Lets take a look at the goods producing jobs
To do that we will go to this site
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
1999 23839 23872 23938 24235 24476 24771 24812 24882 24790 24767 24708 24487 24465
2000 24080 24055 24270 24475 24674 25021 25038 25092 24930 24900 24752 24504 24649
2001 23979 23920 23981 24034 24153 24310 24166 24094 23855 23636 23335 23017 23873
2002 22423 22332 22365 22480 22666 22911 22845 22864 22715 22574 22401 22106 22557
2003 21596 21457 21529 21653 21892 22127 22043 22113 22015 21941 21823 21607 21816
2004 21161 21125 21341 21623 21940 22228 22268 22349 22242 22250 22139 21918 21882
2005 21415 21462 21640 21941 22227 22532 22539 22634 22525 22553 22519 22296 22190
2006 21914 21966 22132 22398 22647 22943 22930 22996 22849 22732 22535 22324 22531
2007 21883 21753 21941 22103 22354 22647 22617 22604 22462 22346 22181 21904 22233
2008 21402 21292 21347 21441 21658 21845 21796 21803 21608 21375 20997 20469 21419
2009 19580 19253 19056 18989 19010 19068 19013 18991 18840 18700(P) 18528(P)
P : preliminary
Now lets pull up a chart
Now lets look at the service producing
Year
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Annual
1999
101621
102573
103220
104070
104700
105135
104227
104211
105076
106036
106555
106915
104528
2000
104683
105372
106256
107051
107807
107977
106738
106694
107519
108107
108619
108804
107136
2001
106454
107177
107708
108060
108647
108869
107521
107520
108017
108436
108545
108474
107952
2002
106179
106737
107307
107777
108357
108493
107115
107180
107842
108653
108944
108826
107784
2003
106652
107203
107619
108148
108667
108763
107507
107488
108238
109104
109385
109419
108183
2004
107204
107851
108678
109516
110107
110267
109066
109002
109826
110800
111162
111156
109553
2005
108954
109733
110398
111306
111831
112196
111126
111276
112008
112707
113298
113318
111513
2006
111047
111921
112736
113382
113937
114140
112978
113114
113928
114743
115322
115423
113556
2007
113069
113888
114592
115232
115923
116132
114762
114884
115584
116440
116909
116971
115366
2008
114438
115064
115597
116102
116532
116606
115254
115199
115511
116117
115885
115448
115646
2009
112722
112885
113021
113347
113710
113557
112114
112055
112595
113443(P)
113695(P)
P : preliminary
Now lets look at a graph
Interesting
Manufacturing trending down.
Services trending up
aren’t services the ones that pay less unless of course you are a commission banker [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2009 by vbierschwale
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