Average hourly wage for Prov. metro workers 3% higher than national average

WORKERS IN the Providence metro had an average hourly wage of $23.98 in May 2015, approximately 3 percent higher than the national wage of $23.23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said this week.
WORKERS IN the Providence metro had an average hourly wage of $23.98 in May 2015, approximately 3 percent higher than the national wage of $23.23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said this week.

PROVIDENCE – Workers in the Providence metro had an average hourly wage of $23.98 in May 2015, approximately 3 percent higher than the average national wage of $23.23, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said this week.
The BLS said wages in the local area were higher than their respective national averages in 11 of the 22 major occupational groups, including health care practitioners and technical; education, training and library; and management.

Three groups had significantly lower wages than their respective national averages: legal; computer and mathematical; and transportation and material moving.

Health care practitioners and technical had an average hourly wage of $41.84, compared with the national average of $37.40, while education, training and library had an average wage of $28.75 compared with the national average of $25.48. Management jobs in Providence averaged $57.48 an hour, compared with the national average of $55.30.

As for legal jobs, the average hourly wage in the Providence metro was $44.56, below the national average hourly wage of $49.74. Locally, computer and mathematical jobs paid $39.09 an hour, less than the national average wage of $41.43 for those positions. Transportation and material moving paid $16.40 an hour on average in the Providence metro, while nationally, those jobs paid $16.90.

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Providence-Warwick-Fall River had 23,880 jobs in health care support, accounting for 4.3 percent of local area employment, significantly higher than the 2.9 percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $15.02, above the national wage of $14.19, the BLS said.

Among the 22 major occupational groups, office and administrative support held the largest percentage in the Providence metro at 16.1 percent, while life, physical and social science held the lowest at 0.6 percent.
Occupational employment statistics for the Providence metro can be viewed HERE.

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