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........................................................... $22.59 0.9% $894 0.9% $46,201 0.9% Management occupations.............................................. 48.76 3.8 1,967 3.7 102,278 3.7 Chief executives.................................................. 147.60 15.0 6,173 12.9 320,972 12.9 General and operations managers................................... 56.21 19.8 2,292 19.2 119,161 19.2 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 50.20 4.8 2,015 5.1 104,760 5.1 Marketing managers.............................................. 48.17 5.4 1,921 6.0 99,904 6.0 Sales managers.................................................. 53.49 8.8 2,168 8.9 112,741 8.9 Public relations managers......................................... 41.83 13.2 1,625 13.1 84,480 13.1 Administrative services managers.................................. 36.80 6.4 1,510 7.3 78,518 7.3 Computer and information systems managers......................... 54.75 5.6 2,208 5.4 114,806 5.4 Financial managers................................................ 44.76 5.4 1,813 5.4 94,278 5.4 Human resources managers.......................................... 43.11 11.4 1,775 11.1 92,298 11.1 Industrial production managers.................................... 47.21 5.2 1,941 5.0 100,926 5.0 Purchasing managers............................................... 66.91 5.1 2,676 5.1 139,168 5.1 Construction managers............................................. 34.46 11.0 1,415 12.2 73,585 12.2 Education administrators.......................................... 29.56 5.9 1,210 6.2 62,643 6.2 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 27.83 9.3 1,107 9.4 57,554 9.4 Engineering managers.............................................. 57.89 5.8 2,316 5.8 120,420 5.8 Medical and health services managers.............................. 40.60 4.5 1,660 5.1 86,339 5.1 Social and community service managers............................. 28.95 4.8 1,140 3.8 59,277 3.8 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 31.82 1.6 1,275 1.5 66,318 1.5 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 31.54 4.6 1,275 4.4 66,302 4.4 Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 37.63 7.9 1,488 7.8 77,360 7.8 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 29.42 5.2 1,199 5.0 62,334 5.0 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 28.03 4.4 1,094 4.2 56,877 4.2 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 28.03 4.4 1,094 4.2 56,877 4.2 Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation..................................... 24.28 5.7 946 7.1 49,195 7.1 Cost estimators................................................... 42.60 10.8 1,795 12.2 93,358 12.2 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 32.27 8.3 1,284 8.3 66,747 8.3 Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 26.57 13.7 1,063 13.7 55,261 13.7 Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 29.64 12.0 1,169 11.5 60,793 11.5 Training and development specialists............................ 30.72 5.1 1,219 5.1 63,372 5.1 Logisticians...................................................... 27.60 8.1 1,113 8.3 57,855 8.3 Management analysts............................................... 40.73 7.6 1,628 7.6 84,663 7.6 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 29.50 2.9 1,199 2.7 62,336 2.7 Credit analysts................................................... 25.12 13.8 1,005 13.8 52,258 13.8 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 32.55 5.6 1,300 5.6 67,621 5.6 Financial analysts.............................................. 34.93 6.8 1,400 6.6 72,819 6.6 Insurance underwriters.......................................... 28.96 8.8 1,151 9.0 59,864 9.0 Loan counselors and officers...................................... 30.95 12.3 1,314 15.5 68,309 15.5 Loan officers................................................... 31.29 12.4 1,331 15.7 69,211 15.7 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 34.02 2.0 1,372 2.1 71,252 2.1 Computer programmers.............................................. 32.41 3.2 1,302 3.3 67,680 3.3 Computer software engineers....................................... 38.52 3.5 1,577 3.3 81,983 3.3 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 36.40 2.4 1,506 2.6 78,336 2.6 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 40.81 6.4 1,651 5.7 85,833 5.7 Computer support specialists...................................... 22.00 5.3 879 5.3 45,729 5.3 Computer systems analysts......................................... 37.10 1.6 1,487 1.4 77,324 1.4 Database administrators........................................... 31.10 6.8 1,244 6.8 64,695 6.8 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 32.56 6.0 1,316 6.9 68,457 6.9 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 34.49 7.4 1,394 7.2 72,497 7.2 Operations research analysts...................................... 