Service Jobs - Summary

On this post we want to summarize the big picture of changes to service providing jobs from 1990 through 2010. The table below highlights sector job counts detailed from the sector job posts above. Remember it does not count people employed, which averaged 139.1 million for 2010. People employed counts wage and salary employment and the self employed both in and out of agriculture. The table below counts jobs, otherwise known as establishment employment...

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Service Jobs - Government

GovernmentTotal government employment for federal, state and local government equals 22.5 million as of 2010. Government, excluding education and public hospital employment has 10.8 million jobs, which is the difference of 22.5 million and 10.4 million jobs in public education and 1.3 million public hospital jobs.Jobs in government excluding education and hospitals include office work for executive offices, regulatory and legislative bodies, and the judiciary, but also all the rest of the jobs in parks, recreation, public health excluding public...

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Service Jobs - Food-Accommodation

Accommodation and Food ServicesAccommodation and Food Services jobs total 11.1 million in 2010. The accommodation part has traveler accommodations, not residential accommodation. Include hotels, motels, bed and breakfast inns, casino hotels, RV parks, campgrounds and rooming and boarding houses. Rooming and Boarding houses include dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses. Establishments primarily engaged in preparing food to order for immediate consumption go in this sector as full and limited service restaurants but the key words are preparing...

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Service Jobs - Repair-Main-Personal

The Last Three Services from the Other SectorThere are four sub-sectors that were put into the sector classification called, Other. One was Non-Profit organizations discussed earlier. The other three service sub sectors have little in common with each other, or non-profit organizations. They are Repair and Maintenance Services, Personal and Laundry Services, and Private Households. Repair and Maintenance had a monthly average of 1.14 million jobs in 2010 with 70 prcent of jobs in car and truck repair. That total includes 131 thousand employed at...

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Labor Market Forecast

Forecasting Labor Market Trends from 2006 to 2014On this blog we believe forecaster’s would have a bigger following if they would explain more about their methods, which are not that complicated. Forecasting requires a blend of technique and a set of assumptions. For example, forecasting labor markets for the years ahead depends on the continued physical availability of gasoline. Shut off the gasoline and forecasts go haywire. Lack of gasoline will...

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Service jobs - Administrative and Support

Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation ServicesThis sector has two parts: the administrative and support part and the waste management and remediation part. Together they are 7.4 million jobs in 2010. Employment in the first part nearly doubled from 1990 to 2007 reaching 8.0 million in 2007, but dropped to just over 7 million by 2010 after several recession years. The waste management and remediation remains small with only 356.7 thousand jobs. Administrative and SupportIn the NAICS documentation manual, administrative...

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Service Jobs - Trade and Rental Leasing

Trade and Rental and Leasing ServicesRetail trade, wholesale trade and rental and leasing services are defined separately in NAICS with data reported in their own sub sector. Retail establishments sell goods to final consumers. Wholesale establishments sell or arrange the sale of goods for resale, or sell or arrange the sale of raw materials or production supplies and equipment. Rental establishments rent or lease cars, trucks, RV’s, appliances, formal ware, costume ware, videos, health equipment, commercial machinery or industrial equipment, or...

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Service Jobs - Arts

Arts, Entertainment and Recreation ServicesThe arts, entertainment and recreation sector has firms and establishments producing and selling fun. There are three categories of fun. In the first category, fun seekers are spectators who go to watch art and entertainment put on by theatre and dance companies, orchestras, music groups, sports teams, sports promoters, racetracks, and independent artists, writers, or performers. In the second category fun seekers are lookers who go to look at art and entertainment in museums, zoos, nature parks, botanical...

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Service Jobs - Utilities

Utility ServicesUtility Services in the North American Industry Classification includes electricity, natural gas, water and sewerage services. Employment was 552 thousand in 2010 down from 1990 when it was 740 thousand. Electricity includes generation, transmission and distribution, but natural gas is just distribution and resale. Water and sewer systems can also include treatment and irrigation. Electricity employment makes up 74.3 percent of utility job totals, about 21 percent in natural gas and just fewer than 4.7 percent for water and sewers.Jobs...

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Service Jobs - Transportation

Transportation and Warehousing ServicesJobs in transportation and warehousing jumped from 3.5 million in 1990 to 4.4 million in 2000, but only reached 4.2 million jobs by 2010. Establishments hauling freight and moving passengers in modal transportation have 2.01 million of the jobs as part of air, rail, water, pipeline, truck, bus, taxi, and limousines services. Truck transportation firms have 1.15 million of these jobs, more than half of modal transportation employment. In addition, sub sectors in transportation support services like couriers...

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