BTS | Table 3-21b: Average Wage (a) and Salary Accruals per Full-Time Equivalent Employee by Transportation Industry (North American Industry Classification System [NAICS] basis)

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Table 3-21b: Average Wage^a and Salary Accruals per Full-Time Equivalent Employee by Transportation Industry (North American Industry Classification System [NAICS] basis)

(Current $)

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	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
All industries	35,201	36,754	38,846	39,667	40,394	41,783	(R) 43,450	(R) 44,946	46,954
Transportation and warehousing, total	36,297	37,612	39,463	39,426	40,116	40,854	(R) 42,526	(R) 43,029	44,536
Air	46,790	48,466	50,969	55,336	57,370	56,771	(R) 58,134	(R) 55,918	58,409
Rail	60,530	60,538	62,728	63,517	64,404	67,174	(R) 71,007	(R) 70,866	73,190
Water	47,422	51,803	51,361	54,850	56,386	57,398	(R) 60,869	(R) 61,913	65,334
Truck	34,533	35,341	36,736	36,204	36,954	37,793	(R) 39,531	(R) 40,919	42,432
Transit and ground passenger transportation	21,988	22,880	23,795	23,121	23,512	24,129	(R) 24,868	(R) 25,508	26,616
Pipeline	71,496	77,984	96,703	99,717	81,404	83,188	88,573	(R) 88,105	97,166
Other transportation and support activities^b	33,444	35,299	36,806	35,846	37,226	38,545	(R) 40,794	(R) 41,724	43,406
Warehousing and storage	30,120	31,663	34,269	33,842	34,763	36,115	(R) 36,115	(R) 38,183	38,731

KEY: R = revised.

^a Wages do not include supplements to wages and salaries such as pension, profit-sharing, and other retirement plans, and health, life, and unemployment insurance compensation.

^b Comprises business establishments involved in scenic and sightseeing transportation, support activities for transportation, postal service, and couriers and messengers.

NOTES

Data in this table are based on the 1997 NAICS codes. The Bureau of Economic Analysis provides these data on a Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) basis ending in 2000 and on a NAICS basis beginning in 1998 (see table 3-21a for data based on SIC).

Use care in comparing the data in this table with those in table 3-22. This table includes weighted part-time employees' salaries. Table 3-22 covers only full-time employees.

Wage and salary accruals consist of the monetary remuneration of employees, including compensation of corporate officers; commissions, tips and bonuses; voluntary employee contributions to certain deferred compensation plans, such as 401(k) plans; and receipts in kind that represent income. In other words, accruals are wage and salary earned, not wage and salary paid. For example, wage and salary earned in 1999 but not paid until 2000 are included in accruals for 1999. However, the difference between wage and salary earned and wage and salary paid is usually very small.

SOURCE

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Products Accounts, table 6.6d, Internet site http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn1.htm as of Nov. 14, 2007.

Table 3-21b: Average Wagea and Salary Accruals per Full-Time Equivalent Employee by Transportation Industry (North American Industry Classification System [NAICS] basis)

Table 3-21b: Average Wage^a and Salary Accruals per Full-Time Equivalent Employee by Transportation Industry (North American Industry Classification System [NAICS] basis)