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24-1020-CHI
Monday, July 15, 2024

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Occupational Employment and Wages in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island — May 2023

Workers in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $28.07 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that higher paying major occupational groups included management ($55.76), legal ($49.13), and computer and mathematical ($45.94). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($14.93), personal care and service ($16.72), and building and grounds cleaning and maintenance ($17.51). (See table A.)

Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the Davenport metropolitan area, May 2023
Major occupational groupPercent of total employmentMean hourly wage ($)
United StatesDavenportUnited StatesDavenport

Total, all occupations

100.0100.031.4828.07

Management

6.96.766.2355.76

Business and financial operations

6.66.443.5539.40

Computer and mathematical

3.42.554.3945.94

Architecture and engineering

1.72.547.6444.92

Life, physical, and social science

0.90.642.2437.07

Community and social service

1.61.428.3625.38

Legal

0.80.464.3449.13

Educational instruction and library

5.85.731.9226.17

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

1.41.136.3132.05

Healthcare practitioners and technical

6.15.949.0742.24

Healthcare support

4.73.518.3718.20

Protective service

2.32.027.7426.99

Food preparation and serving related

8.79.216.5814.93

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

2.92.918.4317.51

Personal care and service

2.01.818.4816.72

Sales and related

8.88.225.6222.06

Office and administrative support

12.211.023.0521.42

Farming, fishing, and forestry

0.30.219.2219.93

Construction and extraction

4.14.529.5731.03

Installation, maintenance, and repair

3.94.328.1327.51

Production

5.89.822.9023.22

Transportation and material moving

9.19.622.4521.51

Occupational groups with the highest employment in the Davenport area included office and administrative support (11.0 percent), production (9.8 percent), and transportation and material moving (9.6 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included legal (0.4 percent); life, physical, and social science (0.6 percent); and arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media (1.1 percent). (See table A.)

One occupational group—office and administrative support—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Davenport had 19,730 jobs in office and administrative support, accounting for 11.0 percent of local area employment, compared to the 12.2-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $21.42, compared to the national wage of $23.05.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the office and administrative support group included customer service representatives (3,160), office clerks, general (2,950), and secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive (1,690). Among the higher-paying jobs in this group were eligibility interviewers, government programs and production, planning, and expediting clerks, with mean hourly wages of $29.80 and $29.24, respectively. At the lower end of the wage scale were hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks ($14.72) and library assistants, clerical ($15.59). (Detailed data for the office and administrative support occupations are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_19340.htm.)

Location quotients allow us to explore the occupational make-up of a metropolitan area by comparing the composition of jobs in an area relative to the national average. (See table 1.) For example, a location quotient of 2.0 indicates that an occupation accounts for twice the share of employment in the area than it does nationally. In the Davenport area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in some of the occupations within the office and administrative support group. For instance, new accounts clerks were employed at 3.1 times the national rate in Davenport, and tellers, at 2.0 times the U.S. average. Office clerks, general had a location quotient of 1.0 in Davenport, indicating that this particular occupation’s local and national employment shares were similar.

The statistics in this release are from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey, a cooperative effort between BLS and the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs). BLS funds the survey and provides the procedures and technical support. State Workforce Agencies collect most of the data: in this case, Iowa Workforce Development and the Illinois Department of Employment Security.


Technical Note

The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey is a semiannual survey measuring occupational employment and wage rates for wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in the United States. The OEWS data available from BLS include cross-industry occupational employment and wage estimates for the nation; over 580 areas, including states and the District of Columbia, metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), nonmetropolitan areas, and territories; national industry-specific estimates at the NAICS sector, 3-digit, most 4-digit, and selected 5- and 6-digit industry levels; and national estimates by ownership across all industries and for schools and hospitals. Full OEWS data tables are available online.

Additional information about the OEWS estimates and methodology are available in the national Technical Notes. The overall national response rate for the six panels, based on the 50 states and the District of Columbia, is 65.8 percent based on establishments and 64.3 percent based on weighted sampled employment. The sample in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area included 2,410 establishments with a response rate of 68 percent.

Metropolitan area definitions

The substate area data published in this release reflect the standards and definitions established by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

The Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Henry County, IL; Mercer County, IL; Rock Island County, IL; and Scott County, IA.

For more information

Answers to frequently asked questions about the OEWS data, as well as general program documentation, are available on the OEWS website.

Information in this release will be made available to individuals with sensory impairments upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Telecommunications Relay Service: 7-1-1.

Table 1. Employment and wage data for office and administrative support occupations, Davenport metropolitan area, May 2023
Occupation (1)EmploymentMean wages ($)
Level (2)Location quotient (3)HourlyAnnual (4)

Office and administrative support occupations

19,7300.921.4244,550

First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers

1,1900.729.0060,320

Switchboard operators, including answering service

500.916.3133,930

Bill and account collectors

800.419.6340,830

Billing and posting clerks

5501.121.3944,490

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

1,6100.922.6947,180

Payroll and timekeeping clerks

1600.925.4452,920

Procurement clerks

1301.823.1448,140

Tellers

7802.017.1835,730

Court, municipal, and license clerks

1901.021.7645,250

Customer service representatives

3,1600.920.3242,260

Eligibility interviewers, government programs

900.529.8061,990

File clerks

800.819.2840,100

Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks

2900.914.7230,620

Interviewers, except eligibility and loan

1400.718.9539,420

Library assistants, clerical

1301.315.5932,430

Loan interviewers and clerks

2601.121.5144,730

New accounts clerks

1503.119.6540,880

Order clerks

1101.019.4840,520

Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping

1601.322.0945,950

Receptionists and information clerks

9000.816.2033,690

Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks

300.216.9935,340

Information and record clerks, all other

600.323.9349,760

Cargo and freight agents

700.523.4048,670

Couriers and messengers

901.016.0433,360

Public safety telecommunicators

1101.023.4148,700

Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance

2100.925.3252,660

Meter readers, utilities

502.227.4757,130

Postal service clerks

1001.127.0556,260

Postal service mail carriers

4601.228.0658,370

Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators

1100.828.1358,500

Production, planning, and expediting clerks

5701.229.2460,810

Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks

9401.021.2444,180

Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping

601.021.2744,250

Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants

4300.828.9360,170

Legal secretaries and administrative assistants

900.521.9345,610

Medical secretaries and administrative assistants

9201.018.6038,680

Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive

1,6900.820.6342,910

Data entry keyers

1200.719.2940,120

Insurance claims and policy processing clerks

1200.422.8647,560

Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service

700.915.6532,540

Office clerks, general

2,9501.019.5340,620

Office and administrative support workers, all other

1300.619.2339,990

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_19340.htm.
(2) Estimates for detailed occupations may not sum to the totals due to rounding, and because the totals may include occupations that are not shown separately. Estimates do not include self-employed workers.
(3) The location quotient is the ratio of the area concentration of occupational employment to the national average concentration. A location quotient greater than one indicates the occupation has a higher share of employment than average, and a location quotient less than one indicates the occupation is less prevalent in the area than average.
(4) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a 'year-round, full-time' hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.

 

Last Modified Date: Monday, July 15, 2024