Table 2. Employment by major industry sector
(Numbers in thousands)
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| | | | Compound annual
| Employment | Change | Percent distribution | rate of change
Industry sector |----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------|----------------
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| 2004 | 2014 | 2024 | 2004-14| 2014-24| 2004 | 2014 | 2024 |2004-14|2014-24
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Total(1) |144,047.0 |150,539.9 |160,328.8 | 6,492.9 | 9,788.9 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.4 | 0.6
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Nonagriculture wage and salary(2) |132,462.2 |139,811.5 |149,131.6 | 7,349.3 | 9,320.1 | 92.0 | 92.9 | 93.0 | 0.5 | 0.6
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Goods-producing, excluding agriculture | 21,815.3 | 19,170.5 | 19,227.0 |-2,644.8 | 56.5 | 15.1 | 12.7 | 12.0 | -1.3 | 0.0
Mining | 523.2 | 843.8 | 924.0 | 320.6 | 80.2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 4.9 | 0.9
Construction | 6,976.2 | 6,138.4 | 6,928.8 | -837.8 | 790.4 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 4.3 | -1.3 | 1.2
Manufacturing | 14,315.9 | 12,188.3 | 11,374.2 |-2,127.6 | -814.1 | 9.9 | 8.1 | 7.1 | -1.6 | -0.7
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Services-providing |110,646.9 |120,641.0 |129,904.6 | 9,994.1 | 9,263.6 | 76.8 | 80.1 | 81.0 | 0.9 | 0.7
Utilities | 563.8 | 553.0 | 505.1 | -10.8 | -47.9 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | -0.2 | -0.9
Wholesale trade | 5,663.0 | 5,826.0 | 6,151.4 | 163.0 | 325.4 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 0.3 | 0.5
Retail trade | 15,058.2 | 15,364.5 | 16,129.1 | 306.3 | 764.6 | 10.5 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 0.2 | 0.5
Transportation and warehousing | 4,248.6 | 4,640.3 | 4,776.9 | 391.7 | 136.6 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.0 | 0.9 | 0.3
Information | 3,118.3 | 2,739.7 | 2,712.6 | -378.6 | -27.1 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.7 | -1.3 | -0.1
Financial activities | 8,105.1 | 7,979.5 | 8,486.7 | -125.6 | 507.2 | 5.6 | 5.3 | 5.3 | -0.2 | 0.6
Professional and business services | 16,394.9 | 19,096.2 | 20,985.5 | 2,701.3 | 1,889.3 | 11.4 | 12.7 | 13.1 | 1.5 | 0.9
Educational services; private | 2,762.5 | 3,417.4 | 3,756.1 | 654.9 | 338.7 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 2.2 | 0.9
Health care and social assistance | 14,429.8 | 18,057.4 | 21,852.2 | 3,627.6 | 3,794.8 | 10.0 | 12.0 | 13.6 | 2.3 | 1.9
Leisure and hospitality | 12,493.1 | 14,710.0 | 15,651.2 | 2,216.9 | 941.2 | 8.7 | 9.8 | 9.8 | 1.6 | 0.6
Other services | 6,188.3 | 6,394.0 | 6,662.0 | 205.7 | 268.0 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 0.3 | 0.4
Federal government | 2,730.0 | 2,729.0 | 2,345.6 | -1.0 | -383.4 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 0.0 | -1.5
State and local government | 18,891.3 | 19,134.0 | 19,890.1 | 242.7 | 756.1 | 13.1 | 12.7 | 12.4 | 0.1 | 0.4
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Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting(3) | 2,111.3 | 2,138.3 | 2,027.7 | 26.9 | -110.5 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.1 | -0.5
Agricultural wage and salary | 1,149.0 | 1,384.0 | 1,307.3 | 235.0 | -76.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.9 | -0.6
Agricultural self-employed workers | 962.3 | 754.3 | 720.4 | -208.1 | -33.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.4 | -2.4 | -0.5
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Nonagricultural self-employed workers | 9,473.6 | 8,590.2 | 9,169.5 | -883.4 | 579.3 | 6.6 | 5.7 | 5.7 | -1.0 | 0.7
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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
Population Survey. Logging workers are excluded.
3 Includes agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting data from the Current Population Survey, except logging, which is from the Current
Employment Statistics survey. Government wage and salary workers are excluded.
United States Department of Labor
