NC BL 06/00/2006 Table: Springfield, MO, Bulletin 3130-59, September 2005 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) Total................................................................. $16.63 5.8 37.2 $15.92 7.2 37.3 $20.57 3.1 36.7 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 18.30 9.4 36.6 17.12 11.7 36.7 23.36 2.9 36.3 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.35 10.6 36.9 24.04 18.0 38.0 24.81 3.6 35.6 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 30.08 6.0 41.1 28.98 8.3 41.1 34.04 4.0 40.8 Sales............................................................. 13.20 14.2 33.6 13.20 14.2 33.6 – – – Administrative support............................................ 12.39 4.5 37.7 12.47 5.2 37.9 11.82 4.9 36.3 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 16.55 7.5 39.7 16.53 8.1 39.9 16.87 2.6 37.2 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.98 2.7 39.1 17.75 3.1 39.0 20.06 3.4 40.0 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 14.02 2.4 39.9 14.02 2.4 39.9 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 20.52 11.5 42.7 20.84 11.0 44.0 13.75 1.1 25.9 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 12.79 4.6 36.9 12.43 5.4 36.3 14.52 3.9 40.0 Service occupations(5).............................................. 9.73 6.5 33.7 8.76 8.1 32.8 13.40 4.4 37.7 Full time........................................................... 17.33 5.7 40.2 16.64 7.0 40.4 21.02 3.9 39.2 Part time........................................................... 8.78 6.1 20.2 8.61 6.5 20.8 10.67 6.0 15.3 Union............................................................... 18.97 10.7 38.7 19.23 12.1 38.5 17.43 4.9 40.0 Nonunion............................................................ 16.20 5.9 36.9 15.31 7.1 37.1 21.11 3.6 36.2 Time................................................................ 16.18 5.4 36.7 15.33 6.7 36.7 20.57 3.1 36.7 Incentive........................................................... 22.93 14.0 46.3 22.93 14.0 46.3 – – – Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 16.22 .7 40.2 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 15.81 10.1 36.3 (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 14.65 8.7 34.2 14.61 8.8 34.2 17.68 9.7 36.3 100-499 workers..................................................... 16.06 8.5 37.9 15.86 9.6 38.2 18.12 1.4 35.2 500 workers or more................................................. 18.18 8.8 37.8 16.80 12.4 37.9 21.55 4.4 37.3 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing industries applies to private industry only. 7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $16.63 5.8 $15.92 7.2 $20.57 3.1 All excluding sales............................................... 17.19 5.3 16.46 6.8 20.57 3.1 White collar........................................................ 18.30 9.4 17.12 11.7 23.36 2.9 White collar excluding sales.................................... 20.14 9.8 19.02 13.4 23.36 2.9 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.35 10.6 24.04 18.0 24.81 3.6 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.05 8.4 29.17 14.7 25.08 3.5 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 27.80 6.4 27.80 6.4 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ 29.98 20.0 31.10 20.3 18.31 1.9 Registered nurses........................................... 23.54 3.3 23.71 3.4 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 25.44 5.8 21.16 4.5 – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 26.62 2.7 – – 26.72 2.9 Elementary school teachers.................................. 27.29 2.8 – – 27.29 2.8 Secondary school teachers................................... 27.59 1.2 – – 27.59 1.2 Teachers, special education................................. 27.41 10.0 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 15.89 4.5 15.78 5.2 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 14.69 1.8 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 30.08 6.0 28.98 8.3 34.04 4.0 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 29.33 2.7 26.21 4.5 40.07 2.9 Administrators, education and related fields................ 37.47 2.4 – – 37.59 3.0 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 25.27 7.3 25.23 7.6 – – Management related............................................ 31.18 13.2 32.94 15.1 24.41 13.0 Sales............................................................. 13.20 14.2 13.20 14.2 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 18.28 17.9 18.28 17.9 – – Sales, other business services.............................. 15.12 33.6 15.12 33.6 – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 22.20 5.7 22.20 5.7 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.42 4.1 9.42 4.1 – – Cashiers.................................................... 8.42 4.9 8.42 4.9 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.39 4.5 12.47 5.2 11.82 4.9 Secretaries................................................. 13.22 6.7 13.66 9.1 12.63 10.2 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 12.29 4.2 12.29 4.2 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.49 8.3 10.49 8.3 – – Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 9.55 3.1 9.55 3.1 – – General office clerks....................................... 9.69 3.0 – – – – Teachers' aides............................................. 9.39 7.2 – – 9.39 7.2 Blue collar......................................................... $16.55 7.5 $16.53 8.1 $16.87 2.6 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.98 2.7 17.75 3.1 20.06 3.4 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.53 1.5 19.53 1.5 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 20.41 5.7 20.41 5.7 – – Butchers and meat cutters................................... 10.12 7.6 10.12 7.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.02 2.4 14.02 2.4 – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 14.23 2.7 14.23 2.7 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 12.89 8.3 12.89 8.3 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 15.55 8.4 15.55 8.4 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.61 3.2 13.61 3.2 – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 15.07 .0 15.07 .0 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 20.52 11.5 20.84 11.0 13.75 1.1 Truck drivers............................................... 18.56 7.2 18.85 7.4 – – Bus drivers................................................. 14.57 1.8 – – 14.57 1.8 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.43 4.9 11.43 4.9 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.79 4.6 12.43 5.4 14.52 3.9 Construction laborers....................................... 13.91 3.1 – – 12.12 1.2 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.15 3.4 8.15 3.4 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.86 6.5 9.86 6.5 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 14.00 5.1 14.06 5.6 – – Service............................................................. 9.73 6.5 8.76 8.1 13.40 4.4 Protective service............................................ 14.23 9.0 – – 16.05 2.7 Police and detectives, public service....................... 16.35 2.6 – – 16.35 2.6 Food service.................................................. 6.39 19.7 6.33 20.7 7.95 .6 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... – – – – – – Other food service........................................... 8.03 5.3 8.03 5.6 7.95 .6 Cooks....................................................... 9.20 2.6 – – 8.20 1.0 Health service................................................ 10.33 11.5 10.33 11.5 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.04 6.2 9.04 6.2 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 10.78 7.5 9.29 5.7 12.05 4.0 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 10.82 7.3 – – – – Personal service.............................................. 9.26 7.1 – – – – 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. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $17.33 5.7 $16.64 7.0 $21.02 3.9 All excluding sales............................................... 17.72 5.4 16.99 6.9 21.02 3.9 White collar........................................................ 19.17 9.7 17.98 12.2 23.92 3.3 White collar excluding sales.................................... 20.58 10.6 19.40 14.4 23.92 3.3 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.93 11.7 24.70 20.1 25.26 3.6 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.34 8.4 29.21 14.8 25.55 3.4 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 27.80 6.4 27.80 6.4 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ 30.18 20.1 31.16 20.6 19.20 1.5 Registered nurses........................................... 23.55 3.4 23.72 3.5 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 26.13 3.3 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 27.09 2.9 – – 27.17 3.1 Elementary school teachers.................................. 27.27 2.8 – – 27.27 2.8 Secondary school teachers................................... 27.59 1.2 – – 27.59 1.2 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 16.25 2.3 16.14 2.2 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 14.69 1.8 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 30.25 5.8 29.18 8.2 34.04 4.0 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 29.32 2.7 26.20 4.5 40.07 2.9 Administrators, education and related fields................ 37.47 2.4 – – 37.59 3.0 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 25.27 7.3 25.23 7.6 – – Management related............................................ 31.68 13.1 33.68 14.7 24.41 13.0 Sales............................................................. 14.60 13.5 14.60 13.5 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 18.28 17.9 18.28 17.9 – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 22.20 5.7 22.20 5.7 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.58 4.9 12.63 5.6 12.17 4.0 Secretaries................................................. 