.
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4 .—IN D E X E S O F E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN 14 M A J O R M A N U F A C T U R
IN G G R O U P S , 2 S U B G R O U P S , A N D A L L M A N U F A C T U R IN G C O M B IN E D , F O R SE P
T E M B E R 1934
able
[Average for 1926=100]
Group
Employment
index
Pay-roll
index
Total m anufacturing.______ ____ ____________________________________
69.4
51.5
Iron and steel and their products, not including m achinery_________________
..........
Machinery, not including transportation equipm ent........................ .
Transportation equipment___________ ___________ _________________________
Railroad repair shops__ _____________
______ ____ ________ ________ __
Nonferrous metals and their p rod u cts.. _______________ ___________________
Lumber and allied products._________ _______________________ ____________
Stone, clay, and glass products
.
.
_. _
Textiles and their products--------- ---------------------- ------------------------------ ----------Fabrics_____________________ _____ ____________________________________
Wearing apparel_____________ ____ ____________________________________
Leather and its manufactures........ ..........- ____________ ____ _______________
Food and kindred p rod u cts.____________ ________________ _____________ . . .
Tobacco manufactures_____________ ______ __________________ ________ ___
Paper and printing________________________ ________________________________
Chemicals and allied products and petroleum refining___ __________________
Rubber- products_______________ ___________________________________________
69.1
68.4
70.5
51.8
70.6
46.8
52. 7
63.4
58.8
74.3
81.0
109.1
72.4
91.3
99.0
79.5
40. 5
48. 5
19.0
41. 7
51.3
30.1
33.6
48.3
45.3
54.2
59.4
95.2
57.9
74.5
81.8
56.5
Employment in Nonmanufacturing Industries in September 1934
G a in s in employment from August to September were shown in 6 of
the 17 nonmanufacturing industries surveyed monthly by the United
States Bureau of Labor Statistics and increases in pay rolls were re
ported in 5. Data for the building-construction industry are not pre
sented here, but are shown in detail under the section, Building Con
struction.
The most pronounced gains in employment and pay rolls (15 per
cent and 18.4 percent, respectively) were in the anthracite-mining
industry, reflecting seasonal activity and the resumption of operations
in a number of mines which had previously been affected by labor
troubles. Employment in retail trade, based on reports received
from 57,762 establishments employing 861,635 workers in September,
showed a gain of 7 percent over the month interval, and pay rolls
increased 5.2 percent. The general merchandise group, composed of
department stores, variety stores, general merchandise stores, and
mail-order houses, showed a seasonal increase of 12.7 percent in em
ployment and 10.6 percent in pay rolls, while in the remaining 52,978
retail establishments employment increased 3 percent and pay rolls
gained 2.2 percent. The dyeing and cleaning industry reported 1.8
percent more employees in September than in August and 4.1 percent
larger pay rolls.
93711— 34------ 3
16
Employment in bituminous-coal mining increased 1.4 percent, re
flecting seasonal demands, wholesale trade establishments reported
a gain of 1.2 percent, and electric light and power and manufactured
gas showed an increase of 0.2 percent. While 11 of the nonmanu
facturing industries reported decreased employment, the declines in 6
instances were less than 1 percent. The most pronounced decrease
in employment (3.7 percent) was in brokerage establishments, which
(with the exception of a small increase in February 1934) have re
ported declines in employment each month since September of last
year. The quarrying and nonmetallic mining industry reported a
decrease of 2.6 percent in employment, and the hotel industry showed
a decline of 2.1 percent, reflecting the closing of seasonal resort hotels.
In table 1, which follows, are shown indexes of employment and
pay rolls, per capita weekly earnings, average hours worked per week,
and average hourly earnings in September 1934 for 13 of the non
manufacturing industries surveyed monthly by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, together with percentage changes from August 1934 and
September 1933. Similar percentage changes in employment, pay
rolls and per capita weekly earnings, as well as per capita weekly
earnings are also presented for banks, brokerage, insurance, and real
estate. Indexes of employment and pay rolls for these indu#tades
are not available.
1.—E M P L O Y M E N T , W E E K L Y P A Y ROLLS, P E R C A P IT A W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S . A V E R A G E H OU RS W O R K E D P E R W E E K , A N D A V E R A G E
H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN N O N M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U STR IE S IN S E P T E M B E R 1934 A N D C O M P A R IS O N W IT H A U G U ST 1934 A N D S E P T E M B E R 1933
T a b le
Industry
Coal mining:
Anthracite....................................... .........................
Bituminous....... ........................................... ...........
Metalliferous mining................. .....................................
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining.............................
Crude-petroleum producing..................... - ...............
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph...................... ................
Electric light and power and manufactured gas..
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation and
maintenance....... ...................................................
Trade:
Wholesale..............................................................
Retail........................................................ ........ ........
Hotels (cash payments o n ly )4______ ______ _______
Laundries................. .................... .......................... ........
Dyeing and cleaning................ ........................... ..........
Brokerage........ .................................................................
Insurance....... .......................... ................................. ......
Real estate................................... ...................................
Per capita weekly
earnings 1
Pay roll
Employment
Average hours worked Average hourly earnings1
per week 1
Percentage
Percentage
Index
Percentage
Percentage
Index
Percentage
Sep
change from—
change from— Aver change from— Aver change from— Aver change from—
Sep
tember
tember
age in
age in
age in
1934
1934
Sep
Sep
Sep
(aver
(aver
Sep
tember
tember
Septtember
Sep
Sep
Sep
August tember
age August tember
August
age
August
1934 August tember
1934
1934
tember
tember
1934
1934
1934
1929=
1934
1929=
1934
1933
1933
1933
1933
1933
100)
100)
56.9
78.2
42.3
53.3
81.8
+15.0
+ 1.4
- .9
- 2 .6
- 1 .1
+•2
+8.9
+8.7
+1.3
+23.6
47.0
51.4
25.9
32.4
59.7
+18.4
+ 1.9
- 4 .2
- 4 .8
- 2 .4
-2 2 .6
+16.6
+ 8.4
+10.6
+34.5
Dollars
24.05
17.02
19.73
15.65
27.27
+ 3.0
+ .6
- 3 .3
- 2 .3
- 1 .3
-2 2 .7
+ 7 .0
-.3
+ 9 .2
+ 8 .8
29.2
23.6
34.6
33.0
34.4
+ 4 .3
+ 1.3
- 4 .2
- 2 .9
-.9
- 2 6 .4
-2 3 .5
- 9 .8
- 3 .0
- 9 .4
Cents
83.2
71.7
56.7
47.8
80.5
+. 1
(2)
+1.1
+ .8
(2)
+2.1
+39.7
+ 9.7
+13.1
+16.6
70.9
85.8
-.1
+ .2
+3.8
+6.8
72.2
79.3
- 2 .4
-.7
+11.8
+10.4
26.96
29.26
- 2 .3
-.9
+ 7 .6
+ 3 .4
38.4
37.2
- 1 .5
- 2 .9
+ 3 .6
- 4 .4
72.8
79.8
+ 1 .0
+ 3 .6
+ 6 .7
+10.6
72.5
-.5
+4.0
62.4
-.6
+ 8 .0
27.46
-.1
+ 3.9
44.5
-.9
- 3 .1
61.2
+ .8
+11.8
85.3
87.6
84.4
82.9
80.0
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
+ 1.2
+ 7.0
- 2 .1
- 1 .0
+ 1.8
- .9
- 3 .7
-.1
-.6
+3.9
+1.9
+ 7.2
+ .4
- 2 .3
+1.7
-2 6 .2
+1.4
+3.7
67.4
70.8
64.3
65.9
59.0
(6)
(5)
(5)
(«)
+ 1 .5
+ 5 .2
-.4
- 1 .0
+ 4.1
-.6
- 4 .9
- 1 .5
- 1 .3
+ 8 .2
+ 2 .3
+15.6
+ 3 .8
+ 3 .3
+ 2 .2
-2 7 .0
+ 4.1
+ 3 .2
26. 34
19.85
13. OS
15.06
18.16
31.32
34.44
34.14
21.32
+ .3
- 1 .7
+ 1 .6
-.1
+ 2 .3
+ .3
- 1 .2
- 1 .4
-.6
+ 4.1
+• 4
+ 7 .9
+ 3 .4
+ 5 .9
+ .4
- 1 .1
+ 2 .7
-.4
40.6
3 40.1
46.9
39.4
40.8
(5)
(*)
(5)
(5)
-.5
+ 1.5
-.2
-.8
+ 1 .2
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
(2)
+ 1 .0
- 5 .9
+ 2.8
- 1 .1
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
63.8
2 51.4
27.5
37.6
44.5
(5)
(>)
(5)
(5)
+ .8
-1 .2
+ 1 .5
+ .8
+ 1 .4
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
+ 4.5
+ 1 .6
+13.4
+ 1 .6
+ 7.4
(5)
(5)
(8)
(5)
1 Per capita weekly earnings are computed from figures furnished by all reporting establishments. Average hours and average hourly earnings are computed from data furnished
b y a smaller number of establishments as some firms do not report man-hour information. Percentage changes over year computed from indexes.
2 No change.
3 July average hours and percentage change from June revised to 40.7 and +1.2, respectively. August average hours changed to 40.3. Average hourly earnings revised to 51.4 in
July and 52.4 in August.
4 The additional value of board, room, and tips cannot be computed.
6 Not available.
18
Indexes of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals for Nonmanufacturing Industries
I n d e x numbers of employment and pay-roll totals for 13 nonmanu
facturing industries are presented in table 2. These index numbers
show the variation in employment and pay rolls in these industries,
by months, from January 1931 through September 1934.
A revision of the indexes, similar to that made for the manufactur
ing industries, was made for the laundry and the dyeing and clean
ing industries in March 1934. The indexes of employment and pay
rolls in these industries were adjusted to conform with the trends
shown by the 1929 and 1931 census reports and this new series will
be continued until further adjustments, if necessary, are made when
1933 census data become available.
table
3 . -I N D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S F O R N O N M A N U F A C T U R IN G
IN D U S T R IE S , J A N U A R Y 1931 T O S E P T E M B E R 1931
[l'2-month average, 1929=100]
Anthracite mining
M onth
Employment
Bituminous-coal mining
Pay rolls
Employment
Pay rolls
1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934
January______ . .
February-----------M arch__________
A pril____ _______
M a y ____________
June_____ _____
July................
August__________
September______
October_________
N ovem ber______
December*---------
90.6
89.5
82.0
85.2
80.3
76.1
65.1
67.3
80.0
86.8
83.5
79.8
76.2
71.2
73.7
70.1
66.9
53.0
44.5
49.2
55.8
63.9
62.7
62.3
52.5
58.7
54.6
51.6
43.2
39.5
43.8
47.7
56.8
56.9
61.0
54.5
64.1
63.2
67.5
58.2
63.8
57.5
53.6
49.5
56.9
89.3
101.9
71.3
75.2
76.1
66.7
53.7
56.4
64.9
91.1
79.5
78.4
61.5
57.3
61.2
72.0
58.0
37.4
34.5
41.4
47.0
66.7
51.0
56.2
43.2
56.8
48.8
37.4
30.0
34.3
38.2
46.6
60.7
61.6
47.8
44.3
73.2
65.8
82.4
51.7
64.0
53.3
42.3
39.7
47.0
93.9
91.5
88.8
85.9
82.4
78.4
76.4
77.0
80.4
81.3
81.1
81.2
80.8
77.4
75.2
65.5
62.6
60.5
58.6
59.4
62.4
67.0
69.4
70.0
69.8
69.3
67.6
63.7
61.2
61.3
63.2
68.6
71.8
68.0
74.8
75.4
75.8
76.1
77.8
72.2
76.7
76.7
77.0
77.1
78.2
73.3
68.3
65.2
58.6
54.4
52.4
50.4
50.6
53.6
56.2
54.6
52.3
47.0
47.0
46.8
33.9
30.7
27.3
24.4
26.4
30.2
37.8
38.0
37.7
36.1
37.2
30.7
26.6
26.9
29.2
33.6
43.3
44.1
44.1
50.7
50.8
51.3
54.6
58.9
51.4
54.4
55. I
49.7
50.4
51.4
Average___ 80.5 62.5 51.7 159.4 75.4 53.7 45.8 157.7 83.2 67.4 67.9 176.4 57.5 35.6 37.8 153.0
I1
1
Metalliferous mining
January____ ____
February_______
M a r c h .................
A pril..................
M a y ____________
June____ - _______
J u ly ............... .
August------ --------S e p t e m b e r ..___
October_________
N ovem ber______
Decem ber........... .
Average___
68.3
65.3
63.5
63.9
62.4
60. G
56. 2
55.8
55.5
53.8
52.8
51.2
49.3
46.9
45.0
43.3
38.3
32.2
29. 5
28.6
29.3
30.5
31.9
33.3
32.4
31.5
30.0
29.4
30.0
31.5
33. 0
36. 8
38.9
40.7
40.6
40.6
39.6
40.3
39.8
41.7
40.8
41.0
39.9
42. 7
42.3
\
55.0
54.6
52.8
51.4
49.3
46.1
41.3
40.2
40.0
37.4
35.1
34.3
29.7
27.8
26.5
25.0
23.8
20.1
16.9
16.5
17.0
18.0
18.7
18.7
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
18.1
17.8
17.4
16.4
17.0
18.3
19.0
21.9
23.9
25.9
25.6
26.2
25.4
26.0
25.9
27.2
25. 6
26.7
25.1
27.0
25.9
64.4
66.6
70.0
76.1
75.0
72.3
71.0
68.9
66.6
64.5
59.3
53.9
48.9]
47.4
46.0
48.6
50.6
49.5
49.5
51.1
52.4
52.4
49.4
42.3
\
35.1 39.7
34.8 38.8
35.1 42.0
39.3 48.7
43.4 54.3
47.3 56.6
49.5 55.6
51.6 54.7
52.6 53.3
53.2
51.1
45.3
50.4
54.4
58.2
62.6
62.3
60.1
57.3
55.1
51.2
48.7
43.3
36.9
30.2
29.6
28.7
30.0
32.3
30.0
29.1
29.7
30.5
30.1
27.1
22.1
18.1
17.4
17.8
20.2
23.8
27.5
28.4
29.9
29.3
31.2
28.3
24.4
21.3
21.0
24.1
29.9
35.0
37.0
35.0
34.0
32.4
59.1 36. 5 34. 6 ‘ 40.9 44.8 21.6 20.6 1 26.1 67.4 49.0 44.9 149.3 53.4 29.1 24.7 130.0
See footnotes at end of table.
19
T a b l e a .—IN D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D PA Y R O LLS F O R N O N M A N U F A C T U B IN G
IN D U S T R IE S , J A N U A R Y 1931 TO S E P T E M B E R 1934-C ontin ued
Cnido-potrolpum producing
M onth
Employment
Telephone and telegraph
Pay rolls
Em ploym ent
Pay rolls
1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1933 1931 1932 1933 1934
January_________
M arch__________
April____________
M ay______ _____
June____________
July.............. .........
August__________
Septem ber......... .
O ctober......... .......
N ovem ber______
December_______
Average___
January_________
February..............
M arch...... ............
April......................
M a y...... ................
June........ ..............
July....... ................
August....... ..........
September............
October_________
N ovem ber........ .
D ecem b er...........
74.8 54.9
54 4
51. 4
54.9
54. 5
54. 2
55. 4
57. 4
50.2
50.8
50. 5
57.2
72.2
09. 8
07.8
05.0
05.3
02.4
01.2
00.4
57. 0
58.2
57. 2
57 0
50. 5
56.8
50.9
58.0
59. 5
60. 8
06. 2
70. (i
72. 2
75.0
73.2
72 4
72.8
74. 0
70.7
80. 0
81.0
82.7
SI.8
------
71.5
70 0
73] 2
06. 3
64.7
02. 7
59. 2
56. 3
55. 2
54 4
0
54. 9
46. 5
46 9
43! 2
44. 5
47. .1
44.8
44.6
42.9
41.9
42. 5
42. 4
41.7
39.9
41. 7
42! 5
40.1
41.6
40.6
42.2
42. 5
44.4
50. ]
50. 3
53.2
53.0
50. 5
52! 5
53. 4
56. 4
56.9
60.0
61. 2
59.7
........
90.5
89. 2
8s! o
88.1
87.4
86. 9
86.6
85.9
85.0
84.1
83. 5
83. 1
83.0
82. 0
8l! 7
81.2
80.6
79.9
79.1
78.1
77.4
76. 2
75. 5
74.8
74.6 70.2
73.9 09. 8
73! 2 7 0 ! 0
72.3 70.2
70.1 70.2
69.2 70.4
68.5 71.0
68.1 71.0
68.3 70.9
08. 7
68.9
69.4 -------
96.3
91. S
97.’ 9
95. 0
94.1
95. 0
93.3
92.3
92. 1
91. 6
89. 7
92.7
89.1
89 6
8s! 2
83.4
82.8
82.1
79.6
79.1
75. 9
75. 7
74. 3
73.5
71.7 69.0
71.9 67, 9
7i; 6 70^4
67.8 68.8
68.5 71.4
60. 6 71.3
66.7 72.3
66.1 74.0
64. 6 72.2
07.0
67. 7
07.7 -------
05.7 55.3 02. 2 i 77. 2 01.7 4-11 44.1 156.0 86. 6 79.1 70.4 170.4 93.7 81.1 68.2 170.8
!
Electric light and power and manufaclured gas
Electric-railroad and motor-bus operation
and maintenance 2
99.2
97.8
90.7
97.1
97.0
97.2
90.7
95.9
94.7
92.7
91.3
90.3
86.9
86.6
86.4
86.8
85.9
85.3
85.6
84.8
84.0
82.7
81.5
79.9
89.3
87.2
85. 5
84.8
84.0
83.2
82.3
81.5
81.0
79.9
79.1
78.4
77.7
77.4
76.9
76.9
76.9
77.3
77.5
78.1
80.3
82.2
82.0
81.8
82.2
81.2
81.7
82.4
83.1
84.0
85.0
85.0
85.8
98. 0
99. 7
102.4
97.6
98.7
98. 3
97.4
96.2
94.3
93.2
93.3
------ 91.2
88.4
80.0
85.4
82.4
84.2
80.5
78.7
76.-7
74.7
74.4
73.2
73.2
73.0 73.8
71.6 74.4
71.9 75.6
09. 4 76.8
69.9 77.6
69.9 77.8
70.0 81.1
70.9 79.9
71.8 79.3
76. 2
74.5
74.4 ------
79.5
78.9
77.6
78.0
76.9
76.5
75.6
74.1
73.5
72.3
71. S
7i. 4
70.0 70.5
70.4 71.0
69.8 71.7
09.5 72.2
69.1 72.6
69.3 73.2
69.4 73.1
69.5 72.8
69.7 72.5
70. 6
71.0
TO. 8 -------
____
85.6
87.1
88.1
86.6
85.1
84.8
83.3
81.9
81.2
79.0
79.7
77.8
75.4
74.8
73.6
71.8
72.2
70.2
66.4
63.8
62.5
61.5
61.7
61.9
60.9
00.6
59.4
58.1
58.2
58.0
57.4
58.2
57.8
59.8
59.4
59.6
59.2
60.1
62.2
62.9
63.0
63.2
63.8
62.8
62.4
-------
Average___ 95.0 83.0 78.8 183. 4 96.7 79.8 72.0 177.4 84.7 75.5 70.0 172.2 83.4 68.0 58.9 162.2
Retail trade
Wholesale trade
January____ _____
F ebruary......... .
M a rch ..................
April____________
M a y . ....................
June........ .............
July....... ................
August__________
September______
October............... .
N ovem ber............
