November 24, 2003 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Highest paying occupations in 2002
The highest-paying major groups of occupations in 2002 were management occupations and legal occupations.
![Major occupational groups with highest mean hourly wages, 2002](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120924195856im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2003/nov/wk4/art01.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
Wage and salary workers in management occupations had a mean hourly wage of $37.92, while those in legal occupations had an average wage of $37.18. The next highest paid groups were computer and mathematical science ($29.63), architecture and engineering ($27.89), and healthcare practitioner and technical ($25.96).
The BLS Occupational Employment Statistics program produced these data. Find more information on wages by occupation in 2002 in
"Occupational Employment and Wages,
2002" (PDF) (TXT),
news release USDL 03-741.
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