What kinds of jobs are available in different industries?
Each industry needs people with particular kinds of job skills. This table shows the kinds of people needed by manufacturing, service, construction and primary industries. It shows that: • The service-producing industries need people in a broad range of occupations – about 10 percent of jobs are in management occupations, 20 percent in business, finance and administrative occupations, and 30 percent in sales and service occupations. • The largest share of employment in the manufacturing industry is in occupations that are unique to processing, manufacturing and utilities. • In the construction industry, trades, transport and equipment operators represent 72 percent of that industry’s employment. • In primary industry, 71 percent of employment is unique to that industry, although these industries also employ people in management, business, finance and administrative, natural and applied science and sales and service occupations.
