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24-1283-CHI
Monday, July 22, 2024

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Occupational Employment and Wages in Fond du Lac — May 2023

Workers in the Fond du Lac, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $28.06 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 ($60.08), healthcare practitioners and technical ($56.18), and legal ($43.51). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($14.40), personal care and service ($17.21), and building and grounds cleaning and maintenance ($17.63). (See table A.)

Occupational groups with the highest employment in the Fond du Lac area included production (15.0 percent), office and administrative support (11.3 percent), and sales and related (9.2 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included legal (0.3 percent); life, physical, and social science (0.4 percent); and arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media (0.9 percent). (See table A.)

Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the Fond du Lac metropolitan area, May 2023
Major occupational group Percent of total employment Mean hourly wage ($)
United States Fond du Lac United States Fond du Lac

Total, all occupations

100.0 100.0 31.48 28.06

Management

6.9 4.3 66.23 60.08

Business and financial operations

6.6 4.7 43.55 37.41

Computer and mathematical

3.4 1.6 54.39 41.36

Architecture and engineering

1.7 2.7 47.64 42.09

Life, physical, and social science

0.9 0.4 42.24 36.93

Community and social service

1.6 1.7 28.36 26.03

Legal

0.8 0.3 64.34 43.51

Educational instruction and library

5.8 5.3 31.92 28.67

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

1.4 0.9 36.31 25.23

Healthcare practitioners and technical

6.1 5.8 49.07 56.18

Healthcare support

4.7 4.3 18.37 18.20

Protective service

2.3 1.6 27.74 28.95

Food preparation and serving related

8.7 8.6 16.58 14.40

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

2.9 2.1 18.43 17.63

Personal care and service

2.0 1.4 18.48 17.21

Sales and related

8.8 9.2 25.62 23.88

Office and administrative support

12.2 11.3 23.05 22.05

Farming, fishing, and forestry

0.3 (1) 19.22 (1)

Construction and extraction

4.1 5.3 29.57 31.09

Installation, maintenance, and repair

3.9 4.7 28.13 27.74

Production

5.8 15.0 22.90 24.34

Transportation and material moving

9.1 8.8 22.45 20.97

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. Fond du Lac had 6,780 jobs in production, accounting for 15.0 percent of local area employment, compared to the 5.8-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $24.34, compared to the national wage of $22.90.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the production group included miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators (740), computer numerically controlled tool operators (590), and first-line supervisors of production and operating workers (470). Among the higher-paying jobs in this group were first-line supervisors of production and operating workers and computer numerically controlled tool programmers, with mean hourly wages of $34.04 and $31.62, respectively. At the lower end of the wage scale were laundry and dry-cleaning workers ($14.31), bakers ($15.61), and sewing machine operators ($16.27). (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_22540.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 Fond du Lac area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in many of the occupations within the production group. For instance, computer numerically controlled tool operators were employed at 10.5 times the national rate in Fond du Lac, and tool and die makers, at 5.6 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 Fond du Lac, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area included 768 establishments with a response rate of 71 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 Fond du Lac, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Fond du Lac 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, Fond du Lac metropolitan area, May 2023
Occupation (1) Employment Mean wages ($)
Level (2) Location quotient (3) Hourly Annual (4)

Production occupations

6,780 2.6 24.34 50,630

First-line supervisors of production and operating workers

470 2.4 34.04 70,800

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

150 1.9 20.13 41,870

Structural metal fabricators and fitters

40 2.5 26.24 54,570

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

740 1.7 19.32 40,180

Bakers

60 1.0 15.61 32,460

Butchers and meat cutters

50 1.2 22.38 46,560

Food batchmakers

130 2.5 20.37 42,370

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

180 3.3 21.81 45,370

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

50 2.3 21.51 44,750

Machinists

210 2.4 24.64 51,260

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

210 4.5 23.03 47,900

Tool and die makers

100 5.6 30.37 63,170

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

290 2.3 25.28 52,580

Printing press operators

60 1.4 24.79 51,560

Laundry and dry-cleaning workers

40 0.8 14.31 29,760

Sewing machine operators

50 1.6 16.27 33,840

Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters

50 2.1 21.61 44,950

Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators

50 1.3 28.63 59,540

Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders

50 3.2 22.85 47,520

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

250 1.5 23.92 49,750

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders

290 2.6 21.40 44,500

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

190 4.0 23.98 49,870

Computer numerically controlled tool operators

590 10.5 25.82 53,710

Computer numerically controlled tool programmers

40 5.1 31.62 65,760

Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders

50 1.7 24.62 51,210

Helpers--production workers

30 0.6 20.50 42,640

Production workers, all other

70 1.0 17.97 37,370

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Fond du Lac, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_22540.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