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24-1291-CHI
Monday, July 22, 2024

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Occupational Employment and Wages in Sheboygan — May 2023

Workers in the Sheboygan, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $27.19 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 ($64.26), healthcare practitioners and technical ($52.39), and legal ($46.25). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($14.65), personal care and service ($16.76), and building and grounds cleaning and maintenance ($17.56). (See table A.)

Occupational groups with the highest employment in the Sheboygan area included production (22.8 percent), office and administrative support (10.5 percent), and transportation and material moving (9.4 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included legal (0.2 percent); life, physical, and social science (0.6 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 Sheboygan metropolitan area, May 2023
Major occupational groupPercent of total employmentMean hourly wage ($)
United StatesSheboyganUnited StatesSheboygan

Total, all occupations

100.0100.031.4827.19

Management

6.94.466.2364.26

Business and financial operations

6.64.843.5537.22

Computer and mathematical

3.41.854.3941.98

Architecture and engineering

1.72.147.6439.64

Life, physical, and social science

0.90.642.2436.79

Community and social service

1.61.128.3626.82

Legal

0.80.264.3446.25

Educational instruction and library

5.84.431.9226.68

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

1.40.836.3124.92

Healthcare practitioners and technical

6.15.049.0752.39

Healthcare support

4.73.918.3718.09

Protective service

2.31.327.7429.66

Food preparation and serving related

8.77.616.5814.65

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

2.92.618.4317.56

Personal care and service

2.01.618.4816.76

Sales and related

8.87.625.6223.19

Office and administrative support

12.210.523.0522.26

Farming, fishing, and forestry

0.3(1)19.22(1)

Construction and extraction

4.13.129.5729.08

Installation, maintenance, and repair

3.94.528.1327.82

Production

5.822.822.9023.40

Transportation and material moving

9.19.422.4520.55

Footnotes:
(1) Estimate not released.

One occupational group—production—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Sheboygan had 13,600 jobs in production, accounting for 22.8 percent of local area employment, compared to the 5.8-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $23.40, compared to the national wage of $22.90.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the production group included miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators (1,720), food batchmakers (1,440), and packaging and filling machine operators and tenders (1,210). Among the higher-paying jobs in this group were first-line supervisors of production and operating workers with mean hourly wages of $33.92, wastewater treatment plant and system operators ($32.61), and tool and die makers ($31.64). At the lower end of the wage scale were laundry and dry-cleaning workers ($14.80) and slaughterers and meat packers ($16.37). (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_43100.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 Sheboygan area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in many of the occupations within the production group. For instance, food batchmakers were employed at 21.7 times the national rate in Sheboygan, and molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, at 15.1 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 Sheboygan, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area included 832 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 Sheboygan, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Sheboygan 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, Sheboygan metropolitan area, May 2023
Occupation (1)EmploymentMean wages ($)
Level (2)Location quotient (3)HourlyAnnual (4)

Production occupations

13,6003.923.4048,670

First-line supervisors of production and operating workers

1,0604.033.9270,550

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

1101.022.6247,050

Structural metal fabricators and fitters

1104.824.6051,170

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

1,7202.919.9541,490

Bakers

500.617.4436,270

Butchers and meat cutters

2003.818.2637,980

Slaughterers and meat packers

2709.616.3734,050

Food batchmakers

1,44021.722.8447,500

Food cooking machine operators and tenders

403.822.2746,320

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

1305.223.2848,420

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

6509.223.1648,180

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

903.122.3746,530

Machinists

6405.623.3848,620

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

95015.123.2748,400

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

1002.024.0550,030

Tool and die makers

27011.731.6465,820

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

7904.725.3352,680

Plating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

604.520.6843,020

Metal workers and plastic workers, all other

405.421.5844,880

Prepress technicians and workers

303.420.2242,060

Printing press operators

1502.422.6447,090

Print binding and finishing workers

302.218.2738,000

Laundry and dry-cleaning workers

400.614.8030,790

Sewing machine operators

300.716.4934,300

Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing

401.717.9837,390

Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators

300.732.6167,830

Chemical equipment operators and tenders

2104.425.5153,070

Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders

1603.923.7749,440

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

7103.122.7547,310

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders

1,2108.319.8541,280

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

4006.521.9445,630

Computer numerically controlled tool operators

6608.924.7751,530

Computer numerically controlled tool programmers

(5)(5)29.8762,120

Helpers--production workers

1301.821.4744,670

Production workers, all other

700.719.1139,740

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Sheboygan, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_43100.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.
(5) Estimate not released.

 

Last Modified Date: Monday, July 22, 2024