Convenience Stores

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Workforce

313k

2018 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

38.7

Average Salary

$25,874

Average Male Salary

$29,254

Average Female Salary

$23,374

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Input/Output

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The top three occupations in the Convenience Stores Industry Group are Cashiers, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Customer service representatives, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, and Cooks. On average, full-time employees in the Convenience Stores Industry Group work 43.5 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $32,438. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.5 hours and earn an average annual salary of $11,351.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Convenience Stores Industry Group are Winona City PUMA, MN, Portsmouth & Norfolk (Southwest) Cities PUMA, VA, and Rio Grande COG & Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission (West) PUMA, TX. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Convenience Stores.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Convenience Stores Industry Group. Cashiers are the most common position, but the Convenience Stores Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Cashiers, compared to other industries. 

The highest average salary in Convenience Stores goes to Computer occupations, all other.

Occupations

Occupations by Share

313k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 13.7k

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Convenience Stores by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Cashiers represent the largest share of positions held in Convenience Stores at 42.3%, followed by Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 23.7% and Customer service representatives with 6.79%.

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Most Common

The most common occupations in the Convenience Stores Industry Group, by number of employees, are Cashiers, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Customer service representatives, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, and Cooks.

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Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Convenience Stores employs an unusually high number of Cashiers, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, and Customer service representatives.

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Convenience Stores, by average wage, are Computer occupations, all other, Sales managers, and Firstline supervisors of office & administrative support workers.

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Wages

Average Salary

$25,874

AVERAGE WAGE

± $1,351

On average, employees in the Convenience Stores Industry Group make $25,874 per year. This number makes Convenience Stores the 257 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.

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Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA

HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS

  1. Henderson City (West) PUMA, NV

  2. Claremore City PUMA, OK

  3. Altoona City PUMA, PA

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Convenience Stores Industry Group.

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Wage Distribution

0.442

WAGE GINI

Convenience Stores has a wage GINI of 0.442, which is less than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Convenience Stores (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

  1. Winona City PUMA, MN

  2. Portsmouth & Norfolk (Southwest) Cities PUMA, VA

  3. Rio Grande COG & Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission (West) PUMA, TX

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Convenience Stores Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Convenience Stores Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Convenience Stores Industry Group.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Convenience Stores Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $29,254 and $23,374. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

180k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±10.4k

133k

MALE WORKFORCE

±8.96k

57.5% of workers in the Convenience Stores Industry Group are Female, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Convenience Stores Industry Group.

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Wage by Gender in Common Jobs

$29,254

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$2,372

$23,374

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$1,547

On average, Male workers in the Convenience Stores Industry Group make 1.25 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Convenience Stores Industry Group.

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Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

  1. Asian

  2. Other

  3. White

On average, Asian employees in the Convenience Stores Industry Group earn 1.31 times more than other races and ethnicities. This chart shows the race and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in the Convenience Stores Industry Group.

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Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Convenience Stores 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. Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Convenience Stores Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Convenience Stores Industry Group is Construction.

In this visualization, click on a category to expand or collapse it. 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.

Industrial Flow

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Intermediate Inputs

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HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

  1. Professional and business services

  2. Manufacturing

  3. Transportation and warehousing

The Convenience Stores 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

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LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

  1. Construction

  2. Manufacturing

  3. Transportation and warehousing

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

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