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For instance, family medicine physicians were employed at 3.6 times the national rate in Florence, and surgical technologists, at 3.4 times the U.S. In the Florence area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in many of the occupations within the healthcare practitioners and technical group.

(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.

(Detailed data for the healthcare practitioners and technical occupations are presented in table 1 for a complete listing of detailed occupations, go to 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. At the lower end of the wage scale were emergency medical technicians and paramedics ($15.80) and pharmacy technicians ($15.82). Among the higher-paying jobs in this group were pharmacists and nurse practitioners, with mean hourly wages of $61.17 and $49.89, respectively. Some of the larger detailed occupations within the healthcare practitioners and technical group included registered nurses (2,930), licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses (780), and pharmacy technicians (470). The local average hourly wage for this occupational group was $35.27, significantly lower than the national average of $41.30. Florence had 7,660 jobs in healthcare practitioners and technical occupations, accounting for 9.1 percent of local area employment, significantly higher than the 6.2-percent national share. One occupational group-healthcare practitioners and technical-was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. * The mean hourly wage or percent share of employment is significantly different from the national average of all areas at the 90-percent confidence level. (1) A positive percent difference measures how much the mean wage in the Florence, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area is above the national mean wage, while a negative difference reflects a lower wage. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the Florence metropolitan area, and measures of statistical significance, May 2020 Major occupational groupĪrts, design, entertainment, sports, and mediaīuilding and grounds cleaning and maintenance Ten groups had employment shares significantly below their national representation, including business and financial operations, management, and computer and mathematical. When compared to the nationwide distribution, Florence area employment was more highly concentrated in 8 of the 22 occupational groups, including healthcare practitioners and technical, production, and transportation and material moving. Two group had wages that were not significantly different from their respective national averages. Rankin noted that, after testing for statistical significance, 20 of the 22 major occupational groups had average wages in the local area that were significantly lower than their respective national averages, including computer and mathematical, sales and related, and healthcare support. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Workers in the Florence, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $21.24 in May 2020, about 22 percent below the nationwide average of $27.07, the U.S. Occupational Employment and Wages in Florence - May 2020