Table 1.  Private sector gross job gains and job losses, annual March to March

Hawaii

                                         Gross job gains                       Gross job losses
Year ended    Net change(1)  Total     Expanding     Opening        Total    Contracting    Closing
                                   establishments  establishments          establishments  establishments

March 1994       -6,323      57,526      32,484       25,042         63,849     38,690       25,159
March 1995          897      55,385      30,859       24,526         54,488     35,917       18,571
March 1996       -4,496      49,505      31,543       17,962         54,001     36,409       17,592
March 1997        1,197      51,615      31,693       19,922         50,418     32,503       17,915
March 1998       -3,083      47,669      30,430       17,239         50,752     31,130       19,622
March 1999          907      49,299      31,995       17,304         48,392     32,030       16,362
March 2000       13,393      54,662      35,981       18,681         41,269     25,452       15,817
March 2001       10,414      53,937      37,200       16,737         43,523     26,411       17,112
March 2002      -10,543      48,817      31,786       17,031         59,360     40,935       18,425
March 2003       12,042      54,781      39,509       15,272         42,739     25,807       16,932
March 2004       10,593      51,295      35,836       15,459         40,702     27,797       12,905
March 2005       19,283      59,076      43,148       15,928         39,793     26,901       12,892
March 2006       16,664      56,912      42,188       14,724         40,248     28,586       11,662
March 2007        8,664      54,309      39,201       15,108         45,645     33,002       12,643
March 2008          617      51,250      35,247       16,003         50,633     35,445       15,188
March 2009      -31,361      40,783      26,583       14,200         72,144     54,456       17,688
March 2010      -12,016      42,165      28,190       13,975         54,181     38,145       16,036
March 2011        7,061      48,094      35,101       12,993         41,033     26,514       14,519

(1) Net change is the difference between total gross job gains and total gross job losses.