May 2024 Occupational Employment and Wages — 2025-04-02

Production occupations had employment of 8.7 million in May 2024, representing 5.7 percent of total national employment, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The largest production occupations were miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators (1.5 million) and first-line supervisors of production and operating workers (685,140). The annual mean wage across all production occupations was $50,090, less than the U.S. average wage of $67,920. The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program provides employment and wage estimates for about 830 occupations in the nation, states, and approximately 530 areas. National data are available by industry for approximately 410 industry classifications and by ownership across all industries and for the educational services and hospitals industries. This news release features production, architecture and engineering, and building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations, in addition to largest occupations and public sector occupations. National employment and wage information for all occupations is shown in table 1.