Graph and download economic data for Nonfarm Business Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers (OPHNFB) from Q1 1947 to Q1 2025 about per hour, output, headline figure, sector, nonfarm, business, real, persons, and USA.

Productivity in the United States decreased to 115.49 points in the first quarter of 2025 from 115.73 points in the fourth quarter of 2024. This dataset provides - United States Productivity - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Key information about US Labour Productivity Growth

• United States Labour Productivity dropped by 2.49 % YoY in Dec 2024, compared with a growth of 2.65 % in the previous quarter
• US Labour Productivity Growth data is updated quarterly, available from Mar 1949 to Dec 2024, averaging at 1.59 %
• The data reached an all-time high of 9.69 % in Dec 1950 and a record low of -2.69 % in Mar 1974

Nonfarm Productivity QoQ in the United States decreased to -1.50 percent in the first quarter of 2025 from 1.70 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for the United States Nonfarm Productivity Qoq.

Graph and download economic data for Manufacturing Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers (OPHMFG) from Q1 1987 to Q1 2025 about per hour, output, sector, manufacturing, real, persons, and USA.

This graph shows the average annual growth rate in the manufacturing sector labor productivity in the United States from 1960 to 2013. Manufacturing sector labor productivity increased at 3.9 percent annual rate from 2010 through 2013.

Graph and download economic data for Business Sector: Labor Productivity (Output per Hour) for All Workers (PRS84006091) from Q1 1948 to Q1 2025 about per hour, productivity, output, sector, business, real, persons, rate, and USA.

In the United States, nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased by 2.2 percent in the third quarter of 2024. The data are seasonally adjusted at annual rates. Productivity is the output per hour of all persons.

This data package includes the underlying data and files to replicate the calculations, charts, and tables presented in Effects of Low Productivity Growth on Fiscal Sustainability in the United States, PIIE Working Paper 18-9.

If you use the data, please cite as: Sheiner, Louise. (2018). Effects of Low Productivity Growth on Fiscal Sustainability in the United States. PIIE Working Paper 18-9. Peterson Institute for International Economics.

US: Multifactor Productivity: Capital Stock Output Ratio: % Point Contribution to Labour Productivity Growth data was reported at -2.089 % in 2022. This records a decrease from the previous number of 2.241 % for 2021. US: Multifactor Productivity: Capital Stock Output Ratio: % Point Contribution to Labour Productivity Growth data is updated yearly, averaging 1.022 % from Dec 1985 (Median) to 2022, with 38 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.471 % in 1992 and a record low of -2.089 % in 2022. US: Multifactor Productivity: Capital Stock Output Ratio: % Point Contribution to Labour Productivity Growth data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.OECD.PDB: Multifactor and Capital Productivity: OECD Member: Annual.

Graph and download economic data for Private Nonfarm Business Sector: Labor Productivity (MPU4910063) from 1988 to 2024 about productivity, sector, nonfarm, business, labor, private, rate, and USA.

United States CBO Projection: Labor Productivity Growth data was reported at 1.500 % in 2048. This stayed constant from the previous number of 1.500 % for 2047. United States CBO Projection: Labor Productivity Growth data is updated yearly, averaging 1.500 % from Dec 1987 (Median) to 2048, with 62 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.500 % in 1992 and a record low of 0.100 % in 2011. United States CBO Projection: Labor Productivity Growth data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Congressional Budget Office. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G072: Real Total Factor Productivity: Projection: Congressional Budget Office.

Increased productivity is the main contributor to growth in U.S. agriculture. This data set provides estimates of productivity growth in the U.S. farm sector for the 1948-2011 period, and estimates of the growth and relative levels of productivity across the States for the period 1960-2004.

This dataset provides estimates of productivity growth in the U.S. farm sector for 1948-2019, including indices of farm output, input, and total factor productivity for the United States. All the data is measured as a percentage in this dataset.

The data package consists of total farm output, input and total factor productivity and location of farmer markets in the united states. It also provides data on U.S. price indices and quantities of farm output and input and real commodity trade weighted exchange rates.

Industry Productivity Viewer.This spreadsheet gives yearly data on productivity. The BLS defines productivity as "how efficiently the U.S. converts inputs into the outputs of goods and services. Measures of labor productivity compare the growth in output to the growth in hours worked and measures of total factor productivity (TFP), also known as multifactor productivity (MFP), compare growth in output to the growth in a combination of inputs that include labor, capital, energy, materials, and purchased services."This spreadsheet is broken down by industry and measurements of productivity.

