RSE Table 13 Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Relative standard errors of mean hourly, weekly, and annual earnings Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(5) Annual earnings(6) Occupation(2) Mean Relative Mean Relative Mean Relative error(4) error(4) error(4) All workers........................................................... $23.97 3.4% $950 3.2% $45,254 3.2% Management occupations.............................................. 38.35 4.6 1,543 4.9 76,640 4.9 General and operations managers................................... 48.97 7.3 1,959 7.3 101,865 7.3 Financial managers................................................ 39.67 10.9 1,587 10.9 82,368 10.9 Education administrators.......................................... 39.57 5.2 1,615 6.9 73,754 6.9 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 44.89 5.7 1,869 9.7 79,867 9.7 Education administrators, postsecondary......................... 35.65 12.7 1,430 11.8 74,339 11.8 Social and community service managers............................. 29.89 8.6 1,196 8.6 62,180 8.6 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 22.03 3.7 882 3.7 45,815 3.7 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 21.80 18.9 872 18.9 44,956 18.9 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 23.11 7.6 930 7.7 48,278 7.7 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 30.13 3.4 1,205 3.4 62,197 3.4 Computer systems analysts......................................... 33.27 3.9 1,331 3.9 69,202 3.9 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 25.23 7.2 1,009 7.2 52,478 7.2 Engineers......................................................... 31.84 7.5 1,274 7.5 66,236 7.5 Civil engineers................................................. 31.03 10.1 1,241 10.1 64,537 10.1 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 19.78 3.7 791 3.7 41,146 3.7 Civil engineering technicians................................... 19.09 3.6 764 3.6 39,715 3.6 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 24.23 5.9 968 6.0 49,385 6.0 Miscellaneous life, physical, and social science technicians...... 23.06 6.6 922 6.6 47,964 6.6 Community and social services occupations........................... 21.31 8.6 853 8.5 43,082 8.5 Counselors........................................................ 29.13 11.1 1,152 10.8 52,248 10.8 Educational, vocational, and school counselors.................. 36.79 8.3 1,436 8.4 56,203 8.4 Social workers.................................................... 19.10 8.6 763 8.5 39,553 8.5 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 17.97 8.1 718 8.0 37,133 8.0 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 19.71 7.6 798 7.2 41,448 7.2 Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists....... 20.51 4.0 836 3.4 43,471 3.4 Social and human service assistants............................. 18.40 19.6 736 19.6 38,159 19.6 Legal occupations................................................... 32.83 7.4 1,313 7.4 68,288 7.4 Lawyers........................................................... 36.31 10.9 1,453 10.9 75,534 10.9 Miscellaneous legal support workers............................... 22.80 6.7 912 6.7 47,421 6.7 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 32.68 5.2 1,242 5.5 48,634 5.5 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 56.64 23.5 2,248 23.4 93,730 23.4 Arts, communications, and humanities teachers, postsecondary.... 37.92 8.8 1,653 7.7 64,091 7.7 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 31.37 3.8 1,188 3.0 44,659 3.0 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 25.60 7.5 923 3.4 34,884 3.4 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 25.18 2.8 964 1.9 36,242 1.9 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 31.01 3.7 1,180 2.9 44,227 2.9 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 31.24 3.9 1,189 2.9 44,514 2.9 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 29.99 4.5 1,136 4.2 42,922 4.2 Secondary school teachers....................................... 32.59 3.4 1,237 2.7 46,725 2.7 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................. 32.64 3.5 1,239 2.8 46,775 2.8 Special education teachers...................................... 30.94 2.9 1,158 2.9 43,336 2.9 Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school.......................................... 30.90 4.0 1,145 4.2 42,968 4.2 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 33.04 3.3 1,257 5.1 48,037 5.1 Library technicians............................................... 18.26 10.1 730 10.1 37,977 10.1 Instructional coordinators........................................ 27.23 2.3 1,070 3.1 52,748 3.1 Teacher assistants................................................ 12.18 3.2 419 4.1 15,663 4.1 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 20.43 2.3 817 2.3 39,992 2.3 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.52 4.3 1,158 4.0 57,519 4.0 Registered nurses................................................. 29.84 3.7 1,150 4.8 55,569 4.8 Therapists........................................................ 30.80 8.2 1,217 7.1 57,475 7.1 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.53 5.1 515 6.6 26,396 6.6 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.47 6.2 434 5.1 22,557 5.1 Protective service occupations...................................... 22.06 5.6 913 4.4 46,977 4.4 First-line supervisors/managers, law enforcement workers.......... 29.64 7.7 1,186 7.7 61,648 7.7 First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives........ 32.14 8.5 1,286 8.5 66,862 8.5 Fire fighters..................................................... 17.29 14.6 838 9.4 43,551 9.4 Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers...................... 18.14 5.2 737 5.1 38,298 5.1 Correctional officers and jailers............................... 18.14 5.2 737 5.1 38,298 5.1 Police officers................................................... 24.50 2.5 982 2.5 51,068 2.5 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 24.50 2.5 982 2.5 51,068 2.5 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.28 6.6 392 6.1 18,116 6.1 Cooks............................................................. 10.81 12.2 433 12.2 20,342 12.2 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.51 6.3 497 6.4 25,563 6.4 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.97 3.1 474 3.6 24,229 3.6 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.35 4.2 489 4.8 24,878 4.8 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 12.80 16.7 512 16.7 26,641 16.7 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 12.96 18.6 518 18.6 26,977 18.6 Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.73 9.4 465 9.8 23,852 9.8 Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.49 20.3 540 20.3 28,065 20.3 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.56 2.4 621 2.4 31,453 2.4 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers................................................ 20.84 10.9 834 10.9 43,347 10.9 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.89 4.9 596 4.9 30,971 4.9 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.51 5.9 620 5.9 32,259 5.9 Court, municipal, and license clerks.............................. 16.29 6.5 651 6.5 33,831 6.5 Eligibility interviewers, government programs..................... 15.93 3.9 637 3.9 33,136 3.9 Dispatchers....................................................... 16.75 8.3 670 8.3 34,845 8.3 Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers......................... 16.68 11.4 667 11.4 34,697 11.4 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.79 3.3 629 3.1 31,481 3.1 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 16.75 6.7 669 6.7 34,766 6.7 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.96 4.3 558 4.2 26,285 4.2 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.40 3.7 575 3.7 28,359 3.7 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 17.84 4.7 713 4.7 36,518 4.7 Construction equipment operators.................................. 17.19 4.9 687 4.9 35,745 4.9 Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators.. 16.85 5.6 674 5.6 35,056 5.6 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 18.54 17.4 741 17.4 38,557 17.4 Highway maintenance workers....................................... 15.01 8.3 601 8.3 29,407 8.3 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.40 6.1 856 6.1 44,517 6.1 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.54 9.0 822 9.0 42,727 9.0 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.31 8.4 813 8.4 42,252 8.4 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 17.12 3.1 685 3.1 35,605 3.1 Production occupations.............................................. 20.68 6.0 827 6.0 43,017 6.0 Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators....... 19.87 6.1 795 6.1 41,321 6.1 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.40 10.4 594 9.4 27,582 9.4 Bus drivers....................................................... 13.23 9.2 497 9.1 22,109 9.1 Bus drivers, school............................................. 11.49 9.9 417 10.4 17,127 10.4 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 800 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighed by hours. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. 6 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. NOTE: Dashes indicate that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.