NC BL 12/00/2003 Table: Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, Bulletin 3120-24, March 2003 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 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................................................................. $21.07 2.9 37.7 $21.00 3.9 37.4 $21.24 2.5 38.5 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 24.57 2.6 38.6 25.22 3.0 38.6 23.14 4.6 38.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 30.33 3.1 38.2 30.41 3.8 38.4 30.19 5.8 38.0 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.02 6.1 40.2 34.15 6.5 40.4 28.65 14.4 39.8 Sales............................................................. 14.93 10.4 37.1 14.91 10.6 37.0 – – – Administrative support............................................ 13.84 2.5 38.9 14.81 2.2 38.9 12.42 2.5 39.0 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 13.89 4.2 36.6 13.79 4.8 36.8 14.62 4.4 35.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.50 3.2 40.0 19.24 4.3 40.0 16.33 2.2 40.0 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 13.24 7.4 39.3 13.31 7.3 39.3 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 11.37 12.0 29.8 11.24 13.2 31.1 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 10.46 3.8 36.9 10.41 4.2 36.6 11.00 6.1 40.0 Service occupations(5).............................................. 10.71 3.9 34.2 9.51 5.6 31.9 13.33 6.7 40.8 Full time........................................................... 21.63 3.0 39.5 21.74 4.1 39.7 21.38 2.5 39.1 Part time........................................................... 10.17 7.1 20.0 9.95 7.7 20.0 12.56 3.1 19.3 Union............................................................... 16.00 8.9 37.8 15.99 9.0 37.8 – – – Nonunion............................................................ 21.20 2.7 37.7 21.18 3.6 37.4 21.24 2.5 38.5 Time................................................................ 21.14 3.1 37.6 21.10 4.2 37.3 21.24 2.5 38.5 Incentive........................................................... 16.49 19.1 44.0 16.49 19.1 44.0 – – – Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 24.41 6.3 39.8 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 13.49 10.7 34.3 13.45 10.8 34.2 – – – 100-499 workers..................................................... 18.89 8.8 37.4 18.90 9.2 37.3 18.69 7.4 39.4 500 workers or more................................................. 23.37 3.1 38.7 24.72 4.6 38.8 21.34 2.6 38.4 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, 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 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................................................................... $21.07 2.9 $21.00 3.9 $21.24 2.5 All excluding sales............................................... 21.43 2.6 21.50 3.6 21.25 2.5 White collar........................................................ 24.57 2.6 25.22 3.0 23.14 4.6 White collar excluding sales.................................... 25.40 2.5 26.54 2.8 23.16 4.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 30.33 3.1 30.41 3.8 30.19 5.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 33.12 2.5 32.93 3.6 33.50 2.3 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 34.05 6.1 35.91 5.1 – – Civil engineers............................................. 27.41 9.3 – – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 36.11 4.4 36.11 4.4 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 36.19 4.8 36.19 4.8 – – Natural scientists............................................ 32.63 9.7 30.08 8.7 – – Chemists, except biochemists................................ 32.89 11.4 33.03 11.3 – – Health related................................................ 23.26 6.1 23.71 7.0 21.50 11.2 Registered nurses........................................... 24.67 3.3 25.38 3.4 21.71 7.8 Teachers, college and university.............................. 62.44 12.6 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.30 2.1 – – 23.24 1.2 Elementary school teachers.................................. 23.13 1.7 – – 23.13 1.7 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 33.69 7.3 – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 18.10 4.4 – – 17.05 4.1 Social workers.............................................. 18.15 5.6 – – 17.05 4.1 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 27.30 12.7 27.30 12.7 – – Professional, n.e.c......................................... 33.08 6.8 33.08 6.8 – – Technical....................................................... 20.75 5.5 21.78 4.6 18.65 15.9 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 19.06 8.3 19.86 10.7 – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 21.02 2.9 21.02 2.9 – – Science technicians, n.e.c.................................. 20.00 6.9 – – – – Computer programmers........................................ 30.44 3.7 30.40 5.4 – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 13.37 12.6 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.02 6.1 34.15 6.5 28.65 14.4 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 43.23 6.9 45.88 7.8 34.47 4.4 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 33.22 16.5 – – 33.22 16.5 Financial managers.......................................... 32.57 10.1 – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 29.12 3.0 – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 47.76 6.4 48.19 6.6 – – Management related............................................ 24.33 8.1 24.79 9.0 22.24 9.3 Accountants and auditors.................................... 28.60 7.7 – – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.28 10.2 27.08 8.7 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 18.71 10.9 – – – – Sales............................................................. 14.93 10.4 14.91 10.6 – – Cashiers.................................................... $7.93 6.8 $7.65 4.8 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.84 2.5 14.81 2.2 $12.42 2.5 Secretaries................................................. 16.41 3.5 16.60 3.8 15.25 5.5 Order clerks................................................ 17.87 8.1 17.87 8.1 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.53 5.0 14.10 4.2 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.92 3.9 14.88 4.0 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 12.94 4.4 12.94 4.4 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.69 2.5 13.74 3.0 12.16 2.1 Teachers' aides............................................. 11.43 .9 – – 11.43 .9 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 14.53 3.6 14.58 3.7 – – Blue collar......................................................... 13.89 4.2 13.79 4.8 14.62 4.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.50 3.2 19.24 4.3 16.33 2.2 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 15.81 6.8 15.95 7.9 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 25.29 2.6 25.29 2.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.24 7.4 13.31 7.3 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 14.36 13.2 14.36 13.2 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 11.37 12.0 11.24 13.2 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.46 3.8 10.41 4.2 11.00 6.1 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.80 5.8 – – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 13.77 9.7 13.77 9.7 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.38 10.3 – – – – Service............................................................. 10.71 3.9 9.51 5.6 13.33 6.7 Protective service............................................ 13.54 14.8 – – 16.52 7.0 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 27.25 4.5 – – 27.25 4.5 Police and detectives, public service....................... 18.56 1.4 – – 18.56 1.4 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers...... 12.80 5.1 – – 12.80 5.1 Food service.................................................. 8.05 3.5 8.06 4.4 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.82 17.8 4.82 17.8 – – Other food service........................................... 8.43 6.4 8.55 8.4 – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.90 8.9 – – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.70 7.4 7.36 10.5 – – Health service................................................ 10.22 3.4 10.39 4.8 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.01 3.6 10.10 3.9 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 10.48 13.5 10.63 14.9 9.03 6.0 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.18 3.1 9.20 3.4 9.03 6.0 Personal service.............................................. 13.74 18.1 – – 12.98 14.5 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 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................................................................... $21.63 3.0 $21.74 4.1 $21.38 2.5 All excluding sales............................................... 21.96 2.8 22.21 3.8 21.39 2.5 White collar........................................................ 24.79 2.7 25.54 3.1 23.18 4.6 White collar excluding sales.................................... 25.50 2.6 26.70 2.9 23.19 4.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 30.50 3.2 30.64 4.0 30.23 5.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 33.40 2.6 33.32 3.7 33.56 2.3 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 34.05 6.1 35.91 5.1 – – Civil engineers............................................. 27.41 9.3 – – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 36.11 4.4 36.11 4.4 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 36.19 4.8 36.19 4.8 – – Natural scientists............................................ 32.63 9.7 30.08 8.7 – – Chemists, except biochemists................................ 32.89 11.4 33.03 11.3 – – Health related................................................ 22.69 7.3 23.06 8.7 21.51 12.2 Registered nurses........................................... 24.36 3.9 25.14 4.0 21.74 8.4 Teachers, college and university.............................. 62.46 12.6 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.49 1.9 – – 23.25 1.2 Elementary school teachers.................................. 23.13 1.7 – – 23.13 1.7 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 33.69 7.3 – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 18.10 4.4 – – 17.05 4.1 Social workers.............................................. 18.15 5.6 – – 17.05 4.1 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 27.87 11.7 27.87 11.7 – – Professional, n.e.c......................................... 33.08 6.8 33.08 6.8 – – Technical....................................................... 20.76 5.5 21.80 4.6 18.65 15.9 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 19.06 8.3 19.86 10.7 – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 21.02 2.9 21.02 2.9 – – Science technicians, n.e.c.................................. 20.00 6.9 – – – – Computer programmers........................................ 30.44 3.7 30.40 5.4 – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 13.37 12.6 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.02 6.1 34.15 6.5 28.65 14.4 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 43.23 6.9 45.88 7.8 34.47 4.4 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 33.22 16.5 – – 33.22 16.5 Financial managers.......................................... 32.57 10.1 – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 29.12 3.0 – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 47.76 6.4 48.19 6.6 – – Management related............................................ 24.33 8.1 24.79 9.0 22.24 9.3 Accountants and auditors.................................... 28.60 7.7 – – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.28 10.2 27.08 8.7 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 18.71 10.9 – – – – Sales............................................................. 15.74 11.4 15.73 11.5 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ $13.89 2.6 $14.89 2.4 $12.42 2.6 Secretaries................................................. 16.43 3.5 16.62 3.8 15.25 5.5 Order clerks................................................ 18.33 7.4 18.33 7.4 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.71 5.0 – – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.92 3.9 14.88 4.0 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 12.94 4.4 12.94 4.4 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.69 2.5 13.74 3.0 12.16 2.1 Teachers' aides............................................. 11.43 .9 – – 11.43 .9 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 14.59 3.7 14.64 3.8 – – Blue collar......................................................... 14.37 4.0 14.29 4.5 15.00 4.5 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.50 3.2 19.24 4.3 16.33 2.2 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 15.81 6.8 15.95 7.9 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 25.29 2.6 25.29 2.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.34 7.2 13.41 7.1 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 14.36 13.2 14.36 13.2 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 12.74 15.6 12.67 16.1 – – Truck drivers............................................... 11.36 22.6 11.36 22.6 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.50 4.1 10.45 4.5 11.00 6.1 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.30 5.9 – – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.38 10.3 – – – – Service............................................................. 11.43 3.9 10.27 5.9 13.36 6.9 Protective service............................................ 14.29 12.1 – – 16.52 7.0 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 27.25 4.5 – – 27.25 4.5 Police and detectives, public service....................... 18.56 1.4 – – 18.56 1.4 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers...... 12.80 5.1 – – 12.80 5.1 Food service.................................................. 8.95 3.2 9.39 3.7 – – Other food service........................................... 9.03 4.0 9.54 5.2 – – Health service................................................ 10.22 3.7 10.42 5.6 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.00 4.1 – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 10.48 13.5 10.63 14.9 9.03 6.0 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.18 3.1 9.20 3.4 9.03 6.0 Personal service.............................................. 15.18 19.9 – – – – 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 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................................................................... $10.17 7.1 $9.95 7.7 $12.56 3.1 All excluding sales............................................... 10.51 7.6 10.30 8.4 12.56 3.1 White collar........................................................ 15.11 9.2 15.09 10.0 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.14 8.3 19.51 9.2 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.65 8.0 22.79 8.5 – – Professional specialty.......................................... 22.83 8.2 22.98 8.8 – – Health related................................................ 25.70 3.1 26.03 3.1 – – Registered nurses........................................... 25.70 3.1 26.03 3.1 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 7.39 2.7 7.39 2.7 – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.39 2.7 7.39 2.7 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.05 7.8 10.90 9.6 – – Blue collar......................................................... 8.56 8.3 7.80 9.8 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 8.27 6.9 – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.94 13.0 9.94 13.0 – – Service............................................................. 7.18 4.8 7.18 4.8 – – Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 6.56 3.1 6.56 3.1 – – Other food service........................................... 7.19 11.4 7.19 11.4 – – Health service................................................ – – – – – – 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 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................................................................... $856 3.2 39.5 $864 4.4 39.7 $835 2.6 39.1 All excluding sales............................................... 867 2.9 39.5 881 4.0 39.7 835 2.6 39.1 White collar........................................................ 976 2.9 39.4 1,014 3.4 39.7 896 4.6 38.7 White collar excluding sales.................................... 1,001 2.7 39.3 1,056 3.0 39.6 897 4.6 38.7 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,185 3.2 38.8 1,203 4.0 39.3 1,151 5.5 38.1 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,292 2.6 38.7 1,309 3.8 39.3 1,261 2.4 37.6 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,360 6.3 39.9 1,436 5.5 40.0 – – – Civil engineers............................................. 1,094 9.2 39.9 – – – – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 1,408 4.0 39.0 1,408 4.0 39.0 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 1,407 4.3 38.9 1,407 4.3 38.9 – – – Natural scientists............................................ 1,286 9.7 39.4 1,182 8.5 39.3 – – – Chemists, except biochemists................................ 1,294 12.3 39.3 1,299 12.1 39.3 – – – Health related................................................ 889 6.6 39.2 897 7.8 38.9 860 12.2 40.0 Registered nurses........................................... 948 3.5 38.9 971 3.8 38.6 869 8.4 40.0 Teachers, college and university.............................. 2,498 12.6 40.0 – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 838 2.0 35.7 – – – 824 1.0 35.4 Elementary school teachers.................................. 816 1.6 35.3 – – – 816 1.6 35.3 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 1,288 4.9 38.2 – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 688 5.7 38.0 – – – 657 4.2 38.5 Social workers.............................................. 706 6.1 38.9 – – – 657 4.2 38.5 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 1,110 12.9 39.8 1,110 12.9 39.8 – – – Professional, n.e.c......................................... 1,270 7.3 38.4 1,270 7.3 38.4 – – – Technical....................................................... 818 5.4 39.4 853 4.4 39.1 745 15.9 40.0 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 763 8.3 40.0 795 10.7 40.0 – – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 820 4.5 39.0 820 4.5 39.0 – – – Science technicians, n.e.c.................................. 800 6.9 40.0 – – – – – – Computer programmers........................................ 1,162 3.0 38.2 1,138 3.6 37.4 – – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 534 12.5 39.9 – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,329 6.2 40.2 1,379 6.6 40.4 1,140 14.4 39.8 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,745 7.1 40.4 1,861 7.9 40.5 1,370 4.3 39.7 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 1,316 15.8 39.6 – – – 1,316 15.8 39.6 Financial managers.......................................... 1,309 9.8 40.2 – – – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 1,165 3.0 40.0 – – – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,931 7.4 40.4 1,952 7.5 40.5 – – – Management related............................................ 977 8.0 40.2 997 8.9 40.2 886 9.1 39.8 Accountants and auditors.................................... 1,152 7.3 40.3 – – – – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ $1,015 10.2 40.2 $1,089 8.5 40.2 – – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 748 10.9 40.0 – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 645 14.6 41.0 645 14.8 41.0 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 548 2.5 39.5 591 2.3 39.7 $487 2.4 39.2 Secretaries................................................. 651 3.0 39.6 659 3.2 39.7 601 5.4 39.4 Order clerks................................................ 733 7.4 40.0 733 7.4 40.0 – – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 548 5.0 40.0 – – – – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 596 3.9 40.0 595 4.0 40.0 – – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 518 4.4 40.0 518 4.4 40.0 – – – General office clerks....................................... 501 2.2 39.5 530 2.7 38.6 486 2.1 40.0 Teachers' aides............................................. 402 .5 35.2 – – – 402 .5 35.2 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 582 3.5 39.9 584 3.7 39.9 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 574 4.0 39.9 570 4.5 39.9 600 4.5 40.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 741 3.2 40.0 771 4.2 40.0 653 2.2 40.0 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 632 6.8 40.0 638 7.9 40.0 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 1,033 5.3 40.8 1,033 5.3 40.8 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 533 7.2 39.9 536 7.1 39.9 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 574 13.2 40.0 574 13.2 40.0 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 509 15.6 40.0 507 16.1 40.0 – – – Truck drivers............................................... 454 22.6 40.0 454 22.6 40.0 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 417 3.3 39.7 414 3.7 39.6 440 6.1 40.0 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 412 5.9 40.0 – – – – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 375 10.3 40.0 – – – – – – Service............................................................. 459 4.2 40.1 406 6.0 39.5 550 7.7 41.2 Protective service............................................ 595 13.6 41.6 – – – 703 8.8 42.5 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 1,125 6.5 41.3 – – – 1,125 6.5 41.3 Police and detectives, public service....................... 779 1.0 42.0 – – – 779 1.0 42.0 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers...... 513 5.5 40.1 – – – 513 5.5 40.1 Food service.................................................. 362 3.8 40.5 387 4.7 41.2 – – – Other food service........................................... 365 4.8 40.5 394 6.5 41.2 – – – Health service................................................ 404 4.3 39.5 409 6.4 39.3 – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 393 4.9 39.3 – – – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 407 14.4 38.9 412 16.0 38.8 359 6.2 39.8 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 355 3.0 38.6 354 3.3 38.5 359 6.2 39.8 Personal service.............................................. $541 11.3 35.6 – – – – – – 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 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................................................................... $43,538 3.2 2,013 $44,895 4.4 2,065 $40,418 2.6 1,891 All excluding sales............................................... 44,060 2.9 2,006 45,756 4.0 2,060 40,429 2.6 1,891 White collar........................................................ 49,330 2.9 1,990 52,709 3.4 2,064 42,808 4.6 1,847 White collar excluding sales.................................... 50,481 2.7 1,979 54,888 3.0 2,056 42,826 4.6 1,846 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 58,611 3.2 1,922 62,463 4.0 2,038 52,255 5.5 1,729 Professional specialty.......................................... 