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Occupational Employment and Wages in Cincinnati — May 2016
Workers in the Cincinnati Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $23.14 in
May 2016, about 3 percent below the nationwide average of $23.86, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics. Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Charlene Peiffer noted that, after testing for
statistical significance, wages in the local area were lower than their respective national averages in 15 of
the 22 major occupational groups, including legal; arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media; and life,
physical, and social science. Two groups had significantly higher wages than their respective national
averages: sales and related; and production.
When compared to the nationwide distribution, local employment was more highly concentrated in 6 of the
22 occupational groups, including production; business and financial operations; and food preparation and
serving related. Conversely, 10 groups had employment shares significantly below their national
representation, including education, training, and library; construction and extraction; and personal care and
service. (See table A and box note at end of release.)
Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the
Cincinnati Metropolitan Statistical Area, and measures of statistical significance, May 2016
Percent of total employment
Major occupational group
Total, all occupations ............................................
Management .....................................................
Business and financial operations.....................
Computer and mathematical .............................
Architecture and engineering ............................
Life, physical, and social science ......................
Community and social service...........................
Legal..................................................................
Education, training, and library..........................
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media.
Healthcare practitioners and technical ..............
Healthcare support ............................................
Protective service ..............................................
Food preparation and serving related ...............
Building and grounds cleaning and
maintenance......................................................
Personal care and service.................................
Sales and related ..............................................
Office and administrative support......................
Farming, fishing, and forestry............................
Note: See footnotes at end of table.
United States
Mean hourly wage
Cincinnati
United States
Cincinnati
Percent
difference (1)
100.0
5.1
5.2
3.0
1.8
0.8
1.4
0.8
6.2
1.4
5.9
2.9
2.4
9.2
100.0
5.2
5.9*
3.1
1.9*
0.8
1.2*
0.6*
5.5*
1.2*
6.4
3.1*
2.1*
9.7*
$23.86
56.74
36.09
42.25
40.53
35.06
22.69
50.95
26.21
28.07
38.06
14.65
22.03
11.47
$23.14*
54.78*
33.06*
38.28*
39.47
29.76*
21.12*
45.36*
27.19
22.69*
35.38*
14.28
19.30*
10.50*
-3
-3
-8
-9
-3
-15
-7
-11
4
-19
-7
-3
-12
-8
3.2
2.9*
13.47
12.91*
-4
3.2
10.4
15.7
0.3
2.6*
9.8*
15.8
12.74
19.50
17.91
13.37
12.34*
21.00*
17.45*
14.37
-3
8
-3
7
(2)
Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the
Cincinnati Metropolitan Statistical Area, and measures of statistical significance, May 2016 - Continued
Percent of total employment
Major occupational group
Construction and extraction...............................
Installation, maintenance, and repair ................
Production .........................................................
Transportation and material moving ..................
United States
Mean hourly wage
Cincinnati
4.0
3.9
6.5
6.9
3.3*
3.8
7.7*
7.4*
United States
23.51
22.45
17.88
17.34
Cincinnati
Percent
difference (1)
22.20*
22.43
18.82*
16.47*
-6
0
5
-5
Footnotes:
(1) A positive percent difference measures how much the mean wage in the Cincinnati Metropolitan Statistical Area is above the national mean
wage, while a negative difference reflects a lower wage.
(2) Indicates a value of less than 0.05 percent
* The percent share of employment or mean hourly wage for this area is significantly different from the national average of all areas at the 90percent confidence level.
One occupational group—production—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the
22 major occupational categories. Cincinnati had 79,890 jobs in production, accounting for 7.7 percent of
local area employment, significantly higher than the 6.5-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage
for this occupational group locally was $18.82, significantly above the national wage of $17.88.
