Workers in the Logan, UT-ID Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $25.74 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Michael Hirniak noted that higher paying major occupational groups included legal ($49.87), management ($47.97), and healthcare practitioners and technical ($43.39). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($14.58), personal care and service ($16.00), and building and grounds cleaning and maintenance ($16.19). (See table A.)

Occupational groups with the highest employment in the Logan area included office and administrative support (13.3 percent), production (11.1 percent), and transportation and material moving (8.6 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included legal (0.4 percent); protective service (0.9 percent); and life, physical, and social science (0.9 percent).

One occupational group—production—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Logan had 7,450 jobs in production, accounting for 11.1 percent of local area employment, compared to the 5.8-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $21.46, compared to the national wage of $22.90.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the production group included first-line supervisors of production and operating workers (650); inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers (560); and packaging and filling machine operators and tenders (510). Among the higher-paying jobs in this group were first-line supervisors of production and operating workers and computer numerically controlled tool operators, with mean hourly wages of $30.82 and $25.34, respectively. At the lower end of the wage scale were bakers ($13.23) and sewing machine operators ($16.09). (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_30860.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 Logan area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in many of the occupations within the production group. For instance, food batchmakers were employed at 6.4 times the national rate in Logan, and cabinetmakers and bench carpenters, at 3.4 times the U.S. average. Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders had a location quotient of 0.9 in Logan, 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 Utah Department of Workforce Services, and the Idaho Department of Labor.

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 Logan, UT-ID Metropolitan Statistical Area included 1,147 establishments with a response rate of 80 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 Logan, UT-ID Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Franklin County ID, and Cache County, UT.

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Table 1. Employment and wage data for production occupations, Logan metropolitan area, May 2023

Occupation (1)	Employment		Mean wages ($)
	Level (2)	Location quotient (3)	Hourly	Annual (4)
Production occupations	7,450	1.9	21.46	44,630
First-line supervisors of production and operating workers	650	2.2	30.82	64,100
Electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers	290	2.4	18.30	38,070
Structural metal fabricators and fitters	50	1.9	20.62	42,890
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators	800	1.2	17.97	37,380
Bakers	210	2.2	13.23	27,520
Butchers and meat cutters	200	3.4	21.37	44,460
Food batchmakers	480	6.4	22.88	47,590
Machinists	300	2.3	25.00	52,010
Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	230	3.2	18.50	38,480
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	130	2.4	22.99	47,810
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers	240	1.3	21.18	44,050
Printing press operators	110	1.7	19.22	39,970
Print binding and finishing workers	40	2.5	16.48	34,270
Sewing machine operators	40	0.8	16.09	33,470
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters	130	3.4	18.66	38,810
Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators	60	1.1	23.87	49,650
Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders	100	2.1	23.03	47,910
Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders	80	3.3	18.70	38,890
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers	560	2.2	23.10	48,040
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	510	3.1	21.79	45,330
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders	60	0.9	21.73	45,200
Computer numerically controlled tool operators	140	1.7	25.34	52,710
Helpers--production workers	90	1.1	18.42	38,310
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Logan, UT-ID Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_30860.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.