Justice, public order, & safety activities

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The top three occupations in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group are police officers, correctional officers and jailers, and firefighters. On average, full-time employees in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group work 45.1 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $83,230. Part-time employees in the same industry work 19.4 hours and earn an average annual salary of $32,377.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group are Deep East Texas COG (West) & Walker County PUMA, TX, Del Norte, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas & Siskiyou Counties PUMA, CA, and Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Jefferson, Liberty, & Wakulla Counties PUMA, FL.

The workforce of Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group in 2024 was 2,933,015 people, with 34.8% woman, and 65.2% men.

In 2024, 66.8% of the workforce in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group was White (1,957,936 people), of which 31.4% were women and 68.6% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group.

The workforce in Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group was 2,933,015 people and is concentrated in California (312,755 workers). The average annual salary was $80,552, being $10,675 more than the national average salary, which was $69,878.

Monthly Employment

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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.

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

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2024 were California (313k), Texas (261k), and New York (205k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2024, Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group had an average annual wage of $80,552, $10,675 more than the average national salary of $69,878.

The graph shows the position of Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.317

WAGE GINI

Justice, public order, & safety activities has a wage GINI of 0.317, which is less than than the national average of 0.474. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Justice, public order, & safety activities (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

The graphic shows the distribution of average salaries by buckets for Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group.

Police officers are the most common position with 733,301 workers, but the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Correctional officers and jailers and Firefighters.

The highest average salary in Justice, public order, & safety activities goes to Physicians.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group according to occupations. In 2024, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were police officers (733,301 people), correctional officers and jailers (336,947 people), and firefighters (323,224 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$87,452

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$939

$67,640

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$1,143

On average, Male workers in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group make 1.29 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Justice, public order, & safety 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 Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group.

The Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Manufacturing Industry.

Industrial Flow

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Manufacturing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group is Wholesale trade.

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.

Intermediate Inputs

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HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

Manufacturing
Professional and business services
Information

The Justice, public order, & safety activities 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 Justice, public order, & safety activities is from Public Administration.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Wholesale trade Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Justice, public order, & safety activities Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 34.8% corresponds to women and 65.2% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $87,452 and $67,640.

70.6% of workers have a bachelors degree, some college or high school or equivalent.

Gender and Age

1,021,420

Women

34.8%

1,911,595

Men

65.2%

The workforce of Justice, public order, & safety activities industry in 2024 was 2,933,015 people, with 34.8% woman, and 65.2% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Justice, public order, & safety activities industry.

Races

In 2024, 66.8% of the workforce in the Justice, public order, & safety activities industry was White (1,957,936 people), of which 31.4% were women and 68.6% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Black and Two or More Races.

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Justice, public order, & safety activities workers in 2024 were bachelors degree (809,498 people), some college (772,888 people), and high school or equivalent (488,595 people).

The chart shows the Justice, public order, & safety activities workforce by gender and educational level.

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Industry Group

Justice, public order, & safety activities

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