Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance

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Workforce

211k

2018 BLS Estimate

Average Employee Age

Estimated Job Growth

0.6%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$47,124

Average Male Salary

$48,303

Average Female Salary

$36,109

About

The top three occupations in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group are Welding, soldering, & brazing workers, Industrial & refractory machinery mechanics, Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, Heavy vehicle & mobile equipment service technicians & mechanics, and Maintenance & repair workers, general. On average, full-time employees in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group work 44.6 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $50,313. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23 hours and earn an average annual salary of $17,165.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group are Ector CountyOdessa City PUMA, TX, West of Aldine & Inside Beltway TX-8 PUMA, TX, and Deer Park, La Porte (North) Cities & Channelview PUMA, TX. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group. Welding, soldering, & brazing workers are the most common position, but the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Welding, soldering, & brazing workers, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance goes to Industrial production managers.

Occupations

Occupations by Share

211k

Workforce (BLS Estimate)

ACS Estimate: 247k

-2.14%

1 Year Growth

± 7.09%

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were 211k people employed in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group in 2018.

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group has been declining at a rate of -2.14%, , from 252k people in 2017 to 247k people in 2018.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Welding, soldering, & brazing workers represent the largest share of positions held in Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance at 38.8%, followed by Industrial & refractory machinery mechanics with 5.6% and Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers with 5.14%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group, by number of employees, are Welding, soldering, & brazing workers, Industrial & refractory machinery mechanics, Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, Heavy vehicle & mobile equipment service technicians & mechanics, and Maintenance & repair workers, general.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance employs an unusually high number of Welding, soldering, & brazing workers, Electric motor, power tool, & related repairers, and Boilermakers.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance, by average wage, are Industrial production managers, Project management specialists, and Chief executives & legislators.

Wages

Average Salary

$47,124

AVERAGE WAGE

± $2,038

On average, employees in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group make $47,124 per year. This number makes Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance the 175 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 Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.372

WAGE GINI

Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance has a wage GINI of 0.372, which is less than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

Opportunities

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $48,303 and $36,109. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

23.9k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±3.79k

223k

MALE WORKFORCE

±11.6k

90.3% of workers in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group are Male, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group.

Wage by Gender in Common Jobs

$48,303

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$2,173

$36,109

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$5,373

On average, Male workers in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group make 1.34 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance 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 Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group earn 1.04 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 Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment 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. Manufacturing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance 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 Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance 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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment 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 Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Commercial & industrial machinery & equipment repair & maintenance Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

Projections

Growth projections of the commercial machinery 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 6.89% in the next ten years. The commercial machinery repair and maintenance industry has a lower projected workforce growth at 0.6%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (2.4%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (22.9%).