December_______
89.5
88.2
87.4
87.4
87.1
87.1
80.8
80.5
80.1
85.2
84.1
83.7
81.8
80.9
79.8
78.9
77.9
77.0
70.0
76.4
77.1
77.8
77.0
77.0
75.3
74.1
73.1
73.3
74.0
75.7
76.9
79.7
82.1
83.5
83.4
83.3
82.4
83.0
83.6
83.9
84.6
84.1
84.0
84.3
85.3
____
____
------
87.5
88.4
89.1
85.2
84.7
84.1
83.3
82.1
81.4
79.9
79.7
77.8
74.1
72.5
71.3
68.9
69.7
66.2
64.7
63.2
63.1
63.9
63.3
62.6
01.7
58.6
57.1
56.0
57.4
57.3
59.1
60.8
62.3
66.0
64.1
64.5
90.0
87.1
87.8
90.1
89.9
89.1
83.9
81.8
86.6
89.8
90.9
------ 106.2
63.9
64.6
65.7
66.8
66.3
66.5
67.6
66.4
67.4
____
____
84.3
80.5
81.4
81.6
80.9
79.4
74.6
72.6
77.8
81.3
81.7
95.2
76.9
73.4
71.4
78.6
77.0
78.3
74.6
78.1
86.0
89.6
91.6
105.4
89.4
86.7
87.5
88.3
88.0
87.6
83.3
80.3
83.5
84.6
85.4
........ 94.1
84.6
83.8
87.2
88.2
88.8
88.2
83.3
81.8
87.6
____
____
78.0
73.7
73.4
72.7
71.1
68.2
63.3
60.7
64.6
67.1
66.9
73.6
62.7
58.4
55.1
60.4
59.5
60.5
58.1
62.7
69.2
72.3
72.6
80.3
68.8
67.7
69.5
71.5
71.8
71.6
69.5
67.3
70.8
____
........
Average___ 80.0 78.2 77.9 183.9 83.6 67.0 60. 4 1 66.1 89.4 80.9 81.7 185.9 86.6 69.4 64.3 169.8
Dyeing and cleaning ®
Laundries 3
J an u a ry ..............
February..............
M arch...................
April......................
M a y ......................
June.......................
J u ly.......................
August..................
September...........
October.................
N ovem ber.......... .
December_______
94.3
93.7
93.2
94.3
94.1
94.8
95.0
94.0
93.0
91.8
89.8
88.8
88.2
86.3
85.4
85.4
84.8
84.4
83.6
82.2
81.9
80.7
79.4
79.1
78.6
77.5
76.1
76.5
76.6
79.2
79.5
81.1
82.6
81.3
78.4
78.4
78.5
78.4
79.2
80.5
82.1
84.0
84.0
83.7
82.9
____
____
------
90.7
89.6
89.6
90.9
90.5
91.2
91.5
88.6
88.0
85.0
82.6
81.0
80.0
76.7
75.0
74.7
73.9
71.8
69.4
66.9
65.8
64.1
61.9
61.4
60.7
58.1
55.4
56.6
57.1
59.4
58.7
60.3
63.5
62.5
60.7
61.1
82.1
80.7
81.3
88.4
89.3
91.4
91.1
86.4
88.0
87.0
83.2
........ 78.4
61.7
61.7
62.7
64.4
66.9
68.3
68.2
66.6
65.9
____
75.8
74.4
74.4
76.9
78.0
78.6
76.1
73.4
76.9
76.0
72.0
69.5
67.4
65.6
65.8
74.9
75.7
79.1
76.6
76.8
81.9
81.6
76.1
70.5
68.1
68.1
72.4
79.9
84.3
84.9
80.5
78.6
80.0
____
____
------
73.7
71.2
71.7
81.9
82.1
84.5
81.8
75.9
78.3
77.2
70.8
64.4
62.4
59.0
58.5
62.5
63.8
62.4
56.9
53.4
57.9
55.8
49.6
45.9
44.2
40.2
38.9
51.7
51.0
53.7
50.0
50.0
57.1
57.4
52.5
47.3
46.8
46.3
51.7
60.8
65.1
64.1
58.9
56.7
59.0
____
____
------
Average___ 93.1 83.5 78.8 81.5 88.3 70.1 59.5 165.2 85.6 75.2 74.3 177.4 76.1 57.3 49.5 1 56.6
See footnotes at end of table.
20
T a b lb 2 .—IN D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S F O R N O N M A N U F ACTURIN G
IN D U S T R IE S , J A N U A R Y 1931 T O S E P T E M B E R 1934—Continued
Hotels
M onth
Employment
Pay rolls
Employment
P ay rolls
1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934 1931 1932 1933 1934
January...... ..........
February. __..........
M a r c h ............___
April______ ____ _
M a y .......................
June____________
July............ ..........
August__________
September______
October_________
N ovem ber........ .
December_______
Average___
95.0
96.8
96.8
95.9
92.5
91.6
93.3
92.8
90.6
87.4
84.9
83.1
83.2
84.3
84.0
82.7
80.1
78.0
78.4
77.6
77.0
75.4
74.3
73.2
73.8
73.8
72.4
71.9
71.9
73.6
75.6
77.1
78.7
77.0
75.8
77.6
81.5
84.8
86.4
86.6
85.7
86.2
86.3
86.2
84.4
91.0
93.7
93.4
89.9
87.7
85.4
85.2
83.8
81.9
79.7
77.1
75.4
73.9
73.9
72.4
69.6
67.0
63.8
61.8
59.6
59.1
58.6
57.5
56.6
55.7
55.9
53.5
51.7
51.8
52.3
53.3
54.0
55.6
56.2
55.2
57.6
60.8
65.2
66.6
66.5
65.9
66.2
65.6
64.5
64.3
91.7 79.0 74.9 185.3 85.4 64.5 54.4 165.1
i Average for 9 months.
* N ot including electric-railroad car building and repairing; see transportation equipment and railroad
repair-shop groups, manufacturing industries, table 1.
* Revised to conform with average shown b y 1931 Census of Manufactures.
Employment in Building Construction in September 1934
T h e percentage changes in employment, pay rolls, and man-hours
in building construction in September as compared with August
were as follows:
Percent
Total employment________________________________________ _+ 1 .8
Total pay rolls___________________________________________ _+-1. 8
Total man-hours worked__________________________________ _+ 1 . 9
Average weekly earnings__________________________________ _0)
Average hours per week per man___________________________—. 3
Average hourly earnings______________________:___________ _-K 6
The following table is based on returns made by 10,939 firms engaged
in public and private building-construction projects not aided by
Public Works Administration funds. These reports include all trades,
from excavation through painting and interior decoration, which are
engaged in erecting, altering, or repairing buildings. Work on roads,
bridges, docks, etc., is omitted. The reports cover building operations
in various localities in 34 States and the District of Columbia.
For purposes of comparison in this study, all reports were reduced
to a 1-week basis if not originally so reported.
In September the weekly pay roll for 85,120 workers amounted to
$1,972,620 as compared with $1,938,489 earned by 83,648 workers
employed by the identical firms in August.
In September the average weekly earnings were $23.17, the same
as the earnings of workers employed by the identical firms in August.
These are per capita weekly earnings, computed by dividing the total
i N o change.
21
amount of the weekly pay roll by the total number of employees—
part time as well as full time.
Reports from 10,491 firms— 95.9 percent of the 10,939 cooperating
firms— gave the man-hours worked by the employees, nanjely, 2,305,794 in September as compared with 2,263,275 in August.
The average hours per week per man— 29 in September and 29.1
in August— were computed by dividing the number of man-hours
by the number of workers employed by those firms which reported
man-hours.
The average hourly earnings— 80.1 cents in September and 79.6
cents in August were computed by dividing the pay roll of those firms
which reported man-hours, by the number of man-hours.
E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A V E R A G E W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S , A V E R A G E H O U R S P E R
W E E K P E R M A N , A N D A V E R A G E H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN T H E B U IL D 1N G -C O N 8T R U C T IO N IN D U S T R Y IN S E P T E M B E R 1934, A N D P E R C E N T A G E C H A N G E S
F R O M A U G U S T 1934
[Figures in italics are not com piled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics but are taken from reports issued
b y cooperating State bureaus]
t
A ll localities............. 10,939 85,120
4-1. 8 $1,972,620
Cents
80.1
Percentage change
from August 1934
Average
hourly
earnings 1
September 1934
Percentage change
from August 1934
Average
hours per
week per
man 1
Number Septem
ber 1934
Percentage change
from August 1934
aa
z
Average
weekly
earnings
Amount Septem
ber 1934
o
&
&
Percentage change
from August 1934
a
tS
Amount September 1934
Number Septem
ber 1934
2
Locality
Pay rolls
|
Uot
ft
Em ploym ent
Percentage change
from August 1934
w>
ja
+ 1 .8 $23.17
(2)
29.0
- .3
+ 5 .9
+ 5 .9
29.8
+ 3.1
-.6
69.9 - 3 .1
- 2 .4
+ 1.1
82.3 - 2 . 8
71.8 —0.0
+ .6
Alabama: Birmingham
95
623
(2)
California:
Los Angeles_________
San Franeisco-Oakland__________ _____
Other localities.......... .
19
969
-9 .2
20, 751 -1 2 .5
21. 41
- 3 .7
30.6
27 1,019 -1 8 .4
21
227 + 17.0
20,749 -2 2 .5
4,382 +12.2
20.36
19.30
-5 .1
- 4 .1
24.7
26.9
67 2,215 -1 1 .8
45, 882 -1 5 .7
20.71
-4 .5
27.5
- 1 .1
75.2 - 3.7
12, 794 +25.7
21.54
+ 4.1
27.3
+ 9 .6
79.6 - 3 . 9
+ 5.1
+ 5.9
+ 4 .0
31.4
33.2
36.5
+ 3 .0
+ 5.7
+ 4 .6
75.0 + 2 .0
70.3 - . 1
72.8 - . 4
The S ta te.- ............
18.61
62.6 + 3 .0
Colorado: D enver________
213
Connecticut:
Bridgeport_________
Hartford_____________
New Haven_________
113
454 + 3 .7
255 1,043
+ .9
161
838 - 8 . 5
10,592
24,422
22,147
+ 9 .0
+ 6 .8
-4 .9
23. 33
23.42
26.43
529 2, 335
-2 .2
57,161
+ 2 .3
24.48
+ 4 .6
34.1
+ 4 .6
72.0
<*>
99 1,068
377 4,627
+ 1 .9
+ 9 .5
21, 111
126, 090
+ 5 .5
+ 7 .6
19. 77
27.25
+ 3 .6
-1 .8
29.9
30.6
+ 2 .7
- 1 .3
66.0
88.8
+ .8
1
250 +10.1
49
74 1,185 + 7 .4
3, 863
22, 206
+ 3 .8
+ 4 .0
15.45
18. 74
-5 .8
-3 .2
26.1
28.0
-3 .0
- 5 .7
59.2 - 2 . 8
66.9 + 2 .8
The State_______
Delaware: W ilm ington__
District of Colum bia------Florida:
Jaqksonville_________
M iam i________ ____
The State_________
Georgia: Atlanta_________
-.
123 1,435
+ 7 .9
26,069
+ 4 .0
18.17
- 3 .6
27.7
-5 .5
65.6 + 1.9
964
+ 3 .1
15, 883
+ 6 .7
16.48
+ 3 .5
27.3
+ .7
59.9 + 2 .6
136
See footnotes at end of table.
594 +20.7
11, 593
22
E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A V E R A G E W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S , A V E R A G E H O U R S P E R
W E E K P E R M A N , A N D A V E R A G E H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN T H E B U IL D IN G -C O N ST R U C T IO N IN D U S T R Y IN S E P T E M B E R 1934, A N D P E R C E N T A G E C H A N G E S
F R O M A U G U S T 1934—Contidued
Percentage change
from August 1934
Amount Septem
ber 1934
Average
hourly
earnings
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
Cents
(3)
(3)
0)
(*)
( 3)
I
Percentage change
from August 1934
©
M
a
3
Amount Septem
ber 1934
cn
a
Percentage change
from August 1934
Locality
Number Septem
ber 1934
O
a
Average
hours per
week per
man 1
Percentage change
from August 1934
Average
weekly
earnings
September 1934
Pay rolls
Percentage change
from August 1934
Employment
Number Septem
ber 1934
bfl
■fl
Illinois:
Chicago_____________
Other localities______
The State__ _______
Indiana:
Evansville----------------Fort W ayne_________
Indianapolis_________
South B end_______ __
The State_________
Iowa: Des M oines_______
Kansas: W ichita________
Kentucky: Louisville.......
Louisiana: N ew Orleans..
M aine: Portland.............
M aryland: Baltimore___
Massachusetts: All locali
ties............. ........... ..........
Michigan:
D etroit_____ _________
Flint_________ ____ _
Grand R apids...........
T he State_________
Minnesota:
D uluth______________
Minneapolis_________
St. Paul........ ...............
T he State_________
Missouri:
Kansas C ity *________
St. Louis____________
137 ■2,084 - 13.3
84 1,381 - 4 . 8
$57, 812 - 9 . 8 $27.74 +4-1
26, 249 -1 7 .3 19.01 -1 3 .1
221 3,465 -1 0 .1
84,061 -1 2 .8
24.26
- 2 .4
(3)
(3)
(3)
63
398 +30.9
77
240 +17. 6
155 1,202 + 1 .0
38
188 - 7 .8
7, 501 +40.5
4,684 +29.1
27,694 + 8 .6
3,606 - 5 .9
18.85
19. 52
23.04
19.18
+7. 3
+ 9 .7
+ 7 .5
+ 2.1
26.6
26.2
30.8
26.0
+ 9 .9
+ 7 .4
+ 4 .4
- 3 .3
71.0
75.0
74.7
72.3
333 2,028
+ 6 .6
43,485 +13.5
21.44
+ 6 .5
29.0
+ 4 .3
73.9 + 1 .8
97
519
60
264
141
761
111 1,138
88
364
105 1,815
- 3 .5
+ 5 .2
+. 5
+ 8.1
- 4 .0
+ 6 .9
11,741 + 6 .5
4,829 +9 .1
15,148 + 2 .9
21,044 +12. 5
8,527
+ .4
23,456 + 1 .5
22. 62 +10.4
18. 29 + 3 .7
19.91 + 2 .4
18.49 + 4.1
23.43 + 4 .6
17.84 - 5 .0
27.7
27.0
30.2
29.5
31.6
81.9
+ 3 .7
- 4 .3
+ 1 .3
+ 5 .4
-.9
-1 .5
81.1
67.9
66.4
62.8
74.1
61.3
+ 6 .2
+ 7 .9
+1 .5
- 1 .3
+ 5 .6
- 1 .8
-2 .2
80.4
-1 .9
80.8
-. 1
682 5,807 _ + 8.1
180,895
480 3,772
48
206
104
323
+ 5 .0
+ 9 .6
- 2 .1
632 4,301
+ 4 .6
103,474
54
201 + 1 .5
206 1,650 +7 .1
774 -1 1 .9
150
410 2,625
+ 5 .7
24.57
—2 I
+ 2 .0
+ 2 .6
+ 2 .4
24.70 + 4 .6
22. 77 +17.7
17.39
+ .8
32.1 + 1 .3
32.2 +20.6
27.6 + 7 .8
77.1 + 3 .4
70.7 - 2 . 3
62.8 - 6 . 8
+ 9 .8
24.06
+ 5 .0
31.7
+ 2 .3
75.8 + 2 .4
4,003
37,422
18,485
+ 5 .4
+ 3 .3
-5 .1
19.92
22.68
23.88
+ 3 .9
- 3 .6
+ 7 .8
28.0
+ .7
31.2
-.6
29.7 -1 2 .1
70.8 + 2 .3
72.1 - 3 . 6
80.3 +22.6
+ .3
59,910
+ .7
22.82
+■4
30.5
- 4 .4
74.4 + 4 .6
275 1, 791 + 7 .5
571 2,855 +11.4
43, 703
75,049
+ 4 .6
+8 .1
24. 40
26.29
- 2 .7
- 3 .0
27.8
25.5
-.4
-1 .5
89.6 - . 2
102.8 - 1 .7
93,165 + 9 .8
4,691 +29.0
5, 618 - 1 .4
846 4,646
+ 9 .9
118, 752
+ 6 .8
25. 56
- 2 .8
26.3
- 1 .5
97.6 - 1 .1
Nebraska: Omaha—______
166
735
- 9 .3
16, 673
+ 2 .1
22.68 +12.5
30.1
+ 5 .6
75.3 + 6 .4
N ew York:
N ew York C ity _____
Other localities______
512 8,008
350 9,574
-2 .0
+ 5 .9
288,578
218,887
-7 .2
+ 4 .6
29.17
22.81
- 5 .8
- 1 .8
27.4
29.0
- 4 .5
-2 .0
862 17,582
+2.1
451,965
-1 .8
25.71
- 8 .9
28.8
- 8 .1
90.8 - 1 . 0
-.6
6,257
+ 9 .5
18.46 +10.2
28.4
- 3 .7
65.0 +14. 6
7,846 +26.0
39,843 + 6 .8
67,811 + 7 .4
9,684 +12.1
8,881 -1 6 .2
22.35 +10.5
24.05 + 4 .4
25.99 - 2 .8
22.16 + 8 .6
22.77 - 8 .5
29.0 +10.7
28.5 + 1 .1
26.4 - 1 .9
30.0 + 6 .8
27.3 - 3 .9
77.0 - . 4
84.4 + 3 .4
98.5 - . 6
73.8 + 1 .5
83.3 - 4 .9
24.63
27.6
89.3
T he State__________
The State__________
North Carolina: Charlotte
Ohio:
A kron...... .............. .......
Cincinnati
.............
Cleveland. ...................
D ayton___ ____ ______
Youngstown................
50
339
95
351 +14.0
420 1,657 + 2 .3
595 2,609 +10.6
133
437 + 3 .3
88
390 - 8 .5
The State.................. 1,331 5,444
See footnotes at end of table.
+ 6 .0
134,065
+ 6 .5
+ .5
+ .4
106.4
78.6
-.9
+ .9
+ .4
23
E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O LLS , A V E R A G E W E E K L Y E A R N IN G S , A V E R A G E H O U R S P E R
W E E K P E R M A N , A N D A V E R A G E H O U R L Y E A R N IN G S IN T H E B U IL D IN G -C O N
ST R U C T IO N IN D U S T R Y IN S E P T E M B E R 1934, A N D P E R C E N T A G E C H A N G E S
F R O M A U G U S T 1934—Continued.
Oklahoma:
Oklahoma C it y ..........
Tulsa______
______
92
52
522
333
- 2 .1
+ 8 .8
$9,419 -1 1 .0 $18.04
6, 274 + 4 .5 18.84
Percentage change
from August 1934
Average
hourly
earnings 1
September 1934
Percentage change
from August 1934
Average
hours per
week per
man 1
Number Septem
ber 1934
a
Percentage change
from August 1934
o
<3
Amount Septem
ber 1934
a
Percentage change
from August 1934
OT
Number Septem
ber 1934
Locality
Average
weekly
earnings
Pay rolls
Amount Septem
ber 1934
o
ft
©
Percentage change
from August 1934
faC Em ploym ent
P
- 9 .2
- 4 .0
27.2 -1 0 .5
28.9 - 6 .5
Cents
66.4 + 1 .1
66.3 + 1 .8
T he State__________
144
85b
+ 1 .9
15,693
- 5 .4
18. 35
- 7 .2
27.9
- 8 .8
66.3 + 1 .2
Oregon: Portland________
184
709
- 9 .8
16,053
- 7 .4
22. 64
+ 2 .7
28.8
+ 2.1
79.7
+ .6
Pennsylvania:6
Erie area____________
Philadelphia area____
Pittsburgh area..........
Reading area...............
Scranton area____ ____
Other areas__________
25
364 -1 9 .3
m 3,549
-.1
232 1,819
+• h
284 + 5 .8
U
31
156 - 9 .3
291 2,311 - 6 . 5
4,274
74,795
52,835
5,763
3,910
48,405
- 2 .8
+ 3 .7
+ 7.9
+ 9 .0
-7 .1
- 6 .0
11.74 +20.4
21.07 + 3 .7
29.05 + 7 .4
20.29 +2.1
25.06 + 2 .4
20.95
+ .5
16.7 +23.7
28.4 + 1 .8
30.1 - 1 .7
29.6 + 1 .0
32.1 + 1 .3
31.5 - 1 .3
67.4
75.4
97.0
68.5
78.7
66.3
-3 .0
+ 1 .8
+ 5 .0
+ 1 .2
+• 4
+ 1 .8
The State..................