63,012 2.6 1,887 67,948 3.8 2,039 55,336 2.4 1,649 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 70,696 6.3 2,076 74,650 5.5 2,079 – – – Civil engineers............................................. 56,866 9.2 2,075 – – – – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 73,211 4.0 2,028 73,211 4.0 2,028 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 73,165 4.3 2,022 73,165 4.3 2,022 – – – Natural scientists............................................ 63,450 9.7 1,944 61,473 8.5 2,044 – – – Chemists, except biochemists................................ 67,263 12.3 2,045 67,537 12.1 2,045 – – – Health related................................................ 46,222 6.6 2,037 46,668 7.8 2,024 44,739 12.2 2,080 Registered nurses........................................... 49,314 3.5 2,024 50,491 3.8 2,008 45,213 8.4 2,080 Teachers, college and university.............................. 101,641 12.6 1,627 – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 36,699 2.0 1,563 – – – 35,752 1.0 1,538 Elementary school teachers.................................. 35,421 1.6 1,531 – – – 35,421 1.6 1,531 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 66,956 4.9 1,987 – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 35,760 5.7 1,975 – – – 34,183 4.2 2,004 Social workers.............................................. 36,727 6.1 2,024 – – – 34,183 4.2 2,004 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 57,706 12.9 2,070 57,706 12.9 2,070 – – – Professional, n.e.c......................................... 66,056 7.3 1,997 66,056 7.3 1,997 – – – Technical....................................................... 42,537 5.4 2,049 44,368 4.4 2,035 38,754 15.9 2,078 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 39,655 8.3 2,080 41,316 10.7 2,080 – – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 42,660 4.5 2,030 42,660 4.5 2,030 – – – Science technicians, n.e.c.................................. 41,592 6.9 2,080 – – – – – – Computer programmers........................................ 60,423 3.0 1,985 59,170 3.6 1,947 – – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 27,745 12.5 2,076 – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 69,102 6.2 2,093 71,665 6.6 2,099 59,254 14.4 2,068 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 90,685 7.1 2,098 96,695 7.9 2,107 71,219 4.3 2,066 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 68,429 15.8 2,060 – – – 68,429 15.8 2,060 Financial managers.......................................... 68,074 9.8 2,090 – – – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 60,294 3.0 2,071 – – – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 100,424 7.4 2,103 101,496 7.5 2,106 – – – Management related............................................ 50,804 8.0 2,088 51,853 8.9 2,092 46,071 9.1 2,071 Accountants and auditors.................................... 59,878 7.3 2,094 – – – – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ $52,803 10.2 2,089 $56,640 8.5 2,092 – – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 38,921 10.9 2,080 – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 33,545 14.6 2,131 33,533 14.8 2,131 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 28,146 2.5 2,027 30,700 2.3 2,061 $24,579 2.4 1,978 Secretaries................................................. 33,826 3.0 2,059 34,243 3.2 2,060 31,257 5.4 2,050 Order clerks................................................ 38,131 7.4 2,080 38,131 7.4 2,080 – – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 28,509 5.0 2,079 – – – – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 30,965 3.9 2,076 30,893 4.0 2,077 – – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 26,920 4.4 2,080 26,920 4.4 2,080 – – – General office clerks....................................... 26,054 2.2 2,054 27,561 2.7 2,006 25,278 2.1 2,078 Teachers' aides............................................. 17,260 .5 1,510 – – – 17,260 .5 1,510 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 30,258 3.5 2,074 30,361 3.7 2,073 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 29,830 4.0 2,075 29,645 4.5 2,075 31,197 4.5 2,080 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 38,521 3.2 2,082 40,068 4.2 2,082 33,975 2.2 2,080 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 32,890 6.8 2,080 33,176 7.9 2,080 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 53,719 5.3 2,124 53,719 5.3 2,124 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 27,708 7.2 2,077 27,857 7.1 2,077 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 29,871 13.2 2,080 29,871 13.2 2,080 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 26,472 15.6 2,078 26,343 16.1 2,078 – – – Truck drivers............................................... 23,608 22.6 2,077 23,608 22.6 2,077 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 21,662 3.3 2,062 21,532 3.7 2,060 22,879 6.1 2,080 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 21,429 5.9 2,080 – – – – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 19,503 10.3 2,080 – – – – – – Service............................................................. 23,685 4.2 2,072 21,098 6.0 2,054 28,111 7.7 2,103 Protective service............................................ 30,893 13.6 2,161 – – – 36,535 8.8 2,211 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 58,476 6.5 2,146 – – – 58,476 6.5 2,146 Police and detectives, public service....................... 40,529 1.0 2,183 – – – 40,529 1.0 2,183 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers...... 26,700 5.5 2,086 – – – 26,700 5.5 2,086 Food service.................................................. 18,402 3.8 2,057 20,119 4.7 2,142 – – – Other food service........................................... 18,566 4.8 2,056 20,471 6.5 2,145 – – – Health service................................................ 21,025 4.3 2,057 21,294 6.4 2,044 – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 20,446 4.9 2,045 – – – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 21,077 14.4 2,011 21,396 16.0 2,014 17,883 6.2 1,981 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 18,358 3.0 2,000 18,416 3.3 2,003 17,883 6.2 1,981 Personal service.............................................. $28,109 11.3 1,852 – – – – – – 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 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................................................................... $21.07 2.9 $21.00 3.9 $21.24 2.5 All excluding sales............................................... 21.43 2.6 21.50 3.6 21.25 2.5 White collar........................................................ 24.57 2.6 25.22 3.0 23.14 4.6 2....................................................... 9.66 5.0 9.37 6.1 – – 3....................................................... 11.25 3.3 10.54 7.4 11.65 2.6 4....................................................... 12.93 1.9 13.16 2.2 12.38 1.9 5....................................................... 17.37 4.0 17.46 4.3 16.13 4.1 6....................................................... 17.24 4.3 17.18 6.8 17.34 1.6 7....................................................... 21.18 2.0 21.45 2.6 20.41 3.8 8....................................................... 22.61 4.1 23.18 4.9 20.33 3.1 9....................................................... 27.27 2.8 29.79 3.4 24.08 3.4 10........................................................ 32.07 3.5 32.07 3.6 – – 11........................................................ 36.67 3.7 35.26 5.2 39.74 5.4 12........................................................ 49.82 12.7 44.33 2.0 63.50 26.8 13........................................................ 47.68 2.3 47.57 2.2 – – 14........................................................ 63.59 5.0 63.51 5.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 27.58 29.2 27.58 29.2 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 25.40 2.5 26.54 2.8 23.16 4.6 2....................................................... 10.79 5.6 11.20 8.9 – – 3....................................................... 11.59 2.1 11.45 4.7 11.65 2.6 4....................................................... 13.40 2.2 13.97 2.3 12.37 1.9 5....................................................... 17.54 4.0 17.67 4.3 16.03 4.4 6....................................................... 17.28 4.4 17.26 7.0 17.32 1.5 7....................................................... 21.12 2.0 21.40 2.7 20.41 3.8 8....................................................... 22.54 3.4 23.14 4.0 20.33 3.1 9....................................................... 27.27 2.8 29.79 3.4 24.08 3.4 10........................................................ 32.07 3.5 32.07 3.6 – – 11........................................................ 35.92 3.9 34.02 5.6 39.74 5.4 12........................................................ 49.82 12.7 44.33 2.0 63.50 26.8 13........................................................ 47.68 2.3 47.57 2.2 – – 14........................................................ 63.59 5.0 63.51 5.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 27.58 29.2 27.58 29.2 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 30.33 3.1 30.41 3.8 30.19 5.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 33.12 2.5 32.93 3.6 33.50 2.3 5....................................................... 19.71 5.3 20.55 3.8 – – 6....................................................... 18.85 6.5 17.98 11.4 20.00 4.2 7....................................................... 24.32 4.4 25.07 7.0 22.66 4.5 8....................................................... 25.44 5.7 27.19 6.1 20.25 3.2 9....................................................... 26.61 2.8 30.27 4.3 23.14 2.2 10........................................................ 30.62 4.2 30.62 4.2 – – 11........................................................ 36.73 4.9 33.54 6.2 – – 12........................................................ 50.99 16.7 42.40 3.8 – – 13........................................................ 43.92 8.4 43.73 8.5 – – 14........................................................ 61.71 3.6 61.71 3.6 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... $34.05 6.1 $35.91 5.1 – – 11........................................................ 37.51 8.0 36.58 9.4 – – 12........................................................ 42.11 6.0 42.11 6.0 – – Civil engineers............................................. 27.41 9.3 – – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 36.11 4.4 36.11 4.4 – – 9....................................................... 32.42 4.1 32.42 4.1 – – 11........................................................ 37.03 8.1 37.03 8.1 – – 12........................................................ 41.66 4.0 41.66 4.0 – – 13........................................................ 43.17 6.3 43.17 6.3 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 36.19 4.8 36.19 4.8 – – 9....................................................... 32.42 4.1 32.42 4.1 – – 11........................................................ 40.77 .9 40.77 .9 – – 12........................................................ 41.79 4.3 41.79 4.3 – – Natural scientists............................................ 32.63 9.7 30.08 8.7 – – 11........................................................ 33.05 16.7 – – – – Chemists, except biochemists................................ 32.89 11.4 33.03 11.3 – – Health related................................................ 23.26 6.1 23.71 7.0 $21.50 11.2 7....................................................... 21.25 5.3 – – – – 8....................................................... 24.18 .9 24.36 .5 – – 9....................................................... 