Iowa · SOC 39-0000 · Annual, 2025
Personal care and service occupations in Iowa
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 39-0000 in Iowa, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 30,400 people in Iowa worked in personal care and service occupations (SOC 39-0000), with an average annual wage of $36,010.
Employment in personal care and service occupations in Iowa grew 10.6% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 43.1% below the all-occupations average in Iowa. Employment fell 46.0% from 2017 to 2020 and has since recovered 12.4% of that loss. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for Iowa are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 30,400Employment, 2025
- $36,010Mean annual wage
- 1.9%Share of Iowa jobs
- 0.94Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 42,900; 2005 43,500; 2006 44,500; 2007 44,900; 2008 45,200; 2009 45,200; 2010 45,200; 2011 45,800; 2012 46,500; 2013 47,000; 2014 47,600; 2015 48,000; 2016 48,900; 2017 51,000; 2018 45,800; 2019 39,500; 2020 27,500; 2021 28,300; 2022 29,300; 2023 29,500; 2024 30,200; 2025 30,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30,413 | $36,014 | 0.8% |
| 2024 | 30,173 | $34,908 | 2.2% |
| 2023 | 29,529 | $33,404 | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 29,331 | $32,092 | 3.7% |
| 2021 | 28,291 | $30,207 | 2.9% |
| 2020 | 27,501 | $29,307 | 30.4% |
| 2019 | 39,543 | $27,437 | 13.6% |
| 2018 | 45,764 | $27,415 | 10.2% |
| 2017 | 50,957 | $27,254 | 4.2% |
| 2016 | 48,894 | $26,618 | 1.9% |
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.
Notes
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Personal care and service occupations in Iowa, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for personal care and service occupations in Iowa. 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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