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HIGHLIGHTS OF SPRINGFIELD
NATIONAL COMPENSATION SURVEY SEPTEMBER 2007 (PDF)
Workers in the Springfield metropolitan area earned an average of $15.38 per hour in September 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 $16.81 for construction and extraction occupations and $13.65 for production occupations. Another occupational group, office and administrative support, had a mean hourly wage rate of $12.62. The NCS data available for the Springfield area include earnings for 19 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups. (See table 1.)
Electricians, part of the construction and extraction occupational group, earned $15.93 per hour. Within the production occupational group, first line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers averaged $20.50 per hour and inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers, $13.86. Stock clerks and order fillers, an occupation within the office and administrative support group, registered an average hourly rate of $11.02, and shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks earned $10.51 per hour.
Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area. Full-time workers averaged $16.32 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $8.52. Union workers earned $16.52 and non-union workers, $15.30. Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $13.88 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $16.62, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $16.74.
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 www.bls.gov/ncs/.
The NCS data reported here covered 260 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 178,800 workers in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) which is comprised of Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk, and Webster Counties in Missouri.
Survey Availability
Complete survey results are contained in the Springfield, MO National Compensation Survey September 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 data, as well as other Bureau data, contact the Mountain-Plains Information Office by calling (816) 285-7000 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. CT.
Table 1. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2), Springfield, MO, September 2007
Total Full-time workers Part-time workers
Occupation(3)
Relative Relative Relative
Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4)
(percent) (percent) (percent)
All workers........................................................... $15.38 3.1 $16.32 3.5 $8.52 3.7
Management occupations.............................................. 31.13 12.8 31.13 12.9 – –
Financial managers................................................ 33.93 11.2 33.93 11.2 – –
Business and financial operations occupations....................... 22.38 13.6 22.42 14.3 – –
Accountants and auditors.......................................... 24.25 15.3 24.25 15.3 – –
Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.98 11.6 24.15 11.5 – –
Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 23.51 7.1 23.51 7.1 – –
Engineers......................................................... 29.02 10.8 29.02 10.8 – –
Community and social services occupations........................... 16.54 10.3 16.54 10.3 – –
Education, training, and library occupations........................ 26.41 1.0 28.02 2.2 15.64 19.3
Postsecondary teachers............................................ 28.49 9.1 28.21 13.0 29.83 3.9
Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 26.67 4.4 28.74 .7 – –
Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 26.28 4.2 28.99 1.6 – –
Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.91 .9 – – – –
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 11.87 6.6 12.90 4.7 – –
Designers......................................................... 11.59 7.7 – – – –
Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 24.64 12.6 26.16 15.0 – –
Registered nurses................................................. 24.17 4.2 24.40 4.0 – –
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. – – 16.56 4.1 – –
Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.94 3.4 11.61 6.6 9.41 8.1
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.04 7.6 – – – –
Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.69 8.5 – – – –
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.77 3.1 12.64 4.7 – –
Protective service occupations...................................... 15.28 13.3 15.63 14.0 – –
Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.60 10.7 6.87 7.7 6.30 14.1
Cooks............................................................. 7.84 4.3 8.27 5.2 – –
Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 9.41 5.8 – – – –
Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.76 2.3 – – – –
Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.07 21.2 3.87 17.4 4.32 30.5
Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.79 16.2 – – 4.15 32.1
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.36 5.7 – – – –
Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.40 1.3 – – 7.16 .6
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast
food......................................................... 7.40 1.3 – – 7.16 .7
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.62 6.9 8.62 7.1 – –
Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.65 6.9 8.65 7.0 – –
Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.35 8.2 10.37 8.4 – –
Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.32 16.4 – – – –
Sales and related occupations....................................... 15.42 10.0 17.75 10.7 7.52 2.3
First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 22.57 24.7 22.57 24.7 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.12 7.3 16.12 7.3 – –
Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.05 6.2 11.32 9.3 7.57 2.4
Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.51 4.2 9.46 9.1 7.18 1.4
Cashiers...................................................... 8.51 4.2 9.46 9.1 7.18 1.4
Retail salespersons............................................. 10.86 7.3 12.32 10.7 7.91 4.2
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 28.69 10.0 28.69 10.0 – –
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except
technical and scientific products............................ 28.45 10.0 28.45 10.0 – –
Office and administrative support occupations....................... 12.62 2.7 12.97 3.0 8.83 3.5
First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
support workers................................................ 20.48 13.4 20.48 13.4 – –
Financial clerks.................................................. 11.13 3.9 11.67 4.8 – –
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.88 6.7 11.88 6.7 – –
Customer service representatives.................................. 12.82 10.2 13.16 11.0 – –
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan......................... 13.28 10.1 13.28 10.1 – –
Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.94 6.9 – – – –
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 10.51 1.2 10.58 1.0 – –
Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.02 1.5 11.52 3.8 8.23 7.2
Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.67 6.2 13.87 6.2 – –
Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.53 5.6 12.53 5.6 – –
Data entry and information processing workers..................... 11.39 6.4 – – – –
Data entry keyers............................................... 11.39 6.4 – – – –
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks..................... 12.46 3.2 12.46 3.2 – –
Office clerks, general............................................ 11.49 9.6 11.71 11.0 – –
Construction and extraction occupations............................. 16.81 4.0 16.86 4.0 – –
Electricians...................................................... 15.93 3.1 15.93 3.1 – –
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.70 4.9 16.70 4.9 – –
Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 14.55 7.7 14.55 7.7 – –
Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 13.25 9.1 13.25 9.1 – –
Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 14.51 4.9 14.51 4.9 – –
Production occupations.............................................. 13.65 2.1 13.70 2.0 – –
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating
workers........................................................ 20.50 3.7 20.50 3.7 – –
Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and
plastic........................................................ 13.75 3.6 13.75 3.6 – –
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic................................... 13.48 6.9 13.48 6.9 – –
Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal
and plastic.................................................... 12.42 7.5 12.42 7.5 – –
Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and
tenders, metal and plastic................................... 12.42 7.5 12.42 7.5 – –
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 15.71 6.7 15.71 6.7 – –
Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 15.92 8.0 15.92 8.0 – –
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 13.86 4.0 13.86 4.0 – –
Painting workers.................................................. 14.71 7.7 14.71 7.7 – –
Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.95 2.7 11.95 2.7 – –
Helpers--production workers..................................... 10.91 2.7 10.91 2.7 – –
Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.23 13.3 14.13 13.9 7.48 6.7
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 14.79 16.1 16.28 14.3 7.16 7.7
Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.66 10.0 19.66 10.0 – –
Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 13.17 20.6 13.67 21.3 – –
Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 10.79 3.4 10.79 3.4 – –
Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.16 6.2 10.78 5.6 7.34 5.1
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.21 11.5 12.03 10.2 – –
Packers and packagers, hand..................................... – – – – 6.92 3.1
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.
Last Modified Date: July 11, 2008
