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Thursday, May 01, 2025
Workers in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area had an average (mean) hourly wage of $30.90 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 legal ($69.03), management ($62.83), and healthcare practitioners and technical ($58.92). Lower paying occupations included healthcare support ($18.66), food preparation and serving related ($19.66), and personal care and service ($20.19). (See table A.)
Occupational groups with the highest employment in the Riverside area included transportation and material moving (15.3 percent), office and administrative support (10.6 percent), and food preparation and serving related (10.0 percent). Major occupational groups on the lower end of local employment included legal (0.4 percent); life, physical, and social science (0.7 percent); and arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media (0.9 percent).
Table A. Occupational employment and wages by major occupational group, United States and the Riverside metropolitan area, May 2024 Major occupational group Percent of total employment Mean hourly wage ($) United States Riverside United States RiversideTotal, all occupations
100.0 100.0 32.66 30.90Management
7.1 5.1 68.15 62.83Business and financial operations
6.7 4.2 45.04 42.15Computer and mathematical
3.4 1.2 56.16 51.82Architecture and engineering
1.7 0.9 49.99 49.20Life, physical, and social science
0.9 0.7 43.12 43.62Community and social service
1.7 1.9 30.31 34.19Legal
0.8 0.4 66.19 69.03Educational instruction and library
5.8 6.4 31.69 37.81Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media
1.4 0.9 37.04 33.35Healthcare practitioners and technical
6.2 5.5 50.59 58.92Healthcare support
4.8 7.5 19.06 18.66Protective service
2.4 2.8 29.33 32.31Food preparation and serving related
8.8 10.0 17.32 19.66Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance
2.9 2.9 19.01 21.24Personal care and service
2.0 2.1 18.95 20.19Sales and related
8.7 8.0 26.00 24.05Office and administrative support
11.8 10.6 24.12 25.27Farming, fishing, and forestry
0.3 0.4 20.06 19.35Construction and extraction
4.1 5.0 30.73 34.64Installation, maintenance, and repair
3.9 3.8 29.63 32.19Production
5.7 4.5 24.08 23.96Transportation and material moving
8.9 15.3 23.44 24.01One occupational group—transportation and material moving—was chosen to illustrate the diversity of data available for any of the 22 major occupational categories. Riverside had 259,410 jobs in transportation and material moving, accounting for 15.3 percent of local area employment, compared to the 8.9-percent share nationally. The average hourly wage for this occupational group locally was $24.01, compared to the national wage of $23.44.
Some of the larger detailed occupations within the transportation and material moving group included hand laborers and freight, stock, and material movers (75,620), heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers (42,710), and stockers and order fillers (41,820). Among the higher paying jobs in this group were air traffic controllers ($44.92) and transportation inspectors ($38.43). At the lower end of the wage scale were ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians ($17.08) and parking attendants ($17.33). (Detailed data for the transportation and material moving occupations are presented in table 1; for a complete listing of detailed occupations available go to https://data.bls.gov/oes/#/area/0040140.)
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 Riverside area, above-average concentrations of employment were found in some of the occupations within the transportation and material moving group. For instance, industrial truck and tractor operators were employed at 3.98 times the national rate in Riverside, and hand laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, at 2.31 times the U.S. average. Driver/sales workers had a location quotient of 0.99 in Riverside, 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 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area included 6,156 establishments with a response rate of 60 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 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Riverside County and San Bernardino County.
For more information
Answers to frequently asked questions about the OEWS data, as well as general program documentation, are available on the OEWS website.
Information in this release will be made available to individuals with sensory impairments upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Telecommunications Relay Service: 7-1-1.
Table 1. Employment and wage data for transportation and material moving occupations, Riverside metropolitan area, May 2024 Occupation Employment Mean wages ($) Level Location quotient Hourly AnnualTransportation and material moving occupations
259,410 1.73 24.01 49,940Aircraft cargo handling supervisors
300 2.72 30.88 64,240First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling supervisors
10,140 1.52 32.20 66,970Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers
300 0.27 343,340Commercial pilots
270 0.47 (5) 110,810Air traffic controllers
140 0.58 44.92 93,440Airfield operations specialists
130 0.71 30.16 62,730Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
80 0.58 17.08 35,530Driver/sales workers
4,540 0.99 24.53 51,010Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers
42,710 1.88 29.56 61,480Light truck drivers
13,990 1.28 24.39 50,720Bus drivers, school
2,770 0.65 26.85 55,850Bus drivers, transit and intercity
1,380 0.84 26.05 54,180Shuttle drivers and chauffeurs
1,860 0.74 19.37 40,290Motor vehicle operators, all other
490 0.88 21.64 45,010Parking attendants
830 0.56 17.33 36,050Automotive and watercraft service attendants
1,180 1.10 19.41 40,370Aircraft service attendants
180 0.61 22.62 47,050Traffic technicians
90 1.10 30.57 63,590Transportation inspectors
230 0.92 38.43 79,940Passenger attendants
210 0.76 18.50 38,480Transportation workers, all other
(6) (6) 24.94 51,880Conveyor operators and tenders
740 2.57 20.20 42,010Crane and tower operators
170 0.36 34.09 70,900Industrial truck and tractor operators
35,270 3.98 24.88 51,750Cleaners of vehicles and equipment
4,900 1.19 18.72 38,940Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
75,620 2.31 21.50 44,720Machine feeders and offbearers
(6) (6) 19.49 40,530Packers and packagers, hand
13,600 2.06 20.27 42,150Stockers and order fillers
41,820 1.37 20.93 43,530Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
(6) (6) 22.46 46,720Refuse and recyclable material collectors
970 0.64 28.99 60,300Material moving workers, all other
1,350 4.89 19.74 41,070Last Modified Date: Thursday, May 01, 2025
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