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24-1285-CHI
Monday, July 22, 2024

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Occupational Employment and Wages in Janesville-Beloit — May 2023

Workers in the Janesville-Beloit, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $27.71 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 ($62.35), healthcare practitioners and technical ($51.66), and legal ($42.27). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($14.33), personal care and service ($16.74), and building and grounds cleaning and maintenance ($17.06). (See table A.)

Occupational groups with the highest employment in the Janesville area included transportation and material moving (12.4 percent), office and administrative support (11.6 percent), and production (10.9 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included legal (0.4 percent); life, physical, and social science (0.5 percent); and arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media (0.8 percent). (See table A.)

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

Total, all occupations

100.0100.031.4827.71

Management

6.94.366.2362.35

Business and financial operations

6.65.343.5535.37

Computer and mathematical

3.41.954.3938.75

Architecture and engineering

1.71.747.6438.70

Life, physical, and social science

0.90.542.2437.45

Community and social service

1.61.428.3626.35

Legal

0.80.464.3442.27

Educational instruction and library

5.86.531.9235.81

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

1.40.836.3123.69

Healthcare practitioners and technical

6.16.049.0751.66

Healthcare support

4.74.318.3717.97

Protective service

2.31.327.7428.83

Food preparation and serving related

8.79.516.5814.33

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

2.92.518.4317.06

Personal care and service

2.01.418.4816.74

Sales and related

8.88.925.6222.81

Office and administrative support

12.211.623.0521.70

Farming, fishing, and forestry

0.3(1)19.2217.56

Construction and extraction

4.14.129.5732.05

Installation, maintenance, and repair

3.94.328.1327.48

Production

5.810.922.9022.53

Transportation and material moving

9.112.422.4522.15

Footnotes:
(1) Indicates a value of less than 0.05 percent.

One occupational group—production—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Janesville had 7,430 jobs in production, accounting for 10.9 percent of local area employment, compared to the 5.8-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $22.53, compared to the national wage of $22.90.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the production group included miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators (1,170); inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers (800); and first-line supervisors of production and operating workers (690). Among the higher-paying jobs in this group were first-line supervisors of production and operating workers and water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators, with mean hourly wages of $32.43 and $29.10, respectively. At the lower end of the wage scale were laundry and dry-cleaning workers ($15.79) and bakers ($17.11). (Detailed data for the production occupations are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_27500.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 Janesville area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in many of the occupations within the production group. For instance, food batchmakers were employed at 5.9 times the national rate in Janesville, and computer numerically controlled tool operators, at 4.5 times the U.S. average.

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, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.


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 Janesville-Beloit, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area included 1,014 establishments with a response rate of 72 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 Janesville-Beloit, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Rock County.

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 production occupations, Janesville metropolitan area, May 2023
Occupation (1)EmploymentMean wages ($)
Level (2)Location quotient (3)HourlyAnnual (4)

Production occupations

7,4301.922.5346,870

First-line supervisors of production and operating workers

6902.332.4367,440

Electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers

1701.418.8639,220

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

1,1701.819.4940,530

Bakers

900.917.1135,590

Butchers and meat cutters

500.819.5740,710

Food batchmakers

4505.922.4346,650

Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

1003.523.1248,090

Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

2102.622.2046,170

Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

601.820.6142,880

Machinists

2101.622.9347,690

Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

3104.319.7741,120

Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

901.519.0939,710

Tool and die makers

702.928.5659,400

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

4402.325.2452,500

Metal workers and plastic workers, all other

506.020.0641,710

Printing press operators

1001.523.1148,060

Laundry and dry-cleaning workers

400.515.7932,830

Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators

400.829.1060,520

Chemical equipment operators and tenders

1202.321.4144,530

Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders

701.522.6047,000

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

8003.120.5242,680

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders

4602.820.9543,570

Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders

1602.322.0245,800

Computer numerically controlled tool operators

3804.524.4350,820

Computer numerically controlled tool programmers

403.428.2758,810

Helpers--production workers

700.820.8243,300

Production workers, all other

1301.217.8137,040

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Janesville-Beloit, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_27500.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 22, 2024