NC BL 06/00/2008 Table: Kansas City, MO-KS, Bulletin, September 2007 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Civilian Private industry State and local government workers workers workers 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) All workers........................................................... $20.15 4.7 36.1 $19.59 5.2 35.9 $24.28 3.9 37.6 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 30.67 3.2 38.7 30.92 3.6 39.2 29.80 6.5 36.9 Management, business, and financial............................... 31.66 6.0 41.1 31.67 6.6 41.3 31.58 11.4 39.9 Professional and related.......................................... 30.14 3.5 37.5 30.43 3.9 37.9 29.39 7.8 36.3 Service............................................................. 11.28 14.4 31.5 9.31 9.1 30.0 19.25 10.9 39.3 Sales and office.................................................... 16.51 4.7 36.1 16.58 4.9 36.0 15.37 7.6 37.0 Sales and related................................................. 18.61 10.2 32.5 18.69 10.4 32.5 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 15.84 5.0 37.4 15.86 5.4 37.4 15.58 7.7 37.0 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 19.42 5.3 39.0 19.47 5.4 39.0 17.79 1.6 40.0 Construction and extraction...................................... 20.07 6.8 38.7 20.17 6.9 38.7 – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 19.57 5.8 39.4 19.58 6.2 39.3 – – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 16.13 6.1 33.4 15.91 5.9 33.3 – – – Production........................................................ 18.14 12.8 39.2 17.76 12.5 39.2 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 14.21 7.4 29.3 14.21 7.5 29.3 – – – Full time........................................................... 21.35 3.9 40.0 20.83 4.2 40.0 25.03 3.7 39.6 Part time........................................................... 11.24 10.4 21.0 10.87 10.8 20.8 15.54 5.5 23.5 Union............................................................... 23.28 3.8 39.1 22.08 5.0 38.4 26.00 3.1 40.6 Nonunion............................................................ 19.81 5.0 35.8 19.38 5.5 35.7 23.70 5.4 36.7 Time................................................................ 19.84 4.9 36.0 19.19 5.5 35.8 24.28 3.9 37.6 Incentive........................................................... 24.17 7.5 36.7 24.17 7.5 36.7 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 17.16 7.7 35.2 17.17 8.0 35.1 16.93 2.9 37.6 100-499 workers..................................................... 20.49 5.6 37.0 20.00 5.8 36.8 25.04 12.1 39.1 500 workers or more................................................. 26.11 2.6 37.0 26.52 3.6 37.0 25.31 2.0 37.1 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. See appendix A for more information. 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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-providing industries applies to private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $20.15 4.7 $21.35 3.9 $11.24 10.4 Management occupations.............................................. 33.44 8.8 33.45 8.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 14.14 7.8 14.14 7.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 25.92 3.8 25.92 3.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 31.63 9.8 31.63 9.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 47.77 9.3 47.84 9.3 – – General and operations managers................................... 33.09 7.9 33.09 7.9 – – Financial managers................................................ 31.23 4.9 31.23 4.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 31.50 9.7 31.50 9.7 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 40.28 29.2 40.28 29.2 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.82 6.7 29.83 6.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.50 7.4 21.50 7.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.49 8.4 26.49 8.4 – – Level 11.................................................. 38.40 4.4 38.40 4.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 31.44 9.1 31.44 9.1 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 29.15 9.6 29.15 9.6 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 29.11 19.9 29.11 19.9 – – Management analysts............................................... 34.35 14.4 34.35 14.4 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 30.74 13.9 30.74 13.9 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 34.68 6.0 34.02 4.9 – – Level 8 .................................................. 25.20 3.2 25.20 3.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.69 4.3 33.69 4.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 32.98 2.6 32.98 2.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.21 6.3 37.21 6.3 – – Computer programmers.............................................. 27.73 10.5 27.73 10.5 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 33.44 13.6 33.44 13.6 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.15 4.5 32.15 4.5 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 35.48 3.1 35.48 3.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 31.91 3.2 31.91 3.2 – – Level 11.................................................. 38.64 2.7 38.64 2.7 – – Level 12.................................................. 42.85 1.7 42.85 1.7 – – Engineers......................................................... 37.46 3.7 37.46 3.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.71 2.5 33.71 2.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 38.57 2.9 38.57 2.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 42.85 1.7 42.85 1.7 – – Electrical engineers.......................................... 35.89 11.2 35.89 11.2 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 27.25 27.1 35.63 8.8 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 15.72 11.1 17.02 9.5 – – Legal occupations................................................... 46.36 23.1 46.36 23.1 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 26.87 4.4 28.11 5.7 14.98 3.9 Level 4 .................................................. 11.81 4.3 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 24.31 7.4 25.29 .5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.73 2.4 33.85 2.2 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 28.51 13.0 28.45 14.0 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 30.74 4.7 31.15 5.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.38 2.1 33.47 1.8 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 32.13 6.6 32.13 6.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.98 4.1 32.98 4.1 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 31.47 9.0 31.47 9.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.19 7.0 32.19 7.0 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.27 2.6 33.27 2.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.47 1.4 34.47 1.4 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 31.84 1.8 33.48 4.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.77 2.3 35.11 1.6 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 31.07 7.6 32.91 .3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.88 1.7 34.26 2.3 – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 18.65 3.8 – – 14.07 3.3 Teacher assistants................................................ 11.69 5.0 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 11.81 4.3 – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.08 11.4 27.17 11.3 – – Writers and editors............................................... 22.34 9.6 22.34 9.6 – – Editors......................................................... 22.34 9.6 22.34 9.6 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.32 10.0 27.44 10.7 26.37 4.8 Level 5 .................................................. 17.45 2.4 17.31 1.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.72 6.5 25.70 6.8 – – Level 8 .................................................. 24.66 1.5 23.61 1.8 26.48 3.1 Level 9 .................................................. 27.46 .9 27.21 1.2 29.10 6.4 Level 11.................................................. 42.14 10.8 44.15 10.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.72 20.8 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 26.81 2.3 26.17 1.7 28.82 2.4 Level 8 .................................................. 25.75 4.9 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.20 1.3 26.79 1.5 29.10 6.4 Therapists........................................................ 28.50 5.8 30.04 5.9 – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 25.65 5.9 26.05 6.8 – – Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 26.43 1.5 26.43 1.5 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.60 2.3 17.88 1.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.19 1.1 18.19 1.1 – – Medical records and health information technicians................ 14.93 4.9 14.93 4.9 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.51 3.2 13.18 10.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.91 4.0 10.85 4.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.04 6.6 13.04 6.6 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.60 7.2 10.68 3.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.24 5.2 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.33 3.8 11.26 4.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.24 5.2 – – – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 15.68 13.0 16.02 12.7 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 20.93 8.9 22.11 6.3 13.01 15.7 Level 6 .................................................. 19.46 13.1 20.24 10.5 – – Police officers................................................... 22.07 13.2 – – – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 22.07 13.2 – – – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.29 15.3 – – – – Security guards................................................. 12.36 20.0 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.26 11.6 8.91 15.1 7.41 6.3 Level 1 .................................................. 6.97 3.2 – – 6.80 1.2 Level 2 .................................................. 6.57 11.6 5.47 8.6 7.83 12.3 Level 3 .................................................. 9.21 4.5 9.21 4.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 11.09 22.0 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 8.14 5.5 8.88 4.7 7.48 6.6 Level 3 .................................................. 9.08 4.7 8.99 3.9 – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.28 2.3 – – – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.31 5.5 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.05 1.3 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.41 4.1 10.27 5.4 10.70 6.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.64 10.6 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.25 7.0 10.32 7.8 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.49 12.1 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.09 8.7 10.86 8.6 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.72 5.8 10.77 4.4 8.29 11.9 Level 3 .................................................. 9.10 9.5 9.67 7.4 – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.61 10.2 21.05 12.2 11.73 10.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.58 1.8 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 8.64 1.9 – – 8.45 2.4 Level 5 .................................................. – – 19.14 2.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.19 15.0 25.19 15.0 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.89 13.5 13.82 10.5 11.90 15.5 Level 3 .................................................. 8.77 3.0 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.21 2.0 10.13 5.1 8.51 .9 Cashiers...................................................... 9.19 2.1 10.11 5.2 8.51 .9 Retail salespersons............................................. 16.81 14.1 16.57 2.2 17.18 29.2 Level 3 .................................................. 8.88 4.5 – – 8.67 5.3 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.13 18.8 32.13 18.8 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.84 5.0 16.09 4.9 11.21 10.2 Level 2 .................................................. 12.33 5.1 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.89 5.0 12.14 5.0 10.44 13.7 Level 4 .................................................. 14.97 3.0 15.02 3.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.23 3.2 17.22 3.3 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.80 3.2 19.80 3.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.09 5.6 21.09 5.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.66 11.4 15.62 11.7 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 27.51 7.1 27.51 7.1 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 13.15 5.5 13.24 6.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.80 3.0 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.79 6.9 12.79 6.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.36 11.1 14.36 11.1 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.69 4.3 15.69 4.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.71 5.3 16.71 5.3 – – Tellers......................................................... 