Twice a year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics compiles occupational employment and wage estimates by surveying employers nationwide. Current data was released May 1, 2009.
| Occupation | Total employment | Mean hourly wage | Mean annual wage |
| All Occupations | 58,340 | $16.48 | $34,290 |
| Office and administrative support occupations | 9,380 | $12.94 | $26,910 |
| Production occupations | 7,730 | $15.10 | $31,400 |
| Sales and related occupations | 6,730 | $13.31 | $27,690 |
| Food preparation and serving related occupations | 5,570 | $8.17 | $17,000 |
| Transportation and material moving occupations | 4,240 | $12.93 | $26,900 |
| Education, training, and library occupations | 3,900 | $22.73 | $47,280 |
| Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations | 3,180 | $31.53 | $65,590 |
| Construction and extraction occupations | 2,740 | $15.86 | $32,990 |
| Retail salespersons | 2,540 | $9.73 | $20,240 |
| Management occupations | 2,300 | $37.50 | $78,010 |
| Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations | 2,270 | $16.78 | $34,900 |
| Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food | 2,130 | $7.10 | $14,760 |
| Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations | 1,780 | $10.34 | $21,500 |
| Business and financial operations occupations | 1,680 | $25.37 | $52,770 |
| Healthcare support occupations | 1,380 | $11.49 | $23,910 |
| Cashiers | 1,330 | $8.05 | $16,740 |
| Personal care and service occupations | 1,300 | $9.86 | $20,500 |
| Customer service representatives | 1,270 | $11.53 | $23,990 |
| Stock clerks and order fillers | 1,130 | $10.80 | $22,470 |
| Registered nurses | 1,100 | $27.51 | $57,210 |
| Team assemblers | 1,060 | $13.83 | $28,770 |
| Waiters and waitresses | 1,030 | $7.34 | $15,270 |
| Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand | 1,020 | $10.38 | $21,600 |
| Helpers--production workers | 860 | $12.56 | $26,120 |
| Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners | 850 | $10.71 | $22,280 |
| Community and social services occupations | 820 | $17.22 | $35,820 |
| Office clerks, general | 810 | $10.84 | $22,550 |
| Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks | 790 | $13.58 | $28,240 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers | 770 | $16.25 | $33,790 |
| Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer | 750 | $15.11 | $31,430 |
| Protective service occupations | 720 | $17.82 | $37,070 |
| Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants | 700 | $10.31 | $21,450 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers | 680 | $17.52 | $36,450 |
| Elementary school teachers, except special education | 650 | Not available | $41,970 |
| Executive secretaries and administrative assistants | 650 | $16.27 | $33,850 |
| Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive | 640 | $11.26 | $23,410 |
| Teacher assistants | 640 | Not available | $19,910 |
| General and operations managers | 630 | $38.98 | $81,080 |
| Maintenance and repair workers, general | 610 | $14.22 | $29,580 |
| Architecture and engineering occupations | 590 | $26.98 | $56,110 |
| Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations | 580 | $17.69 | $36,800 |
| Cooks, restaurant | 560 | $9.64 | $20,060 |
| Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products | 560 | $21.36 | $44,420 |
| Computer and mathematical occupations | 550 | $25.19 | $52,390 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers | 510 | $11.54 | $24,010 |
| Industrial truck and tractor operators | 500 | $12.85 | $26,740 |
| Assemblers and fabricators, all other | 490 | Not available | Not available |
| Life, physical, and social science occupations | 490 | $19.71 | $41,000 |
| Receptionists and information clerks | 490 | $9.59 | $19,940 |
| Child care workers | 470 | $7.54 | $15,680 |
| Driver/sales workers | 470 | $11.34 | $23,590 |
| Maids and housekeeping cleaners | 450 | $8.15 | $16,950 |
| Construction laborers | 440 | $12.98 | $26,990 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers | 430 | $22.16 | $46,100 |
| Electricians | 400 | $17.44 | $36,260 |
| Machinists | 360 | $14.60 | $30,360 |
| Legal occupations | 350 | $28.70 | $59,700 |
| Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education | 350 | Not available | $47,090 |
| Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers | 340 | $13.52 | $28,110 |
| Truck drivers, light or delivery services | 340 | $16.51 | $34,340 |
| Counter and rental clerks | 330 | $9.75 | $20,280 |
| Accountants and auditors | 320 | $24.48 | $50,920 |
| Landscaping and groundskeeping workers | 320 | $9.99 | $20,790 |
