NC BL 12/00/2006 Table: Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, Bulletin 3135-27, April 2006 Table 1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours for selected worker and establishment characteristics, Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Civilian Private industry State and local government workers workers workers 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) All workers........................................................... $17.87 3.3 34.4 $17.11 3.8 34.4 $26.10 1.2 34.1 Worker characteristics(4)(5) Management, professional, and related............................... 28.40 2.6 35.8 26.79 3.5 36.6 35.44 1.5 33.1 Management, business, and financial............................... 29.81 5.1 40.5 28.67 5.5 40.6 39.34 7.7 39.9 Professional and related.......................................... 27.86 3.7 34.3 25.97 5.7 35.0 34.70 1.6 32.0 Service............................................................. 11.43 3.4 26.1 10.19 5.3 25.3 19.02 3.6 33.3 Sales and office.................................................... 15.94 6.2 34.9 15.87 6.7 34.7 16.95 2.0 37.0 Sales and related................................................. 18.51 17.5 33.2 18.51 17.5 33.2 – – – Office and administrative support................................. 14.91 3.8 35.6 14.72 4.2 35.4 16.95 2.0 37.0 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 18.37 3.5 37.3 18.23 3.8 37.2 21.01 2.8 38.6 Construction and extraction...................................... 18.79 4.2 39.2 18.71 4.5 39.3 21.12 4.7 36.8 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 17.87 4.1 35.1 17.63 4.2 34.8 20.94 2.0 39.7 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 15.28 6.9 38.1 15.26 7.0 38.2 16.57 3.8 32.7 Production........................................................ 15.76 7.2 39.4 15.75 7.2 39.4 – – – Transportation and material moving................................ 13.95 8.4 34.8 13.88 8.8 35.0 15.54 5.3 31.3 Full time........................................................... 19.20 3.5 39.4 18.40 4.1 39.6 27.22 1.2 37.5 Part time........................................................... 9.93 3.2 19.5 9.75 3.4 19.6 13.49 4.4 16.8 Union............................................................... 22.60 1.5 36.6 19.37 4.3 37.1 27.06 2.1 35.9 Nonunion............................................................ 17.02 3.7 34.0 16.87 3.9 34.1 23.18 7.0 29.5 Time................................................................ 17.43 3.0 34.2 16.60 3.5 34.2 26.10 1.2 34.1 Incentive........................................................... 31.87 29.0 40.5 31.87 29.0 40.5 – – – Establishment characteristics Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) - - - (6) (6) (6) Service providing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 15.59 5.8 32.1 (6) (6) (6) 1-99 workers........................................................ 16.59 6.3 32.9 16.59 6.3 32.9 – – – 100-499 workers..................................................... 16.62 5.9 34.6 15.78 7.0 34.8 24.50 5.2 32.9 500 workers or more................................................. 20.98 3.9 36.5 19.54 4.6 36.9 26.98 2.0 34.9 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. See appendix A for more information. 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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-providing industries applies to private industry only. Industries are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 2. Civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $17.87 3.3 $19.20 3.5 $9.93 3.2 Management occupations.............................................. 32.99 8.6 32.99 8.6 – – Level 11.................................................. 37.09 7.9 37.09 7.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 37.62 11.2 37.62 11.2 – – Education administrators.......................................... 42.96 6.7 42.96 6.7 – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 46.37 7.3 46.37 7.3 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 25.43 9.8 25.66 9.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 19.06 8.4 19.32 7.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 28.82 7.4 28.82 7.4 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.37 18.1 32.37 18.1 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 26.42 7.7 26.42 7.7 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.47 8.1 26.47 8.1 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 30.13 13.5 30.13 13.5 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.04 6.8 28.18 6.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.69 1.0 29.69 1.0 – – Engineers......................................................... 31.88 2.3 31.88 2.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.69 1.0 – – – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 22.21 10.5 – – – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 29.15 10.2 29.06 10.4 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 19.14 22.3 21.64 17.4 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.24 14.4 29.24 14.4 – – Social workers.................................................... 23.34 11.7 23.21 14.1 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 32.91 4.3 34.73 3.4 16.80 10.0 Level 3 .................................................. 13.57 5.5 14.03 6.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.66 5.7 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 14.28 5.9 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 15.72 26.1 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 41.15 9.5 41.53 9.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.19 10.0 38.20 10.0 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 39.04 11.6 40.86 12.4 – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 41.87 16.9 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 36.85 6.8 38.11 5.4 18.24 22.6 Level 8 .................................................. 40.52 9.3 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 38.08 9.9 – – – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 30.52 15.0 – – – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 35.93 5.8 37.48 2.8 – – Level 8 .................................................. 39.80 12.7 40.24 12.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 36.92 7.5 36.92 7.5 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 35.93 4.8 37.70 1.7 – – Level 8 .................................................. $39.29 12.5 $39.82 11.8 – – Level 9 .................................................. 37.74 7.4 37.74 7.4 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 35.93 19.5 35.86 20.1 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.30 7.0 39.08 8.1 – – Level 9 .................................................. 40.17 13.9 40.17 13.9 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 37.72 7.2 38.53 8.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 39.40 15.7 39.40 15.7 – – Special education teachers...................................... 47.14 9.5 47.14 9.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 49.54 3.0 49.54 3.0 – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 19.94 13.0 – – $16.64 4.0 Teacher assistants................................................ 13.61 2.3 14.09 2.7 11.72 3.7 Level 3 .................................................. 13.57 5.5 14.03 6.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 12.70 6.0 – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 20.08 11.4 21.62 12.8 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.60 3.4 23.62 2.8 23.51 8.3 Level 5 .................................................. 19.39 6.0 20.06 8.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.56 6.3 20.18 7.4 – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.76 9.4 22.62 10.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.34 2.0 26.47 2.3 25.98 .5 Registered nurses................................................. 27.69 2.9 28.79 4.0 25.06 1.6 Level 7 .................................................. 25.39 5.5 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.41 2.1 26.61 2.2 25.82 .3 Therapists........................................................ 23.46 8.6 23.35 8.8 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.30 7.2 18.84 7.7 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.66 3.1 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.20 8.1 14.71 7.5 11.52 10.4 Level 3 .................................................. 11.42 2.7 11.78 1.0 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.01 2.7 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.05 .9 12.63 2.4 9.72 4.4 Level 3 .................................................. 11.01 2.3 11.52 .7 – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.14 .6 12.79 1.7 9.72 4.4 Level 3 .................................................. 11.01 2.3 11.52 .7 – – Protective service occupations...................................... 21.35 3.8 22.19 3.7 11.41 3.2 Level 6 .................................................. 21.92 1.7 22.17 .8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.82 2.8 23.95 2.7 – – Fire fighters..................................................... 19.68 .5 – – – – Police officers................................................... 23.56 1.0 24.15 1.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.21 2.4 24.21 2.4 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 23.56 1.0 24.15 1.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.21 2.4 24.21 2.4 – – Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... $9.60 1.7 – – $9.60 1.7 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.36 5.3 $11.36 6.3 6.31 1.4 Level 1 .................................................. 7.37 13.1 – – 6.90 11.3 Level 2 .................................................. 6.17 7.5 – – 4.91 6.0 Level 3 .................................................. 7.60 12.8 7.72 18.1 7.40 6.5 Cooks............................................................. 11.89 10.6 12.79 15.6 – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 11.83 8.1 – – – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.49 4.9 10.07 4.0 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.90 22.8 – – 5.15 16.4 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.70 24.4 – – 4.96 18.0 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.77 2.6 – – 6.64 2.7 Level 1 .................................................. 6.40 2.2 – – 6.40 2.2 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.74 3.0 – – 6.60 3.1 Level 1 .................................................. 6.33 2.7 – – 6.33 2.7 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.44 4.9 13.81 6.0 8.90 2.9 Level 1 .................................................. 9.43 5.6 12.28 13.9 8.70 3.2 Level 2 .................................................. 11.79 8.3 12.27 10.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.72 4.4 14.50 4.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.95 9.9 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.92 5.3 13.06 6.1 8.83 3.0 Level 1 .................................................. 9.47 5.9 12.28 13.9 8.70 3.4 Level 2 .................................................. 11.82 8.5 12.27 10.5 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.60 4.8 14.42 4.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.92 10.8 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.33 6.9 13.97 5.7 9.03 3.3 Level 1 .................................................. 9.85 8.0 13.99 6.2 8.94 2.9 Level 2 .................................................. 12.56 9.3 13.34 12.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.64 5.2 14.76 6.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.92 10.8 – – – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.30 5.9 – – – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 11.42 16.3 – – – – Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 11.42 16.3 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.99 6.3 – – 8.31 6.9 Level 1 .................................................. 7.97 3.8 – – 7.46 3.2 Child care workers................................................ 13.17 18.3 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.51 17.5 24.11 20.2 8.56 5.7 Level 1 .................................................. 7.63 2.9 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.39 7.3 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 9.92 1.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.98 14.2 17.98 14.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.98 14.2 17.98 14.2 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. $9.39 10.3 $10.48 11.7 $8.46 6.6 Level 1 .................................................. 7.20 2.5 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 9.39 7.3 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 9.92 1.4 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.01 9.8 10.47 12.7 8.06 2.8 Level 1 .................................................. 7.17 2.8 – – 7.07 3.5 Level 2 .................................................. – – – – 8.68 .4 Cashiers...................................................... 9.01 9.8 10.47 12.7 8.06 2.8 Level 1 .................................................. 7.17 2.8 – – 7.07 3.5 Level 2 .................................................. – – – – 8.68 .4 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 10.34 9.6 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 9.68 10.3 9.94 14.8 9.38 6.0 Level 3 .................................................. 9.26 .1 – – 9.74 .6 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.91 3.8 15.33 3.6 11.79 11.1 Level 1 .................................................. 7.90 6.0 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 10.91 4.4 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.84 6.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.60 2.3 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.82 2.1 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.37 6.4 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.52 3.3 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.53 7.3 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 20.88 4.5 20.96 4.6 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 15.08 2.7 14.97 2.0 15.56 13.0 Level 3 .................................................. 10.54 2.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.76 3.6 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.11 4.3 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.96 6.2 – – – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.20 2.5 14.20 2.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.98 3.0 13.98 3.0 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.81 4.6 15.25 3.7 18.52 12.4 Level 4 .................................................. 13.94 3.1 14.06 3.8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.77 5.6 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.83 7.3 – – – – Tellers......................................................... 11.58 .6 11.62 5.6 11.52 7.1 Level 4 .................................................. 11.82 1.6 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 14.96 4.9 14.99 4.9 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.80 8.7 – – – – Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 19.22 .8 19.22 .8 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 11.47 6.5 11.47 6.5 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 12.24 15.7 13.25 14.2 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.91 7.3 14.95 7.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.78 3.9 15.80 3.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.78 3.7 17.78 3.7 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. $16.15 3.2 $16.15 3.2 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.86 10.7 13.91 10.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.91 6.2 15.91 6.2 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 12.77 8.0 14.66 5.7 $9.52 9.1 Level 3 .................................................. 12.57 6.8 13.91 7.4 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.59 5.8 14.12 6.9 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.79 4.2 18.83 4.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.85 12.7 16.85 12.7 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.87 4.1 18.47 3.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 14.86 3.7 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.00 3.7 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 21.82 3.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 26.13 16.0 30.34 6.1 – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 16.90 3.9 16.97 4.1 – – Level 7 .................................................. 18.77 2.0 18.97 1.8 – – Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics........................................................ 15.95 13.7 15.95 13.7 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.93 8.8 20.95 3.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.96 1.5 23.96 1.5 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.21 4.2 22.21 4.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.54 2.8 24.54 2.8 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.76 7.2 15.85 7.0 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.75 2.2 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 13.20 2.6 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.33 3.2 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.79 .8 – – – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.37 4.0 – – – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.26 2.6 – – – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.71 4.9 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 12.53 17.3 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 29.63 1.1 29.63 1.1 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.77 17.8 14.77 17.8 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.45 1.8 14.49 1.