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16-1959-KAN
Thursday, September 29, 2016

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Occupational Employment and Wages in Ogden-Clearfield — May 2015

Workers in the Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $20.01 in May 2015, about 14 percent below the nationwide average of $23.23, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Stanley W. Suchman noted that, after testing for statistical significance, wages in the local area were significantly lower in 18 of the 22 major occupational groups, including legal; management; and arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media.

When compared to the nationwide distribution, local employment was more highly concentrated in 5 of the 22 occupational groups, including production; construction and extraction; and architecture and engineering. Conversely, 11 groups had employment shares significantly below their national representation, including healthcare practitioners and technical; food preparation and serving related; and computer and mathematical. (See table A and box note at end of release.)

Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, and measures of statistical significance, May 2015
Major occupational groupPercent of total employmentMean hourly wage
United StatesOgdenUnited StatesOgdenPercent difference (1)

Total, all occupations

100.0%100.0%$23.23$20.01*-14

Management

5.04.7*55.3039.18*-29

Business and Financial Operations

5.16.0*35.4830.25*-15

Computer and Mathematical

2.92.0*41.4334.63*-16

Architecture and Engineering

1.82.7*39.8936.30*-9

Life, Physical, and Social Science

0.80.6*34.2427.28*-20

Community and Social Service

1.41.2*22.1919.01*-14

Legal

0.80.4*49.7430.12*-39

Education, Training, and Library

6.26.325.4821.47*-16

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media

1.31.1*27.3919.23*-30

Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

5.84.1*37.4033.70*-10

Healthcare Support

2.92.914.1913.08*-8

Protective Service

2.41.7*21.4518.62*-13

Food Preparation and Serving Related

9.18.0*10.989.85*-10

Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance

3.23.113.0211.72*-10

Personal Care and Service

3.13.012.3311.95-3

Sales and Related

10.59.8*18.9016.99*-10

Office and Administrative Support

15.816.317.4715.56*-11

Farming, Fishing, and Forestry

0.3(2)12.6711.89-6

Construction and Extraction

4.05.9*22.8819.62*-14

Installation, Maintenance, and Repair

3.94.8*22.1122.331

Production

6.69.0*17.4117.23-1

Transportation and Material Moving

6.96.2*16.9015.91*-6

Footnotes:
(1) A positive percent difference measures how much the mean wage in Ogden is above the national mean wage, while a negative difference reflects a lower wage.
(2) Estimate not released
* The percent share of employment or mean hourly wage for this area is significantly different from the national average of all areas at the 90-percent confidence level.
 

One occupational group—production—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Ogden-Clearfield had 21,140 jobs in production, accounting for 9.0 percent of local area employment, significantly higher than the 6.6-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $17.23, compared to the national wage of $17.41.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the production group included team assemblers (4,800), first-line supervisors of production and operating workers (1,480), and welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers (1,400). Among the higher paying jobs were tool and die makers, as well as first-line supervisors of production and operating workers, with mean hourly wages of $28.61 and $28.29, respectively. At the lower end of the wage scale were laundry and dry-cleaning workers ($10.34). (Detailed occupational data for production are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to www.bls.gov/oes/2015/may/oes_36260.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 Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in many of the occupations within the production group. For instance, metal and plastic molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders were employed at 3.9 times the national rate in Ogden, and mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders, at 3.1 times the U.S. average. On the other hand, metal and plastic cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders had a location quotient of 1.1 in Ogden, indicating that this particular occupation’s local and national employment shares were similar.

These statistics are from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey, a federal-state cooperative program between BLS and State Workforce Agencies, in this case, the Utah Department of Workforce Services.

Notes on Occupational Employment Statistics Data

With the issuance of data for May 2015, the OES program has incorporated redefined metropolitan area definitions as designated by the Office of Management and Budget. OES data are available for 394 metropolitan areas, 38 metropolitan divisions, and 167 OES-defined nonmetropolitan areas. A listing of the areas and their definitions can be found at www.bls.gov/oes/current/msa_def.htm.

A value that is statistically different from another does not necessarily mean that the difference has economic or practical significance. Statistical significance is concerned with the ability to make confident statements about a universe based on a sample. It is entirely possible that a large difference between two values is not significantly different statistically, while a small difference is, since both the size and heterogeneity of the sample affect the relative error of the data being tested.


