TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2005Q2 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2005Q2             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2005Q2 2004Q2 Growth   2005Q1 2004Q1 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Mining Oil and gas extraction 211 $1,268.31   3,743 3,300 443 13.4%   3,621 3,302 319 9.7%   11.5% 6
Mining Support activities for mining 213 $1,037.73   10,773 8,926 1,847 20.7%   10,125 8,464 1,661 19.6%   20.2% 2
Construction Specialty trade contractors 238 $596.78   10,782 10,147 635 6.3%   9,335 8,720 615 7.1%   6.7% 13
Manufacturing Fabricated metal product manufacturing 332 $771.97   1,471 1,237 234 18.9%   1,461 1,233 228 18.5%   18.7% 3
Manufacturing Electrical equipment and appliance manufacturing 335 $990.87   155 138 17 12.3%   151 139 12 8.6%   10.5% 7
Manufacturing Transportation equipment manufacturing 336 $655.06   518 489 29 5.9%   517 465 52 11.2%   8.6% 8
Wholesale trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $912.80   431 397 34 8.6%   419 388 31 8.0%   8.3% 9
Transportation and warehousing Truck transportation 484 $689.96   3,663 3,405 258 7.6%   3,469 3,231 238 7.4%   7.5% 11
Transportation and warehousing Warehousing and storage 493 $518.75   801 668 133 19.9%   792 560 232 41.4%   30.7% 1
Information Motion picture and sound recording industries 512 $172.83   513 427 86 20.1%   464 397 67 16.9%   18.5% 4
Information ISPs, search portals, and data processing 518 $443.57   537 504 33 6.6%   539 511 28 5.5%   6.0% 14
Real estate and rental and leasing Rental and leasing services 532 $637.77   2,032 1,720 312 18.1%   1,900 1,665 235 14.1%   16.1% 5
Professional and technical services Professional and technical services 541 $746.66   8,398 7,902 496 6.3%   8,326 7,729 597 7.7%   7.0% 12
Administrative and waste services Waste management and remediation services 562 $557.63   585 541 44 8.1%   558 521 37 7.1%   7.6% 10
Total     $800.54   44,402 39,801 4,601 11.6%   41,677 37,325 4,352 11.7%   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 second quarter of 2005 is $800.54. 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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