TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNICATION& PUBLIC UTILITIES

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(40 - 49)

Employment change from last quarter	+ 0.3
Employment change from year ago	+ 4.8
Wage change from year ago	+18.3

QUARTERLY

Employment in TCPU barely changed from last quarter adding 360 for a gain of 0.3%. Sector activity was mixed. Three sectors increased: Communication (48) added 2747 employees, Local Transportation (40) added 453 and Transport Services (47) added 73. Increases in Communication were the result of adding about 1670 employees from SIC reclassifications and expansions. Telephone communications rose by 1384 employees with about 500 of the change resulting from the reclassification of one employer from Wholesale. Cable & Other Pay Television Services added 1314 employees over the quarter. About 1200 of this increase resulted from SIC changes, the majority also from Wholesale. Local Transportation (41) seasonally gained 453 employees due to increased demand for transport to ski resorts and gambling areas. Transport Service (47) grew by 73 employees. This sector entertained a SIC change of about 140 moving from Services. The big loser this quarter was Air Transportation (45) down 1715 employees. The shut down of one airline and the seasonal decline of employment in air courier services following the Christmas rush created this loss. Trucking-Warehousing (42) dropped by 772 employees. Losses were a combination of SIC changes encompassing about 200, seasonal declines and some small closures. Employment in Electric-Gas-Sanitation Services (49) dropped by 299. Layoffs, project cutbacks and completions affected the decline. Losses in Pipelines (46), down 105 employees, resulted from a SIC change to Mining for one employer.


ANNUAL

TCPU added 5522 employees over first quarter a year ago increasing 4.8%. Communication (48) increases over-whelmed growth in all other sectors. Communication added 5106 employees. Telephone service added about 3500 employees with approximately 500 picked up from SIC changes and the remainder from service expansions. Cable and other pay television added more than 1200 over the year. Local Transportation (41) gained 445 employees. Expansion of a corporate office into Colorado and service expansion for an ambulance service provider created a large share of the growth in Local Transportation. Electric-Gas-Sanitation Services (49), down 456, showed the largest sector decline. Losses were a combination of layoffs occurring in second quarter 1997 at a utility company and cutbacks with contractors working on cleanup projects at Rocky Flats.

1997 SIC CHANGES

Due to reclassification this industry gained approximately 1499 employees and $7,225,696 in quarterly payroll.

Colorado Employment and Wages (ES202) First Quarter 1998