1 | Annual Payroll of Manufacturing Employees (000s) | 1982 | 2012 | Quinquennial | Federal Agency Data: Bureau of the Census - Economic Censuses | Census of Manufactures | This item includes gross earnings of all employees on the payrolls of operating manufacturing establishments paid in the calendar year. It includes all forms of compensation, such as salaries, wages, commissions, dismissal pay, bonuses, vacation and sick leave pay, and compensation in kind, prior to such deductions as employees' social security contributions, withholding taxes, group insurance, union dues, and savings bonds. The total includes salaries of officers of corporations; it excludes payments to proprietors or partners of unincorporated concerns. Also excluded are payments to members of the armed forces and pensioners carried on the active payrolls of manufacturing establishments. The economic census definition of payrolls does not include employers' social security contributions or other nonpayroll labor costs, such as employees' pension plans, group insurance premiums, and workers' compensation. Also see LINC variable 7265. |
