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EMPLOYMENT
and PAY RHUS




DETAt LED REPORT
SEPT.
1947

United States Deportment of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics

ESTIMATES OF MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT - NEW SERIES
Industries in the Food and Miscellaneous Industries Groups

In this detailed report the Bureau presents a new series of
production-worker estimates for the individual industries comprising the
food and miscellaneous industries groups.

The new estimates, adjusted to

19^5 bench-mark data from the Bureau of Employment Security of the Social
Security Administration, correct the downward bias which has accumulated
since 1939 and are, therefore, more representative of the true levels of
employment.
Food Group - The estimate# and indexes for all industries in
this group have been adjusted.

Because of the lapse of several years with­

out any adjustment to levels other than the 1939 Census of Manufactures,
some

of the changes are rather large, the largest occurring in the canning

and preserving industry.

The series for the baking industry has been

adjusted to new levels based on the Social Security Board industry
definition.

This differs from the former series based on the Bureau of

Census definition in that it excludes many small establishments which under
the Social Security Board definition are classified in retail trade.
Miscellaneous Industries Group - The estimates and indexes for all
industries in this group have been adjusted.

The changes in the industries,

however, are relatively small.
This report shows the new preduction-worker employment estimates
and indexes of employment and pay rolls for the months currently presented.
A set of summary sheets presenting comparable data for the industries in
the food and miscellaneous industries groups from January 1939 to date
will be provided upon request.

LS 48-1332




Soltar - 351

November 20. 1947
U. S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employment and Occupational Outlook Branch
Employment Statistics Division
S^TLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS
Detailed Report

September 1947
Explanatory notes outlining briefly the
concepts, methodology, and sources used
in preparing data for this report appear
in the appendix. See pages i - vii.
TAKLS

CONTENTS

1.

Estimated Number of Wage and Salary Workers in Nonagricultural
Establishments, by Industry Division............ ........... ..

3

Estimated Number of Wage and Salary Workers in Manufacturing
Industries, by Major Industry Group........... ...............

3

Federal Employment and Pay Rolls in All Areas and in Continental
United States, and Total Government Employment and Pay Rolls
in Washington, D. C............................. ..........

4

Personnel and Pay of the Military Branch of the Federal
Government..................... ........... . .............

5

Estimated Number of Wage and Salary Workers in Manufacturing
Industries, by State........ ........ ...............

6

Estimated Number of Production Workers in Manufacturing
Industries................................................

8

2*.
3.

4.

5.
6.

PAGE

7.

Estimated Employment in Selected Nonmanufacturing Industries....

14

8.

Indexes of Production-Worker Employment and Pay Rolls in
Manufacturing Industries.... ............ ........ ............

13

Indexes of Employment and Pay Rolls in Selected Nonnanufacturing
Industries..................... ........... .................

21

9.

Explanatory Notes...........................................

i

Glossary.......... .............................. ...........

v




Data for the 3 most recent months
shown are subject to revision.

2.

Table 1. - Estimated. Number of Wage and Salary Workers in
Nonagricultural Establishments, by Industry Division
(In thousands)
Industry division

Sept.

1947
Aug.

43,033

1946
f Aug.
!

July

Sept.

42,600

42,201

41,848

41,466

15,797

15,593

15,233

15,035

14,876

895

896

866

884

886

Contract construction

1,900

1,894

1,847

1,747

1,713

Transportation and public utilities

4,115

4,145

4,14o

4,064

4,103

Trade

8,684

8,563

8,558

8,523

8,402

Finance

1,583

1,602

1,590

1,534

1,554

Service

4,634

4,619

4,686

4,456

4,430

Federal, State, and local government

5,425

5,288

5,281

5,605

5,502

TOTAL
Manufacturing
Mining

See explanatory notes, sections A - H.




Table 2. - Estimated Number of Wage and Salary Workers
in Manufacturing Industries, by Major Industry Group
(In thousands)
Major industry group
ALL MANUFACTURING
Durable goods
Iron and steel and their
products
Electrical machinery
Machinery, except
electrical
Transportation equipment,
except automobiles
Automobiles
Nonferrous metals and their
products
Lumber and timber basic products
Furniture and finished lumber
products
Stone, clay, and glass products
Nondurable goods
Textile-mill products and other
fiber manufactures
Apparel and other finished textile
products
Leather and leather products
Food
Tobacco manufactures
Paper and allied products
Printing, publishing, and allied
industries
Chemicals and allied products
Products of petroleum and coal
Rubber products
Miscellaneous industries

Sept.

"19^7
Aug.

July

'1946.—
'
Aug.
Sept.

15,797

15,593

15,233

15,035

14,876

7,880

7,792

7,691

7,590

7,486

1,865

1,854
731

1,826

741

729

1,776
734

1,751
713

1,531

1,518

1,491

1,434

1,411

531

520
953

517
970

590
969

607
925

457
748

452
724

477
64s

471
643

982
462
748
524

j!
j!
S
!

496

494

517

503
479

482
486

482
483

7,%7

7,801

7,542

7,445

7,390

1,306

1,287

1,273

1,310

1,296

1,309

1,282

1,196
390

1,193
397
1,564

1,170

462

4oi
1,791
99
461

97
454

100
450

702

697

749
233

730
234

693
733
235
26$
541

662
704

4o6.

1,821
100

269
560

268
551

1,665
:

224

281
560

t___ ____
3ee explanatory notea, sections A - H.




395
1,579
99
447

660
692
223
274
555

4.
Table 3#— Federal Employment and Pay Rolls in All Areas and in Continental
United States and Total Government Employment and Pay Rolls in
Washington, D. C.
(In thousands)

Area and branch

Baployment
(as of first of month)
Sept.
1947
... Sept* jAugust [ 1946
;

Total (including areas
outside United States

Pay rolls
(total #cr month)
1947
j Sept.
Sept. f August ! 1946

j

Total Federal
2,020.9 2,067.2! 2,517.9
Executive
1,980.1 2,026.1^ 2,475.0
Defense agencies
907.0 j 923.1! 1,358.4
Post Office Department
424.8
425.3 j 442.3!
Other agencies
691.8
647*6 ! 660.7!
Legislative
'7.2 !
7.2
6.8
Judicial
3.4i
3.4 =
3.1
Government corporations
30.2
33.0
30.5j

$501,172 $485,984 $551,286
542,388
491,654! 476,612
228,688 i 218,996
286,693
96,051!
96,145 ! 94,329
166,915 ! 161,471! 161,366
2,421
2,448 j
2,139
1,106
1,402 j
1,259
5,668
5,692
5,653

Continental
United States

j

Pttal Federal
1,781.8 1,815.9 2,198.4
Executive
1,748.6 .1,782.4! 2,163.3
Defense agencies
704.6 ; 708.7j 1,074.4
Post Office Department
440.8!
424.O
423.3
Other agencies
665.6
620.0
632.9Legislative
6.8
7.2
7.2!
Judicial
3.0
3.3
3.3!
Government corporations
22.7 !1 23.01
25.3
Washington, D. C.
Total government
District of Columbia
government
Federal
Executive
Defense agencies
Post Office Dept.
Other agencies
Legislative
Judicial




458,028 !
449,241!1
193,855'
95,705
159,681
2,448
1,35? !
4,986

444,567}
435,901 f
185,563 !
95,819 }
154,519
2,421

257.5

63,576

17.8
205.9

17.5
240.0

198.1
65.1
7.31
125.7
7.2
.6
i

4,270
59,306
f$,653

86.3
7.5
138.8
6.8
.6

!
i
j
j
221.7 j 223.7
17.9

203.8

196.0

64.6
7.1
124.3
7.2
.6

232.6

515,735
507,581
258,164
94,031
155,386

1,223

2,139
1,072

5,022

4,943

60,612

65,619

3,188
57,424
54,804
18,031 ! 17,560
2,283
2,367
34,961
36,255
2,448
2,421
198
205
L .... .

4,011
61,608
59,277
21,118
2,214
35,945
2,139
192

Table 4.— Personnel and Pay of the Military Branch of the
Federal Government
(In thousands)
1947

Personnel and pay

September
September} August
1946

r'^rsMinel, total as of first
of nonth including those cn
hctiw duty and those on
{
tarainal leave
Arny
Mnvy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Men
Women
Pay, total
Amy
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Pay rolls
Musteriag-out pay
family allowances
Leave payments
Cash
Bonds

l/ Data not available.




Average monthly personnel
and total annual pay
1939
1943 I

1,537
936
491
91
19

1,575
972
492
92
19

2,474:
1,731!
608i
1U i
22!

8,944
6,733
1,744
311
156

1,339
13

1,556
19

2,438j
36 j

8,833
111

345

192
124
19
10

$333,409 $335)048; $500,562 $11,173,186
196,994 193,310! 297,131!
8,143,833
117,032
170,990 i 2,408,736
114,937
392,140
16,213 t 17,884
27,090!
5,240 j
6,222
228,477
5,351!

$331,523
155,482
143,238
16,877
15,926

370,413 i 10,140,852
90,570!
37,572!
1,032,334
2 ,007 ;
50,459 i
4,831!
1,984}
45,623!
23 !
i

331,523

250,157
9,632
23,586

50,034
6,054
43,930

250,075

10,498
24,016

6.
Table 5 . - Estimated Number of Wage and Salary Workers in Manufacturing
Industries, by State
(In thousands)
Region and State

Aug,

1947
! July

New England
Maine
Nev Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut

1,506

fiddle Atlantic
Nev York *
Nev Jersey
Pennsylvania

4,099
1,871
1.492

1,472

East North Central
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin

4,475
1.238

4,46o

West North Central
Minnesota
Iova
Missouri
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
South Atlantic
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida




114

80.7
40.2

720
143
408

736

553

! June

1,481
1,513
111
108
77.6 i
79.3
39*2 '
39.4
707
* 725
141
147
40$
414
3,994
1,802

720

1,232
550

4,074
1,842
745
1,487
4,478
1,244
553

AUg.

1946
: July

1,523
119

! 1,495
i 116
77.2
79.2 !
40.6
41,4
728
741
142
145
391
397

4,121
1,911
743
1,467

4,033
1,855
733
1,445

4,343

1,203
531

4,255
1,172
511

452

1,238
1,013
430

1,186
1.010

1,166
982

4ll

424

850
202
149

848

838

817
195
143

357
7.2

353

797
194
136
334
5.9
9.8
41.5
76.1

1.238

1,229

i,oo4
442

997

11.5
43.2
80.0
1,520
48.4

228
17.3

205
147
7.0
11.8

43.4

80.7
1,491

43.2
217
17.4

211

208

133

131

366
192
247
76.8

194
146
355
7.0
11.5
43.1

81.0

1,506

45.4
224

17.2
208
133

365

366

191
240

189
246
77.1

76.0

341

6,2

9.9 i
43.3 !
78.1 1

1,527

!1,493
45.4
47.9 !
j 238
249
16.4 i 16.1
; 200
205
: 128
132
! 360
361
j 180
184
i 252
257
74.3 !
73.9

7.

Table 5 . - Estimated Number of Wage and Salary Workers In Manufacturing
Industries, by State Continued
(In thousands)
Region and Ct^te
East South Central
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi.

^ "
Aug.

692
126
291
220
95.3

West South Central
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas

613

Mountain
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Utah *
Nevada

154
18.2

Pacific
Washington
Oregon
California

74.0

143
33.2
341

19.3
6.8

56.5
10.2
12.5
26.4
3.7

1.066
185
122
759

1947 "
' July
:
! 680
! 122
i 246
j 221
j 91.4

i June
:
! 684
! 124
j 245
i! 224
j 90.9

! 601
! 71.0
i l4l
i 53.8
j 333

j 71.5
' 139
i 53-3
! 339

i 157
! 18.4
j 20.8
!
6.7
! 53.9
! 10.1
! 12.7
i 29.1
}
3.6
j
!
:
i

997
176
117
704

603

150
17.8
20.1
6.3
54.6
9.9
13.2
24.9
3.5

987
179
119

669

1946------Aug'.
jJuly

669
127

245
210
87.1
567

67.B

128
54.7
316

151
16.7
23.O
6.1
54.5

10.6
12.2

24.8
3.4

1,043
176
126
741

!
j
'
)
j

657
125
240
208
83.7

j 533
i 65.6
i 132
.! 52.5
j 308
1 149
I 16.5
j 22.2
!
6.0
! 52.6
! 10.5
i 12^3
! 25.9
}
3.2
I
!
!
[

998

176
121

701

L..,.-.. .....----- -- * .

See explanatory notes, section I.
* Estimates fc!r manufacturing are revised because of adjustment to more recent
benchmark data made available under the Federal Security Agency program. Not
comparable with data previously shown.




0.

Table 6. - Estimated Nunbor of Production Workers in Manufacturing Industrios
(In thousands)
'
Industry group and industry
ALL MANUFACTURING
Durable goods
Nondurable goods

...

-T SPr-Sopt.

^Tuly

'
iPKT" —
Aug.
1 Sept.

12,833
6,461
6,332

12,638
6,398

12,294 12,244

j]L2,lt)l

6,307
5,987

6,249

6,240

3,995

6,160
5,941

1,990

1,372

1,347

1,514

1,490 s

Durable Goods
IRON AND STEEL AND THEIR PRODUCTS
Blast fumacea, steel works, and
rolling nills
Gray-iron and senistecl castings
Malloable-iron castings
Stael castings
Caat-lron pipo and fittings
Tin cans and other tinware
Wire drawn fron purchasod reds
Wirework
Cutlery and odge tools
Tools (except edge tools, nnchlno
tools, filos, and savs)
Hardware
Plunbors' supplies
Stoves, oil bumors, and heating
equipment not elsewhere classified
Stean and hot-wator heating
apparatus and stean fittings
Staopod and cnanolod ware and
galvanizing
Fabricated structural and
ornaEiontal notalwork
Motal doors, sash, francs, nolding,
and trin
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Forgings, iron and steel
Wrought pipe, weldod and heavyriveted
Screw-machine products and wood
screws
Stool barrels, kegs, and druns
Fireams
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY
Electrical equipment
Radios and phonographs
Communication equipment

500.0
83.2
26.3
49.1

20.3

ao.6
47.7

30.1
40.9
23.5 !

47.1
30.3
39.9

23.1

498.1
83.7
23.I
47.6
20.2
43.9
30.3
39.6
21.3

480,1
82.1
24.4
50.7

48o.o

44.8

44.4

29.8
41.3

29.1

18.7

25.9

81.6

24.1

50.2
16.9
39.5
25.7

26.4

25.6
45.9

28.5

47.4
28;1

64.4

61.7

59.4

56.8

45.4- }
:
:

45.3

44.8

48.9

48.0

85.2 :

83.2

81.4

81.5

79.0

59.3 !
:
10.4

39.6

58.5

56.1

55.5

21.0
26.9 !

10.3
21.1
26.9

20.7
26.6

9.5

10.2

i
i

12.6

26.2
6.2
13.6
13.7
367
} 559
309.8 ! 305.7
82.3
80.3
77.3
77.5

24.1

24.3
48.7
28.4 i

47.8
28.6

67.2 )

12.7
26.1
6.1

See explanatory notes, section A, C, and G.




302.9
84.1
26.4 !
48.6

23.7
48.6

27.1

9.8

26.2

18.7
26.3

12.4

13.4

12.8

26.7
6.2

28.5
6.2

14.3

14.2

27.7
6.4
14.0

20.4

557

563

545

306.5

300.1
83.2
89.0

290.7
82.8

77.6

78.0

86.4

Table 6. - Estimated Number of .Production Workers in Manufacturing Induntrios - Cont'd
(In t&ouarnds)
Industry group and industry
MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL
Machinery and machine-shop products
Engines and turbines
Tractors
Agricultural machinery, excluding
tractors
Machine tools
Machine-tool accessories
Textile machinery
Punps end pumping equipment
Typewriters
Cash registers, adding and
calculating machines
Washing machinos, wringers and
driers, domestic
Sewing machines, domestic and
industrial
Refrigerators and refrigeration
equipment
TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT, EXCEPT
AUTOMOBILES
Locomotives
Cars, electric- and steam-railroad
Aircraft and ports, excluding
aircraft engines
Aircraft engines
Shipbuilding and boatbuilding
Motorcycles, bicycles, and parts
AUTOMOBILES
NONFERROUS METALS AND THEIR PRODUCTS
Smelting and refining, primary, of
nonferrous metals
Alloying and rolling and drawing
of nonferrous metals except
aluminum
Clocks and watches
Jewelry (precious metals) and
jewelers' findings
Silverware and plated ware
Lighting equipment l/
Aluminum manufactures l/
Sheet-motal work, not elsewhero
classified

Sept.

1,185

11,171
378.3 ! 376.0
43.2 i 43.3
56.4 ;
55.1

51.3 i
51.7 !

42.1 !
36.9 !

56.1 !
23.9 !:

50^3
51.9
42.5
35.9
55-7
23.4

July
1,149

.1946
Sept.
..-.AiXL .
1,112

1,092

373.3
43.0
56.3

363.2
45.3

356.6
44.9
52.8

49.0

41.2

62.0
50.6

40.7
61.3
49.1

56.4
14.3

33.4
57.5
20.3

56.9

19.4

50.1

42.1

36.1

52.0

32.7

41.6

:
!
!

40.5

37.5

34.6

33.2

14.3

;

14.7

14.5

11.9

11.5

11.9

}

9.4

11.9

10.1

9.7

78.1

}

77.8

76.4

60.2

6O.3

409
24.8
55.4

i 397
!
1

24.3
54.6

395

23.8

455

55.1

27.1
47.9

129.3

139.5

130.6 ! 130.7
26.5 i 26.7
95.0 : 86.9
13.6
13.9
801
772

785

788

395

386

4n

391

26.8
87.7
13.0

27.6

139.0
11.0

468

26.8
46.6
134.2
27.3
158.3

10.6

755
4o6

39.3

39.4

40.4

37.5

36.9

52.5
27.5

52.8
26.9

53.8
24.6

61.7

61.1

27.3

27.5

17.1
16.6
30.0

16.6
16.2

16.1

17.9
14.6
30.6
49.7

17.4
14.2
30.1
49.4

26.1

26.2

41.8

40.3

15.5
31.0
39.6

25.5

23.7

23.O

See explanatory notes, sections A, C, and G,




*1947
i Aug.

30.0

10.
Tabic 6. - Estinatod Nunbor of Production Workers in Manufacturing Industries - Cent
(In thousands)
Industry group and industry
LUMBER AND TIMBER BASIC PRODUCTS 2/
Sawoills and logging canps
Planing end plywood Bills
FURNITURE AND FINISHED LUMBER
PRODUCTS 2/
Mattroscea and bedspringa
Fumitm-o
Wooden boxes, other than cigar
Caskets and other morticians' goods
Wood preserving
!
Wood, turned end shaped
!
STONE, CLAY, AND GLASS PRODUCTS 2/
Glass and glassware
Glass products uade from
purchased glass
Ceoent
Brick, tilo, and terra, cotta
Pottery and related products
Gypeun
Wallbonrd, plaster (except gypsun),
and oinoral vool
Line
Marble, granite, slate, and othor
products
Abrasives
Asbeatos products

1947
Sept. __!Aug

679 !

679

5^9.7
129.7 j

331*5
127.6

436

j

33.3 .
233.1 !
35,6 ;
19.6 '
18.3 j
31,4 j
427

!

118.6 j
!
12.0 j
37 .O j
75.3 !
53.9 j
6.1 j
j
12.2 !
9,2 i
j
I8.5 j
17.3 i
21.0 ;

433
31.5
230.3

35.5

19.4

18.9

31.5

-19%"
Sent.
Aug.

jJuly

658

583

584

531.3

126.5

468.5
114.3

472.5
lll.f

419

405

405

28.5
223.9
35.1
19.1

18.8
30.2

29.9

28.7

33.3
17.4

217.3
33.4
17.2

216.5

16.6
30.1

16.4

30.;*

415
122.3

411

418

118.2

113.1

123.0

12.0
36.8
75.1
56.1

12.4
35.7
73.3
54.3

6.1

6.1

12.0
34.9
70.7
33.5
3-9

11.8

11.3
9.3

10.8
C.9

10.9

9.2

18.4
16 .2

16.8
17.0

17.4
19.3

20.7

19.5

17.3
19.1
20.1

424

20.5

12.0
34.9
70.7

52.6
5.8

8.9

Nondurable Goode
TEXTILE-I4ILL EROLUCTS AND OTHER FDSEE
MANUFACTURES
Cotton nanufactures, except soallwares
Cotton soallwares
Silk and rayon goods
Woolen and worsted nanufactures,
except dyeing and finishing
Hosiery
Knitted doth
Knitted outerwear and knitted glovea
Knitted underwear
Dyeing and finishing textiles,
including woolen and worsted
Carpets and rugs, wool
Hats, fur-felt
Jute goods, except felta
Cordage and twine

1,191 i1,172

1,204

1,189

455.8

432.3

14.3
93.0

14.1

142.3

139.7

39*1

9.0
23.3
37.9

11.2
30.4
34.9

153.6
114.1
11.2
29.7
35.2

63.5

62.2

61.4

29.2 ^
11.3 i
2.6 =
13.1

28.8
11.4
2.6
13-2

28.4

64.1
24.6
11.3
3.8!
15 .2 !

449.7 j
12.1 !
91.8 j
=
131.6 j
112.8 j

9.5
25.2
39.3

ieo explanatory notes, sections A, C, and &.




1.158

445-7
11.8
90.3

444.7

146.5
111.2
9.4
24.0

11.8
88.9

109.2

11.0
3.6

13.2

113.8

92.6

63.8
24.2
9.0
3.7
14^9

11.

Table 6. - Estinated Nunber of Production Workers in Manufacturing Industries - Cont'd
(In thousands)
Industry group and industry
APPAREL AND OTHER FINISHED TEXTILE
BROIHCTS 2/
Men's clothing, not elsewhere
classified
Shirts, collars, and nightwear
Underwear and neckwear, ncn's
Work shirts
Women's clothing, not elsewhere
classified
Corsets and allied garments
Millinery
Handkerchiefs
Curtains, drapories, and bedspreads
Eousefumishings, other than
curtains, etc.
Textile bags
LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS 2/
Leather
Boot and shoe cut stock and findings
Boots and shoes
Leather gloves and nittens
Trunks and suitcases
FOOD 2/
Slaughtering and neat packing
Butter
Condensed and evaporated nilk
Ice crean
Flour
Feeds, prepared
Cereal preparations
Baking
Sugar refining, cane
Sugar, beet
Confectionery
Beverages, nonalcoholic
Malt liquors
Canning and preserving
TOBACCO MANUFACTURES
Cigarettes
Cigars
Tobacco (chewing and snoking)
and snuff

SeptJ

1947
Aug.

1,149

1,122

Sept.

i,o4o

278.2

299.4
77.2
17.2
15.5

294.7
75.1

430.7
18.0

439.1
17.3
23.6
4,6
27.3

400.2

29.4
27.3

26.6
26.9

16.6
15.2

23.7
5.0

28.9
30.6
27.8
364
46.7
19.3

225.1

12.8
13.4
1,376

360
46.0
19.2
223.4
12.8
12.7
1,344

182.0

182.9

35.8

37.8
22.7
32.8
39.6
29.9
13.7
218.0
20.8
10.5

21.2

31.1
39.4

29.6

14.0

219.8
20.8
12.2
68.1

62.7

39.1

39.7

71.7
15.4
14.0

16.9
20.5
4.2
23.2

349

3546
r Aug.

1,049

266.6
65.O
17.8

13.2
413.0
15.9
24.6
4.2

28.2
29.5
27.1
338

45.4
18.8

44.4

216.8
11.9

219.3
13.9
14.6

11.7

20.1

1,223 1,175
182.3 103.9
36.6
38,8
23.5
20.7
33.4
39.4

29.6

13.1

216.6
20.8

8.1
57.9
35.5
74.0
246.2
84

27.3
37.2

1,030
265.6
65.1
16.9
14.8
402.1
15.7
23.7
4.2
27.7
29.3
27.0
3%

44.3
20.7
217.3

14.0
14.8

1,184

160.4
37.8

21.6

29.0

13.7

36.6
28.0
12.3
201.7
16.8

8.7

7.2
31.9

26.3
203.6
14.7
56.8

28.3

30.1
60.9

76.2

76.0

379.0
86

349.7

32.6

32.9
39.3

32.9
37.9

33.7
40.0

33.6
38.7

7.0

6.9

7.6

7.7

85

40.3
7.1
:

See explanatory notes, sections A, C, and G.




July

63.8
366.4
87

314.9
86

12.

Table 6. - Estimated Number of Production Workers in Manufacturing Industries - Cent'
(In thousands)
Industry group and Industry
PAPER AND ALLIED PRODUCTS 2/
Paper and pulp
Paper goods, other
Envelopes
Paper bags
Paper boxes
PRINTING, PUBLISHING, AND ALLIED
INDUSTRIES 2/
Newspapers and periodicals
Printing, book and job
Lithographing
Bookbinding
CHEMICALS AND ALLIED IRODUCTS
Paints, varnishes, and colors
Drugs, medicines, and insecticides
Perfumes and cosmetics
Soap
Rayon and allied products
Chemicals, not elsewhere
classified
Explosives and safety fuses
Compressed and liquefied gases
Ammunition, small-ams
Fireworks
Cottonseed oil
Fertilizers
PRODUCTS OF PETROLEUM AND COAL
Petroleum refining
Coke and byproducts
Paving materials
Roofing materials

1947
Sept.

Aug.

Sept.

Aug.

381

380

) 373

372

369

196.8

196.5
36.7
11.8
18.0
95.6

} 194.2
! 56.4
i 11.6
! 17.8

186.8

186.7
55.5
11.1
17 .'4

429

426

; 422

144.4
177.5
32.5

143.0 ! 142.2
175.7 ! 176.4
32.6
31.5

37.4
12.0
17.7

96.0

38.2

38.4

563

547

92.6

37.0
347

56.1
11.3

18.3
98.2

399

131.7
170.1
31.6
34.3

131.1
168.6
31.1

530

520

36.5

36.2 ! 35.9
50.9 ! 51.3

36.0
52.1

9.8
13.7

9.4
15.3
58.0

i 9.0
! 15.4

12.2
14.2
57.4

123.6

124.6
13.8
6.3
4.4

125.8

116.6
12.8

58.8

13.8

6.2
6.9
2.4

2.0
10.9
21.5

15.2
22.9

58.0

12.8

6.2

6.8
2.4
9.7
20.4

5.7
7.4
3.2

13.0
22.3

162

163

163

102.0
27.2

103.0
27.1
2.3
13.1

103.0
27.1

99.8

l.$
13.1

12.6

2.4

13.2

See explanatory notes, sections A, C, and G,

97.8

401

51.6

:




1946
;July

157

25.9
2.3

34.5

35.9
51.7
12.6
14.1
57.3

117.2
12.6
3.9

4.9
2.9
10.8
20.9
156
100.1
25.8
2.2
12.2

13.
Table 6. - Estimated Number of Production Workers in Manufacturing Industries - Cont'd
(In thousands)
Industry group and industry
RUBBER PRODUCTS 2/
Rubber tires and inner tubes
Rubber bwts and shoes
Rubber goods, other
MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIES 2/
Instruments (professional and
scientific), and fire-control
equipment
Photographic apparatus
Optical instruments and ophthalmic
goods
Pianos, organs, and parts
Games, toys, and dolls
Buttons
Fire extinguishers

Sept.

216

1947
i Aug. ... iJuly
:
) 212
! 216

113.4 { 117.5 ! 115.1
18.9 ! 20.1
21.0
81.5 } 79.2 I 76.8
435

1 425

} 4l6

i

j
i

j

27.6 !
38.2

!

i
15.2 :

27.5

41.0 i
11.6 !
2.8 !

27.5 !
38.3 1
;
27.6 1
14.6 !
38.6 !
11.4
2.8 !

Sept.

1946
j Aug.

229

{ 223

122.6

! 118.0

21.0 i

20.9

85.2

83.7

433

j

] 429
!

27.5
38.3

28.8 !
35.0 !

29.1

27.9

29.2 !
13.0 !
32.5 !

