Table 5. Employed people 18 years and over by industry, class of worker, sex, veteran status, and period of service, 2024 annual averages

Table 5. Employed people 18 years and over by industry, class of worker, sex, veteran status, and period of service, 2024 annual averages [Percent distribution]
Industry, class of worker, and sex	Veterans						Non- veterans
	Total	Gulf War era			WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam era	Other service periods
	Total	Total	Gulf War era II	Gulf War era I	WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam era	Other service periods
TOTAL
Total employed (in thousands)(1)	8,190	5,976	4,064	1,912	687	1,528	151,053
As a percent of total employed
Total employed(1)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Agriculture and related industries	1.4	0.7	0.6	1.0	6.5	1.6	1.4
Wage and salary workers(2)	0.7	0.6	0.5	0.7	1.8	0.7	1.0
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.3	4.6	0.9	0.4
Nonagricultural industries	98.6	99.3	99.4	99.0	93.5	98.4	98.6
Wage and salary workers(2)	93.2	95.0	95.4	94.2	79.4	92.4	92.8
Private industries	69.8	68.9	68.4	70.0	66.0	74.9	79.7
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.3
Construction	6.4	6.4	6.7	5.7	4.9	6.9	6.3
Manufacturing	11.5	11.7	11.7	11.7	6.9	12.5	9.0
Wholesale trade	2.2	2.0	1.8	2.3	1.7	3.5	1.9
Retail trade	7.1	6.4	6.6	5.9	12.9	7.5	9.6
Transportation and utilities	7.9	7.7	7.5	7.9	6.6	9.3	4.8
Information	1.3	1.6	1.2	2.3	0.3	0.9	1.6
Financial activities	4.7	4.5	4.4	4.7	6.2	4.6	6.3
Professional and business services	12.1	12.2	12.4	11.9	11.1	12.1	11.7
Education and health services	9.0	9.2	8.8	10.2	5.9	9.5	16.4
Leisure and hospitality	3.8	3.6	3.7	3.3	5.5	4.1	7.7
Other services	3.1	3.0	2.8	3.2	3.3	3.6	4.1
Government	23.4	26.1	27.0	24.2	13.4	17.5	13.1
Federal	12.0	14.2	15.0	12.5	4.0	6.8	2.2
State	4.5	4.7	4.6	4.9	3.0	4.4	4.7
Local	7.0	7.2	7.4	6.9	6.4	6.3	6.2
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	5.4	4.2	3.9	4.8	14.1	6.0	5.8

MEN
Total employed (in thousands)(1)	7,058	5,035	3,397	1,639	661	1,361	77,258
As a percent of total employed
Total employed(1)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Agriculture and related industries	1.5	0.8	0.7	1.0	6.7	1.7	1.9
Wage and salary workers(2)	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.8	1.9	0.8	1.3
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	0.7	0.1	0.1	0.3	4.8	0.9	0.6
Nonagricultural industries	98.5	99.2	99.3	99.0	93.3	98.3	98.1
Wage and salary workers(2)	93.1	95.2	95.7	94.3	79.0	92.3	91.6
Private industries	71.1	70.4	69.7	71.8	66.2	76.0	81.4
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.6
Construction	7.1	7.3	7.7	6.6	4.9	7.6	10.7
Manufacturing	12.5	12.9	13.0	12.5	7.2	13.9	12.2
Wholesale trade	2.4	2.1	2.0	2.3	1.8	3.8	2.5
Retail trade	7.5	6.9	7.1	6.5	12.7	7.5	9.6
Transportation and utilities	8.6	8.5	8.6	8.4	6.9	10.0	6.9
Information	1.4	1.7	1.4	2.6	0.1	0.9	1.8
Financial activities	4.4	4.2	4.1	4.5	6.4	4.1	5.8
Professional and business services	12.6	12.8	12.8	12.8	11.5	12.3	12.9
Education and health services	6.8	6.8	6.1	8.4	5.3	7.6	7.4
Leisure and hospitality	3.6	3.3	3.4	3.1	5.4	4.0	7.2
Other services	3.3	3.1	2.9	3.5	3.4	3.9	3.6
Government	22.0	24.8	25.9	22.5	12.8	16.3	10.2
Federal	11.1	13.5	14.6	11.2	3.5	6.0	2.1
State	4.0	4.1	4.1	4.3	3.0	3.9	3.4
Local	6.9	7.2	7.3	7.0	6.3	6.4	4.6
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	5.3	4.0	3.6	4.7	14.3	6.0	6.5

WOMEN
Total employed (in thousands)(1)	1,133	941	668	273	25	167	73,796
As a percent of total employed
Total employed(1)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Agriculture and related industries	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.7	-	0.8	0.9
Wage and salary workers(2)	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.4	-	0.1	0.6
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.3	-	0.7	0.2
Nonagricultural industries	99.6	99.6	99.7	99.3	-	99.2	99.1
Wage and salary workers(2)	93.8	93.9	94.1	93.6	-	93.6	94.0
Private industries	61.6	60.8	61.6	59.0	-	66.1	77.8
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.8	-	0.6	0.1
Construction	1.6	1.6	2.0	0.6	-	0.7	1.6
Manufacturing	4.8	5.5	5.0	6.7	-	1.4	5.7
Wholesale trade	1.2	1.2	0.7	2.3	-	1.4	1.3
Retail trade	4.7	3.9	4.3	2.8	-	7.6	9.6
Transportation and utilities	3.1	3.0	2.1	5.2	-	4.0	2.5
Information	0.8	0.8	0.6	1.1	-	0.1	1.3
Financial activities	6.3	6.1	6.1	6.3	-	8.2	6.8
Professional and business services	9.2	9.1	10.4	5.9	-	10.8	10.5
Education and health services	22.6	22.2	22.7	21.0	-	25.1	25.8
Leisure and hospitality	5.1	5.0	5.2	4.5	-	5.4	8.3
Other services	2.0	2.2	2.3	1.9	-	0.8	4.6
Government	32.2	33.1	32.5	34.6	-	27.5	16.2
Federal	17.4	18.1	17.3	20.0	-	13.5	2.2
State	7.5	7.6	7.3	8.4	-	7.8	6.1
Local	7.3	7.4	8.0	6.1	-	6.1	7.9
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	5.8	5.7	5.7	5.7	-	5.7	5.1
Footnotes (1) Total includes a small number of unpaid family workers, not shown separately. (2) Includes self-employed workers whose business are incorporated.
NOTE: Veterans are men and women who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces and were not on active duty at the time of the survey. Nonveterans never served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. Veterans could have served anywhere in the world during these periods of service: Gulf War era II (September 2001-present), Gulf War era I (August 1990-August 2001), Vietnam era (August 1964-April 1975), Korean War (July 1950-January 1955), World War II (December 1941-December 1946), and other service periods (all other time periods). Veterans are counted in only one period of service, their most recent wartime period. Veterans who served in more than one wartime period are classified in the most recent one. Veterans who served in both a wartime period and any other service period are classified in the wartime period. Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values not shown where base is less than 35,000).

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