Central Massachusetts Salary and Employment information

Worcester County Massachusetts: average annual pay in private manufacturing and other private sector industries

Industry	2017*
Private professional and technical services	$87,821
Private finance and insurance	$84,767
Private manufacturing	$76,938
Private construction	$66,644
Private education services	$51,231
Health care and social assistance	$48,686
Private arts, entertaiment and recreation	$21,198

*Preliminary data

Note: Includes all employees from entry level to management

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages

Notes: not seasonally adjusted; data not reported for Suffolk County; Employment figures were 8,818 and 8,756 for 2014 and 2016 respectively.

Occupation	Employment	Hourly Mean	Annual Mean
Bartenders	1,970	$13.57	$28,220
Pharmacy technicians	860	$15.84	$32,960
First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers	1,520	$19.31	$40,170
Medical assistants	1,210	$18.75	$39,010
Butchers and Meat Cutters	110	$20.08	$41,760
Emergency medical technicians and paramedics	670	$20.37	$42,370
Construction laborers	1,490	$23.04	$47,930
Heavy and tractor trailer truck drivers	3,980	$24.54	$51,050
Correctional officers and jailers	110	$26.33	$54,770
Sales representatives in a non-technical field	940	$31.08	$64,650

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Occupation	Employment	Hourly Mean	Annual Mean
Biomedical engineers	40	$45.41	$94,450
Chemical engineers	N/A	N/A	N/A
Civil engineers	310	$38.95	$81,020
Computer hardware engineers	80	$57.02	$118,590
Electrical engineers	530	N/A	N/A
Electronics engineers, except computer	80	$44.02	$91,560
Environmental engineers	160	$31.76	$66,060
Industrial engineers	650	$41.69	$86,710
Materials engineers	80	$50.11	$104,240
Mechanical engineers	570	$41.11	$85,500

Note: N/A = Not available

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Occupation	Employment	Hourly Mean	Annual Mean
Team assemblers and fabricators	2,440	$16.23	$33,760
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers and weighers	1,280	$20.10	$41,810
Machinists	900	$23.63	$49,150
Industrial machinery mechanics	490	$24.50	$50,950
Computer numerically controlled machine tool programmers	50	$25.81	$53,680
Buyers and purchasing agents	580	$30.36	$63,150
First-line supervisors of production and operating workers	1,440	$31.42	$65,350
Technical education teachers secondary school	380	N/A	$78,570
Power plant operators	190	$39.05	$81,230
Industrial production managers	470	$55.82	$116,110

Note: N/A = Not available

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics