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

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2021

Total Men Women

Number of

workers

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weekly

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Total, full-time wage and salary workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,316 $998 62,928 $1,097 51,388 $912

Management, professional, and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,166 1,390 24,561 1,609 26,605 1,222

Management, business, and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . 21,529 1,482 11,231 1,672 10,299 1,306

Management occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,942 1,546 7,826 1,752 6,116 1,341

Chief executives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,151 2,473 803 2,721 348 1,904

General and operations managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999 1,449 637 1,548 361 1,285

Legislators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 6 – 7 –

Advertising and promotions managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 1,338 31 – 23 –

Marketing managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490 1,545 182 1,698 309 1,490

Sales managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 1,749 350 1,910 150 1,344

Public relations and fundraising managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 1,670 34 – 66 1,659

Administrative services managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 1,227 9 – 41 –

Facilities managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 1,456 106 1,542 25 –

Computer and information systems managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675 2,085 492 2,135 184 1,908

Financial managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,220 1,569 539 1,885 681 1,372

Compensation and benefits managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 5 – 14 –

Human resources managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 1,587 49 – 211 1,545

Training and development managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 – 15 – 34 –

Industrial production managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 1,636 190 1,666 46 –

Purchasing managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 1,562 117 1,612 97 1,363

Transportation, storage, and distribution managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 1,113 239 1,221 65 984

Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 1,032 103 1,048 24 –

Construction managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633 1,534 578 1,548 54 1,165

Education and childcare administrators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856 1,551 315 1,857 540 1,411

Architectural and engineering managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 2,709 156 2,723 20 –

Food service managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758 881 360 1,014 398 789

Funeral home managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 4 – 2 –

Entertainment and recreation managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 22 – 10 –

Lodging managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 973 42 – 41 –

Medical and health services managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676 1,463 161 1,773 515 1,363

Natural sciences managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 9 – 9 –

Postmasters and mail superintendents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 6 – 6 –

Property, real estate, and community association managers. . . . . . . 466 1,162 212 1,360 254 1,086

Social and community service managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 1,204 125 1,317 222 1,150

Emergency management directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 5 – 7 –

Personal service managers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 – 0 – 0 –

Managers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,276 1,573 1,924 1,747 1,352 1,396

Business and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,587 1,382 3,404 1,552 4,183 1,253

Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and

athletes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 15 – 15 –

Buyers and purchasing agents, farm products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 8 – 1 –

Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 1,061 56 1,072 69 1,027

Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products. . . 212 1,165 80 1,165 132 1,165

Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators. . . . . . . . 327 1,147 138 1,327 189 973

Compliance officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 1,369 137 1,331 137 1,423

Cost estimators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 1,395 92 1,448 27 –

Human resources workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795 1,251 217 1,411 579 1,212

Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 1,232 18 – 48 –

Training and development specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 1,342 66 1,464 64 1,195

Logisticians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 1,322 72 1,336 43 –

Project management specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735 1,649 415 1,861 321 1,455

Management analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707 1,608 384 1,887 323 1,451

Meeting, convention, and event planners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 1,080 13 – 71 1,037

Fundraisers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 1,667 26 – 54 1,540

Market research analysts and marketing specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 1,446 135 1,743 200 1,276

Business operations specialists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497 1,241 208 1,326 289 1,162

Accountants and auditors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,374 1,345 521 1,494 852 1,261

Property appraisers and assessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 25 – 14 –

Budget analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 1,558 24 – 35 –

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Total Men Women

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workers

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Credit analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 17 – 29 –

Financial and investment analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 1,719 177 1,837 137 1,607

Personal financial advisors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 1,773 235 2,183 154 1,424

Insurance underwriters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 1,367 49 – 73 1,365

Financial examiners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 4 – 9 –

Credit counselors and loan officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 1,332 208 1,560 218 1,127

Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 1,015 28 – 31 –

Tax preparers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 961 20 – 30 –

Other financial specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 1,441 17 – 37 –