1,029 8,483
- 2 .8
189,982
+ 1 .9
22.40
+ 4•8
29.2
+ 1 .4
77.1 + 2 .9
R hode Island: Providence.
238 1,308
- 2 .1
28, 789
+ .6
22. 01
+ 2 .8
31.0
+ 1 .0
71.2 + 2 .2
196
422
437
787
+ 7 .1
+ 9 .0
+ 7 .6
+ 3 .7
3,089 +18.7
7, 228 +28.7
7, 722 + 5.8
12,166 + 1 .0
15. 76 +10.8
17.13 +18.1
17. 67 - 1 .7
15. 46 - 2 .6
25. 3 +11.9
27.2 +11.5
28.8 + 5.5
26.7 + 3 .9
62.4 - . 6
63.0 + 6 .1
61.3 - 7 .1
57.9 - 6 .3
223 1,842
+ 6 .2
30,205
16.40
27.2
60.4 - 3 . 2
Tennessee:
Chattanooga____ ____
K noxville____________
M em phis____ _______
Nashville____________
The State__________
Texas:
D allas................ ..........
E l Paso____________
Houston_____ _______
San Antonio_______ .
34
38
71
80
+ 9 .6
195
681 - 6 .5
28
100 + 9 .9
189 1,021 -1 4 .0
94
331 + 9 .2
10,823 - 5 .5
2,088 +23.8
18, 704 -1 4 .8
4, 978 +13.7
+ 3 .2
15. 89 + 1.1
20. 88 +12.6
18. 32 - 1 .0
15.04 + 4.1
+ 6 .7
23.8 - 2 .5
28.7 +18.6
27.7 + 1.1
+ .4
24.7
65.3
73.5
66.7
61.5
+ 1 .2
-4 .0
-1 .0
+ 5 .1
65.9
+ .3
506 2,133
- 7 .6
36, 593
- 7 .3
17.16
+ .4
26.0
+ .4
Utah: Salt Lake C ity ____
134
293
+ 7.3
6, 221
+ 2 .0
21.23
- 4 .9
25.9
- 8 .5
82.2 + 4 .3
Virginia:
Norfolk-Portsmouth^.
R ic h m o n d ... _______
75
126
402
956
+ 9 .8
+ 5. 2
7, 350 +21.8
20,086 + 6 .6
18.28 +10.9
21. 01 + 1 .4
28.7
31.2
+ 8 .3
- 1 .0
63.0 + 2 .4
67.8 + 2 .6
201 1,358
+ 6 .5
27, 436 +10.3
20. 20
30.4
+ 1 .3
66.3 + 2 .3
The State__________
The State_________
W ashington:
Seattle_______________
Spokane_____________
Tacom a _. ______ _
The S-tate__________
W est Virginia: W heeling.
W isconsin: A ll localities. .
165 1,010' - 5 .6
49
193 -1 1 .9
801
177 + 4 .1
21, 233 - 8 .0 | 21.02 - 2 .5
4,887 -1 5 .3 25. 32 - 3 .9
4,087 +20.5 23. 09 +15.7
22.4 - 7 .1
28.2 - 8 .7
24.8 +11.7
94.0 + 4 .9
89.9 + 5 .4
93.2 + 3 .6
294: 1,380'
30, 207
- 1 .0 i
23.5
- 5 .6
93.2 + 5 .0
+ 4 .8
+ 2 .4
30.0
32.4
+ 1 .0
+ 4 .5
64.9 + 3 .5
60.3 - 2 . 3
- 5 .4
56
199 +15.0'
156' 1,866'
+ .5
- 6 .3
21.89
3,879 +20.5 1 19.49
37,197 + 3 .0 1 19.93
1 Averages com puted from reports furnished b y 10,491 firms.
2 N o change.
3 Data not available.
4 Includes both Kansas City, M o., and Kansas City, Kans.
5 Includes Covington and Newport, K y.
n Each separate area includes from 2 to 8 counties.
9 3 7 1 1 — 3 4 ---------4
+ 3 .5
24
Trend of Employment in September 1934, by States
F l u c t u a t i o n s in employment and pay-roll totals, in September
1934, as compared with August 1934, in certain industrial groups
are shown by States in the following table. These tabulations have
been prepared from data secured directly from reporting establish
ments and from information supplied by cooperating State agencies.
The combined total of all groups does not include building-construction data, which are shown by city and State totals in the section,
Building Construction. In addition to the combined total of all
groups, the trend of employment and pay rolls in the manufacturing,
public utility, hotel, wholesale trade, retail trade, bituminous-coal
mining, crude-petroleum producing, quarrying and nonmetallic min
ing, metalliferous mining, laundry, dyeing and cleaning, and banks,
brokerage, insurance, real-estate groups is presented. In this State
compilation, the totals of the telephone and telegraph, power and
light, and electric-railroad operation groups have been combined and
are presented as one group— public utilities.
The percentage changes shown in the accompanying table, unless
otherwise noted, are unweighted; that is, the industries included in
the groups, and the groups comprising the total of all groups, have
not been weighted according to their relative importance in the
combined totals.
The anthracite-mining industry, which is confined entirely to the
State of Pennsylvania, showed increases from August to September
of 15 percent in employment and 18.4 percent in pay rolls. These
percentages are based on reports received from 160 mines, which em
ployed in September 79,088 workers whose earnings in 1 week ending
nearest the 15th were $1,901,846.
When the identity of any reporting company would be disclosed by
the publication of a State total for any industrial group, figures for
the group do not appear in the separate industrial-group tabulation,
but are included in the State totals for All Groups. Data are not
presented for any industrial group when the representation in the
State covers less than three establishments.
25
C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDENTICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
IN A U G U S T A N D S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y S T A T E S
[Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
b y cooperating State organizations]
Total—all groups
State
N um
ber of
estab
lish
ments
Manufacturing
Per
Per
Per
Per
N um cent Am ount
cent N um N um
cent Amount
cent
of pay
of pay
ber on
age
ber
of
ber
on
age
age
age
roll (1
roll (1
pay roll change
change estab pay roll change
change
week)
week)
Septem from
lish
from
from
from
Septem
ber 1934 August Septem August ments ber 1934 A u gu st Septem A u gu st
ber 1934
ber 1934
1934
1934
1934
1934
Alabama_________ 1,352 62,394
A rizon a..................
579 13,971
Arkansas____ ____
i 688 23,963
California.............. 2 1,868 287,033
Colorado_________ 1,389 43,831
-1 .4
+ 6 .3
+ .7
-7 .1
+ 2 .8
$879,080
274,879
867,748
6,773,655
917,266
-0 .7
+ 6 .0
+ 2 .0
-7 .7
+ 6 .4
240 37,894
40
2,436
281 16,441
1,066 170,672
173 14,488
Connecticut______ 2,417 160,047 - 7 . 0
Delaware................
238 14,823 + 9 .0
Dist. of Colum bia.
990 36,328 + 4 .0
Florida___________ 1,266 35,876
+. 9
Georgia ................... 1,437 73,924 -2 3 .7
3,222,610 - 4 .7
282,180 + 5 .6
846,910 + 3 .2
599,855 - 1 . 5
1,087,972 -1 6 .7
Id a h o......................
Illin ois...................
Indiana. ............... .
Iowa........ ................
Kansas___________
-1 .8
+ 7 .3
- 1 .6
- 1 2 .0
+ .4
$487,777
41,794
229,954
90,275
289,053
- 1 .3
+ 8 .5
+ 4 -2
- 1 8 .3
+ 5 .0
731 125,152
75 10,397
3,238
49
212 16,574
368 49,482
- 8 .7 2,361,127
+12.4
178,149
108,388
+ 3 .6
-1 .4
234,801
-3 2 .1
609, 209
- 6 .6
+ 9 .2
+ 6 .5
-4 .3
-2 6 .5
550 11, 231
* 4,309 461,547
2,921 167,345
2,168 58, 616
51,788 54,617
+ 2 .6
+ 2 .2
+ 1 .2
+ 4 .2
+ 3 .2
217,301
9,779,467
3,047,927
1,149,932
1,119,153
“ (3)
+•4
-1 .9
+ 5 .8
+ 4 .6
3,794
57
2,036 286,198
629 117, 241
398 29,091
429 30,790
-.4
74, 778
+ 1 .8 5,738,468
+ .7 2,052,796
+ 5 .0
571,219
672, 938
+ 4 .0
-2 .0
-.1
- 3 .6
+ 9 .1
+ 6.1
K en tu cky.. ........... 1,540 88,542
Louisiana............... 1,150 44, 732
M a in e ...................
883 49,229
M aryland________ 1,472 96,529
Massachusetts___ 6 8,919 890,755
+ 1 .4
+ 1 .3
-1 .8
+. 8
-7 .7
1,464,368
734,913
868,130
1,867,338
8,847,345
+ 2 .0
+ 2 .4
-2 .0
+. 8
- 6 .0
300 33, 710
222 23,098
243 39, 208
567 63,582
1,599 192,053
+ 1-7
517, 257
321,305
+ 1 .9
- 1 .8
654, 287
6 + .6 1,125,030
-1 6 .0 3,760,846
-1 .2
+ 5 .3
-2 .2
6 - .1
- 1 8 .6
M ichigan________ 3,921 391,001
M innesota.............. 2,644 91, 734
Mississippi_______
674 17,289
M is so u r i............... 4, 653 166, 544
M ontana................
839 12,724
-7 .2
+ .4
+. 1
+ 2 .5
+ 3. 5
7,805,100 -1 8 .6
1,931,140 + 1 .4
252, 592 + 4 .9
3,402,785
+. 1
291,179 + 3 .3
1,049 340,346
388 39,854
100 10,056
783 75,757
93
3,540
- 6 . 5 7,369,235
- 2 .5
790,507
- 1 .1
133,563
- . 3 1,415, 235
75, 795
+ 2 .0
- 8 .3
+ 1. 3
+ 8 .2
-3 .2
- 1 .3
Nebraska............... 1,663 35,759 + 1 .3
N evada...................
265
3,527
-.3
N ew Hampshire. _
810 28, 360 -2 4 .9
New Jersey........... 4,113 264, 798
+ .1
New M exico..........
414
7,142
+ .7
765,877 + 3 .8
84,157 - 1 .9
552,185 -1 8 .9
5,832, 562
-.7
128, 514 + 2 .1
149 13, 285
25
728
203 20,481
7 718 210,250
26
839
297, 947
+• 1
-2 .5
17,111
-3 0 .8
377, 742
- . 4 4, 489,993
- 2 .6
14,469
+ 6 .4
-1 1 .4
-2 4 .8
-.5
+ 1 .8
16,351 749,877 - 2 .1 18,573,352
+. 4
1,292 103, 713 -1 9 .3 1,402,208 -1 0 .7
604
5,560 + 5 .6
112, 212 + 5 .9
9,137 484,800 - 1 . 8 9,442, 272 - 5 .6
757,823 - 1 .1
1,877 39,030
-.3
8 1,905 874,989
547 92,792
51
734
2, 394 326, 556
9,022
162
+ 1 .4 8,713,138
-2 1 .2 1, 225,326
+ 3 .2
18,487
- 3 . 6 6,072,284
-7 .5
162, 763
+. 6
-1 2 .1
+ 10.3
-8 .7
- 5 .1
Oregon___________ 1,475 47, 935
-.4
963, 239
+ .5
Pennsylvania........ 10, 330 762, 262
+ . 2 15,094,079 - 1 . 8
Rhode Island____ 1,292 53,305 -2 9 .5 1,064,564 -2 5 .1
South Carolina___
648 41,076 -2 7 .7
544,935 -1 9 .1
South Dakota____
559
8,466 + 2 .3
195, 376 + 4 .6
242 25, 729
2,016 405,076
405 32,925
203 34,295
36
2,087
+ 1 .0
460, 509
- 3 .1 7,264,982
-4 0 .3
568,636
-3 1 .5
430,131
+ 2 .8
42, 328
+ 2 .6
- 7 .0
-3 8 .5
- 2 3 .0
+ 2 .2
- 6 .2
+ 1 .5
- 4 .2
-1 9 .2
+ 1 .5
782,138
907,264
101,405
119,868
980,972
-6 .5
+ 2 .7
+ 4 .8
-1 5 .5
+ 2 .0
+ 1 .2
820, 353
- 3 .7
829,199
6 - 1 .7 2,213,824
+ 3 .0
48, 679
+ 1 .7
-1 1 .8
6 -3 .9
+ 7 .5
N ew Y ork _______
North Carolina___
North Dakota____
Ohio_____________
Oklahoma—...........
Tennessee________ 1,433
Texas...................... 1,389
U ta h ..____ ______
677
V erm ont_________
587
V irginia.................. 2, 216
81,049 - 3 .5
77,954 + 1 .9
16,940
+. 7
13,337 -1 0 .9
94, 722 + 1 .8
Washington______ 3,387 91,837
West Virginia____ 1,317 139,493
W is c o n s in ...____ 91,037 154,707
W y o m in g ............
393
7,513
+ 3 .5
- 1 .6
- 1 .1
+ 3 .8
1,265,672
1, 758,479
359,687
261,936
1, 583, 763
-3 .6
+ 3 .2
+ 4 .8
- 7 .1
+ 1 .8
321
464
86
142
412
1, 925, 270
2,491, 076
2,894,381
192,429
+ 3 .2
- 5 .5
-4 .2
+ 9 .7
433 43, 299
254 48,858
767 121,415
45
1,809
54,064
42,555
5,033
6,387
62,113
1Includes automobile dealers and garages, and sand, gravel, and building stone.
2 Includes banks, insurance, and office employment.
3 Less than Ho of 1 percent.
* Includes building and contracting.
* Includes construction, municipal, agricultural, and office employment, amusement and recreation,
professional, and transportation services.
8 W eighted percentage change.
7 Includes laundries.
s Includes laundering and cleaning, but does not include food, canning, and preserving.
9 Includes construction but does not include hotels and restaurants, and public works.
26
COMPARISON OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS IN IDENTICAL ES i’ABLISHMENTS
IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1934, BY STATES—Contin, ed
[ Figures in italics are not compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken fr m reports issued by
cooperating State organizations]
Wholesale trade
State
Alabama.............
Arizona................
Arkansas......... .
California______
Colorado----------Connecticut____
Delaware-.........
Dist. of Colum
bia-...................
Florida................
Georgia............ —
Idaho...................
Illinois-------------Indiana................
Iowa.....................
Kansas....... .........
Num Per
Num ber on cent
age
ber of
pay change
roll
estab
from
Sep
lish
Au
ments tember gust
1934
1934
Per
Per
Num
Num ber on cent Amount
Amount cent
age
ber of
age
of pay roll change
(1 week) from estab
change week)
Sep
lish
from
Septem
Au ments tember August Septem
ber 1934
ber 1934
gust
1934
1934
1934
$56,926 + 5 .0
22,486 +16.9
754
316
6,919
3,551
81,851
152,260
+ 6 .4
+ 1 .8
2 ,8 7 4
25,481
160
3,573
90,698
+ 1 .6
228
114
628
10,001
214
16
4,172 -1 4 .3
542 + 1 .1
102,871
11,942
-6 .4
- 2 .1
1,156
91
53
207
109
1,136
3,614
1,599
32,781
68,737
37,661
- 5 .8
+ 4 .8
+ 1 .9
755
530
621
2,333 + 0 .1
1,457 + 4 4.0
64
100
1 ,0 9 3
5 ,6 6 3
61
(10)
-.3
+ 6 .3
+ 2 .9
sarc
SS
+ 1 .0
+ 2 .4
122
67
+ 5 .0
+ 4 .4
- .5
Percent
age
change
from
August
1934
$121,783
68,012
+ 7 .2
+ 4 .2
+ 6 .8
4 6 ,0 2 5
629 ,08 7
2 .9
+ 6 .1
+ 3 .0
185,260
+ 3 .0
15,410
1,509
+ 4 .4
+ 5 .9
323,169
30,975
+ 2 .9
+ 2 .8
13,637
6,888
8,662
+ 8 .3
+ 5 .3
+ 4 .4
282,768
122,070
150,570
+ 7 .9
+ 3 .0
+ 4 .3
15,601 + 11.0
312
2,972
+ 5 .1
51,876
+ 1 .0
8 45 ,49 4
+ 1 .9
1,1 9 1
6 7 ,7 0 2
+ 7 .7
1 ,1 1 1 ,4 3 8
+ 5 .3
156,957
87,020
-.3
+ .1
1,439
984
20,137
10,358
+ 5 .6
+ 5 .0
36,355
183.943
+ 5 .0
+ 5 .2
+ 2 .0
7 5 ,2 64
+ 1 -4
757
8 ,2 8 5
+ 5 .5
14 6 ,0 8 2
+ 5 .2
- 2 .6
+ 1 .1
- 1 .3
-.5
48,797
76,742
39,405
-.7
+ 1 .1
-1 .4
-.4
507
501
275
8,456
8,350
2,816
+ 5 .5
+ 1 .9
+ 3 .0
146,906
137,586
53,318
+ 4 .9
+ 2 .5
+ 2 .2
+ 1 .8
468
4 ,611
1 2 ,8 6 4
7 0 ,1 6 6
+ 7 .1
+ 4 -3
2 4 6 ,6 7 8
1 ,8 9 1 ,6 5 7
+ 6 .0
+ 8 .6
721 + 40.3
388
13,041
+ 2 .5
391
185
6,511
3,506
-.5
-.2
177
3 ,8 4 8
157
208
100
2,242
3,430
1,663
1 7t
894
2 ,4 1 9
1 9,0 76
326
Michigan............
306
Minnesota..........
Mississippi.......
78
Missouri.............. 1,149
114
Montana.............
Kentucky....—
Louisiana............
Maine. ...............
Maryland......... .
Massachusetts__
Retail trade
+ 1 .0
5 8 ,8 8 5
5 00,388
6,590
8,844
1,268
16,285
1,096
- 1 .1
+ 2 .6
+ 5 .2
+ 2 .3
+ 8 .7
167,127
231,357
23,750
421,201
129,089
-1 .0
+ 4 .2
+ 2 .1
+ 3 .2
+ 6 .3
1,737
1,480
249
2,069
403
32,477
17,964
2,675
34,252
3,568
+ 8 .3
+ 1 0 .0
+ 4 .9
+ 12.3
+ 4 .6
663,004
333,426
40,538
675,808
7 5,0 93
+5. 5
+ 8 .7
+ 3 .0
+ 7 .7
+ 3 .7
189
47
42
241
36
3,330
327
502
4,484
287
-.2
+. 3
+ 2 .9
+ .5
+ 8 .7
88,611
10,620
13,143
128,631
6,313
+ 1 .4
+ 5 .0
+ 2 .1
+ .4
+ 3 .3
872
117
340
2,258
236
9,928
1,088
3,413
21,240
1,920
+ 6 .5
+ 4 .7
+ .9
+ 7 .7
+ 2 .4
180,011
22,882
65,426
475,676
35,230
+ 6 .0
-.6
+ 1 .6
+ 5 .2
+ .7
3,348
New York........
61
North Carolina .
136
North Dakota—
O hio..................- 1,103
178
Oklahoma...........
58,776
779
612
16,854
2,754
+ 1 .0
+ .5
- 2 .7
+ 1 .1
+ 8 .3
1,807,508
20,228
15,397
429,264
63,448
+ 1 .0
+ 3 .2
-1 .5
+ .8
+ 1 .4
8,385 147,734
489
4,787
162
1,597
4,441 65,630
1,043
9,841
+11.1 3,345,637
+ 5 .8
70,813
+ 11.9
25,081
+ 6 .3 1,238,945
+ 4 .0 ‘ 174,336
+ 7 .2
+ 2 .8
+ 1 0 .0
+ 3 .9
+ 2 .3
249
Oregon____ _____
1,578
Pennsylvania.
96
Rhode Island.. .
