Mail-order houses

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Workforce

124k

2017 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

41.8

Average Salary

$45,967

Average Male Salary

$56,945

Average Female Salary

$37,158

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Workforce

Diversity

Input/Output

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The top three occupations in the Mail-order houses Industry Group are Customer service representatives, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Packers & packagers, hand, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, and Stock clerks & order fillers. On average, full-time employees in the Mail-order houses Industry Group work 42.2 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $51,730. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.2 hours and earn an average annual salary of $20,223.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Mail-order houses Industry Group are Bath City & Brunswick PUMA, ME, Grant, Green, Iowa, Richland & Lafayette Counties PUMA, WI, and St. Louis County (Northwest) PUMA, MO. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Mail-order houses.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Mail-order houses Industry Group. Customer service representatives are the most common position, but the Mail-order houses Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Correspondence clerks & order clerks, compared to other industries. 

The highest average salary in Mail-order houses goes to General & operations managers.

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Occupations by Share

124k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 8.65k

-15.4%

1 Year Growth

± 11.2%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Mail-order houses Industry Group has been declining at a rate of -15.4%, , from 147k people in 2016 to 124k people in 2017.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Mail-order houses by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Customer service representatives represent the largest share of positions held in Mail-order houses at 8.5%, followed by Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 7.24% and Packers & packagers, hand with 6.77%.

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Most Common

The most common occupations in the Mail-order houses Industry Group, by number of employees, are Customer service representatives, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Packers & packagers, hand, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, and Stock clerks & order fillers.

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Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Mail-order houses employs an unusually high number of Correspondence clerks & order clerks, Packers & packagers, hand, and Mail clerks & mail machine operators, except postal service.

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Mail-order houses, by average wage, are General & operations managers, Human resources workers, and Software developers, applications & systems software.

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Wages

Average Salary

$45,967

AVERAGE WAGE

± $3,890

On average, employees in the Mail-order houses Industry Group make $45,967 per year. This number makes Mail-order houses the 170 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. Greater Bellevue City PUMA, WA

  2. Queen Anne & Magnolia PUMA, WA

  3. Queen Anne & Magnolia PUMA, WA

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Mail-order houses Industry Group.

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Wage Distribution

0.474

WAGE GINI

Mail-order houses has a wage GINI of 0.474, which is less than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Mail-order houses (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Opportunities

Spatial Concentration

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Mail-order houses Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Mail-order houses Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Mail-order houses Industry Group.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Mail-order houses Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $56,945 and $37,158. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

68.9k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±6.44k

55.3k

MALE WORKFORCE

±5.77k

55.5% of workers in the Mail-order houses Industry Group are Female, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Mail-order houses Industry Group.

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Wage by Gender in Common Jobs

$56,945

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$7,573

$37,158

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$3,274

On average, Male workers in the Mail-order houses Industry Group make 1.53 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Mail-order houses Industry Group.

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Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

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Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Mail-order houses 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 Mail-order houses Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Mail-order houses Industry Group is Construction.

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 Mail-order houses is from Retail Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

  1. Professional and business services

  2. Manufacturing

  3. Transportation and warehousing

The Mail-order houses 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

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LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

  1. Construction

  2. Manufacturing

  3. Transportation and warehousing

The Construction Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Mail-order houses Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Mail-order houses Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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