Technical Note

The Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey is a semiannual mail survey measuring occupational employment and wage rates for wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in the United States. The OES program produces employment and wage estimates for over 800 occupations for all industries combined in the nation; the 50 states and the District of Columbia; 432 metropolitan areas and divisions; 167 nonmetropolitan areas; and Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. National estimates are also available by industry for NAICS sectors, 3-, 4-, and selected 5- and 6-digit industries, and by ownership across all industries and for schools and hospitals. OES data are available at www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm.

OES estimates are constructed from a sample of about 1.2 million establishments. Forms are mailed to approximately 200,000 sampled establishments in May and November each year. May 2015 estimates are based on responses from six semiannual panels collected over a 3-year period: May 2015, November 2014, May 2014, November 2013, May 2013, and November 2012. The overall national response rate for the six panels is 73.5 percent based on establishments and 69.6 percent based on weighted sampled employment. The unweighted employment of sampled establishments across all six semiannual panels represents approximately 57.9 percent of total national employment. (Response rates are slightly lower for these estimates due to the federal shutdown in October 2013.) The sample in the Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Statistical Area included 2,529 establishments with a response rate of 78 percent. For more information about OES concepts and methodology, go to www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.tn.htm.

The May 2015 OES estimates are based on the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system and the 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Information about the 2010 SOC is available on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/soc and information about the 2012 NAICS is available at www.bls.gov/bls/naics.htm.

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 Ogden-Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Box Elder, Davis, Morgan and Weber Counties.

Additional information

OES data are available on our regional web page at www.bls.gov/regions/mountain-plains. Answers to frequently asked questions about the OES data are available at www.bls.gov/oes/oes_ques.htm. Detailed technical information about the OES survey is available in our Survey Methods and Reliability Statement on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/oes/2015/may/methods_statement.pdf.

Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Federal Relay Service: (800) 877-8339.

Table 1. Employment and wage data from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey, by occupation, Ogden-Clearfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, May 2015
Occupation (1)EmploymentMean wages
Level (2)Location quotient (3)HourlyAnnual (4)

Production Occupations

21,1401.4$17.23$35,830

First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers

1,4801.528.2958,850

Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers

400.618.6838,860

Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers

1000.314.8730,920

Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

3202.416.4034,110

Team Assemblers

4,8002.514.6730,510

Assemblers and Fabricators, All Other

1600.411.8824,720

Bakers

3901.312.3225,620

Butchers and Meat Cutters

1300.614.9631,120

Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

1900.712.9426,910

Slaughterers and Meat Packers

500.412.5526,110

Food Batchmakers

6302.815.7132,680

Computer-Controlled Machine Tool Operators, Metal and Plastic

3601.518.2637,980

Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

400.318.9039,320

Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

401.214.6530,470

Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

501.015.5032,230

Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

3501.116.0733,420

Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

1100.914.6130,400

Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

(5)(5)15.1931,590

Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

601.717.7736,960

Machinists

1,0401.523.6549,200

Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

9003.917.0135,370

Tool and Die Makers

900.828.6159,500

Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers

1,4002.118.7639,030

Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

300.421.7845,290

Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

902.715.5932,420

Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic

402.028.7959,870

Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other

(5)(5)12.4925,980

Prepress Technicians and Workers

601.019.5640,690

Printing Press Operators

2000.715.9733,220

Print Binding and Finishing Workers

1101.213.1527,350

Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers

4101.210.3421,500

Sewing Machine Operators

800.311.3323,580

Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters

2201.415.2631,740

Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing

900.712.5426,090

Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators

500.924.4250,790

Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators

2901.522.7547,320

Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers

2002.829.5961,560

Plant and System Operators, All Other

(5)(5)27.9058,040

Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders

2602.322.6647,140

Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

(5)(5)12.9226,870

Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand

601.214.6430,460

Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

6703.114.8330,840

Cutters and Trimmers, Hand

903.215.2431,700

Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

900.814.6230,400

Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

800.716.8335,010

Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers

1,1601.319.3940,330

Dental Laboratory Technicians

701.021.2144,110

Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders

1,2902.013.5628,210

Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

2301.515.2031,610

Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators

400.916.1233,530

Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders

(5)(5)11.6924,320

Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic

1902.920.6843,010

Helpers--Production Workers

4700.611.3423,590

Production Workers, All Other

2600.610.8922,650

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Ogden-Clearfield, UT Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_36260.htm.
(2) Estimates for detailed occupations do not sum to the totals because the totals include occupations 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, September 29, 2016