NC BL 04/00/2001 Table: Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, Bulletin 3105-57, June 2000 Table 1-1. Summary: Mean hourly earnings(1) and weekly hours by selected characteristics, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Hourly earnings Worker and establishment characteristics Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) Mean error(2) 3) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) Total................................................................. $12.88 2.4 38.7 $12.27 2.3 38.8 $15.96 4.8 38.3 Worker characteristics:(4) White-collar occupations(5)......................................... 18.48 4.6 38.3 17.14 5.5 37.9 20.86 6.8 38.9 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 21.57 4.3 37.6 21.57 7.6 36.1 21.56 5.2 38.5 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.55 6.2 41.8 27.98 7.5 42.5 30.30 11.1 40.0 Sales............................................................. 11.93 13.3 31.2 11.93 13.3 31.2 € € € Administrative support............................................ 11.26 2.6 40.0 11.25 3.0 40.0 11.33 4.0 40.0 Blue-collar occupations(5).......................................... 11.39 1.7 39.7 11.43 1.8 39.7 10.48 5.4 40.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.94 2.8 40.1 15.14 2.9 40.1 - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors....................................................... 10.76 1.9 39.8 10.76 1.9 39.8 € € € Transportation and material moving................................ 13.24 5.2 42.3 13.59 5.5 42.5 - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers..................................................... 9.17 2.4 38.0 9.22 2.5 37.8 - - - Service occupations(5).............................................. 9.18 4.4 34.1 7.80 7.0 32.1 10.54 2.4 36.4 Full time........................................................... 13.04 2.5 40.1 12.42 2.3 40.2 16.21 5.7 39.7 Part time........................................................... 8.56 6.7 19.9 7.85 6.9 19.2 10.99 14.1 22.7 Union............................................................... - - - - - - € € € Nonunion............................................................ 12.87 2.4 38.7 12.26 2.3 38.8 15.96 4.8 38.3 Time................................................................ 12.71 2.6 38.5 11.97 2.5 38.5 15.96 4.8 38.3 Incentive........................................................... 14.25 5.0 40.8 14.25 5.0 40.8 - - - Establishment characteristics: Goods producing..................................................... (6) (6) (6) 12.31 2.4 40.0 (6) (6) (6) Service producing................................................... (6) (6) (6) 12.15 5.9 35.4 (6) (6) (6) 50-99 workers(7).................................................... 10.69 6.7 35.8 10.69 6.7 35.8 € € € 100-499 workers..................................................... 12.41 3.3 39.7 12.33 3.3 39.7 - - - 500 workers or more................................................. 14.47 3.6 38.8 13.27 3.7 39.4 16.53 4.6 37.8 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, and holidays; nonproduction bonuses; and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 3 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. 4 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. Wages of time workers are based solely on hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 5 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 6 Classification of establishments into goods-producing and service-producing industries applies to private industry only. 7 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 2-1. Mean hourly earnings,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $12.88 2.4 $12.27 2.3 $15.96 4.8 All excluding sales............................................... 12.90 2.4 12.28 2.3 15.96 4.8 White collar........................................................ 18.48 4.6 17.14 5.5 20.86 6.8 White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.22 4.6 18.12 5.7 20.86 6.8 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 21.57 4.3 21.57 7.6 21.56 5.2 Professional specialty.......................................... 22.43 4.6 23.06 9.2 22.14 5.3 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 31.47 16.9 31.47 16.9 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ 22.99 15.5 - - 28.92 27.3 Registered nurses........................................... 18.89 1.9 € € € € Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - € € - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - € € - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - € € Technical....................................................... 16.98 4.9 17.24 6.5 16.65 7.5 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.55 6.2 27.98 7.5 30.30 11.1 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 28.98 6.7 28.54 8.1 30.20 12.0 Managers, medicine and health............................... 35.11 15.2 € € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 23.57 6.2 23.63 6.4 € € Management related............................................ 25.93 15.2 25.09 17.6 - - Sales............................................................. 11.93 13.3 11.93 13.3 € € Cashiers.................................................... 6.40 1.5 6.40 1.5 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.26 2.6 11.25 3.0 11.33 4.0 Secretaries................................................. 11.43 3.6 € € € € Order clerks................................................ 11.38 4.4 11.38 4.4 € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 10.93 3.6 10.83 4.1 € € Production coordinators..................................... 13.96 17.6 13.96 17.6 € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.44 4.7 10.44 4.7 € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 10.68 7.1 10.68 7.1 € € General office clerks....................................... 11.95 4.6 10.28 6.8 € € Blue collar......................................................... 11.39 1.7 11.43 1.8 10.48 5.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.94 2.8 15.14 2.9 - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 12.87 3.3 12.87 3.3 € € Machinery maintenance....................................... 11.33 4.1 11.33 4.1 € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 18.03 18.0 18.03 18.0 € € Supervisors, production..................................... $15.67 4.7 $15.67 4.7 € € Furniture and wood finishers................................ 12.05 7.8 12.05 7.8 € € Upholsterers................................................ 17.16 3.1 17.16 3.1 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.76 1.9 10.76 1.9 € € Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 9.78 6.5 9.78 6.5 € € Numerical control machine operators......................... 14.25 6.0 14.25 6.0 € € Wood lathe, routing, and planing machine operators.......... 10.94 3.1 10.94 3.1 € € Sawing machine operators.................................... 11.49 2.4 11.49 2.4 € € Shaping and jointing machine operators...................... 10.33 7.2 10.33 7.2 € € Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 8.59 6.6 8.59 6.6 € € Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 10.99 9.2 10.99 9.2 € € Textile cutting machine operators........................... 11.58 8.7 11.58 8.7 € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 11.44 6.2 11.44 6.2 € € Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.60 6.8 9.60 6.8 € € Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 13.53 3.7 13.53 3.7 € € Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 10.59 3.3 10.59 3.3 € € Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 10.00 3.1 10.00 3.1 € € Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 11.66 4.0 11.66 4.0 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 11.45 3.4 11.45 3.4 € € Welders and cutters......................................... 12.70 10.6 12.70 10.6 € € Assemblers.................................................. 9.82 3.0 9.82 3.0 € € Hand cutting and trimming................................... 12.21 6.2 12.21 6.2 € € Hand painting, coating, and decorating...................... 10.35 3.2 10.35 3.2 € € Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 10.49 5.1 10.49 5.1 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 9.96 2.6 9.96 2.6 € € Hand inspectors, n.e.c...................................... 9.62 15.2 9.62 15.2 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 13.24 5.2 13.59 5.5 - - Truck drivers............................................... 14.45 6.4 14.95 6.3 € € Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 10.43 5.6 10.43 5.6 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.17 2.4 9.22 2.5 - - Production helpers.......................................... 9.23 6.3 9.23 6.3 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.57 4.4 8.57 4.4 € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 9.36 3.0 9.36 3.0 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.49 5.1 9.49 5.1 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.93 5.9 9.93 5.9 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 8.63 3.9 8.83 5.1 € € Service............................................................. 9.18 4.4 7.80 7.0 $10.54 2.4 Protective service............................................ - - - - - - Food service.................................................. 7.38 10.2 6.46 9.0 10.22 6.3 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders.......................... - - - - € € Other food service........................................... 8.55 6.9 7.57 5.5 10.22 6.3 Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.21 7.8 € € € € Health service................................................ $9.25 2.5 $8.61 3.5 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.25 2.7 8.57 3.7 € € Cleaning and building service................................. 9.49 9.8 10.36 16.4 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.29 4.8 10.05 8.4 € € Personal service.............................................. 8.05 11.2 - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-2. Mean hourly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $13.04 2.5 $12.42 2.3 $16.21 5.7 All excluding sales............................................... 13.01 2.5 12.38 2.3 16.21 5.7 White collar........................................................ 18.87 4.6 17.72 5.6 20.80 6.9 White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.21 4.7 18.13 5.8 20.80 6.9 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 21.59 4.4 21.77 8.1 21.49 5.2 Professional specialty.......................................... 22.49 4.8 23.49 9.8 22.08 5.4 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 31.47 16.9 31.47 16.9 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - € € Health related................................................ 23.13 17.5 18.94 3.0 - - Registered nurses........................................... 18.80 2.1 18.94 3.0 € € Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - € € - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - € € - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - € € Technical....................................................... 16.98 4.9 17.24 6.5 16.65 7.5 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.55 6.2 27.98 7.5 30.30 11.1 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 28.98 6.7 28.54 8.1 30.20 12.0 Managers, medicine and health............................... 35.11 15.2 € € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 23.57 6.2 23.63 6.4 € € Management related............................................ 25.93 15.2 25.09 17.6 - - Sales............................................................. 14.51 14.8 14.51 14.8 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.28 2.6 11.26 3.0 11.33 4.0 Secretaries................................................. 11.43 3.6 € € € € Order clerks................................................ 11.38 4.4 11.38 4.4 € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.03 3.5 10.94 4.0 € € Production coordinators..................................... 13.96 17.6 13.96 17.6 € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.44 4.7 10.44 4.7 € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 10.68 7.1 10.68 7.1 € € General office clerks....................................... 11.95 4.6 10.28 6.8 € € Blue collar......................................................... 11.45 1.7 11.50 1.8 10.48 5.4 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.95 2.8 15.16 2.9 - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 12.87 3.3 12.87 3.3 € € Machinery maintenance....................................... 11.33 4.1 11.33 4.1 € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 18.03 18.0 18.03 18.0 € € Supervisors, production..................................... 15.67 4.7 15.67 4.7 € € Furniture and wood finishers................................ 12.05 7.8 12.05 7.8 € € Upholsterers................................................ $17.16 3.1 $17.16 3.1 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.78 1.9 10.78 1.9 € € Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 9.78 6.5 9.78 6.5 € € Numerical control machine operators......................... 14.25 6.0 14.25 6.0 € € Wood lathe, routing, and planing machine operators.......... 10.94 3.1 10.94 3.1 € € Sawing machine operators.................................... 