Manufacturing Workers' Hours and Earnings

Average Weekly Hours and Average Hourly Earnings of Manufacturing Production Workers are derived from the establishment payroll reports identified under Nonagricultural Employment. Average weekly hours is derived from total hours, which includes all hours worked during the pay period and reflects factors such as unpaid absenteeism, labor turnover, part-time work, and strikes, as well as fluctuations in work schedules. Hours and earnings data are released simultaneously with employment data. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston estimates hours and earnings figures for New England as a whole by applying weights based on state-level manufacturing employment to state-level hours and earnings data.

Hourly earnings are on a "gross" basis and reflect not only basic hourly and incentive wage rates, but also premium pay for overtime and lateshift work. As averages, the earnings figures reflect shifts in the number of employees between relatively high-paid and relatively low-paid work and changes in workers' earnings in individual establishments.

The hours and earnings data, like nonagricultural employment data, undergo benchmark revisions each year.With the conversion to NAICS, hours and earnings data were curtailed to a starting point of January 2001.

Source

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