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 | 55,100 | $14.65 | $30,470 |
| Office and administrative support occupations | 10,030 | $12.32 | $25,620 |
| Sales and related occupations | 6,220 | $11.41 | $23,730 |
| Food preparation and serving related occupations | 6,020 | $7.99 | $16,620 |
| Transportation and material moving occupations | 5,410 | $12.61 | $26,240 |
| Education, training, and library occupations | 3,970 | $19.75 | $41,080 |
| Production occupations | 3,660 | $12.19 | $25,350 |
| Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations | 3,160 | $27.41 | $57,020 |
| Retail salespersons | 2,590 | $10.20 | $21,210 |
| Construction and extraction occupations | 2,440 | $14.93 | $31,060 |
| Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations | 2,410 | $16.62 | $34,560 |
| Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food | 2,090 | $7.27 | $15,120 |
| Management occupations | 1,980 | $35.82 | $74,510 |
| Customer service representatives | 1,970 | $9.91 | $20,610 |
| Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand | 1,890 | $10.73 | $22,310 |
| Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations | 1,810 | $9.47 | $19,690 |
| Cashiers | 1,810 | $8.06 | $16,750 |
| Healthcare support occupations | 1,490 | $11.55 | $24,020 |
| Protective service occupations | 1,440 | $14.19 | $29,520 |
| Personal care and service occupations | 1,410 | $8.97 | $18,660 |
| Business and financial operations occupations | 1,160 | $24.54 | $51,050 |
| Registered nurses | 1,070 | $25.23 | $52,480 |
| Waiters and waitresses | 1,070 | $7.18 | $14,920 |
| Stock clerks and order fillers | 970 | $10.20 | $21,210 |
| General and operations managers | 910 | $34.25 | $71,240 |
| Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer | 910 | $18.79 | $39,080 |
| Office clerks, general | 870 | $10.16 | $21,130 |
| Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks | 820 | $13.84 | $28,790 |
| Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive | 800 | $11.73 | $24,390 |
| Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants | 770 | $9.29 | $19,330 |
| Industrial truck and tractor operators | 760 | $12.85 | $26,730 |
| Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners | 760 | $9.22 | $19,170 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers | 730 | $20.10 | $41,800 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers | 720 | $15.27 | $31,750 |
| Community and social services occupations | 700 | $18.43 | $38,330 |
| Maintenance and repair workers, general | 700 | $13.95 | $29,010 |
| Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations | 690 | $9.79 | $20,360 |
| Amusement and recreation attendants | 680 | $9.37 | $19,480 |
| Cooks, fast food | 680 | $7.76 | $16,140 |
| Helpers--production workers | 640 | $9.37 | $19,490 |
| Teacher assistants | 640 | Not available | $16,090 |
| Construction laborers | 530 | $12.61 | $26,220 |
| Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education | 530 | Not available | $51,060 |
| Maids and housekeeping cleaners | 470 | $7.86 | $16,350 |
| Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses | 450 | $15.58 | $32,400 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers | 430 | $15.05 | $31,300 |
| Receptionists and information clerks | 430 | $10.63 | $22,110 |
| Team assemblers | 420 | $11.08 | $23,050 |
| Elementary school teachers, except special education | 380 | Not available | $45,070 |
| Executive secretaries and administrative assistants | 360 | $16.08 | $33,440 |
| Landscaping and groundskeeping workers | 360 | $9.56 | $19,890 |
| Truck drivers, light or delivery services | 360 | $11.30 | $23,510 |
| Police and sheriff's patrol officers | 330 | $15.79 | $32,850 |
| Child care workers | 320 | $6.87 | $14,290 |
| Dishwashers | 310 | $7.22 | $15,020 |
| Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop | 300 | $6.93 | $14,420 |
| Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products | 300 | $21.84 | $45,420 |
| Automotive service technicians and mechanics | 280 | $16.61 | $34,550 |
| Billing and posting clerks and machine operators | 280 | $12.69 | $26,390 |
| Counter and rental clerks | 280 | $10.29 | $21,410 |
| Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop | 280 | $7.11 | $14,780 |
| Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education | 280 | Not available | $47,620 |
| Architecture and engineering occupations | 270 | $23.10 | $48,040 |
| Packers and packagers, hand | 260 | $8.00 | $16,640 |
| Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations | 250 | $16.61 | $34,550 |
| Carpenters | 250 | $13.99 | $29,110 |
| Computer and mathematical occupations | 250 | $22.70 | $47,220 |
| Medical assistants | 250 | $12.52 | $26,050 |
| Security guards | 250 | $10.53 | $21,890 |
| Accountants and auditors | 240 | $26.25 | $54,610 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers | 240 | $24.17 | $50,280 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers | 240 | $22.53 | $46,860 |
| Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks | 230 | $8.33 | $17,320 |
| Medical secretaries | 230 | $14.03 | $29,180 |
| Tellers | 230 | $10.29 | $21,400 |
| Taxi drivers and chauffeurs | 220 | $7.09 | $14,750 |
| Electricians | 210 | $18.65 | $38,780 |
| Special education teachers, secondary school | 210 | Not available | $48,460 |
| Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers | 210 | $15.47 | $32,180 |
| Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers | 200 | $12.05 | $25,060 |
| Legal occupations | 200 | $27.37 | $56,920 |
| Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders | 200 | $9.27 | $19,280 |
| Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters | 190 | $17.15 | $35,680 |
| Bus drivers, school | 180 | $7.24 | $15,050 |
| Food preparation workers | 180 | $8.50 | $17,680 |
| Cooks, restaurant | 170 | $9.05 | $18,830 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers | 170 | $27.16 | $56,500 |
| Cooks, short order | 160 | $7.94 | $16,510 |
| Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks | 160 | $13.04 | $27,110 |
| Order clerks | 150 | $13.56 | $28,200 |
| Bill and account collectors | 140 | $13.21 | $27,480 |
| Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists | 140 | $15.42 | $32,080 |
| Business operations specialists, all other | 140 | $24.31 | $50,560 |
| Chief executives | 140 | $58.72 | $122,140 |
| Cooks, institution and cafeteria | 140 | $8.84 | $18,390 |
| Driver/sales workers | 140 | $12.90 | $26,830 |
| Legal secretaries | 140 | $13.16 | $27,360 |
| Postal service mail carriers | 140 | Not available | Not available |
| Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood | 140 | Not available | Not available |
| Child, family, and school social workers | 130 | $15.02 | $31,240 |
| Fiberglass laminators and fabricators | 130 | $11.09 | $23,060 |
| Helpers--electricians | 130 | $9.55 | $19,850 |
| Medical and clinical laboratory technologists | 130 | $19.29 | $40,120 |
| Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators | 130 | $17.24 | $35,860 |
| Pharmacy technicians | 130 | $11.95 | $24,850 |
| Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers | 130 | $23.38 | $48,620 |
| Cleaners of vehicles and equipment | 120 | $8.00 | $16,630 |
| Dental assistants | 120 | $13.87 | $28,850 |
| Life, physical, and social science occupations | 120 | $21.09 | $43,880 |
| Logging equipment operators | 120 | $15.66 | $32,570 |
| Medical records and health information technicians | 120 | $9.01 | $18,750 |
| Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators | 120 | $14.29 | $29,720 |
| Radiologic technologists and technicians | 120 | $17.84 | $37,100 |
| Vocational education teachers, secondary school | 120 | Not available | $53,350 |
| Administrative services managers | 110 | $20.86 | $43,390 |
| Educational, vocational, and school counselors | 110 | $21.45 | $44,610 |
| Medical and health services managers | 110 | $37.36 | $77,710 |
| Vocational education teachers, postsecondary | 110 | $21.78 | $45,300 |
| Butchers and meat cutters | 100 | $10.80 | $22,460 |
| Cost estimators | 100 | $24.43 | $50,820 |
| Data entry keyers | 100 | $9.96 | $20,730 |
| Education administrators, elementary and secondary school | 100 | Not available | $70,800 |
| Electrical power-line installers and repairers | 100 | $17.98 | $37,400 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers | 100 | $12.85 | $26,730 |
| Industrial machinery mechanics | 100 | $21.97 | $45,700 |
| Interviewers, except eligibility and loan | 100 | $11.09 | $23,060 |
| Loan interviewers and clerks | 100 | $13.83 | $28,760 |
| Pharmacists | 100 | $46.54 | $96,810 |
| Training and development specialists | 100 | $22.07 | $45,900 |
| Bartenders | 90 | $7.39 | $15,370 |
| Computer support specialists | 90 | $18.16 | $37,780 |
| Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers | 90 | $6.85 | $14,250 |
| Financial managers | 90 | $52.56 | $109,330 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand | 90 | $19.18 | $39,890 |
| Instructional coordinators | 90 | $25.18 | $52,380 |
| Insurance sales agents | 90 | $14.38 | $29,920 |
| Loan officers | 90 | $30.20 | $62,810 |
| Painters, construction and maintenance | 90 | $11.84 | $24,620 |
| Structural metal fabricators and fitters | 90 | $14.29 | $29,730 |
| Switchboard operators, including answering service | 90 | $10.28 | $21,390 |
| Automotive body and related repairers | 80 | $13.53 | $28,140 |
| Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters | 80 | Not available | Not available |
| Coaches and scouts | 80 | Not available | $35,110 |
| Emergency medical technicians and paramedics | 80 | $12.73 | $26,470 |
| Laundry and dry-cleaning workers | 80 | $7.26 | $15,090 |
| Medical and public health social workers | 80 | $20.04 | $41,690 |
| Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders | 80 | $16.39 | $34,100 |
| Parts salespersons | 80 | $15.26 | $31,750 |
| Recreation workers | 80 | $9.85 | $20,480 |
| Sales managers | 80 | $42.78 | $88,980 |
| Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products | 80 | $23.62 | $49,120 |
| Self-enrichment education teachers | 80 | $20.72 | $43,100 |
| Family and general practitioners | 70 | Not available | Not available |
| Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists | 70 | $8.41 | $17,490 |
| Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers | 70 | $9.73 | $20,240 |
| Helpers--pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters | 70 | $11.01 | $22,890 |
| Kindergarten teachers, except special education | 70 | Not available | $48,140 |
| Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines | 70 | $17.46 | $36,310 |
| Occupational therapists | 70 | $42.55 | $88,500 |
| Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists | 70 | $15.91 | $33,090 |
| Real estate sales agents | 70 | $16.20 | $33,690 |
| Social and human service assistants | 70 | $11.60 | $24,130 |
| Telecommunications line installers and repairers | 70 | $24.95 | $51,900 |
| Telemarketers | 70 | $8.16 | $16,960 |
| Tire repairers and changers | 70 | $11.66 | $24,250 |
| Community and social service specialists, all other | 60 | $14.93 | $31,050 |
| Couriers and messengers | 60 | $7.38 | $15,350 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers | 60 | $15.54 | $32,310 |
| First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators | 60 | $21.65 | $45,040 |
| Glaziers | 60 | Not available | Not available |
| Highway maintenance workers | 60 | $10.73 | $22,310 |
| Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping | 60 | $14.14 | $29,410 |
| Lawyers | 60 | $43.11 | $89,680 |
| Millwrights | 60 | $18.95 | $39,410 |
| Pest control workers | 60 | $13.21 | $27,470 |
| Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers | 60 | $11.25 | $23,400 |
| Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers | 60 | $8.04 | $16,720 |
| Bakers | 50 | $10.16 | $21,130 |
| Construction managers | 50 | $31.35 | $65,200 |
| Court, municipal, and license clerks | 50 | $13.09 | $27,230 |
| Dentists, general | 50 | $83.43 | $173,540 |
| Detectives and criminal investigators | 50 | Not available | Not available |
| Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance | 50 | $15.34 | $31,910 |
| File clerks | 50 | $8.65 | $18,000 |
| Floral designers | 50 | $9.80 | $20,390 |
| Insurance claims and policy processing clerks | 50 | $14.04 | $29,200 |
| Network and computer systems administrators | 50 | $23.48 | $48,850 |
| Paralegals and legal assistants | 50 | $21.88 | $45,510 |
| Payroll and timekeeping clerks | 50 | $13.45 | $27,980 |
| Printing machine operators | 50 | $11.70 | $24,330 |
| Production, planning, and expediting clerks | 50 | $18.33 | $38,130 |
| Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school | 50 | Not available | $49,530 |
| Surveying and mapping technicians | 50 | $13.31 | $27,690 |
| Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators | 50 | $14.10 | $29,320 |
| Advertising sales agents | 40 | $24.56 | $51,090 |
| Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation | 40 | $19.52 | $40,590 |
| Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists | 40 | $16.69 | $34,710 |
| Graphic designers | 40 | $15.56 | $32,370 |
| Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists, all other | 40 | $23.98 | $49,880 |
| Industrial engineers | 40 | $32.44 | $67,470 |
| Industrial production managers | 40 | $42.26 | $87,900 |
| Legislators | 40 | Not available | $14,730 |
| Librarians | 40 | $26.74 | $55,630 |
| Library assistants, clerical | 40 | $8.35 | $17,360 |
| Machinists | 40 | $14.20 | $29,530 |
| Medical and clinical laboratory technicians | 40 | $14.16 | $29,450 |
| Medical transcriptionists | 40 | $12.85 | $26,730 |
| Mental health counselors | 40 | $17.49 | $36,380 |
| Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic | 40 | $11.93 | $24,800 |
| Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators | 40 | Not available | Not available |
| Prepress technicians and workers | 40 | $11.24 | $23,390 |
| Procurement clerks | 40 | $16.99 | $35,340 |
| Refuse and recyclable material collectors | 40 | $14.83 | $30,840 |
| Respiratory therapists | 40 | $22.43 | $46,660 |
| Sheet metal workers | 40 | $13.86 | $28,820 |
| Social and community service managers | 40 | $20.81 | $43,280 |
| Architectural and civil drafters | 30 | $16.99 | $35,340 |
| Cardiovascular technologists and technicians | 30 | $24.40 | $50,750 |
| Cement masons and concrete finishers | 30 | $13.37 | $27,800 |
| Computer systems analysts | 30 | $27.87 | $57,980 |
| Diagnostic medical sonographers | 30 | $25.58 | $53,200 |
| Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic | 30 | $11.59 | $24,100 |
| Healthcare support workers, all other | 30 | $15.60 | $32,440 |
| Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers | 30 | $15.76 | $32,780 |
| Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers | Not available | $12.30 | $25,590 |
| Crane and tower operators | Not available | $21.54 | $44,800 |
| Dental hygienists | Not available | $28.42 | $59,120 |
| Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse | Not available | $9.01 | $18,750 |
| Graders and sorters, agricultural products | Not available | $7.01 | $14,580 |
| Home health aides | Not available | $8.51 | $17,700 |
| Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other | Not available | $11.85 | $24,640 |
| Law clerks | Not available | $16.45 | $34,210 |
| Maintenance workers, machinery | Not available | $12.00 | $24,960 |
| Management analysts | Not available | $28.03 | $58,300 |
| New accounts clerks | Not available | $15.51 | $32,270 |
| Physical therapists | Not available | $41.64 | $86,610 |
| Physician assistants | Not available | $38.99 | $81,090 |
| Preschool teachers, except special education | Not available | $16.60 | $34,520 |
| Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials | Not available | $8.70 | $18,090 |
| Service station attendants | Not available | $8.42 | $17,510 |
| Special education teachers, middle school | Not available | Not available | $52,070 |
| Speech-language pathologists | Not available | $34.74 | $72,250 |
| Teachers and instructors, all other | Not available | Not available | $21,180 |