26.48 4.5 26.81 4.6 – – Registered nurses........................................... 24.67 3.3 25.38 3.4 21.71 7.8 7....................................................... 21.25 5.3 – – – – 8....................................................... 24.11 1.0 24.31 .5 – – 9....................................................... 26.48 4.5 26.81 4.6 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 62.44 12.6 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.30 2.1 – – 23.24 1.2 9....................................................... 23.37 1.7 – – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 23.13 1.7 – – 23.13 1.7 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 33.69 7.3 – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 18.10 4.4 – – 17.05 4.1 Social workers.............................................. 18.15 5.6 – – 17.05 4.1 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 27.30 12.7 27.30 12.7 – – 7....................................................... 20.73 14.4 20.73 14.4 – – Professional, n.e.c......................................... 33.08 6.8 33.08 6.8 – – Technical....................................................... 20.75 5.5 21.78 4.6 18.65 15.9 5....................................................... 17.26 5.7 16.84 5.9 – – 6....................................................... 17.20 5.3 – – – – 7....................................................... 19.81 5.3 21.27 8.0 – – 8....................................................... 20.87 5.3 21.31 6.8 – – 9....................................................... 28.37 6.9 26.74 9.7 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 19.06 8.3 19.86 10.7 – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 21.02 2.9 21.02 2.9 – – Science technicians, n.e.c.................................. 20.00 6.9 – – – – Computer programmers........................................ $30.44 3.7 $30.40 5.4 – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 13.37 12.6 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.02 6.1 34.15 6.5 $28.65 14.4 6....................................................... 21.93 10.7 – – – – 7....................................................... 19.18 2.0 – – – – 8....................................................... 22.24 6.3 22.19 6.9 22.80 1.3 9....................................................... 29.62 9.2 29.78 10.2 28.40 5.6 10........................................................ 36.24 13.5 36.24 13.5 – – 11........................................................ 34.68 6.5 35.56 10.4 33.75 5.9 13........................................................ 56.60 6.4 56.60 6.4 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 43.23 6.9 45.88 7.8 34.47 4.4 9....................................................... 30.10 6.0 30.19 7.2 29.65 7.9 11........................................................ 37.48 6.0 – – 35.22 3.8 12........................................................ 51.74 6.0 – – – – Administrators and officials, public administration......... 33.22 16.5 – – 33.22 16.5 Financial managers.......................................... 32.57 10.1 – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 29.12 3.0 – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 47.76 6.4 48.19 6.6 – – Management related............................................ 24.33 8.1 24.79 9.0 22.24 9.3 8....................................................... 20.49 1.8 20.22 1.8 – – 9....................................................... 29.04 18.5 – – – – 11........................................................ 28.41 .6 – – – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 28.60 7.7 – – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.28 10.2 27.08 8.7 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 18.71 10.9 – – – – Sales............................................................. 14.93 10.4 14.91 10.6 – – 5....................................................... 16.59 6.2 – – – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.93 6.8 7.65 4.8 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.84 2.5 14.81 2.2 12.42 2.5 2....................................................... 11.20 8.9 11.20 8.9 – – 3....................................................... 11.60 2.2 11.45 4.7 11.66 2.7 4....................................................... 13.30 2.4 13.93 2.9 12.30 1.7 5....................................................... 16.85 5.0 16.97 5.3 14.93 3.7 6....................................................... 14.59 2.5 14.42 4.1 14.85 1.8 7....................................................... 18.32 5.2 18.35 5.3 – – Secretaries................................................. 16.41 3.5 16.60 3.8 15.25 5.5 4....................................................... 14.73 6.3 14.87 6.6 – – 5....................................................... 17.72 7.3 17.97 7.7 – – Order clerks................................................ 17.87 8.1 17.87 8.1 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.53 5.0 14.10 4.2 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.92 3.9 14.88 4.0 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 12.94 4.4 12.94 4.4 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.69 2.5 13.74 3.0 12.16 2.1 3....................................................... $11.48 0.5 – – $11.57 0.2 4....................................................... 12.95 3.5 – – 12.25 1.9 Teachers' aides............................................. 11.43 .9 – – 11.43 .9 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 14.53 3.6 $14.58 3.7 – – Blue collar......................................................... 13.89 4.2 13.79 4.8 14.62 4.4 1....................................................... 8.57 4.6 8.56 4.6 – – 2....................................................... 9.84 5.6 9.79 6.0 10.44 6.0 3....................................................... 13.07 10.4 13.43 12.0 – – 4....................................................... 15.38 8.3 15.50 8.8 – – 5....................................................... 16.68 1.8 16.75 2.0 15.43 1.8 6....................................................... 17.75 9.4 17.72 9.5 – – 7....................................................... 18.84 3.0 20.32 3.9 – – 8....................................................... 24.96 7.3 24.99 7.5 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.50 3.2 19.24 4.3 16.33 2.2 5....................................................... 16.04 7.7 16.18 8.2 14.85 2.3 6....................................................... 16.95 8.7 16.90 8.9 – – 7....................................................... 18.90 3.0 20.45 3.9 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 15.81 6.8 15.95 7.9 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 25.29 2.6 25.29 2.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.24 7.4 13.31 7.3 – – 2....................................................... 10.04 6.8 10.04 6.8 – – 3....................................................... 12.67 4.5 13.24 2.4 – – 4....................................................... 15.82 13.3 15.82 13.3 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 14.36 13.2 14.36 13.2 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 11.37 12.0 11.24 13.2 – – 3....................................................... 15.41 17.7 – – – – 4....................................................... 15.27 8.5 – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.46 3.8 10.41 4.2 11.00 6.1 1....................................................... 8.61 2.0 8.60 2.1 – – 2....................................................... 10.80 2.7 10.89 3.1 – – 3....................................................... 11.08 5.1 11.08 5.3 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.80 5.8 – – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 13.77 9.7 13.77 9.7 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.38 10.3 – – – – Service............................................................. 10.71 3.9 9.51 5.6 13.33 6.7 1....................................................... 8.26 5.2 8.23 6.9 8.37 2.1 2....................................................... 8.26 3.5 8.26 3.8 – – 3....................................................... 8.71 3.7 – – 8.81 5.0 4....................................................... 10.26 3.1 9.32 4.0 – – 5....................................................... 12.94 5.6 – – 12.47 2.3 6....................................................... $15.57 5.7 – – $16.61 2.3 7....................................................... 15.24 5.5 – – 14.40 6.3 Protective service............................................ 13.54 14.8 – – 16.52 7.0 5....................................................... 12.43 1.9 – – 12.43 1.9 6....................................................... 16.55 2.0 – – 16.55 2.0 7....................................................... 15.30 7.2 – – 14.24 5.1 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 27.25 4.5 – – 27.25 4.5 Police and detectives, public service....................... 18.56 1.4 – – 18.56 1.4 6....................................................... 16.38 3.0 – – 16.38 3.0 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers...... 12.80 5.1 – – 12.80 5.1 Food service.................................................. 8.05 3.5 $8.06 4.4 – – 1....................................................... 7.16 6.9 6.55 5.5 – – 2....................................................... 6.47 3.6 6.47 3.6 – – 3....................................................... 7.61 5.0 – – – – 4....................................................... 9.53 7.8 9.53 7.8 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.82 17.8 4.82 17.8 – – Other food service........................................... 8.43 6.4 8.55 8.4 – – 1....................................................... 7.19 7.4 6.54 6.1 – – 3....................................................... 7.88 5.2 – – – – Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.90 8.9 – – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.70 7.4 7.36 10.5 – – 1....................................................... 7.71 5.0 – – – – Health service................................................ 10.22 3.4 10.39 4.8 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.01 3.6 10.10 3.9 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 10.48 13.5 10.63 14.9 9.03 6.0 1....................................................... 9.08 6.1 9.13 6.9 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.18 3.1 9.20 3.4 9.03 6.0 1....................................................... 9.27 5.8 9.37 6.6 – – Personal service.............................................. 13.74 18.1 – – 12.98 14.5 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 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................................................................... $21.63 3.0 $21.74 4.1 $21.38 2.5 All excluding sales............................................... 21.96 2.8 22.21 3.8 21.39 2.5 White collar........................................................ 24.79 2.7 25.54 3.1 23.18 4.6 2....................................................... 10.62 4.7 10.86 8.2 – – 3....................................................... 11.25 3.3 10.54 7.4 11.65 2.6 4....................................................... 12.93 1.9 13.15 2.3 12.40 2.0 5....................................................... 17.40 4.2 17.49 4.5 16.19 4.2 6....................................................... 17.28 4.3 17.24 6.9 17.34 1.6 7....................................................... 