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Profession-Specific Salary Surveys Links to over 300 free online salary surveys for a wide range of professions and settings. The focus here is on California and national surveys.

JobStar now links to over 300 online salary surveys. If your occupation is not listed here try these sites:

• Try the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook which offers "Earnings" information for 250 occupations.
• For salary ranges for hundreds of occupations by STATE, try America's Career InfoNet: Wages and Trends. First select a category or enter a Keyword, then choose a state.
• Get the California angle on hundreds of occupations (including Wages, Hours and Benefits) from the California Occupational Guide.
• California Labor Market Information Division offers Labor Market Information which provides specific occupation salary ranges for California counties and regions.

ACCOUNTING

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT

California Wage Estimates - Office & Administrative Support Occupations
Bureau of Labor Statistics reports median hourly and mean annual wages for office & administrative support positions for all California employers.

Office and Administrative Support Positions
Occupational Outlook Handbook outlines various administrative settings including earnings information.

ADVERTISING

AGRICULTURE

California Farm Workers: Employment and Earnings SF LA Sac SD
Each monthly Agricultural Bulletin contains regional hourly earnings for farmworkers.

AgriCareers Salary Survey
Salary ranges for swine, dairy, beef and crop farming from an agricultural recruiter.

Wine Business Monthly Salary Survey
Salaries arranged by winery size. Covers positions in winery, vineyard, sales, marketing, administration.

AIRLINES

Aviation Maintenance Salary Survey
Aviation Maintenance's annual salary survey covers major airlines, repair stations and corporate flight settings.

Aircraft Maintenance Salary Survey
Aircraft Maintenance Technology Magazine article covers average hourly pay rates by region, job title, age, and education (in .pdf format).

IAM Facts & Figures
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers: Earnings & Hours, Cost of Living, Employment data.

AUTOMOTIVE

BodyShop Personnel Profile
Average pay & benefits for metal techs, painters, mechanics from Body Shop Business (in .pdf format).

Brake & Front-End Salary Survey
Surveys wages & fringe benefits for automotive technicians, managers and sales/service writers in independent and specialty repair shops.

BANKING

BUILDING INDUSTRIES

Salary Survey for Grounds Personnel
Summary of annual survey by Professional Grounds Management Society.

Survey for California Architectural Firms SF LA Sac SD
Management Design's survey includes salary data for California, LA, Orange County, San Diego County, Sacramento Central Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. Covers management & technical positions in architectural firms.

Growth in Architect Compensation
Report on triennial compensation survey of architecture firms from AIArchitect.

Landscape Architects Salary Survey
Summary of a report issued by the American Society of Landscape Architects.

FacilitiesNet Salary Base
Search salary benchmarks by location, job type, facility type/size, operations budget.

COMPUTER FIELDS

CONSULTING / CONTRACTING

EDUCATION

ENGINEERING

ENTERTAINMENT

EXECUTIVES

Executive Pay
BusinessWeek's annual report on executive compensation at the 300+ largest US companies.

Executive Compensation: Ranking the top 800 executives
Annual feature from Forbes.

CRN Executive Salary Survey
Extensive surveys of high tech executive salaries (including "solution providers") from Computer Reseller News.

FINANCE

FOOD PROCESSING

FOOD SERVICE

Dietary Manager Salary Survey
Dietary Manager's Association national survey of dietary managers and directors of food service covers multiple settings: hospitals, long-term care, retirement homes and schools.

Food & Beverage Service Occupations
Median annual earnings nationwide from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.

GOVERNMENT

GEOLOGY

GRAPHIC ART

AIGA Salary CalculatorSF LA
Obtain customized report (type of organization, location, size) based on surveys of American Institute of Graphic Artist members.

M.P.S.C. Local 839's Wage Survey LA
LA chapter of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonist's union offers minimum rates for a wide range of positions for artists, writers and technicians making animated films.

HEALTHCARE

HOSPITALITY

San Francisco Restaurant Employee Compensation Survey
Survey from Golden Gate Restaurant Association (in .pdf format.)

HUMAN RESOURCES

INSURANCE

LAW ENFORCEMENT

Law Enforcement Officer Locality Pay Tables SF LA Sac SD
For federal law enforcement officers from the U. S. Office of Personnel Management.

Police and Detectives - Earnings
Occupational Outlook Handbook compiles various compensation surveys for law enforcement positions.

Microsoft WORD Document: California Association of Criminalists - Salary Survey
Annual salary report for criminalists--in EXCEL file format.

LEGAL & PARALEGAL

Salaries & Compensation
Salary information spotlight from lawjobs.com.

General Corporate Counsel Salary Survey
Results of confidential flash survey from Altman Weil, Inc. See also: General Counsel Bonus Survey.

Lists & Rankings
Collection of articles, many on compensation trends, from National Law Journal.

Infirmation - Law Firm Salaries
Specific firm salaries by state from Findlaw's Infirmation.

Survey on Paralegal Compensation in Law Firms and Law Departments
Brief summary of a compensation survey by Altman Weil Publications in partnership with the Legal Assistant Management Association (LAMA).

Law Teacher Salary Surveys
Salaries at U.S. law schools from the Society of American Law Teachers.

Legal Assistants Utilization and Compensation Survey Report
Bi-annual National Association of Legal Assistants report covers billing rates and salary and compensation levels.

LIBRARIES

ARL Salary Survey
Surveys and data from Association of Research Libraries for university and nonuniversity research library positions.

Placements & Salaries
Annual review of starting salaries for new library school graduates from ALA-APA survey.

MANAGEMENT

Haas School of Business - Placement Reports SF
Starting salaries and signing bonuses for graduates of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Management.

USC Marshall - MBA Employment Report LA
Starting salaries for graduates of USC's Marshall School of Business; includes industry, location and internship salaries

MANUFACTURING

Plant Maintenance Salary Surveys
Maintenance managers, foremen, engineers, technicians and more are covered in this survey from Plant Maintenance Resource Center.

Sales & Engineering Salary Survey
Automation and instrumentation engineering and sales compensation survey from the Measurement, Control and Automation Association (in .pdf format).

Plant Engineering Salary Survey
Report from Plant Engineering Magazine covers education level, plant size, location and more.

Industrial Distribution Compensation Survey
Surevy of readers of Industrial Distribution covers management, marketing, inside & outside sales.

MARKETING & SALES

MATHEMATICS

Salary Survey of Academic Statisticians
Report of a survey conducted by the American Statistical Association of statisticians employed in business, industry and government.

MEDIA

MEETING PLANNERS

Meetings - State of the Industry
A biennial profile of the average meeting planner--including compensation--from Successful Meetings magazine (in .pdf format.)

Convention Management - Compensation Surveys
Professional Convention Management Association's annual salary survey.

Show Management Salaries
Compensation for Association Meetings and Expositions Executives, Show Management Salary Survey and Exhibit Sales Salary Survey, sponsored by EXPO magazine, includes regional salary data.

MINING

NONPROFIT

Salary Survey Highlights
Survey of recent salaries at foundations and corporate foundations/giving programs from the Council on Foundations (in .pdf format.) The most current survey is restricted to members only.

Nonprofits Salary Survey
NonProfit Times annual report on nonprofit salaries.

PACKAGING

PERFORMING ARTS

Actors, Directors & Producers - Earnings
Median annual earnings nationwide from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.

PETROLEUM

PRINTING

PSYCHOLOGY

Faculty Salaries in Graduate Departments of Psychology
From the American Psychological Association (76 pages in .pdf format.)

PURCHASING

QUALITY CONTROL

REAL ESTATE

Accredited Residential Manager Salaries SF LA Sac SD
Summaries of surveys from Institute of Real Estate Management.

RETAIL

Clothing, Accessory, and General Merchandise Stores
Bureau of Labor Statistics Career Guide to Industries reports average earnings of nonsupervisory workers & median hourly earnings for this setting.

SCIENCE & BIOTECH

SECURITY

SERVICE TECHNICIANS

SOCIAL WORK

Social Worker Earnings
Occupational Outlook Handbook tables of median earnings in various practice settings.

TECHNICAL WRITERS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

TRADES

TRAVEL AGENTS

WAREHOUSING