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........................................................... $22.33 2.7% $891 2.6% $46,176 2.6% Management occupations.............................................. 46.29 5.2 1,857 5.5 96,552 5.5 General and operations managers................................... 42.94 18.8 1,713 18.8 89,056 18.8 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 49.03 11.2 1,995 11.6 103,756 11.6 Marketing managers.............................................. 44.61 12.9 1,781 12.9 92,627 12.9 Sales managers.................................................. 56.58 12.9 2,380 13.3 123,750 13.3 Administrative services managers.................................. 32.86 21.0 1,314 21.0 68,343 21.0 Computer and information systems managers......................... 50.80 5.6 2,047 5.7 106,430 5.7 Financial managers................................................ 43.36 5.3 1,728 5.3 89,856 5.3 Human resources managers.......................................... 41.88 17.0 1,679 17.2 87,298 17.2 Industrial production managers.................................... 80.10 25.4 3,215 25.2 167,180 25.2 Transportation, storage, and distribution managers................ 46.83 17.2 1,873 17.2 97,398 17.2 Education administrators.......................................... 37.96 11.1 1,516 11.2 78,835 11.2 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 37.96 11.1 1,516 11.2 78,835 11.2 Engineering managers.............................................. 57.66 4.4 2,306 4.4 119,935 4.4 Medical and health services managers.............................. 43.86 12.8 1,754 12.8 91,220 12.8 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 28.82 2.9 1,152 2.9 59,898 2.9 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 27.72 8.2 1,119 9.5 58,183 9.5 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 26.75 8.4 1,082 10.5 56,283 10.5 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 23.51 6.4 919 6.7 47,791 6.7 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 23.51 6.4 919 6.7 47,791 6.7 Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation..................................... 26.00 7.4 1,037 7.3 53,936 7.3 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.96 7.3 1,036 7.0 53,827 7.0 Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 24.89 12.2 1,009 14.7 52,380 14.7 Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 26.07 9.2 1,039 9.2 54,010 9.2 Training and development specialists............................ 26.52 11.6 1,047 10.4 54,443 10.4 Management analysts............................................... 37.63 8.8 1,504 8.8 78,211 8.8 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 27.62 5.2 1,110 4.7 57,733 4.7 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 27.86 7.8 1,114 7.8 57,950 7.8 Financial analysts.............................................. 28.70 7.0 1,148 7.0 59,700 7.0 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 33.74 3.8 1,345 3.5 69,958 3.5 Computer programmers.............................................. 29.62 7.5 1,181 7.6 61,390 7.6 Computer software engineers....................................... 38.41 11.2 1,536 11.2 79,897 11.2 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 38.48 10.2 1,539 10.2 80,034 10.2 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 38.35 13.4 1,534 13.4 79,763 13.4 Computer support specialists...................................... 22.71 9.2 914 9.3 47,529 9.3 Computer systems analysts......................................... 37.32 3.4 1,482 3.3 77,056 3.3 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 33.13 5.2 1,305 4.2 67,873 4.2 Actuaries......................................................... 36.34 9.5 1,452 9.2 75,498 9.2 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 34.24 2.9 1,375 2.9 71,514 2.9 Engineers......................................................... 38.58 2.2 1,552 2.2 80,725 2.2 Civil engineers................................................. 30.39 15.4 1,216 15.4 63,209 15.4 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 39.68 4.5 1,600 4.7 83,177 4.7 Electrical engineers.......................................... 38.44 3.8 1,563 4.7 81,267 4.7 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 31.58 7.1 1,302 6.6 67,692 6.6 Industrial engineers.......................................... 31.66 7.4 1,307 7.0 67,942 7.0 Mechanical engineers............................................ 35.83 6.3 1,433 6.3 74,520 6.3 Drafters.......................................................... 22.63 4.7 905 4.7 47,081 4.7 Mechanical drafters............................................. 22.33 4.5 893 4.5 46,452 4.5 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 25.63 4.2 1,025 4.2 53,317 4.2 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 25.17 9.7 1,007 9.7 52,357 9.7 Mechanical engineering technicians.............................. 20.93 3.7 837 3.7 43,539 3.7 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 31.95 10.5 1,278 10.5 66,472 10.5 Life scientists................................................... 29.65 17.4 1,186 17.4 61,664 17.4 Physical scientists............................................... 31.25 12.3 1,250 12.3 64,998 12.3 Chemists and materials scientists............................... 31.83 18.5 1,273 18.5 66,205 18.5 Market and survey researchers..................................... 43.73 12.3 1,749 12.3 90,949 12.3 Market research analysts........................................ 43.73 12.3 1,749 12.3 90,949 12.3 Community and social services occupations........................... 19.89 9.9 791 10.0 41,125 10.0 Counselors........................................................ 18.30 10.0 719 11.4 37,377 11.4 Social workers.................................................... 20.74 21.9 829 21.9 43,129 21.9 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 15.62 9.3 625 9.3 32,481 9.3 Social and human service assistants............................. 15.62 9.3 625 9.3 32,481 9.3 Legal occupations................................................... 43.29 6.0 1,826 5.0 94,961 5.0 Lawyers........................................................... 64.51 5.6 2,628 5.9 136,651 5.9 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 34.64 9.5 1,362 9.0 55,979 9.0 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 44.22 7.6 1,712 5.9 66,912 5.9 Physical sciences teachers, postsecondary....................... 48.90 7.1 1,937 7.3 78,688 7.3 Social sciences teachers, postsecondary......................... 44.68 7.8 1,578 6.5 60,753 6.5 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 43.04 4.6 1,703 4.5 64,030 4.5 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 49.46 20.6 1,916 19.0 83,203 19.0 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.71 8.4 1,108 8.4 57,620 8.4 Designers......................................................... 28.22 18.0 1,129 18.0 58,703 18.0 Graphic designers............................................... 20.23 4.5 809 4.5 42,071 4.5 News analysts, reporters and correspondents....................... 35.03 6.2 1,401 6.2 72,854 6.2 Reporters and correspondents.................................... 32.31 7.4 1,292 7.4 67,201 7.4 Writers and editors............................................... 20.55 4.8 822 4.8 42,743 4.8 Editors......................................................... 20.17 5.7 807 5.7 41,960 5.7 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 30.07 9.7 1,177 9.9 61,198 9.9 Pharmacists....................................................... 53.55 2.3 2,220 3.2 115,452 3.2 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 100.50 21.9 4,197 23.9 218,228 23.9 Registered nurses................................................. 29.75 6.5 1,144 6.7 59,500 6.7 Therapists........................................................ 30.94 7.9 1,233 7.9 64,121 7.9 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 19.39 7.3 775 7.3 40,290 7.3 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 19.92 10.6 795 10.5 41,362 10.5 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 18.24 13.8 730 13.8 37,939 13.8 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 26.09 9.1 1,013 8.8 52,677 8.8 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 25.11 10.7 975 9.9 50,706 9.9 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 14.27 9.1 562 8.8 29,222 8.8 Pharmacy technicians............................................ 13.24 6.0 525 5.3 27,291 5.3 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.33 1.9 765 1.8 39,794 1.8 Medical records and health information technicians................ 16.44 5.9 643 5.5 33,448 5.5 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.57 4.4 493 4.5 25,633 4.5 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.02 3.4 470 3.6 24,432 3.6 Home health aides............................................... 12.32 5.5 487 5.7 25,308 5.7 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.90 4.6 463 5.0 24,086 5.0 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.60 7.4 538 7.9 27,968 7.9 Medical assistants.............................................. 12.31 15.1 479 16.7 24,911 16.7 Protective service occupations...................................... 12.63 3.8 505 3.8 26,267 3.8 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.19 2.9 488 2.9 25,356 2.9 Security guards................................................. 12.16 2.9 486 2.9 25,291 2.9 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.96 5.7 393 5.4 20,057 5.4 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 16.53 8.1 683 11.8 35,492 11.8 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers...................................................... 14.29 3.5 576 1.4 29,963 1.4 Cooks............................................................. 12.78 2.5 511 2.5 26,087 2.5 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 13.77 7.1 551 7.1 26,469 7.1 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 12.21 1.9 488 1.9 25,401 1.9 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.62 14.5 214 13.6 11,118 13.6 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 5.04 18.2 192 17.2 9,972 17.2 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.89 7.9 514 7.9 26,710 7.9 First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers............................................ 15.84 11.6 634 11.6 32,948 11.6 First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers...................................................... 15.84 11.6 634 11.6 32,948 11.6 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.51 8.5 498 8.6 25,895 8.6 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.04 10.3 518 10.3 26,960 10.3 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.70 5.7 428 5.7 22,258 5.7 Personal care and service occupations............................... 13.34 7.8 516 8.2 26,811 8.2 Gaming services workers........................................... 7.43 8.1 295 8.4 15,342 8.4 Gaming dealers.................................................. 6.34 3.3 251 4.2 13,071 4.2 Personal and home care aides...................................... 11.26 2.9 450 2.9 23,411 2.9 Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.82 8.4 709 8.3 36,825 8.3 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 18.73 7.2 747 7.0 38,821 7.0 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.98 4.9 717 4.7 37,309 4.7 Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.94 5.0 471 5.1 24,400 5.1 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.49 3.3 419 3.4 21,569 3.4 Cashiers...................................................... 10.72 2.5 427 2.6 22,011 2.6 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.69 6.7 497 6.8 25,840 6.8 Insurance sales agents............................................ 23.61 8.7 939 9.4 48,819 9.4 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 25.35 11.8 1,008 11.4 52,394 11.4 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 39.60 5.3 1,674 8.8 87,057 8.8 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products...................................... 43.92 20.6 1,757 20.6 91,346 20.6 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products............................ 37.03 19.1 1,620 27.7 84,266 27.7 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 21.03 5.0 831 5.7 43,216 5.7 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.87 1.7 632 1.7 32,838 1.7 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 24.88 6.5 1,016 6.8 52,807 6.8 Switchboard operators, including answering service................ 11.44 7.6 458 7.6 23,799 7.6 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.86 3.3 589 3.2 30,650 3.2 Bill and account collectors..................................... 14.90 5.4 596 5.4 30,993 5.4 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 15.77 5.1 631 5.1 32,801 5.1 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.87 4.8 585 4.4 30,416 4.4 Payroll and timekeeping clerks.................................. 17.45 6.2 698 6.2 36,299 6.2 Tellers......................................................... 10.83 1.6 431 2.4 22,422 2.4 Customer service representatives.................................. 