Text Box: TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2001Q3 IN NAICS
             
          Employment Second Quarter   Employment First Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1  2001Q3 AWW2             Avg. Growth3
        2001Q3 2000Q3 Growth   2001Q2 2000Q2 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Agriculture and forestry support activities 115ND $702.52   364 332 32 9.6%   334 282 52 18.4%   14.0% 7
Mining Oil and gas extraction 211 $1,006.43   3,499 2,741 758 27.7%   3,295 2,642 653 24.7%   26.2% 6
Mining Support activities for mining 213 $859.31   8,225 6,404 1,821 28.4%   7,549 5,717 1,832 32.0%   30.2% 5
Construction Specialty trade contractors 238 $553.34   10,328 9,667 661 6.8%   9,771 9,161 610 6.7%   6.8% 17
Manufacturing Textile product mills 314 $281.93   154 144 10 6.9%   133 122 11 9.0%   8.0% 14
Manufacturing Machinery manufacturing 333 $632.20   491 444 47 10.6%   503 460 43 9.4%   10.0% 11
Wholesale Trade Merchant wholesalers, durable goods 423 $717.19   4,176 3,843 333 8.7%   4,106 3,792 314 8.3%   8.5% 13
Wholesale Trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $758.55   262 183 79 43.2%   224 179 45 25.1%   34.2% 2
Retail Trade Building material and garden supply stores 444 $426.01   2,350 2,221 129 5.8%   2,380 2,262 118 5.2%   5.5% 19
Retail Trade Health and personal care stores 446 $393.28   849 802 47 5.9%   830 761 69 9.1%   7.5% 16
Retail Trade Nonstore retailers 454 $419.90   1,594 1,465 129 8.8%   1,622 1,442 180 12.5%   10.6% 10
Transportation and Warehousing Air transportation 481 $554.55   471 376 95 25.3%   471 312 159 51.0%   38.1% 1
Information Motion picture and sound recording industries 512 $157.49   372 345 27 7.8%   376 357 19 5.3%   6.6% 18
Information ISPs, search portals, and data processing 518 $451.44   240 217 23 10.6%   241 215 26 12.1%   11.3% 9
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing Rental and leasing services 532 $482.01   1,750 1,275 475 37.3%   1,584 1,217 367 30.2%   33.7% 3
Professional and Technical Services Professional and technical services 541 $604.65   7,995 7,301 694 9.5%   7,765 7,310 455 6.2%   7.9% 15
Health Care and Social Assistance Social assistance 624 $275.81   4,487 3,964 523 13.2%   4,472 4,231 241 5.7%   9.4% 12
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation Performing arts and spectator sports 711 $246.84   455 345 110 31.9%   292 221 71 32.1%   32.0% 4
Public Administration Justice, public order, and safety activities 922 $728.52   1,741 1,551 190 12.3%   1,670 1,464 206 14.1%   13.2% 8
Total    NA $619.16   49,803 43,620 6,183 14.2%   47,618 42,147 5,471 13.0%   13.6% NA
Text Box: 1. Includes both public and privately owned firms. 2. The Average Week Wage (AWW) is calculated by dividing the total wage for the industry group by the total number of jobs for the industry group and the number of weeks in the observed quarter. To give some context to this number, the AWW for all industries in the second quarter of 2001 is $527. The reader should also be aware that, AWW's at the industry Group Level are susceptible to wage bias due to sample size, occupational distributions, seasonal pay and bonuses, and keying error. 3. The percentage for Average Growth is defined as: (percent growth second quarter + percent growth first quarter)/2. 4. Rank is based on the magnitude of the percent Average Growth relative to the magnitude of all other growing industries.
Table of Contents Labor Market Information