Bureau of Labor Statistics
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: FOR RELEASE: Cheryl Abbot Wednesday, Regional Economist January 30, 2008 (214) 767-6970 http://www.bls.gov/ro6/ HIGHLIGHTS OF DALLAS-FORT WORTH, TX NATIONAL COMPENSATION SURVEY MARCH 2007 Workers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area earned an average of $20.74 per hour in March 2007, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Regional Commissioner Stanley W. Suchman noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $35.09 for computer and mathematical science occupations and $26.84 for healthcare practitioner and technical occupations. Another occupational group, office and administrative support, had a mean hourly wage rate of $15.61. The NCS data available for the Dallas-Fort Worth area include earnings for 21 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups. (See table 1.) Computer software engineers, part of the computer and mathematical science occupational group, earned $39.53 per hour. Within the healthcare practitioner and technical occupational group, registered nurses averaged $27.67 per hour and licensed practical and vocational nurses, $19.08. Financial clerks, an occupation within the office and administrative support group, registered an average hourly rate of $14.97, and customer service representatives earned $14.60 per hour. (See table 1.) Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area. Full-time workers averaged $21.72 per hour while their part- time counterparts earned $10.53. Union workers earned $23.80 and non-union workers, $20.61. Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $18.35 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $19.28, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $25.72. The occupational wage data available from NCS may be used by businesses for establishing pay plans, making decisions concerning plant relocation, and in collective bargaining negotiations. Individuals may use such data to help choose potential careers. NCS results also include the work level and respective earnings for occupations determined by a point factor leveling process. The four occupational leveling factors are: knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. Details on the NCS are available at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/. The NCS data reported here covered 798 establishments with one or more workers in private industry and State and local governments. Agricultural establishments, private households, the self-employed, and the Federal Government were excluded from the survey. This sample of establishments represented 2,756,300 workers in the Dallas-Fort Worth Combined Statistical Area (CSA) which is comprised of Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Ellis, Henderson, Hunt, Hood, Johnson, Kaufman, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Somervell, and Wise Counties in Texas. Survey Availability While supplies last, single copies of the bulletin are available from the Southwest Information Office by calling (214) 767-6970 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. CT. In addition, data contained in the bulletin are available on the Internet in both text and PDF formats at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm. Table 1. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2), Dallas-Fort Worth, TX CSA, March 2007 =========================================================================================================== | | | | Total | Full-time workers | Part-time workers |---------------------|---------------------|---------------------- Occupation(3) | | Relative | | Relative | | Relative | | error(4)| | error(4)| | error(4) | Mean | (percent)| Mean | (percent)| Mean | (percent) =========================================================================================================== All workers............................. $20.74 2.9 $21.72 3.1 $10.53 6.0 Management occupations................ 43.69 3.3 43.69 3.3 – – General and operations managers..... 48.07 9.0 48.07 9.0 – – Marketing and sales managers........ 41.61 13.3 41.61 13.3 – – Marketing managers................ 48.92 8.0 48.92 8.0 – – Sales managers.................... 33.74 21.6 33.74 21.6 – – Administrative services managers.... 38.50 5.8 38.50 5.8 – – Computer and information systems managers........................ 49.07 8.3 49.07 8.3 – – Financial managers.................. 62.47 10.5 62.47 10.5 – – Human resources managers............ 38.19 4.1 38.19 4.1 – – Industrial production managers...... 35.26 5.1 35.26 5.1 – – Transportation, storage, and distribution managers........... 35.64 9.3 35.64 9.3 – – Construction managers............... 34.42 .9 34.42 .9 – – Education administrators............ 47.96 13.0 47.96 13.0 – – Education administrators, elementary & secondary school... 45.19 6.1 45.19 6.1 – – Education administrators, postsecondary................... 51.97 27.7 51.97 27.7 – – Engineering managers................ 38.99 20.9 38.99 20.9 – – Business and financial operations occupations..................... 30.64 5.6 30.71 5.7 – – Buyers and purchasing agents........ 