NC BL 09/00/2004 Table: Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, Bulletin 3125-03, January 2004 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 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................................................................. $14.90 4.0 37.9 $14.22 3.8 37.9 $18.70 9.7 38.0 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 19.33 4.4 38.0 18.81 5.8 37.8 20.26 6.1 38.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.61 4.1 37.1 22.93 5.3 36.6 22.44 5.7 37.3 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.45 7.4 42.2 31.02 7.7 42.6 – – – Sales............................................................. 16.92 22.9 33.5 16.92 22.9 33.5 – – – Administrative support............................................ 12.11 1.5 39.1 12.33 2.0 38.8 – – – Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 13.41 3.6 39.0 13.40 3.7 39.0 – – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.72 4.5 40.0 17.86 4.7 40.0 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 12.09 1.2 38.8 12.09 1.2 38.8 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 18.68 6.9 40.9 18.68 6.9 40.9 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 10.26 6.0 37.9 10.26 6.0 37.9 – – – Service occupations(5).............................................. 12.35 20.6 32.2 8.97 5.7 28.6 16.05 26.6 37.4 Full time........................................................... 15.18 3.8 39.7 14.52 3.4 39.8 18.80 10.0 39.6 Part time........................................................... 9.23 9.1 19.9 8.79 8.7 20.5 – – – Union............................................................... – – – – – – – – – Nonunion............................................................ 14.73 3.9 38.0 14.01 3.5 38.0 18.70 9.7 38.0 Time................................................................ 14.36 4.2 37.6 13.45 3.4 37.5 18.70 9.7 38.0 Incentive........................................................... 18.53 8.2 40.3 18.53 8.2 40.3 – – – Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 13.56 1.5 39.3 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 15.56 9.2 35.5 (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 12.54 14.3 35.2 12.54 14.3 35.2 – – – 100-499 workers..................................................... 15.17 3.2 39.5 14.97 2.9 39.5 – – – 500 workers or more................................................. 16.22 7.1 37.7 14.32 2.8 37.3 18.12 10.4 38.0 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, 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, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 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................................................................... $14.90 4.0 $14.22 3.8 $18.70 9.7 All excluding sales............................................... 14.82 4.0 14.11 3.5 18.70 9.7 White collar........................................................ 19.33 4.4 18.81 5.8 20.26 6.1 White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.68 3.8 19.27 4.5 20.26 6.1 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.61 4.1 22.93 5.3 22.44 5.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 23.47 5.6 25.03 5.0 22.86 7.4 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ 27.43 12.8 24.55 4.3 – – Registered nurses........................................... 24.04 4.6 24.81 5.1 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 19.16 3.4 19.29 4.5 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.39 8.0 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.45 7.4 31.02 7.7 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 31.60 6.3 31.26 3.3 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 30.95 4.3 30.95 4.3 – – Management related............................................ 31.17 16.8 30.65 18.5 – – Sales............................................................. 16.92 22.9 16.92 22.9 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.11 1.5 12.33 2.0 – – Order clerks................................................ 12.16 2.9 12.16 2.9 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.02 6.2 10.74 7.3 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.12 7.0 12.12 7.0 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.12 1.5 11.38 .9 – – Blue collar......................................................... 13.41 3.6 13.40 3.7 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.72 4.5 17.86 4.7 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 14.48 2.0 14.48 2.0 – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 12.08 2.2 12.08 2.2 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 19.96 3.6 19.96 3.6 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 17.11 3.5 17.11 3.5 – – Upholsterers................................................ 20.01 4.5 20.01 4.5 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.09 1.2 12.09 1.2 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 11.43 2.7 11.43 2.7 – – Numerical control machine operators......................... 13.99 9.9 13.99 9.9 – – Sawing machine operators.................................... $12.53 0.8 $12.53 0.8 – – Shaping and jointing machine operators...................... 12.84 9.7 12.84 9.7 – – Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 10.82 .0 10.82 .0 – – Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 11.78 2.3 11.78 2.3 – – Textile sewing machine operators............................ 12.51 7.7 12.51 7.7 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.17 8.1 10.17 8.1 – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 13.18 6.1 13.18 6.1 – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 11.79 4.9 11.79 4.9 – – Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 13.21 .5 13.21 .5 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 12.97 .9 12.97 .9 – – Assemblers.................................................. 10.70 1.7 10.70 1.7 – – Hand cutting and trimming................................... 12.07 7.4 12.07 7.4 – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 13.68 17.6 13.68 17.6 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 10.65 3.9 10.65 3.9 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 18.68 6.9 18.68 6.9 – – Truck drivers............................................... 20.10 4.6 20.10 4.6 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 12.29 4.3 12.29 4.3 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.26 6.0 10.26 6.0 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.14 13.3 10.14 13.3 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.00 2.0 10.00 2.0 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.74 2.5 9.74 2.5 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.64 3.6 9.64 3.6 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 8.99 9.5 8.99 9.5 – – Service............................................................. 12.35 20.6 8.97 5.7 $16.05 26.6 Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 8.74 5.5 8.35 6.4 – – Other food service........................................... 8.74 5.5 8.35 6.4 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.23 12.3 – – – – Health service................................................ 10.31 2.4 10.46 7.1 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.33 2.6 10.46 7.1 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 19.87 32.5 11.46 28.8 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.66 1.6 8.92 3.0 – – 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 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, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 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................................................................... $15.18 3.8 $14.52 3.4 $18.80 10.0 All excluding sales............................................... 15.04 3.9 14.33 3.3 18.80 10.0 White collar........................................................ 19.76 4.2 19.47 5.3 20.25 6.4 White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.69 4.0 19.30 4.7 20.25 6.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.67 4.3 23.03 6.0 22.48 5.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 23.55 5.8 25.26 5.5 22.92 7.6 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ 27.50 14.5 24.56 5.6 – – Registered nurses........................................... 24.10 5.2 25.00 5.6 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 19.21 3.7 19.38 5.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.45 7.4 31.02 7.7 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 31.60 6.3 31.26 3.3 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 30.95 4.3 30.95 4.3 – – Management related............................................ 31.17 16.8 30.65 18.5 – – Sales............................................................. 20.40 20.4 20.40 20.4 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.13 1.5 12.35 1.9 – – Order clerks................................................ 12.16 2.9 12.16 2.9 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.02 6.2 10.74 7.3 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.12 7.0 12.12 7.0 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.12 1.5 11.38 .9 – – Blue collar......................................................... 13.53 3.6 13.52 3.6 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.72 4.5 17.86 4.7 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 14.48 2.0 14.48 2.0 – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 12.08 2.2 12.08 2.2 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 19.96 3.6 19.96 3.6 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 17.11 3.5 17.11 3.5 – – Upholsterers................................................ 20.01 4.5 20.01 4.5 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.11 1.2 12.11 1.2 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 11.43 2.7 11.43 2.7 – – Numerical control machine operators......................... 13.99 9.9 13.99 9.9 – – Sawing machine operators.................................... 12.68 1.1 12.68 1.1 – – Shaping and jointing machine operators...................... $12.84 9.7 $12.84 9.7 – – Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 10.82 .0 10.82 .0 – – Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 11.78 2.3 11.78 2.3 – – Textile sewing machine operators............................ 12.51 7.7 12.51 7.7 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.17 8.1 10.17 8.1 – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 13.18 6.1 13.18 6.1 – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 11.79 4.9 11.79 4.9 – – Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 13.21 .5 13.21 .5 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.06 .8 13.06 .8 – – Assemblers.................................................. 10.70 1.7 10.70 1.7 – – Hand cutting and trimming................................... 12.07 7.4 12.07 7.4 – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 13.68 17.6 13.68 17.6 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 10.65 3.9 10.65 3.9 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 18.73 6.8 18.73 6.8 – – Truck drivers............................................... 20.10 4.6 20.10 4.6 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.45 6.0 10.45 6.0 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 11.56 4.7 11.56 4.7 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.00 2.0 10.00 2.0 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.82 3.7 9.82 3.7 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.64 3.6 9.64 3.6 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 8.99 9.5 8.99 9.5 – – Service............................................................. 13.29 22.0 9.47 6.8 $16.33 26.8 Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 9.40 4.7 9.12 4.3 – – Other food service........................................... 9.40 4.7 9.12 4.3 – – Health service................................................ 10.22 2.1 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.24 2.2 – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 19.87 32.5 11.46 28.8 – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.66 1.6 8.92 3.0 – – 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, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 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................................................................... $9.23 9.1 $8.79 8.7 – – All excluding sales............................................... 9.76 9.7 9.26 9.4 – – White collar........................................................ 11.42 16.5 10.17 16.7 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.02 15.0 18.16 14.7 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 21.33 14.7 21.59 9.4 – – Professional specialty.......................................... 21.91 16.3 22.73 8.8 – – Health related................................................ 26.90 9.1 24.44 5.5 – – Registered nurses........................................... 23.46 1.6 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 6.89 7.1 6.89 7.1 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ – – – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 8.72 11.0 8.72 11.0 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 8.60 12.2 8.60 12.2 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.51 9.6 9.51 9.6 – – Service............................................................. 8.00 7.0 7.82 7.3 – – Food service.................................................. – – – – – – Health service................................................ – – – – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 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................................................................... $603 3.8 39.7 $577 3.5 39.8 $744 9.5 39.6 All excluding sales............................................... 597 3.8 39.7 569 3.2 39.7 744 9.5 39.6 White collar........................................................ 791 4.3 40.0 787 5.7 40.4 798 6.1 39.4 White collar excluding sales.................................... 787 3.8 40.0 779 4.7 40.4 798 6.1 39.4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 891 4.3 39.3 919 5.9 39.9 876 5.7 39.0 Professional specialty.......................................... 921 5.9 39.1 1,005 5.4 39.8 891 7.5 38.9 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... – – – – – – – – – Health related................................................ 1,076 14.5 39.1 975 5.6 39.7 – – – Registered nurses........................................... 940 5.7 39.0 992 5.6 39.7 – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 769 3.7 40.0 775 5.0 40.0 – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,328 7.7 42.2 1,322 8.3 42.6 – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,371 6.5 43.4 1,396 4.8 44.6 – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,407 5.3 45.4 1,407 5.3 45.4 – – – Management related............................................ 1,252 17.0 40.2 1,221 18.7 39.8 – – – Sales............................................................. 827 22.1 40.5 827 22.1 40.5 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 482 1.6 39.8 490 2.2 39.7 – – – Order clerks................................................ 481 2.3 39.6 481 2.3 39.6 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 441 6.2 40.0 429 7.3 40.0 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 458 4.0 37.8 458 4.0 37.8 – – – General office clerks....................................... 484 1.6 39.9 452 .7 39.8 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 535 3.5 39.6 535 3.5 39.6 – – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 708 4.5 40.0 714 4.6 40.0 – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 579 2.0 40.0 579 2.0 40.0 – – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 478 3.2 39.5 478 3.2 39.5 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 799 3.6 40.0 799 3.6 40.0 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 687 3.8 40.2 687 3.8 40.2 – – – Upholsterers................................................ 795 4.1 39.7 795 4.1 39.7 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... $472 0.9 39.0 $472 0.9 39.0 – – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 457 2.7 40.0 457 2.7 40.0 – – – Numerical control machine operators......................... 554 10.6 39.6 554 10.6 39.6 – – – Sawing machine operators.................................... 504 1.4 39.8 504 1.4 39.8 – – – Shaping and jointing machine operators...................... 510 10.9 39.7 510 10.9 39.7 – – – Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 433 .0 40.0 433 .0 40.0 – – – Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 471 2.3 40.0 471 2.3 40.0 – – – Textile sewing machine operators............................ 500 7.7 40.0 500 7.7 40.0 – – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 407 8.1 40.0 407 8.1 40.0 – – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 502 5.1 38.1 502 5.1 38.1 – – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 469 5.2 39.7 469 5.2 39.7 – – – Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 529 .5 40.0 529 .5 40.0 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 476 2.7 36.4 476 2.7 36.4 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 421 1.8 39.3 421 1.8 39.3 – – – Hand cutting and trimming................................... 483 7.4 40.0 483 7.4 40.0 – – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 540 16.5 39.5 540 16.5 39.5 – – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 411 1.4 38.6 411 1.4 38.6 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 774 3.9 41.3 774 3.9 41.3 – – – Truck drivers............................................... 837 2.8 41.6 837 2.8 41.6 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 418 6.5 40.0 418 6.5 40.0 – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 462 4.7 40.0 462 4.7 40.0 – – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 400 2.1 39.9 400 2.1 39.9 – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 392 3.2 39.9 392 3.2 39.9 – – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 373 3.0 38.7 373 3.0 38.7 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 359 9.5 40.0 359 9.5 40.0 – – – Service............................................................. 531 22.0 40.0 378 6.6 39.9 $653 26.8 40.0 Protective service............................................ – – – – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 376 4.7 40.0 365 4.3 40.0 – – – Other food service........................................... 376 4.7 40.0 365 4.3 40.0 – – – Health service................................................ 407 1.7 39.8 – – – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 407 1.9 39.8 – – – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. $795 32.5 40.0 $458 28.8 40.0 – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 346 1.6 40.0 357 3.0 40.0 – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 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................................................................... $31,036 3.8 2,045 $29,977 3.5 2,065 $36,530 9.5 1,943 All excluding sales............................................... 30,724 3.8 2,043 29,570 3.2 2,063 36,530 9.5 1,943 White collar........................................................ 39,646 4.3 2,006 40,730 5.7 2,092 37,998 6.1 1,876 White collar excluding sales.................................... 39,301 3.8 1,996 40,314 4.7 2,089 37,998 6.1 1,876 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 42,927 4.3 1,894 46,757 5.9 2,030 41,110 5.7 1,829 Professional specialty.......................................... 43,599 5.9 1,851 50,527 5.4 2,001 41,299 7.5 1,802 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... – – – – – – – – – Health related................................................ 55,946 14.5 2,035 50,705 5.6 2,064 – – – Registered nurses........................................... 48,870 5.7 2,028 51,574 5.6 2,063 – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 39,966 3.7 2,080 40,302 5.0 2,080 – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 69,050 7.7 2,195 68,737 8.3 2,216 – – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 71,307 6.5 2,256 72,578 4.8 2,322 – – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 73,154 5.3 2,363 73,154 5.3 2,363 – – – Management related............................................ 65,095 17.0 2,088 63,501 18.7 2,072 – – – Sales............................................................. 43,011 22.1 2,108 43,011 22.1 2,108 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 24,571 1.6 2,025 25,484 2.2 2,063 – – – Order clerks................................................ 25,034 2.3 2,059 25,034 2.3 2,059 – – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 22,924 6.2 2,080 22,332 7.3 2,080 – – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 23,835 4.0 1,966 23,835 4.0 1,966 – – – General office clerks....................................... 25,143 1.6 2,074 23,523 .7 2,068 – – – Blue collar......................................................... 27,831 3.5 2,057 27,815 3.5 2,057 – – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 36,810 4.5 2,077 37,107 4.6 2,077 – – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 30,045 2.0 2,075 30,045 2.0 2,075 – – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 24,839 3.2 2,055 24,839 3.2 2,055 – – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 41,524 3.6 2,080 41,524 3.6 2,080 – – – Supervisors, production..................................... 35,726 3.8 2,088 35,726 3.8 2,088 – – – Upholsterers................................................ 41,324 4.1 2,066 41,324 4.1 2,066 – – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... $24,525 0.9 2,026 $24,525 0.9 2,026 – – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 23,783 2.7 2,080 23,783 2.7 2,080 – – – Numerical control machine operators......................... 28,794 10.6 2,059 28,794 10.6 2,059 – – – Sawing machine operators.................................... 26,210 1.4 2,068 26,210 1.4 2,068 – – – Shaping and jointing machine operators...................... 26,509 10.9 2,064 26,509 10.9 2,064 – – – Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 22,503 .0 2,080 22,503 .0 2,080 – – – Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 24,498 2.3 2,080 24,498 2.3 2,080 – – – Textile sewing machine operators............................ 26,017 7.7 2,080 26,017 7.7 2,080 – – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 21,066 8.1 2,072 21,066 8.1 2,072 – – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 26,039 5.1 1,976 26,039 5.1 1,976 – – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 24,370 5.2 2,066 24,370 5.2 2,066 – – – Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 27,482 .5 2,080 27,482 .5 2,080 – – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 24,737 2.7 1,894 24,737 2.7 1,894 – – – Assemblers.................................................. 21,870 1.8 2,044 21,870 1.8 2,044 – – – Hand cutting and trimming................................... 25,108 7.4 2,080 25,108 7.4 2,080 – – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 28,094 16.5 2,054 28,094 16.5 2,054 – – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 21,360 1.4 2,006 21,360 1.4 2,006 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 40,206 3.9 2,146 40,206 3.9 2,146 – – – Truck drivers............................................... 43,459 2.8 2,162 43,459 2.8 2,162 – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 21,725 6.5 2,080 21,725 6.5 2,080 – – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 24,035 4.7 2,080 24,035 4.7 2,080 – – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 20,774 2.1 2,077 20,774 2.1 2,077 – – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 20,397 3.2 2,077 20,397 3.2 2,077 – – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 19,378 3.0 2,011 19,378 3.0 2,011 – – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 18,693 9.5 2,080 18,693 9.5 2,080 – – – Service............................................................. 27,612 22.0 2,078 19,647 6.6 2,075 $33,958 26.8 2,080 Protective service............................................ – – – – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 19,557 4.7 2,080 18,969 4.3 2,080 – – – Other food service........................................... 19,557 4.7 2,080 18,969 4.3 2,080 – – – Health service................................................ 21,152 1.7 2,069 – – – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 21,169 1.9 2,068 – – – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. $41,332 32.5 2,080 $23,834 28.8 2,080 – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 18,010 1.6 2,080 18,546 3.0 2,080 – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-1. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) all workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 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................................................................... $14.90 4.0 $14.22 3.8 $18.70 9.7 All excluding sales............................................... 14.82 4.0 14.11 3.5 18.70 9.7 White collar........................................................ 19.33 4.4 18.81 5.8 20.26 6.1 2....................................................... 9.96 2.1 10.40 4.1 – – 3....................................................... 11.08 7.0 11.08 7.0 – – 4....................................................... 12.44 1.7 12.37 2.0 – – 5....................................................... 16.14 10.0 17.63 11.0 – – 6....................................................... 19.18 3.2 18.78 3.8 – – 7....................................................... 21.13 5.1 20.10 9.0 21.31 5.6 8....................................................... 25.17 9.2 26.66 12.0 22.36 3.5 9....................................................... 31.54 10.8 32.65 11.2 – – 10........................................................ 27.36 6.5 – – – – 11........................................................ 39.93 4.5 – – – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.68 3.8 19.27 4.5 20.26 6.1 2....................................................... 10.02 2.0 10.53 4.0 – – 3....................................................... 11.14 3.1 11.14 3.1 – – 4....................................................... 12.43 1.7 12.35 2.0 – – 5....................................................... 14.35 4.9 15.34 5.3 – – 6....................................................... 19.58 2.3 19.29 2.4 – – 7....................................................... 21.13 5.1 20.10 9.0 21.31 5.6 8....................................................... 25.34 10.7 27.19 15.2 22.36 3.5 9....................................................... 28.09 4.8 28.83 5.1 – – 10........................................................ 27.36 6.5 – – – – 11........................................................ 39.93 4.5 – – – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.61 4.1 22.93 5.3 22.44 5.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 23.47 5.6 25.03 5.0 22.86 7.4 6....................................................... 22.73 .4 – – – – 7....................................................... 21.39 5.5 – – 21.36 5.9 8....................................................... 23.41 3.5 24.22 4.3 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ 27.43 12.8 24.55 4.3 – – 6....................................................... 22.73 .4 – – – – 8....................................................... 23.76 5.1 – – – – Registered nurses........................................... 24.04 4.6 24.81 5.1 – – 6....................................................... 23.34 .9 – – – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 19.16 3.4 19.29 4.5 – – 5....................................................... 17.16 3.8 17.16 3.8 – – Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. $15.39 8.0 – – – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.45 7.4 $31.02 7.7 – – 9....................................................... 28.55 3.7 28.55 3.7 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 31.60 6.3 31.26 3.3 – – 9....................................................... 26.93 4.1 26.93 4.1 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 30.95 4.3 30.95 4.3 – – 9....................................................... 27.32 4.8 27.32 4.8 – – Management related............................................ 31.17 16.8 30.65 18.5 – – Sales............................................................. 16.92 22.9 16.92 22.9 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.11 1.5 12.33 2.0 – – 2....................................................... 9.97 1.7 10.49 4.4 – – 3....................................................... 11.14 3.1 11.14 3.1 – – 4....................................................... 12.48 1.8 12.44 2.2 – – 5....................................................... 13.64 3.7 15.13 5.7 – – Order clerks................................................ 12.16 2.9 12.16 2.9 – – 4....................................................... 12.17 4.3 12.17 4.3 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.02 6.2 10.74 7.3 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.12 7.0 12.12 7.0 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.12 1.5 11.38 .9 – – Blue collar......................................................... 