2017 Annual Averages ‐ Employed persons by industry, sex, race, and occupation : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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ANNUAL AVERAGES
17. Employed persons by industry, sex, race, and occupation
[In thousands]
Industry, sex, and race	2017
	Total em- ployed	Management, professional, and related occupations		Service occupations		Sales and office occupations		Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations			Production, trans- portation, and material moving occupations
	Total em- ployed	Manage- ment, business, and financial opera- tions occupa- tions	Profes- sional and related occupa- tions	Protec- tive service occupa- tions	Service occupa- tions, except protec- tive	Sales and related occupa- tions	Office and adminis- trative support occupa- tions	Farming, fishing, and forestry occupa- tions	Construc- tion and extrac- tion occupa- tions	Instal- lation, mainte- nance, and repair occupa- tions	Produc- tion occupa- tions	Transpor- tation and material moving occupa- tions
TOTAL
Agriculture and related	2,454	1,056	52	14	77	18	80	1,001	11	30	24	90
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	748	146	111	4	5	11	52	1	235	55	47	81
Construction	10,692	1,984	265	15	47	111	492	5	6,769	612	161	232
Manufacturing	15,408	2,645	2,255	36	215	608	1,292	61	304	675	6,078	1,239
Durable goods	9,698	1,692	1,624	25	89	296	823	5	234	434	3,823	654
Nondurable goods	5,710	952	630	12	126	312	469	56	71	241	2,255	585
Wholesale and retail trade	20,314	1,497	1,209	69	669	10,129	3,318	62	96	709	579	1,977
Wholesale trade	3,594	513	173	3	34	1,304	542	52	22	126	122	701
Retail trade	16,720	984	1,036	66	636	8,824	2,776	10	73	582	456	1,276
Transportation and utilities	8,159	876	379	34	152	123	1,653	4	176	543	373	3,847
Information	2,903	564	1,134	6	72	330	428	0	13	279	40	37
Financial activities	10,482	4,398	907	62	326	2,284	2,112	0	49	186	41	116
Professional and business services	18,835	4,841	6,129	557	3,040	644	2,279	18	131	303	311	585
Education and health services	34,483	3,308	19,295	182	7,172	100	3,539	4	83	201	168	432
Leisure and hospitality	14,291	2,018	998	201	8,666	1,042	708	5	37	110	139	367
Other services	7,485	695	976	27	2,871	385	603	2	24	1,110	442	349
Other services, except private households	6,828	688	970	27	2,241	385	599	2	23	1,110	442	340
Private households	657	7	6	0	630	0	4	0	1	0	0	8
Public administration	7,083	1,351	1,812	1,905	325	31	1,195	21	105	165	80	94

Men
Agriculture and related	1,843	778	38	12	48	13	13	801	11	30	20	78
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	654	119	86	4	4	9	21	1	231	54	46	80
Construction	9,722	1,732	210	13	38	90	70	5	6,576	603	158	225
Manufacturing	10,857	1,774	1,745	29	135	383	509	26	294	642	4,323	995
Durable goods	7,235	1,189	1,328	19	60	219	325	5	228	409	2,906	548
Nondurable goods	3,622	585	418	9	75	164	184	22	66	234	1,418	448
Wholesale and retail trade	11,176	833	519	48	316	5,195	1,460	32	91	679	374	1,630
Wholesale trade	2,521	324	112	3	22	963	234	26	22	122	81	610
Retail trade	8,656	509	407	45	293	4,231	1,226	6	68	557	293	1,020
Transportation and utilities	6,204	613	287	25	90	86	801	3	174	527	334	3,263
Information	1,771	338	736	6	34	186	135	0	13	268	27	30
Financial activities	4,940	2,245	524	33	233	1,131	431	0	46	174	20	102
Professional and business services	10,882	2,689	3,930	413	1,839	348	539	14	121	285	219	484
Education and health services	8,804	1,125	5,199	121	1,430	29	341	3	76	183	67	231
Leisure and hospitality	6,996	1,035	557	140	4,238	280	232	4	33	104	70	301
Other services	3,617	295	553	20	666	277	80	2	24	1,075	310	315
Other services, except private households	3,562	294	551	20	624	277	80	2	23	1,075	310	307
Private households	55	1	2	0	42	0	0	0	1	0	0	8
Public administration	3,935	630	896	1,556	132	17	295	15	99	154	63	80

Women
Agriculture and related	611	278	14	2	29	5	68	200	0	0	4	11
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	94	27	25	0	1	1	31	0	5	1	1	1
Construction	971	252	56	2	9	21	421	0	192	9	3	7
Manufacturing	4,551	871	509	8	81	224	783	35	10	32	1,755	243
Durable goods	2,463	503	296	5	30	76	498	1	5	25	917	106
Nondurable goods	2,088	368	213	3	51	148	285	35	4	7	837	137
Wholesale and retail trade	9,137	664	689	21	354	4,934	1,858	29	5	30	205	347
Wholesale trade	1,073	189	61	1	11	341	308	25	0	5	41	91
Retail trade	8,064	476	628	21	342	4,593	1,550	4	5	25	164	256
Transportation and utilities	1,955	263	92	9	62	37	851	1	2	16	39	584
Information	1,132	226	399	0	39	144	293	0	0	11	13	7
Financial activities	5,542	2,153	383	29	93	1,153	1,681	0	3	12	21	14
Professional and business services	7,954	2,151	2,198	144	1,201	296	1,740	3	10	18	91	101
Education and health services	25,679	2,183	14,096	61	5,742	71	3,198	1	7	18	101	201
Leisure and hospitality	7,294	983	441	61	4,428	762	476	1	3	6	68	66
Other services	3,868	400	423	7	2,206	108	524	0	0	35	131	33
Other services, except private households	3,265	394	419	7	1,617	108	519	0	0	35	131	33
Private households	602	6	4	0	588	0	4	0	0	0	0	0
Public administration	3,148	721	916	350	193	15	899	6	6	11	17	14

White
Agriculture and related	2,267	1,007	49	13	72	18	73	908	10	28	17	72
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	656	135	95	4	4	7	44	1	207	49	38	70
Construction	9,500	1,816	221	11	39	107	450	5	5,958	554	136	203
Manufacturing	12,319	2,300	1,738	29	162	536	1,073	51	271	588	4,632	940
Durable goods	7,812	1,481	1,244	18	72	265	694	5	205	370	2,959	499
Nondurable goods	4,507	819	495	11	90	271	379	45	66	218	1,674	441
Wholesale and retail trade	16,017	1,255	929	50	504	8,056	2,558	48	86	605	449	1,478
Wholesale trade	2,963	441	139	3	26	1,157	433	39	18	109	88	510
Retail trade	13,055	814	791	47	478	6,899	2,125	9	68	496	360	968
Transportation and utilities	5,964	721	302	24	95	107	1,139	4	152	460	321	2,637
Information	2,261	459	870	5	60	264	314	0	11	221	32	25
Financial activities	8,395	3,615	627	42	236	1,918	1,642	0	43	155	32	84
Professional and business services	14,783	3,958	4,729	313	2,475	539	1,781	14	107	242	225	399
Education and health services	26,269	2,653	15,190	117	4,819	76	2,758	4	65	163	112	311
Leisure and hospitality	10,680	1,555	820	148	6,453	674	526	4	30	95	102	273
Other services	5,792	573	793	24	2,024	316	502	2	23	943	352	239
Other services, except private households	5,247	567	789	24	1,501	316	499	2	22	943	352	232
Private households	545	6	3	0	523	0	4	0	1	0	0	7
Public administration	5,275	1,016	1,320	1,480	225	21	856	17	86	128	64	60

Black or African American
Agriculture and related	75	10	1	0	3	0	3	42	0	1	2	11
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	42	4	6	0	1	0	6	0	13	3	4	6
Construction	652	80	17	1	4	1	16	0	460	33	17	22
Manufacturing	1,556	120	113	6	26	34	131	7	18	47	840	213
Durable goods	907	70	68	5	10	17	77	0	14	35	496	115
Nondurable goods	649	50	45	1	16	17	54	7	4	12	344	99
Wholesale and retail trade	2,381	101	88	11	99	1,135	484	7	6	55	70	324
Wholesale trade	334	24	9	0	6	65	59	7	4	10	16	134
Retail trade	2,047	77	78	11	93	1,070	425	1	2	46	54	190
Transportation and utilities	1,531	90	37	8	43	12	383	0	11	46	37	865
Information	337	45	99	1	7	45	82	0	0	47	3	7
Financial activities	1,090	392	99	16	58	186	293	0	4	19	5	20
Professional and business services	1,880	331	394	185	360	62	324	1	13	32	44	133
Education and health services	5,121	407	2,289	51	1,689	15	505	0	14	26	34	89
Leisure and hospitality	1,878	189	87	33	1,166	229	89	0	2	9	22	54
Other services	835	72	115	3	354	31	52	0	0	92	43	74
Other services, except private households	768	71	113	3	290	31	52	0	0	92	43	73
Private households	67	0	2	0	64	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Public administration	1,209	234	301	323	54	7	224	0	10	20	10	26

Asian
Agriculture and related	35	14	2	0	1	0	2	12	0	1	1	2
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	19	3	10	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	2	1
Construction	201	47	18	2	1	2	11	0	104	13	2	2
Manufacturing	1,097	188	358	2	12	25	50	2	6	20	395	39
Durable goods	726	118	278	2	4	10	30	0	6	15	246	19
Nondurable goods	371	70	80	0	9	15	21	2	1	5	149	20
Wholesale and retail trade	1,194	105	157	3	30	586	155	4	1	27	35	92
Wholesale trade	208	41	21	1	1	60	33	4	0	3	9	35
Retail trade	987	64	135	3	29	526	121	0	1	24	25	57
Transportation and utilities	403	43	33	0	7	4	78	0	5	17	5	211
Information	222	48	128	0	1	16	18	0	2	7	2	1
Financial activities	724	298	164	3	17	122	107	0	1	6	4	2
Professional and business services	1,572	440	829	27	81	29	103	0	4	14	27	18
Education and health services	2,103	158	1,361	6	383	4	153	0	1	7	14	14
Leisure and hospitality	965	191	54	7	554	71	54	0	1	2	12	19
Other services	593	29	47	0	386	22	27	0	0	41	24	17
Other services, except private households	570	28	46	0	365	22	26	0	0	41	24	17
Private households	23	1	0	0	21	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Public administration	320	59	131	40	20	3	47	2	2	7	3	6
NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals because data are not presented for all races. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

Last Modified Date: January 16, 2019