Telemarketing hot spots

Monthly Labor Review, Feb, 2007

"The five U.S. counties with the greatest number of telemarketing employees supplied a little more than 11 percent of the total number of workers in the industry with a combined total of 38,620 in March 2006. With 10,175 telemarketers accounting for 1.8 percent of its total employment, Bexar County, Texas, which contains San Antonio, tops the list. Telemarketing employees there earn an average of $653 per week--more than $100 above the national average for the industry.

Maricopa County, Arizona employs 7,669 people in the telemarketing industry, which is 0.5 percent of its total employment. (Maricopa's county seat is Phoenix.) Close behind Maricopa County are Miami-Dade County, Florida, and Salt Lake County, Utah, with 7,455 and 7,415 telemarketing employees, respectively. Rounding out the top five is Tarrant County, Texas, with a little more than half the number of telemarketing industry employees as Bexar. Tarrant County is an urban county located in the north central part of Texas; Fort Worth serves as the county seat. Find out more in "Telemarketing: Five Industry Centers," Issues in Labor Statistics, BLS Summary 06-06.