Nationally, 13.8% of workers worked from home in 2023. Pre-pandemic, this number was 5.7%. Coworking Mag explored demographic, income, education, and industry data from the Census Bureau to profile the average remote worker in the Augusta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).
In Augusta, 10.1% or more than 28,600 people in the workforce are remote workers. In tech-heavy cities such as Raleigh NC and Austin TX, remote workers make up almost 25 percent of the workforce.
Of these remote workers, 63.6 percent are women, the second highest in the southeast behind Fayetteville NC (65%). Nationally, remote workers are more evenly split between genders with women representing 53 percent of remote workers.
Millennials comprise the largest proportion of remote workers nationally, at 38 percent. In Austin TX, it is nearly 50 percent. In Augusta, Gen Xers make up the largest proportion of the remote workforce at 37.8 percent. Millennials come a close second with 34.2%.
Nationally, 58% of remote workers have a bachelor’s degree and 25% have some college education. Locally, the total percentage is about the same but split more towards workers with some college. But a college education is not a barrier to working from home, 14% of remote workers in Augusta only have a high school diploma, about the same as the national average.
Remote work can be well paid and 30% of remote workers in Augusta earn over $75,000, although the median is about $58,000. This may be the result of the higher levels of education or because of the type of industry that employs remote workers. Professional and Business Services employ the most teleworkers, or 27% nationally, followed by education and health services (17%) and finance (14%). Even manufacturing employs 7% of all remote workers because much growth in this sector is in non-production occupations.
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