Occupation by Sex, Employed Civilian Population Age 16+, 2000 | ||||
Percent of | Percent of | |||
Male | Workforce | Female | Workforce | |
Total Employed | 5,068,686 | 54.89% | 4,165,686 | 45.11% |
Management, professional, & related occupations: | 1,564,232 | 16.94% | 1,514,525 | 16.40% |
Management, business, & financial operations: | 740,384 | 8.02% | 514,118 | 5.57% |
Management, except farm managers | 507,287 | 5.49% | 290,491 | 3.15% |
Farmers & farm managers | 45,553 | 0.49% | 6,602 | 0.07% |
Business & financial operations: | 187,544 | 2.03% | 217,025 | 2.35% |
Business operations specialists | 94,510 | 1.02% | 103,718 | 1.12% |
Financial specialists | 93,034 | 1.01% | 113,307 | 1.23% |
Professional & related occupations: | 823,848 | 8.92% | 1,000,407 | 10.83% |
Computer & mathematical | 168,832 | 1.83% | 66,305 | 0.72% |
Architecture & engineering: | 180,471 | 1.95% | 25,948 | 0.28% |
Architects, surveyors, cartographers, & engineers | 131,309 | 1.42% | 16,724 | 0.18% |
Drafters, engineering, & mapping technicians | 49,162 | 0.53% | 9,224 | 0.10% |
Life, physical, & social science | 45,245 | 0.49% | 26,052 | 0.28% |
Community & social services | 53,610 | 0.58% | 68,692 | 0.74% |
Legal | 49,488 | 0.54% | 44,704 | 0.48% |
Education, training, & library | 136,232 | 1.48% | 427,941 | 4.63% |
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, & media | 79,120 | 0.86% | 66,956 | 0.73% |
Healthcare practitioners & technical occupations: | 110,850 | 1.20% | 273,809 | 2.97% |
Health diagnosing, treating practitioners, & technical operations | 80,952 | 0.88% | 173,151 | 1.88% |
Health technologists & technicians | 29,898 | 0.32% | 100,658 | 1.09% |
Service occupations: | 582,902 | 6.31% | 768,368 | 8.32% |
Healthcare support | 21,242 | 0.23% | 153,157 | 1.66% |
Protective services: | 148,488 | 1.61% | 40,789 | 0.44% |
Fire fighting, prevention & law enforcement, including supervisors | 99,891 | 1.08% | 22,398 | 0.24% |
Other protective service workers, including supervisors | 48,597 | 0.53% | 18,391 | 0.20% |
Food preparation & serving related occupations | 186,466 | 2.02% | 245,199 | 2.66% |
Building & grounds cleaning & maintenance | 179,265 | 1.94% | 137,193 | 1.49% |
Personal care & service | 47,441 | 0.51% | 192,030 | 2.08% |
Sales & office occupations: | 933,941 | 10.11% | 1,581,655 | 17.13% |
Sales & related occupations | 567,288 | 6.14% | 524,055 | 5.68% |
Office & administrative support | 366,653 | 3.97% | 1,057,600 | 11.45% |
Farming, fishing, & forestry occupations | 51,903 | 0.56% | 9,583 | 0.10% |
Construction, extraction, & maintenance occupations: | 974,779 | 10.56% | 33,574 | 0.36% |
Construction & extraction: | 593,635 | 6.43% | 15,912 | 0.17% |
Supervisors, construction & extraction | 80,058 | 0.87% | 2,432 | 0.03% |
Construction trades | 497,212 | 5.38% | 13,113 | 0.14% |
Extraction | 16,365 | 0.18% | 367 | 0.00% |
Installation, maintenance, & repair | 381,144 | 4.13% | 17,662 | 0.19% |
Production, transportation, & material moving occupations: | 960,929 | 10.41% | 257,981 | 2.79% |
Production | 476,435 | 5.16% | 186,540 | 2.02% |
Transportation & material moving: | 484,494 | 5.25% | 71,441 | 0.77% |
Supervisors, transportation & material moving | 15,167 | 0.16% | 3,069 | 0.03% |
Aircraft & traffic control | 16,356 | 0.18% | 1,010 | 0.01% |
Motor vehicle operators | 249,871 | 2.71% | 28,442 | 0.31% |
Rail, water & other transportation | 24,337 | 0.26% | 2,917 | 0.03% |
Material moving | 178,763 | 1.94% | 36,003 | 0.39% |
Industry by Sex, Employed Civilian Population Age 16+, 2000 | ||||
Percent of | Percent of | |||
Male | Workforce | Female | Workforce | |
Total Employed | 5,068,686 | 54.89% | 4,165,686 | 45.11% |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, & mining: | 203,336 | 2.20% | 44,361 | 0.48% |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting | 106,431 | 1.15% | 19,742 | 0.21% |
Mining | 96,905 | 1.05% | 24,619 | 0.27% |
Construction | 674,903 | 7.31% | 68,703 | 0.74% |
Manufacturing | 787,542 | 8.53% | 306,210 | 3.32% |
Wholesale trade | 255,665 | 2.77% | 107,263 | 1.16% |
Retail trade | 577,398 | 6.25% | 530,606 | 5.75% |
Transportation, warehousing, & utilities: | 400,764 | 4.34% | 134,804 | 1.46% |
Transportation & warehousing | 327,260 | 3.54% | 111,643 | 1.21% |
Utilities | 73,504 | 0.80% | 23,161 | 0.25% |
Information | 156,118 | 1.69% | 127,138 | 1.38% |
Finance, insurance, real estate, rental & leasing: | 262,562 | 2.84% | 367,571 | 3.98% |
Finance & insurance | 162,304 | 1.76% | 275,163 | 2.98% |
Real estate & rental & leasing | 100,258 | 1.09% | 92,408 | 1.00% |
Professional, scientific, management, administrative, & waste: | 495,979 | 5.37% | 382,747 | 4.14% |
Professional, scientific, & technical services | 298,338 | 3.23% | 236,636 | 2.56% |
Management of companies & enterprises | 2,528 | 0.03% | 3,355 | 0.04% |
Administrative & support & waste management services | 195,113 | 2.11% | 142,756 | 1.55% |
Educational, health & social services: | 442,143 | 4.79% | 1,337,658 | 14.49% |
Educational services | 248,769 | 2.69% | 622,606 | 6.74% |
Health care & social assistance | 193,374 | 2.09% | 715,052 | 7.74% |
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food: | 328,839 | 3.56% | 344,177 | 3.73% |
Arts, entertainment, & recreation | 64,744 | 0.70% | 46,827 | 0.51% |
Accommodation & food services | 264,095 | 2.86% | 297,350 | 3.22% |
Other services (except public administration) | 249,745 | 2.70% | 231,040 | 2.50% |
Public administration | 233,692 | 2.53% | 183,408 | 1.99% |
Source: Census 2000 analyzed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN).
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