SMU Data and Models
May 7, 2019
BLS: Employment by Industry for April
Written by Peter Wright
Job creation in manufacturing has slowed dramatically in the last three months, but construction employment is still expanding rapidly.
In April, 236,000 jobs were created in the private sector and government added 27,000. 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.
