Sugar & confectionery products

Industry Group

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Workforce

78.8k

2019 BLS Estimate

Average Employee Age

43.4

Estimated Job Growth

−15.2%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$55,190

Average Male Salary

$63,519

Average Female Salary

$62,376

About

The top three occupations in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group are Food processing workers, all other, Packaging & filling machine operators & tenders, Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors, Packers & packagers, hand, and Food batchmakers. On average, full-time employees in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group work 43.9 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $59,133. Part-time employees in the same industry work 22.6 hours and earn an average annual salary of $16,768.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group are Lebanon County PUMA, PA, Hershey PUMA, PA, and Glades & Western Communities PUMA, FL. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Sugar & confectionery products.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group. Food processing workers, all other are the most common position, but the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Food processing workers, all other, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Sugar & confectionery products goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Monthly Employment

Showing data for the Manufacturing industry sector.

Start Year

Y-Axis

6.34%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 12.3M people employed in the Manufacturing industry. This represents a 6.34% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

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

Occupations by Share

78.8k

Workforce (BLS Estimate)

ACS Estimate: 80.3k

0.576%

1 Year Growth

± 12.2%

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were 78.8k people employed in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group in 2019.

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 0.576%, , from 79.8k people in 2019 to 80.3k people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Sugar & confectionery products by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Food processing workers, all other represent the largest share of positions held in Sugar & confectionery products at 10.5%, followed by Packaging & filling machine operators & tenders with 9.01% and Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors with 5.65%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group, by number of employees, are Food processing workers, all other, Packaging & filling machine operators & tenders, Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors, Packers & packagers, hand, and Food batchmakers.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Sugar & confectionery products employs an unusually high number of Food processing workers, all other, Food batchmakers, and Food cooking machine operators & tenders.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Sugar & confectionery products, by average wage, are Chief executives & legislators, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Financial managers.

Average Salary

$55,190

AVERAGE WAGE

± $4,966

On average, employees in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group make $55,190 per year. This number makes Sugar & confectionery products the 136 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.

Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA

HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.434

WAGE GINI

Sugar & confectionery products has a wage GINI of 0.434, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Sugar & confectionery products (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $63,519 and $62,376. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

34k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±4.53k

46.3k

MALE WORKFORCE

±5.28k

57.7% of workers in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$63,519

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$6,876

$62,376

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$6,884

On average, Male workers in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group make 1.02 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Asian
White
Two or More Races

On average, Asian employees in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group earn 1.12 times more than other races and ethnicities. This chart shows the race and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Sugar & confectionery products 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. Manufacturing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group is Manufacturing.

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.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Sugar & confectionery products is from Manufacturing.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Sugar & confectionery products is from Manufacturing.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Sugar & confectionery products Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Manufacturing Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Sugar & confectionery products is from Manufacturing.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

Projections

Growth projections of the Sugar and confectionery product manufacturing industry, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 7.66% in the next ten years. The Sugar and confectionery product manufacturing industry has a lower projected workforce growth at −15.2%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (4.04%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.2%).

Job Growth

For growth projections, the closest comparible industry reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Sugar and confectionery product manufacturing.

−15.2%

Estimated Job Growth

10-year Projection

7.66%

National Growth

10-year Projection

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in the number of jobs for Sugar and confectionery product manufacturing. This industry is expected to grow less than than 7.66%, the average rate of national job growth.