Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores

Industry Group

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Workforce

44.9k

2020 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

47.3

Average Salary

$25,974

Average Male Salary

$40,292

Average Female Salary

$38,356

About

The top three occupations in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cashiers, Upholsterers, and Customer service representatives. On average, full-time employees in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group work 42.5 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $40,747. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20.2 hours and earn an average annual salary of $12,326.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group are Cuyahoga Falls (Southeast), Stow & Tallmadge Cities PUMA, OH, Akron City (East) PUMA, OH, and Woodburn & Silverton Cities PUMA, OR. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores .

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group. Retail salespersons are the most common position, but the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Upholsterers, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores goes to Home appliance repairers.

Monthly Employment

Showing data for the Trade, Transportation, and Utilities industry sector.

Start Year

Y-Axis

9.62%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 27.4M people employed in the Trade, Transportation, and Utilities industry. This represents a 9.62% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Trade, Transportation, and Utilities over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations by Share

44.9k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 5.2k

−3.39%

1 Year Growth

± 16.8%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group has been declining at a rate of −3.39%, , from 46.5k people in 2019 to 44.9k people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Retail salespersons represent the largest share of positions held in Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores at 25.2%, followed by Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 18.5% and Cashiers with 10.3%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group, by number of employees, are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cashiers, Upholsterers, and Customer service representatives.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores employs an unusually high number of Upholsterers, Tailors, dressmakers, & sewers, and Cutting workers.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores , by average wage, are Home appliance repairers, Transportation, storage, & distribution managers, and Sales managers.

Average Salary

$25,974

AVERAGE WAGE

± $4,352

On average, employees in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group make $25,974 per year. This number makes Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores the 260 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.

Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA

HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.498

WAGE GINI

Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores has a wage GINI of 0.498, which is more than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $40,292 and $38,356. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

33.7k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±4.51k

11.2k

MALE WORKFORCE

±2.59k

75.1% of workers in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group are Female, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$40,292

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$10,952

$38,356

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$9,106

On average, Male workers in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group make 1.05 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Other
Asian
Black

On average, Other employees in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group earn 1.09 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 Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods 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 Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores Industry Group is Construction.

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.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores is from Retail Trade.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores is from Retail Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Sewing, needlework, & piece goods 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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Sewing, needlework, & piece goods stores is from Retail Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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