The depicted table illustrates the average yearly income of workers in six particular fields in 2004 and the percentage of changes compared to 2003, while the pie chart shows the percentage of the employment sector of graduates in these fields.
Overall, the workers serving in public services received the highest average salary, followed by the income of employees in the workforce for finance and transportation, while the income yearly from agriculture was by far the lowest among all the sectors listed. In addition, wholesale and retail trade had the highest proportion of change compared to 2003, and the vast majority of the labor force was shared by public services and agriculture.
At the beginning, the average annual income of workers in public services was about $92,000, and the figures for finance and transportation were lower, at $83,000 and $81,000, respectively, compared to just $77,000 earned by people working in wholesale and retail trade. By contrast, the average yearly salary of people in agriculture and manufacturing was the lowest, at $40,000 and $52,000, in that order. Regarding the percentage of change compared to 2003, wholesale and retail trade was the leading sector, with an 8.4% increase, followed by transportation (4.5%) and manufacturing (4%). Despite being regarded as leading sectors in terms of average yearly salary, finance and public services witnessed a modest percentage of increase from 2003, with just 2.9% and 3.7%, respectively, which was higher than that of agriculture.
Turning to the distribution of graduates in the six sectors examined, public services was the top leading sector in the percentage of graduates of about 30%, compared to 25% of graduates in agriculture and 20% in manufacturing. A close similarity was seen in the figures for finance, wholesale and retail, and transportation, at 5%, 10%, and 10%, respectively.