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[–] 88 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I bet the majority of that purple is administrative roles. As in, not providing healthcare but deciding who's going to pay for it

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I often wonder exactly how many office towers there are of people trying to deny health claims, and bickering over who pays how much.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    And coding the systems that make decisions. And answering calls from members. And cleaning the building.

    In fact, I'd go so far as to say that most of those towers aren't filled with decision makers, but instead mostly laborers with a small amount of those who make the evil decisions. Kind of like everything else.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is this a major consequence of 1994's NAFTA and the relative ease of moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico, vice the service/healthcare jobs being tied to populations themselves?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    It's blowing my mind that Michigan's largest employer is the University of Michigan, and yet they still voted for Trump.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Top how? Highest per capita salary? Most number of employees? Most revenue? Most profit?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    This is probably a dumb question but does "Professional Services" mean?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sounds like you've never had to endure Amateur Services.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Usually it means consulting provided by an outside vendor. So in this case I think they are saying the government hires a lot of services from other companies. Probably to augment their own work.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Examples include consultants, Managed Service Providers, financial services, staffing firms, HVAC companies, and lawyers. So yeah, workforce augmentation and anything you don't want to keep in house for one reason or another.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm surprised it's not Prisons

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I expect total number employed. For example, healthcare would be broken across hundreds of companies, so it's not as simple as saying "Walmart". Likewise there are other retailers than Walmart.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That's the largest singular employer, and which industry that singular employer is in. Vs OP's total industry employment. These are different things. If there are a ton of small companies, they can easily add up to being larger overall than any singular employer. E.g. the University of Hawaii might be the largest singular employer in Hawaii, but education is not the largest overall industry in Hawaii.

    I know it's easy to only think of large singular companies, but it's more detailed and better information to add up the entire employed population of everyone in the state and see what industries they work in.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Uh... Why are people going to Wyoming that would enable its hospitality industry to be the largest in the state?

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  • "Hospitality/ Nevada"

    I see we're still playing along with that euphemism. Haha.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Virginia is the last white collar state?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oh. Category, but not actually listing them...

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How many Luigi can we have.

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