Occupation by Sex, Employed Civilian Population Age 16+, 2000 | ||||
Percent of | Percent of | |||
Male | Workforce | Female | Workforce | |
Total Employed | 1,218,744 | 51.79% | 1,134,606 | 48.21% |
Management, professional, & related occupations: | 438,409 | 18.63% | 450,250 | 19.13% |
Management, business, & financial operations: | 200,855 | 8.53% | 142,569 | 6.06% |
Management, except farm managers | 138,190 | 5.87% | 80,417 | 3.42% |
Farmers & farm managers | 2,202 | 0.09% | 593 | 0.03% |
Business & financial operations: | 60,463 | 2.57% | 61,559 | 2.62% |
Business operations specialists | 28,241 | 1.20% | 31,979 | 1.36% |
Financial specialists | 32,222 | 1.37% | 29,580 | 1.26% |
Professional & related occupations: | 237,554 | 10.09% | 307,681 | 13.07% |
Computer & mathematical | 49,513 | 2.10% | 22,140 | 0.94% |
Architecture & engineering: | 39,691 | 1.69% | 6,090 | 0.26% |
Architects, surveyors, cartographers, & engineers | 30,392 | 1.29% | 4,024 | 0.17% |
Drafters, engineering, & mapping technicians | 9,299 | 0.40% | 2,066 | 0.09% |
Life, physical, & social science | 17,964 | 0.76% | 13,801 | 0.59% |
Community & social services | 15,070 | 0.64% | 26,405 | 1.12% |
Legal | 19,437 | 0.83% | 16,191 | 0.69% |
Education, training, & library | 36,682 | 1.56% | 102,890 | 4.37% |
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, & media | 23,169 | 0.98% | 22,920 | 0.97% |
Healthcare practitioners & technical occupations: | 36,028 | 1.53% | 97,244 | 4.13% |
Health diagnosing, treating practitioners, & technical operations | 28,716 | 1.22% | 68,964 | 2.93% |
Health technologists & technicians | 7,312 | 0.31% | 28,280 | 1.20% |
Service occupations: | 152,377 | 6.47% | 175,890 | 7.47% |
Healthcare support | 6,481 | 0.28% | 42,360 | 1.80% |
Protective services: | 40,176 | 1.71% | 11,422 | 0.49% |
Fire fighting, prevention & law enforcement, including supervisors | 24,203 | 1.03% | 4,520 | 0.19% |
Other protective service workers, including supervisors | 15,973 | 0.68% | 6,902 | 0.29% |
Food preparation & serving related occupations | 47,973 | 2.04% | 55,512 | 2.36% |
Building & grounds cleaning & maintenance | 44,430 | 1.89% | 22,205 | 0.94% |
Personal care & service | 13,317 | 0.57% | 44,391 | 1.89% |
Sales & office occupations: | 243,047 | 10.33% | 437,335 | 18.58% |
Sales & related occupations | 141,129 | 6.00% | 127,665 | 5.42% |
Office & administrative support | 101,918 | 4.33% | 309,670 | 13.16% |
Farming, fishing, & forestry occupations | 3,823 | 0.16% | 1,539 | 0.07% |
Construction, extraction, & maintenance occupations: | 175,071 | 7.44% | 5,866 | 0.25% |
Construction & extraction: | 97,740 | 4.15% | 2,122 | 0.09% |
Supervisors, construction & extraction | 12,386 | 0.53% | 267 | 0.01% |
Construction trades | 84,926 | 3.61% | 1,853 | 0.08% |
Extraction | 428 | 0.02% | 2 | 0.00% |
Installation, maintenance, & repair | 77,331 | 3.29% | 3,744 | 0.16% |
Production, transportation, & material moving occupations: | 206,017 | 8.75% | 63,726 | 2.71% |
Production | 99,840 | 4.24% | 44,116 | 1.87% |
Transportation & material moving: | 106,177 | 4.51% | 19,610 | 0.83% |
Supervisors, transportation & material moving | 3,558 | 0.15% | 820 | 0.03% |
Aircraft & traffic control | 1,623 | 0.07% | 121 | 0.01% |
Motor vehicle operators | 54,406 | 2.31% | 8,323 | 0.35% |
Rail, water & other transportation | 6,313 | 0.27% | 538 | 0.02% |
Material moving | 40,277 | 1.71% | 9,808 | 0.42% |
Industry by Sex, Employed Civilian Population Age 16+, 2000 | ||||
Percent of | Percent of | |||
Male | Workforce | Female | Workforce | |
Total Employed | 1,218,744 | 51.79% | 1,134,606 | 48.21% |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, & mining: | 7,913 | 0.34% | 2,667 | 0.11% |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting | 6,990 | 0.30% | 2,466 | 0.10% |
Mining | 923 | 0.04% | 201 | 0.01% |
Construction | 116,691 | 4.96% | 13,458 | 0.57% |
Manufacturing | 192,073 | 8.16% | 90,492 | 3.85% |
Wholesale trade | 61,825 | 2.63% | 28,356 | 1.20% |
Retail trade | 141,176 | 6.00% | 131,862 | 5.60% |
Transportation, warehousing, & utilities: | 89,061 | 3.78% | 30,102 | 1.28% |
Transportation & warehousing | 73,574 | 3.13% | 26,257 | 1.12% |
Utilities | 15,487 | 0.66% | 3,845 | 0.16% |
Information | 41,315 | 1.76% | 32,835 | 1.40% |
Finance, insurance, real estate, rental & leasing: | 86,697 | 3.68% | 114,051 | 4.85% |
Finance & insurance | 65,244 | 2.77% | 94,029 | 4.00% |
Real estate & rental & leasing | 21,453 | 0.91% | 20,022 | 0.85% |
Professional, scientific, management, administrative, & waste: | 146,648 | 6.23% | 120,205 | 5.11% |
Professional, scientific, & technical services | 99,658 | 4.23% | 83,940 | 3.57% |
Management of companies & enterprises | 717 | 0.03% | 770 | 0.03% |
Administrative & support & waste management services | 46,273 | 1.97% | 35,495 | 1.51% |
Educational, health & social services: | 143,127 | 6.08% | 391,759 | 16.65% |
Educational services | 70,820 | 3.01% | 150,184 | 6.38% |
Health care & social assistance | 72,307 | 3.07% | 241,575 | 10.27% |
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food: | 76,822 | 3.26% | 73,915 | 3.14% |
Arts, entertainment, & recreation | 18,789 | 0.80% | 15,284 | 0.65% |
Accommodation & food services | 58,033 | 2.47% | 58,631 | 2.49% |
Other services (except public administration) | 55,139 | 2.34% | 53,766 | 2.28% |
Public administration | 60,257 | 2.56% | 51,138 | 2.17% |
Source: Census 2000 analyzed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN).
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