Table 1: Growing Industries Report for 2008Q3 in NAICS

NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2008Q3 AWW (2)	Emp. 2008Q3	Emp. 2007Q3	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2008Q2	Emp. 2007Q2	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Growth	Rank (4)
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2008Q3 AWW (2)	Emp. 2008Q3	Emp. 2007Q3	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2008Q2	Emp. 2007Q2	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	(3)	Rank (4)
211	Mining	Oil & gas extraction	$1,562.32	4,805	4,336	469	10.8%	4,601	4,257	344	8.1%	9.4%	7
212	Mining	Mining, except oil & gas	$1,369.11	9,924	9,372	552	5.9%	9,735	9,155	579	6.3%	6.1%	13
237	Construction	Heavy & civil engineering construction	$1,156.27	10,546	9,863	683	6.9%	9,353	8,702	652	7.5%	7.2%	12
238	Construction	Specialty trade contractors	$807.80	14,830	13,660	1,170	8.6%	13,944	12,950	994	7.7%	8.1%	10
335	Manufacturing	Electrical equipment & appliance mfg.	$850.94	277	172	105	61.4%	265	170	95	55.6%	58.5%	1
423	Wholesale trade	Merchant wholesalers, durable goods	$1,034.42	5,903	5,477	426	7.8%	5,913	5,424	489	9.0%	8.4%	9
443	Retail Trade	Electronics & appliance stores	$631.81	839	727	112	15.5%	805	749	56	7.5%	11.5%	4
481	Transportation & warehousing	Air transportation	$665.01	786	721	65	9.0%	748	668	80	11.9%	10.5%	6
486	Transportation & warehousing	Pipeline transportation	$1,458.93	764	687	77	11.3%	753	682	71	10.4%	10.8%	5
523	Finance & insurance	Securities, commodity contracts, investments	$1,660.54	538	471	67	14.3%	528	462	66	14.3%	14.3%	3
524	Finance & insurance	Insurance carriers & related activities	$763.16	2,095	1,932	163	8.4%	2,061	1,920	140	7.3%	7.9%	11
562	Administrative & waste services	Waste management & remediation services	$871.14	881	768	113	14.7%	844	733	112	15.2%	15.0%	2
622	Health care & social assistance	Hospitals	$928.94	11,197	10,584	613	5.8%	10,958	10,379	578	5.6%	5.7%	14
624	Health care & social assistance	Social assistance	$406.96	6,305	5,819	487	8.4%	6,354	5,839	514	8.8%	8.6%	8
	Total		$1,004.50	69,690	64,587	5,103	7.9%	66,861	62,092	4,770	7.7%	7.8%	.

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 2008Q3 is $1,004.50. 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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