Management, scientific, marketing & technical consultant jobs

Management, Scientific, and Technical Consultant Employment

The management, scientific, and technical consulting services industry had about 779,000 wage and salary workers in 2004; an additional 256,000 workers were self-employed and unpaid family workers, comprising 25 percent of all jobs in this industry. Table 1 details how employment is broken down among the different segments of the industry.

Table 1. Percent distribution of wage and salary employment in management, scientific, and technical consulting services, 2004

Establishment type	Employment
Management, scientific, and technical consulting, total	100
Administrative management and general management consulting	36.8
Marketing consulting	13.6
Human resources and executive search consulting	12.9
Other management consulting	10.8
Process, physical distribution, and logistics consulting	9.3
Environmental consulting	8.1
Other scientific and technical consulting	8.5

The vast majority of establishments in the industry were fairly small, employing fewer than 5 workers (chart 1). Self-employed individuals operated many of these small firms. Despite the prevalence of small firms and self-employed workers, large firms tend to dominate the industry. Approximately 54 percent of jobs are found in the 4 percent of establishments with 20 or more employees, and some of the largest firms in the industry employ several thousand people.

Although employees in this industry work in all parts of the country, many workers are concentrated near large urban centers.

Chart 1. Number of workers employed by establishment, March 2004. Over nine-tenths of establishments in management, scientific, and technical consulting services have fewer than 20 workers.

Source:

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Career Guide to Industries, 2006-07 Edition, Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs037.htm (visited November 16, 2006).