Table 3. Employment by major industry sector, 2002, 2012, and projected 2022
Industry sector
Thousands of jobs Change Percent distribution Annual growth rate
(percent)
2002 2012 2022 2002- 2012- 2002 2012 2022 2002- 2012-
2012 2022 2012 2022
Total (1)...................................... 142,294.9 145,355.8 160,983.7 3,060.9 15,627.9 100.0 100.0 100.0 0.2 1.0
Nonagriculture wage and salary (2)............. 131,028.3 134,427.6 149,751.3 3,399.3 15,323.7 92.1 92.5 93.0 0.3 1.1
Goods-producing, excluding agriculture......... 22,486.7 18,360.3 19,554.2 -4126.4 1,193.9 15.8 12.6 12.1 -2.0 0.6
Mining...................................... 512.3 800.5 921.7 288.2 121.2 0.4 0.6 0.6 4.6 1.4
Construction................................ 6,715.7 5,640.9 7,263.0 -1074.8 1,622.1 4.7 3.9 4.5 -1.7 2.6
Manufacturing............................... 15,258.7 11,918.9 11,369.4 -3339.8 -549.5 10.7 8.2 7.1 -2.4 -0.5
Services-providing............................. 108,541.6 116,067.3 130,197.1 7,525.7 14,129.8 76.3 79.9 80.9 0.7 1.2
Utilities................................... 596.3 554.2 497.8 -42.1 -56.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 -0.7 -1.1
Wholesale trade............................. 5,652.4 5,672.8 6,143.2 20.4 470.4 4.0 3.9 3.8 0.0 0.8
Retail trade................................ 15,025.1 14,875.3 15,966.2 -149.8 1,090.9 10.6 10.2 9.9 -0.1 0.7
Transportation and warehousing.............. 4,223.8 4,414.7 4,742.0 190.9 327.3 3.0 3.0 2.9 0.4 0.7
Information................................. 3,394.6 2,677.6 2,612.4 -717.0 -65.2 2.4 1.8 1.6 -2.3 -0.2
Financial activities........................ 7,847.1 7,786.3 8,537.3 -60.8 751.0 5.5 5.4 5.3 -0.1 0.9
Professional and business services.......... 15,976.2 17,930.2 21,413.0 1,954.0 3,482.8 11.2 12.3 13.3 1.2 1.8
Educational services........................ 2,642.8 3,346.9 4,022.2 704.1 675.3 1.9 2.3 2.5 2.4 1.9
Health care and social assistance........... 13,555.6 16,971.8 21,965.9 3,416.2 4,994.1 9.5 11.7 13.6 2.3 2.6
Leisure and hospitality..................... 11,986.0 13,745.8 15,035.0 1,759.8 1,289.2 8.4 9.5 9.3 1.4 0.9
Other services.............................. 6,129.0 6,174.5 6,823.4 45.5 648.9 4.3 4.2 4.2 0.1 1.0
Federal government.......................... 2,766.0 2,814.0 2,406.5 48.0 -407.5 1.9 1.9 1.5 0.2 -1.6
State and local government.................. 18,746.7 19,103.2 20,032.2 356.5 929.0 13.2 13.1 12.4 0.2 0.5
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting (3) 2,245.4 2,112.7 1,889.2 -132.7 -223.5 1.6 1.5 1.2 -0.6 -1.1
Agriculture wage and salary................. 1,217.4 1,306.9 1,281.8 89.5 -25.1 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.7 -0.2
Agriculture self-employed and
unpaid family workers..................... 1,028.0 805.8 607.4 -222.2 -198.4 0.7 0.6 0.4 -2.4 -2.8
Nonagriculture self-employed and
unpaid family workers........................ 9,021.2 8,815.5 9,343.2 -205.7 527.7 6.3 6.1 5.8 -0.2 0.6
(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 Population 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.
United States Department of Labor
