Table 9.—Tourism Employment and Compensation of Employees, 1992

Industry	Total employment (thousands of employees)	Tourism industry ratio			Tourism employment (thousands of employees)			Compensation (millions of dollars)	Tourism compensation (millions of dollars)			Average compensation per tourism employee (dollars)/1/
		Method 1	Method 2	Method 3	Method 1	Method 2	Method 3		Method 1	Method 2	Method 3
Hotels and lodging places/2/	1,661	0.80	0.81	0.82	1,329	1,347	1,362	32,615	26,092	26,453	26,744	19,636
Eating and drinking places/3/	6,819	.16	.17	.20	1,091	1,158	1,364	81,265	13,002	13,795	16,253	11,917
Railroads and related services	243	.04	.04	.04	10	9	9	14,727	589	534	534	60,605
Local and suburban transit and interurban highway passenger transportation, except taxicabs/4/	416	.21	.25	.31	87	103	128	13,635	2,863	3,378	4,206	32,776
Taxicabs/5/	32	.22	.45	.70	7	15	22	1,088	239	494	761	34,000
Air transportation	625	.81	.81	.81	506	506	506	29,740	24,089	24,060	24,060	47,584
Water transportation	100	.14	.14	.14	14	14	14	4,650	651	673	673	46,500
Automotive rental and leasing, without drivers	178	.54	.55	.57	96	97	101	3,733	2,016	2,041	2,128	20,972
Arrangement of passenger transportation/6/	191	.22	.22	.22	43	43	43	5,037	1,122	1,122	1,122	26,372
Miscellaneous amusement and recreation services (except membership sports and recreation clubs); racing, including track operation; marinas; and libraries and museums, art galleries, and botanical and zoological gardens	633	.18	.19	.24	114	120	152	10,973	1,975	2,085	2,634	17,335
Membership sports and recreation clubs	297	.31	.32	.40	92	95	119	5,348	1,658	1,711	2,139	18,007
Motion picture theaters; dance studios, schools, and halls; theatrical producers (except motion pictures), bands, orchestras, and entertainers	282	.17	.20	.27	48	56	76	6,042	1,027	1,208	1,631	21,426
Professional sports clubs and promoters	46	.13	.12	.16	6	6	7	3,716	483	446	595	80,783
Gasoline service stations	632	.07	.07	.11	44	47	67	10,038	703	750	1,064	15,883
Retail excluding eating and drinking places and gasoline services stations	12,572	.02	.03	.03	262	318	383	228,000	4,750	5,762	6,941	18,136
Total tourism industries					3,749	3,933	4,353		81,260	84,511	91,483	21,393
Total industries					117,998	117,998	117,998		3,645,042	3,645,042	3,645,042	30,891
Tourism share (percent)					3.2	3.3	3.7		2.2	2.3	2.5

1. Average compensation per tourism employee was calculated as the arithmetic mean of the average compensation per tourism employee for methods 1, 2 and 3.

2. Self-employment for SIC 70 (Hotels and lodging) for 1992 is estimated at 56,000. (Source: Derived from Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, 1992.)

3. Self employment for SIC 58 (Eating and drinking places) for 1992 is estimated at 490,000. (Source: Derived from Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, 1992.) )

4. Employment for this category includes 206,000 State and local government "transit" employees. (Source: Table 7.—Employment and Payrolls of State and Local Governments by Type of Government and Function: October 1992, 1992 Census of Governments, Compendium of Public Employment). Compensation for the State and local government "transit" employees is estimated at $9,804,000,000, which is added to the national income and product account estimate for compensation.

5. Self employment for SIC 41 for 1992 is estimated at 54,000, all of which is assumed to occur in SIC 4120 (Taxicabs). (Source: Derived from Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, 1992.)

6. Self-employment for SIC 47 for 1992 is estimated at 27,000, all of which is assumed to occur in SIC 4720 (Arrangement of Passenger Transportation).

NOTE.—See the section "Methodological Overview" for a discussion of the three methods.

Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, Employment and Wage Annual Averages, 1992; Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department of Commerce, 1992 Census of Governments, Compendium of Public Employment; and Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S. Department of Labor, Current Population Survey, 1992.