11.49 2.4 11.49 2.4 € € Shaping and jointing machine operators...................... 10.33 7.2 10.33 7.2 € € Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 8.59 6.6 8.59 6.6 € € Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 10.99 9.2 10.99 9.2 € € Textile cutting machine operators........................... 11.58 8.7 11.58 8.7 € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 11.44 6.2 11.44 6.2 € € Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.60 6.8 9.60 6.8 € € Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 13.53 3.7 13.53 3.7 € € Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 10.59 3.3 10.59 3.3 € € Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 10.00 3.1 10.00 3.1 € € Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 11.66 4.0 11.66 4.0 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 11.52 3.4 11.52 3.4 € € Welders and cutters......................................... 12.70 10.6 12.70 10.6 € € Assemblers.................................................. 9.82 3.0 9.82 3.0 € € Hand cutting and trimming................................... 12.21 6.2 12.21 6.2 € € Hand painting, coating, and decorating...................... 10.35 3.2 10.35 3.2 € € Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 10.49 5.1 10.49 5.1 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 9.96 2.6 9.96 2.6 € € Hand inspectors, n.e.c...................................... 9.62 15.2 9.62 15.2 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 13.26 5.2 13.61 5.5 - - Truck drivers............................................... 14.45 6.4 14.95 6.3 € € Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 10.43 5.6 10.43 5.6 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.32 2.5 9.39 2.7 - - Production helpers.......................................... 9.23 6.3 9.23 6.3 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.76 3.9 9.76 3.9 € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 9.36 3.0 9.36 3.0 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.51 5.3 9.51 5.3 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.93 5.9 9.93 5.9 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 8.63 3.9 8.83 5.1 € € Service............................................................. 9.36 5.2 7.96 8.4 $10.75 2.3 Protective service............................................ - - - - - - Food service.................................................. 7.56 12.6 6.51 11.2 - - Other food service........................................... 9.26 5.8 8.22 4.6 € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.78 7.4 € € € € Health service................................................ 9.24 2.6 8.52 3.9 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.23 2.7 8.52 3.9 € € Cleaning and building service................................. 9.50 9.9 10.40 16.7 - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... $9.30 4.8 $10.11 8.6 € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - € € 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 2-3. Mean hourly earnings,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation(3) Relative Relative Relative Mean error(4) Mean error(4) Mean error(4) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $8.56 6.7 $7.85 6.9 $10.99 14.1 All excluding sales............................................... 9.11 7.4 8.33 8.8 10.99 14.1 White collar........................................................ 10.56 13.2 9.40 12.7 - - White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.86 9.3 - - - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. - - - - - - Professional specialty.......................................... - - - - - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - € € Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - € € Sales............................................................. 6.70 3.9 6.70 3.9 € € Cashiers.................................................... 6.40 1.5 6.40 1.5 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ - - - - € € Blue collar......................................................... 6.80 1.9 6.80 1.9 € € Precision production, craft, and repair........................... - - - - € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... - - - - € € Transportation and material moving................................ - - - - € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.81 2.1 6.81 2.1 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 6.77 2.1 6.77 2.1 € € Service............................................................. 8.12 8.8 6.93 5.4 - - Protective service............................................ - - - - € € Food service.................................................. - - - - - - Health service................................................ - - - - € € Cleaning and building service................................. - - - - € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-1. Mean weekly earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Weekly earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean weekly weekly weekly Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $523 2.5 40.1 $499 2.5 40.2 $643 5.2 39.7 All excluding sales............................................... 521 2.5 40.0 497 2.4 40.1 643 5.2 39.7 White collar........................................................ 759 4.4 40.2 723 5.8 40.8 816 6.0 39.2 White collar excluding sales.................................... 769 4.5 40.1 737 6.1 40.6 816 6.0 39.2 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 847 4.4 39.3 871 8.6 40.0 836 5.0 38.9 Professional specialty.......................................... 881 5.0 39.2 940 10.6 40.0 857 5.4 38.8 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 1,307 19.4 41.5 1,307 19.4 41.5 € € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - - - € € € Health related................................................ 895 17.8 38.7 736 2.6 38.9 - - - Registered nurses........................................... 724 2.0 38.5 736 2.6 38.9 € € € Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - - € € € - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - € € € - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - € € € Technical....................................................... 676 4.9 39.8 688 6.6 39.9 660 7.5 39.7 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 1,194 6.9 41.8 1,188 8.5 42.5 1,212 11.6 40.0 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 1,218 7.6 42.0 1,227 9.3 43.0 1,197 12.5 39.6 Managers, medicine and health............................... 1,468 12.6 41.8 € € € € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 1,010 6.5 42.8 1,016 6.8 43.0 € € € Management related............................................ 1,054 14.7 40.6 1,005 16.8 40.1 - - - Sales............................................................. 614 15.6 42.4 614 15.6 42.4 € € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 452 2.6 40.1 451 3.1 40.1 453 4.0 40.0 Secretaries................................................. 457 3.6 40.0 € € € € € € Order clerks................................................ 455 4.4 40.0 455 4.4 40.0 € € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 441 3.5 40.0 438 4.0 40.0 € € € Production coordinators..................................... 559 17.6 40.0 559 17.6 40.0 € € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 418 4.7 40.0 418 4.7 40.0 € € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 427 7.1 40.0 427 7.1 40.0 € € € General office clerks....................................... 478 4.6 40.0 411 6.8 40.0 € € € Blue collar......................................................... 460 1.8 40.2 462 1.8 40.2 419 5.4 40.0 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 600 2.8 40.2 609 2.9 40.2 - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 515 3.3 40.0 515 3.3 40.0 € € € Machinery maintenance....................................... $453 4.1 40.0 $453 4.1 40.0 € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 721 18.0 40.0 721 18.0 40.0 € € € Supervisors, production..................................... 637 4.9 40.6 637 4.9 40.6 € € € Furniture and wood finishers................................ 482 7.8 40.0 482 7.8 40.0 € € € Upholsterers................................................ 686 3.1 40.0 686 3.1 40.0 € € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 430 1.9 39.9 430 1.9 39.9 € € € Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 391 6.5 40.0 391 6.5 40.0 € € € Numerical control machine operators......................... 563 6.7 39.5 563 6.7 39.5 € € € Wood lathe, routing, and planing machine operators.......... 438 3.1 40.0 438 3.1 40.0 € € € Sawing machine operators.................................... 460 2.3 40.0 460 2.3 40.0 € € € Shaping and jointing machine operators...................... 413 7.2 40.0 413 7.2 40.0 € € € Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 344 6.6 40.0 344 6.6 40.0 € € € Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 439 9.2 40.0 439 9.2 40.0 € € € Textile cutting machine operators........................... 463 8.7 40.0 463 8.7 40.0 € € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 458 6.2 40.0 458 6.2 40.0 € € € Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 379 6.0 39.5 379 6.0 39.5 € € € Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 541 3.7 40.0 541 3.7 40.0 € € € Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 424 3.3 40.0 424 3.3 40.0 € € € Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 398 3.2 39.8 398 3.2 39.8 € € € Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 467 4.0 40.0 467 4.0 40.0 € € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 457 3.5 39.7 457 3.5 39.7 € € € Welders and cutters......................................... 508 10.6 40.0 508 10.6 40.0 € € € Assemblers.................................................. 392 3.0 40.0 392 3.0 40.0 € € € Hand cutting and trimming................................... 488 6.2 40.0 488 6.2 40.0 € € € Hand painting, coating, and decorating...................... 414 3.2 40.0 414 3.2 40.0 € € € Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 419 5.1 39.9 419 5.1 39.9 € € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 397 2.6 39.9 397 2.6 39.9 € € € Hand inspectors, n.e.c...................................... 385 15.2 40.0 385 15.2 40.0 € € € Transportation and material moving................................ 564 5.8 42.6 584 6.0 42.9 - - - Truck drivers............................................... 636 7.2 44.0 663 7.0 44.4 € € € Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 417 5.6 40.0 417 5.6 40.0 € € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 372 2.5 39.9 375 2.7 39.9 - - - Production helpers.......................................... 369 6.3 40.0 369 6.3 40.0 € € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 390 3.9 40.0 390 3.9 40.0 € € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 374 3.0 40.0 374 3.0 40.0 € € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 383 5.5 40.3 383 5.5 40.3 € € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 387 6.2 39.0 387 6.2 39.0 € € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 345 3.9 40.0 353 5.1 40.0 € € € Service............................................................. $366 6.9 39.1 $301 11.4 37.9 $434 2.6 40.4 Protective service............................................ - - - - - - - - - Food service.................................................. 276 18.3 36.5 231 18.7 35.5 - - - Other food service........................................... 348 9.1 37.6 295 8.2 35.9 € € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 310 12.5 35.3 € € € € € € Health service................................................ 366 2.4 39.6 334 2.8 39.2 - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 366 2.5 39.6 334 2.8 39.2 € € € Cleaning and building service................................. 380 9.9 40.0 416 16.7 40.0 - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 372 4.9 40.0 405 8.6 40.0 € € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - - - € € € 1 Earnings are the straight-time weekly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean weekly hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a week, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 3-2. Mean annual earnings,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Annual earnings Annual earnings Annual earnings Occupation(3) Mean Mean Mean annual annual annual Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Relative hours(- Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) Mean error(4) 5) (percen- (percen- (percen- t) t) t) All................................................................... $26,907 2.5 2,064 $25,929 2.5 2,087 $31,614 5.2 1,950 All excluding sales............................................... 26,825 2.5 2,061 25,811 2.4 2,085 31,614 5.2 1,950 White collar........................................................ 38,054 4.4 2,017 37,532 5.8 2,118 38,826 6.0 1,866 White collar excluding sales.................................... 38,481 4.5 2,004 38,219 6.1 2,108 38,826 6.0 1,866 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 40,931 4.4 1,896 44,816 8.6 2,059 39,148 5.0 1,822 Professional specialty.......................................... 