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39. Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by detailed occupation and sex

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Occupation

2014

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Total, full-time wage and salary workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,526 $791 59,450 $871 47,076 $719

Management, professional, and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,016 1,137 20,758 1,346 22,258 981

Management, business, and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . 17,561 1,227 9,385 1,416 8,176 1,056

Management occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,881 1,295 6,943 1,454 4,938 1,127

Chief executives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,077 2,023 795 2,246 283 1,572

General and operations managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843 1,276 587 1,350 256 1,136

Legislators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 6 – 10 –

Advertising and promotions managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 – 20 – 27 –

Marketing and sales managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823 1,405 451 1,624 372 1,150

Public relations and fundraising managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 1,344 28 – 41 –

Administrative services managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 1,163 66 1,165 48 –

Computer and information systems managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623 1,730 453 1,763 169 1,529

Financial managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,133 1,325 527 1,671 606 1,127

Compensation and benefits managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 3 – 12 –

Human resources managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 1,382 56 1,827 178 1,300

Training and development managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 – 19 – 20 –

Industrial production managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 1,331 220 1,383 42 –

Purchasing managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 1,329 103 1,366 77 1,276

Transportation, storage, and distribution managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 991 188 1,014 51 836

Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 812 91 818 15 –

Construction managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428 1,304 395 1,332 33 –

Education administrators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730 1,272 279 1,439 451 1,171

Architectural and engineering managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 1,945 103 1,975 7 –

Food service managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 704 398 806 342 595

Funeral service managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 3 – 4 –

Gaming managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 8 – 8 –

Lodging managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 764 47 – 60 809

Medical and health services managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541 1,266 153 1,448 388 1,215

Natural sciences managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 8 – 10 –

Postmasters and mail superintendents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 11 – 17 –

Property, real estate, and community association managers. . . . . . . 385 919 167 976 218 865

Social and community service managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 1,008 125 1,142 207 978

Emergency management directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 5 – 1 –

Managers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,609 1,322 1,626 1,412 983 1,153

Business and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,681 1,107 2,442 1,310 3,238 982

Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and

athletes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 22 – 14 –

Buyers and purchasing agents, farm products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 7 – 6 –

Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 859 69 970 74 806

Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products. . . 244 945 105 1,054 139 897

Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators. . . . . . . . 285 989 110 1,093 175 908

Compliance officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 1,157 118 1,237 108 1,092

Cost estimators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 1,059 85 1,074 12 –

Human resources workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550 962 147 1,257 403 912

Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 1,022 17 – 49 –

Training and development specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 1,091 53 1,280 65 955

Logisticians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 946 43 – 39 –

Management analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551 1,470 322 1,665 229 1,239

Meeting, convention, and event planners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 997 20 – 88 981

Fundraisers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 1,122 21 – 51 1,013

Market research analysts and marketing specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 1,135 85 1,269 134 1,002

Business operations specialists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 1,098 74 1,229 99 944

Accountants and auditors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,437 1,072 526 1,236 910 999

Appraisers and assessors of real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 1,009 27 – 24 –

Budget analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 21 – 23 –

Credit analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 11 – 13 –

Financial analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 1,434 133 1,493 93 1,224

Personal financial advisors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 1,337 201 1,637 134 1,004

Insurance underwriters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 1,142 42 – 64 1,003

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Financial examiners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 8 – 8 –

Credit counselors and loan officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 997 108 1,188 161 915

Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 1,183 23 – 37 –

Tax preparers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 904 13 – 38 –

Financial specialists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 949 30 – 48 –

Professional and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,455 1,078 11,373 1,286 14,082 948

Computer and mathematical occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,879 1,368 2,900 1,435 979 1,165

Computer and information research scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 22 – 5 –

Computer systems analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419 1,385 272 1,460 147 1,259

Information security analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 1,419 47 – 8 –

Computer programmers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438 1,409 354 1,447 84 1,253

Software developers, applications and systems software. . . . . . . . . . 1,141 1,693 917 1,736 224 1,457

Web developers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 1,129 105 1,245 57 988

Computer support specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503 966 371 1,049 132 837

Database administrators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 1,517 76 1,662 25 –

Network and computer systems administrators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 1,263 162 1,286 42 –

Computer network architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 1,633 111 1,650 15 –

Computer occupations, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452 1,088 343 1,122 109 984

Actuaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 15 – 14 –

Mathematicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Operations research analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 1,276 61 1,457 72 1,233

Statisticians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 1,349 39 – 39 –

Miscellaneous mathematical science occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 2 – 4 –

Architecture and engineering occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,527 1,377 2,150 1,413 377 1,158

Architects, except naval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 1,329 94 1,391 29 –

Surveyors, cartographers, and photogrammetrists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 – 27 – 6 –

Aerospace engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 1,642 121 1,727 22 –

Agricultural engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 – 0 –

Biomedical engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 10 – 2 –

Chemical engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 1,465 64 1,570 11 –

Civil engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 1,383 263 1,406 53 1,275

Computer hardware engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 1,744 70 1,795 9 –

Electrical and electronics engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 1,572 242 1,568 29 –

Environmental engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 – 31 – 9 –

Industrial engineers, including health and safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 1,404 155 1,464 32 –

Marine engineers and naval architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 – 0 –

Materials engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 – 28 – 5 –

Mechanical engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 1,434 259 1,453 27 –

Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety

engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 18 – 0 –

Nuclear engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 – 0 –

Petroleum engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 26 – 9 –

Engineers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 1,463 317 1,488 44 –

Drafters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 979 102 986 20 –

Engineering technicians, except drafters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 989 253 1,066 68 785

Surveying and mapping technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 879 54 882 2 –

Life, physical, and social science occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,124 1,168 658 1,247 466 1,062

Agricultural and food scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 16 – 10 –

Biological scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 1,152 54 1,356 41 –

Conservation scientists and foresters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 21 – 3 –

Medical scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 1,267 69 1,449 68 1,141

Life scientists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 – 0 – 0 –

Astronomers and physicists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 6 – 2 –

Atmospheric and space scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 – 0 –

Chemists and materials scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 1,251 70 1,369 28 –

Environmental scientists and geoscientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 1,358 55 1,388 17 –

Physical scientists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 1,447 116 1,547 63 1,262

Economists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 16 – 12 –

Survey researchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Psychologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 1,232 31 – 94 1,212

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Sociologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 1 – 4 –

Urban and regional planners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 18 – 5 –

Miscellaneous social scientists and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 20 – 16 –

Agricultural and food science technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 22 – 13 –

Biological technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 13 – 8 –

Chemical technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 910 45 – 22 –

Geological and petroleum technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 18 – 5 –

Nuclear technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 0 – 3 –

Social science research assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 0 – 1 –

Miscellaneous life, physical, and social science technicians. . . . . . . 110 851 58 872 53 805

Community and social service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,005 858 741 934 1,264 824

Counselors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552 849 174 885 378 831

Social workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690 844 127 892 563 839

Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists. . . . . . . . . . . 95 999 45 – 50 1,141

Social and human service assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 716 29 – 113 673

Miscellaneous community and social service specialists, including

health educators and community health workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 773 26 – 66 747

Clergy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 958 303 1,007 53 763

Directors, religious activities and education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 20 – 18 –

Religious workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 – 17 – 23 –

Legal occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,313 1,271 591 1,765 722 1,001

Lawyers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737 1,807 486 1,915 251 1,590

Judicial law clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 6 – 6 –

Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 – 23 – 26 –

Paralegals and legal assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 831 37 – 321 840

Miscellaneous legal support workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 870 39 – 118 817

Education, training, and library occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,595 953 1,763 1,141 4,832 897

Postsecondary teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860 1,256 454 1,409 405 1,143

Preschool and kindergarten teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499 634 13 – 486 625

Elementary and middle school teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,730 980 534 1,096 2,196 956

Secondary school teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 981 1,037 432 1,108 549 984

Special education teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 1,001 57 1,078 239 987

Other teachers and instructors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 846 142 1,096 198 772

Archivists, curators, and museum technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 12 – 20 –

Librarians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 889 27 – 129 849

Library technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 3 – 6 –

Teacher assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545 498 52 580 492 494

Other education, training, and library workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 956 37 – 111 983

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations. . . . . . . . . . 1,573 956 906 1,024 667 870

Artists and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 1,166 43 – 22 –

Designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546 921 289 1,020 257 812

Actors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 8 – 5 –

Producers and directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 1,192 66 1,224 35 –

Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 871 83 974 29 –

Dancers and choreographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 0 – 8 –

Musicians, singers, and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 28 – 11 –

Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all

other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 4 – 6 –

Announcers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 23 – 5 –

News analysts, reporters and correspondents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 802 35 – 24 –

Public relations specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 982 42 – 69 933

Editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 1,018 73 1,051 47 –

Technical writers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 1,297 27 – 23 –

Writers and authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 1,016 42 – 60 863

Miscellaneous media and communication workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 13 – 25 –

Broadcast and sound engineering technicians and radio

operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 948 67 958 11 –

Photographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 938 32 – 22 –

Television, video, and motion picture camera operators and

editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 28 – 6 –

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Media and communication equipment workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . 0 – 0 – 0 –

Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,438 1,033 1,663 1,256 4,775 983

Chiropractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 16 – 2 –

Dentists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 1,908 38 – 22 –

Dietitians and nutritionists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 919 6 – 80 875

Optometrists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 17 – 10 –

Pharmacists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 1,995 103 2,176 111 1,902

Physicians and surgeons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759 1,661 475 2,002 284 1,246

Physician assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 1,619 22 – 49 –

Podiatrists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 1 – 0 –

Audiologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 2 – 9 –

Occupational therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 1,146 7 – 72 1,139

Physical therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 1,387 74 1,478 118 1,307

Radiation therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 5 – 7 –

Recreational therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 3 – 7 –

Respiratory therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 1,037 38 – 57 906

Speech-language pathologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 1,086 3 – 98 1,089

Exercise physiologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 1 – 1 –

Therapists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 908 28 – 91 863

Veterinarians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 9 – 29 –

Registered nurses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,309 1,090 245 1,190 2,064 1,076

Nurse anesthetists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 9 – 15 –

Nurse midwives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 0 – 2 –

Nurse practitioners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 1,683 9 – 90 1,682

Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 1 – 6 –

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 824 70 878 194 818

Dental hygienists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 957 5 – 82 951

Diagnostic related technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 991 70 1,156 187 940

Emergency medical technicians and paramedics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 754 152 791 55 709

Health practitioner support technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . 443 618 93 618 350 618

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506 751 55 868 451 737

Medical records and health information technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 790 16 – 104 796

Opticians, dispensing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 11 – 17 –

Miscellaneous health technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 820 33 – 58 690

Other healthcare practitioners and technical occupations. . . . . . . . . . 93 1,000 43 – 50 930

Service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,019 505 7,622 583 7,398 461

Healthcare support occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,368 498 307 560 2,060 492

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,364 472 164 528 1,200 466

Occupational therapy assistants and aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 3 – 5 –

Physical therapist assistants and aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 693 23 – 26 –

Massage therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 – 11 – 30 –

Dental assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 535 6 – 179 535

Medical assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412 546 29 – 383 539

Medical transcriptionists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 1 – 31 –

Pharmacy aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 7 – 17 –

Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 4 – 22 –

Phlebotomists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 533 19 – 84 526

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations, including medical

equipment preparers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 509 40 – 83 493

Protective service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,740 833 2,211 886 530 617

First-line supervisors of correctional officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 33 – 13 –

First-line supervisors of police and detectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 1,127 103 1,149 17 –

First-line supervisors of fire fighting and prevention workers. . . . . . . . . 56 1,438 54 1,448 2 –

First-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other. . . . . . . . . 90 913 74 1,004 16 –

Firefighters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 1,138 274 1,142 16 –

