| Summary: | Part of an issue on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment outlook for 1996–2006. The service-producing sector continues to lead forecast employment growth. Over the 1996–2006 period, total employment in America is expected to expand by 18.6 million, from 132.4 million to 151 million. The service-producing sector, not including private households, has a projected growth of 17.6 million nonfarm wage and salary jobs, from 94.3 million in 1996 to 111.9 million by 2006. Of this 17.6 million growth over the projection period, the services division is forecast to account for 11.3 million, or 64 percent—a larger share than for the 1986–96 period, when the division accounted for 56 percent of the growth of nonfarm wage and salary jobs.
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