Motion pictures & video industries

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
432k
2023
Average Employee Age
36.8
2023
Average Salary
$80,780
2023
Average Male Salary
$85,367
2023
Average Female Salary
$72,746
2023

About

The top three occupations in the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group are producers & directors, other managers, and television, video, & motion picture camera operators & editors. On average, full-time employees in the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group work 46.2 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $102,290. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20.6 hours and earn an average annual salary of $21,632.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group are Los Angeles County (Central)--Burbank City PUMA, CA, Los Angeles County (Central)--LA City (Central) PUMA, CA, and Los Angeles County (Central)--West Hollywood & Beverly Hills Cities PUMA, CA.

The workforce of Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group in 2023 was 432,324 people, with 36.3% woman, and 63.7% men.

In 2023, 68.2% of the workforce in the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group was White (294,854 people), of which 35% were women and 65% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group.

The workforce in Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group was 432,324 people and is concentrated in California (154,535 workers). The average annual salary was $80,780, being $13,053 more than the national average salary, which was $67,727.

Monthly Employment

Start Year
Y-Axis
−15.9%
Year-over-year decline
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 149k people employed in the Motion Picture and Video Industries industry. This represents a −15.9% decrease in employment when compared to February 2022.

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Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2023 were California (155k), New York (47.3k), and Texas (24.9k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2023, Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group had an average annual wage of $80,780, $13,053 more than the average national salary of $67,727.

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Wage Distribution

0.54
WAGE GINI

Motion pictures & video industries has a wage GINI of 0.54, which is more than than the national average of 0.476. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Motion pictures & video industries (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group.

Producers & directors are the most common position with 69,377 workers, but the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Other managers and Television, video, & motion picture camera operators & editors.

The highest average salary in Motion pictures & video industries goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group according to occupations. In 2023, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were producers & directors (69,377 people), other managers (38,466 people), and television, video, & motion picture camera operators & editors (38,112 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$85,367
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$5,089
$72,746
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$6,096

On average, Male workers in the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group make 1.17 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Motion pictures & video industries 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 Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group.

The Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry.

California and New York stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

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Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group is Information.

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.

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Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Motion pictures & video industries is from Information.
HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Professional and business services
  2. Information
  3. Manufacturing

The Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

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Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Motion pictures & video industries is from Information.
LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
  1. Information
  2. Professional and business services
  3. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing

The Information Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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Establishments

States with more establishments in 2022
  1. California
    9,504
  2. New York
    2,988
  3. Florida
    1,426

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Motion pictures & video industries industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Motion pictures & video industries Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 36.3% corresponds to women and 63.7% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $85,367 and $72,746.

75.5% of workers have a bachelors degree, some college or high school or equivalent.

Gender and Age

157,127
Women
36.3%
275,197
Men
63.7%

The workforce of Motion pictures & video industries industry in 2023 was 432,324 people, with 36.3% woman, and 63.7% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Motion pictures & video industries industry.

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Races

In 2023, 68.2% of the workforce in the Motion pictures & video industries industry was White (294,854 people), of which 35% were women and 65% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Two or More Races and Black.

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Motion pictures & video industries workers in 2023 were bachelors degree (180,492 people), some college (85,597 people), and high school or equivalent (60,160 people).

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