RSE Table 11 Full-time(1) civilian workers: Relative standard errors of mean hourly, weekly, and annual earnings Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(5) Annual earnings(6) Occupation(2) Mean Relative Mean Relative Mean Relative error(4) error(4) error(4) All workers........................................................... $19.62 4.5% $779 4.6% $39,738 4.6% Management occupations.............................................. 38.83 6.5 1,587 6.8 81,703 6.8 Chief executives.................................................. 68.37 5.2 2,905 5.4 151,046 5.4 General and operations managers................................... 47.04 6.8 1,946 5.7 101,216 5.7 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 60.80 9.2 2,486 10.4 129,297 10.4 Marketing managers.............................................. 64.94 15.5 2,719 18.3 141,398 18.3 Sales managers.................................................. 56.83 18.8 2,273 18.8 118,201 18.8 Administrative services managers.................................. 31.64 17.2 1,283 17.6 66,714 17.6 Computer and information systems managers......................... 51.74 10.1 2,109 11.5 109,076 11.5 Financial managers................................................ 36.52 4.5 1,481 4.2 77,018 4.2 Human resources managers.......................................... 34.76 7.3 1,440 7.2 74,880 7.2 Compensation and benefits managers.............................. 38.95 11.4 1,695 11.0 88,159 11.0 Industrial production managers.................................... 42.96 9.0 1,774 9.3 92,270 9.3 Purchasing managers............................................... 39.04 21.7 1,562 21.7 81,203 21.7 Construction managers............................................. 26.38 13.0 1,081 13.2 56,187 13.2 Education administrators.......................................... 39.71 4.8 1,617 6.3 74,623 6.3 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 44.71 5.2 1,853 8.7 80,834 8.7 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 35.82 11.5 1,433 10.8 74,524 10.8 Engineering managers.............................................. 56.25 9.7 2,326 9.1 120,968 9.1 Food service managers............................................. 24.02 7.3 972 6.9 50,042 6.9 Medical and health services managers.............................. 40.44 4.8 1,641 3.8 85,313 3.8 Property, real estate, and community association managers......... 35.49 12.0 1,415 12.0 73,556 12.0 Social and community service managers............................. 28.04 12.9 1,122 12.9 58,323 12.9 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 25.96 4.6 1,051 4.3 54,637 4.3 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 25.08 8.3 1,031 6.1 53,619 6.1 Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 21.45 9.4 900 9.7 46,808 9.7 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 25.07 8.1 1,015 6.3 52,801 6.3 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 24.19 24.2 963 23.6 50,091 23.6 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 24.19 24.2 963 23.6 50,091 23.6 Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation..................................... 21.62 9.3 865 9.3 44,966 9.3 Cost estimators................................................... 31.42 14.2 1,257 14.2 65,345 14.2 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.74 10.9 986 11.0 51,097 11.0 Training and development specialists............................ 27.53 8.9 1,101 8.9 57,263 8.9 Logisticians...................................................... 24.67 10.0 987 10.0 51,314 10.0 Management analysts............................................... 29.43 18.8 1,177 18.8 61,217 18.8 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.10 3.9 1,145 4.1 59,493 4.1 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 21.36 5.9 851 5.9 44,233 5.9 Financial analysts.............................................. 24.79 7.2 992 7.2 51,560 7.2 Loan counselors and officers...................................... 31.70 6.9 1,257 6.4 65,343 6.4 Loan officers................................................... 32.67 7.9 1,295 7.4 67,316 7.4 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 29.54 15.0 1,194 15.2 62,032 15.2 Computer programmers.............................................. 32.13 6.2 1,285 6.2 66,827 6.2 Computer software engineers....................................... 40.12 1.3 1,624 1.6 84,394 1.6 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 34.56 6.0 1,387 5.9 71,988 5.9 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 42.85 4.1 1,742 4.6 90,573 4.6 Computer support specialists...................................... 18.64 18.5 746 18.5 38,778 18.5 Computer systems analysts......................................... 33.88 6.7 1,368 7.5 71,122 7.5 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 24.40 37.8 1,035 31.3 53,623 31.3 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 22.57 3.4 903 3.4 46,950 3.4 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 31.97 3.3 1,288 3.2 67,001 3.2 Architects, except naval.......................................... 27.33 1.3 1,093 1.3 56,841 1.3 Architects, except landscape and naval.......................... 27.33 1.3 1,093 1.3 56,841 1.3 Engineers......................................................... 37.19 3.9 1,505 3.8 78,235 3.8 Civil engineers................................................. 36.74 2.1 1,509 2.3 78,457 2.3 Computer hardware engineers..................................... 38.60 16.2 1,583 18.0 82,304 18.0 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 37.80 4.6 1,519 4.5 78,963 4.5 Electrical engineers.......................................... 38.35 4.6 1,534 4.6 79,772 4.6 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 37.42 9.0 1,508 8.8 78,406 8.8 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 30.97 3.5 1,262 4.3 65,603 4.3 Industrial engineers.......................................... 32.25 7.0 1,328 6.0 69,045 6.0 Mechanical engineers............................................ 38.57 9.5 1,511 9.9 78,556 9.9 Drafters.......................................................... 21.85 6.6 874 6.6 45,453 6.6 Architectural and civil drafters................................ 23.81 13.2 952 13.2 49,525 13.2 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 21.70 7.1 868 7.1 45,144 7.1 Civil engineering technicians................................... 19.09 3.6 764 3.6 39,715 3.6 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 20.98 9.4 839 9.4 43,636 9.4 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 26.33 4.5 1,048 4.8 53,956 4.8 Life scientists................................................... 23.78 10.4 951 10.4 49,460 10.4 Physical scientists............................................... 32.23 4.2 1,289 4.2 67,037 4.2 Environmental scientists and geoscientists...................... 33.31 4.7 1,332 4.7 69,276 4.7 Miscellaneous life, physical, and social science technicians...... 24.36 6.6 955 9.1 49,636 9.1 Community and social services occupations........................... 18.21 5.2 759 4.6 38,845 4.6 Counselors........................................................ 22.59 9.8 887 10.0 43,592 10.0 Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors.............. 19.88 4.3 795 4.3 41,346 4.3 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 28.83 12.0 1,131 12.0 50,994 12.0 Rehabilitation counselors....................................... 15.67 15.1 606 15.2 31,500 15.2 Social workers.................................................... 17.70 5.1 707 5.0 36,683 5.0 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 17.83 6.8 712 6.8 36,890 6.8 Mental health and substance abuse social workers................ 20.05 9.3 802 9.3 41,709 9.3 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 17.49 10.3 699 10.6 36,023 10.6 Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists....... 20.51 4.0 836 3.4 43,471 3.4 Social and human service assistants............................. 14.43 12.3 570 12.9 29,147 12.9 Legal occupations................................................... 43.95 33.5 1,729 32.4 89,899 32.4 Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 25.56 9.9 1,005 9.1 52,249 9.1 Miscellaneous legal support workers............................... 25.56 7.7 1,023 7.7 53,171 7.7 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 30.93 6.4 1,180 6.6 47,447 6.6 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 51.44 19.8 2,054 19.6 85,696 19.6 Business teachers, postsecondary................................ 73.27 19.4 2,799 20.5 106,283 20.5 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 35.27 8.7 1,499 8.2 58,548 8.2 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 32.65 15.9 1,276 13.1 54,838 13.1 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 30.19 3.4 1,139 3.1 43,382 3.1 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 17.93 17.0 669 16.3 29,612 16.3 Preschool teachers, except special education.................. 15.38 19.2 574 15.3 26,722 15.3 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 21.96 12.9 819 14.8 33,646 14.8 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 30.95 3.3 1,184 2.7 43,495 2.7 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 31.14 3.4 1,193 2.6 43,598 2.6 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 30.01 4.4 1,138 4.1 42,955 4.1 Secondary school teachers....................................... 32.59 3.4 1,237 2.7 46,725 2.7 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 32.64 3.5 1,239 2.8 46,775 2.8 Special education teachers...................................... 28.56 5.3 1,022 7.9 41,905 7.9 Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school.......................................... 27.49 6.1 960 8.8 41,023 8.8 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 38.99 31.0 1,526 31.6 68,088 31.6 Library technicians............................................... 18.26 10.1 730 10.1 37,977 10.1 Instructional coordinators........................................ 28.97 5.6 1,144 6.0 57,212 6.0 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.86 7.1 399 5.2 16,640 5.2 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 20.72 3.2 837 5.2 43,278 5.2 Designers......................................................... 19.45 14.4 795 11.1 41,339 11.1 Graphic designers............................................... 17.19 8.3 713 6.1 37,070 6.1 Actors, producers, and directors.................................. 19.36 9.1 774 9.1 40,266 9.1 Producers and directors......................................... 19.36 9.1 774 9.1 40,266 9.1 News analysts, reporters and correspondents....................... 18.26 13.9 705 11.1 36,244 11.1 Reporters and correspondents.................................... 18.26 13.9 705 11.1 36,244 11.1 Writers and editors............................................... 30.47 9.1 1,219 9.1 63,368 9.1 Editors......................................................... 28.82 11.4 1,153 11.4 59,948 11.4 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.17 4.9 1,108 5.1 57,220 5.1 Pharmacists....................................................... 47.73 2.2 1,886 2.0 98,096 2.0 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 62.63 33.3 2,359 29.2 122,669 29.2 Registered nurses................................................. 31.35 5.5 1,227 5.5 62,834 5.5 Therapists........................................................ 25.04 3.2 980 2.9 50,350 2.9 Occupational therapists......................................... 28.93 10.2 1,157 10.2 60,176 10.2 Physical therapists............................................. 29.01 4.9 1,086 8.3 56,452 8.3 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.28 4.6 730 4.5 37,985 4.5 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 16.60 2.3 663 2.2 34,500 2.2 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 26.81 12.4 1,064 12.7 55,348 12.7 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.17 5.2 955 5.6 49,656 5.6 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 16.62 7.4 660 7.3 34,342 7.3 Pharmacy technicians............................................ 15.29 6.0 612 6.0 31,813 6.0 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.39 3.4 771 3.2 40,098 3.2 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.33 2.5 478 2.4 24,832 2.4 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.84 1.0 462 1.0 24,046 1.0 Home health aides............................................... 10.29 1.1 382 1.0 19,843 1.0 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.18 1.8 476 1.9 24,756 1.9 Physical therapist assistants and aides........................... 10.36 9.6 402 12.0 20,895 12.0 Physical therapist aides........................................ 9.50 10.5 366 12.0 19,041 12.0 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.82 8.8 528 8.8 27,357 8.8 Dental assistants............................................... 15.15 10.6 543 15.8 28,221 15.8 Medical assistants.............................................. 14.70 8.0 576 8.6 29,570 8.6 Medical transcriptionists....................................... 17.00 9.3 680 9.3 35,363 9.3 Protective service occupations...................................... 16.96 5.1 693 5.4 35,855 5.4 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 29.64 7.7 1,186 7.7 61,648 7.7 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 32.14 8.5 1,286 8.5 66,862 8.5 Fire fighters..................................................... 16.56 13.4 810 8.8 42,096 8.8 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 18.14 5.2 737 5.1 38,298 5.1 Correctional officers and jailers............................... 18.14 5.2 737 5.1 38,298 5.1 Police officers................................................... 24.50 2.5 982 2.5 51,068 2.5 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 24.50 2.5 982 2.5 51,068 2.5 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.66 2.3 424 2.5 21,874 2.5 Security guards................................................. 