32.43 7.2 1,253 8.2 65,177 8.2 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 35.54 1.5 1,438 1.4 74,777 1.4 Engineers......................................................... 38.59 1.8 1,567 1.5 81,480 1.5 Civil engineers................................................. 37.82 6.2 1,602 5.2 83,297 5.2 Computer hardware engineers..................................... 31.74 10.9 1,270 10.9 66,026 10.9 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 38.12 7.1 1,599 4.7 83,157 4.7 Electrical engineers.......................................... 37.09 7.5 1,569 4.9 81,612 4.9 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 35.25 4.4 1,446 3.7 75,159 3.7 Industrial engineers.......................................... 35.55 4.3 1,460 3.3 75,940 3.3 Materials engineers............................................. 33.08 5.0 1,323 5.0 68,805 5.0 Mechanical engineers............................................ 37.14 2.4 1,502 2.8 78,123 2.8 Drafters.......................................................... 24.89 7.4 995 7.4 51,766 7.4 Mechanical drafters............................................. 24.35 7.9 974 7.9 50,657 7.9 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 26.73 3.2 1,073 3.2 55,745 3.2 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 24.47 7.7 983 7.9 51,055 7.9 Industrial engineering technicians.............................. 25.65 4.2 1,047 5.5 54,373 5.5 Mechanical engineering technicians.............................. 26.19 5.2 1,048 5.2 54,479 5.2 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.93 7.0 1,342 6.8 68,977 6.8 Life scientists................................................... 33.83 11.7 1,323 12.1 68,809 12.1 Medical scientists.............................................. 36.06 16.7 1,386 17.6 72,072 17.6 Physical scientists............................................... 43.24 6.6 1,747 6.1 86,512 6.1 Chemists and materials scientists............................... 43.71 9.3 1,774 8.6 92,258 8.6 Chemists...................................................... 42.75 10.0 1,739 9.4 90,407 9.4 Market and survey researchers..................................... 30.71 12.6 1,234 12.7 64,158 12.7 Market research analysts........................................ 30.08 16.1 1,210 16.2 62,933 16.2 Chemical technicians.............................................. 24.68 10.4 987 10.4 51,328 10.4 Miscellaneous life, physical, and social science technicians...... 20.34 6.6 814 6.6 42,313 6.6 Community and social services occupations........................... 17.78 4.4 707 4.5 36,731 4.5 Counselors........................................................ 17.36 8.2 692 8.0 35,993 8.0 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 18.82 10.7 748 10.2 38,874 10.2 Social workers.................................................... 19.46 4.9 775 5.1 40,224 5.1 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 16.69 7.5 664 7.7 34,522 7.7 Medical and public health social workers........................ 24.99 4.1 996 4.2 51,770 4.2 Mental health and substance abuse social workers................ 17.45 7.4 695 7.7 35,933 7.7 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 14.22 4.3 563 4.4 29,253 4.4 Social and human service assistants............................. 13.07 7.7 520 7.8 27,044 7.8 Legal occupations................................................... 60.36 4.9 2,438 5.1 126,762 5.1 Lawyers........................................................... 69.59 6.1 2,896 6.5 150,570 6.5 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 41.36 10.4 1,625 10.7 71,042 10.7 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 57.36 7.6 2,341 8.5 98,246 8.5 Social sciences teachers, postsecondary......................... 36.73 4.0 1,482 4.5 58,400 4.5 Health teachers, postsecondary.................................. 79.73 5.8 3,676 5.1 183,428 5.1 Health specialties teachers, postsecondary.................... 86.24 3.7 4,088 5.0 211,004 5.0 Education and library science teachers, postsecondary........... 41.33 7.3 1,612 8.1 64,129 8.1 Education teachers, postsecondary............................. 41.33 7.3 1,612 8.1 64,129 8.1 Law, criminal justice, and social work teachers, postsecondary.. 68.51 21.9 2,724 20.9 114,263 20.9 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 38.01 3.9 1,526 3.6 58,521 3.6 Art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary................. 36.21 5.4 1,410 5.0 53,310 5.0 English language and literature teachers, postsecondary....... 