13.22 6.7 13.66 9.1 12.63 10.2 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 12.29 4.2 12.29 4.2 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.49 8.3 10.49 8.3 – – Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 9.55 3.1 9.55 3.1 – – Blue collar......................................................... 16.75 7.4 16.73 8.0 16.98 2.7 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.02 2.7 17.79 3.1 20.06 3.4 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.53 1.5 19.53 1.5 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 20.41 5.7 20.41 5.7 – – Butchers and meat cutters................................... $10.12 7.6 $10.12 7.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.02 2.4 14.02 2.4 – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 14.23 2.7 14.23 2.7 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 12.89 8.3 12.89 8.3 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 15.55 8.4 15.55 8.4 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.61 3.2 13.61 3.2 – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 15.07 .0 15.07 .0 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 20.77 11.1 20.99 10.6 $12.93 2.1 Truck drivers............................................... 18.58 7.2 18.86 7.4 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.43 4.9 11.43 4.9 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 13.35 4.6 13.07 5.6 14.52 3.9 Construction laborers....................................... 13.91 3.1 – – 12.12 1.2 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.86 6.5 9.86 6.5 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 14.08 5.2 14.15 5.6 – – Service............................................................. 10.25 8.8 9.11 11.2 13.59 4.5 Protective service............................................ 14.25 9.1 – – 16.13 2.5 Police and detectives, public service....................... 16.35 2.6 – – 16.35 2.6 Food service.................................................. 6.48 27.2 6.41 28.1 – – Other food service........................................... 8.88 1.6 8.91 1.7 – – Cooks....................................................... 9.33 2.9 – – – – Health service................................................ 11.01 9.5 11.01 9.5 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 10.82 7.3 – – 12.05 4.0 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 10.82 7.3 – – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $8.78 6.1 $8.61 6.5 $10.67 6.0 All excluding sales............................................... 9.55 7.4 9.40 8.3 10.67 6.0 White collar........................................................ 9.21 7.3 9.18 7.9 9.49 11.0 White collar excluding sales.................................... 11.93 10.9 12.53 13.2 9.49 11.0 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 13.67 15.0 – – 10.56 10.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 13.16 14.1 – – 10.56 10.7 Health related................................................ – – – – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 13.89 39.6 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 12.12 14.3 – – 12.13 15.9 Technical....................................................... – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... – – – – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... – – – – – – Management related............................................ – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 7.16 5.0 7.16 5.0 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 8.20 5.6 8.20 5.6 – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.27 3.1 7.27 3.1 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 9.54 5.7 9.81 6.8 8.30 2.8 Blue collar......................................................... 9.43 7.4 8.44 5.5 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 12.78 11.8 – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 7.66 3.8 7.66 3.8 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.55 4.5 7.55 4.5 – – Service............................................................. 7.81 8.0 7.72 8.2 9.61 17.2 Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 6.18 7.1 6.12 8.4 – – Other food service........................................... 6.53 2.2 6.48 2.1 – – Health service................................................ 8.93 15.1 8.93 15.1 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.03 3.3 8.03 3.3 – – Cleaning and building service................................. – – – – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $697 6.3 40.2 $672 7.8 40.4 $824 3.8 39.2 All excluding sales............................................... 712 6.0 40.2 687 7.7 40.4 824 3.8 39.2 White collar........................................................ 769 10.1 40.1 728 12.8 40.5 927 3.1 38.8 White collar excluding sales.................................... 824 10.9 40.0 785 15.0 40.5 927 3.1 38.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 983 12.0 39.4 998 20.9 40.4 964 2.9 38.2 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,075 8.9 39.3 1,188 15.4 40.7 974 2.7 38.1 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,238 7.6 44.5 1,238 7.6 44.5 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... – – – – – – – – – Health related................................................ 1,220 21.2 40.4 1,261 21.7 40.5 763 1.2 39.7 Registered nurses........................................... 940 3.4 39.9 947 3.5 39.9 – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 1,038 3.2 39.7 – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 1,003 2.0 37.0 – – – 1,001 2.2 36.8 Elementary school teachers.................................. 1,005 1.4 36.9 – – – 1,005 1.4 36.9 Secondary school teachers................................... 1,012 .1 36.7 – – – 1,012 .1 36.7 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 648 2.2 39.9 644 2.2 39.9 – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 585 1.4 39.8 – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,260 7.3 41.6 1,222 10.0 41.9 1,390 4.7 40.8 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,214 3.0 41.4 1,085 4.5 41.4 1,659 5.3 41.4 Administrators, education and related fields................ 1,547 5.8 41.3 – – – 1,564 7.1 41.6 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,102 7.1 43.6 1,093 7.4 43.3 – – – Management related............................................ 1,331 17.0 42.0 1,435 19.6 42.6 976 13.0 40.0 Sales............................................................. 589 14.5 40.4 589 14.5 40.4 – – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 762 20.7 41.7 762 20.7 41.7 – – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 899 5.3 40.5 899 5.3 40.5 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 504 5.4 40.1 507 6.2 40.1 482 4.2 39.6 Secretaries................................................. 523 7.0 39.6 537 9.7 39.3 503 10.3 39.8 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 492 4.2 40.0 492 4.2 40.0 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 420 8.3 40.0 420 8.3 40.0 – – – Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 382 3.1 40.0 382 3.1 40.0 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 682 9.2 40.7 683 9.9 40.8 671 3.1 39.5 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... $716 2.7 39.7 $706 3.2 39.7 $802 3.4 40.0 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 771 1.9 39.5 771 1.9 39.5 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 826 4.5 40.5 826 4.5 40.5 – – – Butchers and meat cutters................................... 378 8.6 37.3 378 8.6 37.3 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 560 2.3 39.9 560 2.3 39.9 – – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 569 2.7 40.0 569 2.7 40.0 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 512 7.7 39.7 512 7.7 39.7 – – – Welders and cutters......................................... 622 8.4 40.0 622 8.4 40.0 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 544 3.2 40.0 544 3.2 40.0 – – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 603 .0 40.0 603 .0 40.0 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 915 15.3 44.1 932 14.6 44.4 451 15.2 34.9 Truck drivers............................................... 937 7.9 50.4 964 6.3 51.1 – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 456 4.6 39.9 456 4.6 39.9 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 533 4.6 39.9 522 5.6 39.9 581 3.9 40.0 Construction laborers....................................... 556 3.1 40.0 – – – 485 1.2 40.0 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 391 6.0 39.7 391 6.0 39.7 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 563 5.2 40.0 566 5.6 40.0 – – – Service............................................................. 400 10.2 39.1 351 12.9 38.6 553 4.3 40.7 Protective service............................................ 588 9.9 41.3 – – – 680 3.7 42.2 Police and detectives, public service....................... 655 2.6 40.1 – – – 655 2.6 40.1 Food service.................................................. 239 30.9 36.9 237 32.0 37.0 – – – Other food service........................................... 338 2.9 38.0 340 2.9 38.1 – – – Cooks....................................................... 363 4.0 38.9 – – – – – – Health service................................................ 435 9.8 39.5 435 9.8 39.5 – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 429 7.3 39.7 – – – 482 4.0 40.0 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 429 7.4 39.7 – – – – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Annual earnings Annual earnings Annual earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean annual annual annual Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $35,276 6.3 2,036 $34,788 7.8 2,091 $37,491 3.8 1,784 All excluding sales............................................... 35,914 6.0 2,027 35,506 7.7 2,090 37,491 3.8 1,784 White collar........................................................ 38,329 10.1 2,000 37,754 12.8 2,099 40,176 3.1 1,680 White collar excluding sales.................................... 