Table 2. Largest occupations in electronic shopping and mail-order houses and their mean hourly wages, May 2008

Occupation	Employment	Percent of total industry employment	Mean hourly wage
Customer service representatives	34,830	13.5	$12.91
Order clerks	31,010	12.0	11.93
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks	14,920	5.8	12.62
Stock clerks and order fillers	12,580	4.9	11.04
Retail salespersons	11,590	4.5	13.78
Telemarketers	9,720	3.8	12.54
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	9,690	3.8	11.69
Packers and packagers, hand	8,760	3.4	10.51
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers	6,150	2.4	21.32
Office clerks, general	5,720	2.2	12.51
Industry total	257,440	100.0	18.43

 

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