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          <dc:title>Sign manufacturing in the United States by state (2014-2025) and metro area (2024): establishments, employment and pay (BLS QCEW, NAICS 339950)</dc:title>
          <dc:creator>Sign Trade Data (25105951)</dc:creator>
          <dc:subject>Labour economics</dc:subject>
          <dc:subject>Industry economics and industrial organisation</dc:subject>
          <dc:subject>sign manufacturing</dc:subject>
          <dc:subject>sign shops</dc:subject>
          <dc:subject>sign industry</dc:subject>
          <dc:subject>NAICS 339950</dc:subject>
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          <dc:subject>employment by state</dc:subject>
          <dc:subject>metro areas</dc:subject>
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          <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Sign manufacturing (NAICS 339950, private ownership) in the United States from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages: every state and the District of Columbia for each year from 2014 to 2025, and all 383 metropolitan statistical areas for 2024 with location quotients. In 2025 the industry had 7,672 establishments employing 76,766 people at an average annual pay of $65,386.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Compiled for &lt;a href="https://signtradedata.com/"&gt;Sign Trade Data&lt;/a&gt;, which has a page per state (for example &lt;a href="https://signtradedata.com/texas/"&gt;sign shops in Texas&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href="https://signtradedata.com/metros/"&gt;sign shops by metro area&lt;/a&gt;. Values BLS withholds are left blank and flagged rather than estimated, and owner-only shops with no employees are outside the census; the &lt;a href="https://signtradedata.com/methodology/"&gt;methodology&lt;/a&gt; explains both.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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