Text Box: TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2001Q4 IN NAICS
             
          Employment Second Quarter   Employment First Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1  2001Q4 AWW2             Avg. Growth3
        2001Q4 2000Q4 Growth   2001Q3 2000Q3 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Agriculture and forestry support activities 115ND $786.87   287 246 41 16.7%   364 332 32 9.6%   13.2% 5
Mining Oil and gas extraction 211 $1,222.38   3,457 2,815 642 22.8%   3,499 2,741 758 27.7%   25.2% 4
Mining Support activities for mining 213 $901.28   8,308 6,717 1,591 23.7%   8,225 6,404 1,821 28.4%   26.1% 3
Construction Construction of buildings 236 $632.98   5,119 4,609 510 11.1%   5,205 4,849 356 7.3%   9.2% 11
Construction Specialty trade contractors 238 $645.41   9,764 9,063 701 7.7%   10,328 9,667 661 6.8%   7.3% 18
Manufacturing Textile product mills 314 $308.79   144 129 15 11.6%   154 144 10 6.9%   9.3% 10
Manufacturing Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 326 $510.73   308 285 23 8.1%   336 312 24 7.7%   7.9% 15
Manufacturing Machinery manufacturing 333 $643.29   515 480 35 7.3%   491 444 47 10.6%   8.9% 13
Wholesale Trade Merchant wholesalers, durable goods 423 $806.61   4,158 3,843 315 8.2%   4,176 3,843 333 8.7%   8.4% 14
Wholesale Trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $1,018.70   307 204 103 50.5%   262 183 79 43.2%   46.8% 1
Retail Trade Building material and garden supply stores 444 $506.00   2,226 2,033 193 9.5%   2,350 2,221 129 5.8%   7.7% 17
Information Motion picture and sound recording industries 512 $312.46   348 316 32 10.1%   372 345 27 7.8%   9.0% 12
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing Rental and leasing services 532 $537.81   1,594 1,253 341 27.2%   1,750 1,275 475 37.3%   32.2% 2
Professional and Technical Services Professional and technical services 541 $831.79   7,982 7,303 679 9.3%   7,995 7,301 694 9.5%   9.4% 9
Health Care and Social Assistance Ambulatory health care services 621 $866.69   6,682 6,261 421 6.7%   6,643 6,238 405 6.5%   6.6% 19
Health Care and Social Assistance Social assistance 624 $289.35   4,605 4,216 389 9.2%   4,487 3,964 523 13.2%   11.2% 6
Other Services, Except Public Administration Repair and maintenance 811 $550.86   3,422 3,042 380 12.5%   3,249 3,005 244 8.1%   10.3% 7
Public Administration Justice, public order, and safety activitities 922 $755.56   1,727 1,608 119 7.4%   1,741 1,551 190 12.3%   9.8% 8
Public Administration Administration of environmental programs 924 $795.72   3,257 3,035 222 7.3%   3,848 3,550 298 8.4%   7.9% 16
Total   NA $736.93   64,210 57,458 6,752 11.8%   65,475 58,369 7,106 12.2%   12.0% 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 fourth quarter of 2001 is $579.34. 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.
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