Pulp and paper manufacturers, however, led the other for- 
est industries in wages and salaries (fig. 1.10), as well as 
value of shipments and value added by manufacture. In 
1982, they contributed nearly $4 billion in wages and 
salaries, $26.3 billion in shipments, and $10.8 billion in 
value added. These figures represented 46 percent of the 
Southwide total for wages and salaries, 53 percent of the 
shipments, and 54 percent of the value added in the forest 
industries. Over half of these amounts is attributable to pro- 
Logging and sawmills 
13.7% 
Plywood, wood 
products 
20.9% 
Paper and 
paperboard 
products 
19.5% 
Wood furniture 
19.1% 
Pulp, paper 
and 
paperboard 
mills 26.8% 
Figure 1.10—Distribution of wages and salaries among 
forest industry sectors in the South, 1982 
The pulp and paper products industry is the 
source of nearly half of the wages and 
salaries and a little over half of the value of 
shipments and value added by manufacture 
in all the forest industries in the South. 
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duction and initial processing of woodpulp at pulp, paper, 
and paperboard mills. 
Lumber and wood products and wood furniture accounted 
for 29 percent and 16 percent of the total value added, 
respectively. Of the $5.7 billion in value added from solid 
wood products, $1.4 billion came from sawmills and plan- 
ing mills; $1.3 billion from millwork, softwood and hard- 
wood plywood, and cabinets; $890 million from logging 
operations; $860 million from prefabricated wood buildings 
and mobile homes; $820 million from wood preserving, 
particleboard, and miscellaneous wood products; $250 mil- 
lion from boxes and pallets; and $140 million from gum 
and wood chemicals. 
Value added by wood furniture in 1982 was $3.2 billion, 
which includes $1.6 billion from wood household furniture, 
$1.2 billion from upholstered furniture on wood frames, and 
$400 million from wood office furniture, shelving, parti- 
tions, and other fixtures. 
Relative Importance of Forest Industries by Region and 
State 
In 1982 the Southeast had approximately 9,000 establish- 
ments providing 304,000 jobs in the forest industries. 
The South Central region had 8,000 forest industry 
establishments employing 253,000 people. The profiles of 
forest industries within the Southeast and South Central 
regions are quite similar with the exception of wood 
furniture manufacturing, which is concentrated in the 
Southeast region. Approximately one worker out of every 
four in forest industries in the South was employed in 
furniture manufacturing. Seventy percent of this employment 
was in the Southeast region, 60 percent in North Carolina 
and Virginia alone. 
The South Central region claimed a slightly larger share of 
employment, wages and salaries, and value added from log- 
ging and sawmills and from plywood, veneer, and other 
solid wood products. In addition, the total value of ship- 
ments and value added by manufacturing from pulp, paper, 
and paperboard mills is estimated to be about 25 percent 
higher than production from mills in the Southeast region. 
For both regions, pulp, paper and paperboard mills led other 
forest industry sectors in value added to the economy in 
1982. For every $100 of value added by forest products in 
the South Central region, $35 was attributable to the mill 
sector; $24 to converted paper and paperboard products; $18 
to plywood, veneer, and other solid wood products; $13 to 
