SMU Data and Models
October 5, 2018
BLS: Employment by Industry for September
Written by Peter Wright
Net job creation in September totaled 134,000 positions. Construction and manufacturing gains were both strong.
Table 1 breaks total employment down into service and goods-producing industries and then into private and government employees. Most of the goods-producing employees work in manufacturing and construction and the components of these two sectors of most relevance to steel people are broken out in Table 1.
