RSE Table 11 Full-time(1) civilian 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........................................................... $19.41 2.2% $774 2.1% $39,348 2.1% Management occupations.............................................. 35.89 8.8 1,473 8.3 76,133 8.3 Chief executives.................................................. 73.67 22.4 3,431 23.5 178,393 23.5 General and operations managers................................... 33.96 4.5 1,413 4.2 73,361 4.2 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 45.44 5.4 1,913 5.9 99,478 5.9 Marketing managers.............................................. 39.94 9.8 1,597 9.8 83,069 9.8 Sales managers.................................................. 50.84 9.4 2,257 12.2 117,375 12.2 Administrative services managers.................................. 20.12 39.2 805 39.2 41,853 39.2 Computer and information systems managers......................... 44.35 3.3 1,808 4.1 94,013 4.1 Financial managers................................................ 34.89 5.1 1,401 5.8 72,834 5.8 Human resources managers.......................................... 30.52 9.7 1,235 10.5 64,243 10.5 Industrial production managers.................................... 33.75 13.5 1,451 11.9 75,466 11.9 Purchasing managers............................................... 27.78 21.5 1,161 18.9 60,349 18.9 Construction managers............................................. 32.31 16.7 1,346 13.4 70,013 13.4 Education administrators.......................................... 32.13 10.9 1,300 10.7 64,281 10.7 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 43.28 7.6 1,716 7.6 82,509 7.6 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 26.83 6.4 1,087 7.7 56,515 7.7 Engineering managers.............................................. 50.69 6.3 2,038 6.2 105,987 6.2 Food service managers............................................. 18.16 15.3 856 12.1 43,125 12.1 Medical and health services managers.............................. 44.36 21.0 1,782 20.9 92,677 20.9 Social and community service managers............................. 22.56 11.5 894 11.0 46,476 11.0 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.87 11.0 1,204 10.8 62,585 10.8 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 24.45 9.2 990 11.7 51,490 11.7 Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 23.57 6.7 943 6.7 49,018 6.7 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 24.69 11.9 1,004 15.1 52,182 15.1 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 21.98 3.6 867 3.6 45,110 3.6 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 21.85 3.6 863 3.6 44,875 3.6 Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation..................................... 26.30 18.7 1,052 18.7 54,698 18.7 Cost estimators................................................... 27.97 9.7 1,128 9.5 58,652 9.5 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.68 9.7 1,018 9.1 52,742 9.1 Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 20.29 5.2 798 3.7 41,328 3.7 Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 19.14 10.0 775 10.3 40,283 10.3 Training and development specialists............................ 30.35 11.3 1,193 11.9 61,691 11.9 Management analysts............................................... 33.53 1.6 1,372 2.9 71,335 2.9 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 24.62 2.5 991 2.4 51,513 2.4 Appraisers and assessors of real estate........................... 23.37 6.9 935 6.9 48,610 6.9 Credit analysts................................................... 28.57 16.2 1,168 18.3 60,711 18.3 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 29.56 7.2 1,174 7.2 61,046 7.2 Financial analysts.............................................. 34.22 7.9 1,369 7.9 71,179 7.9 Personal financial advisors..................................... 24.80 7.8 992 7.8 51,589 7.8 Insurance underwriters.......................................... 26.20 13.3 1,026 12.9 53,370 12.9 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 31.95 4.5 1,277 4.3 66,291 4.3 Computer programmers.............................................. 30.11 3.9 1,198 4.0 62,307 4.0 Computer software engineers....................................... 40.23 5.1 1,626 4.1 84,573 4.1 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 39.71 10.1 1,620 8.4 84,251 8.4 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 40.84 2.3 1,634 2.3 84,948 2.3 Computer support specialists...................................... 20.63 11.3 826 11.3 42,968 11.3 Computer systems analysts......................................... 35.31 4.1 1,403 4.0 72,891 4.0 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 30.06 4.9 1,193 4.3 61,220 4.3 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 30.96 4.8 1,238 4.8 64,394 4.8 Operations research analysts...................................... 31.38 11.2 1,255 11.1 65,240 11.1 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.82 5.0 1,155 5.0 60,043 5.0 Engineers......................................................... 33.96 8.4 1,366 8.5 71,029 8.5 Civil engineers................................................. 34.02 18.4 1,403 21.4 72,940 21.4 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 35.96 4.2 1,438 4.2 74,791 4.2 Electrical engineers.......................................... 33.40 9.4 1,336 9.4 69,481 9.4 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 31.99 5.2 1,309 6.6 68,077 6.6 Industrial engineers.......................................... 31.97 5.3 1,309 6.8 68,079 6.8 Mechanical engineers............................................ 34.03 5.1 1,361 5.1 70,775 5.1 Drafters.......................................................... 22.13 6.4 885 6.4 46,025 6.4 Architectural and civil drafters................................ 24.03 4.9 961 4.9 49,975 4.9 Mechanical drafters............................................. 21.95 7.5 878 7.5 45,661 7.5 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 22.65 4.4 906 4.4 47,058 4.4 Civil engineering technicians................................... 18.22 3.4 729 3.4 37,892 3.4 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 23.38 10.0 935 10.0 48,640 10.0 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 26.35 9.7 1,053 9.7 52,126 9.7 Life scientists................................................... 23.23 13.4 921 13.0 43,354 13.0 Biological scientists........................................... 18.60 1.9 744 1.9 38,691 1.9 Physical scientists............................................... 30.79 6.3 1,238 6.2 64,378 6.2 Chemists and materials scientists............................... 28.49 9.7 1,153 9.9 59,939 9.9 Chemists...................................................... 26.55 4.0 1,078 5.2 56,045 5.2 Environmental scientists and geoscientists...................... 32.54 12.0 1,302 12.0 67,690 12.0 Environmental scientists and specialists, including health.... 32.04 14.5 1,281 14.5 66,637 14.5 Market and survey researchers..................................... 34.58 2.0 1,383 2.0 71,890 2.0 Market research analysts........................................ 34.58 2.0 1,383 2.0 71,890 2.0 Psychologists..................................................... 30.51 10.7 1,222 10.7 49,480 10.7 Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists.................. 30.51 10.7 1,222 10.7 49,480 10.7 Miscellaneous life, physical, and social science technicians...... 15.67 4.8 627 4.8 32,591 4.8 Community and social services occupations........................... 18.26 3.3 722 3.6 36,337 3.6 Counselors........................................................ 18.84 7.1 733 9.2 36,698 9.2 Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors.............. 18.75 8.7 752 7.0 38,381 7.0 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 19.69 14.1 751 17.4 36,392 17.4 Rehabilitation counselors....................................... 17.80 11.1 699 12.1 36,342 12.1 Social workers.................................................... 20.23 6.4 808 6.2 39,237 6.2 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 21.51 8.6 854 8.2 37,947 8.2 Medical and public health social workers........................ 23.24 5.7 930 5.7 48,342 5.7 Mental health and substance abuse social workers................ 16.76 6.4 674 5.8 35,070 5.8 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 16.49 3.8 655 4.0 33,963 4.0 Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists....... 19.50 9.2 780 9.2 40,568 9.2 Social and human service assistants............................. 15.59 5.3 624 5.3 32,426 5.3 Legal occupations................................................... 36.47 6.7 1,487 8.4 77,316 8.4 Lawyers........................................................... 44.56 4.6 1,864 6.5 96,923 6.5 Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers................... 53.86 10.8 2,154 10.8 112,026 10.8 Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 23.24 11.0 922 15.1 47,946 15.1 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 30.00 10.0 1,150 10.1 45,044 10.1 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 50.29 23.9 1,982 24.2 80,400 24.2 Life sciences teachers, postsecondary........................... 79.55 12.1 3,092 15.1 123,240 15.1 Biological science teachers, postsecondary.................... 79.55 12.1 3,092 15.1 123,240 15.1 Health teachers, postsecondary.................................. 66.88 29.0 2,669 29.1 115,626 29.1 Health specialties teachers, postsecondary.................... 70.98 25.5 2,832 25.6 120,637 25.6 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 40.40 4.2 1,596 4.5 59,237 4.5 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 23.93 4.3 944 3.3 45,673 3.3 Vocational education teachers, postsecondary.................. 22.97 8.6 878 5.4 45,679 5.4 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 29.87 1.7 1,150 1.6 43,639 1.6 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 27.10 3.7 1,058 3.9 41,541 3.9 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 32.95 4.6 1,270 4.5 45,491 4.5 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 29.72 2.5 1,145 2.6 43,088 2.6 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 29.53 2.9 1,136 3.0 42,770 3.0 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 30.41 4.3 1,175 3.5 44,240 3.5 Secondary school teachers....................................... 30.64 2.6 1,182 2.2 44,683 2.2 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 30.74 2.7 1,184 2.4 44,814 2.4 Vocational education teachers, secondary school............... 29.04 13.1 1,147 11.3 42,577 11.3 Special education teachers...................................... 30.01 5.6 1,137 4.7 45,338 4.7 Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school.......................................... 28.60 8.3 1,084 6.5 41,421 6.5 Special education teachers, middle school..................... 32.30 9.0 1,216 8.9 51,562 8.9 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 19.99 8.4 758 9.9 31,147 9.9 Librarians........................................................ 24.53 10.0 963 9.9 45,067 9.9 Instructional coordinators........................................ 32.24 11.4 1,395 9.0 63,054 9.0 Teacher assistants................................................ 11.00 3.9 392 3.7 15,590 3.7 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 21.47 9.5 849 7.0 44,134 7.0 Designers......................................................... 20.08 22.5 806 22.2 41,931 22.2 Graphic designers............................................... 18.32 9.8 740 10.2 38,505 10.2 News analysts, reporters and correspondents....................... 22.42 41.4 897 41.4 46,634 41.4 Public relations specialists...................................... 22.22 35.6 889 35.6 46,213 35.6 Writers and editors............................................... 16.71 9.1 669 9.1 34,764 9.1 Editors......................................................... 17.28 11.9 691 11.9 35,948 11.9 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 24.09 2.7 953 2.7 48,898 2.7 Pharmacists....................................................... 45.83 4.4 1,830 4.4 95,158 4.4 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 51.27 23.0 2,159 24.7 112,266 24.7 Registered nurses................................................. 25.40 3.1 996 2.9 51,026 2.9 Therapists........................................................ 29.44 4.9 1,158 4.4 53,484 4.4 Occupational therapists......................................... 27.56 12.1 1,087 11.3 52,655 11.3 Physical therapists............................................. 29.07 4.4 1,159 4.3 60,039 4.3 Speech-language pathologists.................................... 33.86 7.0 1,293 6.0 47,764 6.0 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.46 3.4 817 3.5 42,486 3.5 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 23.18 6.4 926 6.4 48,136 6.4 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 16.86 7.6 673 7.5 34,988 7.5 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 23.85 5.2 937 6.1 48,702 6.1 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.44 4.3 955 5.6 49,663 5.6 Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... 16.39 8.5 673 8.9 35,022 8.9 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 13.09 8.7 514 8.6 26,711 8.6 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.06 2.0 669 1.7 34,699 1.7 Medical records and health information technicians................ 14.43 4.9 574 5.0 29,847 5.0 Miscellaneous health technologists and technicians................ 15.90 9.5 636 9.5 33,078 9.5 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.77 5.3 494 5.1 25,691 5.1 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.50 3.4 412 3.0 21,432 3.0 Home health aides............................................... 9.36 8.6 375 8.8 19,514 8.8 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.72 3.7 419 3.2 21,763 3.2 Psychiatric aides............................................... 11.00 6.6 440 6.6 22,885 6.6 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.55 6.8 555 6.4 28,838 6.4 Dental assistants............................................... 15.72 9.1 578 9.7 30,072 9.7 Medical assistants.............................................. 13.29 5.1 532 5.1 27,644 5.1 Medical transcriptionists....................................... 16.53 6.5 661 6.5 34,375 6.5 Protective service occupations...................................... 15.81 10.1 647 10.8 33,616 10.8 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 35.88 4.1 1,435 4.1 74,629 4.1 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 36.62 3.1 1,465 3.1 76,160 3.1 Fire fighters..................................................... 17.71 5.5 904 6.1 47,018 6.1 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 15.95 2.8 638 2.8 33,184 2.8 Correctional officers and jailers............................... 15.95 2.8 638 2.9 33,193 2.9 Police officers................................................... 22.92 3.1 917 3.0 47,682 3.0 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 22.92 3.1 917 3.0 47,682 3.0 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 11.10 7.6 444 7.6 23,037 7.6 Security guards................................................. 11.10 7.6 444 7.6 23,026 7.6 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.07 4.8 346 6.4 17,759 6.4 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 12.44 6.0 512 5.5 26,184 5.5 Chefs and head cooks............................................ 13.56 11.9 566 12.8 25,935 12.8 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers...................................................... 12.34 7.0 507 5.8 26,211 5.8 Cooks............................................................. 9.87 3.8 381 3.6 19,079 3.6 Cooks, fast food................................................ 8.96 3.2 355 2.6 18,434 2.6 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.53 4.4 403 4.3 19,036 4.3 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.80 9.2 375 9.3 19,525 9.3 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.67 6.7 336 5.5 17,354 5.5 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.64 11.7 202 17.6 10,508 17.6 Bartenders...................................................... 8.34 12.3 297 22.1 15,449 22.1 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.27 8.0 152 12.5 7,886 12.5 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 9.02 5.6 361 5.6 18,753 5.6 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.43 7.7 312 9.9 16,210 9.9 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food......................................................... 8.43 7.7 312 9.9 16,210 9.9 Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 7.91 4.9 303 3.5 15,739 3.5 Dishwashers....................................................... 8.29 4.7 312 6.8 16,226 6.8 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.70 4.0 464 3.6 23,611 3.6 First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers............................................ 14.41 12.8 579 12.6 29,858 12.6 First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers...................................................... 14.25 14.0 573 13.7 29,783 13.7 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.01 2.8 434 2.2 22,551 2.2 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.06 2.1 480 2.0 24,892 2.0 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.58 1.9 332 3.3 17,257 3.3 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 14.88 14.6 602 16.5 26,378 16.5 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 14.98 15.4 607 17.5 26,785 17.5 Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.68 2.6 410 2.8 21,158 2.8 Gaming services workers........................................... 6.78 5.8 270 5.6 14,031 5.6 Gaming dealers.................................................. 6.42 1.6 256 1.8 13,311 1.8 Barbers and cosmetologists........................................ 9.56 8.9 373 8.0 19,412 8.0 Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists.................. 9.56 8.9 373 8.0 19,412 8.0 Child care workers................................................ 7.88 14.2 303 9.3 15,390 9.3 Personal and home care aides...................................... 9.62 1.4 374 4.1 19,455 4.1 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 13.92 9.6 548 9.5 26,042 9.5 Recreation workers.............................................. 14.06 10.4 553 10.4 26,054 10.4 Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.46 7.6 739 7.6 38,399 7.6 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.44 4.7 719 5.6 37,377 5.6 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.07 3.7 655 4.5 34,065 4.5 First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 28.67 13.3 1,304 15.6 67,794 15.6 Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.70 4.0 461 3.6 23,915 3.6 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.07 2.7 352 3.1 18,206 3.1 Cashiers...................................................... 9.10 2.5 353 3.1 18,251 3.1 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 14.28 9.6 587 10.3 30,511 10.3 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 13.16 18.3 531 18.0 27,621 18.0 Parts salespersons............................................ 14.45 10.5 595 11.3 30,960 11.3 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.79 3.9 502 3.4 26,117 3.4 Advertising sales agents.......................................... 17.06 18.9 683 18.9 35,494 18.9 Insurance sales agents............................................ 27.42 13.2 1,091 13.1 56,714 13.1 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 67.71 16.8 2,708 16.8 140,827 16.8 Travel agents..................................................... 15.68 7.6 591 8.1 30,744 8.1 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 25.13 10.8 1,038 11.1 53,959 11.1 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products...................................... 37.06 25.1 1,523 26.5 79,198 26.5 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products............................ 23.16 11.2 957 11.2 49,774 11.2 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 17.32 25.3 696 25.5 36,172 25.5 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.60 1.9 579 1.7 30,020 1.7 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 21.25 3.2 844 3.2 43,884 3.2 Switchboard operators, including answering service................ 10.74 5.4 430 5.4 22,343 5.4 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.32 5.4 528 5.2 27,418 5.2 Bill and account collectors..................................... 14.23 8.5 569 8.5 29,602 8.5 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 12.99 4.0 518 4.2 26,940 4.2 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.92 7.5 552 7.0 28,605 7.0 Procurement clerks.............................................. 20.39 3.1 816 3.1 42,416 3.1 Tellers......................................................... 10.27 3.2 407 3.6 21,154 3.6 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 15.68 4.5 627 4.5 32,613 4.5 Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 13.44 6.7 537 6.7 27,926 6.7 Customer service representatives.................................. 15.74 4.6 630 4.6 32,738 4.6 Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 17.87 12.3 715 12.3 37,164 12.3 File clerks....................................................... 12.80 10.7 505 9.5 26,266 9.5 Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks.............................. 8.27 2.8 324 3.4 16,865 3.4 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.13 8.9 484 8.9 25,188 8.9 Loan interviewers and clerks...................................... 15.46 4.9 618 4.9 32,149 4.9 New accounts clerks............................................... 12.91 8.8 516 8.8 26,850 8.8 Order clerks...................................................... 15.55 9.4 622 9.4 32,336 9.4 Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 18.21 9.9 729 9.9 37,886 9.9 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.61 3.8 500 3.6 26,004 3.6 Dispatchers....................................................... 15.01 4.6 607 4.2 31,400 4.2 Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers......................... 14.40 9.4 576 9.4 29,954 9.4 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 15.20 4.9 617 4.2 31,870 4.2 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 17.44 8.1 698 8.1 36,273 8.1 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.96 7.4 515 6.7 26,786 6.7 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.43 5.6 577 5.6 30,019 5.6 Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping........ 14.61 13.9 584 13.9 30,394 13.9 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.89 2.1 666 2.5 34,102 2.5 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.51 4.1 740 4.1 38,407 4.1 Legal secretaries............................................... 18.02 5.0 701 3.9 36,453 3.9 Medical secretaries............................................. 14.86 6.2 581 7.1 30,209 7.1 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.59 3.9 610 4.8 30,629 4.8 Computer operators................................................ 16.77 7.4 671 7.4 34,880 7.4 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 12.11 5.1 484 5.3 25,145 5.3 Data entry keyers............................................... 12.17 7.7 486 7.8 25,295 7.8 Word processors and typists..................................... 11.90 4.3 474 4.2 24,651 4.2 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.32 9.7 566 9.3 29,428 9.3 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.33 3.3 530 3.2 27,439 3.2 Office machine operators, except computer......................... 11.98 9.4 479 9.4 24,913 9.4 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.26 4.8 857 4.7 43,179 4.7 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................. 27.60 7.3 1,109 7.7 57,338 7.7 Carpenters........................................................ 19.57 7.7 783 7.7 40,232 7.7 Construction laborers............................................. 17.82 7.9 712 7.9 34,821 7.9 Construction equipment operators.................................. 20.23 13.3 852 16.9 37,969 16.9 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 20.74 13.5 879 17.3 40,825 17.3 Electricians...................................................... 22.06 16.2 884 16.2 45,969 16.2 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 26.86 10.0 1,074 10.0 55,862 10.0 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 26.86 10.1 1,074 10.1 55,859 10.1 Sheet metal workers............................................... 19.62 13.1 785 13.1 40,802 13.1 Helpers, construction trades...................................... 12.37 11.0 495 11.0 24,326 11.0 Highway maintenance workers....................................... 15.36 3.2 614 3.2 31,755 3.2 Miscellaneous construction and related workers.................... 12.69 8.1 508 8.1 26,395 8.1 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.62 4.7 788 5.0 40,962 5.0 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................................... 25.86 7.9 1,094 13.3 56,880 13.3 Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 26.04 5.3 1,042 5.3 54,170 5.3 Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers.............................................. 26.03 5.5 1,041 5.5 54,136 5.5 Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................... 18.65 30.7 746 30.7 38,787 30.7 Aircraft mechanics and service technicians........................ 24.94 6.3 998 6.3 51,875 6.3 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.77 7.8 759 7.4 39,444 7.4 Automotive body and related repairers........................... 22.75 24.6 931 24.9 48,410 24.9 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.03 8.0 727 8.3 37,788 8.3 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.87 4.4 723 4.5 37,579 4.5 Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics...................................................... 16.84 5.4 669 5.8 34,768 5.8 Farm equipment mechanics........................................ 14.43 9.0 566 10.6 29,448 10.6 Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines................ 18.00 6.3 720 6.3 37,443 6.3 Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers..................................................... 19.45 10.2 778 10.2 40,450 10.2 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.85 4.4 752 4.4 39,112 4.4 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.46 3.4 893 3.4 46,420 3.4 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.06 5.1 643 5.1 33,411 5.1 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 15.21 3.4 608 3.4 31,626 3.4 Millwrights..................................................... 23.45 11.3 938 11.3 48,556 11.3 Line installers and repairers..................................... 24.52 5.5 981 5.5 50,995 5.5 Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 24.73 7.4 989 7.4 51,430 7.4 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 17.67 10.5 707 10.5 36,756 10.5 Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers.......... 14.86 13.4 594 13.4 30,902 13.4 Production occupations.............................................. 15.76 3.9 628 3.8 32,509 3.8 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers........................................................ 21.62 8.6 880 9.3 45,760 9.3 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 16.39 12.1 656 12.1 34,098 12.1 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 16.46 12.2 659 12.2 34,242 12.2 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.20 7.2 687 7.2 35,628 7.2 Bakers............................................................ 12.29 11.2 491 11.2 25,556 11.2 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 13.09 9.3 520 9.3 27,054 9.3 Butchers and meat cutters....................................... 18.26 9.4 730 9.4 37,973 9.4 Slaughterers and meat packers................................... 11.58 2.8 458 3.9 23,803 3.9 Miscellaneous food processing workers............................. 14.08 8.5 563 8.5 29,292 8.5 Food batchmakers................................................ 14.74 9.7 590 9.7 30,661 9.7 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 18.44 18.7 645 31.3 33,522 31.3 Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic... 16.60 16.1 561 30.7 29,186 30.7 Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 14.66 5.5 586 5.5 30,491 5.5 Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic............................................ 15.70 6.7 628 6.7 32,664 6.7 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 15.72 5.2 627 5.2 32,627 5.2 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 14.89 6.8 593 6.7 30,840 6.7 Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................... 18.01 6.1 720 6.1 37,452 6.1 Machinists........................................................ 21.54 10.3 862 10.3 44,806 10.3 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................................................... 11.86 6.0 474 6.0 24,604 6.0 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 11.86 6.0 474 6.0 24,604 6.0 Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 18.97 12.5 759 12.5 39,423 12.5 Tool and die makers............................................... 22.72 6.3 909 6.3 47,257 6.3 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 15.59 10.3 624 10.3 32,427 10.3 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 16.57 11.5 663 11.5 34,459 11.5 Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 14.63 10.1 585 10.1 30,404 10.1 Printers.......................................................... 16.89 5.2 671 5.0 34,869 5.0 Prepress technicians and workers................................ 16.69 14.0 662 13.9 34,415 13.9 Printing machine operators...................................... 16.69 6.2 662 5.9 34,438 5.9 Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 10.64 4.8 420 5.4 21,858 5.4 Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers.............. 23.66 11.7 946 11.7 49,203 11.7 Power plant operators........................................... 23.80 12.5 952 12.5 49,499 12.5 Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators....... 