Some of the largest detailed occupations within the production group included team assemblers (5,570),
packaging and filling machine operators and tenders (5,570), and first-line supervisors of production and
operating workers (5,100). Among the higher paying jobs were power plant operators with mean hourly
wages of $34.38 and first-line supervisors of production and operating workers, $30.12. At the lower end of
the wage scale were pressers, textile, garment, and related materials ($10.10) and laundry and dry-cleaning
workers ($10.78). (Detailed occupational data for production are presented in table 1; for a complete listing
of detailed occupations available go to www.bls.gov/oes/2016/may/oes_17140.htm .)
Location quotients allow us to explore the occupational make-up of a metropolitan area by comparing the
composition of jobs in an area relative to the national average. (See table 1.) For example, a location
quotient of 2.0 indicates that an occupation accounts for twice the share of employment in the area than it
does nationally. In the Cincinnati Metropolitan Statistical Area, above-average concentrations of
employment were found in some of the occupations within the production group. For instance, engine and
other machine assemblers in Cincinnati were employed at 3.7 times the national rate, and chemical plant
and system operators, at 3.0 times the U.S. average. On the other hand, welders, cutters, solderers, and
brazers in Cincinnati had a location quotient of 1.0, indicating that this particular occupation’s local and
national employment shares were similar.
These statistics are from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey, a federal-state cooperative
program between BLS and State Workforce Agencies, in this case, the Ohio Department of Job & Family
Services, the Kentucky Department for Workforce Investment, and the Indiana Department of Workforce
Development.
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Note
A value that is statistically different from another does not necessarily mean that the difference has
economic or practical significance. Statistical significance is concerned with the ability to make
confident statements about a universe based on a sample. It is entirely possible that a large difference
between two values is not significantly different statistically, while a small difference is, since both the
size and heterogeneity of the sample affect the relative error of the data being tested.
Technical Note
The Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey is a semiannual mail survey measuring occupational
employment and wage rates for wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in the United States.
The OES data available from BLS include cross-industry occupational employment and wage estimates for
the nation; over 650 areas, including states and the District of Columbia, metropolitan statistical areas
(MSAs), metropolitan divisions, nonmetropolitan areas, and territories; national industry-specific estimates
at the NAICS sector, 3-, 4-, and selected 5- and 6-digit industry levels, and national estimates by ownership
across all industries and for schools and hospitals. OES data are available at www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm.
OES estimates are constructed from a sample of about 1.2 million establishments. Each year, two
semiannual panels of approximately 200,000 sampled establishments are contacted, one panel in May and
the other in November. Responses are obtained by mail, Internet or other electronic means, email,
telephone, or personal visit. The May 2016 estimates are based on responses from six semiannual panels
collected over a 3-year period: May 2016, November 2015, May 2015, November 2014, May 2014, and
November 2013. The overall national response rate for the six panels, based on the 50 states and the District
of Columbia, is 73 percent based on establishments and 69 percent based on weighted sampled
employment. The unweighted employment of sampled establishments across all six semiannual panels
represents approximately 58 percent of total national employment. The sample in the Cincinnati
Metropolitan Statistical Area included 7,324 establishments with a response rate of 73 percent. For more
information about OES concepts and methodology, go to www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.tn.htm.
The May 2016 OES estimates are based on the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system
and the 2012 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Information about the 2010 SOC is
available on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/soc and information about the 2012 NAICS is available at
www.bls.gov/bls/naics.htm.
Metropolitan area definitions
The substate area data published in this release reflect the standards and definitions established by the U.S.
Office of Management and Budget.
The Cincinnati, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Dearborn, Ohio, and Union Counties of
Indiana, Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, and Pendleton Counties of Kentucky, and
Brown, Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, and Warren Counties of Ohio.
Additional information
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OES data are available on our regional web page at www.bls.gov/regions/midwest. Answers to frequently
asked questions about the OES data are available at www.bls.gov/oes/oes_ques.htm. Detailed technical
information about the OES survey is available in our Survey Methods and Reliability Statement on the BLS
website at www.bls.gov/oes/current/methods_statement.pdf.