72
South Carolina48
South Dakota.—
3,710 -2 1 .0
20,550 + 1 .3
+ .4
1,757
907 + 1 .2
514 + 2 .0
+ 4 .6
190,346
+ 6 .8 1,332,532
+ 1 .9
184,902
+ 2 .8
45,177
+ 7 .6
30,857
+ 5 .9
+ 6 .3
-.1
+ 1 .5
+ 4 .6
Nebraska............
Nevada................
New HampshireNew Jersey____
New Mexico___
Tennessee...........
Texas...................
Utah....................
Vermont..............
Virginia...............
Washington........
West Virginia—
W iscon sin -----Wyoming............
-.1
76,595
+ .6
+ 5 .1
1 08,660
1,160 + 1 .4
505 + 5 .9
4,423 +11.7
31,693
11,290
84,399
+ 4 -*
219
3,539
1S7
85
4 ,5 0 8
28
209
90,373 -1 3 .8
565,803 + 1 .8
47,008 + 1 .8
20,740 + 2 .6
12,041 + 3 .0
674
3,930
625
250
279
9.536
67,123
9,593
3,127
1,800
509
10,027
+ 6 .7
173,628
+ 5 .5
804
1 0 ,9 7 7
+ 5 .9
1 9 5 ,6 8 2
+ 8 .2
-.1
+• 1
+ 5 .4
349
181
1,212
3,512
1,911
11,098
+ 3 .9
+ 6 .3
+ 3 .1
69,521
36,002
201,106
+ 3 .2
+ 4 .9
+ 4 .4
768
114
12,668
1,762
+ 9 .2
+ 2 .0
313,260
44,862
+ 7 .5
+ 1 .7
1,793
324
18,525
3,912
+ 6 .7
+ 2 .5
367,527
71,514
+ 5 .9
+ 3 .3
45
1 ,9 8 8
4 8 ,8 6 2
68
1 0 ,6 8 7
+ 8 .5
198
1,329
+ 5 .4
1 4 6 ,43 2
236
+ 1 1 .4
29
+ 6 .4
28,227
+ 3 .2
10 No change.
+ 3 .5
6,675
+ 2 .4
+ 2 .2
27
C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN ID E N T IC A L E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
O A U G U S T A N D S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y S T A T E S — Continued
[Figures in italics ^.e not com piled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued b y
cooperating State organizations]
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Per
Per
Per
N um
N um
A m ount
N um ber on cent Am ount cent N um ber on
cent
of pay
age
age
ber of
age
ber
of
pay
pay
change
roll
(1
change
roll
change
estab
roll
week)
week)
from estab
from
from
lish
Sep
lish
Sep
Septem
A u ments tember August Septem
ments tember A u
ber
1934
ber
1934
gust
gust
1934
1934
1934
1934
1934
State
Alabama_______
Arizona , . ....
A rlra nsa s
C a lifo r n ia
Metalliferous mining
_
C o lo r a d o ._____
Connecticut____
Delaware_______
Dist. of C ol____
Florida_________
Georgia________
16
3
8
43
5
664 —6.7
40 —9.1
209 —7.1
1,107 —8.2
23 —32.4
$8,156
458
2,573
19,539
310
—4.7
—24.8
—16.7
—13.1
—42.7
I n d ia n a .______
Iowa _________
Kansas__ ______
336
72
+ 1 .8
-2 .7
18
24
968
1,471
—6.2
+ .6
11,525
14,509
23
73
26
663
1,551
492
—3.9
—9.1
+ 3 .8
10,838 -1 1 .2
23,802 —12.0
7,983 + 1 .7
86
1,805
—8.1
26,988
—.5
41
7
11
1,361 —10.5
654 —7.6
558 + 24.0
14,502
8,654
11,537
- 3 .7
—8.9
+ 6 .4
M ichigan______
M innesota_____
M ississip p i____
M issouri_______
M ontana_______
45
23
10
52
8
Nebraska______
N evada________
N ew Hampshire
N ew Jersey.........
N ew M exico___
11
180 -3 3 .3
10
34
284
560
—6.9
-.7
7,946
10,784
—8.9
-3 .2
79
14
2,594
429
—.1
-6 .7
54,672
5,717
+ 5 .8
—9.6
N ew Y ork _____
N orth Carolina.
N orth Dakota
Ohio.....................
O kla h om a __•_
Oregon_________
P ennsylvania.. _
R hode Island
South C a r o lin a
South D a k o ta ...
504
+ 2 .6
1,722 - 5 . 5
346
+ .9
213 + 4 .9
1,117 —6.6
71 -4 5 .0
-
-2 1 .1
+ 6 .7
5.8
76,289
+2.1
1,030
- 1 4 .6
27,093
-1 3 .0
9
2,027
-3 .4
44,950
-2 .7
7
480
+1.9
8,485
-1 -8
8,578
10,833
39
29
5,149
1,698
- 1 .5
- 8 .8
75,348
31,330
- 1 4 .0
- 2 9 .8
13
15
1,728
238
+ 2 .9
+13.3
19,128
5,799
+ 4 .7
+ 10.7
15
593
-8 .1
15,716
-.9
3
18
354
+ 9 .9
- —1.2
11.7
29,636 -1 1 .4
5,393 + 4 .6
2,861 +26.5
15,398 - 5 . 2
1,220 -3 6 .0
2,108 -3 8 .9
(10)
113
16
3,323 —4.0
159 —11.2
48,261 —11.5
1,672 —4.4
32
1,365
+ 17.6
17,820
-3 .7
3
153
53 —32.1
5,514 - 2 . 4
734 -5 2 .7
79,003 -1 1 .4
5
89
+ 8 .5
1,726
+ 8 .1
5
6
189 —10.4
59 —28.9
2,007 —18.8
820 —40.6
V ir g in ia . . ______
23
jSB
7
37
32
Washington____
W est V i r g in i a ___
W isconsin______
12
22
12
Tennessee______
Texas ________
U tah....................
V erm ont______
n o -11.1
2,968
$12,819
82,683
—8.8
+ .9
Kentucky______
Louisiana______
M aine__________
M aryland______
Massachusetts. _
8
86
- 9 .9
+ 2 .2
5,632 -1 6 .6
1,255 -1 5 .6
25
3
19
1,195
3,707
14
Idaho__________
I llin o is
9
21
Percent
age
change
from
August
1934
W y o m i n g ________
8,457 +16.1
4
1,110 -1 6 .4
26,517 +27.6
320
-.9
6,443
- 3 .1
164 + 70.8
1,934 —1.9
1,219 —4.1
2,201 + 31.2
39,440 + 3 .6
13,725 -1 0 .7
12
2,175
+ .3
46,542
+ 2 .3
718
+ 5 .8
14,487
-1 .5
763
389
885
+ 8 .1
+ 7 .8
—2.0
819 +20.4
10 N o change.
6,795 - 3 . 8
9,926 -2 0 .9
4,768
+ 8.2
(» )
ii N ot available.
28
C O M P A R IS O N O F E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN ID E N T IC A L E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
IN A U G U S T A N D S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y S T A T E S —Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
b y cooperating State organizations]
Crude-petroleum producing
Bituminous-coal mining
State
Alabama_______
A rizon a--........ .
Arkansas___ - California______
Colorado_______
N um
ber of
estab
lish
ments
N um
ber on
pay roll
Sep
tember
1934
Per
cent Am ount of
age
pay roll
change (1
week)
from
Septem
A u
ber 1934
gust
1934
54
8,951
42
4,117 +45.5
30
51
19
21
8,837 + H . 9
5,698 + 6 .2
1,477 +25.7
1,870 + 3.1
168,758
111, 801
23,347
15,948
+ 39.5
+13.3
+20.6
+ 22.8
- 3 .6
$117, 792
Per
cent
age
change
from
A u
gust
1934
Per
cent Am ount Percent
N um N um
ber
on
age of pay roll
age
ber of
change
estab pay roll change
(1 week)
from
from
Sep
lish
Septem
A u
ments tember
ber 1934 August
1934
1934
gust
1934
- 4 .6
6
46
267
10,323
- 3 .6
- 2 .6
$6,137
310,593
-2 .6
-3 .5
10
5
215
41
+ .5
+ 5 .1
4,435
702
- 2 .9
+ 4 .9
26
1,701
- 1 .1
39,532
-.5
6
9
257
653
+ 2 .0
-.9
3,864
10,787
-8 . 2
+ 5 .6
43
- 2 .3
1,079
+ 3 .2
85,116 +96.4
Connecticut____
Delaware_______
D is tr ic t of
Colum bia____
Florida_________
Georgia________
Idaho__________
Indiana________
Iow a ___ ________
Kansas_________
K entucky__ ____
Louisiana______
M aine____-____
M aryland______
Massachusetts
146
31,099
+ 1 .1
510,924
+ 6 .0
16
1,490
+ 5 .2
21,909
+ 9 .2
M ichigan_______
M innesota_____
Mississippi_____
Missouri_______
M ontana__ _ -
3
447 +29.6
8,518 +17.7
18
10
1,534 +30.3
868 +18.9
22,070 +44.3
22,768 +40.3
4
Nebraska______
N evada________
New HampshireNew Jersey_____
New M exico___
14
1,814
31,716
+ 5 .5
4
84
+12.0
1,808
+21.6
5
302
+ 3 .4
6,193
+ 6 .3
6
56
61
5, 647
+ 1 .7
-.9
798
132,702
+10. 7
-2 .3
- 3 .0
20
819
+ 1 .1
19, 246
-8 .8
IS
8,114
+ 2 .2
272,865
+5.9-
N ew Y o r k . ___
N orth Carolina .
North Dakota—
Ohio.................. Oklahoma______
Oregon_____ _
PennsylvaniaRhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
8
72
14
441
+ 1 .4
488 +26.8
13,546 - 3 .3
693 +29.1
75,946
+ .6
9,974 +37.4
217,074 - 5 .4
12,982 +59.3
1,218,838
Tennessee______
Texas__________
U tah___________
Verm ont_______
V ir g in ia .._____
13
5
13
2,445 + 1 .3
370 - 1 .1
1,308 +15.6
34, 202 + 1 .1
6,109 +11.3
32,509 +31.5
19
4,367
+ .1
64,048
+ .7
Washington____
W est Virginia--W isconsin______
W y o m in g --____
12
374
1,058
73,905
+ 2 .6
-1 .4
23,768
1,315,974
+ 4 .4
- 2 .6
9
561
+14.7
11,420
+ 1 5 .0
30
3,001
+ 6 .3
81,911 +18.7
8
260
+ .4
7,407
-1 .3
29
C O M P A R IS O N O F E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN IDENTICAL E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
IN A U G U S T A N D S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y S T A T E S —Continued
(Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
b y cooperating State organizations]
Public utilities
Hotels
Per
Per
N um Per
N um
Am ount
cent Am ount
cent N um ber
N um ber on cent
on
of pay
age
age
age
pay change
ber of
ber of
roll (1
pay
M
change estab
change
roll
week)
estab
week)
roll
from
from
from
lish
lish
Sep
Sep
Sep
Sep
A u
Au
A u
ments tember
ments tember gust
tember
tember
gust
gust
1934
1934
1934
1934
1934
1934
1934
State
Alabama_______
Arizona...............
Arkansas____
California............
Colorado.............
89
69
88
49
212
1,896
1,555
1,802
45,526
6,086
-0 .3
-4 .8
-5 .5
-8 .1
+ ( s)
$40,653
38,074
81,141
1,268,596
149,224
- 2 .2
+ .5
-5 .9
- 2 .8
-.8
21
17
27
177
56
1,162
405
866
9,289
1,487
Connecticut.......
Delaware..........
Dist. of C ol........
Florida................
Georgia...............
132
29
22
185
186
9,872
1,188
9,986
4,876
7,279
(i°)
-.6
+ 1 .4
+ .7
+ .6
309,486
32,376
262,268
115,828
188,662
+ 1 .6
-1 .6
-1 .0
-3 .5
-2 .1
30
3
44
61
34
Idaho................. .
57
Illinois.................
85
Indiana...... .........
136
Iow a.....................
447
Kansas____ ____ 13 140
820
72,667
9,690
9,057
4,664
—. 6
-.8
-.5
+ 1 .1
+ 0 .S
16,656
2,017,875
233,121
204,146
100,411
+ .3
-2 .4
-3 .4
+ .8
+1.1
20
K entucky...........
Louisiana............
M aine..................
Maryland...........
M assachusetts..
285
151
170
90
13 128
6,684
5,821
2,849
11,981
46,421
-.1
-(a )
-.1
+ .4
-.8
152,252
138,293
75,908
849,278
1,829,666
M ichigan............
M innesota_____
Mississippi.........
M is s o u r i...........
M ontana.............
408
235
191
257
113
29,780
12,847
2,030
20,966
2,045
+ .4
-.9
+ 1 .6
-.7
+ .6
Nebraska............
N evada________
New Hampshire.
N ew Jersey_____
New M e x ic o ....
357
38
141
265
54
5,839
415
2,306
21,368
661
N ew Y ork ..........
N orth CarolinaNorth Dakota__
Ohio.....................
Oklahoma...........
Oregon_________
Pennsylvania.. .
Rhode Island.
South Carolina. .
South D akota.. .
-0 .2
+ 1 .2
-1 4 .3
$9,743
5,695
7,668
145,878
23,081
1,303
260
4,041
1,075
1,397
-4 .9
(10)
+ 3 .3
+ 2 .0
+ 1 .1
17,702
3,501
62,995
10,914
11,504
+ 2 .8
+ 1 .0
+ 4 .5
+ 4 .0
+ 1 .6
61
56
81
432
14,862
2,789
2,369
840
+ 3 .1
+ .2
+. 1
+ 2 .4
-2 .7
5,014
219,740
30,120
23,054
8,850
+ 1 .8
+ 1 .0
+ .2
+ 2 .1
+ 4 .9
+. 1
- 1 .8
-1 .3
+ 1 .4
+ .3
33
18
28
19
67
1,970
1,802
1,009
681
5,787
+ 6 .9
+• 7
-2 2 .7
+ 2 .4
+ 6 .7
19,276
21,039
12,971
7,798
80,848
+ 8 .0
+ ( 3)
-1 6 .6
+ 2 .8
+ 8 .9
878,351
334,235
40,023
554,931
57,702
-1 .9
-.6
+. 8
-3 .2
-.1
99
71
18
87
31
5,148
3,369
496
4,937
577
- 3 .4
- 3 .3
-1 5 .1
+ .8
- 1 .4
64,664
40,279
3,658
58,141
8,399
-3 .1
+. 1
-1 5 .9
+• 6
- 3 .9
-1 .1
+ 2 .5
-.5
-.7
+ .5
145,705
12,289
65,677
624,911
13,260
-(3 )
+ 4 .4
-1 .9
-2 .5
+ (*)
37
18
20
89
18
1,532
333
594
5,134
379
+ 1 .3
(10)
-3 0 .5
-1 1 .6
- 2 .3
16,070
4,505
6,421
60,461
3,773
+ 5 .1
—3.7
-3 3 .3
-1 1 .4
+ 3 .3
879 125,437
2,008
97
1,346
180
431 36,023
269
6,585
-.3
+• 3
+ 2 .7
+. 6
-2 .6
3,976,511
41,485
30,270
953,511
148,188
-1 .4
- 4 .0
-.8
-1 .5
-3 .8
221
33
17
124
46
25,226
1,472
269
8,571
1,482
-3 .9
+ 1 .1
- 5 .3
+ .7
+ 1 .8
383,002
12,977
2,787
112,253
15,782
-2 .0
+ 1 .3
(i°)
+ 3 .3
+ 2 .0
183
780
45
76
130
5,811
66,052
5,512
1,679
1,108
+ 1 .5
-.2
+ .2
-1 .9
-1 .5
156,260
1,579,888
164,441
35,737
25,988
-1 .4
-.7
+ .8
-3 .6
-1 .9
02
157
16
13
20
1,424
9,856
226
293
329
+ 2 .4
- 1 .0
-5 0 .8
-2 .7
-2 .4
18,000
128,971
2,966
2,663
3,888
+ 2 .5
+ 1 .5
- 4 4 .3
- .1
-4 .1
T en n essee-........
Texas...................
Utah....................
V e rm o n t..-........
Virginia......... .
248
865
71
133
178
5,133
8,518
1,923
1,644
6,125
+ .5
+ ( 8)
-1 .5
-.2
-.9
112,649
220,428
40,175
40,570
146,110
-3 .1
-.8
+ 1 .0
+ 3 .3
-1 .9
35
34
13
22
35
2,198
2,177
414
493
2,221
-2 .0
-.6
-2 .8
-2 7 .1
+ 1 .8
19,023
27,178
5,490
4,962
23,809
-.5
+ 6 .6
-2 .4
-2 8 .0
+ 1 .0
WashingtonWest Virginia—
Wisconsin___ _
W yom ing...........
198
120
H 41
48
10,251
7,169
11,080
487
+ 2 .3
+ 5 .4
+ .2
+ 1 .2
284,861
169,407
826,467
11,292
+ .8
-.4
—2.2
+ .2
85
33
42
12
2,744
1,067
1,448
97
+ .4
+ 3 .6
—.8
-1 .0
32,199
11,301
(n)
1,284
+ 1 .8
+ 1 .1
3 Less than Mo of 1 percent.
10 N o change.
11 N ot available.
12 219
-1 .0
+ 3 .1
+ .6
Per
cent
age
change
from
A u
gust
1934
+ .5
12 Includes restaurants.
13 Includes steam railways.
14 Includes railways and express.
+ .8
+ 2 .7
-1 .8
+ .5
30
C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN I D E N T I C A L E S T A B L IS H M E N T S
IN A U G U S T A N D S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y S T A T E S —Continued
[Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued
by cooperating State organizations]
Laundries
State
A labama.
Arizona___
Arkansas...
California..
C olorado...
Connecticut___
Delaware______
Dist. of Columb ia .............
Florida________
Georgia_______
Id a h o ._.
Illinois
Indiana.
Iow a____
Kansas..
Kentucky_____
Louisiana_____
M aine________
M aryland_____
Massachusetts.
Dyeing and cleaning
Per
Per
N um Per
N um
cent Am ount
cent N um ber on
N um ber on cent Amount
of pay
age
age
age
ber of
pay
pay change of pay roll change ber of
roll (1
change
estab
(1 week)
estab
roll
roll
week)
from
from
from
lish
lish
Sep
Septem
Sep
Septem
A
ug
A
ug
A
ug
ments tember
ments tember
ber 1934
ust
ber 1934
ust
ust
1934
1934
1934
1934
1934
$879
713
941
+ 9 .5
+13.7
+19.9
+ 7 .4
5, 293
+10.3
+ 3 .8
7,685
+ 6 .5
+ 6 .7
-1 .3
(10)
1,990
1,149
2,285
-.5
+ 4 .5
-1 .4
594
97
+ 6 .3
+15.5
10, 266
1,820
+ 11.0
+18.5
8
6
7
8
71
269
117
183
175
1,837
+ 3 .9
+ 1 .7
- .5
-1 9
+ 4-9
4,013
1,501
3, 507
2,853
33,027
+ 3 .9
+ 3 .9
+ 2 .7
-1 0 .0
+ 4 -0
16
13
15
15 66
33
772
436
475
4,963
1,424
- 0 .8
+ 4.1
-.4
+ .2
-1 .0
$7,112
5,916
5,075
90,275
18,709
- 4 .3
+ 5 .4
—. 6
+• 4
- 8.1
18
275
37
4
1,397
322
- 1 .1
+ .6
22,857
5,421
-.5
+ 2. 5
17
354
20
23
23
2, 765
1, Oil
2,324
-.6
+ 1 .8
(10)
44, 347
10,039
26, 552
+ 2 .9
+ 1. 7
+ 2 .0
4
8
7
111
76
178
16
15 68
39
29
is 43
301
3,052
1,762
1,157
896
+ 2 .0
-6 .5
- 2 .5
- 1 .3
+ 1 .5
4, 594
49,910
23,895
15, 382
11,769
+ 5 .7
—9.0
- 6 .4
-.5
+ 5 .2
38
5
21,261 - 4 .8
3,809 - 1 .4
9,661 -1 3 .2
26,747 - 4 . 4
87,449 - 1 .1
35
7
28
23
128
1,733 - 2 .7
(10)
394
662 -1 0 .7
1,814 - 1 . 3
5,315 - 0 . 5
Percent
age
change
from
August
1934
4
3
5
65
39
63
+ 6 .6
+11.4
+ 5 .0
3,028
1,665
299
2,857
387
- 2 .1
+ 2 .8
-5 .7
- 2 .6
-2 .0
43,717
25, 712
3,006
37,930
6, 502
-4 .4
+ 6 .0
- 6 .8
- 2 .5
- 2 .3
29
15
5
21
6
1,030
425
57
1,110
46
+ 3 .5
+10.7
+ 5 .6
+ 7 .0
- 2 .1
20,971
7,660
855
18,601
1,005
+ 8 .8
+12.4
+10.8
+10.3
+ 7 .0
14
912
-1 .7
12, 686
- 4 .7
11
166
+ 7 .1
2,866
+11. 8
16
49
5
297
5, 748
212
- 5 .4
-2 .0
—4.5
4, 530
102,980
3, 227
- 6 .8
+ .9
—2. 4
3
16
50
334
-2 .0
+ .6
861
7,805
+ 1. 3
+ .9
N ew Y ork _____
North Carolina.
