NC BL 08/00/2000 Table: Huntsville, AL, Bulletin 3100-62, October 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, Huntsville, AL, October 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................................................................. $16.85 2.8 38.3 $16.20 2.5 38.2 $19.03 6.3 38.7 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 21.00 3.3 39.1 20.10 3.3 39.2 23.39 6.0 38.7 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.75 3.2 39.7 24.11 4.1 40.2 25.85 4.4 39.0 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 26.75 5.0 40.3 26.66 6.1 40.4 27.03 7.6 40.1 Sales............................................................. 12.06 10.2 35.1 12.38 10.9 36.1 - - - Administrative support............................................ 10.88 3.6 38.6 10.82 4.2 38.5 11.16 6.5 39.5 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 13.85 3.9 39.0 13.89 2.4 39.1 13.42 5.0 38.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.62 5.9 39.3 14.36 6.9 39.2 16.14 6.1 40.3 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 14.77 6.3 39.5 14.79 6.3 39.5 - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 11.57 8.7 37.2 11.17 11.9 39.5 12.17 10.5 34.1 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 9.56 4.2 37.7 9.43 5.0 37.2 - - - Service occupations(5).............................................. 8.33 5.1 34.1 6.18 4.7 31.1 11.24 4.5 39.1 Full time........................................................... 17.50 2.7 40.0 16.91 2.5 40.1 19.39 6.2 39.7 Part time........................................................... 6.81 5.6 23.4 6.53 5.2 23.5 8.67 17.2 22.7 Union............................................................... 20.28 1.5 39.8 20.28 1.4 39.8 € € € Nonunion............................................................ 16.37 3.3 38.1 15.42 3.1 37.9 19.03 6.3 38.7 Time................................................................ 16.83 2.8 38.3 16.15 2.5 38.1 19.03 6.3 38.7 Incentive........................................................... 18.88 19.7 43.3 18.88 19.7 43.3 - - - Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 17.74 2.7 40.1 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 14.11 4.5 36.0 (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 11.00 7.7 36.2 10.80 7.9 36.2 - - - 100-499 workers..................................................... 14.54 3.8 37.6 14.53 4.0 37.6 - - - 500 workers or more................................................. 19.66 3.1 39.3 19.90 3.4 39.8 19.30 6.2 38.7 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing industries applies to private industry only. 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings(1), all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 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................................................................... $16.85 2.8 $16.20 2.5 $19.03 6.3 All excluding sales............................................... 17.13 2.8 16.46 2.5 19.23 6.2 White collar........................................................ 21.00 3.3 20.10 3.3 23.39 6.0 White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.03 3.1 21.26 3.2 23.85 5.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.75 3.2 24.11 4.1 25.85 4.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.40 2.5 28.24 2.8 26.36 4.3 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 28.37 3.4 28.88 3.2 - - Aerospace engineers......................................... 30.82 5.9 30.82 5.9 € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 26.87 4.4 27.02 4.4 € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 28.08 6.0 28.08 6.0 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 31.06 3.1 31.15 3.2 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 31.41 3.3 31.53 3.4 € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ 35.58 23.7 - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - € € - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 26.09 1.9 15.31 13.8 - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 26.37 .9 € € € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - € € - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 11.58 10.8 - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 17.20 4.1 17.57 4.9 - - Technical....................................................... 14.89 5.9 14.89 6.4 14.86 6.1 Licensed practical nurses................................... 10.82 3.5 € € € € Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 14.57 7.2 14.49 7.4 € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 18.36 11.7 18.36 11.7 € € Drafters.................................................... 19.64 5.7 19.64 5.7 € € Chemical technicians........................................ 15.01 7.2 15.01 7.2 € € Computer programmers........................................ 20.88 10.7 € € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 26.75 5.0 26.66 6.1 27.03 7.6 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 31.39 6.1 33.32 7.8 27.89 8.6 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 21.16 6.6 € € 21.16 6.6 Financial managers.......................................... 36.24 15.1 36.24 15.1 € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 31.67 5.6 31.48 5.7 € € Management related............................................ 21.03 5.0 20.90 5.4 - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 23.40 7.4 23.88 10.3 € € Management analysts......................................... 21.44 8.8 21.34 9.1 € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 17.54 5.9 17.54 5.9 € € Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 15.99 17.0 15.99 17.0 € € Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.01 12.2 21.01 12.2 € € Sales............................................................. 12.06 10.2 12.38 10.9 - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.14 8.0 15.14 8.0 € € Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... $9.84 9.1 $9.84 9.1 € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.94 14.8 9.94 14.8 € € Cashiers.................................................... 7.44 5.7 7.13 4.4 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.88 3.6 10.82 4.2 $11.16 6.5 Secretaries................................................. 12.68 7.0 11.41 5.9 € € Receptionists............................................... 7.97 4.3 7.97 4.3 € € Order clerks................................................ 11.28 5.7 11.28 5.7 € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.43 5.7 10.90 6.5 € € Dispatchers................................................. 11.35 3.9 € € € € Production coordinators..................................... 14.60 17.4 14.67 18.5 € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.85 8.9 10.85 8.9 € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 10.32 8.7 10.32 8.7 € € General office clerks....................................... 9.03 4.7 8.90 7.2 € € Bank tellers................................................ 8.44 3.0 8.44 3.0 € € Data entry keyers........................................... 8.19 5.5 7.97 6.5 € € Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 14.31 19.5 14.31 19.5 € € Blue collar......................................................... 13.85 3.9 13.89 2.4 13.42 5.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.62 5.9 14.36 6.9 16.14 6.1 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 21.63 7.7 21.63 7.7 € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 14.68 11.6 € € € € Supervisors, production..................................... 18.38 4.6 18.38 4.6 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.77 6.3 14.79 6.3 - - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 11.90 4.6 11.90 4.6 € € Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 9.84 8.9 9.84 8.9 € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 6.57 5.0 6.57 5.0 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 17.62 8.3 17.62 8.3 € € Welders and cutters......................................... 18.46 22.0 18.46 22.0 € € Assemblers.................................................. 13.10 9.0 13.10 9.0 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.19 18.8 12.19 18.8 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 11.57 8.7 11.17 11.9 12.17 10.5 Truck drivers............................................... 12.32 7.7 11.85 12.5 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.56 4.2 9.43 5.0 - - Construction laborers....................................... 9.81 8.9 8.75 4.9 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.01 7.6 7.01 7.6 € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 9.12 5.2 9.12 5.2 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.64 8.4 9.64 8.4 € € Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 12.64 17.2 12.64 17.2 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 7.10 8.1 7.10 8.1 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.44 7.8 9.44 7.8 € € Service............................................................. $8.33 5.1 $6.18 4.7 $11.24 4.5 Protective service............................................ 12.47 6.2 - - 13.25 3.9 Food service.................................................. 6.42 8.7 5.42 8.0 9.18 4.6 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.33 11.7 3.28 11.8 - - Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.92 16.4 2.86 16.6 € € Other food service........................................... 7.64 7.0 6.72 6.5 9.26 4.5 Cooks....................................................... 8.10 5.2 7.90 5.3 € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.64 6.7 € € € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 5.97 5.5 5.99 5.7 € € Health service................................................ 6.99 1.3 6.87 1.4 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 6.98 1.3 6.84 1.4 € € Cleaning and building service................................. 7.29 5.2 6.87 5.0 - - Maids and housemen.......................................... 6.08 3.1 5.93 2.3 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.21 5.5 6.66 4.1 € € Personal service.............................................. 7.12 11.2 - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings(1), full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 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................................................................... $17.50 2.7 $16.91 2.5 $19.39 6.2 All excluding sales............................................... 17.67 2.7 17.07 2.5 19.52 6.2 White collar........................................................ 21.61 3.1 20.78 3.2 23.74 5.8 White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.31 3.1 21.58 3.2 24.03 5.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.00 3.0 24.36 3.8 26.09 4.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.54 2.5 28.29 2.8 26.58 4.3 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 28.37 3.4 28.88 3.2 - - Aerospace engineers......................................... 30.82 5.9 30.82 5.9 € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 26.87 4.4 27.02 4.4 € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 28.08 6.0 28.08 6.0 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 31.06 3.1 31.15 3.2 - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 31.41 3.3 31.53 3.4 € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ 35.58 23.7 - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - € € - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 26.12 1.9 - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 26.37 .9 € € € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - € € - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 17.41 4.6 17.82 5.5 - - Technical....................................................... 15.21 5.1 15.22 5.4 - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 14.57 7.2 14.49 7.4 € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 18.36 11.7 18.36 11.7 € € Drafters.................................................... 19.64 5.7 19.64 5.7 € € Chemical technicians........................................ 15.01 7.2 15.01 7.2 € € Computer programmers........................................ 20.88 10.7 € € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 26.80 5.0 26.73 6.2 27.03 7.6 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 31.60 6.1 33.68 7.8 27.89 8.6 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 21.16 6.6 € € 21.16 6.6 Financial managers.......................................... 36.24 15.1 36.24 15.1 € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 31.67 5.6 31.48 5.7 € € Management related............................................ 20.89 5.0 20.74 5.4 - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 23.40 7.4 23.88 10.3 € € Management analysts......................................... 20.97 8.9 20.85 9.3 € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 17.54 5.9 17.54 5.9 € € Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 15.99 17.0 15.99 17.0 € € Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.01 12.2 21.01 12.2 € € Sales............................................................. 13.84 10.6 14.16 10.9 - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.14 8.0 15.14 8.0 € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 11.10 16.7 11.10 16.7 € € Cashiers.................................................... $8.28 5.2 $7.83 4.6 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.05 3.7 11.00 4.4 $11.23 6.5 Secretaries................................................. 12.93 6.9 11.74 6.3 € € Receptionists............................................... 8.02 4.7 8.02 4.7 € € Order clerks................................................ 11.28 5.7 11.28 5.7 € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.41 5.8 10.86 6.6 € € Dispatchers................................................. 11.35 3.9 € € € € Production coordinators..................................... 14.60 17.4 14.67 18.5 € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.85 8.9 10.85 8.9 € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 10.52 9.0 10.52 9.0 € € General office clerks....................................... 9.11 4.9 9.03 7.8 € € Data entry keyers........................................... 8.29 5.8 € € € € Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 14.65 19.8 14.65 19.8 € € Blue collar......................................................... 14.08 2.1 14.15 2.3 13.36 5.2 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.87 5.7 14.65 6.7 16.14 6.1 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 21.63 7.7 21.63 7.7 € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 14.68 11.6 € € € € Supervisors, production..................................... 