NC BL 09/00/2007 Table: Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, Bulletin 3140-14, January 2007 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Civilian Private industry State and local government workers workers workers Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All workers........................................................... $20.18 4.9 33.8 $18.92 5.9 33.8 $28.44 4.0 33.8 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 34.54 5.0 35.9 33.86 6.6 37.4 36.71 5.2 32.0 Management, business, and financial............................... 37.26 10.6 38.6 38.14 11.5 39.4 30.90 9.6 33.4 Professional and related.......................................... 32.95 4.0 34.5 30.64 5.3 36.0 38.05 6.5 31.7 Service............................................................. 12.56 3.9 30.6 11.27 3.2 30.2 20.78 3.4 34.1 Sales and office.................................................... 14.50 4.6 32.8 14.06 5.2 32.5 19.01 5.7 36.8 Sales and related................................................. 13.15 10.3 29.1 13.15 10.3 29.1 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 15.29 2.9 35.5 14.67 3.0 35.3 19.01 5.7 36.8 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 21.00 4.7 38.7 21.05 4.8 38.7 – – – Construction and extraction...................................... 21.17 4.2 38.0 21.27 4.3 38.0 – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 20.73 7.9 39.7 20.73 7.9 39.7 – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 14.81 5.3 35.4 14.61 5.4 35.2 – – – Production........................................................ 15.02 8.6 37.5 15.02 8.6 37.5 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 14.39 7.1 32.1 13.68 8.3 31.0 – – – Full time........................................................... 21.88 5.1 39.1 20.60 6.2 39.5 29.26 4.4 36.6 Part time........................................................... 11.15 6.2 19.7 10.89 6.7 20.0 15.85 7.3 15.5 Union............................................................... 24.50 5.7 34.0 18.45 10.9 31.2 28.94 4.4 36.3 Nonunion............................................................ 19.10 6.1 33.7 18.97 6.3 34.1 24.97 10.0 22.8 Time................................................................ 20.00 5.0 33.7 18.66 6.0 33.7 28.44 4.0 33.8 Incentive........................................................... 27.05 19.5 36.3 27.05 19.5 36.3 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 18.93 7.4 33.0 (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 15.63 6.0 32.4 15.28 6.3 32.2 – – – 100-499 workers..................................................... 18.62 7.0 34.4 17.47 7.5 34.9 32.23 10.2 29.9 500 workers or more................................................. 29.40 7.4 35.5 30.01 10.6 36.3 28.26 4.5 34.0 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. See appendix A for more information. 2 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 appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-providing industries applies to private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $20.18 4.9 $21.88 5.1 $11.15 6.2 Management occupations.............................................. 40.20 13.6 40.15 13.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.63 9.0 20.63 9.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.01 2.6 31.01 2.6 – – Level 10.................................................. 29.95 3.7 29.95 3.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 44.22 5.9 44.22 5.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 62.29 13.4 62.20 13.4 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 65.99 23.8 65.99 23.8 – – Financial managers................................................ 47.67 34.5 47.67 34.5 – – Education administrators.......................................... 32.40 10.9 32.40 10.9 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 28.82 10.7 29.24 10.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.11 17.5 34.60 18.0 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.49 9.6 35.49 9.6 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.10 5.9 28.10 5.9 – – Engineers......................................................... 39.16 4.3 39.16 4.3 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.14 4.8 23.14 4.8 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.14 10.8 30.14 10.8 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 23.98 8.6 24.06 8.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 25.24 7.3 25.24 7.3 – – Social workers.................................................... 22.32 10.9 22.30 11.0 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 43.75 5.6 46.67 6.3 15.62 8.3 Level 4 .................................................. 14.78 10.8 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 19.84 22.1 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 46.08 6.2 46.08 6.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.93 11.0 48.93 11.0 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 68.53 7.2 68.53 7.2 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 46.57 1.2 47.33 1.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 45.97 6.4 45.97 6.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 49.22 1.1 49.22 1.1 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 45.00 3.0 45.37 3.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 43.20 4.2 43.20 4.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.05 5.3 48.05 5.3 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 46.24 4.6 46.94 5.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.08 3.4 47.08 3.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.81 10.1 46.81 10.1 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 43.45 5.8 43.45 5.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 39.79 9.2 39.79 9.2 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 47.71 1.8 49.97 4.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. $47.32 7.2 $47.32 7.2 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 51.71 5.1 51.71 5.1 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 15.47 5.1 16.01 6.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.78 10.8 – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 22.32 8.6 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 30.11 6.5 30.83 8.5 $27.99 5.5 Level 5 .................................................. 23.20 .2 22.00 3.6 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.71 4.4 23.96 1.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.45 6.9 27.18 8.4 28.69 8.9 Level 8 .................................................. 28.48 5.2 27.93 6.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.91 3.4 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 39.19 23.4 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 29.24 3.0 28.78 3.4 30.63 7.0 Level 7 .................................................. 29.78 1.4 30.12 2.5 28.75 9.2 Level 8 .................................................. 26.86 5.6 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.66 7.6 – – – – Therapists........................................................ 38.07 20.3 39.21 20.3 – – Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 18.60 17.8 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.91 .5 23.86 1.2 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 15.04 3.2 15.21 2.5 14.40 5.9 Level 2 .................................................. 10.75 8.7 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.52 2.9 13.41 3.7 13.85 3.4 Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.51 9.1 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.23 3.0 13.18 3.8 13.43 3.0 Level 3 .................................................. 13.52 2.9 13.41 3.7 13.86 3.4 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.51 4.3 13.47 5.3 13.66 3.7 Level 3 .................................................. 13.52 2.9 13.41 3.7 13.86 3.4 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.92 1.9 17.33 1.5 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 19.26 13.2 19.72 14.9 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.01 3.6 11.96 7.4 6.03 7.9 Level 1 .................................................. 6.80 1.8 – – 6.63 2.7 Level 3 .................................................. 9.72 43.3 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 14.54 6.3 14.54 6.3 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.70 2.5 – – 4.05 21.2 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.85 .6 – – 7.91 .5 Level 1 .................................................. 7.80 .4 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.92 6.4 14.08 7.3 8.86 8.5 Level 1 .................................................. 10.53 5.0 – – 7.79 3.5 Level 2 .................................................. 15.17 3.8 15.17 3.8 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... $12.93 4.4 $14.06 5.6 $8.75 6.9 Level 1 .................................................. 11.04 7.5 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 15.17 3.8 15.17 3.8 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.86 7.0 14.94 6.1 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.90 8.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 15.49 5.1 15.49 5.1 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 13.04 4.6 13.18 5.0 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 12.14 4.0 12.31 4.5 – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.15 10.3 15.51 11.0 8.49 2.5 Level 1 .................................................. 7.88 1.1 – – 7.88 1.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.95 2.6 10.65 3.1 8.26 1.2 Level 3 .................................................. 9.87 7.2 10.49 5.4 8.06 7.9 Level 4 .................................................. 14.09 5.0 14.73 4.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 14.95 16.6 14.95 16.6 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.68 1.6 10.95 2.3 8.25 1.2 Level 1 .................................................. 7.88 1.1 – – 7.88 1.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.95 2.6 10.65 3.1 8.26 1.2 Level 3 .................................................. 9.70 9.4 10.48 7.5 8.06 7.9 Level 4 .................................................. 12.42 .4 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.81 2.3 10.07 2.9 8.22 1.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.68 .3 – – 8.34 .2 Level 3 .................................................. 8.81 7.0 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 8.81 2.3 10.07 2.9 8.22 1.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.68 .3 – – 8.34 .2 Level 3 .................................................. 8.81 7.0 – – – – Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 8.36 6.6 – – – – Counter and rental clerks..................................... 8.36 6.6 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 11.01 5.6 11.68 4.8 8.68 5.2 Level 3 .................................................. 11.74 .1 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.42 .4 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.29 2.9 15.65 3.0 12.35 8.9 Level 2 .................................................. 9.96 6.2 10.40 3.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.83 3.4 13.82 3.1 13.93 12.6 Level 4 .................................................. 15.65 4.0 15.68 4.3 15.34 4.1 Level 5 .................................................. 17.32 5.3 17.36 5.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.57 7.1 20.57 7.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.27 12.2 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.36 12.6 15.49 13.0 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 14.72 6.3 14.89 7.1 13.14 7.1 Level 3 .................................................. 13.26 2.