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OES

May 2004 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

SOC major groups

These estimates are calculated with data collected from employers in all industry sectors in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in every State and the District of Columbia. These and other data elements, including the 10th, 25th, 75th, and 90th percentile wages, are available in the downloadable Excel files(XLS).

Click on the SOC Code Number to view an occupational profile.

			Wage Estimates
SOC Code Number	Occupation Title	Employment (1)	Median Hourly	Mean Hourly	Mean Annual (2)	Mean RSE (3)
19-0000	Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations	1,131,390	$23.88	$26.89	$55,920	0.4 %
19-1011	Animal Scientists	1,540	$24.00	$25.87	$53,800	1.9 %
19-1012	Food Scientists and Technologists	7,210	$24.44	$26.98	$56,110	1.6 %
19-1013	Soil and Plant Scientists	9,690	$24.62	$26.67	$55,470	1.1 %
19-1021	Biochemists and Biophysicists	15,200	$33.15	$34.48	$71,730	1.7 %
19-1022	Microbiologists	13,880	$26.37	$29.45	$61,250	1.8 %
19-1023	Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists	15,050	$24.20	$25.54	$53,120	0.7 %
19-1029	Biological Scientists, All Other	26,180	$27.05	$29.03	$60,370	1.3 %
19-1031	Conservation Scientists	14,290	$25.23	$25.72	$53,500	0.6 %
19-1032	Foresters	10,250	$23.19	$23.91	$49,730	0.7 %
19-1041	Epidemiologists	4,560	$26.35	$27.91	$58,060	1.8 %
19-1042	Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists	66,450	$29.48	$33.04	$68,730	1.8 %
19-1099	Life Scientists, All Other	13,870	$26.65	$30.63	$63,710	3.2 %
19-2011	Astronomers	680	$46.79	$44.99	$93,580	1.6 %
19-2012	Physicists	14,150	$42.04	$42.83	$89,090	1.3 %
19-2021	Atmospheric and Space Scientists	7,070	$33.70	$33.46	$69,590	1.9 %
19-2031	Chemists	79,650	$26.95	$29.43	$61,220	0.8 %
19-2032	Materials Scientists	7,330	$34.80	$35.77	$74,390	1.3 %
19-2041	Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health	66,850	$24.56	$26.53	$55,190	0.6 %
19-2042	Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers	25,100	$33.04	$36.96	$76,870	3.3 %
19-2043	Hydrologists	7,290	$29.57	$30.82	$64,100	0.9 %
19-2099	Physical Scientists, All Other	25,260	$38.53	$39.21	$81,560	2.4 %
19-3011	Economists	12,030	$34.99	$38.35	$79,770	1.4 %
19-3021	Market Research Analysts	170,200	$26.99	$30.28	$62,990	1.0 %
19-3022	Survey Researchers	19,480	$12.74	$15.39	$32,010	2.7 %
19-3031	Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychologists	96,540	$26.42	$29.24	$60,810	1.1 %
19-3032	Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	1,500	$34.33	$37.88	$78,800	3.6 %
19-3039	Psychologists, All Other	6,480	$34.57	$33.53	$69,740	1.4 %
19-3041	Sociologists	3,640	$27.82	$30.46	$63,350	3.8 %
19-3051	Urban and Regional Planners	31,140	$25.70	$26.75	$55,640	0.7 %
19-3091	Anthropologists and Archeologists	4,510	$21.10	$22.86	$47,550	1.1 %
19-3092	Geographers	750	$28.35	$28.65	$59,600	1.1 %
19-3093	Historians	2,350	$21.39	$23.48	$48,850	2.6 %
19-3094	Political Scientists	4,370	$41.71	$41.24	$85,770	2.7 %
19-3099	Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other	31,990	$28.12	$29.09	$60,500	1.9 %
19-4011	Agricultural and Food Science Technicians	18,940	$14.29	$15.37	$31,980	1.1 %
19-4021	Biological Technicians	59,710	$15.97	$17.04	$35,450	0.7 %
19-4031	Chemical Technicians	61,700	$18.35	$19.04	$39,600	0.6 %
19-4041	Geological and Petroleum Technicians	10,420	$19.35	$20.85	$43,360	2.9 %
19-4051	Nuclear Technicians	7,210	$28.46	$28.28	$58,830	2.2 %
19-4061	Social Science Research Assistants	15,710	$16.52	$17.26	$35,900	2.4 %
19-4091	Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health	29,460	$16.99	$17.90	$37,230	0.7 %
19-4092	Forensic Science Technicians	9,230	$21.16	$22.83	$47,490	1.5 %
19-4093	Forest and Conservation Technicians	29,910	$13.14	$14.79	$30,770	0.3 %
19-4099	Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other	72,580	$18.19	$20.52	$42,680	1.3 %

About May 2004 National, State, and Metropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

(1) Estimates for detailed occupations do not sum to the totals because the totals include occupations not shown separately. Estimates do not include self-employed workers.

(2) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.

(3) The relative standard error (RSE) is a measure of the reliability of a survey statistic. The smaller the relative standard error, the more precise the estimate.

National OES estimates by SOC major group