Table 1: Growing Industries Report for 2009Q3 in NAICS
NAICS (1)	SECTOR	SUBSECTOR	2009Q3 AWW (2)	Emp. 2009Q3	Emp. 2008Q3	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Emp. 2009Q2	Emp. 2008Q2	Emp. Change	Pct. Change	Avg. Growth (3)	Rank (4)
111	Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting	Crop production	$478.89	534	478	56	11.8%	514	465	49	10.6%	11.2%	4
115	Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting	Agriculture & forestry support activities	$542.84	368	306	62	20.3%	304	275	28	10.3%	15.3%	2
333	Manufacturing	Machinery manufacturing	$958.58	566	530	36	6.7%	555	514	41	8.0%	7.4%	7
339	Manufacturing	Miscellaneous manufacturing	$686.24	212	146	67	45.8%	221	152	69	45.3%	45.5%	1
481	Transportation & warehousing	Air transportation	$628.50	856	786	70	8.9%	863	748	115	15.4%	12.1%	3
486	Transportation & warehousing	Pipeline transportation	$1,429.58	822	766	56	7.3%	813	753	60	7.9%	7.6%	5
624	Health care & social assistance	Social assistance	$393.54	6,771	6,329	442	7.0%	6,855	6,354	502	7.9%	7.4%	6
922	Public administration	Justice, public order, & safety activitities	$1,072.73	2,034	1,904	130	6.8%	1,998	1,887	111	5.9%	6.4%	8
	Total		$633.34	12,163	11,245	918	8.2%	12,125	11,149	976	8.8%	8.5%	.
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 2009Q3 is $633.34. 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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