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........................................................... $21.26 2.4% $850 2.6% $43,971 2.6% Management occupations.............................................. 43.39 6.3 1,755 6.6 91,165 6.6 General and operations managers................................... 43.54 16.1 1,730 16.0 89,986 16.0 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 48.30 9.7 1,999 11.9 103,955 11.9 Marketing managers.............................................. 38.28 7.4 1,530 7.5 79,573 7.5 Sales managers.................................................. 59.69 14.8 2,574 14.2 133,873 14.2 Administrative services managers.................................. 39.56 17.7 1,582 17.7 82,289 17.7 Computer and information systems managers......................... 48.42 4.3 1,948 4.5 101,291 4.5 Financial managers................................................ 43.25 4.3 1,719 4.5 89,398 4.5 Industrial production managers.................................... 41.49 12.2 1,748 9.3 90,909 9.3 Purchasing managers............................................... 30.46 20.7 1,278 17.5 66,472 17.5 Transportation, storage, and distribution managers................ 40.11 20.8 1,604 20.8 83,425 20.8 Education administrators.......................................... 32.92 9.7 1,350 10.3 67,370 10.3 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 34.54 7.3 1,421 7.6 73,907 7.6 Engineering managers.............................................. 53.93 5.3 2,157 5.3 112,174 5.3 Medical and health services managers.............................. 43.44 10.3 1,733 10.2 90,109 10.2 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 28.67 3.5 1,147 3.5 59,620 3.5 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 27.96 5.5 1,138 7.8 59,162 7.8 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 28.12 6.6 1,149 9.7 59,764 9.7 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 20.80 6.5 809 6.6 42,070 6.6 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 20.80 6.5 809 6.6 42,070 6.6 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.95 9.1 1,034 8.1 53,711 8.1 Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 27.09 14.0 1,103 17.6 57,069 17.6 Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 19.48 7.6 788 7.8 40,957 7.8 Management analysts............................................... 36.06 7.8 1,442 7.8 74,988 7.8 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 27.05 6.9 1,096 5.4 57,003 5.4 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 25.96 8.0 1,032 7.6 53,651 7.6 Financial analysts.............................................. 26.67 6.8 1,067 6.8 55,482 6.8 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 33.62 5.1 1,339 5.0 69,604 5.0 Computer programmers.............................................. 30.73 6.7 1,220 6.9 63,437 6.9 Computer software engineers....................................... 40.40 8.3 1,616 8.3 84,024 8.3 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.80 11.7 1,712 11.7 89,022 11.7 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 38.86 8.7 1,554 8.7 80,827 8.7 Computer support specialists...................................... 19.06 19.7 763 19.7 39,651 19.7 Computer systems analysts......................................... 36.94 3.3 1,465 3.2 76,161 3.2 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 33.07 3.9 1,301 3.6 67,663 3.6 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 31.24 5.0 1,250 5.0 64,978 5.0 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.87 3.7 1,321 3.6 68,717 3.6 Engineers......................................................... 37.42 4.2 1,508 4.0 78,418 4.0 Civil engineers................................................. 31.18 10.3 1,247 10.3 64,846 10.3 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 38.38 3.5 1,535 3.5 79,822 3.5 Electrical engineers.......................................... 37.28 8.1 1,491 8.1 77,544 8.1 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 30.38 8.3 1,268 7.8 65,942 7.8 Industrial engineers.......................................... 30.38 8.3 1,268 7.8 65,942 7.8 Mechanical engineers............................................ 34.85 5.1 1,394 5.1 72,494 5.1 Drafters.......................................................... 21.28 7.4 851 7.4 44,258 7.4 Mechanical drafters............................................. 22.01 5.3 880 5.3 45,772 5.3 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.54 6.9 982 6.9 51,044 6.9 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 23.25 15.0 930 15.0 48,359 15.0 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 27.76 9.8 1,111 9.8 57,753 9.8 Life scientists................................................... 22.39 10.2 896 10.2 46,571 10.2 Physical scientists............................................... 32.35 10.0 1,294 10.0 67,278 10.0 Community and social services occupations........................... 21.15 13.7 841 13.8 43,282 13.8 Social workers.................................................... 26.56 7.3 1,063 7.3 54,124 7.3 Legal occupations................................................... 39.58 7.5 1,672 4.3 86,932 4.3 Lawyers........................................................... 59.56 7.0 2,436 9.0 126,694 9.0 Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 30.98 2.8 1,327 6.7 68,994 6.7 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 30.85 12.4 1,220 12.3 48,611 12.3 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 36.22 23.9 1,382 22.7 62,568 22.7 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.65 8.2 1,106 8.2 57,519 8.2 Designers......................................................... 27.25 15.8 1,090 15.8 56,670 15.8 Graphic designers............................................... 19.96 9.2 798 9.2 41,509 9.2 News analysts, reporters and correspondents....................... 35.88 16.7 1,435 16.7 74,621 16.7 Reporters and correspondents.................................... 30.98 20.8 1,239 20.8 64,438 20.8 Writers and editors............................................... 