TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2005Q1 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2005Q1             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2005Q1 2004Q1 Growth   2004Q4 2003Q4 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Mining Support activities for mining 213 $989.65   10,112 8,464 1,648 19.5%   10,133 8,360 1,773 21.2%   20.3% 3
Manufacturing Electrical equipment and appliance mfg. 335 $817.90   151 139 12 8.6%   144 133 11 8.3%   8.5% 11
Manufacturing Transportation equipment manufacturing 336 $561.46   517 465 52 11.2%   522 452 70 15.5%   13.3% 4
Manufacturing Furniture and related product manufacturing 337 $428.51   296 276 20 7.3%   301 274 27 9.9%   8.6% 10
Wholesale trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $921.02   420 388 32 8.3%   429 388 41 10.6%   9.4% 8
Retail Trade Clothing and clothing accessories stores 448 $265.51   1,467 1,380 87 6.3%   1,582 1,399 183 13.1%   9.7% 7
Retail Trade Nonstore retailers 454 $501.83   1,554 1,433 121 8.4%   1,651 1,559 92 5.9%   7.2% 12
Transportation and warehousing Truck transportation 484 $662.94   3,464 3,231 233 7.2%   3,501 3,316 185 5.6%   6.4% 14
Transportation and warehousing Warehousing and storage 493 $383.99   792 560 232 41.4%   754 508 246 48.4%   44.9% 1
Information ISPs, search portals, and data processing 518 $439.77   538 511 27 5.3%   567 482 85 17.6%   11.5% 6
Real estate and rental and leasing Rental and leasing services 532 $587.40   1,886 1,665 221 13.3%   1,853 1,647 206 12.5%   12.9% 5
Management of companies and enterprises Management of companies and enterprises 551 $1,662.78   772 706 66 9.4%   777 522 255 48.9%   29.1% 2
Administrative and waste services Waste management and remediation services 562 $552.01   557 521 36 6.9%   582 525 57 10.9%   8.9% 9
Health care and social assistance Social assistance 624 $324.13   5,488 5,225 263 5.0%   5,437 5,032 405 8.1%   6.5% 13
Total     $693.19   28,014 24,964 3,050 12.2%   28,233 24,597 3,636 14.8%   13.5% 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 2005 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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