Advertising, public relations & related services

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Workforce

490k

2016 BLS Estimate

Average Employee Age

39.1

Estimated Job Growth

0.2%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$78,692

Average Male Salary

$91,504

Average Female Salary

$67,001

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Workforce

Diversity

Input/Output

Projections

About

The top three occupations in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group are Advertising sales agents, Miscellaneous managers, Designers, Advertising & promotions managers, and Marketing & sales managers. On average, full-time employees in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group work 45.1 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $86,964. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.7 hours and earn an average annual salary of $23,647.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group are Chelsea, Clinton & Midtown Business District PUMA, NY, Murray Hill, Gramercy & Stuyvesant Town PUMA, NY, and Lake View & Lincoln Park PUMA, IL. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Advertising, public relations & related services.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group. Advertising sales agents are the most common position, but the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Advertising & promotions managers, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Advertising, public relations & related services goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Occupations

Occupations by Share

490k

Workforce (BLS Estimate)

ACS Estimate: 526k

7.96%

1 Year Growth

± 4.51%

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were 490k people employed in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group in 2016.

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 7.96%, , from 487k people in 2016 to 526k people in 2017.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Advertising, public relations & related services by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Advertising sales agents represent the largest share of positions held in Advertising, public relations & related services at 11%, followed by Miscellaneous managers with 10.7% and Designers with 5.97%.

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Most Common

The most common occupations in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group, by number of employees, are Advertising sales agents, Miscellaneous managers, Designers, Advertising & promotions managers, and Marketing & sales managers.

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Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Advertising, public relations & related services employs an unusually high number of Advertising & promotions managers, Advertising sales agents, and Public relations specialists.

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Advertising, public relations & related services, by average wage, are Chief executives & legislators, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Software developers, applications & systems software.

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Wages

Average Salary

$78,692

AVERAGE WAGE

± $2,824

On average, employees in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group make $78,692 per year. This number makes Advertising, public relations & related services the 34 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 266 Industry Groups.

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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 Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group.

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Wage Distribution

0.455

WAGE GINI

Advertising, public relations & related services has a wage GINI of 0.455, which is less than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Advertising, public relations & related services (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

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $91,504 and $67,001. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

275k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±12.9k

251k

MALE WORKFORCE

±12.3k

52.3% of workers in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group are Female, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group.

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Wage by Gender in Common Jobs

$91,504

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$4,766

$67,001

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$3,102

On average, Male workers in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group make 1.37 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group.

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Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

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On average, American Indian and Alaska Native tribes specified; or American Indian or Alaska Native, not specified and no other races employees in the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group earn 1.54 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 Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group.

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Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Advertising, public relations & related services 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 Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group is Professional and business services.

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

The closest comparable data for Advertising, public relations & related services is from Professional, Scientific & Management, and Administrative & Waste Management Services.

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Intermediate Inputs

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Advertising, public relations & related services 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

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

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Projections

Growth projections of the Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 8.13% in the next ten years. The Advertising, public relations & related services Industry Group has a lower projected workforce growth at 0.2%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (2.5%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.6%).