Table 3.
Demographic and Labor Market Characteristics of Workers in Education Occupations (within Education Sector)
| Panel A: Education demographics by industry | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % Female | % White | % Black | % Hispanic | % Asian | % Other Race | % Immigrant | % Single Mother | % < HS | % HS | % Some college | % BA or higher | |
| Education | 0.72 | 0.72 | 0.09 | 0.11 | 0.06 | 0.03 | 0.14 | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.13 | 0.81 |
| Elementary & secondary schools | 0.78 | 0.73 | 0.10 | 0.12 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.12 | 0.82 |
| Colleges, universities, & professional schools | 0.51 | 0.69 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.14 | 0.03 | 0.24 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.11 | 0.86 |
| Business, technical, and trade schools & training | 0.57 | 0.74 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.14 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.14 | 0.32 | 0.52 |
| Other schools & instruction, & educational support services | 0.67 | 0.69 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.10 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.24 | 0.62 |
| Panel B: education labor market characteristics by industry | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female dominated Occ | Male dominated Occ | Hourly wages ($) | % Low wage | % High wage | N | % All | % Frontline | |
| Education | 0.64 | 0.00 | $27.96 | 0.17 | 0.27 | 174,602 | 5.7% | 13.4% |
| Elementary & secondary schools | 0.82 | 0.00 | $26.59 | 0.15 | 0.24 | 128,327 | 4.2% | 9.9% |
| Colleges, universities, & professional schools | 0.13 | 0.00 | $35.46 | 0.16 | 0.40 | 36,651 | 1.2% | 2.8% |
| Business, technical, & trade schools and training | 0.19 | 0.00 | $26.72 | 0.23 | 0.28 | 923 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| Other schools and instruction, & educational support services | 0.10 | 0.00 | $17.63 | 0.49 | 0.13 | 8701 | 0.3% | 0.7% |
This table lists demographic and occupational characteristics of educators (those in NAICS industries 7860, 7870, 7880, and 7890 with occupation code between 2200 and 2555). Demographic charateristics consist of the share of females, racial background (White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Other Race), immigrant status (foreign born), single mother, and highest educational attainment (less than High-School (HS), HS degree, some college, higher than Bachelor Degree (BA)). Labor market charateristics consist of the share of females, share of workers that work in predominantly female 4-digit occupations (70% or more of workers are female) or predominantly male 4-digit occupations (30% or less of the workers are female), hourly wages (income in 2019 dollars using the CPI divided by the product of usual hours worked per week and the mid-point of usual weeks worked per year), share of workers earning low wages (in the bottom quartile of the overall wage distribution) and high wages (in the top quartile of the overall wage distribution)