Employment by major industry sector

This file represents Table 1. Employment by major industry sector, 1996, 2006, and 2016, in "Industry output and employment projections to 2016," published in the November 2007 Monthly Labor Review.

Table 1. Employment by major industry sector, 1996, 2006, and projected 2016
Industry sector Thousands of jobs Numeric change Percent distribution Average annual
rate of change
1996 2006 2016 1996-2006 2006-16 1996 2006 2016 1996-2006 2006-16
 

Total(1)

 134,690.4 150,620.1 166,220.3 15,929.7 15,600.2 100.0 100.0 100.0 1.1 1.0
 

Nonagriculture wage and salary(2)

 120,371.4 136,912.2 151,962.3 16,540.8 15,050.1 89.4 90.9 91.4 1.3 1.0

Goods-producing, excluding agriculture

 23,328.5 22,504.9 21,772.6 -823.6 -732.3 17.3 14.9 13.1 -0.4 -0.3

Mining

 556.4 618.7 608.5 62.3 -10.2 0.4 0.4 0.4 1.1 -0.2

Construction

 5,535.5 7,688.9 8,469.6 2,153.4 780.7 4.1 5.1 5.1 3.3 1.0

Manufacturing

 17,236.6 14,197.3 12,694.5 -3,039.3 -1,502.8 12.8 9.4 7.6 -1.9 -1.1
 

Services-providing

 97,042.9 114,407.3 130,189.7 17,364.4 15,782.4 72.0 76.0 78.3 1.7 1.3

Utilities

 639.5 548.5 517.6 -91.0 -30.9 0.5 0.4 0.3 -1.5 -0.6

Wholesale trade

 5,522.1 5,897.7 6,326.2 375.6 428.5 4.1 3.9 3.8 0.7 0.7

Retail trade

 14,142.6 15,319.4 16,006.4 1,176.8 687.0 10.5 10.2 9.6 0.8 0.4

Transportation and warehousing

 3,935.5 4,465.8 4,962.0 530.3 496.2 2.9 3.0 3.0 1.3 1.1

Information

 2,940.0 3,054.9 3,266.7 114.9 211.8 2.2 2.0 2.0 0.4 0.7

Financial activities

 6,968.6 8,363.2 9,570.1 1,394.6 1,206.9 5.2 5.6 5.8 1.8 1.4

Professional and business services

 13,461.8 17,551.6 21,643.7 4,089.8 4,092.1 10.0 11.7 13.0 2.7 2.1

Educational services

 2,077.5 2,918.4 3,527.4 840.9 609.0 1.5 1.9 2.1 3.5 1.9

Health care and social assistance

 11,604.8 14,919.8 18,954.1 3,315.0 4,034.3 8.6 9.9 11.4 2.5 2.4

Leisure and hospitality

 10,776.5 13,143.4 15,016.7 2,366.9 1,873.3 8.0 8.7 9.0 2.0 1.3

Other services

 5,434.9 6,234.6 7,077.2 799.7 842.6 4.0 4.1 4.3 1.4 1.3

Federal government

 2,877.0 2,728.3 2,625.7 -148.7 -102.6 2.1 1.8 1.6 -0.5 -0.4

State and local government

 16,662.1 19,261.7 20,696.1 2,599.6 1,434.4 12.4 12.8 12.5 1.5 0.7
 

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting(3)

 2,730.9 2,138.6 1,965.5 -592.3 -173.1 2.0 1.4 1.2 -2.4 -0.8

Agriculture wage and salary

 1,389.7 1,219.5 1,114.3 -170.2 -105.2 1.0 0.8 0.7 -1.3 -0.9

Agriculture self-employed and unpaid family workers

 1,341.2 919.1 851.1 -422.1 -68.0 1.0 0.6 0.5 -3.7 -0.8
 

Nonagriculture self-employed and unpaid family worker

 9,367.9 9,772.2 10,462.0 404.3 689.8 7.0 6.5 6.3 0.4 0.7

Secondary wage and salary jobs in agriculture and private household industries(4)

 176.9 178.4 185.0 1.5 6.6 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4

Secondary jobs as a self-employed or unpaid family worker(5)

 2,043.3 1,618.7 1,645.5 -424.6 26.8 1.5 1.1 1.0 -2.3 0.2

Footnotes:
(1) Employment data for wage and salary workers are from the BLS Current Employment Statistics survey, which counts jobs, whereas self-employed, unpaid family workers, and agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting are from the Current Population Survey (household survey), which counts workers.

(2) Includes wage and salary data from the Current Employment Statistics survey, except private households, which is from the Current Population Survey. Logging workers are excluded.

(3) Includes agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting data from the Current Population Survey, except logging, which is from Current Employment Statistics survey. Government wage and salary workers are excluded.

(4) Workers who hold a secondary wage and salary job in agricultural production, forestry, fishing, and private household industries.

(5) Wage and salary workers who hold a secondary job as a self-employed or unpaid family worker.

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Last Modified Date: December 4, 2007