Scene 8 of 19, Where local jobs are scarce, residents hold better-paid jobs than the county offers. Step 1 of 2, One group of counties.
Counties grouped by jobs located per job held by residents
Where local jobs are scarce, residents hold better-paid jobs than the county offers In the fifth of counties with the fewest jobs per resident job, 45.4% of jobs held by residents were in the top earnings band against 39.5% of the jobs located there
Fewest jobs per resident job Second fifth Middle fifth Fourth fifth Most jobs per resident job +5.9 +4.8 +3.7 +1.6 −2.0 Residents' jobs minus jobs located (points) 30 35 40 45 50 55 Jobs paying more than the top-band cut (percent of jobs)
Step 1 of 2 · One group of counties
In the fifth of counties with the fewest jobs per resident job, 45.4% 45.4% percent of jobs paying more than the top-band cut (monthly earnings from the job) Estimand jobs in the top earnings band summed over the counties of the group, divided by jobs summed over the same counties, bootstrap interval over states Interval 95% CI 43.4% to 47.3% n 619 counties Weights jobs in each table Population jobs held by residents of the lowest fifth of counties by jobs located per job held by residents (Alaska and Massachusetts left out) Period 2019 Source LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics $3,333 $3,333 dollars of monthly earnings from one job, current dollars Estimand lower limit of the top of the three LODES earnings bands: a job is in the top band when it pays more than this (a definition) Weights none (definition) Population jobs in the LEHD LODES tables Period fixed in every LODES year Source LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics 39.5% 39.5% percent of jobs paying more than the top-band cut (monthly earnings from the job) Estimand jobs in the top earnings band summed over the counties of the group, divided by jobs summed over the same counties, bootstrap interval over states Interval 95% CI 36.7% to 42.1% n 619 counties Weights jobs in each table Population jobs located in the lowest fifth of counties by jobs located per job held by residents (Alaska and Massachusetts left out) Period 2019 Source LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics
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Where local jobs are scarce, residents hold better-paid jobs than the county offers Scene 8 of 19, step 1 of 2: One group of counties. Counties grouped by jobs located per job held by residents.
What to say Workplace and residence tables count every job at the workplace and again at the worker’s home. Alaska and Massachusetts are not in LODES. The earnings bands are in current dollars.
About the chart In the fifth of counties with the fewest jobs per resident job, 45.4% of jobs held by residents were in the top earnings band against 39.5% of the jobs located there
In every fifth but the last, the dot for residents' jobs lies to the right of the dot for jobs located, and in the fifth with the most jobs per resident job it lies to the left. Each dot is a pooled share with a 95% interval from a bootstrap over states, and the last column gives the gap, residents' jobs minus jobs located.
The same jobs are counted in both tables, once at the home and once at the workplace, so the two shares agree when every county is pooled; they differ in a group of counties because of commuting across the group's boundary. Counties are ranked on jobs located per job held by residents, a count ratio that does not use earnings, and the fifths hold near-equal numbers of counties, not equal numbers of jobs. The lowest fifth holds 6.3% of jobs held by residents and 3.2% of jobs located, and the highest fifth holds 46.0% and 56.5%. Moving the county at a cut to the next fifth changes any of these shares by up to 0.1 points. The ranges of the ratio are in the table. Earnings bands are fixed in current dollars, so shares are compared within 2019 only. Alaska (no 2019 workplace file) and Massachusetts (a stub 2010 workplace file) are left out of every LODES figure, so the same states are covered in every year. Source LEHD LODES residence and workplace tables, 2019 (Alaska and Massachusetts left out); jobs-weighted counts with confidentiality noise, earnings bands in current dollars
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