18.38 4.6 18.38 4.6 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.86 6.3 14.88 6.3 - - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 11.90 4.6 11.90 4.6 € € Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 9.84 8.9 9.84 8.9 € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 6.57 5.0 6.57 5.0 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 17.63 8.3 17.63 8.3 € € Welders and cutters......................................... 18.46 22.0 18.46 22.0 € € Assemblers.................................................. 13.30 9.3 13.30 9.3 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.19 18.8 12.19 18.8 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 11.89 7.0 12.00 9.7 11.73 9.7 Truck drivers............................................... 12.45 7.6 12.05 12.5 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.84 4.2 9.77 5.0 - - Construction laborers....................................... 9.81 8.9 8.75 4.9 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.65 10.7 7.65 10.7 € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 9.12 5.2 9.12 5.2 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.80 8.5 9.80 8.5 € € Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 12.64 17.2 12.64 17.2 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.44 7.8 9.44 7.8 € € Service............................................................. 8.99 6.2 6.43 7.0 11.55 4.5 Protective service............................................ 12.56 5.8 - - 13.25 3.9 Food service.................................................. 6.82 11.7 5.48 12.0 - - Other food service........................................... 8.12 8.3 7.08 10.0 € € Cooks....................................................... $8.10 5.2 $7.90 5.3 € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.64 6.7 € € € € Health service................................................ 7.00 1.3 6.88 1.5 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 6.98 1.3 6.85 1.5 € € Cleaning and building service................................. 7.99 6.5 7.49 7.5 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.99 7.1 7.28 7.5 € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - € € 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings(1), part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 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................................................................... $6.81 5.6 $6.53 5.2 $8.67 17.2 All excluding sales............................................... 6.96 6.9 6.60 6.4 9.22 18.7 White collar........................................................ 7.81 8.8 7.78 10.1 7.96 11.8 White collar excluding sales.................................... 9.68 13.1 9.73 15.4 9.43 10.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 8.84 9.5 8.17 8.5 - - Professional specialty.......................................... 10.06 11.8 - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - € € - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 8.09 8.8 - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... - - - - € € Executives, administrators, and managers...................... - - - - € € Management related............................................ - - - - € € Sales............................................................. 6.23 4.5 6.23 4.8 - - Cashiers.................................................... 6.18 4.4 6.17 4.1 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 7.96 4.2 8.04 4.3 - - Blue collar......................................................... 7.32 16.8 6.06 3.3 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... - - - - € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... - - - - € € Transportation and material moving................................ - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.02 2.6 6.02 2.6 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 5.76 4.9 5.76 4.9 € € Service............................................................. 5.65 3.1 5.61 3.4 5.95 3.0 Protective service............................................ - - - - € € Food service.................................................. 5.30 3.1 5.29 3.3 - - Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.35 8.4 4.28 8.8 € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 4.23 11.5 4.15 12.3 € € Other food service........................................... 5.96 6.1 5.98 6.4 € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 6.10 7.9 € € € € Health service................................................ - - - - € € Cleaning and building service................................. - - - - - - Personal service.............................................. - - - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings(1), full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 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................................................................... $700 2.6 40.0 $677 2.6 40.1 $770 5.3 39.7 All excluding sales............................................... 705 2.6 39.9 683 2.6 40.0 775 5.2 39.7 White collar........................................................ 870 3.0 40.3 843 3.2 40.6 938 5.1 39.5 White collar excluding sales.................................... 897 2.9 40.2 873 3.2 40.5 949 4.9 39.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 1,002 2.9 40.1 989 3.9 40.6 1,024 4.3 39.2 Professional specialty.......................................... 1,103 2.8 40.1 1,153 2.8 40.8 1,041 4.4 39.2 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,167 3.6 41.1 1,189 3.3 41.2 - - - Aerospace engineers......................................... 1,235 5.9 40.1 1,235 5.9 40.1 € € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 1,141 5.6 42.5 1,146 5.8 42.4 € € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 1,123 6.0 40.0 1,123 6.0 40.0 € € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 1,257 3.1 40.5 1,261 3.2 40.5 - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 1,274 3.3 40.6 1,280 3.4 40.6 € € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - € € € Health related................................................ 1,415 24.0 39.8 - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - € € € - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 1,008 1.3 38.6 - - - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 1,019 1.6 38.6 € € € € € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - € € € - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - € € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 697 4.6 40.0 713 5.5 40.0 - - - Technical....................................................... 612 4.8 40.2 612 5.1 40.2 - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 583 7.2 40.0 580 7.4 40.0 € € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 734 11.7 40.0 734 11.7 40.0 € € € Drafters.................................................... 786 5.7 40.0 786 5.7 40.0 € € € Chemical technicians........................................ 601 7.2 40.0 601 7.2 40.0 € € € Computer programmers........................................ 835 10.7 40.0 € € € € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,089 5.1 40.6 1,091 6.2 40.8 1,084 7.6 40.1 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,292 6.0 40.9 1,394 7.6 41.4 1,116 8.6 40.0 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 847 6.6 40.0 € € € 847 6.6 40.0 Financial managers.......................................... 1,614 13.7 44.5 1,614 13.7 44.5 € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,301 5.5 41.1 1,294 5.6 41.1 € € € Management related............................................ 843 5.1 40.4 837 5.5 40.3 - - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 960 7.9 41.0 990 11.3 41.5 € € € Management analysts......................................... 842 9.0 40.2 834 9.3 40.0 € € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 712 6.5 40.6 712 6.5 40.6 € € € Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 639 17.0 40.0 639 17.0 40.0 € € € Management related, n.e.c................................... 840 12.2 40.0 840 12.2 40.0 € € € Sales............................................................. $570 11.8 41.2 $584 12.2 41.3 - - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 625 7.4 41.2 625 7.4 41.2 € € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 446 16.9 40.1 446 16.9 40.1 € € € Cashiers.................................................... 327 6.2 39.4 307 6.1 39.2 € € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 441 3.8 39.9 439 4.4 39.9 $449 6.5 40.0 Secretaries................................................. 517 6.9 40.0 470 6.3 40.0 € € € Receptionists............................................... 321 4.7 40.0 321 4.7 40.0 € € € Order clerks................................................ 451 5.7 40.0 451 5.7 40.0 € € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 450 6.1 39.4 427 7.0 39.3 € € € Dispatchers................................................. 454 3.9 40.0 € € € € € € Production coordinators..................................... 586 17.5 40.1 589 18.6 40.2 € € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 438 8.9 40.4 438 8.9 40.4 € € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 421 9.0 40.0 421 9.0 40.0 € € € General office clerks....................................... 364 4.9 40.0 361 7.8 40.0 € € € Data entry keyers........................................... 331 5.8 40.0 € € € € € € Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 582 19.9 39.7 582 19.9 39.7 € € € Blue collar......................................................... 561 2.2 39.8 564 2.4 39.8 532 5.6 39.8 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 593 5.7 39.9 583 6.8 39.8 651 6.3 40.3 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 865 7.7 40.0 865 7.7 40.0 € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 570 12.7 38.8 € € € € € € Supervisors, production..................................... 735 4.6 40.0 735 4.6 40.0 € € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 590 6.4 39.7 591 6.4 39.7 - - - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 476 4.6 40.0 476 4.6 40.0 € € € Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 393 8.9 40.0 393 8.9 40.0 € € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 263 5.1 40.0 263 5.1 40.0 € € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 704 8.3 39.9 704 8.3 39.9 € € € Welders and cutters......................................... 738 22.0 40.0 738 22.0 40.0 € € € Assemblers.................................................. 532 9.3 40.0 532 9.3 40.0 € € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 487 18.8 39.9 487 18.8 39.9 € € € Transportation and material moving................................ 474 8.4 39.9 486 11.5 40.5 456 12.1 38.9 Truck drivers............................................... 506 9.3 40.6 494 15.5 41.0 € € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 394 4.4 40.1 392 5.2 40.1 - - - Construction laborers....................................... 384 10.0 39.1 340 7.0 38.9 € € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 306 10.7 40.0 306 10.7 40.0 € € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 365 5.2 40.0 365 5.2 40.0 € € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ $396 9.1 40.4 $396 9.1 40.4 € € € Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 506 17.2 40.0 506 17.2 40.0 € € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 378 7.8 40.0 378 7.8 40.0 € € € Service............................................................. 352 6.7 39.1 246 7.5 38.3 $463 5.9 40.1 Protective service............................................ 526 5.6 41.9 - - - 558 2.9 42.2 Food service.................................................. 251 10.7 36.9 205 12.2 37.3 - - - Other food service........................................... 301 6.2 37.1 269 8.0 38.0 € € € Cooks....................................................... 306 5.3 37.7 296 5.1 37.5 € € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 316 5.1 36.6 € € € € € € Health service................................................ 274 3.0 39.2 268 3.6 38.9 - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 274 3.1 39.2 266 3.7 38.9 € € € Cleaning and building service................................. 314 6.8 39.3 293 7.6 39.1 - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 317 7.2 39.7 288 7.3 39.6 € € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - - - € € € 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings(1), full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 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................................................................... $35,920 2.6 2,052 $35,156 2.6 2,079 $38,236 5.3 1,971 All excluding sales............................................... 36,196 2.6 2,048 35,418 2.6 2,075 38,457 5.2 1,970 White collar........................................................ 44,379 3.0 2,054 43,731 3.2 2,104 45,908 5.1 1,934 White collar excluding sales.................................... 45,652 2.9 2,046 45,303 3.2 2,099 46,402 4.9 1,931 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 50,261 2.9 2,011 51,323 3.9 2,107 48,632 4.3 1,864 Professional specialty.......................................... 54,809 2.8 1,991 59,787 2.8 2,113 49,276 4.4 1,854 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 60,698 3.6 2,139 61,821 3.3 2,141 - - - Aerospace engineers......................................... 64,205 5.9 2,083 64,205 5.9 2,083 € € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 59,329 5.6 2,208 59,573 5.8 2,205 € € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 58,399 6.0 2,080 58,399 6.0 2,080 € € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 65,359 3.1 2,105 65,584 3.2 2,105 - - - Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 66,236 3.3 2,109 66,538 3.4 2,110 € € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - - - € € € Health related................................................ 73,590 24.0 2,068 - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - € € € - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 44,507 1.3 1,704 - - - - - - Elementary school teachers.................................. 45,373 1.6 1,720 € € € € € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - € € € - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - € € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 36,220 4.6 2,080 37,061 5.5 2,080 - - - Technical....................................................... 31,832 4.8 2,093 31,821 5.1 2,091 - - - Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 30,309 7.2 2,080 30,135 7.4 2,080 € € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 38,193 11.7 2,080 38,193 11.7 2,080 € € € Drafters.................................................... 