Friday, April 13, 2012

Staffing by Industry: Part II ? Top 5 Occupation Sectors ? EMSI ...

Because EMSI?s staffing patterns are such a unique aspect of Analyst, we?ve devoted three posts to exploring a slightly different view of these data. In Part I we identified the occupation sectors with the strongest, most consistent presence across industry sectors. In Part III we?ll look at how the 20 industry sectors relate to five-digit occupations.

In the last post, we found occupation sectors with consistently high employment percentages across the industry sectors. Now, in this post we?re going to delve into the top five of these and pull them apart to see why they show up in the data the way they do.

The top five occupation sectors are:

Occupation SectorAverage Employment % Across All Industry Sectors
Office and administrative support occupations17.5%
Sales and related occupations8.8%
Transportation and material moving occupations7.7%
Construction and extraction occupations6.6%
Management occupations6.2%

Now we?ll take these one by one and look at the percentage employment for each of them across all of the industry sectors.

Office and administrative support occupations have the highest average percent share (17.5%). We would expect this occupation sector to work in most industries, since they all employ administrative workers, supervisors, and so on. These occupations find their focus strongly in finance and insurance industries. In that industry sector they make up nearly half of the total employment. Their presence in management of companies and enterprises (28.3%), as well as transportation and warehousing (27.9%), is also very high.

Occupation SectorAverage17.5%
Office and administrative support occupationsFinance and Insurance47.8%
Management of Companies and Enterprises28.3%
Transportation and Warehousing27.9%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services23.2%
Wholesale Trade23.2%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing22.4%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services22.0%
Information21.1%
Utilities20.1%
Retail Trade17.2%
Health Care and Social Assistance16.8%
Government13.3%
Other Services (except Public Administration)13.0%
Educational Services11.2%
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation9.3%
Manufacturing8.9%
Construction8.5%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction7.3%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting4.4%
Accommodation and Food Services3.8%

Sales and related occupations is the the next most consistently staffed sector (8.8%). Retail trade shows the greatest percentage presence (55.2%), which is followed by wholesale trade (27.5%) and the real estate sector (23.8%). After that though, the industry falls off pretty sharply. At the bottom of the list, we find the least staffing in industries that sell themselves like health care (0.4%) and educational services (0.3%).

Occupation SectorAverage8.8%
Sales and related occupationsRetail Trade55.2%
Wholesale Trade27.5%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing23.8%
Information13.3%
Finance and Insurance12.8%
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation8.2%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services6.2%
Management of Companies and Enterprises5.3%
Other Services (except Public Administration)5.1%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services4.5%
Accommodation and Food Services3.0%
Manufacturing2.9%
Construction1.7%
Utilities1.6%
Transportation and Warehousing1.6%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction1.1%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting0.7%
Government0.5%
Health Care and Social Assistance0.4%
Educational Services0.3%

Transportation occupations are predictably focused in the transportation and warehousing industry sector (52.8%), and then in other industries that need to move physical goods from one place to another like wholesale trade (20.7%) and mining (13.4%). Information industries naturally see the smallest presence of these occupations, with finance and insurance showing 0.0%, since they sell nothing that amounts to a physical good, and therefore do not need to transport anything.

Occupation SectorAverage7.7%
Transportation and material moving occupationsTransportation and Warehousing52.8%
Wholesale Trade20.7%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction13.4%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services11.0%
Manufacturing8.8%
Other Services (except Public Administration)7.8%
Retail Trade7.2%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing6.3%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting6.2%
Construction3.5%
Management of Companies and Enterprises3.2%
Government2.9%
Utilities2.2%
Educational Services2.0%
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation1.9%
Accommodation and Food Services1.9%
Information1.8%
Health Care and Social Assistance0.7%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services0.7%
Finance and Insurance0.0%

Construction occupations show up as very strong percentages of two industry sectors, construction (66.9%), and mining, etc. (45.0%). They then have very small presences throughout the other industry sectors, and virtually no presence in accommodation and food services (0.0%) and finance and insurance (0.0%).

Occupation SectorAverage6.6%
Construction and extraction occupationsConstruction66.9%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction45.0%
Utilities6.5%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services3.9%
Government2.4%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing1.8%
Manufacturing1.7%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services0.8%
Transportation and Warehousing0.6%
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation0.5%
Management of Companies and Enterprises0.5%
Educational Services0.4%
Retail Trade0.4%
Other Services (except Public Administration)0.3%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting0.3%
Wholesale Trade0.3%
Information0.1%
Health Care and Social Assistance0.1%
Accommodation and Food Services0.0%
Finance and Insurance0.0%

Management occupations are staffed fairly evenly, but not in particularly high concentrations, which makes sense. They make up 18.0% of management of companies and enterprises, and moderate portions of agriculture, etc. (15.7%), and real estate, etc. (10.0%). Accommodation and food services (2.6%) and retail trade (2.1%) are the two industry sectors that get by with the lowest concentration of management occupations.

Occupation SectorAverage6.2%
Management occupationsManagement of Companies and Enterprises18.0%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting15.7%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing10.0%
Finance and Insurance8.2%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services7.5%
Information7.3%
Utilities6.2%
Wholesale Trade5.8%
Construction5.0%
Manufacturing5.0%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction4.6%
Educational Services4.5%
Government4.5%
Other Services (except Public Administration)4.3%
Health Care and Social Assistance3.4%
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation3.4%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services3.1%
Transportation and Warehousing2.9%
Accommodation and Food Services2.6%
Retail Trade2.1%

When we look at occupation sectors this way we get a much more nuanced view of how they interact with industry sectors. We get insight into how densely focused some of these occupation sectors are on just a couple industry sectors, as in construction occupations. We get to see how some occupations play the field, and end up spread across a variety of industries. Understanding these broad level relationships gives us better context for these occupations, and thus a better understanding of the labor market.

If you?d like to explore this data further, we?re also providing the Excel table here. Play with it and let us know if you come up with anything interesting.

The next step we?ll take will be to look at this data broken out further by 5-digit SOC codes. Look for that data in the next post.

Find out more about EMSI here. You can reach us via Twitter @DesktopEcon or by emailing Josh Stevenson (josh@economicmodeling.com).

Illustration by Mark Beauchamp.

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