NC BL 10/00/1999 Table: Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, Bulletin 3095-81, August 1998 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 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................................................................. $17.48 1.9 36.2 $17.06 2.4 36.1 $19.19 1.8 36.6 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 20.75 1.9 36.7 20.63 2.4 36.8 21.20 2.2 36.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.51 1.9 36.4 25.83 2.5 36.9 24.77 2.4 35.1 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 27.11 3.1 39.8 28.05 3.6 40.0 23.31 5.5 38.9 Sales............................................................. 15.96 9.2 33.0 15.93 9.4 33.0 - - - Administrative support............................................ 12.91 2.0 36.9 13.01 2.4 36.9 12.42 3.0 36.9 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 14.58 2.7 38.5 14.49 2.9 38.5 15.39 4.2 38.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.79 3.2 39.9 17.97 3.3 39.9 16.21 8.4 40.0 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 12.67 3.9 39.4 12.68 3.9 39.5 - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 14.32 4.7 37.0 14.00 5.9 36.8 15.77 4.7 37.9 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 11.13 4.4 37.3 11.10 4.6 37.3 11.83 10.0 37.4 Service occupations(5).............................................. 10.13 2.8 32.8 8.36 2.6 31.5 15.37 3.1 37.2 Full time........................................................... 18.41 1.8 39.7 18.06 2.3 39.8 19.77 1.8 39.1 Part time........................................................... 10.00 7.6 21.2 9.76 8.9 21.4 11.68 6.9 19.8 Union............................................................... 19.13 2.7 37.0 18.04 4.4 37.2 20.76 2.2 36.7 Nonunion............................................................ 17.06 2.3 36.0 16.89 2.6 35.9 18.10 2.7 36.6 Time................................................................ 17.40 1.9 36.1 16.94 2.5 36.0 19.19 1.8 36.6 Incentive........................................................... 18.98 8.8 37.8 18.98 8.8 37.8 - - - Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 17.47 3.8 39.8 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 16.98 2.7 35.4 (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers....................................................... 14.06 5.6 34.4 14.07 5.7 34.4 12.76 1.0 35.6 100-499 workers..................................................... 15.81 4.0 36.0 15.81 4.1 36.0 15.62 9.3 36.1 500 workers or more................................................. 19.74 2.0 36.9 19.94 3.0 37.1 19.41 1.9 36.7 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, 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. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE IN- DUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings(1), all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $17.48 1.9 $17.06 2.4 $19.19 1.8 All excluding sales............................................... 17.59 1.9 17.17 2.4 19.20 1.9 White collar........................................................ 20.75 1.9 20.63 2.4 21.20 2.2 White collar excluding sales.................................... 21.39 2.0 21.44 2.5 21.22 2.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.51 1.9 25.83 2.5 24.77 2.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 26.71 2.0 27.13 2.6 25.79 2.4 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 28.56 4.0 28.84 4.4 26.29 4.0 Civil engineers............................................. 24.66 2.1 - - 25.75 2.5 Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 30.11 3.4 30.11 3.4 - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 31.96 6.1 32.51 6.5 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 26.76 4.0 26.77 4.0 ± ± Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 27.29 3.9 27.30 3.9 - - Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 21.61 4.6 21.63 4.6 - - Natural scientists............................................ 21.17 5.2 21.60 5.4 19.29 14.6 Health related................................................ 25.13 4.2 25.06 4.7 25.45 9.7 Physicians.................................................. 38.83 11.9 38.42 14.6 40.64 10.3 Registered nurses........................................... 23.22 5.8 23.28 6.3 22.59 6.3 Pharmacists................................................. 27.32 2.8 27.32 2.8 - - Respiratory therapists...................................... 20.94 10.6 20.94 10.6 - - Physical therapists......................................... 33.38 7.7 - - - - Speech therapists........................................... 28.97 8.0 - - - - Therapists, n.e.c........................................... 18.85 4.4 19.13 7.4 18.57 4.9 Teachers, college and university.............................. 31.69 5.1 34.83 7.1 28.46 6.1 Business, commerce, and marketing teachers.................. 28.85 6.8 - - - - English teachers............................................ 21.36 17.4 - - - - Teachers, post secondary, subject not specified............. 30.65 7.5 28.88 7.9 33.38 13.4 Teachers, except college and university....................... 26.63 2.3 21.09 5.5 27.28 2.4 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 25.08 12.7 - - 26.10 13.7 Elementary school teachers.................................. 28.04 1.7 23.15 6.4 28.54 1.6 Secondary school teachers................................... 29.57 2.1 26.82 3.3 29.85 2.3 Teachers, special education................................. 26.97 3.7 20.46 5.4 28.67 2.1 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 28.16 5.8 13.88 13.1 30.32 4.3 Substitute teachers......................................... 8.34 .8 - - - - Vocational and educational counselors....................... 24.87 9.6 14.02 2.1 26.97 8.8 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 21.36 6.6 18.92 9.3 22.88 6.7 Librarians.................................................. 21.24 6.7 18.46 9.5 22.88 6.7 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 26.18 7.7 28.74 8.2 18.28 4.2 Psychologists............................................... 22.07 8.4 - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 14.14 8.6 10.11 12.5 15.77 6.8 Social workers.............................................. 14.09 10.5 - - 15.86 8.6 Recreation workers.......................................... 14.73 7.2 - - 15.47 5.5 Lawyers and judges............................................ 42.91 8.3 43.86 8.8 30.89 6.6 Lawyers..................................................... 42.91 8.3 43.86 8.8 - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... $26.54 7.4 $26.60 7.6 ± ± Designers................................................... 17.14 5.7 - - - - Editors and reporters....................................... 30.20 10.1 30.20 10.1 - - Public relations specialists................................ 30.01 21.2 30.01 21.2 - - Professional, n.e.c......................................... 28.73 5.0 - - - - Technical....................................................... 19.36 6.2 20.03 7.4 $16.82 7.4 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.32 5.4 16.39 5.7 - - Radiologic technicians...................................... 18.18 6.3 18.18 6.3 - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 15.22 2.3 15.52 2.5 14.17 2.5 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.12 6.0 13.93 7.6 17.92 5.2 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 17.87 5.4 17.87 5.4 - - Airplane pilots and navigators.............................. 70.90 27.9 70.90 27.9 - - Broadcast equipment operators............................... 17.15 33.4 16.92 38.8 - - Computer programmers........................................ 20.65 7.8 20.65 7.8 - - Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 15.50 5.0 16.40 5.2 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 27.11 3.1 28.05 3.6 23.31 5.5 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 31.73 3.9 32.95 4.4 26.50 5.7 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 24.68 9.2 - - 23.89 8.8 Financial managers.......................................... 46.09 11.9 46.09 11.9 - - Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 30.39 14.6 28.56 16.8 - - Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 35.02 11.4 35.02 11.4 - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 30.40 6.5 31.34 11.9 29.76 7.0 Managers, medicine and health............................... 29.57 6.3 29.40 6.1 - - Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 29.46 11.0 30.57 10.5 - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 32.01 4.9 32.23 5.1 27.91 8.9 Management related............................................ 20.63 3.0 20.98 2.9 19.32 9.1 Accountants and auditors.................................... 18.77 4.8 19.16 4.5 17.60 13.8 Other financial officers.................................... 21.64 11.3 21.31 12.4 - - Management analysts......................................... 29.66 13.3 29.66 13.3 - - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 20.33 9.7 21.57 10.5 - - Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 24.88 7.9 25.41 7.6 - - Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction..... 17.30 4.9 - - 16.41 6.8 Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.43 6.0 21.13 5.6 22.31 16.4 Sales............................................................. 15.96 9.2 15.93 9.4 ± ± Supervisors, sales.......................................... 26.45 11.9 26.45 11.9 - - Sales, other business services.............................. 23.69 14.0 23.69 14.0 - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 19.26 6.1 19.26 6.1 - - Sales workers, apparel...................................... 15.98 16.4 15.98 16.4 - - Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 10.58 10.3 10.58 10.3 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 10.00 20.9 10.00 20.9 - - Sales counter clerks........................................ 10.44 14.6 - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 9.27 9.8 9.25 10.0 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ $12.91 2.0 $13.01 2.4 $12.42 3.0 Supervisors, general office................................. 18.50 6.0 18.39 7.2 18.89 8.3 Computer operators.......................................... 14.54 6.3 14.54 6.3 - - Secretaries................................................. 14.90 3.5 15.28 4.1 13.26 5.3 Typists..................................................... 13.69 5.7 14.08 5.6 - - Hotel clerks................................................ 7.87 5.7 7.87 5.7 - - Transportation ticket and reservation agents................ 14.04 8.6 14.04 8.6 - - Receptionists............................................... 9.52 3.3 9.50 3.5 - - Information clerks, n.e.c................................... 12.71 15.0 12.71 15.0 - - Order clerks................................................ 12.72 14.2 12.72 14.2 - - Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping............ 14.07 10.1 14.09 13.1 - - Library clerks.............................................. 9.48 4.2 - - 9.41 5.0 Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 11.57 4.2 12.06 5.0 10.71 3.8 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.63 3.7 11.68 4.2 11.35 6.9 Billing clerks.............................................. 12.54 7.1 12.54 7.1 - - Telephone operators......................................... 11.60 15.3 11.56 16.0 - - Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 8.03 5.8 8.03 5.8 - - Dispatchers................................................. 12.74 12.3 - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.29 7.5 11.75 8.9 - - Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 12.72 8.9 12.72 8.9 - - Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 14.92 10.6 14.92 10.6 - - Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 12.46 3.4 12.46 3.4 - - Eligibility clerks, social welfare.......................... 12.98 3.0 - - 13.18 2.6 General office clerks....................................... 12.05 3.3 11.68 3.9 13.26 5.7 Data entry keyers........................................... 8.81 13.0 10.49 11.1 - - Statistical clerks.......................................... 13.51 5.7 13.51 5.7 - - Teachers' aides............................................. 11.30 4.9 8.38 12.0 11.75 4.6 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 11.96 4.5 12.32 5.8 11.16 4.4 Blue collar......................................................... 14.58 2.7 14.49 2.9 15.39 4.2 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.79 3.2 17.97 3.3 16.21 8.4 Automobile mechanics........................................ 16.64 5.5 16.49 5.6 - - Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 19.47 4.6 - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 15.70 5.3 15.89 5.6 - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 19.03 5.4 19.69 4.9 - - Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers. 25.23 7.7 - - - - Carpenters.................................................. 14.85 4.3 14.74 4.6 - - Electricians................................................ 19.84 11.2 20.37 11.5 - - Electrician apprentices..................................... 10.94 7.9 10.94 7.9 - - Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 14.00 9.3 14.91 6.7 - - Supervisors, production..................................... 19.80 8.8 19.73 9.3 - - Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 14.01 4.5 14.01 4.5 - - Stationary engineers........................................ 17.64 5.0 17.64 5.0 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... $12.67 3.9 $12.68 3.9 ± ± Printing press operators.................................... 16.20 6.5 16.38 6.6 - - Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 8.45 6.3 8.45 6.3 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 11.57 6.6 11.57 6.6 - - Assemblers.................................................. 12.99 7.7 12.99 7.7 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 9.07 4.3 9.07 4.3 - - Transportation and material moving................................ 14.32 4.7 14.00 5.9 $15.77 4.7 Truck drivers............................................... 13.51 4.2 13.48 4.5 14.07 2.5 Driver-sales workers........................................ 11.55 17.4 11.55 17.4 - - Bus drivers................................................. 14.20 8.3 - - 15.62 4.9 Supervisors, material moving equipment...................... 21.35 8.3 - - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.15 9.2 14.15 9.2 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.13 4.4 11.10 4.6 11.83 10.0 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 9.73 9.9 9.01 6.9 - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 10.44 6.9 10.44 6.9 - - Construction laborers....................................... 12.42 8.3 - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.48 7.1 10.43 7.7 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.61 7.6 12.61 7.6 - - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 10.09 16.2 10.09 16.2 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 11.10 10.8 11.10 10.8 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.88 7.7 9.85 7.9 - - Service............................................................. 10.13 2.8 8.36 2.6 15.37 3.1 Protective service............................................ 16.03 5.3 9.91 11.5 18.16 3.6 Supervisors, guards......................................... 21.43 16.7 - - - - Firefighting................................................ 16.71 7.0 - - 16.71 7.0 Police and detectives, public service....................... 18.71 4.4 - - 18.80 4.4 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers...... 16.25 27.7 - - 16.25 27.7 Correctional institution officers........................... 15.19 3.8 - - 15.19 3.8 Guards and police, except public service.................... 8.59 5.8 8.37 5.1 - - Protective service, n.e.c................................... 16.91 22.8 - - - - Food service.................................................. 7.41 4.0 7.33 4.2 9.40 6.3 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 13.99 9.0 13.99 9.0 - - Bartenders.................................................. 7.34 16.1 7.34 16.1 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 4.08 10.5 4.08 10.5 - - Cooks....................................................... 8.87 3.3 8.86 3.6 - - Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 6.71 8.7 6.68 9.2 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.86 9.2 8.67 9.9 - - Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 6.69 6.9 6.69 6.9 - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.32 6.4 7.15 6.5 10.04 12.2 Health service................................................ 9.30 2.0 8.98 1.8 11.40 5.2 Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.37 7.2 9.84 7.6 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.98 1.8 8.75 1.8 11.09 6.7 Cleaning and building service................................. $9.02 4.3 $8.48 4.8 $11.64 3.0 Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 12.35 10.4 12.06 12.2 - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 8.75 6.4 8.60 6.5 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.79 5.6 7.99 6.3 11.37 3.2 Personal service.............................................. 9.90 6.0 9.78 7.4 10.36 7.1 Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities............ 6.40 3.5 - - 6.53 5.4 Public transportation attendants............................ 19.78 17.5 24.76 14.4 - - Baggage porters and bellhops................................ 5.49 8.8 5.49 8.8 - - Early childhood teachers' assistants........................ 12.42 8.1 - - 13.20 6.7 Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 8.26 3.7 8.11 3.8 - - Service, n.e.c.............................................. 8.59 5.0 8.34 5.3 10.28 11.8 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMI- TATION IN MIND. Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings(1), full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 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................................................................... $18.41 1.8 $18.06 2.3 $19.77 1.8 All excluding sales............................................... 18.40 1.9 18.03 2.4 19.76 1.8 White collar........................................................ 21.61 1.9 21.57 2.4 21.76 2.2 White collar excluding sales.................................... 21.93 2.0 21.98 2.5 21.75 2.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.07 2.0 26.21 2.6 25.75 2.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.24 2.0 27.34 2.7 27.01 2.3 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 28.54 4.0 28.81 4.5 26.29 4.0 Civil engineers............................................. 24.66 2.1 - - 25.75 2.5 Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 30.11 3.4 30.11 3.4 - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 31.91 6.2 32.45 6.6 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 26.78 4.0 26.78 4.0 ± ± Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 27.30 3.9 27.31 3.9 - - Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 21.33 4.2 21.33 4.2 - - Natural scientists............................................ 21.17 5.2 21.60 5.4 19.29 14.6 Health related................................................ 24.64 4.4 24.43 4.9 25.40 10.1 Physicians.................................................. 38.68 12.2 38.32 14.9 40.27 10.6 Registered nurses........................................... 21.49 2.5 21.34 2.6 22.63 6.3 Respiratory therapists...................................... 21.60 11.9 21.60 11.9 - - Speech therapists........................................... 28.93 9.3 - - - - Therapists, n.e.c........................................... 18.98 5.0 - - 18.35 5.7 Teachers, college and university.............................. 32.16 5.1 35.12 7.4 28.94 5.6 Teachers, post secondary, subject not specified............. 31.22 7.7 28.89 7.9 35.06 14.4 Teachers, except college and university....................... 28.34 1.6 21.75 5.4 29.13 1.6 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 24.32 14.6 - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 28.18 1.6 24.18 5.3 28.55 1.6 Secondary school teachers................................... 29.64 2.2 26.49 3.4 29.96 2.3 Teachers, special education................................. 27.00 3.7 20.23 5.6 28.67 2.1 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 30.33 4.4 16.22 11.2 32.08 2.9 Vocational and educational counselors....................... 25.00 9.7 14.02 2.1 27.16 8.9 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 22.08 6.5 19.01 9.6 24.23 5.0 Librarians.................................................. 21.89 6.6 18.46 9.5 24.23 5.0 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 26.42 7.9 28.67 8.3 ± ± Psychologists............................................... 22.30 8.7 - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 14.69 7.6 10.93 13.8 15.85 7.6 Social workers.............................................. 14.64 8.6 10.90 15.3 15.83 8.6 Lawyers and judges............................................ 43.08 8.4 43.86 8.8 ± ± Lawyers..................................................... 43.08 8.4 43.86 8.8 - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 26.78 7.4 26.85 7.7 ± ± Designers................................................... 17.14 5.7 - - - - Editors and reporters....................................... 30.65 10.1 30.65 10.1 - - Public relations specialists................................ 30.01 21.2 30.01 21.2 - - Professional, n.e.c......................................... 28.84 4.9 - - - - Technical....................................................... 19.93 6.6 20.86 7.9 16.84 7.4 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... $16.46 4.8 $16.55 5.1 - - Radiologic technicians...................................... 18.34 7.5 18.34 7.5 - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 14.92 1.7 15.23 2.0 $14.17 2.5 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 16.08 5.7 14.97 8.1 17.92 5.2 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 17.87 5.4 17.87 5.4 - - Airplane pilots and navigators.............................. 70.90 27.9 70.90 27.9 - - Computer programmers........................................ 20.65 7.8 20.65 7.8 - - Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 15.51 5.1 16.40 5.2 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 27.25 3.1 28.24 3.7 23.26 5.5 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 31.88 3.9 33.15 4.4 26.44 5.7 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 24.68 9.2 - - 23.89 8.8 Financial managers.......................................... 46.09 11.9 46.09 11.9 - - Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 30.39 14.6 28.56 16.8 - - Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 35.02 11.4 35.02 11.4 - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 30.87 6.3 32.58 11.3 29.76 7.0 Managers, medicine and health............................... 