TABLE 1: GROWING INDUSTRIES WITH 100 OR MORE EMPLOYMENT FOR 2006Q1 IN NAICS
          Employment Current Quarter   Employment Previous Quarter      
SECTOR SUBSECTOR NAICS1 2006Q1             Avg. Growth3
      AWW2 2006Q1 2005Q1 Growth 2005Q4 2004Q4 Growth    
          N N N %   N N N %   % RANK4
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting Crop production 111 $387.40   366 294 72 24.5%   432 393 39 9.9%   17.2% 4
Mining Oil and gas extraction 211 $1,510.38   3,886 3,621 265 7.3%   3,924 3,566 358 10.0%   8.7% 16
Mining Mining, except oil and gas 212 $1,384.10   8,148 7,493 655 8.7%   7,929 7,444 485 6.5%   7.6% 19
Mining Support activities for mining 213 $1,142.64   12,893 10,125 2,768 27.3%   12,007 10,133 1,874 18.5%   22.9% 2
Construction Construction of buildings 236 $602.03   4,421 3,934 487 12.4%   4,592 4,212 380 9.0%   10.7% 9
Construction Heavy and civil engineering construction 237 $842.52   5,563 4,241 1,322 31.2%   6,648 5,042 1,606 31.9%   31.5% 1
Construction Specialty trade contractors 238 $644.15   10,277 9,335 942 10.1%   10,813 10,221 592 5.8%   7.9% 17
Manufacturing Machinery manufacturing 333 $709.23   430 390 40 10.3%   426 388 38 9.8%   10.0% 11
Manufacturing Electrical equipment and appliance mfg. 335 $839.72   181 151 30 19.9%   161 144 17 11.8%   15.8% 6
Wholesale trade Merchant wholesalers, durable goods 423 $939.00   4,804 4,494 310 6.9%   4,879 4,480 399 8.9%   7.9% 18
Wholesale trade Electronic markets and agents and brokers 425 $1,029.82   454 419 35 8.4%   472 429 43 10.0%   9.2% 13
Retail Trade Furniture and home furnishings stores 442 $442.78   821 765 56 7.3%   817 765 52 6.8%   7.1% 20
Retail Trade Building material and garden supply stores 444 $543.10   2,544 2,324 220 9.5%   2,619 2,401 218 9.1%   9.3% 12
Retail Trade Sporting goods, hobby, book and music stores 451 $288.54   1,358 1,250 108 8.6%   1,401 1,218 183 15.0%   11.8% 7
Transportation and warehousing Air transportation 481 $527.02   609 552 57 10.3%   609 566 43 7.6%   9.0% 15
Transportation and warehousing Truck transportation 484 $737.54   3,781 3,468 313 9.0%   3,824 3,501 323 9.2%   9.1% 14
Transportation and warehousing Transit and ground passenger transportation 485 $379.22   660 606 54 8.9%   616 554 62 11.2%   10.1% 10
Transportation and warehousing Pipeline transportation 486 $1,434.97   737 604 133 22.0%   671 608 63 10.4%   16.2% 5
Transportation and warehousing Warehousing and storage 493 $533.38   1,007 792 215 27.2%   870 754 116 15.4%   21.3% 3
Real estate and rental and leasing Rental and leasing services 532 $681.93   2,111 1,900 211 11.1%   2,067 1,853 214 11.6%   11.3% 8
Professional and technical services Professional and technical services 541 $747.25   8,800 8,326 474 5.7%   8,548 8,009 539 6.7%   6.2% 21
Total     $900.89   73,851 65,084 8,767 13.5%   74,325 66,681 7,644 11.5%   12.5% 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 2006 is $900.89. 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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