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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	2023	2024	2023	2024	2023	2024	2023	2024
Total, 16 years and over	161,037	161,346	123,165	123,033	20,674	20,728	11,096	11,271
Men	85,500	85,313	66,524	66,152	9,943	9,983	5,852	5,925
Women	75,537	76,033	56,642	56,881	10,731	10,745	5,243	5,345

OCCUPATION
Management, professional, and related occupations	70,275	70,744	54,058	54,256	7,460	7,511	6,566	6,643
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	30,544	30,602	24,343	24,419	2,987	2,955	2,301	2,257
Management occupations	20,906	20,657	16,914	16,727	1,925	1,884	1,469	1,417
Business and financial operations occupations	9,638	9,945	7,429	7,692	1,062	1,071	833	840
Professional and related occupations	39,731	40,142	29,715	29,836	4,473	4,556	4,264	4,386
Computer and mathematical occupations	6,502	6,386	4,128	4,098	598	616	1,560	1,490
Architecture and engineering occupations	3,602	3,552	2,811	2,727	218	258	470	467
Life, physical, and social science occupations	1,870	1,877	1,342	1,362	154	157	309	281
Community and social service occupations	2,879	2,950	2,100	2,119	563	564	113	123
Legal occupations	1,897	1,832	1,569	1,505	190	181	84	105
Education, training, and library occupations	9,403	9,587	7,526	7,550	1,056	1,067	535	626
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	3,478	3,483	2,768	2,777	333	322	233	227
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	10,099	10,475	7,470	7,699	1,360	1,390	961	1,067
Service occupations	26,171	26,452	18,758	18,838	4,446	4,662	1,644	1,610
Healthcare support occupations	5,123	5,456	3,214	3,332	1,283	1,470	390	389
Protective service occupations	3,105	3,110	2,179	2,194	694	669	99	99
Food preparation and serving related occupations	8,189	8,061	6,010	5,917	1,109	1,128	563	533
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations	5,534	5,770	4,322	4,535	792	815	151	161
Personal care and service occupations	4,220	4,055	3,034	2,860	569	580	441	428
Sales and office occupations	30,279	29,885	23,394	23,109	4,088	3,889	1,665	1,715
Sales and related occupations	14,325	14,090	11,283	11,129	1,675	1,527	871	889
Office and administrative support occupations	15,954	15,795	12,111	11,980	2,413	2,362	794	825
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	14,326	14,391	12,332	12,280	1,114	1,161	260	287
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	987	970	886	860	50	44	9	16
Construction and extraction occupations	8,457	8,520	7,344	7,334	606	635	110	130
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	4,881	4,901	4,101	4,085	458	482	141	141
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	19,986	19,873	14,624	14,550	3,567	3,507	961	1,016
Production occupations	8,280	7,944	6,302	6,046	1,216	1,130	448	454
Transportation and material moving occupations	11,706	11,930	8,322	8,504	2,351	2,377	513	562

CLASS OF WORKER
Agriculture
Wage and salary workers(1)	1,531	1,564	1,399	1,418	61	60	14	22
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	698	661	664	635	13	9	4	3
Unpaid family workers	35	29	34	27	0	0	0	0
Nonagricultural industries
Wage and salary workers(1)	149,692	149,788	113,728	113,501	19,733	19,706	10,531	10,680
Government	21,538	21,729	16,057	16,121	3,501	3,539	1,136	1,132
Private industries	128,154	128,059	97,671	97,380	16,232	16,166	9,396	9,548
Private households	673	649	551	523	80	75	26	27
Other industries	127,481	127,411	97,120	96,857	16,151	16,091	9,369	9,520
Self-employed workers, unincorporated	9,030	9,259	7,299	7,414	865	950	544	562
Unpaid family workers	50	44	42	37	3	3	3	4

FULL- OR PART-TIME STATUS(2)
Full-time workers	134,056	133,361	102,006	101,136	17,683	17,634	9,435	9,527
Part-time workers	26,981	27,985	21,160	21,897	2,991	3,094	1,660	1,743
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.

Last Modified Date: January 29, 2025