Hidden Unemployment

ESTABLISHMENT DATA
Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail
— Continued
[In thousands]
Industry
Wholesale trade - Continued
Oct.
2017
Not seasonally adjusted
Aug.
2018
Sept. Oct. Oct.
2018 p 2018 p 2017
Aug.
2018
Seasonally adjusted
Change
Sept. Oct.
from:
2018 p 2018 p Sept.2018
-
Oct.2018 p
Electronic markets and agents and
brokers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896.1 920.5 920.6 922.1 895.5 916.0 919.7 920.7 1.0
Retail trade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,869.5 15,927.6 15,770.8 15,893.7 15,859.8 15,926.4 15,894.0 15,896.4 2.4
Motor vehicle and parts dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,019.3 2,047.9 2,043.3 2,046.4 2,017.3 2,036.6 2,037.0 2,042.5 5.5
Automobile dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,304.2 1,315.0 1,315.8 1,316.4 1,301.7 1,311.1 1,312.2 1,313.1 0.9
Other motor vehicle dealers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154.3 163.1 158.6 157.1 155.6 156.3 157.2 158.3 1.1
Auto parts, accessories, and tire stores. . . 560.8 569.8 568.9 572.9 559.9 569.2 567.6 571.1 3.5
Furniture and home furnishings stores. . . . . . 479.9 477.7 477.7 488.0 476.6 482.4 484.3 485.9 1.6
Electronics and appliance stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 499.4 490.7 486.8 490.0 500.4 494.8 491.8 490.9 -0.9
Building material and garden supply
stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,268.2 1,305.3 1,278.8 1,277.2 1,288.9 1,306.3 1,303.8 1,304.1 0.3
Food and beverage stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,084.9 3,118.5 3,088.4 3,103.3 3,079.6 3,100.3 3,097.4 3,100.7 3.3
Health and personal care stores. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,057.3 1,048.7 1,047.0 1,058.6 1,058.1 1,057.3 1,057.9 1,060.0 2.1
Gasoline stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934.0 950.5 944.1 939.9 932.0 938.5 940.6 938.4 -2.2
Clothing and clothing accessories stores. . . . 1,348.8 1,367.5 1,325.0 1,337.2 1,361.3 1,358.7 1,352.9 1,352.6 -0.3
Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music
stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605.2 557.5 554.9 557.4 606.0 571.0 566.5 560.4 -6.1
General merchandise stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,152.0 3,131.0 3,102.3 3,155.8 3,143.7 3,151.4 3,138.8 3,140.5 1.7
Department stores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,183.2 1,161.9 1,144.1 1,169.8 1,185.2 1,178.8 1,170.0 1,168.5 -1.5
General merchandise stores, including
warehouse clubs and supercenters. . . . . 1,968.8 1,969.1 1,958.2 1,986.0 1,958.5 1,972.6 1,968.8 1,972.0 3.2
Miscellaneous store retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834.9 837.7 826.1 829.5 820.2 829.1 821.7 818.1 -3.6
Nonstore retailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585.6 594.6 596.4 610.4 575.7 600.0 601.3 602.3 1.0
Transportation and warehousing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,247.4 5,287.5 5,382.8 5,435.6 5,215.4 5,353.5 5,374.3 5,399.1 24.8
Air transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497.8 508.4 506.2 505.2 498.5 504.8 505.5 505.6 0.1
Rail transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213.2 215.6 215.6 215.6 212.7 214.4 215.3 215.0 -0.3
Water transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65.7 68.3 66.2 65.8 65.4 65.6 65.1 65.4 0.3
Truck transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,472.8 1,505.9 1,508.1 1,509.0 1,455.6 1,484.0 1,489.8 1,492.2 2.4
Transit and ground passenger
transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515.5 431.8 508.1 517.1 497.9 495.1 496.7 498.2 1.5
Pipeline transportation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.6 46.9 46.9 47.0 47.7 46.9 46.8 47.0 0.2
Scenic and sightseeing transportation. . . . . . . 37.5 45.6 40.6 36.5 36.5 35.3 34.7 35.3 0.6
Support activities for transportation. . . . . . . . . . 698.2 716.0 713.5 721.7 693.1 713.9 712.8 717.6 4.8
Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684.5 715.2 729.3 746.8 704.2 751.8 757.0 764.6 7.6
Warehousing and storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,014.6 1,033.8 1,048.3 1,070.9 1,003.8 1,041.7 1,050.6 1,058.2 7.6
Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553.4 553.2 549.7 551.6 554.2 551.2 551.3 552.5 1.2
Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,784 2,787 2,753 2,776 2,784 2,766 2,762 2,769 7
Publishing industries, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . 720.5 718.3 717.2 715.2 719.1 714.4 714.6 713.7 -0.9
Motion picture and sound recording
industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422.7 426.6 403.1 422.8 424.5 413.6 412.5 416.8 4.3
Broadcasting, except Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266.5 262.5 264.7 265.2 264.7 263.2 263.2 263.1 -0.1
Telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771.3 754.5 747.0 746.2 772.7 754.0 748.5 748.6 0.1
Data processing, hosting and related
services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320.7 326.5 325.8 328.4 319.7 325.8 326.9 328.0 1.1
Other information services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.6 298.6 294.8 298.5 283.3 295.4 296.0 298.6 2.6
Financial activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,499 8,654 8,606 8,616 8,494 8,587 8,602 8,609 7
Finance and insurance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,287.0 6,353.7 6,326.1 6,331.9 6,287.6 6,331.0 6,334.0 6,332.4 -1.6
Monetary authorities - central bank. . . . . . . . . . 18.9 19.4 19.1 19.2 19.0 19.3 19.2 19.2 0.0
Credit intermediation and related
activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,651.5 2,675.3 2,661.8 2,659.2 2,656.7 2,664.4 2,665.1 2,664.0 -1.1
Depository credit intermediation 1 . . . . . . . . . . 1,710.3 1,725.1 1,712.3 1,711.9 1,717.4 1,718.3 1,718.6 1,718.3 -0.3
Commercial banking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,318.6 1,323.9 1,313.3 1,311.2 1,323.8 1,319.0 1,318.7 1,316.3 -2.4
Nondepository credit intermediation. . . . . . . 628.4 636.9 634.4 631.0 627.2 633.1 631.2 629.5 -1.7
Activities related to credit intermediation.. . 312.8 313.3 315.1 316.3 312.1 312.9 315.3 316.1 0.8
Securities, commodity contracts,
investments, and funds and trusts. . . . . . . . 948.8 978.0 969.5 968.9 945.6 968.9 970.0 967.3 -2.7
Insurance carriers and related activities. . . . . 2,667.8 2,681.0 2,675.7 2,684.6 2,666.3 2,678.4 2,679.7 2,681.9 2.2
Real estate and rental and leasing. . . . . . . . . . . . 2,212.2 2,299.9 2,280.0 2,283.9 2,206.2 2,256.3 2,268.0 2,276.5 8.5
Real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,610.5 1,658.0 1,644.1 1,651.4 1,605.2 1,634.4 1,641.2 1,645.5 4.3
See footnotes at end of table.