NC BL 03/00/2008 Table: Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI, Bulletin, July 2007 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 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........................................................... $23.03 3.1 34.7 $22.02 3.6 34.4 $30.23 5.4 37.3 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 34.94 4.7 37.3 33.94 5.8 37.2 38.99 6.3 38.0 Management, business, and financial............................... 38.47 10.7 39.5 38.62 11.9 39.6 37.25 9.5 38.3 Professional and related.......................................... 33.13 3.0 36.3 31.13 3.3 35.8 39.40 7.9 37.9 Service............................................................. 12.52 6.1 27.7 10.70 5.0 26.6 21.66 5.4 34.9 Sales and office.................................................... 18.67 4.6 34.6 18.68 4.9 34.4 18.49 4.0 38.0 Sales and related................................................. 23.02 9.4 31.9 23.02 9.4 31.9 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 16.49 1.9 36.2 16.22 2.1 35.9 18.49 4.0 38.0 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 24.52 4.1 40.5 24.60 4.6 40.6 23.63 6.9 40.0 Construction and extraction...................................... 25.87 9.4 40.9 26.04 10.2 41.0 – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 22.87 3.1 40.0 22.63 3.4 40.0 24.72 8.4 40.0 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 17.02 5.7 36.6 16.88 5.9 36.6 21.37 5.4 36.6 Production........................................................ 16.74 4.0 38.9 16.65 4.1 38.8 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.31 10.9 34.4 17.15 11.5 34.3 20.78 5.7 35.6 Full time........................................................... 25.38 3.0 39.9 24.44 3.5 40.0 31.26 5.5 39.6 Part time........................................................... 11.79 3.4 21.5 11.62 3.6 21.5 15.27 7.2 20.2 Union............................................................... 25.93 4.3 36.6 22.46 5.8 35.5 30.61 6.0 38.1 Nonunion............................................................ 22.08 4.1 34.2 21.94 4.2 34.2 27.93 10.6 33.1 Time................................................................ 21.88 2.4 34.5 20.65 2.8 34.2 30.23 5.4 37.3 Incentive........................................................... 46.64 14.0 39.8 46.64 14.0 39.8 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 24.30 2.3 39.9 (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 21.40 6.9 33.6 21.34 7.1 33.6 23.94 9.3 32.2 100-499 workers..................................................... 20.53 3.0 35.2 19.90 3.3 35.0 27.87 5.5 38.5 500 workers or more................................................. 27.63 3.3 36.1 25.92 3.3 35.5 31.54 6.8 37.8 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 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........................................................... $23.03 3.1 $25.38 3.0 $11.79 3.4 Management occupations.............................................. 40.45 4.3 40.60 4.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.08 3.5 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.19 8.3 32.20 8.6 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.64 3.5 45.43 3.4 – – Level 12.................................................. 50.60 3.7 50.60 3.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 42.88 4.7 42.91 4.7 – – General and operations managers................................... 40.07 9.3 40.07 9.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.51 10.6 37.51 10.6 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 42.32 5.8 42.32 5.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 35.62 6.1 35.62 6.1 – – Marketing managers.............................................. 38.57 5.7 38.57 5.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 35.62 6.1 35.62 6.1 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 49.96 5.5 49.96 5.5 – – Financial managers................................................ 40.77 12.3 40.18 13.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.67 22.5 44.67 22.5 – – Education administrators.......................................... 40.52 16.5 40.52 16.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 42.95 10.2 42.95 10.2 – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 47.28 10.0 47.28 10.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 42.95 10.2 42.95 10.2 – – Engineering managers.............................................. 44.75 14.3 44.75 14.3 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 41.52 8.9 41.57 9.5 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 36.88 20.8 36.89 20.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.34 4.3 18.34 4.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.91 4.5 22.91 4.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.64 4.7 21.62 4.8 – – Level 8 .................................................. 25.19 2.5 25.19 2.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.20 5.7 28.20 5.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 34.87 2.4 34.87 2.4 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 23.33 9.0 23.33 9.0 – – Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 23.36 10.3 23.36 10.3 – – Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 20.48 11.3 20.48 11.3 – – Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 20.11 11.2 20.11 11.2 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.86 11.4 24.88 11.5 – – Management analysts............................................... 33.44 1.0 33.44 1.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 34.20 2.9 34.20 2.9 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.08 3.8 26.08 3.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.34 11.4 27.34 11.4 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 28.30 6.7 28.30 6.7 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.10 3.4 36.10 3.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.44 7.8 19.44 7.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.62 5.8 25.62 5.8 – – Level 8 .................................................. 29.58 6.0 29.58 6.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.81 3.0 34.82 3.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 42.33 5.3 42.33 5.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 41.06 7.0 41.06 7.0 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 42.13 7.4 42.14 7.4 – – Level 11.................................................. 49.41 4.2 49.41 4.2 – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.28 9.0 42.28 9.0 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 41.98 9.5 42.01 9.5 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 28.32 6.3 28.32 6.3 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.04 5.1 39.04 5.1 – – Level 11.................................................. 39.21 5.5 39.21 5.5 – – Network and computer systems administrators....................... 30.70 7.6 30.70 7.6 – – Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 31.48 5.7 31.48 5.7 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.22 7.6 32.44 7.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.53 3.7 25.53 3.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.21 1.5 33.21 1.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 43.22 4.4 43.22 4.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.64 4.9 26.04 5.5 – – Engineers......................................................... 38.05 8.5 38.05 8.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.58 1.2 33.58 1.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 41.72 4.3 41.72 4.3 – – Mechanical engineers............................................ 36.99 7.8 36.99 7.8 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.90 5.8 25.12 6.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.68 5.3 22.86 5.8 – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 23.93 3.4 24.21 4.5 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 32.64 6.6 32.74 6.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.70 4.2 31.70 4.2 – – Physical scientists............................................... 32.76 8.1 32.76 8.1 – – Market and survey researchers..................................... 34.18 14.9 34.18 14.9 – – Market research analysts........................................ 34.18 14.9 34.18 14.9 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 20.35 10.1 20.97 9.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.25 9.5 21.25 9.5 – – Counselors........................................................ 23.20 3.7 23.20 3.7 – – Social workers.................................................... 23.17 10.8 23.17 10.8 – – Child, family, and school social workers........................ 26.59 10.3 26.59 10.3 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 17.54 6.3 – – – – Social and human service assistants............................. 16.78 1.4 – – – – Legal occupations................................................... 39.17 6.8 40.06 7.1 – – Lawyers........................................................... 44.23 4.5 44.23 4.5 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 39.89 13.4 41.87 13.9 15.87 11.3 Level 3 .................................................. 12.58 4.9 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.76 4.7 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 32.36 4.8 32.36 4.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 37.11 2.4 37.16 2.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 40.73 6.1 41.33 6.2 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 66.53 30.4 67.66 30.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 40.73 6.1 41.33 6.2 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 34.02 3.6 34.05 3.6 – – Level 8 .................................................. 32.36 4.8 32.36 4.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.77 2.4 36.84 2.5 – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 28.75 7.7 28.75 7.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.78 4.6 36.78 4.6 – – Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 37.57 5.0 37.57 5.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.78 4.6 36.78 4.6 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 34.47 5.7 34.47 5.7 – – Level 8 .................................................. 31.37 6.9 31.37 6.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.19 3.5 36.19 3.5 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 33.92 6.4 33.92 6.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.32 4.8 35.32 4.8 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 36.26 4.6 36.26 4.6 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 37.04 2.3 37.04 2.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.01 2.0 38.01 2.0 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 37.04 2.3 37.04 2.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.01 2.0 38.01 2.0 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 13.74 4.2 14.48 4.2 12.91 5.8 Level 3 .................................................. 12.58 4.9 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.76 4.7 – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 24.28 6.9 24.62 7.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.15 13.9 27.91 18.3 – – Designers......................................................... 23.10 6.6 22.62 7.0 – – Graphic designers............................................... 21.40 7.8 20.73 7.6 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.14 1.8 29.29 2.6 28.79 1.7 Level 4 .................................................. 15.45 8.5 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.26 3.3 17.87 4.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.27 5.4 21.89 6.2 19.25 3.8 Level 7 .................................................. 26.83 6.7 26.94 6.0 26.46 11.0 Level 9 .................................................. 33.48 .8 33.90 1.9 32.97 1.7 Level 11.................................................. 43.31 1.9 43.42 2.2 – – Registered nurses................................................. 33.42 2.7 34.53 4.7 32.18 1.8 Level 9 .................................................. 33.78 .7 34.67 2.5 32.97 1.7 Therapists........................................................ 32.24 6.9 32.50 6.9 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 21.16 1.9 – – – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 26.15 5.1 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.50 1.5 19.48 1.6 19.55 2.1 Level 5 .................................................. 18.33 2.8 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.10 .9 – – 19.99 .9 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.47 5.8 15.04 9.3 13.46 5.6 Level 2 .................................................. 10.84 5.5 – – 11.04 6.3 Level 3 .................................................. 13.11 3.6 13.79 6.9 12.55 5.4 Level 4 .................................................. 16.32 2.5 16.24 3.2 16.50 3.2 Level 5 .................................................. 18.85 2.6 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.68 5.7 12.81 9.2 12.51 3.8 Level 2 .................................................. 11.03 6.9 – – 11.75 6.3 Level 3 .................................................. 13.14 4.7 13.98 6.5 12.55 5.4 Home health aides............................................... 11.05 6.5 – – 10.99 1.9 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.50 4.5 13.96 5.8 13.02 4.5 Level 2 .................................................. 13.50 3.7 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.38 4.4 14.08 6.8 12.82 5.7 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.54 6.3 17.07 6.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.46 2.9 16.18 3.2 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 26.13 5.9 26.61 5.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.30 4.3 27.30 4.3 – – Police officers................................................... 27.44 2.0 27.82 2.4 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 27.44 2.0 27.82 2.4 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.46 2.9 10.11 10.4 7.85 2.3 Level 1 .................................................. 7.17 2.3 8.05 4.8 7.05 2.6 Level 2 .................................................. 8.71 2.7 8.95 4.3 8.62 3.9 Level 3 .................................................. 9.66 7.2 – – 9.65 11.1 Level 4 .................................................. 9.85 15.3 9.52 23.0 10.64 6.4 Cooks............................................................. 10.04 14.7 9.62 26.8 10.63 5.0 Level 4 .................................................. 9.68 21.7 9.35 28.3 – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.52 18.2 8.65 33.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 8.95 23.5 8.27 29.6 – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.50 5.3 – – 9.45 6.3 Level 2 .................................................. 9.89 6.1 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.70 3.1 8.33 3.6 6.35 2.2 Level 1 .................................................. 6.16 3.2 – – 6.03 2.1 Level 2 .................................................. 7.68 2.8 – – 7.31 4.7 Bartenders...................................................... 7.96 6.5 – – 7.22 5.7 Level 2 .................................................. 7.66 4.8 – – 7.33 5.5 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 6.12 1.8 – – 6.09 1.5 Level 1 .................................................. 6.06 3.1 – – 6.00 2.9 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.06 1.9 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.71 8.2 – – 8.81 8.2 Level 1 .................................................. 7.59 2.0 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 9.43 10.7 – – 9.70 10.3 Dishwashers....................................................... 7.90 3.9 – – 7.39 3.3 Level 1 .................................................. 7.74 3.2 – – 7.39 3.3 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 7.77 5.7 – – 7.39 9.7 Level 1 .................................................. 7.75 6.4 – – 7.31 10.1 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.49 4.9 14.42 5.2 10.00 1.2 Level 1 .................................................. 11.31 3.1 12.45 4.1 9.61 2.5 Level 2 .................................................. 11.27 3.7 11.31 5.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.86 10.6 16.06 11.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.36 11.6 18.36 11.6 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.53 2.8 13.20 2.9 10.10 1.1 Level 1 .................................................. 11.44 3.2 12.45 4.1 9.67 2.7 Level 2 .................................................. 11.27 3.7 11.31 5.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.07 5.3 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.36 11.6 18.36 11.6 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.10 3.5 13.90 3.8 10.08 .7 Level 1 .................................................. 11.91 4.5 13.12 4.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.36 11.6 18.36 11.6 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.01 2.2 11.28 3.1 10.12 4.2 Level 1 .................................................. 10.28 3.6 10.87 3.6 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.52 8.4 11.40 9.8 – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 19.75 7.5 – – – – Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 19.75 7.5 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.14 7.2 11.26 9.5 8.89 8.0 Level 1 .................................................. 8.25 12.3 – – 7.53 7.2 Level 2 .................................................. 9.91 5.4 – – 9.30 3.9 Level 3 .................................................. 9.51 9.8 – – 9.17 22.0 Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 8.69 6.8 – – 8.69 6.8 Amusement and recreation attendants............................. 8.65 9.1 – – 8.65 9.1 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 9.95 15.2 – – 8.03 16.9 Recreation workers.............................................. 9.85 22.8 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 23.02 9.4 28.88 9.4 9.29 4.8 Level 1 .................................................. 8.73 6.6 – – 8.61 7.1 Level 2 .................................................. 9.58 6.5 10.06 9.8 8.63 3.5 Level 3 .................................................. 10.99 5.2 12.08 6.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.43 14.1 17.62 15.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.14 4.4 19.14 4.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.26 4.8 24.26 4.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 40.12 25.6 40.12 25.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 19.62 10.5 19.62 10.5 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.94 11.1 16.94 11.1 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.47 2.0 12.22 6.3 9.14 4.8 Level 1 .................................................. 8.62 6.1 – – 8.48 6.3 Level 2 .................................................. 9.14 6.5 – – 8.63 3.5 Level 3 .................................................. 10.37 .7 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 9.60 3.9 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.50 5.9 10.33 10.4 9.04 2.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.13 2.9 – – 9.06 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 9.21 12.4 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.50 5.9 10.33 10.4 9.04 2.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.13 2.9 – – 9.06 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 9.21 12.4 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 10.76 3.8 12.55 10.1 9.19 7.1 Level 1 .................................................. 7.67 .9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.03 3.9 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 9.90 2.3 – – – – Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 88.93 19.7 88.93 19.7 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 34.06 17.9 34.06 17.9 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 29.30 7.6 29.30 7.6 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.49 1.9 17.20 1.9 11.86 6.1 Level 1 .................................................. 8.10 2.5 – – 8.22 4.1 Level 2 .................................................. 11.01 4.6 11.40 6.1 10.80 5.7 Level 3 .................................................. 12.98 3.2 13.39 2.9 11.37 5.1 Level 4 .................................................. 16.07 1.6 16.06 1.7 16.15 5.2 Level 5 .................................................. 18.27 3.0 18.34 3.1 16.66 8.3 Level 6 .................................................. 21.23 3.5 21.27 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.46 4.8 23.46 4.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.34 5.3 17.48 5.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 21.79 8.8 21.82 9.0 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 18.05 7.8 18.27 8.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.44 3.1 15.60 3.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.32 4.5 17.37 4.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.63 5.2 22.74 5.