Table 1: Growing Industries Report for 2009Q1 in NAICS
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2009Q1 AWW (2)	Emp. 2009Q1	Emp. 2008Q1	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2008Q4	Emp. 2007Q4	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Growth (3)	Rank (4)
333	Manufacturing	Machinery manufacturing	$876.81	602	512	90	17.6%	563	527	36	6.9%	12.2%	4
335	Manufacturing	Electrical equipment & appliance mfg.	$892.06	294	254	40	15.6%	293	158	135	85.8%	50.7%	1
481	Transportation & warehousing	Air transportation	$576.06	836	719	117	16.3%	793	705	87	12.4%	14.4%	2
486	Transportation & warehousing	Pipeline transportation	$1,598.64	788	707	81	11.4%	775	723	52	7.2%	9.3%	5
562	Administrative & waste services	Waste management & remediation services	$742.12	852	786	66	8.4%	868	728	140	19.2%	13.8%	3
622	Health care & social assistance	Hospitals	$908.98	11,392	10,654	738	6.9%	11,353	10,593	760	7.2%	7.1%	7
624	Health care & social assistance	Social assistance	$387.62	6,663	6,300	363	5.8%	6,608	6,065	543	9.0%	7.4%	6
	Total		$751.46	21,428	19,932	1,495	7.5%	21,252	19,498	1,754	9.0%	8.2%	.
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 2009Q1 is $751.46. 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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