NC BL 09/00/2007 Table: Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, Bulletin 3140-02, January 2007 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Civilian Private industry State and local government workers workers workers Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All workers........................................................... $14.13 2.1 36.6 $13.36 2.2 36.4 $18.53 4.1 37.6 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 23.15 4.4 37.8 24.95 6.1 37.5 21.53 4.8 38.0 Management, business, and financial............................... 28.05 6.4 40.6 30.83 7.3 40.8 22.58 10.5 40.3 Professional and related.......................................... 21.22 3.9 36.8 21.10 7.7 35.6 21.29 5.2 37.6 Service............................................................. 9.01 6.2 31.1 8.21 6.6 30.1 13.16 4.8 37.3 Sales and office.................................................... 12.07 3.7 35.3 11.95 3.8 35.2 13.94 10.9 37.2 Sales and related................................................. 10.19 5.3 32.4 10.19 5.3 32.4 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 13.18 4.0 37.3 13.10 4.2 37.3 13.94 10.9 37.2 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 14.77 7.5 39.9 14.65 8.8 39.9 15.38 5.2 40.0 Construction and extraction...................................... 12.72 12.0 40.0 12.48 12.7 40.0 – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 16.36 3.8 39.8 16.58 4.3 39.8 15.61 6.8 40.0 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 13.03 3.4 38.6 13.04 3.5 38.8 – – – Production........................................................ 13.13 3.8 39.2 13.12 3.8 39.2 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 12.81 7.1 37.3 12.86 7.4 37.9 – – – Full time........................................................... 14.76 2.2 39.8 14.01 2.3 39.8 18.80 4.5 40.1 Part time........................................................... 8.10 5.4 20.5 7.55 5.3 20.7 13.93 9.6 18.4 Union............................................................... – – – – – – – – – Nonunion............................................................ 14.06 2.1 36.6 13.27 2.2 36.4 18.53 4.1 37.6 Time................................................................ 13.96 2.3 36.2 13.07 2.6 35.9 18.53 4.1 37.6 Incentive........................................................... 15.94 3.6 41.0 15.94 3.6 41.0 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 14.06 3.5 38.9 (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 12.77 3.6 34.5 (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 12.16 4.4 35.2 11.90 4.7 35.1 – – – 100-499 workers..................................................... 14.25 3.2 37.8 14.10 3.1 37.9 – – – 500 workers or more................................................. 17.70 2.5 37.9 16.65 2.5 37.9 18.87 4.9 38.0 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-providing industries applies to private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $14.13 2.1 $14.76 2.2 $8.10 5.4 Management occupations.............................................. 32.60 7.8 32.60 7.8 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 23.67 6.6 23.67 6.6 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 22.79 9.4 22.79 9.4 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 22.85 11.7 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 22.40 8.6 22.40 8.6 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 21.60 2.2 21.89 2.4 16.29 1.2 Level 4 .................................................. 11.43 2.5 11.15 1.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 24.45 .6 24.45 .6 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 24.32 .3 24.32 .3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 24.32 .3 24.32 .3 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 24.52 .7 24.52 .7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 24.52 .7 24.52 .7 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.52 .7 24.52 .7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 24.52 .7 24.52 .7 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 11.43 2.5 11.15 1.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 11.43 2.5 11.15 1.7 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 21.53 8.6 21.80 9.4 18.03 15.4 Level 4 .................................................. 12.45 6.1 12.40 6.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.65 9.4 15.54 9.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.00 6.0 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.12 5.3 22.87 6.0 – – Level 8 .................................................. 24.05 .4 24.11 .2 23.29 4.8 Level 9 .................................................. 32.16 13.4 32.16 13.4 – – Registered nurses................................................. 27.41 10.3 27.62 11.1 25.14 .8 Level 7 .................................................. 23.13 1.0 22.70 .8 – – Level 8 .................................................. 24.06 .5 24.04 .5 24.57 .8 Level 9 .................................................. 28.94 10.1 28.94 10.1 – – Therapists........................................................ 28.45 6.6 – – – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 16.86 14.9 17.03 17.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.64 9.6 – – – – Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 14.73 9.7 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.64 9.6 – – – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 24.92 8.4 24.91 9.0 – – Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 25.22 11.1 25.22 12.1 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.02 8.4 18.05 8.6 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.06 4.7 9.72 5.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.43 4.5 10.43 4.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. $8.80 9.6 $8.80 9.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.23 1.7 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.20 9.3 9.20 9.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 8.27 10.0 8.27 10.0 – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.60 16.9 9.60 16.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 8.11 10.2 8.11 10.2 – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.17 5.1 11.38 3.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.23 1.7 – – – – Medical assistants.............................................. 11.65 3.9 11.41 4.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.23 1.7 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 11.83 7.3 12.13 5.9 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.59 11.1 8.74 9.6 $6.09 13.1 Level 1 .................................................. 6.60 3.2 6.76 2.4 6.43 4.4 Level 2 .................................................. 6.88 24.0 9.61 4.6 4.99 33.1 Level 3 .................................................. 9.48 2.4 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 7.43 4.8 7.45 6.9 – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.75 16.4 10.68 14.8 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.42 37.2 – – 3.25 35.2 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.22 30.9 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.53 6.7 8.04 8.9 6.76 5.7 Level 1 .................................................. 6.51 4.1 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 7.72 8.0 8.51 9.9 – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.96 13.3 10.80 18.2 – – Level 1 .................................................. 7.47 3.5 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.22 5.5 8.52 10.3 – – Level 1 .................................................. 7.47 3.5 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.01 6.0 8.15 10.8 – – Level 1 .................................................. 7.53 4.7 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.12 2.6 – – 7.83 6.7 Child care workers................................................ 8.08 1.2 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 10.19 5.3 11.42 3.3 6.97 3.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.02 17.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.35 14.2 9.75 21.0 6.94 4.3 Level 3 .................................................. 10.37 5.6 10.72 2.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.04 5.0 16.04 5.0 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.14 9.8 10.22 8.5 6.97 3.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.02 17.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.35 14.2 9.75 21.0 6.94 4.3 Level 3 .................................................. 10.19 5.9 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.18 12.8 8.70 14.7 7.16 2.7 Level 1 .................................................. $8.07 18.1 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.08 3.7 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 8.18 12.8 $8.70 14.7 $7.16 2.7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.07 18.1 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.08 3.7 – – – – Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 8.40 16.4 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 11.24 3.7 12.62 4.7 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.18 4.0 13.48 3.7 9.08 6.5 Level 2 .................................................. 10.05 3.4 10.73 1.5 8.45 8.1 Level 3 .................................................. 11.55 3.0 11.60 3.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.33 2.7 13.31 2.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.03 7.3 15.03 7.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.07 9.3 18.07 9.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 19.06 12.9 19.06 12.9 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 12.12 9.2 12.65 7.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.32 6.6 13.22 6.9 – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.41 9.8 13.41 9.8 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.27 9.0 13.27 9.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.03 7.4 12.03 7.4 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 13.08 3.3 13.43 1.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.84 2.7 12.84 2.7 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.32 3.3 11.32 3.3 – – Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 12.76 8.9 12.76 8.9 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.21 6.2 13.21 6.2 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.22 6.1 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.28 2.6 13.28 2.6 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 11.80 5.8 11.80 5.8 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.72 12.0 12.72 12.0 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.36 3.8 16.36 3.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.62 5.3 12.62 5.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.02 5.0 16.02 5.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 15.96 4.2 15.96 4.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 19.44 4.0 19.44 4.0 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 15.20 7.3 15.20 7.3 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.15 1.5 18.15 1.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.57 1.0 20.57 1.0 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.37 3.0 18.37 3.0 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 19.51 3.9 19.51 3.9 – – Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 13.73 5.6 13.73 5.6 – – Production occupations.............................................. 13.13 3.8 13.13 3.8 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.11 4.9 9.11 4.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. $10.20 1.3 $10.20 1.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.38 2.7 13.38 2.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.74 2.3 15.74 2.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.40 3.6 16.40 3.6 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.40 5.1 19.40 5.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.92 3.0 20.92 3.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 17.77 10.3 17.77 10.3 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.11 13.7 11.11 13.7 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 11.93 5.2 11.93 5.2 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.72 3.4 9.72 3.4 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.25 8.7 12.25 8.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.82 .6 12.82 .6 – – Sewing machine operators.......................................... 12.91 6.3 12.95 6.5 – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.25 13.9 9.20 14.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.48 .8 15.48 .8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.98 5.8 14.98 5.8 – – Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders................... 11.37 7.0 11.37 7.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.58 3.4 12.58 3.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.56 1.2 12.56 1.2 – – Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders......... 11.80 1.4 11.80 1.4 – – Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders Level 4 .................................................. 