NC BL 07/00/1999 Table: Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito, TX, Bulletin 3095-20, June 1998 Table A-1. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all workers(2), all industries, Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 All industries Occupation(3) Percentiles Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All occupations....................................................... $10.95 2.9% $5.16 $5.93 $7.99 $12.93 $22.02 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 11.07 3.1 5.16 5.93 7.99 13.64 22.50 White-collar occupations............................................ 15.05 3.6 6.09 7.89 12.27 20.41 27.05 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 15.89 3.7 6.60 8.29 14.13 21.12 27.32 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 19.38 3.1 10.75 14.12 18.67 25.04 28.27 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 20.98 3.1 11.53 16.14 20.55 26.14 29.27 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 24.49 9.4 15.33 18.89 25.55 28.26 32.19 Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 20.58 5.8 15.17 17.02 19.27 23.23 27.79 Registered nurses........................................... 19.29 4.1 15.40 17.22 18.62 20.56 24.00 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.87 1.3 18.18 20.11 24.28 27.27 30.02 Elementary school teachers.................................. 23.77 0.9 18.00 19.80 24.11 27.02 29.64 Secondary school teachers................................... 23.69 1.4 18.18 19.95 23.09 26.92 30.33 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 12.69 4.4 10.51 11.17 12.27 14.36 14.82 Social workers.............................................. 12.69 4.4 10.51 11.17 12.27 14.36 14.82 Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 13.05 5.2 7.71 10.26 13.86 15.58 18.14 Licensed practical nurses................................... 13.93 3.8 10.79 12.00 14.02 15.06 16.62 Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 11.43 19.9 5.64 5.81 11.12 14.38 18.14 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 22.91 5.0 11.98 16.67 19.72 26.50 31.73 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 24.70 5.7 13.50 16.82 22.62 27.05 37.36 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 22.14 18.8 11.98 17.50 19.72 26.97 37.36 Managers, medicine and health............................... 25.06 23.1 11.80 14.10 21.02 41.17 41.17 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 33.37 18.0 16.36 19.43 23.45 31.73 86.54 Management related occupations................................ 15.24 6.8 11.79 12.02 14.52 18.60 19.30 Sales occupations................................................. 8.99 9.6 5.15 5.26 7.76 9.40 12.40 Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.61 12.5 5.20 5.20 7.75 8.75 10.20 Cashiers.................................................... 6.31 6.2 5.15 5.15 5.25 7.75 9.10 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 8.45 5.3 5.90 6.60 7.82 8.92 10.84 Secretaries................................................. 8.83 3.4 7.77 8.07 8.58 9.32 10.19 Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 6.76 4.3 5.50 6.02 6.95 7.13 7.85 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 7.43 5.1 5.90 7.32 7.32 8.05 8.95 Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.43 12.1 6.53 6.53 8.29 10.02 15.81 General office clerks....................................... 7.95 3.9 6.20 6.67 7.85 8.78 9.60 Teachers' aides............................................. 7.29 5.8 5.83 5.98 6.95 7.52 9.97 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 8.05 3.4 5.17 5.78 7.00 9.15 11.46 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 11.52 6.8 6.18 8.49 10.93 12.81 18.86 Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 8.03 8.9 5.61 6.38 8.89 9.33 9.47 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 7.19 1.6 5.35 5.93 6.97 8.26 9.15 Textile sewing machine operators............................ $7.41 1.5% $5.65 $5.93 $7.51 $8.85 $9.27 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 7.30 5.9 5.35 6.07 7.35 8.23 8.80 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 8.68 7.9 5.75 6.25 7.72 10.43 13.30 Truck drivers............................................... 8.81 13.8 5.17 5.75 7.48 12.00 14.38 Driver-sales workers........................................ 10.44 5.6 7.63 9.04 10.10 11.81 13.30 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.11 2.9 5.15 5.15 5.64 6.45 8.17 Helpers, construction trades................................ 6.03 1.5 5.15 5.78 6.00 6.25 6.39 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 5.55 2.5 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 7.85 11.2 5.25 5.54 8.65 9.01 10.65 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 6.53 8.7 5.15 5.15 5.94 7.77 9.29 Service occupations................................................. 6.44 2.6 5.15 5.16 5.72 7.35 9.47 Protective service occupations................................ 9.90 8.5 6.95 7.57 9.62 10.58 15.61 Police and detectives, public service....................... 12.24 8.2 9.83 9.96 10.58 15.58 16.16 Food service occupations...................................... 5.75 6.8 2.58 5.15 5.25 6.50 9.05 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.81 11.1 2.13 2.13 2.15 2.58 5.15 Cooks....................................................... 5.85 4.9 5.15 5.25 5.48 6.47 7.22 Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 5.77 3.6 4.76 5.13 5.82 6.10 6.90 Health service occupations.................................... 6.83 2.5 5.30 5.62 6.98 7.77 8.17 Health aides, except nursing................................ 7.50 2.2 6.08 7.30 7.43 8.07 8.19 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 6.33 3.2 5.30 5.30 5.87 7.10 8.00 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 6.24 3.1 5.15 5.30 6.06 6.75 7.75 Maids and housemen.......................................... 5.63 3.7 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.37 3.5 5.15 5.50 6.19 6.93 8.13 Personal service occupations.................................. 5.36 1.0 5.15 5.15 5.16 5.16 6.06 Welfare service aides....................................... 5.24 0.9 5.15 5.15 5.16 5.16 5.43 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages for this occupation was applied to 'the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to go below the minimum wage. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-2. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all workers(2), private industry and State and local government, Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Percentiles Percentiles Mean RSE Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 10 25 Median 75 90 50 50 All occupations....................................................... $9.41 3.5% $5.15 $5.41 $6.96 $10.16 $17.31 $13.91 5.1% $6.13 $7.43 $10.43 $19.72 $26.50 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 9.45 3.8 5.15 5.43 6.92 10.26 17.56 13.91 5.1 6.13 7.43 10.43 19.72 26.50 White-collar occupations............................................ 13.50 4.8 5.50 7.02 10.15 16.90 24.50 16.75 5.2 6.95 8.63 16.82 24.13 27.67 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 14.88 5.0 6.35 7.65 12.31 18.48 26.19 16.75 5.2 6.95 8.63 16.82 24.13 27.67 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 17.13 5.4 9.59 13.20 15.78 19.92 27.35 20.73 3.6 11.17 14.36 20.89 26.17 29.28 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 19.96 6.8 10.75 15.40 19.26 24.67 28.26 21.34 3.4 11.89 16.82 21.48 26.43 29.51 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 24.49 9.4 15.33 18.89 25.55 28.26 32.19 - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 20.65 6.0 15.07 16.91 19.33 23.23 27.79 - - - - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 19.33 4.3 15.28 17.02 18.71 20.60 24.00 - - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - - - - - - 24.03 1.2 18.18 20.30 24.42 27.29 30.03 Elementary school teachers.................................. - - - - - - - 23.77 0.9 18.00 19.80 24.11 27.02 29.64 Secondary school teachers................................... - - - - - - - 23.72 1.4 18.18 20.00 23.13 26.92 30.41 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - 12.62 4.5 10.51 11.07 12.27 14.36 14.82 Social workers.............................................. - - - - - - - 12.62 4.5 10.51 11.07 12.27 14.36 14.82 Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 13.68 4.4 9.00 11.06 14.38 15.78 18.14 9.72 17.9 5.64 5.81 11.17 12.90 12.90 Licensed practical nurses................................... 14.08 3.8 10.72 12.69 14.54 15.06 16.62 - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 24.33 6.3 11.79 14.10 17.31 27.05 41.17 21.43 7.9 12.40 16.82 19.72 25.95 28.96 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 26.52 7.6 11.80 16.36 22.75 27.64 41.17 22.71 8.2 16.82 17.94 22.59 26.49 29.83 Administrators and officials, public administration......... - - - - - - - 22.14 18.8 11.98 17.50 19.72 26.97 37.36 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 34.48 18.9 16.36 19.43 24.50 31.73 86.54 - - - - - - - Management related occupations................................ - - - - - - - 16.55 9.9 12.04 12.40 18.60 18.60 19.30 Sales occupations................................................. 8.99 9.6 5.15 5.26 7.76 9.40 12.40 - - - - - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.61 12.5 5.20 5.20 7.75 8.75 10.20 - - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.31 6.2 5.15 5.15 5.25 7.75 9.10 - - - - - - - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 8.92 8.9 5.67 6.35 7.50 9.68 15.81 7.91 2.8 5.98 6.95 7.92 8.71 9.88 Secretaries................................................. - - - - - - - 8.60 3.3 7.77 7.92 8.41 9.06 10.19 Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 6.85 5.0 5.15 6.72 6.95 7.28 7.93 - - - - - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 6.93 8.1 5.50 6.00 6.50 7.50 9.14 - - - - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 10.13 18.3 6.53 6.53 9.09 12.24 15.81 - - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 8.16 5.9 6.60 6.60 8.13 8.52 10.43 7.79 5.8 6.02 6.67 7.85 8.78 9.32 Teachers' aides............................................. - - - - - - - 7.29 5.8 5.83 5.98 6.95 7.52 9.97 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 7.84 3.6 5.15 5.70 6.79 8.85 11.35 9.50 8.0 6.25 6.49 8.30 10.42 15.33 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 11.26 9.0 6.00 7.92 10.93 12.01 21.07 12.23 9.5 7.73 10.16 10.81 13.52 18.48 Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... - - - - - - - 8.03 8.9 5.61 6.38 8.89 9.33 9.47 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 7.19 1.6 5.35 5.93 6.97 8.26 9.15 - - - - - - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 7.41 1.5 5.65 5.93 7.51 8.85 9.27 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 7.30 5.9 5.35 6.07 7.35 8.23 8.80 - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... $9.27 11.3% $5.51 $6.08 $8.47 $12.00 $14.39 $7.44 7.1% $6.25 $6.25 $7.35 $8.22 $9.14 Truck drivers............................................... 8.89 14.4 5.16 5.75 7.64 12.00 14.39 - - - - - - - Driver-sales workers........................................ 10.44 5.6 7.63 9.04 10.10 11.81 13.30 - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.00 3.1 5.15 5.15 5.50 6.22 7.85 7.05 6.4 5.15 5.76 6.61 7.74 10.03 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 5.55 2.5 5.12 5.15 5.33 5.65 6.10 - - - - - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 7.85 11.2 5.25 5.54 8.65 9.01 10.65 - - - - - - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 6.38 12.8 5.15 5.15 5.15 7.78 9.29 6.83 5.7 5.60 5.94 6.68 7.29 8.30 Service occupations................................................. 5.60 2.5 5.15 5.15 5.16 6.06 7.35 8.12 4.8 5.52 6.22 7.43 9.62 10.70 Protective service occupations................................ - - - - - - - 10.74 6.7 7.84 8.27 10.04 10.99 15.86 Police and detectives, public service....................... - - - - - - - 12.24 8.2 9.83 9.96 10.58 15.58 16.16 Food service occupations...................................... 4.96 5.1 2.13 5.15 5.15 5.50 6.46 7.48 10.4 4.87 5.93 7.19 9.33 10.01 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.81 11.1 2.13 2.13 2.15 2.58 5.15 - - - - - - - Health service occupations.................................... 6.64 2.9 5.30 5.51 6.29 7.77 8.17 - - - - - - - Health aides, except nursing................................ 7.42 3.5 6.00 6.34 7.68 8.17 8.31 - - - - - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 6.21 3.6 5.30 5.30 5.71 6.68 8.00 - - - - - - - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 5.75 3.2 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) 6.68 4.4 5.52 5.99 6.54 7.08 8.21 Maids and housemen.......................................... 5.63 3.7 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) - - - - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 5.84 4.7 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) 6.66 4.4 5.52 5.99 6.54 7.05 8.21 Personal service occupations.................................. 5.30 1.0 5.15 5.15 5.16 5.16 5.43 - - - - - - - Welfare service aides....................................... 5.18 0.0 5.15 5.15 5.16 5.16 5.35 - - - - - - - 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages for this occupation was applied to 'the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to go below the minimum wage. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-3. Hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, full-time and part-time workers(2), all industries, Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 All industries Full-time Part-time Occupation(3) Percentiles Percentiles Mean RSE Mean RSE 10 25 Median 75 90 10 25 Median 75 90 50 50 All occupations....................................................... $11.84 3.1% $5.52 $6.53 $8.64 $15.02 $23.56 $5.69 3.2% $5.15 $5.15 $5.16 $5.50 $7.27 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 11.90 3.2 5.52 6.50 8.59 15.33 23.84 5.61 2.9 5.15 5.15 5.16 5.43 6.50 White-collar occupations............................................ 15.66 3.6 6.60 8.29 13.48 21.02 27.35 6.92 7.2 5.15 5.15 5.58 7.06 9.32 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 16.13 3.7 6.75 8.32 14.36 21.47 27.37 8.11 11.6 5.15 5.30 6.36 7.06 15.92 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 19.47 3.0 11.07 14.18 18.75 25.18 28.39 13.91 18.4 6.25 6.36 15.25 20.00 24.00 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 21.02 3.1 11.53 16.27 20.60 26.18 29.30 17.76 12.6 9.38 15.25 20.00 24.00 24.00 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 24.49 9.4 15.33 18.89 25.55 28.26 32.19 - - - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 20.57 6.1 15.05 16.99 19.23 23.23 27.79 - - - - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 19.19 4.3 15.40 17.02 18.60 20.35 22.35 - - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.94 1.3 18.18 20.17 24.28 27.28 30.02 - - - - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 23.77 0.9 18.00 19.80 24.11 27.02 29.64 - - - - - - - Secondary school teachers................................... 23.69 1.4 18.18 19.95 23.09 26.92 30.33 - - - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 12.69 4.4 10.51 11.17 12.27 14.36 14.82 - - - - - - - Social workers.............................................. 12.69 4.4 10.51 11.17 12.27 14.36 14.82 - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 13.20 5.2 8.48 10.64 13.94 15.58 18.14 - - - - - - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 13.97 3.8 10.79 12.03 14.12 15.06 16.62 - - - - - - - Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 11.56 20.4 5.64 5.81 12.03 14.38 18.14 - - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 22.91 5.0 11.98 16.67 19.72 26.50 31.73 - - - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 24.70 5.7 13.50 16.82 22.62 27.05 37.36 - - - - - - - Administrators and officials, public administration......... 22.14 18.8 11.98 17.50 19.72 26.97 37.36 - - - - - - - Managers, medicine and health............................... 25.06 23.1 11.80 14.10 21.02 41.17 41.17 - - - - - - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 33.37 18.0 16.36 19.43 23.45 31.73 86.54 - - - - - - - Management related occupations................................ 15.24 6.8 11.79 12.02 14.52 18.60 19.30 - - - - - - - Sales occupations................................................. 10.52 11.5 5.47 7.12 8.83 10.95 15.68 6.20 9.2 5.15 5.15 5.25 7.13 8.44 Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.61 13.1 5.20 5.20 8.00 8.97 10.20 - - - - - - - Cashiers.................................................... - - - - - - - 5.48 2.9 5.15 5.15 5.15 5.25 7.25 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 8.60 5.5 5.98 6.67 7.92 9.06 11.06 6.10 3.2 5.15 5.24 6.21 7.06 7.06 Secretaries................................................. 8.83 3.4 7.77 8.07 8.58 9.32 10.19 - - - - - - - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 6.91 3.6 5.96 6.20 6.97 7.20 7.85 - - - - - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 7.45 5.2 5.90 7.32 7.32 8.05 8.95 - - - - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.43 12.1 6.53 6.53 8.29 10.02 15.81 - - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 8.05 3.9 6.60 6.67 7.91 8.78 9.60 - - - - - - - Teachers' aides............................................. 7.29 5.8 5.83 5.98 6.95 7.52 9.97 - - - - - - - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 8.16 3.5 5.22 5.93 7.11 9.27 11.66 6.37 5.8 5.15 5.33 5.65 7.63 9.01 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 11.52 6.8 6.18 8.49 10.93 12.81 18.86 - - - - - - - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... $8.03 8.9% $5.61 $6.38 $8.89 $9.33 $9.47 - - - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 7.24 1.6 5.35 6.03 6.97 8.41 9.20 - - - - - - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 7.41 1.5 5.65 5.93 7.51 8.85 9.27 - - - - - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 7.30 5.9 5.35 6.07 7.35 8.23 8.80 - - - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 8.69 8.2 5.75 6.25 7.70 10.92 13.75 - - - - - - - Truck drivers............................................... 8.77 13.6 5.16 5.75 7.30 12.00 14.38 - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.09 2.7 5.15 5.15 5.64 6.59 7.79 $6.20 6.7% $5.15 $5.19 $5.65 $5.92 $8.84 Helpers, construction trades................................ 6.03 1.5 5.15 5.78 6.00 6.25 6.39 - - - - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 5.64 3.8 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) 5.39 1.9 5.15 5.15 5.30 5.65 5.65 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 6.28 6.8 5.15 5.15 5.60 7.04 8.30 - - - - - - - Service occupations................................................. 7.25 3.2 5.19 5.76 6.75 8.08 10.01 5.14 2.4 5.15 5.15 5.16 5.16 5.47 Protective service occupations................................ 10.13 7.4 7.03 7.84 9.86 10.70 15.64 - - - - - - - Police and detectives, public service....................... 12.24 8.2 9.83 9.96 10.58 15.58 16.16 - - - - - - - Food service occupations...................................... 6.64 8.5 4.76 5.38 6.10 8.00 9.98 4.63 6.2 2.13 5.00 5.15 5.25 5.40 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.44 17.6 2.13 2.58 2.58 5.15 5.38 - - - - - - - Cooks....................................................... 6.44 4.1 5.48 5.75 6.18 6.85 7.75 - - - - - - - Health service occupations.................................... 6.78 2.4 5.30 5.66 6.97 7.63 8.17 - - - - - - - Health aides, except nursing................................ 7.53 2.2 6.10 7.35 7.43 8.14 8.19 - - - - - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 6.16 1.9 5.30 5.30 5.84 6.74 7.48 - - - - - - - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 6.37 3.2 5.15 5.52 6.10 6.87 8.12 5.45 3.2 (4) (4) (4) (4) (4) Maids and housemen.......................................... 5.74 4.3 5.15 5.15 5.61 6.06 6.56 - - - - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.49 3.6 5.26 5.52 6.22 6.95 8.21 - - - - - - - Personal service occupations.................................. 6.30 2.0 5.50 5.91 6.15 6.19 6.80 5.18 0.0 5.15 5.15 5.16 5.16 5.35 Welfare service aides....................................... - - - - - - - 5.18 0.0 5.15 5.15 5.16 5.16 5.35 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. The 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 The positional statistics for this occupation were suppressed because some were below the minimum wage. In this update survey, an average decrease in mean wages for this occupation was applied to 'the positional statistics, causing the 10th percentile to go below the minimum wage. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table A-4. Weekly and annual earnings(1) and hours for selected occupations, full-time workers only(2), all industries, Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 All industries Occupation(3) Mean Weekly earnings Mean Annual earnings weekly annual hours(4) hours Mean RSE Median Mean Median All occupations....................................................... 40.0 $473 3.1% $344 1,936 $22,914 $17,734 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 40.0 476 3.2 346 1,933 22,992 17,784 White-collar occupations............................................ 39.7 621 3.7 538 1,846 28,902 26,333 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 39.8 642 3.7 574 1,832 29,561 27,468 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 39.4 766 2.8 736 1,715 33,408 32,063 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 39.1 822 2.9 808 1,642 34,511 33,448 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 40.6 994 8.4 1,022 2,111 51,687 53,142 Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 39.7 816 6.1 753 2,063 42,451 39,161 Registered nurses........................................... 39.6 759 4.1 737 2,057 39,484 38,303 Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 38.4 919 1.2 941 1,417 33,919 34,202 Elementary school teachers.................................. 38.2 908 1.1 929 1,404 33,372 34,279 Secondary school teachers................................... 38.6 913 1.3 891 1,420 33,639 32,693 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 40.0 508 4.4 491 2,080 26,404 25,522 Social workers.............................................. 40.0 508 4.4 491 2,080 26,404 25,522 Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 40.4 533 4.3 558 2,097 27,687 28,987 Licensed practical nurses................................... 39.7 555 3.5 565 2,065 28,848 29,367 Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 42.8 494 15.0 482 2,223 25,698 25,084 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 41.1 942 5.0 818 2,089 47,859 41,859 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 41.0 1,014 5.8 912 2,078 51,319 43,442 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 40.0 886 18.8 789 2,080 46,053 41,018 Managers, medicine and health............................... 40.0 1,002 23.1 841 2,080 52,116 43,722 Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 42.3 1,410 17.3 1,073 2,198 73,340 55,816 Management related occupations................................ 41.4 631 8.2 526 2,137 32,567 27,984 Sales occupations................................................. 38.6 406 12.6 316 2,008 21,121 16,421 Sales workers, other commodities............................ 35.9 273 9.5 251 1,866 14,194 13,073 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 39.7 341 5.6 314 1,888 16,233 14,819 Secretaries................................................. 40.0 353 3.4 343 1,860 16,429 17,243 Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 40.0 276 3.6 279 2,030 14,020 14,040 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 39.6 295 5.3 293 1,918 14,292 13,931 Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 40.0 377 12.1 332 2,080 19,619 17,243 General office clerks....................................... 39.8 320 3.8 316 2,071 16,666 16,449 Teachers' aides............................................. 38.6 281 5.6 269 1,427 10,408 9,963 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 40.4 330 3.5 286 2,087 17,035 14,789 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 39.8 459 6.8 437 2,072 23,869 22,734 Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 40.0 321 8.9 356 2,080 16,708 18,491 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 40.0 290 1.6 279 2,080 15,059 14,498 Textile sewing machine operators............................ 40.0 297 1.6 300 2,080 15,421 15,621 Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 40.0 292 5.9 294 2,080 15,181 15,292 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 44.7 $388 7.0% $342 2,181 $18,955 $16,994 Truck drivers............................................... 49.2 431 7.8 428 2,542 22,302 22,214 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 39.6 241 2.4 226 2,059 12,546 11,733 Helpers, construction trades................................ 40.0 241 1.5 240 2,080 12,539 12,480 Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 40.0 226 3.8 216 2,080 11,740 11,232 Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 40.0 251 6.8 224 2,080 13,070 11,648 Service occupations................................................. 40.0 290 3.5 262 1,962 14,229 12,979 Protective service occupations................................ 43.5 441 8.3 426 2,261 22,910 22,136 Police and detectives, public service....................... 41.0 502 7.1 437 2,134 26,119 22,704 Food service occupations...................................... 38.2 254 9.0 240 1,635 10,862 10,712 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 37.6 129 20.4 90 1,955 6,733 4,696 Cooks....................................................... 37.7 243 2.6 238 1,708 10,996 10,606 Health service occupations.................................... 39.5 $268 2.6% $275 2,055 $13,939 $14,310 Health aides, except nursing................................ 39.5 297 2.9 297 2,055 15,466 15,454 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 39.5 243 1.8 230 2,053 12,648 11,963 Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 39.8 254 3.3 244 2,068 13,171 12,692 Maids and housemen.......................................... 39.0 224 5.9 224 2,030 11,648 11,669 Janitors and cleaners....................................... 40.0 259 3.7 249 2,077 13,468 12,937 Personal service occupations.................................. 40.0 252 2.0 246 2,080 13,110 12,792 1 Earnings are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. The median designates position--one-half of the workers receive the same as or more, and one-half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 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. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table B-1. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and levels(2), all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 All workers (4) All industries Occupational group(3) and level All industries Private industry State and local Full-time workers Part-time workers government Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $10.95 2.9% $9.41 3.5% $13.91 5.1% $11.84 3.1% $5.69 3.2% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 11.07 3.1 9.45 3.8 13.91 5.1 11.90 3.2 5.61 2.9 White-collar occupations............................................ 15.05 3.6 13.50 4.8 16.75 5.2 15.66 3.6 6.92 7.2 Level 1................................................... 6.43 6.6 6.40 7.5 - - 7.04 7.6 5.58 4.2 Level 2................................................... 6.93 2.8 6.58 4.4 7.14 3.6 7.03 2.8 - - Level 3................................................... 7.64 3.8 7.43 6.2 8.00 3.0 7.82 3.6 6.77 9.3 Level 4................................................... 8.90 3.5 8.98 4.1 8.73 6.4 9.12 3.4 - - Level 5................................................... 12.51 5.3 13.22 5.2 - - 12.58 5.3 - - Level 6................................................... 16.51 6.9 12.88 8.2 18.39 8.9 16.54 6.9 - - Level 7................................................... 18.16 4.8 16.89 5.2 19.62 8.7 18.14 4.9 - - Level 8................................................... 17.64 7.6 14.77 8.6 18.85 9.5 17.59 7.7 - - Level 9................................................... 22.33 2.4 20.29 4.2 23.02 2.7 22.33 2.4 - - Level 10.................................................. 24.78 3.7 25.27 3.2 - - 24.78 3.7 - - Level 11.................................................. 27.63 5.8 27.89 9.0 - - 27.63 5.8 - - Level 12.................................................. 27.83 11.0 - - - - 27.83 11.0 - - White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 15.89 3.7 14.88 5.0 16.75 5.2 16.13 3.7 8.11 11.6 Level 1................................................... 6.84 8.8 6.99 15.6 - - 7.14 9.1 - - Level 2................................................... 6.92 2.7 6.48 4.3 7.14 3.6 6.96 2.8 - - Level 3................................................... 7.56 2.5 7.15 3.1 8.00 3.0 7.66 2.5 - - Level 4................................................... 8.92 4.1 9.04 5.3 8.73 6.4 9.19 4.1 - - Level 5................................................... 12.14 5.5 12.82 5.6 - - 12.22 5.6 - - Level 6................................................... 17.01 7.0 13.68 7.8 18.39 8.9 17.05 7.0 - - Level 7................................................... 18.20 4.8 16.94 5.2 19.62 8.7 18.17 4.9 - - Level 8................................................... 17.79 7.6 15.11 8.6 18.85 9.5 17.75 7.7 - - Level 9................................................... 22.27 2.5 19.94 4.2 23.02 2.7 22.27 2.5 - - Level 10.................................................. 24.71 3.9 - - - - 24.71 3.9 - - Level 11.................................................. 26.81 5.9 26.55 10.2 - - 26.81 5.9 - - Level 12.................................................. 27.83 11.0 - - - - 27.83 11.0 - - Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 19.38 3.1 17.13 5.4 20.73 3.6 19.47 3.0 13.91 18.4 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 20.98 3.1 19.96 6.8 21.34 3.4 21.02 3.1 17.76 12.6 Level 5................................................... 10.54 8.2 - - - - - - - - Level 6................................................... 18.99 9.3 - - - - 19.07 9.3 - - Level 7................................................... 18.97 7.0 16.97 5.8 20.05 10.1 18.93 7.2 - - Level 8................................................... 19.79 8.0 - - 20.35 10.1 19.77 8.1 - - Level 9................................................... 23.51 2.2 21.30 4.7 23.83 2.2 23.52 2.2 - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 24.49 9.4 24.49 9.4 - - 24.49 9.4 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - - - - - - - Health related occupations.................................... 20.58 5.8 20.65 6.0 - - 20.57 6.1 - - Level 9................................................... 20.09 2.9 - - - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.87 1.3 - - 24.03 1.2 23.94 1.3 - - Level 7................................................... 25.17 2.4 - - 25.17 2.4 25.17 2.4 - - Level 8................................................... 22.98 2.3 - - 22.98 2.3 22.98 2.3 - - Level 9................................................... $24.39 1.2% - - $24.39 1.2% $24.39 1.2% - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - - Social, religious, and recreation workers..................... 12.69 4.4 - - 12.62 4.5 12.69 4.4 - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - - - - - - - - Technical occupations........................................... 13.05 5.2 $13.68 4.4% 9.72 17.9 13.20 5.2 - - Level 4................................................... 9.19 13.5 - - - - 9.48 14.2 - - Level 5................................................... 13.70 6.4 13.70 6.4 - - 13.84 6.5 - - Level 6................................................... 14.18 5.8 14.90 5.4 - - 14.18 5.8 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 22.91 5.0 24.33 6.3 21.43 7.9 22.91 5.0 - - Level 7................................................... 14.65 8.3 - - - - 14.65 8.3 - - Level 9................................................... 18.86 3.9 19.16 6.0 18.48 4.6 18.86 3.9 - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 24.70 5.7 26.52 7.6 22.71 8.2 24.70 5.7 - - Level 9................................................... 19.08 4.4 19.69 6.6 - - 19.08 4.4 - - Management related occupations................................ 15.24 6.8 - - 16.55 9.9 15.24 6.8 - - Sales occupations................................................. 8.99 9.6 8.99 9.6 - - 10.52 11.5 $6.20 9.2% Level 1................................................... 6.29 8.3 6.29 8.3 - - 6.98 11.0 5.62 4.7 Level 3................................................... 7.86 10.1 7.86 10.1 - - 8.67 10.9 7.00 11.1 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 8.45 5.3 8.92 8.9 7.91 2.8 8.60 5.5 6.10 3.2 Level 1................................................... 6.84 8.8 6.99 15.6 - - 7.14 9.1 - - Level 2................................................... 6.87 2.8 6.32 4.3 7.14 3.6 6.92 2.8 - - Level 3................................................... 7.56 2.5 7.13 3.1 8.00 3.1 7.66 2.5 - - Level 4................................................... 8.86 3.7 8.68 5.0 9.16 5.3 9.12 3.7 - - Level 7................................................... 19.59 3.1 - - - - 19.59 3.1 - - Blue-collar occupations............................................... 8.05 3.4 7.84 3.6 9.50 8.0 8.16 3.5 6.37 5.8 Level 1................................................... 5.63 1.6 5.57 1.6 6.55 5.2 5.67 1.8 5.41 1.4 Level 2................................................... 7.30 2.1 7.28 2.2 7.53 6.6 7.31 2.1 7.24 15.3 Level 3................................................... 7.15 3.2 7.20 3.3 6.72 4.9 7.21 3.1 - - Level 4................................................... 8.88 8.1 9.03 9.6 - - 8.93 9.4 - - Level 5................................................... 9.73 5.1 9.70 5.2 - - 9.73 5.1 - - Level 6................................................... 12.10 8.9 - - - - 12.10 8.9 - - Level 7................................................... 12.55 7.5 13.21 8.4 - - 12.55 7.5 - - Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 11.52 6.8 11.26 9.0 12.23 9.5 11.52 6.8 - - Level 3................................................... - - - - 7.62 3.3 - - - - Level 5................................................... 9.94 5.5 9.94 5.5 - - 9.94 5.5 - - Level 7................................................... 12.45 7.6 13.10 8.8 - - 12.45 7.6 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 7.19 1.6 7.19 1.6 - - 7.24 1.6 - - Level 1................................................... 5.84 2.8 5.84 2.8 - - 5.92 3.2 - - Level 3................................................... 6.98 2.1 6.98 2.1 - - 6.98 2.1 - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 8.68 7.9 9.27 11.3 7.44 7.1 8.69 8.2 - - Level 2................................................... 7.06 6.1 - - - - 7.06 6.1 - - Level 4................................................... 10.76 10.0 - - - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 6.11 2.9 6.00 3.1 7.05 6.4 6.09 2.7 6.20 6.7 Level 1................................................... 5.50 1.6 5.38 1.3 6.60 5.5 5.51 1.9 5.41 2.0 Level 2................................................... $6.56 4.3% $6.58 4.8% - - $6.45 3.9% $7.24 15.3% Level 3................................................... 6.44 3.8 6.35 3.8 - - 6.65 4.0 - - Service occupations................................................. 6.44 2.6 5.60 2.5 $8.12 4.8% 7.25 3.2 5.14 2.4 Level 1................................................... 5.45 1.9 5.22 2.0 6.09 2.4 5.87 3.7 5.12 0.9 Level 2................................................... 6.12 4.6 5.92 5.6 - - 6.84 2.9 - - Level 3................................................... 6.47 4.6 5.71 4.6 7.63 3.1 6.71 4.9 - - Level 4................................................... 7.24 4.3 6.37 3.7 8.97 4.8 7.36 4.9 - - Level 5................................................... 9.80 1.0 - - - - 9.80 1.0 - - Level 6................................................... 10.16 6.0 - - - - 10.06 6.0 - - Protective service occupations.............................. 9.90 8.5 - - 10.74 6.7 10.13 7.4 - - Level 6................................................... 10.17 6.3 - - - - - - - - Food service occupations..................................... 5.75 6.8 4.96 5.1 7.48 10.4 6.64 8.5 4.63 6.2 Level 1................................................... 5.27 4.5 5.07 6.0 - - 5.62 8.3 - - Level 2................................................... 5.07 18.8 3.82 19.5 - - 7.20 4.5 - - Level 3................................................... 5.46 6.8 - - - - 5.70 15.6 - - Health service occupations.................................. $6.83 2.5% $6.64 2.9% - - $6.78 2.4% - - Level 2................................................... 6.84 4.0 6.78 4.3 - - 6.87 4.2 - - Level 3................................................... 6.77 5.6 - - - - 6.56 6.6 - - Cleaning and building service occupations................... 6.24 3.1 5.75 3.2 $6.68 4.4% 6.37 3.2 $5.45 3.2% Level 1................................................... 5.88 2.0 5.54 2.7 6.25 1.5 6.01 1.7 - - Personal service occupations................................ 5.36 1.0 5.30 1.0 - - 6.30 2.0 5.18 0.0 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Each occupation for which wage 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 ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table B-2. Mean hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations and levels(2), all industries, private industry, State and local government, full-time and part-time workers, Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 All workers(4) All industries Occupation(3) and level All industries Private industry State and local Full-time workers Part-time workers government Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE Mean RSE White-collar occupations: Professional specialty and technical occupations: Professional specialty occupations: Registered nurses........................................... $19.29 4.1% $19.33 4.3% - - $19.19 4.3% - - Level 9................................................... 20.09 2.9 - - - - - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 23.77 0.9 - - $23.77 0.9% 23.77 0.9 - - Level 8................................................... 22.33 1.7 - - 22.33 1.7 22.33 1.7 - - Secondary school teachers................................... 23.69 1.4 - - 23.72 1.4 23.69 1.4 - - Social workers.............................................. 12.69 4.4 - - 12.62 4.5 12.69 4.4 - - Technical occupations: Licensed practical nurses................................... 13.93 3.8 14.08 3.8 - - 13.97 3.8 - - Level 5................................................... 14.14 4.2 14.14 4.2 - - 14.22 4.1 - - Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 11.43 19.9 - - - - 11.56 20.4 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations: Administrators and officials, public administration......... 22.14 18.8 - - 22.14 18.8 22.14 18.8 - - Managers, medicine and health............................... 25.06 23.1 - - - - 25.06 23.1 - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 33.37 18.0 34.48 18.9 - - 33.37 18.0 - - Level 9................................................... 20.97 9.7 20.97 9.7 - - 20.97 9.7 - - Sales occupations: Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.61 12.5 7.61 12.5 - - 7.61 13.1 - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.31 6.2 6.31 6.2 - - - - $5.48 2.9% Level 1................................................... 6.19 8.1 6.19 8.1 - - - - 5.57 4.2 Administrative support occupations, including clerical: Secretaries................................................. 8.83 3.4 - - 8.60 3.3 8.83 3.4 - - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 6.76 4.3 6.85 5.0 - - 6.91 3.6 - - Level 3................................................... 6.73 5.7 - - - - 6.92 4.7 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 7.43 5.1 6.93 8.1 - - 7.45 5.2 - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.43 12.1 10.13 18.3 - - 9.43 12.1 - - General office clerks....................................... 7.95 3.9 8.16 5.9 7.79 5.8 8.05 3.9 - - Level 3................................................... 7.69 4.8 7.87 7.9 - - 7.69 4.9 - - Level 4................................................... 8.69 6.5 - - - - 8.69 6.5 - - Teachers' aides............................................. 7.29 5.8 - - 7.29 5.8 7.29 5.8 - - Blue-collar occupations: Precision production, craft, and repair occupations: Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 8.03 8.9 - - 8.03 8.9 8.03 8.9 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors: Textile sewing machine operators............................ 7.41 1.5 7.41 1.5 - - 7.41 1.5 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 7.30 5.9 7.30 5.9 - - 7.30 5.9 - - Level 3................................................... 8.05 2.0 8.05 2.0 - - 8.05 2.0 - - Transportation and material moving occupations: Truck drivers............................................... 8.81 13.8 8.89 14.4 - - 8.77 13.6 - - Driver-sales workers........................................ 10.44 5.6 10.44 5.6 - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers: Helpers, construction trades................................ 6.03 1.5 - - - - 6.03 1.5 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. $5.55 2.5% $5.55 2.5% - - $5.64 3.8% $5.39 1.9% Level 1................................................... 5.37 1.2 5.37 1.2 - - 5.34 1.0 5.42 2.0 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 7.85 11.2 7.85 11.2 - - - - - - Level 2................................................... 7.87 12.7 7.87 12.7 - - - - - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 6.53 8.7 6.38 12.8 $6.83 5.7% 6.28 6.8 - - Level 1................................................... 5.75 5.1 - - - - 5.75 5.1 - - Service occupations: Protective service occupations: Police and detectives, public service....................... 12.24 8.2 - - 12.24 8.2 12.24 8.2 - - Food service occupations: Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.81 11.1 2.81 11.1 - - 3.44 17.6 - - Level 1................................................... 3.06 9.9 3.06 9.9 - - - - - - Cooks....................................................... 5.85 4.9 - - - - 6.44 4.1 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 5.77 3.6 - - - - - - - - Health service occupations: Health aides, except nursing................................ 7.50 2.2 7.42 3.5 - - 7.53 2.2 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 6.33 3.2 6.21 3.6 - - 6.16 1.9 - - Level 2................................................... 6.27 3.5 6.05 3.0 - - 6.28 3.9 - - Cleaning and building service occupations: Maids and housemen.......................................... 5.63 3.7 5.63 3.7 - - 5.74 4.3 - - Level 1................................................... 5.66 4.0 5.66 4.0 - - - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.37 3.5 5.84 4.7 6.66 4.4 6.49 3.6 - - Level 1................................................... 5.96 2.2 5.41 2.1 6.25 1.5 6.07 1.6 - - Personal service occupations: Welfare service aides....................................... 5.24 0.9 5.18 0.0 - - - - 5.18 0.0 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Each occupation for which wage 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 ranking within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See technical note for more information. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-1. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and selected characteristics, all industries, Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) Occupational group(2) 3) 3) 3) 3) Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $11.84 $5.69 $13.51 $10.85 $11.22 $8.38 3.1% 3.2% 13.2% 3.0% 3.1% 3.9% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 11.90 5.61 13.51 10.97 11.36 8.20 3.2 2.9 13.2 3.2 3.3 4.0 White-collar occupations............................................ 15.66 6.92 20.06 14.88 15.09 12.48 3.6 7.2 14.6 3.7 3.6 19.3 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 16.13 8.11 20.06 15.74 15.87 - 3.7 11.6 14.6 3.8 3.7 - Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 19.47 13.91 - 19.10 19.38 - 3.0 18.4 - 3.2 3.1 - Professional specialty occupations.............................. 21.02 17.76 - 20.69 20.98 - 3.1 12.6 - 3.2 3.1 - Technical occupations........................................... 13.20 - - 13.05 13.05 - 5.2 - - 5.2 5.2 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 22.91 - - 22.91 22.91 - 5.0 - - 5.0 5.1 - Sales occupations................................................. 10.52 6.20 - 8.99 8.77 - 11.5 9.2 - 9.6 10.9 - Administrative support including clerical occupations............. 8.60 6.10 14.53 8.09 8.45 - 5.5 3.2 24.9 3.5 5.3 - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 8.16 6.37 9.42 7.93 8.08 7.98 3.5 5.8 8.2 3.6 4.7 2.8 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 11.52 - - 11.42 11.52 - 6.8 - - 7.8 6.8 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 7.24 - - 7.15 6.79 7.50 1.6 - - 1.7 3.2 1.2 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 8.69 - - 8.57 7.71 9.80 8.2 - - 8.3 6.6 16.5 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 6.09 6.20 - 6.11 6.07 - 2.7 6.7 - 2.9 2.9 - Service occupations................................................. 7.25 5.14 - 6.44 6.44 - 3.2 2.4 - 2.6 2.6 - 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-2. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and industry division, private industry, all workers(2), Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 All All private Goods-producing indust- pri- Goods-producing indust- industries ries(4) Service-producing industries(5) vate ries(4) Service-producing industries(5) indus- tries Trans- Fin- Trans- Fin- Occupational group(3) port- Whole- ance, port- Whole- ance, Con- Manu- ation sale in- Con- Manu- ation sale in- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and and sur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and and sur- Serv- tion turing public retail ance, ices tion turing public retail ance, ices Mean util- trade and RSE util- trade and ities real ities real estate estate Mean RSE All occupations....................................................... $9.41 $9.60 - - $9.66 $9.32 $13.57 $6.97 - $9.28 3.5% 5.1% - - 5.4% 4.6% 21.8% 6.7% - 5.1% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 9.45 9.30 - - 9.35 9.54 13.57 6.51 - 9.30 3.8 5.4 - - 5.8 5.0 21.8 8.4 - 5.1 White-collar occupations............................................ 13.50 15.81 - - 15.81 12.89 15.65 8.62 - 13.85 4.8 9.1 - - 9.1 5.5 31.5 7.4 - 6.4 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 14.88 15.00 - - 15.00 14.84 15.65 14.51 - 13.99 5.0 10.1 - - 10.1 5.7 31.5 17.3 - 6.4 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 17.13 19.82 - - 19.82 16.53 - - - 16.65 5.4 13.1 - - 13.1 5.3 - - - 4.7 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 19.96 22.10 - - 22.10 19.20 - - - 19.69 6.8 11.6 - - 11.6 7.6 - - - 6.1 Technical occupations........................................... 13.68 - - - - 13.90 - - - 14.08 4.4 - - - - 4.1 - - - 3.9 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 24.33 23.69 - - 23.69 24.61 - - - 21.04 6.3 7.0 - - 7.0 8.4 - - - 16.0 Sales occupations................................................. 8.99 24.81 - - 24.81 7.73 - 7.71 - - 9.6 18.0 - - 18.0 7.4 - 7.8 - - Administrative support, including clerical occupations............ 8.92 8.38 - - 8.38 9.13 - 8.39 - 8.15 8.9 5.3 - - 5.3 11.9 - 7.4 - 11.4 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 7.84 7.76 - - 7.67 8.04 12.45 6.27 - 6.77 3.6 2.3 - - 2.3 10.6 23.7 6.2 - 12.4 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 11.26 9.97 - - 10.19 16.02 - - - - 9.0 5.6 - - 6.8 17.3 - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 7.19 7.29 - - 7.29 - - - - - 1.6 1.4 - - 1.4 - - - - - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 9.27 10.81 - - 10.81 8.91 - - - - 11.3 4.9 - - 4.9 13.1 - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 6.00 6.02 - - 5.98 5.99 - 6.12 - 5.69 3.1 2.4 - - 2.9 4.8 - 6.6 - 2.9 Service occupations................................................. 5.60 - - - - 5.60 - 5.10 - 5.77 2.5 - - - - 2.5 - 5.4 - 2.6 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 5 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-3. Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group and establishment employment size, private industry, all workers(2), Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 All All private Mean private RSE industry industry workers workers Occupational group(3) 100 workers or more 100 workers or more Mean 50 - 99 RSE 50 - 99 workers 100 - 499 500 workers 100 - 499 500 Total workers workers Total workers workers or more or more All occupations....................................................... $9.41 $9.26 $9.48 $9.71 $9.20 3.5% 7.5% 4.2% 6.3% 5.1% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 9.45 9.47 9.44 9.68 9.20 3.8 8.2 4.5 7.1 5.1 White-collar occupations............................................ 13.50 12.43 14.05 13.80 14.40 4.8 9.8 5.6 7.4 8.8 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 14.88 14.47 15.06 15.79 14.40 5.0 10.4 5.6 6.2 8.8 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 17.13 17.67 16.96 17.38 16.76 5.4 15.4 5.0 7.7 6.4 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 19.96 20.42 19.80 20.25 19.56 6.8 19.5 5.7 11.1 6.5 Technical occupations........................................... 13.68 13.50 13.73 13.61 13.78 4.4 6.8 5.2 7.0 6.8 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 24.33 22.91 24.90 24.18 - 6.3 8.3 8.2 9.2 - Sales occupations................................................. 8.99 7.85 9.90 9.90 - 9.6 10.0 12.7 12.7 - Administrative support, including clerical occupations............ 8.92 9.86 8.37 8.18 8.55 8.9 17.8 8.1 4.7 14.8 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 7.84 7.90 7.82 8.03 7.59 3.6 8.1 4.1 7.1 3.2 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 11.26 - 11.78 12.25 11.12 9.0 - 12.1 18.5 8.9 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 7.19 6.67 7.24 7.45 7.11 1.6 10.1 1.3 2.3 1.6 Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 9.27 9.90 - - - 11.3 12.7 - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 6.00 5.88 6.08 5.94 6.44 3.1 6.2 2.8 3.5 3.5 Service occupations................................................. 5.60 5.67 5.58 5.72 5.44 2.5 6.3 2.4 4.7 1.7 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Table C-4. Number of workers(1) represented by occupational group, Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 All workers All indus- Private State and All indus- Private State and Occupational group(2) tries industry local tries industry local government government Workers RSE All occupations....................................................... 51,281 33,259 18,022 2.7% 4.0% 2.2% All occupations excluding sales..................................... 48,204 30,182 18,022 2.7 4.1 2.2 White-collar occupations............................................ 24,074 11,777 12,297 5.0 7.6 6.7 White-collar excluding sales...................................... 20,997 8,700 12,297 5.0 7.6 6.7 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 10,336 3,378 6,958 9.6 13.6 12.7 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 8,567 1,859 6,707 11.1 19.1 13.1 Technical occupations........................................... 1,770 1,519 251 18.3 19.9 46.3 Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 3,000 1,458 1,542 20.0 21.7 33.1 Sales occupations................................................. 3,077 3,077 - 17.8 17.8 - Administrative support including clerical occupations............. 7,661 3,864 3,797 11.2 11.8 19.2 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 13,009 11,188 1,822 7.1 7.0 26.2 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 2,660 1,955 705 17.9 17.8 46.0 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 5,113 5,113 - 8.4 8.4 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 1,788 1,001 787 22.2 18.6 44.6 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers.............. 3,448 3,119 329 15.2 16.4 32.0 Service occupations................................................. 14,198 10,295 3,903 9.3 11.0 17.5 1 Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 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 establishment, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Appendix table 1. Number of establishments studied by industry division and establishment employment size, and number of establishments represented, Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 Number of establishments studied Number of Industry establish- 100 workers or more ments rep- Total 50 - 99 resented studied workers Total 100 - 499 500 workers workers or more All industries........................................................ 278 108 42 66 48 18 Private industry.................................................... 250 86 36 50 38 12 Goods-producing industries........................................ 50 25 7 18 12 6 Construction.................................................... 10 1 1 - - - Manufacturing................................................... 40 24 6 18 12 6 Service-producing industries...................................... 200 61 29 32 26 6 Tranportation and public utilities.............................. 17 5 3 2 2 - Wholesale and retail trade...................................... 99 22 13 9 9 - Finance, insurance and real estate.............................. 10 3 2 1 1 - Services........................................................ 73 31 11 20 14 6 State and local government.......................................... 28 22 6 16 10 6 NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 2. Relative standard errors of mean hourly earnings(1) for selected occupations, all industries, private industry, and State and local government, all workers(2), Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 All State and Occupation(3) indus- Private local tries industry govern- ment All occupations....................................................... 2.9 3.5 5.1 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 3.1 3.8 5.1 White-collar occupations............................................ 3.6 4.8 5.2 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 3.7 5.0 5.2 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 3.1 5.4 3.6 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 3.1 6.8 3.4 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 9.4 9.4 - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - Health related occupations.................................... 5.8 6.0 - Registered nurses........................................... 4.1 4.3 - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 1.3 - 1.2 Elementary school teachers.................................. 0.9 - 0.9 Secondary school teachers................................... 1.4 - 1.4 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 4.4 - 4.5 Social workers.............................................. 4.4 - 4.5 Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - Technical occupations........................................... 5.2 4.4 17.9 Licensed practical nurses................................... 3.8 3.8 - Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 19.9 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 5.0 6.3 7.9 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 5.7 7.6 8.2 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 18.8 - 18.8 Managers, medicine and health............................... 23.1 - - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 18.0 18.9 - Management related occupations................................ 6.8 - 9.9 Sales occupations................................................. 9.6 9.6 - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 12.5 12.5 - Cashiers.................................................... 6.2 6.2 - Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 5.3 8.9 2.8 Secretaries................................................. 3.4 - 3.3 Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 4.3 5.0 - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 5.1 8.1 - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.1 18.3 - General office clerks....................................... 3.9 5.9 5.8 Teachers' aides............................................. 5.8 - 5.8 Blue-collar occupations............................................. 3.4 3.6 8.0 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 6.8 9.0 9.5 Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 8.9 - 8.9 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 1.6 1.6 - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 1.5 1.5 - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 5.9 5.9 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 7.9 11.3 7.1 Truck drivers............................................... 13.8 14.4 - Driver-sales workers........................................ 5.6 5.6 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 2.9 3.1 6.4 Helpers, construction trades................................ 1.5 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 2.5 2.5 - Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 11.2 11.2 - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 8.7 12.8 5.7 Service occupations................................................. 2.6 2.5 4.8 Protective service occupations................................ 8.5 - 6.7 Police and detectives, public service....................... 8.2 - 8.2 Food service occupations...................................... 6.8 5.1 10.4 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 11.1 11.1 - Cooks....................................................... 4.9 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 3.6 - - Health service occupations.................................... 2.5 2.9 - Health aides, except nursing................................ 2.2 3.5 - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 3.2 3.6 - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 3.1 3.2 4.4 Maids and housemen.......................................... 3.7 3.7 - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 3.5 4.7 4.4 Personal service occupations.................................. 1.0 1.0 - Welfare service aides....................................... 0.9 0.0 - 1 The relative standard error is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. Hourly earnings for these occupations are presented in Tables A-1 and A-2. Reliable relative standard errors could not be determined for all occupations. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Appendix table 3. Average work levels for selected occupations, all workers, full-time and part-time workers, Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 All Full-t- Part-ti- Occupation(1) workers ime me workers workers All occupations....................................................... 4 5 2 All occupations excluding sales..................................... 4 5 2 White-collar occupations............................................ 6 6 3 White-collar occupations excluding sales.......................... 6 6 4 Professional specialty and technical occupations.................. 7 7 6 Professional specialty occupations.............................. 8 8 7 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 9 9 - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - Health related occupations.................................... 8 8 - Registered nurses........................................... 8 8 - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 8 8 - Elementary school teachers.................................. 8 8 - Secondary school teachers................................... 8 8 - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 7 7 - Social workers.............................................. 7 7 - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, N.E.C...................................................... - - - Technical occupations........................................... 5 5 - Licensed practical nurses................................... 5 5 - Health technologists and technicians, N.E.C................. 5 5 - Executive, administrative, and managerial occupations............. 10 10 - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 10 10 - Administrators and officials, public administration......... 10 10 - Managers, medicine and health............................... 9 9 - Managers and administrators, N.E.C.......................... 10 10 - Management related occupations................................ 7 7 - Sales occupations................................................. 3 4 2 Sales workers, other commodities............................ 2 2 - Cashiers.................................................... 2 - 2 Administrative support occupations, including clerical............ 3 3 3 Secretaries................................................. 3 3 - Records clerks, N.E.C....................................... 3 3 - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 3 3 - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 4 4 - General office clerks....................................... 3 3 - Teachers' aides............................................. 2 2 - Blue-collar occupations............................................. 3 3 2 Precision production, craft, and repair occupations............... 6 6 - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 4 4 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 2 2 - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 2 2 - Miscellaneous machine operators, N.E.C...................... 3 3 - Transportation and material moving occupations.................... 3 3 - Truck drivers............................................... 3 3 - Driver-sales workers........................................ 4 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 2 2 2 Helpers, construction trades................................ 2 2 - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 2 2 1 Freight, stock, and material handlers, N.E.C................ 2 - - Laborers except construction, N.E.C......................... 2 2 - Service occupations................................................. 2 3 2 Protective service occupations................................ 5 5 - Police and detectives, public service....................... 6 6 - Food service occupations...................................... 2 3 2 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2 2 - Cooks....................................................... 3 3 - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 1 - - Health service occupations.................................... 2 2 - Health aides, except nursing................................ 2 3 - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 2 2 - Cleaning and building service occupations..................... 2 2 2 Maids and housemen.......................................... 1 1 - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 2 2 - Personal service occupations.................................. 2 2 2 Welfare service aides....................................... 2 - 2 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors, painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and legislators cannot be assigned a work level. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation. Supplemental Table 2. Hourly earnings(1) for construction trades occupations in non-construction industries(2), Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito,TX, June 1998 All workers(4) Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupational group(3) and level Middle Range Middle Range Middle Range Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median Mean RSE Median 25 75 25 75 25 75 Construction trades occupations....................................... $15.02 33.4% $9.86 $7.92 $22.00 $15.02 33.4% $9.86 $7.92 $22.00 - - - - - 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. At the median, half of the workers receive the same as or more than the rate shown, and half receive the same as or less than the rate shown. The middle range is defined by two rates of pay; at the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the workers earn the same as or less than the rate shown; at the 75th percentile, one-fourth earn the same as or more than the rate shown. 2 The Standard Industrial Classification Manual was used in classifying establishments by industry. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. Individual occupations are classified into one of nine major occupational groups. 4 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups and occupational levels may include data for categories not shown separately. N.E.C. means "not elsewhere classified." NOTE: Individual and average wage rates were collected in this update survey. A procedure was put into place to "move" the positional statistics where averages were collected. This procedure compares current locality survey data帶t the quote level患ith the same quote from the prior survey. Individual rates from the prior survey are moved by the average change in mean wages for the occupation.