| Bus drivers, school | 310 | $13.82 | $28,740 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers | 310 | $21.23 | $44,160 |
| Cooks, institution and cafeteria | 300 | $10.11 | $21,040 |
| Carpenters | 290 | $15.83 | $32,920 |
| Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic | 290 | $10.78 | $22,420 |
| Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders | 290 | $13.81 | $28,720 |
| Billing and posting clerks and machine operators | 280 | $13.09 | $27,230 |
| Packers and packagers, hand | 280 | $10.91 | $22,690 |
| Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks | 250 | $14.25 | $29,640 |
| Automotive service technicians and mechanics | 240 | $15.83 | $32,930 |
| Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators | 240 | $18.61 | $38,710 |
| Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic | 230 | $11.81 | $24,550 |
| Financial managers | 230 | $38.17 | $79,390 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers | 230 | $22.66 | $47,140 |
| Food preparation workers | 230 | $9.78 | $20,350 |
| Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses | 230 | $16.42 | $34,150 |
| Medical assistants | 230 | $11.51 | $23,940 |
| Industrial machinery mechanics | 220 | $21.95 | $45,660 |
| Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders | 220 | Not available | Not available |
| Business operations specialists, all other | 210 | $27.57 | $57,350 |
| Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers | 210 | $16.61 | $34,550 |
| Police and sheriff's patrol officers | 210 | $19.47 | $40,490 |
| Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop | 200 | $7.63 | $15,860 |
| Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education | 200 | Not available | $45,620 |
| Tellers | 200 | $10.25 | $21,320 |
| Pharmacy technicians | 180 | $11.21 | $23,310 |
| Recreation workers | 180 | $9.33 | $19,400 |
| Sales representatives, services, all other | 180 | $19.20 | $39,950 |
| Medical secretaries | 170 | $11.26 | $23,430 |
| Social and human service assistants | 170 | $12.63 | $26,280 |
| Dental assistants | 160 | $14.78 | $30,740 |
| Insurance sales agents | 160 | $27.24 | $56,670 |
| Paralegals and legal assistants | 160 | $16.27 | $33,840 |
| Physical therapists | 150 | $38.23 | $79,520 |
| Computer support specialists | 140 | $16.47 | $34,250 |
| Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks | 140 | $8.15 | $16,940 |
| Interviewers, except eligibility and loan | 140 | $11.83 | $24,610 |
| Lawyers | 140 | $43.71 | $90,910 |
| Loan officers | 140 | $27.69 | $57,600 |
| Printing machine operators | 140 | $14.49 | $30,140 |
| Rehabilitation counselors | 140 | $17.47 | $36,340 |
| Sales managers | 140 | $54.22 | $112,780 |
| Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents | 140 | $39.92 | $83,040 |
| Bill and account collectors | 130 | $13.56 | $28,210 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers | 130 | $18.68 | $38,860 |
| Industrial engineers | 130 | $32.94 | $68,500 |
| Parts salespersons | 130 | $11.99 | $24,930 |
| Postal service mail carriers | 130 | Not available | Not available |
| Preschool teachers, except special education | 130 | $10.91 | $22,700 |
| Production, planning, and expediting clerks | 130 | $20.84 | $43,360 |
| Real estate sales agents | 130 | $12.21 | $25,390 |
| Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers | 120 | $7.20 | $14,970 |
| Dishwashers | 120 | $7.70 | $16,010 |
| Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists | 120 | $10.63 | $22,100 |
| Medical and health services managers | 120 | $38.29 | $79,640 |
| Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders | 120 | $15.26 | $31,740 |
| Vocational education teachers, postsecondary | 120 | $22.98 | $47,800 |
| Bartenders | 110 | $7.79 | $16,200 |
| Educational, vocational, and school counselors | 110 | $21.61 | $44,940 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers | 110 | $14.67 | $30,520 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators | 110 | $20.68 | $43,010 |
| Laundry and dry-cleaning workers | 110 | $8.24 | $17,130 |
| Painters, construction and maintenance | 110 | $14.30 | $29,740 |
| Public relations specialists | 110 | $16.87 | $35,090 |
| Tool and die makers | 110 | $23.98 | $49,890 |
| Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing | 110 | $9.86 | $20,520 |
| Appraisers and assessors of real estate | 100 | $30.08 | $62,570 |
| Cleaners of vehicles and equipment | 100 | $8.69 | $18,080 |
| Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors | 100 | $17.81 | $37,050 |
| Managers, all other | 100 | $32.29 | $67,170 |
| Pharmacists | 100 | $49.80 | $103,580 |
| Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters | 100 | $24.59 | $51,150 |
| Radiologic technologists and technicians | 100 | Not available | Not available |
| Surgical technologists | 100 | $16.96 | $35,280 |
| Cement masons and concrete finishers | 90 | $14.76 | $30,700 |
| Construction managers | 90 | $28.66 | $59,620 |
| Education, training, and library workers, all other | 90 | $18.12 | $37,700 |
| Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists | 90 | $16.30 | $33,900 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand | 90 | $18.88 | $39,260 |
| Management analysts | 90 | $38.73 | $80,550 |
| Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators | 90 | Not available | Not available |
| Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products | 90 | $22.75 | $47,320 |
| Respiratory therapists | 90 | $22.98 | $47,800 |
| All other information and record clerks | 80 | $14.06 | $29,240 |
| Cardiovascular technologists and technicians | 80 | $15.28 | $31,780 |
| Education administrators, elementary and secondary school | 80 | Not available | $73,330 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of personal service workers | 80 | $11.96 | $24,880 |
| Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping | 80 | $15.39 | $32,020 |
| Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists, all other | 80 | $22.90 | $47,640 |
| Industrial production managers | 80 | $35.34 | $73,500 |
| Loan interviewers and clerks | 80 | $14.67 | $30,510 |
| Mental health and substance abuse social workers | 80 | $17.16 | $35,680 |
| Order clerks | 80 | $12.34 | $25,670 |
| Payroll and timekeeping clerks | 80 | $14.55 | $30,260 |
| Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials | 80 | $8.22 | $17,100 |
| Residential advisors | 80 | $9.93 | $20,650 |
| Self-enrichment education teachers | 80 | $10.48 | $21,790 |
| Social and community service managers | 80 | $28.29 | $58,840 |
| Chief executives | 70 | $74.92 | $155,830 |
| Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers | 70 | $15.70 | $32,660 |
| Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders | 70 | $13.35 | $27,760 |
| Healthcare support workers, all other | 70 | $11.63 | $24,180 |
| Legal secretaries | 70 | $14.29 | $29,720 |
| Medical and clinical laboratory technologists | 70 | Not available | Not available |
| Network and computer systems administrators | 70 | $20.72 | $43,100 |
| Nonfarm animal caretakers | 70 | $8.51 | $17,700 |
| Property, real estate, and community association managers | 70 | $16.69 | $34,710 |
| Teachers and instructors, all other | 70 | Not available | $31,640 |
| Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers | 70 | $13.75 | $28,610 |
| Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists | 60 | $17.33 | $36,050 |
| Computer and information systems managers | 60 | $35.87 | $74,600 |
| Cost estimators | 60 | $24.11 | $50,150 |
| Dental hygienists | 60 | $22.48 | $46,760 |
| Food service managers | 60 | $20.21 | $42,040 |
| Instructional coordinators | 60 | $22.13 | $46,030 |
| Librarians | 60 | $24.22 | $50,380 |
| Library assistants, clerical | 60 | $9.34 | $19,430 |
| Mechanical engineers | 60 | $35.57 | $73,990 |
| Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers | 60 | $14.32 | $29,790 |
| Service station attendants | 60 | $9.22 | $19,170 |
| Sheet metal workers | 60 | $14.17 | $29,480 |
| Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products | 60 | $22.19 | $46,160 |
| Administrative services managers | 50 | $31.68 | $65,900 |
| Chemical technicians | 50 | $11.43 | $23,760 |
| Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators | 50 | $25.67 | $53,390 |
| Computer software engineers, applications | 50 | $27.19 | $56,550 |
| Cooks, short order | 50 | $8.78 | $18,260 |
| Couriers and messengers | 50 | $8.78 | $18,260 |
| Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance | 50 | $15.53 | $32,300 |
| Electrical and electronic engineering technicians | 50 | $24.68 | $51,330 |
| Engineering managers | 50 | $40.81 | $84,880 |
| File clerks | 50 | $9.67 | $20,110 |
| Graphic designers | 50 | $17.99 | $37,420 |
| Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic | 50 | $11.22 | $23,330 |
| Helpers--brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters | 50 | $11.86 | $24,670 |
| Helpers--carpenters | 50 | $10.61 | $22,070 |
| Marketing managers | 50 | $30.96 | $64,400 |
| Medical records and health information technicians | 50 | $13.84 | $28,780 |
| Office and administrative support workers, all other | 50 | $13.90 | $28,920 |
| Photographers | 50 | $12.11 | $25,180 |
| Protective service workers, all other | 50 | $16.81 | $34,960 |
| Public relations managers | 50 | $33.58 | $69,840 |
| Switchboard operators, including answering service | 50 | $10.54 | $21,920 |
| Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers | 50 | $16.38 | $34,060 |
| Telemarketers | 50 | $12.07 | $25,110 |
| Training and development specialists | 50 | $22.04 | $45,850 |
| Brickmasons and blockmasons | 40 | $18.50 | $38,470 |
| Butchers and meat cutters | 40 | $13.27 | $27,600 |
| Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation | 40 | $20.72 | $43,090 |
| Computer programmers | 40 | $22.15 | $46,060 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives | 40 | $27.16 | $56,490 |
| Home health aides | 40 | $10.60 | $22,050 |
| Human resources managers, all other | 40 | $39.75 | $82,680 |
| Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other | 40 | $15.17 | $31,540 |
| Medical and clinical laboratory technicians | 40 | $16.73 | $34,790 |
| Medical transcriptionists | 40 | Not available | Not available |
| Network systems and data communications analysts | 40 | $26.00 | $54,070 |
| Refuse and recyclable material collectors | 40 | $7.70 | $16,010 |
| Security guards | 40 | $10.86 | $22,590 |
| Structural metal fabricators and fitters | 40 | $15.62 | $32,490 |
| Tire repairers and changers | 40 | $11.94 | $24,830 |
| Transportation, storage, and distribution managers | 40 | $35.55 | $73,950 |
| Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators | 40 | $17.74 | $36,910 |
| Architectural and civil drafters | 30 | $15.08 | $31,360 |
| Civil engineers | 30 | $26.01 | $54,090 |
| Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists | 30 | $24.17 | $50,270 |
| Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers | 30 | $13.24 | $27,530 |
| Computer operators | 30 | $14.19 | $29,510 |
| Computer specialists, all other | 30 | $26.68 | $55,500 |
| Data entry keyers | 30 | $10.07 | $20,950 |
| Detectives and criminal investigators | 30 | $30.58 | $63,600 |
| Electrical engineers | 30 | $29.54 | $61,440 |
| Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators | 30 | $15.94 | $33,150 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers | 30 | $16.57 | $34,470 |
| Medical and public health social workers | 30 | $18.90 | $39,310 |
| Purchasing managers | 30 | $38.75 | $80,600 |
| Surgeons | 30 | Not available | Not available |
| Surveying and mapping technicians | 30 | $13.36 | $27,780 |
| Tax preparers | 30 | $16.52 | $34,370 |
| Adult literacy, remedial education, and GED teachers and instructors | Not available | $18.93 | $39,370 |
| Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters | Not available | $16.68 | $34,690 |
| Chemists | Not available | $22.17 | $46,120 |
| Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders | Not available | $11.61 | $24,150 |
| Computer software engineers, systems software | Not available | $36.60 | $76,130 |
| Computer systems analysts | Not available | $33.39 | $69,450 |
| Cooks, fast food | Not available | $8.19 | $17,040 |
| Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop | Not available | $7.00 | $14,550 |
| Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders | Not available | $10.21 | $21,240 |
| Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles | Not available | $12.53 | $26,060 |
| Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders | Not available | $15.39 | $32,010 |
| Financial analysts | Not available | $27.16 | $56,480 |
| Financial specialists, all other | Not available | $26.24 | $54,570 |
| First-line supervisors/managers, protective service workers, all other | Not available | $15.74 | $32,740 |
| Food servers, nonrestaurant | Not available | $8.63 | $17,940 |
| Helpers--electricians | Not available | $10.74 | $22,330 |
| Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic | Not available | $12.59 | $26,180 |
| New accounts clerks | Not available | $15.17 | $31,550 |
| Occupational therapists | Not available | $41.66 | $86,650 |
| Opticians, dispensing | Not available | $15.86 | $32,980 |
| Pediatricians, general | Not available | $93.04 | $193,520 |
| Physical therapist assistants | Not available | $16.94 | $35,230 |
| Sales and related workers, all other | Not available | $15.60 | $32,440 |
| Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products | Not available | $41.54 | $86,400 |
| Sewing machine operators | Not available | $8.23 | $17,110 |
| Speech-language pathologists | Not available | $42.47 | $88,350 |
