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Industries with employment decreases from 2000 to 2024
September 19, 2025
Over the past quarter century, employment decreased by about 98 percent in both video tape and disc rental and one-hour photofinishing, while employment in photofinishing laboratories (except one-hour) decreased by 90 percent. Employment in video tape and disc rental went from about 163,000 to less than 2,700, while employment in the two photofinishing industries combined decreased from nearly 70,000 in 2000 to less than 5,700 in 2025.
Other pressed and blown glass and glassware manufacturing
-72.9
40,186
10,905
Consumer electronics and appliances rental
-72.8
33,661
9,156
Formal wear and costume rental
-71.7
18,375
5,204
Blind and shade manufacturing
-67.7
26,182
8,450
Casinos (except casino hotels)
-67.0
194,893
64,314
Books printing
-66.7
38,749
12,891
Tobacco farming
-65.0
4,550
1,594
Orange groves
-64.3
8,273
2,950
Audio and video equipment manufacturing
-63.8
52,063
18,851
Computer storage device manufacturing
-63.7
38,022
13,797
Automatic environmental control manufacturing for residential, commercial, and appliance use
-63.5
35,549
12,965
Direct mail advertising
-63.0
87,084
32,201
Other fabricated wire product manufacturing
-62.3
62,691
23,604
Periodical publishers
-61.3
166,165
64,366
Electronic computer manufacturing
-60.8
157,371
61,620
Satellite telecommunications
-60.1
21,992
8,766
Other industries related to photography and printing also experienced employment decreases from 2000 to 2024. These included photographic film (and related products) manufacturing (−85 percent), greeting card publishers (−84 percent), newspaper publishers (−79 percent), and directory and mailing list publishers (−75 percent). Books printing, direct mail advertising, and periodical publishers each had employment decreases of 60-some percent.
Some electronics manufacturing industries, such as telephone apparatus manufacturing (−87 percent), bare printed circuit board manufacturing (−81 percent) saw employment decreases over this period. Employment also decreased by 60 percent or more in audio and video equipment manufacturing, computer storage device manufacturing, and electronic computer manufacturing.
These data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program are calculated with data in quarterly reports from establishments covered by the unemployment insurance program. Employment not covered by unemployment insurance (for example, the self-employed) is not included in QCEW data. QCEW data are not designed as a time series. For more information, please see the QCEW Technical Note. An industry is defined as a group of establishments, generally employers, performing the same or similar economic activities. Establishments are classified by industry using an industrial classification system called the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). These detailed industries have six-dight NAICS codes. Employment decreases may result from reduced demand for a product or service, or improvements in efficiency that result in fewer workers being required to produce a product or service, or a combination of these and other factors.
United States Department of Labor
