Table 1: Industry Ranked by Percentage of Total Wyoming Employment for Selected Years and Table 2: Industry Ranked by Percentage of Total Wyoming Wages for Selected Years

Table 1: Industry Ranked by Percentage of Total Wyoming Employment for Selected Years

	Percentage of Total Employment

	1970		1981		1987		2000
Rank	Industry	Percent	Industry	Percent	Industry	Percent	Industry	Percent

1	Government	29.8	Government	21.8	Government	29.2	Government	25.4
2	Retail Trade	16.9	Retail Trade	16.7	Services	18.1	Services	23.1
3	Services	16.6	Mining	16.4	Retail Trade	18.0	Retail Trade	19.2
4	Mining	9.4	Services	15.1	Mining	9.0	Construction	7.5
5	TCPU*	8.7	Construction	9.2	TCPU*	7.2	Mining	6.9
6	Manufacturing	6.0	TCPU*	7.8	Construction	5.7	TCPU*	5.7
7	Construction	5.9	Wholesale Trade	4.8	Manufacturing	4.1	Manufacturing	4.6
8	Wholesale Trade	3.0	Manufacturing	4.2	FIRE**	4.0	FIRE**	3.4
9	FIRE**	3.0	FIRE**	3.4	Wholesale Trade	3.6	Wholesale Trade	3.1
10	Agriculture	0.7	Agriculture	0.5	Agriculture	1.0	Agriculture	1.1

Table 2: Industry Ranked by Percentage of Total Wyoming Wages for Selected Years

	Percentage of Total Wages

	1970		1981		1987		2000
Rank	Industry	Percent	Industry	Percent	Industry	Percent	Industry	Percent

1	Government	30.5	Mining	26.0	Government	29.8	Government	25.2
2	Mining	14.1	Government	19.1	Mining	16.6	Services	18.3
3	TCPU*	12.2	Construction	11.9	Services	12.4	Mining	14.1
4	Retail Trade	11.3	TCPU*	10.6	TCPU*	11.3	Retail Trade	10.6
5	Services	9.5	Services	9.8	Retail Trade	9.8	TCPU*	9.2
6	Construction	8.3	Retail Trade	9.1	Construction	6.7	Construction	8.3
7	Manufacturing	7.0	Wholesale Trade	5.8	Manufacturing	4.6	Manufacturing	5.8
8	Wholesale Trade	3.6	Manufacturing	4.5	Wholesale Trade	4.4	FIRE**	4.0
9	FIRE**	3.1	FIRE**	3.0	FIRE**	4.0	Wholesale Trade	3.9
10	Agriculture	0.4	Agriculture	0.3	Agriculture	0.5	Agriculture	0.6

* Transportation, Communications, & Public Utilities.
** Finance, Insurance, & Real Estate.