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Latest Previous Previous % change from month month year last year EMPLOYMENT Employed (000s) 4,163.6 4,117.5 4,054.7 2.7 Civilian labor force 4,360.3 4,337.8 4,280.8 1.9 Manufacturing 560.1 559.6 568.3 (1.4) Service 3,145.1 3,120.5 3,081.1 2.1 Government 690.3 687.2 676.6 2.0 Unemployed 196.7 220.3 226.2 (13.0) Avg. manufacturing workweek 39.7 39.2 39.9 (0.5) (hours) Avg. hourly production wage $14.32 $14.32 $14.32 0.0 Source: Employment Security Commission, March. County rates are not seasonally adjusted. Latest Previous Previous month month year * TAXABLE RETAIL SALES (1) ($000s) Asheville 296,561.4 156,845.5 341,379.1 Cary 164,556.3 85,077.3 257,457.4 Charlotte 1,084,958.6 749,914.1 1,467,078.2 Durham 354,653.1 237,965.7 410,749.2 Fayetteville 261,307.0 134,610.3 326,935.2 Greensboro 499,668.9 316,794.4 688,684.2 Greenville 131,489.2 70,321.3 167,526.0 Hickory 157,655.3 87,348.9 221,942.9 High Point 107,330.7 60,763.6 198,652.2 Raleigh 708,227.3 430,701.2 830,472.9 Wilmington 265,168.3 149,601.6 340,780.8 Winston-Salem 374,369.2 225,967.0 515,920.8 * includes nontaxable sales; the state began excluding those sales from its statistics in July 2005. Latest Previous Previous % change from month month year last year AIR PASSENGER BOARDINGS (2) Asheville 21,541 16,966 24,207 (11.0) Charlotte * 1,317,391 1,052,725 1,340,854 (1.7) Fayetteville 12,601 10,221 14,100 (10.6) Greensboro 95,546 76,284 118,187 (19.2) Greenville 3,955 3,257 5,257 (24.8) Jacksonville 8,193 6,060 8,612 (4.9) Kinston 2,193 1,704 139 1,477.7 New Bern 6,835 6,014 8,351 (18.2) Raleigh/Durham 397,119 315,401 424,953 (6.5) Wilmington 27,071 20,181 30,456 (11.1) ELECTRIC UTILITIES (3) Dominion Residential customers 99,114 99,135 97,825 1.3 Commercial/industrial 17,707 17,716 17,639 0.4 customers Usage (millions of 370.0 315.0 381.4 (3.0) kilowatt-hours) Duke Power Residential customers 1,435,614 1,435,032 1,407,972 2.0...