{
  "title": "U.S. fence erector employment and wages: selected May 2025 OEWS estimates",
  "compiledBy": "Fence Advisors",
  "compilationLicense": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "licenseNote": "License applies to the original Fence Advisors compilation, not third-party documents or trademarks. Retain source, period and scope.",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-10-03",
  "referencePeriod": "May 2025",
  "occupation": { "soc": "47-4031", "name": "Fence Erectors" },
  "geography": "United States",
  "sources": [
    { "id": "bls-profile", "label": "BLS May 2025 fence erector occupation profile", "url": "https://data.bls.gov/oesprofile/?year=2025&major_group=470000&occupation=474031&measure=01&areas=INDUSTRY,STATE,MSA", "locator": "National estimates, percentiles, industry, state and area tables" },
    { "id": "bls-table", "label": "BLS May 2025 national employment and wage table", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.t01.htm", "locator": "Fence erectors row; release table is not a permanent historical URL" },
    { "id": "bls-method", "label": "BLS OEWS technical note", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.tn.htm", "locator": "Scope, concepts, estimation methodology; release note may roll forward" },
    { "id": "bls-download", "label": "BLS May 2025 national data download", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm25nat.zip", "locator": "Official historical workbook, linked from BLS data tables" }
  ],
  "national": {
    "employment": 24480,
    "employmentRsePercent": 6,
    "hourlyMeanUsd": 24.29,
    "annualMeanUsd": 50530,
    "hourlyMedianUsd": 23.07,
    "annualMedianUsd": 47980,
    "wageRsePercent": 1.3
  },
  "wagePercentiles": [
    { "percentile": 10, "hourlyUsd": 17.22, "annualUsd": 35810 },
    { "percentile": 25, "hourlyUsd": 19.43, "annualUsd": 40400 },
    { "percentile": 50, "hourlyUsd": 23.07, "annualUsd": 47980 },
    { "percentile": 75, "hourlyUsd": 28.18, "annualUsd": 58610 },
    { "percentile": 90, "hourlyUsd": 33.66, "annualUsd": 70010 }
  ],
  "highestEmploymentStates": [
    { "state": "California", "stateCode": "CA", "employment": 3150, "employmentRsePercent": 16.4 },
    { "state": "Florida", "stateCode": "FL", "employment": 2020, "employmentRsePercent": 29.2 },
    { "state": "Texas", "stateCode": "TX", "employment": 1800, "employmentRsePercent": 19.2 },
    { "state": "Washington", "stateCode": "WA", "employment": 1450, "employmentRsePercent": 28.4 },
    { "state": "Pennsylvania", "stateCode": "PA", "employment": 1150, "employmentRsePercent": 30.7 }
  ],
  "highestEmploymentIndustries": [
    { "industry": "Other Specialty Trade Contractors", "employment": 19730, "employmentRsePercent": 6.1 },
    { "industry": "Building Material and Supplies Dealers", "employment": 980, "employmentRsePercent": 40.7 },
    { "industry": "Employment Services", "employment": 470, "employmentRsePercent": 49.2 },
    { "industry": "Rental and Leasing Services (5322, 5323, and 5324 only)", "employment": 410, "employmentRsePercent": 32.5 },
    { "industry": "Building Equipment Contractors", "employment": 370, "employmentRsePercent": 28.3 }
  ],
  "highestEmploymentAreas": [
    { "area": "New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ", "employment": 1290, "employmentRsePercent": 28.7 },
    { "area": "Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA", "employment": 730, "employmentRsePercent": 40.2 },
    { "area": "Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA", "employment": 710, "employmentRsePercent": 19.5 },
    { "area": "Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD", "employment": 570, "employmentRsePercent": 23.3 },
    { "area": "Providence-Warwick, RI-MA", "employment": 450, "employmentRsePercent": 43.6 }
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "Wage-and-salary employment estimates, not a census of fence businesses or all fence industry workers.",
    "OEWS excludes self-employed workers and owners and partners in unincorporated firms.",
    "Annual wages generally use 2,080 hours; they are not contractor revenue, owner income, or an installed-price quotation.",
    "State, area and industry estimates have substantial sampling uncertainty. RSE is relative standard error, not a confidence interval.",
    "May 2025 estimates combine six semiannual survey panels. This excerpt is not a year-to-year growth study.",
    "Selected top-five tables are not an exhaustive state, metro or industry dataset."
  ]
}