NONFARM EMPLOYMENT ESTIMATES
NEW HAVEN LMA
TOTAL NONFARM EMPLOYMENT……………
TOTAL PRIVATE…………………………………
GOODS PRODUCING INDUSTRIES…………
CONSTRUCTION, NAT. RES. & MINING.……
MANUFACTURING……………………………
Durable Goods…………………………………
SERVICE PROVIDING INDUSTRIES…………
TRADE, TRANSPORTATION, UTILITIES…..
Wholesale Trade………………………………
Retail Trade……………………………………
Transportation, Warehousing, & Utilities……
INFORMATION…………………………………
FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES………………………
Finance and Insurance………………………
PROFESSIONAL & BUSINESS SERVICES
Administrative and Support…………………
EDUCATIONAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
Educational Services…………………………
Health Care and Social Assistance…………
LEISURE AND HOSPITALITY…………………
Accommodation and Food Services…………
OTHER SERVICES……………………………
GOVERNMENT …………………………………
Federal…………………………………………
State & Local……………………………………
LMA
Not Seasonally Adjusted
MAY
2011
MAY
2010
266,200
232,000
34,300
8,400
25,900
18,800
231,900
48,700
11,300
29,100
8,300
4,800
12,200
8,700
26,500
13,400
74,900
27,500
47,400
20,400
17,600
10,200
34,200
4,800
29,400
267,500
231,200
35,400
8,900
26,500
19,000
232,100
47,800
11,300
28,000
8,500
5,300
12,200
8,700
24,900
12,000
73,500
27,300
46,200
21,800
18,800
10,300
36,300
6,700
29,600
CHANGE
NO.
%
-1,300
800
-1,100
-500
-600
-200
-200
900
0
1,100
-200
-500
0
0
1,600
1,400
1,400
200
1,200
-1,400
-1,200
-100
-2,100
-1,900
-200
-0.5
0.3
-3.1
-5.6
-2.3
-1.1
-0.1
1.9
0.0
3.9
-2.4
-9.4
0.0
0.0
6.4
11.7
1.9
0.7
2.6
-6.4
-6.4
-1.0
-5.8
-28.4
-0.7
APR
2011
265,600
232,000
33,800
7,900
25,900
18,800
231,800
48,600
11,300
29,100
8,200
4,800
12,100
8,700
26,000
13,100
76,000
28,900
47,100
20,500
17,900
10,200
33,600
4,800
28,800
For further information on the New Haven Labor Market Area contact Lincoln Dyer at (860) 263-6292.
Current month’s data are preliminary. Prior months’ data have been revised. All data are benchmarked to March 2010.
*Total excludes workers idled due to labor-management disputes. **Value less than 50
BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC NEWS
„ Pay comparisons between metropolitan areas in 2010
Average pay for civilian workers in the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, California, metropolitan area (one
of 77 metropolitan areas studied by the National Compensation Survey (NCS)) was 20 percent above the
national average in 2010. The Brownsville-Harlingen, Texas, metropolitan area had a pay relative of 80,
meaning workers earned an average of 80 cents for every dollar earned by workers nationwide. The chart
shows the four highest and three lowest paying metropolitan areas among those studied by the NCS. The
fourth lowest paying were Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Tallahassee, Florida, tied at 88. Using data from
the NCS, pay relatives—a means of assessing pay differences—are available for each of the nine major
occupational groups within surveyed metropolitan areas, as well as averaged across all occupations for
each area, and can be found at www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/payrel.htm. The average pay relative nationally for all
occupations and for each occupational group equals 100.
These data are from the BLS National Compensation Survey program. Learn more in “Occupational Pay
Comparisons Among Metropolitan Areas, 2010,” (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-11-0761.
