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Latest Previous Previous % change month month year from last year EMPLOYMENT Employed (000s) 4,206.2 4,183.5 4,088.7 2.9 Civilian labor force 4,396.0 4,378.8 4,311.8 2.0 Manufacturing 560.3 561.3 567.0 (1.2) Service 3,166.0 3,147.3 3,105.5 1.9 Government 691.8 691.0 676.1 2.3 Unemployed 189.8 195.2 223.0 (14.9) Avg. manufacturing 39.4 39.6 40.0 (1.5) workweek (hours) Avg. hourly production $14.44 $14.30 $14.28 1.1 wage Source: Employment Security Commission, April. County rates are not seasonally adjusted. Latest Previous Previous month month year * TEXABLE RETAIL SALES (1) ($000s) Asheville 157,780.9 296,561.4 235,994.2 Cary 91,684.6 164,556.3 143,543.2 Charlotte 781,582.0 1,084,958.6 1,155,606.1 Durham 274,722.8 354,653.1 371,284.4 Fayetteville 155,041.3 261,307.0 236,675.5 Greensboro 339,760.9 499,668.9 511,663.4 Greenville 78,273.0 131,489.2 119,913.3 Hickory 89,651.2 157,655.3 155,838.7 High Point 79,448.7 107,330.7 142,298.2 Raleigh 484,116.1 708,227.3 672,576.9 Wilmington 171,175.1 265,168.3 238,623.0 Winston-Salem 248,357.8 374,369.2 406,629.5 * includes nontaxable sales; the state began excluding those sales from its statistics in July 2005. Latest Previous Previous % change month month year from last year AIR PASSENGER BOARDINGS (2) Asheville 22,729 21,541 24,983 (9.0) Charlotte * 1,283,894 1,317,391 1,227,882 4.6 Fayetteville 12,812 12,601 12,549 2.1 Greensboro 97,641 95,546 123,337 (20.8) Greenvile 3,659 3,955 4,782 (23.5) Jacksonville 7,206 8,193 7,338 (1.8) Kinston 1,871 2,193 2,228 (16.0) New Bern 7,263 6,835 7,577 (4.1) Raleigh/Durham 392,543 397,119 382,239 2.7 Wilmington 27,857 27,071 30,074 (7.4) ELECTRIC UTILITIES (3) Dominion Residential customers 99,154 99,114 97,897 1.3 Commercial/industrial 17,743 17,707 17,693 0.3 customers Usage (millions of 292.0 370.0 342.7 (14.8) kilowatt-hours) Duke Power Residential customers 1,437,976 1,435,614 1,409,033 2.1...