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Latest Previous Previous % change from month month year last year EMPLOYMENT Employed (000s) 4,230.3 4,215.5 4,114.0 2.8 Civilian labor force 4,443.8 4,429.5 4,349.0 2.2 Manufacturing 561.0 559.4 565.1 (0.7) Service 3,177.6 3,127.7 3,114.5 2.0 Government 648.3 607.8 638.6 1.5 Unemployed 213.4 214.0 234.9 (9.1) Avg. manufacturing workweek 38.7 38.9 39.8 (2.8) (hours) Avg. hourly production wage $14.45 $14.52 $14.31 1.0 Latest Previous Previous month month year* TAXABLE RETAIL SALES (1) ($000s) Asheville 164,046.0 191,119.2 264,729.3 Cary 85,180.5 109,512.1 165,008.2 Charlotte 843,005.7 993,741.4 1,290,731.8 Durham 246,370.0 332,568.1 395,283.3 Fayetteville 145,906.8 195,762.6 266,350.1 Greensboro 315,223.2 367,310.5 598,826.6 Greenville 76,482.0 91,574.5 180,536.3 Hickory 83,644.7 117,143.1 156,323.6 High Point 70,099.4 84,834.2 168,187.3 Raleigh 467,549.9 547,547.7 741,441.7 Wilmington 180,687.9 214,171.1 305,287.5 Winston-Salem 228,689.9 284,070.0 428,558.8 *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 28,719 29,259 30,112 (4.6) Charlotte* 1,256,993 1,335,330 1,198,056 4.9 Fayetteville 12,825 13,519 12,495 2.6 Greensboro 89,579 94,477 107,619 (16.8) Greenville 3,858 4,279 3,852 0.2 Jacksonville 7,607 8,017 8,267 (8.0) Kinston 1,794 1,903 2,758 (35.0) New Bern 8,835 8,882 9,329 (5.3) Raleigh/Durham 414,456 425,451 410,982 0.8 Wilmington 29,175 31,152 33,806 (13.7) ELECTRIC UTILITIES (3) Dominion Residential customers 99,451 99,392 98,435 1.0 Commercial/industrial 17,723 17,709 17,716 0.0 customers Usage (millions of 456.0 393.0 457.0 (0.2) kilowatt-hours) Duke Energy Residential customers 1,448,737 1,445,210 1,417,861 2.2 Commercial/industrial 241,771 241,132 237,320 1.9 customers...