Percent of all employees include all employees at the establishment who worked or received pay for the part of the pay period including the 12th of the specified months (March, June, September, and December). Included are employees on paid sick leave, paid holidays, and paid vacations; not included are proprietors and partners of unincorporated businesses.
These individuals consist of all full-time and part-time employees who are on the payrolls of establishments who worked or received pay for any part of the pay period including the 12th of March, June, September, and December. Figures for earlier years represent the average number of production workers for the payroll periods that include the 12th of March, May, August, and November.
The "all employees" number is the average number of production workers plus the number of other employees in mid-March. The number of production workers is the average for the payroll periods including the 12th of March, June, September, and December. Figures for earlier years represent the average number of production workers for the payroll periods that include the 12th of March, May, August, and November.
Industry groups with 950 employees or more are shown. Some statistics are withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual companies. If employment is 950 or more, employment-size range is indicated by one of the following symbols: f-950 to 999 employees; g-1,000 to 2,499 employees; h-2,500 to 4,999 employees; i-5,000 to 9,999 employees; j-10,000 to 24,999 employees; k-25,000 to 49,999 employees; l-50,000 to 99,999 employees; m-100,000 employees or more.
The "production workers" number includes workers (up through the line-supervisor level) engaged in fabricating, processing, assembling, inspecting, receiving, storing, handling, packing, warehousing, shipping (but not delivering), maintenance, repair, janitorial and guard services, product development, auxiliary production for plant's own use (e.g., power plant), recordkeeping, and other services closely associated with these production operations at the establishment covered by the report. Employees above the working-supervisor level are excluded from this item.
The "other employees" number covers nonproduction employees of the manufacturing establishment, including those engaged in factory supervision above the line-supervisor level. It includes sales (including driver-salespersons), sales delivery (highway truck drivers and their helpers), advertising, credit, collection, installation and servicing of own products, clerical and routine office functions, executive, purchasing, financing, legal, personnel (including cafeteria, medical, etc.), professional, and technical employees. Also included are employees on the payroll of the manufacturing establishment engaged in the construction of major additions or alterations utilized as a separate work force.
Note: Beginning with the 2006 ASM, for employment and related fields (payroll, production hours, benefits), respondents were asked to report only those full- and part-time employees whose payroll was reported on the IRS Form 941 filing for the Employer Identification Number (EIN) used by that manufacturing establishment. Other temporary workers and workers whose payroll was reported under a different company's EIN were reported elsewhere on the form. In 2002, these data constituted between 1 and 1 1/2% of the total for these fields. Comparisons of data prior to 2006 should be used with caution.