Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for November 13, 2018
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November 13, 2018: While we are living in a digital era, American manufacturers exported $772 billion of goods to other nations in 2016. That accounted for 60% of the nation’s exports that year (the latest year for which data is available).[1]
Total manufacturing sales, including products sold within the United States, topped $5 trillion.
Even with growing automation, it takes a lot of people to manufacture all of those goods. Census data shows that U.S. manufacturers employed 11.6 million people who are paid an average of $57,266 a year. Among those workers 25 or older, 30% had a bachelor’s degree from college.
In three states—Indiana, Wisconsin, and Iowa—manufacturing jobs are held by more than 7.5% of the working-age population.
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