Alabama · SOC 39-0000 · Annual, 2025
Personal care and service occupations in Alabama
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 39-0000 in Alabama, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 37,300 people in Alabama worked in personal care and service occupations (SOC 39-0000), with an average annual wage of $34,600.
Employment in personal care and service occupations in Alabama grew 23.8% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 46.5% below the all-occupations average in Alabama. Employment fell 37.2% from 2017 to 2020 and has since recovered 40.1% of that loss. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for Alabama are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 37,300Employment, 2025
- $34,600Mean annual wage
- 1.8%Share of Alabama jobs
- 0.85Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 43,000; 2005 43,700; 2006 44,400; 2007 45,200; 2008 45,600; 2009 44,900; 2010 44,200; 2011 43,700; 2012 43,900; 2013 44,000; 2014 44,400; 2015 45,000; 2016 46,200; 2017 48,000; 2018 44,100; 2019 39,800; 2020 30,100; 2021 31,000; 2022 32,600; 2023 34,900; 2024 36,300; 2025 37,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37,267 | $34,602 | 2.6% |
| 2024 | 36,323 | $33,608 | 4.0% |
| 2023 | 34,922 | $33,241 | 7.2% |
| 2022 | 32,584 | $32,448 | 5.0% |
| 2021 | 31,022 | $30,658 | 3.0% |
| 2020 | 30,111 | $28,853 | 24.3% |
| 2019 | 39,762 | $27,490 | 9.9% |
| 2018 | 44,114 | $27,389 | 8.0% |
| 2017 | 47,971 | $27,382 | 3.9% |
| 2016 | 46,169 | $26,768 | 2.6% |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
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Personal care and service occupations in Alabama, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for personal care and service occupations in Alabama. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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