17.61 9.5 704 9.5 36,627 9.5 Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders....... 18.93 4.5 757 4.5 39,369 4.5 Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders...................... 18.55 5.5 742 5.5 38,580 5.5 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 13.43 5.5 537 5.5 27,713 5.5 Cutting workers................................................... 14.70 14.4 588 14.4 30,254 14.4 Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 15.28 13.5 611 13.5 31,791 13.5 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.42 6.7 697 6.7 36,236 6.7 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 15.23 4.4 609 4.4 31,676 4.4 Painting workers.................................................. 19.72 22.0 793 23.1 41,222 23.1 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders...................................................... 18.78 10.8 751 10.8 39,071 10.8 Painters, transportation equipment.............................. 21.17 48.1 – – – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.10 7.8 482 7.7 24,540 7.7 Helpers--production workers..................................... 11.16 3.2 445 3.0 23,139 3.0 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.14 2.5 661 3.0 34,086 3.0 First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand................................................... 19.31 7.7 783 7.6 40,703 7.6 First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................. 25.89 15.0 1,057 14.1 54,987 14.1 Bus drivers....................................................... 17.34 11.0 628 16.1 28,177 16.1 Bus drivers, school............................................. 14.81 6.8 509 11.9 21,424 11.9 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.85 6.0 670 7.2 34,552 7.2 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.38 7.8 728 8.5 37,349 8.5 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 14.22 8.3 548 13.0 28,491 13.0 Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators................. 18.56 7.5 742 7.5 37,628 7.5 Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators........... 18.55 7.7 742 7.7 37,594 7.7 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.76 6.6 590 6.6 30,207 6.6 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.69 7.4 502 7.4 26,127 7.4 Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 11.07 5.2 443 5.2 23,028 5.2 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.00 8.7 552 8.8 28,685 8.8 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 14.94 8.8 580 10.2 30,145 10.2 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.73 6.3 429 6.4 22,299 6.4 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 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 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 appendix A. 5 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. 6 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. RSE Table 12 Full-time(1) private industry 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........................................................... $18.80 2.0% $751 1.9% $38,793 1.9% Management occupations.............................................. 35.76 10.0 1,474 9.5 76,515 9.5 Chief executives.................................................. 82.82 20.5 4,083 19.2 212,293 19.2 General and operations managers................................... 34.51 5.7 1,444 5.2 75,100 5.2 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 45.44 5.4 1,913 5.9 99,478 5.9 Marketing managers.............................................. 39.94 9.8 1,597 9.8 83,069 9.8 Sales managers.................................................. 50.84 9.4 2,257 12.2 117,375 12.2 Administrative services managers.................................. 19.74 40.9 790 40.9 41,055 40.9 Computer and information systems managers......................... 44.93 3.2 1,833 4.0 95,309 4.0 Financial managers................................................ 34.40 5.0 1,375 5.5 71,489 5.5 Human resources managers.......................................... 32.77 6.2 1,338 7.9 69,598 7.9 Industrial production managers.................................... 33.75 13.5 1,451 11.9 75,466 11.9 Purchasing managers............................................... 27.78 21.5 1,161 18.9 60,349 18.9 Construction managers............................................. 34.06 21.7 1,430 18.1 74,360 18.1 Education administrators.......................................... 23.21 16.8 990 16.8 49,797 16.8 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 31.40 16.1 1,322 19.4 68,726 19.4 Engineering managers.............................................. 50.69 6.3 2,038 6.2 105,987 6.2 Food service managers............................................. 18.19 16.8 872 13.3 43,786 13.3 Medical and health services managers.............................. 40.05 8.7 1,599 8.6 83,147 8.6 Social and community service managers............................. 21.97 11.1 870 10.5 45,237 10.5 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 30.48 12.0 1,230 11.8 63,965 11.8 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 24.72 9.4 1,002 12.0 52,080 12.0 Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products............... 23.57 6.7 943 6.7 49,018 6.7 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 25.05 12.1 1,019 15.6 52,977 15.6 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 20.90 4.7 819 4.4 42,597 4.4 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 20.64 4.9 809 4.5 42,091 4.5 Cost estimators................................................... 27.92 10.1 1,126 9.9 58,562 9.9 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.03 9.6 914 8.5 47,458 8.5 Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 20.29 5.2 798 3.7 41,328 3.7 Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 19.14 10.0 775 10.3 40,283 10.3 Training and development specialists............................ 24.81 8.8 975 7.1 50,725 7.1 Management analysts............................................... 33.97 1.3 1,393 2.9 72,437 2.9 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 25.52 2.1 1,028 1.8 53,462 1.8 Credit analysts................................................... 28.57 16.2 1,168 18.3 60,711 18.3 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 29.42 7.5 1,168 7.5 60,749 7.5 Financial analysts.............................................. 34.23 8.5 1,369 8.5 71,207 8.5 Personal financial advisors..................................... 24.80 7.8 992 7.8 51,589 7.8 Insurance underwriters.......................................... 26.20 13.3 1,026 12.9 53,370 12.9 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 33.28 4.2 1,329 4.1 69,087 4.1 Computer programmers.............................................. 29.88 4.2 1,189 4.3 61,806 4.3 Computer software engineers....................................... 42.25 1.3 1,697 1.0 88,246 1.0 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 43.72 3.2 1,764 2.6 91,733 2.6 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 40.84 2.3 1,634 2.3 84,948 2.3 Computer support specialists...................................... 19.22 17.4 771 17.5 40,105 17.5 Computer systems analysts......................................... 35.78 4.5 1,420 4.4 73,862 4.4 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 31.27 4.5 1,243 4.1 64,639 4.1 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 32.30 6.9 1,292 6.9 67,193 6.9 Operations research analysts...................................... 31.38 11.2 1,255 11.1 65,240 11.1 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 29.04 5.2 1,166 5.3 60,601 5.3 Engineers......................................................... 34.00 8.6 1,367 8.7 71,086 8.7 Civil engineers................................................. 35.04 19.7 1,438 23.4 74,750 23.4 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.07 4.9 1,443 4.9 75,020 4.9 Electrical engineers.......................................... 32.65 13.1 1,306 13.1 67,909 13.1 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 31.97 5.3 1,309 6.8 68,079 6.8 Industrial engineers.......................................... 31.97 5.3 1,309 6.8 68,079 6.8 Mechanical engineers............................................ 34.03 5.1 1,361 5.1 70,775 5.1 Drafters.......................................................... 21.94 7.0 878 7.0 45,635 7.0 Mechanical drafters............................................. 21.95 7.5 878 7.5 45,661 7.5 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 22.88 4.6 915 4.6 47,530 4.6 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 23.37 10.7 935 10.7 48,617 10.7 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 28.33 7.2 1,133 7.2 58,811 7.2 Life scientists................................................... 24.66 14.4 966 13.7 50,246 13.7 Physical scientists............................................... 31.27 7.1 1,258 7.1 65,397 7.1 Chemists and materials scientists............................... 28.49 9.7 1,153 9.9 59,939 9.9 Chemists...................................................... 26.55 4.0 1,078 5.2 56,045 5.2 Market and survey researchers..................................... 34.58 2.0 1,383 2.0 71,890 2.0 Market research analysts........................................ 34.58 2.0 1,383 2.0 71,890 2.0 Community and social services occupations........................... 16.48 3.9 647 5.0 33,407 5.0 Counselors........................................................ 15.80 9.0 605 12.3 31,479 12.3 Social workers.................................................... 19.81 8.3 794 8.2 40,134 8.2 Medical and public health social workers........................ 23.24 5.7 930 5.7 48,342 5.7 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 15.18 5.1 600 5.4 31,200 5.4 Social and human service assistants............................. 15.48 6.8 619 6.8 32,191 6.8 Legal occupations................................................... 36.44 6.0 1,507 8.0 78,352 8.0 Lawyers........................................................... 48.13 2.1 2,071 3.3 107,684 3.3 Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 23.37 11.0 927 15.2 48,198 15.2 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 25.15 11.7 988 12.6 41,797 12.6 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 34.28 8.3 1,333 7.8 53,343 7.8 Health teachers, postsecondary.................................. 27.37 1.8 1,078 2.6 56,043 2.6 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 22.09 7.0 858 4.2 43,691 4.2 Vocational education teachers, postsecondary.................. 22.97 8.6 878 5.4 45,679 5.4 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 21.83 3.4 873 3.4 34,837 3.4 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 23.50 7.3 940 7.3 34,912 7.3 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 23.24 7.4 930 7.4 34,471 7.4 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 21.50 9.7 850 7.2 44,181 7.2 Designers......................................................... 20.08 22.5 806 22.2 41,931 22.2 Graphic designers............................................... 18.32 9.8 740 10.2 38,505 10.2 News analysts, reporters and correspondents....................... 22.42 41.4 897 41.4 46,634 41.4 Writers and editors............................................... 16.25 10.1 650 10.1 33,809 10.1 Editors......................................................... 16.91 13.6 676 13.6 35,167 13.6 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.93 3.6 946 3.7 49,175 3.7 Pharmacists....................................................... 45.83 4.4 1,830 4.4 95,158 4.4 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 60.56 9.3 2,569 8.2 133,586 8.2 Registered nurses................................................. 25.22 3.8 989 3.6 51,441 3.6 Therapists........................................................ 26.93 3.8 1,072 3.8 55,769 3.8 Occupational therapists......................................... 24.01 3.1 955 3.4 49,670 3.4 Physical therapists............................................. 29.09 4.7 1,159 4.6 60,279 4.6 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 20.73 3.7 827 3.8 43,024 3.8 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 24.04 6.6 960 6.5 49,913 6.5 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 16.71 9.0 666 8.9 34,655 8.9 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 24.06 6.8 941 8.0 48,910 8.0 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 25.00 6.1 968 7.8 50,335 7.8 Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... 17.42 10.5 697 10.5 36,242 10.5 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 12.06 9.9 474 10.3 24,667 10.3 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.15 2.2 671 1.8 34,904 1.8 Medical records and health information technicians................ 14.04 4.0 558 4.3 29,023 4.3 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.77 5.9 493 5.7 25,640 5.7 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.42 3.7 409 3.3 21,257 3.3 Home health aides............................................... 9.36 8.6 375 8.8 19,514 8.8 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.67 4.0 416 3.4 21,652 3.4 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.60 7.3 555 6.9 28,841 6.9 Dental assistants............................................... 15.73 9.1 578 9.7 30,081 9.7 Medical assistants.............................................. 12.60 4.2 504 4.2 26,187 4.2 Medical transcriptionists....................................... 16.53 6.5 661 6.5 34,375 6.5 Protective service occupations...................................... 10.80 5.3 432 5.3 22,454 5.3 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.92 5.3 341 7.0 17,741 7.0 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 12.09 6.7 502 6.4 26,079 6.4 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers...................................................... 11.93 7.4 491 6.2 25,553 6.2 Cooks............................................................. 9.83 4.3 382 4.0 19,883 4.0 Cooks, fast food................................................ 8.96 3.2 355 2.6 18,434 2.6 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.65 6.0 420 5.9 21,845 5.9 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.80 9.2 375 9.3 19,525 9.3 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.66 6.7 335 5.6 17,353 5.6 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.57 12.3 200 18.5 10,374 18.5 Bartenders...................................................... 8.38 12.7 298 23.1 15,504 23.1 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.20 8.4 149 13.1 7,731 13.1 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 9.02 5.6 361 5.6 18,753 5.6 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.40 7.9 311 10.1 16,169 10.1 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food......................................................... 8.40 7.9 311 10.1 16,169 10.1 Food servers, nonrestaurant....................................... 7.91 4.9 303 3.5 15,739 3.5 Dishwashers....................................................... 