40,857 5.7 2,080 40,857 5.7 2,080 € € € Chemical technicians........................................ 31,229 7.2 2,080 31,229 7.2 2,080 € € € Computer programmers........................................ 43,420 10.7 2,080 € € € € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 56,635 5.1 2,113 56,723 6.2 2,122 56,355 7.6 2,085 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 67,163 6.0 2,125 72,481 7.6 2,152 58,007 8.6 2,080 Administrators and officials, public administration......... 44,022 6.6 2,080 € € € 44,022 6.6 2,080 Financial managers.......................................... 83,904 13.7 2,315 83,904 13.7 2,315 € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 67,632 5.5 2,136 67,275 5.6 2,137 € € € Management related............................................ 43,842 5.1 2,099 43,505 5.5 2,098 - - - Accountants and auditors.................................... 49,904 7.9 2,133 51,494 11.3 2,156 € € € Management analysts......................................... 43,791 9.0 2,088 43,361 9.3 2,080 € € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 37,016 6.5 2,111 37,016 6.5 2,111 € € € Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 33,250 17.0 2,080 33,250 17.0 2,080 € € € Management related, n.e.c................................... 43,697 12.2 2,080 43,697 12.2 2,080 € € € Sales............................................................. $29,624 11.8 2,141 $30,377 12.2 2,145 - - - Supervisors, sales.......................................... 32,477 7.4 2,145 32,477 7.4 2,145 € € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 23,171 16.9 2,087 23,171 16.9 2,087 € € € Cashiers.................................................... 16,980 6.2 2,051 15,959 6.1 2,038 € € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 22,827 3.8 2,067 22,694 4.4 2,063 $23,351 6.5 2,080 Secretaries................................................. 26,903 6.9 2,080 24,422 6.3 2,080 € € € Receptionists............................................... 16,690 4.7 2,080 16,690 4.7 2,080 € € € Order clerks................................................ 23,455 5.7 2,080 23,455 5.7 2,080 € € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 23,390 6.1 2,050 22,201 7.0 2,043 € € € Dispatchers................................................. 23,614 3.9 2,080 € € € € € € Production coordinators..................................... 30,473 17.5 2,088 30,640 18.6 2,088 € € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 22,786 8.9 2,101 22,786 8.9 2,101 € € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 21,883 9.0 2,080 21,883 9.0 2,080 € € € General office clerks....................................... 18,541 4.9 2,036 18,123 7.8 2,008 € € € Data entry keyers........................................... 17,235 5.8 2,080 € € € € € € Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 30,254 19.9 2,065 30,254 19.9 2,065 € € € Blue collar......................................................... 29,099 2.2 2,067 29,255 2.4 2,067 27,647 5.6 2,070 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 30,815 5.7 2,072 30,289 6.8 2,068 33,829 6.3 2,096 Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 44,989 7.7 2,080 44,989 7.7 2,080 € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 29,623 12.7 2,017 € € € € € € Supervisors, production..................................... 38,243 4.6 2,081 38,243 4.6 2,081 € € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 30,680 6.4 2,065 30,724 6.4 2,065 - - - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 24,753 4.6 2,080 24,753 4.6 2,080 € € € Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 20,459 8.9 2,080 20,459 8.9 2,080 € € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 13,669 5.1 2,080 13,669 5.1 2,080 € € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 36,609 8.3 2,077 36,609 8.3 2,077 € € € Welders and cutters......................................... 38,394 22.0 2,080 38,394 22.0 2,080 € € € Assemblers.................................................. 27,671 9.3 2,080 27,671 9.3 2,080 € € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 25,328 18.8 2,077 25,328 18.8 2,077 € € € Transportation and material moving................................ 24,425 8.4 2,054 24,886 11.5 2,074 23,707 12.1 2,021 Truck drivers............................................... 25,932 9.3 2,083 25,112 15.5 2,085 € € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 20,410 4.4 2,074 20,237 5.2 2,072 - - - Construction laborers....................................... 19,312 10.0 1,970 16,943 7.0 1,936 € € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 15,913 10.7 2,080 15,913 10.7 2,080 € € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 18,962 5.2 2,080 18,962 5.2 2,080 € € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ $20,582 9.1 2,101 $20,582 9.1 2,101 € € € Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 26,296 17.2 2,080 26,296 17.2 2,080 € € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 19,633 7.8 2,080 19,633 7.8 2,080 € € € Service............................................................. 17,982 6.7 2,000 12,761 7.5 1,984 $23,270 5.9 2,016 Protective service............................................ 27,345 5.6 2,178 - - - 29,041 2.9 2,192 Food service.................................................. 12,545 10.7 1,840 10,639 12.2 1,940 - - - Other food service........................................... 14,838 6.2 1,828 14,000 8.0 1,977 € € € Cooks....................................................... 15,899 5.3 1,962 15,383 5.1 1,948 € € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 15,387 5.1 1,781 € € € € € € Health service................................................ 14,263 3.0 2,038 13,916 3.6 2,024 - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 14,223 3.1 2,037 13,847 3.7 2,022 € € € Cleaning and building service................................. 16,209 6.8 2,029 15,048 7.6 2,008 - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 16,496 7.2 2,065 14,968 7.3 2,057 € € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - - - € € € 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 4-1.Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) all workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 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................................................................... $16.85 2.8 $16.20 2.5 $19.03 6.3 All excluding sales............................................... 17.13 2.8 16.46 2.5 19.23 6.2 White collar........................................................ 21.00 3.3 20.10 3.3 23.39 6.0 1....................................................... 7.19 4.8 7.10 4.1 € € 2....................................................... 8.62 5.0 8.43 6.3 € € 3....................................................... 9.60 4.9 9.12 3.9 11.03 11.0 4....................................................... 10.73 4.0 10.69 4.3 11.20 7.5 5....................................................... 14.41 5.3 14.53 6.1 € € 6....................................................... 16.44 8.5 17.01 9.1 € € 7....................................................... 21.77 9.0 18.14 5.4 24.61 6.6 8....................................................... 24.93 2.7 23.87 4.4 26.36 2.5 9....................................................... 28.25 3.3 27.79 3.4 30.26 8.7 10........................................................ 28.68 3.2 28.82 3.2 € € 11........................................................ 33.19 3.1 34.39 3.4 € € 12........................................................ 39.51 6.8 38.10 7.4 € € 13........................................................ 42.31 5.9 42.31 5.9 € € Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.64 12.7 29.64 12.7 € € White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.03 3.1 21.26 3.2 23.85 5.6 1....................................................... 8.06 7.8 7.40 3.3 € € 2....................................................... 8.91 4.5 8.77 5.8 € € 3....................................................... 10.14 5.6 9.63 4.4 11.57 11.6 4....................................................... 10.86 4.4 10.82 4.8 11.20 7.5 5....................................................... 14.42 5.6 14.55 6.5 € € 6....................................................... 14.99 3.8 15.41 4.0 € € 7....................................................... 22.05 8.7 18.54 5.5 24.61 6.6 8....................................................... 25.04 2.7 24.04 4.4 26.36 2.5 9....................................................... 28.31 3.3 27.86 3.4 30.26 8.7 10........................................................ 28.02 2.9 28.15 2.9 € € 11........................................................ 33.15 3.4 34.53 3.9 € € 12........................................................ 39.74 6.8 38.33 7.5 € € 13........................................................ 42.31 5.9 42.31 5.9 € € Not able to be leveled.................................... 29.64 12.7 29.64 12.7 € € Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.75 3.2 24.11 4.1 25.85 4.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.40 2.5 28.24 2.8 26.36 4.3 5....................................................... 13.47 7.9 € € € € 6....................................................... 15.47 12.7 € € € € 7....................................................... 24.32 5.9 20.79 6.1 26.02 3.2 8....................................................... 26.68 2.6 25.98 6.0 27.11 2.1 9....................................................... 29.57 4.3 29.75 4.3 € € 10........................................................ 28.86 2.6 28.86 2.6 € € 11........................................................ 32.86 4.3 32.86 4.3 € € 12........................................................ 38.53 5.9 35.59 2.2 € € Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 28.37 3.4 28.88 3.2 - - 7....................................................... 22.42 6.3 23.62 5.6 € € 8....................................................... $25.13 4.5 $25.13 4.5 € € 9....................................................... 27.68 7.7 27.68 7.7 € € 11........................................................ 30.36 3.6 30.36 3.6 € € 12........................................................ 35.40 3.0 35.40 3.0 € € Aerospace engineers......................................... 30.82 5.9 30.82 5.9 € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 26.87 4.4 27.02 4.4 € € 8....................................................... 25.69 5.6 25.69 5.6 € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 28.08 6.0 28.08 6.0 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 31.06 3.1 31.15 3.2 - - 9....................................................... 31.04 4.5 31.04 4.5 € € 10........................................................ 29.75 2.5 29.75 2.5 € € Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 31.41 3.3 31.53 3.4 € € 10........................................................ 29.65 2.7 29.65 2.7 € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ 35.58 23.7 - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - € € - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 26.09 1.9 15.31 13.8 - - 7....................................................... 25.92 3.7 € € € € Elementary school teachers.................................. 26.37 .9 € € € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - € € - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 11.58 10.8 - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 17.20 4.1 17.57 4.9 - - Technical....................................................... 14.89 5.9 14.89 6.4 $14.86 6.1 2....................................................... 9.53 17.0 9.53 17.0 € € 4....................................................... 11.13 6.9 11.13 7.1 € € 5....................................................... 15.11 8.0 15.11 8.0 € € 6....................................................... 15.68 5.3 16.48 5.4 € € 7....................................................... 15.36 7.5 15.17 8.0 € € 8....................................................... 20.86 7.3 21.92 7.0 € € 9....................................................... 20.22 6.2 20.22 6.2 € € Licensed practical nurses................................... 10.82 3.5 € € € € Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 14.57 7.2 14.49 7.4 € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 18.36 11.7 18.36 11.7 € € Drafters.................................................... 19.64 5.7 19.64 5.7 € € Chemical technicians........................................ 15.01 7.2 15.01 7.2 € € Computer programmers........................................ 20.88 10.7 € € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 26.75 5.0 26.66 6.1 27.03 7.6 6....................................................... 14.08 7.6 14.08 7.6 € € 7....................................................... 17.57 3.9 16.50 6.1 € € 8....................................................... 22.52 6.5 22.71 7.0 € € 9....................................................... 28.34 5.0 26.79 4.4 € € 10........................................................ 26.09 7.4 € € € € 11........................................................ 33.30 4.6 36.08 5.4 € € 12........................................................ $42.36 15.8 $44.01 16.8 € € 13........................................................ 46.22 6.4 46.22 6.4 € € Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 31.39 6.1 33.32 7.8 $27.89 8.6 8....................................................... 25.64 11.0 € € € € 9....................................................... 29.98 5.3 27.47 5.3 € € 11........................................................ 33.92 5.4 € € € € 12........................................................ 42.73 16.4 44.54 17.5 € € 13........................................................ 49.05 8.2 49.05 8.2 € € Administrators and officials, public administration......... 21.16 6.6 € € 21.16 6.6 Financial managers.......................................... 36.24 15.1 36.24 15.1 € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 31.67 5.6 31.48 5.7 € € 9....................................................... 26.06 5.9 26.06 5.9 € € 12........................................................ 35.11 8.6 34.40 10.0 € € Management related............................................ 21.03 5.0 20.90 5.4 - - 6....................................................... 14.15 8.2 14.15 8.2 € € 7....................................................... 17.12 5.6 17.12 5.6 € € 8....................................................... 21.18 7.1 21.38 7.3 € € 9....................................................... 25.11 5.2 25.66 7.1 € € Accountants and auditors.................................... 