What are people doing in America for work and just how much are they make at those job ? This chart , which looks at the distribution of Americans through different industries and their medial salaries , serve that interrogation .
The chart is the work ofNathan Yau over at Flowing Data , who used the new stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to create it . thing really get interesting , though , when you start looking at the datum not just nationally , but by state .
Switching the chart over to Michigan ’s fabrication - heavy economy give a result that is , unsurprisingly , tilted towards expatriation and material moving and production . It ’s also fairly like to the chart that you see for the integral nation . Leaving the salary peak fix at a median of just over $ 50,000 ( represented by the portions of the chart establish in green ) , which is also the national median , the jobs that hit that criteria are mostly centered in fiscal operations , engineering , and management .
Compare that with data from Washington , DC , where the most popular industries shift radically into fiscal surgical operation and management and the chart look noticeably different than the national one . The median earnings of $ 50,000 also appears much more frequently scattered around the chart , reflecting the very dissimilar variety of economy ( and costs ) you could ascertain across the states .
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