TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2003Q3 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2003Q3             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2003Q3 2002Q3 Growth   2003Q2 2002Q2 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Mining Support activities for mining 213 $895.03   8,211 7,354 857 11.7%   7,479 6,967 512 7.4%   9.5% 8
Manufacturing Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 326 $628.44   478 353 125 35.4%   433 352 81 23.0%   29.2% 3
Manufacturing Fabricated metal product manufacturing 332 $675.92   1,273 1,158 115 9.9%   1,242 1,182 60 5.1%   7.5% 9
Manufacturing Transportation equipment manufacturing 336 $542.63   447 356 91 25.6%   471 345 126 36.5%   31.0% 2
Manufacturing Miscellaneous manufacturing 339 $396.83   265 230 35 15.2%   255 230 25 10.9%   13.0% 5
Transportation and warehousing Support activities for transportation 488 $567.50   929 843 86 10.2%   873 799 74 9.3%   9.7% 7
Transportation and warehousing Warehousing and storage 493 $404.91   491 157 334 212.7%   485 170 315 185.3%   199.0% 1
Information Motion picture and sound recording industries 512 $168.88   430 405 25 6.2%   426 400 26 6.5%   6.3% 12
Information ISPs, search portals, and data processing 518 $462.87   485 380 105 27.6%   520 478 42 8.8%   18.2% 4
Health care and social assistance Ambulatory health care services 621 $776.99   7,296 6,821 475 7.0%   7,209 6,781 428 6.3%   6.6% 10
Health care and social assistance Social assistance 624 $324.63   4,826 4,582 244 5.3%   5,060 4,713 347 7.4%   6.3% 11
Arts, entertainment, and recreation Performing arts and spectator sports 711 $296.38   476 442 34 7.7%   385 330 55 16.7%   12.2% 6
Public administration National security and international affairs 928 $862.51   1,149 1,091 58 5.3%   1,111 1,042 69 6.6%   6.0% 13
Total     $682.03   26,756 24,172 2,584 10.7%   25,949 23,789 2,160 9.1%   9.9% 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 third quarter of 2003 is $682.03.  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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