13.06 1.7 13.06 1.7 – – Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers........... 17.57 6.0 17.57 6.0 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.45 7.8 10.45 7.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.12 3.6 19.12 3.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.89 3.3 19.89 3.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.11 4.6 21.11 4.6 – – Upholsterers.................................................... 20.40 1.3 20.40 1.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.27 4.7 20.27 4.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.89 3.3 19.89 3.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.11 4.6 21.11 4.6 – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 13.73 2.6 13.73 2.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.90 .9 13.90 .9 – – Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood............ 12.66 6.0 12.66 6.0 – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 14.18 2.6 14.18 2.6 – – Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 12.96 7.5 12.96 7.5 – – Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 13.61 11.1 13.61 11.1 – – Cutting workers................................................... 14.75 5.4 14.75 5.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.31 9.4 14.31 9.4 – – Cutters and trimmers, hand...................................... 15.38 .7 15.38 .7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.25 8.7 14.25 8.7 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 11.13 10.9 11.13 10.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.79 2.3 11.79 2.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. $15.97 1.8 $15.97 1.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 14.02 .7 14.02 .7 – – Painting workers.................................................. 12.81 7.1 12.81 7.1 – – Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 13.23 2.7 13.23 2.7 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.96 8.0 11.96 8.0 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.60 11.4 8.60 11.4 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.53 5.6 11.53 5.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.02 3.9 14.02 3.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.45 5.5 17.45 5.5 – – Helpers--production workers..................................... 11.09 6.9 11.09 6.9 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 12.81 7.1 13.32 6.8 $9.10 12.6 Level 1 .................................................. 9.40 6.1 9.86 5.8 7.88 9.3 Level 2 .................................................. 11.20 5.6 11.06 6.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 16.57 15.5 17.06 15.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.91 4.2 17.91 4.2 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.07 9.9 17.59 9.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.51 2.3 18.51 2.3 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.37 4.9 17.37 4.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.51 2.3 18.51 2.3 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.15 6.3 12.04 7.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.89 7.2 11.73 8.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.63 6.2 13.63 6.2 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.22 5.1 10.56 4.0 8.55 14.2 Level 1 .................................................. 9.65 5.7 10.11 5.1 8.01 11.5 Level 2 .................................................. 10.86 7.0 10.57 7.4 – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.47 3.7 10.60 4.3 9.84 9.9 Level 1 .................................................. 10.08 4.5 10.34 5.2 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.05 9.3 10.60 9.3 – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.89 9.2 10.85 6.8 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.61 9.1 9.65 7.0 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 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), Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $13.36 2.2 $14.01 2.3 $7.55 5.3 Management occupations.............................................. 32.97 8.7 32.97 8.7 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.02 7.3 27.02 7.3 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 22.79 9.4 22.79 9.4 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 21.93 9.9 22.64 10.5 15.29 18.7 Level 4 .................................................. – – 14.30 7.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.65 12.9 16.54 13.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 22.00 6.0 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 24.05 .4 24.11 .2 23.29 4.8 Registered nurses................................................. 28.32 11.6 28.42 11.9 25.12 3.2 Level 8 .................................................. 24.06 .5 24.04 .5 24.57 .8 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 16.86 14.9 17.03 17.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.64 9.6 – – – – Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 14.73 9.7 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.64 9.6 – – – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 24.14 10.2 24.07 11.0 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.02 8.4 18.05 8.6 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.72 5.9 9.72 5.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.43 4.5 10.43 4.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 8.80 9.6 8.80 9.6 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.20 9.3 9.20 9.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 8.27 10.0 8.27 10.0 – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.60 16.9 9.60 16.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 8.11 10.2 8.11 10.2 – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 11.39 3.0 11.38 3.0 – – Medical assistants.............................................. 11.41 4.1 11.41 4.1 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.48 11.7 8.66 10.2 5.97 13.3 Level 1 .................................................. 6.60 3.2 6.76 2.4 6.43 4.4 Level 2 .................................................. 6.19 29.8 – – 4.52 32.7 Level 3 .................................................. 9.48 2.4 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 7.43 4.8 7.45 6.9 – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.75 16.4 10.68 14.8 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 3.24 29.2 – – 3.25 35.2 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.22 30.9 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.42 7.2 8.04 8.9 – – Level 1 .................................................. 6.51 4.1 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 7.58 9.1 8.51 9.9 – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.12 11.5 9.75 16.9 – – Level 1 .................................................. $7.47 3.5 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.13 5.5 $8.42 10.5 – – Level 1 .................................................. 7.47 3.5 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.89 6.1 – – – – Level 1 .................................................. 7.53 4.7 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.12 2.6 – – $7.83 6.7 Child care workers................................................ 8.08 1.2 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 10.19 5.3 11.42 3.3 6.97 3.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.02 17.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.35 14.2 9.75 21.0 6.94 4.3 Level 3 .................................................. 10.37 5.6 10.72 2.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.04 5.0 16.04 5.0 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.14 9.8 10.22 8.5 6.97 3.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.02 17.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.35 14.2 9.75 21.0 6.94 4.3 Level 3 .................................................. 10.19 5.9 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.18 12.8 8.70 14.7 7.16 2.7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.07 18.1 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.08 3.7 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 8.18 12.8 8.70 14.7 7.16 2.7 Level 1 .................................................. 8.07 18.1 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 8.08 3.7 – – – – Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 8.40 16.4 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 11.24 3.7 12.62 4.7 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.10 4.2 13.37 3.9 9.34 6.4 Level 2 .................................................. 10.20 3.8 10.73 1.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.55 3.0 11.60 3.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.39 2.9 13.37 2.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.75 7.9 15.75 7.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.90 11.1 18.90 11.1 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 11.99 9.2 12.52 7.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.14 6.7 13.02 6.9 – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.41 9.8 13.41 9.8 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.27 9.0 13.27 9.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.03 7.4 12.03 7.4 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 13.08 3.3 13.43 1.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.84 2.7 12.84 2.7 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.32 3.3 11.32 3.3 – – Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 12.76 8.9 12.76 8.9 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.21 6.2 13.21 6.2 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.22 6.1 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.51 2.9 13.51 2.9 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. $12.48 12.7 $12.48 12.7 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.58 4.3 16.58 4.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.62 5.3 12.62 5.3 – – Level 7 .................................................. 19.44 4.0 19.44 4.0 – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 15.20 7.3 15.20 7.3 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.15 1.4 18.15 1.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.57 1.0 20.57 1.0 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.37 3.0 18.37 3.0 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.71 5.5 20.71 5.5 – – Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 13.73 5.6 13.73 5.6 – – Production occupations.............................................. 13.12 3.8 13.12 3.8 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.11 4.9 9.11 4.9 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.20 1.3 10.20 1.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.38 2.7 13.38 2.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.74 2.3 15.74 2.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.52 3.9 16.52 3.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.40 5.1 19.40 5.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.92 3.0 20.92 3.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 17.77 10.3 17.77 10.3 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.11 13.7 11.11 13.7 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 11.93 5.2 11.93 5.2 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.72 3.4 9.72 3.4 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.25 8.7 12.25 8.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.82 .6 12.82 .6 – – Sewing machine operators.......................................... 12.91 6.3 12.95 6.5 – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.25 13.9 9.20 14.2 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.48 .8 15.48 .8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.98 5.8 14.98 5.8 – – Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders................... 11.37 7.0 11.37 7.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.58 3.4 12.58 3.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.56 1.2 12.56 1.2 – – Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders......... 11.80 1.4 11.80 1.4 – – Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders Level 4 .................................................. 13.06 1.7 13.06 1.7 – – Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers........... 17.57 6.0 17.57 6.0 – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.45 7.8 10.45 7.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.12 3.6 19.12 3.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 19.89 3.3 19.89 3.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.11 4.6 21.11 4.6 – – Upholsterers.................................................... 20.40 1.3 20.40 1.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 20.27 4.7 20.27 4.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. $19.89 3.3 $19.89 3.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.11 4.6 21.11 4.6 – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 13.73 2.6 13.73 2.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.90 .9 13.90 .9 – – Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood............ 12.66 6.0 12.66 6.0 – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 14.18 2.6 14.18 2.6 – – Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 12.96 7.5 12.96 7.5 – – Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 13.61 11.1 13.61 11.1 – – Cutting workers................................................... 14.75 5.4 14.75 5.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.31 9.4 14.31 9.4 – – Cutters and trimmers, hand...................................... 15.38 .7 15.38 .7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.25 8.7 14.25 8.7 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 11.13 10.9 11.13 10.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.79 2.3 11.79 2.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.97 1.8 15.97 1.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 14.02 .7 14.02 .7 – – Painting workers.................................................. 12.81 7.1 12.81 7.1 – – Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 13.23 2.7 13.23 2.7 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.96 8.0 11.96 8.0 – – Level 1 .................................................. 8.60 11.4 8.60 11.4 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.53 5.6 11.53 5.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.02 3.9 14.02 3.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.45 5.5 17.45 5.5 – – Helpers--production workers..................................... 11.09 6.9 11.09 6.9 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 12.86 7.4 13.36 6.9 $8.84 13.2 Level 1 .................................................. 9.40 6.1 9.86 5.8 7.88 9.3 Level 2 .................................................. 11.23 5.9 11.08 6.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 17.25 15.7 17.25 15.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.91 4.2 17.91 4.2 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.07 9.9 17.59 9.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.51 2.3 18.51 2.3 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.37 4.9 17.37 4.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.51 2.3 18.51 2.3 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.15 6.3 12.04 7.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.89 7.2 11.73 8.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.63 6.2 13.63 6.2 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.22 5.1 10.56 4.0 8.55 14.2 Level 1 .................................................. 9.65 5.7 10.11 5.1 8.01 11.5 Level 2 .................................................. 10.86 7.0 10.57 7.4 – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.47 3.7 10.60 4.3 9.84 9.9 Level 1 .................................................. 10.08 4.5 10.34 5.2 – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.05 9.3 10.60 9.3 – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.89 9.2 10.85 6.8 – – Level 1 .................................................. $8.61 9.1 $9.65 7.0 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $18.53 4.1 $18.80 4.5 $13.93 9.6 Community and social services occupations........................... 23.23 8.8 23.23 8.8 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 21.11 2.3 21.32 2.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 11.43 2.5 11.15 1.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 24.32 .3 24.32 .3 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 24.32 .3 24.32 .3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 24.32 .3 24.32 .3 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 24.52 .7 24.52 .7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 24.52 .7 24.52 .7 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.52 .7 24.52 .7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 24.52 .7 24.52 .7 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 11.43 2.5 11.15 1.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 11.43 2.5 11.15 1.7 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 21.06 17.2 20.87 17.8 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 13.00 2.4 13.17 3.0 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.94 10.9 14.50 10.6 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.61 6.8 15.61 6.8 – – 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 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), Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $14.13 2.1 $14.76 2.2 $8.10 5.4 Management occupations.............................................. 32.60 7.8 32.60 7.8 – – Group II.................................................. 18.80 7.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 42.88 11.2 – – – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 23.67 6.6 23.67 6.6 – – Group II.................................................. 18.95 3.7 – – – – Group III................................................. 30.31 7.9 – – – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 22.79 9.4 22.79 9.4 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 22.85 11.7 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 22.40 8.6 22.40 8.6 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 21.60 2.2 21.89 2.4 16.29 1.2 Group I................................................... 11.43 2.5 – – – – Group III................................................. 25.37 .6 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 24.32 .3 24.32 .3 – – Group III................................................. 24.32 .3 – – – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 24.52 .7 24.52 .7 – – Group III................................................. 24.52 .7 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.52 .7 24.52 .7 – – Group III................................................. 24.52 .7 24.52 .7 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 11.43 2.5 11.15 1.7 – – Group I................................................... 11.43 2.5 11.15 1.7 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 21.53 8.6 21.80 9.4 18.03 15.4 Group I................................................... 12.12 4.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.40 6.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 35.62 6.6 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 27.41 10.3 27.62 11.1 25.14 .8 Group II.................................................. 23.71 .7 23.51 .8 25.14 .8 Group III................................................. 35.38 9.9 35.38 9.9 – – Therapists........................................................ 28.45 6.6 – – – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 16.86 14.9 17.03 17.7 – – Group I................................................... 14.64 9.6 – – – – Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 14.73 9.7 – – – – Group I................................................... 14.64 9.6 – – – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 24.92 8.4 24.91 9.0 – – Group II.................................................. 24.92 8.4 – – – – Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 25.22 11.1 25.22 12.1 – – Group II.................................................. 25.22 11.1 25.22 12.1 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.02 8.4 18.05 8.6 – – Group II.................................................. 19.37 9.3 19.47 9.7 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... $10.06 4.7 $9.72 5.9 – – Group I................................................... 9.82 5.4 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.20 9.3 9.20 9.3 – – Group I................................................... 9.20 9.3 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.60 16.9 9.60 16.9 – – Group I................................................... 9.60 16.9 9.60 16.9 – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 12.17 5.1 11.38 3.0 – – Group I................................................... 11.57 3.1 – – – – Medical assistants.............................................. 11.65 3.9 11.41 4.1 – – Group I................................................... 11.65 3.9 11.41 4.1 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 11.83 7.3 12.13 5.9 – – Group II.................................................. 13.17 3.0 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.59 11.1 8.74 9.6 $6.09 13.1 Group I................................................... 7.06 7.6 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 7.43 4.8 7.45 6.9 – – Group I................................................... 7.43 4.8 – – – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.75 16.4 10.68 14.8 – – Group I................................................... 8.10 9.8 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.42 37.2 – – 3.25 35.2 Group I................................................... 4.42 37.2 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 3.22 30.9 – – – – Group I................................................... 3.22 30.9 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.53 6.7 8.04 8.9 6.76 5.7 Group I................................................... 7.52 6.8 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 7.72 8.0 8.51 9.9 – – Group I................................................... 7.71 8.1 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.96 13.3 10.80 18.2 – – Group I................................................... 8.16 5.0 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.22 5.5 8.52 10.3 – – Group I................................................... 8.15 5.0 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.01 6.0 8.15 10.8 – – Group I................................................... 8.01 6.0 8.15 10.8 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.12 2.6 – – 7.83 6.7 Group I................................................... 8.12 2.6 – – – – Child care workers................................................ 8.08 1.2 – – – – Group I................................................... 8.08 1.2 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 10.19 5.3 11.42 3.3 6.97 3.4 Group I................................................... 8.79 14.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 16.12 4.4 – – – – Retail sales workers.............................................. $9.14 9.8 $10.22 8.5 $6.97 3.4 Group I................................................... 8.59 14.7 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.18 12.8 8.70 14.7 7.16 2.7 Group I................................................... 8.14 13.1 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 8.18 12.8 8.70 14.7 7.16 2.7 Group I................................................... 8.14 13.1 8.68 16.1 7.16 2.7 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 8.40 16.4 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 11.24 3.7 12.62 4.7 – – Group I................................................... 10.44 22.1 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.18 4.0 13.48 3.7 9.08 6.5 Group I................................................... 12.14 3.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.26 8.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 19.06 12.9 19.06 12.9 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 12.12 9.2 12.65 7.4 – – Group I................................................... 11.66 9.1 – – – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.41 9.8 13.41 9.8 – – Group I................................................... 14.22 10.3 14.22 10.3 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.27 9.0 13.27 9.0 – – Group I................................................... 12.03 7.4 12.03 7.4 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 13.08 3.3 13.43 1.9 – – Group I................................................... 12.29 4.8 12.84 2.7 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.32 3.3 11.32 3.3 – – Group I................................................... 11.32 3.3 11.32 3.3 – – Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 12.76 8.9 12.76 8.9 – – Group I................................................... 11.71 5.9 11.71 5.9 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.21 6.2 13.21 6.2 – – Group I................................................... 13.81 4.5 13.81 4.5 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.22 6.1 – – – – Group I................................................... 11.22 6.1 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.28 2.6 13.28 2.6 – – Group I................................................... 13.08 1.5 – – – – Office clerks, general............................................ 11.80 5.8 11.80 5.8 – – Group I................................................... 11.29 8.1 11.29 8.1 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.72 12.0 12.72 12.0 – – Group II.................................................. 15.68 7.2 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.36 3.8 16.36 3.8 – – Group I................................................... 12.18 3.