Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges | Data USA

4.16%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 25.2M people employed in the Education and Health Services industry. This represents a 4.16% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Education and Health Services over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2022 were California (469k), New York (315k), and Texas (315k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges Industry Group.

In 2022, Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges Industry Group had an average annual wage of $62,568, $2,114 less than the average national salary of $64,683.

The graph shows the position of Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges has a wage GINI of 0.485, which is more than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges (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 Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges Industry Group according to occupations. In 2022, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were postsecondary teachers (1,410,277 people), education administrators (332,916 people), and teaching assistants (150,946 people)

On average, Male workers in the Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges Industry Group make 1.33 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges Industry Group.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges Industry Group is Educational services, health care, and social assistance.

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.

The Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges 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.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Educational services, health care, and social assistance Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

States with more establishments in 2016

1. 28,428

2. 16,544

3. 14,180

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

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The workforce of Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges industry in 2022 was 4,424,779 people, with 55% woman, and 45% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges industry.

In 2022, 68.5% of the workforce in the Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges industry was White (3,032,243 people), of which 55% were women and 45% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Asian and Black.

The main educational levels achieved by the Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges workers in 2022 were graduate degree (1,978,423 people), bachelors degree (1,089,426 people), and some college (757,493 people).

The chart shows the Colleges, universities & professional schools, including junior colleges workforce by gender and educational level.