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Tweet[IWS] BLS: OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES 2010 [CHARTBOOK] [30 September 2011]
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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BLS Bulletin 2769
October 2011
Occupational Employment and Wages, 2010 [Chartbook] [30 September 2011]
http://www.bls.gov/oes/2010/may/chartbook_2010.pdf
[full-text 68 pages]
The presentation of figures in this chartbook is intended to demonstrate
a variety of applications of OES data. Figures are organized into
five sections: the first focuses on a general overview of OES data,
the others highlight occupational, geographic, and industry topics in jobs
related to construction, healthcare, manufacturing, and STEM (science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics)
CONTENTS
Page Overview
iv Preface
vi Acknowledgments
x Organization of charts and applications of OES data
xi OES survey coverage, scope, and concept definitions
2 Figure 1 Employment and percent of total employment for the largest and smallest occupational groups, May 2010
3 Figure 2 Annual mean wages for the highest and lowest paying occupational groups, May 2010
4 Figure 3 Distribution of private and public sector employment by selected occupational group, May 2010
6 Figure 4 Employment and annual mean wages for the largest occupations in the private sector, May 2010
7 Figure 5 Employment and annual mean wages for the largest occupations in the public sector, May 2010
8 Figure 6 Employment and annual mean wages for the largest occupations in retail trade, May 2010
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)
12 Figure 7 Employment and annual mean wages for the largest STEM occupations, May 2010
13 Figure 8 Industry employment for biomedical engineers, May 2010
14 Figure 9 Employment and annual mean wages for the largest occupations in scientific research and development services, May 2010
15 Figure 10 Employment and annual mean wages for the largest occupations in communications equipment manufacturing, May 2010
16 Figure 11 Annual mean wages for the highest and lowest paying life and physical science occupations, May 2010
17 Figure 12 Annual mean wages for the highest and lowest paying architecture and engineering occupations, May 2010
18 Figure 13 Metropolitan areas with the highest concentrations of biochemists and biophysicists, May 2010
19 Figure 14 Metropolitan areas with the highest concentrations of mechanical engineers, May 2010
20 Figure 15 STEM occupations with the highest location quotients in Framingham, MA, May 2010
Healthcare
24 Figure 16 Wages for selected health assistants, May 2010
25 Figure 17 Wages for selected health aides, May 2010
26 Figure 18 Employment and hourly mean wages for the largest occupations in general medical and surgical hospitals, May 2010
27 Figure 19 Employment and hourly mean wages for the largest occupations in the medical and diagnostic laboratories industry, May 2010
28 Figure 20 Employment by occupational group in outpatient mental health and substance abuse centers, May 2010
29 Figure 21 Employment by occupational group in residential mental health and substance abuse facilities, May 2010
30 Figure 22 Employment of selected healthcare workers in non-healthcare related industries, May 2010
31 Figure 23 Location quotient of medical transcriptionists, by area, May 2010
Construction
34 Figure 24 Employment and hourly mean wages for the largest construction occupations, May 2010
35 Figure 25 Construction occupations with the highest mean wages, May 2010
36 Figure 26 Employment of the largest occupations in the building construction industry, May 2010
37 Figure 27 Mean hourly wages of the largest occupations in the building construction industry, May 2010
38 Figure 28 Construction occupations with the largest percent decrease in employment between May 2006 and May 2010
39 Figure 29 Construction occupations with an increase in employment between May 2006 and May 2010
40 Figure 30 States with the largest percent decrease in employment of construction occupations from May 2006 to May 2010
41 Figure 31 States with an increase in employment of construction occupations from May 2006 to May 2010
42 Figure 32 Location quotients for construction occupations in Pascagoula, MS, May 2010
43 Figure 33 Construction occupations in the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA, metropolitan division with mean wages
at least 55 percent higher than average, May 2010
Manufacturing
46 Figure 34 Employment and annual mean wages for the 10 largest occupations in manufacturing, May 2010
47 Figure 35 Highest paying production occupations in manufacturing, May 2010
48 Figure 36 Location quotient of team assemblers, by state, May 2010
49 Figure 37 Annual mean wage of team assemblers, by state, May 2010
50 Figure 38 Occupations with the largest location quotients in Elkhart-Goshen, IN, May 2010
52 Figure 39 Employment and hourly mean wages for the largest occupations in textile mills, May 2010
53 Figure 40 Employment and hourly mean wages for the largest occupations in chemical manufacturing, May 2010
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