November 07, 2002 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Highest paying occupations in 2001
The highest-paying major groups of occupations in 2001 were the management occupations group and the legal occupations group.
![Major occupational groups with highest mean hourly wages, 2001](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120924195135im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2002/nov/wk1/art04.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
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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