2010 Green Goods and Services (Industry Employment — 2012-03-22

(NOTE: This release was reissued on March 22, 2012 to correct the first paragraph in the GGS Scope section. The first sentence should have read, "The GGS scope contained 25,513,300 jobs, or 20.0 percent of the nation's total employment." None of the tables were affected by this error.) In 2010, 3.1 million jobs in the United States were associated with the production of green goods and services, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Green Goods and Services (GGS) jobs are found in businesses that produce goods and provide services that benefit the environment or conserve natural resources. GGS jobs accounted for 2.4 percent of total employment in 2010. The private sector had 2.3 million GGS jobs and the public sector had 860,300. Manufacturing had 461,800 GGS jobs, the most among any private sector industry.