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.40 3.8 – – – – Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 15.20 7.3 15.20 7.3 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.15 1.5 18.15 1.5 – – Group I................................................... 13.52 4.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.98 1.8 – – – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. $18.37 3.0 $18.37 3.0 – – Group II.................................................. 18.37 3.0 18.37 3.0 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 19.51 3.9 19.51 3.9 – – Group II.................................................. 19.51 3.9 19.51 3.9 – – Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 13.73 5.6 13.73 5.6 – – Group I................................................... 13.52 4.9 13.52 4.9 – – Production occupations.............................................. 13.13 3.8 13.13 3.8 – – Group I................................................... 12.20 3.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.46 3.9 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 17.77 10.3 17.77 10.3 – – Group II.................................................. 19.87 .8 19.87 .8 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.11 13.7 11.11 13.7 – – Group I................................................... 10.98 13.6 – – – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 11.93 5.2 11.93 5.2 – – Group I................................................... 11.93 5.2 – – – – Sewing machine operators.......................................... 12.91 6.3 12.95 6.5 – – Group I................................................... 12.91 6.3 12.95 6.5 – – Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders................... 11.37 7.0 11.37 7.0 – – Group I................................................... 11.31 6.3 – – – – Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders......... 11.80 1.4 11.80 1.4 – – Group I................................................... 11.80 1.4 11.80 1.4 – – Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers........... 17.57 6.0 17.57 6.0 – – Group I................................................... 15.46 9.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.48 .2 – – – – Upholsterers.................................................... 20.40 1.3 20.40 1.3 – – Group I................................................... 20.26 4.8 20.26 4.8 – – Group II.................................................. 20.45 .1 20.45 .1 – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 13.73 2.6 13.73 2.6 – – Group I................................................... 12.77 3.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 15.41 2.6 – – – – Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood............ 12.66 6.0 12.66 6.0 – – Group I................................................... 11.96 8.4 11.96 8.4 – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 14.18 2.6 14.18 2.6 – – Group I................................................... 13.16 3.3 13.16 3.3 – – Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 12.96 7.5 12.96 7.5 – – Group I................................................... 12.96 7.5 – – – – Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 13.61 11.1 13.61 11.1 – – Group I................................................... 13.61 11.1 13.61 11.1 – – Cutting workers................................................... 14.75 5.4 14.75 5.4 – – Group I................................................... 14.58 4.2 – – – – Cutters and trimmers, hand...................................... 15.38 .7 15.38 .7 – – Group I................................................... 15.16 1.1 15.16 1.1 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 11.13 10.9 11.13 10.9 – – Group II.................................................. $14.02 0.7 $14.02 0.7 – – Painting workers.................................................. 12.81 7.1 12.81 7.1 – – Group I................................................... 12.81 7.1 – – – – Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 13.23 2.7 13.23 2.7 – – Group I................................................... 13.23 2.7 13.23 2.7 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.96 8.0 11.96 8.0 – – Group I................................................... 11.57 7.2 – – – – Helpers--production workers..................................... 11.09 6.9 11.09 6.9 – – Group I................................................... 11.09 6.9 11.09 6.9 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 12.81 7.1 13.32 6.8 $9.10 12.6 Group I................................................... 12.43 5.9 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.07 9.9 17.59 9.1 – – Group I................................................... 17.07 9.9 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.37 4.9 17.37 4.9 – – Group I................................................... 17.37 4.9 17.37 4.9 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.15 6.3 12.04 7.1 – – Group I................................................... 12.15 6.3 12.04 7.1 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.22 5.1 10.56 4.0 8.55 14.2 Group I................................................... 10.20 5.2 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.47 3.7 10.60 4.3 9.84 9.9 Group I................................................... 10.47 3.7 10.60 4.3 9.84 9.9 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.89 9.2 10.85 6.8 – – Group I................................................... 9.82 9.6 10.78 7.5 – – 1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines levels 13-15. 2 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $7.25 $9.50 $12.28 $16.54 $23.05 Management occupations.............................................. 16.21 19.05 34.62 42.43 42.85 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 14.79 17.11 21.81 27.17 34.23 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 13.08 13.08 25.51 28.22 28.22 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 15.89 19.37 22.43 26.37 26.37 Community and social services occupations........................... 17.28 17.87 20.77 25.36 28.80 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.84 15.60 22.41 26.31 30.90 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 17.57 20.36 23.94 28.03 31.14 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 17.76 20.62 24.00 28.21 31.42 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 17.76 20.62 24.00 28.21 31.42 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.34 10.45 11.00 11.68 13.06 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 11.00 13.50 21.43 26.27 33.62 Registered nurses................................................. 19.15 22.24 25.53 28.86 41.81 Therapists........................................................ 21.43 24.91 27.10 32.17 38.45 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 11.00 11.18 14.18 24.34 24.34 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 10.25 13.77 15.80 17.08 17.08 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 19.41 24.30 24.30 27.66 31.20 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 18.58 22.95 25.21 28.35 31.20 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 13.75 16.88 17.00 21.00 23.15 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 7.00 8.07 9.44 11.33 13.64 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 6.50 8.07 8.97 9.50 11.86 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 6.50 7.00 9.44 11.72 13.64 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 11.00 11.00 11.33 13.00 14.77 Medical assistants.............................................. 11.00 11.00 11.00 12.35 13.00 Protective service occupations...................................... 8.50 9.98 12.24 13.04 15.16 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.13 6.06 7.00 9.00 11.02 Cooks............................................................. 6.29 6.92 6.92 8.00 8.80 Food preparation workers.......................................... 6.25 6.75 8.17 10.00 12.74 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 3.13 6.00 9.93 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.13 3.13 6.00 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 5.80 5.94 7.00 8.75 10.00 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 5.80 5.80 7.10 9.78 11.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.00 7.00 7.25 10.83 18.22 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.00 7.00 7.00 8.67 11.03 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.00 7.00 7.00 8.67 10.83 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.50 7.25 8.00 8.42 10.00 Child care workers................................................ 6.50 7.00 8.00 8.50 10.00 Sales and related occupations....................................... $6.25 $7.00 $8.55 $12.25 $15.00 Retail sales workers.............................................. 6.25 7.00 7.50 10.30 14.50 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 6.50 7.00 7.50 8.57 10.50 Cashiers...................................................... 6.50 7.00 7.50 8.57 10.50 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 6.25 6.25 7.14 9.50 11.54 Retail salespersons............................................. 6.25 7.47 10.43 13.10 15.00 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.69 11.20 12.09 14.47 17.00 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 12.83 12.83 22.31 22.63 23.73 Financial clerks.................................................. 8.00 9.76 11.54 14.33 16.75 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 10.00 12.25 13.08 15.18 16.75 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.19 11.19 12.95 15.70 17.00 Customer service representatives.................................. 11.37 11.87 13.02 14.42 16.00 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.50 11.00 11.00 12.00 12.00 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 10.30 11.00 12.37 14.47 14.62 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.25 10.20 13.06 16.00 16.15 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.22 11.24 11.24 11.24 12.60 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 11.67 12.29 13.39 13.39 15.14 Office clerks, general............................................ 8.50 10.92 11.42 13.29 14.06 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 11.00 11.00 11.00 15.00 17.05 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 11.30 13.33 16.21 19.16 20.30 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 12.45 13.33 13.33 17.90 19.28 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 14.00 15.59 17.54 20.22 22.35 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 14.60 15.75 16.50 21.73 21.73 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.20 17.54 18.13 20.22 25.45 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 11.30 11.30 14.00 15.25 15.25 Production occupations.............................................. 8.50 10.00 12.38 15.60 18.54 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 11.25 13.00 17.63 22.52 23.13 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 6.75 8.50 11.07 12.88 16.05 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 8.67 10.30 11.50 13.50 16.00 Sewing machine operators.......................................... 8.00 9.00 12.21 15.96 18.70 Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders................... 8.50 9.25 10.98 12.34 14.99 Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders......... 10.00 11.99 12.02 12.02 13.06 Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers........... 10.07 13.46 18.00 21.04 25.84 Upholsterers.................................................... 14.85 18.00 19.69 22.24 27.08 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 10.25 12.90 13.60 14.60 16.67 Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood............ 10.25 10.25 14.03 14.30 14.30 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 12.24 13.19 13.55 15.60 17.10 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 10.75 11.50 12.44 13.31 16.34 Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 10.25 11.50 13.05 14.90 17.84 Cutting workers................................................... 10.86 12.90 13.95 17.10 19.52 Cutters and trimmers, hand...................................... 11.74 13.00 15.00 17.53 20.00 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 8.00 9.00 10.00 13.20 15.85 Painting workers.................................................. $10.78 $11.49 $12.58 $14.10 $15.05 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 11.48 12.23 13.14 14.28 15.05 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 6.10 9.25 11.27 15.43 17.57 Helpers--production workers..................................... 