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Live Index

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National indicator

U.S. promoter and live-event workforce

Employment and wages across all occupations at promoters of performing arts, sports and similar events, NAICS 711300, from the annual Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics programme.

Current reading

194,390
Jobs in NAICS 711300

May 2025

$21.64
Median hourly wage, all occupations

May 2025

$28.80
Mean hourly wage, all occupations

May 2025

$45,020
Median annual wage

May 2025

The mean hourly wage sits 33.1 percent above the median, which is the arithmetic signature of a distribution in which a minority of well-paid roles carries the average while the typical job in the industry pays materially less.

One vintage is currently stored. OEWS does not publish a continuous time series through its public interface, so this indicator accumulates history forward: each May release is captured on publication and held alongside the previous ones.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), national industry-specific, series OEUN000000071130000000001; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), national industry-specific, series OEUN000000071130000000008; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), national industry-specific, series OEUN000000071130000000003; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), national industry-specific, series OEUN000000071130000000013. Retrieved by Live Index 2026-08-14.

Reference period May 2025.

How to read it

OEWS is an industry-by-occupation survey. This industry code captures the promoters and event operators who assemble and sell live events, including the administrative and operations occupations employed alongside them.

The distance between the mean and the median hourly wage is the useful read: a mean well above the median indicates that a small number of high-earning roles pull the average up while the typical job pays substantially less.

The annual figure assumes year-round employment. In a sector with heavy seasonal and event-driven staffing, it overstates what many of these jobs actually pay over a year.

Derivation

Each figure is an OEWS published estimate for the May reference period, stored as released. Live Index derives only the spread between the mean and median hourly wage, which is the difference between two stored values.

Live Index stores the agency's published level for each period and recomputes derived figures from those stored levels on every read. No value is smoothed, interpolated, seasonally re-adjusted or projected, and a period the agency has not published is absent from the series rather than filled.

Limits of the measure

  • OEWS is an annual snapshot, not a monthly series, and the reference period is May of the survey year.
  • The programme does not publish a continuous time series through its public API. Live Index captures each vintage as it is released and stores it alongside earlier ones, so history accumulates forward rather than being back-filled.
  • The industry code includes sports and similar events; it is not a music-only measure.