Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

162k

2021

Average Employee Age

43.2

2021

Estimated Job Growth

−8.42%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$54,090

2021

Average Male Salary

$60,472

2021

Average Female Salary

$43,904

2021

About

The top three occupations in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group are packaging & filling machine operators & tenders, food processing workers, all other, and firstline supervisors of production & operating workers. On average, full-time employees in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group work 44.2 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $55,975. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.3 hours and earn an average annual salary of $22,966.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group are Grant & Kittitas Counties PUMA, WA, Jackson, Hocking, Pike & Vinton Counties PUMA, OH, and Los Banos & Livingston Cities PUMA, CA.

The workforce of Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group in 2021 was 161,826 people, with 38.5% woman, and 61.5% men.

In 2021, 62.7% of the workforce in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group was White (101,439 people), of which 36.2% were women and 63.8% men.

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Manufacturing

Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group.

The workforce in Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group was 161,826 people and is concentrated in California (30,548 workers). The average annual salary was $54,090, being $5,506 less than the national average salary, which was $59,596.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

6.55%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 55.3k people employed in the Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing industry. This represents a 6.55% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2021 were California (30.5k), Ohio (9.72k), and Wisconsin (8.49k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2021, Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group had an average annual wage of $54,090, $5,506 less than the average national salary of $59,596.

The graph shows the position of Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.425

WAGE GINI

Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing has a wage GINI of 0.425, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing (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 Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group.

Packaging & filling machine operators & tenders are the most common position with 19,016 workers, but the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Food processing workers, all other and Firstline supervisors of production & operating workers.

The highest average salary in Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group according to occupations. In 2021, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were packaging & filling machine operators & tenders (19,016 people), food processing workers, all other (13,931 people), and firstline supervisors of production & operating workers (9,426 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$60,472

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$5,163

$43,904

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$4,427

On average, Male workers in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group make 1.38 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing 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 Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group.

The Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Manufacturing Industry.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing is from Manufacturing.

Manufacturing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group is Manufacturing.

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

The closest comparable data for Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing is from Manufacturing.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing 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 Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing is from Manufacturing.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Manufacturing Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 38.5% corresponds to women and 61.5% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $60,472 and $43,904.

67.8% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

Gender and Age

62,335

Women

38.5%

99,491

Men

61.5%

The workforce of Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing industry in 2021 was 161,826 people, with 38.5% woman, and 61.5% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing industry.

Races

In 2021, 62.7% of the workforce in the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing industry was White (101,439 people), of which 36.2% were women and 63.8% men.

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

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing workers in 2021 were high school or equivalent (57,664 people), some college (28,721 people), and bachelors degree (23,259 people).

The chart shows the Fruit & vegetable preserving & specialty food manufacturing workforce by gender and educational level.

Projections

Growth projections of the Fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty industry, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 7.66% in the next ten years. The Fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty industry has a lower projected workforce growth at −8.42%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (8.86%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.2%).

Job Growth

For growth projections, the closest comparable industry reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty.

−8.42%

Estimated Job Growth

10-year Projection

7.66%

National Growth

10-year Projection

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in the number of jobs for Fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty. This industry is expected to grow less than than 7.66%, the average rate of national job growth.