Various other posters question the assertion that the entertainment industry is small: Computers and Electronics: 1.1M people employed http://www.bls.gov/iag/t

Various other posters question the assertion that the entertainment industry is small: Computers and Electronics: 1.1M people employed http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag334.htm http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag334.htm Motion Pictures and Music: 365k people employed http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag512.htm http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag512.htm Computer and tech sector workers get paid more on average per hour as well. That said, the entertainment industry is probably a bigger exporter relative to its size (how many foreign movies do we watch?) and is also REALLY good at creative accounting. Maybe it's actually making a lot more money than the figures say. I think you can lump a whole pile of extra industry sectors in with entertainment and still not get close to the tech sector. So it's definitely a case of disproportionate lobbying.