service sector,”Today, the economic base of North America is atertiary sector in which people are engaged in various services such as transportation, utilities, wholesale and retail trade, health, leisure, maintenance, finance, government, information, and education. In Canada and the United States, 75% of jobs are in the tertiary or service sector. This does not mean that all jobs are higher-paying! The average pay at the largest employer in the United States, Walmart, is just $12/hr, which is barely abovepoverty level. The service sector includes very high paying jobs
but the majority are low-paying.”