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
Industry Description	Sector	2012 NAICS	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

Last Modified Date: October 24, 2017

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

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