Table 1: Growing Industries Report for 2009Q4 in NAICS
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2009Q4 AWW (2)	Emp. 2009Q4	Emp. 2008Q4	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2009Q3	Emp. 2008Q3	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Growth (3)	Rank (4)
111	Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting	Crop production	$564.76	452	407	45	11.0%	555	478	77	16.1%	13.5%	3
115	Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting	Agriculture & forestry support activities	$604.88	265	217	48	22.3%	359	306	54	17.6%	19.9%	2
339	Manufacturing	Miscellaneous manufacturing	$678.11	200	142	58	40.8%	213	146	67	46.0%	43.4%	1
486	Transportation & warehousing	Pipeline transportation	$1,560.07	824	775	48	6.2%	822	766	56	7.3%	6.8%	5
624	Health care & social assistance	Social assistance	$399.54	7,000	6,608	392	5.9%	6,799	6,329	470	7.4%	6.7%	6
922	Public administration	Justice, public order, & safety activitities	$1,039.99	2,212	1,927	286	14.8%	2,079	1,904	175	9.2%	12.0%	4
	Total		$633.05	10,953	10,076	877	8.7%	10,827	9,928	899	9.1%	8.9%
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 2009Q4 is $633.05. 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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