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24-1307-BOS
Friday, July 05, 2024

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Occupational Employment and Wages in New Haven — May 2023

Workers in the New Haven, CT Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $34.20 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that higher paying major occupational groups included management ($67.73), legal ($65.44), and healthcare practitioners and technical ($52.28). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($18.72), personal care and service ($19.88), and healthcare support ($20.08). (See table A.)

Office and administrative support occupations accounted for 12.1 percent of New Haven area employment, followed by transportation and material moving (10.3 percent) and educational instruction and library (9.4 percent) occupations. Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included legal (0.7 percent); arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media (1.1 percent); and life, physical, and social science (1.1 percent).

Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the New Haven metropolitan area, May 2023
Major occupational groupPercent of total employmentMean hourly wage ($)
United StatesNew HavenUnited StatesNew Haven

Total, all occupations

100.0100.031.4834.20

Management

6.97.866.2367.73

Business and financial operations

6.64.643.5543.22

Computer and mathematical

3.41.954.3950.32

Architecture and engineering

1.71.547.6448.11

Life, physical, and social science

0.91.142.2446.75

Community and social service

1.62.228.3630.87

Legal

0.80.764.3465.44

Educational instruction and library

5.89.431.9245.12

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

1.41.136.3135.19

Healthcare practitioners and technical

6.18.249.0752.28

Healthcare support

4.75.518.3720.08

Protective service

2.32.327.7431.39

Food preparation and serving related

8.77.516.5818.72

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

2.93.618.4320.45

Personal care and service

2.01.818.4819.88

Sales and related

8.87.425.6225.11

Office and administrative support

12.212.123.0526.35

Farming, fishing, and forestry

0.30.119.2219.22

Construction and extraction

4.13.029.5732.87

Installation, maintenance, and repair

3.93.328.1330.86

Production

5.84.822.9024.51

Transportation and material moving

9.110.322.4521.20
 

One occupational group—healthcare practitioners and technical—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. New Haven had 23,860 jobs in healthcare practitioners and technical, accounting for 8.2 percent of local area employment, compared to the 6.1-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $52.28, compared to the national wage of $49.07.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the healthcare practitioners and technical group included registered nurses (8,540), licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses (1,700), and clinical laboratory technologists and technicians (1,450). Among the higher-paying jobs in this group were psychiatrists and family medicine physicians, with mean hourly wages of $132.62 and $114.67, respectively. (See chart 1.) At the lower end of the wage scale were pharmacy technicians ($20.91) and ophthalmic medical technicians ($20.94). (Detailed data for the healthcare practitioners and technical occupations are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_75700.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 New Haven area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in some of the occupations within the healthcare practitioners and technical group. For instance, physician assistants were employed at 2.4 times the national rate in New Haven, and clinical laboratory technologists and technicians, at 2.3 times the U.S. average. Dental hygienists had a location quotient of 1.1 in New Haven, 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 Connecticut 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 New Haven, CT Metropolitan Statistical Area included 2,487 establishments with a response rate of 61 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 New Haven, CT Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Bethany town, Branford town, Cheshire town, Chester town, Clinton town, Deep River town, Durham town, East Haven town, Essex town, Guilford town, Hamden town, Killingworth town, Madison town, Meriden city, Middlefield town, New Haven city, North Branford town, North Haven town, Old Saybrook town, Orange town, Wallingford town, West Haven city, and Westbrook town.

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 healthcare practitioners and technical occupations, New Haven metropolitan area, May 2023
Occupation (1)EmploymentMean wages ($)
Level (2)Location quotient (3)HourlyAnnual (4)

Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations

23,8601.352.28108,730

Chiropractors

600.742.9489,310

Dentists, general

3301.482.49171,570

Dietitians and nutritionists

1801.337.9778,980

Pharmacists

7201.163.98133,090

Physician assistants

6702.473.10152,050

Podiatrists

301.982.14170,850

Occupational therapists

4201.545.9795,620

Physical therapists

7301.649.46102,890

Radiation therapists

501.651.94108,020

Recreational therapists

601.933.4669,600

Respiratory therapists

3401.440.4484,120

Speech-language pathologists

2800.949.96103,910

Veterinarians

1300.965.90137,070

Registered nurses

8,5401.449.41102,780

Nurse practitioners

5901.165.02135,240

Family medicine physicians

2801.3114.67238,520

General internal medicine physicians

1301.0100.58209,200

Pediatricians, general

600.981.88170,300

Psychiatrists

601.3132.62275,850

Physicians, all other

8201.4141.21293,720

Dental hygienists

4401.143.5290,520

Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other

1803.150.38104,790

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians

1,4502.338.1179,270

Cardiovascular technologists and technicians

1301.241.4786,250

Diagnostic medical sonographers

2401.547.8999,620

Nuclear medicine technologists

601.951.34106,780

Radiologic technologists and technicians

5701.342.8789,180

Magnetic resonance imaging technologists

1101.444.6792,920

Emergency medical technicians

6302.025.6953,430

Paramedics

2401.334.2971,330

Pharmacy technicians

1,0401.220.9143,490

Psychiatric technicians

1400.626.5255,150

Veterinary technologists and technicians

2901.223.1548,160

Ophthalmic medical technicians

1401.020.9443,560

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses

1,7001.432.2267,020

Medical records specialists

2500.733.3769,410

Opticians, dispensing

800.629.5661,490

Health technologists and technicians, all other

2100.632.4567,500

Health information technologists and medical registrars

901.327.1956,550

Athletic trainers

701.2(5)64,700

Healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other

1702.432.7868,170

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the New Haven, CT Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_75700.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) Wages for some occupations that do not generally work year-round, full time, are reported either as hourly wages or annual salaries depending on how they are typically paid.

 

Last Modified Date: Friday, July 05, 2024