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

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2015

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Total, full-time wage and salary workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,080 $809 60,746 $895 48,334 $726

Management, professional, and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,844 1,158 21,807 1,383 23,038 996

Management, business, and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . 18,422 1,258 10,018 1,436 8,404 1,073

Management occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,480 1,351 7,332 1,486 5,147 1,139

Chief executives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,046 2,041 763 2,251 283 1,836

General and operations managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823 1,260 621 1,347 202 1,002

Legislators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 5 – 4 –

Advertising and promotions managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 1,050 29 – 26 –

Marketing and sales managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 948 1,462 570 1,603 378 1,258

Public relations and fundraising managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 1,557 24 – 35 –

Administrative services managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 1,191 96 1,451 73 981

Computer and information systems managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636 1,728 466 1,817 169 1,563

Financial managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,124 1,408 551 1,732 573 1,130

Compensation and benefits managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 7 – 16 –

Human resources managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 1,365 68 1,495 186 1,274

Training and development managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 17 – 20 –

Industrial production managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 1,485 221 1,528 45 –

Purchasing managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 1,348 109 1,404 84 1,226

Transportation, storage, and distribution managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 966 224 1,006 52 749

Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 769 106 847 23 –

Construction managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471 1,329 429 1,357 42 –

Education administrators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778 1,423 282 1,585 496 1,252

Architectural and engineering managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 1,899 101 1,892 10 –

Food service managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763 742 389 820 374 680

Funeral service managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 – 10 – 2 –

Gaming managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 13 – 6 –

Lodging managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 985 54 1,171 68 902

Medical and health services managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592 1,210 154 1,422 438 1,156

Natural sciences managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 11 – 13 –

Postmasters and mail superintendents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 10 – 10 –

Property, real estate, and community association managers. . . . . . . 401 914 171 1,137 230 823

Social and community service managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 1,022 105 1,142 200 965

Emergency management directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 6 – 3 –

Managers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,803 1,408 1,717 1,525 1,085 1,213

Business and financial operations occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,942 1,137 2,686 1,327 3,256 1,004

Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and

athletes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 13 – 14 –

Buyers and purchasing agents, farm products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 9 – 2 –

Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 926 73 886 69 985

Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products. . . 260 1,009 136 1,020 124 986

Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators. . . . . . . . 317 963 141 1,134 176 824

Compliance officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 1,198 126 1,375 109 1,025

Cost estimators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 1,232 83 1,264 12 –

Human resources workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592 1,002 151 1,158 441 984

Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 998 12 – 50 898

Training and development specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 990 42 – 65 1,037

Logisticians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 1,028 66 1,075 44 –

Management analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529 1,431 291 1,519 237 1,348

Meeting, convention, and event planners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 859 27 – 90 840

Fundraisers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 1,136 14 – 48 –

Market research analysts and marketing specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 1,284 85 1,411 118 1,239

Business operations specialists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 1,090 74 1,461 112 969

Accountants and auditors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,464 1,132 618 1,345 846 988

Appraisers and assessors of real estate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 21 – 21 –

Budget analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 17 – 28 –

Credit analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 8 – 9 –

Financial analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 1,426 168 1,680 127 1,171

Personal financial advisors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 1,419 248 1,738 159 1,033

Insurance underwriters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 1,149 44 – 63 956

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Financial examiners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 9 – 8 –

Credit counselors and loan officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 997 146 1,186 166 906

Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 1,051 20 – 39 –

Tax preparers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 892 19 – 37 –

Financial specialists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 1,162 25 – 40 –

Professional and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,423 1,112 11,789 1,343 14,634 963

Computer and mathematical occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,009 1,428 3,036 1,503 973 1,245

Computer and information research scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 23 – 5 –

Computer systems analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499 1,389 325 1,462 173 1,256

Information security analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 1,538 56 1,562 11 –

Computer programmers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 1,438 357 1,501 93 1,302

Software developers, applications and systems software. . . . . . . . . . 1,287 1,682 1,054 1,751 232 1,415

Web developers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 1,165 98 1,233 53 1,026

Computer support specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396 1,079 291 1,135 105 908

Database administrators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 1,536 58 1,829 32 –

Network and computer systems administrators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 1,242 179 1,266 28 –

Computer network architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 1,552 100 1,577 15 –

Computer occupations, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490 1,227 374 1,252 116 1,145

Actuaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 18 – 6 –

Mathematicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – 0 –

Operations research analysts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 1,441 59 1,574 63 1,325

Statisticians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 1,275 37 – 39 –

Miscellaneous mathematical science occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Architecture and engineering occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,656 1,424 2,272 1,452 383 1,257

Architects, except naval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 1,441 106 1,492 31 –

Surveyors, cartographers, and photogrammetrists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 23 – 6 –

Aerospace engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 1,662 122 1,668 18 –

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

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

Chemical engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 1,532 69 1,583 10 –

Civil engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 1,460 275 1,474 41 –

Computer hardware engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 1,876 62 1,871 10 –

Electrical and electronics engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 1,778 246 1,819 37 –

Environmental engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 26 – 9 –

Industrial engineers, including health and safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 1,447 168 1,430 37 –

Marine engineers and naval architects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 – 0 –

Materials engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 33 – 4 –

Mechanical engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 1,534 294 1,550 23 –

Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety

engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 15 – 0 –

Nuclear engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 3 – 2 –

Petroleum engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 – 39 – 3 –

Engineers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393 1,527 339 1,537 54 1,448

Drafters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 977 91 977 23 –

Engineering technicians, except drafters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 963 284 984 68 827

Surveying and mapping technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 1,012 54 1,031 4 –

Life, physical, and social science occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,176 1,206 662 1,379 514 1,067

Agricultural and food scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 12 – 10 –

Biological scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 1,233 46 – 28 –

Conservation scientists and foresters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 16 – 7 –

Medical scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 1,250 68 1,362 84 1,082

Life scientists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Astronomers and physicists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 11 – 3 –

Atmospheric and space scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 – 1 –

Chemists and materials scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 1,432 61 1,496 33 –

Environmental scientists and geoscientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 1,423 65 1,740 25 –

Physical scientists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 1,553 121 1,770 68 1,170

Economists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 17 – 12 –

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

Psychologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 1,367 31 – 83 1,189

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

Urban and regional planners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 13 – 9 –

Miscellaneous social scientists and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 19 – 19 –

Agricultural and food science technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 21 – 7 –

Biological technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 10 – 10 –

Chemical technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 944 43 – 32 –

Geological and petroleum technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 18 – 4 –

Nuclear technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Social science research assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 0 – 3 –

Miscellaneous life, physical, and social science technicians. . . . . . . 157 846 79 1,001 78 780

Community and social service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,143 889 776 973 1,367 845

Counselors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635 904 184 908 451 902

Social workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677 877 127 943 549 862

Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists. . . . . . . . . . . 85 967 42 – 43 –

Social and human service assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 676 23 – 149 673

Miscellaneous community and social service specialists, including

health educators and community health workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 831 29 – 63 728

Clergy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 1,002 316 1,021 60 924

Directors, religious activities and education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 929 31 – 31 –

Religious workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 23 – 21 –

Legal occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,346 1,391 624 1,877 722 1,135

Lawyers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 803 1,886 503 1,914 300 1,717

Judicial law clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 1 – 10 –

Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 1,952 33 – 20 –

Paralegals and legal assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 927 47 – 294 910

Miscellaneous legal support workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 770 40 – 97 746

Education, training, and library occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,884 956 1,849 1,144 5,034 907

Postsecondary teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 917 1,258 516 1,405 401 1,144

Preschool and kindergarten teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 616 11 – 506 618

Elementary and middle school teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,806 974 543 1,077 2,262 957

Secondary school teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,048 1,066 438 1,149 610 1,006

