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% change Latest Previous Previous from last month month year year EMPLOYMENT Employed (000s) 4,194.0 4,198.9 4,087.4 2.6 Civilian labor force 4,394.2 4,403.6 4,319.8 1.7 Manufacturing 562.3 561.3 568.4 (1.1) Service 3,188.5 3,196.2 3,102.3 2.8 Government 670.4 694.6 641.5 4.5 Unemployed 200.2 204.6 232.4 (13.8) Avg. manufacturing workweek 39.8 39.8 39.9 (0.3) (hours) Avg. hourly production wage $14.48 $14.44 $14.38 0.7 Source: Employment Security Commission, June. County rates are not seasonally adjusted. Latest Previous Previous month month year* TAXABLE RETAIL SALES (1) ($000s) Asheville 185,418.9 170,281.8 272,917.7 Cary 92,238.6 91,720.4 186,194.5 Charlotte 840,891.7 799,394.7 1,352,727.9 Durham 240,202.8 271,957.3 389,326.8 Fayetteville 168,006.2 175,094.9 258,575.8 Greensboro 353,773.6 331,799.5 580,996.6 Greenville 88,627.0 91,641.3 161,314.0 Hickory 96,035.1 101,095.2 168,991.9 High Point 71,363.4 74,054.8 182,368.1 Raleigh 517,914.2 478,521.6 782,513.6 Wilmington 180,506.1 179,042.2 289,213.7 Winston-Salem 234,904.0 235,536.6 447,246.5 *includes nontaxable sales, which the state began excluding from its statistics in July 2005. % change Latest Previous Previous from last month month year year AIR PASSENGER BOARDINGS (2) Asheville 28,057 25,983 30,287 (7.4) Charlotte* 1,321,717 1,308,624 1,306,128 1.2 Fayetteville 13,772 13,222 13,799 (0.2) Greensboro 102,344 101,971 113,406 (9.8) Greenville 4,107 3,613 4,251 (3.4) Jacksonville 7,880 7,926 7,714 2.2 Kinston 1,682 1,476 2,783 (39.6) New Bern 7,781 6,954 9,033 (13.9) Raleigh/Durham 437,952 380,233 437,798 0.0 Wilmington 29,173 29,514 32,975 (11.5) ELECTRIC UTILITIES (3) Dominion Residential customers 99,216 99,174 98,135 1.1 Commercial/industrial 17,748 17,779 17,358 2.2 customers Usage (millions of 356.0 306.0 350.0 1.7 kilowatt-hours) Duke Energy Residential customers 1,443,438 1,440,214 1,412,190 2.2...