40,557 10.9 1,971 40,725 15.0 2,100 40,176 3.1 1,680 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 45,603 12.0 1,829 51,446 20.9 2,083 39,468 2.9 1,563 Professional specialty.......................................... 48,442 8.9 1,772 60,954 15.4 2,087 39,594 2.7 1,549 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 64,386 7.6 2,316 64,386 7.6 2,316 – – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... – – – – – – – – – Health related................................................ 63,277 21.2 2,097 65,597 21.7 2,105 38,528 1.2 2,006 Registered nurses........................................... 48,834 3.4 2,073 49,239 3.5 2,076 – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 43,164 3.2 1,652 – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 37,786 2.0 1,395 – – – 37,048 2.2 1,364 Elementary school teachers.................................. 37,164 1.4 1,363 – – – 37,164 1.4 1,363 Secondary school teachers................................... 37,123 .1 1,345 – – – 37,123 .1 1,345 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 33,621 2.2 2,069 33,484 2.2 2,074 – – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 30,009 1.4 2,043 – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 64,780 7.3 2,141 63,536 10.0 2,178 68,847 4.7 2,023 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 61,969 3.0 2,113 56,405 4.5 2,153 79,687 5.3 1,988 Administrators, education and related fields................ 71,952 5.8 1,920 – – – 70,873 7.1 1,885 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 57,284 7.1 2,267 56,854 7.4 2,253 – – – Management related............................................ 69,229 17.0 2,186 74,644 19.6 2,217 50,763 13.0 2,080 Sales............................................................. 30,634 14.5 2,098 30,634 14.5 2,098 – – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 39,611 20.7 2,167 39,611 20.7 2,167 – – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 46,752 5.3 2,106 46,752 5.3 2,106 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 26,050 5.4 2,071 26,356 6.2 2,086 23,917 4.2 1,965 Secretaries................................................. 26,886 7.0 2,033 27,949 9.7 2,046 25,462 10.3 2,016 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 25,585 4.2 2,081 25,585 4.2 2,081 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 21,816 8.3 2,080 21,816 8.3 2,080 – – – Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 19,873 3.1 2,080 19,873 3.1 2,080 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 35,124 9.2 2,097 35,170 9.9 2,102 34,535 3.1 2,034 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... $36,665 2.7 2,034 $36,104 3.2 2,029 $41,724 3.4 2,080 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 40,071 1.9 2,052 40,071 1.9 2,052 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 42,750 4.5 2,094 42,750 4.5 2,094 – – – Butchers and meat cutters................................... 19,639 8.6 1,941 19,639 8.6 1,941 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 29,060 2.3 2,072 29,060 2.3 2,072 – – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 29,362 2.7 2,064 29,362 2.7 2,064 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 26,600 7.7 2,064 26,600 7.7 2,064 – – – Welders and cutters......................................... 32,278 8.4 2,076 32,278 8.4 2,076 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 28,274 3.2 2,077 28,274 3.2 2,077 – – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 30,983 .0 2,057 30,983 .0 2,057 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 47,435 15.3 2,284 48,453 14.6 2,309 21,296 15.2 1,647 Truck drivers............................................... 48,709 7.9 2,622 50,126 6.3 2,657 – – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 23,686 4.6 2,073 23,686 4.6 2,073 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 27,174 4.6 2,035 26,472 5.6 2,025 30,198 3.9 2,080 Construction laborers....................................... 25,591 3.1 1,840 – – – 25,213 1.2 2,080 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 20,344 6.0 2,063 20,344 6.0 2,063 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 29,282 5.2 2,080 29,427 5.6 2,080 – – – Service............................................................. 20,628 10.2 2,013 18,271 12.9 2,005 27,681 4.3 2,037 Protective service............................................ 30,581 9.9 2,146 – – – 35,383 3.7 2,194 Police and detectives, public service....................... 34,065 2.6 2,083 – – – 34,065 2.6 2,083 Food service.................................................. 12,247 30.9 1,890 12,333 32.0 1,923 – – – Other food service........................................... 17,110 2.9 1,926 17,673 2.9 1,983 – – – Cooks....................................................... 16,858 4.0 1,807 – – – – – – Health service................................................ 22,597 9.8 2,053 22,597 9.8 2,053 – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 22,319 7.3 2,063 – – – 25,054 4.0 2,080 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 22,317 7.4 2,063 – – – – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-1. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) all workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $16.63 5.8 $15.92 7.2 $20.57 3.1 All excluding sales............................................... 17.19 5.3 16.46 6.8 20.57 3.1 White collar........................................................ 18.30 9.4 17.12 11.7 23.36 2.9 2....................................................... 8.71 3.5 8.72 3.8 – – 3....................................................... 9.50 4.3 9.50 4.3 – – 4....................................................... 11.51 3.6 11.51 3.9 11.54 9.4 5....................................................... 15.97 10.8 16.68 11.6 12.52 5.3 6....................................................... 18.85 11.1 19.56 14.0 16.91 9.7 7....................................................... 21.11 4.1 21.41 4.8 19.94 6.1 8....................................................... 25.97 3.9 25.65 4.5 26.21 5.9 9....................................................... 28.72 8.6 29.36 12.2 27.27 2.0 11........................................................ 29.33 7.0 29.02 7.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.81 18.6 15.02 17.1 31.53 11.1 White collar excluding sales.................................... 20.14 9.8 19.02 13.4 23.36 2.9 2....................................................... 9.17 4.8 9.25 5.6 – – 3....................................................... 10.30 6.3 10.31 6.4 – – 4....................................................... 11.78 4.4 11.83 5.0 11.54 9.4 5....................................................... 13.89 3.7 14.32 4.6 12.52 5.3 6....................................................... 18.72 11.4 – – 16.91 9.7 7....................................................... 20.05 3.6 20.08 4.1 19.94 6.1 8....................................................... 25.78 4.4 24.85 4.6 26.21 5.9 9....................................................... 28.72 8.6 29.36 12.2 27.27 2.0 11........................................................ 29.33 7.0 29.02 7.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.65 10.4 17.69 11.0 31.53 11.1 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.35 10.6 24.04 18.0 24.81 3.6 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.05 8.4 29.17 14.7 25.08 3.5 6....................................................... 18.06 16.2 – – 18.06 16.2 7....................................................... 21.86 3.2 – – 20.90 5.9 8....................................................... 25.77 4.8 24.21 2.8 26.40 6.2 9....................................................... 26.06 3.3 25.09 5.6 27.74 2.1 Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.45 10.5 23.16 19.9 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 27.80 6.4 27.80 6.4 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ 29.98 20.0 31.10 20.3 18.31 1.9 Registered nurses........................................... 23.54 3.3 23.71 3.4 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 25.44 5.8 21.16 4.5 – – 9....................................................... 27.84 3.8 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 26.62 2.7 – – 26.72 2.9 6....................................................... 24.12 .8 – – 24.12 .8 7....................................................... 24.78 1.8 – – 24.78 1.8 8....................................................... 27.45 3.5 – – 27.60 3.9 Elementary school teachers.................................. 27.29 2.8 – – 27.29 2.8 7....................................................... 25.58 1.2 – – 25.58 1.2 8....................................................... 27.83 3.0 – – 27.83 3.0 Secondary school teachers................................... $27.59 1.2 – – $27.59 1.2 8....................................................... 28.49 2.7 – – 28.49 2.7 Teachers, special education................................. 27.41 10.0 – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 15.89 4.5 $15.78 5.2 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 14.69 1.8 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 30.08 6.0 28.98 8.3 34.04 4.0 7....................................................... 20.05 3.2 20.05 3.2 – – 9....................................................... 34.45 19.9 36.69 22.6 – – 11........................................................ 30.12 9.9 29.60 10.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.42 6.3 23.94 8.7 43.68 2.6 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 29.33 2.7 26.21 4.5 40.07 2.9 11........................................................ 28.58 9.7 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.42 6.3 23.94 8.7 43.68 2.6 Administrators, education and related fields................ 37.47 2.4 – – 37.59 3.0 Not able to be leveled.................................... 40.19 4.4 – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 25.27 7.3 25.23 7.6 – – Management related............................................ 