35.85 5.6 1,507 5.4 54,640 5.4 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 35.02 6.3 1,244 5.1 52,439 5.1 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 28.91 4.4 1,088 4.2 41,282 4.2 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 28.54 7.1 1,092 7.7 41,080 7.7 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 28.19 7.2 1,087 8.8 40,987 8.8 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 29.44 10.7 1,104 10.7 41,311 10.7 Secondary school teachers....................................... 31.24 3.4 1,165 3.3 43,561 3.3 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 31.24 3.4 1,165 3.3 43,561 3.3 Teacher assistants................................................ 12.35 7.9 479 10.3 24,324 10.3 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 26.98 5.7 1,061 5.9 54,597 5.9 Designers......................................................... 26.70 6.4 1,056 6.3 54,931 6.3 Graphic designers............................................... 22.37 8.0 872 7.7 45,341 7.7 News analysts, reporters and correspondents....................... 25.78 12.8 1,067 13.6 55,500 13.6 Reporters and correspondents.................................... 25.78 12.8 1,067 13.6 55,500 13.6 Public relations specialists...................................... 23.31 12.6 932 12.6 48,482 12.6 Writers and editors............................................... 24.79 7.0 969 6.9 50,393 6.9 Editors......................................................... 24.20 8.9 914 8.6 47,544 8.6 Technical writers............................................... 25.17 10.2 1,022 11.0 53,138 11.0 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.99 1.7 1,093 1.8 56,823 1.8 Pharmacists....................................................... 51.56 1.9 2,062 1.9 107,249 1.9 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 65.28 12.6 2,713 11.1 141,089 11.1 Registered nurses................................................. 30.83 2.0 1,195 2.0 62,133 2.0 Therapists........................................................ 27.36 3.2 1,074 3.1 55,866 3.1 Occupational therapists......................................... 29.10 2.1 1,130 2.7 58,761 2.7 Physical therapists............................................. 33.94 3.9 1,341 3.5 69,729 3.5 Respiratory therapists.......................................... 23.77 1.8 925 2.3 48,101 2.3 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 22.07 4.1 878 4.1 45,665 4.1 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 25.89 3.3 1,024 3.3 53,259 3.3 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 18.75 8.4 750 8.4 38,988 8.4 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 30.19 5.1 1,199 5.2 62,327 5.2 Cardiovascular technologists and technicians.................... 39.31 13.9 1,573 13.9 81,775 13.9 Diagnostic medical sonographers................................. 35.49 7.3 1,420 7.3 73,826 7.3 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 26.23 3.2 1,037 3.3 53,926 3.3 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 16.42 3.5 652 3.5 33,880 3.5 Pharmacy technicians............................................ 14.77 2.2 591 2.2 30,730 2.2 Psychiatric technicians......................................... 12.89 3.5 516 3.5 26,816 3.5 Surgical technologists.......................................... 18.49 3.5 727 3.0 37,811 3.0 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.90 1.9 757 1.9 39,378 1.9 Medical records and health information technicians................ 15.67 7.9 624 7.8 32,455 7.8 Miscellaneous health technologists and technicians................ 19.75 5.9 783 6.1 40,738 6.1 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.48 2.4 487 2.4 25,307 2.4 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.59 1.8 451 1.6 23,444 1.6 Home health aides............................................... 10.14 2.8 405 2.7 21,035 2.7 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.07 1.7 465 1.6 24,201 1.6 Psychiatric aides............................................... 11.47 4.8 452 4.9 23,493 4.9 Physical therapist assistants and aides........................... 17.16 10.7 672 12.1 34,933 12.1 Physical therapist assistants................................... 21.53 4.9 861 4.9 44,792 4.9 Physical therapist aides........................................ 12.70 4.2 487 5.4 25,319 5.4 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.17 3.5 557 3.7 28,967 3.7 Medical assistants.............................................. 14.33 7.4 564 7.6 29,335 7.6 Medical equipment preparers..................................... 13.55 4.7 542 4.7 28,179 4.7 Medical transcriptionists....................................... 16.48 1.7 626 5.2 32,528 5.2 Protective service occupations...................................... 12.31 4.5 491 4.4 25,458 4.4 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 11.68 2.9 466 2.8 24,225 2.8 Security guards................................................. 