10.55 2.9 10.52 3.0 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 14.84 6.5 14.83 6.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.56 7.1 15.56 7.1 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.77 2.5 – – – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.78 11.6 14.78 11.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.80 11.3 16.80 11.3 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.08 3.2 19.18 3.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.41 3.7 15.53 3.5 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.90 5.1 17.90 5.1 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.79 2.6 20.79 2.6 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.43 6.3 20.43 6.3 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.90 3.7 18.10 3.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.71 4.5 15.87 4.2 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 12.72 14.0 12.60 15.2 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 20.07 6.8 20.11 6.9 – – Construction laborers............................................. 19.45 9.3 19.45 9.3 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.57 5.8 19.73 5.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.72 10.5 17.72 10.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.67 4.4 21.67 4.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.87 7.3 21.87 7.3 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.64 5.3 18.64 5.3 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.23 7.4 17.23 7.4 – – Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 18.95 10.4 18.95 10.4 – – Production occupations.............................................. 18.14 12.8 18.37 13.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 25.39 5.8 26.70 3.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.68 4.8 14.68 4.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.66 3.0 20.66 3.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.30 2.3 24.30 2.3 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.30 .7 23.30 .7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.21 .5 23.21 .5 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 19.86 24.4 19.86 24.4 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 26.32 2.4 26.32 2.4 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.21 7.4 15.52 10.8 10.23 9.3 Level 1 .................................................. 8.12 6.7 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.80 6.9 13.71 6.2 11.87 8.3 Level 4 .................................................. 21.26 3.6 21.34 3.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.20 14.4 17.20 14.4 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 11.88 17.6 12.97 23.8 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.24 7.9 14.68 6.5 10.89 10.2 Level 2 .................................................. 12.66 7.4 13.54 6.5 11.71 8.7 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.52 8.4 15.26 6.9 11.13 10.7 Level 2 .................................................. 12.98 8.2 – – 12.00 8.3 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.89 6.1 12.71 4.5 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 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 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. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 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. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $19.59 5.2 $20.83 4.2 $10.87 10.8 Management occupations.............................................. 34.03 9.7 34.04 9.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 25.92 3.8 25.92 3.8 – – Level 11.................................................. 28.81 9.9 28.81 9.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 47.77 9.3 47.84 9.3 – – Financial managers................................................ 31.23 4.9 31.23 4.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 31.50 9.7 31.50 9.7 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 45.59 30.6 45.59 30.6 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.34 7.1 29.34 7.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.14 3.8 20.14 3.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.23 8.9 26.23 8.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 37.88 4.3 37.88 4.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 31.44 9.1 31.44 9.1 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 29.15 9.6 29.15 9.6 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.13 12.3 23.13 12.3 – – Management analysts............................................... 34.40 16.2 34.40 16.2 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 30.74 13.9 30.74 13.9 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 35.41 6.3 34.72 5.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.69 4.3 33.69 4.3 – – Level 11.................................................. 32.98 2.6 32.98 2.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.21 6.3 37.21 6.3 – – Computer programmers.............................................. 27.73 10.5 27.73 10.5 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.15 4.5 32.15 4.5 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 36.09 3.0 36.09 3.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.40 2.9 33.40 2.9 – – Level 11.................................................. 38.64 2.7 38.64 2.7 – – Level 12.................................................. 42.85 1.7 42.85 1.7 – – Engineers......................................................... 37.46 3.7 37.46 3.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.71 2.5 33.71 2.5 – – Level 11.................................................. 38.57 2.9 38.57 2.9 – – Level 12.................................................. 42.85 1.7 42.85 1.7 – – Electrical engineers.......................................... 35.89 11.2 35.89 11.2 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 26.24 31.0 34.53 8.0 – – Legal occupations................................................... 41.66 28.8 41.66 28.8 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 22.50 9.4 22.35 9.3 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 25.86 10.5 25.55 10.2 – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.08 11.4 27.17 11.3 – – Writers and editors............................................... 22.34 9.6 22.34 9.6 – – Editors......................................................... 22.34 9.6 22.34 9.6 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.39 12.0 27.51 12.8 26.39 5.6 Level 5 .................................................. 17.33 2.2 17.18 1.5 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.65 1.2 24.53 .5 – – Level 8 .................................................. 24.60 1.6 23.33 2.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.19 1.1 26.80 1.2 29.10 6.4 Level 11.................................................. 42.14 10.8 44.15 10.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 34.72 20.8 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 26.87 2.6 26.22 2.0 28.81 2.7 Level 8 .................................................. 25.32 6.8 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 27.44 1.2 27.00 1.6 29.10 6.4 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 25.24 7.1 25.72 8.4 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.60 2.3 17.88 1.4 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.19 1.1 18.19 1.1 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.43 1.9 13.79 13.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 10.84 3.9 10.85 4.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.04 6.6 13.04 6.6 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... – – 11.26 4.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.16 5.0 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.27 3.9 11.26 4.1 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.16 5.0 – – – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 15.71 16.5 16.15 16.3 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 13.74 12.8 16.07 7.4 – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.29 15.3 – – – – Security guards................................................. 12.36 20.0 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 7.89 6.4 8.30 7.1 7.36 5.7 Level 1 .................................................. 6.97 3.2 – – 6.80 1.2 Level 2 .................................................. 6.57 11.6 5.47 8.6 7.83 12.3 Level 3 .................................................. 9.18 4.3 9.21 4.8 – – Cooks............................................................. 8.09 5.1 8.88 4.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 8.99 3.9 8.99 3.9 – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.15 2.2 – – – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.31 5.5 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.05 1.3 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.20 3.8 9.93 4.6 10.70 6.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.64 10.6 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.93 6.8 9.79 7.0 – – Level 1 .................................................. 9.49 12.1 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 9.51 5.5 10.12 5.2 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.47 6.4 10.65 4.9 7.69 12.5 Level 3 .................................................. 8.60 8.8 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.69 10.4 21.18 12.5 11.73 10.4 Level 1 .................................................. 8.58 1.8 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 8.64 1.9 – – 8.45 2.4 Level 5 .................................................. – – 19.14 2.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.19 15.0 25.19 15.0 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.96 13.4 13.98 10.0 11.90 15.5 Level 3 .................................................. 8.77 3.0 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.18 2.2 10.16 5.6 8.51 .9 Cashiers...................................................... 9.17 2.3 10.14 5.7 8.51 .9 Retail salespersons............................................. 16.81 14.1 16.57 2.2 17.18 29.2 Level 3 .................................................. 8.88 4.5 – – 8.67 5.3 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.13 18.8 32.13 18.8 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.86 5.4 16.11 5.3 11.37 10.8 Level 2 .................................................. 12.40 4.8 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.90 5.0 12.14 5.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.02 3.2 15.06 3.2 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.65 2.6 17.64 2.6 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.41 2.2 20.41 2.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.79 6.4 20.79 6.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.66 11.4 15.62 11.7 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 28.94 2.9 28.94 2.9 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 13.15 5.5 13.24 6.1 – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.80 3.0 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.79 6.9 12.79 6.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.36 11.1 14.36 11.1 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.69 4.3 15.69 4.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.71 5.3 16.71 5.3 – – Tellers......................................................... 10.55 2.9 10.52 3.0 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 14.80 6.7 14.79 6.7 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.52 8.0 15.52 8.0 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.77 2.5 – – – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.78 11.6 14.78 11.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.80 11.3 16.80 11.3 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.79 2.9 19.79 2.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.05 5.0 16.05 5.0 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.72 6.8 20.72 6.8 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 18.78 4.4 18.78 4.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.30 6.1 16.30 6.1 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 12.72 14.0 12.60 15.2 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 20.17 6.9 20.22 7.0 – – Construction laborers............................................. 19.45 9.3 19.45 9.3 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.58 6.2 19.75 5.6 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.46 12.2 17.46 12.2 – – Level 6 .................................................. 21.67 4.4 21.67 4.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.87 7.3 21.87 7.3 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.31 6.8 18.31 6.8 – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 15.27 5.3 15.27 5.3 – – Production occupations.............................................. 17.76 12.5 17.99 13.4 – – Level 3 .................................................. 25.39 5.8 26.70 3.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.68 4.8 14.68 4.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 20.66 3.0 20.66 3.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.88 2.2 23.88 2.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.44 .8 23.44 .8 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 19.86 24.4 19.86 24.4 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 26.32 2.4 26.32 2.4 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.21 7.5 15.52 10.8 10.11 9.3 Level 1 .................................................. 8.12 6.7 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 12.76 7.2 13.71 6.2 11.71 8.7 Level 4 .................................................. 21.26 3.6 21.34 3.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.20 14.4 17.20 14.4 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 11.88 17.6 12.97 23.8 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.24 7.9 14.68 6.5 10.89 10.2 Level 2 .................................................. 12.66 7.4 13.54 6.5 11.71 8.7 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.52 8.4 15.26 6.9 11.13 10.7 Level 2 .................................................. 12.98 8.2 – – 12.00 8.3 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.89 6.1 12.71 4.5 – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 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 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. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 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. Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $24.28 3.9 $25.03 3.7 $15.54 5.5 Management occupations.............................................. 29.71 15.5 29.71 15.5 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 34.24 12.8 34.24 12.8 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 27.67 4.6 29.27 6.2 14.45 3.4 Level 4 .................................................. 11.81 4.3 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 24.23 7.8 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.73 2.4 33.84 2.2 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 31.98 3.1 32.49 4.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.36 2.1 33.45 1.9 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 32.11 6.6 32.11 6.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.97 4.1 32.97 4.1 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 31.47 9.0 31.47 9.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 32.19 7.0 32.19 7.0 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.24 2.7 33.24 2.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.46 1.4 34.46 1.4 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 31.80 1.9 33.46 4.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 34.75 2.3 35.10 1.6 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 31.02 7.7 32.87 .3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 33.85 1.8 34.23 2.4 – – Teacher assistants................................................ 11.69 5.0 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 11.81 4.3 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.00 3.2 27.08 3.6 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 22.59 7.8 23.18 4.5 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.61 14.0 – – – – Police officers................................................... 22.07 13.2 – – – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 22.07 13.2 – – – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.58 7.7 15.90 6.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.45 3.8 14.57 3.5 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.67 9.6 17.02 9.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.60 4.6 14.82 3.8 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.86 7.0 16.38 6.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.89 5.8 – – – – 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. See appendix A for more information. 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 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. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 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. Table 5. Combined work levels(1) for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for full-time and part-time workers(3), Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $20.15 4.7 $21.35 3.9 $11.24 10.4 Management occupations.............................................. 33.44 8.8 33.45 8.8 – – Group II.................................................. 16.86 12.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 31.21 6.2 – – – – Group IV.................................................. 60.09 11.7 – – – – General and operations managers................................... 33.09 7.9 33.09 7.9 – – Financial managers................................................ 31.23 4.9 31.23 4.9 – – Medical and health services managers.............................. 40.28 29.2 40.28 29.2 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.82 6.7 29.83 6.7 – – Group II.................................................. 19.32 6.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 33.74 6.4 – – – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 29.15 9.6 29.15 9.6 – – Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 29.11 19.9 29.11 19.9 – – Management analysts............................................... 34.35 14.4 34.35 14.4 – – Group III................................................. 34.44 17.8 34.44 17.8 – – Financial analysts and advisors................................... 30.74 13.9 30.74 13.9 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 34.68 6.0 34.02 4.9 – – Group II.................................................. 25.12 4.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 37.68 9.4 – – – – Computer programmers.............................................. 27.73 10.5 27.73 10.5 – – Computer software engineers....................................... 33.44 13.6 33.44 13.6 – – Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.15 4.5 32.15 4.5 – – Group III................................................. 31.87 1.7 31.87 1.7 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 35.48 3.1 35.48 3.1 – – Group II.................................................. 25.11 .3 – – – – Group III................................................. 36.40 3.9 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 37.46 3.7 37.46 3.7 – – Group III................................................. 37.62 3.8 – – – – Electrical and electronics engineers Group III................................................. 36.15 10.1 – – – – Electrical engineers.......................................... 35.89 11.2 35.89 11.2 – – Group III................................................. 35.89 11.2 35.89 11.2 – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 27.25 27.1 35.63 8.8 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 15.72 11.1 17.02 9.5 – – Legal occupations................................................... 46.36 23.1 46.36 23.1 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 26.87 4.4 28.11 5.7 14.98 3.9 Group I................................................... 11.42 3.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.74 5.9 – – – – Group III................................................. 33.37 2.4 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 28.51 13.0 28.45 14.0 – – Group III................................................. 32.76 8.6 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 30.74 4.7 31.15 5.6 – – Group II.................................................. 22.09 11.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 33.38 2.1 – – – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 32.13 6.6 32.13 6.6 – – Group III................................................. 32.98 4.1 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 31.47 9.0 31.47 9.0 – – Group III................................................. 32.19 7.0 32.19 7.0 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.27 2.6 33.27 2.6 – – Group III................................................. 34.47 1.4 34.47 1.4 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 31.84 1.8 33.48 4.2 – – Group III................................................. 34.77 2.3 – – – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 31.07 7.6 32.91 .3 – – Group III................................................. 33.88 1.7 34.26 2.3 – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 18.65 3.8 – – 14.07 3.3 Group II.................................................. 18.65 3.8 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 11.69 5.0 – – – – Group I................................................... 11.69 5.0 – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.08 11.4 27.17 11.3 – – Group II.................................................. 18.45 5.9 – – – – Designers Group II.................................................. 20.07 6.9 – – – – Writers and editors............................................... 22.34 9.6 22.34 9.6 – – Editors......................................................... 22.34 9.6 22.34 9.6 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.32 10.0 27.44 10.7 26.37 4.8 Group I................................................... 12.78 4.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.31 10.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 31.26 6.3 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 26.81 2.3 26.17 1.7 28.82 2.4 Group II.................................................. 25.78 3.8 24.89 3.6 27.15 3.3 Group III................................................. 27.90 2.4 27.05 1.2 30.77 5.5 Therapists........................................................ 28.50 5.8 30.04 5.9 – – Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 25.65 5.9 26.05 6.8 – – Group II.................................................. 21.44 4.2 – – – – Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 26.43 1.5 26.43 1.5 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.60 2.3 17.88 1.4 – – Group II.................................................. 17.88 1.4 17.88 1.4 – – Medical records and health information technicians................ 14.93 4.9 14.93 4.9 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.51 3.2 13.18 10.6 – – Group I................................................... 9.91 5.6 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.60 7.2 10.68 3.0 – – Group I................................................... 9.54 7.4 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.33 3.8 11.26 4.1 – – Group I................................................... 11.33 4.2 11.26 4.6 – – Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 15.68 13.0 16.02 12.7 – – Group I................................................... 11.81 8.3 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 20.93 8.9 22.11 6.3 13.01 15.7 Group I................................................... 11.44 11.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.78 8.1 – – – – Police officers................................................... 22.07 13.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 22.07 13.2 – – – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 22.07 13.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 22.07 13.2 – – – – Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 12.29 15.3 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.71 15.8 – – – – Security guards................................................. 12.36 20.0 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.19 17.9 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.26 11.6 8.91 15.1 7.41 6.3 Group I................................................... 7.76 6.7 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 11.09 22.0 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 8.14 5.5 8.88 4.7 7.48 6.6 Group I................................................... 8.12 5.3 – – – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 10.28 2.3 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.28 2.3 – – – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.31 5.5 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.31 5.5 – – – – Fast food and counter workers..................................... 7.05 1.3 – – – – Group I................................................... 7.05 1.3 – – – – Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.41 4.1 10.27 5.4 10.70 6.4 Group I................................................... 10.19 5.5 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.25 7.0 10.32 7.8 – – Group I................................................... 10.20 7.4 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.09 8.7 10.86 8.6 – – Group I................................................... 10.09 8.7 10.86 8.6 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 9.72 5.8 10.77 4.4 8.29 11.9 Group I................................................... 9.16 3.5 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.61 10.2 21.05 12.2 11.73 10.4 Group I................................................... 9.33 4.