Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 7.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.Over the prior year, employment growth has averaged 169,000 per month.
Employment increased in professional and business services, food services and drinking places, retail trade, and health care.
Previous estimates for the number of jobs created in February were revised upward from 268,000 to 332,000, and the change for March was revised from a very disappointing 88,000 to 138,000. With these revisions, employment gains in February and March combined were 114,000 higher than previously reported.
The unemployment rate, at 7.5 percent, changed little in April but has declined by 0.4 percentage point since January. The number of unemployed Americans, at 11.7 million, was also little changed over the month; however, unemployment has decreased by 673,000 since January.
The unemployment rate for adult women (6.7 percent) declined in April, while the rates for adult men (7.1
percent), teenagers (24.1 percent), whites (6.7 percent), blacks (13.2 percent), and Hispanics (9 percent) showed little or no change. The jobless rate for Asians was 5.1 percent, little changed from a year earlier.
In April, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) declined by 258,000 to 4.4 million; their share of the unemployed declined by 2.2 percentage points to 37.4 percent. Over the
past 12 months, the number of long-term unemployed has decreased by 687,000, and their share has declined by 3.1 percentage points.
The civilian labor force participation rate was 63.3 percent in April, unchanged over the month but down from 63.6 percent in January.
In April, the number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) increased by 278,000 to 7.9 million, largely offsetting a decrease in
March. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job.
In April, 2.3 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, essentially unchanged from a year earlier. These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the four weeks preceding the survey.
Among the marginally attached, there were 835,000 discouraged workers in April, down by 133,000 from a year earlier. Discouraged workers are not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.5 million persons marginally attached to the labor force in April had not searched for work in the four weeks preceding the survey for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities.
Professional and business services added 73,000 jobs in April. Within leisure and hospitality, employment in food services and drinking places rose by 38,000. Retail trade employment increased by 29,000 in April.
Health care added 19,000 jobs.
Employment in other major industries, including mining and logging, wholesale trade, transportation and warehousing, financial activities, and government, showed little change over the month.
The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls decreased by 0.2 hour in April to 34.4 hours. Within manufacturing, the workweek decreased by 0.1 hour to 40.7 hours, and overtime declined by 0.1 hour to 3.3 hours.
In April, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 4 cents to $23.87. Over the year, average hourly earnings have risen by 45 cents, or 1.9 percent.
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