BTS | Table 3-24b: Labor Productivity Indices for Selected Transportation Industries (North American Industry Classification System [NAICS] basis)

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Table 3-24b: Labor Productivity Indices for Selected Transportation Industries (North American Industry Classification System [NAICS] basis)

(Index, 1997 = 100)

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	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Output per hour ^a worked
Air transportation^b	81	82	79	78	78	81	85	91	95	99	100	98	98	98	92	(R) 102	(R) 113	126	136
Line-haul railroads	59	64	68	70	75	82	86	89	92	98	100	102	105	114	122	132	142	(R) 146	138
General freight trucking, long-distance	(R) 86	(R) 86	(R) 85	(R) 89	(R) 93	(R) 98	(R) 96	(R) 98	(R) 96	(R) 95	100	99	99	102	103	107	(R) 111	(R) 111	113
Postal Service	(R) 91	(R) 90	(R) 90	(R) 94	(R) 94	(R) 95	(R) 98	(R) 98	(R) 98	(R) 97	100	102	103	105	106	106	108	(R) 110	111
Output per employee^c
Air transportation^b	81	82	79	78	78	81	85	91	95	99	100	98	98	98	92	(R) 102	(R) 113	126	136
Line-haul railroads	57	62	64	68	70	76	80	86	91	97	100	99	102	110	113	119	128	(R) 133	131
General freight trucking, long-distance	(R) 83	(R) 84	(R) 83	(R) 86	(R) 89	(R) 95	(R) 95	(R) 98	(R) 95	(R) 96	100	99	100	103	103	108	(R) 112	(R) 115	116
Postal Service	(R) 87	(R) 87	(R) 87	(R) 91	(R) 92	(R) 95	(R) 98	(R) 98	(R) 96	(R) 96	100	101	102	106	105	105	107	(R) 111	114

KEY: R = revised.

^a Based on the number of paid hours.

^b The average weekly hours were assumed to be constant for air transportation industries; therefore, the output per hour worked and the output per employee measures are identical.

^c Full-time and part-time employees are counted equally. Hence, these data do not reflect output per full-time equivalent employee.

NOTE

BLS developed labor productivity indexes for all manufacturing and retail trade of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industries as well as selected mining, transportation, communications and services industries. Indexes for petroleum pipelines and bus (class I) systems were created under the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system but have not yet been developed under NAICS. Productivity measures for NAICS start in 1987.

SOURCE

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Industry Productivity, Internet site http://www.bls.gov/lpc as of September 2007.