Counselors

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Average Male Salary
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Average Female Salary
$42,327

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Counselors are most often employed by the N/A industry. The average yearly wage for Counselors was N/A in N/A.

Employment

Employment and salary information for the Counselors workforce. Counselors workforce in 2017 was 743,109 people, of which 71.8% were women and 28.2% were men. Counselors are paid most in Cook County (South)--Bloom & Rich Townships PUMA, IL but are relatively concentrated in Virginia's Region 2000 (South)--Campbell County & Lynchburg City PUMA, VA.

Employment Over Time

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Grouping
209,802
Male Workforce
± 11.2k
533,307
Female Workforce
± 17.9k

The Counselors workforce in 2017 was 743,109 people (71.8% women and 28.2% men). This implies an average annual growth of 10.4% between 2014 (672,851) and 2017 (743,109).

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Employment by Location

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Yearly Wage Ranking

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$67,727
NATIONAL AVERAGE WAGE
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In 2017, Counselors earned an average of $42,904, $24,823 less than the average national salary of $67,727

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Wage Distribution

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WAGE GINI

In N/A, Counselors had a wage GINI coefficient of N/A, which is lower than the national average of N/A. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly for Counselors (shown in red) than for the overall labor force (shown in gray).

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Industry

Information on the industries that employ Counselors and on wages for those in the field. N/A is the industry that employs the most Counselors, both by share and by number, though the highest paid industry for Counselors, by average wage, is N/A (N/A).

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Diversity

Demographic information on Counselors in the US. The workforce of Counselors in 2017 was 743,109 people, with 71.8% woman, and 28.2% men. The average age of male Counselors in the workforce is 42.6 and of female Counselors is 41.5, and the most common race/ethnicity for Counselors is N/A.

Gender and Age

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The workforce of Counselors in 2017 was 743,109 people, with 71.8% woman, and 28.2% men.

The age ranges that concentrated the largest workforce were 30 to 34 years (103,288 people), 25 to 29 years (99,956  people), and 35 to 39 years (89,309 people). Among them they concentrated 39.4% of the total workforce.

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Ethnicity

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In N/A, N/A% of Counselors workers were Hispanic and N/A% non-Hispanic.

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Races

In N/A, N/A% of the Counselors workforce were N/A, of which 73.5% were women and 26.5% men. Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were N/A (N/A%) and N/A (N/A%).

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Education & Skills

Data on higher education choices for Counselors from The Department of Education and Census Bureau. The most common major for Counselors is Psychology but the most specialized major according to RCA in 2017 were Psychology.

Among the necessary skills for Counselors, Social Perceptiveness stands, but the revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Counselors need more than the average amount of Science.

Majors

ACS PUMS data only shows the major for bachelor's degrees. However, we can filter the data based on highest degree obtained.
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The most common majors achieved by Counselors in 2017 (counting all academic degrees) were Psychology (162,707 people), Education (84,517 people), and Business (47,003 people).

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Education Levels

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The main educational levels achieved by the Counselors workers were N/A (N/A people), N/A (N/A people), and N/A (N/A people).

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Skills

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Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for Counselors from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Counselors need many skills, but most especially Social Perceptiveness, Active Listening, Reading Comprehension.

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