41,955 5.0 1,865 48,194 10.6 2,052 39,653 5.4 1,796 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 67,986 19.4 2,161 67,986 19.4 2,161 € € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - - - € € € Health related................................................ 46,517 17.8 2,011 38,269 2.6 2,020 - - - Registered nurses........................................... 37,672 2.0 2,004 38,269 2.6 2,020 € € € Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - - € € € - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - - € € € - - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - - - € € € Technical....................................................... 35,168 4.9 2,071 35,800 6.6 2,077 34,335 7.5 2,062 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 61,349 6.9 2,149 61,789 8.5 2,209 60,128 11.6 1,984 Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 62,453 7.6 2,155 63,784 9.3 2,235 59,191 12.5 1,960 Managers, medicine and health............................... 76,332 12.6 2,174 € € € € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 52,508 6.5 2,228 52,812 6.8 2,235 € € € Management related............................................ 54,801 14.7 2,113 52,272 16.8 2,083 - - - Sales............................................................. 31,951 15.6 2,202 31,951 15.6 2,202 € € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 23,259 2.6 2,063 23,470 3.1 2,084 22,411 4.0 1,978 Secretaries................................................. 23,782 3.6 2,080 € € € € € € Order clerks................................................ 23,674 4.4 2,080 23,674 4.4 2,080 € € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 22,945 3.5 2,080 22,763 4.0 2,080 € € € Production coordinators..................................... 29,045 17.6 2,080 29,045 17.6 2,080 € € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 21,710 4.7 2,080 21,710 4.7 2,080 € € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 22,224 7.1 2,080 22,224 7.1 2,080 € € € General office clerks....................................... 24,860 4.6 2,080 21,392 6.8 2,080 € € € Blue collar......................................................... 23,896 1.8 2,086 24,011 1.8 2,088 21,406 5.4 2,043 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 31,208 2.8 2,087 31,648 2.9 2,088 - - - Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 26,729 3.3 2,076 26,729 3.3 2,076 € € € Machinery maintenance....................................... $23,565 4.1 2,080 $23,565 4.1 2,080 € € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 37,511 18.0 2,080 37,511 18.0 2,080 € € € Supervisors, production..................................... 33,108 4.9 2,112 33,108 4.9 2,112 € € € Furniture and wood finishers................................ 25,067 7.8 2,080 25,067 7.8 2,080 € € € Upholsterers................................................ 35,684 3.1 2,080 35,684 3.1 2,080 € € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 22,350 1.9 2,074 22,350 1.9 2,074 € € € Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 20,336 6.5 2,080 20,336 6.5 2,080 € € € Numerical control machine operators......................... 29,283 6.7 2,056 29,283 6.7 2,056 € € € Wood lathe, routing, and planing machine operators.......... 22,763 3.1 2,080 22,763 3.1 2,080 € € € Sawing machine operators.................................... 23,894 2.3 2,080 23,894 2.3 2,080 € € € Shaping and jointing machine operators...................... 21,497 7.2 2,080 21,497 7.2 2,080 € € € Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 17,865 6.6 2,080 17,865 6.6 2,080 € € € Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 22,853 9.2 2,080 22,853 9.2 2,080 € € € Textile cutting machine operators........................... 24,081 8.7 2,080 24,081 8.7 2,080 € € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 23,768 6.2 2,077 23,768 6.2 2,077 € € € Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 19,645 6.0 2,046 19,645 6.0 2,046 € € € Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 28,145 3.7 2,080 28,145 3.7 2,080 € € € Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 21,927 3.3 2,071 21,927 3.3 2,071 € € € Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 20,693 3.2 2,068 20,693 3.2 2,068 € € € Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 24,262 4.0 2,080 24,262 4.0 2,080 € € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 23,761 3.5 2,063 23,761 3.5 2,063 € € € Welders and cutters......................................... 26,412 10.6 2,080 26,412 10.6 2,080 € € € Assemblers.................................................. 20,399 3.0 2,077 20,399 3.0 2,077 € € € Hand cutting and trimming................................... 25,394 6.2 2,080 25,394 6.2 2,080 € € € Hand painting, coating, and decorating...................... 21,526 3.2 2,080 21,526 3.2 2,080 € € € Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 21,771 5.1 2,076 21,771 5.1 2,076 € € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 20,666 2.6 2,076 20,666 2.6 2,076 € € € Hand inspectors, n.e.c...................................... 20,013 15.2 2,080 20,013 15.2 2,080 € € € Transportation and material moving................................ 29,026 5.8 2,189 30,293 6.0 2,225 - - - Truck drivers............................................... 32,996 7.2 2,283 34,433 7.0 2,304 € € € Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 21,705 5.6 2,080 21,705 5.6 2,080 € € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 19,353 2.5 2,076 19,482 2.7 2,075 - - - Production helpers.......................................... 19,201 6.3 2,080 19,201 6.3 2,080 € € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 20,293 3.9 2,080 20,293 3.9 2,080 € € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 19,468 3.0 2,080 19,468 3.0 2,080 € € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 19,939 5.5 2,097 19,939 5.5 2,097 € € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 20,136 6.2 2,028 20,136 6.2 2,028 € € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 17,941 3.9 2,080 18,370 5.1 2,080 € € € Service............................................................. $18,936 6.9 2,022 $15,675 11.4 1,970 $22,313 2.6 2,077 Protective service............................................ - - - - - - - - - Food service.................................................. 14,065 18.3 1,861 12,009 18.7 1,845 - - - Other food service........................................... 17,466 9.1 1,886 15,354 8.2 1,868 € € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 16,120 12.5 1,837 € € € € € € Health service................................................ 19,029 2.4 2,060 17,367 2.8 2,039 - - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 19,014 2.5 2,059 17,367 2.8 2,039 € € € Cleaning and building service................................. 19,760 9.9 2,080 21,639 16.7 2,080 - - - Janitors and cleaners....................................... 19,342 4.9 2,080 21,037 8.6 2,080 € € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - - - € € € 1 Earnings are the straight-time annual wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. 5 Mean annual hours are the hours an employee is scheduled to work in a year, exclusive of overtime. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-1.Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) all workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $12.88 2.4 $12.27 2.3 $15.96 4.8 All excluding sales............................................... 12.90 2.4 12.28 2.3 15.96 4.8 White collar........................................................ 18.48 4.6 17.14 5.5 20.86 6.8 2....................................................... 8.87 3.7 8.78 4.9 € € 3....................................................... 10.05 2.6 10.05 2.6 € € 4....................................................... 10.94 4.5 10.74 5.8 11.55 3.5 5....................................................... 14.52 7.5 15.11 10.2 € € 6....................................................... 17.35 3.6 17.30 4.4 € € 7....................................................... 20.49 4.2 18.58 7.2 21.12 3.6 8....................................................... 21.56 3.6 22.18 4.9 21.07 5.0 9....................................................... 24.84 6.1 24.76 6.0 € € 10........................................................ 26.69 10.8 29.42 7.7 € € 11........................................................ 38.39 7.9 € € € € 12........................................................ 43.25 5.5 44.59 5.6 € € White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.22 4.6 18.12 5.7 20.86 6.8 2....................................................... 9.45 2.9 9.57 3.8 € € 3....................................................... 10.07 1.8 10.07 1.8 € € 4....................................................... 11.38 2.6 11.32 3.3 11.55 3.5 5....................................................... 13.18 3.3 13.12 5.4 € € 6....................................................... 17.42 3.6 17.39 4.5 € € 7....................................................... 20.62 3.9 18.87 6.9 21.12 3.6 8....................................................... 21.36 3.8 21.77 5.5 21.07 5.0 9....................................................... 24.84 6.1 24.76 6.0 € € 10........................................................ 26.69 10.8 29.42 7.7 € € 11........................................................ 38.39 7.9 € € € € 12........................................................ 43.25 5.5 44.59 5.6 € € Professional specialty and technical.............................. 21.57 4.3 21.57 7.6 21.56 5.2 Professional specialty.......................................... 22.43 4.6 23.06 9.2 22.14 5.3 7....................................................... 21.10 3.4 € € 21.26 3.4 8....................................................... 21.08 4.8 € € 21.25 5.7 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 31.47 16.9 31.47 16.9 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - € € Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ 22.99 15.5 - - 28.92 27.3 Registered nurses........................................... 18.89 1.9 € € € € Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - € € - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - € € - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - € € Technical....................................................... 16.98 4.9 17.24 6.5 16.65 7.5 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... $28.55 6.2 $27.98 7.5 $30.30 11.1 8....................................................... 22.01 9.1 22.01 9.1 € € 9....................................................... 24.23 5.5 22.89 3.6 € € 11........................................................ 39.79 7.8 € € € € 12........................................................ 43.25 5.5 44.59 5.6 € € Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 28.98 6.7 28.54 8.1 30.20 12.0 8....................................................... 21.15 10.6 21.15 10.6 € € 9....................................................... 24.20 5.9 22.64 3.5 € € 11........................................................ 39.79 7.8 € € € € 12........................................................ 44.57 6.5 44.57 6.5 € € Managers, medicine and health............................... 35.11 15.2 € € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 23.57 6.2 23.63 6.4 € € 8....................................................... 19.60 11.1 19.60 11.1 € € 9....................................................... 23.21 3.5 23.32 3.9 € € Management related............................................ 25.93 15.2 25.09 17.6 - - Sales............................................................. 11.93 13.3 11.93 13.3 € € 3....................................................... 9.95 12.6 9.95 12.6 € € Cashiers.................................................... 6.40 1.5 6.40 1.5 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.26 2.6 11.25 3.0 11.33 4.0 2....................................................... 9.45 2.9 9.57 3.8 € € 3....................................................... 10.04 1.8 10.04 1.8 € € 4....................................................... 11.37 2.7 11.36 3.6 € € 5....................................................... 12.93 2.1 12.99 4.0 € € 6....................................................... 15.69 10.6 15.69 10.6 € € Secretaries................................................. 11.43 3.6 € € € € 4....................................................... 11.56 3.8 € € € € Order clerks................................................ 11.38 4.4 11.38 4.4 € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 10.93 3.6 10.83 4.1 € € 4....................................................... 11.21 2.9 11.09 3.7 € € Production coordinators..................................... 13.96 17.6 13.96 17.6 € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.44 4.7 10.44 4.7 € € 3....................................................... 10.16 2.9 10.16 2.9 € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 10.68 7.1 10.68 7.1 € € General office clerks....................................... 11.95 4.6 10.28 6.8 € € Blue collar......................................................... 11.39 1.7 11.43 1.8 10.48 5.4 1....................................................... 8.20 1.5 8.24 1.7 € € 2....................................................... 9.53 1.9 9.48 1.9 € € 3....................................................... 10.88 2.2 10.88 2.2 € € 4....................................................... 13.36 2.4 13.40 2.5 € € 5....................................................... 14.33 3.0 14.39 3.1 € € 6....................................................... 14.91 3.2 14.92 3.6 € € 7....................................................... 17.05 2.3 17.05 2.3 € € Precision production, craft, and repair........................... $14.94 2.8 $15.14 2.9 - - 3....................................................... 11.94 5.6 12.30 6.5 € € 4....................................................... 12.29 4.5 12.39 5.1 € € 5....................................................... 14.59 4.6 14.74 4.9 € € 6....................................................... 15.07 3.5 15.12 4.0 € € 7....................................................... 17.14 2.5 17.14 2.5 € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 12.87 3.3 12.87 3.3 € € 6....................................................... 13.44 5.0 13.44 5.0 € € Machinery maintenance....................................... 11.33 4.1 11.33 4.1 € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 18.03 18.0 18.03 18.0 € € Supervisors, production..................................... 15.67 4.7 15.67 4.7 € € 5....................................................... 13.00 2.7 13.00 2.7 € € 7....................................................... 17.36 4.1 17.36 4.1 € € Furniture and wood finishers................................ 12.05 7.8 12.05 7.8 € € Upholsterers................................................ 17.16 3.1 17.16 3.1 € € 4....................................................... 16.90 13.7 16.90 13.7 € € 5....................................................... 17.25 2.2 17.25 2.2 € € 6....................................................... 18.24 3.8 18.24 3.8 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.76 1.9 10.76 1.9 € € 1....................................................... 8.28 2.4 8.28 2.4 € € 2....................................................... 9.35 2.2 9.35 2.2 € € 3....................................................... 10.84 2.5 10.84 2.5 € € 4....................................................... 13.01 2.2 13.01 2.2 € € 5....................................................... 13.37 3.0 13.37 3.0 € € 6....................................................... 13.41 4.2 13.41 4.2 € € Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 9.78 6.5 9.78 6.5 € € 2....................................................... 8.58 9.2 8.58 9.2 € € Numerical control machine operators......................... 14.25 6.0 14.25 6.0 € € Wood lathe, routing, and planing machine operators.......... 10.94 3.1 10.94 3.1 € € Sawing machine operators.................................... 11.49 2.4 11.49 2.4 € € Shaping and jointing machine operators...................... 10.33 7.2 10.33 7.2 € € Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 8.59 6.6 8.59 6.6 € € 2....................................................... 7.88 6.9 7.88 6.9 € € Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 10.99 9.2 10.99 9.2 € € 2....................................................... 9.40 10.5 9.40 10.5 € € Textile cutting machine operators........................... 11.58 8.7 11.58 8.7 € € 3....................................................... 10.51 10.8 10.51 10.8 € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 11.44 6.2 11.44 6.2 € € 2....................................................... 8.72 6.2 8.72 6.2 € € 3....................................................... 12.31 6.1 12.31 6.1 € € 4....................................................... 14.27 4.1 14.27 4.1 € € Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.60 6.8 9.60 6.8 € € Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 13.53 3.7 13.53 3.7 € € Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 10.59 3.3 10.59 3.3 € € Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... $10.00 3.1 $10.00 3.1 € € 2....................................................... 9.54 2.6 9.54 2.6 € € 3....................................................... 9.83 4.3 9.83 4.3 € € Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 11.66 4.0 11.66 4.0 € € 4....................................................... 12.19 3.5 12.19 3.5 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 11.45 3.4 11.45 3.4 € € 1....................................................... 8.19 5.8 8.19 5.8 € € 2....................................................... 9.51 6.2 9.51 6.2 € € 3....................................................... 11.51 3.3 11.51 3.3 € € 4....................................................... 12.88 4.2 12.88 4.2 € € 5....................................................... 12.97 2.9 12.97 2.9 € € Welders and cutters......................................... 12.70 10.6 12.70 10.6 € € Assemblers.................................................. 9.82 3.0 9.82 3.0 € € 1....................................................... 8.48 3.2 8.48 3.2 € € 2....................................................... 9.48 2.1 9.48 2.1 € € 3....................................................... 10.62 3.9 10.62 3.9 € € Hand cutting and trimming................................... 12.21 6.2 12.21 6.2 € € 2....................................................... 9.91 3.0 9.91 3.0 € € Hand painting, coating, and decorating...................... 10.35 3.2 10.35 3.2 € € Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 10.49 5.1 10.49 5.1 € € 1....................................................... 8.49 2.9 8.49 2.9 € € 2....................................................... 9.40 4.5 9.40 4.5 € € 3....................................................... 10.39 1.3 10.39 1.3 € € 4....................................................... 14.04 7.5 14.04 7.5 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 9.96 2.6 9.96 2.6 € € 2....................................................... 8.98 4.0 8.98 4.0 € € 3....................................................... 10.22 1.6 10.22 1.6 € € Hand inspectors, n.e.c...................................... 9.62 15.2 9.62 15.2 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 13.24 5.2 13.59 5.5 - - 2....................................................... 10.15 3.4 10.18 2.6 € € 3....................................................... 10.68 5.4 10.68 5.4 € € 4....................................................... 15.85 7.6 15.85 7.6 € € Truck drivers............................................... 14.45 6.4 14.95 6.3 € € 3....................................................... 11.82 5.6 11.82 5.6 € € 4....................................................... 16.21 9.1 16.21 9.1 € € Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 10.43 5.6 10.43 5.6 € € 3....................................................... 10.00 7.0 10.00 7.0 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.17 2.4 9.22 2.5 - - 1....................................................... 8.16 1.8 8.23 2.0 € € 2....................................................... 9.96 2.2 9.81 2.0 € € 3....................................................... 10.96 4.7 10.96 4.7 € € Production helpers.......................................... 9.23 6.3 9.23 6.3 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 8.57 4.4 8.57 4.4 € € 1....................................................... 7.15 4.6 7.15 4.6 € € 2....................................................... $9.10 4.9 $9.10 4.9 € € 3....................................................... 10.13 6.9 10.13 6.9 € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 9.36 3.0 9.36 3.0 € € 2....................................................... 9.89 3.1 9.89 3.1 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.49 5.1 9.49 5.1 € € 1....................................................... 8.86 7.2 8.86 7.2 € € 2....................................................... 10.13 3.8 10.13 3.8 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. 9.93 5.9 9.93 5.9 € € 1....................................................... 8.69 3.7 8.69 3.7 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 8.63 3.9 8.83 5.1 € € 1....................................................... 8.07 2.3 8.19 3.1 € € Service............................................................. 9.18 4.4 7.80 7.0 $10.54 2.4 1....................................................... 7.58 3.9 7.20 4.1 € € 2....................................................... 7.02 11.4 6.87 13.3 € € 3....................................................... 8.66 6.0 7.98 5.4 € € 4....................................................... 9.92 4.0 € € € € Protective service............................................ - - - - - - Food service.................................................. 7.38 10.2 6.46 9.0 10.22 6.3 1....................................................... 6.72 2.4 € € € € 3....................................................... 8.45 4.7 8.31 5.8 € € Other food service........................................... 8.55 6.9 7.57 5.5 10.22 6.3 1....................................................... 6.53 3.2 € € € € 3....................................................... 8.45 4.7 8.31 5.8 € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.21 7.8 € € € € Health service................................................ 9.25 2.5 8.61 3.5 - - 2....................................................... 8.83 2.8 8.83 2.8 € € Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.25 2.7 8.57 3.7 € € Cleaning and building service................................. 9.49 9.8 10.36 16.4 - - 1....................................................... 8.51 3.2 8.38 5.5 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.29 4.8 10.05 8.4 € € 1....................................................... 8.63 2.8 8.64 4.8 € € Personal service.............................................. 8.05 11.2 - - - - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-2. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) full-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $13.04 2.5 $12.42 2.3 $16.21 5.7 All excluding sales............................................... 13.01 2.5 12.38 2.3 16.21 5.7 White collar........................................................ 18.87 4.6 17.72 5.6 20.80 6.9 2....................................................... 9.51 2.8 9.65 3.8 € € 3....................................................... 10.09 2.5 10.09 2.5 € € 4....................................................... 10.96 4.5 10.77 5.8 11.55 3.5 5....................................................... 14.52 7.5 15.11 10.2 € € 6....................................................... 17.11 4.0 17.09 5.1 € € 7....................................................... 20.49 4.2 18.58 7.2 21.12 3.6 8....................................................... 21.42 3.6 22.18 4.9 20.81 5.0 9....................................................... 24.84 6.1 24.76 6.0 € € 10........................................................ 26.69 10.8 29.42 7.7 € € 11........................................................ 38.39 7.9 € € € € 12........................................................ 43.25 5.5 44.59 5.6 € € White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.21 4.7 18.13 5.8 20.80 6.9 2....................................................... 9.51 2.8 9.65 3.8 € € 3....................................................... 10.07 1.8 10.07 1.8 € € 4....................................................... 11.40 2.6 11.35 3.3 11.55 3.5 5....................................................... 13.18 3.3 13.12 5.4 € € 6....................................................... 17.19 4.1 17.19 5.2 € € 7....................................................... 20.62 3.9 18.87 6.9 21.12 3.6 8....................................................... 21.20 3.8 21.77 5.5 20.81 5.0 9....................................................... 24.84 6.1 24.76 6.0 € € 10........................................................ 26.69 10.8 29.42 7.7 € € 11........................................................ 38.39 7.9 € € € € 12........................................................ 43.25 5.5 44.59 5.6 € € Professional specialty and technical.............................. 21.59 4.4 21.77 8.1 21.49 5.2 Professional specialty.......................................... 22.49 4.8 23.49 9.8 22.08 5.4 7....................................................... 21.10 3.4 € € 21.26 3.4 8....................................................... 20.82 4.8 € € 20.95 5.7 Engineers, architects, and surveyors.......................... 31.47 16.9 31.47 16.9 € € Mathematical and computer scientists.......................... - - - - € € Health related................................................ 23.13 17.5 18.94 3.0 - - Registered nurses........................................... 18.80 2.1 18.94 3.0 € € Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - - - Teachers, except college and university....................... - - € € - - Librarians, archivists, and curators.......................... - - € € - - Social scientists and urban planners.......................... - - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers..................... - - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - € € Technical....................................................... 