Here s the most disproportionately popular job in every state
Some jobs are especially concentrated in a particular state.
We looked at the job with the most people employed in each state and DC relative to the national employment rate for that occupation.
The above map shows this for occupations with at least 1,000 workers, based on BLS data.
Some jobs are way more prevalent in some states than they are in the US as a whole.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program provides not only wage and overall employment data at the national and state level, but also a measure of how concentrated specific occupations are in specific states. BLS writes that this measure, called the location quotient, is the ratio of an occupation s share of employment in a given area to that occupation s share of employment in the US as a whole.
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