North D akota...
Ohio___________
Oklahoma_____
74
12
10
75
22
7,130
688
217
3,981
966
+ 1.1
-3 .5
-2 .7
-1 .6
-1 .0
122,802
7,420
3, 229
61,602
12, 427
+ 1 .6
—3. S
-2 .4
-4 .0
+ .5
18
9
3
79
12
557
147
33
2,225
138
+ 5 .1
- 3 .9
+ 6 .5
+ 6 .4
+ 4 .5
10, 724
2,011
570
43,257
2,139
+ 7 .6
+ 4 .0
+ 7 .1
+12.7
+ 20.0
Oregon-----------P ennsylvania..
Rhode Isla n d ..
South CarolinaSouth D akota..
12
42
21
8
6
326
2,904
1,139
390
126
+ .9
(10)
-1 .2
- 2 .7
- 2 .3
5, 261
44,131
19,404
3, 757
1,564
+ 5 .3
+ .9
-.8
+ 3 .1
—.8
7
44
7
10
73
1, 704
405
80
+ 4 .3
+ 2 .3
- 2 .9
-1 .2
1,510
31,650
7,546
1,192
+ 6 .9
+ 9 .3
+ 1 .5
- 3 .9
Tennessee..
Texas_____
Utah--------V erm on t...
Virginia___
14
35
9
8
24
1, 225
2, 055
572
134
1,204
- 5 .0
+ .4
-2 .4
-2 .2
-.7
11, 284 - 4 .5
26, 254
-.7
8,426
+ .4
1,632 -1 1 .2
14, 549 - 1 .9
11
24
9
6
30
195
670
84
96
396
+11.4
+ 4 .7
+ 5 .0
+ 3 .2
+ 3 .7
2, 536
11,282
1,487
1,392
6,098
+13.8
+ 6 .6
+ 7 .0
-2 .2
+ 4 .7
15
16
is 28
5
703
577
965
104
+ 3 .8
-.2
—.2
(10)
13,070
7, 766
13,247
1,894
14
11
265
240
+ 7 .7
+ .4
5,401
3,664
+13.8
-3 . 3
3
20
(10)
M ich ig a n .. .
Minnesota _.
Mississippi..
Missouri___
M ontana___
57
40
7
47
16
Nebraska______
N evada________
N ew Hampshire
N ew Jersey____
N ew M exico___
Washington___
West Virginia..
Wisconsin____
W yom ing_____
N o change,
is Includes dyeing and cleaning.
+ 5 .2
- 1 .9
—.9
-6 .6
426
(10)
31
C O M P A R IS O N OF E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O LLS IN I D E N T I C A L E S T A B L IS H
M E N T S IN A U G U S T A N D S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y S T A T E S —Continued
Figures in italics are not compiled b y the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but are taken from reports issued by
b y cooperating State organizations]
Banks, brokerage, insurance, and real estate
N um ber
Number of
on pay
establish
roll
September
ments
1934
State
Percent Amount of Percentage
age
pay roll
change
change
from
(1 week)
from
September
August
August
1934
1934
1934
A la b a m a ._____ ____ __________ ___________
Arizona_____ _____ __________ ____ ________
Arkansas___ _______________ ________ ______
C a lifo rn ia ___________ _____________________
Colorado___________________________________
27
30
21
1,113
48
543
345
251
22,335
1,327
+ 0 .9
+ 9 .5
+ .4
+ 1 .3
- .1
$15,440
9,048
6,122
731,310
43,429
+ 0 .7
+ 7 .8
-.2
+ .9
—. 2
Connecticut_____ ___________________ ______
Delaware_____ _____ _______________________
District of Colum bia__________________ ____
Florida_____ _______________________________
Georgia_____________________ _____________
75
15
43
22
65
2,051
494
1,414
794
1,532
-.3
-.2
+ .4
-.3
- .3
72,081
17,693
51,373
24, 522
47,020
+ 1 .4
-.2
-.7
-2 .2
-3 .2
Idaho _______________________ ____________
Illinois _____ __________ _____
_______
Indiana___________ _____
.
____ ______
Iow a_________________ ______________ ______
Kansas 16_____ __________
___ ____________
16
U1
59
19
48
139
11,357
1,331
1,012
964
+ 3 .0
+. 1
- 2 .8
-.6
+ .7
3,375
394,238
43,112
32,018
31,412
+ 3 .8
+. 6
-2 .6
+ 1 .2
+ 6.1
K en tu cky_______________ ______ ___________
Louisiana. _______________ ______________
M aine___ _____ _ ___________ _____ ________
M aryland____ ________________________ _____
Massachusetts 16______________________ _____
22
21
21
36
227
761
413
281
1,128
7,618
+. 1
- 4 .6
+ .4
- 1 .2
-.5
25,316
15,197
7, 536
39,652
222,918
- .2
- 1 .6
+ 1 .8
-.4
-.8
M ichigan......................... ..........
....................
Minnesota_____ ____________________________
Mississippi_________________________________
M issouri___________________________________
M on tana...____ _______________________ ____
196
57
16
157
26
6,827
4,722
195
6,001
243
-1 .0
- 2 .8
-1 .0
-.6
-.4
213,331
131, 241
4,338
164,342
6,728
- 1 .0
- 5 .2
-.4
-.7
+ .6
Nebraska____ _______ ______________________
N evada____________________________________
N ew Hampshire____ ______ . . _________ . . .
N ew Jersey_________ ____________ _________
N ew M exico___ ____ ___________ ____________
23
3
35
153
17
587
13
433
13,413
121
-.5
(10)
+ .2
-.6
-3 .2
19,873
440
10,439
380,908
3,231
+ .2
-.5
+ 1 .2
- 1 .5
-1 .8
1,017
30
36
299
29
63,916
611
261
8,030
500
-1 .0
+ 1 .3
+ .4
- 1 .2
-.6
205, 519
16,231
6,361
265,023
14, 779
- 2 .4
+ 1 .7
+ .7
-1 .2
- 1 .3
Oregon______________ _______________________
Pennsylvania_____ ___________ _
_________
Rhode Island 16_____ __________________ ____
South Carolina_____ _______________________
South Dakota______________________________
38
751
75
11
31
1,184
88,486
1, 726
116
256
+ .3
- .4
- 1 .0
(10)
- 1 .9
38, 520
687,835
69, 335
3,531
6,277
+ .1
-.7
-.3
+ 3 .8
- 1 .3
Tennessee_____________ ____________ ______
Texas_______________________________________
U tah_______________________________________
Verm ont___________________________________
Virginia_____ ______________ _______ _____
36
58
22
30
65
1,140
1,906
585
233
1, 556
0°)
-.2
- 1 .3
- 8 .6
+ .6
38,717
51,415
19,931
6,780
48,947
+ .8
-.1
+• 1
- 3 .1
+ .4
Washington...........................................................
W est Virginia____ _________________________
W isconsin___________ ____ _________ _______
W yom ing..............................................................
54
40
38
13
1,915
557
1,107
119
+ .1
-.9
-.4
-.8
57,693
16,043
37,354
3, 612
-1 .0
-.6
N ew Y ork__________________________________
North Carolina___________ __ _____________
North Dakota ___ ____ ___________________
Ohio _. _____________ _____________________
Oklahoma______ _________ __________ ______
18 N o change.
1
i
I
I
i
16 Does not include brokerage and real estate.
-.9
+ .1
Employment and Pay Rolls in September 1934 in Cities of Over 500,000
Population
F l u c t u a t i o n s in employment and pay-roll totals in September
1934 as compared with August 1934 in 13 cities of the United States
having a population of 500,000 or over are presented in the following
table. These changes are computed from reports received from iden
tical establishments in each of the months considered.
In addition to reports received from establishments in the several
industrial groups regularly covered in the survey of the Bureau,
excluding building construction, reports have also been secured from
other establishments in these cities for inclusion in these totals.
Information concerning employment in building construction is not
available for all cities at this time and therefore has not been included.
F L U C T U A T IO N S IN E M P L O Y M E N T A N D P A Y R O L L S IN S E P T E M B E R 1934 AS C O M
P A R E D W IT H A U G U S T 1934
Cities
Num ber of
establish
ments re
porting in
both
months
N ew York C ity ______
Chicago, 111— .............
Philadelphia, P a ____
Detroit, M ich _______
Los Angeles, Calif___
Cleveland, Ohio_____
St. Louis, M o ........ . . .
Baltimore, M d ______
Boston, Mass________
Pittsburgh, P a______
San Francisco, Calif. _
Buffalo, N . Y _______
Milwaukee, W is.........
12,867
3,755
2,921
1,804
2,685
2,188
2,590
1,236
3,616
1, 505
2,037
913
830
Num ber on pay roll
Am ount of pay roll
(1 week)
August
1934
August
1934
562,355
319,473
206,358
274,587
120,870
116,509
118,303
73,561
148,820
119,855
75, 726
58,871
59,443
Per
centage
change
from
September August
1934
1934
579,592
329,009
204, 548
256,113
123,590
116,028
119,149
73, 793
152,008
118,171
77,713
58,912
59,381
Percentage
change
from
August
September
1934
1934
+ 3 .1 $14,708,514 $14,872,067
7,521, 592
7,573,290
+ 3 .0
4,559,465
-.9
4,611,828
-6 .7
6,630,119
5,425,951
2,907,534
+ 2 .3
2,891,219
2,468,146
-.4
2, 622, 683
+ .7
2,501,096
2,438,073
1,445,335
1,449,547
+. 3
+ 2 .1
3,441, 716
3,472,737
- 1 .4
2,384,469
2, 528,940
1,888,354
+ 2 .6
1,857,065
1,257,694
1,250,809
+ .1
1
1, 245,870
1,261, 747
+ 1 .1
+ .7
- 1 .1
- 1 8 .2
+ .6
- 5 .9
- 2 .5
-.3
+ .9
- 5 .7
- 1 .7
-.5
-1 .3
Employment on Class I Steam Railroads in the United States
R e p o r t s of the Interstate Commerce Commission for class I rail
roads show that the number of employees, exclusive of executives
and officials, decreased from 1,020,113 on August 15,1934, to 1,011,333
(preliminary) on September 15, 1934, or 0.9 percent. Data are not
yet available concerning total compensation of employees for Sep
tember 1934. The latest pay-roll information available shows an
increase from $126,989,749 in July 1934 to $128,261,020 in August
1934, or 1 percent.
The monthly trend of employment from January 1923 to Sep
tember 1934 on class I railroads— that is, all roads having operating
revenues of $1,000,000 or over—is shown by index numbers published
in the following table. These index numbers, constructed by the
Interstate Commerce Commission, are based on the 3-year average,
1923-25 as 100.
33
IN D E X E S OF E M P L O Y M E N T ON CLASS I S T E A M R AIL R O AD S IN T H E
S T A T E S , J A N U A R Y 1923 T O S E P T E M B E R 1934
U N IT E D
[3-year average, 1923-25=100]
M onth
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
January______________
February____________
M arch_______________
April-------------------------M a y _________________
June___ _
___
July__________________
A u g u s t_______ ____
September______ _____
October______ _______
N ovem ber___________
December_______
98.4
98.6
100.4
101.9
104.8
107.1
108.2
109.2
107.7
107.1
105.0
99.1
96.7
96.9
97.3
98.8
99.1
97.9
98.0
98.9
99.6
100.7
98.9
96.0
95.5
95.3
95.1
96.5
97.7
98.5
99.3
99.5
99.7
100.4
98.9
96.9
95.6
95.8
96.5
98.6
100.0
101.3
102.6
102.4
102.5
103.1
101.0
98.0
95.2
95.0
95.6
97.1
99.1
100.7
100.7
99.2
98.8
98.5
95.5
91.7
89.1
88.7
89.7
91.5
94.4
95.8
95.4
95.5
95.1
95.2
92.7
89.5
88.0
88.6
89.8
91.9
94.6
95.8
96.3
97.1
96.5
96.6
92.8
88.5
86.1
85.2
85.3
86.7
88.3
86.3
84.5
83.5
82.0
80.2
76.9
74.8
73.5
72.6
72.7
73.4
73.8
72.7
72.3
71.0
69.2
67.6
64.4
62.5
61.1
60.2
60.5
59.9
59.6
57.7
56.3
54.9
55.7
56.9
55.8
54.7
53.0
52.7
51.5
51.8
52.5
53.6
55.4
56.8
57.7
57.4
55.8
54.0
54.1
54.6
55.9
56.9
58.5
59.0
58.7
i 57.8
2 57.3
Average________
104.0
98.2
97.8
99.8
97.3
92.7
93.1
83.3
70.6
57.8
54.4
2 57.0
1 Preliminary.
2 Average for 9 months.
Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.
Employment and Pay Rolls in the Federal Service, September 1934
C o m p a r in g September with August, there was an increase of 5,000
in the number of employees in the executive departments of the
United States Government. Comparing September 1934 with the
corresponding month of the previous year, there was an increase of
95,222 employees. Information concerning employment in the ex
ecutive departments is collected by the Civil Service Commission
from the various departments and offices of the United States Gov
ernment, and figures are tabulated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Employment data for the legislative, judicial, and military services
are collected and compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the
United States Department of Labor.
Table 1 shows the number of employees in the executive depart
ments of the Government. Data for employees working in the Dis
trict of Columbia are shown separately. Approximately 13 percent
of the employees in the executive departments work in the city of
Washington.
34
ta b le
1 .— E M P L O Y E E S
IN T H E E X E C U T IV E S E R V IC E OF T H E U N IT E D
S E P T E M B E R 1933 A N D A U G U S T A N D S E P T E M B E R 1934
District of Columbia
Item
Perma Tem
p o
nent
ra ry 1
Total
Entire service
Outside the District
Perma Tem po
ra ry 1
nent
Total
STATES
Perma T em p o Total
ra ry1
nent
N um ber of employees:
September 1933.............
63,376 6,482 69,858 459,147 57,610 516,757 522,523 64,092 586,615
August 1934.............. ......... 81,811 9,254 91,065 498, 299 3 87,473 3585,772 580,110 396,727 3676,837
September 1934...............
83,931 8,626 92,557 501,822 87,458 589,280 585,753 96,084 681,837
Gain or loss:
September 1933 to Sep
tember 1934........... ......... +20. 555 +2,144 +22,699 +42, 675 +29,848 +72,523 +63,230 +31,992 +95, 222
August 1934 to Septem
ber 1934................ .......... +2,120 -62S +1,492 +3,523
-6 4 3 +5,000
-1 5 + 3, 508 +5, 643
Percentage change:
September 1933 to Sep
tember 1934____........ .
+32.43 +3, 308 +32.48 +9.29 +51.81 +14.03 +12.10 +49.92 +16.23
August 1934 to Septem
ber 1934______ _________ + 2.59 - 6 . 79 + 1. 64 + 0. 71 -0 .0 2
+0.60 +0.97 -0 .6 6 + 0 . 74
Labor turn-over September
1934:
A dditions2.....................
4,922
7,841 20,986
3, 305 1,617
28,827 11,146 22, 603 33,749
Separations 2___________
3,285
4,341 19,868
24,209
5,381 22,113 27,494
1,040 2, 245
4.05
Turn-over rate per 100. __
4.12
3.58
0.87
0.92
22.94
1. 25 18. 09
22.71
iN o t including field employees of the Post Office Department.
*N ot including employees transferred within the Government service as such transfers should not be
regarded as labor turn-over.
3Revised.
There was an increase of 1,492, or 1.64 percent, in the number of
employees of the executive departments working in the District of
Columbia, comparing September with August. The number of per
manent employees increased 2.6 percent, comparing these 2 months,
while the number of temporary employees decreased nearly 7 percent.
Comparing September 1934 with the same month of the previous year,
there was an increase of over 30 percent in both permanent and tem
porary employees.
The turn-over rate per 100 Federal employees in the District of
Columbia was 3.58. The turn-over rate for permanent employees
was 1.25 and for temporary employees 18.09. Comparing September
with August there was an increase of 3,508 employees in the execu
tive departments outside the city of Washington. The number of
employees outside the city of Washington increased 14.03 percent, com
paring September 1934 with September 1933.
Table 2 shows employment in the executive departments of the
United States Government by months, January to September 1934,
inclusive.
T able 2 .—E M P L O Y M E N T IN T H E E X E C U T IV E D E P A R T M E N T S OF T H E U N IT E D
S T A T E S B Y M O N T H S , 1934, F O R D I S T R I C T OF C O L U M B IA , O U T S ID E D I S T R I C T OF
C O L U M B IA , A N D T O T A L S
M onth
District
of C o
lumbia
Outside
District
of Co
lumbia
Total
M onth
78,045
79,913
81,569
83,850
85,939
1 530,094
1 531,839
541,990
560,258
573,147
1 608,139
1 611,752
623,559
644,108
659,086
June............................
J u ly ............................
August........................
September.................
January......................
February....................
M arch........................
A pril...........................
M a y ............................
* Revised.
District
of Co
lumbia
Outside
District
of Co
lumbia
Total
87,196
87,978
91,065
92, 557
573,898
1 583,531
1 585,772
589, 280
661,094
1 671,509
1 676,837
681,837
35
Over the 9-month period there was an increase of 14,500 in the
number of employees in the Federal executive departments in the
city of Washington. The number of such employees outside the
Capital City increased by 59,186 over this period.
Table 3 shows the number of employees and amounts of pay rolls
in the various branches of the United States Government during
August and September 1934.
T able 3 .—N U M B E R O F E M P L O Y E E S A N D A M O U N T S O F P A Y R O L L S IN T H E V A R IO U S
B R A N C H E S O F T H E U N IT E D S T A T E S G O V E R N M E N T , A U G U S T A N D S E P T E M B E R
1934
Number of employees
Am ount of pay roll
Branch of service
August
September
August
September
Executive serviceM ilitary s e r v i c e judicial service___
Legislative service.
i 676,837
268,712
1,690
3,723
681,837
269,489
1,777
3,721
$97,462,606
20,501,900
439,014
977,966
$98,604,611
20,985,103
486,410
976,516
T otal............
i 950,962
956,824
119,381,486
120,922,630
1 Revised.
There was an increase of approximately 700 in the United States
military force over the month period. The judicial service showed a
slight increase, while the legislative service remained practically
stationary.
Table 4 shows the number of employees and amounts of pay rolls
for all branches of the United States Government, by months, from
December 1933 to September 1934, inclusive.
