| Employment by Major Industry Sector[5][6] |
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| Industry Sector | Employee count (as of Jan. 2013) |
| Total [A] | 145,000,000 |
| Total nonfarm | 133,074,000 |
| Total private | 111,342,000 |
| style="padding-left: 3em;" "border: 1px solid #22AA55" | Goods-producing | 18,071,000 |
| Mining and logging | 838,000 |
| Logging | 48,900 |
| Mining | 800,500 |
| Oil and gas extraction | 192,300 |
| Mining, except oil and gas | 204,900 |
| Coal mining | 78,200 |
| Support activities for mining | 392,000 |
| Construction | 5,353,000 |
| Construction of buildings | 1,208,700 |
| Residential building | 565,100 |
| Nonresidential building | 192,300 |
| Heavy and civil engineering construction | 773,800 |
| Specialty trade contractors | 3,370,200 |
| Residential specialty trade contractors | 1,409,800 |
| Nonresidential specialty trade contractors | 1,960,400 |
| Manufacturing | 11,880,000 |
| Durable goods | 7,468,000 |
| Wood products | 340,700 |
| Nonmetallic mineral products | 354,600 |
| Primary metals | 397,900 |
| Fabricated metal products | 1,412,300 |
| Machinery | 1,100,900 |
| Computer and electronic products | 1,071,300 |
| Computer and peripheral equipment | 156,000 |
| Communications equipment | 104,500 |
| Semiconductors and electronic components | 377,500 |
| Electronic instruments | 394,000 |
| Electrical equipment and appliances | 373,800 |
| Transportation equipment | 1,488,900 |
| Motor vehicles and parts | 797,600 |
| Furniture and related products | 349,900 |
| Miscellaneous durable goods manufacturing | 577,900 |
| Nondurable goods | 4,412,000 |
| Food manufacturing | 1,442,000 |
| Textile mills | 116,300 |
| Textile product mills | 115,500 |
| Apparel | 145,300 |
| Paper and paper products | 378,800 |
| Printing and related support activities | 452,700 |
| Petroleum and coal products | 109,700 |
| Chemicals | 787,100 |
| Plastics and rubber products | 644,800 |
| Miscellaneous nondurable goods manufacturing | 219,900 |
| Private service-providing | 93,271,000 |
| Trade, transportation, and utilities | 25,505,000 |
| Wholesale trade | 5,663,000 |
| Durable goods | 2,841,300 |
| Nondurable goods | 1,955,800 |
| Electronic markets and agents and brokers | 865,900 |
| Retail trade | 14,852,100 |
| Motor vehicle and parts dealers | 1,737,200 |
| Automobile dealers | 1,107,100 |
| Furniture and home furnishings stores | 447,300 |
| Electronics and appliance stores | 515,700 |
| Building material and garden supply stores | 1,126,600 |
| Food and beverage stores | 2,883,700 |
| Health and personal care | 1,007,900 |
| Gasoline stations | 838,600 |
| Clothing and clothing accessories stores | 1,420,800 |
| Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores | 596,100 |
| General merchandise stores | 3,041,600 |
| Department stores | 1,377,400 |
| Miscellaneous store retailers | 778,400 |
| Nonstore retailers | 458,200 |
| Transportation and warehousing | 4,440,300 |
| Air transportation | 446,000 |
| Rail transportation | 230,200 |
| Water transportation | 62,600 |
| Truck transportation | 1,343,700 |
| Transit and ground passenger transportation | 460,000 |
| Pipeline transportation | 43,300 |
| Scenic and sightseeing transportation | 20,500 |
| Support activities for transportation | 591,000 |
| Couriers and messengers | 546,900 |
| Warehousing and storage | 696,100 |
| Utilities | 549,700 |
| Information | 2,635,000 |
| Publishing industries, except Internet | 732,100 |
| Motion picture and sound recording industries | 315,700 |
| Broadcasting, except Internet | 284,400 |
| Telecommunications | 853,500 |
| Data processing, hosting and related services | 263,000 |
| Other information services | 186,600 |
| Financial activities | 7,783,000 |
| Finance and insurance | 5,850,200 |
| Monetary authorities-central bank | 17,500 |
| Credit intermediation and related activities | 2,614,000 |
| Depository credit intermediation | 1,742,100 |
| Commercial banking | 1,322,400 |
| Securities, commodity contracts, investments, and funds and trusts | 854,500 |
| Insurance carriers and related activities | 2,364,200 |
| Real estate and rental and leasing | 1,932,400 |
| Real estate | 1,411,800 |
| Rental and leasing services | 497,100 |
| Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets | 23,500 |
| Professional and business services | 17,845,000 |
| Professional and technical services | 8,012,800 |
| Legal services | 1,122,800 |
| Accounting and bookkeeping services | 989,300 |
| Architectural and engineering services | 1,314,000 |
| Computer systems design and related services | 1,659,200 |
| Management and technical consulting services | 1,131,400 |
| Management of companies and enterprises | 2,059,800 |
| Administrative and waste services | 7,773,000 |
| Administrative and support services | 7,402,700 |
| Employment services | 3,031,800 |
| Temporary help services | 2,409,300 |
| Business support services | 7,783,000 |
| Services to buildings and dwellings | 1,681,000 |
| Waste management and remediation services | 369,300 |
| Education and health services | 20,791,000 |
| Educational services | 3,232,900 |
| Health care and social assistance | 17,558,500 |
| Health care | 14,365,700 |
| Ambulatory health care services | 6,389,000 |
| Offices of physicians | 2,414,400 |
| Outpatient care centers | 663,700 |
| Home health care services | 1,203,800 |
| Hospitals | 4,780,700 |
| Nursing and residential care facilities | 3,196,000 |
| Nursing care facilities | 1,651,300 |
| Social assistance | 3,192,800 |
| Child day care services | 855,000 |
| Leisure and hospitality | 13,324,000 |
| Arts, entertainment, and recreation | 1,768,600 |
| Performing arts and spectator sports | 364,300 |
| Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions | 126,400 |
| Amusements, gambling, and recreation | 1,277,900 |
| Accommodation and food services | 11,555,300 |
| Accommodation | 1,745,800 |
| Food services and drinking places | 9,809,500 |
| Other services | 5,388,000 |
| Repair and maintenance | 1,194,300 |
| Personal and laundry services | 1,315,200 |
| Membership associations and organizations | 2,878,400 |
| Government | 21,732,000 |
| Federal government | 2,786,000 |
| Federal government, except U.S. Postal Service | 2,185,200 |
| U.S. Postal Service | 600,600 |
| State government | 4,928,000 |
| State government education | 2,273,900 |
| State government, excluding education | 2,654,000 |
| Local government | 14,018,000 |
| Local government education | 7,880,000 |
| Local government, excluding education | 6,138,100 |
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