The Employment Situation: April 2006 — 2006-05-05

(This release was reissued on the afternoon of Friday, May 5, to correct seasonally adjusted data for April 2005 for some series in tables A-1 to A-9 which contain data from the household survey. The corrections were minor and the affected data are numbers shown in thousands; no rates were affected. Household survey data for April 2006 and for other months shown in this news release were not affected nor were any data from the establish- ment survey which are presented in tables B-1 to B-7.) Nonfarm employment increased by 138,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Industries with notable job gains over the month included financial activities, health care, and manufacturing. Average hourly earnings rose by 9 cents in April. The number of unemployed persons (7.1 million) was essentially unchanged in April, and the unemployment rate held at 4.7 percent.