Industries at a Glance: Educational Services: NAICS 61

The Educational Services sector comprises establishments that provide instruction and training in a wide variety of subjects. This instruction and training is provided by specialized establishments, such as schools, colleges, universities, and training centers. These establishments may be privately owned and operated for profit or not for profit, or they may be publicly owned and operated. They may also offer food and/or accommodation services to their students.

Educational services are usually delivered by teachers or instructors that explain, tell, demonstrate, supervise, and direct learning. Instruction is imparted in diverse settings, such as educational institutions, the workplace, or the home, and through diverse means, such as correspondence, television, the Internet, or other electronic and distance-learning methods. The training provided by these establishments may include the use of simulators and simulation methods. It can be adapted to the particular needs of the students, for example sign language can replace verbal language for teaching students with hearing impairments. All industries in the sector share this commonality of process, namely, labor inputs of instructors with the requisite subject matter expertise and teaching ability.

North American Industry Classification System

The educational services sector consists of a single subsector, Educational Services: NAICS 611. Data published under either the sector or subsector classification are included in the tables below. The subsector consists of these industry groups:

This section provides information relating to employment and unemployment in educational services. While most data are obtained from employer or establishment surveys, information on industry unemployment comes from a national survey of households. The following tables present an overview of the industry including the number of jobs, the unemployment rate of those previously employed in the industry, job openings and labor turnover, union membership and representation, mass layoffs, data for occupations common to the industry, and projections of occupational employment change.

Employment, Unemployment, Layoffs, and Openings, Hires, and Separations

Union Membership and Representation

Extended Mass Layoffs

Employment by Occupation

Projections

Data series	Oct. 2011	Nov. 2011	Dec. 2011	Jan. 2012
Employment (in thousands)
Employment, all employees (seasonally adjusted)	3,261.1	3,275.3	(P) 3,281.6	(P) 3,287.2
Unemployment
Unemployment rate	6.2%	6.2%	5.1%	5.9%
Layoffs
Mass layoff events	8	7	11
Initial claimants for unemployment benefits	518	434	860
Job openings, hires, and separations (in thousands)
Job openings	57	51	(P) 44
Hires	70	49	(P) 38
Separations	43	38	(P) 49
Footnotes (P) Preliminary

Data series	2008	2009	2010	2011
Union membership and representation
Members of unions (percent of wage and salary workers)	13.8%	12.9%	13.0%	13.0%
Represented by unions (percent of wage and salary workers)	16.0%	15.2%	15.1%	15.5%

Data series	4th quarter 2010	1st quarter 2011	2nd quarter 2011	3rd quarter 2011
Extended mass layoff events	9	8	(P) 37	(P) 18
Separations	2,655	905	(P) 4,920	(P) 2,274
Initial claimants	1,457	1,101	(P) 5,932	(P) 2,175
Footnotes (P) Preliminary

Data series	Employment, 2010
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school	219,220
Elementary school teachers, except special education	1,473,880
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education	651,460
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education	1,045,540
Teacher assistants	1,075,710
Note: These employment estimates include employment in both the private-sector and government.

For projected (future) employment estimates, see the National Employment Matrix, which includes employment estimates by industry and occupation for educational services.

Weekly earnings by union membership status are shown. Recent hourly and annual earnings for occupations commonly found in educational services. This section also contains information on the average cost of benefits paid by employers, as well as recent rates of change in wages and total compensation.

Union Membership and Representation

Earnings by Occupation

Employer Compensation Costs

This section presents data for the industry on the number of workplace fatalities and the rates of workplace injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers in educational services. An injury or illness is considered to be work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the resulting condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition.

This section presents data on the number of establishments in educational services.

Data series	Back data	Median weekly earnings
Data series	Back data	2008	2009	2010	2011
Union membership and representation
Full-time workers		$773	$819	$852	$858
Members of unions		$892	$886	$900	$938
Represented by unions		$868	$879	$875	$942
Nonunion		$762	$795	$846	$833

Data series	Wages, 2010
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Education administrators, elementary and secondary school	(1) $-	(1) $-	$87,020	$90,100
Elementary school teachers, except special education	(1) $-	(1) $-	$51,690	$54,360
Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education	(1) $-	(1) $-	$51,980	$54,890
Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education	(1) $-	(1) $-	$53,270	$56,030
Teacher assistants	(1) $-	(1) $-	$23,700	$25,320
Footnotes (1) Wages for some occupations that do not generally work year-round, full time, are reported either as hourly wages or annual salaries depending on how they are typically paid.

Data series	1st quarter 2011	2nd quarter 2011	3rd quarter 2011	4th quarter 2011
12-month percent change
Total compensation	1.8%	2.0%	1.8%	2.0%
Wages and salaries	2.0%	2.0%	1.8%	2.0%
12-month percent change: State and local government
Total compensation	1.5%	1.4%	1.2%	1.1%
Wages and salaries	1.2%	1.1%	0.9%	0.8%

Data series	Back data	3rd quarter 2011
Data series	Back data	Compensation component ($ per hour worked)	Percent of total compensation
Compensation costs
Total compensation		39.36	100.0
Wages and salaries		28.97	73.6
Total benefits		10.39	26.4
Insurance		2.92	7.4
Retirement		1.73	4.4

Data series	2007	2008	2009	2010
Fatalities
Number of fatalities	79	79	74	(P) 78
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	2.4	2.3	2.4	2.2
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	1.0	1.0	0.8	0.9
Cases involving days away from work	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2
Footnotes (P) Preliminary

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics