I was looking at the job growth by sector this morning
Job growth for the year has been strongest in these two sectors.
Professional Services 382,000 jobs:
Professional services are occupations in the tertiary sector of the economy requiring special training in the arts or sciences. Some professional services require holding professional licenses such as architects, auditors, engineers, doctors and lawyers.
Private Education and Health Services 302,000 jobs:
Private Education Services: All industries in the sector share this commonality of process, namely, labor inputs of instructors with the requisite subject matter
expertise and teaching ability.
Health Services: All industries in the sector share this commonality of process, namely, labor inputs of health practitioners or social workers with the requisite expertise. Many of the industries in the sector are defined based on the educational degree held by the practitioners included in the industry.
Construction is third at 145,000 and manufacturing fourth at 137,000 for a combined total of 282,000.
Don’t forget the underground job market.
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/12/16/undocumented-workers-finding-jobs-underground-econ/