8.05 4.5 298 7.1 15,481 7.1 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.82 5.7 428 5.2 21,912 5.2 First-line supervisors/managers, building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers............................................ 13.61 13.7 550 13.5 28,334 13.5 First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers...................................................... 13.66 14.1 552 13.9 28,719 13.9 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.10 3.4 397 3.4 20,623 3.4 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.25 3.9 447 3.7 23,251 3.7 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.58 1.9 331 3.5 17,221 3.5 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 13.75 25.9 561 29.3 25,395 29.3 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 13.75 25.9 561 29.3 25,395 29.3 Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.47 2.4 401 2.7 20,856 2.7 Gaming services workers........................................... 6.79 6.2 270 5.9 14,060 5.9 Gaming dealers.................................................. 6.42 1.7 256 1.9 13,309 1.9 Barbers and cosmetologists........................................ 9.56 8.9 373 8.0 19,412 8.0 Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists.................. 9.56 8.9 373 8.0 19,412 8.0 Child care workers................................................ 7.80 14.7 302 9.8 15,683 9.8 Personal and home care aides...................................... 9.54 1.6 371 4.6 19,286 4.6 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 11.99 11.7 477 11.2 24,825 11.2 Recreation workers.............................................. 11.91 15.2 474 14.8 24,644 14.8 Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.48 7.7 740 7.7 38,452 7.7 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.34 5.0 715 6.0 37,192 6.0 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 15.94 3.6 650 4.6 33,792 4.6 First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers..... 28.67 13.3 1,304 15.6 67,794 15.6 Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.63 4.1 458 3.7 23,811 3.7 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.98 2.6 348 3.1 18,101 3.1 Cashiers...................................................... 9.01 2.5 349 3.0 18,148 3.0 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 14.28 9.6 587 10.3 30,511 10.3 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 13.16 18.3 531 18.0 27,621 18.0 Parts salespersons............................................ 14.45 10.5 595 11.3 30,960 11.3 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.69 4.0 498 3.6 25,900 3.6 Advertising sales agents.......................................... 17.06 18.9 683 18.9 35,494 18.9 Insurance sales agents............................................ 27.42 13.2 1,091 13.1 56,714 13.1 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 67.71 16.8 2,708 16.8 140,827 16.8 Travel agents..................................................... 15.68 7.6 591 8.1 30,744 8.1 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 25.13 10.8 1,038 11.1 53,959 11.1 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products...................................... 37.06 25.1 1,523 26.5 79,198 26.5 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products............................ 23.16 11.2 957 11.2 49,774 11.2 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 17.32 25.3 696 25.5 36,172 25.5 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.49 1.8 575 1.5 29,867 1.5 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 21.69 3.7 860 3.8 44,717 3.8 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.04 5.3 517 5.1 26,841 5.1 Bill and account collectors..................................... 14.72 10.5 589 10.5 30,627 10.5 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 12.99 4.0 518 4.2 26,951 4.2 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.55 7.3 536 6.7 27,808 6.7 Procurement clerks.............................................. 20.40 3.1 816 3.1 42,436 3.1 Tellers......................................................... 10.27 3.2 407 3.6 21,154 3.6 Brokerage clerks.................................................. 15.68 4.5 627 4.5 32,613 4.5 Customer service representatives.................................. 15.72 4.7 629 4.7 32,682 4.7 File clerks....................................................... 12.42 10.7 490 9.3 25,476 9.3 Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks.............................. 8.25 3.0 324 3.6 16,823 3.6 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.60 9.5 503 9.4 26,168 9.4 Loan interviewers and clerks...................................... 15.46 4.9 618 4.9 32,149 4.9 New accounts clerks............................................... 12.91 8.8 516 8.8 26,850 8.8 Order clerks...................................................... 15.55 9.4 622 9.4 32,336 9.4 Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping........ 17.12 11.8 685 11.8 35,608 11.8 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.60 3.9 500 3.8 25,987 3.8 Dispatchers....................................................... 15.21 4.9 618 4.2 31,891 4.2 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 15.21 4.9 618 4.2 31,891 4.2 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 17.44 8.1 698 8.1 36,273 8.1 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.96 7.4 515 6.7 26,786 6.7 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.20 6.2 568 6.2 29,528 6.2 Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping........ 14.61 13.9 584 13.9 30,394 13.9 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.39 2.5 684 3.0 35,534 3.0 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.24 5.2 769 5.2 39,971 5.2 Legal secretaries............................................... 17.93 5.5 695 4.3 36,162 4.3 Medical secretaries............................................. 15.01 6.6 586 7.6 30,456 7.6 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.90 4.2 619 6.0 32,155 6.0 Computer operators................................................ 16.77 7.4 671 7.4 34,880 7.4 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 12.05 5.4 481 5.6 25,028 5.6 Data entry keyers............................................... 12.17 7.7 486 7.8 25,295 7.8 Word processors and typists..................................... 11.57 4.1 461 4.0 23,968 4.0 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 14.31 10.8 565 10.3 29,378 10.3 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.01 3.6 517 3.6 26,799 3.6 Office machine operators, except computer......................... 11.98 9.4 479 9.4 24,913 9.4 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.99 5.1 887 5.0 44,531 5.0 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................. 28.99 6.5 1,166 7.0 60,209 7.0 Carpenters........................................................ 19.57 7.7 783 7.7 40,227 7.7 Construction laborers............................................. 18.45 7.7 738 7.7 35,813 7.7 Construction equipment operators.................................. 24.46 11.4 1,066 16.8 43,201 16.8 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 25.01 10.5 1,100 15.8 47,653 15.8 Electricians...................................................... 21.97 17.1 879 17.1 45,692 17.1 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 26.86 10.2 1,075 10.2 55,879 10.2 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 26.86 10.2 1,075 10.2 55,876 10.2 Sheet metal workers............................................... 19.62 13.1 785 13.1 40,802 13.1 Helpers, construction trades...................................... 12.37 11.0 495 11.0 24,326 11.0 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.66 5.1 790 5.5 41,066 5.5 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................................... 25.59 8.2 1,086 14.1 56,476 14.1 Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers... 25.86 5.5 1,035 5.5 53,796 5.5 Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers.............................................. 25.86 5.5 1,035 5.5 53,796 5.5 Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................... 18.46 36.6 738 36.6 38,400 36.6 Aircraft mechanics and service technicians........................ 24.94 6.3 998 6.3 51,875 6.3 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.76 7.8 758 7.5 39,424 7.5 Automotive body and related repairers........................... 22.75 24.6 931 24.9 48,410 24.9 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 18.02 8.1 726 8.4 37,756 8.4 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.92 4.9 726 5.1 37,730 5.1 Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics...................................................... 16.84 5.4 669 5.8 34,768 5.8 Farm equipment mechanics........................................ 14.43 9.0 566 10.6 29,448 10.6 Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines................ 18.00 6.3 720 6.3 37,443 6.3 Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers..................................................... 19.45 10.2 778 10.2 40,450 10.2 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 19.79 5.5 789 5.5 41,018 5.5 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.40 3.4 890 3.5 46,299 3.5 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.78 11.7 671 11.7 34,906 11.7 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 14.69 .9 587 1.0 30,536 1.0 Millwrights..................................................... 23.45 11.3 938 11.3 48,556 11.3 Line installers and repairers..................................... 25.37 5.1 1,015 5.1 52,770 5.1 Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 26.83 2.7 1,073 2.7 55,801 2.7 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 16.26 8.0 650 8.0 33,821 8.0 Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers.......... 14.24 13.8 570 13.8 29,627 13.8 Production occupations.............................................. 15.66 3.9 624 3.8 32,279 3.8 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers........................................................ 21.61 9.0 880 9.7 45,782 9.7 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 16.39 12.1 656 12.1 34,098 12.1 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 16.46 12.2 659 12.2 34,242 12.2 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 17.20 7.2 687 7.2 35,628 7.2 Bakers............................................................ 12.29 11.2 491 11.2 25,556 11.2 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 13.09 9.3 520 9.3 27,054 9.3 Butchers and meat cutters....................................... 18.26 9.4 730 9.4 37,973 9.4 Slaughterers and meat packers................................... 11.58 2.8 458 3.9 23,803 3.9 Miscellaneous food processing workers............................. 14.08 8.5 563 8.5 29,292 8.5 Food batchmakers................................................ 14.74 9.7 590 9.7 30,661 9.7 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 18.44 18.7 645 31.3 33,522 31.3 Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic... 16.60 16.1 561 30.7 29,186 30.7 Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 14.66 5.5 586 5.5 30,491 5.5 Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic............................................ 15.70 6.7 628 6.7 32,664 6.7 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 15.72 5.2 627 5.2 32,627 5.2 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 14.89 6.8 593 6.7 30,840 6.7 Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................... 18.01 6.1 720 6.1 37,452 6.1 Machinists........................................................ 20.84 10.2 833 10.2 43,340 10.2 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................................................... 11.86 6.0 474 6.0 24,604 6.0 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 11.86 6.0 474 6.0 24,604 6.0 Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 18.97 12.5 759 12.5 39,423 12.5 Tool and die makers............................................... 22.72 6.3 909 6.3 47,257 6.3 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 15.59 10.3 624 10.3 32,427 10.3 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 16.57 11.5 663 11.5 34,459 11.5 Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 14.63 10.1 585 10.1 30,404 10.1 Printers.......................................................... 16.89 5.2 671 5.0 34,869 5.0 Prepress technicians and workers................................ 16.69 14.0 662 13.9 34,415 13.9 Printing machine operators...................................... 16.69 6.2 662 5.9 34,438 5.9 Laundry and dry-cleaning workers.................................. 10.58 3.8 418 4.8 21,712 4.8 Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders....... 18.93 4.5 757 4.5 39,369 4.5 Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders...................... 18.55 5.5 742 5.5 38,580 5.5 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 13.43 5.5 537 5.5 27,713 5.5 Cutting workers................................................... 14.70 14.4 588 14.4 30,254 14.4 Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 15.28 13.5 611 13.5 31,791 13.5 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.39 6.8 696 6.8 36,172 6.8 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 15.23 4.4 609 4.4 31,676 4.4 Painting workers.................................................. 19.72 22.0 793 23.1 41,222 23.1 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders...................................................... 18.78 10.8 751 10.8 39,071 10.8 Painters, transportation equipment.............................. 21.17 48.1 – – – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.02 7.8 479 7.8 24,353 7.8 Helpers--production workers..................................... 11.16 3.2 445 3.0 23,139 3.0 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.09 2.5 660 3.1 34,103 3.1 First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand................................................... 19.31 7.7 783 7.6 40,703 7.6 First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................. 26.83 17.0 1,101 15.8 57,256 15.8 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.84 6.0 670 7.2 34,552 7.2 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.38 7.8 728 8.5 37,349 8.5 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 14.19 8.4 546 13.2 28,411 13.2 Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators................. 18.70 7.8 748 7.8 37,876 7.8 Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators........... 18.69 7.9 748 7.9 37,845 7.9 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.76 6.6 590 6.6 30,207 6.6 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.69 7.4 502 7.4 26,127 7.4 Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 11.07 5.2 443 5.2 23,028 5.2 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.00 8.7 552 8.8 28,685 8.8 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 14.94 8.8 580 10.2 30,145 10.2 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.73 6.3 429 6.4 22,299 6.4 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 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 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 appendix A. 5 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. 