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Highlights of Johnstown, PA
National Compensation Survey June 2007 (PDF)

Workers in the Johnstown metropolitan area earned an average of $15.49 per hour in June 2007, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor.  Regional Commissioner Sheila Watkins noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $30.88 for education, training, and library occupations and $13.99 for production occupations.  Another occupational group, office and administrative support, had a mean hourly wage rate of $12.17.  The NCS data available for the Johnstown area include earnings for 18 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within many of those groups.  (See table 1.)

Elementary and middle school teachers, part of the education, training, and library occupational group, earned $35.09 per hour.  Within the production occupational group, welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers averaged $13.32 an hour.  Executive secretaries and administrative assistants, an occupation within the office and administrative support group, registered an hourly rate of $14.72, and bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks earned $13.88 per hour.

Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area.  Full-time workers averaged $16.61 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $10.07. Union workers earned $17.21 and non-union workers, $15.02. Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $14.74 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $16.29, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $16.91.

The occupational wage data available from the 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 www.bls.gov/ncs/.

The NCS data provided here covered 214 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 77,000 workers in the Johnstown Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) which consists of Cambria County in Pennsylvania.

Survey Availability

Complete survey results are contained in the Johnstown, PA National Compensation Survey June 2007 which is available on the Internet in both text and PDF formats at www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm.

For personal assistance or further information on the National Compensation Survey, as well as other Bureau data, contact the Mid-Atlantic Information Office by calling (215) 597-3282 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET. 

Table 1. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2), Johnstown, PA June 2007
Occupation(3) Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent) Mean Relative error (4) (percent)

All workers

 $15.49 4.0 $16.61 3.8 $10.07 8.4

Management occupations

 30.83 12.5 31.24 12.7 – –

Business and financial operations occupations

 18.25 10.0 18.25 10.0 – –

Architecture and engineering occupations

 22.19 6.6 22.19 6.6 – –

Engineers

 32.23 3.1 32.23 3.1 – –

Life, physical, and social science occupations

 22.22 4.3 21.93 4.4 – –

Community and social services occupations

 13.60 9.1 13.59 10.6 – –

Education, training, and library occupations

 30.88 5.4 31.65 6.0 13.51 11.3

Postsecondary teachers

 32.04 3.7 33.16 6.1 – –

Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers

 35.33 2.7 35.33 2.7 – –

Elementary and middle school teachers

 35.09 0.7 35.09 0.7 – –

Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations

 21.12 7.7 20.74 5.5 22.15 18.5

Registered nurses

 23.49 5.8 23.31 7.6 – –

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses

 13.97 7.0 – – – –

Healthcare support occupations

 10.27 8.2 10.48 8.9 9.02 13.9

Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides

 9.73 6.5 9.88 6.5 – –

Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants

 10.32 4.4 10.32 4.9 – –

Protective service occupations

 18.21 15.9 19.12 14.1 – –

Food preparation and serving related occupations

 6.59 1.7 – – 6.65 2.8

Food service, tipped

 4.48 9.0 – – – –

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations

 9.10 6.6 9.79 7.3 7.52 7.8

Building cleaning workers

 8.45 4.6 9.01 4.7 7.52 7.8

Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners

 8.24 5.0 8.92 6.2 – –

Personal care and service occupations

 8.95 8.1 8.49 0.9 9.56 15.7

Sales and related occupations

 13.94 14.6 15.23 16.5 7.79 4.8

First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers

 16.65 16.8 16.65 16.8 – –

First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers

 16.65 16.8 16.65 16.8 – –

Retail sales workers

 10.80 7.6 11.90 6.6 7.79 4.8

Cashiers, all workers

 7.35 1.0 – – 6.98 2.7

Cashiers

 7.35 1.0 – – 6.98 2.7

Retail salespersons

 12.72 10.8 14.17 12.7 8.41 5.2

Office and administrative support occupations

 12.17 3.7 12.54 3.7 9.32 8.3

Financial clerks

 12.32 5.8 12.63 6.6 – –

Billing and posting clerks and machine operators

 11.20 6.1 – – – –

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks

 13.88 7.7 13.88 7.7 – –

Customer service representatives

 13.18 8.2 13.18 8.2 – –

Stock clerks and order fillers

 9.50 6.7 – – – –

Secretaries and administrative assistants

 14.10 8.2 14.31 8.8 – –

Executive secretaries and administrative assistants

 14.72 8.7 14.85 9.1 – –

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive

 14.47 5.8 – – – –

Office clerks, general

 11.17 7.0 11.86 4.7 – –

Construction and extraction occupations

 19.33 8.8 19.33 8.8 – –

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

 18.14 7.3 18.14 7.3 – –

Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers

 12.63 7.5 12.63 7.5 – –

Maintenance and repair workers, general

 12.37 9.9 12.37 9.9 – –

Production occupations

 13.99 5.9 14.03 5.9 – –

Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators

 14.26 2.8 14.26 2.8 – –

Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

 11.71 13.6 11.71 13.6 – –

Welding, soldering, and brazing workers

 13.32 1.2 13.32 1.2 – –

Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers

 13.32 1.2 13.32 1.2 – –

Miscellaneous production workers

 12.56 1.3 12.56 1.3 – –

Transportation and material moving occupations

 14.16 21.6 16.43 23.8 7.85 11.1

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers

 11.58 15.6 13.76 9.4 – –

Truck drivers, light or delivery services

 10.57 5.0 – – – –

Laborers and material movers, hand

 10.07 10.6 11.05 8.6 6.62 2.2

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand

 9.93 12.1 10.92 9.5 – –

Packers and packagers, hand

 10.64 10.1 – – – –

Footnotes:
(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.
(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.

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: July 7, 2008