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HIGHLIGHTS OF FORT COLLINS-LOVELAND
NATIONAL COMPENSATION SURVEY OCTOBER 2007 (PDF)
Workers in the Fort Collins-Loveland metropolitan area earned an average of $18.52 per hour in October 2007, according to new survey results from the National Compensation Survey (NCS) released by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Regional Commissioner Stanley W. Suchman noted that wage data were reported for workers in a wide range of occupational groups, including average hourly earnings of $26.00 for healthcare practitioner and technical occupations and $15.13 for office and administrative support occupations. Another occupational group, transportation and material moving occupations, had a mean hourly wage rate of $14.04. The NCS data available for the Fort Collins-Loveland area include earnings for 19 major occupational groups with additional detail for selected occupations within those groups. (See table 1.)
Registered nurses, part of the healthcare practitioner and technical occupational group, earned $29.03 per hour. Within the office and administrative support occupational group, receptionists and information clerks averaged $14.17 per hour and customer service representatives, $13.54. Hand laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, an occupation within the transportation and material moving group, registered an average hourly rate of $10.93. (See table 1.)
Broad coverage of selected occupational characteristics is available from NCS for the local area. Full-time workers averaged $20.24 per hour while their part-time counterparts earned $11.28. Union workers earned $24.65 and non-union workers, $18.23. Workers in establishments with 1-99 workers averaged $15.36 per hour, those in establishments with 100-499 workers earned $16.96, and those in establishments with 500 or more employees earned $27.94.
The occupational wage data available from NCS may be used by businesses for establishing pay plans, making decisions concerning plant relocation, and in collective bargaining negotiations. Individuals may use such data to help choose potential careers. NCS results also include the work level and respective earnings for occupations determined by a point factor leveling process. The four occupational leveling factors are: knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. Details on the NCS are available at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/.
The NCS data reported here covered 279 establishments with one or more workers in private industry and State and local governments. Agricultural establishments, private households, the self-employed, and the Federal Government were excluded from the survey. This sample of establishments represented 123,900 workers in the Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) which is comprised of Larimer County in Colorado.
Survey Availability
Complete survey results are contained in the Fort Collins-Loveland, CO National Compensation Survey October 2007 which is available on the Internet in both text and PDF formats at http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/compub.htm.
For personal assistance or further information on the National Compensation Survey data, as well as other Bureau data, contact the Mountain-Plains Information Office by calling 816-285-7000 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. CT.
Table 1. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2), Fort Collins-Loveland, CO, October 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $18.52 2.0 $20.24 1.9 $11.28 3.5 Management occupations.............................................. 39.01 5.8 38.91 6.2 - - Medical and health services managers.............................. 42.54 14.8 42.54 14.8 - - Business and financial operations occupations....................... 23.63 6.4 23.63 6.4 - - Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.24 9.6 35.24 9.6 - - Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 33.32 13.4 33.34 13.5 - - Engineers......................................................... 37.70 5.3 37.70 5.3 - - Electrical and electronics engineers............................ 40.83 8.0 40.83 8.0 - - Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 20.77 8.3 20.44 6.6 - - Electrical and electronic engineering technicians............... 20.77 8.3 20.44 6.6 - - Community and social services occupations........................... 19.21 13.0 17.87 10.1 22.10 23.0 Counselors........................................................ 12.70 12.0 - - - - Social workers.................................................... 22.20 16.2 - - - - Education, training, and library occupations........................ 28.26 13.0 29.63 14.6 - - Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 20.35 16.8 20.69 17.2 - - Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.00 7.8 26.06 12.4 - - Registered nurses................................................. 29.03 5.7 28.89 14.9 - - Therapists........................................................ 26.23 18.5 - - - - Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.69 7.5 11.47 9.8 - - Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.06 9.1 10.98 10.7 - - Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.06 9.1 10.98 10.7 - - Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.94 4.7 - - - - Protective service occupations...................................... 24.41 7.6 25.66 6.3 - - Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.82 3.8 8.75 4.1 6.64 2.3 Cooks............................................................. 10.01 4.3 10.83 5.7 8.88 1.6 Cooks, restaurant............................................... 10.63 2.4 - - 9.31 1.1 Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.68 1.6 5.10 7.2 4.22 7.4 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.42 1.7 5.01 10.9 3.77 7.8 Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers...... 5.76 10.9 - - 5.29 18.7 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.73 4.6 - - 7.76 6.0 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food......................................................... 7.48 3.7 - - 7.36 4.3 Dishwashers....................................................... 8.97 1.3 - - - - Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop.......... 7.69 4.6 - - - - Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.65 8.6 - - 9.38 4.2 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.14 11.6 10.49 15.8 - - Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.48 16.6 10.70 20.8 - - Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 9.25 2.0 9.94 4.4 - - Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.85 6.3 11.44 5.6 8.13 .9 Child care workers................................................ 9.22 .3 - - - - Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.54 5.0 16.32 7.7 9.09 2.3 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.48 6.5 17.37 7.4 - - First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 16.71 8.3 - - - - Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.17 4.8 15.18 4.0 8.97 1.4 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 11.45 15.2 13.76 3.4 9.81 17.0 Cashiers...................................................... 11.45 15.2 13.76 3.4 9.81 17.0 Retail salespersons............................................. 11.67 9.9 15.88 10.0 - - Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.13 4.4 15.81 4.0 10.67 4.2 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.91 8.4 14.52 8.2 11.17 17.0 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.72 9.7 15.49 7.2 - - Tellers......................................................... 11.05 3.3 - - - - Customer service representatives.................................. 13.54 8.2 13.96 6.1 - - Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 14.17 4.9 - - - - Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.89 4.2 14.97 4.3 - - Office clerks, general............................................ 16.50 7.5 16.66 7.7 - - Construction and extraction occupations............................. 19.59 1.5 19.59 1.5 - - Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.72 5.5 21.29 8.1 - - Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 19.87 16.3 19.87 16.3 - - Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.96 8.6 20.96 8.6 - - Production occupations.............................................. 15.41 7.5 16.79 7.0 11.05 5.7 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 12.49 9.4 13.76 4.6 - - Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.................. 12.49 9.4 13.76 4.6 - - Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 17.08 7.2 - - 10.11 6.9 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.04 6.6 15.22 8.7 10.40 6.2 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 15.57 5.2 16.14 5.4 - - Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.42 4.4 10.44 4.4 10.38 5.9 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.93 4.8 - - - - 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. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate.
Last Modified Date: July 8, 2008