6 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. 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........................................................... $22.80 5.7% $901 5.8% $42,119 5.8% Management occupations.............................................. 36.53 9.0 1,467 9.1 74,346 9.1 General and operations managers................................... 30.32 6.6 1,213 6.6 62,429 6.6 Education administrators.......................................... 35.11 12.0 1,397 11.9 68,703 11.9 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 43.99 7.3 1,744 7.3 83,510 7.3 Medical and health services managers.............................. 57.41 35.9 2,352 34.0 122,313 34.0 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 25.89 8.1 1,034 8.0 53,648 8.0 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 24.12 7.8 965 7.8 50,168 7.8 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 24.12 7.8 965 7.8 50,168 7.8 Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation..................................... 29.59 22.0 1,184 22.0 61,552 22.0 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 20.96 5.0 838 5.0 43,591 5.0 Appraisers and assessors of real estate........................... 21.70 7.8 868 7.8 45,128 7.8 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 25.28 8.0 1,017 7.3 52,301 7.3 Computer support specialists...................................... 23.11 4.2 922 4.3 47,928 4.3 Computer systems analysts......................................... 31.79 6.5 1,272 6.5 65,614 6.5 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 22.59 12.1 891 12.6 42,196 12.6 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 25.33 8.9 990 6.2 51,505 6.2 Engineers......................................................... 32.72 8.5 1,334 6.7 69,358 6.7 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 20.39 11.1 816 11.1 42,415 11.1 Civil engineering technicians................................... 19.30 8.2 772 8.2 40,145 8.2 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 23.01 15.5 919 15.4 42,155 15.4 Life scientists................................................... 22.20 16.3 888 16.3 39,090 16.3 Psychologists..................................................... 30.71 10.8 1,229 10.8 49,667 10.8 Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists.................. 30.71 10.8 1,229 10.8 49,667 10.8 Community and social services occupations........................... 20.46 4.7 816 4.7 39,800 4.7 Counselors........................................................ 23.19 4.3 924 4.2 43,781 4.2 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 29.34 8.8 1,163 8.4 49,659 8.4 Rehabilitation counselors....................................... 20.45 7.7 818 7.7 42,541 7.7 Social workers.................................................... 20.60 9.3 820 8.9 38,506 8.9 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 22.21 10.6 880 10.1 38,795 10.1 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 18.31 7.9 732 7.9 37,791 7.9 Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists....... 19.50 9.2 780 9.2 40,568 9.2 Social and human service assistants............................. 15.97 7.8 639 7.8 33,223 7.8 Legal occupations................................................... 36.54 20.5 1,425 22.2 74,092 22.2 Lawyers........................................................... 32.01 15.8 1,219 19.2 63,371 19.2 Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers................... 53.86 10.8 2,154 10.8 112,026 10.8 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 30.83 11.6 1,176 11.7 45,536 11.7 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 59.78 24.5 2,376 24.8 97,167 24.8 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 30.56 1.6 1,173 1.3 44,322 1.3 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 32.04 5.8 1,237 5.5 44,923 5.5 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 32.95 4.6 1,270 4.5 45,491 4.5 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 30.09 2.4 1,156 2.4 43,562 2.4 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 29.97 2.7 1,150 2.8 43,334 2.8 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 30.52 4.4 1,178 3.6 44,357 3.6 Secondary school teachers....................................... 31.12 2.1 1,196 1.5 45,288 1.5 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 31.26 2.1 1,200 1.5 45,471 1.5 Vocational education teachers, secondary school............... 29.04 13.1 1,147 11.3 42,577 11.3 Special education teachers...................................... 31.11 4.5 1,172 4.0 46,205 4.0 Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school.......................................... 30.44 5.7 1,142 4.1 42,423 4.1 Special education teachers, middle school..................... 32.30 9.0 1,216 8.9 51,562 8.9 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 21.36 8.4 796 10.7 31,280 10.7 Librarians........................................................ 23.04 15.1 892 14.4 39,881 14.4 Instructional coordinators........................................ 32.24 11.4 1,395 9.0 63,054 9.0 Teacher assistants................................................ 11.07 3.9 388 3.8 14,781 3.8 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 20.39 4.2 816 4.2 42,415 4.2 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 24.70 3.8 979 3.8 47,896 3.8 Registered nurses................................................. 26.05 3.0 1,018 3.0 49,678 3.0 Therapists........................................................ 34.35 6.0 1,320 5.3 50,329 5.3 Speech-language pathologists.................................... 33.86 7.0 1,293 6.0 47,764 6.0 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 23.10 7.0 923 7.0 47,974 7.0 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 23.10 7.0 923 7.0 47,974 7.0 Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... 15.72 12.4 658 13.1 34,197 13.1 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 15.51 5.2 606 6.5 31,489 6.5 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.40 3.5 652 3.5 33,077 3.5 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.70 4.9 502 4.9 26,130 4.9 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.99 6.0 432 5.7 22,480 5.7 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.03 8.1 432 7.7 22,454 7.7 Protective service occupations...................................... 19.65 3.6 819 3.5 42,521 3.5 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 35.88 4.1 1,435 4.1 74,629 4.1 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 36.62 3.1 1,465 3.1 76,160 3.1 Fire fighters..................................................... 17.71 5.5 904 6.1 47,018 6.1 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 15.95 2.8 638 2.8 33,184 2.8 Correctional officers and jailers............................... 15.95 2.8 638 2.9 33,193 2.9 Police officers................................................... 22.92 3.1 917 3.0 47,682 3.0 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 22.92 3.1 917 3.0 47,682 3.0 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 15.88 9.3 635 9.3 32,387 9.3 Security guards................................................. 15.88 9.3 635 9.3 32,387 9.3 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.34 8.2 418 8.2 17,969 8.2 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 16.20 12.5 618 15.9 27,054 15.9 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers...................................................... 18.45 13.9 738 13.9 35,022 13.9 Cooks............................................................. 10.24 2.0 367 3.3 14,433 3.3 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.24 2.0 367 3.3 14,433 3.3 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.56 3.0 540 3.2 27,134 3.2 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.84 2.7 512 2.9 26,476 2.9 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.03 2.2 519 2.4 26,853 2.4 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 16.63 9.2 665 9.2 27,766 9.2 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 17.13 9.3 685 9.3 29,012 9.3 Personal care and service occupations............................... 14.47 9.9 577 12.1 26,023 12.1 Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.36 9.7 689 10.3 33,864 10.3 Retail sales workers.............................................. 15.25 10.1 603 10.5 29,001 10.5 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.44 4.9 615 5.1 31,149 5.1 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 17.66 6.6 712 6.4 37,010 6.4 Financial clerks.................................................. 16.18 7.2 647 7.3 33,457 7.3 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 16.64 6.1 665 6.2 34,391 6.2 Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 13.44 6.7 537 6.7 27,926 6.7 Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 17.87 12.3 715 12.3 37,164 12.3 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.64 9.8 506 9.8 26,300 9.8 Dispatchers....................................................... 14.40 9.1 576 9.1 29,952 9.1 Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers......................... 14.40 9.4 576 9.4 29,954 9.4 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.70 4.3 623 4.5 30,780 4.5 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 16.52 3.4 661 3.4 34,186 3.4 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.14 6.8 598 7.3 28,602 7.3 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.86 6.4 593 6.6 30,469 6.6 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.66 6.5 627 6.5 32,547 6.5 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................. 17.99 10.4 720 10.4 37,415 10.4 Construction laborers............................................. 12.09 14.3 483 14.3 25,137 14.3 Construction equipment operators.................................. 13.61 7.5 545 7.5 28,318 7.5 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 13.82 6.2 553 6.2 28,743 6.2 Highway maintenance workers....................................... 15.36 3.2 614 3.2 31,755 3.2 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.21 7.1 769 7.1 39,963 7.1 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.51 8.2 700 8.2 36,418 8.2 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 15.73 4.8 629 4.8 32,728 4.8 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 15.29 4.1 612 4.1 31,804 4.1 Line installers and repairers..................................... 22.28 17.4 891 17.4 46,350 17.4 Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 22.28 17.4 891 17.4 46,350 17.4 Production occupations.............................................. 19.86 12.3 794 12.3 41,300 12.3 Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers.............. 23.48 12.7 939 12.7 48,830 12.7 Power plant operators........................................... 23.61 13.4 945 13.4 49,114 13.4 Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators....... 17.19 11.0 687 11.0 35,748 11.0 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 18.60 9.0 698 13.0 33,448 13.0 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 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 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 appendix A. 5 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. 6 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. RSE Table 15 Private industry establishments with fewer than 100 workers: 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........................................................... $17.51 2.7% $698 2.7% $36,042 2.7% Management occupations.............................................. 29.23 6.2 1,210 6.4 62,814 6.4 General and operations managers................................... 32.46 5.6 1,370 6.8 71,230 6.8 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 47.05 8.9 2,082 8.6 108,252 8.6 Financial managers................................................ 30.33 8.2 1,211 8.5 62,988 8.5 Medical and health services managers.............................. 30.70 3.0 1,228 3.0 63,851 3.0 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 34.28 25.2 1,397 24.5 72,638 24.5 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 21.61 10.6 864 10.6 44,948 10.6 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.73 15.7 961 14.7 49,981 14.7 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 33.59 10.8 1,333 10.6 69,331 10.6 Insurance underwriters.......................................... 32.04 7.5 1,251 7.7 65,027 7.7 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.11 7.4 1,443 7.4 75,052 7.4 Computer software engineers....................................... 46.13 10.8 1,845 10.8 95,950 10.8 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 47.54 8.1 1,901 8.1 98,873 8.1 Computer support specialists...................................... 23.76 24.2 950 24.2 49,413 24.2 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 30.83 7.1 1,233 7.1 64,126 7.1 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 21.69 11.2 873 11.8 45,376 11.8 Engineers......................................................... 20.91 27.1 843 28.5 43,854 28.5 Drafters.......................................................... 22.74 9.6 910 9.6 47,308 9.6 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 21.45 5.8 858 5.8 44,617 5.8 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 25.21 7.2 1,008 7.2 51,803 7.2 Community and social services occupations........................... 15.76 5.3 614 7.4 31,923 7.4 Counselors........................................................ 17.21 14.8 642 21.3 33,379 21.3 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 15.21 6.3 600 6.7 31,188 6.7 Legal occupations................................................... 35.44 8.5 1,474 10.8 76,645 10.8 Lawyers........................................................... 47.15 1.5 2,058 1.9 107,007 1.9 Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 22.45 15.6 888 20.7 46,197 20.7 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 17.27 25.6 671 27.6 31,509 27.6 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 21.73 2.3 862 1.6 44,828 1.6 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 25.81 .8 1,033 .8 38,508 .8 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 17.42 5.8 681 5.2 35,418 5.2 Designers......................................................... 13.71 9.2 552 9.9 28,715 9.9 Writers and editors............................................... 14.42 11.4 577 11.4 29,999 11.4 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 21.95 6.6 879 6.7 45,704 6.7 Registered nurses................................................. 21.79 9.1 884 10.0 45,984 10.0 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 19.41 13.9 776 13.9 40,371 13.9 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.39 3.0 648 2.9 33,702 2.9 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.28 7.7 504 7.7 26,195 7.7 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.54 7.7 368 7.5 19,152 7.5 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.15 4.6 389 5.7 20,205 5.7 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.75 8.1 554 8.1 28,806 8.1 Dental assistants............................................... 15.73 9.1 578 9.7 30,081 9.7 Protective service occupations...................................... 9.92 4.8 397 4.8 20,633 4.8 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.26 7.8 314 9.9 16,325 9.9 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 10.83 8.3 440 8.7 22,878 8.7 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers...................................................... 10.74 9.1 431 7.9 22,401 7.9 Cooks............................................................. 8.99 5.3 351 4.7 18,227 4.7 Cooks, fast food................................................ 8.96 3.2 355 2.6 18,434 2.6 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 9.52 3.1 378 4.0 19,646 4.0 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.94 9.7 342 8.8 17,775 8.8 Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.95 7.0 305 5.3 15,796 5.3 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.40 12.2 192 18.3 9,965 18.3 Bartenders...................................................... 8.38 12.7 298 23.1 15,504 23.1 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.00 7.1 141 10.5 7,326 10.5 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.46 7.7 322 8.3 16,751 8.3 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food......................................................... 8.46 7.7 322 8.3 16,751 8.3 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.25 11.6 402 10.8 20,424 10.8 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.26 7.6 360 8.1 18,724 8.1 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.62 9.4 423 9.6 21,992 9.6 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.10 2.1 309 8.7 16,061 8.7 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 14.12 27.9 577 31.8 25,696 31.8 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 14.12 27.9 577 31.8 25,696 31.8 Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.73 5.4 381 5.5 19,811 5.5 Barbers and cosmetologists........................................ 9.51 10.1 370 9.1 19,262 9.1 Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists.................. 9.51 10.1 370 9.1 19,262 9.1 Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.84 11.7 754 11.9 39,189 11.9 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 16.33 6.6 678 7.9 35,240 7.9 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 15.05 4.5 615 5.8 31,975 5.8 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.24 6.3 481 5.4 24,994 5.4 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.44 3.0 322 3.5 16,736 3.5 Cashiers...................................................... 8.44 3.0 322 3.5 16,736 3.5 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 14.49 10.2 596 11.1 31,014 11.1 Parts salespersons............................................ 14.52 11.0 599 11.9 31,154 11.9 Retail salespersons............................................. 14.31 9.2 561 6.5 29,167 6.5 Advertising sales agents.......................................... 17.83 24.3 713 24.3 37,090 24.3 Insurance sales agents............................................ 28.92 20.6 1,153 20.6 59,950 20.6 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 73.82 23.9 2,953 23.9 153,547 23.9 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 23.00 14.3 945 15.1 49,151 15.1 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products............................ 22.69 15.1 933 16.0 48,525 16.0 Miscellaneous sales and related workers........................... 17.06 26.7 685 26.9 35,646 26.9 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.10 2.1 559 2.0 29,030 2.0 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 21.66 6.4 851 7.0 44,242 7.0 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.55 7.1 496 7.0 25,719 7.0 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 11.30 4.9 449 5.1 23,362 5.1 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.36 10.0 527 9.1 27,292 9.1 Tellers......................................................... 10.17 4.0 402 4.4 20,909 4.4 Customer service representatives.................................. 15.36 10.4 616 10.5 32,010 10.5 Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks.............................. 8.20 3.3 326 3.5 16,933 3.5 Loan interviewers and clerks...................................... 14.55 10.6 582 10.6 30,265 10.6 New accounts clerks............................................... 12.63 9.0 505 9.0 26,261 9.0 Order clerks...................................................... 13.12 9.0 525 9.0 27,283 9.0 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.66 4.1 500 4.2 26,026 4.2 Dispatchers....................................................... 14.34 8.4 574 8.4 29,824 8.4 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 14.34 8.4 574 8.4 29,824 8.4 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 14.84 9.9 594 9.9 30,863 9.9 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.00 9.3 556 9.3 28,909 9.3 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.17 7.7 527 7.7 27,396 7.7 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.56 4.1 641 5.4 33,310 5.4 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.57 6.2 743 6.2 38,623 6.2 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.04 8.4 568 12.4 29,550 12.4 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.79 1.2 472 1.2 24,523 1.2 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 16.61 20.1 664 20.1 34,549 20.1 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.08 5.7 520 5.8 26,898 5.8 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.34 6.9 863 6.9 43,211 6.9 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................. 28.72 6.7 1,156 7.2 59,649 7.2 Carpenters........................................................ 18.52 9.2 741 9.2 38,530 9.2 Construction laborers............................................. 18.07 8.4 722 8.4 35,257 8.4 Construction equipment operators.................................. 24.62 11.4 1,074 16.9 43,389 16.9 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 25.20 10.5 1,110 15.8 47,945 15.8 Electricians...................................................... 17.59 17.5 704 17.5 36,587 17.5 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 26.75 11.3 1,070 11.3 55,645 11.3 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 26.75 11.4 1,070 11.4 55,642 11.4 Helpers, construction trades...................................... 12.09 10.2 484 10.2 23,719 10.2 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.38 6.3 740 6.9 38,501 6.9 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................................... 23.03 10.2 1,002 20.2 52,079 20.2 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 18.62 8.2 754 7.8 39,189 7.8 Automotive service technicians and mechanics.................... 17.71 8.7 714 9.0 37,133 9.0 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.95 6.1 730 6.4 37,938 6.4 Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics...................................................... 16.57 5.7 658 6.2 34,200 6.2 Farm equipment mechanics........................................ 14.43 9.0 566 10.6 29,448 10.6 Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines................ 18.01 6.8 720 6.8 37,466 6.8 Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers..................................................... 18.85 11.6 754 11.6 39,210 11.6 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 15.79 7.1 632 7.1 32,854 7.1 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 20.67 6.5 827 6.5 42,990 6.5 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 14.01 5.1 560 5.1 29,141 5.1 Line installers and repairers..................................... 26.09 3.8 1,044 3.8 54,273 3.8 Electrical power-line installers and repairers.................. 26.74 2.8 1,070 2.8 55,616 2.8 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 13.79 13.0 552 13.0 28,681 13.0 Production occupations.............................................. 14.66 8.9 581 8.2 30,108 8.2 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers........................................................ 16.83 8.7 677 9.0 35,187 9.0 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 11.13 3.5 445 3.5 23,156 3.5 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 15.91 13.4 637 13.4 33,101 13.4 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 18.66 20.5 644 33.1 33,485 33.1 Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic... 16.59 17.7 548 31.6 28,508 31.6 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 15.23 8.5 609 8.5 31,674 8.5 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................................................... 10.90 9.3 436 9.3 22,680 9.3 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 10.90 9.3 436 9.3 22,680 9.3 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 14.13 7.5 565 7.5 29,396 7.5 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 14.13 7.5 565 7.5 29,396 7.5 Bookbinders and bindery workers................................... 10.74 13.4 430 13.4 22,346 13.4 Bindery workers................................................. 10.74 13.4 430 13.4 22,346 13.4 Printers.......................................................... 16.30 6.2 652 6.2 33,913 6.2 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 11.88 5.7 475 5.7 24,336 5.7 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.00 15.5 760 15.5 39,522 15.5 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.58 18.4 462 18.3 23,609 18.3 Helpers--production workers..................................... 10.92 10.8 437 10.8 22,707 10.8 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.25 2.5 576 4.3 29,752 4.3 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 14.44 3.3 578 5.7 29,712 5.7 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 15.25 5.8 637 7.8 32,513 7.8 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 11.56 14.6 422 17.5 21,951 17.5 Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators................. 18.70 7.8 748 7.8 37,876 7.8 Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators........... 18.69 7.9 748 7.9 37,845 7.9 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.44 2.5 578 2.5 30,039 2.5 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.48 4.4 450 4.7 23,422 4.7 Cleaners of vehicles and equipment.............................. 10.88 6.1 435 6.1 22,625 6.1 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.17 5.4 434 5.7 22,560 5.7 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. 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........................................................... $20.26 2.9% $810 3.0% $41,880 3.0% Management occupations.............................................. 41.56 11.9 1,706 12.2 88,576 12.2 Chief executives.................................................. 84.61 20.0 4,204 18.7 218,584 18.7 General and operations managers................................... 39.30 13.9 1,614 14.0 83,933 14.0 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 43.96 12.7 1,772 13.3 92,154 13.3 Marketing managers.............................................. 36.75 5.3 1,470 5.3 76,442 5.3 Computer and information systems managers......................... 48.01 2.9 1,966 2.8 102,220 2.8 Financial managers................................................ 39.11 5.0 1,564 6.0 81,334 6.0 Human resources managers.......................................... 37.96 12.3 1,587 10.2 82,545 10.2 Industrial production managers.................................... 36.26 15.9 1,668 10.3 86,735 10.3 Purchasing managers............................................... 29.10 22.8 1,227 19.2 63,785 19.2 Education administrators.......................................... 30.49 18.5 1,273 22.0 61,559 22.0 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 34.41 9.8 1,463 13.5 76,097 13.5 Engineering managers.............................................. 51.72 7.3 2,083 7.7 108,317 7.7 Medical and health services managers.............................. 43.98 10.2 1,755 10.1 91,248 10.1 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.72 3.5 1,111 3.2 57,774 3.2 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 27.01 4.5 1,100 7.2 57,184 7.2 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 27.83 6.2 1,137 9.1 59,135 9.1 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 17.62 5.7 689 4.3 35,827 4.3 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 17.62 5.7 689 4.3 35,827 4.3 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.62 10.2 934 8.7 48,485 8.7 Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists.............. 21.67 7.8 834 5.8 42,965 5.8 Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists............ 18.64 10.8 755 11.1 39,254 11.1 Training and development specialists............................ 24.81 8.8 975 7.1 50,725 7.1 Management analysts............................................... 32.36 4.9 1,331 2.3 69,207 2.3 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.09 5.7 1,049 5.4 54,558 5.4 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 25.90 6.8 1,029 6.4 53,498 6.4 Financial analysts.............................................. 27.44 3.9 1,098 3.9 57,086 3.9 Insurance underwriters.......................................... 22.28 12.9 875 11.7 45,511 11.7 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 32.21 5.4 1,286 5.4 66,848 5.4 Computer programmers.............................................. 30.36 5.7 1,204 5.8 62,610 5.8 Computer software engineers....................................... 39.86 7.6 1,605 7.4 83,478 7.4 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 40.72 12.7 1,655 12.1 86,038 12.1 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 39.17 6.0 1,567 6.0 81,484 6.0 Computer support specialists...................................... 17.39 21.8 699 22.2 36,335 22.2 Computer systems analysts......................................... 34.98 3.2 1,388 3.3 72,200 3.3 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 31.59 4.2 1,250 4.1 65,003 4.1 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 32.30 6.9 1,292 6.9 67,193 6.9 Operations research analysts...................................... 29.80 11.7 1,191 11.6 61,952 11.6 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.11 3.1 1,288 3.2 66,928 3.2 Engineers......................................................... 36.89 3.1 1,482 3.2 77,063 3.2 Civil engineers................................................. 33.15 3.0 1,326 3.0 68,958 3.0 Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 36.07 4.9 1,443 4.9 75,020 4.9 Electrical engineers.......................................... 32.65 13.1 1,306 13.1 67,909 13.1 Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 31.97 5.3 1,309 6.8 68,079 6.8 Industrial engineers.......................................... 