SMU Data and Models
February 8, 2019
BLS: Employment by Industry for January
Written by Peter Wright
Construction is pulling ahead of manufacturing as a job creator, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
In January, 296,000 jobs were created in the private sector and 8,000 in government. 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.
