Employment Projections

Employment 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 2.1 Employment by major industry sector

Industry sector

Thousands of jobs

Change

Percent distribution

Annual rate of change

2000

2010

2020

2000-10

2010-20

2000

2010

2020

2000-10

2010-20

Total1

146,236.0

143,068.2

163,537.1

-3167.8

20,468.9

100.0

100.0

100.0

-0.2

1.3

Nonagriculture wage and salary2

132,425.0

130,435.6

150,176.8

-1,989.4

19,741.2

90.6

91.2

91.8

-0.2

1.4

Goods-producing, excluding agriculture

24,569.7

17,705.5

19,496.8

-6,864.2

1,791.3

16.8

12.4

11.9

-3.2

1.0

Mining

520.4

655.9

680.7

135.5

24.8

0.4

0.5

0.4

2.3

0.4

Construction

6,786.4

5,525.6

7,365.1

-1,260.8

1,839.5

4.6

3.9

4.5

-2.0

2.9

Manufacturing

17,262.9

11,524.0

11,450.9

-5,738.9

-73.1

11.8

8.1

7.0

-4.0

-0.1

Services-providing

107,855.3

112,730.1

130,680.1

4,874.8

17,950.0

73.8

78.8

79.9

0.4

1.5

Utilities

601.3

551.8

516.1

-49.5

-35.7

0.4

0.4

0.3

-0.9

-0.7

Wholesale trade

5,933.5

5,456.1

6,200.2

-477.4

744.1

4.1

3.8

3.8

-0.8

1.3

Retail trade

15,279.8

14,413.7

16,182.2

-866.1

1,768.5

10.4

10.1

9.9

-0.6

1.2

Transportation and warehousing

4,410.3

4,183.3

5,036.2

-227.0

852.9

3.0

2.9

3.1

-0.5

1.9

Information

3,630.6

2,710.9

2,851.2

-919.7

140.3

2.5

1.9

1.7

-2.9

0.5

Financial activities

7,687.5

7,630.2

8,410.6

-57.3

780.4

5.3

5.3

5.1

-0.1

1.0

Professional and business services

16,666.1

16,688.0

20,497.0

21.9

3,809.0

11.4

11.7

12.5

0.0

2.1

Educational services

2,390.6

3,149.6

3,968.8

759.0

819.2

1.6

2.2

2.4

2.8

2.3

Health care and social assistance

12,718.3

16,414.5

22,053.9

3,696.2

5,639.4

8.7

11.5

13.5

2.6

3.0

Leisure and hospitality

11,861.6

13,019.6

14,362.3

1,158.0

1,342.7

8.1

9.1

8.8

0.9

1.0

Other services

5,885.7

6,031.3

6,850.7

145.6

819.4

4.0

4.2

4.2

0.2

1.3

Federal government

2,865.0

2,968.0

2,596.0

103.0

-372.0

2.0

2.1

1.6

0.4

-1.3

State and local government

17,925.0

19,513.1

21,154.8

1,588.1

1,641.7

12.3

13.6

12.9

0.9

0.8

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting3

2,396.2

2,135.5

2,005.3

-260.7

-130.2

1.6

1.5

1.2

-1.1

-0.6

Agriculture wage and salary

1,354.0

1,282.1

1,236.1

-71.9

-46.0

0.9

0.9

0.8

-0.5

-0.4

Agriculture self-employed and unpaid family workers

1,042.2

853.4

769.3

-188.8

-84.1

0.7

0.6

0.5

-2.0

-1.0

Nonagriculture self-employed and unpaid family worker

9,313.7

8,943.8

9,720.6

-369.9

776.8

6.4

6.3

5.9

-0.4

0.8

Secondary wage and salary jobs in agriculture and private household industries4,5

141.7

111.6

112.7

-30.1

1.1

0.1

0.1

0.1

-2.4

0.1

Secondary jobs as a self-employed or unpaid family worker4,6

1,959.4

1,441.7

1,521.7

-517.7

80.0

1.3

1.0

0.9

-3.0

0.5

Footnotes:
1 Employment data for wage and salary workers are from the BLS Current Employment Statistics survey, which counts jobs, whereas self-employed, unpaid family workers, 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 Populations Survey. Logging workers are excluded.
3 Includes agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting data from the Current Population Survey, except logging, which is from Current Employment Statistics survey. Government wage and salary workers are excluded.
4 Due to methodological changes, these data are not comparable to previously published numbers for these categories of secondary workers.
5 Workers who hold a secondary wage and salary job in agricultural production, forestry, fishing, and private household industries.
6 Wage and salary workers who hold a secondary job as a self-employed or unpaid family worker.



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