19.54 11.4 782 11.4 40,646 11.4 Editors......................................................... 19.68 13.2 787 13.2 40,934 13.2 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.00 10.5 1,094 10.5 56,907 10.5 Pharmacists....................................................... 52.30 2.8 2,116 3.2 110,034 3.2 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 102.15 31.2 4,196 30.3 218,191 30.3 Registered nurses................................................. 28.99 7.8 1,119 7.8 58,210 7.8 Therapists........................................................ 27.42 3.1 1,092 2.7 56,765 2.7 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 22.24 5.8 886 5.9 46,095 5.9 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 24.33 8.3 970 8.2 50,453 8.2 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 18.79 7.6 748 7.6 38,900 7.6 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 25.00 6.2 971 7.0 50,511 7.0 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 25.20 7.0 978 7.7 50,844 7.7 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 13.65 8.9 531 9.2 27,617 9.2 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.41 1.6 724 2.5 37,653 2.5 Medical records and health information technicians................ 15.45 9.8 614 9.4 31,938 9.4 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.69 4.6 503 4.5 26,150 4.5 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.82 3.2 468 3.1 24,319 3.1 Home health aides............................................... 11.83 7.7 473 7.7 24,599 7.7 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.81 3.0 465 2.8 24,193 2.8 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.16 7.5 563 7.4 29,256 7.4 Medical assistants.............................................. 12.24 7.4 480 8.5 24,954 8.5 Medical transcriptionists....................................... 18.04 4.6 722 4.6 37,520 4.6 Protective service occupations...................................... 11.95 8.2 478 8.2 24,846 8.2 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 11.61 7.2 464 7.2 24,152 7.2 Security guards................................................. 11.61 7.3 464 7.3 24,149 7.3 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.48 7.0 408 7.3 20,820 7.3 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 15.09 8.8 608 8.5 31,636 8.5 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers...................................................... 14.80 9.3 597 8.9 31,038 8.9 Cooks............................................................. 12.41 3.5 482 4.0 24,711 4.0 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.97 6.6 544 8.7 26,939 8.7 Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.33 9.1 369 9.4 18,208 9.4 Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.22 17.2 154 17.1 8,015 17.1 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.33 9.8 123 13.9 6,380 13.9 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.15 4.0 486 3.8 25,252 3.8 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.72 3.7 467 3.8 24,259 3.8 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.40 4.3 493 4.3 25,633 4.3 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.00 4.2 400 4.2 20,793 4.2 Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.44 7.2 432 6.8 22,434 6.8 Gaming services workers........................................... 6.25 9.4 249 9.2 12,954 9.2 Sales and related occupations....................................... 16.92 6.8 676 7.0 35,132 7.0 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 21.09 9.1 844 8.5 43,904 8.5 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 19.23 5.6 771 5.4 40,100 5.4 Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.20 3.9 444 3.9 23,095 3.9 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.14 2.4 406 2.4 21,086 2.4 Cashiers...................................................... 10.31 1.6 413 1.6 21,452 1.6 Retail salespersons............................................. 11.68 5.1 461 5.1 23,955 5.1 Insurance sales agents............................................ 20.30 9.9 800 10.8 41,608 10.8 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 26.25 6.7 1,086 10.6 56,471 10.6 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products............................ 24.99 8.3 1,036 11.7 53,892 11.7 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 19.32 4.5 773 4.5 40,194 4.5 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.54 1.5 618 1.4 32,143 1.4 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 22.57 3.4 916 3.3 47,645 3.3 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.38 2.2 573 2.1 29,772 2.1 Bill and account collectors..................................... 14.49 9.2 580 9.2 30,137 9.2 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.17 3.9 607 3.9 31,553 3.9 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.13 4.0 561 3.8 29,179 3.8 Tellers......................................................... 11.71 3.6 468 3.6 24,350 3.6 Customer service representatives.................................. 15.87 3.7 633 3.4 32,911 3.4 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.54 5.9 501 5.7 26,044 5.7 Loan interviewers and clerks...................................... 16.09 2.3 644 2.3 33,472 2.3 Order clerks...................................................... 18.16 8.4 726 8.4 37,768 8.4 Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 15.56 8.2 623 8.2 32,374 8.2 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.87 6.8 515 6.8 26,779 6.8 Dispatchers....................................................... 17.74 7.9 768 13.4 38,321 13.4 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 17.74 7.9 768 13.4 38,321 13.4 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 21.38 4.4 855 4.4 44,465 4.4 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.61 6.3 500 5.3 26,016 5.3 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.94 9.1 593 9.4 30,859 9.4 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 18.82 3.0 754 3.2 39,224 3.2 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.83 5.7 792 5.7 41,170 5.7 Medical secretaries............................................. 16.17 5.0 645 5.2 33,528 5.2 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.37 4.2 692 4.4 36,004 4.4 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 12.66 6.8 504 7.0 26,184 7.0 Data entry keyers............................................... 12.29 9.3 491 9.5 25,535 9.5 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.60 7.8 572 7.1 29,769 7.1 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.76 4.8 546 4.2 28,409 4.2 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 27.04 8.5 1,082 8.5 56,253 8.5 Carpenters........................................................ 28.94 6.5 1,158 6.5 60,196 6.5 Construction laborers............................................. 18.86 18.7 754 18.7 39,230 18.7 Electricians...................................................... 28.02 10.1 1,121 10.1 58,273 10.1 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.72 4.1 909 4.1 47,244 4.1 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................................... 32.71 4.7 1,309 4.7 68,046 4.7 Aircraft mechanics and service technicians........................ 25.27 4.6 1,011 4.6 52,562 4.6 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 20.06 8.4 802 8.4 41,729 8.4 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 21.19 12.0 847 12.0 44,069 12.0 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.77 6.5 713 6.6 37,055 6.6 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.51 4.6 860 4.6 44,697 4.6 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 23.23 3.4 928 3.5 48,253 3.5 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 19.72 11.3 788 11.3 40,999 11.3 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 14.13 4.3 565 4.3 29,396 4.3 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 18.37 20.2 735 20.2 38,218 20.2 Production occupations.............................................. 16.36 2.9 654 2.9 33,868 2.9 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers........................................................ 22.39 8.9 899 9.0 46,760 9.0 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 17.58 11.5 703 11.5 36,567 11.5 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 17.90 11.7 716 11.7 37,222 11.7 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.58 8.4 701 8.5 36,339 8.5 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 13.33 5.2 533 5.2 27,722 5.2 Slaughterers and meat packers................................... 12.56 1.7 502 1.7 26,124 1.7 Miscellaneous food processing workers............................. 14.88 8.3 595 8.3 30,956 8.3 Food batchmakers................................................ 15.26 9.2 610 9.2 31,731 9.2 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 14.71 12.7 585 12.2 30,404 12.2 Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic... 14.71 12.7 585 12.2 30,404 12.2 Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 15.82 4.8 633 4.8 32,904 4.8 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 15.78 5.8 631 5.8 32,789 5.8 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 14.71 6.8 587 6.8 30,532 6.8 Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................... 17.67 6.3 707 6.3 36,757 6.3 Machinists........................................................ 22.98 9.5 919 9.5 47,801 9.5 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................................................... 12.88 4.9 515 4.9 26,711 4.9 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 12.88 4.9 515 4.9 26,711 4.9 Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 19.10 6.4 764 6.4 39,646 6.4 Tool and die makers............................................... 23.16 6.5 926 6.5 48,172 6.5 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 17.23 10.3 689 10.3 35,845 10.3 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 17.61 11.2 704 11.2 36,627 11.2 Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 15.18 6.8 607 6.8 31,577 6.8 Printers.......................................................... 19.22 10.1 767 10.1 39,861 10.1 Printing machine operators...................................... 19.48 13.8 776 13.8 40,357 13.8 Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders....... 19.92 4.4 797 4.4 41,432 4.4 Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders...................... 19.31 6.1 773 6.1 40,174 6.1 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 18.31 6.5 732 6.5 38,089 6.5 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 16.56 4.1 662 4.1 34,437 4.1 Painting workers.................................................. 18.41 6.6 736 6.6 38,283 6.6 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders...................................................... 18.71 7.8 748 7.8 38,921 7.8 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.56 6.2 502 6.3 25,477 6.3 Helpers--production workers..................................... 11.73 7.5 469 7.5 24,397 7.5 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 18.44 4.4 770 4.8 39,827 4.8 First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand................................................... 20.77 7.3 831 7.3 43,206 7.3 First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................. 31.17 22.1 1,316 19.8 68,413 19.8 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.28 12.0 861 11.3 44,773 11.3 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.45 11.0 899 8.1 46,769 8.1 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 17.87 24.2 780 28.6 40,534 28.6 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.43 7.8 616 7.9 31,266 7.9 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.59 8.9 542 8.9 28,183 8.9 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 16.13 12.6 642 12.7 33,313 12.7 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 15.18 3.9 607 3.9 31,570 3.9 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.09 6.2 443 6.2 23,045 6.2 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.