TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2003Q2 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2003Q2             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2003Q2 2002Q2 Growth   2003Q1 2002Q1 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Manufacturing Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 326 $451.91   433 352 81 23.0%   414 293 121 41.3%   32.2% 3
Manufacturing Transportation equipment manufacturing 336 $537.39   471 345 126 36.5%   496 339 157 46.3%   41.4% 2
Manufacturing Miscellaneous manufacturing 339 $432.00   255 230 25 10.9%   242 223 19 8.5%   9.7% 6
Transportation and warehousing Support activities for transportation 488 $575.65   871 799 72 9.0%   873 787 86 10.9%   10.0% 5
Transportation and warehousing Warehousing and storage 493 $501.05   483 170 313 184.1%   475 174 301 173.0%   178.6% 1
Information Motion picture and sound recording industries 512 $201.09   426 400 26 6.5%   386 365 21 5.8%   6.1% 10
Administrative and waste services Waste management and remediation services 562 $480.11   519 494 25 5.1%   488 464 24 5.2%   5.1% 11
Health care and social assistance Ambulatory health care services 621 $763.07   7,231 6,781 450 6.6%   7,130 6,666 464 7.0%   6.8% 8
Health care and social assistance Social assistance 624 $318.09   5,059 4,713 346 7.3%   5,005 4,575 430 9.4%   8.4% 7
Arts, entertainment, and recreation Performing arts and spectator sports 711 $279.16   386 330 56 17.0%   310 236 74 31.4%   24.2% 4
Public administration National security and international affairs 928 $825.48   1,111 1,042 69 6.6%   1,115 1,043 72 6.9%   6.8% 9
Total     $567.64   17,245 15,656 1,589 10.2%   16,934 15,165 1,769 11.7%   10.9% NA
      $0.00   0 0 0 0.0%   0 0 0 0.0%   0.0%  
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 second quarter of 2003 is $567.64. 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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