29.63 6.5 29.45 6.3 - - Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 29.46 11.0 30.57 10.5 - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 32.26 4.9 32.51 5.1 27.41 9.6 Management related............................................ 20.74 3.0 21.13 3.0 19.32 9.1 Accountants and auditors.................................... 18.77 4.8 19.16 4.5 17.60 13.8 Other financial officers.................................... 21.64 11.3 21.31 12.4 - - Management analysts......................................... 29.66 13.3 29.66 13.3 - - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 20.33 9.7 21.57 10.5 - - Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 24.88 7.9 25.41 7.6 - - Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction..... 17.30 4.9 - - 16.41 6.8 Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.76 6.0 21.57 5.6 22.31 16.4 Sales............................................................. 18.51 9.3 18.46 9.5 ± ± Supervisors, sales.......................................... 27.11 11.6 27.11 11.6 - - Sales, other business services.............................. 23.94 13.9 23.94 13.9 - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 19.26 6.1 19.26 6.1 - - Sales workers, apparel...................................... 16.90 10.5 16.90 10.5 - - Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 11.40 10.1 11.40 10.1 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 11.65 24.8 11.65 24.8 - - Cashiers.................................................... 9.64 11.5 9.64 11.5 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.27 2.1 13.44 2.5 12.56 3.1 Supervisors, general office................................. 18.52 6.0 18.39 7.2 18.97 8.3 Computer operators.......................................... 14.50 6.7 14.50 6.7 - - Secretaries................................................. 15.06 3.7 15.52 4.4 13.26 5.3 Typists..................................................... 14.34 5.6 14.89 4.9 - - Hotel clerks................................................ 7.98 6.8 7.98 6.8 - - Transportation ticket and reservation agents................ 15.18 6.9 15.18 6.9 - - Receptionists............................................... 9.72 3.7 9.70 4.0 - - Information clerks, n.e.c................................... 13.09 17.0 13.09 17.0 - - Order clerks................................................ $13.61 12.6 $13.61 12.6 - - Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping............ 14.07 10.1 14.09 13.1 - - Library clerks.............................................. 11.13 3.2 - - $11.35 3.7 Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 11.65 4.4 12.22 5.0 10.71 3.8 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 12.05 3.7 12.13 4.2 11.61 7.0 Billing clerks.............................................. 12.61 7.2 12.61 7.2 - - Telephone operators......................................... 11.97 15.2 11.94 16.0 - - Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 8.56 4.5 8.56 4.5 - - Dispatchers................................................. 12.74 12.3 - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 13.15 6.6 12.76 8.4 - - Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 13.13 7.7 13.13 7.7 - - Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 14.92 10.6 14.92 10.6 - - Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 12.42 3.5 12.42 3.5 - - Eligibility clerks, social welfare.......................... 13.29 1.3 - - - - General office clerks....................................... 12.49 3.2 12.19 3.7 13.39 6.1 Data entry keyers........................................... 9.06 17.4 - - - - Teachers' aides............................................. 11.13 5.3 - - 11.49 5.0 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 12.14 4.8 12.59 6.2 11.19 4.6 Blue collar......................................................... 14.90 2.6 14.83 2.9 15.61 4.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.80 3.2 17.98 3.3 16.21 8.4 Automobile mechanics........................................ 16.64 5.5 16.49 5.6 - - Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 19.47 4.6 - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 15.42 5.2 15.56 5.4 - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 19.03 5.4 19.69 4.9 - - Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers. 25.23 7.7 - - - - Carpenters.................................................. 14.85 4.3 14.74 4.6 - - Electricians................................................ 19.84 11.2 20.37 11.5 - - Electrician apprentices..................................... 10.94 7.9 10.94 7.9 - - Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 14.00 9.3 14.91 6.7 - - Supervisors, production..................................... 19.80 8.8 19.73 9.3 - - Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 14.01 4.5 14.01 4.5 - - Stationary engineers........................................ 17.64 5.0 17.64 5.0 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.76 3.9 12.76 3.9 - - Printing press operators.................................... 16.38 6.6 16.38 6.6 - - Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 8.49 6.4 8.49 6.4 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 11.57 6.6 11.57 6.6 - - Assemblers.................................................. 12.99 7.7 12.99 7.7 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 9.07 4.3 9.07 4.3 - - Transportation and material moving................................ 15.04 4.2 14.81 5.1 16.08 5.0 Truck drivers............................................... 13.91 3.3 13.90 3.6 14.07 2.5 Driver-sales workers........................................ 13.49 11.0 13.49 11.0 - - Bus drivers................................................. $14.72 9.6 - - $16.47 5.3 Supervisors, material moving equipment...................... 21.35 8.3 - - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.15 9.2 $14.15 9.2 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.45 4.5 11.41 4.7 12.14 10.3 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 9.87 10.8 9.01 6.9 - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 10.44 6.9 10.44 6.9 - - Construction laborers....................................... 12.42 8.3 - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 11.11 6.5 11.12 7.3 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 13.41 8.0 13.41 8.0 - - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 10.51 14.8 10.51 14.8 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 11.34 11.4 11.34 11.4 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.00 8.1 9.97 8.3 - - Service............................................................. 11.14 3.0 9.10 3.0 16.03 3.1 Protective service............................................ 16.47 5.4 10.36 13.8 18.23 3.6 Supervisors, guards......................................... 21.43 16.7 - - - - Firefighting................................................ 16.85 7.0 - - 16.85 7.0 Police and detectives, public service....................... 18.78 4.4 - - 18.87 4.4 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers...... 15.78 29.5 - - 15.78 29.5 Correctional institution officers........................... 15.19 3.8 - - 15.19 3.8 Guards and police, except public service.................... 8.65 6.9 8.39 6.1 - - Food service.................................................. 8.33 4.6 8.28 4.7 9.77 9.6 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 13.99 9.0 13.99 9.0 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 4.52 14.3 4.52 14.3 - - Cooks....................................................... 9.16 3.7 9.18 4.0 - - Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 7.90 12.5 7.90 12.5 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.79 10.9 8.78 11.0 - - Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 7.09 8.1 7.09 8.1 - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.90 4.4 7.73 4.0 - - Health service................................................ 9.54 2.5 9.18 2.3 11.49 4.9 Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.88 9.2 10.41 11.5 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.15 2.1 8.86 2.0 11.23 6.7 Cleaning and building service................................. 9.55 4.6 9.00 5.3 11.66 3.0 Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 12.56 10.1 12.29 11.9 - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 8.75 6.6 8.58 6.7 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.59 6.5 8.78 8.3 11.39 3.2 Personal service.............................................. 11.17 7.8 10.87 9.1 12.86 7.2 Public transportation attendants............................ 21.76 17.5 24.76 14.4 - - Early childhood teachers' assistants........................ 11.75 10.3 - - - - Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 8.81 2.5 8.67 1.7 - - Service, n.e.c.............................................. 8.99 5.1 8.65 5.2 - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMI- TATION IN MIND. Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings(1), part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 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................................................................... $10.00 7.6 $9.76 8.9 $11.68 6.9 All excluding sales............................................... 10.14 8.8 9.87 10.6 11.71 7.0 White collar........................................................ 12.81 9.5 12.75 11.0 13.21 9.3 White collar excluding sales.................................... 14.55 11.1 14.87 13.3 13.31 9.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 19.34 11.7 21.64 11.8 14.01 11.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 20.59 12.6 24.47 11.4 14.01 11.8 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... ± ± ± ± - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... ± ± ± ± ± ± Health related................................................ 26.84 8.4 26.84 8.7 26.67 16.3 Registered nurses........................................... 27.01 9.2 27.03 9.2 - - Teachers, college and university.............................. 23.76 34.6 25.19 6.9 23.25 47.8 Teachers, except college and university....................... 11.87 13.3 14.24 18.6 11.64 14.7 Secondary school teachers................................... 27.53 4.7 - - - - Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 10.05 12.6 - - 11.46 12.8 Substitute teachers......................................... 8.34 .8 - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 14.61 9.1 ± ± 14.48 10.2 Librarians.................................................. 14.48 10.2 - - 14.48 10.2 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... ± ± ± ± ± ± Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 11.45 15.8 ± ± ± ± Lawyers and judges............................................ ± ± - - ± ± Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... ± ± ± ± - - Technical....................................................... 14.11 7.5 14.12 7.6 ± ± Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 15.16 16.4 15.16 16.4 - - Radiologic technicians...................................... 17.45 1.7 17.45 1.7 - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 16.11 5.5 16.13 5.5 - - Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 11.51 6.4 11.51 6.4 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 13.54 23.3 11.61 21.5 ± ± Executives, administrators, and managers...................... ± ± ± ± ± ± Management related............................................ ± ± ± ± - - Sales............................................................. 9.36 10.7 9.35 10.9 ± ± Sales workers, apparel...................................... 14.18 33.4 14.18 33.4 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.12 6.0 7.12 6.0 - - Cashiers.................................................... 8.97 10.3 8.93 10.7 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 9.49 3.8 9.40 4.2 10.21 5.9 Secretaries................................................. 11.90 3.5 11.90 3.5 - - Transportation ticket and reservation agents................ 11.69 19.1 11.69 19.1 - - Receptionists............................................... 8.80 5.7 8.81 5.7 - - Library clerks.............................................. 7.81 5.1 - - 7.68 5.8 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 8.44 7.2 8.46 7.9 - - General office clerks....................................... 8.88 4.4 8.45 3.1 - - Data entry keyers........................................... $8.00 8.1 $8.00 8.1 - - Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 9.98 7.4 9.82 9.3 - - Blue collar......................................................... 7.82 7.4 7.29 6.9 $11.80 7.8 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... ± ± ± ± - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... ± ± ± ± ± ± Transportation and material moving................................ 7.65 13.1 6.57 9.9 12.77 3.5 Bus drivers................................................. 12.34 5.1 - - 12.77 3.5 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 7.54 5.5 7.54 5.7 ± ± Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.43 13.0 7.43 13.0 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 8.13 4.2 8.13 4.2 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 7.86 4.7 7.86 4.7 - - Service............................................................. 6.54 3.6 6.28 3.8 8.79 5.6 Protective service............................................ 8.56 7.0 7.89 5.5 12.11 17.3 Guards and police, except public service.................... 8.29 5.3 8.27 5.3 - - Food service.................................................. 5.57 4.9 5.36 5.0 9.00 7.1 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.58 12.5 3.58 12.5 - - Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 5.97 3.0 5.83 1.7 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 9.00 9.0 8.38 11.1 - - Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 5.80 15.6 5.80 15.6 - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 5.82 7.1 - - - - Health service................................................ 8.24 2.7 8.25 2.7 ± ± Health aides, except nursing................................ 7.88 11.9 7.88 11.9 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.31 1.9 8.32 1.9 - - Cleaning and building service................................. 6.38 4.2 6.38 4.2 ± ± Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.20 4.1 6.20 4.1 - - Personal service.............................................. 7.69 6.3 7.37 9.0 8.33 8.2 Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities............ 6.40 3.5 - - 6.53 5.4 Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 6.88 6.7 6.30 4.2 - - Service, n.e.c.............................................. 6.78 8.8 6.75 11.4 - - 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMI- TATION IN MIND. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings(1), full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 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................................................................... $730 1.8 39.7 $718 2.3 39.8 $774 1.8 39.1 All excluding sales............................................... 728 1.9 39.6 716 2.4 39.7 774 1.8 39.2 White collar........................................................ 857 1.9 39.7 862 2.4 40.0 839 2.2 38.5 White collar excluding sales.................................... 867 1.9 39.5 876 2.5 39.9 839 2.2 38.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,024 1.9 39.3 1,044 2.5 39.8 981 2.2 38.1 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,075 2.0 39.5 1,099 2.7 40.2 1,023 2.2 37.9 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,153 3.9 40.4 1,166 4.3 40.5 1,048 3.9 39.9 Civil engineers............................................. 1,030 2.7 41.8 - - - 1,030 2.5 40.0 Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 1,213 3.6 40.3 1,213 3.6 40.3 - - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 1,275 6.2 39.9 1,298 6.6 40.0 - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 1,084 3.7 40.5 1,085 3.7 40.5 ± ± ± Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 1,107 3.3 40.6 1,108 3.3 40.6 - - - Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 857 4.3 40.2 857 4.3 40.2 - - - Natural scientists............................................ 856 6.3 40.4 875 6.7 40.5 772 14.6 40.0 Health related................................................ 973 4.3 39.5 965 4.9 39.5 1,004 9.7 39.5 Physicians.................................................. 1,545 12.2 39.9 1,533 14.9 40.0 1,597 10.5 39.7 Registered nurses........................................... 845 2.6 39.3 837 2.7 39.2 904 6.3 39.9 Respiratory therapists...................................... 864 11.9 40.0 864 11.9 40.0 - - - Speech therapists........................................... 1,120 9.1 38.7 - - - - - - Therapists, n.e.c........................................... 753 4.7 39.7 - - - 734 5.7 40.0 Teachers, college and university.............................. 1,316 5.4 40.9 1,426 8.5 40.6 1,195 5.3 41.3 Teachers, post secondary, subject not specified............. 1,158 5.1 37.1 1,116 7.1 38.6 1,219 6.9 34.8 Teachers, except college and university....................... 1,046 1.6 36.9 836 5.7 38.4 1,070 1.6 36.7 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 941 14.3 38.7 - - - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 1,033 1.8 36.6 921 5.4 38.1 1,043 1.9 36.5 Secondary school teachers................................... 1,082 2.3 36.5 1,023 4.7 38.6 1,088 2.4 36.3 Teachers, special education................................. 1,002 3.1 37.1 799 5.1 39.5 1,048 2.1 36.6 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 1,161 4.7 38.3 613 9.7 37.8 1,230 3.3 38.3 Vocational and educational counselors....................... 920 7.5 36.8 533 4.8 38.0 993 6.4 36.6 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 865 6.7 39.2 742 9.7 39.0 952 5.5 39.3 Librarians.................................................. 859 6.9 39.3 724 10.0 39.2 952 5.5 39.3 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 1,026 6.6 38.8 1,109 6.7 38.7 ± ± ± Psychologists............................................... 892 8.7 40.0 - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 581 7.5 39.6 432 13.3 39.5 628 7.4 39.6 Social workers.............................................. 580 8.4 39.6 433 14.9 39.7 626 8.3 39.6 Lawyers and judges............................................ 1,906 4.1 44.2 1,956 3.8 44.6 ± ± ± Lawyers..................................................... 1,906 4.1 44.2 1,956 3.8 44.6 - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 1,050 6.8 39.2 1,052 7.0 39.2 ± ± ± Designers................................................... 686 5.7 40.0 - - - - - - Editors and reporters....................................... $1,173 7.8 38.3 $1,173 7.8 38.3 - - - Public relations specialists................................ 1,150 20.4 38.3 1,150 20.4 38.3 - - - Professional, n.e.c......................................... 1,143 5.3 39.6 - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 766 5.9 38.4 794 7.0 38.1 $666 7.5 39.6 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 654 5.0 39.7 657 5.3 39.7 - - - Radiologic technicians...................................... 716 8.3 39.0 716 8.3 39.0 - - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 574 3.0 38.4 586 3.9 38.4 545 1.1 38.4 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 640 5.3 39.8 596 8.3 39.8 713 3.9 39.8 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 715 5.4 40.0 715 5.4 40.0 - - - Airplane pilots and navigators.............................. 1,723 24.6 24.3 1,723 24.6 24.3 - - - Computer programmers........................................ 822 7.8 39.8 822 7.8 39.8 - - - Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 620 5.0 39.9 654 5.2 39.9 - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,092 3.1 40.1 1,140 3.7 40.4 905 5.5 38.9 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,279 3.9 40.1 1,339 4.4 40.4 1,030 5.6 39.0 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 954 9.1 38.6 - - - 922 8.7 38.6 Financial managers.......................................... 1,833 11.5 39.8 1,833 11.5 39.8 - - - Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 1,240 13.7 40.8 1,168 15.8 40.9 - - - Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 1,410 11.6 40.2 1,410 11.6 40.2 - - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 1,218 6.7 39.5 1,298 12.9 39.8 1,167 6.6 39.2 Managers, medicine and health............................... 1,177 6.3 39.7 1,169 6.1 39.7 - - - Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 1,189 10.2 40.4 1,238 9.5 40.5 - - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,310 5.0 40.6 1,322 5.2 40.7 1,089 9.5 39.7 Management related............................................ 829 3.0 40.0 852 2.9 40.3 750 9.1 38.8 Accountants and auditors.................................... 744 4.6 39.6 760 4.3 39.7 695 13.2 39.5 Other financial officers.................................... 860 11.1 39.7 852 12.4 40.0 - - - Management analysts......................................... 1,157 14.0 39.0 1,157 14.0 39.0 - - - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 801 9.2 39.4 846 10.1 39.2 - - - Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 1,001 7.7 40.2 1,023 7.4 40.2 - - - Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction..... 692 4.9 40.0 - - - 656 6.8 40.0 Management related, n.e.c................................... 850 6.3 39.0 856 5.5 39.7 832 17.9 37.3 Sales............................................................. 756 9.6 40.8 754 9.8 40.9 ± ± ± Supervisors, sales.......................................... 1,152 13.9 42.5 1,152 13.9 42.5 - - - Sales, other business services.............................. 958 13.9 40.0 958 13.9 40.0 - - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 806 5.1 41.9 806 5.1 41.9 - - - Sales workers, apparel...................................... 687 11.7 40.7 687 11.7 40.7 - - - Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 456 10.1 40.0 456 10.1 40.0 - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 466 24.8 40.0 466 24.8 40.0 - - - Cashiers.................................................... 384 11.5 39.8 384 11.5 39.8 - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 525 2.0 39.6 532 2.3 39.6 494 3.1 39.3 Supervisors, general office................................. $728 5.6 39.3 $726 6.8 39.5 $731 8.5 38.5 Computer operators.......................................... 580 6.7 40.0 580 6.7 40.0 - - - Secretaries................................................. 594 3.4 39.5 611 4.0 39.4 528 5.3 39.8 Typists..................................................... 568 5.5 39.6 588 4.8 39.5 - - - Hotel clerks................................................ 319 6.8 40.0 319 6.8 40.0 - - - Transportation ticket and reservation agents................ 607 6.9 40.0 607 6.9 40.0 - - - Receptionists............................................... 387 3.6 39.8 387 3.8 39.9 - - - Information clerks, n.e.c................................... 520 16.7 39.7 520 16.7 39.7 - - - Order clerks................................................ 