Newspaper publishers

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The top three occupations in the Newspaper publishers Industry Group are news analysts, reporters, and journalists, editors, and doortodoor sales workers, news & street vendors, & related workers. On average, full-time employees in the Newspaper publishers Industry Group work 43 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $71,198. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20.1 hours and earn an average annual salary of $18,965.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Newspaper publishers Industry Group are DeKalb & Jackson Counties PUMA, AL, Barnstable (East), Dukes & Nantucket Counties--Outer Cape Cod Towns PUMA, MA, and District of Columbia (Central) PUMA, DC.

The workforce of Newspaper publishers Industry Group in 2022 was 139,093 people, with 47.1% woman, and 52.9% men.

In 2022, 78.3% of the workforce in the Newspaper publishers Industry Group was White (108,948 people), of which 46.6% were women and 53.4% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Newspaper publishers Industry Group.

The workforce in Newspaper publishers Industry Group was 139,093 people and is concentrated in New York (15,153 workers). The average annual salary was $58,223, being $11,655 less than the national average salary, which was $69,878.

Monthly Employment

Showing data for the Information industry sector.

Start Year

Y-Axis

0.878%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 3.05M people employed in the Information industry. This represents a 0.878% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Information over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2022 were New York (15.2k), California (10.4k), and Texas (8.43k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Newspaper publishers Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2022, Newspaper publishers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $58,223, $11,655 less than the average national salary of $69,878.

The graph shows the position of Newspaper publishers Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.47

WAGE GINI

Newspaper publishers has a wage GINI of 0.47, which is less than than the national average of 0.474. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Newspaper publishers (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 Newspaper publishers Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Newspaper publishers Industry Group.

News analysts, reporters, and journalists are the most common position with 21,924 workers, but the Newspaper publishers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Editors and Doortodoor sales workers, news & street vendors, & related workers.

The highest average salary in Newspaper publishers goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Newspaper publishers Industry Group according to occupations. In 2022, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were news analysts, reporters, and journalists (21,924 people), editors (19,001 people), and doortodoor sales workers, news & street vendors, & related workers (10,158 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$63,962

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$6,330

$51,781

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$6,076

On average, Male workers in the Newspaper publishers Industry Group make 1.24 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Newspaper publishers Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Newspaper publishers 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 Newspaper publishers Industry Group.

The Newspaper publishers Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Newspaper publishers is from Information.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Newspaper publishers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Newspaper publishers Industry Group is Information.

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 Newspaper publishers is from Information.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

Professional and business services
Information
Manufacturing

The Newspaper publishers 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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Newspaper publishers is from Information.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

Diversity

Demographic information on the Newspaper publishers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 47.1% corresponds to women and 52.9% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $63,962 and $51,781.

75.7% of workers have a bachelors degree, high school or equivalent or some college.

Gender and Age

65,539

Women

47.1%

73,554

Men

52.9%

The workforce of Newspaper publishers industry in 2022 was 139,093 people, with 47.1% woman, and 52.9% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Newspaper publishers industry.

Races

In 2022, 78.3% of the workforce in the Newspaper publishers industry was White (108,948 people), of which 46.6% were women and 53.4% men.

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

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Newspaper publishers workers in 2022 were bachelors degree (54,077 people), high school or equivalent (26,908 people), and some college (24,321 people).

The chart shows the Newspaper publishers workforce by gender and educational level.

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