Table 1. Average hourly earnings of selected full-time management, professional, and administrative support occupations, 2007
Occupation Nonprofit Private State Government Local Government
Hourly Mean Relative Standard Error Hourly Mean Relative Standard Error Hourly Mean Relative Standard Error Hourly Mean Relative Standard Error

All full-time workers

$21.68 1.1 $21.08 1.0 $23.77 1.8 $25.16 0.8

Management

34.24 2.6 41.38 1.8 36.18 5.8 39.75 1.5

Financial managers

39.17 6.0 42.20 2.2 45.74 15.9 38.97 4.8

Human resource managers

40.35 10.3 35.31 7.7 28.65 6.1 40.31 6.9

Social and community service managers

25.07 6.3 26.63 5.2 28.19 5.7 32.07 4.0

Business and financial operations

26.49 2.4 29.57 1.3 23.16 2.7 26.79 2.6

Accountants and auditors

25.25 5.9 27.83 2.2 23.29 3.8 26.03 4.4

Computer and mathematical science

32.00 4.7 35.09 1.6 26.87 3.9 28.25 2.2

Legal

33.53 10.0 39.23 7.0 38.14 7.5 28.99 5.4

Lawyers

40.50 6.9 54.69 3.7 39.25 5.9 37.13 5.7

Office and administrative support

15.46 1.0 15.65 0.6 15.92 1.6 16.76 1.4

Secretaries and administrative assistants

16.40 1.3 18.39 1.0 17.11 2.3 17.76 2.4

Note: Combined hourly mean for State and local government lawyers is $38.36 and RSE is 4.2%.