NC SM 06/00/2008 Table: Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, Summary, February 2008 Table 1. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2008 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $22.80 13.7 $24.35 13.8 $8.92 11.2 Management occupations.............................................. 32.78 12.8 32.78 12.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.70 24.9 29.70 24.9 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 22.37 8.9 22.37 8.9 – – Architecture and engineering occupations Engineers......................................................... 41.81 3.5 41.81 3.5 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 22.77 33.1 23.05 34.0 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.98 34.5 22.98 34.5 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 59.57 47.7 62.13 47.9 26.57 6.1 Level 4 .................................................. 17.19 1.3 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.36 8.3 16.34 4.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 27.00 3.5 26.78 4.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.95 12.7 33.41 11.6 – – Registered nurses................................................. 28.87 3.8 28.84 4.3 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.72 4.5 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.89 10.0 12.96 9.8 – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.48 10.6 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 8.07 5.4 7.96 5.5 – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 8.05 5.4 7.96 5.5 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 9.19 14.7 8.94 5.9 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 9.19 14.7 8.94 5.9 – – Security guards................................................. 9.19 14.7 8.94 5.9 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.03 8.7 7.75 19.1 5.57 3.1 Level 1 .................................................. 5.66 3.6 – – – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 6.70 6.2 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.82 8.5 7.90 8.7 – – Level 1 .................................................. 6.97 3.1 7.02 2.8 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.02 5.9 7.06 6.2 – – Level 1 .................................................. 6.61 4.0 6.64 4.2 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.54 13.2 – – – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 6.65 2.5 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 12.52 2.6 14.15 6.1 7.67 7.1 Level 2 .................................................. – – – – 7.87 1.3 Level 3 .................................................. 10.20 7.8 9.70 12.1 10.85 14.7 Level 4 .................................................. 13.37 22.4 13.37 22.4 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.65 4.9 18.65 4.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 12.33 19.5 14.44 7.4 – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 12.26 30.3 12.26 30.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 12.26 30.3 12.26 30.3 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.45 13.2 12.17 6.6 7.16 3.7 Level 2 .................................................. – – – – 7.87 1.3 Level 3 .................................................. 9.43 4.3 9.70 12.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 11.52 26.9 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.63 12.5 8.41 5.2 – – Cashiers...................................................... 7.63 12.5 8.41 5.2 – – Retail salespersons............................................. 12.91 5.6 14.88 6.6 7.98 12.4 Level 3 .................................................. 9.82 .3 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 12.54 3.3 12.58 3.6 12.29 8.3 Level 2 .................................................. 10.90 5.7 11.07 6.9 9.54 13.1 Level 3 .................................................. 12.93 4.3 13.06 4.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.17 7.3 13.77 8.2 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 11.69 4.3 11.62 3.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.73 8.0 11.56 3.3 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.51 8.1 12.79 9.7 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 12.63 14.8 – – – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.65 9.0 12.71 8.5 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... – – 16.50 6.4 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 15.55 9.8 16.19 10.1 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 17.18 6.0 17.18 6.0 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.86 8.7 18.86 8.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.37 4.4 17.37 4.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 26.94 3.9 26.94 3.9 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.62 8.6 20.62 8.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.71 5.9 25.71 5.9 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 23.63 8.0 23.63 8.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.31 6.9 25.31 6.9 – – Production occupations.............................................. 17.72 7.6 17.80 7.6 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.78 4.7 9.78 4.7 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.82 13.2 13.07 13.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.24 2.7 13.24 2.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.88 8.1 13.88 8.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 22.17 7.9 22.17 7.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.03 14.0 24.03 14.0 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.26 34.1 24.26 34.1 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 13.35 4.5 13.35 4.5 – – Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders................... 13.33 .3 13.33 .3 – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 13.88 37.2 13.88 37.2 – – Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood............ 13.88 37.2 13.88 37.2 – – Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 13.90 33.4 13.90 33.4 – – Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 17.83 26.0 17.83 26.0 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 21.74 24.3 21.74 24.3 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 19.67 14.1 19.67 14.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 13.65 9.5 13.65 9.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.60 10.4 12.60 10.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.33 3.0 19.33 3.0 – – Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders............. 16.48 1.7 16.48 1.7 – – Helpers--production workers..................................... 13.97 .4 13.97 .4 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.80 9.1 14.66 9.0 7.59 7.3 Level 1 .................................................. 8.99 4.7 9.86 13.0 – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.35 7.6 12.35 7.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.95 14.2 14.95 14.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.35 5.6 17.35 5.6 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.20 14.3 16.20 14.3 – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 14.89 10.7 14.89 10.7 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.51 8.4 15.51 8.4 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.16 10.5 12.41 9.9 7.59 7.3 Level 1 .................................................. 8.99 4.7 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 11.59 10.4 11.59 10.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.84 5.4 14.84 5.4 – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.99 13.7 13.16 10.4 – – Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.76 6.4 12.71 11.1 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 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 2. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2008 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $7.00 $10.05 $15.80 $28.69 $38.95 Management occupations.............................................. 19.25 23.83 29.32 34.67 63.68 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 19.01 19.58 19.58 25.03 32.52 Architecture and engineering occupations Engineers......................................................... 31.41 36.27 39.70 46.11 56.44 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 6.72 8.13 30.85 31.54 37.32 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 6.72 8.13 30.85 31.54 37.32 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 17.78 23.81 29.03 33.64 214.11 Registered nurses................................................. 21.72 25.91 28.63 31.94 37.23 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 13.36 14.44 15.75 16.83 18.09 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 7.10 8.43 14.00 15.79 17.25 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 7.00 7.00 7.75 8.25 9.97 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 7.00 7.00 7.72 8.24 9.97 Protective service occupations...................................... 7.00 7.25 8.50 10.67 15.51 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 7.00 7.25 8.50 10.67 15.51 Security guards................................................. 7.00 7.25 8.50 10.67 15.51 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.15 5.79 6.00 8.50 10.00 Food preparation workers.......................................... 5.56 5.85 6.85 7.44 7.44 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 6.00 6.25 6.75 8.55 10.05 Building cleaning workers......................................... 6.00 6.25 6.55 6.95 10.05 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 6.00 6.00 6.30 10.05 10.05 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 6.25 6.25 6.55 6.95 7.62 Sales and related occupations....................................... 6.25 7.50 10.02 15.00 24.44 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 7.00 7.00 11.90 18.75 18.75 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 7.00 7.00 11.90 18.75 18.75 Retail sales workers.............................................. 6.00 7.00 8.38 12.47 15.62 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 6.00 6.00 7.54 7.85 9.88 Cashiers...................................................... 6.00 6.00 7.54 7.85 9.88 Retail salespersons............................................. 6.88 8.38 11.00 13.29 24.44 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 8.00 10.50 12.07 14.47 16.49 Financial clerks.................................................. 9.66 10.50 11.25 12.48 16.50 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 9.66 9.66 12.45 16.50 18.28 Customer service representatives.................................. 7.94 7.94 14.13 14.91 16.98 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.25 8.00 11.28 14.56 15.20 Office clerks, general............................................ 11.69 14.47 14.47 20.12 20.85 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.75 17.00 18.00 18.00 19.72 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 8.83 12.07 17.52 22.62 30.94 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 12.69 16.50 18.93 22.62 29.53 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 15.50 17.52 22.62 29.53 29.53 Production occupations.............................................. 10.68 12.25 15.75 25.25 25.95 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 10.68 10.68 25.45 33.75 35.15 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 11.15 12.00 12.00 15.35 15.75 Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders................... 10.85 12.40 13.06 14.35 15.87 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 9.75 10.00 11.73 12.00 28.58 Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood............ 9.75 10.00 11.73 12.00 28.58 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 8.50 9.50 12.25 15.05 23.17 Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 9.00 14.00 23.17 23.17 23.17 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 13.25 14.09 22.09 29.03 29.03 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 10.32 14.32 21.28 25.95 25.95 Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders............. 8.85 13.65 16.66 21.07 23.02 Helpers--production workers..................................... 10.27 10.68 14.32 15.90 20.72 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.00 10.25 13.30 16.38 21.47 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 11.00 12.21 17.97 19.93 22.38 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 11.00 12.00 15.00 18.00 18.00 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 11.86 11.90 14.31 15.76 23.25 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.84 8.00 10.25 13.52 16.00 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.00 8.00 10.00 16.00 16.00 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 6.40 8.53 12.72 13.56 16.52 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 3. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC, February 2008 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $24.35 $17.25 $965 $680 39.6 $50,061 $35,360 2,055 Management occupations.............................................. 32.78 29.32 1,318 1,173 40.2 68,300 60,984 2,084 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 22.37 19.58 895 783 40.0 46,530 40,726 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations Engineers......................................................... 41.81 39.70 1,672 1,588 40.0 86,963 82,574 2,080 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 23.05 30.85 869 1,110 37.7 31,665 39,975 1,374 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.98 30.85 866 1,110 37.7 31,627 39,975 1,376 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 62.13 29.03 2,467 1,161 39.7 128,282 60,372 2,065 Registered nurses................................................. 28.84 28.33 1,126 1,119 39.0 58,565 58,200 2,031 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.96 14.00 509 560 39.3 26,473 29,120 2,042 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 7.96 7.67 310 305 38.9 16,127 15,850 2,025 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 7.96 7.67 310 305 38.9 16,127 15,850 2,025 Protective service occupations...................................... 8.94 8.73 358 349 40.0 18,593 18,165 2,080 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 8.94 8.73 358 349 40.0 18,593 18,165 2,080 Security guards................................................. 8.94 8.73 358 349 40.0 18,593 18,165 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.75 7.00 277 245 35.8 14,414 12,740 1,860 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.90 6.78 281 240 35.5 14,591 12,480 1,846 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.06 6.55 241 229 34.2 12,539 11,887 1,776 Sales and related occupations....................................... 14.15 12.82 584 504 41.3 30,352 26,208 2,145 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 12.26 11.90 493 476 40.2 25,648 24,752 2,092 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 12.26 11.90 493 476 40.2 25,648 24,752 2,092 Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.17 10.10 498 397 40.9 25,881 20,654 2,127 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.41 7.75 336 310 40.0 17,491 16,120 2,080 Cashiers...................................................... 8.41 7.75 336 310 40.0 17,491 16,120 2,080 Retail salespersons............................................. 14.88 12.82 618 532 41.6 32,158 27,639 2,162 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 12.58 12.07 502 483 39.9 26,128 25,106 2,077 Financial clerks.................................................. 11.62 11.25 465 450 40.0 24,172 23,400 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 12.79 11.00 512 440 40.0 26,602 22,880 2,080 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 12.71 14.50 508 580 40.0 26,438 30,160 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.50 17.95 660 718 40.0 34,316 37,336 2,080 Office clerks, general............................................ 16.19 14.47 643 579 39.7 33,418 30,091 2,064 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 17.18 18.00 687 720 40.0 35,733 37,440 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.86 17.52 771 701 40.9 40,113 36,442 2,126 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 20.62 18.93 820 757 39.8 42,641 39,374 2,068 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 23.63 22.62 931 905 39.4 48,435 47,050 2,049 Production occupations.............................................. 17.80 15.77 711 631 39.9 36,970 32,802 2,077 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 24.26 25.45 992 916 40.9 51,580 47,646 2,126 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 13.35 12.00 534 480 40.0 27,770 24,960 2,080 Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders................... 13.33 13.06 528 522 39.6 27,437 27,154 2,058 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 13.88 11.73 547 469 39.4 28,434 24,398 2,049 Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood............ 13.88 11.73 547 469 39.4 28,434 24,398 2,049 Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers....... 13.90 12.25 556 490 40.0 28,920 25,482 2,080 Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders..... 17.83 23.17 713 927 40.0 37,089 48,198 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 21.74 22.09 869 884 40.0 45,211 45,947 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 19.67 21.28 785 851 39.9 40,833 44,262 2,076 Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders............. 16.48 16.66 659 666 40.0 34,281 34,653 2,080 Helpers--production workers..................................... 13.97 14.32 554 573 39.7 28,825 29,786 2,063 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.66 13.73 586 549 40.0 30,487 28,558 2,080 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 16.20 17.97 648 719 40.0 33,675 37,369 2,079 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 14.89 15.00 595 600 40.0 30,965 31,200 2,079 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.51 14.31 620 572 40.0 32,258 29,765 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 12.41 13.10 496 524 40.0 25,811 27,248 2,080 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.16 13.10 526 524 40.0 27,363 27,248 2,080 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 12.71 13.17 508 527 40.0 26,427 27,394 2,080 1 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately