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• Commissioner's Statement on the Employment Situation 11/06/2009
• Employment Situation 11/06/2009
• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (Annual) 11/05/2009
• Productivity and Costs 11/05/2009
• Employment Cost Index 10/30/2009

The Editor's Desk

Nonfarm business labor productivity up 9.5 percent in third quarter 2009

November 06, 2009
Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased at a 9.5-percent annual rate during the third quarter of 2009, the largest gain in productivity since the third quarter of 2003, when it rose 9.7 percent. Full Text »

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• Productivity and Costs, Third Quarter 2009 (PDF) (HTML) 11/05/2009
• "Health Care," BLS Spotlight on Statistics 11/04/2009
• Monthly Labor Review: October 2009 Issue -- includes "Part-time workers: some key differences between primary and secondary earners" (PDF) 10/30/2009
• Employment Cost Index: Third Quarter 2009 (PDF) (HTML) 10/30/2009
• Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, 2008 (HTML) (PDF) 10/29/2009
• Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment: September 2009 (PDF) (HTML) 10/28/2009
• The New Health Participation and Access Data from the National Compensation Survey 10/26/2009
• The Employment Cost Index and the Impact on Medicare Reimbursements 10/26/2009
• Mass Layoffs in September 2009 (PDF) (HTML) 10/22/2009
• International Comparisons of Manufacturing Productivity and Unit Labor Cost Trends, Annual 2008 (PDF) (HTML) 10/22/2009
• Regional and State Employment and Unemployment: September 2009 (PDF) (HTML) 10/21/2009
• Producer Price Indexes: September 2009 (PDF) (HTML) 10/20/2009
• Resources for: Economist or Economic Analyst (BLS statistical methods) 10/19/2009
• Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers: Third Quarter 2009 (PDF) (HTML) 10/16/2009
• County Employment and Wages: First Quarter 2009 (PDF) (HTML) 10/16/2009
• Consumer Expenditure Survey Results on the 2008 Economic Stimulus Payments (Tax Rebates) 10/15/2009
• Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Highlights: Industry focus — Food services and drinking places 09/30/2009
• Women in the Labor Force: A Databook (2009 Edition) 09/30/2009
• Monthly Labor Review: September 2009 Issue -- includes "Health care industries and the New York City labor market" (PDF) 09/30/2009
• The Cash for Clunkers Program 09/29/2009
• Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Selected Metropolitan Areas 09/28/2009
• Local Area Employee Benefits Estimates for 15 Metropolitan Areas 09/28/2009
• BLS Introduces New Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Data for Private Industry Workers in 15 Metropolitan Areas 09/28/2009
• Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2009 (HTML) (PDF), September 2009, Bulletin 2731 09/22/2009
• Occupational Outlook Quarterly -- Fall 2009 Issue 09/09/2009
• Employment & Earnings Online, August 2009 (PDF) 09/08/2009
• National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) News (PDF) 09/04/2009
• Monthly Labor Review: August 2009 Issue -- includes "Using internal CPS data to reevaluate trends in labor-earnings gaps" (PDF) 08/28/2009
• Alternatives to Frozen Defined Benefit Pension Plans 08/28/2009
• Recent Modification of Imputation Methods for National Compensation Survey Benefits Data 08/28/2009
• Occupational Suicides: Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (PDF) 08/27/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the East North Central Census Division, July 2008 08/21/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the East South Central Census Division, July 2008 08/21/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the Middle Atlantic Census Division, July 2008 08/21/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the Mountain Census Division, June 2008 08/21/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the New England Census Division, July 2008 08/21/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the Pacific Census Division, July 2008 08/21/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the South Atlantic Census Division, June 2008 08/21/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the West North Central Census Division, June 2008 08/21/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the West South Central Census Division, July 2008 08/21/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the United States, 2008 08/21/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the Pacific Census Division, July 2008 (PDF) 08/20/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the South Atlantic Census Division, June 2008 (PDF) 08/20/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the West North Central Census Division, June 2008 (PDF) 08/20/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the West South Central Census Division, July 2008 (PDF) 08/20/2009
