Hospitals: NAICS 622

About the Hospitals subsector

The hospitals subsector is part of the health care and social assistance sector.

The hospitals subsector consists of these industry groups:

• General Medical and Surgical Hospitals: NAICS 6221
• Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals: NAICS 6222
• Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals: NAICS 6223

Workforce Statistics

This section provides information relating to employment and unemployment in hospitals. While most data are obtained from employer or establishment surveys, information on industry unemployment comes from a national survey of households. The following tables present an overview of the industry including the number of jobs, the unemployment rate of those previously employed in the industry, data for occupations common to the industry, and projections of occupational employment change.

Employment and Unemployment

Data series	Back data	Aug. 2024	Sep. 2024	Oct. 2024	Nov. 2024
Employment (in thousands)
Employment, all employees (seasonally adjusted)		5,585.8	5,603.1	(p)5,614.3	(p)5,633.6
Employment, production and nonsupervisory employees		5,149.5	5,168.7	(p)5,188.2
Unemployment
Unemployment rate		2.3%	1.5%	1.4%	1.9%
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics, Current Population Survey

Employment by Occupation

Data series	Employment, 2023
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses	100,850
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists	148,610
Radiologic technologists and technicians	132,170
Note: These employment estimates include employment in both the private-sector and government.

(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 hospitals.

(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 hospitals. 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
Average hourly earnings		$42.75	$42.58	$42.91	(p)$43.17
Average weekly hours		36.4	36.6	36.5	(p)36.5
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings and Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees

Data series	Back data	Jul. 2024	Aug. 2024	Sep. 2024	Oct. 2024
Average hourly earnings		$41.42	$41.58	$41.86	(p)$41.94
Average weekly hours		35.4	35.6	35.6	(p)35.6
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings by Occupation

Data series	Wages, 2023
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses	$26.20	$27.14	$54,490	$56,450
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists	$31.14	$32.13	$64,760	$66,820
Radiologic technologists and technicians	$36.51	$36.69	$75,930	$76,310

(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
State and local government
Retirement benefit plans		92		75
Defined benefit plans		66		50
Defined contribution plans		62		36

(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 state and local government workers without consolidated leave plans		13		23

(Source: Employee Benefits in the United States)

Data series	Back data	2024
Percent of state and local government workers with access to employer-sponsored benefits
Health care		92
Paid vacation		92
Paid sick leave		94

(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
12-month percent change
Total compensation		4.6%	4.7%	4.5%	4.4%
Wages and salaries		5.2%	4.8%	4.5%	4.4%
3-month percent change
Total compensation		1.0%	1.7%	0.8%	0.9%
Wages and salaries		1.3%	1.3%	0.7%	1.0%
State and local government
12-month percent change
Total compensation		4.3%	4.8%	4.9%	4.4%
Wages and salaries		4.7%	4.9%	5.0%	4.3%
3-month percent change
Total compensation		0.6%	1.6%	0.7%	1.4%
Wages and salaries		0.7%	1.3%	0.6%	1.7%

(Source: Compensation Cost Trends)

Data series	Private industry				State and local government
	Compensation component ($ per hour worked)		Percent of total compensation		Compensation component ($ per hour worked)		Percent of total compensation
	Back data	2nd quarter 2024	Back data	2nd quarter 2024	Back data	2nd quarter 2024	Back data	2nd quarter 2024
Total compensation		67.64		100.0		58.27		100.0
Wages and salaries		44.73		66.1		36.64		62.9
Total benefits		22.90		33.9		21.63		37.1
Insurance		5.60		8.3		6.53		11.2
Retirement		3.30		4.9		4.86		8.3
Paid leave		6.44		9.5		5.54		9.5

(Source: Compensation Cost Trends)

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 hospitals. 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
Number of fatalities	30	27	31	38
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.

Data series	2023
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	5.2
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	2.3
Cases involving days away from work	1.5
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	0.8
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.

(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	Aug. 2024	Sep. 2024	Oct. 2024	Nov. 2024
Producer price index		(p)237.261	(p)237.228	(p)238.734	(p)238.910
Percent change from previous month		(p)0.3%	(p)0.0%	(p)0.6%	(p)0.1%
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Producer Price Indexes)

Workplace Trends

This section presents data on the number of establishments in hospitals.

Establishments

Data series	Back data	3rd quarter 2023	4th quarter 2023	1st quarter 2024	2nd quarter 2024
Number of establishments
Private industry		14,830	15,201	(p)15,307	(p)15,559
Local government		1,428	1,443	(p)1,447	(p)1,463
State government		1,125	1,132	(p)1,138	(p)1,125
Federal government		416	429	(p)450	(p)449
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

 

Data extracted on: December 12, 2024