Income Percentiles by Occupation and Education Level

Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service

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Income Percentile Results

Total Income of $55,000 ranks between the 89.2th and 94.1th percentiles for all education levels. These results were estimated off of 23,583 Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service.

50th Percentile (Median) Income for any Education Level: $29,659
75th Percentile: $39,984
95th Percentile: $67,302
99th Percentile: $107,566

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Income Percentile Stats

  • To be in the top 1% for this age range, your household would need an income of $107,566 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.
  • To be in the top 5% for this age range, your household would need an income of $67,302 per year. This would include salary, investments, and any business income.

Income of Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service by Highest Education Level

Total Income of $55,000 ranks for education levels:
  • Compared to Doctoral degree holders this ranks between the 100th and 100th percentiles.
  • Compared to Professional degree beyond a Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 38.5th and 38.5th percentiles.
  • Compared to Master's degree holders this ranks between the 53.5th and 64.2th percentiles.
  • Compared to Bachelor's degree holders this ranks between the 78.2th and 86.8th percentiles.
  • Compared to HS Diploma / GED degree holders this ranks between the 91.5th and 96.5th percentiles.

Income Percentile Distribution by Education Level

Highest Level of Education for Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service:
  • Other (N/A or Less than HS): 4.3%
  • HS Diploma / GED: 36%
  • Associates Degree and Some College: 45.7%
  • Bachelors Degree: 12%
  • Masters Degree: 1.9%
  • Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors: 0.1%
  • Doctoral Degree (PHd) : 0.1%

Most Common Bachelors Degree Majors

  • For Business undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 75.5th and 78.1th percentiles.
  • For Communications undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 36.7th and 84.8th percentiles.
  • For Psychology undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 93.7th and 99.6th percentiles.
  • For Education Administration and Teaching undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 80.8th and 94.6th percentiles.
  • For Criminal Justice and Fire Protection undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 93.1th and 93.1th percentiles.
  • For Social Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 69.1th and 69.1th percentiles.
  • For Medical and Health Sciences and Services undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 86th and 86th percentiles.
  • For Public Affairs, Policy, and Social Work undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 100th and 100th percentiles.
  • For Computer and Information Sciences undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 41.4th and 55.2th percentiles.
  • For Engineering undergraduate majors this income ranks between the 100th and 100th percentiles.
Note: The source data only records undergraduate degree majors, even if a person continues to study.

Treemap of Undergraduate Majors

Methodology and Assumptions

This data was sourced from the person-level data recorded by the American Communities Survey. The version of the survey used was the most recent 5 year revision for data recorded from 2013-2017. These results represent 23,583 Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service. The occupation code that was used to generate these results e was 5010 to read more about the occupation codes that the ACS and Census use. These results were generated in R using raw data from the ACS and precalculated in a batch. This data includes all individual income for the survey respondent, so some of the people may have a wage job as well as other income sources. I did not limit to wage income, because many occupations have high portions of entrepreneurs (CEOs, doctors, tradespeople).

Exclusions and Filters Applied:
  • Filtered for people who reported working at least 30 hours a week.
  • High School Graduates and GED graduates were original 2 separate categories that I combined.
  • Anything below High School Graduates is combined into a separate category. I did not include these on the page for space reason but I can.
  • The data has data for associate degree holders and some college and these values are mostly in between the high school and bachelors samples. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between some college and an associates degree.
  • All ages are included and not separated. I did some initial testing and there is a difference if the data is split out by age, but I wasn't able to consolidate the data into a way that would make it fast to interact with and avoid being too complicated.
  • There may be some confusion around a masters degree vs a professional degree beyond a masters. This was a distinction made in the original raw data that I decided to keep. Because the data is collected by polling people individually, some of the respondents may have mixed up the difference depending on how they phrased their response.
    • Masters Degree : MBA, Masters in Something
    • Professional Degree beyond a Bachelors Degree: Law Degree, Medical School, generally these degrees are credentials for specific careers.
    • Doctoral Degree: PHd