Salary Research

One key to making more money in salary negotiations is knowing exactly what you should ask for, and feeling confident about that number. Here are some resources to help you. --Read: "What am I worth?" This brief article takes a peek at some of the info in Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute about how to answer the "What am I worth?" question. --Explore PINPOINT SALARY SERVICE; it's a NEW service available to job hunters. PinPoint can do customized salary research on their database to tell you your fair market value by calling 773-4-SALARY (773-472-5279). Click here to learn more about it. --Browse over 300 online salary surveys via links from one of JobStar's Webpages. --While you're at it, browse JobStar for other Salary & Job search info. The URL is http://jobsmart.org. We've included a brief summary of median weekly earnings in the table below. These statistics are direct from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For more detailed information, visit their site at: http://www.bls.gov/

1998 HOUSEHOLD DATA ANNUAL AVERAGES
OCCUPATION	MEN		WOMEN
(Numbers in thousands)	Number of workers	Median weekly earnings	Number of workers	Median weekly earnings
Executive, administrative, managerial	7,746	$915	6,705	$626
Professional Specialty	7,195	$895	7,658	$682
Technicians and related support	1,773	$701	1,734	$511
Sales occupations	5,299	$622	4,338	$372
Administrative support	3,368	$518	10,862	$418
Service--Private Household	19	(1)	362	$220
Service--Protective Services	1,817	$613	323	$481
Service--Other	3,455	$325	4,616	$295
Mechanics and repairers	3,926	$599	155	$519
Construction Trades	3,989	$545	64	$408
Extractive Occupations	119	$631	1	(1)
Precision Production Occupations	2,707	$611	729	$392
Machine Operators, Assemblers	4,482	$472	2,505	$328
Transportation/Material Moving	3,977	$519	345	$373
Handlers, Equipment Cleaners	3,105	$362	669	$311
Farming, Forestry and Fishing	1,337	$307	218	$272
TOTAL	54,314	$598	41,284	$456
(1) Data not shown where base is less than 50,000 SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics--Household Data Annual Averages Table