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25-645-CHI
Thursday, May 08, 2025

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Occupational Employment and Wages in Green Bay — May 2024

Workers in the Green Bay, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $28.90 in May 2024, compared to the nationwide average of $32.66, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Acting Regional Commissioner Julie Wilson noted that higher paying major occupational groups included management ($64.17), legal ($48.60), and healthcare practitioners and technical ($48.20). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($15.08), personal care and service ($17.38), and building and grounds cleaning and maintenance ($18.06). (See table A.)

Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the Green Bay metropolitan area, May 2024
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 32.66 28.90

Management

7.1 4.9 68.15 64.17

Business and financial operations

6.7 5.6 45.04 38.87

Computer and mathematical

3.4 2.3 56.16 42.73

Architecture and engineering

1.7 1.7 49.99 41.53

Life, physical, and social science

0.9 0.6 43.12 35.54

Community and social service

1.7 1.4 30.31 28.40

Legal

0.8 0.4 66.19 48.60

Educational instruction and library

5.8 5.0 31.69 27.73

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

1.4 1.1 37.04 33.06

Healthcare practitioners and technical

6.2 6.9 50.59 48.20

Healthcare support

4.8 4.2 19.06 18.64

Protective service

2.4 1.7 29.33 29.02

Food preparation and serving related

8.8 8.4 17.32 15.08

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

2.9 2.7 19.01 18.06

Personal care and service

2.0 2.0 18.95 17.38

Sales and related

8.7 9.1 26.00 24.33

Office and administrative support

11.8 11.7 24.12 23.21

Farming, fishing, and forestry

0.3 0.1 20.06 19.80

Construction and extraction

4.1 4.2 30.73 31.94

Installation, maintenance, and repair

3.9 4.1 29.63 30.03

Production

5.7 12.0 24.08 24.40

Transportation and material moving

8.9 10.0 23.44 22.20

Occupational groups with the highest employment in the Green Bay area included production (12.0 percent), office and administrative support (11.7 percent), and transportation and material moving (10.0 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).

One occupational group—production—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Green Bay had 20,600 jobs in production, accounting for 12.0 percent of local area employment, compared to the 5.7-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $24.40, compared to the national wage of $24.08.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the production group included miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators (1,920), first-line supervisors of production and operating workers (1,830), and packaging and filling machine operators and tenders (1,710). Among the higher paying jobs in this group were power plant operators ($39.23) and first-line supervisors of production and operating workers ($35.58). At the lower end of the wage scale were laundry and dry-cleaning workers ($15.81) and bakers ($18.22). (Detailed data for the production occupations are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0024580.)

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 2.00 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 12.89 times the national rate in Green Bay, and fiberglass laminators and fabricators, at 12.83 times the U.S. average. Laundry and dry-cleaning workers had a location quotient of 1.04 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.

Changes to the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) Data

Effective with the May 2024 OEWS news release, the OEWS program has implemented new metropolitan area definitions based on the 2020 decennial census and delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Bulletin 23-01. This news release does not include data for Colorado and its areas because of quality concerns with Colorado’s Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data. See the national OEWS news release for more information.


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 530 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 is 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 65.7 percent based on establishments and 65.9 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 69 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 2024
Occupation (1) Employment Mean wages ($)
Level (2) Location quotient (3) Hourly Annual (4)

Production occupations

20,600 2.12 24.40 50,750

First-line supervisors of production and operating workers

1,830 2.41 35.58 74,000

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

190 0.67 23.02 47,880

Structural metal fabricators and fitters

280 4.75 26.58 55,290

Fiberglass laminators and fabricators

260 12.83 21.91 45,570

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

1,920 1.18 22.00 45,770

Bakers

350 1.37 18.22 37,910

Butchers and meat cutters

650 4.17 19.69 40,940

Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers

200 1.29 18.94 39,400

Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders

60 2.59 23.52 48,930

Food batchmakers

1,620 8.50 22.64 47,080

Food cooking machine operators and tenders

120 3.98 (5) (5)

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

320 1.65 23.62 49,120

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

160 2.06 23.29 48,440

Machinists

500 1.51 27.31 56,810

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

170 1.02 22.17 46,100

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

110 0.79 22.41 46,610

Tool and die makers

60 0.93 29.12 60,560

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

840 1.79 26.60 55,320

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

30 0.86 25.83 53,720

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

120 3.52 18.72 38,940

Prepress technicians and workers

210 8.31 22.74 47,300

Printing press operators

710 4.39 24.38 50,700

Print binding and finishing workers

390 9.52 19.72 41,030

Laundry and dry-cleaning workers

230 1.04 15.81 32,880

Sewing machine operators

160 1.30 22.97 47,770

Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters

260 2.96 21.36 44,440

Furniture finishers

80 4.97 19.31 40,170

Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood

80 1.61 19.81 41,210

Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing

210 2.92 19.84 41,270

Power plant operators

40 1.29 39.23 81,600

Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators

130 0.94 31.70 65,940

Chemical equipment operators and tenders

60 0.42 22.79 47,390

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

50 0.88 25.85 53,760

Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders

460 4.09 27.55 57,300

Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders

170 3.26 25.30 52,630

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

1,180 1.80 24.19 50,310

Dental laboratory technicians

110 2.94 22.86 47,560

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders

1,710 4.01 22.10 45,970

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

520 2.93 23.74 49,380

Computer numerically controlled tool operators

480 2.47 26.66 55,450

Computer numerically controlled tool programmers

70 2.24 31.55 65,610

Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic

30 0.83 22.51 46,820

Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders

1,390 12.89 28.04 58,330

Helpers--production workers

320 1.71 22.36 46,500

Production workers, all other

250 0.81 18.87 39,250

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Green Bay, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area, see https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0024580.
(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: Thursday, May 08, 2025