Private households

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
338k
2023
Average Employee Age
42.7
2023
Estimated Job Growth
0.387%
10-Year Projection
Average Salary
$26,563
2023
Average Male Salary
$35,592
2023
Average Female Salary
$25,368
2023

About

The top three occupations in the Private households Industry Group are childcare workers, personal care aides, and maids & housekeeping cleaners. On average, full-time employees in the Private households Industry Group work 43.3 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $35,675. Part-time employees in the same industry work 19.6 hours and earn an average annual salary of $15,352.

The workforce of Private households Industry Group in 2023 was 337,502 people, with 88.3% woman, and 11.7% men.

In 2023, 48.8% of the workforce in the Private households Industry Group was White (164,729 people), of which 88.7% were women and 11.3% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Private households Industry Group.

The workforce in Private households Industry Group was 337,502 people and is concentrated in California (61,013 workers). The average annual salary was $26,563, being $41,164 less than the national average salary, which was $67,727.

Monthly Employment

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Start Year
Y-Axis
3.81%
Year-over-year growth
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 5.79M people employed in the Other Services industry. This represents a 3.81% increase 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 (61k), New York (29k), and Texas (28.7k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2023, Private households Industry Group had an average annual wage of $26,563, $41,164 less than the average national salary of $67,727.

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Wage Distribution

0.467
WAGE GINI

Private households has a wage GINI of 0.467, which is less than than the national average of 0.476. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Private households (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 Private households Industry Group.

Childcare workers are the most common position with 119,047 workers, but the Private households Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Personal care aides and Maids & housekeeping cleaners.

The highest average salary in Private households goes to Property, real estate, & community association managers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Private households Industry Group according to occupations. In 2023, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were childcare workers (119,047 people), personal care aides (94,258 people), and maids & housekeeping cleaners (82,318 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$35,592
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$5,855
$25,368
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$1,308

On average, Male workers in the Private households Industry Group make 1.4 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Private households Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Private households 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 Private households Industry Group.

The Private households Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Private households is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Private households Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Private households Industry Group is Professional and business services.

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 Private households is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.
HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Professional and business services
  2. Manufacturing
  3. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing

The Private households 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 Private households is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.
LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
  1. Professional and business services
  2. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
  3. Educational services, health care, and social assistance

The Professional and business services Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Private households Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Private households Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Private households Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 88.3% corresponds to women and 11.7% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $35,592 and $25,368.

68.7% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

Gender and Age

298,075
Women
88.3%
39,427
Men
11.7%

The workforce of Private households industry in 2023 was 337,502 people, with 88.3% woman, and 11.7% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Private households industry.

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Races

In 2023, 48.8% of the workforce in the Private households industry was White (164,729 people), of which 88.7% were women and 11.3% men.

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

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Private households workers in 2023 were high school or equivalent (104,580 people), some college (77,263 people), and bachelors degree (50,079 people).

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Projections

Growth projections of the Private Households industry, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 0.387% in the next ten years. The Private Households industry has a lower projected workforce growth at 0.387%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (8.87%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (8.87%).

Job Growth

0.387%
Estimated Job Growth
10-year Projection
0.387%
National Growth
10-year Projection

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in the number of jobs for Private Households. This industry is expected to grow approximately the same than 0.387%, the average rate of national job growth.

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Output Growth

8.87%
Estimate Growth
10-year Projection

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in output of the Private Households industry.

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