Specialty food stores

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Workforce

207k

2019 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

40.1

Average Salary

$33,754

Average Male Salary

$41,736

Average Female Salary

$35,736

About

The top three occupations in the Specialty food stores Industry Group are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cashiers, Butchers & other meat, poultry, & fish processing workers, and Food preparation workers. On average, full-time employees in the Specialty food stores Industry Group work 43.6 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $45,659. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20.7 hours and earn an average annual salary of $12,143.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Specialty food stores Industry Group are Jackson Heights & North Corona PUMA, NY, St. Clair County (Northwest, Southwest & Southeast) PUMA, IL, and Yeadon, Darby, Lansdowne Boroughs & Drexel Hill PUMA, PA. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Specialty food stores.

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Retail Trade

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Specialty food stores Industry Group. Retail salespersons are the most common position, but the Specialty food stores Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Butchers & other meat, poultry, & fish processing workers, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Specialty food stores goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

17.5%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 47.6k people employed in the Specialty Food Stores industry. This represents a 17.5% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Specialty Food Stores over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations

Occupations by Share

207k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 11.2k

−0.325%

1 Year Growth

± 7.64%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Specialty food stores Industry Group has been declining at a rate of −0.325%, , from 208k people in 2018 to 207k people in 2019.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Specialty food stores by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Retail salespersons represent the largest share of positions held in Specialty food stores at 15.8%, followed by Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 15.6% and Cashiers with 13.3%.

Wages

Average Salary

$33,754

AVERAGE WAGE

± $2,680

On average, employees in the Specialty food stores Industry Group make $33,754 per year. This number makes Specialty food stores the 235 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 Specialty food stores Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.517

WAGE GINI

Specialty food stores has a wage GINI of 0.517, which is more than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Specialty food stores (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

Opportunities

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Specialty food stores Industry Group.

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

Diversity

Demographic information on the Specialty food stores Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $41,736 and $35,736. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

101k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±7.79k

106k

MALE WORKFORCE

±8k

51.3% of workers in the Specialty food stores Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Specialty food stores Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$41,736

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$4,584

$35,736

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$3,699

On average, Male workers in the Specialty food stores Industry Group make 1.17 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Specialty food stores Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Other
White
Two or More Races

On average, Other employees in the Specialty food stores Industry Group earn 1.1 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 Specialty food stores Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Specialty food stores 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 Specialty food stores Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Specialty food stores Industry Group is Construction.

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 Specialty food stores is from Retail Trade.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Specialty food stores is from Retail Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Specialty food stores 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 Specialty food stores is from Retail Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

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