14.19 6.1 566 6.0 29,456 6.0 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 13.07 5.2 522 5.1 27,164 5.1 Order clerks...................................................... 15.25 8.5 610 8.5 31,717 8.5 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.60 7.8 544 7.8 28,284 7.8 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 22.35 8.0 894 8.0 46,485 8.0 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.60 6.3 502 5.6 26,085 5.6 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.32 7.2 564 7.4 29,337 7.4 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 18.68 3.5 749 3.6 38,949 3.6 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.06 7.1 762 7.1 39,635 7.1 Medical secretaries............................................. 16.17 2.7 646 2.7 33,589 2.7 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.86 4.7 714 4.7 37,106 4.7 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 13.97 5.2 554 4.8 28,804 4.8 Data entry keyers............................................... 13.32 5.1 531 5.2 27,586 5.2 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.79 7.2 658 6.5 34,192 6.5 Office clerks, general............................................ 15.06 4.2 599 4.1 31,139 4.1 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 27.75 11.1 1,110 11.1 57,712 11.1 Carpenters........................................................ 32.61 5.7 1,304 5.7 67,833 5.7 Electricians...................................................... 27.17 10.9 1,087 10.9 56,519 10.9 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.34 6.8 894 6.8 46,510 6.8 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................................... 37.08 4.2 1,483 4.2 77,123 4.2 Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................... 24.79 21.3 992 21.3 51,573 21.3 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 19.26 16.7 770 16.7 40,052 16.7 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.71 7.5 728 8.6 37,854 8.6 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.30 4.3 891 4.3 46,350 4.3 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 23.88 2.9 954 2.9 49,630 2.9 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.65 8.9 825 8.9 42,914 8.9 Line installers and repairers..................................... 25.27 19.3 1,011 19.3 52,568 19.3 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 16.46 25.1 658 25.1 34,227 25.1 Production occupations.............................................. 16.73 4.0 668 4.0 34,723 4.0 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers........................................................ 25.41 9.8 1,024 9.8 53,241 9.8 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 17.05 8.5 682 8.5 35,466 8.5 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 17.96 8.7 719 8.7 37,364 8.7 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 15.04 10.9 600 11.0 31,206 11.0 Miscellaneous food processing workers............................. 15.29 10.5 612 10.5 31,807 10.5 Food batchmakers................................................ 16.05 8.8 642 8.8 33,381 8.8 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 21.77 8.0 868 8.1 45,124 8.1 Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic... 21.77 8.0 868 8.1 45,124 8.1 Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 16.79 8.7 671 8.7 34,917 8.7 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 15.89 4.1 635 4.1 33,029 4.1 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 15.39 4.8 615 4.8 31,963 4.8 Machinists........................................................ 24.89 10.4 996 10.4 51,781 10.4 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................................................... 14.39 6.0 576 6.0 29,933 6.0 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 14.39 6.0 576 6.0 29,933 6.0 Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 20.14 15.4 806 15.4 41,895 15.4 Tool and die makers............................................... 26.33 6.8 1,053 6.8 54,775 6.8 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 18.94 5.4 758 5.4 39,397 5.4 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 18.79 6.7 752 6.7 39,081 6.7 Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders...................................................... 19.47 6.1 779 6.1 40,499 6.1 Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 15.55 5.2 622 5.2 32,344 5.2 Printers.......................................................... 20.24 4.0 787 3.2 40,902 3.2 Printing machine operators...................................... 20.98 5.0 810 3.8 42,103 3.8 Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 11.36 9.3 435 13.2 22,623 13.2 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 18.42 5.9 724 4.6 37,658 4.6 Cutting workers................................................... 15.13 6.2 605 6.2 31,480 6.2 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.38 5.3 695 5.3 36,150 5.3 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 17.24 11.5 690 11.5 35,858 11.5 Painting workers.................................................. 18.22 5.0 729 5.0 37,905 5.0 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders...................................................... 18.21 6.3 729 6.3 37,883 6.3 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.88 6.6 555 6.6 28,859 6.6 Helpers--production workers..................................... 12.34 9.2 494 9.2 25,664 9.2 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 19.09 6.4 786 6.1 40,840 6.1 First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand................................................... 22.42 9.9 897 9.9 46,639 9.9 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 19.94 5.3 907 7.1 47,188 7.1 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.36 5.9 911 8.4 47,383 8.4 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 22.56 9.7 902 9.7 46,918 9.7 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.74 6.9 629 6.9 32,733 6.9 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.74 5.2 508 5.1 26,364 5.1 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.07 6.3 520 6.1 26,949 6.1 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 15.98 1.7 628 2.3 32,658 2.3 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.44 5.4 457 5.4 23,780 5.4 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, weighted 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 based on the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are based on 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.