31.18 13.2 32.94 15.1 24.41 13.0 9....................................................... 35.77 22.9 38.13 25.3 – – Sales............................................................. 13.20 14.2 13.20 14.2 – – 2....................................................... 7.98 7.0 7.98 7.0 – – 3....................................................... 8.10 4.0 8.10 4.0 – – 4....................................................... 10.78 7.8 10.78 7.8 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 18.28 17.9 18.28 17.9 – – Sales, other business services.............................. 15.12 33.6 15.12 33.6 – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 22.20 5.7 22.20 5.7 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.42 4.1 9.42 4.1 – – Cashiers.................................................... 8.42 4.9 8.42 4.9 – – 3....................................................... 8.81 12.9 8.81 12.9 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.39 4.5 12.47 5.2 11.82 4.9 2....................................................... 9.17 4.8 9.25 5.6 – – 3....................................................... 10.29 6.3 10.30 6.4 – – 4....................................................... 11.74 5.5 11.83 6.7 11.41 9.6 5....................................................... 13.41 4.2 – – – – 6....................................................... 17.11 9.4 17.58 9.4 – – 7....................................................... 17.43 6.2 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 11.95 15.9 11.95 15.9 – – Secretaries................................................. 13.22 6.7 13.66 9.1 12.63 10.2 4....................................................... 11.50 5.1 – – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. $12.29 4.2 $12.29 4.2 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.49 8.3 10.49 8.3 – – Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 9.55 3.1 9.55 3.1 – – General office clerks....................................... 9.69 3.0 – – – – Teachers' aides............................................. 9.39 7.2 – – $9.39 7.2 Blue collar......................................................... 16.55 7.5 16.53 8.1 16.87 2.6 1....................................................... 9.17 1.6 9.17 1.6 – – 2....................................................... 11.11 5.8 11.06 5.8 – – 3....................................................... 13.09 2.5 13.02 2.4 14.01 11.8 4....................................................... 14.16 3.9 14.33 4.5 12.85 2.4 5....................................................... 17.47 4.8 17.53 4.9 – – 6....................................................... 16.52 4.3 16.07 5.2 – – 7....................................................... 23.01 8.1 23.16 8.6 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.98 2.7 17.75 3.1 20.06 3.4 3....................................................... 13.93 4.0 13.93 4.0 – – 4....................................................... 12.39 7.4 12.39 7.4 – – 5....................................................... 17.34 3.6 17.33 3.6 – – 6....................................................... 17.34 4.1 16.96 6.0 – – 7....................................................... 20.92 4.0 20.82 4.6 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.53 1.5 19.53 1.5 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 20.41 5.7 20.41 5.7 – – Butchers and meat cutters................................... 10.12 7.6 10.12 7.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.02 2.4 14.02 2.4 – – 1....................................................... 9.46 2.1 9.46 2.1 – – 2....................................................... 11.22 3.7 11.22 3.7 – – 3....................................................... 13.49 2.3 13.49 2.3 – – 4....................................................... 14.49 7.0 14.49 7.0 – – 5....................................................... 15.57 7.4 15.57 7.4 – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 14.23 2.7 14.23 2.7 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 12.89 8.3 12.89 8.3 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 15.55 8.4 15.55 8.4 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.61 3.2 13.61 3.2 – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 15.07 .0 15.07 .0 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 20.52 11.5 20.84 11.0 13.75 1.1 2....................................................... 11.06 9.1 10.78 9.8 – – 4....................................................... 15.08 6.9 – – – – Truck drivers............................................... 18.56 7.2 18.85 7.4 – – Bus drivers................................................. 14.57 1.8 – – 14.57 1.8 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.43 4.9 11.43 4.9 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.79 4.6 12.43 5.4 14.52 3.9 1....................................................... $9.08 4.5 $9.08 4.5 – – 2....................................................... 11.36 11.0 11.36 11.1 – – 3....................................................... 12.96 8.7 12.11 10.5 – – 4....................................................... 14.25 4.9 15.23 4.7 $12.44 2.8 Construction laborers....................................... 13.91 3.1 – – 12.12 1.2 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.15 3.4 8.15 3.4 – – 1....................................................... 7.47 5.8 7.47 5.8 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.86 6.5 9.86 6.5 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 14.00 5.1 14.06 5.6 – – Service............................................................. 9.73 6.5 8.76 8.1 13.40 4.4 1....................................................... 8.30 6.8 8.27 7.0 – – 2....................................................... 7.82 20.2 6.06 24.0 10.92 11.6 3....................................................... 8.99 5.5 8.97 5.6 – – 4....................................................... 10.43 26.4 10.08 30.6 – – 5....................................................... 12.30 2.2 – – – – 6....................................................... 12.60 6.4 – – – – Protective service............................................ 14.23 9.0 – – 16.05 2.7 Police and detectives, public service....................... 16.35 2.6 – – 16.35 2.6 Food service.................................................. 6.39 19.7 6.33 20.7 7.95 .6 1....................................................... 6.77 7.7 6.77 7.7 – – 2....................................................... 4.92 38.5 – – – – Other food service........................................... 8.03 5.3 8.03 5.6 7.95 .6 1....................................................... 7.12 9.2 7.12 9.2 – – 2....................................................... 8.29 7.0 – – – – Cooks....................................................... 9.20 2.6 – – 8.20 1.0 Health service................................................ 10.33 11.5 10.33 11.5 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.04 6.2 9.04 6.2 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 10.78 7.5 9.29 5.7 12.05 4.0 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 10.82 7.3 – – – – Personal service.............................................. 9.26 7.1 – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-2. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) full-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $17.33 5.7 $16.64 7.0 $21.02 3.9 All excluding sales............................................... 17.72 5.4 16.99 6.9 21.02 3.9 White collar........................................................ 19.17 9.7 17.98 12.2 23.92 3.3 2....................................................... 9.66 6.8 9.66 7.4 – – 3....................................................... 9.84 4.7 9.84 4.7 – – 4....................................................... 11.61 4.1 11.59 4.5 11.67 9.7 5....................................................... 16.11 10.9 16.69 11.8 – – 6....................................................... 19.04 11.8 19.79 14.8 17.14 10.5 7....................................................... 21.30 4.1 21.43 4.8 20.76 5.2 8....................................................... 25.96 3.9 25.64 4.5 26.21 5.9 9....................................................... 28.90 8.7 29.66 12.3 27.27 2.0 11........................................................ 29.33 7.0 29.02 7.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.97 18.2 15.12 16.6 32.26 11.4 White collar excluding sales.................................... 20.58 10.6 19.40 14.4 23.92 3.3 2....................................................... 9.39 6.3 9.37 6.7 – – 3....................................................... 10.34 6.5 10.34 6.5 – – 4....................................................... 11.92 5.2 11.99 6.1 11.67 9.7 5....................................................... 13.97 3.8 14.26 4.7 – – 6....................................................... 18.90 12.1 19.62 15.4 17.14 10.5 7....................................................... 20.23 3.4 20.08 4.2 20.76 5.2 8....................................................... 25.77 4.4 24.83 4.6 26.21 5.9 9....................................................... 28.90 8.7 29.66 12.3 27.27 2.0 11........................................................ 29.33 7.0 29.02 7.3 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 20.69 10.5 17.63 11.0 32.26 11.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.93 11.7 24.70 20.1 25.26 3.6 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.34 8.4 29.21 14.8 25.55 3.4 6....................................................... 18.55 18.7 – – 18.55 18.7 7....................................................... 22.34 2.5 – – 22.05 5.4 8....................................................... 25.76 4.8 24.18 2.7 26.40 6.2 9....................................................... 26.06 3.3 25.09 5.6 27.74 2.1 Not able to be leveled.................................... 