32.85 8.2 32.85 8.2 – – Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators.... 23.19 .3 23.19 .3 – – Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators............... 23.19 .3 23.19 .3 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists..... 24.32 11.4 25.20 11.4 – – Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists........... 21.45 6.9 22.49 5.0 – – Management analysts................. 29.60 13.0 29.60 13.0 – – Accountants and auditors............ 33.16 16.5 33.20 16.7 – – Financial analysts and advisors..... 36.26 17.2 36.26 17.2 – – Financial analysts................ 31.57 8.6 31.57 8.6 – – Loan counselors and officers........ 27.32 7.5 27.32 7.5 – – Loan officers..................... 27.32 7.5 27.32 7.5 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations..................... 35.09 4.2 35.26 4.6 – – Computer programmers................ 32.84 16.8 32.12 21.3 – – Computer software engineers......... 39.53 1.8 39.53 1.8 – – Computer software engineers, applications.................... 38.97 2.8 38.97 2.8 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................ 40.56 3.8 40.56 3.8 – – Computer support specialists........ 27.99 16.8 28.47 18.3 – – Computer systems analysts........... 38.67 5.3 38.67 5.3 – – Network systems and data communications analysts......... 30.25 1.7 30.25 1.7 – – Architecture and engineering occupations..................... 32.31 4.7 32.47 4.6 – – Engineers........................... 37.36 5.6 37.81 5.6 – – Electrical and electronics engineers....................... 43.52 8.6 43.84 8.6 – – Electrical engineers............ 48.61 12.8 49.66 12.4 – – Electronics engineers, except computer........................ 40.33 7.0 40.33 7.0 – – Industrial engineers, including health and safety............... 36.32 3.4 $36.32 3.4 – – Industrial engineers............ 36.09 3.7 36.09 3.7 – – Mechanical engineers.............. 25.95 10.8 – – – – Drafters............................ 22.18 1.8 22.18 1.8 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters........................ 25.10 4.1 25.10 4.1 – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians......... 25.12 4.1 25.12 4.1 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations..................... 29.37 9.4 29.37 9.4 – – Community and social services occupations..................... 23.43 7.4 22.66 8.3 – – Counselors.......................... 27.06 10.5 26.26 9.2 – – Educational, vocational, and school counselors............... 26.55 10.4 26.55 10.4 – – Social workers...................... 19.18 5.5 – – – – Legal occupations..................... 37.59 12.7 37.58 13.1 – – Lawyers............................. 59.60 21.4 59.60 21.4 – – Miscellaneous legal support workers........................... 23.30 13.5 23.30 13.5 – – Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers................... 23.93 10.4 23.93 10.4 – – Education, training, and library occupations..................... 28.65 2.5 29.68 2.5 14.21 7.1 Postsecondary teachers.............. 40.86 10.5 43.92 9.7 19.18 6.2 Arts, communications, & humanities teachers, postsecondary......... 38.82 4.4 38.51 5.0 – – Philosophy and religion teachers, postsecondary......... 36.22 11.9 – – – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers........................ 40.99 20.7 – – 17.77 12.3 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers....... 31.01 1.6 31.22 1.8 18.97 18.0 Elementary and middle school teachers........................ 30.91 .5 31.17 .7 20.93 1.2 Elementary school teachers, except special education........ 30.90 .9 31.23 .6 – – Middle school teachers, except special & vocational education.. 30.86 1.6 30.93 1.4 – – Secondary school teachers......... 31.46 4.6 31.69 4.4 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education....................... 32.74 1.7 33.02 1.0 – – Special education teachers........ 31.91 1.9 31.91 1.9 – – Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school............... 31.61 1.5 31.61 1.5 – – Other teachers and instructors...... 17.65 21.0 – – 10.61 12.0 Librarians.......................... 28.74 5.9 28.85 6.0 – – Teacher assistants.................. 12.12 2.1 12.12 2.2 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations........... 21.60 9.1 24.03 14.2 10.14 10.0 Designers........................... 21.33 13.5 24.81 26.4 – – Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers................. 12.71 17.1 – – – – Coaches and scouts................ 12.53 18.1 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations..................... 26.84 5.3 28.02 5.1 18.75 16.1 Pharmacists......................... 49.05 3.0 49.05 3.0 – – Registered nurses................... 27.67 2.5 27.62 2.8 28.72 6.2 Therapists.......................... 26.97 4.2 26.80 4.8 – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians................. 21.64 4.5 22.30 4.5 – – Radiologic technologists and technicians..................... 23.47 4.0 23.66 4.0 – – Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians..................... 15.31 10.3 18.37 12.8 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses............... 19.08 1.5 18.80 1.8 – – Healthcare support occupations........ 12.66 9.1 13.15 10.1 10.37 7.4 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides.................... 10.33 3.6 10.41 2.4 9.99 10.5 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants...................... 10.34 4.1 10.52 2.5 9.45 12.4 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations..................... 16.05 13.0 17.38 9.7 – – Protective service occupations........ 17.00 4.8 17.39 5.0 10.21 12.2 Fire fighters....................... 20.79 10.6 20.79 10.6 – – Police officers..................... 26.25 11.7 26.25 11.7 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers........................ 26.25 11.7 26.25 11.7 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers........... 11.75 6.1 11.76 6.4 11.59 17.8 Security guards................... 11.75 6.1 11.76 6.4 11.59 17.8 Miscellaneous protective service workers......................... 10.01 12.4 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations..................... 7.83 6.5 8.36 6.6 6.46 2.7 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation & serving workers......................... 16.53 5.0 16.71 4.7 – – First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers......................... 16.53 5.0 16.71 4.7 – – Cooks............................... 9.06 1.6 9.20 1.6 8.53 .5 Cooks, fast food.................. 7.93 3.9 – – 8.31 1.3 Cooks, institution and cafeteria.. 9.62 7.4 9.62 7.4 – – Cooks, restaurant................. 9.40 4.6 9.50 4.2 – – Food preparation workers............ 8.77 4.5 9.07 5.2 – – Food service, tipped................ 4.67 2.9 4.80 .5 4.45 4.3 Bartenders........................ 7.09 15.5 – – – – Waiters and waitresses............ 3.50 .3 3.65 5.0 3.20 3.7 Dining room and cafeteria attendants & bartender helpers.. 6.08 .3 – – 6.07 .5 Fast food and counter workers....... 7.46 8.5 7.74 12.5 6.75 5.3 Combined food preparation and serving workers, includ. fast food............................ 7.28 6.2 7.51 12.0 6.81 6.3 Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, & coffee shop.. 8.21 12.2 – – – – Dishwashers......................... 8.22 3.8 7.81 7.6 – – Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop......... 8.42 1.7 – – 8.28 1.0 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations......... 8.91 3.5 9.10 4.2 7.52 6.1 Building cleaning workers........... 8.33 4.4 8.45 5.0 7.58 6.9 Janitors and cleaners, except maids & housekeeping cleaners... 8.39 6.5 8.49 7.7 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.54 3.6 7.67 2.7 – – Personal care & service occupations... 10.46 7.8 10.94 7.6 9.49 14.3 Barbers and cosmetologists.......... 12.55 29.8 – – – – Child care workers.................. 8.38 5.4 8.37 5.9 8.45 1.8 Sales and related occupations......... 20.84 13.1 23.07 14.2 9.45 8.1 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 18.22 13.2 18.22 13.2 – – Retail sales workers................ 14.06 12.7 16.11 11.5 8.68 7.0 Cashiers, all workers............. 9.26 7.4 11.31 12.0 7.45 2.7 Cashiers........................ 9.26 7.4 11.31 12.0 7.45 2.7 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons.............. – – – – 10.14 18.0 Parts salespersons.............. 16.91 24.1 17.25 24.0 – – Retail salespersons............... 14.49 17.4 15.82 16.2 9.86 11.2 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing............... 36.28 16.1 36.28 16.1 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products......... 39.38 23.0 39.38 23.0 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except tech. & scientific products..... 34.03 17.2 34.03 17.2 – – Telemarketers....................... 11.13 6.7 – – – – Miscellaneous sales and related workers......................... 14.47 20.2 14.37 22.7 15.11 18.7 Office and administrative support occupations..................... 15.61 2.6 15.84 2.5 11.71 8.9 First-line supervisors/managers of office & administrative support workers......................... 24.23 3.6 24.23 3.6 – – Financial clerks.................... 14.97 3.1 15.20 3.1 11.74 7.6 Bill and account collectors....... 15.81 6.0 15.76 6.1 – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators............... 14.04 6.9 14.04 6.9 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks................. 16.13 4.7 16.28 5.1 – – Procurement clerks................ 19.29 6.0 19.29 6.0 – – Tellers........................... 11.76 8.9 12.25 7.4 10.07 8.7 Customer service representatives.... 14.60 4.7 14.63 4.7 – – Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks.......................... 8.96 15.3 – – – – Library assistants, clerical........ 13.88 4.0 14.48 7.9 – – Order clerks........................ 12.69 21.6 12.81 21.6 – – Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping......... 17.05 8.1 17.05 8.1 – – Receptionists & information clerks.. 12.63 6.9 12.68 7.3 – – Dispatchers......................... 13.92 6.7 13.92 6.7 – – Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................... 14.07 8.0 14.07 8.0 – – Production, planning, and expediting clerks............... 19.82 11.4 17.82 9.0 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks.......................... 11.84 6.8 11.84 6.8 – – Stock clerks and order fillers...... 13.03 7.3 13.60 7.5 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants...................... 19.02 5.3 19.02 5.3 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants....... 20.99 5.9 20.99 5.9 – – Medical secretaries............... 16.57 18.6 16.57 18.6 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive.......... 15.58 8.5 15.58 8.5 – – Computer operators.................. 17.72 4.9 17.72 4.9 – – Office clerks, general.............. 12.54 5.8 12.77 6.6 10.67 7.1 Construction and extraction occupations..................... 15.45 1.5 15.45 1.5 – – Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers............ 13.23 1.0 13.23 1.0 – – Cement masons and concrete finishers....................... 13.23 1.0 13.23 1.0 – – Construction laborers............... 9.92 5.6 9.92 5.6 – – Helpers, construction trades........ 10.47 6.4 10.47 6.4 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations..................... 18.86 2.7 18.89 2.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, repairers....................... 24.34 9.4 24.34 9.4 – – Radio & telecommunications equipment installers and repairers........ 21.71 17.7 21.71 17.7 – – Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers................. 21.71 17.7 21.71 17.7 – – Miscellaneous electrical and electronic equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers....... 17.57 9.5 17.57 9.5 – – Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment............ 19.99 9.6 19.99 9.6 – – Aircraft mechanics and service technicians..................... 26.68 7.9 26.68 7.9 – – Automotive technicians & repairers.. 20.02 28.9 20.36 28.6 – – Automotive service technicians and mechanics................... 22.99 44.8 – – – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists.............. 15.59 5.3 15.59 5.3 – – Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers...................... 18.91 13.9 18.91 13.9 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, & maintenance workers... 18.52 6.9 18.52 6.9 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.... 19.14 2.6 19.14 2.6 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 18.34 9.9 18.34 9.9 – – Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, & repair workers... 14.12 9.2 14.12 9.2 – – Production occupations................ 13.07 4.2 13.29 4.4 9.07 6.5 First-line supervisors/managers of production & operating workers.. 23.17 5.0 23.17 5.0 – – Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, & systems assemblers... 22.09 16.1 22.09 16.1 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers.... 11.69 .5 11.74 .2 – – Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers............ 12.98 7.1 14.26 7.0 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators..................... 9.88 1.8 9.88 1.8 – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers......................... 14.26 10.1 14.26 10.1 – – Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers..................... 14.26 10.1 14.26 10.1 – – Printers............................ 19.26 11.0 19.26 11.0 – – Printing machine operators........ 16.86 14.6 16.86 14.6 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.......... 15.95 7.4 15.95 7.4 – – Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders........... 12.23 3.7 12.79 3.0 – – Miscellaneous production workers.... 10.24 9.3 10.40 8.7 – – Helpers--production workers....... 10.54 13.0 10.54 13.0 – – Transportation and material moving occupations..................... 15.40 9.2 16.14 9.9 9.76 3.8 First-line supervisors/managers of helpers, laborers, and material movers, hand.................... 23.16 4.0 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators............... 26.85 29.6 – – – – Bus drivers......................... 13.31 4.9 13.83 11.1 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers......................... 17.71 7.9 18.65 7.8 7.20 2.5 Driver/sales workers.............. 12.81 19.8 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer................. 20.52 10.5 20.52 10.5 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services........................ 15.74 12.2 16.13 11.8 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators....................... 12.89 6.4 12.89 6.4 – – Laborers and material movers, hand.. 10.77 5.0 11.07 5.6 9.04 7.0 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand........... 11.48 5.7 11.59 6.3 10.83 3.6 Machine feeders and offbearers.... 12.47 6.5 12.47 6.5 – – Packers and packagers, hand....... 8.32 6.3 9.60 5.9 6.43 2.3 =========================================================================================================== (1) Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. For more information see full publication. (2) Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. (3) Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. (4) The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see full publication. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.
Last Modified Date: January 30, 2008
