Schedule of Upcoming Releases

• Upcoming Releases: Productivity and Costs (NONFARM BUSINESS, BUSINESS, MANUFACTURING, AND NONFINANCIAL CORPORATE SECTOR)
• Upcoming Releases: All Productivity Releases

Archived

• Archived Productivity and Costs
• Archived Productivity and Costs by Industry

Database Name	Special Notice	Top Picks	Data Finder	One Screen	Multi- Screen	Tables	Text Files
Major Sector Productivity and Costs
Industry Productivity

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• Series Report--Already know the series identifier for the statistic you want? Use this shortcut to retrieve your data.
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  • Major Sector Productivity and Costs
  • Industry Productivity
• Comma Separated Values (CSV) Files--Download labor and multifactor productivity data by sector and industry.
• Productivity Data Search Tool--Find the productivity data products you need using filters.


• Superseded historical SIC measures for manufacturing, durable manufacturing, and nondurable manufacturing sectors, 1949-2003.

Data Tables

Labor Productivity and Costs Measures for:

• Business and Nonfarm Business Sectors - March 4, 2021 (XLSX) (TXT)
• Manufacturing, Durable Manufacturing and Nondurable Manufacturing Sectors - March 4, 2021 (XLSX) (TXT)
• Nonfinancial Corporate Sector - March 4, 2021 (XLSX) (TXT)
• Industries (Interactive) - February 4, 2021 (XLSX 37.5MB), data only (XLSX 4.4MB)
• State Productivity - June 11, 2020
• Within-Industry Dispersion, Manufacturing Industries - September 23, 2020

Hours Worked and Employment Measures for:

• Total U.S. Economy - all worker - March 4, 2021 (XLSX)
• U.S. Nonfarm Economy by Sector - employees only - April 16, 2021 (XLSX)
• Industries (Interactive) - July 30, 2020 (XLSX 37.8MB), data only (XLSX 4.4MB)

Charts and Dashboards

• UPDATED Productivity Growth by Major Sector, 1947-2020. Bar Chart
• Labor Productivity and Costs by Industry Chart Dashboard - February 4, 2021 (XLSX 42.8MB)
• Hours and Employment by Industry Chart Dashboard - June 25, 2020 (XLSX 43.1MB)
• Industry overviews by data release
• Manufacturing and Mining – June 25, 2020 (XLSX)
• Wholesale and Retail Trade – July 30, 2020 (XLSX)
• Selected Services – May 28, 2020 (XLSX)
• Industry Productivity Viewer - An interactive visualization of productivity statistics

Major Sector Productivity Program

• Technical Information about the Major Sector Productivity and Costs Methods. March 2008. (PDF) This document describes the labor productivity measures that BLS publishes for the major sectors of the U.S. economy, as well as the methodology used to calculate these measures.
• Information Supporting Major Sector Productivity and Costs Hours
• Note on the Differences Between the Quarterly Hourly Compensation Measures and the Employment Cost Index (ECI). January 2007.
• Construction of Employment and Hours for Self-Employed and Other Nonfarm Workers and for All Farm Workers, Using Current Population Survey Data for Primary and Secondary Jobs. March 2006. (PDF)
• Construction of Average Weekly Hours for Supervisory and Nonproduction Wage and Salary Workers in Private Nonfarm Establishments. October 2004. (PDF)
• Hours at Work Ratios Derived from the Employment Cost Index, 2001–2003. (PDF) Brief description of the Bureau of Labor Statistics new ratios of hours at work to hours paid and reasons for the discontinuation of the Hours at Work Survey.

Industry Productivity Program

• BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 11 Industry Productivity Measures (PDF)
• Industry Hours and Employment. May 2014.
• Construction of Average Weekly Hours for Supervisory and Nonproduction Wage and Salary Workers in Detailed Industries. August 2005. (PDF)

Major Sector Productivity Program

• The U.S. Productivity Slowdown: an Economy-wide and Industry-level Analysis. April 2021.
• Estimating the U.S. Labor Share. February 2017.
• Below Trend: the U.S. Productivity Slowdown since the Great Recession. January 2017.
• What Can Labor Productivity Tell Us about the U.S. Economy? May 2014.
• The Compensation-Productivity Gap: A Visual Essay. January 2011. (PDF)
• Updated Charts and Data (ZIP)
• Bringing Work Home: Implications for BLS Productivity Measures. December 2010. (PDF)

Industry Productivity Program

• Checking Out Productivity in Grocery Stores. December 2019. (PDF)
• Intrasectoral Transactions: The Most Important Productivity Statistic You've Never Heard Of. September 2019. (PDF)
• BLS Publishes Experimental State-level Labor Productivity Measures. June 2019. (PDF)
• Productivity Trends in the Wired and Wireless Telecommunications Industries. May 2019. (PDF)
• Productivity in Transit: A New Measure of Labor Productivity for Urban Transit Systems. August 2018. (PDF)
• Measuring Productivity Growth in Construction. January 2018. (PDF)
• Understanding the Labor Productivity and Compensation Gap. June 2017. (PDF)

Archive of Articles on Productivity and Technology »

1. How is productivity defined?
2. Why is productivity measurement important?
3. How is productivity measured by BLS?
4. What is the most commonly used productivity measure?
5. What are "unit labor costs"?
6. Does outsourcing and offshoring of intermediate production inflate the productivity measures?
7. Why can't I find a productivity measure for the total economy?
8. How are labor hours calculated?
9. What is included in compensation?
10. How are changes in output measured for specific industries?

All LPC FAQs »

• Beginning with the Productivity and Costs news release scheduled for March 8, 2017, an improvement in the methodology for estimating hours worked will be implemented. For more information see: https://www.bls.gov/lpc/hwhpnew.htm.
• Data for private community hospitals (Industry 622A) were updated for 2014 on May 18, 2017. These changes have been incorporated into the Labor Productivity and Costs by Industry Tables and the Labor Productivity and Costs by Industry Chart Dashboard. The private community hospitals data were originally added on October 16, 2015.
• Labor productivity and costs data for the nonfinancial corporate sector were corrected December 17, 2012. For more information, see http://www.bls.gov/lpc/lpc_nonfinancial_corporate_correction.htm.

• Multifactor Productivity--annual indexes for industries and major sectors of the economy that relate output to labor, capital, and--in some cases--other inputs
• Productivity Research and Program Development works on strengthening and improving Bureau productivity measures and on understanding the sources and effects of productivity and technical change. The Division works on clarifying input and output concepts, using methods from microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, labor economics, industrial organization, econometrics, and statistics.
• International Labor Comparisons--comparative information by country on productivity and unit labor costs; compensation; labor force, employment, and unemployment; and consumer prices.
• International Technical Cooperation --conducts training in labor statistics for international participants and coordinates international requests for BLS services including technical experts and short-term visits to BLS.
• Government Productivity Archive
• Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National)--monthly national data by detailed industry on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on the payrolls of nonfarm establishments.
• Producer Price Indexes--monthly data on changes in the selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services.

• Bureau of the Census
• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)