Clay building material & refractories manufacturing

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Workforce
25.5k
2018 ACS Estimate
Average Employee Age
45.6
Average Salary
$54,036
Average Male Salary
$55,846
Average Female Salary
$48,162
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The top three occupations in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group are Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, Firstline supervisors of production & operating workers, and Industrial truck & tractor operators. On average, full-time employees in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group work 43.9 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $55,817. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.1 hours and earn an average annual salary of $14,613.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group are Cumberland, White, Fentress & Van Buren Counties PUMA, TN. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Clay building material & refractories manufacturing.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group. Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors are the most common position, but the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, & kettle operators & tenders, compared to other industries. 

The highest average salary in Clay building material & refractories manufacturing goes to Other managers.

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Occupations by Share

25.5k
Workforce (ACS Estimate)
± 3.92k
-7.67%
1 Year Growth
± 23.1%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group has been declining at a rate of -7.67%, , from 27.6k people in 2017 to 25.5k people in 2018.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Clay building material & refractories manufacturing by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors represent the largest share of positions held in Clay building material & refractories manufacturing at 12.2%, followed by Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand with 8.98% and Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing with 8.12%.

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Most Common

The most common occupations in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group, by number of employees, are Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, Firstline supervisors of production & operating workers, and Industrial truck & tractor operators.

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Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Clay building material & refractories manufacturing employs an unusually high number of Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, & kettle operators & tenders, Extruding, forming, pressing, & compacting machine setters, operators, & tenders, and Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors.

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Clay building material & refractories manufacturing, by average wage, are Other managers, Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, and Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, & kettle operators & tenders.

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Wages

Average Salary

$54,036
AVERAGE WAGE
± $8,446

On average, employees in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group make $54,036 per year. This number makes Clay building material & refractories manufacturing the 126 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.

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Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA
HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS
  1. Newaygo, Mason, Oceana & Lake Counties PUMA, MI
  2. Lincoln, Warren, Audrain, Pike & Montgomery Counties PUMA, MO
  3. Southeast Nebraska PUMA, NE

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group.

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Wage Distribution

0.335
WAGE GINI

Clay building material & refractories manufacturing has a wage GINI of 0.335, which is less than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Clay building material & refractories manufacturing (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Opportunities

Spatial Concentration

Cumberland, White, Fentress & Van Buren Counties PUMA, TN
Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $55,846 and $48,162. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

6.01k
FEMALE WORKFORCE
±1.9k
19.5k
MALE WORKFORCE
±3.43k

76.4% of workers in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group are Male, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group.

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Wage by Gender in Common Jobs

$55,846
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$10,546
$48,162
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$10,485

On average, Male workers in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group make 1.16 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group.

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Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY
  1. Two or More Races
  2. Asian
  3. White

On average, Two or More Races employees in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group earn 2.97 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 Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group.

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Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing 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. Manufacturing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group is Manufacturing.

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

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Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Clay building material & refractories manufacturing is from Manufacturing.
HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Manufacturing
  2. Wholesale trade
  3. Professional and business services

The Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Manufacturing Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

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Use of Output by Other Industries

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LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
  1. Manufacturing
  2. Construction
  3. Educational services, health care, and social assistance

The Manufacturing Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Clay building material & refractories manufacturing Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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