TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2003Q4 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2003Q4             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2003Q4 2002Q4 Growth   2003Q3 2002Q3 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Mining Oil and gas extraction 211 $1,237.66   3,405 3,078 327 10.6%   3,349 3,185 164 5.2%   7.9% 11
Mining Support activities for mining 213 $984.51   8,365 6,985 1,380 19.8%   8,228 7,354 874 11.9%   15.8% 5
Construction Heavy and civil engineering construction 237 $869.92   6,107 5,172 935 18.1%   7,055 6,239 816 13.1%   15.6% 6
Manufacturing Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 326 $666.53   504 314 190 60.5%   478 353 125 35.4%   48.0% 2
Manufacturing Fabricated metal product manufacturing 332 $698.88   1,247 1,118 129 11.5%   1,263 1,158 105 9.1%   10.3% 7
Manufacturing Transportation equipment manufacturing 336 $606.62   441 357 84 23.5%   446 356 90 25.3%   24.4% 3
Wholesale trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $989.53   383 353 30 8.5%   371 345 26 7.5%   8.0% 9
Transportation and warehousing Warehousing and storage 493 $438.05   509 177 332 187.6%   491 157 334 212.7%   200.2% 1
Information Motion picture and sound recording industries 512 $188.74   398 360 38 10.6%   427 405 22 5.4%   8.0% 10
Information ISPs, search portals, and data processing 518 $500.85   481 439 42 9.6%   485 380 105 27.6%   18.6% 4
Finance and insurance Credit intermediation and related activities 522 $677.98   4,489 4,264 225 5.3%   4,482 4,247 235 5.5%   5.4% 13
Health care and social assistance Ambulatory health care services 621 $925.51   7,324 6,852 472 6.9%   7,306 6,821 485 7.1%   7.0% 12
Health care and social assistance Social assistance 624 $333.15   5,029 4,785 244 5.1%   4,829 4,582 247 5.4%   5.2% 14
Arts, entertainment, and recreation Performing arts and spectator sports 711 $409.59   259 242 17 7.0%   492 442 50 11.3%   9.2% 8
Total     $815.56   38,941 34,496 4,445 12.9%   39,702 36,024 3,678 10.2%   11.6% 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 fourth quarter of 2003 is $815.56.  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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