United States US: Capital Quality: Capital Stock Output Ratio: % Point Contribution to Labour Productivity Growth data was reported at 0.659 % in 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.575 % for 2021. United States US: Capital Quality: Capital Stock Output Ratio: % Point Contribution to Labour Productivity Growth data is updated yearly, averaging 0.440 % from Dec 1985 (Median) to 2022, with 38 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.054 % in 1999 and a record low of 0.293 % in 1991. United States US: Capital Quality: Capital Stock Output Ratio: % Point Contribution to Labour Productivity Growth data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.OECD.PDB: Investment in Capital Stocks and Services: OECD Member: Annual.

Graph and download economic data for Total Factor Productivity at Constant National Prices for United States (RTFPNAUSA632NRUG) from 1954 to 2019 about production, price, and USA.

Quarterly series on labour productivity growth and related variables have been published for the first time on December 20th, 2000. These statistical series go back to the first quarter of 1981. The data are published two months after the reference quarter. The quarterly productivity measures are meant to assist in the analysis of the short-run relationship between the fluctuations of output, employment, compensation and hours worked. This measure is fully comparable with the United States quarterly measure. The quarterly estimations of this table are limited to the overall business sector. This aggregate excludes government and non-profit institutions expenditures on primary factors as well as the output of households (including the rental value of owner-occupied dwellings). Corresponding exclusions are also made to labour compensation and hours worked to make output and labour input data consistent with one another. The real output of the business sector is constructed using a Fisher-chained index, after excluding from GDP at market prices the real gross value added of the government sector, of the non-profit institutions and of households (including the rental value of owner-occupied dwellings). This approach is similar to that used for the quarterly productivity of the business sector in the United States. The estimate of the total number of jobs covers four main categories: employee jobs, work owner of an unincorporated business, own account self-employment, and unpaid family jobs. This last category is found mainly in sectors where family firms are important (agriculture and retail trade, in particular). Jobs data are consistent with the System of National Accounts. This is the quarterly average of hours worked for jobs in all categories. The number of hours worked in all jobs is the quarterly average for all jobs times the annual average hours worked in all jobs. According to the retained definition, hours worked means the total number of hours that a person spends working, whether paid or not. In general, this includes regular and overtime hours, breaks, travel time, training in the workplace and time lost in brief work stoppages where workers remain at their posts. On the other hand, time lost due to strikes, lockouts, annual vacation, public holidays, sick leave, maternity leave or leave for personal needs are not included in total hours worked. Labour productivity is a measure of real gross domestic product (GDP) per hour worked. The ratio between total compensation for all jobs, and the number of hours worked. The term hourly compensation" is often used to refer to the total compensation per hour worked." This measures the cost of labour input required to produce one unit of output, and equals labour compensation in current dollars divided by the real output. It is often calculated as the ratio of labour compensation per hour worked and labour productivity. Unit labour cost increases when labour compensation per hour worked increases more rapidly than labour productivity. It is widely used to measure inflation pressures arising from wage growth. Unit non-labour payments are the non-labour payments associated with each unit of output of goods and services, and they are calculated as the non-labour payments divided by the real output. The implicit price deflator is equal to current-dollar output, divided by real output. The output measure is consistent with the Quarterly Income and Expenditure Accounts, prepared by the National Economic Accounts Division. Labor share is equal to the labour compensation divided by current dollar output. The output measure is consistent with the Quarterly Income and Expenditure Accounts, prepared by the National Economic Accounts Division. Current-dollar gross domestic product (GDP) in business sector equals current-dollar GDP in the economy less the gross value added of government, nonprofit institutions, households, and the rental of owner-occupied-dwellings. The output measure is consistent with the Quarterly Income and Expenditure Accounts. The total compensation for all jobs consists of all payments in cash or in kind made by domestic producers to workers for services rendered. It includes wages and salaries and employer's social contributions of employees, plus an imputed labour income for self-employed workers. Non-labour payments are the excess of current-dollar output in the business sector over corresponding labour compensation, and include non-labour costs as well as corporate profits and the profit-type income of proprietors. Non-labour costs include interest, depreciation, rent, and indirect business taxes. Unit labour cost in United States dollars is the equivalent of the ratio of Canadian unit labour cost to the exchange rate. This latter corresponds to the United States dollar value expressed in Canadian dollars.

The more powerful the artificial intelligence (AI) used, the more impressive the benefits on labor productivity will be. This is consistent for those companies adopting AI over a ** year period, with ** year and ** year periods all both demonstrating a far slower increase in productivity. The displacement of labor is far less drastic if companies are willing to employ more powerful AI models.