Top 25 Employment Gaining Industries
1999, Montgomery County
| Rank | Industry | SIC | Employment Level |
One Year Change in Employment | Weekly Wages |
|
| Absolute | Percentage | |||||
| 1 | Business Services | 73 | 53,398 | 4,207 | 8.55% | $843 |
| 2 | Engineering & Management Services | 87 | 31,519 | 1,406 | 4.67% | $1,020 |
| 3 | Hotels and Other Lodging Places | 70 | 8,377 | 1,303 | 18.42% | $1,349 |
| 4 | Special Trade Contractors | 17 | 14,183 | 1,062 | 8.09% | $679 |
| 5 | Nondepository Institutions | 61 | 3,452 | 687 | 24.85% | $1,240 |
| 6 | Amusement & Recreation Services | 79 | 5,227 | 602 | 13.02% | $304 |
| 7 | Social Services | 83 | 10,504 | 555 | 5.58% | $419 |
| 8 | Security and Commodity Brokers | 62 | 2,854 | 475 | 19.97% | $2,434 |
| 9 | Wholesale Trade-Nondurable Goods | 51 | 3,286 | 462 | 16.36% | $741 |
| 10 | Trucking And Warehousing | 42 | 2,828 | 432 | 18.03% | $486 |
| 11 | General Building Contractors | 15 | 6,663 | 364 | 5.78% | $943 |
| 12 | Communications | 48 | 6,743 | 346 | 5.41% | $1,519 |
| 13 | Educational Services | 82 | 5,776 | 337 | 6.20% | $556 |
| 14 | Holding and Other Investment Offices | 67 | 602 | 319 | 112.72% | $1,233 |
| 15 | Agricultural Services | 07 | 3,221 | 311 | 10.69% | $412 |
| 16 | Auto Repair, Services, and Parking | 75 | 3,458 | 294 | 9.29% | $536 |
| 17 | Real Estate | 65 | 10,024 | 289 | 2.97% | $744 |
| 18 | Furniture and Home furnishings | 57 | 5,668 | 281 | 5.22% | $557 |
| 19 | Eating and drinking Places | 58 | 20,707 | 253 | 1.24% | $270 |
| 20 | Insurance Carriers | 63 | 5,881 | 216 | 3.81% | $1,238 |
| 21 | Food and Kindred Products | 20 | 1,045 | 190 | 22.22% | $639 |
| 22 | Food Stores | 54 | 10,879 | 168 | 1.57% | $408 |
| 23 | Legal Services | 81 | 3,236 | 151 | 4.89% | $809 |
| 24 | Heavy Construction, Ex. Building | 16 | 1,086 | 146 | 15.53% | $650 |
| 25 | Membership Organizations | 86 | 4,230 | 139 | 3.40% | $725 |
| Source: Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation; Montgomery County Department of Park and Planning, Research and Technology Center. Revised 05, 2000 | ||||||