Nursing Care Facilities

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

1.71M

2021

Average Employee Age

42.7

2021

Average Salary

$40,479

2021

Average Male Salary

$47,730

2021

Average Female Salary

$38,982

2021

About

The top three occupations in the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group are nursing assistants, registered nurses, and licensed practical & licensed vocational nurses. On average, full-time employees in the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group work 42 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $46,148. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.7 hours and earn an average annual salary of $21,851.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group are Wakefield, Williamsbridge & Woodlawn PUMA, NY, Northeast Louisiana PUMA, LA, and Detroit City (North Central) PUMA, MI.

The workforce of Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group in 2021 was 1,709,765 people, with 82.9% woman, and 17.1% men.

In 2021, 58.6% of the workforce in the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group was White (1,002,206 people), of which 83.6% were women and 16.4% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group.

The workforce in Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group was 1,709,765 people and is concentrated in New York (118,309 workers). The average annual salary was $40,479, being $19,117 less than the national average salary, which was $59,596.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

2.69%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 492k people employed in the Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) industry. This represents a 2.69% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2021 were New York (118k), California (113k), and Texas (108k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2021, Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group had an average annual wage of $40,479, $19,117 less than the average national salary of $59,596.

The graph shows the position of Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.4

WAGE GINI

Nursing Care Facilities has a wage GINI of 0.4, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Nursing Care Facilities (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 Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group.

Nursing assistants are the most common position with 486,171 workers, but the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Registered nurses and Licensed practical & licensed vocational nurses.

The highest average salary in Nursing Care Facilities goes to Diagnostic medical sonographers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group according to occupations. In 2021, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were nursing assistants (486,171 people), registered nurses (227,488 people), and licensed practical & licensed vocational nurses (180,803 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$47,730

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$2,489

$38,982

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$719

On average, Male workers in the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group make 1.22 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Nursing Care Facilities 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 Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group.

The Nursing Care Facilities 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 Nursing Care Facilities is from Educational Services, Health Care & Social Assistance.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Nursing Care Facilities 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 Nursing Care Facilities is from Educational Services, Health Care & Social Assistance.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Nursing Care Facilities 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 Nursing Care Facilities is from Educational Services, Health Care & Social Assistance.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Educational services, health care, and social assistance Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Nursing Care Facilities Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 82.9% corresponds to women and 17.1% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $47,730 and $38,982.

70.8% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or associates degree.

Gender and Age

1,417,195

Women

82.9%

292,570

Men

17.1%

The workforce of Nursing Care Facilities industry in 2021 was 1,709,765 people, with 82.9% woman, and 17.1% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Nursing Care Facilities industry.

Races

In 2021, 58.6% of the workforce in the Nursing Care Facilities industry was White (1,002,206 people), of which 83.6% were women and 16.4% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Black and Asian.

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Nursing Care Facilities workers in 2021 were high school or equivalent (496,478 people), some college (443,518 people), and associates degree (270,313 people).

The chart shows the Nursing Care Facilities workforce by gender and educational level.