Figure 5 suggests that 1998 could have a slight increase with a bit more growth than the year before. Overall, the graph illustrates continued growth but at a much slower rate than we had seen in Figure 2 . According to wage records in 1993, there were 72,690 people in Wyoming employed by the Retail Trade industry. That totaled 27 percent of the jobs in Wyoming. Only 33 percent of the workers who held Retail Trade as their primary job were working Retail Trade and another job at some point in 1993.
Males dominate most industries in Wyoming.
The fact that this is not the case in Retail Trade makes the industry unique in Wyoming. However, this study of employment in the Retail Trade industry is just that, a study of employment not of occupation or of tenure. Therefore, when looking at wages and gender one must be careful not to draw direct comparisons. Age Distributions Table 1 shows those individuals who had Retail Trade as their primary job in 1993. The table was made by taking wage records for all four quarters in 1993 and matching social security numbers with the current Wyoming Driver's License file.