10.66 2.3 424 2.5 21,874 2.5 Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 20.91 11.1 850 11.3 39,945 11.3 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.83 4.6 335 4.6 17,225 4.6 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 14.44 3.9 595 5.2 30,563 5.2 Chefs and head cooks............................................ 15.24 7.6 626 6.8 32,528 6.8 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers...................................................... 14.23 6.0 587 7.5 30,073 7.5 Cooks............................................................. 10.47 3.1 403 3.5 20,848 3.5 Cooks, fast food................................................ 9.22 10.3 367 10.0 19,100 10.0 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.55 7.2 409 8.9 20,640 8.9 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.80 4.3 410 6.4 21,313 6.4 Cooks, short order.............................................. 9.72 6.0 377 5.1 19,579 5.1 Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.45 3.2 364 4.8 18,864 4.8 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.97 10.7 219 10.9 11,357 10.9 Bartenders...................................................... 7.18 15.1 268 15.8 13,911 15.8 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 5.30 10.5 191 9.6 9,845 9.6 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.87 4.5 266 5.9 13,811 5.9 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.90 2.6 334 1.2 17,077 1.2 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food......................................................... 8.95 3.1 333 1.5 17,021 1.5 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 8.54 2.7 338 2.1 17,562 2.1 Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 8.56 13.2 342 13.2 17,799 13.2 Dishwashers....................................................... 7.89 2.3 308 3.6 15,186 3.6 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 9.03 6.3 334 8.1 16,016 8.1 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.00 6.1 434 6.1 21,972 6.1 First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers...................................................... 11.56 26.5 448 28.2 23,308 28.2 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.09 4.4 398 4.3 20,212 4.3 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.70 6.1 424 6.2 21,531 6.2 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.04 2.2 355 2.3 17,907 2.3 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 12.63 11.8 494 12.0 23,997 12.0 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.15 11.8 472 12.1 22,674 12.1 Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.00 6.9 417 3.8 20,630 3.8 First-line supervisors/managers of gaming workers................. 16.24 2.8 653 2.7 33,949 2.7 Gaming supervisors.............................................. 17.83 2.4 720 2.5 37,433 2.5 Gaming services workers........................................... 6.86 5.2 271 4.9 14,110 4.9 Gaming dealers.................................................. 6.67 5.3 264 5.0 13,718 5.0 Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 8.82 2.5 301 7.9 9,694 7.9 Amusement and recreation attendants............................. 8.59 3.6 284 5.3 8,589 5.3 Transportation attendants......................................... 31.84 1.1 668 1.6 34,719 1.6 Flight attendants............................................... 32.10 0.9 667 1.6 34,703 1.6 Child care workers................................................ 9.09 6.3 361 6.4 18,566 6.4 Personal and home care aides...................................... 9.57 4.0 381 4.2 19,834 4.2 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 14.66 10.5 586 10.5 27,143 10.5 Recreation workers.............................................. 15.19 10.6 608 10.6 27,825 10.6 Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.78 4.1 746 4.9 38,741 4.9 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 19.81 16.8 791 17.4 41,144 17.4 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.69 13.2 747 14.1 38,837 14.1 First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 24.66 27.3 983 27.3 51,113 27.3 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.11 4.8 523 6.0 27,154 6.0 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.20 4.6 397 5.0 20,613 5.0 Cashiers...................................................... 10.31 5.3 400 5.9 20,766 5.9 Gaming change persons and booth cashiers...................... 9.24 11.8 369 11.8 19,212 11.8 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 12.84 11.6 524 13.8 27,254 13.8 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 11.02 10.7 442 11.1 22,989 11.1 Parts salespersons............................................ 15.07 12.6 629 16.9 32,702 16.9 Retail salespersons............................................. 15.24 2.5 614 3.9 31,856 3.9 Advertising sales agents.......................................... 23.69 30.5 921 25.8 47,912 25.8 Insurance sales agents............................................ 29.34 7.8 1,151 8.8 59,829 8.8 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 47.24 29.7 1,888 29.8 98,164 29.8 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 38.28 10.0 1,541 10.1 80,148 10.1 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products...................................... 41.94 7.7 1,678 7.7 87,236 7.7 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products............................ 35.37 20.6 1,432 20.9 74,458 20.9 Real estate brokers and sales agents.............................. 31.34 39.8 1,233 38.2 64,107 38.2 Real estate sales agents........................................ 32.00 42.3 1,256 40.7 65,300 40.7 Telemarketers..................................................... 10.07 6.9 366 5.8 19,044 5.8 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 14.14 8.4 565 9.0 29,367 9.0 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.67 3.3 580 3.3 30,051 3.3 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 18.49 4.8 747 4.7 38,829 4.7 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.22 3.7 553 3.7 28,738 3.7 Bill and account collectors..................................... 14.43 8.9 551 12.8 28,653 12.8 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.29 13.1 532 13.1 27,654 13.1 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.08 5.6 580 5.5 30,183 5.5 Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 16.06 7.9 642 7.9 33,400 7.9 Procurement clerks.............................................. 17.27 2.5 691 2.5 35,929 2.5 Tellers......................................................... 11.41 3.2 454 3.3 23,613 3.3 Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 16.29 6.5 651 6.5 33,831 6.5 Customer service representatives.................................. 13.28 4.2 528 4.3 27,450 4.3 Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 15.93 3.9 637 3.9 33,136 3.9 File clerks....................................................... 13.41 7.1 511 7.2 26,572 7.2 Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks.............................. 10.69 9.6 424 8.6 21,408 8.6 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.89 1.3 508 1.8 26,411 1.8 Loan interviewers and clerks...................................... 14.97 7.8 589 8.1 30,624 8.1 Order clerks...................................................... 16.50 31.2 660 31.2 34,310 31.2 Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 16.54 10.4 661 10.4 34,330 10.4 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.44 4.8 495 4.7 25,758 4.7 Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks.... 14.12 23.9 565 23.9 29,369 23.9 Dispatchers....................................................... 13.82 5.7 557 6.2 28,958 6.2 Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers......................... 13.46 14.4 539 14.4 28,005 14.4 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 14.18 9.8 576 10.6 29,938 10.6 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 20.92 13.5 846 12.9 44,016 12.9 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.86 1.9 514 1.9 26,707 1.9 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 12.63 3.4 504 3.5 26,212 3.5 Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping........ 14.08 6.6 563 6.6 29,279 6.6 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.60 1.5 661 1.5 34,097 1.5 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.57 5.2 742 5.4 38,582 5.4 Legal secretaries............................................... 19.93 14.1 786 13.1 40,851 13.1 Medical secretaries............................................. 15.18 3.8 600 3.8 31,225 3.8 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.57 3.0 581 2.9 29,549 2.9 Computer operators................................................ 18.62 5.2 745 5.2 38,727 5.2 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 12.89 4.4 505 5.7 25,949 5.7 Data entry keyers............................................... 12.93 4.6 506 6.0 26,323 6.0 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 15.21 18.9 600 18.7 31,217 18.7 Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service..... 13.43 5.0 523 4.1 27,204 4.1 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.15 2.8 551 2.3 28,311 2.3 Office machine operators, except computer......................... 12.42 6.3 497 6.3 25,824 6.3 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 17.83 5.6 712 5.8 36,289 5.8 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................. 24.86 5.8 1,034 7.4 53,774 7.4 Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons......................... 23.84 5.0 954 5.0 49,584 5.0 Brickmasons and blockmasons..................................... 23.90 6.2 956 6.2 49,718 6.2 Carpenters........................................................ 20.05 5.1 801 5.1 41,164 5.1 Construction laborers............................................. 13.25 15.9 529 15.9 26,403 15.9 Construction equipment operators.................................. 18.81 3.8 752 3.8 38,777 3.8 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 19.00 4.4 760 4.4 39,419 4.4 Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers........... 17.67 9.3 707 9.3 36,620 9.3 Electricians...................................................... 22.53 10.8 901 10.8 46,855 10.8 Painters and paperhangers......................................... 14.59 3.2 576 6.2 29,679 6.2 Painters, construction and maintenance.......................... 14.59 3.2 576 6.2 29,679 6.2 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 22.32 8.1 891 8.1 46,325 8.1 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 23.35 7.4 932 7.4 48,450 7.4 Roofers........................................................... 13.47 5.0 539 5.0 28,008 5.0 Helpers, construction trades...................................... 19.00 14.1 748 15.0 34,400 15.0 Highway maintenance workers....................................... 15.01 8.3 601 8.3 29,407 8.3 Miscellaneous construction and related workers.................... 17.68 10.2 707 10.2 36,775 10.2 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 20.31 2.4 822 2.9 42,727 2.9 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................................... 27.11 13.9 1,109 14.5 57,676 14.5 Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 25.34 8.1 1,013 8.1 52,700 8.1 Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers.............................................. 24.88 10.3 995 10.3 51,744 10.3 Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................... 16.07 12.4 641 12.2 33,328 12.2 Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment.................................................... 26.62 7.0 1,050 6.7 54,577 6.7 Aircraft mechanics and service technicians........................ 23.99 5.4 960 5.4 49,906 5.4 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 20.67 2.7 838 2.7 43,577 2.7 Automotive body and related repairers........................... 21.62 35.9 930 40.1 48,356 40.1 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 20.55 7.9 827 7.7 43,012 7.7 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 19.72 5.6 789 5.6 41,021 5.6 Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics...................................................... 20.38 5.2 906 3.9 47,092 3.9 Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines................ 23.12 3.6 925 3.6 48,087 3.6 Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers..................................................... 16.49 4.6 660 4.6 34,297 4.6 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.37 4.3 814 4.3 42,320 4.3 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.28 3.6 889 3.5 46,220 3.5 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 19.29 7.4 771 7.4 40,095 7.4 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 20.98 12.6 839 12.6 43,636 12.6 Line installers and repairers..................................... 24.85 10.7 994 10.7 51,693 10.7 Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 26.57 16.5 1,063 16.5 55,270 16.5 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 17.27 3.7 688 4.0 35,785 4.0 Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers.......... 13.80 8.3 542 6.6 28,174 6.6 Production occupations.............................................. 15.18 6.5 606 6.5 31,493 6.5 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers........................................................ 27.58 19.1 1,118 18.9 58,160 18.9 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 13.05 3.4 522 3.4 27,136 3.4 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 13.13 3.4 525 3.4 27,301 3.4 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 12.01 3.3 480 3.3 24,972 3.3 Bakers............................................................ 11.78 14.9 471 14.9 24,497 14.9 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 13.07 16.2 523 16.2 27,182 16.2 Butchers and meat cutters....................................... 15.30 19.3 612 19.3 31,826 19.3 Slaughterers and meat packers................................... 