Specialized design services

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The top three occupations in the Specialized design services Industry Group are Other designers, Graphic designers, Interior designers, Other managers, and Artists & related workers. On average, full-time employees in the Specialized design services Industry Group work 44 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $69,765. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.7 hours and earn an average annual salary of $29,529.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Specialized design services Industry Group are Battery Park City, Greenwich Village & Soho PUMA, NY, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens & Red Hook PUMA, NY, and Greenpoint & Williamsburg PUMA, NY. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Specialized design services.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Specialized design services Industry Group. Other designers are the most common position, but the Specialized design services Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Interior designers, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Specialized design services goes to Miscellaneous social scientists, including survey researchers & sociologists.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

5.64%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 43.1k people employed in the Specialized Design Services industry. This represents a 5.64% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Specialized Design Services over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations by Share

144k

Workforce (BLS Estimate)

ACS Estimate: 269k

1.64%

1 Year Growth

± 6.6%

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were 144k people employed in the Specialized design services Industry Group in 2019.

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Specialized design services Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 1.64%, , from 265k people in 2019 to 269k people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Specialized design services by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Other designers represent the largest share of positions held in Specialized design services at 20.5%, followed by Graphic designers with 19.6% and Interior designers with 13.2%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Specialized design services Industry Group, by number of employees, are Other designers, Graphic designers, Interior designers, Other managers, and Artists & related workers.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Specialized design services employs an unusually high number of Interior designers, Fashion designers, and Graphic designers.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Specialized design services, by average wage, are Miscellaneous social scientists, including survey researchers & sociologists, Electrical & electronics engineers, and Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Average Salary

$61,006

AVERAGE WAGE

± $3,055

On average, employees in the Specialized design services Industry Group make $61,006 per year. This number makes Specialized design services the 97 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 Specialized design services Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.45

WAGE GINI

Specialized design services has a wage GINI of 0.45, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Specialized design services (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 Specialized design services Industry Group.

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

Diversity

Demographic information on the Specialized design services Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $71,177 and $69,957. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

154k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±9.62k

116k

MALE WORKFORCE

±8.35k

57% of workers in the Specialized design services Industry Group are Female, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Specialized design services Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$71,177

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$5,068

$69,957

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$5,093

On average, Male workers in the Specialized design services Industry Group make 1.02 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Specialized design services Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Asian
White
Two or More Races

On average, Asian employees in the Specialized design services Industry Group earn 1.16 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 Specialized design services Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Specialized design services 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. Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Specialized design services Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Specialized design services Industry Group is Professional and business services.

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 Specialized design services is from Professional, Scientific & Management, and Administrative & Waste Management Services.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Specialized design services is from Professional, Scientific & Management, and Administrative & Waste Management Services.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Specialized design services 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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Specialized design services is from Professional, Scientific & Management, and Administrative & Waste Management Services.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

Projections

Growth projections of the Specialized design services 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 Specialized design services industry has a lower projected workforce growth at −4.16%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (21.9%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.2%).

Job Growth

−4.16%

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 Specialized design services. This industry is expected to grow less than than 7.66%, the average rate of national job growth.

Output Growth

21.9%

Estimate Growth

10-year Projection

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in output of the Specialized design services industry.

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