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.59 9.0 – – – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 12.89 13.5 13.82 10.5 11.90 15.5 Group I................................................... 8.83 1.6 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.21 2.0 10.13 5.1 8.51 .9 Group I................................................... 8.78 1.8 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.19 2.1 10.11 5.2 8.51 .9 Group I................................................... 8.76 1.9 9.53 5.4 8.41 .8 Retail salespersons............................................. 16.81 14.1 16.57 2.2 17.18 29.2 Group I................................................... 9.00 3.3 – – 8.85 3.9 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.13 18.8 32.13 18.8 – – Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.84 5.0 16.09 4.9 11.21 10.2 Group I................................................... 13.71 2.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.52 5.1 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 27.51 7.1 27.51 7.1 – – Group II.................................................. 27.47 7.3 27.47 7.3 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 13.15 5.5 13.24 6.1 – – Group I................................................... 12.87 5.6 – – – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.69 4.3 15.69 4.3 – – Group I................................................... 15.46 4.9 15.46 4.9 – – Tellers......................................................... 10.55 2.9 10.52 3.0 – – Group I................................................... 10.55 2.9 10.52 3.0 – – Customer service representatives.................................. 14.84 6.5 14.83 6.5 – – Group I................................................... 14.15 5.1 14.15 5.1 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 13.77 2.5 – – – – Group I................................................... 13.77 2.5 – – – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.78 11.6 14.78 11.6 – – Group I................................................... 15.98 8.1 15.99 8.2 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.08 3.2 19.18 3.2 – – Group I................................................... 15.30 3.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.50 2.7 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.43 6.3 20.43 6.3 – – Group II.................................................. 20.71 7.8 20.71 7.8 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 17.90 3.7 18.10 3.7 – – Group I................................................... 15.58 4.1 15.87 4.2 – – Group II.................................................. 20.05 4.5 20.05 4.5 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 12.72 14.0 12.60 15.2 – – Group I................................................... 12.28 14.8 12.10 16.3 – – Group II.................................................. 17.10 4.4 17.10 4.4 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 20.07 6.8 20.11 6.9 – – Group I................................................... 18.96 8.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 19.57 4.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 34.83 6.1 – – – – Construction laborers............................................. 19.45 9.3 19.45 9.3 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.57 5.8 19.73 5.3 – – Group I................................................... 14.18 6.1 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.21 5.9 – – – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.64 5.3 18.64 5.3 – – Group II.................................................. 19.79 5.4 – – – – Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.23 7.4 17.23 7.4 – – Group II.................................................. 18.07 5.1 18.07 5.1 – – Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 18.95 10.4 18.95 10.4 – – Production occupations.............................................. 18.14 12.8 18.37 13.6 – – Group I................................................... 16.32 16.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 23.10 2.9 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.30 .7 23.30 .7 – – Group II.................................................. 23.21 .5 23.21 .5 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 19.86 24.4 19.86 24.4 – – Group I................................................... 19.85 24.5 – – – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 26.32 2.4 26.32 2.4 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.21 7.4 15.52 10.8 10.23 9.3 Group I................................................... 12.64 8.2 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.50 10.8 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 11.88 17.6 12.97 23.8 – – Group I................................................... 11.88 17.6 – – – – Industrial truck and tractor operators Group I................................................... 22.30 17.9 22.30 17.9 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 13.24 7.9 14.68 6.5 10.89 10.2 Group I................................................... 12.41 6.2 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 13.52 8.4 15.26 6.9 11.13 10.7 Group I................................................... 12.56 7.2 14.11 10.0 11.13 10.7 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 11.89 6.1 12.71 4.5 – – Group I................................................... 11.72 6.0 – – – – 1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines levels 13-15. 2 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. 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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 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. Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.50 $11.75 $17.35 $25.13 $33.80 Management occupations.............................................. 15.38 21.25 26.67 42.40 60.00 General and operations managers................................... 25.13 26.94 35.36 37.80 37.80 Financial managers................................................ 21.64 26.67 27.83 35.79 44.80 Medical and health services managers.............................. 22.66 25.52 29.32 34.54 98.80 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 17.82 19.89 28.38 34.81 48.07 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 22.66 24.08 28.85 34.53 37.80 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 18.43 18.43 26.71 36.86 48.07 Management analysts............................................... 19.89 19.89 32.36 43.43 51.92 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 18.94 21.71 29.36 30.12 51.35 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.51 28.69 32.98 40.67 47.92 Computer programmers.............................................. 23.00 23.00 23.00 31.49 34.33 Computer software engineers....................................... 22.70 27.05 31.56 45.49 45.49 Computer systems analysts......................................... 24.71 30.48 32.19 35.62 39.18 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 25.24 32.93 35.81 40.40 45.51 Engineers......................................................... 31.96 33.26 36.08 42.02 45.51 Electrical engineers.......................................... 25.70 31.94 34.65 44.03 44.03 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 11.50 12.60 26.98 30.78 47.18 Community and social services occupations........................... 11.50 13.46 15.00 15.67 20.01 Legal occupations................................................... 23.27 26.15 48.94 60.92 69.71 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.75 17.84 26.99 33.27 40.44 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 17.60 21.78 26.87 34.80 42.05 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 20.21 25.27 30.07 36.92 43.67 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 23.98 27.48 30.10 36.46 44.17 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 23.19 27.48 30.10 33.21 46.21 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 24.72 26.38 32.47 39.02 43.37 Secondary school teachers....................................... 17.35 25.89 31.12 40.01 44.46 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 17.35 25.27 29.62 37.56 46.25 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 12.86 14.67 17.84 23.09 25.20 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.44 10.94 11.63 11.97 13.50 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 15.00 17.19 22.12 29.86 42.49 Writers and editors............................................... 14.58 20.31 20.31 20.60 34.62 Editors......................................................... 14.58 20.31 20.31 20.60 34.62 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.60 19.55 26.36 29.22 36.00 Registered nurses................................................. 20.75 23.11 27.22 29.91 32.66 Therapists........................................................ 21.10 24.73 27.84 31.25 41.39 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 16.66 19.55 25.31 31.45 36.72 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 19.28 24.19 26.38 28.09 33.69 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 14.98 16.12 18.04 18.33 19.50 Medical records and health information technicians................ 11.33 11.33 12.70 18.21 21.27 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.25 8.25 10.45 12.52 18.24 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 8.25 8.25 9.13 10.57 11.42 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.01 10.57 10.57 11.82 13.80 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 10.40 11.75 15.37 21.27 21.27 Protective service occupations...................................... 13.14 15.77 20.01 25.80 30.60 Police officers................................................... 15.38 16.52 21.35 26.43 30.60 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 15.38 16.52 21.35 26.43 30.60 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 7.50 8.00 12.14 15.52 18.63 Security guards................................................. 7.02 7.50 12.00 18.63 18.63 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.00 6.75 7.88 9.30 11.00 First-line supervisors/managers, food preparation and serving workers.......................................................... 8.00 8.90 9.23 11.00 14.42 Cooks............................................................. 6.75 7.00 7.50 9.80 10.00 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.00 9.30 10.00 11.08 11.75 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.00 8.00 8.97 11.86 15.67 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.25 6.25 6.90 7.30 7.93 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.00 8.50 10.00 11.27 13.37 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.00 8.50 10.00 11.27 13.37 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.00 8.50 10.00 10.51 12.82 Personal care and service occupations............................... 5.60 7.00 9.04 11.57 13.33 Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.42 9.40 17.09 21.71 31.13 Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.00 8.42 9.47 13.25 28.16 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.51 8.42 8.70 9.76 11.42 Cashiers...................................................... 7.51 8.42 8.65 9.75 11.30 Retail salespersons............................................. 8.16 9.40 12.94 26.31 29.77 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 17.93 21.71 29.94 38.70 45.91 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.00 12.50 15.18 17.86 21.80 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 17.86 28.21 28.21 30.77 30.77 Financial clerks.................................................. 9.65 10.00 14.12 15.41 17.55 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.81 14.81 15.41 17.55 18.03 Tellers......................................................... 9.50 9.65 10.11 10.83 11.95 Customer service representatives.................................. 11.75 13.00 14.00 15.80 19.90 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.50 13.84 14.04 14.04 14.87 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.95 12.00 14.51 15.40 21.89 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.19 16.04 19.23 21.27 24.84 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.03 19.49 20.19 21.27 26.44 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.38 15.37 17.86 19.10 26.41 Office clerks, general............................................ 8.50 8.50 13.72 16.35 16.35 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.50 15.00 21.04 22.11 28.61 Construction laborers............................................. 11.75 15.00 21.04 24.18 25.39 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 13.00 17.00 19.67 22.00 25.00 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 13.88 14.54 17.25 21.85 22.89 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 13.53 15.24 16.17 19.56 23.00 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 14.58 17.05 17.36 21.34 24.83 Production occupations.............................................. 