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........................................................... $25.86 3.9% $1,025 3.8% $48,853 3.8% Management occupations.............................................. 42.59 6.8 1,713 7.2 85,216 7.2 Chief executives.................................................. 70.97 6.8 3,024 5.9 157,262 5.9 General and operations managers................................... 53.50 7.1 2,140 7.1 111,278 7.1 Financial managers................................................ 42.67 10.8 1,707 10.8 88,592 10.8 Education administrators.......................................... 41.51 6.4 1,694 8.2 77,374 8.2 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 47.59 8.4 1,981 12.4 84,726 12.4 Social and community service managers............................. 33.71 6.1 1,349 6.1 70,123 6.1 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 24.33 4.9 973 4.9 50,608 4.9 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.06 18.1 1,002 18.1 52,115 18.1 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 28.99 17.6 1,160 17.6 60,299 17.6 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 31.04 4.1 1,242 4.1 64,063 4.1 Computer systems analysts......................................... 34.23 4.5 1,369 4.5 71,207 4.5 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 27.42 6.7 1,097 6.7 57,040 6.7 Engineers......................................................... 34.06 6.9 1,362 6.9 70,837 6.9 Civil engineers................................................. 33.45 9.7 1,338 9.7 69,577 9.7 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 22.06 3.8 882 3.8 45,882 3.8 Civil engineering technicians................................... 21.87 4.2 875 4.2 45,488 4.2 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 25.29 7.3 1,012 7.3 51,607 7.3 Miscellaneous life, physical, and social science technicians...... 24.23 8.3 969 8.3 50,405 8.3 Community and social services occupations........................... 22.98 9.3 920 9.2 46,460 9.2 Counselors........................................................ 31.10 11.6 1,230 11.4 55,794 11.4 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 39.17 5.7 1,528 6.0 59,834 6.0 Social workers.................................................... 20.70 10.2 827 10.1 42,852 10.1 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 18.81 8.6 751 8.5 38,867 8.5 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 21.30 8.0 862 7.7 44,767 7.7 Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists....... 22.59 4.8 921 4.7 47,875 4.7 Social and human service assistants............................. 19.17 21.4 767 21.4 39,765 21.4 Legal occupations................................................... 36.04 7.5 1,442 7.5 74,971 7.5 Lawyers........................................................... 39.41 9.9 1,577 9.9 81,980 9.9 Miscellaneous legal support workers............................... 23.97 7.0 959 7.0 49,848 7.0 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 34.86 5.3 1,327 5.5 51,942 5.5 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 61.08 23.2 2,448 23.4 102,072 23.4 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 38.16 11.4 1,669 9.6 64,668 9.6 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 33.42 5.3 1,266 4.6 47,558 4.6 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 26.46 6.3 954 1.6 35,889 1.6 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 25.86 2.1 990 3.0 36,984 3.0 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 32.78 4.9 1,247 4.1 46,743 4.1 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 33.11 4.8 1,260 3.8 47,178 3.8 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 31.28 6.2 1,185 5.9 44,760 5.9 Secondary school teachers....................................... 34.90 5.3 1,325 4.5 50,026 4.5 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 34.95 5.3 1,326 4.6 50,056 4.6 Special education teachers...................................... 33.81 3.7 1,265 3.5 47,335 3.5 Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school.......................................... 32.91 5.2 1,219 4.6 45,739 4.6 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 36.75 2.8 1,399 4.5 53,431 4.5 Library technicians............................................... 19.26 8.4 771 8.4 40,068 8.4 Instructional coordinators........................................ 28.11 1.9 1,104 2.5 54,462 2.5 Teacher assistants................................................ 12.97 3.9 445 5.1 16,663 5.1 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 21.36 1.6 854 1.6 41,798 1.6 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 32.43 3.4 1,271 3.5 63,025 3.5 Registered nurses................................................. 32.42 4.8 1,249 5.9 60,379 5.9 Therapists........................................................ 32.58 8.2 1,291 7.2 60,998 7.2 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.20 4.9 547 6.3 28,035 6.3 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.89 6.9 450 5.6 23,384 5.6 Protective service occupations...................................... 23.99 5.7 1,001 5.2 51,500 5.2 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 31.91 7.3 1,276 7.3 66,378 7.3 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 34.40 7.5 1,376 7.5 71,544 7.5 Fire fighters..................................................... 19.48 12.3 996 11.7 51,780 11.7 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 19.37 5.2 786 5.5 40,885 5.5 Correctional officers and jailers............................... 19.37 5.2 786 5.5 40,885 5.5 Police officers................................................... 26.50 2.5 1,062 2.5 55,230 2.5 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 26.50 2.5 1,062 2.5 55,230 2.5 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.07 5.2 417 6.7 19,284 6.7 Cooks............................................................. 11.81 8.5 460 11.6 21,648 11.6 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.35 5.4 530 5.5 27,251 5.5 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.79 3.1 507 3.2 25,869 3.2 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.13 3.8 519 4.0 26,409 4.0 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 13.40 14.1 536 14.1 27,884 14.1 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 13.76 16.0 550 16.0 28,638 16.0 Personal care and service occupations............................... 12.99 13.4 506 14.2 25,608 14.2 Sales and related occupations....................................... 14.31 20.6 572 20.6 29,755 20.6 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.32 2.3 651 2.3 32,989 2.3 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 21.23 9.3 839 10.4 43,647 10.4 Financial clerks.................................................. 15.98 4.3 639 4.3 33,231 4.3 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 16.40 5.9 656 5.9 34,113 5.9 Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 16.99 6.3 678 6.3 35,236 6.3 Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 16.44 4.5 658 4.5 34,191 4.5 Dispatchers....................................................... 17.50 8.6 700 8.6 36,402 8.6 Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers......................... 17.88 10.1 715 10.1 37,198 10.1 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.88 3.3 673 3.2 33,420 3.2 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.90 7.0 715 7.0 37,156 7.0 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.89 5.2 595 5.1 27,327 5.1 Office clerks, general............................................ 15.22 4.2 608 4.2 30,225 4.2 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 19.04 4.6 762 4.6 38,987 4.6 Construction equipment operators.................................. 18.49 6.1 740 6.1 38,468 6.1 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 18.11 6.9 724 6.9 37,667 6.9 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 19.46 21.4 779 21.4 40,483 21.4 Highway maintenance workers....................................... 16.38 9.1 655 9.1 32,106 9.1 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.85 5.4 913 5.5 47,454 5.5 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.87 7.9 875 7.9 45,498 7.9 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 21.64 7.2 865 7.2 45,002 7.2 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 18.15 2.4 722 2.8 37,538 2.8 Production occupations.............................................. 22.02 7.6 881 7.6 45,796 7.6 Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators....... 20.76 6.8 830 6.8 43,177 6.8 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.10 10.1 621 9.1 28,871 9.1 Bus drivers....................................................... 14.09 9.4 530 9.6 23,593 9.6 Bus drivers, school............................................. 12.78 6.7 465 8.4 19,057 8.4 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 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. 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 chapter 8 of the BLS Handbook of Methods, at https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/homch8_a.htm. 5 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees, exclusive of overtime. 6 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.