Justice, public order, & safety activities

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
2.88M
2021
Average Employee Age
42.6
2021
Average Salary
$70,581
2021
Average Male Salary
$76,812
2021
Average Female Salary
$58,900
2021

About

The top three occupations in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group are police officers, correctional officers and jailers, and firefighters. On average, full-time employees in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group work 44.7 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $72,937. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20 hours and earn an average annual salary of $27,508.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group are Deep East Texas COG (West) & Walker County PUMA, TX, Del Norte, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas & Siskiyou Counties PUMA, CA, and Ashburn, Washington Heights, Morgan Park & Beverly PUMA, IL.

The workforce of Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group in 2021 was 2,879,087 people, with 34.8% woman, and 65.2% men.

In 2021, 72.9% of the workforce in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group was White (2,099,388 people), of which 31.6% were women and 68.4% men.

dollarEmployment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group.

The workforce in Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group was 2,879,087 people and is concentrated in California (314,138 workers). The average annual salary was $70,581, being $10,986 more than the national average salary, which was $59,596.

Monthly Employment

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2%
Year-over-year growth
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 23.1M people employed in the Government industry. This represents a 2% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

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Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2021 were California (314k), Texas (257k), and New York (216k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2021, Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group had an average annual wage of $70,581, $10,986 more than the average national salary of $59,596.

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Wage Distribution

0.316
WAGE GINI

Justice, public order, & safety activities has a wage GINI of 0.316, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Justice, public order, & safety activities (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 Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

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A review of jobs and wages in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group.

Police officers are the most common position with 702,262 workers, but the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Correctional officers and jailers and Firefighters.

The highest average salary in Justice, public order, & safety activities goes to Physicians.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group according to occupations. In 2021, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were police officers (702,262 people), correctional officers and jailers (364,458 people), and firefighters (297,124 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$76,812
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$830
$58,900
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$989

On average, Male workers in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group make 1.3 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group.

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Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Justice, public order, & safety activities 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 Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group.

The Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Manufacturing Industry.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Justice, public order, & safety activities is from Public Administration.

Manufacturing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group is Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing.

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.

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Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Justice, public order, & safety activities is from Public Administration.

The Justice, public order, & safety activities 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

The closest comparable data for Justice, public order, & safety activities is from Public Administration.

The Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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Demographic information on the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 34.8% corresponds to women and 65.2% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $76,812 and $58,900.

71.4% of workers have a some college, bachelors degree or high school or equivalent.

Gender and Age

1,001,444
Women
34.8%
1,877,643
Men
65.2%

The workforce of Justice, public order, & safety activities industry in 2021 was 2,879,087 people, with 34.8% woman, and 65.2% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Justice, public order, & safety activities industry.

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Races

In 2021, 72.9% of the workforce in the Justice, public order, & safety activities industry was White (2,099,388 people), of which 31.6% were women and 68.4% men.

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

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Justice, public order, & safety activities workers in 2021 were some college (808,638 people), bachelors degree (765,932 people), and high school or equivalent (480,829 people).

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