Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions

Industry Group

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Workforce

173k

2019 BLS Estimate

Average Employee Age

40.5

Estimated Job Growth

17.2%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$37,598

Average Male Salary

$41,241

Average Female Salary

$39,602

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The top three occupations in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group are Archivists, curators, & museum technicians, Landscaping and groundskeeping workers, Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, Janitors & building cleaners, and Lifeguards & other recreational, & all other protective service workers. On average, full-time employees in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group work 41.6 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $49,803. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20.5 hours and earn an average annual salary of $12,262.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group are Park Slope, Carroll Gardens & Red Hook PUMA, NY, Columbus City (Central) PUMA, OH, and Oxon Hill, Hillcrest Heights & Temple Hills PUMA, MD. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group. Archivists, curators, & museum technicians are the most common position, but the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Archivists, curators, & museum technicians, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

1.93%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 37k people employed in the Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions industry. This represents a 1.93% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations by Share

173k

Workforce (BLS Estimate)

ACS Estimate: 417k

1.37%

1 Year Growth

± 5.32%

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were 173k people employed in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group in 2019.

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 1.37%, , from 411k people in 2019 to 417k people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Archivists, curators, & museum technicians represent the largest share of positions held in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions at 9.61%, followed by Landscaping and groundskeeping workers with 8.88% and Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers with 5.55%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group, by number of employees, are Archivists, curators, & museum technicians, Landscaping and groundskeeping workers, Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, Janitors & building cleaners, and Lifeguards & other recreational, & all other protective service workers.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions employs an unusually high number of Archivists, curators, & museum technicians, Tour & travel guides, and Lifeguards & other recreational, & all other protective service workers.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions, by average wage, are Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, Farmers, ranchers, & other agricultural managers, and Chief executives & legislators.

Average Salary

$37,598

AVERAGE WAGE

± $1,508

On average, employees in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group make $37,598 per year. This number makes Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions the 222 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 Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.465

WAGE GINI

Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions has a wage GINI of 0.465, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions (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 Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $41,241 and $39,602. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

208k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±11.2k

208k

MALE WORKFORCE

±11.2k

50% of workers in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group are Female, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$41,241

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$2,288

$39,602

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$2,181

On average, Male workers in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group make 1.04 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Asian
White
American Indian

On average, Asian employees in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group earn 1.13 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 Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions 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 Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions 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.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions is from Arts, Entertainment & Recreation and Accommodation & Food Services.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions is from Arts, Entertainment & Recreation and Accommodation & Food Services.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions 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 Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions is from Arts, Entertainment & Recreation and Accommodation & Food Services.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Professional and business services Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

Projections

Growth projections of the Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks industry, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 7.66% in the next ten years. The Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks industry has a higher projected workforce growth at 17.2%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (30.2%) is higher than the projected national growth in output (24.2%).

Job Growth

For growth projections, the closest comparible industry reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks.

17.2%

Estimated Job Growth

10-year Projection

7.66%

National Growth

10-year Projection

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in the number of jobs for Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks. This industry is expected to grow more than than 7.66%, the average rate of national job growth.