NC BL 03/00/2006 Table: Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, Bulletin 3130-42, May 2005 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) Total................................................................. $19.75 3.5 37.2 $19.95 4.1 37.4 $18.75 4.0 36.5 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 23.50 4.6 37.2 24.37 5.5 37.5 20.54 4.6 36.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.05 5.5 35.8 30.24 7.3 35.5 24.45 3.2 36.3 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 34.53 3.6 41.0 35.32 3.6 41.1 29.55 8.2 40.2 Sales............................................................. 19.37 22.0 33.2 19.56 22.1 33.6 – – – Administrative support............................................ 14.95 4.0 38.1 15.70 4.6 38.7 12.38 .8 36.3 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 16.35 4.7 39.2 16.45 4.9 39.4 14.13 3.7 36.2 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.33 6.0 40.1 19.56 6.2 40.1 15.98 12.4 40.0 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 16.46 4.7 39.5 16.45 4.7 39.5 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.82 6.1 39.1 16.19 6.2 40.2 12.20 .7 31.5 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 12.00 3.6 37.7 12.00 3.8 37.7 11.79 6.1 36.2 Service occupations(5).............................................. 13.14 8.8 30.4 12.23 13.4 27.7 14.79 4.8 37.1 Full time........................................................... 20.27 3.6 39.7 20.52 4.2 39.7 19.01 3.9 39.4 Part time........................................................... 11.39 8.7 18.7 10.40 8.2 18.7 15.33 23.4 18.5 Union............................................................... 23.66 9.0 35.9 23.66 9.0 35.9 – – – Nonunion............................................................ 19.35 3.9 37.4 19.48 4.7 37.5 18.75 4.0 36.5 Time................................................................ 18.56 3.1 36.9 18.52 3.8 37.0 18.75 4.0 36.5 Incentive........................................................... 30.78 11.4 40.5 30.78 11.4 40.5 – – – Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 18.62 4.8 39.9 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 20.75 5.8 36.0 (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 14.39 6.9 34.4 14.36 7.1 34.3 15.97 5.4 40.0 100-499 workers..................................................... 16.77 7.1 37.5 16.76 7.2 37.5 17.13 6.8 36.8 500 workers or more................................................. 23.55 5.1 37.7 25.87 6.5 38.4 18.87 4.2 36.5 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, 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $19.75 3.5 $19.95 4.1 $18.75 4.0 All excluding sales............................................... 19.77 3.4 19.98 4.0 18.82 3.8 White collar........................................................ 23.50 4.6 24.37 5.5 20.54 4.6 White collar excluding sales.................................... 24.07 4.4 25.26 5.4 20.66 4.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.05 5.5 30.24 7.3 24.45 3.2 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.22 5.5 32.35 7.0 25.28 3.7 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 32.93 3.9 32.96 4.0 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 40.54 3.6 40.54 3.6 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 36.02 6.0 36.06 6.0 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 36.02 6.0 36.06 6.0 – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – Health related................................................ 26.42 10.0 27.12 12.2 25.62 16.3 Registered nurses........................................... 25.01 7.5 26.90 12.4 22.78 .8 Teachers, college and university.............................. 35.33 9.2 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 24.54 4.5 – – 25.15 2.7 Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.54 .9 – – 24.34 .4 Secondary school teachers................................... 24.60 4.9 – – 23.50 4.5 Teachers, special education................................. 28.13 6.9 – – 28.13 6.9 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 18.69 5.0 – – 18.20 4.9 Social workers.............................................. 18.69 5.0 – – 18.20 4.9 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 16.29 5.5 16.32 5.7 – – Technical....................................................... 24.22 14.5 25.62 16.4 17.15 5.4 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 19.21 7.6 18.62 8.4 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 14.73 5.5 15.40 4.0 13.71 10.0 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 27.04 8.7 29.13 5.3 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 34.53 3.6 35.32 3.6 29.55 8.2 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 39.41 5.2 40.62 5.9 34.10 7.4 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 39.94 17.7 – – 39.94 17.7 Financial managers.......................................... 43.50 5.6 43.46 5.7 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 31.01 13.7 – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 31.29 .4 – – 31.29 .4 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 40.45 8.8 40.48 9.0 – – Management related............................................ 29.50 3.5 30.45 3.4 19.48 2.7 Accountants and auditors.................................... 25.73 9.4 26.11 9.2 – – Other financial officers.................................... 45.74 11.5 45.74 11.5 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.61 12.3 26.98 16.8 – – Sales............................................................. 19.37 22.0 19.56 22.1 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.26 1.5 9.32 1.0 – – Cashiers.................................................... $8.84 2.7 $8.82 2.8 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.95 4.0 15.70 4.6 $12.38 0.8 Secretaries................................................. 17.69 7.5 19.46 6.9 13.54 4.4 Order clerks................................................ 12.76 .6 12.76 .6 – – Library clerks.............................................. 11.70 3.6 – – 11.70 3.6 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.44 2.7 14.53 3.3 – – Dispatchers................................................. 17.75 3.8 – – 12.90 2.7 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.41 5.2 12.41 5.2 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.77 14.5 13.17 16.2 – – Eligibility clerks, social welfare.......................... 14.30 1.5 – – – – General office clerks....................................... 12.22 4.7 11.83 7.2 12.89 2.5 Teachers' aides............................................. 10.64 2.2 – – 10.50 1.9 Blue collar......................................................... 16.35 4.7 16.45 4.9 14.13 3.7 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.33 6.0 19.56 6.2 15.98 12.4 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 23.11 8.1 – – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 22.70 7.8 22.70 7.8 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 20.46 11.2 20.65 11.7 – – Electricians................................................ 19.95 3.8 19.95 3.8 – – Electrical power installers and repairers................... 22.75 8.1 – – – – Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 12.38 5.2 – – 12.38 5.2 Supervisors, production..................................... 23.60 4.5 23.63 4.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 16.46 4.7 16.45 4.7 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 20.45 9.3 20.45 9.3 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.68 5.6 13.68 5.6 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 15.73 5.9 15.73 5.9 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.82 6.1 16.19 6.2 12.20 .7 Truck drivers............................................... 16.57 3.8 17.12 3.3 – – Bus drivers................................................. 10.56 .6 – – 10.56 .6 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.07 6.6 14.07 6.6 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.00 3.6 12.00 3.8 11.79 6.1 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.72 6.6 – – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.42 6.2 12.44 6.4 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.74 8.6 10.75 8.7 – – Service............................................................. 13.14 8.8 12.23 13.4 14.79 4.8 Protective service............................................ 17.37 5.2 – – 18.12 2.4 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 26.48 7.9 – – 26.48 7.9 Police and detectives, public service....................... 19.63 4.7 – – 19.63 4.7 Correctional institution officers........................... 13.56 3.7 – – 13.56 3.7 Food service.................................................. 8.93 12.9 8.87 14.7 9.36 2.9 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... $3.45 14.3 $3.45 14.3 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.86 17.4 2.86 17.4 – – Other food service........................................... 10.05 10.3 10.15 11.9 $9.36 2.9 Cooks....................................................... 9.88 7.7 10.19 10.4 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.88 5.2 8.80 6.0 – – Health service................................................ 11.32 4.6 11.53 5.6 10.58 7.5 Health aides, except nursing................................ 11.95 7.2 12.67 8.3 10.61 9.3 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.60 2.5 10.62 2.8 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 8.97 9.8 8.69 13.2 9.70 4.9 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.44 10.2 – – 9.70 4.9 Personal service.............................................. – – – – 10.94 .0 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $20.27 3.6 $20.52 4.2 $19.01 3.9 All excluding sales............................................... 20.13 3.6 20.37 4.2 19.01 3.9 White collar........................................................ 24.15 4.6 25.23 5.6 20.57 3.9 White collar excluding sales.................................... 24.31 4.4 25.60 5.4 20.57 3.9 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.45 5.0 31.16 6.4 24.11 2.0 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.66 4.5 33.77 4.7 24.79 2.1 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 32.93 3.9 32.96 4.0 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 40.54 3.6 40.54 3.6 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 36.02 6.0 36.06 6.0 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 36.02 6.0 36.06 6.0 – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – Health related................................................ 25.27 8.5 27.82 13.8 22.81 1.3 Registered nurses........................................... 25.16 8.1 27.43 12.8 22.84 .9 Teachers, college and university.............................. 35.33 9.2 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 25.51 2.8 – – 25.18 2.8 Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.54 .9 – – 24.34 .4 Secondary school teachers................................... 24.64 4.8 – – 23.51 4.5 Teachers, special education................................. 28.13 6.9 – – 28.13 6.9 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 18.20 4.9 – – 18.20 4.9 Social workers.............................................. 18.20 4.9 – – 18.20 4.9 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 16.29 5.5 16.32 5.7 – – Technical....................................................... 24.67 14.7 25.92 16.6 17.77 7.8 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 19.21 7.6 18.62 8.4 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.21 4.5 – – – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 27.04 8.7 29.13 5.3 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 34.53 3.6 35.32 3.6 29.55 8.2 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 39.41 5.2 40.62 5.9 34.10 7.4 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 39.94 17.7 – – 39.94 17.7 Financial managers.......................................... 43.50 5.6 43.46 5.7 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 31.01 13.7 – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 31.29 .4 – – 31.29 .4 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 40.45 8.8 40.48 9.0 – – Management related............................................ 29.50 3.5 30.45 3.4 19.48 2.7 Accountants and auditors.................................... 25.73 9.4 26.11 9.2 – – Other financial officers.................................... 45.74 11.5 45.74 11.5 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.61 12.3 26.98 16.8 – – Sales............................................................. 22.77 23.6 22.77 23.6 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ $15.07 4.0 $15.83 4.6 $12.42 0.8 Secretaries................................................. 18.05 7.3 19.53 7.0 13.82 3.7 Order clerks................................................ 12.76 .6 12.76 .6 – – Library clerks.............................................. 12.12 5.9 – – 12.12 5.9 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.44 2.7 14.53 3.3 – – Dispatchers................................................. 17.75 3.8 – – 12.90 2.7 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.41 5.2 12.41 5.2 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.77 14.5 13.17 16.2 – – Eligibility clerks, social welfare.......................... 14.30 1.5 – – – – General office clerks....................................... 12.18 5.0 11.79 7.8 12.83 2.5 Teachers' aides............................................. 10.66 2.2 – – 10.52 1.8 Blue collar......................................................... 16.46 4.8 16.55 5.0 14.43 3.8 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.33 6.0 19.56 6.2 15.98 12.4 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 23.11 8.1 – – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 22.70 7.8 22.70 7.8 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 20.46 11.2 20.65 11.7 – – Electricians................................................ 19.95 3.8 19.95 3.8 – – Electrical power installers and repairers................... 22.75 8.1 – – – – Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 12.38 5.2 – – 12.38 5.2 Supervisors, production..................................... 23.60 4.5 23.63 4.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 16.46 4.7 16.45 4.7 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 20.45 9.3 20.45 9.3 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.68 5.6 13.68 5.6 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 15.73 5.9 15.73 5.9 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.93 6.1 16.23 6.2 12.58 1.6 Truck drivers............................................... 16.57 3.8 17.12 3.3 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.07 6.6 14.07 6.6 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.14 4.0 12.15 4.2 12.09 5.7 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.75 6.7 – – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.21 7.8 12.24 7.9 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.74 8.6 10.75 8.7 – – Service............................................................. 14.60 8.3 14.00 13.1 15.56 5.7 Protective service............................................ 17.62 5.0 – – 18.24 3.1 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 26.48 7.9 – – 26.48 7.9 Police and detectives, public service....................... 19.64 4.7 – – 19.64 4.7 Correctional institution officers........................... 13.56 3.7 – – 13.56 3.7 Food service.................................................. 9.78 13.2 9.82 14.3 – – Other food service........................................... 10.42 12.3 10.53 13.4 – – Cooks....................................................... 9.88 7.7 10.19 10.4 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... $9.07 6.3 $9.09 6.4 – – Health service................................................ 11.45 5.4 11.62 6.5 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 12.09 7.8 – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 9.97 10.0 9.94 16.2 $10.00 3.9 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 10.01 3.0 – – 10.00 3.9 Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 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................................................................... $11.39 8.7 $10.40 8.2 $15.33 23.4 All excluding sales............................................... 12.34 11.0 11.14 11.5 16.03 21.4 White collar........................................................ 13.90 10.9 12.41 6.6 20.15 43.1 White collar excluding sales.................................... 18.39 14.9 16.62 9.3 22.58 38.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.64 17.1 19.50 15.7 30.96 24.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 24.10 21.1 20.12 17.8 36.03 36.9 Health related................................................ 29.82 19.9 25.57 6.1 – – Registered nurses........................................... 24.24 4.1 25.02 7.2 – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 8.72 6.7 8.73 7.3 – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.82 2.7 – – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.77 5.8 11.78 8.4 11.75 4.0 Blue collar......................................................... 9.91 10.8 9.91 13.5 9.94 1.3 Transportation and material moving................................ 10.75 3.3 – – 10.26 .5 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.69 14.7 9.73 15.5 – – Service............................................................. 7.52 5.9 6.93 5.6 9.60 3.1 Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 6.25 16.2 5.27 19.7 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.52 23.2 3.52 23.2 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.17 25.6 3.17 25.6 – – Other food service........................................... 8.21 6.7 7.35 9.3 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.04 11.6 – – – – Health service................................................ 10.69 3.7 11.01 3.7 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 11.23 6.4 – – – – Cleaning and building 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 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................................................................... $804 3.7 39.7 $815 4.3 39.7 $749 4.0 39.4 All excluding sales............................................... 798 3.7 39.6 809 4.3 39.7 749 4.0 39.4 White collar........................................................ 962 4.7 39.8 1,013 5.6 40.1 797 4.1 38.7 White collar excluding sales.................................... 966 4.4 39.8 1,027 5.5 40.1 797 4.1 38.7 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,108 5.1 38.9 1,232 6.3 39.5 917 2.3 38.1 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,166 5.3 39.3 1,375 5.5 40.7 937 2.3 37.8 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,317 3.9 40.0 1,318 4.0 40.0 – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 1,621 3.6 40.0 1,621 3.6 40.0 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 1,455 5.5 40.4 1,456 5.5 40.4 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 1,455 5.5 40.4 1,456 5.5 40.4 – – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – – – – Health related................................................ 974 9.2 38.6 1,093 13.7 39.3 865 4.1 37.9 Registered nurses........................................... 968 8.9 38.5 1,077 12.7 39.3 861 4.3 37.7 Teachers, college and university.............................. 1,413 9.2 40.0 – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 953 3.0 37.4 – – – 936 2.9 37.2 Elementary school teachers.................................. 912 .8 37.2 – – – 902 .1 37.1 Secondary school teachers................................... 927 4.7 37.6 – – – 876 4.3 37.2 Teachers, special education................................. 1,045 7.2 37.1 – – – 1,045 7.2 37.1 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 728 4.9 40.0 – – – 728 4.9 40.0 Social workers.............................................. 728 4.9 40.0 – – – 728 4.9 40.0 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 652 5.5 40.0 653 5.7 40.0 – – – Technical....................................................... 932 10.6 37.8 968 11.6 37.4 719 7.1 40.5 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 738 8.0 38.4 709 7.9 38.0 – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 616 3.2 40.5 – – – – – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 1,082 8.7 40.0 1,165 5.3 40.0 – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,415 3.5 41.0 1,452 3.5 41.1 1,188 8.4 40.2 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,608 5.3 40.8 1,663 5.8 40.9 1,374 7.6 40.3 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 1,593 17.7 39.9 – – – 1,593 17.7 39.9 Financial managers.......................................... 1,763 6.7 40.5 1,761 6.8 40.5 – – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 1,271 16.9 41.0 – – – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 1,262 1.3 40.3 – – – 1,262 1.3 40.3 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,664 8.4 41.1 1,666 8.5 41.2 – – – Management related............................................ 1,214 3.4 41.2 1,257 3.1 41.3 779 2.7 40.0 Accountants and auditors.................................... 1,082 7.7 42.1 1,101 7.3 42.2 – – – Other financial officers.................................... 1,946 13.2 42.5 1,946 13.2 42.5 – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ $944 12.3 40.0 $1,079 16.8 40.0 – – – Sales............................................................. 916 24.8 40.2 916 24.8 40.2 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 599 4.0 39.8 632 4.5 39.9 $487 1.0 39.2 Secretaries................................................. 721 7.3 40.0 781 7.0 40.0 551 3.7 39.9 Order clerks................................................ 510 .6 40.0 510 .6 40.0 – – – Library clerks.............................................. 475 4.3 39.2 – – – 475 4.3 39.2 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 578 2.7 40.0 581 3.3 40.0 – – – Dispatchers................................................. 720 4.4 40.6 – – – 516 2.7 40.0 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 497 5.2 40.0 497 5.2 40.0 – – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 511 14.5 40.0 527 16.2 40.0 – – – Eligibility clerks, social welfare.......................... 572 1.5 40.0 – – – – – – General office clerks....................................... 485 4.9 39.8 468 7.5 39.7 513 2.5 40.0 Teachers' aides............................................. 400 2.4 37.5 – – – 393 1.9 37.4 Blue collar......................................................... 656 4.9 39.9 660 5.0 39.9 575 3.9 39.8 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 774 6.1 40.1 784 6.3 40.1 639 12.4 40.0 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 924 8.1 40.0 – – – – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 893 6.7 39.3 893 6.7 39.3 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 815 11.2 39.8 822 11.7 39.8 – – – Electricians................................................ 798 3.8 40.0 798 3.8 40.0 – – – Electrical power installers and repairers................... 910 8.1 40.0 – – – – – – Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 495 5.2 40.0 – – – 495 5.2 40.0 Supervisors, production..................................... 977 6.4 41.4 979 6.5 41.4 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 650 4.8 39.5 650 4.8 39.5 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 806 8.2 39.4 806 8.2 39.4 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 547 5.6 40.0 547 5.6 40.0 – – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 629 5.9 40.0 629 5.9 40.0 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 641 6.6 40.2 653 6.8 40.3 496 1.0 39.4 Truck drivers............................................... 672 4.7 40.5 695 4.6 40.6 – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 563 6.6 40.0 563 6.6 40.0 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 483 4.0 39.8 483 4.1 39.8 483 5.7 40.0 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 427 6.5 39.8 – – – – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 487 7.6 39.9 488 7.8 39.9 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 427 8.6 39.8 427 8.7 39.8 – – – Service............................................................. 551 7.4 37.8 497 10.2 35.5 652 6.8 41.9 Protective service............................................ $754 6.2 42.8 – – – $787 4.4 43.1 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 1,074 8.3 40.6 – – – 1,074 8.3 40.6 Police and detectives, public service....................... 811 4.8 41.3 – – – 811 4.8 41.3 Correctional institution officers........................... 548 4.5 40.4 – – – 548 4.5 40.4 Food service.................................................. 386 14.7 39.5 $388 16.0 39.5 – – – Other food service........................................... 414 13.8 39.7 419 15.1 39.8 – – – Cooks....................................................... 387 7.2 39.2 397 9.6 38.9 – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 353 7.5 38.9 355 7.5 39.0 – – – Health service................................................ 454 5.6 39.7 460 6.8 39.6 – – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 483 7.8 40.0 – – – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 399 10.0 40.0 398 16.2 40.0 400 3.9 40.0 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 401 3.0 40.0 – – – 400 3.9 40.0 Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Annual earnings Annual earnings Annual earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean annual annual annual Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $41,213 3.7 2,033 $42,263 4.3 2,059 $36,337 4.0 1,912 All excluding sales............................................... 40,875 3.7 2,030 41,915 4.3 2,057 36,337 4.0 1,912 White collar........................................................ 48,763 4.7 2,019 52,469 5.6 2,080 37,847 4.1 1,840 White collar excluding sales.................................... 48,882 4.4 2,011 53,183 5.5 2,078 37,847 4.1 1,840 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 54,293 5.1 1,908 63,218 6.3 2,029 42,030 2.3 1,743 Professional specialty.......................................... 56,074 5.3 1,891 70,062 5.5 2,075 42,435 2.3 1,712 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 68,504 3.9 2,080 68,562 4.0 2,080 – – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 84,315 3.6 2,080 84,315 3.6 2,080 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 75,636 5.5 2,100 75,726 5.5 2,100 – – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 75,636 5.5 2,100 75,726 5.5 2,100 – – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – – – – Health related................................................ 50,239 9.2 1,988 56,050 13.7 2,015 44,792 4.1 1,964 Registered nurses........................................... 49,893 8.9 1,983 55,230 12.7 2,014 44,608 4.3 1,953 Teachers, college and university.............................. 55,110 9.2 1,560 – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 41,049 3.0 1,609 – – – 40,509 2.9 1,609 Elementary school teachers.................................. 39,147 .8 1,595 – – – 38,875 .1 1,597 Secondary school teachers................................... 39,728 4.7 1,612 – – – 38,109 4.3 1,621 Teachers, special education................................. 44,227 7.2 1,572 – – – 44,227 7.2 1,572 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 37,851 4.9 2,080 – – – 37,851 4.9 2,080 Social workers.............................................. 37,851 4.9 2,080 – – – 37,851 4.9 2,080 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 31,103 5.5 1,909 31,136 5.7 1,908 – – – Technical....................................................... 48,486 10.6 1,966 50,352 11.6 1,942 37,392 7.1 2,104 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 38,386 8.0 1,998 36,845 7.9 1,979 – – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 32,028 3.2 2,105 – – – – – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 56,253 8.7 2,080 60,594 5.3 2,080 – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 73,397 3.5 2,126 75,512 3.5 2,138 60,624 8.4 2,052 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 83,200 5.3 2,111 86,461 5.8 2,129 69,530 7.6 2,039 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 82,839 17.7 2,074 – – – 82,839 17.7 2,074 Financial managers.......................................... 91,651 6.7 2,107 91,591 6.8 2,107 – – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 66,113 16.9 2,132 – – – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 62,990 1.3 2,013 – – – 62,990 1.3 2,013 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 86,536 8.4 2,140 86,646 8.5 2,141 – – – Management related............................................ 63,150 3.4 2,140 65,366 3.1 2,146 40,524 2.7 2,080 Accountants and auditors.................................... 56,273 7.7 2,187 57,227 7.3 2,192 – – – Other financial officers.................................... 101,197 13.2 2,213 101,197 13.2 2,213 – – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ $49,099 12.3 2,080 $56,121 16.8 2,080 – – – Sales............................................................. 47,647 24.8 2,093 47,647 24.8 2,093 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 30,692 4.0 2,036 32,808 4.5 2,072 $23,828 1.0 1,919 Secretaries................................................. 37,313 7.3 2,067 40,631 7.0 2,080 28,091 3.7 2,033 Order clerks................................................ 26,544 .6 2,080 26,544 .6 2,080 – – – Library clerks.............................................. 23,166 4.3 1,911 – – – 23,166 4.3 1,911 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 30,031 2.7 2,080 30,225 3.3 2,080 – – – Dispatchers................................................. 37,437 4.4 2,109 – – – 26,823 2.7 2,080 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 25,820 5.2 2,080 25,820 5.2 2,080 – – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 26,559 14.5 2,080 27,386 16.2 2,080 – – – Eligibility clerks, social welfare.......................... 29,749 1.5 2,080 – – – – – – General office clerks....................................... 25,196 4.9 2,068 24,298 7.5 2,061 26,680 2.5 2,080 Teachers' aides............................................. 17,104 2.4 1,605 – – – 16,926 1.9 1,610 Blue collar......................................................... 34,009 4.9 2,067 34,214 5.0 2,068 29,594 3.9 2,050 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 40,265 6.1 2,083 40,745 6.3 2,083 33,202 12.4 2,077 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 48,068 8.1 2,080 – – – – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 46,423 6.7 2,045 46,423 6.7 2,045 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 42,344 11.2 2,069 42,749 11.7 2,071 – – – Electricians................................................ 41,496 3.8 2,080 41,496 3.8 2,080 – – – Electrical power installers and repairers................... 47,329 8.1 2,080 – – – – – – Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 25,741 5.2 2,080 – – – 25,741 5.2 2,080 Supervisors, production..................................... 50,817 6.4 2,153 50,919 6.5 2,155 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 33,792 4.8 2,052 33,762 4.8 2,052 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 41,914 8.2 2,050 41,914 8.2 2,050 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 28,453 5.6 2,080 28,453 5.6 2,080 – – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 32,728 5.9 2,080 32,728 5.9 2,080 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 33,216 6.6 2,085 33,978 6.8 2,094 24,956 1.0 1,984 Truck drivers............................................... 34,924 4.7 2,108 36,160 4.6 2,112 – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 29,264 6.6 2,080 29,264 6.6 2,080 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 24,865 4.0 2,048 24,855 4.1 2,046 25,140 5.7 2,080 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 22,223 6.5 2,068 – – – – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 25,316 7.6 2,073 25,369 7.8 2,073 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 22,211 8.6 2,068 22,225 8.7 2,068 – – – Service............................................................. 28,573 7.4 1,956 25,853 10.2 1,847 33,576 6.8 2,157 Protective service............................................ $39,216 6.2 2,226 – – – $40,930 4.4 2,244 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 55,855 8.3 2,109 – – – 55,855 8.3 2,109 Police and detectives, public service....................... 42,191 4.8 2,148 – – – 42,191 4.8 2,148 Correctional institution officers........................... 28,511 4.5 2,103 – – – 28,511 4.5 2,103 Food service.................................................. 19,934 14.7 2,039 $20,186 16.0 2,055 – – – Other food service........................................... 21,347 13.8 2,048 21,763 15.1 2,067 – – – Cooks....................................................... 20,134 7.2 2,038 20,644 9.6 2,025 – – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 18,198 7.5 2,005 18,460 7.5 2,030 – – – Health service................................................ 23,614 5.6 2,062 23,917 6.8 2,058 – – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 25,117 7.8 2,078 – – – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 20,729 10.0 2,080 20,683 16.2 2,080 20,809 3.9 2,080 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 20,826 3.0 2,080 – – – 20,809 3.9 2,080 Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-1. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) all workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $19.75 3.5 $19.95 4.1 $18.75 4.0 All excluding sales............................................... 19.77 3.4 19.98 4.0 18.82 3.8 White collar........................................................ 23.50 4.6 24.37 5.5 20.54 4.6 2....................................................... 9.35 3.5 9.23 3.9 10.62 .9 3....................................................... 11.15 1.9 11.29 2.6 10.82 1.8 4....................................................... 13.47 5.2 13.65 6.2 12.62 3.4 5....................................................... 15.62 2.6 16.02 3.8 14.33 1.2 6....................................................... 19.02 4.2 19.58 3.6 15.15 5.5 7....................................................... 23.97 3.9 24.97 4.5 21.36 2.4 8....................................................... 24.02 3.5 24.42 5.2 23.26 1.6 9....................................................... 26.59 3.6 29.53 3.6 24.15 4.6 10........................................................ 42.39 10.6 43.96 10.1 28.15 11.8 11........................................................ 41.51 7.5 43.07 7.5 35.35 16.1 12........................................................ 42.55 4.0 44.39 4.2 – – 13........................................................ 42.95 9.8 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 36.04 9.0 36.15 9.2 31.93 8.6 White collar excluding sales.................................... 24.07 4.4 25.26 5.4 20.66 4.4 2....................................................... 10.46 3.1 10.42 4.3 10.61 .9 3....................................................... 11.44 2.3 11.72 3.4 10.85 2.0 4....................................................... 13.93 4.1 14.31 5.0 12.62 3.4 5....................................................... 15.60 2.7 16.01 4.0 14.33 1.2 6....................................................... 18.97 4.3 19.52 3.7 15.15 5.5 7....................................................... 23.81 2.8 24.97 2.6 21.36 2.4 8....................................................... 24.34 3.3 24.94 4.8 23.26 1.6 9....................................................... 26.59 3.6 29.53 3.6 24.15 4.6 10........................................................ 42.39 10.6 43.96 10.1 28.15 11.8 11........................................................ 41.39 7.8 42.99 7.8 35.35 16.1 12........................................................ 42.55 4.0 44.39 4.2 – – 13........................................................ 42.95 9.8 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.59 7.3 34.67 7.5 31.93 8.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.05 5.5 30.24 7.3 24.45 3.2 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.22 5.5 32.35 7.0 25.28 3.7 5....................................................... 13.75 5.4 – – – – 7....................................................... 23.07 1.7 25.03 2.4 22.09 1.0 8....................................................... 26.02 4.3 26.88 6.4 24.86 3.2 9....................................................... 26.52 4.0 29.92 5.3 24.47 3.6 10........................................................ 46.35 9.1 48.85 7.0 – – 12........................................................ 42.39 4.8 43.85 4.4 – – 13........................................................ 42.86 9.9 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 36.28 28.4 36.58 28.6 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 32.93 3.9 32.96 4.0 – – 9....................................................... 29.00 3.1 29.00 3.1 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 40.54 3.6 40.54 3.6 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 36.02 6.0 36.06 6.0 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... $36.02 6.0 $36.06 6.0 – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – Health related................................................ 26.42 10.0 27.12 12.2 $25.62 16.3 7....................................................... 24.02 3.6 25.12 2.6 – – 8....................................................... 23.82 .5 23.82 .5 – – 9....................................................... 23.40 2.8 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 25.01 7.5 26.90 12.4 22.78 .8 7....................................................... 23.73 3.0 24.37 1.4 – – 8....................................................... 23.82 .5 23.82 .5 – – 9....................................................... 22.86 .7 – – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 35.33 9.2 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 24.54 4.5 – – 25.15 2.7 7....................................................... 22.78 .4 – – 22.69 .0 8....................................................... 28.41 4.7 – – 27.54 2.1 Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.54 .9 – – 24.34 .4 8....................................................... 28.02 3.3 – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 24.60 4.9 – – 23.50 4.5 8....................................................... 30.51 10.4 – – – – Teachers, special education................................. 28.13 6.9 – – 28.13 6.9 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 18.69 5.0 – – 18.20 4.9 Social workers.............................................. 18.69 5.0 – – 18.20 4.9 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 16.29 5.5 16.32 5.7 – – Technical....................................................... 24.22 14.5 25.62 16.4 17.15 5.4 4....................................................... 14.31 8.9 14.72 9.4 – – 5....................................................... 16.84 3.4 17.10 3.9 – – 7....................................................... 25.12 4.8 25.92 2.5 – – 8....................................................... 20.70 5.1 – – 19.26 7.2 9....................................................... 28.97 3.2 28.98 3.2 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 19.21 7.6 18.62 8.4 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 14.73 5.5 15.40 4.0 13.71 10.0 4....................................................... 13.76 6.0 – – – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 27.04 8.7 29.13 5.3 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 34.53 3.6 35.32 3.6 29.55 8.2 7....................................................... 25.13 5.6 25.18 5.6 – – 8....................................................... 22.47 5.2 22.65 5.7 – – 9....................................................... 25.68 7.3 28.60 4.4 – – 10........................................................ 33.67 3.5 – – – – 11........................................................ 35.03 4.7 36.89 4.8 – – 12........................................................ 43.06 7.1 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 38.97 5.5 39.24 5.8 32.36 9.1 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 39.41 5.2 40.62 5.9 34.10 7.4 11........................................................ $33.63 7.2 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 42.24 6.4 $42.91 6.9 $32.36 9.1 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 39.94 17.7 – – 39.94 17.7 Financial managers.......................................... 43.50 5.6 43.46 5.7 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 31.01 13.7 – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 31.29 .4 – – 31.29 .4 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 40.45 8.8 40.48 9.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 43.04 10.0 43.13 10.2 – – Management related............................................ 29.50 3.5 30.45 3.4 19.48 2.7 7....................................................... 23.85 4.9 23.89 4.9 – – 8....................................................... 22.08 6.5 – – – – 9....................................................... 23.57 8.4 – – – – 11........................................................ 36.76 5.0 36.76 5.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.68 10.4 33.68 10.4 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 25.73 9.4 26.11 9.2 – – Other financial officers.................................... 45.74 11.5 45.74 11.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 47.51 11.6 47.51 11.6 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.61 12.3 26.98 16.8 – – Sales............................................................. 19.37 22.0 19.56 22.1 – – 2....................................................... 8.67 5.3 8.66 5.4 – – 3....................................................... 9.21 3.2 9.18 3.5 – – 4....................................................... 11.63 13.6 11.63 13.6 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.26 1.5 9.32 1.0 – – Cashiers.................................................... 8.84 2.7 8.82 2.8 – – 2....................................................... 8.72 5.6 8.71 5.8 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 14.95 4.0 15.70 4.6 12.38 .8 2....................................................... 10.46 3.1 10.42 4.3 10.61 .9 3....................................................... 11.54 2.1 11.89 3.4 10.85 2.0 4....................................................... 13.88 4.6 14.25 5.7 12.71 3.3 5....................................................... 15.55 3.2 16.01 4.8 14.07 .5 6....................................................... 19.24 5.9 20.07 4.7 14.11 2.1 7....................................................... 20.15 5.7 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.91 10.6 17.91 10.6 – – Secretaries................................................. 17.69 7.5 19.46 6.9 13.54 4.4 3....................................................... 12.74 4.4 – – – – 6....................................................... 19.13 15.0 – – – – Order clerks................................................ 12.76 .6 12.76 .6 – – Library clerks.............................................. 11.70 3.6 – – 11.70 3.6 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.44 2.7 14.53 3.3 – – Dispatchers................................................. 17.75 3.8 – – 12.90 2.7 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.41 5.2 12.41 5.2 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.77 14.5 13.17 16.2 – – Eligibility clerks, social welfare.......................... 14.30 1.5 – – – – General office clerks....................................... 12.22 4.7 11.83 7.2 12.89 2.5 3....................................................... $11.18 7.7 $11.23 8.9 – – 4....................................................... 12.07 10.5 11.95 15.0 $12.34 4.9 5....................................................... 14.19 .6 – – – – Teachers' aides............................................. 10.64 2.2 – – 10.50 1.9 4....................................................... 12.77 2.3 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 16.35 4.7 16.45 4.9 14.13 3.7 1....................................................... 9.39 4.0 9.34 4.2 10.18 1.2 2....................................................... 11.32 8.3 11.33 8.4 10.65 2.6 3....................................................... 14.05 9.6 14.11 10.0 12.41 1.6 4....................................................... 15.94 2.6 16.18 2.5 12.41 1.0 5....................................................... 17.41 1.9 17.68 1.7 13.51 4.5 6....................................................... 21.38 7.2 21.57 7.2 14.82 8.1 7....................................................... 23.18 2.8 23.67 2.9 18.19 4.0 8....................................................... 25.92 4.2 25.71 4.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.84 5.8 21.96 6.2 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.33 6.0 19.56 6.2 15.98 12.4 5....................................................... 16.15 3.9 16.70 2.5 13.22 4.8 6....................................................... 19.88 10.8 20.06 11.0 – – 7....................................................... 23.31 3.0 23.67 2.9 18.08 5.3 8....................................................... 25.18 2.7 24.90 2.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.74 6.6 21.87 7.0 – – Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 23.11 8.1 – – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 22.70 7.8 22.70 7.8 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 20.46 11.2 20.65 11.7 – – Electricians................................................ 19.95 3.8 19.95 3.8 – – 7....................................................... 19.95 3.8 19.95 3.8 – – Electrical power installers and repairers................... 22.75 8.1 – – – – Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 12.38 5.2 – – 12.38 5.2 Supervisors, production..................................... 23.60 4.5 23.63 4.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 16.46 4.7 16.45 4.7 – – 2....................................................... 12.30 15.4 12.30 15.4 – – 3....................................................... 16.13 16.0 16.13 16.0 – – 4....................................................... 15.13 5.6 15.13 5.6 – – 5....................................................... 18.89 3.8 18.89 3.8 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 20.45 9.3 20.45 9.3 – – 5....................................................... 18.30 5.0 18.30 5.0 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.68 5.6 13.68 5.6 – – 2....................................................... 11.25 16.7 11.25 16.7 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 15.73 5.9 15.73 5.9 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.82 6.1 16.19 6.2 12.20 .7 2....................................................... 10.51 9.6 – – – – 3....................................................... 14.05 14.0 14.14 14.8 – – 4....................................................... $16.37 5.1 $17.17 4.0 – – 5....................................................... 16.90 4.7 17.01 4.7 – – Truck drivers............................................... 16.57 3.8 17.12 3.3 – – 4....................................................... 15.89 7.0 – – – – 5....................................................... 17.02 4.5 17.13 4.6 – – Bus drivers................................................. 10.56 .6 – – $10.56 0.6 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.07 6.6 14.07 6.6 – – 3....................................................... 14.14 14.8 14.14 14.8 – – 4....................................................... 17.70 6.3 17.70 6.3 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.00 3.6 12.00 3.8 11.79 6.1 1....................................................... 8.97 2.5 8.86 2.8 10.30 .5 2....................................................... 11.74 8.2 11.74 8.2 – – 3....................................................... 11.76 4.7 11.70 4.9 – – 4....................................................... 17.97 5.1 18.31 5.8 – – 5....................................................... 17.28 4.9 – – – – Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.72 6.6 – – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.42 6.2 12.44 6.4 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.74 8.6 10.75 8.7 – – Service............................................................. 13.14 8.8 12.23 13.4 14.79 4.8 1....................................................... 7.89 6.2 7.74 6.8 8.56 4.4 2....................................................... 8.24 6.1 8.10 6.2 9.93 4.1 3....................................................... 8.87 8.3 8.53 13.6 9.60 2.0 4....................................................... 12.31 2.5 12.39 4.7 12.25 2.7 5....................................................... – – – – 13.68 5.5 6....................................................... 15.98 .4 – – 15.98 .4 7....................................................... 19.39 5.6 – – 18.16 1.1 8....................................................... 20.67 1.7 – – 20.67 1.7 Protective service............................................ 17.37 5.2 – – 18.12 2.4 5....................................................... 13.95 6.2 – – 13.95 6.2 6....................................................... 15.95 .5 – – 15.95 .5 7....................................................... 19.39 5.6 – – 18.16 1.1 8....................................................... 20.67 1.7 – – 20.67 1.7 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 26.48 7.9 – – 26.48 7.9 Police and detectives, public service....................... 19.63 4.7 – – 19.63 4.7 8....................................................... 21.38 1.9 – – 21.38 1.9 Correctional institution officers........................... 13.56 3.7 – – 13.56 3.7 Food service.................................................. 8.93 12.9 8.87 14.7 9.36 2.9 1....................................................... 8.50 8.4 8.48 8.7 – – 2....................................................... 7.80 10.0 7.80 10.2 – – 3....................................................... 7.58 19.7 6.89 27.8 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.45 14.3 3.45 14.3 – – 2....................................................... 3.33 36.6 3.33 36.6 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.86 17.4 2.86 17.4 – – 2....................................................... 3.33 36.6 3.33 36.6 – – Other food service........................................... $10.05 10.3 $10.15 11.9 $9.36 2.9 1....................................................... 8.74 6.9 8.73 7.1 – – 2....................................................... 8.83 11.2 8.85 11.4 – – 3....................................................... 9.10 3.2 – – – – Cooks....................................................... 9.88 7.7 10.19 10.4 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.88 5.2 8.80 6.0 – – 1....................................................... 8.74 6.9 8.73 7.1 – – Health service................................................ 11.32 4.6 11.53 5.6 10.58 7.5 2....................................................... 9.86 .7 9.86 .7 – – 3....................................................... 10.48 4.5 – – – – 5....................................................... 15.48 7.0 – – – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 11.95 7.2 12.67 8.3 10.61 9.3 5....................................................... 15.48 7.0 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.60 2.5 10.62 2.8 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 8.97 9.8 8.69 13.2 9.70 4.9 1....................................................... 7.65 7.1 – – 8.72 5.2 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.44 10.2 – – 9.70 4.9 1....................................................... 7.49 6.4 – – 8.72 5.2 Personal service.............................................. – – – – 10.94 .0 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 four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $20.27 3.6 $20.52 4.2 $19.01 3.9 All excluding sales............................................... 20.13 3.6 20.37 4.2 19.01 3.9 White collar........................................................ 24.15 4.6 25.23 5.6 20.57 3.9 2....................................................... 9.94 4.1 9.84 4.5 – – 3....................................................... 11.37 2.3 11.64 3.7 10.71 1.5 4....................................................... 13.68 5.1 13.91 6.0 12.69 3.4 5....................................................... 15.60 2.6 16.00 3.8 14.33 1.2 6....................................................... 19.02 4.2 19.58 3.6 15.15 5.5 7....................................................... 23.85 4.2 24.82 5.0 21.37 2.6 8....................................................... 24.08 3.8 24.54 5.9 23.29 1.5 9....................................................... 26.66 3.7 29.53 3.6 24.20 4.7 10........................................................ 42.39 10.6 43.96 10.1 28.15 11.8 11........................................................ 40.85 7.5 43.07 7.5 31.14 1.9 12........................................................ 42.55 4.0 44.39 4.2 – – 13........................................................ 42.95 9.8 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 36.04 9.0 36.15 9.2 31.93 8.6 White collar excluding sales.................................... 24.31 4.4 25.60 5.4 20.57 3.9 2....................................................... 10.59 3.6 – – – – 3....................................................... 11.57 2.2 11.96 3.6 10.71 1.5 4....................................................... 13.98 4.5 14.35 5.5 12.69 3.4 5....................................................... 15.59 2.7 15.99 4.1 14.33 1.2 6....................................................... 18.97 4.3 19.52 3.7 15.15 5.5 7....................................................... 23.65 3.1 24.77 3.0 21.37 2.6 8....................................................... 24.43 3.5 25.14 5.4 23.29 1.5 9....................................................... 26.66 3.7 29.53 3.6 24.20 4.7 10........................................................ 42.39 10.6 43.96 10.1 28.15 11.8 11........................................................ 40.71 7.7 42.99 7.8 31.14 1.9 12........................................................ 42.55 4.0 44.39 4.2 – – 13........................................................ 42.95 9.8 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.59 7.3 34.67 7.5 31.93 8.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.45 5.0 31.16 6.4 24.11 2.0 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.66 4.5 33.77 4.7 24.79 2.1 7....................................................... 22.42 .9 – – 22.16 1.0 8....................................................... 26.42 4.8 27.82 7.3 24.93 3.2 9....................................................... 26.60 4.0 29.92 5.3 24.54 3.7 10........................................................ 46.35 9.1 48.85 7.0 – – 12........................................................ 42.39 4.8 43.85 4.4 – – 13........................................................ 42.86 9.9 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 36.28 28.4 36.58 28.6 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 32.93 3.9 32.96 4.0 – – 9....................................................... 29.00 3.1 29.00 3.1 – – Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 40.54 3.6 40.54 3.6 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 36.02 6.0 36.06 6.0 – – Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 36.02 6.0 36.06 6.0 – – Natural scientists............................................ – – – – – – Health related................................................ $25.27 8.5 $27.82 13.8 $22.81 1.3 7....................................................... 22.52 3.0 – – – – 8....................................................... 23.74 .4 23.74 .4 – – 9....................................................... 23.53 3.3 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 25.16 8.1 27.43 12.8 22.84 .9 8....................................................... 23.74 .4 23.74 .4 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 35.33 9.2 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 25.51 2.8 – – 25.18 2.8 7....................................................... 22.78 .4 – – 22.69 .0 8....................................................... 28.54 4.7 – – 27.70 2.1 Elementary school teachers.................................. 24.54 .9 – – 24.34 .4 8....................................................... 28.02 3.3 – – – – Secondary school teachers................................... 24.64 4.8 – – 23.51 4.5 8....................................................... 30.51 10.4 – – – – Teachers, special education................................. 28.13 6.9 – – 28.13 6.9 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 18.20 4.9 – – 18.20 4.9 Social workers.............................................. 18.20 4.9 – – 18.20 4.9 Lawyers and judges............................................ – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 16.29 5.5 16.32 5.7 – – Technical....................................................... 24.67 14.7 25.92 16.6 17.77 7.8 4....................................................... 14.63 10.9 14.80 11.2 – – 5....................................................... 16.84 3.4 17.10 3.9 – – 7....................................................... 25.12 4.8 25.92 2.5 – – 8....................................................... 20.70 5.1 – – 19.26 7.2 9....................................................... 28.97 3.2 28.98 3.2 – – Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 19.21 7.6 18.62 8.4 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.21 4.5 – – – – Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 27.04 8.7 29.13 5.3 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 34.53 3.6 35.32 3.6 29.55 8.2 7....................................................... 25.13 5.6 25.18 5.6 – – 8....................................................... 22.47 5.2 22.65 5.7 – – 9....................................................... 25.68 7.3 28.60 4.4 – – 10........................................................ 33.67 3.5 – – – – 11........................................................ 35.03 4.7 36.89 4.8 – – 12........................................................ 43.06 7.1 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 38.97 5.5 39.24 5.8 32.36 9.1 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 39.41 5.2 40.62 5.9 34.10 7.4 11........................................................ 33.63 7.2 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 42.24 6.4 42.91 6.9 32.36 9.1 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 39.94 17.7 – – 39.94 17.7 Financial managers.......................................... 43.50 5.6 43.46 5.7 – – Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... $31.01 13.7 – – – – Administrators, education and related fields................ 31.29 .4 – – $31.29 0.4 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 40.45 8.8 $40.48 9.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 43.04 10.0 43.13 10.2 – – Management related............................................ 29.50 3.5 30.45 3.4 19.48 2.7 7....................................................... 23.85 4.9 23.89 4.9 – – 8....................................................... 22.08 6.5 – – – – 9....................................................... 23.57 8.4 – – – – 11........................................................ 36.76 5.0 36.76 5.0 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 33.68 10.4 33.68 10.4 – – Accountants and auditors.................................... 25.73 9.4 26.11 9.2 – – Other financial officers.................................... 45.74 11.5 45.74 11.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 47.51 11.6 47.51 11.6 – – Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.61 12.3 26.98 16.8 – – Sales............................................................. 22.77 23.6 22.77 23.6 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 15.07 4.0 15.83 4.6 12.42 .8 2....................................................... 10.59 3.6 – – – – 3....................................................... 11.57 2.2 11.96 3.6 10.71 1.5 4....................................................... 13.90 4.9 14.28 6.1 12.73 3.2 5....................................................... 15.55 3.2 16.01 4.8 14.07 .5 6....................................................... 19.24 5.9 20.07 4.7 14.11 2.1 7....................................................... 20.15 5.7 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 17.91 10.6 17.91 10.6 – – Secretaries................................................. 18.05 7.3 19.53 7.0 13.82 3.7 6....................................................... 19.13 15.0 – – – – Order clerks................................................ 12.76 .6 12.76 .6 – – Library clerks.............................................. 12.12 5.9 – – 12.12 5.9 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 14.44 2.7 14.53 3.3 – – Dispatchers................................................. 17.75 3.8 – – 12.90 2.7 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.41 5.2 12.41 5.2 – – Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.77 14.5 13.17 16.2 – – Eligibility clerks, social welfare.......................... 14.30 1.5 – – – – General office clerks....................................... 12.18 5.0 11.79 7.8 12.83 2.5 3....................................................... 11.16 7.8 – – – – 4....................................................... 11.96 11.4 – – 12.11 3.5 5....................................................... 14.19 .6 – – – – Teachers' aides............................................. 10.66 2.2 – – 10.52 1.8 4....................................................... 12.77 2.3 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 16.46 4.8 16.55 5.0 14.43 3.8 1....................................................... 9.60 4.5 9.55 4.7 – – 2....................................................... 11.29 8.9 11.29 9.0 – – 3....................................................... 14.06 9.7 14.11 10.0 – – 4....................................................... 15.94 2.6 16.18 2.5 12.41 1.0 5....................................................... $17.41 1.9 $17.68 1.7 $13.51 4.5 6....................................................... 21.38 7.2 21.57 7.2 14.82 8.1 7....................................................... 23.18 2.8 23.67 2.9 18.19 4.0 8....................................................... 25.92 4.2 25.71 4.5 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.84 5.8 21.96 6.2 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.33 6.0 19.56 6.2 15.98 12.4 5....................................................... 16.15 3.9 16.70 2.5 13.22 4.8 6....................................................... 19.88 10.8 20.06 11.0 – – 7....................................................... 23.31 3.0 23.67 2.9 18.08 5.3 8....................................................... 25.18 2.7 24.90 2.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.74 6.6 21.87 7.0 – – Supervisors, mechanics and repairers........................ 23.11 8.1 – – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 22.70 7.8 22.70 7.8 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 20.46 11.2 20.65 11.7 – – Electricians................................................ 19.95 3.8 19.95 3.8 – – 7....................................................... 19.95 3.8 19.95 3.8 – – Electrical power installers and repairers................... 22.75 8.1 – – – – Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 12.38 5.2 – – 12.38 5.2 Supervisors, production..................................... 23.60 4.5 23.63 4.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 16.46 4.7 16.45 4.7 – – 2....................................................... 12.30 15.4 12.30 15.4 – – 3....................................................... 16.13 16.0 16.13 16.0 – – 4....................................................... 15.13 5.6 15.13 5.6 – – 5....................................................... 18.89 3.8 18.89 3.8 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 20.45 9.3 20.45 9.3 – – 5....................................................... 18.30 5.0 18.30 5.0 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.68 5.6 13.68 5.6 – – 2....................................................... 11.25 16.7 11.25 16.7 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 15.73 5.9 15.73 5.9 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 15.93 6.1 16.23 6.2 12.58 1.6 3....................................................... 14.08 14.3 14.14 14.8 – – 4....................................................... 16.37 5.1 17.17 4.0 – – 5....................................................... 16.90 4.7 17.01 4.7 – – Truck drivers............................................... 16.57 3.8 17.12 3.3 – – 4....................................................... 15.89 7.0 – – – – 5....................................................... 17.02 4.5 17.13 4.6 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.07 6.6 14.07 6.6 – – 3....................................................... 14.14 14.8 14.14 14.8 – – 4....................................................... 17.70 6.3 17.70 6.3 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.14 4.0 12.15 4.2 12.09 5.7 1....................................................... 9.23 2.1 9.12 2.3 – – 2....................................................... 11.69 9.5 11.69 9.6 – – 3....................................................... $11.76 4.7 $11.70 4.9 – – 4....................................................... 17.97 5.1 18.31 5.8 – – 5....................................................... 17.28 4.9 – – – – Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.75 6.7 – – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.21 7.8 12.24 7.9 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.74 8.6 10.75 8.7 – – Service............................................................. 14.60 8.3 14.00 13.1 $15.56 5.7 1....................................................... 9.12 2.8 9.09 3.6 – – 2....................................................... 8.84 6.4 8.70 6.7 – – 3....................................................... 8.97 9.6 8.80 14.7 – – 4....................................................... 12.31 2.5 12.39 4.7 12.25 2.7 5....................................................... – – – – 13.74 5.6 6....................................................... 15.98 .4 – – 15.98 .4 7....................................................... 19.52 5.4 – – 18.28 .8 8....................................................... 20.67 1.7 – – 20.67 1.7 Protective service............................................ 17.62 5.0 – – 18.24 3.1 5....................................................... 13.95 6.2 – – 13.95 6.2 6....................................................... 15.95 .5 – – 15.95 .5 7....................................................... 19.52 5.4 – – 18.28 .8 8....................................................... 20.67 1.7 – – 20.67 1.7 Supervisors, police and detectives.......................... 26.48 7.9 – – 26.48 7.9 Police and detectives, public service....................... 19.64 4.7 – – 19.64 4.7 8....................................................... 21.38 1.9 – – 21.38 1.9 Correctional institution officers........................... 13.56 3.7 – – 13.56 3.7 Food service.................................................. 9.78 13.2 9.82 14.3 – – 1....................................................... 9.11 5.1 9.11 5.1 – – 2....................................................... 8.92 10.3 8.94 10.6 – – Other food service........................................... 10.42 12.3 10.53 13.4 – – 1....................................................... 9.11 5.1 9.11 5.1 – – 2....................................................... 8.97 10.5 – – – – Cooks....................................................... 9.88 7.7 10.19 10.4 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 9.07 6.3 9.09 6.4 – – 1....................................................... 9.11 5.1 9.11 5.1 – – Health service................................................ 11.45 5.4 11.62 6.5 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 12.09 7.8 – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 9.97 10.0 9.94 16.2 10.00 3.9 1....................................................... 9.14 2.5 – – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 10.01 3.0 – – 10.00 3.9 Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 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................................................................... $11.39 8.7 $10.40 8.2 $15.33 23.4 All excluding sales............................................... 12.34 11.0 11.14 11.5 16.03 21.4 White collar........................................................ 13.90 10.9 12.41 6.6 20.15 43.1 2....................................................... 8.05 2.5 8.01 2.5 – – 3....................................................... 9.75 5.8 9.12 4.0 – – 4....................................................... 11.95 6.0 11.95 7.0 – – 7....................................................... 25.51 5.9 – – – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 18.39 14.9 16.62 9.3 22.58 38.8 2....................................................... 9.46 4.1 – – – – 3....................................................... 10.29 7.9 – – – – 4....................................................... 13.36 5.0 13.87 5.8 – – 7....................................................... 25.51 5.9 – – – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.64 17.1 19.50 15.7 30.96 24.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 24.10 21.1 20.12 17.8 36.03 36.9 7....................................................... 25.51 5.9 – – – – Health related................................................ 29.82 19.9 25.57 6.1 – – 7....................................................... 25.69 6.3 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 24.24 4.1 25.02 7.2 – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 8.72 6.7 8.73 7.3 – – 2....................................................... 7.83 2.2 – – – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.82 2.7 – – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.77 5.8 11.78 8.4 11.75 4.0 2....................................................... 9.46 4.1 – – – – 3....................................................... 11.16 7.1 – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 9.91 10.8 9.91 13.5 9.94 1.3 2....................................................... 11.90 10.7 – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 10.75 3.3 – – 10.26 .5 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.69 14.7 9.73 15.5 – – Service............................................................. 7.52 5.9 6.93 5.6 9.60 3.1 1....................................................... 7.00 2.8 – – – – 2....................................................... 5.31 29.5 5.20 31.8 – – 3....................................................... 8.69 8.1 – – 10.01 3.4 Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 6.25 16.2 5.27 19.7 – – 1....................................................... 6.18 12.6 – – – – 2....................................................... $4.13 33.0 $4.13 33.0 – – Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.52 23.2 3.52 23.2 – – Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.17 25.6 3.17 25.6 – – Other food service........................................... 8.21 6.7 7.35 9.3 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.04 11.6 – – – – Health service................................................ 10.69 3.7 11.01 3.7 – – Health aides, except nursing................................ 11.23 6.4 – – – – Cleaning and building 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 four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Private industry and State and local government Occupational group Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Mean All occupations....................................................... $20.27 $11.39 $23.66 $19.35 $18.56 $30.78 All excluding sales............................................. 20.13 12.34 23.66 19.34 18.87 29.07 White collar........................................................ 24.15 13.90 – 23.32 21.59 33.64 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 24.31 18.39 – 23.89 22.66 32.13 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 28.45 22.64 – 27.33 26.97 – Professional specialty.......................................... 29.66 24.10 – 29.22 27.94 – Technical....................................................... 24.67 – – 20.66 24.22 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 34.53 – – 34.53 33.18 37.82 Sales............................................................. 22.77 8.72 – 19.37 13.25 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 15.07 11.77 – 14.87 14.37 19.60 Blue collar......................................................... 16.46 9.91 21.87 15.01 16.38 15.48 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.33 – 25.46 18.06 19.33 – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 16.46 – 22.61 14.24 16.80 13.92 Transportation and material moving................................ 15.93 10.75 20.90 15.36 15.49 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.14 9.69 16.63 10.71 12.00 – Service............................................................. 14.60 7.52 – 11.49 13.14 – 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....................................................... 3.6 8.7 9.0 3.9 3.1 11.4 All excluding sales............................................. 3.6 11.0 9.0 3.8 3.3 11.9 White collar........................................................ 4.6 10.9 – 4.7 3.5 10.1 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 4.4 14.9 – 4.4 3.4 9.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 5.0 17.1 – 5.1 5.7 – Professional specialty.......................................... 4.5 21.1 – 5.5 5.9 – Technical....................................................... 14.7 – – 4.2 14.5 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 3.6 – – 3.6 4.7 4.7 Sales............................................................. 23.6 6.7 – 22.0 13.2 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 4.0 5.8 – 4.2 4.4 3.3 Blue collar......................................................... 4.8 10.8 3.7 4.3 4.6 12.9 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 6.0 – 3.3 6.5 6.0 – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 4.7 – 1.5 3.1 4.3 1.2 Transportation and material moving................................ 6.1 3.3 8.0 5.2 4.7 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.0 14.7 6.7 4.1 3.6 – Service............................................................. 8.3 5.9 – 7.8 8.8 – 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Full-time and part-time workers Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) Occupational group All pri- vate indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Mean All occupations....................................................... $19.95 $18.62 – $17.53 $18.74 $20.75 $23.81 $13.85 - - All excluding sales............................................. 19.98 18.28 – 17.65 18.35 21.08 23.48 14.59 - - White collar........................................................ 24.37 23.02 – 20.07 23.42 24.68 26.48 16.09 - - White-collar excluding sales.................................... 25.26 22.11 – 20.90 22.28 26.01 26.02 20.25 - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 30.24 27.07 – – 26.94 30.97 40.98 – - - Professional specialty.......................................... 32.35 29.94 – – 29.88 32.84 – – - - Technical....................................................... 25.62 22.59 – – 22.59 26.54 – – - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 35.32 29.45 – – 31.90 36.80 – 28.72 - - Sales............................................................. 19.56 – – – – 17.81 – 11.69 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 15.70 13.97 – – 14.13 16.11 14.84 13.31 - - Blue collar......................................................... 16.45 17.24 – 16.51 17.32 15.07 19.88 11.92 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.56 19.65 – 18.99 19.82 19.39 23.79 – - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 16.45 16.79 – – 16.79 – – – - - Transportation and material moving................................ 16.19 16.51 – – 16.62 15.92 – 15.50 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.00 12.89 – – 13.59 11.53 – 10.50 - - Service............................................................. 12.23 – – – – 12.23 – 7.94 - - B Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) All pri- vate Occupational group indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Relative error(5) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 4.1 4.8 – 7.1 5.2 5.8 7.4 8.9 - - All excluding sales............................................. 4.0 4.1 – 8.0 4.4 5.9 7.3 11.5 - - White collar........................................................ 5.5 5.2 – 16.4 5.6 6.6 15.6 12.9 - - White-collar excluding sales.................................... 5.4 5.1 – 21.0 5.2 6.6 16.3 10.9 - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 7.3 1.0 – – 1.0 8.5 24.4 – - - Professional specialty.......................................... 7.0 1.6 – – 1.6 8.1 – – - - Technical....................................................... 16.4 8.8 – – 8.8 20.5 – – - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 3.6 8.0 – – 13.8 3.6 – 6.9 - - Sales............................................................. 22.1 – – – – 26.5 – 13.2 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 4.6 9.0 – – 9.6 4.9 10.6 5.3 - - Blue collar......................................................... 4.9 4.6 – .3 5.0 9.5 9.9 9.8 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 6.2 3.8 – 10.1 3.8 15.6 6.5 – - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 4.7 4.7 – – 4.7 – – – - - Transportation and material moving................................ 6.2 12.2 – – 12.3 4.1 – 5.9 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 3.8 5.4 – – 6.3 5.3 – 5.7 - - Service............................................................. 13.4 – – – – 13.4 – 18.6 - - 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Mean All occupations....................................................... $19.95 $14.36 $20.81 $16.76 $25.87 All excluding sales............................................. 19.98 15.02 20.66 16.68 25.19 White collar........................................................ 24.37 15.94 25.50 20.27 29.88 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 25.26 18.98 25.86 21.24 28.80 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 30.24 21.91 30.71 27.91 32.44 Professional specialty.......................................... 32.35 – 32.92 30.91 34.17 Technical....................................................... 25.62 – 25.93 21.30 28.73 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 35.32 23.04 36.79 31.07 38.76 Sales............................................................. 19.56 10.97 23.02 17.46 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 15.70 15.13 15.76 14.21 17.17 Blue collar......................................................... 16.45 14.60 16.75 15.20 19.60 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 19.56 21.07 19.35 18.04 21.76 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 16.45 11.56 16.75 14.27 19.97 Transportation and material moving................................ 16.19 – 16.30 15.57 20.02 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.00 10.40 12.55 11.16 15.00 Service............................................................. 12.23 6.81 13.55 9.44 – B Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Relative error(4) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 4.1 7.1 5.1 7.2 6.5 All excluding sales............................................. 4.0 7.0 5.1 7.4 6.0 White collar........................................................ 5.5 8.1 6.0 8.1 8.3 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 5.4 8.5 6.0 8.7 7.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 7.3 24.3 8.4 17.5 7.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 7.0 – 8.8 20.6 5.4 Technical....................................................... 16.4 – 17.1 9.1 22.7 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 3.6 5.1 3.6 6.8 3.3 Sales............................................................. 22.1 8.0 25.2 19.9 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 4.6 5.9 5.1 4.8 7.7 Blue collar......................................................... 4.9 7.0 6.0 8.2 7.1 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 6.2 6.9 7.1 11.7 5.2 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 4.7 8.4 5.2 5.5 7.3 Transportation and material moving................................ 6.2 – 8.1 7.9 9.3 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 3.8 4.4 5.2 5.4 7.4 Service............................................................. 13.4 8.9 15.9 13.8 – 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, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.07 $11.67 $16.80 $24.04 $32.54 All excluding sales........................... 9.47 12.00 17.00 24.07 32.28 White collar.................................... 10.00 13.50 19.23 28.80 41.74 White collar excluding sales................ 11.10 14.42 20.17 29.05 42.28 Professional specialty and technical.......... 16.03 19.30 24.92 33.51 45.76 Professional specialty...................... 17.41 20.92 26.74 35.40 45.76 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 26.20 27.21 30.84 39.17 43.77 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 34.77 36.55 41.78 43.94 45.76 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 19.47 27.09 36.06 42.55 52.48 Computer systems analysts and scientists 19.47 27.09 36.06 42.55 52.48 Natural scientists........................ – – – – – Health related............................ 18.90 20.59 23.80 27.07 29.81 Registered nurses....................... 18.79 20.33 23.60 26.88 28.34 Teachers, college and university.......... 21.40 26.92 34.02 39.09 51.16 Teachers, except college and university... 17.19 19.54 24.10 29.79 34.30 Elementary school teachers.............. 17.70 19.83 23.53 28.07 33.05 Secondary school teachers............... 17.41 19.06 23.53 27.90 33.86 Teachers, special education............. 20.02 23.46 28.77 33.33 35.48 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners...... – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers. 14.13 15.85 18.19 21.19 23.91 Social workers.......................... 14.13 15.85 18.19 21.19 23.91 Lawyers and judges........................ – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 7.05 7.05 16.03 18.03 24.11 Technical................................... 13.35 16.79 19.99 24.92 34.98 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 11.04 11.33 20.50 23.80 29.72 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 10.51 13.00 15.04 16.68 18.26 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 16.74 19.86 29.57 32.22 34.49 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 19.86 22.39 30.44 41.35 58.90 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 22.68 27.56 35.15 47.11 62.50 Administrators and officials, public administration....................... 22.39 27.27 37.75 43.28 73.08 Financial managers...................... 30.05 32.54 41.35 46.15 63.46 Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations..................... 24.11 27.56 27.56 29.05 55.29 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 25.22 28.26 32.13 32.13 37.10 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 19.83 24.16 36.24 50.96 66.77 Management related........................ 18.75 20.43 24.54 33.36 43.59 Accountants and auditors................ 20.17 21.63 21.65 28.85 36.77 Other financial officers................ 21.15 24.28 41.39 60.10 76.92 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 16.00 20.22 20.80 27.20 35.25 Sales......................................... 7.50 8.50 10.60 19.23 41.74 Sales workers, other commodities........ $7.50 $8.00 $9.00 $10.25 $11.15 Cashiers................................ 7.25 7.50 8.50 9.90 11.07 Administrative support, including clerical.... 10.00 11.53 14.00 17.25 21.15 Secretaries............................. 12.34 13.54 16.40 22.19 24.04 Order clerks............................ 10.11 11.05 12.72 14.54 15.67 Library clerks.......................... 8.69 10.10 11.27 13.72 14.93 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 13.54 13.94 13.94 15.00 15.35 Dispatchers............................. 12.84 15.50 17.56 19.25 24.70 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.50 10.00 12.15 15.25 16.25 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 8.50 10.21 10.50 17.07 17.44 Eligibility clerks, social welfare...... 12.49 12.93 13.97 15.44 16.25 General office clerks................... 8.00 10.00 12.00 14.15 15.92 Teachers' aides......................... 9.01 9.47 10.15 11.45 13.13 Blue collar..................................... 9.30 11.44 15.17 20.17 25.46 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.00 15.17 19.08 24.10 26.66 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers.... 19.75 19.75 21.15 24.60 29.52 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 16.50 17.00 20.51 31.60 31.60 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 14.00 15.25 18.20 27.89 27.89 Electricians............................ 18.00 18.50 19.84 21.48 21.48 Electrical power installers and repairers............................ 19.07 20.86 22.23 25.99 25.99 Construction trades, n.e.c.............. 9.75 10.78 12.25 13.84 15.49 Supervisors, production................. 18.82 21.88 24.10 25.48 26.89 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.55 11.80 14.81 20.50 25.44 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 12.15 15.07 19.85 25.44 28.18 Assemblers.............................. 8.62 10.25 12.00 17.23 21.80 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 10.00 10.93 12.50 22.56 24.54 Transportation and material moving............ 10.00 12.36 14.95 18.70 22.39 Truck drivers........................... 12.76 14.82 16.30 18.70 19.50 Bus drivers............................. 8.57 9.55 10.39 11.46 12.71 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 9.50 10.00 13.11 15.94 22.25 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.75 9.25 10.80 13.75 17.00 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................................. 8.74 10.00 10.00 12.70 12.80 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 9.05 10.00 11.80 16.65 17.00 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.75 9.00 9.50 11.79 13.95 Service......................................... 7.00 8.05 10.30 15.71 27.81 Protective service........................ 9.75 12.69 15.89 21.35 26.11 Supervisors, police and detectives...... 18.83 21.50 24.67 32.97 32.97 Police and detectives, public service... $14.46 $15.58 $18.63 $24.03 $27.81 Correctional institution officers....... 12.02 12.02 13.18 14.64 15.91 Food service.............................. 2.75 7.21 8.50 10.00 13.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.75 4.00 6.00 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.75 2.75 Other food service....................... 7.21 8.00 9.00 10.73 13.00 Cooks................................... 8.00 8.50 9.47 11.08 12.39 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 7.00 7.50 8.91 9.91 11.58 Health service............................ 8.85 10.00 10.92 12.21 13.94 Health aides, except nursing............ 8.69 10.08 11.49 12.75 15.25 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 9.00 9.74 10.61 11.28 12.04 Cleaning and building service............. 6.00 7.43 8.38 9.55 11.85 Janitors and cleaners................... 6.00 6.73 8.37 9.59 10.22 Personal service.......................... – – – – – 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.00 $11.60 $16.85 $24.10 $33.13 All excluding sales........................... 9.25 12.00 17.00 24.14 32.82 White collar.................................... 10.00 13.58 19.32 29.96 44.43 White collar excluding sales................ 11.48 15.05 20.80 31.15 45.68 Professional specialty and technical.......... 15.09 19.64 27.21 37.50 51.95 Professional specialty...................... 17.31 23.84 29.57 40.87 51.92 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 26.20 27.21 30.84 39.48 43.85 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 34.77 36.55 41.78 43.94 45.76 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 19.47 27.09 36.06 42.55 52.48 Computer systems analysts and scientists 19.47 27.09 36.06 42.55 52.48 Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 18.90 21.79 24.68 28.07 32.00 Registered nurses....................... 18.90 20.99 24.15 27.49 32.00 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 7.05 7.05 16.03 18.03 24.11 Technical................................... 14.42 17.07 20.37 27.62 52.89 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 10.37 11.33 15.21 28.41 29.72 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 13.15 14.20 15.09 16.50 17.96 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 19.21 25.53 30.93 32.91 35.09 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 19.86 22.45 30.77 42.79 59.42 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 22.12 27.56 36.24 49.79 63.97 Financial managers...................... 30.05 32.54 41.35 46.16 63.46 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 19.83 24.16 36.24 50.96 66.77 Management related........................ 18.88 21.63 25.59 34.14 44.87 Accountants and auditors................ 20.17 21.63 21.84 32.21 36.77 Other financial officers................ 21.15 24.28 41.39 60.10 76.92 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 17.54 21.28 24.20 33.25 37.99 Sales......................................... 7.50 8.60 10.85 19.60 41.74 Sales workers, other commodities........ 7.40 8.25 9.00 10.25 11.15 Cashiers................................ 7.25 7.50 8.49 9.90 11.07 Administrative support, including clerical.... 10.00 12.13 15.00 17.84 22.07 Secretaries............................. 13.54 14.52 20.43 23.06 24.52 Order clerks............................ 10.11 11.05 12.72 14.54 15.67 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 13.65 13.94 13.94 15.05 15.35 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.50 10.00 12.15 15.25 16.25 Stock and inventory clerks.............. $8.50 $8.50 $10.50 $17.30 $17.44 General office clerks................... 8.00 9.50 11.78 13.92 15.95 Blue collar..................................... 9.25 11.47 15.52 20.90 25.48 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.00 15.60 19.75 24.16 26.95 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 16.50 17.00 20.51 31.60 31.60 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 14.00 15.25 19.78 27.89 27.89 Electricians............................ 18.00 18.50 19.84 21.48 21.48 Supervisors, production................. 18.58 21.88 24.10 25.48 26.91 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.55 11.80 14.77 20.50 25.44 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 12.15 15.07 19.85 25.44 28.18 Assemblers.............................. 8.62 10.25 12.00 17.23 21.80 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 10.00 10.93 12.50 22.56 24.54 Transportation and material moving............ 10.00 13.53 15.00 18.70 22.50 Truck drivers........................... 14.54 14.95 16.95 18.70 19.60 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 9.50 10.00 13.11 15.94 22.25 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.75 9.25 10.80 13.75 17.00 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 9.05 10.00 11.80 17.00 17.00 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.75 9.00 9.50 11.79 13.95 Service......................................... 6.00 7.50 9.08 12.75 30.10 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.75 7.00 8.25 10.00 13.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.75 4.00 6.00 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.75 2.75 Other food service....................... 7.00 8.00 9.00 11.00 13.43 Cooks................................... 