Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing

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Workforce

172k

2018 BLS Estimate

Average Employee Age

42.8

Estimated Job Growth

-0.7%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$49,915

Average Male Salary

$57,465

Average Female Salary

$38,436

About

The top three occupations in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group are Packaging & filling machine operators & tenders, Food processing workers, all other, Packers & packagers, hand, Firstline supervisors of production & operating workers, and Industrial truck & tractor operators. On average, full-time employees in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group work 44 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $51,157. Part-time employees in the same industry work 24.3 hours and earn an average annual salary of $25,098.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group are Grant & Kittitas Counties PUMA, WA, Umatilla, Union, Baker & Wallowa Counties PUMA, OR, and Aroostook & Washington Counties PUMA, ME. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing.

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Manufacturing Manufacturing

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group. Packaging & filling machine operators & tenders are the most common position, but the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Food processing workers, all other, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Occupations

Occupations by Share

172k

Workforce (BLS Estimate)

ACS Estimate: 158k

-7.09%

1 Year Growth

± 9.22%

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were 172k people employed in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group in 2018.

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group has been declining at a rate of -7.09%, , from 170k people in 2017 to 158k people in 2018.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Packaging & filling machine operators & tenders represent the largest share of positions held in Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing at 10.7%, followed by Food processing workers, all other with 8.07% and Packers & packagers, hand with 6.59%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group, by number of employees, are Packaging & filling machine operators & tenders, Food processing workers, all other, Packers & packagers, hand, Firstline supervisors of production & operating workers, and Industrial truck & tractor operators.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing employs an unusually high number of Food processing workers, all other, Food cooking machine operators & tenders, and Food & tobacco roasting, baking, & drying machine operators & tenders.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing, by average wage, are Chief executives & legislators, Financial managers, and Project management specialists.

Wages

Average Salary

$49,915

AVERAGE WAGE

± $3,469

On average, employees in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group make $49,915 per year. This number makes Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing the 159 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 Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.434

WAGE GINI

Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing has a wage GINI of 0.434, which is less than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing (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 Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $57,465 and $38,436. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

62.7k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±6.15k

95.4k

MALE WORKFORCE

±7.58k

60.3% of workers in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group are Male, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group.

Wage by Gender in Common Jobs

$57,465

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$5,299

$38,436

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$3,071

On average, Male workers in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group make 1.5 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

White
Asian
Black

On average, White employees in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group earn 1.1 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 Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food 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 Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food 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

The closest comparable data for Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing is from Manufacturing.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing is from Manufacturing.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food 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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing is from Manufacturing.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

Projections

Growth projections of the fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty 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 fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty industry has a lower projected workforce growth at -0.7%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (1.5%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (22.9%).