21.18 2.0 21.45 2.6 20.41 3.8 8....................................................... 22.56 4.2 23.13 5.0 20.33 3.1 9....................................................... 27.31 2.9 29.95 3.4 24.10 3.4 10........................................................ 32.20 3.4 32.21 3.5 – – 11........................................................ 36.67 3.7 35.26 5.2 39.74 5.4 12........................................................ 49.82 12.7 44.33 2.0 63.50 26.8 13........................................................ 47.68 2.3 47.57 2.2 – – 14........................................................ 63.59 5.0 63.51 5.0 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 25.50 2.6 26.70 2.9 23.19 4.6 2....................................................... 10.89 6.7 – – – – 3....................................................... 11.60 2.1 11.45 4.7 11.65 2.6 4....................................................... 13.41 2.2 13.96 2.3 12.39 2.0 5....................................................... 17.59 4.2 17.71 4.5 16.09 4.6 6....................................................... 17.33 4.4 17.33 7.1 17.32 1.5 7....................................................... 21.12 2.0 21.40 2.7 20.41 3.8 8....................................................... 22.48 3.4 23.09 4.1 20.33 3.1 9....................................................... 27.31 2.9 29.95 3.4 24.10 3.4 10........................................................ 32.20 3.4 32.21 3.5 – – 11........................................................ 35.92 3.9 34.02 5.6 39.74 5.4 12........................................................ 49.82 12.7 44.33 2.0 63.50 26.8 13........................................................ 47.68 2.3 47.57 2.2 – – 14........................................................ 63.59 5.0 63.51 5.0 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 30.50 3.2 30.64 4.0 30.23 5.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 33.40 2.6 33.32 3.7 33.56 2.3 5....................................................... 19.76 5.2 20.55 3.8 – – 6....................................................... 19.08 6.7 18.32 12.3 20.00 4.2 7....................................................... 24.32 4.4 25.07 7.0 22.66 4.5 8....................................................... 25.56 6.4 27.65 7.0 20.25 3.2 9....................................................... 26.64 2.9 30.56 4.4 23.15 2.3 10........................................................ 30.76 4.1 30.76 4.1 – – 11........................................................ 36.73 4.9 33.54 6.2 – – 12........................................................ 50.99 16.7 42.40 3.8 – – 13........................................................ 43.92 8.4 43.73 8.5 – – 14........................................................ 61.71 3.6 61.71 3.6 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 34.05 6.1 35.91 5.1 – – 11........................................................ 37.51 8.0 36.58 9.4 – – 12........................................................ $42.11 6.0 $42.11 6.0 – – Civil engineers............................................. 27.41 9.3 – – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 36.11 4.4 36.11 4.4 – – 9....................................................... 32.42 4.1 32.42 4.1 – – 11........................................................ 37.03 8.1 37.03 8.1 – – 12........................................................ 41.66 4.0 41.66 4.0 – – 13........................................................ 43.17 6.3 43.17 6.3 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 36.19 4.8 36.19 4.8 – – 9....................................................... 32.42 4.1 32.42 4.1 – – 11........................................................ 40.77 .9 40.77 .9 – – 12........................................................ 41.79 4.3 41.79 4.3 – – Natural scientists............................................ 32.63 9.7 30.08 8.7 – – 11........................................................ 33.05 16.7 – – – – Chemists, except biochemists................................ 32.89 11.4 33.03 11.3 – – Health related................................................ 22.69 7.3 23.06 8.7 $21.51 12.2 7....................................................... 21.25 5.3 – – – – 8....................................................... 24.06 1.1 24.32 .6 – – 9....................................................... 26.73 4.2 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 24.36 3.9 25.14 4.0 21.74 8.4 7....................................................... 21.25 5.3 – – – – 8....................................................... 23.92 1.4 – – – – 9....................................................... 26.73 4.2 – – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 62.46 12.6 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.49 1.9 – – 23.25 1.2 9....................................................... 23.37 1.7 – – – – Elementary school teachers.................................. 23.13 1.7 – – 23.13 1.7 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 33.69 7.3 – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 18.10 4.4 – – 17.05 4.1 Social workers.............................................. 18.15 5.6 – – 17.05 4.1 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 27.87 11.7 27.87 11.7 – – 7....................................................... 20.73 14.4 20.73 14.4 – – Professional, n.e.c......................................... 33.08 6.8 33.08 6.8 – – Technical....................................................... 20.76 5.5 21.80 4.6 18.65 15.9 5....................................................... 17.22 5.9 16.79 6.2 – – 6....................................................... 17.20 5.3 – – – – 7....................................................... 19.81 5.3 21.27 8.0 – – 8....................................................... 20.87 5.3 21.31 6.8 – – 9....................................................... 28.37 6.9 26.74 9.7 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 19.06 8.3 19.86 10.7 – – Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 21.02 2.9 21.02 2.9 – – Science technicians, n.e.c.................................. 20.00 6.9 – – – – Computer programmers........................................ 30.44 3.7 30.40 5.4 – – Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 13.37 12.6 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... $33.02 6.1 $34.15 6.5 $28.65 14.4 6....................................................... 21.93 10.7 – – – – 7....................................................... 19.18 2.0 – – – – 8....................................................... 22.24 6.3 22.19 6.9 22.80 1.3 9....................................................... 29.62 9.2 29.78 10.2 28.40 5.6 10........................................................ 36.24 13.5 36.24 13.5 – – 11........................................................ 34.68 6.5 35.56 10.4 33.75 5.9 13........................................................ 56.60 6.4 56.60 6.4 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 43.23 6.9 45.88 7.8 34.47 4.4 9....................................................... 30.10 6.0 30.19 7.2 29.65 7.9 11........................................................ 37.48 6.0 – – 35.22 3.8 12........................................................ 51.74 6.0 – – – – Administrators and officials, public administration......... 33.22 16.5 – – 33.22 16.5 Financial managers.......................................... 32.57 10.1 – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 29.12 3.0 – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 47.76 6.4 48.19 6.6 – – Management related............................................ 24.33 8.1 24.79 9.0 22.24 9.3 8....................................................... 20.49 1.8 20.22 1.8 – – 9....................................................... 29.04 18.5 – – – – 11........................................................ 28.41 .6 – – – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 28.60 7.7 – – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 25.28 10.2 27.08 8.7 – – Management related, n.e.c................................... 18.71 10.9 – – – – Sales............................................................. 15.74 11.4 15.73 11.5 – – 5....................................................... 16.59 6.2 – – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.89 2.6 14.89 2.4 12.42 2.6 3....................................................... 11.60 2.2 11.45 4.7 11.66 2.7 4....................................................... 13.31 2.5 13.92 2.9 12.32 1.7 5....................................................... 16.91 5.3 17.03 5.6 14.88 4.0 6....................................................... 14.59 2.5 14.42 4.1 14.85 1.8 7....................................................... 18.32 5.2 18.35 5.3 – – Secretaries................................................. 16.43 3.5 16.62 3.8 15.25 5.5 4....................................................... 14.75 6.3 14.89 6.7 – – 5....................................................... 17.72 7.3 17.97 7.7 – – Order clerks................................................ 18.33 7.4 18.33 7.4 – – Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.71 5.0 – – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.92 3.9 14.88 4.0 – – Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 12.94 4.4 12.94 4.4 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.69 2.5 13.74 3.0 12.16 2.1 3....................................................... 11.48 .5 – – 11.57 .2 4....................................................... 12.95 3.5 – – 12.25 1.9 Teachers' aides............................................. 11.43 .9 – – 11.43 .9 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 14.59 3.7 14.64 3.8 – – Blue collar......................................................... $14.37 4.0 $14.29 4.5 $15.00 4.5 1....................................................... 8.98 3.0 8.97 3.1 – – 2....................................................... 10.07 4.9 10.03 5.2 – – 3....................................................... 13.26 11.9 13.48 12.2 – – 4....................................................... 15.41 8.4 15.50 8.8 – – 5....................................................... 16.71 1.9 16.80 2.1 15.43 1.8 6....................................................... 17.75 9.4 17.72 9.5 – – 7....................................................... 18.84 3.0 20.32 3.9 – – 8....................................................... 24.96 7.3 24.99 7.5 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.50 3.2 19.24 4.3 16.33 2.2 5....................................................... 16.04 7.7 16.18 8.2 14.85 2.3 6....................................................... 16.95 8.7 16.90 8.9 – – 7....................................................... 18.90 3.0 20.45 3.9 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 15.81 6.8 15.95 7.9 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 25.29 2.6 25.29 2.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.34 7.2 13.41 7.1 – – 2....................................................... 10.21 6.5 10.21 6.5 – – 3....................................................... 12.67 4.5 13.24 2.4 – – 4....................................................... 15.82 13.3 15.82 13.3 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 14.36 13.2 14.36 13.2 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 12.74 15.6 12.67 16.1 – – Truck drivers............................................... 11.36 22.6 11.36 22.6 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.50 4.1 10.45 4.5 11.00 6.1 1....................................................... 