Transportation & Warehousing

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Workforce

6.64M

2017 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

43.9

Estimated Job Growth

N/A%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$49,226

Average Male Salary

$52,573

Average Female Salary

$39,763

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Input/Output

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The top three occupations in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Group are Driver/sales workers & truck drivers, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, Taxi drivers & chauffeurs, Postal service mail carriers, and Bus drivers. On average, full-time employees in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector work 45.7 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $53,718. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.2 hours and earn an average annual salary of $23,547.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector are Clayton County (North)Forest Park City PUMA, GA, Memphis City (Southwest) PUMA, TN, and Fontana City (East) PUMA, CA. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Transportation & Warehousing.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector. Driver/sales workers & truck drivers are the most common position, but the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector employs a relatively high number of Postal service mail sorters, processors, & processing machine operators, compared to other industries. 

The highest average salary in Transportation & Warehousing goes to Aircraft pilots & flight engineers.

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Occupations by Share

6.64M

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 61.8k

5%

1 Year Growth

± 1.27%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector has been growing at a rate of 5%, , from 6.33M people in 2016 to 6.64M people in 2017.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Transportation & Warehousing by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Driver/sales workers & truck drivers represent the largest share of positions held in Transportation & Warehousing at 23.4%, followed by Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand with 7.1% and Taxi drivers & chauffeurs with 5.23%.

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Most Common

The most common occupations in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector, by number of employees, are Driver/sales workers & truck drivers, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, Taxi drivers & chauffeurs, Postal service mail carriers, and Bus drivers.

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Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Sub-Sectors, Transportation & Warehousing employs an unusually high number of Postal service mail sorters, processors, & processing machine operators, Postal service mail carriers, and Postal service clerks.

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Transportation & Warehousing, by average wage, are Aircraft pilots & flight engineers, Web developers, and Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

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Wages

Average Salary

$49,226

AVERAGE WAGE

± $449

On average, employees in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector make $49,226 per year. This number makes Transportation & Warehousing the 7 highest paying Industry Sub-Sector in the United States out of a total of 21 Industry Sub-Sectors.

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Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA

HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS

  1. Cobb County (Northeast) PUMA, GA

  2. Fairfield, New Canaan, Wilton, Weston & Easton Towns PUMA, CT

  3. District of Columbia (Central) PUMA, DC

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector.

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Wage Distribution

0.398

WAGE GINI

Transportation & Warehousing has a wage GINI of 0.398, which is less than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Transportation & Warehousing (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Opportunities

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

  1. Clayton County (North)Forest Park City PUMA, GA

  2. Memphis City (Southwest) PUMA, TN

  3. Fontana City (East) PUMA, CA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector.

These are locations that employ more people in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $52,573 and $39,763. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

1.74M

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±32.2k

4.91M

MALE WORKFORCE

±53.5k

73.9% of workers in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector are Male, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector.

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Wage by Gender in Common Jobs

$52,573

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$556

$39,763

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$664

On average, Male workers in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector make 1.32 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector.

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Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

  1. White

  2. Asian

  3. Two or More Races

On average, White employees in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector earn 1.08 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 Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector.

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Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector. Based on estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this section indicates the amount of money spent by a specific industry in other industries. Transportation and warehousing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector is Manufacturing.

In this visualization, click on a category to expand or collapse it. 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 Transportation & Warehousing is from Transportation & Warehousing, and Utilities.

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Intermediate Inputs

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

  1. Transportation and warehousing

  2. Manufacturing

  3. Professional and business services

The Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Transportation and warehousing Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

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Use of Output by Other Industries

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

  1. Manufacturing

  2. Transportation and warehousing

  3. Retail trade

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

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Projections

Growth projections of the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 8.13% in the next ten years. The Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector has a lower projected workforce growth at N/A%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (N/A%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.6%).

Job Growth

N/A%

ESTIMATED GROWTH

8.13%

NATIONAL AVERAGE

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in the number of jobs for the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector, which is lower than the national average of 8.13%.

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Output Growth

N/A%

ESTIMATED GROWTH

24.6%

NATIONAL AVERAGE

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in output of the Transportation & Warehousing Industry Sub-Sector, which is lower than the national average of 24.6%

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