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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	2019	2020	2019	2020	2019	2020	2019	2020
Total, 16 years and over	157,538	147,795	122,441	115,341	19,381	17,873	10,179	9,437
Men	83,460	78,560	66,100	62,446	9,145	8,392	5,353	5,041
Women	74,078	69,234	56,341	52,895	10,236	9,481	4,826	4,396

OCCUPATION
Management, professional, and related occupations	64,218	63,644	50,706	50,108	6,186	6,203	5,604	5,494
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	26,981	27,143	22,140	22,178	2,269	2,386	1,878	1,820
Management occupations	18,985	18,564	15,867	15,488	1,474	1,482	1,156	1,072
Business and financial operations occupations	7,996	8,578	6,273	6,689	795	904	722	747
Professional and related occupations	37,237	36,502	28,567	27,930	3,917	3,817	3,725	3,674
Computer and mathematical occupations	5,352	5,603	3,517	3,666	465	508	1,238	1,287
Architecture and engineering occupations	3,305	3,169	2,563	2,473	224	191	439	431
Life, physical, and social science occupations	1,485	1,627	1,142	1,222	93	106	214	242
Community and social service occupations	2,717	2,717	1,981	1,975	547	540	97	92
Legal occupations	1,955	1,882	1,622	1,572	162	162	120	106
Education, training, and library occupations	9,455	8,902	7,729	7,300	963	892	498	439
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	3,285	3,042	2,719	2,494	253	257	193	180
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	9,684	9,559	7,295	7,229	1,209	1,160	926	897
Service occupations	26,978	22,853	19,482	16,669	4,621	3,884	1,603	1,291
Healthcare support occupations	3,758	4,790	2,411	3,069	1,002	1,210	192	297
Protective service occupations	3,128	3,024	2,311	2,252	634	587	69	75
Food preparation and serving related occupations	8,378	6,556	6,172	4,901	1,167	914	577	417
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations	5,746	5,084	4,444	3,974	856	723	165	158
Personal care and service occupations	5,968	3,399	4,144	2,473	962	449	600	343
Sales and office occupations	33,370	29,726	26,059	23,404	4,324	3,729	1,731	1,508
Sales and related occupations	15,582	14,168	12,436	11,362	1,744	1,499	835	780
Office and administrative support occupations	17,789	15,558	13,623	12,042	2,580	2,231	896	728
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	14,343	13,357	12,367	11,574	1,100	1,006	316	278
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	1,156	1,045	1,032	941	51	45	21	17
Construction and extraction occupations	8,325	7,710	7,251	6,766	604	540	133	121
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	4,862	4,602	4,084	3,867	445	421	162	141
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	18,628	18,215	13,827	13,586	3,149	3,050	926	866
Production occupations	8,565	7,590	6,558	5,904	1,139	994	516	424
Transportation and material moving occupations	10,063	10,625	7,268	7,683	2,010	2,057	409	443

CLASS OF WORKER
Agriculture
Wage and salary workers(1)	1,658	1,578	1,520	1,430	44	55	33	26
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	741	742	708	714	10	10	7	3
Unpaid family workers	26	29	26	25	0	1	0	0
Nonagricultural industries
Wage and salary workers(1)	146,262	136,881	112,809	105,957	18,606	17,116	9,675	8,965
Government	20,976	20,599	15,950	15,644	3,249	3,145	1,050	1,025
Private industries	125,285	116,281	96,860	90,313	15,357	13,971	8,625	7,940
Private households	821	654	655	523	103	62	30	38
Other industries	124,465	115,627	96,204	89,790	15,254	13,908	8,594	7,901
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	8,799	8,511	7,340	7,166	716	690	457	440
Unpaid family workers	53	55	37	48	5	1	8	4

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS(2)
Full-time workers	130,597	123,188	101,064	95,790	16,448	15,107	8,696	8,109
Part-time workers	26,941	24,607	21,377	19,550	2,933	2,766	1,483	1,328
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 22, 2021