Data source
BEA and BLS information sector data
The Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes real value added by industry, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes employment by industry. We retrieve both through FRED and divide output by workers.
Provides measurements used by the linked signal.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Real Value Added by Industry: Information [RVAI], and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, All Employees, Information [USINFO], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Not endorsed or certified by BEA.
Visit the sourceUsed for: Output per tech workerLicense: Public domain, citation requested
Output per worker, Q4 2022 = 100151.2
Output since Q4 2022+35%
Workers since Q4 2022-10%
Above the earlier trend+16%
What the data shows
Computed from every record, as of Q2 2026.
- Since Q4 2022, US information sector output is +35% and employment is -10%, so output per worker reached 151.2.
- Output per worker already grew about 7% a year from 2015 to 2019. The latest figure is +16% against that trend.
Limitations
- The information sector also includes telecoms, publishing, film and broadcasting.
- Recent quarters can be revised, and employment here does not count contractors abroad.