Table 1: Growing Industries Report for 2009Q2 in NAICS
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2009Q2 AWW (2)	Emp. 2009Q2	Emp. 2008Q2	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2009Q1	Emp. 2008Q1	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Growth (3)	Rank (4)
333	Manufacturing	Machinery manufacturing	$876.07	558	514	44	8.6%	603	512	91	17.8%	13.2%	3
335	Manufacturing	Electrical equipment & appliance mfg.	$848.40	287	265	22	8.4%	294	254	40	15.6%	12.0%	5
339	Manufacturing	Miscellaneous manufacturing	$603.68	218	152	65	42.9%	219	146	73	50.2%	46.6%	1
481	Transportation & warehousing	Air transportation	$573.52	863	748	115	15.4%	836	719	117	16.3%	15.9%	2
486	Transportation & warehousing	Pipeline transportation	$1,409.40	813	753	60	7.9%	822	707	115	16.2%	12.1%	4
624	Health care & social assistance	Social assistance	$390.87	6,828	6,354	475	7.5%	6,786	6,300	486	7.7%	7.6%	6
	Total		$540.79	9,568	8,786	782	8.9%	9,561	8,639	922	10.7%	9.8%	NA
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 2009Q2 is $540.79. 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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