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Employment Projections
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Employment by major industry sector

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Table 2.1 Employment by major industry sector
(Employment in thousands of jobs)

Industry Sector

2022 NAICS

Employment, 2012

Employment, 2022

Employment, 2032

Employment change, 2012–22

Employment change, 2022–32

Percent distribution, 2012

Percent distribution, 2022

Percent distribution, 2032

Compound annual rate of change, 2012–22

Compound annual rate of change, 2022–32

All industries(1)

NA

145,662.0

164,482.6

169,148.1

18,820.6

4,665.5

100.0

100.0

100.0

1.2

0.3
 

Nonagriculture wage and salary(2)

NA

134,844.2

153,185.5

157,779.4

18,341.3

4,593.9

92.6

93.1

93.3

1.3

0.3
 

Goods-producing excluding agriculture

21, 23, 31-33

18,370.1

21,133.6

21,120.6

2,763.5

-13.0

12.6

12.8

12.5

1.4

0.0

Mining

21

797.2

559.9

545.4

-237.3

-14.5

0.5

0.3

0.3

-3.5

-0.3

Construction

23

5,646.0

7,748.0

7,862.9

2,102.0

114.9

3.9

4.7

4.6

3.2

0.1

Manufacturing

31-33

11,926.9

12,825.7

12,712.3

898.8

-113.4

8.2

7.8

7.5

0.7

-0.1
 

Service-providing excluding special industries

NA

116,474.1

132,051.9

136,658.8

15,577.8

4,606.9

80.0

80.3

80.8

1.3

0.3

Utilities

22

552.8

553.6

539.2

0.8

-14.4

0.4

0.3

0.3

0.0

-0.3

Wholesale trade

42

5,595.2

5,962.6

5,877.8

367.4

-84.8

3.8

3.6

3.5

0.6

-0.1

Retail trade

44-45

14,800.9

15,475.4

14,946.3

674.5

-529.1

10.2

9.4

8.8

0.4

-0.3

Transportation and warehousing

48, 492, 493

4,403.8

6,651.1

7,221.0

2,247.3

569.9

3.0

4.0

4.3

4.2

0.8

Information

51

2,676.0

3,074.4

3,275.9

398.4

201.5

1.8

1.9

1.9

1.4

0.6

Financial activities

52, 53

7,783.4

9,044.5

9,393.8

1,261.1

349.3

5.3

5.5

5.6

1.5

0.4

Professional and business services

54, 55, 56

18,037.0

22,571.5

23,991.7

4,534.5

1,420.2

12.4

13.7

14.2

2.3

0.6

Education services

61

3,341.0

3,794.7

3,924.3

453.7

129.6

2.3

2.3

2.3

1.3

0.3

Health care and social assistance

62

17,428.0

20,555.0

22,647.0

3,127.0

2,092.0

12.0

12.5

13.4

1.7

1.0

Leisure and hospitality

71, 72

13,768.2

15,835.2

16,185.8

2,067.0

350.6

9.5

9.6

9.6

1.4

0.2

Other services

81

6,167.7

6,362.7

6,463.5

195.0

100.8

4.2

3.9

3.8

0.3

0.2

Federal government

NA

2,820.5

2,869.4

2,825.5

48.9

-43.9

1.9

1.7

1.7

0.2

-0.2

State and local government

NA

19,099.6

19,301.8

19,367.1

202.2

65.3

13.1

11.7

11.4

0.1

0.0
 

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting(3)

11

2,084.3

2,184.4

2,126.9

100.1

-57.6

1.4

1.3

1.3

0.5

-0.3

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting wage and salary

11

1,307.3

1,441.6

1,454.2

134.3

12.6

0.9

0.9

0.9

1.0

0.1

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting self-employed

11

777.0

742.8

672.6

-34.2

-70.2

0.5

0.5

0.4

-0.4

-1.0
 

Nonagriculture self-employed

NA

8,733.5

9,112.6

9,241.8

379.1

129.2

6.0

5.5

5.5

0.4

0.1

Footnotes:
  (1) Employment data for wage and salary workers are from the BLS Current Employment Statistics survey, which counts jobs, whereas self-employed and agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting are from the Current Population Survey (household survey), which counts workers.
  (2) Includes wage and salary data from the Current Employment Statistics survey, except private households, which is from the Current Populations Survey. Logging workers are excluded.
  (3) Includes agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting data from the Current Population Survey, except logging, which is from Current Employment Statistics survey. Government wage and salary workers are excluded.
Source: Employment Projections program, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Last Modified Date: September 6, 2023