T able 4 .—N U M B E R OF E M P L O Y E E S A N D A M O U N T S OF P A Y R O L L S F O R A L L
B R A N C H E S O F T H E U N IT E D S T A T E S G O V E R N M E N T , B Y M O N T H S , D E C E M B E R
1933 T O S E P T E M B E R 1934, IN C L U S IV E
Executive service
M onth
M ilitary service
N um
ber of
em
ploy-
Am ount
of pay
roll
608, 670
$82,011,601
263,622 $17,656,909
608,139
611,752
623,559
644,108
659,086
661,094
1671,509
1676,837
681,837
77,450,498
83,524,296
84,837,493
85,090,283
89,577,479
91,540,629
i 94,636,232
197,919,636
98,604,611
262,942
263,464
266,285
266,923
266,864
267,038
268,257
268,712
N um
ber of
em
ploy
ees
Am ount
of pay
roll
Judicial service
Legislative
service
N um
N um
ber of A m ou n t ber of
em
em
of pay
ployployroll
Amount
of pay
roll
1933
December.......
$432,435
3 ,864
417,000
430,843
443,505
432,401
442,896
439,170
434,736
439,014
486,410
3,845
3,852
3,867
3,865
3,862
3,878
3,713
3,723
3,721
1934
January...........
February.........
M arch..............
April.................
M a y .................
June.................
Ju ly..................
August.............
September___
1 Revised.
18,499,516
19,532,832
19,050,158
18,816,636
19,216,150
19,539,020
20,391,629
20,501,900
20,985,103
1 ,780
1,742
1,854
1,904
1,913
1,881
1,750
1,690
1,777
871,753
926,363
928,368
926,484
940,666
944,758
978,908
977,966
976, 516
36
Employment Created by Public Works Administration Fund, September 1934
During the month ending September 15, 1934, there were 550,000
employees working at the site of Public Works Administration con
struction projects. This construction is financed wholly or in part
from the Public Works Administration fund. These workers were
paid nearly $32,000,000 for their month’s work.
Employment on Construction Projects, By Type of Project
T a b l e 1 shows, by type of project, employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked during the month of September1 1934 on Federal projects
financed by the Public Works Administration fund.
T
1.—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON F E D E R A L
P R O JE C T S F IN A N C E D F R O M T H E P U B L IC W O R K S A D M I N I S T R A T I O N F U N D ,
D U R IN G S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y T Y P E OF P R O J E C T
able
[Subject to revision]
Number of
Am ount of man-hours Average
earnings
pay rolls
worked
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
31,542
230,179
54, 590
16,428
17,688
16,050
7,436
1, 210
15,305
$2,137,260
9, 572, 675
3,896,083
853,485
1, 952, 769
1, 592, 542
571,089
62,866
1, 281, 546
2,665,123
19,103,938
5, 740,139
1, 544,977
2,341, 287
2,608,556
714, 260
94,602
2,130,181
$0.802
.501
.679
.552
.834
.611
.800
.665
.602
$3,019,608
14,000,357
5,504,686
684,198
2,164,338
2,380,746
266,619
120,249
1,368,466
390,428
21,920, 315
36,943,063
.593
29, 509,267
T yp e of project
Number
of wage
earners
Building construction_________________________
Public roads__________________________________
River, harbor, and flood control______________
Streets and roads 1____________________________
Naval vessels_________ __
__________________
Reclamation______ ___________________________
Forestry______________________________________
Water and sewerage. __ ---------------- ---------------Miscellaneous_________ ______ ______________ .
Total_____________________ _____________
1 Other than those reported b y the Bureau of Public Roads.
Federal projects are financed entirely by allotments made by the
Public Works Administration to various departments and agencies of
the Federal Government. The construction work is done either by
commercial firms to whom contracts are awarded by the Federal
agencies or by day labor hired directly by such agencies.
There were over 390,000 people working at the site of Federal con
struction projects. This is a decrease of over 60,000 as compared with
the month of August. The decrease was caused mainly by the com
pletion of many public-roads projects. Increases were shown in river,
harbor, and flood control, naval vessels, and reclamation projects,
comparing these 2 months.
Although employment on road building showed a large decrease,
nearly 60 percent of the workers on Federal construction projects
were employed on this type of work. More than 54,000 were engaged
in river, harbor, and flood-control work and over 31,000 in building
construction.
* Whenever the month of September is spoken of in this study it is assumed to mean the month ending
Sept. 15.
37
Employees on Federal construction projects worked nearly 37,000,000 hours and drew $22,000,000 for their month’s work, an average of
over 59 cents per hour.
Hourly earnings ranged from 50 cents for public-road work to 83
cents for naval vessels.
Material orders valued at nearly $30,000,000 were placed during the
month ending September 15.
Table 2 shows, by type of project, employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked during the month of September on non-Federal construc
tion projects financed from the Public Works Administration fund.
T
2 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON N O N F E D E R A L
P R O J E C T S F IN A N C E D F R O M T H E P U B L IC W O R K S A D M IN IS T R A T IO N F U N D D U R
IN G S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y T Y P E OF P R O J E C T
able
[Subject to revision]
T yp e of project
Building construction__________________ ______
Streets and roads______________ _____________
Water and sewerage_______ __
. __________
Railroad construction________________________
Miscellaneous________________ _______ ______
Total__________________________ _______
Number A mount of Num ber of Average
man-hours earnings
of wage
pay rolls
per hour
worked
earners
Value of
material
orders
placed
42,622
20,130
32,046
31,411
' 952
$2, 694, 379
1,074, 553
1, 795,146
1, 676, 466
62, 531
3,122,620
1,672,656
2,606,822
3,331,037
88,988
$0.863
.642
.689
.503
.703
$6,104,731
1,686,143
4,355,251
521,484
416,696
127,161
7, 303,075
10,822,123
.675
13,084,305
Non-Federal projects are financed by allotments made from the
Public Works Administration fund to a State or political subdivisions
thereof, or in some cases to commercial firms. In the case of allot
ments to States and their political subdivisions, the Public Works
Administration makes a direct grant of not more than 30 percent of
the total construction cost. The public agency to which the loan is
made finances the other 70 percent. In some cases this 70 percent is
obtained as a loan from the Public Works Administration; in other
cases, the loan is obtained from outside sources. Where the loan is
made by the Public Works Administration it bears interest and must
be paid within a given period.
No grants are made to commercial firms. Commercial allotments
consist entirely of loans. By far the largest part of the commercial
allotments have been made to railroads. Railroad work falls under
three headings: First, construction, such as electrification, laying of
rails and ties, repairs to buildings, etc.; second, building and repairing
of locomotives and passenger and freight cars in railroad shops; third,
the building of locomotives and passenger and freight cars in com
mercial shops.
Data concerning employment created by railroad construction is
shown in table 2. Employment in railroad car and locomotive shops
38
is shown in table 5, page 39. Employment in commercial car and
locomotive shops is shown in table 6, page 40.
More than 127,000 workers were engaged at the site of non-Federal
construction projects during the month of September. This is an
increase of 10,000 as compared with August. These workers were
paid over $7,000,000 for nearly 11,000,000 hours of work. They
earned an average of 68 cents per hour. Railroad construction
showed the lowest average hourly earnings and building construction
the highest. Material orders totaled over $13,000,000.
Employment on Construction Projects, by Geographic Divisions
T a b l e 3 show's employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
during September 1934 on Federal construction projects finiinced
from the Public Works Administration fund, by geographic divisions.
T able 3 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O LLS , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D O N F E D E R A L
P R O J E C T S F IN A N C E D F R O M T H E P U B L IC W O R K S A D M IN IS T R A T IO N F U N D , D U R
IN G S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y G E O G R A P H IC D IV IS IO N
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Geograpllic division
Number Weekly
em
ployed average
Number of Average
Am ount of
earnings
pay rolls man-hours
worked
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
17,657
42,317
52,541
51,097
56, 560
45,049
48, 717
43,820
25, 392
15,966
39,627
51,129
48,956
53, 528
43,125
46, 739
42,306
24,017
$1,243,930
2,416, 945
2, 923,378
2, 293,289
3,027, 618
2,144,867
2,033, 498
3,449, 283
2,016, 685
1,920, 505
3,934,907
4, 537,445
3,897, 658
5, 285, 791
4,647,067
4, 253, 783
5,053, 313
2, 675, 780
$0.648
.614
.644
.588
.573
.462
.478
.683
.754
$853, 250
1, 803, 810
1, 679,950
1, 505,125
2,948,827
995,450
914,803
3, 238. 5G8
1, 215,151
Total continental United States. 383,150
7, 278
Outside continental United States.......
365, 393
6,453
21, 549, 493
370,822
36, 206, 249
736,814
.595
.503
15, 154, 952
353,958
371, 846
21,920, 315
36,943,063
.593
» 29, 509, 267
New England____ ______________ ____
M iddle Atlantic.......................................
East North Central...................... .........
W est North Central..............................._
South A tlantic.........................................
East South Central..................................
West South Central.............................. .
M o u n ta in ......................... ........... ..........
Pacific........ .................... ..........................
Grand total ___________________
390, 428
1 Includes $14,000,357, estimated value of material orders placed for public-road projects which cannot be
charged to any specific geographic division.
There were more than 50,000 workers employed in each of the
following geographic divisions: East North Central, West North
Central, and South Atlantic. Pay rolls in the South Atlantic and
Mountain States amounted to more than $3,000,000. Workers in
all other geographic divisions except New England drew over
$2,000,000 for their month’s work. Average hourly earnings ranged
from 46 cents in the East South Central States to more than 75 cents
in the Pacific States.
Table 4 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked
during September 1934 on non-Federal projects financed from the
Public Works Administration fund, by geographic divisions.
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T able 4 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON N O N F E D E R A L
P R O J E C T S F IN A N C E D F R O M T H E P U B L IC W O R K S A D M I N I S T R A T I O N F U N D D U R
IN G S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y G E O G R A P H IC D IV IS IO N
[Subject to revision]
Wage earners
Geographic division
Number W eekly
em
ployed average
of Average
A mount of Number
earnings
pay rolls man-hours
worked
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
19,844
20, 765
18, 303
15, 573
26, 352
4, 293
4,763
7,120
9, 753
16,466
17,883
15, 647
13,082
23, 227
3, 605
3,920
5, 640
7,943
$1, 257,671
1, 266, 045
1,163, 576
789, 319
1, 605,447
217, 011
190, 255
364,695
430, 311
2, 026, 748
1, 693, 700
1,442,870
1, 008, 091
2, 692, 739
366, 694
337, 365
574, 614
644, 785
$0. 621
.748
.806
.783
.596
.592
.564
.635
.667
$1,583,707
2,876,882
2,603,016
1, 706,498
1,822,689
341,686
736, 540
547, 286
757, 021
Total continental United States. 126, 766
395
Outside continental United States___
107, 413
343
7, 284, 330
18, 745
10, 787, 606
34, 517
.675
.543
12,975,325
108,980
127,161
107, 756
7, 303, 075
10,822,123
.675
13,084,305
N ew England____ ___________________
M iddle Atlantic__________________
East North Central___________ _______
W est North Central__________________
South Atlantic________ ____ _________
East South Central____________ _____
West South Central_______ ____ _____
M ountain________________________
Pacific_______________________________
Grand total____________________
Over 25,000 workers were employed in the South Atlantic States
during September, while more than 18,000 were working in the New
England, Middle Atlantic, and East North Central States. Pay
rolls amounted to over $1,000,000 in each of the four geographic
divisions enumerated above. Hourly earnings ranged from 56 cents
in the West South Central States to more than 80 cents in the East
North Central States.
Table 5 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked in
railway car and locomotive shops operated by railroads on work
financed from the Public Works Administration fund during
September 1934, by geographic divisions.
T able 5 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D IN R A IL R O A D
SHOPS ON W O R K F IN A N C E D F R O M T H E P U B L IC W O R K S A D M IN IS T R A T IO N F U N D
D U R IN G S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y G E O G R A P H IC D IV IS IO N
[Subject to revision]
Number
of wage
earners
Geographic division
New England_________ ______________________
M iddle Atlantic____
_________ _________ _
East North Central_____________________ ____
West North Central___ ____ _________________
South A tlantic___ ___________________________
East South Central----------------------------------West South Central_______________ ____ _____
M ountain___ ________________________________
Pacific____________ __________________________
T otal_______ _________________________
.
of Average
Amount of Number
man-hours earnings
pay rolls
worked
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
475
6,118
3, 719
1, 267
1,145
2, 854
1, 966
799
3,446
$47,484
354, 281
363,177
59,907
129,005
297,115
100, 691
32, 787
192,916
70, 802
544, 589
562, 048
90, 780
194, 670
485, 431
166, 015
51, 787
311,156
$0.671
.651
.646
.660
.663
.612
.607
.633
.620
$21,129
227,813
164,800
22,289
802,846
56,357
48, 879
18,115
60,507
21,789
1, 577, 363
2,477, 278
.637
1,422, 735
40
More than 25 percent of the railroad shop workers engaged on
Public Works Administration projects were working in the Middle
Atlantic States. Workers in both the Middle Atlantic and East
North Central States drew more than $350,000 for their month’s
work. These shop employees worked nearly 2,500,000 hours during
this month, and averaged nearly 64 cents per hour.
The rate ranged from slightly less than 60 cents in the West South
Central States to more than 67 cents per hour in the New England
States.
Table 6 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked in
commercial car and locomotive shops on contracts financed from the
Public Works Administration fund during September 1934, by
geographic divisions.
T a bie 6 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D IN C O M M E R C IA L
C A R A N D L O C O M O T IV E SHOPS ON C O N T R A C T S F IN A N C E D F R O M T H E P U B L IC
W O R K S A D M IN IS T R A T IO N F U N D D U R IN G S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y G E O G R A P H IC
D IV IS IO N
ISubject to revision]
Geographic division
New England. ______ ______ ___
_ ___ _
__
_____________
M iddle Atlantic___- ________ _____
East North Central ______________ ______ __
W’ est North C en tra l_______________________________ .
South Atlantic________________ _______________________
East South Central_________ _________________________
T otal_________ _________________________________
Number of Am ount of N um ber of
wage earn pay rolls man-hours
ers
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
153
6, 701
2. 359
' 532
764
23
$12, 579
584,880
199,411
37,573
81, 561
3,560
24,437
922, 701
295,125
75,513
131, 560
7, 695
$0. 515
.634
.676
.498
.620
.463
10,532
919, 564
1, 457,031
.631
More than 10,500 workers were employed during the month of
September in commercial car and locomotive shops on work financed
from the Public Works Administration fund. These employees drew
more than $900,000 for over 1,450,000 hours of labor. The workers
earned 63 cents per hour. More than 60 percent were employed in
the Middle Atlantic States and almost 25 percent in the East North
Central States.
Table 7 shows expenditures for materials from the beginning of the
Public Works Administration program in July 1933 to September
15, 1934.
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T able 7 .—V A L U E OF M A T E R I A L O R D E R S P L A C E D ON P U B L IC W O R K S P R O J E C T S ,
B Y T Y P E OF M A T E R I A L
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders
placed—
T yp e of material
From begin
During
ning of
month ending
program to Sept. 15,1934
Aug. 15, 1934
Aircraft (new ).......... ................. ........
Airplane parts............ ...................... .
Alum inum manufactures..................
Am m unition and related products.
Asbestos.
Awnings, tents, canvas, etc............ ............
Belting, miscellaneous..______ __________
Boat building, steel and wooden (small)..
Bolts, nuts, washers, etc............................ .
Carpets and rugs....................... ...................
Carriages and wagons______ ____________
Cast-iron pipe and fittings— ....................
Cement.
Chemicals-.......
Clay products..
C oal.
Compressed and liquefied gases _
Concrete products______________
Copper products_________ ______
Cordage and twine........................
Cork products_________________
Cotton goods----------------------------Creosote.
Crushed stone____________________________________________________________
Doors, shutters, and window sash and frames, molding and trim (m etal). . .
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies___________________ _____ ____
Elevators and parts_______________________________________________________
Engines, turbines, tractors, water wheels, and windmills__________________
Explosives________________________________________________________________
Felt goods__________________________________ ________ ____________________
Firearms.
Forgings, iron and steel______________________________________
Foundry and machine-shop products, not elsewhere classified.
Furniture, ncluding store and office fixtures_________________
Glass.
Hardware, miscellaneous_______________
Instruments, professional and scientific..
Jute goods_________ ___________________
Lighting equipment.................. .................
Lim e..
Linoleum ________ _________ __________ ____________________________________
Locomotives, oil-electric______ ____________________ ________ _______________
Locomotives, steam__________ ____ _______________ ____ ___________________
Lumber and timber products___ __________________________________________
Machine tools_______________________________ ______ _______________________
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone products_______ ____ _______________
Mattresses and bed springs________________________________________________
Meters (gas, water, etc.) and gas generators_______ ____ ____ ______________
Minerals and earths, ground or otherwise treated____ ______________________
M otor vehicles:
Passenger___________ ____________________ ____________ ________________
Trucks____________________ ______ _____________________________________
Nails and spikes_________ _______ _________________________________________
Nonferrous-metal alloys, nonferrous-metal products, except aluminum, not
elsewhere classified_______________ ____________________ _____ ____________
Paints and varnishes............................... ........................ .................... ............... ...
Paper products___________________________ ___________ _____ ______________
Paving materials and mixtures______________________ __________ ________
Petroleum products_____ _______________ _________________ ________________
Photographic apparatus and materials..................................................................
Planing mill products_____________ ________ __________ ________ ___________
Plum bing supplies________________________ ____ _________ _________________
Pumps and pumping equipment____ ____ ____________________ ___________
Radio apparatus and supplies_____ ___________________ ____ _____________ _
Rail fastenings, excluding spikes.................................................... .......................
Rails, steel________ _______________________ _____________________ _________
Railway cars:
Freight_____ ______________________ ________________________ _________
M ail and express_____________ _____ ______________ ____ _______________
Refrigerators and refrigerator cabinets, including mechanical refrigerators___
Roofing, built-up and roll; asphalt shingles; roof coatings, other than pa in t...
.Rubber goods__________________ ________ __________________________________
$4, 284,890
4,386,812
95,208
578,800
50, 742
141, 715
14, 568
776,502
1,705,002
30, 505
16,948
6, 220,944
54,465,005
164, 207
4, 562, 345
513,190
143, 225
6,406,808
318, 799
173,885
35,951
65, 968
446, 748
17, 374,394
1,808,134
19,981,953
32,965
2,661,483
1,949,900
149, 668
748, 789
2, 756, 810
50,931, 502
694,946
287, 763
1,827,825
1, 288,935
33,374
1,064,367
96, 788
10, 213
512,766
6.837.064
23,248, 276
2, 896,686
6,127,066
12,918
111, 433
80,379
$51, 292
6,686
13, 662
1,952
5,875
3, 578
6,394
76,946
5,764
11,408
1,269,067
6,138,499
19,520
1,157,472
89,013
15, 459
1,039, 556
44,149
6,931
5,943
4, 344
199
2, 203, 249
170,161
2, 217,174
30,998
554,008
208, 259
6,199
152
76,864
5,491, 560
102, 384
19,616
285,192
76,902
4,182
102, 959
18, 612
2, 524
2, 507,125
485,992
709,952
1,971
31,812
15,418
153,187
397,174
479, 697
165,980
234, 647
21,354
757,607
1,065,887
19,337
7,691, 560
13,334,089
10,575
2,187,020
3.968.064
5, 371,933
568,056
4, 789,105
17,376,626
64,613
97,725
6,142
864,721
1,668,961
133,246
375,130
521,421
476,655
8,823
78,719
286,739
34, 523,901
429,443
6,802,435
528,589
1,168, 574
195, 790
350,000
23,518
159,072
21,167
120, 750
42
T
able
7 .—V A L U E OF M A T E R I A L O R D E R S P L A C E D ON P U B L IC W O R K S P R O J E C T S ,
B Y T Y P E O F M A T E R I A L —Continued
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders
placed—
T ype of material
Sacks and bags____________________________________________________________
Sand and gravel__________________________________ ____ ___________________
Sheet-metal w ork____ ____________________________________________________
Smelting and refining, lead_________ _______________ ______________________
Smelting and refining, zinc______________________ ______ __________________
Springs, steel------------------------------------------------------- ------- -------------------------------Steam and hot-water heating apparatus___________________________________
Steam and other packing, pipe and boiler covering, and gaskets___________
Steel-works and rolling-mill products, other than steel rails, including struc
tural and ornamental metal w ork_______________________________________
Stoves and ranges (other than electric) and warm-air furnaces_____________
Switches, railway_______________________________________________ _________
Theatrical scenery and stage equipment____________________________ ______
Tools, other than machine tools_________________ ______ __________________
Upholstering materials, not elsewhere classified____________________________
Wall plaster, wall board, insulating board, and floor composition__________
W aste____________________________________________________________________
W indow and door screens and weather strip___________________ ___________
W indow shades and fixtures______________________________________________
Wire, drawn from purchased rods______________ ____________ _____________
Wirework, not elsewhere classified________________________________________
Wrought pipe, welded and heavy riveted_________________________________
Other______________________________________________________ ____ _________
Total_______________________________________________________________
From begin
During
ning of
ending
program to month
Sept. 15,1934
Aug. 15, 1934
$15,310
29, 505,047
1, 685,394
103,331
17,409
538,024
2, 509,011
359,088
$915
3, 440, 252
103,697
12,443
102
30,115
299,470
72,936
68,186,123
96,309
767, 648
25,701
2, 665,902
81,838
796, 552
16,671
60, 541
29, 711
2, 224, 357
450,436
228, 623
19,813,934
5,998,169
41, 219
6,071
199
262, 702
2, 561
195, 655
4,620
8, 716
15,041
88, 331
132, 518
31,039
2, 763, 929
461,120, 773
44,487,057
From the beginning of the Public Works Administration program
to August 15, 1934, purchase orders were placed for materials to cost
over $460,000,000, affecting nearly all branches of industry. The total
purchases of steel-works and rolling-mills products, including steel
rails, amounted to more than $85,000,000; cement, over $54,000,000;
foundry and machine-shop products, nearly $51,000,000; railway cars,
nearly $42,000,000.
