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...............................................   $1,173     17.5%    $60,411    17.5% 
            First line................................................    1,371      4.2      70,772     4.2  
            Second line...............................................    1,919     22.0      99,779    22.0  
    General and operations managers                                                                           
            First line................................................    1,397      7.9      72,649     7.9  
    Computer and information systems managers                                                                 
            First line................................................    1,712      8.4      89,046     8.4  
    Financial managers                                                                                        
            First line................................................    1,254      9.2      65,213     9.2  
    Industrial production managers                                                                            
            First line................................................    1,270     17.1      66,018    17.1  
    Purchasing managers                                                                                       
            First line................................................      893     10.3      46,411    10.3  
      Education administrators, elementary and secondary school                                               
            First line................................................    1,672      3.9      80,946     3.9  
    Engineering managers                                                                                      
            First line................................................    1,947     12.0     101,222    12.0  
    Food service managers                                                                                     
            First line................................................      842     14.0      42,260    14.0  
    Medical and health services managers                                                                      
            First line................................................    1,605      7.0      83,437     7.0  
            Second line...............................................    2,588     34.3     134,556    34.3  
    Social and community service managers                                                                     
            First line................................................    1,090      9.4      56,674     9.4  

  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.