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Healthcare Jobs Statistics
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The healthcare industry is one of the nation's largest with nearly fifteen million U.S. workers finding jobs in healthcare related employment. Hospitals provide nearly half of healthcare jobs and physician offices provide about a sixth of all healthcare jobs. About a fourth of all hospital jobs are in the nursing field and a large number of jobs are also in supportive admininstrative functions. Dentists and dental offices are large United States providers of jobs, especially dental assistants, over a third of all dental employment positions. Office personnel and administrative workers account for over a sixth all healthcare jobs in the U.S. Registerd nurses also are one of the top ranked healthcare employees, making up over fifteen percent of all healthcare workers. Physicians and surgeons total nearly four percent of all healthcare workers. Secretaries, receptionists, and billing personnel fill nearly ten percent of all healthcare jobs. Hospital workers tend to earn more due to more stringent educational requirements. Due to increases in the number of U.S. citizens over 65, healthcare jobs are projected to be the nation's largest growing industry over the next decade. Offices of healthcare practitioners are projected to hire more than forty percent more employees by the next decade. Home health jobs are projected to increase nearly fifty percent in ten years. Hourly pay for healthcare workers is also projected to increase significantly over the next decade. Current hourly pay for some healthcare professions include registered nurses who tend to receive an average of between $29 and $32 an hour, with hospital workers receiving higher average pay. Licensed practical nurses pay averages between $18 and $19 an hour, while medical assistants tend to receive $13 to $14 an hour on average nationally. Census 2010 Highlights There is one representative in the US House of Representatives for every approximately 710,000 people in the US. There is an average of about eighty-seven people per square mile in the United States as of the last census. Almost all states increased their populations in the 2000-2010 period with the exception of Michigan which saw a slight decrease in population. Nevada saw the highest growth in population with an increase of over thirty-five percent in its population. Other states with exceptional population growth rates include Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, and Arizona. Regions of the country seeing the highest population growth were the South, at slightly more than fourteen percent and the West, at more than thirteen percent growth. Top US corporations by revenue Walmart is the largest company in the world based on annual sales with nearly 410 billion dollars in sales. The discount store chain began in 1962. It has been listed on the NYSE since 1972 and trades under the symbol WMT. The corporation operates in all fifty states as well as fifteen other countries. Walmart has over two million employees. ExxonMobil based in Irving, Texas began in 1870 as Standard Oil. The corporation has over 300 billion dollars in annual revenue. Since the merger with Mobil in 1999 the corporation has traded on the NYSE under the symbol XOM. Nearly eighty thousand employees have jobs with ExxonMobil. Chevron Corporation with nearly seventy thousand employees has annual revenues of almost 275 billion dollars is one of the world's top energy companies. The corporation's history dates back to 1879. It is now based in San Ramon, California. General Electric dates back to 1892 when the company was formed from a merger including Thomas Edison's Edison General Electric company. Today the company has annual revenues of nearly 160 billion dollars and over three hundred thousand employees. It is based in Fairfield, Connecticut. ConocoPhillips has annual revenues in excess of 245 billion dollars. It is based in Houston, Texas and has almost 35,000 employees. It is one of the top oil, natural gas and petroleum products producers in the world. AT&T with over three hundred thousand employees is based in Dallas, Texas. It is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. Annual revenues are nearly 125 billion dollars. Bank of America based in Charlotte, North Carolina is one of the largest banking institutions in the United States. Annual revenues are over 120 billion dollars. The corporation's history dates back to San Francisco in 1904. Over two hundred thousand employees have Bank of America jobs Ford Motor Company based in Dearborn, Michigan is one of the world's top automotive companies and has annual revenues of almost 120 billion dollars. Over three hundred and twenty-five thousand employees have jobs with Ford. The company began in 1903. Hewlett-Packard based in Palo Alto, California, has annual revenue of nearly 125 billion dollars. Over three hundred thousand employees have jobs with Hewlett-Packard. It is one of the world's top information technology companies. The company dates back to 1939. Berkshire Hathaway a conglomerate corporation has annual revenues in excess of 110 billion dollars. It is based in Omaha, Nebraska, and has over two hundred thousand employees. The original company began operating in 1839. | |
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U.S. Business Statistics: Fifty-five per cent of the United States economy is derived from the private sector. Federal and state governments account for the remainder. Two thirds of the economy is related to the services industries. Agriculture/farming accounts for less than one percent of the US economy. The number of employed Americans is just over one hundred and fifty million. The top employer, government-state, local, and federal, accounts for nearly one seventh of all those employed. The US is the top importer in the world, but only ranks in 3rd in exports. Cars and trucks are the top items imported to and exported from the country. One eighth of the US workforce belongs to a union as opposed to nearly a third in some countries. Small businesses (those with less than five hundred workers) make up about fifty percent of the US gross domestic product and country workforce. Nearly eighty percent of businesses in the U.S. have less than ten employees. |
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