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<br />Major Employers <br /> <br />Employer <br /> <br />Independent School District 728 <br />Sherburne County <br />Great River Energy (formerly United <br />Power Association) <br />Cub Foods <br />Guardian Angels of Elk River, Inc. <br />Tescom Corporation <br />Target <br />AI/tool Manufacturing <br />Menards <br />Coborns Food and Drug <br />AI/iant Techsystems Inc. <br /> <br />Product/Service <br /> <br />Approximate <br />Number <br />of Employees <br /> <br />Education <br />Government <br /> <br />655* <br />389 <br /> <br />Electric Utility <br />Grocery Store <br />Nursing/Health Care/Housing <br />Pressure Control Devices <br />Retail Store <br />Metal Stamping <br />Retail Store <br />Grocery <br />Weapons & Ammunition <br /> <br />330 <br />230 <br />220 <br />205 <br />200 <br />191 <br />185 <br />125 <br />107 <br /> <br />District employees in Elk River. <br />Source: 1999 Elk River Community Profile and phone survey of individual employers. <br /> <br />Labor Force Data <br /> <br />AUQust 1999 <br />Civilian Unemployment <br />Labor Force Rate <br /> <br />Sherburne County <br />Minneapolis-St. Paul SMSA <br />Minnesota <br /> <br />32,525 <br />1,734,232 <br />2,762,210 <br /> <br />AUQust 1998 <br />Civilian Unemployment <br />Labor Force Rate <br /> <br />1.9% <br />1.9 <br />2.3 <br /> <br />31,891 <br />1,701,395 <br />2,712,156 <br /> <br />1.6% <br />1.7 <br />2.0 <br /> <br />Source: Minnesota Department of Economic Security. 1999 data is preliminary <br /> <br />Retail Sales and Effective Buying Income for Sherburne County <br /> <br />1998 <br />1997 <br />1996 <br />1995 <br />1994 <br /> <br />Total <br />Retail Sales <br />($ooo)(a) <br /> <br />$473,269 <br />410,299 <br />363,222 <br />311,890 <br />266,601 <br /> <br />Effective BuyinQ .Income for Sherburne County <br />Total Median <br />($OOO)(b) Household(b) <br /> <br />$943,969 <br />794,678 <br />751,473 <br />694,234 <br />768,719 <br /> <br />$41 ,743 <br />39,715 <br />37,297 <br />36,032 <br />42,166 <br /> <br />(a) Retail sales figures are based on the 1993 Census of Retail Trade. <br /> <br />(b) EBI figures shown for 1994 were based on Bureau of Economic Analysis ''personal income" and are <br />not directly comparable to EBI figures for 1995 through 1997, which are based on Census Bureau <br />"money income. " <br /> <br />NOTE: The 1997 Median Household EBI for the State of Minnesota is $35,050. <br /> <br />Source: "Survey of Buying Power, " Sales & Marketino Manaqement, 1995 through 1999 editions. <br /> <br />-16- <br />