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15-976-ATL
Friday, June 05, 2015

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Occupational Employment and Wages in Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall – May 2014

Workers in the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall Metropolitan Division had an average (mean) hourly wage of $21.22 in May 2014, about 7 percent below the nationwide average of $22.71, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Regional Commissioner Janet S. Rankin noted that, after testing for statistical significance, wages in the local area were higher than their respective national averages in 3 of the 22 major occupational groups: legal; management; and food preparation and serving related. Twelve groups had significantly lower wages than their respective national averages, including production; computer and mathematical; and architecture and engineering.

When compared to the nationwide distribution, local employment was more highly concentrated in 9 of the 22 occupational groups, including sales and related; office and administrative support; and transportation and material moving. Conversely, 10 groups had employment shares significantly below their national representation, including production; management; and education, training, and library. (See table A and box note at end of release.)

Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall Metropolitan Division, and measures of statistical significance, May 2014
Major occupational groupPercent of total employmentMean hourly wage
United StatesMiamiUnited StatesMiamiPercent difference (1)

Total, all occupations

100.0%100.0%$22.71$21.22*-7

Management

5.03.5*54.0857.97*7

Business and financial operations

5.15.4*34.8133.61*-3

Computer and mathematical

2.81.7*40.3734.91*-14

Architecture and engineering

1.80.9*39.1935.14*-10

Life, physical, and social science

0.80.4*33.6934.512

Community and social services

1.41.2*21.7920.74-5

Legal

0.81.4*48.6154.42*12

Education, training, and library

6.24.8*25.1024.59-2

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media

1.31.326.8225.14*-6

Healthcare practitioner and technical

5.86.2*36.5434.83*-5

Healthcare support

2.92.5*13.8613.01*-6

Protective service

2.44.1*21.1421.873

Food preparation and serving related

9.19.5*10.5710.98*4

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance

3.23.4*12.6810.72*-15

Personal care and service

3.13.012.0111.990

Sales and related

10.513.9*18.5918.22-2

Office and administrative support

16.019.3*17.0816.03*-6

Farming, fishing, and forestry

0.30.2*12.0910.15*-16

Construction and extraction

3.92.4*22.4019.48*-13

Installation, maintenance, and repair

3.93.821.7419.46*-10

Production

6.63.7*17.0614.07*-18

Transportation and material moving

6.87.5*16.5717.375

Footnotes:
(1) A positive percent difference measures how much the mean wage in Miami is above the national mean wage, while a negative difference reflects a lower wage.
* The percent share of employment or mean hourly wage for this area is significantly different from the national average of all areas at the 90-percent confidence level.

One occupational group—office and administrative support—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall had 202,100 jobs in office and administrative support, accounting for 19.3 percent of local area employment, significantly higher than the 16.0-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $16.03, significantly below the national wage of $17.08.

Some of the largest detailed occupations within the office and administrative support group included customer service representatives (25,970), secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive (23,540), and general office clerks (22,170). Among the higher paying jobs were first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers, and executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants, with mean hourly wages of $25.84 and $23.85, respectively. At the lower end of the wage scale were stock clerks and order fillers ($11.30) and hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks ($11.43). (Detailed occupational data for office and administrative support are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to www.bls.gov/oes/2014/may/oes_33124.htm.)

Location quotients allow us to explore the occupational make-up of a metropolitan area by comparing the composition of jobs in an area relative to the national average. (See table 1.) For example, a location quotient of 2.0 indicates that an occupation accounts for twice the share of employment in the area than it does nationally. In the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall Metropolitan Division, above-average concentrations of employment were found in some of the occupations within the office and administrative support group. For instance, cargo and freight agents were employed at 5.4 times the national rate in Miami, and reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks, at 4.7 times the U.S. average. On the other hand, general office clerks had a location quotient of 1.0 in Miami, indicating that this particular occupation’s local and national employment shares were similar.

These statistics are from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey, a federal-state cooperative program between BLS and State Workforce Agencies, in this case, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.

Note

A value that is statistically different from another does not necessarily mean that the difference has economic or practical significance. Statistical significance is concerned with the ability to make confident statements about a universe based on a sample. It is entirely possible that a large difference between two values is not significantly different statistically, while a small difference is, since both the size and heterogeneity of the sample affect the relative error of the data being tested.


Technical Note

The Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey is a semiannual mail survey measuring occupational employment and wage rates for wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in the United States. Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are also surveyed, but their data are not included in the national estimates. OES estimates are constructed from a sample of about 1.2 million establishments. Forms are mailed to approximately 200,000 sampled establishments in May and November each year. May 2014 estimates are based on responses from six semiannual panels collected over a 3-year period: May 2014, November 2013, May 2013, November 2012, May 2012, and November 2011. The overall national response rate for the six panels is 74.3 percent based on establishments and 70.5 percent based on weighted sampled employment. The unweighted employment of sampled establishments across all six semiannual panels represents approximately 57.1 percent of total national employment. (Response rates are slightly lower for these estimates due to the federal shutdown in October 2013.) The sample in the Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall Metropolitan Division included 5,315 establishments with a response rate of 70 percent. For more information about OES concepts and methodology, go to www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.tn.htm.

The OES survey provides estimates of employment and hourly and annual wages for wage and salary workers in 22 major occupational groups and 821 detailed occupations for the nation, states, metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan divisions, and nonmetropolitan areas. In addition, employment and wage estimates for 94 minor groups and 458 broad occupations are available in the national data. OES data by state and metropolitan/nonmetropolitan area are available from www.bls.gov/oes/current/oessrcst.htm and www.bls.gov/oes/current/oessrcma.htm, respectively.

The May 2014 OES estimates are based on the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system and the 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Information about the 2010 SOC is available on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/soc and information about the 2012 NAICS is available at www.bls.gov/bls/naics.htm.

Area definitions

The substate area data published in this release reflect the standards and definitions established by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.

The Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, Fla. Metropolitan Division  includes Miami-Dade County.

Additional information

OES data are available on our regional web page at www.bls.gov/regions/southeast. Answers to frequently asked questions about the OES data are available at www.bls.gov/oes/oes_ques.htm. Detailed technical information about the OES survey is available in our Survey Methods and Reliability Statement on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/oes/2014/may/methods_statement.pdf.

Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 202-691-5200; Federal Relay Service: 800-877-8339.

Table 1. Employment and wage data from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey, by occupation, Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall Metropolitan Division, May 2014
Occupation (1)EmploymentMean wages
Level (2)Location quotient (3)HourlyAnnual (4)

Office and Administrative Support Occupations

202,1001.2$16.03$33,330

First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers

11,7801.125.8453,750

Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service

1,0501.212.6126,230

Telephone Operators

500.713.0727,190

Bill and Account Collectors

1,8800.716.9535,250

Billing and Posting Clerks

4,0101.116.0733,420

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

13,0601.117.2935,960

Gaming Cage Workers

300.313.9529,010

Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

9500.721.0243,720

Procurement Clerks

3600.719.2940,120

Tellers

5,5601.414.3329,800

Financial Clerks, All Other

2000.718.0337,510

Brokerage Clerks

8702.021.6545,030

Correspondence Clerks

(5)(5)18.0937,620

Court, Municipal, and License Clerks

6000.617.4036,190

Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks

700.217.6236,640

Customer Service Representatives

25,9701.314.5930,350

Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs

2900.316.5434,400

File Clerks

2,4902.215.0331,270

Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks

2,5801.411.4323,770

Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan

1,5301.015.0631,330

Library Assistants, Clerical

4600.612.5726,140

Loan Interviewers and Clerks

2,0001.218.7739,040

New Accounts Clerks

1800.418.5838,650

Order Clerks

1,7601.213.7728,640

Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping

1,0201.018.0337,500

Receptionists and Information Clerks

10,6701.412.6726,350

Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks

5,0804.716.5334,390

Information and Record Clerks, All Other

4,2903.218.8539,200

Cargo and Freight Agents

3,2705.417.7436,900

Couriers and Messengers

5601.015.4532,140

Police, Fire, and Ambulance Dispatchers

6000.824.6451,260

Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance

1,6201.115.0831,370

Meter Readers, Utilities

1200.416.8034,950

Postal Service Clerks

4600.825.2852,570

Postal Service Mail Carriers

2,2100.925.4352,890

Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators

1,3901.524.2050,330

Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks

1,3800.619.2840,090

Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks

7,1601.413.3427,760

Stock Clerks and Order Fillers

17,3701.211.3023,510

Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping

4900.911.4923,900

Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants

7,2201.323.8549,610

Legal Secretaries

3,7702.321.4344,580

Medical Secretaries

2,6500.714.6530,480

Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive

23,5401.414.8430,870

Computer Operators

2900.618.6938,880

Data Entry Keyers

1,9701.213.3627,780

Word Processors and Typists

3500.617.1435,650

Desktop Publishers

400.416.2733,840

Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks

2,8901.517.0335,420

Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service

6600.912.9626,950

Office Clerks, General

22,1701.013.8128,720

Office Machine Operators, Except Computer

6701.313.5428,160

Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other

3800.217.7836,980

Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metropolitan Division, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_33124.htm.
(2) Estimates for detailed occupations do not sum to the totals because the totals include occupations not shown separately. Estimates do not include self-employed workers.
(3) The location quotient is the ratio of the area concentration of occupational employment to the national average concentration. A location quotient greater than one indicates the occupation has a higher share of employment than average, and a location quotient less than one indicates the occupation is less prevalent in the area than average.
(4) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a ‘year-round, full-time’ hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.
(5) Estimate not released.
 

 

Last Modified Date: Friday, June 05, 2015