Publication: Occupational Outlook Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-DEC-05
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
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Article Excerpt
This section illustrates projected employment change from an industry perspective, showing which industries are projected to gain or lose jobs over the 2004-14 decade. Workers are grouped into an industry according to the type of good produced or service provided by the establishment in which they work. Everyone who works in a hospital, for example, is part of the hospital industry, regardless of his or her job duties. The hospital industry includes not only healthcare workers, such as doctors and nurses, but also hundreds of other workers, such as managers, secretaries, and janitors.
Like occupational employment projections, industry employment projections are shown in terms of numeric change (change in the total number of jobs) and percent change (the rate of job growth or decline). But unlike employment totals in the occupational charts, employment totals in this section cover only wage-and-salary workers and do not include self-employed or unpaid family workers. Wage-and-salary employment growth is projected to average 14 percent, and this average is shown as a dotted line in some of the charts.
As discussed in the introduction to this issue of the Quarterly, job growth or decline in some industries affects particular occupations significantly. The number of jobs for daycare workers and preschool teachers, for example, is highly dependent on the growth of the child daycare services industry. Most occupations, however--from human resources managers to computer systems analysts--are found in nearly every industry.
Employment growth in industries depends on industry output (the total amount produced) and worker...
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