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HOUSEHOLD DATA
ANNUAL AVERAGES
12. Employed persons by sex, occupation, class of worker, full- or part-time status, and race [In thousands]
Category	Total		White		Black or African American		Asian
Category	2020	2021	2020	2021	2020	2021	2020	2021
Total, 16 years and over	147,795	152,581	115,341	118,291	17,873	18,726	9,437	10,016
Men	78,560	80,829	62,446	63,814	8,392	8,875	5,041	5,292
Women	69,234	71,752	52,895	54,476	9,481	9,851	4,396	4,725

OCCUPATION
Management, professional, and related occupations	63,644	64,744	50,108	50,686	6,203	6,356	5,494	5,822
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	27,143	27,864	22,178	22,521	2,386	2,562	1,820	1,991
Management occupations	18,564	18,986	15,488	15,597	1,482	1,633	1,072	1,228
Business and financial operations occupations	8,578	8,878	6,689	6,923	904	929	747	763
Professional and related occupations	36,502	36,880	27,930	28,165	3,817	3,794	3,674	3,831
Computer and mathematical occupations	5,603	5,688	3,666	3,718	508	485	1,287	1,325
Architecture and engineering occupations	3,169	3,235	2,473	2,492	191	188	431	473
Life, physical, and social science occupations	1,627	1,640	1,222	1,223	106	122	242	250
Community and social service occupations	2,717	2,777	1,975	2,026	540	548	92	105
Legal occupations	1,882	1,805	1,572	1,516	162	146	106	87
Education, training, and library occupations	8,902	8,946	7,300	7,293	892	889	439	497
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	3,042	3,151	2,494	2,610	257	257	180	181
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	9,559	9,639	7,229	7,287	1,160	1,159	897	913
Service occupations	22,853	24,403	16,669	17,775	3,884	4,031	1,291	1,432
Healthcare support occupations	4,790	4,887	3,069	3,150	1,210	1,200	297	331
Protective service occupations	3,024	2,987	2,252	2,166	587	605	75	81
Food preparation and serving related occupations	6,556	7,370	4,901	5,501	914	984	417	463
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations	5,084	5,482	3,974	4,276	723	781	158	184
Personal care and service occupations	3,399	3,676	2,473	2,682	449	461	343	373
Sales and office occupations	29,726	30,166	23,404	23,494	3,729	3,972	1,508	1,538
Sales and related occupations	14,168	14,369	11,362	11,453	1,499	1,607	780	781
Office and administrative support occupations	15,558	15,797	12,042	12,041	2,231	2,365	728	757
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	13,357	13,959	11,574	12,050	1,006	1,026	278	316
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	1,045	1,061	941	938	45	47	17	24
Construction and extraction occupations	7,710	8,057	6,766	7,023	540	576	121	134
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	4,602	4,840	3,867	4,089	421	404	141	158
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	18,215	19,309	13,586	14,286	3,050	3,340	866	908
Production occupations	7,590	7,950	5,904	6,172	994	1,054	424	433
Transportation and material moving occupations	10,625	11,359	7,683	8,114	2,057	2,287	443	475

CLASS OF WORKER
Agriculture
Wage and salary workers(1)	1,578	1,524	1,430	1,374	55	61	26	25
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	742	727	714	696	10	9	3	2
Unpaid family workers	29	40	25	36	1	0	0	0
Nonagricultural industries
Wage and salary workers(1)	136,881	140,993	105,957	108,515	17,116	17,776	8,965	9,540
Government	20,599	20,661	15,644	15,554	3,145	3,221	1,025	1,075
Private industries	116,281	120,333	90,313	92,961	13,971	14,555	7,940	8,465
Private households	654	659	523	537	62	53	38	33
Other industries	115,627	119,674	89,790	92,424	13,908	14,502	7,901	8,432
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	8,511	9,230	7,166	7,613	690	877	440	443
Unpaid family workers	55	67	48	57	1	3	4	5

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS(2)
Full-time workers	123,188	127,159	95,790	98,237	15,107	15,898	8,109	8,547
Part-time workers	24,607	25,421	19,550	20,054	2,766	2,828	1,328	1,469
Footnotes (1) Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated. (2) Employed persons are classified as full- or part-time workers based on their usual weekly hours at all jobs regardless of the number of hours they are at work during the reference week. Persons absent from work also are classified according to their usual status. Full time is 35 hours or more per week; part time is less than 35 hours.
NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups will not sum to totals because data are not presented for all races. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Effective with January 2020 data, occupations reflect the introduction of the 2018 Census occupational classification system, derived from the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). No historical data have been revised. Data for 2020 are not strictly comparable with earlier years.

Last Modified Date: January 20, 2022