Women's Bureau (WB) Occupations - 20 Highest-Paying Occupations for Employed Women, 2012 (text version)

20 Highest-Paying Occupations for Employed Women, 2012
Occupation	Total Women Employed (in thousands)	Women as a percent of total employed in the occupation	Women's median weekly earnings	Men's median weekly earnings
Pharmacists	116	53.7	$ 1,871	$ 1,879
Chief executives	265	27.4	$ 1,730	$ 2,275
Lawyers	228	31.1	$ 1,636	$ 2,055
Nurse practitioners	65	86.1	$ 1,530	-
Computer and information systems managers	145	26.8	$ 1,527	$ 1,740
Physicians and surgeons	226	34.3	$ 1,418	$ 2,099
Physician assistants	61	69.4	$ 1,364	-
Software developers, applications and systems software	197	19.7	$ 1,362	$ 1,674
Management analysts	202	39.8	$ 1,325	$ 1,535
Computer systems analysts	145	30.9	$ 1,254	$ 1,477
Human resources managers	160	72.7	$ 1,208	$ 1,447
Occupational therapists	82	94	$ 1,200	-
Medical and health services managers	358	69.7	$ 1,190	$ 1,544
Physical therapists	88	70.7	$ 1,190	$ 1,362
Physical scientists, all other	50	35.1	$ 1,171	$ 1,522
Operations research analysts	70	54.9	$ 1,169	$ 1,551
Psychologists	72	72.7	$ 1,155	-
Computer programmers	100	22.5	$ 1,148	$ 1,363
Speech-language pathologists	86	95.2	$ 1,121	-
Marketing and sales managers	402	45.2	$ 1,110	$ 1,640

Notes: Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values not shown where base is less than 50,000).

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Current Population Survey (CPS)/ Graph by the Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor.