The number of such workers has declined steadily from July to October 1943, as is indicatd by the following figures: In October approximately 800 of these project workers were in the Virgin Islands and the rest, 36,100, were in Puerto Rico. For the regular Federal services, data for the legislative and judicial services and for force-account employees in the executive service are reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics; data for other executiveservice employees are reported through the Civil Service Commission. The Bureau of Labor Statistics receives monthly reports on employment and pay rolls for the various construction projects financed wholly or partially by Federal funds, directly from the contractors and subcontractors, and for the work-relief program from the Washington office. A summary of employment and pay-roll data for the regular Federal services, for construction projects financed wholly or partially from Federal funds, and for the Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands work-relief program is given in table 2. TABLE 2.-Employment and Pay Rolls in Regular Federal Services and on Projects Financed Wholly or Partially From Federal Funds Includes employees in United States navy yards and on force-account construction who are also included under construction projects. Data for October 1942 are not strictly comparable with the series starting June 1943 because of the inclusion of employees on terminal leave in the earlier figure and the inclusion beginning June 1943 of approximately 7,000 employees of the War Shipping Administration who were previously unreported. Covers War and Navy Departments, Maritime Commission, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, The Panama Canal, Office for Emergency Management, Office of Censorship, Office of Price Administration, Office of Strategic Services, Foreign Economic Administration, and the Petroleum Administration for War. Includes ship construction and repair in United States navy yards and the Federally financed part thereof in private shipyards. Break-down not available. Data cover entire Work Projects Administration program, which was abolished at the end of June 1943 except for the work in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Detailed Reports for Industrial and Business Estimates of Nonagricultural Employment ESTIMATES of civil employees in nonagricultural establishments by major groups are given in table 1. With the exception of the trade and finance-service-miscellaneous groups, they are not comparable with estimates published in the September 1942 or earlier issues of the Monthly Labor Review. Comparable figures for the months from January 1939 to July 1942 are given in the October 1942 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. The estimates are based on reports of employers to the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, on data made available by the Bureau of Employment Security and the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance of the Federal Security Agency, and on information supplied by other Government agencies, such as the Interstate Commerce Commission, Civil Service Commission, and the Bureau of the Census. They do not include military personnel, emergency employment (such as WPA, NYA, and CCC), proprietors or self-employed persons, unpaid family workers, or domestics. Estimates of employees in nonagricultural establishments by States are given each month in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' mimeographed release on employment and pay rolls. TABLE 1.-Estimated Number of Employees in Nonagricultural Establishments, by Industry Division 1 Estimates exclude proprietors of unincorporated businesses, self-employed persons, domestics employed in private homes, public emergency employees, and personnel in the armed forces. ? Preliminary. Industrial and Business Employment Monthly reports on employment and pay rolls are available for 152 manufacturing industries and for 16 nonmanufacturing industries, including private building construction, water transportation, and class I steam railroads. The reports for the first 2 of these groupsmanufacturing 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. The employment, pay-roll, hours, and earnings figures for manufacturing, 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 public utilities and 90 percent for mining. The general manufacturing indexes are computed from reports supplied by representative establishments in the 152 manufacturing industries surveyed. These reports cover more than 65 percent of the total wage earners in all manufacturing industries of the country and about 80 percent of the wage earners in the 152 industries covered. 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 carnings for individual industries shown in table 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 information on man-hours, the average hours worked per week and average hourly earnings shown in that table are necessarily based on data furnished by a slightly smaller number of reporting firms. Because of variation in the size and composition of the reporting sample, 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 average weekly hours and hourly earnings for the manufacturing groups are weighted arithmetic means of the averages for the individual industries, estimated employment being used as weights for weekly hours and estimated aggregate hours as weights for hourly earnings. The average weekly earnings for these groups are now computed by multiplying the average weekly hours by the corresponding average hourly earnings, and are not comparable with figures published in the November 1942 or earlier issues of the Monthly Labor Review. Formerly, weekly earnings for the groups were computed by dividing total weekly pay roll by total employment, without any formal weighting of figures for the component industries. INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY ROLLS Employment and pay-roll indexes, as well as average hours worked per week, average hourly earnings, and average weekly earnings for July, August, September 1943, where availvble, are presented in tables 3, 5, and 6. The revised manufacturing indexes and aggregates in tables 2 and 3 are not comparable with the indexes published in the November 1942 or earlier issues of the Monthly Labor Review, as a result of changes in definitions, a change in the index base period, and adjustments in levels. Revised figures for the major manufacturing groups are available in mimeographed form by months from January 1939 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS WAGE EARNERS AND WAGE EARNER PAY ROLL 50 through October 1942 and for individual manufacturing industries from January 1939 through August 1942. The figures relating to all manufacturing industries combined, to the durable- and nondurable-goods divisions, and to the major industry groups, have been adjusted to conform to levels indicated by final 1941 and preliminary data for the second quarter of 1942 released by the Bureau of Employment Security of the Federal Security Agency. The Bureau of Employment Security data referred to are (a) employment totals reported by employers under State unemploymentcompensation programs, and (b) estimates of the number of employees not reported under the programs of some of these States, which do not cover small establishments. The latter estimates were obtained from tabulations prepared by the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance, which obtains reports from all employers regardless of size of establishment. TABLE 2.-Estimated Number of Wage Earners in Manufacturing Industries 1 |