TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2003Q1 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2003Q1             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2003Q1 2002Q1 Growth   2002Q4 2001Q4 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Manufacturing Transportation equipment manufacturing 336 $537.87   496 339 157 46.3%   357 320 37 11.6%   28.9% 2
Manufacturing Miscellaneous manufacturing 339 $399.86   240 223 17 7.6%   260 225 35 15.6%   11.6% 6
Retail Trade Electronics and appliance stores 443 $448.29   712 659 53 8.0%   709 618 91 14.7%   11.4% 7
Retail Trade Building material and garden supply stores 444 $451.85   2,319 2,186 133 6.1%   2,765 2,227 538 24.2%   15.1% 5
Transportation and warehousing Air transportation 481 $484.80   674 598 76 12.7%   671 430 241 56.1%   34.4% 1
Transportation and warehousing Support activities for transportation 488 $573.97   877 787 90 11.4%   832 687 145 21.1%   16.3% 4
Arts, entertainment, and recreation Performing arts and spectator sports 711 $767.18   314 236 78 33.1%   242 206 36 17.5%   25.3% 3
Accommodation and food services Accommodation 721 $288.19   8,984 8,481 503 5.9%   8,730 7,695 1,035 13.5%   9.7% 8
Public administration Administration of human resource programs 923 $651.23   2,376 2,260 116 5.1%   2,344 2,211 133 6.0%   5.6% 9
Public administration Administration of environmental programs 924 $706.99   3,226 3,063 163 5.3%   3,436 3,257 179 5.5%   5.4% 10
Total     $455.93   20,218 18,832 1,386 7.4%   20,346 17,876 2,470 13.8%   10.6% 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 growing industries in the first quarter of 2003 is $455.93. 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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