29.1
12.9
31.3
14.5
2.9

14.9
36.1

10.7
2.9

14.6 j
2.9 j

34.8

See explanatory notes, sections A, C, and G.
l/ Revisions have been made as follows in the data for earlier months:
"
Lighting equipment - May and June 1947 to 32.3 and 31*6.
Aluminum nanufactures - June ip47 to 43.2
2/ Estimates for the individual industries comprising the major industry group have
"*
been adjusted to lovels indicatod by final 1$4$ data made available by the Bureau
of Employment Security of the FecLeral Security Agency. Comparable series from
January 1939 are available upon request. More recently adjusted data for the
individual industries comprising the major industry group indicated below super­
sede data shown in publications dated prior to:
Major industry group
Paper and allied products
Rubber products
Food
Miscellaneous industries




Mimeographed release Monthly Labor Reviow
September 1947
September 1)47
November 1947
Novenbor 1947

October 1947
October 1947
December 1947
December 1947

14.
Tabic 7- - Estlnatod Euploynont in
Selected Nonoaawfacturing Industries
(In thousands)
Industry group and industry l/
MINING:

Sept.

i9^" —
" ...
19*7" ....
Sept.
Aug,----July
! Aug.

2/

Cal:
Anthracite
Bituminous coal
Mct^l
Iron
Copper
Lead and zinc
Gold and 0liver
Miscellaneous

j

331
77.9
ay.7
24.3
13.9
7.6

2.2

65.2
67.3
326
i 304
79.0 i 78.6
29.8
29.8
24.2
24.3
14.8 ! 14.6
7.8
7.7

2.3

2.3

68.1

67.9
337
72.8

335
73.7
27.7
21.5
14.9
7.2
2.4

28.1
21.2

13.8
7.2
2.5

TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC UTILITIES:
Class 1 steam railways j}/
Street railways and busses 4/
Telephone
Telegraph
Electric light and power
SERVICE:
Hotels (year-round)
Power laundries 2/
Cleaning and dyeing 2/

1,364

231
607

1,382
233

616

!i,383
! 234
i 614

266

269

36.2
i 267

379,
6/
3/

379,

! 382

37.6

37.8

j

1,363
252

1,371

252

575
42.2
249

575
42.1

385 ,

385,

249

^

GOVERNMENT:
Federal 7/
State and local

1,761
3,664

1,796
3,492

!1,828
13,453

2,179
3,426

2,230
3,272

^ee e^lahatoryhbtes^ sectlbn'CY
* Not available.
l/ Includes all employees unless otherwise noted.
2/ Includes production and related workers only.
Includes Til employees atrdddle of mf)nth. Excludes employees of switching and
torrilnal companies. Class I steam railways include thos& with over $1,000,000
annual revenue. Source: Interstate Conr.xxrco Connisaicn.
4/ Includos private and nunicipal street railway companies and affiliated,
"*
subsidiary, or successor tyolley-bun and mctcr-bus c^a^panies.

3/ Includes all land line etrployees except those compensated on a cetmlsslon basis,
"

Excludes general and divisional headquarters personnel, trainees in school, and
messengers.

6/ The change in definition from "wtge earner" to "production worker" in the power
*"
laundries and cleaning ^ind dyoin^ industries results in the omission of driversalesm&n. This causes a si^ificant difference in the data. New series are
being prepared.
7/ Continental United States only.




Excludes fourth-class postmasters.

3-5.
Table 8. - Indexes of Production-Workor Enployncnt and Pay Rolls
in Manufacturing Industries
(1939 Average = 100)
Industry group and industry

Enplcynent indexes
. 1 9 4 7 " .. ii'946"
Sept. &ug. {July {Sept.

Pay-roll indexes'
19^5*

Sept. !Aug. !July jSopt.

ALL MANUFACTURING I56.7 [154.3 jl30.11149.5 337.2 323.5[3l4.2 290.3
Durable goods
Nondurable goods

179.5 !177.2jl?4.7 [l73.1 372.8 357.5 [350.1 323.3
138.7!136.21130.7 !130.9 302.4 290.4 !279.1 258.1

Durable Goods
IRON AND STEEL AND THEIR HtODUCTS
Blast fumacoc, steel works,
and rolling nills
Gray-iron and oeoisteel castings
Malleable-iron castings
Steel castings
Cast-iron pipe and fittings
Tin cans and other tinware
Wire drawn froa purchased rods
Wirework
Cutlery and edge tools
Tools (oxcopt edge tools, nachine
tools, files, and saws)
Hardware
Plumbers' supplies
Stoves, oil burners, and
heating equipment not
elsewhere classified
Stean and hot-wator heating
apparatus and stean fittings
Stamped and enameled ware
and galvanizing
Fabricated structural and
ornamental metalwork
Metal doors, sash, frames,
molding, and trim l/
Bolts, nuts, washers, and rivets
Forgings, iron and steel
Wrought pipe, welded and
heavy-riveted
Screw-machine products.and
wood screws
Steel barrels, kegs, and drums
Firearms
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY
Electrical equipment
Radios and phonographs
Communication equipnent

159.3 [158.3 [136.1 [132.7

128.7 il2p.3 1128.2 !123.6 252.9 250.4 1235.3 206.3
142.31143.9 {143.3 ji4o.5 321.9 303.3 !313.7 291.7
146.81146.3 1139.1 !135.1 339.4 312.5 1314.9 287.5
163.11161.3 1158.1 =168.5 326.4 313.2 !315.1 297.5
123.0{124.0 1122.2 1113.4 292.7 281.5 1292.3 239.9
l$o.lji48.l !i38.i 1141.1 343.3 331.1 1294.7 274.1
137.1 ;138.6 (137.7 1135-7 256.2 251.5 i238.i 231.8
134.3 jl3l.4 =130.4 H 36.0 287.2 268.8 1270.8 270.9
=138.4 1167.7 355.9 329.6 Bii.i 364.6
132.21149.3
:
:
:

:

138.9^157.5 1154.3 1172.2 343.6 325. 9 !3i 5 .o 340.8
136.7H34.1 1136.3 {133-0 304.6 288.5 =297.2 266.6
113.4 !113.9 !115.5 {113.9 230.6 220.7 i231.2 196.7

145.6 [139.6 [133.7 [128.8 313.8 280.9 [274.9 [247.5
i

:

:

149.7 =150.o[l47.8 [161.3

311.1 289.21295.9 )306.7

133.4[149.8 ji46.5 146.7

344.6 327.6 [318.61289.3

I66.9!i67.8[i64.8 157.9 334.8 335.5 [317.0 [274.8
I34.6!l32.4il22.6 131.3 285.3 271.3 {242.2=250.1
I46.7il47.7!l44.4 142.9 290.8 [
291.3 !28l .5 =246.2
331.3!337.8[
306.1
170.1
359.3
175 .1 [174.9[173.3

151.6 {150.7 [l48.l 159.9 296.9 I291.3 [297.7[279.9
134.3 [134.8 [157.6 168.3 326.1 {317.9 =327.8 1332.5
loo.5 iioi.5 iio2.2 102.7 257.61251.6 1251.6 {214.5
274.4[271.4[286.7 284.1 605.7 b8l.l {615.2 j57 3.2
218.9 [215.6 [215.0
171 .4 [169.1 !i69.6
189.7 !i84.7=178.3
241.21240.8[243.0

See explanatory notes, sections A, C, F, and G.




325.7 314.4:304.4 273.6

217.3

442.2 [420.3 [422.3 [397.2

166.0 344.4 [330.41333.0{297.7

1
195.7 419.8 [385.01386.41390.0
277.0 439.3 {438.3 !437.0 =304.9

16.
Table 8. - Ind-xoa of Producticn-Warker Enploynent and Pay Bolls
In Manufacturing Industries - Continued
Eaploypont Indexes
Industry group rind industry

i w

3 m

Sopt. jAug. ;July iSept.
MACHINERY, EXCEPT ELECTRICAL
Machinery and machine-shop
products
Engines and turbines
Tractors
Agricultural machinery,
excluding tractors
Machine tools
Machine-tool accessories
Textile nachinory
Pumps nr,& pumping equipment

Typewriters 1/
Cash registers> adding and
calculating •iiachinoo
Washing machines, wringers
and driers, damstlc
Sewing machines, domestic,
nnd Industrial
Refrigerators and refrigeration
equipment
TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT,
EXCEPT AUTOMOBILES
Locomotives
Care, electric* and stormrailroad
Aircraft and parts, excluding
aircraft engines
Aircraft onlines
Shipbuilding and boatbuilding
Motorcycles, bicycles, and parts

Pay-roll Indexes

m

1BE

Sopt. IAug. TJuly ISopt.

22U.31221.7! 217.41210.3 442.6! 424.8! 419.2= 376.2

I

I

!

