Occupation by Sex, Employed Civilian Population Age 16+, 2000 | ||||
Percent of | Percent of | |||
Male | Workforce | Female | Workforce | |
Total Employed | 2,169,112 | 54.87% | 1,784,303 | 45.13% |
Management, professional, & related occupations: | 705,714 | 17.85% | 650,259 | 16.45% |
Management, business, & financial operations: | 298,145 | 7.54% | 232,910 | 5.89% |
Management, except farm managers | 211,985 | 5.36% | 136,308 | 3.45% |
Farmers & farm managers | 912 | 0.02% | 356 | 0.01% |
Business & financial operations: | 85,248 | 2.16% | 96,246 | 2.43% |
Business operations specialists | 40,638 | 1.03% | 45,082 | 1.14% |
Financial specialists | 44,610 | 1.13% | 51,164 | 1.29% |
Professional & related occupations: | 407,569 | 10.31% | 417,349 | 10.56% |
Computer & mathematical | 60,241 | 1.52% | 22,229 | 0.56% |
Architecture & engineering: | 65,202 | 1.65% | 10,753 | 0.27% |
Architects, surveyors, cartographers, & engineers | 51,125 | 1.29% | 7,471 | 0.19% |
Drafters, engineering, & mapping technicians | 14,077 | 0.36% | 3,282 | 0.08% |
Life, physical, & social science | 16,234 | 0.41% | 15,871 | 0.40% |
Community & social services | 20,848 | 0.53% | 31,609 | 0.80% |
Legal | 31,724 | 0.80% | 25,399 | 0.64% |
Education, training, & library | 64,107 | 1.62% | 152,038 | 3.85% |
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, & media | 99,451 | 2.52% | 61,355 | 1.55% |
Healthcare practitioners & technical occupations: | 49,762 | 1.26% | 98,095 | 2.48% |
Health diagnosing, treating practitioners, & technical operations | 36,564 | 0.92% | 68,036 | 1.72% |
Health technologists & technicians | 13,198 | 0.33% | 30,059 | 0.76% |
Service occupations: | 279,985 | 7.08% | 300,824 | 7.61% |
Healthcare support | 11,648 | 0.29% | 54,786 | 1.39% |
Protective services: | 56,026 | 1.42% | 14,504 | 0.37% |
Fire fighting, prevention & law enforcement, including supervisors | 21,744 | 0.55% | 5,375 | 0.14% |
Other protective service workers, including supervisors | 34,282 | 0.87% | 9,129 | 0.23% |
Food preparation & serving related occupations | 94,751 | 2.40% | 75,605 | 1.91% |
Building & grounds cleaning & maintenance | 88,069 | 2.23% | 60,843 | 1.54% |
Personal care & service | 29,491 | 0.75% | 95,086 | 2.41% |
Sales & office occupations: | 438,186 | 11.08% | 651,873 | 16.49% |
Sales & related occupations | 240,465 | 6.08% | 210,501 | 5.32% |
Office & administrative support | 197,721 | 5.00% | 441,372 | 11.16% |
Farming, fishing, & forestry occupations | 4,705 | 0.12% | 1,945 | 0.05% |
Construction, extraction, & maintenance occupations: | 295,561 | 7.48% | 10,889 | 0.28% |
Construction & extraction: | 168,477 | 4.26% | 4,476 | 0.11% |
Supervisors, construction & extraction | 17,235 | 0.44% | 627 | 0.02% |
Construction trades | 150,721 | 3.81% | 3,827 | 0.10% |
Extraction | 521 | 0.01% | 22 | 0.00% |
Installation, maintenance, & repair | 127,084 | 3.21% | 6,413 | 0.16% |
Production, transportation, & material moving occupations: | 444,961 | 11.26% | 168,513 | 4.26% |
Production | 248,326 | 6.28% | 131,883 | 3.34% |
Transportation & material moving: | 196,635 | 4.97% | 36,630 | 0.93% |
Supervisors, transportation & material moving | 6,889 | 0.17% | 1,229 | 0.03% |
Aircraft & traffic control | 2,207 | 0.06% | 239 | 0.01% |
Motor vehicle operators | 100,463 | 2.54% | 9,703 | 0.25% |
Rail, water & other transportation | 9,557 | 0.24% | 1,081 | 0.03% |
Material moving | 77,519 | 1.96% | 24,378 | 0.62% |
Industry by Sex, Employed Civilian Population Age 16+, 2000 | ||||
Percent of | Percent of | |||
Male | Workforce | Female | Workforce | |
Total Employed | 2,169,112 | 54.87% | 1,784,303 | 45.13% |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, & mining: | 7,298 | 0.18% | 2,890 | 0.07% |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting | 5,174 | 0.13% | 2,303 | 0.06% |
Mining | 2,124 | 0.05% | 587 | 0.01% |
Construction | 184,740 | 4.67% | 18,089 | 0.46% |
Manufacturing | 378,740 | 9.58% | 207,887 | 5.26% |
Wholesale trade | 121,890 | 3.08% | 62,479 | 1.58% |
Retail trade | 230,141 | 5.82% | 186,249 | 4.71% |
Transportation, warehousing, & utilities: | 143,819 | 3.64% | 54,556 | 1.38% |
Transportation & warehousing | 127,494 | 3.22% | 47,837 | 1.21% |
Utilities | 16,325 | 0.41% | 6,719 | 0.17% |
Information | 128,097 | 3.24% | 85,492 | 2.16% |
Finance, insurance, real estate, rental & leasing: | 125,827 | 3.18% | 146,477 | 3.71% |
Finance & insurance | 76,650 | 1.94% | 105,541 | 2.67% |
Real estate & rental & leasing | 49,177 | 1.24% | 40,936 | 1.04% |
Professional, scientific, management, administrative, & waste: | 264,263 | 6.68% | 190,806 | 4.83% |
Professional, scientific, & technical services | 150,249 | 3.80% | 124,628 | 3.15% |
Management of companies & enterprises | 759 | 0.02% | 960 | 0.02% |
Administrative & support & waste management services | 113,255 | 2.86% | 65,218 | 1.65% |
Educational, health & social services: | 213,140 | 5.39% | 509,652 | 12.89% |
Educational services | 110,247 | 2.79% | 222,599 | 5.63% |
Health care & social assistance | 102,893 | 2.60% | 287,053 | 7.26% |
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food: | 189,817 | 4.80% | 142,936 | 3.62% |
Arts, entertainment, & recreation | 60,449 | 1.53% | 39,150 | 0.99% |
Accommodation & food services | 129,368 | 3.27% | 103,786 | 2.63% |
Other services (except public administration) | 117,120 | 2.96% | 116,073 | 2.94% |
Public administration | 64,220 | 1.62% | 60,717 | 1.54% |
Source: Census 2000 analyzed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN).
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