Employment Projections

Output by major industry sector

This table also can be found in the article, "Industry employment and output projections to 2020," published in the January 2012 Monthly Labor Review.

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Table 2.2 Output by major industry sector

Industry sector

Billions of chained
2005 dollars

Annual rate of change

Billions of dollars

Percent distribution

2000

2010

2020

2000-10

2010-20

2000

2010

2020

2000

2010

2020

Total

20,979.4

23,171.3

30,876.3

1.0

2.9

18,303.6

26,273.6

43,000.3

100.0

100.0

100.0

Goods-producing, excluding agriculture

6,218.3

5,565.8

7,385.6

-1.1

2.9

5,279.8

6,390.9

9,769.0

28.8

24.3

22.7

Mining

393.2

388.1

441.0

-0.1

1.3

201.2

417.9

641.1

1.1

1.6

1.5

Construction

1,240.0

814.7

1,183.3

-4.1

3.8

937.9

932.5

1,540.2

5.1

3.5

3.6

Manufacturing

4,585.1

4,363.0

5,723.3

-0.5

2.8

4,140.6

5,040.6

7,587.6

22.6

19.2

17.6

Service-providing

13,525.9

16,165.8

21,600.5

1.8

2.9

11,960.8

18,242.0

30,563.4

65.3

69.4

71.1

Utilities

478.2

354.2

431.7

-3.0

2.0

371.9

429.0

644.0

2.0

1.6

1.5

Wholesale trade

896.7

1,176.4

1,648.9

2.8

3.4

883.1

1,213.5

1,836.6

4.8

4.6

4.3

Retail trade

1,019.1

1,165.0

1,671.0

1.3

3.7

988.8

1,208.1

2,029.3

5.4

4.6

4.7

Transportation and warehousing

640.1

709.4

977.6

1.0

3.3

588.0

820.4

1,365.6

3.2

3.1

3.2

Information

950.9

1,196.4

1,893.0

2.3

4.7

922.2

1,281.2

2,407.4

5.0

4.9

5.6

Financial activities

2,687.2

3,329.5

4,568.5

2.2

3.2

2,378.9

3,761.4

6,489.4

13.0

14.3

15.1

Professional and business services

1,934.6

2,355.0

3,372.1

2.0

3.7

1,729.0

2,667.4

5,056.6

9.4

10.2

11.8

Educational services

201.6

198.5

235.5

-0.2

1.7

142.6

260.7

387.8

0.8

1.0

0.9

Health care and social assistance

1,142.2

1,525.9

2,025.9

2.9

2.9

973.0

1,763.2

3,145.1

5.3

6.7

7.3

Leisure and hospitality

754.8

870.2

1,123.9

1.4

2.6

654.4

996.4

1,664.6

3.6

3.8

3.9

Other services

514.0

514.5

652.3

0.0

2.4

434.0

591.7

947.5

2.4

2.3

2.2

Federal government

732.3

1,012.1

938.9

3.3

-0.7

597.9

1,158.6

1,345.8

3.3

4.4

3.1

State and local government

1,574.3

1,758.6

2,120.4

1.1

1.9

1,297.2

2,090.3

3,243.7

7.1

8.0

7.5

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting

285.4

301.4

365.1

0.5

1.9

243.1

368.2

485.7

1.3

1.4

1.1

Special Industries1

949.8

1,138.3

1,521.1

1.8

2.9

820.0

1,272.6

2,182.2

4.5

4.8

5.1

Residual2

0.0

0.0

4.0

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Footnotes:
1 Consists of nonproducing accounting categories to reconcile the input-output system with NIPA accounts.
2 Residual is shown for the first level only. Subcategories do not necessarily add to higher categories as a byproduct of chain-weighting.
Note: Dash indicates data not computable or not applicable.



Source: Employment Projections program, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Last Modified Date: February 01, 2012