Occupation by Sex, Employed Civilian Population Age 16+, 2000 | ||||
Percent of | Percent of | |||
Male | Workforce | Female | Workforce | |
Total Employed | 8,045,350 | 54.66% | 6,673,578 | 45.34% |
Management, professional, & related occupations: | 2,759,939 | 18.75% | 2,535,130 | 17.22% |
Management, business, & financial operations: | 1,215,486 | 8.26% | 930,409 | 6.32% |
Management, except farm managers | 867,778 | 5.90% | 547,655 | 3.72% |
Farmers & farm managers | 34,929 | 0.24% | 6,534 | 0.04% |
Business & financial operations: | 312,779 | 2.13% | 376,220 | 2.56% |
Business operations specialists | 157,308 | 1.07% | 184,845 | 1.26% |
Financial specialists | 155,471 | 1.06% | 191,375 | 1.30% |
Professional & related occupations: | 1,544,453 | 10.49% | 1,604,721 | 10.90% |
Computer & mathematical | 315,350 | 2.14% | 120,589 | 0.82% |
Architecture & engineering: | 311,263 | 2.11% | 53,743 | 0.37% |
Architects, surveyors, cartographers, & engineers | 244,231 | 1.66% | 36,285 | 0.25% |
Drafters, engineering, & mapping technicians | 67,032 | 0.46% | 17,458 | 0.12% |
Life, physical, & social science | 89,389 | 0.61% | 70,157 | 0.48% |
Community & social services | 83,650 | 0.57% | 122,958 | 0.84% |
Legal | 97,000 | 0.66% | 90,608 | 0.62% |
Education, training, & library | 236,979 | 1.61% | 584,667 | 3.97% |
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, & media | 226,976 | 1.54% | 173,766 | 1.18% |
Healthcare practitioners & technical occupations: | 183,846 | 1.25% | 388,233 | 2.64% |
Health diagnosing, treating practitioners, & technical operations | 137,157 | 0.93% | 270,190 | 1.84% |
Health technologists & technicians | 46,689 | 0.32% | 118,043 | 0.80% |
Service occupations: | 1,036,810 | 7.04% | 1,137,064 | 7.73% |
Healthcare support | 37,859 | 0.26% | 211,034 | 1.43% |
Protective services: | 233,195 | 1.58% | 54,799 | 0.37% |
Fire fighting, prevention & law enforcement, including supervisors | 135,782 | 0.92% | 26,975 | 0.18% |
Other protective service workers, including supervisors | 97,413 | 0.66% | 27,824 | 0.19% |
Food preparation & serving related occupations | 331,671 | 2.25% | 320,468 | 2.18% |
Building & grounds cleaning & maintenance | 335,902 | 2.28% | 195,859 | 1.33% |
Personal care & service | 98,183 | 0.67% | 354,904 | 2.41% |
Sales & office occupations: | 1,512,573 | 10.28% | 2,426,810 | 16.49% |
Sales & related occupations | 881,910 | 5.99% | 790,842 | 5.37% |
Office & administrative support | 630,663 | 4.28% | 1,635,968 | 11.11% |
Farming, fishing, & forestry occupations | 148,003 | 1.01% | 48,692 | 0.33% |
Construction, extraction, & maintenance occupations: | 1,193,725 | 8.11% | 45,435 | 0.31% |
Construction & extraction: | 700,848 | 4.76% | 19,128 | 0.13% |
Supervisors, construction & extraction | 90,805 | 0.62% | 2,767 | 0.02% |
Construction trades | 604,471 | 4.11% | 16,122 | 0.11% |
Extraction | 5,572 | 0.04% | 239 | 0.00% |
Installation, maintenance, & repair | 492,877 | 3.35% | 26,307 | 0.18% |
Production, transportation, & material moving occupations: | 1,394,300 | 9.47% | 480,447 | 3.26% |
Production | 720,136 | 4.89% | 358,126 | 2.43% |
Transportation & material moving: | 674,164 | 4.58% | 122,321 | 0.83% |
Supervisors, transportation & material moving | 22,003 | 0.15% | 4,275 | 0.03% |
Aircraft & traffic control | 13,757 | 0.09% | 1,276 | 0.01% |
Motor vehicle operators | 340,792 | 2.32% | 39,866 | 0.27% |
Rail, water & other transportation | 31,413 | 0.21% | 4,143 | 0.03% |
Material moving | 266,199 | 1.81% | 72,761 | 0.49% |
Industry by Sex, Employed Civilian Population Age 16+, 2000 | ||||
Percent of | Percent of | |||
Male | Workforce | Female | Workforce | |
Total Employed | 8,045,350 | 54.66% | 6,673,578 | 45.34% |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, & mining: | 221,256 | 1.50% | 61,461 | 0.42% |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting | 202,209 | 1.37% | 58,213 | 0.40% |
Mining | 19,047 | 0.13% | 3,248 | 0.02% |
Construction | 821,716 | 5.58% | 93,307 | 0.63% |
Manufacturing | 1,281,827 | 8.71% | 648,314 | 4.40% |
Wholesale trade | 401,441 | 2.73% | 194,868 | 1.32% |
Retail trade | 880,463 | 5.98% | 760,780 | 5.17% |
Transportation, warehousing, & utilities: | 508,914 | 3.46% | 180,473 | 1.23% |
Transportation & warehousing | 429,658 | 2.92% | 153,438 | 1.04% |
Utilities | 79,256 | 0.54% | 27,035 | 0.18% |
Information | 336,941 | 2.29% | 240,522 | 1.63% |
Finance, insurance, real estate, rental & leasing: | 454,002 | 3.08% | 562,914 | 3.82% |
Finance & insurance | 278,344 | 1.89% | 403,565 | 2.74% |
Real estate & rental & leasing | 175,658 | 1.19% | 159,349 | 1.08% |
Professional, scientific, management, administrative, & waste: | 988,700 | 6.72% | 722,925 | 4.91% |
Professional, scientific, & technical services | 599,773 | 4.07% | 485,444 | 3.30% |
Management of companies & enterprises | 2,319 | 0.02% | 3,478 | 0.02% |
Administrative & support & waste management services | 386,608 | 2.63% | 234,003 | 1.59% |
Educational, health & social services: | 766,676 | 5.21% | 1,957,252 | 13.30% |
Educational services | 408,062 | 2.77% | 846,204 | 5.75% |
Health care & social assistance | 358,614 | 2.44% | 1,111,048 | 7.55% |
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food: | 640,972 | 4.35% | 563,239 | 3.83% |
Arts, entertainment, & recreation | 176,356 | 1.20% | 130,911 | 0.89% |
Accommodation & food services | 464,616 | 3.16% | 432,328 | 2.94% |
Other services (except public administration) | 380,519 | 2.59% | 380,635 | 2.59% |
Public administration | 361,923 | 2.46% | 306,888 | 2.08% |
Source: Census 2000 analyzed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN).
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