Fire inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 9 – 3 –

Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 730 279 755 113 687

Detectives and criminal investigators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 1,173 130 1,183 32 –

Fish and game wardens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Parking enforcement workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 6 – 3 –

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Police and sheriff’s patrol officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671 1,018 593 1,043 78 743

Transit and railroad police. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Animal control workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 7 – 3 –

Private detectives and investigators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 1,025 49 – 29 –

Security guards and gaming surveillance officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710 569 541 589 169 514

Crossing guards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 12 – 7 –

Transportation security screeners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 18 – 10 –

Lifeguards and other recreational, and all other protective service

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 – 24 – 18 –

Food preparation and serving related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,017 439 2,140 463 1,877 419

Chefs and head cooks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 590 302 601 61 531

First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers. . . . . . . 403 516 184 583 219 485

Cooks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,166 413 773 416 392 405

Food preparation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 406 178 411 181 401

Bartenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 522 103 634 113 459

Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast

food. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 379 66 384 102 373

Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop. . . . 60 349 19 – 41 –

Waiters and waitresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826 436 283 501 542 415

Food servers, nonrestaurant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 502 47 – 64 495

Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers. . . . . . . . . 151 451 73 509 78 420

Dishwashers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 368 101 364 27 –

Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop. . . . . . . . . . . 62 433 9 – 53 418

Food preparation and serving related workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 1 – 2 –

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations. . . . . . . . . . 3,568 480 2,331 517 1,236 413

First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers. . . . . . . . . 153 596 89 720 64 500

First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and

groundskeeping workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 717 90 716 1 –

Janitors and building cleaners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,598 502 1,160 540 438 415

Maids and housekeeping cleaners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816 401 131 404 685 400

Pest control workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 653 62 653 1 –

Grounds maintenance workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 847 459 800 454 47 –

Personal care and service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,326 487 632 607 1,695 455

First-line supervisors of gaming workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 789 51 810 43 –

First-line supervisors of personal service workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 567 27 – 46 –

Animal trainers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 6 – 3 –

Nonfarm animal caretakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 489 29 – 60 452

Gaming services workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 627 47 – 31 –

Motion picture projectionists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 2 – 4 –

Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers. . . . . . . . 69 473 41 – 28 –

Embalmers and funeral attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 5 – 2 –

Morticians, undertakers, and funeral directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 14 – 3 –

Barbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 39 – 3 –

Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 482 12 – 271 476

Miscellaneous personal appearance workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 432 22 – 144 422

Baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 633 58 664 9 –

Tour and travel guides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 9 – 10 –

Childcare workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 442 21 – 385 444

Personal care aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667 434 133 465 534 425

Recreation and fitness workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 599 76 716 91 521

Residential advisors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 8 – 14 –

Personal care and service workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 29 – 13 –

Sales and office occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,402 666 9,251 766 14,151 620

Sales and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,626 705 5,411 841 4,215 570

First-line supervisors of retail sales workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,317 696 1,295 793 1,022 595

First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 768 969 530 1,004 238 878

Cashiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,305 394 384 412 921 387

Counter and rental clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 547 45 – 31 –

Parts salespersons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 617 74 643 14 –

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Retail salespersons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,870 596 1,137 698 733 491

Advertising sales agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 942 100 1,041 94 871

Insurance sales agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 765 204 946 230 698

Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents. . . . . . . . . 235 1,122 152 1,356 83 883

Travel agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 10 – 36 –

Sales representatives, services, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 948 296 986 117 766

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,133 1,015 817 1,120 317 873

Models, demonstrators, and product promoters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 8 – 8 –

Real estate brokers and sales agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416 852 189 991 227 726

Sales engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 – 39 – 2 –

Telemarketers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 526 18 – 37 –

Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 23 – 16 –

Sales and related workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 807 92 949 91 664

Office and administrative support occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,776 651 3,840 701 9,936 637

First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers. . . 1,185 808 410 919 775 763

Switchboard operators, including answering service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 3 – 15 –

Telephone operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 10 – 17 –

Communications equipment operators, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 3 – 6 –