8.00 8.50 9.50 11.08 15.50 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 7.00 7.28 8.25 10.00 11.90 Health service............................ 9.00 10.00 11.22 12.44 13.96 Health aides, except nursing............ 10.00 10.50 12.44 13.13 17.00 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 9.00 9.74 10.70 11.30 12.14 Cleaning and building service............. 6.00 7.00 7.75 8.75 12.83 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.85 $11.98 $16.50 $23.42 $31.56 All excluding sales........................... 9.89 12.02 16.55 23.52 31.56 White collar.................................... 10.41 13.02 18.81 25.56 32.32 White collar excluding sales................ 10.54 13.13 18.95 25.62 32.42 Professional specialty and technical.......... 17.13 18.99 22.85 27.43 33.65 Professional specialty...................... 17.41 19.66 23.53 28.32 34.39 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 18.91 20.01 22.39 26.44 27.75 Registered nurses....................... 18.79 19.91 22.66 26.17 27.07 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 17.41 20.02 24.11 29.92 34.14 Elementary school teachers.............. 17.70 19.61 23.33 27.87 32.56 Secondary school teachers............... 17.41 18.00 22.58 26.74 31.79 Teachers, special education............. 20.02 23.46 28.77 33.33 35.48 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. 13.90 15.54 18.13 19.51 23.50 Social workers.......................... 13.90 15.54 18.13 19.51 23.50 Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 10.93 13.59 18.03 20.13 21.78 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 10.20 10.93 13.42 17.75 18.43 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 20.22 20.22 29.28 32.29 39.58 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 24.68 28.53 32.13 37.46 43.28 Administrators and officials, public administration....................... 22.39 27.27 37.75 43.28 73.08 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 25.22 28.26 32.13 32.13 37.10 Management related........................ 14.07 19.77 20.22 20.22 22.39 Sales......................................... - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.49 10.47 12.22 13.95 15.60 Secretaries............................. 10.83 12.32 13.58 14.73 16.09 Library clerks.......................... 8.69 10.10 11.27 13.72 14.93 Dispatchers............................. 11.51 12.00 12.84 13.33 14.86 General office clerks................... 10.38 11.16 12.44 14.34 15.80 Teachers' aides......................... 9.01 9.42 10.13 11.26 13.01 Blue collar..................................... 10.37 11.43 12.78 15.99 18.60 Precision production, craft, and repair....... $10.88 $12.10 $15.19 $17.90 $22.07 Construction trades, n.e.c.............. 9.75 10.78 12.25 13.84 15.49 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ 9.74 11.35 11.66 12.92 15.21 Bus drivers............................. 8.57 9.55 10.39 11.46 12.71 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 9.20 10.40 11.72 13.24 13.75 Service......................................... 8.91 9.76 13.14 17.31 24.19 Protective service........................ 12.02 13.79 16.28 21.69 26.49 Supervisors, police and detectives...... 18.83 21.50 24.67 32.97 32.97 Police and detectives, public service... 14.46 15.58 18.63 24.03 27.81 Correctional institution officers....... 12.02 12.02 13.18 14.64 15.91 Food service.............................. 8.00 8.78 9.47 9.74 10.40 Other food service....................... 8.00 8.78 9.47 9.74 10.40 Health service............................ 8.69 8.69 10.46 11.44 13.32 Health aides, except nursing............ 8.69 8.69 10.38 11.83 13.69 Cleaning and building service............. $7.42 $8.97 $9.29 $9.85 $11.49 Janitors and cleaners................... 7.42 8.97 9.29 9.85 11.49 Personal service.......................... 6.75 9.89 10.73 11.92 16.32 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.55 $12.16 $17.23 $24.27 $33.10 All excluding sales........................... 9.75 12.40 17.25 24.20 32.69 White collar.................................... 10.50 14.04 19.86 29.50 41.87 White collar excluding sales................ 11.33 14.66 20.22 29.59 42.55 Professional specialty and technical.......... 16.67 19.50 25.36 34.27 46.00 Professional specialty...................... 17.70 21.00 27.07 35.86 46.88 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 26.20 27.21 30.84 39.17 43.77 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 34.77 36.55 41.78 43.94 45.76 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 19.47 27.09 36.06 42.55 52.48 Computer systems analysts and scientists 19.47 27.09 36.06 42.55 52.48 Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 18.79 20.26 23.50 27.00 28.41 Registered nurses....................... 18.72 20.16 23.59 26.96 28.07 Teachers, college and university.......... 21.40 26.92 34.02 39.09 51.16 Teachers, except college and university... 17.70 20.39 24.32 30.32 34.59 Elementary school teachers.............. 17.70 19.83 23.53 28.07 33.05 Secondary school teachers............... 17.41 19.06 23.53 28.04 34.14 Teachers, special education............. 20.02 23.46 28.77 33.33 35.48 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. 13.90 15.54 18.13 19.51 23.50 Social workers.......................... 13.90 15.54 18.13 19.51 23.50 Lawyers and judges........................ - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 7.05 7.05 16.03 18.03 24.11 Technical................................... 13.78 17.11 20.15 24.92 36.21 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians.......................... 11.04 11.33 20.50 23.80 29.72 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 12.30 13.21 15.29 17.23 18.43 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 16.74 19.86 29.57 32.22 34.49 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 19.86 22.39 30.44 41.35 58.90 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 22.68 27.56 35.15 47.11 62.50 Administrators and officials, public administration....................... 22.39 27.27 37.75 43.28 73.08 Financial managers...................... 30.05 32.54 41.35 46.15 63.46 Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations..................... 24.11 27.56 27.56 29.05 55.29 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 25.22 28.26 32.13 32.13 37.10 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 19.83 24.16 36.24 50.96 66.77 Management related........................ 18.75 20.43 24.54 33.36 43.59 Accountants and auditors................ 20.17 21.63 21.65 28.85 36.77 Other financial officers................ 21.15 24.28 41.39 60.10 76.92 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 16.00 20.22 20.80 27.20 35.25 Sales......................................... 8.49 9.55 15.87 29.12 41.74 Administrative support, including clerical.... $10.00 $11.66 $14.18 $17.34 $21.39 Secretaries............................. 12.84 13.54 16.85 22.25 24.20 Order clerks............................ 10.11 11.05 12.72 14.54 15.67 Library clerks.......................... 9.82 10.29 11.33 14.11 15.21 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 13.54 13.94 13.94 15.00 15.35 Dispatchers............................. 12.84 15.50 17.56 19.25 24.70 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.50 10.00 12.15 15.25 16.25 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 8.50 10.21 10.50 17.07 17.44 Eligibility clerks, social welfare...... 12.49 12.93 13.97 15.44 16.25 General office clerks................... 8.00 10.00 11.97 14.15 16.16 Teachers' aides......................... 9.01 9.47 10.15 11.48 13.13 Blue collar..................................... 9.50 11.60 15.40 20.50 25.48 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.00 15.17 19.08 24.10 26.66 Supervisors, mechanics and repairers.... 19.75 19.75 21.15 24.60 29.52 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 16.50 17.00 20.51 31.60 31.60 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 14.00 15.25 18.20 27.89 27.89 Electricians............................ 18.00 18.50 19.84 21.48 21.48 Electrical power installers and repairers............................ 19.07 20.86 22.23 25.99 25.99 Construction trades, n.e.c.............. 9.75 10.78 12.25 13.84 15.49 Supervisors, production................. 18.82 21.88 24.10 25.48 26.89 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.55 11.80 14.81 20.50 25.44 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 12.15 15.07 19.85 25.44 28.18 Assemblers.............................. 8.62 10.25 12.00 17.23 21.80 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 10.00 10.93 12.50 22.56 24.54 Transportation and material moving............ 10.00 13.06 14.95 18.70 22.39 Truck drivers........................... 12.76 14.82 16.30 18.70 19.50 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 9.50 10.00 13.11 15.94 22.25 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.75 9.50 10.93 13.75 17.00 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................................. 8.74 10.00 10.00 12.70 12.80 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 9.05 10.00 11.80 16.65 17.00 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 8.75 9.00 9.50 11.79 13.95 Service......................................... 7.69 9.00 11.56 17.63 30.10 Protective service........................ 10.19 13.14 16.00 21.69 26.49 Supervisors, police and detectives...... 18.83 21.50 24.67 32.97 32.97 Police and detectives, public service... 14.46 15.58 18.63 24.03 27.81 Correctional institution officers....... 12.02 12.02 13.18 14.64 15.91 Food service.............................. 7.00 7.69 9.00 11.00 13.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... $7.28 $8.00 $9.00 $11.08 $13.67 Cooks................................... 8.00 8.50 9.47 11.08 12.39 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 7.00 7.50 8.35 10.00 12.20 Health service............................ 9.00 10.00 11.11 12.07 14.44 Health aides, except nursing............ 8.69 10.14 11.32 13.13 15.67 Cleaning and building service............. 7.50 8.00 9.19 10.00 16.00 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.96 9.29 9.59 10.00 11.49 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $6.50 $7.46 $8.70 $11.99 $20.96 All excluding sales........................... 6.00 7.40 9.25 13.58 23.02 White collar.................................... 7.50 8.00 10.25 15.46 24.68 White collar excluding sales................ 8.50 10.50 14.51 22.75 28.14 Professional specialty and technical.......... 8.50 15.01 21.51 25.32 28.36 Professional specialty...................... 8.50 18.93 22.39 26.53 30.00 Health related............................ 19.71 22.35 24.78 28.14 57.69 Registered nurses....................... 19.61 21.10 23.72 26.78 30.00 Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Technical................................... - - - - - Sales......................................... 7.25 7.50 8.00 9.47 11.27 Cashiers................................ 7.21 7.25 7.55 8.00 8.58 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.00 9.40 11.54 13.48 15.03 Blue collar..................................... 6.50 7.40 9.25 11.68 17.00 Transportation and material moving............ 9.00 9.67 11.22 11.76 11.76 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.50 7.20 8.60 9.96 17.00 Service......................................... 2.75 6.00 7.42 9.00 10.61 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.13 2.75 7.00 9.28 9.65 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.75 2.75 6.00 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.75 2.75 4.00 Other food service....................... 4.00 7.00 9.00 9.50 9.88 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 4.00 7.00 9.28 9.50 9.91 Health service............................ 8.12 9.09 10.61 12.44 12.44 Health aides, except nursing............ 8.12 8.12 12.44 12.44 12.44 Cleaning and building service............. - - - - - Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC, May 2005 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 330,300 270,300 60,000 All excluding sales............................................. 307,100 247,800 59,300 White collar........................................................ 172,000 129,400 42,700 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 148,800 106,800 42,000 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 56,400 34,000 22,400 Professional specialty.......................................... 44,200 23,800 20,400 Technical....................................................... 12,200 10,200 2,000 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31,200 26,800 - Sales............................................................. 23,300 22,500 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 61,100 46,000 15,100 Blue collar......................................................... 121,600 115,200 6,400 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 39,900 37,300 2,500 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 34,400 34,200 - Transportation and material moving................................ 19,400 16,900 2,600 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 27,900 26,800 1,100 Service............................................................. 36,700 25,700 10,900 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.