Guilford County · North Carolina
Greensboro, NC 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 Greensboro, NC earn a median of $35,818 a year, 20% below the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 5.1% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 25.9% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $35,818#81 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 5.1%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 65.7%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 148,550Civilian employed, age 16+
What Greensboro does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance25.9%
- Retail trade12.1%
- Manufacturing11.9%
- Professional, scientific & management10.3%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food9.6%
- Finance, insurance & real estate7.4%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities7%
- Other services, except public administration4.4%
- Construction4.3%
- Wholesale trade3%
- Public administration2.2%
- Information1.5%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining0.3%
Related data for Greensboro
Earnings only mean something next to what things cost.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates
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%.