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Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by occupation and sex

July 23, 2015

Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers were $801 in the second quarter of 2015. Women had median usual weekly earnings of $726. This is 81.9 percent of the $886 median for men.

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Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by occupation and sex, second quarter 2015, not seasonally adjusted
Occupation	Men	Women	Difference	Women’s to men’s earnings ratio
Total	$886	$726	$160	81.9%
Management, business, and financial operations	1,401	1,064	337	75.9
Professional and related	1,319	953	366	72.3
Sales and related	864	556	308	64.4
Installation, maintenance, and repair	838	603	235	72.0
Construction and extraction	742	700	42	94.3
Production	734	524	210	71.4
Office and administrative support	683	655	28	95.9
Transportation and material moving	663	524	139	79.0
Service	587	457	130	77.9
Farming, fishing, and forestry	448	427	21	95.3

Among occupational groups, people employed full time in management, business, and financial operations occupations had the highest median weekly earnings — $1,401 for men and $1,064 for women. Men and women employed in service jobs earned $587 and $457, respectively.

In office and administrative support occupations, median weekly earnings for men were $683, and $655 for women. In construction and extraction occupations, median weekly earnings for men were $742, and $700 for women.

These data are from the Current Population Survey. To learn more, see "Usual Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers: Second Quarter 2015" (HTML) (PDF).

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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by occupation and sex at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2015/median-usual-weekly-earnings-of-full-time-wage-and-salary-workers-by-occupation-and-sex.htm (visited March 10, 2026).

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