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Productivity growth slower in two-thirds of newly measured service industries

February 20, 2003

In 4 of the 6 service-sector industries for which BLS has developed new labor productivity measures, output per hour grew more slowly in 1995-2000 than in 1990-1995.

Average annual percent change in output per hour for selected transportation and service industries, 1990-1995 and 1995-2000
[Chart data—TXT]

The largest slowdown occurred in the prepackaged software industry, where the rate of growth in productivity declined from 20.1 percent per year in 1990-1995 to 8.6 percent per year in 1995-2000.

Productivity growth also slowed in local trucking and in truck rentals and leasing. There was a decline in output per hour in public warehousing and storage in 1995-2000, following an increase in 1990-1995.

Productivity accelerated in the last half of the 1990s in advertising agencies and in the passenger car rental industry.

These data are a product of the BLS Productivity and Costs program. Find out more information in "New Transportation and Service Productivity Measures," (PDF 86K) Report 964.

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SUGGESTED CITATION

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Productivity growth slower in two-thirds of newly measured service industries at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2003/feb/wk3/art02.htm (visited February 28, 2026).