Professional and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,637 1,335 13,330 1,555 16,306 1,167

Computer and mathematical occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,267 1,660 3,917 1,742 1,350 1,499

Computer and information research scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 – 28 – 13 –

Computer systems analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423 1,489 266 1,556 157 1,414

Information security analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 1,874 120 1,904 26 –

Computer programmers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 1,734 308 1,742 79 1,677

Software developers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,875 1,922 1,507 1,992 369 1,840

Software quality assurance analysts and testers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 1,550 37 – 33 –

Web developers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 1,327 38 – 22 –

Web and digital interface designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 – 23 – 17 –

Computer support specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620 1,256 471 1,265 148 1,209

Database administrators and architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 1,879 68 1,920 35 –

Network and computer systems administrators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 1,505 171 1,529 35 –

Computer network architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 1,990 93 2,006 11 –

Computer occupations, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787 1,413 577 1,483 211 1,143

Actuaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 16 – 15 –

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

Operations research analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 1,574 60 1,773 67 1,408

Statisticians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 21 – 15 –

Other mathematical science occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 1,458 115 1,470 99 1,388

Architecture and engineering occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,985 1,641 2,483 1,725 502 1,435

Architects, except landscape and naval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 1,642 106 1,751 45 –

Landscape architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 12 – 6 –

Surveyors, cartographers, and photogrammetrists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 31 – 4 –

Aerospace engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 1,863 103 1,895 22 –

Agricultural engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 – 0 –

Bioengineers and biomedical engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 15 – 1 –

Chemical engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 1,875 65 1,915 12 –

Civil engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 1,633 334 1,661 69 1,531

Computer hardware engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 2,006 77 2,083 9 –

Electrical and electronics engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 1,899 267 1,910 19 –

Environmental engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 20 – 12 –

Industrial engineers, including health and safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 1,648 161 1,725 60 1,571

Marine engineers and naval architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 15 – 0 –

Materials engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 – 33 – 15 –

Mechanical engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 1,660 298 1,732 31 –

Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety

engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 6 – 3 –

Nuclear engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 10 – 2 –

Petroleum engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 8 – 3 –

Engineers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 602 1,771 505 1,833 97 1,549

Architectural and civil drafters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 21 – 7 –

Other drafters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 1,280 66 1,437 25 –

Electrical and electronic engineering technologists and

technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 1,243 55 1,261 7 –

Other engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters.. . 275 1,245 222 1,367 52 903

Surveying and mapping technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 796 48 – 2 –

Life, physical, and social science occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,391 1,407 763 1,496 627 1,342

Agricultural and food scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 16 – 14 –

Biological scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 1,317 46 – 42 –

Conservation scientists and foresters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 12 – 7 –

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Medical scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 1,662 57 2,291 59 1,368

Life scientists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 3 – 5 –

Astronomers and physicists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 13 – 6 –

Atmospheric and space scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 6 – 3 –

Chemists and materials scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 1,647 62 1,681 28 –

Environmental scientists and specialists, including health. . . . . . . . . . 39 – 25 – 15 –

Geoscientists and hydrologists, except geographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 31 – 11 –

Physical scientists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332 1,738 193 1,933 138 1,500

Economists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 12 – 8 –

Survey researchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 0 – 1 –

Clinical and counseling psychologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 1 – 3 –

School psychologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 1,343 5 – 47 –

Other psychologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 1,493 13 – 43 –

Sociologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 0 – 4 –

Urban and regional planners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 11 – 10 –

Miscellaneous social scientists and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 – 23 – 24 –

Agricultural and food science technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 28 – 9 –

Biological technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 9 – 6 –

Chemical technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 20 – 19 –

Environmental science and geoscience technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 7 – 5 –

Nuclear technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – 0 –

Social science research assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 2 – 3 –

