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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

Industry Description

Sector

2017 NAICS

Thousands of Jobs

Change

Compound Annual Rate of Change

2018

2028

2018 - 2028

2018 - 2028

Fastest Growing

Home health care services

Health care and social assistance

6216

1,472.7

2,186.4

713.7

4.0

Outpatient care centers

Health care and social assistance

6214

934.4

1,265.4

331.0

3.1

Individual and family services

Health care and social assistance

6241

2,464.2

3,255.7

791.5

2.8

Other information services

Information

519

307.8

393.5

85.7

2.5

Offices of other health practitioners

Health care and social assistance

6213

930.2

1,184.8

254.6

2.4

Medical and diagnostic laboratories

Health care and social assistance

6215

277.9

350.3

72.4

2.3

Computer systems design and related services

Professional and business services

5415

2,121.6

2,642.3

520.7

2.2

Forestry

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

1131, 1132

5.7

7.0

1.3

2.1

Other ambulatory health care services

Health care and social assistance

6219

307.6

372.3

64.7

1.9

Software publishers

Information

5112

407.9

489.1

81.2

1.8

Management, scientific, and technical consulting services

Professional and business services

5416

1,483.2

1,776.0

292.8

1.8

Data processing, hosting, and related services

Information

518

329.8

391.4

61.6

1.7

Office administrative services

Professional and business services

5611

515.2

607.9

92.7

1.7

Support activities for mining

Mining

213

346.1

408.2

62.1

1.7

Warehousing and storage

Transportation and Warehousing

493

1,139.6

1,309.0

169.4

1.4

Other educational services

Educational services

6114-7

780.6

895.4

114.8

1.4

Other professional, scientific, and technical services

Professional and business services

5419

738.5

845.0

106.5

1.4

Offices of physicians

Health care and social assistance

6211

2,620.6

2,970.5

349.9

1.3

Elementary and secondary schools

Educational services

6111

1,083.3

1,220.4

137.1

1.2

Junior colleges, colleges, universities, and professional schools

Educational services

6112, 6113

1,863.6

2,085.2

221.6

1.1

Most Rapidly Declining

Tobacco manufacturing

Manufacturing

3122

11.7

7.3

-4.4

-4.6

Federal electric utilities

Federal government

NA

14.9

10.4

-4.5

-3.5

Apparel, leather and allied product manufacturing

Manufacturing

315, 316

139.6

99.5

-40.1

-3.3

Communications equipment manufacturing

Manufacturing

3342

85.7

62.2

-23.5

-3.2

Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media

Manufacturing

3346

14.2

10.6

-3.6

-2.8

Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers

Information

5111

324.7

247.9

-76.8

-2.7

Wired telecommunications carriers

Information

517311

547.3

420.1

-127.2

-2.6

Satellite, telecommunications resellers, and all other telecommunications

Information

5174, 5179

89.5

70.6

-18.9

-2.4

Postal Service

Federal government

491

608.6

482.1

-126.5

-2.3

Pulp, paper, and paperboard mills

Manufacturing

3221

95.1

76.4

-18.7

-2.2

Printing and related support activities

Manufacturing

323

430.9

346.4

-84.5

-2.2

Cable and other subscription programming

Information

5152

53.6

43.5

-10.1

-2.1

Textile mills and textile product mills

Manufacturing

313,314

228.9

188.6

-40.3

-1.9

Logging

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

1133

48.6

40.3

-8.3

-1.9

Gambling industries (except casino hotels)

Leisure and hospitality

7132

120.4

100.8

-19.6

-1.8

Foundries

Manufacturing

3315

119.7

101.0

-18.7

-1.7

Iron and steel mills and ferroalloy manufacturing

Manufacturing

3311

82.8

70.1

-12.7

-1.6

Household appliance manufacturing

Manufacturing

3352

63.1

53.5

-9.6

-1.6

Natural gas distribution

Utilities

2212

110.0

95.6

-14.4

-1.4

Coal mining

Mining

2121

51.8

45.3

-6.5

-1.3

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