9.88 12.44 14.63 24.20 28.53 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 20.57 20.57 20.57 23.99 31.48 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.88 9.88 28.18 28.75 28.75 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.56 26.36 28.53 28.57 28.73 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.50 10.00 13.44 16.38 25.31 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 6.50 8.50 10.75 10.75 28.17 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.50 9.50 12.97 17.04 17.52 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.50 9.50 13.33 17.30 17.97 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.50 9.11 11.68 13.99 14.76 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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.50 $11.36 $16.88 $24.10 $32.93 Management occupations.............................................. 10.17 21.25 26.67 42.40 61.91 Financial managers................................................ 21.64 26.67 27.83 35.79 44.80 Medical and health services managers.............................. 22.66 26.00 34.54 37.13 105.00 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 16.50 19.89 27.56 34.54 46.31 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 22.66 24.08 28.85 34.53 37.80 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 17.82 18.43 18.43 28.00 31.11 Management analysts............................................... 19.89 19.89 32.36 44.42 56.73 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 18.94 21.71 29.36 30.12 51.35 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.51 30.87 33.80 40.77 50.01 Computer programmers.............................................. 23.00 23.00 23.00 31.49 34.33 Computer systems analysts......................................... 24.71 30.48 32.19 35.62 39.18 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 25.61 33.26 35.81 42.02 45.51 Engineers......................................................... 31.96 33.26 36.08 42.02 45.51 Electrical engineers.......................................... 25.70 31.94 34.65 44.03 44.03 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 11.50 12.60 26.98 28.95 40.10 Legal occupations................................................... 21.54 25.64 28.85 60.78 69.71 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 16.96 17.84 20.21 27.89 31.50 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 17.50 20.88 25.16 29.72 34.80 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 15.00 17.19 22.12 29.86 42.49 Writers and editors............................................... 14.58 20.31 20.31 20.60 34.62 Editors......................................................... 14.58 20.31 20.31 20.60 34.62 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.00 19.18 25.70 29.03 38.69 Registered nurses................................................. 20.75 23.03 27.22 29.91 32.66 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 16.66 19.55 24.31 29.28 38.69 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 14.98 16.12 18.04 18.33 19.50 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.25 8.25 10.50 11.75 21.27 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.94 10.57 10.57 11.75 13.80 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 10.40 11.75 15.37 21.27 21.27 Protective service occupations...................................... 7.50 8.75 12.78 18.63 18.89 Security guards and gaming surveillance officers.................. 7.50 8.00 12.14 15.52 18.63 Security guards................................................. 7.02 7.50 12.00 18.63 18.63 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.00 6.75 7.88 9.23 10.40 Cooks............................................................. 6.75 7.00 7.50 9.80 9.80 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 8.00 9.30 10.00 10.59 12.14 Food preparation workers.......................................... 8.00 8.00 8.97 11.86 15.67 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.25 6.25 6.90 7.30 7.93 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.00 8.50 10.00 11.04 13.37 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.00 8.50 10.00 11.27 12.14 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.00 8.50 10.00 10.51 11.04 Personal care and service occupations............................... 5.35 6.90 8.40 11.57 13.50 Sales and related occupations....................................... 8.42 9.33 17.09 23.08 31.13 Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.00 8.42 9.47 13.50 28.16 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.51 8.42 8.55 9.50 11.51 Cashiers...................................................... 7.51 8.42 8.55 9.50 11.44 Retail salespersons............................................. 8.16 9.40 12.94 26.31 29.77 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 17.93 21.71 29.94 38.70 45.91 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.00 12.50 15.35 17.86 21.80 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 28.21 28.21 28.21 30.77 30.77 Financial clerks.................................................. 9.65 10.00 14.12 15.41 17.55 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.81 14.81 15.41 17.55 18.03 Tellers......................................................... 9.50 9.65 10.11 10.83 11.95 Customer service representatives.................................. 11.75 13.00 14.00 15.80 19.90 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 10.50 13.84 14.04 14.04 14.87 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.95 12.00 14.51 15.40 21.89 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 15.37 17.94 19.49 21.34 26.41 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.03 19.49 20.19 21.27 26.44 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 15.37 15.37 17.96 19.10 26.41 Office clerks, general............................................ 8.50 8.50 13.72 16.35 16.35 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.50 16.50 21.04 22.11 28.61 Construction laborers............................................. 11.75 15.00 21.04 24.18 25.39 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 11.85 17.00 19.67 22.00 25.00 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 13.78 14.54 16.17 21.85 21.85 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 11.95 13.78 15.58 16.17 16.24 Production occupations.............................................. 9.88 12.44 14.63 23.00 28.57 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 20.57 20.57 20.57 23.99 32.59 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.88 9.88 28.18 28.75 28.75 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.56 26.36 28.53 28.57 28.73 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.50 9.60 13.44 16.38 25.75 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 6.50 8.50 10.75 10.75 28.17 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 8.50 9.50 12.97 17.04 17.52 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 8.50 9.50 13.33 17.30 17.97 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.50 9.11 11.68 13.99 14.76 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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $11.75 $15.38 $22.44 $30.03 $40.44 Management occupations.............................................. 15.87 17.09 26.94 41.09 47.35 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 19.47 30.12 30.76 40.89 48.07 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.67 20.84 28.01 34.60 42.71 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.78 25.89 30.28 38.21 44.17 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 23.68 27.48 30.10 36.40 44.17 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 23.19 27.48 30.10 33.21 46.21 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 24.72 26.27 32.47 39.02 43.37 Secondary school teachers....................................... 17.35 25.89 31.12 40.01 44.46 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 17.35 25.27 29.62 37.56 46.25 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.44 10.94 11.63 11.97 13.50 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 20.02 22.59 28.00 30.03 33.69 Protective service occupations...................................... 15.38 16.54 21.35 26.90 30.60 Police officers................................................... 15.38 16.52 21.35 26.43 30.60 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 15.38 16.52 21.35 26.43 30.60 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 11.82 12.53 14.69 18.49 21.03 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 11.82 13.23 16.04 18.49 24.84 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 11.82 12.93 15.93 18.49 18.49 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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 9. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $10.00 $13.77 $18.49 $26.43 $34.80 Management occupations.............................................. 15.38 21.25 26.67 42.40 60.00 General and operations managers................................... 25.13 26.94 35.36 37.80 37.80 Financial managers................................................ 21.64 26.67 27.83 35.79 44.80 Medical and health services managers.............................. 22.66 25.52 29.32 34.54 98.80 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 17.82 19.89 28.38 34.81 48.07 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 22.66 24.08 28.85 34.53 37.80 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 18.43 18.43 26.71 36.86 48.07 Management analysts............................................... 19.89 19.89 32.36 43.43 51.92 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 18.94 21.71 29.36 30.12 51.35 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 23.51 28.69 32.93 37.00 50.01 Computer programmers.............................................. 23.00 23.00 23.00 31.49 34.33 Computer software engineers....................................... 22.70 27.05 31.56 45.49 45.49 Computer systems analysts......................................... 24.71 30.48 32.19 35.62 39.18 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 25.24 32.93 35.81 40.40 45.51 Engineers......................................................... 31.96 33.26 36.08 42.02 45.51 Electrical engineers.......................................... 25.70 31.94 34.65 44.03 44.03 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 21.64 26.98 28.95 40.10 67.56 Community and social services occupations........................... 14.24 15.00 15.00 15.67 20.41 Legal occupations................................................... 23.27 26.15 48.94 60.92 69.71 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 12.61 21.45 28.18 34.50 41.55 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 17.60 21.64 26.87 34.80 42.73 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 21.01 25.31 30.10 37.48 43.67 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 23.98 27.48 30.10 36.46 44.17 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 23.19 27.48 30.10 33.21 46.21 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 24.72 26.38 32.47 39.02 43.37 Secondary school teachers....................................... 25.27 26.38 32.19 40.44 46.25 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 25.17 25.89 31.70 38.17 46.25 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 15.00 18.18 22.12 29.86 42.90 Writers and editors............................................... 14.58 20.31 20.31 20.60 34.62 Editors......................................................... 14.58 20.31 20.31 20.60 34.62 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.61 19.55 26.25 29.03 38.69 Registered nurses................................................. 20.66 21.88 26.96 29.64 31.49 Therapists........................................................ 24.73 24.73 28.66 33.95 41.39 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 18.54 19.55 25.86 31.45 36.72 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 19.28 24.19 26.38 28.09 33.69 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.60 17.50 18.19 18.33 19.59 Medical records and health information technicians................ 11.33 11.33 12.70 18.21 21.27 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.13 10.45 11.66 15.37 21.27 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.13 9.39 10.57 11.15 12.73 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.78 10.57 10.57 11.66 13.80 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 10.40 11.75 15.37 21.27 21.27 Protective service occupations...................................... 14.57 16.96 20.13 26.43 30.60 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 3.25 7.23 8.90 9.80 11.24 Cooks............................................................. 7.23 7.23 9.80 9.80 10.00 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.00 9.34 10.00 10.59 12.26 Building cleaning workers......................................... 8.00 8.50 10.00 11.04 13.28 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.50 9.40 10.00 11.04 15.34 Personal care and service occupations............................... 5.15 9.00 10.71 13.33 13.52 Sales and related occupations....................................... 9.25 13.73 17.95 26.31 33.65 Retail sales workers.............................................. 8.60 8.93 10.77 17.28 26.31 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 8.60 8.81 9.50 11.23 12.95 Cashiers...................................................... 8.60 8.81 9.50 11.20 12.95 Retail salespersons............................................. 