2001 Average Annual Pay by State and Industry — 2002-09-24

The average annual pay of all workers covered by state and federal unemployment insurance (UI) programs rose by 2.5 percent to $36,214 in 2001, according to preliminary data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. This compares with a 5.9 percent rise in 2000. The annual pay of private industry workers, comprising 84.3 percent of the nation's employment, grew by 2.3 percent in 2001, while pay for government workers rose by 3.6 percent. In 2000, the increase in pay for private sector workers was 6.3 percent and for government workers, 4.1 percent. This release provides the first annual data that use the 2002 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) as the basis for the assignment and tabulation of economic data by industry.