May 2022 Occupational Employment and Wages — 2023-04-25

Computer and mathematical occupations had employment of 5.0 million in May 2022, representing 3.4 percent of total national employment, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The largest computer and mathematical occupations were software developers (1.5 million) and computer user support specialists (696,830). The annual mean wage across all computer and mathematical occupations was $108,130, compared with the U.S. average wage of $61,900. The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program provides employment and wage estimates for about 830 occupations in the nation, states, and approximately 530 areas. National data are available by industry for approximately 410 industry classifications and by ownership across all industries and for the educational services and hospitals industries. This news release features computer and mathematical, construction and extraction, and business and financial operations occupations, in addition to largest occupations, public sector occupations, and employment and wages by typical entry-level educational requirement.