What is the fastest growing service industry?
Receipts of the prepackaged computer software industry grew by 253 percent between 1987 and 1992, reaching 20.8 billion. The number of establishments and employees both more than doubled. Who signs your paycheck? Increasingly, the answer is a help supply service. The number of help supply businesses increased 54 percent from 1987 to 19,020 in 1992. The number of employees increased by 46 percent, from 1.3 million employees in 1987 to 1.8 million in 1992. Receipts of help supply firms increased by 109 percent, to $33.6 billion in 1992. FORE! Revenues at public golf courses increased 110 percent from 1987 to 1992, from $1.1 billion to $2.3 billion. The number of public golf courses available for play increased from 2,736 in 1987 to 3,780 in 1992. Booming childcare. In the fifteen years between 1977 and 1992, the number of incorporated child care centers doubled, to 51,297, and the number of jobs at these centers climbed 150 percent, to 468,000. About two out of three centers are for-prof
