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Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
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The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program produces employment and wage estimates annually for approximately 830 occupations. These estimates are available for the nation as a whole, for individual states, and for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas; national occupational estimates for specific industries are also available.
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Production occupations have mean wage of $50,090 in May 2024
04/02/2025
Production occupations had employment of 8.7 million and an annual mean wage of $50,090
in May 2024. Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators (1.5 million) and first-line
supervisors of production and operating workers (685,140) were the largest production
occupations.
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The May 2024 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics were released on April 2, 2025.
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Publications
The Economics Daily
Recognizing hotel employees on National Hotel Employee Day
September 1 is National Hotel Employee Day, which recognizes the workers who keep the nation’s approximately 65,000 hotels, motels, and other lodging establishments running smoothly. As the summer travel season draws to a close, we examine some of the jobs found in the traveler accommodation industry. read more »
Beyond the Numbers
Do you want to work where the people are? These jobs are most common in areas with high (or low) population growth
This is an overview of the employment composition and wages of the seven metropolitan areas with the highest population growth rates and the seven metropolitan areas with the lowest population growth rates or that have lost population using Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. read more »
Monthly Labor Review
Were wages converging during the 2010s expansion?
Wage inequality grew from 2003 to 2013 but either declined or plateaued from 2013 to 2019, depending on the data source, because wage growth was particularly strong among lower-wage workers. read more »
Spotlight on Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wages in State and Local Government
During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, job losses in large private sector industries such as food services and drinking places received a lot of attention. State and local government also had high job losses. From March 2020 to March 2021, employment fell by 5.1 percent in state government and 6.5 percent in local government, compared with a 4.3-percent decrease in the private sector. read more »