31.97 5.3 1,309 6.8 68,079 6.8 Mechanical engineers............................................ 34.04 5.2 1,362 5.2 70,813 5.2 Drafters.......................................................... 21.46 8.0 858 8.0 44,633 8.0 Mechanical drafters............................................. 21.95 7.5 878 7.5 45,661 7.5 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.91 7.1 956 7.1 49,610 7.1 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 23.62 9.8 945 9.8 49,139 9.8 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 28.91 8.6 1,156 8.7 60,112 8.7 Life scientists................................................... 24.66 14.4 966 13.7 50,246 13.7 Physical scientists............................................... 32.05 7.4 1,291 7.4 67,111 7.4 Chemists and materials scientists............................... 30.43 6.2 1,234 6.0 64,142 6.0 Community and social services occupations........................... 17.54 6.9 695 6.9 35,582 6.9 Social workers.................................................... 22.68 4.9 907 4.9 45,066 4.9 Legal occupations................................................... 40.36 3.7 1,632 3.1 84,842 3.1 Lawyers........................................................... 51.93 9.4 2,118 11.0 110,143 11.0 Paralegals and legal assistants................................... 26.41 3.1 1,056 3.1 54,923 3.1 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 28.08 11.7 1,107 11.8 45,162 11.8 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 20.82 6.0 833 6.0 33,829 6.0 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 26.27 11.0 1,052 10.9 54,690 10.9 Designers......................................................... 27.45 15.4 1,098 15.4 57,091 15.4 Graphic designers............................................... 19.51 8.5 781 8.5 40,590 8.5 Writers and editors............................................... 20.09 15.6 804 15.6 41,791 15.6 Editors......................................................... 20.49 18.5 820 18.5 42,619 18.5 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 24.80 4.6 974 4.5 50,664 4.5 Pharmacists....................................................... 48.34 1.8 1,927 2.2 100,223 2.2 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 60.18 9.1 2,554 8.0 132,791 8.0 Registered nurses................................................. 25.84 4.8 1,008 4.7 52,396 4.7 Therapists........................................................ 26.14 2.4 1,037 2.9 53,914 2.9 Occupational therapists......................................... 24.30 5.0 964 5.9 50,105 5.9 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 21.40 7.0 853 7.2 44,351 7.2 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 23.97 9.9 956 9.8 49,710 9.8 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 18.75 6.3 747 6.3 38,843 6.3 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 24.04 7.0 939 8.2 48,841 8.2 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 25.00 6.4 967 8.1 50,292 8.1 Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... 17.42 10.5 697 10.5 36,242 10.5 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 13.65 9.4 529 11.5 27,514 11.5 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.67 2.3 687 2.7 35,704 2.7 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.98 7.0 476 6.9 24,737 6.9 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.94 5.5 433 5.1 22,541 5.1 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.98 6.4 433 5.9 22,539 5.9 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.96 8.8 558 8.8 28,998 8.8 Medical assistants.............................................. 12.38 4.8 495 4.8 25,727 4.8 Medical transcriptionists....................................... 16.71 6.2 668 6.2 34,742 6.2 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.84 7.7 423 8.1 21,980 8.1 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers........................................................ 14.79 8.2 643 7.5 33,414 7.5 First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers...................................................... 14.46 8.5 632 8.2 32,858 8.2 Cooks............................................................. 12.10 2.3 469 3.2 24,364 3.2 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 12.34 6.8 483 7.5 25,123 7.5 Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.61 1.8 419 2.6 21,803 2.6 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.61 24.7 249 29.3 12,968 29.3 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 5.27 34.1 194 39.8 10,107 39.8 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.63 4.3 464 4.0 24,149 4.0 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.11 2.9 441 2.9 22,939 2.9 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.74 3.2 466 3.1 24,238 3.1 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.63 4.9 382 4.7 19,876 4.7 Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.44 6.7 427 6.2 22,179 6.2 Gaming services workers........................................... 6.79 6.2 270 5.9 14,060 5.9 Gaming dealers.................................................. 6.42 1.7 256 1.9 13,309 1.9 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 13.41 11.5 532 10.7 27,657 10.7 Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.59 7.3 705 7.5 36,642 7.5 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 20.54 7.7 830 7.2 43,179 7.2 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.72 4.4 758 4.7 39,397 4.7 Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.51 1.6 416 1.5 21,633 1.5 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.97 2.3 399 2.3 20,746 2.3 Retail salespersons............................................. 10.78 2.3 423 2.0 22,021 2.0 Advertising sales agents.......................................... 15.04 29.4 601 29.4 31,273 29.4 Insurance sales agents............................................ 24.24 12.4 959 13.3 49,859 13.3 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 45.10 21.1 1,804 21.1 93,806 21.1 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 29.74 13.2 1,242 15.0 64,577 15.0 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products............................ 24.32 6.2 1,018 9.5 52,948 9.5 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.89 2.8 591 3.0 30,745 3.0 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 21.74 3.9 873 4.0 45,411 4.0 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.89 2.7 554 2.7 28,782 2.7 Bill and account collectors..................................... 15.40 11.3 616 11.3 32,029 11.3 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.30 5.7 572 5.7 29,737 5.7 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.84 4.4 551 4.3 28,642 4.3 Tellers......................................................... 10.83 3.4 433 3.4 22,524 3.4 Customer service representatives.................................. 15.99 3.1 638 2.7 33,187 2.7 File clerks....................................................... 12.60 7.8 499 7.2 25,955 7.2 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.88 11.1 514 10.9 26,744 10.9 Order clerks...................................................... 17.44 7.5 698 7.5 36,274 7.5 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.44 10.0 497 10.0 25,868 10.0 Dispatchers....................................................... 19.50 10.2 857 17.0 42,547 17.0 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 19.50 10.2 857 17.0 42,547 17.0 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 21.51 7.7 861 7.7 44,750 7.7 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.30 8.2 489 6.9 25,434 6.9 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 15.42 12.2 617 12.2 32,076 12.2 Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping........ 17.81 6.7 712 6.7 37,039 6.7 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 18.03 3.0 718 2.9 37,326 2.9 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 19.62 7.1 783 7.1 40,712 7.1 Medical secretaries............................................. 15.80 5.4 630 5.4 32,753 5.4 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 16.54 2.3 658 2.2 34,182 2.2 Computer operators................................................ 17.27 6.5 691 6.5 35,916 6.5 Data entry and information processing workers..................... 12.23 7.5 488 7.8 25,360 7.8 Data entry keyers............................................... 12.30 8.1 491 8.3 25,547 8.3 Word processors and typists..................................... 11.72 12.7 463 12.1 24,095 12.1 Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 13.65 10.2 537 9.4 27,914 9.4 Office clerks, general............................................ 12.90 6.9 512 6.1 26,646 6.1 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 26.04 8.1 1,042 8.1 52,834 8.1 First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers............................................. 32.30 12.6 1,292 12.6 67,184 12.6 Carpenters........................................................ 26.69 8.3 1,068 8.3 50,773 8.3 Electricians...................................................... 27.27 12.0 1,091 12.0 56,729 12.0 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 28.78 12.7 1,151 12.7 59,866 12.7 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 28.78 12.7 1,151 12.7 59,866 12.7 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.45 4.1 896 4.1 46,606 4.1 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................................... 32.09 4.6 1,283 4.6 66,741 4.6 Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers...................................... 21.93 23.1 877 23.1 45,612 23.1 Aircraft mechanics and service technicians........................ 24.94 6.3 998 6.3 51,875 6.3 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.78 5.8 711 5.8 36,979 5.8 Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics...................................................... 22.07 13.5 883 13.5 45,910 13.5 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.49 3.2 856 3.4 44,481 3.4 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.72 2.9 902 3.1 46,915 3.1 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.85 13.7 834 13.7 43,363 13.7 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 14.83 1.6 593 1.6 30,824 1.6 Millwrights..................................................... 23.45 11.3 938 11.3 48,556 11.3 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 18.57 16.1 743 16.1 38,635 16.1 Production occupations.............................................. 16.13 3.6 644 3.6 33,309 3.6 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers........................................................ 24.46 4.7 1,005 6.0 52,248 6.0 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 17.06 11.5 682 11.5 35,483 11.5 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 17.15 11.5 686 11.5 35,671 11.5 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 18.50 7.8 739 7.8 38,283 7.8 Bakers............................................................ 16.02 10.2 641 10.2 33,322 10.2 Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers..... 12.57 7.4 499 7.5 25,938 7.5 Slaughterers and meat packers................................... 11.58 2.8 458 4.1 23,801 4.1 Miscellaneous food processing workers............................. 14.15 8.4 566 8.4 29,424 8.4 Food batchmakers................................................ 14.86 9.4 594 9.4 30,903 9.4 Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 14.70 6.1 588 6.1 30,569 6.1 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 16.09 6.5 641 6.6 33,347 6.6 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 15.14 6.5 602 6.6 31,284 6.6 Machinists........................................................ 22.78 9.5 911 9.5 47,373 9.5 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.................................................... 12.00 7.1 480 7.1 24,897 7.1 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic................................... 12.00 7.1 480 7.1 24,897 7.1 Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic........................................................ 18.97 12.5 759 12.5 39,423 12.5 Tool and die makers............................................... 23.23 7.2 929 7.2 48,313 7.2 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 17.13 18.9 685 18.9 35,622 18.9 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 20.36 20.6 814 20.6 42,346 20.6 Miscellaneous metalworkers and plastic workers.................... 14.63 10.1 585 10.1 30,404 10.1 Printers.......................................................... 17.64 9.7 693 9.0 36,055 9.0 Printing machine operators...................................... 17.09 11.8 671 10.5 34,874 10.5 Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders....... 19.84 4.5 793 4.5 41,257 4.5 Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders...................... 19.22 6.2 769 6.2 39,967 6.2 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 16.66 5.9 666 5.9 34,645 5.9 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 15.43 4.1 617 4.1 32,087 4.1 Painting workers.................................................. 19.01 10.9 761 10.9 39,549 10.9 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders...................................................... 19.89 11.8 796 11.8 41,367 11.8 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.21 5.1 487 5.0 24,692 5.0 Helpers--production workers..................................... 11.19 3.4 446 3.3 23,194 3.3 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 18.41 4.4 769 5.4 39,762 5.4 First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand................................................... 20.46 7.8 821 7.8 42,697 7.8 First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators.................. 31.03 23.1 1,308 20.9 67,993 20.9 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.93 17.1 913 16.0 47,496 16.0 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.47 13.3 931 11.3 48,393 11.3 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 20.08 31.1 881 36.6 45,830 36.6 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 14.99 10.7 599 10.8 30,328 10.8 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.29 10.2 529 10.3 27,507 10.3 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 16.19 8.8 645 8.9 33,558 8.9 Machine feeders and offbearers.................................. 14.10 6.8 545 8.4 28,317 8.4 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.53 7.6 421 7.6 21,881 7.6 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. RSE Table 17 Union and nonunion workers: Relative standard errors(1) of mean hourly earnings(2) by major sector and for major occupational groups Union Nonunion Occupational group(3) Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers All workers........................................................... 1.9% 2.8% 2.9% 2.1% 1.9% 10.4% Management, professional, and related............................... 2.7 5.4 3.4 4.0 3.9 10.2 Management, business, and financial............................... 