8.60 9.70 13.78 23.39 28.16 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 17.93 21.71 29.94 38.70 45.91 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.50 12.66 15.39 17.99 21.88 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 17.86 28.21 28.21 30.77 30.77 Financial clerks.................................................. 9.65 10.00 14.66 15.41 17.55 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 14.81 14.81 15.41 17.55 18.03 Tellers......................................................... 9.50 9.65 10.03 10.50 12.66 Customer service representatives.................................. 11.75 13.00 14.00 15.80 19.90 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.95 12.00 14.63 15.40 21.89 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.19 16.76 19.23 21.27 24.84 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 15.03 19.49 20.19 21.27 26.44 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 14.07 15.37 17.96 19.10 26.41 Office clerks, general............................................ 8.50 8.50 12.50 16.35 16.35 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 10.50 15.50 21.04 22.11 28.61 Construction laborers............................................. 11.75 15.00 21.04 24.18 25.39 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 14.54 17.00 19.67 22.00 25.00 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 13.88 14.54 17.25 21.85 22.89 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 13.53 15.24 16.17 19.56 23.00 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 14.58 17.05 17.36 21.34 24.83 Production occupations.............................................. 9.88 13.00 15.44 24.48 28.57 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 20.57 20.57 20.57 23.99 31.48 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.88 9.88 28.18 28.75 28.75 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.56 26.36 28.53 28.57 28.73 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.50 10.75 14.69 17.30 26.44 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 8.50 8.50 10.75 10.75 28.17 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 9.27 11.68 15.02 17.30 17.78 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 9.27 13.26 16.00 17.30 19.02 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 8.50 11.68 11.68 14.70 15.02 1 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. 2 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. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 10. Part-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $6.60 $7.40 $8.50 $11.75 $17.35 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.35 11.75 12.86 17.35 17.35 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 12.86 12.86 14.38 14.67 14.67 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 14.98 23.45 27.99 30.03 34.06 Registered nurses................................................. 24.53 25.35 27.99 30.74 34.06 Protective service occupations...................................... 7.02 7.50 15.38 15.38 15.38 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 6.25 6.50 6.90 8.00 9.20 Cooks............................................................. 6.50 6.75 7.00 8.00 9.20 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.00 8.50 11.27 13.37 14.17 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.30 6.90 7.00 8.40 10.75 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.51 8.42 8.50 10.00 29.77 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.51 8.42 8.42 10.00 29.77 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.51 8.42 8.42 8.50 9.80 Cashiers...................................................... 7.51 8.42 8.42 8.50 9.80 Retail salespersons............................................. 7.80 8.40 10.00 29.77 29.77 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 8.00 8.50 10.52 14.03 14.80 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 6.50 7.30 9.57 10.57 14.60 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.30 9.11 10.00 10.60 16.77 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.30 9.50 10.00 11.00 17.52 1 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. 2 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. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 11. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $21.35 $18.49 $853 $740 40.0 $43,430 $37,440 2,034 Management occupations.............................................. 33.45 26.67 1,389 1,040 41.5 71,716 54,080 2,144 General and operations managers................................... 33.09 35.36 1,431 1,407 43.3 74,428 73,189 2,249 Financial managers................................................ 31.23 27.83 1,222 1,113 39.1 63,535 57,878 2,034 Medical and health services managers.............................. 40.28 29.32 1,659 1,319 41.2 86,256 68,599 2,141 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.83 28.38 1,219 1,154 40.9 63,296 60,020 2,122 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 29.15 28.85 1,166 1,154 40.0 60,627 60,008 2,080 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 29.11 26.71 1,186 1,135 40.7 60,615 59,051 2,082 Management analysts............................................... 34.35 32.36 1,457 1,439 42.4 75,739 74,818 2,205 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 30.74 29.36 1,230 1,175 40.0 63,949 61,077 2,080 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 34.02 32.93 1,365 1,313 40.1 70,985 68,276 2,086 Computer programmers.............................................. 27.73 23.00 1,109 920 40.0 57,676 47,840 2,080 Computer software engineers....................................... 33.44 31.56 1,338 1,263 40.0 69,556 65,651 2,080 Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.15 32.19 1,286 1,288 40.0 66,866 66,964 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 35.48 35.81 1,419 1,432 40.0 73,807 74,481 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 37.46 36.08 1,498 1,443 40.0 77,917 75,044 2,080 Electrical engineers.......................................... 35.89 34.65 1,436 1,386 40.0 74,660 72,072 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 35.63 28.95 1,396 1,158 39.2 71,561 60,214 2,009 Community and social services occupations........................... 17.02 15.00 678 600 39.9 34,485 31,200 2,027 Legal occupations................................................... 46.36 48.94 1,955 2,437 42.2 101,643 126,722 2,192 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 28.11 28.18 1,065 1,058 37.9 41,686 41,540 1,483 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 28.45 26.87 1,143 1,198 40.2 54,474 53,629 1,914 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 31.15 30.10 1,189 1,168 38.2 45,498 45,027 1,460 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 32.13 30.10 1,219 1,204 38.0 46,093 45,027 1,435 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 31.47 30.10 1,171 1,135 37.2 44,410 44,051 1,411 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.27 32.47 1,309 1,299 39.3 49,153 48,568 1,477 Secondary school teachers....................................... 33.48 32.19 1,268 1,268 37.9 46,796 46,665 1,398 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 32.91 31.70 1,244 1,207 37.8 45,999 44,225 1,398 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.17 22.12 1,087 885 40.0 56,517 45,999 2,080 Writers and editors............................................... 22.34 20.31 894 812 40.0 46,475 42,236 2,080 Editors......................................................... 22.34 20.31 894 812 40.0 46,475 42,236 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.44 26.25 1,086 994 39.6 55,954 50,820 2,039 Registered nurses................................................. 26.17 26.96 999 1,024 38.2 51,947 53,273 1,985 Therapists........................................................ 30.04 28.66 1,190 1,114 39.6 51,361 51,438 1,710 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 26.05 25.86 1,039 1,034 39.9 54,041 53,789 2,075 Radiologic technologists and technicians........................ 26.43 26.38 1,052 1,055 39.8 54,700 54,870 2,070 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.88 18.19 707 727 39.6 36,775 37,827 2,057 Medical records and health information technicians................ 14.93 12.70 597 508 40.0 31,056 26,416 2,080 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.18 11.66 515 452 39.1 26,761 23,510 2,031 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.68 10.57 410 396 38.4 21,319 20,610 1,995 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.26 10.57 422 396 37.5 21,959 20,610 1,950 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.02 15.37 641 615 40.0 33,313 31,978 2,080 Protective service occupations...................................... 22.11 20.13 946 943 42.8 49,208 49,035 2,226 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.91 8.90 352 343 39.6 18,326 17,832 2,057 Cooks............................................................. 8.88 9.80 346 343 39.0 18,007 17,832 2,028 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.27 10.00 411 400 40.0 21,362 20,800 2,080 Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.32 10.00 413 400 40.0 21,475 20,800 2,080 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.86 10.00 434 400 40.0 22,582 20,800 2,080 Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.77 10.71 430 426 40.0 22,117 22,277 2,054 Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.05 17.95 860 791 40.9 44,431 41,136 2,111 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.82 10.77 551 430 39.9 28,072 22,131 2,032 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.13 9.50 403 368 39.7 19,966 18,325 1,971 Cashiers...................................................... 10.11 9.50 402 367 39.7 19,923 18,325 1,970 Retail salespersons............................................. 16.57 13.78 663 551 40.0 34,471 28,662 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.13 29.94 1,285 1,198 40.0 66,839 62,271 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.09 15.39 639 615 39.7 33,123 32,000 2,059 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 27.51 28.21 1,065 1,058 38.7 55,355 55,000 2,013 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.24 14.66 529 587 39.9 27,511 30,499 2,077 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.69 15.41 626 616 39.9 32,530 32,053 2,074 Tellers......................................................... 10.52 10.03 421 401 40.0 21,885 20,864 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 14.83 14.00 593 560 40.0 30,848 29,120 2,080 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.78 14.63 582 577 39.4 30,257 29,994 2,047 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.18 19.23 754 750 39.3 38,836 39,000 2,024 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.43 20.19 817 808 40.0 42,496 41,999 2,080 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 18.10 17.96 719 718 39.7 36,570 37,138 2,020 Office clerks, general............................................ 12.60 12.50 504 500 40.0 26,202 26,000 2,079 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 20.11 21.04 845 842 42.0 41,442 41,600 2,060 Construction laborers............................................. 19.45 21.04 777 842 40.0 36,304 37,036 1,866 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.73 19.67 785 780 39.8 40,813 40,560 2,068 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.64 17.25 746 690 40.0 38,778 35,880 2,080 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 17.23 16.17 689 647 40.0 35,845 33,634 2,080 Miscellaneous installation, maintenance, and repair workers....... 18.95 17.36 758 694 40.0 39,408 36,109 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 18.37 15.44 734 618 39.9 38,154 32,115 2,077 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.30 20.57 932 823 40.0 48,454 42,788 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 19.86 28.18 794 1,127 40.0 41,303 58,614 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 26.32 28.53 1,053 1,141 40.0 54,748 59,342 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.52 14.69 547 554 35.3 28,161 28,787 1,815 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 12.97 10.75 369 215 28.5 19,198 11,180 1,481 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 14.68 15.02 572 591 38.9 29,726 30,722 2,025 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 15.26 16.00 589 640 38.6 30,636 33,280 2,008 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 12.71 11.68 508 467 40.0 26,429 24,290 2,080 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 12. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $20.83 $18.00 $833 $720 40.0 $43,011 $37,036 2,065 Management occupations.............................................. 34.04 26.67 1,420 1,000 41.7 73,851 52,001 2,169 Financial managers................................................ 31.23 27.83 1,222 1,113 39.1 63,535 57,878 2,034 Medical and health services managers.............................. 45.59 34.54 1,824 1,382 40.0 94,823 71,839 2,080 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 29.34 27.56 1,205 1,132 41.1 62,637 58,858 2,135 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 29.15 28.85 1,166 1,154 40.0 60,627 60,008 2,080 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.13 18.43 968 783 41.9 50,346 40,728 2,177 Management analysts............................................... 34.40 32.36 1,470 1,439 42.7 76,458 74,818 2,222 Financial analysts and advisors................................... 30.74 29.36 1,230 1,175 40.0 63,949 61,077 2,080 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 34.72 32.98 1,394 1,319 40.1 72,465 68,600 2,087 Computer programmers.............................................. 27.73 23.00 1,109 920 40.0 57,676 47,840 2,080 Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.15 32.19 1,286 1,288 40.0 66,866 66,964 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 36.09 35.81 1,444 1,432 40.0 75,075 74,481 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 37.46 36.08 1,498 1,443 40.0 77,917 75,044 2,080 Electrical engineers.......................................... 35.89 34.65 1,436 1,386 40.0 74,660 72,072 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 34.53 28.95 1,351 1,158 39.1 70,238 60,214 2,034 Legal occupations................................................... 41.66 28.85 1,788 1,442 42.9 92,958 75,000 2,231 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 22.35 20.21 897 808 40.2 41,895 37,183 1,875 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 25.55 25.16 1,053 1,040 41.2 54,770 54,070 2,144 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.17 22.12 1,087 885 40.0 56,517 45,999 2,080 Writers and editors............................................... 22.34 20.31 894 812 40.0 46,475 42,236 2,080 Editors......................................................... 22.34 20.31 894 812 40.0 46,475 42,236 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.51 24.79 1,093 972 39.7 56,811 50,565 2,065 Registered nurses................................................. 26.22 27.22 1,009 1,028 38.5 52,443 53,456 2,000 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 25.72 25.31 1,029 1,012 40.0 53,501 52,645 2,080 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.88 18.19 707 727 39.6 36,775 37,827 2,057 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 13.79 11.75 533 470 38.7 27,724 24,440 2,010 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.26 10.57 422 396 37.5 21,959 20,610 1,950 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.26 10.57 422 396 37.5 21,959 20,610 1,950 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations...................... 16.15 15.37 646 615 40.0 33,590 31,978 2,080 Protective service occupations...................................... 16.07 15.52 643 621 40.0 33,432 32,282 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.30 8.50 328 340 39.5 17,077 17,680 2,057 Cooks............................................................. 8.88 9.80 346 343 39.0 18,007 17,832 2,028 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 9.93 10.00 397 400 40.0 20,646 20,800 2,080 Building cleaning workers......................................... 9.79 10.00 392 400 40.0 20,361 20,800 2,080 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.12 10.00 405 400 40.0 21,041 20,800 2,080 Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.65 10.36 426 414 40.0 21,852 21,549 2,051 Sales and related occupations....................................... 21.18 17.95 867 808 40.9 45,065 42,001 2,127 Retail sales workers.............................................. 13.98 11.08 559 443 40.0 29,080 23,046 2,080 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.16 9.25 406 370 40.0 21,123 19,240 2,080 Cashiers...................................................... 10.14 9.20 405 368 40.0 21,083 19,136 2,080 Retail salespersons............................................. 16.57 13.78 663 551 40.0 34,471 28,662 2,080 Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing................ 32.13 29.94 1,285 1,198 40.0 66,839 62,271 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.11 15.40 639 615 39.7 33,237 32,001 2,064 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 28.94 28.21 1,116 1,058 38.6 58,026 55,000 2,005 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.24 14.66 529 587 39.9 27,511 30,499 2,077 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.69 15.41 626 616 39.9 32,530 32,053 2,074 Tellers......................................................... 10.52 10.03 421 401 40.0 21,885 20,864 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 14.79 14.00 591 560 40.0 30,755 29,120 2,080 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 14.78 14.63 582 577 39.4 30,257 29,994 2,047 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.79 19.49 777 764 39.3 40,405 39,736 2,041 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 20.72 20.19 829 808 40.0 43,093 41,999 2,080 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 18.78 17.96 750 718 39.9 38,981 37,357 2,076 Office clerks, general............................................ 12.60 12.50 504 500 40.0 26,202 26,000 2,079 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 20.22 21.04 851 842 42.1 41,652 41,600 2,060 Construction laborers............................................. 19.45 21.04 777 842 40.0 36,304 37,036 1,866 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 19.75 19.67 785 780 39.8 40,831 40,560 2,068 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.31 16.17 732 647 40.0 38,075 33,634 2,080 Maintenance and repair workers, general......................... 15.27 15.58 611 623 40.0 31,759 32,406 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 17.99 14.63 719 585 39.9 37,368 30,430 2,077 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 23.44 20.57 938 823 40.0 48,760 42,788 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 19.86 28.18 794 1,127 40.0 41,303 58,614 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 26.32 28.53 1,053 1,141 40.0 54,748 59,342 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.52 14.69 547 554 35.3 28,161 28,787 1,815 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 12.97 10.75 369 215 28.5 19,198 11,180 1,481 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 14.68 15.02 572 591 38.9 29,726 30,722 2,025 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 15.26 16.00 589 640 38.6 30,636 33,280 2,008 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 12.71 11.68 508 467 40.0 26,429 24,290 2,080 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 13. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $25.03 $23.37 $992 $932 39.6 $46,063 $42,661 1,840 Management occupations.............................................. 29.71 26.94 1,199 1,148 40.4 59,336 59,717 1,997 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 34.24 30.76 1,348 1,230 39.4 68,928 63,985 2,013 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 29.27 29.48 1,096 1,114 37.5 41,655 42,477 1,423 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 32.49 30.87 1,234 1,204 38.0 46,413 45,106 1,428 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 32.11 30.10 1,218 1,204 37.9 46,067 45,027 1,435 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 31.47 30.10 1,171 1,135 37.2 44,410 44,051 1,411 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 33.24 32.47 1,307 1,299 39.3 49,141 48,568 1,478 Secondary school teachers....................................... 33.46 32.19 1,266 1,268 37.8 46,748 46,665 1,397 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 32.87 31.70 1,242 1,207 37.8 45,933 43,943 1,397 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.08 27.85 1,054 1,081 38.9 51,846 50,961 1,915 Protective service occupations...................................... 23.18 21.63 1,005 990 43.3 52,248 51,506 2,254 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.90 15.02 632 589 39.8 31,776 30,551 1,999 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 17.02 16.04 673 642 39.5 33,469 33,032 1,967 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 16.38 17.79 642 670 39.2 30,973 32,179 1,891 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of private industry establishments for major occupational groups, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $19.59 $17.17 $20.00 $26.52 Management, professional, and related...... 30.92 27.75 29.93 34.17 Management, business, and financial...... 31.67 26.19 32.09 36.90 Professional and related................. 30.43 29.57 28.91 32.57 Service.................................... 9.31 8.70 9.61 11.60 Sales and office........................... 16.58 17.15 15.10 16.94 Sales and related........................ 18.69 20.87 15.20 16.22 Office and administrative support........ 15.86 15.97 15.05 17.02 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 19.47 18.85 22.49 25.11 Construction and extraction............. 20.17 19.64 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 19.58 18.84 19.94 24.44 Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 15.91 13.55 14.09 22.90 Production............................... 17.76 15.01 14.83 26.46 Transportation and material moving....... 14.21 12.51 13.32 19.08 B 1-99 100-499 500 Total workers workers workers or more Occupational group(2) Relative error(3) (percent) Relative error(3) (percent) All workers........................................................... 5.2 8.0 5.8 3.6 Management, professional, and related............................... 3.6 15.2 5.1 3.2 Management, business, and financial............................... 6.6 18.7 10.0 7.8 Professional and related.......................................... 3.9 19.1 4.8 5.4 Service............................................................. 9.1 11.0 3.8 3.7 Sales and office.................................................... 4.9 5.7 9.3 5.6 Sales and related................................................. 10.4 13.2 22.1 9.4 Office and administrative support................................. 5.4 7.2 5.0 6.0 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 5.4 6.4 6.5 4.5 Construction and extraction...................................... 6.9 7.0 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 6.2 7.1 9.3 4.3 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 5.9 14.9 6.1 2.0 Production........................................................ 12.5 6.2 10.0 3.3 Transportation and material moving................................ 7.5 20.7 8.3 3.9 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $18.24 $16.64 $726 $658 39.8 $37,329 $34,216 2,047 Management occupations.............................................. 23.50 21.64 928 865 39.5 48,233 45,001 2,053 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 31.39 25.38 1,277 1,067 40.7 66,407 55,501 2,116 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.72 29.03 1,108 1,161 40.0 57,605 60,382 2,078 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.11 8.00 320 325 39.5 16,651 16,918 2,054 Cooks............................................................. 8.73 9.30 340 343 39.0 17,690 17,832 2,025 Sales and related occupations....................................... 23.49 20.95 975 838 41.5 50,689 43,580 2,158 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.21 15.80 642 632 39.6 33,386 32,864 2,060 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 19.66 19.49 768 764 39.1 39,961 39,736 2,032 Office clerks, general............................................ 12.21 12.39 488 495 40.0 25,380 25,761 2,079 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 19.69 21.04 831 842 42.2 40,534 39,520 2,059 Construction laborers............................................. 19.45 21.04 777 842 40.0 36,304 37,036 1,866 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.84 19.50 748 740 39.7 38,876 38,480 2,064 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.58 10.75 417 324 30.7 21,212 16,871 1,563 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $24.02 $20.57 $966 $830 40.2 $50,150 $42,788 2,088 Management occupations.............................................. 43.12 37.80 1,891 1,696 43.9 98,351 88,192 2,281 Financial managers................................................ 37.54 35.79 1,483 1,432 39.5 77,113 74,443 2,054 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 28.70 27.56 1,181 1,132 41.2 61,436 58,858 2,141 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 29.15 28.85 1,166 1,154 40.0 60,627 60,008 2,080 Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists........ 23.69 22.82 997 1,019 42.1 51,831 53,001 2,187 Management analysts............................................... 30.23 23.50 1,320 994 43.6 68,616 51,711 2,269 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 34.75 32.98 1,396 1,319 40.2 72,567 68,600 2,088 Computer systems analysts......................................... 32.15 32.19 1,286 1,288 40.0 66,866 66,964 2,080 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 36.09 35.81 1,444 1,432 40.0 75,075 74,481 2,080 Engineers......................................................... 37.46 36.08 1,498 1,443 40.0 77,917 75,044 2,080 Electrical engineers.......................................... 