May 27, 2005 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Highly paid healthcare occupations
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations, such as specialist physicians and dentists, accounted for 13 out of the 15 highest paying occupations in May 2004.
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The average hourly wages for surgeons were $87.31. Two other
occupations—obstetricians and gynecologists, and
anesthesiologists—also had average hourly wages greater than $80.
These data are from the Occupational Employment Statistics program. More estimates of occupational employment and wages of wage and salary workers in nonfarm industries are published in
Occupational Employment and Wages, May
2004 (PDF) (TXT),
news release USDL 05-877.
Of interest
Spotlight on Statistics: National Hispanic Heritage Month
In this Spotlight, we take a look at the Hispanic labor force—including labor force participation, employment and unemployment, educational attainment, geographic location, country of birth, earnings, consumer expenditures, time use, workplace injuries, and employment projections.
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