Editing Briarcliff Manor, New York (section)

== Economy ==
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!colspan=3|<span style="font-size: 1.1em;">Employment by industry, 2014<ref name="2016PvillePlan"/><ref name="Occupations"/></span>
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| Industry
| Employment
| Percentage
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| Education and health care
| 919
| 26.5%
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| Professional, scientific, management
| 811
| 23.4%
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| Finance, insurance, real estate
| 522
| 15.1%
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| Retail and wholesale trade
| 423
| 12.2%
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| Arts, entertainment, recreation, food services
| 268
| 7.7%
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| Manufacturing
| 144
| 4.2%
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| Other services
| 116
| 3.3%
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| Information
| 110
| 3.2%
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| Construction
| 72
| 2.1%
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| Public administration
| 36
| 1.0%
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| Agriculture and resource-based
| 24
| 6.9%
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| Transportation, warehousing, utilities
| 18
| 0.5%
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! Total
! 3,463
! 100%
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About five percent of Briarcliff Manor's land is occupied by businesses. The village has three retail business areas, a general (non-retail) business area and scattered office buildings and laboratories. The village's principal retail district is along Pleasantville and North State Roads.<ref name="2007Plan"/>

The central business district primarily has retailers such as restaurants, cafes, small food markets, and specialty shops. The North State Road business district has a supermarket, a bank, a gas station, and a mixture of retail stores, and the other retail areas have national and local stores. The village has small offices and larger offices for the regional (or national) market, which were formerly housed by companies including [[Sony]] Electronics, Philips Research, and [[Wüsthof]].<ref name="2007Plan"/>

The village economy depends on education, [[Health care in the United States|health care]] and social services. Of the population aged 16 and older, 63&nbsp;percent are in the labor force; 33&nbsp;percent of those employed work outside Westchester County. About 13&nbsp;percent of workers live and work in the village, and the average commute is 37.1 minutes.<ref name="2007Plan"/> The [[unemployment rate]] for those 16 and older is 4.2%, while the unemployment rate for those aged 20 to 64 is 3.0%.<ref name="FactFinderEmployment">{{cite web|title=Employment Status: Briarcliff Manor village, New York|work=American FactFinder, 2011-2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates|publisher=United States Census Bureau|url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_5YR/S2301/1600000US3608103|access-date=September 28, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213115223/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_5YR/S2301/1600000US3608103|archive-date=February 13, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref> Briarcliff Manor has a number of wealthy residents, and was rated 19th on [[CNNMoney]]'s 25 Top-Earning Towns in the U.S.<ref name="Earning towns"/> An assessment by financial news corporation 24/7 Wall St., using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's [[American Community Survey]] from 2006 to 2010, rated the village's school district the fifth-wealthiest in the United States and the third-wealthiest in New York.<ref name="FoxSchools"/>

In 2004, the top five employers in Briarcliff Manor were the Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District, Philips Research, [[Trump National Golf Club Westchester|Trump National Golf Club]], [[the Clear View School]], and engineering firm Charles H. Sells. Other large employers were USI Holdings (a publicly traded insurer headquartered in the village), Atria Briarcliff Manor, Pace University, and the village (which employs 81 people).<ref name="2007Plan"/>{{rp|page=57}}