Text Box: TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2002Q2 IN NAICS
             
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1  2002Q2 AWW2             Avg. Growth3
        2002Q2 2001Q2 Growth   2002Q1 2001Q1 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Mining Mining, except oil and gas 212 $1,134.00   7,536 7,053 483 6.8%   7,404 6,841 563 8.2%   7.5% 13
Construction Heavy and civil engineering construction 237 $701.21   5,619 5,089 530 10.4%   4,138 3,897 241 6.2%   8.3% 10
Manufacturing Computer and electronic product manufacturing 334 $608.45   367 276 91 33.0%   370 278 92 33.1%   33.0% 3
Wholesale Trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $814.58   332 224 108 48.2%   334 201 133 66.2%   57.2% 2
Retail Trade Electronics and appliance stores 443 $413.96   654 566 88 15.5%   659 570 89 15.6%   15.6% 5
Retail Trade Building material and garden supply stores 444 $440.19   2,626 2,380 246 10.3%   2,176 2,068 108 5.2%   7.8% 11
Transportation and warehousing Air transportation 481 $502.48   632 471 161 34.2%   598 494 104 21.1%   27.6% 4
Transportation and Warehousing Support activities for transportation 488 $561.07   796 712 84 11.8%   787 717 70 9.8%   10.8% 8
Information Motion picture and sound recording industries 512 $253.13   404 376 28 7.4%   365 339 26 7.7%   7.6% 12
Information ISPs, search portals, and data processing 518 $377.24   476 241 235 97.5%   603 244 359 147.1%   122.3% 1
Information Other information services 519 $319.29   609 578 31 5.4%   604 572 32 5.6%   5.5% 17
Finance and Insurance Credit intermediation and related activities 522 $582.28   4,203 3,993 210 5.3%   4,183 3,899 284 7.3%   6.3% 14
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing Rental and leasing services 532 $504.91   1,771 1,584 187 11.8%   1,518 1,341 177 13.2%   12.5% 6
Health Care and Social Assistance Ambulatory health care services 621 $718.29   6,780 6,441 339 5.3%   6,656 6,251 405 6.5%   5.9% 16
Accommodation and Food Services Accommodation 721 $252.17   10,556 9,810 746 7.6%   8,481 7,306 1,175 16.1%   11.8% 7
Other Services, Except Public Administration Repair and maintenance 811 $542.39   3,513 3,194 319 10.0%   3,374 3,087 287 9.3%   9.6% 9
Public Administration Administration of environmental programs 924 $722.21   3,509 3,317 192 5.8%   3,063 2,885 178 6.2%   6.0% 15
Total   NA $614.49   50,383 46,305 4,078 8.8%   45,313 40,990 4,323 10.5%   9.7% 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 2002 is $614.49.  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 current quarter + percent growth previous 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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