541 12.7 39.8 541 12.7 39.8 - - - Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping............ 558 9.6 39.7 557 12.6 39.6 - - - Library clerks.............................................. 432 2.9 38.8 - - - 436 3.6 38.4 Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 460 4.2 39.5 480 5.1 39.3 427 3.7 39.9 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 471 3.9 39.1 474 4.3 39.1 454 7.9 39.1 Billing clerks.............................................. 495 6.8 39.3 495 6.8 39.3 - - - Telephone operators......................................... 460 14.3 38.4 458 15.1 38.4 - - - Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 342 4.2 39.9 342 4.2 39.9 - - - Dispatchers................................................. 510 12.3 40.0 - - - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 523 6.7 39.8 508 8.5 39.8 - - - Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 525 7.7 40.0 525 7.7 40.0 - - - Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 610 12.7 40.9 610 12.7 40.9 - - - Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 491 3.0 39.5 491 3.0 39.5 - - - Eligibility clerks, social welfare.......................... 528 1.4 39.7 - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 495 3.1 39.6 487 3.7 39.9 518 6.1 38.7 Data entry keyers........................................... 360 16.8 39.7 - - - - - - Teachers' aides............................................. 412 6.0 37.0 - - - 423 6.0 36.8 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 484 5.3 39.8 503 6.9 40.0 443 4.9 39.6 Blue collar......................................................... 596 2.7 40.0 593 2.9 40.0 622 4.3 39.8 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 714 3.3 40.1 721 3.4 40.1 648 8.4 40.0 Automobile mechanics........................................ 681 7.0 40.9 675 7.3 40.9 - - - Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 779 4.6 40.0 - - - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 617 5.2 40.0 622 5.4 40.0 - - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 761 5.4 40.0 787 4.9 40.0 - - - Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers. 1,009 7.7 40.0 - - - - - - Carpenters.................................................. 585 4.5 39.4 580 4.8 39.3 - - - Electricians................................................ 794 11.2 40.0 815 11.5 40.0 - - - Electrician apprentices..................................... 438 7.9 40.0 438 7.9 40.0 - - - Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 560 9.3 40.0 596 6.7 40.0 - - - Supervisors, production..................................... 810 9.2 40.9 808 9.7 41.0 - - - Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 561 4.5 40.0 561 4.5 40.0 - - - Stationary engineers........................................ $706 5.0 40.0 $706 5.0 40.0 - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 508 3.8 39.8 508 3.8 39.8 - - - Printing press operators.................................... 634 6.7 38.7 634 6.7 38.7 - - - Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 337 6.4 39.7 337 6.4 39.7 - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 461 6.4 39.9 461 6.4 39.9 - - - Assemblers.................................................. 519 7.7 40.0 519 7.7 40.0 - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 363 4.3 40.0 363 4.3 40.0 - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 603 4.1 40.1 595 5.1 40.2 $637 5.0 39.6 Truck drivers............................................... 554 3.5 39.8 553 3.7 39.8 563 2.5 40.0 Driver-sales workers........................................ 593 10.3 44.0 593 10.3 44.0 - - - Bus drivers................................................. 563 10.7 38.3 - - - 643 5.7 39.0 Supervisors, material moving equipment...................... 854 8.3 40.0 - - - - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 566 9.2 40.0 566 9.2 40.0 - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 456 4.6 39.9 455 4.8 39.9 485 10.3 40.0 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 393 10.6 39.8 359 6.6 39.8 - - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 384 11.8 36.8 384 11.8 36.8 - - - Construction laborers....................................... 497 8.3 40.0 - - - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 442 6.7 39.8 442 7.4 39.7 - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 536 8.0 40.0 536 8.0 40.0 - - - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 420 14.8 40.0 420 14.8 40.0 - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 451 11.4 39.8 451 11.4 39.8 - - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 399 8.1 39.9 398 8.4 39.9 - - - Service............................................................. 436 3.0 39.2 352 2.8 38.6 651 3.3 40.6 Protective service............................................ 671 5.8 40.7 407 14.2 39.2 751 3.8 41.2 Supervisors, guards......................................... 857 17.1 40.0 - - - - - - Firefighting................................................ 768 4.9 45.6 - - - 768 4.9 45.6 Police and detectives, public service....................... 760 4.3 40.4 - - - 763 4.3 40.5 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers...... 608 30.8 38.5 - - - 608 30.8 38.5 Correctional institution officers........................... 608 3.8 40.0 - - - 608 3.8 40.0 Guards and police, except public service.................... 339 7.3 39.2 328 6.4 39.1 - - - Food service.................................................. 327 4.7 39.2 325 4.8 39.2 382 10.0 39.0 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 582 9.5 41.6 582 9.5 41.6 - - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 172 14.4 38.2 172 14.4 38.2 - - - Cooks....................................................... 354 4.6 38.7 355 5.0 38.6 - - - Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 314 12.3 39.7 314 12.3 39.7 - - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 346 10.9 39.4 346 11.0 39.4 - - - Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 282 7.8 39.8 282 7.8 39.8 - - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 309 4.6 39.1 302 4.4 39.1 - - - Health service................................................ $373 2.6 39.1 $359 2.7 39.1 $446 4.6 38.8 Health aides, except nursing................................ 425 8.4 39.1 416 11.5 40.0 - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 357 2.5 39.0 345 2.6 38.9 446 7.0 39.7 Cleaning and building service................................. 377 4.5 39.5 355 5.2 39.4 466 3.0 40.0 Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 502 10.1 40.0 491 11.9 40.0 - - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 341 6.1 39.0 334 6.1 38.9 - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 382 6.5 39.8 349 8.3 39.7 455 3.2 40.0 Personal service.............................................. 391 4.7 35.0 375 5.2 34.5 488 8.0 38.0 Public transportation attendants............................ 508 7.2 23.3 517 7.8 20.9 - - - Early childhood teachers' assistants........................ 450 11.4 38.3 - - - - - - Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 348 1.8 39.5 345 1.6 39.8 - - - Service, n.e.c.............................................. 343 4.9 38.2 333 5.3 38.5 - - - 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SUR- VEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings(1), full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 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................................................................... $37,080 1.8 2,014 $37,168 2.3 2,058 $36,769 1.8 1,860 All excluding sales............................................... 36,952 1.9 2,008 37,014 2.4 2,053 36,747 1.8 1,860 White collar........................................................ 43,185 1.9 1,999 44,620 2.4 2,069 38,745 2.2 1,781 White collar excluding sales.................................... 43,562 1.9 1,987 45,320 2.5 2,062 38,723 2.2 1,780 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 49,692 1.9 1,906 53,612 2.5 2,046 42,293 2.2 1,642 Professional specialty.......................................... 51,466 2.0 1,890 56,326 2.7 2,060 43,128 2.2 1,597 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 59,951 3.9 2,101 60,633 4.3 2,104 54,492 3.9 2,073 Civil engineers............................................. 53,571 2.7 2,172 - - - 53,551 2.5 2,080 Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 63,068 3.6 2,095 63,068 3.6 2,095 - - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 66,277 6.2 2,077 67,501 6.6 2,080 - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 56,385 3.7 2,106 56,400 3.7 2,106 ± ± ± Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 57,585 3.3 2,109 57,604 3.3 2,109 - - - Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 44,550 4.3 2,089 44,550 4.3 2,089 - - - Natural scientists............................................ 44,182 6.3 2,087 45,109 6.7 2,088 40,127 14.6 2,080 Health related................................................ 49,822 4.3 2,022 50,091 4.9 2,050 48,892 9.7 1,925 Physicians.................................................. 80,336 12.2 2,077 79,705 14.9 2,080 83,061 10.5 2,063 Registered nurses........................................... 43,937 2.6 2,044 43,524 2.7 2,040 47,005 6.3 2,077 Respiratory therapists...................................... 44,931 11.9 2,080 44,931 11.9 2,080 - - - Speech therapists........................................... 47,732 9.1 1,650 - - - - - - Therapists, n.e.c........................................... 38,198 4.7 2,013 - - - 38,178 5.7 2,080 Teachers, college and university.............................. 56,062 5.4 1,743 62,641 8.5 1,784 49,230 5.3 1,701 Teachers, post secondary, subject not specified............. 52,208 5.1 1,672 54,209 7.1 1,876 49,715 6.9 1,418 Teachers, except college and university....................... 41,465 1.6 1,463 36,018 5.7 1,656 42,035 1.6 1,443 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 38,669 14.3 1,590 - - - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 40,193 1.8 1,426 37,867 5.4 1,566 40,387 1.9 1,415 Secondary school teachers................................... 42,051 2.3 1,419 38,637 4.7 1,459 42,384 2.4 1,415 Teachers, special education................................. 41,094 3.1 1,522 37,960 5.1 1,877 41,692 2.1 1,454 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 46,452 4.7 1,532 31,348 9.7 1,933 47,900 3.3 1,493 Vocational and educational counselors....................... 41,159 7.5 1,646 27,723 4.8 1,977 43,288 6.4 1,594 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 44,666 6.7 2,023 37,944 9.7 1,996 49,485 5.5 2,043 Librarians.................................................. 44,367 6.9 2,027 37,012 10.0 2,005 49,485 5.5 2,043 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 53,363 6.6 2,020 57,648 6.7 2,011 ± ± ± Psychologists............................................... 46,387 8.7 2,080 - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 30,228 7.5 2,058 22,449 13.3 2,054 32,655 7.4 2,060 Social workers.............................................. 30,146 8.4 2,059 22,518 14.9 2,066 32,562 8.3 2,057 Lawyers and judges............................................ 99,097 4.1 2,300 101,695 3.8 2,318 ± ± ± Lawyers..................................................... 99,097 4.1 2,300 101,695 3.8 2,318 - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 54,496 6.8 2,035 54,710 7.0 2,038 ± ± ± Designers................................................... 35,647 5.7 2,080 - - - - - - Editors and reporters....................................... $61,017 7.8 1,991 $61,017 7.8 1,991 - - - Public relations specialists................................ 59,780 20.4 1,992 59,780 20.4 1,992 - - - Professional, n.e.c......................................... 59,047 5.3 2,047 - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 39,806 5.9 1,997 41,296 7.0 1,980 $34,654 7.5 2,058 Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 33,985 5.0 2,064 34,148 5.3 2,063 - - - Radiologic technicians...................................... 37,228 8.3 2,030 37,228 8.3 2,030 - - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 29,830 3.0 1,999 30,452 3.9 1,999 28,316 1.1 1,998 Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 33,283 5.3 2,070 31,002 8.3 2,071 37,060 3.9 2,068 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 37,167 5.4 2,080 37,167 5.4 2,080 - - - Airplane pilots and navigators.............................. 89,614 24.6 1,264 89,614 24.6 1,264 - - - Computer programmers........................................ 42,770 7.8 2,071 42,770 7.8 2,071 - - - Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 32,217 5.0 2,077 34,029 5.2 2,075 - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 56,454 3.1 2,072 59,168 3.7 2,095 46,130 5.5 1,983 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 66,218 3.9 2,077 69,456 4.4 2,095 52,931 5.6 2,002 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 49,597 9.1 2,009 - - - 47,929 8.7 2,006 Financial managers.......................................... 95,292 11.5 2,067 95,292 11.5 2,067 - - - Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 64,455 13.7 2,121 60,746 15.8 2,127 - - - Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 73,297 11.6 2,093 73,297 11.6 2,093 - - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 61,054 6.7 1,978 64,886 12.9 1,992 58,598 6.6 1,969 Managers, medicine and health............................... 61,178 6.3 2,065 60,773 6.1 2,063 - - - Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 61,845 10.2 2,099 64,371 9.5 2,106 - - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 68,075 5.0 2,110 68,668 5.2 2,113 56,626 9.5 2,066 Management related............................................ 42,809 3.0 2,064 44,247 2.9 2,094 37,866 9.1 1,960 Accountants and auditors.................................... 38,685 4.6 2,061 39,528 4.3 2,063 36,126 13.2 2,053 Other financial officers.................................... 44,702 11.1 2,066 44,315 12.4 2,080 - - - Management analysts......................................... 60,181 14.0 2,029 60,181 14.0 2,029 - - - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 41,677 9.2 2,050 43,989 10.1 2,040 - - - Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 52,055 7.7 2,092 53,172 7.4 2,093 - - - Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction..... 35,974 4.9 2,080 - - - 34,137 6.8 2,080 Management related, n.e.c................................... 43,069 6.3 1,979 44,389 5.5 2,058 39,868 17.9 1,787 Sales............................................................. 39,287 9.6 2,123 39,234 9.8 2,126 ± ± ± Supervisors, sales.......................................... 59,902 13.9 2,210 59,902 13.9 2,210 - - - Sales, other business services.............................. 49,799 13.9 2,080 49,799 13.9 2,080 - - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 41,924 5.1 2,177 41,924 5.1 2,177 - - - Sales workers, apparel...................................... 35,736 11.7 2,115 35,736 11.7 2,115 - - - Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 23,708 10.1 2,080 23,708 10.1 2,080 - - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 24,230 24.8 2,080 24,230 24.8 2,080 - - - Cashiers.................................................... 19,966 11.5 2,071 19,966 11.5 2,071 - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 27,146 2.0 2,045 27,675 2.3 2,059 24,926 3.1 1,985 Supervisors, general office................................. $37,832 5.6 2,043 $37,777 6.8 2,054 $38,022 8.5 2,004 Computer operators.......................................... 30,152 6.7 2,080 30,152 6.7 2,080 - - - Secretaries................................................. 30,897 3.4 2,051 31,760 4.0 2,047 27,443 5.3 2,069 Typists..................................................... 29,513 5.5 2,058 30,599 4.8 2,054 - - - Hotel clerks................................................ 16,602 6.8 2,080 16,602 6.8 2,080 - - - Transportation ticket and reservation agents................ 31,575 6.9 2,080 31,575 6.9 2,080 - - - Receptionists............................................... 20,119 3.6 2,070 20,114 3.8 2,073 - - - Information clerks, n.e.c................................... 27,040 16.7 2,066 27,040 16.7 2,066 - - - Order clerks................................................ 28,137 12.7 2,068 28,137 12.7 2,068 - - - Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping............ 29,018 9.6 2,062 28,988 12.6 2,057 - - - Library clerks.............................................. 22,440 2.9 2,015 - - - 22,651 3.6 1,996 Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 23,941 4.2 2,055 24,969 5.1 2,043 22,210 3.7 2,074 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 24,491 3.9 2,032 24,641 4.3 2,032 23,633 7.9 2,035 Billing clerks.............................................. 25,753 6.8 2,042 25,753 6.8 2,042 - - - Telephone operators......................................... 23,917 14.3 1,998 23,822 15.1 1,995 - - - Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 17,760 4.2 2,074 17,760 4.2 2,074 - - - Dispatchers................................................. 26,504 12.3 2,080 - - - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 27,216 6.7 2,070 26,399 8.5 2,068 - - - Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 27,319 7.7 2,080 27,319 7.7 2,080 - - - Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 31,696 12.7 2,125 31,696 12.7 2,125 - - - Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 25,507 3.0 2,054 25,507 3.0 2,054 - - - Eligibility clerks, social welfare.......................... 27,459 1.4 2,067 - - - - - - General office clerks....................................... 25,683 3.1 2,056 25,251 3.7 2,071 26,960 6.1 2,014 Data entry keyers........................................... 18,721 16.8 2,067 - - - - - - Teachers' aides............................................. 16,460 6.0 1,478 - - - 16,580 6.0 1,443 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 25,151 5.3 2,072 26,178 6.9 2,080 23,016 4.9 2,057 Blue collar......................................................... 30,643 2.7 2,056 30,595 2.9 2,063 31,100 4.3 1,993 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 36,759 3.3 2,065 37,114 3.4 2,064 33,669 8.4 2,077 Automobile mechanics........................................ 35,343 7.0 2,124 35,066 7.3 2,126 - - - Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 40,293 4.6 2,069 - - - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 32,081 5.2 2,080 32,367 5.4 2,080 - - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 39,586 5.4 2,080 40,947 4.9 2,080 - - - Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers. 52,480 7.7 2,080 - - - - - - Carpenters.................................................. 30,396 4.5 2,047 30,150 4.8 2,045 - - - Electricians................................................ 41,276 11.2 2,080 42,370 11.5 2,080 - - - Electrician apprentices..................................... 22,763 7.9 2,080 22,763 7.9 2,080 - - - Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 29,119 9.3 2,080 31,010 6.7 2,080 - - - Supervisors, production..................................... 42,131 9.2 2,128 42,039 9.7 2,131 - - - Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 29,150 4.5 2,080 29,150 4.5 2,080 - - - Stationary engineers........................................ $36,692 5.0 2,080 $36,692 5.0 2,080 - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 26,415 3.8 2,070 26,415 3.8 2,070 - - - Printing press operators.................................... 32,959 6.7 2,012 32,959 6.7 2,012 - - - Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 17,531 6.4 2,065 17,531 6.4 2,065 - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 23,988 6.4 2,073 23,988 6.4 2,073 - - - Assemblers.................................................. 27,012 7.7 2,080 27,012 7.7 2,080 - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 18,873 4.3 2,080 18,873 4.3 2,080 - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 30,785 4.1 2,047 30,862 5.1 2,084 $30,474 5.0 1,895 Truck drivers............................................... 28,670 3.5 2,061 28,627 3.7 2,059 29,276 2.5 2,080 Driver-sales workers........................................ 30,860 10.3 2,287 30,860 10.3 2,287 - - - Bus drivers................................................. 25,429 10.7 1,727 - - - 27,706 5.7 1,683 Supervisors, material moving equipment...................... 44,409 8.3 2,080 - - - - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 29,432 9.2 2,080 29,432 9.2 2,080 - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 23,371 4.6 2,041 23,264 4.8 2,039 25,245 10.3 2,080 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 19,571 10.6 1,982 17,749 6.6 1,971 - - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 19,958 11.8 1,912 19,958 11.8 1,912 - - - Construction laborers....................................... 24,983 8.3 2,012 - - - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 22,981 6.7 2,068 22,976 7.4 2,066 - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 27,895 8.0 2,080 27,895 8.0 2,080 - - - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 21,865 14.8 2,080 21,865 14.8 2,080 - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 23,465 11.4 2,069 23,465 11.4 2,069 - - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 19,924 8.1 1,993 19,849 8.4 1,990 - - - Service............................................................. 22,504 3.0 2,021 18,274 2.8 2,007 32,937 3.3 2,054 Protective service............................................ 34,893 5.8 2,119 21,141 14.2 2,041 39,061 3.8 2,143 Supervisors, guards......................................... 44,541 17.1 2,078 - - - - - - Firefighting................................................ 39,941 4.9 2,371 - - - 39,941 4.9 2,371 Police and detectives, public service....................... 39,503 4.3 2,103 - - - 39,697 4.3 2,103 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers...... 31,617 30.8 2,004 - - - 31,617 30.8 2,004 Correctional institution officers........................... 31,624 3.8 2,083 - - - 31,624 3.8 2,083 Guards and police, except public service.................... 17,641 7.3 2,039 17,064 6.4 2,035 - - - Food service.................................................. 16,849 4.7 2,023 16,881 4.8 2,039 16,063 10.0 1,644 Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 30,288 9.5 2,164 30,288 9.5 2,164 - - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 8,966 14.4 1,984 8,966 14.4 1,984 - - - Cooks....................................................... 18,162 4.6 1,984 18,448 5.0 2,009 - - - Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 16,312 12.3 2,065 16,312 12.3 2,065 - - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 17,920 10.9 2,038 17,896 11.0 2,038 - - - Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 14,675 7.8 2,068 14,675 7.8 2,068 - - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 15,735 4.6 1,993 15,692 4.4 2,030 - - - Health service................................................ $19,368 2.6 2,029 $18,667 2.7 2,034 $23,032 4.6 2,004 Health aides, except nursing................................ 21,955 8.4 2,019 21,630 11.5 2,079 - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 18,567 2.5 2,029 17,938 2.6 2,024 23,213 7.0 2,066 Cleaning and building service................................. 19,606 4.5 2,054 18,438 5.2 2,049 24,178 3.0 2,074 Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 26,122 10.1 2,080 25,555 11.9 2,080 - - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 17,727 6.1 2,026 17,379 6.1 2,024 - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 19,809 6.5 2,066 18,117 8.3 2,063 23,613 3.2 2,073 Personal service.............................................. 19,366 4.7 1,734 19,479 5.2 1,792 18,840 8.0 1,465 Public transportation attendants............................ 25,216 7.2 1,159 26,893 7.8 1,086 - - - Early childhood teachers' assistants........................ 18,303 11.4 1,558 - - - - - - Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 17,663 1.8 2,006 17,892 1.6 2,064 - - - Service, n.e.c.............................................. 17,221 4.9 1,915 17,301 5.3 2,001 - - - 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SUR- VEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 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, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $17.48 1.9 $17.06 2.4 $19.19 1.8 All excluding sales............................................... 17.59 1.9 17.17 2.4 19.20 1.9 White collar........................................................ 20.75 1.9 20.63 2.4 21.20 2.2 1....................................................... 7.05 5.3 7.05 6.1 7.05 5.1 2....................................................... 9.73 4.8 9.66 5.0 11.69 3.7 3....................................................... 9.80 2.0 9.66 2.2 11.21 3.0 4....................................................... 12.44 2.2 12.50 2.5 12.15 3.5 5....................................................... 14.91 3.5 15.55 3.7 12.70 4.3 6....................................................... 16.44 4.0 16.87 4.5 14.43 4.9 7....................................................... 19.27 2.8 18.72 3.2 21.29 5.8 8....................................................... 20.52 3.0 19.50 3.0 23.26 6.9 9....................................................... 25.33 2.0 24.65 2.7 26.97 2.7 10........................................................ 25.56 4.8 27.28 6.1 22.80 7.9 11........................................................ 30.41 3.4 31.84 3.8 26.30 5.8 12........................................................ 37.54 3.5 38.81 3.6 27.36 8.1 13........................................................ 40.99 5.6 44.36 6.8 29.65 5.9 14........................................................ 55.08 9.7 62.71 6.3 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.78 7.9 23.84 10.0 23.59 10.7 White collar excluding sales.................................... 21.39 2.0 21.44 2.5 21.22 2.2 1....................................................... 7.66 6.8 7.87 8.2 7.05 5.1 2....................................................... 10.42 5.2 10.35 5.5 11.69 3.7 3....................................................... 10.18 1.7 10.05 1.9 11.28 3.1 4....................................................... 12.40 1.8 12.47 2.1 12.13 3.5 5....................................................... 14.80 3.5 15.49 3.6 12.70 4.3 6....................................................... 15.63 2.3 15.92 2.4 14.43 4.9 7....................................................... 19.15 2.8 18.53 3.2 21.29 5.8 8....................................................... 20.62 3.2 19.49 3.1 23.26 6.9 9....................................................... 25.26 2.0 24.53 2.7 26.97 2.7 10........................................................ 25.13 5.0 26.83 6.8 22.80 7.9 11........................................................ 29.55 3.1 30.78 3.5 26.36 6.0 12........................................................ 37.60 3.6 38.88 3.6 27.36 8.1 13........................................................ 40.99 5.6 44.36 6.8 29.65 5.9 14........................................................ 55.08 9.7 62.71 6.3 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.79 8.0 23.86 10.1 23.59 10.7 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.51 1.9 25.83 2.5 24.77 2.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 26.71 2.0 27.13 2.6 25.79 2.4 5....................................................... 16.49 6.4 17.50 4.9 12.89 11.7 6....................................................... 16.62 4.0 17.36 4.4 14.81 6.0 7....................................................... 21.33 2.7 19.86 3.3 25.25 6.7 8....................................................... 21.81 5.5 19.37 5.7 25.30 9.7 9....................................................... 26.71 2.2 25.40 3.9 28.82 1.7 10........................................................ 25.33 5.7 27.91 6.4 23.03 8.8 11........................................................ 28.71 3.2 29.42 3.2 26.88 7.8 12........................................................ 35.63 4.8 37.08 5.0 26.40 10.9 13........................................................ $39.67 6.2 $42.47 7.3 $28.30 6.0 14........................................................ 49.07 7.2 49.40 7.6 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 24.09 11.7 26.03 13.7 17.76 8.5 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 28.56 4.0 28.84 4.4 26.29 4.0 5....................................................... 18.56 12.3 18.56 12.3 - - 7....................................................... 22.55 6.3 - - - - 8....................................................... 23.72 9.9 - - - - 9....................................................... 25.29 4.8 25.32 5.0 - - 10........................................................ 30.94 5.4 - - - - 11........................................................ 30.71 4.9 30.63 5.1 - - 12........................................................ 34.54 6.9 37.15 3.6 - - Civil engineers............................................. 24.66 2.1 - - 25.75 2.5 Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 30.11 3.4 30.11 3.4 - - 9....................................................... 26.92 3.0 26.92 3.0 - - 11........................................................ 32.00 3.2 32.00 3.2 - - 12........................................................ 37.18 5.0 37.18 5.0 - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 31.96 6.1 32.51 6.5 - - 11........................................................ 34.08 2.3 - - - - 12........................................................ 38.77 2.9 38.77 2.9 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 26.76 4.0 26.77 4.0 ± ± 6....................................................... 17.67 8.3 17.41 8.7 - - 7....................................................... 20.90 4.1 20.91 4.1 - - 8....................................................... 25.31 10.9 25.31 10.9 - - 9....................................................... 25.00 4.4 25.00 4.4 - - 10........................................................ 26.11 6.7 26.11 6.7 - - 11........................................................ 28.80 4.5 28.80 4.5 - - 12........................................................ 34.22 2.4 34.22 2.4 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 27.29 3.9 27.30 3.9 - - 7....................................................... 20.94 4.3 20.94 4.3 - - 9....................................................... 25.00 4.8 25.00 4.8 - - 10........................................................ 26.30 6.9 26.30 6.9 - - 11........................................................ 29.52 4.2 29.52 4.2 - - 12........................................................ 34.87 2.7 34.87 2.7 - - Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 21.61 4.6 21.63 4.6 - - Natural scientists............................................ 21.17 5.2 21.60 5.4 19.29 14.6 9....................................................... 16.68 4.1 - - - - Health related................................................ 25.13 4.2 25.06 4.7 25.45 9.7 5....................................................... 17.71 7.3 17.71 7.3 - - 6....................................................... 16.60 4.7 16.35 5.3 - - 7....................................................... 19.19 2.7 19.65 1.9 17.67 5.9 8....................................................... 21.97 4.6 21.15 4.0 25.72 12.6 9....................................................... 26.15 7.3 26.38 7.5 - - 10........................................................ 25.01 9.3 22.41 7.2 - - 11........................................................ 27.78 9.1 25.86 8.4 - - 12........................................................ 53.01 15.9 55.34 18.8 - - 13........................................................ 49.92 9.7 - - - - Not able to be leveled.................................... $25.93 29.2 $26.29 33.4 - - Physicians.................................................. 38.83 11.9 38.42 14.6 $40.64 10.3 11........................................................ 27.25 23.2 - - - - 12........................................................ 56.63 16.1 60.53 19.0 - - 13........................................................ 54.37 4.9 - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 23.22 5.8 23.28 6.3 22.59 6.3 5....................................................... 18.29 8.9 18.29 8.9 - - 6....................................................... 16.29 5.4 - - - - 7....................................................... 19.95 2.1 20.03 2.1 - - 8....................................................... 21.28 2.7 21.17 3.0 - - 9....................................................... 25.99 8.3 26.35 8.2 - - 11........................................................ 27.81 8.0 27.83 8.1 - - Pharmacists................................................. 27.32 2.8 27.32 2.8 - - Respiratory therapists...................................... 20.94 10.6 20.94 10.6 - - Physical therapists......................................... 33.38 7.7 - - - - Speech therapists........................................... 28.97 8.0 - - - - Therapists, n.e.c........................................... 18.85 4.4 19.13 7.4 18.57 4.9 7....................................................... 17.21 3.4 - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. 31.69 5.1 34.83 7.1 28.46 6.1 8....................................................... 29.04 21.2 - - - - 9....................................................... 26.96 13.0 - - - - 10........................................................ 26.01 6.0 21.96 7.6 - - 11........................................................ 30.52 4.0 31.52 6.6 29.29 4.9 12........................................................ 23.80 12.4 - - - - 13........................................................ 35.00 9.8 44.46 10.5 27.53 7.5 Business, commerce, and marketing teachers.................. 28.85 6.8 - - - - English teachers............................................ 21.36 17.4 - - - - Teachers, post secondary, subject not specified............. 30.65 7.5 28.88 7.9 33.38 13.4 8....................................................... 37.25 17.9 - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 26.63 2.3 21.09 5.5 27.28 2.4 5....................................................... 9.82 7.9 13.73 20.4 - - 6....................................................... 12.50 4.7 - - - - 7....................................................... 28.94 3.0 20.22 17.7 30.33 2.5 8....................................................... 27.65 6.7 20.29 11.5 28.53 7.3 9....................................................... 28.82 1.7 23.50 5.2 29.56 1.7 10........................................................ 22.07 11.9 - - 21.99 12.0 11........................................................ 27.91 5.5 - - 28.23 5.6 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 25.08 12.7 - - 26.10 13.7 Elementary school teachers.................................. 28.04 1.7 23.15 6.4 28.54 1.6 8....................................................... 27.55 6.5 - - 27.59 6.9 9....................................................... 28.24 2.3 22.18 8.3 28.95 2.0 Secondary school teachers................................... 29.57 2.1 26.82 3.3 29.85 2.3 7....................................................... 31.46 3.1 - - 31.54 3.3 8....................................................... 28.78 12.4 - - 29.04 13.0 9....................................................... 30.35 1.9 26.90 4.2 30.93 1.7 Teachers, special education................................. 26.97 3.7 20.46 5.4 28.67 2.1 9....................................................... $27.53 4.4 - - $28.41 3.6 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 28.16 5.8 $13.88 13.1 30.32 4.3 5....................................................... 14.43 15.4 - - - - 7....................................................... 28.89 5.7 - - - - 9....................................................... 28.12 7.2 - - - - Substitute teachers......................................... 8.34 .8 - - - - Vocational and educational counselors....................... 24.87 9.6 14.02 2.1 26.97 8.8 9....................................................... 28.63 8.6 - - 29.83 6.8 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 21.36 6.6 18.92 9.3 22.88 6.7 6....................................................... 13.67 10.6 - - 13.67 10.6 9....................................................... 20.00 5.9 - - 18.69 11.6 11........................................................ 27.33 4.2 - - - - Librarians.................................................. 21.24 6.7 18.46 9.5 22.88 6.7 6....................................................... 13.67 10.6 - - 13.67 10.6 9....................................................... 20.00 5.9 - - 18.69 11.6 11........................................................ 27.33 4.2 - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 26.18 7.7 28.74 8.2 18.28 4.2 Psychologists............................................... 22.07 8.4 - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 14.14 8.6 10.11 12.5 15.77 6.8 7....................................................... 11.97 12.7 9.32 9.6 - - Social workers.............................................. 14.09 10.5 - - 15.86 8.6 7....................................................... 10.88 10.9 - - - - Recreation workers.......................................... 14.73 7.2 - - 15.47 5.5 Lawyers and judges............................................ 42.91 8.3 43.86 8.8 30.89 6.6 13........................................................ 46.41 4.3 47.06 4.1 - - Lawyers..................................................... 42.91 8.3 43.86 8.8 - - 13........................................................ 46.41 4.3 47.06 4.1 - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 26.54 7.4 26.60 7.6 ± ± 7....................................................... 18.82 7.3 18.82 7.3 - - 9....................................................... 26.56 10.1 26.83 10.3 - - 12........................................................ 42.54 6.6 42.54 6.6 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.01 15.3 24.99 15.5 - - Designers................................................... 17.14 5.7 - - - - Editors and reporters....................................... 30.20 10.1 30.20 10.1 - - 9....................................................... 29.10 14.3 29.10 14.3 - - Public relations specialists................................ 30.01 21.2 30.01 21.2 - - Professional, n.e.c......................................... 28.73 5.0 - - - - 9....................................................... 26.89 11.7 26.89 11.7 - - Technical....................................................... 19.36 6.2 20.03 7.4 16.82 7.4 4....................................................... 12.31 4.8 11.86 5.4 - - 5....................................................... 14.58 2.7 14.35 2.9 15.83 6.2 6....................................................... 15.34 3.3 15.50 3.6 - - 7....................................................... 18.03 3.6 18.45 3.6 - - 8....................................................... 18.18 4.5 18.47 5.9 17.68 6.6 9....................................................... 22.32 5.8 23.35 6.8 - - 11........................................................ $89.42 24.9 $89.42 24.9 - - Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.32 5.4 16.39 5.7 - - 5....................................................... 12.78 7.8 12.81 7.9 - - 6....................................................... 15.20 6.6 - - - - 8....................................................... 17.39 6.6 17.45 6.7 - - 9....................................................... 19.76 6.0 19.97 6.6 - - Radiologic technicians...................................... 18.18 6.3 18.18 6.3 - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 15.22 2.3 15.52 2.5 $14.17 2.5 4....................................................... 14.44 4.7 14.44 4.7 - - 5....................................................... 15.24 2.5 15.41 3.1 - - 6....................................................... 14.92 2.7 15.24 2.9 - - 7....................................................... 16.14 6.7 - - - - Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 15.12 6.0 13.93 7.6 17.92 5.2 4....................................................... 11.49 6.2 11.49 6.2 - - 5....................................................... 15.65 8.0 - - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 17.87 5.4 17.87 5.4 - - 7....................................................... 18.50 4.2 18.50 4.2 - - Airplane pilots and navigators.............................. 70.90 27.9 70.90 27.9 - - 11........................................................ 111.42 20.0 111.42 20.0 - - Broadcast equipment operators............................... 17.15 33.4 16.92 38.8 - - Computer programmers........................................ 20.65 7.8 20.65 7.8 - - Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 15.50 5.0 16.40 5.2 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 27.11 3.1 28.05 3.6 23.31 5.5 5....................................................... 17.27 8.2 18.64 5.5 - - 6....................................................... 15.28 4.3 15.15 4.8 - - 7....................................................... 18.59 6.5 18.17 5.0 19.71 18.9 8....................................................... 19.62 3.0 19.45 2.9 20.86 10.5 9....................................................... 23.00 3.3 23.52 3.4 19.26 7.3 10........................................................ 24.14 10.2 24.83 12.8 - - 11........................................................ 28.65 4.2 29.91 3.5 25.54 9.7 12........................................................ 39.46 4.7 40.36 4.7 - - 13........................................................ 41.76 8.2 46.95 5.8 - - 14........................................................ 57.65 13.6 70.59 6.9 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 28.20 6.0 27.40 11.6 - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 31.73 3.9 32.95 4.4 26.50 5.7 5....................................................... 17.81 6.5 18.22 6.3 - - 6....................................................... 17.05 14.7 17.05 14.7 - - 7....................................................... 18.37 9.2 18.69 11.2 - - 8....................................................... 21.24 4.5 20.84 4.4 - - 9....................................................... 23.38 5.0 23.45 5.2 - - 10........................................................ 30.72 7.2 31.58 6.9 - - 11........................................................ 29.56 5.4 31.96 4.2 25.43 9.9 12........................................................ 40.40 4.7 40.76 4.9 - - 13........................................................ 40.84 9.4 46.84 7.5 - - 14........................................................ 57.65 13.6 70.59 6.9 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... $27.20 11.5 $26.20 17.1 - - Administrators and officials, public administration......... 24.68 9.2 - - $23.89 8.8 Financial managers.......................................... 46.09 11.9 46.09 11.9 - - 12........................................................ 44.08 17.7 44.08 17.7 - - Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 30.39 14.6 28.56 16.8 - - Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 35.02 11.4 35.02 11.4 - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 30.40 6.5 31.34 11.9 29.76 7.0 9....................................................... 24.68 14.0 22.59 16.1 - - 11........................................................ 27.62 7.4 25.19 10.6 28.26 8.8 12........................................................ 35.03 6.2 35.38 8.2 - - Managers, medicine and health............................... 29.57 6.3 29.40 6.1 - - Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 29.46 11.0 30.57 10.5 - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 32.01 4.9 32.23 5.1 27.91 8.9 8....................................................... 20.75 6.9 20.80 7.3 - - 9....................................................... 25.52 5.3 25.52 5.3 - - 10........................................................ 28.68 6.2 28.68 6.2 - - 11........................................................ 33.08 6.1 33.37 7.1 31.38 3.6 12........................................................ 36.82 3.7 36.93 3.8 - - 14........................................................ 62.96 5.6 62.96 5.6 - - Management related............................................ 20.63 3.0 20.98 2.9 19.32 9.1 5....................................................... 16.79 14.9 - - - - 6....................................................... 14.84 3.0 14.60 3.3 - - 7....................................................... 18.70 8.6 17.87 4.4 20.55 23.7 8....................................................... 18.78 3.1 18.70 2.9 19.33 12.9 9....................................................... 22.56 4.3 23.64 3.8 18.75 6.8 10........................................................ 20.21 7.9 - - - - 11........................................................ 25.66 5.7 25.53 5.9 - - 12........................................................ 31.24 11.8 35.56 8.6 - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 18.77 4.8 19.16 4.5 17.60 13.8 7....................................................... 19.79 4.2 19.79 4.2 - - 9....................................................... 22.83 7.4 22.46 8.0 - - Other financial officers.................................... 21.64 11.3 21.31 12.4 - - Management analysts......................................... 29.66 13.3 29.66 13.3 - - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 20.33 9.7 21.57 10.5 - - 9....................................................... 22.51 13.3 - - - - Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 24.88 7.9 25.41 7.6 - - Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction..... 