Total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 125,000 in June, 
and the unemployment rate edged down to 9.5 percent, the 
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The decline 
in payroll employment reflected a decrease (-225,000) in the 
number of temporary employees working on  Census 2010. 

Private-sector payroll employment (+83,000)

Household Survey Data

Total unemployed persons 14.6 million (-400,000)

Unemployment rate, (9.5 percent) down from 9.7% 

Unemployment rate among the major worker groups  

               Adult women (7.8 percent) down from 8.1

               Adult men (9.9 percent)

               Teenagers (25.7 percent) down from 26.4

               Whites (8.6 percent) down from 8.8

               Blacks (15.4 percent)

               Hispanics (12.4 percent) no change

               Asians (7.7 percent) up from 7.5

Long-term unemployed (27 weeks plus) unchanged at 
6.8 million (45.5 percent of unemployed persons) 

The civilian labor force participation rate fell by 0.3 percentage 
point in June to 64.7 percent. 

The employment to population ratio is 58.5 percent 

Involuntary part-time workers (8.6 million) no change but down 
by 525,000 over the past 2 months (Working part time because 
their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to 
find a full- time job) 

Discouraged workers 1.2 Million (+ 414,000 from 06/09) 

Establishment Survey Data

Total nonfarm payroll employment (-125,000) reflecting the 
departure of 225,000 temporary Census 2010 workers from
 federal government payrolls 

Private employment (+83,000) 

*For the year private-sector employment (+593,000) 

Leisure and Hospitality (+28,000) 

Professional and Business Services (Temp +21,000)  

Professional and Business Services

               Management and technical consulting (+11,000)         
Business support services (+7,000) 

Transportation and warehousing (+15,000) 

Health care (+9,000)

Mining (+6,000)

Mining, support (+7,000)

Manufacturing (+9,000)

Construction (-22,000) mostly nonresidential specialty trade 
contracting 

Wholesale & retail trades, info and financial (no change) 

Government (-17,000)

Temp Census Workers (-208,000) 

State and local governments (no change)

Average private sector workweek (-0.1 hr to 34.1 hrs) 

Average Private-sector hourly earnings 

Nonfarm (- 2 cents or 0.1 percent to $22.53) 

Private-sector prod and non-supervisory ($19 no chg) 

The Employment Situation for July is scheduled to be 
released on Friday, August 6, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. (EDT)