Employment in the U.S. media industry 2009-2017, by sector

Employment data from key sectors of the U.S. media industry in 2017 revealed that software publishers employed the most people by far, with over 643 thousand employees in total. Motion picture and video industries ranked second in 2016 but by 2017 the number of employees in this sector had dropped by almost one hundred thousand.

2017年美国媒体行业关键部门的就业数据显示，软件出版商吸纳的员工数量遥遥领先，总计超过64.3万人。电影和视频行业在2016年位列第二，但到了2017年，该领域的员工人数几乎减少了十万。