Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

417k

2020

Average Employee Age

40.5

2020

Estimated Job Growth

17.2%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$37,598

2020

Average Male Salary

$41,241

2020

Average Female Salary

$33,956

2020

About

The top three occupations in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group are archivists, curators, & museum technicians, landscaping and groundskeeping workers, and firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers. On average, full-time employees in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group work 41.6 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $49,803. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20.5 hours and earn an average annual salary of $12,262.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group are Lakota Region PUMA, SD, Elk Grove & Wheeling (Southwest) Townships PUMA, IL, and Fulton County (South)Union & Fairburn Cities PUMA, GA.

The workforce of Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group in 2020 was 416,822 people, with 50% woman, and 50% men.

In 2020, 77% of the workforce in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group was White (321,009 people), of which 50.7% were women and 49.3% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

The workforce in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group was 416,822 people and is concentrated in California (51,522 workers). The average annual salary was $37,598, being $18,356 less than the national average salary, which was $55,954.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

11.3%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 44.2k people employed in the Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions industry. This represents a 11.3% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2020 were California (51.5k), New York (36.7k), and Illinois (25.7k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2020, Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group had an average annual wage of $37,598, $18,356 less than the average national salary of $55,954.

The graph shows the position of Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.465

WAGE GINI

Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions has a wage GINI of 0.465, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

The graphic shows the distribution of average salaries by buckets for Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Archivists, curators, & museum technicians are the most common position with 40,037 workers, but the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Landscaping and groundskeeping workers and Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers.

The highest average salary in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group according to occupations. In 2020, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were archivists, curators, & museum technicians (40,037 people), landscaping and groundskeeping workers (37,013 people), and firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (23,151 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$41,241

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$2,288

$33,956

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$1,946

On average, Male workers in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group make 1.21 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions 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.

The industrial flow illustrates the intermediate inputs and the use of outputs of the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

The Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry.

California and New York stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions is from Arts, Entertainment & Recreation and Accommodation & Food Services.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group is Professional and business services.

In this flow diagram, 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.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions is from Arts, Entertainment & Recreation and Accommodation & Food Services.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions is from Arts, Entertainment & Recreation and Accommodation & Food Services.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Professional and business services Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

Establishments

States with more establishments in 2016

California
1,318
New York
1,290
Texas
888

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 50% corresponds to women and 50% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $41,241 and $33,956.

70.4% of workers have a bachelors degree, some college or high school or equivalent.

Gender and Age

208,459

Women

50%

208,363

Men

50%

The workforce of Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions industry in 2020 was 416,822 people, with 50% woman, and 50% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions industry.

Races

In 2020, 77% of the workforce in the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions industry was White (321,009 people), of which 50.7% were women and 49.3% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Black and Two or More Races.

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions workers in 2020 were bachelors degree (125,257 people), some college (93,080 people), and high school or equivalent (75,287 people).

The chart shows the Museums, art galleries, historical sites, & similar institutions workforce by gender and educational level.

Projections

Growth projections of the Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks industry, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 7.66% in the next ten years. The Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks industry has a higher projected workforce growth at 17.2%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (30.2%) is higher than the projected national growth in output (24.2%).

Job Growth

For growth projections, the closest comparable industry reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks.

17.2%

Estimated Job Growth

10-year Projection

7.66%

National Growth

10-year Projection

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in the number of jobs for Museums, historical sites, zoos, and parks. This industry is expected to grow more than than 7.66%, the average rate of national job growth.