Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining wage and salary employment, 2006-16

This file represents Table 3. Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining wage and salary employment, 2006-16, in "Industry output and employment projections to 2016," published in the November 2007 Monthly Labor Review.

Table 3. Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining wage and salary employment, 2006-16
Industry description 2002 NAICS Thousands of jobs Change Average annual rate of change
2006 2016 2006-16 2006-16
Fastest growing

Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

 5416 920.9 1,638.7 717.8 5.9

Individual and family services

 6241 973.6 1,687.0 713.4 5.7

Home health care services

 6216 867.1 1,347.6 480.5 4.5

Securities, commodity contracts, and other financial investments and related activities

 523 816.3 1,192.4 376.1 3.9

Facilities support services

 5612 122.8 179.1 56.3 3.8

Residential care facilities

 6232, 6233, 6239 1,316.7 1,829.2 512.5 3.3

Independent artists, writers, and performers

 7115 46.8 64.8 18.0 3.3

Computer systems design and related services

 5415 1,278.2 1,767.6 489.4 3.3

Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions

 712 123.9 167.4 43.5 3.1

Child day care services

 6244 806.7 1,078.4 271.7 2.9

Amusement, gambling, and recreation industries

 713 1,404.4 1,876.8 472.4 2.9

Specialized design services

 5414 135.8 179.3 43.5 2.8

Software publishers

 5112 243.4 321.3 77.9 2.8

Funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles

 525 93.1 122.4 29.3 2.8

Other educational services

 6114-7 534.2 702.5 168.3 2.8

Promoters of events, and agents and managers

 7113, 7114 100.0 131.3 31.3 2.8

Other support services

 5619 305.4 399.0 93.6 2.7

Scenic and sightseeing transportation

 487 27.0 4.7 7.7 2.5

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works)

 533 28.9 36.6 7.7 2.4

Office administrative services

 5611 363.4 456.4 93.0 2.3

Architectural, engineering, and related services

 5413 1,385.6 1,731.0 345.4 2.3
Most rapidly declining

Cut and sew apparel manufacturing

 3152 185.5 77.2 -108.3 -8.4

Footwear manufacturing

 3162 17.4 8.1 -9.3 -7.3

Federal enterprises except the Postal Service and electric utilities

 NA 45.1 26.5 -18.6 -5.2

Apparel knitting mills

 3151 34.0 20.1 -13.9 -5.1

Textile and fabric finishing and fabric coating mills

 3133 57.6 34.4 -23.2 -5.0

Leather and hide tanning and finishing, and other leather and allied product manufacturing

 3161, 3169 20.0 12.1 -7.9 -4.9

Apparel accessories and other apparel manufacturing

 3159 18.9 12.4 -6.5 -4.1

Tobacco manufacturing

 3122 23.4 15.5 -7.9 -4.0

Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing

 3341 198.8 132.3 -66.5 -4.0

Iron and steel mills and ferroalloy manufacturing

 3311 94.4 63.7 -30.7 -3.9

Pipeline transportation

 486 39.0 26.4 -12.6 -3.8

Fabric mills

 3132 89.9 61.2 -28.7 -3.8

Nonferrous metal (except aluminum) production and processing

 3314 73.0 50.3 -22.7 -3.7

Pulp, paper, and paperboard mills

 3221 136.0 93.8 -42.2 -3.6

Hardware manufacturing

 3325 34.0 23.5 -10.5 -3.6

Alumina and aluminum production and processing

 3313 72.7 50.3 -22.4 -3.6

Rubber product manufacturing

 3262 159.3 113.8 -45.5 -3.3

Electric lighting equipment manufacturing

 3351 58.9 42.5 -16.4 -3.2

Spring and wire product manufacturing

 3326 58.2 42.1 -16.1 -3.2

Cutlery and handtool manufacturing

 3322 54.1 39.7 -14.4 -3.0

Foundries

 3315 162.1 119.8 -42.3 -3.0

NOTE: Bolded data in this table reflect revisions made in May 2008. For a description of the revisions, see Errata, May 2008, pp. 40-42, online at www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/05/errata.pdf.

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