TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2004Q1 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2004Q1             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2004Q1 2003Q1 Growth   2003Q4 2002Q4 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Mining Oil and gas extraction 211 $1,321.98   3,304 3,040 264 8.7%   3,397 3,078 319 10.4%   9.5% 6
Mining Support activities for mining 213 $942.15   8,436 6,866 1,570 22.9%   8,360 6,985 1,375 19.7%   21.3% 3
Construction Heavy and civil engineering construction 237 $727.82   4,279 3,948 331 8.4%   6,100 5,172 928 17.9%   13.2% 4
Manufacturing Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 326 $508.87   492 414 78 18.8%   504 314 190 60.5%   39.7% 2
Wholesale trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $885.19   386 334 52 15.6%   388 353 35 9.9%   12.7% 5
Retail Trade Health and personal care stores 446 $430.39   881 812 69 8.5%   903 828 75 9.1%   8.8% 7
Transportation and warehousing Couriers and messengers 492 $647.81   681 648 33 5.1%   770 726 44 6.1%   5.6% 10
Transportation and warehousing Warehousing and storage 493 $398.52   560 475 85 17.9%   508 177 331 187.0%   102.5% 1
Information Broadcasting, except Internet 515 $490.29   604 551 53 9.6%   593 561 32 5.7%   7.7% 8
Health care and social assistance Ambulatory health care services 621 $716.67   7,500 7,129 371 5.2%   7,340 6,852 488 7.1%   6.2% 9
Total     $838.29   27,123 24,217 2,906 12.0%   28,863 25,046 3,817 15.2%   13.6% 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 2004 is $838.29. 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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