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.17 6.3 18.17 6.3 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.56 10.1 18.62 10.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.30 3.5 15.24 3.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.46 4.5 17.53 4.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.44 8.3 17.44 8.3 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 17.32 5.0 17.96 4.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.54 4.4 16.54 4.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.13 4.0 16.59 2.4 – – Order clerks...................................................... 15.64 7.9 16.18 7.7 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.75 4.8 15.05 4.7 12.66 9.9 Level 2 .................................................. 12.97 11.1 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.10 5.8 15.27 6.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.89 7.7 15.89 7.8 – – Dispatchers....................................................... 22.68 6.7 22.68 6.7 – – Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 22.11 7.2 22.11 7.2 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.13 13.8 13.13 13.8 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.95 7.6 16.07 6.1 10.87 7.2 Level 4 .................................................. 15.87 6.1 15.92 6.7 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.23 3.4 19.42 3.3 15.39 9.8 Level 4 .................................................. 16.80 5.1 16.89 5.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.54 11.2 18.63 13.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.10 3.9 21.10 3.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 19.99 6.8 19.99 6.8 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.78 3.3 20.86 3.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.86 3.7 21.86 3.7 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.13 5.1 17.33 5.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.33 8.0 17.33 8.0 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 15.56 5.4 15.82 5.5 12.46 11.7 Level 3 .................................................. 13.20 4.7 13.19 5.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.97 6.7 17.00 7.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.40 11.8 20.40 11.8 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 25.87 9.4 25.87 9.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 23.02 13.5 23.02 13.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.16 2.4 20.16 2.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 30.70 11.1 30.70 11.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 30.30 2.9 30.30 2.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.87 3.1 22.87 3.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.29 3.7 21.29 3.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.17 5.1 23.17 5.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.12 2.5 23.12 2.5 – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 21.99 5.3 21.99 5.3 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.08 1.9 22.08 1.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.21 4.7 21.21 4.7 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 23.29 2.2 23.29 2.2 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.13 5.8 20.13 5.8 – – Production occupations.............................................. 16.74 4.0 17.22 3.9 9.59 1.5 Level 1 .................................................. 9.98 2.6 10.44 4.0 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.92 5.8 12.14 5.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 16.68 6.4 16.72 6.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.28 1.4 18.28 1.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.89 5.9 17.89 5.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.77 7.9 20.77 7.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.06 1.7 24.06 1.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.05 5.4 20.05 5.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.42 6.4 24.42 6.4 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.88 14.9 15.63 16.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.76 5.2 12.13 2.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 20.08 7.8 20.08 7.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.32 .7 19.32 .7 – – Computer control programmers and operators........................ 22.83 5.6 22.83 5.6 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 16.33 2.1 16.33 2.1 – – Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.84 5.6 15.84 5.6 – – Printers.......................................................... 17.48 7.4 17.48 7.4 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.87 11.0 19.87 11.0 – – Painting workers.................................................. 19.90 13.8 19.90 13.8 – – Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 19.90 13.8 19.90 13.8 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.73 4.5 12.26 5.9 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.62 2.1 10.04 3.3 – – Helpers--production workers..................................... 13.17 11.9 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.31 10.9 19.85 12.2 10.72 5.9 Level 1 .................................................. 9.04 3.9 – – 8.94 4.0 Level 2 .................................................. 12.52 4.6 12.58 4.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.58 5.1 15.65 6.6 15.28 3.9 Level 4 .................................................. 19.17 4.9 19.17 4.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.16 5.1 19.16 5.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.75 10.1 21.75 10.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 13.48 14.6 – – – – Bus drivers....................................................... 15.46 9.7 – – 13.94 9.8 Level 3 .................................................. 17.62 10.3 – – – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 14.16 8.8 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.09 2.9 18.09 2.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.15 7.0 20.15 7.0 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.32 2.5 18.32 2.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.06 5.3 19.06 5.3 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 17.25 12.9 17.25 12.9 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.66 7.3 15.66 7.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.98 5.9 14.98 5.9 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.31 4.2 13.19 5.1 9.76 4.1 Level 1 .................................................. 9.24 3.3 – – 9.17 3.5 Level 2 .................................................. 12.02 .8 12.02 .8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.09 8.0 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.76 4.1 14.73 5.7 10.44 4.9 Level 1 .................................................. 9.51 7.5 – – 9.51 7.5 Level 3 .................................................. 15.15 9.5 – – – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.87 4.3 – – 9.92 4.8 Level 1 .................................................. 9.39 4.7 – – 9.26 2.5 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 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........................................................... $22.02 3.6 $24.44 3.5 $11.62 3.6 Management occupations.............................................. 39.68 4.8 39.77 4.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 30.37 7.8 30.37 7.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 45.25 5.0 44.94 4.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 42.79 4.9 42.81 4.9 – – General and operations managers................................... 40.07 9.3 40.07 9.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.51 10.6 37.51 10.6 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 42.32 5.8 42.32 5.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 35.62 6.1 35.62 6.1 – – Marketing managers.............................................. 38.57 5.7 38.57 5.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 35.62 6.1 35.62 6.1 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 49.96 5.5 49.96 5.5 – – Financial managers................................................ 39.85 13.0 39.17 14.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 44.67 22.5 44.67 22.5 – – Engineering managers.............................................. 44.75 14.3 44.75 14.3 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 37.81 21.8 37.83 21.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.34 4.3 18.34 4.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 23.70 6.5 23.70 6.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.65 4.8 21.64 4.8 – – Level 8 .................................................. 24.69 2.9 24.69 2.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.08 6.2 28.08 6.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 35.04 2.6 35.04 2.6 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 23.33 9.0 23.33 9.0 – – Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 23.36 10.3 23.36 10.3 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.38 11.6 24.40 11.8 – – Management analysts............................................... 33.37 1.1 33.37 1.1 – – Level 11.................................................. 34.16 3.3 34.16 3.3 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.48 4.2 26.48 4.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.34 11.4 27.34 11.4 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 27.51 5.7 27.51 5.7 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.62 3.5 36.62 3.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.62 5.8 25.62 5.8 – – Level 8 .................................................. 27.43 1.4 27.43 1.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.97 3.0 35.98 3.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 42.34 5.4 42.34 5.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 41.06 7.0 41.06 7.0 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 42.46 7.6 42.48 7.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 49.41 4.2 49.41 4.2 – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.96 9.3 42.96 9.3 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 41.98 9.5 42.01 9.5 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 27.84 7.3 27.84 7.3 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.66 5.4 39.66 5.4 – – Level 11.................................................. 39.21 5.5 39.21 5.5 – – Network and computer systems administrators....................... 31.69 7.1 31.69 7.1 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.53 8.1 32.78 8.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.71 3.9 25.71 3.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.28 1.7 33.28 1.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.64 4.9 26.04 5.5 – – Engineers......................................................... 38.22 8.8 38.22 8.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 42.33 4.2 42.33 4.2 – – Mechanical engineers............................................ 36.99 7.8 36.99 7.8 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 25.35 6.0 25.62 6.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.68 5.3 22.86 5.8 – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 24.25 2.9 24.58 4.2 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.79 8.9 33.98 9.0 – – Market and survey researchers..................................... 34.18 14.9 34.18 14.9 – – Market research analysts........................................ 34.18 14.9 34.18 14.9 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 18.39 8.7 18.90 8.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.80 11.1 20.80 11.1 – – Social workers.................................................... 21.16 10.4 21.16 10.4 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 16.62 1.3 – – – – Social and human service assistants............................. 16.62 1.3 – – – – Legal occupations................................................... 37.97 6.3 38.89 6.8 – – Lawyers........................................................... 45.07 5.2 45.07 5.2 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 21.56 6.2 22.81 8.5 15.74 18.1 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 32.80 8.5 33.66 7.8 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.24 12.8 22.24 12.8 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 13.42 6.8 – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 24.26 7.0 24.61 7.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 26.15 13.9 27.91 18.3 – – Designers......................................................... 23.10 6.6 22.62 7.0 – – Graphic designers............................................... 21.40 7.8 20.73 7.6 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.86 1.8 28.69 2.7 29.21 1.8 Level 5 .................................................. 17.94 3.2 17.52 4.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.29 5.3 21.89 6.2 19.31 3.8 Level 7 .................................................. 27.04 6.8 27.23 6.0 26.46 11.0 Level 9 .................................................. 33.03 .7 33.10 2.0 32.97 1.7 Registered nurses................................................. 33.17 3.0 34.46 6.1 32.08 1.8 Level 9 .................................................. 33.46 .8 34.17 3.2 32.97 1.7 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.57 1.5 19.54 1.6 19.66 2.1 Level 5 .................................................. 18.33 2.8 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.10 .9 – – 19.99 .9 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.29 6.0 14.80 9.5 13.31 6.2 Level 2 .................................................. 10.83 5.6 – – 11.03 6.8 Level 3 .................................................. 13.04 3.7 13.68 7.2 12.52 5.5 Level 4 .................................................. 16.44 2.6 16.24 3.2 17.07 1.5 Level 5 .................................................. 18.85 2.6 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.64 5.9 12.74 9.4 12.52 4.0 Level 2 .................................................. – – – – 11.82 7.1 Level 3 .................................................. 13.06 4.9 13.86 6.9 12.52 5.5 Home health aides............................................... 11.05 6.5 – – 10.99 1.9 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.48 4.7 13.89 6.2 13.05 4.7 Level 3 .................................................. 13.30 4.7 13.96 7.2 12.79 5.8 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.54 6.3 17.07 6.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.46 2.9 16.18 3.2 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.39 2.8 10.11 10.4 7.72 2.0 Level 1 .................................................. 7.14 2.5 8.05 4.8 7.00 2.9 Level 2 .................................................. 8.40 2.4 8.95 4.3 8.17 3.5 Level 3 .................................................. 9.60 7.3 – – 9.57 11.2 Level 4 .................................................. 9.85 15.3 9.52 23.0 10.64 6.4 Cooks............................................................. 10.04 14.7 9.62 26.8 10.63 5.0 Level 4 .................................................. 9.68 21.7 9.35 28.3 – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.52 18.2 8.65 33.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 8.95 23.5 8.27 29.6 – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.38 4.8 – – 9.29 5.3 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.70 3.1 8.33 3.6 6.35 2.2 Level 1 .................................................. 6.16 3.2 – – 6.03 2.1 Level 2 .................................................. 7.68 2.8 – – 7.31 4.7 Bartenders...................................................... 7.96 6.5 – – 7.22 5.7 Level 2 .................................................. 7.66 4.8 – – 7.33 5.5 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 6.12 1.8 – – 6.09 1.5 Level 1 .................................................. 6.06 3.1 – – 6.00 2.9 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.06 1.9 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.13 6.9 – – 8.18 7.4 Dishwashers....................................................... 7.90 3.9 – – 7.39 3.3 Level 1 .................................................. 7.74 3.2 – – 7.39 3.3 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 7.77 5.7 – – 7.39 9.7 Level 1 .................................................. 7.75 6.4 – – 7.31 10.1 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.33 5.7 13.10 6.3 10.06 1.0 Level 1 .................................................. 11.13 2.2 12.10 3.2 9.69 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 11.03 3.2 10.99 4.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.52 14.3 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.73 3.3 12.27 3.6 10.11 1.1 Level 1 .................................................. 11.21 2.3 12.10 3.2 9.71 2.6 Level 2 .................................................. 11.03 3.2 10.99 4.8 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.07 4.0 12.74 4.3 10.11 .4 Level 1 .................................................. 11.61 3.2 12.66 3.5 – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.01 2.3 11.29 3.1 10.12 4.2 Level 1 .................................................. 10.28 3.6 10.87 3.6 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.56 9.1 11.45 10.6 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.02 7.8 11.20 10.5 8.77 8.1 Level 1 .................................................. 8.27 12.6 – – 7.53 7.4 Level 2 .................................................. 9.87 5.9 – – 9.31 2.9 Level 3 .................................................. 9.33 10.5 – – 8.63 24.3 Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 8.55 7.3 – – 8.55 7.3 Amusement and recreation attendants............................. 8.38 9.9 – – 8.38 9.9 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 9.50 18.5 – – 8.05 17.7 Sales and related occupations....................................... 23.02 9.4 28.89 9.4 9.29 4.8 Level 1 .................................................. 8.73 6.6 – – 8.61 7.1 Level 2 .................................................. 9.58 6.5 10.06 9.8 8.63 3.5 Level 3 .................................................. 10.99 5.2 12.08 6.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.43 14.1 17.62 15.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.14 4.4 19.14 4.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 24.26 4.8 24.26 4.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 40.12 25.6 40.12 25.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 19.62 10.5 19.62 10.5 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.94 11.1 16.94 11.1 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.47 2.0 12.22 6.3 9.14 4.8 Level 1 .................................................. 8.62 6.1 – – 8.48 6.3 Level 2 .................................................. 9.14 6.5 – – 8.63 3.5 Level 3 .................................................. 10.37 .7 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 9.60 3.9 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.50 5.9 10.33 10.4 9.04 2.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.13 2.9 – – 9.06 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 9.21 12.4 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.50 5.9 10.33 10.4 9.04 2.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.13 2.9 – – 9.06 2.3 Level 2 .................................................. 9.21 12.4 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 10.76 3.8 12.55 10.1 9.19 7.1 Level 1 .................................................. 7.67 .9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.03 3.9 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 9.90 2.3 – – – – Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 88.93 19.7 88.93 19.7 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 34.06 17.9 34.06 17.9 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 29.30 7.6 29.30 7.6 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.22 2.1 16.99 2.1 11.72 6.2 Level 1 .................................................. 8.10 2.5 – – 8.22 4.1 Level 2 .................................................. 11.01 4.7 11.37 6.5 10.82 5.8 Level 3 .................................................. 12.82 3.6 13.27 3.3 11.23 5.1 Level 4 .................................................. 15.61 1.4 15.56 1.2 16.18 6.1 Level 5 .................................................. 17.65 3.2 17.71 3.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.11 3.8 21.16 3.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.42 4.9 23.42 4.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.27 5.5 17.41 5.6 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 21.70 9.7 21.73 10.0 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 17.97 9.5 18.22 9.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.64 3.5 14.75 3.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.07 1.7 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.63 5.2 22.74 5.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.41 7.2 17.41 7.2 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.57 12.4 18.64 12.