EMA Foundation for Paper-Based Communications Institute for Postal Studies Releases 2008 Economic Jobs Study
The EMA Foundation for Paper-Based Communications’ Institute for Postal Studies has just released the 2008 Economic Jobs Study, which is an update to their 2003 study. The study reveals that there are approximately 8.4 million jobs and over USD 1 trillion in revenue associated with the mailing industry.
The study breaks down the jobs by state and congressional district. Jobs associated with the mailing industry are contained in two categories: 1) those that are associated with the creation of mail or the handling, distribution, delivery or receipt of mail and parcels; and 2) jobs associated with firms whose sales depend on mail and parcel carriers to deliver products that they sell or that use mail advertising to sell their products or
services.
This study analyzes data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Occupation Employment Statistics program on employment by occupation and industry, the U.S. Census Bureau in its 2002 Economic Census, and the Direct Marketing Association’s study of jobs associated with direct mail marketing.
The EMA Foundation for Paper-Based Communications’ Institute for Postal Studies has just released the 2008 Economic Jobs Study, which is an update to their 2003 study. The study reveals that there are approximately 8.4 million jobs and over USD 1 trillion in revenue associated with the mailing industry.
The study breaks down the jobs by state and congressional district. Jobs associated with the mailing industry are contained in two categories: 1) those that are associated with the creation of mail or the handling, distribution, delivery or receipt of mail and parcels; and 2) jobs associated with firms whose sales depend on mail and parcel carriers to deliver products that they sell or that use mail advertising to sell their products or
services.
This study analyzes data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Occupation Employment Statistics program on employment by occupation and industry, the U.S. Census Bureau in its 2002 Economic Census, and the Direct Marketing Association’s study of jobs associated with direct mail marketing. The key findings of the study are:
• This study identified 8,332,563 jobs associated with the core mailing industry. This
is lower than the 9 million jobs published in 2003. This change is due in part to the
fact that some segments of the mailing industry have become more efficient in
recent years. Also, the change is due to a more rigorous definition of the mailing
industry than was employed in 2003.
• Firms associated with the mailing industry generate nearly USD 1.2 trillion in revenue.
Direct marketing advertisements delivered through the mail generate over USD 750
billion in sales of goods and services.
• The Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce estimates
that for every job at the Postal Service, and in the courier and messenger, printing,
and direct mail advertising industries (the core of the industry as described above),
there is a multiplier that creates at least 1 additional job in the economy adding up to
a job count that would be greater than 9 million.
