TABLE 2.
Comparison of COVID VS pre‐COVID Era Industries/Sectors and Jobs
| COVID (1 March 2020–31 Oct. 2020) | Pre‐COVID (1 March 2019–31 Oct. 2019) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAICS code | Industry | Job postings | % | Job postings % | ||
| 6113 | Colleges, universities, and professional schools | 3757 | 19.9% | 4986 | 25.51% | *** |
| 6221 | General medical and surgical hospitals | 3229 | 17.1% | 3889 | 19.90% | *** |
| 5241 | Insurance carriers | 2854 | 15.1% | 2040 | 10.44% | *** |
| 9211 | Executive, legislative, and other general government support | 1478 | 7.8% | 1528 | 7.82% | |
| 3254 | Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing | 1353 | 7.2% | 917 | 4.69% | *** |
| 5417 | Scientific research and development services | 1258 | 6.7% | 1113 | 5.69% | ** |
| 6211 | Offices of physicians | 574 | 3.0% | 793 | 4.06% | *** |
| 6241 | Individual and family services | 381 | 2.0% | 357 | 1.83% | |
| 5416 | Management, scientific, and technical consulting services | 298 | 1.6% | 347 | 1.78% | |
| 8133 | Social advocacy organizations | 290 | 1.5% | 299 | 1.53% | |
| All other | 3407 | 18% | 3276 | 17% | ** | |
| Total | 18,879 | 100% | 19,546 | 100% | ||
Note: A total of 18,879 jobs from 1 March 2020 to 31 Oct. 2020, and 19,546 jobs from 1 March 2019 to 31 Oct. 2019, were assigned NAICS codes in Burning Glass. Seven hundered sixty‐four postings from the COVID era, and 644 from the pre‐COVID era are excluded from the table, but not from the statistical analysis, because they existed in industries with 30 or fewer postings in one of the time points.
***p < 0.0001,**p < 0.01, *p < 0.05.