Enginering & Manufacturing
Manufacturing Has Added Over 100,000 Jobs in 2010
By Heather Boushey
since March 2006. Payroll jobs in February and March were also revised upward so that over the past three months the economy has added an average of 186,000 new jobs per month. While the federal government continued to ramp up staffing to conduct the U.S. Decennial Census, hiring 66,000 workers, the bulk of job gains were in the private sector and widespread across in- dustries. This pace of job creation is certainly good news. Last week, we
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learned that the economy grew by 3.2 percent during the first quar- ter of 2010 and today’s data show that this growth is beginning to pull the labor market out of its slump. We need to continue to see job creation at April’s pace to work toward recovering the 7.8 mil- lion jobs lost over the course of this recession and create enough jobs for new labor market entrants due to population growth. But while a number of positive indicators point to stronger em- ployment gains moving forward, there are a number of trends pointing to the need for continued focus on policies to pave the way for sustained job creation. One looming challenge is that state and local governments
are struggling with lower revenues brought on by high unem- ployment, which is leading them to slash budgets, and they laid off another 6,000 workers last month. For the recovery we are in to be a strong one we need to make sure that states do not drag down growth by continued lay-offs in the months to come, since state and local governments account for one in seven U.S. workers. On the positive side, manufacturing added 44,000 jobs last month—more than double the jobs added in March. The econ- omy has not added this many manufacturing jobs in any single
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he Department of Labor reported that the economy added 290,000 jobs in April, which is the largest one-month gain
month since 1998. Certainly, one month’s data does not indicate a revival of U.S. manufacturing, but this is a positive indicator that the recovery is taking hold in the private sector and spur- ring the kind of economic growth that leads to job creation. Overall, manufacturing has added 101,000 new jobs in 2010. Employers are also continuing to hire temporary workers as
they have been doing for seven months now. Employers added 26,000 temporary workers in April, about half as many as they added in the fall. Today’s data indicate that some employers are now moving into regular hiring, and, if the recovery is indeed taking hold in the labor market, over the next few months we should see continued temporary-help hiring at lower rates than last fall alongside stronger regular hiring. Hours are also up. The average weekly hours for production
and nonsupervisory employees rose from 33.1 a year ago up to 33.4 in April. Average overtime hours in manufacturing are up to 3.9 hours per week, from 2.8 a year ago. It continues to be the case, however, that those out of work
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