11.65 2.9 465 2.8 24,157 2.8 Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 10.47 7.7 424 7.4 20,220 7.4 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.06 3.5 423 4.8 21,905 4.8 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 17.65 5.3 721 4.4 37,263 4.4 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers...................................................... 17.67 4.7 711 5.2 36,964 5.2 Cooks............................................................. 11.80 2.2 447 3.1 23,236 3.1 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.36 3.3 470 6.4 24,380 6.4 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 11.59 4.6 444 4.1 23,073 4.1 Food preparation workers.......................................... 11.13 4.2 437 4.9 22,709 4.9 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.81 17.5 205 20.5 10,659 20.5 Bartenders...................................................... 7.10 14.4 257 19.9 13,367 19.9 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.74 14.1 125 15.8 6,510 15.8 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 9.53 11.0 373 12.0 19,416 12.0 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 10.87 6.9 422 9.3 21,698 9.3 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food......................................................... 10.77 7.4 420 8.5 21,613 8.5 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop 11.02 6.8 423 11.0 21,816 11.0 Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 10.53 5.1 399 6.5 20,753 6.5 Dishwashers....................................................... 10.67 3.2 422 3.7 21,922 3.7 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.82 3.8 469 3.9 23,930 3.9 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.76 4.1 466 4.1 23,852 4.1 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.69 2.4 465 2.6 23,641 2.6 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.10 2.6 436 2.7 22,570 2.7 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 11.46 8.6 458 8.6 22,815 8.6 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 11.07 6.9 443 6.9 21,952 6.9 Personal care and service occupations............................... 14.37 2.8 483 3.8 23,959 3.8 First-line supervisors/managers of gaming workers................. 17.23 10.4 689 10.4 35,834 10.4 Gaming services workers........................................... 8.79 5.0 346 5.9 18,015 5.9 Gaming dealers.................................................. 7.04 6.1 276 6.9 14,341 6.9 Transportation attendants......................................... 29.52 9.0 576 12.5 29,934 12.5 Flight attendants............................................... 30.89 12.6 565 11.7 29,360 11.7 Child care workers................................................ 11.78 3.1 467 3.3 24,304 3.3 Personal and home care aides...................................... 9.84 4.3 389 5.1 20,217 5.1 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 12.95 16.3 513 16.4 24,661 16.4 Recreation workers.............................................. 14.73 16.4 581 17.0 26,813 17.0 Sales and related occupations....................................... 20.06 7.6 801 7.6 41,462 7.6 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 24.65 11.0 998 11.9 50,963 11.9 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.23 3.1 728 3.1 36,982 3.1 First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 44.62 11.2 1,885 9.8 98,015 9.8 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.49 2.8 496 3.0 25,709 3.0 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 11.71 2.4 465 2.5 24,141 2.5 Cashiers...................................................... 11.68 2.5 464 2.6 24,079 2.6 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 19.97 13.7 851 13.9 44,231 13.9 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.60 3.6 498 4.0 25,830 4.0 Insurance sales agents............................................ 25.68 6.8 1,027 6.8 53,421 6.8 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 54.29 10.8 2,171 10.8 112,915 10.8 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 37.38 15.3 1,516 15.1 78,851 15.1 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products...................................... 43.52 13.8 1,741 13.8 90,515 13.8 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products............................ 27.95 10.5 1,159 11.5 60,258 11.5 Telemarketers..................................................... 16.31 27.0 637 26.1 33,106 26.1 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 17.91 10.5 714 10.5 37,147 10.5 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.53 1.3 654 1.2 34,003 1.2 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 23.75 3.2 948 2.9 49,288 2.9 Switchboard operators, including answering service................ 13.14 12.3 526 12.3 27,337 12.3 Financial clerks.................................................. 16.07 2.1 636 1.9 33,066 1.9 Bill and account collectors..................................... 