Bill and account collectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 619 44 – 102 592

Billing and posting clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412 642 32 – 380 640

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830 665 85 732 745 660

Gaming cage workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 6 – 8 –

Payroll and timekeeping clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 757 11 – 113 762

Procurement clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 11 – 19 –

Tellers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 510 55 544 229 507

Financial clerks, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 752 23 – 40 –

Brokerage clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 0 – 4 –

Correspondence clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 5 – 1 –

Court, municipal, and license clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 738 10 – 48 –

Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 12 – 24 –

Customer service representatives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,550 627 537 698 1,014 606

Eligibility interviewers, government programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 783 14 – 52 766

File clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 610 29 – 130 613

Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 426 30 – 52 417

Interviewers, except eligibility and loan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 636 27 – 97 620

Library assistants, clerical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 – 7 – 33 –

Loan interviewers and clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 710 31 – 99 692

New accounts clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 4 – 21 –

Order clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 600 29 – 51 574

Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping. . . . . . . . 91 754 11 – 80 711

Receptionists and information clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910 540 85 616 825 532

Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks. . . . . . . 85 687 37 – 48 –

Information and record clerks, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 660 17 – 59 658

Cargo and freight agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 12 – 5 –

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 727 142 737 25 –

Dispatchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 710 96 764 138 669

Meter readers, utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 22 – 3 –

Postal service clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 978 43 – 56 935

Postal service mail carriers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 966 178 1,025 95 851

Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine

operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 979 22 – 29 –

Production, planning, and expediting clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 837 96 1,024 111 738

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545 592 376 603 169 576

Stock clerks and order fillers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 995 508 658 504 337 514

Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping. . . . . . . 77 646 45 – 32 –

Secretaries and administrative assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,342 691 126 811 2,215 685

Computer operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 764 34 – 37 –

Data entry keyers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 626 51 673 195 618

Word processors and typists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 622 14 – 63 629

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Desktop publishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 – 0 – 0 –

Insurance claims and policy processing clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 647 50 709 225 632

Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service. . . . . . . 61 567 28 – 33 –

Office clerks, general. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 888 630 135 662 753 626

Office machine operators, except computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 9 – 17 –

Proofreaders and copy markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 1 – 4 –

Statistical assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 8 – 10 –

Office and administrative support workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 731 114 878 296 692

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations. . . . . . . . . . . 10,763 756 10,346 764 417 509

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776 429 625 457 151 375

First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers. . . . . . . 23 – 19 – 5 –

Agricultural inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 11 – 5 –

Animal breeders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Graders and sorters, agricultural products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 389 45 – 53 386

Miscellaneous agricultural workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569 421 485 437 84 369

Fishers and related fishing workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 – 0 –

Hunters and trappers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Forest and conservation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 12 – 2 –

Logging workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 42 – 2 –

Construction and extraction occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,756 756 5,635 757 121 691

First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers.. . 540 1,027 528 1,033 12 –

Boilermakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 17 – 0 –

Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 657 105 656 0 –

Carpenters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801 696 786 699 15 –

Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 683 92 687 2 –

Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers. . . . . . . . . . . 41 – 41 – 0 –

Construction laborers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,221 605 1,199 605 22 –

Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 11 – 1 –

Pile-driver operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators. . . . 310 864 305 862 6 –

Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 597 118 595 1 –

Electricians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640 883 624 884 16 –

Glaziers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 27 – 0 –

Insulation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 – 38 – 3 –

Painters, construction and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 563 342 562 16 –

Paperhangers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 913 478 916 8 –

Plasterers and stucco masons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 22 – 0 –

Reinforcing iron and rebar workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 – 0 –

Roofers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 618 135 620 1 –

Sheet metal workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 868 111 857 2 –

Structural iron and steel workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 – 47 – 0 –

Solar photovoltaic installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 12 – 0 –

Helpers, construction trades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 513 48 – 2 –

Construction and building inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 1,031 54 1,028 5 –

Elevator installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 21 – 0 –

Fence erectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 31 – 0 –

Hazardous materials removal workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 21 – 1 –