I

1

1

372.0!360.2| 396. Ij 322.3
231.4 232.11230.71242.6 507.31513.1! 493.6 484.5
180 .5 ;17b,2 ;l80.0 jl66.4 3l6.4|301.4f311.2 254.1

187. 0 1185. 9 1184.51179.5

184.5 il8l.6 U 76 .3 Il48.1 387.31370.1 361.5 269.8
141.2 Il4l.6|l36.8!l69.2 254.2 1250.8 239.9 285.5
167.5 -169.0 !l67.3 !20l.0 293.5 I28O .3 282.3 336.0
168.4 0.63.8464.91152.3 364.9*333.2 349.6 290.5
231.4 !229.6 :232.61237.1 488.01475.1 479.2 444.0
147.6 1144.1 88.4!l26.6 317 .61306.2 I85.I 248.1
I
|
211.2 $206.0 190.71175.8 436.4 ^400.7 374.4|331.6

191.7 (197.0 193.6|l58.7 378.81382.3 39l.7i287.9
\
152.1 ju.9.3 jl51.4jl28.3 343.9|251.7 327.81243.1
:
222.2 |221.21217.41171.2 421.3i404.1 422.i |293.3
i
I
|
:
11
!

i

I

257.4 1250.0 j248.9 1286.8 5Ol.5 j482.9 j483.Oj 524.1
384.0j375.5}368.0;4l9.4 865.51809.9 }76o.3 i846.8
225,8 (222.81224.81195.4 465.9 !436.3 |482.1 364.5
i

:

j

624,4|637.6 |622.4 663.9
501.814.86.71485.1 507.8
266.5 1242.21243.1 346.6
402.3 1392.81379.4; 290.9

AUTOMOBILES

329. 1 1329. 3 I326. 0 I351.6
298.5 !299»9 !30l.11310.5
137 .H 125.5 !126.6 |200.8
200.0 {l95.3 il86.0 l158.O
199.2 |l92.ol195.01196.0

NOBFEEROUS METALS AND THEIR
PRODUCTS

{
I
I
172.ljl7Q.4il68.6j 179.5 344.4 |330 .7 326.6 331.8

Smelting and refining, primary,
of nonferrous metals
Alloying and rolling nnd
drjiwing of nonferrous
metals except aluminum
Clocks and watches
Jewelry (precious metals)
and Jewelers* findings
Silverware and plated ware
Lighting equipment l/
Aluminum manufactures 1/
Sheet-metal work, not elsewhere
classified

142.21142.8 146.31135.6

298,7j289.2 296.5:247.1

135.2 1136.1 138.6 159.0 254.4j248.1 260.1 284.7
135.7|132.8 121.2 136.8 307.5 =289.81261.8!289.7

.

118 61115.1
136.81133.9
146.7jl46.6
177.71172.1

111.3 123.8 233.7!208.8 193-3! 237.3
127.5 120.0 314.71287.6 281.0!250.9

151.4 3.49.2 278.51271.2 273.2= 260.6
168.3 211.0 321 .5 ]308.3 298.7! 358.1

136.1 1I3 7 .O 133.2 139.3 284.8!287.5 276. 2! 261.7

:
See explanatory notes, sections A, C, F, and G.




376 .8 =343.81348.8 330.3

IT.

Table 8. - Indexes of Production-Worker JBoployxawnt nnd Pay Rolls
In Manufacturing Induetries - Continued
Enploynont IndexoB
Industry group and industry

~W7

j 1946*

Sept. lAug. IJuly [Sept.

Pay-roll indexes
|X9^6
. 1^7.
Sopt, Aug. July jSept.
'

385.71387.3

LUMBER AIE) TIMBER BASIC ER0OTCTS2/
Savnills and logging canps
Planing and plywood nilla

359.8ja85.2
l6l,6 p.61.5 IX56.5!138.6
175.3 |l75.8 1169.4 !149.4 425.81430.4 397.41309.8
163.9 H 61.3 !160.01144.4 370.3!362.9 345.11280.8

FURHITURE AMD FINISHED LUMBER
PRODUCTS 2/

133.5il3l.9!l27.8!123.5 305.0 j293.3 l28!.4 1254.4

162.3 1153.51>1139.21145.6 356.0!323.0 1287.3 1280.8
131 .01129.4 !125.9! 121.7 297.91284.7 '1274.41249-9
125.7 1125.41•i123.81117,6 305.31305.4 1301.8 !257.4

Mattresses and bedsprings
Furniture
Wooden boxes, other than cigar
Caskets and ether aorticians•
goods
Wood preserving
Wood, turned and shaped
STOKE, CLAY, AMD GLASS PRODUCTS
Glass and glassware
Glass products nade fron
purchased glass
Cenent
Brick, tile, and terra cotta
Pottery and related products
Gypsun
Wallboard, plaster (except
gypsum), and mineral wool
Line 1/
Marble, granitey elate, and
other products
Abrasives
Asbestos products

. .

140.6 139.2 1137.4il24.9 283.41271. 61260.6 1228.7
145-5 150.6 1149.4 !131.9 394.71408. 01392.7 1312.7
127.9 128.2 |123.0=122.4 281 21281 4=268.5 1250.5

2/

145.5 144.6]1140.21142.5 306.8;301. 7|285.9 1267.0
166.3 [165.7 !l58.5 !172.4 340.71334. 1 1312.8 {310.3
120.11120.2 1123.5iU9.7
I5a.l!l5l.1 ‘
[146.51143.1
129.7 tl29.fc !126.3!121.7
165.2 SI65.9 ;160.4U58.2
124.21123.5 =124.2=119.7
149.8=145.3 1141.3=133.1
97.0 97.0! 98.0 ; 94.1

:
251.5 ^246.4=247.2 (222.9
298.31297.0!283.5 =250.3
295.0 :289.11276.4 1244.3
326.5 [330.41308.6 281.2
258.31260.4j26o.2 j23l.O
f
358.61353. 91333.6 |284.7
245 .5 =243 .3 =237.7 1219.9
=

99.9 99.4 i 90.5 ! 94.1 l 8o.9 |176.4 1I56.7 1152.9
223.9 208.8 1220.0=249.7 430.1[375-6=386.0=4oo.o
132.2 130.1 |122.7|129.0 304.2 306.8|293.2|273.7

Rondurable- Goods
TEXTILE-MILL PRODUCTS /JTO OTHER
FIBER MANUFACTURES

104.2 102.5 fl01.2 -105.2

Cotton nanufactures, excopt
113.6 112.6 ill2.3 !ll5.1
suallwares
Cotton snallwares
90.7 88.9 ! 88.9|107.5
Silk and rayon goods
76.6 75-31 74.21 77.6
I
|
Woolen and worsted nanufactures,
except dyeing and finishing
101.6 98.2 I 95.4 !107.0
Hosiery
70.9 69.9 I 68.7! 71.6
Knitted cloth
87.1 86.2 ! 82.0 !102.2
:
}
Knitted outerwear and knitted
gloves
89.4 85.5 ! 83.ol108.0
Knitted underwear
102.6 101.4 = 98.2 ; 90.6
Dyeing and finishing textiles
including woolen and worsted
95.0! 93-Oi 91.9; 95-9
Carpets and rugs, wool
114.0=112.41110.9! 96.1
Hats, fur-felt
77.6! 78 .2 ! 75.5s 78.0
Jute goods except felts
72.0 = 73.5 U01.3!105.7
Cordage and twine
t108.2 |109.4 1109.0j125.5
See explanatory notes, sections A, C, F and G.




256.4j239.8j237.51235.5
302.21291.4 =288.71281.7
200.71186.4 =191.41222.0
206.61195.8 •190. 8 jl 80.9
i
254.91221.9 1231.1-242.7
151-51144.4 1135.31143-7
189.9]186.7 1176.5 j2l 6.1
I
\
199.41182.9 1172.7=234.0
|229.71199.4

250.8j236.0

217.8 ;201.1 =195.1 ;i86.8
257.41231.31239.31182.5
160.51155.3 =155.8 !181.3
153.71152.2 1218.41237 -4
842.71240.41237.51266.2

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Table 8.

Indexes of Production-Workor Employment and Pay Rolls
in Manufacturing Industries - Continued

Industry group and industry
APPAREL AND OTHER FINISHED
TEXTILE PRODUCTS 2/
Men's clothing, not elsewhere
classified
Shirts, collars, and nightwear
Underwear and neckwear, men's
Work shirts
Women's clothing, not elsewhero
classified
Corsets and allied garments
Millinery
Handkerchiefs
Curtains draperies, and
bedspreads
Eousefurnishingsother than
curtains etc.
Textile bags
LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS 2/
Leather
Boot and shoe cut stock and
findings
Boots and shoes
Leather gloves and mittens
Trunks and suitcases
?00D 2/
Slaughtering and meat packing
Butter
Condensed and evaporated milk
Ice cream
Flour
Feeds, prepared
Cereal preparations
Baking
Sugar refining, cane
Sugar, beet
Confectionery
Beverages, nonalcoholic
Malt liquors
Canning and preserving
TOBACCO MANUFACTURES
Cigarettes
Cigars
Tobacco (chewing and smoking)
and snuff

Employment indexes
1946
1947
Sept. Aug. July Sopt.

Pay-roll indcxos
1947
Sept. Aug. iJuly opt.
!

145.6 142.2 131.7 132.9

318.5 302.3}278.9

130.4 128.3 121.1 116.1
104.4 101.6 96.9 87.9
101.4 97-9 91.0 IO5 .I
109.6 107.8 99.1 107.8

284.9 264.8!260.0 42.7
243.2 225.5 !219.3 90.6
256.6 236.3!230.8 6l.4
263.0 256.3!24l.4 35.1

157.5 153.4 139.8 145.0
95.8 93.4 90.1 84.6
93.0 92.6 80.4 96.6
98.3 90.6 82.9 82.9

:
334.2 322.6 !283.1 20.1
203.1 192.3 !187.4 66.2
172.6 170 .8!146.9 79.7
239.4 210.6 !196.7 f8.7

162.6 153.9 130.4 158.9 374.0 334.7}283.9 37.6
274.0 263.5 238.2 264.0
220.1 216.5 213.0 214.9

j
604.6 573.5[496.7
458.8 443.61438.2

55.2

96.0

104.8 103.8 100.6 103.1

231.6 220.4]214.2 04.7
93.3 91.9 90.7 88.8 198.5 189.8 )187.2 59.6

96.6 96.3 94.4 100.8
97.5 96.7 93.9 95.0
128.5 127.6 118.9 139.2
161.0 153.1 141.0 175.0
161.1 157.3 143.1 137.5

190.9
221.5
254.7
334.8
331.6

271.9
366.5
419.8
176.8 185.9 189.4 155.1 326.2

134.7 135.5 135.0 77.0
177.8 188.0 192.7 181.8
194.5 208.8 2i6.3 190.0

141.8 142.6 142.0 134.0
171.2 173.1 171.4 152.2
168.0 163.5 156.5 163.7
115.5 114.5 113.7 108.0
131.3 131.2 130.9 92.7
104.8 90.9 69.7 74.7

122.3

164.1
188.4

252.1

:
189.8 !182.4
209.9:204.8
244.3^227.2
309.l[274.3
325.61295.8

82.4

95.2
79.5
33.6

46.5
270.0!280.9 15.6
391.3 !387^7 36.3
446.o!470.6 62.7
346.0!343.7 63.4

338.9 339.6!326.i
382.9 364.1 !366.8
337.5 361.21329.9
223.2 218.4!218.0
281.7 284.2^275.0
220.6 189.0 !131.3
112.4 103.9 101.9 270.5 232.8!211.4
166.4 149.1 118.8 293.3 298.0!257.4
187.9 182.8 157.6 370.3 365.1 :349.6
232.7 163.8 243.8 676.8 1653.7 j4oi.8

78.5
91.7
02.2
93.5
47.5
48.0

98.5
79.1

56.3
24.7

91.6 89.8 93.5 204.9 }203.0 }200.0 196.0
118.7 120.0 120.1 122.9 243.7 !248.51253.7 226.7
79.1 77.3 74.5 78.6 179.8ji73.5)i63.4 180.9
92.3

77.4 76.8

3ee explanatory notes, sections A; C, F, and G.




