Fashion designers:
Introduction:
This paper analysis the income levels of employees in the fashion designers industry, this industry according to the bureau of labour in the United States it is estimated that this industry employs over 20,000 individuals according to the year 2006 statistics. This industry mainly focuses on dress making, clothing, shoes of different styles and making.
Data on the income levels of employees in the fashion industry was retrieved from the bureau of statistics in the US which is available at www.bls.gov.
The data:
Data was retrieved from http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes271022.htm, the data contains employment levels in these states, hourly wage rate and the mean annual income in terms of wage, the data below shows the data:
|
Area name |
Employment |
Hourly mean wage |
Annual mean wage(2) |
|
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Metropolitan Division |
2500 |
34.34 |
71430 |
|
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA |
2920 |
33.66 |
70010 |
|
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA |
30 |
27.19 |
56560 |
|
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA |
240 |
36.25 |
75400 |
|
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA Metropolitan Division |
150 |
33.8 |
70310 |
|
Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA Metropolitan Division |
410 |
29.49 |
61350 |
|
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV |
30 |
27.07 |
56300 |
|
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH |
680 |
29.8 |
61990 |
|
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA NECTA Division |
450 |
29.61 |
61600 |
|
Brockton-Bridgewater-Easton, MA NECTA Division |
60 |
27.33 |
56850 |
|
Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA |
50 |
24.5 |
50970 |
|
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI |
90 |
27.64 |
57490 |
|
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ |
30 |
30.87 |
64200 |
|
Edison, NJ Metropolitan Division |
50 |
31.12 |
64720 |
|
New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division |
6920 |
37.7 |
78410 |
|
Nassau-Suffolk, NY Metropolitan Division |
380 |
37.28 |
77540 |
|
New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA |
7390 |
37.71 |
78450 |
|
New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division |
6920 |
37.7 |
78410 |
|
Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA |
200 |
32.01 |
66590 |
|
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ |
30 |
30.87 |
64200 |
|
Philadelphia, PA Metropolitan Division |
120 |
25.47 |
52970 |
|
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD |
270 |
31 |
64480 |
|
Reading, PA |
270 |
20.22 |
42050 |
|
Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metropolitan Division |
550 |
37.22 |
77420 |
|
Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metropolitan Division |
40 |
14.42 |
29980 |
|
Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA |
200 |
32.01 |
66590 |
|
Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Metropolitan Division |
160 |
27.03 |
56210 |
|
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA |
160 |
27.03 |
56210 |
|
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI |
90 |
27.64 |
57490 |
|
Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT |
110 |
25.68 |
53410 |
Mean, standard deviation and median:
When we use ungrouped data to analyse the mean and the median of the data our results are as follows:
|
total |
31500 |
903.66 |
1879590 |
|
mean |
1050 |
30.122 |
62653 |
|
standard deviation |
2147.812038 |
5.384997295 |
11203.3099 |
|
MIN |
30 |
14.42 |
29980 |
|
MAX |
7390 |
37.71 |
78450 |
|
RANGE |
7360 |
23.29 |
48470 |
The mean hourly wage is 30.12 dollars, the range is 23.29 and our standard deviation is equal to 5.38, these are measures of central tendencies of data, the mean gives us an estimate of the hourly wage rate in the fashion industry and the standard deviation give us the measure of deviations from the mean of the different wages paid by different states.
Grouped data:
When we group the data into 6 classes and considering the class interval to be two then we will be in a position to obtain our frequency and therefore construct a histogram, after grouping our data the results are as follows:
|
class |
frequency |
cummulative frequency |
percentage |
|
10.50 TO 15.50 |
1 |
1 |
3% |
|
15.51 TO 20.50 |
2 |
3 |
7% |
|
20.51 TO 25.50 |
4 |
7 |
13% |
|
25.51 TO 30.50 |
8 |
15 |
27% |
|
30.51 TO 35.50 |
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