Health and Personal Care Stores: NAICS 446

About the Health and Personal Care Stores subsector

The health and personal care stores subsector is part of the retail trade sector.

The health and personal care stores subsector consists of a single industry group, Health and Personal Care Stores: NAICS 4461.

Workforce Statistics

This section provides information relating to employment in health and personal care stores. These data are obtained from employer or establishment surveys. The following tables present an overview of the industry including the number of jobs, mass layoffs, data for occupations common to the industry, and projections of occupational employment change.

Employment and Layoffs

Data series	Back data	Oct. 2011	Nov. 2011	Dec. 2011	Jan. 2012
Employment (in thousands)
Employment, all employees (seasonally adjusted)		985.8	987.0	(P) 983.9	(P) 991.3
Employment, production and nonsupervisory employees		791.3	805.3	(P) 806.8
Layoffs
Mass layoff events		5	3	5
Initial claimants for unemployment benefits		348	192	343
Footnotes (P) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics, Mass Layoff Statistics)

Extended Mass Layoffs

Data series	Back data	4th quarter 2010	1st quarter 2011	2nd quarter 2011	3rd quarter 2011
Extended mass layoff events		(1) -	8	(P) 4	(P) 3
Separations		(1) -	1,458	(P) 737	(P) 362
Initial claimants		(1) -	2,199	(P) 948	(P) 362
Footnotes (1) Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards. (P) Preliminary

(Source: Mass Layoff Statistics)

Employment by Occupation

Data series	Employment, 2010
Cashiers	194,640
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers	(1) -
Pharmacists	117,850
Pharmacy aides	33,470
Pharmacy technicians	181,200
Retail salespersons	129,670
Footnotes (1) Estimate not released.

(Source: Occupational Employment Statistics)

Projections

For projected (future) employment estimates, see the National Employment Matrix, which includes employment estimates by industry and occupation for health and personal care stores.

(Source: Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections)

Earnings and Hours

This section presents data on employee earnings and weekly hours. The latest industry averages of hourly earnings and weekly hours are shown. In addition, recent hourly and annual earnings are shown for occupations commonly found in health and personal care stores.

Earnings and Hours of All Employees

Data series	Back data	Sep. 2011	Oct. 2011	Nov. 2011	Dec. 2011
Average hourly earnings		$21.70	$21.66	$21.48	(P) $21.09
Average weekly hours		30.2	30.4	30.2	(P) 30.7
Footnotes (P) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings and Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees

Data series	Back data	Sep. 2011	Oct. 2011	Nov. 2011	Dec. 2011
Average hourly earnings		$17.47	$17.53	$17.28	(P) $17.04
Average weekly hours		29.4	29.4	29.2	(P) 29.7
Footnotes (P) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings by Occupation

Data series	Wages, 2010
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Cashiers	$9.03	$9.88	$18,770	$20,560
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers	$17.53	$19.61	$36,450	$40,800
Pharmacists	$53.75	$53.37	$111,800	$111,000
Pharmacy aides	$10.08	$10.70	$20,970	$22,260
Pharmacy technicians	$13.06	$13.42	$27,160	$27,910
Retail salespersons	$9.76	$11.68	$20,310	$24,290

(Source: Occupational Employment Statistics)

Work-related Fatalities, Injuries, and Illnesses

This section presents data for the industry on the number of workplace fatalities and the rates of workplace injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers in health and personal care stores. An injury or illness is considered to be work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the resulting condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition.

Data series	2007	2008	2009	2010
Fatalities
Number of fatalities	9	13		(P) 11
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	2.4	2.2	2.3	2.8
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	1.1	0.8	1.0	1.1
Cases involving days away from work	0.8	0.5	0.6	0.7
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	0.4	0.3		0.4
Footnotes (P) Preliminary

(Source: Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities)

Prices

This section provides industry-specific pricing information. The producer price index measures the percentage change in prices that domestic producers receive for goods and services. The prices included in the producer price index are from the first commercial transaction.

Data series	Back data	Sep. 2011	Oct. 2011	Nov. 2011	Dec. 2011
Producer price index		(P) 136.7	(P) 134.9	(P) 134.5	(P) 135.8
Percent change from previous month		(P) 4.0%	(P) -1.3%	(P) -0.3%	(P) 1.0%
Footnotes (P) Preliminary

(Source: Producer Price Indexes)

Workplace Trends

This section presents data on the number of establishments in health and personal care stores. Also included in this section is information on productivity, presented as the rate of change in output per hour of workers in the industry.

Establishments

Data series	Back data	3rd quarter 2010	4th quarter 2010	1st quarter 2011	2nd quarter 2011
Number of establishments
Private industry		97,274	97,638	(P) 97,304	(P) 97,422
Local government		10	9	(P) 9	(P) 9
Federal government
Footnotes (P) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity

Data series	Back data	2007	2008	2009	2010
Labor productivity index, output per hour		112.267	112.633	115.676	117.129
Percent change from previous year		-0.2	0.3	2.7	1.3
Labor index, total labor hours		104.896	106.501	103.345	103.357
Percent change from previous year		4.8	1.5	-3.0	0.0
Output index		117.763	119.955	119.545	121.060
Percent change from previous year		4.6	1.9	-0.3	1.3
Unit labor costs index		115.561	116.981	119.284	118.557
Percent change from previous year		3.8	1.2	2.0	-0.6

(Source: Productivity and Costs)

Other BLS Resources

Career Guide to Industries

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Data extracted on: February 07, 2012