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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

2020

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Total, full-time wage and salary workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110,387 $984 60,911 $1,082 49,476 $891

Management, professional, and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,023 1,356 24,090 1,578 25,933 1,164

Management, business, and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . 20,811 1,461 11,082 1,667 9,729 1,274

Management occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,517 1,541 7,770 1,737 5,747 1,347

Chief executives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,157 2,402 794 2,712 363 2,051

General and operations managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 983 1,453 702 1,541 281 1,241

Legislators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 9 – 3 –

Advertising and promotions managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 19 – 27 –

Marketing managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483 1,537 199 1,732 284 1,435

Sales managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495 1,794 332 1,896 163 1,411

Public relations and fundraising managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 1,344 25 – 50 1,286

Administrative services managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 1,284 22 – 41 –

Facilities managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 1,318 89 1,389 33 –

Computer and information systems managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703 2,018 516 2,091 187 1,910

Financial managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,228 1,492 603 1,880 624 1,242

Compensation and benefits managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 1 – 13 –

Human resources managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 1,644 70 1,748 194 1,599

Training and development managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 – 27 – 20 –

Industrial production managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 1,550 195 1,582 53 1,402

Purchasing managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 1,544 123 1,636 98 1,441

Transportation, storage, and distribution managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266 972 212 989 55 943

Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 874 92 874 17 –

Construction managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 1,575 556 1,586 50 1,368

Education and childcare administrators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846 1,462 286 1,590 560 1,400

Architectural and engineering managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 2,413 140 2,402 15 –

Food service managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707 877 363 1,006 344 791

Funeral home managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 4 – 3 –

Entertainment and recreation managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 24 – 9 –

Lodging managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 888 36 – 38 –

Medical and health services managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629 1,555 192 1,839 438 1,464

Natural sciences managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 3 – 8 –

Postmasters and mail superintendents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 9 – 10 –

Property, real estate, and community association managers. . . . . . . 433 1,140 209 1,182 224 1,086

Social and community service managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 1,234 90 1,580 240 1,163

Emergency management directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 7 – 3 –

Personal service managers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 1 – 1 –

Managers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,120 1,564 1,821 1,749 1,299 1,379

Business and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,294 1,363 3,312 1,550 3,982 1,209

Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and

athletes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 12 – 15 –

Buyers and purchasing agents, farm products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 5 – 4 –

Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 1,053 64 1,047 66 1,066

Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products. . . 219 1,231 106 1,387 113 1,138

Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators. . . . . . . . 325 1,108 122 1,336 203 967

Compliance officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 1,372 119 1,373 167 1,371

Cost estimators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 1,434 96 1,456 15 –

Human resources workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 739 1,251 185 1,443 553 1,174

Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 1,143 14 – 53 1,041

Training and development specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 1,255 43 – 60 1,171

Logisticians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 1,173 84 1,256 50 1,140

Project management specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644 1,560 350 1,693 295 1,468

Management analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658 1,629 384 1,856 273 1,455

Meeting, convention, and event planners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 1,049 29 – 63 996

Fundraisers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 1,479 26 – 65 1,486

Market research analysts and marketing specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358 1,326 145 1,608 212 1,198

Business operations specialists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 1,273 126 1,540 144 1,086

Accountants and auditors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,488 1,298 595 1,520 893 1,186

Property appraisers and assessors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 1,225 32 – 19 –

Budget analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 1,461 33 – 32 –

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Credit analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 9 – 11 –

Financial and investment analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 1,590 182 1,742 128 1,488

Personal financial advisors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 1,638 251 1,900 149 1,291

Insurance underwriters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 1,261 42 – 59 1,141

Financial examiners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 8 – 13 –

Credit counselors and loan officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 1,199 169 1,492 222 1,013

Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 1,086 26 – 33 –

Tax preparers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 17 – 27 –

Other financial specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 1,328 37 – 43 –

Professional and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,213 1,270 13,008 1,532 16,204 1,121

Computer and mathematical occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,083 1,633 3,838 1,738 1,246 1,423

Computer and information research scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 30 – 9 –

Computer systems analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529 1,515 353 1,621 175 1,413

Information security analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 2,078 114 2,082 11 –

Computer programmers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388 1,653 307 1,673 82 1,529

Software developers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,742 1,920 1,420 2,004 322 1,728

Software quality assurance analysts and testers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 1,697 73 1,977 21 –

Web developers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 1,554 60 1,551 18 –

Web and digital interface designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 1,158 30 – 22 –

Computer support specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584 1,147 427 1,163 157 1,095

Database administrators and architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 1,725 78 1,718 29 –

Network and computer systems administrators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 1,438 187 1,461 48 –

Computer network architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 1,902 83 1,980 10 –

Computer occupations, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 716 1,394 517 1,456 199 1,161

Actuaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 15 – 9 –

Mathematicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 1 –

Operations research analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 1,615 81 1,786 73 1,460

Statisticians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 1,572 24 – 30 –

Other mathematical science occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 1,416 38 – 30 –

Architecture and engineering occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,933 1,575 2,466 1,626 467 1,382

Architects, except landscape and naval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 1,537 101 1,549 34 –

Landscape architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 11 – 5 –

Surveyors, cartographers, and photogrammetrists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 36 – 3 –

Aerospace engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 1,939 107 1,993 14 –

Agricultural engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – 0 –

Bioengineers and biomedical engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 12 – 10 –

Chemical engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 1,862 55 1,900 14 –

Civil engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370 1,611 317 1,629 54 1,588

Computer hardware engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 1,889 66 1,884 18 –

Electrical and electronics engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 1,864 213 1,866 30 –

Environmental engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 15 – 11 –

Industrial engineers, including health and safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 1,584 179 1,595 46 –

Marine engineers and naval architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 18 – 0 –

Materials engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 1,586 42 – 10 –

Mechanical engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 1,713 317 1,736 31 –

Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety

engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 13 – 2 –

Nuclear engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 7 – 1 –

Petroleum engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 16 – 2 –

Engineers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543 1,746 460 1,759 83 1,463

Architectural and civil drafters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 25 – 9 –

Other drafters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 1,126 60 1,137 16 –

Electrical and electronic engineering technologists and

technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 1,172 78 1,198 3 –

Other engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters.. . 340 1,119 275 1,186 65 900

Surveying and mapping technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 – 38 – 6 –

Life, physical, and social science occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,401 1,336 735 1,450 666 1,202

Agricultural and food scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 15 – 11 –

Biological scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 1,141 37 – 35 –

Conservation scientists and foresters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 8 – 3 –

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Medical scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 1,612 53 2,103 60 1,372

Life scientists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 4 – 3 –

Astronomers and physicists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 10 – 9 –

Atmospheric and space scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 5 – 4 –

Chemists and materials scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 1,362 50 1,435 34 –

Environmental scientists and specialists, including health. . . . . . . . . . 39 – 19 – 20 –

Geoscientists and hydrologists, except geographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 – 34 – 8 –

Physical scientists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 1,438 175 1,728 149 1,325

Economists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 15 – 11 –

Survey researchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 1 – 3 –

Clinical and counseling psychologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 3 – 5 –

School psychologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 5 – 29 –

Other psychologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 1,435 13 – 50 1,302

Sociologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 1 – 2 –

Urban and regional planners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 – 29 – 19 –

Miscellaneous social scientists and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 24 – 15 –

Agricultural and food science technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 24 – 15 –

Biological technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 7 – 15 –

Chemical technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 1,039 39 – 25 –

Environmental science and geoscience technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 13 – 6 –

Nuclear technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – 0 –

Social science research assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 2 – 1 –

Other life, physical, and social science technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 1,074 90 1,116 111 1,047

Occupational health and safety specialists and technicians. . . . . . . . 77 1,444 53 1,423 24 –

Community and social service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,187 1,003 703 1,103 1,484 976

Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors. . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 950 17 – 82 966

Educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors. . . . . . . 294 1,080 72 1,133 222 1,061

Marriage and family therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 3 – 19 –

Mental health counselors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 1,066 21 – 65 1,089

Rehabilitation counselors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 11 – 13 –

Counselors, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 956 47 – 85 947

Child, family, and school social workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 894 7 – 51 894

Healthcare social workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 1,152 9 – 61 1,139

Mental health and substance abuse social workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 2 – 17 –

Social workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593 985 84 1,170 509 972

Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists. . . . . . . . . . . 111 1,058 53 1,203 58 977

Social and human service assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 841 35 – 133 803

Other community and social service specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 1,034 22 – 62 1,045

