Table 1: Growing Industries Report for 2010Q1 in NAICS
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2010Q1 AWW (2)	Emp. 2010Q1	Emp. 2009Q1	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2009Q4	Emp. 2008Q4	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Growth (3)	Rank (4)
111	Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting	Crop production	$436.24	369	340	29	8.4%	459	407	52	12.7%	10.6%	3
115	Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting	Agriculture & forestry support activities	$569.06	227	197	31	15.6%	265	217	48	22.3%	18.9%	2
486	Transportation & warehousing	Pipeline transportation	$1,811.42	766	707	59	8.3%	824	775	48	6.2%	7.3%	5
624	Health care & social assistance	Social assistance	$372.74	7,038	6,300	738	11.7%	6,999	6,608	391	5.9%	8.8%	4
922	Public administration	Justice, public order, & safety activities	$1,016.12	2,351	1,876	475	25.3%	2,212	1,927	286	14.8%	20.1%	1
	Total		$622.30	10,752	9,420	1,332	14.1%	10,759	9,934	825	8.3%	11.2%	.
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 2010Q1 is $622.30. 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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