Economy
July 12, 2019
Employment by Industry Through June 2019
Written by Peter Wright
In the last 12 months the rate of job creation in the primary metals industries has been slower than in manufacturing as a whole, according to Steel Market Update’s analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data.
In June, 191,000 jobs were created in the private sector and government gained 33,000 positions. 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.
