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Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services: NAICS 56
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About the Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services sector
The administrative and support and waste management and remediation services sector is part of the professional and business services supersector.
The Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services sector comprises establishments performing routine support activities for the day-to-day operations of other organizations. These essential activities are often undertaken in-house by establishments in many sectors of the economy. The establishments in this sector specialize in one or more of these support activities and provide these services to clients in a variety of industries and, in some cases, to households. Activities performed include: office administration, hiring and placing of personnel, document preparation and similar clerical services, solicitation, collection, security and surveillance services, cleaning, and waste disposal services.
North American Industry Classification System
The administrative and support and waste management and remediation services sector consists of these subsectors:
Workforce Statistics
This section provides information relating to employment in administrative and support and waste management and remediation services. These data are obtained from employer or establishment surveys. The following tables present an overview of the industry including the number of jobs, union membership and representation, data for occupations common to the industry, and projections of occupational employment change.
Employment
| Data series | Back data |
Aug. 2024 |
Sep. 2024 |
Oct. 2024 |
Nov. 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Employment (in thousands) |
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Employment, all employees (seasonally adjusted) |
|
9,346.8 | 9,355.5 | (p)9,327.6 | (p)9,338.8 |
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8,255.9 | 8,299.3 | (p)8,308.2 | ||
|
Footnotes |
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(Source: Current Employment Statistics)
Union Membership and Representation
| Data series | Back data |
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Union membership and representation |
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Members of unions (percent of wage and salary workers) |
|
4.0% | 4.2% | 4.3% | 4.2% |
Represented by unions (percent of wage and salary workers) |
|
4.9% | 5.1% | 4.9% | 5.1% |
(Source: Current Population Survey)
Employment by Occupation
| Data series | Employment, 2023 |
|---|---|
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners |
949,810 |
| 573,610 | |
| 587,080 | |
| 215,230 | |
| 764,630 |
(Source: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics)
Projections
For projected (future) employment estimates, see the National Employment Matrix, which includes employment estimates by industry and occupation for administrative and support and waste management and remediation services.
(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, as well as weekly earnings by union membership status, are shown. In addition, recent hourly and annual earnings are shown for occupations commonly found in administrative and support and waste management and remediation services. This section also contains information on the average cost of benefits paid by employers, as well as recent rates of change in wages and total compensation.
Earnings and Hours of All Employees
| Data series | Back data |
Jul. 2024 |
Aug. 2024 |
Sep. 2024 |
Oct. 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
$28.01 | $28.07 | $28.31 | (p)$28.46 | |
|
|
35.1 | 35.2 | 35.2 | (p)35.1 | |
|
Footnotes |
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(Source: Current Employment Statistics)
Earnings and Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees
| Data series | Back data |
Jul. 2024 |
Aug. 2024 |
Sep. 2024 |
Oct. 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
$26.21 | $26.10 | $26.49 | (p)$26.72 | |
|
|
35.6 | 35.8 | 35.5 | (p)35.3 | |
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Footnotes |
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(Source: Current Employment Statistics)
Earnings by Occupation
| Data series | Wages, 2023 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly | Annual | |||
| Median | Mean | Median | Mean | |
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners |
$16.16 | $16.26 | $33,620 | $33,820 |
| $16.83 | $17.08 | $35,000 | $35,520 | |
| $18.16 | $19.37 | $37,770 | $40,280 | |
| $18.35 | $20.13 | $38,170 | $41,870 | |
| $17.59 | $18.68 | $36,580 | $38,860 | |
(Source: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics)
Employee Benefits
This section presents data on the incidence (the percentage of workers with access to and participation in employer-provided benefit plans) and provisions of selected employee benefits from the National Compensation Survey. More Benefits estimates are also accessible from the Benefits database, the archived NCS publications page, and the complete Employee Benefits Excel dataset (XLSX).
| Data series | Access | Participation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back data |
2024 | Back data |
2024 | |
Private industry |
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|
|
47 |
|
28 | |
|
|
3 |
|
3 | |
|
|
46 |
|
26 | |
(Source: Employee Benefits in the United States)
| Data series | After 1 year of service | After 20 years of service | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back data |
2024 | Back data |
2024 | |
Mean number of vacation days for private industry workers without consolidated leave plans |
|
7 |
|
15 |
(Source: Employee Benefits in the United States)
| Data series | Back data |
2024 |
|---|---|---|
Percent of private industry workers with access to employer-sponsored benefits |
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|
|
63 | |
|
|
66 | |
|
|
72 | |
(Source: Employee Benefits in the United States)
Employer Compensation Costs
| Data series | Back data |
4th quarter 2023 |
1st quarter 2024 |
2nd quarter 2024 |
3rd quarter 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Private industry |
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12-month percent change |
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3.9% | 3.7% | 3.8% | 3.5% | |
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4.0% | 4.0% | 4.0% | 3.7% | |
3-month percent change |
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0.4% | 1.5% | 0.9% | 0.7% | |
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0.4% | 1.7% | 0.8% | 0.7% | |
(Source: Compensation Cost Trends)
| Data series | Private industry | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation component ($ per hour worked) |
Percent of total compensation | |||
| Back data |
2nd quarter 2024 | Back data |
2nd quarter 2024 | |
|
|
34.11 |
|
100.0 | |
|
|
25.31 |
|
74.2 | |
|
|
8.80 |
|
25.8 | |
|
|
2.33 |
|
6.8 | |
|
|
0.58 |
|
1.7 | |
|
|
1.86 |
|
5.5 | |
(Source: Compensation Cost Trends)
Union Membership and Representation
| Data series | Back data |
Median weekly earnings | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | ||
Union membership and representation |
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|
|
$726 | $742 | $796 | $868 | |
|
|
$781 | $766 | $842 | $838 | |
|
|
$770 | $767 | $835 | $848 | |
|
|
$724 | $740 | $794 | $870 | |
(Source: Current Population Survey)
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 administrative and support and waste management and remediation services. 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 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fatalities |
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| 517 | 432 | 485 | 535 | |
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Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria. |
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| Data series | 2023 |
|---|---|
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers |
|
| 1.8 | |
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer |
1.1 |
| 0.7 | |
| 0.4 | |
|
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria. |
|
(Source: Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities)
Workplace Trends
This section presents data on the number of establishments in administrative and support and waste management and remediation services.
Establishments
| Data series | Back data |
3rd quarter 2023 |
4th quarter 2023 |
1st quarter 2024 |
2nd quarter 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of establishments |
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|
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686,103 | 691,461 | (p)692,230 | (p)700,226 | |
|
|
3,520 | 3,537 | (p)3,526 | (p)3,541 | |
|
|
540 | 536 | (p)571 | (p)568 | |
|
|
155 | 155 | (p)159 | (p)160 | |
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Footnotes |
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(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)
Productivity
This section presents productivity and related data for the industry, presented as the percent change from the previous year. Measures of total factor productivity (TFP) compare growth in output to the growth in a combination of inputs that include labor, capital, energy, materials, and services. Measures of labor productivity, or output per hour, compare the growth in output to the growth in hours worked.
| Data series | Back data |
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
-0.5 | 3.5 | 2.2 | -0.3 | |
|
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-6.4 | 8.4 | 8.9 | -0.8 | |
|
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-5.9 | 4.7 | 6.6 | -0.5 | |
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5.9 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 5.5 | |
|
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-6.2 | 6.8 | 5.2 | -1.1 | |
|
|
2.4 | -0.6 | 4.6 | 0.8 |
(Source: Productivity)
Data extracted on: December 11, 2024