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% change Latest Previous Previous from month month year last year EMPLOYMENT Employed (000s) 4,356.1 4,338.7 4,310.8 1.1 Civilian labor force 4,667.8 4,661.8 4,728.2 (1.3) Manufacturing 442.1 442.3 442.1 nm Service 3,469.7 3,406.6 3,483.3 (0.4) Government 716.2 719.7 718.3 (0.3) Unemployed 311.7 323.1 417.4 (25.3) Avg. manufacturing 41.5 42.8 40.9 1.5 workweek (hours) Avg. hourly production $16.75 $17.01 $16.76 (0.1) wage Latest Previous Previous month month year TAXABLE RETAIL SALES (1) ($000s) Alamance 190,938.0 164,177.6 168,569.0 Buncombe 386,978.6 309,117.2 355,856.3 Cabarrus 281,660.2 214,954.2 258,590.2 Catawba 198,475.9 146,931.7 181,269.9 Cumberland 363,955.6 292,978.1 350,329.8 Durham 556,471.1 439,705.8 465,084.0 Forsyth 435,985.6 341,189.2 417,619.1 Gaston 171,735.7 134,762.4 161,697.0 Guilford 587,829.6 464,967.5 541,844.9 Iredell 177,808.5 138,528.6 161,603.6 Mecklenburg 1,691,967.3 1,361,305.6 1,543,905.9 New Hanover 320,755.5 265,404.3 300,428.9 Onslow 185,220.8 148,864.4 175,451.3 Pitt 187,540.6 159,701.0 179,577.4 Wake 1,241,173.9 1,011,719.8 1,164,951.9 % change from last year TAXABLE RETAIL SALES (1) Alamance 13.3 Buncombe 8.7 Cabarrus 8.9 Catawba 9.5 Cumberland 3.9 Durham 19.6 Forsyth 4.4 Gaston 6.2 Guilford 8.5 Iredell 10.0 Mecklenburg 9.6 New Hanover 6.8 Onslow 5.6 Pitt 4.4 Wake 6.5 % change Latest Previous Previous from CONSTRUCTION (2) 3 months 3 months year last year Top 10 counties ($000s) Mecklenburg 40,487.9 67,162.7 151,475.9 (73.3) Cumberland 31,666.9 32,126.8 107,559.2 (70.6) New Hanover 27,449.4 28,311.6 17,003.2 61.4 Catawba 25,742.0 3,490.8 27,388.6 (6.0) Wake 24,741.7 61,158.0 37,727.0 (34.4) Martin 24,525.9 24,050.1 2,448.2 901.8 Rockingham 19,622.5 19,815.1 789.8 2,384.5 Buncombe 15,351.0 8,011.7 17,209.5 (10.8) Guilford 14,290.3 21,067.8 96,561.4 (85.2) Union 13,628.2 13,750.3 2,938.6 363.8 North Carolina 469,923.1 531,768.2 564,247.8 (16.7) Latest Previous month month AIR PASSENGER BOARDINGS (3) Asheville 22,191 29,870 Charlotte * 1,744,002 1,883,605 Fayetteville 15,927 21,508 Greensboro 58,652 71,716 Greenville 4,232 5,683 Jacksonville 9,970 14,285 New Bern 8,237 11,616 Raleigh/Durham 317,903 414,239 Wilmington 24,548 33,081 ELECTRIC UTILITIES (4) Dominion Residential customers 101,347 101,301 Commercial/industrial customers 17,873 17,875 Usage (millions of...