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Median Weekly Earnings of Selected Occupations, 2005

OccupationBoth sexesMenWomen
Number
of workers
(in thousands)		Median
weekly
earnings		Number
of workers
(in thousands)		Median
weekly
earnings		Number
of workers
(in thousands)		Median
weekly
earnings
All occupations, 16 years and over 103,560 $651 58,406 $722 45,154 $585
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers 98 1,366 92 1,368 6 (1)
Architects, except naval 176 1,146 134 1,147 42 (1)
Biological scientists 106 890 56 1,000 49 (1)
Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons 166 598 166 598 — —
Bus drivers 353 517 213 576 141 456
Butchers and other meat, poultry, and
 fish processing workers		 262 444 206 471 56 400
Carpenters 1,213 556 1,196 559 17 (1)
Cashiers 1,428 336 363 389 1,064 322
Chief executives 1,043 1,834 790 1,903 253 1,413
Child care workers 444 332 30 (1) 414 330
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators 276 789 102 971 174 706
Clergy 385 785 335 813 49 (1)
Computer programmers 524 1,086 391 1,129 133 1,014
Computer scientists and systems analysts 647 1,091 449 1,140 198 983
Designers 500 816 282 920 218 653
Editors 108 865 49 1 59 794
Education administrators 712 1,114 272 1,289 440 972
Electricians 747 713 734 712 13 (1)
Elementary and middle school
 teachers		 2,204 826 403 909 1,801 813
Firefighters 228 944 219 952 9 (1)
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists 285 416 27 (1) 258 409
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks 107 376 41 (1) 66 367
Insurance underwriters 110 894 31 (1) 79 851
Judges, magistrates, and other judicial
 workers		 73 1,101 43 (1) 30 (1)
Lawyers 598 1,609 395 1,748 203 1,354
Machinists 401 697 376 712 25 (1)
Marketing and sales managers 728 1,235 445 1,440 283 990
Medical scientists 125 935 70 934 55 938
Personal and home care aides 402 390 75 442 328 381
Personal financial advisers 270 1,134 188 1,239 83 888
Pharmacists 185 1,557 96 1,597 89 1,483
Physical therapists 117 1,036 43 (1) 74 1,014
Physicians and surgeons 562 1,547 375 1,862 187 1,134
Police and sheriff's patrol officers 669 826 573 849 97 738
Postal service mail carriers 295 832 185 874 110 733
Preschool and kindergarten teachers 515 521 19 (1) 495 520
Registered nurses 1,805 935 151 1,011 1,654 930
Retail salespersons 1,869 494 1,060 606 810 401
Roofers 209 500 203 503 6 (1)
Secondary school teachers 1,037 878 460 942 577 841
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers 667 481 507 508 159 405
Sewing machine operators 236 360 64 372 171 355
Social workers 602 700 129 780 473 682
Telemarketers 98 367 28 (1) 70 360
Tellers 296 426 26 (1) 270 425
Travel agents 56 593 11 (1) 46 (1)
Waiters and waitresses 848 352 292 384 556 332
Writers and authors 70 887 27 (1) 43 (1)
NOTE: 1. Data not shown where base is less than 50,000.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Web: stats.bls.gov .

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