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.93 3.9 15.93 3.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.07 3.8 14.07 3.8 – – Team assemblers................................................. 13.01 7.4 13.01 7.4 – – Computer control programmers and operators........................ 17.97 .0 17.97 .0 – – Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 12.67 13.5 12.67 13.5 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 15.81 30.4 16.02 29.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 16.14 26.0 16.96 22.1 – – Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... $15.31 39.1 $15.65 38.8 – – Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................... 13.14 21.1 13.14 21.1 – – Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................................................... 13.30 4.6 13.82 4.9 – – Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 13.16 4.5 13.69 4.2 – – Tool and die makers............................................... 24.50 .0 24.50 .0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.94 5.2 25.94 5.2 – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 13.22 1.3 13.22 1.3 – – Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 13.52 4.7 13.52 4.7 – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 13.59 8.3 13.59 8.3 – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 14.02 8.4 14.02 8.4 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.63 11.8 17.63 11.8 – – Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 16.28 6.6 16.28 6.6 – – Painting workers.................................................. 14.37 11.0 14.37 11.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.82 2.3 16.82 2.3 – – Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 13.67 12.5 13.67 12.5 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.21 2.4 13.32 2.8 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.95 8.4 14.40 9.4 $10.18 17.3 Level 1 .................................................. 9.03 2.2 – – – – Level 2 .................................................. 14.22 13.6 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 13.45 9.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.78 7.0 – – – – Bus drivers....................................................... 15.58 5.1 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.51 6.7 – – – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 14.86 6.2 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.26 7.1 17.21 8.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.35 3.6 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.08 3.8 16.70 5.5 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.54 15.8 15.54 15.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.74 15.8 11.74 15.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.08 19.5 18.08 19.5 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.38 9.1 11.00 11.6 7.54 3.3 Level 1 .................................................. 9.04 2.1 9.69 4.0 7.03 2.9 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.89 13.2 12.38 15.1 7.64 2.6 Level 1 .................................................. 8.44 3.6 9.39 5.8 7.09 3.6 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.17 10.5 9.31 12.1 – – 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. See appendix A for more information. 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 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. 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 appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 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. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 3. Private industry workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $17.11 3.8 $18.40 4.1 $9.75 3.4 Management occupations.............................................. 31.30 9.2 31.30 9.2 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 35.47 13.2 35.47 13.2 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 25.29 10.8 25.53 9.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 19.01 8.7 – – – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 32.37 18.1 32.37 18.1 – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 26.42 7.7 26.42 7.7 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 30.17 13.9 30.17 13.9 – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.05 6.9 28.19 6.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.69 1.0 29.69 1.0 – – Engineers......................................................... 31.89 2.3 31.89 2.3 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.69 1.0 29.69 1.0 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 20.84 12.0 21.77 16.3 15.34 21.2 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 21.60 13.4 22.86 16.7 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 20.59 17.0 22.21 22.0 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 19.77 18.0 – – – – Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 19.35 12.4 – – – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.34 3.6 23.28 2.9 23.56 8.7 Level 5 .................................................. 19.39 6.1 20.07 8.9 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.57 6.5 20.16 7.6 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.88 8.5 – – – – Level 9 .................................................. 26.50 2.2 26.69 2.3 25.98 .5 Registered nurses................................................. 28.12 3.1 29.63 4.2 25.01 1.7 Level 9 .................................................. 26.59 2.2 26.88 2.0 25.82 .3 Therapists........................................................ 22.22 7.2 22.05 7.3 – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.32 7.5 18.88 8.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.59 3.2 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.18 8.5 14.68 7.9 11.59 10.8 Level 3 .................................................. 11.42 2.7 11.77 1.0 – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 11.89 1.9 12.42 3.9 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.01 2.3 11.52 .7 – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 11.97 1.5 12.57 3.3 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.01 2.3 11.52 .7 – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.22 5.7 11.23 6.6 6.19 1.7 Level 1 .................................................. 7.35 13.2 – – 6.87 11.2 Level 2 .................................................. 6.09 7.4 – – 4.86 5.2 Level 3 .................................................. 7.21 13.3 – – – – Cooks............................................................. $11.70 10.7 $12.61 16.1 – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.36 5.5 – – – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.90 22.8 – – $5.15 16.4 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.70 24.4 – – 4.96 18.0 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.67 1.4 – – 6.53 1.3 Level 1 .................................................. 6.38 1.8 – – 6.38 1.8 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.63 1.7 – – 6.48 1.7 Level 1 .................................................. 6.31 2.3 – – 6.31 2.3 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 10.62 4.0 12.71 6.6 8.88 3.0 Level 1 .................................................. 9.41 5.6 12.29 14.1 8.68 3.4 Level 2 .................................................. 11.46 8.0 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.52 7.7 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.27 5.2 12.21 7.6 8.82 3.1 Level 1 .................................................. 9.46 6.0 12.29 14.1 8.68 3.6 Level 2 .................................................. 11.46 8.0 – – – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.52 7.7 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.64 6.9 13.26 7.6 9.02 3.4 Level 1 .................................................. 9.84 8.0 13.99 6.2 8.92 3.0 Level 2 .................................................. 12.25 9.1 – – – – Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.28 5.9 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.78 4.8 – – 8.33 7.9 Level 1 .................................................. 7.95 4.0 – – 7.40 3.2 Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.51 17.5 24.11 20.2 8.56 5.7 Level 1 .................................................. 7.63 2.9 – – 7.68 3.4 Level 2 .................................................. 9.39 7.3 10.18 11.4 8.29 2.2 Level 3 .................................................. 9.92 1.4 10.31 .5 9.67 1.5 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.98 14.2 17.98 14.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.98 14.2 17.98 14.2 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.39 10.3 10.48 11.7 8.46 6.6 Level 1 .................................................. 7.20 2.5 – – 7.11 3.1 Level 2 .................................................. 9.39 7.3 10.18 11.4 8.29 2.2 Level 3 .................................................. 9.92 1.4 10.31 .5 9.67 1.5 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.01 9.8 10.47 12.7 8.06 2.8 Level 1 .................................................. 7.17 2.8 – – 7.07 3.5 Level 2 .................................................. – – – – 8.68 .4 Cashiers...................................................... 9.01 9.8 10.47 12.7 8.06 2.8 Level 1 .................................................. 7.17 2.8 – – 7.07 3.5 Level 2 .................................................. – – – – 8.68 .4 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 10.34 9.6 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 9.68 10.3 9.94 14.8 9.38 6.0 Level 3 .................................................. 9.26 .1 – – 9.74 .6 Office and administrative support occupations....................... $14.72 4.2 $15.13 4.0 $11.86 11.4 Level 2 .................................................. 10.67 4.7 11.15 5.0 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.55 6.8 11.70 7.8 10.64 1.8 Level 4 .................................................. 14.22 2.5 14.39 2.4 12.16 3.2 Level 5 .................................................. 15.52 2.5 15.56 2.6 – – Level 6 .................................................. 19.37 6.8 19.16 7.6 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 14.51 7.5 14.79 6.8 – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 21.12 5.1 21.21 5.2 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 14.93 2.9 14.79 2.0 15.56 13.0 Level 3 .................................................. 10.54 2.6 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.41 4.0 13.53 3.9 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.04 4.3 16.16 5.8 – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.96 6.2 – – – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.09 2.6 14.09 2.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 13.86 3.4 13.86 3.4 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.66 4.9 15.03 3.7 18.52 12.4 Level 4 .................................................. 13.32 2.8 13.43 2.6 – – Level 6 .................................................. 17.83 7.3 – – – – Tellers......................................................... 11.58 .6 11.62 5.6 11.52 7.1 Level 4 .................................................. 11.82 1.6 – – – – Customer service representatives.................................. 14.99 4.9 14.99 4.9 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.80 8.7 – – – – Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 19.22 .8 19.22 .8 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 11.47 6.5 11.47 6.5 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 11.88 15.2 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.68 8.8 14.68 8.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.72 5.0 15.74 5.0 – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 16.09 3.5 16.09 3.5 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.15 13.6 13.15 13.6 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.00 9.3 16.00 9.3 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 12.10 9.8 14.10 8.3 9.47 9.4 Level 4 .................................................. 12.81 5.0 13.22 6.1 – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.71 4.5 18.74 4.5 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.63 4.2 18.26 3.3 – – Level 5 .................................................. 14.83 3.7 14.83 3.7 – – Level 6 .................................................. 18.05 4.0 18.05 4.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 22.11 4.5 22.21 4.6 – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.96 9.0 21.05 3.9 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.12 1.3 24.12 1.3 – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.21 4.2 22.21 4.2 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.54 2.8 24.54 2.8 – – Production occupations.............................................. $15.75 7.2 $15.83 7.1 – – Level 1 .................................................. 10.75 2.2 10.72 2.2 – – Level 2 .................................................. 13.20 2.6 13.32 3.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.33 3.2 14.39 2.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.79 .8 16.79 .8 – – Level 5 .................................................. 17.35 4.0 17.35 4.0 – – Level 6 .................................................. 20.25 2.7 20.25 2.7 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.79 4.8 23.79 4.8 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 12.53 17.3 12.61 17.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 29.63 1.1 29.63 1.1 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.77 17.8 14.77 17.8 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.45 1.8 14.49 1.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.93 3.9 15.93 3.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 14.07 3.8 14.07 3.8 – – Team assemblers................................................. 13.01 7.4 13.01 7.4 – – Computer control programmers and operators........................ 17.97 .0 17.97 .0 – – Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 12.67 13.5 12.67 13.5 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 15.81 30.4 16.02 29.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 16.14 26.0 16.96 22.1 – – Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.31 39.1 15.65 38.8 – – Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................... 13.14 21.1 13.14 21.1 – – Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................................................... 13.30 4.6 13.82 4.9 – – Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 13.16 4.5 13.69 4.2 – – Tool and die makers............................................... 24.50 .0 24.50 .0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 25.94 5.2 25.94 5.2 – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 13.13 1.1 13.13 1.1 – – Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 13.41 4.5 13.41 4.5 – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 13.59 8.3 13.59 8.3 – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 14.02 8.4 14.02 8.4 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.63 11.8 17.63 11.8 – – Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 16.28 6.6 16.28 6.6 – – Painting workers.................................................. 14.37 11.0 14.37 11.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 16.82 2.3 16.82 2.3 – – Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 13.67 12.5 13.67 12.5 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.21 2.4 13.32 2.8 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.88 8.8 14.31 9.8 $10.14 18.9 Level 1 .................................................. $9.07 2.1 $9.69 4.0 $7.06 2.7 Level 2 .................................................. 14.27 14.7 14.69 17.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 12.98 10.0 13.05 10.5 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.79 7.1 18.61 7.9 – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.25 7.2 17.17 8.3 – – Level 4 .................................................. 19.35 3.6 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.03 3.7 16.63 5.6 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.54 15.8 15.54 15.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 11.74 15.8 11.74 15.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.08 19.5 18.08 19.5 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.42 9.2 11.00 11.6 7.61 3.0 Level 1 .................................................. 9.08 2.1 9.69 4.0 7.07 2.8 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.98 13.3 12.38 15.1 7.72 2.0 Level 1 .................................................. 8.51 3.4 9.39 5.8 7.14 3.7 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.17 10.5 9.31 12.1 – – 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. See appendix A for more information. 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 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. 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 appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 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. Table 4. State and local government workers: Mean hourly earnings(1) for full-time and part-time workers(2) by work levels(3), Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $26.10 1.2 $27.22 1.2 $13.49 4.4 Management occupations.............................................. 43.99 9.9 43.99 9.9 – – Not able to be leveled.................................... 46.22 5.6 46.22 5.6 – – Education administrators.......................................... 47.45 2.8 47.45 2.8 – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 49.14 3.7 49.14 3.7 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.31 9.0 27.31 9.0 – – Community and social services occupations........................... 26.31 13.7 26.31 13.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 29.24 14.4 29.24 14.4 – – Social workers.................................................... 23.21 14.1 23.21 14.1 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 37.93 1.0 39.77 1.2 17.85 4.8 Level 3 .................................................. 13.57 5.5 14.03 6.0 – – Level 5 .................................................. 15.07 6.3 – – – – Level 8 .................................................. 43.57 4.9 43.71 4.9 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.62 2.9 47.69 3.0 – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 47.45 2.4 47.45 2.4 – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 43.64 1.4 44.22 2.6 26.89 12.6 Level 8 .................................................. 43.08 4.4 43.12 4.7 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.75 2.5 47.82 2.6 – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 43.88 .1 44.25 .8 – – Level 8 .................................................. 43.17 7.0 43.26 7.2 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.40 2.2 47.40 2.2 – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 43.76 .4 44.12 1.2 – – Level 8 .................................................. 42.46 8.0 42.46 8.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.52 1.9 47.52 1.9 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 41.68 1.2 42.86 3.6 – – Level 9 .................................................. 47.85 2.6 47.85 2.6 – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 41.29 1.1 42.57 4.0 – – Level 9 .................................................. 48.36 2.6 48.36 2.6 – – Special education teachers...................................... 47.14 9.5 47.14 9.5 – – Level 9 .................................................. 49.54 3.0 49.54 3.0 – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 19.94 13.0 – – 16.64 4.0 Teacher assistants................................................ 13.90 1.3 14.39 1.2 11.79 4.4 Level 3 .................................................. 13.57 5.5 14.03 6.0 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 26.89 7.6 27.52 8.1 22.49 7.2 Level 7 .................................................. 30.06 12.9 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 25.17 4.6 – – – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.72 7.1 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 21.99 3.4 22.94 2.9 11.41 3.2 Level 6 .................................................. $21.92 1.7 $22.17 0.8 – – Level 7 .................................................. 23.82 2.8 23.95 2.7 – – Fire fighters..................................................... 19.68 .5 – – – – Police officers................................................... 23.56 1.0 24.15 1.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.21 2.4 24.21 2.4 – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 23.56 1.0 24.15 1.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 24.21 2.4 24.21 2.4 – – Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 9.60 1.7 – – $9.60 1.7 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 13.02 6.4 – – 11.40 4.3 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 16.88 6.3 17.32 4.6 – – Level 3 .................................................. 15.06 3.1 15.06 3.1 – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 15.37 2.5 15.65 4.7 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.98 3.2 14.98 3.2 – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 15.37 2.5 15.66 4.8 – – Level 3 .................................................. 14.98 3.2 14.98 3.2 – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 10.72 31.6 – – 8.14 4.7 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 16.95 2.0 17.33 1.4 9.70 5.7 Level 3 .................................................. 15.64 7.7 – – – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.17 1.3 17.20 1.1 – – Level 5 .................................................. 18.29 3.3 18.55 2.0 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 18.26 1.8 18.26 1.8 – – Level 4 .................................................. 18.13 2.1 18.13 2.1 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.07 2.7 18.07 2.7 – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.11 4.3 16.42 3.1 – – Level 4 .................................................. 16.02 1.3 16.02 1.3 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 16.00 5.3 16.35 3.9 – – Level 4 .................................................. 15.73 .9 15.73 .9 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 15.62 2.8 16.12 1.2 – – Level 4 .................................................. 17.50 3.4 – – – – Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.12 4.7 21.40 3.5 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 20.94 2.0 20.94 2.0 – – Level 7 .................................................. 20.68 2.4 20.68 2.4 – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.54 5.3 16.84 4.5 – – Bus drivers....................................................... 16.23 2.5 – – – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 15.90 3.7 – – – – 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. See appendix A for more information. 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 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on four factors, including knowledge, job controls and complexity, contacts, and physical environment. The knowledge factor is tailored to 24 families of closely related jobs. 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 appendix A for more information. 4 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 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. Table 5. Combined work levels(1) for civilian workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for full-time and part-time workers(3), Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Total Full-time workers Part-time workers Occupation(4) and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All workers........................................................... $17.87 3.3 $19.20 3.5 $9.93 3.2 Management occupations.............................................. 32.99 8.6 32.99 8.6 – – Group II.................................................. 26.19 20.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 34.02 9.0 – – – – Education administrators.......................................... 42.96 6.7 42.96 6.7 – – Group III................................................. 38.96 6.9 – – – – Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 46.37 7.3 46.37 7.3 – – Business and financial operations occupations....................... 25.43 9.8 25.66 9.0 – – Group II.................................................. 20.19 3.4 – – – – Group III................................................. 29.27 5.0 – – – – Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 26.42 7.7 26.42 7.7 – – Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.47 8.1 26.47 8.1 – – Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 30.13 13.5 30.13 13.5 – – Group III................................................. 41.92 13.2 – – – – Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.04 6.8 28.18 6.5 – – Group II.................................................. 23.92 8.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 31.47 1.9 – – – – Engineers......................................................... 31.88 2.3 31.88 2.3 – – Group III................................................. 31.47 1.9 – – – – Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 22.21 10.5 – – – – Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 29.15 10.2 29.06 10.4 – – Group II.................................................. 22.40 5.5 – – – – Community and social services occupations........................... 19.14 22.3 21.64 17.4 – – Group III................................................. 28.63 13.1 – – – – Social workers.................................................... 23.34 11.7 23.21 14.1 – – Education, training, and library occupations........................ 32.91 4.3 34.73 3.4 16.80 10.0 Group I................................................... 13.35 4.8 – – – – Group II.................................................. 31.90 15.1 – – – – Group III................................................. 37.97 9.4 – – – – Postsecondary teachers............................................ 39.04 11.6 40.86 12.4 – – Group III................................................. 35.55 15.1 – – – – Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 41.87 16.9 – – – – Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 36.85 6.8 38.11 5.4 18.24 22.6 Group II.................................................. 34.91 16.0 – – – – Group III................................................. 38.08 9.9 – – – – Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 30.52 15.0 – – – – Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 35.93 5.8 37.48 2.8 – – Group II.................................................. 34.51 19.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 36.92 7.5 – – – – Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... $35.93 4.8 $37.70 1.7 – – Group II.................................................. 33.00 19.8 37.61 11.5 – – Group III................................................. 37.74 7.4 37.74 7.4 – – Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 35.93 19.5 35.86 20.1 – – Secondary school teachers....................................... 38.30 7.0 39.08 8.1 – – Group II.................................................. 35.79 8.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 40.17 13.9 – – – – Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 37.72 7.2 38.53 8.6 – – Group II.................................................. 35.79 8.6 – – – – Group III................................................. 39.40 15.7 39.40 15.7 – – Special education teachers...................................... 47.14 9.5 47.14 9.5 – – Group III................................................. 49.54 3.0 – – – – Other teachers and instructors.................................... 19.94 13.0 – – $16.64 4.0 Group II.................................................. 17.05 4.7 – – – – Teacher assistants................................................ 13.61 2.3 14.09 2.7 11.72 3.7 Group I................................................... 13.37 4.8 13.82 5.5 11.72 3.7 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 20.08 11.4 21.62 12.8 – – Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.60 3.4 23.62 2.8 23.51 8.3 Group II.................................................. 20.53 2.5 – – – – Group III................................................. 29.68 2.5 – – – – Registered nurses................................................. 27.69 2.9 28.79 4.0 25.06 1.6 Group II.................................................. 24.54 5.1 – – 23.36 5.1 Group III................................................. 28.74 3.5 29.42 4.5 25.91 .5 Therapists........................................................ 23.46 8.6 23.35 8.8 – – Group II.................................................. 19.45 8.2 – – – – Group III................................................. 35.68 2.4 – – – – Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.30 7.2 18.84 7.7 – – Group II.................................................. 18.38 7.2 18.93 7.7 – – Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.20 8.1 14.71 7.5 11.52 10.4 Group I................................................... 12.34 3.9 – – – – Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.05 .9 12.63 2.4 9.72 4.4 Group I................................................... 11.52 2.4 – – – – Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.14 .6 12.79 1.7 9.72 4.4 Group I................................................... 11.52 2.4 12.28 .6 9.72 4.4 Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations Group I................................................... 13.39 1.4 – – – – Protective service occupations...................................... 21.35 3.8 22.19 3.7 11.41 3.2 Group I................................................... 10.79 4.9 – – – – Group II.................................................. 21.94 4.8 – – – – Fire fighters..................................................... 19.68 .5 – – – – Police officers................................................... $23.56 1.0 $24.15 1.0 – – Group II.................................................. 23.33 2.5 – – – – Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 23.56 1.0 24.15 1.0 – – Group II.................................................. 23.33 2.5 23.65 1.3 – – Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 9.60 1.7 – – $9.60 1.7 Group I................................................... 9.60 1.7 – – – – Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 8.36 5.3 11.36 6.3 6.31 1.4 Group I................................................... 7.49 9.1 – – – – Cooks............................................................. 11.89 10.6 12.79 15.6 – – Group I................................................... 10.62 7.5 – – – – Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 11.83 8.1 – – – – Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.49 4.9 10.07 4.0 – – Group I................................................... 9.49 4.9 10.07 4.0 – – Food service, tipped.............................................. 4.90 22.8 – – 5.15 16.4 Group I................................................... 4.90 22.8 – – – – Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 4.70 24.4 – – 4.96 18.0 Group I................................................... 4.70 24.4 – – 4.96 18.0 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 6.77 2.6 – – 6.64 2.7 Group I................................................... 6.77 2.6 – – – – Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 6.74 3.0 – – 6.60 3.1 Group I................................................... 6.74 3.0 – – 6.60 3.1 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.44 4.9 13.81 6.0 8.90 2.9 Group I................................................... 10.91 5.1 – – – – Building cleaning workers......................................... 10.92 5.3 13.06 6.1 8.83 3.0 Group I................................................... 10.92 5.3 – – – – Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 11.33 6.9 13.97 5.7 9.03 3.3 Group I................................................... 11.33 6.9 13.97 5.7 9.03 3.3 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 8.30 5.9 – – – – Group I................................................... 8.30 5.9 – – – – Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 11.42 16.3 – – – – Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 11.42 16.3 – – – – Personal care and service occupations............................... 8.99 6.3 – – 8.31 6.9 Group I................................................... 8.43 4.3 – – – – Child care workers................................................ 13.17 18.3 – – – – Group I................................................... 8.75 5.6 – – – – Sales and related occupations....................................... 18.51 17.5 24.11 20.2 8.56 5.7 Group I................................................... 9.33 7.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 25.56 14.8 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.98 14.2 17.98 14.2 – – First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.98 14.2 17.98 14.2 – – Retail sales workers.............................................. 9.39 10.3 10.48 11.7 8.46 6.6 Group I................................................... $9.08 8.2 – – – – Cashiers, all workers........................................... 9.01 9.8 $10.47 12.7 $8.06 2.8 Group I................................................... 8.94 9.8 – – – – Cashiers...................................................... 9.01 9.8 10.47 12.7 8.06 2.8 Group I................................................... 8.94 9.8 10.35 13.2 8.06 2.8 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 10.34 9.6 – – – – Group I................................................... 10.34 9.6 – – – – Retail salespersons............................................. 9.68 10.3 9.94 14.8 9.38 6.0 Group I................................................... 8.84 7.8 8.27 8.4 9.38 6.0 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.91 3.8 15.33 3.6 11.79 11.1 Group I................................................... 13.10 3.6 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.63 4.0 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 20.88 4.5 20.96 4.6 – – Group II.................................................. 21.01 5.2 21.01 5.2 – – Financial clerks.................................................. 