13.41 3.6 13.40 3.7 – – 1....................................................... 9.10 3.5 9.10 3.5 – – 2....................................................... 10.44 1.3 10.44 1.3 – – 3....................................................... 13.78 10.4 13.80 10.5 – – 4....................................................... 15.36 4.8 15.36 4.8 – – 5....................................................... 17.24 10.4 17.24 10.4 – – 6....................................................... 17.49 2.7 17.72 2.9 – – 7....................................................... 20.34 4.7 20.34 4.7 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.72 4.5 17.86 4.7 – – 3....................................................... 12.57 1.6 – – – – 4....................................................... 14.82 7.5 14.82 7.5 – – 5....................................................... 19.40 14.9 19.40 14.9 – – 6....................................................... 18.09 2.6 18.50 2.6 – – 7....................................................... 19.34 2.2 19.34 2.2 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 14.48 2.0 14.48 2.0 – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 12.08 2.2 12.08 2.2 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 19.96 3.6 19.96 3.6 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 17.11 3.5 17.11 3.5 – – 7....................................................... 19.55 3.6 19.55 3.6 – – Upholsterers................................................ 20.01 4.5 20.01 4.5 – – 4....................................................... 18.18 11.8 18.18 11.8 – – 5....................................................... 20.98 5.1 20.98 5.1 – – 6....................................................... $21.06 5.5 $21.06 5.5 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.09 1.2 12.09 1.2 – – 1....................................................... 9.41 2.4 9.41 2.4 – – 2....................................................... 10.26 1.7 10.26 1.7 – – 3....................................................... 12.18 1.1 12.18 1.1 – – 4....................................................... 14.72 3.3 14.72 3.3 – – 5....................................................... 14.29 2.3 14.29 2.3 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 11.43 2.7 11.43 2.7 – – 2....................................................... 8.91 7.7 8.91 7.7 – – Numerical control machine operators......................... 13.99 9.9 13.99 9.9 – – Sawing machine operators.................................... 12.53 .8 12.53 .8 – – Shaping and jointing machine operators...................... 12.84 9.7 12.84 9.7 – – Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 10.82 .0 10.82 .0 – – Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 11.78 2.3 11.78 2.3 – – Textile sewing machine operators............................ 12.51 7.7 12.51 7.7 – – 2....................................................... 9.36 6.7 9.36 6.7 – – 3....................................................... 12.96 7.2 12.96 7.2 – – 4....................................................... 16.58 9.7 16.58 9.7 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.17 8.1 10.17 8.1 – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 13.18 6.1 13.18 6.1 – – 4....................................................... 14.14 7.9 14.14 7.9 – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 11.79 4.9 11.79 4.9 – – 2....................................................... 10.42 2.3 10.42 2.3 – – Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 13.21 .5 13.21 .5 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 12.97 .9 12.97 .9 – – 2....................................................... 11.25 3.5 11.25 3.5 – – 3....................................................... 12.10 2.1 12.10 2.1 – – 4....................................................... 14.77 5.6 14.77 5.6 – – Assemblers.................................................. 10.70 1.7 10.70 1.7 – – 1....................................................... 9.45 1.0 9.45 1.0 – – 2....................................................... 10.52 3.6 10.52 3.6 – – 3....................................................... 11.94 1.6 11.94 1.6 – – Hand cutting and trimming................................... 12.07 7.4 12.07 7.4 – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 13.68 17.6 13.68 17.6 – – 1....................................................... 10.21 .8 10.21 .8 – – 4....................................................... 18.14 9.7 18.14 9.7 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 10.65 3.9 10.65 3.9 – – 2....................................................... 9.04 2.2 9.04 2.2 – – 3....................................................... 11.16 2.6 11.16 2.6 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 18.68 6.9 18.68 6.9 – – 2....................................................... 11.86 3.6 11.86 3.6 – – 4....................................................... 19.25 8.9 19.25 8.9 – – Truck drivers............................................... 20.10 4.6 20.10 4.6 – – 4....................................................... 19.55 8.6 19.55 8.6 – – Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ $12.29 4.3 $12.29 4.3 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.26 6.0 10.26 6.0 – – 1....................................................... 8.97 4.6 8.97 4.6 – – 2....................................................... 10.57 2.6 10.57 2.6 – – 3....................................................... 11.76 1.4 11.76 1.4 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.14 13.3 10.14 13.3 – – 1....................................................... 7.44 14.7 7.44 14.7 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 10.00 2.0 10.00 2.0 – – 2....................................................... 10.09 3.2 10.09 3.2 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.74 2.5 9.74 2.5 – – 1....................................................... 9.37 4.0 9.37 4.0 – – 2....................................................... 10.32 7.7 10.32 7.7 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.64 3.6 9.64 3.6 – – 1....................................................... 9.30 4.7 9.30 4.7 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 8.99 9.5 8.99 9.5 – – 1....................................................... 8.11 8.1 8.11 8.1 – – 2....................................................... 12.05 2.6 12.05 2.6 – – Service............................................................. 12.35 20.6 8.97 5.7 $16.05 26.6 1....................................................... 7.88 5.9 – – – – 2....................................................... 8.22 5.9 8.20 7.4 – – 3....................................................... 9.17 1.5 9.13 1.7 – – 4....................................................... 10.36 2.3 10.29 6.1 – – Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 8.74 5.5 8.35 6.4 – – Other food service........................................... 8.74 5.5 8.35 6.4 – – Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.23 12.3 – – – – Health service................................................ 10.31 2.4 10.46 7.1 – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.33 2.6 10.46 7.1 – – Cleaning and building service................................. 19.87 32.5 11.46 28.8 – – 1....................................................... 8.53 2.1 – – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.66 1.6 8.92 3.0 – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 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, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 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................................................................... $15.18 3.8 $14.52 3.4 $18.80 10.0 All excluding sales............................................... 15.04 3.9 14.33 3.3 18.80 10.0 White collar........................................................ 19.76 4.2 19.47 5.3 20.25 6.4 2....................................................... 10.08 2.0 10.72 3.8 – – 3....................................................... 11.42 6.7 11.42 6.7 – – 4....................................................... 12.42 1.7 12.34 2.1 – – 5....................................................... 16.34 9.9 17.64 11.2 – – 6....................................................... 18.95 3.4 18.59 4.3 – – 7....................................................... 21.13 5.1 20.10 9.0 21.31 5.6 8....................................................... 24.96 9.7 26.67 12.3 – – 9....................................................... 31.76 10.9 32.93 11.3 – – 10........................................................ 27.36 6.5 – – – – 11........................................................ 39.93 4.5 – – – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.69 4.0 19.30 4.7 20.25 6.4 2....................................................... 10.08 2.0 10.72 3.8 – – 3....................................................... 11.14 3.1 11.14 3.1 – – 4....................................................... 12.41 1.7 12.32 2.1 – – 5....................................................... 14.55 5.0 15.27 6.2 – – 6....................................................... 19.34 2.5 19.10 3.0 – – 7....................................................... 21.13 5.1 20.10 9.0 21.31 5.6 8....................................................... 25.12 11.1 27.23 15.7 – – 9....................................................... 28.25 5.0 29.03 5.3 – – 10........................................................ 27.36 6.5 – – – – 11........................................................ 39.93 4.5 – – – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.67 4.3 23.03 6.0 22.48 5.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 23.55 5.8 25.26 5.5 22.92 7.6 7....................................................... 21.39 5.5 – – 21.36 5.9 8....................................................... 22.91 3.1 24.06 4.2 – – Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... – – – – – – Health related................................................ 27.50 14.5 24.56 5.6 – – Registered nurses........................................... 24.10 5.2 25.00 5.6 – – Teachers, college and university.............................. – – – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... – – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners.......................... – – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... 19.21 3.7 19.38 5.0 – – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.45 7.4 31.02 7.7 – – 9....................................................... 28.55 3.7 28.55 3.7 – – Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 31.60 6.3 31.26 3.3 – – 9....................................................... 26.93 4.1 26.93 4.1 – – Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... $30.95 4.3 $30.95 4.3 – – 9....................................................... 27.32 4.8 27.32 4.8 – – Management related............................................ 31.17 16.8 30.65 18.5 – – Sales............................................................. 20.40 20.4 20.40 20.4 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.13 1.5 12.35 1.9 – – 2....................................................... 10.03 1.7 10.72 4.5 – – 3....................................................... 11.14 3.1 11.14 3.1 – – 4....................................................... 12.46 1.8 12.41 2.2 – – 5....................................................... 13.64 3.7 15.13 5.7 – – Order clerks................................................ 12.16 2.9 12.16 2.9 – – 4....................................................... 12.17 4.3 12.17 4.3 – – Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.02 6.2 10.74 7.3 – – Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 12.12 7.0 12.12 7.0 – – General office clerks....................................... 12.12 1.5 11.38 .9 – – Blue collar......................................................... 13.53 3.6 13.52 3.6 – – 1....................................................... 9.22 3.6 9.22 3.6 – – 2....................................................... 10.40 1.4 10.40 1.4 – – 3....................................................... 13.78 10.4 13.80 10.5 – – 4....................................................... 15.36 4.8 15.36 4.8 – – 5....................................................... 17.24 10.4 17.24 10.4 – – 6....................................................... 17.49 2.7 17.72 2.9 – – 7....................................................... 20.34 4.7 20.34 4.7 – – Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.72 4.5 17.86 4.7 – – 3....................................................... 12.57 1.6 – – – – 4....................................................... 14.82 7.5 14.82 7.5 – – 5....................................................... 19.40 14.9 19.40 14.9 – – 6....................................................... 18.09 2.6 18.50 2.6 – – 7....................................................... 19.34 2.2 19.34 2.2 – – Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 14.48 2.0 14.48 2.0 – – Machinery maintenance....................................... 12.08 2.2 12.08 2.2 – – Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 19.96 3.6 19.96 3.6 – – Supervisors, production..................................... 17.11 3.5 17.11 3.5 – – 7....................................................... 19.55 3.6 19.55 3.6 – – Upholsterers................................................ 20.01 4.5 20.01 4.5 – – 4....................................................... 18.18 11.8 18.18 11.8 – – 5....................................................... 20.98 5.1 20.98 5.1 – – 6....................................................... 21.06 5.5 21.06 5.5 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.11 1.2 12.11 1.2 – – 1....................................................... 9.47 2.0 9.47 2.0 – – 2....................................................... 10.25 1.7 10.25 1.7 – – 3....................................................... 12.18 1.1 12.18 1.1 – – 4....................................................... $14.72 3.3 $14.72 3.3 – – 5....................................................... 14.29 2.3 14.29 2.3 – – Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 11.43 2.7 11.43 2.7 – – 2....................................................... 8.91 7.7 8.91 7.7 – – Numerical control machine operators......................... 13.99 9.9 13.99 9.9 – – Sawing machine operators.................................... 12.68 1.1 12.68 1.1 – – Shaping and jointing machine operators...................... 12.84 9.7 12.84 9.7 – – Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 10.82 .0 10.82 .0 – – Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 11.78 2.3 11.78 2.3 – – Textile sewing machine operators............................ 12.51 7.7 12.51 7.7 – – 2....................................................... 9.36 6.7 9.36 6.7 – – 3....................................................... 12.96 7.2 12.96 7.2 – – 4....................................................... 16.58 9.7 16.58 9.7 – – Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 10.17 8.1 10.17 8.1 – – Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 13.18 6.1 13.18 6.1 – – 4....................................................... 14.14 7.9 14.14 7.9 – – Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 11.79 4.9 11.79 4.9 – – 2....................................................... 10.42 2.3 10.42 2.3 – – Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 13.21 .5 13.21 .5 – – Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 13.06 .8 13.06 .8 – – 2....................................................... 11.25 3.5 11.25 3.5 – – 3....................................................... 12.10 2.1 12.10 2.1 – – 4....................................................... 14.77 5.6 14.77 5.6 – – Assemblers.................................................. 10.70 1.7 10.70 1.7 – – 1....................................................... 9.45 1.0 9.45 1.0 – – 2....................................................... 10.52 3.6 10.52 3.6 – – 3....................................................... 11.94 1.6 11.94 1.6 – – Hand cutting and trimming................................... 12.07 7.4 12.07 7.4 – – Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 13.68 17.6 13.68 17.6 – – 1....................................................... 10.21 .8 10.21 .8 – – 4....................................................... 18.14 9.7 18.14 9.7 – – Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 10.65 3.9 10.65 3.9 – – 2....................................................... 9.04 2.2 9.04 2.2 – – 3....................................................... 11.16 2.6 11.16 2.6 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 18.73 6.8 18.73 6.8 – – 2....................................................... 11.78 4.6 11.78 4.6 – – 4....................................................... 19.25 8.9 19.25 8.9 – – Truck drivers............................................... 20.10 4.6 20.10 4.6 – – 4....................................................... 19.55 8.6 19.55 8.6 – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.45 6.0 10.45 6.0 – – 1....................................................... 9.10 5.1 9.10 5.1 – – 2....................................................... 10.47 2.6 10.47 2.6 – – 3....................................................... 11.76 1.4 11.76 1.4 – – Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 11.56 4.7 11.56 4.7 – – Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. $10.00 2.0 $10.00 2.0 – – 2....................................................... 10.09 3.2 10.09 3.2 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.82 3.7 9.82 3.7 – – 1....................................................... 9.53 6.1 9.53 6.1 – – 2....................................................... 9.50 4.3 9.50 4.3 – – Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.64 3.6 9.64 3.6 – – 1....................................................... 9.30 4.7 9.30 4.7 – – Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 8.99 9.5 8.99 9.5 – – 1....................................................... 8.11 8.1 8.11 8.1 – – 2....................................................... 12.05 2.6 12.05 2.6 – – Service............................................................. 13.29 22.0 9.47 6.8 $16.33 26.8 1....................................................... 8.32 2.2 8.31 4.2 – – 2....................................................... 8.47 5.9 8.53 8.2 – – 3....................................................... 9.17 1.5 9.13 1.7 – – Protective service............................................ – – – – – – Food service.................................................. 9.40 4.7 9.12 4.3 – – Other food service........................................... 9.40 4.7 9.12 4.3 – – Health service................................................ 10.22 2.1 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 10.24 2.2 – – – – Cleaning and building service................................. 19.87 32.5 11.46 28.8 – – 1....................................................... 8.53 2.1 – – – – Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.66 1.6 8.92 3.0 – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 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, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 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................................................................... $9.23 9.1 $8.79 8.7 – – All excluding sales............................................... 