Employment charts and map from Employment and Wages, Annual Averages, 2003
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
Bureau of Labor Statistics
April 2005
Chart 1. Distribution of private sector employment by supersector, 2003
In millions of workers
30
Trade,
transportation,
and utilities
25
Professional
and
business
services
20
Manufacturing
15
Education
and
health
services
Leisure
and
hospitality
10
Financial
activities
Construction
5
Natural
resources
and mining
Other
services
Information
Nonclassifiable
establishments
0
9
Chart 2. Percent distribution of private sector employment and establishments by size class,
first quarter and March 2003
Percent
70
60
50
40
Establishments, first quarter
Employment, March
30
20
10
0
Fewer than 5
workers
5 to 9
10 to 19
workers
workers
20 to 49
workers
50 to 99
100 to 249
250 to 499
workers
workers
workers
Employment size class
11
500 to 999
workers
1,000 or more
workers
Chart 3..Percent change in annual average private sector employment and wages
by supersector, 2002–2003
Employment
Annual average wages per employee
Total private
Natural resources and mining
Construction
Manufacturing
Trade, transportation, and utilities
Information
Financial activities
Professional and business services
Education and health services
Leisure and hospitality
Other services
-6
-4
-2
0
Percent change
13
2
4
6
Chart 4. Percent change in employment in counties with 75,000 employees or more,
March 2003
2004 (U.S. Average = 0.8%)
0.9% to 8.0%
-3.2% to 0.8%
Note: The following counties have fewer than 75,000 employees
but are included because they are the largest in their state or
territory: Laramie, WY, Yellowstone, MT, and St. Thomas, VI.
Chart 5. Private sector gross job gains and gross job losses, seasonally adjusted,
third quarter 1992–fourth quarter 2003
Thousands
10,000
9,000
Gross job gains
8,000
Gross job losses
7,000
6,000
Q1
1992
1993
Q1
1994
Q1
Q1
1995
1996
Q1
Q1
1998
1997
NOTE: The shaded area represents a period of recession.
17
Q1
Q1
Q1
1999
2000
2001
Q1
2002
Q1
2003
Chart 6. Components of private sector gross job gains and gross job losses, seasonally adjusted,
third quarter 1992–fourth quarter 2003
Thousands
8,000
7,000
Expansions
6,000
Contractions
5,000
4,000
3,000
Openings
2,000
Closings
1,000
0
1992
Q1
Q1
Q1
Q1
Q1
Q1
Q1
Q1
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
NOTE: The shaded area represents a period of recession.
19
Q1
2001
Q1
2002
Q1
2003