Useful Stats: 2000 Manufacturing Employment & Pay by State

The Census Bureau report released last week, 2000 Annual Survey of Manufactures, Geographic Area Statistics, provides annual data from 1997 through 2000 on the number of all manufacturing employees, number of production workers, value added by manufacturers, cost of materials, value of shipments, and new capital expenditures for manufacturing establishments by state. The data cover manufacturing industry groups such as food, apparel, lumber, chemicals, computers and transportation equipment.



Due to the adoption of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) in the 1997 Economic Census, approximately half of the industries in the manufacturing sector of NAICS do not have comparable industries in the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system that was used in the past. As a result, comparability of current and historical data is severely impacted, and the report only presents data from 1997 through 2000.



Total manufacturing employment in the U.S. shrunk by 0.74 percent between 1997 and 2000. Average pay per employee, however, grew by 9.3 percent (Note: this figure is not based on constant dollars). Twenty-seven states saw total manufacturing employment decline during the time period.



While total manufacturing employment declined in Idaho, those remaining in their jobs enjoyed the greatest growth in their paychecks compared to other states over the four years. At 36.12 percent, the Idaho increase was nearly four times the national average of 9.30 percent and almost twice the climb posted by second-place Maryland at 18.31 percent.



SSTI has prepared a table presenting the state rankings for the percent change between 1997-2000 for total manufacturing employment, total payroll and average pay per employee.



2000 Annual Survey of Manufactures, Geographic Area Statistics is available at http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/m00as-3.pdf.