9.76 9.7 9.26 9.4 – – White collar........................................................ 11.42 16.5 10.17 16.7 – – White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.02 15.0 18.16 14.7 – – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 21.33 14.7 21.59 9.4 – – Professional specialty.......................................... 21.91 16.3 22.73 8.8 – – Health related................................................ 26.90 9.1 24.44 5.5 – – Registered nurses........................................... 23.46 1.6 – – – – Teachers, except college and university....................... – – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... – – – – – – Technical....................................................... – – – – – – Sales............................................................. 6.89 7.1 6.89 7.1 – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ – – – – – – Blue collar......................................................... 8.72 11.0 8.72 11.0 – – 1....................................................... 8.04 8.8 8.04 8.8 – – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... – – – – – – Transportation and material moving................................ – – – – – – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 8.60 12.2 8.60 12.2 – – 1....................................................... 8.13 9.7 8.13 9.7 – – Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.51 9.6 9.51 9.6 – – Service............................................................. 8.00 7.0 7.82 7.3 – – Food service.................................................. – – – – – – Health service................................................ – – – – – – Personal service.............................................. – – – – – – 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 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....................................................... $15.18 $9.23 – $14.73 $14.36 $18.53 All excluding sales............................................. 15.04 9.76 – 14.65 14.47 17.46 White collar........................................................ 19.76 11.42 – 19.33 18.56 30.49 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 19.69 19.02 – 19.68 19.31 – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.67 21.33 – 22.61 22.61 – Professional specialty.......................................... 23.55 21.91 – 23.47 23.47 – Technical....................................................... 19.21 – – 19.16 19.16 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.45 – – 31.45 29.75 – Sales............................................................. 20.40 6.89 – 16.92 8.70 26.28 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.13 – – 12.11 12.11 – Blue collar......................................................... 13.53 8.72 – 13.09 12.71 16.66 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.72 – – 17.72 16.29 23.17 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.11 – – 12.09 11.61 14.00 Transportation and material moving................................ 18.73 – – 16.21 18.52 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.45 8.60 – 10.23 10.24 – Service............................................................. 13.29 8.00 – 12.35 12.35 – B Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Occupational group workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Relative error(6) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 3.8 9.1 – 3.9 4.2 8.2 All excluding sales............................................. 3.9 9.7 – 3.9 4.2 9.1 White collar........................................................ 4.2 16.5 – 4.4 3.6 21.3 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 4.0 15.0 – 3.8 3.3 – Professional specialty and technical.............................. 4.3 14.7 – 4.1 4.1 – Professional specialty.......................................... 5.8 16.3 – 5.6 5.6 – Technical....................................................... 3.7 – – 3.4 3.4 – Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 7.4 – – 7.4 5.8 – Sales............................................................. 20.4 7.1 – 22.9 9.4 30.3 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 1.5 – – 1.5 1.5 – Blue collar......................................................... 3.6 11.0 – 2.5 4.4 6.1 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 4.5 – – 4.5 2.3 10.9 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 1.2 – – 1.2 .8 2.9 Transportation and material moving................................ 6.8 – – 5.1 14.9 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.0 12.2 – 5.9 6.6 – Service............................................................. 22.0 7.0 – 20.6 20.6 – 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, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 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....................................................... $14.22 $13.56 – – $13.52 $15.56 $20.83 $14.59 - $12.98 All excluding sales............................................. 14.11 13.40 – – 13.35 15.70 20.83 14.73 - 12.98 White collar........................................................ 18.81 18.33 – – 18.32 19.24 24.34 16.98 - 19.73 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 19.27 17.46 – – 17.43 21.51 24.34 – - 19.73 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.93 20.65 – – 20.65 23.35 – – - 22.69 Professional specialty.......................................... 25.03 – – – – 25.77 – – - 25.17 Technical....................................................... 19.29 – – – – 19.18 – – - 18.27 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.02 26.67 – – 26.67 47.00 – – - – Sales............................................................. 16.92 – – – – 14.35 – 14.35 - – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.33 12.09 – – 11.83 12.74 15.70 – - 11.84 Blue collar......................................................... 13.40 12.77 – – 12.72 15.53 20.29 15.30 - 9.04 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.86 16.73 – – 16.74 22.05 20.00 – - – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.09 12.19 – – 12.19 10.06 – – - – Transportation and material moving................................ 18.68 11.67 – – 11.01 20.20 21.71 14.48 - – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.26 10.37 – – 10.34 10.12 16.42 9.08 - 8.15 Service............................................................. 8.97 11.74 – – 11.74 8.64 – – - 8.82 B Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) All pri- vate Occupational group indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Relative error(5) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 3.8 1.5 – – 1.5 9.2 7.1 28.5 - 6.5 All excluding sales............................................. 3.5 2.1 – – 2.1 8.5 7.1 29.4 - 6.5 White collar........................................................ 5.8 6.2 – – 6.3 9.2 5.6 32.3 - 6.9 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 4.5 2.1 – – 2.2 8.9 5.6 – - 6.9 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 5.3 20.1 – – 20.1 5.1 – – - 5.1 Professional specialty.......................................... 5.0 – – – – 3.9 – – - 3.8 Technical....................................................... 4.5 – – – – 5.2 – – - 3.1 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 7.7 4.3 – – 4.3 14.0 – – - – Sales............................................................. 22.9 – – – – 27.9 – 27.9 - – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.0 2.3 – – 1.3 4.0 12.7 – - 2.7 Blue collar......................................................... 3.7 2.2 – – 2.2 9.7 8.0 23.2 - 9.1 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 4.7 2.2 – – 2.3 15.5 13.2 – - – Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 1.2 1.2 – – 1.2 4.7 – – - – Transportation and material moving................................ 6.9 4.7 – – 2.2 5.1 .5 2.8 - – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.0 2.7 – – 2.8 14.0 22.9 17.1 - 11.2 Service............................................................. 5.7 32.4 – – 32.4 3.9 – – - 5.6 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 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....................................................... $14.22 $12.54 $14.82 $14.97 $14.32 All excluding sales............................................. 14.11 12.43 14.64 14.74 14.32 White collar........................................................ 18.81 16.25 19.97 19.94 20.03 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 19.27 18.93 19.35 19.07 20.03 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 22.93 – 23.05 24.04 22.19 Professional specialty.......................................... 25.03 – 25.03 24.78 25.33 Technical....................................................... 19.29 – 19.41 21.69 18.37 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 31.02 34.83 29.87 28.68 – Sales............................................................. 16.92 13.35 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.33 12.97 12.09 12.03 12.29 Blue collar......................................................... 13.40 12.04 13.79 14.08 12.74 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.86 20.53 17.33 17.86 15.39 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.09 10.61 12.46 12.43 12.58 Transportation and material moving................................ 18.68 16.33 19.47 20.25 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.26 8.59 10.99 11.23 10.18 Service............................................................. 8.97 8.14 10.00 9.11 11.77 B Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Relative error(4) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 3.8 14.3 2.3 2.9 2.8 All excluding sales............................................. 3.5 12.7 2.6 3.2 2.8 White collar........................................................ 5.8 19.4 4.7 6.4 8.2 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 4.5 20.3 2.8 2.5 8.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 5.3 – 5.2 7.1 8.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 5.0 – 5.0 7.4 9.3 Technical....................................................... 4.5 – 4.6 10.4 3.7 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 7.7 24.4 7.4 8.6 – Sales............................................................. 22.9 28.0 – – – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.0 6.9 1.2 1.6 2.2 Blue collar......................................................... 3.7 9.8 3.2 3.9 3.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 4.7 20.8 1.9 2.2 6.6 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 1.2 .6 .9 1.1 1.3 Transportation and material moving................................ 6.9 9.4 8.3 8.6 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.0 11.2 5.9 7.6 3.1 Service............................................................. 5.7 2.4 9.8 1.3 19.7 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, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.40 $10.00 $12.32 $17.19 $24.55 All excluding sales........................... 8.50 10.00 12.35 17.00 24.55 White collar.................................... 9.45 11.76 16.05 23.75 29.94 White collar excluding sales................ 10.02 12.30 16.85 24.01 30.53 Professional specialty and technical.......... 14.81 17.87 21.74 25.65 29.53 Professional specialty...................... 15.54 18.68 22.79 26.18 30.46 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... – – – – – Health related............................ 18.15 20.67 23.81 27.13 41.07 Registered nurses....................... 18.31 20.62 23.81 25.50 31.15 Teachers, college and university.......... – – – – – Teachers, except college and university... – – – – – Librarians, archivists, and curators...... – – – – – Social scientists and urban planners...... – – – – – Social, recreation, and religious workers. – – – – – Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... – – – – – Technical................................... 11.48 15.18 18.89 21.88 28.25 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................................ 10.23 12.25 14.76 17.42 22.98 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 16.25 20.18 29.32 39.82 53.21 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 17.00 21.52 29.32 43.19 53.21 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 15.24 19.94 26.72 40.24 54.27 Management related........................ 16.25 18.80 29.80 36.35 66.08 Sales......................................... 6.25 8.32 11.54 23.50 26.08 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.32 10.47 12.00 13.21 14.70 Order clerks............................ 10.35 11.13 12.00 13.20 14.15 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.00 9.00 11.07 12.60 13.11 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.75 9.85 11.95 14.00 14.70 General office clerks................... 9.89 11.05 12.43 13.33 14.26 Blue collar..................................... 8.50 10.00 11.96 15.43 20.87 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.82 13.25 16.00 21.04 25.11 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 12.46 13.23 13.50 15.75 18.00 Machinery maintenance................... 10.38 10.38 10.68 13.82 13.97 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 13.85 16.24 20.62 23.61 25.11 Supervisors, production................. 13.46 14.39 16.40 19.23 21.44 Upholsterers............................ 12.50 16.35 19.65 23.82 26.94 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.90 10.05 11.48 13.50 16.44 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 7.30 9.50 11.36 12.80 15.98 Numerical control machine operators..... 10.57 10.57 14.00 16.50 16.50 Sawing machine operators................ 10.91 11.99 12.60 13.20 13.50 Shaping and jointing machine operators.. 9.00 13.10 13.50 13.76 14.35 Winding and twisting machine operators.. $9.00 $9.90 $10.20 $11.79 $13.07 Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.................... 8.23 11.20 11.95 13.14 14.20 Textile sewing machine operators........ 8.25 10.00 11.28 14.46 19.01 Packaging and filling machine operators. 8.40 8.50 10.57 11.19 11.87 Mixing and blending machine operators... 10.23 10.46 13.05 14.00 17.23 Painting and paint spraying machine operators............................ 9.45 10.82 11.12 13.36 13.86 Slicing and cutting machine operators... 10.57 11.90 12.45 14.82 17.78 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 9.70 10.72 12.52 14.77 16.99 Assemblers.............................. 8.70 9.31 10.30 11.65 13.44 Hand cutting and trimming............... 7.83 10.04 10.97 12.85 18.00 Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c....... 9.65 10.03 11.39 16.03 21.64 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.35 9.00 10.48 11.60 14.50 Transportation and material moving............ 11.00 14.69 17.91 24.55 24.55 Truck drivers........................... 12.00 16.50 19.91 24.55 24.55 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 10.87 10.87 11.91 14.40 14.70 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.00 8.50 9.73 10.96 12.70 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.75 8.15 11.36 12.00 12.70 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 9.53 9.70 9.99 10.35 10.86 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 7.00 8.75 9.10 10.57 12.25 Hand packers and packagers.............. 7.50 8.25 9.75 10.40 11.59 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 6.00 7.40 9.00 10.28 12.20 Service......................................... 7.15 8.25 9.52 11.54 33.48 Protective service........................ – – – – – Food service.............................. 6.25 7.47 8.78 9.75 11.23 Other food service....................... 6.25 7.47 8.78 9.75 11.23 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 6.25 6.50 7.50 9.66 11.54 Health service............................ 9.08 9.52 10.07 10.80 12.30 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 9.08 9.52 10.07 10.81 12.30 Cleaning and building service............. 7.92 8.33 10.14 33.48 33.48 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.25 8.33 8.33 8.50 9.30 Personal service.......................... – – – – – 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.25 $9.88 $12.00 $16.12 $24.33 All excluding sales........................... 8.45 9.93 12.00 16.05 24.00 White collar.................................... 9.13 11.13 14.21 23.81 30.93 White collar excluding sales................ 10.00 11.74 14.70 25.25 32.18 Professional specialty and technical.......... 12.33 17.99 22.98 27.59 32.18 Professional specialty...................... 16.90 20.55 25.13 27.90 34.69 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Health related............................ 17.90 20.57 23.81 26.16 32.18 Registered nurses....................... 18.44 20.85 24.08 26.23 31.35 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 10.23 15.09 18.69 23.24 28.77 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 15.24 19.94 29.32 35.09 54.27 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.24 21.52 29.32 39.82 54.27 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 15.24 19.94 26.72 40.24 54.27 Management related........................ 16.18 17.98 29.80 30.53 66.08 Sales......................................... 6.25 8.32 11.54 23.50 26.08 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.56 10.65 12.00 13.50 15.00 Order clerks............................ 10.35 11.13 12.00 13.20 14.15 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.00 9.00 9.45 12.60 13.04 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.75 9.85 11.95 14.00 14.70 General office clerks................... 9.09 10.44 11.52 12.43 13.23 Blue collar..................................... 8.50 10.00 11.95 15.42 20.99 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 12.00 13.25 16.03 21.83 25.11 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 12.46 13.23 13.50 15.75 18.00 Machinery maintenance................... 10.38 10.38 10.68 13.82 13.97 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 13.85 16.24 20.62 23.61 25.11 Supervisors, production................. 13.46 14.39 16.40 19.23 21.44 Upholsterers............................ 12.50 16.35 19.65 23.82 26.94 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.90 10.05 11.48 13.50 16.44 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 7.30 9.50 11.36 12.80 15.98 Numerical control machine operators..... 10.57 10.57 14.00 16.50 16.50 Sawing machine operators................ 10.91 11.99 12.60 13.20 13.50 Shaping and jointing machine operators.. 9.00 13.10 13.50 13.76 14.35 Winding and twisting machine operators.. 9.00 9.90 10.20 11.79 13.07 Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.................... $8.23 $11.20 $11.95 $13.14 $14.20 Textile sewing machine operators........ 8.25 10.00 11.28 14.46 19.01 Packaging and filling machine operators. 8.40 8.50 10.57 11.19 11.87 Mixing and blending machine operators... 10.23 10.46 13.05 14.00 17.23 Painting and paint spraying machine operators............................ 9.45 10.82 11.12 13.36 13.86 Slicing and cutting machine operators... 10.57 11.90 12.45 14.82 17.78 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 9.70 10.72 12.52 14.77 16.99 Assemblers.............................. 8.70 9.31 10.30 11.65 13.44 Hand cutting and trimming............... 7.83 10.04 10.97 12.85 18.00 Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c....... 9.65 10.03 11.39 16.03 21.64 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.35 9.00 10.48 11.60 14.50 Transportation and material moving............ 11.00 14.69 17.91 24.55 24.55 Truck drivers........................... 12.00 16.50 19.91 24.55 24.55 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 10.87 10.87 11.91 14.40 14.70 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.00 8.50 9.73 10.96 12.70 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.75 8.15 11.36 12.00 12.70 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 9.53 9.70 9.99 10.35 10.86 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 7.00 8.75 9.10 10.57 12.25 Hand packers and packagers.............. 7.50 8.25 9.75 10.40 11.59 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 6.00 7.40 9.00 10.28 12.20 Service......................................... 6.50 7.50 8.50 9.75 10.77 Food service.............................. 6.25 7.00 8.50 9.50 10.00 Other food service....................... 6.25 7.00 8.50 9.50 10.00 Health service............................ 8.00 8.91 10.67 12.00 13.40 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 8.00 8.91 10.67 12.00 13.40 Cleaning and building service............. 7.55 8.25 8.50 10.20 27.00 Janitors and cleaners................... 7.75 8.25 8.50 9.30 10.20 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, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $9.10 $11.54 $15.95 $23.27 $33.48 All excluding sales........................... 9.10 11.54 15.95 23.27 33.48 White collar.................................... 10.69 13.33 18.89 23.66 28.80 White collar excluding sales................ 10.69 13.33 18.89 23.66 28.80 Professional specialty and technical.......... 14.82 17.87 21.34 24.60 28.04 Professional specialty...................... 15.54 18.21 21.75 25.19 28.51 Health related............................ - - - - - Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Technical................................... - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial..... - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers.. - - - - - Management related........................ - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... - - - - - Blue collar..................................... - - - - - Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Service......................................... 8.33 9.52 11.54 18.72 33.48 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. - - - - - Other food service....................... - - - - - Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building 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, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.75 $10.18 $12.52 $17.60 $24.68 All excluding sales........................... 8.75 10.18 12.50 17.31 24.55 White collar.................................... 9.87 12.23 16.85 23.92 30.46 White collar excluding sales................ 10.09 12.30 16.85 23.97 30.53 Professional specialty and technical.......... 14.82 17.99 21.73 25.64 29.19 Professional specialty...................... 15.66 18.68 22.76 26.18 30.24 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Health related............................ 18.00 20.53 23.81 26.58 42.33 Registered nurses....................... 18.26 20.53 23.81 25.50 31.15 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 11.48 15.18 18.89 21.88 28.25 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 16.25 20.18 29.32 39.82 53.21 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 17.00 21.52 29.32 43.19 53.21 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 15.24 19.94 26.72 40.24 54.27 Management related........................ 16.25 18.80 29.80 36.35 66.08 Sales......................................... 8.32 9.38 15.69 23.50 27.04 Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.45 10.50 12.00 13.21 14.77 Order clerks............................ 10.35 11.13 12.00 13.20 14.15 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.00 9.00 11.07 12.60 13.11 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.75 9.85 11.95 14.00 14.70 General office clerks................... 9.89 11.05 12.43 13.33 14.26 Blue collar..................................... 8.70 10.05 12.00 15.58 21.19 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.82 13.25 16.00 21.04 25.11 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 12.46 13.23 13.50 15.75 18.00 Machinery maintenance................... 10.38 10.38 10.68 13.82 13.97 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 13.85 16.24 20.62 23.61 25.11 Supervisors, production................. 13.46 14.39 16.40 19.23 21.44 Upholsterers............................ 12.50 16.35 19.65 23.82 26.94 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 8.90 10.05 11.50 13.50 16.47 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 7.30 9.50 11.36 12.80 15.98 Numerical control machine operators..... 10.57 10.57 14.00 16.50 16.50 Sawing machine operators................ 11.75 12.09 12.94 13.20 13.50 Shaping and jointing machine operators.. 9.00 13.10 13.50 13.76 14.35 Winding and twisting machine operators.. 9.00 9.90 10.20 11.79 13.07 Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.................... $8.23 $11.20 $11.95 $13.14 $14.20 Textile sewing machine operators........ 8.25 10.00 11.28 14.46 19.01 Packaging and filling machine operators. 8.40 8.50 10.57 11.19 11.87 Mixing and blending machine operators... 10.23 10.46 13.05 14.00 17.23 Painting and paint spraying machine operators............................ 9.45 10.82 11.12 13.36 13.86 Slicing and cutting machine operators... 10.57 11.90 12.45 14.82 17.78 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 9.70 10.83 12.52 14.86 16.99 Assemblers.............................. 8.70 9.31 10.30 11.65 13.44 Hand cutting and trimming............... 7.83 10.04 10.97 12.85 18.00 Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c....... 9.65 10.03 11.39 16.03 21.64 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.35 9.00 10.48 11.60 14.50 Transportation and material moving............ 11.00 14.70 18.00 24.55 24.55 Truck drivers........................... 12.00 16.50 19.91 24.55 24.55 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.00 8.50 9.80 11.20 12.95 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 9.35 11.01 11.90 12.04 12.75 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 9.53 9.70 9.99 10.35 10.86 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 7.00 8.25 9.38 10.93 13.00 Hand packers and packagers.............. 7.50 8.25 9.75 10.40 11.59 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 6.00 7.40 9.00 10.28 12.20 Service......................................... 7.57 8.50 9.89 11.95 33.48 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 8.15 8.51 9.25 9.75 11.54 Other food service....................... 8.15 8.51 9.25 9.75 11.54 Health service............................ 9.00 9.52 9.89 10.74 11.91 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 8.94 9.52 9.89 10.72 12.06 Cleaning and building service............. 7.92 8.33 10.14 33.48 33.48 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.25 8.33 8.33 8.50 9.30 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, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $6.00 $6.50 $8.00 $9.27 $12.40 All excluding sales........................... 6.25 7.00 8.60 9.50 14.38 White collar.................................... 5.75 6.25 7.50 14.38 25.00 White collar excluding sales................ 7.60 10.00 17.69 25.00 33.75 Professional specialty and technical.......... 7.60 14.38 22.57 25.65 35.11 Professional specialty...................... 7.60 14.38 23.00 26.38 35.11 Health related............................ 19.85 23.00 25.28 33.75 36.91 Registered nurses....................... 19.00 21.17 23.61 25.38 26.53 Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... - - - - - Sales......................................... 5.50 5.90 6.25 7.25 9.27 Administrative support, including clerical.... - - - - - Blue collar..................................... 5.75 6.70 9.00 9.50 11.30 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 5.75 6.70 9.00 9.05 10.00 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 6.70 8.75 9.00 9.50 11.25 Service......................................... 6.25 6.75 8.00 9.00 10.06 Food service.............................. - - - - - Other food service....................... - - - - - Health 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, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, January 2004 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 88,600 74,600 13,900 All excluding sales............................................. 85,200 71,300 13,900 White collar........................................................ 24,400 15,200 9,100 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 21,100 11,900 9,100 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 9,400 3,200 6,200 Professional specialty.......................................... 7,700 2,100 5,600 Technical....................................................... 1,700 1,100 - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 3,100 2,500 - Sales............................................................. 3,300 3,300 – Administrative support, including clerical........................ 8,600 6,200 - Blue collar......................................................... 53,600 53,200 - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 10,300 9,900 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 26,800 26,800 – Transportation and material moving................................ 4,700 4,700 – Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11,800 11,800 – Service............................................................. 10,600 6,200 4,400 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.