Clergy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 1,055 292 1,131 61 858

Directors, religious activities and education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 14 – 22 –

Religious workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 14 – 24 –

Legal occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,410 1,540 599 2,275 812 1,252

Lawyers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821 2,097 470 2,324 351 1,665

Judicial law clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 4 – 11 –

Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 1,856 26 – 34 –

Paralegals and legal assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343 942 48 – 295 918

Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 1,136 25 – 76 989

Legal support workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 1,042 25 – 46 –

Education, training, and library occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,012 1,096 1,870 1,327 5,142 1,026

Postsecondary teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891 1,516 443 1,633 448 1,384

Preschool and kindergarten teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412 721 2 – 411 721

Elementary and middle school teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,064 1,118 634 1,258 2,430 1,085

Secondary school teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914 1,199 383 1,319 530 1,149

Special education teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 1,044 58 1,102 244 1,036

Tutors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 11 – 31 –

Other teachers and instructors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 1,061 145 1,314 231 942

Archivists, curators, and museum technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 19 – 27 –

Librarians and media collections specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 1,073 19 – 100 1,127

Library technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 2 – 14 –

Teaching assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714 617 123 732 591 604

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Other educational instruction and library workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 1,145 31 – 85 1,108

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations. . . . . . . . . . 1,681 1,179 877 1,252 804 1,128

Artists and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 1,116 59 1,152 28 –

Commercial and industrial designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 3 – 3 –

Fashion designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 7 – 16 –

Floral designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 11 – 27 –

Graphic designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 1,230 91 1,395 119 1,140

Interior designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 1,107 19 – 55 1,021

Merchandise displayers and window trimmers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 10 – 12 –

Other designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 1,210 170 1,234 101 1,107

Actors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 6 – 5 –

Producers and directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 1,499 63 1,458 60 1,548

Athletes and sports competitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 19 – 2 –

Coaches and scouts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 931 54 946 36 –

Umpires, referees, and other sports officials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 – 1 –

Dancers and choreographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 0 – 4 –

Music directors and composers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 13 – 3 –

Musicians and singers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 10 – 2 –

Disc jockeys, except radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all

other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 5 – 3 –

Broadcast announcers and radio disc jockeys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 16 – 2 –

News analysts, reporters, and journalists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 1,044 29 – 34 –

Public relations specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 1,553 48 – 80 1,452

Editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 1,237 28 – 29 –

Technical writers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 1,347 28 – 26 –

Writers and authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 1,257 35 – 64 1,127

Interpreters and translators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 18 – 25 –

Court reporters and simultaneous captioners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 3 – 18 –

Media and communication workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 8 – 6 –

Broadcast, sound, and lighting technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 1,001 47 – 6 –

Photographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 990 36 – 30 –

Television, video, and film camera operators and editors. . . . . . . . . . 40 – 30 – 10 –

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

Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,504 1,227 1,921 1,506 5,584 1,153

Chiropractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 8 – 2 –

Dentists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 2,079 41 – 18 –

Dietitians and nutritionists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 1,009 5 – 77 1,019

Optometrists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 11 – 10 –

Pharmacists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 2,222 108 2,286 134 2,160

Emergency medicine physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 8 – 2 –

Radiologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 15 – 5 –

Other physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 752 2,102 439 2,311 313 1,905

Surgeons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 – 32 – 16 –

Physician assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 1,911 47 – 67 1,894

Podiatrists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 4 – 1 –

Audiologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 1 – 12 –

Occupational therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 1,373 11 – 85 1,357

Physical therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 1,468 74 1,591 135 1,451

Radiation therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 8 – 3 –

Recreational therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 3 – 7 –

Respiratory therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 1,162 29 – 71 1,093

Speech-language pathologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 1,297 8 – 143 1,272

Exercise physiologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 0 – 4 –

Therapists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 1,043 29 – 130 986

Veterinarians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 1,795 19 – 36 –

Registered nurses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,701 1,262 364 1,454 2,337 1,240

Nurse anesthetists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 15 – 16 –

Nurse midwives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 0 – 7 –

Nurse practitioners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 1,872 26 – 145 1,867

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Acupuncturists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 4 – 3 –

Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other. . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 0 – 1 –

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 1,028 78 1,195 211 946

Dental hygienists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 1,125 7 – 89 1,083

Cardiovascular technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 12 – 25 –

Diagnostic medical sonographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 1,227 12 – 61 1,208

Radiologic technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 1,103 77 1,234 145 1,063

Magnetic resonance imaging technologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 – 24 – 21 –

Nuclear medicine technologists and medical dosimetrists. . . . . . . . . . 39 – 21 – 18 –

Emergency medical technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 844 90 936 44 –

Paramedics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 1,163 43 – 23 –

Pharmacy technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 723 58 814 199 700

Psychiatric technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 658 5 – 48 –

Surgical technologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 875 25 – 49 –

Veterinary technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 655 8 – 65 633

Dietetic technicians and ophthalmic medical technicians. . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 10 – 34 –

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 875 55 964 445 864

Medical records specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 888 4 – 162 893

Opticians, dispensing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 4 – 27 –

Miscellaneous health technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 888 51 1,120 93 825

Other healthcare practitioners and technical occupations. . . . . . . . . . 73 1,254 30 – 43 –

Service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,771 621 6,740 704 7,032 574

Healthcare support occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,210 606 532 640 2,678 600

Home health aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 549 27 – 283 551

Personal care aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 788 543 176 567 612 537

Nursing assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966 595 115 689 851 588

Orderlies and psychiatric aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 663 27 – 30 –

Occupational therapy assistants and aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 5 – 21 –

Physical therapist assistants and aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 964 21 – 37 –

Massage therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 14 – 25 –

Dental assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 661 11 – 193 663

Medical assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 675 44 – 407 665

Medical transcriptionists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 4 – 24 –

Pharmacy aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 11 – 21 –

Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 12 – 31 –

Phlebotomists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 614 15 – 70 612

Other healthcare support workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 682 51 738 73 615

Protective service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,690 982 2,080 1,043 610 768

First-line supervisors of correctional officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 976 34 – 16 –

First-line supervisors of police and detectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 1,551 80 1,553 11 –

First-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers. . . . . . . . . . 34 – 30 – 4 –

First-line supervisors of security workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 946 44 – 24 –

First-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other. . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 – 0 –

Firefighters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 1,233 304 1,256 16 –

Fire inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 20 – 1 –

Bailiffs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 5 – 5 –

Correctional officers and jailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 907 225 1,073 112 743

Detectives and criminal investigators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 1,437 107 1,544 39 –

Fish and game wardens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 4 – 1 –

Parking enforcement workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 5 – 2 –

Police officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 742 1,155 611 1,188 131 1,074

Animal control workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 7 – 3 –

Private detectives and investigators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 979 38 – 35 –

Security guards and gambling surveillance officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673 650 503 680 170 583

Crossing guards and flaggers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 10 – 7 –

Transportation security screeners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 – 24 – 16 –

School bus monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 – 0 – 0 –

Other protective service workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 22 – 15 –

Food preparation and serving related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,353 530 1,700 570 1,653 506

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Chefs and head cooks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 696 263 707 57 613

First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers. . . . . . . 335 602 137 636 198 583

Cooks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,026 510 610 512 416 505

Food preparation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 510 132 576 224 489

Bartenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 648 99 708 70 585

Fast food and counter workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 468 84 462 146 470

Waiters and waitresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600 514 212 563 388 497

Food servers, nonrestaurant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 531 25 – 60 513

Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers. . . . . . . . . 99 508 50 545 48 –

Dishwashers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 528 74 567 9 –

Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop. . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 10 – 36 –

Food preparation and serving related workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 3 – 1 –

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations. . . . . . . . . . 3,138 603 2,051 651 1,087 511

First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers. . . . . . . . . 171 738 107 902 64 596

First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and

groundskeeping workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 786 102 785 6 –

Janitors and building cleaners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,372 614 925 662 447 522

Maids and housekeeping cleaners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629 503 98 556 531 497

Pest control workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 749 87 747 3 –

Landscaping and groundskeeping workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665 605 635 603 30 –

Tree trimmers and pruners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 666 77 684 5 –

Other grounds maintenance workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 20 – 1 –

Personal care and service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,380 616 376 740 1,004 591

Supervisors of personal care and service workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 761 35 – 60 719

Animal trainers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 12 – 22 –

Animal caretakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 626 22 – 86 591

Gambling services workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 765 27 – 26 –

Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 1 – 1 –

Other entertainment attendants and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 – 31 – 15 –

