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Employment Projections

Industries with the most rapidly declining wage and salary employment

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Table 2.4 Industries with the most rapidly declining wage and salary employment
(Employment in thousands of jobs)

Industry Description

Sector

2022 NAICS

Wage and Salary employment, 2022

Wage and Salary employment, 2032

Wage and Salary employment change, 2022–32

Compound annual rate of change, 2022–32

Coal mining

Mining

2121

40.4

22.9

-17.5

-5.5

Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media

Manufacturing

3346

11.9

7.5

-4.5

-4.6

Pulp, paper, and paperboard mills

Manufacturing

3221

88.6

68.2

-20.4

-2.6

Apparel, leather and allied product manufacturing

Manufacturing

315, 316

120.3

92.7

-27.7

-2.6

Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works)

Financial activities

533

22.4

17.6

-4.8

-2.4

Hardware manufacturing

Manufacturing

3325

24.6

19.6

-5.0

-2.3

Consumer goods rental and general rental centers

Financial activities

5322, 5323

162.0

128.8

-33.2

-2.3

Other transportation equipment manufacturing

Manufacturing

3369

40.9

32.6

-8.2

-2.2

Other federal government enterprises

Federal government

NA

87.1

70.1

-17.0

-2.1

Other furniture related product manufacturing

Manufacturing

3379

36.0

29.0

-7.0

-2.1

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

Last Modified Date: September 6, 2023