10.15 0.5 406 0.5 21,103 0.5 Miscellaneous food processing workers............................. 15.58 5.4 615 4.6 31,998 4.6 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 17.52 11.8 701 11.8 36,449 11.8 Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic... 17.02 12.2 681 12.2 35,400 12.2 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 12.54 3.7 501 3.7 26,077 3.7 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 11.72 4.5 469 4.5 24,378 4.5 Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................... 12.66 6.2 506 6.2 26,333 6.2 Machinists........................................................ 18.26 2.4 724 2.3 37,633 2.3 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 17.05 6.7 682 6.7 35,472 6.7 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 16.93 7.0 677 7.0 35,223 7.0 Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 17.09 6.7 671 6.3 34,891 6.3 Printers.......................................................... 16.95 4.4 664 4.2 34,553 4.2 Printing machine operators...................................... 17.63 6.0 691 4.9 35,917 4.9 Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 11.11 13.3 443 13.5 23,028 13.5 Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers........... 13.80 10.2 552 10.2 28,707 10.2 Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators....... 20.04 6.1 801 6.1 41,676 6.1 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 14.72 9.9 589 9.9 30,617 9.9 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 16.49 3.3 660 3.3 34,302 3.3 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 13.50 9.8 535 9.5 27,833 9.5 Painting workers.................................................. 17.02 7.3 681 7.3 35,405 7.3 Painters, transportation equipment.............................. 17.85 10.9 714 10.9 37,138 10.9 Semiconductor processors.......................................... 18.87 7.3 750 8.1 38,994 8.1 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.58 19.4 502 19.4 26,122 19.4 Helpers--production workers..................................... 11.15 5.7 446 5.7 23,185 5.7 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.70 3.3 621 3.4 31,982 3.4 First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand................................................... 18.68 6.7 747 6.7 38,862 6.7 First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................. 22.12 3.9 921 7.4 46,297 7.4 Aircraft pilots and flight engineers.............................. 120.90 14.5 2,454 18.8 127,623 18.8 Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers.................. 120.90 14.5 2,454 18.8 127,623 18.8 Bus drivers....................................................... 12.82 8.8 484 8.9 21,742 8.9 Bus drivers, school............................................. 11.54 9.8 419 10.3 17,233 10.3 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.16 2.4 690 2.7 35,637 2.7 Driver/sales workers............................................ 12.16 17.4 481 17.9 25,017 17.9 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.74 4.6 720 4.7 36,977 4.7 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 17.42 2.8 692 2.7 35,986 2.7 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.32 8.0 611 8.0 31,797 8.0 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.56 5.9 417 5.6 21,682 5.6 Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 8.93 6.2 349 7.0 18,161 7.0 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.30 8.5 447 8.5 23,253 8.5 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 10.58 12.1 420 11.5 21,823 11.5 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.05 4.9 357 5.2 18,573 5.2 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighed by hours. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. 6 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. RSE Table 12 Full-time(1) private industry workers: Relative standard errors of mean hourly, weekly, and annual earnings Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(5) Annual earnings(6) Occupation(2) Mean Relative Mean Relative Mean Relative error(4) error(4) error(4) All workers........................................................... $18.92 5.2% $751 5.4% $38,776 5.4% Management occupations.............................................. 38.94 8.0 1,597 8.3 83,003 8.3 General and operations managers................................... 46.79 7.7 1,945 6.5 101,129 6.5 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 60.80 9.2 2,486 10.4 129,297 10.4 Marketing managers.............................................. 64.94 15.5 2,719 18.3 141,398 18.3 Sales managers.................................................. 56.83 18.8 2,273 18.8 118,201 18.8 Computer and information systems managers......................... 51.57 11.0 2,089 12.7 107,995 12.7 Financial managers................................................ 36.20 4.7 1,471 4.4 76,476 4.4 Human resources managers.......................................... 35.67 7.7 1,485 7.3 77,232 7.3 Industrial production managers.................................... 43.87 8.1 1,816 8.3 94,457 8.3 Construction managers............................................. 26.16 13.7 1,073 13.9 55,815 13.9 Engineering managers.............................................. 59.09 8.8 2,455 7.8 127,635 7.8 Food service managers............................................. 24.02 7.3 972 6.9 50,042 6.9 Medical and health services managers.............................. 39.51 6.3 1,607 5.2 83,558 5.2 Property, real estate, and community association managers......... 36.16 13.7 1,441 13.7 74,915 13.7 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.07 5.6 1,099 5.2 57,162 5.2 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 24.91 9.1 1,027 6.8 53,393 6.8 Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 21.45 9.4 900 9.7 46,808 9.7 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 24.60 9.2 1,000 7.1 51,983 7.1 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 24.62 27.6 980 27.0 50,946 27.0 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 24.62 27.6 980 27.0 50,946 27.0 Cost estimators................................................... 31.42 14.2 1,257 14.2 65,345 14.2 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 26.49 14.7 1,054 14.9 54,783 14.9 Training and development specialists............................ 30.91 .9 1,236 .9 64,296 .9 Logisticians...................................................... 24.67 10.0 987 10.0 51,314 10.0 Management analysts............................................... 32.64 23.1 1,306 23.1 67,900 23.1 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 29.33 4.5 1,198 4.0 62,307 4.0 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 21.12 6.2 840 6.2 43,692 6.2 Financial analysts.............................................. 27.24 3.5 1,090 3.5 56,667 3.5 Loan counselors and officers...................................... 31.70 6.9 1,257 6.4 65,343 6.4 Loan officers................................................... 32.67 7.9 1,295 7.4 67,316 7.4 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 29.49 16.1 1,193 16.3 62,019 16.3 Computer programmers.............................................. 33.49 7.7 1,339 7.7 69,650 7.7 Computer software engineers....................................... 40.15 1.3 1,625 1.6 84,520 1.6 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 34.48 6.1 1,384 6.0 71,971 6.0 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 42.85 4.1 1,742 4.6 90,573 4.6 Computer support specialists...................................... 18.60 18.7 744 18.7 38,682 18.7 Computer systems analysts......................................... 34.01 8.1 1,376 9.1 71,538 9.1 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 24.22 43.0 1,036 35.4 53,857 35.4 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 22.57 3.4 903 3.4 46,950 3.4 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.40 3.4 1,307 3.3 67,943 3.3 Architects, except naval.......................................... 27.33 1.3 1,093 1.3 56,841 1.3 Architects, except landscape and naval.......................... 27.33 1.3 1,093 1.3 56,841 1.3 Engineers......................................................... 37.45 4.0 1,516 3.8 78,824 3.8 Civil engineers................................................. 37.54 3.2 1,547 3.1 80,451 3.1 Computer hardware engineers..................................... 38.60 16.2 1,583 18.0 82,304 18.0 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 38.01 4.6 1,527 4.4 79,412 4.4 Electrical engineers.......................................... 38.91 4.6 1,556 4.6 80,935 4.6 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 37.42 9.0 1,508 8.8 78,406 8.8 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 31.01 3.5 1,264 4.3 65,709 4.3 Industrial engineers.......................................... 32.34 7.2 1,332 6.1 69,285 6.1 Mechanical engineers............................................ 38.26 10.0 1,497 10.4 77,835 10.4 Drafters.......................................................... 21.73 6.7 869 6.7 45,197 6.7 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 22.07 8.2 883 8.2 45,898 8.2 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 21.05 9.8 842 9.8 43,784 9.8 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 28.64 3.1 1,136 4.9 59,050 4.9 Physical scientists............................................... 33.27 3.8 1,331 3.8 69,194 3.8 Community and social services occupations........................... 15.85 7.7 681 5.3 35,290 5.3 Counselors........................................................ 18.24 7.8 713 8.5 37,079 8.5 Rehabilitation counselors....................................... 15.77 15.7 608 15.8 31,627 15.8 Social workers.................................................... 15.78 8.7 630 8.7 32,755 8.7 Mental health and substance abuse social workers................ 18.51 6.8 741 6.8 38,510 6.8 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 15.52 19.8 613 20.4 31,395 20.4 Social and human service assistants............................. 12.40 8.6 486 9.7 24,711 9.7 Legal occupations................................................... 49.57 45.5 1,934 43.7 100,558 43.7 Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 26.21 11.2 1,029 10.2 53,485 10.2 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 24.60 23.8 951 23.7 42,480 23.7 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 33.32 7.0 1,360 8.7 56,844 8.7 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 23.33 8.8 859 7.6 35,486 7.6 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 12.98 12.0 495 10.3 24,837 10.3 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 30.52 3.8 1,216 3.6 38,718 3.6 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 30.51 3.9 1,216 3.7 38,556 3.7 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 43.40 45.9 1,736 45.9 89,113 45.9 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 20.74 3.4 838 5.6 43,525 5.6 Designers......................................................... 19.45 14.4 795 11.1 41,339 11.1 Graphic designers............................................... 17.19 8.3 713 6.1 37,070 6.1 Actors, producers, and directors.................................. 19.36 9.1 774 9.1 40,266 9.1 Producers and directors......................................... 19.36 9.1 774 9.1 40,266 9.1 News analysts, reporters and correspondents....................... 18.26 13.9 705 11.1 36,244 11.1 Reporters and correspondents.................................... 18.26 13.9 705 11.1 36,244 11.1 Writers and editors............................................... 30.47 9.1 1,219 9.1 63,368 9.1 Editors......................................................... 28.82 11.4 1,153 11.4 59,948 11.4 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.94 5.8 1,099 6.1 57,168 6.1 Pharmacists....................................................... 48.84 .4 1,917 .5 99,694 .5 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 64.59 33.7 2,426 29.3 126,142 29.3 Registered nurses................................................. 31.72 6.9 1,246 6.9 64,788 6.9 Therapists........................................................ 24.25 2.0 948 2.0 49,283 2.0 Occupational therapists......................................... 28.93 10.2 1,157 10.2 60,176 10.2 Physical therapists............................................. 29.06 5.6 1,079 9.5 56,131 9.5 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.28 4.6 730 4.5 37,985 4.5 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 16.60 2.3 663 2.2 34,500 2.2 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 28.20 13.2 1,118 13.7 58,158 13.7 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.17 5.2 955 5.6 49,656 5.6 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 16.52 8.1 656 8.0 34,118 8.0 Pharmacy technicians............................................ 14.93 5.0 597 5.0 31,063 5.0 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.34 3.4 769 3.2 39,992 3.2 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.25 2.7 475 2.6 24,718 2.6 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.87 1.1 464 1.0 24,151 1.0 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.20 1.9 478 1.9 24,849 1.9 Physical therapist assistants and aides........................... 10.36 9.6 402 12.0 20,895 12.0 Physical therapist aides........................................ 9.50 10.5 366 12.0 19,041 12.0 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.56 9.8 518 9.7 26,922 9.7 Dental assistants............................................... 15.27 12.2 539 17.9 28,042 17.9 Medical assistants.............................................. 14.82 9.1 587 9.8 30,517 9.8 Medical transcriptionists....................................... 17.00 9.3 680 9.3 35,363 9.3 Protective service occupations...................................... 10.81 3.5 436 4.7 22,652 4.7 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.61 2.4 422 2.6 21,962 2.6 Security guards................................................. 10.61 2.4 422 2.6 21,962 2.6 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.78 4.9 334 4.9 17,194 4.9 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 14.59 4.1 605 5.4 31,480 5.4 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers...................................................... 14.22 6.4 591 7.8 30,712 7.8 Cooks............................................................. 10.46 3.2 402 3.6 20,867 3.6 Cooks, fast food................................................ 9.22 10.3 367 10.0 19,100 10.0 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.48 7.8 406 9.6 20,926 9.6 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.81 4.4 409 6.7 21,287 6.7 Cooks, short order.............................................. 9.72 6.0 377 5.1 19,579 5.1 Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.45 3.2 364 4.8 18,864 4.8 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.97 10.8 220 11.0 11,362 11.0 Bartenders...................................................... 7.18 15.1 268 15.8 13,911 15.8 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 5.31 10.7 191 9.7 9,835 9.7 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.87 4.5 266 5.9 13,811 5.9 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.87 2.8 333 1.3 17,120 1.3 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food......................................................... 8.91 3.4 332 1.6 17,061 1.6 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 8.57 3.4 339 2.4 17,630 2.4 Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 8.85 15.8 354 15.8 18,418 15.8 Dishwashers....................................................... 7.89 2.3 308 3.6 15,186 3.6 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 9.03 6.3 334 8.1 16,016 8.1 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.68 7.6 421 7.5 21,235 7.5 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.75 4.3 385 4.1 19,486 4.1 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.26 6.8 406 7.0 20,648 7.0 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.03 2.3 354 2.4 17,842 2.4 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 12.53 14.4 483 16.0 22,591 16.0 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 11.59 14.7 443 16.5 20,223 16.5 Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.93 7.5 413 3.6 20,352 3.6 First-line supervisors/managers of gaming workers................. 16.03 .8 645 .9 33,524 .9 Gaming supervisors.............................................. 17.66 2.7 714 2.9 37,103 2.9 Gaming services workers........................................... 6.99 2.6 276 2.5 14,367 2.5 Gaming dealers.................................................. 6.80 2.8 269 2.6 13,969 2.6 Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 8.82 2.5 301 7.9 9,694 7.9 Amusement and recreation attendants............................. 8.59 3.6 284 5.3 8,589 5.3 Transportation attendants......................................... 31.84 1.1 668 1.6 34,719 1.6 Flight attendants............................................... 32.10 .9 667 1.6 34,703 1.6 Child care workers................................................ 8.76 8.1 350 8.1 18,223 8.1 Personal and home care aides...................................... 9.49 4.0 378 4.2 19,662 4.2 Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.80 4.1 747 4.9 38,793 4.9 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 19.80 17.0 791 17.6 41,128 17.6 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.67 13.4 746 14.3 38,786 14.3 First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 24.66 27.3 983 27.3 51,113 27.3 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.12 4.9 523 6.0 27,166 6.0 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.18 4.6 396 5.0 20,579 5.0 Cashiers...................................................... 10.29 5.4 399 5.9 20,729 5.9 Gaming change persons and booth cashiers...................... 9.24 11.8 369 11.8 19,212 11.8 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 12.84 11.6 524 13.8 27,254 13.8 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 11.02 10.7 442 11.1 22,989 11.1 Parts salespersons............................................ 15.07 12.6 629 16.9 32,702 16.9 Retail salespersons............................................. 15.24 2.5 614 3.9 31,856 3.9 Advertising sales agents.......................................... 23.69 30.5 921 25.8 47,912 25.8 Insurance sales agents............................................ 29.34 7.8 1,151 8.8 59,829 8.8 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 47.24 29.7 1,888 29.8 98,164 29.8 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 38.28 10.0 1,541 10.1 80,148 10.1 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products...................................... 41.94 7.7 1,678 7.7 87,236 7.7 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products............................ 35.37 20.6 1,432 20.9 74,458 20.9 Real estate brokers and sales agents.............................. 31.34 39.8 1,233 38.2 64,107 38.2 Real estate sales agents........................................ 32.00 42.3 1,256 40.7 65,300 40.7 Telemarketers..................................................... 10.07 6.9 366 5.8 19,044 5.8 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 14.14 8.4 565 9.0 29,367 9.0 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.53 3.9 574 3.8 29,832 3.8 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 18.20 5.3 736 5.3 38,251 5.3 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.18 4.0 550 3.9 28,600 3.9 Bill and account collectors..................................... 14.43 8.9 551 12.8 28,653 12.8 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.28 15.3 531 15.3 27,622 15.3 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.04 6.1 577 6.0 30,010 6.0 Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 16.41 8.9 656 8.9 34,133 8.9 Procurement clerks.............................................. 17.27 2.5 691 2.5 35,929 2.5 Tellers......................................................... 11.41 3.2 454 3.3 23,613 3.3 Customer service representatives.................................. 13.26 4.3 527 4.4 27,417 4.4 File clerks....................................................... 12.04 9.4 451 6.5 23,428 6.5 Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks.............................. 10.69 9.6 424 8.6 21,408 8.6 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 13.50 2.7 536 2.5 27,889 2.5 Loan interviewers and clerks...................................... 14.97 7.8 589 8.1 30,624 8.1 Order clerks...................................................... 16.50 31.2 660 31.2 34,310 31.2 Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 14.17 3.5 567 3.5 29,482 3.5 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.52 5.2 498 5.1 25,921 5.1 Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks.... 14.12 23.9 565 23.9 29,369 23.9 Dispatchers....................................................... 12.28 9.3 497 10.1 25,829 10.1 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 13.26 14.5 541 15.8 28,121 15.8 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 20.86 14.1 844 13.5 43,909 13.5 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.87 2.0 514 2.0 26,712 2.0 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 12.63 3.4 504 3.5 26,212 3.5 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.80 1.9 669 1.8 34,788 1.8 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.29 6.6 771 6.8 40,111 6.8 Medical secretaries............................................. 15.24 3.8 604 3.9 31,408 3.9 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.74 3.9 588 3.8 30,586 3.8 Computer operators................................................ 18.62 5.2 745 5.2 38,727 5.2 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 12.94 4.9 506 6.4 26,316 6.4 Data entry keyers............................................... 12.94 4.9 506 6.4 26,316 6.4 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 15.21 18.9 600 18.7 31,217 18.7 Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service..... 13.43 5.0 523 4.1 27,204 4.1 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.08 3.5 544 2.7 28,298 2.7 Office machine operators, except computer......................... 12.42 6.3 497 6.3 25,824 6.3 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 17.83 6.1 712 6.3 36,272 6.3 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................. 24.84 6.0 1,035 7.7 53,839 7.7 Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons......................... 24.66 3.3 987 3.3 51,300 3.3 Carpenters........................................................ 19.98 5.3 798 5.3 41,014 5.3 Construction laborers............................................. 13.25 16.1 528 16.0 26,396 16.0 Construction equipment operators.................................. 19.49 5.5 780 5.5 40,025 5.5 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 20.20 6.7 808 6.7 41,855 6.7 Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers........... 17.67 9.3 707 9.3 36,620 9.3 Electricians...................................................... 22.53 10.8 901 10.8 46,855 10.8 Painters and paperhangers......................................... 14.38 3.9 567 7.5 29,188 7.5 Painters, construction and maintenance.......................... 14.38 3.9 567 7.5 29,188 7.5 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 22.83 8.2 911 8.2 47,377 8.2 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 23.35 7.9 932 7.9 48,439 7.9 Roofers........................................................... 13.47 5.0 539 5.0 28,008 5.0 Helpers, construction trades...................................... 19.00 14.2 748 15.0 34,382 15.0 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 20.20 2.7 818 3.2 42,535 3.2 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................................... 27.19 18.6 1,123 19.5 58,375 19.5 Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 24.88 10.3 995 10.3 51,744 10.3 Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers.............................................. 24.88 10.3 995 10.3 51,744 10.3 Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................... 15.79 12.2 630 11.9 32,746 11.9 Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment.................................................... 26.58 8.0 1,046 7.7 54,395 7.7 Aircraft mechanics and service technicians........................ 23.99 5.4 960 5.4 49,906 5.4 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 20.68 2.7 839 2.7 43,610 2.7 Automotive body and related repairers........................... 21.62 35.9 930 40.1 48,356 40.1 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 20.57 7.9 828 7.7 43,049 7.7 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 19.71 6.0 788 6.0 40,999 6.0 Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics...................................................... 20.38 5.2 906 3.9 47,092 3.9 Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines................ 23.12 3.6 925 3.6 48,087 3.6 Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers..................................................... 16.35 4.5 654 4.5 34,015 4.5 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.33 5.0 812 5.0 42,221 5.0 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.14 3.6 883 3.6 45,917 3.6 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.74 9.7 748 9.7 38,916 9.7 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 20.98 12.6 839 12.6 43,636 12.6 Line installers and repairers..................................... 24.78 10.9 991 10.9 51,543 10.9 Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 26.49 16.7 1,060 16.7 55,106 16.7 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 17.31 4.9 689 5.4 35,840 5.4 Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers.......... 13.66 9.2 535 7.0 27,846 7.0 Production occupations.............................................. 15.07 6.6 601 6.7 31,250 6.7 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers........................................................ 27.75 21.0 1,127 20.8 58,602 20.8 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 13.05 3.4 522 3.4 27,136 3.4 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 13.13 3.4 525 3.4 27,301 3.4 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 12.01 3.3 480 3.3 24,972 3.3 Bakers............................................................ 11.78 14.9 471 14.9 24,497 14.9 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 13.07 16.2 523 16.2 27,182 16.2 Butchers and meat cutters....................................... 15.30 19.3 612 19.3 31,826 19.3 Slaughterers and meat packers................................... 10.15 .5 406 .5 21,103 .5 Miscellaneous food processing workers............................. 15.58 5.4 615 4.6 31,998 4.6 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 17.52 11.8 701 11.8 36,449 11.8 Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic... 17.02 12.2 681 12.2 35,400 12.2 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 12.54 3.7 501 3.7 26,077 3.7 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 11.72 4.5 469 4.5 24,378 4.5 Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................... 12.66 6.2 506 6.2 26,333 6.2 Machinists........................................................ 18.26 2.4 724 2.3 37,633 2.3 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 16.89 7.0 676 7.0 35,137 7.0 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 16.76 7.4 670 7.4 34,854 7.4 Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 17.09 6.7 671 6.3 34,891 6.3 Printers.......................................................... 16.95 4.4 664 4.2 34,553 4.2 Printing machine operators...................................... 17.63 6.0 691 4.9 35,917 4.9 Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 11.11 13.3 443 13.5 23,028 13.5 Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers........... 13.80 10.2 552 10.2 28,707 10.2 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 14.72 9.9 589 9.9 30,617 9.9 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 16.48 3.4 659 3.4 34,281 3.4 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 13.50 9.8 535 9.5 27,833 9.5 Painting workers.................................................. 17.06 8.2 682 8.2 35,478 8.2 Painters, transportation equipment.............................. 17.85 10.9 714 10.9 37,138 10.9 Semiconductor processors.......................................... 18.87 7.3 750 8.1 38,994 8.1 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.58 19.4 502 19.4 26,122 19.4 Helpers--production workers..................................... 11.15 5.7 446 5.7 23,185 5.7 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.71 3.4 622 3.5 32,186 3.5 First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand................................................... 18.68 6.7 747 6.7 38,862 6.7 First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................. 22.13 4.4 928 8.5 48,231 8.5 Aircraft pilots and flight engineers.............................. 120.90 14.5 2,454 18.8 127,623 18.8 Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers.................. 120.90 14.5 2,454 18.8 127,623 18.8 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.16 2.5 690 2.8 35,620 2.8 Driver/sales workers............................................ 12.16 17.4 481 17.9 25,017 17.9 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.74 4.7 720 4.8 36,980 4.8 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 17.42 2.8 692 2.7 35,986 2.7 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.32 8.0 611 8.0 31,797 8.0 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.54 5.9 416 5.6 21,644 5.6 Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 8.71 5.8 340 6.5 17,700 6.5 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.30 8.5 447 8.5 23,253 8.5 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 10.58 12.1 420 11.5 21,823 11.5 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.05 4.9 357 5.2 18,573 5.2 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighed by hours. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. 6 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. RSE Table 13 Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Relative standard errors of mean hourly, weekly, and annual earnings Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(5) Annual earnings(6) Occupation(2) Mean Relative Mean Relative Mean Relative error(4) error(4) error(4) All workers........................................................... $23.97 3.4% $950 3.2% $45,254 3.2% Management occupations.............................................. 38.35 4.6 1,543 4.9 76,640 4.9 General and operations managers................................... 48.97 7.3 1,959 7.3 101,865 7.3 Financial managers................................................ 39.67 10.9 1,587 10.9 82,368 10.9 Education administrators.......................................... 39.57 5.2 1,615 6.9 73,754 6.9 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 44.89 5.7 1,869 9.7 79,867 9.7 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 35.65 12.7 1,430 11.8 74,339 11.8 Social and community service managers............................. 29.89 8.6 1,196 8.6 62,180 8.6 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 22.03 3.7 882 3.7 45,815 3.7 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 21.80 18.9 872 18.9 44,956 18.9 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.11 7.6 930 7.7 48,278 7.7 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 30.13 3.4 1,205 3.4 62,197 3.4 Computer systems analysts......................................... 33.27 3.9 1,331 3.9 69,202 3.9 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 25.23 7.2 1,009 7.2 52,478 7.2 Engineers......................................................... 31.84 7.5 1,274 7.5 66,236 7.5 Civil engineers................................................. 31.03 10.1 1,241 10.1 64,537 10.1 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 19.78 3.7 791 3.7 41,146 3.7 Civil engineering technicians................................... 19.09 3.6 764 3.6 39,715 3.6 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 24.23 5.9 968 6.0 49,385 6.0 Miscellaneous life, physical, and social science technicians...... 23.06 6.6 922 6.6 47,964 6.6 Community and social services occupations........................... 21.31 8.6 853 8.5 43,082 8.5 Counselors........................................................ 29.13 11.1 1,152 10.8 52,248 10.8 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 36.79 8.3 1,436 8.4 56,203 8.4 Social workers.................................................... 19.10 8.6 763 8.5 39,553 8.5 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 17.97 8.1 718 8.0 37,133 8.0 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 19.71 7.6 798 7.2 41,448 7.2 Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists....... 20.51 4.0 836 3.4 43,471 3.4 Social and human service assistants............................. 18.40 19.6 736 19.6 38,159 19.6 Legal occupations................................................... 32.83 7.4 1,313 7.4 68,288 7.4 Lawyers........................................................... 36.31 10.9 1,453 10.9 75,534 10.9 Miscellaneous legal support workers............................... 22.80 6.7 912 6.7 47,421 6.7 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 32.68 5.2 1,242 5.5 48,634 5.5 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 56.64 23.5 2,248 23.4 93,730 23.4 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 37.92 8.8 1,653 7.7 64,091 7.7 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 31.37 3.8 1,188 3.0 44,659 3.0 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 25.60 7.5 923 3.4 34,884 3.4 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 25.18 2.8 964 1.9 36,242 1.9 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 31.01 3.7 1,180 2.9 44,227 2.9 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 31.24 3.9 1,189 2.9 44,514 2.9 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 29.99 4.5 1,136 4.2 42,922 4.2 Secondary school teachers....................................... 32.59 3.4 1,237 2.7 46,725 2.7 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 32.64 3.5 1,239 2.8 46,775 2.8 Special education teachers...................................... 30.94 2.9 1,158 2.9 43,336 2.9 Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school.......................................... 30.90 4.0 1,145 4.2 42,968 4.2 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 33.04 3.3 1,257 5.1 48,037 5.1 Library technicians............................................... 18.26 10.1 730 10.1 37,977 10.1 Instructional coordinators........................................ 27.23 2.3 1,070 3.1 52,748 3.1 Teacher assistants................................................ 12.18 3.2 419 4.1 15,663 4.1 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 20.43 2.3 817 2.3 39,992 2.3 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.52 4.3 1,158 4.0 57,519 4.0 Registered nurses................................................. 29.84 3.7 1,150 4.8 55,569 4.8 Therapists........................................................ 30.80 8.2 1,217 7.1 57,475 7.1 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.53 5.1 515 6.6 26,396 6.6 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.47 6.2 434 5.1 22,557 5.1 Protective service occupations...................................... 22.06 5.6 913 4.4 46,977 4.4 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 29.64 7.7 1,186 7.7 61,648 7.7 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 32.14 8.5 1,286 8.5 66,862 8.5 Fire fighters..................................................... 17.29 14.6 838 9.4 43,551 9.4 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 18.14 5.2 737 5.1 38,298 5.1 Correctional officers and jailers............................... 18.14 5.2 737 5.1 38,298 5.1 Police officers................................................... 24.50 2.5 982 2.5 51,068 2.5 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 24.50 2.5 982 2.5 51,068 2.5 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.28 6.6 392 6.1 18,116 6.1 Cooks............................................................. 10.81 12.2 433 12.2 20,342 12.2 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.51 6.3 497 6.4 25,563 6.4 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.97 3.1 474 3.6 24,229 3.6 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.35 4.2 489 4.8 24,878 4.8 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 12.80 16.7 512 16.7 26,641 16.7 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.96 18.6 518 18.6 26,977 18.6 Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.73 9.4 465 9.8 23,852 9.8 Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.49 20.3 540 20.3 28,065 20.3 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.56 2.4 621 2.4 31,453 2.4 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 20.84 10.9 834 10.9 43,347 10.9 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.89 4.9 596 4.9 30,971 4.9 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.51 5.9 620 5.9 32,259 5.9 Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 16.29 6.5 651 6.5 33,831 6.5 Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 15.93 3.9 637 3.9 33,136 3.9 Dispatchers....................................................... 16.75 8.3 670 8.3 34,845 8.3 Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers......................... 16.68 11.4 667 11.4 34,697 11.4 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.79 3.3 629 3.1 31,481 3.1 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 16.75 6.7 669 6.7 34,766 6.7 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.96 4.3 558 4.2 26,285 4.2 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.40 3.7 575 3.7 28,359 3.7 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 17.84 4.7 713 4.7 36,518 4.7 Construction equipment operators.................................. 17.19 4.9 687 4.9 35,745 4.9 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 16.85 5.6 674 5.6 35,056 5.6 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 18.54 17.4 741 17.4 38,557 17.4 Highway maintenance workers....................................... 15.01 8.3 601 8.3 29,407 8.3 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.40 6.1 856 6.1 44,517 6.1 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.54 9.0 822 9.0 42,727 9.0 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.31 8.4 813 8.4 42,252 8.4 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 17.12 3.1 685 3.1 35,605 3.1 Production occupations.............................................. 20.68 6.0 827 6.0 43,017 6.0 Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators....... 19.87 6.1 795 6.1 41,321 6.1 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.40 10.4 594 9.4 27,582 9.4 Bus drivers....................................................... 13.23 9.2 497 9.1 22,109 9.1 Bus drivers, school............................................. 11.49 9.9 417 10.4 17,127 10.4 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighed by hours. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. 6 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. RSE Table 15 Private industry establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Relative standard errors of mean hourly, weekly, and annual earnings for full-time workers Hourly earnings(2) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(1) Mean Relative Mean Relative Mean Relative error(3) error(3) error(3) All workers........................................................... $17.93 1.7% $713 1.8% $36,632 1.8% Management occupations.............................................. 34.47 6.8 1,425 7.3 74,021 7.3 General and operations managers................................... 37.92 10.4 1,584 7.7 82,370 7.7 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 58.33 24.3 2,333 24.3 121,316 24.3 Sales managers.................................................. 58.33 24.3 2,333 24.3 121,316 24.3 Financial managers................................................ 32.35 13.1 1,338 12.6 69,564 12.6 Construction managers............................................. 24.49 23.3 1,029 22.3 53,526 22.3 Property, real estate, and community association managers......... 37.36 16.7 1,496 16.9 77,780 16.9 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.57 5.8 1,090 5.4 56,697 5.4 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 26.71 7.7 1,102 4.0 57,282 4.0 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 31.25 7.2 1,282 6.0 66,682 6.0 Loan counselors and officers...................................... 31.91 8.0 1,262 7.4 65,640 7.4 Loan officers................................................... 31.91 8.0 1,262 7.4 65,640 7.4 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 21.30 27.0 864 26.0 44,927 26.0 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 31.27 4.2 1,264 4.2 65,745 4.2 Engineers......................................................... 34.92 6.6 1,419 6.7 73,793 6.7 Civil engineers................................................. 35.09 1.6 1,464 4.5 76,108 4.5 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 35.19 9.6 1,420 9.4 73,852 9.4 Electrical engineers.......................................... 33.10 4.4 1,324 4.4 68,854 4.4 Drafters.......................................................... 21.37 15.7 855 15.7 44,447 15.7 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.99 12.5 960 12.5 49,900 12.5 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 23.66 15.8 928 17.5 48,250 17.5 Community and social services occupations........................... 14.89 9.9 677 7.1 34,977 7.1 Counselors........................................................ 13.99 12.5 540 14.1 28,100 14.1 Social workers.................................................... 14.70 15.3 588 15.3 30,568 15.3 Legal occupations................................................... 25.61 6.4 1,019 6.7 52,974 6.7 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 19.68 15.2 754 12.6 34,296 12.6 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.70 10.2 832 8.4 34,319 8.4 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 17.93 6.2 730 10.0 37,944 10.0 Designers......................................................... 16.72 9.8 693 9.3 36,060 9.3 Graphic designers............................................... 16.39 11.0 689 9.2 35,811 9.2 Actors, producers, and directors.................................. 18.70 4.8 748 4.8 38,893 4.8 Producers and directors......................................... 18.70 4.8 748 4.8 38,893 4.8 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.37 11.0 1,110 11.8 57,741 11.8 Registered nurses................................................. 36.11 18.4 1,413 19.2 73,469 19.2 Therapists........................................................ 27.39 4.0 1,043 8.1 54,252 8.1 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 20.61 4.6 824 4.6 42,871 4.6 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.29 5.1 509 5.4 26,478 5.4 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.99 14.3 509 14.0 26,487 14.0 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.31 13.4 521 13.3 27,074 13.3 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.22 7.5 536 8.8 27,846 8.8 Dental assistants............................................... 15.27 12.2 539 17.9 28,042 17.9 Medical assistants.............................................. 14.65 10.6 579 11.3 30,123 11.3 Protective service occupations...................................... 10.29 7.6 408 8.1 21,233 8.1 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.13 2.1 402 2.6 20,889 2.6 Security guards................................................. 10.13 2.1 402 2.6 20,889 2.6 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.50 5.1 317 4.3 16,321 4.3 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 14.03 5.1 584 6.4 30,358 6.4 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers...................................................... 13.83 9.3 576 10.4 29,976 10.4 Cooks............................................................. 9.89 5.1 379 7.1 19,688 7.1 Cooks, fast food................................................ 8.06 6.9 320 7.1 16,663 7.1 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 9.75 8.6 374 10.4 19,229 10.4 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.32 9.4 388 13.9 20,187 13.9 Cooks, short order.............................................. 9.60 7.8 375 6.4 19,503 6.4 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.51 2.7 321 2.7 16,631 2.7 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.79 10.7 206 9.6 10,614 9.6 Bartenders...................................................... 7.20 17.8 264 17.8 13,717 17.8 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 5.20 10.6 181 8.9 9,307 8.9 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.62 3.0 316 4.0 16,442 4.0 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food......................................................... 8.61 3.4 313 4.1 16,293 4.1 Dishwashers....................................................... 7.48 2.8 289 3.3 13,793 3.3 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.41 12.6 415 12.8 20,771 12.8 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.37 4.6 373 4.8 18,879 4.8 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.76 6.8 387 7.3 19,166 7.3 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.90 4.3 356 4.3 18,505 4.3 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 11.82 11.0 464 10.6 19,523 10.6 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 10.74 13.7 419 13.9 16,684 13.9 Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.76 5.8 378 4.8 17,355 4.8 Child care workers................................................ 8.64 7.6 345 7.6 17,966 7.6 Sales and related occupations....................................... 19.73 5.8 785 5.5 40,764 5.5 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.30 17.3 683 18.0 35,516 18.0 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 14.86 7.6 585 9.6 30,436 9.6 First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 25.74 32.2 1,025 32.3 53,318 32.3 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.83 5.5 550 7.5 28,536 7.5 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.64 6.6 367 6.5 19,067 6.5 Cashiers...................................................... 9.64 6.6 367 6.5 19,067 6.5 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 13.09 11.9 538 14.4 27,960 14.4 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 11.82 9.6 476 10.1 24,744 10.1 Parts salespersons............................................ 14.45 15.5 606 20.2 31,527 20.2 Retail salespersons............................................. 16.19 5.4 650 7.3 33,673 7.3 Advertising sales agents.......................................... 24.76 29.0 961 24.2 49,975 24.2 Insurance sales agents............................................ 29.45 8.0 1,155 9.0 60,038 9.0 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 48.77 36.1 1,951 36.1 101,437 36.1 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 39.20 14.8 1,573 14.7 81,811 14.7 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products...................................... 42.44 9.8 1,698 9.8 88,278 9.8 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products............................ 36.42 29.1 1,466 29.2 76,240 29.2 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 13.25 16.1 529 16.7 27,494 16.7 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.65 3.2 576 3.0 29,896 3.0 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 17.72 3.1 710 3.0 36,938 3.0 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.47 3.9 554 3.0 28,821 3.0 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.68 6.1 585 5.2 30,411 5.2 Tellers......................................................... 11.40 3.9 453 3.9 23,544 3.9 Customer service representatives.................................. 14.68 6.4 582 6.7 30,251 6.7 Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks.............................. 10.96 14.3 433 12.8 21,318 12.8 Loan interviewers and clerks...................................... 13.89 7.0 544 6.7 28,297 6.7 Order clerks...................................................... 12.89 10.7 515 10.7 26,803 10.7 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.86 6.4 514 6.5 26,719 6.5 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.75 8.0 510 8.0 26,513 8.0 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.75 5.5 468 5.7 24,338 5.7 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.06 4.2 640 4.3 33,298 4.3 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.12 14.2 722 14.5 37,527 14.5 Medical secretaries............................................. 15.35 6.5 612 6.3 31,800 6.3 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.24 2.3 608 2.5 31,607 2.5 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.02 .0 548 .0 28,494 .0 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.68 4.6 523 4.5 27,172 4.5 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.94 3.6 755 3.6 37,989 3.6 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................. 27.39 11.3 1,186 13.5 61,672 13.5 Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons......................... 24.66 3.3 987 3.3 51,300 3.3 Carpenters........................................................ 20.20 6.2 807 6.2 41,294 6.2 Construction laborers............................................. 16.55 14.1 658 14.1 31,295 14.1 Construction equipment operators.................................. 18.15 8.1 726 8.1 36,712 8.1 Electricians...................................................... 22.80 10.1 912 10.1 47,414 10.1 Painters and paperhangers......................................... 14.19 4.6 559 8.9 28,747 8.9 Painters, construction and maintenance.......................... 14.19 4.6 559 8.9 28,747 8.9 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 21.26 7.1 850 7.1 44,215 7.1 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 21.56 6.8 862 6.8 44,848 6.8 Helpers, construction trades...................................... 19.55 14.7 768 15.7 34,804 15.7 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.27 3.3 784 4.3 40,775 4.3 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................................... 25.60 27.6 1,071 30.4 55,704 30.4 Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................... 14.79 10.3 592 10.3 30,763 10.3 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 20.12 3.1 814 4.1 42,334 4.1 Automotive body and related repairers........................... 21.62 35.9 930 40.1 48,356 40.1 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 19.86 5.5 796 4.8 41,395 4.8 Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics...................................................... 19.75 5.3 897 5.4 46,646 5.4 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.48 11.2 779 11.2 40,528 11.2 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.02 5.6 881 5.6 45,808 5.6 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.98 13.7 719 13.7 37,392 13.7 Line installers and repairers..................................... 22.77 20.1 911 20.1 47,360 20.1 Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 25.04 22.3 1,002 22.3 52,081 22.3 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 15.43 5.5 611 6.5 31,771 6.5 Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers.......... 13.48 11.8 527 8.1 27,382 8.1 Production occupations.............................................. 13.99 3.7 559 3.7 29,082 3.7 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers........................................................ 22.15 9.9 904 10.1 47,009 10.1 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 12.76 7.6 510 7.6 26,535 7.6 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 12.66 25.2 507 25.2 26,343 25.2 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 12.37 3.1 495 3.1 25,726 3.1 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 11.53 5.2 461 5.2 23,973 5.2 Machinists........................................................ 17.65 .3 701 1.0 36,474 1.0 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 14.76 8.7 591 8.7 30,707 8.7 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 14.76 8.7 591 8.7 30,707 8.7 Printers.......................................................... 15.31 5.7 609 6.0 31,686 6.0 Printing machine operators...................................... 15.73 2.4 624 2.8 32,458 2.8 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.01 4.1 440 4.1 22,902 4.1 Helpers--production workers..................................... 10.50 4.6 420 4.6 21,848 4.6 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.28 3.7 570 3.9 29,344 3.9 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.23 3.3 655 3.9 33,653 3.9 Driver/sales workers............................................ 11.55 17.2 456 17.4 23,730 17.4 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.44 5.1 672 5.6 34,305 5.6 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 17.62 5.3 696 5.3 36,200 5.3 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.32 8.4 573 8.4 29,778 8.4 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 9.90 2.9 388 2.4 20,196 2.4 Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 8.50 6.9 330 7.4 17,176 7.4 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.83 3.4 424 4.1 22,029 4.1 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.62 6.4 341 6.3 17,750 6.3 1 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighed by hours. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. RSE Table 16 Private industry establishments with 100 workers or more: Relative standard errors of mean hourly, weekly, and annual earnings for full-time workers Hourly earnings(2) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(1) Mean Relative Mean Relative Mean Relative error(3) error(3) error(3) All workers........................................................... $20.12 9.5% $799 9.6% $41,407 9.6% Management occupations.............................................. 43.39 8.5 1,766 8.8 91,801 8.8 General and operations managers................................... 60.61 13.0 2,499 11.3 129,944 11.3 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 62.31 11.1 2,583 13.3 134,336 13.3 Marketing managers.............................................. 64.94 15.5 2,719 18.3 141,398 18.3 Computer and information systems managers......................... 50.09 16.6 2,043 19.2 105,275 19.2 Financial managers................................................ 39.16 8.7 1,570 8.6 81,618 8.6 Human resources managers.......................................... 36.81 10.7 1,568 10.4 81,529 10.4 Industrial production managers.................................... 47.29 1.0 1,978 1.3 102,853 1.3 Engineering managers.............................................. 63.62 6.6 2,588 5.7 134,561 5.7 Medical and health services managers.............................. 41.36 4.0 1,653 4.0 85,941 4.0 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.57 6.8 1,108 6.3 57,625 6.3 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 23.55 10.6 970 8.1 50,455 8.1 Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 22.07 18.4 928 14.7 48,248 14.7 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 24.51 9.6 997 7.4 51,837 7.4 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 30.75 41.1 1,216 40.1 63,209 40.1 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 30.75 41.1 1,216 40.1 63,209 40.1 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 31.67 7.1 1,256 7.5 65,290 7.5 Management analysts............................................... 