17.30 4.9 - - 16.41 6.8 Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.43 6.0 21.13 5.6 22.31 16.4 6....................................................... 14.93 9.0 14.93 9.0 - - 7....................................................... 18.92 19.2 15.52 7.3 - - 8....................................................... 18.35 8.3 18.35 8.3 - - 9....................................................... 21.41 8.3 23.27 7.1 - - Sales............................................................. 15.96 9.2 15.93 9.4 ± ± 1....................................................... 6.33 4.8 6.33 4.8 - - 2....................................................... 8.36 8.8 8.36 8.8 - - 3....................................................... $8.23 4.4 $8.17 4.5 - - 4....................................................... 12.56 6.4 12.55 6.5 - - 5....................................................... 16.02 14.6 16.02 14.6 - - 6....................................................... 23.29 17.0 23.29 17.0 - - 7....................................................... 21.49 11.1 21.49 11.1 - - 8....................................................... 19.59 9.6 19.59 9.6 - - 9....................................................... 27.80 11.5 27.80 11.5 - - 11........................................................ 38.10 7.7 - - - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 26.45 11.9 26.45 11.9 - - Sales, other business services.............................. 23.69 14.0 23.69 14.0 - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 19.26 6.1 19.26 6.1 - - Sales workers, apparel...................................... 15.98 16.4 15.98 16.4 - - Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 10.58 10.3 10.58 10.3 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 10.00 20.9 10.00 20.9 - - Sales counter clerks........................................ 10.44 14.6 - - - - Cashiers.................................................... 9.27 9.8 9.25 10.0 - - 1....................................................... 6.71 4.5 6.71 4.5 - - 2....................................................... 8.62 11.3 8.62 11.3 - - 3....................................................... 8.86 4.5 8.75 4.9 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 12.91 2.0 13.01 2.4 $12.42 3.0 1....................................................... 7.66 6.8 7.87 8.2 7.05 5.1 2....................................................... 10.42 5.2 10.35 5.5 11.69 3.7 3....................................................... 10.21 1.7 10.08 2.0 11.28 3.1 4....................................................... 12.44 1.9 12.56 2.2 11.96 3.6 5....................................................... 13.53 2.7 14.00 2.7 12.39 5.5 6....................................................... 15.60 3.8 16.09 4.0 14.09 7.0 7....................................................... 16.81 4.8 17.17 5.8 15.07 4.5 8....................................................... 20.79 5.3 21.18 5.7 - - 9....................................................... 23.14 5.5 23.14 5.5 - - Supervisors, general office................................. 18.50 6.0 18.39 7.2 18.89 8.3 5....................................................... 14.83 10.5 - - - - 6....................................................... 20.19 11.4 - - - - 7....................................................... 14.94 6.9 - - - - 8....................................................... 19.88 8.6 20.23 9.5 - - Computer operators.......................................... 14.54 6.3 14.54 6.3 - - Secretaries................................................. 14.90 3.5 15.28 4.1 13.26 5.3 2....................................................... 14.12 8.9 15.08 7.4 - - 3....................................................... 11.45 5.1 11.60 5.6 - - 4....................................................... 13.40 3.5 13.39 4.0 13.49 5.3 5....................................................... 13.59 4.3 14.11 4.1 12.68 8.4 6....................................................... 16.88 5.7 17.35 6.8 - - 7....................................................... 17.64 7.9 17.83 8.9 - - Typists..................................................... 13.69 5.7 14.08 5.6 - - 3....................................................... 11.04 1.6 - - - - Hotel clerks................................................ 7.87 5.7 7.87 5.7 - - 3....................................................... $7.57 3.5 $7.57 3.5 - - Transportation ticket and reservation agents................ 14.04 8.6 14.04 8.6 - - Receptionists............................................... 9.52 3.3 9.50 3.5 - - 2....................................................... 9.29 4.6 9.29 4.6 - - 3....................................................... 10.24 5.5 10.29 6.3 - - 4....................................................... 10.72 5.0 - - - - Information clerks, n.e.c................................... 12.71 15.0 12.71 15.0 - - Order clerks................................................ 12.72 14.2 12.72 14.2 - - 4....................................................... 11.56 11.3 11.56 11.3 - - Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping............ 14.07 10.1 14.09 13.1 - - Library clerks.............................................. 9.48 4.2 - - $9.41 5.0 1....................................................... 6.03 1.0 - - 6.03 1.0 2....................................................... 9.70 3.7 - - 9.64 4.3 4....................................................... 11.27 4.4 - - 11.27 4.4 Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 11.57 4.2 12.06 5.0 10.71 3.8 3....................................................... 10.70 2.8 10.67 2.8 - - 4....................................................... 11.55 7.4 13.26 10.0 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.63 3.7 11.68 4.2 11.35 6.9 3....................................................... 10.27 3.2 10.27 3.2 - - 4....................................................... 11.62 4.6 11.61 5.3 - - Billing clerks.............................................. 12.54 7.1 12.54 7.1 - - 4....................................................... 12.66 7.1 12.66 7.1 - - Telephone operators......................................... 11.60 15.3 11.56 16.0 - - 2....................................................... 12.87 18.9 12.87 18.9 - - Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 8.03 5.8 8.03 5.8 - - 1....................................................... 6.52 1.0 6.52 1.0 - - Dispatchers................................................. 12.74 12.3 - - - - 4....................................................... 10.77 13.5 - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 12.29 7.5 11.75 8.9 - - 3....................................................... 8.05 8.8 8.01 9.2 - - Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 12.72 8.9 12.72 8.9 - - 4....................................................... 10.43 18.4 10.43 18.4 - - Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 14.92 10.6 14.92 10.6 - - Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 12.46 3.4 12.46 3.4 - - 4....................................................... 12.48 3.5 12.48 3.5 - - 5....................................................... 12.42 4.8 12.42 4.8 - - Eligibility clerks, social welfare.......................... 12.98 3.0 - - 13.18 2.6 General office clerks....................................... 12.05 3.3 11.68 3.9 13.26 5.7 2....................................................... 11.18 5.5 11.14 5.7 - - 3....................................................... 9.87 5.1 9.47 5.4 - - 4....................................................... 13.21 3.1 12.88 4.3 13.81 4.1 5....................................................... 13.21 6.6 14.14 5.1 - - 7....................................................... 17.28 1.3 - - - - Data entry keyers........................................... 8.81 13.0 10.49 11.1 - - 2....................................................... 10.63 16.9 10.63 16.9 - - Statistical clerks.......................................... $13.51 5.7 $13.51 5.7 - - Teachers' aides............................................. 11.30 4.9 8.38 12.0 $11.75 4.6 3....................................................... 11.87 4.2 - - 12.45 .6 4....................................................... 10.84 7.4 - - 11.00 7.5 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 11.96 4.5 12.32 5.8 11.16 4.4 3....................................................... 9.92 3.4 10.01 3.5 - - 4....................................................... 11.36 3.1 11.20 3.0 - - 6....................................................... 14.16 9.4 16.62 5.6 - - Blue collar......................................................... 14.58 2.7 14.49 2.9 15.39 4.2 1....................................................... 9.21 7.5 9.16 7.9 - - 2....................................................... 10.42 6.3 10.39 6.7 10.96 6.7 3....................................................... 11.48 4.1 11.46 4.2 - - 4....................................................... 14.27 4.7 14.41 4.8 11.27 5.7 5....................................................... 14.14 4.0 14.44 4.4 12.85 7.2 6....................................................... 16.22 2.3 16.38 2.4 - - 7....................................................... 19.47 3.3 19.66 3.8 18.57 4.1 8....................................................... 20.18 5.5 20.45 5.9 - - 9....................................................... 24.43 3.1 24.71 2.7 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.79 3.2 17.97 3.3 16.21 8.4 3....................................................... 10.03 3.8 10.03 3.8 - - 4....................................................... 13.16 4.6 13.16 4.6 - - 5....................................................... 15.08 6.6 16.14 5.9 11.09 7.1 6....................................................... 16.80 3.1 16.75 3.1 - - 7....................................................... 19.44 3.9 19.66 4.4 18.24 5.5 8....................................................... 21.51 4.8 21.64 4.9 - - 9....................................................... 24.95 3.0 25.05 3.0 - - Automobile mechanics........................................ 16.64 5.5 16.49 5.6 - - Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 19.47 4.6 - - - - 7....................................................... 19.82 4.6 - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 15.70 5.3 15.89 5.6 - - 6....................................................... 17.03 6.9 17.03 6.9 - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 19.03 5.4 19.69 4.9 - - 6....................................................... 16.98 8.1 - - - - 7....................................................... 21.48 3.2 21.36 3.9 - - Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers. 25.23 7.7 - - - - Carpenters.................................................. 14.85 4.3 14.74 4.6 - - 7....................................................... 15.28 3.0 - - - - Electricians................................................ 19.84 11.2 20.37 11.5 - - 7....................................................... 19.70 13.1 22.11 9.0 - - Electrician apprentices..................................... 10.94 7.9 10.94 7.9 - - Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 14.00 9.3 14.91 6.7 - - Supervisors, production..................................... 19.80 8.8 19.73 9.3 - - Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 14.01 4.5 14.01 4.5 - - Stationary engineers........................................ 17.64 5.0 17.64 5.0 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... $12.67 3.9 $12.68 3.9 ± ± 1....................................................... 8.42 6.3 8.42 6.3 - - 2....................................................... 8.63 6.4 8.63 6.4 - - 3....................................................... 11.47 7.2 11.47 7.2 - - 4....................................................... 13.50 5.7 13.54 5.8 - - 5....................................................... 12.70 7.9 12.70 7.9 - - 6....................................................... 15.55 4.8 15.55 4.8 - - 7....................................................... 18.82 4.4 18.82 4.4 - - Printing press operators.................................... 16.20 6.5 16.38 6.6 - - Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 8.45 6.3 8.45 6.3 - - 1....................................................... 8.03 7.4 8.03 7.4 - - 2....................................................... 9.09 8.6 9.09 8.6 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 11.57 6.6 11.57 6.6 - - Assemblers.................................................. 12.99 7.7 12.99 7.7 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 9.07 4.3 9.07 4.3 - - Transportation and material moving................................ 14.32 4.7 14.00 5.9 $15.77 4.7 2....................................................... 9.15 12.9 8.61 15.1 - - 3....................................................... 11.09 10.1 10.96 11.1 - - 4....................................................... 15.27 6.4 15.36 6.6 - - 5....................................................... 14.69 3.6 14.70 6.3 14.67 2.3 6....................................................... 15.37 4.7 16.48 5.1 - - 7....................................................... 20.90 3.2 - - - - Truck drivers............................................... 13.51 4.2 13.48 4.5 14.07 2.5 2....................................................... 11.43 8.0 - - - - 3....................................................... 10.99 13.7 10.92 14.1 - - 4....................................................... 14.39 5.2 14.39 5.2 - - 5....................................................... 14.54 5.3 - - - - Driver-sales workers........................................ 11.55 17.4 11.55 17.4 - - Bus drivers................................................. 14.20 8.3 - - 15.62 4.9 Supervisors, material moving equipment...................... 21.35 8.3 - - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.15 9.2 14.15 9.2 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.13 4.4 11.10 4.6 11.83 10.0 1....................................................... 9.23 9.4 9.16 10.0 - - 2....................................................... 11.08 7.9 11.19 8.1 - - 3....................................................... 11.94 6.3 11.94 6.3 - - 4....................................................... 12.22 6.6 12.65 7.8 - - 5....................................................... 12.27 8.8 12.27 8.8 - - Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 9.73 9.9 9.01 6.9 - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 10.44 6.9 10.44 6.9 - - Construction laborers....................................... 12.42 8.3 - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 10.48 7.1 10.43 7.7 - - 1....................................................... 9.55 10.9 9.55 10.9 - - 3....................................................... 11.17 12.9 11.17 12.9 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ $12.61 7.6 $12.61 7.6 - - 1....................................................... 10.02 11.8 10.02 11.8 - - 3....................................................... 14.28 10.7 14.28 10.7 - - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 10.09 16.2 10.09 16.2 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 11.10 10.8 11.10 10.8 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.88 7.7 9.85 7.9 - - 1....................................................... 7.09 8.3 6.75 7.4 - - 2....................................................... 11.37 15.3 11.37 15.3 - - 3....................................................... 9.86 11.4 9.86 11.4 - - Service............................................................. 10.13 2.8 8.36 2.6 $15.37 3.1 1....................................................... 7.08 3.3 6.84 3.4 10.21 3.8 2....................................................... 7.70 5.1 7.26 5.0 10.97 7.1 3....................................................... 8.25 4.7 7.77 5.4 10.71 4.3 4....................................................... 10.98 6.4 10.32 8.9 12.69 6.3 5....................................................... 12.43 5.4 11.09 7.5 14.64 3.8 6....................................................... 13.05 3.7 12.27 4.9 14.01 4.1 7....................................................... 18.50 3.7 14.38 10.9 19.17 3.1 8....................................................... 15.92 5.5 14.83 10.7 17.10 5.8 9....................................................... 19.79 12.0 - - 19.81 13.2 Not able to be leveled.................................... 13.07 22.5 - - - - Protective service............................................ 16.03 5.3 9.91 11.5 18.16 3.6 3....................................................... 7.59 3.2 7.57 3.2 - - 4....................................................... 14.05 10.1 - - 15.25 12.1 5....................................................... 13.92 4.4 10.11 5.8 14.79 4.2 6....................................................... 14.68 3.6 - - 14.52 3.9 7....................................................... 19.41 3.0 - - 19.41 3.0 8....................................................... 17.10 5.8 - - 17.10 5.8 9....................................................... 19.81 13.2 - - 19.81 13.2 Supervisors, guards......................................... 21.43 16.7 - - - - Firefighting................................................ 16.71 7.0 - - 16.71 7.0 Police and detectives, public service....................... 18.71 4.4 - - 18.80 4.4 7....................................................... 20.09 3.1 - - 20.09 3.1 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers...... 16.25 27.7 - - 16.25 27.7 Correctional institution officers........................... 15.19 3.8 - - 15.19 3.8 5....................................................... 15.08 4.1 - - 15.08 4.1 Guards and police, except public service.................... 8.59 5.8 8.37 5.1 - - 3....................................................... 7.58 3.2 7.58 3.2 - - 5....................................................... 10.18 5.8 - - - - Protective service, n.e.c................................... 16.91 22.8 - - - - Food service.................................................. 7.41 4.0 7.33 4.2 9.40 6.3 1....................................................... 6.35 5.1 6.32 5.1 - - 2....................................................... 6.57 7.4 6.20 7.4 9.96 10.5 3....................................................... 6.70 7.7 6.63 7.9 - - 4....................................................... 8.48 4.3 8.46 5.1 - - 5....................................................... 9.96 10.3 9.96 10.3 - - 6....................................................... $12.76 6.5 $12.76 6.5 - - Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 13.99 9.0 13.99 9.0 - - Bartenders.................................................. 7.34 16.1 7.34 16.1 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 4.08 10.5 4.08 10.5 - - 1....................................................... 4.43 14.6 4.43 14.6 - - 2....................................................... 5.17 21.3 5.17 21.3 - - 3....................................................... 2.81 11.1 2.81 11.1 - - Cooks....................................................... 8.87 3.3 8.86 3.6 - - 2....................................................... 8.39 5.9 8.30 6.1 - - 3....................................................... 8.42 2.7 8.36 2.8 - - 4....................................................... 9.22 5.0 9.57 5.7 - - Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 6.71 8.7 6.68 9.2 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.86 9.2 8.67 9.9 - - 3....................................................... 9.97 7.6 9.97 7.6 - - Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 6.69 6.9 6.69 6.9 - - 1....................................................... 6.24 7.2 6.24 7.2 - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.32 6.4 7.15 6.5 $10.04 12.2 1....................................................... 7.74 3.4 7.73 3.5 - - 3....................................................... 7.46 9.7 7.36 10.4 - - Health service................................................ 9.30 2.0 8.98 1.8 11.40 5.2 1....................................................... 7.34 1.8 7.34 1.9 - - 2....................................................... 8.84 5.1 8.84 5.2 - - 3....................................................... 10.09 5.4 9.40 5.7 11.00 6.3 4....................................................... 9.18 2.7 9.14 2.7 - - 5....................................................... 9.08 4.1 8.98 4.0 - - Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.37 7.2 9.84 7.6 - - 3....................................................... 11.02 9.8 - - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.98 1.8 8.75 1.8 11.09 6.7 1....................................................... 7.44 .9 7.44 .9 - - 2....................................................... 8.38 3.7 8.37 3.7 - - 3....................................................... 9.74 4.8 9.47 6.8 - - 4....................................................... 8.80 2.6 8.74 2.7 - - 5....................................................... 9.07 3.6 9.07 3.6 - - Cleaning and building service................................. 9.02 4.3 8.48 4.8 11.64 3.0 1....................................................... 7.56 4.5 7.29 4.5 10.39 4.1 2....................................................... 8.40 12.1 7.49 9.6 11.94 8.2 3....................................................... 10.53 4.8 10.17 6.5 11.40 5.0 4....................................................... 12.43 4.0 12.12 9.2 - - 5....................................................... 12.96 12.8 12.96 13.8 - - Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 12.35 10.4 12.06 12.2 - - 5....................................................... 13.02 16.1 13.02 17.7 - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 8.75 6.4 8.60 6.5 - - 1....................................................... 7.85 6.9 7.85 6.9 - - 2....................................................... 11.21 9.0 10.09 4.8 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.79 5.6 7.99 6.3 11.37 3.2 1....................................................... 7.39 5.4 6.90 5.1 10.39 4.1 2....................................................... $7.86 12.1 $6.99 7.3 $11.24 9.6 3....................................................... 10.63 6.3 10.12 10.0 11.43 5.2 Personal service.............................................. 9.90 6.0 9.78 7.4 10.36 7.1 1....................................................... 6.74 7.0 6.33 6.3 8.95 8.5 2....................................................... 7.72 6.8 7.29 5.3 - - 3....................................................... 9.01 10.1 7.96 11.7 9.90 11.8 4....................................................... 