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.94 4.2 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 17.32 5.0 17.96 4.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.54 4.4 16.54 4.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.13 4.0 16.59 2.4 – – Order clerks...................................................... 15.64 7.9 16.18 7.7 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.70 5.0 15.02 4.9 12.66 9.9 Level 2 .................................................. 12.97 11.1 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.63 5.1 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.58 7.9 15.57 8.0 – – Dispatchers....................................................... 22.11 7.2 22.11 7.2 – – Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 22.11 7.2 22.11 7.2 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.13 13.8 13.13 13.8 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.16 8.7 15.28 4.9 10.87 7.2 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 18.99 3.5 19.17 3.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.97 5.4 17.05 5.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.55 9.9 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.47 4.2 20.47 4.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.34 6.7 20.34 6.7 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.31 3.4 20.39 3.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.86 3.7 21.86 3.7 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.09 6.1 17.37 6.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.65 8.4 17.65 8.4 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 14.47 8.0 14.76 7.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.46 4.8 12.48 5.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.11 9.3 14.95 10.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.35 19.4 20.35 19.4 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 26.04 10.2 26.05 10.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 23.02 13.5 23.02 13.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 30.30 2.9 30.30 2.9 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.63 3.4 22.63 3.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.13 4.6 21.13 4.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.08 5.2 23.08 5.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.12 2.5 23.12 2.5 – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 21.87 6.0 21.87 6.0 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.83 1.8 21.83 1.8 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.98 1.8 22.98 1.8 – – Production occupations.............................................. 16.65 4.1 17.13 4.0 9.59 1.5 Level 1 .................................................. 9.98 2.6 10.44 4.0 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.92 5.8 12.14 5.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 16.68 6.4 16.72 6.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.33 1.4 18.33 1.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.89 5.9 17.89 5.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.26 8.4 20.26 8.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.01 1.7 24.01 1.7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.05 5.4 20.05 5.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.42 6.4 24.42 6.4 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.88 14.9 15.63 16.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.76 5.2 12.13 2.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 20.08 7.8 20.08 7.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.32 .7 19.32 .7 – – Computer control programmers and operators........................ 22.83 5.6 22.83 5.6 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 16.33 2.1 16.33 2.1 – – Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.84 5.6 15.84 5.6 – – Printers.......................................................... 17.48 7.4 17.48 7.4 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.87 11.0 19.87 11.0 – – Painting workers.................................................. 19.90 13.8 19.90 13.8 – – Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 19.90 13.8 19.90 13.8 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.73 4.5 12.26 5.9 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.62 2.1 10.04 3.3 – – Helpers--production workers..................................... 13.17 11.9 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.15 11.5 19.73 12.9 10.55 5.8 Level 1 .................................................. 9.04 3.9 – – 8.94 4.0 Level 2 .................................................. 12.18 4.1 12.26 4.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.98 4.4 14.95 5.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.17 4.9 19.17 4.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.77 4.9 18.77 4.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.75 10.1 21.75 10.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 13.48 14.6 – – – – Bus drivers....................................................... 13.68 9.9 – – – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 13.68 9.9 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.06 2.9 18.06 2.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.15 7.0 20.15 7.0 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.32 2.5 18.32 2.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.06 5.3 19.06 5.3 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 16.92 14.5 16.92 14.5 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.66 7.3 15.66 7.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.98 5.9 14.98 5.9 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.31 4.2 13.19 5.1 9.76 4.1 Level 1 .................................................. 9.24 3.3 – – 9.17 3.5 Level 2 .................................................. 12.02 .8 12.02 .8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.09 8.0 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.76 4.1 14.73 5.7 10.44 4.9 Level 1 .................................................. 9.51 7.5 – – 9.51 7.5 Level 3 .................................................. 15.15 9.5 – – – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.87 4.3 – – 9.92 4.8 Level 1 .................................................. 9.39 4.7 – – 9.26 2.5 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 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........................................................... $30.23 5.4 $31.26 5.5 $15.27 7.2 Management occupations.............................................. 45.33 8.2 45.98 8.0 – – Level 11.................................................. 46.60 2.7 46.60 2.7 – – Education administrators.......................................... 47.71 12.7 47.71 12.7 – – Level 11.................................................. 47.67 .0 47.67 .0 – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 50.99 1.6 50.99 1.6 – – Level 11.................................................. 47.67 .0 47.67 .0 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.91 8.7 26.91 8.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.71 1.8 21.71 1.8 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 31.28 5.7 31.28 5.7 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.17 9.6 28.17 9.6 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.65 6.1 30.65 6.1 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 24.85 4.4 24.85 4.4 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 45.93 14.5 47.27 14.8 16.05 12.6 Level 3 .................................................. 13.52 1.1 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.21 1.9 34.21 1.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 37.80 1.6 37.88 1.8 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 74.12 34.0 74.12 34.0 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 36.89 1.7 36.95 1.9 – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.21 1.9 34.21 1.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 37.51 1.5 37.59 1.8 – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 37.57 5.0 37.57 5.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.78 4.6 36.78 4.6 – – Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 37.57 5.0 37.57 5.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.78 4.6 36.78 4.6 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 36.92 .5 36.92 .5 – – Level 8 .................................................. 34.46 .4 34.46 .4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 37.55 .9 37.55 .9 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 36.52 1.3 36.52 1.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.99 1.8 36.99 1.8 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 38.07 .3 38.07 .3 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 37.04 2.3 37.04 2.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.01 2.0 38.01 2.0 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 37.04 2.3 37.04 2.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.01 2.0 38.01 2.0 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 14.17 3.8 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.52 1.1 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 31.28 6.3 32.92 6.1 22.19 5.3 Level 9 .................................................. 36.58 2.0 36.77 2.0 – – Registered nurses................................................. 34.87 4.4 34.72 4.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 35.97 1.6 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 17.20 6.7 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 26.46 5.7 26.92 5.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.30 4.3 27.30 4.3 – – Police officers................................................... 27.44 2.0 27.82 2.4 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 27.44 2.0 27.82 2.4 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.44 5.9 – – 11.44 5.9 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 11.12 9.4 – – 11.12 9.4 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 18.01 4.1 18.43 5.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 16.85 5.1 16.87 5.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.36 11.6 18.36 11.6 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 16.93 5.0 17.16 4.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.36 11.6 18.36 11.6 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 17.08 5.0 17.32 4.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.36 11.6 18.36 11.6 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.56 9.3 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.49 4.0 18.63 3.7 15.45 8.5 Level 3 .................................................. 14.16 3.1 14.13 3.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.90 3.8 18.00 3.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 21.13 2.4 21.21 2.6 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 18.49 3.9 18.49 3.9 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.53 5.4 18.53 5.4 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.57 9.3 20.90 10.4 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 17.59 5.9 17.71 6.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.49 3.7 18.59 3.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.48 1.7 20.48 1.7 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.72 8.4 24.72 8.4 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 20.78 5.7 – – – – 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 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........................................................... $23.03 3.1 $25.38 3.0 $11.79 3.4 Management occupations.............................................. 40.45 4.3 40.60 4.2 – – Group II.................................................. 21.06 2.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 41.19 4.9 – – – – General and operations managers................................... 40.07 9.3 40.07 9.3 – – Marketing and sales managers...................................... 42.32 5.8 42.32 5.8 – – Marketing managers.............................................. 38.57 5.7 38.57 5.7 – – Computer and information systems managers......................... 49.96 5.5 49.96 5.5 – – Financial managers................................................ 40.77 12.3 40.18 13.6 – – Education administrators.......................................... 40.52 16.5 40.52 16.5 – – Group III................................................. 43.05 13.1 – – – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 47.28 10.0 47.28 10.0 – – Group III................................................. 46.97 10.9 46.97 10.9 – – Engineering managers.............................................. 44.75 14.3 44.75 14.3 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 41.52 8.9 41.57 9.5 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 36.88 20.8 36.89 20.8 – – Group II.................................................. 21.69 3.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 30.81 4.2 – – – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 23.33 9.0 23.33 9.0 – – Group II.................................................. 22.11 6.9 – – – – Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 23.36 10.3 23.36 10.3 – – Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 20.48 11.3 20.48 11.3 – – Group II.................................................. 19.67 11.2 – – – – Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 20.11 11.2 20.11 11.2 – – Group II.................................................. 19.67 11.2 19.67 11.2 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.86 11.4 24.88 11.5 – – Group II.................................................. 22.12 11.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 32.14 5.5 – – – – Management analysts............................................... 33.44 1.0 33.44 1.0 – – Group III................................................. 33.70 2.4 33.70 2.4 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.08 3.8 26.08 3.8 – – Group II.................................................. 22.87 4.8 22.87 4.8 – – Group III................................................. 27.56 9.9 27.56 9.9 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 28.30 6.7 28.30 6.7 – – Group III................................................. 35.93 12.5 – – – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.10 3.4 36.10 3.4 – – Group II.................................................. 26.61 5.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 38.58 3.5 – – – – Computer software engineers....................................... 42.13 7.4 42.14 7.4 – – Group III................................................. 43.21 7.6 – – – – Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.28 9.0 42.28 9.0 – – Group III................................................. 42.00 5.8 42.00 5.8 – – Computer software engineers, systems software................... 41.98 9.5 42.01 9.5 – – Group III................................................. 44.24 12.1 44.29 12.2 – – Computer support specialists...................................... 28.32 6.3 28.32 6.3 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.04 5.1 39.04 5.1 – – Group II.................................................. 32.78 6.9 32.78 6.9 – – Group III................................................. 38.92 6.4 38.92 6.4 – – Network and computer systems administrators....................... 30.70 7.6 30.70 7.6 – – Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 31.48 5.7 31.48 5.7 – – Group III................................................. 31.84 6.7 31.84 6.7 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.22 7.6 32.44 7.5 – – Group II.................................................. 24.53 4.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 37.55 2.7 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 38.05 8.5 38.05 8.5 – – Group III................................................. 37.75 3.4 – – – – Mechanical engineers............................................ 36.99 7.8 36.99 7.8 – – Group III................................................. 38.47 5.9 38.47 5.9 – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 24.90 5.8 25.12 6.2 – – Group II.................................................. 24.75 5.7 – – – – Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 23.93 3.4 24.21 4.5 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 32.64 6.6 32.74 6.6 – – Group II.................................................. 27.37 5.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 36.12 5.8 – – – – Physical scientists............................................... 32.76 8.1 32.76 8.1 – – Market and survey researchers..................................... 34.18 14.9 34.18 14.9 – – Market research analysts........................................ 34.18 14.9 34.18 14.9 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 20.35 10.1 20.97 9.1 – – Group II.................................................. 19.53 9.2 – – – – Counselors........................................................ 23.20 3.7 23.20 3.7 – – Group II.................................................. 23.20 3.7 – – – – Social workers.................................................... 23.17 10.8 23.17 10.8 – – Child, family, and school social workers........................ 26.59 10.3 26.59 10.3 – – Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 17.54 6.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.54 6.3 – – – – Social and human service assistants............................. 16.78 1.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 16.78 1.4 – – – – Legal occupations................................................... 39.17 6.8 40.06 7.1 – – Group III................................................. 45.53 4.6 – – – – Lawyers........................................................... 44.23 4.5 44.23 4.5 – – Group III................................................. 47.87 5.2 47.87 5.2 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 39.89 13.4 41.87 13.9 15.87 11.3 Group I................................................... 13.74 4.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 26.65 5.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 37.67 2.3 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 66.53 30.4 67.66 30.9 – – Group III................................................. 40.04 5.8 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 34.02 3.6 34.05 3.6 – – Group II.................................................. 27.39 4.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 36.77 2.4 – – – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 28.75 7.7 28.75 7.7 – – Group II.................................................. 21.71 10.8 – – – – Group III................................................. 36.78 4.6 – – – – Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 37.57 5.0 37.57 5.0 – – Group III................................................. 36.78 4.6 36.78 4.6 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 34.47 5.7 34.47 5.7 – – Group II.................................................. 30.00 8.3 – – – – Group III................................................. 36.19 3.5 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 33.92 6.4 33.92 6.4 – – Group II.................................................. 30.16 8.4 30.16 8.4 – – Group III................................................. 35.32 4.8 35.32 4.8 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 36.26 4.6 36.26 4.6 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 37.04 2.3 37.04 2.3 – – Group III................................................. 38.01 2.0 – – – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 37.04 2.3 37.04 2.3 – – Group III................................................. 38.01 2.0 38.01 2.0 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 13.74 4.2 14.48 4.2 12.91 5.8 Group I................................................... 13.74 4.2 14.48 4.2 12.91 5.8 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 24.28 6.9 24.62 7.6 – – Group II.................................................. 21.86 5.9 – – – – Group III................................................. 25.74 8.5 – – – – Designers......................................................... 23.10 6.6 22.62 7.0 – – Graphic designers............................................... 21.40 7.8 20.73 7.6 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.14 1.8 29.29 2.6 28.79 1.7 Group I................................................... 15.45 8.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 22.62 1.5 – – – – Group III................................................. 36.27 1.9 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 33.42 2.7 34.53 4.7 32.18 1.8 Group II.................................................. 24.83 2.8 – – – – Group III................................................. 34.77 1.9 36.14 3.6 33.08 1.7 Therapists........................................................ 32.24 6.9 32.50 6.9 – – Group III................................................. 33.90 6.1 – – – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 21.16 1.9 – – – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 26.15 5.