Percent change in productivity

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Percent change in productivity
Industry	Productivity 1-year percent change, 2025	Productivity annual percent change, 1987-2025
Wholesale trade	4.4	2.4
Durable goods	3.6	3.6
Motor vehicles and parts	0.1	2.9
Furniture and furnishings	4.3	1.7
Lumber and construction supplies	-2.3	0.3
Commercial equipment	7.7	9.3
Metals and minerals	-0.6	-0.5
Appliances and electric goods	15.2	6.8
Hardware and plumbing	-2.0	1.1
Machinery and supplies	-0.1	1.3
Miscellaneous durable goods	2.0	0.8
Nondurable goods	3.9	1.1
Paper and paper products	1.9	1.2
Druggists' goods	9.7	2.3
Apparel and piece goods	5.3	1.4
Grocery and related products	2.0	0.8
Farm product raw materials	0.6	1.1
Chemicals	0.8	0.2
Petroleum	9.0	2.1
Alcoholic beverages	0.1	0.5
Miscellaneous nondurable goods	-1.2	0.0
Electronic markets and agents and brokers	13.4	2.2
Electronic markets and agents and brokers	13.4	2.2
Retail trade	2.9	3.2
Motor vehicle and parts dealers	1.7	2.1
Automobile dealers	1.7	2.1
Other motor vehicle dealers	1.7	2.0
Auto parts, accessories, and tire stores	-0.6	1.5
Furniture and home furnishings stores	5.9	3.9
Furniture stores	5.6	3.5
Home furnishings stores	6.2	4.4
Electronics and appliance stores	6.8	10.4
Electronics and appliance stores	6.8	10.4
Building material and garden supply stores	-1.7	2.1
Building material and supplies dealers	-3.4	2.0
Lawn and garden equipment and supplies stores	9.0	2.9
Food and beverage stores	-1.7	0.8
Grocery stores	-3.1	0.6
Specialty food stores	10.4	0.8
Beer, wine and liquor stores	5.4	2.1
Health and personal care stores	8.7	2.4
Health and personal care stores	8.7	2.4
Gasoline stations	1.9	1.0
Gasoline stations	1.9	1.0
Clothing and clothing accessories stores	7.2	4.4
Clothing stores	11.2	4.7
Shoe stores	10.1	3.4
Jewelry, luggage, and leather goods stores	-11.6	3.9
Sports, hobby, music instruments, book stores	5.9	3.7
Sporting goods and musical instrument stores	5.6	4.4
Book stores and news dealers	8.1	0.9
General merchandise stores	0.0	3.2
Department stores	3.3	-2.0
Other general merchandise stores	-2.0	5.0
Miscellaneous store retailers	8.3	3.4
Florists	7.5	2.9
Office supplies, stationery and gift stores	4.8	4.9
Used merchandise stores	12.5	4.1
Other miscellaneous store retailers	7.9	1.9
Nonstore retailers	9.0	9.1
Electronic shopping and mail-order houses	10.3	10.6
Vending machine operators	18.2	0.5
Direct selling establishments	-1.7	3.4