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Median Weekly Earnings of Selected Occupations, 2005

Occupation	Both sexes		Men		Women
Occupation	Number of workers (in thousands)	Median weekly earnings	Number of workers (in thousands)	Median weekly earnings	Number of workers (in thousands)	Median weekly earnings
All occupations, 16 years and over	103,560	$651	58,406	$722	45,154	$585
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers	98	1,366	92	1,368	6	(¹)
Architects, except naval	176	1,146	134	1,147	42	(¹)
Biological scientists	106	890	56	1,000	49	(¹)
Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons	166	598	166	598	—	—
Bus drivers	353	517	213	576	141	456
Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers	262	444	206	471	56	400
Carpenters	1,213	556	1,196	559	17	(¹)
Cashiers	1,428	336	363	389	1,064	322
Chief executives	1,043	1,834	790	1,903	253	1,413
Child care workers	444	332	30	(¹)	414	330
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators	276	789	102	971	174	706
Clergy	385	785	335	813	49	(¹)
Computer programmers	524	1,086	391	1,129	133	1,014
Computer scientists and systems analysts	647	1,091	449	1,140	198	983
Designers	500	816	282	920	218	653
Editors	108	865	49	1	59	794
Education administrators	712	1,114	272	1,289	440	972
Electricians	747	713	734	712	13	(¹)
Elementary and middle school teachers	2,204	826	403	909	1,801	813
Firefighters	228	944	219	952	9	(¹)
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists	285	416	27	(¹)	258	409
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks	107	376	41	(¹)	66	367
Insurance underwriters	110	894	31	(¹)	79	851
Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers	73	1,101	43	(¹)	30	(¹)
Lawyers	598	1,609	395	1,748	203	1,354
Machinists	401	697	376	712	25	(¹)
Marketing and sales managers	728	1,235	445	1,440	283	990
Medical scientists	125	935	70	934	55	938
Personal and home care aides	402	390	75	442	328	381
Personal financial advisers	270	1,134	188	1,239	83	888
Pharmacists	185	1,557	96	1,597	89	1,483
Physical therapists	117	1,036	43	(¹)	74	1,014
Physicians and surgeons	562	1,547	375	1,862	187	1,134
Police and sheriff's patrol officers	669	826	573	849	97	738
Postal service mail carriers	295	832	185	874	110	733
Preschool and kindergarten teachers	515	521	19	(¹)	495	520
Registered nurses	1,805	935	151	1,011	1,654	930
Retail salespersons	1,869	494	1,060	606	810	401
Roofers	209	500	203	503	6	(¹)
Secondary school teachers	1,037	878	460	942	577	841
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers	667	481	507	508	159	405
Sewing machine operators	236	360	64	372	171	355
Social workers	602	700	129	780	473	682
Telemarketers	98	367	28	(¹)	70	360
Tellers	296	426	26	(¹)	270	425
Travel agents	56	593	11	(¹)	46	(¹)
Waiters and waitresses	848	352	292	384	556	332
Writers and authors	70	887	27	(¹)	43	(¹)