Profession? What Profession?

Like activity at architecture firms, the economy continues to slide. Businesses reported an additional 651,000 payroll job losses in February, with the national unemployment rate rising to 8.1%. The design and construction industry has suffered some of the most serious loses. Fully 17% of payroll losses his year have come from the construction sector, even though this sector accounts for less than 5% of national payrolls. Architecture firms lost over 18,000 jobs between August 2008 and this past January, accounting for 7.5% of all jobs at these firms.

-American Institute of Architects, 2009 [emphais added]