Traveler accommodation

Industry Group

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Workforce

1.45M

2020 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

41.2

Average Salary

$35,845

Average Male Salary

$43,388

Average Female Salary

$42,201

About

The top three occupations in the Traveler accommodation Industry Group are Maids & housekeeping cleaners, Hotel, motel, & resort desk clerks, Lodging managers, Janitors & building cleaners, and Waiters & waitresses. On average, full-time employees in the Traveler accommodation Industry Group work 42.2 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $41,841. Part-time employees in the same industry work 24.3 hours and earn an average annual salary of $15,872.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Traveler accommodation Industry Group are Paradise (South) & Enterprise PUMA, NV, Spring Valley & Summerlin South PUMA, NV, and Paradise (Northwest) & Winchester PUMA, NV. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Traveler accommodation.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Traveler accommodation Industry Group. Maids & housekeeping cleaners are the most common position, but the Traveler accommodation Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Hotel, motel, & resort desk clerks, compared to other industries.

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

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

34.3%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 45k people employed in the Traveler Accommodation industry. This represents a 34.3% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

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

Occupations

Occupations by Share

1.45M

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 29.4k

−4.87%

1 Year Growth

± 2.98%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Traveler accommodation Industry Group has been declining at a rate of −4.87%, , from 1.52M people in 2019 to 1.45M people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Traveler accommodation by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Maids & housekeeping cleaners represent the largest share of positions held in Traveler accommodation at 22.4%, followed by Hotel, motel, & resort desk clerks with 9.3% and Lodging managers with 6.56%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Traveler accommodation Industry Group, by number of employees, are Maids & housekeeping cleaners, Hotel, motel, & resort desk clerks, Lodging managers, Janitors & building cleaners, and Waiters & waitresses.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Traveler accommodation employs an unusually high number of Hotel, motel, & resort desk clerks, Lodging managers, and Baggage porters, bellhops, & concierges.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Traveler accommodation, by average wage, are Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, Chief executives & legislators, and Social & human service assistants.

Wages

Average Salary

$35,845

AVERAGE WAGE

± $847

On average, employees in the Traveler accommodation Industry Group make $35,845 per year. This number makes Traveler accommodation the 230 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 Traveler accommodation Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.439

WAGE GINI

Traveler accommodation has a wage GINI of 0.439, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Traveler accommodation (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

Opportunities

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Traveler accommodation Industry Group.

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

Diversity

Demographic information on the Traveler accommodation Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $43,388 and $42,201. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

835k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±22.4k

611k

MALE WORKFORCE

±19.2k

57.7% of workers in the Traveler accommodation Industry Group are Female, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Traveler accommodation Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$43,388

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$1,572

$42,201

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$1,521

On average, Male workers in the Traveler accommodation Industry Group make 1.03 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Traveler accommodation 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 Traveler accommodation Industry Group earn 1.19 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 Traveler accommodation Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Traveler accommodation 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. Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Traveler accommodation Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Traveler accommodation Industry Group is Professional and business services.

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 Traveler accommodation is from Arts, Entertainment & Recreation and Accommodation & Food Services.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Traveler accommodation is from Arts, Entertainment & Recreation and Accommodation & Food Services.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Traveler accommodation 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 Traveler accommodation is from Arts, Entertainment & Recreation and Accommodation & Food Services.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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