15.08 2.7 14.97 2.0 15.56 13.0 Group I................................................... 13.32 3.0 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.47 4.2 – – – – Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.20 2.5 14.20 2.5 – – Group I................................................... 13.98 3.0 13.98 3.0 – – Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.81 4.6 15.25 3.7 18.52 12.4 Group I................................................... 13.60 3.0 13.76 3.2 – – Group II.................................................. 17.35 5.1 16.53 3.3 – – Tellers......................................................... 11.58 .6 11.62 5.6 11.52 7.1 Group I................................................... 11.35 3.8 11.20 1.9 11.52 7.1 Customer service representatives.................................. 14.96 4.9 14.99 4.9 – – Group I................................................... 13.79 1.9 13.83 1.9 – – Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 12.80 8.7 – – – – Group I................................................... 12.80 8.7 – – – – Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 19.22 .8 19.22 .8 – – Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 11.47 6.5 11.47 6.5 – – Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 12.24 15.7 13.25 14.2 – – Group I................................................... 12.33 16.8 – – – – Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.91 7.3 14.95 7.3 – – Group I................................................... 14.11 8.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. 17.47 2.5 – – – – Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 16.15 3.2 16.15 3.2 – – Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.86 10.7 13.91 10.9 – – Group I................................................... 13.37 11.7 13.42 11.9 – – Group II.................................................. 17.62 6.2 17.80 5.5 – – Office clerks, general............................................ 12.77 8.0 14.66 5.7 9.52 9.1 Group I................................................... 12.24 7.7 14.14 3.0 9.43 10.1 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.79 4.2 18.83 4.1 – – Group I................................................... 14.59 1.5 – – – – Group II.................................................. $20.99 6.6 – – – – Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 17.87 4.1 $18.47 3.1 – – Group II.................................................. 18.75 2.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 26.13 16.0 30.34 6.1 – – Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 16.90 3.9 16.97 4.1 – – Group II.................................................. 16.90 3.9 16.97 4.1 – – Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics........................................................ 15.95 13.7 15.95 13.7 – – Group II.................................................. 15.95 13.7 – – – – Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers 18.93 8.8 20.95 3.6 – – Group II.................................................. 22.00 2.8 – – – – Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.21 4.2 22.21 4.2 – – Group II.................................................. 23.35 1.5 23.35 1.5 – – Production occupations.............................................. 15.76 7.2 15.85 7.0 – – Group I................................................... 14.09 4.3 – – – – Group II.................................................. 20.46 4.4 – – – – First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 29.63 1.1 29.63 1.1 – – Group II.................................................. 28.97 2.9 28.97 2.9 – – Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.77 17.8 14.77 17.8 – – Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.45 1.8 14.49 1.6 – – Group I................................................... 13.99 3.7 – – – – Team assemblers................................................. 13.01 7.4 13.01 7.4 – – Computer control programmers and operators........................ 17.97 .0 17.97 .0 – – Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 12.67 13.5 12.67 13.5 – – Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 15.81 30.4 16.02 29.8 – – Group I................................................... 15.21 37.4 – – – – Group II.................................................. 18.24 1.3 – – – – Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.31 39.1 15.65 38.8 – – Group I................................................... 14.31 49.3 – – – – Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................... 13.14 21.1 13.14 21.1 – – Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................................................... 13.30 4.6 13.82 4.9 – – Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 13.16 4.5 13.69 4.2 – – Tool and die makers............................................... 24.50 .0 24.50 .0 – – Group II.................................................. 24.50 .0 24.50 .0 – – Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 13.22 1.3 13.22 1.3 – – Group I................................................... 12.72 2.9 – – – – Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 13.52 4.7 13.52 4.7 – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... $13.59 8.3 $13.59 8.3 – – Group I................................................... 12.73 3.5 – – – – Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 14.02 8.4 14.02 8.4 – – Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.63 11.8 17.63 11.8 – – Group I................................................... 17.66 7.8 17.66 7.8 – – Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 16.28 6.6 16.28 6.6 – – Painting workers.................................................. 14.37 11.0 14.37 11.0 – – Group II.................................................. 17.03 2.0 – – – – Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 13.67 12.5 13.67 12.5 – – Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.21 2.4 13.32 2.8 – – Group I................................................... 13.07 6.1 – – – – Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.95 8.4 14.40 9.4 $10.18 17.3 Group I................................................... 14.00 8.1 – – – – Bus drivers....................................................... 15.58 5.1 – – – – Group I................................................... 15.58 5.1 – – – – Bus drivers, school............................................. 14.86 6.2 – – – – Group I................................................... 14.86 6.2 – – – – Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.26 7.1 17.21 8.1 – – Group I................................................... 17.47 9.4 – – – – Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 17.08 3.8 16.70 5.5 – – Group I................................................... 16.92 5.8 16.18 8.6 – – Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.54 15.8 15.54 15.8 – – Group I................................................... 15.54 15.8 15.54 15.8 – – Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.38 9.1 11.00 11.6 7.54 3.3 Group I................................................... 10.85 8.1 – – – – Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.89 13.2 12.38 15.1 7.64 2.6 Group I................................................... 11.14 13.9 13.03 14.9 7.64 2.6 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.17 10.5 9.31 12.1 – – Group I................................................... 10.02 8.6 10.31 10.1 – – 1 Combined work levels simplify the presentation of work levels by combining levels 1 through 15 into four broad groups. Group I combines levels 1-4, group II combines levels 5-8, group III combines levels 9-12, and group IV combines levels 13-15. 2 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. See appendix A 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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 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. Table 6. Civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.39 $11.05 $15.67 $21.03 $29.20 Management occupations.............................................. 16.89 24.00 30.89 42.01 48.05 Education administrators.......................................... 26.89 38.46 45.18 50.24 51.39 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 30.39 45.18 49.25 50.82 51.54 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 16.75 18.51 22.71 29.91 43.27 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 21.81 22.50 24.52 29.91 29.91 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 19.03 22.49 26.86 28.17 35.92 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 12.02 20.19 27.37 50.37 50.37 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 19.70 25.00 27.86 31.39 37.86 Engineers......................................................... 26.68 27.86 30.29 35.95 40.42 Engineering technicians, except drafters.......................... 19.21 19.70 19.70 28.86 28.86 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 20.17 24.90 30.04 30.04 32.89 Community and social services occupations........................... 7.90 12.81 17.37 23.76 26.76 Social workers.................................................... 16.54 17.19 21.94 23.76 35.30 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 12.67 19.33 30.27 47.36 51.81 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 25.00 25.30 35.62 50.32 58.07 Miscellaneous postsecondary teachers............................ 25.00 25.00 47.44 50.38 58.07 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 18.29 25.57 40.33 47.36 52.45 Preschool and kindergarten teachers............................. 25.57 25.57 25.57 29.38 49.42 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 14.41 24.70 39.46 47.36 51.19 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 13.44 24.91 40.31 47.36 50.92 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 21.66 24.70 34.47 47.45 51.38 Secondary school teachers....................................... 20.09 28.92 41.94 48.23 53.50 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 19.95 28.92 41.94 48.23 52.01 Special education teachers...................................... 33.95 44.18 46.57 52.45 57.53 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 12.24 12.67 19.23 26.16 34.67 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.68 11.45 13.24 15.00 18.11 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 10.00 14.30 15.00 31.96 31.96 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.82 17.30 23.22 27.40 34.01 Registered nurses................................................. 22.34 24.40 27.05 29.98 37.00 Therapists........................................................ 17.00 17.06 17.70 28.14 37.87 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.82 15.99 17.30 20.05 23.29 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.26 11.46 13.00 16.76 19.87 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.33 10.55 11.44 12.70 16.16 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.33 10.70 11.45 12.82 16.16 Protective service occupations...................................... 11.48 19.12 21.95 25.82 26.62 Fire fighters..................................................... 17.09 17.38 20.72 21.95 21.95 Police officers................................................... 19.17 19.17 24.85 26.62 26.62 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ $19.17 $19.17 $24.85 $26.62 $26.62 Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 8.31 8.51 9.90 10.20 10.50 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.85 5.70 7.50 10.50 12.76 Cooks............................................................. 7.25 9.67 11.78 12.76 16.97 Cooks, institution and cafeteria................................ 9.67 9.67 11.78 13.50 13.90 Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.50 9.00 9.55 10.80 10.90 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.65 2.65 2.85 7.25 10.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.65 2.65 2.85 9.00 10.00 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 5.25 5.75 6.50 7.58 8.50 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 5.25 5.75 6.50 7.50 8.50 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.57 8.50 10.00 13.30 16.27 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.57 8.50 10.00 13.19 16.27 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 8.00 8.75 10.50 13.30 16.27 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 6.25 7.18 8.00 8.87 12.06 Grounds maintenance workers....................................... 8.20 8.85 8.85 14.19 17.02 Landscaping and groundskeeping workers.......................... 8.20 8.85 8.85 14.19 17.02 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.50 7.51 8.78 9.00 11.60 Child care workers................................................ 7.25 8.46 14.63 17.64 18.85 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.00 8.00 10.62 16.00 33.11 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 12.18 15.92 15.92 17.00 31.02 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 12.18 15.92 15.92 17.00 31.02 Retail sales workers.............................................. 6.87 7.45 8.65 10.50 13.50 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.00 7.00 8.25 9.90 12.50 Cashiers...................................................... 7.00 7.00 8.25 9.90 12.50 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.75 7.95 9.25 11.49 15.58 Retail salespersons............................................. 6.87 6.87 9.00 10.50 13.83 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.50 11.85 14.15 17.90 20.45 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 17.25 19.26 20.01 22.00 25.83 Financial clerks.................................................. 11.00 12.37 14.25 17.68 19.99 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 11.63 13.06 13.82 14.25 16.75 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 12.08 13.91 14.32 17.68 20.00 Tellers......................................................... 10.10 10.11 11.44 12.46 14.13 Customer service representatives.................................. 10.73 13.18 14.11 15.67 20.50 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 8.00 11.87 12.32 14.00 17.00 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 13.60 17.75 19.04 20.90 23.40 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.50 8.50 11.36 13.60 15.95 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.00 9.00 11.00 15.90 17.60 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 9.11 11.93 14.42 18.00 19.75 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.00 14.42 17.74 17.90 18.02 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 9.11 9.11 13.52 17.19 19.75 Office clerks, general............................................ 7.75 10.94 12.00 14.40 17.02 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.46 15.00 19.75 21.03 27.20 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... $11.00 $13.39 $16.90 $20.10 $24.48 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 9.40 16.03 26.62 36.46 39.03 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 12.95 15.04 15.45 19.49 21.08 Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics........................................................ 13.00 13.00 13.00 18.25 22.35 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 11.00 15.00 18.42 21.62 24.48 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.42 18.42 20.52 24.48 27.40 Production occupations.............................................. 9.00 11.33 14.98 17.95 24.36 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 21.10 26.46 30.81 33.77 36.13 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 10.35 10.40 11.76 12.83 25.40 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.25 12.13 14.98 16.59 17.47 Team assemblers................................................. 8.75 11.57 13.15 15.30 16.65 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 16.15 17.00 17.48 18.55 21.41 Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 8.19 8.19 14.60 16.14 16.20 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 8.00 9.00 12.16 21.27 28.44 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 8.00 9.00 11.67 19.13 28.44 Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................... 8.00 9.00 12.00 17.67 21.27 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................................................... 8.80 10.60 12.75 17.14 17.74 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 8.80 10.55 12.75 17.00 17.74 Tool and die makers............................................... 20.00 22.68 23.83 24.21 32.58 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 10.50 12.00 12.89 15.00 15.46 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 11.50 12.00 13.00 15.00 15.46 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 10.50 11.44 13.01 15.25 18.50 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 10.50 12.62 13.01 16.00 18.80 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 9.25 13.20 17.00 23.00 26.25 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 15.15 16.01 16.17 16.17 17.24 Painting workers.................................................. 8.60 11.25 15.51 17.30 17.50 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 8.60 8.60 14.79 17.23 17.30 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.00 10.25 13.00 15.24 18.92 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.38 9.00 13.25 18.62 21.82 Bus drivers....................................................... 11.56 15.66 16.25 16.98 16.98 Bus drivers, school............................................. 10.82 13.78 15.95 16.25 16.79 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 10.75 14.00 17.56 21.82 21.82 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 13.50 14.33 16.50 19.59 22.86 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 9.00 11.00 13.84 19.03 25.43 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 6.89 7.38 8.73 11.14 17.48 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 6.00 7.25 9.25 12.35 21.82 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... $7.38 $7.38 $8.73 $9.00 $12.52 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 7. Private industry workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $8.25 $10.75 $15.00 $20.19 $28.28 Management occupations.............................................. 16.89 24.00 30.15 40.83 44.90 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 16.00 18.13 22.50 29.91 44.66 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 21.81 22.50 24.52 29.91 29.91 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 12.02 20.19 27.37 50.37 50.37 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 19.70 25.00 27.86 31.56 37.97 Engineers......................................................... 26.68 27.86 30.29 35.95 40.42 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 11.39 13.18 22.30 25.57 28.74 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 10.24 15.07 23.06 25.57 29.32 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 10.24 13.44 22.02 25.74 29.32 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 10.24 12.46 21.55 25.23 28.54 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 10.00 14.30 15.00 19.98 31.96 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.82 17.25 23.04 27.25 32.70 Registered nurses................................................. 22.34 24.70 27.35 31.12 37.00 Therapists........................................................ 17.00 17.06 17.39 23.83 36.26 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.82 15.99 17.30 19.20 23.29 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 10.30 11.46 12.70 16.26 19.87 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 9.33 10.55 11.44 12.64 16.16 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 9.33 10.65 11.44 12.70 16.16 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.85 5.53 7.50 10.00 12.76 Cooks............................................................. 7.25 9.67 11.78 12.76 16.97 Food preparation workers.......................................... 7.50 9.00 9.55 10.80 10.90 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.65 2.65 2.85 7.25 10.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.65 2.65 2.85 9.00 10.00 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 5.25 5.75 6.50 7.50 8.50 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 5.25 5.75 6.50 7.21 8.50 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 7.57 8.25 10.00 12.83 16.27 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.57 8.15 9.73 12.06 14.70 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.57 8.50 10.00 12.19 16.27 Maids and housekeeping cleaners................................. 6.25 7.18 8.00 8.87 12.06 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.31 7.51 8.87 8.95 10.92 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.00 8.00 10.62 16.00 33.11 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 12.18 15.92 15.92 17.00 31.02 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 12.18 15.92 15.92 17.00 31.02 Retail sales workers.............................................. 6.87 7.45 8.65 10.50 13.50 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.00 7.00 8.25 9.90 12.50 Cashiers...................................................... 7.00 7.00 8.25 9.90 12.50 Counter and rental clerks and parts salespersons................ 7.75 7.95 9.25 11.49 15.58 Retail salespersons............................................. $6.87 $6.87 $9.00 $10.50 $13.83 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 9.45 11.50 14.00 17.81 20.45 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 18.50 19.26 20.01 23.05 25.83 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.92 12.24 14.15 17.68 19.99 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 11.63 13.06 13.82 14.25 16.75 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 12.00 13.91 14.25 17.68 20.00 Tellers......................................................... 10.10 10.11 11.44 12.46 14.13 Customer service representatives.................................. 10.73 13.18 14.11 15.67 20.50 Receptionists and information clerks.............................. 8.00 11.87 12.32 14.00 17.00 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 13.60 17.75 19.04 20.90 23.40 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.50 8.50 11.36 13.60 15.95 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 7.00 9.00 11.00 12.75 17.60 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 9.11 10.56 14.42 18.00 19.75 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.00 14.42 17.81 17.90 18.00 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 9.11 9.11 11.93 17.19 19.75 Office clerks, general............................................ 7.75 10.00 12.00 12.50 15.78 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.46 14.80 18.75 21.03 27.20 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 11.00 13.39 16.29 19.80 24.48 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 11.00 15.00 18.42 21.62 24.48 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.42 18.42 20.52 24.48 27.40 Production occupations.............................................. 9.00 11.25 14.95 17.95 24.40 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 21.10 26.46 30.81 33.77 36.13 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 10.35 10.40 11.76 12.83 25.40 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.25 12.13 14.98 16.59 17.47 Team assemblers................................................. 8.75 11.57 13.15 15.30 16.65 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 16.15 17.00 17.48 18.55 21.41 Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 8.19 8.19 14.60 16.14 16.20 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 8.00 9.00 12.16 21.27 28.44 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 8.00 9.00 11.67 19.13 28.44 Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................... 8.00 9.00 12.00 17.67 21.27 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................................................... 8.80 10.60 12.75 17.14 17.74 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 8.80 10.55 12.75 17.00 17.74 Tool and die makers............................................... 20.00 22.68 23.83 24.21 32.58 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 10.50 12.00 12.85 15.00 15.46 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 11.50 12.00 13.00 15.00 15.46 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 10.50 11.44 13.01 15.25 18.50 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 10.50 12.62 13.01 16.00 18.80 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. $9.25 $13.20 $17.00 $23.00 $26.25 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 15.15 16.01 16.17 16.17 17.24 Painting workers.................................................. 8.60 11.25 15.51 17.30 17.50 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 8.60 8.60 14.79 17.23 17.30 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.00 10.25 13.00 15.24 18.92 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 7.38 9.00 12.83 18.72 21.82 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 10.75 14.00 16.69 21.82 21.82 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 13.50 14.30 16.50 19.51 22.86 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 9.00 11.00 13.84 19.03 25.43 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.00 7.38 8.75 11.14 17.48 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 6.00 7.25 9.25 12.35 21.82 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.38 7.38 8.73 9.00 12.52 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 8. State and local government workers: Hourly wage percentiles(1), Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Occupation(2) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $13.29 $16.54 $21.13 $33.96 $47.36 Management occupations.............................................. 26.49 35.50 45.18 50.24 51.53 Education administrators.......................................... 43.75 45.18 49.25 50.68 51.53 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 45.18 47.03 50.24 51.39 51.54 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 20.33 21.34 25.96 30.56 42.46 Community and social services occupations........................... 16.95 19.98 23.76 26.76 47.63 Social workers.................................................... 16.54 16.95 20.87 22.24 36.98 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 13.24 28.56 43.85 47.44 54.09 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 34.77 38.31 49.59 55.63 58.07 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 28.92 38.58 45.58 48.84 54.79 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 28.56 39.72 45.59 47.36 54.19 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 28.56 39.76 45.59 47.36 54.73 Secondary school teachers....................................... 28.92 31.78 42.97 48.84 53.76 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 28.92 28.92 42.97 48.84 53.50 Special education teachers...................................... 33.95 44.18 46.57 52.45 57.53 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 12.24 12.67 19.23 26.16 34.67 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.68 11.80 13.29 15.00 18.11 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 19.33 22.34 23.22 29.98 44.33 Registered nurses................................................. 22.34 22.69 23.22 28.10 29.98 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 9.91 13.46 16.17 17.70 17.70 Protective service occupations...................................... 14.35 19.17 22.36 25.82 26.62 Fire fighters..................................................... 17.09 17.38 20.72 21.95 21.95 Police officers................................................... 19.17 19.17 24.85 26.62 26.62 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 19.17 19.17 24.85 26.62 26.62 Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 8.31 8.51 9.90 10.20 10.50 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 10.13 11.89 12.76 13.71 16.80 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.30 14.24 14.74 17.20 19.66 Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.46 14.24 14.74 16.85 18.77 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.46 14.24 14.74 16.79 18.77 Personal care and service occupations............................... 7.27 7.27 8.44 14.63 18.85 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 13.15 15.44 17.06 18.95 20.62 Financial clerks.................................................. 15.38 17.98 18.81 18.95 19.60 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.00 17.98 18.53 18.81 18.95 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 12.52 14.21 15.95 18.04 20.75 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 12.52 14.06 16.10 17.06 20.75 Office clerks, general............................................ 10.94 14.06 16.21 17.02 19.56 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 15.60 19.77 20.91 23.51 25.13 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... $18.45 $18.73 $20.30 $22.73 $23.97 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 9.46 14.98 16.31 16.98 19.92 Bus drivers....................................................... 14.98 15.86 16.31 16.98 16.98 Bus drivers, school............................................. 13.78 15.86 16.16 16.70 16.79 1 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 9. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Full-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $9.55 $12.55 $16.80 $21.82 $30.20 Management occupations.............................................. 16.89 24.00 30.89 42.01 48.05 Education administrators.......................................... 26.89 38.46 45.18 50.24 51.39 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 30.39 45.18 49.25 50.82 51.54 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 17.12 18.97 22.76 29.91 44.66 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 21.81 22.50 24.52 29.91 29.91 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 19.03 22.49 26.86 28.17 35.92 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 12.02 20.19 27.37 50.37 50.37 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 19.70 25.00 27.86 31.56 37.97 Engineers......................................................... 26.68 27.86 30.29 35.95 40.42 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 20.17 24.47 30.04 30.04 30.29 Community and social services occupations........................... 12.81 13.46 17.99 25.65 36.25 Social workers.................................................... 16.54 16.95 20.87 22.24 36.98 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 13.24 23.06 34.67 47.36 52.45 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 25.30 28.28 39.11 50.38 58.07 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 21.55 27.72 41.94 47.36 52.67 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 20.80 27.55 41.92 47.36 51.56 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 20.80 27.72 43.67 47.36 51.73 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 21.66 24.70 34.47 47.45 51.38 Secondary school teachers....................................... 21.87 28.92 41.94 48.23 53.76 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 21.87 28.92 41.94 48.23 52.67 Special education teachers...................................... 33.95 44.18 46.57 52.45 57.53 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.99 11.80 13.29 15.00 18.11 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 14.28 15.00 16.50 31.96 31.96 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.82 17.28 23.22 27.46 36.26 Registered nurses................................................. 22.34 24.40 27.46 31.26 37.00 Therapists........................................................ 17.00 17.06 17.39 25.74 37.87 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 15.82 16.85 17.93 23.29 23.29 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 11.30 11.72 13.46 18.42 20.02 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 10.40 11.40 11.58 14.02 16.16 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 10.58 11.44 11.75 14.15 16.16 Protective service occupations...................................... 14.35 19.17 22.40 25.82 26.62 Police officers................................................... 19.17 22.14 25.36 26.62 26.62 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 19.17 22.14 25.36 26.62 26.62 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... $5.31 $9.00 $10.80 $12.76 $17.48 Cooks............................................................. 9.67 10.00 12.00 12.76 16.97 Food preparation workers.......................................... 9.00 9.10 10.50 10.80 10.90 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 8.87 10.77 13.19 16.27 17.89 Building cleaning workers......................................... 7.75 10.77 13.19 15.81 17.13 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 10.77 12.19 13.87 16.27 17.32 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.50 10.20 15.41 20.70 45.15 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 12.18 15.92 15.92 17.00 31.02 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 12.18 15.92 15.92 17.00 31.02 Retail sales workers.............................................. 6.87 7.50 9.90 12.43 15.50 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.50 7.50 10.29 12.37 13.95 Cashiers...................................................... 7.50 7.50 10.29 12.37 13.95 Retail salespersons............................................. 6.87 6.87 7.51 11.31 16.52 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 10.11 12.24 14.42 18.02 20.45 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 18.01 19.26 20.07 22.00 25.83 Financial clerks.................................................. 11.63 13.06 14.25 17.68 18.81 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 11.63 13.06 13.82 14.25 16.75 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 12.24 13.91 14.25 17.68 18.81 Tellers......................................................... 10.11 10.11 11.44 12.12 14.03 Customer service representatives.................................. 10.73 13.18 14.11 15.67 20.50 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 13.60 17.75 19.04 20.90 23.40 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 8.50 8.50 11.36 13.60 15.95 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 9.00 10.75 12.00 16.99 19.90 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 9.11 11.93 14.42 18.02 19.75 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 13.00 14.42 17.74 17.90 18.02 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 9.11 9.11 13.52 17.19 19.75 Office clerks, general............................................ 12.00 12.00 13.58 16.21 19.56 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 12.46 15.50 19.75 21.03 27.20 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 13.00 14.00 17.61 20.52 24.48 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 16.03 26.62 27.38 37.64 41.13 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 12.95 15.04 15.45 19.49 21.08 Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics........................................................ 13.00 13.00 13.00 18.25 22.35 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 16.79 18.42 20.10 24.48 24.48 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 18.42 18.42 20.52 24.48 27.40 Production occupations.............................................. 9.00 11.46 15.00 18.00 24.40 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 21.10 26.46 30.81 33.77 36.13 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... $10.35 $10.40 $11.76 $12.83 $25.40 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 9.25 12.30 14.98 16.59 17.49 Team assemblers................................................. 8.75 11.57 13.15 15.30 16.65 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 16.15 17.00 17.48 18.55 21.41 Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 8.19 8.19 14.60 16.14 16.20 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 8.00 9.00 13.20 21.27 28.44 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 8.50 9.00 11.67 20.50 28.44 Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................... 8.00 9.00 12.00 17.67 21.27 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................................................... 10.25 11.25 13.12 17.50 17.81 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 10.13 11.22 12.75 17.44 17.81 Tool and die makers............................................... 20.00 22.68 23.83 24.21 32.58 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 10.50 12.00 12.89 15.00 15.46 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 11.50 12.00 13.00 15.00 15.46 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 10.50 11.44 13.01 15.25 18.50 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 10.50 12.62 13.01 16.00 18.80 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 9.25 13.20 17.00 23.00 26.25 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 15.15 16.01 16.17 16.17 17.24 Painting workers.................................................. 8.60 11.25 15.51 17.30 17.50 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 8.60 8.60 14.79 17.23 17.30 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 9.06 10.25 13.25 15.24 18.92 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 8.50 9.00 13.67 19.03 21.82 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 10.50 14.25 16.69 21.82 21.82 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 13.50 14.25 16.07 19.05 22.86 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 9.00 11.00 13.84 19.03 25.43 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 7.38 8.50 9.00 12.50 19.90 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 7.25 9.00 9.55 15.90 21.82 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 7.38 7.38 8.73 9.30 12.52 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 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. Table 10. Part-time(1) civilian workers: Hourly wage percentiles(2), Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Part-time workers Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All workers........................................................... $5.75 $7.00 $8.65 $10.92 $15.16 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 10.24 10.26 12.67 24.36 28.41 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 10.24 10.24 10.26 23.54 36.84 Other teachers and instructors.................................... 11.67 12.24 12.67 26.16 26.16 Teacher assistants................................................ 10.51 10.68 11.63 12.99 13.52 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 15.99 18.11 23.00 25.91 28.10 Registered nurses................................................. 21.30 24.24 25.47 26.67 27.96 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 8.65 9.33 11.30 12.70 15.57 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 8.55 8.65 9.33 10.62 11.65 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 8.55 8.65 9.33 10.62 11.65 Protective service occupations...................................... 8.31 9.40 10.20 12.12 18.27 Miscellaneous protective service workers.......................... 8.31 8.51 9.90 10.20 10.50 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 2.85 5.25 6.50 7.50 9.00 Food service, tipped.............................................. 2.65 2.65 2.85 9.00 10.00 Waiters and waitresses.......................................... 2.65 2.65 2.85 9.00 10.00 Fast food and counter workers..................................... 5.25 5.75 6.50 7.50 8.50 Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food........................................................... 5.25 5.75 6.50 7.00 8.50 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 6.83 8.00 8.75 10.00 10.50 Building cleaning workers......................................... 6.75 8.00 8.75 10.00 10.50 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 7.57 8.15 9.00 10.00 10.50 Personal care and service occupations............................... 6.31 7.00 7.51 8.46 11.35 Sales and related occupations....................................... 7.00 7.00 8.30 9.50 10.50 Retail sales workers.............................................. 7.00 7.00 8.05 9.50 10.50 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 7.00 7.00 8.00 9.35 9.50 Cashiers...................................................... 7.00 7.00 8.00 9.35 9.50 Retail salespersons............................................. 6.55 8.44 9.50 10.50 11.50 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 7.50 8.00 10.67 12.62 23.00 Financial clerks.................................................. 10.10 10.81 14.13 23.00 23.00 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 11.00 11.50 20.00 23.00 23.00 Tellers......................................................... 9.90 10.10 10.24 12.62 14.13 Office clerks, general............................................ 7.75 7.75 9.65 11.22 11.25 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 6.00 6.00 8.00 12.00 20.50 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 5.60 6.00 6.85 8.50 11.05 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 5.60 6.00 6.95 9.25 12.00 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 Percentiles designate position in the earnings distribution and are calculated from individual-worker earnings and the hours they are scheduled to work. At the 50th percentile, the median, half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown, and half are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 25th percentile, one-fourth of the hours are paid the same as or less than the rate shown. At the 75th percentile, one-fourth are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. The 10th and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 11. Full-time(1) civilian workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $19.20 $16.80 $757 $656 39.4 $38,399 $33,634 2,000 Management occupations.............................................. 32.99 30.89 1,373 1,300 41.6 70,368 67,600 2,133 Education administrators.......................................... 42.96 45.18 1,711 1,807 39.8 79,163 80,599 1,843 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 46.37 49.25 1,840 1,916 39.7 82,336 86,409 1,776 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 25.66 22.76 1,018 908 39.7 52,887 47,235 2,061 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 26.42 24.52 1,085 981 41.1 56,445 51,010 2,136 Accountants and auditors.......................................... 26.47 26.86 1,077 1,074 40.7 55,990 55,869 2,115 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 30.13 27.37 1,282 1,095 42.5 66,647 56,923 2,212 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.18 27.86 1,136 1,132 40.3 59,047 58,856 2,095 Engineers......................................................... 31.88 30.29 1,283 1,254 40.2 66,697 65,185 2,092 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 29.06 30.04 1,255 1,352 43.2 65,260 70,301 2,245 Community and social services occupations........................... 21.64 17.99 856 750 39.6 43,438 39,146 2,008 Social workers.................................................... 23.21 20.87 907 835 39.1 44,550 43,410 1,919 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 34.73 34.67 1,174 1,283 33.8 44,945 48,103 1,294 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 40.86 39.11 1,569 1,532 38.4 59,324 57,167 1,452 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 38.11 41.94 1,269 1,369 33.3 47,868 52,794 1,256 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 37.48 41.92 1,254 1,401 33.5 47,489 52,794 1,267 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 37.70 43.67 1,254 1,421 33.3 47,378 52,794 1,257 Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 35.86 34.47 1,253 1,283 35.0 48,357 48,225 1,349 Secondary school teachers....................................... 39.08 41.94 1,297 1,363 33.2 48,771 50,924 1,248 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 38.53 41.94 1,273 1,347 33.0 47,880 49,669 1,243 Special education teachers...................................... 47.14 46.57 1,482 1,428 31.4 55,594 54,104 1,179 Teacher assistants................................................ 14.09 13.29 465 437 33.0 18,651 16,965 1,324 Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.......... 21.62 16.50 806 639 37.3 41,893 33,248 1,937 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.62 23.22 890 838 37.7 46,027 43,593 1,949 Registered nurses................................................. 28.79 27.46 1,117 1,094 38.8 58,108 56,867 2,018 Therapists........................................................ 23.35 17.39 902 690 38.7 45,871 36,816 1,965 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.84 17.93 678 642 36.0 35,274 33,359 1,872 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.71 13.46 502 532 34.1 26,120 27,685 1,776 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.63 11.58 465 446 36.8 24,158 23,212 1,913 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.79 11.75 471 446 36.8 24,509 23,212 1,916 Protective service occupations...................................... 22.19 22.40 916 953 41.3 45,831 49,566 2,065 Police officers................................................... $24.15 $25.36 $966 $1,014 40.0 $45,989 $51,126 1,905 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 24.15 25.36 966 1,014 40.0 45,989 51,126 1,905 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.36 10.80 430 387 37.9 22,164 20,107 1,952 Cooks............................................................. 12.79 12.00 505 471 39.5 26,002 24,502 2,033 Food preparation workers.......................................... 10.07 10.50 395 400 39.2 20,350 20,820 2,021 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.81 13.19 552 528 39.9 26,435 27,144 1,915 Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.06 13.19 521 528 39.9 24,643 27,144 1,888 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.97 13.87 559 555 40.0 25,849 27,435 1,850 Sales and related occupations....................................... 24.11 15.41 982 615 40.7 51,081 31,990 2,119 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.98 15.92 766 680 42.6 39,851 35,360 2,216 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.98 15.92 766 680 42.6 39,851 35,360 2,216 Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.48 9.90 419 396 40.0 21,795 20,592 2,080 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.47 10.29 419 412 40.0 21,783 21,403 2,080 Cashiers...................................................... 10.47 10.29 419 412 40.0 21,783 21,403 2,080 Retail salespersons............................................. 9.94 7.51 398 300 40.0 20,678 15,621 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.33 14.42 604 564 39.4 31,130 28,933 2,030 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 20.96 20.07 775 784 37.0 39,746 40,394 1,896 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.97 14.25 591 543 39.4 30,703 28,210 2,050 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.20 13.82 546 536 38.5 28,405 27,872 2,001 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.25 14.25 603 543 39.6 31,345 28,210 2,056 Tellers......................................................... 11.62 11.44 465 458 40.0 24,172 23,795 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 14.99 14.11 604 564 40.3 31,428 29,349 2,097 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 19.22 19.04 781 762 40.6 40,629 39,599 2,114 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 11.47 11.36 453 454 39.5 23,581 23,629 2,056 Stock clerks and order fillers.................................... 13.25 12.00 530 480 40.0 27,570 24,960 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.95 14.42 576 577 38.5 29,066 28,650 1,944 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 16.15 17.74 644 710 39.9 33,141 36,908 2,052 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.91 13.52 549 541 39.5 27,201 24,814 1,955 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.66 13.58 565 500 38.6 29,329 26,000 2,001 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.83 19.75 749 765 39.8 36,357 39,796 1,930 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.47 17.61 739 700 40.0 38,375 36,400 2,077 First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers........................................................ 30.34 27.38 1,209 1,095 39.8 62,849 56,950 2,071 Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists............. 16.97 15.45 679 618 40.0 35,301 32,136 2,080 Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics........................................................ 15.95 13.00 616 488 38.6 31,820 25,350 1,995 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 20.95 20.10 837 804 40.0 43,529 41,810 2,078 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. $22.21 $20.52 $888 $821 40.0 $46,196 $42,682 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 15.85 15.00 632 599 39.9 32,834 31,160 2,072 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 29.63 30.81 1,203 1,232 40.6 62,571 64,089 2,112 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.77 11.76 591 470 40.0 30,717 24,461 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.49 14.98 577 599 39.8 30,025 31,160 2,072 Team assemblers................................................. 13.01 13.15 517 526 39.7 26,885 27,352 2,066 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 17.97 17.48 719 699 40.0 37,275 36,358 2,074 Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 12.67 14.60 489 516 38.6 25,440 26,849 2,008 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 16.02 13.20 641 528 40.0 33,322 27,456 2,080 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.65 11.67 626 467 40.0 32,560 24,267 2,080 Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................... 13.14 12.00 525 480 40.0 27,321 24,960 2,080 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................................................... 13.82 13.12 543 510 39.3 28,243 26,520 2,044 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 13.69 12.75 538 510 39.3 27,958 26,520 2,042 Tool and die makers............................................... 24.50 23.83 980 953 40.0 50,867 49,566 2,076 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 13.22 12.89 529 516 40.0 27,468 26,728 2,078 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 13.52 13.00 541 520 40.0 28,095 27,040 2,078 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... $13.59 $13.01 $544 $520 40.0 $28,267 $27,061 2,080 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 14.02 13.01 561 520 40.0 29,158 27,061 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.63 17.00 694 680 39.4 36,064 35,360 2,046 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 16.28 16.17 651 647 40.0 33,854 33,634 2,080 Painting workers.................................................. 14.37 15.51 575 620 40.0 29,806 32,261 2,075 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 13.67 14.79 547 592 40.0 28,337 29,580 2,073 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.32 13.25 533 530 40.0 27,714 27,560 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.40 13.67 572 538 39.7 29,520 27,997 2,049 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.21 16.69 715 760 41.6 37,103 39,520 2,157 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.70 16.07 709 660 42.4 36,725 34,320 2,199 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.54 13.84 604 538 38.9 31,405 27,997 2,021 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.00 9.00 427 346 38.8 22,068 17,986 2,006 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.38 9.55 468 370 37.8 24,352 19,240 1,967 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.31 8.73 367 339 39.4 19,054 17,606 2,046 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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 12. Full-time(1) private industry workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $18.40 $16.27 $729 $632 39.6 $37,442 $32,219 2,035 Management occupations.............................................. 31.30 30.15 1,312 1,300 41.9 68,086 67,600 2,175 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 25.53 22.63 1,012 900 39.6 52,584 46,800 2,060 Buyers and purchasing agents...................................... 26.42 24.52 1,085 981 41.1 56,445 51,010 2,136 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 30.17 27.37 1,286 1,095 42.6 66,864 56,923 2,216 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.19 27.86 1,136 1,132 40.3 59,074 58,856 2,095 Engineers......................................................... 31.89 30.29 1,283 1,254 40.2 66,709 65,185 2,092 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 21.77 23.06 803 838 36.9 31,154 31,915 1,431 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 22.86 23.46 829 865 36.3 30,820 31,915 1,348 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 22.21 23.06 818 821 36.8 30,615 31,469 1,378 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.28 23.09 874 818 37.5 45,431 42,536 1,952 Registered nurses................................................. 29.63 28.48 1,142 1,098 38.6 59,399 57,115 2,005 Therapists........................................................ 22.05 17.39 855 690 38.8 44,479 35,880 2,017 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.88 17.93 676 642 35.8 35,154 33,359 1,862 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 14.68 13.31 498 532 33.9 25,911 27,685 1,765 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.42 11.46 455 446 36.6 23,663 23,212 1,906 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.57 11.58 461 446 36.7 23,982 23,212 1,909 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 11.23 10.80 427 387 38.0 22,218 20,107 1,978 Cooks............................................................. 12.61 11.78 498 471 39.5 25,880 24,502 2,052 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 12.71 12.83 508 513 39.9 23,747 25,364 1,868 Building cleaning workers......................................... 12.21 12.19 487 488 39.9 22,375 25,364 1,832 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 13.26 13.05 531 522 40.0 23,450 27,144 1,768 Sales and related occupations....................................... 24.11 15.41 982 615 40.7 51,081 31,990 2,119 First-line supervisors/managers, sales workers.................... 17.98 15.92 766 680 42.6 39,851 35,360 2,216 First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers......... 17.98 15.92 766 680 42.6 39,851 35,360 2,216 Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.48 9.90 419 396 40.0 21,795 20,592 2,080 Cashiers, all workers........................................... 10.47 10.29 419 412 40.0 21,783 21,403 2,080 Cashiers...................................................... 10.47 10.29 419 412 40.0 21,783 21,403 2,080 Retail salespersons............................................. 9.94 7.51 398 300 40.0 20,678 15,621 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.13 14.25 595 552 39.4 30,830 28,721 2,038 First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers.................................................. 21.21 20.01 781 777 36.8 40,604 40,394 1,914 Financial clerks.................................................. 14.79 14.25 583 543 39.4 30,299 28,210 2,049 Billing and posting clerks and machine operators................ 14.09 13.82 541 536 38.4 28,158 27,872 1,999 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... $15.03 $14.25 $594 $543 39.5 $30,859 $28,210 2,054 Tellers......................................................... 11.62 11.44 465 458 40.0 24,172 23,795 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 14.99 14.11 604 564 40.3 31,428 29,349 2,097 Production, planning, and expediting clerks....................... 19.22 19.04 781 762 40.6 40,629 39,599 2,114 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 11.47 11.36 453 454 39.5 23,581 23,629 2,056 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 14.68 14.42 565 551 38.5 28,863 28,650 1,966 Executive secretaries and administrative assistants............. 16.09 17.81 641 710 39.9 33,333 36,908 2,072 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 13.15 11.93 523 477 39.8 26,258 21,963 1,997 Office clerks, general............................................ 14.10 12.50 537 489 38.1 27,810 25,427 1,973 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.74 18.75 745 736 39.8 36,075 38,293 1,925 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 18.26 17.50 731 680 40.0 37,955 35,360 2,078 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 21.05 20.10 842 804 40.0 43,776 41,810 2,080 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. 22.21 20.52 888 821 40.0 46,196 42,682 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 15.83 15.00 631 598 39.9 32,795 31,100 2,072 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 29.63 30.81 1,203 1,232 40.6 62,571 64,089 2,112 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.77 11.76 591 470 40.0 30,717 24,461 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.49 14.98 577 599 39.8 30,025 31,160 2,072 Team assemblers................................................. 13.01 13.15 517 526 39.7 26,885 27,352 2,066 Computer control programmers and operators........................ 17.97 17.48 719 699 40.0 37,275 36,358 2,074 Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 12.67 14.60 489 516 38.6 25,440 26,849 2,008 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 16.02 13.20 641 528 40.0 33,322 27,456 2,080 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 15.65 11.67 626 467 40.0 32,560 24,267 2,080 Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................... 13.14 12.00 525 480 40.0 27,321 24,960 2,080 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................................................... 13.82 13.12 543 510 39.3 28,243 26,520 2,044 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 13.69 12.75 538 510 39.3 27,958 26,520 2,042 Tool and die makers............................................... 24.50 23.83 980 953 40.0 50,867 49,566 2,076 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 13.13 12.85 525 514 40.0 27,299 26,707 2,078 Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers........................ 13.41 13.00 537 520 40.0 27,872 27,040 2,078 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 13.59 13.01 544 520 40.0 28,267 27,061 2,080 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 14.02 13.01 561 520 40.0 29,158 27,061 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 17.63 17.00 694 680 39.4 36,064 35,360 2,046 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 16.28 16.17 651 647 40.0 33,854 33,634 2,080 Painting workers.................................................. 14.37 15.51 575 620 40.0 29,806 32,261 2,075 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ $13.67 $14.79 $547 $592 40.0 $28,337 $29,580 2,073 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.32 13.25 533 530 40.0 27,714 27,560 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 14.31 13.50 569 538 39.8 29,482 27,768 2,060 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 17.17 16.69 714 760 41.6 37,046 39,520 2,158 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.63 16.01 707 660 42.5 36,627 34,320 2,202 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 15.54 13.84 604 538 38.9 31,405 27,997 2,021 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 11.00 9.00 427 346 38.8 22,068 17,986 2,006 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 12.38 9.55 468 370 37.8 24,352 19,240 1,967 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.31 8.73 367 339 39.4 19,054 17,606 2,046 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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 13. Full-time(1) State and local government workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours, Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $27.22 $21.97 $1,021 $909 37.5 $46,403 $45,154 1,705 Management occupations.............................................. 43.99 45.18 1,753 1,807 39.9 83,332 80,599 1,894 Education administrators.......................................... 47.45 49.25 1,887 1,916 39.8 84,963 84,522 1,790 Education administrators, elementary and secondary school....... 49.14 50.24 1,948 2,010 39.6 87,073 87,409 1,772 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.31 25.96 1,092 1,038 40.0 56,802 53,997 2,080 Community and social services occupations........................... 26.31 23.76 1,034 971 39.3 51,660 46,259 1,963 Social workers.................................................... 23.21 20.87 907 835 39.1 44,550 43,410 1,919 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 39.77 43.85 1,302 1,421 32.7 49,617 54,839 1,248 Postsecondary teachers............................................ 47.45 49.59 1,788 1,761 37.7 66,045 66,926 1,392 Primary, secondary, and special education school teachers......... 44.22 45.59 1,425 1,421 32.2 54,052 54,839 1,222 Elementary and middle school teachers........................... 44.25 45.59 1,423 1,421 32.2 54,134 54,839 1,223 Elementary school teachers, except special education.......... 44.12 45.59 1,416 1,421 32.1 53,751 54,839 1,218 Secondary school teachers....................................... 42.86 42.97 1,405 1,447 32.8 53,167 55,853 1,241 Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education.................................................... 42.57 42.97 1,386 1,447 32.6 52,486 54,425 1,233 Special education teachers...................................... 47.14 46.57 1,482 1,428 31.4 55,594 54,104 1,179 Teacher assistants................................................ 14.39 14.04 471 449 32.7 18,438 16,693 1,282 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 27.52 23.22 1,084 929 39.4 52,676 54,101 1,914 Protective service occupations...................................... 22.94 23.09 950 955 41.4 47,368 49,566 2,064 Police officers................................................... 24.15 25.36 966 1,014 40.0 45,989 51,126 1,905 Police and sheriff's patrol officers............................ 24.15 25.36 966 1,014 40.0 45,989 51,126 1,905 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 17.32 14.97 693 599 40.0 36,033 31,138 2,080 Building cleaning workers......................................... 15.65 14.74 626 590 40.0 32,558 30,665 2,080 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 15.66 14.74 627 590 40.0 32,579 30,665 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 17.33 17.22 682 683 39.4 33,893 35,491 1,956 Financial clerks.................................................. 18.26 18.81 731 752 40.0 37,990 39,125 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 18.07 18.53 723 741 40.0 37,594 38,534 2,080 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.42 16.26 636 624 38.8 30,112 28,455 1,834 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 16.35 16.26 631 610 38.6 29,977 29,124 1,834 Office clerks, general............................................ 16.12 16.28 645 651 40.0 33,535 33,862 2,080 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 21.40 20.91 859 836 40.2 44,683 43,493 2,088 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 20.94 20.30 832 812 39.7 43,262 42,224 2,065 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 16.84 16.79 631 626 37.5 30,356 31,158 1,803 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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 14. Size of establishment: Mean hourly earnings(1) of private industry establishments for major occupational groups, Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 1-99 100-499 500 Occupational group(2) Total workers workers workers or more All workers.................................. $17.11 $16.59 $15.78 $19.54 Management, professional, and related...... 26.79 25.76 25.97 28.26 Management, business, and financial...... 28.67 25.29 31.24 31.15 Professional and related................. 25.97 26.01 23.18 27.34 Service.................................... 10.19 10.00 9.22 12.13 Sales and office........................... 15.87 16.75 14.68 14.97 Sales and related........................ 18.51 21.04 14.31 19.73 Office and administrative support........ 14.72 14.64 14.92 14.68 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance............................... 18.23 17.52 19.31 22.37 Construction and extraction............. 18.71 18.85 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair.... 17.63 15.61 26.37 21.06 Production, transportation, and material moving.................................... 15.26 14.70 14.35 16.81 Production............................... 15.75 14.34 15.15 17.19 Transportation and material moving....... 13.88 15.13 10.81 15.35 B 1-99 100-499 500 Total workers workers workers or more Occupational group(2) Relative error(3) (percent) Relative error(3) (percent) All workers........................................................... 3.8 6.3 7.0 4.6 Management, professional, and related............................... 3.5 9.9 4.2 4.4 Management, business, and financial............................... 5.5 12.1 8.1 7.9 Professional and related.......................................... 5.7 14.8 4.9 6.6 Service............................................................. 5.3 8.0 9.5 5.7 Sales and office.................................................... 6.7 10.5 7.5 5.4 Sales and related................................................. 17.5 23.6 19.9 21.6 Office and administrative support................................. 4.2 7.0 5.2 5.9 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 3.8 5.8 18.7 10.3 Construction and extraction...................................... 4.5 4.5 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 4.2 4.8 15.7 1.9 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 7.0 7.1 9.4 7.7 Production........................................................ 7.2 8.2 10.5 4.9 Transportation and material moving................................ 8.8 12.6 12.4 18.8 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. See appendix A for more information. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Table 15. Establishments with fewer than 100 workers: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $18.66 $16.45 $739 $618 39.6 $37,378 $31,590 2,003 Management occupations.............................................. 27.08 25.22 1,138 1,135 42.0 59,126 59,015 2,183 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 22.11 22.50 842 761 38.1 43,717 39,591 1,977 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 12.82 11.78 523 471 40.8 27,196 24,502 2,121 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 11.34 12.19 454 488 40.0 18,593 25,364 1,640 Building cleaning workers......................................... 11.34 12.19 454 488 40.0 18,593 25,364 1,640 Sales and related occupations....................................... 29.21 16.00 1,209 740 41.4 62,862 38,490 2,152 Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.62 7.51 425 300 40.0 22,084 15,621 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 15.25 14.25 595 551 39.0 30,708 28,387 2,013 Financial clerks.................................................. 15.32 14.25 600 543 39.1 31,157 28,210 2,034 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 15.39 14.25 606 543 39.4 31,488 28,210 2,046 Customer service representatives.................................. 15.99 14.40 649 576 40.6 33,733 29,952 2,109 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 13.68 13.02 516 521 37.7 26,049 24,814 1,904 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 11.84 9.11 472 364 39.9 23,344 18,949 1,972 Office clerks, general............................................ 12.77 12.00 485 480 38.0 25,120 24,960 1,967 Construction and extraction occupations............................. 18.89 21.03 750 841 39.7 35,820 42,066 1,896 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 16.05 15.79 642 632 40.0 33,337 32,843 2,077 Production occupations.............................................. 14.39 14.25 569 520 39.5 29,494 27,040 2,050 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 15.69 14.56 637 580 40.6 33,007 30,160 2,104 Driver/sales workers and truck drivers............................ 18.11 19.00 765 873 42.3 39,669 45,386 2,191 Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer........................ 16.13 15.22 703 611 43.6 36,369 31,774 2,255 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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 16. Establishments with 100 workers or more: Mean and median hourly, weekly, and annual earnings and mean weekly and annual hours for full-time(1) private industry workers, Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Hourly earnings(3) Weekly earnings(4) Annual earnings(5) Occupation(2) Mean Mean Mean Median Mean Median weekly Mean Median annual hours hours All workers........................................................... $18.21 $16.17 $722 $640 39.6 $37,490 $33,280 2,059 Management occupations.............................................. 35.30 37.51 1,476 1,557 41.8 76,500 80,987 2,167 Business and financial operations occupations....................... 27.46 24.02 1,114 960 40.6 57,904 49,920 2,109 Computer and mathematical science occupations....................... 29.06 29.55 1,165 1,182 40.1 60,601 61,466 2,085 Architecture and engineering occupations............................ 28.54 28.33 1,147 1,133 40.2 59,659 58,922 2,091 Engineers......................................................... 32.11 31.23 1,284 1,249 40.0 66,781 64,948 2,080 Life, physical, and social science occupations...................... 30.94 27.60 1,281 1,106 41.4 66,635 57,500 2,154 Education, training, and library occupations........................ 19.69 20.40 778 816 39.5 34,423 34,026 1,748 Healthcare practitioner and technical occupations................... 23.01 22.17 879 818 38.2 45,722 42,536 1,987 Registered nurses................................................. 29.63 28.48 1,142 1,098 38.6 59,399 57,115 2,005 Therapists........................................................ 22.05 17.39 855 690 38.8 44,479 35,880 2,017 Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses................. 18.88 17.93 676 642 35.8 35,154 33,359 1,862 Healthcare support occupations...................................... 12.90 12.05 476 446 36.9 24,730 23,212 1,916 Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides....................... 12.52 11.50 453 446 36.2 23,557 23,212 1,881 Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants........................ 12.71 11.60 460 446 36.2 23,914 23,212 1,881 Food preparation and serving related occupations.................... 9.00 9.00 313 338 34.8 16,278 17,555 1,808 Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations........... 13.69 12.83 546 513 39.9 28,386 26,693 2,074 Building cleaning workers......................................... 13.07 12.06 521 482 39.8 27,069 25,085 2,071 Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners... 14.79 16.27 592 651 40.0 30,766 33,842 2,080 Sales and related occupations....................................... 17.38 12.03 694 485 39.9 36,086 25,230 2,077 Retail sales workers.............................................. 10.38 10.08 415 403 40.0 21,593 20,966 2,080 Office and administrative support occupations....................... 14.99 14.23 596 564 39.7 30,969 29,328 2,066 Financial clerks.................................................. 13.70 13.06 548 522 40.0 28,496 27,165 2,080 Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks.................... 13.74 13.91 550 556 40.0 28,589 28,933 2,080 Customer service representatives.................................. 13.67 13.03 547 521 40.0 28,431 27,102 2,080 Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks........................... 11.47 11.36 453 454 39.5 23,581 23,629 2,056 Secretaries and administrative assistants......................... 16.18 17.77 643 710 39.7 33,427 36,908 2,066 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive............... 16.34 17.19 647 688 39.6 33,618 35,759 2,058 Office clerks, general............................................ 17.38 13.58 665 514 38.2 34,561 26,740 1,988 Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations................... 23.55 22.03 942 881 40.0 48,990 45,822 2,080 Industrial machinery installation, repair, and maintenance workers.......................................................... 21.71 21.53 868 861 40.0 45,148 44,782 2,080 Industrial machinery mechanics.................................. $22.75 $22.75 $910 $910 40.0 $47,312 $47,320 2,080 Production occupations.............................................. 16.13 15.18 644 606 39.9 33,497 31,512 2,077 First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers.......................................................... 30.62 30.81 1,245 1,232 40.7 64,730 64,089 2,114 Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers......... 14.77 11.76 591 470 40.0 30,717 24,461 2,080 Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators.......................... 14.49 14.98 577 599 39.8 30,025 31,160 2,072 Team assemblers................................................. 13.01 13.15 517 526 39.7 26,885 27,352 2,066 Machine tool cutting setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic.......................................................... 21.96 21.27 878 851 40.0 45,680 44,242 2,080 Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 22.22 20.50 889 820 40.0 46,219 42,640 2,080 Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic...................................................... 13.82 13.12 543 510 39.3 28,243 26,520 2,044 Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic..................................... 13.69 12.75 538 510 39.3 27,958 26,520 2,042 Tool and die makers............................................... 25.64 24.21 1,026 969 40.0 53,339 50,363 2,080 Welding, soldering, and brazing workers........................... 13.38 12.95 535 518 40.0 27,822 26,936 2,080 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders............... 13.59 13.01 544 520 40.0 28,267 27,061 2,080 Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing......................................................... 14.02 13.01 561 520 40.0 29,158 27,061 2,080 Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers.............. 18.10 17.00 721 680 39.8 37,468 35,360 2,070 Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders............... 16.28 16.17 651 647 40.0 33,854 33,634 2,080 Painting workers.................................................. 13.62 14.85 545 594 40.0 28,325 30,888 2,080 Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders........................................................ 13.60 15.15 544 606 40.0 28,282 31,512 2,080 Miscellaneous production workers.................................. 13.08 13.25 523 530 40.0 27,207 27,560 2,080 Transportation and material moving occupations...................... 13.25 11.00 519 420 39.2 26,874 21,840 2,028 Industrial truck and tractor operators............................ 18.51 18.29 741 732 40.0 38,509 38,043 2,080 Laborers and material movers, hand................................ 10.40 9.00 401 339 38.6 20,710 17,606 1,992 Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand.......... 10.94 9.55 407 361 37.2 21,151 18,764 1,934 Packers and packagers, hand..................................... 9.14 8.73 360 339 39.4 18,726 17,606 2,049 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 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. 3 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. See appendix A for more information. 4 Mean weekly earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. Median weekly earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 5 Mean annual earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. Median annual earnings designates position - one-half of the hours are paid the same as or more than the rate shown. 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. Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately Table 17. Union(1) and nonunion workers: Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Union Nonunion Occupational group(3) Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers All workers........................................................... $22.60 $19.37 $27.06 $17.02 $16.87 $23.18 Management, professional, and related............................... 34.91 25.71 36.81 27.08 26.83 31.26 Management, business, and financial............................... 34.67 – 34.67 29.64 28.67 41.53 Professional and related.......................................... 34.93 25.71 36.96 25.86 25.98 23.20 Service............................................................. 18.46 12.58 19.90 10.33 10.12 15.97 Sales and office.................................................... 15.69 – 17.00 15.96 15.94 16.82 Sales and related................................................. – – – 18.78 18.78 – Office and administrative support................................. 16.36 14.99 17.00 14.77 14.71 16.82 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 24.22 26.21 21.31 17.76 17.72 20.16 Construction and extraction...................................... – 27.10 – – 18.31 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 23.63 25.57 21.00 17.04 16.96 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 19.22 19.31 17.54 14.10 14.10 13.24 Production........................................................ 20.04 20.03 – 14.70 14.70 – Transportation and material moving................................ 17.81 17.93 16.66 12.14 12.14 – Union Nonunion Private State and Private State and Civilian industry local Civilian industry local workers workers government workers workers government workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 1.5 4.3 2.1 3.7 3.9 7.0 Management, professional, and related............................... 2.5 9.2 2.1 3.4 3.7 5.4 Management, business, and financial............................... 17.4 – 17.4 5.2 5.5 7.4 Professional and related.......................................... 2.4 9.2 1.6 5.9 6.0 10.5 Service............................................................. 4.7 17.2 2.7 5.1 5.5 16.2 Sales and office.................................................... 5.6 – 1.8 6.7 6.9 2.9 Sales and related................................................. – – – 18.0 18.0 – Office and administrative support................................. 6.0 19.2 1.8 4.0 4.1 2.9 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 2.2 2.4 3.7 4.4 4.6 3.6 Construction and extraction...................................... – 1.4 – – 5.7 – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 5.2 6.0 4.2 4.1 4.1 – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 5.4 5.6 3.5 6.8 6.8 22.1 Production........................................................ 5.2 5.3 – 7.1 7.1 – Transportation and material moving................................ 10.5 11.5 3.4 8.1 8.2 – 1 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. 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. Table 18. Time and incentive workers(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for major occupational groups, Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Time Incentive Occupational group(3) Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers All workers........................................................... $17.43 $16.60 $31.87 $31.87 Management, professional, and related............................... 28.40 26.79 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 29.81 28.67 – – Professional and related.......................................... 27.86 25.97 – – Service............................................................. 11.43 10.19 – – Sales and office.................................................... 13.88 13.66 39.50 39.50 Sales and related................................................. 11.38 11.38 41.73 41.73 Office and administrative support................................. 14.66 14.44 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 18.43 18.28 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 18.71 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 17.96 17.71 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 15.23 15.21 – – Production........................................................ 15.76 15.74 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 13.66 13.58 – – Time Incentive Civilian Private Civilian Private workers industry workers industry workers workers Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... 3.0 3.5 29.0 29.0 Management, professional, and related............................... 2.6 3.5 – – Management, business, and financial............................... 5.1 5.5 – – Professional and related.......................................... 3.7 5.7 – – Service............................................................. 3.4 5.3 – – Sales and office.................................................... 2.7 3.0 33.6 33.6 Sales and related................................................. 6.3 6.3 39.5 39.5 Office and administrative support................................. 3.2 3.5 – – Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 3.4 3.8 – – Construction and extraction...................................... – 4.5 – – Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 4.1 4.3 – – Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 7.0 7.1 – – Production........................................................ 7.2 7.3 – – Transportation and material moving................................ 8.9 9.4 – – 1 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. 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. 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. Table 19. Industry sector(1): Mean hourly earnings(2) for private industry workers by major occupational group, Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Goods producing Service providing Occupational group(3) Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services All workers........................................................... - $19.85 $14.67 - $22.30 - $17.22 $8.52 - Management, professional, and related............................... - 30.57 27.59 - 19.11 - 23.03 – - Management, business, and financial............................... - 31.62 – - 18.95 - 37.95 – - Professional and related.......................................... - 29.84 – - – - 22.09 – - Service............................................................. - 16.21 8.47 - – - 13.10 7.82 - Sales and office.................................................... - 18.65 13.23 - 25.33 - 13.98 12.00 - Sales and related................................................. - – 11.53 - 53.52 - – – - Office and administrative support................................. - 16.23 15.16 - 14.17 - 14.50 13.31 - Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... - 22.02 14.81 - – - – – - Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. - 23.01 14.60 - – - – – - Production, transportation, and material moving..................... - 16.53 14.56 - – - – – - Production........................................................ - 16.56 15.33 - – - – – - Transportation and material moving................................ - 16.17 14.35 - – - – – - B Goods producing Service providing Trade, Profes- Education Leisure Construc- Manufac- transpor- Infor- Financial sional and and Other Occupational group(3) tion turing tation, mation activiti- and health hospital- services and es business services ity utilities services Relative error(4) (percent) Relative error(4) (percent) All workers........................................................... - 6.1 7.5 - 20.3 - 5.7 7.3 - Management, professional, and related............................... - 3.4 6.4 - 8.0 - 5.3 – - Management, business, and financial............................... - 3.2 – - 5.7 - 15.4 – - Professional and related.......................................... - 8.3 – - – - 4.5 – - Service............................................................. - .9 .5 - – - 8.4 6.3 - Sales and office.................................................... - 16.0 6.7 - 29.1 - 12.2 22.1 - Sales and related................................................. - – 10.3 - 37.4 - – – - Office and administrative support................................. - 3.5 11.9 - 2.5 - 6.6 22.8 - Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... - 4.3 6.9 - – - – – - Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. - 10.7 8.6 - – - – – - Production, transportation, and material moving..................... - 8.4 9.3 - – - – – - Production........................................................ - 8.0 10.6 - – - – – - Transportation and material moving................................ - 13.3 11.7 - – - – – - 1 Industry sectors are determined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). 2 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. See appendix A for more information. 3 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. 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. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Private State and Occupational group(2) Civilian industry local workers workers government workers All workers........................................................... 532,300 481,100 51,200 Management, professional, and related............................... 108,800 82,800 26,000 Management, business, and financial............................... 25,100 22,200 2,900 Professional and related.......................................... 83,700 60,600 23,100 Service............................................................. 110,200 97,500 12,600 Sales and office.................................................... 129,700 121,900 7,800 Sales and related................................................. 39,000 39,000 – Office and administrative support................................. 90,800 83,000 7,800 Natural resources, construction, and maintenance.................... 47,200 44,900 2,300 Construction and extraction...................................... 25,200 24,300 900 Installation, maintenance, and repair............................. 22,000 20,600 1,400 Production, transportation, and material moving..................... 136,300 133,900 2,500 Production........................................................ 95,700 95,400 – Transportation and material moving................................ 40,600 38,500 2,100 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. 2 Workers are classified by occupation using the 2000 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey. Appendix table 2. Survey establishment response, Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, MI, April 2006 Private State and Establishments Total industry local government Total in sampling frame(1)............................................ 15,401 15,301 101 Total in sample....................................................... 317 274 43 Responding........................................................ 213 176 37 Refused or unable to provide data................................. 71 66 5 Out of business or not in survey scope............................ 33 32 1 1 The list of establishments from which the survey sample was selected (sampling frame) was developed from State unemployment insurance reports and is based on the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). For private industries, an establishment is usually a single physical location. For State and local governments, an establishment is defined as all locations of a government entity. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey.