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24-1284-CHI
Monday, July 22, 2024

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Occupational Employment and Wages in Green Bay — May 2023

Workers in the Green Bay, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $27.91 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 ($62.28), healthcare practitioners and technical ($49.47), and legal ($46.48). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($14.63), personal care and service ($16.89), and building and grounds cleaning and maintenance ($17.34). (See table A.)

Occupational groups with the highest employment in the Green Bay area included office and administrative support (12.6 percent), production (12.3 percent), and transportation and material moving (10.1 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.)

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

Total, all occupations

100.0 100.0 31.48 27.91

Management

6.9 4.5 66.23 62.28

Business and financial operations

6.6 5.9 43.55 37.13

Computer and mathematical

3.4 2.4 54.39 41.70

Architecture and engineering

1.7 1.7 47.64 39.30

Life, physical, and social science

0.9 0.6 42.24 35.10

Community and social service

1.6 1.5 28.36 26.53

Legal

0.8 0.4 64.34 46.48

Educational instruction and library

5.8 5.1 31.92 27.65

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

1.4 1.1 36.31 25.74

Healthcare practitioners and technical

6.1 6.8 49.07 49.47

Healthcare support

4.7 3.9 18.37 18.13

Protective service

2.3 1.6 27.74 26.52

Food preparation and serving related

8.7 8.5 16.58 14.63

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

2.9 2.6 18.43 17.34

Personal care and service

2.0 1.6 18.48 16.89

Sales and related

8.8 8.8 25.62 24.30

Office and administrative support

12.2 12.6 23.05 22.19

Farming, fishing, and forestry

0.3 0.1 19.22 19.52

Construction and extraction

4.1 3.9 29.57 30.23

Installation, maintenance, and repair

3.9 4.2 28.13 28.13

Production

5.8 12.3 22.90 23.01

Transportation and material moving

9.1 10.1 22.45 21.74

One occupational group—production—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Green Bay had 21,100 jobs in production, accounting for 12.3 percent of local area employment, compared to the 5.8-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $23.01, compared to the national wage of $22.90.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the production group included packaging and filling machine operators and tenders (1,850), first-line supervisors of production and operating workers (1,820), and miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators (1,810). Among the higher-paying jobs in this group were power plant operators and first-line supervisors of production and operating workers, with mean hourly wages of $40.80 and $33.24, respectively. At the lower end of the wage scale were laundry and dry-cleaning workers ($15.36) and bakers ($16.42). (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_24580.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 Green Bay area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in many of the occupations within the production group. For instance, paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders were employed at 12.0 times the national rate in Green Bay, and prepress technicians and workers, at 8.7 times the U.S. average. Electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers had a location quotient of 1.0 in Green Bay, 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, 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 Green Bay, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area included 1,864 establishments with a response rate of 67 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 Green Bay, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Brown County, Kewaunee County, and Oconto 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, Green Bay metropolitan area, May 2023
Occupation (1) Employment Mean wages ($)
Level (2) Location quotient (3) Hourly Annual (4)

Production occupations

21,100 2.1 23.01 47,850

First-line supervisors of production and operating workers

1,820 2.4 33.24 69,130

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

300 1.0 19.87 41,330

Structural metal fabricators and fitters

230 3.6 25.63 53,310

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

1,810 1.1 19.89 41,360

Bakers

290 1.2 16.42 34,160

Butchers and meat cutters

(5) (5) 19.35 40,240

Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers

470 3.0 18.42 38,320

Food batchmakers

1,520 7.9 20.78 43,220

Food cooking machine operators and tenders

150 4.4 (5) (5)

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

40 0.5 21.84 45,430

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

370 1.8 22.25 46,280

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

190 2.3 21.68 45,090

Machinists

350 1.1 24.45 50,850

Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders

60 2.4 26.65 55,430

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

220 1.2 20.28 42,170

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

100 0.7 23.45 48,770

Tool and die makers

70 1.0 28.03 58,300

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

950 2.0 25.31 52,640

Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders

40 1.2 23.77 49,430

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

120 3.3 17.76 36,930

Prepress technicians and workers

230 8.7 22.18 46,140

Printing press operators

880 5.1 24.02 49,970

Print binding and finishing workers

290 6.6 18.91 39,340

Laundry and dry-cleaning workers

240 1.2 15.36 31,950

Sewing machine operators

170 1.3 19.68 40,930

Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters

350 3.5 20.61 42,860

Furniture finishers

90 5.8 19.40 40,350

Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood

80 1.7 19.03 39,590

Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing

240 3.5 19.18 39,880

Power plant operators

50 1.4 40.80 84,860

Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators

120 0.9 30.35 63,120

Chemical equipment operators and tenders

50 0.4 19.78 41,150

Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders

60 1.0 23.88 49,670

Grinding and polishing workers, hand

40 2.6 18.05 37,550

Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders

450 3.8 25.54 53,130

Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders

210 3.6 24.87 51,730

Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders

90 1.4 25.11 52,240

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

1,110 1.7 22.89 47,600

Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers

30 1.3 21.85 45,440

Dental laboratory technicians

90 2.4 21.43 44,580

Ophthalmic laboratory technicians

140 6.8 20.82 43,300

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders

1,850 4.4 20.58 42,810

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

400 2.3 22.74 47,300

Computer numerically controlled tool operators

610 2.9 26.13 54,350

Computer numerically controlled tool programmers

90 3.0 29.96 62,310

Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic

40 1.0 21.08 43,850

Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders

1,310 12.0 26.58 55,290

Helpers--production workers

240 1.2 22.14 46,050

Production workers, all other

420 1.5 16.81 34,950

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Green Bay, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_24580.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