Plastics product manufacturing

Industry Group

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Workforce
599k
2019 BLS Estimate
Average Employee Age
43.8
Estimated Job Growth
−8.31%
10-Year Projection
Average Salary
$52,900
Average Male Salary
$58,259
Average Female Salary
$56,326

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The top three occupations in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group are Miscellaneous metal workers & plastic workers, including multiple machine tool setters, Firstline supervisors of production & operating workers, Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors, Other assemblers and fabricators, and Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand. On average, full-time employees in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group work 43.6 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $54,358. Part-time employees in the same industry work 22.4 hours and earn an average annual salary of $23,946.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group are Barren River Area Development District (Outer) PUMA, KY, Ashtabula County PUMA, OH, and Noble, DeKalb, LaGrange & Steuben Counties PUMA, IN. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Plastics product manufacturing.

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A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group. Miscellaneous metal workers & plastic workers, including multiple machine tool setters are the most common position, but the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Model makers, patternmakers, & molding machine setters, metal & plastic, compared to other industries. 

The highest average salary in Plastics product manufacturing goes to Personal financial advisors.

Monthly Employment

Start Year
Y-Axis
15.6%
Year-over-year growth
Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 138k people employed in the Plastics Product Manufacturing industry. This represents a 15.6% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

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Occupations by Share

599k
Workforce (BLS Estimate)
ACS Estimate: 451k
0.244%
1 Year Growth
± 5.15%

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were 599k people employed in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group in 2019.

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 0.244%, , from 450k people in 2019 to 451k people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Plastics product manufacturing by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Miscellaneous metal workers & plastic workers, including multiple machine tool setters represent the largest share of positions held in Plastics product manufacturing at 13%, followed by Firstline supervisors of production & operating workers with 6.4% and Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors with 6.36%.

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Most Common

The most common occupations in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group, by number of employees, are Miscellaneous metal workers & plastic workers, including multiple machine tool setters, Firstline supervisors of production & operating workers, Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors, Other assemblers and fabricators, and Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand.

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Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Plastics product manufacturing employs an unusually high number of Model makers, patternmakers, & molding machine setters, metal & plastic, Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, and Miscellaneous metal workers & plastic workers, including multiple machine tool setters.

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Plastics product manufacturing, by average wage, are Personal financial advisors, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Chief executives & legislators.

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Average Salary

$52,900
AVERAGE WAGE
± $1,928

On average, employees in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group make $52,900 per year. This number makes Plastics product manufacturing the 155 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.

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Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA
HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS
  1. Collier County (Southwest) PUMA, FL
  2. Flower Mound Town & Highland Village City PUMA, TX
  3. North of I-30 PUMA, TX (79500US4802313)

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group.

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Wage Distribution

0.394
WAGE GINI

Plastics product manufacturing has a wage GINI of 0.394, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Plastics product manufacturing (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA
  1. Barren River Area Development District (Outer) PUMA, KY
  2. Ashtabula County PUMA, OH
  3. Noble, DeKalb, LaGrange & Steuben Counties PUMA, IN

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group.

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

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Demographic information on the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $58,259 and $56,326. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

140k
FEMALE WORKFORCE
±9.18k
311k
MALE WORKFORCE
±13.7k

69% of workers in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group.

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$58,259
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$2,529
$56,326
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$2,471

On average, Male workers in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group make 1.03 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group.

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Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY
  1. White
  2. Asian
  3. Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander

On average, White employees in the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group earn 1.08 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 Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group.

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Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Plastics product 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. Manufacturing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Plastics product manufacturing Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Plastics product 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.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Plastics product manufacturing is from Manufacturing.
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Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Plastics product manufacturing is from Manufacturing.
HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Manufacturing
  2. Wholesale trade
  3. Professional and business services

The Plastics product 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.

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Use of Output by Other Industries

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LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
  1. Manufacturing
  2. Construction
  3. Educational services, health care, and social assistance

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

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Growth projections of the Plastics product manufacturing 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 Plastics product manufacturing industry has a lower projected workforce growth at −8.31%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (14.6%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.2%).

Job Growth

−8.31%
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 Plastics product manufacturing. This industry is expected to grow less than than 7.66%, the average rate of national job growth.

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Output Growth

14.6%
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10-year Projection

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in output of the Plastics product manufacturing industry.

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