8.55 3.2 8.53 3.3 – – 2....................................................... 10.80 2.7 10.89 3.1 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.30 5.9 – – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.38 10.3 – – – – Service............................................................. 11.43 3.9 10.27 5.9 13.36 6.9 1....................................................... 8.68 4.4 8.78 5.8 – – 2....................................................... 9.06 2.1 – – – – 3....................................................... 8.95 3.8 8.99 5.2 8.81 5.1 4....................................................... 11.23 8.8 – – – – 5....................................................... 12.94 5.6 – – 12.47 2.3 6....................................................... 15.57 5.7 – – 16.61 2.3 7....................................................... 15.24 5.5 – – 14.40 6.3 Protective service............................................ 14.29 12.1 – – 16.52 7.0 5....................................................... 12.43 1.9 – – 12.43 1.9 6....................................................... 16.55 2.0 – – 16.55 2.0 7....................................................... 15.30 7.2 – – 14.24 5.1 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 27.25 4.5 – – 27.25 4.5 Police and detectives, public service....................... $18.56 1.4 – – $18.56 1.4 6....................................................... 16.38 3.0 – – 16.38 3.0 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers...... 12.80 5.1 – – 12.80 5.1 Food service.................................................. 8.95 3.2 $9.39 3.7 – – 3....................................................... 7.87 5.9 – – – – Other food service........................................... 9.03 4.0 9.54 5.2 – – 3....................................................... 7.87 5.9 – – – – Health service................................................ 10.22 3.7 10.42 5.6 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.00 4.1 – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 10.48 13.5 10.63 14.9 9.03 6.0 1....................................................... 9.08 6.1 9.13 6.9 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.18 3.1 9.20 3.4 9.03 6.0 1....................................................... 9.27 5.8 9.37 6.6 – – Personal service.............................................. 15.18 19.9 – – – – 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 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................................................................... $10.17 7.1 $9.95 7.7 $12.56 3.1 All excluding sales............................................... 10.51 7.6 10.30 8.4 12.56 3.1 White collar........................................................ 15.11 9.2 15.09 10.0 – – 2....................................................... 8.40 7.8 8.40 7.8 – – 9....................................................... 25.88 5.7 – – – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.14 8.3 19.51 9.2 – – 9....................................................... 25.88 5.7 – – – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.65 8.0 22.79 8.5 – – Professional specialty.......................................... 22.83 8.2 22.98 8.8 – – 9....................................................... 25.88 5.7 – – – – Health related................................................ 25.70 3.1 26.03 3.1 – – Registered nurses........................................... 25.70 3.1 26.03 3.1 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 7.39 2.7 7.39 2.7 – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.39 2.7 7.39 2.7 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.05 7.8 10.90 9.6 – – Blue collar......................................................... 8.56 8.3 7.80 9.8 – – 1....................................................... 7.45 9.7 7.45 9.7 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 8.27 6.9 – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.94 13.0 9.94 13.0 – – 1....................................................... 8.97 10.8 8.97 10.8 – – Service............................................................. 7.18 4.8 7.18 4.8 – – 1....................................................... 6.41 6.5 6.40 6.6 – – 2....................................................... 5.77 18.7 – – – – 4....................................................... 9.04 6.4 9.04 6.4 – – Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 6.56 3.1 6.56 3.1 – – 1....................................................... 6.40 6.6 6.40 6.6 – – Other food service........................................... 7.19 11.4 7.19 11.4 – – 1....................................................... 6.40 6.6 6.40 6.6 – – Health service................................................ – – – – – – 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 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....................................................... $21.63 $10.17 $16.00 $21.20 $21.14 $16.49 All excluding sales............................................. 21.96 10.51 16.00 21.58 21.46 16.64 White collar........................................................ 24.79 15.11 – 24.58 24.73 15.34 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 25.50 19.14 – 25.42 25.47 – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 30.50 22.65 – 30.33 30.33 – Professional specialty.......................................... 33.40 22.83 – 33.13 33.12 – Technical....................................................... 20.76 – – 20.75 20.75 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 33.02 – – 33.02 33.45 – Sales............................................................. 15.74 7.39 – 14.93 14.68 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.89 11.05 – 13.81 13.87 – Blue collar......................................................... 14.37 8.56 14.64 13.81 13.77 – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.50 – 19.68 18.46 18.43 – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.34 – 12.24 13.48 13.24 – Transportation and material moving................................ 12.74 8.27 – 10.51 10.99 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.50 9.94 13.04 10.19 10.46 – Service............................................................. 11.43 7.18 – 10.66 10.71 – 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....................................................... 3.0 7.1 8.9 2.7 3.1 19.1 All excluding sales............................................. 2.8 7.6 8.9 2.3 2.7 17.3 White collar........................................................ 2.7 9.2 – 2.6 2.8 28.1 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.6 8.3 – 2.5 2.6 – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.2 8.0 – 3.2 3.1 – Professional specialty.......................................... 2.6 8.2 – 2.5 2.5 – Technical....................................................... 5.5 – – 5.5 5.5 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 6.1 – – 6.1 6.4 – Sales............................................................. 11.4 2.7 – 10.4 14.0 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.6 7.8 – 2.6 2.5 – Blue collar......................................................... 4.0 8.3 9.6 4.4 4.1 – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 3.2 – 11.6 3.2 3.3 – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 7.2 – .1 9.3 7.4 – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.6 6.9 – 11.1 12.0 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.1 13.0 7.1 4.6 3.8 – Service............................................................. 3.9 4.8 – 4.0 3.9 – 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 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....................................................... $21.00 $24.41 – – $24.57 - $24.74 - - - All excluding sales............................................. 21.50 24.19 – – 24.34 - 24.75 - - - White collar........................................................ 25.22 30.59 – – 30.59 - 27.79 - - - White-collar excluding sales.................................... 26.54 30.48 – – 30.48 - 28.12 - - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 30.41 32.60 – – 32.60 - 28.98 - - - Professional specialty.......................................... 32.93 34.77 – – 34.77 - 32.62 - - - Technical....................................................... 21.78 – – – – - – - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 34.15 38.67 – – 38.67 - – - - - Sales............................................................. 14.91 – – – – - – - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.81 16.59 – – 16.59 - 14.66 - - - Blue collar......................................................... 13.79 14.44 – – 14.28 - 16.88 - - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.24 19.21 – – 19.11 - 21.99 - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.31 14.30 – – 14.30 - – - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 11.24 13.19 – – 13.19 - – - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.41 9.82 – – 9.74 - 12.66 - - - Service............................................................. 9.51 – – – – - – - - - 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....................................................... 3.9 6.3 – – 6.3 - 12.4 - - - All excluding sales............................................. 3.6 5.9 – – 5.9 - 10.8 - - - White collar........................................................ 3.0 2.3 – – 2.3 - 13.3 - - - White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.8 2.8 – – 2.8 - 12.2 - - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.8 3.9 – – 3.9 - 11.1 - - - Professional specialty.......................................... 3.6 4.9 – – 4.9 - 3.6 - - - Technical....................................................... 4.6 – – – – - – - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 6.5 4.1 – – 4.1 - – - - - Sales............................................................. 10.6 – – – – - – - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.2 1.3 – – 1.3 - 13.8 - - - Blue collar......................................................... 4.8 4.3 – – 4.4 - 18.1 - - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 4.3 6.5 – – 7.6 - 16.9 - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 7.3 6.4 – – 6.4 - – - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 13.2 12.6 – – 12.6 - – - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.2 2.0 – – 2.5 - 10.3 - - - Service............................................................. 5.6 – – – – - – - - - 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, 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 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....................................................... $21.00 $13.45 $22.95 $18.90 $24.72 All excluding sales............................................. 21.50 14.01 23.07 19.37 24.52 White collar........................................................ 25.22 17.70 26.19 21.66 27.74 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 26.54 26.56 26.54 23.07 27.52 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 30.41 29.56 30.45 28.79 30.79 Professional specialty.......................................... 32.93 29.56 33.17 30.13 33.91 Technical....................................................... 21.78 – 21.78 19.52 22.00 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 34.15 38.41 33.91 29.97 35.03 Sales............................................................. 