New Jersey · SOC 21-0000 · Annual, 2025
Community and social service occupations in New Jersey
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 21-0000 in New Jersey, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 71,200 people in New Jersey worked in community and social service occupations (SOC 21-0000), with an average annual wage of $77,760.
Employment in community and social service occupations in New Jersey grew 18.0% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 71,200. 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.
- 71,200Employment, 2025
- $77,760Mean annual wage
- 1.7%Share of New Jersey jobs
- 0.98Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 50,400; 2005 51,700; 2006 52,600; 2007 53,400; 2008 54,400; 2009 55,000; 2010 55,300; 2011 55,000; 2012 55,600; 2013 57,000; 2014 57,700; 2015 58,700; 2016 59,900; 2017 62,300; 2018 62,500; 2019 63,400; 2020 60,300; 2021 61,900; 2022 63,900; 2023 66,100; 2024 69,000; 2025 71,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71,200 | $77,755 | 3.1% |
| 2024 | 69,049 | $76,005 | 4.5% |
| 2023 | 66,050 | $73,862 | 3.3% |
| 2022 | 63,939 | $72,678 | 3.3% |
| 2021 | 61,922 | $70,243 | 2.6% |
| 2020 | 60,344 | $69,890 | 4.8% |
| 2019 | 63,409 | $65,029 | 1.4% |
| 2018 | 62,511 | $63,010 | 0.3% |
| 2017 | 62,323 | $60,974 | 4.1% |
| 2016 | 59,880 | $59,142 | 2.0% |
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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Community and social service occupations in New Jersey, quarterly, at full depth
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