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Occupation |
Employment |
---|---|
Customer service representatives | 2,858,710 |
Office clerks, general | 2,496,370 |
Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive | 1,785,430 |
First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers | 1,504,570 |
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks | 1,501,910 |
Receptionists and information clerks | 1,003,820 |
Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks | 844,120 |
Medical secretaries and administrative assistants | 749,500 |
Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants | 483,570 |
Billing and posting clerks | 430,220 |
Occupation | Annual mean wage |
---|---|
Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants | $73,680 |
First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers | 68,620 |
All occupations | 65,470 |
Brokerage clerks | 63,130 |
Postal service mail carriers | 59,340 |
Postal service clerks | 59,240 |
All office and administrative support occupations | 47,940 |
Couriers and messengers | 38,350 |
Gambling cage workers | 36,750 |
Receptionists and information clerks | 36,590 |
Library assistants, clerical | 35,970 |
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks | 32,570 |
Occupational group | Percent |
---|---|
Office and administrative support | 12.2 |
Transportation and material moving | 9.1 |
Sales and related | 8.8 |
Food preparation and serving related | 8.7 |
Management | 6.9 |
Business and financial operations | 6.6 |
Healthcare practitioners and technical | 6.1 |
Production | 5.8 |
Educational instruction and library | 5.8 |
Healthcare support | 4.7 |
Construction and extraction | 4.1 |
Installation, maintenance, and repair | 3.9 |
Computer and mathematical | 3.4 |
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance | 2.9 |
Protective service | 2.3 |
Personal care and service | 2.0 |
Architecture and engineering | 1.7 |
Community and social service | 1.6 |
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media | 1.4 |
Life, physical, and social science | 0.9 |
Legal | 0.8 |
Farming, fishing, and forestry | 0.3 |
Industry | Employment |
---|---|
Local government, excluding schools and hospitals | 961,360 |
Credit intermediation and related activities (5221 and 5223 only) | 842,450 |
Offices of physicians | 759,630 |
General medical and surgical hospitals | 614,320 |
Postal service | 552,400 |
Management of companies and enterprises | 547,900 |
Elementary and secondary schools | 508,760 |
Employment services | 495,420 |
Business support services | 446,280 |
Agencies, brokerages, and other insurance related activities | 428,630 |
Industry | Annual mean wage |
---|---|
Pipeline transportation of crude oil | $79,030 |
Other pipeline transportation | 76,920 |
Natural gas distribution | 70,650 |
Metal ore mining | 70,000 |
Support activities for water transportation | 68,340 |
All industries | 47,940 |
Traveler accommodation | 36,110 |
Gasoline stations | 35,740 |
Other amusement and recreation industries | 34,770 |
Rooming and boarding houses, dormitories, and workers' camps | 34,540 |
Personal care services | 33,440 |
State | Annual mean wage |
---|---|
District of Columbia | $56,140 |
Washington | 52,690 |
Massachusetts | 50,450 |
New York | 50,100 |
California | 49,950 |
United States | 43,520 |
Kentucky | 38,420 |
South Carolina | 38,420 |
Arkansas | 37,980 |
Alabama | 37,760 |
Louisiana | 37,480 |
Mississippi | 34,680 |
Occupation | Employment |
---|---|
Fast food and counter workers | 3,676,580 |
Waiters and waitresses | 2,237,850 |
Cooks, restaurant | 1,412,350 |
First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers | 1,176,540 |
Food preparation workers | 879,610 |
Bartenders | 711,140 |
Cooks, fast food | 673,490 |
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers | 483,390 |
Dishwashers | 463,940 |
Cooks, institution and cafeteria | 435,640 |
Occupation | Annual mean wage |
---|---|
All occupations | $65,470 |
Chefs and head cooks | 62,640 |
Cooks, private household | 49,790 |
First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers | 43,310 |
Cooks, all other | 37,610 |
Bartenders | 37,090 |
All food preparation and serving related occupations | 34,490 |
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers | 32,730 |
Dishwashers | 31,650 |
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop | 30,750 |
Fast food and counter workers | 30,110 |
Cooks, fast food | 29,760 |
Metropolitan area | Percent |
---|---|
Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI | 18.1 |
Ocean City, NJ | 17.9 |
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC | 17.7 |
Flagstaff, AZ | 16.3 |
Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort, SC | 15.9 |
Jacksonville, NC | 15.3 |
Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV | 14.8 |
Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL | 14.6 |
Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL | 14.5 |
Brunswick, GA | 14.4 |
United States | 8.7 |
Metropolitan area | Annual mean wage |
---|---|
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | $47,490 |
Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI | 47,200 |
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | 45,390 |
Burlington-South Burlington, VT | 44,410 |
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA | 44,070 |
United States | 34,490 |
Monroe, LA | 25,100 |
Dothan, AL | 25,080 |
Brownsville-Harlingen, TX | 25,060 |
Gadsden, AL | 24,770 |
Hattiesburg, MS | 24,480 |
Occupation | Employment |
---|---|
Medical scientists, except epidemiologists | 136,620 |
Occupational health and safety specialists | 122,300 |
Chemists | 83,530 |
Environmental scientists and specialists, including health | 80,730 |
Biological technicians | 76,990 |
Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other | 72,230 |
Clinical and counseling psychologists | 71,730 |
School psychologists | 62,790 |
Biological scientists, all other | 61,220 |
Chemical technicians | 55,880 |
Occupation | Annual mean wage |
---|---|
Physicists | $158,270 |
Industrial-organizational psychologists | 154,380 |
Economists | 132,650 |
Political scientists | 132,020 |
Astronomers | 128,940 |
All life, physical, and social science occupations | 87,870 |
All occupations | 65,470 |
Environmental science and protection technicians, including health | 57,470 |
Biological technicians | 56,540 |
Forest and conservation technicians | 54,260 |
Food science technicians | 54,000 |
Agricultural technicians | 46,810 |
Industry | Employment |
---|---|
Scientific research and development services | 213,600 |
Federal executive branch | 148,200 |
Colleges, universities, and professional schools | 119,480 |
Local government, excluding schools and hospitals | 98,520 |
State government, excluding schools and hospitals | 91,840 |
Architectural, engineering, and related services | 79,180 |
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services | 68,970 |
Elementary and secondary schools | 55,280 |
Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing | 49,080 |
General medical and surgical hospitals | 48,380 |
Metropolitan area | Percent |
---|---|
Durham-Chapel Hill, NC | 3.9 |
Fairbanks, AK | 3.3 |
Ames, IA | 3.2 |
Charlottesville, VA | 3.2 |
Midland, MI | 3.1 |
Boulder, CO | 3.1 |
Iowa City, IA | 2.9 |
Kennewick-Richland, WA | 2.7 |
Fort Collins, CO | 2.6 |
Corvallis, OR | 2.6 |
United States | 0.9 |
Occupation | Employment (millions) |
---|---|
Home health and personal care aides | 3.7 |
Retail salespersons | 3.7 |
Fast food and counter workers | 3.7 |
General and operations managers | 3.5 |
Cashiers | 3.3 |
Registered nurses | 3.2 |
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand | 3.0 |
Stockers and order fillers | 2.9 |
Customer service representatives | 2.9 |
Office clerks, general | 2.5 |
Occupation | Annual mean wage |
---|---|
General and operations managers | $129,330 |
Registered nurses | 94,480 |
All occupations | 65,470 |
Office clerks, general | 43,560 |
Customer service representatives | 43,520 |
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand | 39,760 |
Stockers and order fillers | 37,990 |
Retail salespersons | 36,690 |
Home health and personal care aides | 33,380 |
Cashiers | 30,710 |
Fast food and counter workers | 30,110 |
Occupation | Employment |
---|---|
Elementary school teachers, except special education | 1,254,040 |
Teaching assistants, except postsecondary | 1,033,460 |
Secondary school teachers, except special and career/technical education | 898,000 |
Police and sheriff's patrol officers | 640,320 |
Middle school teachers, except special and career/technical education | 553,390 |
Registered nurses | 526,150 |
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners | 491,130 |
Office clerks, general | 467,110 |
Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive | 461,920 |
Substitute teachers, short-term | 353,450 |
Last Modified Date: April 3, 2024