23.40 7.4 23.88 10.3 € € Management analysts......................................... 21.44 8.8 21.34 9.1 € € 8....................................................... 21.11 10.7 21.11 10.7 € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 17.54 5.9 17.54 5.9 € € Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 15.99 17.0 15.99 17.0 € € Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.01 12.2 21.01 12.2 € € Sales............................................................. 12.06 10.2 12.38 10.9 - - 1....................................................... 6.80 5.1 6.97 5.3 € € 3....................................................... 8.21 4.6 7.92 5.1 € € 4....................................................... 10.34 9.3 10.34 9.3 € € 5....................................................... 14.29 10.0 14.29 10.0 € € Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.14 8.0 15.14 8.0 € € Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 9.84 9.1 9.84 9.1 € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 9.94 14.8 9.94 14.8 € € Cashiers.................................................... 7.44 5.7 7.13 4.4 € € 1....................................................... 6.72 8.2 7.07 8.4 € € 3....................................................... 7.88 8.1 7.06 6.6 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.88 3.6 10.82 4.2 11.16 6.5 1....................................................... 8.06 7.8 7.40 3.3 € € 2....................................................... 8.81 2.9 8.61 3.5 € € 3....................................................... 10.27 5.7 9.75 4.5 11.57 11.6 4....................................................... 10.82 5.5 10.66 6.2 11.73 7.3 5....................................................... 14.62 12.9 14.62 12.9 € € 6....................................................... 14.17 7.8 14.17 7.8 € € 7....................................................... 15.10 5.1 15.22 6.4 € € Secretaries................................................. 12.68 7.0 11.41 5.9 € € 4....................................................... $11.13 11.8 $11.26 12.9 € € Receptionists............................................... 7.97 4.3 7.97 4.3 € € Order clerks................................................ 11.28 5.7 11.28 5.7 € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.43 5.7 10.90 6.5 € € 3....................................................... 12.64 5.4 € € € € 4....................................................... 10.91 7.2 10.55 7.8 € € Dispatchers................................................. 11.35 3.9 € € € € Production coordinators..................................... 14.60 17.4 14.67 18.5 € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.85 8.9 10.85 8.9 € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 10.32 8.7 10.32 8.7 € € General office clerks....................................... 9.03 4.7 8.90 7.2 € € 2....................................................... 9.22 3.9 8.87 8.1 € € 3....................................................... 9.00 6.1 € € € € Bank tellers................................................ 8.44 3.0 8.44 3.0 € € Data entry keyers........................................... 8.19 5.5 7.97 6.5 € € Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 14.31 19.5 14.31 19.5 € € Blue collar......................................................... 13.85 3.9 13.89 2.4 $13.42 5.0 1....................................................... 7.14 3.3 6.89 2.5 € € 2....................................................... 8.65 3.3 8.57 3.4 € € 3....................................................... 15.80 5.4 16.02 5.6 € € 4....................................................... 10.85 3.0 10.64 2.3 € € 5....................................................... 15.19 4.4 15.55 5.2 € € 6....................................................... 16.73 3.3 17.51 2.8 € € 7....................................................... 20.24 3.7 20.47 3.7 € € Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.62 5.9 14.36 6.9 16.14 6.1 3....................................................... 8.72 4.4 8.72 4.4 € € 4....................................................... 10.79 3.2 10.97 3.0 € € 5....................................................... 14.55 5.5 14.91 7.5 € € 6....................................................... 14.73 7.3 15.63 8.7 € € 7....................................................... 20.68 4.5 21.07 4.6 € € 8....................................................... 21.53 2.9 € € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 21.63 7.7 21.63 7.7 € € 7....................................................... 22.17 8.3 22.17 8.3 € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 14.68 11.6 € € € € Supervisors, production..................................... 18.38 4.6 18.38 4.6 € € 7....................................................... 17.63 4.7 17.63 4.7 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.77 6.3 14.79 6.3 - - 1....................................................... 6.87 1.7 6.87 1.7 € € 2....................................................... 8.24 4.6 8.24 4.6 € € 3....................................................... 17.11 6.4 17.20 6.5 € € 4....................................................... 10.71 2.9 10.71 2.9 € € 5....................................................... 15.79 6.9 15.79 6.9 € € Punching and stamping press operators....................... 11.90 4.6 11.90 4.6 € € Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ $9.84 8.9 $9.84 8.9 € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 6.57 5.0 6.57 5.0 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 17.62 8.3 17.62 8.3 € € 5....................................................... 17.58 9.9 17.58 9.9 € € Welders and cutters......................................... 18.46 22.0 18.46 22.0 € € Assemblers.................................................. 13.10 9.0 13.10 9.0 € € 2....................................................... 7.82 6.8 7.82 6.8 € € 3....................................................... 15.99 15.0 15.99 15.0 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.19 18.8 12.19 18.8 € € 5....................................................... 17.57 13.8 17.57 13.8 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 11.57 8.7 11.17 11.9 $12.17 10.5 3....................................................... 8.81 2.9 9.06 2.6 € € 4....................................................... 12.94 10.2 11.61 5.9 € € Truck drivers............................................... 12.32 7.7 11.85 12.5 € € 3....................................................... 9.10 3.1 9.10 3.1 € € 4....................................................... 11.30 5.6 11.63 6.2 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.56 4.2 9.43 5.0 - - 1....................................................... 8.03 4.5 7.78 4.9 € € 2....................................................... 8.84 6.4 € € € € 3....................................................... 10.43 6.6 9.82 5.4 € € 4....................................................... 9.74 5.6 9.74 5.6 € € Construction laborers....................................... 9.81 8.9 8.75 4.9 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.01 7.6 7.01 7.6 € € 1....................................................... 6.86 8.4 6.86 8.4 € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 9.12 5.2 9.12 5.2 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.64 8.4 9.64 8.4 € € 1....................................................... 9.12 9.4 9.12 9.4 € € Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 12.64 17.2 12.64 17.2 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 7.10 8.1 7.10 8.1 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.44 7.8 9.44 7.8 € € Service............................................................. 8.33 5.1 6.18 4.7 11.24 4.5 1....................................................... 6.69 4.7 6.09 3.7 8.25 3.6 2....................................................... 7.29 6.8 6.62 4.4 € € 3....................................................... 5.77 17.6 4.78 19.1 € € 4....................................................... 10.83 8.8 8.42 6.9 € € Protective service............................................ 12.47 6.2 - - 13.25 3.9 Food service.................................................. 6.42 8.7 5.42 8.0 9.18 4.6 1....................................................... 6.57 9.2 5.55 3.2 € € 2....................................................... 7.18 14.7 € € € € 3....................................................... 4.34 23.3 3.99 24.8 € € Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3.33 11.7 3.28 11.8 € € 3....................................................... 2.99 20.6 2.92 20.9 € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 2.92 16.4 2.86 16.6 € € 3....................................................... $2.95 21.0 € € € € Other food service........................................... 7.64 7.0 $6.72 6.5 $9.26 4.5 1....................................................... 6.99 9.4 6.00 6.0 € € 2....................................................... 7.59 13.1 € € € € Cooks....................................................... 8.10 5.2 7.90 5.3 € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.64 6.7 € € € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 5.97 5.5 5.99 5.7 € € Health service................................................ 6.99 1.3 6.87 1.4 - - 3....................................................... 7.36 1.3 € € € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 6.98 1.3 6.84 1.4 € € Cleaning and building service................................. 7.29 5.2 6.87 5.0 - - 1....................................................... 6.78 5.9 6.26 3.4 € € 2....................................................... 7.91 9.3 7.91 9.3 € € Maids and housemen.......................................... 6.08 3.1 5.93 2.3 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.21 5.5 6.66 4.1 € € 1....................................................... 6.88 6.3 € € € € Personal service.............................................. 7.12 11.2 - - - - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RE- SULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 4-2. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) full-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 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................................................................... $17.50 2.7 $16.91 2.5 $19.39 6.2 All excluding sales............................................... 17.67 2.7 17.07 2.5 19.52 6.2 White collar........................................................ 21.61 3.1 20.78 3.2 23.74 5.8 1....................................................... 7.98 4.6 7.67 3.2 € € 2....................................................... 9.06 5.0 8.91 6.7 € € 3....................................................... 9.85 4.9 9.40 4.0 11.03 11.0 4....................................................... 10.95 4.1 10.88 4.3 11.83 7.4 5....................................................... 14.42 5.3 14.55 6.1 € € 6....................................................... 16.72 8.7 17.15 9.1 € € 7....................................................... 21.89 8.8 18.33 5.4 24.61 6.6 8....................................................... 24.93 2.7 23.87 4.4 26.36 2.5 9....................................................... 28.28 3.3 27.79 3.4 € € 10........................................................ 28.68 3.2 28.82 3.2 € € 11........................................................ 33.19 3.1 34.39 3.4 € € 12........................................................ 39.58 6.9 38.15 7.6 € € 13........................................................ 42.31 5.9 42.31 5.9 € € White collar excluding sales.................................... 22.31 3.1 21.58 3.2 24.03 5.6 1....................................................... 8.38 8.7 7.62 2.6 € € 2....................................................... 9.05 5.1 8.90 6.7 € € 3....................................................... 10.22 5.6 9.71 4.4 11.57 11.6 4....................................................... 11.04 4.4 10.96 4.8 11.83 7.4 5....................................................... 14.43 5.7 14.57 6.6 € € 6....................................................... 15.22 3.8 15.54 4.0 € € 7....................................................... 22.18 8.5 18.75 5.4 24.61 6.6 8....................................................... 25.04 2.7 24.04 4.4 26.36 2.5 9....................................................... 28.34 3.3 27.86 3.4 € € 10........................................................ 28.02 2.9 28.15 2.9 € € 11........................................................ 33.15 3.4 34.53 3.9 € € 12........................................................ 39.81 6.9 38.39 7.6 € € 13........................................................ 42.31 5.9 42.31 5.9 € € Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.00 3.0 24.36 3.8 26.09 4.3 Professional specialty.......................................... 27.54 2.5 28.29 2.8 26.58 4.3 5....................................................... 13.45 7.9 € € € € 7....................................................... 24.32 5.9 20.79 6.1 26.02 3.2 8....................................................... 26.68 2.6 25.98 6.0 27.11 2.1 9....................................................... 29.64 4.3 29.75 4.3 € € 10........................................................ 28.86 2.6 28.86 2.6 € € 11........................................................ 32.86 4.3 32.86 4.3 € € 12........................................................ 38.53 5.9 35.59 2.2 € € Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 28.37 3.4 28.88 3.2 - - 7....................................................... 22.42 6.3 23.62 5.6 € € 8....................................................... 25.13 4.5 25.13 4.5 € € 9....................................................... 27.68 7.7 27.68 7.7 € € 11........................................................ 30.36 3.6 30.36 3.6 € € 12........................................................ $35.40 3.0 $35.40 3.0 € € Aerospace engineers......................................... 30.82 5.9 30.82 5.9 € € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 26.87 4.4 27.02 4.4 € € 8....................................................... 25.69 5.6 25.69 5.6 € € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 28.08 6.0 28.08 6.0 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 31.06 3.1 31.15 3.2 - - 9....................................................... 31.04 4.5 31.04 4.5 € € 10........................................................ 