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Employment Projections
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Employment by major industry sector

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Table 2.1 Employment by major industry sector
(Employment in thousands of jobs)

Industry Sector

Employment, 2011

Employment, 2021

Employment, 2031

Employment change, 2011–21

Employment change, 2021–31

Percent distribution, 2011

Percent distribution, 2021

Percent distribution, 2031

Compound annual rate of change, 2011–21

Compound annual rate of change, 2021–31

Total(1)

143,326.8

158,134.9

166,452.1

14,808.1

8,317.2

100.0

100.0

100.0

1.0

0.5
 

Nonagriculture wage and salary(2)

132,589.0

146,736.9

154,888.2

14,147.9

8,151.3

92.5

92.8

93.1

1.0

0.5
 

Goods-producing, excluding agriculture

17,999.6

20,279.5

20,408.6

2,279.9

129.1

12.6

12.8

12.3

1.2

0.1

Mining

739.2

519.6

583.4

-219.6

63.8

0.5

0.3

0.4

-3.5

1.2

Construction

5,533.4

7,413.3

7,618.0

1,879.9

204.7

3.9

4.7

4.6

3.0

0.3

Manufacturing

11,727.0

12,346.6

12,207.2

619.6

-139.4

8.2

7.8

7.3

0.5

-0.1
 

Services-providing, excluding special industries

114,589.4

126,457.4

134,479.7

11,868.0

8,022.2

79.9

80.0

80.8

1.0

0.6

Utilities

552.5

540.8

506.2

-11.7

-34.6

0.4

0.3

0.3

-0.2

-0.7

Wholesale trade

5,474.7

5,677.9

5,813.7

203.2

135.8

3.8

3.6

3.5

0.4

0.2

Retail trade

14,673.6

15,396.0

15,063.3

722.4

-332.7

10.2

9.7

9.0

0.5

-0.2

Transportation and warehousing

4,289.4

6,092.0

6,558.5

1,802.6

466.5

3.0

3.9

3.9

3.6

0.7

Information

2,673.3

2,831.4

3,041.2

158.1

209.8

1.9

1.8

1.8

0.6

0.7

Financial activities

7,696.6

8,777.0

9,113.2

1,080.4

336.2

5.4

5.6

5.5

1.3

0.4

Professional and business services

17,389.1

21,249.5

22,798.9

3,860.4

1,549.4

12.1

13.4

13.7

2.0

0.7

Educational services

3,249.6

3,589.3

4,026.5

339.7

437.2

2.3

2.3

2.4

1.0

1.2

Health care and social assistance

17,068.8

20,084.0

22,694.0

3,015.2

2,610.0

11.9

12.7

13.6

1.6

1.2

Leisure and hospitality

13,352.6

14,100.8

16,024.2

748.2

1,923.4

9.3

8.9

9.6

0.5

1.3

Other services

6,082.7

6,114.1

6,641.4

31.4

527.3

4.2

3.9

4.0

0.1

0.8

Federal government

2,858.5

2,885.7

2,780.7

27.2

-105.0

2.0

1.8

1.7

0.1

-0.4

State and local government

19,228.0

19,118.9

19,417.9

-109.1

299.0

13.4

12.1

11.7

-0.1

0.2
 

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting(3)

2,147.5

2,184.8

2,200.5

37.3

15.7

1.5

1.4

1.3

0.2

0.1

Agriculture wage and salary

1,304.9

1,460.2

1,520.1

155.3

59.9

0.9

0.9

0.9

1.1

0.4

Agriculture self-employed

842.6

724.6

680.4

-118.0

-44.2

0.6

0.5

0.4

-1.5

-0.6
 

Nonagriculture self-employed

8,590.3

9,213.2

9,363.4

622.9

150.3

6.0

5.8

5.6

0.7

0.2

Footnotes:
(1) Employment data for wage and salary workers are from the BLS Current Employment Statistics survey, which counts jobs, whereas self-employed 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.
Source: Employment Projections program, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Last Modified Date: September 8, 2022