16.98 4.9 17.24 6.5 16.65 7.5 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.55 6.2 27.98 7.5 30.30 11.1 8....................................................... $22.01 9.1 $22.01 9.1 € € 9....................................................... 24.23 5.5 22.89 3.6 € € 11........................................................ 39.79 7.8 € € € € 12........................................................ 43.25 5.5 44.59 5.6 € € Executives, administrators, and managers...................... 28.98 6.7 28.54 8.1 $30.20 12.0 8....................................................... 21.15 10.6 21.15 10.6 € € 9....................................................... 24.20 5.9 22.64 3.5 € € 11........................................................ 39.79 7.8 € € € € 12........................................................ 44.57 6.5 44.57 6.5 € € Managers, medicine and health............................... 35.11 15.2 € € € € Managers and administrators, n.e.c.......................... 23.57 6.2 23.63 6.4 € € 8....................................................... 19.60 11.1 19.60 11.1 € € 9....................................................... 23.21 3.5 23.32 3.9 € € Management related............................................ 25.93 15.2 25.09 17.6 - - Sales............................................................. 14.51 14.8 14.51 14.8 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.28 2.6 11.26 3.0 11.33 4.0 2....................................................... 9.51 2.8 9.65 3.8 € € 3....................................................... 10.04 1.8 10.04 1.8 € € 4....................................................... 11.37 2.7 11.36 3.6 € € 5....................................................... 12.93 2.1 12.99 4.0 € € 6....................................................... 15.69 10.6 15.69 10.6 € € Secretaries................................................. 11.43 3.6 € € € € 4....................................................... 11.56 3.8 € € € € Order clerks................................................ 11.38 4.4 11.38 4.4 € € Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks................. 11.03 3.5 10.94 4.0 € € 4....................................................... 11.21 2.9 11.09 3.7 € € Production coordinators..................................... 13.96 17.6 13.96 17.6 € € Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks...................... 10.44 4.7 10.44 4.7 € € 3....................................................... 10.16 2.9 10.16 2.9 € € Stock and inventory clerks.................................. 10.68 7.1 10.68 7.1 € € General office clerks....................................... 11.95 4.6 10.28 6.8 € € Blue collar......................................................... 11.45 1.7 11.50 1.8 10.48 5.4 1....................................................... 8.32 1.7 8.38 1.9 € € 2....................................................... 9.54 1.9 9.48 1.9 € € 3....................................................... 10.90 2.2 10.90 2.2 € € 4....................................................... 13.36 2.4 13.40 2.5 € € 5....................................................... 14.33 3.0 14.39 3.1 € € 6....................................................... 14.91 3.2 14.92 3.6 € € 7....................................................... 17.05 2.3 17.05 2.3 € € Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.95 2.8 15.16 2.9 - - 3....................................................... 11.94 5.6 12.30 6.5 € € 4....................................................... 12.29 4.5 12.39 5.1 € € 5....................................................... $14.59 4.6 $14.74 4.9 € € 6....................................................... 15.07 3.5 15.12 4.0 € € 7....................................................... 17.14 2.5 17.14 2.5 € € Industrial machinery repairers.............................. 12.87 3.3 12.87 3.3 € € 6....................................................... 13.44 5.0 13.44 5.0 € € Machinery maintenance....................................... 11.33 4.1 11.33 4.1 € € Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.............................. 18.03 18.0 18.03 18.0 € € Supervisors, production..................................... 15.67 4.7 15.67 4.7 € € 5....................................................... 13.00 2.7 13.00 2.7 € € 7....................................................... 17.36 4.1 17.36 4.1 € € Furniture and wood finishers................................ 12.05 7.8 12.05 7.8 € € Upholsterers................................................ 17.16 3.1 17.16 3.1 € € 4....................................................... 16.90 13.7 16.90 13.7 € € 5....................................................... 17.25 2.2 17.25 2.2 € € 6....................................................... 18.24 3.8 18.24 3.8 € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.78 1.9 10.78 1.9 € € 1....................................................... 8.35 2.4 8.35 2.4 € € 2....................................................... 9.35 2.2 9.35 2.2 € € 3....................................................... 10.84 2.5 10.84 2.5 € € 4....................................................... 13.01 2.2 13.01 2.2 € € 5....................................................... 13.37 3.0 13.37 3.0 € € 6....................................................... 13.41 4.2 13.41 4.2 € € Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators 9.78 6.5 9.78 6.5 € € 2....................................................... 8.58 9.2 8.58 9.2 € € Numerical control machine operators......................... 14.25 6.0 14.25 6.0 € € Wood lathe, routing, and planing machine operators.......... 10.94 3.1 10.94 3.1 € € Sawing machine operators.................................... 11.49 2.4 11.49 2.4 € € Shaping and jointing machine operators...................... 10.33 7.2 10.33 7.2 € € Winding and twisting machine operators...................... 8.59 6.6 8.59 6.6 € € 2....................................................... 7.88 6.9 7.88 6.9 € € Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.... 10.99 9.2 10.99 9.2 € € 2....................................................... 9.40 10.5 9.40 10.5 € € Textile cutting machine operators........................... 11.58 8.7 11.58 8.7 € € 3....................................................... 10.51 10.8 10.51 10.8 € € Textile sewing machine operators............................ 11.44 6.2 11.44 6.2 € € 2....................................................... 8.72 6.2 8.72 6.2 € € 3....................................................... 12.31 6.1 12.31 6.1 € € 4....................................................... 14.27 4.1 14.27 4.1 € € Packaging and filling machine operators..................... 9.60 6.8 9.60 6.8 € € Extruding and forming machine operators..................... 13.53 3.7 13.53 3.7 € € Mixing and blending machine operators....................... 10.59 3.3 10.59 3.3 € € Painting and paint spraying machine operators............... 10.00 3.1 10.00 3.1 € € 2....................................................... 9.54 2.6 9.54 2.6 € € 3....................................................... 9.83 4.3 9.83 4.3 € € Slicing and cutting machine operators....................... 11.66 4.0 11.66 4.0 € € 4....................................................... $12.19 3.5 $12.19 3.5 € € Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c...................... 11.52 3.4 11.52 3.4 € € 2....................................................... 9.51 6.2 9.51 6.2 € € 3....................................................... 11.51 3.3 11.51 3.3 € € 4....................................................... 12.88 4.2 12.88 4.2 € € 5....................................................... 12.97 2.9 12.97 2.9 € € Welders and cutters......................................... 12.70 10.6 12.70 10.6 € € Assemblers.................................................. 9.82 3.0 9.82 3.0 € € 1....................................................... 8.48 3.2 8.48 3.2 € € 2....................................................... 9.48 2.1 9.48 2.1 € € 3....................................................... 10.62 3.9 10.62 3.9 € € Hand cutting and trimming................................... 12.21 6.2 12.21 6.2 € € 2....................................................... 9.91 3.0 9.91 3.0 € € Hand painting, coating, and decorating...................... 10.35 3.2 10.35 3.2 € € Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c........................... 10.49 5.1 10.49 5.1 € € 1....................................................... 8.49 2.9 8.49 2.9 € € 2....................................................... 9.40 4.5 9.40 4.5 € € 3....................................................... 10.39 1.3 10.39 1.3 € € 4....................................................... 14.04 7.5 14.04 7.5 € € Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............... 9.96 2.6 9.96 2.6 € € 2....................................................... 8.98 4.0 8.98 4.0 € € 3....................................................... 10.22 1.6 10.22 1.6 € € Hand inspectors, n.e.c...................................... 9.62 15.2 9.62 15.2 € € Transportation and material moving................................ 13.26 5.2 13.61 5.5 - - 2....................................................... 10.15 3.4 10.18 2.6 € € 3....................................................... 10.68 5.4 10.68 5.4 € € 4....................................................... 15.85 7.6 15.85 7.6 € € Truck drivers............................................... 14.45 6.4 14.95 6.3 € € 3....................................................... 11.82 5.6 11.82 5.6 € € 4....................................................... 16.21 9.1 16.21 9.1 € € Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............ 10.43 5.6 10.43 5.6 € € 3....................................................... 10.00 7.0 10.00 7.0 € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.32 2.5 9.39 2.7 - - 1....................................................... 8.31 2.1 8.40 2.4 € € 2....................................................... 9.96 2.2 9.81 2.0 € € 3....................................................... 11.11 4.7 11.11 4.7 € € Production helpers.......................................... 9.23 6.3 9.23 6.3 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 9.76 3.9 9.76 3.9 € € 2....................................................... 9.10 4.9 9.10 4.9 € € Machine feeders and offbearers.............................. 9.36 3.0 9.36 3.0 € € 2....................................................... 9.89 3.1 9.89 3.1 € € Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................ 9.51 5.3 9.51 5.3 € € 1....................................................... 8.88 7.5 8.88 7.5 € € 2....................................................... 10.13 3.8 10.13 3.8 € € Hand packers and packagers.................................. $9.93 5.9 $9.93 5.9 € € 1....................................................... 8.69 3.7 8.69 3.7 € € Laborers, except construction, n.e.c........................ 8.63 3.9 8.83 5.1 € € 1....................................................... 8.07 2.3 8.19 3.1 € € Service............................................................. 9.36 5.2 7.96 8.4 $10.75 2.3 1....................................................... 7.85 4.9 7.47 5.1 € € 2....................................................... 6.97 12.7 6.78 15.2 € € 3....................................................... 8.19 5.3 8.07 5.9 € € 4....................................................... 9.92 4.1 € € € € Protective service............................................ - - - - - - Food service.................................................. 7.56 12.6 6.51 11.2 - - 3....................................................... 8.51 4.8 8.37 6.0 € € Other food service........................................... 9.26 5.8 8.22 4.6 € € 3....................................................... 8.51 4.8 8.37 6.0 € € Food preparation, n.e.c..................................... 8.78 7.4 € € € € Health service................................................ 9.24 2.6 8.52 3.9 - - Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants..................... 9.23 2.7 8.52 3.9 € € Cleaning and building service................................. 9.50 9.9 10.40 16.7 - - 1....................................................... 8.51 3.2 8.37 5.8 € € Janitors and cleaners....................................... 9.30 4.8 10.11 8.6 € € 1....................................................... 8.63 2.8 8.64 5.1 € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - € € 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 4-3. Selected occupations(1) and levels,(2) part-time workers:(3) Mean hourly earnings,(4) private industry and State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Total Private industry State and local government Occupation and level Relative Relative Relative Mean error(5) Mean error(5) Mean error(5) (percent) (percent) (percent) All................................................................... $8.56 6.7 $7.85 6.9 $10.99 14.1 All excluding sales............................................... 9.11 7.4 8.33 8.8 10.99 14.1 White collar........................................................ 10.56 13.2 9.40 12.7 - - 2....................................................... 6.37 1.7 6.37 1.7 € € White collar excluding sales.................................... 19.86 9.3 - - - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. - - - - - - Professional specialty.......................................... - - - - - - Natural scientists............................................ - - - - € € Health related................................................ - - - - - - Teachers, college and university.............................. - - - - € € Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c...................................................... - - - - € € Sales............................................................. 6.70 3.9 6.70 3.9 € € Cashiers.................................................... 6.40 1.5 6.40 1.5 € € Administrative support, including clerical........................ - - - - € € Blue collar......................................................... 6.80 1.9 6.80 1.9 € € 1....................................................... 6.73 2.4 6.73 2.4 € € Precision production, craft, and repair........................... - - - - € € Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... - - - - € € Transportation and material moving................................ - - - - € € Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 6.81 2.1 6.81 2.1 € € 1....................................................... 6.77 2.2 6.77 2.2 € € Stock handlers and baggers.................................. 6.77 2.1 6.77 2.1 € € 1....................................................... 6.73 2.3 6.73 2.3 € € Service............................................................. 8.12 8.8 6.93 5.4 - - 1....................................................... 6.81 4.2 € € € € Protective service............................................ - - - - € € Food service.................................................. - - - - - - Health service................................................ - - - - € € Cleaning and building service................................. - - - - € € Personal service.............................................. - - - - - - 1 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 2 Each occupation for which data are collected in an establishment is evaluated based on 10 factors, including knowledge, complexity, work environment, etc. Points are assigned based on the occupation's rank within each factor. The points are summed to determine the overall level of the occupation. See appendixes C and D for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 5-1. Selected worker characteristics: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Private industry and State and local government Occupational group Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Mean All occupations....................................................... $13.04 $8.56 - $12.87 $12.71 $14.25 All excluding sales............................................. 13.01 9.11 - 12.90 12.74 14.36 White collar........................................................ 18.87 10.56 € 18.48 18.69 14.46 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 19.21 19.86 € 19.22 19.18 - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 21.59 - € 21.57 21.57 € Professional specialty.......................................... 22.49 - € 22.43 22.43 € Technical....................................................... 16.98 € € 16.98 16.98 € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 28.55 € € 28.55 28.60 - Sales............................................................. 14.51 6.70 € 11.93 10.82 13.33 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.28 - € 11.26 11.26 € Blue collar......................................................... 11.45 6.80 - 11.37 10.88 14.23 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 14.95 - - 14.93 14.25 18.28 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.78 - - 10.75 10.51 12.20 Transportation and material moving................................ 13.26 - - 13.23 11.59 17.22 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.32 6.81 - 9.16 8.96 11.85 Service............................................................. 9.36 8.12 € 9.18 9.18 € B Full-time Part-time Nonunion- Incen- Occupational group workers(- workers(- Union(4) (4) Time(5) tive(5) 3) 3) Relative error(6) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.5 6.7 - 2.4 2.6 5.0 All excluding sales............................................. 2.5 7.4 - 2.4 2.7 4.4 White collar........................................................ 4.6 13.2 € 4.6 4.7 24.3 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 4.7 9.3 € 4.6 4.7 - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 4.4 - € 4.3 4.3 € Professional specialty.......................................... 4.8 - € 4.6 4.6 € Technical....................................................... 4.9 € € 4.9 4.9 € Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 6.2 € € 6.2 6.4 - Sales............................................................. 14.8 3.9 € 13.3 13.1 22.8 Administrative support, including clerical........................ 2.6 - € 2.6 2.6 € Blue collar......................................................... 1.7 1.9 - 1.7 1.7 4.2 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 2.8 - - 2.8 3.0 5.1 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 1.9 - - 1.9 1.9 5.2 Transportation and material moving................................ 5.2 - - 5.3 5.2 8.9 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 2.5 2.1 - 2.4 2.4 5.2 Service............................................................. 5.2 8.8 € 4.4 4.4 € 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 4 Union workers are those whose wages are determined through collective bargaining. 5 Time workers' wages are based solely on an hourly rate or salary; incentive workers are those whose wages are at least partially based on productivity payments such as piece rates, commissions, and production bonuses. 6 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-2. Major industry division: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Full-time and part-time workers Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) Occupational group All pri- vate indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Mean All occupations....................................................... $12.27 $12.31 € - $12.31 $12.15 $15.72 $10.83 - - All excluding sales............................................. 12.28 12.28 € - 12.28 12.30 15.72 10.79 - - White collar........................................................ 17.14 18.77 € € 18.77 15.19 18.01 11.83 - - White-collar excluding sales.................................... 18.12 18.76 € € 18.76 17.06 18.01 13.80 - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 21.57 25.41 € € 25.41 18.27 - - - - Professional specialty.......................................... 23.06 28.28 € € 28.28 - € - - - Technical....................................................... 17.24 17.57 € € 17.57 16.93 - € - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 27.98 26.66 € € 26.66 32.24 - - - - Sales............................................................. 11.93 - € € - 10.95 € 10.95 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.25 11.38 € € 11.38 11.00 13.77 11.18 - - Blue collar......................................................... 11.43 11.31 € - 11.30 12.17 15.22 11.83 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 15.14 14.60 € - 14.63 19.86 17.66 17.99 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.76 10.85 € € 10.85 - € - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 13.59 11.31 € - 11.20 15.36 16.00 14.98 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.22 9.48 € € 9.48 8.65 11.96 8.21 - - Service............................................................. 7.80 12.33 € € 12.33 7.20 € 6.60 - - B Goods-producing indust- Service-producing industries(4) ries(3) All pri- vate Occupational group indus- Trans- Wholesale Finance, tries Con- Manu- portation and insur- Serv- Total Mining struc- fac- Total and pub- retail ance, and ices tion turing lic trade real utilities estate Relative error(5) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.3 2.4 € - 2.4 5.9 7.5 10.9 - - All excluding sales............................................. 2.3 2.4 € - 2.4 6.0 7.5 10.7 - - White collar........................................................ 5.5 7.4 € € 7.4 7.5 18.1 13.9 - - White-collar excluding sales.................................... 5.7 7.6 € € 7.6 7.8 18.1 12.7 - - Professional specialty and technical.............................. 7.6 12.3 € € 12.3 4.3 - - - - Professional specialty.......................................... 9.2 13.9 € € 13.9 - € - - - Technical....................................................... 6.5 6.8 € € 6.8 10.9 - € - - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 7.5 9.4 € € 9.4 12.6 - - - - Sales............................................................. 13.3 - € € - 15.9 € 15.9 - - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 3.0 3.9 € € 3.9 4.6 10.8 4.9 - - Blue collar......................................................... 1.8 1.6 € - 1.6 8.1 6.4 7.4 - - Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 2.9 2.5 € - 2.5 10.8 12.8 11.7 - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 1.9 1.8 € € 1.8 - € - - - Transportation and material moving................................ 5.5 4.4 € - 4.8 7.5 9.4 9.8 - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 2.5 2.2 € € 2.2 5.0 7.2 5.1 - - Service............................................................. 7.0 19.4 € € 19.4 5.6 € 13.8 - - 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Goods-producing industries include mining, construction, and manufacturing. 4 Service-producing industries include transportation and public utilities; wholesale and retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services. 5 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 5-3. Establishment employment size: Mean hourly earnings(1) by occupational group,(2) private industry, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Mean All occupations....................................................... $12.27 $10.69 $12.65 $12.33 $13.27 All excluding sales............................................. 12.28 10.54 12.66 12.37 13.22 White collar........................................................ 17.14 14.01 18.03 17.95 18.11 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 18.12 15.71 18.52 18.99 17.98 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 21.57 - 21.56 21.59 21.55 Professional specialty.......................................... 23.06 € 23.06 26.11 21.84 Technical....................................................... 17.24 - 16.93 15.44 - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 27.98 24.38 28.77 27.56 32.10 Sales............................................................. 11.93 12.04 11.73 10.06 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 11.25 11.05 11.29 11.58 10.97 Blue collar......................................................... 11.43 10.44 11.63 11.53 11.83 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 15.14 15.14 15.14 15.04 15.36 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 10.76 9.03 11.07 10.82 11.59 Transportation and material moving................................ 13.59 12.34 13.93 14.36 12.42 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 9.22 7.90 9.50 9.32 9.83 Service............................................................. 7.80 6.16 8.84 7.89 11.05 B Full-time and part-time workers 100 workers or more Occupational group All 50 - 99 private workers(- industry 3) 100 - 499 500 workers Total workers workers or more Relative error(4) (percent) All occupations....................................................... 2.3 6.7 2.5 3.3 3.7 All excluding sales............................................. 2.3 6.2 2.5 3.4 3.6 White collar........................................................ 5.5 12.9 6.2 9.5 7.5 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 5.7 12.4 6.2 9.3 7.6 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 7.6 - 7.7 17.7 6.4 Professional specialty.......................................... 9.2 € 9.2 22.9 7.3 Technical....................................................... 6.5 - 6.8 8.5 - Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 7.5 10.9 8.5 10.7 13.8 Sales............................................................. 13.3 19.9 17.7 9.8 - Administrative support, including clerical........................ 3.0 7.2 3.4 5.2 4.0 Blue collar......................................................... 1.8 4.7 1.9 2.4 3.3 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 2.9 7.0 3.2 2.7 8.4 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 1.9 5.1 1.9 2.5 2.6 Transportation and material moving................................ 5.5 13.8 6.1 7.4 7.2 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 2.5 4.0 3.0 3.9 3.6 Service............................................................. 7.0 8.6 9.2 5.9 14.7 1 Earnings are the straight-time hourly wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. The mean is computed by totaling the pay of all workers and dividing by the number of workers, weighted by hours. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. 3 Establishments classified with 50-99 workers may contain establishments with fewer than 50 due to staff reductions between survey sampling and collection. 4 The relative standard error (RSE) is the standard error expressed as a percent of the estimate. It can be used to calculate a "confidence interval" around a sample estimate. For more information about RSEs, see appendix A. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Table 6-1. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.64 $9.05 $11.01 $14.69 $20.64 All excluding sales........................... 7.79 9.07 11.02 14.69 20.56 White collar.................................... 9.19 11.32 17.42 22.30 29.37 White collar excluding sales................ 9.56 11.61 18.08 22.30 30.04 Professional specialty and technical.......... 15.51 18.08 20.64 22.30 23.57 Professional specialty...................... 17.01 19.03 21.20 22.89 26.41 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 19.44 19.91 29.25 35.04 61.92 Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ 17.42 18.08 19.03 20.64 30.85 Registered nurses....................... 17.42 18.08 18.96 20.31 20.64 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 12.00 14.64 17.58 20.56 22.43 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 14.69 19.36 27.00 38.11 42.64 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.07 19.82 28.04 39.91 42.50 Managers, medicine and health........... 20.03 21.51 38.11 38.11 57.53 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 12.69 18.01 22.57 28.15 34.13 Management related........................ 14.39 17.31 26.33 31.58 44.67 Sales......................................... 5.95 6.29 10.96 14.91 23.10 Cashiers................................ 6.27 6.29 6.29 6.57 6.81 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.98 9.51 10.86 12.45 13.06 Secretaries............................. 10.30 10.60 10.94 12.87 12.98 Order clerks............................ 9.25 10.88 11.48 11.78 13.81 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.00 9.75 11.52 12.00 12.68 Production coordinators................. 9.50 9.75 12.00 12.60 24.04 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.06 9.30 10.14 10.82 11.50 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 8.92 8.92 10.72 12.45 13.52 General office clerks................... 8.50 10.30 12.98 12.98 13.06 Blue collar..................................... 7.82 8.95 10.56 13.10 15.87 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 10.64 12.00 14.13 16.80 19.62 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 10.85 12.20 13.20 13.81 14.89 Machinery maintenance................... 9.41 10.54 11.26 11.75 13.53 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 12.10 13.35 14.13 20.58 30.77 Supervisors, production................. 11.75 13.11 14.96 17.50 21.80 Furniture and wood finishers............ 9.86 10.31 11.38 11.89 12.65 Upholsterers............................ 13.65 15.76 17.12 18.55 19.74 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. $7.79 $8.95 $10.34 $12.26 $14.69 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... 7.17 8.07 10.01 11.27 11.48 Numerical control machine operators..... 12.35 12.84 14.63 15.60 15.60 Wood lathe, routing, and planing machine operators............................ 9.63 10.27 10.85 11.30 11.60 Sawing machine operators................ 10.70 10.89 11.00 12.14 13.13 Shaping and jointing machine operators.. 7.50 9.44 9.85 12.25 12.49 Winding and twisting machine operators.. 6.50 7.20 7.89 9.36 11.83 Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.................... 6.89 9.00 10.99 12.26 15.70 Textile cutting machine operators....... 8.74 8.83 10.41 15.21 15.98 Textile sewing machine operators........ 7.25 8.50 11.01 14.24 15.78 Packaging and filling machine operators. 7.68 8.00 9.67 10.76 11.44 Extruding and forming machine operators. 12.25 12.36 14.43 14.45 14.45 Mixing and blending machine operators... 8.89 9.95 10.95 11.47 11.85 Painting and paint spraying machine operators............................ 8.26 9.41 9.94 10.26 10.95 Slicing and cutting machine operators... 9.60 10.14 11.56 12.84 14.11 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 8.04 9.53 11.02 13.20 14.76 Welders and cutters..................... 7.37 10.61 12.48 14.96 18.00 Assemblers.............................. 8.25 8.74 9.38 10.14 12.59 Hand cutting and trimming............... 9.56 9.80 10.78 14.69 15.47 Hand painting, coating, and decorating.. 9.32 9.43 9.94 10.98 10.98 Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c....... 7.83 8.84 10.00 11.56 13.75 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.01 8.98 9.94 10.59 11.85 Hand inspectors, n.e.c.................. 6.00 7.00 9.60 12.27 12.27 Transportation and material moving............ 9.07 10.00 11.80 16.00 18.77 Truck drivers........................... 10.00 10.72 14.67 16.34 19.59 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 7.52 9.29 10.06 10.99 13.95 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.00 7.83 8.92 10.06 11.64 Production helpers...................... 7.73 8.19 8.88 10.26 13.00 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 6.25 7.05 8.46 9.65 11.29 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 7.56 8.73 9.43 10.06 11.00 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 7.00 8.04 9.39 10.38 12.73 Hand packers and packagers.............. 7.31 8.57 9.33 9.83 15.09 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 7.31 7.82 7.83 9.37 11.64 Service......................................... 6.34 7.00 8.90 11.22 12.44 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.15 6.23 6.91 9.05 11.22 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 6.12 6.23 8.40 11.22 11.30 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 6.12 6.21 7.55 9.05 11.30 Health service............................ $8.34 $8.34 $9.61 $9.96 $9.96 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 8.34 8.34 9.79 9.96 9.96 Cleaning and building service............. 6.80 7.96 8.30 8.90 13.51 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.00 8.21 8.65 8.90 11.25 Personal service.......................... 6.50 6.61 7.00 10.10 10.10 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. Table 6-2. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, private industry, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Private industry Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.52 $8.93 $10.73 $13.81 $18.18 All excluding sales........................... 7.60 8.95 10.72 13.77 18.00 White collar.................................... 8.50 10.20 13.50 20.68 29.25 White collar excluding sales................ 9.23 10.72 13.86 21.63 32.50 Professional specialty and technical.......... 13.77 17.42 19.44 22.43 35.04 Professional specialty...................... 13.77 18.08 20.31 26.15 35.04 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 19.44 19.91 29.25 35.04 61.92 Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ - - - - - Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 12.00 13.86 17.00 21.89 22.82 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 14.39 18.40 25.96 38.11 42.64 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.07 19.82 25.96 38.11 42.50 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 12.69 18.01 22.57 28.15 34.13 Management related........................ 14.39 17.31 26.33 27.32 44.67 Sales......................................... 5.95 6.29 10.96 14.91 23.10 Cashiers................................ 6.27 6.29 6.29 6.57 6.81 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.92 9.51 10.72 12.00 13.81 Order clerks............................ 9.25 10.88 11.48 11.78 13.81 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.00 9.75 11.52 12.00 12.74 Production coordinators................. 9.50 9.75 12.00 12.60 24.04 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.06 9.30 10.14 10.82 11.50 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 8.92 8.92 10.72 12.45 13.52 General office clerks................... 8.50 8.50 10.30 11.35 12.56 Blue collar..................................... 7.83 8.99 10.55 13.14 15.98 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 10.54 12.13 14.28 16.88 19.74 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 10.85 12.20 13.20 13.81 14.89 Machinery maintenance................... 9.41 10.54 11.26 11.75 13.53 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 12.10 13.35 14.13 20.58 30.77 Supervisors, production................. 11.75 13.11 14.96 17.50 21.80 Furniture and wood finishers............ 9.86 10.31 11.38 11.89 12.65 Upholsterers............................ 13.65 15.76 17.12 18.55 19.74 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 7.79 8.95 10.34 12.26 14.69 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... $7.17 $8.07 $10.01 $11.27 $11.48 Numerical control machine operators..... 12.35 12.84 14.63 15.60 15.60 Wood lathe, routing, and planing machine operators............................ 9.63 10.27 10.85 11.30 11.60 Sawing machine operators................ 10.70 10.89 11.00 12.14 13.13 Shaping and jointing machine operators.. 7.50 9.44 9.85 12.25 12.49 Winding and twisting machine operators.. 6.50 7.20 7.89 9.36 11.83 Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.................... 6.89 9.00 10.99 12.26 15.70 Textile cutting machine operators....... 8.74 8.83 10.41 15.21 15.98 Textile sewing machine operators........ 7.25 8.50 11.01 14.24 15.78 Packaging and filling machine operators. 7.68 8.00 9.67 10.76 11.44 Extruding and forming machine operators. 12.25 12.36 14.43 14.45 14.45 Mixing and blending machine operators... 8.89 9.95 10.95 11.47 11.85 Painting and paint spraying machine operators............................ 8.26 9.41 9.94 10.26 10.95 Slicing and cutting machine operators... 9.60 10.14 11.56 12.84 14.11 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 8.04 9.53 11.02 13.20 14.76 Welders and cutters..................... 7.37 10.61 12.48 14.96 18.00 Assemblers.............................. 8.25 8.74 9.38 10.14 12.59 Hand cutting and trimming............... 9.56 9.80 10.78 14.69 15.47 Hand painting, coating, and decorating.. 9.32 9.43 9.94 10.98 10.98 Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c....... 7.83 8.84 10.00 11.56 13.75 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.01 8.98 9.94 10.59 11.85 Hand inspectors, n.e.c.................. 6.00 7.00 9.60 12.27 12.27 Transportation and material moving............ 9.36 10.40 12.84 16.34 19.18 Truck drivers........................... 10.00 11.32 14.87 17.00 19.59 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 7.52 9.29 10.06 10.99 13.95 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.00 7.83 8.94 10.06 11.69 Production helpers...................... 7.73 8.19 8.88 10.26 13.00 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 6.25 7.05 8.46 9.65 11.29 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 7.56 8.73 9.43 10.06 11.00 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 7.00 8.04 9.39 10.38 12.73 Hand packers and packagers.............. 7.31 8.57 9.33 9.83 15.09 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 7.72 7.83 7.83 9.50 11.64 Service......................................... 6.12 6.61 7.00 8.45 10.00 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.15 6.12 6.91 7.55 8.88 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 6.12 6.23 7.55 8.40 10.00 Health service............................ $7.50 $8.34 $8.34 $9.01 $9.61 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 7.50 8.34 8.34 9.01 9.61 Cleaning and building service............. 6.80 6.80 8.38 11.25 23.33 Janitors and cleaners................... 7.68 8.38 8.65 11.25 13.51 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-3. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) all workers:(2) Selected occupations, State and local government, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 State and local government Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $8.90 $10.10 $12.50 $20.90 $22.89 All excluding sales........................... 8.90 10.10 12.50 20.90 22.89 White collar.................................... 11.84 17.01 20.56 22.89 30.04 White collar excluding sales................ 11.84 17.01 20.56 22.89 30.04 Professional specialty and technical.......... 17.01 19.03 21.37 22.30 23.20 Professional specialty...................... 18.08 19.71 21.37 22.89 23.20 Health related............................ 18.08 18.08 19.03 30.85 62.61 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Technical................................... 9.56 15.51 17.84 18.47 20.56 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 14.69 21.51 30.04 39.91 39.91 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 14.69 19.36 30.04 39.91 39.91 Management related........................ - - - - - Administrative support, including clerical.... 9.19 9.19 11.84 12.98 12.98 Blue collar..................................... 7.31 7.89 11.23 11.54 14.44 Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... - - - - - Service......................................... 8.21 9.32 10.10 11.63 12.44 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 8.14 9.05 11.22 11.22 11.30 Other food service....................... 8.14 9.05 11.22 11.22 11.30 Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. - - - - - Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 All workers include full-time and part-time workers. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-4. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) full-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $7.83 $9.23 $11.23 $14.76 $20.64 All excluding sales........................... 7.83 9.23 11.22 14.73 20.64 White collar.................................... 9.40 11.52 17.84 22.30 29.57 White collar excluding sales................ 9.56 11.52 18.01 22.30 30.04 Professional specialty and technical.......... 15.51 18.08 20.64 22.30 23.57 Professional specialty...................... 17.01 19.03 21.37 22.89 26.41 Engineers, architects, and surveyors...... 19.44 19.91 29.25 35.04 61.92 Mathematical and computer scientists...... - - - - - Health related............................ 17.42 18.08 18.53 20.64 20.64 Registered nurses....................... 17.42 18.08 18.53 20.31 20.64 Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Teachers, except college and university... - - - - - Librarians, archivists, and curators...... - - - - - Social scientists and urban planners...... - - - - - Social, recreation, and religious workers. - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Technical................................... 12.00 14.64 17.58 20.56 22.43 Executive, administrative, and managerial..... 14.69 19.36 27.00 38.11 42.64 Executives, administrators, and managers.. 15.07 19.82 28.04 39.91 42.50 Managers, medicine and health........... 20.03 21.51 38.11 38.11 57.53 Managers and administrators, n.e.c...... 12.69 18.01 22.57 28.15 34.13 Management related........................ 14.39 17.31 26.33 31.58 44.67 Sales......................................... 4.35 10.96 13.50 23.07 23.10 Administrative support, including clerical.... 8.98 9.51 10.86 12.45 13.06 Secretaries............................. 10.30 10.60 10.94 12.87 12.98 Order clerks............................ 9.25 10.88 11.48 11.78 13.81 Bookkeepers, accounting and auditing clerks............................... 9.00 9.75 11.52 12.00 12.68 Production coordinators................. 9.50 9.75 12.00 12.60 24.04 Traffic, shipping and receiving clerks.. 9.06 9.30 10.14 10.82 11.50 Stock and inventory clerks.............. 8.92 8.92 10.72 12.45 13.52 General office clerks................... 8.50 10.30 12.98 12.98 13.06 Blue collar..................................... 7.83 9.00 10.64 13.11 15.97 Precision production, craft, and repair....... 10.64 12.10 14.13 16.80 19.62 Industrial machinery repairers.......... 10.85 12.20 13.20 13.81 14.89 Machinery maintenance................... 9.41 10.54 11.26 11.75 13.53 Mechanics and repairers, n.e.c.......... 12.10 13.35 14.13 20.58 30.77 Supervisors, production................. 11.75 13.11 14.96 17.50 21.80 Furniture and wood finishers............ 9.86 10.31 11.38 11.89 12.65 Upholsterers............................ 13.65 15.76 17.12 18.55 19.74 Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. 7.81 8.95 10.34 12.27 14.69 Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing machine operators.......... $7.17 $8.07 $10.01 $11.27 $11.48 Numerical control machine operators..... 12.35 12.84 14.63 15.60 15.60 Wood lathe, routing, and planing machine operators............................ 9.63 10.27 10.85 11.30 11.60 Sawing machine operators................ 10.70 10.89 11.00 12.14 13.13 Shaping and jointing machine operators.. 7.50 9.44 9.85 12.25 12.49 Winding and twisting machine operators.. 6.50 7.20 7.89 9.36 11.83 Knitting, looping, taping, and weaving machine operators.................... 6.89 9.00 10.99 12.26 15.70 Textile cutting machine operators....... 8.74 8.83 10.41 15.21 15.98 Textile sewing machine operators........ 7.25 8.50 11.01 14.24 15.78 Packaging and filling machine operators. 7.68 8.00 9.67 10.76 11.44 Extruding and forming machine operators. 12.25 12.36 14.43 14.45 14.45 Mixing and blending machine operators... 8.89 9.95 10.95 11.47 11.85 Painting and paint spraying machine operators............................ 8.26 9.41 9.94 10.26 10.95 Slicing and cutting machine operators... 9.60 10.14 11.56 12.84 14.11 Miscellaneous machine operators, n.e.c.. 8.24 9.57 11.20 13.20 14.76 Welders and cutters..................... 7.37 10.61 12.48 14.96 18.00 Assemblers.............................. 8.25 8.74 9.38 10.14 12.59 Hand cutting and trimming............... 9.56 9.80 10.78 14.69 15.47 Hand painting, coating, and decorating.. 9.32 9.43 9.94 10.98 10.98 Miscellaneous hand working, n.e.c....... 7.83 8.84 10.00 11.56 13.75 Production inspectors, checkers and examiners............................ 8.01 8.98 9.94 10.59 11.85 Hand inspectors, n.e.c.................. 6.00 7.00 9.60 12.27 12.27 Transportation and material moving............ 9.07 10.06 11.80 16.00 18.77 Truck drivers........................... 10.00 10.72 14.67 16.34 19.59 Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators............................ 7.52 9.29 10.06 10.99 13.95 Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 7.31 7.83 8.98 10.22 11.69 Production helpers...................... 7.73 8.19 8.88 10.26 13.00 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 8.09 8.60 9.60 11.10 12.12 Machine feeders and offbearers.......... 7.56 8.73 9.43 10.06 11.00 Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c................................ 7.00 8.12 9.39 10.61 12.73 Hand packers and packagers.............. 7.31 8.57 9.33 9.83 15.09 Laborers, except construction, n.e.c.... 7.31 7.82 7.83 9.37 11.64 Service......................................... 6.79 7.50 9.01 11.40 12.44 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. 2.15 6.91 7.55 10.00 11.22 Waiters, waitresses, and bartenders...... - - - - - Other food service....................... 7.07 7.77 9.05 11.22 11.30 Food preparation, n.e.c................. 6.21 7.55 9.05 10.00 11.30 Health service............................ 8.34 8.34 9.61 9.96 9.96 Nursing aides, orderlies and attendants. 8.34 8.34 9.61 9.96 9.96 Cleaning and building service............. $6.80 $7.96 $8.30 $8.90 $13.51 Janitors and cleaners................... 8.00 8.21 8.65 8.90 11.25 Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Table 6-5. Hourly wage percentiles for establishment jobs,(1) part-time workers:(2) Selected occupations, all industries, National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Occupation(3) 10 25 Median 75 90 50 All............................................... $6.12 $6.29 $6.79 $9.27 $10.10 All excluding sales........................... 6.12 6.31 7.51 10.10 18.18 White collar.................................... 6.02 6.29 6.54 18.18 19.13 White collar excluding sales................ 6.43 18.18 19.13 22.16 30.85 Professional specialty and technical.......... - - - - - Professional specialty...................... - - - - - Natural scientists........................ - - - - - Health related............................ - - - - - Teachers, college and university.......... - - - - - Writers, authors, entertainers, athletes, and professionals, n.e.c............... - - - - - Sales......................................... 6.02 6.29 6.29 6.57 8.47 Cashiers................................ 6.27 6.29 6.29 6.57 6.81 Administrative support, including clerical.... - - - - - Blue collar..................................... 5.91 6.25 6.56 7.48 7.90 Precision production, craft, and repair....... - - - - - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. - - - - - Transportation and material moving............ - - - - - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers................................... 5.91 6.25 6.56 7.48 7.90 Stock handlers and baggers.............. 5.91 6.25 6.52 7.10 7.90 Service......................................... 6.12 6.34 7.51 10.10 10.10 Protective service........................ - - - - - Food service.............................. - - - - - Other food service....................... - - - - - Health service............................ - - - - - Cleaning and building service............. - - - - - Personal service.......................... - - - - - 1 Percentiles are calculated from average hourly wages for sampled establishment jobs within each occupation. The percentiles describe the distribution of an occupation's employment by the average wage rates for its jobs. For example, at the 10th percentile hourly wage for an occupation, one-tenth of the occupation's employment are found in sampled establishment jobs whose average wages are the same or less, and nine-tenths are in jobs averaging the same or more. The calculations of the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles follow the same logic. Hourly wages are the straight-time wages or salaries paid to employees. They include incentive pay, cost-of-living adjustments, and hazard pay. Excluded are premium pay for overtime, vacations, holidays, nonproduction bonuses, and tips. 2 Employees are classified as working either a full-time or a part-time schedule based on the definition used by each establishment. Therefore, a worker with a 35-hour-per-week schedule might be considered a full-time employee in one establishment, but classified as part-time in another firm, where a 40-hour week is the minimum full-time schedule. 3 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria, and n.e.c. means "not elsewhere classified." Overall occupational groups may include data for categories not shown separately. Appendix table 1. Number of workers(1) represented by the survey, by occupational group,(2) National Compensation Survey, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Full-time and part-time workers Occupational group Private State and Total industry local government All occupations....................................................... 102,300 84,500 17,800 All excluding sales............................................. 99,200 81,400 17,800 White collar........................................................ 25,600 16,100 9,500 White-collar excluding sales.................................... 22,600 13,100 9,500 Professional specialty and technical.............................. 10,600 3,800 6,900 Professional specialty.......................................... 9,200 2,900 6,200 Technical....................................................... 1,500 800 600 Executive, administrative, and managerial......................... 4,100 3,000 1,100 Sales............................................................. 3,100 3,100 € Administrative support, including clerical........................ 7,800 6,300 1,500 Blue collar......................................................... 65,100 62,300 2,800 Precision production, craft, and repair........................... 11,400 10,400 - Machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors..................... 34,300 34,300 € Transportation and material moving................................ 5,400 4,800 - Handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers............... 14,100 12,900 - Service............................................................. 11,500 6,000 5,500 1 The number of workers represented by the survey are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates of the number of workers provide a description of size and composition of the labor force included in the survey. Estimates are not intended, however, for comparison to other statistical series to measure employment trends or levels. Both full-time and part-time workers were included in the survey. 2 A classification system including about 480 individual occupations is used to cover all workers in the civilian economy. See appendix B for more information. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported or that data did not meet publication criteria. Appendix table 2. Number of establishments represented by survey and the number studied by industry division and establishment employment size, Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir, NC, June 2000 Number of establishments studied Number of Industry establish- 100 workers or more ments rep- Total 50 - 99 resented(1) studied workers Total 100 - 499 500 workers workers or more All industries........................................................ 600 149 36 113 81 32 Private industry.................................................... 500 141 36 105 79 26 Goods-producing industries........................................ 300 102 19 83 61 22 Construction.................................................... (2) 1 1 - - - Manufacturing................................................... 300 101 18 83 61 22 Service-producing industries...................................... 200 39 17 22 18 4 Tranportation and public utilities.............................. (2) 7 2 5 5 - Wholesale and retail trade...................................... 100 18 12 6 5 1 Services........................................................ 100 14 3 11 8 3 State and local government.......................................... (2) 8 - 8 2 6 1 Number of establishments represented by the survey rounded to the nearest 100. 2 Number of establishments represented by the survey is fewer than 50. NOTE: Dashes indicate that no data were reported. Overall industry and industry groups may include data for categories not shown separately.