During the month of September orders were placed for materials
valued at over $44,000,000. It is estimated that the fabrication of the
materials for which orders were placed during September will create
approximately 105,000 man-months of labor.
Table 8 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked by
employees since the inception of the Public Works Administration
program in July 1933 to September 1934.
43
T
8 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D D U R IN G A U G U S T
1933 T O S E P T E M B E R 1934 ON P R O J E C T S F IN A N C E D F R O M T H E P U B L IC W O R K S
A D M IN IS T R A T IO N FU N D , B Y M O N T H
[Subject to revision]
able
N um ber of
wage earners
M onth
Amount of
pay rolls
N um ber of
man-hours
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of ma
terial orders
placed
1933
A ugust............. .......................................
September_____________ _____________
October 1___ ________________________
N ovem ber 1_______ _________________
December 1___ ______________________
4,699
33,836
121,403
254, 784
270,408
$280,040
1,961,496
7,325,313
14,458,364
15,424, 700
539,454
3, 920,009
14,636,603
27,862,280
29,866, 249
$0. 519
.500
.500
.519
.516
$202,100
1,622,365
2 22, 513, 767
24, 299,055
24,850,188
1934
January...............................................
February i__________________________
March 1........ .......... .............................
April i________ ______ _______________
M ay 1_____ _________________________
June 1___ __________ ________________
July i____ _______ ___________________
A u gu st................................ ............ .......
September_________ _________________
273, 583
295, 741
292,696
371, 234
491,166
592,057
624, 286
602, 581
549, 910
14, 574,960
15, 246, 423
15, 636, 545
17, 907,842
25,076,908
32, 783, 533
33,829,858
35,142, 770
31, 720, 317
27, 658, 591
28, 938,177
29,171,634
31, 559,966
44,912,412
58,335,119
59,436,314
59,943,328
51,699,495
.527
.527
.536
.567
.558
.562
.569
.586
.614
23,522,929
24, 565,004
3 69,334,408
3 66,639,862
3 49, 720,378
3 57, 589, 895
3 49,299,174
3 46,961,648
3 44,487,057
261,369,069
468,479,631
.558
505,607,830
T o t a l.._______ ________________
1 Revised.
2Includes orders placed for naval vessels prior to October.
3 Includes orders placed b y railroads for new equipment.
The total earnings over the 14-month period amounted to more
than $260,000,000. This construction program has provided, at the
site of the construction project, nearly 470,000,000 man-hours of labor.
The earnings have averaged nearly 56 cents per hour over the 14month period.
It is estimated that the manufacture of materials for which orders
have been placed will create nearly 1,400,000 man-months of labor.
This only accounts for the labor in fabrication of material in the form
in which it is to be used. For example, only labor in manufacturing
brick is counted, not the labor in taking the clay from the pits or in
hauling the clay and other materials used in the brick plant. In fab
ricating steel rails only the labor in the rolling mill is counted, not
labor created in mining and smelting the ore, nor labor in the blast
furnaces, the open-hearth furnaces, nor the blooming mills.
Emergency Work Relief Program
D u r i n g the week ending September 27 nearly 1,400,000 people
were given employment by the emergency work program of the
Federal Relief Administration.
Table 1 shows the number of employees and amounts of pay roll for
workers on the emergency work program for weeks ending August 30
and September 27.
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T
able
1 .—N U M B E R OF E M P L O Y E E S A N D A M O U N T S OF P A Y R O L L S F O R W O R K E R S
ON E M E R G E N C Y W O R K R E L IE F P R O G R A M , A U G . 30 A N D S E P T . 27, 1934
[Subject to revision]
N um ber of employees week
ending—
Am ount of pay roll week
ending—
Geographic division
Aug. 30
Sept. 27
Aug. 30
Sept. 27
New E n g la n d ...______ ____ ___________________
M iddle Atlantic.............___.............................. .......
East North Central________ __________________
West North Central__________________________
South Atlantic_________________ ______________
East South Central............ ....................................
West South Central............. ..................... .............
M ountain_____________________________________
_______ _______________ _________________
Pacific
93,500
167,227
217,179
185,973
143,851
118, 074
141,010
61,177
83,843
110.649
171,974
268,147
220.649
189, 483
115,396
157,914
64,945
88,383
$1,080,328
2, 774,873
2,199,905
1, 352,122
938,941
627,996
971,873
694, 546
976,921
$1, 333,656
2,911,195
2,646,963
1,613,626
1,187 183
539,814
1,146,601
762, 313
1, 013,176
T otal_______ ___________________________
Percentage change_____________________________
1, 211,834
1, 387, 540
+14.5
11, 617,505
13,154,527
+ 1 3 .2
Comparing the last week in September with the last week in August,
employment increased 14.5 percent and disbursements for pay rolls
increased 13.2 percent.
Table 2 shows the number of employees and amounts of pay roll
for workers on the emergency work relief program, by months, from
the inception of the work in March to September, inclusive.
T
able
3 .— N U M B E R
OF E M P L O Y E E S A N D A M O U N T S OF P A Y R O L L S F O R W O R K E R S
ON E M E R G E N C Y W O R K R E L IE F P R O G R A M , B Y M O N T H S , 1934
M onth
M arch. _________ ___ _____
A p ril____________________
M a y . _ _____________
June_____________________
N um ber
of em
ployees 1
Am ount of
pay roll
22,934
786,829
866, 779
969,466
$842,000
42,558,711
39,067, 337
42,438,091
1 Average weekly employm ent.
M onth
Num ber
of em
ployees 1
July____________ _________ 1,135,824
August_________ _________ 2 1,253,361
September_______________ 3 1,375,444
2 Revised.
A m ount of
pay roll
$57, 657,433
61,288,097
3 52,191,919
3 Subject to revision.
Over $230,000,000 has been disbursed for pay rolls over the 7month period.
Emergency Conservation Work
T h e r e were more than 335,000 men in the Civilian Conservation
Camps on September 30. Due to the end of an enrollment period,
this is a decrease of approximately 50,000 as compared with August.
Table 1 shows employment and pay rolls for Emergency Conserva
tion Work during the months of August and September 1934, by
type of work.
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T a b le
1.—E M P L O Y M E N T
A N D P A Y R O L L S IN T H E E M E R G E N C Y C O N S E R V A T IO N
W O R K , A U G U S T A N D S E P T E M B E R 1934
N um ber of employees
Am ount of pay rolls
Group
August
September
August
September
Enrolled personnel------------------------------------- -----Reserve officers______________________- ................
Educational advisers---------------------------------------Supervisory and technical1............ .......... .......... -
346,805
6,092
1,095
2 31,348
294,969
6,163
1,098
3 33,555
$10,830,714
1,522,675
175,669
3,834, 768
$9,211,878
1,540,109
176,362
4,094,620
T otal____________________________________
385,340
335,785
16,363,826
15,022,969
1Includes carpenters, electricians, and laborers.
2 28,493 included in the executive service table.
3 28,842 included in the executive service table.
For the month of September employees engaged in Emergency
Conservation Work drew over $15,000,000. In addition to their pay,
the enrolled personnel receives free board, clothing, and medical
attention.
Information concerning employment and pay rolls for Emergency
Conservation Work is collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
from the War Department, Department of Agriculture, Treasury
Department, and the Department of the Interior. The pay of the
enrolled personnel is figured as follows: 5 percent are paid $45 per
month; 8 percent, $36 per month; and the remaining 87 percent,
$30 per month.
Table 2 shows employment and pay rolls in the Emergency Con
servation Work from the beginning of the program in May 1933 to
September 1934, inclusive.
T able 2 .—N U M B E R OF E M P L O Y E E S E N G A G E D IN T H E E M E R G E N C Y C O N S E R V A T IO N
W O R K F R O M M A Y 1933 TO S E P T E M B E R 1934
M onth
1933
M a y --------------June__________
J uly__________
A ugust_______
September-----October....... .
N ovem ber____
Decem ber____
Number of
employees
Amount of
pay roll
191,380
283,481
316,109
307,100
242,968
294,861
344,273
321, 701
$6,388, 760
9, 876, 780
11,482,262
11, 604,401
9,759, 628
12,311,033
14,554, 695
12,951,042
M onth
1934
January______
February_____
M arch________
A pril_________
M a y __________
June__________
July__________
A ugust_______
September____
Number of Amount of
employees
pay roll
331,594
321, 829
247,591
314,664
335,871
280,271
389,104
385,340
335,785
$13,581,506
13,081,393
10, 792,319
13,214,018
14,047,512
12,641,401
16,032,734
16,363,826
15,022,969
Employment on State-Road Projects
D u r i n g the month of September there were over 250,000 employees
working on road projects financed by State governments. This is an
increase of 17,000, as compared with the previous month.
Table 1 shows the number of employees engaged in building and
maintaining State roads during the months of August and September
1934, by geographic divisions.
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T
1 — N U M B E R OF E M P L O Y E E S E N G A G E D IN T H E C O N S T R U C T IO N A N D M A I N
T E N A N C E OF S T A T E R O A D S D U R IN G A U G U S T A N D S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y G E O
G R A P H IC D IV IS IO N i
able
N ew
Number of
employees
Geographic division
Total, continental
United States___
Percentage change __ __
O u ts id e
continen tal
United States_________
Grand total_______
53, 540
N um ber of
employees
Am ount of pay roll
Sep
August tember
N ew England__________
15,018
M iddle A tlantic_______ _ 4, 201
East North Central_____
8, 252
W est North Central_____ 5, 634
South Atlantic.
___
9,474
East South Central_____
1,966
West South Central___ _ 4,894
M ou ntain.. . . . _______
1,400
P a cific.. __________ __
2, 701
Maintenance
August
Septem
ber
14,071
5, 869
11,487
6, 220
10,169
2,880
6, 282
2,148
2, 739
$758, 566 $590,852
318,994
342, 563
426,186 1,306, 254
217,362
231,827
193, 789
209,088
98,858
119, 040
234, 626
232,419
132,862
81,900
198,235
174,858
61,865
+ 15. 55
2, 543,815 3, 324,464
+30. 69
0
0
53,540
61,865
0
Sep
August tember
August
Septem
ber
$565, 087
2,832, 652
1,699,130
933, 522
1,346, 783
420,000
881, 913
544,739
659, 261
$581,196
2,960,348
2,113,130
972,804
1, 375, 652
432,348
844,957
576,022
530,457
180,199 188,323 !| 9,883,087
+4.51
10, 386,914
+ 5.1 0
7,079
56,158
27, 712
18, 340
31, 575
12,128
13,370
7, 560
6,477
7,465
60, 564
30,887
17, 316
32,318
12, 293
12, 419
8,351
6,710
83
8,261
9, 391
180, 270 188,406
9,891,348
10,396, 305
0
2, 543,815 3,324,464
Am ount of pay roll
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1 Excluding em ploym ent furnished b y projects financed from public-works fund
Pay rolls for State road workers amounted to over $13,600,000
during the month of August. This is an increase of over $1,500,000 as
compared with the previous month. Of the State road workers, 75.3
percent were engaged in maintaining existing roads and 24.7 percent
in building new roads.
Table 2 shows the number of employees engaged in the construction
and maintenance of State roads, January to September 1934, inclusive.
T
3 .— N U M B E R
OF E M P L O Y E E S E N G A G E D IN T H E C O N S T R U C T IO N A N D
M A IN T E N A N C E OF S T A T E R O A D S , J A N U A R Y TO S E P T E M B E R 1934, IN C L U S IV E i
able
Num ber of employees work
ing on State roads
Num ber of employees work
ing on State roads
M onth
M onth
New
January_____ _____
F eb ru a ry ._. _____
M arch___
___ __
April................ .........
M a y ______________
25,345
22,311
19,985
21, 510
27,161
M ainte
nance
136,440
126, 904
132,144
136,038
167,274
Total
161,785
149,215
152,129
157,548
194,435
N ew
June_____ ________
July----------------------August........... ..........
September_____ __
M ainte
nance
37, 642
45,478
53,540
61,865
170,879
168,428
180, 270
188,323
Total
208,521
213,906
233,810
250,188
1 Excluding em ploym ent furnished b y projects financed from the public-works fund.
Employment on Construction Projects Financed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, September 1934
F o r the month ending September 15 more than 17,000 people were
employed by contractors working on construction projects financed
by loans made by the Self-Liquidating Division of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
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Table 1 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, by type of project.
T able 1.—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON P R O J E C T S
F IN A N C E D B Y T H E S E L F -L IQ U ID A T IN G D IV IS IO N OF T H E R E C O N S T R U C T IO N
F IN A N C E C O R P O R A T IO N D U R IN G S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y T Y P E OF P R O J E C T
[Subject to revision]
N um ber of Am ount of Num ber of
wage
man-hours
pay roll
earners
worked
Typ e of project
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
Railroad construction_____________________
Building construction ____________ _____
Bridges..................... ................. ................
Reclamation______________________________
Water and sewage________________________
Miscellaneous_____ _______________________
14
2,642
5, 111
2, 559
4, 908
1, 854
$1,155
247,209
431,994
170,450
593,051
204,759
2, 501
218,140
515, 370
369,591
832,553
292,911
$0. 461
1.133
.838
.461
.712
.699
$4,189
189, 535
1,206,135
110,603
470,513
519,663
T ota l.— ................. ...............................
17, 088
1, 648, 618
2, 231,069
.739
2,500,638
These workers were paid over $1,600,000 for their month’s work, at
the rate of nearly 74 cents per hour. The hourly earnings ranged
from 46 cents on reclamation projects to $1.13 on building con
struction.
Table 2 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
contracts financed by the Self-Liquidating Division of the Recon
struction Finance Corporation, by geographic divisions.
T able 2 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON P R O JE C T S
F IN A N C E D B Y T H E S E L F -L IQ U ID A T IN G D IV IS IO N OF T IIE R E C O N S T R U C T IO N
F IN A N C E C O R P O R A T IO N D U R IN G S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y G E O G R A P H IC D IV IS IO N
[Subject to revision]
Geographic division
Num ber of Am ount of Num ber of
man-hours
wage
pay roll
earners
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
N ew England........ ..........................................
M iddle A tlantic__________________________
East North Central ______________________
West North Central___ ___________________
South A tlantic, ______ ____________ ______
East South Central________ _______________
West South Central____ __________________
M ountain_______________________ _________
Pacific___________________________ _________
0
4,084
250
0
555
104
967
2,611
8,517
0
$410,025
31, 409
0
17,961
5,609
77,312
173,677
932, 625
0
411,304
29,879
0
41, 956
18,996
101,567
372, 896
1,254,471
0
$0. 997
1.051
0
.428
.295
. 761
.466
.743
0
$883,631
46,009
0
10, 956
7,534
34,415
117, 636
1,400,457
Total_______________________ __
17,088
1,648,618
2, 231,069
. 739
2,500, 638
Nearly 50 percent of these workers were employed in the three
Pacific States. Over 4,000 were employed in the Middle Atlantic
States. Hourfy earnings were less than 30 cents in the East South
Central States and over $1.05 in the East North Central States.
Table 3 shows data concerning employment, pay rolls, and manhours worked during the months, April to September inclusive, on
construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corpo
ration.
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T
3 . — E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, AN D M AN-H OU R S W O R K E D ON PROJECTS
F IN A N C E D B Y T H E SELF-LIQUID ATIN G DIVISION OF TH E R E C O N ST R U C T IO N
F IN AN C E CO RPORATION, APR IL TO SE P T E M B E R 1934
able
[Subject to revision]
Number of Amount of Number of
wage
of pay
man-hours
earners
roll
worked
Month
A p ril............................ ............................... .
M ay.....................................................................
June.....................................................................
July....................................................................
August...............................................................
September..........................................................
18,638
19,274
19,218
17,760
17,149
17,088
$1,518,479
1,636,503
1,743,318
1,624,924
1,688,012
1,648,618
2,302,739
2,334.060
2,412,342
2,183,560
2,286,286
2,231,069
Average
earnings
per hour
$0,659
.701
.723
.744
.738
.739
Value of
material
orders
plaqed
$2,297,479
2,120,498
2,189,538
2,332,554
2,303,516
2,500,638
Table 4 shows the value of material orders placed by contractors
working on Reconstruction Finance Corporation construction projects
by types of materials.
TABLE 4.—M A TE R IA LS PURCHASED D U R IN G M O N T H E N D IN G SEPT. 15, 1934, FOR
PROJECTS F IN A N C E D B Y TH E SELF-LIQU IDATING DIVISION OF TH E R ECON
STRUCTION F IN AN C E CORPORATION, B Y T Y P E OF M A T E R IA L
[Subject to revision]
Type of material
Cast-iron pipe and fittings................
Cement...................................................
Clay products......................................
Coal........................................................
Compressed and liquefied gases____
Concrete products...............................
Copper products.................................
Cordage and twine..............................
Crushed stone................................ ......
Electrical machinery and supplies...
Explosives.................................. .........
Foundry and machine-shop prod
ucts............... .....................................
Felt goods........................... .................
Fuel oil..................................... .............
Gasoline................................................
Hardware........................................
Lubricating oils and greases.............
Lumber.................................................
Value of ma
terials pur
chased
$50,045
252,369
11,893
2,290
2,805
80,007
199,399
1,718
5,701
89,589
110,967
154, 557
2,287
3,998
39,530
84, 711
3, 221
95, 204
Type of material
Value of ma
terials pur
chased
Marble, granite, and other stone
p r o d u c ts ...........................................
M otor vehicles.....................................
Nails and spikes.................................. .
Plumbing supplies...............................
Pumps and pumping equipment___
Rails.......................................................
Rubber good s...................................... .
Sand and gravel...................................
Sheet metal w ork.......... ............. ........
Steam and hot-water heating appa
ratus............. ................................ ......
Steel-works and rolling-mill prod
ucts................................................... .
Tools.................................... ..................
W ire............. .............................. ...........
Miscellaneous...................................... .
1,040, 236
9,607
43,154
69,544
T otal.............................. .............
2,500,638
$18,537
3,916
1,019
32,257
3,977
3,466
2,022
46,676
6,376
29,560
Employment on Construction Projects Financed from Regular
Governmental Appropriations
B e g i n n i n g with July the Bureau of Labor Statistics began col
lecting data concerning employment, pay rolls, and man-hours of
work on all construction projects financed by appropriations made
by the Congress direct to the various Federal departments and units.
In accordance with the request of the Secretary of Labor, the direc
tor of procurement has caused the following paragraph to be inserted
in all Government contracts:
The contractor will report monthly, and will cause all subcontractors to report
in like manner, within 5 days after the close of each calendar month, on forms
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to be furnished by the Department of Labor, the number of persons on the
respective pay rolls, the aggregate amount of such pay rolls, the man-hours
worked, and the total expenditures for materials. He shall furnish to the
Department of Labor the names and addresses of all subcontractors on the
work at the earliest date practicable, provided that the foregoing shall be appli
cable only to work at the site of the construction project.
Whenever a contract is awarded by a Government department,
the Bureau is immediately notified of the name and address of the
contractor. Forms are then mailed to the contractor, who mails
his report to the Bureau showing the number of men on the pay
rolls, amount of pay rolls, number of man-hours worked, and the
value of material orders placed.
The following tables show data concerning such work on construc
tion projects on which work has started since July 1. The Bureau
has no data for projects that were under way previous to July 1,1934.
Table 1 shows employment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on
projects on which work started subsequent to July 1, financed from
direct appropriations to the various Government agencies.
T a b le 1.— E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y ROLLS, A N D
M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON P R O J E C T S
ON W H IC H W O R K S T A R T E D SIN C E J U L Y 1 F IN A N C E D F R O M R E G U L A R G O V E R N
M E N T A L A P P R O P R IA T IO N S F O R S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y T Y P E S OF P R O JE C T S
[Subject to revision]
T yp e of project
Number of
Amount of Number of
wage
pay rolls man-hours
earners
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
Building construction....................................
Public roads______ _______________________
River, harbor, and flood control...................
Streets and roads...................... .......... ............
Naval vessels_________ __________________
Water and sewerage.................... ...................
Miscellaneous_____ ______________________
4,210
3,018
1,926
296
30
94
226
$242,441
165,295
51,804
12,040
2,339
4,075
15,369
337,695
295,678
87,723
20,044
2,439
6,949
23,157
$0.718
.559
.591
.601
.959
.586
.664
$582,323
183,566
28,950
29,829
1,083
8,784
7,757
T otal__________ ____________________
9,800
493,363
773,685
.638
842,292
There were nearly 10,000 workers on this new construction work
during the month ending September 15, and these men drew nearly
$500,000 for their month’s pay. The average hourly earnings
amounted to 64 cents, and the earnings ranged from 56 cents per
hour for public roads to 96 cents per hour for naval vessels.
Table 2 shows for the month of September employment, pay rolls,
and man-hours worked on construction projects started since July 1
which are financed from regular governmental appropriations, by
geographic divisions.
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T
2 . —E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON P R O J E C T S
ON W H IC H W O R K S T A R T E D SIN C E JU L Y 1 F IN A N C E D F R O M R E G U L A R G O V E R N
M E N T A L A P P R O P R IA T IO N S F O R S E P T E M B E R 1934, B Y G E O G R A P H IC D IV IS IO N S
able
[Subject to revision]
Number
of wage
earners
Geographic division
Amount
of pay
roll
N um ber of
man-hours
worked
Average
earnings
per hour
Value of
material
orders
placed
New England_____ ______ __
_______
M iddle Atlantic_______________ _______. . .
East North Central_______________________
W est N orth Central______________ _______
South Atlantic______________ ____________
East South Central______________________
W est South Central___ _ .
. ___________
M ountain_____ __
_______ _____________
Pacific________ _____________________ _____
230
1, 210
2, 331
424
1,674
482
967
1,015
1, 086
$19,439
71, 370
132, 057
24,121
44, 940
31,199
33,115
43, 624
71, 719
30,010
131,177
177, 699
36,447
68, 783
63, 608
57,093
63, 825
104, 974
$0. 648
. 544
. 743
.662
.653
.490
.580
.683
.683
$17. 218
9, 824
261, 681
59, 210
72,461
29, 352
75', 787
3, 450
53, 702
Total continental United States____
Outside continental United States______ .
9,419
381
471, 584
21, 779
733,616
40, 069
.643
.543
i 766, 251
76, 041
9, 800
493, 363
773, 685
.638
i 842, 292
Grand total_______________ ________
1 Includes $183,560 estimated value orders placed for public-road projects which cannot be charged to
any specific.geographic division.
More than 2,300 men were employed in the East North Central
States and over 1,600 in the South Atlantic States. Workers in the
East South Central States earned an average of 49 cents per hour.
In the East North Central States the workers earned an average of
over 74 cents per hour.
Table 3 shows for the months of August and September employ
ment, pay rolls, and man-hours worked on construction projects
starting since July 1 which are financed from regular governmental
appropriations.
T
3 .—E M P L O Y M E N T , P A Y R O L L S , A N D M A N -H O U R S W O R K E D ON P R O J E C T S
ON W H IC H W O R K S T A R T E D S IN C E JU L Y 1, F IN A N C E D F R O M R E G U L A R G O V E R N
M E N T A L A P P R O P R IA T IO N S F O R A U G U S T A N D S E P T E M B E R 1934
able
[Subject to revision]
M onth
August. ________ ________ _____ ______
September_________________________ ______
Number
of wage
earners
5, 601
9,800
Amount
of pay
rolls
$329,440
493, 363
N um ber of
man-hours
worked
557, 747
773, 685
Average
earnings
per hour
$0. 591
.638
Value of
material
orders
placed
$150, 506
842, 292
Table 4 shows the value of material orders placed during the month
ending September 15 for use on construction projects on which work
has started since July 1 financed from regular governmental appro
priations, by type of material.
Purchase orders were placed during the month ending September 15
for materials to cost over $800,000.
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T able 4 —M A T E R I A L O R D E R S P L A C E D D U R IN G T H E M O N T H E N D IN G S E P T . 15, 1934,
F O R USE ON C O N S T R U C T IO N P R O J E C T S ON W H IC H W O R K H AS S T A R T E D SIN C E
J U L Y 1, F IN A N C E D F R O M R E G U L A R G O V E R N M E N T A L A P P R O P R IA T IO N S , B Y T Y P E
OF M A T E R I A L
[Subject to revision]
Value of ma
terial orders
placed
T yp e of material
Asphalt___ ______ _ ______________
Cast-iron pipe and fittings_________
C e m e n t_____________________ ______
Clay products____________________ C o a l.. ___________________________
Concrete products__________________
Crushed stone____ _________________
Electrical machinery and supplies.. _
Foundry and machine-shop prod
ucts______________________________
Fuel oil___ ________________________
Gasoline ________________ _____ ____
Hardware__________ _______________
Insulation materials
Lumber and timber products______
Marble, granite, e t c ... ____________
$7, 270
1,598
32,170
13, 219
5,923
2,331
2, 515
10, 748
24,848
1,015
2,832
15,025
30, 780
235,314
16,175
T yp e of material
Nails and spikes____ ____ _________
Paints and varnishes_____________ .
Plumbing supplies______ _ _ ___
Pumps and pumping equipment___
R oofing. _________________________
Sand and gravel__ ____ ____________
Sheet-metal w ork__
___ _____
Steam and hot-water heating_______
Steel-works and rolling-mill prod
ucts____________ ______ _________
W i r e . . ____ ____________
_____
W irework. ________ _ _ _ . _______
O t h e r ___ ____________ _ _ _ _
T otal____________
__________
Value of ma
terial orders
placed
$5, 664
14,884
20,893
2,117
32,843
8, 279
2,818
3, 679
268,315
1,054
2,315
77,668
842,292
Wage-Rate Changes in American Industries
Manufacturing Industries
T h e following table presents information concerning wage-rate
adjustments occurring between August 15 and September 15, 1934, as
shown by reports received from 24,206 manufacturing establishments
employing 3,439,808 workers in September.
One hundred and thirty-two establishments in 44 industries re
ported wage-rate increases averaging 6.9 percent and affecting 12,555
employees. One establishment each in four industries reported
decreases which averaged 9.1 percent and affected 553 workers.
The outstanding wage-rate adjustment was an average increase of
5 percent received by 3,920 wage earners in 5 petroleum refineries.
Fifteen establishments in the newspaper and periodical industry
gave an average increase of 9.2 percent to 1,014 workers. Two estab
lishments in the machine-tool industry reported an average increase
of 7 percent to 952 wage earners. An average increase of 9.4 percent
was given to 924 workers in 9 bakeries, and one of 7 percent affecting
922 employees was reported by 6 establishments in the electricalmachinery industry. The increases in each of the remaining industries
affected 483 employees or less.
52
T a b l b 1.—W A G E -R A T E
C H A N G E S IN M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S
M O N T H E N D IN G S E P T . 15, 1934
EstabIndustry
ments
report
ing
N um ber of establishreporting—
Total
number
of em
ployees
All manufacturing industries........ 24,206 3,439,808
Percentage of total__________
100.0
100.0
Iron and steel and their products,
not including machinery:
Blast furnaces, steel works
and rolling m ills__________
238
248,222
Bolts, nuts, washers, and
8, 594
60
rivets_____________________
Cast-iron p i p e . . ____________
7,970
47
Cutlery (not including silver
and plated cutlery) and
edge tools...............................
167
13,333
92
8, 727
Forgings, iron and steel_____
121
Hardware___________________
26,157
84
Plumbers’ supplies__________
9,171
Steam and hot-water heating
apparatus and steam fitings_______________________
21,438
98
204
Stoves ________________ __ _
25,491
Structural and ornamental
21,041
metalwork_____ __________
283
62
12, 556
Tin cans and other tinware _
Tools (not including >edge
tools, machine tools, files,
and saws)__............. ..............
139
10,159
W ire work___________________
109
11,118
Machinery, not including trans
portation equipment:
Agricultural implements____
77
10,053
Cash registers, adding ma
chines, and calculating
machines_____________ ____
29
16, 647
Electrical machinery, appara
126,965
tus, and supplies__________
429
Engines, turbines, tractors,
104
and water wheels__________
28, 794
Foundry and machine-shop
144,100
products__________________
1,590
22,124
Machine tools_______________
216
39,999
Radios and phonographs____
58
10, 531
Textile machinery and parts.
147
Typewriters and parts______
12
11,175
Transportation equipment:
Aircraft_____________________
33
7,038
Automobiles________________
257,189
317
Cars, electric- and steam-rail64
road _____________________
16,931
Locom otives________ ________
4,770
10
Shipbuilding_______ ____ ____
33, 689
109
Railroad repair shops:
20, 211
393
Electric railroad_____________
Steam railroad______________
73, 721
539
Nonferrous metals and their prod
ucts:
32
Aliminum manufactures____
5,938
Brass, bronze, and copper
products__________________
361
39, 786
Clocks and watches and timerecording devices__________
28
10, 708
10, 666
Jewelry_____________________
180
3.980
Lighting equipment_________
71
62
7,984
Silverware and plated ware. _
Smelting and refining—cop
43
16, 032
per, lead, and zinc_________
21,907
Stamped and enameled ware.
199
Lumber and allied products:
604
56, 564
Furniture___________________
Lumber:
614
M illw ork_______________
24,445
638
Sawmills________________
79,296
1,952
30
Turpentine and rosin_______
* Less than Ho of 1 percent.
D U R IN G
Num ber of employees
having—
No
Wage- Wage- N o wage- Wage- Wagewage- rate
in rate de
rate
rate in rate de
rate
changes creases creases changes creases creases
24,070
99.4
132
.5
0)
4 3,426,700
99.6
238
248, 222
60
47
8,594
7,970
12,555
.4
167
92
120
83
1
1
13,333
8,727
26,144
9,165
13
6
98
202
2
21,438
25,446
45
281
61
2
1
21,021
12,451
20
105
137
108
2
1
10,140
10,949
19
169
77
10,053
29
16, 647
423
6
126,043
922
101
3
28, 464
330
1,584
214
58
147
12
6
2
143,899
21,172
39,999
10, 531
11,175
201
952
33
317
64
10
107
70,38
257,189
1
1
16,931
4, 770
33,499
35
4
20,036
73, 721
357
4
39, 741
45
26
179
71
62
2
1
10, 674
10,390
3, 980
7,984
34
276
389
539
553
(0
32
175
5,938
43
198
1
16,032
21,898
9
595
9
56,231
333
610
638
30
4
24, 425
79,296
1,952
20
155
53
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C H A N G E S IN M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S
M O N T H E N D IN G S E P T . 15, 1934—Continued
Industry
Stone, clay, and glass products:
Brick, tile, and terra cotta__
Cement......................................
Glass_______________________
Marble, granite, slate, and
other products_______ ____
Pottery_________ ___________
Textiles and their products:
Fabrics:
Carpets and rugs..............
Cotton goods____________
Cotton small wares _ _
Dyeing and finishing tex
tiles___________________
Hats, fur-felt_______ ____
Knit goods______________
Silk and rayon goods____
W oolen
and worsted
goods_________________
Wearing apparel:
Clothing, m en’s_________
Clothing, wom en’s______
Corsets and allied gar
ments________________
M en’s furnishings_______
M illinery_______________
Shirts and collars_______
Leather and its manufactures:
Boots and shoes.____________
Leather_____________________
Food and kindred products:
Baking.
Butter
Canning and preserving........
C onfectionery.._____________
Flour__________ ____ _______
Ice cream______________ ____
Slaughtering and meat pack
ing------------------------------------Sugar, beet_________________
Sugar refining, cane_________
T obacco manufactures:
Chewing and smoking tobac
co and snuff........... ...............
Cigars and cigarettes...... ........
Paper and printing:
Boxes, paper________________
Paper and p ulp _____________
Printing and publishing:
Book and jo b ___________
Newspapers and periodi
cals___________________
Chemicals and allied products,
and petroleum refining:
Other than petroleum refin
ing:
Chemicals______________
C o t t o n s e e d —oil, cake,
and meal_____________
Druggists’ preparations..
E x p lo siv e s......................
Fertilizers............. ........... .
Paints and varnishes____
R ayon and allied prod
ucts______ ____ ________
Petroleum refining..................
R ubber products:
R ubber boots and shoes.........
R ubber goods other than
boots, shoes, tires, and in
ner tubes.................................
R ubber tires and inner tubes.
Number of establish
ments reporting—
D U R IN G
Num ber of employees
having—
Estab
lish
ments
report
ing
Total
number
of em
ployees
540
19.894
16,799
44,970
540
169
168
19, 894
16, 763
44,910
237
139
5, 218
19,302
237
138
5, 218
19, 277
25
30
644
119
15,626
153,878
9,165
30
643
117
15, 626
153, 578
8, 992
300
173
173
39
476
290
36, 953
7,495
109,815
38, 665
171
39
474
288
36,930
7,495
109,364
122
No
N o wage- Wage- WageWagewage- rate
in rate de
rate in rate derate
rate
changes creases
creases
creases
changes
121
234
177
514
53,673
512
53, 585
90
1,520
644
114,418
40, 583
1,520
640
114,418
40,537
46
42
142
172
6, 799
9,307
9,706
27,718
42
88
141
171
1
1
6, 799
9,307
9, 700
27,235
483
179
117,515
32,601
357
178
1
1
117, 420
32,453
95
148
1,104
473
292
619
316
398
367
70,779
28,950
4,596
104, 582
43, 569
17,418
11, 224
1,094
473
292
616
313
398
367
9
294
124,106
7,850
9,673
291
15
15
124,044
7,850
9,673
242
10,159
52,470
38
241
10,159
52,447
23
559
423
26,546
103,851
559
421
2
26,546
103,476
375
59,755
1,432
16
59,414
341
549
56,298
534
15
55, 284
1,014
118
27, 668
118
27,668
82
68
32
299
559
4,744
10,587
4,599
9,783
14, 772
82
32
298
559
4,744
10, 587
4,599
9,741
14, 772
27
107
196
43,061
15,351
67,825
27
107
191
43,061
15,351
63,905
88
66
66
68
1
69,814
28,950
4,596
104, 257
43, 530
17,418
11,224
11,625
26,157
54,538
139
38
26,132
54,538
217
6
41
185
39
62
3,920
54
Nonmanufacturing Industries
D a t a concerning wage-rate changes occurring between August 15
and September 15, 1934, reported by cooperating establishments in 17
nonmanufacturing industries are presented in table 2.
Increases averaging 6.8 percent and affecting 2,494 employees were
reported by 43 establishments in the electric light and power and man
ufactured gas industry, and 15 establishments in the electric-railroad
and motor-bus operation and maintenance industry showed an aver
age increase of 4.8 percent, which affected 2,013 employees. One
thousand one hundred and fifty-four workers in 5 metalliferous mines
received an average increase of 10.5 percent and 669 wTorkers in 48
wholesale-trade establishments received one of 10.5 percent. The
wage-rate increases in the remaining industries affected 151 workers
or less, while the decreases reported affected a total of 337 workers in
5 industries.
T a b le
2 -W A G E -R A T E
C H A N G E S IN N O N M A N U F A C T U R IN G IN D U S T R IE S D U R I N G
M O N T H E N D IN G S E P T E M B E R 15, 1934
Industrial group
Anthracite m ining____ ______________
Percent of total ____ ____________
Bituminous-coal mining________ _____
Percent of total____ _____________
Metalliferous mining________________
Percent of total_________________
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining___
Percent of total______ ___________
Crude petroleum producing_________
Percent of total_________________
Telephone and telegraph____________
Percent of total_______________ Power and electric light and manu
factured gas_______________________
Percent of total - _ ______________
Electric-railroad and motor-bus oper
ation and maintenance____________
Percent
Wholesale trade_____________ ________
Percent of total_________________
Retail trade___________________ ___
Percent of tota l_________________
Hotels __ ___________________ ________
Percent of total_________________
Laundries___________________________
Percent of total________ _________
Dyeing and cleaning_________ _
Percent of total__________________
Banks ______________________________
Percent of total_________________
Brokerage___________________________
Percent of total _ _ _
_ ___
____________ ____
Insurance
__
_________________
Percent of total
Real es ate________________________ .
Percent of total_________________
Num ber of establish
N um ber of employees
ments reporting—
having—
Estab Total
lish
num
ments ber of
No
report em ploy N o
Wage- WageWage- Wage- wagewage- rate
ing
rate in rate de
ees
in rate de
rate
rate
changes creases creases changes creases creases
160 79,088
100.0
100. 0
1,426 243,129
100. 0
100. 0
276 27, 939
100. 0
100. 0
1,140 35, 569
100. 0
100.0
260 31,879
100.0
100.0
8, 209 263,814
100.0
100.0
160
100.0
1,419
99. 5
270
97. 8
1,138
99. 8
257
98.8
8,209
100.0
7
.5
5
1. 8
2
.2
3
1.2
79,088
100. 0
242,900
99.9
1 26,782
.4
95. 9
35, 537
99. 9
31,820
99.8
263,814
100. 0
229
.l
1,154
4.1
32
.l
59
.2
3, 288 253,893
100.0
100.0
3,245
98. 7
43
1.3
251,399
99.0
2,494
1.0
559 138, 733
544
of total__________________
100.0
16,183 286,179 16,134
99. 7
100. 0
100. 0
57, 762 861,635 57,716
99.9
100.0
100.0
2, 503 137,240
2,503
100.0
100.0
100.0
1,335
1,338 74,102
99.8
100.0
100.0
657
660 16,465
99.5
100.0
100.0
3,020 97, 539
3,015
99.8
100.0
100.0
412 12, 745
408
99.0
100. 0
100.0
1,086 70, 017
1,086
100.0
100. 0
100. 0
841
845 17,487
100.0
99.5
100.0
i Less than Ho of 1 percent.
O
15
100.0
48
.3
37
.1
2
.1
3
.5
5
.2
4
.5
136,720
98.5
97.3
1 285,506
99.8
0)
9 861,425
100.0
0)
137,240
100.0
1 73,992
1
99.9
16,403
99.6
97,443
99.9
4 12,482
97.9
1.0
70,017
100. 0
17,466
99.9
.
2,013
1.5
2. 7
669
.2
151
0)
102
.1
62
.4
96
.1
3
0)
4
0)
59
C1)
8
0)
263
2.1
21
1
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