Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

QCEW publishes monthly and annual-average covered-job employment, exact nominal wage/pay and UI-contribution measures, and over-year changes by area, industry, ownership, and period. This is primary evidence for industry employment and wage trends; preserve jobs-not-persons, exact measure/units, NAICS period basis, disclosure, and preliminary/final status.

QCEW size-class rows provide establishment counts, covered jobs, exact nominal wage/pay measures, and UI contributions by documented employment-size band, geography, industry, ownership, and period. This supports establishment distributions by employment size, not firm, revenue, receipts, real-value, or within-band microdata distributions.

QCEW publishes quarterly and annual-average covered-establishment counts by area, industry, ownership, period, aggregation level, and documented employment-size band. This supplies the establishment-by-size component only, not legal-firm, nonemployer, unique-person, or complete all-business counts; preserve scope, classifications, period, disclosure, and release status.

QCEW publishes quarterly and annual-average covered-establishment stock counts and corresponding prior-year level and percentage changes by area, industry, ownership, and aggregation/size class. This supports net stock change only, not gross entry, exit, opening, closure, birth, or death; preserve compared periods, classification basis, disclosure, and release status.