21.73 10.9 – – – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 27.80 6.4 27.80 6.4 – – Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ 30.18 20.1 31.16 20.6 19.20 1.5 Registered nurses........................................... 23.55 3.4 23.72 3.5 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 26.13 3.3 – – – – 9....................................................... 27.84 3.8 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 27.09 2.9 – – 27.17 3.1 6....................................................... 26.21 .1 – – 26.21 .1 7....................................................... 25.10 .7 – – 25.10 .7 8....................................................... 27.45 3.5 – – 27.60 3.9 Elementary school teachers.................................. 27.27 2.8 – – 27.27 2.8 7....................................................... 25.38 .5 – – 25.38 .5 8....................................................... 27.83 3.0 – – 27.83 3.0 Secondary school teachers................................... $27.59 1.2 – – $27.59 1.2 8....................................................... 28.49 2.7 – – 28.49 2.7 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 16.25 2.3 $16.14 2.2 – – 4....................................................... 12.71 3.4 12.50 3.6 – – Licensed practical nurses................................... 14.69 1.8 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 30.25 5.8 29.18 8.2 34.04 4.0 7....................................................... 20.05 3.2 20.05 3.2 – – 9....................................................... 35.52 19.7 38.27 22.0 – – 11........................................................ 30.12 9.9 29.60 10.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.41 6.3 23.92 8.7 43.68 2.6 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 29.32 2.7 26.20 4.5 40.07 2.9 11........................................................ 28.58 9.7 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 30.41 6.3 23.92 8.7 43.68 2.6 Administrators, education and related fields................ 37.47 2.4 – – 37.59 3.0 Not able to be leveled.................................... 40.19 4.4 – – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 25.27 7.3 25.23 7.6 – – Management related............................................ 31.68 13.1 33.68 14.7 24.41 13.0 9....................................................... 37.22 22.5 – – – – Sales............................................................. 14.60 13.5 14.60 13.5 – – 3....................................................... 8.48 5.7 8.48 5.7 – – 4....................................................... 10.79 8.3 10.79 8.3 – – Supervisors, sales.......................................... 18.28 17.9 18.28 17.9 – – Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 22.20 5.7 22.20 5.7 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.58 4.9 12.63 5.6 12.17 4.0 2....................................................... 9.39 6.3 9.37 6.7 – – 3....................................................... 10.32 6.5 10.33 6.6 – – 4....................................................... 11.83 5.9 11.91 7.2 11.54 10.0 5....................................................... 13.20 3.9 – – – – 6....................................................... 17.11 9.4 17.58 9.4 – – 7....................................................... 17.43 6.2 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 11.95 15.9 11.95 15.9 – – Secretaries................................................. 13.22 6.7 13.66 9.1 12.63 10.2 4....................................................... 11.50 5.1 – – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 12.29 4.2 12.29 4.2 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.49 8.3 10.49 8.3 – – Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 9.55 3.1 9.55 3.1 – – Blue collar......................................................... $16.75 7.4 $16.73 8.0 $16.98 2.7 1....................................................... 9.54 1.7 9.54 1.7 – – 2....................................................... 11.06 5.8 11.06 5.8 – – 3....................................................... 13.19 2.5 13.12 2.4 14.01 11.8 4....................................................... 14.23 4.1 14.42 4.6 12.51 2.8 5....................................................... 17.47 4.8 17.53 4.9 – – 6....................................................... 16.52 4.3 16.07 5.2 – – 7....................................................... 23.01 8.1 23.16 8.6 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.02 2.7 17.79 3.1 20.06 3.4 3....................................................... 13.93 4.0 13.93 4.0 – – 5....................................................... 17.34 3.6 17.33 3.6 – – 6....................................................... 17.34 4.1 16.96 6.0 – – 7....................................................... 20.92 4.0 20.82 4.6 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 19.53 1.5 19.53 1.5 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 20.41 5.7 20.41 5.7 – – Butchers and meat cutters................................... 10.12 7.6 10.12 7.6 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.02 2.4 14.02 2.4 – – 1....................................................... 9.46 2.1 9.46 2.1 – – 2....................................................... 11.22 3.7 11.22 3.7 – – 3....................................................... 13.49 2.3 13.49 2.3 – – 4....................................................... 14.49 7.0 14.49 7.0 – – 5....................................................... 15.57 7.4 15.57 7.4 – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 14.23 2.7 14.23 2.7 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 12.89 8.3 12.89 8.3 – – Welders and cutters......................................... 15.55 8.4 15.55 8.4 – – Assemblers.................................................. 13.61 3.2 13.61 3.2 – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 15.07 .0 15.07 .0 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 20.77 11.1 20.99 10.6 12.93 2.1 2....................................................... 10.79 9.7 10.78 9.8 – – 4....................................................... 15.60 8.9 – – – – Truck drivers............................................... 18.58 7.2 18.86 7.4 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.43 4.9 11.43 4.9 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 13.35 4.6 13.07 5.6 14.52 3.9 1....................................................... 10.67 5.4 10.67 5.4 – – 2....................................................... 11.36 11.0 11.36 11.1 – – 3....................................................... 13.61 8.6 – – – – 4....................................................... 14.44 4.5 – – 12.44 2.8 Construction laborers....................................... 13.91 3.1 – – 12.12 1.2 Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.86 6.5 9.86 6.5 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 14.08 5.2 14.15 5.6 – – Service............................................................. $10.25 8.8 $9.11 11.2 $13.59 4.5 1....................................................... 8.94 8.6 8.94 8.7 – – 2....................................................... 8.15 26.9 – – 11.04 10.1 3....................................................... 9.39 2.9 9.36 2.9 – – 4....................................................... 9.92 29.6 – – – – 5....................................................... 12.32 2.2 – – – – Protective service............................................ 14.25 9.1 – – 16.13 2.5 Police and detectives, public service....................... 16.35 2.6 – – 16.35 2.6 Food service.................................................. 6.48 27.2 6.41 28.1 – – 3....................................................... 8.60 6.4 8.60 6.4 – – Other food service........................................... 8.88 1.6 8.91 1.7 – – 3....................................................... 8.60 6.4 8.60 6.4 – – Cooks....................................................... 9.33 2.9 – – – – Health service................................................ 11.01 9.5 11.01 9.5 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 10.82 7.3 – – 12.05 4.0 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 10.82 7.3 – – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-3. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) part-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $8.78 6.1 $8.61 6.5 $10.67 6.0 All excluding sales............................................... 9.55 7.4 9.40 8.3 10.67 6.0 White collar........................................................ 9.21 7.3 9.18 7.9 9.49 11.0 2....................................................... 7.50 2.5 7.47 2.9 – – 3....................................................... 7.58 1.9 7.55 1.9 – – 4....................................................... 10.69 2.1 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 9.74 22.7 10.02 30.7 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 11.93 10.9 12.53 13.2 9.49 11.0 Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.26 47.6 – – – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 13.67 15.0 – – 10.56 10.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 13.16 14.1 – – 10.56 10.7 Not able to be leveled.................................... 15.47 46.0 – – – – Health related................................................ – – – – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. 13.89 39.6 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... 12.12 14.3 – – 12.13 15.9 Technical....................................................... – – – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... – – – – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... – – – – – – Management related............................................ – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 7.16 5.0 7.16 5.0 – – 3....................................................... 7.47 1.8 7.47 1.8 – – Sales workers, other commodities............................ 8.20 5.6 8.20 5.6 – – Cashiers.................................................... 7.27 3.1 7.27 3.1 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 9.54 5.7 9.81 6.8 8.30 2.8 Blue collar......................................................... 9.43 7.4 8.44 5.5 – – 1....................................................... 7.72 5.7 7.72 5.7 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 12.78 11.8 – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 7.66 3.8 7.66 3.8 – – 1....................................................... 7.46 6.8 7.46 6.8 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.55 4.5 7.55 4.5 – – 1....................................................... 7.46 6.8 7.46 6.8 – – Service............................................................. 7.81 8.0 7.72 8.2 9.61 17.2 1....................................................... 6.95 19.4 6.84 19.3 – – 2....................................................... 7.22 8.2 7.23 8.4 – – Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. $6.18 7.1 $6.12 8.4 – – 1....................................................... 6.19 7.2 6.19 7.2 – – Other food service........................................... 6.53 2.2 6.48 2.1 – – Health service................................................ 8.93 15.1 8.93 15.1 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.03 3.3 8.03 3.3 – – Cleaning and building service................................. – – – – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendix A for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Private industry and State and local government Occupational group Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Mean All occupations....................................................... $17.33 $8.78 $18.97 $16.20 $16.18 $22.93 All excluding sales............................................. 17.72 9.55 19.71 16.68 16.78 23.67 White collar........................................................ 19.17 9.21 12.70 18.49 17.76 28.65 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 20.58 11.93 18.97 20.16 19.57 – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.93 13.67 22.92 24.38 24.35 – Professional specialty.......................................... 27.34 13.16 24.36 27.10 27.05 – Technical....................................................... 16.25 – – 15.78 15.89 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 30.25 – – 30.08 27.71 – Sales............................................................. 14.60 7.16 8.58 13.57 12.26 20.60 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.58 9.54 – 12.33 11.92 – Blue collar......................................................... 16.75 9.43 20.17 14.32 16.15 19.75 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 18.02 – 21.05 14.85 17.86 20.64 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.02 – 16.66 13.10 14.04 – Transportation and material moving................................ 20.77 12.78 – 17.10 21.05 19.78 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 13.35 7.66 13.83 12.17 12.79 – Service............................................................. 10.25 7.81 11.29 9.65 9.74 – B Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Occupational group workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Relative error(6) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 5.7 6.1 10.7 5.9 5.4 14.0 All excluding sales............................................. 5.4 7.4 9.7 5.5 5.2 13.5 White collar........................................................ 9.7 7.3 16.2 9.6 8.9 20.5 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 10.6 10.9 11.0 10.0 9.6 – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 11.7 15.0 7.2 10.9 10.6 – Professional specialty.......................................... 8.4 14.1 5.1 8.5 8.4 – Technical....................................................... 2.3 – – 5.0 4.5 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 5.8 – – 6.0 2.6 – Sales............................................................. 13.5 5.0 5.7 15.1 10.2 24.9 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 4.9 5.7 – 4.6 3.6 – Blue collar......................................................... 7.4 7.4 9.9 4.6 8.1 8.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 2.7 – 4.2 3.2 2.9 5.9 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 2.4 – 4.4 3.2 2.4 – Transportation and material moving................................ 11.1 11.8 – 10.2 22.9 9.4 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.6 3.8 3.8 7.1 4.6 – Service............................................................. 8.8 8.0 6.8 6.9 6.6 – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers' wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 6 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Full-time and part-time workers Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) Occupational group All pri- vate indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Mean All occupations....................................................... $15.92 $16.22 – $20.74 $15.56 $15.81 - $12.70 - $16.47 All excluding sales............................................. 16.46 16.16 – 20.74 15.47 16.61 - 12.85 - 16.61 White collar........................................................ 17.12 20.44 – – 21.30 16.76 - 13.69 - 19.02 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 19.02 20.73 – – 21.77 18.78 - 15.95 - 19.31 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.04 22.58 – – 22.58 24.26 - – - 24.26 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.17 27.83 – – 27.83 29.34 - – - 29.57 Technical....................................................... 15.78 – – – – 15.69 - – - 15.23 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.98 24.70 – – 24.70 30.42 - 32.41 - 27.46 Sales............................................................. 13.20 – – – – 12.97 - 12.51 - – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.47 14.39 – – 16.44 12.31 - 10.39 - 11.90 Blue collar......................................................... 16.53 15.31 – 22.01 14.22 18.40 - 13.78 - 14.32 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.75 17.79 – – 15.17 17.64 - 14.77 - 16.83 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.02 14.04 – – 14.04 13.86 - – - – Transportation and material moving................................ 20.84 14.22 – – 14.22 22.48 - – - – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.43 13.43 – – 12.89 11.56 - 9.37 - – Service............................................................. 8.76 – – – – 8.76 - 6.86 - 9.98 B Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) All pri- vate Occupational group indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Relative error(5) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 7.2 0.7 – 0.7 0.7 10.1 - 15.7 - 14.5 All excluding sales............................................. 6.8 1.0 – .7 .8 9.9 - 15.2 - 14.8 White collar........................................................ 11.7 5.8 – – 4.5 13.0 - 21.2 - 21.9 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 13.4 5.7 – – 3.8 15.4 - 28.8 - 22.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 18.0 5.8 – – 5.8 20.6 - – - 21.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 14.7 5.5 – – 5.5 16.5 - – - 17.0 Technical....................................................... 5.2 – – – – 6.4 - – - 9.0 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 8.3 8.1 – – 8.1 9.5 - 19.5 - 2.0 Sales............................................................. 14.2 – – – – 15.5 - 16.9 - – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 5.2 17.2 – – 12.6 5.4 - 5.0 - 6.6 Blue collar......................................................... 8.1 1.8 – 5.4 1.5 14.6 - 16.1 - 8.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 3.1 2.2 – – 2.7 9.5 - 10.2 - 7.8 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 2.4 1.8 – – 1.8 19.0 - – - – Transportation and material moving................................ 11.0 21.7 – – 21.7 5.7 - – - – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 5.4 4.7 – – 6.4 9.0 - 4.2 - – Service............................................................. 8.1 – – – – 8.1 - 16.1 - 8.2 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Mean All occupations....................................................... $15.92 $14.61 $16.22 $15.86 $16.80 All excluding sales............................................. 16.46 14.84 16.85 16.60 17.20 White collar........................................................ 17.12 17.23 17.10 15.51 18.87 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 19.02 19.19 18.99 17.68 19.83 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.04 – 24.23 22.00 25.10 Professional specialty.......................................... 29.17 – 29.17 26.42 30.21 Technical....................................................... 15.78 – 15.63 14.64 16.03 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.98 34.70 26.57 24.44 29.82 Sales............................................................. 13.20 13.15 13.21 13.33 12.73 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.47 11.69 12.66 12.69 12.64 Blue collar......................................................... 16.53 15.61 16.73 17.25 14.92 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.75 20.10 16.78 16.33 18.81 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.02 11.07 14.62 14.24 15.37 Transportation and material moving................................ 20.84 11.65 21.26 21.83 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 12.43 11.12 12.73 13.40 11.57 Service............................................................. 8.76 7.98 9.18 8.29 9.89 B Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Relative error(4) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 7.2 8.8 8.0 9.6 12.4 All excluding sales............................................. 6.8 6.1 7.6 8.0 13.4 White collar........................................................ 11.7 26.2 12.2 11.6 20.4 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 13.4 22.9 14.7 8.7 23.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 18.0 – 18.4 7.0 24.