Hospitals: NAICS 622

About the Hospitals subsector

The hospitals subsector is part of the health care and social assistance sector.

The hospitals subsector consists of these industry groups:

• General Medical and Surgical Hospitals: NAICS 6221
• Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals: NAICS 6222
• Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals: NAICS 6223

Workforce Statistics

This section provides information relating to employment and unemployment in hospitals. While most data are obtained from employer or establishment surveys, information on industry unemployment comes from a national survey of households. The following tables present an overview of the industry including the number of jobs, the unemployment rate of those previously employed in the industry, data for occupations common to the industry, and projections of occupational employment change.

Employment and Unemployment

Data series	Back data	Oct. 2022	Nov. 2022	Dec. 2022	Jan. 2023
Employment (in thousands)
Employment, all employees (seasonally adjusted)		5,219.6	5,229.3	(p)5,243.4	(p)5,254.3
Employment, production and nonsupervisory employees		4,788.7	4,811.1	(p)4,825.6
Unemployment
Unemployment rate		1.8%	1.3%	1.2%	1.5%
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics, Current Population Survey

Employment by Occupation

Data series	Employment, 2021
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses	93,590
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists	149,800
Radiologic technologists and technicians	129,060
Note: These employment estimates include employment in both the private-sector and government.

(Source: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics)

Projections

For projected (future) employment estimates, see the National Employment Matrix, which includes employment estimates by industry and occupation for hospitals.

(Source: Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections)

Earnings and Hours

This section presents data on employee earnings and weekly hours. The latest industry averages of hourly earnings and weekly hours are shown. In addition, recent hourly and annual earnings are shown for occupations commonly found in hospitals. This section also contains information on the average cost of benefits paid by employers, as well as recent rates of change in wages and total compensation.

Earnings and Hours of All Employees

Data series	Back data	Sep. 2022	Oct. 2022	Nov. 2022	Dec. 2022
Average hourly earnings		$39.54	$39.87	$40.07	(p)$40.66
Average weekly hours		37.2	37.1	37.2	(p)37.0
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings and Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees

Data series	Back data	Sep. 2022	Oct. 2022	Nov. 2022	Dec. 2022
Average hourly earnings		$38.43	$38.57	$38.77	(p)$39.32
Average weekly hours		36.5	36.4	36.5	(p)36.4
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings by Occupation

Data series	Wages, 2021
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses	$22.60	$23.44	$47,000	$48,750
Medical and clinical laboratory technologists	$28.84	$28.83	$60,000	$59,960
Radiologic technologists and technicians	$29.65	$32.44	$61,670	$67,480

(Source: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics)

Employee Benefits

This section presents data on the incidence (the percentage of workers with access to and participation in employer-provided benefit plans) and provisions of selected employee benefits from the National Compensation Survey. More Benefits estimates are also accessible from the Benefits database, the archived NCS publications page, and the complete Employee Benefits Excel dataset (XLSX).

Data series	Access		Participation
	Back data	2022	Back data	2022
State and local government
Retirement benefit plans		94		78
Defined benefit plans		68		51
Defined contribution plans		63		38

(Source: Employee Benefits in the United States)

Data series	After 1 year of service		After 20 years of service
	Back data	2021	Back data	2021
Mean number of vacation days for state and local government workers without consolidated leave plans		13		23

(Source: Employee Benefits in the United States)

Data series	Back data	2022
Percent of state and local government workers with access to employer-sponsored benefits
Health care		92
Paid vacation		93
Paid sick leave		94

(Source: Employee Benefits in the United States)

Employer Compensation Costs

Data series	Back data	1st quarter 2022	2nd quarter 2022	3rd quarter 2022	4th quarter 2022
Private industry
12-month percent change
Total compensation		5.0%	5.5%	5.8%	5.4%
Wages and salaries		5.5%	5.8%	6.0%	5.7%
3-month percent change
Total compensation		1.6%	1.1%	1.3%	1.3%
Wages and salaries		1.4%	1.2%	1.4%	1.6%
State and local government
12-month percent change
Total compensation		4.1%	4.2%	5.2%	5.2%
Wages and salaries		4.5%	4.8%	5.4%	5.4%
3-month percent change
Total compensation		1.1%	0.7%	2.0%	1.2%
Wages and salaries		0.8%	1.0%	2.2%	1.4%

(Source: Compensation Cost Trends)

Data series	Private industry				State and local government
	Compensation component ($ per hour worked)		Percent of total compensation		Compensation component ($ per hour worked)		Percent of total compensation
	Back data	3rd quarter 2022	Back data	3rd quarter 2022	Back data	3rd quarter 2022	Back data	3rd quarter 2022
Total compensation		56.32		100.0		53.75		100.0
Wages and salaries		37.23		66.1		33.79		62.9
Total benefits		19.09		33.9		19.96		37.1
Insurance		5.36		9.5		6.01		11.2
Retirement		2.35		4.2		4.45		8.3
Paid leave		5.49		9.7		5.11		9.5

(Source: Compensation Cost Trends)

Work-related Fatalities, Injuries, and Illnesses

This section presents data for the industry on the number of workplace fatalities and the rates of workplace injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers in hospitals. An injury or illness is considered to be work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the resulting condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition.

Data series	2018	2019	2020	2021
Fatalities
Number of fatalities	26	30	27	31
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.

Data series	2021
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	6.1
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	3.2
Cases involving days away from work	2.3
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	0.9
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.

(Source: Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities)

Prices

This section provides industry-specific pricing information. The producer price index measures the percentage change in prices that domestic producers receive for goods and services. The prices included in the producer price index are from the first commercial transaction.

Data series	Back data	Sep. 2022	Oct. 2022	Nov. 2022	Dec. 2022
Producer price index		(p)224.288	(p)225.338	(p)224.712	(p)225.023
Percent change from previous month		(p)-0.1%	(p)0.5%	(p)-0.3%	(p)0.1%
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Producer Price Indexes)

Workplace Trends

This section presents data on the number of establishments in hospitals.

Establishments

Data series	Back data	3rd quarter 2021	4th quarter 2021	1st quarter 2022	2nd quarter 2022
Number of establishments
Private industry		12,354	12,559	(p)12,922	(p)13,118
Local government		1,338	1,344	(p)1,331	(p)1,332
State government		1,136	1,151	(p)1,121	(p)1,128
Federal government		385	385	(p)385	(p)386
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

 

Data extracted on: February 06, 2023