Pair and compare two distinct industry sectors of your choosing to examine their relative importance and performance across all of the United States' 51 state economies over 1958-2023.

Apply the interactive tools included in this module to conduct your own research about how any two industry sectors compare and contrast across the states of the United States. The analytical tools at your disposal for ranking and sorting the importance and growth of individual industry sectors across states include: percent of the overall U.S. average earnings per job, percent of the U.S. counterpart, percent of the national counterpart, growth rates and growth rates differenced against overall averages locally and their counterparts nationwide.