3.9 – 4.3 7.4 7.8 13.1 Professional and related.......................................... 2.9 5.8 3.6 3.1 2.7 9.4 Service............................................................. 4.3 7.5 5.3 2.4 2.8 5.9 Sales and office.................................................... 4.1 7.1 3.5 2.3 2.5 4.2 Sales and related................................................. 10.7 10.7 – 7.5 7.6 11.6 Office and administrative support................................. 2.4 4.5 3.5 1.4 1.5 3.8 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 4.1 4.0 5.8 5.9 6.5 12.0 Construction and extraction...................................... 5.7 5.8 4.9 6.3 6.9 6.5 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 3.4 3.6 8.2 6.7 7.1 14.5 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 3.1 3.2 3.3 2.2 2.2 15.5 Production........................................................ 4.2 4.3 8.2 4.4 4.4 18.9 Transportation and material moving................................ 7.7 8.1 5.0 3.3 3.4 5.0 1 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. 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 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. RSE Table 19 Private industry sector(1): Relative standard errors(2) of mean hourly earnings(3) for major occupational groups Goods producing Service providing Trade, Profes- Education Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Leisure Other Occupational group(4) tion turing tation, mation activities business health and services and services services hospitality utilities Relative error(5) All workers........................................................... 5.8% 4.5% 2.2% – 11.6% – 3.4% 3.5% 7.6% Management, professional, and related............................... 22.0 4.4 14.5 – 16.2 – 3.2 10.3 12.1 Management, business, and financial............................... 15.8 6.0 11.7 – 19.0 – 6.1 11.4 14.3 Professional and related.......................................... – 5.9 19.1 – 11.8 – 3.2 14.9 12.0 Service............................................................. – 10.1 4.5 – 11.8 – 2.8 3.9 9.4 Sales and office.................................................... 7.5 9.9 3.2 – 8.8 – 1.3 4.0 13.6 Sales and related................................................. – 27.5 4.3 – 11.5 – 10.6 12.8 – Office and administrative support................................. 8.4 4.1 4.7 – 2.8 – 1.6 4.4 7.6 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.5 3.4 5.0 – 10.8 – 15.3 – 17.9 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 13.7 3.7 4.1 – 10.8 – 14.9 – 18.4 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 8.7 3.4 2.9 – 14.1 – 9.5 7.3 35.6 Production........................................................ – 3.8 28.6 – – – 14.8 5.3 – Transportation and material moving................................ 8.7 4.4 3.7 – – – 3.3 8.7 3.7 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 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. 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 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 5 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. RSE Table 20 Civilian full-time workers in hospitals: Relative standard errors of mean hourly, weekly, and annual earnings by work levels Hourly earnings(2) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation and work level(1) Mean Relative Mean Relative Mean Relative error(3) error(3) error(3) All workers........................................................... $21.33 5.0% $845 5.2% $43,935 5.2% Level 1 .................................................. 9.62 7.1 383 7.1 19,941 7.1 Level 2 .................................................. 10.97 9.1 436 9.3 22,674 9.3 Level 3 .................................................. 11.45 6.0 455 5.7 23,638 5.7 Level 4 .................................................. 12.93 6.2 514 6.3 26,736 6.3 Level 5 .................................................. 16.86 2.8 672 2.9 34,942 2.9 Level 6 .................................................. 19.03 1.4 748 2.7 38,874 2.7 Level 7 .................................................. 23.97 2.2 951 1.6 49,472 1.6 Level 8 .................................................. 26.04 3.1 1,021 3.6 53,095 3.6 Level 9 .................................................. 28.62 2.6 1,126 3.0 58,578 3.0 Level 10.................................................. 37.58 7.7 1,503 7.7 78,157 7.7 Level 11.................................................. 38.14 6.4 1,524 6.3 79,239 6.3 Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.00 13.7 943 14.1 49,026 14.1 Management occupations.............................................. 47.24 24.9 1,886 24.9 98,049 24.9 Level 9 .................................................. 33.67 8.1 1,347 8.1 70,024 8.1 Not able to be leveled.................................... 47.60 15.3 1,891 15.3 98,354 15.3 Medical and health services managers.............................. 50.05 26.7 1,997 26.7 103,850 26.7 Not able to be leveled.................................... 47.83 15.2 1,900 15.2 98,818 15.2 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 31.40 4.6 1,256 4.6 65,318 4.6 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 26.71 12.2 1,095 9.0 56,922 9.0 Community and social services occupations........................... 22.91 11.6 923 9.3 47,998 9.3 Social workers.................................................... 24.29 5.8 978 4.6 50,845 4.6 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.76 3.0 1,011 3.1 52,551 3.1 Level 4 .................................................. 13.23 7.1 519 7.0 26,987 7.0 Level 5 .................................................. 16.97 2.6 674 2.6 35,070 2.6 Level 6 .................................................. 19.99 4.4 773 6.1 40,215 6.1 Level 7 .................................................. 24.03 2.2 941 2.2 48,925 2.2 Level 8 .................................................. 25.50 2.7 996 3.1 51,785 3.1 Level 9 .................................................. 28.05 2.6 1,099 3.0 57,169 3.0 Level 10.................................................. 37.39 7.9 1,496 7.9 77,778 7.9 Level 11.................................................. 40.49 8.0 1,616 7.9 84,035 7.9 Not able to be leveled.................................... 28.46 12.7 1,093 14.0 56,810 14.0 Pharmacists....................................................... 47.85 2.2 1,907 2.5 99,152 2.5 Physicians and surgeons........................................... 53.02 27.2 2,209 28.9 114,864 28.9 Registered nurses................................................. 26.68 3.6 1,037 3.8 53,911 3.8 Level 7 .................................................. 24.50 1.9 951 1.8 49,447 1.8 Level 8 .................................................. 24.87 3.0 969 3.1 50,406 3.1 Level 9 .................................................. 27.84 2.4 1,089 2.8 56,645 2.8 Level 11.................................................. 34.85 8.7 1,394 8.7 72,488 8.7 Therapists........................................................ 27.38 3.0 1,084 2.3 56,349 2.3 Physical therapists............................................. 28.27 2.5 1,122 1.9 58,320 1.9 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 19.59 4.8 779 4.8 40,527 4.8 Medical and clinical laboratory technologists................... 22.11 3.1 880 2.7 45,762 2.7 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 17.18 5.6 683 5.8 35,536 5.8 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 23.65 6.4 928 7.3 48,250 7.3 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 24.48 5.4 958 6.8 49,821 6.8 Emergency medical technicians and paramedics...................... 15.32 12.5 613 12.5 31,865 12.5 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 14.48 5.8 563 6.7 29,279 6.7 Level 4 .................................................. 14.74 7.6 557 10.5 28,945 10.5 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.21 2.1 672 1.9 34,965 1.9 Level 5 .................................................. 16.52 2.7 654 2.8 34,009 2.8 Level 6 .................................................. 18.24 5.4 691 8.2 35,913 8.2 Medical records and health information technicians................ 18.77 3.2 751 3.2 39,041 3.2 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.05 7.2 517 7.3 26,878 7.3 Level 2 .................................................. 10.19 6.6 402 7.4 20,890 7.4 Level 3 .................................................. 11.25 6.4 444 5.8 23,101 5.8 Level 4 .................................................. 14.18 5.4 564 5.5 29,323 5.5 Level 5 .................................................. 15.15 12.1 605 12.1 31,469 12.1 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.69 6.3 461 6.2 23,963 6.2 Level 2 .................................................. 9.99 8.3 392 9.2 20,382 9.2 Level 3 .................................................. 11.37 6.4 448 5.8 23,289 5.8 Level 4 .................................................. 14.14 6.0 557 6.1 28,971 6.1 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.52 6.1 453 6.0 23,573 6.0 Level 2 .................................................. 9.86 8.6 387 9.5 20,102 9.5 Level 3 .................................................. 11.42 6.7 450 6.1 23,379 6.1 Level 4 .................................................. 14.10 6.8 553 6.8 28,735 6.8 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 13.91 10.1 555 10.2 28,881 10.2 Level 3 .................................................. 10.41 11.7 417 11.7 21,662 11.7 Level 4 .................................................. 14.26 6.7 570 6.7 29,655 6.7 Level 5 .................................................. 14.60 13.9 583 13.9 30,306 13.9 Medical assistants.............................................. 12.88 8.4 515 8.4 26,770 8.4 Medical transcriptionists....................................... 16.86 6.8 674 6.8 35,046 6.8 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.81 4.7 387 4.1 20,123 4.1 Level 2 .................................................. 9.87 7.7 395 7.7 20,522 7.7 Cooks............................................................. 9.72 4.7 389 4.7 20,222 4.7 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 9.72 4.7 389 4.7 20,222 4.7 Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.54 11.9 382 11.9 19,849 11.9 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.27 4.4 410 4.3 21,339 4.3 Level 1 .................................................. 8.93 4.0 356 4.0 18,530 4.0 Level 2 .................................................. 11.59 8.6 464 8.6 24,110 8.6 Level 3 .................................................. 11.55 5.8 462 5.8 24,027 5.8 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.27 4.4 410 4.3 21,339 4.3 Level 1 .................................................. 8.93 4.0 356 4.0 18,530 4.0 Level 2 .................................................. 11.59 8.6 464 8.6 24,110 8.6 Level 3 .................................................. 11.55 5.8 462 5.8 24,027 5.8 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.32 5.9 412 5.8 21,429 5.8 Level 3 .................................................. 11.81 8.6 473 8.6 24,574 8.6 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 10.20 6.8 408 6.8 21,212 6.8 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.34 5.0 573 5.0 29,789 5.0 Level 2 .................................................. 12.44 15.2 496 15.4 25,794 15.4 Level 3 .................................................. 11.57 10.2 462 10.2 24,022 10.2 Level 4 .................................................. 12.30 8.9 492 8.9 25,559 8.9 Level 5 .................................................. 17.19 3.7 688 3.7 35,755 3.7 Level 6 .................................................. 17.55 2.3 702 2.3 36,496 2.3 Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.21 5.5 608 5.5 31,600 5.5 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 17.79 6.9 712 6.9 37,001 6.9 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.53 5.4 541 5.4 28,134 5.4 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 12.83 4.4 513 4.4 26,693 4.4 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 12.98 11.9 518 11.9 26,923 11.9 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 18.27 11.1 728 11.2 37,858 11.2 Level 3 .................................................. 12.81 .3 502 1.0 26,124 1.0 Level 4 .................................................. 14.72 5.9 587 5.9 30,503 5.9 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.40 15.2 816 15.2 42,422 15.2 Medical secretaries............................................. 14.51 1.6 574 1.8 29,823 1.8 Level 4 .................................................. 15.05 3.9 598 4.3 31,108 4.3 Office clerks, general............................................ 11.98 20.0 479 20.0 24,892 20.0 Level 3 .................................................. 10.54 12.1 421 12.1 21,916 12.1 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.42 15.6 777 15.6 40,402 15.6 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.65 12.4 666 12.4 34,642 12.4 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.65 12.4 666 12.4 34,642 12.4 Production occupations.............................................. 14.28 22.6 571 22.6 29,713 22.6 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. RSE Table 21 Civilian supervisory workers: Relative standard errors of mean weekly and annual earnings for selected management occupations Weekly(2) Annual(4) Occupation(1) Mean Relative Mean Relative earnings error(3) earnings error(3) Management occupations Team leader............................................... $1,173 17.5% $60,411 17.5% First line................................................ 1,371 4.2 70,772 4.2 Second line............................................... 1,919 22.0 99,779 22.0 General and operations managers First line................................................ 1,397 7.9 72,649 7.9 Computer and information systems managers First line................................................ 1,712 8.4 89,046 8.4 Financial managers First line................................................ 1,254 9.2 65,213 9.2 Industrial production managers First line................................................ 1,270 17.1 66,018 17.1 Purchasing managers First line................................................ 893 10.3 46,411 10.3 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school First line................................................ 1,672 3.9 80,946 3.9 Engineering managers First line................................................ 1,947 12.0 101,222 12.0 Food service managers First line................................................ 842 14.0 42,260 14.0 Medical and health services managers First line................................................ 1,605 7.0 83,437 7.0 Second line............................................... 2,588 34.3 134,556 34.3 Social and community service managers First line................................................ 1,090 9.4 56,674 9.4 1 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 4 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.