14.91 11.40 19.94 15.17 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.81 15.25 14.78 14.36 14.97 Blue collar......................................................... 13.79 12.30 14.49 15.14 13.85 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.24 19.07 19.30 19.07 19.51 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 13.31 13.57 13.22 15.22 11.98 Transportation and material moving................................ 11.24 – 13.44 13.70 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.41 9.59 10.80 11.29 10.46 Service............................................................. 9.51 8.93 10.20 9.74 10.38 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....................................................... 3.9 10.8 4.3 9.2 4.6 All excluding sales............................................. 3.6 10.3 4.3 9.1 4.6 White collar........................................................ 3.0 15.4 2.6 8.2 2.5 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.8 9.7 2.8 7.9 2.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.8 10.4 4.1 8.2 4.5 Professional specialty.......................................... 3.6 10.4 3.8 7.6 4.3 Technical....................................................... 4.6 – 4.6 3.8 5.0 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 6.5 24.4 6.5 9.1 6.7 Sales............................................................. 10.6 15.1 10.4 9.1 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.2 13.9 2.4 6.3 1.5 Blue collar......................................................... 4.8 13.8 5.1 6.2 5.9 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 4.3 8.4 5.4 9.1 5.0 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 7.3 17.0 5.0 7.2 4.9 Transportation and material moving................................ 13.2 – 17.6 18.9 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.2 7.3 8.6 4.2 13.3 Service............................................................. 5.6 9.9 5.8 12.0 6.3 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.75 $11.72 $16.67 $25.68 $39.18 All excluding sales........................... 9.00 11.93 17.09 26.40 39.27 White collar.................................... 10.97 13.67 19.96 30.73 44.71 White collar excluding sales................ 11.79 14.20 21.00 31.73 44.92 Professional specialty and technical.......... 16.17 20.09 26.46 36.10 46.41 Professional specialty...................... 17.87 22.44 28.85 39.20 49.54 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 21.20 24.25 31.34 42.89 49.04 Civil engineers......................... 20.43 21.87 24.02 28.76 45.43 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 23.95 28.90 34.95 41.93 49.55 Computer systems analysts and scientists 23.41 28.61 34.95 42.58 49.57 Natural scientists........................ 19.92 24.85 31.79 42.96 45.76 Chemists, except biochemists............ 16.51 29.24 32.20 42.51 46.94 Health related............................ 13.96 19.71 24.00 28.22 28.48 Registered nurses....................... 18.64 21.41 25.00 28.48 28.64 Teachers, college and university.......... 34.94 39.12 49.54 79.19 120.61 Teachers, except college and university... 16.55 18.36 22.24 27.23 31.21 Elementary school teachers.............. 16.82 18.20 22.68 27.23 30.28 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners...... 25.83 27.89 35.46 38.02 43.28 Social, recreation, and religious workers. 13.70 15.79 17.99 19.85 22.44 Social workers.......................... 13.06 15.43 18.61 21.21 23.58 Lawyers and judges........................ – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 13.75 17.33 24.51 38.86 44.99 Professional, n.e.c..................... 20.51 23.07 30.41 42.85 46.28 Technical................................... 12.59 16.11 19.80 23.63 31.27 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 14.33 16.10 18.54 21.64 25.30 Electrical and electronic technicians... 16.44 18.22 21.50 22.12 23.83 Science technicians, n.e.c.............. 13.46 17.32 18.91 21.59 28.53 Computer programmers.................... 21.52 24.79 31.26 33.14 38.86 Technical and related, n.e.c............ 9.62 10.47 12.29 13.96 21.57 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 17.98 19.62 29.06 41.54 54.09 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 22.98 31.22 41.20 52.36 62.92 Administrators and officials, public administration....................... 22.27 22.37 33.34 42.70 42.70 Financial managers...................... 22.28 29.06 36.52 36.52 36.52 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 22.12 22.12 26.13 32.42 39.44 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 30.64 35.52 48.13 55.38 62.92 Management related........................ 16.52 18.96 21.25 28.57 36.06 Accountants and auditors................ 22.22 23.58 28.72 32.10 36.38 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 18.27 19.29 22.80 30.00 36.30 Management related, n.e.c............... 12.23 15.06 17.80 20.20 27.17 Sales......................................... 7.00 8.55 10.60 17.73 21.34 Cashiers................................ 6.50 6.75 7.25 8.70 9.75 Administrative support, including clerical.... $10.29 $11.62 $13.22 $15.39 $18.38 Secretaries............................. 12.42 14.20 15.95 18.44 20.87 Order clerks............................ 9.00 10.00 17.40 23.85 25.81 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 10.47 11.54 13.72 14.93 16.14 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 12.69 13.03 15.01 16.19 17.70 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............................ 12.02 12.14 12.14 13.77 15.42 General office clerks................... 10.10 11.04 12.28 14.04 15.69 Teachers' aides......................... 10.23 10.59 11.33 12.14 13.00 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 11.67 12.02 13.60 16.50 20.04 Blue collar..................................... 8.00 9.27 12.61 17.32 22.05 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 13.00 14.65 17.68 22.05 25.36 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 11.88 11.96 14.90 17.54 18.88 Supervisors, production................. 20.69 22.05 25.08 29.28 30.50 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.25 9.92 12.23 15.93 20.76 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 9.92 10.66 12.61 21.64 21.64 Transportation and material moving............ 7.00 7.60 9.50 14.10 18.23 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.07 8.20 9.69 11.54 14.19 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 7.50 8.55 9.35 11.15 12.00 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 9.50 10.85 12.60 13.20 24.34 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.20 8.20 8.20 10.40 12.00 Service......................................... 6.50 8.00 9.44 11.87 16.85 Protective service........................ 8.00 9.05 12.28 16.05 21.10 Supervisors, police and detectives...... 17.31 27.71 28.16 28.59 34.86 Police and detectives, public service... 13.95 14.54 17.32 22.51 25.33 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers................. 11.65 11.86 12.28 13.07 15.38 Food service.............................. 6.00 6.00 7.50 8.87 12.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 4.75 6.50 8.00 Other food service....................... 6.00 6.50 7.90 9.48 12.50 Kitchen workers, food preparation....... 6.00 6.52 7.27 9.70 10.30 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 6.00 6.50 7.25 8.72 9.56 Health service............................ 8.62 9.25 10.10 10.72 11.85 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 8.40 9.11 9.96 10.90 11.62 Cleaning and building service............. 7.00 9.00 9.27 10.56 21.64 Janitors and cleaners................... 7.00 9.00 9.05 9.69 10.69 Personal service.......................... 9.26 10.00 10.40 12.05 18.62 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive 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, 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.50 $11.31 $17.26 $26.65 $40.38 All excluding sales........................... 8.55 11.88 17.81 27.64 40.81 White collar.................................... 11.30 14.42 21.50 32.37 45.07 White collar excluding sales................ 12.63 15.79 22.89 33.93 45.50 Professional specialty and technical.......... 16.77 21.56 28.48 37.34 46.15 Professional specialty...................... 19.40 24.26 31.34 39.63 48.25 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 21.24 28.44 34.93 44.57 50.63 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 23.95 28.90 34.95 41.93 49.55 Computer systems analysts and scientists 23.41 28.61 34.95 42.58 49.57 Natural scientists........................ 19.25 22.73 29.24 34.14 42.96 Chemists, except biochemists............ 16.51 29.24 32.20 42.51 46.94 Health related............................ 12.25 20.50 24.76 28.48 28.62 Registered nurses....................... 19.68 22.84 26.09 28.48 28.89 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 13.75 17.33 24.51 38.86 44.99 Professional, n.e.c..................... 20.51 23.07 30.41 42.85 46.28 Technical................................... 13.82 16.85 21.50 24.45 31.60 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 14.06 16.01 20.11 22.92 25.68 Electrical and electronic technicians... 16.44 18.22 21.50 22.12 23.83 Computer programmers.................... 20.43 23.08 30.06 36.16 42.03 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 17.74 19.71 29.09 44.92 55.76 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 22.28 31.85 45.50 55.38 64.56 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 31.03 35.94 48.15 55.38 62.92 Management related........................ 16.21 18.69 22.22 29.81 36.55 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 18.22 19.58 27.61 30.62 36.55 Sales......................................... 7.00 8.55 10.60 17.73 21.34 Cashiers................................ 6.50 6.75 7.25 8.25 9.55 Administrative support, including clerical.... 10.50 12.36 13.98 16.64 20.19 Secretaries............................. 12.42 14.42 15.95 18.75 21.03 Order clerks............................ 9.00 10.00 17.40 23.85 25.81 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 9.67 12.98 14.32 16.15 18.13 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 12.69 13.03 15.01 16.15 17.35 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............................ 12.02 12.14 12.14 13.77 15.42 General office clerks................... $10.00 $11.17 $13.88 $15.72 $17.81 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 11.79 12.02 13.60 16.50 20.05 Blue collar..................................... 7.60 9.00 12.14 17.57 22.56 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 12.45 14.55 19.02 22.56 26.55 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 11.88 11.96 15.75 17.54 19.23 Supervisors, production................. 20.69 22.05 25.08 29.28 30.50 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.50 9.97 12.27 15.95 20.76 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 9.92 10.66 12.61 21.64 21.64 Transportation and material moving............ 7.00 7.30 8.75 14.10 18.23 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.00 8.20 9.69 11.50 14.09 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 9.50 10.85 12.60 13.20 24.34 Service......................................... 6.00 7.00 9.00 10.31 13.15 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 6.00 6.00 7.50 9.50 14.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 4.75 6.50 8.00 Other food service....................... 6.00 6.00 7.50 10.00 14.00 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 6.00 6.00 7.00 7.75 10.00 Health service............................ 