Trends: Bureau of Labor Statistics

Weekly Earnings by Occupation and Sex

In the 2nd quarter of 2026, median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers were $1,697 in management, professional, and related occupations, $799 in service occupations, $1,021 in sales and office occupations, $1,101 in natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations, $968 in production, transportation, and material moving occupations; the same quarter a year earlier (the 2nd quarter of 2025) is beside each. In management, professional and related occupations the median was $1,928 for men and $1,476 for women. BLS Table 4 gives the major and intermediate occupation groups.

All workers

Number of workers (in thousands)Median weekly earnings
Occupation2nd 20252nd 20262nd 20252nd 2026
Management, professional, and related occupations56,86856,423$1,643$1,697
Management, business, and financial operations occupations24,00123,9691,7571,797
Professional and related occupations32,86632,4541,5681,591
Service occupations16,30515,481768799
Sales and office occupations21,03821,8591,0061,021
Sales and related occupations8,6648,9711,1321,149
Office and administrative support occupations12,37412,888974980
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations11,24811,4001,0651,101
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations800752724790
Construction and extraction occupations6,2646,4811,0281,116
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations4,1844,1671,1781,151
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations16,01015,782925968
Production occupations6,8596,8909811,014
Transportation and material moving occupations9,1518,892891930

Men

Number of workers (in thousands)Median weekly earnings
Occupation2nd 20252nd 20262nd 20252nd 2026
Management, professional, and related occupations27,27226,9851,9071,928
Management, business, and financial operations occupations12,55212,3801,9071,994
Professional and related occupations14,72014,6051,9061,909
Service occupations7,8567,246882920
Sales and office occupations8,8808,8941,1621,214
Sales and related occupations5,2145,1091,2151,346
Office and administrative support occupations3,6653,7851,0831,091
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations10,65310,6811,0941,120
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations605542779802
Construction and extraction occupations6,0156,1971,0631,132
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations4,0333,9421,1901,159
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations12,46711,9649811,022
Production occupations5,1394,8871,0641,102
Transportation and material moving occupations7,3287,077928977

Women

Number of workers (in thousands)Median weekly earnings
Occupation2nd 20252nd 20262nd 20252nd 2026
Management, professional, and related occupations29,59529,4391,4291,476
Management, business, and financial operations occupations11,45011,5891,5541,634
Professional and related occupations18,14617,8491,3521,388
Service occupations8,4508,235706730
Sales and office occupations12,15812,964942943
Sales and related occupations3,4503,862973960
Office and administrative support occupations8,7089,102932936
Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations595719787812
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations195210617725
Construction and extraction occupations249285839770
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations1512251,0761,050
Production, transportation, and material moving occupations3,5443,818771829
Production occupations1,7202,003782864
Transportation and material moving occupations1,8231,815761775

Reading these tables

BLS Table 4 is one table in three blocks (all workers, men, women), shown here as three tables with the same rows. The rows are the Census occupational classification's five major groups, with their intermediate groups indented, so an indented block sums to the row above it in the worker counts though not in the medians. The two number of workers columns (thousands) and the two median weekly earnings columns give the quarter named in the release and the same quarter a year earlier; BLS shows the same quarter rather than the previous one because the series is not seasonally adjusted.

Usual weekly earnings are earnings before deductions at the main job as the worker usually receives them, including usual overtime, tips and commissions; full-time is 35 hours or more a week; the median is computed by interpolation within $50 intervals, so a $10 difference is inside the survey's precision. These are household-survey figures for broad occupation groups; the occupation pages give the OEWS employer-survey wage for each detailed occupation, and the Learn explainer sets out why the two measures differ. Within every group men's and women's medians differ, and the pay-gap explainer covers how such ratios should be read.

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