Scenic & sightseeing transportation

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Workforce

695k

2016 BLS Estimate

Average Employee Age

Estimated Job Growth

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$36,278

Average Male Salary

$40,684

Average Female Salary

$29,555

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Workforce

Diversity

Input/Output

Projections

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The top three occupations in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group are Tour & travel guides, Bus drivers, Ship & boat captains & operators, Miscellaneous managers, and Secretaries & administrative assistants. On average, full-time employees in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group work 45.3 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $42,812. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20.2 hours and earn an average annual salary of $19,831.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group are Flagstaff City PUMA, AZ, Matanuska-Susitna & Kenai Peninsula Boroughs PUMA, AK, and Middlesex County PUMA, CT. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Scenic & sightseeing transportation.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group. Tour & travel guides are the most common position, but the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Tour & travel guides, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Scenic & sightseeing transportation goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Occupations

Occupations by Share

695k

Workforce (BLS Estimate)

ACS Estimate: 27.1k

-186%

1 Year Growth

± 24.7%

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were 695k people employed in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group in 2016.

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group has been declining at a rate of -186%, , from 33.3k people in 2016 to 27.1k people in 2017.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Scenic & sightseeing transportation by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Tour & travel guides represent the largest share of positions held in Scenic & sightseeing transportation at 18%, followed by Bus drivers with 16.2% and Ship & boat captains & operators with 9.67%.

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Most Common

The most common occupations in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group, by number of employees, are Tour & travel guides, Bus drivers, Ship & boat captains & operators, Miscellaneous managers, and Secretaries & administrative assistants.

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Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Scenic & sightseeing transportation employs an unusually high number of Tour & travel guides, Ship & boat captains & operators, and Sailors & marine oilers, & ship engineers.

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Scenic & sightseeing transportation, by average wage, are Chief executives & legislators, Aircraft pilots & flight engineers, and Fishing & hunting workers.

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Wages

Average Salary

$36,278

AVERAGE WAGE

± $6,663

On average, employees in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group make $36,278 per year. This number makes Scenic & sightseeing transportation the 213 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 266 Industry Groups.

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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 Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group.

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Wage Distribution

0.484

WAGE GINI

Scenic & sightseeing transportation has a wage GINI of 0.484, which is more than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Scenic & sightseeing transportation (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

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $40,684 and $29,555. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

10.7k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±2.54k

16.4k

MALE WORKFORCE

±3.14k

60.4% of workers in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group are Male, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group.

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Wage by Gender in Common Jobs

$40,684

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$10,067

$29,555

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$6,569

On average, Male workers in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group make 1.38 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group.

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Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

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Asian
Black

On average, White employees in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation 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 Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group.

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Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Scenic & sightseeing transportation 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. Transportation and warehousing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group is Manufacturing.

In this visualization, click on a category to expand or collapse it. 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 Scenic & sightseeing transportation is from Transportation & Warehousing, and Utilities.

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Intermediate Inputs

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Transportation and warehousing Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

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Use of Output by Other Industries

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

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Projections

Growth projections of the Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 8.13% in the next ten years. The Scenic & sightseeing transportation Industry Group has a lower projected workforce growth at 1%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (2.2%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.6%).