NC BL 12/00/1999 Table: Knoxville, TN, Bulletin 3100-4, July 1999 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 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................................................................. $13.52 2.5 38.0 $13.03 3.1 38.0 $15.55 3.2 37.8 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 16.70 3.4 38.5 16.32 4.5 39.0 17.80 3.5 37.3 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 20.44 2.5 38.0 20.75 3.2 38.8 19.94 3.8 36.8 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 24.34 6.9 41.1 25.41 9.0 42.0 21.99 7.2 39.2 Sales............................................................. 13.89 13.5 38.1 13.92 13.5 38.1 - - - Administrative support............................................ 10.33 2.3 38.5 10.20 2.7 38.8 10.80 3.9 37.7 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 12.10 2.3 40.2 12.02 2.5 40.2 13.00 5.2 39.2 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 15.32 3.5 40.1 15.48 4.0 40.2 14.61 6.5 39.5 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 10.97 3.3 39.8 10.97 3.3 39.8 - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 11.90 4.6 45.6 11.96 4.9 46.3 10.88 7.6 37.2 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 9.64 4.2 36.1 9.61 4.6 35.7 9.96 6.2 40.0 Service occupations(5).............................................. 7.63 3.7 33.4 6.84 4.1 32.2 10.38 3.8 38.4 Full time........................................................... 13.90 2.3 40.4 13.43 2.9 40.8 15.74 3.3 39.0 Part time........................................................... 8.73 21.7 21.6 8.69 23.6 21.9 9.20 8.8 18.5 Union............................................................... 13.31 3.8 39.0 13.21 3.9 39.0 18.20 3.6 40.0 Nonunion............................................................ 13.54 2.8 37.9 13.00 3.5 37.9 15.52 3.3 37.8 Time................................................................ 13.36 2.4 37.8 12.80 2.9 37.8 15.55 3.2 37.8 Incentive........................................................... 16.53 14.1 41.7 16.53 14.1 41.7 - - - Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 15.47 4.0 40.2 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 12.17 9.2 36.8 12.11 9.4 36.8 14.70 6.8 39.5 100-499 workers..................................................... 12.05 3.8 39.0 11.84 4.1 39.0 14.77 7.2 38.8 500 workers or more................................................. 16.04 3.0 37.5 16.29 4.4 37.5 15.73 3.8 37.6 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing industries applies to private industry only. 7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings(1), all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 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................................................................... $13.52 2.5 $13.03 3.1 $15.55 3.2 All excluding sales............................................... 13.49 2.4 12.93 3.0 15.57 3.3 White collar........................................................ 16.70 3.4 16.32 4.5 17.80 3.5 White collar excluding sales.................................... 17.28 3.1 17.03 4.2 17.83 3.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 20.44 2.5 20.75 3.2 19.94 3.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 22.27 2.6 23.21 3.5 21.13 3.7 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 26.88 5.7 27.76 5.4 - - Civil engineers............................................. 25.00 18.1 - - - - Industrial engineers........................................ 22.37 7.5 22.37 7.5 - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 29.30 7.0 29.30 7.0 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 22.05 11.1 24.50 10.7 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 22.63 14.0 22.84 14.8 - - Natural scientists............................................ 25.42 13.1 - - - - Health related................................................ 19.70 4.6 19.41 5.0 - - Registered nurses........................................... 18.07 1.7 18.04 1.8 - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.16 3.4 - - 23.21 3.4 Elementary school teachers.................................. 23.70 5.2 - - 23.73 5.2 Secondary school teachers................................... 23.69 2.3 - - 23.69 2.3 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 13.98 7.7 - - 14.31 7.6 Social workers.............................................. 14.03 7.8 - - 14.37 7.7 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 15.52 4.2 16.27 4.4 12.25 6.2 Licensed practical nurses................................... 11.93 2.2 12.14 2.1 - - Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 12.99 6.3 13.97 6.8 10.67 11.8 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 17.90 13.9 17.60 15.5 - - Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 17.17 12.4 - - - - Drafters.................................................... 17.60 12.2 17.60 12.2 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 24.34 6.9 25.41 9.0 21.99 7.2 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 27.82 8.9 28.49 11.2 26.02 9.9 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 28.74 4.1 - - 28.74 4.1 Administrators, education and related fields................ 31.37 2.5 - - 31.37 2.5 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 32.31 15.0 32.16 15.4 - - Management related............................................ 18.90 8.3 19.73 11.6 17.55 9.2 Accountants and auditors.................................... 15.87 6.2 - - - - Other financial officers.................................... 17.22 9.6 14.59 8.8 - - Sales............................................................. 13.89 13.5 13.92 13.5 - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.57 20.5 15.57 20.5 - - Sales, other business services.............................. $21.60 18.9 $21.60 18.9 - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 17.90 6.2 17.90 6.2 - - Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 16.84 4.0 16.84 4.0 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 20.44 41.6 20.44 41.6 - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.41 3.4 6.39 3.4 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.33 2.3 10.20 2.7 $10.80 3.9 Secretaries................................................. 11.23 3.8 10.85 6.2 11.64 4.8 Receptionists............................................... 8.20 3.7 8.31 4.0 - - Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.31 16.0 13.31 16.0 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.33 6.8 11.23 8.5 - - Dispatchers................................................. 12.80 5.4 - - - - Production coordinators..................................... 14.31 6.2 14.31 6.2 - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 11.74 8.9 11.74 8.9 - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.59 6.9 9.78 6.6 - - Meter readers............................................... 15.18 6.2 - - 15.18 6.2 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 10.31 5.2 10.31 5.2 - - General office clerks....................................... 10.41 6.0 10.66 7.7 10.11 9.2 Bank tellers................................................ 8.24 3.3 8.24 3.3 - - Data entry keyers........................................... 8.22 5.3 8.22 5.3 - - Teachers' aides............................................. 7.82 3.0 - - 7.82 3.0 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 9.54 4.8 9.57 5.2 - - Blue collar......................................................... 12.10 2.3 12.02 2.5 13.00 5.2 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 15.32 3.5 15.48 4.0 14.61 6.5 Automobile mechanics........................................ 15.19 5.1 - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 16.08 4.1 16.08 4.1 - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 12.01 7.7 - - - - Carpenters.................................................. 13.03 9.7 13.03 9.7 - - Electricians................................................ 14.88 7.4 - - - - Electrical power installers and repairers................... 14.35 6.1 - - 14.62 6.5 Supervisors, production..................................... 19.67 7.6 19.67 7.6 - - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 13.05 14.1 - - 13.05 14.1 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.97 3.3 10.97 3.3 - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 11.37 3.7 11.37 3.7 - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 8.23 3.2 8.23 3.2 - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.55 9.5 9.55 9.5 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 11.91 7.9 11.91 8.1 - - Welders and cutters......................................... 12.76 4.1 12.76 4.1 - - Assemblers.................................................. 10.53 5.8 10.53 5.8 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.39 5.9 12.39 5.9 - - Transportation and material moving................................ 11.90 4.6 11.96 4.9 10.88 7.6 Truck drivers............................................... 12.03 7.0 12.08 7.3 - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ $11.50 5.7 $11.50 5.7 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.64 4.2 9.61 4.6 $9.96 6.2 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.05 1.7 - - - - Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, n.e.c.................................................... 12.64 10.7 12.77 12.0 - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 11.00 8.5 11.00 8.5 - - Construction laborers....................................... 10.17 15.5 10.14 17.8 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.38 4.9 8.38 4.9 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 11.14 8.8 11.14 8.8 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.06 10.0 8.06 10.0 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.54 13.5 10.07 18.4 - - Service............................................................. 7.63 3.7 6.84 4.1 10.38 3.8 Protective service............................................ 10.61 8.3 8.66 17.7 11.79 4.2 Firefighting................................................ 12.03 8.4 - - 12.03 8.4 Police and detectives, public service....................... 13.75 5.2 - - 13.75 5.2 Guards and police, except public service.................... 8.68 17.9 8.55 18.4 - - Food service.................................................. 5.79 7.9 5.73 8.2 - - Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 14.07 12.8 14.07 12.8 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.41 5.2 2.41 5.2 - - Cooks....................................................... 8.27 6.7 8.30 7.2 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.84 1.7 - - - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 4.75 19.8 4.67 20.4 - - Health service................................................ $7.61 2.0 $7.61 2.0 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.60 2.1 7.60 2.1 - - Cleaning and building service................................. 8.19 5.4 7.74 6.4 $9.09 6.2 Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.21 2.4 7.19 2.6 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.10 6.6 8.09 9.2 8.12 3.2 Personal service.............................................. 6.88 4.9 6.78 5.2 - - Supervisors, personal service............................... 8.66 9.7 - - - - Service, n.e.c.............................................. 6.11 12.0 6.11 12.0 - - 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 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings(1), full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 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................................................................... $13.90 2.3 $13.43 2.9 $15.74 3.3 All excluding sales............................................... 13.97 2.4 13.47 2.9 15.75 3.3 White collar........................................................ 16.89 3.2 16.47 4.2 18.04 3.6 White collar excluding sales.................................... 17.59 3.1 17.38 4.2 18.05 3.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 20.54 2.5 20.79 3.3 20.14 3.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 22.35 2.7 23.23 3.5 21.27 3.7 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 26.80 5.7 27.69 5.4 - - Industrial engineers........................................ 22.42 7.7 22.42 7.7 - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 29.30 7.0 29.30 7.0 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 22.05 11.1 24.50 10.7 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 22.63 14.0 22.84 14.8 - - Natural scientists............................................ 25.42 13.1 - - - - Health related................................................ 19.70 4.8 19.40 5.2 - - Registered nurses........................................... 17.94 1.8 17.94 1.9 - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.39 3.4 - - 23.45 3.4 Elementary school teachers.................................. 23.69 5.2 - - 23.73 5.2 Secondary school teachers................................... 23.69 2.3 - - 23.69 2.3 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 13.98 7.7 - - 14.31 7.6 Social workers.............................................. 14.03 7.8 - - 14.37 7.7 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 15.64 4.2 16.35 4.5 12.44 6.3 Licensed practical nurses................................... 12.11 2.1 12.25 2.1 - - Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 13.08 6.4 13.94 7.0 - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 17.90 13.9 17.60 15.5 - - Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 17.17 12.4 - - - - Drafters.................................................... 17.60 12.2 17.60 12.2 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 24.36 6.9 25.41 9.0 22.05 7.2 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 27.87 8.9 28.49 11.2 26.17 10.0 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 28.74 4.1 - - 28.74 4.1 Administrators, education and related fields................ 31.37 2.5 - - 31.37 2.5 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 32.31 15.0 32.16 15.4 - - Management related............................................ 18.86 8.4 19.67 11.8 17.55 9.2 Accountants and auditors.................................... 15.87 6.2 - - - - Other financial officers.................................... 17.07 10.0 14.22 8.7 - - Sales............................................................. 12.99 10.3 13.00 10.3 - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.57 20.5 15.57 20.5 - - Sales, other business services.............................. 19.83 21.0 19.83 21.0 - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. $17.90 6.2 $17.90 6.2 - - Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 16.84 4.0 16.84 4.0 - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.45 3.7 6.43 3.7 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.59 2.4 10.48 2.9 $10.96 4.0 Secretaries................................................. 11.36 3.8 11.09 6.2 11.64 4.8 Receptionists............................................... 8.45 4.4 8.45 4.4 - - Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.31 16.0 13.31 16.0 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.33 6.8 11.23 8.5 - - Dispatchers................................................. 12.80 5.4 - - - - Production coordinators..................................... 14.31 6.2 14.31 6.2 - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 11.74 8.9 11.74 8.9 - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.78 6.6 9.78 6.6 - - Meter readers............................................... 15.18 6.2 - - 15.18 6.2 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 10.31 5.2 10.31 5.2 - - General office clerks....................................... 10.41 6.0 10.66 7.7 10.11 9.2 Bank tellers................................................ 8.24 3.3 8.24 3.3 - - Data entry keyers........................................... 8.28 5.9 8.28 5.9 - - Teachers' aides............................................. 7.71 2.5 - - 7.71 2.5 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 9.69 5.5 9.72 6.0 - - Blue collar......................................................... 12.25 2.4 12.17 2.5 13.03 5.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 15.32 3.5 15.48 4.0 14.61 6.5 Automobile mechanics........................................ 15.19 5.1 - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 16.08 4.1 16.08 4.1 - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 12.01 7.7 - - - - Carpenters.................................................. 13.03 9.7 13.03 9.7 - - Electricians................................................ 14.88 7.4 - - - - Electrical power installers and repairers................... 14.35 6.1 - - 14.62 6.5 Supervisors, production..................................... 19.67 7.6 19.67 7.6 - - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 13.05 14.1 - - 13.05 14.1 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 11.01 3.3 11.00 3.3 - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 11.37 3.7 11.37 3.7 - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 8.23 3.2 8.23 3.2 - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.55 9.5 9.55 9.5 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 11.91 7.9 11.91 8.1 - - Welders and cutters......................................... 12.76 4.1 12.76 4.1 - - Assemblers.................................................. 10.64 6.0 10.64 6.0 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.39 5.9 12.39 5.9 - - Transportation and material moving................................ 11.93 4.6 11.99 4.9 10.97 8.2 Truck drivers............................................... 12.07 7.1 12.12 7.3 - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.50 5.7 11.50 5.7 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... $10.03 4.5 $10.04 5.0 $9.96 6.2 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.05 1.7 - - - - Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, n.e.c.................................................... 12.64 10.7 12.77 12.0 - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 11.00 8.5 11.00 8.5 - - Construction laborers....................................... 10.17 15.5 10.14 17.8 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.24 5.8 9.24 5.8 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.12 10.9 12.12 10.9 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.06 10.0 8.06 10.0 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.66 13.7 - - - - Service............................................................. 8.29 3.4 7.49 3.8 10.50 3.9 Protective service............................................ 10.70 8.0 8.70 17.9 11.84 4.3 Firefighting................................................ 12.03 8.4 - - 12.03 8.4 Police and detectives, public service....................... 13.75 5.2 - - 13.75 5.2 Guards and police, except public service.................... 8.73 18.4 8.59 18.8 - - Food service.................................................. 6.88 6.7 6.85 7.0 - - Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 14.55 13.8 14.55 13.8 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.52 6.9 2.52 6.9 - - Cooks....................................................... 8.71 4.1 8.79 4.3 - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 6.55 4.6 6.49 4.9 - - Health service................................................ 7.59 2.0 7.59 2.0 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.60 2.2 7.60 2.2 - - Cleaning and building service................................. 8.34 5.1 7.92 6.2 9.13 6.2 Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.21 2.4 7.19 2.6 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.36 6.0 8.44 8.6 8.17 3.0 Personal service.............................................. 7.18 6.5 7.15 7.1 - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings(1), part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $8.73 21.7 $8.69 23.6 $9.20 8.8 All excluding sales............................................... 6.50 7.1 6.22 7.6 9.27 9.0 White collar........................................................ 13.81 28.2 14.37 30.4 9.89 11.9 White collar excluding sales.................................... 9.84 7.9 9.79 9.4 10.03 12.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 16.21 11.0 18.97 14.1 12.35 13.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 18.72 10.5 22.19 12.0 13.84 14.6 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - - - Health related................................................ 19.60 3.5 - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 19.60 3.5 - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... - - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... - - - - - - Management related............................................ - - - - - - Sales............................................................. 18.53 41.2 18.72 41.2 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 33.63 26.4 33.63 26.4 - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.32 3.3 6.27 3.4 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 7.21 2.8 7.16 3.1 7.58 7.0 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 8.66 3.1 - - - - Blue collar......................................................... 7.10 4.6 7.02 4.5 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... - - - - - - Transportation and material moving................................ - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.99 5.2 6.99 5.2 - - Service............................................................. 4.74 9.5 4.61 9.9 7.52 10.7 Protective service............................................ - - - - - - Food service.................................................. 3.79 15.0 3.72 15.5 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.22 2.5 2.22 2.5 - - Health service................................................ - - - - - - Cleaning and building service................................. 5.76 1.6 - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 5.76 1.6 - - - - Personal service.............................................. 6.25 4.9 5.99 3.1 - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings(1), full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 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................................................................... $561 2.4 40.4 $547 2.9 40.8 $614 3.3 39.0 All excluding sales............................................... 562 2.4 40.3 547 3.0 40.6 614 3.3 39.0 White collar........................................................ 677 3.3 40.1 671 4.4 40.7 694 3.7 38.5 White collar excluding sales.................................... 700 3.2 39.8 702 4.4 40.4 695 3.7 38.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 809 2.6 39.4 837 3.3 40.3 765 3.9 38.0 Professional specialty.......................................... 876 2.8 39.2 936 3.5 40.3 808 3.8 38.0 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,088 5.8 40.6 1,135 5.0 41.0 - - - Industrial engineers........................................ 1,003 7.3 44.8 1,003 7.3 44.8 - - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 1,172 7.0 40.0 1,172 7.0 40.0 - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 869 12.1 39.4 986 10.9 40.2 - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 902 13.9 39.9 913 14.8 40.0 - - - Natural scientists............................................ 997 14.2 39.2 - - - - - - Health related................................................ 783 4.9 39.8 776 5.2 40.0 - - - Registered nurses........................................... 713 1.9 39.7 717 1.9 40.0 - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 892 3.4 38.1 - - - 894 3.4 38.1 Elementary school teachers.................................. 902 5.2 38.1 - - - 904 5.2 38.1 Secondary school teachers................................... 900 1.7 38.0 - - - 900 1.7 38.0 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 530 7.4 37.9 - - - 540 7.5 37.7 Social workers.............................................. 531 7.5 37.9 - - - 541 7.7 37.7 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 623 4.4 39.8 657 4.5 40.2 474 6.6 38.1 Licensed practical nurses................................... 482 2.0 39.8 488 1.9 39.9 - - - Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 519 6.6 39.6 558 7.0 40.0 - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 742 14.1 41.5 733 15.8 41.6 - - - Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 677 13.2 39.4 - - - - - - Drafters.................................................... 704 12.2 40.0 704 12.2 40.0 - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,007 8.0 41.4 1,071 10.2 42.1 876 9.0 39.7 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,180 10.5 42.4 1,220 13.0 42.8 1,076 13.1 41.1 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 1,289 5.8 44.9 - - - 1,289 5.8 44.9 Administrators, education and related fields................ 1,340 4.9 42.7 - - - 1,340 4.9 42.7 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,421 17.5 44.0 1,417 17.9 44.1 - - - Management related............................................ 752 8.9 39.9 805 12.2 40.9 672 9.6 38.3 Accountants and auditors.................................... 643 9.5 40.5 - - - - - - Other financial officers.................................... 660 9.3 38.7 564 9.6 39.6 - - - Sales............................................................. $547 11.3 42.1 $548 11.3 42.1 - - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 731 20.5 46.9 731 20.5 46.9 - - - Sales, other business services.............................. 789 21.5 39.8 789 21.5 39.8 - - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 743 6.1 41.5 743 6.1 41.5 - - - Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 798 7.5 47.4 798 7.5 47.4 - - - Cashiers.................................................... 258 3.7 40.0 257 3.7 40.0 - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 420 2.4 39.6 418 2.9 39.9 $426 4.1 38.8 Secretaries................................................. 445 3.9 39.2 443 6.2 40.0 447 4.9 38.4 Receptionists............................................... 338 4.4 40.0 338 4.4 40.0 - - - Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 518 16.8 38.9 518 16.8 38.9 - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 453 6.8 40.0 449 8.5 40.0 - - - Dispatchers................................................. 512 5.4 40.0 - - - - - - Production coordinators..................................... 580 5.9 40.5 580 5.9 40.5 - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 470 8.9 40.0 470 8.9 40.0 - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 391 6.6 40.0 391 6.6 40.0 - - - Meter readers............................................... 607 6.2 40.0 - - - 607 6.2 40.0 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 412 5.2 40.0 412 5.2 40.0 - - - General office clerks....................................... 409 6.4 39.3 426 7.7 40.0 390 10.2 38.6 Bank tellers................................................ 322 2.9 39.1 322 2.9 39.1 - - - Data entry keyers........................................... 331 5.9 40.0 331 5.9 40.0 - - - Teachers' aides............................................. 292 1.4 37.9 - - - 292 1.4 37.9 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 386 5.6 39.8 389 6.0 40.0 - - - Blue collar......................................................... 504 2.4 41.2 503 2.6 41.3 516 5.5 39.6 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 614 3.7 40.1 623 4.2 40.2 576 7.2 39.5 Automobile mechanics........................................ 608 5.1 40.0 - - - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 643 4.1 40.0 643 4.1 40.0 - - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 467 8.9 38.9 - - - - - - Carpenters.................................................. 521 9.7 40.0 521 9.7 40.0 - - - Electricians................................................ 595 7.4 40.0 - - - - - - Electrical power installers and repairers................... 574 6.1 40.0 - - - 585 6.5 40.0 Supervisors, production..................................... 837 10.4 42.6 837 10.4 42.6 - - - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 522 14.1 40.0 - - - 522 14.1 40.0 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 440 3.3 40.0 440 3.3 40.0 - - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 455 3.7 40.0 455 3.7 40.0 - - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 329 3.2 40.0 329 3.2 40.0 - - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 382 9.5 40.0 382 9.5 40.0 - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 476 7.9 40.0 476 8.1 40.0 - - - Welders and cutters......................................... $510 4.1 40.0 $510 4.1 40.0 - - - Assemblers.................................................. 426 6.0 40.0 426 6.0 40.0 - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 496 5.9 40.0 496 5.9 40.0 - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 550 5.9 46.1 557 6.3 46.5 $436 8.2 39.8 Truck drivers............................................... 606 8.8 50.2 613 9.1 50.6 - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 460 5.7 40.0 460 5.7 40.0 - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 401 4.5 40.0 401 5.0 40.0 398 6.2 40.0 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 402 1.7 40.0 - - - - - - Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, n.e.c.................................................... 523 11.3 41.3 530 12.7 41.5 - - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 440 8.5 40.0 440 8.5 40.0 - - - Construction laborers....................................... 399 13.9 39.3 397 16.0 39.2 - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 370 5.8 40.0 370 5.8 40.0 - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 483 10.9 39.9 483 10.9 39.9 - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 322 10.0 40.0 322 10.0 40.0 - - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 386 13.7 40.0 - - - - - - Service............................................................. 328 3.5 39.6 295 3.9 39.3 423 4.2 40.3 Protective service............................................ 437 8.4 40.9 348 17.9 40.0 490 5.2 41.4 Firefighting................................................ 601 5.1 50.0 - - - 601 5.1 50.0 Police and detectives, public service....................... 560 5.2 40.7 - - - 560 5.2 40.7 Guards and police, except public service.................... 349 18.4 40.0 343 18.8 40.0 - - - Food service.................................................. 269 7.4 39.1 267 7.7 39.0 - - - Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 609 12.3 41.8 609 12.3 41.8 - - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 96 8.7 37.9 96 8.7 37.9 - - - Cooks....................................................... 341 4.1 39.2 344 4.3 39.1 - - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 257 4.9 39.2 255 5.2 39.4 - - - Health service................................................ 294 2.6 38.7 294 2.6 38.7 - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 293 2.8 38.6 293 2.8 38.6 - - - Cleaning and building service................................. 330 5.0 39.5 314 6.3 39.6 360 5.3 39.4 Maids and housemen.......................................... 283 2.9 39.3 283 3.1 39.4 - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 332 6.2 39.8 335 8.9 39.7 327 3.1 40.0 Personal service.............................................. 284 6.4 39.6 286 7.1 40.0 - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings(1), full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 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................................................................... $28,688 2.4 2,064 $28,449 2.9 2,119 $29,517 3.3 1,875 All excluding sales............................................... 28,705 2.4 2,055 28,445 3.0 2,112 29,525 3.3 1,875 White collar........................................................ 34,072 3.3 2,017 34,879 4.4 2,118 32,204 3.7 1,785 White collar excluding sales.................................... 34,988 3.2 1,989 36,481 4.4 2,100 32,217 3.7 1,785 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 39,447 2.6 1,920 43,480 3.3 2,091 34,071 3.9 1,692 Professional specialty.......................................... 41,798 2.8 1,870 48,591 3.5 2,092 35,234 3.8 1,656 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 56,572 5.8 2,111 59,005 5.0 2,131 - - - Industrial engineers........................................ 52,169 7.3 2,327 52,169 7.3 2,327 - - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 60,950 7.0 2,080 60,950 7.0 2,080 - - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 45,210 12.1 2,050 51,247 10.9 2,092 - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 46,905 13.9 2,073 47,498 14.8 2,080 - - - Natural scientists............................................ 51,832 14.2 2,039 - - - - - - Health related................................................ 40,738 4.9 2,068 40,332 5.2 2,079 - - - Registered nurses........................................... 37,050 1.9 2,065 37,272 1.9 2,078 - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 35,956 3.4 1,537 - - - 36,066 3.4 1,538 Elementary school teachers.................................. 36,348 5.2 1,534 - - - 36,424 5.2 1,535 Secondary school teachers................................... 36,017 1.7 1,520 - - - 36,017 1.7 1,520 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 27,569 7.4 1,972 - - - 28,072 7.5 1,961 Social workers.............................................. 27,631 7.5 1,969 - - - 28,151 7.7 1,959 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 32,385 4.4 2,070 34,181 4.5 2,090 24,663 6.6 1,982 Licensed practical nurses................................... 25,056 2.0 2,070 25,389 1.9 2,072 - - - Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 26,965 6.6 2,062 28,991 7.0 2,080 - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 38,603 14.1 2,156 38,096 15.8 2,165 - - - Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 35,200 13.2 2,050 - - - - - - Drafters.................................................... 36,605 12.2 2,080 36,605 12.2 2,080 - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 52,181 8.0 2,142 55,677 10.2 2,191 45,010 9.0 2,041 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 60,976 10.5 2,188 63,437 13.0 2,227 54,652 13.1 2,089 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 67,039 5.8 2,332 - - - 67,039 5.8 2,332 Administrators, education and related fields................ 65,743 4.9 2,096 - - - 65,743 4.9 2,096 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 73,870 17.5 2,287 73,666 17.9 2,291 - - - Management related............................................ 39,114 8.9 2,074 41,875 12.2 2,128 34,949 9.6 1,991 Accountants and auditors.................................... 33,430 9.5 2,107 - - - - - - Other financial officers.................................... 34,306 9.3 2,010 29,303 9.6 2,061 - - - Sales............................................................. $28,465 11.3 2,191 $28,487 11.3 2,191 - - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 37,995 20.5 2,440 37,995 20.5 2,440 - - - Sales, other business services.............................. 41,022 21.5 2,069 41,022 21.5 2,069 - - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 38,622 6.1 2,158 38,622 6.1 2,158 - - - Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 41,519 7.5 2,466 41,519 7.5 2,466 - - - Cashiers.................................................... 13,408 3.7 2,080 13,377 3.7 2,080 - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 21,452 2.4 2,025 21,749 2.9 2,075 $20,546 4.1 1,875 Secretaries................................................. 22,759 3.9 2,003 23,058 6.2 2,080 22,477 4.9 1,931 Receptionists............................................... 17,583 4.4 2,080 17,583 4.4 2,080 - - - Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 26,922 16.8 2,023 26,922 16.8 2,023 - - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 23,569 6.8 2,080 23,368 8.5 2,080 - - - Dispatchers................................................. 26,618 5.4 2,080 - - - - - - Production coordinators..................................... 30,151 5.9 2,106 30,151 5.9 2,106 - - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 24,422 8.9 2,080 24,422 8.9 2,080 - - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 20,349 6.6 2,080 20,349 6.6 2,080 - - - Meter readers............................................... 31,574 6.2 2,080 - - - 31,574 6.2 2,080 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 21,444 5.2 2,080 21,444 5.2 2,080 - - - General office clerks....................................... 21,036 6.4 2,021 22,164 7.7 2,080 19,785 10.2 1,956 Bank tellers................................................ 16,765 2.9 2,034 16,765 2.9 2,034 - - - Data entry keyers........................................... 17,227 5.9 2,080 17,227 5.9 2,080 - - - Teachers' aides............................................. 11,352 1.4 1,473 - - - 11,352 1.4 1,473 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 20,062 5.6 2,071 20,218 6.0 2,080 - - - Blue collar......................................................... 26,224 2.4 2,141 26,164 2.6 2,149 26,852 5.5 2,061 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 31,916 3.7 2,083 32,377 4.2 2,091 29,970 7.2 2,052 Automobile mechanics........................................ 31,600 5.1 2,080 - - - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 33,452 4.1 2,080 33,452 4.1 2,080 - - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 24,278 8.9 2,021 - - - - - - Carpenters.................................................. 27,108 9.7 2,080 27,108 9.7 2,080 - - - Electricians................................................ 30,946 7.4 2,080 - - - - - - Electrical power installers and repairers................... 29,852 6.1 2,080 - - - 30,399 6.5 2,080 Supervisors, production..................................... 43,547 10.4 2,214 43,547 10.4 2,214 - - - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 27,147 14.1 2,080 - - - 27,147 14.1 2,080 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 22,883 3.3 2,079 22,877 3.3 2,079 - - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 23,660 3.7 2,080 23,660 3.7 2,080 - - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 17,118 3.2 2,080 17,118 3.2 2,080 - - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 19,858 9.5 2,080 19,858 9.5 2,080 - - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 24,773 7.9 2,080 24,765 8.1 2,080 - - - Welders and cutters......................................... $26,535 4.1 2,080 $26,535 4.1 2,080 - - - Assemblers.................................................. 22,126 6.0 2,080 22,126 6.0 2,080 - - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 25,777 5.9 2,080 25,777 5.9 2,080 - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 28,592 5.9 2,397 28,989 6.3 2,419 $22,696 8.2 2,069 Truck drivers............................................... 31,494 8.8 2,610 31,896 9.1 2,632 - - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 23,910 5.7 2,080 23,910 5.7 2,080 - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 20,852 4.5 2,079 20,869 5.0 2,079 20,719 6.2 2,080 Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 20,905 1.7 2,080 - - - - - - Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, n.e.c.................................................... 27,174 11.3 2,150 27,575 12.7 2,159 - - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 22,873 8.5 2,080 22,873 8.5 2,080 - - - Construction laborers....................................... 20,770 13.9 2,042 20,638 16.0 2,036 - - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 19,224 5.8 2,080 19,224 5.8 2,080 - - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 25,130 10.9 2,074 25,130 10.9 2,074 - - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 16,760 10.0 2,080 16,760 10.0 2,080 - - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 20,091 13.7 2,080 - - - - - - Service............................................................. 17,007 3.5 2,053 15,329 3.9 2,046 21,741 4.2 2,071 Protective service............................................ 22,745 8.4 2,125 18,099 17.9 2,080 25,478 5.2 2,152 Firefighting................................................ 31,260 5.1 2,599 - - - 31,260 5.1 2,599 Police and detectives, public service....................... 29,095 5.2 2,115 - - - 29,095 5.2 2,115 Guards and police, except public service.................... 18,155 18.4 2,080 17,861 18.8 2,080 - - - Food service.................................................. 13,977 7.4 2,031 13,904 7.7 2,030 - - - Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 31,666 12.3 2,176 31,666 12.3 2,176 - - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 4,967 8.7 1,973 4,967 8.7 1,973 - - - Cooks....................................................... 17,749 4.1 2,037 17,878 4.3 2,033 - - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 13,364 4.9 2,041 13,283 5.2 2,047 - - - Health service................................................ 15,281 2.6 2,013 15,281 2.6 2,013 - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 15,252 2.8 2,007 15,252 2.8 2,007 - - - Cleaning and building service................................. 17,140 5.0 2,055 16,309 6.3 2,058 18,711 5.3 2,049 Maids and housemen.......................................... 14,729 2.9 2,044 14,717 3.1 2,048 - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 17,278 6.2 2,068 17,407 8.9 2,062 16,991 3.1 2,080 Personal service.............................................. 14,301 6.4 1,992 14,882 7.1 2,080 - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-1.Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) all workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 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................................................................... $13.52 2.5 $13.03 3.1 $15.55 3.2 All excluding sales............................................... 13.49 2.4 12.93 3.0 15.57 3.3 White collar........................................................ 16.70 3.4 16.32 4.5 17.80 3.5 1....................................................... 6.83 3.0 6.75 2.9 - - 2....................................................... 7.35 3.4 7.27 4.4 7.57 1.9 3....................................................... 8.51 4.4 8.40 4.7 9.90 8.0 4....................................................... 10.53 2.6 10.46 3.1 10.79 3.7 5....................................................... 13.62 2.8 13.72 3.0 13.04 7.4 6....................................................... 16.86 14.4 17.79 17.0 13.59 5.5 7....................................................... 16.70 2.9 17.27 2.5 15.69 6.8 8....................................................... 19.85 2.8 18.15 5.1 21.05 2.6 9....................................................... 23.35 2.1 22.75 2.6 24.84 2.6 10........................................................ 26.86 7.4 26.98 4.3 26.68 17.9 11........................................................ 30.50 3.4 30.44 3.6 - - 12........................................................ 36.87 6.4 37.51 7.9 - - 13........................................................ 42.55 10.3 42.00 10.7 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.03 21.5 27.25 18.9 - - White collar excluding sales.................................... 17.28 3.1 17.03 4.2 17.83 3.5 2....................................................... 7.80 2.9 7.92 4.3 7.57 1.9 3....................................................... 8.92 2.6 8.81 2.6 9.95 8.1 4....................................................... 10.49 2.4 10.36 2.9 10.79 3.7 5....................................................... 13.28 2.6 13.33 2.7 13.04 7.4 6....................................................... 14.04 2.8 14.24 3.0 13.59 5.5 7....................................................... 16.62 3.2 17.23 2.9 15.69 6.8 8....................................................... 20.02 2.2 18.27 2.1 21.05 2.6 9....................................................... 23.46 2.2 22.87 2.7 24.84 2.6 10........................................................ 26.53 8.5 26.41 5.3 26.68 17.9 11........................................................ 29.76 3.1 29.62 3.3 - - 12........................................................ 36.87 6.4 37.51 7.9 - - 13........................................................ 42.55 10.3 42.00 10.7 - - Not able to be leveled.................................... 23.03 21.5 27.25 18.9 - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 20.44 2.5 20.75 3.2 19.94 3.8 Professional specialty.......................................... 22.27 2.6 23.21 3.5 21.13 3.7 5....................................................... 14.88 11.9 - - 16.61 10.3 6....................................................... 15.59 3.3 15.87 3.3 - - 7....................................................... 17.12 4.5 18.12 2.4 16.06 8.9 8....................................................... 20.63 2.6 18.38 1.6 21.65 2.8 9....................................................... 23.31 2.1 22.73 2.5 24.22 2.4 10........................................................ 25.90 15.6 27.08 7.9 - - 11........................................................ 30.73 2.8 30.73 2.8 - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 26.88 5.7 27.76 5.4 - - 9....................................................... 24.12 5.1 24.12 5.1 - - 10........................................................ 28.74 6.3 - - - - 11........................................................ 30.97 4.6 30.97 4.6 - - Civil engineers............................................. $25.00 18.1 - - - - Industrial engineers........................................ 22.37 7.5 $22.37 7.5 - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 29.30 7.0 29.30 7.0 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 22.05 11.1 24.50 10.7 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 22.63 14.0 22.84 14.8 - - Natural scientists............................................ 25.42 13.1 - - - - Health related................................................ 19.70 4.6 19.41 5.0 - - 7....................................................... 17.30 2.0 17.55 1.9 - - 8....................................................... 18.58 1.5 18.60 1.8 - - Registered nurses........................................... 18.07 1.7 18.04 1.8 - - 7....................................................... 17.83 2.2 17.83 2.2 - - 8....................................................... 18.75 1.4 18.79 1.6 - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.16 3.4 - - $23.21 3.4 7....................................................... 24.44 7.9 - - - - 8....................................................... 22.19 3.1 - - - - 9....................................................... 23.93 2.4 - - 23.93 2.4 Elementary school teachers.................................. 23.70 5.2 - - 23.73 5.2 Secondary school teachers................................... 23.69 2.3 - - 23.69 2.3 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 13.98 7.7 - - 14.31 7.6 Social workers.............................................. 14.03 7.8 - - 14.37 7.7 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 15.52 4.2 16.27 4.4 12.25 6.2 4....................................................... 10.47 4.0 - - - - 5....................................................... 12.74 2.8 12.91 2.8 - - 6....................................................... 13.30 5.2 14.39 1.0 - - 7....................................................... 18.24 8.1 18.24 8.1 - - 8....................................................... 17.95 4.0 17.59 4.0 - - 9....................................................... 23.90 7.9 23.90 7.9 - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 11.93 2.2 12.14 2.1 - - 5....................................................... 11.84 2.2 - - - - Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 12.99 6.3 13.97 6.8 10.67 11.8 Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 17.90 13.9 17.60 15.5 - - Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 17.17 12.4 - - - - Drafters.................................................... 17.60 12.2 17.60 12.2 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 24.34 6.9 25.41 9.0 21.99 7.2 5....................................................... 14.13 4.6 14.16 4.8 - - 7....................................................... 14.53 3.3 - - - - 8....................................................... 18.83 4.7 - - 18.93 5.7 9....................................................... 23.84 5.9 22.83 7.0 - - 10........................................................ 30.78 1.6 - - - - 11........................................................ $28.43 5.9 $27.65 7.3 - - 12........................................................ 38.31 5.8 - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 27.82 8.9 28.49 11.2 $26.02 9.9 8....................................................... 18.02 5.4 - - - - 9....................................................... 23.13 6.8 21.35 7.4 - - 10........................................................ 30.78 1.6 - - - - 11........................................................ 28.59 6.4 27.78 8.1 - - 12........................................................ 38.31 5.8 - - - - Administrators and officials, public administration......... 28.74 4.1 - - 28.74 4.1 Administrators, education and related fields................ 31.37 2.5 - - 31.37 2.5 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 32.31 15.0 32.16 15.4 - - 9....................................................... 19.63 9.7 19.63 9.7 - - Management related............................................ 18.90 8.3 19.73 11.6 17.55 9.2 5....................................................... 13.04 5.0 13.00 5.4 - - 7....................................................... 14.53 3.3 - - - - 9....................................................... 24.87 8.3 - - - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 15.87 6.2 - - - - Other financial officers.................................... 17.22 9.6 14.59 8.8 - - Sales............................................................. 13.89 13.5 13.92 13.5 - - 2....................................................... 6.31 1.1 6.27 1.0 - - 3....................................................... 7.22 9.4 7.21 9.4 - - 4....................................................... 10.66 7.7 10.66 7.7 - - 5....................................................... 15.07 7.6 15.07 7.6 - - 6....................................................... 23.71 28.6 23.71 28.6 - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.57 20.5 15.57 20.5 - - Sales, other business services.............................. 21.60 18.9 21.60 18.9 - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 17.90 6.2 17.90 6.2 - - Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 16.84 4.0 16.84 4.0 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 20.44 41.6 20.44 41.6 - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.41 3.4 6.39 3.4 - - 2....................................................... 6.29 1.1 6.26 .9 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.33 2.3 10.20 2.7 10.80 3.9 2....................................................... 7.80 2.9 7.92 4.3 7.57 1.9 3....................................................... 8.93 2.6 8.81 2.7 10.19 8.0 4....................................................... 10.47 2.7 10.27 3.3 10.97 4.0 5....................................................... 13.21 5.6 13.63 6.7 12.22 4.2 6....................................................... 13.85 4.0 13.46 5.2 15.06 3.9 7....................................................... 15.62 4.2 15.45 4.6 - - Secretaries................................................. 11.23 3.8 10.85 6.2 11.64 4.8 3....................................................... 8.87 2.5 8.88 2.6 - - 4....................................................... 11.01 5.6 - - 11.19 7.6 Receptionists............................................... 8.20 3.7 8.31 4.0 - - Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.31 16.0 13.31 16.0 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.33 6.8 11.23 8.5 - - 4....................................................... $10.48 2.7 $10.18 4.1 - - Dispatchers................................................. 12.80 5.4 - - - - Production coordinators..................................... 14.31 6.2 14.31 6.2 - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 11.74 8.9 11.74 8.9 - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.59 6.9 9.78 6.6 - - Meter readers............................................... 15.18 6.2 - - $15.18 6.2 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 10.31 5.2 10.31 5.2 - - General office clerks....................................... 10.41 6.0 10.66 7.7 10.11 9.2 4....................................................... 10.18 4.6 10.51 7.4 9.73 2.9 Bank tellers................................................ 8.24 3.3 8.24 3.3 - - Data entry keyers........................................... 8.22 5.3 8.22 5.3 - - 3....................................................... 8.38 5.0 8.38 5.0 - - Teachers' aides............................................. 7.82 3.0 - - 7.82 3.0 2....................................................... 7.65 2.4 - - 7.65 2.4 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 9.54 4.8 9.57 5.2 - - Blue collar......................................................... 12.10 2.3 12.02 2.5 13.00 5.2 1....................................................... 9.23 8.6 9.24 8.8 - - 2....................................................... 8.62 3.1 8.59 3.2 - - 3....................................................... 10.69 3.7 10.70 3.9 10.58 2.9 4....................................................... 11.25 2.5 11.26 2.6 11.12 7.4 5....................................................... 12.76 3.2 12.98 3.6 11.85 5.6 6....................................................... 16.54 4.2 16.73 4.9 15.20 4.9 7....................................................... 17.23 3.1 17.16 3.5 17.66 4.8 8....................................................... 22.28 4.0 22.13 4.2 - - 9....................................................... 23.30 8.7 22.80 9.4 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 15.32 3.5 15.48 4.0 14.61 6.5 2....................................................... 9.06 8.1 - - - - 3....................................................... 11.10 7.2 11.13 8.1 - - 4....................................................... 11.69 3.3 11.40 3.3 - - 5....................................................... 12.27 4.0 12.57 3.4 11.85 6.9 6....................................................... 14.52 3.8 14.32 4.0 - - 7....................................................... 17.37 3.6 17.28 4.1 17.90 5.0 8....................................................... 22.48 3.9 22.33 4.2 - - 9....................................................... 23.30 8.7 22.80 9.4 - - Automobile mechanics........................................ 15.19 5.1 - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 16.08 4.1 16.08 4.1 - - 7....................................................... 17.46 3.9 17.46 3.9 - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 12.01 7.7 - - - - Carpenters.................................................. 13.03 9.7 13.03 9.7 - - Electricians................................................ 14.88 7.4 - - - - Electrical power installers and repairers................... 14.35 6.1 - - 14.62 6.5 Supervisors, production..................................... 19.67 7.6 19.67 7.6 - - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 13.05 14.1 - - 13.05 14.1 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... $10.97 3.3 $10.97 3.3 - - 2....................................................... 8.72 3.1 8.72 3.1 - - 3....................................................... 10.39 4.2 10.39 4.2 - - 4....................................................... 11.67 3.8 11.67 3.8 - - 5....................................................... 14.02 5.8 14.02 5.8 - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 11.37 3.7 11.37 3.7 - - 4....................................................... 11.38 3.0 11.38 3.0 - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 8.23 3.2 8.23 3.2 - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.55 9.5 9.55 9.5 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 11.91 7.9 11.91 8.1 - - Welders and cutters......................................... 12.76 4.1 12.76 4.1 - - Assemblers.................................................. 10.53 5.8 10.53 5.8 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.39 5.9 12.39 5.9 - - Transportation and material moving................................ 11.90 4.6 11.96 4.9 $10.88 7.6 2....................................................... 9.02 9.6 9.02 9.6 - - 3....................................................... 10.12 3.1 - - - - 4....................................................... 10.64 3.1 10.74 3.4 - - 5....................................................... 11.81 3.8 11.70 3.7 - - Truck drivers............................................... 12.03 7.0 12.08 7.3 - - 4....................................................... 10.23 3.2 10.21 3.4 - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.50 5.7 11.50 5.7 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.64 4.2 9.61 4.6 9.96 6.2 1....................................................... 7.85 4.3 7.80 4.6 - - 2....................................................... 8.21 4.1 8.14 4.6 - - 3....................................................... 11.17 8.6 11.25 9.4 - - 5....................................................... 13.33 3.9 - - - - Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.05 1.7 - - - - Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, n.e.c.................................................... 12.64 10.7 12.77 12.0 - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 11.00 8.5 11.00 8.5 - - Construction laborers....................................... 10.17 15.5 10.14 17.8 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.38 4.9 8.38 4.9 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 11.14 8.8 11.14 8.8 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.06 10.0 8.06 10.0 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.54 13.5 10.07 18.4 - - 2....................................................... 7.86 5.0 - - - - Service............................................................. 7.63 3.7 6.84 4.1 10.38 3.8 1....................................................... 6.38 6.0 6.04 5.7 8.02 3.9 2....................................................... 6.03 7.6 5.66 8.0 8.63 4.0 3....................................................... 6.73 10.7 6.71 11.2 - - 4....................................................... 9.26 3.6 8.59 3.8 10.26 5.3 5....................................................... 13.17 7.5 - - 12.06 2.8 6....................................................... $11.84 4.6 - - $11.94 5.5 7....................................................... 13.96 7.0 - - 12.66 4.3 Protective service............................................ 10.61 8.3 $8.66 17.7 11.79 4.2 4....................................................... 10.01 2.8 - - 9.95 2.8 5....................................................... 13.96 8.1 - - - - 6....................................................... 11.94 5.5 - - 11.94 5.5 7....................................................... 12.66 4.3 - - 12.66 4.3 Firefighting................................................ 12.03 8.4 - - 12.03 8.4 Police and detectives, public service....................... 13.75 5.2 - - 13.75 5.2 Guards and police, except public service.................... 8.68 17.9 8.55 18.4 - - Food service.................................................. 5.79 7.9 5.73 8.2 - - 1....................................................... 5.17 10.5 5.12 10.8 - - 2....................................................... 3.87 17.6 3.75 18.0 - - 3....................................................... 3.68 15.9 3.68 15.9 - - 4....................................................... 8.68 5.1 8.77 5.3 - - Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 14.07 12.8 14.07 12.8 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.41 5.2 2.41 5.2 - - 1....................................................... 2.35 8.1 2.35 8.1 - - 3....................................................... 2.53 8.0 2.53 8.0 - - Cooks....................................................... 8.27 6.7 8.30 7.2 - - 4....................................................... 8.93 4.3 9.06 4.1 - - Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 7.84 1.7 - - - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 4.75 19.8 4.67 20.4 - - 1....................................................... 6.30 2.9 6.30 2.9 - - Health service................................................ 7.61 2.0 7.61 2.0 - - 3....................................................... 7.73 1.7 7.73 1.7 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.60 2.1 7.60 2.1 - - 3....................................................... 7.74 1.9 7.74 1.9 - - Cleaning and building service................................. 8.19 5.4 7.74 6.4 9.09 6.2 1....................................................... 7.52 6.8 7.17 7.3 - - 2....................................................... 7.54 4.4 7.03 1.6 - - 3....................................................... 10.65 13.4 - - - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.21 2.4 7.19 2.6 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.10 6.6 8.09 9.2 8.12 3.2 1....................................................... 7.53 8.1 - - - - 2....................................................... 7.28 2.6 7.02 1.4 - - 3....................................................... 11.01 13.3 - - - - Personal service.............................................. 6.88 4.9 6.78 5.2 - - 1....................................................... 6.35 5.7 - - - - 2....................................................... 5.81 6.9 5.79 7.2 - - Supervisors, personal service............................... 8.66 9.7 - - - - Service, n.e.c.............................................. 6.11 12.0 6.11 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 appendixes C and D for more information. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-2. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) full-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 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................................................................... $13.90 2.3 $13.43 2.9 $15.74 3.3 All excluding sales............................................... 13.97 2.4 13.47 2.9 15.75 3.3 White collar........................................................ 16.89 3.2 16.47 4.2 18.04 3.6 1....................................................... 7.21 6.3 - - - - 2....................................................... 7.43 4.0 7.38 5.3 7.60 1.4 3....................................................... 8.56 4.4 8.43 4.6 10.26 7.9 4....................................................... 10.59 2.8 10.55 3.3 10.76 3.8 5....................................................... 13.67 2.9 13.73 3.0 13.33 8.0 6....................................................... 14.34 3.7 14.55 4.3 13.69 5.6 7....................................................... 16.70 2.9 17.27 2.5 15.68 6.9 8....................................................... 19.84 2.9 18.06 5.4 21.06 2.7 9....................................................... 23.36 2.1 22.76 2.7 24.84 2.6 10........................................................ 26.72 7.4 26.75 4.0 26.68 17.9 11........................................................ 30.34 3.4 30.26 3.7 - - 12........................................................ 36.87 6.4 37.51 7.9 - - 13........................................................ 42.55 10.3 42.00 10.7 - - White collar excluding sales.................................... 17.59 3.1 17.38 4.2 18.05 3.6 2....................................................... 7.83 3.2 7.95 4.7 7.60 1.4 3....................................................... 8.97 2.6 8.85 2.7 10.34 7.9 4....................................................... 10.47 2.4 10.36 2.9 10.76 3.8 5....................................................... 13.33 2.6 13.33 2.7 13.33 8.0 6....................................................... 14.06 2.8 14.23 3.0 13.69 5.6 7....................................................... 16.61 3.2 17.23 2.9 15.68 6.9 8....................................................... 20.02 2.3 18.17 2.2 21.06 2.7 9....................................................... 23.46 2.2 22.88 2.7 24.84 2.6 10........................................................ 26.36 8.6 26.10 4.9 26.68 17.9 11........................................................ 29.80 3.1 29.67 3.4 - - 12........................................................ 36.87 6.4 37.51 7.9 - - 13........................................................ 42.55 10.3 42.00 10.7 - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 20.54 2.5 20.79 3.3 20.14 3.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 22.35 2.7 23.23 3.5 21.27 3.7 5....................................................... 15.09 11.7 - - 17.02 9.1 6....................................................... 15.81 3.0 15.87 3.3 - - 7....................................................... 17.13 4.6 18.14 2.4 16.05 9.0 8....................................................... 20.66 2.7 18.22 1.6 21.68 2.8 9....................................................... 23.32 2.1 22.74 2.5 24.22 2.4 10........................................................ 25.55 16.0 26.31 7.0 - - 11........................................................ 30.73 2.8 30.73 2.8 - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 26.80 5.7 27.69 5.4 - - 9....................................................... 24.18 5.1 24.18 5.1 - - 11........................................................ 30.97 4.6 30.97 4.6 - - Industrial engineers........................................ 22.42 7.7 22.42 7.7 - - Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 29.30 7.0 29.30 7.0 - - Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 22.05 11.1 24.50 10.7 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... $22.63 14.0 $22.84 14.8 - - Natural scientists............................................ 25.42 13.1 - - - - Health related................................................ 19.70 4.8 19.40 5.2 - - 7....................................................... 17.31 2.0 17.56 2.0 - - 8....................................................... 18.36 1.7 18.42 1.9 - - Registered nurses........................................... 17.94 1.8 17.94 1.9 - - 7....................................................... 17.86 2.2 17.86 2.2 - - 8....................................................... 18.53 1.5 18.63 1.7 - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 23.39 3.4 - - $23.45 3.4 7....................................................... 24.44 7.9 - - - - 9....................................................... 23.93 2.4 - - 23.93 2.4 Elementary school teachers.................................. 23.69 5.2 - - 23.73 5.2 Secondary school teachers................................... 23.69 2.3 - - 23.69 2.3 Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 13.98 7.7 - - 14.31 7.6 Social workers.............................................. 14.03 7.8 - - 14.37 7.7 Lawyers and judges............................................ - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 15.64 4.2 16.35 4.5 12.44 6.3 4....................................................... 10.52 4.4 - - - - 5....................................................... 12.82 2.8 12.91 2.8 - - 6....................................................... 13.26 5.3 - - - - 7....................................................... 18.24 8.1 18.24 8.1 - - 8....................................................... 17.95 4.0 17.59 4.0 - - 9....................................................... 23.90 7.9 23.90 7.9 - - Licensed practical nurses................................... 12.11 2.1 12.25 2.1 - - 5....................................................... 11.95 2.1 - - - - Health technologists and technicians, n.e.c................. 13.08 6.4 13.94 7.0 - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 17.90 13.9 17.60 15.5 - - Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 17.17 12.4 - - - - Drafters.................................................... 17.60 12.2 17.60 12.2 - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 24.36 6.9 25.41 9.0 22.05 7.2 5....................................................... 14.13 4.6 14.16 4.8 - - 7....................................................... 14.53 3.3 - - - - 8....................................................... 18.83 4.7 - - 18.93 5.7 9....................................................... 23.84 5.9 22.83 7.0 - - 10........................................................ 30.78 1.6 - - - - 11........................................................ 28.50 6.0 27.72 7.5 - - 12........................................................ 38.31 5.8 - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 27.87 8.9 28.49 11.2 26.17 10.0 8....................................................... 18.02 5.4 - - - - 9....................................................... 23.13 6.8 21.35 7.4 - - 10........................................................ $30.78 1.6 - - - - 11........................................................ 28.59 6.4 $27.78 8.1 - - 12........................................................ 38.31 5.8 - - - - Administrators and officials, public administration......... 28.74 4.1 - - $28.74 4.1 Administrators, education and related fields................ 31.37 2.5 - - 31.37 2.5 Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 32.31 15.0 32.16 15.4 - - 9....................................................... 19.63 9.7 19.63 9.7 - - Management related............................................ 18.86 8.4 19.67 11.8 17.55 9.2 5....................................................... 13.04 5.0 13.00 5.4 - - 7....................................................... 14.53 3.3 - - - - 9....................................................... 24.87 8.3 - - - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 15.87 6.2 - - - - Other financial officers.................................... 17.07 10.0 14.22 8.7 - - Sales............................................................. 12.99 10.3 13.00 10.3 - - 3....................................................... 6.96 8.4 6.94 8.5 - - 4....................................................... 10.95 8.4 10.95 8.4 - - 5....................................................... 15.16 7.6 15.16 7.6 - - 6....................................................... 15.26 8.6 15.26 8.6 - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.57 20.5 15.57 20.5 - - Sales, other business services.............................. 19.83 21.0 19.83 21.0 - - Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing, and wholesale. 17.90 6.2 17.90 6.2 - - Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats..................... 16.84 4.0 16.84 4.0 - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.45 3.7 6.43 3.7 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.59 2.4 10.48 2.9 10.96 4.0 2....................................................... 7.83 3.2 7.95 4.7 7.60 1.4 3....................................................... 8.98 2.7 8.85 2.7 10.34 7.9 4....................................................... 10.47 2.7 10.28 3.3 10.97 4.0 5....................................................... 13.21 5.6 13.63 6.7 12.22 4.2 6....................................................... 13.85 4.0 13.46 5.2 15.06 3.9 7....................................................... 15.62 4.2 15.45 4.6 - - Secretaries................................................. 11.36 3.8 11.09 6.2 11.64 4.8 3....................................................... 9.07 2.7 - - - - 4....................................................... 11.01 5.6 - - 11.19 7.6 Receptionists............................................... 8.45 4.4 8.45 4.4 - - Records clerks, n.e.c....................................... 13.31 16.0 13.31 16.0 - - Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.33 6.8 11.23 8.5 - - 4....................................................... 10.48 2.7 10.18 4.1 - - Dispatchers................................................. 12.80 5.4 - - - - Production coordinators..................................... 14.31 6.2 14.31 6.2 - - Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 11.74 8.9 11.74 8.9 - - Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 9.78 6.6 9.78 6.6 - - Meter readers............................................... 15.18 6.2 - - 15.18 6.2 Investigators and adjusters, except insurance............... 10.31 5.2 10.31 5.2 - - General office clerks....................................... 10.41 6.0 10.66 7.7 10.11 9.2 4....................................................... $10.18 4.6 $10.51 7.4 $9.73 2.9 Bank tellers................................................ 8.24 3.3 8.24 3.3 - - Data entry keyers........................................... 8.28 5.9 8.28 5.9 - - Teachers' aides............................................. 7.71 2.5 - - 7.71 2.5 Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 9.69 5.5 9.72 6.0 - - Blue collar......................................................... 12.25 2.4 12.17 2.5 13.03 5.3 1....................................................... 9.73 8.3 9.76 8.4 - - 2....................................................... 8.62 3.2 8.58 3.3 - - 3....................................................... 10.73 3.7 10.73 3.9 10.69 2.9 4....................................................... 11.25 2.5 11.26 2.6 11.12 7.4 5....................................................... 12.76 3.2 12.98 3.6 11.85 5.6 6....................................................... 16.54 4.2 16.73 4.9 15.20 4.9 7....................................................... 17.23 3.1 17.16 3.5 17.66 4.8 8....................................................... 22.28 4.0 22.13 4.2 - - 9....................................................... 23.30 8.7 22.80 9.4 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 15.32 3.5 15.48 4.0 14.61 6.5 2....................................................... 9.06 8.1 - - - - 3....................................................... 11.10 7.2 11.13 8.1 - - 4....................................................... 11.69 3.3 11.40 3.3 - - 5....................................................... 12.27 4.0 12.57 3.4 11.85 6.9 6....................................................... 14.52 3.8 14.32 4.0 - - 7....................................................... 17.37 3.6 17.28 4.1 17.90 5.0 8....................................................... 22.48 3.9 22.33 4.2 - - 9....................................................... 23.30 8.7 22.80 9.4 - - Automobile mechanics........................................ 15.19 5.1 - - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 16.08 4.1 16.08 4.1 - - 7....................................................... 17.46 3.9 17.46 3.9 - - Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 12.01 7.7 - - - - Carpenters.................................................. 13.03 9.7 13.03 9.7 - - Electricians................................................ 14.88 7.4 - - - - Electrical power installers and repairers................... 14.35 6.1 - - 14.62 6.5 Supervisors, production..................................... 19.67 7.6 19.67 7.6 - - Water and sewer treatment plant operators................... 13.05 14.1 - - 13.05 14.1 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 11.01 3.3 11.00 3.3 - - 2....................................................... 8.73 3.1 8.73 3.1 - - 3....................................................... 10.41 4.2 10.41 4.2 - - 4....................................................... 11.67 3.8 11.67 3.8 - - 5....................................................... 14.02 5.8 14.02 5.8 - - Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 11.37 3.7 11.37 3.7 - - 4....................................................... 11.38 3.0 11.38 3.0 - - Textile sewing machine operators............................ 8.23 3.2 8.23 3.2 - - Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.55 9.5 9.55 9.5 - - Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 11.91 7.9 11.91 8.1 - - Welders and cutters......................................... $12.76 4.1 $12.76 4.1 - - Assemblers.................................................. 10.64 6.0 10.64 6.0 - - Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.39 5.9 12.39 5.9 - - Transportation and material moving................................ 11.93 4.6 11.99 4.9 $10.97 8.2 2....................................................... 9.02 9.6 9.02 9.6 - - 3....................................................... 10.14 3.2 - - - - 4....................................................... 10.64 3.1 10.74 3.4 - - 5....................................................... 11.81 3.8 11.70 3.7 - - Truck drivers............................................... 12.07 7.1 12.12 7.3 - - 4....................................................... 10.23 3.2 10.21 3.4 - - Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 11.50 5.7 11.50 5.7 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.03 4.5 10.04 5.0 9.96 6.2 1....................................................... 8.68 4.2 8.67 4.5 - - 2....................................................... 8.15 4.6 8.06 5.1 - - 3....................................................... 11.26 8.8 11.34 9.7 - - 5....................................................... 13.33 3.9 - - - - Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm................... 10.05 1.7 - - - - Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers, n.e.c.................................................... 12.64 10.7 12.77 12.0 - - Helpers, construction trades................................ 11.00 8.5 11.00 8.5 - - Construction laborers....................................... 10.17 15.5 10.14 17.8 - - Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.24 5.8 9.24 5.8 - - Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 12.12 10.9 12.12 10.9 - - Hand packers and packagers.................................. 8.06 10.0 8.06 10.0 - - Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.66 13.7 - - - - 2....................................................... 7.86 5.0 - - - - Service............................................................. 8.29 3.4 7.49 3.8 10.50 3.9 1....................................................... 6.64 6.6 6.27 6.4 - - 2....................................................... 6.86 4.6 6.49 4.0 - - 3....................................................... 7.29 8.7 7.29 9.2 - - 4....................................................... 9.43 3.5 8.79 3.2 10.26 5.3 5....................................................... 13.26 8.0 - - - - 6....................................................... 11.94 5.1 - - 11.94 5.5 7....................................................... 13.96 7.0 - - 12.66 4.3 Protective service............................................ 10.70 8.0 8.70 17.9 11.84 4.3 4....................................................... 10.01 2.8 - - 9.95 2.8 6....................................................... 11.94 5.5 - - 11.94 5.5 7....................................................... 12.66 4.3 - - 12.66 4.3 Firefighting................................................ 12.03 8.4 - - 12.03 8.4 Police and detectives, public service....................... 13.75 5.2 - - 13.75 5.2 Guards and police, except public service.................... 8.73 18.4 8.59 18.8 - - Food service.................................................. 6.88 6.7 6.85 7.0 - - 1....................................................... 5.27 10.3 5.27 10.3 - - 2....................................................... $5.57 14.1 $5.38 15.5 - - 3....................................................... 4.20 16.9 4.20 16.9 - - 4....................................................... 8.89 3.9 9.02 3.8 - - Supervisors, food preparation and service................... 14.55 13.8 14.55 13.8 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.52 6.9 2.52 6.9 - - Cooks....................................................... 8.71 4.1 8.79 4.3 - - 4....................................................... 8.97 4.0 9.14 3.8 - - Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 6.55 4.6 6.49 4.9 - - 1....................................................... 6.30 4.0 6.30 4.0 - - Health service................................................ 7.59 2.0 7.59 2.0 - - 3....................................................... 7.70 1.7 7.70 1.7 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 7.60 2.2 7.60 2.2 - - 3....................................................... 7.72 1.9 7.72 1.9 - - Cleaning and building service................................. 8.34 5.1 7.92 6.2 $9.13 6.2 1....................................................... 7.76 5.3 7.42 6.2 - - 2....................................................... 7.62 4.3 7.12 2.0 - - 3....................................................... 10.65 13.4 - - - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 7.21 2.4 7.19 2.6 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 8.36 6.0 8.44 8.6 8.17 3.0 1....................................................... 7.83 6.4 7.39 8.5 - - 2....................................................... 7.46 2.7 7.21 2.8 - - 3....................................................... 11.01 13.3 - - - - Personal service.............................................. 7.18 6.5 7.15 7.1 - - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-3. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) part-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $8.73 21.7 $8.69 23.6 $9.20 8.8 All excluding sales............................................... 6.50 7.1 6.22 7.6 9.27 9.0 White collar........................................................ 13.81 28.2 14.37 30.4 9.89 11.9 1....................................................... 6.64 2.5 6.64 2.5 - - 2....................................................... 6.93 4.9 6.72 6.3 7.47 7.1 3....................................................... 8.00 7.5 8.06 8.4 - - 4....................................................... 8.99 9.7 8.61 9.6 - - 8....................................................... 19.93 3.8 - - - - White collar excluding sales.................................... 9.84 7.9 9.79 9.4 10.03 12.2 2....................................................... 7.56 6.5 7.67 9.3 - - 3....................................................... 7.65 3.1 - - - - 8....................................................... 19.93 3.8 - - - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 16.21 11.0 18.97 14.1 12.35 13.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 18.72 10.5 22.19 12.0 13.84 14.6 8....................................................... 19.93 3.8 - - - - Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... - - - - - - Health related................................................ 19.60 3.5 - - - - Registered nurses........................................... 19.60 3.5 - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... - - - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... - - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... - - - - - - Management related............................................ - - - - - - Sales............................................................. 18.53 41.2 18.72 41.2 - - Sales workers, other commodities............................ 33.63 26.4 33.63 26.4 - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.32 3.3 6.27 3.4 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 7.21 2.8 7.16 3.1 7.58 7.0 2....................................................... 7.56 6.5 7.67 9.3 - - Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 8.66 3.1 - - - - Blue collar......................................................... 7.10 4.6 7.02 4.5 - - 1....................................................... 6.14 2.9 6.14 2.9 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... - - - - - - Transportation and material moving................................ - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.99 5.2 6.99 5.2 - - 1....................................................... 6.04 3.0 6.04 3.0 - - Service............................................................. $4.74 9.5 $4.61 9.9 $7.52 10.7 1....................................................... 5.33 7.3 5.21 8.2 - - 2....................................................... 3.99 16.9 3.95 17.2 - - 3....................................................... 3.82 18.6 3.75 18.8 - - Protective service............................................ - - - - - - Food service.................................................. 3.79 15.0 3.72 15.5 - - 1....................................................... 4.77 19.5 - - - - 2....................................................... 3.12 21.0 3.09 21.1 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.22 2.5 2.22 2.5 - - Health service................................................ - - - - - - Cleaning and building service................................. $5.76 1.6 - - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 5.76 1.6 - - - - Personal service.............................................. 6.25 4.9 $5.99 3.1 - - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 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....................................................... $13.90 $8.73 $13.31 $13.54 $13.36 $16.53 All excluding sales............................................. 13.97 6.50 13.30 13.51 13.54 11.41 White collar........................................................ 16.89 13.81 13.86 16.80 16.45 20.79 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 17.59 9.84 13.79 17.43 17.31 - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 20.54 16.21 15.39 20.70 20.44 - Professional specialty.......................................... 22.35 18.72 - 22.34 22.27 - Technical....................................................... 15.64 - 13.68 15.76 15.52 - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 24.36 - - 24.34 24.34 - Sales............................................................. 12.99 18.53 - 13.88 10.50 21.54 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.59 7.21 11.83 10.26 10.30 - Blue collar......................................................... 12.25 7.10 13.30 11.69 12.13 11.57 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 15.32 - 16.39 15.08 15.44 14.01 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 11.01 - 11.77 10.57 11.18 7.89 Transportation and material moving................................ 11.93 - 15.34 10.76 11.90 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 10.03 6.99 11.22 9.19 9.49 - Service............................................................. 8.29 4.74 - 7.61 7.61 - 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....................................................... 2.3 21.7 3.8 2.8 2.4 14.1 All excluding sales............................................. 2.4 7.1 3.8 2.7 2.4 6.6 White collar........................................................ 3.2 28.2 5.7 3.5 3.2 16.9 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 3.1 7.9 5.6 3.1 3.1 - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 2.5 11.0 6.2 2.6 2.5 - Professional specialty.......................................... 2.7 10.5 - 2.7 2.6 - Technical....................................................... 4.2 - 4.2 4.5 4.2 - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 6.9 - - 6.9 6.9 - Sales............................................................. 10.3 41.2 - 13.6 10.2 17.2 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.4 2.8 9.2 2.4 2.3 - Blue collar......................................................... 2.4 4.6 4.3 2.8 2.4 7.7 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 3.5 - 3.5 4.1 3.7 7.9 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3.3 - 6.3 4.1 3.2 5.8 Transportation and material moving................................ 4.6 - 8.2 4.5 4.8 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.5 5.2 4.6 5.1 4.2 - Service............................................................. 3.4 9.5 - 3.7 3.7 - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers' wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 6 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 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....................................................... $13.03 $15.47 - $12.74 $15.86 ± ± ± $10.54 $12.06 All excluding sales............................................. 12.93 15.07 - 12.74 15.40 ± ± ± 10.72 11.99 White collar........................................................ 16.32 22.72 - - 23.01 ± ± ± 10.43 15.45 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 17.03 21.90 - - 22.18 ± ± ± 10.61 15.40 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 20.75 26.37 - - 26.37 ± ± ± - 18.27 Professional specialty.......................................... 23.21 28.86 - - 28.86 ± ± ± - 20.22 Technical....................................................... 16.27 20.80 - - 20.80 ± ± ± - 14.13 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 25.41 24.71 - - 24.99 ± ± ± 16.81 26.73 Sales............................................................. 13.92 31.41 - - 31.41 ± ± ± - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.20 12.69 - - 12.86 ± ± ± 8.40 9.39 Blue collar......................................................... 12.02 12.51 - 12.44 12.52 ± ± ± - 8.90 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 15.48 15.90 - 13.95 16.76 ± ± ± - 14.17 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.97 11.27 - - 11.26 ± ± ± - - Transportation and material moving................................ 11.96 11.34 - - 11.35 ± ± ± - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.61 10.60 - 10.04 10.83 ± ± ± - 7.29 Service............................................................. 6.84 13.08 - - 13.08 ± ± ± - 7.16 B Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) All pri- vate Occupational group indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Relative error(5) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 3.1 4.0 - 4.8 4.3 ± ± ± 12.0 6.6 All excluding sales............................................. 3.0 3.2 - 4.8 3.4 ± ± ± 12.7 6.7 White collar........................................................ 4.5 6.1 - - 6.2 ± ± ± 11.7 6.7 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 4.2 4.8 - - 4.9 ± ± ± 12.5 6.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.2 4.5 - - 4.5 ± ± ± - 4.5 Professional specialty.......................................... 3.5 4.9 - - 4.9 ± ± ± - 4.3 Technical....................................................... 4.4 5.5 - - 5.5 ± ± ± - 3.9 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 9.0 8.9 - - 9.5 ± ± ± 13.6 9.3 Sales............................................................. 13.5 28.3 - - 28.3 ± ± ± - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.7 5.0 - - 5.2 ± ± ± 2.9 3.3 Blue collar......................................................... 2.5 2.7 - 5.5 3.1 ± ± ± - 8.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 4.0 4.7 - 5.8 5.3 ± ± ± - 9.8 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3.3 3.0 - - 3.0 ± ± ± - - Transportation and material moving................................ 4.9 3.5 - - 6.2 ± ± ± - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.6 5.5 - 10.9 6.2 ± ± ± - 5.8 Service............................................................. 4.1 8.7 - - 8.7 ± ± ± - 2.3 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Mean All occupations....................................................... $13.03 $12.11 $13.36 $11.84 $16.29 All excluding sales............................................. 12.93 11.34 13.41 11.79 16.27 White collar........................................................ 16.32 16.08 16.41 14.25 20.23 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 17.03 16.96 17.05 14.79 20.25 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 20.75 19.91 20.85 19.39 22.13 Professional specialty.......................................... 23.21 22.12 23.31 21.92 24.53 Technical....................................................... 16.27 17.55 16.05 14.34 17.49 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 25.41 34.37 22.63 19.91 26.39 Sales............................................................. 13.92 15.06 12.59 12.32 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.20 9.57 10.41 9.77 12.15 Blue collar......................................................... 12.02 10.61 12.46 11.41 14.26 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 15.48 14.00 15.77 14.04 18.33 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.97 10.56 11.05 10.56 11.61 Transportation and material moving................................ 11.96 10.30 13.11 11.26 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.61 8.91 9.94 9.74 10.60 Service............................................................. 6.84 6.14 7.17 7.17 7.14 B Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Relative error(4) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 3.1 9.4 3.1 4.1 4.4 All excluding sales............................................. 3.0 9.4 3.3 4.5 4.4 White collar........................................................ 4.5 13.7 4.3 6.1 4.5 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 4.2 14.7 4.3 6.7 4.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.2 12.5 3.3 4.4 5.1 Professional specialty.......................................... 3.5 15.9 3.6 3.8 5.8 Technical....................................................... 4.4 6.6 5.1 3.2 7.3 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 9.0 23.1 6.0 6.2 9.4 Sales............................................................. 13.5 21.8 10.6 11.0 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.7 5.5 3.4 2.9 6.4 Blue collar......................................................... 2.5 4.8 2.8 3.4 4.1 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 4.0 7.4 4.5 4.4 5.5 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3.3 7.4 3.6 6.0 3.2 Transportation and material moving................................ 4.9 6.9 7.2 5.4 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.6 8.4 5.4 6.5 7.9 Service............................................................. 4.1 6.1 5.5 3.4 21.1 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 145,500 115,200 30,300 All excluding sales............................................. 133,700 103,500 30,200 White collar........................................................ 71,200 50,700 20,500 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 59,300 38,900 20,400 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 29,500 16,800 12,600 Professional specialty.......................................... 22,100 10,900 11,200 Technical....................................................... 7,300 5,900 1,400 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 8,000 5,400 2,700 Sales............................................................. 11,900 11,800 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 21,800 16,700 5,200 Blue collar......................................................... 44,300 40,500 3,800 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 12,100 9,700 2,300 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14,600 14,600 - Transportation and material moving................................ 8,300 7,600 600 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9,300 8,500 800 Service............................................................. 30,000 24,000 6,000 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. Appendix table 2. Number of establishments represented by survey and the number studied by industry division and establishment employment size, Knoxville, TN, July 1999 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........................................................ 900 181 61 120 87 33 Private industry.................................................... 900 151 57 94 73 21 Goods-producing industries........................................ 200 57 15 42 32 10 Mining.......................................................... (2) 1 1 - - - Construction.................................................... (2) 9 3 6 6 - Manufacturing................................................... 200 47 11 36 26 10 Service-producing industries...................................... 600 94 42 52 41 11 Tranportation and public utilities.............................. 100 13 5 8 6 2 Wholesale and retail trade...................................... 300 33 22 11 10 1 Finance, insurance and real estate.............................. (2) 6 2 4 3 1 Services........................................................ 200 42 13 29 22 7 State and local government.......................................... (2) 30 4 26 14 12 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.