Executive offices & legislative bodies

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

1.17M

2020

Average Employee Age

46.9

2020

Average Salary

$59,241

2020

Average Male Salary

$65,447

2020

Average Female Salary

$53,719

2020

About

The top three occupations in the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group are other managers, secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive, and office clerks, general. On average, full-time employees in the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group work 41.7 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $64,308. Part-time employees in the same industry work 19.8 hours and earn an average annual salary of $19,833.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group are Subsistence Alaska PUMA, AK, District of Columbia (Northeast) PUMA, DC, and Lakota Region PUMA, SD.

The workforce of Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group in 2020 was 1,166,712 people, with 52.9% woman, and 47.1% men.

In 2020, 69.3% of the workforce in the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group was White (808,162 people), of which 50.8% were women and 49.2% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group.

The workforce in Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group was 1,166,712 people and is concentrated in California (151,694 workers). The average annual salary was $59,241, being $3,287 more than the national average salary, which was $55,954.

Monthly Employment

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Start Year

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Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 23.1M people employed in the Government industry. This represents a 2% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Government over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2020 were California (152k), Texas (77.5k), and Florida (69.5k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2020, Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group had an average annual wage of $59,241, $3,287 more than the average national salary of $55,954.

The graph shows the position of Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.351

WAGE GINI

Executive offices & legislative bodies has a wage GINI of 0.351, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Executive offices & legislative bodies (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

The graphic shows the distribution of average salaries by buckets for Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group.

Other managers are the most common position with 135,275 workers, but the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive and Office clerks, general.

The highest average salary in Executive offices & legislative bodies goes to Physicians.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group according to occupations. In 2020, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were other managers (135,275 people), secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive (65,981 people), and office clerks, general (64,860 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$65,447

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$1,552

$53,719

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$1,192

On average, Male workers in the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group make 1.22 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group. Based on estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this section indicates the amount of money spent by a specific industry in other industries.

The industrial flow illustrates the intermediate inputs and the use of outputs of the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group.

The Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Manufacturing Industry.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Executive offices & legislative bodies is from Public Administration.

Manufacturing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group is Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing.

In this flow diagram, all of the industries listed to the left are those places from which the highlighted industry has made purchases. They are the intermediate inputs to the highlighted industry. All those industries listed on the right side are those industries that have made purchases from the highlighted industry. They are the use of outputs of the highlighted industry. The visualizations below offer alternative ways to see and understand this data.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Executive offices & legislative bodies is from Public Administration.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Manufacturing Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Executive offices & legislative bodies is from Public Administration.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Executive offices & legislative bodies Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 52.9% corresponds to women and 47.1% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $65,447 and $53,719.

69.3% of workers have a bachelors degree, some college or high school or equivalent.

Gender and Age

617,334

Women

52.9%

549,378

Men

47.1%

The workforce of Executive offices & legislative bodies industry in 2020 was 1,166,712 people, with 52.9% woman, and 47.1% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Executive offices & legislative bodies industry.

Races

In 2020, 69.3% of the workforce in the Executive offices & legislative bodies industry was White (808,162 people), of which 50.8% were women and 49.2% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Black and Asian.

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Executive offices & legislative bodies workers in 2020 were bachelors degree (324,593 people), some college (254,885 people), and high school or equivalent (228,753 people).

The chart shows the Executive offices & legislative bodies workforce by gender and educational level.