Special education teachers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 987 38 – 258 990

Other teachers and instructors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378 896 179 1,024 199 817

Archivists, curators, and museum technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 – 18 – 20 –

Librarians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 991 27 – 102 966

Library technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 4 – 15 –

Teacher assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614 541 48 – 565 530

Other education, training, and library workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 1,001 28 – 95 1,031

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations. . . . . . . . . . 1,643 1,001 930 1,088 713 942

Artists and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 1,166 39 – 20 –

Designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593 993 301 1,099 291 918

Actors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 8 – 4 –

Producers and directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 1,270 67 1,340 53 1,234

Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 780 108 818 39 –

Dancers and choreographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 2 – 9 –

Musicians, singers, and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 33 – 9 –

Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all

other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 11 – 3 –

Announcers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 21 – 5 –

News analysts, reporters and correspondents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 1,218 29 – 27 –

Public relations specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 1,211 49 – 71 971

Editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 1,148 58 1,205 50 1,125

Technical writers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 1,158 22 – 30 –

Writers and authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 1,232 36 – 42 –

Miscellaneous media and communication workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 16 – 30 –

Broadcast and sound engineering technicians and radio

operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 954 77 937 7 –

Photographers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 – 24 – 21 –

Television, video, and motion picture camera operators and

editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 28 – 1 –

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Media and communication equipment workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,566 1,041 1,639 1,272 4,928 991

Chiropractors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 15 – 7 –

Dentists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 1,656 39 – 20 –

Dietitians and nutritionists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 886 9 – 69 879

Optometrists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 6 – 13 –

Pharmacists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 1,920 98 2,117 108 1,811

Physicians and surgeons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 1,824 457 1,915 283 1,533

Physician assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 1,368 17 – 40 –

Podiatrists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 5 – 4 –

Audiologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 1 – 6 –

Occupational therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 1,210 10 – 64 1,199

Physical therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 1,265 56 1,347 123 1,215

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

Recreational therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 2 – 4 –

Respiratory therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 1,000 32 – 67 937

Speech-language pathologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 1,147 1 – 106 1,148

Exercise physiologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Therapists, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 944 31 – 101 951

Veterinarians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 1,455 16 – 39 –

Registered nurses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,382 1,116 278 1,222 2,104 1,098

Nurse anesthetists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 11 – 12 –

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

Nurse practitioners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 1,532 11 – 103 1,522

Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 0 – 2 –

Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 901 69 1,089 201 796

Dental hygienists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 914 6 – 80 953

Diagnostic related technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 964 76 1,106 177 908

Emergency medical technicians and paramedics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 811 126 899 49 –

Health practitioner support technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . 487 636 99 652 389 633

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508 743 48 – 459 737

Medical records and health information technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 740 17 – 157 723

Opticians, dispensing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 21 – 23 –

Miscellaneous health technologists and technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 671 32 – 66 642

Other healthcare practitioners and technical occupations. . . . . . . . . . 78 1,128 40 – 38 –

Service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,279 509 7,629 585 7,650 463

Healthcare support occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,395 498 320 577 2,074 490

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,400 467 163 526 1,237 457

Occupational therapy assistants and aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 4 – 12 –

Physical therapist assistants and aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 742 18 – 35 –

Massage therapists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 16 – 22 –

Dental assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 531 14 – 175 522

Medical assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422 539 35 – 387 530

Medical transcriptionists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 3 – 26 –

Pharmacy aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 4 – 18 –

Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 4 – 17 –

Phlebotomists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 551 15 – 76 534

Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations, including medical

equipment preparers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 524 44 – 71 511

Protective service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,729 796 2,181 851 547 655

First-line supervisors of correctional officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 856 41 – 16 –

First-line supervisors of police and detectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 1,427 97 1,425 17 –

First-line supervisors of fire fighting and prevention workers. . . . . . . . . 42 – 39 – 3 –

First-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other. . . . . . . . . 72 808 56 825 16 –