32.64 23.1 1,306 23.1 67,900 23.1 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 24.84 3.0 1,005 3.5 52,241 3.5 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 22.37 10.4 885 10.4 46,016 10.4 Financial analysts.............................................. 27.24 3.5 1,090 3.5 56,667 3.5 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.24 1.9 1,422 2.3 73,939 2.3 Computer programmers.............................................. 35.41 16.4 1,417 16.4 73,660 16.4 Computer software engineers....................................... 41.76 2.9 1,693 2.7 88,061 2.7 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 36.27 7.1 1,457 7.3 75,774 7.3 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 44.12 3.8 1,797 3.9 93,431 3.9 Computer support specialists...................................... 22.10 11.4 884 11.4 45,968 11.4 Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.83 8.8 1,332 10.1 69,257 10.1 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 33.67 3.7 1,354 3.9 70,390 3.9 Engineers......................................................... 39.77 3.8 1,604 4.5 83,389 4.5 Civil engineers................................................. 43.79 1.7 1,752 1.7 91,088 1.7 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 40.71 5.7 1,628 5.7 84,670 5.7 Electrical engineers.......................................... 42.90 3.8 1,716 3.8 89,237 3.8 Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 38.85 11.6 1,554 11.6 80,800 11.6 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 32.18 7.2 1,325 6.3 68,906 6.3 Industrial engineers.......................................... 32.34 7.2 1,332 6.1 69,285 6.1 Mechanical engineers............................................ 46.63 4.5 1,865 4.5 96,984 4.5 Drafters.......................................................... 22.40 10.4 896 10.4 46,587 10.4 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 21.05 7.1 842 7.1 43,785 7.1 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 20.66 9.5 826 9.5 42,968 9.5 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.07 7.2 1,324 7.2 68,867 7.2 Physical scientists............................................... 30.76 4.7 1,230 4.7 63,976 4.7 Community and social services occupations........................... 17.34 7.8 687 8.8 35,718 8.8 Counselors........................................................ 20.80 8.9 819 9.7 42,593 9.7 Social workers.................................................... 17.63 2.3 701 1.7 36,457 1.7 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 12.39 9.9 483 11.4 25,128 11.4 Social and human service assistants............................. 12.06 11.8 468 13.3 24,341 13.3 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 36.51 27.1 1,440 28.0 61,649 28.0 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 34.19 10.8 1,361 10.9 55,043 10.9 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 30.55 1.7 1,200 1.0 49,890 1.0 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 32.98 .8 1,286 .2 49,864 .2 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 33.61 1.8 1,301 .3 51,565 .3 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 43.40 45.9 1,736 45.9 89,113 45.9 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 25.62 5.9 1,023 5.7 52,977 5.7 Designers......................................................... 23.54 16.5 941 16.5 48,954 16.5 Graphic designers............................................... 19.44 6.6 778 6.6 40,434 6.6 News analysts, reporters and correspondents....................... 24.83 7.8 978 8.4 49,077 8.4 Reporters and correspondents.................................... 24.83 7.8 978 8.4 49,077 8.4 Writers and editors............................................... 29.06 5.6 1,162 5.6 60,441 5.6 Editors......................................................... 29.86 9.1 1,194 9.1 62,109 9.1 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.73 4.1 1,094 4.0 56,890 4.0 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 74.33 7.6 2,714 1.2 141,112 1.2 Registered nurses................................................. 30.86 8.2 1,213 8.1 63,083 8.1 Therapists........................................................ 21.98 7.2 876 6.9 45,534 6.9 Occupational therapists......................................... 30.73 6.7 1,229 6.7 63,928 6.7 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.28 4.6 730 4.5 37,985 4.5 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 16.60 2.3 663 2.2 34,500 2.2 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 28.36 17.1 1,134 17.1 58,989 17.1 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 17.45 8.5 688 9.0 35,769 9.0 Pharmacy technicians............................................ 14.05 12.8 562 12.8 29,228 12.8 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.10 3.8 715 3.1 37,194 3.1 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.34 7.5 445 7.4 23,143 7.4 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.37 5.8 445 5.9 23,120 5.9 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.66 4.3 457 4.3 23,769 4.3 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 11.61 15.1 462 14.4 24,005 14.4 Protective service occupations...................................... 11.03 4.4 448 6.0 23,287 6.0 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 10.83 3.5 432 3.5 22,457 3.5 Security guards................................................. 10.83 3.5 432 3.5 22,457 3.5 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.24 4.6 362 5.5 18,724 5.5 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 15.65 2.9 645 5.3 33,553 5.3 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers...................................................... 15.51 3.7 637 5.8 33,102 5.8 Cooks............................................................. 11.83 3.8 456 6.1 23,725 6.1 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.91 3.0 516 3.0 26,857 3.0 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.59 2.5 444 3.8 23,071 3.8 Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.56 3.7 416 6.6 21,620 6.6 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.25 10.5 241 11.1 12,554 11.1 Bartenders...................................................... 7.10 6.4 281 5.7 14,592 5.7 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 5.53 13.9 213 14.8 11,059 14.8 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.87 3.0 266 3.2 13,824 3.2 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 9.46 9.5 374 9.0 18,721 9.0 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food......................................................... 9.67 12.3 384 11.6 19,051 11.6 Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 8.37 25.8 335 25.8 17,401 25.8 Dishwashers....................................................... 8.49 2.6 335 3.4 17,407 3.4 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.95 3.6 427 2.7 21,702 2.7 First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers............................................ 13.92 34.3 554 37.4 28,819 37.4 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.11 6.5 395 5.5 20,064 5.5 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.70 8.9 423 8.9 22,008 8.9 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.19 3.4 351 1.5 17,123 1.5 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 12.95 18.7 493 21.4 24,725 21.4 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.08 16.6 455 19.6 22,638 19.6 Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.65 16.5 434 8.9 22,334 8.9 First-line supervisors/managers of gaming workers................. 16.23 1.0 653 1.1 33,955 1.1 Gaming supervisors.............................................. 17.99 3.2 727 3.4 37,814 3.4 Gaming services workers........................................... 6.91 2.6 273 2.4 14,202 2.4 Gaming dealers.................................................. 6.80 2.8 269 2.6 13,969 2.6 Transportation attendants......................................... 31.84 1.1 668 1.6 34,719 1.6 Flight attendants............................................... 32.10 .9 667 1.6 34,703 1.6 Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.10 13.6 676 14.2 35,174 14.2 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 25.97 16.4 1,067 18.1 55,493 18.1 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 26.79 15.6 1,104 17.4 57,427 17.4 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.05 5.0 483 5.2 25,096 5.2 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.63 6.5 421 6.4 21,871 6.4 Cashiers...................................................... 10.95 8.0 432 8.0 22,469 8.0 Gaming change persons and booth cashiers...................... 9.24 11.8 369 11.8 19,212 11.8 Retail salespersons............................................. 13.59 2.8 552 4.2 28,682 4.2 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 35.39 4.1 1,439 3.5 74,849 3.5 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products............................ 32.50 19.5 1,336 18.7 69,462 18.7 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 16.25 26.7 650 26.7 33,793 26.7 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.40 5.1 572 5.2 29,759 5.2 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 19.66 16.4 816 16.9 42,428 16.9 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.81 6.3 545 7.1 28,322 7.1 Bill and account collectors..................................... 14.47 7.5 538 13.7 27,962 13.7 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.23 8.7 567 9.0 29,463 9.0 Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 15.42 7.6 617 7.6 32,076 7.6 Tellers......................................................... 11.46 4.1 459 4.1 23,844 4.1 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.94 4.2 515 4.3 26,760 4.3 Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks.............................. 10.40 2.9 414 2.8 21,514 2.8 Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 13.72 5.6 549 5.6 28,544 5.6 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.68 5.0 460 4.2 23,930 4.2 Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks.... 14.12 23.9 565 23.9 29,369 23.9 Dispatchers....................................................... 13.98 13.8 559 13.8 29,042 13.8 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 16.43 8.8 653 8.3 33,973 8.3 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.99 7.9 518 7.9 26,927 7.9 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.68 5.7 547 5.7 28,448 5.7 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.64 6.5 701 6.5 36,470 6.5 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.76 6.6 791 7.0 41,133 7.0 Medical secretaries............................................. 15.02 3.9 590 4.4 30,676 4.4 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.86 11.3 554 11.2 28,784 11.2 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.70 1.3 452 2.9 23,508 2.9 Data entry keyers............................................... 11.70 1.3 452 2.9 23,508 2.9 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.10 23.3 640 22.7 33,290 22.7 Office clerks, general............................................ 15.16 10.6 605 10.6 31,450 10.6 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.04 14.5 642 14.5 33,372 14.5 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................. 22.64 2.9 914 3.0 47,510 3.0 Carpenters........................................................ 19.26 14.4 771 14.4 40,069 14.4 Construction laborers............................................. 10.65 6.4 426 6.4 22,159 6.4 Construction equipment operators.................................. 20.27 6.7 811 6.7 41,990 6.7 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 20.53 7.4 821 7.4 42,518 7.4 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 28.64 8.9 1,133 9.0 58,933 9.0 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 30.95 1.6 1,222 2.6 63,536 2.6 Roofers........................................................... 12.85 12.0 514 12.0 26,723 12.0 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.48 4.2 900 4.0 46,813 4.0 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................................... 31.28 14.8 1,249 14.9 64,948 14.9 Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................... 23.10 15.2 901 14.0 46,835 14.0 Aircraft mechanics and service technicians........................ 23.48 5.5 939 5.5 48,829 5.5 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 23.95 13.6 982 15.3 51,061 15.3 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 23.95 13.6 982 15.3 51,061 15.3 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 19.93 6.2 797 6.2 41,457 6.2 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.32 8.0 850 8.1 44,205 8.1 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.29 1.9 886 1.7 46,062 1.7 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.29 6.5 808 6.7 42,028 6.7 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 21.39 12.2 855 12.2 44,484 12.2 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 18.94 4.9 757 4.9 39,388 4.9 Production occupations.............................................. 16.04 9.0 639 9.0 33,201 9.0 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers........................................................ 33.77 25.5 1,365 25.3 70,959 25.3 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 13.30 3.4 532 3.4 27,670 3.4 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 13.41 3.3 536 3.3 27,892 3.3 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 11.76 2.8 470 2.8 24,459 2.8 Bakers............................................................ 13.97 11.2 559 11.2 29,061 11.2 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 13.72 5.5 549 5.5 28,537 5.5 Miscellaneous food processing workers............................. 15.57 5.7 615 4.8 31,955 4.8 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 13.34 10.2 534 10.2 27,745 10.2 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 19.31 10.4 772 10.4 40,157 10.4 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 19.28 12.0 771 12.0 40,099 12.0 Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 17.98 1.6 704 1.4 36,599 1.4 Printers.......................................................... 19.63 12.9 751 10.7 39,056 10.7 Printing machine operators...................................... 21.43 16.2 819 12.0 42,586 12.0 Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 8.37 4.6 331 5.3 17,227 5.3 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.17 3.7 687 3.7 35,712 3.7 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 14.23 5.6 563 5.1 29,277 5.1 Semiconductor processors.......................................... 18.87 7.3 750 8.1 38,994 8.1 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 15.66 27.8 624 28.0 32,434 28.0 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.57 3.7 689 3.7 35,853 3.7 Aircraft pilots and flight engineers.............................. 120.90 14.5 2,454 18.8 127,623 18.8 Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers.................. 120.90 14.5 2,454 18.8 127,623 18.8 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.83 4.3 753 4.3 39,171 4.3 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.25 8.6 810 8.6 42,128 8.6 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 17.17 4.4 687 4.4 35,707 4.4 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 16.68 12.9 664 12.9 34,537 12.9 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.33 11.4 451 11.5 23,467 11.5 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.73 15.7 469 15.8 24,387 15.8 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.13 12.2 396 11.3 20,598 11.3 1 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighed by hours. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. RSE Table 17 Union and nonunion workers: Relative standard errors(1) of mean hourly earnings(2) by major sector and for major occupational groups Union Nonunion Occupational group(3) Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers All workers........................................................... 2.9% 3.6% 4.1% 3.7% 4.0% 2.6% Management, professional, and related............................... 2.6 3.7 2.8 4.7 5.9 3.6 Management, business, and financial............................... 13.6 – 13.7 5.7 6.9 3.9 Professional and related.......................................... 2.9 3.8 3.2 4.4 5.5 5.7 Service............................................................. 6.9 15.6 6.0 1.6 1.8 3.8 Sales and office.................................................... 2.2 2.0 5.5 2.5 2.7 1.7 Sales and related................................................. 3.6 3.6 – 4.6 4.6 16.4 Office and administrative support................................. 2.6 3.1 5.5 3.2 3.6 1.7 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 3.1 4.7 9.3 4.6 4.9 3.5 Construction and extraction...................................... 3.8 4.9 6.5 7.0 7.4 4.0 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 2.8 3.7 4.7 1.6 1.7 4.5 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 7.2 7.8 7.2 5.1 5.2 11.8 Production........................................................ 5.2 5.5 – 6.2 6.3 7.7 Transportation and material moving................................ 9.7 10.7 6.2 6.3 6.4 14.6 1 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighed by hours. 3 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. RSE Table 19 Private industry sector(1): Relative standard errors(2) of mean hourly earnings(3) for major occupational groups Goods producing Service providing Trade, Profes- Education Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Leisure Other Occupational group(4) tion turing tation, mation activities business health and services and services services hospitality utilities Relative error(5) All workers........................................................... – – – 10.7% 2.7% – 4.2% 5.3% 7.1% Management, professional, and related............................... – – – 11.8 4.7 – 2.8 11.6 14.0 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 11.9 3.4 – 7.8 2.9 19.9 Professional and related.......................................... – – – 10.5 12.7 – 3.4 3.5 5.1 Service............................................................. – – – – 17.0 – 2.0 5.9 12.4 Sales and office.................................................... – – – 5.7 7.8 – 4.7 3.6 8.8 Sales and related................................................. – – – 12.1 28.8 – 28.8 4.9 – Office and administrative support................................. – – – 6.6 5.0 – 4.2 3.9 5.2 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – – – 10.2 10.9 – 6.4 1.0 13.5 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – – – 10.2 10.9 – 5.3 1.0 13.6 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – – – 6.2 – – 6.9 3.8 6.1 Production........................................................ – – – 3.4 – – – 3.0 8.5 Transportation and material moving................................ – – – 10.0 – – – 6.9 10.1 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighed by hours. 4 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. RSE Table 20 Civilian full-time workers in hospitals: Relative standard errors of mean hourly, weekly, and annual earnings by work levels Hourly earnings(2) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation and work level(1) Mean Relative Mean Relative Mean Relative error(3) error(3) error(3) All workers........................................................... $21.16 5.9% $834 5.6% $43,391 5.6% Level 2 .................................................. 10.43 4.8 413 4.4 21,480 4.4 Level 3 .................................................. 11.74 4.0 460 3.3 23,929 3.3 Level 4 .................................................. 13.07 6.0 515 4.8 26,800 4.8 Level 5 .................................................. 17.89 6.6 700 5.7 36,421 5.7 Level 6 .................................................. 18.54 4.9 740 4.8 38,490 4.8 Level 7 .................................................. 24.13 4.5 956 3.9 49,698 3.9 Level 8 .................................................. 27.75 3.9 1,075 3.5 55,901 3.5 Level 9 .................................................. 28.06 6.4 1,106 6.3 57,508 6.3 Level 10.................................................. 36.90 8.1 1,459 8.5 75,867 8.5 Level 11.................................................. 43.74 4.9 1,713 5.1 89,062 5.1 Not able to be leveled.................................... 36.37 11.9 1,447 12.1 75,269 12.1 Management occupations.............................................. 45.47 2.1 1,816 2.1 94,445 2.1 Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.36 3.6 1,851 3.5 96,241 3.5 Medical and health services managers.............................. 46.03 2.6 1,838 2.5 95,588 2.5 Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.77 3.7 1,867 3.6 97,076 3.6 Community and social services occupations........................... 24.33 8.1 1,003 6.0 52,155 6.0 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.38 9.4 1,036 9.0 53,882 9.0 Level 3 .................................................. 12.26 5.6 490 5.6 25,503 5.6 Level 5 .................................................. 20.63 8.7 790 7.1 41,097 7.1 Level 6 .................................................. 18.40 5.9 735 5.8 38,217 5.8 Level 7 .................................................. 26.06 5.0 1,028 4.2 53,443 4.2 Level 8 .................................................. 28.78 4.2 1,098 4.3 57,101 4.3 Level 9 .................................................. 28.23 6.5 1,107 6.6 57,587 6.6 Level 11.................................................. 42.94 6.8 1,668 7.1 86,742 7.1 Not able to be leveled.................................... 39.00 26.5 1,542 26.8 80,207 26.8 Pharmacists....................................................... 47.80 .8 1,892 .8 98,401 .8 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 42.16 27.0 1,886 33.9 98,070 33.9 Registered nurses................................................. 29.84 5.8 1,155 5.1 60,051 5.1 Level 7 .................................................. 29.52 7.3 1,108 9.5 57,635 9.5 Level 8 .................................................. 28.47 4.7 1,079 4.7 56,125 4.7 Level 9 .................................................. 27.45 4.9 1,070 4.2 55,626 4.2 Not able to be leveled.................................... 58.43 19.4 2,278 21.0 118,471 21.0 Therapists........................................................ 24.75 5.7 984 5.3 51,187 5.3 Level 8 .................................................. 31.12 2.0 1,245 2.0 64,723 2.0 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 25.89 17.9 1,036 17.9 53,858 17.9 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 28.29 6.7 1,131 6.7 58,836 6.7 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 15.88 12.4 620 11.3 32,215 11.3 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.07 5.2 470 4.6 24,449 4.6 Level 2 .................................................. 11.36 5.0 433 3.1 22,540 3.1 Level 3 .................................................. 12.18 3.6 468 3.1 24,345 3.1 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.57 4.2 450 3.2 23,378 3.2 Level 2 .................................................. 11.32 4.9 431 2.9 22,426 2.9 Level 3 .................................................. 12.17 3.8 467 3.1 24,261 3.1 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.55 4.8 450 3.8 23,413 3.8 Level 2 .................................................. 11.32 4.9 431 2.9 22,426 2.9 Level 3 .................................................. 12.29 5.0 473 4.0 24,600 4.0 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.70 2.7 577 1.7 30,029 1.7 Level 4 .................................................. 15.60 4.0 600 6.3 31,218 6.3 Medical assistants.............................................. 15.26 3.2 610 3.2 31,743 3.2 Protective service occupations...................................... 18.24 19.7 730 19.7 37,945 19.7 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.89 3.8 433 3.7 22,535 3.7 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 12.64 8.7 491 9.2 25,524 9.2 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.50 2.9 380 2.8 19,756 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 9.44 3.2 377 3.1 19,629 3.1 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.49 2.8 380 2.8 19,737 2.8 Level 2 .................................................. 9.44 3.2 377 3.1 19,629 3.1 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.80 2.3 392 2.3 20,360 2.3 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.84 3.2 545 3.1 28,361 3.1 Level 2 .................................................. 12.15 7.4 474 7.8 24,647 7.8 Level 3 .................................................. 11.78 6.3 465 5.9 24,155 5.9 Level 4 .................................................. 13.44 5.7 527 5.4 27,387 5.4 Level 5 .................................................. 15.02 5.1 601 5.1 31,241 5.1 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.61 13.4 504 13.4 26,228 13.4 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.97 3.7 502 4.9 26,123 4.9 Level 4 .................................................. 13.25 5.4 509 7.3 26,474 7.3 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.96 1.9 550 2.1 28,612 2.1 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.88 6.4 653 7.7 33,943 7.7 Level 3 .................................................. 13.70 .5 521 1.6 27,077 1.6 Level 4 .................................................. 15.65 5.6 584 8.6 30,384 8.6 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.09 4.3 801 4.6 41,629 4.6 Medical secretaries............................................. 14.62 4.3 550 6.2 28,604 6.2 Level 4 .................................................. 15.27 5.4 559 6.8 29,074 6.8 Office clerks, general............................................ 12.61 4.9 484 2.3 25,175 2.3 1 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighed by hours. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. RSE Table 21 Civilian supervisory workers: Relative standard errors of mean weekly and annual earnings for selected management occupations Weekly(2) Annual(4) Occupation(1) Mean Relative Mean Relative earnings error(3) earnings error(3) Management occupations Team leader............................................... $1,040 17.0% $53,482 17.0% First line................................................ 1,535 6.7 78,457 6.7 Second line............................................... 2,252 8.6 117,118 8.6 General and operations managers First line................................................ 1,690 6.5 87,879 6.5 Second line............................................... 2,579 10.2 134,127 10.2 Marketing managers First line................................................ 3,124 22.7 162,453 22.7 Sales managers First line................................................ 2,460 32.5 127,922 32.5 Financial managers First line................................................ 1,440 9.1 74,848 9.1 Industrial production managers First line................................................ 1,566 13.8 81,411 13.8 Construction managers First line................................................ 1,107 10.0 57,578 10.0 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school First line................................................ 1,912 10.8 81,822 10.8 Engineering managers First line................................................ 2,306 9.8 119,912 9.8 Food service managers First line................................................ 955 8.0 49,148 8.0 Medical and health services managers First line................................................ 1,459 11.8 75,887 11.8 Social and community service managers First line................................................ 988 29.0 51,367 29.0 1 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 4 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.