35.89 34.65 1,436 1,386 40.0 74,660 72,072 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 34.53 28.95 1,351 1,158 39.1 70,238 60,214 2,034 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 21.67 18.13 881 725 40.6 39,761 33,350 1,835 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 27.03 22.12 1,081 885 40.0 56,216 45,999 2,080 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.43 22.84 1,087 885 39.6 56,533 46,010 2,061 Registered nurses................................................. 26.43 27.22 1,012 1,046 38.3 52,627 54,392 1,991 Diagnostic related technologists and technicians.................. 25.72 25.31 1,029 1,012 40.0 53,501 52,645 2,080 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 17.90 18.19 705 727 39.4 36,641 37,827 2,047 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.61 11.30 478 436 37.9 24,873 22,651 1,972 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.28 10.57 423 396 37.5 21,992 20,610 1,950 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.28 10.57 423 396 37.5 21,992 20,610 1,950 Protective service occupations...................................... 16.07 15.52 643 621 40.0 33,432 32,282 2,080 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.91 9.37 396 375 40.0 20,604 19,481 2,079 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.35 11.04 454 441 40.0 23,602 22,957 2,080 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.45 11.04 458 441 40.0 23,814 22,957 2,080 Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.75 10.66 430 426 40.0 22,028 22,173 2,049 Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.50 14.26 700 570 40.0 36,409 29,659 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.90 15.35 634 612 39.8 32,946 31,847 2,072 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.82 14.81 591 592 39.9 30,739 30,796 2,074 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.34 14.81 611 592 39.8 31,761 30,796 2,071 Customer service representatives.................................. 15.65 15.30 626 612 40.0 32,547 31,816 2,080 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 15.58 14.78 623 591 40.0 32,413 30,742 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 20.04 19.60 794 784 39.6 41,268 40,766 2,059 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 19.64 17.96 782 718 39.8 40,689 37,357 2,071 Office clerks, general............................................ 15.19 13.72 607 549 40.0 31,587 28,529 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 29.46 32.79 1,179 1,312 40.0 61,283 68,203 2,080 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 22.54 21.85 901 874 40.0 46,875 45,440 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 19.13 18.57 765 743 40.0 39,756 38,626 2,078 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 19.86 28.18 794 1,127 40.0 41,303 58,614 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 26.58 28.53 1,063 1,141 40.0 55,296 59,342 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.99 15.38 676 615 39.8 35,141 31,990 2,068 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 15.36 15.21 606 611 39.5 31,520 31,782 2,052 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 16.36 17.30 642 658 39.2 33,377 34,193 2,041 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 12.71 11.68 508 467 40.0 26,429 24,290 2,080 1 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. 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. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 17. Union(1) and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Union Nonunion Occupational group(3) Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers All workers........................................................... $23.28 $22.08 $26.00 $19.81 $19.38 $23.70 Management, professional, and related............................... 30.24 23.07 31.59 30.70 31.02 29.25 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 31.64 31.67 31.29 Professional and related.......................................... 29.77 23.07 31.38 30.17 30.58 28.81 Service............................................................. 19.93 – – 10.63 9.26 17.97 Sales and office.................................................... 17.63 18.81 – 16.47 16.53 15.42 Sales and related................................................. – – – 18.62 18.70 – Office and administrative support................................. 17.68 18.97 – 15.77 15.78 15.67 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 24.77 25.66 – 18.11 18.11 – Construction and extraction...................................... 26.61 27.79 – 18.30 18.30 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 22.08 22.38 – 18.98 18.99 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 20.93 20.64 – 13.94 13.79 – Production........................................................ 22.55 22.15 – 15.57 15.28 – Transportation and material moving................................ 18.74 18.74 – 12.62 12.60 – Union Nonunion Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 3.8 5.0 3.1 5.0 5.5 5.4 Management, professional, and related............................... 3.7 8.3 3.2 3.4 3.6 8.8 Management, business, and financial............................... – – – 6.2 6.6 16.1 Professional and related.......................................... 4.2 8.3 4.0 3.9 4.0 10.2 Service............................................................. 9.9 – – 13.4 9.2 14.5 Sales and office.................................................... 5.3 9.2 – 4.9 5.1 9.2 Sales and related................................................. – – – 10.2 10.4 – Office and administrative support................................. 5.7 10.0 – 5.3 5.6 9.3 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 4.1 4.1 – 7.6 7.7 – Construction and extraction...................................... 6.9 7.2 – 10.5 10.5 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 4.5 5.1 – 6.9 7.1 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 7.7 7.8 – 6.3 6.3 – Production........................................................ 13.6 14.3 – 6.5 5.4 – Transportation and material moving................................ 3.9 3.9 – 9.6 9.8 – 1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. 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. Table 18. Time and incentive workers(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $19.84 $19.19 $24.17 $24.17 Management, professional, and related............................... 30.30 30.44 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 30.60 30.46 – – Professional and related.......................................... 30.14 30.43 – – Service............................................................. 11.27 9.25 – – Sales and office.................................................... 15.63 15.65 24.32 24.32 Sales and related................................................. 14.05 14.10 27.68 27.68 Office and administrative support................................. 15.97 16.00 11.24 11.24 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 19.01 19.06 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 19.56 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 19.67 19.68 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 16.15 15.93 – – Production........................................................ 18.14 17.76 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 14.20 14.20 – – Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 4.9 5.5 7.5 7.5 Management, professional, and related............................... 3.4 3.9 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 6.6 7.4 – – Professional and related.......................................... 3.5 3.9 – – Service............................................................. 14.7 9.7 – – Sales and office.................................................... 4.6 4.8 11.8 11.8 Sales and related................................................. 9.4 9.6 11.4 11.4 Office and administrative support................................. 5.1 5.4 6.9 6.9 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 6.0 6.2 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 8.4 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 7.1 7.6 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 6.1 6.0 – – Production........................................................ 12.8 12.5 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 7.6 7.7 – – 1 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. 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. 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. Table 19. Industry sector(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for private industry workers by major occupational group, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Goods producing Service providing Occupational group(3) Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services All workers........................................................... $18.87 - $17.94 - - $25.08 $19.77 $9.43 - Management, professional, and related............................... – - 43.31 - - 33.53 26.23 – - Management, business, and financial............................... – - 44.21 - - 36.02 35.49 – - Professional and related.......................................... – - 42.18 - - 31.21 25.26 – - Service............................................................. – - – - - 9.35 11.33 8.11 - Sales and office.................................................... – - 17.12 - - 19.26 14.48 – - Sales and related................................................. – - 17.44 - - – – 11.69 - Office and administrative support................................. – - 16.78 - - 19.26 14.65 – - Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 20.15 - 17.77 - - – – – - Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – - 19.20 - - – – – - Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – - 13.53 - - – – – - Production........................................................ – - 14.77 - - – – – - Transportation and material moving................................ – - 13.43 - - – – – - B Goods producing Service providing Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other Occupational group(3) tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 5.7 - 2.7 - - 5.4 3.1 6.3 - Management, professional, and related............................... – - 7.2 - - 11.3 2.9 – - Management, business, and financial............................... – - 13.2 - - 14.2 23.9 – - Professional and related.......................................... – - 2.5 - - 7.6 7.1 – - Service............................................................. – - – - - 5.2 2.2 5.0 - Sales and office.................................................... – - 3.6 - - 10.0 12.8 – - Sales and related................................................. – - 9.8 - - – – 1.5 - Office and administrative support................................. – - 4.5 - - 11.1 13.2 – - Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 7.9 - 13.3 - - – – – - Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. – - 9.6 - - – – – - Production, transportation, and material moving..................... – - 6.6 - - – – – - Production........................................................ – - 18.8 - - – – – - Transportation and material moving................................ – - 6.8 - - – – – - 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. 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. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 946,400 824,300 122,100 Management, professional, and related............................... 262,500 190,500 72,000 Management, business, and financial............................... 80,600 70,400 10,100 Professional and related.......................................... 181,900 120,100 61,800 Service............................................................. 160,200 134,300 25,900 Sales and office.................................................... 294,400 276,700 17,700 Sales and related................................................. 78,400 77,500 – Office and administrative support................................. 215,900 199,100 16,800 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 127,800 124,200 3,600 Construction and extraction...................................... 72,300 71,000 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 51,400 49,100 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 101,500 98,600 – Production........................................................ 41,900 39,900 – Transportation and material moving................................ 59,600 58,700 – 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Kansas City, MO-KS, September 2007 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 47,183 45,736 1,447 Total in sample....................................................... 305 276 29 Responding........................................................ 183 158 25 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 89 85 4 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 33 33 0 1 The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports and is based on the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private industries, an establishment is usually a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government entity. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.