Table 1: Growing Industries Report for 2008Q1 in NAICS

NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2008Q1 AWW (2)	Emp. 2008Q1	Emp. 2007Q1	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2007Q4	Emp. 2006Q4	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Growth	Rank (4)
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2008Q1 AWW (2)	Emp. 2008Q1	Emp. 2007Q1	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2007Q4	Emp. 2006Q4	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	(3)	Rank (4)
212	Mining	Mining, except oil & gas	$1,457.10	9,453	8,853	599	6.8%	9,318	8,776	541	6.2%	6.5%	16
237	Construction	Heavy & civil engineering construction	$1,225.09	9,024	7,361	1,664	22.6%	9,984	8,727	1,257	14.4%	18.5%	2
238	Construction	Specialty trade contractors	$774.31	12,062	11,024	1,038	9.4%	13,321	11,741	1,580	13.5%	11.4%	4
324	Manufacturing	Petroleum & coal products manufacturing	$1,681.08	1,109	1,026	83	8.1%	1,090	1,004	85	8.5%	8.3%	10
337	Manufacturing	Furniture & related product manufacturing	$551.48	296	279	17	6.0%	305	276	29	10.5%	8.2%	11
423	Wholesale trade	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods	$1,100.63	5,631	5,248	383	7.3%	5,488	5,158	330	6.4%	6.8%	15
443	Retail trade	Electronics & appliance stores	$621.31	804	744	60	8.1%	759	712	47	6.7%	7.4%	13
444	Retail trade	Building material & garden supply stores	$591.03	2,845	2,708	136	5.0%	2,935	2,767	168	6.1%	5.5%	17
451	Retail trade	Sporting goods, hobby, book & music stores	$310.60	1,453	1,344	109	8.1%	1,471	1,375	96	7.0%	7.5%	12
481	Transportation & warehousing	Air transportation	$598.56	716	644	72	11.2%	705	651	55	8.4%	9.8%	6
488	Transportation & warehousing	Support activities for transportation	$753.31	1,007	921	85	9.3%	977	877	100	11.4%	10.3%	5
493	Transportation & warehousing	Warehousing & storage	$602.73	1,437	1,177	260	22.1%	1,557	989	568	57.4%	39.7%	1
523	Finance & insurance	Securities, commodity contracts, investments	$1,771.12	499	455	44	9.6%	500	463	37	7.9%	8.8%	9
562	Administrative & waste services	Waste management & remediation services	$698.40	735	661	74	11.1%	728	679	49	7.2%	9.2%	7
624	Health care & social assistance	Social assistance	$378.07	6,314	5,751	563	9.8%	6,065	5,589	475	8.5%	9.1%	8
711	Arts, entertainment, & recreation	Performing arts & spectator sports	$587.96	329	313	16	5.1%	313	265	48	18.0%	11.5%	3
713	Arts, entertainment, & recreation	Amusements, gambling, & recreation	$312.30	2,184	2,009	175	8.7%	2,263	2,148	115	5.4%	7.0%	14
	Total		$925.62	55,897	50,520	5,378	10.6%	57,776	52,197	5,579	10.7%	10.7%	.

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 2008Q1 is $925.62. 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.

Table of Contents		Labor Market Information