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24-1514-SAN
Thursday, July 25, 2024

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Occupational Employment and Wages in Bremerton-Silverdale — May 2023

Workers in the Bremerton-Silverdale, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $33.66 in May 2023, compared to the nationwide average of $31.48, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that higher paying major occupational groups included management ($65.39), healthcare practitioners and technical ($58.75), and legal ($51.22). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($20.77), building and grounds cleaning and maintenance ($21.84), and healthcare support ($22.17). (See table A.)

Occupational groups with the highest employment in the Bremerton area included office and administrative support (10.5 percent), food preparation and serving related (10.1 percent), and sales and related (8.2 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included legal (0.5 percent); arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media (1 percent); and life, physical, and social science (1.4 percent). (See table A.)

Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the Bremerton metropolitan area, May 2023
Major occupational group Percent of total employment Mean hourly wage ($)
United States Bremerton United States Bremerton

Total, all occupations

100.0 100.0 31.48 33.66

Management

6.9 4.2 66.23 65.39

Business and financial operations

6.6 7.7 43.55 43.59

Computer and mathematical

3.4 2.6 54.39 49.30

Architecture and engineering

1.7 5.0 47.64 50.07

Life, physical, and social science

0.9 1.4 42.24 43.27

Community and social service

1.6 1.6 28.36 30.57

Legal

0.8 0.5 64.34 51.22

Educational instruction and library

5.8 5.9 31.92 35.35

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

1.4 1.0 36.31 30.38

Healthcare practitioners and technical

6.1 4.5 49.07 58.75

Healthcare support

4.7 4.7 18.37 22.17

Protective service

2.3 2.0 27.74 34.85

Food preparation and serving related

8.7 10.1 16.58 20.77

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

2.9 2.9 18.43 21.84

Personal care and service

2.0 1.7 18.48 23.67

Sales and related

8.8 8.2 25.62 24.14

Office and administrative support

12.2 10.5 23.05 25.60

Farming, fishing, and forestry

0.3 0.1 19.22 21.70

Construction and extraction

4.1 7.2 29.57 33.60

Installation, maintenance, and repair

3.9 6.4 28.13 34.73

Production

5.8 4.9 22.90 30.77

Transportation and material moving

9.1 7.0 22.45 24.24

One occupational group—office and administrative support—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Bremerton had 9,720 jobs in office and administrative support, accounting for 10.5 percent of local area employment, compared to the 12.2-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $25.60, compared to the national wage of $23.05.

Some of the larger detailed occupations within the office and administrative support group included general office clerks (1,410), secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive (960), and receptionists and information clerks (810). Among the higher-paying jobs in this group were first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers and production, planning, and expediting clerks, with mean hourly wages of $36.96 and $35.78, respectively. At the lower end of the wage scale were hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks ($17.38) and receptionists and information clerks ($19.37). (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_14740.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 Bremerton area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in some of the occupations within the office and administrative support group. For instance, production, planning, and expediting clerks were employed at 2.1 times the national rate in Bremerton, and tellers, at 1.4 times the U.S. average. General office clerks had a location quotient of 0.9 in Bremerton, 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 Washington Employment Security Department.


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 Bremerton-Silverdale, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area included 1,181 establishments with a response rate of 70 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 Bremerton-Silverdale, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Kitsap 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, Bremerton metropolitan area, May 2023
Occupation (1) Employment Mean wages ($)
Level (2) Location quotient (3) Hourly Annual (4)

Office and administrative support occupations

9,720 0.9 25.60 53,240

First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers

720 0.8 36.96 76,870

Bill and account collectors

50 0.4 23.50 48,870

Billing and posting clerks

360 1.4 22.97 47,770

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

770 0.8 26.25 54,590

Payroll and timekeeping clerks

60 0.7 29.48 61,320

Procurement clerks

140 3.7 27.71 57,630

Tellers

300 1.4 21.65 45,030

Court, municipal, and license clerks

130 1.3 29.04 60,410

Customer service representatives

770 0.4 21.83 45,400

Eligibility interviewers, government programs

80 0.9 27.05 56,260

Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks

110 0.7 17.38 36,140

Library assistants, clerical

160 3.2 21.24 44,170

Loan interviewers and clerks

110 0.9 28.44 59,150

Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping

110 1.8 24.29 50,520

Receptionists and information clerks

810 1.3 19.37 40,300

Information and record clerks, all other

330 3.6 21.92 45,600

Public safety telecommunicators

70 1.1 35.05 72,890

Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance

110 0.9 27.82 57,870

Postal service clerks

70 1.4 28.13 58,500

Postal service mail carriers

240 1.2 28.61 59,500

Production, planning, and expediting clerks

500 2.1 35.78 74,420

Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks

330 0.6 23.48 48,840

Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants

260 0.9 33.30 69,260

Legal secretaries and administrative assistants

90 1.0 26.73 55,590

Medical secretaries and administrative assistants

150 0.3 24.87 51,740

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

960 0.9 25.46 52,960

Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service

40 1.1 19.62 40,800

Office clerks, general

1,410 0.9 22.71 47,230

Office and administrative support workers, all other

170 1.6 25.59 53,240

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Bremerton-Silverdale, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_14740.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 25, 2024