BTS | Table 3-21: Average Wage (a) and Salary Accruals per Full-Time Equivalent Employee by Transportation Industry

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Table 3-21: Average Wage^aand Salary Accruals per Full-Time Equivalent Employee by Transportation Industry

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	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	^R1997	^R1998	^R1999	2000
Wages, U.S. labor force	4,822	5,807	7,743	10,808	15,790	21,293	26,257	27,325	28,654	29,417	30,139	30,996	32,040	33,429	35,109	36,675	38,706
Transportation industry	5,835	6,989	9,396	13,550	20,818	25,324	28,900	29,973	31,532	31,327	31,958	32,349	33,197	34,429	35,924	37,210	38,450
Air	6,929	8,495	12,027	17,035	25,649	32,131	32,747	34,407	35,931	35,660	36,189	36,365	37,238	38,693	40,402	42,523	43,864
Trucking and warehousing	5,396	6,623	8,672	12,765	19,204	22,383	26,180	26,905	28,337	28,302	29,171	29,591	30,351	31,740	32,948	33,970	35,031
Local and interurban passenger transit	4,877	5,553	6,996	9,462	13,530	15,706	17,517	18,088	18,976	19,057	19,639	20,112	20,811	21,201	22,086	22,774	23,781
Railroad	6,241	7,460	10,110	14,987	25,049	36,611	43,614	45,907	50,293	49,642	51,050	51,236	54,706	56,519	59,725	60,616	61,520
Water	6,212	7,402	10,302	14,136	22,746	28,531	33,855	34,703	36,311	36,822	37,335	37,856	38,934	40,524	42,260	43,108	44,724
Pipelines, except natural gas	6,957	8,053	10,765	16,765	26,227	37,316	46,167	47,000	51,526	50,421	54,647	57,867	58,286	59,071	64,923	65,154	66,462
Transportation services^b	5,380	6,239	8,232	11,430	16,005	20,530	26,058	27,126	28,541	28,783	29,577	30,869	31,523	32,796	34,581	36,178	38,527

KEY: R = revised.

^a Wages do not include supplements to wages and salaries such as pension, profit-sharing, and other retirement plans, and health, life, and unemployment insurance compensation.

^b Establishments furnishing services incidental to transportation, such as forwarding and packing services and the arrangement of passenger and freight transportation.

NOTES: Use care in comparing the data in this table with those in table 3-22. This table includes weighted part-time employees' salaries. Table 3-22 covers only full-time employees. 1960-85 data are based on the 1972 SIC codes; 1990-98 data are based on the 1987 SIC codes.

Wage and salary accruals consist of the monetary remuneration of employees, including compensation of corporate officers; commissions, tips and bonuses; voluntary employee contributions to certain deferred compensation plans, such as 401(k) plans; and receipts in kind that represent income. In other words, accruals are wage and salary earned, not wage and salary paid. For example, wage and salary earned in 1999 but not paid until 2000 are included in accruals for 1999. However, the difference between wage and salary earned and wage and salary paid is usually very small.

SOURCE: 1960-2000: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Products Accounts, tables 6.6b and 6.6c, Internet site http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn1.htm as of Aug. 3, 2001.

Table 3-21: Average Wagea and Salary Accruals per Full-Time Equivalent Employee by Transportation Industry

Table 3-21: Average Wage^aand Salary Accruals per Full-Time Equivalent Employee by Transportation Industry