TABLE 4.-Employment and pay rolls for the executive branch of the Federal Government in selected months 1 ! Includes employees on force-account construction. * Covers War and Navy Departments, Maritime Commission, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, The Panama Canal, Price Decontrol Board, Philippine War Damage Commission, and the emergency war agencies. Beginning July 1945, data include clerks at third-class post offices who previously were working on a contract basis. Data exclude substitute rural mail carriers. Includes Alaska and the Panama Canal Zone. Employment is as of the first of the calendar month. A downward revision of 6,000 to 37,000 in employment of the Post Office Department which affects data for October 1945-November 1946 has been taken into account in the data for other agencies. 'Subject to revision. Starting December 1946, pay rolls cover the entire calendar month. Previously, pay rolls were for all pay periods ending within the calendar month, or for 4 weeks for months starting July 1945, except for December 1945, June and November 1946 when pay rolls included pay for 6 weeks for most employees. Detailed Reports for Industrial and Business MONTHLY reports on employment and pay rolls are presented below for more than 150 manufacturing industries and for 27 nonmanufacturing industries including water transportation and class I steam railroads. Data for both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing industries are based on reports of the number of employees and amount of pay rolls for the period ending nearest the 15th of the month. TABLE 1.—Estimated number of production workers in manufacturing industries —Con. 1 November 1946 estimates are based on reports from 33,200 cooperating establishments covering 7,258,000 production workers. Estimates for the major industry groups have been adjusted to levels indicated by final 1944 data made available by the Bureau of Employment Security of the Federal Security Agency. Estimates for individual industries have been adjusted to levels indicated by the 1939 Census of Manufactures but not to Federal Security Agency data. For this reason, together with the fact that this Bureau has not prepared estimates for certain industries, the sum of the individual industry estimates will not agree with the totals shown for the major industry groups. |