TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2005Q3 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2005Q3             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2005Q3 2004Q3 Growth   2005Q2 2004Q2 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Mining Oil and gas extraction 211 $1,320.85   3,878 3,508 370 10.6%   3,743 3,300 443 13.4%   12.0% 8
Mining Support activities for mining 213 $1,098.93   11,531 9,794 1,737 17.7%   10,794 8,926 1,868 20.9%   19.3% 1
Manufacturing Fabricated metal product manufacturing 332 $748.90   1,479 1,268 211 16.6%   1,471 1,237 234 18.9%   17.8% 2
Manufacturing Electrical equipment and appliance mfg. 335 $826.98   162 138 24 17.4%   155 138 17 12.3%   14.9% 6
Manufacturing Transportation equipment manufacturing 336 $619.76   534 501 33 6.6%   518 489 29 5.9%   6.3% 12
Wholesale trade Merchant wholesalers, durable goods 423 $862.13   4,764 4,479 285 6.4%   4,680 4,425 255 5.8%   6.1% 14
Wholesale trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $951.21   453 399 54 13.5%   448 397 51 12.9%   13.2% 7
Retail Trade Health and personal care stores 446 $505.42   949 890 59 6.6%   927 881 46 5.2%   5.9% 15
Retail Trade Sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores 451 $270.37   1,438 1,339 99 7.4%   1,324 1,240 84 6.8%   7.1% 10
Transportation and warehousing Truck transportation 484 $738.40   3,757 3,550 207 5.8%   3,672 3,405 267 7.8%   6.8% 11
Transportation and warehousing Warehousing and storage 493 $549.52   756 686 70 10.2%   801 668 133 19.9%   15.1% 4
Information Motion picture and sound recording industries 512 $183.99   512 457 55 12.0%   513 427 86 20.1%   16.1% 3
Real estate and rental and leasing Real estate 531 $451.33   2,023 1,888 135 7.2%   1,968 1,868 100 5.4%   6.3% 13
Real estate and rental and leasing Rental and leasing services 532 $684.46   2,072 1,853 219 11.8%   2,032 1,720 312 18.1%   15.0% 5
Professional and technical services Professional and technical services 541 $787.61   8,496 8,084 412 5.1%   8,415 7,902 513 6.5%   5.8% 16
Administrative and waste services Waste management and remediation services 562 $703.79   614 573 41 7.2%   586 541 45 8.3%   7.7% 9
Total     $863.97   43,418 39,407 4,011 10.2%   42,047 37,564 4,483 11.9%   11.1% 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 third quarter of 2005 is $863.97.  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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