U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Table 1. Industries covered in the 1994-95 Career Guide to Industries
Table 2. Industries covered in the 1994-95 Career Guide to Industries
Table 3. Industries covered in the 1994-95 Career Guide to Industries
For information: (202) 606-5700 USDL 95-57
For release: 10:00 A.M. EST
Media contact: 606-5902 Tuesday, February 21, 1995
1994-95 CAREER GUIDE TO INDUSTRIES PUBLISHED
BY BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
The Career Guide to Industries, published by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, is becoming one of the government's
primary career reference books. First published in 1992, the Career Guide
already has proven useful to students, counselors, and jobseekers in making
informed career decisions and to education and training planners in
assessing what training programs will best meet the needs of the U.S.
economy over the next 10 to 15 years. This second edition of the Career
Guide covers 40 industries, accounting for over 7 out of 10 wage and
salary jobs in the economy. For each industry, the Career Guide presents
the expected employment changes to the year 2005.
The Career Guide discusses careers from an industry perspective,
whereas the BLS companion publication, the Occupational Outlook
Handbook, has addressed careers from an occupational perspective for
nearly 50 years. The Bureau developed the Career Guide because many
people think of careers in terms of industries rather than occupations.
The personal circumstances or choices of some individuals may compel them
to live in a specific locality, limiting prospective jobs to those
offered by the distinctive mix of industries in their state or community.
Or, individuals may be attracted to a particular industry for other
reasons--the glamour and travel associated with the airlines, the high
potential earnings in the securities and commodities industry, the
technology in aerospace manufacturing, or the opportunity to work with
children offered by the educational services industry, to name a few.
By focusing on industries, the Career Guide provides information that
the Handbook does not. Some occupations are unique to a particular
industry and are not discussed in the Handbook. Additionally, some
industries offer specific paths of career advancement that are not
addressed in the Handbook.
Like the Handbook, the Career Guide primarily targets junior and
high school students, but can be equally valuable to older people entering
the work force for the first time and to those seeking a career change.
Readers are told not only which industries will provide the largest number
of jobs, but which will grow the most rapidly and which will decline.
Projected employment change varies widely by industry. For
example, an aging population, advances in medical technology, and the
shift from inpatient hospital care to outpatient care are projected to
create rapid employment growth and millions of job openings in health
services between 1992 and 2005. On the other hand, employment in
apparel and other textile products manufacturing will decline due to
imports and technological improvements, including computers and
automated machinery.
From construction to educational services, the Career Guide
profiles the wide array of career opportunities offered by the nation's
diverse workplaces. Each industry offers a distinctive mix of jobs,
work environments, and training and advancement opportunities. In
addition to discussing the factors that will affect projected growth or
decline in industry employment, the Career Guide provides
information on the industry and its workplaces; working conditions
and hazards; the number of jobs and size of establishments; primary
occupations and their projected growth; education and training
requirements for key jobs; advancement opportunities; earnings;
and organizations that can provide additional information.
The 1994-95 edition of the Career Guide to Industries includes
an expanded introductory chapter that provides an overview of each of
these facets of industry employment.
Tables 1 through 3 in this news release group the 40 industries
in the Career Guide according to projected percent change in
employment--faster or much faster than average, about as fast as
average, or more slowly than average or decline--ranked by projected
numerical change in employment.
Global competition, changing technology and business practices,
shifts in the demand for goods and services, demographics of the
population, and other factors are reshaping the American job market.
For readers interested in the economic assumptions underlying the
specific industry and occupational employment projections, BLS also
has published the American Work Force: 1992-2005. Part I of this
bulletin looks at historical trends in the work force and current
uncertainties, the U.S. economy to 2005, the labor force, industry
output and employment, and the wide variations in employment growth
by occupation. Part II examines the methods used in the projections,
and Part III describes the assumptions made for specific industries
and occupations.
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P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954. The 220-page 1994-95
edition of the Career Guide to Industries, Bulletin 2453, costs $14.
The 1994-95 Occupational Outlook Handbook, Bulletin 2450, with a soft
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Table 1. Industries covered in the 1994-95 Career Guide to Industries
that are projected to grow faster than average (27 to 40 percent) or
much faster than average (41 percent or more), ranked by projected
1992-2005 numerical change in employment
(Wage and salary employment in thousands)
1992-2005
Industry Employment Percent
1992 Employment change change
Health services 9,613 4,176 43.4
Educational services 9,718 2,757 28.4
Eating and drinking places 6,602 2,176 33.0
Social services 1,509 1,405 93.1
Personnel supply services 1,649 933 56.6
Computer and data processing services 831 795 95.7
Hotels and other lodging places 1,572 637 40.5
Amusement and recreation services 1,169 457 39.1
Management and public relations services 655 455 69.5
Child-care services 449 328 73.0
Agricultural services 653 265 40.5
Air transportation 729 238 32.7
Securities and commodities 439 131 29.9
Motion picture production and distribution 171 104 60.8
Advertising 226 62 27.5
Table 2. Industries covered in the 1994-95 Career Guide to Industries
that are projected to grow about as fast as average (14 to 26 percent),
ranked by projected 1992-2005 numerical change in employment
(Wage and salary employment in thousands)
1992-2005
Industry Employment Percent
1992 Employment change change
Construction 4,471 1,161 26.0
Wholesale trade 6,045 1,146 19.0
State and local government 6,576 1,067 16.2
Grocery stores 2,842 633 22.3
Insurance 2,132 499 23.4
Trucking and warehousing 1,606 413 25.7
Printing and publishing 1,504 247 16.4
Motor vehicle dealers 940 153 16.3
Drug manufacturing 256 41 15.9
Table 3. Industries covered in the 1994-95 Career Guide to Industries
that are projected to grow more slowly than average (0 to 13 percent)
or decline, ranked by projected 1992-2005 numerical change in employment
(Wage and salary employment in thousands)
1992-2005
Industry Employment Percent
1992 Employment change change
Department, clothing, and variety stores 3,553 434 12.2
Public utilities 955 117 12.2
Banking 2,103 91 4.3
Radio and television broadcasting 355 37 10.5
Aerospace manufacturing 756 19 2.5
Food processing 1,655 -7 -0.4
Mining and quarrying 280 -19 -6.8
Steel manufacturing 250 -26 -10.5
Chemicals manufacturing, except drugs 827 -33 -4.0
Motor vehicle and equipment manufacturing 809 -50 -6.1
Oil and gas extraction 350 -50 -14.3
Textile mill products manufacturing 671 -101 -15.0
Federal Government 2,177 -113 -5.2
Telephone communications 912 -188 -20.6
Electronics manufacturing 1,463 -239 -16.3
Apparel and other textile products
manufacturing 1,005 -245 -24.4