Chapter Index
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Figures
Tables
| Year | Total Population | Employed |
| 2000 | 281,421,000 | 136,891,000 (48.6%) |
| 2010 | 308,745,000 | 139,064,000 (45.0%) |
Table 1.1: Total US workforce in between 2000 and 2010.
|
Occupation |
Number of workers |
Percentage of workers% |
|
Driver/sales workers, bus and truck drivers |
3,628,000 |
2.61% |
|
Retail salespersons |
3,286,000 |
2.36% |
|
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers |
3,132,000 |
2.25% |
|
Cashiers |
3,109,000 |
2.24% |
|
Secretaries and administrative assistants |
3,082,000 |
2.22% |
|
Managers, all other |
2,898,000 |
2.08% |
|
Sales representatives, wholesale, manufacturing, real estate, insurance, advertising |
2,865,000 |
2.06% |
|
Registered nurses |
2,843,000 |
2.04% |
|
Elementary and middle school teachers |
2,813,000 |
2.02% |
|
Janitors and building cleaners |
2,186,000 |
1.57% |
|
Waiters and waitresses |
2,067,000 |
1.49% |
|
Cooks |
1,951,000 |
1.40% |
|
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides |
1,928,000 |
1.39% |
|
Customer service representatives |
1,896,000 |
1.36% |
|
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers |
1,700,000 |
1.22% |
|
Accountants and auditors |
1,646,000 |
1.18% |
|
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers |
1,507,000 |
1.08% |
|
Chief executives |
1,505,000 |
1.08% |
|
Stock clerks and order fillers |
1,456,000 |
1.05% |
|
Maids and housekeeping cleaners |
1,407,000 |
1.01% |
|
Postsecondary teachers |
1,300,000 |
0.93% |
|
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks |
1,297,000 |
0.93% |
|
Receptionists and information clerks |
1,281,000 |
0.92% |
|
Construction laborers |
1,267,000 |
0.91% |
|
Child care workers |
1,247,000 |
0.90% |
|
Carpenters |
1,242,000 |
0.89% |
|
Secondary school teachers |
1,221,000 |
0.88% |
|
Grounds maintenance workers |
1,195,000 |
0.86% |
|
Financial managers |
1,141,000 |
0.82% |
|
First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers |
1,131,000 |
0.81% |
|
Construction managers |
1,083,000 |
0.78% |
|
Lawyers |
1,040,000 |
0.75% |
|
Computer software engineers |
1,026,000 |
0.74% |
|
General and operations managers |
1,007,000 |
0.72% |
|
Total of Occupations Listed Above |
63,383,000 |
45.58% |
|
All Other Occupations |
75,681,000 |
54.42% |
|
Total Employment |
139,064,000 |
100.00% |
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Table 1.2: Number of jobs per occupation with at least 1 million workers in the US.
| Company | Employees | Revenue per employee |
| McDonald’s (1940) | 400,000 | $60,000 |
| Walmart (1962) | 2,100,000 | $200,000 |
| Intel (1968) | 100,000 | $540,000 |
| Microsoft (1975) | 90,000 | $767,000 |
| Google (1998) | 32,000 | $1,170,000 |
| Facebook (2004) | 3,000 | $1,423,000 |
Table 1.3: List of multi billion-dollar companies over time and their revenue per employee.
References
- Employed persons by detailed occupation, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aat11.txt - Employment Situation Summary. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm - Employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population, 1940 to date. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aat1.txt - Eurozone Unemployment Hits 10.9%, A Record High, 2012. Huffington post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/eurozone-unemployment-hits-record-high_n_1470237.html - The 86 million invisible unemployed, Annalyn Censky, 2012. CNNMoney.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/03/news/economy/unemployment-rate/index.htm - Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity. Ken Robinson, 2006. TED Global.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html - Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!, Ken Robinson, 2010. TED Global.
http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html - I obviously do not think people are “excess baggage”, quite the opposite. But in the eyes of a multinational corporation inefficient workers mean loss of profit, and this is what they ultimately mean to them. Very few enlightened companies value people over profits.
- Facebook faces EU curbs on selling users’ interests to advertisers, Jason Lewis, 2011. The Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8917836/Facebook-faces-EU-curbs-on-selling-users-interests-to-advertisers.html - Does Facebook sell my information?. Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=152637448140583 - Albert Einstein quotes. ThinkExist.
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