Firefighters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 1,033 245 1,052 16 –

Fire inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 15 – 3 –

Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453 754 341 779 112 686

Detectives and criminal investigators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 1,159 100 1,265 41 –

Fish and game wardens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 5 – 1 –

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

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Police and sheriff’s patrol officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655 1,002 569 1,001 86 1,009

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

Animal control workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 2 – 2 –

Private detectives and investigators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 843 49 – 36 –

Security guards and gaming surveillance officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708 567 555 592 153 515

Crossing guards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 13 – 13 –

Transportation security screeners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 – 22 – 11 –

Lifeguards and other recreational, and all other protective service

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 24 – 18 –

Food preparation and serving related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,124 441 2,133 481 1,991 414

Chefs and head cooks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 619 285 656 55 492

First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers. . . . . . . 378 498 156 621 222 458

Cooks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,302 416 808 427 494 400

Food preparation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366 402 174 414 192 388

Bartenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 521 110 569 142 493

Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast

food. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 391 67 401 107 380

Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop. . . . 56 354 28 – 28 –

Waiters and waitresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868 451 305 501 563 411

Food servers, nonrestaurant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 509 31 – 62 485

Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers. . . . . . . . . 107 403 59 389 48 –

Dishwashers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 398 98 401 19 –

Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop. . . . . . . . . . . 66 400 8 – 58 397

Food preparation and serving related workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 4 – 3 –

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations. . . . . . . . . . 3,605 486 2,330 517 1,275 419

First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers. . . . . . . . . 172 620 108 700 64 571

First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and

groundskeeping workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 649 79 653 1 –

Janitors and building cleaners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,536 507 1,111 547 425 429

Maids and housekeeping cleaners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876 416 134 475 742 407

Pest control workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 585 74 591 3 –

Grounds maintenance workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862 469 824 473 39 –

Personal care and service occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,427 498 664 597 1,763 475

First-line supervisors of gaming workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 769 65 900 52 680

First-line supervisors of personal service workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 608 25 – 35 –

Animal trainers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 19 – 8 –

Nonfarm animal caretakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 505 32 – 68 501

Gaming services workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 676 30 – 39 –

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

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

Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers. . . . . . . . 69 485 42 – 28 –

Embalmers and funeral attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Morticians, undertakers, and funeral directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 17 – 7 –

Barbers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 – 33 – 12 –

Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 461 23 – 229 463

Miscellaneous personal appearance workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 501 32 – 159 497

Baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 608 63 606 12 –

Tour and travel guides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 11 – 9 –

Childcare workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 437 14 – 393 430

Personal care aides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680 462 128 537 552 441

Recreation and fitness workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 555 78 684 107 526

Residential advisors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 8 – 16 –

Personal care and service workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 499 35 – 32 –

Sales and office occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,620 673 9,384 777 14,236 627

Sales and related occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,725 716 5,423 880 4,303 578

First-line supervisors of retail sales workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,326 711 1,296 825 1,030 614

First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835 1,028 556 1,140 280 896

Cashiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,342 415 411 471 931 405

Counter and rental clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 594 35 – 37 –

Parts salespersons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 601 82 600 11 –

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Retail salespersons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,918 590 1,159 694 759 494

Advertising sales agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 925 78 1,155 83 729

Insurance sales agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 815 194 1,028 232 717

Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents. . . . . . . . . 211 1,155 146 1,461 65 767

Travel agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 711 9 – 53 685

Sales representatives, services, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 966 268 1,147 139 699

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,138 1,020 843 1,066 295 917

Models, demonstrators, and product promoters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 4 – 11 –

Real estate brokers and sales agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 837 197 1,052 266 735

Sales engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 – 31 – 2 –

Telemarketers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 17 – 21 –

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

workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 – 9 – 18 –

Sales and related workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 916 89 1,088 70 727

Office and administrative support occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,894 656 3,961 693 9,933 646

First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers. . . 1,297 812 434 878 863 781

Switchboard operators, including answering service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 7 – 10 –

Telephone operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 4 – 18 –

Communications equipment operators, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 2 – 3 –

Bill and account collectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 657 54 674 98 648

Billing and posting clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406 657 39 – 366 664

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 769 692 87 690 682 692

Gaming cage workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 2 – 10 –

Payroll and timekeeping clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 757 17 – 111 751

Procurement clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 15 – 21 –

Tellers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 514 33 – 231 516

Financial clerks, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 767 30 – 32 –

Brokerage clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 1 – 1 –

Correspondence clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 1 – 2 –

Court, municipal, and license clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 755 9 – 51 743

Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 – 12 – 29 –

Customer service representatives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,760 621 611 690 1,149 604

Eligibility interviewers, government programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 781 17 – 50 805

File clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 634 25 – 120 627

Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 481 58 486 69 467

Interviewers, except eligibility and loan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 615 16 – 89 617

Library assistants, clerical. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 7 – 28 –

Loan interviewers and clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 710 25 – 109 722

New accounts clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 3 – 17 –

Order clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 599 26 – 48 –

Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping. . . . . . . . 50 737 11 – 40 –

Receptionists and information clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852 575 72 619 781 569

Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks. . . . . . . 95 713 34 – 61 680

Information and record clerks, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 618 22 – 78 616

Cargo and freight agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 12 – 9 –

Couriers and messengers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 752 134 750 19 –

Dispatchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 698 109 759 141 655

Meter readers, utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 34 – 4 –

Postal service clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 927 76 974 51 833

Postal service mail carriers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 954 187 1,021 115 854

Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine

operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 828 27 – 26 –

Production, planning, and expediting clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 838 116 978 141 732

Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502 591 354 604 148 566

Stock clerks and order fillers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,027 520 651 537 376 506

Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping. . . . . . . 59 629 29 – 31 –

Secretaries and administrative assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,223 687 124 786 2,099 683

Computer operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 751 25 – 33 –

Data entry keyers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 619 55 589 169 638

Word processors and typists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 650 6 – 62 639

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

Insurance claims and policy processing clerks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 689 56 762 203 675

Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service. . . . . . . 63 563 24 – 39 –

Office clerks, general. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929 620 156 609 773 622

Office machine operators, except computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 14 – 16 –

Proofreaders and copy markers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 0 – 2 –

Statistical assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 5 – 10 –

Office and administrative support workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 745 93 852 298 718

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations. . . . . . . . . . . 10,834 761 10,381 770 453 580

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810 464 637 477 174 437

First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers. . . . . . . 42 – 32 – 10 –

Agricultural inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 7 – 6 –

Animal breeders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Graders and sorters, agricultural products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 486 32 – 51 468

Miscellaneous agricultural workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613 445 511 460 102 398

Fishers and related fishing workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 – 11 – 0 –

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

Forest and conservation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 10 – 5 –

Logging workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 31 – 0 –

Construction and extraction occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,722 749 5,586 751 137 704

First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers.. . 560 1,040 540 1,047 20 –

Boilermakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 21 – 0 –

Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 652 122 652 0 –

Carpenters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802 687 792 687 10 –

Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 637 89 634 1 –

Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers. . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 44 – 0 –

Construction laborers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,181 639 1,155 642 25 –

Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 10 – 0 –

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

Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators. . . . 324 856 318 859 6 –

Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 596 119 595 2 –

Electricians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651 888 632 891 19 –

Glaziers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 – 32 – 0 –

Insulation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 – 41 – 3 –

Painters, construction and maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 585 330 587 14 –

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

Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456 863 455 862 2 –

Plasterers and stucco masons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 – 19 – 1 –

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

Roofers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 584 170 580 2 –

Sheet metal workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 766 100 776 6 –

Structural iron and steel workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 869 52 864 2 –

Solar photovoltaic installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 – 0 –

Helpers, construction trades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 – 47 – 0 –

Construction and building inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 939 58 965 9 –

Elevator installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 23 – 0 –

Fence erectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 – 33 – 0 –

Hazardous materials removal workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 35 – 5 –

Highway maintenance workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 754 91 755 0 –

Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 – 0 –

Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 8 – 0 –

Miscellaneous construction and related workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 23 – 2 –

Derrick, rotary drill, and service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining. . 28 – 27 – 1 –

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

Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters. . . . . . . . 5 – 5 – 0 –

Mining machine operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 1,106 65 1,098 2 –

Roof bolters, mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

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

Helpers--extraction workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – 0 –

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Other extraction workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 900 58 918 3 –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,301 839 4,159 842 143 761

First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers. . . . . . . . . 270 1,032 252 1,033 18 –

Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . 194 856 166 865 28 –

Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers. . . 139 862 126 879 13 –

Avionics technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – 0 –

Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 – 20 – 1 –

Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation

equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Electrical and electronics repairers, industrial and utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 17 – 0 –

Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles. . . . . . . . 17 – 17 – 0 –

Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers. . . 30 – 28 – 2 –

Security and fire alarm systems installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 911 65 913 2 –

Aircraft mechanics and service technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 1,025 125 1,032 7 –

Automotive body and related repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 846 118 849 2 –

Automotive glass installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 20 – 1 –

Automotive service technicians and mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710 722 694 724 16 –

Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 831 327 830 0 –

Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and

mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 928 206 928 0 –

Small engine mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 39 – 0 –

Miscellaneous vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers,

and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 592 65 591 1 –

Control and valve installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 23 – 0 –

Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and

installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341 806 337 810 4 –

Home appliance repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 – 36 – 0 –

Industrial and refractory machinery mechanics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 895 383 894 11 –

Maintenance and repair workers, general. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469 773 459 771 10 –

Maintenance workers, machinery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 30 – 1 –

Millwrights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 – 48 – 1 –

Electrical power-line installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 1,105 112 1,105 0 –

Telecommunications line installers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 882 148 880 9 –

Precision instrument and equipment repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 996 60 1,009 4 –

Wind turbine service technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 3 – 0 –

Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers. . . . 38 – 34 – 4 –

Commercial divers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Locksmiths and safe repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 12 – 0 –

Manufactured building and mobile home installers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – 1 –

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

Signal and track switch repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 9 – 0 –

Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 17 – 0 –

Other installation, maintenance, and repair workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 792 144 810 6 –

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,504 656 11,546 704 2,958 512

Production occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,551 663 5,548 729 2,003 519

First-line supervisors of production and operating workers. . . . . . . . . . . 783 875 650 924 133 623

Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers. . . . . . . . 15 – 11 – 4 –

Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers. . . . . . . . . . . . 123 554 59 566 64 544

Engine and other machine assemblers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 12 – 2 –

Structural metal fabricators and fitters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 28 – 3 –

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 950 581 573 637 377 512

Bakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 505 69 570 80 475

Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers. . . . . . 247 542 187 582 60 463

Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators

and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 7 – 1 –

Food batchmakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 500 25 – 54 489

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

Food processing workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 594 82 679 50 508

Computer control programmers and operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 833 81 857 2 –

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2015

Total Men Women

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders,

metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 7 – 1 –

Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.. . 6 – 6 – 0 –

Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic. . . 15 – 12 – 3 –

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

tenders, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 633 62 674 15 –

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

metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 – 1 –

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

operators, and tenders, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 – 39 – 3 –

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

metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 11 – 1 –

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

and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Machinists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338 834 320 840 17 –

Metal furnace operators, tenders, pourers, and casters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 28 – 1 –

Model makers and patternmakers, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 3 – 3 –

Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders,

metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 – 39 – 9 –

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

plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 – 0 –

Tool and die makers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 – 49 – 0 –

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568 760 545 767 23 –

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

plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – 0 –

Layout workers, metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – 1 –

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

and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 24 – 0 –

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

Metal workers and plastic workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 639 278 678 72 581

Prepress technicians and workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 12 – 2 –

Printing press operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 707 134 729 26 –

Print binding and finishing workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 9 – 6 –

Laundry and dry-cleaning workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 466 53 487 80 460

Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 9 – 12 –

Sewing machine operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 493 42 – 105 476

Shoe and leather workers and repairers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 4 – 1 –

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

Tailors, dressmakers, and sewers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 9 – 27 –

Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . 2 – 2 – 0 –

Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 7 – 2 –

Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and

tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 – 3 – 4 –

Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters,

operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 5 – 2 –

Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders,

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

Fabric and apparel patternmakers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 3 – 1 –

Upholsterers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 21 – 7 –

Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 – 12 – 4 –

Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 – 38 – 2 –

Furniture finishers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 – 6 – 0 –

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

Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 – 22 – 4 –

Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except

sawing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 – 21 – 1 –

Woodworkers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 14 – 3 –

Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 34 – 1 –

Stationary engineers and boiler operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 996 81 1,012 3 –

Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators. . . . . . . . 82 880 79 868 3 –

Miscellaneous plant and system operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 – 33 – 3 –

Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders. . . . . . . 62 1,052 57 1,082 5 –

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HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2015

Total Men Women

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers. . . . . . . . . . 82 652 75 668 7 –

Cutting workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 685 41 – 9 –

Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters,

operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 – 25 – 6 –

Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . 6 – 5 – 0 –

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701 710 440 844 260 583

Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 – 11 – 7 –

Medical, dental, and ophthalmic laboratory technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 648 44 – 42 –

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 518 118 605 120 482

Painting workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 708 110 733 18 –

Photographic process workers and processing machine operators. . . 26 – 12 – 14 –

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

Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 – 5 – 4 –

Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and

tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 2 – 1 –

Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 3 – 0 –

Etchers and engravers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 – 8 – 4 –

Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 – 12 – 2 –

Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 – 22 – 5 –

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

Helpers--production workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 – 18 – 7 –

Production workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846 625 643 666 203 501

Transportation and material moving occupations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,953 646 5,998 679 955 494

Supervisors of transportation and material moving workers. . . . . . . . . . 186 894 153 898 33 –

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 1,735 104 1,830 9 –

Air traffic controllers and airfield operations specialists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 – 24 – 8 –

Flight attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 846 20 – 43 –

Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical

technicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 14 – 4 –

Bus drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 615 184 681 138 572

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,687 747 2,582 751 105 632

Taxi drivers and chauffeurs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 585 216 600 38 –

Motor vehicle operators, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 18 – 3 –

Locomotive engineers and operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 – 42 – 2 –

Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 – 0 –

Railroad conductors and yardmasters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 1,117 52 1,137 4 –

Subway, streetcar, and other rail transportation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 – 12 – 3 –

Sailors and marine oilers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 – 9 – 0 –

Ship and boat captains and operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 – 28 – 1 –

Ship engineers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 4 – 1 –

Bridge and lock tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 – 0 –

Parking lot attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 492 49 – 8 –

Automotive and watercraft service attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 452 58 470 5 –

Transportation inspectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 – 14 – 7 –

Transportation attendants, except flight attendants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 – 9 – 8 –

Other transportation workers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 – 35 – 4 –

Conveyor operators and tenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 – 7 – 0 –

Crane and tower operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 988 71 1,016 4 –

Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 – 25 – 0 –

Hoist and winch operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 – 5 – 0 –

Industrial truck and tractor operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579 609 541 612 37 –

Cleaners of vehicles and equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 485 200 498 22 –

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,433 526 1,214 547 219 455

Machine feeders and offbearers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 – 21 – 9 –

Packers and packagers, hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 438 158 462 227 424

Pumping station operators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 – 17 – 1 –

Refuse and recyclable material collectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 501 66 496 6 –

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HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

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

[Numbers in thousands]

Occupation

2015

Total Men Women

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

Number of

workers

Median

weekly

earnings

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

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

Material moving workers, all other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 – 32 – 5 –

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

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

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