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Chapter 5.
Employment and Wages Covered by Unemployment Insurance
Presentation
Employment and Wages, an annual BLS publication, presents
State and national totals for covered employment and
wages by broad industry division, major industry group,
and detailed 4-digit industry. Data for government
workers are shown by State and selected industries. The
publication includes distributions of employment and
wages by size of reporting unit for each major industry
division for the United States as a whole. These data are
distributed into 10 employment-size categories.
A comparison of the average annual pay across States,
and the pay levels by industry division within States is
made in an annual news release issued in late Summer or
early Fall. A comparison of average annual pay in
metropolitan areas is made in a news release that follows
shortly after the State and Industry comparison. Both
news releases can be accessed from BLS's Internet
site.
To preserve the anonymity of establishments, BLS
withholds publication of data for any geographic industry
level in which there are fewer than three firms or in
which the employment of a single firm accounts for over
80 percent of the industry. At the request of a State,
data are also withheld where there is reason to believe
that the "fewer than three" rule would not
prevent disclosure of information pertaining to an
individual firm or would otherwise violate the State's
disclosure provisions. Information concerning Federal
employees, however, is fully disclosable.
In addition to published information, county and
metropolitan data and historical information are
available from the BLS Washington office either on hard
copy or on machine-readable media such as magnetic tapes
and diskettes on a cost reimbursable basis. The charge
for this service varies according to the complexity and
volume of the request. Write to the Division of
Occupational and Administrative Statistics, Office of
Employment and Unemployment Statistics, U.S. Department
of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, DC
20212.
The individual States, which have a wide variety of
uses for the data, usually publish their own reports
containing ES-202 data.
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