9.75 10.00 10.23 11.16 15.32 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.75 9.00 11.28 15.05 20.30 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 6.50 13.68 17.86 20.45 27.00 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.68 13.86 18.08 18.82 21.92 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 9.36 10.15 11.14 14.50 15.90 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.25 8.75 9.75 12.00 13.37 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.75 9.00 10.00 12.05 13.37 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.25 7.15 9.89 11.86 14.32 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), Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $7.00 $9.00 $11.86 $15.60 $20.63 Management occupations.............................................. 14.94 20.15 34.62 42.43 50.97 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 14.14 19.75 27.17 32.20 34.23 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 13.08 13.08 25.51 28.22 28.22 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 12.00 16.88 21.94 25.13 33.41 Registered nurses................................................. 19.71 21.94 25.84 40.42 41.81 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 11.00 11.18 14.18 24.34 24.34 Medical and clinical laboratory technicians..................... 10.25 13.77 15.80 17.08 17.08 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 18.58 22.95 24.30 24.59 31.20 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 13.75 16.88 17.00 21.00 23.15 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 6.75 8.07 9.44 11.33 11.86 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 6.50 8.07 8.97 9.50 11.86 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 6.50 7.00 9.44 11.72 13.64 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 11.00 11.00 11.14 11.33 12.02 Medical assistants.............................................. 11.00 11.00 11.00 11.14 13.66 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.13 6.00 7.00 8.75 11.02 Cooks............................................................. 6.29 6.92 6.92 8.00 8.80 Food preparation workers.......................................... 6.25 6.75 8.17 10.00 12.74 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 3.15 6.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.13 2.13 2.13 3.13 6.00 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 5.80 5.89 7.00 8.25 10.00 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 5.75 5.80 6.82 9.00 11.02 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.00 7.00 7.00 9.25 15.86 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.00 7.00 7.00 8.28 11.03 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.00 7.00 7.00 8.00 10.83 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.50 7.25 8.00 8.42 10.00 Child care workers................................................ 6.50 7.00 8.00 8.50 10.00 Sales and related occupations....................................... 6.25 7.00 8.55 12.25 15.00 Retail sales workers.............................................. 6.25 7.00 7.50 10.30 14.50 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 6.50 7.00 7.50 8.57 10.50 Cashiers...................................................... 6.50 7.00 7.50 8.57 10.50 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 6.25 6.25 7.14 9.50 11.54 Retail salespersons............................................. 6.25 7.47 10.43 13.10 15.00 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.63 11.19 12.05 14.42 16.95 Financial clerks.................................................. 8.00 9.63 11.20 14.33 16.75 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 10.00 12.25 13.08 15.18 16.75 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.19 11.19 12.95 15.70 17.00 Customer service representatives.................................. 11.37 11.87 13.02 14.42 16.00 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.50 11.00 11.00 12.00 12.00 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 10.30 11.00 12.37 14.47 14.62 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... $9.25 $10.20 $13.06 $16.00 $16.15 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 8.22 11.24 11.24 11.24 12.60 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.00 12.57 13.39 13.39 15.48 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 11.00 11.00 11.00 12.50 17.05 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 11.25 13.33 17.36 19.16 21.73 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 12.45 13.33 13.33 17.90 19.28 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 14.00 14.90 17.54 20.99 24.82 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 14.60 15.75 16.50 21.73 21.73 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.54 17.54 20.22 24.37 25.61 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 11.30 11.30 14.00 15.25 15.25 Production occupations.............................................. 8.50 10.00 12.37 15.60 18.54 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 11.25 13.00 17.63 22.52 23.13 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 6.75 8.50 11.07 12.88 16.05 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 8.67 10.30 11.50 13.50 16.00 Sewing machine operators.......................................... 8.00 9.00 12.21 15.96 18.70 Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders................... 8.50 9.25 10.98 12.34 14.99 Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders......... 10.00 11.99 12.02 12.02 13.06 Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers........... 10.07 13.46 18.00 21.04 25.84 Upholsterers.................................................... 14.85 18.00 19.69 22.24 27.08 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 10.25 12.90 13.60 14.60 16.67 Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood............ 10.25 10.25 14.03 14.30 14.30 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 12.24 13.19 13.55 15.60 17.10 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 10.75 11.50 12.44 13.31 16.34 Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 10.25 11.50 13.05 14.90 17.84 Cutting workers................................................... 10.86 12.90 13.95 17.10 19.52 Cutters and trimmers, hand...................................... 11.74 13.00 15.00 17.53 20.00 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 8.00 9.00 10.00 13.20 15.85 Painting workers.................................................. 10.78 11.49 12.58 14.10 15.05 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 11.48 12.23 13.14 14.28 15.05 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 6.10 9.25 11.27 15.43 17.57 Helpers--production workers..................................... 9.75 10.00 10.23 11.16 15.32 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.75 9.00 11.50 15.18 20.45 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 6.50 13.68 17.86 20.45 27.00 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.68 13.86 18.08 18.82 21.92 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 9.36 10.15 11.14 14.50 15.90 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.25 8.75 9.75 12.00 13.37 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.75 9.00 10.00 12.05 13.37 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.25 7.15 9.89 11.86 14.32 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), Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $10.98 $12.54 $16.44 $23.12 $28.43 Community and social services occupations........................... 17.28 20.20 21.45 27.27 29.64 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.71 15.60 21.85 26.03 30.02 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 17.57 20.36 23.94 28.03 31.14 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 17.76 20.62 24.00 28.21 31.42 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 17.76 20.62 24.00 28.21 31.42 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.34 10.45 11.00 11.68 13.06 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 10.98 12.33 17.94 26.85 35.42 Protective service occupations...................................... 11.16 12.24 12.24 13.45 15.94 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.89 11.42 12.70 15.92 23.73 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 12.93 12.93 16.00 16.80 18.13 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), Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.25 $10.30 $12.91 $17.11 $23.72 Management occupations.............................................. 16.21 19.05 34.62 42.43 42.85 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 14.79 17.11 21.81 27.17 34.23 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 13.08 13.08 25.51 28.22 28.22 Community and social services occupations........................... 17.28 17.87 20.77 25.36 28.80 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.84 16.20 23.26 26.68 30.93 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 17.57 20.36 23.94 28.03 31.14 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 17.76 20.62 24.00 28.21 31.42 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 17.76 20.62 24.00 28.21 31.42 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.34 10.45 10.84 11.45 11.98 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 11.15 13.62 21.43 26.56 38.45 Registered nurses................................................. 18.82 21.94 25.53 29.89 41.81 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 11.00 11.00 15.80 24.34 24.34 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 19.41 24.30 24.30 27.66 31.20 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 18.50 22.95 25.21 28.35 31.20 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 13.75 15.18 17.00 21.00 23.16 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 6.75 8.07 9.44 11.33 11.86 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 6.50 8.07 8.97 9.50 11.86 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 6.50 7.00 9.44 11.72 13.64 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 11.00 11.00 11.14 11.33 12.02 Medical assistants.............................................. 11.00 11.00 11.00 11.14 13.66 Protective service occupations...................................... 8.53 11.00 12.24 13.14 15.30 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.00 6.92 8.00 10.00 13.50 Cooks............................................................. 6.30 6.92 6.92 8.48 8.80 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.00 8.50 9.37 15.32 15.32 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 5.80 7.00 7.00 10.00 11.02 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 5.80 6.25 8.75 10.00 11.02 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.00 7.00 8.00 12.81 18.22 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.00 7.00 7.00 9.06 12.81 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.00 7.00 7.00 8.67 10.83 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.00 7.50 10.50 14.42 16.58 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.00 7.50 8.87 12.00 15.00 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.00 7.50 7.50 9.60 11.56 Cashiers...................................................... 7.00 7.50 7.50 9.60 11.56 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.47 8.96 12.25 15.00 16.91 Office and administrative support occupations....................... $10.20 $11.24 $12.25 $14.62 $17.24 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 12.83 12.83 22.31 22.63 23.73 Financial clerks.................................................. 9.45 10.66 11.97 14.95 17.00 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 10.00 12.25 13.08 15.18 16.75 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.19 11.19 12.95 15.70 17.00 Customer service representatives.................................. 11.50 12.25 13.02 14.49 16.00 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.50 11.00 11.00 12.00 12.00 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 10.30 11.00 12.37 14.47 14.62 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 9.25 10.20 13.06 16.00 16.15 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 11.67 12.29 13.39 13.39 15.14 Office clerks, general............................................ 8.50 10.92 11.42 13.29 14.06 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 11.00 11.00 11.00 15.00 17.05 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 11.30 13.33 16.21 19.16 20.30 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 12.45 13.33 13.33 17.90 19.28 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 14.00 15.59 17.54 20.22 22.35 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 14.60 15.75 16.50 21.73 21.73 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 16.20 17.54 18.13 20.22 25.45 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 11.30 11.30 14.00 15.25 15.25 Production occupations.............................................. 8.50 10.00 12.38 15.60 18.54 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 11.25 13.00 17.63 22.52 23.13 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 6.75 8.50 11.07 12.88 16.05 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 8.67 10.30 11.50 13.50 16.00 Sewing machine operators.......................................... 8.00 9.00 12.21 15.97 18.72 Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders................... 8.50 9.25 10.98 12.34 14.99 Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders......... 10.00 11.99 12.02 12.02 13.06 Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers........... 10.07 13.46 18.00 21.04 25.84 Upholsterers.................................................... 14.85 18.00 19.69 22.24 27.08 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 10.25 12.90 13.60 14.60 16.67 Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood............ 10.25 10.25 14.03 14.30 14.30 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 12.24 13.19 13.55 15.60 17.10 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 10.75 11.50 12.44 13.31 16.34 Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 10.25 11.50 13.05 14.90 17.84 Cutting workers................................................... 10.86 12.90 13.95 17.10 19.52 Cutters and trimmers, hand...................................... 11.74 13.00 15.00 17.53 20.00 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 8.00 9.00 10.00 13.20 15.85 Painting workers.................................................. 10.78 11.49 12.58 14.10 15.05 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 11.48 12.23 13.14 14.28 15.05 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 6.10 9.25 11.27 15.43 17.57 Helpers--production workers..................................... 9.75 10.00 10.23 11.16 15.32 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... $8.48 $9.50 $11.70 $15.56 $20.45 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 10.00 13.86 18.02 20.45 27.00 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.68 13.86 18.08 18.82 21.92 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 9.27 10.00 11.14 14.25 15.90 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.80 8.94 10.29 12.05 13.60 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.75 9.00 10.40 12.05 13.37 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.24 8.78 11.22 12.20 14.32 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), Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $5.40 $6.25 $7.25 $8.61 $12.05 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 13.00 15.00 16.00 17.18 25.00 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 9.00 9.00 18.03 25.13 26.55 Registered nurses................................................. 23.94 23.94 25.50 26.55 26.55 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.13 3.13 6.29 7.82 9.00 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 3.13 6.00 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 5.50 5.85 6.15 7.10 9.72 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.00 7.25 7.75 8.42 8.42 Sales and related occupations....................................... 6.15 6.25 6.75 7.50 8.20 Retail sales workers.............................................. 6.15 6.25 6.75 7.50 8.20 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 6.15 6.50 7.00 7.61 8.50 Cashiers...................................................... 6.15 6.50 7.00 7.61 8.50 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 7.50 8.00 8.00 9.25 12.18 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 6.15 6.45 9.00 10.85 13.00 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 6.15 6.32 9.00 9.55 10.35 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 6.15 9.00 9.33 10.00 13.00 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 11. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $14.76 $12.91 $588 $515 39.8 $30,298 $26,790 2,053 Management occupations.............................................. 32.60 34.62 1,342 1,385 41.2 69,762 71,999 2,140 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 23.67 21.81 951 872 40.2 49,445 45,356 2,089 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 22.79 25.51 911 1,020 40.0 47,395 53,061 2,080 Community and social services occupations........................... 22.40 20.77 885 831 39.5 43,811 42,387 1,956 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 21.89 23.26 869 894 39.7 38,596 38,521 1,763 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 24.32 23.94 951 933 39.1 41,333 40,600 1,699 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 24.52 24.00 954 944 38.9 41,459 41,123 1,691 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.52 24.00 954 944 38.9 41,459 41,123 1,691 Teacher assistants................................................ 11.15 10.84 437 420 39.2 18,916 18,150 1,697 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 21.80 21.43 844 743 38.7 43,460 39,104 1,994 Registered nurses................................................. 27.62 25.53 1,063 942 38.5 55,276 49,005 2,002 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 17.03 15.80 654 506 38.4 34,000 26,291 1,996 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 24.91 24.30 996 972 40.0 51,804 50,534 2,080 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 25.22 25.21 1,009 1,008 40.0 52,462 52,437 2,080 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.05 17.00 644 612 35.7 33,477 31,824 1,854 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.72 9.44 371 359 38.2 19,276 18,660 1,984 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.20 8.97 353 323 38.3 18,344 16,788 1,993 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.60 9.44 361 320 37.6 18,775 16,640 1,956 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 11.38 11.14 427 418 37.6 22,230 21,723 1,953 Medical assistants.............................................. 11.41 11.00 418 396 36.7 21,748 20,592 1,907 Protective service occupations...................................... 12.13 12.24 501 525 41.3 26,056 27,281 2,148 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.74 8.00 354 306 40.5 18,169 15,912 2,080 Cooks............................................................. 7.45 6.92 296 277 39.7 15,389 14,383 2,067 Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.68 9.37 427 375 40.0 22,211 19,490 2,080 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.04 7.00 322 280 40.0 16,731 14,560 2,080 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.51 8.75 340 350 40.0 17,696 18,200 2,080 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.80 8.00 437 320 40.4 22,721 16,640 2,103 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.52 7.00 341 280 40.0 17,724 14,556 2,080 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.15 7.00 326 280 40.0 16,960 14,556 2,080 Sales and related occupations....................................... 11.42 10.50 447 406 39.2 23,243 21,133 2,036 Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.22 8.87 392 315 38.4 20,406 16,370 1,996 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.70 7.50 327 280 37.6 17,028 14,560 1,957 Cashiers...................................................... $8.70 $7.50 $327 $280 37.6 $17,028 $14,560 1,957 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.62 12.25 512 490 40.5 26,609 25,480 2,108 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.48 12.25 543 513 40.3 28,220 26,695 2,094 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 19.06 22.31 746 803 39.1 38,778 41,759 2,035 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.65 11.97 506 479 40.0 26,313 24,898 2,080 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.41 13.08 536 523 40.0 27,886 27,206 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.27 12.95 531 518 40.0 27,596 26,936 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 13.43 13.02 529 521 39.4 27,511 27,075 2,049 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.32 11.00 453 440 40.0 23,552 22,880 2,080 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 12.76 12.37 511 495 40.0 26,551 25,730 2,080 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.21 13.06 525 519 39.7 27,279 26,998 2,065 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.28 13.39 531 535 40.0 27,613 27,841 2,080 Office clerks, general............................................ 11.80 11.42 470 457 39.8 24,445 23,762 2,072 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.72 11.00 509 440 40.0 26,449 22,880 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.36 16.21 652 649 39.8 33,906 33,723 2,072 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 15.20 13.33 592 500 38.9 30,770 25,999 2,024 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 18.15 17.54 726 702 40.0 37,758 36,481 2,080 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.37 16.50 735 660 40.0 38,220 34,320 2,080 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 19.51 18.13 780 725 40.0 40,583 37,710 2,080 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 13.73 14.00 549 560 40.0 28,558 29,120 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 13.13 12.38 516 489 39.3 26,819 25,438 2,042 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 17.77 17.63 711 705 40.0 36,970 36,660 2,080 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.11 11.07 406 436 36.6 21,135 22,684 1,903 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 11.93 11.50 460 440 38.6 23,941 22,880 2,007 Sewing machine operators.......................................... $12.95 $12.21 $518 $488 40.0 $26,931 $25,393 2,080 Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders................... 11.37 10.98 455 439 40.0 23,658 22,838 2,080 Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders......... 11.80 12.02 472 481 40.0 24,538 25,002 2,080 Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers........... 17.57 18.00 699 728 39.8 36,328 37,877 2,068 Upholsterers.................................................... 20.40 19.69 812 788 39.8 42,207 40,976 2,069 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 13.73 13.60 547 544 39.9 28,467 28,288 2,073 Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood............ 12.66 14.03 504 561 39.8 26,188 29,182 2,069 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 14.18 13.55 566 542 39.9 29,428 28,184 2,075 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 12.96 12.44 507 480 39.1 26,366 24,939 2,034 Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 13.61 13.05 523 494 38.5 27,222 25,665 2,001 Cutting workers................................................... 14.75 13.95 590 558 40.0 30,689 29,016 2,080 Cutters and trimmers, hand...................................... 15.38 15.00 615 600 40.0 31,989 31,200 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 11.13 10.00 442 400 39.7 22,958 20,800 2,063 Painting workers.................................................. 12.81 12.58 513 503 40.0 26,654 26,166 2,080 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 13.23 13.14 529 526 40.0 27,521 27,331 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.96 11.27 464 446 38.8 24,125 23,207 2,017 Helpers--production workers..................................... 11.09 10.23 414 409 37.3 21,531 21,276 1,942 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.32 11.70 545 482 40.9 28,355 25,064 2,128 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.59 18.02 744 728 42.3 38,688 37,856 2,199 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.37 18.08 755 728 43.4 39,242 37,856 2,259 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.04 11.14 495 495 41.2 25,766 25,740 2,140 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.56 10.29 420 408 39.8 21,847 21,216 2,068 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.60 10.40 421 412 39.7 21,892 21,424 2,065 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.85 11.22 432 449 39.8 22,472 23,329 2,072 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 12. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $14.01 $12.26 $558 $490 39.8 $28,967 $25,559 2,067 Management occupations.............................................. 32.97 34.62 1,363 1,385 41.3 70,876 71,999 2,150 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.02 27.17 1,077 1,087 39.9 56,017 56,518 2,073 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 22.79 25.51 911 1,020 40.0 47,395 53,061 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 22.64 21.94 858 766 37.9 44,602 39,830 1,970 Registered nurses................................................. 28.42 26.00 1,091 1,019 38.4 56,734 53,002 1,996 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians................. 17.03 15.80 654 506 38.4 34,000 26,291 1,996 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 24.07 24.30 963 972 40.0 50,070 50,534 2,080 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.05 17.00 644 612 35.7 33,477 31,824 1,854 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.72 9.44 371 359 38.2 19,276 18,660 1,984 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.20 8.97 353 323 38.3 18,344 16,788 1,993 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.60 9.44 361 320 37.6 18,775 16,640 1,956 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 11.38 11.14 427 418 37.6 22,230 21,723 1,953 Medical assistants.............................................. 11.41 11.00 418 396 36.7 21,748 20,592 1,907 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.66 7.35 352 280 40.6 18,291 14,560 2,111 Cooks............................................................. 7.45 6.92 296 277 39.7 15,389 14,383 2,067 Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.68 9.37 427 375 40.0 22,211 19,490 2,080 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 8.04 7.00 322 280 40.0 16,731 14,560 2,080 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 8.51 8.75 340 350 40.0 17,696 18,200 2,080 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.75 7.25 395 290 40.5 20,545 15,080 2,107 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.42 7.00 337 280 40.0 17,509 14,556 2,080 Sales and related occupations....................................... 11.42 10.50 447 406 39.2 23,243 21,133 2,036 Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.22 8.87 392 315 38.4 20,406 16,370 1,996 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.70 7.50 327 280 37.6 17,028 14,560 1,957 Cashiers...................................................... 8.70 7.50 327 280 37.6 17,028 14,560 1,957 Retail salespersons............................................. 12.62 12.25 512 490 40.5 26,609 25,480 2,108 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.37 12.20 539 513 40.3 28,019 26,695 2,095 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.52 11.95 501 478 40.0 26,045 24,856 2,080 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 13.41 13.08 536 523 40.0 27,886 27,206 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.27 12.95 531 518 40.0 27,596 26,936 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 13.43 13.02 529 521 39.4 27,511 27,075 2,049 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 11.32 11.00 453 440 40.0 23,552 22,880 2,080 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 12.76 12.37 511 495 40.0 26,551 25,730 2,080 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.21 13.06 525 519 39.7 27,279 26,998 2,065 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.51 13.39 540 535 40.0 28,103 27,841 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. $12.48 $11.00 $499 $440 40.0 $25,949 $22,880 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.58 17.36 660 694 39.8 34,324 36,100 2,070 Automotive technicians and repairers.............................. 15.20 13.33 592 500 38.9 30,770 25,999 2,024 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 18.15 17.54 726 702 40.0 37,753 36,481 2,080 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.37 16.50 735 660 40.0 38,220 34,320 2,080 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.71 20.22 828 809 40.0 43,080 42,058 2,080 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 13.73 14.00 549 560 40.0 28,558 29,120 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 13.12 12.38 515 486 39.3 26,783 25,251 2,042 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 17.77 17.63 711 705 40.0 36,970 36,660 2,080 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 11.11 11.07 406 436 36.6 21,135 22,684 1,903 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 11.93 11.50 460 440 38.6 23,941 22,880 2,007 Sewing machine operators.......................................... 12.95 12.21 518 488 40.0 26,931 25,393 2,080 Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders................... 11.37 10.98 455 439 40.0 23,658 22,838 2,080 Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders......... 11.80 12.02 472 481 40.0 24,538 25,002 2,080 Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers........... 17.57 18.00 699 728 39.8 36,328 37,877 2,068 Upholsterers.................................................... 20.40 19.69 812 788 39.8 42,207 40,976 2,069 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 13.73 13.60 547 544 39.9 28,467 28,288 2,073 Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood............ 12.66 14.03 504 561 39.8 26,188 29,182 2,069 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 14.18 13.55 566 542 39.9 29,428 28,184 2,075 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 12.96 12.44 507 480 39.1 26,366 24,939 2,034 Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 13.61 13.05 523 494 38.5 27,222 25,665 2,001 Cutting workers................................................... 14.75 13.95 590 558 40.0 30,689 29,016 2,080 Cutters and trimmers, hand...................................... 15.38 15.00 615 600 40.0 31,989 31,200 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 11.13 10.00 442 400 39.7 22,958 20,800 2,063 Painting workers.................................................. 12.81 12.58 513 503 40.0 26,654 26,166 2,080 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 13.23 13.14 529 526 40.0 27,521 27,331 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 11.96 11.27 464 446 38.8 24,125 23,207 2,017 Helpers--production workers..................................... 11.09 10.23 414 409 37.3 21,531 21,276 1,942 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.36 11.86 547 482 41.0 28,458 25,064 2,130 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.59 18.02 744 728 42.3 38,688 37,856 2,199 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.37 18.08 755 728 43.4 39,242 37,856 2,259 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.04 11.14 495 495 41.2 25,766 25,740 2,140 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.56 10.29 420 408 39.8 21,847 21,216 2,068 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.60 10.40 421 412 39.7 21,892 21,424 2,065 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 10.85 11.22 432 449 39.8 22,472 23,329 2,072 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 13. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $18.80 $16.78 $753 $674 40.1 $37,221 $34,087 1,980 Community and social services occupations........................... 23.23 21.45 915 858 39.4 44,988 43,200 1,937 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 21.32 22.35 836 871 39.2 36,890 37,439 1,730 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 24.32 23.94 951 933 39.1 41,333 40,600 1,699 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 24.52 24.00 954 944 38.9 41,459 41,123 1,691 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 24.52 24.00 954 944 38.9 41,459 41,123 1,691 Teacher assistants................................................ 11.15 10.84 437 420 39.2 18,916 18,150 1,697 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 20.87 17.11 828 682 39.7 42,174 36,589 2,020 Protective service occupations...................................... 13.17 12.42 566 533 43.0 29,429 27,691 2,234 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.50 13.16 580 527 40.0 30,170 27,381 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 15.61 16.00 624 640 40.0 32,471 33,286 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 SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of private industry establishments for major occupational groups, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $13.36 $11.90 $14.10 $16.65 Management, professional, and related...... 24.95 22.22 27.31 27.90 Management, business, and financial...... 30.83 29.66 30.66 36.26 Professional and related................. 21.10 15.72 24.56 25.72 Service.................................... 8.21 7.84 8.93 10.64 Sales and office........................... 11.95 11.60 12.35 14.39 Sales and related........................ 10.19 9.99 10.74 – Office and administrative support........ 13.10 12.94 12.99 14.67 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 14.65 13.95 16.82 15.21 Construction and extraction............. 12.48 12.32 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 16.58 16.76 16.68 15.98 Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 13.04 11.22 13.49 14.81 Production............................... 13.12 11.37 13.32 14.86 Transportation and material moving....... 12.86 10.97 13.96 14.66 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........................................................... 2.2 4.7 3.1 2.5 Management, professional, and related............................... 6.1 14.3 4.1 2.9 Management, business, and financial............................... 7.3 12.4 7.8 13.0 Professional and related.......................................... 7.7 6.8 4.4 9.8 Service............................................................. 6.6 8.5 6.0 5.7 Sales and office.................................................... 3.8 6.4 4.8 5.0 Sales and related................................................. 5.3 8.3 10.4 – Office and administrative support................................. 4.2 6.2 4.8 4.9 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 8.8 11.8 9.9 8.7 Construction and extraction...................................... 12.7 12.3 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 4.3 6.8 10.3 8.0 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 3.5 4.0 4.8 1.0 Production........................................................ 3.8 5.4 3.9 2.5 Transportation and material moving................................ 7.4 6.6 12.5 4.3 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $12.76 $11.24 $511 $450 40.1 $26,582 $23,400 2,084 Management occupations.............................................. 29.14 22.18 1,191 1,000 40.9 61,945 52,001 2,125 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 16.28 17.00 583 569 35.8 30,330 29,601 1,863 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.87 8.25 336 323 37.9 17,494 16,788 1,973 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 11.41 11.00 418 396 36.6 21,737 20,592 1,906 Medical assistants.............................................. 11.41 11.00 418 396 36.6 21,737 20,592 1,906 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.62 7.00 351 280 40.7 18,233 14,560 2,115 Sales and related occupations....................................... 11.02 10.30 428 380 38.8 22,230 19,760 2,017 Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.83 8.57 373 300 37.9 19,383 15,600 1,971 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.68 7.50 325 270 37.4 16,893 14,040 1,947 Cashiers...................................................... 8.68 7.50 325 270 37.4 16,893 14,040 1,947 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.33 11.96 542 513 40.6 28,173 26,695 2,113 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.15 13.39 526 535 40.0 27,354 27,841 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.32 11.00 493 440 40.0 25,618 22,880 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.76 17.36 663 694 39.6 34,498 36,100 2,058 Production occupations.............................................. 11.37 10.00 453 400 39.8 23,568 20,800 2,072 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 15.39 13.00 616 520 40.0 32,007 27,040 2,080 Sewing machine operators.......................................... 12.93 11.72 517 469 40.0 26,904 24,378 2,080 Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers........... 16.11 16.00 645 640 40.0 33,518 33,280 2,080 Cutting workers................................................... 14.76 14.00 590 560 40.0 30,695 29,120 2,080 Cutters and trimmers, hand...................................... 15.17 13.63 607 545 40.0 31,560 28,350 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 7.87 8.06 315 322 40.0 16,369 16,763 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 11.27 11.00 465 460 41.2 24,165 23,920 2,145 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 13.14 13.86 555 578 42.2 28,864 30,056 2,197 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 15.16 13.86 659 693 43.4 34,260 36,026 2,259 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 9.59 9.00 381 360 39.8 19,824 18,720 2,068 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $15.21 $13.50 $601 $520 39.5 $31,208 $27,040 2,052 Management occupations.............................................. 44.56 42.85 1,909 1,714 42.8 99,251 89,120 2,227 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 25.06 27.17 998 1,087 39.8 51,891 56,518 2,071 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 25.65 24.30 998 972 38.9 51,919 50,534 2,024 Registered nurses................................................. 29.44 27.13 1,175 1,071 39.9 61,105 55,702 2,075 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 24.07 24.30 963 972 40.0 50,070 50,534 2,080 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.43 11.33 441 446 38.6 22,927 23,167 2,007 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.42 11.72 437 446 38.2 22,708 23,167 1,989 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.58 11.72 443 446 38.3 23,044 23,167 1,990 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.03 8.75 361 350 40.0 18,784 18,200 2,080 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.91 7.00 356 280 40.0 18,537 14,556 2,080 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.61 7.00 344 280 40.0 17,913 14,556 2,080 Sales and related occupations....................................... 13.33 11.73 546 480 41.0 28,410 24,960 2,131 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.43 12.95 534 516 39.8 27,790 26,832 2,069 Financial clerks.................................................. 12.73 12.25 509 490 40.0 26,482 25,480 2,080 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.22 15.18 569 607 40.0 29,586 31,574 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 13.50 12.86 523 514 38.7 27,174 26,749 2,013 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 12.23 11.90 489 476 40.0 25,449 24,752 2,080 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 13.18 13.06 522 522 39.6 27,130 27,165 2,058 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.29 15.48 612 619 40.0 31,799 32,200 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.43 15.25 657 610 40.0 34,167 31,720 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 18.25 17.54 730 702 40.0 37,968 36,481 2,080 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.71 19.85 748 794 40.0 38,912 41,288 2,080 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 20.71 20.22 828 809 40.0 43,080 42,058 2,080 Maintenance workers, machinery.................................. 13.73 14.00 549 560 40.0 28,558 29,120 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 13.82 13.14 539 507 39.0 28,053 26,354 2,030 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 19.87 19.13 795 765 40.0 41,340 39,780 2,080 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 10.98 11.07 400 436 36.5 20,820 22,684 1,896 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 11.97 11.50 461 436 38.5 23,970 22,672 2,003 Sewing machine operators.......................................... 12.95 12.63 518 505 40.0 26,944 26,268 2,080 Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders................... 12.51 12.02 500 481 40.0 26,020 25,002 2,080 Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders......... 11.80 12.02 472 481 40.0 24,538 25,002 2,080 Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ $12.78 $12.34 $511 $494 40.0 $26,592 $25,667 2,080 Miscellaneous textile, apparel, and furnishings workers........... 17.85 18.38 709 735 39.7 36,872 38,220 2,065 Upholsterers.................................................... 20.60 19.32 819 774 39.8 42,609 40,227 2,068 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 13.83 14.23 550 561 39.8 28,613 29,182 2,069 Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood............ 13.99 14.23 555 569 39.7 28,846 29,590 2,062 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 13.76 13.60 548 544 39.8 28,500 28,288 2,072 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 12.74 12.21 498 477 39.1 25,877 24,794 2,031 Cutting workers................................................... 14.75 13.95 590 558 40.0 30,684 29,016 2,080 Cutters and trimmers, hand...................................... 15.62 15.25 625 610 40.0 32,483 31,720 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 13.81 13.89 542 522 39.3 28,201 27,144 2,042 Painting workers.................................................. 12.81 12.58 513 503 40.0 26,654 26,166 2,080 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 13.23 13.14 529 526 40.0 27,521 27,331 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.40 12.35 514 488 38.4 26,734 25,355 1,995 Helpers--production workers..................................... 11.43 10.72 421 429 36.9 21,905 22,306 1,916 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.91 13.25 608 510 40.7 31,596 26,512 2,119 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 12.08 11.14 477 446 39.5 24,807 23,171 2,054 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.31 11.20 450 438 39.8 23,389 22,776 2,069 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 11.43 10.95 454 424 39.7 23,613 22,069 2,065 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.43 11.70 455 468 39.8 23,665 24,336 2,071 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, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Union Nonunion Occupational group(3) Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers All workers........................................................... – – – $14.06 $13.27 $18.53 Management, professional, and related............................... – – – 23.15 24.95 21.53 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 28.05 30.83 22.58 Professional and related.......................................... – – – 21.22 21.10 21.29 Service............................................................. – – – 9.01 8.21 13.16 Sales and office.................................................... – – – 12.07 11.95 13.94 Sales and related................................................. – – – 10.19 10.19 – Office and administrative support................................. – – – 13.18 13.10 13.94 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – – – 14.74 14.60 15.38 Construction and extraction...................................... – – – 12.59 12.33 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – – – 16.36 16.58 15.61 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – – – 12.85 12.85 – Production........................................................ – – – 13.10 13.09 – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – 12.24 12.27 – 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........................................................... – – – 2.1 2.2 4.1 Management, professional, and related............................... – – – 4.4 6.1 4.8 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 6.4 7.3 10.5 Professional and related.......................................... – – – 3.9 7.7 5.2 Service............................................................. – – – 6.2 6.6 4.8 Sales and office.................................................... – – – 3.7 3.8 10.9 Sales and related................................................. – – – 5.3 5.3 – Office and administrative support................................. – – – 4.0 4.2 10.9 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... – – – 7.5 8.8 5.2 Construction and extraction...................................... – – – 11.7 12.3 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – – – 3.8 4.3 6.8 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – – – 3.0 3.0 – Production........................................................ – – – 4.0 4.1 – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – 3.7 3.8 – 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, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $13.96 $13.07 $15.94 $15.94 Management, professional, and related............................... 23.15 24.95 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 28.05 30.83 – – Professional and related.......................................... 21.22 21.10 – – Service............................................................. 9.01 8.21 – – Sales and office.................................................... 11.86 11.72 14.60 14.60 Sales and related................................................. 9.30 9.30 17.27 17.27 Office and administrative support................................. 13.29 13.22 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 14.61 14.43 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 12.48 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 16.31 16.56 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 12.42 12.42 16.16 16.16 Production........................................................ 12.35 12.32 16.80 16.80 Transportation and material moving................................ 12.59 12.63 14.25 14.25 Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 2.3 2.6 3.6 3.6 Management, professional, and related............................... 4.4 6.1 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 6.4 7.3 – – Professional and related.......................................... 3.9 7.7 – – Service............................................................. 6.2 6.6 – – Sales and office.................................................... 5.4 5.7 13.4 13.4 Sales and related................................................. 11.0 11.0 3.9 3.9 Office and administrative support................................. 4.2 4.4 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 7.9 9.5 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 12.7 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 4.3 5.1 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 3.8 3.9 3.7 3.7 Production........................................................ 2.4 2.4 6.4 6.4 Transportation and material moving................................ 10.9 11.3 11.5 11.5 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, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Goods producing Service providing Occupational group(3) Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services All workers........................................................... $13.00 $14.16 $12.97 – - $10.53 $15.50 $8.79 $8.38 Management, professional, and related............................... – 30.17 24.53 – - – 23.93 – – Management, business, and financial............................... – 33.73 – – - – 29.41 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 22.53 – – - – 23.00 – – Service............................................................. – – 8.21 – - 7.77 8.89 7.61 – Sales and office.................................................... – 14.26 11.17 – - 12.90 12.54 – – Sales and related................................................. – – 10.46 – - – – – – Office and administrative support................................. – 14.26 13.01 – - 12.63 12.54 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 12.33 17.60 16.73 – - – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 17.95 16.73 – - – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 13.28 14.67 – - 8.68 – – – Production........................................................ – 13.61 14.51 – - 8.72 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 11.53 14.69 – - 8.54 – – – 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........................................................... 15.9 3.5 4.2 – - 2.0 5.8 18.5 18.3 Management, professional, and related............................... – 2.0 16.5 – - – 4.0 – – Management, business, and financial............................... – 4.9 – – - – 14.6 – – Professional and related.......................................... – 14.0 – – - – 7.9 – – Service............................................................. – – 13.9 – - 2.5 6.6 18.7 – Sales and office.................................................... – 8.5 6.6 – - 4.8 4.4 – – Sales and related................................................. – – 6.4 – - – – – – Office and administrative support................................. – 8.9 6.9 – - 5.0 4.4 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 12.7 2.6 3.1 – - – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – 1.2 3.1 – - – – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – 4.2 13.0 – - 6.3 – – – Production........................................................ – 5.0 4.0 – - 6.4 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – 2.2 14.7 – - 5.7 – – – 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 156,900 132,500 24,500 Management, professional, and related............................... 27,400 12,400 14,900 Management, business, and financial............................... 6,800 4,500 2,300 Professional and related.......................................... 20,600 8,000 12,600 Service............................................................. 28,500 24,400 4,100 Sales and office.................................................... 30,300 28,500 1,800 Sales and related................................................. 12,200 12,200 – Office and administrative support................................. 18,100 16,300 1,800 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 12,700 10,500 2,200 Construction and extraction...................................... 5,200 4,700 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 7,300 5,700 1,700 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 58,100 56,600 – Production........................................................ 39,700 39,400 – Transportation and material moving................................ 18,400 17,300 – 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, January 2007 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 5,549 5,323 226 Total in sample....................................................... 278 260 18 Responding........................................................ 203 186 17 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 34 33 1 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 41 41 0 1 The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports and is based on the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private industries, an establishment is usually a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government entity. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.