Table: Occupational and Wage Information for the Manufacturing Industry

		Hourly Wage
			Entry		Experienced
OES Code	Title	Mean	Level	Median	Level
13002	Financial Managers	$22.81	$15.39	$22.04	$31.70
13005	Personnel, Training, and Labor Relations Managers	20.02	12.50	17.29	28.05
13008	Purchasing Managers	13.70	7.93	12.08	17.84
13011	Marketing, Advertising, and Public Relations Managers	18.28	10.92	15.22	21.86
13014	Administrative Services Managers	17.43	12.97	17.37	22.09
13017	Engineering, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Managers	24.31	17.97	22.67	33.49
15014	Industrial Production Managers	16.12	11.03	12.57	20.92
15021	Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Well Drilling Managers	31.14	27.06	34.06	41.06
19005	General Managers and Top Executives	20.55	12.05	17.90	27.46
19999	All Other Managers and Administrators	20.23	14.81	18.26	23.68
21114	Accountants and Auditors	14.12	10.54	12.87	16.55
21117	Budget Analysts	17.70	14.55	16.73	18.78
21199	All Other Financial Specialists	17.45	9.91	15.73	18.80
21308	Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products	15.82	11.21	13.46	19.91
21511	Personnel, Training and Labor Relations Specialists	12.84	6.83	11.96	16.69
21902	Cost Estimators	17.40	12.05	16.47	21.29
21911	Compliance Officers and Enforcement Inspectors, except Construction	15.25	12.12	13.76	16.18
21999	All Other Management Support Workers	14.35	10.69	13.29	15.45
22111	Petroleum Engineers	27.41	21.41	27.27	37.04
22121	Civil Engineers, including Traffic	19.60	15.62	18.49	22.94
22126	Electrical and Electronic Engineers	19.61	12.72	18.58	24.87
22135	Mechanical Engineers	21.36	13.95	20.92	30.90
22199	All Other Engineers	19.52	13.79	19.71	24.11
22502	Civil Engineering Technicians and Technologists	11.32	10.04	11.26	12.83
22505	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technicians and Technologists	15.83	8.66	17.67	21.67
22514	Drafters	12.80	10.35	12.34	15.13
22599	All Other Engineering and Related Technicians and Technologists	14.09	9.93	13.19	15.47
24105	Chemists, except Biochemists	14.93	12.39	14.23	16.58
24111	Geologists, Geophysicists, and Oceanographers	18.65	15.77	17.90	21.05
24199	All Other Physical Scientists	15.98	13.21	15.43	18.16
24302	Foresters and Conservation Scientists	16.30	14.03	16.09	18.05
24308	Biological Scientists	16.94	14.21	16.78	19.29
24399	All Other Life Scientists	16.33	13.74	15.13	17.82
24502	Biological, Agricultural, and Food Technicians and Technologists, except Health	10.34	9.61	10.38	10.92
24505	Chemical Technicians and Technologists, except Health	15.52	9.55	12.44	21.52
24599	All Other Physical and Life Science Technicians and Technologists	16.07	10.52	13.54	18.89
25102	Systems Analysts/Computer Programmers	16.40	12.84	16.27	18.54
25103	Data Base Administrators	21.96	15.55	18.97	31.60
25104	Computer Support Specialists	13.00	10.68	13.21	15.16
25108	Computer Programmer Aides	10.01	8.52	9.74	11.83
28108	Lawyers	23.57	17.21	21.16	30.28
32502	Registered Nurses	14.93	13.20	14.68	16.69
32514	Opticians, Dispensing and Measuring	9.59	6.60	8.88	11.06
32999	All Other Health Professionals, Paraprofessionals, and Technicians	12.54	9.22	12.02	14.60
34002	Writers and Editors	10.72	9.13	10.52	12.11
34008	Public Relations Specialists and Publicity Writers	16.52	13.18	15.92	19.73
34011	Reporters and Correspondents	8.53	6.95	8.51	9.60
34023	Photographers	8.53	6.24	7.87	9.77
34035	Artists and Related Workers	8.64	6.96	8.17	10.37
34038	Designers, except Interior Designers	7.94	5.75	6.95	8.15
39999	All Other Professional, Paraprofessional, and Technical Workers	12.70	10.37	11.14	14.05
41002	First-Line Supervisors and Managers/Supervisors - Sales and Related Workers	12.06	7.84	10.66	13.87
43023	Sales Agents, Advertising	10.91	6.88	8.49	12.85
49005	Sales Representatives, Scientific and Related Products and Services, except Retail	17.96	12.81	18.56	22.06
49008	Sales Representatives, except Retail and Scientific and Related Products and Services	15.61	8.99	15.52	20.91
49011	Salespersons, Retail	6.92	5.24	5.73	7.59
49023	Cashiers	6.10	5.14	5.53	6.87
49999	All Other Sales and Related Workers	6.85	5.12	5.50	6.59
51002	First-Line Supervisors and Managers - Clerical and Administrative Support Workers	13.59	8.86	11.74	16.70
53123	Adjustment Clerks	9.33	5.57	8.20	13.22
53908	Advertising Clerks	7.57	6.35	7.43	8.51
55108	Secretaries, except Legal and Medical	9.18	7.10	8.87	10.65
55305	Receptionists and Information Clerks	7.59	6.29	7.38	8.46
55307	Typists, including Word Processing	7.42	6.17	7.18	8.18
55321	File Clerks	6.91	5.43	6.42	7.68
55323	Order Clerks, Materials, Merchandise, and Service	7.35	5.49	6.71	8.20
55328	Statistical Clerks	9.37	8.70	9.60	10.43
55338	Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	9.50	6.92	8.80	10.92
55341	Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	10.32	7.51	10.49	12.91
55344	Billing, Cost, and Rate Clerks	8.38	6.72	8.02	9.80
55347	General Office Clerks	7.83	5.62	7.15	9.03
56002	Billing, Posting, and Calculating Machine Operators	8.76	6.94	8.53	9.96
		Annual Wage
			Entry		Experienced
Code	Title	Mean	Level	Median	Level
56011	Computer Operators, except Peripheral Equipment	9.15	5.87	9.34	10.58
56017	Data Entry Keyers, except Composing	8.14	6.65	7.95	9.45
57102	Switchboard Operators	7.84	6.29	7.87	9.17
57302	Mail Clerks, except Mail Machine Operators and Postal Service	8.57	6.56	8.48	10.53
57311	Messengers	5.76	5.10	5.45	6.16
58005	Dispatchers, except Police, Fire, and Ambulance	15.77	12.09	15.07	18.53
58008	Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks	12.08	7.00	8.41	14.65
58023	Stock Clerks - Stockroom, Warehouse or Storage Yard	9.95	5.82	8.41	11.01
58028	Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks	12.08	11.44	12.80	14.26
58099	All Other Material Recording, Scheduling, and Distributing Workers	13.94	5.72	15.77	18.64
59999	All Other Clerical and Administrative Support Workers	9.74	8.19	9.74	10.79
61000	First-Line Supervisors and Managers/Supervisors - Service Workers	10.14	6.75	8.62	12.05
63047	Guards and Watch Guards	7.90	5.78	7.14	8.49
67005	Janitors and Cleaners, except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners	7.12	5.42	6.58	8.20
67099	All Other Cleaning and Building Service Workers	7.46	5.93	7.04	8.15
69999	All Other Service Workers	$9.14	$5.47	$7.80	$11.20
72002	First-Line Supervisors and Managers - Agricultural, Forestry, Fishing, and Related Workers	14.36	11.08	13.76	15.90
79002	Forest and Conservation Workers	10.55	9.31	10.15	10.96
79017	Animal Caretakers, except Farm	6.52	5.25	5.77	7.72
79041	Laborers, Landscaping and Groundskeeping	7.63	5.89	7.19	8.48
79999	All Other Agricultural, Forestry, Fishing, and Related Workers	9.54	7.15	8.71	11.81
81002	First-Line Supervisors and Managers - Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers	17.16	11.22	16.24	22.42
81005	First-Line Supervisors and Managers - Construction Trades and Extractive	18.02	12.88	17.04	21.91
81008	First-Line Supervisors and Managers - Production and Operating Workers	14.90	10.79	15.76	18.23
81011	First-Line Supervisors and Managers - Transportation and Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators	21.43	15.24	19.58	29.97
81099	All Other First-Line Supervisors and Managers - Production, Construction, Maintenance and Related Workers	23.72	16.08	26.61	35.15
83002	Precision Inspectors, Testers, and Graders	16.82	13.69	15.80	21.54
83005	Production Inspectors, Testers, Graders, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers	11.08	7.80	11.15	14.00
85110	Machinery Maintenance Mechanics	15.01	11.90	13.04	19.21
85128	Machinery Maintenance Workers	11.20	9.54	10.71	12.94
85132	Maintenance Repairers, General Utility	10.81	6.84	9.37	12.72
85302	Automotive Mechanics	12.43	8.85	11.42	14.49
85305	Automotive Body and Related Repairers	12.55	8.52	9.91	16.50
85311	Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists	12.88	10.73	12.65	15.36
85314	Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, except Engines	14.61	11.43	13.81	17.98
85599	All Other Communications Equipment Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers	16.30	16.23	17.24	18.25
85902	Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers	15.74	13.60	15.92	17.89
85905	Precision Instrument Repairers	19.69	17.80	20.03	22.11
85999	All Other Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers	17.21	10.37	15.43	22.70
87102	Carpenters	12.85	10.38	12.19	15.76
87202	Electricians	15.86	11.35	15.99	19.38
87311	Concrete and Terrazzo Finishers	11.57	10.48	11.51	12.68
87402	Painters and Paperhangers, Construction and Maintenance	9.44	5.64	9.81	11.81
87502	Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters	17.56	13.46	19.75	21.97
87708	Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators	11.01	9.30	10.63	12.48
87802	Insulation Workers	9.49	8.64	9.30	9.95
87899	All Other Construction Trades Workers	13.10	8.64	13.99	15.11
87999	All Other Construction and Extractive Workers, except Helpers	11.48	9.50	11.02	13.70
89108	Machinists	15.37	11.96	16.19	18.37
89132	Sheet Metal Workers	11.10	8.31	10.78	14.44
89702	Hand Compositors and Typesetters	6.30	5.17	5.60	7.29
89999	All Other Precision Workers	10.65	6.61	10.16	14.04
92543	Printing Press Machine Operators and Tenders	9.48	7.44	9.63	11.58
92717	Sewing Machine Operators, Garment	7.02	5.66	6.74	7.85
92726	Laundry and Dry-cleaning Machine Operators and Tenders, except Pressing	6.57	5.43	6.41	7.65
92998	All Other Machine Operators and Tenders	12.59	7.33	9.84	17.78
93914	Welders and Cutters	16.39	11.71	16.23	20.72
93956	Assemblers and Fabricators, except Machine, Electrical, Electronic, and Precision	9.61	6.40	7.90	13.63
93999	All Other Hand Workers	11.11	5.96	8.40	16.47
95002	Water and Liquid Waste Treatment Plant and System Operators	14.22	11.32	13.45	15.19
97102	Truck Drivers, Heavy or Tractor-Trailer	$11.99	$9.64	$11.74	$14.41
97105	Truck Drivers, Light, include Delivery and Route Workers	7.62	5.38	6.65	9.06
97117	Driver/Sales Workers	10.35	5.82	9.56	12.90
97938	Grader, Bulldozer, and Scraper Operators	19.36	15.50	18.42	22.75
97944	Crane and Tower Operators	16.21	12.58	16.76	18.59
97947	Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators	13.68	10.37	11.19	19.55
97956	Operating Engineers	15.09	12.90	14.92	17.18
98102	Helpers, Mechanics and Repairers	9.81	7.27	8.96	10.97
98700	Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand	7.64	5.42	6.78	9.14
98902	Hand Packers and Packagers	6.49	5.23	5.70	7.61
98905	Vehicle Washers and Equipment Cleaners	5.52	5.06	5.36	5.67
98999	Other Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand	8.77	6.48	8.21	10.29