Table 1. Relative pay levels for all civilian workers by eight census divisions, major occupational group, and selected characteristics, National Compensation Survey, 2000-2001
Major occupational group United States (1) Census divisions (2)
New England Middle Atlantic East North Central West North Central South Atlantic West South Central Mountain Pacific

All civilian workers

 100 108 115 99 92 94 93 91 109

White-collar occupations

 122 141 143 119 111 115 115 109 130

White collar, excluding sales

 131 150 150 124 120 124 126 114 139

Professional specialty and technical

 161 161 192 157 137 155 160 149 169

Executive, administrative, and managerial

 177 202 199 175 175 164 164 154 179

Sales

 85 83 100 96 75 76 76 83 85

Administrative support

 79 87 86 76 73 77 73 72 87

Blue-collar occupations

 85 79 91 90 83 79 77 86 90

Precision production, craft, and repair

 106 106 118 110 104 99 95 107 116

Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors

 76 70 75 84 79 73 65 67 70

Transportation and material moving

 83 87 91 88 78 76 76 87 91

Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers and laborers

 64 62 70 70 63 60 56 61 68

Service occupations

 61 65 71 61 58 55 50 53 69
Worker characteristics

Full time (3)

 106 114 123 104 98 99 98 96 115

Part time (3)

 57 68 61 56 53 50 47 53 65

Union

 120 128 123 119 111 107 110 113 131

Nonunion

 96 104 112 93 89 92 92 88 101

Time

 99 108 115 97 90 92 91 89 108

Incentive

 126 110 130 140 137 126 123 120 122

Metropolitan areas

 101 109 116 99 95 95 93 89 109

Nonmetropolitan areas

 – 96 102 97 80 82 89 108 –

Footnotes:
(1) U.S. average for all workers = $16.23 = 100.
(2) Data for the East South Central division are not shown because they do not meet BLS publication criteria.
(3) Employees are classified as working full or part time on the basis of the definitions used by the establishment employing them.

Note: Blanks indicate that the data for that cell do not meet BLS publication criteria.