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Friday, August 02, 2024

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Occupational Employment and Wages in Youngstown-Warren-Boardman — May 2023

Workers in the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $24.07 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 ($47.66), legal ($44.64), and architecture and engineering ($38.89). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($13.96), building and grounds cleaning and maintenance ($15.94), and personal care and service ($16.01). (See table A.)

Occupational groups with the highest employment in the Youngstown area included office and administrative support (11.2 percent), food preparation and serving related (10.9 percent), and transportation and material moving (10.5 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included life, physical, and social science (0.3 percent); legal (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 Youngstown metropolitan area, May 2023
Major occupational group Percent of total employment Mean hourly wage ($)
United States Youngstown United States Youngstown

Total, all occupations

100.0 100.0 31.48 24.07

Management

6.9 5.7 66.23 47.66

Business and financial operations

6.6 3.6 43.55 33.57

Computer and mathematical

3.4 1.0 54.39 36.11

Architecture and engineering

1.7 1.2 47.64 38.89

Life, physical, and social science

0.9 0.3 42.24 33.12

Community and social service

1.6 2.0 28.36 24.67

Legal

0.8 0.4 64.34 44.64

Educational instruction and library

5.8 6.2 31.92 28.46

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

1.4 0.9 36.31 24.27

Healthcare practitioners and technical

6.1 7.0 49.07 38.86

Healthcare support

4.7 4.8 18.37 16.28

Protective service

2.3 2.7 27.74 23.67

Food preparation and serving related

8.7 10.9 16.58 13.96

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

2.9 2.9 18.43 15.94

Personal care and service

2.0 2.0 18.48 16.01

Sales and related

8.8 9.7 25.62 19.26

Office and administrative support

12.2 11.2 23.05 19.88

Farming, fishing, and forestry

0.3 0.1 19.22 17.97

Construction and extraction

4.1 3.7 29.57 26.91

Installation, maintenance, and repair

3.9 4.2 28.13 24.91

Production

5.8 8.9 22.90 21.44

Transportation and material moving

9.1 10.5 22.45 19.20

One occupational group—production—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Youngstown had 17,840 jobs in production, accounting for 8.9 percent of local area employment, compared to the 5.8-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $21.44, compared to the national wage of $22.90.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the production group included miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators (3,010); first-line supervisors of production and operating workers (1,140); cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic (1,090); and welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers (1,060). 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 $30.49 and $29.68, respectively. At the lower end of the wage scale were laundry and dry-cleaning workers ($13.64) and pressers, textile, garment, and related materials ($13.86). (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_49660.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 Youngstown area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in many of the occupations within the production group. For instance, forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic were employed at 6.0 times the national rate in Youngstown, and cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, at 4.6 times the U.S. average. Helpers--production workers had a location quotient of 1.1 in Youngstown, 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 Ohio Department of Job & Family Services, and the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.


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 Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area included 2,690 establishments with a response rate of 66 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 Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Mahoning County, OH; Trumbull County, OH; and Mercer County, PA.

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, Youngstown metropolitan area, May 2023
Occupation (1) Employment Mean wages ($)
Level (2) Location quotient (3) Hourly Annual (4)

Production occupations

17,840 1.5 21.44 44,600

First-line supervisors of production and operating workers

1,140 1.3 30.49 63,430

Coil winders, tapers, and finishers

50 2.9 22.52 46,840

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

460 1.3 17.82 37,070

Structural metal fabricators and fitters

70 0.9 22.70 47,220

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

3,010 1.5 20.91 43,490

Bakers

580 2.0 15.49 32,220

Butchers and meat cutters

270 1.5 16.44 34,190

Slaughterers and meat packers

40 0.4 15.37 31,980

Food batchmakers

260 1.2 17.63 36,660

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

290 3.5 21.29 44,280

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

70 6.0 25.30 52,620

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

250 7.6 22.53 46,860

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

1,090 4.6 19.71 41,000

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

280 2.9 20.32 42,260

Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

80 4.1 23.60 49,080

Machinists

890 2.3 27.15 56,470

Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders

210 7.4 22.75 47,330

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

320 1.5 19.81 41,200

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

600 3.5 20.32 42,270

Tool and die makers

240 3.1 28.59 59,470

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

1,060 1.9 22.86 47,560

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

80 1.9 19.81 41,210

Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

90 4.3 22.65 47,110

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

110 2.6 20.16 41,920

Printing press operators

250 1.3 20.72 43,090

Laundry and dry-cleaning workers

270 1.1 13.64 28,360

Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials

60 1.5 13.86 28,830

Sewing machine operators

190 1.3 14.75 30,690

Upholsterers

50 1.4 17.96 37,360

Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters

130 1.1 19.93 41,450

Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing

70 0.8 18.60 38,690

Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators

310 1.9 25.05 52,100

Chemical equipment operators and tenders

60 0.4 27.72 57,660

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

40 0.6 23.19 48,230

Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders

40 1.0 19.18 39,890

Grinding and polishing workers, hand

60 3.6 17.48 36,350

Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders

120 0.9 21.82 45,390

Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders

50 0.7 19.01 39,550

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

80 1.0 18.89 39,300

Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders

30 1.6 19.92 41,440

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

920 1.2 21.08 43,850

Dental laboratory technicians

90 2.0 25.87 53,810

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders

630 1.3 19.90 41,380

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

470 2.3 20.39 42,410

Computer numerically controlled tool operators

640 2.6 23.43 48,740

Computer numerically controlled tool programmers

90 2.3 29.68 61,730

Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders

50 3.3 20.33 42,290

Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders

70 0.5 14.93 31,040

Helpers--production workers

260 1.1 17.47 36,330

Production workers, all other

240 0.8 17.81 37,050

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_49660.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: Friday, August 02, 2024