Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining wage and salary employment

This table also can be found in the article, "Industry Output and Employment Projections to 2018," published in the November 2009 Monthly Labor Review.

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Table 2.3 Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining wage and salary employment

Industry description

Sector

2007 NAICS

Thousands of jobs

Change

Average annual rate of change

2008

2018

2008-18

2008-18

Fastest growing

Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

Professional and business services

5416

1,008.9

1,844.1

835.2

6.2

Other educational services

Educational services

6114-7

578.9

894.9

316.0

4.5

Individual and family services

Health care and social asistance

6241

1,108.6

1,638.8

530.2

4.0

Home health care services

Health care and social asistance

6216

958.0

1,399.4

441.4

3.9

Specialized design services

Professional and business services

5414

143.1

208.7

65.6

3.8

Data processing, hosting, related services, and other information services

Information

518, 519

395.2

574.1

178.9

3.8

Computer systems design and related services

Professional and business services

5415

1,450.3

2,106.7

656.4

3.8

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works)

Financial activities

533

28.2

37.9

9.7

3.0

Offices of health practitioners

Health care and social asistance

6211, 6212, 6213

3,713.3

4,978.6

1,265.3

3.0

Personal care services

Other services

8121

621.6

819.1

197.5

2.8

Outpatient, laboratory, and other ambulatory care services

Health care and social asistance

6214, 6215, 6219

989.5

1,297.9

308.4

2.8

Facilities support services

Professional and business services

5612

132.7

173.6

40.9

2.7

Software publishers

Information

5112

263.7

342.8

79.1

2.7

Independent artists, writers, and performers

Leisure and hospitality

7115

50.4

64.8

14.4

2.5

Local government passenger transit

State and local government

NA

268.6

342.6

74.0

2.5

Elementary and secondary schools

Educational services

6111

854.9

1,089.7

234.8

2.5

Scientific research and development services

Professional and business services

5417

621.7

778.9

157.2

2.3

Waste management and remediation services

Professional and business services

562

360.2

451.0

90.8

2.3

Other miscellaneous manufacturing

Manufacturing

3399

321.0

399.4

78.4

2.2

Community and vocational rehabilitation services

Health care and social asistance

6242, 6243

540.9

672.0

131.1

2.2

Most rapidly declining

Cut and sew apparel manufacturing

Manufacturing

3152

155.2

66.7

-88.5

-8.1

Apparel knitting mills

Manufacturing

3151

26.2

12.5

-13.7

-7.1

Textile and fabric finishing and fabric coating mills

Manufacturing

3133

48.3

23.5

-24.8

-7.0

Fabric mills

Manufacturing

3132

65.4

35.0

-30.4

-6.1

Audio and video equipment manufacturing

Manufacturing

3343

27.0

14.6

-12.4

-6.0

Apparel accessories and other apparel manufacturing

Manufacturing

3159

17.0

9.2

-7.8

-6.0

Fiber, yarn, and thread mills

Manufacturing

3131

37.4

20.7

-16.7

-5.7

Textile furnishings mills

Manufacturing

3141

75.4

41.9

-33.5

-5.7

Railroad rolling stock manufacturing

Manufacturing

3365

28.4

17.5

-10.9

-4.7

Footwear manufacturing

Manufacturing

3162

15.8

10.0

-5.8

-4.5

Pulp, paper, and paperboard mills

Manufacturing

3221

126.1

81.9

-44.2

-4.2

Basic chemical manufacturing

Manufacturing

3251

152.1

99.9

-52.2

-4.1

Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing

Manufacturing

3344

432.4

286.8

-145.6

-4.0

Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing

Manufacturing

3341

182.8

124.7

-58.1

-3.8

Other textile product mills

Manufacturing

3149

72.2

49.4

-22.8

-3.7

Federal enterprises except the Postal Service and electric utilities

Federal government

NA

63.5

44.9

-18.6

-3.4

Leather and hide tanning and finishing, and other leather and allied product manufacturing

Manufacturing

3161, 3169

17.8

13.0

-4.8

-3.1

Cutlery and handtool manufacturing

Manufacturing

3322

49.1

35.9

-13.2

-3.1

Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media

Manufacturing

3346

34.9

26.0

-8.9

-2.9

Ventilation, heating, air-conditioning, and commercial refrigeration equipment manufacturing

Manufacturing

3334

149.5

112.8

-36.7

-2.8

Source: Employment Projections Program, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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