{"id":7350,"date":"2012-06-14T13:58:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=7350"},"modified":"2012-06-14T16:24:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T21:24:23","slug":"oklahomas-10-fastest-growing-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/06\/14\/oklahomas-10-fastest-growing-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma&#8217;s 10 Fastest-Growing Industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7351\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viucsr\/5374873602\/sizes\/z\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7351\" title=\"Specialty Trade Contractors\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/06\/trades-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">viucsr \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>StateImpact has been gazing into the future for hints of what Oklahoma&#8217;s economy might look like.<\/p><p>We already know that many of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/LhSGYq\">fastest-growing occupations of Oklahoma&#8217;s future<\/a> are health care-related, estimates from the Oklahoma Employment Security Office show.<\/p><p>And looking at industry-by-industry growth \u2014 a pattern is starting to emerge.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>The single fastest-growing industry is specialty trade contractors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/iag\/tgs\/iag238.htm\">a\u00a0subsecto<\/a>r that includes plumbers, concrete pourers, electricians and heating and air-conditioning technicians.<\/p><p>But health care and social assistance will likely be Oklahoma&#8217;s fastest growing &#8220;major industry&#8221; groups, according to commission data. More than 39,000 jobs in those industries will be added between 2008 and 2018, data show.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fastest\u2010Growing Industries 2008\u20102018<\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Industry Subsector<\/th>\n<th>Expected Growth<\/th>\n<th>2008 Employment<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Specialty trade contractors<\/td>\n<td>31.2%<\/td>\n<td>46,990<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Health and personal care stores<\/td>\n<td>30.6%<\/td>\n<td>11,190<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Building and garden equipment\/supplies dealers<\/td>\n<td>30.4%<\/td>\n<td>15,280<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Hospitals<\/td>\n<td>27.4%<\/td>\n<td>68,170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Professional, scientific and technical services<\/td>\n<td>26.2%<\/td>\n<td>65,010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Ambulatory health care services<\/td>\n<td>25.0%<\/td>\n<td>65,690<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Financial investments and related activities<\/td>\n<td>21.8%<\/td>\n<td>4,710<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Transportation support services<\/td>\n<td>21.2%<\/td>\n<td>6,080<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Social assistance<\/td>\n<td>21.2%<\/td>\n<td>25,430<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Other information services<\/td>\n<td>19.1%<\/td>\n<td>640<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ok.gov\/oesc_web\/Services\/Find_Labor_Market_Statistics\/Projections\/\">Source<\/a>: Oklahoma Employment Security Commission<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StateImpact has been gazing into the future for hints of what Oklahoma&#8217;s economy might look like.We already know that many of the fastest-growing occupations of Oklahoma&#8217;s future are health care-related, estimates from the Oklahoma Employment Security Office show.And looking at industry-by-industry growth \u2014 a pattern is starting to emerge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":7351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,300],"tags":[241,367],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7354,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions\/7354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}