16.03 6.3 634 6.2 32,989 6.2 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.81 5.0 622 4.4 32,345 4.4 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 16.74 2.7 661 2.5 34,357 2.5 Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 18.68 3.3 744 3.2 38,704 3.2 Procurement clerks.............................................. 18.42 11.1 737 11.1 38,312 11.1 Tellers......................................................... 12.20 2.6 488 2.6 25,374 2.6 Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks.......................... 14.61 9.0 578 9.1 30,048 9.1 Customer service representatives.................................. 16.26 2.3 643 2.3 33,414 2.3 File clerks....................................................... 12.96 7.5 516 7.6 26,845 7.6 Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks.............................. 11.49 6.7 455 7.0 23,681 7.0 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 14.40 4.6 576 4.6 29,948 4.6 Loan interviewers and clerks...................................... 17.46 9.0 698 9.0 36,319 9.0 Order clerks...................................................... 13.67 6.7 545 6.5 28,332 6.5 Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 19.62 9.1 794 8.2 41,302 8.2 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.84 2.5 543 2.4 28,242 2.4 Dispatchers....................................................... 21.78 7.5 884 7.4 45,680 7.4 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 22.40 7.6 911 7.5 47,347 7.5 Meter readers, utilities.......................................... 15.14 7.6 605 7.6 31,486 7.6 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 19.30 5.6 759 5.5 39,483 5.5 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.84 3.2 553 3.2 28,747 3.2 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.36 4.1 530 4.4 27,568 4.4 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.67 2.7 772 2.7 40,118 2.7 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 21.30 3.1 839 3.0 43,647 3.0 Legal secretaries............................................... 27.94 4.9 1,048 3.3 54,512 3.3 Medical secretaries............................................. 16.31 4.5 640 4.6 33,300 4.6 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.07 2.8 674 2.8 34,969 2.8 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 15.12 4.0 601 3.9 31,240 3.9 Data entry keyers............................................... 14.32 3.9 569 3.9 29,610 3.9 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.37 4.1 644 4.1 33,509 4.1 Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service..... 13.49 7.0 524 6.9 27,238 6.9 Office clerks, general............................................ 15.94 2.2 631 2.1 32,766 2.1 Office machine operators, except computer......................... 13.76 6.8 550 6.8 28,618 6.8 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 28.50 2.5 1,139 2.5 55,220 2.5 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................. 32.17 8.9 1,295 9.1 67,320 9.1 Carpenters........................................................ 29.86 6.8 1,184 7.0 60,473 7.0 Construction laborers............................................. 25.15 6.4 1,006 6.4 51,130 6.4 Construction equipment operators.................................. 29.61 6.9 1,184 6.9 51,282 6.9 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 29.48 7.2 1,179 7.2 52,229 7.2 Electricians...................................................... 28.47 5.9 1,139 5.9 59,213 5.9 Painters and paperhangers......................................... 26.44 9.3 1,056 9.4 50,556 9.4 Painters, construction and maintenance.......................... 26.44 9.3 1,056 9.4 50,556 9.4 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 28.54 4.7 1,142 4.7 59,369 4.7 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 28.81 4.9 1,152 4.9 59,918 4.9 Sheet metal workers............................................... 24.41 3.2 976 3.2 46,361 3.2 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.86 2.2 948 2.5 49,277 2.5 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................................... 33.34 6.0 1,330 6.0 69,183 6.0 Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 24.63 8.9 985 8.9 51,226 8.9 Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers.............................................. 24.63 8.9 985 8.9 51,226 8.9 Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................... 20.78 7.9 828 7.8 43,061 7.8 Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment.................................................... 22.34 8.2 885 7.9 46,029 7.9 Aircraft mechanics and service technicians........................ 