Table B2.

Employment by Sector

		Nationwide		Towers Watson Sample
NAICS code	Industry	Total	Percent	Total	Percent
11	Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting	153,829	0.1%	0	0.0%
21	Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction	604,653	0.4%	2,200	0.2%
22	Utilities	641,552	0.5%	41,466	4.3%
23	Construction	5,967,128	4.4%	39,229	4.1%
31–33	Manufacturing	11,632,956	8.5%	229,041	23.7%
42	Wholesale trade	5,827,769	4.3%	46,000	4.8%
44–45	Retail trade	14,802,767	10.8%	330,645	34.2%
48–49	Transportation and warehousing	4,159,604	3.0%	25,900	2.7%
51	Information	3,288,109	2.4%	14,800	1.5%
52	Finance and insurance	6,171,240	4.5%	70,798	7.3%
53	Real estate and rental and leasing	2,036,590	1.5%	0	0.0%
54	Professional, scientific, and technical services	7,839,965	5.7%	11976	1.2%
55	Management of companies and enterprises	2,853,450	2.1%	4670	0.5%
56	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services	9,060,987	6.6%	0	0.0%
61	Educational services	3,200,553	2.3%	0	0.0%
62	Health care and social assistance	17,531,142	12.8%	136,250	14.1%
71	Arts, entertainment, and recreation	2,010,339	1.5%	0	0.0%
72	Accommodation and food services	11,443,293	8.4%	0	0.0%
81	Other services (except public administration)	5,264,429	3.8%	0	0.0%
92	Public administration	22,479,000	16.4%	15000	1.5%
	Total	136,969,355	100.0%	967,975	100.0%

Notes: Nationwide data for all NAICS codes except for 92 (public administration) come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2009 Statisics of Business, retrieved from http://www.census.gov/econ/susb/. Data on government employment (for the public administration category) are for the end of 2009 and come from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, retrieved from http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/USGOVT.txt.