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.62 5.4 13.47 6.3 – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 12.65 5.6 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.12 16.5 17.67 20.2 – – Tellers......................................................... $12.96 7.4 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 17.97 8.7 $18.10 8.4 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.02 13.9 – – – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.03 5.7 12.25 5.6 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.04 15.2 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.75 6.0 15.72 6.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.87 6.9 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.38 10.4 18.38 10.7 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 14.92 6.3 – – – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.05 4.6 13.80 4.6 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 14.70 7.8 14.36 8.5 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.17 4.2 21.38 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.46 16.0 27.46 16.0 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 29.36 1.8 29.36 1.8 – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 29.36 1.8 29.36 1.8 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 20.73 7.9 20.73 7.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.54 3.7 17.54 3.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.87 16.1 25.87 16.1 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.92 4.5 16.92 4.5 – – Line installers and repairers..................................... 28.66 11.3 28.66 11.3 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.02 8.6 15.20 8.8 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.39 2.2 10.39 2.2 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.18 3.5 10.99 2.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.46 1.5 14.08 4.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.55 4.3 14.55 4.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.94 10.6 22.94 10.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.86 4.2 23.86 4.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.18 11.6 23.18 11.6 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.99 3.9 11.99 3.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.65 2.1 10.65 2.1 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 15.70 8.5 15.70 8.5 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 11.57 18.8 11.57 18.8 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.52 16.0 12.74 17.0 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.47 .8 9.47 .8 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.39 7.1 15.25 8.5 $11.95 11.2 Level 1 .................................................. 9.35 5.0 10.00 7.3 8.60 6.2 Level 2 .................................................. 13.41 7.3 13.41 7.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.05 3.8 15.76 3.8 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.97 13.8 15.97 13.8 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.28 5.2 19.28 5.2 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ $10.35 8.9 $11.06 11.4 $8.60 6.2 Level 1 .................................................. 9.35 5.0 10.00 7.3 8.60 6.2 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.10 10.0 11.52 11.8 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.11 7.0 – – – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.89 1.2 9.75 6.5 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.51 3.9 – – – – 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. See appendix A for more information. 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 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 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 appendix A. 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 Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $18.92 5.9 $20.60 6.2 $10.89 6.7 Management occupations.............................................. 42.03 15.2 42.03 15.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.63 9.0 20.63 9.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.01 2.6 31.01 2.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 64.63 13.5 64.63 13.5 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 65.99 23.8 65.99 23.8 – – Financial managers................................................ 57.86 34.5 57.86 34.5 – – Education administrators.......................................... 28.96 7.7 28.96 7.7 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 28.82 10.7 29.24 10.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.11 17.5 34.60 18.0 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.77 10.0 35.77 10.0 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.10 5.9 28.10 5.9 – – Engineers......................................................... 39.16 4.3 39.16 4.3 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.14 4.8 23.14 4.8 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 19.89 12.8 19.88 13.3 – – Social workers.................................................... 19.89 14.5 – – – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 45.43 18.0 47.90 20.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.73 11.8 30.73 11.8 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 66.75 11.6 66.75 11.6 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 29.03 12.0 29.03 12.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.03 12.0 29.03 12.0 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 22.91 8.1 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.85 7.1 30.48 9.3 28.17 5.4 Level 5 .................................................. 23.20 .2 22.00 3.6 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.71 4.4 23.96 1.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.13 7.4 26.74 9.1 28.69 8.9 Level 8 .................................................. 28.39 5.6 27.71 7.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.82 5.3 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 29.29 3.5 28.61 3.9 31.16 6.5 Level 7 .................................................. 29.68 1.5 30.06 3.1 28.75 9.2 Level 8 .................................................. 26.86 5.6 – – – – Therapists........................................................ 31.39 1.0 – – – – Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 18.60 17.8 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.91 .5 23.86 1.2 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 15.00 3.4 15.17 2.8 14.40 5.9 Level 2 .................................................. 10.75 8.7 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.98 3.1 12.57 4.1 13.85 3.4 Not able to be leveled.................................... $14.51 9.1 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.91 4.1 $12.76 5.3 $13.43 3.0 Level 3 .................................................. 12.98 3.1 12.57 4.1 13.86 3.4 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.15 5.7 12.98 7.3 13.66 3.7 Level 3 .................................................. 12.98 3.1 12.57 4.1 13.86 3.4 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.92 1.9 17.33 1.5 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.81 2.6 11.59 7.1 6.03 7.9 Level 1 .................................................. 6.80 1.8 – – 6.63 2.7 Level 3 .................................................. 9.72 43.3 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 14.54 6.3 14.54 6.3 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.70 2.5 – – 4.05 21.2 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.85 .6 – – 7.91 .5 Level 1 .................................................. 7.80 .4 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.79 4.1 12.84 5.0 8.86 8.5 Level 1 .................................................. 10.31 6.1 – – 7.79 3.5 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.16 5.7 13.40 6.2 8.75 6.9 Level 1 .................................................. 10.81 8.7 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.02 9.8 14.31 8.8 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.96 3.4 12.09 3.6 – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.15 10.3 15.51 11.0 8.49 2.5 Level 1 .................................................. 7.88 1.1 – – 7.88 1.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.95 2.6 10.65 3.1 8.26 1.2 Level 3 .................................................. 9.87 7.2 10.49 5.4 8.06 7.9 Level 4 .................................................. 14.09 5.0 14.73 4.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 14.95 16.6 14.95 16.6 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.68 1.6 10.95 2.3 8.25 1.2 Level 1 .................................................. 7.88 1.1 – – 7.88 1.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.95 2.6 10.65 3.1 8.26 1.2 Level 3 .................................................. 9.70 9.4 10.48 7.5 8.06 7.9 Level 4 .................................................. 12.42 .4 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.81 2.3 10.07 2.9 8.22 1.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.68 .3 – – 8.34 .2 Level 3 .................................................. 8.81 7.0 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 8.81 2.3 10.07 2.9 8.22 1.1 Level 2 .................................................. 8.68 .3 – – 8.34 .2 Level 3 .................................................. 8.81 7.0 – – – – Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 8.36 6.6 – – – – Counter and rental clerks..................................... 8.36 6.6 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 11.01 5.6 11.68 4.8 8.68 5.2 Level 3 .................................................. 11.74 .1 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.42 .4 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... $14.67 3.0 $15.04 3.2 $11.93 9.7 Level 2 .................................................. 9.96 6.2 10.40 3.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.46 2.9 13.44 1.7 13.59 13.9 Level 4 .................................................. 15.22 3.7 15.25 3.9 14.63 2.0 Level 5 .................................................. 16.61 8.0 16.58 9.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.18 11.1 20.18 11.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.27 12.2 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.43 10.8 14.55 11.2 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 14.39 6.7 14.54 7.6 13.14 7.1 Level 3 .................................................. 13.26 2.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.62 5.4 13.47 6.3 – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 12.65 5.6 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 16.23 23.0 – – – – Tellers......................................................... 12.96 7.4 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 17.97 8.7 18.10 8.4 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.03 5.7 12.25 5.6 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.04 15.2 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.43 6.3 15.45 6.4 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.94 11.5 17.93 11.8 – – Medical secretaries............................................. 14.92 6.3 – – – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.79 4.5 13.80 4.6 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 14.16 8.4 13.78 9.0 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.27 4.3 21.49 3.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.46 16.0 27.46 16.0 – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 29.36 1.8 29.36 1.8 – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 29.36 1.8 29.36 1.8 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 20.73 7.9 20.73 7.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.54 3.7 17.54 3.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.87 16.1 25.87 16.1 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.92 4.5 16.92 4.5 – – Line installers and repairers..................................... 28.66 11.3 28.66 11.3 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.02 8.6 15.20 8.8 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.39 2.2 10.39 2.2 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.18 3.5 10.99 2.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.46 1.5 14.08 4.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.55 4.3 14.55 4.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.94 10.6 22.94 10.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.86 4.2 23.86 4.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.18 11.6 23.18 11.6 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.99 3.9 11.99 3.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.65 2.1 10.65 2.1 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... $15.70 8.5 $15.70 8.5 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 11.57 18.8 11.57 18.8 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.52 16.0 12.74 17.0 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.47 .8 9.47 .8 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.68 8.3 14.44 10.5 $11.95 11.2 Level 1 .................................................. 9.35 5.0 10.00 7.3 8.60 6.2 Level 3 .................................................. 15.04 4.2 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.97 13.8 15.97 13.8 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.28 5.2 19.28 5.2 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 9.98 9.3 10.59 12.4 8.60 6.2 Level 1 .................................................. 9.35 5.0 10.00 7.3 8.60 6.2 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.59 10.9 10.92 12.9 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.11 7.0 – – – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.89 1.2 9.75 6.5 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.51 3.9 – – – – 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. See appendix A for more information. 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 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 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 appendix A. Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $28.44 4.0 $29.26 4.4 $15.85 7.3 Management occupations.............................................. 30.90 9.6 30.55 8.8 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 43.27 4.9 46.31 5.6 15.44 10.4 Level 9 .................................................. 49.93 4.0 49.93 4.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.24 5.1 44.24 5.1 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 48.68 .9 49.60 1.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 49.93 4.0 49.93 4.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 49.22 1.1 49.22 1.1 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 47.77 1.5 48.23 1.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 48.44 1.7 48.44 1.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 48.05 5.3 48.05 5.3 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 46.96 4.3 47.71 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.81 10.1 46.81 10.1 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 49.05 3.0 49.05 3.0 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 48.54 .7 50.97 4.0 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 53.14 3.8 53.14 3.8 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 15.39 5.3 15.94 7.2 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 32.76 8.1 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 22.88 3.2 24.10 5.2 – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 18.57 8.4 18.57 8.4 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 16.05 3.5 16.05 3.5 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 19.01 5.7 19.13 6.0 – – 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. See appendix A for more information. 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 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 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 appendix A. Table 5. Combined work levels(1) for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for full-time and part-time workers(3), Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $20.18 4.9 $21.88 5.1 $11.15 6.2 Management occupations.............................................. 40.20 13.6 40.15 13.6 – – Group II.................................................. 21.47 8.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 33.98 5.0 – – – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 65.99 23.8 65.99 23.8 – – Financial managers................................................ 47.67 34.5 47.67 34.5 – – Education administrators.......................................... 32.40 10.9 32.40 10.9 – – Group III................................................. 33.92 10.3 – – – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 28.82 10.7 29.24 10.9 – – Group II.................................................. 19.91 9.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 32.72 3.4 – – – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.49 9.6 35.49 9.6 – – Group II.................................................. 27.05 7.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 36.84 5.0 – – – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.10 5.9 28.10 5.9 – – Group II.................................................. 23.62 9.7 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 39.16 4.3 39.16 4.3 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.14 4.8 23.14 4.8 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.14 10.8 30.14 10.8 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 23.98 8.6 24.06 8.9 – – Group II.................................................. 18.96 10.8 – – – – Group III................................................. 25.65 7.1 – – – – Social workers.................................................... 22.32 10.9 22.30 11.0 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 43.75 5.6 46.67 6.3 15.62 8.3 Group I................................................... 14.79 8.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.91 12.5 – – – – Group III................................................. 47.65 4.8 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 68.53 7.2 68.53 7.2 – – Group III................................................. 59.61 2.6 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 46.57 1.2 47.33 1.9 – – Group III................................................. 45.97 6.4 – – – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 45.00 3.0 45.37 3.1 – – Group III................................................. 43.20 4.2 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 46.24 4.6 46.94 5.0 – – Group III................................................. 47.08 3.4 47.08 3.4 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 43.45 5.8 43.45 5.8 – – Group III................................................. 39.79 9.2 39.79 9.2 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 47.71 1.8 49.97 4.7 – – Group III................................................. $47.32 7.2 – – – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 51.71 5.1 $51.71 5.1 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 15.47 5.1 16.01 6.8 – – Group I................................................... 14.78 10.8 – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 22.32 8.6 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 30.11 6.5 30.83 8.5 $27.99 5.5 Group II.................................................. 27.02 5.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 33.99 6.0 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 29.24 3.0 28.78 3.4 30.63 7.0 Group II.................................................. 28.64 3.4 28.43 4.7 29.37 7.8 Group III................................................. 32.84 7.2 – – – – Therapists........................................................ 38.07 20.3 39.21 20.3 – – Group II.................................................. 31.39 1.0 – – – – Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 18.60 17.8 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.91 .5 23.86 1.2 – – Group II.................................................. 23.91 .5 23.86 1.2 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 15.04 3.2 15.21 2.5 14.40 5.9 Group I................................................... 14.11 5.1 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.23 3.0 13.18 3.8 13.43 3.0 Group I................................................... 13.08 4.9 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.51 4.3 13.47 5.3 13.66 3.7 Group I................................................... 13.08 4.9 12.89 5.7 13.66 3.7 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.92 1.9 17.33 1.5 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 19.26 13.2 19.72 14.9 – – Group II.................................................. 23.69 8.1 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.01 3.6 11.96 7.4 6.03 7.9 Group I................................................... 7.42 3.0 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 14.54 6.3 14.54 6.3 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.70 2.5 – – 4.05 21.2 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.85 .6 – – 7.91 .5 Group I................................................... 7.85 .6 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.92 6.4 14.08 7.3 8.86 8.5 Group I................................................... 12.22 4.4 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.93 4.4 14.06 5.6 8.75 6.9 Group I................................................... 12.49 3.4 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.86 7.0 14.94 6.1 – – Group I................................................... 12.06 5.4 14.22 4.2 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 13.04 4.6 13.18 5.0 – – Group I................................................... 13.04 4.6 13.18 5.0 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... $12.14 4.0 $12.31 4.5 – – Group I................................................... 11.89 5.2 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.15 10.3 15.51 11.0 $8.49 2.5 Group I................................................... 10.35 4.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.66 11.0 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 14.95 16.6 14.95 16.6 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.68 1.6 10.95 2.3 8.25 1.2 Group I................................................... 9.42 2.0 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.81 2.3 10.07 2.9 8.22 1.1 Group I................................................... 8.61 2.1 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 8.81 2.3 10.07 2.9 8.22 1.1 Group I................................................... 8.61 2.1 10.03 2.3 8.19 1.4 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 8.36 6.6 – – – – Group I................................................... 8.36 6.6 – – – – Counter and rental clerks..................................... 8.36 6.6 – – – – Group I................................................... 8.36 6.6 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 11.01 5.6 11.68 4.8 8.68 5.2 Group I................................................... 10.96 5.2 11.91 2.4 8.65 6.0 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.29 2.9 15.65 3.0 12.35 8.9 Group I................................................... 14.07 3.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 19.59 5.0 – – – – Financial clerks.................................................. 14.72 6.3 14.89 7.1 13.14 7.1 Group I................................................... 12.90 5.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.07 13.2 – – – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 12.65 5.6 – – – – Group I................................................... 12.65 5.6 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.12 16.5 17.67 20.2 – – Tellers......................................................... 12.96 7.4 – – – – Group I................................................... 12.96 7.4 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 17.97 8.7 18.10 8.4 – – Group I................................................... 15.44 10.4 – – – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.02 13.9 – – – – Group I................................................... 13.26 15.8 – – – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.03 5.7 12.25 5.6 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.04 15.2 – – – – Group I................................................... 13.77 23.2 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.75 6.0 15.72 6.4 – – Group I................................................... 13.65 3.7 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.95 2.7 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.38 10.4 18.38 10.7 – – Group II.................................................. 21.02 2.7 – – – – Medical secretaries............................................. 14.92 6.3 – – – – Group I................................................... 14.92 6.3 – – – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... $14.05 4.6 $13.80 4.6 – – Group I................................................... 13.45 5.3 – – – – Office clerks, general............................................ 14.70 7.8 14.36 8.5 – – Group I................................................... 15.75 4.7 15.17 6.2 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.17 4.2 21.38 3.6 – – Group II.................................................. 25.14 13.3 – – – – Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 29.36 1.8 29.36 1.8 – – Group II.................................................. 29.36 1.8 – – – – Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 29.36 1.8 29.36 1.8 – – Group II.................................................. 29.36 1.8 29.36 1.8 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 20.73 7.9 20.73 7.9 – – Group I................................................... 16.30 6.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.46 9.8 – – – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.92 4.5 16.92 4.5 – – Group II.................................................. 17.79 4.4 – – – – Line installers and repairers..................................... 28.66 11.3 28.66 11.3 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.02 8.6 15.20 8.8 – – Group I................................................... 11.73 3.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.59 6.1 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.18 11.6 23.18 11.6 – – Group II.................................................. 26.02 25.4 26.02 25.4 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.99 3.9 11.99 3.9 – – Group I................................................... 11.99 3.9 – – – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 15.70 8.5 15.70 8.5 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 11.57 18.8 11.57 18.8 – – Group I................................................... 11.29 17.2 11.29 17.2 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.52 16.0 12.74 17.0 – – Group I................................................... 11.20 8.3 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.39 7.1 15.25 8.5 $11.95 11.2 Group I................................................... 13.25 8.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.82 4.9 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.97 13.8 15.97 13.8 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.28 5.2 19.28 5.2 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.35 8.9 11.06 11.4 8.60 6.2 Group I................................................... 10.68 9.9 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.10 10.0 11.52 11.8 – – Group I................................................... 11.99 8.7 13.02 6.5 – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.89 1.2 9.75 6.5 – – Group I................................................... 8.89 1.2 9.75 6.5 – – 1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines levels 13-15. 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 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. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 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 appendix A. Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.50 $11.50 $16.20 $24.48 $33.65 Management occupations.............................................. 18.51 24.75 31.95 44.36 65.83 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 28.85 28.85 51.66 76.81 152.08 Financial managers................................................ 21.22 24.75 33.65 58.19 154.63 Education administrators.......................................... 26.86 26.89 30.56 38.46 42.90 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 16.43 20.44 27.94 34.61 42.78 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 25.49 28.85 33.36 40.91 49.65 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 20.09 22.11 25.02 31.25 44.13 Engineers......................................................... 30.84 31.25 42.38 45.23 47.08 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 19.23 20.81 23.59 25.02 25.02 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 22.07 22.26 33.64 35.22 40.00 Community and social services occupations........................... 16.34 20.28 23.31 29.03 31.32 Social workers.................................................... 14.83 19.60 21.55 24.68 29.03 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 14.74 27.38 46.12 57.94 66.91 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 40.68 58.87 80.92 82.61 83.03 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 27.39 37.44 49.80 56.76 63.11 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 25.06 34.62 46.99 55.46 63.14 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 28.54 39.23 48.91 55.68 63.75 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 25.06 30.21 44.28 55.25 60.49 Secondary school teachers....................................... 29.86 40.27 50.10 58.78 63.32 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.53 44.02 53.24 61.73 63.98 Teacher assistants................................................ 12.19 13.14 15.04 17.39 18.76 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 18.65 18.65 21.79 26.44 26.44 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 20.60 23.87 28.00 31.74 37.79 Registered nurses................................................. 23.15 25.56 28.70 32.19 34.53 Therapists........................................................ 26.39 29.26 33.82 36.66 59.67 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 9.28 13.10 19.15 24.86 25.17 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 21.58 23.00 23.50 25.15 26.00 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.35 12.62 15.44 17.56 18.50 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.00 11.65 12.75 14.58 15.95 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.00 11.84 13.48 15.00 16.13 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.00 15.97 17.30 18.50 18.50 Protective service occupations...................................... 9.77 11.75 21.40 25.03 30.12 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.89 5.00 7.50 10.30 13.98 Cooks............................................................. 10.50 13.00 13.75 16.80 17.62 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.89 2.89 5.00 5.00 6.00 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.20 7.50 7.50 8.00 9.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... $7.75 $10.30 $12.26 $14.16 $16.56 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.00 11.25 12.60 15.12 16.51 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.75 8.20 12.67 15.73 17.74 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 12.00 12.26 12.26 13.83 15.91 Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.10 10.70 11.45 13.00 15.24 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.64 8.50 10.50 14.90 20.95 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 10.50 10.50 15.50 20.95 20.95 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.50 7.88 9.20 10.96 13.00 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.50 7.65 8.50 9.78 10.96 Cashiers...................................................... 7.50 7.65 8.50 9.78 10.96 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.10 7.25 8.50 8.70 9.94 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 7.10 7.25 8.50 8.70 9.94 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.97 9.05 10.97 12.75 14.51 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.32 12.22 14.58 17.64 20.61 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.00 12.31 14.47 16.50 18.51 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 10.50 10.71 13.09 13.27 14.74 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 12.31 12.31 14.50 20.65 31.95 Tellers......................................................... 9.74 10.15 12.86 15.23 15.65 Customer service representatives.................................. 13.72 14.00 17.50 22.72 23.11 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 8.00 11.51 13.69 14.58 19.27 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.10 9.67 11.04 13.43 15.32 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.50 8.76 14.96 17.76 22.38 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.98 12.98 14.00 17.60 20.61 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.10 13.10 20.61 20.61 22.90 Medical secretaries............................................. 10.46 12.24 15.19 16.75 17.57 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.10 12.98 13.52 14.75 16.81 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.32 11.53 15.85 17.64 18.00 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 13.00 14.00 18.50 25.00 33.53 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 16.53 28.69 29.50 33.53 41.23 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 16.53 28.69 29.50 33.53 41.23 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 14.14 17.13 17.84 23.19 31.31 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 13.75 16.34 17.25 17.84 18.50 Line installers and repairers..................................... 15.62 28.59 31.31 32.22 35.21 Production occupations.............................................. 8.50 9.77 13.30 18.55 25.21 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 16.50 16.50 23.80 27.67 35.13 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 9.66 10.53 11.85 13.09 13.97 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 10.87 13.06 17.44 17.89 17.89 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 8.00 8.77 11.12 15.45 16.00 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 8.50 9.09 10.18 14.12 21.50 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.12 10.00 14.00 17.50 21.85 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ $12.00 $12.00 $15.00 $19.50 $22.20 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.42 16.42 22.19 22.20 22.20 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.29 8.12 9.38 12.00 15.49 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.50 8.39 10.00 13.00 16.70 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.82 8.00 8.41 9.65 10.61 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.20 $10.99 $14.90 $22.38 $32.50 Management occupations.............................................. 17.19 24.62 32.00 51.97 74.65 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 28.85 28.85 51.66 76.81 152.08 Financial managers................................................ 21.22 21.22 46.28 58.19 154.63 Education administrators.......................................... 14.90 26.86 28.68 30.56 38.46 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 16.43 20.44 27.94 34.61 42.78 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 25.49 28.85 34.35 40.91 49.65 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 20.09 22.11 25.02 31.25 44.13 Engineers......................................................... 30.84 31.25 42.38 45.23 47.08 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 19.23 20.81 23.59 25.02 25.02 Community and social services occupations........................... 14.83 16.98 20.76 23.31 23.62 Social workers.................................................... 14.83 16.98 20.76 23.31 24.47 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 17.01 27.38 33.14 74.75 82.61 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 38.76 51.10 80.92 82.61 82.61 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 23.36 24.17 27.39 32.35 37.44 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 18.65 18.65 21.79 26.44 26.44 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 20.60 23.63 27.93 31.74 37.79 Registered nurses................................................. 23.24 25.50 28.70 32.96 35.03 Therapists........................................................ 26.39 28.15 30.32 34.32 36.66 Health diagnosing and treating practitioner support technicians... 9.28 13.10 19.15 24.86 25.17 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 21.58 23.00 23.50 25.15 26.00 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.35 12.53 15.33 17.70 18.50 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.94 11.35 12.62 13.84 15.78 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.71 11.50 13.00 14.19 15.78 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 14.00 15.97 17.30 18.50 18.50 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.89 5.00 7.50 9.50 13.79 Cooks............................................................. 10.50 13.00 13.75 16.80 17.62 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.89 2.89 5.00 5.00 6.00 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.20 7.50 7.50 8.00 9.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.75 10.00 12.26 12.82 14.88 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.75 10.00 12.26 13.40 15.43 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.75 8.20 12.67 13.40 17.50 Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.25 10.70 11.45 13.00 14.90 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.64 8.50 10.50 14.90 20.95 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 10.50 10.50 15.50 20.95 20.95 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.50 7.88 9.20 10.96 13.00 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.50 7.65 8.50 9.78 10.96 Cashiers...................................................... $7.50 $7.65 $8.50 $9.78 $10.96 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.10 7.25 8.50 8.70 9.94 Counter and rental clerks..................................... 7.10 7.25 8.50 8.70 9.94 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.97 9.05 10.97 12.75 14.51 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.87 11.75 13.75 16.76 20.04 Financial clerks.................................................. 9.74 12.31 14.14 15.71 18.47 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 10.50 10.71 13.09 13.27 14.74 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 12.31 12.31 12.31 14.50 31.95 Tellers......................................................... 9.74 10.15 12.86 15.23 15.65 Customer service representatives.................................. 13.72 14.00 17.50 22.72 23.11 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.10 9.67 11.04 13.43 15.32 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.50 8.76 14.96 17.76 22.38 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.61 12.98 13.80 17.55 20.61 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.10 13.10 20.61 20.61 22.75 Medical secretaries............................................. 10.46 12.24 15.19 16.75 17.57 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.10 12.98 12.98 14.00 16.81 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.32 11.00 13.00 16.76 18.00 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 13.00 14.00 18.50 25.05 33.53 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 16.53 28.69 29.50 33.53 41.23 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 16.53 28.69 29.50 33.53 41.23 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 14.14 17.13 17.84 23.19 31.31 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 13.75 16.34 17.25 17.84 18.50 Line installers and repairers..................................... 15.62 28.59 31.31 32.22 35.21 Production occupations.............................................. 8.50 9.77 13.30 18.55 25.21 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 16.50 16.50 23.80 27.67 35.13 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 9.66 10.53 11.85 13.09 13.97 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 10.87 13.06 17.44 17.89 17.89 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 8.00 8.77 11.12 15.45 16.00 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 8.50 9.09 10.18 14.12 21.50 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.00 9.45 12.70 16.78 21.85 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 12.00 12.00 15.00 19.50 22.20 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.42 16.42 22.19 22.20 22.20 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.29 8.05 9.05 10.90 14.34 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.50 8.39 9.45 12.20 14.34 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.82 8.00 8.41 9.65 10.61 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $15.00 $17.88 $24.67 $31.42 $52.99 Management occupations.............................................. 24.75 24.75 27.59 32.24 43.46 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 13.57 24.25 47.69 57.51 63.64 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 31.61 41.55 51.37 57.51 63.37 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 30.73 40.77 50.52 56.76 63.75 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.32 40.92 50.36 56.76 63.89 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 32.99 40.03 50.52 57.31 63.67 Secondary school teachers....................................... 30.89 41.30 50.66 59.37 63.37 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 39.11 45.81 53.64 61.73 64.01 Teacher assistants................................................ 12.19 12.97 15.04 17.54 18.76 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.49 28.08 29.99 32.85 59.67 Protective service occupations...................................... 13.95 20.92 22.72 27.13 30.12 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.35 15.70 16.26 19.29 29.30 Building cleaning workers......................................... 14.17 15.51 15.73 16.51 19.29 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.69 17.14 17.91 20.51 23.87 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 9. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $10.35 $12.72 $17.30 $25.93 $35.68 Management occupations.............................................. 18.51 24.75 31.95 44.36 64.92 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 28.85 28.85 51.66 76.81 152.08 Financial managers................................................ 21.22 24.75 33.65 58.19 154.63 Education administrators.......................................... 26.86 26.89 30.56 38.46 42.90 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 16.43 20.66 27.94 34.67 42.78 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 25.49 28.85 33.36 40.91 49.65 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 20.09 22.11 25.02 31.25 44.13 Engineers......................................................... 30.84 31.25 42.38 45.23 47.08 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 19.23 20.81 23.59 25.02 25.02 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 22.07 22.26 33.64 35.22 40.00 Community and social services occupations........................... 15.96 20.28 23.31 29.03 31.32 Social workers.................................................... 14.83 19.60 21.55 24.79 29.03 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 17.06 32.10 49.09 59.66 68.43 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 40.68 58.87 80.92 82.61 83.03 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 28.50 38.81 50.10 57.31 63.14 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 27.39 35.43 47.21 55.58 63.14 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 30.05 39.81 49.31 56.05 63.75 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 25.06 30.21 44.28 55.25 60.49 Secondary school teachers....................................... 32.91 41.98 50.66 59.61 63.48 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.53 44.02 53.24 61.73 63.98 Teacher assistants................................................ 12.28 13.45 16.97 17.81 18.76 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 20.60 23.64 27.35 32.18 43.19 Registered nurses................................................. 23.64 25.53 28.56 31.74 33.80 Therapists........................................................ 28.15 30.28 33.82 59.67 59.67 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 21.21 23.28 23.37 25.15 26.50 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.33 12.62 15.88 17.83 18.50 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.94 11.50 12.71 14.15 16.09 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.38 11.73 13.48 14.96 17.24 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 15.88 16.23 17.70 18.50 18.50 Protective service occupations...................................... 10.00 12.00 21.40 25.03 30.12 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.50 8.00 11.22 15.00 17.50 Cooks............................................................. 10.50 13.00 13.75 16.80 17.62 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... $11.00 $12.00 $12.67 $15.07 $18.06 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.26 12.26 13.03 15.70 16.87 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.90 12.67 14.91 16.03 20.17 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 12.26 12.26 12.26 14.12 15.91 Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.35 10.70 11.45 13.75 15.24 Sales and related occupations....................................... 9.10 10.46 12.75 16.53 22.00 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 10.50 10.50 15.50 20.95 20.95 Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.50 9.60 10.50 12.18 14.51 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.80 9.70 9.78 10.96 11.06 Cashiers...................................................... 8.80 9.70 9.78 10.96 11.06 Retail salespersons............................................. 8.90 10.00 11.50 13.25 14.80 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.66 12.75 14.63 17.64 21.00 Financial clerks.................................................. 9.74 12.31 14.25 16.79 19.60 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 12.31 12.31 12.98 21.04 31.95 Customer service representatives.................................. 13.72 13.72 17.50 22.72 23.11 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.20 9.90 11.40 13.75 15.32 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.98 12.98 13.80 17.60 20.61 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.10 13.10 20.61 20.61 22.90 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.10 12.98 12.98 14.00 16.81 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.32 11.50 14.36 16.76 17.64 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 13.00 14.00 18.50 25.00 33.53 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 16.53 28.69 29.50 33.53 41.23 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 16.53 28.69 29.50 33.53 41.23 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 14.14 17.13 17.84 23.19 31.31 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 13.75 16.34 17.25 17.84 18.50 Line installers and repairers..................................... 15.62 28.59 31.31 32.22 35.21 Production occupations.............................................. 8.50 9.63 13.41 18.55 25.85 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 16.50 16.50 23.80 27.67 35.13 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 9.66 10.53 11.85 13.09 13.97 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 10.87 13.06 17.44 17.89 17.89 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 8.00 8.77 11.12 15.45 16.00 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 8.50 8.50 11.00 14.12 24.43 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.41 11.00 14.34 19.79 21.85 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 12.00 12.00 15.00 19.50 22.20 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.42 16.42 22.19 22.20 22.20 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.00 8.39 9.83 13.90 16.70 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... $8.00 $8.39 $10.50 $14.34 $18.00 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.12 8.30 9.53 9.99 13.90 1 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. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 10. Part-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $5.00 $7.50 $8.85 $13.10 $18.00 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.54 12.48 14.74 19.71 19.71 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 21.22 25.67 29.00 30.65 35.00 Registered nurses................................................. 21.38 27.10 30.65 33.66 37.79 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.74 12.53 14.19 16.88 16.88 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.61 12.00 13.83 15.00 15.78 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.58 12.00 13.84 15.44 15.78 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.89 3.50 5.00 7.55 9.00 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.89 2.89 4.00 5.00 5.00 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.10 7.50 7.50 8.50 9.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 6.99 7.10 7.75 8.75 12.82 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.25 7.75 8.07 8.30 10.11 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.25 7.64 7.88 9.10 10.97 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.25 7.50 7.85 8.70 10.00 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.30 7.60 7.75 8.69 10.00 Cashiers...................................................... 7.30 7.60 7.75 8.69 10.00 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.87 7.88 7.97 9.35 10.18 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 8.00 8.11 11.50 16.72 18.00 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.00 11.50 14.50 14.50 16.02 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.10 8.50 12.40 16.20 16.78 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 6.82 7.29 8.30 9.45 10.60 1 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. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 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. Table 11. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $21.88 $17.30 $855 $692 39.1 $43,157 $35,880 1,972 Management occupations.............................................. 40.15 31.95 1,610 1,222 40.1 83,743 63,554 2,086 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 65.99 51.66 2,633 2,066 39.9 136,914 107,453 2,075 Financial managers................................................ 47.67 33.65 1,884 1,346 39.5 97,969 70,000 2,055 Education administrators.......................................... 32.40 30.56 1,226 1,222 37.8 63,741 63,554 1,967 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.24 27.94 1,110 1,055 38.0 57,739 54,858 1,975 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.49 33.36 1,370 1,334 38.6 71,264 69,378 2,008 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.10 25.02 1,112 1,001 39.6 57,803 52,050 2,057 Engineers......................................................... 39.16 42.38 1,566 1,695 40.0 81,444 88,150 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.14 23.59 911 916 39.4 47,348 47,628 2,046 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.14 33.64 1,166 1,128 38.7 60,653 58,640 2,013 Community and social services occupations........................... 24.06 23.31 921 874 38.3 47,360 45,456 1,968 Social workers.................................................... 22.30 21.55 849 833 38.1 44,144 43,310 1,979 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 46.67 49.09 1,566 1,632 33.6 57,193 60,165 1,226 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 68.53 80.92 2,551 2,990 37.2 91,219 95,680 1,331 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 47.33 50.10 1,569 1,662 33.1 57,258 61,041 1,210 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 45.37 47.21 1,510 1,629 33.3 55,120 60,138 1,215 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 46.94 49.31 1,554 1,662 33.1 56,871 61,159 1,212 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 43.45 44.28 1,455 1,493 33.5 52,967 54,481 1,219 Secondary school teachers....................................... 49.97 50.66 1,638 1,672 32.8 59,644 61,192 1,194 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 51.71 53.24 1,691 1,810 32.7 61,502 66,243 1,189 Teacher assistants................................................ 16.01 16.97 500 509 31.2 18,092 18,324 1,130 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 30.83 27.35 1,198 1,047 38.9 61,480 54,469 1,994 Registered nurses................................................. 28.78 28.56 1,111 1,093 38.6 57,112 55,965 1,985 Therapists........................................................ 39.21 33.82 1,440 1,379 36.7 66,254 66,234 1,690 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.86 23.37 950 935 39.8 49,395 48,610 2,070 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 15.21 15.88 591 634 38.9 30,733 32,947 2,021 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.18 12.71 507 508 38.5 26,388 26,437 2,003 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.47 13.48 524 524 38.9 27,256 27,225 2,023 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.33 17.70 680 694 39.2 35,351 36,075 2,039 Protective service occupations...................................... 19.72 21.40 775 809 39.3 40,282 42,051 2,042 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.96 11.22 478 449 39.9 24,839 23,338 2,076 Cooks............................................................. $14.54 $13.75 $579 $550 39.8 $30,128 $28,600 2,072 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.08 12.67 561 507 39.8 29,173 26,349 2,072 Building cleaning workers......................................... 14.06 13.03 561 521 39.9 29,152 27,102 2,073 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.94 14.91 594 593 39.7 30,862 30,811 2,066 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 13.18 12.26 527 491 40.0 27,417 25,509 2,080 Personal care and service occupations............................... 12.31 11.45 486 458 39.5 25,125 23,816 2,041 Sales and related occupations....................................... 15.51 12.75 615 500 39.7 31,648 25,480 2,040 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 14.95 15.50 618 597 41.3 32,139 31,054 2,149 Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.95 10.50 429 411 39.2 21,877 21,370 1,998 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.07 9.78 396 391 39.3 20,587 20,342 2,045 Cashiers...................................................... 10.07 9.78 396 391 39.3 20,587 20,342 2,045 Retail salespersons............................................. 11.68 11.50 456 440 39.0 23,701 22,859 2,029 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.65 14.63 611 577 39.0 31,747 30,001 2,028 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.89 14.25 582 569 39.1 30,268 29,576 2,033 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 17.67 12.98 660 600 37.3 34,306 31,195 1,942 Customer service representatives.................................. 18.10 17.50 717 700 39.6 37,275 36,400 2,060 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.25 11.40 490 456 40.0 25,479 23,712 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.72 13.80 619 552 39.4 32,211 28,700 2,049 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 18.38 20.61 714 802 38.9 37,132 41,678 2,020 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.80 12.98 548 519 39.7 28,507 26,998 2,066 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.36 14.36 568 548 39.6 29,552 28,499 2,059 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.38 18.50 861 740 40.3 44,795 38,480 2,095 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 29.36 29.50 1,174 1,180 40.0 61,065 61,360 2,080 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 29.36 29.50 1,174 1,180 40.0 61,065 61,360 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 20.73 17.84 824 714 39.7 41,700 36,400 2,011 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 16.92 17.25 667 690 39.4 32,601 34,216 1,927 Line installers and repairers..................................... 28.66 31.31 1,146 1,252 40.0 59,605 65,119 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 15.20 13.41 602 536 39.6 31,303 27,889 2,059 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.18 23.80 892 952 38.5 46,392 49,500 2,001 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.99 11.85 480 474 40.0 24,943 24,648 2,080 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 15.70 17.44 628 698 40.0 32,650 36,275 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. $11.57 $11.12 $463 $445 40.0 $24,070 $23,123 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.74 11.00 509 440 40.0 26,494 22,880 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.25 14.34 610 574 40.0 28,730 29,245 1,884 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.97 15.00 639 600 40.0 26,591 24,960 1,666 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.28 22.19 771 888 40.0 40,101 46,155 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.06 9.83 442 393 40.0 20,929 19,240 1,892 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.52 10.50 461 420 40.0 23,959 21,840 2,080 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.75 9.53 390 381 40.0 14,632 17,264 1,501 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. 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. Table 12. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $20.60 $16.43 $815 $641 39.5 $41,846 $33,030 2,031 Management occupations.............................................. 42.03 32.00 1,702 1,346 40.5 88,489 70,000 2,106 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 65.99 51.66 2,633 2,066 39.9 136,914 107,453 2,075 Financial managers................................................ 57.86 46.28 2,275 1,851 39.3 118,286 96,264 2,044 Education administrators.......................................... 28.96 28.68 1,076 1,147 37.2 55,969 59,659 1,933 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.24 27.94 1,110 1,055 38.0 57,739 54,858 1,975 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.77 34.35 1,383 1,374 38.7 71,931 71,448 2,011 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.10 25.02 1,112 1,001 39.6 57,803 52,050 2,057 Engineers......................................................... 39.16 42.38 1,566 1,695 40.0 81,444 88,150 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.14 23.59 911 916 39.4 47,348 47,628 2,046 Community and social services occupations........................... 19.88 20.76 766 796 38.6 39,855 41,375 2,005 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 47.90 37.44 1,726 1,294 36.0 64,608 52,999 1,349 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 66.75 80.92 2,411 2,990 36.1 90,433 95,680 1,355 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 29.03 27.39 1,042 959 35.9 37,014 34,510 1,275 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 30.48 26.41 1,195 1,022 39.2 62,129 53,138 2,038 Registered nurses................................................. 28.61 27.93 1,105 1,056 38.6 57,457 54,933 2,009 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.86 23.37 950 935 39.8 49,395 48,610 2,070 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 15.17 15.88 591 635 39.0 30,758 33,030 2,027 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.76 12.53 494 478 38.7 25,700 24,854 2,014 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.98 12.62 510 505 39.3 26,512 26,250 2,043 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.33 17.70 680 694 39.2 35,351 36,075 2,039 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.59 11.22 463 449 39.9 24,071 23,338 2,076 Cooks............................................................. 14.54 13.75 579 550 39.8 30,128 28,600 2,072 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.84 12.26 511 491 39.8 26,588 25,509 2,070 Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.40 12.50 533 500 39.8 27,739 26,000 2,071 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.31 13.40 567 536 39.6 29,502 27,870 2,061 Personal care and service occupations............................... 12.09 11.45 479 458 39.6 24,905 23,816 2,060 Sales and related occupations....................................... 15.51 12.75 615 500 39.7 31,648 25,480 2,040 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 14.95 15.50 618 597 41.3 32,139 31,054 2,149 Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.95 10.50 429 411 39.2 21,877 21,370 1,998 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.07 9.78 396 391 39.3 20,587 20,342 2,045 Cashiers...................................................... 10.07 9.78 396 391 39.3 20,587 20,342 2,045 Retail salespersons............................................. 11.68 11.50 456 440 39.0 23,701 22,859 2,029 Office and administrative support occupations....................... $15.04 $13.85 $593 $551 39.4 $30,821 $28,676 2,049 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.54 14.14 570 551 39.2 29,649 28,676 2,039 Customer service representatives.................................. 18.10 17.50 717 700 39.6 37,275 36,400 2,060 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.25 11.40 490 456 40.0 25,479 23,712 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.45 13.80 612 552 39.6 31,842 28,700 2,061 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 17.93 20.61 707 824 39.5 36,780 42,858 2,052 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.80 12.98 548 519 39.7 28,507 26,998 2,066 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.78 12.98 544 519 39.5 28,307 27,005 2,055 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.49 18.50 869 740 40.4 45,193 38,480 2,103 Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters............... 29.36 29.50 1,174 1,180 40.0 61,065 61,360 2,080 Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters......................... 29.36 29.50 1,174 1,180 40.0 61,065 61,360 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 20.73 17.84 824 714 39.7 41,700 36,400 2,011 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 16.92 17.25 667 690 39.4 32,601 34,216 1,927 Line installers and repairers..................................... 28.66 31.31 1,146 1,252 40.0 59,605 65,119 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 15.20 13.41 602 536 39.6 31,303 27,889 2,059 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.18 23.80 892 952 38.5 46,392 49,500 2,001 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.99 11.85 480 474 40.0 24,943 24,648 2,080 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 15.70 17.44 628 698 40.0 32,650 36,275 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 11.57 11.12 463 445 40.0 24,070 23,123 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.74 11.00 509 440 40.0 26,494 22,880 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.44 14.00 577 560 40.0 26,597 24,960 1,842 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.97 15.00 639 600 40.0 26,591 24,960 1,666 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 19.28 22.19 771 888 40.0 40,101 46,155 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.59 9.53 424 381 40.0 19,856 18,720 1,875 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.92 9.25 437 370 40.0 22,723 19,240 2,080 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.75 9.53 390 381 40.0 14,632 17,264 1,501 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. 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. Table 13. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $29.26 $24.88 $1,072 $989 36.6 $49,433 $49,777 1,689 Management occupations.............................................. 30.55 27.59 1,169 1,104 38.3 60,775 57,387 1,990 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 46.31 50.30 1,524 1,662 32.9 55,301 61,080 1,194 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 49.60 51.53 1,628 1,709 32.8 59,623 62,900 1,202 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 48.23 50.84 1,588 1,670 32.9 58,179 61,338 1,206 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 47.71 50.84 1,574 1,681 33.0 57,668 61,506 1,209 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 49.05 50.52 1,609 1,662 32.8 58,966 61,159 1,202 Secondary school teachers....................................... 50.97 51.53 1,656 1,700 32.5 60,503 62,232 1,187 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 53.14 53.64 1,717 1,833 32.3 62,731 66,866 1,181 Teacher assistants................................................ 15.94 16.47 490 487 30.7 17,828 17,636 1,118 Protective service occupations...................................... 24.10 24.41 941 896 39.1 48,944 46,573 2,031 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 18.57 16.26 743 650 40.0 38,617 33,821 2,080 Building cleaning workers......................................... 16.05 15.73 642 629 40.0 33,380 32,718 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 19.13 18.00 706 705 36.9 36,704 36,644 1,919 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. 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. Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of private industry establishments for major occupational groups, Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $18.92 $15.28 $17.47 $30.01 Management, professional, and related...... 33.86 27.92 29.12 39.97 Management, business, and financial...... 38.14 29.34 33.71 46.09 Professional and related................. 30.64 26.65 26.21 35.42 Service.................................... 11.27 10.53 11.78 15.03 Sales and office........................... 14.06 14.10 13.05 16.43 Sales and related........................ 13.15 13.37 11.89 – Office and administrative support........ 14.67 14.68 13.90 16.19 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 21.05 17.56 28.43 21.82 Construction and extraction............. 21.27 17.94 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 20.73 16.75 25.59 – Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 14.61 14.13 14.72 18.41 Production............................... 15.02 14.54 15.07 18.63 Transportation and material moving....... 13.68 12.60 14.33 – B 1-99 100-499 500 Total workers workers workers or more Occupational group(2) Relative error(3) (percent) Relative error(3) (percent) All workers........................................................... 5.9 6.3 7.5 10.6 Management, professional, and related............................... 6.6 12.2 6.0 8.2 Management, business, and financial............................... 11.5 26.0 7.0 11.3 Professional and related.......................................... 5.3 3.0 4.5 8.6 Service............................................................. 3.2 4.7 5.8 2.3 Sales and office.................................................... 5.2 9.9 3.9 3.0 Sales and related................................................. 10.3 17.6 8.5 – Office and administrative support................................. 3.0 5.0 6.1 3.3 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 4.8 9.5 8.5 3.5 Construction and extraction...................................... 4.3 13.7 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 7.9 3.2 8.4 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 5.4 14.4 11.1 1.1 Production........................................................ 8.6 18.2 10.9 1.3 Transportation and material moving................................ 8.3 8.0 13.3 – 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. See appendix A for more information. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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 appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $16.96 $14.14 $672 $560 39.6 $34,358 $29,120 2,026 Management occupations.............................................. 31.45 24.62 1,323 923 42.1 68,814 48,009 2,188 Sales and related occupations....................................... 16.32 10.99 646 420 39.6 32,848 21,840 2,013 Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.16 9.94 398 398 39.2 19,741 20,342 1,942 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.13 13.25 593 520 39.2 30,850 27,040 2,039 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.96 12.76 544 510 39.0 28,293 26,520 2,026 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.15 18.50 737 740 40.6 38,325 38,480 2,112 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.75 17.19 662 688 39.5 32,693 35,620 1,952 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 16.50 17.25 648 690 39.3 31,326 29,744 1,898 Production occupations.............................................. 14.80 12.50 582 500 39.3 30,280 26,000 2,046 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.76 9.77 510 391 40.0 26,545 20,322 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.58 12.00 543 480 40.0 21,692 24,960 1,598 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 13.84 12.00 553 480 40.0 21,510 24,960 1,555 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.31 9.50 412 380 40.0 16,297 16,890 1,581 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. 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. Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $23.71 $18.50 $935 $739 39.5 $48,266 $38,459 2,036 Management occupations.............................................. 48.24 37.42 1,911 1,462 39.6 99,379 76,016 2,060 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 65.99 51.66 2,633 2,066 39.9 136,914 107,453 2,075 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 31.49 30.14 1,214 1,118 38.6 63,135 58,115 2,005 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.03 34.35 1,389 1,374 38.6 72,218 71,448 2,005 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.10 25.02 1,112 1,001 39.6 57,803 52,050 2,057 Engineers......................................................... 39.16 42.38 1,566 1,695 40.0 81,444 88,150 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 23.14 23.59 911 916 39.4 47,348 47,628 2,046 Community and social services occupations........................... 17.49 17.31 691 692 39.5 35,928 36,005 2,055 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 52.54 47.16 1,905 1,525 36.3 71,913 59,492 1,369 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 66.75 80.92 2,411 2,990 36.1 90,433 95,680 1,355 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 31.91 27.86 1,247 1,056 39.1 64,852 54,933 2,032 Registered nurses................................................. 28.61 27.93 1,105 1,056 38.6 57,457 54,933 2,009 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 23.86 23.37 950 935 39.8 49,395 48,610 2,070 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.97 13.48 548 539 39.2 28,487 28,043 2,038 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 13.03 13.00 512 517 39.3 26,641 26,887 2,044 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.14 13.27 515 517 39.2 26,763 26,887 2,037 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.45 17.30 640 649 38.9 33,277 33,743 2,023 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 13.94 12.50 554 500 39.7 28,807 26,000 2,066 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.80 12.28 508 491 39.7 26,404 25,509 2,064 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.75 12.26 508 491 39.8 26,404 25,509 2,070 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.02 12.94 515 507 39.6 26,804 26,349 2,058 Sales and related occupations....................................... 14.83 14.13 589 544 39.7 30,612 28,289 2,064 Retail sales workers.............................................. 11.50 11.09 451 436 39.2 23,451 22,690 2,040 Retail salespersons............................................. 11.93 11.66 466 466 39.1 24,237 24,253 2,031 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.98 14.00 592 560 39.5 30,801 29,120 2,056 Financial clerks.................................................. 15.42 15.80 610 620 39.6 31,739 32,240 2,058 Customer service representatives.................................. 17.50 17.46 698 710 39.9 36,283 36,920 2,073 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 12.25 11.40 490 456 40.0 25,479 23,712 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.64 14.00 616 560 39.4 32,036 29,120 2,048 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 16.20 13.10 634 524 39.1 32,949 27,242 2,034 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.37 12.00 527 480 39.4 27,406 24,960 2,050 Construction and extraction occupations............................. $30.35 $28.69 $1,214 $1,148 40.0 $63,128 $59,673 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 25.07 23.68 1,003 947 40.0 52,149 49,254 2,080 Line installers and repairers..................................... 28.66 31.31 1,146 1,252 40.0 59,605 65,119 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 15.80 14.32 632 573 40.0 32,871 29,786 2,080 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 26.02 27.67 1,041 1,107 40.0 54,119 57,554 2,080 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.99 11.85 480 474 40.0 24,943 24,648 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 13.37 12.22 535 489 40.0 27,805 25,418 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.08 14.21 603 568 40.0 31,360 29,548 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.74 9.53 430 381 40.0 22,341 19,822 2,080 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. 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 Table 17. Union(1) and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Union Nonunion Occupational group(3) Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers All workers........................................................... $24.50 $18.45 $28.94 $19.10 $18.97 $24.97 Management, professional, and related............................... 37.60 32.16 38.60 33.62 33.94 28.37 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 37.79 38.14 33.59 Professional and related.......................................... 38.51 32.16 39.80 30.08 30.51 20.46 Service............................................................. 17.02 11.85 21.43 11.18 11.19 10.57 Sales and office.................................................... 16.86 14.02 19.02 14.11 14.06 – Sales and related................................................. 8.87 8.87 – 13.41 13.41 – Office and administrative support................................. 18.26 16.72 19.02 14.59 14.51 – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 29.48 31.63 – 19.37 19.37 – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – 19.70 19.70 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 29.40 29.40 – 18.83 18.83 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.81 17.57 – 13.95 13.95 – Production........................................................ 20.41 20.41 – 14.17 14.17 – Transportation and material moving................................ 16.02 14.46 – 13.38 13.38 – Union Nonunion Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 5.7 10.9 4.4 6.1 6.3 10.0 Management, professional, and related............................... 6.3 10.9 7.3 6.5 6.8 9.8 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 10.8 11.5 10.5 Professional and related.......................................... 6.7 10.9 7.9 5.1 5.2 32.6 Service............................................................. 7.1 5.9 3.8 4.0 4.1 12.6 Sales and office.................................................... 7.1 11.7 6.3 5.3 5.4 – Sales and related................................................. .6 .6 – 10.1 10.1 – Office and administrative support................................. 6.3 14.7 6.3 3.1 3.1 – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 9.3 5.1 – 1.5 1.5 – Construction and extraction...................................... – – – 3.7 3.7 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 5.3 5.3 – 7.3 7.3 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 6.6 8.2 – 6.4 6.4 – Production........................................................ 6.5 6.5 – 9.3 9.3 – Transportation and material moving................................ 8.2 9.9 – 11.5 11.5 – 1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 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 appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 18. Time and incentive workers(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $20.00 $18.66 $27.05 $27.05 Management, professional, and related............................... 34.53 33.82 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 37.37 38.33 – – Professional and related.......................................... 32.95 30.64 – – Service............................................................. 12.56 11.27 – – Sales and office.................................................... 14.05 13.53 22.06 22.06 Sales and related................................................. 11.61 11.61 23.51 23.51 Office and administrative support................................. 15.30 14.68 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 20.06 20.09 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 20.29 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 19.77 19.77 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 14.81 14.61 – – Production........................................................ 15.02 15.02 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 14.39 13.68 – – Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 5.0 6.0 19.5 19.5 Management, professional, and related............................... 5.1 6.8 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 11.2 12.2 – – Professional and related.......................................... 4.0 5.3 – – Service............................................................. 3.9 3.2 – – Sales and office.................................................... 3.3 3.6 31.3 31.3 Sales and related................................................. 6.8 6.8 33.6 33.6 Office and administrative support................................. 2.9 3.1 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 3.0 3.1 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 2.4 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 7.6 7.6 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 5.3 5.4 – – Production........................................................ 8.6 8.6 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 7.1 8.3 – – 1 Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary. Incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 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 appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 19. Industry sector(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for private industry workers by major occupational group, Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Goods producing Service providing Occupational group(3) Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services All workers........................................................... - - $17.06 $26.89 $18.55 - $20.47 $9.15 - Management, professional, and related............................... - - 37.99 32.10 29.75 - 29.01 – - Management, business, and financial............................... - - 53.66 34.49 27.49 - 23.88 – - Professional and related.......................................... - - – 28.10 – - 29.98 – - Service............................................................. - - – – – - 13.74 7.93 - Sales and office.................................................... - - 13.18 19.72 14.50 - 15.44 – - Sales and related................................................. - - 11.97 – 14.03 - – – - Office and administrative support................................. - - 15.49 19.72 14.69 - 15.44 – - Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... - - 22.85 – – - – – - Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. - - 22.85 – – - – – - Production, transportation, and material moving..................... - - 15.96 – – - – – - Production........................................................ - - 20.76 – – - – – - Transportation and material moving................................ - - 14.78 – – - – – - B Goods producing Service providing Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other Occupational group(3) tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... - - 17.2 13.3 6.7 - 7.4 10.2 - Management, professional, and related............................... - - 7.2 1.2 5.9 - 7.1 – - Management, business, and financial............................... - - 22.0 1.8 6.6 - 10.1 – - Professional and related.......................................... - - – 1.2 – - 8.2 – - Service............................................................. - - – – – - 5.8 5.9 - Sales and office.................................................... - - 11.9 4.6 5.1 - 5.7 – - Sales and related................................................. - - 14.4 – 18.3 - – – - Office and administrative support................................. - - 6.6 4.6 3.6 - 5.7 – - Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... - - 14.2 – – - – – - Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. - - 14.2 – – - – – - Production, transportation, and material moving..................... - - 8.5 – – - – – - Production........................................................ - - 19.1 – – - – – - Transportation and material moving................................ - - 8.5 – – - – – - 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 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 appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 532,600 451,700 80,900 Management, professional, and related............................... 148,300 100,400 47,800 Management, business, and financial............................... 46,700 40,100 6,600 Professional and related.......................................... 101,600 60,300 41,300 Service............................................................. 131,900 114,500 17,400 Sales and office.................................................... 149,800 137,900 12,000 Sales and related................................................. 62,600 62,600 – Office and administrative support................................. 87,200 75,300 12,000 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 33,200 32,300 – Construction and extraction...................................... 21,000 20,100 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 12,200 12,200 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 69,400 66,600 – Production........................................................ 40,900 40,900 – Transportation and material moving................................ 28,600 25,700 – 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA, January 2007 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 26,270 25,391 878 Total in sample....................................................... 264 243 21 Responding........................................................ 161 140 21 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 64 64 0 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 39 39 0 1 The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports and is based on the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private industries, an establishment is usually a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government entity. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.