TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2002Q4 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2002Q4             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2002Q4 2001Q4 Growth   2002Q3 2001Q3 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Manufacturing Computer and electronic product manufacturing 334 $598.30   364 288 76 26.4%   357 284 73 25.7%   26.0% 3
Manufacturing Miscellaneous manufacturing 339 $437.98   260 225 35 15.6%   230 218 12 5.5%   10.5% 9
Wholesale trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $955.79   349 314 35 11.2%   345 267 78 29.2%   20.2% 5
Retail Trade Electronics and appliance stores 443 $463.47   710 618 92 14.9%   686 585 101 17.3%   16.1% 6
Retail Trade Building material and garden supply stores 444 $476.05   2,766 2,227 539 24.2%   2,807 2,356 451 19.1%   21.7% 4
Transportation and warehousing Air transportation 481 $492.34   671 430 241 56.1%   675 471 204 43.3%   49.7% 2
Transportation and warehousing Pipeline transportation 486 $1,163.59   604 562 42 7.5%   626 560 66 11.8%   9.6% 10
Transportation and warehousing Support activities for transportation 488 $567.40   820 687 133 19.4%   843 757 86 11.4%   15.4% 7
Information ISPs, search portals, and data processing 518 $454.17   439 247 192 77.7%   381 240 141 58.8%   68.2% 1
Information Other information services 519 $316.20   616 586 30 5.1%   612 575 37 6.4%   5.8% 15
Finance and insurance Credit intermediation and related activities 522 $663.93   4,255 3,960 295 7.5%   4,247 3,923 324 8.3%   7.9% 11
Finance and insurance Insurance carriers and related activities 524 $706.07   1,894 1,794 100 5.6%   1,905 1,773 132 7.5%   6.5% 13
Administrative and waste services Administrative and support services 561 $390.42   6,833 6,357 476 7.5%   7,618 7,203 415 5.8%   6.6% 12
Accommodation and food services Accommodation 721 $306.62   8,730 7,695 1,035 13.5%   13,072 12,083 989 8.2%   10.8% 8
Public administration Administration of human resource programs 923 $664.85   2,344 2,211 133 6.0%   2,308 2,170 138 6.4%   6.2% 14
Public administration Administration of environmental programs 924 $807.16   3,436 3,257 179 5.5%   4,040 3,847 193 5.0%   5.3% 16
Total     $514.16   35,091 31,458 3,633 11.6%   40,752 37,312 3,440 9.2%   10.4% NA
Text Box: 1.  Includes both public and privately owned firms.
2.  The Average Weekly 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 2002 is $591.41.  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 Decline is defined as:  (percent decline current quarter + percent decline previous quarter)/2.
4.  Rank is based on the magnitude of the percent Average Decline relative to the magnitude of all other declining industries.
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