Bureau of Labor Statistics
Table 8. Employed workers with alternative and traditional work arrangements by occupation and industry, February 2005
Table 8. Employed workers with alternative and traditional work arrangements by occupation and industry, February 2005
(Percent distribution)
Workers with alternative arrangements
Workers with
Characteristic Temporary Workers traditional
Independent On-call help agency provided by arrangements
contractors workers workers contract
firms
OCCUPATION
Total, 16 years and over (thousands)............... 10,342 2,454 1,217 813 123,843
Percent............................................ 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Management, professional, and related occupations..... 39.9 35.6 20.3 39.6 35.0
Management, business, and financial operations
occupations....................................... 21.5 5.7 7.6 10.2 14.1
Professional and related occupations................ 18.4 30.0 12.7 29.4 20.9
Service occupations................................... 13.7 22.1 15.6 26.2 15.5
Sales and office occupations.......................... 20.5 12.6 26.9 7.2 26.6
Sales and related occupations....................... 17.1 4.4 2.1 2.5 11.7
Office and administrative support occupations....... 3.4 8.2 24.8 4.7 14.9
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance
occupations......................................... 19.7 16.9 7.1 21.8 9.4
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations.......... .7 .5 .9 .2 .5
Construction and extraction occupations............. 15.3 12.5 3.5 19.8 5.0
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations... 3.7 3.9 2.6 1.7 3.8
Production, transportation, and material moving
occupations......................................... 6.1 12.7 30.1 5.2 13.5
Production occupations.............................. 2.2 2.7 17.1 2.1 7.1
Transportation and material moving occupations...... 3.9 10.0 13.1 3.1 6.3
INDUSTRY
Total, 16 years and over (thousands)............... 10,342 2,454 1,217 813 123,843
Percent............................................ 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Agriculture and related industries..................... 2.6 .6 - .2 1.2
Mining................................................. .1 1.0 .5 .2 .4
Construction........................................... 22.0 12.2 3.4 16.5 6.0
Manufacturing.......................................... 3.2 4.8 28.4 14.1 12.6
Wholesale trade........................................ 2.1 2.1 5.4 3.4 3.3
Retail trade........................................... 8.9 5.6 2.1 3.1 12.8
Transportation and utilities........................... 3.9 8.4 3.1 4.0 5.3
Information ........................................... 2.0 1.8 1.8 4.0 2.4
Financial activities................................... 10.4 3.4 4.1 6.8 7.5
Professional and business services..................... 21.3 7.7 31.9 10.4 8.6
Education and health services.......................... 8.7 33.8 11.1 15.7 22.0
Leisure and hospitality................................ 4.5 10.4 1.8 4.5 8.4
Other services......................................... 9.9 3.8 2.9 .3 4.4
Public administration.................................. .3 4.4 2.8 16.6 5.3
NOTE: Workers with traditional arrangements are those who do not fall into any of the "alternative arrangements"
categories. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. For temporary help agency workers and workers provided by
contract firms, the industry classification is that of the place to which they were assigned. Dash represents zero.
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Last Modified Date: July 27, 2005
