HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

23. Persons at work by occupation, sex, and usual full- or part-time status

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation and sex

2021

Total

at

work

Worked 1 to 34 hours

Worked

35 hours

or more

Average hours

Total

For

economic

reasons

For noneconomic

reasons

Total

at

work

Persons

who

usually

work

full time

Usually

work

full

time

Usually

work

part

time

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146,758 32,673 4,914 8,032 19,728 114,085 38.7 42.1

Management, professional, and related occupations. . . . . . 62,239 10,651 1,099 3,673 5,879 51,588 40.3 42.6

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,042 3,708 386 1,549 1,772 23,334 41.9 43.7

Professional and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,197 6,943 712 2,124 4,107 28,254 39.0 41.8

Service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,398 8,646 1,519 1,139 5,988 14,752 34.8 41.1

Sales and office occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,135 7,661 992 1,534 5,136 21,474 37.2 41.4

Sales and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,846 3,900 579 594 2,727 9,946 37.5 42.5

Office and administrative support occupations. . . . . . . . . . . 15,289 3,761 413 940 2,408 11,528 36.9 40.5

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,467 2,053 568 780 706 11,414 40.5 42.1

Construction and extraction occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,749 1,278 422 495 360 6,471 40.0 41.5

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations. . . . . . . 4,694 558 105 240 213 4,137 41.4 42.6

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,519 3,662 736 907 2,019 14,857 39.6 42.5

Production occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,664 1,040 207 382 451 6,625 40.7 42.3

Transportation and material moving occupations. . . . . . . . 10,855 2,623 529 525 1,568 8,232 38.8 42.7

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,210 13,445 2,543 3,996 6,906 64,765 40.6 43.0

Management, professional, and related occupations. . . . . . 30,183 3,950 503 1,645 1,802 26,233 42.0 43.7

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,811 1,683 219 758 706 13,129 43.4 44.7

Professional and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,372 2,267 284 887 1,096 13,105 40.8 42.7

Service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,972 2,918 616 469 1,833 7,054 37.1 42.1

Sales and office occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,269 2,281 360 503 1,417 8,988 39.5 42.9

Sales and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,016 1,356 219 279 858 5,661 40.3 43.6

Office and administrative support occupations. . . . . . . . . . . 4,253 925 141 224 560 3,328 38.2 41.6

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,728 1,868 531 733 603 10,860 40.7 42.1

Construction and extraction occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,457 1,206 404 473 329 6,251 40.1 41.5

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations. . . . . . . 4,492 526 99 230 197 3,966 41.5 42.7

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,057 2,429 533 646 1,250 11,629 40.6 43.0

Production occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,523 608 134 258 216 4,915 41.7 42.8

Transportation and material moving occupations. . . . . . . . 8,534 1,820 399 387 1,034 6,714 39.9 43.2

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,548 19,228 2,371 4,036 12,822 49,320 36.6 41.0

Management, professional, and related occupations. . . . . . 32,056 6,701 595 2,028 4,077 25,355 38.6 41.5

Management, business, and financial operations

occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,231 2,025 167 791 1,066 10,205 40.1 42.3

Professional and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,825 4,676 428 1,237 3,011 15,150 37.6 41.0

Service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,426 5,728 904 670 4,154 7,698 33.0 40.2

Sales and office occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,866 5,380 631 1,030 3,718 12,485 35.7 40.4

Sales and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,830 2,545 360 315 1,870 4,285 34.6 41.1

Office and administrative support occupations. . . . . . . . . . . 11,036 2,836 271 716 1,849 8,200 36.4 40.1

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance

occupations1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739 186 37 46 103 554 37.7 41.3

Construction and extraction occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 71 18 23 31 220 38.6 41.4

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations. . . . . . . 203 32 6 10 16 171 38.8 40.9

Production, transportation, and material moving

occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,462 1,234 204 261 769 3,228 36.6 40.6

Production occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,141 431 73 123 235 1,710 38.3 40.8

Transportation and material moving occupations. . . . . . . . 2,321 802 130 138 534 1,519 35.0 40.3

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Includes farming, fishing, and forestry occupations, not shown separately.

NOTE: Full time is 35 hours or more per week; part time is less than 35 hours. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

Effective with January 2020 data, occupations reflect the introduction of the 2018 Census occupational classification system, derived from the 2018 Standard Occupational

Classification (SOC). No historical data have been revised. Data for 2020 are not strictly comparable with earlier years.

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