Personal & household goods repair & maintenance

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

112k

2021

Average Employee Age

2021

Estimated Job Growth

−15.4%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$39,828

2021

Average Male Salary

$43,805

2021

Average Female Salary

$27,951

2021

About

The top three occupations in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group are home appliance repairers, small engine mechanics, and firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers. On average, full-time employees in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group work 43.8 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $45,630. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.6 hours and earn an average annual salary of $17,357.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group are Lake Havasu City PUMA, AZ, Milwaukee County (South) PUMA, WI, and Dallas City (Southeast) PUMA, TX.

The workforce of Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group in 2021 was 111,816 people, with 25.1% woman, and 74.9% men.

In 2021, 76.8% of the workforce in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group was White (85,864 people), of which 23.2% were women and 76.8% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group.

The workforce in Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group was 111,816 people and is concentrated in California (13,601 workers). The average annual salary was $39,828, being $19,767 less than the national average salary, which was $59,596.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

3.19%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 9.7k people employed in the Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance industry. This represents a 3.19% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2021 were California (13.6k), Florida (13k), and Texas (8.99k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2021, Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group had an average annual wage of $39,828, $19,767 less than the average national salary of $59,596.

The graph shows the position of Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.399

WAGE GINI

Personal & household goods repair & maintenance has a wage GINI of 0.399, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Personal & household goods repair & maintenance (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 Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group.

Home appliance repairers are the most common position with 13,460 workers, but the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Small engine mechanics and Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers.

The highest average salary in Personal & household goods repair & maintenance goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group according to occupations. In 2021, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were home appliance repairers (13,460 people), small engine mechanics (10,916 people), and firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (8,400 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$43,805

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$3,514

$27,951

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$3,646

On average, Male workers in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group make 1.57 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance 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 Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group.

The Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry.

Florida and California stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Personal & household goods repair & maintenance is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance 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.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Personal & household goods repair & maintenance is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Personal & household goods repair & maintenance 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 Personal & household goods repair & maintenance is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Professional and business services Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

Establishments

States with more establishments in 2016

Florida
5,384
California
4,010
New York
3,032

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 25.1% corresponds to women and 74.9% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $43,805 and $27,951.

72.9% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

Gender and Age

28,046

Women

25.1%

83,770

Men

74.9%

The workforce of Personal & household goods repair & maintenance industry in 2021 was 111,816 people, with 25.1% woman, and 74.9% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Personal & household goods repair & maintenance industry.

Races

In 2021, 76.8% of the workforce in the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance industry was White (85,864 people), of which 23.2% were women and 76.8% men.

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

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance workers in 2021 were high school or equivalent (40,046 people), some college (28,852 people), and bachelors degree (12,583 people).

The chart shows the Personal & household goods repair & maintenance workforce by gender and educational level.

Projections

Growth projections of the Household goods repair and maintenance 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 Household goods repair and maintenance industry has a lower projected workforce growth at −15.4%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (25.9%) is higher than the projected national growth in output (24.2%).

Job Growth

For growth projections, the closest comparable industry reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Household goods repair and maintenance.

−15.4%

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 Household goods repair and maintenance. This industry is expected to grow less than than 7.66%, the average rate of national job growth.