Employment – Job Sectors, Highest Earnings
This indicator reports the top three job sectors with the highest average earnings in the report area.
Note: An asterisk (*) indicates counties affected by BEA boundary changes or special geographic combinations documented by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). For more information, see BEA’s County Personal Income: Concepts and Methods.
Source
Source Description
The Bureau of Economic Analysis is an agency of the Department of Commerce. BEA produces economic accounts statistics that enable government and business decision-makers, researchers, and the American public to follow and understand the performance of the Nation’s economy. To do this, BEA collects source data, conducts research and analysis, develops and implements estimation methodologies, and disseminates statistics to the public.
Methodology
Data are downloaded and processed from the Regional Economic Accounts page, using the Local Area Personal Income & Employment download tool. The last update for this dataset was to show new estimates for 2022.
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