Table 4b.Average hourly wages of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Concentrators who were 2003-04 public high school graduates, by specific area of CTE concentration while in high school and postsecondary degree attainment (2012)

Education Longitudinal
Study of 2002 (ELS:2002)

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Table 4b. Average hourly wages of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Concentrators who were 2003-04 public high school graduates, by specific area of CTE concentration while in high school and postsecondary degree attainment (2012)Average hourly wages of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Concentrators who were 2003-04 public high school graduates, by specific area of CTE concentration while in high school and postsecondary degree attainment (2012)

Characteristics	No postsecondary enrollment	Some postsecondary enrollment, no credential	Postsecondary credential¹
	Postsecondary attainment status
Total	$14.54	$14.52	$18.14

Area of CTE concentration while in high school
Agriculture and natural resources	$20.02	$14.48	$19.18
Architecture and Construction	$15.89	$18.17	$17.16
Business	$11.63	$11.75	$18.35
Communications and design	$12.48	$13.48	$15.78
Computer and information sciences	$11.62	$21.39	$20.96
Consumer and culinary services	$11.50	$10.59	$15.75
Engineering technologies	$13.58	$13.44	$21.80
Health Sciences	$9.14	$12.98	$16.92
Manufacturing	$14.68	$20.07	$19.47
Marketing	$17.49	$13.96	$19.93
Public Services	$15.20	$12.77	‡
Repair and transportation	$14.34	$16.63	$17.68
‡ Reporting standards are not met; the standard error represents more than 50 percent of the estimate.
¹ Postsecondary credential includes recipients of all types of degrees and certificates.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002), Third Follow-up Restricted-use File.

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