By Bay City News Service, image by Shutterstock

San Francisco-area workers earn around 47 percent more than the U.S. average, according to statistics released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In the census area incorporating San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties, workers earned an average of $33.34 an hour as of May 2014, or around 47 percent above the U.S. average of $22.71, bureau officials said .



Workers in the area were significantly more concentrated than the U.S. as a whole in professional areas including computers and mathematics, management, business and finance, science, law, education and training and art and design, the data showed.

Other areas had a relatively small percentage of workers compared to the national average, including production, healthcare, transportation and material moving. In computers and technology, which accounted for 6.8 percent of local employment, local workers earned an average of $51.44, well above the national average for the field of $40.37.

