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Major Sector Productivity and Costs
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• Major Sector Productivity and Costs
• Industry Productivity
• Superseded historical SIC measures for manufacturing, durable manufacturing, and nondurable manufacturing sectors, 1949-2003.

Major Sector Data

• Updated charts and data associated with the paper “The compensation-productivity gap: a visual essay,” by Susan Fleck, John Glaser, and Shawn Sprague
• UPDATED Productivity Growth by Major Sector, 1947-2014. Bar Chart
• Information Supporting Major Sector Productivity and Costs Hours
  • Hours of Wage and Salary Workers on Nonfarm Payrolls by Sector, seasonally adjusted
• Industry analytical ratios for the Business and Nonfarm Business sectors
• Industry analytical ratios for the Manufacturing, Durable Manufacturing and Nondurable Manufacturing sectors
• Industry analytical ratios for the Nonfinancial Corporate Sector

Industry Data

Interactive Tables

• Labor Productivity and Costs by Industry Tables - August 6, 2015 (XLSX 40.3 MB)
• Hours and Employment by Industry Tables - August 6, 2015 (XLSX 15.6MB)

Interactive Chart Dashboards

• NEW Labor Productivity and Costs by Industry Chart Dashboard - August 6, 2015 (XLSX 49.2MB)
• NEW Hours and Employment by Industry Chart Dashboard - August 6, 2015 (XLSX 17.9MB)

Major Sector Productivity Program

• Technical Information about the Major Sector Productivity and Costs Methods. March 2008. (PDF) This document describes the labor productivity measures that BLS publishes for the major sectors of the U.S. economy, as well as the methodology used to calculate these measures.
• Note on the Differences Between the Quarterly Hourly Compensation Measures and the Employment Cost Index (ECI) January 2007.
• Construction of Employment and Hours for Self-Employed and Other Nonfarm Workers and for All Farm Workers, Using Current Population Survey Data for Primary and Secondary Jobs. March 2006. (PDF)
• Construction of Average Weekly Hours for Supervisory and Nonproduction Wage and Salary Workers in Private Nonfarm Establishments. October 2004. (PDF)
• Hours at Work Ratios Derived from the Employment Cost Index, 2001–2003. (PDF) Brief description of the Bureau of Labor Statistics new ratios of hours at work to hours paid and reasons for the discontinuation of the Hours at Work Survey.

Industry Productivity Program

• BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 11 Industry Productivity Measures (PDF)
• Industry Hours and Employment. May 2014.
• Construction of Average Weekly Hours for Supervisory and Nonproduction Wage and Salary Workers in Detailed Industries. August 2005. (PDF)

Major Sector Productivity Program

• NEW What Can Labor Productivity Tell Us about the U.S. Economy? May 2014.
• The Compensation-Productivity Gap: A Visual Essay. January 2011. (PDF)
• Updated Charts and Data (ZIP)
• Bringing Work Home: Implications for BLS Productivity Measures. December 2010. (PDF)

Industry Productivity Program

• Productivity Growth in Construction. October 2014. (PDF)
• Measuring Output and Productivity in Private Hospitals. October 2013.
• Industry Labor Productivity Trends from 2000 to 2010. March 2013. (PDF)
• Improved Measures of Commercial Banking Output and Productivity. July 2012. (PDF)

Archive of Articles on Productivity and Technology »

1. How is productivity defined?
2. Why is productivity measurement important?
3. How is productivity measured by BLS?
4. What is the most commonly used productivity measure?
5. What are "unit labor costs"?
6. Does outsourcing and offshoring of intermediate production inflate the productivity measures?
7. Why can't I find a productivity measure for the total economy?
8. How are labor hours calculated?
9. What is included in compensation?
10. How are changes in output measured for specific industries?

All LPC FAQs »

• Labor productivity and costs data for the nonfinancial corporate sector were corrected December 17, 2012. For more information, see http://www.bls.gov/lpc/lpc_nonfinancial_corporate_correction.htm.

• Multifactor Productivity--annual indexes for industries and major sectors of the economy that relate output to labor, capital, and--in some cases--other inputs
• Productivity Research and Program Development works on strengthening and improving Bureau productivity measures and on understanding the sources and effects of productivity and technical change. The Division works on clarifying input and output concepts, using methods from microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, labor economics, industrial organization, econometrics, and statistics.
• International Labor Comparisons--comparative information by country on productivity and unit labor costs; compensation; labor force, employment, and unemployment; and consumer prices.
• International Technical Cooperation --conducts training in labor statistics for international participants and coordinates international requests for BLS services including technical experts and short-term visits to BLS.
• Government Productivity Archive
• Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National)--monthly national data by detailed industry on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on the payrolls of nonfarm establishments.
• Producer Price Indexes--monthly data on changes in the selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services.

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• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)