1993 Employment Characteristics of Families — 1994-02-01

The number of families with at least one employed family member grew over the year ended with the fourth quarter of 1993, while the number with an unemployed member declined, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. At 54.3 million in the fourth quarter, the number of families with an employed member was 543,000 greater than a year earlier. The number with some unemployment fell by 606,000 over the same period to 5.6 million. Unemployment was lower than the year-earlier level in each quarter of 1993. At $715 a week, median earnings of families with wage and salary workers rose 3.6 percent over the year. This was higher than the 2.7 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). Other fourth-quarter 1993 highlights were: ---All of the over-the-year rise in the number of families with at least one employed member was among families in which a member was employed full time.