Occupation by Sex, Employed Civilian Population Age 16+, 2000 | ||||
Percent of | Percent of | |||
Male | Workforce | Female | Workforce | |
Total Employed | 4,382,326 | 52.28% | 4,000,662 | 47.72% |
Management, professional, & related occupations: | 1,488,644 | 17.76% | 1,591,193 | 18.98% |
Management, business, & financial operations: | 652,640 | 7.79% | 482,342 | 5.75% |
Management, except farm managers | 441,202 | 5.26% | 287,050 | 3.42% |
Farmers & farm managers | 17,505 | 0.21% | 3,988 | 0.05% |
Business & financial operations: | 193,933 | 2.31% | 191,304 | 2.28% |
Business operations specialists | 80,376 | 0.96% | 92,569 | 1.10% |
Financial specialists | 113,557 | 1.35% | 98,735 | 1.18% |
Professional & related occupations: | 836,004 | 9.97% | 1,108,851 | 13.23% |
Computer & mathematical | 138,698 | 1.65% | 57,034 | 0.68% |
Architecture & engineering: | 115,283 | 1.38% | 17,957 | 0.21% |
Architects, surveyors, cartographers, & engineers | 87,194 | 1.04% | 11,938 | 0.14% |
Drafters, engineering, & mapping technicians | 28,089 | 0.34% | 6,019 | 0.07% |
Life, physical, & social science | 40,816 | 0.49% | 36,783 | 0.44% |
Community & social services | 55,941 | 0.67% | 103,383 | 1.23% |
Legal | 76,435 | 0.91% | 61,088 | 0.73% |
Education, training, & library | 157,457 | 1.88% | 406,038 | 4.84% |
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, & media | 126,980 | 1.51% | 115,063 | 1.37% |
Healthcare practitioners & technical occupations: | 124,394 | 1.48% | 311,505 | 3.72% |
Health diagnosing, treating practitioners, & technical operations | 96,663 | 1.15% | 226,606 | 2.70% |
Health technologists & technicians | 27,731 | 0.33% | 84,899 | 1.01% |
Service occupations: | 664,851 | 7.93% | 724,351 | 8.64% |
Healthcare support | 31,300 | 0.37% | 217,824 | 2.60% |
Protective services: | 190,433 | 2.27% | 44,702 | 0.53% |
Fire fighting, prevention & law enforcement, including supervisors | 121,508 | 1.45% | 20,364 | 0.24% |
Other protective service workers, including supervisors | 68,925 | 0.82% | 24,338 | 0.29% |
Food preparation & serving related occupations | 202,311 | 2.41% | 175,479 | 2.09% |
Building & grounds cleaning & maintenance | 177,919 | 2.12% | 104,944 | 1.25% |
Personal care & service | 62,888 | 0.75% | 181,402 | 2.16% |
Sales & office occupations: | 857,667 | 10.23% | 1,414,833 | 16.88% |
Sales & related occupations | 484,256 | 5.78% | 424,466 | 5.06% |
Office & administrative support | 373,411 | 4.45% | 990,367 | 11.81% |
Farming, fishing, & forestry occupations | 18,979 | 0.23% | 5,630 | 0.07% |
Construction, extraction, & maintenance occupations: | 611,845 | 7.30% | 21,246 | 0.25% |
Construction & extraction: | 352,287 | 4.20% | 9,017 | 0.11% |
Supervisors, construction & extraction | 43,125 | 0.51% | 1,209 | 0.01% |
Construction trades | 307,421 | 3.67% | 7,784 | 0.09% |
Extraction | 1,741 | 0.02% | 24 | 0.00% |
Installation, maintenance, & repair | 259,558 | 3.10% | 12,229 | 0.15% |
Production, transportation, & material moving occupations: | 740,340 | 8.83% | 243,409 | 2.90% |
Production | 354,161 | 4.22% | 181,221 | 2.16% |
Transportation & material moving: | 386,179 | 4.61% | 62,188 | 0.74% |
Supervisors, transportation & material moving | 12,707 | 0.15% | 2,443 | 0.03% |
Aircraft & traffic control | 3,921 | 0.05% | 427 | 0.01% |
Motor vehicle operators | 231,539 | 2.76% | 26,222 | 0.31% |
Rail, water & other transportation | 25,004 | 0.30% | 2,744 | 0.03% |
Material moving | 113,008 | 1.35% | 30,352 | 0.36% |
Industry by Sex, Employed Civilian Population Age 16+, 2000 | ||||
Percent of | Percent of | |||
Male | Workforce | Female | Workforce | |
Total Employed | 4,382,326 | 52.28% | 4,000,662 | 47.72% |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, & mining: | 42,575 | 0.51% | 11,797 | 0.14% |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting | 38,717 | 0.46% | 11,057 | 0.13% |
Mining | 3,858 | 0.05% | 740 | 0.01% |
Construction | 393,651 | 4.70% | 40,136 | 0.48% |
Manufacturing | 550,247 | 6.56% | 289,178 | 3.45% |
Wholesale trade | 193,497 | 2.31% | 89,878 | 1.07% |
Retail trade | 467,183 | 5.57% | 410,247 | 4.89% |
Transportation, warehousing, & utilities: | 353,028 | 4.21% | 107,457 | 1.28% |
Transportation & warehousing | 303,905 | 3.63% | 96,094 | 1.15% |
Utilities | 49,123 | 0.59% | 11,363 | 0.14% |
Information | 182,509 | 2.18% | 158,204 | 1.89% |
Finance, insurance, real estate, rental & leasing: | 373,977 | 4.46% | 362,710 | 4.33% |
Finance & insurance | 263,805 | 3.15% | 295,173 | 3.52% |
Real estate & rental & leasing | 110,172 | 1.31% | 67,537 | 0.81% |
Professional, scientific, management, administrative, & waste: | 466,182 | 5.56% | 382,942 | 4.57% |
Professional, scientific, & technical services | 304,545 | 3.63% | 272,628 | 3.25% |
Management of companies & enterprises | 1,252 | 0.01% | 1,345 | 0.02% |
Administrative & support & waste management services | 160,385 | 1.91% | 108,969 | 1.30% |
Educational, health & social services: | 559,831 | 6.68% | 1,479,351 | 17.65% |
Educational services | 281,039 | 3.35% | 591,005 | 7.05% |
Health care & social assistance | 278,792 | 3.33% | 888,346 | 10.60% |
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food: | 342,118 | 4.08% | 269,162 | 3.21% |
Arts, entertainment, & recreation | 87,160 | 1.04% | 69,132 | 0.82% |
Accommodation & food services | 254,958 | 3.04% | 200,030 | 2.39% |
Other services (except public administration) | 204,449 | 2.44% | 219,307 | 2.62% |
Public administration | 253,079 | 3.02% | 180,293 | 2.15% |
Source: Census 2000 analyzed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN).
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