83.0

74.9

82.8 167.5 !164.2!164.6 150.7

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Table 8. - Indexes of Prcduction-Workor Employment and Pay Rolls
in Manufacturing Industries - Continued
Industry group and industry
PAPER AND ALLIED PRODUCTS 2/
Paper and pulp
Paper goods, other
Envelopes
Paper bags
Paper boxes
PRINTING, PUBLISHING, AND ALLIED
INDUSTRIES 2/
Newspapers and periodicals
Printing, book and job
Lithographing
Bookbinding

Employment indexes
1955"
1$W
Sopt. !Aug. July Sopt.

Pay-roll indexes
1^46

Sept. Aug

July Sept.

143.5 143.0 140.7 l4o.o 308.5 300.6 298.7 259.8
142.9 142.6 140.9 135.6 315.7 311.0
149.5 148.8 309.3 292.7
132.7 129.2 273.7 258.8
160.5 165.0 333-9 337.6
133.6 l4l 6 291.5 280.1

152.1 150.3
137.4 136.0
159.2 161.6
138.5 137.9

130.7 129.8 128.8 122.3

309.6 253 3
297.2 271.3
250.7 225.2
338.6 312.8
273.6 264.3

245.0 235.5 233.6 203.1

121.7 120.5 119.8 111.0 221.6 214.0 208.9
139-1 137.7 138.2 133.2 266.6 254.8 258.9
123.8 124.0 119.$! 120.1 223.0 213.3 207.4
148.3 148.9 143.6 133.1 324.6 313.5 299.2

175.6

227.9
195.9

266.2

CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS

195.2 189.7 189.8 184.0 395.1 380.4 378.7 329.1

Paints, varnishes, and colors
Drugs, medicines, and
insecticides
Perfumes and cosmetics
Soap
Rayon and allied products
Chemicals, not elsewhere
Classified
Explosives and safety fuses
Compressed and liquefied gases
Ammunition, small-arms
Fireworks
Cottonseed oil
Fertilizers

129.8 128.6 127.7 127.8 233.2 232.0 229.1 201.7
188.3 185.6 187.2
94.8 90.3 87.1
115.9 112.8 113.1
121.8 120.1 120.1

190.0 374.9 362.5 347.6
118.0 175-4 163.6 159.3
104.5 252.O 233.4 223.3
118.8 246.8 239.9 238.2

316.8
1952
173.2

210.8

177.6 179.2 180.8 167.6

190.5 190.0
157.2 160.2
161.3 102.6
210.8 175-2
100.2 71.9
121.8 114.6

336.2 336.8 341.8 289.6
176.6 176.9 356.6 353.4 324.9 292.9
156.4 143.7 287.5 283.5 277-3 240.8
159.4 174.1 376.3 204.2 355.7 339.3

205.3 272.5 568.7 441.6 528.1 698.3
63.6 85.6 263.6 185.4 162.1 196.5
108.6 118.7 335.1 304.6 288.0 297.4

PRODUCTS OF PETROLEUM AND COAL

153.4 154.1 153.7 147.8

302.4 297.2 295.6 257.3

Petroleum refining
Coke and byproducts
Paving materials
Roofing materials

i4o.o 141.5 141.4 137.0
125.3 125.0 125.1 119.3
97.7 93.5 79.2 95.5

266.4 262.2 265.4
267.4 263.6 248.3
218.9 197.6 169.5
369.3 363.7 357.7

163.9 162.7 163.1 156.6

See explanatory notes, sections A, C, F, and G.




232.7
220.0
190.6

298.6

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Table 8. - Indexes of Production-Worker Enployment and Pay Rolls
in Manufacturing Industries - Continued
Industry group and industry

Employment indexes
ip46
1957
Sept. ^ug. iJuly Sept.

Pay-roll indexes
1946
1947
Sept. Aug. July Sept.

KJBBER PRODUCTS 2/

178.5 ;I78.2j175.2 I89.I 368.6 357.0 352.7 3c3.9

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

209.1 !216.6 1212.3 226.0 398.9 397.0 393.8 400.2
141.6 I127.2!135.1 141.5 314-4 268.4 290.0 285.2
157.1!I152.C !i48.o 164.3 335.6 318.9 304-9 327.6

MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIES 2/
Instruments (professional and
scientific); and fire-control
equipment
Photographic apparatus
Optical instruments and
ophthalmic goods
Pianos, organs, and parts
Games, toys, and dolls
Buttons
Fire extinguishers

177.6 {l73.>!lYO.i IY6.9 368.1 347.5 341.2 339.3
!
!
!
i
i
!
243.9 242.7 !243.1 254.5 464.9 457.9 453.3 445.8
216.1 216.4 I217 .O 197.s 397-5 368.3 385.9 322.4

231.6 231.8
194.7 1C7.2
m4.4 202.1
103.4 101.9
277.6 277.3

1234.6
H.91.6
ii88.8
i 95.4
[284-9

245.4
167.2
170.1
129.8
286.1

442.3 426-5 433.7 434.%
431.4 384.8 402.7 325.O
482.2 431.4 410.1 350.8

230.2 220.7 209.2 288.6

558.9 583.7 600.0 558.7

See explanatory notes, sections A, C, F, and G.
l/ Revisions have boon made as follows in the indexes for earlier months:
Metal doors, sash, francs, moldinf;, and trie - June 1947 pay roll to 252. 2 .
Typewriters - JunL 1^47 p.ay roll to 235-3.
Lighting equipment - May and June 1^47 employment to 157.5 and 154.4; pay roll
to 3005 and 293.7
Aluminum rumufactures - June 1^47 employment to IC3 .7 .
Lime - May and June 1947 pay roll to 239-2 and 244. 6 .
Indexes for the individual industries
been adjusted to levels indicated by
Bureau of Employment Security of the
from January 1939 are available upon
the individual industries comprising
supersede data shown in publications
Major industry group
'aper and allied products
Rubber products
Food
Miscellaneous industries

comprising the major industry group have
final 1)45 data made available by the
Federal Security Agency Comparable series
request. Mr.re recently adjusted data for
the major industry group indicated below
dated prior to:

Mimeographed release
September lp47
September 1947
November 1947
November 1947

Monthly Labor Review
October 1947
October 1947
December 1947
December 1947

3/ The June 1947 pay-roll index shown in the August 1947 Detailed Report should have
"
read 273 0 for Men's clothing, not elsewhere classified and 248.3 for Underwear
and neckwear, men's.




21.

Table 9. - Indexes of Employment and. Pay Rolls in
Selected Nonmanufacturing Industries
(1939 Avorage = 100)
Employment indexes
Industry group and industry

*1 9 3 7

Sept.! Aug

Pay-roll indexes

1935*

" l$ W

July jSept

Sept.! Aug

I 9W

July jSept

MINING:
Coal:
Anthracite
Bituminous coal
Metal
Iron
Copper
Load and zinc
Gold and silver
Miscellaneous
Quarrying and nonnetallic
Crude petroleum production l/

81.4 78.7 82.2

3/ 216.6i177.8
264.4! 192.9
178.3! 171.9
300.7!295.4
217.O! 209.6

69.2 88.4 82.1 90.5
88.3! 89.3 89.1 83.5
147 J 148.3 148.0 138.1
101.a 101.7 101.8 90.0
89.6! 95.1 93.8 95.6
31.4! 31.6 31.1 29.0
56.3 57.9 57.7 60.4
lo$.4i 106.3 106.0 102.5
95.6! 97.3 97.2 93.9

270.2
179.0
298.7
223.2
203.6
52.0
102.5
238.5
175.6

138.1 !i4o.o
129.6}130.7
191.1 193.8
99.8 100.3
109.9 110.2

224.1
309.6
211.8
183.1

194.0

234.9
147.0
253.3

163.1
207.8 198.0 188.0
51.7 46.8 42.5
104.6 99.1 98.0
259.6 251.2 227.9
173.5 173.9 149.5

TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC UTILITIES
Class I steam railways 2/
Street railways and busses
Telephone
Telegraph
Electric light and power

i4o.o 138.0
130.9 129.9
193.3 181.0
101.5 112.0
109.3 101.9

,3/

3/

225.2
306.2
213.5
182.9

3/ „.3/

222.1 2§7.9
302.2 265.0
215.2 177.3
178.4 153.3

TRADE: 4/
Wholesale
Retail
Food
General merchandise
Apparel
Furniture and housefurnishings
Automotive
Lumber and building materials

113.3
112.3
112.6
122.6
113.4

87.5
104.8
124.6

112.2 111.1 109.4 203.3
109.3 110.2 109.8 202.5
111.5 113.0 103.5 209.3
115.7 116.7 125.4 219.8
103.4 106.8 116.7 203.4
85.8 86.0 8I .3 159.8
105.1 104.2 95.5 188.5
123.1 121.4 113.8 232.5

198.2 196.5 182.8

197.7 198.5 180.8
212.2 213.8 173.6
212.c 214.1 199.0
183.4 192.0 197.8
155.4 155.8 139.1
188.5 184.8 164.8

229.0 218.8 190.0

SERVICE:
Hotels (year-round) J5/
Power laundries
Cleaning and dyeing

117.4 117.6 118.3 119.5 j222.6 221.0 222.0 209.5
109.6 110.2 112.8 IO9.9 j208.2 203.9 210.3 188.7
118.6 117.4 123.4 125.6 }220.7 208.9 228.2 225.6
i

See footnotes, table 7, and explanatory notes, sections F and G.
l/ Does not include well drilling or rig building.
Source: Interstate Commerce Commission.
Not available.
Includes nonsupervisory workers and working supervisors only.
Money
payments only; additional value of board, room, uniforms, and tips, not
3/
included.

