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Latest Previous Previous % change month month year from last year EMPLOYMENT Employed (000s) 4,198.9 4,206.2 4,087.8 2.7 Civilian labor 4,403.6 4,396.0 4,313.1 2.1 force Manufacturing 562.0 561.9 567.3 (0.9) Service 3,194.3 3,172.2 3,122.5 2.3 Government 693.2 691.4 678.3 2.2 Unemployed 204.6 189.8 225.3 (9.2) Avg. manufacturing 39.9 39.0 39.7 0.5 workweek (hours) Avg. hourly $14.41 $14.47 $14.34 0.5 production wage Source: Employment Security Commission, May. County rates are not seasonally adjusted. Latest Previous Previous month month year * TAXABLE RETAIL SALES (1) ($000s) Asheville 170,281.8 157,780.9 225,174.3 Cary 91,720.4 91,684.6 153,290.5 Charlotte 799,394.7 781,582.0 1,078,936.3 Durham 271,957.3 274,722.8 334,356.0 Fayetteville 175,094.9 155,041.3 242,603.1 Greensboro 331,799.5 339,760.9 506,331.1 Greenville 91,641.3 78,273.0 127,328.7 Hickory 101,095.2 89,651.2 141,124.7 High Point 74,054.8 79,448.7 142,348.9 Raleigh 478,521.6 484,116.1 633,695.3 Wilmington 179,042.2 171,175.1 224,118.1 Winston-Salem 235,536.6 248,357.8 309,543.1 * Includes nontaxable sales; the state began excluding those sales from its statistics in July 2005. % change Latest Previous Previous from month month year last year AIR PASSENGER BOARDINGS (2) Asheville 25,983 22,729 28,236 (8.0) Charlotte * 1,308,624 1,283,894 1,268,088 3.2 Fayetteville 13,222 12,812 13,353 (1.0) Greensboro 101,971 97,641 116,935 (12.8) Greenville 3,613 3,659 4,782 (24.4) Jacksonville 7,926 7,206 8,421 (5.9) Kinston 1,476 1,871 2,694 (45.2) New Bern 6,954 7,263 8,897 (21.8) Raleigh/Durham 380,233 392,543 429,687 (11.5) Wilmington 29,514 27,857 33,093 (10.8) ELECTRIC UTILITIES (3) Dominion Residential customers 99,174 99,154 98,029 1.2 Commercial/industrial 17,779 17,743 17,703 0.4 customers Usage (millions of 306.0 292.0 283.0 8.1 kilowatt-hours) Duke Energy Residential customers 1,440,214 1,437,976...