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Earnings of Employees in the Woods & Poole Database

October 28, 2021

Earnings of employees are the sum of wages and salaries, other labor income, and proprietors’ income.  Earnings also include personal contributions for social insurance.  Historical earnings data are from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.  As with employment, earnings data are by place of work, so that earnings of an employee who works in one county but resides in another are counted in the county where the job is.

The two-digit NAICS sectors for earnings are defined in the 2002 North American Industry Classification System Manual.  Earnings data in the 2021 Woods & Poole database are no longer based on the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system definitions.  For the years 1969-2000 BEA provided earnings industry data by SIC rather than by NAICS;  Woods & Poole has estimated the NAICS industry data for 1969-2000 from the BEA SIC 1969-2000 earnings industry data and the NAICS earnings industry data for the years 2001 forward.

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