Labour Research September 2004

Key economic indicators

Full-time average weekly earnings by occupation

£pw

All workers 500.50

All male 552.30

All female 416.60

Managers 786.40

Professionals 684.50

Associate professionals1 555.40

Admin & secretarial 356.00

Skilled/craft 433.80

Services2 297.60

Sales 303.90

Operatives 393.20

Other manual jobs3 321.90

1 Associate professionals include technicians, nurses, police, firefighters, media/PR workers, train drivers, legal and finance workers and sales reps. 2 Services means personal service occupations such as care workers, travel assistants, hairdressers, caretakers. 3 Other manual jobs refers to "elementary" occupations including farm workers, labourers, dockers, postal workers, porters, waiters, cleaners.