Highway maintenance workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 794 115 794 1 –

Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 16 – 0 –

Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 13 – 0 –

Miscellaneous construction and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 17 – 2 –

Derrick, rotary drill, and service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining. . 53 1,187 53 1,187 0 –

Earth drillers, except oil and gas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 25 – 0 –

Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters. . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – 0 –

Mining machine operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 1,042 59 1,047 1 –

Roof bolters, mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – 0 –

Roustabouts, oil and gas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 11 – 1 –

Helpers--extraction workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 – 0 –

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Other extraction workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 1,120 85 1,126 1 –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,231 821 4,085 824 146 725

First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers. . . . . . . . . 289 1,022 272 1,040 17 –

Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . 232 880 201 889 31 –

Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers. . . 118 859 109 846 9 –

Avionics technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 7 – 1 –

Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 25 – 0 –

Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation

equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – 0 –

Electrical and electronics repairers, industrial and utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 20 – 0 –

Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles. . . . . . . . 18 – 18 – 0 –

Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers. . . 23 – 23 – 0 –

Security and fire alarm systems installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 – 43 – 3 –

Aircraft mechanics and service technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 1,080 117 1,062 4 –

Automotive body and related repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 665 106 668 3 –

Automotive glass installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 17 – 0 –

Automotive service technicians and mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 722 734 706 737 16 –

Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 813 283 811 2 –

Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and

mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 885 209 886 1 –

Small engine mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 37 – 1 –

Miscellaneous vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers,

and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 559 64 559 0 –

Control and valve installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 21 – 0 –

Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and

installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 769 318 773 3 –

Home appliance repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 32 – 0 –

Industrial and refractory machinery mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409 876 398 876 11 –

Maintenance and repair workers, general. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 813 391 812 12 –

Maintenance workers, machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 30 – 2 –

Millwrights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 – 49 – 1 –

Electrical power-line installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 1,013 105 1,018 4 –

Telecommunications line installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 869 163 877 7 –

Precision instrument and equipment repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 818 60 836 8 –

Wind turbine service technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 4 – 1 –

Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers. . . . 32 – 28 – 4 –

Commercial divers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Locksmiths and safe repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 19 – 0 –

Manufactured building and mobile home installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 – 0 – 0 –

Riggers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 14 – 0 –

Signal and track switch repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 – 0 –

Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 12 – 0 –

Other installation, maintenance, and repair workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 804 170 811 6 –

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,326 642 11,474 689 2,852 504

Production occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,481 646 5,546 711 1,935 502

First-line supervisors of production and operating workers. . . . . . . . . . . 766 903 631 942 134 659

Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers. . . . . . . . 16 – 12 – 4 –

Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers. . . . . . . . . . . . 159 547 91 598 68 506

Engine and other machine assemblers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 6 – 3 –

Structural metal fabricators and fitters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 24 – 0 –

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 926 592 589 633 337 506

Bakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 492 64 518 84 469

Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers. . . . . . 287 512 217 537 70 457

Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators

and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 1 – 4 –

Food batchmakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 473 38 – 44 –

Food cooking machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 4 – 7 –

Food processing workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 637 80 651 30 –

Computer control programmers and operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 759 73 790 6 –

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HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

39. Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by detailed occupation and sex — Continued

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2014

Total Men Women

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders,

metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 12 – 1 –

Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.. . 5 – 4 – 1 –

Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic. . . 9 – 6 – 3 –

Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and

tenders, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 620 63 663 20 –

Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders,

metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters,

operators, and tenders, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 – 38 – 6 –

Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders,

metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – 0 –

Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal

and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Machinists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 764 339 770 12 –

Metal furnace operators, tenders, pourers, and casters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 26 – 0 –

Model makers and patternmakers, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 2 – 2 –

Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders,

metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 31 – 3 –

Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and

plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 2 – 2 –

Tool and die makers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 1,020 59 1,025 1 –

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551 723 526 733 25 –

Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and

plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 3 – 1 –

Layout workers, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 8 – 1 –

Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal

and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 22 – 2 –

Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 – 0 –

Metal workers and plastic workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 624 262 647 71 511

