Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

430k

2024

Average Employee Age

40.9

2024

Estimated Job Growth

8.38%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$47,501

2024

Average Male Salary

$51,143

2024

Average Female Salary

$43,761

2024

About

The top three occupations in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group are archivists, curators, & museum technicians, landscaping and groundskeeping workers, and janitors & building cleaners. On average, full-time employees in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group work 41.4 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $61,426. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20.4 hours and earn an average annual salary of $14,779.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group are District of Columbia (North) PUMA, DC, Greater Fairbanks, Greater Juneau, Ketchikan Gateway Borough & Road-Connected Alaska PUMA, AK, and Santa Fe County New Mexico PUMA, NM.

The workforce of Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group in 2024 was 430,178 people, with 49.3% woman, and 50.7% men.

In 2024, 70.1% of the workforce in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group was White (301,689 people), of which 50.8% were women and 49.2% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

The workforce in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group was 430,178 people and is concentrated in California (50,081 workers). The average annual salary was $47,501, being $22,376 less than the national average salary, which was $69,878.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

11.3%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 44.2k people employed in the Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions industry. This represents a 11.3% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2024 were California (50.1k), New York (37.2k), and Texas (28k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2024, Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group had an average annual wage of $47,501, $22,376 less than the average national salary of $69,878.

The graph shows the position of Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

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WAGE GINI

Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions has a wage GINI of 0.45, which is less than than the national average of 0.474. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions (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 Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Archivists, curators, & museum technicians are the most common position with 58,188 workers, but the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Landscaping and groundskeeping workers and Janitors & building cleaners.

The highest average salary in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group according to occupations. In 2024, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were archivists, curators, & museum technicians (58,188 people), landscaping and groundskeeping workers (34,315 people), and janitors & building cleaners (23,775 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$51,143

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$2,675

$43,761

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$2,346

On average, Male workers in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group make 1.17 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions 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 Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

The Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry.

California and New York stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions is from Arts, Entertainment & Recreation and Accommodation & Food Services.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group is Educational services, health care, and social assistance.

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.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions is from Arts, Entertainment & Recreation and Accommodation & Food Services.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

Professional and business services
Manufacturing
Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions is from Arts, Entertainment & Recreation and Accommodation & Food Services.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Educational services, health care, and social assistance Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

Establishments

States with more establishments in 2022

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 49.3% corresponds to women and 50.7% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $51,143 and $43,761.

69.3% of workers have a bachelors degree, some college or high school or equivalent.

Gender and Age

212,226

Women

49.3%

217,952

Men

50.7%

The workforce of Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions industry in 2024 was 430,178 people, with 49.3% woman, and 50.7% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions industry.

Races

In 2024, 70.1% of the workforce in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions industry was White (301,689 people), of which 50.8% were women and 49.2% men.

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

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions workers in 2024 were bachelors degree (139,445 people), some college (82,552 people), and high school or equivalent (76,245 people).

The chart shows the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions workforce by gender and educational level.

Projections

Growth projections of the Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions industry, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 8.38% in the next ten years. The Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions industry has a lower projected workforce growth at 8.38%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (32%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (32%).

Job Growth

For growth projections, the closest comparable industry reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions.

8.38%

Estimated Job Growth

10-year Projection

8.38%

National Growth

10-year Projection

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in the number of jobs for Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions. This industry is expected to grow approximately the same than 8.38%, the average rate of national job growth.

Output Growth

For growth projections, the closest comparable industry reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions.

32%

Estimate Growth

10-year Projection

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in output of the Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions industry.