NC BL 03/00/2005 Table: Huntsville, AL, Bulletin 3125-54, June 2004 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Total Private industry State and local government 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) Total................................................................. $19.77 3.5 37.8 $19.71 4.1 37.5 $20.01 6.4 38.7 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 23.90 3.2 38.8 23.98 3.7 38.6 23.61 6.2 39.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29.23 3.7 39.5 30.28 3.4 39.8 26.45 8.8 38.8 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.51 3.2 40.5 33.63 2.9 40.5 33.14 10.1 40.4 Sales............................................................. 11.23 3.2 34.0 11.19 3.3 33.7 – – – Administrative support............................................ 13.03 3.6 39.1 13.11 4.5 39.0 12.79 5.3 39.7 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 16.88 4.3 39.1 16.98 4.6 39.2 15.78 .9 38.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.66 4.8 39.8 17.46 5.3 39.8 19.10 11.8 40.4 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 18.62 6.8 39.7 18.62 6.8 39.7 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.36 9.5 37.3 15.78 12.8 38.8 14.43 3.9 34.2 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 9.66 4.3 36.6 9.56 4.7 36.1 – – – Service occupations(5).............................................. 8.92 4.2 30.9 7.57 3.4 28.2 11.48 5.0 37.6 Full time........................................................... 20.59 3.4 39.7 20.70 3.9 39.7 20.21 6.5 39.4 Part time........................................................... 9.12 13.2 23.3 9.02 14.1 23.5 10.77 17.1 21.6 Union............................................................... 23.00 3.3 39.0 23.00 3.3 39.0 – – – Nonunion............................................................ 19.23 3.9 37.6 18.99 4.7 37.2 20.01 6.4 38.7 Time................................................................ 19.69 3.7 37.7 19.62 4.3 37.5 20.01 6.4 38.7 Incentive........................................................... 36.28 24.3 42.0 36.28 24.3 42.0 – – – Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 21.33 2.4 39.8 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 18.06 8.9 35.4 (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 15.27 8.8 36.3 15.27 8.8 36.3 – – – 100-499 workers..................................................... 17.13 7.7 36.2 17.25 8.1 36.0 15.32 16.6 39.2 500 workers or more................................................. 22.88 1.9 39.4 24.09 1.6 39.8 20.61 6.2 38.6 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, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing industries applies to private industry only. 7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $19.77 3.5 $19.71 4.1 $20.01 6.4 All excluding sales............................................... 20.38 3.5 20.44 4.1 20.16 6.4 White collar........................................................ 23.90 3.2 23.98 3.7 23.61 6.2 White collar excluding sales.................................... 25.67 2.8 26.28 3.0 23.95 6.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29.23 3.7 30.28 3.4 26.45 8.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 31.29 3.6 33.24 2.2 26.94 9.2 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 35.88 3.1 36.23 2.8 – – Aerospace engineers......................................... 34.55 2.8 34.55 2.8 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 37.31 6.2 37.77 5.7 – – Industrial engineers........................................ 32.89 6.7 32.89 6.7 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 36.44 3.9 36.44 3.9 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 32.48 5.8 32.48 5.8 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 32.29 6.3 32.29 6.3 – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – Health related................................................ 31.49 14.8 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 28.36 14.0 – – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 27.62 1.9 17.58 22.2 – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 27.25 2.5 – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 27.75 3.2 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 16.60 22.3 22.39 13.7 – – Technical....................................................... 19.86 2.6 19.82 3.0 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 15.13 2.6 15.31 2.2 – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 17.00 7.4 16.62 7.3 – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 24.37 4.7 24.37 4.7 – – Computer programmers........................................ 24.76 10.0 24.76 10.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.51 3.2 33.63 2.9 33.14 10.1 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 37.26 5.7 38.65 6.6 34.01 10.6 Administrators, education and related fields................ 38.14 7.5 – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 38.79 6.2 38.79 6.2 – – Management related............................................ 26.07 6.1 25.86 6.6 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 25.03 4.1 24.61 3.9 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 25.57 13.0 25.57 13.0 – – Sales............................................................. 11.23 3.2 11.19 3.3 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.43 10.6 15.43 10.6 – – Cashiers.................................................... 8.82 5.1 8.76 5.4 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.03 3.6 13.11 4.5 12.79 5.3 Secretaries................................................. 14.88 3.5 15.93 5.3 13.89 4.9 Receptionists............................................... $11.02 10.0 $11.02 10.0 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.70 6.9 13.90 11.5 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.98 5.9 12.98 5.9 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.42 13.7 12.42 13.7 – – General office clerks....................................... 9.79 3.8 9.95 5.6 – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 17.65 20.6 17.65 20.6 – – Blue collar......................................................... 16.88 4.3 16.98 4.6 $15.78 0.9 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.66 4.8 17.46 5.3 19.10 11.8 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 22.14 8.3 22.14 8.3 – – Electricians................................................ 23.21 12.6 23.21 12.6 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 20.28 4.6 20.28 4.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.62 6.8 18.62 6.8 – – Punching and stamping press operators....................... 13.33 6.1 13.33 6.1 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 15.60 1.3 15.60 1.3 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 19.93 16.4 19.93 16.4 – – Assemblers.................................................. 21.67 10.2 21.67 10.2 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 15.97 10.0 15.97 10.0 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.36 9.5 15.78 12.8 14.43 3.9 Truck drivers............................................... 16.83 12.7 17.96 15.9 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 10.37 16.0 10.37 16.0 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.66 4.3 9.56 4.7 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.93 5.0 8.93 5.0 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.55 5.4 10.55 5.4 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.12 4.9 9.12 4.9 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.33 5.0 10.33 5.0 – – Service............................................................. 8.92 4.2 7.57 3.4 11.48 5.0 Protective service............................................ 12.20 9.1 – – 13.85 5.0 Food service.................................................. 8.14 6.8 6.94 7.1 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.12 21.9 – – – – Other food service........................................... 8.87 9.4 – – – – Health service................................................ 9.00 2.4 8.97 2.6 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.77 1.7 8.68 1.4 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 7.31 6.3 7.00 6.3 8.73 8.9 Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.39 8.6 7.38 9.0 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.16 5.7 6.75 4.2 – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $20.59 3.4 $20.70 3.9 $20.21 6.5 All excluding sales............................................... 21.02 3.4 21.20 4.0 20.35 6.5 White collar........................................................ 24.65 3.1 24.95 3.6 23.75 6.2 White collar excluding sales.................................... 25.86 2.8 26.52 3.1 24.06 6.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29.25 3.7 30.27 3.4 26.59 8.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 31.24 3.6 33.17 1.9 27.02 9.2 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 35.88 3.1 36.23 2.8 – – Aerospace engineers......................................... 34.55 2.8 34.55 2.8 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 37.31 6.2 37.77 5.7 – – Industrial engineers........................................ 32.89 6.7 32.89 6.7 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 36.44 3.9 36.44 3.9 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 31.95 4.6 31.95 4.6 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 31.73 5.3 31.73 5.3 – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – Health related................................................ 32.02 14.8 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 28.75 14.2 – – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 27.62 1.9 17.58 22.2 – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 27.25 2.5 – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 27.75 3.2 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 16.86 23.4 23.25 12.4 – – Technical....................................................... 20.02 2.5 19.93 2.9 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 14.91 2.5 15.10 2.3 – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 17.00 7.4 16.62 7.3 – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 24.37 4.7 24.37 4.7 – – Computer programmers........................................ 24.76 10.0 24.76 10.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.51 3.2 33.63 2.9 33.14 10.1 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 37.26 5.7 38.65 6.6 34.01 10.6 Administrators, education and related fields................ 38.14 7.5 – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 38.79 6.2 38.79 6.2 – – Management related............................................ 26.07 6.1 25.86 6.6 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 25.03 4.1 24.61 3.9 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 25.57 13.0 25.57 13.0 – – Sales............................................................. 12.53 4.5 12.55 4.8 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.43 10.6 15.43 10.6 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 13.04 5.2 – – – – Cashiers.................................................... 9.78 4.6 9.69 5.2 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.21 3.7 13.34 4.7 12.85 5.2 Secretaries................................................. $14.94 3.5 $16.11 5.2 $13.89 4.9 Receptionists............................................... 11.02 10.0 11.02 10.0 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.70 6.9 13.90 11.5 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 13.32 4.3 13.32 4.3 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.42 13.7 12.42 13.7 – – General office clerks....................................... 