Public finance activities

Industry Group

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    Workforce Population
    323k
    2024
    Average Employee Age
    47.1
    2024
    Average Salary
    $80,299
    2024
    Average Male Salary
    $93,151
    2024
    Average Female Salary
    $72,593
    2024

    About

    The top three occupations in the Public finance activities Industry Group are tax examiners & collectors, & revenue agents, accountants & auditors, and property appraisers and assessors. On average, full-time employees in the Public finance activities Industry Group work 41.1 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $82,975. Part-time employees in the same industry work 18.9 hours and earn an average annual salary of $31,503.

    The workforce of Public finance activities Industry Group in 2024 was 323,254 people, with 62.5% woman, and 37.5% men.

    In 2024, 58.8% of the workforce in the Public finance activities Industry Group was White (189,960 people), of which 60.7% were women and 39.3% men.

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    Employment & Salaries

    A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Public finance activities Industry Group.

    The workforce in Public finance activities Industry Group was 323,254 people and is concentrated in California (36,501 workers). The average annual salary was $80,299, being $10,422 more than the national average salary, which was $69,878.

    Monthly Employment

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    Y-Axis
    2%
    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.

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    Employment by Location

    The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2024 were California (36.5k), Texas (24.9k), and New York (24.1k).

    This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Public finance activities Industry Group.

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    Yearly Wage Ranking

    In 2024, Public finance activities Industry Group had an average annual wage of $80,299, $10,422 more than the average national salary of $69,878.

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    Wage Distribution

    0.336
    WAGE GINI

    Public finance activities has a wage GINI of 0.336, which is less than than the national average of 0.474. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Public finance 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 Public finance activities Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

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    Occupations

    A review of jobs and wages in the Public finance activities Industry Group.

    Tax examiners & collectors, & revenue agents are the most common position with 55,132 workers, but the Public finance activities Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Accountants & auditors and Property appraisers and assessors.

    The highest average salary in Public finance activities goes to Web and digital interface designers.

    Occupations Distribution

    The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Public finance activities Industry Group according to occupations. In 2024, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were tax examiners & collectors, & revenue agents (55,132 people), accountants & auditors (29,636 people), and property appraisers and assessors (21,348 people)

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    Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

    $93,151
    AVERAGE MALE SALARY
    ±$4,339
    $72,593
    AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
    ±$2,966

    On average, Male workers in the Public finance activities Industry Group make 1.28 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Public finance activities Industry Group.

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    Business

    Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Public finance 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 Public finance activities Industry Group.

    The Public finance activities Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing Industry.

    Industrial Flow

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    Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Public finance activities Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Public finance activities Industry Group is Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing.

    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.

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    Intermediate Inputs

    The closest comparable data for Public finance activities is from Public Administration.
    HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
    1. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
    2. Professional and business services
    3. Information

    The Public finance activities Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

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    Use of Output by Other Industries

    The closest comparable data for Public finance activities is from Public Administration.
    LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
    1. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
    2. Professional and business services
    3. Transportation and warehousing

    The Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Public finance activities Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Public finance activities Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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    Diversity

    Demographic information on the Public finance activities Industry Group in the US.

    Of the total workforce, 62.5% corresponds to women and 37.5% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $93,151 and $72,593.

    75.4% of workers have a bachelors degree, some college or graduate degree.

    Gender and Age

    202,087
    Women
    62.5%
    121,167
    Men
    37.5%

    The workforce of Public finance activities industry in 2024 was 323,254 people, with 62.5% woman, and 37.5% men.

    The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Public finance activities industry.

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    Races

    In 2024, 58.8% of the workforce in the Public finance activities industry was White (189,960 people), of which 60.7% were women and 39.3% men.

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

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    Educational Levels

    The main educational levels achieved by the Public finance activities workers in 2024 were bachelors degree (116,663 people), some college (67,460 people), and graduate degree (59,653 people).

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