TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2004Q3 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2004Q3             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2004Q3 2003Q3 Growth   2004Q2 2003Q2 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting Agriculture and forestry support activities 115 $543.41   419 390 29 7.4%   396 334 62 18.6%   13.0% 4
Mining Support activities for mining 213 $940.37   9,777 8,225 1,552 18.9%   8,926 7,474 1,452 19.4%   19.2% 3
Manufacturing Food manufacturing 311 $393.39   680 610 70 11.5%   567 536 31 5.8%   8.6% 8
Manufacturing Printing and related support activities 323 $430.45   401 368 33 9.0%   390 371 19 5.1%   7.0% 10
Manufacturing Machinery manufacturing 333 $712.56   374 335 39 11.6%   381 347 34 9.8%   10.7% 5
Wholesale trade Merchant wholesalers, durable goods 423 $786.47   4,479 4,222 257 6.1%   4,425 4,164 261 6.3%   6.2% 14
Wholesale trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $973.98   397 375 22 5.9%   397 348 49 14.1%   10.0% 7
Retail Trade Electronics and appliance stores 443 $479.57   732 696 36 5.2%   722 675 47 7.0%   6.1% 15
Retail Trade Health and personal care stores 446 $449.80   890 838 52 6.2%   881 818 63 7.7%   7.0% 11
Retail Trade Clothing and clothing accessories stores 448 $285.40   1,557 1,471 86 5.9%   1,426 1,356 70 5.2%   5.5% 17
Transportation and warehousing Couriers and messengers 492 $688.21   700 655 45 6.9%   703 658 45 6.8%   6.9% 12
Transportation and warehousing Warehousing and storage 493 $403.25   686 491 195 39.7%   668 485 183 37.7%   38.7% 2
Real estate and rental and leasing Rental and leasing services 532 $561.62   1,851 1,645 206 12.5%   1,720 1,592 128 8.0%   10.3% 6
Management of companies and enterprises Management of companies and enterprises 551 $1,174.06   766 569 197 34.6%   742 515 227 44.1%   39.4% 1
Administrative and waste services Waste management and remediation services 562 $526.88   571 539 32 5.9%   541 514 27 5.3%   5.6% 16
Educational services Educational services 611 $525.77   21,683 19,913 1,770 8.9%   27,271 25,455 1,816 7.1%   8.0% 9
Health care and social assistance Ambulatory health care services 621 $814.04   7,773 7,312 461 6.3%   7,668 7,210 458 6.4%   6.3% 13
Total     $669.18   53,736 48,654 5,082 10.5%   57,824 52,852 4,972 9.4%   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 2004 is $669.18. 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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