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Top
Employers - 1999
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Gwinnett
Hospital System Inc
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Kroger
Company
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Lucent
Technologies
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Publix
Super Markets Inc
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Scientific-Atlanta
Inc
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In
alphabetical order.
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- In the
year 2000, the average weekly wage for all the employment sectors in
the county was $711. This amount was greater than the statewide
average of $622.
- In Gwinnett County, services is the largest employment sector
providing 30.5% of the jobs. The other predominant employment
sectors are retail trade and wholesale trade. Statewide, the
service industry is the largest employment sector, contributing
25.6% of the state's jobs.
- Between
1996 and 2000, Gwinnett County's annual unemployment rate was less
than the state's rate, averaging 2.5% compared with the state's
average of 4.2%. Nationally, the unemployment rate for the same
period averaged 4.8%.
- The
county per capita personal income in 1999 was $31,893, as compared
with $27,324 for Georgia and $28,546 for the United States.
- Gwinnett
County's median household income in 1997 was $56,082. This amount
was greater than the state's median household income of $36,372 in
that same year. Nationally, the median household income in 1999 was
$37,005.
- During
1997, 5.6% of the county's population lived below the poverty level,
compared with Georgia's rate of 14.7% and the national rate of
13.3%. In addition, 8.8% of the children under the age of 18 lived
below the poverty level in Gwinnett County. Nationally, 19.9% of the
population under the age of 18 years lived below the level of
poverty.
- Residents
of Gwinnett County received total government transfer payments
amounting to $1,150 per capita in 1999, compared with $3,302 per
capita statewide. Transfer payments include retirement and
disability insurance benefit payments, medical benefits,
unemployment insurance benefits, and veteran's benefits payments.
- According
to the Georgia Department of Revenue's Net Property and Utility
Digest, Gwinnett County's assessed property value amounted to $16.2
billion in 1999, resulting in a per capita assessed property value
of $30,960. At the state level, per capita assessed property value
in 1999 equaled $24,462.
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