Information in this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request . Voice
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Table 1. Employment and wage data from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey, by occupation,
Cincinnati Metropolitan Statistical Area, May 2016
Occupation (1)
Production occupations ................................................
First-line supervisors of production and operating
workers .....................................................................
Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems
assemblers ...............................................................
Coil winders, tapers, and finishers ...........................
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers ......
Electromechanical equipment assemblers...............
Engine and other machine assemblers ....................
Structural metal fabricators and fitters......................
Fiberglass laminators and fabricators ......................
Team assemblers .....................................................
Assemblers and fabricators, all other .......................
Bakers ......................................................................
Butchers and meat cutters .......................................
Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers ............
Slaughterers and meat packers ...............................
Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying
machine operators and tenders................................
Food batchmakers....................................................
Food cooking machine operators and tenders .........
Food processing workers, all other ..........................
Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal
and plastic ................................................................
Computer numerically controlled machine tool
programmers, metal and plastic ...............................
Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators,
and tenders, metal and plastic .................................
Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders,
metal and plastic ......................................................
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters,
operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ................
Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators,
and tenders, metal and plastic .................................
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine
tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic .......................................................................
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators,
and tenders, metal and plastic .................................
Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic ........................................
Machinists ................................................................
Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders ..........
Pourers and casters, metal ......................................
Foundry mold and coremakers.................................
Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters,
operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ................
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic ........................................
Tool and die makers .................................................
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers..................
Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters,
operators, and tenders .............................................
Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic ........................................
Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic ........................................
Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners ........................
Metal workers and plastic workers, all other ............
Employment
Level
(2)
Location quotient
Mean wages
(3)
Annual (4)
Hourly
79,890
1.2
$18.82
$39,150
5,100
1.1
30.12
62,650
170
0.5
19.54
40,650
320
1,810
280
1,050
410
140
5,570
3,730
750
1,020
350
350
3.0
1.1
0.8
3.7
0.7
0.9
0.7
2.2
0.6
1.0
0.3
0.6
21.19
20.14
18.36
25.75
16.95
14.23
15.66
15.37
13.42
16.00
11.77
13.52
44,070
41,890
38,190
53,570
35,260
29,590
32,570
31,960
27,910
33,270
24,490
28,120
120
0.8
14.10
29,340
1,060
140
210
1.0
0.5
0.6
15.38
13.82
14.79
31,980
28,750
30,760
2,050
1.9
20.77
43,210
220
1.2
27.55
57,300
1,130
2.1
17.33
36,050
(5)
(5)
17.24
35,850
1,910
1.3
16.96
35,270
50
0.6
17.19
35,760
800
1.5
16.56
34,450
240
1.0
19.45
40,450
200
1.6
20.44
42,510
4,870
80
1.7
0.6
(5)
(5)
(5)
(5)
22.13
17.29
18.13
17.54
46,030
35,960
37,710
36,470
1,640
1.5
15.53
32,300
2,130
2.4
21.08
43,850
770
2,850
1.4
1.0
27.19
19.06
56,560
39,650
280
0.8
18.45
38,370
170
1.2
20.76
43,180
290
1.1
18.40
38,270
80
590
1.1
3.4
21.46
22.76
44,630
47,340
Note: See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 1. Employment and wage data from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey, by occupation,
Cincinnati Metropolitan Statistical Area, May 2016 - Continued
Occupation (1)
Prepress technicians and workers ...........................
Printing press operators ...........................................
Print binding and finishing workers...........................
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers ...........................
Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials .....
Sewing machine operators.......................................
Shoe and leather workers and repairers ..................
Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers ...............
Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and
tenders .....................................................................
Extruding and forming machine setters, operators,
and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers ....................
Upholsterers .............................................................
Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other ..
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters .....................
Furniture finishers.....................................................
Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders,
wood .........................................................................
Woodworking machine setters, operators, and
tenders, except sawing.............................................
Woodworkers, all other.............................................
Power plant operators ..............................................
Stationary engineers and boiler operators ...............
Water and wastewater treatment plant and system
operators ..................................................................
Chemical plant and system operators ......................
Plant and system operators, all other.......................
Chemical equipment operators and tenders ............
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still
machine setters, operators, and tenders..................
Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters,
operators, and tenders .............................................
Grinding and polishing workers, hand ......................
Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and
tenders .....................................................................
Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and
tenders .....................................................................
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting
machine setters, operators, and tenders..................
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and
tenders .....................................................................
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers .
Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers .....
Dental laboratory technicians ...................................
Medical appliance technicians..................................
Packaging and filling machine operators and
tenders .....................................................................
Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters,
operators, and tenders .............................................
Painters, transportation equipment ..........................
Photographic process workers and processing
machine operators....................................................
Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders ..
Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment
operators and tenders ..............................................
Cooling and freezing equipment operators and
tenders .....................................................................
Etchers and engravers .............................................
Employment
Level
(2)
Location quotient
Mean wages
(3)
Annual (4)
Hourly
450
2,080
720
1,580
880
690
60
70
1.8
1.7
1.9
1.0
2.6
0.7
1.0
0.4
20.95
17.77
15.34
10.78
10.10
12.97
12.93
14.53
43,570
36,970
31,910
22,410
21,010
26,980
26,900
30,230
60
0.6
14.72
30,620
80
0.6
15.19
31,590
90
0.4
(5)
(5)
440
30
0.6
0.2
14.95
10.92
17.29
16.71
31,090
22,710
35,960
34,760
(5)
(5)
13.90
28,910
320
0.6
14.96
31,120
50
400
180
0.9
1.5
0.7
(5)
(5)
34.38
26.89
71,500
55,930
780
0.9
21.12
43,930
730
40
940
3.0
0.4
1.7
26.08
27.17
24.03
54,240
56,510
49,980
640
1.8
17.39
36,160
190
0.9
16.99
35,330
90
0.5
15.99
33,260
1,820
1.9
19.93
41,450
740
1.6
15.96
33,190
280
0.5
17.61
36,620
170
1.2
18.19
37,830
4,840
200
130
1.3
1.0
0.5
(5)
(5)
20.64
16.61
21.24
19.33
42,930
34,550
44,190
40,200
5,570
1.9
17.02
35,390
800
1.3
16.47
34,270
280
0.7
20.51
42,660
150
0.8
14.53
30,230
250
2.0
16.27
33,840
160
1.2
15.33
31,890
40
0.6
11.15
23,200
30
0.5
14.12
29,360
Note: See footnotes at end of table.
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Table 1. Employment and wage data from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey, by occupation,
Cincinnati Metropolitan Statistical Area, May 2016 - Continued
Occupation (1)
Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and
plastic .......................................................................
Paper goods machine setters, operators, and
tenders .....................................................................
Tire builders..............................................................
Helpers--production workers ....................................
Production workers, all other....................................
Employment
Level
(2)
Location quotient
Mean wages
(3)
Annual (4)
Hourly
120
0.4
16.48
34,280
1,150
1.7
18.39
38,260
80
4,360
2,020
0.5
1.4
1.1
15.88
14.61
17.06
33,040
30,380
35,490
Footnotes:
(1) For a complete listing of all detailed occupations in the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN, see www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_17140.htm
(2) Estimates for detailed occupations do not sum to the totals because the totals include occupations not shown separately. Estimates do not
include self-employed workers.
(3) The location quotient is the ratio of the area concentration of occupational employment to the national average concentration. A location quotient
greater than one indicates the occupation has a higher share of employment than average, and a location quotient less than one indicates the
occupation is less prevalent in the area than average.
(4) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those
occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.
(5) Estimate not released.
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