8.74 9.55 10.27 10.52 11.51 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 9.00 9.55 10.20 10.77 11.51 Cleaning and building service............. 7.00 9.00 9.36 10.60 21.64 Janitors and cleaners................... 7.00 9.00 9.08 9.69 10.64 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive 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, 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $10.29 $11.98 $16.14 $23.68 $36.52 All excluding sales........................... 10.29 11.98 16.14 23.68 36.52 White collar.................................... 10.84 12.38 17.87 26.26 39.79 White collar excluding sales................ 10.84 12.37 17.87 26.26 39.79 Professional specialty and technical.......... 15.54 18.20 23.01 31.89 49.54 Professional specialty...................... 16.55 19.82 24.78 39.12 54.22 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 14.42 16.34 20.72 24.08 27.37 Registered nurses....................... 16.39 18.86 21.49 24.69 27.06 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 16.82 18.36 22.68 27.23 30.67 Elementary school teachers.............. 16.82 18.20 22.68 27.23 30.28 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. 12.11 14.56 17.62 19.36 20.85 Social workers.......................... 12.11 14.56 17.62 19.36 20.85 Technical................................... 10.20 13.39 18.27 21.57 31.26 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 19.29 19.29 27.52 36.52 36.52 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 23.21 30.61 36.52 36.52 41.68 Administrators and officials, public administration....................... 22.27 22.37 33.34 42.70 42.70 Management related........................ 19.29 19.29 19.29 24.56 28.88 Sales......................................... - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... 10.29 10.96 11.99 13.67 14.83 Secretaries............................. 11.39 13.98 15.87 17.08 18.24 General office clerks................... 10.27 11.01 11.93 13.39 14.23 Teachers' aides......................... 10.23 10.59 11.33 12.14 13.00 Blue collar..................................... 9.59 12.31 15.33 16.31 18.62 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 13.95 15.22 16.10 18.47 18.62 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.54 8.90 10.12 12.25 15.36 Service......................................... 7.58 8.87 11.96 15.64 21.10 Protective service........................ $11.67 $12.51 $14.68 $19.05 $25.34 Supervisors, police and detectives...... 17.31 27.71 28.16 28.59 34.86 Police and detectives, public service... 13.95 14.54 17.32 22.51 25.33 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers................. 11.65 11.86 12.28 13.07 15.38 Food service.............................. - - - - - Other food service....................... - - - - - Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. 7.79 7.95 8.65 9.73 11.05 Janitors and cleaners................... 7.79 7.95 8.65 9.73 11.05 Personal service.......................... 6.75 9.07 12.05 18.06 18.62 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive 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, 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.30 $12.02 $17.32 $26.42 $39.86 All excluding sales........................... 9.55 12.25 17.70 26.94 40.39 White collar.................................... 11.18 13.67 20.04 31.25 44.92 White collar excluding sales................ 11.83 14.25 21.01 31.79 44.92 Professional specialty and technical.......... 16.25 20.10 26.65 36.75 46.88 Professional specialty...................... 18.04 22.60 29.20 39.68 49.54 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 21.20 24.25 31.34 42.89 49.04 Civil engineers......................... 20.43 21.87 24.02 28.76 45.43 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 23.95 28.90 34.95 41.93 49.55 Computer systems analysts and scientists 23.41 28.61 34.95 42.58 49.57 Natural scientists........................ 19.92 24.85 31.79 42.96 45.76 Chemists, except biochemists............ 16.51 29.24 32.20 42.51 46.94 Health related............................ 12.25 18.50 22.93 28.21 28.64 Registered nurses....................... 18.32 20.74 24.41 28.48 28.72 Teachers, college and university.......... 34.94 39.12 49.54 79.19 120.61 Teachers, except college and university... 16.82 18.68 22.43 27.30 31.21 Elementary school teachers.............. 16.82 18.20 22.68 27.23 30.28 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... 25.83 27.89 35.46 38.02 43.28 Social, recreation, and religious workers. 13.70 15.79 17.99 19.85 22.44 Social workers.......................... 13.06 15.43 18.61 21.21 23.58 Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 14.57 19.54 24.62 39.86 44.99 Professional, n.e.c..................... 20.51 23.07 30.41 42.85 46.28 Technical................................... 12.59 16.11 19.80 23.64 31.27 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 14.33 16.10 18.54 21.64 25.30 Electrical and electronic technicians... 16.44 18.22 21.50 22.12 23.83 Science technicians, n.e.c.............. 13.46 17.32 18.91 21.59 28.53 Computer programmers.................... 21.52 24.79 31.26 33.14 38.86 Technical and related, n.e.c............ 9.62 10.47 12.29 13.96 21.57 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 17.98 19.62 29.06 41.54 54.09 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 22.98 31.22 41.20 52.36 62.92 Administrators and officials, public administration....................... 22.27 22.37 33.34 42.70 42.70 Financial managers...................... 22.28 29.06 36.52 36.52 36.52 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 22.12 22.12 26.13 32.42 39.44 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 30.64 35.52 48.13 55.38 62.92 Management related........................ 16.52 18.96 21.25 28.57 36.06 Accountants and auditors................ 22.22 23.58 28.72 32.10 36.38 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 18.27 19.29 22.80 30.00 36.30 Management related, n.e.c............... 12.23 15.06 17.80 20.20 27.17 Sales......................................... 8.54 8.55 11.30 17.96 21.44 Administrative support, including clerical.... $10.35 $11.69 $13.26 $15.39 $18.43 Secretaries............................. 12.42 14.20 15.95 18.44 20.87 Order clerks............................ 9.00 12.00 17.65 23.85 25.81 Records clerks, n.e.c................... 10.48 11.91 13.91 15.18 16.14 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 12.69 13.03 15.01 16.19 17.70 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............................ 12.02 12.14 12.14 13.77 15.42 General office clerks................... 10.10 11.04 12.28 14.04 15.69 Teachers' aides......................... 10.23 10.59 11.33 12.14 13.00 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 11.79 12.02 13.60 16.50 20.04 Blue collar..................................... 8.20 9.77 13.20 18.23 22.52 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 13.00 14.65 17.68 22.05 25.36 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 11.88 11.96 14.90 17.54 18.88 Supervisors, production................. 20.69 22.05 25.08 29.28 30.50 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.50 9.97 12.27 15.95 20.76 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 9.92 10.66 12.61 21.64 21.64 Transportation and material moving............ 7.60 8.55 11.55 14.62 18.45 Truck drivers........................... 7.60 8.00 8.55 11.88 23.80 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.20 8.20 9.74 11.54 14.13 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 8.20 9.00 9.90 11.25 12.00 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.20 8.20 8.20 10.40 12.00 Service......................................... 7.00 8.63 9.70 12.54 18.06 Protective service........................ 8.30 10.00 12.99 16.87 22.38 Supervisors, police and detectives...... 17.31 27.71 28.16 28.59 34.86 Police and detectives, public service... 13.95 14.54 17.32 22.51 25.33 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers................. 11.65 11.86 12.28 13.07 15.38 Food service.............................. 6.50 7.00 8.00 9.70 14.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 6.50 7.00 8.00 9.74 14.00 Health service............................ 8.59 9.02 10.06 10.81 11.90 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 8.29 9.02 9.90 10.90 11.62 Cleaning and building service............. 7.00 9.00 9.27 10.56 21.64 Janitors and cleaners................... 7.00 9.00 9.05 9.69 10.69 Personal service.......................... 9.49 10.40 11.25 15.52 19.56 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive 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, 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $6.00 $6.55 $8.00 $10.86 $21.36 All excluding sales........................... 6.00 6.50 8.00 11.72 23.49 White collar.................................... 6.75 7.75 10.97 24.00 27.79 White collar excluding sales................ 9.00 11.18 20.33 26.29 28.48 Professional specialty and technical.......... 12.00 18.42 24.76 27.79 28.48 Professional specialty...................... 12.00 19.54 25.00 27.79 28.48 Health related............................ 21.35 24.00 26.29 28.48 28.48 Registered nurses....................... 21.35 24.00 26.29 28.48 28.48 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... - - - - - Sales......................................... 6.00 6.75 7.25 8.00 8.55 Cashiers................................ 6.00 6.75 7.25 8.00 8.55 Administrative support, including clerical.... 7.00 9.87 10.00 13.52 15.44 Blue collar..................................... 6.00 7.00 7.30 10.00 12.44 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ 6.25 7.00 7.00 8.75 12.07 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.00 7.50 9.20 11.00 14.70 Service......................................... 5.15 6.00 6.80 8.50 10.00 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 3.35 6.00 6.00 7.50 10.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 6.00 6.00 6.40 7.50 10.00 Health service............................ - - - - - Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth receive 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, 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, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, March 2003 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 238,100 170,400 67,700 All excluding sales............................................. 225,000 157,400 67,600 White collar........................................................ 164,400 110,200 54,200 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 151,300 97,200 54,100 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 82,300 52,200 30,100 Professional specialty.......................................... 65,100 40,500 24,600 Technical....................................................... 17,200 11,600 5,600 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 21,100 16,800 4,400 Sales............................................................. 13,100 13,000 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 47,800 28,200 19,600 Blue collar......................................................... 47,100 40,700 6,400 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 13,700 10,200 3,500 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10,700 10,600 - Transportation and material moving................................ 11,700 9,800 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11,000 10,100 900 Service............................................................. 26,600 19,500 7,100 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.