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Mesa, AZ jobs and wages
Who works here, what they earn, and which industries carry the local economy — Census ACS estimates for the city itself, not the wider metro.
Quick answer
Workers in Mesa, AZ earn a median of $43,958 a year, 1% below the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 4.6% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 20% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $43,958#37 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 4.6%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 65.2%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 250,301Civilian employed, age 16+
What Mesa does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance20%
- Professional, scientific & management14%
- Retail trade12.9%
- Finance, insurance & real estate9.3%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food9.2%
- Manufacturing8.6%
- Construction8.2%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities5.5%
- Other services, except public administration4.3%
- Public administration3.6%
- Wholesale trade2.5%
- Information1.3%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining0.6%
Related data for Mesa
Earnings only mean something next to what things cost.
Tables B23025, B20002 and C24030, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year. Industry shares combine the male and female columns of C24030 and are rounded, so they may not total exactly 100%.
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