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24-1434-ATL
Thursday, July 18, 2024

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Occupational Employment and Wages in Jacksonville — May 2023

Workers in the Jacksonville, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $28.55 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Victoria G. Lee noted that higher paying major occupational groups included management ($60.74), legal ($48.29), computer and mathematical ($47.54), and healthcare practitioners and technical ($46.50). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($15.92), personal care and service ($16.92), building and grounds cleaning and maintenance ($17.41), and healthcare support ($18.63). (See table A.)

Occupational groups with the highest employment in the Jacksonville area included office and administrative support (14.4 percent), transportation and material moving (10.6 percent), sales and related (9.8 percent), and food preparation and serving related (9.6 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included life, physical, and social science (0.5 percent) and legal (0.9 percent). (See table A.)

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

Total, all occupations

100.0100.031.4828.55

Management

6.96.066.2360.74

Business and financial operations

6.67.643.5540.04

Computer and mathematical

3.42.954.3947.54

Architecture and engineering

1.71.347.6443.63

Life, physical, and social science

0.90.542.2435.40

Community and social service

1.61.328.3625.15

Legal

0.80.964.3448.29

Educational instruction and library

5.84.331.9227.76

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

1.41.236.3128.41

Healthcare practitioners and technical

6.17.049.0746.50

Healthcare support

4.73.218.3718.63

Protective service

2.32.427.7424.47

Food preparation and serving related

8.79.616.5815.92

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

2.92.918.4317.41

Personal care and service

2.01.818.4816.92

Sales and related

8.89.825.6223.56

Office and administrative support

12.214.423.0521.93

Farming, fishing, and forestry

0.30.119.2221.02

Construction and extraction

4.14.529.5724.22

Installation, maintenance, and repair

3.94.528.1325.99

Production

5.83.222.9021.70

Transportation and material moving

9.110.622.4521.26

One occupational group—office and administrative support—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Jacksonville had 106,430 jobs in office and administrative support, accounting for 14.4 percent of local area employment, compared to the 12.2-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $21.93, compared to the national wage of $23.05.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the office and administrative support group included customer service representatives (20,530) and general office clerks (13,530). Among the higher-paying jobs in this group were first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers and executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants, with mean hourly wages of $32.97 and $30.17, respectively. At the lower end of the wage scale was hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks ($14.76). (Detailed data for the office and administrative support occupations are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available, go to www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_27260.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 Jacksonville area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in some of the occupations within the office and administrative support group. For instance, postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators were employed at 2.4 times the national rate in Jacksonville, and loan interviewers and clerks, at 2.1 times the U.S. average. Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks had a location quotient of 1.0 in Jacksonville, 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 Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.


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 Jacksonville, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area included 4,096 establishments with a response rate of 71 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 Jacksonville, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Baker County, Clay County, Duval County, Nassau County, and St. Johns 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 office and administrative support occupations, Jacksonville metropolitan area, May 2023
Occupation (1)EmploymentMean wages ($)
Level (2)Location quotient (3)HourlyAnnual (4)

Office and administrative support occupations

106,4301.221.9345,620

First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers

7,8001.132.9768,580

Switchboard operators, including answering service

2000.916.1633,610

Communications equipment operators, all other

305.124.2350,390

Bill and account collectors

1,9002.020.7343,120

Billing and posting clerks

1,9800.921.1243,940

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

8,4801.222.7947,390

Payroll and timekeeping clerks

9101.223.5048,890

Procurement clerks

3101.022.8047,420

Tellers

1,5100.919.4540,460

Financial clerks, all other

2901.327.5257,230

Brokerage clerks

4401.924.9851,950

Court, municipal, and license clerks

5900.819.6040,770

Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks

600.824.5050,970

Customer service representatives

20,5301.520.2642,140

Eligibility interviewers, government programs

1,0601.423.1448,140

File clerks

4501.117.9137,250

Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks

1,4001.114.7630,700

Interviewers, except eligibility and loan

4900.619.6640,880

Library assistants, clerical

2500.616.0733,420

Loan interviewers and clerks

2,0802.125.5053,040

New accounts clerks

1300.622.4446,660

Order clerks

5001.121.7345,190

Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping

5001.022.0245,790

Receptionists and information clerks

5,3801.116.9135,170

Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks

3900.721.5444,800

Information and record clerks, all other

7501.022.0545,870

Cargo and freight agents

9901.925.1452,290

Couriers and messengers

5001.416.5934,510

Public safety telecommunicators

3200.722.2446,260

Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance

1,3401.322.2346,230

Meter readers, utilities

500.522.6747,140

Postal service clerks

2300.628.2158,680

Postal service mail carriers

1,3500.828.9760,260

Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators

1,3602.427.0556,260

Production, planning, and expediting clerks

2,0201.125.2152,440

Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks

4,1901.020.1341,860

Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping

2300.921.4744,660

Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants

1,7900.830.1762,750

Legal secretaries and administrative assistants

5200.725.0752,140

Medical secretaries and administrative assistants

7,2902.019.3440,230

Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive

7,6900.920.7543,150

Data entry keyers

9001.218.8039,100

Word processors and typists

1200.717.3936,170

Insurance claims and policy processing clerks

1,5101.321.8845,510

Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service

2000.617.1935,750

Office clerks, general

13,5301.120.3842,390

Office machine operators, except computer

1801.320.3442,300

Proofreaders and copy markers

501.818.5938,670

Office and administrative support workers, all other

1,6602.021.4144,530

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Jacksonville, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_27260.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: Thursday, July 18, 2024