23.82 4.6 953 4.6 49,543 4.6 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 22.75 8.9 941 9.7 48,932 9.7 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 19.35 9.9 790 9.7 41,088 9.7 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 27.85 10.1 1,114 10.1 57,923 10.1 Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics...................................................... 29.27 4.2 1,171 4.2 60,882 4.2 Miscellaneous vehicle and mobile equipment mechanic, installers, and repairers.................................................. 12.59 12.2 504 12.2 26,188 12.2 Control and valve installers and repairers........................ 25.55 5.3 1,022 5.3 53,148 5.3 Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door......................................................... 25.55 5.3 1,022 5.3 53,148 5.3 Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers..................................................... 26.98 11.5 1,032 14.2 53,651 14.2 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.49 2.9 898 2.9 46,693 2.9 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 24.98 2.5 998 2.5 51,914 2.5 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 19.98 5.0 797 5.0 41,426 5.0 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 18.82 6.8 753 6.8 39,155 6.8 Millwrights..................................................... 25.71 12.0 1,029 12.0 53,483 12.0 Line installers and repairers..................................... 27.19 10.9 1,088 10.9 56,553 10.9 Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 32.72 4.2 1,309 4.2 68,054 4.2 Telecommunications line installers and repairers................ 20.52 18.1 821 18.1 42,692 18.1 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 20.39 8.3 816 8.3 42,414 8.3 Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers.......... 13.36 16.6 534 16.6 27,783 16.6 Production occupations.............................................. 18.12 1.7 724 1.7 37,584 1.7 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers........................................................ 26.98 3.9 1,120 3.3 58,258 3.3 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 13.80 8.7 552 8.7 28,701 8.7 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 14.56 10.0 582 10.0 30,289 10.0 Electromechanical equipment assemblers.......................... 12.90 15.9 516 15.9 26,834 15.9 Engine and other machine assemblers............................... 21.28 6.8 847 6.7 44,062 6.7 Structural metal fabricators and fitters.......................... 14.81 7.6 578 6.9 29,449 6.9 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 18.92 4.4 754 4.5 39,177 4.5 Team assemblers................................................. 19.34 9.9 774 9.9 40,233 9.9 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 13.41 5.2 534 4.9 27,745 4.9 Butchers and meat cutters....................................... 16.80 6.7 657 6.8 34,187 6.8 Miscellaneous food processing workers............................. 15.13 9.2 605 9.2 31,427 9.2 Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders.................................................. 13.36 14.1 535 14.1 27,799 14.1 Food batchmakers................................................ 15.77 12.7 630 12.7 32,734 12.7 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 18.71 5.6 748 5.6 38,902 5.6 Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic... 18.37 5.9 735 5.9 38,198 5.9 Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 15.36 13.1 614 13.1 31,793 13.1 Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic............................................ 13.94 9.8 557 9.8 28,990 9.8 Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................................................... 16.01 20.5 640 20.5 33,293 20.5 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 17.42 5.0 697 5.0 36,164 5.0 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 17.20 5.1 688 5.1 35,704 5.1 Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 17.06 12.7 682 12.7 35,488 12.7 Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................... 15.60 9.7 623 9.8 32,411 9.8 Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic............................................ 18.87 7.4 755 7.4 39,254 7.4 Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic............................................ 20.96 6.3 838 6.3 43,300 6.3 Machinists........................................................ 22.61 5.3 896 5.3 46,612 5.3 Metal furnace and kiln operators and tenders...................... 19.23 11.8 769 11.8 39,989 11.8 Model makers and patternmakers, metal and plastic................. 23.56 7.7 942 7.7 49,005 7.7 Model makers, metal and plastic................................. 25.02 9.0 1,001 9.0 52,043 9.0 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................................................... 14.41 7.1 575 7.0 29,913 7.0 Foundry mold and coremakers..................................... 17.16 7.5 686 7.5 35,690 7.5 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 14.13 7.9 564 7.7 29,327 7.7 Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 19.16 4.8 767 4.8 39,821 4.8 Tool and die makers............................................... 26.17 3.1 1,047 3.1 54,372 3.1 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 17.93 3.8 714 3.8 37,018 3.8 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 18.82 4.2 749 4.4 38,861 4.4 Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders...................................................... 16.36 5.0 652 5.0 33,779 5.0 Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 17.68 4.6 707 4.6 36,771 4.6 Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................................................. 18.11 10.3 724 10.3 37,666 10.3 Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic............................................ 17.29 5.9 692 5.9 35,959 5.9 Printers.......................................................... 20.21 4.4 790 4.5 41,065 4.5 Printing machine operators...................................... 20.41 5.0 803 4.9 41,750 4.9 Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 11.49 4.4 458 4.4 23,823 4.4 Sewing machine operators.......................................... 13.53 5.4 539 5.2 27,729 5.2 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 14.55 5.2 582 5.2 30,274 5.2 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing....................................................... 14.75 3.7 590 3.7 30,676 3.7 Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers.............. 35.73 6.7 1,429 6.7 74,328 6.7 Power plant operators........................................... 30.52 3.3 1,221 3.3 63,477 3.3 Stationary engineers and boiler operators......................... 24.84 7.9 994 7.9 51,668 7.9 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 18.09 10.8 724 10.8 37,607 10.8 Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 21.49 10.4 860 10.4 44,707 10.4 Cutting workers................................................... 13.45 9.9 538 9.9 27,983 9.9 Cutters and trimmers, hand...................................... 10.08 7.2 403 7.2 20,960 7.2 Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 14.85 12.4 594 12.4 30,881 12.4 Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders......................................... 15.71 8.5 628 8.5 32,667 8.5 Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders...... 17.00 21.8 680 21.8 35,340 21.8 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 16.89 4.9 674 4.9 34,998 4.9 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 14.30 4.0 572 4.0 29,719 4.0 Painting workers.................................................. 15.56 4.9 622 4.9 32,369 4.9 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders...................................................... 14.27 3.2 571 3.2 29,677 3.2 Painters, transportation equipment.............................. 22.25 11.2 890 11.2 46,274 11.2 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 16.32 8.0 647 8.2 33,624 8.2 Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders............. 20.18 12.5 803 12.4 41,735 12.4 Helpers--production workers..................................... 14.81 4.0 586 4.1 30,482 4.1 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 18.14 2.8 713 3.0 36,934 3.0 First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand................................................... 24.33 5.9 980 6.5 50,948 6.5 First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................. 28.52 7.7 1,257 9.6 65,339 9.6 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 21.27 3.2 887 3.8 46,124 3.8 Driver/sales workers............................................ 13.82 12.3 544 13.3 28,272 13.3 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 20.60 3.9 881 5.8 45,827 5.8 Crane and tower operators......................................... 17.30 15.9 692 15.9 35,987 15.9 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.89 6.2 633 6.2 32,930 6.2 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.13 4.6 522 4.5 26,890 4.5 Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 10.46 15.8 417 15.7 21,651 15.7 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.97 3.8 595 3.8 30,429 3.8 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 12.90 11.5 515 11.4 26,782 11.4 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.83 5.6 429 5.5 22,322 5.5 1 The NCS uses the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification coding structure, which defines more than 800 unique occupations, to match jobs sampled by the survey. Military occupations are excluded from the survey. 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 chapter 8 of the BLS Handbook of Methods, at https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/homch8_a.htm. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.