Embalmers, crematory operators, and funeral attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 7 – 2 –

Morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 8 – 2 –

Barbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 – 39 – 11 –

Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 606 24 – 180 601

Manicurists and pedicurists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 607 26 – 84 578

Skincare specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 3 – 20 –

Other personal appearance workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 0 – 5 –

Baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 28 – 16 –

Tour and travel guides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 13 – 3 –

Childcare workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 537 25 – 358 542

Exercise trainers and group fitness instructors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 618 20 – 33 –

Recreation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 715 29 – 51 658

Residential advisors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 10 – 7 –

Personal care and service workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 14 – 22 –

Sales and office occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,165 809 8,435 956 12,729 746

Sales and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,958 880 4,991 1,046 3,967 715

First-line supervisors of retail sales workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,141 858 1,181 981 960 733

First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783 1,226 510 1,338 273 1,076

Cashiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,088 507 284 524 805 501

Counter and rental clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 – 27 – 21 –

Parts salespersons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 741 77 756 20 –

Retail salespersons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,603 705 992 779 611 603

Advertising sales agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 1,066 50 1,199 69 1,055

Insurance sales agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469 931 226 1,169 242 825

Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents. . . . . . . . . 200 1,545 158 1,880 41 –

Travel agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 7 – 23 –

Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance,

financial services, and travel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497 1,351 333 1,482 163 1,101

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,073 1,275 758 1,378 315 1,065

Models, demonstrators, and product promoters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 3 – 3 –

Real estate brokers and sales agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498 1,084 215 1,352 283 937

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Sales engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 32 – 5 –

Telemarketers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 13 – 15 –

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

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 23 – 12 –

Sales and related workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 950 100 1,039 106 838

Office and administrative support occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,207 781 3,445 868 8,762 756

First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers. . . 1,129 966 395 1,145 734 925

Switchboard operators, including answering service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 1 – 7 –

Telephone operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 6 – 14 –

Communications equipment operators, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 6 – 3 –

Bill and account collectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 758 27 – 69 744

Billing and posting clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 749 40 – 339 736

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741 824 105 1,101 636 809

Gambling cage workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 5 – 6 –

Payroll and timekeeping clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 945 18 – 111 921

Procurement clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 11 – 16 –

Tellers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 639 42 – 183 634

Financial clerks, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 1,039 31 – 58 903

Brokerage clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 2 – 3 –

Correspondence clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 0 – 3 –

Court, municipal, and license clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 777 8 – 65 764

Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 – 13 – 28 –

Customer service representatives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,814 721 655 771 1,160 698

Eligibility interviewers, government programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 898 17 – 54 824

File clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 751 32 – 106 744

Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 534 10 – 50 520

Interviewers, except eligibility and loan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 711 33 – 123 710

Library assistants, clerical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 6 – 19 –

Loan interviewers and clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 911 32 – 103 874

New accounts clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 8 – 14 –

Order clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 704 36 – 39 –

Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping. . . . . . . . 44 – 6 – 38 –

Receptionists and information clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846 642 108 688 738 636

Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks. . . . . . . 81 879 37 – 44 –

Information and record clerks, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 915 24 – 57 830

Cargo and freight agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 9 – 7 –

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 779 284 814 55 701

Public safety telecommunicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 858 42 – 60 799

Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 768 84 908 95 717

Meter readers, utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 17 – 1 –

Postal service clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 1,010 35 – 45 –

Postal service mail carriers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 1,017 185 1,089 104 962

Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine

operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 977 34 – 26 –

Production, planning, and expediting clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 1,072 118 1,227 125 908

Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 696 340 713 165 667

Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping. . . . . . . 53 729 30 – 23 –

Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants. . . . . . . 170 991 12 – 158 991

Legal secretaries and administrative assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 914 12 – 42 –

Medical secretaries and administrative assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 804 4 – 59 800

Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical,

and executive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,607 781 112 929 1,496 777

Data entry keyers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 710 51 803 128 700

Word processors and typists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 6 – 26 –

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

Insurance claims and policy processing clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 760 37 – 184 759

Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service. . . . . . . 35 – 19 – 17 –

Office clerks, general. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912 736 153 790 759 726

Office machine operators, except computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 4 – 9 –

Proofreaders and copy markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 2 – 2 –

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Statistical assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 1,272 39 – 27 –

Office and administrative support workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 867 107 836 330 875

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations. . . . . . . . . . . 10,690 905 10,152 917 538 682

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787 589 600 608 187 528

First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers. . . . . . . 43 – 39 – 5 –

Agricultural inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 6 – 8 –

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

Graders and sorters, agricultural products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 – 11 – 30 –

Miscellaneous agricultural workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628 574 491 589 137 519

Fishing and hunting workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 14 – 0 –

Forest and conservation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 10 – 7 –

Logging workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 29 – 0 –

Construction and extraction occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,826 906 5,635 910 191 796

First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers.. . 596 1,200 579 1,199 17 –

Boilermakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 14 – 0 –

Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 749 87 749 0 –

Carpenters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756 892 739 889 17 –

Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 770 113 785 4 –

Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers. . . . . . . . . . . 54 782 52 787 2 –

Construction laborers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,343 783 1,304 788 39 –

Construction equipment operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 979 317 980 10 –

Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 784 123 787 8 –

Electricians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735 1,024 713 1,035 22 –

Glaziers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 – 41 – 2 –

Insulation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 – 47 – 2 –

Painters and paperhangers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 691 290 695 26 –

Pipelayers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 – 39 – 1 –

Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 1,002 436 1,004 8 –

Plasterers and stucco masons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 24 – 0 –

Reinforcing iron and rebar workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Roofers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 732 145 729 1 –

Sheet metal workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 905 99 905 4 –

Structural iron and steel workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 36 – 1 –

Solar photovoltaic installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 18 – 0 –

Helpers, construction trades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 – 46 – 2 –

Construction and building inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 1,119 62 1,113 11 –

Elevator and escalator installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 17 – 0 –

Fence erectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 27 – 0 –

Hazardous materials removal workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 22 – 4 –

Highway maintenance workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 846 83 868 6 –

Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 – 0 –

Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – 0 –

Miscellaneous construction and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 22 – 0 –

Derrick, rotary drill, and service unit operators, oil and gas. . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 16 – 0 –

Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface

mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – 0 –

Earth drillers, except oil and gas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 18 – 1 –

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

Underground mining machine operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 33 – 2 –

Roustabouts, oil and gas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 – 0 –

Other extraction workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 – 40 – 0 –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,077 984 3,917 991 160 801

First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers. . . . . . . . . 212 1,269 191 1,283 21 –

Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . 142 960 127 965 15 –

Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers. . . 125 1,192 116 1,242 8 –

Avionics technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 – 0 –

Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 14 – 0 –

Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation

equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Electrical and electronics repairers, industrial and utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 – 0 –

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Occupation

2020

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workers

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weekly

earnings

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workers

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weekly

earnings

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workers

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Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles. . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – 0 –

Audiovisual equipment installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 22 – 1 –

Security and fire alarm systems installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 1,028 50 1,028 0 –

Aircraft mechanics and service technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 1,164 146 1,174 5 –

Automotive body and related repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 904 100 975 2 –

Automotive glass installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 10 – 3 –

Automotive service technicians and mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585 855 581 857 4 –

Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 1,023 306 1,023 6 –

Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and

mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 999 178 998 1 –

Small engine mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 36 – 0 –

Miscellaneous vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers,

and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 665 71 668 1 –

Control and valve installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 24 – 1 –

Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and

installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382 1,003 377 1,011 6 –

Home appliance repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 22 – 1 –

Industrial and refractory machinery mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401 1,031 377 1,049 23 –

Maintenance and repair workers, general. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550 895 526 897 24 –

Maintenance workers, machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 22 – 0 –

Millwrights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 1,178 61 1,185 1 –

Electrical power-line installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 1,268 136 1,306 2 –

Telecommunications line installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 1,031 146 1,076 9 –

Precision instrument and equipment repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 1,085 52 1,098 11 –

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

Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers. . . . 27 – 22 – 6 –

Commercial divers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

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

Manufactured building and mobile home installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Riggers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – 0 –

Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 14 – 2 –

Other installation, maintenance, and repair workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 780 131 810 8 –

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,738 746 11,494 796 3,243 614

Production occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,820 775 5,055 841 1,765 630

First-line supervisors of production and operating workers. . . . . . . . . . . 713 1,038 591 1,099 122 816

Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers. . . . . . . . 3 – 2 – 1 –

Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers. . . . . . . . . . . . 90 640 53 742 37 –

Engine and other machine assemblers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Structural metal fabricators and fitters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 17 – 0 –

Other assemblers and fabricators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828 705 565 740 263 638

Bakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 596 53 621 78 584

Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers. . . . . . 221 733 163 754 57 642

Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators

and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 7 – 1 –

Food batchmakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 649 32 – 38 –

Food cooking machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 2 – 5 –

Food processing workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 669 74 743 44 –

Computer numerically controlled tool operators and programmers. . . 96 964 89 974 6 –

Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and

plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 23 – 1 –

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

tenders, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 821 58 843 11 –

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

operators, and tenders, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 29 – 6 –

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

plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 6 – 2 –

Machinists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 923 272 940 25 –

Metal furnace operators, tenders, pourers, and casters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 19 – 0 –

Model makers and patternmakers, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 7 – 2 –

Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders,

metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 31 – 5 –

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Occupation

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weekly

earnings

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Tool and die makers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 36 – 1 –

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 839 471 848 16 –

Other metal workers and plastic workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 770 277 816 61 622

Prepress technicians and workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 10 – 3 –

Printing press operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 748 95 757 25 –

Print binding and finishing workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 9 – 7 –

Laundry and dry-cleaning workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 538 34 – 60 522

Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 7 – 15 –

Sewing machine operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 579 37 – 59 584

Shoe and leather workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 2 – 3 –

Tailors, dressmakers, and sewers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 5 – 26 –

Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 5 – 10 –

Upholsterers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 18 – 2 –

Other textile, apparel, and furnishings workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 9 – 2 –

Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 29 – 1 –

Furniture finishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 3 – 6 –

Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 16 – 3 –

Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except

sawing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 – 1 –

Other woodworkers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 12 – 0 –

Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 37 – 1 –

Stationary engineers and boiler operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 – 40 – 5 –

Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators. . . . . . . . 116 955 104 990 12 –

Miscellaneous plant and system operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 38 – 4 –

Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders. . . . . . . 50 1,083 47 – 3 –

Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers. . . . . . . . . . 79 766 61 788 17 –

Cutting workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 692 40 – 14 –

Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters,

operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 15 – 7 –

Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . 10 – 10 – 0 –

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684 814 418 910 266 710

Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 12 – 10 –

Dental and ophthalmic laboratory technicians and medical appliance

technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 694 23 – 36 –

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 620 126 667 98 544

Painting workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 849 124 879 15 –

Photographic process workers and processing machine operators. . . 3 – 1 – 2 –

Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 6 – 2 –

Etchers and engravers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 17 – 2 –

Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 18 – 4 –

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

Helpers--production workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 23 – 9 –

Other production equipment operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 – 0 –

Other production workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957 739 706 798 251 637

Transportation and material moving occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,917 719 6,439 759 1,478 600

Supervisors of transportation and material moving workers. . . . . . . . . . 222 919 175 943 47 –

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 1,923 109 1,984 3 –

Air traffic controllers and airfield operations specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 29 – 3 –

Flight attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 895 13 – 41 –

Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical

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

Bus drivers, school. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 647 52 708 53 622

Bus drivers, transit and intercity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 783 89 774 57 791

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,592 896 2,409 916 183 666

Shuttle drivers and chauffeurs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 606 47 – 10 –

Taxi drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 734 132 743 25 –

Motor vehicle operators, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 616 70 642 15 –

Locomotive engineers and operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 1,489 45 – 5 –

Railroad conductors and yardmasters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 – 34 – 0 –

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Other rail transportation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 8 – 2 –

Sailors and marine oilers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 16 – 0 –

Ship and boat captains and operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 28 – 2 –

Ship engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Parking attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 36 – 7 –

Transportation service attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 611 70 614 11 –

Transportation inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 21 – 6 –

Passenger attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 4 – 11 –

Other transportation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 16 – 7 –

Crane and tower operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 – 46 – 2 –

Conveyor, dredge, and hoist and winch operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 22 – 1 –

Industrial truck and tractor operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 711 467 708 41 –

Cleaners of vehicles and equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 580 179 581 35 –

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,587 650 1,268 672 319 595

Machine feeders and offbearers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 4 – 6 –

Packers and packagers, hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436 582 205 604 231 544

Stockers and order fillers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,058 593 714 602 345 576

Pumping station operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 17 – 0 –

Refuse and recyclable material collectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 680 64 698 6 –

Other material moving workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 41 – 5 –

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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