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Cost of Labor: Cost of Goods Sold

Industry sectors display the labor portion of Cost of Goods Sold. This line item excludes officer's compensation, wages-salary, contracts and commissions, as well as overhead costs which are found in the Sales General & Administrative line item. COS-L:COGS data can be found at a more detailed industry level in the Sole Proprietorship Profit and Loss statements.

2008 Cost of Sales-Labor:

Cost of Goods Sold
% of COGS
   
Total 5.84%
Agriculture 7.26%
Mining 8.25%
Utilities 1.38%
Construction 16.08%
Manufacturing 6.05%
Wholesale-Retail Trade 1.08%
Wholesale 1.18%
Retail 0.94%
Transport/warehousing 9.10%
Information 7.45%
Finance-Insurance 0.10%
Real Estate-Rental 13.66%
Professional-Technical Services 25.80%
Holding Companies 0.14%
Administrative-Waste Management-Remediation 45.77%
Educational Services 21.24%
Health Care-Social Assistance 27.12%
Arts-Entertainment-Recreation 10.46%
Accommodation-Food Services 18.03%
Other Services 19.02%

More complete sole proprietorship labor costs can be accessed from the Sole Proprietorship Labor Costs as a % of Revenue table.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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