%




EXPLANATORY NOTES
Sec. A. Revisions of Employment Estimates - The employment estimates
shown in this report for the industry divisions (e.g., mining, manufacturing, etc.)
and industry groups (e.g., iron and steel, electricpl machinery, etc.) have been
adjusted to levels indicated by final 1945 benchmark data and supersede data shown
in mimeographed releases dated prior to April 1947 and in the Monthly Labor Review
dr.ted prior to May 1947.
Sec. B. Sources of Benchmark Data - The chief purpose of recent revisions,
published in the February 1947 DETAILED REPORT, was to adjust the levels of employ­
ment estimates to 1945 benchmark data. In preparing estimates for private employment
prior to 1939, the various industrial censuses taken by the Bureau of the Census were
used as sources of benchmark data. Data obtained from unemployment compensation
agencies and the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance are the main bases for
1945 benchmarks. Benchmarks for State and local government are based on data
compiled by the Bureau.of the Census, while most of the data on Federal Government
employment is made available by the U. S. Civil Service Commission. The Interstate
Commerce Commission is the source for railroads, and the U. S. Maritime Commission
for water transportation.
Sec. C. Score of Employment Revisions - Recent revisions also include a
new type of estimate for employment in construction based upon establishment reports.
This estimate is more consistent with the estimating procedure used for other
industry divisions. In addition, federal force account construction employment has
been transferred from the construction segment to government.
Each of the industry divisions was affected by the recent reivisions.
Adjustments have also been made in each of the 20 major groups comprising tho
manufacturing industry division. To be consistent with the estimates for these
major industry groups, and more representative of the true level of employment,
estimates for the individual manufacturing industries, formerly based on the 1939
Census of Manufactures, are now being revised. As these revisions are completed,
they are published in this Report and indicated by appropriate footnotes. Since
the revised employment estimates shown in this Report cover only the current months
a set of summary sheets presenting comparable figures from January 1939 to date,
by month, for each industry will be provided upon request.
Sec. D. How Employment Estimates Are Made - Estimates of changes in the
level of employment are based on reports from a sample group of establishments,
inasmuch as full coverage is prohibitively costly and time-consuming. In using a
sample, it is essential that an accurate base be established from which estimates
may be carried forward. This base or "benchmark" is either a complete count or an
estimate with a satisfactory degree of accuracy. When a new benchmark becomes
available, estimates prepared since the last benchmark arc reviewed to determine if
any adjustment of level is required. This is the basic principle of employment
estimating used by the BLS. It yields a satisfactory compromise between a slow but
highly accurate complete count on the one hand, and a rapid but less accurate sample
count on the other.
Briefly, the Bureau of Labor Statistics computes employment estimates as
follows: first, a benchmark or level of employment is determined; second, a sample
of establishments is selected; and third, changes in employment indicated by this
reporting sample are applied to tho benchmark to determine the monthly estimates of




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employment "between ber.chrark periods. Fer example, if the latest complete data on
employment for an industry ware 40,200 in S<3ptoBiber 1945, and if the industry has
a reporting sample of 13 catblishnents employing 2^,200 workers in September etnd
23,800 in October, the October estimate would bo prepared as follows:
^0.300 X

= 41.240

In ?ensrel data showing month-to-month changes in.employment reflect the
fluctuations shown by establishments reporting to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Hcwvf.r, the usual estimating method is inadequate in the finance and service
industries, which have a preponderate of small establishments. A special sampling
''-roctsdure has boen introduced, involving the scientific selection of a sample of
cities and of a rt.presmtative list of blocks in these cities. Data obtained from
the establishments in these blocks yield substantially bettef estimates of monthto-month changes in employment in the scrvice and finance industries than would be
obtained by the use of thq sarpling procedure employed fot other industries. For
railroads and th6 Federal Gro.vom.nent, cCnplete reports of employment are available.
Why Revisi ons arn UKcessary - Bcrause reports are not immediately availa­
ble from new firms, they are frequently introduced into the Bureau of Labor Sta­
tistics sample after they have been in operation for.somo time. This lapse of time
produces a rather consistent ur.derstatement which becomes larger from year to year.
It is important, therefore, that estimates not be allowed to go uncorrected for too
Ion;' a period. During th^ war period adjustment of many of the nonpanufacturing
industry divisions was unavoidably postponed for gcveral years. Consequently, the
most rccunt reivision corrects fo-r the downward bias that had abourulated in the nr-nmanufacturing series since 1341. Revisions in some industry divisions have been
carried back to 1939 in order to incorporate rrreatrr-.refinements in Methodology and
nuw source materials that have becomc available. For e^uaple, improved data on the
small firm coeponent of the trade-and spfvice industries, supplied by the Bureau of
Old A.ro and Survivors Insurance, made possible refinements in these series back t<s
1939.
Sec. B. Com*oara.bility VitSi &tlier T'nes of Unvlovaent Data - The. Bureau of
Labor Statistics erplo^/ment estimatea are based upon, reports submitted by coopera.tinri establishments and therefore differ frcm employment information obtained.by
household interviews, such.as the Monthly Report of the Labor Force. The Bureau Of
Labor Statistics estimates of employment in nona/rricultural estaltlishmonts. differ
from the Monthly Roport of .the Labor Forcn total/nona^rricultural emplrycent o-stimates
in several important respects. For example: (l) The Bureau of Labor Statistics
estimates c^ver all full- and par^-time wa.re and salary workers in private nonagricultural establishments who worked or received pay during the pay period ending
nearest the 18th of the month, in.Federal establishments^ daring the pay pariod
ending just before the first of the mdnth, and in State and local government during
the pay period ending on cr. just before the last of the ts^nth*. Persons yho worked
in more than one oetablish&Qrt during the reporting period would be tounted more
than once;.(3) Proprietors, self-employed persons, d&mpstic sorvants, and unpaid
family workers are excluded.
Sec. F. Pay Roll Ind&xos * Cooperating establishments &re instructed to
report pay rolls of production cy nonsupervisory workers;prior tb deduction for old
age and unemployment insurance, wi%hhcldi-ng taxes, bonds, and union dues. Pay for
sick l^ave, holidays, and vacations tnkcn is included. Respondents are instructed
to exclude pay for vacations not taken as well as.cash estimates $f any payments in
kind. Bonuses, unless earned and paid regularly each pay perifd, are also excluded.




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The methodology for obtaining pay roll estimates is similar to that for
employment estimates. Sample changes showing monthly movements are used in project­
ing established benchmarks to secure current pay roll estimates. These pay roll
estimates are converted into indexes, using the 1939 average as a base.
Sec. G. Source of Data - Employment and pay roll estimates are based on
reports from cooperating establishments. Excluding the block-sample returns, the
approximate number of establishments, and workers covered, for each of the industry
divisions are shown below.
Approximate Coverage of BLS Employment
and Pay Rolls Sample
Industry Division
Manufacturing
Mining
Contract Construction
Public Utilities
Trade:
Wholesale
Retail
Service:
Hotels (year-round)
Power laundries and
cleaning and dyeing

Employees or production workers
Establi shment s

:

Number

: Percent <

33,000
2,700
12,500
7,000

7,500,000
354,000
335,000
832,000

60
40
18
75

11,400
45,000

326,000
1,300,000

20
25

1,300

137,000

35

1,700

74,000

20

Sec. H. Coverage of Employment Estimates - The employment estimates shown
in Tables 1,2, and 5 cover all full- and part-time wage and salary workers who
worked or received pay during the pay period ending nearest the 15th of the month.
Proprietors, self-employed persons, domestic servants, and personnel of the armed
forces are excluded. Production worker estimates as shown in Tables 6 and 8 are
limited to working foremen and all nonsipervisory workers except administrative,
office, and sales personnel.
Sec. I. State Estimates - State estimates are prepared in cooperation
with various State Agencies, as indicated below. The estimates for manufacturing
have been adjusted to recent data made available under the Federal Social Security
program. Since some states have adjusted to more recent benchmark data than others,
and because varying methods of computation are used, the total of the state
estimates differs from the national total (see Table l). Because of these recent
revisions the state estimates for manufacturing are not consistent with the unre­
vised data previously shown for total employment in nonagricultural establishments,
by state. Comparable series of manufacturing estimates for each state, January 1943
to date, and also for nonagricultural employment by state, through December 1946;
are available upon request to the cooperating state agency or the appropriate Bureau
of Labor Statistics regional office. Estimates of nonagricultural employment by
state, which were regularly published in this report, have been discontinued. The
last month for which such data were published is May 1947 (in the June Detailed
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Cooperating State Agencies
Arizona - Employment Security Commission, P. 0, Hex 111, Phoenix*
California - Division of Lator Statistics and Research, San Francisco 2.
Connecticut - Rnployment Security Division, Hartford. 15.
%la.ware - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 935 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 1.
Florida - Florida Industrial Connisnicn., Tallahassee.
Borgia - Employment Security Adninistration, Atlanta 6.
Illinois - Dept, of Labor, Division of Statistics and Research, Chicago 6.
Indiana - Employment Security Divisi.cn, Indianapolis 13.
Kansas - Kansas State Labor Department, Topeka.
Louisiana - Bureau of Business Research, College of Commerce, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge 3.
Maryland - Dept, of Labor and Industry, Baltimore 3.
Massachusetts - Dept, of Labor and Industries, State Hcuse, Boston 33.
Michigan - Dept, of Labor and Industry, Lareing 13.
Minnesota - Division of Employment and Security, St. Paul 1.
Montana - Unemployment Compensation ConmisBion of Monttma, Helena.
Nevada - Employment Security Department, Carson City.
New Jersey - Dept, of Labor, Trenton 8.
New York - Dept, of Placement and Unemployment Insurance, 342 Madison Avenue,
Le w York 17.

North Carolina - North Carolina Dept, of Labor, Raleigh.
Oklahoma - Oklahoma Deployment Security Commission, African Nat ional Bldg.,
Oklahoma City 2.
Pennsylvania.- Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 025 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia 1. (Manufacturing;)
Dopt. of Labor and Industry, Harrisburg. (Nonmanufacturing)
Rhode Island - Dept, of Labor, Division of Census and Statistics, Providence 2.
Texas - Bureau of Business Research, University of Tegas, Austin 12.
Utah - Dept, of -Employment Security, Salt Lake City 13.
Virginia - Division of Research and Statistics, State Dept, of Labor and Industry,
Richmond 21.

Washington - Office of Unemployment Compensation and Placement, P.O.Box 367, Olympia.
Wisconsin - Industrial Commission of Wisconsin, KadisoU 3.
Missouri - Division of Enroloyment Security, 1101 Ca'.it ^1 Avenue, Jefferson City.

BLS Regional Offices
Yew England - Regional Director, U. S. Lureau of Labtr Statistics, Old South Bldg.,
294 Washington St., Boston 8, Maseachnset^f (Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhoda Island, Vrrmcnt)
North Atlantic - Regional Director; U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 100C P a r e d
Post Bldg., 341 Ninth Avenue, New York 1, Ne'v York (Delaware,
Pennsylvania, Na w Jersey, P e w York)

North Central - Regional Director, U, S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 312 National
War Agencies Bid.*., 226 W Jackson Blvd., Chicago 6, Illinois
(Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin)
Southern - Regional Director, U, S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 6th Floor Silvey
31dg., 114 Marietta Street, N. W., Atlanta 3, Georgia (Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana., Mississippi, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, South Carolina. Tennessee, Texas)
Pacific-Rocky Mountain - Regional Director, U. S. Burear of Labor Statistics,
546 Federal Office Bldg., San Francisco 2, California (Arizona,
California, Colorado, Idaho,, Montana, Nevada, New Mexicc, Oregon,

Utah, Washington, Wyoming)
Technical advice and assistance on employment statistics in the status
of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia will be given by
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GLOSSARY
Continental United States - Covers only the 48 States and. the District of Columbia.
Contract construction - Covers only firms engaged in the construction business on a
contract basis for others. Force account construction workers, i.e., hired
directly by and on the pay rolls of Federal, State, and local governments,
public utilities, and private establishments,.are-excluded.
Defense Agencies - Covers the national military establishment, Maritime Commission,
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, The Panama Canal, Philippine
Alien Property Administration, Philippine War Damage Commission, Office of
Selective Service Records, War Assets Administration, Office of Defense
Transportation, Office of Scientific Research and Development, National
Security Resources Board.
Family Allowances - Represents the Government's contribution; the amount contributed
by the personnel is included under pay rolls.
Federal Government-Executive branch - Includes U. S. Navy Yards, Federal arsenals,
and force-account construction. Fourth-class postmasters are included under
the executive branch in table 3, but are excluded from the government data
in tables l a n d 7. Employment shown here for the executive branch differs
from data published by the U. 6. Civil Service Commission in the following
respects: (l) Substitute rural mail carriers are excluded here; (2) seamen
and trainees who are hired and paid by private steamship companies having
contracts with the Maritime Commission are excluded here; (3) the Panama
Railroad Company is shown here under Government corporations but is included
under the executive branch by the Civil Service Commission as of the last day
of the month, is here presented as of the first day of the next month.
Finance - Covers establishments operating in the fields of finance, insurance, and
real estate; excludes the Federal Reserve District Banks and the mixed
ownership banks of the Farm Credit Administration.
Government - Covers Federal, State, and local governmental establishments performing
legislative, executive, and judicial functions, as well as all governmentowned and operated establishments and institutions (arsenals., navy yards,
hospitals* Federal Reserve banks, etc.) and government force-account
construction. The data in tables 1 and 7 exclude fourth-class postmasters
because they presumably have other major jobs.
Government corporations - Covers only three corporations: The Panama Railroad
Company, the Federal Reserve banks, and the mixed-ownership banks of the
Farm Credit Administration. All other corporations are included under the
exeucitve branch.
Indexes of production worker employment - Estimates of production.worker employment
expressed as.a percentage of the average employment in 1939.
Indexes of -production worker nay rolls - Estimates of production worker pay rolls
expressed as a percentage of the average pay roll for 1939.




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Leave payments - Payments were authorized by P. L. 704 of the 79th Congress and
P. L. 254 of tho 80th Congress to enlisted personnel who were discharged
prior to September 1, 1946 for accrued and unused leave and to officers
and enlisted personnel then on active duty for leave accrued in excess of
6C days. Value of .bonds represents face valm:; interest will be paid in
addition to the facc value at the time the bonds are cashed. Excludes
payment of present personnel while on terminal leave which is included in
the pay rolls.
Manufacturing - Covers only privately owned establishments: governmental manufac­
turing operations such as arsenals and navy yards are excluded.
Military pay rolls - Covers personnel on active duty or on terminal leave. Coast
Guard pay rolls and Army pay rolls for 1943 represent actual expenditures.
Other data represent estimated obligations based on an average monthly
personnel count. Pay rolls for the Navy proper and Coast Guard include
cash payments for clothing-allowance balances in January, April, July,
and October.
Mining - Covers establishments engaged in the extraction from the earth of organic
and inorganic minerals which occur iA nature as solids, liquids, or gases;
includes Vari&us contract .services required in mining operations, such as
removal of overburden, tunnelling and shafting, and the drilling of
acidizing of <oil wells; also includes ore dressing, benefioiating, and
concentration..
NonaRricuItural establishments — Governmental or private business establishments;
(1) that arei physically located within continental United States; and
(2) whose principal activity can be classified linder one of the following
industry &lvisionp-*-nini3g, contract construction, manufacturing, trans­
portation and- publip utilities, wholesale and. retail treade, finance,
service, or pcvernpe.nt.
Pay rolls - Private pay. rallrs represent pay rolls of nonsupervisory employees and
working supervisors,, government pay rolls represent the total pay before
deductions for old^a^e -and unemployment insurance, group insurance, with­
holding tax, bonds, and union.dues, but after deductions for damaged work.
Includes pay for sick leuve, holidays, and vacations taken. Private pay
rolls exclude cash payments for vacations not taken, retroactive pay not
earned during period t^pcrted, value of payments in kind, and bonuses,
unless earned and:paid regularly each pay potiod.
Production workers - Includes working foremen and all nohsupervisory workers
(including lead men and trainees) engaged in fabricating, processing,
assembling, inspection, receiving, storage, handling, packing, warehousing,
shipping, maintenance, repair, janitorial, watchman services, product
development, auxilliary production for plant's own use (e.g., power plant),
and record-keeping and other services closely associated with the above
production operations. Excludes supervisory employees (above tho working
foreman level) and their cleric<1 staffs, routemeni salesman, and other
groups of nonproduction workers defined below under wage and salary

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Service - Covers establishments primarily engaged in rendering services to
individuals and business firms. Excludes automobile repair services,
government owned and operated hospitals, museums, etc., and domestic
service.
Trade - Covers establishments engaged in wholesale trade, i.e., selling merchandise
to retailers, and in retail trade, i.e., selling merchandise for personal
or household consumption, and rendering services incidental to the sale of
goods. Includes auto repair services.
Transportation and public utilities - Covers only privately owned and operated
enterprises engaged in providing all types of transportation and related
services; telephone, telegraph and other communication services; or
providing electricity, gas, steam, water, or sanitary services. Government
owned and operated establishments are included under government.
Wage and salary workers - In addition to production and related workers as defined
above, includes workers engaged in the following activities: executive,
purchasing, finance, accounting, legal, personnel (including cafeterias,
medical, etc.), professional and technical activities, sales, salesdelivery, advertising, credit, collection, and in installation and servic­
ing pf own products, routine office functions, factory supervision (above
the working foreman level), and other workers not included as production
workers, Also includes employees on the establishment pay roll engaged in
new construction and major additions or alterations to the plant who are
utilized as a separate work force (force-account construction workers).
Wage earner - See production workers.
Washington, D. C. - Data for the executive branch of the federal Government also
include areas in Maryland and Virginia which are within the metropolitan
area, as defined by the Bureau of the Census.




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