• CPI Detailed Report: Data for July 2009 (PDF) 08/19/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Occupational Earnings in the United States, 2008 (PDF) 08/18/2009
• PPI Detailed Report: Data for July 2009 (PDF) 08/18/2009
• Commissioner's Corner 08/17/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area: June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the Boston Metropolitan Area: June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the Chicago Metropolitan Area: June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the Dallas Metropolitan Area, June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the Detroit Metropolitan Area: June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the Houston Metropolitan Area, June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area: June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the Miami Metropolitan Area: June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the Minneapolis Metropolitan Area: June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the New York Metropolitan Area: June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area: June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area: June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the San Jose Metropolitan Area: June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• Changing Compensation Costs in the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia Metropolitan Area: June 2009 (PDF) 08/12/2009
• After the Dot-Com Bubble: Silicon Valley High-Tech Employment and Wages in 2001 and 2008 (PDF) 08/11/2009
• Monthly Labor Review: July 2009 Issue -- includes "A portrait of the youth labor market in 13 countries, 1980–2007" (PDF) 07/31/2009
• Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2008, Report 1017 (PDF) 07/23/2009
• A Comparison of Hourly Wage Rates for Full- and Part-Time Workers by Occupation, 2007 07/23/2009
• Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Highlights: Area focus - Elkhart-Goshen, Indiana 07/20/2009
• Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization for States, Third Quarter of 2008 through Second Quarter of 2009 Averages 07/20/2009
• Employment & Earnings, May 2009 (PDF) 07/13/2009
• BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 13, Employment Projections, BLS Handbook of Methods — Updated (PDF) 07/10/2009
• National Compensation Survey: Health Plan Provisions in Private Industry in the United States, 2008 (HTML) (PDF) 07/06/2009
• International Unemployment Rates and Employment Indexes, 2007-2009 (seasonally adjusted) (HTML) (PDF) 07/02/2009
• Monthly Labor Review: June 2009 Issue -- includes "BLS at 125: using historic principles to track the 21st-century economy" (PDF) 06/26/2009
• "BLS 125th Anniversary," BLS Spotlight on Statistics 06/25/2009
• BLS Marks Its 125th Anniversary (PDF) (HTML) 06/24/2009
• Profiles of Significant Collective Bargaining Disputes of 2008 06/24/2009
• "Where People Worked, 2003 to 2007," Issues in Labor Statistics (PDF) 06/22/2009
• "The First Hundred Years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics," published in 1985, is now available online 06/22/2009
• Biographies of BLS Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner and Associate Commissioners 06/19/2009
• Fact Sheet: Security Guard Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (PDF) 06/17/2009
• Fatal Workplace Injuries in 2006: A Collection of Data and Analysis (includes a chart book) 06/12/2009
• Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Highlights: Jobs for the Environment 06/11/2009
• A Generation Apart: Comparing the Economic Status of Young Singles in 1984-85 and 2004-05 06/04/2009
• Hours-based fatality rates 06/02/2009
• "Worker Safety and Health," BLS Spotlight on Statistics 06/01/2009
• Revised May 2008 wage data for postal service workers have been posted 05/29/2009
• "A New Approach to Classifying Industries in the Information Sector," Issues in Labor Statistics (PDF) 05/15/2009
• 2010 President's Budget for the Bureau of Labor Statistics 05/07/2009
• "Ranks of Discouraged Workers and Others Marginally Attached to the Labor Force Rise During Recession," Issues in Labor Statistics (PDF) 04/30/2009
• Changes to the Text Sections of News Releases Issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics 04/30/2009
• Current Employment Statistics (CES) Survey -- Information for Respondents 04/28/2009
• Consumer Expenditures in 2007, Report 1016 (PDF) 04/23/2009
• Revised 2007 Worker Fatalities Data Now Available (PDF) 04/21/2009
• Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics, 2006 (includes a chart book) 04/20/2009
• Math calculations to better utilize CPI data (PDF) 04/15/2009
• "Holiday Season Hiring in Retail Trade," Issues in Labor Statistics (PDF) 04/02/2009
• Commissioner's Corner -- a new feature from the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Keith Hall 04/01/2009