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OEWS Percentile & Suppression Reader Guide

A plain-English reference PDF that teaches a trade contracting owner how to actually read a BLS OEWS wage page: what the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles mean, why the mean reads higher than the median for the trades, and how to spot suppression and top-coding instead of guessing past them. Worked read-throughs on core trade SOC pages walk you line by line through a real distribution, and every example figure is cited to its BLS source and edition. It also spells out what OEWS leaves out — self-employed workers, benefits, bonuses and overtime — so you know exactly what a published base-wage figure does and does not tell you.