Look Who’s Adding Manufacturing Jobs

Since 2011, the manufacturing sector has created 500,000 jobs. The sector overall has shrunk, however, losing 5 million jobs since 2000.

An analysis conducted by Headlights Data identifies the industries within manufacturing that have grown the most these past five years. Among them:

• Transportation, which added 270,000, a 20 percent increase.
• Plastics and rubber products, which added 75,000 jobs, a 12 percent increase.
• Wood products, which added 31,000 jobs, a 9 percent increase.
• Fabricated metal products, which added 109,000 jobs, an 8 percent increase.
• Machinery, which added 50,000 jobs, a 5 percent increase.

Source: Industry Week