Public finance activities

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

299k

2020

Average Employee Age

47.7

2020

Average Salary

$68,128

2020

Average Male Salary

$80,180

2020

Average Female Salary

$61,231

2020

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 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $70,658. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20.8 hours and earn an average annual salary of $24,779.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Public finance activities Industry Group are Wood, Pleasants & Wirt Counties PUMA, WV, Roy, North Ogden, Ogden (Northwest) & West Haven Cities PUMA, UT, and Rancho Cordova City PUMA, CA.

The workforce of Public finance activities Industry Group in 2020 was 298,797 people, with 63.6% woman, and 36.4% men.

In 2020, 68% of the workforce in the Public finance activities Industry Group was White (203,279 people), of which 61.3% were women and 38.7% 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 298,797 people and is concentrated in California (36,348 workers). The average annual salary was $68,128, being $12,174 more than the national average salary, which was $55,954.

Monthly Employment

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Start Year

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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.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Government over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2020 were California (36.3k), New York (23.8k), and Texas (21.9k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Public finance activities Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2020, Public finance activities Industry Group had an average annual wage of $68,128, $12,174 more than the average national salary of $55,954.

The graph shows the position of Public finance activities Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.338

WAGE GINI

Public finance activities has a wage GINI of 0.338, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. 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).

The graphic shows the distribution of average salaries by buckets for Public finance activities Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

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 46,010 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 Insurance claims & policy processing clerks.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Public finance activities Industry Group according to occupations. In 2020, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were tax examiners & collectors, & revenue agents (46,010 people), accountants & auditors (34,625 people), and property appraisers and assessors (20,972 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$80,180

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$3,949

$61,231

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$2,586

On average, Male workers in the Public finance activities Industry Group make 1.31 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.

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

The closest comparable data for Public finance activities is from Public Administration.

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.

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.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Public finance activities is from Public Administration.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Public finance activities is from Public Administration.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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.

Diversity

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

Of the total workforce, 63.6% corresponds to women and 36.4% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $80,180 and $61,231.

74.8% of workers have a bachelors degree, some college or graduate degree.

Gender and Age

190,043

Women

63.6%

108,754

Men

36.4%

The workforce of Public finance activities industry in 2020 was 298,797 people, with 63.6% woman, and 36.4% men.

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

Races

In 2020, 68% of the workforce in the Public finance activities industry was White (203,279 people), of which 61.3% were women and 38.7% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Black and Asian.

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Public finance activities workers in 2020 were bachelors degree (107,300 people), some college (68,197 people), and graduate degree (47,999 people).

The chart shows the Public finance activities workforce by gender and educational level.