b'6 Economic UpdateBureau of Labor Statistics Union MembershipT he union membership rate - the percent of wagesurvey of about 60,000 eligible households that obtains and salary workers who were members of unionsinformation on employment and unemployment among - was 10.0 percent in 2023, little changed fromthe nations civilian noninstitutional population age 16 the previous year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsand over. For further information, see the Technical Note reported today. The number of wage and salary workersin this news release.belonging to unions, at 14.4 million, also showed little movement over the year. In 1983, the first year for whichHighlights from the 2023 data:comparable data are available, the union membership rate was 20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million unionThe union membership rate of public-sector workers workers. (32.5 percent) continued to be more than five times higher than the rate of private-sector workers (6.0 These data on union membership are collected as part ofpercent). (See table 3.)the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly sampleThe highest unionization rates were among workers in The InsulatorJuly 2024'