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 26.15 5.1 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.50 1.5 19.48 1.6 19.55 2.1 Group II.................................................. 19.53 1.6 19.51 1.7 19.61 2.2 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.47 5.8 15.04 9.3 13.46 5.6 Group I................................................... 13.51 4.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 19.31 3.3 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.68 5.7 12.81 9.2 12.51 3.8 Group I................................................... 12.50 5.9 – – – – Home health aides............................................... 11.05 6.5 – – 10.99 1.9 Group I................................................... 11.05 6.5 – – 10.99 1.9 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.50 4.5 13.96 5.8 13.02 4.5 Group I................................................... 13.45 3.8 14.03 6.2 13.02 4.9 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.54 6.3 17.07 6.8 – – Group I................................................... 15.34 8.1 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 26.13 5.9 26.61 5.5 – – Group II.................................................. 26.46 5.9 – – – – Police officers................................................... 27.44 2.0 27.82 2.4 – – Group II.................................................. 27.44 2.0 – – – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 27.44 2.0 27.82 2.4 – – Group II.................................................. 27.44 2.0 27.82 2.4 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.46 2.9 10.11 10.4 7.85 2.3 Group I................................................... 8.10 3.4 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 10.04 14.7 9.62 26.8 10.63 5.0 Group I................................................... 9.83 13.7 – – – – Cooks, restaurant............................................... 9.52 18.2 8.65 33.3 – – Group I................................................... 9.34 17.0 8.27 29.6 – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.50 5.3 – – 9.45 6.3 Group I................................................... 9.50 5.3 – – 9.45 6.3 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.70 3.1 8.33 3.6 6.35 2.2 Group I................................................... 6.70 3.1 – – – – Bartenders...................................................... 7.96 6.5 – – 7.22 5.7 Group I................................................... 7.96 6.5 – – 7.22 5.7 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 6.12 1.8 – – 6.09 1.5 Group I................................................... 6.12 1.8 – – 6.09 1.5 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 7.06 1.9 – – – – Group I................................................... 7.06 1.9 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.71 8.2 – – 8.81 8.2 Group I................................................... 8.71 8.2 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 9.43 10.7 – – 9.70 10.3 Group I................................................... 9.43 10.7 – – 9.70 10.3 Dishwashers....................................................... 7.90 3.9 – – 7.39 3.3 Group I................................................... 7.74 3.2 – – 7.39 3.3 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 7.77 5.7 – – 7.39 9.7 Group I................................................... 7.77 5.7 – – 7.39 9.7 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.49 4.9 14.42 5.2 10.00 1.2 Group I................................................... 13.37 4.3 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.53 2.8 13.20 2.9 10.10 1.1 Group I................................................... 12.72 2.5 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.10 3.5 13.90 3.8 10.08 .7 Group I................................................... 13.30 3.3 14.20 3.5 10.08 .7 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.01 2.2 11.28 3.1 10.12 4.2 Group I................................................... 10.96 2.5 11.29 4.1 10.12 4.2 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 19.75 7.5 – – – – Group I................................................... 18.28 13.9 – – – – Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 19.75 7.5 – – – – Group I................................................... 18.28 13.9 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.14 7.2 11.26 9.5 8.89 8.0 Group I................................................... 9.69 7.3 – – – – Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 8.69 6.8 – – 8.69 6.8 Group I................................................... 8.69 6.8 – – – – Amusement and recreation attendants............................. 8.65 9.1 – – 8.65 9.1 Group I................................................... 8.65 9.1 – – 8.65 9.1 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 9.95 15.2 – – 8.03 16.9 Group I................................................... 9.00 16.4 – – – – Recreation workers.............................................. 9.85 22.8 – – – – Group I................................................... 8.30 26.3 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 23.02 9.4 28.88 9.4 9.29 4.8 Group I................................................... 11.46 8.7 – – – – Group II.................................................. 29.86 19.8 – – – – Group III................................................. 42.85 15.0 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 19.62 10.5 19.62 10.5 – – Group II.................................................. 20.57 7.9 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.94 11.1 16.94 11.1 – – Group II.................................................. 20.57 7.9 20.57 7.9 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.47 2.0 12.22 6.3 9.14 4.8 Group I................................................... 9.88 2.8 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.50 5.9 10.33 10.4 9.04 2.4 Group I................................................... 9.47 6.5 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.50 5.9 10.33 10.4 9.04 2.4 Group I................................................... 9.47 6.5 – – 9.04 2.4 Retail salespersons............................................. 10.76 3.8 12.55 10.1 9.19 7.1 Group I................................................... 9.99 3.0 11.03 3.4 9.21 8.0 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 88.93 19.7 88.93 19.7 – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 34.06 17.9 34.06 17.9 – – Group II.................................................. 28.13 6.6 – – – – Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 29.30 7.6 29.30 7.6 – – Group II.................................................. 28.13 6.6 28.13 6.6 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.49 1.9 17.20 1.9 11.86 6.1 Group I................................................... 13.93 2.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.12 2.7 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 21.79 8.8 21.82 9.0 – – Group II.................................................. 20.67 8.1 20.67 8.4 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 18.05 7.8 18.27 8.1 – – Group I................................................... 13.78 4.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.96 9.1 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.56 10.1 18.62 10.3 – – Group I................................................... 14.11 3.8 14.04 3.9 – – Group II.................................................. 22.47 11.2 22.70 11.2 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 17.32 5.0 17.96 4.0 – – Group I................................................... 14.78 6.7 15.46 6.1 – – Group II.................................................. 19.41 3.0 19.72 2.6 – – Order clerks...................................................... 15.64 7.9 16.18 7.7 – – Group I................................................... 13.94 5.1 14.52 1.2 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.75 4.8 15.05 4.7 12.66 9.9 Group I................................................... 14.87 5.1 15.23 5.1 12.66 9.9 Dispatchers....................................................... 22.68 6.7 22.68 6.7 – – Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 22.11 7.2 22.11 7.2 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.13 13.8 13.13 13.8 – – Group I................................................... 12.25 16.4 12.25 16.4 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 14.95 7.6 16.07 6.1 10.87 7.2 Group I................................................... 14.58 6.4 15.73 6.2 10.87 7.2 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.23 3.4 19.42 3.3 15.39 9.8 Group I................................................... 16.45 5.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.70 4.3 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.78 3.3 20.86 3.3 – – Group II.................................................. 21.08 4.1 21.22 4.2 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.13 5.1 17.33 5.2 – – Group I................................................... 16.66 7.8 17.05 7.7 – – Group II.................................................. 19.05 8.3 19.12 9.2 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 15.56 5.4 15.82 5.5 12.46 11.7 Group I................................................... 14.24 5.6 14.42 5.9 – – Group II.................................................. 20.39 10.2 20.39 10.2 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 25.87 9.4 25.87 9.4 – – Group I................................................... 21.26 4.7 – – – – Group II.................................................. 26.52 8.6 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.87 3.1 22.87 3.1 – – Group II.................................................. 23.61 3.9 – – – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 21.99 5.3 21.99 5.3 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.08 1.9 22.08 1.9 – – Group II.................................................. 22.54 4.3 – – – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 23.29 2.2 23.29 2.2 – – Group II.................................................. 23.22 3.4 23.22 3.4 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.13 5.8 20.13 5.8 – – Production occupations.............................................. 16.74 4.0 17.22 3.9 9.59 1.5 Group I................................................... 14.08 4.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.36 5.1 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.42 6.4 24.42 6.4 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.88 14.9 15.63 16.9 – – Group I................................................... 14.79 15.1 – – – – Computer control programmers and operators........................ 22.83 5.6 22.83 5.6 – – Group II.................................................. 21.65 2.2 – – – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 16.33 2.1 16.33 2.1 – – Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.84 5.6 15.84 5.6 – – Printers.......................................................... 17.48 7.4 17.48 7.4 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.87 11.0 19.87 11.0 – – Group I................................................... 17.50 22.6 17.50 22.6 – – Painting workers.................................................. 19.90 13.8 19.90 13.8 – – Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 19.90 13.8 19.90 13.8 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.73 4.5 12.26 5.9 – – Group I................................................... 11.69 5.0 – – – – Helpers--production workers..................................... 13.17 11.9 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 17.31 10.9 19.85 12.2 10.72 5.9 Group I................................................... 13.84 4.7 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.13 5.4 – – – – Bus drivers....................................................... 15.46 9.7 – – 13.94 9.8 Group I................................................... 17.05 9.0 – – – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 14.16 8.8 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.09 2.9 18.09 2.9 – – Group I................................................... 17.86 7.2 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.32 2.5 18.32 2.5 – – Group I................................................... 17.29 8.9 17.29 8.9 – – Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 17.25 12.9 17.25 12.9 – – Group I................................................... 19.42 13.0 19.42 13.0 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.66 7.3 15.66 7.3 – – Group I................................................... 15.58 7.6 15.58 7.6 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.31 4.2 13.19 5.1 9.76 4.1 Group I................................................... 11.24 4.8 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.76 4.1 14.73 5.7 10.44 4.9 Group I................................................... 12.80 4.6 14.94 6.8 10.54 5.3 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.87 4.3 – – 9.92 4.8 Group I................................................... 9.85 4.3 – – 9.88 4.8 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $9.25 $12.79 $18.76 $28.32 $39.76 Management occupations.............................................. 21.88 28.82 39.75 48.33 58.15 General and operations managers................................... 19.59 31.73 42.27 47.06 54.47 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 29.88 34.64 39.51 49.50 56.74 Marketing managers.............................................. 29.12 34.64 38.46 43.33 48.08 Computer and information systems managers......................... 43.27 45.19 48.81 58.09 58.15 Financial managers................................................ 21.88 23.52 30.53 53.81 80.07 Education administrators.......................................... 21.98 26.44 42.54 53.20 58.31 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 28.95 39.10 50.05 54.79 59.70 Engineering managers.............................................. 30.76 38.67 39.54 44.71 68.64 Medical and health services managers.............................. 21.98 31.78 39.63 62.87 62.87 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.57 21.54 27.57 39.76 80.95 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 16.76 21.40 22.90 26.92 30.59 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 16.09 17.52 22.07 30.59 32.86 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 15.12 15.70 18.47 25.45 27.84 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 15.12 15.70 17.56 24.41 27.84 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 16.50 20.30 23.27 27.50 34.55 Management analysts............................................... 23.02 29.33 34.38 37.41 42.67 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 19.63 20.50 26.82 29.14 36.22 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 19.81 21.25 24.61 34.03 39.14 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 25.06 29.94 34.73 42.66 48.49 Computer software engineers....................................... 28.97 33.81 39.30 52.88 54.16 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 27.40 31.73 46.82 54.16 54.16 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 33.10 38.87 39.30 48.25 53.99 Computer support specialists...................................... 18.46 25.19 29.37 33.04 33.35 Computer systems analysts......................................... 29.94 34.21 38.65 44.06 45.43 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 21.98 25.05 31.85 32.58 41.06 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 23.69 27.03 31.83 36.44 36.44 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 20.44 24.22 28.84 37.53 49.45 Engineers......................................................... 23.56 30.52 36.53 42.09 54.03 Mechanical engineers............................................ 26.47 28.27 34.52 48.78 51.63 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 17.61 22.26 25.45 27.57 32.22 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 17.61 20.17 24.82 27.16 27.57 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 25.62 26.50 28.86 35.92 44.83 Physical scientists............................................... 26.50 28.02 28.02 35.92 48.65 Market and survey researchers..................................... 25.62 25.62 32.31 44.83 44.83 Market research analysts........................................ 25.62 25.62 32.31 44.83 44.83 Community and social services occupations........................... 16.00 16.35 17.46 23.93 26.60 Counselors........................................................ 19.23 20.37 21.87 25.64 26.60 Social workers.................................................... 15.08 17.09 24.25 25.91 31.74 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 17.64 22.34 24.25 31.74 36.87 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 16.00 16.00 17.37 17.46 19.99 Social and human service assistants............................. 16.00 16.00 16.35 17.46 17.46 Legal occupations................................................... 25.08 29.85 37.06 42.14 58.52 Lawyers........................................................... 34.78 36.33 38.05 53.85 57.85 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 14.33 24.89 34.50 43.90 51.04 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 28.53 41.03 43.90 72.90 168.38 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 21.77 26.22 33.34 41.63 47.13 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 13.00 19.42 26.72 39.74 46.03 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 25.61 31.91 38.75 41.74 47.89 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 23.50 26.54 33.23 41.76 46.79 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 23.41 26.54 33.22 40.71 45.59 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 24.30 27.08 35.89 43.61 49.57 Secondary school teachers....................................... 26.05 31.16 36.22 43.66 48.85 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 26.05 31.16 36.22 43.66 48.85 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.46 12.02 13.61 14.78 17.43 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 17.50 18.34 21.00 29.96 35.35 Designers......................................................... 18.34 18.34 19.30 26.41 33.65 Graphic designers............................................... 18.34 18.34 19.24 22.44 29.96 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 16.98 20.57 28.70 35.22 41.77 Registered nurses................................................. 24.71 28.70 34.00 37.81 41.77 Therapists........................................................ 25.76 28.62 31.97 31.97 42.97 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 18.04 18.79 20.74 22.62 26.34 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 16.39 24.40 28.08 28.66 30.35 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.65 18.21 20.00 20.57 21.90 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.25 11.55 13.89 17.24 19.60 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.00 10.75 12.30 14.22 16.68 Home health aides............................................... 9.30 10.00 10.50 11.14 12.91 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.85 12.00 13.05 14.91 17.12 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 11.11 14.37 17.24 18.86 20.20 Protective service occupations...................................... 17.04 21.72 26.52 31.17 34.01 Police officers................................................... 20.74 24.16 28.93 30.82 32.29 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 20.74 24.16 28.93 30.82 32.29 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.15 6.45 7.50 10.00 12.24 Cooks............................................................. 6.55 6.80 10.00 12.24 14.48 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 6.55 6.80 9.50 11.00 14.41 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.00 8.00 9.35 10.60 11.55 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.00 6.15 6.15 6.86 8.65 Bartenders...................................................... 6.15 6.50 8.00 9.00 10.31 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 5.25 6.15 6.15 6.45 6.45 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.00 6.00 6.15 6.55 11.68 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.00 7.45 7.76 9.35 12.95 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 7.63 7.76 8.00 10.95 13.26 Dishwashers....................................................... 6.50 7.50 8.00 8.00 9.30 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 6.55 6.55 7.20 8.80 9.31 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.05 10.35 12.27 14.97 20.69 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.05 10.35 12.00 13.27 17.42 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.75 11.00 13.20 13.75 18.70 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.77 9.60 11.25 11.91 13.35 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 9.50 15.88 23.59 23.59 25.68 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 9.50 15.88 23.59 23.59 25.68 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.00 8.50 9.59 11.52 14.14 Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 7.27 8.29 8.29 9.16 10.00 Amusement and recreation attendants............................. 7.27 7.27 8.63 9.59 9.59 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 4.63 8.25 10.25 12.20 16.00 Recreation workers.............................................. 4.38 4.75 11.80 12.75 16.30 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.75 9.35 14.35 23.56 38.67 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 10.60 13.50 16.35 21.48 28.41 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 10.60 13.50 15.59 19.28 25.21 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.45 8.00 9.50 12.00 14.52 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.50 7.63 9.00 11.00 12.80 Cashiers...................................................... 7.50 7.63 9.00 11.00 12.80 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.17 8.25 9.51 12.03 14.72 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 15.71 24.76 46.11 124.08 220.82 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 19.98 22.95 31.16 33.03 45.00 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 19.42 22.72 31.16 32.74 35.54 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.28 13.00 15.90 19.40 22.48 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 15.22 17.48 22.22 24.17 28.86 Financial clerks.................................................. 11.11 14.00 17.51 20.78 27.18 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.00 14.09 16.98 20.78 27.18 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.00 13.40 16.83 21.14 23.13 Order clerks...................................................... 11.53 13.46 14.69 17.50 21.93 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.00 11.81 15.09 16.75 18.80 Dispatchers....................................................... 16.54 22.03 22.03 23.39 26.38 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 16.54 21.39 22.03 22.03 30.06 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 7.98 7.98 14.11 15.18 17.80 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 10.10 12.95 15.32 17.07 18.77 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.36 15.78 19.33 21.88 25.24 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.66 18.25 20.91 23.93 25.47 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.65 15.27 16.29 18.75 21.13 Office clerks, general............................................ 9.75 12.00 14.70 18.77 20.30 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 14.45 19.89 28.32 30.19 32.89 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.40 19.22 22.58 26.87 27.58 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.75 19.58 22.16 24.55 24.55 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.37 20.39 22.58 23.27 26.94 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 20.39 22.56 22.77 24.31 27.58 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.50 18.41 21.93 21.93 23.27 Production occupations.............................................. 9.94 11.80 16.20 19.76 25.80 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 17.33 19.22 25.72 28.37 33.74 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 10.15 10.32 12.72 16.79 28.35 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 18.35 18.80 22.25 27.44 31.00 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 12.00 13.75 16.00 19.20 21.00 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 11.45 13.44 15.76 18.80 19.76 Printers.......................................................... 13.60 14.40 17.54 18.76 25.28 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 10.00 16.55 20.36 23.00 27.00 Painting workers.................................................. 15.53 16.20 16.99 28.29 28.70 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 15.53 16.20 16.99 28.29 28.70 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 8.50 9.46 10.78 14.30 15.08 Helpers--production workers..................................... 8.00 9.69 14.50 15.20 16.77 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.25 11.05 15.00 18.55 22.69 Bus drivers....................................................... 12.23 12.23 15.22 15.60 22.69 Bus drivers, school............................................. 12.23 12.23 14.44 15.22 15.39 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 13.00 15.00 17.75 19.59 23.95 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 13.50 16.25 17.75 19.55 22.50 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 9.74 15.00 15.00 19.72 28.17 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.76 12.78 15.55 16.91 18.60 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.57 8.10 10.00 13.28 15.37 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.57 10.00 13.10 15.06 18.77 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.75 8.10 9.50 10.87 12.80 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $9.00 $12.23 $17.69 $27.18 $38.46 Management occupations.............................................. 21.64 25.93 38.67 48.09 58.15 General and operations managers................................... 19.59 31.73 42.27 47.06 54.47 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 29.88 34.64 39.51 49.50 56.74 Marketing managers.............................................. 29.12 34.64 38.46 43.33 48.08 Computer and information systems managers......................... 43.27 45.19 48.81 58.09 58.15 Financial managers................................................ 21.88 23.52 26.96 52.88 80.07 Engineering managers.............................................. 30.76 38.67 39.54 44.71 68.64 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.51 21.51 27.57 42.67 80.95 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 16.76 21.40 22.90 26.92 30.59 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 16.09 17.52 22.07 30.59 32.86 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 16.50 20.23 22.96 27.50 30.67 Management analysts............................................... 22.12 29.33 31.25 37.41 42.67 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 19.80 20.50 26.92 31.20 36.22 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 19.50 20.73 23.33 30.31 40.39 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 25.41 30.33 36.06 43.47 51.62 Computer software engineers....................................... 28.97 35.55 39.30 53.99 54.16 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 27.40 30.29 47.26 54.16 54.16 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 33.10 38.87 39.30 48.25 53.99 Computer support specialists...................................... 18.25 25.06 28.85 33.04 33.04 Computer systems analysts......................................... 31.01 34.49 39.90 44.06 45.49 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 25.05 25.48 31.85 32.58 41.06 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 21.03 24.82 29.00 37.65 49.45 Engineers......................................................... 23.56 29.28 36.69 45.48 54.45 Mechanical engineers............................................ 26.47 28.27 34.52 48.78 51.63 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 17.66 22.60 25.87 27.57 32.37 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 18.02 22.26 25.75 27.57 27.57 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 25.62 25.62 32.31 44.83 44.83 Market and survey researchers..................................... 25.62 25.62 32.31 44.83 44.83 Market research analysts........................................ 25.62 25.62 32.31 44.83 44.83 Community and social services occupations........................... 15.50 16.00 17.37 17.64 25.91 Social workers.................................................... 14.00 17.09 22.46 25.91 25.91 Miscellaneous community and social service specialists............ 16.00 16.00 16.35 17.46 17.46 Social and human service assistants............................. 16.00 16.00 16.35 17.46 17.46 Legal occupations................................................... 25.08 27.82 36.01 38.28 53.85 Lawyers........................................................... 36.00 37.06 38.05 53.85 63.31 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.74 14.11 20.14 26.36 32.48 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 21.28 25.46 31.76 41.75 45.80 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 13.10 19.42 22.39 26.54 29.76 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.30 11.74 13.35 14.33 16.90 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 17.50 18.34 21.00 29.96 35.35 Designers......................................................... 18.34 18.34 19.30 26.41 33.65 Graphic designers............................................... 18.34 18.34 19.24 22.44 29.96 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 16.98 20.57 28.66 34.70 41.77 Registered nurses................................................. 24.52 28.70 34.00 37.91 41.77 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.75 18.29 20.01 20.57 22.14 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.10 11.25 13.50 17.24 19.10 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.00 10.75 12.25 14.15 16.68 Home health aides............................................... 9.30 10.00 10.50 11.14 12.91 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.00 12.00 13.05 14.81 17.12 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 11.11 14.37 17.24 18.86 20.20 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.15 6.41 7.50 9.35 11.99 Cooks............................................................. 6.55 6.80 10.00 12.24 14.48 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 6.55 6.80 9.50 11.00 14.41 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.00 8.00 9.35 10.60 11.25 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.00 6.15 6.15 6.86 8.65 Bartenders...................................................... 6.15 6.50 8.00 9.00 10.31 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 5.25 6.15 6.15 6.45 6.45 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 6.00 6.00 6.15 6.55 11.68 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.00 7.25 7.75 8.00 10.10 Dishwashers....................................................... 6.50 7.50 8.00 8.00 9.30 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 6.55 6.55 7.20 8.80 9.31 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.00 10.00 11.77 13.27 16.55 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.00 10.00 11.77 13.27 13.44 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.40 10.35 12.27 13.27 14.00 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.77 9.60 11.25 11.91 13.35 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.00 8.42 9.50 11.50 14.14 Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 7.27 8.29 8.29 9.00 9.59 Amusement and recreation attendants............................. 7.27 7.27 8.63 9.16 9.59 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 4.38 6.25 9.25 12.75 16.30 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.75 9.35 14.35 23.56 38.67 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 10.60 13.50 16.35 21.48 28.41 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 10.60 13.50 15.59 19.28 25.21 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.45 8.00 9.50 12.00 14.52 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.50 7.63 9.00 11.00 12.80 Cashiers...................................................... 7.50 7.63 9.00 11.00 12.80 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.17 8.25 9.51 12.03 14.72 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 15.71 24.76 46.11 124.08 220.82 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 19.98 22.95 31.16 33.03 45.00 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 19.42 22.72 31.16 32.74 35.54 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.28 12.72 15.53 18.90 22.50 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 15.22 16.35 22.69 24.17 29.12 Financial clerks.................................................. 11.11 13.47 16.47 20.92 27.18 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 12.00 14.00 15.90 20.67 27.18 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.00 13.40 16.83 21.14 23.13 Order clerks...................................................... 11.53 13.46 14.69 17.50 21.93 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.00 11.90 15.09 16.75 18.80 Dispatchers....................................................... 16.54 21.39 22.03 22.03 30.06 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 16.54 21.39 22.03 22.03 30.06 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 7.98 7.98 14.11 15.18 17.80 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.65 12.26 14.12 16.55 18.77 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.36 15.78 19.23 21.64 24.08 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 14.36 17.74 20.48 22.69 25.47 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.65 15.39 16.97 18.75 21.13 Office clerks, general............................................ 9.69 11.00 13.00 16.75 20.30 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 14.45 19.23 28.32 30.35 32.89 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.22 18.44 22.48 26.87 26.92 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.75 19.58 21.31 24.55 24.55 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.37 19.75 22.77 23.27 26.94 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 20.39 22.48 22.77 23.27 24.76 Production occupations.............................................. 9.86 11.59 16.00 19.76 25.80 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 17.33 19.22 25.72 28.37 33.74 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 10.15 10.32 12.72 16.79 28.35 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 18.35 18.80 22.25 27.44 31.00 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 12.00 13.75 16.00 19.20 21.00 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 11.45 13.44 15.76 18.80 19.76 Printers.......................................................... 13.60 14.40 17.54 18.76 25.28 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 10.00 16.55 20.36 23.00 27.00 Painting workers.................................................. 15.53 16.20 16.99 28.29 28.70 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 15.53 16.20 16.99 28.29 28.70 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 8.50 9.46 10.78 14.30 15.08 Helpers--production workers..................................... 8.00 9.69 14.50 15.20 16.77 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.10 11.00 15.00 18.10 22.50 Bus drivers....................................................... 12.23 12.23 12.82 15.22 15.39 Bus drivers, school............................................. 12.23 12.23 12.82 15.22 15.39 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 13.00 15.00 17.72 19.55 26.06 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 13.50 16.25 17.75 19.55 22.50 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 9.74 10.35 15.00 26.54 28.17 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.76 12.78 15.55 16.91 18.60 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.57 8.10 10.00 13.28 15.37 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.57 10.00 13.10 15.06 18.77 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.75 8.10 9.50 10.87 12.80 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $14.97 $19.50 $25.68 $35.71 $45.33 Management occupations.............................................. 31.83 39.40 42.73 53.46 58.27 Education administrators.......................................... 24.81 40.40 50.05 56.84 59.70 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 39.10 47.44 51.76 57.96 59.70 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.15 22.27 26.76 31.15 34.55 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 19.81 27.43 33.29 34.95 40.53 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 18.09 20.83 25.20 34.34 43.90 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 23.93 28.30 28.86 33.14 33.70 Community and social services occupations........................... 18.71 20.04 22.92 26.60 35.83 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 24.30 30.17 39.88 45.08 62.15 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 38.93 42.25 44.40 83.92 168.38 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 25.53 30.17 37.22 43.16 48.22 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 25.61 31.91 38.75 41.74 47.89 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 25.61 31.91 38.75 41.74 47.89 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 25.18 30.17 37.70 43.30 47.74 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 25.18 29.66 37.47 42.85 47.00 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 25.86 31.60 37.95 44.61 50.29 Secondary school teachers....................................... 26.05 31.16 36.22 43.66 48.85 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 26.05 31.16 36.22 43.66 48.85 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.91 12.02 13.75 15.92 17.62 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 16.97 21.63 33.69 37.64 45.32 Registered nurses................................................. 27.02 30.25 36.38 37.46 43.94 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.10 14.91 15.70 23.35 23.35 Protective service occupations...................................... 17.80 21.72 26.67 31.82 34.01 Police officers................................................... 20.74 24.16 28.93 30.82 32.29 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 20.74 24.16 28.93 30.82 32.29 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.88 10.48 11.85 13.01 13.57 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.88 10.19 11.02 13.08 13.57 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.82 14.97 18.31 20.69 25.68 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.82 14.69 18.14 19.52 20.69 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.82 14.77 18.31 19.52 20.69 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.16 10.97 11.95 12.50 14.42 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.88 15.76 18.28 20.89 22.26 Financial clerks.................................................. 15.42 17.37 18.09 20.78 22.01 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.91 16.69 18.09 20.78 22.01 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.21 14.67 21.89 25.08 26.70 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.38 14.77 18.18 20.01 20.89 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.22 21.43 23.48 28.27 31.63 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.87 19.28 21.14 22.69 26.10 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 2007 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $11.52 $15.13 $20.82 $30.19 $42.25 Management occupations.............................................. 21.88 28.85 39.75 48.33 58.27 General and operations managers................................... 19.59 31.73 42.27 47.06 54.47 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 29.88 34.64 39.51 49.50 56.74 Marketing managers.............................................. 29.12 34.64 38.46 43.33 48.08 Computer and information systems managers......................... 43.27 45.19 48.81 58.09 58.15 Financial managers................................................ 21.88 23.52 26.96 53.81 80.07 Education administrators.......................................... 21.98 26.44 42.54 53.20 58.31 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 28.95 39.10 50.05 54.79 59.70 Engineering managers.............................................. 30.76 38.67 39.54 44.71 68.64 Medical and health services managers.............................. 21.98 31.78 39.40 62.87 62.87 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 18.57 21.54 27.57 39.76 80.95 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 16.76 21.40 22.90 26.92 30.59 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 16.09 17.52 22.07 30.59 32.86 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 15.12 15.70 18.47 25.45 27.84 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 15.12 15.70 17.56 24.41 27.84 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 16.50 20.23 23.87 27.50 34.55 Management analysts............................................... 23.02 29.33 34.38 37.41 42.67 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 19.63 20.50 26.82 29.14 36.22 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 19.81 21.25 24.61 34.03 39.14 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 25.06 29.94 34.73 42.66 48.49 Computer software engineers....................................... 28.97 33.81 39.30 52.88 54.16 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 27.40 31.73 46.82 54.16 54.16 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 33.10 38.97 39.30 48.25 53.99 Computer support specialists...................................... 18.46 25.19 29.37 33.04 33.35 Computer systems analysts......................................... 29.94 34.21 38.65 44.06 45.43 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 21.98 25.05 31.85 32.58 41.06 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 23.69 27.03 31.83 36.44 36.44 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 21.03 24.50 29.01 37.65 49.45 Engineers......................................................... 23.56 30.52 36.53 42.09 54.03 Mechanical engineers............................................ 26.47 28.27 34.52 48.78 51.63 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 18.08 22.51 25.75 27.57 32.32 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 18.08 22.26 25.75 27.57 27.57 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 25.62 26.50 29.05 35.92 44.83 Physical scientists............................................... 26.50 28.02 28.02 35.92 48.65 Market and survey researchers..................................... 25.62 25.62 32.31 44.83 44.83 Market research analysts........................................ 25.62 25.62 32.31 44.83 44.83 Community and social services occupations........................... 15.50 17.24 18.71 25.01 26.60 Counselors........................................................ 19.23 20.37 21.87 25.64 26.60 Social workers.................................................... 15.08 17.09 24.25 25.91 31.74 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 17.64 22.34 24.25 31.74 36.87 Legal occupations................................................... 26.44 29.85 37.06 48.82 58.52 Lawyers........................................................... 34.78 36.33 38.05 53.85 57.85 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 17.81 26.29 36.60 43.91 51.72 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 28.53 41.67 43.91 74.86 168.38 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 21.77 26.20 33.55 41.64 47.13 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 13.00 19.42 26.72 39.74 46.03 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 25.61 31.91 38.75 41.74 47.89 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 23.50 26.54 33.23 41.76 46.79 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 23.41 26.54 33.22 40.71 45.59 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 24.30 27.08 35.89 43.61 49.57 Secondary school teachers....................................... 26.05 31.16 36.22 43.66 48.85 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 26.05 31.16 36.22 43.66 48.85 Teacher assistants................................................ 12.31 13.26 14.28 15.55 17.44 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 18.13 18.34 21.64 29.96 36.35 Designers......................................................... 18.34 18.34 19.24 26.41 33.65 Graphic designers............................................... 18.34 18.34 19.24 22.44 29.96 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 16.90 20.57 28.46 35.55 43.21 Registered nurses................................................. 25.00 28.70 35.22 40.01 41.77 Therapists........................................................ 25.76 30.12 31.97 31.97 43.10 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 16.57 18.24 20.05 20.57 21.87 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.35 12.00 14.92 17.87 20.20 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.00 11.00 12.13 14.22 17.19 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.00 12.13 13.05 15.86 17.35 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.61 15.97 17.63 20.20 20.20 Protective service occupations...................................... 18.28 21.72 27.17 31.82 34.01 Police officers................................................... 21.49 24.37 28.93 30.96 32.29 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 21.49 24.37 28.93 30.96 32.29 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.15 6.80 9.25 11.68 16.26 Cooks............................................................. 6.55 6.55 6.80 13.90 15.26 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 6.55 6.55 6.80 11.50 15.00 Food service, tipped.............................................. 6.15 6.15 9.00 10.31 10.61 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.00 11.77 13.27 16.52 21.12 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.55 11.35 13.05 13.74 18.35 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.27 12.27 13.27 15.09 19.00 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.15 10.22 11.25 11.91 13.33 Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.50 9.50 10.50 12.50 14.14 Sales and related occupations....................................... 9.75 13.00 19.00 31.25 44.92 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 10.60 13.50 16.35 21.48 28.41 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 10.60 13.50 15.59 19.28 25.21 Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.73 9.51 11.00 13.65 19.55 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.50 9.00 10.48 11.00 13.45 Cashiers...................................................... 7.50 9.00 10.48 11.00 13.45 Retail salespersons............................................. 9.00 9.51 11.19 14.72 22.24 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 15.71 24.76 46.11 124.08 220.82 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 19.98 22.95 31.16 33.03 45.00 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 19.42 22.72 31.16 32.74 35.54 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 12.00 14.00 16.55 20.01 23.13 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 15.22 17.48 22.22 24.17 28.86 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.00 14.09 17.65 20.80 27.18 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.00 14.09 17.02 20.78 27.18 Customer service representatives.................................. 12.72 15.06 17.44 21.14 23.13 Order clerks...................................................... 13.00 13.91 14.69 17.51 22.06 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.00 12.00 15.09 16.93 18.80 Dispatchers....................................................... 16.54 22.03 22.03 23.39 26.38 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 16.54 21.39 22.03 22.03 30.06 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 7.98 7.98 14.11 15.18 17.80 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 12.26 13.86 16.55 17.68 18.77 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.36 15.78 19.56 22.15 25.24 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.66 18.72 20.91 24.08 25.56 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.21 15.31 16.29 19.10 21.13 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.14 12.10 15.22 19.16 20.30 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 14.45 19.89 28.32 30.19 32.89 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.40 19.22 22.58 26.87 27.58 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 17.75 19.58 22.16 24.55 24.55 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 16.37 20.39 22.58 23.27 26.94 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 20.39 22.56 22.77 24.31 27.58 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.50 18.41 21.93 21.93 23.27 Production occupations.............................................. 10.50 12.72 16.77 20.36 26.69 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 17.33 19.22 25.72 28.37 33.74 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 10.15 11.26 12.90 17.33 28.35 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 18.35 18.80 22.25 27.44 31.00 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 12.00 13.75 16.00 19.20 21.00 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 11.45 13.44 15.76 18.80 19.76 Printers.......................................................... 13.60 14.40 17.54 18.76 25.28 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 10.00 16.55 20.36 23.00 27.00 Painting workers.................................................. 15.53 16.20 16.99 28.29 28.70 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 15.53 16.20 16.99 28.29 28.70 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.00 9.95 12.00 14.50 15.20 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 10.85 13.28 16.33 19.39 27.17 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 13.00 15.00 17.75 19.59 23.95 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 13.50 16.25 17.75 19.55 22.50 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 9.74 15.00 15.00 19.72 28.17 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.76 12.78 15.55 16.91 18.60 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.10 10.00 13.28 15.37 19.43 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.35 13.28 15.00 15.37 19.43 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), Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 2007 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $6.41 $7.88 $10.00 $13.00 $18.02 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.30 11.44 13.35 16.79 25.75 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.30 10.82 12.61 13.86 16.48 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 18.10 22.00 29.62 34.03 38.00 Registered nurses................................................. 24.30 28.70 33.90 34.70 38.66 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.00 18.10 19.50 20.79 22.58 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.74 10.75 13.43 15.46 17.55 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.00 10.72 12.75 14.33 15.24 Home health aides............................................... 9.50 10.00 10.50 12.25 12.91 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.50 11.20 13.15 14.54 15.60 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.15 6.15 7.20 8.50 11.00 Cooks............................................................. 8.00 10.00 10.50 11.50 12.24 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.00 8.00 8.10 10.60 12.01 Food service, tipped.............................................. 5.25 6.15 6.15 6.45 7.27 Bartenders...................................................... 6.48 6.50 7.00 8.00 8.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 5.25 6.15 6.15 6.45 6.45 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.00 7.25 7.85 10.10 12.95 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 7.50 7.75 8.30 11.40 13.57 Dishwashers....................................................... 6.25 7.50 7.50 8.00 8.00 Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 6.55 6.55 6.80 7.96 8.80 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.50 9.13 10.00 10.35 11.05 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.50 9.75 10.00 10.35 11.05 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.00 9.75 10.00 10.35 11.05 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.50 8.50 9.65 11.00 13.44 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.00 6.50 8.50 10.22 12.87 Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers........ 7.27 8.29 8.29 9.16 10.00 Amusement and recreation attendants............................. 7.27 7.27 8.63 9.59 9.59 Recreation and fitness workers.................................... 4.38 4.75 8.25 9.25 11.00 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.17 7.65 8.50 10.25 13.10 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.17 7.63 8.59 10.00 12.50 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.45 7.63 8.50 9.50 12.50 Cashiers...................................................... 7.45 7.63 8.50 9.50 12.50 Retail salespersons............................................. 6.75 7.75 8.50 10.00 12.82 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.00 10.28 10.28 13.50 17.31 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 9.00 9.85 12.34 15.50 15.50 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 6.95 7.75 10.10 12.95 15.32 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 10.62 13.00 17.56 17.74 18.33 Office clerks, general............................................ 9.75 9.75 10.48 15.05 16.61 Production occupations.............................................. 8.00 8.50 9.00 10.32 10.32 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.10 8.05 10.00 12.80 15.22 Bus drivers....................................................... 12.23 12.23 14.55 15.22 15.39 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.45 8.00 9.07 10.83 13.10 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 6.95 7.57 9.19 12.95 14.57 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.75 8.00 9.55 10.83 14.77 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. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 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 11. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 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........................................................... $25.38 $20.82 $1,013 $830 39.9 $51,571 $42,453 2,032 Management occupations.............................................. 40.60 39.75 1,641 1,596 40.4 84,454 82,730 2,080 General and operations managers................................... 40.07 42.27 1,601 1,691 40.0 83,260 87,924 2,078 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 42.32 39.51 1,693 1,580 40.0 88,025 82,181 2,080 Marketing managers.............................................. 38.57 38.46 1,543 1,538 40.0 80,225 79,997 2,080 Computer and information systems managers......................... 49.96 48.81 1,999 1,952 40.0 103,924 101,525 2,080 Financial managers................................................ 40.18 26.96 1,607 1,078 40.0 83,580 56,073 2,080 Education administrators.......................................... 40.52 42.54 1,610 1,656 39.7 77,069 79,000 1,902 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 47.28 50.05 1,880 1,908 39.8 93,749 98,366 1,983 Engineering managers.............................................. 44.75 39.54 1,815 1,582 40.6 94,373 82,249 2,109 Medical and health services managers.............................. 41.57 39.40 1,663 1,576 40.0 86,461 81,952 2,080 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 36.89 27.57 1,473 1,100 39.9 76,579 57,200 2,076 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 23.33 22.90 933 916 40.0 48,504 47,628 2,079 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 23.36 22.07 934 883 40.0 48,549 45,906 2,079 Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators........ 20.48 18.47 816 751 39.8 42,407 39,062 2,071 Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators.................. 20.11 17.56 803 702 39.9 41,739 36,525 2,075 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.88 23.87 995 955 40.0 51,756 49,641 2,080 Management analysts............................................... 33.44 34.38 1,338 1,375 40.0 69,563 71,510 2,080 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.08 26.82 1,039 1,034 39.9 54,053 53,767 2,072 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 28.30 24.61 1,106 923 39.1 57,517 47,990 2,032 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.10 34.73 1,443 1,396 40.0 74,843 72,476 2,073 Computer software engineers....................................... 42.14 39.30 1,686 1,572 40.0 87,661 81,740 2,080 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.28 46.82 1,691 1,873 40.0 87,934 97,377 2,080 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 42.01 39.30 1,680 1,572 40.0 87,371 81,740 2,080 Computer support specialists...................................... 28.32 29.37 1,145 1,178 40.4 59,525 61,260 2,102 Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.04 38.65 1,555 1,540 39.8 80,860 80,080 2,071 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 30.70 31.85 1,220 1,274 39.7 61,934 66,256 2,017 Network systems and data communications analysts.................. 31.48 31.83 1,259 1,273 40.0 65,471 66,206 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.44 29.01 1,298 1,160 40.0 67,480 60,339 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 38.05 36.53 1,522 1,461 40.0 79,136 75,982 2,080 Mechanical engineers............................................ 36.99 34.52 1,480 1,381 40.0 76,937 71,806 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 25.12 25.75 1,005 1,030 40.0 52,240 53,560 2,080 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 24.21 25.75 969 1,030 40.0 50,364 53,560 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 32.74 29.05 1,318 1,233 40.3 67,609 64,119 2,065 Physical scientists............................................... 32.76 28.02 1,351 1,233 41.2 70,255 64,119 2,145 Market and survey researchers..................................... 34.18 32.31 1,367 1,292 40.0 71,064 67,209 2,079 Market research analysts........................................ 34.18 32.31 1,367 1,292 40.0 71,064 67,209 2,079 Community and social services occupations........................... 20.97 18.71 835 748 39.8 41,676 36,687 1,988 Counselors........................................................ 23.20 21.87 918 875 39.6 47,762 45,485 2,058 Social workers.................................................... 23.17 24.25 923 970 39.8 42,505 42,529 1,834 Child, family, and school social workers........................ 26.59 24.25 1,051 970 39.5 40,626 38,125 1,528 Legal occupations................................................... 40.06 37.06 1,654 1,482 41.3 85,991 77,074 2,147 Lawyers........................................................... 44.23 38.05 1,897 1,788 42.9 98,646 92,999 2,230 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 41.87 36.60 1,622 1,383 38.7 63,849 51,829 1,525 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 67.66 43.91 2,667 1,756 39.4 117,688 69,085 1,739 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 34.05 33.55 1,315 1,329 38.6 49,144 49,863 1,443 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 28.75 26.72 1,125 1,049 39.1 44,039 41,891 1,532 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 37.57 38.75 1,448 1,457 38.5 50,103 50,347 1,333 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 34.47 33.23 1,331 1,329 38.6 48,704 47,551 1,413 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 33.92 33.22 1,318 1,298 38.9 47,733 45,866 1,407 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 36.26 35.89 1,374 1,357 37.9 51,934 51,831 1,432 Secondary school teachers....................................... 37.04 36.22 1,417 1,377 38.3 53,072 51,437 1,433 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 37.04 36.22 1,417 1,377 38.3 53,072 51,437 1,433 Teacher assistants................................................ 14.48 14.28 537 547 37.1 22,554 21,450 1,558 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 24.62 21.64 985 865 40.0 51,214 45,001 2,080 Designers......................................................... 22.62 19.24 905 770 40.0 47,046 40,028 2,080 Graphic designers............................................... 20.73 19.24 829 770 40.0 43,117 40,028 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 29.29 28.46 1,165 1,138 39.8 58,888 58,406 2,010 Registered nurses................................................. 34.53 35.22 1,372 1,409 39.7 68,548 70,075 1,985 Therapists........................................................ 32.50 31.97 1,286 1,279 39.6 59,034 62,641 1,817 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.48 20.05 779 802 40.0 40,518 41,694 2,080 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 15.04 14.92 599 597 39.8 31,139 31,034 2,071 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.81 12.13 513 485 40.0 26,650 25,222 2,081 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.96 13.05 557 522 39.9 28,963 27,144 2,075 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.07 17.63 676 706 39.6 35,137 36,733 2,059 Protective service occupations...................................... 26.61 27.17 1,092 1,137 41.0 56,774 59,103 2,133 Police officers................................................... 27.82 28.93 1,113 1,157 40.0 57,860 60,174 2,080 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 27.82 28.93 1,113 1,157 40.0 57,860 60,174 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.11 9.25 394 360 39.0 20,484 18,720 2,025 Cooks............................................................. 9.62 6.80 384 272 39.9 19,977 14,144 2,077 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.65 6.80 346 272 40.0 17,994 14,144 2,080 Food service, tipped.............................................. 8.33 9.00 323 360 38.7 16,789 18,720 2,015 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 14.42 13.27 573 531 39.8 28,933 27,602 2,006 Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.20 13.05 524 522 39.7 27,085 27,040 2,052 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.90 13.27 552 531 39.7 28,439 27,602 2,046 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.28 11.25 448 450 39.7 23,320 23,400 2,067 Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.26 10.50 447 416 39.7 22,859 21,258 2,029 Sales and related occupations....................................... 28.88 19.00 1,137 749 39.4 59,134 38,958 2,047 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 19.62 16.35 761 654 38.8 39,592 34,000 2,018 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.94 15.59 656 615 38.7 34,103 32,001 2,013 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.22 11.00 467 410 38.2 24,270 21,320 1,987 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.33 10.48 413 419 40.0 21,490 21,798 2,080 Cashiers...................................................... 10.33 10.48 413 419 40.0 21,490 21,798 2,080 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.55 11.19 466 385 37.2 24,254 20,021 1,932 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 88.93 46.11 3,557 1,844 40.0 184,981 95,909 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 34.06 31.16 1,373 1,246 40.3 71,392 64,813 2,096 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 29.30 31.16 1,172 1,246 40.0 60,944 64,813 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.20 16.55 686 662 39.9 35,395 34,320 2,058 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 21.82 22.22 873 889 40.0 45,386 46,226 2,080 Financial clerks.................................................. 18.27 17.65 726 706 39.8 37,358 36,421 2,045 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.62 17.02 738 694 39.6 37,813 35,318 2,031 Customer service representatives.................................. 17.96 17.44 722 698 40.2 37,557 36,275 2,091 Order clerks...................................................... 16.18 14.69 647 588 40.0 33,647 30,561 2,080 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 15.05 15.09 600 604 39.9 31,194 31,387 2,073 Dispatchers....................................................... 22.68 22.03 907 881 40.0 42,647 36,123 1,880 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 22.11 22.03 884 881 40.0 40,648 36,123 1,838 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.13 14.11 525 564 40.0 27,312 29,353 2,080 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 16.07 16.55 643 662 40.0 33,434 34,424 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.42 19.56 772 770 39.8 39,472 38,938 2,033 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.86 20.91 830 837 39.8 43,181 43,501 2,070 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.33 16.29 687 659 39.7 34,012 33,645 1,963 Office clerks, general............................................ 15.82 15.22 632 610 39.9 32,545 30,694 2,058 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 25.87 28.32 1,059 1,153 40.9 53,068 54,267 2,051 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.87 22.58 915 903 40.0 47,566 46,966 2,080 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 21.99 22.16 880 886 40.0 45,734 46,093 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.08 22.58 883 903 40.0 45,918 46,966 2,080 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 23.29 22.77 932 911 40.0 48,442 47,362 2,080 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.13 21.93 805 877 40.0 41,872 45,614 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 17.22 16.77 688 671 40.0 35,789 34,882 2,079 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.42 25.72 977 1,029 40.0 50,797 53,498 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 15.63 12.90 625 516 40.0 32,507 26,832 2,080 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 22.83 22.25 913 890 40.0 47,484 46,280 2,080 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 16.33 16.00 650 640 39.8 33,814 33,280 2,071 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.84 15.76 627 630 39.6 32,622 32,781 2,059 Printers.......................................................... 17.48 17.54 699 702 40.0 36,329 36,483 2,079 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.87 20.36 795 814 40.0 41,334 42,349 2,080 Painting workers.................................................. 19.90 16.99 796 680 40.0 41,387 35,339 2,080 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 19.90 16.99 796 680 40.0 41,387 35,339 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.26 12.00 491 480 40.0 25,508 24,960 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 19.85 16.33 794 653 40.0 41,202 33,966 2,076 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.09 17.75 740 709 40.9 38,494 36,858 2,127 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.32 17.75 754 710 41.2 39,200 36,920 2,140 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 17.25 15.00 690 600 40.0 35,874 31,200 2,080 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.66 15.55 627 622 40.0 32,578 32,344 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.19 13.28 528 531 40.0 27,431 27,620 2,080 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.73 15.00 589 600 40.0 30,643 31,200 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. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 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 12. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 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........................................................... $24.44 $19.71 $977 $784 40.0 $50,475 $40,410 2,065 Management occupations.............................................. 39.77 38.67 1,611 1,580 40.5 83,516 82,181 2,100 General and operations managers................................... 40.07 42.27 1,601 1,691 40.0 83,260 87,924 2,078 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 42.32 39.51 1,693 1,580 40.0 88,025 82,181 2,080 Marketing managers.............................................. 38.57 38.46 1,543 1,538 40.0 80,225 79,997 2,080 Computer and information systems managers......................... 49.96 48.81 1,999 1,952 40.0 103,924 101,525 2,080 Financial managers................................................ 39.17 24.71 1,567 989 40.0 81,467 51,403 2,080 Engineering managers.............................................. 44.75 39.54 1,815 1,582 40.6 94,373 82,249 2,109 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 37.83 27.57 1,510 1,100 39.9 78,515 57,200 2,075 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 23.33 22.90 933 916 40.0 48,504 47,628 2,079 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 23.36 22.07 934 883 40.0 48,549 45,906 2,079 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 24.40 22.96 976 918 40.0 50,745 47,757 2,080 Management analysts............................................... 33.37 31.25 1,335 1,250 40.0 69,399 65,000 2,080 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.48 26.92 1,055 1,034 39.8 54,851 53,767 2,071 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 27.51 23.33 1,072 875 39.0 55,735 45,494 2,026 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 36.62 36.12 1,465 1,457 40.0 76,156 75,785 2,080 Computer software engineers....................................... 42.48 39.30 1,699 1,572 40.0 88,356 81,740 2,080 Computer software engineers, applications....................... 42.96 47.26 1,718 1,890 40.0 89,355 98,301 2,080 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 42.01 39.30 1,680 1,572 40.0 87,371 81,740 2,080 Computer support specialists...................................... 27.84 28.85 1,127 1,156 40.5 58,627 60,091 2,106 Computer systems analysts......................................... 39.66 39.90 1,579 1,589 39.8 82,103 82,632 2,070 Network and computer systems administrators....................... 31.69 31.85 1,264 1,283 39.9 65,735 66,741 2,074 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 32.78 29.46 1,311 1,178 40.0 68,184 61,279 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 38.22 36.69 1,529 1,467 40.0 79,503 76,305 2,080 Mechanical engineers............................................ 36.99 34.52 1,480 1,381 40.0 76,937 71,806 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 25.62 25.87 1,025 1,035 40.0 53,281 53,810 2,080 Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 24.58 25.75 983 1,030 40.0 51,126 53,560 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 33.98 32.31 1,374 1,292 40.4 71,444 67,209 2,103 Market and survey researchers..................................... 34.18 32.31 1,367 1,292 40.0 71,064 67,209 2,079 Market research analysts........................................ 34.18 32.31 1,367 1,292 40.0 71,064 67,209 2,079 Community and social services occupations........................... 18.90 17.46 753 698 39.8 38,482 36,134 2,036 Social workers.................................................... 21.16 22.46 846 898 40.0 42,235 36,687 1,996 Legal occupations................................................... 38.89 36.01 1,614 1,482 41.5 83,938 77,074 2,158 Lawyers........................................................... 45.07 38.05 1,954 1,788 43.4 101,610 92,999 2,255 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 22.81 21.34 907 856 39.7 39,470 37,164 1,730 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 33.66 32.18 1,308 1,269 38.9 63,161 60,636 1,877 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.24 22.39 890 896 40.0 36,209 37,862 1,628 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 24.61 21.14 984 845 40.0 51,180 43,963 2,080 Designers......................................................... 22.62 19.24 905 770 40.0 47,046 40,028 2,080 Graphic designers............................................... 20.73 19.24 829 770 40.0 43,117 40,028 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.69 27.60 1,144 1,113 39.9 59,502 57,886 2,074 Registered nurses................................................. 34.46 35.22 1,378 1,409 40.0 71,678 73,247 2,080 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.54 20.18 781 807 40.0 40,635 41,974 2,080 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.80 14.52 589 587 39.8 30,648 30,534 2,071 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.74 12.13 510 485 40.0 26,513 25,222 2,081 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 13.89 13.05 554 522 39.9 28,813 27,144 2,075 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 17.07 17.63 676 706 39.6 35,137 36,733 2,059 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.11 9.25 394 360 39.0 20,484 18,720 2,025 Cooks............................................................. 9.62 6.80 384 272 39.9 19,977 14,144 2,077 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 8.65 6.80 346 272 40.0 17,994 14,144 2,080 Food service, tipped.............................................. 8.33 9.00 323 360 38.7 16,789 18,720 2,015 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.10 12.42 520 492 39.7 26,192 26,000 1,999 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.27 12.27 487 491 39.7 25,302 25,522 2,063 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 12.74 13.27 505 531 39.6 26,257 27,602 2,061 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.29 11.25 449 450 39.7 23,341 23,400 2,067 Personal care and service occupations............................... 11.20 10.00 448 400 40.0 23,286 20,800 2,080 Sales and related occupations....................................... 28.89 19.00 1,137 749 39.4 59,137 38,958 2,047 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 19.62 16.35 761 654 38.8 39,593 34,000 2,018 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.94 15.59 656 615 38.7 34,096 32,001 2,013 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.22 11.00 467 410 38.2 24,270 21,320 1,987 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.33 10.48 413 419 40.0 21,490 21,798 2,080 Cashiers...................................................... 10.33 10.48 413 419 40.0 21,490 21,798 2,080 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.55 11.19 466 385 37.2 24,254 20,021 1,932 Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents...... 88.93 46.11 3,557 1,844 40.0 184,981 95,909 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 34.06 31.16 1,373 1,246 40.3 71,392 64,813 2,096 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 29.30 31.16 1,172 1,246 40.0 60,944 64,813 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.99 16.48 678 654 39.9 35,137 34,008 2,068 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 21.73 22.79 869 912 40.0 45,195 47,399 2,080 Financial clerks.................................................. 18.22 16.98 724 679 39.7 37,226 35,318 2,043 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.64 15.90 738 636 39.6 37,779 33,072 2,027 Customer service representatives.................................. 17.96 17.44 722 698 40.2 37,561 36,275 2,091 Order clerks...................................................... 16.18 14.69 647 588 40.0 33,647 30,561 2,080 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 15.02 15.09 601 604 40.0 31,235 31,387 2,080 Dispatchers....................................................... 22.11 22.03 884 881 40.0 40,648 36,123 1,838 Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance................. 22.11 22.03 884 881 40.0 40,648 36,123 1,838 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.13 14.11 525 564 40.0 27,312 29,353 2,080 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 15.28 16.55 611 662 40.0 31,786 34,424 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.17 19.51 764 759 39.9 39,752 39,458 2,073 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.39 20.67 811 827 39.8 42,181 42,994 2,069 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.37 16.97 695 679 40.0 36,131 35,300 2,080 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.76 13.19 590 528 40.0 30,696 27,435 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 26.05 28.32 1,067 1,153 41.0 53,393 55,702 2,050 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.63 22.48 905 899 40.0 47,062 46,758 2,080 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 21.87 21.31 875 852 40.0 45,482 44,325 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.83 22.77 873 911 40.0 45,413 47,362 2,080 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.98 22.77 919 911 40.0 47,802 47,362 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 17.13 16.77 685 671 40.0 35,601 34,882 2,079 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.42 25.72 977 1,029 40.0 50,797 53,498 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 15.63 12.90 625 516 40.0 32,507 26,832 2,080 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 22.83 22.25 913 890 40.0 47,484 46,280 2,080 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 16.33 16.00 650 640 39.8 33,814 33,280 2,071 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.84 15.76 627 630 39.6 32,622 32,781 2,059 Printers.......................................................... 17.48 17.54 699 702 40.0 36,329 36,483 2,079 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 19.87 20.36 795 814 40.0 41,334 42,349 2,080 Painting workers.................................................. 19.90 16.99 796 680 40.0 41,387 35,339 2,080 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 19.90 16.99 796 680 40.0 41,387 35,339 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 12.26 12.00 491 480 40.0 25,508 24,960 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 19.73 16.00 789 640 40.0 40,964 33,280 2,076 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.06 17.72 739 708 40.9 38,435 36,797 2,129 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 18.32 17.75 754 710 41.2 39,200 36,920 2,140 Truck drivers, light or delivery services....................... 16.92 15.00 677 600 40.0 35,189 31,200 2,080 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.66 15.55 627 622 40.0 32,578 32,344 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.19 13.28 528 531 40.0 27,431 27,620 2,080 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.73 15.00 589 600 40.0 30,643 31,200 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. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 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 13. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 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........................................................... $31.26 $26.65 $1,238 $1,067 39.6 $57,677 $50,215 1,845 Management occupations.............................................. 45.98 46.22 1,831 1,849 39.8 90,110 87,672 1,960 Education administrators.......................................... 47.71 50.05 1,894 1,908 39.7 89,780 98,291 1,882 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 50.99 51.76 2,026 2,048 39.7 100,162 99,224 1,964 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 26.91 26.76 1,077 1,070 40.0 55,982 55,661 2,080 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 31.28 33.29 1,246 1,331 39.8 62,924 68,328 2,012 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.17 25.20 1,127 1,008 40.0 58,593 52,416 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.65 28.86 1,226 1,154 40.0 61,464 60,025 2,005 Community and social services occupations........................... 24.85 22.92 991 917 39.9 47,285 45,219 1,903 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 47.27 40.41 1,818 1,544 38.5 69,740 55,590 1,475 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 74.12 44.40 2,929 1,763 39.5 127,162 87,880 1,716 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 36.95 37.33 1,415 1,418 38.3 51,884 51,831 1,404 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 37.57 38.75 1,448 1,457 38.5 50,103 50,347 1,333 Kindergarten teachers, except special education............... 37.57 38.75 1,448 1,457 38.5 50,103 50,347 1,333 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 36.92 37.70 1,412 1,426 38.2 51,506 51,831 1,395 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 36.52 37.47 1,405 1,427 38.5 50,632 51,745 1,387 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 38.07 37.95 1,431 1,414 37.6 54,044 53,000 1,419 Secondary school teachers....................................... 37.04 36.22 1,417 1,377 38.3 53,072 51,437 1,433 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 37.04 36.22 1,417 1,377 38.3 53,072 51,437 1,433 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 32.92 33.76 1,286 1,348 39.1 55,862 58,499 1,697 Registered nurses................................................. 34.72 34.13 1,354 1,348 39.0 61,046 62,920 1,758 Protective service occupations...................................... 26.92 27.88 1,109 1,137 41.2 57,664 59,103 2,142 Police officers................................................... 27.82 28.93 1,113 1,157 40.0 57,860 60,174 2,080 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 27.82 28.93 1,113 1,157 40.0 57,860 60,174 2,080 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 18.43 18.31 737 732 40.0 37,423 38,085 2,030 Building cleaning workers......................................... 17.16 18.31 687 732 40.0 34,436 36,234 2,006 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 17.32 18.31 693 732 40.0 34,720 38,085 2,005 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 18.63 18.79 738 747 39.6 37,043 37,294 1,989 Financial clerks.................................................. 18.49 18.09 740 724 40.0 38,010 36,774 2,056 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.53 18.09 741 724 40.0 37,966 37,294 2,049 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.90 22.79 819 876 39.2 37,989 34,911 1,818 Office clerks, general............................................ 17.71 18.28 705 731 39.8 35,751 37,814 2,019 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 24.72 23.48 989 939 40.0 51,425 48,838 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. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 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 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of private industry establishments for major occupational groups, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 2007 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $22.02 $21.34 $19.90 $25.92 Management, professional, and related...... 33.94 35.17 30.43 34.90 Management, business, and financial...... 38.62 42.41 33.67 37.61 Professional and related................. 31.13 30.48 28.22 33.54 Service.................................... 10.70 9.85 11.10 13.13 Sales and office........................... 18.68 19.60 17.16 18.27 Sales and related........................ 23.02 23.96 18.65 31.34 Office and administrative support........ 16.22 16.13 16.35 16.24 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 24.60 23.93 25.77 25.79 Construction and extraction............. 26.04 25.13 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 22.63 21.16 – 25.49 Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 16.88 15.98 15.50 20.95 Production............................... 16.65 17.22 15.53 17.67 Transportation and material moving....... 17.15 14.59 15.47 24.33 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........................................................... 3.6 7.1 3.3 3.3 Management, professional, and related............................... 5.8 13.4 4.8 2.0 Management, business, and financial............................... 11.9 23.7 8.2 5.7 Professional and related.......................................... 3.3 7.4 9.3 2.3 Service............................................................. 5.0 7.6 2.9 7.1 Sales and office.................................................... 4.9 7.3 5.5 6.8 Sales and related................................................. 9.4 11.3 16.2 16.8 Office and administrative support................................. 2.1 4.3 3.5 3.2 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 4.6 5.4 6.0 3.2 Construction and extraction...................................... 10.2 10.1 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 3.4 3.2 – 3.4 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 5.9 4.7 2.5 17.7 Production........................................................ 4.1 8.4 1.2 6.6 Transportation and material moving................................ 11.5 5.4 5.3 32.4 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. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 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........................................................... $24.18 $19.42 $967 $770 40.0 $49,745 $39,917 2,058 Management occupations.............................................. 32.70 31.73 1,316 1,269 40.2 68,428 66,000 2,093 General and operations managers................................... 39.67 42.27 1,584 1,691 39.9 82,392 87,924 2,077 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 48.64 32.73 1,948 1,309 40.0 101,287 68,085 2,082 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 37.58 39.30 1,503 1,572 40.0 78,157 81,740 2,080 Computer software engineers....................................... 43.04 39.30 1,721 1,572 40.0 89,515 81,740 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 25.46 26.70 1,019 1,068 40.0 52,964 55,540 2,080 Legal occupations................................................... 39.66 37.06 1,658 1,482 41.8 86,208 77,074 2,174 Lawyers........................................................... 45.52 38.05 1,998 1,788 43.9 103,902 92,999 2,283 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 24.40 24.45 975 978 40.0 37,066 38,287 1,519 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.91 28.85 1,104 1,152 39.6 57,414 59,904 2,057 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 16.41 17.32 648 720 39.5 33,701 37,440 2,054 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.83 9.00 342 310 38.8 17,807 16,143 2,017 Food service, tipped.............................................. 8.10 9.00 311 360 38.4 16,176 18,720 1,997 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.46 13.27 538 531 40.0 26,437 27,602 1,964 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.91 13.27 476 531 40.0 24,770 27,602 2,080 Sales and related occupations....................................... 29.46 19.00 1,154 744 39.2 59,995 38,700 2,037 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.12 10.51 458 385 37.8 23,806 20,021 1,964 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.59 10.00 455 370 36.1 23,648 19,240 1,879 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.50 16.55 699 662 40.0 36,217 34,424 2,070 Financial clerks.................................................. 20.07 20.41 792 816 39.5 40,413 42,453 2,013 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 21.86 20.67 856 827 39.1 43,185 43,000 1,975 Customer service representatives.................................. 18.44 19.71 750 788 40.7 38,995 41,001 2,115 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 15.36 15.09 614 604 40.0 31,949 31,387 2,080 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 15.63 14.50 625 580 40.0 32,507 30,160 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.49 14.42 700 577 40.0 36,377 30,000 2,080 Office clerks, general............................................ 15.96 13.00 638 520 40.0 33,188 27,040 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 25.14 28.32 1,038 1,153 41.3 51,303 52,392 2,041 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 21.16 21.50 846 860 40.0 44,018 44,720 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 21.18 22.58 847 903 40.0 44,053 46,966 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 17.22 17.45 689 698 40.0 35,817 36,296 2,080 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 22.83 22.25 913 890 40.0 47,484 46,280 2,080 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 17.06 16.50 682 660 40.0 35,480 34,320 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.00 13.00 520 520 40.0 27,044 27,040 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.43 15.00 617 600 40.0 32,089 31,200 2,079 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.99 16.25 640 650 40.0 33,256 33,800 2,080 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.68 17.00 667 680 40.0 34,687 35,360 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 14.50 14.56 580 582 40.0 30,164 30,285 2,080 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 14.31 15.00 572 600 40.0 29,759 31,200 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. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. 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 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 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........................................................... $24.68 $20.17 $986 $806 40.0 $51,162 $41,371 2,073 Management occupations.............................................. 44.01 39.90 1,789 1,666 40.7 92,632 85,883 2,105 Marketing and sales managers...................................... 41.09 38.46 1,644 1,538 40.0 85,465 79,997 2,080 Marketing managers.............................................. 38.57 38.46 1,543 1,538 40.0 80,225 79,997 2,080 Computer and information systems managers......................... 49.96 48.81 1,999 1,952 40.0 103,924 101,525 2,080 Financial managers................................................ 48.05 48.65 1,922 1,946 40.0 99,949 101,200 2,080 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 28.93 26.92 1,151 1,058 39.8 59,875 54,995 2,069 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 23.49 22.07 939 883 40.0 48,833 45,906 2,079 Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products.. 23.86 22.07 954 883 40.0 49,589 45,906 2,078 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 29.97 25.85 1,199 1,034 40.0 62,337 53,768 2,080 Management analysts............................................... 33.37 31.25 1,335 1,250 40.0 69,399 65,000 2,080 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 25.92 24.49 1,031 980 39.8 53,603 50,943 2,068 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 26.85 24.04 1,044 923 38.9 54,287 47,990 2,022 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.88 34.96 1,435 1,426 40.0 74,607 74,152 2,079 Computer software engineers....................................... 41.87 38.41 1,675 1,537 40.0 87,082 79,899 2,080 Computer software engineers, systems software................... 37.23 33.66 1,489 1,346 40.0 77,439 70,009 2,080 Computer support specialists...................................... 25.88 26.06 1,053 1,039 40.7 54,743 54,051 2,115 Computer systems analysts......................................... 38.24 37.48 1,520 1,497 39.7 79,034 77,863 2,067 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 34.89 34.52 1,396 1,381 40.0 72,574 71,806 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 40.93 39.85 1,637 1,594 40.0 85,128 82,888 2,080 Mechanical engineers............................................ 36.99 34.52 1,480 1,381 40.0 76,937 71,806 2,080 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 25.13 24.82 1,005 993 40.0 52,261 51,626 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 37.94 35.92 1,544 1,661 40.7 80,307 86,356 2,117 Community and social services occupations........................... 22.79 24.25 901 970 39.5 44,542 46,721 1,954 Legal occupations................................................... 34.84 27.82 1,394 1,113 40.0 72,462 57,866 2,080 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 21.56 16.73 853 669 39.6 41,906 30,909 1,944 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 35.83 34.39 1,385 1,295 38.7 66,091 64,116 1,844 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 26.85 23.32 1,074 933 40.0 55,855 48,497 2,080 Designers......................................................... 24.37 22.44 975 898 40.0 50,697 46,671 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 28.96 27.27 1,159 1,091 40.0 60,247 56,722 2,080 Registered nurses................................................. 34.46 35.22 1,378 1,409 40.0 71,678 73,247 2,080 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 19.75 20.18 790 807 40.0 41,083 41,974 2,080 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.82 13.58 553 543 40.0 28,757 28,246 2,081 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.78 12.13 511 485 40.0 26,598 25,222 2,081 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 14.37 13.61 573 544 39.9 29,792 28,288 2,073 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.39 16.38 656 655 40.0 34,088 34,070 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 12.78 12.21 502 481 39.3 26,104 25,002 2,043 Cooks............................................................. 14.27 14.10 568 564 39.8 29,522 29,328 2,069 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.66 12.21 498 480 39.3 25,872 24,960 2,044 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.66 12.21 498 480 39.3 25,872 24,960 2,044 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.20 12.27 518 491 39.2 26,941 25,522 2,041 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 11.52 10.84 454 432 39.4 23,624 22,443 2,050 Sales and related occupations....................................... 27.57 19.28 1,099 760 39.8 57,130 39,499 2,072 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 26.09 19.73 1,043 789 40.0 54,261 41,038 2,080 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.39 12.37 484 464 39.0 25,156 24,128 2,030 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.51 12.37 484 453 38.7 25,160 23,546 2,012 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 43.10 35.54 1,756 1,421 40.7 91,294 73,915 2,118 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products.............................. 32.82 32.46 1,313 1,298 40.0 68,270 67,508 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.60 15.93 662 635 39.9 34,313 33,010 2,067 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 23.05 20.43 922 817 40.0 47,937 42,501 2,080 Financial clerks.................................................. 15.95 15.47 638 619 40.0 33,176 32,178 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.46 14.35 618 574 40.0 32,162 29,848 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 17.74 17.21 710 688 40.0 36,895 35,801 2,080 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.59 16.03 584 641 40.0 30,349 33,342 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.66 19.56 783 770 39.8 40,729 40,019 2,071 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 21.09 20.91 838 832 39.7 43,593 43,285 2,067 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 16.64 15.86 665 634 40.0 34,606 32,989 2,080 Office clerks, general............................................ 13.43 13.28 537 531 40.0 27,931 27,620 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 29.06 30.19 1,162 1,208 40.0 60,444 62,795 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.86 24.76 954 990 40.0 49,632 51,501 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 22.57 23.10 903 924 40.0 46,941 48,048 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 17.06 16.28 682 650 40.0 35,443 33,817 2,078 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 16.36 15.20 654 608 40.0 34,030 31,616 2,080 Printers.......................................................... 16.82 16.20 672 648 39.9 34,935 33,696 2,077 Painting workers.................................................. 19.90 16.99 796 680 40.0 41,387 35,339 2,080 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 19.90 16.99 796 680 40.0 41,387 35,339 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.88 10.78 475 431 40.0 24,706 22,418 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 23.85 17.97 954 719 40.0 49,420 37,378 2,073 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 22.70 22.50 981 881 43.2 51,008 45,831 2,247 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 21.94 20.25 964 787 44.0 50,148 40,932 2,286 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 16.88 16.91 675 677 40.0 35,107 35,179 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.66 9.48 466 379 40.0 24,252 19,716 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 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........................................................... $25.93 $22.46 $30.61 $22.08 $21.94 $27.93 Management, professional, and related............................... 36.07 27.44 39.08 34.59 34.46 38.43 Management, business, and financial............................... 34.01 – 34.92 38.80 38.71 40.52 Professional and related.......................................... 36.30 27.59 39.67 31.67 31.59 35.31 Service............................................................. 17.85 13.59 22.37 10.21 10.04 16.34 Sales and office.................................................... 16.68 14.82 18.52 18.95 18.96 18.40 Sales and related................................................. – – – 23.54 23.54 – Office and administrative support................................. 17.42 16.04 18.52 16.30 16.24 18.40 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 27.00 27.37 23.64 20.61 20.42 – Construction and extraction...................................... 29.16 29.54 – 20.09 19.93 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 24.13 23.97 – 21.17 20.96 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 23.61 23.86 21.63 14.78 14.78 – Production........................................................ 20.72 20.55 – 15.67 15.67 – Transportation and material moving................................ 25.85 26.66 21.11 13.69 13.69 – 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........................................................... 4.3 5.8 6.0 4.1 4.2 10.6 Management, professional, and related............................... 5.9 3.1 6.9 5.8 6.1 6.6 Management, business, and financial............................... 9.5 – 10.0 11.3 11.9 10.6 Professional and related.......................................... 6.9 3.1 8.3 3.3 3.4 8.9 Service............................................................. 6.9 6.3 6.3 4.9 4.7 28.4 Sales and office.................................................... 5.2 7.2 4.1 5.2 5.3 5.5 Sales and related................................................. – – – 9.9 9.9 – Office and administrative support................................. 4.3 6.9 4.1 2.3 2.3 5.5 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 2.5 2.8 8.3 12.3 12.9 – Construction and extraction...................................... 4.0 4.8 – 25.0 26.2 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 4.0 4.3 – 3.2 3.5 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 12.5 13.8 4.8 2.9 2.9 – Production........................................................ 10.8 11.6 – 2.8 2.8 – Transportation and material moving................................ 18.1 20.1 5.4 5.7 5.7 – 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 2007 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $21.88 $20.65 $46.64 $46.64 Management, professional, and related............................... 33.43 31.98 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 34.02 33.57 – – Professional and related.......................................... 33.17 31.15 – – Service............................................................. 12.50 10.68 – – Sales and office.................................................... 16.30 16.09 45.45 45.45 Sales and related................................................. 16.15 16.15 48.52 48.52 Office and administrative support................................. 16.36 16.07 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 24.76 24.87 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 26.04 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 23.09 22.81 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 16.99 16.86 – – Production........................................................ 16.74 16.65 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.27 17.10 – – Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 2.4 2.8 14.0 14.0 Management, professional, and related............................... 2.1 1.9 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 3.0 3.3 – – Professional and related.......................................... 3.0 3.2 – – Service............................................................. 6.1 5.0 – – Sales and office.................................................... 2.4 2.7 20.0 20.0 Sales and related................................................. 6.6 6.6 21.5 21.5 Office and administrative support................................. 1.5 1.6 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 4.8 5.4 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 10.2 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 3.6 4.2 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 5.9 6.1 – – Production........................................................ 4.0 4.1 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 11.6 12.2 – – 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, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 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........................................................... - $23.74 - - - - $20.29 $8.78 $15.97 Management, professional, and related............................... - 36.81 - - - - 27.09 – 20.81 Management, business, and financial............................... - 40.70 - - - - 30.61 – – Professional and related.......................................... - 35.06 - - - - 26.29 – 17.70 Service............................................................. - – - - - - 12.99 8.18 12.13 Sales and office.................................................... - 21.09 - - - - 15.85 13.20 15.43 Sales and related................................................. - 36.17 - - - - – 14.00 – Office and administrative support................................. - 18.37 - - - - 15.78 – 15.43 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... - 22.63 - - - - – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. - 22.02 - - - - – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... - 17.03 - - - - 18.22 8.46 – Production........................................................ - 16.99 - - - - – – – Transportation and material moving................................ - 17.25 - - - - – – – 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........................................................... - 2.1 - - - - 4.1 3.1 3.8 Management, professional, and related............................... - 4.6 - - - - 6.0 – 12.2 Management, business, and financial............................... - 10.7 - - - - 6.4 – – Professional and related.......................................... - 1.6 - - - - 4.8 – 11.6 Service............................................................. - – - - - - 5.8 2.0 10.2 Sales and office.................................................... - 3.1 - - - - 4.0 19.6 2.4 Sales and related................................................. - 7.9 - - - - – 15.4 – Office and administrative support................................. - .8 - - - - 4.9 – 2.4 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... - 3.3 - - - - – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. - 1.9 - - - - – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... - 4.8 - - - - 17.6 10.8 – Production........................................................ - 4.6 - - - - – – – Transportation and material moving................................ - 7.7 - - - - – – – 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. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 2007 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 1,737,900 1,518,300 219,600 Management, professional, and related............................... 531,100 412,200 118,900 Management, business, and financial............................... 164,100 144,200 19,900 Professional and related.......................................... 367,000 268,000 99,000 Service............................................................. 358,600 308,600 50,000 Sales and office.................................................... 442,400 409,500 32,900 Sales and related................................................. 159,300 159,200 – Office and administrative support................................. 283,200 250,300 32,900 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 104,500 95,900 8,600 Construction and extraction...................................... 58,500 55,700 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 45,500 40,200 5,300 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 301,300 292,000 9,300 Production........................................................ 146,700 144,700 – Transportation and material moving................................ 154,600 147,400 7,200 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. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Minneapolis-St. Paul-St. Cloud, MN-WI CSA, July 2007 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 59,787 57,263 2,524 Total in sample....................................................... 597 543 54 Responding........................................................ 353 303 50 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 164 160 4 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 80 80 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. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.