12.47 18.5 13.06 22.2 - - 5....................................................... 12.90 16.4 12.64 18.9 - - 6....................................................... 10.05 3.4 - - - - Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities............ 6.40 3.5 - - 6.53 5.4 Public transportation attendants............................ 19.78 17.5 24.76 14.4 - - Baggage porters and bellhops................................ 5.49 8.8 5.49 8.8 - - Early childhood teachers' assistants........................ 12.42 8.1 - - 13.20 6.7 Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 8.26 3.7 8.11 3.8 - - Service, n.e.c.............................................. 8.59 5.0 8.34 5.3 10.28 11.8 1....................................................... 7.19 9.3 7.14 9.6 - - 2....................................................... 7.78 9.8 8.06 10.8 - - 3....................................................... 7.85 12.2 7.84 13.5 - - 4....................................................... 10.17 8.2 - - - - 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 appendices 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NON- RESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 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, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 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................................................................... $18.41 1.8 $18.06 2.3 $19.77 1.8 All excluding sales............................................... 18.40 1.9 18.03 2.4 19.76 1.8 White collar........................................................ 21.61 1.9 21.57 2.4 21.76 2.2 1....................................................... 7.51 6.9 7.65 7.9 - - 2....................................................... 10.44 6.0 10.37 6.3 - - 3....................................................... 10.20 1.9 10.07 2.1 11.36 3.3 4....................................................... 12.75 2.1 12.84 2.4 12.30 3.6 5....................................................... 14.95 3.4 15.46 3.5 13.10 4.9 6....................................................... 16.53 4.1 16.94 4.5 14.57 5.2 7....................................................... 19.43 2.9 18.86 3.3 21.45 5.9 8....................................................... 20.57 3.1 19.50 3.1 23.44 7.1 9....................................................... 25.07 1.8 24.21 2.3 26.97 2.7 10........................................................ 26.99 4.3 27.33 6.2 26.33 3.8 11........................................................ 30.42 3.4 31.87 3.8 26.26 5.8 12........................................................ 37.70 3.6 38.81 3.6 27.80 8.4 13........................................................ 40.86 5.6 44.36 6.8 28.94 5.6 14........................................................ 55.08 9.7 62.71 6.3 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.86 7.7 25.67 9.7 26.55 6.5 White collar excluding sales.................................... 21.93 2.0 21.98 2.5 21.75 2.2 1....................................................... 8.03 8.3 8.46 8.8 - - 2....................................................... 10.90 6.0 10.85 6.4 - - 3....................................................... 10.43 1.8 10.31 2.0 11.36 3.3 4....................................................... 12.61 1.9 12.70 2.2 12.28 3.6 5....................................................... 15.02 3.6 15.59 3.7 13.10 4.9 6....................................................... 15.71 2.3 15.99 2.4 14.57 5.2 7....................................................... 19.30 2.9 18.65 3.3 21.45 5.9 8....................................................... 20.68 3.4 19.49 3.2 23.44 7.1 9....................................................... 24.98 1.8 24.05 2.3 26.97 2.7 10........................................................ 26.67 4.6 26.87 7.0 26.33 3.8 11........................................................ 29.56 3.1 30.81 3.5 26.31 6.0 12........................................................ 37.77 3.6 38.89 3.7 27.80 8.4 13........................................................ 40.86 5.6 44.36 6.8 28.94 5.6 14........................................................ 55.08 9.7 62.71 6.3 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.86 7.7 25.67 9.7 26.55 6.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.07 2.0 26.21 2.6 25.75 2.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.24 2.0 27.34 2.7 27.01 2.3 5....................................................... 17.65 4.4 17.43 5.2 19.92 6.6 6....................................................... 17.15 4.0 17.68 4.2 15.68 7.1 7....................................................... 21.76 2.5 20.20 3.0 25.65 7.0 8....................................................... 21.91 5.8 19.22 6.1 25.70 10.3 9....................................................... 26.46 1.9 24.67 3.3 28.89 1.8 10........................................................ 27.65 4.0 28.03 6.7 27.24 3.8 11........................................................ 28.73 3.2 29.45 3.2 26.88 7.8 12........................................................ 35.87 4.9 37.07 5.0 26.92 11.5 13........................................................ $39.50 6.2 $42.47 7.3 $27.23 5.2 14........................................................ 49.07 7.2 49.40 7.6 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.90 12.9 26.68 14.1 - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 28.54 4.0 28.81 4.5 26.29 4.0 5....................................................... 18.56 12.3 18.56 12.3 - - 7....................................................... 22.55 6.3 - - - - 8....................................................... 23.72 9.9 - - - - 9....................................................... 25.29 4.8 25.32 5.0 - - 10........................................................ 30.94 5.4 - - - - 11........................................................ 30.71 4.9 30.63 5.1 - - 12........................................................ 34.50 7.0 37.16 3.7 - - Civil engineers............................................. 24.66 2.1 - - 25.75 2.5 Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 30.11 3.4 30.11 3.4 - - 9....................................................... 26.92 3.0 26.92 3.0 - - 11........................................................ 32.00 3.2 32.00 3.2 - - 12........................................................ 37.18 5.0 37.18 5.0 - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 31.91 6.2 32.45 6.6 - - 11........................................................ 34.08 2.3 - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 26.78 4.0 26.78 4.0 ± ± 6....................................................... 17.67 8.3 17.41 8.7 - - 7....................................................... 20.91 4.1 20.91 4.1 - - 8....................................................... 25.31 10.9 25.31 10.9 - - 9....................................................... 24.99 4.6 24.99 4.6 - - 10........................................................ 26.11 6.7 26.11 6.7 - - 11........................................................ 28.80 4.5 28.80 4.5 - - 12........................................................ 34.22 2.4 34.22 2.4 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 27.30 3.9 27.31 3.9 - - 7....................................................... 20.94 4.3 20.94 4.3 - - 9....................................................... 25.05 4.9 25.05 4.9 - - 10........................................................ 26.30 6.9 26.30 6.9 - - 11........................................................ 29.52 4.2 29.52 4.2 - - 12........................................................ 34.87 2.7 34.87 2.7 - - Operations and systems researchers and analysts............. 21.33 4.2 21.33 4.2 - - Natural scientists............................................ 21.17 5.2 21.60 5.4 19.29 14.6 9....................................................... 16.68 4.1 - - - - Health related................................................ 24.64 4.4 24.43 4.9 25.40 10.1 5....................................................... 17.14 6.9 17.14 6.9 - - 6....................................................... 16.51 4.9 - - - - 7....................................................... 18.73 2.6 19.13 1.5 17.66 5.9 8....................................................... 22.01 5.3 21.23 4.8 25.31 14.1 9....................................................... 23.34 3.0 23.39 3.0 - - 10........................................................ 25.29 10.8 - - - - 11........................................................ 27.92 9.2 25.97 8.4 - - 12........................................................ 53.80 16.5 56.35 19.6 - - 13........................................................ 50.11 9.9 - - - - Physicians.................................................. 38.68 12.2 38.32 14.9 40.27 10.6 11........................................................ $27.25 23.2 - - - - 12........................................................ 56.92 16.6 $60.86 19.7 - - Registered nurses........................................... 21.49 2.5 21.34 2.6 $22.63 6.3 7....................................................... 19.38 1.8 19.47 1.8 - - 8....................................................... 21.31 3.3 21.15 3.7 - - 9....................................................... 22.59 2.8 22.91 3.0 - - 11........................................................ 28.13 7.8 28.15 7.9 - - Respiratory therapists...................................... 21.60 11.9 21.60 11.9 - - Speech therapists........................................... 28.93 9.3 - - - - Therapists, n.e.c........................................... 18.98 5.0 - - 18.35 5.7 7....................................................... 17.17 3.5 - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. 32.16 5.1 35.12 7.4 28.94 5.6 10........................................................ 25.79 6.2 - - - - 11........................................................ 30.66 4.2 31.81 7.2 29.29 4.9 12........................................................ 24.78 11.8 - - - - 13........................................................ 34.31 9.9 44.46 10.5 - - Teachers, post secondary, subject not specified............. 31.22 7.7 28.89 7.9 35.06 14.4 Teachers, except college and university....................... 28.34 1.6 21.75 5.4 29.13 1.6 5....................................................... 13.86 20.3 13.86 20.3 - - 7....................................................... 29.62 2.8 20.60 17.3 31.06 2.2 8....................................................... 27.71 6.7 19.81 9.9 28.68 7.3 9....................................................... 28.94 1.7 24.02 4.7 29.58 1.8 10........................................................ 28.31 1.4 - - 28.24 1.3 11........................................................ 27.91 5.5 - - 28.23 5.6 Prekindergarten and kindergarten............................ 24.32 14.6 - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 28.18 1.6 24.18 5.3 28.55 1.6 8....................................................... 27.59 6.6 - - 27.64 7.0 9....................................................... 28.46 2.1 23.55 6.7 28.95 2.0 Secondary school teachers................................... 29.64 2.2 26.49 3.4 29.96 2.3 7....................................................... 31.46 3.1 - - 31.54 3.3 8....................................................... 29.03 12.5 - - 29.47 12.8 9....................................................... 30.47 1.9 26.71 4.0 31.10 1.7 Teachers, special education................................. 27.00 3.7 20.23 5.6 28.67 2.1 9....................................................... 27.64 4.4 - - 28.41 3.6 Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 30.33 4.4 16.22 11.2 32.08 2.9 9....................................................... 28.12 7.2 - - - - Vocational and educational counselors....................... 25.00 9.7 14.02 2.1 27.16 8.9 9....................................................... 28.63 8.6 - - 29.83 6.8 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 22.08 6.5 19.01 9.6 24.23 5.0 9....................................................... 20.59 5.2 - - - - 11........................................................ 27.33 4.2 - - - - Librarians.................................................. 21.89 6.6 18.46 9.5 24.23 5.0 9....................................................... 20.59 5.2 - - - - 11........................................................ 27.33 4.2 - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... 26.42 7.9 28.67 8.3 ± ± Psychologists............................................... 22.30 8.7 - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... $14.69 7.6 $10.93 13.8 $15.85 7.6 7....................................................... 14.02 8.7 - - - - Social workers.............................................. 14.64 8.6 10.90 15.3 15.83 8.6 7....................................................... 12.62 5.6 - - - - Lawyers and judges............................................ 43.08 8.4 43.86 8.8 ± ± 13........................................................ 46.41 4.3 47.06 4.1 - - Lawyers..................................................... 43.08 8.4 43.86 8.8 - - 13........................................................ 46.41 4.3 47.06 4.1 - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 26.78 7.4 26.85 7.7 ± ± 7....................................................... 18.82 7.3 18.82 7.3 - - 9....................................................... 26.64 10.2 26.92 10.4 - - 12........................................................ 42.54 6.6 42.54 6.6 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 25.64 15.5 25.64 15.7 - - Designers................................................... 17.14 5.7 - - - - Editors and reporters....................................... 30.65 10.1 30.65 10.1 - - 9....................................................... 29.10 14.3 29.10 14.3 - - Public relations specialists................................ 30.01 21.2 30.01 21.2 - - Professional, n.e.c......................................... 28.84 4.9 - - - - 9....................................................... 27.17 12.0 27.17 12.0 - - Technical....................................................... 19.93 6.6 20.86 7.9 16.84 7.4 4....................................................... 13.09 3.0 12.90 4.2 - - 5....................................................... 14.61 2.9 14.35 3.1 15.83 6.2 6....................................................... 15.36 3.5 15.52 3.8 - - 7....................................................... 17.97 4.1 18.43 4.3 - - 8....................................................... 18.32 4.9 18.75 6.8 17.68 6.6 9....................................................... 22.27 5.9 23.31 7.0 - - 11........................................................ 89.42 24.9 89.42 24.9 - - Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 16.46 4.8 16.55 5.1 - - 5....................................................... 12.83 7.9 - - - - 8....................................................... 17.48 7.3 17.55 7.3 - - 9....................................................... 19.25 6.0 19.40 6.8 - - Radiologic technicians...................................... 18.34 7.5 18.34 7.5 - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 14.92 1.7 15.23 2.0 14.17 2.5 5....................................................... 15.29 3.1 - - - - 6....................................................... 14.89 2.8 15.21 3.0 - - Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 16.08 5.7 14.97 8.1 17.92 5.2 4....................................................... 12.43 7.8 12.43 7.8 - - 5....................................................... 16.16 7.7 - - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 17.87 5.4 17.87 5.4 - - 7....................................................... 18.50 4.2 18.50 4.2 - - Airplane pilots and navigators.............................. 70.90 27.9 70.90 27.9 - - 11........................................................ 111.42 20.0 111.42 20.0 - - Computer programmers........................................ 20.65 7.8 20.65 7.8 - - Technical and related, n.e.c................................ 15.51 5.1 16.40 5.2 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... $27.25 3.1 $28.24 3.7 $23.26 5.5 5....................................................... 17.71 8.1 19.27 4.7 - - 6....................................................... 15.39 4.4 15.27 4.9 - - 7....................................................... 18.74 6.5 18.36 5.0 19.71 18.9 8....................................................... 19.62 3.0 19.45 2.9 20.86 10.5 9....................................................... 22.98 3.4 23.50 3.5 19.26 7.3 10........................................................ 24.14 10.2 24.83 12.8 - - 11........................................................ 28.63 4.2 29.91 3.5 25.41 9.8 12........................................................ 39.46 4.7 40.36 4.7 - - 13........................................................ 41.76 8.2 46.95 5.8 - - 14........................................................ 57.65 13.6 70.59 6.9 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 28.20 6.0 27.40 11.6 - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 31.88 3.9 33.15 4.4 26.44 5.7 5....................................................... 18.50 5.5 18.99 5.4 - - 7....................................................... 18.37 9.2 18.69 11.2 - - 8....................................................... 21.24 4.5 20.84 4.4 - - 9....................................................... 23.34 5.1 23.40 5.2 - - 10........................................................ 30.72 7.2 31.58 6.9 - - 11........................................................ 29.54 5.5 31.96 4.2 25.30 10.0 12........................................................ 40.40 4.7 40.76 4.9 - - 13........................................................ 40.84 9.4 46.84 7.5 - - 14........................................................ 57.65 13.6 70.59 6.9 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 27.20 11.5 26.20 17.1 - - Administrators and officials, public administration......... 24.68 9.2 - - 23.89 8.8 Financial managers.......................................... 46.09 11.9 46.09 11.9 - - 12........................................................ 44.08 17.7 44.08 17.7 - - Personnel and labor relations managers...................... 30.39 14.6 28.56 16.8 - - Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations...... 35.02 11.4 35.02 11.4 - - Administrators, education and related fields................ 30.87 6.3 32.58 11.3 29.76 7.0 9....................................................... 24.68 14.0 22.59 16.1 - - 11........................................................ 27.62 7.4 25.19 10.6 28.26 8.8 12........................................................ 35.03 6.2 35.38 8.2 - - Managers, medicine and health............................... 29.63 6.5 29.45 6.3 - - Managers, service organizations, n.e.c...................... 29.46 11.0 30.57 10.5 - - Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 32.26 4.9 32.51 5.1 27.41 9.6 8....................................................... 20.75 6.9 20.80 7.3 - - 9....................................................... 25.52 5.3 25.52 5.3 - - 10........................................................ 28.68 6.2 28.68 6.2 - - 11........................................................ 33.07 6.2 33.37 7.1 - - 12........................................................ 36.82 3.7 36.93 3.8 - - 14........................................................ 62.96 5.6 62.96 5.6 - - Management related............................................ 20.74 3.0 21.13 3.0 19.32 9.1 5....................................................... 17.03 14.9 - - - - 6....................................................... 14.84 3.1 14.61 3.4 - - 7....................................................... 18.93 8.7 18.16 4.2 20.55 23.7 8....................................................... $18.78 3.1 $18.70 2.9 $19.33 12.9 9....................................................... 22.56 4.3 23.64 3.8 18.75 6.8 10........................................................ 20.21 7.9 - - - - 11........................................................ 25.66 5.7 25.53 5.9 - - 12........................................................ 31.24 11.8 35.56 8.6 - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 18.77 4.8 19.16 4.5 17.60 13.8 7....................................................... 19.79 4.2 19.79 4.2 - - 9....................................................... 22.83 7.4 22.46 8.0 - - Other financial officers.................................... 21.64 11.3 21.31 12.4 - - Management analysts......................................... 29.66 13.3 29.66 13.3 - - Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 20.33 9.7 21.57 10.5 - - 9....................................................... 22.51 13.3 - - - - Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 24.88 7.9 25.41 7.6 - - Inspectors and compliance officers, except construction..... 17.30 4.9 - - 16.41 6.8 Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.76 6.0 21.57 5.6 22.31 16.4 7....................................................... 19.50 19.9 16.31 6.7 - - 8....................................................... 18.35 8.3 18.35 8.3 - - 9....................................................... 21.41 8.3 23.27 7.1 - - Sales............................................................. 18.51 9.3 18.46 9.5 ± ± 1....................................................... 6.62 7.4 6.62 7.4 - - 2....................................................... 8.08 16.3 8.08 16.3 - - 3....................................................... 8.73 4.8 8.73 4.8 - - 4....................................................... 13.25 6.3 13.24 6.4 - - 5....................................................... 14.04 8.4 14.04 8.4 - - 6....................................................... 23.29 17.0 23.29 17.0 - - 7....................................................... 22.00 12.5 22.00 12.5 - - 8....................................................... 19.59 9.6 19.59 9.6 - - 9....................................................... 27.80 11.5 27.80 11.5 - - 11........................................................ 38.10 7.7 - - - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 27.11 11.6 27.11 11.6 - - Sales, other business services.............................. 23.94 13.9 23.94 13.9 - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 19.26 6.1 19.26 6.1 - - Sales workers, apparel...................................... 16.90 10.5 16.90 10.5 - - Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 11.40 10.1 11.40 10.1 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 11.65 24.8 11.65 24.8 - - 4....................................................... 8.59 8.8 8.59 8.8 - - Cashiers.................................................... 9.64 11.5 9.64 11.5 - - 2....................................................... 8.43 18.2 8.43 18.2 - - 3....................................................... 9.10 5.7 9.10 5.7 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.27 2.1 13.44 2.5 12.56 3.1 1....................................................... 8.03 8.3 8.46 8.8 - - 2....................................................... 10.90 6.0 10.85 6.4 - - 3....................................................... 10.46 1.8 10.34 2.0 11.36 3.3 4....................................................... 12.58 2.0 12.70 2.3 12.11 3.8 5....................................................... $13.52 2.8 $14.01 2.8 $12.33 5.7 6....................................................... 15.60 3.8 16.09 4.0 14.09 7.0 7....................................................... 16.82 4.8 17.18 5.8 15.07 4.5 8....................................................... 20.82 5.4 21.20 5.7 - - 9....................................................... 23.14 5.5 23.14 5.5 - - Supervisors, general office................................. 18.52 6.0 18.39 7.2 18.97 8.3 5....................................................... 14.87 10.6 - - - - 6....................................................... 20.19 11.4 - - - - 7....................................................... 14.94 6.9 - - - - 8....................................................... 19.88 8.6 20.23 9.5 - - Computer operators.......................................... 14.50 6.7 14.50 6.7 - - Secretaries................................................. 15.06 3.7 15.52 4.4 13.26 5.3 3....................................................... 11.53 5.8 11.73 6.5 - - 4....................................................... 13.48 3.8 13.48 4.3 13.49 5.3 5....................................................... 13.66 4.5 14.25 4.4 12.68 8.4 6....................................................... 16.88 5.7 17.35 6.8 - - 7....................................................... 17.66 8.0 17.86 9.0 - - Typists..................................................... 14.34 5.6 14.89 4.9 - - Hotel clerks................................................ 7.98 6.8 7.98 6.8 - - Transportation ticket and reservation agents................ 15.18 6.9 15.18 6.9 - - Receptionists............................................... 9.72 3.7 9.70 4.0 - - 2....................................................... 9.67 4.7 9.67 4.7 - - 3....................................................... 10.52 5.9 10.61 6.8 - - Information clerks, n.e.c................................... 13.09 17.0 13.09 17.0 - - Order clerks................................................ 13.61 12.6 13.61 12.6 - - 4....................................................... 11.56 11.3 11.56 11.3 - - Personnel clerks, except payroll and timekeeping............ 14.07 10.1 14.09 13.1 - - Library clerks.............................................. 11.13 3.2 - - 11.35 3.7 Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 11.65 4.4 12.22 5.0 10.71 3.8 3....................................................... 10.88 2.5 10.86 2.6 - - 4....................................................... 11.55 7.4 13.26 10.0 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 12.05 3.7 12.13 4.2 11.61 7.0 3....................................................... 10.27 3.2 10.27 3.2 - - 4....................................................... 12.23 4.7 12.30 5.5 - - Billing clerks.............................................. 12.61 7.2 12.61 7.2 - - 4....................................................... 12.66 7.1 12.66 7.1 - - Telephone operators......................................... 11.97 15.2 11.94 16.0 - - Mail clerks, except postal service.......................... 8.56 4.5 8.56 4.5 - - Dispatchers................................................. 12.74 12.3 - - - - 4....................................................... 10.77 13.5 - - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 13.15 6.6 12.76 8.4 - - Material recording, scheduling, and distribution clerks, n.e.c.................................................... 13.13 7.7 13.13 7.7 - - Insurance adjusters, examiners, and investigators........... 14.92 10.6 14.92 10.6 - - Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 12.42 3.5 12.42 3.5 - - 4....................................................... 12.40 3.5 12.40 3.5 - - 5....................................................... $12.42 4.8 $12.42 4.8 - - Eligibility clerks, social welfare.......................... 13.29 1.3 - - - - General office clerks....................................... 12.49 3.2 12.19 3.7 $13.39 6.1 3....................................................... 10.14 6.1 9.75 6.4 - - 4....................................................... 13.21 3.1 12.88 4.3 13.81 4.1 5....................................................... 13.21 6.6 14.14 5.1 - - 7....................................................... 17.28 1.3 - - - - Data entry keyers........................................... 9.06 17.4 - - - - Teachers' aides............................................. 11.13 5.3 - - 11.49 5.0 3....................................................... 11.87 4.2 - - 12.45 .6 4....................................................... 11.00 7.5 - - 11.00 7.5 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 12.14 4.8 12.59 6.2 11.19 4.6 3....................................................... 10.14 3.0 10.25 3.1 - - 4....................................................... 11.45 3.8 11.20 3.5 - - 6....................................................... 14.16 9.4 16.62 5.6 - - Blue collar......................................................... 14.90 2.6 14.83 2.9 15.61 4.4 1....................................................... 9.48 8.0 9.44 8.4 - - 2....................................................... 11.20 5.6 11.23 6.0 - - 3....................................................... 11.79 3.9 11.77 4.0 - - 4....................................................... 14.36 4.7 14.45 4.8 - - 5....................................................... 14.17 4.0 14.47 4.4 12.86 7.3 6....................................................... 16.25 2.3 16.41 2.4 - - 7....................................................... 19.45 3.3 19.64 3.8 18.57 4.1 8....................................................... 20.18 5.5 20.45 5.9 - - 9....................................................... 24.81 2.5 24.71 2.7 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.80 3.2 17.98 3.3 16.21 8.4 3....................................................... 10.03 3.8 10.03 3.8 - - 4....................................................... 13.16 4.6 13.16 4.6 - - 5....................................................... 15.14 6.7 16.24 6.0 11.09 7.1 6....................................................... 16.80 3.1 16.75 3.1 - - 7....................................................... 19.42 3.9 19.63 4.4 18.24 5.5 8....................................................... 21.51 4.8 21.64 4.9 - - 9....................................................... 24.95 3.0 25.05 3.0 - - Automobile mechanics........................................ 16.64 5.5 16.49 5.6 - - Bus, truck, and stationary engine mechanics................. 19.47 4.6 - - - - 7....................................................... 19.82 4.6 - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 15.42 5.2 15.56 5.4 - - 6....................................................... 17.03 6.9 17.03 6.9 - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 19.03 5.4 19.69 4.9 - - 6....................................................... 16.98 8.1 - - - - 7....................................................... 21.48 3.2 21.36 3.9 - - Supervisors, electricians and power transmission installers. 25.23 7.7 - - - - Carpenters.................................................. 14.85 4.3 14.74 4.6 - - 7....................................................... 15.28 3.0 - - - - Electricians................................................ $19.84 11.2 $20.37 11.5 - - 7....................................................... 19.70 13.1 22.11 9.0 - - Electrician apprentices..................................... 10.94 7.9 10.94 7.9 - - Construction trades, n.e.c.................................. 14.00 9.3 14.91 6.7 - - Supervisors, production..................................... 19.80 8.8 19.73 9.3 - - Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers.............. 14.01 4.5 14.01 4.5 - - Stationary engineers........................................ 17.64 5.0 17.64 5.0 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.76 3.9 12.76 3.9 - - 1....................................................... 8.43 6.4 8.43 6.4 - - 2....................................................... 8.63 6.4 8.63 6.4 - - 3....................................................... 11.69 7.2 11.69 7.2 - - 4....................................................... 13.54 5.8 13.54 5.8 - - 5....................................................... 12.70 7.9 12.70 7.9 - - 6....................................................... 15.55 4.8 15.55 4.8 - - 7....................................................... 18.82 4.4 18.82 4.4 - - Printing press operators.................................... 16.38 6.6 16.38 6.6 - - Laundering and dry cleaning machine operators............... 8.49 6.4 8.49 6.4 - - 1....................................................... 8.04 7.6 8.04 7.6 - - 2....................................................... 9.09 8.6 9.09 8.6 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 11.57 6.6 11.57 6.6 - - Assemblers.................................................. 12.99 7.7 12.99 7.7 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 9.07 4.3 9.07 4.3 - - Transportation and material moving................................ 15.04 4.2 14.81 5.1 $16.08 5.0 2....................................................... 11.41 9.3 11.27 12.8 - - 3....................................................... 12.00 5.9 11.92 6.6 - - 4....................................................... 15.39 6.5 15.43 6.5 - - 5....................................................... 14.72 3.7 14.70 6.3 14.74 2.3 6....................................................... 15.51 4.7 16.76 4.5 - - 7....................................................... 20.90 3.2 - - - - Truck drivers............................................... 13.91 3.3 13.90 3.6 14.07 2.5 2....................................................... 11.43 8.0 - - - - 3....................................................... 12.24 7.2 12.20 7.6 - - 4....................................................... 14.40 5.3 14.40 5.3 - - 5....................................................... 14.54 5.3 - - - - Driver-sales workers........................................ 13.49 11.0 13.49 11.0 - - Bus drivers................................................. 14.72 9.6 - - 16.47 5.3 Supervisors, material moving equipment...................... 21.35 8.3 - - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 14.15 9.2 14.15 9.2 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.45 4.5 11.41 4.7 12.14 10.3 1....................................................... 9.59 10.0 9.54 10.8 - - 2....................................................... 11.33 8.2 11.45 8.4 - - 3....................................................... 12.08 6.5 12.08 6.5 - - 4....................................................... 12.46 6.9 12.72 7.9 - - 5....................................................... $12.27 8.8 $12.27 8.8 - - Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 9.87 10.8 9.01 6.9 - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 10.44 6.9 10.44 6.9 - - Construction laborers....................................... 12.42 8.3 - - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 11.11 6.5 11.12 7.3 - - 1....................................................... 10.82 11.3 10.82 11.3 - - 3....................................................... 11.45 13.6 11.45 13.6 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 13.41 8.0 13.41 8.0 - - 3....................................................... 14.28 10.7 14.28 10.7 - - Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 10.51 14.8 10.51 14.8 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 11.34 11.4 11.34 11.4 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 10.00 8.1 9.97 8.3 - - 1....................................................... 7.10 8.5 6.75 7.5 - - 2....................................................... 12.05 16.5 12.05 16.5 - - Service............................................................. 11.14 3.0 9.10 3.0 $16.03 3.1 1....................................................... 7.45 3.8 7.20 4.0 10.54 4.3 2....................................................... 8.35 6.1 7.85 5.9 12.27 6.5 3....................................................... 9.15 4.3 8.70 5.0 11.05 3.7 4....................................................... 11.40 6.9 10.69 10.0 13.05 6.5 5....................................................... 13.09 5.3 11.76 8.7 14.80 3.8 6....................................................... 13.26 3.8 12.26 5.0 14.57 3.3 7....................................................... 18.47 3.8 - - 19.15 3.1 8....................................................... 15.92 5.5 14.83 10.7 17.10 5.8 9....................................................... 19.79 12.0 - - 19.81 13.2 Protective service............................................ 16.47 5.4 10.36 13.8 18.23 3.6 3....................................................... 7.62 4.3 7.62 4.3 - - 4....................................................... 14.80 11.0 - - - - 5....................................................... 13.92 4.4 10.11 5.8 14.79 4.2 6....................................................... 14.90 3.3 - - 14.76 3.5 7....................................................... 19.38 3.1 - - 19.38 3.1 8....................................................... 17.10 5.8 - - 17.10 5.8 9....................................................... 19.81 13.2 - - 19.81 13.2 Supervisors, guards......................................... 21.43 16.7 - - - - Firefighting................................................ 16.85 7.0 - - 16.85 7.0 Police and detectives, public service....................... 18.78 4.4 - - 18.87 4.4 7....................................................... 20.09 3.1 - - 20.09 3.1 Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers...... 15.78 29.5 - - 15.78 29.5 Correctional institution officers........................... 15.19 3.8 - - 15.19 3.8 5....................................................... 15.08 4.1 - - 15.08 4.1 Guards and police, except public service.................... 8.65 6.9 8.39 6.1 - - 3....................................................... 7.53 3.8 7.53 3.8 - - 5....................................................... 10.18 5.8 - - - - Food service.................................................. 8.33 4.6 8.28 4.7 9.77 9.6 1....................................................... 6.57 6.2 6.55 6.2 - - 2....................................................... 7.27 9.2 6.94 9.5 - - 3....................................................... $7.89 7.5 $7.87 7.7 - - 4....................................................... 8.61 4.5 8.61 5.3 - - 5....................................................... 9.96 10.3 9.96 10.3 - - 6....................................................... 12.76 6.5 12.76 6.5 - - Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 13.99 9.0 13.99 9.0 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 4.52 14.3 4.52 14.3 - - 1....................................................... 4.16 18.0 4.16 18.0 - - 2....................................................... 5.64 29.4 5.64 29.4 - - Cooks....................................................... 9.16 3.7 9.18 4.0 - - 2....................................................... 8.39 5.9 8.30 6.1 - - 3....................................................... 8.60 3.2 8.56 3.4 - - 4....................................................... 9.46 5.7 - - - - Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 7.90 12.5 7.90 12.5 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.79 10.9 8.78 11.0 - - 3....................................................... 10.33 9.5 10.33 9.5 - - Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 7.09 8.1 7.09 8.1 - - 1....................................................... 6.76 7.7 6.76 7.7 - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 7.90 4.4 7.73 4.0 - - 1....................................................... 7.83 3.9 7.81 4.0 - - 3....................................................... 7.67 11.5 7.67 12.1 - - Health service................................................ 9.54 2.5 9.18 2.3 $11.49 4.9 2....................................................... 9.08 6.8 9.08 6.9 - - 3....................................................... 10.22 5.6 9.49 6.4 11.00 6.3 4....................................................... 9.32 2.9 9.28 2.8 - - 5....................................................... 9.41 5.8 9.27 5.9 - - Health aides, except nursing................................ 10.88 9.2 10.41 11.5 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.15 2.1 8.86 2.0 11.23 6.7 2....................................................... 8.45 4.3 8.45 4.3 - - 3....................................................... 9.79 4.6 9.51 6.8 - - 4....................................................... 8.94 2.7 8.87 2.7 - - Cleaning and building service................................. 9.55 4.6 9.00 5.3 11.66 3.0 1....................................................... 8.06 5.1 7.74 5.4 10.42 4.1 2....................................................... 8.49 13.2 7.51 10.6 11.94 8.2 3....................................................... 10.74 4.2 10.45 5.7 11.40 5.0 4....................................................... 12.58 3.9 12.46 9.4 - - 5....................................................... 13.31 12.1 13.33 13.0 - - Supervisors, cleaning and building service workers.......... 12.56 10.1 12.29 11.9 - - 5....................................................... 13.49 14.8 - - - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 8.75 6.6 8.58 6.7 - - 1....................................................... 7.80 6.9 7.80 6.9 - - 2....................................................... 11.48 9.2 - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.59 6.5 8.78 8.3 11.39 3.2 1....................................................... 8.31 6.5 7.67 7.3 10.42 4.1 2....................................................... 7.92 13.2 - - 11.24 9.6 3....................................................... 10.96 5.3 10.61 8.8 11.43 5.2 Personal service.............................................. 11.17 7.8 10.87 9.1 12.86 7.2 1....................................................... $6.74 7.9 $6.68 8.1 - - 2....................................................... 8.70 10.9 8.06 8.8 - - 3....................................................... 9.89 6.1 8.81 6.2 - - 4....................................................... 13.42 19.7 13.83 23.5 - - 5....................................................... 15.27 18.9 15.02 23.7 - - Public transportation attendants............................ 21.76 17.5 24.76 14.4 - - Early childhood teachers' assistants........................ 11.75 10.3 - - - - Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 8.81 2.5 8.67 1.7 - - Service, n.e.c.............................................. 8.99 5.1 8.65 5.2 - - 1....................................................... 7.31 10.3 7.26 10.8 - - 2....................................................... 8.30 12.0 8.30 12.0 - - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 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 appendices 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NON- RESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. 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, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 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................................................................... $10.00 7.6 $9.76 8.9 $11.68 6.9 All excluding sales............................................... 10.14 8.8 9.87 10.6 11.71 7.0 White collar........................................................ 12.81 9.5 12.75 11.0 13.21 9.3 1....................................................... 6.31 3.4 6.18 2.7 7.79 12.7 2....................................................... 8.51 5.9 8.47 6.0 - - 3....................................................... 8.49 4.0 8.35 4.3 10.46 6.6 4....................................................... 10.49 5.8 10.56 6.1 9.30 6.9 5....................................................... 14.52 16.7 16.61 18.4 10.17 7.8 6....................................................... 12.58 6.2 13.22 7.7 10.95 8.6 7....................................................... 16.12 10.1 16.43 10.9 12.35 11.4 8....................................................... 19.39 4.8 19.59 4.3 18.77 14.9 9....................................................... 28.37 7.3 28.53 7.7 26.82 6.4 10........................................................ 11.34 13.3 25.38 4.7 - - 12........................................................ 27.92 24.1 - - - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 13.62 12.4 11.74 16.6 - - White collar excluding sales.................................... 14.55 11.1 14.87 13.3 13.31 9.6 1....................................................... 6.71 6.6 6.41 5.1 7.79 12.7 2....................................................... 8.54 4.5 8.45 4.6 - - 3....................................................... 9.02 3.7 8.90 4.0 - - 4....................................................... 10.66 4.8 10.81 5.1 9.30 6.9 5....................................................... 12.01 6.3 13.58 8.2 10.17 7.8 6....................................................... 12.58 6.2 13.22 7.7 10.95 8.6 7....................................................... 16.28 10.8 16.63 11.6 12.35 11.4 8....................................................... 19.39 4.8 19.59 4.3 18.77 14.9 9....................................................... 28.37 7.3 28.53 7.7 26.82 6.4 10........................................................ 11.34 13.3 25.38 4.7 - - 12........................................................ 27.92 24.1 - - - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 13.39 12.8 11.21 16.7 - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 19.34 11.7 21.64 11.8 14.01 11.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 20.59 12.6 24.47 11.4 14.01 11.8 5....................................................... 10.79 10.6 - - - - 6....................................................... 11.20 10.4 - - - - 7....................................................... 16.10 14.8 16.57 16.6 12.26 12.0 8....................................................... 