U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Department of Labor Logo United States Department of Labor
Dot gov

The .gov means it's official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you're on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Highest paying occupations in 2001

November 07, 2002

The highest-paying major groups of occupations in 2001 were the management occupations group and the legal occupations group.

Major occupational groups with highest mean hourly wages, 2001
[Chart data—TXT]

Wage and salary workers in management occupations had a mean hourly wage of $34.04, while those in legal occupations had an average wage of $33.19. The next highest paid groups were computer and mathematical ($29.02), architecture and engineering ($27.08), and business and financial operations ($24.32).

The BLS Occupational Employment Statistics program produced these data. Find more information on wages by occupation in 2001 in "Occupational Employment and Wages, 2001," news release USDL 02-619.

SUGGESTED CITATION

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Highest paying occupations in 2001 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2002/nov/wk1/art04.htm (visited April 19, 2024).

OF INTEREST
spotlight
Recent editions of Spotlight on Statistics


triangle