West Virginia · SOC 39-0000 · Annual, 2025
Personal care and service occupations in West Virginia
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 39-0000 in West Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 11,600 people in West Virginia worked in personal care and service occupations (SOC 39-0000), with an average annual wage of $35,800.
Employment in personal care and service occupations in West Virginia grew 13.3% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 40.8% below the all-occupations average in West Virginia. Employment fell 61.1% from 2017 to 2020 and has since recovered 8.4% of that loss. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for West Virginia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 11,600Employment, 2025
- $35,800Mean annual wage
- 1.7%Share of West Virginia jobs
- 0.80Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 24,200; 2005 24,800; 2006 24,800; 2007 25,100; 2008 24,800; 2009 24,800; 2010 25,000; 2011 25,000; 2012 25,500; 2013 25,300; 2014 25,300; 2015 25,300; 2016 25,300; 2017 26,400; 2018 22,800; 2019 17,900; 2020 10,300; 2021 10,300; 2022 10,600; 2023 11,200; 2024 11,700; 2025 11,600.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11,617 | $35,801 | 0.5% |
| 2024 | 11,679 | $34,860 | 4.2% |
| 2023 | 11,210 | $33,641 | 5.6% |
| 2022 | 10,619 | $32,049 | 2.8% |
| 2021 | 10,329 | $30,158 | 0.7% |
| 2020 | 10,257 | $29,578 | 42.5% |
| 2019 | 17,853 | $27,734 | 21.7% |
| 2018 | 22,799 | $26,979 | 13.5% |
| 2017 | 26,368 | $25,972 | 4.4% |
| 2016 | 25,261 | $25,101 | 0.3% |
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 West Virginia, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for personal care and service occupations in West Virginia. 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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