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Thursday, May 01, 2025
Workers in the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $33.97 in May 2024, compared to the nationwide average of $32.66, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Chris Rosenlund noted that higher paying major occupational groups included management ($71.23), legal ($71.00), and computer and mathematical ($61.79). Lower paying occupations included food preparation and serving related ($19.66), healthcare support ($20.00), and personal care and service ($20.37). (See table A.)
Occupational groups with the highest employment in the Oxnard area included office and administrative support (10.9 percent), food preparation and serving related (10.2 percent), and sales and related (9.0 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included legal (0.6 percent); life, physical, and social science (1.0 percent); and arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media (1.1 percent).
Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the Oxnard metropolitan area, May 2024 Major occupational group Percent of total employment Mean hourly wage ($) United States Oxnard United States OxnardTotal, all occupations
100.0 100.0 32.66 33.97Management
7.1 6.7 68.15 71.23Business and financial operations
6.7 6.3 45.04 46.01Computer and mathematical
3.4 2.7 56.16 61.79Architecture and engineering
1.7 2.0 49.99 54.93Life, physical, and social science
0.9 1.0 43.12 46.81Community and social service
1.7 2.1 30.31 34.93Legal
0.8 0.6 66.19 71.00Educational instruction and library
5.8 6.0 31.69 36.38Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
1.4 1.1 37.04 40.08Healthcare practitioners and technical
6.2 5.2 50.59 58.55Healthcare support
4.8 6.8 19.06 20.00Protective service
2.4 2.0 29.33 33.84Food preparation and serving related
8.8 10.2 17.32 19.66Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
2.9 3.0 19.01 21.64Personal care and service
2.0 2.2 18.95 20.37Sales and related
8.7 9.0 26.00 26.20Office and administrative support
11.8 10.9 24.12 26.57Farming, fishing, and forestry
0.3 1.9 20.06 19.22Construction and extraction
4.1 4.2 30.73 34.47Installation, maintenance, and repair
3.9 3.4 29.63 31.85Production
5.7 5.4 24.08 24.11Transportation and material moving
8.9 7.4 23.44 22.61One occupational group—office and administrative support—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Oxnard had 34,990 jobs in office and administrative support, accounting for 10.9 percent of local area employment, compared to the 11.8-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $26.57, compared to the national wage of $24.12.
Some of the larger detailed occupations within the office and administrative support group included office clerks, general (5,590), bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (3,260), and secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive (3,260). Among the higher paying jobs in this group were executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants ($41.01) and public safety telecommunicators ($39.32). At the lower end of the wage scale were hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks ($18.83) and receptionists and information clerks ($19.95). (Detailed data for the office and administrative support occupations are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0037100.)
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 2.00 indicates that an occupation accounts for twice the share of employment in the area than it does nationally. In the Oxnard area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in some of the occupations within the office and administrative support group. For instance, legal secretaries and administrative assistants were employed at 1.66 times the national rate in Oxnard, and medical secretaries and administrative assistants, at 1.59 times the U.S. average. First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers had a location quotient of 1.01 in Oxnard, indicating that this particular occupation’s local and national employment shares were similar.
The statistics in this release are from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey, a cooperative effort between BLS and the State Workforce Agencies (SWAs). BLS funds the survey and provides the procedures and technical support. State Workforce Agencies collect most of the data: in this case, the California Employment Development Department.
Changes to the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) DataEffective with the May 2024 OEWS news release, the OEWS program has implemented new metropolitan area definitions based on the 2020 decennial census and delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Bulletin 23-01. This news release does not include data for Colorado and its areas because of quality concerns with Colorado’s Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data. See the national OEWS news release for more information.
The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey is a semiannual survey measuring occupational employment and wage rates for wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments in the United States. The OEWS data available from BLS include cross-industry occupational employment and wage estimates for the nation; over 530 areas, including states and the District of Columbia, metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), nonmetropolitan areas, and territories; national industry-specific estimates at the NAICS sector, 3-digit, most 4-digit, and selected 5- and 6-digit industry levels; and national estimates by ownership across all industries and for schools and hospitals. Full OEWS data tables are available online.
Additional information about the OEWS estimates and methodology is available in the national Technical Notes. The overall national response rate for the six panels, based on the 50 states and the District of Columbia, is 65.7 percent based on establishments and 65.9 percent based on weighted sampled employment. The sample in the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area included 2,693 establishments with a response rate of 62 percent.
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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Ventura County.
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Table 1. Employment and wage data for office and administrative support occupations, Oxnard metropolitan area, May 2024 Occupation Employment Mean wages ($) Level Location quotient Hourly AnnualOffice and administrative support occupations
34,990 0.92 26.57 55,270First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers
3,140 1.01 35.01 72,820Switchboard operators, including answering service
70 1.00 23.66 49,200Bill and account collectors
27.15 56,470Billing and posting clerks
810 0.94 25.92 53,910Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
3,260 1.08 28.02 58,280Payroll and timekeeping clerks
350 1.08 28.64 59,580Procurement clerks
160 1.29 25.93 53,940Tellers
550 0.78 22.48 46,760Financial clerks, all other
90 1.13 27.25 56,680Brokerage clerks
60 0.72 32.41 67,410Court, municipal, and license clerks
170 0.47 30.84 64,160Customer service representatives
3,130 0.55 23.78 49,470Eligibility interviewers, government programs
70 0.21 30.90 64,270File clerks
260 1.58 21.81 45,360Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
380 0.71 18.83 39,170Interviewers, except eligibility and loan
360 1.09 25.78 53,630Library assistants, clerical
160 0.94 20.70 43,060Loan interviewers and clerks
470 1.31 25.68 53,400Order clerks
200 1.14 23.78 49,450Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
200 1.06 28.98 60,280Receptionists and information clerks
1,660 0.83 19.95 41,500Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
30 0.12 21.27 44,250Information and record clerks, all other
400 1.33 28.35 58,960Cargo and freight agents
70 0.35 29.58 61,530Couriers and messengers
200 1.33 20.34 42,300Public safety telecommunicators
160 0.75 39.32 81,790Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance
460 1.04 27.62 57,450Postal service clerks
130 0.80 31.01 64,490Postal service mail carriers
660 0.95 29.93 62,260Production, planning, and expediting clerks
810 1.02 30.64 63,730Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks
1,900 1.07 22.01 45,780Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping
170 1.67 23.32 48,510Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants
790 0.81 41.01 85,300Legal secretaries and administrative assistants
530 1.66 31.63 65,790Medical secretaries and administrative assistants
2,740 1.59 25.97 54,020Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive
3,260 0.90 26.06 54,190Data entry keyers
190 0.68 21.27 44,240Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
400 0.85 26.87 55,900Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
70 0.51 21.65 45,020Office clerks, general
5,590 1.07 24.30 50,550Office machine operators, except computer
30 0.64 25.55 53,150Office and administrative support workers, all other
470 1.15 25.50 53,030Last Modified Date: Thursday, May 01, 2025
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