Public finance activities

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
320k
2023
Average Employee Age
47.2
2023
Average Salary
$78,366
2023
Average Male Salary
$90,947
2023
Average Female Salary
$70,954
2023

About

The top three occupations in the Public finance activities Industry Group are tax examiners & collectors, & revenue agents, accountants & auditors, and property appraisers and assessors. On average, full-time employees in the Public finance activities Industry Group work 41.1 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $80,988. Part-time employees in the same industry work 19.5 hours and earn an average annual salary of $31,167.

The workforce of Public finance activities Industry Group in 2023 was 320,206 people, with 62.9% woman, and 37.1% men.

In 2023, 61.4% of the workforce in the Public finance activities Industry Group was White (196,485 people), of which 61.2% were women and 38.8% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Public finance activities Industry Group.

The workforce in Public finance activities Industry Group was 320,206 people and is concentrated in California (36,789 workers). The average annual salary was $78,366, being $10,639 more than the national average salary, which was $67,727.

Monthly Employment

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Y-Axis
2%
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.

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Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2023 were California (36.8k), New York (24.8k), and Texas (24.4k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2023, Public finance activities Industry Group had an average annual wage of $78,366, $10,639 more than the average national salary of $67,727.

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Wage Distribution

0.336
WAGE GINI

Public finance activities has a wage GINI of 0.336, which is less than than the national average of 0.476. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Public finance activities (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 Public finance activities Industry Group.

Tax examiners & collectors, & revenue agents are the most common position with 54,099 workers, but the Public finance activities Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Accountants & auditors and Property appraisers and assessors.

The highest average salary in Public finance activities goes to Economists.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Public finance activities Industry Group according to occupations. In 2023, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were tax examiners & collectors, & revenue agents (54,099 people), accountants & auditors (30,064 people), and property appraisers and assessors (22,092 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$90,947
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$4,221
$70,954
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$2,881

On average, Male workers in the Public finance activities Industry Group make 1.28 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Public finance activities Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Public finance activities 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 Public finance activities Industry Group.

The Public finance activities Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing Industry.

Industrial Flow

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Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Public finance activities Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Public finance activities Industry Group is Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing.

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Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Public finance activities is from Public Administration.
HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
  2. Professional and business services
  3. Information

The Public finance activities Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

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Use of Output by Other Industries

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LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
  1. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
  2. Professional and business services
  3. Transportation and warehousing

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

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Public finance activities Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 62.9% corresponds to women and 37.1% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $90,947 and $70,954.

75.6% of workers have a bachelors degree, some college or graduate degree.

Gender and Age

201,500
Women
62.9%
118,706
Men
37.1%

The workforce of Public finance activities industry in 2023 was 320,206 people, with 62.9% woman, and 37.1% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Public finance activities industry.

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Races

In 2023, 61.4% of the workforce in the Public finance activities industry was White (196,485 people), of which 61.2% were women and 38.8% men.

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

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Public finance activities workers in 2023 were bachelors degree (116,979 people), some college (68,060 people), and graduate degree (56,993 people).

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