Table 1: Growing Industries Report for 2008Q2 in NAICS

NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2008Q2 AWW (2)	Emp. 2008Q2	Emp. 2007Q2	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2008Q1	Emp. 2007Q1	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Growth	Rank (4)
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2008Q2 AWW (2)	Emp. 2008Q2	Emp. 2007Q2	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2008Q1	Emp. 2007Q1	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	(3)	Rank (4)
211	Mining	Oil & gas extraction	$1,831.26	4,589	4,257	332	7.8%	4,572	4,184	388	9.3%	8.5%	10
212	Mining	Mining, except oil & gas	$1,434.77	9,735	9,155	579	6.3%	9,453	8,853	599	6.8%	6.5%	17
237	Construction	Heavy & civil engineering construction	$1,082.06	9,274	8,702	572	6.6%	9,161	7,361	1,800	24.5%	15.5%	3
238	Construction	Specialty trade contractors	$783.15	13,880	12,950	930	7.2%	12,081	11,024	1,057	9.6%	8.4%	11
324	Manufacturing	Petroleum & coal products manufacturing	$1,302.03	1,145	1,048	97	9.3%	1,109	1,026	83	8.1%	8.7%	9
335	Manufacturing	Electrical equipment & appliance mfg.	$822.68	265	170	95	55.6%	254	175	79	45.1%	50.3%	1
423	Wholesale trade	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods	$1,040.83	5,914	5,424	490	9.0%	5,701	5,248	453	8.6%	8.8%	8
443	Retail Trade	Electronics & appliance stores	$642.09	803	749	55	7.3%	812	744	68	9.2%	8.2%	12
451	Retail Trade	Sporting goods, hobby, book & music stores	$310.62	1,449	1,375	75	5.4%	1,453	1,344	109	8.1%	6.8%	15
481	Transportation & warehousing	Air transportation	$629.61	748	668	80	11.9%	719	644	75	11.6%	11.8%	5
486	Transportation & warehousing	Pipeline transportation	$1,451.41	727	682	45	6.6%	707	657	50	7.7%	7.1%	14
523	Finance & insurance	Securities, commodity contracts, investments	$1,586.37	526	462	64	13.9%	500	455	45	9.8%	11.9%	4
524	Finance & insurance	Insurance carriers & related activities	$805.62	2,048	1,920	127	6.6%	2,036	1,912	124	6.5%	6.6%	16
562	Administrative & waste services	Waste management & remediation services	$808.24	846	733	114	15.5%	786	661	125	18.9%	17.2%	2
624	Health care & social assistance	Social assistance	$388.37	6,347	5,839	507	8.7%	6,300	5,751	549	9.5%	9.1%	7
713	Arts, entertainment, & recreation	Amusements, gambling, & recreation	$303.67	2,787	2,531	256	10.1%	2,187	2,009	179	8.9%	9.5%	6
721	Accommodation & food services	Accommodation	$348.95	12,486	11,563	923	8.0%	10,924	10,260	664	6.5%	7.2%	13
	Total		$876.31	73,570	68,229	5,341	7.8%	68,757	62,309	6,448	10.3%	9.1%	.

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 2008Q2 is $876.31. 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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