November 07, 2002 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.) Highest paying occupations in 2001The highest-paying major groups of occupations in 2001 were the management occupations group and the legal occupations group. Wage and salary workers in management occupations had a mean hourly wage of $34.04, while those in legal occupations had an average wage of $33.19. The next highest paid groups were computer and mathematical ($29.02), architecture and engineering ($27.08), and business and financial operations ($24.32). The BLS Occupational Employment Statistics program produced these data. Find more information on wages by occupation in 2001 in "Occupational Employment and Wages, 2001," news release USDL 02-619. |
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