Did you know that...
surgeons rank # 1 in terms of mean annual income at $190,280
CEOs come in at # 6 with $140,580
HR managers come in at # 46 with $75,190
B-School profs make $62,450 on average
Training and development specialists rank # 208 with $47,490
Compensation & Benefit specialists' mean annual income is $49,620 and
Employment & Recruiting specialists make $47,730
the single largest occupation is retail salespeople - 3,992,930
the second largest is cashiers - 3,462,010
the smallest occupation is "locomotive firer" - there are only 680 of them
there are 25 occupations employing more than 1,000,000 people each and 8
employing more than 2,000,000 each
for every manager there are 3.41 office and admin support people
the office and admin support category is the largest with more than
22,000,000 people
On and on the numbers go.
In case you're wondering, I've been digging around in the occupational data
from the Bureau of Labor's web site. The data are available on the web and
so are some zipped .xls files but none contained exactly what I wanted. So,
I spent hours and hours cutting and pasting data from the web site into some
Word tables and Excel spreadsheets. I've got them all sorted various ways
now (e.g., by income, by number employed and alphabetically) and poring over
them is more fun than I imagined.
My original purpose for doing this had to do with trying to figure out what
percentage of the population consisted of knowledge workers, manual workers,
service workers, etc. On that score, I'm making good progress.
If you had ready access to these data in the various sorts I've created,
what kinds of questions would you want to ask and have answered?
Regards,
Fred Nickols, CPT
Distance Consulting
"Assistance at a Distance"
nickols@att.net
www.nickols.us