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The Occupation Employment Statistics (OES) survey provides an estimate of the average wage rate of employees in different non-farm occupations in the U.S. The average wage rate in Florida ranges from $9.17 to $31.35 per hour for sales associates and registered nurses respectively, although there are other specialists such as oral surgeons who earn $138.68 per hour (bls.gov, 2018). In Florida, there are 8,419,030 people who are employed. Across the entire occupations, the median and mean hourly wage rates are $16.07 and $21.53 respectively, while the annual mean wage is $44,790. Workers are categorized by the OES coding system into distinct groups such as management, legal, healthcare, business, and construction occupations.
The median and mean hourly wage rate of management occupations is $45.53 and $53.85 while that of business occupations is $29.05 and $32.98 respectively. Computer occupations have a median and mean hourly wage rate of $34.46 and $36.74 respectively, while that of engineering occupations is $32.61 and $35.63 respectively (bls.gov, 2018). Community occupations have a median and mean hourly wage rate of $18.97 and $21.12 respectively, while that of legal occupations is $31.12 and $45.38 respectively. Healthcare occupations have a median and mean hourly wage rate of $28.69 and $36.12 respectively, while that of food preparation occupations is $10.14 and $12.21 respectively.
It is important to note that for certain occupations, wages are not generally calculated on a yearly basis. This implies that their mean and median wage rates are not based on calculations that are done with full time jobs. This is the reason why detailed occupations have estimates that differ from the sum of ...