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Latest Previous Previous % change from month month year last year EMPLOYMENT Employed (000s) 4,215.5 4,194.0 4,095.7 2.9 Civilian labor force 4,429.5 4,394.2 4,330.0 2.3 Manufacturing 558.4 563.5 563.6 (0.9) Service 3,134.5 3,181.8 3,045.0 2.9 Government 612.6 661.8 579.9 5.6 Unemployed 214.0 200.2 234.2 (8.6) Avg. manufacturing workweek 39.1 39.7 38.8 0.8 (hours) Avg. hourly production wage $14.68 $14.48 $14.50 1.2 Latest Previous Previous month month year* TAXABLE RETAIL SALES (1) ($000s) Asheville 191,119.2 185,418.9 258,452.5 Cary 109,512.1 92,238.6 161,643.1 Charlotte 993,741.4 840,891.7 1,207,105.4 Durham 332,568.1 240,202.8 380,232.5 Fayetteville 195,762.6 168,006.2 236,151.7 Greensboro 367,310.5 353,773.6 540,500.7 Greenville 91,574.5 88,627.0 128,495.4 Hickory 117,143.1 96,035.1 162,123.9 High Point 84,834.2 71,363.4 160,935.6 Raleigh 547,547.7 517,914.2 747,827.3 Wilmington 214,171.1 180,506.1 275,126.2 Winston-Salem 284,070.0 234,904.0 393,400.0 * 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 29,259 28,057 32,278 (9.4) Charlotte* 1,335,330 1,321,717 1,336,145 (0.1) Fayetteville 13,519 13,772 13,010 3.9 Greensboro 94,477 102,344 112,705 (16.2) Greenville 4,279 4,107 4,338 (1.4) Jacksonville 8,017 7,880 8,933 (10.3) Kinston 1,903 1,682 2,893 (34.2) New Bern 8,882 7,781 10,061 (11.7) Raleigh/Durham 425,451 437,952 437,152 (2.7) Wilmington 31,152 29,173 36,247 (14.1) ELECTRIC UTILITIES (3) Dominion Residential customers 99,392 99,216 98,293 1.1 Commercial/industrial 17,709 17,748 17,715 (0.0) customers Usage (millions of 393.0 356.0 379.0 3.7 kilowatt-hours) Duke Energy Residential customers 1,445,210 1,443,438 1,415,972 2.1 Commercial/industrial 241,132 240,972 236,512...