29.75 2.5 29.75 2.5 € € Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 31.41 3.3 31.53 3.4 € € 10........................................................ 29.65 2.7 29.65 2.7 € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ 35.58 23.7 - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - € € - - Teachers, except college and university....................... 26.12 1.9 - - - - 7....................................................... 25.92 3.7 € € € € Elementary school teachers.................................. 26.37 .9 € € € € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - € € - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 17.41 4.6 17.82 5.5 - - Technical....................................................... 15.21 5.1 15.22 5.4 - - 2....................................................... 9.82 17.5 9.82 17.5 € € 4....................................................... 11.42 5.9 11.42 5.9 € € 5....................................................... 15.11 8.0 15.11 8.0 € € 6....................................................... 15.90 5.4 16.81 5.6 € € 7....................................................... 15.36 7.5 15.17 8.0 € € 8....................................................... 20.86 7.3 21.92 7.0 € € 9....................................................... 20.22 6.2 20.22 6.2 € € Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 14.57 7.2 14.49 7.4 € € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 18.36 11.7 18.36 11.7 € € Drafters.................................................... 19.64 5.7 19.64 5.7 € € Chemical technicians........................................ 15.01 7.2 15.01 7.2 € € Computer programmers........................................ 20.88 10.7 € € € € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 26.80 5.0 26.73 6.2 $27.03 7.6 6....................................................... 14.08 7.6 14.08 7.6 € € 7....................................................... 17.92 3.2 17.09 5.2 € € 8....................................................... 22.52 6.5 22.71 7.0 € € 9....................................................... 28.34 5.0 26.79 4.4 € € 10........................................................ 26.09 7.4 € € € € 11........................................................ 33.30 4.6 36.08 5.4 € € 12........................................................ 42.73 16.4 44.54 17.5 € € 13........................................................ 46.22 6.4 46.22 6.4 € € Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 31.60 6.1 33.68 7.8 27.89 8.6 8....................................................... 25.64 11.0 € € € € 9....................................................... $29.98 5.3 $27.47 5.3 € € 11........................................................ 33.92 5.4 € € € € 12........................................................ 42.73 16.4 44.54 17.5 € € 13........................................................ 49.05 8.2 49.05 8.2 € € Administrators and officials, public administration......... 21.16 6.6 € € $21.16 6.6 Financial managers.......................................... 36.24 15.1 36.24 15.1 € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 31.67 5.6 31.48 5.7 € € 9....................................................... 26.06 5.9 26.06 5.9 € € 12........................................................ 35.11 8.6 34.40 10.0 € € Management related............................................ 20.89 5.0 20.74 5.4 - - 6....................................................... 14.15 8.2 14.15 8.2 € € 7....................................................... 17.12 5.6 17.12 5.6 € € 8....................................................... 21.18 7.1 21.38 7.3 € € 9....................................................... 25.11 5.2 25.66 7.1 € € Accountants and auditors.................................... 23.40 7.4 23.88 10.3 € € Management analysts......................................... 20.97 8.9 20.85 9.3 € € 8....................................................... 21.11 10.7 21.11 10.7 € € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 17.54 5.9 17.54 5.9 € € Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 15.99 17.0 15.99 17.0 € € Management related, n.e.c................................... 21.01 12.2 21.01 12.2 € € Sales............................................................. 13.84 10.6 14.16 10.9 - - 1....................................................... 7.70 4.9 7.70 4.9 € € 3....................................................... 8.62 4.7 8.34 5.9 € € 4....................................................... 10.66 9.4 10.66 9.4 € € 5....................................................... 14.29 10.0 14.29 10.0 € € Supervisors, sales.......................................... 15.14 8.0 15.14 8.0 € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 11.10 16.7 11.10 16.7 € € Cashiers.................................................... 8.28 5.2 7.83 4.6 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.05 3.7 11.00 4.4 11.23 6.5 1....................................................... 8.38 8.7 7.62 2.6 € € 2....................................................... 8.93 3.2 8.70 4.2 € € 3....................................................... 10.30 5.8 9.79 4.6 11.57 11.6 4....................................................... 10.86 5.6 10.70 6.3 11.83 7.4 5....................................................... 14.68 13.0 14.68 13.0 € € 6....................................................... 14.17 7.8 14.17 7.8 € € 7....................................................... 15.35 5.2 15.58 6.7 € € Secretaries................................................. 12.93 6.9 11.74 6.3 € € Receptionists............................................... 8.02 4.7 8.02 4.7 € € Order clerks................................................ 11.28 5.7 11.28 5.7 € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.41 5.8 10.86 6.6 € € 3....................................................... 12.64 5.4 € € € € 4....................................................... 10.91 7.2 10.55 7.8 € € Dispatchers................................................. 11.35 3.9 € € € € Production coordinators..................................... 14.60 17.4 14.67 18.5 € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... $10.85 8.9 $10.85 8.9 € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 10.52 9.0 10.52 9.0 € € General office clerks....................................... 9.11 4.9 9.03 7.8 € € 2....................................................... 9.35 3.8 9.13 8.9 € € 3....................................................... 9.00 6.1 € € € € Data entry keyers........................................... 8.29 5.8 € € € € Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 14.65 19.8 14.65 19.8 € € Blue collar......................................................... 14.08 2.1 14.15 2.3 $13.36 5.2 1....................................................... 7.37 3.4 7.08 2.6 € € 2....................................................... 8.65 3.3 8.57 3.4 € € 3....................................................... 15.87 5.4 16.05 5.6 € € 4....................................................... 10.62 2.2 10.64 2.3 € € 5....................................................... 15.19 4.4 15.55 5.2 € € 6....................................................... 16.73 3.3 17.51 2.8 € € 7....................................................... 20.24 3.7 20.47 3.7 € € Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.87 5.7 14.65 6.7 16.14 6.1 3....................................................... 8.72 4.4 8.72 4.4 € € 4....................................................... 10.79 3.2 10.97 3.0 € € 5....................................................... 14.55 5.5 14.91 7.5 € € 6....................................................... 14.73 7.3 15.63 8.7 € € 7....................................................... 20.68 4.5 21.07 4.6 € € 8....................................................... 21.53 2.9 € € € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 21.63 7.7 21.63 7.7 € € 7....................................................... 22.17 8.3 22.17 8.3 € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 14.68 11.6 € € € € Supervisors, production..................................... 18.38 4.6 18.38 4.6 € € 7....................................................... 17.63 4.7 17.63 4.7 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.86 6.3 14.88 6.3 - - 1....................................................... 6.90 1.9 6.90 1.9 € € 2....................................................... 8.23 4.6 8.23 4.6 € € 3....................................................... 17.11 6.4 17.20 6.5 € € 4....................................................... 10.71 2.9 10.71 2.9 € € 5....................................................... 15.79 6.9 15.79 6.9 € € Punching and stamping press operators....................... 11.90 4.6 11.90 4.6 € € Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 9.84 8.9 9.84 8.9 € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 6.57 5.0 6.57 5.0 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 17.63 8.3 17.63 8.3 € € 5....................................................... 17.58 9.9 17.58 9.9 € € Welders and cutters......................................... 18.46 22.0 18.46 22.0 € € Assemblers.................................................. 13.30 9.3 13.30 9.3 € € 2....................................................... 7.82 6.8 7.82 6.8 € € 3....................................................... 15.99 15.0 15.99 15.0 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 12.19 18.8 12.19 18.8 € € 5....................................................... $17.57 13.8 $17.57 13.8 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 11.89 7.0 12.00 9.7 $11.73 9.7 3....................................................... 9.04 2.5 9.23 2.1 € € 4....................................................... 11.30 5.4 11.61 5.9 € € Truck drivers............................................... 12.45 7.6 12.05 12.5 € € 4....................................................... 11.30 5.6 11.63 6.2 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.84 4.2 9.77 5.0 - - 1....................................................... 8.39 4.7 8.17 5.5 € € 3....................................................... 10.43 6.6 9.82 5.4 € € 4....................................................... 9.74 5.6 9.74 5.6 € € Construction laborers....................................... 9.81 8.9 8.75 4.9 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 7.65 10.7 7.65 10.7 € € 1....................................................... 7.83 14.5 7.83 14.5 € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 9.12 5.2 9.12 5.2 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.80 8.5 9.80 8.5 € € 1....................................................... 9.36 9.5 9.36 9.5 € € Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 12.64 17.2 12.64 17.2 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 9.44 7.8 9.44 7.8 € € Service............................................................. 8.99 6.2 6.43 7.0 11.55 4.5 1....................................................... 7.38 5.8 6.62 5.4 € € 2....................................................... 7.81 8.2 6.98 3.8 € € 3....................................................... 5.80 20.2 4.66 21.7 € € 4....................................................... 10.83 8.8 8.42 6.9 € € Protective service............................................ 12.56 5.8 - - 13.25 3.9 Food service.................................................. 6.82 11.7 5.48 12.0 - - 1....................................................... 7.31 11.5 € € € € 3....................................................... 4.08 27.0 3.67 27.3 € € Other food service........................................... 8.12 8.3 7.08 10.0 € € 1....................................................... 7.31 11.5 € € € € Cooks....................................................... 8.10 5.2 7.90 5.3 € € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 8.64 6.7 € € € € Health service................................................ 7.00 1.3 6.88 1.5 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 6.98 1.3 6.85 1.5 € € Cleaning and building service................................. 7.99 6.5 7.49 7.5 - - 1....................................................... 7.53 7.3 6.90 6.4 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 7.99 7.1 7.28 7.5 € € 1....................................................... 7.78 7.8 7.15 8.3 € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - € € 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RE- SULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 4-3. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) part-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 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................................................................... $6.81 5.6 $6.53 5.2 $8.67 17.2 All excluding sales............................................... 6.96 6.9 6.60 6.4 9.22 18.7 White collar........................................................ 7.81 8.8 7.78 10.1 7.96 11.8 1....................................................... 5.88 3.6 6.00 3.8 € € 2....................................................... 7.02 8.3 6.96 8.8 € € 3....................................................... 7.12 4.5 7.12 4.5 € € 4....................................................... 7.89 7.2 7.65 8.2 € € White collar excluding sales.................................... 9.68 13.1 9.73 15.4 9.43 10.8 2....................................................... 7.94 4.7 8.06 4.7 € € 4....................................................... 8.38 6.3 8.25 6.3 € € Professional specialty and technical.............................. 8.84 9.5 8.17 8.5 - - Professional specialty.......................................... 10.06 11.8 - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - - - € € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - € € - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - Technical....................................................... 8.09 8.8 - - - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... - - - - € € Executives, administrators, and managers...................... - - - - € € Management related............................................ - - - - € € Sales............................................................. 6.23 4.5 6.23 4.8 - - 1....................................................... 5.79 4.1 5.91 4.5 € € 3....................................................... 7.09 5.5 7.09 5.5 € € Cashiers.................................................... 6.18 4.4 6.17 4.1 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 7.96 4.2 8.04 4.3 - - 2....................................................... 