10.03 4.3 10.38 7.3 – – Blue collar......................................................... 17.13 4.3 17.25 4.6 15.85 1.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.83 4.7 17.64 5.2 19.10 11.8 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 22.14 8.3 22.14 8.3 – – Electricians................................................ 23.21 12.6 23.21 12.6 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 20.28 4.6 20.28 4.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.72 6.8 18.72 6.8 – – Punching and stamping press operators....................... 13.33 6.1 13.33 6.1 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 15.60 1.3 15.60 1.3 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 19.93 16.4 19.93 16.4 – – Assemblers.................................................. 21.88 10.1 21.88 10.1 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 15.97 10.0 15.97 10.0 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.45 10.1 15.87 13.0 – – Truck drivers............................................... 16.84 12.9 18.01 16.1 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 10.37 16.0 10.37 16.0 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.91 4.7 9.83 5.2 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.97 5.6 9.97 5.6 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.55 5.4 10.55 5.4 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.12 4.9 9.12 4.9 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.33 5.0 10.33 5.0 – – Service............................................................. 9.85 3.6 8.43 2.7 11.61 5.0 Protective service............................................ 12.54 8.9 – – 13.85 5.0 Food service.................................................. 9.64 5.1 8.89 5.9 – – Other food service........................................... 9.79 4.7 9.18 5.6 – – Health service................................................ 9.02 2.5 8.99 2.7 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.78 1.8 8.69 1.3 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 8.02 4.8 7.70 4.9 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.89 5.3 7.38 4.0 – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $9.12 13.2 $9.02 14.1 $10.77 17.1 All excluding sales............................................... 9.47 18.0 9.33 19.6 11.13 16.5 White collar........................................................ 11.81 20.8 11.93 21.3 8.71 13.3 White collar excluding sales.................................... 18.01 30.9 18.73 31.7 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.27 29.7 30.73 28.5 – – Professional specialty.......................................... – – – – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 8.23 1.4 8.27 1.5 – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.69 4.0 7.77 4.0 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 9.64 8.0 9.80 8.1 – – Blue collar......................................................... 9.20 11.9 8.14 8.5 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 7.87 7.3 7.87 7.3 – – Service............................................................. 6.16 7.5 6.11 8.1 – – Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. – – – – – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.22 27.4 – – – – Health service................................................ – – – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 6.21 4.1 – – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Total Private industry State and local government Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $817 3.6 39.7 $822 4.2 39.7 $796 5.9 39.4 All excluding sales............................................... 835 3.5 39.7 844 4.2 39.8 801 5.8 39.4 White collar........................................................ 985 3.4 39.9 1,000 4.1 40.1 938 5.4 39.5 White collar excluding sales.................................... 1,036 3.1 40.1 1,068 3.5 40.3 950 5.6 39.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,170 4.3 40.0 1,222 4.2 40.4 1,039 7.9 39.1 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,251 4.2 40.1 1,347 2.8 40.6 1,051 8.2 38.9 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,480 4.6 41.3 1,494 4.4 41.2 – – – Aerospace engineers......................................... 1,382 2.8 40.0 1,382 2.8 40.0 – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 1,633 9.1 43.8 1,652 8.9 43.7 – – – Industrial engineers........................................ 1,325 6.0 40.3 1,325 6.0 40.3 – – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 1,458 3.9 40.0 1,458 3.9 40.0 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 1,282 4.4 40.1 1,282 4.4 40.1 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 1,273 5.1 40.1 1,273 5.1 40.1 – – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – – – – Health related................................................ 1,258 14.9 39.3 – – – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 1,127 13.9 39.2 – – – – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 1,077 3.5 39.0 683 20.9 38.9 – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 1,063 4.1 39.0 – – – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 1,071 5.4 38.6 – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 674 23.4 40.0 928 12.4 39.9 – – – Technical....................................................... 795 2.8 39.7 788 3.2 39.6 – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 559 2.9 37.5 561 3.2 37.2 – – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 680 7.4 40.0 665 7.3 40.0 – – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 975 4.7 40.0 975 4.7 40.0 – – – Computer programmers........................................ 990 10.0 40.0 990 10.0 40.0 – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,356 3.2 40.5 1,361 2.9 40.5 1,338 9.9 40.4 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,500 5.4 40.3 1,560 6.2 40.4 1,360 10.6 40.0 Administrators, education and related fields................ 1,519 7.8 39.8 – – – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,559 6.2 40.2 1,559 6.2 40.2 – – – Management related............................................ 1,065 5.6 40.9 1,051 5.9 40.7 – – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 1,053 3.7 42.1 1,045 4.4 42.5 – – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 1,020 13.1 39.9 1,020 13.1 39.9 – – – Sales............................................................. 484 6.9 38.7 484 7.4 38.6 – – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 617 10.6 40.0 617 10.6 40.0 – – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ $521 5.2 40.0 – – – – – – Cashiers.................................................... 390 4.7 39.9 $386 5.3 39.9 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 528 3.6 40.0 534 4.5 40.0 $514 5.2 40.0 Secretaries................................................. 597 3.5 40.0 643 5.2 39.9 556 4.9 40.0 Receptionists............................................... 441 10.0 40.0 441 10.0 40.0 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 588 6.9 40.0 556 11.5 40.0 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 538 4.3 40.4 538 4.3 40.4 – – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 490 13.2 39.5 490 13.2 39.5 – – – General office clerks....................................... 401 4.3 40.0 415 7.3 40.0 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 684 4.2 39.9 689 4.6 39.9 637 .9 40.2 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 714 4.7 40.0 706 5.1 40.0 771 12.7 40.4 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 878 8.4 39.6 878 8.4 39.6 – – – Electricians................................................ 928 12.6 40.0 928 12.6 40.0 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 821 4.4 40.5 821 4.4 40.5 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 745 6.8 39.8 745 6.8 39.8 – – – Punching and stamping press operators....................... 533 6.1 40.0 533 6.1 40.0 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 620 1.7 39.8 620 1.7 39.8 – – – Welders and cutters......................................... 797 16.4 40.0 797 16.4 40.0 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 875 10.1 40.0 875 10.1 40.0 – – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 634 9.3 39.7 634 9.3 39.7 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 623 9.4 40.3 642 12.0 40.4 – – – Truck drivers............................................... 682 11.9 40.5 734 14.6 40.8 – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 413 16.2 39.8 413 16.2 39.8 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 396 4.8 39.9 392 5.3 39.9 – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 395 6.3 39.6 395 6.3 39.6 – – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 422 5.4 40.0 422 5.4 40.0 – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 367 5.4 40.2 367 5.4 40.2 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 413 5.0 40.0 413 5.0 40.0 – – – Service............................................................. 365 3.5 37.0 303 3.1 36.0 446 5.6 38.4 Protective service............................................ 511 10.1 40.8 – – – 568 6.9 41.0 Food service.................................................. 340 7.0 35.2 339 6.4 38.2 – – – Other food service........................................... 344 6.7 35.2 350 5.8 38.1 – – – Health service................................................ 349 3.7 38.7 345 4.3 38.4 – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 339 3.3 38.6 332 3.8 38.2 – – – Cleaning and building service................................. $274 5.7 34.2 $249 5.6 32.4 – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 260 6.7 33.0 223 3.6 30.2 – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Total Private industry State and local government Annual earnings Annual earnings Annual earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean annual annual annual Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $41,352 3.6 2,008 $42,706 4.2 2,064 $36,798 5.9 1,821 All excluding sales............................................... 42,202 3.5 2,008 43,832 4.2 2,067 36,971 5.8 1,817 White collar........................................................ 49,118 3.4 1,993 51,909 4.1 2,081 41,959 5.4 1,767 White collar excluding sales.................................... 51,487 3.1 1,991 55,437 3.5 2,091 42,334 5.6 1,760 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 56,395 4.3 1,928 63,310 4.2 2,092 42,568 7.9 1,601 Professional specialty.......................................... 59,383 4.2 1,901 69,710 2.8 2,102 42,464 8.2 1,571 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 76,972 4.6 2,146 77,706 4.4 2,145 – – – Aerospace engineers......................................... 71,871 2.8 2,080 71,871 2.8 2,080 – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 84,921 9.1 2,276 85,881 8.9 2,274 – – – Industrial engineers........................................ 68,875 6.0 2,094 68,875 6.0 2,094 – – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 75,801 3.9 2,080 75,801 3.9 2,080 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 66,650 4.4 2,086 66,650 4.4 2,086 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 66,207 5.1 2,086 66,207 5.1 2,086 – – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – – – – Health related................................................ 65,397 14.9 2,042 – – – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 58,586 13.9 2,038 – – – – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 40,891 3.5 1,480 30,146 20.9 1,715 – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 40,107 4.1 1,472 – – – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 41,012 5.4 1,478 – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 34,859 23.4 2,068 47,762 12.4 2,054 – – – Technical....................................................... 41,356 2.8 2,066 40,993 3.2 2,057 – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 29,043 2.9 1,948 29,173 3.2 1,932 – – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 35,353 7.4 2,080 34,566 7.3 2,080 – – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 50,687 4.7 2,080 50,687 4.7 2,080 – – – Computer programmers........................................ 51,495 10.0 2,080 51,495 10.0 2,080 – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 70,231 3.2 2,096 70,784 2.9 2,105 68,447 9.9 2,066 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 77,543 5.4 2,081 81,139 6.2 2,099 69,396 10.6 2,041 Administrators, education and related fields................ 76,846 7.8 2,015 – – – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 81,045 6.2 2,089 81,045 6.2 2,089 – – – Management related............................................ 55,393 5.6 2,125 54,665 5.9 2,114 – – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 54,752 3.7 2,188 54,343 4.4 2,208 – – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 53,040 13.1 2,075 53,040 13.1 2,075 – – – Sales............................................................. 25,193 6.9 2,010 25,164 7.4 2,005 – – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 32,086 10.6 2,080 32,086 10.6 2,080 – – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ $27,115 5.2 2,080 – – – – – – Cashiers.................................................... 20,284 4.7 2,073 $20,089 5.3 2,073 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 27,396 3.6 2,074 27,730 4.5 2,078 $26,477 5.2 2,060 Secretaries................................................. 30,721 3.5 2,056 33,451 5.2 2,077 28,292 4.9 2,037 Receptionists............................................... 22,919 10.0 2,080 22,919 10.0 2,080 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 30,566 6.9 2,080 28,917 11.5 2,080 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 27,992 4.3 2,101 27,992 4.3 2,101 – – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 25,491 13.2 2,052 25,491 13.2 2,052 – – – General office clerks....................................... 20,859 4.3 2,080 21,586 7.3 2,080 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 35,586 4.2 2,077 35,808 4.6 2,076 33,112 .9 2,089 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 37,119 4.7 2,082 36,695 5.1 2,080 40,094 12.7 2,099 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 45,644 8.4 2,061 45,644 8.4 2,061 – – – Electricians................................................ 48,273 12.6 2,080 48,273 12.6 2,080 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 42,672 4.4 2,104 42,672 4.4 2,104 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 38,759 6.8 2,070 38,759 6.8 2,070 – – – Punching and stamping press operators....................... 27,719 6.1 2,080 27,719 6.1 2,080 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 32,248 1.7 2,067 32,248 1.7 2,067 – – – Welders and cutters......................................... 41,452 16.4 2,080 41,452 16.4 2,080 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 45,508 10.1 2,080 45,508 10.1 2,080 – – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 32,984 9.3 2,066 32,984 9.3 2,066 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 32,398 9.4 2,097 33,375 12.0 2,103 – – – Truck drivers............................................... 35,484 11.9 2,107 38,182 14.6 2,120 – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 21,478 16.2 2,071 21,478 16.2 2,071 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 20,569 4.8 2,076 20,388 5.3 2,075 – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 20,516 6.3 2,058 20,516 6.3 2,058 – – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 21,948 5.4 2,080 21,948 5.4 2,080 – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 19,065 5.4 2,090 19,065 5.4 2,090 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 21,477 5.0 2,080 21,477 5.0 2,080 – – – Service............................................................. 18,268 3.5 1,855 15,751 3.1 1,869 21,346 5.6 1,838 Protective service............................................ 26,580 10.1 2,119 – – – 29,551 6.9 2,134 Food service.................................................. 15,272 7.0 1,584 17,652 6.4 1,985 – – – Other food service........................................... 15,428 6.7 1,577 18,192 5.8 1,981 – – – Health service................................................ 18,150 3.7 2,013 17,956 4.3 1,997 – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 17,628 3.3 2,007 17,275 3.8 1,988 – – – Cleaning and building service................................. $14,081 5.7 1,756 $12,937 5.6 1,679 – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 13,380 6.7 1,696 11,600 3.6 1,571 – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. 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. 5 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-1. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) all workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $19.77 3.5 $19.71 4.1 $20.01 6.4 All excluding sales............................................... 20.38 3.5 20.44 4.1 20.16 6.4 White collar........................................................ 23.90 3.2 23.98 3.7 23.61 6.2 1....................................................... 10.38 8.6 10.39 9.8 – – 2....................................................... 9.58 2.5 9.62 3.2 – – 3....................................................... 10.88 5.0 10.39 6.9 11.87 6.9 4....................................................... 12.82 4.7 12.60 5.0 15.01 4.4 5....................................................... 17.84 6.2 18.55 6.6 – – 6....................................................... 16.53 14.2 19.22 11.1 – – 7....................................................... 24.40 4.4 22.86 4.6 26.51 7.0 8....................................................... 27.51 2.6 27.16 4.3 28.03 1.3 9....................................................... 30.17 3.4 30.45 3.4 – – 10........................................................ 35.86 4.2 36.67 4.4 – – 11........................................................ 39.01 4.5 40.45 3.6 – – 12........................................................ 44.90 3.7 44.59 3.8 – – 13........................................................ 45.15 5.5 49.04 1.1 – – 14........................................................ 49.55 4.6 49.55 4.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.18 10.1 16.08 10.8 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 25.67 2.8 26.28 3.0 23.95 6.4 1....................................................... 10.75 8.8 10.55 9.9 – – 2....................................................... 9.73 3.1 9.82 4.4 – – 3....................................................... 12.34 6.8 12.88 10.2 11.76 7.9 4....................................................... 13.40 3.1 13.13 3.5 15.01 4.4 5....................................................... 17.70 6.7 18.44 7.2 – – 6....................................................... 16.55 15.2 19.59 12.0 – – 7....................................................... 24.39 4.5 22.83 4.7 26.51 7.0 8....................................................... 27.50 2.6 27.13 4.3 28.03 1.3 9....................................................... 30.25 3.4 30.54 3.4 – – 10........................................................ 35.88 4.2 36.70 4.4 – – 11........................................................ 39.19 4.4 40.70 3.3 – – 12........................................................ 44.99 3.9 44.69 4.0 – – 13........................................................ 45.15 5.5 49.04 1.1 – – 14........................................................ 49.55 4.6 49.55 4.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.73 10.2 18.76 11.0 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29.23 3.7 30.28 3.4 26.45 8.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 31.29 3.6 33.24 2.2 26.94 9.2 5....................................................... 18.78 5.4 – – – – 6....................................................... 16.84 33.6 – – – – 7....................................................... 26.61 3.9 25.13 4.2 27.75 7.4 8....................................................... 28.35 2.7 28.31 7.5 28.38 1.0 9....................................................... 31.67 2.5 31.81 2.5 – – 10........................................................ 36.71 4.6 37.17 5.0 – – 11........................................................ 36.03 1.2 36.03 1.2 – – 12........................................................ 44.03 4.1 42.92 4.8 – – 14........................................................ $48.25 4.1 $48.25 4.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.19 10.6 22.86 10.7 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 35.88 3.1 36.23 2.8 – – 7....................................................... 26.90 6.3 – – – – 8....................................................... 32.53 7.7 32.53 7.7 – – 9....................................................... 32.39 4.9 32.39 4.9 – – 10........................................................ 35.61 2.9 35.61 2.9 – – 11........................................................ 35.65 2.3 35.65 2.3 – – 12........................................................ 43.80 5.0 43.80 5.0 – – Aerospace engineers......................................... 34.55 2.8 34.55 2.8 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 37.31 6.2 37.77 5.7 – – Industrial engineers........................................ 32.89 6.7 32.89 6.7 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 36.44 3.9 36.44 3.9 – – 12........................................................ 41.44 1.2 41.44 1.2 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 32.48 5.8 32.48 5.8 – – 7....................................................... 25.78 3.9 25.78 3.9 – – 9....................................................... 32.26 2.3 32.26 2.3 – – 10........................................................ 39.55 8.2 39.55 8.2 – – 11........................................................ 36.58 2.8 36.58 2.8 – – 12........................................................ 39.89 1.7 39.89 1.7 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 32.29 6.3 32.29 6.3 – – 7....................................................... 25.78 3.9 25.78 3.9 – – 9....................................................... 32.45 2.7 32.45 2.7 – – 10........................................................ 38.85 11.4 38.85 11.4 – – 11........................................................ 36.58 2.8 36.58 2.8 – – 12........................................................ 39.89 1.7 39.89 1.7 – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – Health related................................................ 31.49 14.8 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 28.36 14.0 – – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 27.62 1.9 17.58 22.2 – – 7....................................................... 26.02 3.8 – – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 27.25 2.5 – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 27.75 3.2 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 16.60 22.3 22.39 13.7 – – Technical....................................................... 19.86 2.6 19.82 3.0 – – 4....................................................... 15.52 2.9 15.68 2.6 – – 5....................................................... 18.96 9.5 18.96 9.5 – – 6....................................................... 16.92 9.0 – – – – 7....................................................... 22.93 5.3 23.23 5.6 – – 8....................................................... 24.70 8.9 24.87 10.4 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 15.13 2.6 15.31 2.2 – – 4....................................................... 15.16 3.7 15.16 3.7 – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... $17.00 7.4 $16.62 7.3 – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 24.37 4.7 24.37 4.7 – – Computer programmers........................................ 24.76 10.0 24.76 10.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.51 3.2 33.63 2.9 $33.14 10.1 7....................................................... 20.75 8.5 21.23 10.8 – – 8....................................................... 27.63 3.6 27.63 3.6 – – 9....................................................... 26.66 3.3 26.91 3.6 – – 10........................................................ 32.10 8.0 – – – – 11........................................................ 41.71 8.4 46.58 6.2 – – 12........................................................ 48.09 11.8 – – – – 13........................................................ 44.32 6.1 49.43 .7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 27.51 14.8 27.51 14.8 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 37.26 5.7 38.65 6.6 34.01 10.6 8....................................................... 30.37 10.0 30.37 10.0 – – 9....................................................... 29.41 8.4 30.52 7.9 – – 11........................................................ 41.85 8.8 46.98 6.6 – – 13........................................................ 44.28 6.2 49.56 .9 – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 38.14 7.5 – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 38.79 6.2 38.79 6.2 – – 8....................................................... 30.37 10.0 30.37 10.0 – – Management related............................................ 26.07 6.1 25.86 6.6 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 25.03 4.1 24.61 3.9 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 25.57 13.0 25.57 13.0 – – Sales............................................................. 11.23 3.2 11.19 3.3 – – 3....................................................... 9.09 4.9 8.53 1.5 – – 4....................................................... 11.78 10.6 11.78 10.6 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.43 10.6 15.43 10.6 – – Cashiers.................................................... 8.82 5.1 8.76 5.4 – – 2....................................................... 9.24 9.1 9.24 9.1 – – 3....................................................... 8.71 4.1 8.51 3.0 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.03 3.6 13.11 4.5 12.79 5.3 1....................................................... 10.82 9.6 10.59 11.0 – – 2....................................................... 9.85 2.4 10.00 3.5 – – 3....................................................... 12.34 6.8 12.88 10.2 11.76 7.9 4....................................................... 13.03 3.7 12.56 4.1 15.41 3.2 5....................................................... 16.31 13.4 17.30 14.9 – – 6....................................................... 15.70 9.1 15.70 9.1 – – 7....................................................... 18.55 4.8 18.57 5.0 – – Secretaries................................................. 14.88 3.5 15.93 5.3 13.89 4.9 4....................................................... 14.83 5.8 14.19 6.3 – – Receptionists............................................... 11.02 10.0 11.02 10.0 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.70 6.9 13.90 11.5 – – 3....................................................... 13.47 8.6 – – – – 4....................................................... $14.65 5.1 – – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.98 5.9 $12.98 5.9 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.42 13.7 12.42 13.7 – – General office clerks....................................... 9.79 3.8 9.95 5.6 – – 2....................................................... 9.67 3.6 – – – – Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 17.65 20.6 17.65 20.6 – – Blue collar......................................................... 16.88 4.3 16.98 4.6 $15.78 0.9 1....................................................... 7.78 2.6 7.78 2.6 – – 2....................................................... 9.47 4.9 9.27 4.6 – – 3....................................................... 19.35 8.1 19.88 7.6 – – 4....................................................... 15.50 10.3 15.67 10.9 – – 5....................................................... 17.86 5.6 18.26 6.6 – – 6....................................................... 19.93 10.3 22.76 5.4 – – 7....................................................... 22.20 3.7 22.41 3.9 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.66 4.8 17.46 5.3 19.10 11.8 5....................................................... 16.18 6.3 15.73 8.0 – – 6....................................................... 22.54 7.9 23.53 3.9 – – 7....................................................... 23.44 6.9 23.86 7.4 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 22.14 8.3 22.14 8.3 – – 7....................................................... 24.51 2.7 24.51 2.7 – – Electricians................................................ 23.21 12.6 23.21 12.6 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 20.28 4.6 20.28 4.6 – – 7....................................................... 20.00 3.5 20.00 3.5 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.62 6.8 18.62 6.8 – – 1....................................................... 8.76 4.3 8.76 4.3 – – 2....................................................... 9.07 3.8 9.07 3.8 – – 3....................................................... 21.27 9.0 21.27 9.0 – – 4....................................................... 17.51 15.4 17.51 15.4 – – 5....................................................... 18.50 5.6 18.50 5.6 – – 7....................................................... 18.77 13.0 18.77 13.0 – – Punching and stamping press operators....................... 13.33 6.1 13.33 6.1 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 15.60 1.3 15.60 1.3 – – 5....................................................... 18.79 9.1 18.79 9.1 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 19.93 16.4 19.93 16.4 – – Assemblers.................................................. 21.67 10.2 21.67 10.2 – – 3....................................................... 22.63 7.6 22.63 7.6 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 15.97 10.0 15.97 10.0 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.36 9.5 15.78 12.8 14.43 3.9 2....................................................... 12.88 11.3 12.88 11.3 – – 3....................................................... 11.90 9.5 – – – – 4....................................................... 14.43 11.1 – – – – 5....................................................... 19.75 17.3 – – – – Truck drivers............................................... $16.83 12.7 $17.96 15.9 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 10.37 16.0 10.37 16.0 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.66 4.3 9.56 4.7 – – 1....................................................... 8.14 4.0 8.14 4.0 – – 2....................................................... 10.01 14.4 8.75 2.1 – – 3....................................................... 11.24 8.8 12.81 6.4 – – 4....................................................... 10.78 5.6 10.78 5.6 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.93 5.0 8.93 5.0 – – 1....................................................... 8.91 7.6 8.91 7.6 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.55 5.4 10.55 5.4 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.12 4.9 9.12 4.9 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.33 5.0 10.33 5.0 – – Service............................................................. 8.92 4.2 7.57 3.4 $11.48 5.0 1....................................................... 7.23 2.3 6.95 1.6 8.48 4.5 2....................................................... 9.66 5.6 8.33 6.4 – – 3....................................................... 8.63 6.7 7.95 7.6 – – 4....................................................... 12.31 8.1 – – – – Protective service............................................ 12.20 9.1 – – 13.85 5.0 Food service.................................................. 8.14 6.8 6.94 7.1 – – 1....................................................... 7.51 4.3 – – – – 3....................................................... 8.13 25.7 – – – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.12 21.9 – – – – Other food service........................................... 8.87 9.4 – – – – Health service................................................ 9.00 2.4 8.97 2.6 – – 3....................................................... 8.61 2.3 8.68 2.3 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.77 1.7 8.68 1.4 – – 3....................................................... 8.46 1.4 8.52 1.2 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 7.31 6.3 7.00 6.3 8.73 8.9 1....................................................... 6.96 5.0 6.65 4.5 – – Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.39 8.6 7.38 9.0 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.16 5.7 6.75 4.2 – – 1....................................................... 6.90 5.2 6.53 3.9 – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. 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 appendixes C and D for more information. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 4 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. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-2. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) full-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $20.59 3.4 $20.70 3.9 $20.21 6.5 All excluding sales............................................... 21.02 3.4 21.20 4.0 20.35 6.5 White collar........................................................ 24.65 3.1 24.95 3.6 23.75 6.2 1....................................................... 11.07 8.7 10.89 9.8 – – 2....................................................... 9.73 3.3 9.75 4.4 – – 3....................................................... 12.13 5.8 12.38 9.0 11.87 6.9 4....................................................... 13.14 4.8 12.90 5.1 15.41 3.2 5....................................................... 17.88 6.2 18.59 6.6 – – 6....................................................... 16.51 14.3 19.24 11.2 – – 7....................................................... 24.40 4.4 22.86 4.6 26.51 7.0 8....................................................... 27.51 2.6 27.16 4.3 28.03 1.3 9....................................................... 30.30 3.4 30.55 3.4 – – 10........................................................ 35.03 3.6 35.72 3.7 – – 11........................................................ 39.12 4.8 40.66 4.0 – – 12........................................................ 44.90 3.7 44.59 3.8 – – 13........................................................ 45.15 5.5 49.04 1.1 – – 14........................................................ 49.55 4.6 49.55 4.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.26 10.1 – – – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 25.86 2.8 26.52 3.1 24.06 6.4 1....................................................... 11.07 8.7 10.89 9.8 – – 2....................................................... 9.76 3.5 9.81 5.0 – – 3....................................................... 12.45 6.7 13.15 9.8 11.76 7.9 4....................................................... 13.67 3.2 13.37 3.6 15.41 3.2 5....................................................... 17.73 6.7 18.48 7.3 – – 6....................................................... 16.54 15.4 19.62 12.2 – – 7....................................................... 24.39 4.5 22.83 4.7 26.51 7.0 8....................................................... 27.50 2.6 27.13 4.3 28.03 1.3 9....................................................... 30.39 3.4 30.64 3.4 – – 10........................................................ 35.05 3.6 35.75 3.7 – – 11........................................................ 39.30 4.7 40.92 3.8 – – 12........................................................ 44.99 3.9 44.69 4.0 – – 13........................................................ 45.15 5.5 49.04 1.1 – – 14........................................................ 49.55 4.6 49.55 4.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 18.91 10.2 18.94 10.9 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29.25 3.7 30.27 3.4 26.59 8.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 31.24 3.6 33.17 1.9 27.02 9.2 5....................................................... 18.78 5.4 – – – – 6....................................................... 16.84 33.6 – – – – 7....................................................... 26.61 3.9 25.13 4.2 27.75 7.4 8....................................................... 28.35 2.7 28.31 7.5 28.38 1.0 9....................................................... 31.88 2.5 31.96 2.5 – – 10........................................................ 35.74 3.8 36.08 4.1 – – 11........................................................ 35.99 1.4 35.99 1.4 – – 12........................................................ 44.03 4.1 42.92 4.8 – – 14........................................................ $48.25 4.1 $48.25 4.1 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 22.19 10.6 22.86 10.7 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 35.88 3.1 36.23 2.8 – – 7....................................................... 26.90 6.3 – – – – 8....................................................... 32.53 7.7 32.53 7.7 – – 9....................................................... 32.39 4.9 32.39 4.9 – – 10........................................................ 35.61 2.9 35.61 2.9 – – 11........................................................ 35.65 2.3 35.65 2.3 – – 12........................................................ 43.80 5.0 43.80 5.0 – – Aerospace engineers......................................... 34.55 2.8 34.55 2.8 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 37.31 6.2 37.77 5.7 – – Industrial engineers........................................ 32.89 6.7 32.89 6.7 – – Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 36.44 3.9 36.44 3.9 – – 12........................................................ 41.44 1.2 41.44 1.2 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 31.95 4.6 31.95 4.6 – – 7....................................................... 25.78 3.9 25.78 3.9 – – 9....................................................... 32.26 2.3 32.26 2.3 – – 10........................................................ 37.22 6.3 37.22 6.3 – – 12........................................................ 39.89 1.7 39.89 1.7 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 31.73 5.3 31.73 5.3 – – 7....................................................... 25.78 3.9 25.78 3.9 – – 9....................................................... 32.45 2.7 32.45 2.7 – – 10........................................................ 35.91 12.0 35.91 12.0 – – 12........................................................ 39.89 1.7 39.89 1.7 – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – Health related................................................ 32.02 14.8 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 28.75 14.2 – – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 27.62 1.9 17.58 22.2 – – 7....................................................... 26.02 3.8 – – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 27.25 2.5 – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 27.75 3.2 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 16.86 23.4 23.25 12.4 – – Technical....................................................... 20.02 2.5 19.93 2.9 – – 4....................................................... 15.63 2.9 15.63 2.9 – – 5....................................................... 18.96 9.5 18.96 9.5 – – 6....................................................... 16.89 9.4 – – – – 7....................................................... 22.93 5.3 23.23 5.6 – – 8....................................................... 24.70 8.9 24.87 10.4 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 14.91 2.5 15.10 2.3 – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 17.00 7.4 16.62 7.3 – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 24.37 4.7 24.37 4.7 – – Computer programmers........................................ 24.76 10.0 24.76 10.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... $33.51 3.2 $33.63 2.9 $33.14 10.1 7....................................................... 20.75 8.5 21.23 10.8 – – 8....................................................... 27.63 3.6 27.63 3.6 – – 9....................................................... 26.66 3.3 26.91 3.6 – – 10........................................................ 32.10 8.0 – – – – 11........................................................ 41.71 8.4 46.58 6.2 – – 12........................................................ 48.09 11.8 – – – – 13........................................................ 44.32 6.1 49.43 .7 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 27.51 14.8 27.51 14.8 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 37.26 5.7 38.65 6.6 34.01 10.6 8....................................................... 30.37 10.0 30.37 10.0 – – 9....................................................... 29.41 8.4 30.52 7.9 – – 11........................................................ 41.85 8.8 46.98 6.6 – – 13........................................................ 44.28 6.2 49.56 .9 – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 38.14 7.5 – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 38.79 6.2 38.79 6.2 – – 8....................................................... 30.37 10.0 30.37 10.0 – – Management related............................................ 26.07 6.1 25.86 6.6 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 25.03 4.1 24.61 3.9 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 25.57 13.0 25.57 13.0 – – Sales............................................................. 12.53 4.5 12.55 4.8 – – 3....................................................... 11.01 7.8 10.01 7.3 – – 4....................................................... 12.16 11.2 12.16 11.2 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.43 10.6 15.43 10.6 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 13.04 5.2 – – – – Cashiers.................................................... 9.78 4.6 9.69 5.2 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.21 3.7 13.34 4.7 12.85 5.2 1....................................................... 11.18 9.5 – – – – 2....................................................... 9.90 2.7 10.01 4.0 – – 3....................................................... 12.45 6.7 13.15 9.8 11.76 7.9 4....................................................... 13.29 4.0 12.83 4.6 15.41 3.2 5....................................................... 16.35 13.8 17.41 15.2 – – 6....................................................... 15.70 9.1 15.70 9.1 – – 7....................................................... 18.55 4.8 18.57 5.0 – – Secretaries................................................. 14.94 3.5 16.11 5.2 13.89 4.9 4....................................................... 14.98 6.1 14.35 6.6 – – Receptionists............................................... 11.02 10.0 11.02 10.0 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.70 6.9 13.90 11.5 – – 3....................................................... 13.47 8.6 – – – – 4....................................................... 14.65 5.1 – – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 13.32 4.3 13.32 4.3 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.42 13.7 12.42 13.7 – – General office clerks....................................... 10.03 4.3 10.38 7.3 – – 2....................................................... $9.67 3.6 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 17.13 4.3 $17.25 4.6 $15.85 1.0 1....................................................... 7.87 2.9 7.87 2.9 – – 2....................................................... 9.43 5.5 9.22 5.2 – – 3....................................................... 19.50 8.1 20.03 7.5 – – 4....................................................... 15.73 10.8 15.90 11.0 – – 5....................................................... 17.86 5.6 18.26 6.6 – – 6....................................................... 19.93 10.3 22.76 5.4 – – 7....................................................... 22.21 3.7 22.42 3.9 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.83 4.7 17.64 5.2 19.10 11.8 5....................................................... 16.18 6.3 15.73 8.0 – – 6....................................................... 22.54 7.9 23.53 3.9 – – 7....................................................... 23.44 6.9 23.86 7.4 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 22.14 8.3 22.14 8.3 – – 7....................................................... 24.51 2.7 24.51 2.7 – – Electricians................................................ 23.21 12.6 23.21 12.6 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 20.28 4.6 20.28 4.6 – – 7....................................................... 20.00 3.5 20.00 3.5 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.72 6.8 18.72 6.8 – – 1....................................................... 8.76 4.3 8.76 4.3 – – 2....................................................... 9.14 4.0 9.14 4.0 – – 3....................................................... 21.47 8.9 21.47 8.9 – – 4....................................................... 17.51 15.4 17.51 15.4 – – 5....................................................... 18.50 5.6 18.50 5.6 – – 7....................................................... 18.75 13.3 18.75 13.3 – – Punching and stamping press operators....................... 13.33 6.1 13.33 6.1 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 15.60 1.3 15.60 1.3 – – 5....................................................... 18.79 9.1 18.79 9.1 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 19.93 16.4 19.93 16.4 – – Assemblers.................................................. 21.88 10.1 21.88 10.1 – – 3....................................................... 22.93 7.3 22.93 7.3 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 15.97 10.0 15.97 10.0 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.45 10.1 15.87 13.0 – – 5....................................................... 19.75 17.3 – – – – Truck drivers............................................... 16.84 12.9 18.01 16.1 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 10.37 16.0 10.37 16.0 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.91 4.7 9.83 5.2 – – 1....................................................... 8.35 4.7 8.35 4.7 – – 2....................................................... 10.01 14.4 – – – – 3....................................................... 11.24 8.8 12.81 6.4 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.97 5.6 9.97 5.6 – – 1....................................................... $10.66 0.7 $10.66 0.7 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.55 5.4 10.55 5.4 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.12 4.9 9.12 4.9 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.33 5.0 10.33 5.0 – – Service............................................................. 9.85 3.6 8.43 2.7 $11.61 5.0 1....................................................... 7.94 2.7 7.67 3.6 – – 2....................................................... 9.99 4.8 8.64 4.0 – – 3....................................................... 9.30 3.5 8.69 2.3 – – 4....................................................... 12.31 8.1 – – – – Protective service............................................ 12.54 8.9 – – 13.85 5.0 Food service.................................................. 9.64 5.1 8.89 5.9 – – Other food service........................................... 9.79 4.7 9.18 5.6 – – Health service................................................ 9.02 2.5 8.99 2.7 – – 3....................................................... 8.62 2.3 8.70 2.2 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.78 1.8 8.69 1.3 – – 3....................................................... 8.47 1.3 – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 8.02 4.8 7.70 4.9 – – 1....................................................... 7.57 4.1 7.22 3.9 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.89 5.3 7.38 4.0 – – 1....................................................... 7.56 4.4 7.08 2.1 – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. 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 appendixes C and D 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 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. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-3. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) part-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $9.12 13.2 $9.02 14.1 $10.77 17.1 All excluding sales............................................... 9.47 18.0 9.33 19.6 11.13 16.5 White collar........................................................ 11.81 20.8 11.93 21.3 8.71 13.3 2....................................................... 8.54 4.6 8.78 4.7 – – 3....................................................... 8.09 1.5 8.09 1.5 – – 4....................................................... 10.38 8.8 10.38 9.3 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 18.01 30.9 18.73 31.7 – – 2....................................................... 9.31 4.2 – – – – 4....................................................... 11.13 11.7 – – – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.27 29.7 30.73 28.5 – – Professional specialty.......................................... – – – – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 8.23 1.4 8.27 1.5 – – 3....................................................... 8.09 1.6 8.09 1.6 – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.69 4.0 7.77 4.0 – – 3....................................................... 7.80 4.2 7.80 4.2 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 9.64 8.0 9.80 8.1 – – 2....................................................... 9.31 4.2 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 9.20 11.9 8.14 8.5 – – 1....................................................... 7.15 5.4 7.15 5.4 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... – – – – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 7.87 7.3 7.87 7.3 – – Service............................................................. 6.16 7.5 6.11 8.1 – – 1....................................................... 6.20 2.5 6.18 2.5 – – Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. – – – – – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.22 27.4 – – – – Health service................................................ – – – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 6.21 4.1 – – – – 1....................................................... $6.14 3.9 – – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. 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 appendixes C and D 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 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. 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, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Private industry and State and local government Occupational group Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Mean All occupations....................................................... $20.59 $9.12 $23.00 $19.23 $19.69 $36.28 All excluding sales............................................. 21.02 9.47 23.13 19.89 20.31 – White collar........................................................ 24.65 11.81 20.35 23.95 23.78 39.15 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 25.86 18.01 22.00 25.72 25.54 – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29.25 28.27 – 29.30 29.23 – Professional specialty.......................................... 31.24 – – 31.29 31.29 – Technical....................................................... 20.02 – – 19.69 19.86 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.51 – – 33.57 32.95 – Sales............................................................. 12.53 8.23 – 11.02 10.93 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.21 9.64 – 12.82 13.03 – Blue collar......................................................... 17.13 9.20 23.28 12.76 16.88 – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.83 – 26.14 14.33 17.66 – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.72 – 23.78 12.43 18.62 – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.45 – 20.94 13.37 15.35 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.91 7.87 10.51 9.45 9.66 – Service............................................................. 9.85 6.16 – 8.92 8.92 – B Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Occupational group workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Relative error(6) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 3.4 13.2 3.3 3.9 3.7 24.3 All excluding sales............................................. 3.4 18.0 3.3 3.9 3.7 – White collar........................................................ 3.1 20.8 10.1 3.1 3.2 22.2 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.8 30.9 12.8 2.7 2.7 – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.7 29.7 – 3.7 3.7 – Professional specialty.......................................... 3.6 – – 3.6 3.6 – Technical....................................................... 2.5 – – 3.1 2.6 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 3.2 – – 3.1 3.0 – Sales............................................................. 4.5 1.4 – 3.3 2.8 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 3.7 8.0 – 2.7 3.6 – Blue collar......................................................... 4.3 11.9 3.5 2.4 4.3 – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 4.7 – 5.2 3.9 4.8 – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6.8 – 2.1 2.6 6.8 – Transportation and material moving................................ 10.1 – 16.4 5.7 9.7 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.7 7.3 3.2 5.2 4.3 – Service............................................................. 3.6 7.5 – 4.2 4.2 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B 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 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers' wages are based solely on an 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. 6 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 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Full-time and part-time workers Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) Occupational group All pri- vate indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Mean All occupations....................................................... $19.71 $21.33 – - $21.74 $18.06 $19.24 - $11.72 $21.53 All excluding sales............................................. 20.44 21.31 – - 21.72 19.40 18.99 - 11.72 21.55 White collar........................................................ 23.98 28.79 – - 28.90 21.39 17.42 - 11.99 26.89 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 26.28 28.92 – - 29.04 24.49 16.67 - 11.99 26.92 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 30.28 30.33 – - 30.46 30.24 – - – 30.74 Professional specialty.......................................... 33.24 33.50 – - 33.70 33.10 – - – 33.62 Technical....................................................... 19.82 20.73 – - 20.73 19.15 – - – 19.17 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.63 38.98 – - 39.61 25.84 – - – 27.06 Sales............................................................. 11.19 – – - – 10.45 – - – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.11 14.20 – - 14.20 12.55 – - – 12.96 Blue collar......................................................... 16.98 17.39 – - 17.82 15.17 – - – 15.41 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.46 16.94 – - 17.51 19.17 – - – 19.22 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.62 19.02 – - 19.02 9.17 – - – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.78 12.05 – - 12.59 18.18 – - – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.56 9.60 – - 10.23 9.50 – - – 9.49 Service............................................................. 7.57 – – - – 7.55 – - – 7.67 B Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) All pri- vate Occupational group indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Relative error(5) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 4.1 2.4 – - 2.2 8.9 2.2 - 6.5 10.1 All excluding sales............................................. 4.1 2.5 – - 2.2 9.3 2.5 - 6.5 10.1 White collar........................................................ 3.7 3.6 – - 3.7 7.8 4.6 - 7.6 5.2 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 3.0 3.7 – - 3.7 6.5 3.6 - 7.6 5.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.4 2.7 – - 2.9 5.4 – - – 5.0 Professional specialty.......................................... 2.2 3.9 – - 4.1 3.0 – - – 2.2 Technical....................................................... 3.0 3.2 – - 3.2 3.5 – - – 3.6 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 2.9 3.2 – - 3.5 1.8 – - – 1.3 Sales............................................................. 3.3 – – - – 2.3 – - – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 4.5 11.5 – - 11.5 3.2 – - – 3.6 Blue collar......................................................... 4.6 5.5 – - 5.4 7.3 – - – 9.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 5.3 7.0 – - 7.2 6.6 – - – 8.2 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6.8 6.4 – - 6.4 4.6 – - – – Transportation and material moving................................ 12.8 11.5 – - 12.1 15.5 – - – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.7 5.4 – - 1.9 5.9 – - – 13.2 Service............................................................. 3.4 – – - – 3.3 – - – 4.4 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 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. Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Mean All occupations....................................................... $19.71 $15.27 $20.66 $17.25 $24.09 All excluding sales............................................. 20.44 15.53 21.51 18.43 24.13 White collar........................................................ 23.98 21.20 24.40 20.61 29.05 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 26.28 23.08 26.76 24.09 29.16 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 30.28 28.06 30.58 29.23 31.69 Professional specialty.......................................... 33.24 31.92 33.41 32.35 34.20 Technical....................................................... 19.82 17.27 20.24 20.15 20.34 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.63 29.46 34.23 29.41 36.96 Sales............................................................. 11.19 11.26 11.18 11.09 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.11 11.74 13.36 13.34 13.40 Blue collar......................................................... 16.98 12.65 18.27 15.28 19.74 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.46 17.63 17.40 18.27 17.06 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 18.62 10.29 19.68 14.15 21.61 Transportation and material moving................................ 15.78 13.60 18.38 19.16 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.56 8.63 10.57 11.02 9.17 Service............................................................. 7.57 – 7.81 7.82 – B Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Relative error(4) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 4.1 8.8 4.3 8.1 1.6 All excluding sales............................................. 4.1 9.1 4.2 8.5 1.6 White collar........................................................ 3.7 6.1 4.0 8.2 3.1 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 3.0 4.6 3.2 6.5 3.1 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.4 6.7 3.4 6.7 3.1 Professional specialty.......................................... 2.2 9.6 2.0 2.4 3.9 Technical....................................................... 3.0 5.7 3.2 4.1 4.8 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 2.9 6.0 3.2 4.5 3.3 Sales............................................................. 3.3 14.8 3.5 3.4 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 4.5 12.4 5.1 3.9 12.3 Blue collar......................................................... 4.6 7.6 4.6 3.8 4.7 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 5.3 9.0 5.5 3.4 9.1 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6.8 6.8 5.5 5.9 4.4 Transportation and material moving................................ 12.8 7.3 21.6 20.2 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.7 7.8 3.9 3.6 3.7 Service............................................................. 3.4 – 4.0 4.4 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. 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 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.90 $9.88 $17.01 $26.11 $35.66 All excluding sales........................... 8.00 10.50 18.13 26.73 36.20 White collar.................................... 9.00 12.80 22.45 32.40 41.47 White collar excluding sales................ 10.00 15.16 24.56 34.30 42.39 Professional specialty and technical.......... 16.00 22.60 28.25 36.13 42.78 Professional specialty...................... 19.54 24.64 30.55 37.25 44.24 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 25.19 29.12 34.76 41.82 51.00 Aerospace engineers..................... 26.44 29.46 33.25 39.08 44.76 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 23.56 28.46 34.56 51.00 51.14 Industrial engineers.................... 26.09 29.11 33.49 38.86 42.04 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 26.34 31.42 37.43 40.69 44.80 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 21.24 25.18 32.59 38.71 43.40 Computer systems analysts and scientists 21.15 25.18 32.40 38.47 42.55 Natural scientists........................ – – – – – Health related............................ 19.93 23.20 24.38 30.55 57.70 Registered nurses....................... 19.55 22.65 24.23 25.46 57.70 Teachers, college and university.......... – – – – – Teachers, except college and university... 20.62 24.29 27.79 31.20 33.55 Elementary school teachers.............. 21.21 24.29 27.77 30.10 32.26 Secondary school teachers............... 21.21 24.54 27.78 30.90 33.10 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers. – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 9.88 9.88 9.88 18.35 35.97 Technical................................... 12.81 15.54 19.06 23.64 27.87 Licensed practical nurses............... 13.13 14.00 15.45 16.00 17.00 Electrical and electronic technicians... 10.65 13.94 17.50 21.38 25.39 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 17.10 20.02 24.74 27.57 31.36 Computer programmers.................... 16.71 21.50 22.84 27.52 33.95 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 18.75 23.38 29.93 42.18 53.51 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 19.26 27.50 36.56 48.08 54.81 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 23.80 34.31 40.05 43.55 48.08 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 15.16 27.50 35.83 53.51 59.52 Management related........................ 18.73 22.12 24.94 28.89 35.62 Accountants and auditors................ 20.96 22.20 22.96 27.86 28.89 Management related, n.e.c............... 16.38 19.38 22.50 33.89 43.30 Sales......................................... 7.50 8.24 9.50 12.15 18.27 Supervisors, sales...................... 9.71 12.00 13.78 17.47 24.95 Cashiers................................ 6.00 7.58 8.75 10.25 10.94 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.25 9.69 12.31 15.37 19.25 Secretaries............................. 9.96 11.55 15.19 17.80 19.36 Receptionists........................... 8.48 8.81 10.83 12.00 15.00 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.00 14.20 14.80 16.01 18.56 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 8.51 10.00 13.40 14.19 16.15 Stock and inventory clerks.............. $8.00 $9.01 $13.35 $16.15 $17.21 General office clerks................... 7.74 8.00 9.00 11.21 13.00 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 10.50 11.36 15.02 20.08 30.92 Blue collar..................................... 7.75 9.69 15.71 23.45 26.11 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 6.91 9.50 17.87 24.35 30.10 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 11.15 16.00 22.48 30.07 30.50 Electricians............................ 11.00 12.00 30.00 30.65 30.92 Supervisors, production................. 15.11 16.11 18.50 22.64 30.00 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.94 11.60 19.67 25.84 26.11 Punching and stamping press operators... 11.00 12.20 13.40 13.40 14.75 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 10.50 12.00 14.47 18.42 23.76 Welders and cutters..................... 10.50 11.65 14.58 29.93 30.07 Assemblers.............................. 9.25 19.67 25.84 26.04 26.11 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.85 9.06 13.55 23.45 23.52 Transportation and material moving............ 10.00 11.99 14.70 16.82 25.37 Truck drivers........................... 10.25 13.00 15.35 18.50 25.47 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 6.45 8.00 10.80 11.99 16.44 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.90 8.00 8.93 10.50 14.50 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 6.50 7.50 8.71 10.50 10.90 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 7.50 9.00 10.25 12.50 12.90 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 6.90 7.00 8.00 12.30 12.30 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 7.10 8.28 9.27 9.42 15.91 Service......................................... 5.50 6.85 8.34 10.52 13.22 Protective service........................ 8.25 9.00 12.20 14.16 18.11 Food service.............................. 3.55 5.85 8.16 10.52 11.95 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.13 3.00 6.75 Other food service....................... 5.50 6.50 8.76 10.68 12.20 Health service............................ 7.25 8.00 8.50 9.50 11.90 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.25 8.00 8.50 9.00 10.31 Cleaning and building service............. 5.40 5.85 7.00 8.00 9.90 Maids and housemen...................... 5.75 6.00 7.25 8.00 10.00 Janitors and cleaners................... 5.35 5.75 7.00 8.00 9.50 Personal service.......................... – – – – – 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.50 $9.50 $17.00 $26.11 $36.47 All excluding sales........................... 7.50 10.00 18.33 26.34 37.15 White collar.................................... 8.90 12.50 21.89 33.65 42.60 White collar excluding sales................ 10.50 15.19 24.81 35.16 44.11 Professional specialty and technical.......... 16.32 22.69 29.30 37.64 44.40 Professional specialty...................... 21.15 25.87 33.49 39.47 46.69 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 26.09 29.93 34.95 42.04 51.00 Aerospace engineers..................... 26.44 29.46 33.25 39.08 44.76 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 25.00 29.15 34.56 51.00 51.14 Industrial engineers.................... 26.09 29.11 33.49 38.86 42.04 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 26.34 31.42 37.43 40.69 44.80 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 21.24 25.18 32.59 38.71 43.40 Computer systems analysts and scientists 21.15 25.18 32.40 38.47 42.55 Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ - - - - - Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 9.00 10.00 20.12 23.24 26.36 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 8.65 15.63 17.79 27.75 36.73 Technical................................... 12.84 15.45 18.50 23.77 28.22 Licensed practical nurses............... 13.29 14.42 15.60 16.00 17.00 Electrical and electronic technicians... 10.65 13.66 17.49 19.20 25.39 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 17.10 20.02 24.74 27.57 31.36 Computer programmers.................... 16.71 21.50 22.84 27.52 33.95 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 17.79 22.96 30.57 43.30 53.95 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.17 27.50 37.05 51.61 57.23 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 15.16 27.50 35.83 53.51 59.52 Management related........................ 18.52 21.29 24.40 30.69 35.67 Accountants and auditors................ 20.96 22.20 22.36 28.46 28.89 Management related, n.e.c............... 16.38 19.38 22.50 33.89 43.30 Sales......................................... 7.48 8.24 9.31 12.00 18.72 Supervisors, sales...................... 9.71 12.00 13.78 17.47 24.95 Cashiers................................ 6.25 7.55 8.71 10.25 10.78 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.25 9.69 12.35 15.19 19.36 Secretaries............................. 11.55 12.50 15.87 19.36 19.36 Receptionists........................... 8.48 8.81 10.83 12.00 15.00 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 8.25 9.66 14.56 15.85 21.63 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 8.51 10.00 13.40 14.19 16.15 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 8.00 9.01 13.35 16.15 17.21 General office clerks................... 8.00 8.14 9.00 11.54 13.58 Administrative support, n.e.c........... $10.50 $11.36 $15.02 $20.08 $30.92 Blue collar..................................... 7.50 9.50 15.91 23.71 26.11 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 6.84 8.72 17.00 24.35 30.10 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 11.15 16.00 22.48 30.07 30.50 Electricians............................ 11.00 12.00 30.00 30.65 30.92 Supervisors, production................. 15.11 16.11 18.50 22.64 30.00 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.94 11.60 19.67 25.84 26.11 Punching and stamping press operators... 11.00 12.20 13.40 13.40 14.75 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 10.50 12.00 14.47 18.42 23.76 Welders and cutters..................... 10.50 11.65 14.58 29.93 30.07 Assemblers.............................. 9.25 19.67 25.84 26.04 26.11 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.85 9.06 13.55 23.45 23.52 Transportation and material moving............ 8.43 11.02 14.70 19.62 25.47 Truck drivers........................... 10.25 13.00 16.52 25.37 25.47 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 6.45 8.00 10.80 11.99 16.44 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.90 7.75 8.84 10.75 14.45 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 6.50 7.50 8.71 10.50 10.90 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 7.50 9.00 10.25 12.50 12.90 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 6.90 7.00 8.00 12.30 12.30 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 7.10 8.28 9.27 9.42 15.91 Service......................................... 5.40 6.00 7.59 8.50 9.90 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.13 5.50 6.25 8.76 11.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... - - - - - Health service............................ 7.58 8.25 8.50 9.50 11.00 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.50 8.25 8.50 8.83 9.90 Cleaning and building service............. 5.35 5.75 6.92 7.95 9.00 Maids and housemen...................... 5.75 6.00 7.25 8.00 10.00 Janitors and cleaners................... 5.30 5.60 6.50 7.50 8.43 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.39 $11.26 $17.25 $27.77 $34.31 All excluding sales........................... 9.46 11.28 17.87 27.78 34.48 White collar.................................... 9.88 14.20 23.82 30.24 36.20 White collar excluding sales................ 9.88 14.75 24.05 30.54 36.20 Professional specialty and technical.......... 11.50 21.66 27.25 31.47 36.20 Professional specialty...................... 9.88 22.86 27.77 31.47 36.20 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Health related............................ - - - - - Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 21.50 27.86 28.90 41.80 48.08 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 21.50 28.10 34.87 42.18 48.08 Management related........................ - - - - - Sales......................................... - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.24 9.90 12.00 16.00 17.80 Secretaries............................. 9.39 10.64 12.80 16.98 19.25 Blue collar..................................... 9.69 12.36 15.35 18.43 24.30 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 12.97 15.24 18.43 24.30 25.13 Transportation and material moving............ 11.61 13.45 15.35 15.71 15.95 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... - - - - - Service......................................... 7.37 8.99 11.05 13.23 16.01 Protective service........................ 10.26 11.90 13.19 15.67 19.26 Food service.............................. - - - - - Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... - - - - - Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. 6.46 7.30 8.38 10.04 11.29 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.43 $10.92 $18.42 $26.73 $36.20 All excluding sales........................... 8.43 11.23 19.12 27.37 36.47 White collar.................................... 9.75 14.00 23.34 33.10 41.83 White collar excluding sales................ 10.46 15.55 24.86 34.31 42.39 Professional specialty and technical.......... 16.22 22.69 28.25 36.05 42.60 Professional specialty...................... 19.65 24.64 30.54 37.15 43.85 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 25.19 29.12 34.76 41.82 51.00 Aerospace engineers..................... 26.44 29.46 33.25 39.08 44.76 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 23.56 28.46 34.56 51.00 51.14 Industrial engineers.................... 26.09 29.11 33.49 38.86 42.04 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 26.34 31.42 37.43 40.69 44.80 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 21.15 25.05 31.90 38.44 42.39 Computer systems analysts and scientists 20.48 25.05 31.68 38.25 42.23 Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 19.96 23.84 24.38 30.55 57.70 Registered nurses....................... 19.55 23.00 24.23 25.46 57.70 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 20.62 24.29 27.79 31.20 33.55 Elementary school teachers.............. 21.21 24.29 27.77 30.10 32.26 Secondary school teachers............... 21.21 24.54 27.78 30.90 33.10 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 9.88 9.88 15.63 18.35 35.97 Technical................................... 12.84 15.45 19.26 23.77 28.22 Licensed practical nurses............... 12.90 14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 Electrical and electronic technicians... 10.65 13.94 17.50 21.38 25.39 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 17.10 20.02 24.74 27.57 31.36 Computer programmers.................... 16.71 21.50 22.84 27.52 33.95 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 18.75 23.38 29.93 42.18 53.51 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 19.26 27.50 36.56 48.08 54.81 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 23.80 34.31 40.05 43.55 48.08 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 15.16 27.50 35.83 53.51 59.52 Management related........................ 18.73 22.12 24.94 28.89 35.62 Accountants and auditors................ 20.96 22.20 22.96 27.86 28.89 Management related, n.e.c............... 16.38 19.38 22.50 33.89 43.30 Sales......................................... 8.16 9.00 10.50 14.20 21.72 Supervisors, sales...................... 9.71 12.00 13.78 17.47 24.95 Sales workers, other commodities........ 7.35 8.43 10.97 15.64 21.72 Cashiers................................ 7.50 8.75 10.25 10.50 11.20 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.48 9.86 12.50 15.57 19.25 Secretaries............................. 9.96 11.55 15.19 17.80 19.36 Receptionists........................... 8.48 8.81 10.83 12.00 15.00 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.00 14.20 14.80 16.01 18.56 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. $9.57 $11.79 $13.58 $14.19 $16.15 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 8.00 9.01 13.35 16.15 17.21 General office clerks................... 7.74 8.14 9.25 11.47 13.58 Blue collar..................................... 8.00 10.02 15.95 23.52 26.11 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 6.91 10.20 17.87 24.35 30.10 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 11.15 16.00 22.48 30.07 30.50 Electricians............................ 11.00 12.00 30.00 30.65 30.92 Supervisors, production................. 15.11 16.11 18.50 22.64 30.00 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.00 11.65 19.67 25.84 26.11 Punching and stamping press operators... 11.00 12.20 13.40 13.40 14.75 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 10.50 12.00 14.47 18.42 23.76 Welders and cutters..................... 10.50 11.65 14.58 29.93 30.07 Assemblers.............................. 9.50 21.84 25.84 26.04 26.11 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.85 9.06 13.55 23.45 23.52 Transportation and material moving............ 10.00 11.99 14.70 16.82 25.37 Truck drivers........................... 10.25 13.00 15.35 18.50 25.47 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 6.45 8.00 10.80 11.99 16.44 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.00 8.00 9.00 11.00 14.87 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 8.15 8.69 10.40 10.75 11.16 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 7.50 9.00 10.25 12.50 12.90 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 6.90 7.00 8.00 12.30 12.30 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 7.10 8.28 9.27 9.42 15.91 Service......................................... 6.75 7.75 8.99 11.28 13.81 Protective service........................ 8.25 9.53 12.20 14.50 18.35 Food service.............................. 7.00 8.02 10.00 11.25 12.20 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 7.35 8.32 10.04 11.25 12.20 Health service............................ 7.25 8.00 8.50 9.50 11.90 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.25 8.00 8.50 9.00 10.52 Cleaning and building service............. 6.00 6.92 7.50 8.89 10.24 Janitors and cleaners................... 5.85 6.90 7.38 8.78 10.13 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 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 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $5.50 $6.00 $7.73 $9.00 $14.00 All excluding sales........................... 5.25 5.75 7.00 9.00 15.71 White collar.................................... 6.90 7.75 8.42 10.00 16.00 White collar excluding sales................ 8.00 8.00 11.18 18.00 41.01 Professional specialty and technical.......... 8.00 16.00 20.72 41.01 51.01 Professional specialty...................... - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Health related............................ - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... - - - - - Sales......................................... 6.50 7.55 8.24 8.85 9.79 Cashiers................................ 5.90 6.50 7.80 8.75 9.54 Administrative support, including clerical.... 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.97 14.00 Blue collar..................................... 6.00 6.50 7.50 9.65 15.71 Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 5.65 6.50 7.50 9.50 9.50 Service......................................... 5.15 5.50 6.00 7.25 8.25 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. - - - - - Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.13 3.00 7.00 Other food service....................... - - - - - Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. 5.15 5.50 5.85 7.00 7.95 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 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 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 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, June 2004 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 70,600 55,600 15,000 All excluding sales............................................. 65,500 50,700 14,700 White collar........................................................ 37,800 27,900 9,900 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 32,700 23,000 9,600 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 19,300 12,900 6,300 Professional specialty.......................................... 16,000 10,000 6,000 Technical....................................................... 3,300 2,900 - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 5,100 3,900 1,200 Sales............................................................. 5,100 4,800 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 8,300 6,200 2,100 Blue collar......................................................... 22,800 20,700 2,100 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 7,100 6,200 900 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10,400 10,400 – Transportation and material moving................................ 2,300 1,500 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 3,100 2,700 - Service............................................................. 10,000 7,000 3,000 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. Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.