District of Columbia · SOC 39-0000 · Annual, 2025
Personal care and service occupations in the District of Columbia
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 39-0000 in the District of Columbia, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 15,400 people in the District of Columbia worked in personal care and service occupations (SOC 39-0000), with an average annual wage of $54,380.
Employment in personal care and service occupations in the District of Columbia grew 25.5% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 56.4% below the all-occupations average in the District of Columbia. Employment fell 39.9% from 2017 to 2021 and has since recovered 47.6% of that loss. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for the District of Columbia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 15,400Employment, 2025
- $54,380Mean annual wage
- 2.1%Share of District of Columbia jobs
- 1.00Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 15,400; 2005 15,700; 2006 15,800; 2007 16,100; 2008 16,400; 2009 16,400; 2010 16,700; 2011 16,900; 2012 17,300; 2013 17,500; 2014 17,800; 2015 18,100; 2016 18,600; 2017 19,500; 2018 18,700; 2019 17,400; 2020 12,300; 2021 11,700; 2022 12,900; 2023 14,400; 2024 15,300; 2025 15,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15,433 | $54,383 | 0.7% |
| 2024 | 15,319 | $54,190 | 6.1% |
| 2023 | 14,435 | $51,590 | 12.1% |
| 2022 | 12,881 | $51,477 | 9.8% |
| 2021 | 11,732 | $50,081 | 4.6% |
| 2020 | 12,293 | $48,207 | 29.5% |
| 2019 | 17,448 | $43,329 | 6.7% |
| 2018 | 18,702 | $43,824 | 4.1% |
| 2017 | 19,511 | $42,927 | 4.9% |
| 2016 | 18,600 | $42,888 | 2.9% |
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 District of Columbia, quarterly, at full depth
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