Business Employment Dynamics is a set of statistics generated from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program. These quarterly data series consist of gross job gains and gross job losses statistics from 1992 forward. These data help to provide a picture of the dynamic state of the labor market.

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Gross job gains 8.8 million and gross job losses 7.5 million in the 3rd quarter of 2021

04/27/2022

In the third quarter of 2021, gross job gains from opening and expanding private-sector establishments were 8.8 million. Gross job losses from closing and contracting private-sector establishments were 7.5 million.
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• Akbar Sadeghi, Carol Leming, James Spletzer, and David Talan, “The Role of Younger and Older Business Establishments in the U.S. Labor Market.” August 2010 Issues in Labor Statistics
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• Akbar Sadeghi, “The births and deaths of business establishments in the United States.” December 2008 Monthly Labor Review
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• Sheryl Konigsberg, “The Geospatial Distribution of Employment: A New Visual Asset.” March 2007 Monthly Labor Review
• Jessica Helfand, Akbar Sadeghi and David Talan, “Employment Dynamics: Small and Large Firms Over the Business Cycle.” March 2007 Monthly Labor Review
• Cordelia Okolie, “Why Size Class Methodology Matters in Analyses of Net and Gross Job Flows.” July 2004 Monthly Labor Review
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• Joshua Pinkston and James Spletzer, “Annual Measures of Job Creation and Job Destruction Created from Quarterly Microdata.”
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With the processing of fourth quarter 2014 BED data, BLS implemented a new statistical matching process used in the longitudinal linking of Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data. Tabulations from this quarter forward will reflect this new methodology. For additional details on this new methodology, please see the article “A Simplified Approach to Administrative Record Linkage in the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages” available at: http://www.bls.gov/osmr/research-papers/2014/pdf/st140020.pdf.

Additionally, all historical BED series back to third quarter 1992 have been revised with the release of first quarter 2015 data, for both seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted series, to incorporate an administrative change in scope. These revisions are primarily due to the reclassification of a number of establishments from private households (NAICS 814110) to services for the elderly and persons with disabilities (NAICS 624120). Private households are not within the scope of BED and, as a result, those establishments impacted by this industry reclassification are now within scope.

 

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Latest Numbers

Gross Job Gains:

Total Private
8,795,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2021

Goods-Producing
1,335,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2021

Service-providing
7,460,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2021

Gross Job Losses:

Total Private
7,482,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2021

Goods-Producing
1,266,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2021

Service-Providing
6,216,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2021

Number of establishments gaining jobs:

Total Private
2,354,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2021

Goods-Producing
336,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2021

Service-Providing
2,018,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2021

Total Private
2,125,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2021

Goods-Producing
333,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2021

Service-Providing
1,792,000 in 3rd Qtr of 2021

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