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Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2009

43-0000 Office and Administrative Support Occupations (Major
Group)

This major group comprises the following occupations: First-Line
Supervisors/Managers of Office and Administrative Support Workers ; Switchboard Operators,
Including Answering Service ; Telephone
Operators ; Communications
Equipment Operators, All Other ; Bill and Account
Collectors ; Billing and Posting
Clerks and Machine Operators ; Bookkeeping,
Accounting, and Auditing Clerks ; Gaming Cage
Workers ; Payroll and
Timekeeping Clerks ; Procurement Clerks
; Tellers ; Brokerage Clerks ;
Correspondence
Clerks ; Court,
Municipal, and License Clerks ; Credit Authorizers,
Checkers, and Clerks ; Customer Service
Representatives ; Eligibility
Interviewers, Government Programs ; File Clerks ; Hotel, Motel, and
Resort Desk Clerks ; Interviewers, Except
Eligibility and Loan ; Library Assistants,
Clerical ; Loan
Interviewers and Clerks ; New Accounts
Clerks ; Order
Clerks ; Human
Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping ; Receptionists and
Information Clerks ; Reservation and
Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks ; Information and Record
Clerks, All Other ; Cargo and Freight
Agents ; Couriers and
Messengers ; Police, Fire, and
Ambulance Dispatchers ; Dispatchers, Except
Police, Fire, and Ambulance ; Meter Readers,
Utilities ; Postal Service
Clerks ; Postal
Service Mail Carriers ; Postal Service Mail
Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators ; Production, Planning,
and Expediting Clerks ; Shipping, Receiving,
and Traffic Clerks ; Stock Clerks and Order
Fillers ; Weighers, Measurers,
Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping ; Executive Secretaries
and Administrative Assistants ; Legal Secretaries
; Medical
Secretaries ; Secretaries, Except
Legal, Medical, and Executive ; Computer Operators
; Data Entry
Keyers ; Word
Processors and Typists ; Desktop Publishers
; Insurance Claims
and Policy Processing Clerks ; Mail Clerks and Mail
Machine Operators, Except Postal Service ; Office Clerks,
General ; Office Machine
Operators, Except Computer ; Proofreaders and Copy
Markers ; Statistical
Assistants ; Office and
Administrative Support Workers, All Other

National estimates for this occupation: Top

Employment estimate and mean wage estimates for this major group:

Employment (1)

Employment
RSE (3)

Mean hourly
wage

Mean annual
wage (2)

Wage RSE (3)

22,336,450

0.1 %

$15.86

$32,990

0.1 %

Percentile wage estimates for this major group:

Percentile

10%

25%

50%
(Median)

75%

90%

Hourly Wage

$8.84

$11.15

$14.62

$19.27

$24.96

Annual Wage (2)

$18,380

$23,180

$30,410

$40,080

$51,910

About May 2009
National, State, Metropolitan, and Nonmetropolitan Area Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimates

These estimates are calculated with data collected from employers in
all industry sectors in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas in every
State and the District of Columbia.

Percentile wage estimates show the percentage of workers in an
occupation that earn less than a given wage and the percentage that earn
more. The median wage is the 50th percentile wage estimate--50 percent of
workers earn less than the median and 50 percent of workers earn more than
the median. More about
percentile wages.

(1) Estimates for detailed occupations do not sum to the totals
because the totals include occupations not shown separately. Estimates do
not include self-employed workers.

(2) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly
mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for
those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the
annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey
data.

(3) The relative standard error (RSE) is a measure of the
reliability of a survey statistic. The smaller the relative standard
error, the more precise the estimate.

Other OES estimates and related information:

May 2009 National
Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

May 2009 State
Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

May 2009
Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage
Estimates

May 2009 National
Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates

List of
Occupations in SOC Code Number Order

List of
Occupations in Alphabetical Order

Download May 2009
Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates in Zipped XLS files

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