20.44 5.2 21.37 4.0 18.77 14.9 9....................................................... 28.42 7.4 28.60 7.9 26.82 6.4 10........................................................ 11.34 13.3 25.38 4.7 - - 12........................................................ 27.92 24.1 - - - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 16.09 10.5 - - - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... ± ± ± ± - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... ± ± ± ± ± ± Health related................................................ 26.84 8.4 26.84 8.7 26.67 16.3 7....................................................... 21.84 4.6 21.89 4.7 - - 8....................................................... 21.76 5.3 20.78 3.3 - - 9....................................................... 29.43 6.8 29.43 6.8 - - 10........................................................ $23.68 5.6 $24.94 4.7 - - Registered nurses........................................... 27.01 9.2 27.03 9.2 - - 7....................................................... 21.81 4.8 21.81 4.8 - - 8....................................................... 21.13 1.3 21.21 1.3 - - Teachers, college and university.............................. 23.76 34.6 25.19 6.9 $23.25 47.8 Teachers, except college and university....................... 11.87 13.3 14.24 18.6 11.64 14.7 9....................................................... 25.77 11.3 - - - - Secondary school teachers................................... 27.53 4.7 - - - - Teachers, n.e.c............................................. 10.05 12.6 - - 11.46 12.8 Substitute teachers......................................... 8.34 .8 - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... 14.61 9.1 ± ± 14.48 10.2 Librarians.................................................. 14.48 10.2 - - 14.48 10.2 Social scientists and urban planners.......................... ± ± ± ± ± ± Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 11.45 15.8 ± ± ± ± Lawyers and judges............................................ ± ± - - ± ± Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... ± ± ± ± - - Technical....................................................... 14.11 7.5 14.12 7.6 ± ± 4....................................................... 10.23 8.4 10.23 8.4 - - 5....................................................... 14.33 5.4 14.33 5.4 - - 8....................................................... 16.90 4.3 16.90 4.3 - - Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians........... 15.16 16.4 15.16 16.4 - - Radiologic technicians...................................... 17.45 1.7 17.45 1.7 - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 16.11 5.5 16.13 5.5 - - Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 11.51 6.4 11.51 6.4 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 13.54 23.3 11.61 21.5 ± ± Executives, administrators, and managers...................... ± ± ± ± ± ± Management related............................................ ± ± ± ± - - Sales............................................................. 9.36 10.7 9.35 10.9 ± ± 1....................................................... 6.06 3.1 6.06 3.1 - - 2....................................................... 8.49 9.1 8.49 9.1 - - 3....................................................... 7.64 6.5 7.44 6.8 - - 4....................................................... 10.24 11.8 10.24 11.8 - - Sales workers, apparel...................................... 14.18 33.4 14.18 33.4 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 7.12 6.0 7.12 6.0 - - Cashiers.................................................... 8.97 10.3 8.93 10.7 - - 1....................................................... 6.12 1.4 6.12 1.4 - - 2....................................................... 8.72 12.4 8.72 12.4 - - 3....................................................... 8.44 5.9 7.97 6.4 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 9.49 3.8 9.40 4.2 10.21 5.9 1....................................................... 6.71 6.6 6.41 5.1 7.79 12.7 2....................................................... 8.54 4.5 8.45 4.6 - - 3....................................................... 9.06 3.7 8.95 4.0 - - 4....................................................... $10.98 5.0 $11.21 5.1 $9.37 6.9 5....................................................... 13.78 7.2 - - - - Secretaries................................................. 11.90 3.5 11.90 3.5 - - 4....................................................... 12.67 6.5 12.67 6.5 - - Transportation ticket and reservation agents................ 11.69 19.1 11.69 19.1 - - Receptionists............................................... 8.80 5.7 8.81 5.7 - - 2....................................................... 8.22 4.3 8.22 4.3 - - Library clerks.............................................. 7.81 5.1 - - 7.68 5.8 1....................................................... 6.03 1.0 - - 6.03 1.0 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 8.44 7.2 8.46 7.9 - - 4....................................................... 8.99 8.0 - - - - General office clerks....................................... 8.88 4.4 8.45 3.1 - - 2....................................................... 9.56 6.4 9.11 5.1 - - 3....................................................... 8.76 6.0 - - - - Data entry keyers........................................... 8.00 8.1 8.00 8.1 - - Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 9.98 7.4 9.82 9.3 - - Blue collar......................................................... 7.82 7.4 7.29 6.9 11.80 7.8 1....................................................... 7.01 5.3 6.97 5.4 - - 2....................................................... 6.39 8.9 6.26 8.3 - - 3....................................................... 7.12 13.6 7.12 13.6 - - 4....................................................... 11.42 8.4 - - - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... ± ± ± ± - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... ± ± ± ± ± ± Transportation and material moving................................ 7.65 13.1 6.57 9.9 12.77 3.5 2....................................................... 5.99 8.8 - - - - 4....................................................... 12.46 5.8 - - - - Bus drivers................................................. 12.34 5.1 - - 12.77 3.5 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 7.54 5.5 7.54 5.7 ± ± 1....................................................... 6.96 5.5 6.96 5.5 - - 2....................................................... 7.86 4.5 7.86 4.5 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.43 13.0 7.43 13.0 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 8.13 4.2 8.13 4.2 - - 1....................................................... 8.25 5.4 8.25 5.4 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 7.86 4.7 7.86 4.7 - - Service............................................................. 6.54 3.6 6.28 3.8 8.79 5.6 1....................................................... 6.13 3.1 5.93 2.4 9.18 7.1 2....................................................... 6.34 6.4 5.97 6.1 8.68 8.1 3....................................................... 6.07 8.4 5.77 8.5 9.00 16.4 4....................................................... 8.20 3.5 8.39 3.6 - - 5....................................................... 8.84 3.4 8.94 3.1 - - Protective service............................................ $8.56 7.0 $7.89 5.5 $12.11 17.3 3....................................................... 7.51 4.7 7.44 5.0 - - Guards and police, except public service.................... 8.29 5.3 8.27 5.3 - - 3....................................................... 7.74 4.3 7.74 4.3 - - Food service.................................................. 5.57 4.9 5.36 5.0 9.00 7.1 1....................................................... 5.80 3.8 5.73 3.7 - - 2....................................................... 5.85 8.9 5.36 8.3 - - 3....................................................... 5.13 10.4 5.01 10.6 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3.58 12.5 3.58 12.5 - - 1....................................................... 5.49 12.4 5.49 12.4 - - 2....................................................... 4.62 27.2 4.62 27.2 - - 3....................................................... 2.78 12.0 2.78 12.0 - - Food counter, fountain, and related......................... 5.97 3.0 5.83 1.7 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 9.00 9.0 8.38 11.1 - - Waiters'/Waitresses' assistants............................. 5.80 15.6 5.80 15.6 - - 1....................................................... 5.05 11.9 5.05 11.9 - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 5.82 7.1 - - - - 1....................................................... 7.11 6.8 7.16 7.2 - - Health service................................................ 8.24 2.7 8.25 2.7 ± ± 4....................................................... 8.48 4.4 8.48 4.4 - - Health aides, except nursing................................ 7.88 11.9 7.88 11.9 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 8.31 1.9 8.32 1.9 - - 4....................................................... 8.24 3.5 8.24 3.6 - - Cleaning and building service................................. 6.38 4.2 6.38 4.2 ± ± 1....................................................... 6.14 4.0 6.14 4.0 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 6.20 4.1 6.20 4.1 - - 1....................................................... 5.97 3.4 5.97 3.4 - - Personal service.............................................. $7.69 6.3 $7.37 9.0 $8.33 8.2 1....................................................... 6.75 13.1 5.58 6.0 - - 2....................................................... 6.97 5.1 6.60 3.3 - - 3....................................................... 8.13 18.8 - - - - 4....................................................... 7.91 7.3 - - - - Attendants, amusement, and recreation facilities............ 6.40 3.5 - - 6.53 5.4 Child care workers, n.e.c................................... 6.88 6.7 6.30 4.2 - - Service, n.e.c.............................................. 6.78 8.8 6.75 11.4 - - 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 appendices 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NON- RESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 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....................................................... $18.41 $10.00 $19.13 $17.06 $17.40 $18.98 All excluding sales............................................. 18.40 10.14 19.37 17.13 17.68 14.58 White collar........................................................ 21.61 12.81 23.60 20.34 20.65 23.10 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 21.93 14.55 24.76 20.88 21.42 15.34 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 26.07 19.34 28.54 24.78 25.52 ± Professional specialty.......................................... 27.24 20.59 28.39 26.28 26.71 - Technical....................................................... 19.93 14.11 29.54 17.48 19.35 ± Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 27.25 13.54 24.51 27.23 27.11 ± Sales............................................................. 18.51 9.36 12.68 16.35 12.34 23.99 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.27 9.49 15.34 12.64 12.89 13.84 Blue collar......................................................... 14.90 7.82 17.56 12.55 14.49 15.40 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.80 ± 20.49 15.46 17.84 17.15 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.76 ± 15.59 11.34 12.44 14.33 Transportation and material moving................................ 15.04 7.65 16.24 12.71 14.15 15.20 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.45 7.54 14.23 9.66 11.09 13.06 Service............................................................. 11.14 6.54 13.99 9.02 10.10 11.04 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....................................................... 1.8 7.6 2.7 2.3 1.9 8.8 All excluding sales............................................. 1.9 8.8 2.7 2.3 1.9 4.9 White collar........................................................ 1.9 9.5 3.8 2.1 2.0 10.9 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.0 11.1 3.7 2.1 2.0 16.7 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 2.0 11.7 4.3 2.2 1.9 ± Professional specialty.......................................... 2.0 12.6 3.7 2.3 2.0 - Technical....................................................... 6.6 7.5 21.4 3.4 6.2 ± Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 3.1 23.3 12.6 3.1 3.1 ± Sales............................................................. 9.3 10.7 10.0 10.0 11.0 10.9 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.1 3.8 5.0 2.1 2.0 19.3 Blue collar......................................................... 2.6 7.4 3.1 2.5 2.9 3.9 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 3.2 ± 2.6 3.1 3.4 5.0 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3.9 ± 6.2 4.3 4.2 9.1 Transportation and material moving................................ 4.2 13.1 5.0 5.2 5.7 4.6 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.5 5.5 5.4 4.3 4.5 14.5 Service............................................................. 3.0 3.6 4.9 3.1 2.9 10.0 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 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRE- SPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 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....................................................... $17.06 $17.47 ± $18.37 $17.06 $16.98 $20.46 ± ± $18.04 All excluding sales............................................. 17.17 17.17 ± 17.71 16.93 17.17 20.46 ± ± 18.12 White collar........................................................ 20.63 21.58 ± 21.94 21.51 20.53 24.05 ± ± 21.77 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 21.44 21.21 ± 18.61 21.60 21.46 24.12 ± ± 22.00 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.83 25.32 ± ± 25.47 25.89 44.20 ± ± 25.12 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.13 27.22 ± ± 27.48 27.12 30.96 ± ± 26.91 Technical....................................................... 20.03 19.07 ± - 19.07 20.18 65.85 ± ± 16.18 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.05 24.57 ± 24.10 24.70 28.46 30.19 ± ± 28.06 Sales............................................................. 15.93 24.25 ± 29.20 20.59 15.20 ± ± ± 14.41 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.01 13.25 ± 14.74 12.85 12.99 15.06 ± ± 13.10 Blue collar......................................................... 14.49 15.26 ± 17.65 13.68 13.81 16.69 ± ± 10.76 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.97 18.16 ± 18.59 16.77 17.72 22.33 ± ± 15.06 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.68 13.20 ± ± 13.20 10.98 - ± ± 9.25 Transportation and material moving................................ 14.00 13.75 ± ± 13.65 14.06 14.53 ± ± 9.01 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.10 12.17 ± 11.62 12.33 10.53 12.71 ± ± 8.77 Service............................................................. 8.36 15.82 ± ± 17.25 8.26 18.83 ± ± 8.29 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....................................................... 2.4 3.8 ± 5.4 4.9 2.7 6.6 ± ± 3.7 All excluding sales............................................. 2.4 3.9 ± 5.8 5.0 2.8 6.7 ± ± 3.7 White collar........................................................ 2.4 3.6 ± 6.2 4.1 2.6 8.6 ± ± 3.0 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.5 4.1 ± 8.1 4.4 2.7 8.8 ± ± 3.0 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 2.5 3.8 ± ± 3.8 2.8 16.4 ± ± 2.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 2.6 4.3 ± ± 4.3 2.9 12.8 ± ± 3.1 Technical....................................................... 7.4 8.5 ± - 8.5 8.4 26.6 ± ± 3.7 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 3.6 7.4 ± 10.0 9.0 4.0 6.2 ± ± 5.1 Sales............................................................. 9.4 10.7 ± 13.2 10.3 10.6 ± ± ± 29.1 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.4 5.9 ± 9.7 7.1 2.5 6.4 ± ± 3.3 Blue collar......................................................... 2.9 4.3 ± 6.2 4.3 4.0 6.3 ± ± 6.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 3.3 5.1 ± 6.1 5.9 3.5 3.2 ± ± 2.5 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3.9 4.7 ± ± 4.7 6.8 - ± ± 6.0 Transportation and material moving................................ 5.9 6.5 ± ± 7.5 7.0 6.0 ± ± 12.8 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.6 7.6 ± 7.5 9.6 5.3 8.3 ± ± 8.0 Service............................................................. 2.6 17.8 ± ± 16.9 2.6 21.4 ± ± 2.5 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All private 50 - 99 industry workers 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Mean All occupations....................................................... $17.06 $14.07 $17.70 $15.81 $19.94 All excluding sales............................................. 17.17 14.05 17.80 15.67 20.06 White collar........................................................ 20.63 18.10 21.08 20.06 21.98 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 21.44 19.47 21.73 21.03 22.23 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.83 25.31 25.87 26.13 25.74 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.13 27.74 27.08 27.89 26.65 Technical....................................................... 20.03 13.70 20.51 17.10 21.98 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.05 25.98 28.51 28.62 28.42 Sales............................................................. 15.93 14.26 16.54 16.80 14.91 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 13.01 12.44 13.12 13.26 12.98 Blue collar......................................................... 14.49 12.59 14.99 13.33 17.78 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 17.97 16.18 18.45 16.37 20.56 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12.68 10.99 13.14 12.07 16.41 Transportation and material moving................................ 14.00 13.03 14.22 12.97 16.27 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 11.10 8.52 11.86 11.41 13.06 Service............................................................. 8.36 6.82 8.80 8.16 10.27 B Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All private 50 - 99 industry workers 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Relative error(3) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.4 5.7 2.6 4.1 3.0 All excluding sales............................................. 2.4 6.1 2.6 4.2 3.1 White collar........................................................ 2.4 6.4 2.6 4.5 3.2 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 2.5 6.6 2.7 4.7 3.3 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 2.5 12.0 2.5 5.2 2.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 2.6 11.7 2.7 5.5 2.7 Technical....................................................... 7.4 13.6 7.6 7.3 9.8 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 3.6 7.0 4.3 6.1 5.9 Sales............................................................. 9.4 13.8 11.4 12.9 6.0 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.4 5.9 2.6 4.0 3.3 Blue collar......................................................... 2.9 6.4 3.2 3.3 4.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 3.3 7.4 3.4 4.2 2.8 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3.9 5.5 4.7 6.5 4.0 Transportation and material moving................................ 5.9 13.5 6.4 3.9 10.6 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.6 8.1 4.8 5.7 8.8 Service............................................................. 2.6 5.2 3.1 3.1 7.5 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 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 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD IN- TERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 1,717,400 1,359,400 358,000 All excluding sales............................................. 1,585,600 1,229,400 356,100 White collar........................................................ 1,040,300 796,500 243,800 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 908,500 666,500 242,000 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 429,600 279,800 149,900 Professional specialty.......................................... 363,700 226,300 137,400 Technical....................................................... 66,000 53,500 12,500 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 165,600 131,500 34,000 Sales............................................................. 131,900 130,000 ± Administrative support, including clerical........................ 313,200 255,200 58,100 Blue collar......................................................... 318,500 287,000 31,500 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 111,800 100,400 11,400 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 49,200 48,900 ± Transportation and material moving................................ 80,000 64,400 15,600 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 77,500 73,400 4,100 Service............................................................. 358,600 275,900 82,700 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR PRIVATE INDUSTRY EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Appendix table 2. Number of establishments represented by survey and the number studied by industry division and establishment employment size, Washington-Baltimore, DC-MD-VA-WV, August 1998 Number of establishments studied Number of Industry establish- 100 workers or more ments rep- Total 50 - 99 resented(1) studied workers Total 100 - 499 500 workers workers or more All industries........................................................ 8,800 460 109 351 189 162 Private industry.................................................... 8,600 398 107 291 176 115 Goods-producing industries........................................ 1,200 56 14 42 28 14 Mining.......................................................... (2) 2 2 - - - Construction.................................................... 600 17 6 11 9 2 Manufacturing................................................... 600 37 6 31 19 12 Service-producing industries...................................... 7,500 342 93 249 148 101 Tranportation and public utilities.............................. 500 32 9 23 9 14 Wholesale and retail trade...................................... 2,700 81 31 50 43 7 Finance, insurance and real estate.............................. 700 21 6 15 8 7 Services........................................................ 3,500 208 47 161 88 73 State and local government.......................................... 200 62 2 60 13 47 1 Number of establishments represented by the survey rounded to the nearest 100. 2 Number of establishments represented by the survey is fewer than 50. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately.