TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2005Q4 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2005Q4             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2005Q4 2004Q4 Growth   2005Q3 2004Q3 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting Crop production 111 $479.41   434 393 41 10.4%   562 524 38 7.3%   8.8% 15
Mining Oil and gas extraction 211 $1,350.89   3,924 3,566 358 10.0%   3,902 3,508 394 11.2%   10.6% 10
Mining Support activities for mining 213 $1,145.41   11,953 10,133 1,820 18.0%   11,540 9,794 1,746 17.8%   17.9% 2
Construction Construction of buildings 236 $663.22   4,580 4,212 368 8.7%   4,837 4,406 431 9.8%   9.3% 14
Construction Heavy and civil engineering construction 237 $900.04   6,566 5,042 1,524 30.2%   6,745 5,786 959 16.6%   23.4% 1
Manufacturing Chemical manufacturing 325 $1,326.94   1,517 1,411 106 7.5%   1,558 1,447 111 7.7%   7.6% 18
Manufacturing Fabricated metal product manufacturing 332 $792.03   1,493 1,297 196 15.1%   1,479 1,268 211 16.6%   15.9% 3
Manufacturing Machinery manufacturing 333 $783.92   426 388 38 9.8%   409 374 35 9.4%   9.6% 12
Manufacturing Electrical equipment and appliance mfg. 335 $1,080.15   161 144 17 11.8%   162 138 24 17.4%   14.6% 5
Wholesale trade Merchant wholesalers, durable goods 423 $968.48   4,880 4,480 400 8.9%   4,774 4,479 295 6.6%   7.8% 16
Wholesale trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $1,098.76   470 429 41 9.6%   456 399 57 14.3%   11.9% 7
Retail Trade Furniture and home furnishings stores 442 $505.41   815 765 50 6.5%   807 743 64 8.6%   7.6% 19
Retail Trade Building material and garden supply stores 444 $524.09   2,591 2,401 190 7.9%   2,772 2,589 183 7.1%   7.5% 20
Retail Trade Health and personal care stores 446 $506.41   990 935 55 5.9%   946 890 56 6.3%   6.1% 22
Retail Trade Sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores 451 $277.61   1,400 1,218 182 14.9%   1,438 1,339 99 7.4%   11.2% 9
Transportation and warehousing Truck transportation 484 $786.98   3,821 3,501 320 9.1%   3,776 3,550 226 6.4%   7.8% 17
Transportation and warehousing Transit and ground passenger transportation 485 $429.24   616 554 62 11.2%   627 575 52 9.0%   10.1% 11
Transportation and warehousing Pipeline transportation 486 $1,187.78   671 608 63 10.4%   666 615 51 8.3%   9.3% 13
Transportation and warehousing Warehousing and storage 493 $491.75   895 754 141 18.7%   756 686 70 10.2%   14.5% 6
Information Motion picture and sound recording industries 512 $281.32   473 404 69 17.1%   513 457 56 12.3%   14.7% 4
Real estate and rental and leasing Rental and leasing services 532 $775.54   2,062 1,853 209 11.3%   2,072 1,853 219 11.8%   11.6% 8
Professional and technical services Professional and technical services 541 $958.40   8,517 8,009 508 6.3%   8,519 8,084 435 5.4%   5.9% 23
Administrative and waste services Waste management and remediation services 562 $622.49   615 582 33 5.7%   623 573 50 8.7%   7.2% 21
Total     $910.96   59,870 53,079 6,791 12.8%   59,939 54,077 5,862 10.8%   11.8% 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 2005 is $910.96. 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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