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By Danielle Kurtzleben | U.S.News & World Report LP – 14 hrs ago


Here's another reason to start leaving bigger tips: the Labor Department's latest data on the how much American workers are paid.

Food service workers and their colleagues at bars and restaurants dominate the list of the lowest-paid professions, taking up six of the top 10 spots. Still, the people who shampoo your hair at the local salon take the top spot, at $18,600 per year. That's not much to live on, and if one of those workers is a single parent, it's not far above the poverty line, at around $15,800 for a single parent, according to the Census Bureau.

Below, the 10 lowest-paid workers as measured by average annual pay, according to Labor Department data from 2012:

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How does that stack up? All of these jobs have less than half the average pay for all occupations, which is $45,790. And the highest-paid workers in America, anesthesiologists, average more than 12 times the annual pay of the lowest-paid workers, shampooers.




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