New Jersey · SOC 39-0000 · Annual, 2025
Personal care and service occupations in New Jersey
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 39-0000 in New Jersey, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 106,400 people in New Jersey worked in personal care and service occupations (SOC 39-0000), with an average annual wage of $47,890.
Employment in personal care and service occupations in New Jersey grew 34.3% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 45.0% below the all-occupations average in New Jersey. Employment fell 44.1% from 2017 to 2020 and has since recovered 43.6% of that loss. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for New Jersey are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 106,400Employment, 2025
- $47,890Mean annual wage
- 2.5%Share of New Jersey jobs
- 1.20Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 114,400; 2005 116,300; 2006 118,000; 2007 119,300; 2008 121,100; 2009 118,600; 2010 119,000; 2011 119,300; 2012 122,200; 2013 123,200; 2014 124,300; 2015 125,700; 2016 129,100; 2017 141,600; 2018 135,600; 2019 125,100; 2020 79,200; 2021 85,100; 2022 92,700; 2023 99,200; 2024 104,900; 2025 106,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 106,412 | $47,887 | 1.4% |
| 2024 | 104,942 | $46,894 | 5.8% |
| 2023 | 99,213 | $44,958 | 7.1% |
| 2022 | 92,657 | $43,280 | 8.9% |
| 2021 | 85,068 | $41,811 | 7.4% |
| 2020 | 79,239 | $40,488 | 36.7% |
| 2019 | 125,107 | $39,173 | 7.7% |
| 2018 | 135,568 | $39,040 | 4.3% |
| 2017 | 141,629 | $38,800 | 9.7% |
| 2016 | 129,122 | $37,048 | 2.7% |
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 New Jersey, quarterly, at full depth
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