Source: The Editor’s Desk, Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 27, 2011
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Town
LABOR FORCE ESTIMATES BY TOWN
(By Place of Residence - Not Seasonally Adjusted)
MAY 2011
LMA/TOWNS
LABOR FORCE
BRIDGEPORT-STAMFORD
480,053
Ansonia
10,115
65,154
Bridgeport
Darien
9,153
7,005
Derby
Easton
3,740
Fairfield
28,640
Greenwich
30,709
Milford
33,017
Monroe
10,675
New Canaan
9,030
Newtown
14,391
Norwalk
48,909
Oxford
7,657
Redding
4,681
11,849
Ridgefield
9,459
Seymour
Shelton
23,462
9,233
Southbury
Stamford
67,937
Stratford
26,305
Trumbull
17,941
Weston
4,918
12,890
Westport
Wilton
8,323
Woodbridge
4,861
DANBURY
Bethel
Bridgewater
Brookfield
Danbury
New Fairfield
New Milford
Sherman
ENFIELD
East Windsor
Enfield
Somers
Suffield
Windsor Locks
HARTFORD
Andover
Ashford
Avon
Barkhamsted
Berlin
Bloomfield
Bolton
Bristol
Burlington
EMPLOYED
UNEMPLOYED
%
439,454
9,050
55,963
8,626
6,269
3,501
26,461
28,641
30,352
9,890
8,445
13,394
45,155
7,128
4,402
11,126
8,605
21,533
8,507
62,951
23,707
16,671
4,625
12,058
7,807
4,586
40,599
1,065
9,191
527
736
239
2,179
2,068
2,665
785
585
997
3,754
529
279
723
854
1,929
726
4,986
2,598
1,270
293
832
516
275
8.5
10.5
14.1
5.8
10.5
6.4
7.6
6.7
8.1
7.4
6.5
6.9
7.7
6.9
6.0
6.1
9.0
8.2
7.9
7.3
9.9
7.1
6.0
6.5
6.2
5.7
90,926
10,641
1,027
9,062
44,415
7,483
16,174
2,123
84,351
9,914
957
8,486
41,076
6,940
14,988
1,990
6,575
727
70
576
3,339
543
1,186
133
7.2
6.8
6.8
6.4
7.5
7.3
7.3
6.3
50,798
6,640
24,415
4,909
7,652
7,181
46,418
6,015
22,228
4,517
7,047
6,611
4,380
625
2,187
392
605
570
8.6
9.4
9.0
8.0
7.9
7.9
594,901
1,977
2,662
9,165
2,247
11,623
10,275
3,062
34,504
5,417
540,832
1,855
2,460
8,665
2,062
10,709
9,243
2,854
31,333
5,026
54,069
122
202
500
185
914
1,032
208
3,171
391
9.1
6.2
7.6
5.5
8.2
7.9
10.0
6.8
9.2
7.2
LMA/TOWNS
HARTFORD cont....
Canton
Colchester
Columbia
Coventry
Cromwell
East Granby
East Haddam
East Hampton
East Hartford
Ellington
Farmington
Glastonbury
Granby
Haddam
Hartford
Hartland
Harwinton
Hebron
Lebanon
Manchester
Mansfield
Marlborough
Middlefield
Middletown
New Britain
New Hartford
Newington
Plainville
Plymouth
Portland
Rocky Hill
Simsbury
Southington
South Windsor
Stafford
Thomaston
Tolland
Union
Vernon
West Hartford
Wethersfield
Willington
Windsor
LABOR FORCE
5,808
9,038
3,103
7,140
7,886
3,018
5,234
7,236
25,996
8,989
13,008
18,273
6,329
5,001
51,059
1,202
3,182
5,504
4,413
32,875
13,385
3,652
2,377
27,311
35,532
3,843
16,963
10,215
6,964
5,431
10,787
12,140
24,527
14,913
6,946
4,609
8,441
483
17,875
29,567
13,356
3,890
16,468
EMPLOYED
5,419
8,290
2,865
6,579
7,321
2,809
4,866
6,611
22,870
8,393
12,128
17,190
5,926
4,661
42,739
1,127
2,951
5,178
4,053
29,925
12,410
3,408
2,206
24,976
30,927
3,543
15,529
9,277
6,209
4,990
10,004
11,321
22,648
13,950
6,329
4,211
7,922
449
16,332
27,178
12,211
3,638
15,056
UNEMPLOYED
%
389
748
238
561
565
209
368
625
3,126
596
880
1,083
403
340
8,320
75
231
326
360
2,950
975
244
171
2,335
4,605
300
1,434
938
755
441
783
819
1,879
963
617
398
519
34
1,543
2,389
1,145
252
1,412
6.7
8.3
7.7
7.9
7.2
6.9
7.0
8.6
12.0
6.6
6.8
5.9
6.4
6.8
16.3
6.2
7.3
5.9
8.2
9.0
7.3
6.7
7.2
8.5
13.0
7.8
8.5
9.2
10.8
8.1
7.3
6.7
7.7
6.5
8.9
8.6
6.1
7.0
8.6
8.1
8.6
6.5
8.6
All Labor Market Areas(LMAs) in Connecticut except three are federally-designated areas for developing labor
statistics. For the sake of simplicity, the federal Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk NECTA is referred to in Connecticut
DOL publications as the 'Bridgeport-Stamford LMA', and the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford NECTA is
referred to as the 'Hartford LMA'. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has identified 17 towns in the northwest part of
the State as a separate area for reporting labor force data. For the convenience of our data users, these towns are
included in the Torrington LMA. For the same purpuse, five towns which are part of the Springfield, MA area are
published as the 'Enfield LMA'. Similarly the towns of Putnam, Thompson and Woodstock (part of the Worcester,
MA area), plus four towns estimated separately are included in the Willimantic-Danielson LMA.
LABOR FORCE CONCEPTS
The civilian labor force comprises all state residents age 16 years and older classified as employed or unemployed in accordance with criteria described below.
Excluded are members of the military and persons in institutions (correctional and mental health, for example).
The employed are all persons who did any work as paid employees or in their own business during the survey week, or who have worked 15 hours or more as
unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a family member. Persons temporarily absent from a job because of illness, bad weather, strike or for personal
reasons are also counted as employed whether they were paid by their employer or were seeking other jobs.
The unemployed are all persons who did not work, but were available for work during the survey week (except for temporary illness) and made specific efforts to
find a job in the prior four weeks. Persons waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not be looking for work to be classified as
unemployed.
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LABOR FORCE ESTIMATES BY TOWN
Town
(By Place of Residence - Not Seasonally Adjusted)
MAY 2011
LMA/TOWNS
NEW HAVEN
Bethany
Branford
Cheshire
Chester
Clinton
Deep River
Durham
East Haven
Essex
Guilford
Hamden
Killingworth
Madison
Meriden
New Haven
North Branford
North Haven
Old Saybrook
Orange
Wallingford
Westbrook
West Haven
LABOR FORCE
314,533
3,161
17,422
14,824
2,279
7,997
2,623
4,356
16,394
3,804
13,032
31,261
3,671
10,084
32,234
57,141
8,386
13,257
5,564
7,264
25,632
3,722
30,425
*NORWICH-NEW LONDON
137,939
Bozrah
1,471
Canterbury
3,193
East Lyme
10,061
Franklin
1,166
Griswold
7,321
Groton
19,227
Ledyard
8,526
Lisbon
2,587
Lyme
1,123
Montville
11,056
New London
13,929
No. Stonington
3,269
Norwich
20,949
Old Lyme
4,126
Preston
2,876
Salem
2,614
Sprague
1,856
Stonington
10,474
Voluntown
1,663
Waterford
10,450
EMPLOYED UNEMPLOYED
284,687
29,846
2,936
225
16,076
1,346
13,699
1,125
2,128
151
7,399
598
2,397
226
4,056
300
14,723
1,671
3,558
246
12,211
821
28,534
2,727
3,414
257
9,457
627
28,689
3,545
49,466
7,675
7,757
629
12,167
1,090
5,116
448
6,753
511
23,510
2,122
3,462
260
27,179
3,246
125,425
1,358
2,935
9,183
1,088
6,607
17,353
7,879
2,374
1,065
10,084
12,284
3,041
18,725
3,870
2,654
2,426
1,639
9,799
1,481
9,578
12,514
113
258
878
78
714
1,874
647
213
58
972
1,645
228
2,224
256
222
188
217
675
182
872
%
9.5
7.1
7.7
7.6
6.6
7.5
8.6
6.9
10.2
6.5
6.3
8.7
7.0
6.2
11.0
13.4
7.5
8.2
8.1
7.0
8.3
7.0
10.7
9.1
7.7
8.1
8.7
6.7
9.8
9.7
7.6
8.2
5.2
8.8
11.8
7.0
10.6
6.2
7.7
7.2
11.7
6.4
10.9
8.3
LMA/TOWNS
TORRINGTON
Bethlehem
Canaan
Colebrook
Cornwall
Goshen
Kent
Litchfield
Morris
Norfolk
North Canaan
Roxbury
Salisbury
Sharon
Torrington
Warren
Washington
Winchester
Woodbury
LABOR FORCE
55,038
2,013
617
818
825
1,671
1,593
4,405
1,295
935
1,742
1,350
1,939
1,551
20,039
743
1,947
6,078
5,479
EMPLOYED UNEMPLOYED
50,378
4,660
1,875
138
563
54
779
39
778
47
1,549
122
1,487
106
4,070
335
1,185
110
876
59
1,597
145
1,280
70
1,822
117
1,458
93
18,000
2,039
696
47
1,809
138
5,452
626
5,103
376
%
8.5
6.9
8.8
4.8
5.7
7.3
6.7
7.6
8.5
6.3
8.3
5.2
6.0
6.0
10.2
6.3
7.1
10.3
6.9
WATERBURY
Beacon Falls
Middlebury
Naugatuck
Prospect
Waterbury
Watertown
Wolcott
102,205
3,392
3,983
17,262
5,318
50,966
12,222
9,062
90,055
3,065
3,656
15,449
4,915
43,570
11,153
8,247
12,150
327
327
1,813
403
7,396
1,069
815
11.9
9.6
8.2
10.5
7.6
14.5
8.7
9.0
58,452
3,908
1,501
1,017
1,280
9,548
8,480
2,235
5,279
1,000
2,090
5,371
12,052
4,691
52,507
3,527
1,376
944
1,153
8,494
7,448
2,070
4,747
948
1,891
4,865
10,707
4,337
5,945
381
125
73
127
1,054
1,032
165
532
52
199
506
1,345
354
10.2
9.7
8.3
7.2
9.9
11.0
12.2
7.4
10.1
5.2
9.5
9.4
11.2
7.5
WILLIMANTIC-DANIELSON
Brooklyn
Chaplin
Eastford
Hampton
Killingly
Plainfield
Pomfret
Putnam
Scotland
Sterling
Thompson
Windham
Woodstock
*Connecticut portion only. For whole NECTA, including Rhode Island town, see below.
NORWICH-NEW LONDON
150,673
137,170
13,503
9.0
12,734
11,745
989
7.8
Westerly, RI
Not Seasonally Adjusted:
1,884,800
1,714,100
CONNECTICUT
UNITED STATES
153,449,000 140,028,000
170,700
13,421,000
9.1
8.7
Labor Force estimates are prepared following statistical procedures developed
by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Seasonally Adjusted:
CONNECTICUT
1,894,100
1,721,600
153,693,000 139,779,000
UNITED STATES
172,500
13,914,000
9.1
9.1
LABOR FORCE CONCEPTS (Continued)
The unemployment rate represents the number unemployed as a percent of the civilian labor force.
With the exception of those persons temporarily absent from a job or waiting to be recalled to one, persons with no job and who are not actively looking for one
are counted as "not in the labor force".
Over the course of a year, the size of the labor force and the levels of employment undergo fluctuations due to such seasonal events as changes in weather,
reduced or expanded production, harvests, major holidays and the opening and closing of schools. Because these seasonal events follow a regular pattern each
year, their influence on statistical trends can be eliminated by adjusting the monthly statistics. Seasonal Adjustment makes it easier to observe cyclical and other
nonseasonal developments.
July 2011
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