June 08, 2020

Private nonfarm business sector labor productivity rose 0.7 percent from the first quarter of 2019 to the first quarter of 2020. Output was unchanged while unit labor costs rose 1.9 percent.

June 05, 2020

In 2019, 75.3 percent of civilian workers were required to interact with the general public. One hundred percent of lawyers, healthcare social workers, and emergency medical technicians were required to interact with the general public. Additionally, 72.0 percent of compliance officers, 61.8 percent of accountants and auditors, and 28.1 percent of restaurant cooks were required to interact with the general public.

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June 04, 2020

Work-related amputations resulted in 6,200 cases with days away from work in 2018. That was about 0.5 percent of all the cases resulting in days away from work. Although these types of injuries are not frequent, they resulted in workers taking a median of 31 days away from work to recover. The median recovery time for all types of injuries in 2018 was 9 days away from work.

In 2018, 58 percent of amputations (3,580 cases) involved some type of machinery. Parts and materials were involved in 15 percent of amputations. Tools, instrument and equipment, including powered and unpowered hand tools, were involved in 7 percent.

June 04, 2020

Work-related amputations resulted in 6,200 cases with days away from work in 2018. That was about 0.5 percent of all the cases resulting in days away from work. Although these types of injuries are not frequent, they resulted in workers taking a median of 31 days away from work to recover. The median recovery time for all types of injuries in 2018 was 9 days away from work.

In 2018, 58 percent of amputations (3,580 cases) involved some type of machinery. Parts and materials were involved in 15 percent of amputations. Tools, instrument and equipment, including powered and unpowered hand tools, were involved in 7 percent.

June 03, 2020

People born in 1980–84 held an average of 8.2 jobs from ages 18 through 32. Women held an average of 8.3 jobs, and men held an average of 8.1 jobs. Women with higher levels of education held more jobs than women with lower levels. Women with a bachelor's degree held 8.8 jobs from ages 18 through 32, compared with 6.5 jobs for female high school dropouts. Men held a similar number of jobs regardless of their level of education.

More than 37 million people filed for unemployment insurance benefits in the 10 weeks from the week ending March 21 to the week ending May 23. The unemployment rate in April was 14.7 percent. Or was it 19.5 percent? There were 23 million people counted as unemployed in mid-April, and 18 million people received unemployment insurance (UI) benefits at that time. How can all of these things be true? What’s the real story?

Back in October, I set the record straight on how counts of people receiving unemployment insurance benefits differ from how BLS measures unemployment. These two measures offer distinct but related measures of trends in joblessness, some of which I will explore here. I will focus only on data from states’ regular UI programs, but other programs exist as well. Here’s the bottom line: When all is said and done, the two measures track each other very closely.

The number of people filing for UI benefits reached record levels in recent weeks as a...

June 03, 2020

People born in 1980–84 held an average of 8.2 jobs from ages 18 through 32. Women held an average of 8.3 jobs, and men held an average of 8.1 jobs. Women with higher levels of education held more jobs than women with lower levels. Women with a bachelor's degree held 8.8 jobs from ages 18 through 32, compared with 6.5 jobs for female high school dropouts. Men held a similar number of jobs regardless of their level of education.

June 02, 2020

Labor productivity rose in 14 of 29 selected service-providing industries in 2019, compared to 2018 when labor productivity increased in 21 of 29 industries. Unit labor costs declined in 5 industries in 2019. Each of the industries with a decline in unit labor costs also recorded an increase in productivity.

Workers, economists, human resource professionals, and many others are interested in how much Americans earn. Do some workers in a particular city earn more than workers in another one? By how much? What if one worker has more experience, compared with a worker who is just starting out in their career?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) produces two establishment surveys that report the wages and salaries of jobs: the National Compensation Survey (NCS) and the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES). NCS produces wage estimates that have detailed information on job characteristics, such as full-time and part-time or union and nonunion job status. Estimates from the NCS also provide information on a worker’s level, which measures knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment required by an occupation.1

The NCS has a sample made up of about 12,800 private industry establishments and 1,500 state and local government establishments....

June 02, 2020

Labor productivity rose in 14 of 29 selected service-providing industries in 2019, compared to 2018 when labor productivity increased in 21 of 29 industries. Unit labor costs declined in 5 industries in 2019. Each of the industries with a decline in unit labor costs also recorded an increase in productivity.

June 01, 2020

Grocery store employees are among the most visible of essential workers. In May 2019, over 2.9 million jobs in food and beverage stores were filled by workers ringing up purchases, stocking shelves, and preparing food to help customers put dinner on the table. Nine occupations accounted for 80 percent of employment in food and beverage stores. Cashiers (with employment of 865,150) and stockers and order fillers (543,790) were the largest occupations in food and beverage stores; these two occupations made up nearly half of jobs in this industry.

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