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Employment Projections > Data > Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining wage and salary employment

Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining wage and salary employment

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**Table 2.3 Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining wage and salary employment**
Industry Description	Sector	2017 NAICS	Thousands of Jobs		Change	Compound Annual Rate of Change
Industry Description	Sector	2017 NAICS	2018	2028	2018 - 2028	2018 - 2028
Fastest Growing
Home health care services	Health care and social assistance	6216	1,472.7	2,186.4	713.7	4.0
Outpatient care centers	Health care and social assistance	6214	934.4	1,265.4	331.0	3.1
Individual and family services	Health care and social assistance	6241	2,464.2	3,255.7	791.5	2.8
Other information services	Information	519	307.8	393.5	85.7	2.5
Offices of other health practitioners	Health care and social assistance	6213	930.2	1,184.8	254.6	2.4
Medical and diagnostic laboratories	Health care and social assistance	6215	277.9	350.3	72.4	2.3
Computer systems design and related services	Professional and business services	5415	2,121.6	2,642.3	520.7	2.2
Forestry	Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting	1131, 1132	5.7	7.0	1.3	2.1
Other ambulatory health care services	Health care and social assistance	6219	307.6	372.3	64.7	1.9
Software publishers	Information	5112	407.9	489.1	81.2	1.8
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services	Professional and business services	5416	1,483.2	1,776.0	292.8	1.8
Data processing, hosting, and related services	Information	518	329.8	391.4	61.6	1.7
Office administrative services	Professional and business services	5611	515.2	607.9	92.7	1.7
Support activities for mining	Mining	213	346.1	408.2	62.1	1.7
Warehousing and storage	Transportation and Warehousing	493	1,139.6	1,309.0	169.4	1.4
Other educational services	Educational services	6114-7	780.6	895.4	114.8	1.4
Other professional, scientific, and technical services	Professional and business services	5419	738.5	845.0	106.5	1.4
Offices of physicians	Health care and social assistance	6211	2,620.6	2,970.5	349.9	1.3
Elementary and secondary schools	Educational services	6111	1,083.3	1,220.4	137.1	1.2
Junior colleges, colleges, universities, and professional schools	Educational services	6112, 6113	1,863.6	2,085.2	221.6	1.1
Most Rapidly Declining
Tobacco manufacturing	Manufacturing	3122	11.7	7.3	-4.4	-4.6
Federal electric utilities	Federal government	NA	14.9	10.4	-4.5	-3.5
Apparel, leather and allied product manufacturing	Manufacturing	315, 316	139.6	99.5	-40.1	-3.3
Communications equipment manufacturing	Manufacturing	3342	85.7	62.2	-23.5	-3.2
Manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media	Manufacturing	3346	14.2	10.6	-3.6	-2.8
Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers	Information	5111	324.7	247.9	-76.8	-2.7
Wired telecommunications carriers	Information	517311	547.3	420.1	-127.2	-2.6
Satellite, telecommunications resellers, and all other telecommunications	Information	5174, 5179	89.5	70.6	-18.9	-2.4
Postal Service	Federal government	491	608.6	482.1	-126.5	-2.3
Pulp, paper, and paperboard mills	Manufacturing	3221	95.1	76.4	-18.7	-2.2
Printing and related support activities	Manufacturing	323	430.9	346.4	-84.5	-2.2
Cable and other subscription programming	Information	5152	53.6	43.5	-10.1	-2.1
Textile mills and textile product mills	Manufacturing	313,314	228.9	188.6	-40.3	-1.9
Logging	Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting	1133	48.6	40.3	-8.3	-1.9
Gambling industries (except casino hotels)	Leisure and hospitality	7132	120.4	100.8	-19.6	-1.8
Foundries	Manufacturing	3315	119.7	101.0	-18.7	-1.7
Iron and steel mills and ferroalloy manufacturing	Manufacturing	3311	82.8	70.1	-12.7	-1.6
Household appliance manufacturing	Manufacturing	3352	63.1	53.5	-9.6	-1.6
Natural gas distribution	Utilities	2212	110.0	95.6	-14.4	-1.4
Coal mining	Mining	2121	51.8	45.3	-6.5	-1.3

Last Modified Date: September 4, 2019