South Carolina · SOC 39-0000 · Annual, 2025
Personal care and service occupations in South Carolina
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 39-0000 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 49,500 people in South Carolina worked in personal care and service occupations (SOC 39-0000), with an average annual wage of $36,850.
Employment in personal care and service occupations in South Carolina grew 33.6% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 42.3% below the all-occupations average in South Carolina. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for South Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 49,500Employment, 2025
- $36,850Mean annual wage
- 2.1%Share of South Carolina jobs
- 1.03Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 45,000; 2005 45,400; 2006 46,400; 2007 47,700; 2008 49,100; 2009 47,600; 2010 47,300; 2011 47,600; 2012 48,000; 2013 48,300; 2014 49,400; 2015 50,800; 2016 52,100; 2017 55,300; 2018 53,500; 2019 49,300; 2020 37,000; 2021 39,700; 2022 43,200; 2023 46,500; 2024 48,700; 2025 49,500.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49,473 | $36,849 | 1.7% |
| 2024 | 48,659 | $35,460 | 4.5% |
| 2023 | 46,550 | $33,744 | 7.8% |
| 2022 | 43,163 | $32,795 | 8.8% |
| 2021 | 39,687 | $30,593 | 7.2% |
| 2020 | 37,022 | $29,346 | 24.9% |
| 2019 | 49,269 | $27,473 | 8.0% |
| 2018 | 53,533 | $27,131 | 3.2% |
| 2017 | 55,319 | $27,342 | 6.3% |
| 2016 | 52,056 | $26,397 | 2.4% |
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 South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for personal care and service occupations in South Carolina. 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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