Couriers & messengers

Industry Group

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Workforce

3.22M

2019 BLS Estimate

Average Employee Age

38.8

Estimated Job Growth

7.03%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$43,888

Average Male Salary

$46,734

Average Female Salary

$47,822

About

The top three occupations in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group are Couriers & messengers, Driver/sales workers & truck drivers, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, Supervisors of transportation & material moving workers, and Other managers. On average, full-time employees in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group work 44.6 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $55,811. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.1 hours and earn an average annual salary of $18,347.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group are Collierville Town & Germantown City PUMA, TN, Memphis City (Southwest) PUMA, TN, and Louisville/Jefferson County (South Central) PUMA, KY. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Couriers & messengers.

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group. Couriers & messengers are the most common position, but the Couriers & messengers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Couriers & messengers, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Couriers & messengers goes to Economists.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

15.8%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 586k people employed in the Couriers and Messengers industry. This represents a 15.8% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Couriers and Messengers over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations by Share

3.22M

Workforce (BLS Estimate)

ACS Estimate: 865k

10.6%

1 Year Growth

± 3.45%

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were 3.22M people employed in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group in 2019.

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 10.6%, , from 782k people in 2019 to 865k people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Couriers & messengers by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Couriers & messengers represent the largest share of positions held in Couriers & messengers at 23.4%, followed by Driver/sales workers & truck drivers with 23% and Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand with 18.8%.

Average Salary

$43,888

AVERAGE WAGE

± $1,239

On average, employees in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group make $43,888 per year. This number makes Couriers & messengers the 195 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.

Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA

HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.454

WAGE GINI

Couriers & messengers has a wage GINI of 0.454, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Couriers & messengers (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Couriers & messengers Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Couriers & messengers Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn less than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $46,734 and $47,822. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

201k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±11k

664k

MALE WORKFORCE

±20k

76.7% of workers in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Couriers & messengers Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$46,734

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$1,452

$47,822

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$1,529

On average, Male workers in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group make 0.977 times less than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

White
Asian
Alaska Native

On average, White employees in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group earn 1.11 times more than other races and ethnicities. This chart shows the race and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in the Couriers & messengers Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Couriers & messengers 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. Transportation and warehousing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Couriers & messengers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Couriers & messengers 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.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Couriers & messengers is from Transportation & Warehousing, and Utilities.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Couriers & messengers is from Transportation & Warehousing, and Utilities.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Couriers & messengers Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Transportation and warehousing Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Couriers & messengers is from Transportation & Warehousing, and Utilities.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

Projections

Growth projections of the Couriers and messengers 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 Couriers and messengers industry has a lower projected workforce growth at 7.03%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (17.4%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.2%).

Job Growth

For growth projections, the closest comparible industry reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Couriers and messengers.

7.03%

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 Couriers and messengers. This industry is expected to grow less than than 7.66%, the average rate of national job growth.