Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining wage and salary employment
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Table 2.3 Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining wage and salary employment, 2016–26
Industry Description |
Sector |
2012 NAICS |
Thousands of Jobs |
Change |
Compound Annual Rate of Change |
2016 |
2026 |
2016–26 |
2016–26 |
Fastest Growing |
Home health care services |
Health care and social assistance |
6216 |
1,362.0 |
2,100.2 |
738.2 |
4.4 |
Other information services |
Information |
519 |
259.3 |
384.7 |
125.4 |
4.0 |
Individual and family services |
Health care and social assistance |
6241 |
2,229.4 |
3,100.8 |
871.4 |
3.4 |
Outpatient care centers |
Health care and social assistance |
6214 |
856.3 |
1,178.9 |
322.6 |
3.2 |
Offices of other health practitioners |
Health care and social assistance |
6213 |
858.5 |
1,122.5 |
264.0 |
2.7 |
Medical and diagnostic laboratories |
Health care and social assistance |
6215 |
262.8 |
334.9 |
72.1 |
2.5 |
Other ambulatory health care services |
Health care and social assistance |
6219 |
288.6 |
365.0 |
76.4 |
2.4 |
Support activities for mining |
Mining |
213 |
265.0 |
334.3 |
69.3 |
2.4 |
Other personal services |
Other services |
8129 |
320.2 |
401.5 |
81.3 |
2.3 |
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services |
Professional and business services |
5416 |
1,372.5 |
1,691.5 |
319.0 |
2.1 |
Office administrative services |
Professional and business services |
5611 |
495.1 |
608.4 |
113.3 |
2.1 |
Offices of physicians |
Health care and social assistance |
6211 |
2,527.7 |
3,076.5 |
548.8 |
2.0 |
Warehousing and storage |
Transportation and Warehousing |
493 |
915.1 |
1,110.8 |
195.7 |
2.0 |
Computer systems design and related services |
Professional and business services |
5415 |
1,990.7 |
2,415.7 |
425.0 |
2.0 |
Software publishers |
Information |
5112 |
355.6 |
425.5 |
69.9 |
1.8 |
Offices of dentists |
Health care and social assistance |
6212 |
925.8 |
1,101.2 |
175.4 |
1.8 |
Oil and gas extraction |
Mining |
211 |
180.0 |
214.0 |
34.0 |
1.7 |
Other educational services |
Educational services |
6114-7 |
730.3 |
867.4 |
137.1 |
1.7 |
Local government passenger transit |
State and local government |
NA |
284.1 |
332.3 |
48.2 |
1.6 |
Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions |
Leisure and hospitality |
712 |
159.7 |
185.9 |
26.2 |
1.5 |
Most Rapidly Declining |
Tobacco manufacturing |
Manufacturing |
3122 |
12.9 |
8.0 |
-4.9 |
-4.7 |
Federal electric utilities |
Federal government |
NA |
15.5 |
10.8 |
-4.7 |
-3.5 |
Apparel, leather and allied product manufacturing |
Manufacturing |
315, 316 |
160.8 |
112.6 |
-48.2 |
-3.5 |
Communications equipment manufacturing |
Manufacturing |
3342 |
85.6 |
61.9 |
-23.7 |
-3.2 |
Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers |
Information |
5111 |
374.4 |
286.4 |
-88.0 |
-2.6 |
Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media |
Manufacturing |
3346 |
15.4 |
11.9 |
-3.5 |
-2.6 |
Cable and other subscription programming |
Information |
5152 |
52.8 |
40.9 |
-11.9 |
-2.5 |
Logging |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting |
1133 |
51.2 |
40.3 |
-10.9 |
-2.4 |
Foundries |
Manufacturing |
3315 |
117.5 |
92.4 |
-25.1 |
-2.4 |
Pulp, paper, and paperboard mills |
Manufacturing |
3221 |
100.0 |
79.2 |
-20.8 |
-2.3 |
Textile mills and textile product mills |
Manufacturing |
313, 314 |
228.9 |
184.7 |
-44.2 |
-2.1 |
Other chemical product and preparation manufacturing |
Manufacturing |
3259 |
80.2 |
65.8 |
-14.4 |
-2.0 |
Wired telecommunications carriers |
Information |
5171 |
588.5 |
486.0 |
-102.5 |
-1.9 |
Satellite, telecommunications resellers, and all other telecommunications |
Information |
5174, 5179 |
85.3 |
70.5 |
-14.8 |
-1.9 |
Printing and related support activities |
Manufacturing |
323 |
446.7 |
373.5 |
-73.2 |
-1.8 |
Rubber product manufacturing |
Manufacturing |
3262 |
133.1 |
111.6 |
-21.5 |
-1.7 |
Iron and steel mills and ferroalloy manufacturing |
Manufacturing |
3311 |
83.6 |
70.6 |
-13.0 |
-1.7 |
Spring and wire product manufacturing |
Manufacturing |
3326 |
43.0 |
36.5 |
-6.5 |
-1.6 |
Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing, excluding digital camera manufacturing |
Manufacturing |
3341 |
164.1 |
141.0 |
-23.1 |
-1.5 |
Industrial machinery manufacturing |
Manufacturing |
3332 |
113.6 |
97.8 |
-15.8 |
-1.5 |
Source: Employment Projections program, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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