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 14.7 – 14.7 7.6 18.3 Technical....................................................... 5.2 – 6.1 5.2 6.7 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 8.3 20.2 5.4 3.8 12.1 Sales............................................................. 14.2 30.6 14.4 16.3 13.9 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 5.2 7.0 6.0 7.0 8.5 Blue collar......................................................... 8.1 6.9 9.3 10.9 5.8 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 3.1 8.2 4.8 6.5 2.8 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 2.4 7.2 2.8 4.1 2.0 Transportation and material moving................................ 11.0 18.2 9.9 8.8 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 5.4 17.7 5.9 4.4 11.2 Service............................................................. 8.1 29.1 4.1 5.3 3.1 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. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.85 $9.95 $14.15 $20.28 $28.21 All excluding sales........................... 8.34 10.70 14.80 20.54 28.38 White collar.................................... 7.84 9.80 15.09 23.58 30.00 White collar excluding sales................ 8.84 11.84 17.22 25.75 32.15 Professional specialty and technical.......... 12.89 17.10 22.48 27.87 33.22 Professional specialty...................... 15.97 21.00 25.49 29.14 34.68 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 22.04 26.13 26.85 29.04 37.10 Mathematical and computer scientists...... – – – – – Health related............................ 17.08 19.93 25.17 28.21 47.00 Registered nurses....................... 17.22 19.80 23.89 27.35 29.33 Teachers, college and university.......... 12.86 18.48 26.02 29.43 34.68 Teachers, except college and university... 21.43 22.70 25.94 29.99 34.13 Elementary school teachers.............. 21.45 22.94 25.91 31.07 34.47 Secondary school teachers............... 21.65 23.82 26.92 31.07 34.13 Teachers, special education............. 12.00 24.48 26.82 33.78 33.78 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners...... – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers. – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... – – – – – Technical................................... 10.62 13.17 15.61 17.79 20.57 Licensed practical nurses............... 12.70 14.00 14.50 15.00 16.84 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 18.27 20.56 27.75 32.21 48.81 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 18.85 20.44 28.85 33.28 46.44 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 27.02 29.89 38.37 43.33 46.44 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 19.80 19.84 24.31 25.64 33.58 Management related........................ 16.83 20.95 26.58 31.75 57.33 Sales......................................... 6.60 7.50 9.79 16.15 24.98 Supervisors, sales...................... 7.50 11.65 17.35 23.03 29.57 Sales, other business services.......... 7.00 7.42 9.23 11.83 37.50 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale......... 11.85 17.57 23.07 25.00 28.26 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.75 7.40 8.84 10.61 13.00 Cashiers................................ 6.25 6.80 7.70 9.40 11.90 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.00 9.00 11.60 13.99 17.00 Secretaries............................. 9.35 11.52 12.38 14.00 16.62 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 10.30 10.30 13.00 13.50 13.50 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 8.25 8.80 9.25 12.74 15.33 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c........... 7.60 8.15 9.00 10.75 12.00 General office clerks................... 8.13 8.46 9.03 10.99 11.78 Teachers' aides......................... 6.66 7.96 9.35 10.50 11.81 Blue collar..................................... 9.61 12.12 16.17 19.41 25.10 Precision production, craft, and repair....... $10.00 $13.39 $18.34 $21.13 $25.52 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 19.15 19.15 19.67 20.06 20.06 Supervisors, production................. 16.59 18.36 20.11 20.59 24.97 Butchers and meat cutters............... 8.00 8.15 9.60 10.20 15.00 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 9.70 11.81 13.88 16.73 17.61 Painting and paint spraying machine operators............................ 13.05 13.50 13.50 15.50 16.02 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 8.50 8.75 11.57 17.27 17.27 Welders and cutters..................... 10.50 11.95 14.24 17.90 19.09 Assemblers.............................. 10.13 11.81 14.38 15.19 16.45 Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c....... 10.86 13.95 16.86 17.61 17.61 Transportation and material moving............ 11.50 13.84 17.30 25.62 34.50 Truck drivers........................... 14.66 17.04 17.23 19.87 23.44 Bus drivers............................. 10.48 11.64 12.73 18.02 20.79 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 8.65 10.10 11.85 12.85 13.05 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.25 10.30 12.36 15.99 17.25 Construction laborers................... 11.29 11.67 13.47 16.10 17.30 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 6.00 6.65 7.60 8.98 10.97 Hand packers and packagers.............. 8.00 8.50 9.30 12.19 12.60 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 10.84 12.36 13.29 15.99 18.00 Service......................................... 5.50 7.50 9.41 12.41 14.59 Protective service........................ 9.61 10.96 14.17 16.83 17.79 Police and detectives, public service... 14.17 14.38 15.95 17.30 19.20 Food service.............................. 2.13 2.15 6.50 8.80 11.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... – – – – – Other food service....................... 6.00 6.45 7.50 9.50 11.05 Cooks................................... 7.50 8.37 9.45 9.94 10.68 Health service............................ 7.50 7.91 9.67 12.50 14.00 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.35 7.75 8.41 9.92 12.24 Cleaning and building service............. 8.21 8.88 10.50 12.19 14.06 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.30 8.95 10.50 12.19 14.06 Personal service.......................... 6.24 6.43 8.95 11.54 13.60 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.65 $9.50 $13.54 $19.05 $26.53 All excluding sales........................... 8.20 10.20 14.01 19.80 26.89 White collar.................................... 7.50 9.25 13.85 21.20 29.33 White collar excluding sales................ 8.50 10.80 15.61 23.12 29.33 Professional specialty and technical.......... 12.37 16.50 21.11 26.85 29.33 Professional specialty...................... 17.17 21.55 25.75 28.21 39.17 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 22.04 26.13 26.85 29.04 37.10 Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Health related............................ 17.28 20.94 25.73 28.88 47.00 Registered nurses....................... 17.18 20.00 24.54 27.69 29.33 Teachers, college and university.......... 15.46 15.46 20.09 22.19 25.99 Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 10.62 13.17 15.53 17.60 20.57 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 17.79 19.84 24.31 30.76 46.44 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 18.85 19.84 24.31 30.00 33.58 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 19.80 19.84 24.31 24.31 33.58 Management related........................ 16.25 21.15 26.92 37.50 57.33 Sales......................................... 6.60 7.50 9.79 16.15 24.98 Supervisors, sales...................... 7.50 11.65 17.35 23.03 29.57 Sales, other business services.......... 7.00 7.42 9.23 11.83 37.50 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale......... 11.85 17.57 23.07 25.00 28.26 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.75 7.40 8.84 10.61 13.00 Cashiers................................ 6.25 6.80 7.70 9.40 11.90 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.00 8.91 11.61 13.99 17.25 Secretaries............................. 10.50 12.35 12.38 14.00 21.19 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 10.30 10.30 13.00 13.50 13.50 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 8.25 8.80 9.25 12.74 15.33 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c........... 7.60 8.15 9.00 10.75 12.00 Blue collar..................................... 9.50 12.05 16.17 19.15 25.10 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 9.85 13.39 18.09 21.26 25.52 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 19.15 19.15 19.67 20.06 20.06 Supervisors, production................. 16.59 18.36 20.11 20.59 24.97 Butchers and meat cutters............... 8.00 8.15 9.60 10.20 15.00 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. $9.70 $11.81 $13.88 $16.73 $17.61 Painting and paint spraying machine operators............................ 13.05 13.50 13.50 15.50 16.02 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 8.50 8.75 11.57 17.27 17.27 Welders and cutters..................... 10.50 11.95 14.24 17.90 19.09 Assemblers.............................. 10.13 11.81 14.38 15.19 16.45 Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c....... 10.86 13.95 16.86 17.61 17.61 Transportation and material moving............ 11.50 14.91 17.47 26.14 34.96 Truck drivers........................... 16.08 17.07 17.26 19.90 23.54 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 8.65 10.10 11.85 12.85 13.05 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 8.00 9.38 12.36 15.99 16.78 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 6.00 6.65 7.60 8.98 10.97 Hand packers and packagers.............. 8.00 8.50 9.30 12.19 12.60 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 10.84 12.36 13.13 15.99 18.00 Service......................................... 2.13 7.11 8.53 10.96 13.00 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.13 2.13 6.50 8.84 11.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 6.00 6.35 7.40 9.50 11.05 Health service............................ 7.50 7.91 9.67 12.50 14.00 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.35 7.75 8.41 9.92 12.24 Cleaning and building service............. 7.83 8.36 8.96 10.50 11.20 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $10.34 $13.21 $18.75 $26.02 $33.47 All excluding sales........................... 10.34 13.21 18.75 26.02 33.47 White collar.................................... 10.71 14.17 22.31 29.26 35.83 White collar excluding sales................ 10.71 14.17 22.31 29.26 35.83 Professional specialty and technical.......... 13.11 19.24 24.29 29.44 34.47 Professional specialty...................... 13.50 19.93 24.56 29.70 34.48 Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Health related............................ 14.62 16.91 19.24 21.55 21.55 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 21.44 22.65 25.81 30.95 34.13 Elementary school teachers.............. 21.45 22.94 25.91 31.07 34.47 Secondary school teachers............... 21.65 23.82 26.92 31.07 34.13 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 19.93 26.58 31.68 42.46 52.38 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 28.48 29.89 40.36 52.38 52.56 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 29.89 32.72 37.41 42.46 43.55 Management related........................ 18.98 19.93 21.55 26.58 31.75 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.35 9.58 11.50 13.30 16.62 Secretaries............................. 8.20 10.23 13.30 14.41 16.62 Teachers' aides......................... 6.66 7.96 9.35 10.50 11.81 Blue collar..................................... 11.67 13.21 16.35 20.44 23.78 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 14.62 18.32 19.93 20.83 25.77 Transportation and material moving............ 11.39 12.30 13.21 13.27 18.20 Bus drivers............................. 10.48 11.64 12.73 18.02 20.79 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 11.29 11.67 13.47 17.07 20.83 Construction laborers................... 11.06 11.67 11.67 12.83 13.49 Service......................................... 8.59 10.50 13.85 15.95 17.79 Protective service........................ 13.11 14.17 15.95 17.30 18.54 Police and detectives, public service... 14.17 14.38 15.95 17.30 19.20 Food service.............................. 6.53 7.00 7.60 8.53 9.94 Other food service....................... 6.53 7.00 7.60 8.53 9.94 Cooks................................... $6.53 $7.28 $7.90 $8.86 $11.21 Cleaning and building service............. 9.74 10.34 12.19 13.85 14.59 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.46 $10.75 $15.01 $20.83 $28.65 All excluding sales........................... 8.84 11.57 15.61 21.17 28.85 White collar.................................... 8.30 10.57 16.15 24.59 30.79 White collar excluding sales................ 9.00 12.36 17.79 26.13 32.21 Professional specialty and technical.......... 13.70 17.40 23.12 28.03 33.72 Professional specialty...................... 16.59 21.39 25.54 29.21 34.81 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 22.04 26.13 26.85 29.04 37.10 Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Health related............................ 17.10 19.93 25.38 28.21 47.00 Registered nurses....................... 17.22 19.75 23.93 27.35 29.33 Teachers, college and university.......... 12.86 18.48 26.77 29.87 39.69 Teachers, except college and university... 21.44 22.94 26.26 30.10 34.13 Elementary school teachers.............. 21.45 22.94 25.84 31.07 34.47 Secondary school teachers............... 21.65 23.82 26.92 31.07 34.13 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 11.74 13.70 15.61 19.05 20.57 Licensed practical nurses............... 12.70 14.00 14.50 15.00 16.84 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 18.85 20.56 28.08 33.28 48.87 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 18.85 20.44 28.85 33.28 46.44 Administrators, education and related fields............................... 27.02 29.89 38.37 43.33 46.44 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 19.80 19.84 24.31 25.64 33.58 Management related........................ 16.57 21.13 26.58 31.75 57.33 Sales......................................... 7.20 8.38 11.65 17.49 27.65 Supervisors, sales...................... 7.50 11.65 17.35 23.03 29.57 Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale......... 11.85 17.57 23.07 25.00 28.26 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.05 9.23 11.68 13.99 17.25 Secretaries............................. 9.35 11.52 12.38 14.00 16.62 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 10.30 10.30 13.00 13.50 13.50 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 8.25 8.80 9.25 12.74 15.33 Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c........... 7.60 8.15 9.00 10.75 12.00 Blue collar..................................... 9.90 12.25 16.22 19.67 25.44 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 10.00 13.50 18.34 21.22 25.52 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 19.15 19.15 19.67 20.06 20.06 Supervisors, production................. 16.59 18.36 20.11 20.59 24.97 Butchers and meat cutters............... 8.00 8.15 9.60 10.20 15.00 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. $9.70 $11.81 $13.88 $16.73 $17.61 Painting and paint spraying machine operators............................ 13.05 13.50 13.50 15.50 16.02 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 8.50 8.75 11.57 17.27 17.27 Welders and cutters..................... 10.50 11.95 14.24 17.90 19.09 Assemblers.............................. 10.13 11.81 14.38 15.19 16.45 Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c....... 10.86 13.95 16.86 17.61 17.61 Transportation and material moving............ 11.80 14.27 17.32 25.76 34.74 Truck drivers........................... 14.66 17.05 17.23 19.87 23.44 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 8.65 10.10 11.85 12.85 13.05 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 9.10 11.00 12.85 16.10 17.25 Construction laborers................... 11.29 11.67 13.47 16.10 17.30 Hand packers and packagers.............. 8.00 8.50 9.30 12.19 12.60 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 10.84 12.36 13.29 15.99 18.00 Service......................................... 2.28 8.15 10.17 13.00 15.42 Protective service........................ 9.61 10.96 14.18 16.98 17.79 Police and detectives, public service... 14.17 14.38 15.95 17.30 19.20 Food service.............................. 2.13 2.13 7.15 9.50 11.05 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 6.50 7.35 9.00 10.25 11.61 Cooks................................... 7.50 8.84 9.45 10.00 10.68 Health service............................ 7.88 8.50 11.54 13.00 14.00 Cleaning and building service............. 8.33 8.95 10.50 12.19 14.06 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.30 8.95 10.50 12.19 14.06 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $5.70 $6.50 $7.65 $9.73 $13.00 All excluding sales........................... 6.00 7.00 8.50 10.75 15.25 White collar.................................... 5.50 6.70 8.02 10.21 13.41 White collar excluding sales................ 7.89 8.50 10.36 13.00 17.60 Professional specialty and technical.......... 9.29 10.20 10.99 17.51 17.60 Professional specialty...................... 8.00 8.27 10.20 10.99 23.00 Health related............................ - - - - - Teachers, college and university.......... 8.27 8.27 10.99 10.99 22.00 Teachers, except college and university... 9.29 10.00 10.20 10.71 12.00 Technical................................... - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial..... - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers.. - - - - - Management related........................ - - - - - Sales......................................... 5.50 6.00 6.95 7.70 9.10 Sales workers, other commodities........ 6.50 6.97 7.60 8.50 9.86 Cashiers................................ 6.00 6.40 7.00 7.84 8.95 Administrative support, including clerical.... 7.00 8.50 8.71 11.40 13.00 Blue collar..................................... 6.00 6.90 8.98 10.97 12.73 Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ 9.10 9.10 11.39 14.00 19.19 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 5.75 6.44 7.50 8.98 9.00 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.75 6.44 7.50 8.98 8.98 Service......................................... 5.70 6.35 7.35 8.25 12.00 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 5.25 5.80 6.25 6.75 7.50 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 5.60 6.00 6.35 7.00 7.50 Health service............................ 7.00 7.47 7.90 9.25 13.75 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.00 7.45 7.85 8.40 9.65 Cleaning and building service............. - - - - - Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Springfield, MO, September 2005 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 72,200 59,700 12,500 All excluding sales............................................. 61,200 48,800 12,500 White collar........................................................ 39,500 30,800 8,700 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 28,600 19,900 8,700 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 13,200 6,900 6,300 Professional specialty.......................................... 10,200 4,100 6,100 Technical....................................................... 2,900 2,800 - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 3,800 3,000 900 Sales............................................................. 10,900 10,900 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11,600 10,000 1,600 Blue collar......................................................... 22,900 21,000 1,800 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 7,400 6,700 700 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6,200 6,200 – Transportation and material moving................................ - - 400 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4,300 3,700 700 Service............................................................. 9,800 7,900 1,900 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria.