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Serial No. R. 1392
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Frances Perkins, Secretary
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Isador Lubin, Commissioner (on leave)
A. F. Hinrichs, Acting Commissioner
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EMPLOYMENT
AND PAY ROLLS
Prepared by
DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS
Lewis E. Talbert, Chief
and
DIVISION OF CONSTRUCTION AND
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT
Herman B. Byer,^ Chief

SEPTEMBER 1941
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE • WASHINGTON




1941

CONTENTS
Summary of employment reports for September 1941:
Total nonagricultural employment.
Industrial and business employment.
Public employment
Detailed tables for September 1941:
Nonagricultural employment.__
Industrial and business employmentPublic employment
. ._
Employment in Government establishments or corporationsPurchases from public funds

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Tables
SUMMARY

TABLE

1.—Regular Federal services and projects financed wholly or
partially from Federal funds—summary of employment
and pay rolls, August and September 1941
TABLE 2.—Projects financed wholly or partially from Federal funds—
value of material orders placed and number of man-months
of labor created in final fabrication of materials purchased,
by type of program, third quarter of 1940 and second and
third quarters of 1941
.

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NONAGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT

TABLE 3.—Estimates of nonagricultural employment, by major groups..
TABLE 4.—Estimated number of employes in nonagricultural establishments, by States
.

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9

INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT

TABLE 5.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, September 1941
TABLE 6.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—employment, pay rolls, hours, and earnings, July through September 1941
_..
__TABLE 7.—Additional manufacturing industries—indexes of employment and pay rolls, July, August, and September 1941
TABLE 8.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—indexes
of employment and pay rolls, September 1940 through
September 1941
TABLE 9.—Metropolitan areas—indexes of factory employment
TABLE 10.—Manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries—wagerate changes during month ending September 15, 1941

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PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT

TABLE 11.—Executive service of the Federal Government—employment
and pay rolls, August and September 1941




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TABLE 12.—Regular Federal appropriations, construction projects
financed—from employment, pay rolls, man-hours worked,
hourly earnings, and value of material orders placed, by
type of project, September 1941
TABLE 13.—United States Housing Authority, low-rent housing-construction projects—employment, pay rolls, man-hours worked,
hourly earnings, and value of material orders placed, by
geographic division, September 1941
TABLE 14.—Public Works Administration, Federal and non-Federal construction projects—employment, pay rolls, man-hours
worked, hourly earnings, and value of material orders
placed, by type of project, September 1941
TABLE 15.—Reconstruction Finance Corporation, construction projects—
employment, pay rolls, man-hours worked, hourly earnings,
and value of material orders placed, by type of project,
September 1941
TABLE 16.—Work Projects Administration, defense and nondefense projects—employment, pay rolls, man-hours worked, and
hourly earnings, September 1941
TABLE 17.—Work Projects Administration projects—employment, pay
rolls, man-hours worked, and hourly earnings, by type of
project, August 1941
TABLE 18.—National Youth Administration, student work program and
out-of-school work program—employment and pay rolls,
August and September 1941
TABLE 19.—Civilian Conservation Corps—employment and pay rolls, by
type of personnel, August and September 1941
TABLE 20.—State roads, construction and maintenance projects financed
wholly from State and local funds —employment and pay
rolls, September 1940 and August and September 1941
EMPLOYMENT

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GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHMENTS OR CORPORATIONS

TABLE 21.—Government establishments or corporations financed from
nongovernmental funds—employment December 1940 and
June 1941, and pay rolls during the 6 months ending December 31, 1940, and the 6 months ending June 30, 1941.-.

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PURCHASES FROM PUBLIC FUNDS

TABLE 22.—Value of material orders placed for construction projects
financed wholly or partially from Federal funds, by program and by type of material, third quarter of 1941
TABLE 23.—Value of material orders placed for construction projects
financed wholly or partially from Federal funds, by program and by type of material, second quarter of 1941
TABLE 24. —Value of rentals and services used on projects operated by the
Work Projects Administration, by type of rental and service, second quarter of 1940 and first and second quarters of
1941
TABLE 25.—Value of supply contracts awarded by the Federal Government which contain agreements to comply with the Public
Contracts Act, by type of material, third quarter of 1940
and second and third quarters of 1941
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Employment and Pay Rolls

SUMMARY OF REPORTS FOR SEPTEMBER 1941
Total Nonagricultural Employment
DEFENSE production continued to expand with all manufacturing
industries combined showing an employment rise of 179,000 workers
from mid-August to mid-September. This increase was of slightly
smaller than seasonal proportions because of the tapering-off of expansion in some of the heavy-metals and machinery industries and
reduced operations in other industries caused by material shortages.
Total civil nonagricultural employment in September stood at
40,044,000, an increase of 400,000 over August, 3,516,000 since
September 1940, and 2,574,000 since the September 1929 peak.
These figures do not include C. C. C. enrollees, workers on W. P. A.
or N. Y. A. projects, or the armed forces.
All major branches of nonagricultural employment showed substantial gains over the past year, the largest being in manufacturing
(1,886,000). The gains in other groups were 446,000 in construction,
376,000 in Federal, State, and local Government services, 338,000 in
trade, and 245,000 in the transportation and public-utilities group.
The armed forces of the nation aggregated 1,992,000 in September
1941, a rise of 1,358,000 since September of last year. Work-relief
employment showed a net increase over August of 8,000, although
all programs except the student work program of the National Youth
Administration showed decreased employment of 25,000. This was
distributed as follows: Civilian Conservation Corps 13,000, out-ofschool work program of the National Youth Administration 6,000,
and Work Projects Administration 6,000. The student work program of the National Youth Administration added 33,000 persons in
September.
Industrial and Business

Employment

The defense program has caused a marked alteration in the industrial distribution of the manufacturing force, as evidenced by the fact
that there are now more workers employed in the durable- than in the
nondurable-goods industries. A year ago the number employed in
nondurable-goods manufacturing was considerably higher than that
for durable-goods, and even in the peak months of 1929 the non(1)




durable-goods employment total exceeded that of the durable-goods
group. From September 1940 to September 1941, employment in the
durable-goods group rose 31.4 percent to a total of 5,478,000 workers,
while in nondurable-goods it advanced only 12.5 percent to 5,201,000.
Employment in 18 selected strategic industries handling a greater
part of defense orders continued the steady increase which began in
June 1940, the beginning of the defense program. The aggregate
gain in these industries since that time was 1,046,000 wage earners
(65 percent), while for all manufacturing industries combined the
increase was 2,541,000 (31 percent). The sharp rise in shipbuilding
employment from August to September reflected in part the resumption of operations at one major shipyard which had closed down in
August because of labor difficulties. Employment in the aircraft
industry continued expanding at a high rate, but the gain in machinetool plants was of smaller proportions, indicating a tapering-off of
expansion under existing plant facilities. The automobile industry
showed a smaller employment gain (12.9 percent) between August and
September of this year than in the same period last year (31.2 percent),
but there was a gain of 10.0 percent over the year interval. The
canning industry reported a smaller-than-seasonal increase of 5.7
percent (14,400 workers) between August and September and a gain
of 19.6 percent since September of last year.
For all manufacturing industries combined, the employment and
pay-roll indexes stood at the highest levels on record, 135.3 and 163.0
percent, respectively, of the 1923-25 averages. Expansion in working
hours, overtime and shift premiums, and wage-rate increases accounted
in large measure for the greater increase in pay rolls than in employment.
Among the nonmanufacturing industries, employment increased
slightly over the month interval in bituminous-coal mining, but
remained at the August level in anthracite mining. Pay rolls, however, declined slightly because of the Labor Day holiday and labor
difficulties. Employment and pay rolls increased contraseasonally
, in quarrying and nonmetallic mining and less than seasonally in retail
trade. In the latter industry, however, both employment and pay
rolls were at significantly higher levels than a year ago. In private
building construction, employment decreased contraseasonally by 1.6
percent between August and September but was 10.3 percent above
the level of a year ago.
A preliminary report of the Interstate Commerce Commission for
class I steam railroads showed an employment gain of 0.3 percent
between August and September, the total number employed in
September being 1,211,258. Corresponding pay-roll figures for September were not available when this report was prepared. For
August they were $199,953,175, an increase of $2,786,900 since July.




Hours and earnings,—The average hours worked per week by
manufacturing wage earners were 40.9 in September, a decrease of 0.1
percent since August. The corresponding average hourly earnings
were 75.8 cents, a gain of 1.6 percent over the preceding month.
The average weekly earnings of factory wage earners (both full- and
part-time combined) were $32.01, an increase of 1.3 percent since
July. Of the 16 nonmanufacturing industries regularly surveyed, 9
reported increases in average weekly earnings. Of the 14 nonmanufacturing industries for which man-hours are available, 6 showed
gains in average hours worked per week and 11 reported increases in
average hourly earnings. Wage-rate increases averaging 9 percent
and affecting 428,593 wage earners were reported by 1,266 manufacturing plants out of a reporting sample of approximately 34,000
plants employing more than 7,800,000 wage earners. Wage-rate
increases reported for nonmanufacturing industries affected about
42,000 workers, of whom about 22,000 were employed by public
utilities. As the Bureau's survey does not cover all establishments
in an industry and, furthermore, as some firms may have failed to
report wage changes, these figures should not be construed as representing the total number of wage changes occurring in manufacturing
and nonmanufacturing industries.
Public

Employment

In the month of September employment in all regular branches of
the Federal Government, excluding the military, was 1,497,000 persons
and pay rolls were $226,155,000. This represented an increase of 40
percent since September 1940. In the executive service, employment
increased 32 percent inside the District of Columbia and 42 percent
outside the District. In the current month personnel in the military
branch of the Federal service numbered 1,992,000, which represents
an increase over September 1940 of 1,358,000 or over 200 percent.
During the month ending September 15, construction projects
financed from regular Federal appropriations employed 944,000
persons and paid wages of $137,444,000. This represented a gain
over September 1940 of 555,000 employees and $94,648,000, or 142
and 221 percent, respectively. These increases took place mainly in
airport, building, and naval-vessel construction. Since September
1940 when it was first reported separately, employment on airport
construction increased 650 percent, or from 10,400 to 77,800 persons.
Building construction increased 636 percent since September 1940
but was substantially lower than the February 1941 peak. Employment on the construction of naval vessels increased 100 percent
during the past year. Pay rolls for airport, building, and naval
vessel construction increased 1,199, 987, and 149 percent, respectively,




during the year. In the current month, defense work required the
services of three-fourths of all employees on construction projects
financed from regular Federal appropriations and four-fifths of the
pay rolls.
The decline in employment on low-rent housing projects operated
by the United States Housing Authority in the month ending September 15, took place mainly in nondefense projects. Employment
on defense work remained almost constant at 12,000 persons, or
about 30 percent of the total.
Employment on construction projects financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation continued the advance started in November
of last year and reached a maximum of 16,500 persons who were paid
$2,663,000 in the month ending September 15. Employment gained
almost 2,000 persons over August, and pay rolls $316,000. No workers
were employed in the month of September on water and sewerage
projects (because of the completion of the initial stage of work on the
Colorado River Aqueduct, a construction project of the Metropolitan
Water District of Southern California), and employment on streets
and roads declined from the level of the past 4 months. Thus the
September increase was due almost entirely to building construction
projects. Defense work required almost 90 percent of the employment and pay rolls, and more than offset losses sustained on nondefense construction work.
Almost a third of the 1,037,000 persons employed in September on
projects financed by the Work Projects Administration were engaged
in defense work. The decrease from August in the total number of
relief workers was 5,580. Curtailments in work-relief employment in
the past months have been distributed rather evenly over the various
types of projects, with the exception of airports and airways and
national defense vocational training projects, which have shown gains.
The decreases in employment and pay rolls in the out-of-school
program of the National Youth Administration were more than
offset in the month of September by the expansion of the student
work program due to the reopening of school. Employment on the
school work program was 33,000 and on the out-of-school work program, 312,000.
Employment in camps of the Civilian Conservation Corps decreased 13,000 in the month of September to 190,000. Pay rolls
decreased $731,000 to $9,258,000. Of those employed in September
86 percent were enrollees, 13 percent supervisory and technical employees, and the remaining 1 percent, nurses and educational advisers.
A summary of employment and pay-roll data in the regular Federal
services and on projects financed wholly or partially from Federal
funds is given in table 1.




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TABLE 1.—Summary of Employment and Pay Rolls in Regular Federal Services and on
Projects Financed Wholly or Partially From Federal Funds, August and September
1941 1
[Subject to revision]

Pay rolls

Employment
Class
September 1941

August
1941

Federal services:
1,487,925 1,444,985
Executive2-..
2,578
2,571
Judicial
6,048
6,279
Legislative
1,944,094
1,992,022
Military
Construction projects:
Financed by regular Federal
944,138
883,408
appropriations. __
Defense
Other
U. S. H. A. low-rent housing- ..
Defense
Other
Financed by P. W. A.*..
Financed by R. F. CA.
Defense
Other.

..._

+3.0
-.3

+3.8
+2.5

September
1941

August 1941

$224,140,668 $217, 772,054
661,970
641,349
1, 352,151
1, 334,808
133,030, 642 129, 582,075

Percentage
change
+2.9
+3.2
+1.3
+2.7

+6.9

137,443,603

129,039,031

+6.5

720,244
223,894

652,643
230, 765

+10.4
-3.0

112,907,236
24, 536, 367

104, 638,898
24, 400,133

+7.9

40,836

44,191

-7.6

4, 559,452

5,034,069

-9.4

11,955
28, 881

12,023
32,168

-.6
-10.2

1,352, 783
3,206, 669

1,422, 272
3, 611, 797

-4.9
-11.2

4, 562
16, 500

5,909
14,670

+12.5

-22.8

525, 514
2,662, 639

672,435
2,347,076

+13.4

14,173
2,327

11,644
3,026

+21.7

2, 355, 073
307, 566

1,969, 029
378,047

+19.6

-23.1
-.5

61,224,870

62,082,824

-1.4

-4.1

19,867, 586
41, 357, 284

20, 800, 000
41, 282,824

-4.5

147, 000
7,452, 277
9, 258,055

1,350
7, 564,639
9, 988, 793

Work Projects A d m i n i s t r a t i o n
1,036,981 1,042, 565
projects
DefenseOther...
..
National Youth Administration:
Student work program
Out-of-school work program.. ._
Civilian Conservation Corps-.

Percentage
change

335, 296
701, 685

349, 719
692,846

33,000
312,074
190,110

338
318, 388
203, 271

+1.3
-•2~6~
-6.5

+.6

-21.9
-18.6

+.2
~-L5
-7.3

* For explanation of employment count and pay-roll period, see footnotes to detailed tables.
2
Includes force-account and supervisory and technical employees shown under other classifications to the
extent of 205,386 employees and $31,402,701 pay roll for September, and 202,075 employees and $29,816,240
pay
roll for August.
3
Includes data covering P. W. A. projects financed from Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935,
1936, and 1937 funds, as follows: For September, 2,476 wage earners and $202,031 pay roll; for August, 3,125
wage earners and $333,772 pay roll. Also includes data covering P. W. A. projects financed from Public
Works Administration Appropriation Act of 1938, as follows: For September, 1,981 wage earners and $228,054
pay roll; for August, 2,627 wage earners and $328,128 pay roll. Also includes data for P. W. A. projects
financed from National Industrial Recovery Act funds, as follows: For September, 104 wage earners and
$9,825 pay roll; for August, 157 wage earners and $10,535 pay roll.
* Includes 677 employees and $96,391 pay roll for September and 595 employees and $95,544 pay roll for
August on projects financed by the RFC Mortgage Co.

EMPLOYMENT IN GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHMENTS OR
CORPORATIONS

Employment in Government establishments or corporations, which
had been about 26,000 persons since June 1939, increased to 30,800
in June 1941. These Government establishments are not financed by
governmental funds but by income received from operations. Data
on employment and pay rolls are reported semiannually to the United
States Civil Service Commission.
Most of the increases in employment since December 1940 were in
the Federal Reserve Banks, the Panama Railroad Co. at the Panama
Canal, and the Inland Waterways Commission. The Panama
Railroad Co. has shown steady employment increases since June 1938,
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but these were almost completely offset until June 1941 by steady
declines in other establishments, mainly in the Division of Insolvent
National Banks of the Bureau of Comptroller of the Currency, the
Federal Land Banks, and the Joint Stock Land Banks.
Pay rolls for the Government establishments which, in the 6 months
ending June 30, 1941, amounted to $23,962,000, increased 5 percent
over the preceding 6-month period.
Table 21 on page 38 shows detailed employment and pay-roll data
for the various Government establishments.
PURCHASES FROM PUBLIC FUNDS

The number of workers employed at the site of construction
projects financed from Federal funds, which was discussed above,
gives only a partial picture of the total employment since it does not
take into account the number of workers required for the manufacture
of the materials used on the projects. Estimates have therefore
been made of the man-months of labor created in fabricating the
materials used on the various construction programs and in transporting the materials to the project site.
The estimated man-months of labor include only the labor required
in the fabrication of materials into the form in which they are to be
used and their transportation from the point of fabrication to the site
of the construction project. No estimates are made of the labor
required in producing the raw materials or in transporting them to the
point of manufacture. In manufacturing structural steel, for example,
no estimates are made of the labor created in mining, smelting, and
transporting the ore, nor of the labor in blast furnaces, open-hearth
furnaces, or blooming mills.
The value of the material orders placed and the estimated manmonths of labor created in final fabrication and transportation are
presented below in table 2 for the third quarter of 1940 and the second
and third quarters of 1941.
During the third quarter of 1941, the estimated number of manmonths of labor created in final fabrication and transportation of
materials used on construction projects financed wholly or partially
from Federal funds, excluding those required for Work Projects
Administration materials, was 1,441,000, and the total value of material orders placed was $724,075,000. Of this value machinery'
accounted for 44 percent, iron and steel for 23 percent. Stone, clay,
and glass products and forest products together accounted for about
21 percent. In other words 88 percent of the total was concentrated
in these four materials groups. Only 1 percent of the total was for
nonferrous metals and their products—including aluminum, copper,
lead, and zinc products.
The value of material orders placed for all programs except Work
Projects Administration represented an increase over the second




quarter of 1941 of 15 percent and an increase over the third quarter of
1940 of 161 percent.
Data for projects of the Work Projects Administration, which became available this quarter for the second quarter of 1941, show very
little change from the first quarter in the number of man-months created, and an increase of less than 5 percent in the value of material
orders placed.
TABLE 2.—Value of Material Orders Placed for Projects Financed Wholly or Partially
From Federal Funds and Number of Man-Months of Labor Created 1
[Subject to revision]
Value of material orders placed
Program

Third
quarter
1941

$2,861,077
Public Works Administration 2U. S. H. A. low-rent housing,.- _ __ _ 21,861,362
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 3 23,802, 324
675, 550, 278
Regular Federal appropriations
Federal agency projects
financedfrom
4
(5)
W. P. A. funds
(8)
Projects operated by W.P. A
Rentals and services on projects oper(5)
ated by W. P. A_

Second
quarter
1941

Man-months of labor created
in final fabrication

Third

Third

quarter

quarter

1940

1941

Second Third
quarter quarter
1941

5,394
$5,809,167 $31,597, 398
10,701
17,133, 737 23,636, 679
49,265
39, 727
9, 220,102
1,010, 378
46, 837
18,348
599, 047, 698 221, 671,123 1,339,948 1,197,128

1940

65, 710
53, 922
1,980
417, 217

1, 967, 551
77, 351,492

1,759,319
83, 204,187

(5)
(5)

3,865
172,249

3,481
182,135

62, 851, 654

61, 488, 716

(5)

(5)

(5)

1

Data unavailable for National Youth Administration projects.
Includes data covering projects financed from E . R. A. A. 1935,1936,1937, and P . W . A. A. 1938 funds.
Also includes low-rent housing projects financed from funds of N . I. R. A. and E . R. A. A. 1935.
3
Includes R F C Mortgage Co.
4
Includes projects financed b y transfer of W . P . A. funds to the other Federal agencies under sec. 3, E . R.
A. A. 1938, and sec.ll-A, E . R. A. A. 1939.
» D a t a not available.
2

Stone, clay, and glass products (including cement, concrete products, crushed stone, etc.) accounted for almost a third of the value
of material orders placed on construction projects of the Work Projects
Administration in the second quarter of 1941, and together with iron
and steel products accounted for over 50 percent of the total. Machinery, which accounted for 45 percent of the total on other construction programs amounted to only 4 percent on projects of the Work
Projects Administration.

DETAILED TABLES FOR SEPTEMBER 1941
Estimates of Nonagricultural Employment
THE estimates of "Total civil nonagricultural employment/' given on
the first line of table 3, represent the total number of persons engaged
in gainful work in the United States in nonagricultural industries, excluding military and naval personnel, persons employed on W. P. A.
or N. Y, A. projects, and enrollees in C. C. C. camps. The series described as "Employees in nonagricultural establishments" also excludes proprietors and firm members, self-employed persons, casual
workers, and persons in domestic service. The estimates for " Employees in nonagricultural establishments" are shown separately for




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each of seven major industry groups. Tables giving figures for each
group, by months, for the period from January 1929 to date are available on request.
The figures represent the number of persons working at any time
during the week ending nearest the middle of each month. The totals
for the United States have been adjusted to conform to the figures
shown by the 1930 Census of Occupations for the number of nonagricultural "gainful workers" less the number shown to have been unemployed for 1 week or more at the time of the census. Separate
estimates for "Employees in nonagricultural establishments" are
shown in table 4 for each of the 48 states and the District of Columbia
for August and September 1941 and September 1940. Tables showing monthly figures for each State from January 1938 to date are
available on request. Because the State figures do not include employees on merchant vessels, and because of certain adjustments in
the United States estimates which have not been made on a State
basis, the total of the State estimates will not agree exactly with the
figures for the United States as a whole.
These estimates are based in large part on industrial censuses and on
regular reports of employers to the United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics and to other Government agencies, such as the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Data derived from employers7 quarterly
reports in connection with "old age and survivors' insurance/' and
employers' monthly reports in connection with unemployment compensation, have been used extensively as a check on estimates derived
from other sources, and in some industries they have provided the
most reliable information available.
TABLE 3.—Estimates of Total Nonagricultural Employment, by Major Groups
[In thousands]
Change,
Change,
August September September 1940
to Septo Sep1940
tember
tember
1941
1941

September 1941
(preliminary)

August
1941

Total civil nonagricultural employment *_.

40,044

39,644

+400

36,528

+3,516

Employees in nonagricultural
establishments 12_
Manufacturing 3
Mining
Construction
Transportation and public utilities.
Trade
Finance, service, and miscellaneous..
Federal, State, and local Government:
Civil employees
Military and naval forces 4 .

33,901
12,365
906
1,957
3,365
6,659
4,420

33, 501
12,186
900
1,921
3,326
6,564
4,394

+400
+179
+36
+39
+95
.+26

30,385
10,479
846
1,511
3,120
6,321
4,255

+3,516
+1,886
+60
+446
+245
+338
+165

4,229
1,992

4,210
1,944

+19
+48

3,853
634

+376
+1,358

Industry

+6

1 Excludes military and naval forces as well as employees on W. P . A. and N . Y. A. projects, and enrollees
in C. C. C. camps. Includes proprietors, firm members, self-employed persons, casual workers, and
domestic servants. Includes allowance for adjustment of factory wage-earner totals to preliminary 1939
Census of Manufactures. Kevised series available on request.
2 Excludes all of the groups omitted from "Total civil nonagricultural employment" as well as proprietors,
firm members, self-employed persons, casual workers, and domestic servants.
3 Adjusted to preliminary 1939 Census of Manufactures.
< Not included in totals shown above. Includes members of the National Guard inducted into the Federal
service by act of Congress.




TABLEJ4.—Estimated Number of Employees in Nonagricultural Establishments, byStates
[Excludes proprietors, firm members, self-employed persons, casual workers, domestic workers, the armed
forces of the United States, and employees on merchant vessels]
[In thousands]
Change, August
to September 1941

September 1941
(preliminary)

August
1941

2,979
* 220
153
80
1,546
275
705

2,967
223
154
81
1,533
275
701

Middle Atlantic.
New York...
New Jersey
Pennsylvania.

8,636
4,258
1,349
3,029

8,510
4,195
1,313
3,002

East North CentralOhio
Indiana
Illinois. _._
Michigan..
Wisconsin..

7,945
2,080
957
2, 575
1, 594
739

7,833
2,064
940
2,564
1,537
728

West North CentralMinnesota..
Iowa
Missouri
North Dakota..
South DakotaNebraska..
Kansas...

2,625
596
442
872
81
86
218
330

2,607
594
440
863
80
85
217
328

South Atlantic.
Delaware..
Maryland
District of ColumbiaVirginia
West Virginia...
North Carolina,.
South CarolinaGeorgia..
Florida-

4,052
81
620
416
601
413
665
331
550
375

4,022
81
624
411
601
410
661
327
544
363

East South Central_.
KentuckyTennessee..
Alabama
Mississippi-

1,562
400
503
447
212

1,526
395
498
433
200

West South Central ..
Arkansas
Louisiana..
OklahomaTexas..

2,040
203
398
313
1,126

2,022
202
399
308
1,113

Mountain
MontanaIdaho
WyomingColorado
New Mexico.
Arizona.
Utah....
Nevada.

864
121
95
60
245
80
96
128
39

865
122
93
60
249
81
97
125
38

+3
+1

+2.7
+.6

Pacific
Washington..
Oregon....
California

2,890
525
297
2,068

2,850
501
285
2,064

+40
+24
+12
+4

+1.4
+4.9
+4.2

Geographic division and State

New EnglandMaine
__. -_

New Hampshire..
Vermont
Massachusetts..
Rhode Island..
Connecticut-




September 1940

Number Percentage

+123
-1
-1

+13
0

+4
+126
+63
+36
+27

+112
+16
+17
+11
+57
+11
+18

+2
+2
+9
+1
+1
+1
+2

+30
0
-4

+5
0
+3
+4
+4
+6
+12
+36
+5
+5
+14
+12
+18
+1
+5
+13
-1
-1

+2
0
-4
-1
-1

+0.4

Change, September
1940 to September
1941

Number Percentage

+.8
0
+.5

2,588
200
135
74
1,349
235
595

+391
+20
+18
+6

+197
+40
+110

+15.1
+10.1
+12.8
+8.5
+14.6
+17.2
+18.4

+1.5
+1.5
+2.8
+.9

7,852
3,943
1,197
2,712

+784
+315
+152
+317

+1.4
+.8
+1.8
+.4
+3.8
+1.4

6,981
1,809
814
2,278
1,420
660

+964
+271
+143
+297
+174

+79

+10.0
+8.0
+12.7
+11.7
+13.8
+15.0
+17.6
+13.0
+12.3

+12.0

+.7
+.3
+.6
+1.1
+1.8
+1.3
+.4
+.6
+.8
+•1

2,401
546
416
779
78
85
201
296

-f-224
+50
+26
+93
+3
+1
+17
+34

+9.3
+9.1
+6.3
+12.0
+4.4
+1.6
+8.7
+11.2

3,579
79
529
356
508
374
611
287
476
359

+473
+2
+91
+60
+93
+39
+54
+44
+74
+16

1,367
363
446
375
183

+195
+37
+57
+72
+29

+13.2
+2.0
+17.2
+16.9
+18.1
+10.6
+8.8
+15.4
+15.6
+4.5
+14.2
+10.1
+12.7
+19.1
+15.9

1,857
184
373
291
1,009

+183
+19
+25
+22
+117

+9.9
+10.2
+6.8
+7.7
+11.7

801
115
90
55
229
71
88
118
35

+63

+8.2
+5.3
+6.4
+10.2
+7.1
+12.4
+9.5
+8.8
+11.6

-1.5
-.7
-.4

-.6

+1.1
0

+.8
+.7

+1.4
+1.1
+3.3
+2.3
+1.3
+.9
+3.0
+5.8
+1.0
+.6
-.2

+1.7
+1.2
-.1
-.6

+2.0
+.1

-1.6
-1.2
-1.1

+.2

2,502
446
256
1,800

+6
+5
+5
+16
+9
+8
+10
+4
+388
+79
+41
+268

+15.5
+17.7
+16.0
+14.9

10
Industrial and Business Employment
Monthly reports on employment and pay rolls are available for 157
manufacturing industries; 16 nonmanufacturing industries, including
private building construction; water transportation; and class I steam
railroads. The reports for the first 2 of these groups—manufacturing
and nonmanufacturing—are based on sample surveys by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics. The figures on water transportation are based on
estimates prepared by the Maritime Commission and those on class I
steam railroads are compiled by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
They are presented in the foregoing summary.
The indexes of factory employment and pay rolls relate to wage
earners only. Those shown in tables 5 and 6 are based on the 3-year
average 1923-25 as 100. For all manufacturing industries combined,
the durable-goods group, the nondurable-goods group, and aluminum
manufactures, they have been adjusted to preliminary 1939 census
figures and for automobiles to the 1933 census. The indexes for all
other groups and industries have been adjusted to 1937 census data
except for the aircraft industry and the transportation equipment
group, which have been adjusted on the basis of a complete employment survey of the aircraft industry made by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics in August 1940. The over-all manufacturing indexes are
computed from reports supplied by representative manufacturing
establishments in 90 of the 157 industries surveyed. These reports
cover more than 55 percent of the total wage earners in all manufacturing industries of the country and more than 65 percent of the wage
earners in the 90 industries covered.
The indexes for the nonmanufacturing industries are based on the
12-month average for 1929 as 100. Figures for mining, laundries, and
dyeing and cleaning cover wage earners only, but the figures for public
utilities, brokerage, insurance, and hotels relate to all employees except
corporation officers and executives, while for trade they relate to all
employees except corporation officers, executives, and other employees
whose duties are mainly supervisory. For crude-petroleum production they cover wage earners and clerical field force. The coverage of
the reporting samples for the various nonmanufacturing industries
ranges from approximately 25 percent for wholesale and retail trade,
dyeing and cleaning, and insurance, to approximately 80 percent for
quarrying and nonmetallic mining, anthracite mining, and public
utilities.
The indexes for retail trade have been adjusted to conform in general
with the 1935 Census of Ketail Distribution and are weighted by lines
of trade. For the public utilities they have been adjusted to the 1937
Census of Electrical Industries, for wholesale trade to the 1933 census,
and for coal mining, year-round hotels, laundries, and dyeing and
cleaning to the 1935 censuses.




11
Data for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries are
based on reports of the number of employees and the amount of pay
rolls for the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
The average weekly earnings shown in tables 5 and 6 are computed
by dividing the weekly pay rolls in the reporting establishments by the
total number of full- and part-time employees reported. As not all
reporting establishments supply man-hours, average hours worked per
week and average hourly earnings are necessarily based on data furnished by a slightly smaller number of reporting firms. The size and
composition of the reporting sample vaiy somewhat from month to
month and, therefore, the average hours per week, average hourly
earnings, and average weekly earnings shown may not be strictly
comparable from month to month. The sample, however, is believed
to be sufficiently adequate in virtually all instances to indicate the
general movement of earnings and hours over the period shown. The
changes from the preceding month, expressed as percentages, are based
on identical lists of firms for the 2 months, but the changes from
September 1940 are computed from chain indexes based on the monthto-month percentage changes.
EMPLOYMENT AND PAY-ROLL INDEXES, AVERAGE HOURS, AND
AVERAGE EARNINGS
The indexes of employment and pay rolls as well as average hours
worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries in September
1941 are shown in table 5. Percentage changes from August 1941
and September 1940 are also given.
Employment and pay-roll indexes, as well as average hours worked
per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings for
July, August, and September 1941, where available, are presented in
table 6. The July and August figures, where given, may differ in
some instances from those previously published because of revisions
necessitated primarily by the inclusion of late reports. Indexes of
employment and pay rolls are given in table 7 for 55 additional manufacturing industries for the months of July, August, and September
1941. These indexes are based on 1939 as 100 and are available in
mimeographed form for the period from January 1939 to January 1941,
inclusive.
In table 8 indexes of employment and pay rolls are given for all
manufacturing industries combined, for the durable- and nondurablegoods groups of manufacturing industries, and for each of 13 nonmanufacturing industries, by months, from September 1940 to September 1941, inclusive. The indexes for all manufacturing industries
combined, the durable-goods group, and the nondurable-goods group
have been adjusted to preliminary 1939 census figures. Comparable




12
indexes for all available months and years back to January 1919 are
given in tables 9, 10, and 11 of the December 1940 issue of this
pamphlet. The chart on page 13 indicates the trend of factory employment and pay rolls from January 1919 to September 1941.
Indexes of factory employment by metropolitan areas and cities of
100,000 population or over according to the 1930 Census of Population
are given in table 9 for August and September 1941 and September
1940, together with percentage changes from August to September
1941 and from September 1940 to September 1941.
Use oj average hourly earnings in "escalator" clauses,—Average
hourly earnings of wage earners, such as those shown in table 5, have
been compiled regularly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics since 1932.
These averages are published for the use of those who wish either to
compare the average earnings of wage earners in different industries,
or to study the changes in average earnings over a period of time.
Certain characteristics of the average earnings should be indicated.
The average of the actual earnings of wage earners as a group may
change from one period to another for either of two reasons: (1) By
reason of changes in the wages paid or (2) by reason of changes in the
composition of the group of wage earners actually at work in different
periods. As an example of the latter cause of change, it is evident
that if, from one month to the next, the number of wage earners
employed in a high-wage industry increases proportionally more then
employment generally has increased, the average of actual earnings
for the group as a whole will increase. This increase might take place
even though there were no changes whatsoever in the earnings of any
wage earner in any one of the establishments. It is apparent, therefore, that the Bureau's averages reflect both changes in the actual
hourly rates paid as well as changes in the composition of the wage
earners in the group. The averages contained in table 5 for all manufacturing, for durable goods, for nondurable goods, and for the various
subgroups of industries, such as "iron and steel and their products,"
reflect both types of influence upon hourly earnings; and they measure
the average of the actual earnings of the wage earners actually at work
in each respective period.
To an increasing extent, use is being made of these average hourly
earnings figures in so-called "escalator" clauses in Government contracts. These are designed to protect contractors from losses that
might arise from general wage increases over which they could exercise
no control. A number of contracts extending over many months have
been written recently with clauses that provide for increased payments
to the contractor in case of increases in the average of the hourly
earnings in the durable-goods industries.




EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
ALL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
1923-25-100

INDEX

INDEX

200

200

180

180

1

160

/

140

120

80

160

140

120

J
J 1

V

T^
J

c u p 1 OYMF M T

100

p
\

60

V

T
/

#

80

60

PAY ROLL
40

20




V

40

20

1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942

ADJUSTED TO 1939 CENSUS OF MANUFACTURERS

00

14
It should be pointed out that the characteristics of the Bureau's
average hourly earnings figures, as described above, make it desirable
to use these averages for other than their designed purpose with a certain degree of caution. The purpose for which they were compiled
limits their usefulness, especially in July and August, as a measure of
change in labor rates. In these months the averages usually show a
seasonal movement unrelated to rates of pay. For example, the average hourly earnings figure in the durable-goods industries dropped from
73.2 cents in June 1940 to 72.7 cents in July 1940. This drop was due
not to a general decline in wages in this period but almost entirely to
the fact that employment in the automobile industry declined sharply
as the result of model changes. This industry is a high-wage industry
in which the average hourly earnings were about 95 cents an hour.
Between June and July 1940 employment in the automobile industry
dropped from 104.9 to 82.3. This relative decline, of a purely seasonal
character, in the number of highly paid automobile workers was
very largely responsible for the decline of half a cent noted in the
average hourly earnings in durable-goods industries.
By way of illustration of the problem involved it would be possible
to construct an index of earnings that was unrelated to changes in
the relative occupational composition of the group workers actually at
work. For example, giving the averages for the several industries the
same weights in July and August 1940 that they had in June 1940 and
considering only the influence of changes in average earnings in each
industry, we find no change in the rate of earnings from June to July
and approximately the same percentage change as is shown by the
published figures from July to August. This means that from June
1940 to August 1940, the currently published figures show a slight
decline over tHs 3-month interval whereas the series computed with
constant weights shows a small gain.
It is not within the province of the Bureau to indicate the type of
average that was contemplated by the contracting parties in the contracts already drawn; least of all can the method of compiling an
average be changed. It is obvious, however, that in incorporating
any statistical series in legal documents careful consideration should
be given to the purpose for which the figures were originally compiled
and to their relevance to some new purpose. The officials of the
Bureau are at the disposal of all those who wish to apply any of the
Bureau's series to administrative problems. Carefully interpreted
and applied, these data have a present usefulness far greater than
was imagined in the past. Their appropriate adaptation to new uses
involves on the one hand a careful consideration by the Bureau of
the purposes of the contracting parties; on the other, consultation
with the Bureau to discover whether the new figures as they stand
meet the purposes in mind.




TABLE 5.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, September 1941
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100. For "all manufacturing," "durable goods/' "nondurable goods." and "aluminum manufactures," they have been adjusted to preliminary 1939 census figures. The indexes for all other manufacturing groups and industries have been adjusted to 1937 censusfigures,except as otherwise noted, and are not
comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to August 1939. Comparable series available upon request]
Employment

Average hours worked
per week 1

Average hourly earn-

Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
change from— Index change from—
change from—
change from—
change from—
SepSepSepSepSeptember
tember
tember
tember
Sep- tember
Sep1941 August Sep1941 August Sep1941 August Sep1941 August tember
1911 LUgUSt tember
tember
tember
1941
1941
1941
1941 tember
1941
1940
1940
1940
1940
1940

Industry

Index

All manufacturing2..
Durable goods 2
Nondurable goods 2_-..

Average weekly earnings i

Pay rolls

—

..

135.3

+1.7

142.2
128.7

+2.5

+21.5
+31.4
+12.5

163.0

+.4 +23.7

184.0
139.5

Cents
75.8

+3.0
+3.4
+2.3

+46.1
+59.9
429.5

$32.01

+1.3

+20.3

40.9

-0.1

-1-5.7

38.79
25.75

+

+21. 6
+ 15.2

42.3
39.5

-.7

+.4

+5.5
+5.3

84.3

+1.6
+1.5
+1.4

+13.1
+14.6
+9.3

-2.6
-4.3

+45.?
+39.6
+77.1
+46.2

35.65
37.89
34.51
28.45

+ 17.3
+15.5
+22.3
+22.4

40.7
39.0
42.9
41.6

-1.7
-2.8
-4.5

+3.5
+1.4
+5.4
+7.5

87.3
97.2
80.5
68.2

+.7
+.3
+.6
+1.0

+13.1
+13.8
+16.0
+14.2

+1.4
+2.1
+1.8
+L9
+4.9
+.4

+48.5
+88.2
+37.8
+28.8
+45.5

30.76
41.74
32.97
30.92
29.73

-1.1
-2.5
-3.9
+2.0
+1.1
+.1
-.4
+3.1
+.3

+24.4
+27.8
+20.3
+15.5
+12.5

44.3
45.1
42.3
40.6
41.3

+9.5
+9.1
+6.0
+3.9
+1.7

70.2
92.2
78.2
76.5
72.6

+13.0
+17.1
+14.1
+10.8
+9.9

+17.6
+12.3

+1.6

Durable goods

Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery
Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills-.
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets _.
Cast-iron pipe
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
Forgings, iron and steel.
Hardware
Plumbers' supplies 3
Stamped and enameled ware.
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam fittings..
Stoves
Structural and ornamental metal work..
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)_„„
Wirework..
_
See footnotes at end of table.




140.5
148.9
170.6
97.7

-.1
-.4
+1.7

+20.9
+44.8
+19.4

171. 3
178.6
246.3
115.9

127.8
113.0
115.8
99.0
228.4

+.3
+2.0
+2.2
-3.5
+1.5

+19.4
+47.4
+14.4
+11.7
+29.4

149.5
172.9
156.5
106.6
292.6

127.4
116.2
109.3
145.0

+1.8

+35.1
+14.9
+31.0
+37.8

154.9
127.9
122.8
-1.6
187.6 . +1.6

+70.1
+31.3
+64.2
+60.6

36.64
30.97
36.45
28. 92

+3.0
+1.2
-1.0
+1.8

+25.8
+14.3
+25.3
+16.6

44.8
41.4
43.3
42.5

+1.9
-L9
-.9

+9.7
+2.1
+10.5
+7.5

82.0
74.9
84.3
68.3

-.3
+1.9
+1.0
+1.7
+.7
+1.0
+1.6
+.8
+2.2

144.4
210.8

+1.3
+11.0

+44.6
+28.0

196.6
278.0

+3.5
+12.2

+89.1
+47.1

34.80
32.01

+2.1
+1.0

+30.7
+15.0

46.3
41.6

-.4
-1.1

+11.8
+2.1

75.2
77.1

+2.5
+2.1

-.2

+3.7

+1.1
+.9

-1.9
-1.4
+1.3
-.4

+14.5
+10.8
+13.6
+8.6

TABLE 5.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, September 1941—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Employment

Industry

Average weekly earnings

Pay rolls

Average hours worked
per week

Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
change from—
change from—
Index change from— Index change from—
SepSepSepSeptember
tember
tember
1941 August Sep1941 August
SepSep- tember
1941 August tember
1941 August tember
tember
1941
1941
1941
1941
1940
1940
1940

Average hourly earnPercentage
change from—
Sep:ember
1940 August Sep1941 tember
1940

Durable goods—Continued
Machinery, not including transportation equipment
Agricultural implements (including tractors).
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating m achines
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Engines, turbines; water wheels, and wind..
mills
Foundry and machine-shop products.
Machine tools
..
Radios and phonographs
Textile machinery and partsTypewriters and parts-

178.5
170.7

+1.1

173./
168.7

+2.0

323. 0
147.0
356.4
212.5
108.5
158.2

190.8
Transportation
equipment 5
8, 571. 2
Aircraft 5
123.4
Automobiles 6
95.6
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad..
Locomotives..
81.2
Shipbuilding
439.6
Nonferrous metals and their products..
147.9
Aluminum manufactures 7 8
245.7
Brass, bronze, and copper products 5
194. 9
QJocks and watches and time-recording devices' 112.3




+45.0
+27.9

243.1
230.7

+31.8
+51.7

229.8
241.4

+79.8
+47.7
+63.8
+83.7

$38.38
37.12

+4.5 +126. 9
+2.8 +76.1 569.6
+1.0 +78.2
+.9 +42.2 187.8
577.8
+4.4 +73. 9
+1.4 +43. 7
254. 4
+8.7 +57. 5
+5.0 +33.2
141.1 +?.9 +817
+.1 +38.9
+29.1 233.4
+70.1
+5.0
+1.6.
+11.3 +50. 2
253.3 +13.0 +79.1
+7.7 +127. 7 11, 302.1 +8.0 +168. 3
158. 9 +15.8 +27.0
+12.9 +10.0
+9.4 +107. 4
102.5
+7.3 +78.3
+5.4 +201. 7
110.6
+2.9 +128. 3
700.1 +13.9 +208.0
+13.2 +133. 7
+2.4 +43. 5
187.5
+1.2 +23.5
+3.8 +44.6
358. 8
+2.0 +22. 5
2 +53. 8
273. 2
+1.1 +32.9
149.5
-4.9 +11.7
-4! 5 +F,7. 6

46.77
37.77
44.77
29. 25
35. 84
36.16
41.74
38. 58
42.20
33.71
41.68
46.69
35.10
36. 30
38.53
29.30

+.8

+1.9
+1.4
+3.0
+.6

41.18
37.28

+0.8
+2.2
+1.0

45.1
40.5
45.0
43.5

+.08
+.8

+1.6
+.1
+3.0
+3.5
+3.9
+3.3

+24.0
+15. 4
+24.3
+21.1
+28.8
+25.4
+21.1
+18. 2
+33.0
+31.8

46.6
45.4
51.5
42.1
47.6
47.7

+.5
+2.1
+2.5
+2.7

+1.6
+.3
+2.6
+2.0
+2.4
+.6
+1.2
+1.7
-1.2
+•4

+19.3
+17.9
+15.4
+16.4
+32.1
+31.8
+13.7
+18.2
+15.8
+23.2

41.8
45. 5
38.7
38.6
46.6
44.9
43.1
42.5
43.8
42.6

-.2

-(*)

+.9
-.4

-.2

o

— IA
+1.1
+1.0
+• 1
-.3
-1.4
-1.2

+8.2
+1.7

Cents
85.0
92.0

+12.1
+6.0

92.0
85.7

+4.1
+10. 5
+6.3
+4.7
+1S.2
+13.4

100.3
82.9
87.0
69.7
75.4
75.8

+5.5
+1.9
+.9
+1.6
+15. 8
+10.2
+3.3
+S.0
+1.4
+5.9

100.8
85.6
108.5
87.4
89.5
104.0
82.1
85.4
88.7
68,8

+0.7
+1.4
+.2
+.6
+.6
+.4
+2.5
+1.4
+1.4
+.5
+1.8
-(4)

+2.7
+3.4
+1.3
+.3
+1.5
+2.0
+.1
+1.6

+14.1
+13.6
+10.9
+14.0
+23.6
+13.4
+13.8
+13.0
+ 12.4
+16.2
+12.6
+14.9
+14.3
+13.9
+14.1
+20.3
+15.3
+14.7
+14. 6
+16.6

Jewelry
Lighting equipment s
Silverware and plated ware
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.
Lumber and allied products
Furniture..
Lumber:
Mill work 8 _
Sawmills..

_..

Stone, clay, and glass products._. . .
Brick, tile, and terra cotta_.
Cement 8
Glass
.
Marble, granite, slate, and other products.. .
Pottery.

119.8
126.6
85.8
103.0

+1.5
+8.8
+1.2

80.5
108.3

-.6
-.1

76.4
70.4

-2.0
-.4

101.8
79.1
83.8
130.3
45.9
121.0

-..4

-4-. 5
-.4

+16.6
+26.9
+17.8
+11. 5
+9.7
+14.5
+14.6
+6.2
+18.6
+22.3
+11.6
+19.1

+.4
+.2
+3.1 - 5 . 6
+1.3 +29.2

121.8
146.7
103.7
118.2
92.5
119.1
72.9
77.6
105.5
76.2
93.5
161.0
36.8
124.8

+7.5 +34.1
+19.3 +62.6
+9.9 +48.0
-.1
+28.7
-1.3
+29.9
+2.6 +36.2
- 2 . 5 +32.7
-3.4
+21.5
+1.2 +32.4
-1.0
+41.1
-.5
+21.8
+3.5 +33.4
+2.0 - 2 . 1
+.6 +44.3

27.28
35.81
35.10
32.32

+5.9
+9.7
+8.7
+.3

24.47
26.01

-.7

+2.7

26.17
22.73

-.6
-3.2

28.30
25.27
31.60
30.27
28.00
26.09

+.7
-1.0
-.7

+15. 0
+28.2
+25.6
+15.4
+18.5
+19.1
+15.7
+14.5
+11.5
+15.3
+9.1
+12.0
+3.7
+11.7

+3.3
+3.6
+2.8
+2.8
+1.5
+2.6
-8.0
+2.0
+2.8
+3.8
-.1
+3.6
+7.5
+2.6
+.3
+ 4.0
+4.7
+5.6
+5.6
+2.3

+18.3
+21.4
+23.0
+27.0
+20.3
+16.9
+13. 6
+5.1
+11.3
+18.7
+8.6
+20.9
+26.5
+13.4
+19.9
+10.6
+11.7
+21.5
-8.3
+20.8

-.6
-.8

+3.3

44.0
43.6
46.4
39.1

+3.6
+3.5
+5.1

41.1
42.9

-1.5

42.8
39.7

-1.0
-3.0

38.2
38.7
40.2
37.3
38.6
37.9

-1.1
-.8
-1.3
-1.3
-.8
-1.3

38.3
39.1
39.9
39.6
41.3
40.0
34.4
36.0
38.9
39.4
40.2
38.0
39.7
36.7
36.5
36.5
38.5
37.4
34.7
37.8

-.8

+.9

+5.0
+6.0
+9.0
+.3
+3.2
+5.4
+3.2
+1.4
+1.2

62.5
82.5
76 3
82.6
59.0
61.2

+3.3
+5.9
+3.2
+1.2
+.5
+1.7
+.4

+11.7
+21.1
+15.4
+15.1
+13.0
+13.3

+()
+3.5
+3.0
+.8

73.6
65.3
78.6
81.5
73.2
69.1

+2.1
+.5
+.5
+4.6
+.1
+.9

+12.2
+13.0
+9.8
+15.3
+9.2
+8.4
+1.0
+10.4

+6.9
+6.8
+12.1
+8.7
+9.2
-.2
+5.6
-7.0
+3.4
-.3
+3.8
+1.4 +3.3
+2.4 +9.9
-.4
-1.6
-.2
+4.2
+.6 +6.1
+ 1.2 + 7.0
+.5 +10.8
+1.5 +4.0
+2.7 +1.9
+2.3 +8.3
+3.2 - 1 3 . 0
+.8 +11.0

56.9
55.1
73.6
48.3
55.3
59.7
81.0
55.3
51.1
46.3
54.3
52.9
68.5
60.2
64.5
61.7
52.3
46.0
73.8
45.4

+2.4
+3.3
+2.1
+2.2
+.8
+2.7
-2.3
+2.3
+.1.6
+1.6
-.2
+3.7
+7.3
+.8
+ .2
+1.1
+1.2
+2.6
-.2
+1.4

+10.6
+13.5
+9.7
+16.9
+10.0
+10.3
+9.4
+1.2
+7.6
+6.9
+8.9
+16.1
+19.2
+6.2
+8.4
+5.5
+8.9
+11.4
+3.9
+8.9

+.8
4

61.1
57.2

-.2

Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs_.
Cotton goods
Cotton smallwares
Dyeing and finishing textiles..
Hats, fur-felt.
Hosiery.
Knitted outerwear..
Knitted underwear..
Knitted cloth
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods.
Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's 8
Corsets and allied garments.
Men's furnishings-.
Millinery
Shirts and collars_.
See footnotes a t end of t a b l e .




115.5
106.3
91.0
110.2
107.4
136.0
79.1
136.2
82.5
87.9
160.4
63.2
110.5
131.2
123.6
177. 5
122.6
131.5
85.3
136.4

+.1
-.6

+.6
+.3
+1.0
-.3
-3.5
-3.8

+1.5
+1.8

+12.6
+14.5
+20.1
+20.2
+36.0
+9.0
-8.4
-1.8

+12.7
+19.1
+4.5
-.6
+1.5 +24.4
+1.2 +8.7
+.2 +14.7
+1.0 +3;7
+3.0 +9.3
+2.7 +7.4
+6.9 - 2 . 1
+2.1 +12.3
-.1
-6.9

123.4
118.0
96.6
130.2
126.5
135.7
80.3
151.6
80.6
95.9
156.8
61.5
129.2
126.3
114.7
162.1
150.1
156.5
84.2
146.7

+3.4
+3.1
+3.4
+3.1
+2.5
+2.3

+33.3
+39.2
+47.8
+52.5
+63.5
+27.4
-11.2
+4.1
-1.9
+3.2
+4.3 +25.4
+5.7 +41.0
- . 2 ' +13.4
-3.6
+20.3
+9.1 +57.4
+3.8 +23.2
+.6 +38.3
+5.1 +14.6
+7.7 +22.2
+8.4 +30.1
+13.0 - 1 0 . 2
+4.4 +35.7

21.73
21.37
29.33
19.12
22.94
24.14
27.87
19.90
20.22
18.37
22.62
20.16
27.13
22.72
23.64
24.39
20.40
17.75
30.14
17.10

+.7
+•4
+•7
+.6
+•7

TABLE 5.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, September 1941—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued

Employment

Industry-

Percentage

Percentage

Boots and shoes..
Leather-

Food and kindred products
Baking

Beverages...
Butter. .
Canning and preserving..
Confectionery..
Flours
Ice cream

Slaughtering and meat packing..
Sugar, beet
Sugar refining, cane..

Tobacco manufactures _

Chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff-... ..
Cigars and cigarettes




Average hours worked
per week

Average hourly earnings

Percentage

Percentage

Percentage

change from—
change from—
Index change from— Index change from— Sep- change from— SepSepSepSeptember
tember
tember
tember
tember
1941 August Sep1941 August Sep1941 August
SepSepSep1941 August
1941 August tember
tember
1941 tember
1941 tember
1941
1941 tember
1941
1940

Leather and its manufactures

Average weekly earnings

Pay rolls

98.9
95.2
97.0

-2.2
-3.1

1940

+8.9
+6.1
+21.4

101.6
95.3
114.2

+2.1 +10.4
+.5 +4.7

+2.3

162.7
153.5
315.1
106.4
321.6
101.5
80.6
85.2
123.6
90.5
103.7

-4.0
-4.2
+5.7
+11.5
+3.2
-11.1
+1.0
+42.3
+8.7

+11.2
+6.5
+19.6
+5.5
-.2
+4.9
+14.5
-10.9
+13.3

170.2
157.4
401.5
99.6
359.1
114.8
92.5
77.1
146.1
95.2
102.6

63.8
53.6
65.1

-3.0
+2.7
-3.6

-3.0
-4.4
-2.7

70.4
69.3
70.4

-3.0
-5.4

+4.8

+ .6
+1.6
+.4

-0.9
-2.4

+2.4

+24.9
+24.8
+22.3

38.0
37.4
40.0

-2.9
-3.4
-1.5

+10.4
+10. 8
+7.7

26.54
+.8
28.32
+.9
37.40
-2.7
24.39
-1.1
21.21
+4.7
21. 81 +2.4
30.86 +10.7
30.55
+3.1
30.71
+1.2
27. 41 - 1 . 3
28.22
-5.2

+11.3
+6.8
+8.6
+5.7
+29.6
+10.7
+14.0
+5.2
+13.2
-8.1
+15.6

41.6
42.0
41.1
46.2
42.2
40.2
45.5
44.6
39.3
35.7
41.1

+1.5
+.5

+3.8
+1.0
+4.7
-.3
+10.5
-.8
+5.6
-1.8

+3.7

+10.0
+8.5
+10.0

38.3
36.6
38.4

+2.8

+38. 2 $33. 71
+32. 3 22.35
+48.7 29.51

+2.9 +22.9
+ 1.4 +11.8
- 6 . 6 +20.9
- 5 . 2 +12.7
+10.6 +55.0
+14.2 +16.8
+14.3- +13.8
- 8 . 3 +10.3
+2.2 +29.7
+40.4 -18.2
+3.0 +31.0
+6.8
+3.3
+7.2

1940

1940

1940

20.07
20.87
19.91

-1.0

+4.1

-3.0
2 7

+6^0
+4.1
+6.4
-3.1
-.6
-1.9
-5.6
-.1

+3.1

Cents
63.0
60.1
74.0

+11.4

65.7
67.4
91.9
52.5
51.1
54.5
67.2
68.5
78.3
77.4
68.2

+2.1
+3.0
+1.7

52.5
57.4
52.0

o

-15^9

+2.5
+1.8
+3.7

+14.2
+13.6
+13.8

-.2

+9.1
+5.7
+3.7
+6.5
+16.3
+10.6
+8.7
+8.4
+13.4
+8.1
+3.8

+.4
+.7
+1.7
-2.0
-1.6

+4.7
+6.9
+1.9
+.1
+.4
+.8
-.6

+.9

+8.0
+5.2
+8.6

00

Paper and printing..Boxes, paper
Paper and pulp
Printing and publishing:
Book and job
Newspapers and periodicals..
Chemicals and allied products, and petroleum
refining
—
Petroleum refining
Other than petroleum refining.
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and
meal..
Druggists' preparations 8 -.
Explosives
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products _.
Rubber products
Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber tires and inner tubes—
Rubber goods, other
See footnotes at end of table.




124.8
144.7
128.3

+.7
+1.9
+.4

104.8
116.9

+2.0

148.5
128.5
150.8
182.0
115.2
143.8
9
()

110.2
143.9
327.0
98.2
111.5
77.2
86.5
193.2

-.6

+3.2
+.5
+3.8
+1.0
+62.6
+6.3
(9)
+23.1
-.6
-.7

+.8
-.3
-2! 7
-.2

+.1

+7.4
+20.3
+9.9
+5.1
+.8

133.3
188.0
163.0

+17.5
+39.9
+31.3
+13.1
+2.7

32.26
26. 03
31.03

+1.1
+1.3q

99.3
114.1

+1.8
+3.3
+.1
+.8
+3.9

32.82
39.74

+1.4
+1.9

+19.1
+4.8
+22.5
+26.9
+42.3
+22.3
(8)
+15.3
+14.2
+4.9
+11.8
4-24.7
+37.7
+19.2
+26.8

186.3
166.4
193.1
250.2
115.4
177.9
9

+3.8
+4.6
+3.7
+1.2
+77.4
+8.1
fl

+35.3
+19.6
+40.1
+46.4
+47.9
+34.2
(9)
+30.7
+25.3
+14.2
+30.5
+40.2
+75.0
+26.8
+51.5

34.14
40.14
32.12
36.54
16.05
27.40
38.89
18.77
32.56
29.29
33. 50

+.6
+4.1

()

111.6
169.9
374.3
139.6
134.2
104.1
107.3
231.6

()
+23.0

-1.0
+1.7
+3.4
-3.3
+1.9
-7.8
+1.4

32. 83
31.00
36.15
29.00

-.1

+.1
+9.1
+1.7
+1.1
+.3
-.4

+2.4
+2.6
-3.1
+4.7
-7.6
+1.3

+9.4
+16. 2
+19.5
+7.5
+1.9
+13,5
+14.1
+14.5
+15.3
+3.9
+9.5
+20.3
+13.2
+9.8
+8.9
+16.8
+12.5
+27.2
+6.3
+19.5

40.1

42.3
42.9
39.9
35.9
39.9
37.2
40.7
40.8
44.7
41.0
43.0
36.5
41.3
39.2
41.1
38.5
42.7
34.6
41.2

+.1
+.9
-.4

+.1
+.5
2
-L9

+.2
-1.2
+16.2
+1-7
_(4)

+.9
-.9
-.1
-.5

-2.1

+3.1
-6.2
-(4)

+4.7
+5.7
+8.2
+3.8
-.2

+2.7
+2.9
+2.3
+2.2
+4.3
+2.4
+10.6
+.4
+1.3
-.3

+1.5
+2.5
+8.9
-1.4

+3.9

83.0
61.9
72.4

+.8
+.2
+.2

+4.4
+10.3
+10.5

82.9
107.9

+1.4

+3.3
+2.3

84.5
108.3
77.6
89.9
35.6
62.6
90.4
51.4
78.9
74.6
81.5

+1.1
+5.8
-.4

+2.5
+3.1

+10.3
+11.2
+11.5
+12.9
+1.6
+4.9
+8.9
+12.5
+8.5
+9.2
+15.0

85.9
72.6
104.7
70.9

j
+L6
-1.5
+1.3

+10.5
+16.7
+7.4
+14.8

+.7

+1.4
-3.7
-1.6
+1.2
-.6

+.6

TABLE 5.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries, September 1941—Continued
NONMANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average 1929=100 except for class I railroads, which are based on 1935-39 as 100]

Industry

Index
September
1941

Coal mining: 10
Anthracite 10"
Bituminous
_
Metalliferous mining i2
Quarrying and nonmetallie mining..
Crude-petroleum production 13
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph 1415
i* »..
Electric light and power
Street railways and busses " is it
Trade:
1417
Wholesale
Retail14 »_..
Food is
General merchandising *4 15-.
Apparel15 15
Furniture 15
Automotive
-.
Lumber 15_.
14

Hotels (year-round)
io w_.
Laundries10
Dyeing and1419
cleaning 10_.
Brokerage .- ._...
Insurance14
Building construction--.
Water transportation 20_21_.
Class I steam railroads _




Percentage
change from—
SepAugust tember
1941
1940

50.0
94.2
78.8
54.4
61.6

-(4)
+1.8
-1.4

90.2
94.6
69.9

+.6

95.4
99.9
109.0
112.2
94.1
79.7
89.8
83.0
95.3
113.1
121.0
(9)
(9)
(9)
78.5
118.7

+.9

-1.0

-.7

+.2
-.4
+3.1

+.6

+8.9
+16.9
+1.5
-3.2
-.2

+.9
-1.3
+1.8
-1.3
-.4
-1.6
-1.0

+.3

Average weekly earnings

Pay roll3

Employment

Index
September
1941

Percentage
Percentage
Percentage
change from—
change from—
change from—
SepSepSeptember
tember
tember
1941 August SepSep1941
Sep1941
SepAugust tember
August tember
August tember
tember
1941
1941
1941
1941
1940
1940
1940
1940

49.6
115.6
85.9
60:6
63.3

+2.1
+2.9

118.8
114.2
78.1

+2.0
-.8
-.7

+4.9
+7.7
+5.3
+12.9
+7.3
+5.0
+5.5
+6.0

90.6
95.8
105.6
107.0
89.5
78.6
86.8
87.1

+4.1
+11.0
+10.0
-9.1
+1.4
+10.3
-1.4
+13.5

89.1
105.2
99.4
(9)
(9)

()

Average hourly earnings

Percentage
change from—

+0.4
+7.5
+8.6
+11.2
-2.2
+14.2
+2.0
+1.9

C9)
(99)

Average hours worked
per week

-2.8
-1.5

+.6

+.9
+1.9

+.3

+7.8
+15.0
+3.4
-9.3
+2.0
+1.0

+.5

+8.0
-1.5
-1.3
+1.3
(99)
()

+17.6
+12.3
-( 4 )
+3.8
+2.7

Cents
98.2
103.1
82.7
64.8
96.4

-1.1
—1.5

+2.4
+1.7
+1.1

79.6
92.8
77.0

-.2
-.6
— 1.2

-.3

-1.6
-2.6

80.5
56.8
55.8
48.0
58.3
71.4
62.5
69.0

+1.6
-.9
-1.9
-.7
-.2
-5.4
+1.4

+7.2
+5.7
+6.0
+4.0
+5.4
+3.2
+8.7
+8.8

35.1
44.9
52.0

+1.0
+1.6
+2.3

+5.2
+4.7
+4.3

+26.1
+39.0
+23.7
+31.0
+8.8
+16.7
+7.9
+9.2

$32.60
32.76
34.37
28.25
37.67

-2.9
-3.2
+2.1
+1.2
+3.9

+25.6
+29.3
+13.8
+17.8
+11.2

33.4
31.8
41.8
43.8
38.0

32.20
36.72
36.37

+1.4
-.1
-.8

40.6
39.9
46.7

+1.0

+11.7
+12.6
+10.1
+18.2
+11.9
+14.2
+11.7
+15. 2

33.04
22.09
24.90
18.78
22.27
30.59
28.82
29.35

+1.3
-1.1

+2.1
+5.9
+7.2
+6.4
+4.6
+4.5
+4.8
+4.3
+8.8
+5.9
+8.6

41.1
42.5
42.6
38.9
38.1
44.6
47.0
43.3

+8.9
+17.0
+16.1
-2.4
+4.5
+23.8
(99)
()

16.14
19.29
22.74
39.36
37.01
37.10
9

+4.6
+5.4
+5.5
+7.3
+3.0
+12.3
(99)
()

45.6
43.4
44.7
(9)
(9)
36.5
(9)
(•)

()
(9)

-.2

-1.0
-1.6
+1.9
-6.2
+2.2

+.1

+1.9
+6.1
-.3
-.8
+3.0
(99)
()

-1.1
-2.7
o

+ (4")

+.2

+1.0
-.8
+1.3
-.9
+1.0
-1.1

+.4

+3.6

8
+1.8
(9)

09

+.3A
-1.9

+ (*)

-1.3
+1.0
+ 19 . 1
()
(9)
+4.1
(9)
(9)

-0.7
-.3
+2.4
+1.2
+3.1

+.5

+1.4

+.9
+.7

8 +1.2
8
101.7
(99)
()

(99)
()

+5.0
+14.4
+14.0
+13.4
+7.8

tO
CD

-.3

+4.4
+6.5

(9)
(fl)

+7.9
(9)
(9)

&
£2
£:
|
£

1
Mimeographed sheets giving averages by years, 1932 to 1939, inclusive, and by months,
January 1938 to August 1940, inclusive, available on request. Average hours and average
hourly earnings are computed from data supplied by a smaller number of establishments
than average weekly earnings, as not all reporting firms furnish man-hours. The figures
are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the size and
composition
of the reporting sample.
2
See tables 9, 10, and 11 in the December 1940 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls"
for comparable series back to January 1919 for all manufacturing and back to January
1923 for the durable- and nondurable-goods groups.
3 See table 7 in the April 1941 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls" for revised figures
from
January 1940 to March 1941.
4
Less than Mo of 1 percent.
5
Adjusted on basis of a complete employment survey of the aircraft industry made
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for August 1940. Not comparable with previously
published indexes from January 1939 to August 1940, inclusive. Comparable figures for
this period given in table 9 of the September 1940 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls."
6 The indexes for "Automobiles" have been adjusted to 1933 census figures, but not to
later census figures because of problems involving integrated industries.
7 See table 8 in March 1941 "Employment and Pay Rolls" pamphlet for revised figures
from January 1935 to February 1941.
s Revisions in the following industries have been made as indicated:
Aluminum manufactures.—June 1941 average weekly and hourly earnings to $35.04
and 83.0 cents. June employment and pay-roll indexes to 229.2 and 322.3.
Brass, bronze, and copper products.—June 1941 average weekly and hourly earnings
to $38.37 and 86.1 cents. June 1941 employment and pay-roll indexes to 189.3 and
262.2.
Lighting equipment.—June 1941 average weekly and hourly earnings to $31.80 and
77.0 cents.
Millwork.—June 1941 average weekly and hourly earnings to $25.21 and 59.3 cents.
June pay-roll index to 67.0.
Cement.—June 1941 average weekly earnings and hours to $32.02 and 41.7 hours.
June employment and pay-roll indexes to 79.6 and 90.1.
Women's clothing. June 1941 average weekly and hourly earnings to $20.10 and 54,2
cents. June employment and pay-roll indexes to 158,7 and 119,1,




Flour.-^June 1941 average weekly earnings, average weekly hours, and average
hourly earnings to $27.28; 43.3 hours, and 63.0 cents. June pay-roll index to 79.3.
Druggists1 preparations.—June 1941 average weekly earnings, average hours, and average hourly earnings to $26.24; 40.8 hours and 62.4 cents. June employment index
to 127.3.
o Not available.
i° Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented
in 11January 1938 issue of this pamphlet.
See table 7 of October 1940 "Employment and Pay Rolls" for revised employment
and pay-roll indexes, average hours worked per week, average hourly earnings, and
average weekly earnings in anthracite mining, February 1940 to September 1940, inclusive.
12 See table 7 of February 1941 pamphlet for revised figures for metalliferous mining
from
January 1938 to January 1941, inclusive.
13
Does not include well drilling or rig building.
i* Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not comparable with figures
published in pamphlets prior to January 1938 as they now exclude corporation officers,
executives,
and other employees whose duties are mainly supervisory.
15
Retail-trade indexes adjusted to 1935 census and public-utility indexes to 1937 census.
Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to January 1940 or in Monthly
Labor Review prior to April 1940, with but one exception, retail furniture, which has
been revised since publication of July 1940 pamphlet back to January 1936. Comparable
series for earlier months available upon request.
16 Covers street-railways and trolley and motorbus operations of subsidiary, affiliated,
and successor companies; formerly "electric-railroad and motorbus operation and maintenance."
17
Indexes adjusted to 1933 census. Comparable series in November 1934 and subsequent
issues of "Employment and Pay Rolls."
18
Cash payments only; additional value of board, room, and tips not included.
19 See note 18 in table 10 in the July 1941 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls" for
revised average weekly earnings in the brokerage industry from January 1939 to January
1941.
20 Based on estimates prepared by the United States Maritime Commission.
3i Preliminary—Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.

TABLE 6.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries
MANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 3-year average, 1923-25=100. For "all manufacturing," "durable goods," "nondurable goods," and "aluminum manufactures," they have been adjusted to
preliminary 1939 census figures. The indexes for all other manufacturing groups and industries have been adjusted to 1937 censusfigures,except as otherwise noted, and are not
comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to August 1939. Comparable series available upon request]
Employment index

Industry

All manufacturing 2_
Durable goods 2
Nondurable goods 2_.

Pay-roll index

Average weekly earnings i

Average hours worked
per week l

Average hourly earnings i

September
1941

August
1941

July
1941

September
1941

August
1941

July
1941

40.9

41.0

40.3

Cents
75.8

Cents
74.5

Cents
74.4

35.84
25.07

42.3
39.5

42.6
39.4

41.5
39.0

84.3
66.8

83.0
65.8

82.6
65.7

36.12
38.81
36.02
27.91

35.53
38.90
34.22
27.45

40.7
39.0
42.9
41.6

41.4
40.1
45.0
41.1

39.9
38.7
41.6
40.4

87.8
97.2
80.5
68.2

87.1
96.8
80.0
67.5

86.2
96.5
77.2
67.7

30.76
41.74
32.97
30.92
29.73

30.38
41.41
33.11
30.21
29.71

28.65
39.68
29.26
28.89
28.61

44.3
45.1
42.3
40.6
41.3

44.0
45.9
42.8
40.1
41.5

42.0
44.4
41.1
38.9
40.0

70.2
. 92.2
78.2
76.5
72.6

70.2
90.5
77.5
75.3
72.1

69.1
89.6
71.2
74.2
71.7

137.5
121.8
112.5
171.3

36.64
30.97
36.45
28.92

35.51
30.48
36.82
28.42

34.65
29.43
34.04
27. 59

44.8
41.4
43.3
42.5

44.0
41.5
44.2
42.9

43.4
40.4
41.3
42.0

82.0
74.9
84.3
68.3

81.1
73.7
83.5
66.9

80.1
72.9
82.6
66.4

174.3
271.6

34.80
32.01

34.03
31.68

31.70
30.85

46.3
41.6

46.5
42.0

43.4
42.0

75.2
77.1

73.5
75.5

73.1
73.5

September
1941

August
1941

July
1941

September
1941

August
1941

July
1941

September
1941

135.3

133.0

130.7

163.0

158.3

152.7

$32.01

142.2
128.7

138.7
127.7

137.7
123.9

184.0
139.5

177.9
136.3

172.4
130.8

36.79
25.75

36.52
25.38

140.5
148.9
170.6
97.7

139.9
149.1
171.3
96.1

137.7
147.2
167.4
97.6

171.3
178.6
246.3
115.9

172.3
183.3
257. 3
111.8

166.6
181.6
238.9
112.2

35.65
37. 89
34.51
28.45

127.8
113.0
115. 8
99.0
228.4
127.4
116.2
109. 3
145.0

127.4
110.8
113.2
102.6
224.9

123.6
108.2
103.8
101.7
222.0

149.5
172.9
156.5
106.6
292.6

147.5
169.3
153.6
107.1
287.1

134.9
158.4
124.1
101.6
272.1

125.2
117.2
110.0
145.3

119.0
116.6
107.4
138. 8

154.9
127.9
122.8
187.6

144.4
210.8

142.6
189.8

140.3
213.2

196.6
278.0

147.7
127. 4
124.9
184.7
190.1
247.9

August
1941

July
1941

$31 63 $31. 22

Durable goods
Iron and steel and their products, not including
machinery

Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills..
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets..
Cast-iron pipe
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and edge tools
Forgings, iron and steel _
Hardware

Plumbers'supplies 3
.
Stamped and enaTnpled warp.
Steam and hot-water heating apparatus and
steam
fittings.
...._.
Stoves
Structural and ornamental metal work..
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools,
files, and saws)..
Wirework..




to
t3

Machinery, not including transportation equipment
Agricultural implements (including tractors)-.
Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating machines
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and windmills
Foundry and machine-shop products-Machine tools
_.
K, adios and phonographs
Textile machinery and parts.
Typewriters and parts.Transportation equipment 4._
Aircraft 4
Automobiles 5
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad-.
Locomotives..
Shipbuilding..

178.5
170.7

178.5
172.0

172.3
171.4

248.1
230.7

243.4
227.5

233.0
228.4

38.38
37.12

38.19
36.31

37.53
36.62

45.1
40.5

45.1
40.1

44.6
41.2

85.0
92.0

84.4
90.7

83.6
89.0

173.7
168.7

170.3
167.4

167.5
163.8

229.8
241.4

223.1
240.0

214.0
232.0

41.18
37.28

40.76
37.44

39.74
37.06

45.0
43.5

44.6
43.9

43.9
43.5

92.0
85.7

91.8
85.3

91.6
85.0

323.0
147.0
356.4
212.5
108.5
158.2

314.1
145.6
351.5
202.4
108.4
155.7

297.8
142.6
346.0
188.7
106.3
153.1

569.6
187.8
577.8
254.4
141.1
233.4

545.1
186.0
553.4
234.0
135.8
222.3

506.9
176.5
534.7
218.7
132.7
217.2

46.77
37.77
44.77
29.25
35.84
36.16

46.02
37.72
43.53
28.32
34.49
35.01

45.14
36.61
42.80
28.30
34.31
34.77

46.6
45.4
51.5
42.1
47.6
47.7

46.2
45.6
51.2
41.3
46.6
46.4

46.2
44.6
50.9
41.2
46.5
46.4

100.3
82.9
87.0
69.7
75.4
75.8

99.7
82.6
85.0
68.7
74.4
75.4

97.8
81.8
84.1
69.3
74.2
74.9

190.8
253.3
224.1
171.5
229.3
179.5
8, 571. 2 7, 959.9 7, 280.0 11, 302.1 10, 462.0 9,077. 7
123.4
109.3
126.9
158.9
137.3
158.0
95.6
89.2
90.8
102.5
93.7
89.0
81,2
78.9 . 75.7
110.6
104.9
102.5
439.6
700.1
614.6
388.3
582.0
375.3

41.74
38.58
42.20
33.71
41.68
46.69

41.23
38.46
41.14
33.29
40.74
46.47

40.51
36.48
40.79
32.43
41.49
45.54

41.8
45.5
38.7
38.6
46.6
44.9

41.9
45.6
39.0
39.4
46.1
44.4

41.2
44.7
38.3
39.7
46.3
44.8

100.8
85.6
108.5
87.4
89.5
104.0

99.0
85.5
105.7
84.4
88.4
103.9

82.0
106.6
81.6
89.6
101.3

Nonferrous metals and their products..
Aluminum manufactures 6 7
Brass, bronze, and copper products 7
Clocks and watches and time-recording devices.
Jewelry
Lighting equipment 7
Silverware and plated ware
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc _

147.9
245.7
194.9
112.3
119.8
126.6
85.8
103.0

146.1
240.9
192.9
118.1
118.0
116.4
84.8
103.5

143.7
235.6
189.7
118.3
111.6
116.6
83.4
102.7

187.5
358.8
273.2
149.5
121.8
146.7
103.7
118.2

183. i
345.8
273.6
156.6
113.3
123.0
94.4
118.4

174.3
322.6
263.8
138.4
105.2
118.2
87.4
116.7

35.10
36.30
38.53
29.30
27.28
35.81
35.10
32.32

34.88
35.67
39.17
29.29
25.76
32.65
32.33
32.29

33.78
34.12
38.46
25.83
25.30
31.29
30.43
32.00

43.1
42.5
43.8
42.6
44.0
43.6
46.4
39.1

43.0
42.6
44.4
43.1
42.4
41.9
44.1
39.5

42.0
41.0
44.2
38.5
41.5
40.6
42.1
39.4

82.1
85.4
88.7
68.8
62.5
82.5
76.3
82.6

80.8
83.7
88.7
68.0
60.5
77.9
74.1
81.7

80.3
83.3
87.6
67.1
60.7
77.0
73.1
81.3

Lumber and allied products..
Furniture..
Lumber:
Mill work 7_
Sawmills..

80.5
108.3

81.0
108.4

79.5
105. 6

92.5
119.1

93.7
116.1

85.5
110.1

24.47
26.01

24.65
25.43

23.21
24.68

41.1
42.9

41.8
42.5

39.9
41.4

59.0
61.2

58.8
60.2

57.7
60.1

76.4
70.4

78.0
70.7

75.7
70.0

72.9
77.6

74.8
80.3

68.2
73.5

26.17
22.73

26.44
23.49

24.74
21.60

42.8
39.7

43.3
41.0

41.7
38.6

61.1
57.2

61.0
57.3

59.3
56.0

Stone, clay, and glass products..
Brick, tile, and terra cotta.
Cement 7 ..
Glass
..
Marble, granite, slate, and other products.. ._
Pottery..

101.8
79.1
83.8
130.3
45.9
121.0

101.3
79.4
83.5
130.0
44.6
119.4

99.6
77.6
82.6
127.9
45.1
116.7

105.5
76.2
93.5
161. 0
36.8
124.8

104.2
77.0
93.9
155.4
36.1
124.1

98.9
73.4
90.9
147.1
34.8
114.9

28.30
25.27
31.60
30.27
28.00
26.09

27.98
25.30
31.82
29.28
28.30
26.22

27.02
24.59
31.14
28.19
27.05
24.90

38.2
38.7
40.2
37.3
38.6
37.9

38.5
38.8
40.7
37.6
38.8
38.3

37.4
38.2
40.2
36.1
36.8
36.5

73.6
65.3
78.6
81.5
73.2
69.1

72.1
64.8
78.2
78.2
73.1
68.7

72.0
64.5
77.5
78.2
73.3
68.3

See f o o t n o t e s a t end of t a b l e .




TABLE 6.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries—Continued
MANUFACTURING—Continued
Employment index
Industry

September
1941

August
1941

July
1941

Pay-roll index
September
1941

August
1941

July
1941

Avera^ie weekly earnings
September
1941

August
1941

July
1941

Average hours worked
per week
September
1941

August
1941

July
1941

$20. 55
20.43
27.77
18.25
22.29
23.43
30.11

38.3
39.1
39.9
39.6
41.3
40.0
34.4

38.1
. 38.9
39.7
39.4
41.2
40.1
37.0

37.4
38.5
39.2
38.8
40.9
40.0
38.0

Cents
56.9
55.1
73.6
48.3
55.3
59.7
81.0

Cents
55.4
53.3
72.1
47.2
54.9
58.2
83.1

Cents
55.0
53.4
70.9
47.1
54.6
58.0
80.9

19.90
20.22
18.37
22.62
20.16
27.13

19.51
19.70
17. 75
22.45
19.37
25.21

19.93
19.29
17.89
22.06
19.00
24.75

36.0
38.9
39.4
40.2
38.0
39.7

36. 2
38.6
38.5
40.3
37.8
39.6

36.3
37.9
38.8
39.9
37.4
39.5

55.3
51.1
46.3
54.3
52.9
68.5

54.0
50.3
45.8
54.4
50.8
63.6

55.2
50.3
46.1
53.9
50.6
62.8

107.1
109.4
127.2
131.6
138 4
39.6
131.0

22.72
23.64
24.39
20.40
17.75
30.14
17.10

22.18
23.68
23.45
19.49
16.77
28.54
16.69

20.90
22.91
21.25
19.01
16.37
21. 05
16.11

36.7
36.5
36.5
38.5
S7.4
34.7
37.8

36.4
36.3
36.0
37.4
36.4
33.6
37.4

35.4
35.6
35.0
37.9
35.6
27.6
36.9

60.2
64.5
61.7
52.3
46.0
73.8
45.4

59.6
64.7
60.8
51.6
44.8
74.0
44.8

58.2
64.2
57.8
50.1
44.8
71.7
43.8

103.2
98.8
109.3

23.71
22.35
29.51

23.97
22.90
28.86

23.68
22.53
28.71

38.0
37.4
40.0

39.2
38.8
40.7

38.7
38.4
40.2

63.0
60.1
74.0

61.5
59.0
71.4

60.9
58.4
71,0

115.4
106.9
90.5
109.9
106.4
136.3
82.0

113.2
107.0
89.0
109.1
105.2
139.0
83.7

123.4
118.0
96.6
130.2
126.5
135.7
80.3

119.3
114.5
93.4
126.2
123.3
132.5
90.4

113.6
113.3
89.5
123.0
120.6
134.3
91.5

Hosiery
Knitted outerwear..
Knitted underwear.
Knitted cloth
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods.

136.2
82.5
87.9
160.4
63.2
110.5

141.5
81.3
86.4
160.6
67.9
108.9

143.4
80.8
85.7
159.4
69.3
109.0

151.6
80.6
95.9
156.8
61.5
129.2

154.5
77.3
90.8
157.1
63.7
118.5

159.9
75.0
91.0
153. 5
64.0
116.8

Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's 7
Clothing, women's
Corsets and allied garments.
Men's furnishings..
Millinery
Shirts and collars..

131.2
123.6
177.5
122.6
131.5
85.3
136.4

129.6
123.3
175. 7
119.1
128.1
79.8
133.6

122.2
121.9
159.5
115.1
125.3
57.5
129.2

126.3
114.7
162.1
150.1
156.5
84.2
146.7

121.7
114.0
154.3
139.4
144.4
74.5
140.6

98.9
95.2
97.0

101.1
98.3
94.8

101.0
98.1
95.5

101.6
95.3
114.2

104.7
100.7
109.0




August
1941

$21. 73 $21.05
21.37
20.63
29.33
28.53
19.12
18.58
22.94
22.59
24.14
23.57
27.87
30.48

115.5
106.3
91.0
110.2
107.4
136.0
79.1

leather and its manufactures..
Boots and shoes..
Leather..

September
1941

•

Nondurable goods
Textiles and their products..
Fabrics
Carpets and rugs..
Cotton goods
Cotton small wares
Dyeing and finishing; textiles ^
Hats, fur-felt-.

July
1941

Average hourly earnings

Baking
Beverages..
Butter
.
Canning and preserving,.
Confectionery-.

153. 5
315.1
106.4
321.6
101.5

1617

159.3
162. 7
328.1
111.1
304.4
91.1

145.8
150.2
324.1
112.1
210.9
83.1

170.2
157.4
401. 5
99.6
359.1
114.8

165.4
155. 2
429.7
105.1
321.7
100.6

152.8
153.1
421.1
104.0
216.4
84.5

28.54
28.32
37.40
24.39
21.21
21.81

26.31
28.06
38.49
24.77
20.27
21. 39

26.36
28.26
38.12
24.29
19.52
19.68

41.6
42.0
41.1
46.2
42.2
40.2

41.3
41.8
42.4
47.5
39.8
38.6

41.1
42.1
42.1
46.9
39.2
35.6

65.7
67.4
91.9
52.5
51.1
54.5

65.8
67.2
91.5
51.7
52.0
55.5

66.1
67.4
91.5
51.1
50.4
54.8

Flour 7
Ice cream
Slaughtering and meat packing..
Sugar, beet
Sugar refining, cane_

80.6
85.2
123.6
90.5
103.7

78.1
95.8
122.4
6£.6
95.4

80.0
96.3
123. 1
51.5
97.6

92.5
77.1
146.1
95.2
102.6

80.9
84.1
142.9
67.8
99.6

82.1
85.1
139.4
56.6
91.2

30.86
30.55
30.71
27. 41
28.22

28.07
29.64
30.31
27.64
29.56

27.68
29.93
29.43
28.47
26.47

45.5
44.6
39. 3
35.7
41.1

42.9
46.0
39.6
36.4
43.5

43.3
46.6
39.9
37.3
39.6

67.2
68.5
78.3
77.4
68.2

64.4
64.1
76.6
77.4
68.0

63.5
63. 6
73.7
78.3
67.0

63.8
53.6
65.1

65.8
52.3
67.5

65.4
52.0
67.0

70.4
69.3
70.4

70.0
68.2
70.1

69.8
67.9
69.9

20.07
20.87
19.91

19.37
21.08
19.06

19.45
21. 06
19.16

38.3
36.6
38. 4

37.2
36.6
37.3

37.3
36.4
37.4

52.5
57.4
52.0

52.0
57.8
51.4

52.3
58.0
51.7

124.8
144. 7
128.3

123. 9
142.0
127.8

123.0
138.8
126.0

133.3
188.0
163.0

130.9
181.9
162.7

128.6
173.6
156.9

32.26
26.03
31.03

32.04
25.72
31.18

31.70
25.13
30.49

40.1
42.3
42.9

40.1
41.9
43.1

39.6
41.2
42.0

83.0
61.9
72.4

82.4
61.8
72.5

82. 5
61.4
72.7

104.8
116.9

105. 5
114.7

105.4
114.8

99.3
114.1

98.5
109.8

98.4
109.8

32.82
39.74

32.23
38.88

32. 24
38.92

39.9
35.9

39.9
35.7

39.8
35.6

82.9
107.9

81.6
107.0

81.9
106.8

146.5
128. 5
150.8
182.0
115.2
143.8

141.9
127.9
145.3
180.1
70.9
135.3

139.0
127.4
141.7
175.8
63.4
129.5

186.8
166.4
193.1
250. 2
115.4
177.9

179.9
159.1
186.3
247.3
65.1
164.7

176.3
157. 2
182.1
239.7
60.0
162.6

34.14
40.14
32.12
36. 54
16.05
27.40

33.78
S8.57
32.16
36.65
14.82
26.95

33.74
38.26
32.16
36.38
15.23
27.82

39.9
37.2
40.7
40.8
44.7
41.0

40.0
38.0
40.6
41.3
38.7
40.4

40.0
37.4
40.8
41.0
40.0
41.4

815
108.3
77.6
89.9
35.6
62.6

83.7
102. 5
78.0
88.7
37.1
63.6

(8)
110.2
143.9
327.0
98.2

(8)
89.6
144.8
329.3
97.4

(8)
90.5
145.5
324.4
96.0

(8)
111.6
169.9
374.3
139.6

(8)
90.8
171.5
368.2
135. 1

(8)
89.6
172. 7
368.6
138.9

38.89
18.77
32. 56
29.29
33.50

38.46
18.67
32.65
28.60
32.66

38.48
18.11
32.63
29.06
32.30

43.0
36.5
41.3
39.2
41. 1

43.0
36.1
41.7
39.3
41. S

42.8
36.7
41.8
39.8
41.2

90.4
51.4
78.9
74.6
81.5

89.4
51.7
78.4
72.8
79.0

49.4
78.1
72.9
78.4

111.5
77.2
86.5
193.2

111.8.
79.4
86.7
192. 9

111.4
79.3
87.4
189.2

134.2
104. 1
107.3
231.6

138.8
102.2
116. 4
228.3

135.6
94.2
118.4
213.8

32.83
31.00
36.15
29.00

33.78
29.60
39.17
28.76

33.18
27. 31
?9. 54
27.41

33.5
42.7
34.6
41.2

39.4
41.4
37.0
41.3

39.2
40.1
37.8
40.5

85.9
72.6
104.7
70.9

86.1
71.5
106.2
70.0

84.5
68.0
104.8
68.0

Food and kindred products

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..
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products..

Petroleum refining
Other than petroleum refining..
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meaL.
Druggists' preparations7
Explosives.
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes
Rayon and allied products.
Soap..
Rubber products

Rubber boots and shoes
Rubber tires and inner tubes..
Rubber goods, other.

See footnotes at end of table.




103.0
77.7
36.4
63.6

to

TABLE 6.—Employment, Pay Rolls, Hours, and Earnings in Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing Industries—Continued
NONMANUFACTURING
[Indexes are based on 12-month average 1929=100, except for class I railroads,which are based on 1935-39 as 100]

Employment index
Industry

September
1941

Coal mining: 910
Anthracite 9 —
Bituminous
Metalliferous mining n
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining..
Crude-petroleum production «_.
Public utilities:
Telephone and telegraph 1314H
Electric light and power » 131415
Street railways and busses
_
Trade:
Wholesale 1 3 1 6 Retail " I 14
*-.
Food
General 14
merchandising 13 H_.
Apparel 14
Furniture 14
Automotive
__
Lumber 1 4 -.
91317
Hotels (year-round)
__
Laundries 9
9
Dyeing and1 3cleaning
_.
Brokerage ^ 1 9
Insurance 1318
Building construction is..
Water transportation 2021
-_Class I steam railroads




August
1941

July
1941

Average weekly earnings

Pay-roll index
September
1941

August

1941

July
1941

September
1941

$32. 60 $33. 56
32.76 33.85
34.37 33.68
28. 25 27.91
37.67 36.26

50.0
92.6
79.9
53.9
62.2

49.3
90.3
79.0
52.7
62.1

49.6
115.6
85.9
60.6
63.3

51.1
117.3
85.4
59.3
61.5

34.8
105.4
79.3
55.5
61.4

95.2
69.7

88.3
94.6
69.5

118.8
114.2
78.1

116.4
115.1
78.6

95.4
99.9
109.0
112.2
94.1
79.7
89.8
83.0

95.8
96.9
108.4
103.0
80.5
78.5
92.8
83.2

94.2
96.7
108.7
100.9
80.7
78.9
94.4
81.6

90.6
95.8
105.6
107.0
89.5
78.6
86.8
87.1

94.0
105.3
99.3
77.8
76.0
95.7
85.4

115.7
113.5
75.8
88.0
94.0
105.5
97.5
78.0
76.0
99.1
82.3

95.3
113.1
121.0
-1.3
-.4
-1.6
78.5
118.7

94.5
114,6
118.9

94.5
115.8
121.7

89.1
105.2
99.4
-1.5
-1.3

88.2
104.7
92.1

87.6
106.7
96.4

50.0
94.2
78.8
54.4
61.6
90.2
94.6

+0.8
+.4
+2.1

79.3
118.3

+0.5
+.8
+3.4

78.6
116.3

+1.3
(

+1.4
+.4
+3.3

+0.7
o

August
1941

July
1941

Average hours worked
per week
September
1941

August
1941

July
1941

Average hourly earn-

tember
1941

Sep-

August
1941

July
1941

$23.25
31.22
31.62
26.67
36.05

33.4
31.8
41.8
43.8
38.0

33.8
32.7
41.9
43.7
37.9

23.2
28.7
39.6
42.0
38.1

Cents
98.2
103.1
82.7
64.8
96.4

Cents
98.9
103.3
80.8
64.1
93.5

Cents
99.8
102.8
79.5
63.5
93.0

32.20
36.72
36.37

31.75
36. 75
36.67

32.04
36.50
35.54

40.6
39.9
46.7

40.2
40.3
47.4

40.5
39.9
46.3

79.6
92.8
77.0

79.2
91.5
76.3

79.6
91.9
75.7

33. 04
22.09
24.90
18.78
22.27
30.59
28.82
29.35

32.60
22.43
24.95
18.94
22.54
30.19
30.71
28.73

32.45
22.54
24.72
19.15
22.54
29.94
31.11
28.21

41.1
42.5
42.6
38.9
38.1
44.6
47.0
43.3

41.2
42.8
43.1
38.5
38.4
44.0
47.4
42.9

40.9
42.6
42.9
38.9
38.5
43.7
47.0
42.8

80.5
56.8
55.8
48.0
58.3
71.4
62.5
69.0

79.2
57.4
55.4
48.9
.58.7
71.5
66.0
68.0

79.7
57.4
55.3
48.6
58.5
72.2
67.1
67.2

16.14
19.29
22.74
39.36
37.01
37.10

16.13
18.94
21.44
39.47
37.33
35.76

16.03
19.15
21.92
39.57
37.37
35.38

45.6
43.4
44.7

46.1
43.2
43.2

46.1
43.6
43.8

35.1
44.9
52.0

34.7
44.1
50.8

34.6
43.9
50.8
(8)
()
100.0
)

()

101.7

(
100.1

to

1
Mimeographed sheets giving averages by years. 1932 to 1939, inclusive, and by months,
January 1938 to August 1940, inclusive, available on request. Average hours and average
hourly earnings are computed from data supplied by a smaller number of establishments
than average weekly earnings, as not all reporting firms furnish man-hours. The figures
are not strictly comparable from month to month because of changes in the size and
composition
of the reporting sample.
2
See tables 9, 10, and 11 in the December 1940 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls"
for comparable series back to January 1919 for all manufacturing and back to January
1923
for the durable- and nondurable-goods groups.
3
See table 7 in the April 1941 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls" for revised figures
from
January 1940 to March 1941.
4
Adjusted on basis of a complete employment survey of the aircraft industry made by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics for August 1940. Not comparable with previously published indexes from January 1939 to August 1940, inclusive. Comparable figures for this
period
given in table 9 of the September 1940 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls."
5
The indexes for "Automobiles" have been adjusted to 1933 census figures, but not to
later
census
figures because of problems involving integrated industries.
6
See table 8 in March 1941 "Employment and Pay Rolls" pamphlet for revised figures
from
January
1935 to February 1941.
7
Revisions in the following industries have been made as indicated:
Aluminum manufactures.—June 1941 average weekly and hourly earnings to $35.04
and 83.0 cents. June employment and pay-roll indexes to 229.2 and 322.3.
Brass, bronze, and copper products.—June 1941 average weekly and hourly earnings
to $38.37 and 86.1 cents. June 1941 employment and pay-roll indexes to 189.3 and
262.2.
Lighting equipment.—June 1941 average weekly and hourly earnings to $31.80 and
77.0 cents.
Millwork.—June 1941 average weekly and hourly earnings to $25.21 and 59.3 cents.
June pay-roll index to 67.0.
Cement.—June 1941 average weekly earnings and hours to $32.02 and 41. 7 hours.
June employment and pay-roll indexes to 79.6 and 90.1.
Women's clothing .—June 1941 average weekly and hourly earnings to $20.10 and 54.2
cents. June employment and pay-roll indexes to 158.7 and 119.1.
Flour.—June 1941 average weekly earnings, average weekly hours, and average
hourly earnings to $27.28, 43.3 hours, and 63.0 cents. June pay-roll index to 79.3.




Druggists' preparations.—June 1941 average weekly earnings, average hours, and
average hourly earnings to $26.24, 40.8 hours, and 62.4 cents. June employment
index to 127.3.
8
Not available.
9
Indexes adjusted to 1935 census. Comparable series back to January 1929 presented
in 10January 1938 issue of this pamphlet.
See table 7 of October 1940 "Employment and Pay Rolls" for revised employment and
pay-roll indexes, average hours worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average
weekly
earnings in anthracite mining, February 1940 to September 1940, inclusive.
11
See table 7 of February 1941 pamphlet for revised figures for metalliferous mining
from
January
1938 to January 1941, inclusive.
12
Does not include well drilling or rig building.
!3 Average weekly earnings, hourly earnings, and hours not comparable with figures
published in pamphlets prior to January 1938 as they now exclude corporation officers,
executives,
and other employees whose duties are mainly supervisory.
14
R.etail-trade indexes adjusted to 1935 census and public-utility indexes to 1937 census.
Not comparable to indexes published in pamphlets prior to January 1940 or in Monthly
Labor Review prior to April 1940, with but one exception, retail furniture, which has
been revised since publication of July 1940 pamphlet back to January 1936. Comparable
series
for earlier months available upon request.
15
Covers street railways and trolley and motorbus operations of subsidiary, affiliated,
and successor companies; formerly "electric-railroad and motorbus operation and maintenance."
16
Indexes adjusted to 1933 census. Comparable 'series in November 1934 and subsequent
issues of "Employment and Pay Rolls."
1187 Cash payments only; additional value of board, room, and tips not included.
Indexes of employment and pay rolls are not available; percentage changes from preceding
month substituted.
19
See footnote 18 of table 10 in the July 1941 issue of "Employment and Pay Rolls" for
revised average weekly earnings in the brokerage industry from January 1939 to January
1941.
20
Based on estimates prepared by the United States Maritime Commission.
21 Preliminary—Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.

28
TABLE 7.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in 55 Additional Manufacturing

Industries
[12-month average 1939=100]

Pay rolls

Employment

Industry
Iron and steel group:
Metal doors and shutters,.
Firearms
Screw-machine products,.
Wire drawing
Wrought pipe not made in rolling mills 2_
Steel barrels,
Machinery
group:kegs, and drums.
Machine-tool accessories
Pumps
Refrigerators and refrigerating apparatus K
Sewing machines
Washing machines, wringers., and driers
Transportation equipment group:
Motorcycles, bicycles, and parts.
Nonferrous metals group:
Sheet-metal
work
Smelting and
refining of scrap metal,.
Lumber group:
Caskets and morticians goods.
Wood preserving 2

Wood, turned and shaped.
Wooden boxes, other than cigar.
Mattresses and bed springs ., ,
Stone, clay, and glass products group:
Abrasive wheels
Asbestos products.
Lime
Gvpsum 2
Glass products made from purchased glass.
Wallboard and plaster, except gypsum.
TPYHIP^'
Textile bags 2. _ .
Cordage and twine
Curtains, draperies, and bedspreads.
Housefumishings, other 2 _
Jute goods, except felt_.
Handkerchiefs ,
Leather group:
Boot and shoe cut stock and findings,.
Leather gloves and mittens.
Trunks and suitcases.
Food group:
Cereal preparations
Condensed and evaporated milkFeeds, prepared
Paper and printing group:
Paper bags,.
Envelopes
Paper goods, not elsewhere classified,
Bookbinding,,.
Lithographing
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products group:
Ammunition
Compressed and liquified gases,.
Perfumes and cosmetics..
Coke-oven products,.
Paving materials..
Roofing materials,.
Miscellaneous group:
Chemical fire extinguishers _
Buttons
Instruments—professional, scientific and commercial
Optical goods 2 , _ _
Photographic a p p a r a t u s ^
Pianos, organs, and parts
Tovs, eames, and playeround eciuinment

1
2

September
1941
148.0
(i)

August
1941

July
1941

145.7

138.6

(i)

(i)

September
1941
196.9
(i)

August
1941
196.4
(i)

July
1941
191.0
(i)

203.2
140 6
158.9
144.7

200.1
138.2
150. 8
142. 3

197.9
136.2
154.7
140.2

281. 8
172.0
194. 5
194. 3

274.1
170.6
198.7
185.2

263.4
171.8
189.6
175.1

242.1
197. 7
137.3
135.1
129.5

237. 3
194.7
143. 7
130.1
125.0

229.0
188.3
152. 0
129.7
139.2

327.2
301.8
159.0
212.0
145.1

312.2
285.4
172. 0
197.6
152.4

295.6
260.0
180.7
190.2
176.8

166.2

168.0

167.0

203.3

204.4

204.2

149.3
155.1

148.7
147.1

147.2
147.0

189.8
186.3

190.0
188.4

182.0
172.5

102.6
124.7
113.1
125.0
130.7

102.7
125.4
113.7
122.8
130.0

101.8
121. 7
117.3
126. 3
128.0

114.5
158.2
138.6
186.7
162.4

113.8
161.0
134.4
164.1
156.6

110.6
149.9
132.9
158.2
155.7

190.9
145.9
122.0
129.1
146.9
140.3

186.9
146.2
123.8
110.3
148.1
142.7

182.9
133.2
123.7
105.8
141.1
138.0

247.6
195. 7
159. 6
174.0
169. 5
167.4

234. 8
191.4
161.1
149.0
167.3
181.1

221.4
162.9
152.3
134.1
156.1
165.0

115.7
138. 7
114.9
145.8
114.5
108.8

113.0
136.9
111.0
135.5
131.9
106.4

111.6
135.9
103.9
136.7
128.4
106.2

136. 5
186. 3
172.2
179. 2
153.3
137.7

131.9
182.4
164.2
166.4
175.0
130.1

129.6
178.7
126.2
159.0
162.4
122.0

107.5
148.4
179.1

108.4
149.9
170.5

108.6
143.8
159.0

130.5
191.3
184.9

129.1
194.0
164.8

131.1
184.0
147.7

118.4
124.4
112.7

120.1
123.7
111.6

121.4
126.0
114.6

139.5
144.2
135.8

143.9
142.6
126.6

137.1
143.0
139.5

131.7
121.7
130.0
116.9
108.7

130.2
120.5
126.8
116.0
106. 5

123.6
116.9
123.1
110.8
105.4

161.4
136.9
151.0
148.6
123.3

153.2
132.7
144.6
148. 3
121.5

147.1
128.3
138.5
134.1
114.0

0)

(i)

(i)

(i)

(i)

0)

177.2
113.0
147.7
160.2
169.8

139. 0
114.9
124.9
126.6
133.0

140.4
107.3
126.2
127.0
135.4

141.3
100.9
125.7
131.3
132.9

154.8
125.2
146.1
158.0
161.0

167. 0
116.9
147.5
158. 8
169.2

326.2
120.2

301.4
116.2

276. 8
112.6

485.4
151.5

432.1
148.2

383.9
135.5

200.3
174.3
126.2
129.5
144.3

200.0
173.2
126.9
126.1
144.6

192.2
167.8
123.9
123.2
136.0

249.5
208.5
159.9
151.4
155. 4

242.1
203.7
156.4
144.6
157.1

246.4
197.9
149.1
137.6
145. 3

Not available.
Revisions of employment and pay-roll indexes have been made as indicated:
Wrought pipe not made in rolling mills.—April, M a y , and June employment to 155.2, 156.1, and 155.8:
pay roll to 180.5, 204.8, and 204.8.
Refrigerators and refrigerating apparatus.—June employment to 154.7; pay roll to 186.0.
Wood preserving.—May and June employment to 122.7 and 122.7; pay roll to 150.3 and 153.7.
Gypsum.—January,
March, April, M a y , and June employment to 106.2, 109.1, 111.1, 117.3, and 120.8;
January, February, March, April, M a y , and June pay roll to 111.6,114.4,113.3,127.2,135.2, and 146.8.
House furnishings, other.—February,
March, April, M a y , and June employment to 123.6, 130.4, 136.8,
143.9, and 148.7; p a y roll to 136.4, 143.6, 141.5, 160.1, and 168.9.
Optical goods.—June employment to 165.9; pay roll to 195.9.




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TABLE 8.—Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Manufacturing
Nonmanufacturing 2 Industries, September 1940 to September 1941
1940

1

and

1941

Industry
Av. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. M a y June July Aug. Sept,
Employment

Manufacturing
All industries. _

107. 5 111. 4 113. 8 114. 7 116. 2 115. 5 117. 8 119. 9 122. 6 124. 9 127. 9 130. 7 133. 0 135.3

112.8
Durable goods 3
117.7 118.3 121. 0 123.
131. 3 135.1 137.7 138.7
114. 7 116. 3 117. 8 118. 8 121.1
127. 7 128. 7
Nondurable goods 4_. .. 110.6 114.4 114.8 113.8 114.
Nonmanufacturing
Anthracite mining 5
Bituminous-coal mining
6_
Metalliferous mining 6
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
Crude-petroleum production
Telephone and telegraph77
Electric light and power _S t r e e t 7r8a i l w a y s a n d
busses
Wholesale trade.
Retail trade 7
Year-round5 hotels 5-.
Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning «_ ..

50.7
88.0

50.4 50.8 50.3 50.6 50.2 48.7 48.6 49.2 49.3
89.2 89.8 90.1 90.2 90.6 91.1 23.5 87.9 88.1 90.3
72.5 72.2 72.5 73.4 74.3 77.2 77.1 78.9 79.0
72.6
72.5
51.0

52.7 53.9 54.4

62.9 63.0 62.4 61.3 60.7 60.3 60.4 60.2 60.1 60.3
77.9 78.9 79.1 79.2 79.7 80.4 80.9 81.8 83.2 84.6
91. 90.5 90.1 90.3 91.3 92.2
91.1 92.7 92.3

62.1 62 2 61.6
88.3 89.6 90.2
94.6 95.2 94.6

47.2

68.5
90.4
92.3
92.0
99.5
104.7

45.4 41.7

50.0
94.2
78.8

50.0
92.6

68.7 68.4
91.2
91.0 91.8
92.8 94.3 96. 3 108.1 90.5
91.6
92.3 92.6 92.9
101.9 100.2 99. 100.3 101.4
1.3 101. 0
110. 0 109. 4 106. 0 103.
68.5

90.9

68.0
91.4
90.7
93.9
101.1
101.4

68.2
91.8
92.5
94.2
102.5
104.4

68.3
92.4
97.8
95.2
104.9
117.2

68.9
92.2
96.1
96.3
108.3
120.6

69.1 69.5
94.2
97.8 96.7
95.0 94.5
112.0 115.8

95.
96.
94.5
114.6
118.9

69.9
95.4
99.9
95.3
113.1
121.0

Pay rolls
All industriesDurable goods 3_
Nondurable goods i

105. 4 111. 6 116. 2 116. 4 122.4 120. 7 126. 8 131. 2 134. 7 144.1 152. 2 152.158.
7 3 163.0
184.0
107. 8 115.1 123.4 125.1 131.7 132.0 139. 3 144.6 149. 9 163.1 173. i 172.4
112. 9 116. 3 117. 7 122. 127.! 130.8 136. 3 139.5
102/ 107.7 108.1

Nonmanufacturing
Anthracite mining s
38. 5 39. 3 32.3
Bituminous-coal mining s_ _ 81.2 83.2 83.6
Metalliferous mining 6
66.7 69.5 71.3
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining
46.7
40.5
Crude-petroleum production
58.2
58.2 57.6
Telephone and telegraph7 7 100.2 101. 8 102. 2
Electric light and power __ 104. 8 105,
15. 8 107. 0
S t r e e t 7r8a i l w a y s a n d
busses
70.4 71.5 70.7
79.0 81.1 80.2
Wholesale trade.
84.2 85.1 85.8
Retail trade 7
82.4 81.8 84.2
Year-round6 hotels 5__
Laundries
. 87.7 89.9 88.0
Dyeing and cleaning 5_
78.2 85.6 82.4

37.6 42.7 38.5 45.2 42.4 24.3
49.6
84.5 91.4 87.8 90.8 93.8 15. 5 103. 4 107. 2 105. 4 117. 3 115.6
79.3 85.4 85.9
69.8 72.8 70.4 71.8 72.7 78.9 81.5
36.9 38.2

40.3

53.2

55.7

55.5

59.3 60.6

61.5 63.3
56.8 55.9 55.7 57.3 56.1 57.8 58.6
103.9 104.3 106.4 107.3 110.5 113.0 115.7 116.4 118.8
113.5 115.1 114.2
106. 9 106. 0105.1 105.4 106.1 107.6 109.1
70.3
80.7
87.1
83.6
87.2
77.8

73.1
83.4
97.3
84.1
89.2
75.8

70.7
80.5
83.7
84.1
89.8
73.3

71.0
81.4
84.6
86.1
89.7
74.4

72.5
82.0
86.2
85. 7
90.9
77.2

75.8 78.6
72.0 72.'
83.4 84.6 88.4 88.0 89.8
91.7 91.5 95.2
87.4 87.6
87.1
106. 7 104. 7
95.8
92.1

78.1
90.6
95.8
105. 2
99.4

1
3-year average 1923-25 = 100—adjusted to preliminary 1939 Census of Manufactures. See tables 9, 10>
and 11 of December 1940 "Employment and Pay Rolls" for comparable figures back to January 1919 for "all
manufacturing"
and January 1923 for "durable goods" and "nondurable goods."
2
12-month average for 1929=100. Comparable indexes for wholesale trade, quarrying, metal mining,
and crude-petroleum production are in November 1934 and subsequent issues of "Employment and Pay
Rolls" or in February 1935 and subsequent issues of Monthly Labor Review. For other nonmanufacturing
indexes
see notes 5, 6, and 7.
3
Includes: Iron and steel, machinery, transportation equipment, nonferrous metals, lumber and allied
products,
and stone, clay, and glass products.
4
Includes: Textiles and their products, leather and its manufactures, food and kindred products, tobacco
manufactures, paper and printing, chemicals and allied products, products of petroleum and coal, rubber
products,
and a number of miscellaneous industries not included in other groups.
5
Indexes have been adjusted to the 1935 census. Comparable series from January 1929 forward are presented in January 1938 and subsequent issues of this pamphlet. See also table 7 of October 1940 pamphlet
for6 revised figures for anthracite mining February 1940 to September 1940.
See table 7 of February 1941 pamphlet for revised indexes January 1938 to January 1941.
7
Retail-trade indexes adjusted to 1935 census and public-utility indexes to 1937 census. Not comparable
nthly
with indexes published in "Employment and Pay Rolls" pamphlets prior to January 1940 or in "Monti
Labor Review" prior to April 1940. Comparable' series January 1929 to December 1939 available in mimeographed
form.
8
Covers street railways and trolley and motorbus operations of subsidiary, affiliated, and successor
companies.




30
TABLE 9.—Indexes of Employment in Manufacturing Industries, by Metropolitan Area
[12-month average 1937=100]
Employment index
Metropolitan area
September
1941

August
1941

Employ- Percentage
Percentage ment
index change,
change,
September
August to
1940 to
September, September September
1941
1941
1940

Akron, Ohio
Albany, N. Y.i.
Atlanta, Qa
Baltimore, Md
Birmingham, Ala

115.5
113.8
109.6
159.6
130.8

113. 2
112.5
105.3
155. 5
133.9

+2.0
+O
+4.1
+2.6

86.6
92.2
92.5
116.8
110.0

+33.4
+23.4
+18.5
+36.6
+18.9

Boston, Mass.i
Cambridge, Mass,
Lynn, Mass
_.
Somerville, Mass
Boston, city and outside i_

140.4
111.4
179.6
99.8
141.2

139.7
109.7
176.6
100.6
140.8

+.5
+1.5
+1.7

107. 7
89.2
106. 3
95.6
110.3

+30. 4
+24.9
+69. 0
+4.4
+28.0

Bridgeport, Conn_
_
Buffalo, N. Y_
Canton, Ohio
Chattanooga, Tenn___
Chicago, 111.2
Gary, Ind
Chicago, city and outside s_

156.1
142.0
144.8
122.5
131. 6
124.2
132.0

151. 7
141.9
142.9
120.6
130.7
124.9
131. 0

+2.9

106.0
110.6
104.1
99.0
102. 6
115.5
101.9

+47.3
+28.4
+39.1
+23.7
+28.3
+7.5
+29.5

Cincinnati, Ohio.
Cleveland, Ohio..
Columbus, Ohio.Dallas, Tex
Dayton, Ohio_. ._

122.7
135.8
133.0
138.7
113.6

119.4
133.8
130.5
135.9
112.8

96.5
103.3
97.7
104. 5
87.7

+27.2
+31.5
+36.1
+32.7
+29.5

Denver, Colo
Des Moines, IowaDetroit, Mich_.
Duluth, Minn....
El Paso, Tex.. ...

123.7
110.7
95.2
87.3
95.0

121.6
110.7
87.4
86.8
98.1

-3.2

96.8
106.2
82.5
70.8
88.2

+27.8
+4.2
+15.4
+23.3
+7.7

Erie, Pa
Evansville, Ind—
Flint, Mich
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Fort Worth, Tex_.

146.7
92.0
86.1
117.9
113.2

147.6
92.3
67.9
120.0
108.8

+26.8
-1.8
+4.0

100.8
82.5
87.9
80.2
86.1

+45. 5
+11.5
-2.0
+47.0
+31.5

Grand Rapids, MichHartford, Conn
Houston, Tex.4
.
Indianapolis, Ind
Jacksonville, Fla

126.7
148.8
124.3
143.0
144.0

134.5
147.5
118.0
140.1
143.4

114.1
108.7
98.8
112.8
111.2

+11.0
+36.9
+25.8
+26.8'
+29.5

Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City, Kans
Kansas City, Mo., and outside..
Knoxville, Tenn
Los Angeles, Calif
Long Beach, Qalif
Los Angeles, city and outside...

111.7
106.0
113.9
117.6
187.5
117.5
189.4

110.6
104.4
112.9
117.7
182.2
121.1
183.9

97.2
96.5
97.4
98.7
121.1
88.0
122.0

+14.9
+9.8
+16.9
+19.1
+54. 8
+33.5
+55.2

Louisville, Ky....
Lowell, Mass
Memphis, Tenn_.
Miami, Fla
Milwaukee, Wis.

117.4
105.3
106.7
100.6
121.3

114.4
107.7
115.2
84.1
120.2

101.5
100.2
96.1
81.7
92.0

+15.7
+5.1
+11.0
+23.1
+31.8

Minneapolis-St. Paul..
St. Paul, Minn
Minneapolis, city and outside.
Nashville, Tenn
New Haven, Conn.

119.0
123.4
116.7
112.1
137.2

119.2
123.4
116.9
109.8
141.0

93.4
93.7
93 2
93! 0
102.3

+27.4
+31.7
+25.2
+20.5
+34.1

New Orleans, La
New York, and northeastern New Jersey J
Newark, N. J
Jersey City, N. J.
Paterson, N. J__.
Elizabeth, N. J_.
Yonkers, N. Y
New York City and outside L.

141.3
134.9
134.9
117.7
153. 5
135.5
119.6
135.1

133.4
127.7
135. 4
116.7
152.7
134.9
118.6
126.6

109.4
108. 6
102.6
122.8
105.0
94.3
109.6

+43.0
+23. 3
+24.2
+14.7
+25.0
+29.0
+26.8
+23.3

Norfolk, Va.i
Oklahoma City, Okla.
See footnotes at end of table.

218.7
118.8

216.1
113.2




-2.3

—.8

+.3

+.1
+1.3
+1.6
+.7
-.6
+.8
+2.8
+1.5
+1.9
+2.1
+.7
+1-7
0
+8.9
+.6

-5.8

+.9
+5.3
+2.1
+.4
+1,0
+1.5
+.9
-.1

+2.9
-3.0
+3.0
+2.6

-2.2
-7.4
+19.6

+.9

-.2
0
-.2
+2.1
-2.7
+5.9
+5.6
A

+.$

+.5
+.4
+.8
+6.7
+1.2
+4.9

161.4

+35.5
+22.7

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TABLE 9.—Indexes of Employment in Manufacturing Industries by Metropolitan Area—

Continued
(12-month average 1937=100]

Employment index
Metropolitan area
September
1941

August
1941

Employ- , Percentage
Percentage ment
index
change,
change,
September
August to
1940 to
September, September
September
1941
1941
1940

Omaha, Neb.
Peoria, 111
Philadelphia, Pa. 1 ..
Camden, N. J
~__
Philadelphia, city and outside 1 .

111.6
115.3
124.6
176.2
120.4

111. 2
115.0
121.7
165.1
118.2

+0.4
+.3
+2.4
+6.7
+1.9

89.0
86.3
101.2
146.2
97.6

+25.4
+33.6
+23.1
+20.5
+23.4

Pittsburgh, P a A .
Portland, Orog
Providence, R. I.1
Fall River, Mass
New Bedford, Mass
Providence, city and outside 2-

126.8
160.6
125.2
111.4
104.7
132.9

127.4
140.0
123.9
112.1
102.4
131.4

c

+14*. 7
+1.0
-.6
+2.2
+1.1

101.2
109. 9
100.8
105. 7
74.2
106.0

+25.3
+46.1
+24.2
+5.4
+41.1
+25.4

Reading, Pa
Richmond, Va._-.
Rochester, N. Y_
St. Louis, Mo
Salt Lake City, Utah...

_

77.2
114. 3
125.8
120.8
93.4

78.0
115.0
123.2
119.1
93.5

-1.0
-.6
+2.1
+1.4

69.8
108.1
100.3
97.5
85.1

San Antonio, Tex.
San Diego, Calif
San Francisco, Calif.1...
Oakland, Calif
San Francisco, city and outside 1_. ....

121.7
409.3
150.4
129.8
155. 2

116.5
359.4
147.2
141.0
148.7

+4.5
+13. 9
+2.2
-7.9
+4.4

106.0
211.8
107.4
119.8
104.4

+10.6
+5.7
+25.4
+23. 9
+9.8
+14.8
+93.2
+40.0
+8.3
+48.7

Scranton, Pa_.
Seattle, Wash
South Bend, I n d .
Spokane, Wash 1
Springfield, Mass. .

91.9
202.9
141.2
104. 5
133.4

102.7
175. 2
127.7
107.8
132.4

-10.5
+15.8
+10.6
-3.1

87.1
121.8
107.3
103.2
100.0

+5.5
+66.6
+31.6
+1.3
+33.4

Syracuse, N. Y_.
Tacoma, Wash.
Tampa, Fla...
Toledo, Ohio..
Trenton, N. J_

138.6
130.6
129.9
101.8
140.3

133.6
121.0
128.2
98.8
136.9

108.6
117.6
115. 3
80.8
121.1

Tulsa, Okla.
Utica, N. Y
Washington, D. C. 1 .
Wichita, Kans
Wilmington, Del..

118. 7
137.7
159.1
325.7
132.9

117.6
133.7
154. 0
324.4
132.8

92.8
100.9
117. 5
134.1
99.1

+27.6
+11.1
+12.7
+26.0
+15.9
+27.9
+36.5
+35.4
+142. 9
+34.1

121.2
114.5

120.8
116.3

100.1
95.1

+21.1
+20.4

Worcester, Mass
Youngstown, Ohio..

„..'

_

+.8
+3.7
+7.9
+1.3
+3.0
+2.5
+.9
+3.0
+3.3
+.4
+.1
+.3
-1.5

1

Includes employment in Government navy yards and arsenals.
2 Revision in previously published release: July, 128.3.
Revision in previously published release: July, 128.5.
Revisions in previously published releases: May, 105.1; June, 108.6; July, 115.2.
« Revision in previously published release: July, 126.0.

3
4

WAGE-RATE CHANGES IN UNITED STATES INDUSTRIES

The following table gives information concerning wage-rate adjustments occurring during the month ending September 15, 1941, as
shown by reports received from manufacturing and nonmanufacturing
establishments which supply employment data to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
As the Bureau's survey does not cover all establishments in an industry and, furthermore, as some firms may have failed to report wage-rate
changes, these figures should not be construed as representing the
total number of wage changes occurring in manufacturing and
nonmanufacturing industries.




32
TABLE 10.—Wage-Rate Changes Reported by Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing
Establishments During Month Ending September 15, 1941 1 2
E stablishments

Group and industry

All manufacturing..

Total
number
covered

Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery .

Blast furnaces, steel works, and rolling mills..
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Cutlery (not including silver and plated cutlery) and
edge tools
Forgings, iron and steeL.
Hardware
Plumbers' supplies
_•_
Stamped and enameled ware.
Stoves
Structural and ornamental metalwork.
Tin cans and other tinware
Tools (not including edge tools, machine tools, files,
and saws).
Firearms..

Machinery, not including transportation equipment

Cash registers, adding machines, and calculating
machines
Electrical machinery, apparatus, anrl supplies. _
Engines, turbines, water wheels, and windmills.
Foundry and machine-shop products..
M achine tools..
.......

Radios and phonographs
Textile machinery and parts..
Machine-tool accessories..
Pumps..
Transportation equipment..

Aircraft
Automobiles-Shipbuilding-

Nonferrous metals and their products
Brass, bronze, and copper products..
Jewelry
Lighting equimpent
Smelting and refining—copper, lead, and zinc.
Sheet-metal work..

....

lumber and allied products..

Furniture.
Lumber:
Millwork..
Sawmills
Wood, turnp^ and shaped
Wooden boxes, other than cigar.
Mattresses and bed springs..

.

', 815,349

428, 593

9.0-

407 4, 276, 547
3, 538, 802

109, 432
319,161

8.8
9.1

2,559
344
67

87 1,114, 852
582,126
5
19, 755
8

26, 685
1,020
3,690

6.7
8.8
9 3-

3
5
8
4
7
7
16
4

16,000
20, 945
51, 831
26,970
53, 431
42, 929
36, 988
40, 399

228
967
2,397
755
641
3, 085
1,380
495

9.4
8.0
5.7
5.5
8.7
4.9
8.0
11.5

6
3

20,086
27, 574

2,437
6,698

5.5
5.5

108 1,247, 349

33, 594

8.7

20,174
350,370
94, 584
407,097
94, 238

507
5, 252
3,897
9,466
5,986

10.1
8.9
9.7
7. a
7.4

125
110
105

62, 758
24,692
20, 090
28,052

1,798
2,404
1,353
2,418

11.9
10.0
10.5
10.8

830
115
383
223

1,035,492
240,186
477, 213
239,112

10, 861
1,042
3,460
4,011

12.2
13.7
10.3
16.3

352
204
91
55
130

259, 092
100, 216
18, 647
16, 728
32, 806
7,786

1,185
100
150
2,072
153

9.1
6.7
6.6
9.8
13.2
12.7

2,763
710

372, 687
113,361

8,840
3, 215

15
4
4
5

44, 332
143, 458
6,079
14,646
14, 416

1,215
2, 793
340
169
657

7.6
8.7
10.2
12.5

63
8
38
3

247, 075
15, 511
77, 256
6, 326

20,513
1,613
16,994
91

9.6
6.9
9.8
10.6

156
104
243
243
296
135
121
18
3,891
34
605
72
2,287
202

575
716
82
138
193

Stone, clay, and glass products..

Brick, tile, and terra cotta.
Glass..
Lime-.

Number Total Number
report- number reporting in- covered ing increases
creases

Average
percentage
change
in wage
rates of
employees
having
increases

12, 740
21,114

33, 854

_._

Durable goods
Nondurable goods

Employees

296
154

1,266

3
20
3
51

8.7

6,806
430 1, 448, 994 198, 834
Fabrics
3,685
399 1,073,948 195, 782
32
• Carpets and rugs.
4.9
3
29,179
6,288
822
Cotton goods
10.0
52
447, 967
45, 248
138
Cotton smallwares
8.2
3
14, 519
331
231
8.9
Dyeing and finishing textiles.
20
6,989
61, 265
437
10.2
Hosiery..
45
8,649
107, 269
1
Figures are not given for some industries to avoid disclosure of information concerning individual establishments. They are, however, included where practicable in "all manufacturing," and in the various
Industry
groups.
2
No decreases reported.
Textiles and their products..




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TABLE 10.—Wage-Rate

Changes Reported by Manufacturing and Nonmanufacturing

Establishments During Month Ending September 15, 1941—Continued
Establishments

Group and industry

Total
number
covered

Employees

Number Total Number
report- number reporting in- covered ing increases
creases

Average
percentage
change
in wage
rates of
employees
having
increases

Textiles and their products—Continued.
Fabrics—C ontinued.
Knitted outerwear...
Knitted underwear
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted goods..
Cordage and twine
Wearing apparel
Clothing, men's
Clothing, women's.
Men's furnishings.

222
136
455
408
61
3,121
1,146
1,219
148

4
6
40
207
3
31
6
19
3

19,743
40,294
76,234
170,130
13,541
375, 046
161, 650
100, 303
15,206

199
4,825
14,374
105,667
513
3,052
920
1,070
190

6.0
7.3
9.8
10.2
8.1
9.5
11.0
8.8
6.4

leather and its manufactures..
Boots and shoes
Leather

1,101
521
177

44
11
26

255,449
175,929
40,919

12, 549
2,497
9,479

9.2
8.4
9.3

Food and kindred products..
Baking
Beverages
Canning and preserving-.
Confectionery
Flour
Slaughtering and meat packing...
Condensed and evaporated milk..
Feeds, prepared
Distilled liquors..

5,359
1,035
610
1,053
286
336
329
107
103
83

115
22
3
31
6
7
14
4
4
3

621,718
84,597
45, 266
202, 255
43,977
15,814
121,602
6,844
3,973
12,859

31,067
1,441
301
8,938
579
938
15,456
324
296
1,009

8.0
4.3
10.9
11.4
8.7
6.5
8.3
9.7
9.6

Tobacco manufactures

224

4

69,492

1,036

5.3

3,981
659
428

83
22
14

413,469
52, 968
145,164

8,655
1,493
4,917

6.7
9.0
6.2

1,576
722
143
84

21
14
5
4

82,820
62, 038
24,435
8,397

895
594
377
185

5.6
5.8
7.4
6.7

2,285
243
150
91
316
510

141
22
4
9
17
9

387, 689
80, 077
7,117
13,417
14,178
25,805

58,218
8,147
312
1,772
940
594

7.5
5.9
13.7
9.3
8.7
5.4

184
29
85
27

46
4
4
3

77, 509
51, 614
18,144
4,709

33,780
8,602
1,064
542

8.1
6.0
6.6
8.6

261
208

12
9

142, 218
54,499

3,779
2,692

9.1
9.8

1,097
72
75

30
4
3

199, 773
28, 398
21, 513

5,023
1,454
1,247

8.0
4.8
9.3

3 91,670
31,030
3 380
31,110
3 470
3
9,670

860 3,061,000
6
248,000
17
78,100
27
43,000
53
39,000
479
334, 900

51,960
984
10,038
1,793
11,177
9,118

6.7
15.6
8.4
7.4
6.8
3.3

Electric light and power
Manufactured gas
Street railways and busses. __
Wholesale trade
Retail trade

3 2,850
3 160
3 350
314,640
352,040

28
256, 500
3
35,300
13
133, 700
78
350, 500
121 1,047,200

10,996
931
865
2,026
1,421

5.4
7.2
7.0
8.6
9.1

Hotels
Laundries
Dyeing and cleaning.

3 1,950
3 1 , 280
3 840

1,829
539
170

11.8
6.7
10.3

Paper and printing
_..
Boxes, paper
Paper and pulp..
Printing and publishing:
)okand job
Book
Newspapers and periodicals
Paper goods, not elsewhere classified..
Lithographing
....
Chemical, petroleum, and coal products..
Chemicals
Cottonseed—oil, cake, and meal.
Druggists' preparations. _.
Fertilizers
Paints and varnishes..
Petroleum refining
Rayon and allied products. _
Soap
Roofing materials
Rubber products.
Rubber goods, other...
_
Miscellaneous
Instruments—professional, scientific, and commercialFabricated plastic and wood-pulp products. _
All nonmanufacturing (except building construction) _
Bituminous-coalmining
_
Metalliferous mining
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining...
Crude-petroleum production
Telephone and telegraph

3

Approximate—based on previous month's sample.




15
8
9

147,100
89,000
19,500

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Public Employment
Employment and pay rolls of the Federal Government for activities
financed wholly or partially from both regular and emergency appropriations, are presented in tables 11 through 19.
TABLE 11.—Employment and Pay Rolls for the Executive Service of the Federal Government, August and September 1941 J
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Class

Entire service:
Total
Regular appropriation
E mergency appropriation..
Force account
'
Inside the District of Columbia:
Total
Regular appropriation
Emergency appropriation...
Force account

September 1941

August
1941

Percent- September
age change
1941

1,487,925 1,444,985
1,287,860 1,249,979
21,578
22,437
178,487
172,569
191,588
177,991
3,343
10,254

Pay rolls
PercentAugust 1941 age
change

+3.0 $224,140,668 $217,772,054
+3.0 193,664, 784 188,866,179
3,253,790
-3.8
3,152, 274
25,652,085
+3.4
27,323,610

+2.9
+2.5
-3.1
+6.5

186,931
173,553
3,360
10,018

+2.5
+2.6
-.5
+2.4

32, 654,962
30,211,888
530, 645
1,912,429

31,740,104
29, 249,425
541, 562
1,949,117

+2.9
+3.3
-2.0
-1.9

Outside the District of Columbia:
Total
.- 1,296, 337 1,258,054
1,109,869 1,076,426
Regular appropriation
19,077
18, 235
Emergency appropriation
162, 551
168,233
Force account
-_

+3.0
+3.1
-4.4
+3.5

191,485,706
163,452,896
2, 621,629
25,411,181

186,031,950
159,616,754
2,712,228
23,702,968

+2.9
+2.4
-3.3
+7.2

i Employment data are for the last pay period of the month; pay-roll data are for the calendar month.

TABLE 12.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction Projects Financed From Regular
Federal Appropriations, by Type of Project, September 1941 *
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Type of project

All projects...
Airport construction
Building construction:
Residential
Nonresidential..
Electrification:
Rural Electrification
Administration projects 4
.
Other than R. E. A. projects.. ...
Forestry
Heavy engineering...
Public roads*
River, harbor, and flood control:
Dredging, dikes, revetments, etc.
Locks and d a m s . . .
- ..
Ship construction:
Naval vessels
.
Other than naval vessels..
Streets and roads
Water and sewerage.
Miscellaneous

Maximum *
3 944,138

Weekly
average

Pay rolls
for the
month

Manhours
worked
during
month

866,331 $137,443,603 151,157,803

Average Value of
material
earnorders
ings
placed durper
ing month
hour
).909 $240,041,204

77,782

70,209

9,648,607

13,472,871

.716

14,878,509

60,040
356,546

51,329
319,733

6, 749, 275
56,268,998

7,574,171
57,141,250

.891

7,868,633
80,726,150

9,118
1,166
13
5,809
(6)
35,106

7,370
1,025
13
5,809
83,748
34,217

543,081
149,539
307
425,209
8,876,895
5,504,972

987,834
148,959
540
745,366
12,850, 796
6,098,503

.550
1.004
.569
.570
.691
.903

2,101,389
179,034
2,038
912, 683
15,940,392
17,849,439

39,892
7,989

35,491
7,420

5,028,791
1,099,350

6,085,078
1, 279,962

.826

6,039,007
1, 242,155

188,243
51,779
5,734
1,390
19,783

179,145
45, 201
5,126
1,225
19, 270

33,272,388
8,453, 374
610, 667
154,373
657,777

33,960,130
7,832,042
817,412
168,102
1,994,791

1.079
.747
.918
.330

67,947,804
19, 625,501
950,986
424, 509
3,352,975

1
Data are for the month ending on the 15th, except public-roads data, which are for the calendar month.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency
doing force-account work.
3
Includes weekly average for public-roads projects.
4
Financed by Rural Electrification Administration loans.
« Under the jurisdiction of the Public Roads Administration.
• Not available; weekly average included in the total for all projects.




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TABLE 13.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Low-Rent Housing Construction Projects
Operated by the United States Housing Authority, by Geographic Division, September
1941 i
[Subject to revision]

Employment
Geographic division

Value of
Average
material
Pay rolls Man-hours
worked
earnings
for the
orders
during
per hour placed durmonth
month
ing m o n t h

Maximum Weekly
average

All divisions..

40,836

New England
Middle Atlantic .
East North Central
West North CentralSouth Atlantic—
East South Central,.
West South Central.
Mountain _ _ _ _
Pacific

5,421
6,138
6,682
631
11, 564
2,048
3,864
552
2,046
1,890

._

....

Outside continental United States..

34,296 $4, 559,452

4,693,841

$0.971

$8, 654, 679

4,575
5,323
5,735
568
9,596

704, 592
968,116
919, 984
100, 608
1,021,308

667,057
789,107
787,953
80, 442
1,277, 019

1.056
1.227
1.168
1.251
.800

1,127,654
2,109, 746
1,628,253
149, 666
1, 747, 353

1,547
3,270
499
1,741
1,442

149, 476
323,169
39, 627
264,979
67, 593

203, 398
415,132
36, 991
221,021
215, 721

.735
.778
1.071
1.199
.313

413, 567
817, 683
88, 331
434, 566
137, 860

* Data are for the month ending on the 15th.

TABLE 14.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Federal and Non-Federal Construction
Projects Financed From Public Works Administration Funds, by Type of Project,
September 1941 1
[Subject to revision]
Employment
Type of project

All programs

Maximum 2
4,562

Pay rolls
for the
Weekly month
average
4,003

$525, 514

Manhours
worked
during
month

Average
earnings
per
hour

624,900

$0.841

Value of
material
orders
placed
during
month
$825,421

Federal projects financed from National Industrial Recovery
Act and Public Works Administration Appropriation Act,
1938 funds

All projects-.
Airport construction (exclusive of buildings)
Building construction..
Public roads 4
Reclamation...
Miscellaneous,.

3 715

650

$90, 292

115,879

$0.779

$46,863

100
119
(6)
451
3

100
105
42
400
3

13,622
12,151
2,554
61,931
34

21, 748
13,407
6,269
74,401
54

.626
.906
.407
.833
.630

2,932
5,038
5,000
33,893
0

Non-Federal projects financed from National Industrial
Recovery Act, Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, 1935
1936, and 1937 funds, and Public Works Administration
Appropriation Act, 1938 funds

All projects..

3,847

3,353

$435, 222

509,021

$0. 855

$778, 558

Building construction._
Electrification
Heavy engineering._.
Streets and roads
Water and sewerageMiscellaneous

189
59
3,186
102
290
21

151
57
2,806
93
225
21

22, 545
12, 535
363,900
6,315

14,424
6,624
452,762
5,973
26, 599
2,639

1.563
1.892
.804
1.057
1.026
1.000

23, 437
16,877
361, 584
1,343
20,024
355, 293

1
2

27,288
2,639

Data are for the month ending on the 15th, except public-roads data, which are for the calendar month*
Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor and Government
agency doing force-account work.
3 Includes weekly average for public roads.
*4 Under the jurisdiction of the Public Roads Administration.
Not available; weekly average included in the total for all projects.




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TABLE 15.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction Projects Financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, by Type of Project, September 1941 *
[Subject to revision]

Type of project

Employment 2

Pay rolls
for the
month

Man-hours
worked
during
month

Average
earnings
per hour

Value of
material
orders
placed during month

All projects..

16,500

$2,662, 639

2,496,313

$1.067

$9,983,342

B uilding construction 3 _.
Streets and roads
Heavy engineering

16, 225
128
147

2,640,671
2,862
19,106

2,476,700
4,429
15,184

1.066
.646
1.258

9,975,588
1,254
6,500

1

Data are for the month ending on the 15th.
2 Maximum number employed during any 1 week of the month by each contractor.
3 Includes 677 employees, pay-roll disbursements of $96,391,86,118 man-hours worked, and material orders
placed of $44,988 on projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co.

TABLE 16.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Work Projects
Administration, September 1941 }
[Subject to revision]

All W. P . A. projectsDefense projects
Nondefense projects..
1
2

Man-hours Average earnPay rolls for worked
dur- ings per hour
the month ing the month

Employment 2

Type

1,036,981

$61,224,870

131,746,107

$0,465

335,296
701,685

19,867,586
41,357, 284

43,413,291
88, 332,816

.458
.468

Data are for the calendar month.
Average of weekly counts made as of each Wednesday during the calendar month.

TABLE 17.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Projects Financed by the Work Projects
Administration, by Type of Project, August 1941 1
[Subject to revision]

Type of project

All projects
Conservation
Highways, roads, and streets
Community service programs, excluding sewing-.
Public buildings *
Publicly owned or operated utilitiesRecreation and recreational facilities 3_.
Sanitation.. .
Sewing
Airports and airways
Not elsewhere classified—Total..
National defense vocational training..
Other..

Employment 2

Pay rolls
for the
month

Man-hours
worked
during the
month

1,042,555 $62,082, 824 133,957,330

Average
earnings
per hour
$0.463

24,129
351, 622
217,762
114,242
93,019

1,349,859
18,117,091
14,238,414
7,835,188
5,681,781

2,957,838
42,713,649
27, 740,332
15,869,354
11,943,402

.456
.424
.513
.494
.476

39,190
9,333
59, 525
61,680
72,053

2,422,414
472, 412
3,041,353
4,049,349
4,874,963

4, 755, 557
1,128,042
7,283,986
9, 850,273
9,714, 897

.509
.419
.418
.411
.502

40,430
31, 623

2,316,024
2, 558,939

5,122, 396
4, 592, 501

.452
.557

* Includes projects operated by other Federal agencies and financed by allocation of W. P . A. funds. Data
are2 for the calendar month.
Data for all projects, airports and airways, and national defense vocational training represent the average of weekly employment counts made during the calendar month. Data for all other types of projects
estimated by distributing the average for all projects on the basis of employment on these types as of Aug.
27,1941.
3
Construction of buildings for recreational purposes included under public buildings.




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TABLE 18.—Employment and Pay Rolls on National Youth Administration Projects,
by Type of Program, August and September 1941 l
[Subject to revision]
Employment 2

Pay rolls

Type of project
September
1941

August
1941

September
1941

August
1941

Total-

345,074

318, 726

$7, 599, 277

$7, 565,989

Student work program

33,000
312,074

338
318, 388

147,000
7, 452, 277

1,350
7, 564, 639

Out-of-school work program _

1 Data are for the calendar month.
2
Number of employees as of the last pay period of the month.

TABLE 19.—Employment and Pay Rolls in the Civilian Conservation Corps, August and
September 1941 l
[Subject to revision]

Employment 2
Group

September
1941

August 1941

P a y rolls
September
1941

August 1941

All groups..

190,110

203,271

$9, 258, 055

$9,988, 793

Enrolled personnel 3_
Nurses 4__ . ___ . . .
Educational advisers 4
Supervisory and technical 4

163,211
108
1,168
25, 623

173,944
114
1,243
27,970

5,178,964
15, 367
199, 061
3,864,663

5,469,939
15,809
236,419
4,266, 626

1 Data are for the calendar month.
2 Employment represents for enrolled personnel an average of counts taken at 10-day intervals, and for
other groups the number employed on the last day of the month.
3 September data include 3,118 enrollees and pay roll of $57,070 for work outside continental United States;
the4 corresponding figures for August were 3,273 enrollees and pay roll of $59,210.
Included in executive service, table 11.

TABLE 20.—Employment and Pay Rolls on Construction and Maintenance of State
Roads Financed Wholly From State or Local Funds, September 1940 and August and
September 1941 1
[Subject to revision]
Employment 2

Pay rolls

Item
September
1941

August
1941

September
1940

September
1941

August 1941

September
1940

Total.

193,976

206, 330

196,957

$16,448,054

$16,845,535

$14,178,338

New roads
Maintenance _

65, 561
128, 415

67, 699
138, 631

66,036
130,921

5,219,402
11,228,652

5, 227, 201
11,618,334

4,342, 663
9,835, 675

1
3

Data are for the calendar month.
Average number working during month.

Employment in Government Establishments or Corporations
In table 21 are presented the employment and pay rolls in Government establishments or corporations which are not financed with
governmental funds but with incomes received from their own operations. The data are collected semiannually by the Civil Service
Commission. Certain other Government establishments operate




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wholly or partially from their own revenues but, because Congress
has placed limitations on their use of funds, employees of such establishments are considered Federal employees and have been included
in table 11.
TABLE 21.—Employment and Pay Rolls of Government Establishments

or Corporations

[Financed with nongovernmental funds]
Pay rolls for—

Employment *
Establishment or corporation

Total.
Treasury:
Bureau of Comptroller of the Currency:
Division of Insolvent National Banks..
Legal Division.
War: Spruce Production Corporation.
Agriculture:
Farm Credit Administration:
B anks for cooperatives
Federal intermediate credit banks..
Federal land banks 2_
General agents office-..
Joint stock land banks
Production Credit CorporationCommerce: Inland Waterways Corporation_.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: 3
National receivership trust funds..
State receivership trust funds
Federal Reserve banks _.
Panama Canal: Panama Railroad Co. 4_.

6-month period ending
Dec. 31, 1940

December 1940

6-month period ending
June 30, 1941

30,843

26,937

$23,962,068

$22,756,307

218
51

243
52

287,386
67,676

304,529
70,346

4

4

8,881

8,790

209
424
4,520
432
404
299

204
430
4,560
419
451
301

301,820
530,389
4, 517,842
556,644
517,350
455, 715

300,725
535,655
4, 503, 248
528,813
557,907
452,225

3,137

2,527

2,075,445

2,095,049

30
46

28
46

23, 240
36,804

20, 542
40,240

13, 930

11, 640

11,130, 505

10,398,674

7,139

6,032

3,452,371

2,939, 564

June
1941

1
2
3

Data refer to the number of employees receiving pay during the last pay period of the month.
Includes data for land-bank appraisers.
Data cover only part of the personnel of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Data for the
remainder are shown in table 11.
* Includes the Panama Railroad Steamship Line, which is owned and operated by the Panama Railroad Co.

Purchases From Public Funds
In tables 22 and 23 is presented the value of material orders placed
for construction projects financed wholly or partially from Federal
funds, by program and by type of material, for the third and second
quarters of 1941, respectively. Data for the Work Projects Administration are not yet available for the third quarter and will be presented
in the December pamphlet.
The information concerning the number of man-months of labor
created in final fabrication of these materials (see table 2) is obtained
by sending a questionnaire to each firm receiving an award for materials. The manufacturer is requested to make an estimate of the
number of man-hours created in his plant in manufacturing the
materials specified in the contract. For materials purchased directly
by contractors the Bureau estimates the number of man-months of
labor created, on the basis of findings of the 1937 Census of Manufactures.




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TABLE 22.—Value of Material Orders Placed for Construction Projects Financed Wholly
or Partially From Federal Funds, by Program and Type of Material, Third Quarter
of 1941 !
[Subject to revision]
Projects
Type of material

All materials^.
Textiles and their products..
Awnings, tents, canvas, etc.
Carpets and rugs
Cordage and twine..
Cotton products..-_
Felt products
Jute products
Linoleum and asphalted felt-basefloorcovering.
Sacks and bags, other than paper
Upholstering,filling,batting, padding, and wadding.
Waste and related products
Textiles and their products, n. e. c.
Forest products..
Cork products
Furniture and related products
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c .
Planing-mill products
Window and door screens and weatherstrip _
Forest products, n. e. c .
Chemicals and allied products..
Compressed and liquefied gases.
Explosives
Paints, pigments, and varnishes
Chemicals and allied products, n. e. c .
Stone, clay, and glass products..
Asbestos products, n. e. c .
Brick, hollow tile, and other clay products, n. e. c...
Cement
Concrete products
Crushed stone .
Glass
Lime
_
.
Marble, granite, slate, and other stone, cut and
shaped.-, __ _.. ._
Minerals and earths, ground and otherwise treated
Sand and gravel
Steam and other packing, pipe and boiler covering,
and gaskets
_. ..
Tiling,floorand wall, and terrazzo
.
Wall plaster, wallboard, and building insulation. .
Stone, clay, and glass products, n. e. c_.

Public
Works U.S.H.A.
low-rent
Adminishousing
tration 2

Reconstruction
Finance
Corporations

Regular
Federal

$2,861,077 $21,861,362 $23,802,324 $675, 550, 278
36,485

93,067

631

17
30,210
234
2,351
2,289
206
240
1,189

142
344
92,176
~53~
335

"275"

"122"

937,471
284,936
44,915
254,612
2,655
1,667
8,488
116,862
2,289
59
3,901
217, 087

3,189,478

487,636

45,301,811

186,469
108,181
83
14,986

115,344
1,453,422
1, 577,040
39, 755
3,917

402
63,077
384,616
36,311
67
3,163

123, 905
1,970, 514
28, 937, 528
14,124, 708
51,148
94,008

56,017

278,692

91,430

4,958,032

1,047
46, 295
8,287
388

1,547
3,031
268,162
5.952

1.623
1,457
83,495
4.855

124,538
1,229,336
3,399,023
205,135

736,377

5,259,019

2,903,974

89,415,667

518,144
347,856
1, 359,022
7,382
56,438
512

1,045, 702
3, 201,045
28,797,898
12,828,259
11,618,029
858,410
43,058

309,719

26, 687
223,299
60, 517
23, 583
6,824
13,377

33,910
1,239,683
674, 594
2,140,271
97,541
83,094

7,419

83,829

12,844

314,089

301,452

118,117

1,178,467
273
22,313,207

47,841
2,539
7,539
2.663

148,195
47,360
374,810
34,280

12,239
34, 296
36,725
400,399

714, 557
1,045,603
5,302,412
468, 747

Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery.

397,877

5,986,201

7,548,461

153,363,501

Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Doors, shutters, window sash and frames, molding
and trim, metal
_
Firearms.
Forgings, iron and steel
Hardware, miscellaneous.. __ ._.
.... _
Heating and ventilating equipment, except pipe.. .
Nails and spikes
Pipe and fittings, cast-iron
Pipe and fittings, wrought iron and steel
Plumbingfixturesand supplies, except pipe..
Rails, steel
Springs, steel_.

5,871

2,302

27,178

3,598,367

4,901,879
9,417
8,290,652
3,794,812
468,069
9,477,263
704,375
938,307
8,328
7, 217, 539
361,019
12,211,909
377,549
6,220, 572
1,183, 749
413,557
773
1
Data unavailable for Work Projects Administration and National Youth Administration projects.
2
Includes material orders placed on Public Works Administration projects financed by the Emergency
Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937, and P. W. A. A. 1938 funds. Also includes data on
low-rent
housing projects financed from N. I. R. A., and E. R. A. A. 1935 funds.
3
Includes projects financed by RFC Mortgage Co.




35,934

14,765
31,225
835
2,698
18,141
5,098
27, 524

573,094

160, 527

11,560
117,413
596,428
15,207
78,806
409,600
39,274
43,492

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TABLE 22.—Value of Material Orders Placed for Construction Projects Financed Wholly
or Partially From Federal Funds, by Program and Type of Material, Third Quarter
of 1941—Continued
[Subject to revision]
Projects
Type of material

Iron and' steel and their products, not including machinery—Continued.
Steel, reinforcing
Steel, structural..
Stoves and ranges, other than electric.
Tools, other than machine tools..
Wire and wireworks products
Iron and steel and their products, n. e. c.
Nonferrous metals and their products.
A luminum products
Copper products..
Lead products
Sheet-mc-tal products,Zinc products
_ _
Nonferrous metals and their products, n. e. c...
Machinery, not including transportation equipment- .
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies..
Electrical wiring and fixtures
E levators and elevator equipment
Engines, turbines, tractors, and water wheels.
Machine tools
Meters (gas, water, etc.) and gas generators-.
Pumps and pumping equipment..
Radio apparatus and supplies
Refrigerators and refrigerating and ice-making apparatus
. ._
Machinery, n. e. c...
Transportation equipment—air. land, and water.
Aircraft..
Airplane parts
Boats, steel and wooden
Carriages and wagons
Locomotives, other than steam..
Motor vehicles, passenger.
Motor vehicles, trucks.
Transportation equipment, n. e. c_.
Miscellaneous..
Belting, miscellaneous
Coal and coke
Instruments, professional and scientificModels and patterns..
Paper products
Paving materials—asphalt, tar, crushed slag, andmixtures
_ ..
Petroleum products
Photographic apparatus and supplies
Roofing—built-up and roll, asphalt shingles, and roof
coatings, except paint.. ___
Rubber products
Theatrical scenery and stage equipment.
Window shades and fixtures..
Other materials.




Public
Works TJ.S.H.A.
Adminis- low-rent
housing
tration

Reconstruction
Finance
Corporation

Regular
Federal

$260,772
3,612,237

32,836
22,736
26,149

$862,972
205,142
690,613
5,764
48,664
494,561

329,639
27,584
1,818,744

$11,989,323
44,026, 703
97,314
3, 901,674
4,627,383
31,646,057

38,507

420,977

26,269

9, 661,046

290
3,221
159,584

1, 214,941
2,959,979
69,835
4,988,181
5,278
422, 832

$22,276
151,789

11,844
23,062

158

257,882

5,880
511
16,834
938
2,106

780, 390

4,042,138

12,135,037

302,189, 569

250,158
60,018
287,939
7,721
30
15
1,669
80

524,692
624,663
45,667
116
27,446
37,985

1,499,204
986, 955
21, 505
22,156
741, 583
1,168
902,376

80, 390,643
22, 945, 226
1, 505, 758
69, 564,862
6, 383,803
6,505
22. 654,980
170 420

21.229
151, 531

2,617.087
164,482

2,121
7,957,969

1,917, 732
96.649,640

3,081

4,084,957

3,443

3,419

2,529
552

"236"
1,777
1,406

159.861
20.968
834, 505
1,510
124
238.290
41?, 255
2.417,444

502, 286

2, 591, 790

605,805

65.638. 224

4,596
1,193

10

1,308
26

393

6,543

18, 508

60
7,582,807
892, 714
34, 776
354,848

22,468
119, 770
1.777

57,983
97,934
464

36.695
52, 705
1.198

6, 712, 506
10,802.556
120,424

2,747
2.171
7,832

296,473
5.165

203,385
9,822

2, 761,820
878,054

80,993
2,046,225

282,158

119,885
35,377, 774

339, 340

TABLE 23.—Value of Material Orders Placed for Construction Projects Financed Wholly or Partially From Federal Funds, by Program and Type of
Material, Second Quarter of 1941
[Subject to revision]
Projects
Type of material

All materials..
Textiles and their products..
Cotton products. . .
Textiles and their products, n. e. c._
Forest products..
Furniture and related products
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c..
Forest products, n. e. c.
Chemicals and allied products..
Explosives
Paints, pigments, and varnishes.-. __
Chemicals and allied products, n. e. c .
Stone, clay, and glass products..
Brick, hollow tile, and other clay products. _
Cement-.. ._
Concrete productsCrushed stone
Sand and gravel
Wall plaster, wallboard, and building insulation..
Stone, clay, and glass products, n. e. c.

Total i

Public Works
Administration 2

Regular
Federal

Federal Agency
projects
financed from
W. P . A. funds 4

Operated by
W. P . A.

$710, 529, 747

$5,809,167

$17,133,737

$9,220,102

$599,047, 698

$1,967, 551

$77, 351, 492

4, 571, 735

9,435

131,659

585

942, 635

172, 859

3, 314, 562

"585"

9,622
933,013

172,859

2,437,650
876, 912

2,447, 272
2,124,463

9,435

131,659

46, 244,959

223, 576

2,189, 254

415,565

36,031,369

183,468

7,201,727

2, 210,461
32, 624,353
11,410,145

45, 597
157,482
20, 497

49, 218
1,039,116
1,100,920

73, 678
249,850
92,037

1, 754, 394
24,110,152
10,166,823

2,082
151, 518
29,868

285,492
6,916,235

5,736,462

117,158

263, 706

30,079

3, 269,660

49,440

2,006,419

1, 575,653
3,122, 502
1,038,307

66, 839
36, 206
14,113

6,634
249, 285
7,787

1,528
20,869
7,682

816, 523
1,834,634
618, 503

3,953
38, 337
7,150

680,176
943,171
383,072

82, 481, 714

1, 514,498

4, 605, 634

1,443, 240

49, 512,180

273,698

25,132,464

6, 790,218
23, 012,073
12,121, 746
9, 913, 396
15, 495,144
1, 478,966
10, 670,171

40,462
536,068
101, 557
22, 546
580,049
34,423
199, 393

1,133, 501
442,883
1, 756, 730

121,178
224,105
817,479
11,331
89, 871
72,228
107,048

2, 918, 351
14, 771, 579
7,436, 730
5, 776,811
9, 849,118
723,465
8,036,126

9,609
97,654
26,664
65, 366
56, 309
2,461
15,635

2,567,117
6,939,784
4,982, 586
4,037,342
4,622,400
557, 731
1,425, 504

1
Data unavailable for National Youth Administration projects.
2 Includes material orders placed on Public Works Administration projects financed
b y the Emergency Relief Appropriation Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937, and P.W.A.A.
i938 funds. Data on low-rent housing projects financed from N . I . R.A. and E. R.A.A.
1935 funds are also included.




U. S. H.A. Reconstruction
low-rent
Finance
housing
Corporation 3

3

297, 397
88, 658
886, 465

Includes projects financed by R F C Mortgage Co.
4
Includes projects financed by transfer of W. P . A. funds to other Federal agencies under Sec. 3, E. R. A. A. 1938, and Sec. 11-A, E. R. A. A. 1939.

TABLE 23.—Value of Material Orders Placed for Construction Projects Financed Wholly or Partially From Federal Funds, by Program and Type of
Material, Second Quarter of 1941—Continued
Projects
Type of material

Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery
Hardware, miscellaneous....
Pipe and fittings, cast iron
Plumbing, heating, and ventilating equipment, except
pipe
Structural and reinforcing steel..
Tools, other than machine tools.
Iron and steel and their products, n. e. c .
Nonferrous metals and their products
Machinery, not including transportation equipment.
Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies..
Machinery, n. e. c
Transportation equipment—air, land, and water..
Miscellaneous..
Coal and coke
Paving materials—asphalt, tar, crushed slag, and mixtures....
Petroleum products
Roofing—built-up and roll, asphalt shingles, a n d roof coatings, except paint
R u b b e r products..
Other materials..




Total

Public Works
Administration

U. S . H . A.

low-rent
housing

Reconstruction
Finance
Corporation

Regular
Federal

Federal Agency
projects
financed from
W. P . A. funds

Operated by
W. P . A.

$187,499, 914

$1,412,398

$5,919,323

$4,113,905

$158, 655,102

$503,460

$16,895, 726

4, 569,444
11,756, 590

32,068
40,433

394,839
548,696

55, 759
61,300

2, 698,115
7,667, 588

31,605
31,110

1,357,058
3,407,463

25,881,179
66,767,381
3, 515,428
75,009, 892

125, 594
726,060
27, 708
460, 535

1,630,401
1,626,079
7,027
1, 712, 281

542, 759
2,423,038
15,825
1,015,224

20,072,871
58, 782,198
3,073,755
66, 360,575

63, 567
268,087
12, 202
96,889

3,445,987
2,941,919
378,911
5,364,388

12,033,678

95,358

593, 281

74, 592

10,872, 539

11,113

386, 795

290,096,897

1,615,065

1,058,352

2, 452,091

281,687,293

96,762

3,187,334

90,869,097
199,227,800

516,834
1,098,231

52, 398
1,005,954

479,644
1,972, 447

88,029, 304
193,657, 989

21,649
75,113

1, 769, 268
1,418,066

5,010,402

9,753

538

4,069,721

106,111

824, 279

76,853,986

811,926

2,371,990

690,045

54,007,199

570, 640

18,402, 186

789, 311
9, 575, 607
8, 515,281

7,808
12, 731
173,163

18, 330
35,357
100,044

2,889
2,777
33, 783

497,991
5,661, 542
5,641,873

943
49,348
39,840

261,350
3, 813,852
2, 526, 578

2, 504,246
819,930
54,649,611

37, 332
14,417
566,475

184,431
5,185
2,028, 643

54,495
4,015
592,086

1,959,311
629, 712
39, 616, 770

9,590
5,914
465,005

259,087
160,687
11,380,632

to

43
The needs of the Work Projects Administration for motor vehicles,
construction and other equipment, and miscellaneous services for use
on work-relief projects are supplied in part through the rental of
equipment and the purchase of utility and miscellaneous services.
These rentals and services on projects operated by the Work Projects
Administration for the second quarter of 1940 and the first and second
quarters of 1941 are shown in table 24, by type of rental and service.
TABLE 24.—Rentals and Services on Projects Operated by the Work Projects Administration, Second Quarter of 1940 and First and Second Quarters of 1941
[Subject to revision]
Type of rental and service

Second quar- First quarter Second quarter 1941
1941
ter 1940

All rentals and services.
Motor vehicles
Teams and wagons.
Construction equipment..
Other equipment
Other rentals and services..

$62,851, 654

$63,093,825

$67,118,105

22, 638,954
257, 786
18,946, 395
3, 609, 519
17,409,000

21, 367,952
349,877
15, 782,144
3,854, 546
21, 739, 306

25, 770, 644
405, 360
17,404,927
2, 585,824
20, 951, 350

In connection with the administration of the Public Contracts Act
the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects data on supply contracts
awarded by Federal agencies of the United States for the manufacture or furnishing of materials, supplies, ai'ticles, and equipment
in any amount exceeding $10,000. The first public contracts were
awarded under the act in September 1936.
Table 25 shows the value of public contracts awarded under the
act during the third quarter of 1940 and the second and third quarters
of 1941.
TABLE 25.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material
[Subject to revision]

Type of materials

All materials
Food and kindred products..
Canning and preserving: Fruits and vegetables-.
Sea foods
Cereal preparations..
Coffee and tea
Condensed and evaporated milk
Feeds, prepared, for animals and fowl..

1

Flour and other grain-mill products..
Meat-packing products
Shortening and vegetable cooking oil..
Sugar
„.
Miscellaneous food products
Revised.




Third quarter Second quarter
1941
19411

Third
quarter
1940 l

$1,961, 262,353 $2, 539,910, 564 $974,817,187
37,190,469

17,050,966

6,102,183

17,127, 415
1, 849, 513
12, 675
1,340,306
1,912, 555
964, 288

3, 501,398
145,864
10, 734
2, 873, 238
1, 295, 284
588, 037

2, 069, 267
173, 951
16, 637
346, 090
737, 052
234,955

1, 330,196
4,814, 787
88, 535
2, 748, 839
5, 001, 360

1,162, 433
1,893, 540
57, 575
1, 368, 902
4,153, 961

321, 839
689,484
49,600
424,948
1, 038, 360

44
TABLE 25.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material—
Continued
Type of materials
Textiles and their products...

Third quarter Second quarter
1941
1941

Third
quarter
1940

$211,370,084

$151,071,428

$83,818,417

Awnings, tents, sails, and canvas covers-.
Clothing (overcoats, suits, trousers, etc.)..
Clothing, manufacture only 2
Cordage and twine, including thread
Cotton goods (drills, prints, sheeting, etc.)..
Furnishing goods, men's, n. e. c

6, 580,488
5, 822,617
15, 509, 010
1, 548, 547
62, 664, 041
5,918, 057

9,405, 013
8, 744, 437
21,870,462
2, 739, 271
22, 649,331
4, 252,860

5, 266, 356
8, 694, 206
237, 232
755, 513
16, 088, 286
2,241,813

Housefurnishing goods (pillowcases, sheets, etc.).
Knit goods (hosiery, underwear, etc.)..
Linoleum
Woolen goods (flannels, suiting, etc.)-.
Work clothing
Miscellaneous textile products

6,140,119
14, 561, 321
276, 303
75,335,479
6, 346, 044
10, 668, 058

6, 575, 303
5, 740, 686
7,712
54,980, 034
2,196,496
11, 909, 823

3,258,875
7, 756, 295
11,187
33,986, 356
2,697, 306
2,824, 992

8,044, 300

9, 538, 683

3, 724, 742

147,109
394, 366
4, 532, 619
2, 203, 055
492,100
275, 051

94,125
986, 398
3, 009,948
4,221, 393
486,118
740, 701

144, 566
901, 875
1, 217, 287
1,054, 032
247,865
159,117

69,234,678

94,579,220

47,034,522

39, 041,395
394,179
586,124
9,338,554
122, 822
1, 307, 662
959, 703
17,484, 239

76,969, 650
1,342,157
3, 238,194
1,884,850
60,698
2, 003, 592
702, 021
8,378,058

36, 699,385
15,890
122,466
4, 598, 293
167,446
954, 778
307, 047
4,169, 217

78,970,115

77,802, 568

6, 269, 674

1,175,927
14, 337,810
18, 518,336
19,822,045
8,421,645
16,694,352

5,624, 730
7,029,878
17,844, 797
29, 254, 619
334, 468
17, 714,076

687,464
2, 218,630
2, 203,107
776, 087
164, 432
219, 954

21,454,905

22,347,368

9, 312,494

15,084,034
312, 013
889, 736
5,169,122

15,487,934
482,180
4,017,822
2, 359,432

5, 390,853
248,707
936. 571
2, 736, 363

Stone, clay, and glass products..

9,074,371

19,921,962

4, 669, 288

Brick
Cement
.__
Concrete pipe
Concrete, ready-mixed..
Crushed stone..

26,430
2,121,728
237,988
214, 780
875, 320

235, 695
5,813,178
1,179, 213
913, 525
1, 325,198

37, 206
1, 180, 456
78, 578
233,302
196, 968

639,566
25,836
317,435
34, 644

2, 075,458
15,807
28, 200
1, 584, 968
481,915

1, 024, 792
21,415
269,314
320, 097
86, 008

190,957
882,774
62, 246
32, 426
3,412, 241

34,983
478,128
21,958
142, 851
5, 590,885

46, 852
58, 253
26, 396
1,089,651

70,903, 822

171, 397, 249

88,160, 525

2, 315,495
402, 551
2,173,887
109, 655
20,313,664

1,303,926
695,404
2, 270,186
151, 669
99, 279, 512

502, 568
317,008
152,928
101,143
36,262,286

Forest products...
C ork and cork products
Furniture
Lumber and timber products, n. e. c .
Planing-mill products
Treated lumber and timber.. _
Miscellaneous forest products
Chemicles and allied products,.
Ammunition and related productsCompressed and liquefied gases.
Drugs and medicines.
Explosives. _
Linseed oil
... ..
Paints and varnishesSoap and soap chips.
Miscellaneous chemicals...
Products of asphalt, coal, and petroleum.
Asphalt, oil, tar, and mixtures.
Coal and coke,
FueloiL.
Gasoline
Lubricating oils and greases . .
- _...
Miscellaneous coal and petroleum products.
Leather and its manufactures..
Boots and shoes
Boot and shoe cut stock..
Gloves
__ .
Miscellaneous leather goods,.

Glass
Granite and marble..
Riprap stone
Sand and gravel..
Slag_
Soil, black earth..
Steam and other packing, pipe and boiler covering.
Tile, clay, including drain.
Vitrified-clay and terra-cotta pipe
.
Miscellaneous stone, clay, and glass products .
Iron and steel and their products, not including machinery..
Bolts, nuts, rivets, washers, etc..
Cast-iron pipe and fittings
Castings...
__..
Fencing materials
Firearms and artillery.-. ....
»Labor only; materials furnished by U. S. Government.




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TABLE 25.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act, by Type of Material—
Continued
Type of materials
Iron and steel and their products—Continued.
Forgings, iron and steel-Hardware, miscellaneous
Heating and cooking apparatus, except electric...
Metal doors, window sash and frames, and trim.
Metal furniture
Metal shingles and roofing
Pipe andfittings,n. e. c
Plumbingfixturesand supplies Rails and fastenings..
Reinforcing steel
Steel pipe and fittings
Steel sheets, plates, shapes, and strips
Structural steel, fabricated, and sheet-steel pilingTools, other than machine tools..
Wire products
Miscellaneous iron and steel products..
Nonferrous metals and their alloys..
Aluminum manufactures..
Brass products.__.
Bronze products
Copper products
Fixtures, gas and electric. Lead products
Magnesium
Nickel
Plated ware
Sheet-metal work
Tin
Zinc
Miscellaneous nonferrous metals and alloys _
Machinery, not including electrical and transportation
equipment

Third quarter Second quarter
1941
1941

Third
quarter
1940

$7,868,792
828,100
818, 627
59,693
3,789,983

$4,799,984
927,553
2,571,598
512,873
3,368,712

$18,771,443
379,081
1, 218, 564
28,582
2,614,675

3,475, 391
255,585
593.837
653; 117

386,529
4,167,810
230,287
457,150
614,144

121,064
241,035
208, 560
92,467
280,897

1,305, 624
865,711
3,458, 245
3,823,087
2,521,684
15,271,094

1,388,201
8,006,845
9,584,361
5,980,928
3,083,934
21, 615,643

657,053
2,339,350
5,122,093
1,312,843
1, 285, 564
16,151,321

19,345,461

34,473,683

24,048,952

2,275,750
5,522, 212
233,972
1,802,032
3,309,313

8, 730,652
3,372,618
813,038
3, 222,922
6,330,827

2,855, 644
780,944
249,198
11,921,873

642,302
191,675
190,486
108,066
936,172

773,640
40, 340
426,511
1,193,573
1, 267,150

271,990
82,470
149,152
760,382
219,880

11,098
114, 528
4,007,855

2,140,621
792,576
5,369,215

258,150
219,643
5,829,928

107,436,934

97,143, 735

40,852, 547

Air-conditioning equipment Business machines—
.
Cranes
Elevators and elevator equipment
Engines, turbines, tractors, and parts.

442, 568
89,643
3, 665, 737
195,483
36,132, 614

339, 559
371,773
9,137,938
158,988
12,440,924

64, 791
100,975
1,087,679
101,103
11,728,749

Filter and purification equipment _ _.
Laundry machinery and equipment_
Machine tools. _
_
Phonographs and accessories
Power shovels and draglines.

746,347
410, 552
31, 743,439
26, 250
1,202, 903

447,430
381,832
35,841,234
74,501
462,466

107,619
86,495
13,470,289

Printing and publishing machinery
Pumps and pumping equipment
,
Refrigerators and refrigerating and ice-making machinery.
Road machinery
_
Windlasses, hawsers, winches, and capstans
Miscellaneous machinery and parts

167,486
5,123,361
299,227
2, 386, 660
617,623
24,187,041

217,671
13,157,345
2,771,984
1,755,425
1,108,030
18,476,635

570, 539
4,498,192
748,013
929,051
374, 986

Electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies.

65,030,049

113,575,596

48,278,998

Batteries.
Circuit breakers and switches—.Communication equipment
Electric cable, wire, and other conductors.
Generators and spare parts.
Heaters and ranges.

1,880,614
1,366,077
8,184, 647
26,419, 794
15,627, 593
439, 382

Lamps, incandescent, and X-ray tubes-.
Motors
Switchboards, relay and control equipment
Transformers
_
Welding equipment...
Miscellaneous electrical machinery, apparatus, and supplies




516,052
1, 693,885
1, 530,462
781, 782
6,589,761

585,138

346,212
2,651,091
33,607,086
40,073,298
13, 276, 290
758,268

206,459
960,011
14,467,090
9,096,004
7, 706, 910
48, 745

69,057
1,579,893
2,982,480
1,107, 990

42,300
88,371
359,355
1,136,760
416,318

16,205,595

13,750,675

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TABLE 25.—Value of Supply Contracts Awarded by the Federal Government Which
Contain Agreements to Comply With the Public Contracts Act9 by Type of Material—
Continued
Third quarter Second quarter
1941
1941

Type of materials
Transportation equipment
Aircraft
Aircraft parts and equipmentBoats and boat equipmentMotor vehicles, passenger
..
Motor vehicles, trucks.

$1,197,663,943 $1,668,061,919
1,022,853,045 1, 340, 544,949
44, 252,941
68,425,683
111, 141, 936
8, 717,893
1,084, 046
1, 323,968
127,132,883
77,302,603

Motorcycles and parts
Railway cars_ _
.
Railway locomotivesMiscellaneous transportation equipment..
Miscellaneous.
Brooms, brushes, bristles, etc_
Dental goods and equipmentInstruments, professional and scientific.
Office equipment and supplies, n. e. c_—
Paper and allied products. _
Photographic apparatus and materials. _
Printing, publishing, and subscriptions
Rubber products.
__
_
Surgical and orthopedic supplies and appliancesTobacco manufactures
Other materials
.-Rentals, services, etc

Third
quarter
1940
$579,006,480
397,915,472
77,867,606
4,815,069
690,890
45,884,139

52,166
451,095
1,182,095
17,355,395

3,436,489
3,001,194
1,463,094
36,004,387

459,152
74, 287
279,345
51,020,520

65,543,222

62,946,187

33,538,365

1,815,403
624, 564
14,498,816
396, 545
5,808, 744
8,097, 766
1, 304,108
9,841,922
625, 698
60, 539
9,696,180
12, 772, 937

1,062,535
1,315,879
16,609,520
899,460
12,118,423
3,171, 378

441,815
234,339
13,860, 736
720,973
721, 098
4, 344,231

731,348
7, 258,462
6, 557, 773
236, 619
9,393,243
3, 591, 547

198, 915
2, 570,136
2.847,983
75,403
6.628,984
893, 752

The value of public contracts awarded for supplies by Federal
agencies totaled $1,961,262,000 during the third quarter of 1941. Of
these contracts $1,197,664,000 was for transportation equipment;
$211,370,000 for textiles and their products; $107,437,000 for machinery exclusive of electrical and transportation equipment; and
$78,970,000 for asphalt, coal, and petroleum products.




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