Prepress technicians and workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 13 – 7 –

Printing press operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 646 140 686 32 –

Print binding and finishing workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 8 – 10 –

Laundry and dry-cleaning workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 417 48 – 80 410

Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 13 – 17 –

Sewing machine operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 440 19 – 95 432

Shoe and leather workers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Shoe machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 0 – 1 –

Tailors, dressmakers, and sewers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 11 – 31 –

Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 7 – 1 –

Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and

tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 4 – 2 –

Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters,

operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 4 – 7 –

Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders,

synthetic and glass fibers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 – 0 – 0 –

Fabric and apparel patternmakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 0 – 1 –

Upholsterers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 20 – 2 –

Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 6 – 5 –

Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 26 – 3 –

Furniture finishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 – 0 –

Model makers and patternmakers, wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 – 0 – 0 –

Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 25 – 2 –

Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except

sawing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 17 – 2 –

Woodworkers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 13 – 3 –

Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 – 43 – 4 –

Stationary engineers and boiler operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 1,044 92 1,051 2 –

Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators. . . . . . . . 69 833 66 835 3 –

Miscellaneous plant and system operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 36 – 2 –

Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders. . . . . . . 55 818 53 831 2 –

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HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

39. Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by detailed occupation and sex — Continued

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2014

Total Men Women

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers. . . . . . . . . . 67 686 60 694 7 –

Cutting workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 – 36 – 7 –

Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters,

operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 29 – 9 –

Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . 11 – 9 – 2 –

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675 728 443 820 231 578

Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 16 – 8 –

Medical, dental, and ophthalmic laboratory technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 626 29 – 43 –

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 490 106 522 133 477

Painting workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 694 120 703 12 –

Photographic process workers and processing machine operators. . . 21 – 11 – 10 –

Semiconductor processors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 0 – 1 –

Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 2 – 3 –

Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and

tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 4 – 1 –

Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – 0 –

Etchers and engravers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 7 – 3 –

Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 17 – 4 –

Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 27 – 2 –

Tire builders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 11 – 0 –

Helpers--production workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 31 – 11 –

Production workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850 621 659 676 191 492

Transportation and material moving occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,845 637 5,927 664 918 510

Supervisors of transportation and material moving workers. . . . . . . . . . 181 829 148 925 33 –

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 1,427 106 1,446 7 –

Air traffic controllers and airfield operations specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 27 – 5 –

Flight attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 857 17 – 48 –

Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical

technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 13 – 2 –

Bus drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 602 191 616 136 582

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,658 732 2,555 739 103 545

Taxi drivers and chauffeurs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 608 221 609 29 –

Motor vehicle operators, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 22 – 4 –

Locomotive engineers and operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 1,187 55 1,197 2 –

Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 – 0 –

Railroad conductors and yardmasters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 – 44 – 4 –

Subway, streetcar, and other rail transportation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 16 – 0 –

Sailors and marine oilers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 19 – 2 –

Ship and boat captains and operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 38 – 0 –

Ship engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 – 0 –

Bridge and lock tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 – 0 –

Parking lot attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 440 55 441 5 –

Automotive and watercraft service attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 512 72 518 4 –

Transportation inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 909 41 – 12 –

Transportation attendants, except flight attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 13 – 10 –

Other transportation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 19 – 2 –

Conveyor operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 6 – 2 –

Crane and tower operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 959 73 959 0 –

Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 30 – 0 –

Hoist and winch operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 5 – 1 –

Industrial truck and tractor operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534 594 497 595 38 –

Cleaners of vehicles and equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 482 221 480 34 –

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,358 533 1,138 546 221 476

Machine feeders and offbearers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 10 – 4 –

Packers and packagers, hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 413 140 459 207 395

Pumping station operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 21 – 0 –

Refuse and recyclable material collectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 550 51 564 3 –

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HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

39. Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by detailed occupation and sex — Continued

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2014

Total Men Women

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Mine shuttle car operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Tank car, truck, and ship loaders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – 0 –

Material moving workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 36 – 2 –

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values

not shown where base is less than 50,000).

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