TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2004Q4 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2004Q4             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2004Q4 2003Q4 Growth   2004Q3 2003Q3 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Mining Support activities for mining 213 $1,051.86   10,109 8,360 1,749 20.9%   9,794 8,225 1,569 19.1%   20.0% 3
Manufacturing Machinery manufacturing 333 $707.68   388 352 36 10.2%   374 335 39 11.6%   10.9% 7
Manufacturing Transportation equipment manufacturing 336 $637.90   524 452 72 15.9%   501 447 54 12.1%   14.0% 5
Manufacturing Furniture and related product manufacturing 337 $503.42   301 274 27 9.9%   298 283 15 5.3%   7.6% 13
Wholesale trade Merchant wholesalers, durable goods 423 $920.21   4,487 4,217 270 6.4%   4,479 4,222 257 6.1%   6.2% 14
Wholesale trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $1,089.44   429 388 41 10.6%   399 375 24 6.4%   8.5% 9
Retail Trade Clothing and clothing accessories stores 448 $297.25   1,592 1,399 193 13.8%   1,578 1,471 107 7.3%   10.5% 8
Transportation and warehousing Truck transportation 484 $732.97   3,484 3,316 168 5.1%   3,550 3,338 212 6.4%   5.7% 16
Transportation and warehousing Warehousing and storage 493 $445.02   754 508 246 48.4%   686 491 195 39.7%   44.1% 1
Information ISPs, search portals, and data processing 518 $495.63   567 482 85 17.6%   564 485 79 16.3%   17.0% 4
Real estate and rental and leasing Rental and leasing services 532 $654.79   1,852 1,647 205 12.5%   1,853 1,645 208 12.6%   12.5% 6
Management of companies and enterprises Management of companies and enterprises 551 $1,676.62   766 522 244 46.7%   769 569 200 35.2%   40.9% 2
Administrative and waste services Waste management and remediation services 562 $583.15   574 525 49 9.3%   573 539 34 6.3%   7.8% 12
Educational services Educational services 611 $525.47   27,744 25,986 1,758 6.8%   21,695 19,913 1,782 9.0%   7.9% 11
Health care and social assistance Ambulatory health care services 621 $957.08   7,754 7,340 414 5.6%   7,767 7,312 455 6.2%   5.9% 15
Health care and social assistance Social assistance 624 $333.38   5,434 5,032 402 8.0%   5,214 4,826 388 8.0%   8.0% 10
Total     $693.19   66,759 60,800 5,959 9.8%   60,094 54,476 5,618 10.3%   10.1% 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 2004 is $693.19. 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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