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Women who worked full time in wage and salary jobs had median weekly earnings of $657 in 2009.

This represented 80 percent of men's median weekly earnings ($819).

[Chart data] Of the 45 million women who worked full time in wage and salary jobs, 17 million were employed in education and health services, and 5 million were employed in wholesale and retail trade. Financial activities and professional and business services each employed about 4 million women. Median weekly earnings of women employed in education and health services were $717, which was 77 percent of men's median weekly earnings in that industry. In wholesale and retail trade, women's median weekly earnings were $523 (76 percent of men's earnings).

Median weekly earnings of women employed in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction ($873) and public administration ($783) were substantially higher than the earnings of their counterparts employed in leisure and hospitality ($421) and agriculture and related industries ($413). Women's-to-men's earnings ratios were higher among women employed in construction (92 percent) and agriculture and related industries (85 percent) than among women employed in other services (72 percent) and financial activities (71 percent). These data are from the Current Population Survey. To learn more, see Women in the Labor Force: A Databook (2010 Edition), BLS Report 1026, December 201

Earnings and employment by occupation, race, ethnicity, and sex, 2010


September 14, 2011 In 2010, median usual weekly earnings of Asian men ($1,408) and White men ($1,273) working full time in management, professional, and related occupations (the highest paying major occupation group) were well above the earnings of Hispanic men ($1,002) and Black men ($957) in the same occupation group.

[Chart data] Among women in management, professional, and related occupations, median usual weekly earnings of Asian women ($1,143) were higher than those of White women ($932), Black women ($812), and Hispanic women ($789). Employed Asian women were more likely than other women to work in management, professional, and related jobs46 percent of Asian women, compared with 42 percent of White women, 34 percent of Black women, and 24 percent of Hispanic women in 2010.

[Chart data] Among employed women, 65 percent of Hispanics were in two job groupsservice occupations and sales and office occupationscompared with about 59 percent of Blacks, 53 percent of Whites, and 47 percent of Asians in the same job groups. Among employed men, nearly half (48 percent) of Asians worked in management, professional, and related occupations in 2010, compared with 35 percent of Whites, 24 percent of Blacks, and 15 percent of Hispanics. Employed Black and Hispanic men were more likely than other men to work in production, transportation, and material moving occupations. Nearly one-half of employed Hispanic men were in two job groups: natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations; and production, transportation, and material moving occupations. These data are from the Current Population Survey program. To learn more, see, "Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity, 2010" (PDF), Report 1032, August 2011.
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A Peek into the Employment Report Establishment Survey


Submitted by Robert Oak on April 9, 2012 - 6:20pm The BLS establishment survey doesn't get much press love or headline buzz when it comes to the monthly employment statistics, despite the survey's better accuracy than the population survey. For the past year, 1.899 million payroll jobs have been added and payrolls now stand at 132,821,000. From a year ago this is a 1.5% increase. The below pie chart breaks down March 2012 payrolls by major industry's percentage of total employment.

The above graph gives payroll jobs as reported by businesses and this report are jobs, not people working those jobs. This survey also lumps together part-time and full-time positions. Retail trade is 60% low paying sales clerks and such. Leisure & hospitality includes hotels, restaurants and bars. Government includes federal, state and focal government jobs. We see manufacturing is only 9% of total U.S. payrolls, when we would hope manufacturing, both durable and nondurable, would dominant the overall U.S. employment picture. Instead, government dominates. For the year, we have professional and business services showing the most growth by raw levels. The below graph shows the employment levels change from March 2011.

Certain major industry sectors simply have way less jobs than others, by their nature and size. When looking at jobs growth by percentages per industry, we see mining and logging increasing their payrolls by 10.4% for the year. This employment category includes petroleum, gas, and coal and the increase in this sector's employment is due to petroleum and natural gas. Frack!

Professional & Business services employment also increased by 3.5%. While job growth in professional and business services sounds great, after all, professional sounds like some serious career juju, yet is this growth in high paying careers really? Below is a breakdown of the yearly job growth from the professional and business services category. Employment services include nasty creatures like Manpower and contract body shops, which take a percentage cut out of your pay. As we can, see the majority of growth is in administrative and support and employment services. Employment services are 89% temporary jobs and then the overseers who manage and place. them. Temporary jobs have increased by 184,600 since March 2011.

While bearing in mind population has increased over the last 20 years, the below graph shows a disturbing independent trend of temporary jobs.

Bottom line the overall job growth from the past year, beyond petroleum and natural gas (mining) sorts of jobs, seems quite front loaded with low paying ones and this is in spite of

manufacturing's job growth. Manufacturing is the one bright spot, but bear in mind manufacturing cliff dove during 2008. Below is a graph of manufacturing employment and one of my favorite graphs. While we see the upturn from the Great recession, look at the astounding decline of manufacturing employment in the United States. Now go shop at Walmart.

For March, the job growth by significance is bleak. The BLS gives a table, which ranks payrolls by significance in growth for the month. At the top of the list are food services and drinking places. Most jobs in restaurants and bars are low paying. In the top five we have administrative and support services, transportation equipment, ambulatory health care services and my favorite, credit intermediation and related activities. Below is the BLS graph for the March 2012 monthly change in major industry categories from the establishment survey.

March payrolls growth reads like the new American dream. One can work at fast food, push paperwork around, get taken to the emergency room after getting burned from french fry oil, and finally experience debt collectors ringing your phone non-stop for the $50k health care bill just racked up from the hospital visit. The bright spot in March was transportation equipment. Those are U.S. manufacturing jobs and explains, in part, why manufacturing overall increased by 37,000 jobs. There is another obscure table from the current establishment survey which shows the peak and trough of payrolls categories. For example, communications equipment's payrolls peak goes back all the way to 2000. So does motor vehicles and parts. May we suggest outsourcing seems to be appearing in these payroll peaks. Communications equipment manufacture was heavily offshore outsourced, including R&D, starting around that time. Another example is Plastics and rubber products, where employment also peaked in 2000. We believe there is less focus on the establishment survey simply because there are so many industry payrolls categories and large tables of data. Still, beyond the time lagged occupational report, this is about as good as in gets for what types of jobs are really being created each month.

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