Public finance activities

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
312k
2022
Average Employee Age
47.5
2022
Average Salary
$76,011
2022
Average Male Salary
$89,233
2022
Average Female Salary
$68,298
2022

About

The top three occupations in the Public finance activities Industry Group are tax examiners & collectors, & revenue agents, accountants & auditors, and property appraisers and assessors. On average, full-time employees in the Public finance activities Industry Group work 41 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $78,654. Part-time employees in the same industry work 19.9 hours and earn an average annual salary of $29,595.

The workforce of Public finance activities Industry Group in 2022 was 311,704 people, with 63.2% woman, and 36.8% men.

In 2022, 63.5% of the workforce in the Public finance activities Industry Group was White (197,944 people), of which 61.1% were women and 38.9% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Public finance activities Industry Group.

The workforce in Public finance activities Industry Group was 311,704 people and is concentrated in California (36,491 workers). The average annual salary was $76,011, being $11,329 more than the national average salary, which was $64,683.

Monthly Employment

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Start Year
Y-Axis
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 2022 were California (36.5k), Texas (24k), and New York (23.1k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2022, Public finance activities Industry Group had an average annual wage of $76,011, $11,329 more than the average national salary of $64,683.

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Wage Distribution

0.339
WAGE GINI

Public finance activities has a wage GINI of 0.339, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Public finance activities (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Public finance activities Industry Group.

Tax examiners & collectors, & revenue agents are the most common position with 51,725 workers, but the Public finance activities Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Accountants & auditors and Property appraisers and assessors.

The highest average salary in Public finance activities goes to Web and digital interface designers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Public finance activities Industry Group according to occupations. In 2022, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were tax examiners & collectors, & revenue agents (51,725 people), accountants & auditors (30,036 people), and property appraisers and assessors (21,986 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$89,233
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$4,322
$68,298
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$2,806

On average, Male workers in the Public finance activities Industry Group make 1.31 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Public finance activities Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Public finance 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 Public finance activities Industry Group.

The Public finance activities Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing Industry.

Industrial Flow

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Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Public finance activities Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Public finance 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

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HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
  2. Professional and business services
  3. Information

The Public finance activities Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing 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. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
  2. Professional and business services
  3. Wholesale trade

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

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Public finance activities Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 63.2% corresponds to women and 36.8% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $89,233 and $68,298.

75.2% of workers have a bachelors degree, some college or graduate degree.

Gender and Age

196,855
Women
63.2%
114,849
Men
36.8%

The workforce of Public finance activities industry in 2022 was 311,704 people, with 63.2% woman, and 36.8% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Public finance activities industry.

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Races

In 2022, 63.5% of the workforce in the Public finance activities industry was White (197,944 people), of which 61.1% were women and 38.9% 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 Public finance activities workers in 2022 were bachelors degree (112,976 people), some college (69,320 people), and graduate degree (52,119 people).

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