As pop-punk rocker and believer-in-aliens Tom DeLonge wrote more than two decades ago, “Work sucks, I know.”
But despite Blink-182’s commiseration with the rest of us, we still have to go to work.
It sucks, we know.
Federal data estimates that 4.1 million to 4.4 million New Jerseyans are employed, and data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics gives us a sense of where all of those people work.
The most common jobs in the state are still manual labor. Jobs as laborers and those who work as freight, stock and material movers are the most common as of May 2018, the most recent data the bureau has available. The agency estimates that nearly 142,000 people work jobs that fall into that category and earn around $14.56 per hour, or slightly more than $30,000 annually.
However, combining the several different categories of food service employees shows that those workers are also among the most common. The bureau estimates that 172,560 people work as waiters, waitresses, food preparers, or work in fast food, at a concession stand or cafeteria or in a coffee shop. Taken together, those workers make about $11.64 per hour.
Jobs as retail salespeople, cashiers and registered nurses are also among the most common in New Jersey. The bureau estimates the state has 131,210 retail salespeople, 99,360 cashiers and 79,530 nurses. Customer service representatives round out the top five most common jobs — the bureau estimates 68,260 people work in those jobs. Janitors and cleaners also crack the top 10 most common jobs.
At the other end of the list, few New Jerseyans work as post-high school geography teachers, choreographers and commercial divers. One of the least common jobs in New Jersey is that of a tool grinder, tool filer and tool sharpeners. Only about 30 people work those jobs. Similarly, only around 30 people in New Jersey work as statistical assistants, industrial-organizational psychologists and foresters.
Not every job gets counted every year. In 2017, the bureau counted more than 1,200 barbers, ophthalmic medical technicians and electrical power-line installers and repairers, though those jobs don’t appear in the most recent data. One job likely missing from our least-common list is gaming and sports book writers and runners — the bureau estimated that there were 30 of those jobs in 2017 but they weren’t counted in 2018.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics produces the data from a semi-annual survey sent to a sample of businesses, though not farms, by mail. The bureau chooses a set of businesses to survey and drafts the questions. Once the bureau receives the surveys, it produces the estimates you see here.
The bureau data also shows which jobs are most unique to New Jersey — the most Jersey of New Jersey jobs, if you will. Using the “location quotient” we can see which jobs are more common in New Jersey compared to the rest of the United States. Among them? Gas station attendants. The bureau estimates that 10,230 people work those jobs and earn about $10.76 per hour. New Jersey has more of those jobs compared to other states by a factor of three.
However, the most Jersey job of all is one you might not expect: biochemists and biophysicists. New Jersey has more of those workers than other states by a factor of more than seven. It’s also an extremely high-paying field with the average annual salary at more than $145,000.
New Jersey also has a higher share of shampooers (1,860 jobs), watch repairers (230 jobs) and transit police (460) compared with other states.
Other jobs are just simply uncommon in New Jersey.
J. Dale Shoemaker is a reporter on the data & investigations team. He can be reached at jshoemaker@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JDale_Shoemaker.
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