8.04 5.0 8.18 5.0 € € Blue collar......................................................... 7.32 16.8 6.06 3.3 - - 1....................................................... 6.00 3.7 6.00 3.7 € € Precision production, craft, and repair........................... - - - - € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... - - - - € € Transportation and material moving................................ - - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.02 2.6 6.02 2.6 € € 1....................................................... 5.93 2.5 5.93 2.5 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 5.76 4.9 5.76 4.9 € € 1....................................................... 5.76 4.9 5.76 4.9 € € Service............................................................. $5.65 3.1 $5.61 3.4 $5.95 3.0 1....................................................... 5.52 2.6 5.44 2.7 € € 2....................................................... 5.96 11.0 € € € € Protective service............................................ - - - - € € Food service.................................................. 5.30 3.1 5.29 3.3 - - 1....................................................... 5.36 5.0 5.36 5.0 € € Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 4.35 8.4 4.28 8.8 € € Waiters and waitresses...................................... 4.23 11.5 4.15 12.3 € € Other food service........................................... 5.96 6.1 5.98 6.4 € € 1....................................................... 6.22 9.0 6.22 9.0 € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 6.10 7.9 € € € € Health service................................................ - - - - € € Cleaning and building service................................. - - - - - - Personal service.............................................. - - - - - - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 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. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RE- SULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 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....................................................... $17.50 $6.81 $20.28 $16.37 $16.83 $18.88 All excluding sales............................................. 17.67 6.96 20.31 16.65 17.15 9.62 White collar........................................................ 21.61 7.81 16.74 21.07 20.98 21.71 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 22.31 9.68 17.04 22.12 22.03 € Professional specialty and technical.............................. 25.00 8.84 - 24.83 24.75 € Professional specialty.......................................... 27.54 10.06 € 27.40 27.40 € Technical....................................................... 15.21 8.09 - 14.84 14.89 € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 26.80 - - 26.81 26.75 € Sales............................................................. 13.84 6.23 - 12.07 9.86 21.71 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.05 7.96 17.46 10.54 10.88 € Blue collar......................................................... 14.08 7.32 20.59 10.61 13.87 9.83 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.87 - 23.30 12.22 14.62 € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.86 - 20.67 9.65 14.77 - Transportation and material moving................................ 11.89 - - 11.27 11.53 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.84 6.02 11.92 9.17 9.62 - Service............................................................. 8.99 5.65 - 8.33 8.33 - 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....................................................... 2.7 5.6 1.5 3.3 2.8 19.7 All excluding sales............................................. 2.7 6.9 1.4 3.3 2.8 10.4 White collar........................................................ 3.1 8.8 11.0 3.3 3.3 18.9 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 3.1 13.1 11.0 3.1 3.1 € Professional specialty and technical.............................. 3.0 9.5 - 3.2 3.2 € Professional specialty.......................................... 2.5 11.8 € 2.5 2.5 € Technical....................................................... 5.1 8.8 - 6.2 5.9 € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 5.0 - - 5.0 5.0 € Sales............................................................. 10.6 4.5 - 10.3 6.5 18.9 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 3.7 4.2 16.3 3.1 3.6 € Blue collar......................................................... 2.1 16.8 1.4 2.7 2.2 15.7 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 5.7 - 2.9 5.3 5.9 € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6.3 - 1.0 2.8 6.3 - Transportation and material moving................................ 7.0 - - 9.5 9.1 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 4.2 2.6 11.3 4.1 4.3 - Service............................................................. 6.2 3.1 - 5.1 5.1 - 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 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers' wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 6 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRE- SPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 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....................................................... $16.20 $17.74 € $11.11 $17.98 $14.11 $13.95 - $10.61 $17.19 All excluding sales............................................. 16.46 17.63 € 11.11 17.88 14.66 13.96 - 9.70 17.30 White collar........................................................ 20.10 23.11 € 14.54 23.23 17.68 13.20 - 10.90 21.35 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 21.26 23.05 € 14.54 23.18 19.53 13.14 - 9.94 21.59 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.11 25.98 € - 26.06 22.46 - - - 23.67 Professional specialty.......................................... 28.24 28.78 € € 28.78 27.65 - - - 28.00 Technical....................................................... 14.89 17.17 € - 17.32 13.58 - - - 14.71 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 26.66 27.24 € - 27.20 25.87 - - - 26.68 Sales............................................................. 12.38 24.54 € € 24.54 10.42 - - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.82 12.28 € - 12.30 9.61 - - 9.41 9.34 Blue collar......................................................... 13.89 14.59 € 10.48 14.80 9.88 15.67 - € 8.84 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.36 14.38 € 12.62 14.53 14.20 - - € 13.21 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.79 15.44 € - 15.45 7.35 € - € 7.35 Transportation and material moving................................ 11.17 11.31 € - 12.51 11.02 - - € - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.43 10.12 € 8.78 10.48 8.28 - - € 7.32 Service............................................................. 6.18 - € € - 6.15 € - - 6.73 B Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) All pri- vate Occupational group indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Relative error(5) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.5 2.7 € 9.6 2.7 4.5 10.3 - 4.6 5.3 All excluding sales............................................. 2.5 2.7 € 9.6 2.7 4.7 10.7 - 4.2 5.3 White collar........................................................ 3.3 4.5 € 16.7 4.6 4.4 10.6 - 4.7 4.5 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 3.2 4.7 € 16.7 4.7 4.1 10.9 - 4.2 4.5 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 4.1 4.3 € - 4.3 6.5 - - - 5.7 Professional specialty.......................................... 2.8 3.6 € € 3.6 4.3 - - - 4.3 Technical....................................................... 6.4 7.3 € - 7.3 8.2 - - - 5.8 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 6.1 9.6 € - 9.7 5.4 - - - 5.8 Sales............................................................. 10.9 14.6 € € 14.6 10.0 - - - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 4.2 7.4 € - 7.7 2.9 - - 3.8 4.4 Blue collar......................................................... 2.4 2.1 € 8.2 2.1 9.2 4.1 - € 8.9 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 6.9 7.6 € 8.4 8.1 16.1 - - € 24.7 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6.3 5.7 € - 5.7 4.0 € - € 4.0 Transportation and material moving................................ 11.9 10.7 € - 10.7 22.2 - - € - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 5.0 5.6 € 4.4 6.6 8.7 - - € 6.8 Service............................................................. 4.7 - € € - 5.1 € - - 3.8 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 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....................................................... $16.20 $10.80 $17.29 $14.53 $19.90 All excluding sales............................................. 16.46 10.98 17.41 14.67 19.82 White collar........................................................ 20.10 13.01 21.54 19.28 24.00 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 21.26 14.73 22.18 20.39 23.88 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 24.11 14.10 25.13 23.17 27.09 Professional specialty.......................................... 28.24 20.57 28.58 28.02 29.01 Technical....................................................... 14.89 10.98 15.88 15.00 17.79 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 26.66 27.61 26.56 27.43 26.03 Sales............................................................. 12.38 9.99 14.48 12.90 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 10.82 9.53 11.15 10.22 12.42 Blue collar......................................................... 13.89 11.00 14.25 10.31 16.69 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.36 13.97 14.42 15.35 14.16 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 14.79 8.67 15.14 9.62 18.27 Transportation and material moving................................ 11.17 14.00 10.08 9.17 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.43 8.74 9.71 8.95 12.33 Service............................................................. 6.18 5.87 6.40 6.40 - 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....................................................... 2.5 7.9 2.7 4.0 3.4 All excluding sales............................................. 2.5 9.2 2.7 3.9 3.4 White collar........................................................ 3.3 9.5 3.7 4.9 4.9 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 3.2 11.6 3.4 4.1 4.9 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 4.1 19.6 3.8 5.9 4.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 2.8 35.6 2.5 3.2 3.7 Technical....................................................... 6.4 6.5 7.3 9.0 9.9 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 6.1 10.0 6.7 5.2 10.4 Sales............................................................. 10.9 8.7 18.0 16.9 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 4.2 5.4 5.1 3.7 9.6 Blue collar......................................................... 2.4 6.7 2.7 3.4 3.5 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 6.9 6.7 7.8 3.6 10.1 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 6.3 6.9 6.3 3.7 4.4 Transportation and material moving................................ 11.9 11.4 12.7 9.9 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 5.0 5.8 6.5 5.5 15.0 Service............................................................. 4.7 7.1 6.1 6.7 - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs(1), all workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 1999 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $6.61 $8.87 $14.39 $23.19 $29.56 All excluding sales........................... 6.73 9.05 15.00 23.96 29.88 White collar.................................... 8.00 11.38 20.60 27.36 33.77 White collar excluding sales................ 9.00 13.17 22.33 28.03 34.79 Professional specialty and technical.......... 12.50 18.12 26.50 29.18 35.57 Professional specialty...................... 18.12 24.09 26.84 31.00 36.32 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 20.83 22.60 27.06 32.98 38.02 Aerospace engineers..................... 22.42 25.45 28.38 34.96 41.54 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 22.33 22.35 26.54 30.22 35.57 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 17.66 25.48 28.48 33.45 35.58 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 21.98 28.28 31.47 35.70 36.66 Computer systems analysts and scientists 24.00 28.32 32.00 35.70 36.66 Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 15.30 15.30 47.66 53.35 53.35 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 25.60 26.49 26.65 26.85 27.36 Elementary school teachers.............. 25.60 26.50 26.65 26.84 26.85 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. 9.05 9.24 11.78 13.84 13.84 Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 12.25 16.31 17.54 18.12 19.47 Technical................................... 8.73 11.07 13.99 17.70 21.58 Licensed practical nurses............... 9.50 10.40 10.40 11.75 11.89 Electrical and electronic technicians... 10.15 13.06 13.99 17.67 17.70 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 13.70 14.78 16.17 24.81 25.78 Drafters................................ 14.60 16.68 21.23 22.00 24.77 Chemical technicians.................... 10.50 12.50 15.28 17.78 17.78 Computer programmers.................... 15.18 17.97 19.18 23.75 29.18 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 15.92 18.99 24.46 32.67 38.33 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 18.99 23.55 31.21 35.18 41.78 Administrators and officials, public administration....................... 18.31 18.31 19.25 22.25 28.32 Financial managers...................... 23.42 23.64 31.21 54.14 56.70 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 18.99 25.23 31.18 38.33 41.51 Management related........................ 14.15 16.35 19.42 24.20 32.67 Accountants and auditors................ 17.48 17.48 23.96 26.46 33.02 Management analysts..................... 16.35 16.35 19.24 24.46 32.67 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 15.63 15.87 15.87 19.25 20.74 Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c..... 10.69 10.69 12.98 24.55 28.96 Management related, n.e.c............... 14.15 16.11 17.95 19.88 37.26 Sales......................................... 5.50 7.00 8.94 13.75 26.12 Supervisors, sales...................... 8.54 10.10 13.90 16.28 26.12 Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............................. 7.79 8.55 9.35 10.01 10.01 Sales workers, other commodities........ 5.17 6.15 7.96 15.71 15.71 Cashiers................................ $5.35 $6.30 $7.10 $8.92 $9.32 Administrative support, including clerical.... 7.38 8.25 9.76 12.89 14.96 Secretaries............................. 8.55 9.58 14.40 14.82 14.93 Receptionists........................... 6.50 7.00 7.64 8.80 9.00 Order clerks............................ 8.65 9.38 11.33 12.39 14.26 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 7.95 9.19 12.89 13.52 13.52 Dispatchers............................. 9.66 10.37 11.51 12.27 12.89 Production coordinators................. 9.06 10.09 13.40 17.05 25.00 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 8.64 9.00 9.36 13.74 13.74 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 7.40 7.46 9.63 12.39 14.96 General office clerks................... 6.36 7.70 9.54 10.28 11.25 Bank tellers............................ 7.29 7.51 8.41 9.33 9.33 Data entry keyers....................... 5.68 7.50 8.35 9.08 10.00 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 8.01 10.67 11.42 15.15 25.38 Blue collar..................................... 6.50 8.03 12.15 20.18 22.02 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 6.34 7.38 13.28 20.18 25.07 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 15.12 20.18 24.87 25.58 25.58 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 10.86 12.30 13.26 20.17 20.17 Supervisors, production................. 13.56 15.29 18.18 21.63 22.60 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 7.13 8.35 13.71 21.02 21.68 Punching and stamping press operators... 10.21 11.28 12.32 12.32 12.32 Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c.... 6.85 7.58 9.79 12.52 12.52 Textile sewing machine operators........ 5.56 5.85 6.89 7.01 7.75 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 8.72 12.61 21.02 21.02 21.68 Welders and cutters..................... 10.40 10.75 25.51 25.51 25.51 Assemblers.............................. 6.50 7.50 9.89 21.45 21.45 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 6.76 7.28 8.03 18.25 22.22 Transportation and material moving............ 6.09 8.75 11.57 13.67 16.85 Truck drivers........................... 8.75 9.72 12.75 13.67 16.85 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.03 7.00 9.40 11.20 13.07 Construction laborers................... 7.91 8.25 9.40 9.78 13.07 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.38 5.55 6.25 7.49 10.14 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 7.33 7.75 7.75 10.59 11.29 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 6.29 6.67 11.20 11.31 11.46 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners.. 7.70 7.70 12.27 17.72 17.72 Hand packers and packagers.............. 6.00 6.03 6.25 8.45 8.47 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 6.47 6.47 10.28 10.49 13.38 Service......................................... 5.15 5.97 7.50 10.12 13.12 Protective service........................ 7.50 10.12 13.12 15.72 16.02 Food service.............................. 2.13 5.25 6.05 8.62 9.74 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... $2.13 $2.13 $2.13 $5.15 $6.50 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.15 5.15 Other food service....................... 5.50 5.97 8.00 8.92 9.89 Cooks................................... 6.00 7.28 8.00 9.25 9.74 Kitchen workers, food preparation....... 6.05 8.62 8.62 8.62 10.96 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 5.50 5.50 5.54 6.00 7.25 Health service............................ 6.40 6.68 7.20 7.29 7.50 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 6.40 6.68 7.20 7.29 7.50 Cleaning and building service............. 5.44 5.44 6.56 8.87 10.24 Maids and housemen...................... 5.50 5.73 6.06 6.08 7.35 Janitors and cleaners................... 5.44 5.44 6.56 8.87 10.15 Personal service.......................... 5.35 6.09 6.09 9.20 9.20 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs(1), all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 1999 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $6.34 $8.00 $13.38 $21.45 $30.22 All excluding sales........................... 6.36 8.03 13.81 21.84 30.22 White collar.................................... 7.75 10.40 17.67 28.03 34.96 White collar excluding sales................ 8.64 11.83 19.25 29.17 35.70 Professional specialty and technical.......... 11.75 16.69 23.59 31.47 36.32 Professional specialty...................... 18.12 22.42 28.38 33.34 36.78 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 22.33 23.08 27.44 33.45 38.83 Aerospace engineers..................... 22.42 25.45 28.38 34.96 41.54 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 22.33 22.35 26.54 30.22 35.57 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 17.66 25.48 28.48 33.45 35.58 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 21.98 28.28 32.08 35.70 36.66 Computer systems analysts and scientists 24.00 29.52 32.08 35.70 38.19 Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 8.97 8.97 16.69 19.48 22.43 Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 12.25 16.59 18.12 19.47 19.47 Technical................................... 7.86 10.88 13.99 17.78 22.00 Electrical and electronic technicians... 10.15 13.06 13.81 17.67 17.70 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 13.70 14.78 16.17 24.81 25.78 Drafters................................ 14.60 16.68 21.23 22.00 24.77 Chemical technicians.................... 10.50 12.50 15.28 17.78 17.78 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 15.87 17.95 24.46 32.64 41.51 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 19.75 25.00 31.21 38.87 54.40 Financial managers...................... 23.42 23.64 31.21 54.14 56.70 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 18.99 25.23 31.18 36.75 41.51 Management related........................ 12.98 16.35 19.22 24.46 32.67 Accountants and auditors................ 17.48 17.48 22.30 28.28 39.97 Management analysts..................... 16.35 16.35 19.24 24.46 32.67 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 15.63 15.87 15.87 19.25 20.74 Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c..... 10.69 10.69 12.98 24.55 28.96 Management related, n.e.c............... 14.15 16.11 17.95 19.88 37.26 Sales......................................... 5.55 7.00 8.91 15.00 28.56 Supervisors, sales...................... 8.54 10.10 13.90 16.28 26.12 Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............................. 7.79 8.55 9.35 10.01 10.01 Sales workers, other commodities........ 5.17 6.15 7.96 15.71 15.71 Cashiers................................ 5.55 6.30 6.50 8.00 8.40 Administrative support, including clerical.... 7.29 7.98 10.00 12.39 15.15 Secretaries............................. 9.02 9.46 11.88 14.19 14.40 Receptionists........................... $6.50 $7.00 $7.64 $8.80 $9.00 Order clerks............................ 8.65 9.38 11.33 12.39 14.26 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 7.80 9.00 10.00 13.52 13.52 Production coordinators................. 9.06 10.09 10.09 17.05 25.00 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 8.64 9.00 9.36 13.74 13.74 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 7.40 7.46 9.63 12.39 14.96 General office clerks................... 6.36 7.36 8.00 10.66 11.38 Bank tellers............................ 7.29 7.51 8.41 9.33 9.33 Data entry keyers....................... 5.68 7.50 8.35 9.10 10.00 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 8.01 10.67 11.42 15.15 25.38 Blue collar..................................... 6.48 7.75 11.94 21.02 22.02 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 6.34 6.73 12.58 20.18 25.07 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 15.12 20.18 24.87 25.58 25.58 Supervisors, production................. 13.56 15.29 18.18 21.63 22.60 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 7.13 8.27 13.74 21.02 21.68 Punching and stamping press operators... 10.21 11.28 12.32 12.32 12.32 Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c.... 6.85 7.58 9.79 12.52 12.52 Textile sewing machine operators........ 5.56 5.85 6.89 7.01 7.75 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 8.72 12.61 21.02 21.02 21.68 Welders and cutters..................... 10.40 10.75 25.51 25.51 25.51 Assemblers.............................. 6.50 7.50 9.89 21.45 21.45 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 6.76 7.28 8.03 18.25 22.22 Transportation and material moving............ 5.25 8.75 9.83 15.38 16.85 Truck drivers........................... 8.75 9.25 10.25 16.85 16.85 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.00 6.47 8.50 11.29 14.13 Construction laborers................... 7.91 7.91 8.34 9.78 9.78 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.38 5.55 6.25 7.49 10.14 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 7.33 7.75 7.75 10.59 11.29 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 6.29 6.67 11.20 11.31 11.46 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners.. 7.70 7.70 12.27 17.72 17.72 Hand packers and packagers.............. 6.00 6.03 6.25 8.45 8.47 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 6.47 6.47 10.28 10.49 13.38 Service......................................... 2.13 5.44 6.05 7.28 8.56 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.13 2.15 5.54 6.62 8.00 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.13 2.13 2.13 5.15 6.50 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.13 2.13 2.13 2.15 5.15 Other food service....................... 5.50 5.54 6.00 8.00 9.25 Cooks................................... $6.00 $6.62 $8.00 $9.25 $9.25 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 5.50 5.50 5.54 6.00 7.25 Health service............................ 6.40 6.68 6.68 7.25 7.50 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 6.25 6.68 6.68 7.25 7.50 Cleaning and building service............. 5.44 5.44 6.00 7.28 10.15 Maids and housemen...................... 5.50 5.73 6.06 6.08 6.50 Janitors and cleaners................... 5.44 5.44 6.00 7.00 9.94 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs(1), all workers:(2) Selected occupations, State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 1999 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.87 $10.96 $16.11 $26.65 $28.32 All excluding sales........................... 8.87 11.13 16.12 26.65 28.32 White collar.................................... 9.54 16.31 26.49 27.36 31.91 White collar excluding sales................ 10.02 18.31 26.50 27.36 32.47 Professional specialty and technical.......... 16.29 25.44 26.65 27.36 29.88 Professional specialty...................... 16.31 25.60 26.65 27.36 29.88 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... - - - - - Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Health related............................ - - - - - Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 11.89 11.89 15.18 15.18 20.05 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 18.31 19.73 28.32 33.77 35.18 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 18.31 19.25 31.91 33.77 35.18 Administrators and officials, public administration....................... 18.31 18.31 19.25 22.25 28.32 Management related........................ - - - - - Sales......................................... - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.25 9.54 9.54 13.52 14.82 Blue collar..................................... 9.37 9.92 12.75 16.02 20.06 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 11.09 12.30 16.02 20.06 22.91 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ 7.00 9.95 12.75 13.67 16.11 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... - - - - - Service......................................... 7.59 8.87 10.12 13.12 15.72 Protective service........................ 10.12 10.12 13.12 15.72 16.02 Food service.............................. 8.62 8.62 8.62 9.89 10.96 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 8.62 8.62 8.62 9.89 10.96 Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. - - - - - Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs(1), full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 1999 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.28 $9.40 $15.69 $24.46 $30.22 All excluding sales........................... 7.28 9.62 15.96 24.87 30.22 White collar.................................... 8.90 12.39 21.23 27.81 34.13 White collar excluding sales................ 9.25 13.57 22.50 28.06 34.96 Professional specialty and technical.......... 13.06 19.09 26.50 29.52 35.58 Professional specialty...................... 18.12 24.86 26.84 31.00 36.32 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 20.83 22.60 27.06 32.98 38.02 Aerospace engineers..................... 22.42 25.45 28.38 34.96 41.54 Electrical and electronic engineers..... 22.33 22.35 26.54 30.22 35.57 Engineers, n.e.c........................ 17.66 25.48 28.48 33.45 35.58 Mathematical and computer scientists...... 21.98 28.28 31.47 35.70 36.66 Computer systems analysts and scientists 24.00 28.32 32.00 35.70 36.66 Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 15.30 15.30 47.66 53.35 53.35 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... 25.60 26.50 26.65 26.85 27.36 Elementary school teachers.............. 25.60 26.50 26.65 26.84 26.85 Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... 12.25 16.31 17.54 18.12 19.47 Technical................................... 8.73 11.89 14.42 17.78 21.58 Electrical and electronic technicians... 10.15 13.06 13.99 17.67 17.70 Engineering technicians, n.e.c.......... 13.70 14.78 16.17 24.81 25.78 Drafters................................ 14.60 16.68 21.23 22.00 24.77 Chemical technicians.................... 10.50 12.50 15.28 17.78 17.78 Computer programmers.................... 15.18 17.97 19.18 23.75 29.18 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 16.11 18.99 24.46 32.64 38.35 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 18.99 23.64 31.31 35.18 41.78 Administrators and officials, public administration....................... 18.31 18.31 19.25 22.25 28.32 Financial managers...................... 23.42 23.64 31.21 54.14 56.70 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 18.99 25.23 31.18 38.33 41.51 Management related........................ 14.15 16.35 19.25 24.20 32.67 Accountants and auditors................ 17.48 17.48 23.96 26.46 33.02 Management analysts..................... 16.35 16.35 19.24 24.46 32.67 Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists.......................... 15.63 15.87 15.87 19.25 20.74 Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c..... 10.69 10.69 12.98 24.55 28.96 Management related, n.e.c............... 14.15 16.11 17.95 19.88 37.26 Sales......................................... 7.10 8.24 10.00 15.71 29.97 Supervisors, sales...................... 8.54 10.10 13.90 16.28 26.12 Sales workers, other commodities........ 7.96 7.96 8.24 15.71 15.71 Cashiers................................ 6.50 7.10 8.40 9.32 9.43 Administrative support, including clerical.... 7.45 8.41 10.00 13.40 14.96 Secretaries............................. $8.55 $10.15 $14.40 $14.82 $14.96 Receptionists........................... 6.50 7.00 8.50 8.80 9.00 Order clerks............................ 8.65 9.38 11.33 12.39 14.26 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 7.95 9.19 12.89 13.52 13.52 Dispatchers............................. 9.66 10.37 11.51 12.27 12.89 Production coordinators................. 9.06 10.09 13.40 17.05 25.00 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 8.64 9.00 9.36 13.74 13.74 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 7.40 7.46 10.00 12.39 14.96 General office clerks................... 6.36 7.75 9.54 10.35 11.25 Data entry keyers....................... 5.68 7.50 8.35 9.08 10.00 Administrative support, n.e.c........... 8.01 11.42 11.42 15.15 25.38 Blue collar..................................... 6.73 8.45 12.52 20.22 22.02 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 6.34 9.35 14.64 20.18 25.07 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 15.12 20.18 24.87 25.58 25.58 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 10.86 12.30 13.26 20.17 20.17 Supervisors, production................. 13.56 15.29 18.18 21.63 22.60 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 7.28 8.45 13.74 21.02 21.68 Punching and stamping press operators... 10.21 11.28 12.32 12.32 12.32 Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c.... 6.85 7.58 9.79 12.52 12.52 Textile sewing machine operators........ 5.56 5.85 6.89 7.01 7.75 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 8.72 12.61 21.02 21.02 21.68 Welders and cutters..................... 10.40 10.75 25.51 25.51 25.51 Assemblers.............................. 6.50 7.50 9.89 21.45 21.45 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 6.76 7.28 8.03 18.25 22.22 Transportation and material moving............ 7.83 9.02 11.75 13.67 16.85 Truck drivers........................... 9.00 9.83 12.75 13.67 16.85 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 6.25 7.70 9.72 11.31 13.38 Construction laborers................... 7.91 8.25 9.40 9.78 13.07 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.55 6.00 6.25 9.91 10.97 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 7.33 7.75 7.75 10.59 11.29 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 6.29 6.82 11.20 11.31 11.46 Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners.. 7.70 7.70 12.27 17.72 17.72 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 6.47 6.47 10.28 10.49 13.38 Service......................................... 5.50 6.62 8.62 10.96 14.67 Protective service........................ 7.50 10.12 13.12 15.72 16.02 Food service.............................. 2.13 5.50 8.00 8.62 9.89 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 5.50 6.05 8.62 9.62 9.94 Cooks................................... 6.00 7.28 8.00 9.25 9.74 Kitchen workers, food preparation....... 6.05 8.62 8.62 8.62 10.96 Health service............................ 6.68 6.68 7.20 7.29 7.50 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. $6.68 $6.68 $7.20 $7.29 $7.50 Cleaning and building service............. 6.00 6.06 7.28 8.87 11.22 Janitors and cleaners................... 6.00 6.56 7.61 8.87 10.24 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs(1), part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 1999 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $5.17 $5.44 $6.00 $7.24 $8.92 All excluding sales........................... 5.15 5.44 6.00 7.25 9.78 White collar.................................... 5.34 5.55 7.02 8.24 11.00 White collar excluding sales................ 6.62 7.25 8.10 9.58 11.21 Professional specialty and technical.......... 7.02 7.25 7.41 11.13 11.21 Professional specialty...................... 7.25 7.25 11.13 11.13 14.00 Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 7.02 7.14 7.41 8.88 11.21 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... - - - - - Executives, administrators, and managers.. - - - - - Management related........................ - - - - - Sales......................................... 5.25 5.35 5.84 6.55 7.79 Cashiers................................ 5.34 5.35 6.20 6.30 8.14 Administrative support, including clerical.... 6.00 6.75 8.10 8.40 9.58 Blue collar..................................... 5.25 5.88 6.00 6.95 16.11 Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 5.38 5.38 6.00 6.38 6.50 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.15 5.38 5.38 6.25 6.38 Service......................................... 4.60 5.44 5.50 5.97 7.25 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.15 5.15 5.54 5.97 7.25 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... 2.15 2.15 5.15 5.15 7.00 Waiters and waitresses.................. 2.15 2.15 5.15 5.15 7.38 Other food service....................... 5.25 5.54 5.59 5.97 7.25 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 5.25 5.54 5.54 7.24 7.25 Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. - - - - - Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means not elsewhere classified. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORDINGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 1999 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 75,200 57,000 18,200 All excluding sales............................................. 70,800 53,100 17,700 White collar........................................................ 38,500 27,400 11,200 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 34,200 23,500 10,700 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 18,800 11,400 7,500 Professional specialty.......................................... 14,900 7,800 7,100 Technical....................................................... 3,900 3,600 300 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 7,500 5,700 1,800 Sales............................................................. 4,400 3,900 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 7,900 6,400 1,500 Blue collar......................................................... 25,600 22,900 2,700 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 7,200 6,200 1,000 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 12,900 12,800 - Transportation and material moving................................ 2,300 1,300 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 3,100 2,600 - Service............................................................. 11,000 6,700 4,300 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. IN THIS SURVEY, THE NONRESPONSE RATE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXCEEDED REGULAR SURVEY STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION. ACCORD- INGLY, USERS SHOULD INTERPRET THESE RESULTS WITH THIS LIMITATION IN MIND. Appendix table 2. Number of establishments represented by survey and the number studied by industry division and establishment employment size, Huntsville, AL, October 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........................................................ 400 164 57 107 85 22 Private industry.................................................... 300 152 56 96 82 14 Goods-producing industries........................................ 100 69 24 45 34 11 Construction.................................................... (2) 6 5 1 1 - Manufacturing................................................... 100 63 19 44 33 11 Service-producing industries...................................... 200 83 32 51 48 3 Tranportation and public utilities.............................. (2) 7 2 5 5 - Wholesale and retail trade...................................... 100 24 14 10 10 - Finance, insurance and real estate.............................. (2) 6 2 4 3 1 Services........................................................ 100 46 14 32 30 2 State and local government.......................................... (2) 12 1 11 3 8 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. Appendix table 3. Median work levels for all workers, full-time and part-time workers:(1) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Huntsville, AL, October 1999 All Full-t- Part-ti- Occupation(2) workers ime me workers workers All................................................................... 4 5 1 All excluding sales............................................... 5 5 1 White collar........................................................ 7 7 2 White collar excluding sales.................................... 7 7 4 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 8 8 4 Professional specialty.......................................... 8 8 5 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 9 9 € Aerospace engineers......................................... 10 10 € Electrical and electronic engineers......................... 8 8 € Engineers, n.e.c............................................ 9 9 € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... 9 9 € Computer systems analysts and scientists.................... 9 9 € Natural scientists............................................ - - € Health related................................................ 12 12 € Teachers, college and university.............................. - - € Teachers, except college and university....................... 7 7 - Elementary school teachers.................................. 7 7 € Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - € Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - € Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... 5 - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... 6 7 - Technical....................................................... 5 5 4 Licensed practical nurses................................... 5 € € Electrical and electronic technicians....................... 5 5 € Engineering technicians, n.e.c.............................. 5 5 € Drafters.................................................... 7 7 € Chemical technicians........................................ 5 5 € Computer programmers........................................ 8 8 € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 9 9 - Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 9 9 - Administrators and officials, public administration......... 7 7 € Financial managers.......................................... 12 12 € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 9 9 € Management related............................................ 8 8 - Accountants and auditors.................................... 9 9 € Management analysts......................................... 8 8 € Personnel, training, and labor relations specialists........ 7 7 € Purchasing agents and buyers, n.e.c......................... 6 6 € Management related, n.e.c................................... 7 7 € Sales............................................................. 3 4 2 Supervisors, sales.......................................... 7 7 € Sales workers, hardware and building supplies............... 3 € € Sales workers, other commodities............................ 4 4 € Cashiers.................................................... 2 3 1 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 3 3 2 Secretaries................................................. 4 4 € Receptionists............................................... 3 3 € Order clerks................................................ 5 5 € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 3 3 € Dispatchers................................................. 4 4 € Production coordinators..................................... 4 4 € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 3 3 € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 3 3 € General office clerks....................................... 2 2 € Bank tellers................................................ 2 € € Data entry keyers........................................... 2 2 € Administrative support, n.e.c............................... 3 4 € Blue collar......................................................... 3 3 1 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 5 5 - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 7 7 € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 5 5 € Supervisors, production..................................... 7 7 € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 3 3 - Punching and stamping press operators....................... 5 5 € Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c........................ 4 4 € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 1 1 € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 3 3 € Welders and cutters......................................... 7 7 € Assemblers.................................................. 3 3 € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 4 4 € Transportation and material moving................................ 4 4 - Truck drivers............................................... 4 4 € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 1 2 1 Construction laborers....................................... 3 3 € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 1 1 1 Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 3 3 € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 1 1 € Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners...................... 3 3 € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 1 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 3 3 € Service............................................................. 2 3 1 Protective service............................................ 5 5 - Food service.................................................. 2 3 1 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... 3 - 2 Waiters and waitresses...................................... 3 € 3 Other food service........................................... 2 2 1 Cooks....................................................... 4 4 € Kitchen workers, food preparation........................... 2 2 € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 1 € 2 Health service................................................ 2 2 - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 2 2 € Cleaning and building service................................. 1 1 - Maids and housemen.......................................... 1 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 1 1 € Personal service.............................................. 1 - - 1 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. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. The occupations titled authors, musicians, actors, painters, photographers, dancers, artists, athletes, and legislators cannot be assigned a work level. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately.