Nonfarm payroll employment inched up 32,000 (0.02%), seasonally adjusted, in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported.
Nonfarm payroll employment inched up 32,000 (0.02%), seasonally adjusted, in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The June increase was revised down to 78,000 from an initial estimate of 112,000, and the gain for May was trimmed to 208,000 from 235,000.
Construction employment edged up by 4,000 to a record 6,916,000. In the year since July 2003, overall construction employment increased 195,000 (2.9%), nearly half of the total nonfarm gain of 454,000. Among BLS's three construction categories, employment in construction of buildings rose 4% in the past year but remains 2% below the high of 2000; heavy and civil engineering construction employment rose 1% in the last 12 months but is 4% below the 2000-01 peak; and employment among specialty trade contractors rose 3% to a record.