Other life, physical, and social science technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 1,093 114 1,142 98 1,059

Occupational health and safety specialists and technicians. . . . . . . . 70 1,325 51 1,388 19 –

Community and social service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,276 1,065 788 1,164 1,489 1,016

Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors. . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 969 41 – 69 911

Educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors. . . . . . . 296 1,091 69 1,173 228 1,077

Marriage and family therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 4 – 22 –

Mental health counselors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 1,140 38 – 101 1,133

Rehabilitation counselors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 2 – 7 –

Counselors, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 953 75 1,083 107 860

Child, family, and school social workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 1,012 11 – 46 –

Healthcare social workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 924 17 – 54 894

Mental health and substance abuse social workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 0 – 7 –

Social workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601 1,073 93 1,232 508 1,049

Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists. . . . . . . . . . . 87 1,247 42 – 45 –

Social and human service assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 914 34 – 126 886

Other community and social service specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 1,111 19 – 69 1,050

Clergy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 1,135 296 1,152 43 –

Directors, religious activities and education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 – 26 – 19 –

Religious workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 937 20 – 39 –

Legal occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,401 1,586 594 2,233 807 1,332

Lawyers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 793 2,252 462 2,495 331 1,912

Judicial law clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 4 – 14 –

Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 1,652 28 – 40 –

Paralegals and legal assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 1,080 51 1,229 310 1,065

Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 1,120 25 – 64 999

Legal support workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 1,238 23 – 49 –

Education, training, and library occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,124 1,138 1,877 1,332 5,248 1,071

Postsecondary teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 920 1,550 460 1,653 460 1,483

Preschool and kindergarten teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471 780 16 – 455 771

Elementary and middle school teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 1,163 625 1,301 2,375 1,138

Secondary school teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 860 1,216 365 1,269 495 1,159

Special education teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 1,126 64 1,198 275 1,097

Tutors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 3 – 9 –

Other teachers and instructors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 1,118 165 1,260 224 1,002

Archivists, curators, and museum technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 13 – 29 –

Librarians and media collections specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 1,131 29 – 115 1,142

Library technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 1 – 18 –

Teaching assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 641 116 639 687 641

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Other educational instruction and library workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 1,271 20 – 107 1,274

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations. . . . . . . . . . 1,707 1,229 925 1,317 781 1,145

Artists and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 1,355 46 – 41 –

Commercial and industrial designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 7 – 3 –

Fashion designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 6 – 17 –

Floral designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 11 – 24 –

Graphic designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 1,163 89 1,151 91 1,225

Interior designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 – 5 – 40 –

Merchandise displayers and window trimmers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 7 – 10 –

Other designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 1,402 185 1,429 99 1,271

Actors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 5 – 6 –

Producers and directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 1,369 78 1,522 61 1,347

Athletes and sports competitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 20 – 2 –

Coaches and scouts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 913 81 1,136 29 –

Umpires, referees, and other sports officials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Dancers and choreographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 0 – 3 –

Music directors and composers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 12 – 3 –

Musicians and singers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 11 – 2 –

Disc jockeys, except radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 2 – 1 –

Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all

other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 8 – 1 –

Broadcast announcers and radio disc jockeys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 7 – 4 –

News analysts, reporters, and journalists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 1,036 22 – 33 –

Public relations specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 1,641 44 – 69 1,615

Editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 1,350 28 – 35 –

Technical writers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 1,540 31 – 31 –

Writers and authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 1,239 49 – 82 1,155

Interpreters and translators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 993 13 – 39 –

Court reporters and simultaneous captioners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 3 – 9 –

Media and communication workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 12 – 12 –

Broadcast, sound, and lighting technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 1,370 50 1,537 5 –

Photographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 858 45 – 14 –

Television, video, and film camera operators and editors. . . . . . . . . . 63 1,051 46 – 17 –

Media and communication equipment workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,485 1,273 1,983 1,516 5,503 1,218

Chiropractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 14 – 7 –

Dentists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 2,492 42 – 34 –

Dietitians and nutritionists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 1,184 10 – 78 1,179

Optometrists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 9 – 11 –

Pharmacists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 2,019 112 2,010 133 2,087

Emergency medicine physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 17 – 4 –

Radiologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 18 – 2 –

Other physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714 2,418 410 2,647 304 2,283

Surgeons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 – 33 – 12 –

Physician assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 1,884 47 – 79 1,855

Podiatrists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Audiologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 5 – 11 –

Occupational therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 1,467 23 – 84 1,470

Physical therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 1,527 74 1,551 129 1,478

Radiation therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 5 – 9 –

Recreational therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 2 – 9 –

Respiratory therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 1,262 33 – 71 1,242

Speech-language pathologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 1,233 5 – 126 1,229

Exercise physiologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Therapists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 1,147 24 – 113 1,132

Veterinarians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 1,797 18 – 48 –

Registered nurses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,615 1,305 375 1,437 2,240 1,274

Nurse anesthetists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 11 – 14 –

Nurse midwives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 0 – 6 –

Nurse practitioners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 1,955 28 – 160 1,903

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Acupuncturists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 0 – 3 –

Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other. . . . . . . . . . . 0 – 0 – 0 –

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 992 112 964 210 1,001

Dental hygienists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 1,269 7 – 90 1,264

Cardiovascular technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 16 – 29 –

Diagnostic medical sonographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 1,462 15 – 46 –

Radiologic technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 1,167 64 1,280 137 1,140

Magnetic resonance imaging technologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 13 – 14 –

Nuclear medicine technologists and medical dosimetrists. . . . . . . . . . 31 – 11 – 20 –

Emergency medical technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 883 79 910 31 –

Paramedics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 1,288 67 1,352 30 –

Pharmacy technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 800 61 822 207 796

Psychiatric technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 749 12 – 41 –

Surgical technologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 1,036 31 – 78 1,006

Veterinary technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 779 9 – 97 765

Dietetic technicians and ophthalmic medical technicians. . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 7 – 31 –

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 921 45 – 399 918

Medical records specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 894 16 – 165 889

Opticians, dispensing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 12 – 30 –

Miscellaneous health technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 891 54 1,003 97 835

Other healthcare practitioners and technical occupations. . . . . . . . . . 91 1,362 31 – 61 1,327

Service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,630 644 7,000 723 7,630 598

Healthcare support occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,269 637 527 723 2,742 624

Home health aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 587 49 – 264 581

Personal care aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 848 611 192 666 656 598

Nursing assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916 626 110 740 805 615

Orderlies and psychiatric aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 – 18 – 25 –

Occupational therapy assistants and aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 5 – 24 –

Physical therapist assistants and aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 9 – 28 –

Massage therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 7 – 35 –

Dental assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 665 19 – 200 653

Medical assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482 676 51 980 430 668

Medical transcriptionists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 8 – 19 –

Pharmacy aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 9 – 19 –

Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 – 7 – 40 –

Phlebotomists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 681 10 – 99 666

Other healthcare support workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 768 32 – 96 656

Protective service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,608 998 2,031 1,067 577 814

First-line supervisors of correctional officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 25 – 11 –

First-line supervisors of police and detectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 1,360 74 1,413 15 –

First-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers. . . . . . . . . . 46 – 43 – 4 –

First-line supervisors of security workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 1,147 52 1,146 14 –

First-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other. . . . . . . . . 7 – 2 – 5 –

Firefighters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 1,291 261 1,320 17 –

Fire inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 21 – 3 –

Bailiffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 10 – 10 –

Correctional officers and jailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 920 199 983 76 807

Detectives and criminal investigators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 1,294 86 1,319 34 –

Fish and game wardens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – 0 –

Parking enforcement workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 9 – 2 –

Police officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 751 1,232 638 1,242 113 1,197

Animal control workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 3 – 4 –

Private detectives and investigators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 1,018 35 – 35 –

Security guards and gambling surveillance officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675 689 502 704 172 641

Crossing guards and flaggers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 17 – 6 –

Transportation security screeners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 21 – 21 –

School bus monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 1 – 13 –

Other protective service workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 – 26 – 22 –

Food preparation and serving related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,863 573 1,962 598 1,901 534

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2021

Total Men Women

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weekly

earnings

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weekly

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Chefs and head cooks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 750 256 777 63 655

First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers. . . . . . . 349 621 126 706 223 596

Cooks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,187 549 751 572 436 512

Food preparation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 547 184 571 254 531

Bartenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 668 106 709 111 627

Fast food and counter workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 507 96 511 172 503

Waiters and waitresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674 576 258 605 416 524

Food servers, nonrestaurant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 544 23 – 79 529

Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers. . . . . . . . . 102 509 52 583 50 477

Dishwashers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 512 92 511 36 –

Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop. . . . . . . . . . . 77 498 17 – 60 500

Food preparation and serving related workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 0 – 1 –

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations. . . . . . . . . . 3,347 623 2,094 685 1,253 555

First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers. . . . . . . . . 176 829 116 881 60 728

First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and

groundskeeping workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 900 65 907 11 –

Janitors and building cleaners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,437 630 943 675 494 561

Maids and housekeeping cleaners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 744 546 107 622 637 529

Pest control workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 868 102 876 6 –

Landscaping and groundskeeping workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738 622 693 629 45 –

Tree trimmers and pruners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 846 59 851 1 –

Other grounds maintenance workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 – 0 –

Personal care and service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,543 618 387 699 1,157 603

Supervisors of personal care and service workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 784 33 – 59 743

Animal trainers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 11 – 15 –

Animal caretakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 595 29 – 104 600

Gambling services workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 852 26 – 28 –

Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 5 – 4 –

Other entertainment attendants and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 615 41 – 28 –

Embalmers, crematory operators, and funeral attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 2 – 1 –

Morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 13 – 6 –

Barbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 28 – 8 –

Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 604 24 – 228 595

Manicurists and pedicurists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 655 26 – 128 624

Skincare specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 1 – 26 –

Other personal appearance workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 0 – 2 –

Baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 612 45 – 17 –

Tour and travel guides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 9 – 1 –

Childcare workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 569 28 – 374 571

Exercise trainers and group fitness instructors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 729 24 – 31 –

Recreation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 652 27 – 61 653

Residential advisors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 6 – 16 –

Personal care and service workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 8 – 22 –

Sales and office occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,748 826 8,677 970 13,071 766

Sales and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,281 887 5,090 1,049 4,191 720

First-line supervisors of retail sales workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,165 875 1,175 992 990 733

First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833 1,191 540 1,257 292 1,130

Cashiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,235 515 346 520 888 513

Counter and rental clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 781 37 – 19 –

Parts salespersons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 778 84 776 19 –

Retail salespersons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,665 745 999 855 666 635

Advertising sales agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 1,174 44 – 50 1,136

Insurance sales agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 1,008 213 1,253 249 839

Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents. . . . . . . . . 206 1,630 137 1,891 69 1,054

Travel agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 – 10 – 23 –

Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance,

financial services, and travel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 1,169 368 1,237 155 1,122

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,014 1,263 712 1,356 301 1,157

Models, demonstrators, and product promoters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 1 – 3 –

Real estate brokers and sales agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524 1,141 222 1,324 302 1,037

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[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2021

Total Men Women

Number of

workers

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weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

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earnings

Number of

workers

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weekly

earnings

Sales engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 29 – 0 –

Telemarketers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 9 – 13 –

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

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 7 – 10 –

Sales and related workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 943 157 1,017 140 843

Office and administrative support occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,467 806 3,587 899 8,880 779

First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers. . . 1,098 964 341 1,184 757 913

Switchboard operators, including answering service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 2 – 6 –

Telephone operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 5 – 11 –

Communications equipment operators, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 1 – 2 –

Bill and account collectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 726 22 – 59 742

Billing and posting clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 772 53 767 346 774

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741 825 137 1,009 604 802

Gambling cage workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 3 – 12 –

Payroll and timekeeping clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 921 19 – 125 913

Procurement clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 18 – 17 –

Tellers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 695 40 – 132 691

Financial clerks, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 909 36 – 59 833

Brokerage clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 4 – 5 –

Correspondence clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 0 – 1 –

Court, municipal, and license clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 811 16 – 53 778

Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 – 14 – 26 –

Customer service representatives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,863 780 645 867 1,219 737

Eligibility interviewers, government programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 840 11 – 56 790

File Clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 775 29 – 98 791

Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 652 20 – 54 653

Interviewers, except eligibility and loan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 772 43 – 130 775

Library assistants, clerical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 3 – 26 –

Loan interviewers and clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 899 34 – 91 886

New accounts clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 4 – 5 –

Order clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 714 37 – 52 712

Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping. . . . . . . . 37 – 7 – 30 –

Receptionists and information clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 871 685 97 796 774 674

Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks. . . . . . . 74 786 34 – 39 –

Information and record clerks, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 774 19 – 79 751

Cargo and freight agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492 802 402 846 90 680

Public safety telecommunicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 911 24 – 58 908

Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 812 92 842 71 765

Meter readers, utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 28 – 2 –

Postal service clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 1,047 31 – 66 1,006

Postal service mail carriers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 992 155 1,008 104 978

Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine

operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 879 39 – 37 –

Production, planning, and expediting clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 1,115 93 1,174 91 1,018

Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537 725 346 748 191 696

Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping. . . . . . . 42 – 29 – 12 –

Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants. . . . . . . 211 1,027 10 – 201 1,015

Legal secretaries and administrative assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 2 – 44 –

Medical secretaries and administrative assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 756 5 – 48 –

Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical,

and executive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,532 819 127 1,006 1,405 807

Data entry keyers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 718 47 – 148 712

Word processors and typists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 2 – 21 –

Desktop publishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Insurance claims and policy processing clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 763 60 754 202 766

Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service. . . . . . . 40 – 24 – 16 –

Office clerks, general. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927 744 157 823 770 726

Office machine operators, except computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 2 – 20 –

Proofreaders and copy markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 1 – 3 –

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[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2021

Total Men Women

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workers

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weekly

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workers

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workers

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Statistical assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 26 – 16 –

Office and administrative support workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582 890 187 949 395 874

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations. . . . . . . . . . . 11,182 919 10,635 930 547 696

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800 623 651 637 149 585

First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers. . . . . . . 35 – 32 – 2 –

Agricultural inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 8 – 3 –

Animal breeders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 3 – 4 –

Graders and sorters, agricultural products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 – 16 – 26 –

Miscellaneous agricultural workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641 613 531 617 110 590

Fishing and hunting workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 15 – 1 –

Forest and conservation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 9 – 2 –

Logging workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 37 – 1 –

Construction and extraction occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,171 904 5,965 908 207 720

First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers.. . 545 1,208 522 1,213 24 –

Boilermakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 23 – 0 –

Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 867 74 868 3 –

Carpenters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830 850 801 864 29 –

Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 778 93 783 10 –

Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers. . . . . . . . . . . 63 917 63 917 0 –

Construction laborers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,503 766 1,457 771 45 –

Construction equipment operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 992 326 990 8 –

Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 704 128 709 4 –

Electricians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737 1,060 720 1,064 17 –

Glaziers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 – 42 – 3 –

Insulation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 29 – 1 –

Painters and paperhangers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 741 340 759 20 –

Pipelayers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 34 – 2 –

Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506 992 496 986 10 –

Plasterers and stucco masons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 15 – 0 –

Reinforcing iron and rebar workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 – 0 –

Roofers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 685 148 681 2 –

Sheet metal workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 979 111 988 4 –

Structural iron and steel workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 33 – 2 –

Solar photovoltaic installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 20 – 0 –

Helpers, construction trades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 691 60 701 3 –

Construction and building inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 988 58 1,013 7 –

Elevator and escalator installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 33 – 4 –

Fence erectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 25 – 0 –

Hazardous materials removal workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 22 – 3 –

Highway maintenance workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 880 87 866 2 –

Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 11 – 0 –

Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 – 0 –

Miscellaneous construction and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 19 – 0 –

Derrick, rotary drill, and service unit operators, oil and gas. . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 20 – 0 –

Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface

mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – 0 –

Earth drillers, except oil and gas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 30 – 0 –

Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters. . . . . . . . 11 – 10 – 2 –

Underground mining machine operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 34 – 1 –

Roustabouts, oil and gas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Other extraction workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 1,160 55 1,159 0 –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,211 1,017 4,019 1,023 192 836

First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers. . . . . . . . . 217 1,304 199 1,335 18 –

Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . 148 1,017 126 1,058 23 –

Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers. . . 127 1,225 121 1,269 7 –

Avionics technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 17 – 0 –

Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation

equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Electrical and electronics repairers, industrial and utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 12 – 4 –

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[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2021

Total Men Women

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles. . . . . . . . 8 – 7 – 1 –

Audiovisual equipment installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 13 – 0 –

Security and fire alarm systems installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 1,008 60 999 3 –

Aircraft mechanics and service technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 1,282 146 1,297 6 –

Automotive body and related repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 990 109 995 5 –

Automotive glass installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 23 – 1 –

Automotive service technicians and mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651 906 636 909 15 –

Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 996 312 993 5 –

Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and

mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 1,122 234 1,120 3 –

Small engine mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 34 – 2 –

Miscellaneous vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers,

and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 781 73 786 2 –

Control and valve installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 15 – 0 –

Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and

installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 1,009 367 1,009 3 –

Home appliance repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 27 – 3 –

Industrial and refractory machinery mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426 1,050 399 1,056 27 –

Maintenance and repair workers, general. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556 958 527 978 29 –

Maintenance workers, machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 23 – 0 –

Millwrights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 – 43 – 4 –

Electrical power-line installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 1,219 122 1,217 0 –

Telecommunications line installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 1,078 120 1,090 8 –

Precision instrument and equipment repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 1,150 47 – 7 –

Wind turbine service technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 12 – 0 –

Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers. . . . 22 – 19 – 4 –

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

Locksmiths and safe repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 17 – 2 –

Manufactured building and mobile home installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Riggers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 – 0 –

Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 16 – 2 –

Other installation, maintenance, and repair workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 830 129 845 12 –

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,590 774 12,056 825 3,535 638

Production occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,107 809 5,251 884 1,856 653

First-line supervisors of production and operating workers. . . . . . . . . . . 738 1,080 601 1,138 137 796

Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers. . . . . . . . 8 – 6 – 2 –

Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers. . . . . . . . . . . . 111 745 71 767 40 –

Engine and other machine assemblers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 5 – 1 –

Structural metal fabricators and fitters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 12 – 2 –

Other assemblers and fabricators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 894 710 579 751 315 664

Bakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 614 57 664 86 599

Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers. . . . . . 236 718 189 742 47 –

Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators

and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 8 – 2 –

Food batchmakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 669 45 – 22 –

Food cooking machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 6 – 2 –

Food processing workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 734 84 818 52 648

Computer numerically controlled tool operators and programmers. . . 83 1,036 79 1,036 5 –

Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and

plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 21 – 2 –

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

tenders, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 746 44 – 19 –

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

operators, and tenders, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 22 – 4 –

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

plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 – 0 –

Machinists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 914 284 916 10 –

Metal furnace operators, tenders, pourers, and casters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 17 – 0 –

Model makers and patternmakers, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders,

metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 28 – 7 –

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[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2021

Total Men Women

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

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weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

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weekly

earnings

Tool and die makers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 43 – 1 –

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506 904 482 907 24 –

Other metal workers and plastic workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 769 276 783 64 731

Prepress technicians and workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 10 – 3 –

Printing press operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 839 111 869 19 –

Print binding and finishing workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – 0 –

Laundry and dry-cleaning workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 511 29 – 59 492

Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 9 – 4 –

Sewing machine operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 572 27 – 67 560

Shoe and leather workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 7 – 3 –

Tailors, dressmakers, and sewers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 4 – 20 –

Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 4 – 2 –

Upholsterers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 11 – 6 –

Other textile, apparel, and furnishings workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 3 – 6 –

Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 788 53 782 3 –

Furniture finishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 4 – 2 –

Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 16 – 2 –

Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except

sawing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 12 – 2 –

Other woodworkers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 10 – 1 –

Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 34 – 0 –

Stationary engineers and boiler operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 1,184 57 1,175 7 –

Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators. . . . . . . . 94 960 86 965 8 –

Miscellaneous plant and system operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 32 – 0 –

Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders. . . . . . . 65 969 53 979 12 –

Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers. . . . . . . . . . 69 838 59 856 9 –

Cutting workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 775 43 – 8 –

Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters,

operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 17 – 7 –

Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . 10 – 5 – 4 –

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750 883 466 1,005 283 733

Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 13 – 7 –

Dental and ophthalmic laboratory technicians and medical appliance

technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 692 22 – 28 –

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 671 133 755 118 605

Painting workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 822 124 893 10 –

Photographic process workers and processing machine operators. . . 21 – 12 – 10 –

Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 11 – 3 –

Etchers and engravers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 1 –

Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 15 – 3 –

Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 5 – 3 –

Tire builders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 – 0 –

Helpers--production workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 22 – 10 –

Other production equipment operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 4 – 1 –

Other production workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,022 761 742 809 280 630

Transportation and material moving occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,483 738 6,804 786 1,679 624

Supervisors of transportation and material moving workers. . . . . . . . . . 310 996 241 1,077 68 779

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 1,913 113 1,912 2 –

Air traffic controllers and airfield operations specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 28 – 0 –

Flight attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 859 30 – 47 –

Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical

technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 5 – 0 –

Bus drivers, school. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 710 57 712 69 695

Bus drivers, transit and intercity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 801 111 942 71 679

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,680 920 2,499 933 181 732

Shuttle drivers and chauffeurs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 27 – 2 –

Taxi drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 678 138 690 10 –

Motor vehicle operators, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 723 80 745 15 –

Locomotive engineers and operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 – 38 – 3 –

Railroad conductors and yardmasters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 37 – 1 –

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[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2021

Total Men Women

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workers

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weekly

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workers

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workers

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Other rail transportation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 10 – 3 –

Sailors and marine oilers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 17 – 0 –

Ship and boat captains and operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 17 – 0 –

Ship engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Parking attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 – 40 – 7 –

Transportation service attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 630 67 629 3 –

Transportation inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 27 – 7 –

Passenger attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 5 – 1 –

Other transportation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 23 – 5 –

Crane and tower operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 1,047 53 1,047 0 –

Conveyor, dredge, and hoist and winch operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 25 – 3 –

Industrial truck and tractor operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581 743 526 746 55 713

Cleaners of vehicles and equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 590 173 589 42 –

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,649 689 1,294 703 355 624

Machine feeders and offbearers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 9 – 7 –

Packers and packagers, hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541 614 233 633 308 603

Stockers and order fillers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,151 612 752 620 400 603

Pumping station operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 15 – 0 –

Refuse and recyclable material collectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 728 59 707 3 –

Other material moving workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 777 55 775 8 –

NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Effective with January 2020 data, occupations reflect the introduction of the

2018 Census occupational classification system, derived from the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). No historical data have been revised. Data for 2020

are not strictly comparable with earlier years. 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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